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BURIED ALIVE. Br ANNIE THOMAS (MM. Pwnxnt Ce CHAPTEI1 va I ESCAPE. Ignominiously I creep in at the window of the stil ly, for tw oppose my streiigtli to Arthur's would l. f weakest, feeblest folly, and so I surrender I' fiii thoughts of escape for this night. He marches me along upstairs, and to my locked ci'usiber-iloor. which he has presently to summon j in wson to open, 1 standing silently by all the time, I looking and feeling guilty of all sorts of things. You 're a nice hand to look after her," he grum- bles, reproachfully, to Dawson. who spitefully re Sorts and between them they make such a noise i am in agony ltst Mr. Hesslington should ( :1 I' it. ;i ml come and join the family group. If it hadn't been for me she would have given I; the slip," my cousin mutters. Hut the door is appily opened at last, and 1 glide into my room, and h"j>e that I have got rid of him till the morrow. Not at all. With the coarse indelicacy that is part ol his character, lie holds the door open, and demands that I give him a kiss. A kiss, for me to say nothing about it, Florence. You may as well, without any fuss. for vou know I you re to he my wife." W My maid stands watching this little scene with a lIasty, sneering smile. llow she will mock me to- morrow in the kitchen to the other servants! Really, i may as well be murdered by her without delay, as make strenuous exertions to prolong a life which she lias the power to make so intensely miserable. 1 leel that, detestable as Arthur is in every other respect, tt least lie is not in the plot with his father and this servant to kill me, in order that they may enjoy my inheritance. It is to his interest that I should live, and come into my own, and share it with him. For dear life's sake 1 will oppose trickery to trickery, and trade upon his cupidity. Arthur, if you care a bit for me, or for what I may bring you," I cry, faintly, "make that woman how you her note-book, in which she is promised I marriage if I die-if she kills ite-before I come ol age." She is the maddest, wickedest young woman I ever come across," Dawson says, rapidly. "The note-book," Arthur says, stretching out his hand. "I've not got one, sir that's her madness." I read it to-niglit. and that's why I tried to run away 1 cry. "The note-book," Arthur repeats; and she is storming out that she hasn't one," and that I'm mad or dreaming," when he suddenly takes the law into his own hands, pushes her into the room with me, locks the door again, and shouts through the key-hole that he is going to look in her room for the note-book which she has forgotten. Then the woman becomes like a wild beast, and if I were not young, and strong, and agile as a cat, 1 know that she would spring upon me and make an enll of me. As it is, site conies up close to iiie, but she does not touch me; I see her lingers digging themselves into the palms of her hands, and those moving about with the restless, stfyng inclination they have to clutch at and IfestroyT IlidoiYly weapon of defence I have is an ivory-handled clothes-brush, which I am quick enough to catch up from a table near nie. So we stand for a few minutes, I with my back against the wall, she close opposite, breathing hard, and listening—listening intently for the first sound of Artliur's return. Minutes elapse, and presently I hear the welcome sound of the other servants moving about and un- barring doors and windows. I try to make my way to lle hell, but she sees iiiy and frustrates it. "1\0, Miss Rabbingtou," she says, coolly, "you're "of going to create an alarm and have things your own way you'll wait here alone with me till the one you're trying to make your bully comes back, tlieii we shall see ho.v things are." 1 revolve all kinds of possibilities in my disor- dered mind. Supposing Arthur finds the con- demnatory note-book ? Can I expect or wish him to do anything to criminate his father? Bad as I be- lieve the young man to be, and repulsive as I know to be, I do not think he is an unnatural son liven if he is inclined to deliver up this evil woman for her murderous intention, lie will be held back from doing so by the consideration that his father is involved with her. No; 1 shall never get justice, mercy, or protection from one of them, unless I Arthur heavily—so heavily that I shall be kft poor indeed. lie conies back at last. We hear him coming along slowly from quite the other end of the pas- sage, where Dawson's room is situated, and some- thing in the lagging, uncertain footsteps tells a tale of dire perplexity and uncertainty. In another minute he unlocks the door and conies in. Look here, Dawson," he says, showing her the note-book, here's your