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MR, ESHOLTS YOUNG WIFE l;\ T. AV. SPF.IrttlT. \ CHAPTKK IX After a fortnight'!, ihsjtsue, Mr. l'*holt found liimsi'.f at I on:.- ugam. He brought back with him a In I sore throat, wl.i. fore long developed into inflammation ot the cheat, confining I.. .1 :...!.> TS without hope of release for onif time to come. Thii ill- Has especially annoying, < didaisucha time, for j..*t then th' . cnrred one of those ominous lulls in the commer. ial world which, intense quiet that often prreMr^ a r>rm in the aerial world, caused the s nils ot many to ijiiakc within them. It it n"t well at such tin,. . when the captain of the >iip >i t himself direct the helm -. but Mr. Kslndt wa* a man who never wasted his breath in bewailing the inevitable : all he could do was to make the best arrangements possible under the circumstances. His old and tried head -clerk, .Ulnz Kim- ber, would continue to take charge of the business) as heretofore whenever Mr l-'.shi't had heen absnut. Eaoh morning Mr. Kim- ber w.nild send up the letter*, or such por- tion of them a* be deemed it rc.|uiail that hi* chief should see, by ixiuj exiiress to ui ; but a* Mr. Ksholt himself was at present unable to use a pen, it became necessary to employ an aminn.-iiMs, to whom, after the letter* had been read to l:im, iie could dictate the aniwers. to. with such instruction* as he ITU slit i.i-. .If'il tor the pioper conduct of tin- busi- ness daring his ;il>. i-ii'-e. !'" tl.- position of amanuensis Mr. Ksbo't selc.ted Wilmot Bun ell. A* WilmM live I water, JO'! as Mr. Ksliolt would be likely to re-nine hi* service* to an- v.er the late Ictte:* 'ii a,n i.-x..;iin.'. it iH-i-ame requisite that he nhould tak' up his quarters for the time being at K '.!. Thus, by a strange concatenation . brand Agnes were I.i r again. Agues heard the news with seen-' dUmay. N". "her *he nor Min Ksholt could help IH xiit'.ithe chine,,- in \Vilmot* loot: - v hi n, on the evening of hi* arrival, hen i ,-d the diniu/ loom. Short a* wa* the li> i rince they had last seen him, he loo'. ii if he [ial .om through some : . . .Me m the in- terim Hi- ch-cka had a hollowuess such as th.'i -hownliefore; hi* eyes seem- ed to have Mink deeper into hi* head, :md there WITC dark half circle* under them. the outward and visible sign* of inward suffering either mental or physical. I'.ut Ins i-pints were fevi-riil.lv jjay. All thro-i dinner he chain luitfi HIM -h animation xiith Ksholt : bill he lie (Uently la and that ratini !' -t.-iomly, when no laughter atrnu 1 to lie called for, and pir took of tl.. wine more fre.dy than he had ever d me before *. Mr. Ksholt '* table. To AIM * he was studiously polite, but nothing in., i.- To I . r that evening it asein- ed in , -''.. to believe that tin* wa* the sani" m in who, but two short weeks before, Id In r in S'nh impa'sioned accent* that h" Ion I her. He rose from the table with the ladies and bade, them good night it :'n. Kx .-pi at the dinner hour, they *iw little of I i II !. akfastcd alone, and after attending to Mr. Ksholt's rorrnp..-: he went down to the other diiiinj; the i ,. of the day, returning alx.ul four k. Sometime*, when lliert- xi i- tho..' very ipecial to consult Mr. i . Mr. Kimber would come lok <mn out on these occasion* the ln-.i 1 i ik, wh wa> of a nervuiis, fidgety dispoaitinn, v 'i I'l l,.i' In loi 's uneasiness when in i. e ot ladies, could never be ill- slop to dinner. .- a week after hi* retuii'. Mi lllne** sudden!, di-xi-b. than hail yet .-h-'.ii' 1 1.