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 H: H-i i ml *( ii« â- f: ll :. *« "f-y St I 1 'M r. M^i ^. • «!â-  1:1 Norse Crumpat Tells the Story^^ BY AMELIE RIVES. Time â€"A bitter Januafy n'ght in the yf ar of Grace 1CC9. ._ xv i,- « ^i.~^v„â€" Timmnpt ScTi«.-Sunderid(reea8tle-ThefrreathaU-A monstrous fire burning In the big "P'»^*f°"».\'[°™Ef* discoveredSeated on a settle-at her e'ther knee lean the litUe Lady Dorothy and her brother, the jOuns Earl of Sunderidge, Lord Humphrey Ltnnox. Afterwhile she saith almost in a whisper, " But thou needst not go " He said, "Darling, how dost thou mean?" And she whispered more low and said, " 1 will go with thee to the new continent to- She shivered leaning against tiie door, until the big bolt rattled in its braces. And he said yet again "By the Lord God, an thou dost keep me here to sully my good name, and that of thy father and mo- morrow, and there we can live the rest o' our ther, who have been to â- one even as my own days in peace and love." And she broke out all at once wilder than ever: "Ernie!' Ernie take me I will go with thee I will leave father, and mother, and home, and country, and friends, and King for thee j Only go not to war go not to war. j He said but two words back of his teeth ' " I must " and then again, " must " j But when he looked at her for answer, lo « she had swooned away. ' He was to set forth in two days after the morrow and on the morning of that day, behold we could not believe our own eyes • for astonishment when we saw the Lady Pa- tience step qvuetly forth, composed and gen- tle, though very pale. She saith good-mor- row to every one, and after a while she doth slip her arm through her husband's arm, and saith she, " Come for a walk Ernie I have much to say to thee." So they started forth to- gether. Now I, fearful of many things, did follow at a little distance. As they walked she besought him again that he would take her and set saU for the ne jv continent. And when again he told he how that it coukl not be, she fell down upon her knees before him, and clasped him with her arms, ami she said " If thou dost not love me, let Hie be the first to die by thy swoid. Slay me, as I kneel, for the love I bear thee." He said " Patience, Patience, thou wilt break mine heart." And she, still kneeling, did cry out with a wild voice " They lied who named me, for in an ill hour was I born, and I hive not patience to support it I thought that thou diijst love me, and lo thou lovest the husband of another worn in more than thou lovest me " He bent to lift her up, groaning, but she it doth sometimes cow strong men, would not whereat he trembled from head stirred not neither spoke I a word to foot, and she shook with hi? trembling ' flesh and blood, I will neirer live with thee again as man with wife, but will go forth iiiio the New World to live and to die with thy handmaid dishonor " And she was silent. Again he spoke, and lifted up his voice io a cry exceeding sorrowful and bitter, so that my h art froze to heai it. " Woman woman was it for this I gave thee my fair name to cherish Or was it for this that I put my name in- to thy keeping Oh, child, listen while there is yet time Wilt thou with thy own hands take his manhood from thy husband to drag it through the mire Patience, as I have shared thy childhood, as I have loved and cherished thy girlhood, as I have held thee in my arms as bride and wife, give me back my honor while there is yet time. Oh, my wife my darling I" And I heard him sobbing like a little lad. At that sound she put both hands over her ears, and started to her feet, looking from right to left like a hunted thing, and! could bear it no longer, but leaped forward and fell on my kpees before her, and grasped her kirtle with both hands. I could scarce speak for tears, lut with all the strength that was in me did I plead with her to draw liack the bolt, but she would not. Now to this day when I do think of the fool that I was, not to run without her knowledge and bring the old lord, thy grandfather, or bide my time and unbar the door