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GRAHAM, N C-,
A WOMAN'S MTOBV,
51 had just entered ray seventh year
when ray father, M. Veile, gsve ma a
new mother Fn the person ot the hand*
some and imperious widow ot one~-€oN
one! Lp.lor, and a brother in Mrs. Lalor's
only child, a boy of twelve.
Albert Lalur, with his handsome face,
strong will and pleasant waj s, soon be'«-
came my master, ruling my impetuous
spirit with a success that no one else
could. Madame Veile looked on with a
proud, selhsatisflcd smile, and more than
once I heard her murmur in her sweet,
imperious tones:
'They must marry, Philippe. Your
Vi must be my Albert's wifo.'
And my father would laugh and nod
his head approvingly, evidently well
pleased witii the idea:
3ut those happy days slipped by all too
rapidly.
My father died. Albert was finishing
his collegiate course. I, in accordance
Willi my father's will,.was sent to' Paris
to bo finished under the care of his old
rind valued friend, Madnne Dupontc.
Four years later I returned to my steps
mother.
It was near (ho close of a bleak winter
day that I reached Gray Fell. But bleak
as it was, my handsome, stately step
mother met me ou the steps of Ibo great
pillared portico.
Ah!'she exclaimed, half under her
breath, as she held me oft a moment and
keenly scrutinized me with bar great,
lustrous black eves. Then a warm smile
parted her bps, and kissing me tenderly,
#he added: -
'you are beautiful,- my child—far more
GeauuTtil than I will
b? Ahj.a bloah- /if/.-'- - °
have not iorgottea my old hopei tfienT
But come, come, dear; theairis bitterly
keen.' *
And gathering up the shining length
of her black satin she swept queen-like
before me, pausing only long enough in
the ball to allow a krndly word or two to
the assomblcd servants.
Then, witji a rare condescension, she
led me up stairs to my chamber.
As we entered the dressing room* she
glanced at the timepiece and turned to
my inaid:
'Take mademoiselle's wraps, Manton,'
she said quickly and imperiously, 'and
then lay out some of her handsomest
dresses;'adding smilingly, as her eyes
returned to mo, 'I shall superintend your
toilet this evening, my dear. Dinner
Will be served in less than an hour, and!
want you to appear at your bost when
you descend to the drawing room. Al
bert 6hall be dazzled at first sight.
When wo entered the brilliantly light
cd drawing room it was tenanted by two
persons—a handsome, kingly looking
man, whom I recognized as my step
brother, and a tall, Blender girl with
heavenly bliio even, pearly skin and
a shimmering crowu of pale, golden
hair.
I had heard of this fair girl , and that
her home would henceforth be at Gray
Fell. But for the first time it occurred
to me that she might be destined to step
between mo and the hiau I bad slowly
learned to think ot only too tenderly.
With a sharp, jealous pang I extended
my hand to Albert Lalor, who had has
tened to me, his fiue eyes glowing with
admiration and pleasure.
His greeting was cordial, and evident*
ly pleased his mother,
'But why don't you kiss her, ray son.
as in tha old days?' she smiled gayly.
And with an answering smile, Albert
bent his graud head and pressed his
bearded lips lightly to hers.
'Ah, what a charming blush!' laughed
my stepmother, touching my glowing
cheek caressingly with her soft, white
figuers.
I smiled, but my heart throbbed pain
folly under the ruby velvet bodice that
became me so welh Beneath the 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 new
•born feeling, to the handsome, smiling
face of my brother, and again my heart
swelled with jealous pain at sight of its
unruffled calm.
But the next moment Madame Yiele
claimed my attention.
'VI-, deareot, my great niece, Peri Ilofcrj
brook.' She smiled.
I turned my eyes from Albert's face to
meet the eager half-affrigbted gaze of the
golden haired girl I could not but ad
mire.
I bowed, and somewhat coldly accept
ed the profiered baud, and answered the
few musical words of gentle welcome.
Then 1 involuntarily flashed a swift
glance at Albert. *
Ah, how the b'ood leaped through my
veins! And how I hated the charming
creature staudiug before me, BO regally
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26 1879
graceful and sweet. Yes, I hated her,
for there could be no mistaking the
I/rootling tenderness and passion with
which my stepbrother was regardhig
her.
But only for an iastant did his eyes
betray him; and as the pleasant hours of
the evening flow by, I grew half dispose
ed to laugh at ny jealous pain. Nevcrs
theless, wheu my stepmother followed
mo to my room I smiled lightly.
