January 4, 1871 (4 pages)

B t ‘ te RA ONRaE _ definite has yet beer settled upon, but. it will be seen that subject, Crd rere that in ae" i be settled at the tiéeting this alters noon fét Chaifetetice, Of course nothing pagar T aalak Gam Oe enn TRES SILIAN COURT; A FATEFUL CATASTROPHE, A wild stofm ‘wes taging ‘upon the Mediterranean Sea, near the close of a several propositions for surveying the _routes hidve alteady been made, and & .————-—~---~—--maayseat apemearecsomipcnecgiie cha aameeie aesopececadeaiaintmnmanens ena aabanies ade cseneetinie t-teuieok acacia pete ei Fi CUS abciale me tanner: RRR ORIEN HS IE A considerable amount of information has’ mittee. A rcs of money has been raised in Nevada and Grass Valley to complete the surveys, and 80 soon as this can be doneand a final re— pert made by the committee, showing and business of such; 9, road, as will beat, meet.the demands of, the eounty,,. the way will be open, for the constracs -tion of a road, ands we are confident that with the co-operation of Nevada, Grass Varley, and such other towns as done. We hope to see.these , places connected by rail. with: some trading point before January, 1872, aud we believe if’ will be ae eit e at Eurcka. {see ane eet See and a post mortem xamination had at Eurelee apon:the;bedy of D. H.MeNel, who was shot on Saturday night by George Rice, .ja, Eagan’s saloon. There is.considerable ‘feeling in Eureka. in regard to the affuir, and there are two versions of the difficulty. One is that McNeil came into Eagan’s saloon and said to Rice, \°“Youhave been talking about me,” and that he immediately seized a chairand commenced striking Rice, who retréated until he was hit! two or threo’ times, and that he‘then-commenced-shooting, the sec~ ond shot entering McNeil’s groin and’ causing ‘his death. Anottief story is that ‘MéNeil entered’ the saloon and . went to the’ stove, taking ‘hold <of a chair as if to sit down, and that Rice commenced: shooting at himimmediately. MeNéil; -who has ‘for many years reaided «at: Bureka, and who was temperate » in his . liabits, ‘had been drinking’on the day of the difficulty, . and a short time previous some of -his triends took -his piatal away, Weunderstand that the purties had had no quatze) or altercation before What dag, but that bad feeling had exigsd between them for some time past. George Rice wis brought down by, Jolin, Conn on Monday evening and lodged ;in the. county jail to await examination by the next Grand Jury. Get Company. ape It is said that. misery loves company and that there is much consolation derived from the knowledge that some bedly is more dafortunate than you. . If-euch-be the fact our miners are oftitled to the benefit of such consolation. The dry .w does not a figet the working of quartz minus. Those ‘who "have ‘hydrauli¢é tainés re patiently waiting for rain, while the sun persists in. abining as brightly as in June. There has, been.no, water this season for working, and «there is yet little prospect of abundance, Thé season, unless the Winter runs inw Spritg, wilt be-short. These are misfortunes of the miners, but they are not so great grass is parched,and the farming prospects, we are told ay those. who have visited the valleys, is very discon rag. ing. There has not been near's0 ihdch rain in the valleys as we have had in the mountains. The roads aredusty, the fields dry andthe, country is sufterjngfor water: A ‘goaking rain would be a great —_—he sous ; LL tile oe The Sacramento Union of Monday ie}. a good paper, and is worth keeping. 14 . ¢ containe . other traveling com . wreak vengeance.upon him. Without sudden. and furious tempest, before rigging proclaimed her Sardinian. She was The Guill, Captain ‘Varino : master, on her_way trom Cagliari to Palermo. She had ‘on board two passengers and “— seamen, j E — hese passengers were . shmen wis hal procutedt passage On The Gul to Palermo, whence they intended to embark by. steamer to Marseilles, the following day. : ; While the Cuptain and his assistants were attending to their duties, and expressing apprehensions as to their safety, the two Englishmen stood apart, ‘Teaning against the low bulwarks and surveying the wild sceme around them. Hs ene cee ding under bare poles. Her build oe 950 on ne . Tressillian turned his handsome face n I meant to have written to. my father about you and your future, Jasper, but this nudden Yoel, “Heeaiveu-yemeetaay= r causes:‘me to return home without wriew 2. 