- 'nh. ii ml'iiiid liel'o' break No, *he dare not she dare mil ' Her bus ha'id was ill, perhaps dvini. and she mult be a spectator nothing more. It w 1 1 dusk wliun hn lc.lt her room, ami a sen .mi ws l-ghting the ball lamp a* iho went . Ion n. During all those hour* no one had liecr. near her. Wns her hunban .i worse? She ,i'd res', no longer without knowing. Sim had a right to go to his ro nn to acertaiu that much, even if .very other right -.x-ere dfiuc.l h. r. After i.^ a moment, she tinned to re a . the stairs, and as she did so, siie saw \Vil- mot on the I indini; ab-.v, on tbe point of coming down. He bad jr,t left Mr. i-'.<hnlt | rotiu. Hi* !.. Mu-'v ! at .sij;!it of !i..-r, and then i4 HUM n* pul- n Agnes'soxin. inornir he was by he:- side. "O VYdinoi, Imw is ho'r" *'ie cried, in her anxiety letting the old f irmlur name slip from ' ' . r r Han he k- idf" . I nothing i can do for " The symptom, have abated, and there is V a alight improvement," he answered Tiiaiik Heaven for that !" "He ha* even ben uble to ili-jfite the 'ull:ne of two inipoi i,,n: l>:i-i> um.-lii* reit.unly more than hi eo .Li IIUM .i i.i. morning. 15y the way, 1 a.i cmuii.j[ to I.K.k for you, Mr* Kili'dt." " Tn i<ik lor in. "Mr. K!>olt hivt ju*t banded me hi* bunch of keys with a le-jiKmt that I would sec you and aik you to be at thr- i:-"iiMe f opeuinx the private drawer in his writing- table, where you will lind iicesi.rn oriimlmn book bound in purple leather. This hook you are to li.iud to me returning me the kryb at the .Siini" time, of . 'purse aft. loeking thedrawer. Mr. K-h'.;i upeeitied this one HI l>eing the key of the private drawer. '' U'ondering toniewhat. .\',''i.'< took the key*. "If you don't n . I will await yur return here," mid '. . . with a sort of fearful f.u-in itinn, a dark cloud which wa* slowly creeping up towards the zenith, and are, long would enfold both Ui I..'.; bappincsl in its pall-like embioor. In the frame ot niliid in which he then wa*, l.i* wife s Oj0*jerl*on on him for Kiieh he I'-inud it to hinnelf ,e iii.-d aim >t & m.-tttcr of c.'Mirne ; nieiely oi.e more among the crowd of miifoi luiii'i rnhiii^ in from every ide to ovRrhelm him. Nometimm, however, on iiM.tkin.; he wi.nld i . 1 her there nttinjj by hi* aide, for even \lmlCi Iiolt did not venture to keep her alw.iys out of her husliand'* room and then it w.is touching to see the smile that > In. win face a* he trrteh.'l oul II.H Im.d III' <.Ki:i\\- "III MI> ^ IIKU I. I nil !. II,.- drill -h I lift I i a.'., I M:ike rbflr Way III I irriaii LnuiU. Vie mixt -to i i ancc to the ail ii "f the *ki:. i ,io into Africa lift" b.-en " er,-'i b> the imtivei who live Iwliiud tli '!eriii;in poKKeasiniii at Cameroon*. About three yeanmgo, theex|ieilition of Kund a-id Tappenheok, wb" w. on their way to Adamuna and (In- Rc-ue Rirer, wJ driven with yeit ;.)..->, ami loi many day* the . and their pinic-stricken carriers lied through the jungle, beset at every ni" ment by . n- nn s concealed iu the Ull grass, who now und -.lieu brought down a fresh M tun with th-jlr poisoned arrows The towards h jr. ' He is ^ only tryi' cabin in.-* jnloi. us us that the punitive ex- pedition wnt out from Cameroon* to punish to n. it lies who inili.-ted sii.-h terrible de- teal upon Dr. XinlgrarTs e \peiiitxm m .l.inuiry last, found ih.it the native* had cruelly tortured the prisoner* they took lie- tore executing them, snd lliat many of the priseaei s onnuited suiciile in order to c-v cj|c torture. ''nly meagre details have yet been pub- lished of the terrible experience of Dr. Xint- graft. He stxrted from ( 'ameroons last fall ceive me," Agne.i would *iy I. ill' -i l> to her- self at -ii, u ; 1:1:"- " He *!)