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A WOMAN'* NTOIiV,
!el had just entered my seventh year
when my father, M. Yeile, gave me a
new mother in the person ot the hand
some and imperious widow ot one Col
onel Lulor, and a brother in Mrs. Lalor's
only child, a boy of twelve.
Albert Lalor, witb his handsome face,
strong will and pleasant waj s, soon
came my master, ruling my impetuous
spirit with a success that no one else
| conld. Madame Veile looked on with a
proud, selfssatisflcd 6mile, and more than
once I heard her murmur in her sweet,
imperious tones:
'They must marry, Philippe. Your
Vi must be my Albert's wife.'
I And my father and nod
his head approvingly, evidently well
pleased with the idea.
Hut those happy days slipped by all too
rapidly.
My father diod: Albert was finishing
his collegiate course. I t in accordance
with my father's will, was sent to Paris
to be finished under the care of his old
and valued friend," Madamei Duponte.
Four years later I returned to my steps
mother.« . ;•
It was near, the close of a bleak winter
day that I'teachcd Gray Fell. Bnt bleak
as it was, my handsome, stately step
mother met me on the steps of the groat
pillared portico.
'Ah!' sl«o exclaimed, half under her
breath, a 9 she held mo ofl a moment and
keenly scrutinized me with her great,
lustrous black eves. Then a warm smile
parted her lips, and kissing me tc;iderly,
Bhe added:
'Yon are beautiful, my child—far more
beautiful than 1 imagined. Albert will
be charmed. Ah, a blush, dearest? You
have not forgotten my old hope, then I
But come, come, dear: the air is bitterly
keen.'
And gathering up the shining length
of her black satin she swept queen-like
before me, pausing only long enough in
the hall to allow a kindly word or two to
the assombled servants.
Then, with a rare condescension, she
led me up 6tairs to my chamber.
As we entered the dressing room she
glanced at the timepiece and turned to
my maid:
'Tufeb mademoiselle's wraps, Mauton,'
she said quickly aud imperiously, 'and
then lay out some of her handsomest
dresses;'adding smilingly, as her eyes
returned to me, 'I shall superintend your
toilet this evening, my dear. Dinner
willtbc served iu less than an hour, and!
want you to appear at your uost when
you descend to the drawing room. Al
bert shall be dazzled al first sight.
When we entered the brilliantly light
ed drawing room it was tenanted by two
persons—a handsome, kingly looking
man, whom I recognized as my step
brother, and a tall, slender girl with
heavenly blue eyes, pearly skin and
a shimmering crowu of pale, goldeu
hair. *
I had heard of this fair girl, and that
her home would henceforth be at Gray
Fell. But for tbo first time it occurred
-to me that might be destined to step
between mo and the man I had slowly
learned to think ot only too tenderly.
•With a sharp, jealous pang I extended
my hand to Albert Lalor, who had has
iened to me, his fiue eyes glowing with
admiration aud pleasure.
His greeting was cordial, and evident
ly pleased his mother,
'But why don't you kiss her, ray son.
as in th 3 old days?' she smiled gayly.
And with an answering smile, Albert
beul bis grand, head and pressed bis
bearded lips lightly to bers. •
'Ah, what a charming blush!' laughed
my stepmother, touching my glowing
cheek caressingly witb her soft, white
figuors.
I smiled, but my heart throbbed pain
fully under the ruby velvet bodice that
became me so well. Beneath tbe pres
sure of those bearded lips my wayward
woman's heart had leaped from tender
ness to a full, fierce, passionate love.
1 lifted my eyes, lustrous with the uew
born feeling, to the haudsome, smiling
face of my brother, aud again my heart
swelled with jealous pain at sight of its
unruffled calm.
But the next momenf Madame Viele
claimed my attention.
'Vi, dearest, my great niece, Peri Hoi
brook.' Sbe smiled.
I turned my eyes from Albert's face to
meet tbe eager half-affrigbted gaze of tbe
gulden haired girl 1 could not but ad
mire.
1 bowed, and somewhat coldly accept
ed the proffered hind, and answered the
few musical words of gentle welcome.
Then 1 involuntarily flashed a swift
glance at Albert.
Ah, how the blood leaped through my
veipal And how I hated the charming
crcaluro standing before me, so regally
GRAHAM, N C-, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER ,26 1879
graceful and sweet. Yes, I hated her,
for (here conld be no mistaking the
brooding tenderness and passion with
which my stepbrother was regarding
her.