'Peri is very lovely, trarama, aud Al
bert seems to admire her.
Madame Viele turned a glance upon
me that covered my face with a flood of
color. .
'.Nay, nay,' she laughed softly the next
instai)*, winding bei, arm caressingly
aboiu tne. 'Yoh hare 110 cause lor jeaN
ousy, inyjove. Albert is heart whole,
and,knows well that it is my wish to see
him your husband. Knowing this,' she
added with haughty sterness, he 'would
not dare brave me by loving another.'
Then, with a swift return to her former
ten
iiderncs?, she continued: 'My dear
child, I trust you can make mo happy by
loving ray handsomo and noble son?'
'Don't cavli into jealousy, Vi. Peri is
a good and beautiful girl, but Albert
gives her only a cousinly affection.
Though she is no way dependent upon
mo pecuniarly, I promised her dying
mother to give her a home at Gray Fell
as you know; and you can'soe, my love,
how very unpleasaut It would make it
for you to brood over a foolich jealousy.
So, dear, put all that nonsense out of
your charming head and rest assnredlhat
lam right. My eyes are keen, and in
the eighteen months she has be«n at Gray
Fetl rag * penetrated a
secret of that kind.'
Of conrstf, mamma is right,' I mnr
mured as the door closed on her imperial
form, aiyl J summoned Maiiton.
But, my maid dismissed, I sat down iu
my dressing gown and stared at the
glowing coal?, my thoughts *tut« feelings
in an anxious whiil. After a lime I rose,
sighing impatieutly.
'I can't sloop; I will go down and get
a book.' -
With the words I crept oat into the
ball. I had traversed half its length
when the sound of stealthy steps ou the
stairs sent me with baled breath behind
the heavy damask curtains ot a window
near me.
Burglars were in my miud, bat Imade
no outcry. The next minute the steps
passed a few feet froin ine, and I was
quickly undeceived.
A voice I well knew mnrmured in
hushed tones, 'Don't grieve, my dueling,
it will all come right. OlHy be patient,
my own.'
And I fnlt more than heard the solt kiss
that finished tho sentence.
•Oh. Albert I Albert!' she breathed fal
teringly. 1 vVhere is it all to end? We
have done very, very wrong ,dearest.
And oh. Albert she loves you! I saw it
in those great, passionate, dusky eyes of
her's towiight, and in a vague terror of
the future, I stared almost wildly at her
as Aunt ltav presonted me.'
-Nonsense! Do you want to make me
vain? laughed my «tep-brother softly.
And tbeu he murmured in graver acents:
'You say we have done wrong, darling.
Remember that we had to choose between
two evils. Remember that my mother
possesses an inn will. She would have
us bcth ground to powder rather than
consent to what we'—
'Yes, yes, I know sigbed Perl, before
be could finish (he seutence I was pant l *
ing to hear.
•Then cease to grieve my darling,' he
whispered. 'And uow, ouce more good
night.'
And I know he folded her close to bis
heart tor a brief moment.
As their doors closed noislessly upon
their retiring forms I crept weakly . back
to my chamber, pride, anger and despair
clutching at my heart strings.
With a stiffed cry I filing myself pas
sionately on tbe'rug before the fire and
buried my face and hands in the tiger
skin covering—a pile .of soft yielding
hassocks.
'Lost 1 lost! to me!' I moaned in my
fierce agony. And then, starting ups
light, I panted with vengeful bicath.
'But what meant that unfinished sen-.
fence? Can tbey'
- And then I paused and stared breaths
at I be glowing coalf.
'Ah 11 will WatcbM wlti watch I mut
tered later.
And I shivered at the sound of my
own low, relentless voiea.
I did watch.
Night after night they stale an honr
of blissful peace iu the aute-room of the
dim old liurary, and uight after night I
was ruthlessly on their track. Bui in
vain I listened to their fond speech. The
unfinished sentence I had caught iu the
hall above remaiued unfinished.
Dut one wild, bleak night a mouth
later, my task was ended. With sliflod
brath I uoislessly crept from tbo library
to my stepmothers chamber.
She sat in her dressing gown before
the fire, lost in an enchanting book. At
my stealthy and unceremonious entrance
she glanced up.
*Urcat Heaven 1' she cried, dropping
ber book and staring at me in aiarra.
Are you ill, Vi?
1 laughed a harsh laugh.