0 eM ta elegy from Marae . “THE HOUSE OF SECRETS,” ETC., ETC., ETC, . ; 4 shenioealiigtadsnbibainighepeeinpsttindairiansanicirnissat tle SOM Mila ML SOtk 60 __ will ia Se onaixe myself wit 158 eed aH g: (CHAPTER I. fea that you obtaifi the! position to which your talents entitle you. You have no ties to keep yéu On the Centinent? “No, Lhave no ties,” he said huskily; “What will your father say to my coming?” demanded Lowder. . He. will think your generosity quixotic. “He companion who dares toresemble his A sudden larch of the little vessel, a wave sweeping over the deck interrupted the sentence. “You wrong my ong one The sillian; his blue .e ki , when ene Yeleal righted” “He is cha! noblest man in the world. He will welcome my friends as his own. “You will love him, Jasper, as 1 do, when’ you know him.” 4 : ; “He doesn’t seem very affectienate,” remarked Lowder. “You have been ently of the same age, about. three and twenty, but evident 4 they*were not of the same station in. life, ) ne, the more striking of the two, Was aristucratic in’ his) bearing, tall, slender and handsome, with a frank, smMilifg rowth; a pair of © féatless ‘blae eyes, undera wide:and’ massive: forehead, and tawy hair blowing back from. his face. Noble, generous and kindhearted, he had an adventurous ‘disposition and a dauntless courage, and heir of Sir Arthur Tressillian’ Barohet, of Tressillian Court, England. “His companion presented a remarkable resemblance to bim, béing algo tall and slender and fair, with ‘tawny hair atid moustache, but he had not. the frank sinile, the briglit; fearless look) or thajoyous spirit: that characterized oung Tressillian, . Young .as he was, e had seen much of the dark side of lite, and his experience had been--such as'to develop in him some of the worst qualities of his nature. ; * He was Jasper Lowder, Guy Tressillian’s hired traveling companion and bosom-friend. ; “Pie meeting ahd connection ~ of the two had a touch of romance, Young Tressillian had spent four years in a German university, whence he had graduated with henor. © On leaving the university, in obedience ‘to his father’a. written command, hy had undertaken a tour of the countries inclosing the Mediterranean Sea, in company with one of his tate tutors. This gentleman being unexpectedly. moted toa professorship, abandoned ‘Tressillian at Baden, leaying Ap to find annion, On the evening of the very day after this. desertion, as Guy. Tressillian as sauatering through the streets of Baden, he had been assaulted by ‘a trio of his own countrymen, all-more or less intoxicated. It was apparént that they took him for another, and intended -to allowing him to speak-they forced-him to defend. himeelt. Guy was getting the Worst of the conflict, when a stranger came runnidg to his wssistance, and in-a few moments the twe had put the ruffians to flight. ° This stranger who came so opportanely to Guy's assistance was Jasper Lowder. His resemblance to young Tressillian awakened in the latter a romantic interest. “He questioned Lowder, learnéd that he was poor and alone in the world, and took him with him to his hotel. Béiieving that the. similarity of features indicated a» similarity. of tastes and natures, he engaged Lowas his a ee and the past year they had spent together mure ‘like brothers than like Pn ne and em ployed. : “This storm isa regular Levanter,” said Lowder; clinging with beth hands to the bulwarks, “Do youn think the craft will stand it, Tressillian?” “Oh, yes,” answered young Tressillian, wiping the salt spray from his face. “I'he Captain koows the Sicillian coast pertectly. In two hours or l¢ss' we shall bé in the bay of Palermo. Ip three hours we shall ve domiciled in the beat rooms ot the hotel ‘Trinacria, h »\Ra1 embark for, ed to Tressillian Court,” said Lowder With some » “And J—whas to become of me 7’ . have had a year unalloyed happiness, and now comes ; pi yormioihe jieseld guuads , east 4 et acy wold Tite. ' -He was Guy Tressillian, the only son . away from your home five years, and he'has but just reealled you!” Young Tressilliat’s’ cheéks flushed, as Lowder saw in the lurid glow that mementarily lighted up the tempestuous scene, ; “You know, or can guess, the reason, Jasper,” he’said, with something of an effort. “My father has a ward, the daugbter of an old friend—Ah! hear that wind shriek! The gale is inereas-’ ing !” SY es, assented Lowder, ‘‘And the ward,is Miss Irby—the’ golden-haired Blanch of whom you have talked. so much, and with whom you have -exchanged letters?” . % “Yes. My father formed a project to have me marry Blanche, He ‘did’ net wish us to grow up together, lest we should learn to regard one another as brother and sister; . . When Blanche came to live at, the Court my. father sent-me to Germany. » The .night before I left home, he called me. into his library and told me all his -hopes and plans for my future, and. entreated me to continue worthy -of his innocent ward, and to keep. my heart. pure for -her; F-have done so, Jasper. I never et loved any woman, .And. yesterday I received. my father’s .sammons: to come home. He has recalled me after five years of absence. I know the wish that lies nearest his heart. _He wanis we to return home and marry Blanche Ishrink trom the proposed marriage. I dread going home. -And I dread otfending my dear father, whom I love better than any woman. “It is. hard; Jasper, to revolt against the hopes and plans of a kind and generous. father, whose very love