But only for an i.isfant did his eyes
betray him,* and as the pleasant hours of
the evening flew by, I grew half dispose
ed to laugh rft my jealous pain. Nevers
theless, when my stepmother followed
me to my room I smiled lightly.
'Peri is very lovely, irarnma, and Al
bert seeirtsu) admire her.
Madame Viele turned a glance upon
me that covered my faco with a flood of
colorL/
"ay,' she laughed softly (he next
hei arm caressingly
about me. 'You have no cause tor jeal*
ousy, my love. whole,
and knows well that U is my wish to see
him your husband. Knowing this,' she
added with haughty sternecs, he 'would
not dare brave me by loving' another.'.
Then, with a swift return to her former
tenderness, she continued: 'My dear
child, 1 trust you can make me happy by
loving my handsome and noble son?'
—'Don't rush into joalousy, Vi. Peri is
a good and beautiful girl, but Albert
gives her only a cousinly affection.
Though she is no way dependeut upon
me pecuniarly, I promised, her dying
mother to give her a home at Gray Fell
as you know; and you can see, my love,
how very unpleasant It would make it
for you to brood over a foolieh jealousy.
So, dear, put all that nonsense out of
your charming head and rest assured that
lam right. My eyes are keon, and in
the eighteen months she has been at Gray
Fell must inevitably have penetrated a
secret of that kind.'
Of course, mamma is right,' I mur
mured as the door closed on her imperial
form, and I summoned Manton.
But, my maid dismissed, I sat down in
my dressing gown and stared at the
glowing coals, my thoughts ami feelings
in an anxious whii 1. After a time I rose,
sighing impatiently.
'I can't sleep; I will go down nnd get
a book.'
Willi the words I crept out into the
hall. I had traversed half its length
when the sound of stealthy steps on the
stairs sent me with baled breath behind
the heavy damask rurtaius ot a window
near me. - --
' Burglars were in my mind, but Imado
no outcry. The next minute the steps
passed a few feet from me, aud 1 was
quickly undeceived.
A voice I well know murmured in
hushed tones, 'Don't grieve, my darling,
it will all come right. Only bo patient,
my own.'
And I felt moro than heard the solt kiss
that finished the sentence.
•Oh, Albert I Albert!' she breathed fal
teriugly. ' »Vhere is it all to end? We
have done very, very wrong ,dearest..
And oh. Albert she loves I saw it
in those great, passionate, dusky eyes of
her's to l -night, aud in a vague terror of
the future, I stared almost wildly at her
as Auut ltav presented me.'
•Nonsense! Do you waut to make me
vain ? laughed my stepbrother softly.
And tbeu be murmured iu graver acents:
'You say we have done wrong, darling.
Remember that we had to .choose between
two evils. Kemember that my mother
possesses au ion will. She would have
us both ground to powder rather tbau
consent to what we'—
'Yes, yea, I know sighed Peri, before
bo could finish Ibe sentence I was pant
ing to bear.
'Then cease (o grieve my darling,' he
whispered. «Ayd now, once more good
uigbt.'
And I know he folded her clote io hU
heart lor a brief moment.
As their door* closed noislessly upon
their retiring lorms I crept weakly back
to my chamber, pride, anger and despair
clutching at my heart strings.
With a stiffed cry I flung myself pas
sionately on the rug before the fire and
buried my face and bauds in the tiger
•kin covering—a pile of soft yielding
hassocks.
'Lost 1 lost! to me!' I moaned in my
fierce agony. And then, starting ups
right, I panted with vengeful bicatb.
'But what meant that unfinished sent
tence? Can they'
And then I paused aad stared breaths
lessly at the glowing coaif.
'Ah! I will watch ? I will watch I mut
tered later.
And I shivered -at the sound of my
own low. relentless voica.
I did watch.
Night after night' they stole an hour
of blissful peace in the ante-room of the
dim old linrary, and night after uight I
was ruthlessly on their track. Bui in
vain I listened to their fond speech. The
unfinished sentence I bad caught iu the
hall above remained unfinished.
But one wild, bleak night a month
later, my task was ended. With stifled
brath I uoislcssly crept from tho librury
to my stepmothers chamber.
She satin her dressing gown before
the fire, lost in an enchanting book. At
my stealthy and unceremonious entrance
she glanced up.
'Great Heaven!' she cried, dropping
her book and staring at me iu alarm.
Are you ill, Vi?
1 laughed a harsh laugh. ■
Only transferred iuto a Nemesis,
mamma.
