Hilliare Henderson, or, The secret revealed
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Whein broad fields of rice waved like a sea Re was a stot-built man, evidently ome of green in front of a prove of magialia; eaa er senior; red.faced-as if to indicate where, bek, and to the right and left, a mass foudnes for liquids of a ruby color--with eifdlofty p.ues shook their plumes in pride, *4 testuies which indicated a coarse and sensual the east't breeze swept in from the sea nuater Al l9oigh be was dressed in the where, empowered amld sudowl oaks, stood garb usully worn by gentlemen, there was the chateau af .wealthy (eorgian plgter ; no . gn in his face or his bearing whieh woul4 where flowergrew all about, and the air wa etitle him to recognition as such, had he sweet with their perfume : there my story ben eud4ealy thrown into the society of men find its birthplace. o tliabeet. True, a solitairediemond of the Within aa upper chamber of that same I e ,ta uttered on his little 'ingen a chateau, the windows of which fronted sea- ~ er= wi h a family crest.on the next; a ward. e umnanding an oedin-view beyond the heavy gold chain, to which a pound, or lesej rice fiella, a young girl paced to and fro; of seals and eharms were hung, indicated that and many a bitter word of anger whie came he wore a wateh ; yet coarse was the jeweled from her lips, as well as her dark, dasling hl-'eoare, the man in every way. e °-iind uished ceeks, told her to be a The ynuig girl looked sit him inquiringly, Child of pasthoa. Young, yet in form and an lathc same time angrily, as if she would stature womanly--full of that wild, enchant. ask, ih her Aashing eyes of jet: "Why do luig, fervid beauty, wieh belongs to those youa dare to intrude upon we . who are born and nurtpre'd beneath a south- "What's the matter, my little lady-bird " en sun, where no chilling blasts are know- ' s said, with a coarse, familiar air, as he ad- she was oneit, indeed, o be tire heroinasof yagee4 toward her. " Has my brother been surm a tale tathat I haveto tell. sinsa ibreze with you ?" Lier looks and words betokened anger. 0 - " What he has done or has not done is I said above.. Fron the latter, perhapsiwe nothing to you, Gustave Benderson I" said may leirn, in part, at least, the caow. .. the young girl, bitterly. "You are not my "Hilliare Headerson is the guardian of my guardlen, thank the saints!" property 1" she cried ; but not of my heart ." iNot now, lady-bird-not now! But the or my soul! lie can, for a time, control mny 4 may .come wn I will bet" foFtu'ne ; but my fate, that-that will I keep i "When you--.you ! Qh, if yqu knew, sir, my own hands. lfe has forbidden Raroldthe how I despised you, you would be meaner liouse-told me-Jut, that T mast'see him no than tli lowest eatr that howls bout the no- more: But if-he thinks that I will obey him. gr-quarters, if you ever entered .into my looks beyondhis pow!r? I love rohIJ gresinee, not to speak of any .fture whicb 1$l'ves met That is enough! Oh tbe c 'T4 link your fate with mne. Go, leave Wee with hits itn his pitty yaeht on ynder me. You liaveno business here. Thi Is blue sea! 1'hlen, flliare Henderpoa, we ny apartment, and I will not be intruded WoulJ hiagh both orders and threats to sieon, upon 1".- W they ade from your lips !" " Ah, now, lady-bird, you're too hard upon An abrupt utranee caused her to cese a fellow that levee you to distraction." page: 4-5[View Page 4-5] 'rHE SEOIET REVEALED. I IHILLIARE HENDERSON ; OR, "Mr. Hcnderson, I have borne your insults 1 the anger-trace vanished-as shadows do when long enough -yes, all too long! I have sun-valing clouds have swept by, and ae means to protect myseltffrom 4tljeraj'4 poked ndly, but, ldl , gn tlie servant the young girl, t. i ush in lerf d ho stoodse s weekly nbote et. dt away inte an -nimost ashy parlOr, ads *e' "Mader Hilliaro told io to conld and tell voice coming low and firm. "One min- you to go to him in the library." ate, a r," she added, "one minute I give you A in those dark eyes washed. in which to le eve this room. If at ti e end o " 0Goto him. Zella, and say, if he wishes to it you still remain, you will tarry here until see me, that he can come here to my own yu are carried out! You understand me, room. I do not choose to go awl come athis air 4" bidding. I am not--but nevcrh m . ".e And with one hand sln draw s tiny eh od Zella, and tell him what 1 say." from her bosom, and w ith there tl, eajstress !i' from hcr pocket, which last she cooc, and What, tears in your eyes, Zella What raise tai level with his breat. is the matter?" "By inviter! I believe the girl means it!"" Mistress, if I deliver your message, he muttered the man. "What a tigress she Is ! will be angry, nad on me nis anger will fall. But 1'!!Llatne her yet !" lHe will beat me and curse mess Iho dil whewx lie was in full retreat toward the door as lie saw kind Master Harold say good-bye to he uttered these words, and he way optsinle o me when ie went away." tie door before one-haf of the mktebl red e* "You shall not suffer;Zelh," said hermia. pired. tress. "I will go and see what the tyrant "Are all men such enwards !" said fthe grl, want.'ou remain here tho wlile,'nnd'watoh bitterly. "If so, how Ieoul despishem--- .- r watch eloeelyyonder sea for Harold's aet hate them, for' of that they would not be y et I If it is seen in the offing. I know that worthy, 14t, no-sot all are like bier. Uf be will redeem his promise; apd sth, my HaroM is larave as he is beautiful! 0 Bar- good girl, we will ho beyond the touah of those old! Harold! why are you not here now, to who are cruel to us boah" protect me from Insult and sustain tne in my "I will watch, kin4 mistress;" said the girt. twoibe ' And she knelt down by the window-ledge with The young girl paused before the window, the spyglnes in her-hand, while her mistress and again looked toward the sea, Taking p went from the room' a spy-glasa which lay upon the window4dge, as if it wa often used, she earcfulig scanned -CTAPTER I. the oanig. In a spacious room, with a scantily-filled ' "I see one-two--three vessels ; but all so book-ease here and' there, a side-board well esr away that 1 cannot tell what they are," covered with decantersof various liquors, and she said. "If one of them is his, he wil jet arnished around its high walls with some see me crc the dawn of another dy. He bigh-eblored but very ordinary paintings, sat bade me be firm and true, and be wonkdelfim a man whose ago might be frrty - tot more. and take me as his bride. I will, Harold-! if so much. Tsie rom might be called libra- will, so help me heaven!" . y, sitting-room, orrefreshment-room-for its "Mistress." f garniture partook of the eharaoteristiesof the Low and sweet was the voice which spoke three. , that iword-a voice coming from the lips of a The occupant of the room wMy tall, rather young quadroon, whose steps had been so thin ; dressed as Southern planters'generally bghit, as she came in, that they were not heard dress at bome, with a carelessness suited to by the heroine of this story. the'elimate, and the independedee of one who The quadroon gil1 wa' better dressed than owns all that is around him. H's bronzed most of er eclass-evidently shne was the wait: somplexion, dark eyes, and short, crispy, -mal of the other. her figure was taller febk bair, also told of his Southera origin. anntd more fully developed that that of hae His features told his personal" character at a mistress: and though the red blood eonrsed glaen. His thin lips closely compressed, beneath a darker skin, she was almsti sh betokened a firmness of purpose whieh It beautiful as the queenly girl who stood before woyld be hard to soften; his eyea of jet were her. Yet there was not the same loft digni- small and snake-like in exp'cessiot, showing ty in her carriage. Though roudlyormed, raftitisas in every glanee ; his low fo'elead* she seemed t- feel that tie ae akleasuf aervi-. had it not been so broad from top to baesa 9nde were fastened on her soul., would have shown a lek of pesou; but sense "Mistress," se sid, a second time, in the and cunning there was pavileltll enough of in same low tone. that square, massive bead. His fades was pale "Well, 7 ell., what is wanted ?" ' as far as it could be in its bronzedinsue. Ie And now, from the face of 11he young gill evidently was no devotee at the shrine oi ,f : =a 3acohus, though the ruby wine and darker cas d svie shone upon his side-board. His dark, ser ent-like eyes were turned to- ward tIe only door.of the room, as if in et- pet tanceof a visitet'. And one eAme. It was te young girl with iaom we opened thefirst- ch.Apter. A 'She came into the room with an aif that vonld have become an empress. Cold, cain, haughty; perfe tly self-possessed, her great black eyes bent upon him with a glance which seemed to say : "i neither fear nor love you." She advanced to tlye centre of the room, and -said : "You sent forms, sir-I am here t" "Sit down, Adele-sit down," saidthe gee- tleman. And he pointed to a chair- " My visit will be brief, Mr. Henderson-; I prefer standing," she replied.. His pec face flushed a little but he still se alothduangerainuisvrea betoken. - As you wilt, Adele ; °ough Ihave nnah to say to you, and you mar weary of stahd-' img. My brother has jiist~eft this room."a "; That is a matter of no importance to , sir." "He has informed me that you drew a deaad. ly weaponi upon him, and thireatened his life." "For once, sir, he spoke the truth !"' * Adele Dumesie, do you wish to drive mre -into n passing ' And now that pale face grew almost put- ple, though le seemed still to try to chain down the demon of 'wrath which raged in his bosoi. "I ain not artieular, sir. It is a matter of indifferanoe tome whether you are angry or not. lam not one of your slaves, addyou dare hot strike me." " Girl - girl, beware !" And the planter started to his feet, and looked for an nst et as if Ihe would crush her from existence. But her calm eyea met his fiery glance-her proud form did not tremble i she seemed as if she wa niade of marble, so firmly did she stand. *Why did you draw a weapon upon him?" asked the piante", more caltly, aftkr'a few' moments'trnggle for the sna terry Offh1s'augri "Because he int'uded upon the fpriaey of my chamber, and dared'to insult me with his elated words of love ! I drew a weapoaand he fled before it like a sneaking eowadase "Adele Dumeshe; Gustave' is no eonerd among me; but he ould not raise his hah, against a womaf. 'Lt that unkown aedyvan thretr whom I onde; fool-like, admitted to the boapitalitcof My house, but show his leiA ti Ilis vicinity let' your belovedltare!d Morley agia 9 seensand Gustavef ender sen will teach bli suo b l a sa will proye to you 1e is noeow rd '}a ! ha! ha!" The young girl laughed merrily. "What?" she cried. And her eyes flashed more with pride than anger. "Would ye nate your mis rable, sottish, soulless, heart. leee-brother with Harold Morley? Aa welt might you mate a jaekat against a lion!" "You will see, girl-you will see 1" mutter- ed the planter, as he paced to and fro like an enra beast within its cage, striving to keep his passion within bounds. "[ave you any further business with me, my gentle guardian ?" And the tone was more sarcastic than the words. "Yes. You know, Adele Dumeslo, that you are completely in ay power ?" "I know that you think so." "tYou cannot tonch one cent of your for- tone until you are eighteen years of age." "Two years, oven though spent-in misery, is "not a'life-time, when one sees emancipa- tion's light in the dins distance. Two years of time will free my fortune from your hands =M.esstime may be required to free my per sac:s, "'Whtt do yott mean, girl?"- Adele saw that she had forgotten herself, and gone too far; had aroused a soaspeiis whieh might endanger the plans that she aad- formed for the future. -But though for an- meat embarrassed, she regained her coupos- are nan instant, and replied s "If' you do not treat me fdndly, I'll hide myself. in a conventuntil I am of age, and am legallypermitted to control my own nations and wi ". "Hide in a convent. ch !. And while you were there, what would hinder mefrom squan- dtring,4f I s# willed, every dollar that was left ys s?" " Ieeatse you dare not. The will of my father is rgeorded i o is the Inventory of every dollar of real and personal property that was left me. And more still, the bone ad severityy given by you when you sought the self-sacrificing position of guardian to a young and helpless orphangirl, whose for- tune dtbled that of your own ." "Bell and futy! Who told you all this?" And the plqater strode- to and fro, fairly 4u'4ring with ager. "No matter who, sir I It is enough that I, nutvelltsa othersr, know anyrights " and I sur- Sill olaim and have tmieni " SHenderonwalked to aaa4 fro for a few me- msnt qaad-with a great effortnealmed himself io 'liet hedol1 agfin speaktto her. "Adete.," said he, "I Would not wrong yes ot hf dollar, "were I this day bankruap; I hi vs'o peed of money. IWam already rnob ed ny'plsntation doubles' fin vale nearly every year. But now sit down sad )Isten t4 page: 6-7[View Page 6-7] HILLIARB HENDERSON; OR, '. me f r a little while. I will not speak harsh- ly, or get in a passion ugsin." To witness such a phenomenon, sir, I will sit down." Aud-conscious now of her power over4hb bad man who stood before her-she sat down, and he took a seat near her. "Adelo "--and he tried to soften his harslp voiee down into something like the tone of- kindness--" Adele, I am truly your friend, and it was for your good that I forbade Har- old-" "Stop, sir! You must not bring his name Into this conversation. You have wronged and insulted him--that is enough. I wish to further allusion made to him in my presence," And again her dark eyes flashed anger, as thus sh interrupted the planter. . He reserved his composure, for a weeder. "ell, I will not speak of him. There is one, however, whom I will not yet name, who has an ample fortune, almost equal to- my own. One who, to my certain knowledge, loves you devotedly. My proposition Is, that you marry him, and receive your fortune and your freedom from my guardianship, so distasteful to you, at once. The dismal two years can be swept away by a single word of your' " How generous you are, my kind guardian!1 How generous and delieste, too, to perform my courting and pave my road to matrim.ny. But you have not named the ltappyab to whomt youwish to give a ward awler for- tone Yet I can imagine. Charity, it issaid, always begins at home. So,I fear, does your new-found generosity of purpose. You would, if you could, free me from your tyranny to place me under that of one whom Ids4pue more and hate almost as muc ls.I do yu. Gustave Henderson--sot, profligate, and liber. thme-thus keeping my fortune in the family I How noble-ow disinterested!t Bpt, Mr. Hilliare Henderson, I cannot take advantage of ya'r kindness, i most respectfully decline that and all other metrimoniaLplanas you has formed or may form. My heart blond to Saold Marley-mybdpas promised to am; and, if I live, it surely shall .be hisl Good- morning. sw--with or without youS leave--I must retire," Arid while, speephleas, itttrallfrom s sne -eo n suppressed, Rillisre as j( ehs ed to -lsa htraba rose a ., dl walked from tie room.,- And sLidA b .sat twre, )u h, b e. .}lroi.)4 tk er every , 9 tid I bloomou .e up.to his throbks f 's s Kisavery bresttgrew hot a, &s teraeea ,he sprang to .is * - *d-t e der, from io she _ fhe ogfolow er. BuhlW her I':s ., "Not yet--not let," ho inuttered. "Z will conquer her yet !' Then going to the centre-table, le rung a small bell which was upon it. A servant eame in answer. "Go and tell Master Gustave to come to me," said the planter. Then he sat down by the table and bowed his face between his hands, as -if to try and calm himself; or, perhgr, to plan out some path for the future. CHAPTER III. r A pretty picture! What could be prettier? The master-pieee of Deity-peerless woman --lone accepted. It was a schooner yacht, with bows as sharp as a woodsman's wedge, with hull long and low upon the water, bioa in the beam, tut taper. ing.away in the counter until her stern, at the waters edge and below it, was as sharp as her bow. Herlong spars,raking until they looked as if they must fall over the stern, were ev- ered with an immense spread of snowy can- vas, which, light s the breeze was--scarce enough to ripple the green waters of the coast - still drove her steadily over them, From the gaff of her main-sail fluttered the starry flag of a then undissevered Union-from th3 lofty truck of her foretop mast, a flag:of crimson silk was waving, upon which, in gold- en letters, the name of ADsEL could be seen. The same name, in golden letters, wreathed with carved flowers, appeared upon the stern of this beautiful vessel. She was sihsh a craft as a true sailor's eye could gaze upon un- wearied for hours. No fault could be traced in hull or spar, in canvas or in rig. She was, -fore and aft" in rig, with no square saIls aloft, but a very long square-sail yard lay athwart her rails4ust forward of the foremast, and furled to i was a squaresail which, when the wind wne abaft thne beam, would be of vast service in adding to her speed. We have glanced at her es he" walked the waters like a thing of life,"and now we will look inboard, and sechow thingsappear there,. Upon a deek -as white as were the sails above it, some ten or twelve neatly-dressed seamen lounged lazily ; for the sails were trimmed and there was no work to do. The eraft evidently was a peaceful one, from the number of her crew ; although amidships, on a railway pivot, a long brass twelve-pounder shone as brightly qs if it had been made of gold, Aft, near the helmsman, stood a man who, by 'his dress, was evidently an gffleer ; by his looks and bearing, ever inch a man and sailor flis age was probay fifty or more, Or is eurli looks were Ippewith gray, ad the bea which oovechelower art .4 JMs ace waS ii tedia wth Whitea ,; {; _, ' w _ f "- r,: : r K ; , ~ r ri l black. - A leadsman was in the f casting his lead at intervals ; and by eat with which the officer noticed I "By the mark, seven -byt te d etc., It-would seem that hie wg.s eiat as pilot, or else very cautious in app the coast, toward which they were mnd which was now plainly in view them. "how do we go, Mr. Perkins-d the land fst?" asked a young man- as'd:irkly blue as the seapff sound hair like the gold of an autumn sun just raised his head above the cc way which led from the cabin below~ The officer, who stood near tI touched his cap as he replied : "We're sliding in at the rate of an hour, sir-the land is looming u "Very well, Mr. Perkins. Whe so near that you can plainly d houses on shore, call me.' "Ay, sy, sir :" And once more cr touched his cap to his superior turned again into the cabin. We will follow him. Follow him apartment far more spacious than o think the dimensions of the vessel w mait ; furnished and decorated gorge with taste. The main-mast passed it-but a gilded frame of glittering so surrounded the spar, that no o suppose it there, unacquainted wit State-rooms were in the 'rear ,yf I cabin, and on the doors of these wer ly paintings. A chandelier of p hung in the centre of the cabin flames,.burning even in the day ti a soft light upon the curtains of cri vet, on the paintings hanging here t and upon the costly furniture. The young man who had spoken t oer on deck, was in figure full as as in the face we only alluded 1 8lightly but elegantly formed, his f that kind which wins upon those w speaking as it does of a heart bold less, of a soul free and fearless, nature generous and unselfish. i fit to be-thre hero of mytale, as in be its heroine. "With lihtsome brow and beamng eyes, Longs orlcus locks which drooped Like gold-hued cloud-fakts on the rosy Upgon enter~bg the cabin, he ma and almost instantly It was anawe man loosely dressed in a a-alor's tall forms thin as a rail-4ebrious it featured i thes-yellowish-white keen gray eyes, spoke of " awaydo before he uttered a word. "What bought be Wanttigieap I I' C . orechains, saked,'with that independent air so peeulish the inter- to the men who wouldn't give a card of gin- his cry Of, gerbread to shake hands with a king,'unless ip, mae,. he wanted to buy a clock, or trade jae- her acting knives. preaching "Nathan, t wish you to put the two ye- standing, board after state-rooms in perfect orderl(f ahead of fortune favors me,.a lady and her maid *111 be on board, before morning, to occupythean." o we near Nathan looked a'tonished, and expse -witheyes -astonishment by a prolonged whistle. Then lings, and be asked: nset,-who "Be you again' into the packet busin, )mpanion- eaptin?