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[ALL Riciirs RESERVED.] DARKNESS _/ BY: DORA RUSSELL- Author of “ Tue VicaR’s Govaaxass,” “ FOOTPRINTS IN THE Sxow, " “ QUITE TRUE,” 81c. CHAPTER XLâ€"(Cos'risoi-m.) . The few days passed, and still he did not /b k h ' f l hich radually rea t e pain u reserve w 3 was growing up between us. I felt very much grieved at this. owed everything in the world that I had to this generous friend, for I should have died in the first dark hours of my out his hand to help me. I But I grieved in silence. Until he chose to speak I told myselfl must wait, but I felt that anxiety was praying upon my mental and bodily health. I . Thus things went on for some little time longer. Then Mr. Yorke announced that he was oing up to town for a month or two on the following day. . . . There was nothing remarkable in this, but coming at the time it did, it startled me and filled my heart . . forebodings. I felt, somehow that his going up to town at this time was connected With myself, and though I tried to hide my on- easiness, and parted from him after lunchl on the following day quite cheerfully_when the cab came to take him to the station, I could not‘restrain my tears after he was gone. I flung myself indeed on a couch in the room and began to cry bitterly. I was so anxious ; so miserable. Why was Mr. Y orke so reserved to me now? Did he believe I still cared for Gerard? But noâ€"I had told him myself that I did not on the day when we had walked to Radcliffe together to see the poor child who had died when we were there. Full of these anxious thoughts, I wept on. Aunt Sarah was out, having lunch With one of her friends, and I was alone in the house, excepting of course the servants. But pre- sently I heard some one enter the hall door prosperous one. with alatch key. No one did this but Mr. Yorke) and Mr. Yorke was in the train on his way to London by this time, I conclud- ed, and my heart began to beat very rapid- l . y‘WVas it Gerard ‘3" I thought with sud- den fear. But as the thought darted through my mind the door of the breakfast~r00m (where I was sitting) opened and Mr. Yorke himself walked into the room. “ I have lost the train.” he began. had to call at the office for some important papers, and the clerk had mislaid them. shall go by the night train now.” . Then, I suppose, he saw my tear-stained face, which I had been vainly trying to hide. “ Alice l’.’ he said, coming up to me, and laying his hand on my shoulder ; “You are cryingâ€"you have been crying? \Vhat is the matter? Are you distressing yourself aboutâ€"Gerard? Well, my dear” (and he sighed), “ in a few days you shall know. if he is at all worthy of your affectionâ€"ifl can possibly trust your future life in his hands.” is. . “ What do you mean ‘2" I answered quick- 1y u “ Alice,” said Mr. Yorke, beginning to pace the room with hasty steps, ” Heaven is my witness that in taking this step, I am alone guided by anxiety for your happiness l But rumours have reached my earsâ€"rumnors which it is my duty to sift before I can give my consent to your renewing your en- gagement with Gerard." “ Renewing my engagementwithGerard l” I repeated. “ I have no thought of doing such a thing. Mr. Yorke.” “ Butâ€"tut â€"you stillâ€"regard him with affection 3” hesitated Mr. Yorke. " No, I do not !" I said almost passion- ately. “ I have forgiven himâ€"that is allâ€"that is as much, I think, as either you or Gerard have a right to expect I” “ Alice l is this true, is this indeed true ?" cried Mr. Yorke, and he clasped my hand. “ But, child, "he added, “ how was it I found him here with you in this vary room? How was fit I over heard you sayâ€"some words, at least, in a tone of tenderness ‘3" “ Y-ou misunderstood these words, ” I answered gently. “Why you found him here with me, Mr. Yorke, is very simple of explanation. I was alone and blind, and someone rapped at the window on the out- side. Aunt Sarah often does this when she is in the garden, and I naturally supposed it was Aunt Sarah. I undid the catch of the sill, and Gerard entered the room. “ What, without leave 2" exclaimed Mr. Yorke, hastily. . “ Without leave and without encourage- ment from me,” I said. “I had no wish to meet him, Mr. Yorke, no wish to hear what he had to say.” “And,” asked Mr. Yorke “ his purpose in thus intruding himself on you was, I sup- p0se. again to ask you to be his wife '2" “ Yes, you are right,” I answered, turn- ing away my head. “ And your answer, Aliceâ€"tell me for heaven‘s sake the truthâ€"what was your an- swer 2" “ I told him the Gerard I had loved was not Gerard Yorke. I told him that in my girlish folly I had loved a creature of my own imagination, and thatâ€"that when I learned the truthâ€"when I heard with my own ears how I had deceived myself, that my love died, withâ€"with the belief and trust that had