when she had gone, it seems as though I-must hate myself for evermore. But as I pleaded with her, all at once there was something cold against my throat, and I seemed to know that 'twas a dagger, and the steel cowed me, as and I spoke I a word more. Her face was over me, like a white flower as the leaves of a tree when the shaft is â-  in the purple dusk, but her eyes bright and smitten by lightning. And she cried out I terrible. And when she spoke, 'twas «ot again, and said, "As there is a God in my little lady's voice, but rather the voice heaven, thou dost not love me, an thou canst go to war and leave me to die o' grief. " Then, as though 'twas torn from him, he burst forth, " Now as there is a God, thou dost not love me, to torture me thus 1" And all at once she was quiet. So he i stooped and lifted her, and called her his "bride," and his "wife," and his "darl-| ing," and his "heart's blood," and more; o' a fiend. And she said. " Swear that thou sayest nothing of all this to man, or to woman, or to child, else will I kill thee as thou kueelest." And I knew that for the time she was mad, and would kill me even as she had said, did I not swear. So I did take that fearful oath, coward as I was, and to this day am I a craven when I think on't. wUd, fond, foolish names than at this day When I had sworn, she turned from me as I can remember. Twas near sundown, and I though there were no such woman in all the that night he was to ride. Over against ' earth, and went once more to the door o' the dark jags o' th' hills there ran a narrow j th' cave, and called his nameâ€"" Ernie " streak of light, like a golden ribbon. And He answered, straightway, and said "This the brown clouds above and below it were I once will I speak to thee, but if thou dost like locks o' hair made wanton by the wind, j not unbar the door o' th' instant. I will which it as a fillet did seek to bind. But nev r hold speech with thee again, nor they twain walked ever on, till by-and-by i touch as much as the hem of thy garments, they neared that cave o' which I did tell â-  hy the living God " ye. As they came in front o't my lady j "She said; "I cannot! I cannot! But turned, smiling piteously, "Ernie," saith j oh say not such dreadful words. We will she, " wilt thou go with me into the cave he happy. 'Tis for that I keep ihee here. Speak to me Ernie Ernie Ernie 1 and kiss me there, that when thou art gone 1 m»y come hither and think o' thee " And he said, " Oh, my heart what would 1 not for thee " And he kissed her again and again. Presently she said, " Do not think me Ernie Call me thy love once more 1 Just once ' just once " But she might as well have plead at the door o' a tomb for all the answer she got. Again and again she called him, but a dead foolish, but wilt thou enter, first? â€" it is so man speaks more than spoke her lord. And dark." And she stood in the doorway, with j at last she sprang to her feet, and rushed her hand on the door, while he entered. away into the darkness toward the castle, He said, "There is nothing here, sweet- j and I after her. heart, but a monstrous damp odor." And when I was entered in by a side And she answered "Nay, but go to the 'door, and had changed my apparel and very end there may be toads and when ' gone forth to inquire after her, lo 1 she was thou art there halloo to me." So she wait- j raving as with fever, and all they, her ed with her hand on the door. j father, and mother, and Mistress Marian, He called to her: "There is nothing, thought that he had ridden away and le t love. Wait until I return to thee." But, i Her i' th' park, having said farewell to them ere he had ceased speaking, she clapped "^o ere he and my lady did set forth to walk, the door with all her might, and did push ' And they strove to comfort her. forward the great iron bolt, so that he was 1 The morrow was scarce dawned when she a prisoner in the cave I being rooted to the j was ip and dressed, and stealing through ground with astonishment, as fast as was 'he covert to the door o' th' cave. I fol- ever the oak-tree under which