THE LARGEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST! 
and the low moanings alone breaking the stillness. 
Faithful Dinah and her coadjutors kept their places 
at the bedside, patiently fanning the sufferer, and 
watching if any change might come. And Alfred 
drew back to the luxurious couch, by the window, 
and there waited, and wondered, and wept. 
Wept—silent!y,his face hidden from the sympa¬ 
thetic servants; wept, not so much because the 
mother who bore him was apparently very near her 
end, but because that mother, always maligning his 
good intentions to herself, had kept an unnatural, 
unhappy'barrier between bis heart and hers, and 
was keeping it there until the very last. 
Wondered;—if he had really been iu anywise un¬ 
grateful towards her; if the fault were his that his 
love for her.and enjoyment in her society had not 
been greater; if she had ever been a sweet-tem¬ 
pered, lovable young girl like one he knew; if the 
years held an acid for every life, one that must be 
drank and that would embitter it past enjoying; if 
in another world hie mother's dissatisfied, troubled 
spirit would lind rest, where neither confessional 
nor priestly offering would be desired. 
Waited —for the physician’s coming; for some 
positive knowledge as to his mother’s condition; 
for some word from her, some expressed wish, or 
message, or trust; for gladness in this home where 
was everything to make glad, and for love where 
there badjbeen little loving. 
As the silver bells on the mantel chimed for half- 
past three, Dr. Vineaux came. AbFBED put away 
all traces of weakness, if tears be such, aud rose to 
meet him, A grasp of the hand, and “Yon are 
welcome, I feared you would be too late,” were his 
only greeting; then he passed to the side of his pa¬ 
tient. She did not heed his presence, but lay as she 
had done, at intervals wearily opening and closing 
his eyes, and faintly moaning. The doctor gave a 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
WHEN CHILDHOOD DIES. 
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Oh not when the seal of death is set 
On childhood's laughing eye, 
And the sunny head is laid to rest, 
Does the heart of childhood die; 
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And the golden hair be wreathed about, 
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When life Is fleeting fast, 
Is the heart of childhood always dead 
And all its feeling past; 
For though Time his signet grave has set 
On manhood's earnest brow, 
The heart may feel as light a throb 
As childhood’s pulses know. 
But when that heart has learned how much 
Of suffering it can hear, 
And learned the worst that life can bring 
Unshrinkingly to dare, 
’Tls then that ripened feelings come, 
And gleeful childhood dies:— 
And Oh 1 how many hearts are graves 
Where buried childhood lies 1 
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CHAPTER ELEVENTH. 
The funeral was over. Repugnant as priestly 
services had become to Alfred Henderson, he 
had nevertheless suffered Father Dufrez to con¬ 
duct the obsequies after tbe manner of his mother’s 
faith, and solemn mass and wailing miserere had been 
said and sung. Only good Dr. Vineaux and Al¬ 
fred’s newly-appointed guardian, Mr. Brief, had 
been with him as family friends aud mourners. Of 
relatives Madame Henderson had none in the city, 
—none anywhere, so far as Alfred knew; and for 
two or three years her seclusion had been such that 
all society-friends had ceased to think of her. 
There had been little show of mourning, then. The 
principal demonstrations of sorrow had been on the 
part of Dinah and her coadjutors; for, though ex¬ 
acting, the deceased had been ou the whole an in¬ 
dulgent mistress, and they regretted her death. 
A week had gone by. Alfred sat in his library, 
meditating upon many things,—dreamy, listless, 
uncertain. His past was not what it should have 
beeD, a pleasant, beautiful memory; the rather was 
it. dull, disagreeable, cheerless. All hut those late 
weeks at Glendale, and they seemed the brighter by 
contrast. As far back as his recollections ran this 
home had been his, and the woman they had so re¬ 
cently carried oat therefrom, its mistress. Aud all 
this while she had been tbe same unhappy-minded, 
fretful, dissatisfied mother, loving him, it is true, 
with a strange, worshipful passion, but often rudely 
wounding the tendrils of love upspringing in his 
heart by unkind words and unloving manner, and 
making bis childhood and youth to go hungry for 
affection and trust. Provided with every luxury 
that wealth could buy,—having everything, appa¬ 
rently, that could be desired, be yet lacked all that 
his nature most craved. A nature more phlegmatic 
and animal would have been content and happy: 
he was too refined to receive full satisfaction from 
wliat ministered simply to his animal life. 