called it forth 1” My voice trembled and faltered, and final- ly broke into a sob, as I uttered the last few words, and Mr. Yorke’s voice was also trembling and faltering when he answered me. “ You have made me a thankful and hap- py man l” he said, “ by your words ! Alice, do you know what my errand to London was? Mr. Lake, whom I have known for many years, met Gerard in town, and Ge. rard told him such a garbled tale about our quarrel, that Mr. Lake, who is getting old, and is looking out for an active partner, of. fered to take him into business on certain conditions. One of these conditions was that Gerard should place five thousand pounds into the concern. Gerard agreed to thisâ€"assuring Mr. Lake that he had the money ready as “ Uncle Stephen” had bought him out of his business for seven thousand pounds. Gerard came here, but as weeks passed on, no money being forth- coming, Mr. Lake made inquiries into his antecedents. He then learned that since lerard had left Dereham last autumn, that he had been gambling to a most frightful extent, both in London and abroad, and that he was supposed to be a ruined man. Having heard this Mr. Lake spoke to Ge- rard, who admitted that he had had great losses, and that it was not quite convenient despair had he not stretched. with very ominous 3 . to him at that present time to fulfil the con- Iiditions of the partnership which he had undertaken to do ; but he added that as he was going to marry Miss Alice Denby, Mr. Lake need be in no apprehension about his money. “ Andâ€"andâ€"this then was the reason he sought me,” I exclaimed, with natural in- ' dignation. _ " After he had told Mr. Lake this," con- ‘tinued Mr. Yorke, “Mr. Lake, who is an qhonourable old man. though no particular friend of mine, considered it his duty to come to me, and tell me the whole story. I Alice ! a few days before I heard this, I had :seen you in this room alone with Gerard. II had overheardâ€"I fanciedâ€"you speaking to him in the language of affection ! Ima- gine what I felt. I was either to wound 'ou, whom I wished to guard from every f ill, or I was to permit you to link your fate ’to a man utterly unworthy of your love. I choseamiddle course. I decided to go up to town, and myself investigate the life that Gerard is said to have led there. I was starting on this errand to-dayâ€"need I go now, Alice '2" ) “ No. no," I answered, and my tears fell fast, “Nothing would ever induce_ me to marry Gerard nowâ€"nothing, nothingâ€"I love him no more I” Then Mr. Yorke drew me to his breast. “ My child, my dear," he said, “ some- timesâ€"before Gerard came backâ€"I had hoped that the deep affection I feel for you had won some little return. May I hope again, Alice? 1â€" I-â€" have truly loved you _.. “Yes,” I half whispered, “the poor blind girl was dearer to you than the rich, )1 “ The poor blind girl must let me see and ‘ think for her in the future," answered Mr. Yorke, I am sure smiling ; “ and I think,” he added, and he kissed my brow, “that she ought to have a husband to look after ' her.” Aunt Sarah was perfectly delighted when she heard our news. “I always said, Alice,” she remarked with no small self-complacency, “that Mr. Ger- ard Yorke was not to be compared in ap- pearance to Mr Stephen! Mr. Stephen is so much more aristocratic looking." And in dear little aunt threw up her head proudly, for she has got sot some Very high notions in it, since she has lived in the clerical society of Dereham. “ I do not care about their comparative looks. aunt,” I answered, smilingly. “ But Mr. Stephen’s position is so super- ior,” said Aunt Sarah, who used to be one of the most humble-minded little women in the world. thus proving herself a living example of the force of associations I But ah, would that I could end my story here; end it in relating duar Aunt Sarah‘s innocent pride? But no, a dark shadow was yet to fall on our happiness, and the sweet content which had stolen over my heart, was again to be rudely disturbed. I had only been engaged to Stephen Yorke three or four davs when this happened. But I believe that in her pleasure and ela- tion at the prospect before me Aunt Sarah had already told all her friends the news. At least I received many congratulations in these few days. I had, indeed, just been receiving some of these congratulatory visitors, and Stephen Yorke had just left me, when the most painful incident in my life occurred. Stephen Yorke had left me with a few tender words. He said, half-jestingly, as he laid his hand on my shoulderâ€" “ Aunt Sarah, our little girl ‘ is not happy but content ;’ and Aunt Sarah told me afterwards that he was biking earnest- ly in my face when he said this, as if to learn the truth. Then I answeredâ€" " Your little girl is not only content, but happy ;" and after this with a few tender words, Stephen Yorke had gone