book, and as you say there is nothing in i:. you -()Ii't iiiiiid my keeping it for you; it will he s.'iter with llIe. Now, Florence, come down to the study with me; and you, Dawson, go about your business." Which is to wait on Miss Babbington, and take orders from 110 one but your pa she says, insolently. Y Oll'l! take one order from me to-day, for a change." lie says, in his soft, cruel voice; -get yourseK and all your belongings out of this house in the course of the next hour. You shall have the luggage-cart to take you to the station and there you can take a ticket To where ? To the devil, if you like lie says, with a sud- dell relapse jllto fury. Come, woman, attend to what I say; when my father knows that I have our note book, he will be glt. i enough to see you go. and won't attempt to interiere on your behalf. itot L lil)e of my writing in the book," she snys, struggling to make a stand aga i u:, this will, which has grown strangely strong suddenly. But I have several 'lines of your writing, you fo 1 he says, ferociously. "'I have the letter you wi de tome in London, when Lady Frances oegan !o get. so ill; you plead about your own amiability in giving her hairs of the dog that had bitten her. Where would your neck be if I handed that letter to her son ? I*•:i)it. and overcome by these horrors which arj b'ing revealed to me, X stagger to a sof;i, Arthur, 1 think, begins to fe:tr that I may take Death lor iny bridegroom instead of him. •• Come, Florence, hesays,more killdly, "COIIIC down with me, and you shall have some hot tea. while we talk over matters; you. shall be relieved of this waiting- maid of yours from this time." I hale Ililn, hut I am less afraid of him than I am of Dawson—my life, at kHSi, is in his ha.ids. >o 1 follow him, unwillingly enough, but still I fol- iiiiii to the study, and as soon as we are there in* comes to the point with a vengeance. il Look here," he savs, I'm not going to discuss anything with you discussion would be useless, and we should only leai-e off exactly where we he- gan but you and I must come to an understanding j u at once. Your life isn't pleasant liere, is it' I moan out, No." be tractable and good, Florence, and have me to take care of you you had better. lor your own sake, marry me at once. My father tll, won t offer any opposition when he knows that— i've had it in my power to send Dawson away. I am not a bad fellow, and I'll be an indulgent mis- • band-and, let nie tell you, you'll never have the chance of doing better." 1 it. is strange wooing. He offers me my life at the sacrifice of lave and liberty, and all that makes life worth having. Biit what am I to do ? I am in the tails. Can't you be a friend and brother to me ? j Won't you win my gratitude by saving me from— "rom my enemies, without putting a price on your services? 1 sob out; and he replies— "No, I can't and won't; you hold your tongue about what you think you've found out, and say you're ready to marry me at once, and your life shall be as free and happy a life as a girl can lead but hesitate, or try to trade on what you read in Dawson's note-book, and I'll leave you to your fate, whatever it may be." You won't be so cruel, so cowardly, so-? "Yes, I will," he cries, roughly; if you prefer being in my father's power to being in mine, in it you shall be entirely don't think you'll be able t.) escape by aid of any of the servants. They all knew that if you run a way from your guardian, and trump up a story against him, that yon will forfeit your properly, and that there will be nothing to be got iroiii you (.iii pay thelll hetter thall you call, for !.e has the right of using your income till you come age. and how can he spend it better than in pny- i.g his servants to guard YOIl properly Don't be t!ie tijo gods ;Lii,l tuink yourself lucky to get a fellow for your hus- band who has had the prettiest women in London wiiii about him." Let me go to my own room now, and I'll give you my answer to-morrow," I say, feebly, and as i turn to leave the room, I face Mr. Hesslington, who is leaning against the doorpost listening to us. "What do you iiietti by turning my house into i a Pandemonium in this way:" he asks, with an oath, glowering at me, and Arthur answers for me— "Dawson has been frightening her out of her wits that woman is imbued w:th too strong a taste for melodrama, sir, and if she does look out she'll be running other people's necks into a lioose but it's aU right now, and Florence is going to transfer he: telf from your guardianship to mine." "My darling daughter: "the vile old hypocrite embracing lIIe; and then Arthur takes my cuid. trembling hand and kisses it, and my brain reels, and I am blessedly unconscious for.a long, long time. When I do recover, I find myself on a sofa, in the large drawing-room, Mr. Hesslington gazing at me witti savagely-joyful exultation, and Arthur in un- feigned alarm. But standing by me is the doctor- be same one who was called in to see Lady Frances when it was too late. The young lady will re- cover," he says, turning to my guardian (?). I congratulate you on this it would have been too terrible to have had another tragedy in your house." "Perhaps you had better leave her? says Mr. Hesslington and as I hear these words, I give the doctor such a look of appeal as makes aim bend down and say- "What is it:" They are watching every movement. 