for me éauses him to urge on this marriage {. ” “Is it?” said Lowder dryly, and with a strange smile full of saveriag bitterness, “My experience has been widely different from yours, Tréssillian. Did 1 ever tell you of my father? ” “No. I took it that he was dead.” _ “Perhaps he is, I-don’t know,” said Lowder, with a reckless laugh. “But if he is living, heis a scoundrel, Don’t start, Tressillian, at my. unfilial speech. Wait till you hear-my story. Iam in a desperate mood to-night. This svorm stirs up all the bad within me. As nearly as I can discever, my father was the younger son of a proud old country. family—’ ‘ “You do not know‘ then?” Asked creme pressing his companion’s jand., ? “I have no proofs of it. All I positively know, is this. My mother was of humble station, pretty, with biue eyes and an apple blossom face, and tender, appealing ways. onthe widow, my grand mother, kept a lodging house, and my father, a gay, dashing young tellow, came to lodge with her. As might have been, expected he fell in love with the landlady’s daughter, He offered the young girl marriage, on condition that the union should be kept secret until his affairs brightened and he chose to divulge it. The gitlloved him. Her mother was ambitious and. penurious, The result was the lover had his way ans tnarried the daughter of hie lana Mady quietly, almost secretly, ‘then he took his bride to Londan, to cheap and obscure lodgings, where, a year later, I} Was born.” °°;a 4 vi . Asit presently lulled, he —ren sumed yecklessiy and with passionate bitterness > ‘For years my mother and I lived in’ those stuffy, obscure lodgings, until ters were black Site the glvom of the Jasper Lowder’s. face. ‘ eee Mind tor a moment drowned. hia} will dismiss fromthe house the. hired . ; She was the] ¢) L tor of w widow residing at Bright, ergyman who married my mother j yg raudmother, . . } mother’s maiden a was te Lowder: At our ot if his aristocratic relatives steduthe existence ef the fe I dow fashionable society, while my poor mother and I lived obscurely. “He was air of fashion that awakened my boyish Admiration, and ‘atoused: my mother’s be ™:~ pint pete es her ond se Nie the little vessel lurched, the sea sweeping the deck, bis men, and fur.a jew minutes disorder reigned: ; “A nasty bit of weather !” said-Low~ der. “Andwbadskyt® = o> “Yes, but I’ve seen as bad,” returned Tressillian. We shall.make port all right, never fear. We must be well on seven miles from the Cape to Palermo.” “Bat seven miles in this. storm are worse than seventy in good weather. pnete cousis afe dangerous, ‘Tressilan,” . Lowder shuddered as he surveyed sea and sky. ' “Bat about your father, Jasper ?”: said ahi Sperry who had become deep*What did he do after your mother’s — ?” +. “T remained at the old votes ai wit our single old servant a mont: oe more my father visiting. me several times, and expressing anxiety as to what he should do with me. A week after my mother’s death, he told . me:: that! his brother was dead. A month later, his father was killed by being thrown from his horse.’ My father came into riches and honors by these deaths. At last he decided to rid himself of me, he took me down to Brighton,to my old grandmother, Her sons were. dead; she ‘had given up keeping lodgers, and was grown wisetly. He promised_her five hundred pounds a year to keep me, and to keep also the:secret, of m paternity, solemaly promising to on tres edge me sume day as his son and heir, The old woman agreed.to carry out his wishes. She would “have doné ‘anys thing for money. I never saw my father again. ‘f went to school, grew up, and at the age of twenty-one came into my grandmother's money, the fruits of years of saving,she dying at that time. _My father had deliberately abaudoned me. I did not know. where to seek him, if I had-wished to. I took my money and came abroad. I had been two years on the Continent and had spent my little fortune when I met you. ‘The rest you know.” ’ ‘ ‘An odd, romantie story! But why did your father abanden you ?” “That-he might be freed of encumbrance to make ‘a grand marriage. From what my grandmother gaid. at different times,Fconciude that my father was in love with titled lady before my mother’s death. No doubt he married. this lady. Ifthe lives, this'lady’s son may be his acknoweledged heir. My father has utterly disowned the son of ‘bis first, ill-starredunarriage. I have a fancy that)I shall meet: him:some day,” and Jasper’s brow darkened to deeper blackness. “However I stand no chance of ever reeviving justice at his hands.” “What is your father’s name, Jasper ?” asked ‘I'ressillian, ts Lowder's face ened. He bit his lip savagely. . \ ; “What I have told you about myself I learned from my own observation, or from chance words of my parents and 8 London-lodgings, my father bore the name a 1 don’t know his teal name, but Ishould know his face anywhere, althdugh Ihave not seen him in thirteen years. Me masher was actually married, Tressillian; but I never heard my father’s nauie, The wus dead ; the witnesses also. When iby grandmother was dying she_ tried to tell me the story. She had--put it off too long. All that Icould under‘stand of her mumbiings was the name ot Devereux. 