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6 "Oh, it's along of you, mlss ! She burst into cook and me this morning, and said as she wasn’t going to stay in a house Where there was such goings on. That was what she said, miss." And she paused, her shy. of it, mm pare “You ought not to have got up zit all. You should have stayed in bed and had your breakfast brought up to you." I shuddered: I had had enough of bed- side visits for a. long time, and the thought of being a semi-invalid waited on by Saxah was too much for my self-command. “Take my arm, child; you can scarcely walk. Come to breakfast ; soup of hot cof- fee will do you good. And, after thatI you shall come into the study, and we will talk. Don’t say anything about it at breakfast; it might frighten my wife.” took his arm, for I really was not quite steady on my feet ; and he led me into the dining‘room, and put me into an arm chair instead of the one I usually occupied at prayers. Then Haidee, who had seen at once that there was a change in me, and given me a double kiss as consolation, rang the bell to summon the servants to prayers. I held the arms of my chair, and kept my «eyes on the ground, and my lips tightly closed that Imight give no sign when I saw Sarah’s face again ; but, when they come in. I knew Without looking up that she was not there. And Jane waited at table. Had Sarah gone already? My heart leaped at the thought. At breaklast Mr. Ray ner saidâ€"- "1 am going to propose a holiday for to- day. Bath mistress and pupil .are looking very ssedy, and I think a day's rest from lessons will do both good. My motives are not wholly unselfish, I am sorry to say, for I have the penny-bank accounts to do, and I want you to help me with them, Miss Christie, if you W1” be so kind as to spare me a. couple of hours. I won’t keep you felt The thought of being locked in did not reassure me much ; but I thanked him and wished him good night, with a. last piteous appeal to him to keep Sarah away. Then I lose from the floor, stumbled to the table, struck a. match and lighted my candle, and put it by my bedside. For the first time I was afraid of the dark. And I lay awake listening. and starting at the tiny cracks the wood made, until at last, worn out, I fell_ asleep. The ne-xt morning I heard Mr. Rayner unlock the door at the foot of the staircase when I had just opened mine, ready to go down. He waited for me, looking up anxi- ousiy, and seemed shocked at my appear- ance. I had noticed myself, as I was dress- ing, how “bite and haggard I looked, and how dull and heavy my eyes were, with black rings around them. “No. please don't; I should not dare to take it in. I feel that, ifI opened the door, she might get in. If I saw her again to- night, it would kill me I” I sobbed. “Oh, please keep her away I” I was getting hysterical again. “She shall not come near you. child ; I swear it I You are quite safe. I will lock the door at the bottom of these stairs, and come and let you out myself in the morning, ” he said, in a lqw voice. “I will fetch you some brandy~and-water, and put, it here for you, outside the door, then." And I heard the handle of the door turn ; but it was looked. I raised my head from the ground, and said, in a weak quavering voicaâ€" But I felt that I could not leave my room again that night. “I am really quite well. only I cannot come out to-night, Mr. Rayner. I am too much shaken with the fright ; I am in- deed." nigh §bur voice is weak} Did that woman hurt you 7‘ ously. 7 V “I am not ill, thank you, conscious." “II-o, no; I am only frightened; I am not hurt. Iwill ‘ell you all about it to- morrow. Mt. Rayner. I can’t talk now.” “Miss Christie 1" It was Mr. Rayner calling softh through the door. I did not answer or move. "Miss Christie. mv dear chi‘d. are you there? Are you conscious? Are you n r! “But I cannot go away and sleep, my child, till I am quite satisfied that you are all right. Put on your dressing-gown, and come out and let me see you and be “u ‘uld A6 ner May I have an hour first to finish a k 1 have to do? It doesn’t matter Yea, missl and no a heard he not sorry ito assented rather nervouely. I should a. scene to go through Wlth Mr. Ray- and an announcement to make which dentail alot of argument and eome lasion and resistance, which I scarcely qua} to, shakm as l wns. .c what time will you want me, D: r. IN GOLDEN BGDNIDS. 