1 oare not form one of the words I am burning to speak with my lips. How shall I make him understand that I am in durance vile, and danger? Once more my piteous eyes seek his face, my poor eyes that have shed so many tears lately the eyes that my dear mother was wont to kiss, and de- clare to be "the sweetest eyes ever seen." At any rate, they must be eloquent to-day, for the doctor says— Before I prescribe for this young lady, I must see her and question her alone. lou gentlemen may go, but, of course, the women-servants may re- if you please." Satisfied with this-for they are one and all his creatures—Mr. Hesslington goes away, followed by l Arthur, who, however, pleases to account for his anxiety by explaining to the doctor that he stands in the position of future husband to me. Ugh 1 I shall soon be able to express my loathing for billl I As soon as they are out of the room, the doctor benns over me and says in so low a voice that even I can scarcely hear him, You want help." Kapidly, in French, I tell him that I am in Iwri1 of my life, give hini my aunts'address, and entre at Itimto telegraph for them. lie nods assent, the.i says, cheerily— We shall have you all right in a few days, Miss Babbington but in the meantime, if you p!ea-> no excitement or agitation of any sort; good, pia);1 living, and absolute rest Willi that he goes, and I hear him repeating his instrticrio.is to Arthur outside the door, and Arthur, in I)i, of losing iiie, and the l'oi-tittic I sent, sees that they are curried out to the ve.y letter." for that day. and nearly the whole of the next, I have immunity from trouble and worry. Arthur t it' takes extraordinary precautions about me. lie in- sists on the cook, who prepares my meals, and his father who orders them, tasting a portion of every- iiiiiis I ett. But, in spite of all his solicitude, a little dainty dish is brought up to nie when he is; out of the way. { Hitherto he had accompanied the tray when it ha* been brought to iiie, but this time the disa of j delicately prepared sweetbreads comes unescorted, and 1 remember suddenly that during these two days I have eaten nothing without his assuring ilLJ that his father itas just been enjoying a portion »»r* the same. He evidently either distrusts my viand's himself, or fears that I may do so. There is kiml- lIess in this. But he does not accompany the sweet- breads, and, odd as it may appear, I miss him, and can hardly bring myself to taste jily dainty dinner. They are very white and soft, and are covered with a thick white sauce. The servant may go, I tell her, I would rather dine alone. As soon as I am alone, I put the dish down, and indicate to a lazy cat who is sleeping on the win- dow-sill in the un, that" she is scrved." After a i few preliminary sniffs at the dish, and cautious promenades around it, she banishes doubt, and set- tIes to her pleasing task with a loud purr. She is not a hungry or half-starved cat, but she is a healthy animal, with a good appetite. She eats the whole of my sweetbreads, and I put the empty dish back: on the table, and prepare to go to sleep, in order to avoid inquiries as to how I enjoyed them. I have scarcely placed myself comfortably on the sofa, when I hear the unusual sound of carriage wheels t utside, and leaping to the window, I see my dear old aunts descending from the doctor's brougham. With a cry of joy I greet them, and make them look up, and as I am rushing to the door to go and iiieet them, and fling myself upon their loving protection, the cat staggers across my path, gives utterance to the most appalling yell that even a cat ever uttered, and then fall stiff and stark, dead at my side. At the same moment my aunts came in, I heated, frightened, full of tender fear for me, and joy at beholding me at last—with Mr. Hesslington politely escorting them. I fling my arms round their necks, I cling to them with such a frantic force that I nearly break them in two. and then I say: "Look at the cat; it died as you came to the door. I gave it my dinller-I gave it what was brought for me to eat! He," and