Only transferred into a Nemesis,
mamma.
'A Nemesis 1' echoel my stepmother
in slow'tones ot profound amazement,
the next instant adding impetuously,
'You look like a beautiful spirit from
Hades!'
1 shrugged my shoulders with another
harsh laugh.
•Come I suit! impetuously. Come and
1 will show jo# my Hades 1'
She stared at me wouderingly, and
hall shrnuk aa my Uttlo ic> hand clasped
ben.
•Softly, madame? I whispered, as we
left her room.
Directly she was standing at the alight*
ly open door, at which 1 had so often
stood.
I felt hor nails sink deep in the palm of
my hand as her bluzing eye* rested ou
the scene beyond. 1 heard Iter breatb
come in awiit, and angry gußts.
For a fall miaate she stood (has. Then
dropping ray hand, she filing buck
the door and swept into the dimly lights
ed room. 1
The pair sitting so lovingly before the
itre started to their feet. l'«rl . with *
sharp cry of anguish. Albert's first
words were igiven to hew v
•Be brave, mjr love I' be smiled down
upou hor in accents of melting tender*
uess.
But his lips wace white «ud his eye*
glowing,
What means all (his?' demanded Mad
ame Viele' in rwtnl hushed voice, gaz
ing from one to the ethor. with an an
ger before which oveu my fierce spirit
qnuiled.
Vi At I. *« • . it 1 A •
'lt means this,,my mother,' replied AW
>ert, unfalteringly, u he paced forward
ind encircled more closely the slender
brm of the pallid girl beside him. It
neans that tor three moutha Perl Las
seen my wife*—
•Wife!* gasped my stepmothcr, stag
gering back as if she had received a blow
And thou she screamed ploadiugly: Not
your wife Albert ?'
'Yes, mother, my wife,' he returned,
sadly and flimly, while great tears roll
ed over Peri's white face. We grieved
to do it secretly, mother, but'-^
My stepmother lifted her hand. -'She
had quite recovered herself now.
'Silence!'she continued hi those aw-
fully hnshed tones. Ask no forgivenesm?
Ask no blessing! Peri go! Leave this
house, now and forever. Go or stay as
you will; but know that from this hour
I never speak to you agaiu. From this
hour your blestiug is my bitterest curse!
'Mother'—
'Silence!'again commanded my step
mother, in fearfall concentrated tone*.
'Go! Not a word! Prit that creature
forth at ouce!' pointing ber white finger
at Peri's bowed head.
'Say you forgive, mother.' pleaded Al
bert. 'Say'-
'Silence!' almost thundered Madame
Viele, her face ghastly as the dead.
He'torned away then.
'Come, my darling, we will go,' he
murmured with Infinite tenderness to
Peri. i ) '
And catching up a cloak ard hood she
had cast there only a few hours before,he
wrapped her tendeily iu them and led
her to the door.
Then they paused and looked back at
Madame Viele.
'Farewell mother,' (hey Mid softly,and
Heaven forgive us and you I'
Madame gaaod stonily at- them with
out word or ges'ure, and they sighed and
turned awae.
Directly the hall door clahged heavily
.after them. As it did so my stepmother
turned calmly to me:
I am sorry for you, Vi, she said briefs
ly, in stern, even tones. 'Let us go to
bed.
And with firm step and erect form she
led me np to iny room. There she kisss
ed me good-night, saying oalmly as site
closed the 'door:
'From this moment they are dead to
us. Never mention their names again!'
It was all over now. 1 had sated my
vengeance. t ' ~~ ;
'lt is well 1' I said as riiy bead touched
my pillow.
The days came and went. My step,
mother was erect, coldand impetious as
ever. -Not by word, look or tone did
she betray her secret suffering. But at
the end at the year she bad lost every
vestage of youth and health. * A pale,
gaunt old woman, she sat iu her chair
now. . j.
One morning she called me to her. It
was on my nineteenth birthdav.
' Vi, sbe said curtlv, it is alfDead Sea I
fruit. -N . |
I gazed at her, dimly comprehending
her meauing. Then she said.
'They have a little daughter, Vi, and
they nave mimed her rettcr mo—Ray La
lor, Yi. Shall wo have them buck,
Vi?
She looked at me wUtlnllv, There was
a briefstrife between the good aud the
ovil, and then I replied:
'lt is DeHd Sea fruit, mamma. We
will have them back. I can -look upon
Albert as my brother now,'
' • Thank Ileavon I' exclaimed Madame
Vicle.