'A Nemesis!'echoel my stepmother
in slow tones ot profound amazement,
the next instant adding impetuously,
'You look like a beautiful spirit from
Hades!'
i shrugged my slipulders with another
harsh laugh.
'Coitie I said impetuously. Gome and
1 will shorfyou my Hades!'
Sh* stared at mo womleriiigly, and
hall shrunk a» my little icj hand clasped
hers.
'Softly, madame?' I whispered, a« we
left her room. ,
Directly she was standing at tho slight
ly opcu doer, at which 1 bad so often
stood.
1 felt her nails sink deep in the palm of
my bund as her blazing eyes rested on
the scene beyond. 1 heard her breath
come in swift, and angry dusts.
For a full minute she stood thus. Then
dropping my hand, she flung back
the door aud swept into tbe dimly lights
ed room.
The pair sitting so lovingly before tho
fire started to their feet. Perl with a
sharp cry of auguish. Albert's first
words were giveu to her:
'Be brave, my love I' be smiled dowu
upou her iu accents of melting fender*
uess.'
But his lips were wlilto and bis eyes
glowing,
What means ail this?' demanded Mad
ame Vifele' in awfnl hushed voice, gaz
ing from cue to the ether with an an
ger before which eveu my fierce spirit
quailed.
'lt means this, my mother,' replied AN
bert, unfalteringly, as be paced forward
and eucircicd more closely the slender
form of tbe pailULgirl beside him. It
means that t6r three mouths Peri has
been my wife'—
' Wife!' gasped my" stepmother, stag
gering back as if site had received a blow
And 4lien she screamed ploadiugly: Not
your wife Albert ?'
'Yes, mother, my wife,' lie returned,
sadly and firmly, wbile great tears roll
ed over Peri's wblte face. We grieved
to do it Secretly, mother, but'—
My stei-inqtber hfted her band. She
had quite recovered herself uow.
'Silence 1' she continued In those aw*
fully hushed tones. Ask no forgivenesss?
Ask no blessing! Peri got Leave this
house, now and forever. Go or stav as
you will; but know that from this hour
I never speak to you again. From this
hour your blcssiug is my bitterest curse!
'Mother*
'Silenco I'again commanded my step
mother, in feavfull concentrated tone*.
'Go! Not a word! Put that creature
forth at once!' pointing ber white Anger
at Peri'a bowed bead.
'Say you forgive, mother.' pleaded Al
bert. -Say' ,
'Silence!' almost thundered Madame
Viele, ber face ghastly aa the dead.
He turned away tbeo.
'Come, my darling, we will go,' be
mormared with infinite tenderuesa to
Peri.
And catching np a cloak ard hood she
had cast there only a few hour* before,he
wrapped ber tenderly in them and led
her to the door.
Then they paused and lookod back at
Madame Vide.
'Farewell mother,'they said softly,and
1 Heaven forgive us and you I'
Madame zaaed stonily at them with
out word or gea>ure, and they sighed and
turned awn.
Direetly the ball door clanged heavily
after them. As it did so my stepmothor
turned calmly to me:
I am sorry for you, VI, she said brief*
ly, in stern, even tones. 'Let us go to
bed.
And with firm step and erect form she
led me np to my room. There she kists
ed me gooJ-nigbt, ssying calmly as the
closed the dooej
'From litis moment '.hey are dead to
us. Never mention their name* again!'
It was all over now. 1 bad sated my
vengeance.
'lt is well!' I said aa my bead touebed
my pillow.
Tbe daya came and went. My step*
mother was erect, cold and impel ions aa
ever. Not by word, look or tone did
she betray her secret sufleiiug. But at
the end at tbe year she had lost every
veatage »l youth and health. A pale,
gaunt old woman, she sat id ber chair
UOW. «w v
One morning she called me to ber. It
waaon my nineteenth birthday.
' Vi, she said curtlv, it is all Dead Bea
froit.
I gazed at her, dimly comprehending
her meauing. Then she said.
'They have a liitlo daughter, Vi, nnd
they navo mimed her alter 1110 —lt*y La
lor, Vi. Shall wo have them buck,
Vi?
blip looked at me wisttully, There was
a brief strife hot wucii the good and the
evil, and then I replied:
'lt is Dead Sea fruit, mamma. We
will have them back. I can look upon i
Albert as my brother now,'
'Thank Heaven!' .exclaimed Madame
Vicle. . j
And three days laler Albert, Pcre nnd
the little ltav were established at Gray
Fell.