1w soon after breakfast can ‘he iia when mim a she gomg away to: on know, miss ‘2" e shyly, but was e abelieve me if I sai4 guess ; but what to mon 0W said I, smilin CHAPTER. XIII. Sarah 01' one vaé go‘s O time I shall expect you in take! Y0 on I But a unEble there has if to continu at to encoura ; away, miss to keep mv 9'» man did sh Are you hurt he asked anxi just ntly I am quite 8. rum '11 you but I did know 1;; but I did not think Jane was likely to have altered Snrah’a story much. I was silent for a. minute. Saab began again in a. different tone. “You're very hard upon a poor servant, Miss Ciuistie, and it isn’t generous of you. I don’t deny that I was jealous of you, and that I wanth to prove to Mr. Rayner that you had letters on the sly from a. young “No, no; I can’t; forgive youâ€"~at least, not yet," I said incoherently. “It wasn’t only wanting to steal my letter and to stupefy me, but the way you looked at me, the cruel wayâ€"as ifâ€"as If you would have liked to kill me,” I said, growing more ex- cited as I remembered the terrible glare of her eyes when she sprang at me the second time. “I can’t forget itâ€"oh, I can’t forget it I And you did something worse than that ; you told the cook and Jame that Mr. Rayner was coming up to my room 1 Oh, that. was wigked of you, for you know it: “D_In’t!” said she sharply. “At least, wait one momentâ€"give me a hearing. I’ll stay hereâ€"so. Mr. Rayner’ll be here in a miuufie ; he won’t leave you for long.” said she, in a disagreeable voice. “I can’t hurt you. Ididn’t mean to hurt you last night; and I didn’t; want to steal your letter. What shculd I want to steal a bit: of paper for? You 8661 know what in is. I only wanted to read it. I'm of a. curious dis~ position, and I don‘t stick at much to find out what I want to knowâ€"if it’s only trifles. The stuff on that handkerchief wouldn't have hurt you, only made you slap a little sounder, so as I could take the letter. I'd have put it back. I’m sorry I frightened you. I’ve come to ask you to PUHI LIULI , EILI' out what I trifles. The wouldn't he bleep a. little letter. I’d] frightened j forgive me.” Mr. Rayner said “come in " when I knocked“ got up, placed me in an arm-chair by the fire, and asked me to wait while he spoke to Sam. He left the mom, and I cautiously made friends with his big dmz, who shared the hearthrug with me, He was very gracious. and I had progressed so far as to slide down from my seat to CHI‘UnS him better, when I looked up and saw Sarah. I sprang to my feet, with a scream that 1 could not repress, and darted to the bell‘ bit There was another reason of my hasty flight. Sarah was a very valuable servant, as she had insisted, and as Mr. Rayner him- self had admitted. Now Iwas the only obstatle to her remaining. and it: was really better that the one of us who could best be replaced should go ; and my Well»found- ed fears that she might, after all, be re- tained in any case helped to strengthen my resolution to go. I had had no salary yet, as I had not been two months at the Alders, b'ut my uncle had given me a. sovereign to be put by, in case of emergency, and now the emergency was come. So I packed my boxes, and then went down-stairs rather nervously to the study, having in my poc- ket the drugged handkerchief as a. proof that my adventure was no fancy, as. I guessed me belie So Sarah, after domg me another wrong worse than all the rest in circulating lies to injure my reputation, was going. But she would probably not go at once, and I felt that I could not sleep another night in the same house with her. So I turned out all my things and packed my boxes. as I had determined to do while I lay awake during the past night. I looked into my desk. and found that my note had been replaced l I would announce to Mr. Rayner my deter- mination to go when I went to the study, and ask permission to leave that very after- noon. 1 was sorry to leave the Aldem, Mr. Rayner, and sweet little Haidee ; and there was another reason which made the thought of leaving Geldham harder still to bear. But the terrors of the night I had passed through had had an effect upon me strong enough to outweigh every other con~ sideration; even now, by daylight, I could scarcely look around my own familiar little room withouta feeling of loathing of the scene of my horrible adventure. @vork, and 11 of friendship "I’mWhat glad, miss, I could dance,” said she. "She said Mr. Rayner let her fall down-stairs in the dark, and went on up withouttaking no noticeâ€"and she really is a good deal bruized. and sexve her right. But there never is no believing Sarah. And for her to talk about goings on 1 Oh, my, we did laugh, cook and me 1” And Jane chattered on about Sarah and her many un- pleasant attributes till she