here I wave my denouncing hands towards Mr. flesliiigton, "Avtnts ilie to I (lie or disappear' before I'm twenty-one! I've seen it in his own handwriting Hush, hush, my darling! Hush, hush, my darl- ing they say, half reproachingly, but they hold me very tight, and I know they won't give me up again. There is a very terrible scene presently. Arthur comes in from his walk, and reviles his father with having marred liis (Artlitir's) iiilrria-e. And the cook, whose succulent little dish has killed the cat, comes up an 1 swears I- that master gave her the powder to put with the sweetbreads and the sauce, and told her that it was a narcotic ordered by the doctor for Miss Babbington." I am a reed shaken by the wind between them all. But I cling to my aunts and beg them to decide, I don't want to be the means of bringing aboui the fate Mr. Hesslington so richly deserves, because he is my mother's brother after all. And now that I am saved from the possibility of having a maniage with Arthur thrust upon me, I don't loath hini quite as much as I did. But lam feverishly anxious to get away—to get away with the dear old aunts, who will let mo wiite and tell Frank Wilton that his mother was not the voluntary and habitual drunkard lie has been led to believe her. So, as the servants are willing enough to do my bidding now, in an hour or two my boxes are packed and corded, alli1 I am ready to start. Mr. Hesslington does not come to see me off and wish me good-bye and God-speed; he spares me that miserable bit of hypocrisy. But Arthur lingers about me to the last, pouting his lips out, and declaring it-to be entirely beyond his compre- hension that I should remain indifferent to liiiii. when "a lot of the prettiest women in London are wild about him." Poor Arthur I resign him to my lovelier rivals without a pang. To be continued.\
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Cattle ranges in Montana are reported over- crowded. Frogs' legs from Canadian river marshes are being sold in New York for forty cents a pound. About otiO salmon have been taken at Beigh Castle by Limerick fishermen, three of the fish weighing 48!b. The take is unprecedentedlv large. The competition for the Parepa-Rosa Gold Medal 1S taken place at the Itoyal Academy of Music" y It, ic i'here were twenty-four candidates, and the "medal was awarded to Blanche Murray.
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I TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
I TOPICS OF THE WEEK. THE two I-oli Hall and Glynn, wlife were bitten by >i o. i-l ?e:rie»vr dogat Walworth* nas It London fnr 4 for tioatment accord- ing to \1. r(vjt-*nr"-< sy-ftcm. A great deal of bis "co token in the case, and several the "Xj/ease offending the men ',I) J 'H'S .{.te received. Mr. Lewis H. Isaac the candidate for Walmouth, in- tt,re-, td Lim-pl.' 10 the matter, and took charge otth- .a emeriti for conveying theconstables to Tirii There have been three other cases, vvitLm the Strict of mad dogs since Hall and Ulyun dectroy^d the animal.
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FOR some time pist there has been a con- siderable increase in the number of crimes ia Pari. prompted by jealousy. Two more have been committed. At about ten o'clock tha other night, in the commune of Maisan Alfol.t.. a man hi'iy-two years of age, named Boissel, entered the aptrttnant occupied by Antoinette* Biguet, and with three blows with a cutlasa laid her dead at his feet. The murderer did. not attempt to -scapc but went to the policei commissary and confessed that he had just killed his mistress because she had owned ta him that she had listened to another man, Boissel borrowed the cutlass of a neighbouring grocer. The second crime was perpetrated in Paris by a man named Pommeray, who, having met his paramour walking in the Rue dea Pannoyaux with another man, drew a revolveip and fired two shots at his rival, who fellseri- ously wounded.
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THE gentleman who asks in the Nineteenth Century what the working-classes read, doew not give us the answer. They don't read so muck, as formerly, he thinks but then he is also of" opinion that the cheap editions have enormous- ly increased the number of readers among thek. working-classes. One thing he is sure of is that the Bible is less read than formerly. Mr. Sal- mon does not account for this, but it is prob- ably because it takes all the workiag-people'st spare time to keep up with Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Salmon is perhaps never so nearly right aa when he finds that the people read police re- ports and the like in the Sunday journals, and Tit Bits and its kind during tne rest of the* week.