THE PIfTCRB OB IHEHPIIIS,
[Baltimore Sua. ]
Th Memphis qnarrautine has beeu
raised at la»t by the appearance of frost
and ice. Since the disease broke out
there have been about fifteen hundred
cases, and between lour and live hundred
deaths there from it. This, however,
rcp>e*eniß but a miiii) l part of the losses
suffered by the afflicted community.
Thousands of people have been driven
from their homes into an expensive exile
the costs and inconvenience of which
they could ill benr. All business has
been suspeuded tor months, and the city
cut off from all but telegraphic commit
nicationwitb the world outside. The
dreadful scenes in 1878 were .repeated ii
1879, ou a smaller ccalc, to bo sure, for
tee reason that there were lewer persons
to take tho disease. The question is:
Will the yellow fever returu to Mem«
phis in 1880 It it should lhe proposition
to abaudon the perseut site of the city
tor one which is less thoroughly saturated
with the germs of peslilenco will proba
bly be considered. Ono of the best
atid nios) energetic business men of
Memphis, who is universally respected
and trusted by the citizens of the place,
said not long ago that he liked Memphis
very n.nch as a p'ace of residence and to
do business in, that lie had hail the fever
twice and considered himself pretty well
acaliinatod, but if it broke out the. o again
next season bo meant to depart peruias
nently and take his household goods
elsewhere. He did not leel equal to the
intense mental strain to which such
scenes as be had been witnessing during
the fever years exposed him. Doubts
less this gentleman's feeling is shared by
many more business men ol Mum phis,
and it the city should lose in this way
some of its more enterprising citizens
would tnller from a greator calamity
even than the visits ot the fever. These
are periodical and intermittent; but the
volunteer migration of a town's best
citizens is a permanent and fatal lo^s.
Hence it beQOines of the utmost import
ance fcr the people of Memphib to know
in good time—ot ouce, in fact—whether
the sanitary measures which are being
pursued there, and which were scarcely
relaxed during the height of the pestis
leuce, aro of such a character and so effls
cient as to insure the immunity of lhe
city from a return of the plague next
year nud its safely in the immediate fu
ture, and until an effective aud energetic
permanent municipal government shall
have bee;: established. The 'taxing dis«
trict' ot Memphis notoriously has had uo
funds to cxpeud in large sanitary opera
lions, nor cau much aid be expected from
the national board ot health. Early iu
the last spring, however the energetic
citizens and business men of the town
took the matter iu their own hands and
pioceeded lo act independently of tho
crippled municipal machine. They ap
pointed carefully selected committees to
lay out work and see it well done, to col
lect funds and disburse ibetn with intel
ligence and economy. These committees
#ere iu the midst of their work last sum*
mer when the pesl|lence broke out. These
works include the closing up of several
thousands of vaults aud their defectaliou
with lime and other disinfectants, with
(he substitution of earth closets instead
ot them. Tney include tho improvement
of the sources of the drinking water,
uiauy ot the cisterns being hopelessly
foul. Memphis cannot yet afford to cons
struct petmaneut water works, hot has a
partial supply of water from Wolf riyer
through private enterprise, which may
be exteuded to general use, tliough (be
removal of (be vaults aud changing of
the cisterns may go far lo obviate future
difficulties. The citizens have also un
dertaken and expect to complete by next
season the cleansing of the filthy bayou
wbiclt traverses tho city, and tbe remov
al of tho worst of tbe rolteu wooden
pavements, with tbe substitute in their
stead of acadeinized or sand3d and grav
eled roadnars. These various improve
ments have been steadily pushed and
will be energetically carried forward
during the coming winter aud spring, so
ibat it is to bo hoped that Memphi« may
be made secure against another visit of
the dreadful plague uutil timo has beeu
gained to permanently insure jril tho
Mississippi towus agalust the yellow
fever. '
NOTHING TO FKAB.—A Jodgo was pres
paring a taw lecture, and had every
cltafi and table iu bit study covered with
open book*, from which he waa collect
ing material. Ilia aiater, Miranda, un>
dertook to put the apartment in order
with the following result; Biddy, her
chief ot staff, eager to be ot use, sbnt up
all the books and put them on the shelves.
Miranda returned to the room iu horror
aud cried, "We abali both bo killed
when he comes home I" Nivir ye tear,
mum, said Biddy. Til make it all right.'
And sure enough, when tpe judge saw
the room, Biddy bad produced thirty
law books from the shelves, had opened
iu imitation of the aspect site had found 1
them in, and he was left to go ou with
his lecture as best lie iqight with the
aid.of precedents of Biddy's selection.
The Hood fuud uow Mutuuuta to over
#1 j.OOU.