1 shall never forget that name —‘Devereux!’ . Probab ly. that was my father’s name—my own right» ful name. Bat as I shouid. never find him it I t bim, and as he would repulse me-it I did find bim, I stand no chance of inheriting his‘property. He Clad Blin’ Meth stioes an : a ¢ Bye. the prominent trath. is ove ead an “over “the balwark; the Spray dashing over violently,. . “My poor friend ¥”. Sidings oye eye ph pom enough to obtain fi >a, .& govern. “She was always i ac. . : knowledyed. But my father always] 1 ou her offsaying he was not ready. hb me jé captain screamed his“ orders “16 . toward the Cape diGallo, « It: is only’ oateast, poor, disowned and friendlexs.” . He leaned’: pa Th ‘ indirose ‘so h at Pwords would scarcely have been distinguished, The storm that had gone before had The vessel dreve on, creaking and roaning,a mere cockle #léll on the é. Mother of Mercies!” wailed. the captain. “It is all up with us, signores, can’t make out tue Cape in this darkess. We shall go on the focks. _ St. ora out and despairing, my mother . Anthony-seve us?” —— "i died when I wae ten years-old” ". ‘The seamen echoed hiscrigs. = ~~-dgein-the wind shri¢ked past, sgain-+—“Phe two young Englishmen, compre. hending their peril, clasped hands in silence, that a Pandemonium reigned. Then a noise like the report of a'cannon suddenly boomed through the storm and darkness. The-little vessel . shivered, staggered, and careened upon her side. : ' She had struck upon a rock. A moment later the crew and passengers were. struggling in the waters. ‘A few moments of buffetings and tossings, of vain struggles and agonized, iavoluntary ‘prayer, and thea Jaspor Lowder felt his senses alip from him, and became unconcious. When he came to himself, he was lying upon a rocky beach of a Sicilian For the next few minutes it seemed shore, sore, braiged, and weak as a-@hitd. << es anaivorer” He opened his eyes. The wind had. spent its tury, and now moaned, along the coast with a desolate, desparing wail. ‘fhe waves beat against the rocks, Lowder struggled: to his elbow. “Wrecked!” he muttered. “I am cast ashore, while the others: are drowned! Oh, this is terrible! I have lost my best friend to~night !” “He is dead, who would have done s0 much for me, and I so worthless am saved! All ‘my hopes of’ an easy and luxurious lifemust be resigned now ?” At that moment he veheld a dark object ata little distunce in the water. The waves harled this object against the projecting head of a sunken rock. At the same instant Lowder recognized it as the body of a man: He crept towards it, and the waters dashed the body on the shore at his feet. He put his hands on the face. How cold and wet it was! the face of a dead man! Lowder’s fingers came in contact with the soft, silk‘en mustaché, und he knew that the body was that ot Guy Tressillian ! Of the five who had stood on the sloop’s deck a half hour earlier, these two alone were left. The captain and hie crew had found their deaths among the cruel, yawning waters. Lowder thrust. his. hand under. the waistcoat of his friend, but he could not perceive the beating of his heart. Despair took ion ot him, “Dead!” he said shrilly.” “Dead ! And he would have done 80. niuch for me if had.Jived!. And. hisfather and the young girl he was to have married will wait in vain for his coming! His place at Tressillian Court is “empty. Who can fill in 2”. It seemed to him that some demon at his side echoed the question: Who could fill the place left vacant by: noble Guy Tressillian ? A thought came to him—a thought so strange and sinister that he shivered involuntarily. Again he felt of. Tressillian’s heart. I: gave no throb against his hand. He paassedebhis hand over Tressillian’s head and dircovered a caping wound inthe skall, The hair was clotted with bloood. . Patting his. band into his breast pocket, Lowder drew out his little water proof match safe. He opened it with trembling fingers and struck a neat. The red flicker danced en young ressillian’s tace, How ghastly and terrible it looked ! The eyes were , the smile was gone. The seal of death seemed set on the noble features. _Lowder examined the wound. It had. been made by contat with the sharp rock, and even Lowder perceived its terrible racter. “Tf he is not dead, he soon will be,” he mattered. “His brain. has.received... an awful injury. He will never know who ve is eye wen’t live = morning, and he tThaps dead already. He must he feed tr Again it seemed to him as though some deman echoed his eg The match dro frem fingers into the water. For a little while he crouched on the wet stones in silence, battling it may be with the better and nobler instincts of his nature, t hese amo grown thin and wan and nervous,’ attest aen niin a iglesia It felt like « Seer orga men ther witk can com will and may Teac to t per iho! 0 Cox & VErOURBES ES