- E you be, I don't want obe t, stew no longer-for of I can please'.ot, he wheel I.ersn't everybody, 'apecially wimmen f1a, for they never took no likin' to me, nor I to six knrots theu i " p fait." The young captain smiled at the oddity of an we are his steward's thought. The latter was evi- istinguisb dently a favorite, or his familiarity wool not Ievoeen tolerated on board a oraftwhare e the off- discipline, as shown on deck, seemed to be r, who re- strio e d "Im not goig into the passenger trade, ainto 0 Nathan," said theyoung captain, good-hum- ne would oredly, "The lady whom I hope to welcome rould per- on board this crapt, inside of twenty-flur ously, yet hours, is the one whomI hope to call Mrs. I through Morleyyet. My own sweet Adele." g mirrors "'Why,she's thegal you named the shuner ne, would artr ? hthe fact. " Yes!" the main- "'Well, beating, r'm s'prisin' glad. i'll go re master- tight to fxin' up, though things are about as ure silver nice as apple-pie now.' , and its "Would you like to go on shore and help rae, threw me get her off, Nathan? I may have tofght mson vel- for her; and from the past, I know how to and there, depend on your courage and coolness!" "Ef there's to be a skrimmage, dOpting o the ,offi- Harold, I reckon Irve the best right, of apy handsome creetur around here to being alongsdeof you. to above. Me, and Perkins have knowed you sine you ace one of weren't kneehigh to a suekin' duck, and sarv- ho see it,, ed your Father afore he ever knew your and guile- i othcr." and of a Yes; you have ben faithful to myfather [e was cs and to me. On his death-bed, he bade ine s Adele to keep you ever by me, and I will. There's my hand upon it!" ,sn ,e " Thank'ee, citing, thank'ee I When Nath- upon rs an Bia snkland beans you, may his Maker desatt him, and ivo fi over to old olodn- aior n ' foot. I iiow" Im at a awkward as # frisn- a be fotedhen;*ad as ugl* asa signed ea but ered b.for 'l t 'at;I kinder think myheart's Inabs rb, wobe irip e;-and 1 ,1sdie f9r them.t1 kI '°d ge,sairi.- 'avedled for your' good old fatle, d hrit, and die 'o? y HaroldrMorley a ti ,!mas )wn issj" =I'da fo'rl y quioe at Wna4 '; t*ia d tingy" 'ahe yh osd onl Yankth 1". . ' - tm'g4" be, And the honest old Yake i ''3tie y - N y - ; ' r- tf . k !33 S THE SECT T REVEALED. 7 page: 8-9 (Illustration) [View Page 8-9 (Illustration) ] from his eyes with the cuff of the snow whIte away. Oh! if that whidn approaches be but dunk shirt he wore. the yacht of my Harold, how happy will I be. "I know it, Nathan. Now call your boys, I will flee away from the tyranny and perse- and put everything to rights lqlow here, and mention which now oppresses me, and remain It go on deck to see how we draw for the until two years have passed, where kindness apd.I t shoals a long way off at this point and love will soften the wild passions of a f the coast, and I meet keep my eyes open; heart made stern and rebellious by cruelty. even though our good Perkins is on watch." Then I will come and claim and take my own. And the young captain went on deck. and go where wealth and love combined will "Ef there ever was a man--eonsiderlin' bs make me happy /!Happy ? Happiness is a years-that Harold 'Morley is one!' "said thing I have heard of, read of, but never Nathan, in soliloquy, as he watched the re- known i" treating form of his captain. '" Hhndsom , "Was not my sweet mistress hap when and not a mite proud ; rich, and flot a bit kind Master Harold was here I" asked ella. stingy,; afeared of nothin' that walks on two. "I felt pleasure, Zella; such as I had kiev- legs ; as good a sailor as his father aforeliim; er known before. I loved, and was beloved ; and as kind to me as of I wasn't poor, nor but fear was mingled with my joy-a dread of ugly-jist as kind, and kinder too, tnan he'd evil to come to him or me, whie i would sep- be to the biggest bug that rides in his coach arato us forever. Therefore, I was not ha ashore. The Lord bless him! - that's the py. Happiness must be without alloy, like prayer of Nathan Shankland every day and pure gold." night. But talk in' isn't workin'. I must fix "My mistress is Wise, and can distinguish up for the wimmon. I wonder of I ctan cook where Zella cannot. I felt happy when be to snit 'em. Wonder what sort o' fixin's they stopped to say good-bye to me, and gave me like. Esf they can go gingrbread nd dough- a piece of gold, after he had had high words nats and wafuls, and broiled chicken, and cod- with Master Hilliare. So happy that I scarce- fish-balle, and b'iled mack'rel and sich like I ly felt the blows and curses which Master Hil- can suit,'em to a dot. I reckon we can get lairs gave me afterward. No one ever was some fresh, ashore while we're there, ef the kind to Zolla but you and fie, dear mistress. skriimmago is,'t ton hot. I must ask the And yet, I am almost as white as Master lil- rapting cf he wants mue to take my eutlash laireI Oh, if old Dinah tells the truth, I ii:d hose-pistols along. But I'll fix up first." ought to drink that man's blood!" Nathan drew a boatswain's whistle from his And with a wilder fire than it would seem pocket, and blew a shrill call. possible for the human eye to omit, did that Instantly two small, neatly-dressed ea'in- girl's eyes flash for a moment, while her beau- boys entered. tiful form, swelling to its full height, quiver- 'Y oung erectors, come into these after ed with excitement. staL.r ue. I've work for ye. There's sheets "What did Dinah tell you, Zella, which so and pllcr-cases to be changed, and all that. agitates you ?" Be lively as crickets, or I may get in a bad "Something about my mother, whom I huwor, and you know I'm troubhsome to never saw, dear lady. But do not ask me small cattle then P' noW. It makes me wild to think of it; and Leaving Nathan to his work;- and the if I grow more wild, I shall do something tee- schooner to plow her liquid Tfurrow, we will rible. Do not ask me now ; some time:t will once more speed away on Feney't s'wiftaerial tell you all I know now, and I hlole to know wings to the shore, and see how Adele, and more before long. Can you imagine why our other characters rosper. Master Hilliare permitted ine to be with you from your childhood-to be educated as no other slaves arc ?" S - CIAPTEIR .V. "I once thought he did it out of kindness, $What do you see Zcllt ' asked}Adele.as that you might, in a measure, afford me com- lse returned to her chamber after her intet- pinionship as well as service. Do you know view with Hilliare Ilendersoit,,."ay other reason V' "Three vessels, kind mistress. ,"J cannot say now, dear lady-I cannot "I saw them before I Left the rpem ; bet ss' now. But I na upon the track of a se- so either of them seem to be coxii award which may cost some one his life, even if th,cntra'ace of ie inlet ?" e same blood flows in my veibs, . Oh, if I , " annot'4ell, mtstr's*s,,last ns bopsot were but a pure ohild o Africa,,even a slave, one keeps lookinglmrge-and largm freay -nd blessed with Ignorance, how much lighter minute,- and the others seem to. begrops would my heart beat!'! sgoer.: ', - A sound like a quick elap of distant thunder Your logie is good Zella. One vessel is was beard this moment from toward the seg. approaching, while the others are sailing And looking far away to the vessel neareu s M,;( wr * -iii-- - I LLL&RE HEND1Rgnx : OR. . page: 10-11[View Page 10-11] ': TILE SECRET REVEALED. 11 the land, a white cloud was seen rolling up arations must be so made as to excite no from its side toward the blue sky. distrust, else the path we take will be red with "A -innon I Oh, it ;s Harry's signal !The blood, and I may, in the very dawn of the day spy.glaas, quick; Zela, the spy-glass !" of hope, lose my Harold. Then all would be And Adele, trembling with excitement, night for me." knelt by the window, and placing the glass to her eye, looked long 'and steadily toward the CHAPTER V. now approaching vessel. When Harold Morley left the cabin of his aIt is-it must be Harold's yacht !"she said, fairy yacht, and went upon deck, he found Mr. at last "lHe told me he would build a swift Perkins, his chief offier, scanning the shore and beautiful one, would call it 'Adele,' and ahead with his spy-glass. He was standing would conic in it to bear me away from this forward by the nght-head, where the cool place of torment. lie would fire three can- ripple of the water, as it wat cloven by the non when off our inlet, to let me know vessel's'prow, fell like music on his sea-born he was there ; and that, when night came, if I ear. made the signal he named, he would bear me "Well, Mr. Perkins, What do you make away." out?" asked Harold. "'There is a second shot, lady," said Zella. "The mouth of the inlet, quite plain, sir," " Yes; I saw the smoke before you heard replied the officer. "Beyond, among the the thunder of the gun. I can see the vessel trees, it seems to me that I can see the outline plainly ; but she is very far away. There are of a house or houses." two flags upon her. One is red, and the oth. "Then we must be near enough for my er is the flag of America. And-there is the signal. Let me take your glass a moment." third gun! It is Harold ! O Heaven, I thank The officer handed the telescope to the cap. thee !" . tain, who sprung into the fore-rigging, .as, And those eyes, lately so dry with tl.e fire ended three or four ratlines high, and took a of a- ger, were now humid with the holy dew long and careful look toward the shore. of joy. "It is the place, and we are near enough," "Mistress, if he takes you, must Zella be he said, as he came down. "Heave the left behind to die?" asked the quadroon, schooner to, Mr. Perkins, and have the gun's mournfully. crew at their station. I wish three guns fired "No, no, my good Zella. Where I go, at brief intervals." there you will go. Harold knows that al- "Ay, ay, sir I" ready. But we must be cautious not to awake "After that is done, come down into the suspicion. It will be easy for us to leave this cabin ; I wish to hold a council with you." chamber. The strong trellises which bear "Ay, ay, sir I" these honeysuckle vines up about the win- - And Mr. Perkins went aft to obey the orz dows, will easily bear our weights, one at a ders. time, and will serve as ladders for us to de- "All awake, boys I" he said, as he wen) seend. He will be hero this night. Noble along the deek. Her'Id, quickly have you redeemed your And in an instant every man of the crew pledge !" was ready for duty. "Will he be so bold as to come into the "Bral up the foresail, and haul down the harbor while it is light, do you think, sweet flying-jib I" he cried. "Haul the jib-sheet mistress ?" asked Zella. well over to windward, and flatten in your "I do not know, my good girl. I only main-sheet. Ease down your helm, and bring know that he named a signal, and that! shall her up into the wind's eye I" make it as soon sa it is dark. It I. one which This was done.almost as rapidly as the, or- can create no suspicion here; for,allunknown ders were given; and soon the vessel lay as to you, I have made it iight after night, in still upon -the gently-heaving waters s she hope that he was near." would e-done lad she been atanhor. "I now know what it is, sweet mistens," The signal-guns were fired, and then Mr. said Zella, with ,a smile. " I know why my Perkins descended into the cabin, where he mistress prefers to sit and read or embroider, found mely lit captain and Nathan Shsnk- in the long night-time;' with hekrlights en this +land-for the cabin-boys had performed their window-ledge, instead of sitting by her ta- wotkanad been sent forward. ble." "Mr. Perkins, .until now I have never fully "You ate right; 27e1. You ban my -.. informed you of the object of my visit to itbls eret-keep itP" replied Adele. "And sh*, southern lattitle, though, as an old and tried my good' girl, we biust get ready for flight, friend and efieer of my father's, I knew yo Sner clothi 'sg as iean easily eartyc all the to be worthy of every trust," said yung money and jewelry that I have imy owa M e' as he pointed his officer a seat near possession, must- go with us. But our prep. thetable by which he sat. Ag I . I *0 Si _ t+ page: 12-13[View Page 12-13] "Boy and man, sir, on the sea for over for- ty Years, I have learned my duty too welt to ever ask myf captain what port ie i going to, or what he is going for," said Perkins, quietly . " I knew your aIther's son too well to think is cruise would lead in a dishonora, tle port, therefore cared not where we were thound, or what for." "Thank ou,f"r your confidence,Mr. Per- kins ; but it is fitting that. you should know the object of my running into this place, for I shall need both your advice and aid. Up- -on -youn and Nathan I know I can depend, as old a m1 ti ue friends." " Sartaiu," said Nathan, gravely. " "Soit time Rine ," continued Morley, "af-. ter had the kel of mny yacht laid, but be- f'ore she sv i to tl-d aid launched, I took a pleasure- trip oth, more to observe the man- het~rs anl euuts if theipeople, and to avoid the chill of a Northern winter, than anything else. Chiance threw rue into the company of the very plaiter ihosechlateau we can dimly 4liscern among the trees on shore. An acei- dent enbel 'me to do him a favor ; he re- ciprocatel by inviting me to spend a few week. at his plantation, to enjoy hunting, is ,eopt d his invitation ; for I wished to see rdantation life through my own eyes, and not through the medi'mi of some book Writy ai in the flieke- in light of real or fanaticism. But little did I note of plantation life after I got there, though I was forced to join the muter in the bhumti'ng and fishing-trips which helanned for my amusement. I found with' in that chateau a youin orphan ward of the planter, nu heiress to an imnonse fortune...... neu who wus more 'beautiful than any Leing 1'ever saw or dreamed of. To see her was to love her. Site loved mes in return. Wha wonder? The planter had, until ray visit kept her utterl 'excluded from the society o gentlemen, and evea of ladies-gu-rded he with a jealous care which I mistook for kind ness, until I was undeceived by his conduct when he perceived the state of feeline which existed between his ward and myself. H first hinted to me that she was eng~aed to b' married to his brother-a sottish villain, twice other a-ea soon as she arrived at her tnajot it'ilut she soon undoeieved me sup tha int. Then lie eadeavored to keep awa mme at all timte , except whens he wa fresent- That; tol' lhe found a difficult mat tee. At last, he became almost inaultin, an 'I removed to the house of another pltan neat' by whose friedsip I had fordaad, san still continued my visits, avowing myself as suitor for Miss Dumesle's hand. "Thenc ame an open ruptere'rith hitm For ier sake, determined tk resue ' her fr his lcsceution, after a final initetview wit her, I left for the North, launched the yacht. fitted her out, manned her, and here we are." "I swow I ef it h-n't as good us a novel ! said Nathan, who iad listened breathlessly to the story of his captain. "I mind, when I was t boy, of readiu the 'Three S1"aniards," he continued," and this is just like'ei, made and provided we carry off the gal." "What do you propose to do, captain? I am ready to obey any order yon can gI e and the crew, to a man, a-e witi~ you. Nver was a captain more popular than you, sir. 1 do not say it in flattery." "I know you would not stoop to flattery, Perkins. It was to consider our Lest course of action that I called you to counsel with me. Whether to run in and boldly demand and carry off the lady, in spite of any resistance that might be offered, or, by lying off until night, run in, effect, as I cn, a meeting with her, and get her on board without the knowl- edge of her guardian. Then away t a hap- pier region than that in which she dwells," "Could you pilot the yacLt into the har bor at night, sir ?" "Yes, 1 think se, easily. For often I have been in and out in a fishing-sloop which be- longs to the planter ; and if a beacon is lit. which I lioje to see to-night, and have seen before-it is in Adele's window-I know I could go in."' "Then, sir, since you ask my advice, . would say, lie off until to-night. Blood is precious, and should not ho aed needlessly ; there will be less risk of bloodshed at night - than in the d ty-timie." " True, Perkins. Blood is the wine of life, given us by Him whose law is, that it shall not be wasted. We will lie off until to- night." "I beg your pardon, captain," said a young man, the second oeffier of the sehooer, ap- f earing at the cabin-door, " if I intrude, but r I thought it my duty to report that a small - slop is coming out of the inlet which open t on our lee-bow." t " You were very right to report, Mr. Mer- e ton," said Harold, a little startled".s aHave e the flag at the fore-topmast-head hauled down e instantly, and the black tarpaulin drawn overs '- the name on our stern. I will be on deck in t. a moment. Run a uionjeeck up at the fore- y topmamtt-head, in place of the other, to signi- s fy that w ,want# pilot." k "Ay, ay, sir !" Asd the young officer re- d turne.dto is duty on deck. -' This will mateially change our plans, I d fer ' but we must act, as eircunstances may a forea us to dos" said harold,-"' will go on deek to reonotee, and be bak is a mo- .' asent." . as --- i t IIILLIARE HENDERSON ; OR, 12.