And three days later Albert, Pere nnd
the little Ray were established at Gray
Fell.
THE FIIXtKR OF IKBHIPBIS.
[Baltimore Sun.]
Th Memphis qnarrantine has boon
raised at last by~tho appearance of frost
and ice. Since the disease brake out
there have been about fifteen hundred
cases, and between tour and five hundred
deaths thore from it. This, however,
represents but a small part of the losses
suffered by the afflioted coininuuily.
Thousands of people have been driven
from thoir homes into an expensive exile
the oosts and inconvenience of which
thoy could HI boar. All business has
becu'suipeuded lor months, aud tho city
cut off from all bat telegraphic comrau*
iilcalionwiil) the world outside. Tho
dreadful scenes in 1878 were repeatod ia
1879, on a smaller scale, to be sure, for
tee reason that there were tewer persons
|o take tho disease. Tho question is:
Will the yellow fever retaru to Mem*
phis in 1880 If it should lhe proposition
to abandon the permit site of .tha cit v
tor one which is less thoroughly satnrated
with the germs of pcstilenco will proba
bly be considered. One of - the best
and uios) energetic business men of
Memphig, who is universally respected
and trusted by the citizeus of tho place,
•aiu not long ago that bo liked Memphis
very much as a p'ace ef residence and to
do business in, that be had hail the fever
twice atift cjj(i>Biil»'ed hiinself iaewti
Wtn .. « uvokeouiJuaio again
next season be meant to depart pcruiav
no in I v and take his household goods
elsewhere. He did not feel equal to the
intense uontal strain to which such
scenes as be hud been witnessing during'
the fever year* exposed liim. Doubts
less this gentleman's feeling is shared by
manv more business men ot Memphis,
and it the city should lore in this way
its more enterprising citizens
would suffer from a~ greater calamity
even than the visits ot the fever. These
are periodica) aud intermittent, but the
volunteer migration of a town's bast
citizens is a permanent aud fatal )os.
Hence it becomes of tho utmost import
ance for the people of Memphis to kuow
in good time— at,once, in fact —whether
the sanitary measures which are being
pursued there, aud which were scarcely
relaxed during the height of the pestis
lence, aro of such a character aud so effls
ctont as to Insure the immunity of lhe
city from a return of the plague next
year aud its safety in the immediate fu
ture, and until au effective aud energetic
permanent municipal government shall
have bee:: established. The 'taxing dis»
trict* ot Memphis notoriously has had no
fuudß.to expend in large sanitary opera*
tious, nor can much aid be expected from
the national board ot health. Early in
the last spring, however tho energetic
citizens and business men of the towu
took the matter in tlieir own hands and
proceeded to act iiidependeutly of the
crippled municipal machine. They ap«
pointed carefully seleotod committees to
lay out work and see it well done, to col
lect funds and disburse tbein with intel
ligence and economy. These committees
were in the midst t>f their work last sums
mer when tho pcstflenco troko out. These
works include the closing up of several
thousands of vaults and their defecfalion
with lime and other disinfectants, with
tho substitution of earth closets instead
of them. Tney include the improvement
of the sources of the drinkiug water,
many ot the cisterns being hopelessly
foul. Memphis cannot yet afford to couv
struct peimaneut water works, but has a
partial supply of water from Wolf riyer
through private enterprise, which may
be extended to general use, though the
removal of the vaults aud changiug of
the cisterns may go far to obviate future
difficulties. The citizens have also un
dertaken and expect to complete by next
season the cleansing of the filthy bayou
whicli traverses the ciiy, and iho remov*
al of the worst of the rotten wooden
pavements, with the substitute iu thoir
stead of academized or sanded and grav
eled roadw ays. These various improve*
ments have been steadily pushed and
will be energetically carried forward
during the coining winter and spring, so
that it is to bo hoped that Memphis may
be made secure against another visit of
the dreadful plague until.lime has been
gained to permanently insure all the
Mississippi towus against tho yellew
fever.
NOTHING TO FEAR.—A judge was pres
paring a law lecture, and had every
chaii and table in his study covered with
open books, from whiCTi ho was coliccU
ir.g material. His sister, Miranda, uiis
dertook to put the aparltneni in order
with the following result; Biddy, her
chief ot staff, eager to boot use, shut up
all the books and put them on the shelves.