had finished her work, and left the room with a bright grin “I suppose she didn‘t tell you that she triad to steal something I wear round my neck ; that, when she found she couldn’t, she threw a handkerchief steeped in some drug over my face to make me unconscious, that she might get at it more easily ; that it was my screams that brought Mr. Rayner up-stairs, and that he stood outside and called her till she came to him. “Here, I’ll show you the very handkerchief.” I had tucked it down in the corn: of the drawers. It still smelt faint stufl‘ it had been soaked in. Littf face brightened with wonder and dc honegt pleasure. "Yesâ€"well I" But Jane would not go on, but got very red, and fidgeted about with the cloth she was holding. And suddenly, as I watched the girl in wonder, the whole awtul truth flashed upon me of the complexmn Slrah had given to the story. I did not speak for a minuteâ€"I only felt a strange little flut- tering pain that seemed to be round my heartâ€"and then I said very quietlyâ€" ness again getting the better of her anxiety to pgnr out all shelled lgeard.’ 1 ., “Go on. go on. You know Iasked you to tell me,” said I gently. "Well, miss, she said a“ kind 0' things about you ; but we didn't take much notice 0' them, cook and me; we’ra used to old Sally. But then she saidâ€"she saidâ€"” ‘ ‘Yoaâ€"well ?” “She said as how she went up to your room, hearing a. noise, and then, as howâ€"â€"” “Go on.” “Then as howâ€"Mr. Rayner came up and â€" wasn't best pleased to find her thereâ€"" said it in a dry bar leally repented her 'that Mr. R Lyner would try i0 make all ,t little ta xeniahly. ; but able ng she be he is, min: rttl likes to make a. story Iars. You know what smelt faintly of the in. Little Jane's ng Jane, I know tone not rual action ‘Wnl‘ “And what made you think what you said wouldn’t matter?” asked he gently. couldn’t get it Without stupefyinp, me, be- cause I was holding it. But I have forgiven her, and promised I would ask you to let her stay. I told her it wouldn’t matter what I said ; but she made me promise.” frown. “it is chloroform, which she got out of my medicine-chest; I missed the bottle this morning. No, that wouldn’t have hurt you child ; I don’t suppose for a. moment she meant to hurt you. But: it was â€"-an( “If you mean your care and kindness," said I, looking up gratefully, “why, you can’t give me more than you have given me already, Mr. Riyuer, But there are tome experiences which one can never forget ex- cept away from the scene: where they hap- pened. And, oh, Mr. Rayner," I went on quickly. “you mustn't think me ungrate- ful or capricious;but I have packed my boxes, and 1 want to ask you to rebease me pitewusly. “You don’t know, you cm't toll whatl suffered when I felt her arm creeping up to my throat, and thought I was going to be killedâ€"I did indeed! And then I thought the stuff on the handkerchief was poison. She says it is only smnething to make you sleep. I! it true, Mr. rRJyuer! Here is the handkerchief." And I pullei it 1mm my pocket and gave it to him. “Quite true,” said he: but I saw him frown. “it is chloroform, which she got out _of my medicine-ch_ta_st; misseq _th_e “Have you quite got: over your cruel fright now, little woman ‘2” said he kindly. “As much as one can get over a thing like that,” I said, in a. low voice, my fingers shaking. boxes, and 1 want to ask you to remase me from my engagement and let me go back to London by thus afternoon’s train 1 For, if I had to sleep in that room another night, I should go mad I” he came "My de can’t do t. She must indeed be anxious to obtain what she asked when she could stoop so far as to class me with “gentlefolk.” "I promise,” said 1. She might have shown a. little gratitude for what she had been so eager to get. I thought ; but, as soon as the words had left my lips. sh‘o drew herself up from be im- ploring attitude triumphantly, and, with a. simple, cold “Thank you, miss,” left the room. Then I fell; as if the study had suddenly grown lighter. Before long Mr. Rayner re- turned. I said nothing about. Sarah's visit. and nothmg about my own departure, until I bad done the very little there was to do in settling the accounts of the penny- bank. This work had only been an excuse for giving me a. holiday, because I looked ill, I felt sure; and, when it; was finished Mr. Rayner sent me back to the arm-chair again and poured me out a. glass of Wine. I began to feel nervous about my announce- ment. ‘ 0.10 can’t forget it at once, of course; butI hope that a. little care and 9. little kindness will soon drive