B t ‘ te RA ONRaE _ definite has yet beer settled upon, but. it will be seen that subject, Crd rere that in ae" i be settled at the tiéeting this alters noon fét Chaifetetice, Of course nothing pagar T aalak Gam Oe enn TRES SILIAN COURT; A FATEFUL CATASTROPHE, A wild stofm ‘wes taging ‘upon the Mediterranean Sea, near the close of a several propositions for surveying the _routes hidve alteady been made, and & .————-—~---~—--maayseat apemearecsomipcnecgiie cha aameeie aesopececadeaiaintmnmanens ena aabanies ade cseneetinie t-teuieok acacia pete ei Fi CUS abciale me tanner: RRR ORIEN HS IE A considerable amount of information has’ mittee. A rcs of money has been raised in Nevada and Grass Valley to complete the surveys, and 80 soon as this can be doneand a final re— pert made by the committee, showing and business of such; 9, road, as will beat, meet.the demands of, the eounty,,. the way will be open, for the constracs -tion of a road, ands we are confident that with the co-operation of Nevada, Grass Varley, and such other towns as done. We hope to see.these , places connected by rail. with: some trading point before January, 1872, aud we believe if’ will be ae eit e at Eurcka. {see ane eet See and a post mortem xamination had at Eurelee apon:the;bedy of D. H.MeNel, who was shot on Saturday night by George Rice, .ja, Eagan’s saloon. There is.considerable ‘feeling in Eureka. in regard to the affuir, and there are two versions of the difficulty. One is that McNeil came into Eagan’s saloon and said to Rice, \°“Youhave been talking about me,” and that he immediately seized a chairand commenced striking Rice, who retréated until he was hit! two or threo’ times, and that he‘then-commenced-shooting, the sec~ ond shot entering McNeil’s groin and’ causing ‘his death. Anottief story is that ‘MéNeil entered’ the saloon and . went to the’ stove, taking ‘hold <of a chair as if to sit down, and that Rice commenced: shooting at himimmediately. MeNéil; -who has ‘for many years reaided «at: Bureka, and who was temperate » in his . liabits, ‘had been drinking’on the day of the difficulty, . and a short time previous some of -his triends took -his piatal away, Weunderstand that the purties had had no quatze) or altercation before What dag, but that bad feeling had exigsd between them for some time past. George Rice wis brought down by, Jolin, Conn on Monday evening and lodged ;in the. county jail to await examination by the next Grand Jury. Get Company. ape It is said that. misery loves company and that there is much consolation derived from the knowledge that some bedly is more dafortunate than you. . If-euch-be the fact our miners are oftitled to the benefit of such consolation. The dry .w does not a figet the working of quartz minus. Those ‘who "have ‘hydrauli¢é tainés re patiently waiting for rain, while the sun persists in. abining as brightly as in June. There has, been.no, water this season for working, and «there is yet little prospect of abundance, Thé season, unless the Winter runs inw Spritg, wilt be-short. These are misfortunes of the miners, but they are not so great grass is parched,and the farming prospects, we are told ay those. who have visited the valleys, is very discon rag. ing. There has not been near's0 ihdch rain in the valleys as we have had in the mountains. The roads aredusty, the fields dry andthe, country is sufterjngfor water: A ‘goaking rain would be a great —_—he sous ; LL tile oe The Sacramento Union of Monday ie}. a good paper, and is worth keeping. 14 . ¢ containe . other traveling com . wreak vengeance.upon him. Without sudden. and furious tempest, before rigging proclaimed her Sardinian. She was The Guill, Captain ‘Varino : master, on her_way trom Cagliari to Palermo. She had ‘on board two passengers and “— seamen, j E — hese passengers were . shmen wis hal procutedt passage On The Gul to Palermo, whence they intended to embark by. steamer to Marseilles, the following day. : ; While the Cuptain and his assistants were attending to their duties, and expressing apprehensions as to their safety, the two Englishmen stood apart, ‘Teaning against the low bulwarks and surveying the wild sceme around them. Hs ene cee ding under bare poles. Her build oe 950 on ne . Tressillian turned his handsome face n I meant to have written to. my father about you and your future, Jasper, but this nudden Yoel, “Heeaiveu-yemeetaay= r causes:‘me to return home without wriew 2. 