(< I" 111 .ke 111 believu tint lie (till loVfs in. ; ':UL itlei that letter, how in u (Kj.nMle forme ever t.i lielieve iig.iin ?" Then, a e '<ii:. Mist Ksholl wai nearly alw.iy in the room, ami llrudui not teud tn set her at her So ihe would I ! k '. -illy pix-s her hus'-n'id'n liMidanda-k him how he was, and sit li'tle while, y i .'i'^ with i kiidun^' lie^irt into hi* WIN n face, .mil then hurry ",, to hide the t. urs nhe could no boMI k'-"|( l>ack. I w jt n a ver y i arge expedition for the purp-.-e N 'n r by d iv n i nix ' oouM Agne* get | o f t ublihiiig the Cerman pretension* to that terrible leiter out of her thought*. Mie , Adamau i and the adj-ceut region*. In bis wiiideied about i he great dktneJ hoiiae, p i!e [)a , , v wrre i jleu , von Spaiigeiiberg.the tra.1- and md, like an unhappy ghost lor whom , r .i..nt/.eii and Thormahleu, with other there is iiowi.ere any re*l. Not a creature in the world xvai there to whom she could open her in-art and unfold her sorrows. Never no mn h a* now had *:. missed kind- heai I. d Aunt Maria's comforting presence. So:neti"nes a wild longing ca;nj over her to leave all this weary coil of trouble b her and mike her way lo th Iir oil" uai -n a;e where her aunt now lived, and there eliim the love, the Mi'-it;r, and the while men, busides five hundred native car The expedition safely reached the ii*rm in s'a'iim ' f I! ihburg. which Dr. /ml graft 1 had f vindel on a previous expedition. r'riendly relations had been established U- tweeu the Ittli tribe and the lierman*, and trade liud li.'i-n opened between the liaii p'-o p'e and iVne :o MI-, .lust beyond the 1> iii- huwexrei , live* the hostile chief of the Katun, who sent word to the whites that the . whidi .he knew would not i deniwl In-r. Wlll ,l,l not IK; pcrmitt4Ml to travel further e.ist. *" "' ' HemordercdtwomeaiengerswhoniDr Xitt "(! sent to him with otters of peace. The wirlike Kill, told the explorer that the H.i- fuli could Ke reduced to Mii'inission, and wtl take open cognwai.ee of them ; and SIIK-K O .i,. r cd to n-enforce hi* expedition by the findiiifc of the letter, the knowledge tii it .,,,,., ,,.i , WB ep the enemy cu:. of the ihe was still iu.di.-ar to him a* ever sometime* r()U | -| )le ,, :fl , r Wll , .' and nn Jan \S' hene ver idle cind Wdinit clia-r-ed to i ; "a.-ii other, (in soft veiled l i and melancholy ninilei were not lo*t up >n her. They were no- like, words she ent a f lint m > ntary i;low through her heart, which only nerve t to m ike the drctr 31 Ust a itubliorn battle took place, the re- sult of which was that the chief town of the reality nec-iii ... j.ituli fell i '.ids of the white i " I shall not detain yu more than half a | thought* n, as it was in. minute," she annwert I, as she crossed the , they should som -tunes do, with the golden hall and then turned the c, trier ut the oor- , Possibilities of what micht I .velcn And ndor which led f. Mr K :udy. Wil- mot 8 food without n, ,.- si, had left him. He was still ve;x pile. ,..nd hi* were fixed lijjhlly on his ,,nde.- lip, ai if to keep down son:.- In. i.i :i emotion. " Will *h never come back '" li.- muttered i.nder hi* breath, for Agnes, away only h*.f u n.ii.uto, w.s lully three minutes before she returned, t )ne glance at her face was enough. "8lM . i- found it " hu- whirp. red to Ii-.-. ' Hen- is the rnemoi ,n.l- m b .k and here are the keys," the said in a dull rxpr.---.ioii- I. >s von-.-, wi.i -h i-uutraste.l strangrl'. 1 her excitement of a few 'uii'.'iles ago. ill- tok thuin, liowed, and, without a w .1 ', went back up-sUim on hi* way to Mr. Ksholt's I-ooi.i. Agnes stood when) h leli her till In- w is out ot night ; theni. went up-slairs. slowly, and taking hold i.i the I, duster as 'he wen I. At the top, she ttirnod tn tie- !e't and went to hrr i . P, and their a! ti -n.i.id v.-.i '. , n. 1 to thrg On the next dv . ho'ju.er, wl. ha i t\h lu-'ed ii'-Mrly <.hei/ ' ntire supply of anunii. 