I stood. At j lowed her, for she heeded me no more, now first he thought 'twas but one o' her pretty â-  that I hcid taken the oath, knowing that I trickeries, and I heard his gay laugh as he would be torn in pieces ere I would came to the shut door, and he called out, betray my trust. When she was come to and said, " So, sweetheart, I am in truth a ' the door, she kneeled down and leaned her prisoner o' war but art thou not an un- head against it and called to him, with a merciful general to confine the captured in t voice so exquisite low^ 'twas almost as so rheumatic a cavern " i though one should hear the spirit when it She sat down and leaned her head against the door, but said not a word. ' And he spoke again, saying, " Darling, j pray thee waste not what little time doth yet remain to us. " Still she answered not and again he spake, and his voice began to be sorrow- fuL " Oh, my wife," he said, " canst thou jest at such a time At last she answered him, saying, " I jts not." speaks within, and she saith, " Ernie â€" my love â€" my love." And all was still as death. And she said: " Darling, feel with thy hands for the bread and wine. It is near thee on the right o' th' door as thon enterest in. Two bottles o' wine and some loaves o' bread." But he answered her neither by word or sighing. And she said, " Wonldst thou break my heart?" Then, when she saw that he would not answer her, she cast her- self face down along the ground, and tore His voice changed somewhat, and he said, i np the grass with her hands, and pressed " What dost thou, then T" down her face into the damp earth. And She answered: "I keep what is mine. after a while (for th' looks o't) she rose and Where my forefathers did hide their trea- 1 went back to the castle.' snre, there hide I mine. i At nightfall there lode a man to the ras- He said, in a lond voice, " God will not '« gate with paper, wherein my Lord Falk- suffer it." land did question wherefore Lord Bodnor Then fell a silence between them. But ' bad not answered the enmmons. And all by-and-by he spoke agahn. " Darling," he tbey were amazed and looked at one an- saith, " surely thou dost not mean to do this other. The messenger said, moreover, "If thing T" j that it cannot be proven ere to-morrow And she ssith^ like a child when 'tis night that the Lord Radnor hath been the naughty, and knoweth well that it is, but victim o' foul play, he will be branded as a likes not to say so, " What thing " deserter thronghoat the land." He answered, " Thou canst not truly Thy grandfather gave one cry. " Mar- mean to shut me here to bring duhonor ' dered " and the sound of it stilled the life apon me, who have loved thee better than n me that I fell down as one dead. And man ever loved woman" (for so do all men when I had once more ccme to the posses- say, and truly think). j sion o' my wits, Jock did tell me as how She said, " Thy life is more to me than i 'twas already whispered in the village that thy honor. the young lord had deserted the cause, and And he groaned aloud, crying, "Oh, God I had set sail in secret for the New World, that I have lived to hear thee say it " and Upon this, I steaightway swooned again, â- {ndn there fell a silence, save for the And when I was recovered enough to stand Wluspering of the night in the trees above upon my feet and go forth from my chamber, us and the creeping of smul creatnres behold there was a silence over all the through tiie dry prass. Twas almost cur- bouse, as in a hrnue -when the best beloved few- time, and there was one star in the bas died in the night. black front o' tiie night, like the star on the Men scoured the country far and near in forehead of a Uaek staUiim. «earca o' th' murdered body o* th' yoans When he spake again his voice was very iord. And 'twas mow the evening o' t^ fierce, and be «utii, " Patience, I do com- third day. But my lady meant not to open ^e "ioor nntil tne morrow, for if she opened mand thee to release me." Bat she spake never a word. It ere then, she knew not bat what m«ttara And again he said, " Better let me oat to might