{ OH APTERI VI' Gustave Hendes'son very p nptly attoe- ed his brother,.upon ?eeiving the fuessage- from him, mentioned :t, the'ehose of tme rtee- and chapter. He fojuridh Hillistl-e itn thre same ositin ins rhsicht ie lf him, withI his bend quve-e tpoithi ai elaitemnent whii hie in vain tried to suppress. " Weil, Hlilliari, ol boy, did you give the rixen fits ? Is she likely to come fosundi House up ! What's the ratte'r? She hasn't bhtffed yatn off, hua sale ?"' e his brts the 'sahtttinr w h thre 9snger brother tendered to the elder, as he entered tire rioum. pilliar Ienderson slowly ret ised Iris head and looking Ihis b-other in th face, said: "iust ie, you are a fool!" "Well, that's cool! I believe I'll take a a drink on tIe strength of itu"n And Gustave tet to thre side-board, snd pouring out n brimmg glass ofJiquor, drink "If you drank less, tot more pains to play the pirt of a enstleumn, and looked to your own interest, I should have less troub e to work out a better fortune foryou!" said i- are, angily.o "Come, conec, oiihare I I iIeaIt no harm. That devilish girl made mte a ittlo nervous, and I nseded a drop to steady my ireres, and make mse myself again I don't mind stand- ing up at ten paces with a man, for ,m dead sure to pick hl eye out at that distance-o-ebt "u when a girl, with 'shoot' blazing out of her eyes, holds a pistol dead on one's heart, he' got more grit than me, if le qan stand and take it!".. "I am not blaming- you for retreating I" said Cimiae, mTor eahni. "I blame you most fuor not so conduetinsg ourself as to win, at least, the girl's respect.a ere have I, with but one aim, for years, kept her isolaed from all society but yours!" "in ts, but yoiu admitted that infernal Yan- kee to tie house, and thha knocked all your plans ithto less thad a cooked hat e" . "gHe had done me a favor, and I did not * foresee the-evil effect of my imprudenc, lfnt you sh oud have made an ipressiomi uipo her before that Had you fore t, eager, aoy-danidy that Ire is, couldhiave touh d e heart. Hd -on proved yorpelfamn, ad atnghlt hter love by manly a vtes you would have had it hong ago, ead her fortunes wold no be i our family !" "It shall be yet-'--4t -upttart fool will never come baok, anal I al----" . -u " Thunder I What was t !a" cried te p1- der brother, as a heav oomiag sand aine upon their eara from dhe eastward. n T REVEALED,. !8 " Just what you said-thunder, Ireokon 1* said Gustave. "No-it was the soun dit an nnons Ihaver heated Itnmore than once But why one should be fired off oiur harbor is more than I oan im agine ! Hark-there goes another' I shalt go up to the cupola on top of the house, and se *tat I dan niake out throtugih my spy- " I'llufist take one drilk to iprve sy efaiht, and follow you !" said Gustave. But hi brother Was already on his way to the posit,,, front which the best view of tbe era could be obtained. Just as Gustave, who had imbibed, reached the sile of heis lirother, the soundof a third shot came booming in, from seaward. "What do you see, Hilliare ?" asked Qua tave. " A schooner, which seems to be lare toi off ouitinlet, with some kind of signals flying I For my life, I cannot understand her mar -navres!iNo trading vessels ever come hero, it is not likely a revenue-cutter can hive chased a smuggler in here, fir we should have seen'her in our little harbor I I cannot un- derstand thia!" "I'll find out for you, if you wish, il- laire " said Gustave, whose imbibations had indeed steadied his nerves. "I'll. take your sloop, and run out to her, and ask her what she wants--se, at any rate, what she is I" "Do, Gustave, and you will confer a flvor on me. Take half a dozen hands with you. The sloop is moored to the rice-wharf. When you come back, I will explain what I Intend- ed before we heard the cannon.' x have s plan which will mnake Adele your wife in spite of herself-but htrry down to the sloop now, and wo will speak of it when you come back I" "I'm off like a pony in a quarter-race t" said Gustave, and away ho went. ,CIIA'TIIR VH. "Lost-lost! Ile will discover All t" nilan- ed Adele, as from her chamber-window she' saw Gustava Henderson unmoor the sloo atuistand out toward the vessel which she felt satisfied belonged to Uarold Monle:. " No, mistress-do not des )airI said Z1 ha, ,' Master' Gustave is a trunkeir fool at le4, , Maste, liar4ld tsill outwit hin ;and i he does not, and Masker Gustave shoutled ohs 'ret intohis power, I wcoud not give muke fo' his chance o life. Master Harold bears tlim no good in, yu know !" " Btt if h should discover who the vessel bloungs to-wlro is on board, atad thenierturn, I sinowgilliare Hendersontoo well ;to thia he would, lea'o inc here, where there would be a chance of my rescue from his base tyr- anmy i" f page: 14-15[View Page 14-15] 14 IILt.LIARE HENDERSON; O1R, "Let us hope, swe#t thieti'esst I I kin t CHAPTErI VIfi why, but I feel so strong-hearted now, I f'el lIarold Motley was ab ent from the cabin as if I were aIr. ady bounding over those waves but a feW moments, *hen he went on deck'to which we have so often looked upon. Be reconnoitre the approaching sloop. 'Aided brave my mistress-be brave !'' by a good telescpe, he recognized Giutivo "I wit try to be, Zella I You are a good Ilenderson, and instantly formed his plan of girl. M$ Iarold does free us, you, shall never action. Returning to the cabin, he said : regret 3our change of home. You shall not "Mr. Perkins, I must not be seen 1, the be n servant, but my sister 1" man who will come alongside in the s1oop. "I ask no greater happiness than to be your He is the sottish brother of the planter I servant, kind mistress. To be ever near you named to you. 'XKnowing him and his rother d-well, and what their feelings are in favor of ZeIla paused, for footsteps were heard ap- the slave-trade, I believe we can easily lass proaching. the schooner off as a slaver ; and you, acting Ililliare Henderson entered a moment af- as captain, while I remain concealed, can, ter, but when he did, Adele was sitting with probably, make a bargain with them to bring her back to window, and a book in her hand, them a cargo from Africa. You may say that while Zella was unloosingher magnificent hair, you need more water, and so get access to the sit if to dress it. . harbor before night; and the rest of our work Ab, hw quiek-witted these women are 1 will b. an easy matter." "Busy, Adele? Engaged, ek ?" asked Mr. '"Yes, sir; I obey orders, and understand Henderson, as smoothly a if his temper never your plans perfectly, I will go on deck and had been ruffled. caution the crew." '4'Not particularly. I am reading poetry, "Do so, Mr. Perkins ; and when this (eow while Zella is dressing my hair. May I read comes aboard, use my liquors freely. The you a passage ?" drunker you get him, th better it. will be for "I do not like poetry, you know. Such us. If possible, get an invitation to the namby-pamby stuff I despise I" replied the house. A visit there may cover my opera- planter. tions.' At least, you can keep the planter-and "But my dear sir, just let me read you this his brother in conversation, while 'I spirit my e-it is so applicable I lady-love from, beneath that hated roof." in a tone nure bitter than the words "Yes, sir ; I understand and will do It if she qoted, she read the following: ,possible." " Torture thou mayst, but thou shalt ne'er despite "Hain't there nuthin' for me to do, cap- me ting?" asked Nathan, dubiously. the blood will follow where the knilt is drive; "Oh, yes, Nathan. Help Mr. Perkins to The esh will quiver where theplacers tsar; -the best of your ability. nud you will be ais ggs sand cries by Nature groee pals-- 'sltya o Butt these are foreign to the sopt; not mise - helping me. I shall be in one of the baek 'le groans that Isatts, or the tears that fail ; state-rooms. Let this 'fellow have liquor Thet disobey me; on the raek I r hele: ' enough to act him swimming." "I. cannot see the application I" said Mr. "Mayn't I put a leetle dose of ipecac in h's Henderson, who had become perfectly calm, last glass, captin? Sieh a mean creetur is "but as it is evidently intended as an Insult, I yousiy 'he is, ought to have some o' the wick. will forego the apology for my angry words, ed Wo ked out o him." uttered a while ago, whichI wasabont tonmake, ' "He deserves it, liathan ; but play no cad retire !" tricks which might create suspicion. You d turning upon his heel, he lefttheroom, had better go 'on deck, Mr. Perkins. Play metering as lie went: 'your game boldly, and all will go well, I feel ' "She has not ierd it-it cannot have any assured." consection with hr threat of escape * "I'll do my best, sir," said Pe-kins. And "Off the scent., base hypocriteI" said Ad- he Went on deck. ele, as the sound of his rootsteps died away. "And me, too," said Nathan. "If, betwixt * Zeaus, lie only came to see if we had heard and between us all, we can't play hoky wit's tpe snnon !" - ' his duck,, we've forgot a part of our larnin', "Yes, mistress; I am sure that' you are and ought to go ?aek to the spellin' book tight." again. But I say, capting. don't forget that, "Well, lie is now of the opinion that we of there's to be'i scrimmage, rm booked for did not. Now, I will hope in spite of my a seat in the first conl."' tey fear'. Let us watch the stoop, and, froth "I intend that you shall be with me, if her actions, we may judge what out' ehanecs there is the least prospect of danger, Na- will be. I know my brave Harold will dare than." every risk for my sake." '- Thankee, capting. Now you look out with both ears, and see of I don't soft-sawder THE SECRET REVEALBT. this shore chap nicely, when he comes down hundred dollars a head, of strongablerIodie4 into the cabin." Ashantecs." "I will; but be careful not to overdo the ".Thai Was what you fired your signal-gtns thin ll .for-to make a bargain with some of us, oh ?" "et me, alone for that, sir. Oldfathan queried Gustave.. Shankland is no fool, of he was born where "Yes; to anake a bargain if I eould; foji they fodder their cattle oncodfish eale;i" the market in Cuba is overetoeked; and I When Mr. Perkins reached thedesk, bebitd thought I would' et better pries teldeerei searcely time to caution the crew and exp!aln Besides,!I wanted to get to sonmc place lvlete I Sthe dee*ption'ho was-about to practie., when could lt my water- aks quie.tly.. had to the sloop under charge of Gustave Henderson leave New York in a hurry, for I wouliln't luffed up close alongside, and the At*named 'eome down' to the marshal, and be would individual aske4: have nabbed me if I'd lain there three hourn "Is that a signal on your foremast for a long.r.- pilot?"u in " es,I isee. Well, there's no snugger " Yes ; but it 'wilL depend upon oireum- place in theworld than our little harbor to stances whether we want one or not. Come lay and fillyour water," said Gustave.. "And on board and take a glass of wine, or some- I reckon my brother and me are just the men thing stronger. If you are a planter,I've to' nake a bargain with. We need m rore something to say that may interest you." hands, and could easily part'with any over. "I'm a planter, sure enough. But your plusyou brought.?' craft looks rather hard. Will a fellow be safe "Well, if you'll pilot me in, I'll ill away there.- . and run in. There's no danger of any rcv- '-As safe as where you are now. Vessels enue cutter looking into your inlet, is there r" that run to the Coast for' black-birds' are apt "None at all. You see, this is a deep to look hard." bight li'the coast; the water shoals sodiz6 ay "Oh, is that your trade? I'm with you as off, and few vessels ever allow themselves to soon as I can get alongside. Be so. good as get in here." to let a man throw a rope here, and we can "Well, take another glass, Mr.-. What haul alongside in half the time of a quarter- may I call your name t" race." " Henderson--Gustave Henderson, plant.- The rope's end was east, andiin a very er," replied the other, with, all the diguity short time the sloop was fast at the'gangway which brandy undiluted could giver him. of the schooner, and Mr. Gustave Henderson "My name is Perkins-old 'Perk,' 'foe stood upon her deck. short, my shipmates used to call ine. But its "Come down into the cabin, sir, and we is Captain Perisnow ; and I'm devilish short wilt have ou- talk alone," said Perkins. on those that lbrgt the '}captain'.part.". Gustave followed him below. "Well, here's to your health, Captain Per, "Steward," cried Perkins, while Gustave kins, and luck attend you 1' stood gaming in silent wonder upon the nag- AndGustave drank off another glass, and aifcenceof thenapartment. declared Lis readiness to pilot the schooner "What mought be wantin',captg?" said into the harbor. Nathan, as he cape: in with'a sage which "1 say, mister..-'souse me for speakin' to would have become a deacon on eortaiunion- big folks-4-but don't none oi the folks:up to day n your house want any appIe\saree, Newtown aWine, brandy, rus andt' the table- ar-pippinas, niceranbcrries, or real; Mercers po, dines, and some rackers and ese,"istid tatoes ? I've gota private venture of lick Perkins. . things aboard,' said Nathan.: 2 "Yes, capting ; in a jiffy-I'll haye 'em on "Yen can come u to the house atd bee, aud,"when we et in," said Gustave. And soon the table displayed a most liber- " Thana. ,fEI make a dieIenFil give al allowance of refreshment. you a barrel of plypins fer noii','ceptin "Your trade must be profiable,".said Gus- goed-!ill.''. , j. 5 ' i, tave, as he, nothing .Jon;f.itl ad number "Very well come tip to the house with full of fourth-proof brandy, cga4d4%%nk it messteward, and I'll speak' a good word for off without winking. you. ! Rather,. What are niggersw orth hem.'? "Hadn't you better take: another' glass, replied Perkins. misteh Th-eapting hastgono un deekfyou 'rom t n to fiteen hundred dollars for see." ;i oodhands.c lutma ''1 b4Iier. I Gill. You'tnegulrtrump, And I can buy them at Congo foramos- steward. If you rant to bean overis, lI et a Piece--sayabout four or tive dollars- giVe you a chance any day, with, a g sod ale ould run the risk and land a load, at five ary.' page: 16-17 (Illustration) [View Page 16-17 (Illustration) ] HILLIARE IIENDE RSON ; OR. "Thankee. I'll think on it. I'm good at titctiv recognize the hated form of Guetiwe getehin' niggers, but never tried driving' on Hendrson, and she fondly thought that, in em." di-guise or not, she would know Horohl Mor. Gesate took another drink, and followed icy. But she looked vin Fain. She o old see Perkins on deck. no one whom, even with Fancy's subtle aid, Nathan went back to the state-room where she could transform into tho semblatco of her Harold Morley, himst if unseen, had witnessed lovei all Lhat had occurred. In a few moments after the vessel was an- "Wasn't that last notion of mine oute, eap- hored, a boat was lowered from the davit, ting ?" he asked. and a crew sprung into it.. 'Then an officer, " Yes; and the very thing for my purpose. as his dress indicated, entered ; Gustave came I will prepare a note, which you will take next, and a long, lean man, dressed like a with yod. If you see the lady, you will sailor, followed. manage to get it into lar hand, unseen by " Not one of these could besIlarold I" sigh. any one. It not, and you see a qifat'roon. ed Adele. named Zolla, t girl almost na hatdeome as The boat was rowed up @ the landing, and, her mistrs, she will do as well. $he is while the crew temairied in it, Qustave Een. quick-witted and safe, and will take it to her derson, aeeomp.aniedJ by Perkina and Nathan, mistress." . .. assed up, the broad, anngnolia-shaded avenue "-Yes; I see. I reckon we'll beat the to therouse. They came p directly facing three Spaniards' out and out, captinga Now, the chamber of Adelo; and she who, under I'll go on deck and see how things look, ef anytfhier'eircumstances. would have avoided you-please." , the lok of a stranger, now stood boldly be. "Go, my good friend-go." fore the window, and, with dnrmin eye, scan- _. ....-.ned tltI faes of the two witm slie did not CHAPTER IL. - know. Adele watched the movements of'tho sloop 'erkins, who was walking by. the side of In which Gustave Henderson had embarked, Gustave, appeared.not to notice her'-tbough with tremulous anxiety. She saw.it stand off she thought she detected a single, quiek, up- the shore, and at the same tme saw the red ward glance of his eye. But, a moment later, flag go down from thme masthead of thme she saw a- pair of cudnng, gray eyes looking schooner, and a blue one take its place. She full uiia nher, and the at'ange-looking man, i could not comprehend the meaning of this; who walked'behind the otheI- two,'drew a hand and for a time her bosom was filled with fear out from the bosom of his shirt, and in tha c and hope alternately. She saw the sloop go great brown. hand, for an instant withdrawn, alongside of the schooner, and, after a 1'rief and as quickly returned, she saw a letter. time--.though it seemed very long to her--she Zellia, too, saw the motion. saw the schooner fill away, and stand directly "Mistress, hd is a messenger from Master In toward the inlet. . Harold," she said. ".That mail laa a letter "Joy, joy !" she murmured. "Harold has for you. deceived hiim in some way, and is comin.- "Yes, Zella. Some plan is working for our into our harbor. Oh, now, now Zella, I feel deliverance. Go you .and contrive some no more fear. hope conquers a ll l' I feel as measut of obtaining the letter, and do hasten if we were free this moment." to me. I shall fear and hope, and hope sand , And now the young girl watched, eagerly, fear, until-you return." every motion of the vessel. As it drew near- er, her eye noted, admiringly, its sharp, long CHAPTER X. hull, its lofty spars, its snow-white canvas; "I'm back, Hilliare," said Gustave, seon- and though she had no seaman's eye to note siderably flushed with his many potations on eah perfection, still she thought it a fairy board the schooner. " And here ia'--permit craft, wondrously beautiful. me to introduce him as a capital good fellow y And when it passed the bar, and ran bold- --Captain Perkins, of-. MayI tell your ly into the harbor, anehoriqg within less than business, captain?"K a half a mile of the house, she looked with "Crtainly, sir. I have no 'ooncealmenita wonder, not unmixed with fear, upon the toimaka here," replied Perkins. sailors who ascended to the slender mnset ,'iWell, Billire, Captain Perkins is ena headsto furl the gaff-topsails-which hadbeen ed in the slavg-trade, to speak plainly. He set to add to h. r speed as she came n. - - anys.the-Cuba market is overstocked ; and, as And when all the sails were furled, she he is bound out for a -argo, he wants to see looked anxiously among the people clustered if one cannot be engaged around hoe some- on the deck fuo the form of him who held where." possession of her heart. For the vessel was "Tate a eat, Captain Perkins, Will yon so near that, through her glass, she could die- have sne wins or other refreshmente ?" said page: 18-19[View Page 18-19] r ^ THE SECRETJBEVEALED. 