111:011, ti. \ -1 by tin- enemy, who were .s'l-iited f> nnmlxM KI.IMMI men, ini.l, .i'i i .'e li.i'.tlu. Dr. Knit- . nlhi*ar:nv H .-.. -dm .-n pell mell from I- . . ..i tint th" Itifn-. .1 low of at liMS 1 . .V)i) mori, but the I.JM of '/.ii.' ' ' own I" nearly 'JKI wurekille I I-!' '. Am .1 ' were opp .iti- side of the Inc; | tlie leather > La which Mi i - On . |e n:i./ her bus) . - ], -, dr ..... holt sat when at woik, und then* in front of ill Ihe study, sin. saw, 1-. ing . 1 i>e b\ the I H WM Ihl prlw i-a*er in w M li si,,- !;.,! memorandum book of wl i.-h " ! - hud '. .rn- ' '> m I tl" " An arc'iwa- in search, al.un inuti >n , I ' n I.- 1 ; , i .. w i.i. ', ,//,". du i-l.- I t'ns r mm from l! li'.i.uy hei eyes seemed inrnlnut a. i!\- .li-iwn. lt ( p'"p.i v want- was written in a hold : i.i.l j i- 1 i n i d to r ., . . came quite uui-ons'-iously, for her mind at tht ' ' \Vhoc.wlditbe? moment wa* elsewhere, hrr I' I 1 v '.-. - . n. tn. . . nn ! i seomd call about i.iit hum. sh" heard a servant a . oinont, and then the ound c.i roioos, but whose VOICLS she wa* unable I.. |n.|^.- As she could not { . h.-ck to her r i without p.isin^ th .ei^h the entrance hall, und as she did not care lo be seen by any possible stranger*, who, for (MMsihilitie* of what mi . o the weary s!-.vly on. At length i a day -about a week after Aries's dis -ovrry of the letter -when Inline,* went through the IIOIKO that Dr. I'y'i't had p' )! ... -ml Mr. I'sii!: to be lunch b;tter,:iin! th it lh- re xva* e . to hope the improvement would continue. That same e-. i-ning Asjnni sat down I" rnnnicatc the news to Mi s M ina. Kirian-.- how j.'1-ld she . 'Id b,. : ing herself, when she hi i wr-tie;. h -i n .-e, .,,, N . irsjing ompiuy, to be out ul envel p to , ,,,;,. nMU ai|lon _, her husband's study m , ken by the aea, fc| thta lap sure that at particula time \\ . .-ror, us it -s '-. : I no liv would U- engaged with Mr. K.holt. She ,, u .-.rhaml,. fouinl the room empty, as .he had surrr.wed j Alter thii t. - Iir. /iiitgrafT i I*. The i imp w ailighiedandt he r ,..,. u | for founern dix .'e.i in curtains drawn. -' wl " L-l ' u>l1 - his statioi at Haiti": 'iulr*tea mot usually tat wa* littered with letters , t ,, ,| le ....^.t ; , j,., . ,, .. | ltion and |i ipers of various kinds. There, oil the side of the hii; N |imre table, WAS Lie r Tin 1 ., , ,tn . . !,.. . '. i v.i,,,,,,ish'-d , 11M ,. I -.n.n he ..used and de>- i iwo of Ihe sen-ei. ,- \- \ - sense failed to stnku her, *JM the hot blond crinnoned her f.i .-, and h i read them again. Then nil- shut the .ir ...-i oui.kly and turned tin k.-\ ; but having duue that, *he stood w.t; : ut stirring for a full minute, hrr mind -.iil'.tin,' motions. Then she dulilx-ratclv i ..lo. k.-d wlii.'li i In- lo .k. d and i I :i;i-rlt to l>e con^idi'r.iUy i ' I'. ill on the |iM". i HI' ,!>i. Afl>'i he went out to buy some grapes 's, and wab gone nlxn.i . . . n. i!t. lln Komg into tl.e .in 'snlhi>- v. I.i h up-ill..) into her hnaban."* MI. she found Min Ksh"it install"! -hi- wan pi-sing through, when tie !,:ui held up . linger w.u mix. "M> |i." hhe will -(i. '-'I " He me inn. M .."!>.; dining the last 'urs Dr. I'M till ha* just gone MI i < ,e, and has left won! i j. an nt must on no account I L'std then; is a chnn.:i for tbe Irftn.'i. I have arranged to mime my bro- ,u il.u daytime withth. ,- : nice of ') . I ' . i.i loi ' '.i i ikes, an x\ ho mirH'd ;.,.i, when he year* n/o, who ..i tako charge i. night." - iv it IM tl ere left for i i-!,. .1 A^nes in dism .. . . ponded M ' i loll h ily. I; -. M* hu wife, it IM mi HILIA In re- I I -holt's side ; and snr ly I ',nr MI both of you in ihctiurs- . "'built ..nt M:.