This strange love of his mother’s, that had so 
little in it to render him happy, had still kept him 
ever near her. This, and the fact that without him 
she would be utterly alone. Save exceptional 
absenses of shel l duration, he had remained with her 
constantly. The beet private tutors had coueti- 
tnted his school, academy aud college: while his 
passion for mueic had been allowed to develop it¬ 
self, with occasional aids. 
Perhaps the lack of sympathy between his mother 
and himself was at the foundation of his aversion to 
priestcraft; or it may have been that his finer sen¬ 
sibilities naturally turned away from a faith that 
contained so much of the human clemeut, and de¬ 
sired something purer, simpler and more elevating; 
or his frequent association with his mother's law¬ 
yer, a frank man, who hated all error and supersti¬ 
tion with a hearty hatred, and measured men and 
creeds by a deeper measure than superfice, may pos¬ 
sibly have biased his mind. 
He sat in his library now, listless, aimless, as he 
had sat there every day bince his mother’s death. 
Touching him less nearly, in a certain sense, than it 
would have touched some, that death had yet 
touched him very nearly indeed. It appeared to 
have deadened each earnest thought and desire,—to 
have cut him off from the living world, aud left him 
uncared for aud uncaring. It was thus that Mr. 
Brief found him, as he came to formally take 
charge of his ward. 
Harry Brief was a frank, hearty man, singularly 
lacking in deceit aud blandishments, for one of his 
profession. He hated all shams and pretense. He 
believed all petty meanness and qujliblings without 
excuse. As a practitioner at the bar he never could 
have acquired great suocess, but as a sagacious 
counselor, and a safe, trustworthy business agent, 
he had won an enviable reputation. The gist tones 
of His dear-ringing, honest voice cut through Al¬ 
fred’s dreamy mood like a strong my of sunlight 
through mist. 
“ Well, Alfred, my boy, I’m your legal parent 
now, you know, and have come around to see if you 
would willingly recognize your lather. It's rather 
late in the day for me to receive parental honors, 
seeing that I’m getting (dong in the forties and the 
woman that should hove been Mrs. Brief has never 
yet put. in an appearance; but I accept ray legal re¬ 
sponsibility cheerfully; and so shake hands with me 
now, und know me as ‘yours to command’—very 
mildly though, if 1 am to do the commanding.” 
He was not unfeeling, thus to remind Alfred of 
his loss; but he saw that the young man needed 
something sharp and decided to arouse him. They 
shook hands, Alfred smiling rather faintly, mean¬ 
while; and Brief proceeded, iu his bluff way, io 
bring up some defined object for his consideration. 
“ What shall 1 command you to do, anyway'? You 
don’t, want to sit here always, as you’re doing now. 
You’ll die of inaction or a bad liver. Won’t turn 
lawyer, I suppose? No, I thought not, your talent 
don’t run that way. But you must do something. 
The question is, what ?” 
“ Can’t I stay here, as I have done, Mr, Brief ?” 
‘ 1 Slay here! IVby, yes, to he sure. Butyon want 
to do more than stay. You want vigorous, healthy 
life. Your poetry, romance and inuslc are no‘t 
enough. You’ll have the consumption if you re- 
main here and blow that flute of yours ail the rest of 
the summer,” 
“ What shall I do then ?” he asked languidly. 
Mr. Brief walked up aud down the room two or 
three times, before replying. Then he queried,— 
“ Would von like to wo Nort.li amiin ?” 
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For Moore's Rnral New-Yorker, 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
WILLOUGHBY HALL 
I am composed of 5fi letters. 
My 15, 54, 8, 35 is an ancient city. 
My 30, 5, 34, 39, 7, 41 few know how to prize. 
My 80, 30, 46, 40, 8 , 43 is a color. 
My 15,16, 17, 40, 49 is that on which we live. 
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My 42 is one of the letters of the alphabet. 
My 53, 50, 51 means pale. 
My whole is a worthy saying. 
Bainbridge, N. Y. L. E. Fr: 
Auewer in two weeks. 
[Continued from page 304, last number.] 
CHAPTER TENTH. 
“Massa Alfred’s come, Missus,” Dinah said, 
half under her breath. 