0 eM ta elegy from Marae . “THE HOUSE OF SECRETS,” ETC., ETC., ETC, . ; 4 shenioealiigtadsnbibainighepeeinpsttindairiansanicirnissat tle SOM Mila ML SOtk 60 __ will ia Se onaixe myself wit 158 eed aH g: (CHAPTER I. fea that you obtaifi the! position to which your talents entitle you. You have no ties to keep yéu On the Centinent? “No, Lhave no ties,” he said huskily; “What will your father say to my coming?” demanded Lowder. . He. will think your generosity quixotic. “He companion who dares toresemble his A sudden larch of the little vessel, a wave sweeping over the deck interrupted the sentence. “You wrong my ong one The sillian; his blue .e ki , when ene Yeleal righted” “He is cha! noblest man in the world. He will welcome my friends as his own. “You will love him, Jasper, as 1 do, when’ you know him.” 4 : ; “He doesn’t seem very affectienate,” remarked Lowder. “You have been ently of the same age, about. three and twenty, but evident 4 they*were not of the same station in. life, ) ne, the more striking of the two, Was aristucratic in’ his) bearing, tall, slender and handsome, with a frank, smMilifg rowth; a pair of © féatless ‘blae eyes, undera wide:and’ massive: forehead, and tawy hair blowing back from. his face. Noble, generous and kindhearted, he had an adventurous ‘disposition and a dauntless courage, and heir of Sir Arthur Tressillian’ Barohet, of Tressillian Court, England. “His companion presented a remarkable resemblance to bim, béing algo tall and slender and fair, with ‘tawny hair atid moustache, but he had not. the frank sinile, the briglit; fearless look) or thajoyous spirit: that characterized oung Tressillian, . Young .as he was, e had seen much of the dark side of lite, and his experience had been--such as'to develop in him some of the worst qualities of his nature. ; * He was Jasper Lowder, Guy Tressillian’s hired traveling companion and bosom-friend. ; “Pie meeting ahd connection ~ of the two had a touch of romance, Young Tressillian had spent four years in a German university, whence he had graduated with henor. © On leaving the university, in obedience ‘to his father’a. written command, hy had undertaken a tour of the countries inclosing the Mediterranean Sea, in company with one of his tate tutors. This gentleman being unexpectedly. moted toa professorship, abandoned ‘Tressillian at Baden, leaying Ap to find annion, On the evening of the very day after this. desertion, as Guy. Tressillian as sauatering through the streets of Baden, he had been assaulted by ‘a trio of his own countrymen, all-more or less intoxicated.. It was apparént that they took him for another, and intended -to allowing him to speak-they forced-him to defend. himeelt. Guy was getting the Worst of the conflict, when a stranger came runnidg to his wssistance, and in-a few moments the twe had put the ruffians to flight. ° This stranger who came so opportanely to Guy's assistance was Jasper Lowder. His resemblance to young Tressillian awakened in the latter a romantic interest. “He questioned Lowder, learnéd that he was poor and alone in the world, and took him with him to his hotel. Béiieving that the. similarity of features indicated a» similarity. of tastes and natures, he engaged Lowas his a ee and the past year they had spent together mure ‘like brothers than like Pn ne and em ployed. : “This storm isa regular Levanter,” said Lowder; clinging with beth hands to the bulwarks, “Do youn think the craft will stand it, Tressillian?” “Oh, yes,” answered young Tressillian, wiping the salt spray from his face. “I'he Captain koows the Sicillian coast pertectly. In two hours or l¢ss' we shall bé in the bay of Palermo. Ip three hours we shall ve domiciled in the beat rooms ot the hotel ‘Trinacria, h »\Ra1 embark for, ed to Tressillian Court,” said Lowder With some » “And J—whas to become of me 7’ . have had a year unalloyed happiness, and now comes ; pi yormioihe jieseld guuads , east 4 et acy wold Tite. ' -He was Guy Tressillian, the only son . away from your home five years, and he'has but just reealled you!” Young Tressilliat’s’ cheéks flushed, as Lowder saw in the lurid glow that mementarily lighted up the tempestuous scene, ; “You know, or can guess, the reason, Jasper,” he’said, with something of an effort. “My father has a ward, the daugbter of an old friend—Ah! hear that wind shriek! The gale is inereas-’ ing !” SY es, assented Lowder, ‘‘And the ward,is Miss Irby—the’ golden-haired Blanch of whom you have talked. so much, and with whom you have -exchanged letters?” .. % “Yes. My father formed a project to have me marry Blanche, He ‘did’ net wish us to grow up together, lest we should learn to regard one another as brother and sister; . . When Blanche came to live at, the Court my. father sent-me to Germany. » The .night before I left home, he called me. into his library and told me all his -hopes and plans for my future, and. entreated me to continue worthy -of his innocent ward, and to keep. my heart. pure for -her; F-have done so, Jasper. I never et loved any woman, .And. yesterday I received. my father’s .sammons: to come home. He has recalled me after five years of absence. I know the wish that lies nearest his heart. _He wanis we to return home and marry Blanche Ishrink trom the proposed marriage. I dread going home. -And I dread otfending my dear father, whom I love better than any