*l-:h"ll, ber stony sell p > session for once deserting hei "and 1111.1:11-, xvays you are h'.'l- 1:1 .1 than a -v dare you attempt in interfere in an> arrangements I may think miki My brother is very ill. It is ini]HT,itively necessary that he : i i:in -..I by skilled linn. Is, by those use I lo illness in various torn s, und who 1.1 it home in a aickn.oiii, n..t by raw in .1 yoiini; women like yourself. \\ i .1 do yon know i.f illness, pray? Whom ban- you ever nursed? Mr. Ksholt isaidear is a brother as he i* to you as a bus han I poisibly more sn Do you think. hat I will willingly allow Inslifr to be finl.i .. i . .1 merely togiatili> ' of* uilful girl? Not so, Mn Kslmlt. Vou are I. is wife, and you ran t -1111011 inii-:n him; buy if you do, will you lie aniu i aldr (or the consequences ? I will not. I ' In responsibility into v.mr own hands, . , .- v .u ? but reinen.l i r that .ihould other not recover, I shall assert with .. \ i u>l breath that it was your wilfulncn :iat killtd him '' thii fn t':re Mrs dukes wa* an- A- the nure rntered the loom, 'in wa* dazeil, !> w ildenid, , . n. .i.dxi tthat I ieiribi<- words were not to be gainsaid. Of i>. tin p. per K.-iise ot the term. i i I., nothing. Die tin-- Like i.ernelf the tremendous ufponiiiiiiitx I Oi .!t would tbnrst upon her if !' spate i". 1 so .lie intt-ri ir, whu-!. i. turns with the report 1 1'.at unfortunate m :iii!)ers of his taken priioner* had killed tl.emselxi .< to iMiid torlure. I'.ii' the ,1. pii.-b .I.K.- t tell half the tory of the pally that wa* *ent from t'ainero MI* to the defeat of the earlier CXIK- lition. All we know of it i.s -oiitniiiril m a lew lines sent by cable from the mouth of the Niger River. Toe ax fillers were thomselves mo*l terri- bly . '.. ; ' I. 111 suite of their superior weap- ons. I He white leader* of the expedition were kil'" i to a man, and those of their nn I I'.l!. nvers who e.-. ;.iped tho over- ^ht of theencmy, stri^irled aught she- knew, might be some ot Miss Ks ., .'.. , r.. , mo Kiver. where thev %., holts visitors, *he d ided to stay w , 1 in woful pli-ht by linii-sh tnid'-r* and she was for a few inoMients till the should lie cleir. Scarcely hail sin- . <me when she heard voic'-s in the. orrioor -Iho* of \Viltn >l and .m ' i mi; -r and wiu dil- inayed to find that the speaker* v. .- . -om- ing in the due.'! "ii of ihu study. She had tho drawn a^sin, took out the Irtirr, and read it slowly ..n i carefully through. . i it more than < than twre. till, in fact, every w ...Ih. I burnt iUolf into her memory. liut'i b.-^uinin^ .in 1 end of the li.-tler ha.1 be -n t..m aw.ix ; what tl.ere wax of it ran as inn 1 ''- : " You aw |int,- ijot, mj i "Miolt, in ..imii.ij marriage a mistake. 1 out long ingi creature* t i. . ih.i ii... r.,..i .. |,i-,h of I dark lie** ; but Agnes at oncu made her way | W11V light of noiselessly toward* a door at the "I'l' '"" ' f,,r' the this workaday world --now that /<>n are no] end win, h uponed into a md.; corridor from longer bride and bridegroom, but common whence she would >..- able to get back unob place m in and wife, 'lake ormsnlal ion from N v <! lo her i < om Her heart gave a gi i it ill' who Ba*gonethroa(b thrord.-al. New 1 tb rob when, on li\m^ this door, she found I hanii'SS ol-Aays sit* uneasily nt first. You it b >.-k"d, and locked, too, from the outside. | Her only moans of escape wa* cut off ! . , llv , ,; , W11 , ,;,.. Thi . i 1 o :' (iennan tightine in the unknown 1 lmid'i.o!i .,,-,- Ihu most sur|iris- i in. I appallm., oh ip'.ei in the history of K'ii", in > "^t with Afrkan ab > For the fi i: me the anva^ec of Africa have ViHI JOII, II .w llll IIIU IIISI ri'-V wedded life ha* faded in'.o the dull ay that whatever you may think or feel, you nlwnysehow a smiling countenance: a wise poll, i on your (mi i, winch I hope Here it broke off abruptly ; but l'i. young wife had lead uunugh. She letter Atri.