The woman turned her head with a quick, con¬ 
vulsive start. The resemblance between her and 
the young man was very striking, although she was 
much emaciated, and her features bore the evidences 
of disease. She had the same heavy, black hair; 
the same large, intense eyes, except that they bad a 
wild, excited light in them not visible in his; and 
the same clear yet dark-hued skin. 
She. tried to speak, but her breath came in short 
gasps, and did not avull her to utter a word. Dinah 
pressed some cordial to her thin lips, and after a 
little she regained speech. 
“You’ve come just in time to see me die, then, 
Lave you?” 
There was a querulous complaint in her tones 
not simply that of an invalid. The woman’s whole 
character spoke through it. It told of having 
much and wanting more, always; of a dissatisfied, 
discontented spirit; of a chronic disposition for 
fault-finding that would neither let its possessor be 
happy, nor those about her. 
“I started as soon as I was informed of your ill¬ 
ness, mother,” the young man responded. 
“I dare Bay you did, but you’d no business to go 
away. You knew how delicate I was, and how 
much 1 depended on you. What did you suppose 
I could do here, alone with the servants, in case I 
got sick?” 
Her voice was growing more shrill, and the light 
in her eyes more wild. He took her hand and tried 
to soothe her. 
“I did net suppose you would get sick, mother. 
You were no worse than common when I went 
away; and you had Dinah, here, and all the rest, 
who would care for you faithfully, I knew.” 
“But what are servants at such a time? Could 
they attend to my business matters, or grant me 
absolution ?” 
“No, neither oould I mother,” in tones sweet 
enough to calm almost any perturbed soul. “But 
our good friend, Mr. Brief, could attend to the 
one, as he has these mauy years, and Father Du- 
prez has as much power to grant absolution as he 
ever has had.” 
She seemed mollified at first; but at the last few 
words she glared upon him more wildly than be¬ 
fore. She flung the words buck at him, spitefully. 
“‘As he ever has had! ’ There ’tis again,—a 
taunt at my religion, at your mother’s faith. Have 
not I told you a thousand times that you are a 
weak, ungrateful wretch to discard belief in the 
priesthood? Haven’t they befriended us both for 
long years ? Haven’t, they been my only comforters 
since yon were bora ?” 
Her breath was coming quick aud short again, 
and she trembled as though swayed by the most in¬ 
tense passion. He essayed once more to quiet her. 
“There, there, mother; never mind my ungrate¬ 
ful heresy. You are not able to think of or talk 
about it now. Tell me how you feel and what you 
wish done.” But she went on as though his words 
passed by her unheard. 
“ Didn’t I beg of you not to become a heretic ? 
Didn’t Father Dcprez himself do all in his power 
to show you how greatly you would sin beyond all 
reach of the confessional ? Didn’t. I threaten to 
disown you; und didn’t your handsome face influ¬ 
ence my weak mother-heart against its duly ? How 
do you repay it? By leaving me to die here alone 
in the hands of my servants. By — turning — away 
from —me, and- 
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most prove a relief. Could Father Duprez truly 
absolve her from sin, — or better, could she believe 
on that Son of the Virgin Mart she had so long 
worshiped,—all might he well. 
The night wore away. The lights in the sick 
chamber began to pale before tbe new light dawn¬ 
ing on the world, — a new light; never old because 
oft repeated, but new aud bright aud glorious, be¬ 
cause it announces a new day, wherein are new pos¬ 
sibilities and new treasures. And with tho new 
light without, there came a new light within. It 
shone out of the sick woman’s eyes as she opened 
them ouee more; it was as though she had left her 
old self iu the dim unconsciousness of the last few 
hours, and had awakened to one new and better. 
Dinah saw the change, and said quietly, 
“Massa Alfred, de Missus wauts you.” 
He stopped quickly to her side. He, too, saw the 
change, and it gladdened while it saddened him. 
“Send for Father Dcprez, Alfred, and then, 
Dinah, leave us alone.” 
He gave the necessary order, and the servants 
withdrew. 
“ You will not have a mother much longer, Al¬ 
fred, even such an one as I have been.” The qner- 
ulousness was nearly gone out of her voice, which 
was even tender now. it seemed as if the hairier 
would fall away at the last moment, and mother 
and child would come dose together for a final 
farewell. “1 should like to live tbe past over 
again,—for your sake, aud my own. I see so much 
more clearly uow than I ever have done before. I 
have been too exacting, too selfish, too unthinking. 