away. Aunt Sarah, also, had left the room, when I heard another footstep outsideâ€"a man’s footstepâ€"and a moment or two later Gerard Yorke had entered and clasped my hand. “ Alice," he said, in a changed voice to his usual one, “ I have watched Uncle Stephen leave the house, for I meant to hear the truth. It cannot beâ€"it surely cannot be true this absurd rumour they have got in the town that you are engaged to Uncle Stephen?” I felt my face flush, but I answered bravely enough. “ Yes, Gerard,” I said, “ it is true.” "What l” exclaimed Gerard, passionately. “ It is true,” I re eated. “ That you," sai Gerard, indignantly, “a young girlâ€"who professed to love me so deeplyâ€"are now engaged to an old man like Uncle Stephen 1 I do not, I cannot believe it." “ Stephen Yorke is not old,” I answered with some pride in my tone. “ It is true he is much older than I am, but he is only forty-two or threeâ€"~andâ€"and his age does not matter, He is the best and truest man I know !” Then Gerard hastily can ht my hand. “ Alice," he said, “ di you ever love me I” “ You knew I did.” I replied. “ Then for the sake of that loveâ€"past and gone though it may beâ€"give me leave, I implore you, to deny this engagement to to Uncle Stephen? You have been lead in. to it out of gratitudeâ€"it is unsuitable! mon- strous l” I was silent. “I entreat you, give me leave to deny it ?” repeated Gerard. “ I cannot, I will not do so,” I said. “ What motive have you for urging this on me, Gerard Yorke '2 It must be an unworthy oneâ€"nay, I guess it only too well! You would prop up your failing credit with Mr. Lake, would you, by making him believe I am going to marry you, and my poor uncle’s money will then be at your command? Is this the reason that you have come to me ‘3” I poured these words out with great in- dignation, and for a moment or two Gerard did not answer me. Then he spoke in a changed and hollow voice. “ So he has told you this ‘3” he said. “ Mr. Lake has told Uncle thisâ€"and chle Stephen has told you 1’” “ Yes.” I said, “in justice and honesty to me he has told me.” Again for a moment or two there was si- lence. and then Gerard Yorke suddenly took one of my unwilling ban 3. “Good-bye, Aliceâ€"after this I have no more to say,’ he said. "Goodbyeâ€"forgive me the wrong I did youâ€"you will forgive me, I think, after to-dayâ€"forgive me, and regret, perhaps, the hard and bitter words you have just spoken to a despairing man." He wrung my hand again as he uttered the last words, and a moment later he was gone. Something in his manner more than in his words had, however, alarmed me, and I at once violently rang the Lell. \Vhen the servants answered my sum- mons I wrote a pcncilled note to 'Stephen Yorke, and sent it at once to his office. “See after Gerard, dear Stephen,” I wrote. “He has been here, and seems in great trouble.” “ ALICE. ” No sooner had I sent this note, than I re- gretted I had done so. Stephen might mis< understand my anxietyâ€"he might believe I still cared for Gerard. This I mentally argued, and this idea made me very miser- able. But a greater misery was yet to come. \Vhen Stephen Yorke returned that even- ing, I heard at once the slow and heavy step with which he approached me. He came near, he took my hand, he did not utter a word. But I was determined to tell him every- thing at once. ' “ You got my Stephen 2" I said. “ Yes, Alice,” he answered, “butâ€"butâ€" oh ! my poor, poor girl, how shall I tell you? â€"â€"your note reached me too late l" “ Too late, Stephen?” I exclaimed. “ Yes,” faltered Stephen Yorke, and then in broken and sorrowful accents, he told me the sad story. He had gone almostimmediately after reâ€" ceiving my note to Mr. Lake’s office, ex- pecting to find Gerard there. But he had not been there the whole day, Mr. Lake told Stephen ; and he told him also that he and Gerard had had high words on the pre- vious day about the money Gerard had promised to bring into the partnership. Again Gerard had stated that he was going to marry me, and upon this Mr. Lake had told him he had heard from undoubted authority that I was now engaged to Mr. Stephen Yorke. Gerard had professed 'utter disbelief in this, and had shortly afterwards left the office, and Mr. Lake had not seen him since. Alarmed by this account, Stephen then went to Gerard‘s lodgings in the town. As he approached the house, the crowd around it, and the words of the bystanders filled him with sudden fear. He pushed his way upstairs ; he entered Gerard's room. Alas ! a terrible sight met his gaze ! On a couch lay Gerard, deadâ€"a ghastly wound in his forehead, from which the blood came slowly trickling down. He had [died by his own hand ; a pistol shot having been heard shortly after his re- turn to his rooms, and when the people of the house burst open the door, Gerard had already passed away. note about