be righted, and her lord ride to the love thee, than to keep me here until I hate wars in spite o' alL When it was nigh to thee.' â- unset she did creep forth and kneel at the door o'th' cave, and call to him beaatihil, gentle voice, " Emlo j love I my darling I" And when he did not ass^^^ aer, she ceased not, as on the day beforb, bat went on " To-morrow I will set thee free. Ab I live, thou shall be free to-morrow. An thou wilt but l«Ji me bo near thee like thy dog, I will *sk no more. Neither will I fret thee with my sorrow. Oh, love, I do beseech thee speak to me, whose only sin was in loving thee too dearly. Let the kisses that as a bride I have set upon thy lips plead with them that they speak to me. Oh, my heart oh, my husband, have pity If thou wilt never speak to me again, speak to me now. Say but my name, my silly, ill-bestowed name, 'Patience.' Nay, curse me, 80 I but hear thy voice. Call me what names thou wilt. In Gcd's name, Eir.le In the name o' her who was once thy wife 1" And as she knelt and pleaded a.s a woman with her God, behold I there stepped forth from the coppice Mistress Marian. She stood there like a figure cut in snow, for her kirtle was all of white seme, and her hair was as a cloud fallen round about her. When she saw my lady she drew in her breath with a sharp sound, and set both hands against her bosom. And she bend- ed forward from her loins and listened, but in none otherwise moved she. And my lady went on " To-morrow I will set thee free â€" I do swear it. With the rising o' th' morrow' sun thou shalt be free as air. Only speak to me now. Only speak to me now. Just once, Ernie â€" ^just once." With one spring Mistress Marian was upon her, and had pinned her arms to her sides. And the two women stood and gazed into each other's faces, with their throats stretched forward, as serpents stretch their throats ere springing upon each other. Mistress Marian spake first, and her voice was as a voice that I had never lieard, and she said, " So this is the truth, then " My lady said no word, but her eyes were aflame. And Mistress Marian gazed on her for an instant more, then dashed her aside, and turned toward the cave. " Ernie," she said, "take heart. I will set the free â€" I, Marian ".^But ere her hand did touch the bolt, my lady was upon her like a little tiger, and she Wound her hands in Mistress Marian's thick tresses, ^aud dragged her backward. And they rolled over and over on the ground, even as do men when they fight, saying no word from first to last. The horror of it smote me that I fell down upon my knees and was dumb. Now my little lady was. uppermost, now Mistress Marian. And had not my lady been strong with des- pair. Mistress Marian could a' mastered her o' th' instant. But she fought like a she- wolf brought to bay, with teeth and talons too, and 'twas almost as though two of a size had fought there. Bowbeit, with a sudden move. Mistress Marian flung my lady down, and set her knee upon her, and held her, and looked from side to side as though at a loss, and my lady's strength was fast failing. When I saw that, I could bide still no longer, but ran forward, crying to Mistress Marian to be gentle with her. She answered but these words, " Nurse, take oflf my girdle and bind thy lady's hands with it." And there was' that in her voice I dared not disobey. So I bound my lady's hands, she saying never a word, and when the girdle was fast knotted. Mis- tress Marian helped her gently enough to rise, and bidding me have a care o' her, turned and drew back the bolt from the door o' the cave. The last light o' the sun fell like a gold- en lance across the threshold, and across my lord as he lay there, face down, with his hands against the sill o' th' door. And she stooped down over him, say- ing, " He hath fainted for lack o' food," but I knew that there was both wine and bread i' th' cave. And she called his name, but he was silent. And she called him again and again. And at last she bade me come to her side, and when we had turned him upon his side so that his face was toward us, behold, he