woman. “It is. hard; Jasper, to revolt against the hopes and plans of a kind and generous. father, whose very love for me éauses him to urge on this marriage {. ” “Is it?” said Lowder dryly, and with a strange smile full of saveriag bitterness, “My experience has been widely different from yours, Tréssillian. Did 1 ever tell you of my father? ” “No. I took it that he was dead.” _ “Perhaps he is, I-don’t know,” said Lowder, with a reckless laugh. “But if he is living, heis a scoundrel, Don’t start, Tressillian, at my. unfilial speech. Wait till you hear-my story. Iam in a desperate mood to-night. This svorm stirs up all the bad within me. As nearly as I can discever, my father was the younger son of a proud old country. family—’ ‘ “You do not know‘ then?” Asked creme pressing his companion’s jand., ? “I have no proofs of it. All I positively know, is this. My mother was of humble station, pretty, with biue eyes and an apple blossom face, and tender, appealing ways.

onthe widow, my grand mother, kept a lodging house, and my father, a gay, dashing young tellow, came to lodge with her. As might have been, expected he fell in love with the landlady’s daughter, He offered the young girl marriage, on condition that the union should be kept secret until his affairs brightened and he chose to divulge it. The gitlloved him. Her mother was ambitious and. penurious, The result was the lover had his way ans tnarried the daughter of hie lana Mady quietly, almost secretly, ‘then he took his bride to Londan, to cheap and obscure lodgings, where, a year later, I} Was born.” °°;a 4 vi . Asit presently lulled, he —ren sumed yecklessiy and with passionate bitterness > ‘For years my mother and I lived in’ those stuffy, obscure lodgings, until ters were black Site the glvom of the Jasper Lowder’s. face. ‘ eee Mind tor a moment drowned. hia} will dismiss fromthe house the. hired . ; She was the] ¢) L tor of w widow residing at Bright, ergyman who married my mother j yg raudmother, . . } mother’s maiden a was te Lowder: At our ot if his aristocratic relatives steduthe existence ef the fe I dow fashionable society, while my poor mother and I lived obscurely. “He was air of fashion that awakened my boyish Admiration, and ‘atoused: my mother’s be ™:~ pint pete es her ond se Nie the little vessel lurched, the sea sweeping the deck, bis men, and fur.a jew minutes disorder reigned: ; “A nasty bit of weather !” said-Low~ der. “Andwbadskyt® = o> “Yes, but I’ve seen as bad,” returned Tressillian. We shall.make port all right, never fear. We must be well on seven miles from the Cape to Palermo.” “Bat seven miles in this. storm are worse than seventy in good weather. pnete cousis afe dangerous, ‘Tressilan,” .. Lowder shuddered as he surveyed sea and sky. ' “Bat about your father, Jasper ?”: said ahi Sperry who had become deep*What did he do after your mother’s — ?” +. “T remained at the old votes ai wit our single old servant a mont: oe more my father visiting. me several times, and expressing anxiety as to what he should do with me. A week after my mother’s death, he told . me:: that! his brother was dead. A month later, his father was killed by being thrown from his horse.’ My father came into riches and honors by these deaths. At last he decided to rid himself of me, he took me down to Brighton,to my old grandmother, Her sons were. dead; she ‘had given up keeping lodgers, and was grown wisetly. He promised_her five hundred pounds a year to keep me, and to keep also the:secret, of m paternity, solemaly promising to on tres edge me sume day as his son and heir, The old woman agreed.to carry out his wishes. She would “have doné ‘anys thing for money. I never saw my father again. ‘f went to school, grew up, and at the age of twenty-one came into my grandmother's money, the fruits of years of saving,she dying at that time. _My father had deliberately abaudoned me. I did not know. where to seek him, if I had-wished to. I took my money and came abroad. I had been two years on the Continent and had spent my little fortune when I met you. ‘The rest you know.” ’ ‘ ‘An odd, romantie story! But why did your father abanden you ?” “That-he might be freed of encumbrance to make ‘a grand marriage. From what my grandmother gaid. at different times,Fconciude that my father was in love with titled lady before my mother’s death. No doubt he married. this lady. Ifthe lives, this'lady’s son may be his acknoweledged heir. My father has utterly disowned the son of ‘bis first, ill-starredunarriage. I have a fancy that)I shall meet: him:some day,” and Jasper’s brow darkened to deeper blackness. “However I stand no chance of ever reeviving justice at his hands.” “What is your father’s name, Jasper ?” asked ‘I'ressillian, ts Lowder's face ened. He bit his lip savagely.. . \ ; “What I have told you about myself I learned from my own observation, or from chance words of my parents and 8 London-lodgings, my father bore the name a 1 don’t know his teal name, but Ishould know his face anywhere, althdugh Ihave not seen him in thirteen years. Me masher was actually married, Tressillian; but I never heard my father’s nauie, The wus dead ; the witnesses also. When iby grandmother was dying she_ tried to tell me the story. She had--put it off too long. All that Icould under‘stand of her mumbiings was the name ot Devereux. 