that unpleasant ml- venture right out; of your head." I shrugged my shoulders at her strange persistency; my words would certainly make no difference, and, as l was going away. she would probably stay; so 1 said “Very well ;I will ask him.” “You promise, miss ?" said, she with a strange light in her eyes. "Gentlefolks like you don’t break their word, I know," she went on quickly. "So. if you only any ‘I promise" 1 shall know I can trust you, and that you bear no malice.” “Themas you won't be afraid of your words having any effect, miss. perhaps you will the lvsa mind asking Mr. Rayner to let me stay.” She did not like my saying that, I saw, by the tightening of her chin lips; but I certainly had not meant to offend her. However, after a minute's pause, she said again â€" blde “But any di 1y. “ househo haven’t yours h: as I sai fled. “ voice gentleman. There now â€"I've made a clean breast of it! But don't it seem hard that I, who've served him and his well for nigh seven years, should have to go just at the word of a young lady who hasn't been here two months 2" afternoon." Sarah stared. Then she gave 3 disagree- abla laugh. “You won’t go,” said she. “You can go up-atairs and look at my boxes,” I said indvguantly, "Have you spoken to Mr. Rayner about it yet, may I ask, miss ?" said she drily. “It isn’t at my word, Sarah ; I have no- thing to do with it.” “Nothing to do with it? Can you deny that you dislike me 2" “I should never have disliked you if you had not over and over again shown that you hated me, and that it was distasteful to you even to have to serve me. And, as to your going away, I heard about it only this morn- ug through asking Jone Why she was doing my room.” I blushed as I said this ; but I could not confess to Sarah that the first mention I had heard of her departure was when I was listening outside the door of this very room on the night before. “Then you don’t want me to go away ?” "It doesn’t matter to me whether you go or stay, as I have packed my boxes, and am going back to London myself this very mornmg.” “Then would you mind, before you go, miss"â€"ahe laid a. peculiar emphasis on these wordsâ€"“asking Mr. Rayner to let me stay? It won't matter _to you, ypu see: but its )u me to me than I cafi tellI” And, for the first time during 3w. there was a real emot Not yet; but I Sut what I might say wouldn’t make difference. Sarah,” I remonsttatel gent- “You oval-rate my importance in this ehold in the strangest way. My words :n’t half the weight on Mr. Rayner that s have." Sarah looked at me eagerly said this, but: she did not seem Eatin- “That is quite right 3111 natural, as have been here so long and are so much It for tha‘ [1 t): sat by my mild.” he s: for our makes," ltâ€"I must indeed!” I cried on don’t know, you can't tell when I felt her arm creeping same. â€" Do you know” me searchinglyâ€"“What am going to t to read it, and she stupefyinp, me, be- But I have forgiven lid gravely, they Imp- I Went on > ungrate- kaed my the in‘er- Lon in her x11 him this tion of everywhere. ' ' Matthew Arnold While in Boston hea ['1 that a. farmer's wife, who had read all his works, had driven in five miles to hear him lecture, expressed a. desire to see her, say- ing that he doubted if any farmer's wife in England would drive five miles to bear a. lec- ture cn Emerson or Cnlyle. mornvng’s walk that t I had only come out found the letter ! I w to-morrow ; but Derh late, and he would not would think I was too I found Mona sitting among the reeds close to the pond. not far from my “nest,” crooning to herself and playing with some sticks and bits of paper. At sight of me she slid along the bank and let herself down into the mud below, as if to hide from me. \Vhen the child suddenly disappeaied from my sight like that, I felt frightened lest she should fall into the water, or sink into the soft slime at the edge which she had chosen to retire into, and not be able to climb the slippery bank again. So I walked daintin through the reedy swamp which was her favorite haunt, and looked over the bank, She was busily burying in the mud, with the help of two little sticks the bits of paper she had been playing with; and, when [ bent down to speak to her, she threw herself upon her back, with her head almost in the water, and began to scream and kick. 