Gerard, Some months afterwardsâ€"when the dark shadow of Gerard’s death had grown fainter â€"Stephen and I were married. We some- times talk of poor Gerard now, and of his ruined life. For he had gambled away the entire sum he had received from Stephen when he first left Dereham, and but for Stephen now, Mrs. Yorke (Gerard’s mother) would be absolutely penniless. Of my dear husband I will not write. There are many, very many, in Dereham who have just cause to love him, but,I think, none so great as his poor, blind wife. [THE END.] ___+â€"â€"â€"- UNIGN WITH CANADA. Comments of [he Newfoundland Press. Alluding to the reports telegraphed from Ottawa, that Sir Alex. Campbell was to go to Newfoundland on a mission in connection with the proposed union of that colony with Canada, the St. John’s, Newfoundland, Mercury says 2â€"“ Should the people of Newfoundland ever become convinced that it is their interest to throw in their fortunes with those of the Dominion, and after the question has been submittel to them at the polls: should they return a large majority of members favourable to Confederation, then will be the time to open negotiations and ascertain what terms of union Canada is prepared to offer. The further question will then have to be decided whether the terms offered are such as our people can accept with advantage to themselves. Only very foolish or very illtinformed people would suppose that Confederation would ever be attempted, except in this open, honourable way. In fact, if a union were to be accom. plished in any other way it would be worth- less, and could lead to no good result." The Harbour Grace Standard says ;_U of course the appearance of these items in the Canadian press coupled with the circum- stance of one of them having been telegraph- ed here, this was sufficient to give colour and add strength to the report that New- foundland contemplated entering into nego- tiations with a view of joining the Domin. ion. We are glad to know that the rumour h is no foundation ; in fact, the question of Confederation is such a momentous one, and the issues depending upon it are so far reaching in their effects on the future well being or otherwise of this colony, that it; is devoutly to be hoped that no undue haste nor precipitancy will be observed in regard to the important subject. Indeed, it is ardently to be desired that at present not the smallest effort will be made either by the Government or any political party to open up the question. Anything like aban- doning the vantage ground of complete in- dependence, anything like approaching the Dominion Government in the attitude of suppliants, of asking assistance from them, either for the raising of a loan or any other purpose, all this, We say, is to be sternly re- pressed and resisted to the bitter end. We do not think the country is now in a favour- able position to discuss or consider the sub- ject of union with Canada.” ____'-â€".â€"â€"-â€"â€" A WOMAN'S Sruani-L. They talk about a. woman's sphere As though it had a limit: There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mankind given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whispered yes or no, There's nota life, or death or birth, That has a ieather’s “eight of worth, Without a woman in it. CE I HES AN 1) CASUALTIES. 'riia nRuwsisa saasos. Two pleasure yachts, both well laden with paople, were capsized off Yarmouth, in a squall and ten persons were drowned. “'hile a party of two men and seven young ladies were out in a Sail boat off Prosnect, \Vest Halifax, .luly Til, the craft was capsized and two of the ladies were drowned. A party of Philadelphia business men started down the Deleware river in a sloop- yacht for a pleasure trip on July 30. \Vhen off of the lower part of the city a squall came up suddenly amJ capsized the yacht, result. ing in the drowning of two persons. At Higgin's Like, Mich., on Monday, Mrs. Pettit and her little daughter, aged three years, were boating, when the child fell into the water. The mother in her fright upset the boat. An intelligent French pony swam out to them and when they had taken secure hold of its mane, struggled back to shore. Apassenger train on the Ohio and Missis- sippi railroad Friday evening broke the axle of the tender, killing two men, A small elevator in a tanning works, St. Louis, fell a distance of forty feet on Friday fatally injuring a man and a girl of 18. At two o’clock on Saturday morning a fire broke out in the \Vells and French Com- pany's bridge and car building works, Chi- cago. Loss $150,000. Chas. H. Reed. one of the lawyers who defended Guiteau, attempted suicide on Saturday by jumping into the North River. He was rescued by a policeman. The mail train on the Concord railway dashed into the Sancook Valley train at Hooksett,N.H., on July 31th. Two per- sons were killed and several