1lanter, who, ever-e-iutiou, was serutini:- Terrified for a moment; but -td iiitor closely " f so, Iwill ringfor note passedinto her bandiwh it: fae will'adjdura to the library, where Geh te slkerrahe was terri th Aide-boaird stands." - fFr she knew thea tha6 the s5 Ifhollhave pteinlised that the plants $ ditate. aens to knoW who -his visited werO, h'ad 4leneodt -of this, you ar iet the -on the lattied veerandah ii skull, and send a boy (" ori .ontwd the g'oundffoor-of his louse. Zelia while liis ejes blaed Wit L Wa h'ai# something to take; by nll paygou for this s the inornin g neits" skid GsfTare. ",'T eteptain treated "It was all my fault, miste ne'like. t prin e'while I wdt in ia vessel." see the gal," said Nathan, Ak und, ithont waiting for his brother to do and bowing awkwardly. "l'ss It, t ag a bell, which he picked up from-a kings' steward, and came'ashor table el e sit hand. didue want somneapple-aree, o A onJpent after, Zella appeared. or Ngwtown-pippens; and I' "Bring us somie wide and brandy, you damage I've doe; but, by m nolTsses-edilored beauty1" said Gustave. mean to do it!" Before Hllia,re conld say a wdrd, an whild "Thedamage is nothings"sa be, flushed with mortification at the evident Son, *ith assumed enielesmnes Lrto'ieat i-me, of his brother, reqraiued alint the girlpay for it. She shou Zella turted aud disappeared. where she wasgoing. Boy," Your bsitiess must be attended with male serrantenne in, " elcar a some risk, eapt. in ?" saidllilliare, andeavor- stuff, and bring mn- wino, liqe lng to conceal hin chagrin, and to be as polite and se if yok en't break son possible to hisi tempopary guest. long will it take agon to go to It is ; but with eommensurate profits. I return, captain? ' asked Br. H !'nu a cargo into Ciba, four months ago, and the anger-fush slowly fading o lost my es-el-for I was chased in by a an- "From three to four moat o'-war. But 1 Iaedtda my negroes, cared one with any kind of luek. tundre. thusand dollars on then,eavebtilt "Well,sir, I think I ean a new vessel, and am ready to try my lusk ean find a eash market for a f again. I h idto leave New York in a huifry, if the are -landed in such a pud was rather short of'water; so I was forced compc omise tis with the gov to look inn here somewlhere for water, and the are a gooddeal out of the *a thought struck me that 3 could land a cargo all that, the ntmoel secrecyt -here 'asier thats elsewhere, as you haresnb quired." coast-;uard, and nmen-o'-war would not look " An&.observed by me, for out along these onasta as they do in the Cuba as well as yours," said Perkins water=. Therefore, I was glad to anedet the desire to lose this ressol, as offer of your brother to pilot me in." his a beauty, and can ou "+Youanro quite welcome. Captain Perkla', that floats. 'b i b to the harbor andl my house. How many The servant now eame wih t'ar-yt tiicould yon lring over in your vesel' au Perkins, against -his ore -"'I could stow about four heudred, or four drank a glass of wine, as did Ihundred and fifty. WYe stiow clese, and don't Henderson, .who was the an inid if we lose a dozen or two on the way." britker .o far as drinkiagw "Wthat e uhl they be landed at here--or hoWever, went in for brand what would you ask for alle-bodiedemen?" matter whieh Hlliare did not - " From four to live hundred dpllars-user was so ashamed of hIs s.,iti more. It i had A short passage, and nosiek hapeJ he would qoon drink near, eve less." generally did,into a sleepy lu Zella, at this moment, appeared, with a thelfeonpany. ta Mvy salv. r laden with wio and hiquers, Ater a ouple of glasses o 4 Olathain, who ha-I bea sauntering abelttthe rose as if to return-to his vet erandah. had his back towsd her estbad abIety to-prepare for taking .eted, and did not appead'to ^notioehe. uirornin $te1ppin back w rd, hiostradu heavilyginsti .Bt Mr. Henderson Insist the salver, and , knocked it from she girl's ining to supper; for the hands, pre'eipittirng its onstens to te'6l0e;i were fast gathering. Byw nightyll guess l've goneaand.weit d'o this Perkins assetelI, b aMNathan, as he bout down to help the tjr North'ern vegetables, aes a pe eitd girl 14 -a she felt $ ile it was be- fled no longe. - accident was rkward numb. xd Hilliare, -t h fhry. "I'll ; but Ididn't ng off his hat, Capting Per- e to see if ayo er eranberries, 1 pay- for all ighty, I didn't id Mr. Header- s. "I'll make id have looked he ad4ed, as S ay that broken or, and cigafts sething. How the coast and enderson, now ut of his eheek. ha-not more, safely say you 'll cargo hers, way as not to -ernment. We y here, but fot would be ro. my own sake, i. "I have no I did myltst, tLsail anything refreshments binary eustoint I, also, HilliarM tipodes of his Rent. Gustava, a usual-- oppose, for be shness that he- himself, at ha maror, and leae f wine, Perkins ssel, stating his in water m the d n his re- sh es of night ut ordered Na- some fruit and ce fr his host. page: 20-21[View Page 20-21] 20 IlILLIARE flENDERSON; OR, CIAPTER XL. "No, lady-I hardly know what I was go. - -ZeiLb yet trembled when, after Hilliare ing to say. But see-the twilight is already Iiendermsona harsh rebuke and threat, she upon us. It will soon be dark, and we hid reacml the chambIer of nher mistraess; and beat be getting ready." she Eliosed and bolted the loor behind her "True, Zella. When onen my foot isup- iemi slhe enmemed-. on yonder deck-when the low-toned muso "What is .the matter, Zells? have you of ifar'ld's voice falls upon my ear, then I nt the ,tter?' asked her instress, anxious- shall feel free, fearless, and happy." " "There cones that strange man up the I1lina' i ; bnt if we are here te-morrow avenue again," siaid Zella., "lie his ai bag mor in, it will have cost me dearly. Uleto upon his shoulders and a large. basket upon is swvit miistress-. his arm. lie must have been back to the Adet taok tha note, and her hends so vessel for something" tren:ihk '1 that she cou l scarcely open it, it wis. indeed, lNathan, with the fruit or- But iin she lid, a cry of joy escaped her deed by Perki s. As be-came beneath tho - I iriie drankm its contents. window, with a dexterity which wouhil have mine fear nothing, Zelhta-no'-lung made him " itchmer '' for the " first nino " in t$at ny 'i''mr to-mmorrow tuorming ; fur eru a base-ball club, he tossed n large pippin in Eiat iim'imrmg damsia, we wivle fa' out upon at the window where'-Adele stod,an passed ti e timing nat rs of the azure seal That on into the chatan. 501 o ristime 'Able'; Iiarold is on board ; 'T'he apple came auntder as it fell on the Is eiha af oieer is cmtermamiing the liender- floor, and Adele saw that it had been hollow- Sons ins mtii bihlef that the vessel is a laver, ed. out, and contained a paler. This eh $ud is n w on shore to hmmehaid Io bargaim quickly opened and read. witm tiem to bm'::mg a cagos hither fiomi Airi- " Bless him !"-oh, bless my brave IIarold t" ca. Ias i tatlbful atew a d was deputed to mtn- she cried. " ie says that his officer and :1:;' t 'nurtieyancc of th note to mme. allow steward will so manage as to prevent our be- co ' 0" it --imig disturbed at all by Ilillinre Ulcmderson Z Ia, halm)f-laughing, half-cryimig, tall how 'and his brother, anid that, as soon as it is tie 4' .-oiae-btoking sailor-man had taggeredl, dark, we can steal away from the house and as "it hynidme't, against her, making a. wreck join him beneath the orange-tree. That 'f i ii aidi glasses, amd then, while pre- when w are once on board of his yacht, ho ten ii,1 h help lr, bid pajessed time mnote ito will defy the world to rob him of his prize I" r i , whit, she as quickly concealed. "IDoes he speak of ne?' asked Zelia, while h: .t' mmo' lnbe as org-mcal in ideas as her bosomn rose and fell like the waves of a he is inm hmoims I 'lo h would la thought ~f disturbed, can. that manner of delivering a note? An cx. "Yta; he says,'ly all means, bring Zella peminme one ti Mr. Reader un, too," said with you.' And, of course, I shall." Adla' ,hughlimig. Then she added : " You "lie is "cry good," said Zella; amid he! rc I I in ha ic r of Mr. lle:leson to-nor- cheek flushed, her lip quit ered, and a tear sow, /a ha, or so soon as it is safe far us to camo stealing from either eye, ia' w wall go. llarold will wait inlpa. "It is almost darnk. We have not a mo- tiently, from the moment that darkness meat to spate in makin our prepairations, a'mrs on, until we ar there, beneath the or- Ge, Zella, antd see if Ilillmare Henderson and £--e-te' which leans above' the cnat r in the his guests are inm the dining room. if they lower gaesien iviere we is. I dommetimmes to sit. are, we can leave by a side-dionr, unobserved, Sie wmIt be there antlh a ba t and crew, and and not be forced to go downm the trellises. his Auib and stewards, who nre both at mmed, it is not likely, if lie is engage'l, that any one will t' hare to help us, if by any incident we else will imotio our going out, s'care tai et a u(whle gettmn away," lha:a' M stir 11-arold ! Kind Master CHAPTER XII. esrla'th it is am wonder tmat you hove jim -Ihillinro Hendersom, whieni Ie chose to be Liimcla, sweet mutrias!" an entcrtaminer, was rarely nasueeessful. He "Al, Zelim. 'maami lttli know of the d"pth o differied from his brother in nearly every rn Vl sa ka m ,lihonmw wildly i ean h point, except in being a cold-blooded tyrant iaf 4Cjail' I ow fomnmi'm .1h eI cuinlove in" over those in hmis power-a cool amd ambi- i. i, can aata, ammtras'" maid Zeua. tions planner of sleh villanies as would ad.. -""" vnnee is ommuinterests, and a nina ithout t a,,as aboet to say moore, but aI1 1ptly conscience. 0 1'.lie drank tempjerately, used the lamInguage \ ii wei about tim sacvyou cil' care, of a gentlemman, was' eurteous and urbane to tm. Ze' " t, i e, C,'a -l "- a' rT' - dmathse whma hac sought to please. .lie p o. U mm 10 . \'m .i 5, 0'- s d some ealmten, wis tolerably well' TRE SECRET REVEALED. 3 meal, and folt. all pedantic. Finding Pcr- ciples!" cried Nathan, filling tho glass with " kins to be a very sensible man, one who had his own 'iand. t voyaged all th, world over, he insisted, after Each drank their wise, and then Natasn Isapper, upon his passing the evemgng with said he wanted to tell a ehoit story, if thse him in his Iibrary and Ts Nathan had made captain would only wait. his peace by bringing a brgc quantity of ie Pekins knew there was a meaning in 1s frnit, he was invited to remain with his cap- request, and at once aces ted, much to th tain. As this accorded with the instru'ctions pleasure of Henderson, who really had e. which he had received from his real captain, joyed the evening. when he revisited the schooner and told what " I ain't much given to story-teThn'," seii lie hial seen, heard, and done, he ciry gladly Nathan, "so you must take my yarn for what avaled Himself of the invitation. and soon, it is worth. I never was in love but wuns6 by 1is 11 sayings and quaint, good-humor, and I never want to be agin. Down 'East- fully established himself on the "right side" where I was born and brought up till I wss 'of Dir. I uenderson. The sottish brother-had big enough to peel my own potat ee-there Song before been assisted to bed iii a state of lived a gal name Matildy Susy Ann, oneof drunken helplessness, and Hilliare had no the purtiest leetle red-beaded or etur th4 fear of being disurbed by hinm again that over muddied pantalettes on a rainyday. Her evening. and me used togo to school together, andw Wnu asked to take wine, Nathan, who was used to change dinners every day, 'eause she very abstemious, tried bard to excuse him- thought my mother put up the nicest basket seclf., of the twa, and I thought hers did the samo." "Its :gin my principle to tech sperrits," ,Here the head of Mr. Hlenderson was seen said he. "Tihough I hain't no amirthly objece- to droop over the table, and his heavy breath- tion to seem' other folks enjoy themselves-- ing proclaimed him to be asleep. rather like it, to tell the truth." -" al - -ef them sleepin'-powders didn't But a glass of wine-a mere glass of wine, work quick, I'm a sinner without hope .d no stronger than your eider, can do you no grace 1" said Nathan, jocosely. "Mystory hI harm,' .said Mr. Ienderson. " One is the told, Mr. P.riins, and 1 reckon we'd better juice of the apple, the other the juice of the go'off easy, and let Mr. Hendcrson'have lii grape." nap out." "Jest so," said Nathan. "But the juice- " You drugged his wine, then 4" of the grape made a blessed fool of old Lot. "Sartain, sir. The capting give me the That I-ve read in the Bible, and I don't like ,tnff and told me how'to do it ; and told ine to be moore foolish than Natur' has made me." when this son ofJudas was sound, to put this "You respect the Bible ?" . letter before him, and then to leave with " Ef I don't, I ain't any respect for nuth- you." S an'." -And Nathan took a letter from his pocket "Then do as Saint Paul advised Timothy. and laid it beneath the head of the sleeping Take a lit Ie wine for your stomach's sake." planter, which was now bowed upon the table " Wpoe lyou beat me a quoting scriptur', and Efore him., adPrin I e' 'acIs'posemust give in. It take a leete ' "Very well," said Perkins. "If on'e drop with water in it-jest a leetie, ef you obeyed orders, we'll be off. T here will be a please." pretty gale here in the morning, but we'll be And Nathan tooks a glass of wine with wa- too far off to enjoy the fun or gel the effeeb ter in it, and listened attentively to a lgng of it." story which I'erkins related to Henderson, "Most likely-Providence perrnittin', sand about a cruise he once had among the Fejee the wind fair," said Nathan. 4nd in a mnS- Islands, which was well told, considering tiat ment more, the planter was left alone to Jib Perkins had never been within five thousand dreams. mdes of the islands mentioned ; and Nathan -kuew it. CHAPT1R 3TUl With such storied, an occasional glass of Darkness had scarcely mantles the ertb 'wine, and fresh cigars at intervals, the even- when Adele-leaving her'lighitsburnng in he hug wore rapidly on; and before either of the wid w =aeeom ied by Zells, leftherobas- party seed aware of it, a large clock in the ber ojoinherlover at the spet *y him ' tootn chimed'the hour of twelve. )oimt , She carried wit ser aly herJi "'I must be onboardd" said Perkins,'fr ores nad uch garments sathy eould ossa any crew must he watering ship early,". ar wyfor lhe knew not what Iatot tai ndersoi. "I'll -sd a gang of hands ,t about the house' since she bad ttrese!ne&, help you water your vessel," ;7 fle fem bis tyranny. "Yes, another las of It'is agiu my pripm- I &t teg wept forth unobserved ad unob' r t . page: 22-23[View Page 22-23] - 12 HILLIARE fEl striuefed. As eoon as' they were fairly ekear of the louse, they hurried through a garden hedged in with the broad-leaved Spanieh e tctas, the bayonet-pointed leave, of whieli were proof ~aans. beast or' man. D'nn t rough wiadiug avenues of orange and em- on trees, amongst acacias, myrtles, roses, and many another sweet-scented flower, they hur- ried, caring little for the blossoms they trod upon or sped past, Passing from th first garden, through a m-rrower gateway to the second--whieh was devoted more to vegetables and fiuits than flowers-they quickly reached the watereside amiust a grove of orange ttees. Light as were their fear-winged' footsteps, o. b car was sufficiently on the alert to hear them, and the slender form of Jarold Mor- ley was seen emerging from the densershad- ows of the grove. One bound, and he had Adele in his arms. Heart beat against heart, lip met lip-aid if there is the bliss of Heaven known on earth, those two congenial souls knew that bliss twen and there. Zella stood trembling with excitement ; her great dark eyes filled with tears, looking as if she, too, longed to east her arms about that graceful form, and pour out the passionate felings of gratitude which she ared not utter. " We must not delay, Adele," said Hagrold, after the first embrace, and the first words of love had been spoken. Then seeing Zella, he said. in a tone of kindness, as he reached out his hand "My good Zella, I am glad to see you hero; you have taken good care of my sweet Adale." The quadroon took his extended hand; she tried to. speak, but could not. Kneeling down, she kissed his hand over and over again, and burst into tears. "Come -- rise, ;ny good girl ; we must hasten from this 'spot, for ear of some .n- toward chance. Once on board of my bonny dele, an we are as free as the eagles of44e r Arid doe-woe i the vulture who would soak a prey where my prow cleaves $he sea, where roy flag dallies with the breescor flat. Lers in the gs194" .. nd noWhe geptly Jed aele to the spot i'here his boat w4s in siln'. irt, Je seated her 'a the tern-slae~s, tha lifted' ella just as ;ently to i psage id1 iij* p a low tbie' gavo 4e order top us o ; and ia'mmodntJater, the boat'"ith' ,u 4-c l, tapvin rsp y toward the yaqM, Wbms t apar: :and. had-like"rig . inre tta m gpinbo6 ot ' tat 5t rVt, dins tftwas Belt a few moments, sad tey e=1 ip its deep. Tben down into the speelous and NDERSON; OIl, magnificent cabin, where everything blazed with splendor.r A table, laden with" enke, and fruit, and Wine, seemed to have been purposely spread for them. Harold knew there con d be no ertor, that his Adele would surely sup there that night. "Wiat think you of your ocean-home, my F Adele ?" asked Harold, as he wat~lhed the lovely girl standing mute with surprise and pleasure. "I hare read of fairy palaces-this is one," she said, at last. .. " And ycu are the fairy queen of it, 'lhe said, 3 With a smile. "What think you of it, Zella ?" " It is like heaven; and you ,are its chief angel," said Zelle-. Then blushing, as if she f It she had spoken toobodly, she said: "I would die here." - "'r hope Heath is a long way from us all,' said Harold "But, AdeleI have a sur- prise for you. Not a soul on board has ever seen what I am about to show you. I have a= picture which' I vowed never to unvaii to other eyes than my own, until' you were here to look upon it. Come aft am moment." They proceeded to the after-part of time' cabin, which was draped with heavy curtains of purple velvet, flecked with gold. These, running upon a rod overhead, by simple pul. lies, concealed on either side, could be drawn apart. Harold drew them apart, ant revealed a painting which brought a cry of wonder andy gladness from Adele-a sigh of pleasure fro poor Zelha It was a Southern scene-the ± gure, fulliength. A young man was arrang- ' ing a wreath of orange-blossoms, as he sat by the side of a lovely girl, and another girl of ueenly form was pluokiig the blossoms from the trees and casting them down before him. The portraits were life-like-the painting true to Nature. Tie young man was Harold Mobley - he wrought the wreath for Adele Dimesle --she who plucked the flowers was Zeif, the quadroon. "Was that painted by your own hand, my Darold ?" asked Adele, as eje stood and gazed upon it. " No; it was fainted i an artist friend, from sketches w1 ch I had made of you and Zells, and~from descriptions-which show you ::3 tht never for an instant were you absent fom my nd." n"Oh, bless you, my own true, noble liar- d ols t An eternity-of love and devotion on my part, wilf ever reward such faith and kindues.," Zella's sobs now attraete4 their attention. Wydoyou weep, my good girl?" asbed- " To think that poou Zell* was not forgot- ten,'sobbed the quadrooi. 