was dead. But Mistress Marian, saith again, " He hath swooned away." And she put her hand upon his brow, but no sooner did she touch it than she cried out at its coldness, and shook the dead man in her frenzy, crying, " Ernie I Ernie thou art free Wake man thou art free " I said " Mistress, mistress, for love of God I Dost thou not see that neither thou nor any other can wake him more " Thereat she fell back upon her knees, leaning upon one arm. And she said, " Dost thou mean â€" " I bowed down mine head, for I could not meet her eyes. And she fell upon his body, and stirred no more, so that when they came to bear the poor young lord to the castle, they did bear her also. And for some hours we thought her dead. Now when my lady saw them how they lay there, and the sunlight red upon them like to blood, she came and kneeled down in front o' me, and lifted ap her poor fetter- ed hands meekly, like a little child. And she said, " Nurse, I pray yoa tell me what i it doth mean, for methinks I am waxing j foolish, like poor Marjory i' th' village whose man fell from the cliflfl" I could not answer her for sobbing. And she said, " Do they sleep T" And 1 nodded my head, for I could say no word. She said: "Pray yoa, do not wake thenru An they sleep till the morrow, all will be well." Suddenly her wits came back upon her with a rash, m doth a wind that seemed to be gone for aye. And she snapped the girdle on her wrists like as it nad been a thread o' silk, and ran and laid hold on him with her hands, and dragged him forth upon the grass. And she saith "Ernie Ernie Ernie I What I wilt ttiou not answer me, now that thou art free See I thon mayest ride to war. It is not yet too late. What there, nurse, I My lord's charser Run ran " Then leaped she to her feet with one cry that methonght would 'a crackled the welkin in twain above our heads. "Dead I Oh God in heaven 1" So for an instant she stood, with her arms rea.^ed high above her head, and her e\«8 upon him as he lay at her feet, even as a flame doth poise for a breath ere sinking again upon tlie coals. Bat anon she drop^ ped down beride him, and beat her forehei^ with the lower palms o' her hands, and she â- Mth " WeU didat thoa aigtt me with thy S°^ Kl^i^^ *^ tiMW sig. me with thy, Uoodl" l^henaUatonoe^ihepeeiiap at me over her shoulder Wi^tii one e'^her win- some ways, and fell a-langhimg tofdy. " Norae," Muth die, " hatii he not foand apret^way to ponuh me? He feigns it weUâ€" by*r lakMn-doth he not. muBT^ And she rocked to and fro, as she knelt beside him,^agUifc|Kftly to herself, and ever and a^ dSflWd reach forth one l^tle haoj^ll seerrectjbi her styaggl e wj|h .^btresa Marian, ai^ ^vm^f^h a0fl^ lock intS place, and diis«! she ^mrtr ov«t and kissed him, laughing •bftly, and nodding to herself very wisely. And she woald sift that way, and ro^k herself Iq and fro, aifif smile upon the ground, and laugh softly, until the very day that she did die. And the last words that she did ever say were, " Just once, Ernieâ€" just cnce." (Nurse Cmmpet rises and stirs the fire, amid a dead silence, broken only by the little L-idy Dorothy's sobs and the rushing of the wind outside the great halL [the END.] Proof of Devotion. "And do you really love me, George?" she asked. " Love you " repeated George, fervently. 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PAGE, Hyde Park, UrmonV; Toronto Silver Plate MAXCTFACTDREttS OF TDK HIOBJ*^ J SILVER PLATED WAF TRADE mabk. AliL GOODS GFAKA-^IJ' TOR O JlX^^-â€" CANADA PERMANE" Loan and Savings w- Incorpobatki) 1855. Sttftaerfbed Sapiial Pald-np Capital KcBcrve Fund Taial Assets... OmcB :-Co.'8 Bcildings, Toeos*:^-^ .^. DEPOSITS received at current r»t» paid or compounded half-ye»rly. .,ste*-.| DEBENIURES issued in CurrencJ. ^,^1 interest ooapons attached. V^ifj^.Ztiiii' Eojfland. Executors and Tru8teM»"g^f law to invest in the Debentures of M)NE7 ADVANCED on Bs*' fia*"' comnt rates and on favorable concu "»)rt«ge8 and Municipal ^^'^^^l ^^ -ERT MASON, Manwr^" -J. HEKBBRT iCURE Fljjl Vk«al IW ami do not mcu " 1 tkn han ih«nir»tia; 11 Jrfjl Comqpuiy cUreut return nuul with » 1 mnst get the yeeet from ' Doa't Mmd money to the S-iwte â- Si«r r«erfTlnf_^«2Sa5rftl(*" A«ther?