wounded. At Camden, N. J., on Aug. 1, a man aged 50, shot his wife aged 47, a police magis- trate, (in whose office the tragedy took place) and then put a bullet through his own brain, all three dying instantly. A Stratford grain dealer named Jameson, who was likewise an alderman, a school trustee and a partner in a Tory paper, has skipped out leaving the bank of Montreal $13,000 worth of warehouse receipts of his. ()n investigation the warehouse was found empty. John Emerson was employed at a hotel in New York. He was discharged and the position given to a young man named Green. Sunday night Emerson went to the hotel and quarrelled with Green, pulled a large dagger from his pocket, stabbed him in the right side and killed him instantly. He then shot and killed himself. A serious accident happened on Wednes- day evening on the C. P. 8. near Hawk Lake. Aportion of embankment slid into the lake, carrying with it twenty yards of track, and when afreight train came along the engine and ten cars were pitched down the embankment into the Water. The en- gineer and brakesman jumped off the train and miraculously escaped. â€"_â€"°â€"â€"â€"â€" Monkeys on a Hemp Farm. A Rio Janeiro journal announces that on alarge hemp farm in Brazil 20 monkeys have been taught to cut the hemp and pre- pare it for sale. It is added that the animals are preferred to negroes, because they work much faster and the cost of feed‘ them is triflingâ€"London Truth. _â€"â€"â€"â€"'â€"â€"â€" Seven miilion dollars’ worth of pine tim- ber has been destroyed by fire and storm in the upper peninsula of Michigan, during the last month. This loss is more to be re- gretted than that of other property, for pine lands and pine timber are fast becoming a monopoly, and are already bearing a monop- oly price. Dispatches have been received from the Department of State from the United States Minister to Belgium, announcing the Gov- ernment of that country has increased the import duty on cofl‘ee, cattle and meat, and that after Jan. 1 next, meat will not be per. mitted to enter Belgium, except in the form of whole animals, and then only when the lungs are attached. One of the Nottingham, Eng, newspapers reports a great achievement by a Notting- ham lady cricketer, who bears the name of Miss Grace. This young lady formed one of a party of both sexes, who went to play cricket at Burton Joyce, «She stayed at the wicket the whole of the afternoon, and scored no fewer than 217 runs against the really good bowling of four men. In the North-west the crops are reported to be in magnificent condition.‘ “’heat is certain to be over the average, While barley and oats are most promising. Lieut. Gov- ernor Dewdney says that in the territories the harvest will be the most abundant ever kno vn. This is gratifying intelligence, as plenty in the North-west means to a large extent peace in the Dominion and an influx next year of a large class of desirable emi- grants. The dates for the races between the British cutter Thistle and the Yankee sloop Mayflower or Volunteer, for the America’s cup have been fixed. The first race will be sailed over the New York Yacht Club course on Thursday. September ‘27. The second race will be 20 miles to sea from the Sandy Hook lightship and back on Thurs- day, September 29, and if a third race is necessary it will be sailed on Saturday, October 1, over an outside triangular COUI‘Se. From the maritime Provinces we regret to hear that the outlook is not encouraging. The interior of Nova Scotia has suffered severely from the drought, which in many localities has been unprecedented in its severity. Insect pests have been common and have done much damage. Altogether it is anticipated that the farmers will have a poor year. This means growing disconâ€" tent and an increased desire for secession and commercial union, as if either one or the other could check or stop the drought. But when people suffer inconvenience and hardships they often look to anything but the right cause and manifest a. tendency to fly for a remedy the effect of which may be rather more inflammatory than healing. From New Brunswick, although even there the army worm has been busy and very de- structive, the 'lreports are more gratifying and the crops, it is anticipated, will be very nearly, if not quite up to the average. Prince Edward Island is said to be much favored, and, as in theLNorth-west, there is there every promise of abundance. now to Select a wife. Good health, good morals, good sense and good temper, are the four essentials for a good wife. These are the indispensables. After them come the minor advantages of good looks, accomplishments, and family position, etc. With the first four, married life will be comfortable and happy. Lack« ing either, it will be in more or less degree a failure. 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