1 shall never forget that name —‘Devereux!’ . Probab ly. that was my father’s name—my own right» ful name. Bat as I shouid. never find him it I t bim, and as he would repulse me-it I did find bim, I stand no chance of inheriting his‘property. He Clad Blin’ Meth stioes an : a ¢ Bye. the prominent trath. is ove ead an “over “the balwark; the Spray dashing over violently,. . “My poor friend ¥”. Sidings oye eye ph pom enough to obtain fi >a, .& govern. “She was always i ac. . : knowledyed. But my father always] 1 ou her offsaying he was not ready. hb me jé captain screamed his“ orders “16 . toward the Cape diGallo, « It: is only’ oateast, poor, disowned and friendlexs.” . He leaned’: pa Th ‘ indirose ‘so h at Pwords would scarcely have been distinguished, The storm that had gone before had The vessel dreve on, creaking and roaning,a mere cockle #léll on the é. Mother of Mercies!” wailed. the captain. “It is all up with us, signores, can’t make out tue Cape in this darkess. We shall go on the focks. _ St. ora out and despairing, my mother . Anthony-seve us?” —— "i died when I wae ten years-old” ". ‘The seamen echoed hiscrigs. = ~~-dgein-the wind shri¢ked past, sgain-+—“Phe two young Englishmen, compre. hending their peril, clasped hands in silence, that a Pandemonium reigned. Then a noise like the report of a'cannon suddenly boomed through the storm and darkness. The-little vessel . shivered, staggered, and careened upon her side. : ' She had struck upon a rock. A moment later the crew and passengers were. struggling in the waters. ‘A few moments of buffetings and tossings, of vain struggles and agonized, iavoluntary ‘prayer, and thea Jaspor Lowder felt his senses alip from him, and became unconcious. When he came to himself, he was lying upon a rocky beach of a Sicilian For the next few minutes it seemed shore, sore, braiged, and weak as a-@hitd. << es anaivorer” He opened his eyes. The wind had. spent its tury, and now moaned, along the coast with a desolate, desparing wail. ‘fhe waves beat against the rocks, Lowder struggled: to his elbow. “Wrecked!” he muttered. “I am cast ashore, while the others: are drowned! Oh, this is terrible! I have lost my best friend to~night !” “He is dead, who would have done s0 much for me, and I so worthless am saved! All ‘my hopes of’ an easy and luxurious lifemust be resigned now ?” At that moment he veheld a dark object ata little distunce in the water. The waves harled this object against the projecting head of a sunken rock. At the same instant Lowder recognized it as the body of a man: He crept towards it, and the waters dashed the body on the shore at his feet. He put his hands on the face. How cold and wet it was! the face of a dead man! Lowder’s fingers came in contact with the soft, silk‘en mustaché, und he knew that the body was that ot Guy Tressillian ! Of the five who had stood on the sloop’s deck a half hour earlier, these two alone were left. The captain and hie crew had found their deaths among the cruel, yawning waters. Lowder thrust. his. hand under. the waistcoat of his friend, but he could not perceive the beating of his heart. Despair took ion ot him, “Dead!” he said shrilly.” “Dead ! And he would have done 80. niuch for me if had.Jived!. And. hisfather and the young girl he was to have married will wait in vain for his coming! His place at Tressillian Court is “empty. Who can fill in 2”. It seemed to him that some demon at his side echoed the question: Who could fill the place left vacant by: noble Guy Tressillian ? A thought came to him—a thought so strange and sinister that he shivered involuntarily. Again he felt of. Tressillian’s heart. I: gave no throb against his hand. He paassedebhis hand over Tressillian’s head and dircovered a caping wound inthe skall, The hair was clotted with bloood. . Patting his. band into his breast pocket, Lowder drew out his little water proof match safe. He opened it with trembling fingers and struck a neat. The red flicker danced en young ressillian’s tace, How ghastly and terrible it looked ! The eyes were , the smile was gone. The seal of death seemed set on the noble features. _Lowder examined the wound. It had. been made by contat with the sharp rock, and even Lowder perceived its terrible racter. “Tf he is not dead, he soon will be,” he mattered. “His brain. has.received...... an awful injury. He will never know who ve is eye wen’t live = morning, and he tThaps dead already. He must he feed tr Again it seemed to him as though some deman echoed his eg The match dro frem fingers into the water. 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