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elms and maples in the midst of which a summer house which bad been a fa- rite resort of Eleanor Hither I bent my and myself looked mus ingly upon the lovely prospect around and beneath mo The temple opened toward the river which was visible from here rolling in its blue splendour across the exquisite landscape There is a fas cination in water which will keep the eyes fixed upon it through hoars of reverie I eat there mindful of the near the purple the white ships the busy village but gazing only at the blue ripples forcer flipping away from the point of my observation My spirit exhaled like the mist and ascended in My grief aspired and in passionate prayer to the white throne of the eternal justice it arose in tears and drawn up by the rays from the one great source in the world I and mm the Spirit of love I prayed I do not think he wished to quarrel went No thought of myself always doubly pleasant Iiad lost my keen interest In this era of my life while my ambition grew torpid To excel in my profession had become for the quite the secondary object of my life my brain grew feverish with the harass ment of restless projects the recoil of thwarted ideas- There waa not one in family group always excepting that id cloistered mirror who betrayed toning down he said On another occasion with that smile of his he observed that it must bo that I was after the hand rewardsthe sum total would comfortable settingout for a person just d could started sobbed after the good iMntjii body bat ins myself I her my old plaid gown for the matchbox of ebony that sits on the now and oh dear hut my hearts dead broke sure Margaret and I darent set in Jims there an Ive woke up scraming two nights and if Id seed any thing Id a told it long afore which I wish I had seein youve axed me sir It dont do no good a cookinj delicacies eat- no longer wish I had never come to to poor Miss Eleanor and having relieved herself of the sympathy which sho had been aching without the opportunity she threw her apron over her head of r people Margarets testimony the point than Mr Burton let her own heart put log up with tedious circumlocution n the hope of kernel of in of chaff a deluge of tears and interjeo- Maggie did finally come out with a which arrested the attention of her listeners didnt belong here living The Virgin that ever I what Jim did it wasnt a hu ng at all but a wraith and he seen cry night He told us of it till the Tuesday night as we sot talking the funeral and it frightened us so slept a win till morning Poor with it too j he he aid of the livin nor dead hut its to the best to stand in awe of iperits and I see hes backward about go- the place alone after dark and Sure he s What was it like Sure youd best call describe it for himself blood run cold lo think of thing I family Jim was summoned His story weed out was this Saturday evening after tea bis mistress Miss Eleanor had asked him to go to the postoffice for the mail It was very dark He lighted the the back gate he stopped a As he waved the light about he saw something in the flow or garden about ix feet from the bay- window It had the appearance of s predion grew what intent I had not yet decided In all this time I had not seen Eleanor She had recovered from her illness so be about the room but bad not yet joined the family at I went uently to the boose it had been a sec ond home to me ever since I left the haunts of my and the old redbrick man- pith the Grecian portico whose pillars were reflected lets of Seneca lake socio i to the shore and where my mother still freedom as of old I went front Mr Argyll apprehensive of intruding upon TERMS IN ADVANCE Whole No 133 A band of orange belted the west As the dropped behind the hills the moon up in the east It seemed if her silver light frosted what it touched the grew sharp a thin white cloud spread th these emotions Suddenly a slight chill fell upon me I perceive that the sun had set The when I igerel and the cold moonlight shone full her face I remembered bow I en her that last time but one glowing id flashing in triumphant beauty attired with the utmost skilled coquetry of a young beloved woman who is glad of her charms because another prizes them Now she came along the lonesome path between tho withered flowerbeds clothed in deepest black walking with a feeble step one small white hand holding a sable shawl across her chest a long crape vail ovep her head from which her face left her sister to the solitude the wanted company she said James was gloomy and would not try to amuse not that she amused but so and she felt timid it a relief to have any one to talk to or even to It felt very sorry for her It bee my duty to bring her books read them through ii lengthening evenings at others to while away the lime with a game of chess The piano was abandoned out of respect in the chamber above els would to Marys lip as the from the lark at sunrise but she al ways broke them off drowning them in Her elastic hit spirit constantly ted iteli while the ion lor it She could not speak of without tears and for this my heart bitted her She did not know choking in my throat which often pre ss I gazed at her Not the garden of young life The rain through which she walked not so com plete but this garden would resurrect ith of another spring whilo this side of self in the