'THE SECRET REVEALED. 8 " One who has ever been a' kind and faith- Exuse me a little while, Adele. You had ful to my Adele, ought not to be forgotten," better retire with Zella to your state-room said Ilarold. " But come, Adele, it is time and sleep, I must see the schooner saf sa that we taught of something else. A little sea before I come down again." food and wine will do us good ; for, love as we "Please let me go on deck with you," said may, hunger and thirst'will still }ave their Adele. "I am too happy to sleep, and would cl s-" .. so like to see the way you manage your ocean And he led the way toward the refreshment- palace." table. -..."Well, be it as-you like, dear Adele. You CHAPTER XIV. are mistress of your own will here. But wrap Harold had been on board at least five or yourself up carefully, for the sea-air is damp six hours -before Mr. Perkins and Nathan at night," made their appearance. The time had been , "I will. Come, Zella, get shawls for us pased most pleasantly. Adele had found in both, and we will go up." ier state-room a complete wardrobe-a harp The orders to get the yacht underway and guitar also were there, both favorite were given in a low tone. The crew under- instruments in her hands. Zella, too, found stood theirduty thoroughlyand almost noise- that even her comforts had been remembered, lessly performed it. In a short time the and one of them, at least, was as happy as anchor was up at the bows, sail made, and ever bird that paroled on a budding branch the' yacht stood smoothly out over the bar, in the spring-tlme. For she nestled beside with a light but a fair breeze. As she left her heart-chosen mate. the shore it freshened, and before the golden When Mr. Perins and Nathan made their sun rose from its scarlet couch in the east, appearance in the cabin, Harold knew thatall the vessel was fairly off soundings, and nearly waseritit ashore, yet hoasked how they had or quite into the edge of the Gulf Stream. a.rft the iet adersons. And not until she had witnessed that glorious "I will let Nathan report, sir," said Per- sunrise could Harold Morley persuade Adele kid3, "only bearing witness myself that he to retire to seek the rest which Nature do- has obeyed orders and done his'duty." mended. - "Wo'1l, Nathan, what have yonuto say" asked Harold of his steward, who stood like CHAPTER XV. one spell-bound, looking first at Adele sad The bright sun was shining in through the then at Zela. windows when Hilliare Henderson recovered "The pootiest reeturs that ever lived," from the stupor into which he had been he said, involuntarily.' thrown by the somnifie powders administered Harold could hardly keep from laughing bNathan. A throbbing pain ran from tem- utright. He saw I',atlhan's bewilderment, me to temple in his head-a nauseaspervaded and 'knew that ie had not understood his is stomach--he felt as if he was waking question, and he repeated it. ' from sickening dream. He looked around "Oh!" said Nathan, recovering himself. him, as if he hardly knew where be was., You want to know, capting, how we left Thea his eye fell upon the note before Im. them mia'ble creeturs' ashore ?" "- It was addressed to Hilliare Henderson, and "Yes."-sealed with a seal which lie had seen before.. "Well, the meanest cuss of the two dot It was a coronet above a shield, with two. stone drunk, beating, and theybunked hun resed swords above it. airly in the evengn'.,'other one held of4 "rem Harold Morley" ihe muttered,.as kept as coolas a saint undergoin' martyrdom, with tremuous hand he opened it.. -} and I had to give him the sleepin'-powdcr. ,ts ontents should be known to the reader. But ef he didn't go off quick, then m. a 'hey ran thus: , black sheepin a whiteflock. lewent right , H ea a est,'Esq., owner and commander ef into a mnoose, and then I put your lettermen thsemericas' ysekt Ansi.., prewnte his compluests the table under his head,'and wo made t ra4 to Hiare Henderson, Esq., later, etc., 5 ftr the boat. And, in coltelusiOn, g5 his fee the civileas extended to his chief oUQe ha4 frhS ,mip . stssd. 'vidasecomplished the object otbIlsit, here we are at'your sarttee,' t ausual."::s:; Mr. Mrte- sytlres with gmat gratiisutrS- s- "I am glad to see you, both. New Mi. suresMr. Henderson that he wil-return 1at rs Perkins, we are readYf errae ;sri iiebt e t scwiie utskingehar e of th.prepe - d 'D -bn, .by sa i either. fA ,ore ressse introduce you to Miss Duinale; and ,tT 'we aft s een s ihei sr. ray'eagequsw will go on deckanal up anchor as silently a his eMeer may hsemaei tofrirnlsb a earod possible. Adele, did=you Leave a beais4i .eenst fqr Mr.Ne c~ sn, be'-Mr. orlay--awluga your window as I requested" er saliniYfn eV w. "I did, Harold." . " Whanesi all this nean!"-mutteredt Mr. "Then lIecan 'pilot the yacht out full e Henderson, not yet fully awake to-the realty easily asOGustavo Heiderson brought her in. ef the case, I5 page: 24-25 (Illustration) [View Page 24-25 (Illustration) ] HILLIARE HENDERSON ; OR, I ( s Tie read the note over again. Then he rushed up to the room which had b. en occupied by Adele. He attempted to open the door; hut when she left it, she had cked it and carried off the key. "A cle ! Adele !" he shouted, while he knocked heavily against the panels. "Open the door, or I will burst it from its hinaee l" he shouted. No reply came. With a bitter eurse he 'threw his whole weight against the door. The look yielded an(d lie entered the room. It was untenanted. He rushed to the window and l ocJ out upon the harbor to see if the vessel still was there. She was gone, and thmgh through Adele's spy-glass he scanned the sea far and near, not a speck could he see which lie could mentally torture into the semblance of a sail. Curses rolled from his lips like thunder from i overcharged cloud. Lie turned to go and arouse his brother, when a note upon the dressing-tablo used by Adele met hit eye. lie took it up-it was eddrersel to him. Ho readh it, and almost' eboked with anger while lie did so. He had some reason-it ran thus: ")loe? AtuManLs Ceut RDiA-avIng become su- feited with you lkin ine3, I feithe need of a change ,f diet. My brave an t noble lIarold having come for ne, I cannot reofe an iuvitatiin to make a voyage in his ysoht. I now that I shall disappoint you in your benevolent initentions, perhaps induce you to end your mortal 'tireer with a illr, and by my dis- rppearance indutco your -tloved brother to get so 'lrutik that the declrtii tremiens wi carry bm ofrf $heoid these most desirable ends be attained,Itshah not shod so many tears as to affect the tide in the. soean, I ; unre yen. Net deeming. It prudent or proper to o to sea wills a nice young man unattended by my maid, I have taken Z'lla witli me. So yoc will have f +efor yonr intended cruelty to her unW a morS coitvenient topptutnity others. " Firevell ifr two ycare, my kind guardian. Take .gd*i ears of my property ; for I will hold you account- asW to the1 tst cent whenI return. "Your very happy ward, "&onu sDcaiasus." liilliare leadrssn actually frothed at the mouth, and raged like a inafman as lie read this sarcastic note. lie tore it in pieces, and stamped upon them as ho would have stamped upon the writer had she been In Iis poser. Thlien he rushed away to the apartment where Gustave yet lay sleeping off the fumes of runkennels. " etups you cursed fool I"bshouted lilflarA, i, (ase aImost black with anger ; and he selok Gustave fiercely. "What-what d'ye want?" said the latter. sing. " Wirat d'yewant to shake aetel- oebones out of joint for?" - - -' *Get up,I tel you; and see whe tan- fernal fool you have been" shouted Hillisrq. "ItaIsd Morley has been lrere and carried :'. Adele, rieht frenv under ouru oaes, and ' 'u have helped to dto t'I'_ "WHAT Gustave was now thoroughly awake in an instant, "Adele is gone,"' said Hilliare. " Shewent in Harold Morley's yacht, the shver that von, fool-like, yiloted into.our harbor ! You might have known the difference between a slaver and a yacht!" "how could I, who never before was aboard either?" saidGuatave, almost humlbly. He never had seen his brother in such a passion before,-and he feared him. "Had you kept sober, and had your senses about you, they could not live carried out their plan ! But they fooled you com- pletely !" "It seems to me that you was on pretty good terms with that Captain Perkins when I came to bed t" said Gustave. "I know I was pretty drunk, but I renembler that much I" " Well, if Ilhad not trusted to your intro- duction, I should not have been !" "I should like to know," continued Gustave, who was now up, and dres-ing, "why you, who arc always. sober, could let them get ahead of von, aid how Adele could be abduct- ed from the house without sour knowledge! You must have slept utietuunonly sound I" "It is a mystery to me !" said litlliare, "I drank a few glosses of light wine, listened u;- till the clock struck twelve to entertaining stories told ly the is an Perkins. They were about to go-i pressed them to take another glass of wine, we each drank-a glass, and I re- member .othing front that hour until I woke witir an infeinal headache, some fifteen or twenty minutes ago, in the library, with a taunting note frot Ilarold Morley lying be- fore me!" "Brother, that last glass of wine was drug- ged !" said Gustave. It must have been !" replied Hilliare. "And that accounts for the ease with which they have carried out their plans?" "You say the vessel is gone from the liar- bor V'" " Yes, and far out of sight. I cannot sea a speck of canvas out to seaward I The ken Yankee has been too much for us 1" '" For the hour only W for the hour only I' said Oustave, fiercely. "Ililliare, I have in- deed been a fool, but I will be so no longer! I will have Harold Morley's heart'i blood for this I I will follow him to the world's end, for thatpirpose, and to recover Adele pumesle. I love that girl; and if she cannot be mine,he shall'hot glory in the possession of Mr !" 41 Now, Gustave, you speak like a man l' ietid Hilliare, pressing his band waenly. "I am with you heart and hand. My aid in money and In every other way you shall have, to carry out any plans yon form td that effect I" 'Asank you, Hilliare! , You will pot see t I. J vit~ -5 fs .ham I r " rr F F ^t t fj f5z f . i L a4 Wk f e'.R s 1 page: 26-27[View Page 26-27] - THlE SECRET REYEALEDP t me drunk again! Where do you suppose the Itit come, Io let - Yankee has gone with his vacht?" br afst pvov to yo S" I have no idea, Gustave I will inquire position, and show if the vessel was sct after daylight by any drmini My stew one on the plantation, ad if so, which way quaintodity. but i- s she steered. Meet me at thebreakfast-table, man, has-een 'laying and we will then try to Jay out some plian of in trying' to tempt immediate action. For I shawl not rest until Zela, you are sow t - we hsave her' back again, She has taken Zella mistress --so longer away with-her, too-my own property !" Henderson. Your m "'Let mec but eateh limii in a slave State, that you share our ms and he shall pay the penalty of nigger-steal- "' No-not object, bu fin, as well as his other debt " said Gustave, said Adele. itterly.Ze would have re ~~ told her that it must 1 CHAPTER XVI. the lower end of the t When Adele, after a -refreshing sleep of "Well, Nathan," some hours, awoke, she found Zelha sitting by steward, who stood her side, ready to dress her when she arose. cabin-boys, near the ' And now she saw with what generous and bill of fare this morni deliente foresilt Harold Morley had furnish- "Chicken broiled, ed every appurtenance of luxury and comfort, fresh fish, boled an in anticipation of the cerinuty which he felt sorts o' shapes, cold h of her rescue. - eggs jest *s you wan Her state-room contained every article ne- ehoeolate, and claret cessary for the most r fined foiette. A neat ting ?" bath-roomi adjoined it. Ther1 was more el- "-Yes, Nathan, you ganee and ta-te displayed in that small space ourappetites wiildoy I than she fiad ever seen on shore. willI " Lc me dressyou, sweet lady ' Master And Harold, first h Harold has anaiited breakfast for youl" said to the dishes of their Zella. the battle of hunger w ' "I will rise,'good girl. How pleasant the that be was not one, m tion o the vessel over the waves is I It yc- who can live on lova minds me of ilie childish days whenIswung "Have you any i beneath the limbs of the great magnoia. I my sweet Adele ?" as feared that I should he sick, but never befre ate. - V -~ did I feel so well. We are free, Zeus-we are "Not a thought, m free !" you I care not, so Ion "Yes, sweet mistress" said Zel, with a "How utterly unli sigh. osity is a matter of p "Why do you sigh, Zella?" form you. First, I "Only because 1 ams very happy, my mis- Havana, for which pili tress !" ports Next, perhaps Adele rose, and with Zella's skIled1 aid, was havana, by the time soon dressed as neatly as she would havve been season will be at its had she expected tot breakfast with Harold at querade and hera y the chateau of Hilliar' Hendeison in the time metI" when they first became aequaited. - "Not more than I' When she 'appeared 'in the outer cabin, ciety I" said Adele,w frarold was there to greet her with affectionate "A me, I fear you respcaest. r' , my Adele l" "How' kfare d itwithm myweetA e, this "1Ias'o d - morning?" he askeda h came forth #ith a 8he only-spokce iis glad smile upon her lovely face. fulookhieh accom A' well, that it seems to me like a-dreatn I" sufficient rebuke. replied 4ehe. "I can .irdly realize that I "ite m, Ade am frge ,rma tyrant's power, and bon ding said. ":I will lust si yves the luec 4$ijews o' the itesan with hisn "'Do. sot#Harold wihom I love .mde qelelso on earthi ladbuhdeI~ p lIn-ydi~'..f- iarotd, will aenk appiess lasted " ~ ' n deep oE for you ,"i shall not be w faul& if j$ does nt ear Adee I kn the substantiality'of is u the reality of your You that you are not ard, good' Nathan, a tauncli, and serviceable himself out,' as he Says, your appetite t. Come, he companion* of your r the slave of hifhiare istress will not object eals !" it insist that she do so 1 fused ; but when Harold be so, she took a seat at able. aid Harold, to the old with his neatly-diressed table. "What is your ng ?" capting, with Wafuls; I fried ; potatoes in all 'led mutton and ham; t 'em, toast, tea, coffee, l Will that do, eap. are a capital provider; ou justice, at least, mine helping Adele and Zolla choice, fell to work in rith a zeal which proved of that half-witted elass alone. lea where we de going, ked larold, while they y Harold , and I assure g us I am near you1" ke your sex, whose curb roverb i But I will in. propose looking in at ace I cleared when I left s, to New Orleasrs. Ia we arrive, thae carnival height, and in the ma. ou will find rare enjoy. will find here in your so. ith a smile. will tire of that in time, name, but the reproach. panied her voice was a lc, I did but jest!" he err' gain 1" foir my orlteaodi Is Vw verf wlte I t lt a ow it, slia will 'not let e page: 28-29[View Page 28-29] I trifling.ord threw a thadow br your path!1 Let tu think of erom thing pleasant. By the wiy, how do you auppose Ililliaro Bender- son mtil f el when he r-ls the note whieh I treied Nathan to leave with hia last night?" S Witch he has reti that, and on .wvich I left for him. and fiids that we are all safely out of his reach, hell lbare an anger-fitlo se- were, that it may rid the world of a villain whom few would mourn !" said Adele. At this moment, the second otlicer came down: into the eahin, aid said: "W hen you have done breakfast, sir, Mr. Perkins would like to sec you on deck I The barometer is filing !" "Alh! I will he there in a few moment. Tell him to shorten sail without orders, when. ever he deems it neces'nry !" . "What does tate falling of the barometer ldict4'?' asked Adele. "A change of weather !"said Harold, "We have now faur weather, a smooth sea, and a pleasant breeze ony. By-and-by it, is poe- eible we mav have more wind and a rougher sea; but a stauncber craft than this never floated-mv crew: are all men who know their duty, arid it would be, indeed, a terrific gale which would caalanger our safety I know that my Adele wall fear no danger while under my eare I" "Now, that I am will yon, I have banished 4he word 'fear' from my vocabulary," she re- plied, with a smle :antd then, with a dulcet voice, she sung a verse from the old favorite : "The lanad is ano ionver in view, the clouds are beginning to frown, utwitta stout ve-sc anti crew, WVe'll say, left the storm cane down! And the song of our hearts shah be: thile the wins sad waters rave- A life on the heaving sea, And a Houae on the ocean wave !" "Bravo, moy ocean queen, bravo!" 