'Ihis uncalled-for demonstration made me think that she knew she was in mischief; and, leaving her for a moment to enjoy herself in her own way, I stooped and picked up Cu: or two of the pieces of paper which formed her toys. There was writing on them in a. hand I knew, and I had In t made out a dczan words before I was sure herent wh could mak “Dear Miss Christie,â€"I am so anxious about you that I must write. Is it true that”â€"here there was a piece missingâ€"“an accident, that you are ill, hurt? .If you are safe nul well, you will pass the park to- morrow, that. I may see you and know that you"â€"-another piece missing. "I shall put this on the seat near the pond, where I imaw you go every evening. Yours very sincerely. my u "Mia room! l‘LbOI' that Mona had somehow got hold of a no 6 from Mr. Laurence Reade to me. Dawn Ijumped in a moment, caring no more for the mud, into which I sank to my ankles, than M Ina. hemelf. I dug up the bits she h d buried, and took from her very gently those she was still clutching, though my fingers tingled to slap her. 1 hope it was not revenge that made me carry her indoors to be washed. Then I searched the ground where I had found her, and discover- ed more little bits, and 1m ‘ler the seat of my “nest ” a. born envelope addressed to “nest,” which I had neglected to visit on the day beforeâ€"a most unusual occurrence ; but Mr. Rayner had forbidden me to go out side the house on that day, as I was rather feverish from the effects of the precedmg night's excitement. not. And the next day, which was Thura‘ day, I finished it, and rolled it up in paper ready for sending away; but still he did not come to fetch 1t. Haidee and I did not go out far that: morningâ€"a long walk tired her now ; but in the afternoon, when lessons were over, I sauntered out into the garden, with a book in my hand, and went to my I took advantage of the rest of my day's holiday 10 work very hard at the text I was doing for the church. I thought that Mr. Reade might call for it that day, but; he di'l not. And the next day, which was Thurs‘ day, I finished it, and rolled it up in paper And when I said to her, “I kep promise, and asked Mr. Rayner for y stay, Sarah.” she answered. “Then I stay. of course, miss ?" in the same And I was reluctantly obliged to admi the was. “There is no reason why it should,” said I. "But I couldn’t have promised to ask you to let her stay if I had not been going aw;_\_y myself. Mr. Rayner, you must let me And, as I looked at her fac‘ never seem to me again to but evil, a sudden horror 56 thought that I had pledged for five whole weeks more In 1 with this woman. “I will let you go if you wish it, though he Alders would seem more like a. tomb than ever without youfichild, now, that we have got used to seeing your pretty little face and hearing your sweet little voice about the place,” said he sadly, almost tenderly ; and the tears came to my eyes. “But you cannot go today. Think what people would say of us if it got rumoured about that our child’s governess was so oruelly treated under our roof that she went away without a day’s warning; for every one counts upon you at the school-treat, and I believe that our young friend Laurenceâ€" don't blush, childâ€"would go olf his head, and accuse us of murdering you outright, if he were to hear you were gone. And you would find it difficult, believe me, child, to get another situation, if you left your first so quickly, no matter for what reason. No; you shallhave a. different room, or Jane shall sleep in your room for a. week or so, until your very natural nervousness has gone to see Szrah’s acid smile as she she heard I was going to stayâ€" “I told you, miss." And when I said to her. ‘ should at once at the succrss him to let Jan me just at: first He spoke so sweetly. so kindly, and yet with such authority of superior wisdom, that I had to give way. Then, bound by my promise, I had even to ask again that Sarah should stay, and he agreed that she off;ai1dthen,' if, at the end of the three months, you still wish to go. why, we won't keep you, child, though I think some of us will never get over it if you leave us he suddenly." _He spoye so _sweetly. so kindly, and yet It was: dated “‘Vednesday," and this was mraday aftelnoon; so that it was this make outâ€" where I had found he] 3 little bits, and uni M” a. born envelope Jxriatie.“ I ran in, with my mangled trea the fragments, and 1: last fitted them in )atey_in thgdayuit was not pleasrmt at once ; ind then I, ribt at. all elated succrss of my intercession, begged letAJane do as much as possible for (To BE CONTINUED.) le that he had mean come out; here last 11 mar! I would go past: but perhaps it won] would not expect me 1 CHAPTER XIV. 11 «4.-W an} Irlstle,â€"1 am so anxious mu‘at write. 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