-au trade, and reputed to be more dangerous to the men who lite them tin ... any one else, have at last had their day of triumph. When the complete tory of these tragic events is kuown, it will n..i be surprising if it H found I hat th (i -rmuii are themselves .intnsi 01 THI: OLD 4L.ivr.RH. Trarrs HUH ronnil T the Big Elabllih. ni'-BI at I'ear.i Mluaru A roueiit visitor to the (ialluuui River, on the we4l cout of Africa, just north of Liberia, mys a great many trace* yet exist of the large establishment* maintained hy Pedro Blauco, when he wai making his emu .110111 fortune in the slave trade, fifty years ajjo. Tne (tory ot I'cdro Blanco is a ..able unu. Of the hundreds of nun who for three centuries eu^iged in the African slave trAil..-, the Spumard, I'cdro ... towered abuve them all iu tlie ex- tent ,i:nl success of hi.i operations. I'e Iro Ulanco was a iran of cdiicition. He was born at Malaga, Spain, ut good tmmly. and hid excellent advantage* in his youth. He i-hose, however, to embark in a disreputable bnsineu, because he saw in it the |>r xpact* of a great fortune. At first he commanded a slave ship running from West Africa to the Wc*t Indies, where he .sild hi* slave*. After a few yean he established himself in Africa, at the month of the liallinas River, for the purpoie of accumulating the cargoes there which his FLKKT UK SLAVE were to carry to all parts of the West Indies and the South American coast. In IS.'t6 Captain Canot visited Pedro Blanco anil wrote the best description of his establish- ment that we have. It was written, how- ever, in the blunt style of a sailor, and undoubtedly be omitted a great many m- teresting details. He said as he entered the river, and pushed upward among the many islands, he was aatonuhed at the great pain* the Span- urn had taken to avoid being surprised by cruisers, which were constantly on the alert to capture slaving vessels He saw at least .*<) watch towers inaie of high piles, protect- ed against sun and rain asid enabling the watchmen to obnerve the sea at a height of from (iO to Ux) tVct above the ground. A ii'iinln-r t these watch towers xvere fixed in lofty tree'. Kai-h watchman had a power- ful npyglaw, with which ho was continually sweeping the hori/on. Then there were othei towen extending into the inti-nur, Kithin iiigiialling distance of one another. l'|M>:i the appeal inee iu the olh'ug of a hos- I, the nsw.s was telegraphed by Slg- . a few minutes from the coast for into the interior, and thus I'edro tilanco and his agent* were instantly "d that there was danger in the air. 'I lien th.-re waa a great hustling of the li'indre.U of slave* who tilled the great trad- ers' baracooiis, nr slave sheds, into the man- grove swamps, or OfK INTO TIIK JfMiLI, i her* was uot one chance in a hundred of their presence !.ei::^ detected. If the s .sent a f. xv Im i: loid-j of men ashore they in nd not'iu::; m the sheds except bales o! ! .1 t.iless inerchasidue, and I'edro Ulanco was ready to receive them with the blandest m smiles and an apparently very hearty welcome, assuring them that he was glad to receive visits from people of hi* own color, tin' he had i|Uit slaving lor a living, and wa* now in hxitimate commerce, and he hoped that they would conn: to see him often. At that very time he would probably have -,U"r .'1,1 M 1) slavea out ill the swamps. The s'.iive eliujcr.s could nud no proof of his nefarious business, aud otf they would go to seek their prey iu other direction*. In a sunilar way the new* wa* communi- cated from posl to post of lUanco's estab- lishment win-never one of his little vessels returned from the Western world for afresh cargo. It would liv at anchor off the coast , take oil a little Iiidm rubber, cocoanut oil, aud other little articles of legitimate com- merce, and wait for some dark night wlieu nothing had been seen or heard of any cruiser, and then It would rapidly Ull its hold witn the |xx>r wretches, who were tied tuigelhiT in the !