1osried Iarokl. "Bf that don't beat all Jerusalem, thert isn't nary angel nowhere,".said-Nathan, set0 w ues. Harold rose to go on deep " If a storm coieis on, I shall go up to loo .at. it, for know it will ie grand " said Adele as Harold wont above. CIIAPTER XVII. "Well Hillinre, what news ?" asked Gustav IIeadersoa of his brother, when he met it atithe break fast table. " id s owo see th schooner r go out?" r aol sma 11 lliave. "Thesy mnut hay gone soon aftr.idiight, for net ro oyrse or Isand .w her in sight at dey hPigIzt-l' "Then there is hatone way for '*4ey upon her track," said Gustve. "8he,g r/" weeasr iort, probably New Yor'k o l Baltimore. Theni of. cours-, to get proper papers, she had tQ blear for some other port. I must go North and find what port she clear ell for,.and sail for that port. Once upon his trnek, I nver will leave it until I have her and Zelia again in my piawer, -ad have such revenge upon hip as my lienrtbunts t take." "Your plan is gom, ustave. You ate nrore of a man in thought and action, this morning. than I have kno wn y ou to be far years " "Because I have awakened from a dream of drunken folly. I know what I have lost, I will regain it or die ! I shall need plenty of funds, Hlilliare--I lave enough zow, but may have to draw upon yon while at sent." "Every draft of yours shall Ie honored, Gustave. lint avoid the ganing-table - I know your infatuation there." " 'enr not, Hilliare. The staunch bound which tracks the stag will cross a thousand trails, but never leave that on which it started." "Right! Be you as staunch! It will be necessary for me to give you waters to re- claim Adele as my ward, and Zella as.any slave. These I will have made out immedi- ately. If the abductor has gone South, I will help you totrace him. If he has gone INorth, I will leave you to deal with him alone. I do not like the North or fin people. They are too cold and too moral for me-I like neither them nor their climate." I "No more lo I; but were it to the fr ozen regions of the North, or to the burning line of the equator, that ai ehad gone, there should i follow tina ,, "When will you go. G ustaeve?" "I will start before tie sign sinks to its bed in the West. It will not take me long to mpre- pare, I assure yon, Only a few directions to I my overseer, the pecking of a few nrticks of clothing, th0estaffing of a pocket-book which e I small ncvtd, and I am ready." "Well, to breakfast then, and afterward I will aid you in every way that I can." k CHAPTER XVIII. When Harold Morley reached the deck, Mlr. Perkins, by a quick ance and momiop of his htad to leeward, indicated the direction of the rising storm, which the barometer had " 'retold. He hiad not yet take in sail, for a ,fresh and fair breeze was still blowing. e Harold looked off upon te Ice-bow. Iia eye. fell apon. a lite of black, murky clouds * which Ioelik a range of rugged noun- r tins wrapped in night-like shadows. ' ! "* soutlhlwqester, Mr. Perkins," said has t be glanced toward his officer. t "Yes, sirit looks like it. Shal iitq in s ailkannd out the Art* . *,as -, . Til ECRET REVEALED.2$ "Of course, aid the sqoe r the better. rope, hoquickl ta-teced it nrouudthse watst You had letter send doWno the tap-masts. of Adele and ella, who had followed her Thoste claude rise so rapidly. t ant I knew they zpiestam, then took °a turnteound-himislf ride on the bratea't of at hugn ietppe.'" iatidho inain-riggitg, Ibsido which he stood. " All hands slhort'te suit!" shouted Per "Lp out i!"- .he -shouted. " Perkins, kings. Down flying-jib, and in gaffetspanisn take the hcim, and let her get a full if you my lads. Reeve your ias row's, and stand ca :mnd taen head her.to th wind." ! y t ' senl dowin topmast, andto gig in the The last order waisunheard." Thes storm flying jib-boom. JBeively.' was upon tletn with itsadeafening roar. The The epw sprung to their work with a will, ,sea ollel in upon-the deck in one undivided aided, tioo, 1y Ntlhan amd lhis cabin-crew. Q nass. Well wait for the schooner and those: ta " altr guard as he-ermedbthem -Inan on boardtbat hbe hatethes had beenelosed-- vev u short spae3 of time tho,;ails were loisa'l lee aid she filled on the ?nstant Grouched furled, the bght spars housed, and the vessel Iossegun lhr the isw bulwarks, Hiarald and his stan :&tg long under onzly hermaainsail5 fore- charge voidedihte force of theistra, yet thegr sail, and jib syer drenched in a moment. "Take the bonnets off the jib and foresail, Asthe wind struck the close-reefed foresail, and o lose-reef the mainsail, Mr Perkine,"\ it fi$led,toits fullest strength in a second, and said Harol. who still watched that blasek time vessel, still motionless on-the sea, fell over mos.ntain of clouds whliah, working up against on losr side unttil it scenaed'asif she must go the breeze, still livid by the, schooner, tmow bottom up. And well was it for .one man c vered more than hlnlf the leeward portion that tsho did not move, for that first sea swept of te sat'. . Nathaan-Shankhaistnd far' away to lecwpri This waq doie, aind only43e whoni the H Ihad secured-the endof a caikof rope ; waid tay lad hll till then died entirely but bad Mot securely fist ned it, and though away,- , he clung to the rope with a death-grasp, iM Quick, MIr, Perkins, and down and furl paid out, and when at brought him np.hdowas mainsail and jib!" cried llrttld, .atwi dull, fa away to Jeeward. -.But while the vessel, heavy sound, like the rumbling of a distant half-capsized, lay on h- r besam-ends, breakitig train of laden ears, wass heard. "The fore- the sea from thim,whilo Perkins 'and Morldy, sail will hie all site cane possibly bear tiodor thteselve( hehipless to aid him, looked u po' that blast."} him as lost,' he, hailed himself back hAnd 3a'ely were' thme tavs sails secured, when over hand on the rope, the end of which had the shadow e' the eloud-nmounainl ay like been fast inboard ; and just as the sehoomer' night upoi there , the roar of the coniuiag begn tq gather a little hseadwayI ho regained storn swas like the thunder of Niagara, and. the.leg main rigging, where he took oare to the vessel yet heaving, tusbalancet by the, make himself more secure. wind, seEmed to tremble in anticipation of The vessel, a she moved a little, began'to the shoek, answer to her helin, imnt as she filled, ailot "have life-lines rove, quick, Perkins'", atill more before the wind,, righting a'little as said Morlcv, as lie saw thme sea ecaing with; she went. But a mrefurious gust than the- the wind, in an unbroken sheet of foam. first towstrunk her, sand in a moment, with Fortunately the officer had already seen a sound lke $hnnder, the canvas split ands the necessity of this, and the mes ware at- th strong sail wut shred by shred, off upow ready passing th life-lines above oe bul- the trath of the gale. warkas, froan stein to stern.. . BiBut the vessel riglhted, -headway e ough "Oh, how grand !" said a low weet-roiee,, for her to answer her behnihad been given,: in Uarold's ear. "How magnificent is a storm an4 Perkins put her away umder her buta 4t deal sars before the wind; AIninow, uprirwhtrshe sa9ok haersehfafree of- the water whiettrawn im The od tluelt tbzmale se sta sg; ,atnr ehtsfhrough luim~soappers, and boub4 Thteclatilpws rolliog'feasrmzuyr a 'away "VI t lt~thpi tho opt~ed of thme wld,i - conceit with the whirlwind ring :'? " w=i 'o a wed behui4 hse' and emredind - , - r~~aroes tie rigging,. New she hproved'thd " Adele, love, thit ins ne time torquele I adomrable rnodu of her Isaih.- Bdoyatlty ii poetry or for youtqi et h ere : o 'qbh. rode, upon. the waves, and while the akilttd uw, were .'ou wi l he tce e, , oDo lEuapsbmaun cp t' her so fair before wind and acarven'a sake! In a nenaei4 wore th stota sea that she veered nut a fathot either way, will he upon us." . -, she drove on -with an -upright keel, and het "Wherre you pro, ther imylbliss and safety people as safe as if they waerost'shore. - hles. Do not drive um from your side," said In spite'of the shrill sercamitg of thegale Adele.' Adele could muahOlarold hmrear her words. He saw that it was then too late. Catching a "'T'his is the I)roude.et moment of mizy life i" IIILLIAIR fENDERSON OR, t {1 1* , Si S- !'5 1 a'k SaF r . A7 t E d 7 3 1 j 1 1 ypfa 3 ., F Ijjl ST i Y .? , a}j 'L .. «_,-- .:. page: 30-31[View Page 30-31] ~ t rf. I I I 80 rILLIARE HENDERSON ; OR she said. "I feel ns if we were bidding defi-1 But his serious face expressed a doubt while atd-to the storn-laughing the warriag edo- his lips poke of hope. , asdt5 to scorn1" jk "I am 'going below for a little time. If Nathan, who, like the rest of ,the crew, bad there is anychange, send for mne at once," said now ualtlhcd himself, came over to the aide Harold ; " althomglh I know the bonny croft where Harold stood, and, as composedly as f is as safe,'even wore s:ife, under your care he had not been in danger, said : than icyOWn." "Capting, about what time would yostlike "P11 call 'te, sir, if there is any need," d~ire to be got ready"- - said Perkins. "'As soon as you like now, Nathan," replied "Do so. I will go below and dine, and Harold. "But what were youloing away off then come on deck and relieve you, that you t. leeward a while ago?" - - may do the same. Meson is a good boy, but "Just stretelain' the kinks out of a eof O' has hardly expertense 'enough to be trusted in rape, eapting," re1flied Nathan,'quietly. charge of the 'deck in 'weather so heavy as "What did vou think of, Iir. Shankland,' this." wile in that fearful peril ?" eked Adele. "Very true, sir ; but he has the making of "I wos thinking , just then, marm, what I a tip-top sailor in him." could git to cat to day that would taste good 1I believe you. Have a nan kept aloft to to you. You ace we've a'nmoet everything look out for land." aboard. but I'm not need to c.terin' for worn- "Ay, ay, sir 1" . s folks, mid feel bothered. I suppose I~~ eight to have lots of sweet things-preserves, CHAPTER XIX. sakes, pies, and all that. Fm not muhnol on any kink of pies, 'eept punkim pie; at that I Hilliare Henderson stood in the cupola of beat all natus' I If you tell me, manrm, what his chateau, gaming with a look of demoniae you like best, I'll be sure to cook It' for pleasure out upon a storm-lashed sea. He you." ' did not heed the wind which howled around "I slipld hate to havo you oook what I him; lie paid no attention to the fact that his like beet 1" said she, with a smile, as she lookr house shook and quivered from foundation to ed at unrold. dome ; that the fierce tempest was beating Nathan saw the joke, but he was serious- down his broad fields of rice to a level with minded and didn't like jokes. So he thought the earth-rending branch alter branch from he'd give her one back nt any rate. ' many of the finesttrees, and uprooting others S1 Bain't got any receipt,~marm," said he, -scattering his fruit hither and thither ; for eookin' veese." nothing reeked he of all this ; but through Both Adeand Harold laughed heartily at his glass he looked out upon that foam-eov- a reply whioh would have offended an detual ered sea, and watched a vessel which, in ap- human goose. parent belplessaess, was driving in toward the And Nathan, self-satisfied with his revenge, shore.. , aid. His brother, all equipped for his journey, 'UIll go and git dinner anyhow, and do the having inquired for him else here in vain,at best I can to please von." last cane and found him in the cupola. Harold now advised Adele and Eella to go "You need not go." he lhouted-for the below to change their drippinggarments, and storm was almost deafening-" you need not when they did so, ho went aft to the slde of go, Gustave ; they arc there 1" And he Perkins, who still kept the helm, and wso was pointed seaward with his telescope. "Two now looking at-the compass in the 'binnacle hours more will see their stranded upon our frequently, and with an depression of aux- 0o0st!" lety. "The news is too good to be true !" cried "The wind is veerinc to the eastward, sir," Gustave. "Let me looks" sai4dks, to Ilarold. " Driving as fast as we And he seized the telescope. - dreaI don't like the idea of a le-ehof whife' "Tgue, by thunder 1" he said, after a long IL blows sb heard that we cannot mae sail." and steady look at the distant vessel. "Not "True," said Harold. "Wt munt pot b a sail set-driving right in! Fortune is on drivela bask on haht east. Sail nmitst eisde our side, this time I"-. if the wind still hauls eesterly." ' '."' "Yes. Miss Adele, if ahe is not drowned, "With the wind as It blows nrw;'oew- etn. shall hat a f rther taste of my gusrdian- sas would be blown from the bolt-ropes ip: nn ship; Aind Zella shall know what a good mem- linstsnt I" -- ory I have! I 'only hope that UHnrold Morley _t Yes; but it cannot 11st so lang 'his is will fall alive into my hands. le sball then its first sd heaviest, breath. There will be a learn that nigg -r-atenling, in this State, is 1*n lby and by." -.,' punished with feath. A h 'ngmnan'a rope wilU * " ow so, sir," said Perkins.' serve well to cravat his dainty neck." THE SECRET REVEAL!b.. "I should like to be hangman on the occa- with such fury. No sail could withstand this sion," said Gustave, bitterly. "I don't wish gale a minute. Most likely their'sails have the fellow to die until I can have a hand in already been blown away." the matter." "adoubtedly they have, ifthoy hiute been "What matters it so long as he dies, and set. But Isay, llhliar, don't like staying is out of your way?' up iu thisconfounded cuiola4 It shakes lik "So rpuch that I could almost die content :a withered leaf on a lone brthet in winter. if I could throttle him to death.and whisper It is noteafe I in his dying ear ; 'This as your reward for "'Pshaw f it Will stand as long as the house atopping between me- and Adele Dumesle i stands. I cannot leave it until I eethat there This is the satisfaction require and taken by is no chance for their escape ;an then m Gustave Henderson I' " . .YWith you for the beach, so that'he ' "You are bitter, Gustave; but I do not strands, we-can take proper care of'the sur= blame you. I hope that Adele will be saved, vivores. ' even if all the rest are lost ;. for, let her but "Well, you ean d o as you like," said Gus. mnce come into my power, and she shall be tave; "I stay here no longer. The whole yoursI That is sworn to." house shakes, from its foundation up." "Vou said, yesterday, that you bad a plan And Gustave very prudently descended the which would force her to marry me." . steep and narrow staircase which led to the "True, I said so ;' and such a plan I have story below. formed. Let her but once frll into my pow- lIe had barely reached the floor below, er, and with your aid it shall be carried into when a terrible gust swept over-the hotise.- A mfreet-.crash, as of parting timbers, was heard, and "What Is It? Let me hear, that I may Ilillire' leaped through the aperture from judge whether it is feasible or not." above, without pausing to descend by. the Hiliare Henderson looked around, as if lie staircase, while the cupola, swept entirely waa fearful that some one would hear his from'the roof, went crashing over among the words. Then, bending his head, he put his magnolias to leeward of the house. lips to hisa brother's ear, and whispered a few "'More haste than dignit , that time, broth- words. er1"said Gustave, with a laugh. They must have been diabolical indeed to Ihilliare's faes was pale as he looked up at have induced an exclamation of horror and the open roof above him. repugnance from a man so utterly depraved "'Tisthewildesthurriann'thateverbsww as was Gustave Henderson. ;ho muttered. "There is no hope for a yessaI But such an exclamation' did escape his off this coast now 1"e - lips. And he said : ' "Well, let us go down to the beach and see "No, no, ilhiare I I'm a devil, but not her come in," said Gustave. "'If we are not bed enough for that!" therand any of them escape, they will find "Fob I there is no mercy in her heart for friends ti protect them. . know what a you ; why should you have' mercy onh'er?" likingJohn Simonds took to Harold Morley said Ililliare, with a sneer. when he was here first, and how such interest "She would' proclaim my crime, and the he'has since exhibited about Adele, eurse law-would claim a terrible penalty." himt I have more than once had a mird to "Proclaim your crime andher own shame ?" invite him to a private meeting, where we said Hilliare, contemptuously. ."Never would might exchange compliments muzzle to mins" she be such, a fool as that. ihe would only sle." btoo thankful to be permitted tp become "oarecly a safe operation," said Hilliare, y ur wife." more animi . "John is'as good a shot as "Well, well," said Gustave, "let us first, you are, and never unsteadics his'nervef'ltl see if she gets on shore alive, beforewe speak drink." Of other matters. Let us gather a forokand "Well, never' mind; I am going to the go down to the beach, as if to helpthtem,sind beachi. Whether you go or not."3 watch them as tey dr.in." "odaleeddhot hgrry. 'wil1'go, slae ay "There is.no need of uf-being in abur- loot-out $el'eiis gone. ButI nitus ~ 'to ry," replied lilliare. ' "They a esloing wat sAdele's roo to ge her telescope. Minthas eut yetj and the drift is sloer . eymay'be gene' With the wreck of the cupola,ind is bt drags or anchors" probablytruhied 'Tell the overseer td dlleet " T:e !ast-would not hold a moasna inuch twenty or thirty bands to follow' willil a gal' t e first, oily less a the'speed wlik h be with you in a moment.'_=" drives ti,,iit to destrucggjn. Canvas only can carry them out of this scrape." ' And that thy cannot set while it blows When Iiilhhlaro Henderson and his brothel f a, . page: 32-33 (Illustration) [View Page 32-33 (Illustration) ] reached the' bcnoti opj-osite tQ the polnt s most valuabe slavei n pn tmy plintation. *herc they had last seeun the drifting vessi. Provide. you sC, is cr ring the thing blaok they funnd that others, hppreh tisive df her to pn irshttent. If Ite escapes tfe sea, he wreck,had alsohe(jidtawh to the samiepoint, shall not escape me. 1Ie shall hang! That but with far different tmtives. A neighbr- is sworttr t6 And von, John Simonds, with ink pllatt, nai). I SimoInds - t he stme f all your influence, Cnnot rt' tim!" om the toht e Iat poken as the fries "Mr. Hlenderson. when I interfere between of Jlartkd Mtrl S-was there on hOrscakeel, the law nnd a proven negro-thief. it will be time with other frien rs. enough for youtto dent in innendoes. Until That Mr. Sitonds was one of Nature's then, I erave, foryour own sake, that onwill nobfenmen, no one who alauced at his fine forbear." face nd manly form could detnV. lis air " But the owner and commander of that was thnt of a well-Lrel man---he sat on his vessel is' an old friend anl proteg of yours, spiite l lhorse gracefully ;nd in conversations Mr. Simonds," said lenlerson, with a sneer. with tlhos a-n' 1 him, evidenced a genial ' In truth, it is' none ot .er than Ilnrold Mor- and courtei sj'irt, uhilt made him descry- icy." Idly !lottlar. "God help lhm, poor hov ! God help him, ~\' ht lbesaw tic Ienlersons approach, if you speak the trtth '' said Sirnonds, look- - though he v :ig nt untlelbustof terms with itgwita paile cheik nn i rin lip to- tsemn-for he had prompt y re eled 1 lk aspers)io n wrd th t ese)0now not t o rcc n/i re frg whiic' they had es i t upon11atrhl Morley-he shore. suIpposed i cemtot=,be upou. the sqme errand 1 "Is thatt n.te in hi 1ndw1riting?" asked Sofmeret wh ichh:o1 lIbrnght him andhis Henderson, with ialigwu:o t triuniph, as he frientla therc ; nnuI, overlot~.o{ng:ll the dark. handledIaroIld's lettice to the planter.. ness ithet~ir chlaratcters, he saw unt this o c " It is : and so Adele Du~melt"e hs ceeapedl b~rightapot, andCI inba tiu at tortc he,said t from your' tyrnny, andi the lainable slave Gentlemen..1 am trill) glad to scoyeou whom you say you haye blet ia Zella, her here. It is a le hIcting to sec'the distress maid' of othrs3lbrini; those together upon the'same Ys; and they nrc there," sad header- level wohoive hi diffcraets." son, pointing toward the fated sehooner with lYouhad letter cep yonr congratulations a sardonic laugh. for thosethaLnel them,'' muttered Gustave "fNow I feel that a just God will -yet save hnderson, between lie gratitg teeth. them!1" sail Si oons, armily. "'As to'arold Doyou think thit there is any chance of -Morley being arcgo-thiefou know,Ililliare safety for yonler tcssel ?' ished htilliare Henderson, ;hint it is flise! Oht, sir, you may ' Henderson. .