^«^^' ^^ !*• LOVS OB KlNDKEE ^IBE IX.-(C0KTINUED ♦ .*ept acro^ a long st IW»***' f!Sm aa open windo tl*^rie that Lily «^»» «t»'?^S"J tf '^tneiookbxff towards the la Uee »""' 'in tuereâ€" to the steps, #T*k« '.^ll is fcpoken between M *•?"' nlsl^ken there is .this Fa" ""^itd^ doggedly, with a K'^ffJiueUber promise tc »• -li «n no to London to-; UI*j"Xlec*ee before the J'»y* r„d vou know whiU; th. iX^K' l^^^r. Hyacinth P* "T^lown again upon the cu LSourle^B l,ps pressed tigl r^hTrkeXrnlhe; fet^ent. no? heeding the JZ eyes, which ought to hi ^TaS wild creature before 1 *?lmed and that from defiai ti;!tS^to'-*'**««y"""'°^" hi^ write a letter to your f a1 ^-L^as soon as this nonsensical [!;!r 'telling him of our engagem^ Cw Ids Sent -a mere form, of ^Si^e^ttoyoutopost-ornot^ iemSt. But you wUl send It. H riUTonnot? Listen to me, S^fifted the paddlea into the bo fcd to seize her hands and kis if .k* wrapped them in the fold) ttlfalSbLtout,witha loath 1^ in her voice which were fc Do Tot touch me. sirâ€" do not U anything but that! If the, L way to save myself, and you i L payment without forcing me 1 â- LiiMless vows to you. 'be it so; edwtradation of receiving what yoi ciS love 1 will never submit- me your letter to-morrow, an bore now." u v«, Be answered her merely by a bo' i as he turned the boat's stern J steps. He was the victorâ€" h ^rd to wait. „ â- They landed and walked along loe together, no other word pass Eeen them and five minutes aft saw her waltzing dreamily wi l^eninore, as calm, as beautiful, nptnous of all about her as she wa ,e had passed through the terribh Ice of the past hour upon the lake. "How wonderfully successful wo: I concealing their feelings " he m king his way to the supper-roon .dy in need of a glass of brandy t B nerves after this victory that wai lieat " But for every word â€" ay, f [oinfnl look of to-night she shall 1 ie and ask my pardon with bitter t iThen, having steadied himself wit fc, he went back to the ball-room ti ne to a forgotten partner, and wl le new« of his engagement thro lomâ€" a piece of information which, iched Garret Croft, almost stn mb with surprise. CHAPTER X. I An open latticed window, set in Teat thickness, with ivy and climb: JiUie outside, and a dainty lace lithin, draped back with a broad â- It bine ribbon, revealing the intr lwH:dled square room furnished ^eit and airiest of satin-wood ct ^let, the prettiest of chintz cover. Iw brightest of rugs and embroidd **n mafB upon the sombre floor, il nted wallsgay with water-colour dl nmrors set in wreaths of chl ' gilt roses, cont asting stron/ ilow heavy ceiling with one gr3 f polished aud carved oak supportil wk floor, and its little square] rferiooking the sullen lake out â- wswere so many shadows of ' i towers and great branching iu Fw»t«nly a little strip of HaughtL Nd Wttkle in the sun as other ll L J^netady sitting sUent, and moti oihioned window-seat kept f spoil the lake below. AdJ Wt rtood on a little blue lacqu^ '.•^f; but. except that she j 'jJ'iPatiently when the ser^ "^itm had left the room, v^ notice of it thai sh^ • ctartering roaes about h-a- iJ7*8^npeof young women \l |udbQnging about the terrC .?IISf?°8 the ball of the nigl rwd their half -siUy, half spit Pt^ff^Hyacinth. She v JT** Me she had led for thei TV"*â„¢g upon it assometl rk^L!?"' "^^ded fromherl g?*»J«aB grave in the desert. 1 l!!lJ"*^ ^«r bead bowed olvi^ L,*'^*P«d' thinking,! SSte^'^lwcktapattrJ njS^'gbLt voice demanding I "thSilS^ ^^ wretchedness! l»iiS2»^^*"' ™»y I come iJ ^^?Sh^ ' y**" ^^"" PjMSi^i .y"**^ â„¢ay come kiJJ^Lff* "ide the thick tj â- hwehonldOTand look J s-^- ^m^j T^ ** ®*»ee. dressed i^?â„¢5;«o«tnme, and wi Higm. J7" «a her golden h i^W yon are looking j^5|g'"»nt tune, chil ~y* •"»»« appearance] *^ was never so hJ '" answered the| 'J" much, she f^ "•a silent. â-  aie not tiredl I ^0013- playing f ***»not always ^^ttrte yean. "••f be^ng oull •lit Do I ^y»ainth "Iâ€" ll ?5s.? " .^llti^S»,usil^;