N0,38
came north and ioiitu.
The Northern papers that are iniini*
cal to the South are eternally harp tug
upon the crimes committed in our sec
lion. Whilst all who have paid atjy at
tention to the matter know that the
proportion of crimes is much greater 111
she North, yet for party purposes hustilo
journal* are constantly retorting to the
criminal statistics of the South, and are
misleading their own readers. We were,
therefore, pleased to see thai Senator
Butler, of South Carolina, had taken the
trouble to institute a comparison of the
crimes of his own Stace with those of
Massachusetts, where It,,is boatted
American civilization is highest and ed
ucation is most general. The comjiari*
son is by means flattering or pleading to
the "culture and refinemeut" of a
that effects superiority >n all things.
Here is tne result of Senator Butler's In
vestigations:
"South Carolina in 1870, with a pop
ulation of 70*,606, had 2343 pauj»erH,
supported at an expense of $224,805;
Massachusetts at the same time, with a
population about double that of South
Carolina had 8036; on June 1, 1870,
South Carolina had 732 prisoners; Mas*
sacliusetts had eight times as many. In
the same year Massachusetts had 8 limes
as mauy insane persons as South Caro
lina. The natioualtiee of the prisoners
of both States are thus divided: Of
Sjnth Carolina's 732 convicts, 130 were
native white, 584 colored and 18 of
foreign birth, against 1052 native white,
139 colored and 1235 foreign in the
2526 prisoners of Massachusetts."
It ia not contented that there is any
mistake in the figures. They show con
clusely that education and wealth iiave
not conspired to man the criminal stas
tiHticN of Massachusetts as low as those
of where the negroes are in great
numbers and furnish nearly all of the
criminals. What is true of South Caro
lina is true of the South generally. Wa
believe that the statistics of crime would
show that there are five white oriiuiuals
throughout the Not th in proportion to
population to one white criminal in the
South.— Star,
Gleanings.
One way to let people know you are
not going to the poor IIOUM is to wear
rings outside your glow*,
A petrified woman has been discover
ed near Halifax. It i* supiioaed that
her husbaud gave her $lO without a*a
ing to get a new bonnet, and bhe was
petrified with astonishment.
There's many a girl called a "daisy"
before marriage, who, after a few years,
IOOICB like a faded old "buttercup."
Thera may not be much poetry about
this assertion, but its the truth.
> An Eastern paper alleged th it a youth
in Connecticut, engaged tj a girl, laconi
cally deserted her with the following
note: "Money is scare* and git Is are
pleuty. Guess I will give up the con
tract."
A liitle wiftf is leaning over her hnn-*
band's chair and stroking his beard in the
most atfectiouuie manner. "Wtdl, well,
Jit I in,"say 8 the husband, you are very
tender*to-night. Ileigh ho! 1 woud>r
how much it will it cost me tbis iiiue!"
A lamentable mistake was made by a
girl in St. Louis not long since. Sh»
mirried a man tinder the impression ilwt
he was her father's ooacbujuu, ami lie
turned out to be a Mexican uobleixaii,
She pronounced him a shining fraud,
and wants a divorce.
After an enthusiastic lover upends two
hours' hard labor on a letter to bis girl,
and then mars its beauty by apilliug K
drop of ink on it, he first swears iu a
Hcientific manner for a few momenta, and
theu draws a circle around the blot, uud
tells her it is a kiss.
The late Bishop of Kxerter was hit
ting one day at luncheon with hin wifo
and a lady, wbsu the hontess inquired
anxiously of her husband if the mutton
was to his liking. *'My dear," replied
the bishop, with his courteous little uow,
"it is like yourself, old and tender."
Dr. C. M. Vaiden, of Vaiilcn, Mis*.,
is supporting and paying tuition for
students in the State Uuher#
ty at Oxford. He is a wealthy man,
and every year gives thonßands of doU
lars toward* the education of the youth
of his Slate.
Too may talk about qnslity and all
that sort of thing, Hmt, uutil a wouum
can go a week's journey with no oilmi;
baggage than a olean haudkfruhiet' ami
toothbrush, she can never l»o|ie.u> wjcu
i>y» u|kwi the same plane
us *ho are nature's lords of the uni
verse.
A belated hnaband, hunting ia the
dark for a match with wbioli to ligli*
the gps, and audibly expressing his dis*
appointment, was hixleivd iuaenrtiblu in
an instaut by his wife in a
nleepy voice that lie had l>ett#r light on*
look for tliejp, and not go stum.
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