>ivn icnons, and oft it would slut'. for America. Pedro liianco was extremely fortunate. Now and thenhelo.it. a ilavo vessel, but the. most of his cargoes of black people leached the Western world m *af"iy unit Id at yrcat profit to the trader* there, lie eoul.l afford to lose un occasional ve..s -I, fur the profits OB a single thai safely reached America amounted tun -mall fortune.. Kavh of In* lve deputs on the ; -la-ids i wan in charge of nn a^ent. I'p.ui oueof these islands near th* mouth of the river, Klanco liad his bumnessheiulquaiters.but lie resided mile* up the river upon .mother inland, where, for a long time, his sister dared xvitli him business cares. There he lived in Al.l. TIIK l.rXl'RY of a semi-barbari'.- prince. Ftnthcr up the \x !., , upon auutlivr islaud, was his Hcrauliu. i. .ponitible in farge measure for Ihe terrible | :.. wl : 'i. ..-.. \... ... nni kiioi- ing w.i it to do next, she beard th'! ... ' ^ 14 L .u-. .u_ 1] es, who, after the stranger nay ; " I nunpiMo we haxe n fro iri. i d .pporj*" To which Wil low it happens that the, (.e. m, i ipr.l.w.i _.- n \lir i is iiHiiully umrked oustoin of the tribe) 1.1 that neighborhood, h a separate dwelling. Ho built on in Iii .".nditioii. Hut xi bile his bodily weak oess was HO extreme, his mind was as clear as ever it had been ; and as lie lay ihure through one weary hour after aiioth r, it was uily to l>e expected that. !.i- thought* should brood much ovei the disquieting ti.i. ings which reached him day .if ter da-- from the ollice ; and that of itself was enough to retard hi* recovery Lying then h l,>!css in the partially darkened room, dillieultua whicn h.id In- heenalK>ut and well, ho xionhl I have Riuiled at disdainfully, i>s*umcd mind I proportions in his eyes.undalihoughln t in his mind that they were inei>:ly us dwarfs I masi|iieri>diiig in gianU' armour, hu had ii"t Btn-ngth to com)*', them, but allowed them to lorn. cut him at their pleasure, while the ,..,/. K fell Lick into it* place, and xvas d.vkncus again. (To ni. i .ivrr. i , . are apt W ey i i:tite II ti <irl> 111 lilt < KMII ' " i calling himself a weak fool for nol trampling 'enterprise, w, .u I'm -plini them under foot, as he would have done at and m >tei ial on baud was estimated lo bu another tit.'e | worth y.H,000,tXJO but though every mile Then, again, ho wa* bitterly g. ieved at ' of the uie ha* been kept under survuU. heart at seeing so little of his wife. ' l*nce the properly has bom gradually de "Wh i?" ho would somotiuies tenoratimz in value trom disme ami from aik when he woke up from an uneasy the excessive dampness of the region. M, u limit i r and l...ii. 1 1.11,1.1 itb longing , commission refcrr.'d to estimated thai it Thr Pr.eru!li.ii ., I .,ru . TJ.rv Trur* f Iti-.nur.r Drovea The iit !>' I. er I.i ili-lde. likely l.. !' )., i . . i,e, .v le.nunabl, ,i . v of remorse come* to r pui I'I.M 111 .ii". lii ,n the uicido ot .lease Dcvure, all old I'.iu.im,. Canal. The .-anal company brok ., .....aijiiin. lid wlio lived in, d.wn over two years ago after carry. 11.4 on ,),,, country several 'miles from the town of i "?