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THE Council of Hygiene in the Department Df the Seine have been taking the great egg question into consideration. Among their dis- coveries are these that comparatively few per- sons prefer their eggs in the earlier stages of decomposition," that eggs "cannot be eaten when putrid beyond a certain extent," that a bad egg can be distinguished by its smell, and that where you have a choice between a fresh ,gg and a rotten one it is on the whole advisable to prefer the former. Stale eggs can be used by bakers-we had thought as much-but very bad eggs should be destroyed. These revela- tions are noteworthy, but evidently the Council are unaware of one use which any egg can be put. In a country which hardly requires to be. mentioned eggs are sometimes served on Sun- day in the inns to guests who, on account of a certain Act of Parliament, dare not call for k drink." These eggs are full of whisky, the meat having been blown out and the whisky put in its place. Then the egg is hermetically sealed and ready for use. A Scotchman never tires of; eggs.
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THE discussion on Imperial Federation "t the Congress of the Chambers of commerce brought a new and very important factor into promi- nence. More than one of the Colonial states- men present touched pointedly on the questions of free-trade, protection, and reciprocity. Con- cerning Parliamentary federation, as the Mar- quess of Lome said, it is as well to go cau- tiously. The danger to be guarded against i that of being in too much of a hurry to do something or ether. But while we are thinking of uniting the empire by constitutional changes,, the colonists, or a good many of them, hava been looking at a more practical matter 1 Why not attempt to get some sort of unity in fiscal and commercial matters. Why should the- commercial policy of the mother country and the dependencies be absolutely separate and dis- tinct 1 When we make" most-favoured nation treaties with foreigners we leave the colonies out of our calculation "but," said Sir Charles Tupper, it is not enough to grant perfect free- dom England must take it advantageous to the colonies which belong to the empire." This is a view of the matter which ail Federationists will not like but it requires to be taken into account.
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SCOTLAND is fortunate in being able to dis- pense with a large detective police force. Ac- cording to the annual return of the Chief In- spector of Scottish Constabulary just issued, the total number of the detective department North of the Tweed did not last year exceed one hundred and fourteen men, including superior othcers in charge and plain-clothes constables attached. The total number of the. Scottish police, reckoning all grades, was, how- ever, four thousand one hundred and fifty-eight. Of these fifteen hundred and fourteen were distributed in counties, and the remainder in cities and burghs. An unsatisfactory item in the Chief Inspector's report is that elating to vagrancy. The number of vagrants in Scotland reported during the year was a hundred and six thousand six hundred and sixty-one. Thia number, compared with the return for the pre- vious year, showed the large increase of over fifteen thousand. It is very difficult, howevec). as the inspector points out, to obtain even a i approximate estimate of this nomadic class, ot to separate the professional tramp or. sturdy beggar from the really needy and deserving way- farer in search of honest work. The inspector recommends that the powers now possessed by burghs with respect to vagrants should be ex-, tended to counties.
! NEWS IN BRIEF
NEWS IN BRIEF Rev. George Bode, vicar of Saddington has died suddenly. He hurried home, and fell dead on reaching the house. Tflerè is a general belief in Turkish circles that « war between Hussia and Austria will not be loiiil- delayed. The Prefect of the Seine has issued a decreek, diminishing the interest on pledges in the Mont ift Piete from 9 to 8 per cent. Frederic Ennle Simon, described as the invent#? of chromo-lithograpliy, has just died at Strasburg, at the age of eighty-one. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is paying a short visit- to Stratford-on-Avon as the guest of Mr. C. E. *'«! Mrs. Flower, of Avon Bank. Five steerage passengers have died on board the Guion Line steamer Nevada during her voyage froirt Queenstown to New \orK. The Bank of Bombay has declared a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 11 per cent, per i Annum, and carries forward 72,000 rupees. The Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry has announced a reduction of 1u per cent, in the ren:s jf all tenants on her extensive Welsh estaies. A remarkable upshot of brine has been discovered in a meadow at Marton, near Northwich. Tite brine shoots up about six feet, and flows with great A Birmingham lady has been drowned iri the River Avon, by the capsizing of a pleasure boat. Iler husband, who was in the boat with her w is rescued in an unconscious condition, by some hay- iiialcers. The farmers in Cheshire are in excellent spirits over the splendid change which has taken place in the weather. A larger acreage of hay has been car- ried in this great pastoral county than for many years past.