-frown--i ata n sponsible fo.r what I say! "I fear not.. The gain is evidently too Zela has been with Adele from childhood, high toliermither to u:e canvas, if ste has and would lot now b-c seperat. d from her. any sails hit. Tie breakr3 extend, as you Adele has taken her mad, as site has.a ight see, a fu' mile froni sore-no boat can'live to; ntid I gnnrantee in three times the girl's in them, and it will be a miracle if a liuman prco, that if they pass this peril- and I trust being can pass through thtit and live." ia God they will--that in two -car Adele and "I angla I to hear it," said Ililliaro len- her husband will come to elnim their owa, person. naliciousls'. and that Zella, if tdive, will be with them." "A ni I, too," ,eled Gustave: Hlendersoti dared not trust himsdif to reply. "Gestlenen, you as.opish me--I thought lie was now almost choked 'with rage. Biut, you were t'uau, ant -cane hero upon an he knew that John Siminds was idagierous errad of mercy,as I and my other neighbors man to quarrel with; he applied the wa'rnink have come" which ie hid given to his btothier t-l himself. "Yot are mistakca, John Simonjs 1 We Therefore, without replying, h liebeconed 'to came here to se'i a bigger stealers conipsbhore. his brother to follow hi, atd walked'dwf IL s a pity that, hi is a friend ofQ-ours." . from the bluff where Ihey hind been stan ic +II woulf=nrumb like to know what you to the bench, some threat tevr four 'huncd n'es ir. Ieyderson ?" s{r Synots, pr. yars vets ncarerthe surf; whitib" .lled in like ering his' ter with tlat q-iet calmess great erift5 'af snow u pon the shore. - whie j cien4ttribute 9f a braiv. z aidd oar4 And nuW, dear er,.w with 'go ba k on gentleman upon all-oecAsins. board the yaeht, slha he perils of our " i1only me an, Mr. Simonds, tht tip vessel ileads there. which we see yonder came into'my Harbor - just before dark list nght, using as a pretence the statmufat that shte was-nut of water. liBe- - - fore meorming s'-e went to s'earf'ying eff the Q1 Pi 0 page: 34-35[View Page 34-35] W;lIE SECRRIT I(FYE64EID. OHAPTER XX. the long, hawser attach Tarold Morley was iossessed ofa cooled, placed on the bows that " ~jsteit his was an a nntemerament, U. of the arew would b~e ab Y aina edtihe naidst of that terrible teapst s board, Perkins hailed his composedly as ithe had been on shore i per- "If you ease down yo fect safety--preseed the various choice dishes rond to," said be, " Il Up)Oi/Adele with thie air of' a gourmand, an, We'o sAl1 ready forward ate as leisurely as if they were in the mos 'nrold puthis ielm a1 pleasant part of a smooth and delightfuJvoy- swept swiftly and race age. .only for an instant In the When dinner was over, lie went upon dek then coming head to it. -'to relieve Perkins, and himself took, the helm A. abe did so, erkins which the other left, rent king that be did wheh the sooner began } not think the gale would hold it strength a the drag went over her great while-it had begun too etroeg to hold orttwo more, payig out out well of a hundred fathoms An hour passed on, and Perkin was again schooner brought up to a deck, when the man. at. the mast-head easily as if she ha4 b 9 shoutd : smooth harbor though s "Land ho"owly in toward the la " Where Away, my lad ?" asked arod. be seen fro the deck qu " Ahead, sir, and all alobg on our ige- As Perkins ecane aft a bow !" replied the lookout. old at the I, Im-though Tiarold went forward with his spy-glass in quired-only a watch his hand, and ascended the fore-riggng afew should ehanee to break feet. From thence he looked long and anx-. -Adele ai4 Zella came opsl y toward the land, which hie could see Adele noticed the pa even from that elevation. Idh came down, which rested upon Harol Went aft,-and, in a lowv tone, aked rerkins if ed toward the fand, and he thought it would be possible for th 'was in danger, though h schooner to show any canvas at all in such a Laying her mall w hurricane. - . am, she said: 'No, sir," replied Perkins. "Were the /ails "If the storm eontim lnade of she-t:iron, they wouldn'tatand t." be wreeked--do you'no " Then we must get'out a drag to keep hey He looked ii wonder from drifting, as much as possible, andround ness with which she vie' her to."th'easnpaornh 1 "That can be done, sir; hut still, she'll fearn groat dark ey drift fast in this gale." . even, 6f h lig, to show "I know it; but we must do the best we whiek mus ensue, if th cap. The harbor which we left last night is towreck'upon the surge dead to leeward of us. This gale cannot "Yes,"he said, at las bold its strength forever-it must slaelgen up Adent dat it. fdry is n In a few hours; and if we can keep off the we can drift to the at 'coast until she can bear a little ladl, We are whidh we now have, I am safe. If not, we are lost!i" #ble to carry sail enom , "I'll go forward and rig out a drag, if you sire. These fierce hu spiease, sir," said Perkins. "Will yon take long duration." the helm, or shall I call one of the hand" - "Upon what part oft '-I will take it," said Ilrold. "Be as ig?*she asked. quick as you ann with tUe drag." "Take my lass and A', dy, sir !" i nIet," was lsanswer. An the of1cer happened forward and, She took the telesco 'aided by the the 4villing crew, soon collected land, now square astern all the spare sptrt, and fastened therm secere- "Her cheek was a trial ly together with strong ro pes. To' lie served: attached a heavy kedge-aneor, by a haw, "Yes- ean see the but not withsuffi e nit length for it tb reach ca see,'by the white su bottom ultil tliey should get Into very shoal this side-of the land, th water. It was done to sink the spars 'ms low within the sweep of th In the water as possible, to 'make theni drag udy lost!" weaver. " on look at the da When these were all ready, and the end of brave Adele." d, and themass so the uiite4,strength le to pitch it over. captain: an. ir helm uow, sir, and have the drag over. 1" ee, and the schooner fully around, rolling trough of the sea, gave the order, and n to gather sternway, bows. In a minute hawser to the length ot' thereabout, the the drag, and rode as een at anchor in $ she still kept drifting d, which eo'uld now aite distinctly. gain to relieve Har- no steerage was re- there if the vessel adrift from the drag on deck. le and anxious look d's face. She glane. knew that the vessel e-did not tell her so. hite hand upon his dues your vessel will t thii so, Harold?" at the perfect catm- wed the danger. For ier cheek--po sign of yes--not a quivermng, a terror of the death © vessel was doomed e-lashed shore. t. "But I feel eon- nearly aent. Before 'ore with the cheek m sure thst we will be ugh to beat off the rricanes are never of he coast are we drift- see if youesa recogt e and looked at the less rosy, as she an- chateau! And I also ru 'that rolls so high at a vessel which gets ose breakers will be anger very calmly, niy a page: 36-37[View Page 36-37] US BILLARE~ liENDYERSO~a- O, '"Whywitoeld I not? ,Ani - nodithb ot ef a -es asjiaiily from lilalt.ttoaU I hnt rather perish by yonr side, Harold Mop tey from theis. Let the worst coni, if w ley-ratler .j*rish tei, da- an to ive a- but landed in safety, I know that I linvemur6 other wekon c'ti ler shre with thcT'surt frIends thn foes on yonder shore," said H°r' Tor? Ings fri which I havre escaped I" old. e A eat is a rg way from ce How much water there ?"he asked, of the let. ll.wlto las tilled oar cup with tiapi- man at the lead. ness wil not dash it rutadsted frti 'or f? s. "'Ten fathoms, sir!" replied the man. I fel n ear ad ahiilmg .trust-in agravi- ':FHow does she drift?" drcc wuoihath ever treated ue erifally. "Dead away for the shore, ir-prettyfast We iar in danger, but I feel coniident that at that."a hr y we shItaf escape it,' replied flarold. - Then "Mr. Perkins,'don't you think she'll bear tu'r i o .one ofl1.is seamen, he told him to the tiainsail and jib, close reefed as they tavc It tkea-l every fire minute, to test are?" ^ the +jth of the water and the drift of the "'Hardly yet, sir. We might risk and lose Yetsel." thiem. If we can holdl on at little whilethg 'The uith3 sill blew with teri-ibla strength ' rI feel sure that the wid will fill. 'nh jet now tlrc Was nt t cnibiaaflttll of a few lulls -ei longer, and the heavy gusts far lesk tuucia't., which was sure to be follower] by frequent titan they were." a fihe n tinul leavy i'." Very well-hold on, it is ; biut hare all tehave a sew fregtii inthis'Iir-room ready fr hmisting sail and entting away the M,. Ilerki" a "gtidl Har.old. "You hadcjbet- drag when the time comes. 1 witl1 carry tho 'r get it rt d for bending; for, if the gale masts out of her before I'll let hlngo ashore." slac,'s rei an ti. . an determineJ to pit- "All is ready, sir." the canvas on and heat tft the '.' 'It will 4lliens silent and steady watchifulners for e d o' ir 1to go ashtre hiebont" somnetini en beard the yacht. The man who o e. I'll go Fadd have the sail retdv." hove the lead would eentionaly sing out bie rTought tine drag checked the drift of tiro soundings, bat so othe~ione spoke. The yacht very nih, ye tIe tmwid, uai:ed ith steady diibt of the vesel toward the breakers, tie heave of the sea, d rove ter an tod 'rapid- which were not now two milks to letward, Id moe The thore henatme paitifnuly distinct, seemed to ce'dupy the thoughts of all, both rimorethaoneo. the crew "loselyshnn- officers and crew. fled the fues of tireen plain and his chief ofil- At.ast, Adele spokecto Harold. She had ' - rt thuer vhat uight be the extent been intently lookuug at the pc'sois on shore, if tr{eur lit. For., as a child d looks to its through lie sp'.eglassr 4'Ttrcrut fur' tuoawlchg oih good or etilso looks "'The hleiu rsons are there," she said. ire settiar to ie 6111 r. Upoin his jrtdg.. ' Thtey stud~ doun it CIOb lir le watt(r-side, reat ic depends, even as h is bedient to nphr from the other people. Fart l;er up, I the orders hici come froth his ipa ; for Ie see John Simonds on horsl aek, with tony nO tu it upon the asill of that officer Iis jeole around .im.", vr itetei teii1'etCit.hGose, still -niore and siore near to tlrm But IirohalantPe'tkhrs-both appeared brea'kers, uhose ar couls *u ie (eistinetl oaslt ad k ancfueut; itt] though a foamimg heard above the shrill trimpetings of the y~ast of bhreakersla under p drel n tee, to- storgi drifted tie' 'alutajtartly doomed- ell!t n('. tutit ofine oftthin1 et' waeetned Afrnid. harold's face began to look ruled. For '[lt uuutu nflecuae i]teskill of himself, lieofeared not, care nut. 1Hi t si ' flier re. -uthoguhts were fixed upon Ade . sit t b e ieum you see, Auierrn keep our "'"i is to y"ung--too beautiful to die,* l~ i~. i ltue ='tta.Y observee,, paid lieinuirmured. Lit' . jut. utter ie laid stationed tie g. "°She cnn afand the jib and mainsail now, maniint:thuatita.- .i,. I thinkk" aid P'rkinsnt thnt moment. are many persons gathered upon "She must ('said lInrold. pt rnly "Have tre hre, napparetly watchingg us. Sme' te sheets '( bith sails fittere aft before Rri mn fa their ire on horseback, repiigd ypu man the ihii:ertls. It matters not on t - -I, ,_ .- .. which track sie ensls" S'her ire there prolbnl4y to try ' It was, indeed, time to make sail. if it ever T~l Fnil. t fhing that we surety wif beo wea to be made. The breakers were not " ~In ' T tridhl- hlialf-mile distant. ~. ' 1 tno hilersou:',tm ereticear wahca Wicn the sheets were trinimed, and Harold wil -to ntfr"ti ' t the hal r!'s 'i Aetole. saomtaaen 'i'lteII' nsers US te'it. ~tlue ulv hpeopihe "far tithemain-throat, and peaktand jib who can see oer Ito iticit. John Siitoundshnlhairrds--stand-by to up mainsail arid jib I" I i THIE SECRtET REVEALED. I every man sprang to his duty with the lghtqaly scrape eo ahiek as kf of hope in lis eye aindt lie flush of joy on his beating l And we$ugt tobe thankfnuloes hopee. Ien ':in and his 4after-guard" tnre for it, too. What shall I get for ,uppe, appeared on ek - Perkins and Merton capt kg; sprung to the ropes themselves. " Wluttcer you lice, Nathan ; there wifi A treay, sir! " shouted eJr s . )eslask of appetite to-night ln board o '' Huet away i th ta well, theicu 1 cried Urc- thi8 craft." "olsd aa.wt wlse r " Ma be .not," said Nathan, as he descend- As the vessel was directly head to wind, ed liduty i he cabnrHaold,ut her tbougi the sails flapped heavilythey e e ee wooking ar H ord. raised with comparative ease,' fr "Tt erqw eyes whre looking toward the shore, " worked with a' awll," as if they knew "What is my Adele thinking off" asked that their lives depended, upon the sue- Harold. r ee "ess of the attempt tA) carry sail In a few " Of wat our fates would bave been, liad eeeoufs the aewer hoisted, and tenenas the gale not so slackened that you coul. carry hedpuths lahelps hard to starboard, to act tail,' said Adele. " Qf that in part, and also with the rapid "stern-bonr," which the yes- how Hilliare nud Gustave lenderseo mutd ecl woukd be sure to make, Harold gave the feel, now that we, whom they thought doomed, order to cat away the drag. oaaxi d vng from their sight free from t A couple of smart blows from an axe, in danger which threatened us." the hands of Perkins, severed the hawser, Reader, would not you like to knethew anid then the head of the schooner quickly thetijief villains of our story beer' their die- veaered oil' to port and the sails filled. kRcefed appointment? Yes?. Well, I' thought so. down, as they were, they caused the schooner We'll go ashore and see. to "heel over," until her lee-rai lay levelA with the water, and for a nionsentauO)ied QUAPTElt XXI. as if tie canvas must burst from : After Mr. Simonds knew the vessl in die- opes and sans it surh a teriblda . tresswas the yacht whiet carried his young e yacht had drifted with her atern- friend Harold Morley, and Adele Dumesle, j nto only five fathoms of water, and the both himself and friends watched her with breakers were now rearing scarce a cable's painful interest. They felt that her doom length astern,t was almost certain ; for they supposed,.sines lint slowly the noble craft gathered head. she evidently made no attempt to carry sail, way --slowly at first, but surely -then, as that tier canvas had all been blown away in Harold gave her the helm, and ordered the the terrible hurricane which was raging. heet slackened a triae, her speed increased, And while these friends of Haro d's were Ssand cheer after cheer rose from tie lips of thus anfferis ea agony of suspense, Hilihae her ailad crew as -they saw her dart forward, and Gwtave endereo ware pacing up and heading fhil ten points to windward of land down the beach like two hungry beasts, wait- cu the .lee-bow, ing for a prey almost within reaeli of their Hoist the lag of our country at the main, whetted fane-sure that those Whomthe sr and the signal of the ' Adele' forward !" cried much hate could not escape the sfn Harold, joyfully. "Let friends and foes which loomed before them. ahore see tint we are sefe I" $0 e~tentd was Hifliar #O tO uvineed sWith renewed cheers up went the two flags, that, crc the red un we#ltwo in the west, while from one of the two groups which stood bis revengeful feelings w o44egratified, on shores could be seen hats and hiandkerchiefs that hosat one .1IAf s rst h os waving; and Harold fancied, even; mid the for wine and their refshmuent.e noise of wind and waters, that he could hear And when thiswinec lin, e tab their glad cheers.: vital omRplisaente~tloMr. Shuode, telling The other group stood, motionless and sol- tlle sett to saythat .hs master wIshed Mr. len, on the beach, like wolves disappointeL f ionds joy upon the pleasant protpeet be The Adele egafe. The wind helidsteady, Xi Simondesaof csraei the uwine bae failing graduall, and she stodaip under her untastd. dspN this canvas staunchy, beaut" ny.:4h N te fhe d ..laughed t, as a she increased thed t~ani from shoirs,du . nhat:liii owlappetitefo; wine and foe d the hearts wlsidti had tremble a h~lf-ht5 tt3 ncee so good befre. ~hwt before now 'oeat fast with joy. Gustave, both ate and dranth a erf \"'ii, Nathan, what do you think of this?" which showed their utter heartlessness and 5':ted harold, as his steward came aft, after the inhuman ferocity of their hate. the schooner gathered headway off the shore. As.the vessel drew nearer and nearer, the "Think, sir ? Why, that we're out of a fiendish joy of the two brothers inereased . J page: 38-39[View Page 38-39] 13 IIILLIAPE IIIDERsoL ; *'nl wlheii, at las, she seemed 'to be almost I friends alljoined. e -A " e the schoo. within the grasp of the breakers, }Idliare er is mor ng o& et ihk bird, while z'ent 'up the bluff where Simonds and his the gale is growizig lighter C r ry moment." friends stood, pale aud anxious ; and, in a Ienderson was too angry to reply, avid taunting tone, offered to lend the planter his moved on to rejoin his brother, without mak- spy-glass, that he might see how white his in any answer. Irt e friend'" Morley looked while he faced The dark clouds which had overspread the tdcath.' sky were now breaking away. and the de- But at that very moment, something whiter sending sun giled their ragged fronts as r ogt I rl tdMorle's"'facewas seen swiftly they slunk off in disorder in the far Western rii u from the dark hull of the cndangr-red hlor~izon. schot tr, When the schooner drew so fnr from the ti i a shout of triumph, Simonds and his land that her wlte sails were barely discern- fri'irnh cried; ible in the deepening twilight of approaching "heo is muingsail !