* the work in amain..! describe I by i.. |;,,,ig c p ,rt W. Va. Forty year, ago Dovorsj coinoiUsion appointed iy t!. murdered asoro and for " scandalonsly nekluss and Wasteful" In, >ua ,. g nM heeu at timos tormented In imagin .1,1 unit of inniiey a -t.i illy *imk m ilie ull , JU w j t h gangs of negroes who pursued slave barracks or oon taiu- w.dl* of Ion bio row to the ground ip iron. The roofs were .; polos, xvith palm leaf thatch, * which kept the. barracks comparatively dry .in. I .-Mil. I. eh <>f thu hurracoona waa guard eil by three or four Spaniards or Portuguese. Cayt. t unit .b -H-rihed Pedro lilancc as a unhurried littlo man, who for fifteen years, had not left the mouth ot the (iaHinua River, an, i ir.vned with the moat bounteous hospi- tality eVeiy while man who cams hia way. In IH,{ Pe.li. i r.l.uu-o gave np ihe business, and retired to Havana with his fortune, said to havu amounted to several millions of : eye* lor a sight of hi. vn.nL. wife's pfeas- WJiild take 37,OUO,OOO and twenty year*' The twelve-year lapses on March ,,1,1,] p u t timo to finish th nwer 1 term ol the cj e c.miil. c 'inpatiy ant fve. Then hi* sister bun oil with some commonplace answer that Agnus was busy elsewhere, or 3.1KW, but the Columbian (iuvernment h.is that she had just Iwen to inquiie ' agreed on rather Hill couditnun t,. p , how ho was; and would finish hy laying that , >ug it for eight year*. It is nol believed, Ur. Pytdilt had forbidden all imiicocji*ry : however, that any more monoy will U onvenutspn. He had not strength to press 1 pont in the enterprise. Besides the deadly the point, but vroiild murmur to himself: "She does not care for me. Why should she? .She has loved once, and can IICM r love agiin '" And then he would fall again into one of hit frequent half sleeps, in -.vhich climate, in itself no small drawl.aik, u i* believed that the canal would be of little use to sailing x-es*eU. Owing to the un- certainty of ihe wind* ill the Bay id Panama inch vessels would be delayed frequently <nr dawn and rven Wncks. him lo l.ill him for his crime. About twenty yeara ago Iii shot himself through the head in oiilei .t< i i.i himself of haunting memories, but ruci.iv.i-d. A year or two Later he btouA on the iNtnk of a stream and struok himself on the bead with a stone, knocking him, elf unvonsciovs into the stream, where he would have drowned but for a passer-by who drag- ged bun out more dead than olive. Devon* made several other unsuccessful attempts at suicide. Finally, on Thursday last he went to tho house of a nughbor named Ilimnjaidiier, xx here ha tbe niht. After ull the family , This famous slax-e dealer xvos kuown for a tho pas: thirty I lo "l? time " tlle Kothchild of West Africa iiented iu imagin- ' ^^ '" l w l K ' r wa * current and accepted in one y ">rts of Europe. Tho king of year* to enjoy the the slave i Ins ill gotten n.iin.i. At last" the business that bad enriched him was completely blip- PISIH! and there is little now to remind th* world that Pedro Blanco ex-cr lived ex- cept tho ruins of his slave barracoona and of the little palace he built for himself ou the islaud iu the Uatlinas Kiver. Among the natural productions of (Jan- juiii, India, fays a foreign contemporary, is tho Strycbiios uux-vouiica, a forest trie of he got up, sc self where ho put up for 'majestic appeal anco, bearing sea-green and j liad retired Kuhleu oolorcd fruit. In tho pulp are . in- a rope aud bauged him- j bedded tho seeds from which strychnine is extract-d. The fruit and seeds arc th > favei ito food of the grotcnque bird known , as the rhinoreroa born hill. The bird fattens It is estimated that the amount of land mi Iir cereal crop this year in Manitoba is ' on the pourarons seeds, awl yet iV'is* o'agorlr one million three hundred and eleven thou- ! sDught as game, and its nosh is said I , hi sand acre*, of which nine hundred and silicon t hull- in.) .ire in WttAAt excellent and perfectly innocuous as hinuui sssl