Miranda returned to the room in horror
and cried, _ "We shall both bo killed
when he comes home 1" Nivir ye tear,
mum, said Biddy. 'l'll make it all right.'
And sure enough, wheo the judge saw
the room, Biddy had produced thirty
law books from the shelves, had opened
in imitation of the aspect ghe had found
them in, and he was left to go on with
his lecture as best he might with the
aid.of precedents of Biddy's selection.
. The Hood fund now amounts to over
|IS,UOU.
NQ.3B
CBI9IB NOBTII
The Northern papers thai are iniini»
cal to the South are eternally harping
upon the crimes committed in our IWH,-
tion. Whilst all who have |mid any at
tention to the matter know that th«
proportion of crimes is much greater in
she North, yet for party purposes hostile
journals are constantly referring to ihe
criminal statistics of tho South, anu'aru
misleading their own readers. We were,
therefore, pleased to see thai Senator
Butler, of South Carolina, bad taken the
trouble to institute a comparison of the -
oriipes of his own State with those of
Massachusetts, where it is boat ted
American civilization is highest and ed
ucation is most general. The compari
son is by means'flattering or plea»ing to
the "culture and refinement" of a section,
that effects superiority .in all things.
Here is toe result of Senator (Sutler's in
vestigations:
"Sodtlt Carolina in 1870, with a pop
ulation of 705,606, had 2343 p*n|iera,
supported at an eX]>enße 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
sachusetts had eight times as many. In
the same year Massachusetts had 8 times
as many insane persons HS South Caro
lina. The nationalties of the prisoners
of both' States are thus divided: Of
South Carolina's 732 convicts, 130 were
native white, 684 colored and 18 of
foreign birth, against 1052 native white,
139 colored and 1235 foreign ip the
,2526 prisoners of Massachusetts."
It is not coutented that there is any
mistake in the figures. They show coir;
clusely that education and, wealth have
not conspired to make the criminal stas
jjgp
numben Ornish nearly Wt
criminals. What is true of South Caro
lina is true of the South generally. vVe
t believe that the statistics of crime would'
show that there are five white criminals
throughout the Not th in proportion to
population to one white crimiual in the
South.— Star.
Gleanings.
r , " n .. i ). »
One way to let people know you are
not going to the poor house if to wear
rings outside your gloves.
. A petrified woman has been discover
ed near Halifax. It is supposed that
her husband gave her $lO without ask
ing to get a new bonnet, and she was
petrified with astonishment.
There's many a girl called a "daisy"
before marriage who, after a few years,
looks like a faded old "buttercup."
Thera may not be much poetry about
this ffosartion, but its the truth.
An Eastern psper alleged tint a youth
in Connecticut, engaged to a girl, laconi
cally deserted her with the >followiug
note: "Money is scarce and giils are
plenty. Guess I will give up the COL.*
tract."
A little wifi» is leaning over her lius*
band's chair and stroking his beard in the
most affectionate manner. "Well, well,
Julia," says the husband, you are very
tender to-night. Heigh hoi I wonder
how much it will it cost me this tiiue!"
A lamentable mistake was made by a
girl in St. Louis not long since. She
in&rried a man under the impression that
he was her father's coschuian, and he
turned out to be a Mexican nobleman,
She pronounced him a shiuiug fraud,
and wants a divorce.
After an enthusiastic lover s|>ends two -
hours' hard labor on a letter to his girl,
aud then mars its beauty by s|»illing a
drop of ink on it, he first swears in a
scientific manner for a few momenta, ami
then draws a circle around the blot, and
tells her it is a kiss.
"The late Bishop of Exerter was sit
ting one dsy at luncheon with his wife
and a lady, whsn -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 Vaiden, Mi*«.,
is supporting and paying tuition for sevs
enty-five students iti the State Uniterm
ty at Oxford. He is a wealthy man,
and every year gives thousands of dol
lars towards the education of the youth
of his Slate.
You may talk about quality and all
that sort of thing, but, uutil a woman
can go a week's journey with no uihei*
baggage than a clean handkerchief aud m
to >th'bru*b, she can never hope tu ooou
py a position nponthe saute ptnue with
us who are nature's lords of the uni
verse.
A belated husband, hunting in the
dark for a match with which to lighs
the gas, and andibly expressing his din
appointment, was rendered insensible in
an instant by his wife suggesting in a
sleepy voice that he had lietter light du«
aud look for them, aud not go stumo*
ling aro'jnd iu the dark breaking
things.