Can you forgive all this, my poor boy ?”• 
For answer he took one of her thin, shrunken 
hands and pressed it lovingly between his own. 
She continued: 
“I was wild and unfeeling just uow,” speaking 
as though but a few moments had intervened since 
he came. “Do not remember it against me, will 
you? It will be all made right sometime. Your 
religion cauuot be as good as that of our Sacred 
Church, but the Holy Mother will watch over you, 
I know, and we shall meet again.” 
“ I hope so, mother.” He was about to say more 
but. she signaled him to silence. 
“I cannot talk much, and the priest will soon be 
here; let me finish. It is very hard to die uow, 
when I am only just ready to enjoy living, but the 
saints know beat. 1 want to say a word about your 
future. Mr. Brief has arranged all the business 
matters, aud will be your guardian until you arc of 
age. He has papers that will then be given to you, 
— some that are important, besides those simply 
legal. You will come back to the Church iu time, 
I think, aud will let the good Fathers advise you, 
and grant you absolution.” 
She ceased speaking, her strength failing her. 
At that moment Father Dcprez came iu, and she 
added,— 
“ Kiss me now, and leave me to my last confes¬ 
sion. There can he no more sin for me after this 
hour.” 
He bent and pressed a kiss, — well nigh the first 
since boyhood, — upon her thin lips; and went si¬ 
lently out. 
A half hour later he received a hasty summons 
from the priest, and repaired once more to his 
mother’s bedside. It was too late to hear her epeak 
again. She had seen more clearly because so near 
the brighter day, aud was gone to one long confes¬ 
sional, or to join in one long aud glad Tc Leum 
where there can be no confessions because no sin. 
Painfully wondering which, he ordered Dinar to 
see her dead mistress properly cared for, and sought 
his own apartment. 
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sentence. Another aud another recurred, iu close 
succession, ending in complete insensibility. The 
servants applied restoratives, and labored assiduous¬ 
ly to revive animation. It seemed, lor a time, as if 
their eflbrts were futile, — as if she had passed be¬ 
yond the pale of human aid. Greatly alarmed, 
Alfred despatched a messenger for the family 
physician. 
Before the medical gentleman could arrive, how¬ 
ever, she showed signs of returning consciousness. 
The servants redoubled their exertions, Dinah 
fervently soliloquising, “She be n’t quite gone yet, 
suah;” and in a few moments more the sick woman 
opened her eyes. Glancing from one to another of 
thQse about her, with a look half of madness aud 
half of terror, she fixed her eyes at last steadily up¬ 
on her son, aud attempted to speak again. But she 
was utterly exhausted, and her tongue would not 
do its bidding. Another draught of the cordial re¬ 
vived her somewhat, but the power of speech 
seemed to have spent itself. She could merely 
close and open her eyelids with a weary, languid 
motion, and a low moaning as of grief or pain. 
Thinking his voice might excite her further, Al¬ 
fred kept silence. The messenger came back and 
reported Dr. Vineaux out, but said she left word 
for him to come at once to Madame Henderson on 
his return. Slowly, very slowly, the midnight, 
hours dragged by. The elegant little French dock 
on the mantel chimed the quarters and halves upon 
. its silver bells with a sadder music than ever, itseif 
Receive their Teas by the Cargo from the best 
Tea districts of China aud -Japan, and sell 
them iu quantities to suit customers 
AT CARGO PRICES, 
CLUB ORDERS PROMPTLY SUPPLIED 
-• Would you like to go North again?” 
The idea was invigorating. 
“ I should."” 
“ I want some recreation myself, and the North¬ 
ern air will do us both good. Sup pose we go North¬ 
ward together for a couple oi months rambling. 
Will that please you?” 
“It will.’' 
This was on Saturday. The uext Monday they 
started, going up Uie river by steamer to St. Louis, 
thence to*strike across the middle country to the 
Lakes, aud thereaiter to make their way seaward, 
—[To be continued. 
ft AOO a YEAlt and JBXFENSEN to Aiteuts 
©2.000 to introduce the Ifflm Seising Machine.- 
SWMA alike on both sides. 2 *w«^tnoL ^r<r« 
inducement* to experienced agents For fat ther pai t ten! ars, 
address tne Wilson Sewing Maohinb Co., Cleveland, OMo, 
Boston, Mass., or St. LouLs, Mo. j^x iotoa 