for her there the grave cheek the dimples and smiles fled lip- presei together the brow like If marble could waste away she like a glorious statue grown thin and war The air the pure moonlight cold and white always about like It had been one of his in ladies the house but so uneasy so in as he He would pick up book in the library in five minutes I throw it down thrice up and down the hall out upon the piazza back into the parlor and stand looking out of the windows then library and take up another book had the He had too a kind of haunted look if my reader car what that is I guessed that hi g for Eleanor i the Sunday immemorial but that other look I did light fall of snow Slowly she treaded her way with bent tl rough the garden out upon tho lUide and up to the little rustic temple which had spent so many happy jurs with him When she had reached the platform in front of it she raised her eyes and swept a glance around upon he perceived me rose to my feet my expression only doing reverence to her for I bad no words She held out her hand and as I took it said with gentleness as if her I pressed her hand of her form- There had It seemed as ye ruber vanished thi few hours this shoulders it stood quite still am just as if the water was not down by It had very large bright eyes which shone when the the caudle threw the light on them as if they with the pale sunshine which is only had been made of fire He only saw it seen in Indian Summer a tender mist He so frightened that he clod the with a zone of purple I let his lantern fall which did not happen could not stay in the office that afternoon extinguish the candle but when he so infinitely sad so infinitely lovely I IMh window We now consider to show the handkerchief to Mr Argyll and relate to him our grounds of against the girl Mary and James admitted to the council The former said that she remembered Miss Sullivan tlu she had been employed in the family for few days at a time on several different lifted it up again the wraith had vanished He felt very queer about it at the id the next day when the bad new then he knew it was a warning often had such in the old country We did not undeceive Jim as to the of the phantom With the would not had been not to mate the i the lawpapei added learned that she must then have been perfectly familiar with the arrangement of the house and with the habits of family hour you dined while the family were at table since had she been surprised by the enhance of a servant or other could affect to called on and to be waiting for the young ladic3- marked Mr Burton The servants had not is in the kitchen dismissed CHAPTER One week another a third a fourth passed by Our village was as if it had never been shaken by a fierce agitation Already the tragedy w been except to the household est flower it had blighted longer looked over their shoulders walked the story now only served to liven the history of the little place woe told to Every thing that human energy had been done to trac murder lo its origin yet not been gained since we sat that Wcdi afternoon in the parlor holding council over the handkerchief Young and health ful as I was I felt my spirit down under my constant unavailing esc which I had been which I was first before a jury and make my maid- soft as that of and scented with the indescrib able perfume of perishing leaves came tc no through the open window with a calling me abroad I took up my hat iering along the avenue in the direction of the house went in upon the lawn bad thought to go out into the open try for long walk but my heart The language of The divine melancholy of of summer moons the softened of autumn days with inedible joy and sadness of all this varying demon of beauty but love I walked beneath the trees slowly my amid tho thickly ivcs and pressing a faint aroma from moist earth To and fro for a long time I rambled thinkii thoughts but my soui filling all like a fountain fed by secret To the back of the It ad and behind the flowergarden by Loudon as it Is London five times more populous ian New York four times more populous ian St- Peter- burg twice as populous as there are nearly two- thirds more people in it than Paris and fourth more population than It contains as many people as Scotland as many as Denmark and three the number of Greece Every eight night and day one person dies five minutes one is born Eight thousand have been added to its since 1851 Only half a mil- all this population attend public worship aod there are a million of who if inclined to come would require ve new places of worship built for them One hundred thousand people work on Sundays there are ha bitual drinkers intoxicated peo ple taken every year off the streets 100- fallen women mblers children trained in thieves and receivers of goods There are 10000 public bouses and beer shops frequented regu larly by persons In every of the populat for Ct38inhal- On the other hand out of 00000 London Arabs are at ragged schools There are Bible women city Missionaries 20000 persona attending public worship in the theatres every Sunday evening Everything in short both for good and evil is on a gi gantic scale but after all the advance made of late years it is evident that evil has still greatly the advantage An Irishman remarked that a true gen tlcman will never look at the faults of of I pretty woman without shutting bis eye