--she is making sail! night, Simonds and his friends left the group l, She'll work off, yet " arid repaired to the lordly home of the gener- Tiwaning to Ililliare--whno, pale with disap. ouns planter, there to drink many a bumperto pointment and anger, stood gazing sttpily the "brave who had deserved and won t ba theschooner-Mr. limonds said, in his fair" Adele. blandest tonec "I will ncept the offer of your spy-glass, CHAPTER XXIT Mr; Hendnerson I wish to see how darold Ten thousand curses light upon them Moyleysad his sweet Adele look, side by both I" said Hliar Ienderson as he threw side eorethey stand ot to se." i himself into a nl is eAndh ld his anotd snsh ahee dne; snenwtati havelibgryon coolyo- A lra ed his and fr the gilas. po turn to the house. "Fate almost threw their "Wait till the wind fills their cursed ails!" back intoour hands, and now she'has thwart'. said oilhiai , bitterly. "You'll seoete th t ad ed usno" sri turn keel up, or else the sails will go into "Patience, brother, patience " said Gr- 'shreds! She ismsloofid, sir!g.-.do hned i" tae', who came in with iim eno have ever "Yes," said Sumond;,bu ietly, a he saw chid-o n for my recklessness and impr- her sails fill, an ebow s gathered dee ; and now thnt I have giown cooled headway. h"Se is doomed to work out of a Psee to have exchanged nairs with me, bad serape as prettily and s easily as poor and to have become as violent nth need to be. Adele Dilnesle worked herself out of the v I have made s inay mind to follow Harold risoniuent in which you kept her." torley to the death! and not one, nor ten, John Smionds !" shout Henderson, ut- nor twenty disappointments shall either put early theid, himself with rage. "John Si- me cut of humor or casuss me foi'an instant moide; beware how you ma dden messge- to change my purpose! Though thwart e a ware, sir, for I'll make yoe account for your hindered times, ati l will I foflto him as the insult with your hearts blood I" bloodhound follows on the scent of gore !" "l'elebviomy is s profusion which two "Patience- thence I"f aie wlilliare bit- eo p rettied, Mr-. Hoendersonn" said Sionds, terhy. "Fooled by tu" accursed adventurdr, c1iv. '1 annatyour serviceat all time " for insulted by him and Adele,rnd then to lose rial of skill in that line', with whatever in. them when almost in miylower.. It is enouvgh _f atrtsio~ents you vuny ic'k"yf."' to drive a man mad ! And, moe thtan all, I "You fihalnheai' from me, sir -you shall on involved in adifficulty with John Sinonds bear fromnnms!" cried Henderson, dwmost froth- on their account." AU t the mniti. "No challenge has passed b'etwen you and "".e rotting that I can hear no good of, or him !" ,f'o~l4 3 xh, I shall await. any message you " No ; but I must (diallenge hi u. lie has 6 y 'send,"said the rlovier, as calmly as Insulted me, m and 'atod him h snuld hear whefx &frt-pae to hendersodc. from m tie." 1xe Inttt r'w~h K'bittcer curse upon L'is lips, " You will notcalnehmIih r, 4u~ arna! Z'steuve t4he lotand rejini his bro.'-erf said Gustave'. quietly.; "If hie were to l&ht 'O" "bn rm-ment, Mr. liR p-on,"said Si. Iyou, lie would hilt yon." " mends, as ii' eonsethiasg ins sts was to be I"I know that." sirw'ia- o yu'wi _j"Then, under present clrcumstanes, yin har, t mlrnwhat J0le oui#ir ried Iiil- would be a fuel to challenge: him. Abide littc tt ti itt crir*at; #wiheyus 'our time, and you'll bring biud dowui yet. - cxbt lIaed with fur B ~ ut now, when I am-shout to start uponrc bolpatustt~tt~ywihsalnteduii ad- -. , a4 y eurf iru'wsuanlie c, viij 0ea 4 SI daed Adele pumeshe and Zelln, and sent ,- Qu4s withj a' boarty *Ilugh, iz w~gl l4iiia'IrTh'bld MwsJmj to close his account with the .r'1 , t !' TUIE SECRET RIEVEALLED. devfl, you must take care of y oursel and uri " I have them now ! I lave them now it" ilnt property t. Our revege fy ore i onds Soon after the steamer came to ancih ,the will be a thonsanidtimes more sweet when I' vessel was boarded by i captain of the port 1ave succeeded, as I surely will, inithe objects The xasatorts and landu permt ofn he I have namedl." xmntoad fe u amn r You reason well, Gustave; but what will roper fees, permission was given for thb those say who heard the words between him Havana passengers to land. and tysel,?" Gustave Henderson was too nxiou to leae "aWy should you care what they ay ? the vessel to wait for the regular boat which Yon are:indeuendent of them. Do as I ad- was used to transfer passengers to the shore. vise You: Let John Simonds alone untilyon Leaving directions for the trinsmissiofl of hia can touch him to the very heart and yet be baggage to a hgtel, with the captain's permis- safe ! In my angry mood, thismorning,Ision he hailed one of the many boats which had a thought f a quarrel withr im. Then ply around the vessels of the harbor and it was you that advised my forbearAnce. along the wharves for fares, and, when itoamno Now take your own warning home to yourself:" alongside, sprung into it. Like most boasof "I will, Gustave, and let "my contempt, ilts class, it had a curtained awning over its, rather than my angel, follow him. And now end to shield its passengers from tesu. to other business. Will you still pursuyou This, with the slouched aifornia hat which ori inahntertion, to go North, and there to be had drawn over his eyes, was all the con. i t whither Morley was bound when he cealment which Gustave required as he made sailed thence I" a reconnoitering trip. "I surely will," replied Gustave. Finding that his mulatto boatman under- But you will defer starting until to-mor- stood English tolerably e ,,w , mon thing among those who from ehildhbdd "Not so. I will start within the hour. I are -thrown into contact with !English and was ready, and curme round to take my fare- American seamen, lhe directed him to row tO-. well of you, when I found you on the oupo- ward the clipper-yacht up the harbor. Ia. ied not the vessel been seen, I would "Want to goaboard, Massa Car'n I" asked have been upon my route long hours ago." the mulatto. "Well, I cannot sty no to your mission, "lto ; row me near enough to have a good for it concerns me almost as much as your- look at her. She is a beauty . self. All that I can say is, to wish you good "Yes, Massa Cap'n ; everybody say 'so. fortune. Draw upon inc without reserve w:hen- Me take off heap of peoples to look at her." ever you need funds ; and let me know by "HIlave you ever been on board of here" every mall where you are, and how you are "Yes, Massa Cap'n ; four, yive times. Me succeeding. When I call aid you in person, cart-y Yankee steward off last night." writ- for me to come." "Ah ! What is your name?" °I will," said Gustave. " Pedrillo, Massa Csp'n ;' but folks call me And the next moment he was gone, and Pedro, for short. Mc my own man, too-free l iilliare Henderson was alone. .-You sabs F" " Yes-I tindcrstand you. All the ifoney CHAPTER XXIII. you m:kc is your own." Tiree weeks later, a New York and New "Yes, Massa Cap'n: him all mine." Orleans steamer entered the harbor of fav- " And'I suppose you like to make money!" inn, running up nearly to the nan-o'-war an'. "Yes, Massa Cap'n ; me like um heap. ehorag before it rounded to and dropped anu= Gustave examined the boatman closely. ohor. His coptr-eolbred face was hedged m by Upon. the forecastle of this steamer, from a mass oflong hair in braids--braided, probr -the moment she made land until -her anchor ably, to keep the kinks out of tangle. HsK wa fast in the nud, one of our aiquaintaxees eyes were stiall and snake-like; the e te had taken post an mnaittained 1it. Jt was none sion of hii face hialf-eananing, half-fercieus. other rthancGustave IIenderdon Eagerly e I.lls form was: not stut, but his limb Wel'e spanhhiei(ry:v. ssel among a iotetudGmacular ) i chest full'and brawny tii that onkl tsliellor ae tlx~e~stiamera ipovr'l d 'only. fp #a#ailor"'s troveersernid' .t, h ed slowly and a'ki4ily up t its:gnehora' e; neck of with 4vaM opn, ito thoes upoti 1iI And when at last,'anchored p o' aiomg, the faet, but 4. e esn cap upon his' etiI. men-of-war, as ibWy spcil per' sign, h lhelooked e o of r *^bte to have sattsfed dicnvered a beautiful Ame i r, yitli the zost'$ t o a crimagasabg. forwtrtl bea tu, ~ 4 dlets flowery ' tr',3the name of1"Adee'4 elef vg Thea innticef Gustave Was joyd .etttled oido-rnto-e-n faurc ritir. t 1 it seemed to r anid lie muttercu : " . " 'y n:k, der bee empeyed' t '' ne I page: 40-41[View Page 40-41] IILLIARE ENDERSON, OR, .man steadily, than to run your risk of chance fatres, Pedro ?" he asked. "Yes, master cap'n, if urm good pay I" "You need not fear the pay !" said Gus. tare. '- I shall be here some time. I do not know how long ! I want you to keep your boat for me, and me only, and to be ready at Nll times. There is a doubloon to commence with. If y'u are faithful to me, every day y u shall have another !" Pedro was so astonished that be stopped rowi gand looked at the doubloon full thirty cecoids before Ie reached out his hand to raise it from the thwart u on which Gustave laid it,. lie even bit the c a to see if it was goad. "Es oro puro !" he muttered in Spanish. Then looking at G ustavo,with hiscunning eyes, he asked : "Does Massa Cal i' meai he give Pedro a doubloon cv'ry day he work for urn" "Yes; and this day I pay in advance, as you see!" "Good! Me work for Massa Cap'n till he so want me any more And Pedro again resumed his ears, which be rowed with a skill and case which betoken- ed long experience. The boat was now within a half-cable's length of the yacht. Gustave motioned to 'Pedro to cease rowing, and with a turn of the rudder, threw the boat broadside to the ves- sel, so that lie could peep front behind his curtains at her, without himself being seen. "Didl you see the owner of that vessel when you were on board, Pedro ?" asked Gustave. "Oh, yes! Me see urn - me see um all. Me been on board four, five times !" Did you see any indies ?" "Yes, Massa Cap'n ! One so han'sum, she make man a'iuost crazy ! Then she got sar. viat gal more ltau'aum than herself ! Me like in heap !"- "She would make you a good wife, eh, Pedro ?" asked Gustave, watching closely the expresion of the mulatto's features, seeking ri much in them for a reply as he would in ' hse rdsewhich came from his lips. "A-wife? Por San Antonio. Mass Cap'n, it I hadl her for wife, I wouldn't change places viirlthe capitan-gneral ! No, not me !" And the face of the muhito all aglow, and his eyes sparkling, told how the how blood through his veins at the hqught. - * * " qme faithfully, and yon taal! have biet. Pedro!" said Gustave.- "1 think I can .Brest von. Pedro ?" "Me, Massa Cap'n ? Yes, l1 same as a priestl You confes. to a priest you steal--- be no go and tell'un' You'sonfbss td'a priest you kill, lie no go and tell urn! Ie tike you Pay myss.money, tell yon no o dv so any qre; then he b ive pn it's all d9bhgoun.I c know, for me tryumI" ' "I believe I can trust you !" said Gustave. "And I will tell youn ,cret ahout ZellaI" " Zella ! Yes, thatsh er nae I" said the mulatto, and line pointed toward the yacht, to indicate whom he meant. "She is my slave, and ran away from me in Georgia. If you serve ie faithfully when I get her back, I will give her to you I" "Me serve you ! Me go to devil for you, Massa Cap'n, s'pose yti do that !" "Well, it is a bargain, and there's m hand upon itI" And Gustave, artistoerat that lie was, reached out his hand, and grasped the thin, bony hand of the boatman. The grip of the latter was like the pressure of a vice -his hand, though the climate was so mild, was as cold as ice. - "You are strong !" said Gustave as, with an involuntary shudder, he drew back to his seat. "All same like tiger !" said Pedro, with a cunning smile. "Very good-I like you, Pedro, and shall depend upon you ! -Now row me slowly around tIe yacht. 1 want to see nIl that I can without being seen !" The boatman obeyed orders, and pulled gently along the smooth waters of the lhar- bor, until lie had eomipleted thie circuit, and again lay upon his oars between the vessel and the city. During the circuit, Gustave had looked anxiously to see the faesaof some of those wlhon I knew; but to persons were on deck but some of the crew, of whom he had no remembrance. But as his boat stopped, when Pedro cans- ed rowing, lie saw Perkins come on deck and heard him give some order. In a moment a boat was lowered from the davits, and a crew sprang into it. Gustave drew the awning-curtains close, and trembled, with eagerness, while lie looked to see who would come next. He had not long to wait. Harold Morley came first, dressed in an dl- egant undress uniform, and with the most tender care lie assisted Adele down the steps of the side-ladder, into the boat. She was fol- lowed by Zella. Gustave ground his teeth in rate, while be looked upon the scene. Never had Adele looked, in his eyes, so beautiful,- so happy! Harold Morley seemed to r:fleet lerjoy. Us too, looked happy. Even 'Zella looked more like a lady toby born than one whose doom was servitude. " Cursu them--curse them I" ho muttered. "But it alihl not last long !" "Masus Cap'nn o like um?" said Pedro, with a mischievous grin. "Like them 1" hissed Gustave. ,"Pe you see that man?" 1hiiE SECRET REVEALED. 43 "Yc, me see u:n no iv, see umn of'n be- CHAPTER XXIV. fore!' W! hen tlIiold Monle r landed with Adele "Well, I hate him as never man was hated and Zella at the quay w cih is generally used before. I would drink his heart's blood with as a nading-place f or passengers at H:svana, more pleasure than I would drinkthe choicest a large family volante* was seen waiting for wine in the worh bl I them, just beyond the immense shed which " Good ! Me he to sec 'folks hate good ! covers the quay. Me hate sotmetimesthen muse this 1' After distising his boat's crew, and telling And the tni a re:wledl within lis shirt, tin at wit hour to meet him again to take and drew fr:a i cncealtment a long and himin on board, Harold escorted Adele to the inurderous-iooo:Ig knife. volante, followed icy Zella. You will suit, my purpose, Pedro !'' sail Entering the carriage, Iroll, as soon as Gustave, in a low tone. "Pull out of their Adele and Zella were seated, told his driver, way, I iie not be seen- by them !" Benito, to 'take them ott to the "Paseo del Little dial IIarorl Morley, or those who 'Tacon." were with him, think t'at the oaatwhich was The driver mounted the large white mule rowed just out of reach of their oars, na they which stood covered with gaudy trappings passed he, cntlainel a hmonui:a blood-hound before the volante, and with a cheering cry who had now Pot tirly on his scent, ani and a siart application of his heavy spurs, at Would track one at least of the a lo,vn to the once started the animal off into asgreatspeed death. as the law would allow in that eity, where If they hail, Harold would I not have said so neighbors often shake hands across te street gayly : t from their second-story balconis. "We will have a happy thunatthe r s- Up along the busiest street in Hiabana, past querade to-night, my Adele '" the palace of the caitain-general of the island, Gustave heard tihus worls-nt no more '; a through the unsanctified ealle "Obra de for the swift boat was hi another minute falr Pia," they sped -- on past the Plaza de Is past them. Artmas where the blood of Crittenden, Kerr, " W r is there a mseiera lc to-ight, n wl their brave comrade a saddened the thirsty Pedro?" asked Gtmhave. earth (blood wich yet remains unavenged, "At the Teatro I Tacon, Massa Cap'n r' but will not always) on through the narrow said the, boatman. '-It s carnival now-mas- gateway of the walled city, and past the grand queras there every iinhht'" TIheatre- of Taeon, they were hurried until "Those people aregong there ! Ilow enn they. reached the " Paseo,' or promenade, I find out the dresses which they will wear'" where all of fashion and bauty that HIavana "Easy that, Massa Cap'n ! They have a boasts, may be found of a sunny afternoon. hire volante oi shore. Me know the driver- What the Central Park, when finished, may he wait for u:n. every time they go ashore. be to New York, that already is the "Pasco" ometinme they dres3 biar. the saoper-- to tli gay and careless Habafieros. Thereis sometime at th -hotel del Estadi's Unidos. a broad avenue for the passage of volantes, No matter which, I go to hinm, asw what dress, and those who choose to display their grace what iisgiera t icy wear, and len-to, he'll in the saddle. Flower-bordered-and laby- tell me!" rithi:e paths .meander among the lofty "It is well, Peilro. Fin. out for me how slhade-tre s ; the sound of .gushng fountains they dress, s th-it I may recognise them, nnd tiand rushing waters fall upon the ear--softae- I will adda:iott her d.oihlo a to that which is companimeits to the sweet voices of thou- now in your poch't !" -sands of dark-eyed donnas, who dome there "Illfind out, But where now, Massa to flirt, to ect, to enjoy life as Sotitlhers ca'n ? beaitiea love to do. To some obscure dock, Pedro, where you .'Leaving Zella to fit'in the volante, as shy Can lease ypur boat, and pilot mo to the Pos- preferred to do, where she could liok nt-the ada del Europa, where I hwve sent my bag- constantly-moving crowd, Harold and Adele gage. The people in the boat which passed descended, upon reaching the upper part of us, must not know of my presence in this city the, main avenue,,and strolled off into the until my plans are culminated, and I am grove of trees and flowers, alone. Alone, I roady for ac' ion !" said ;and so they were, though before, behind, "Me sabe well, Massa Cap'ar!" . -, amnd'il around them, noved parties, gay and And Pedro rowed him to a narrow dock fashionable ncar4, * Plap de la Marina, ani hero inoor -- -ig -his, boat under the bows Of o Arnerican 't voan e is athuge, cumbersome veh eteoal. me chsantu.tmb anded his employer, whom lie fig * * iotin*like Iaeoidfaklied=Bes ebalse, i un ertook to gnide fo the h eewhie t cuatrac raedrierrIdesrhe horte w sh , a rawsft-- named- - . eertal oatootsrle, wswsnpes. L. U ) I page: 42-43[View Page 42-43] A2 ILLIARE IENDERSON; OR, For where two souls are linked in love, two and beauty surround us here-though the air hearts are joined as one, then they know no is balmy, and nil things are lovely, 1 still look world-but that enchanted one which their fan- back with Pleasure to the hours when, alone cy forms. They heel nothing outside of theirIinour gallant yacht, no company but our own new.lkged jos. , brave crew, we sped away over the azure we- As th cy wake on, they conversed in a ters, on the wings of the chainless wind !" tone both eanestand low--so low that had a " Well, dear Adele, I will make our stay government spy been at their heels, he could here brief. We are in the height of the Car- not have heard what they said-yet the ears nival, it is true ; but that is nothing. If it is of love, ever 1een, could hear each syllable your wish, I will sail in a week from to-day, tiat either uttered. or even less time. Perkins wishes to over- " Adele !" said Harold, " Will nothing that haul the rigging, and Nathan to lay in a freth I can urge induce on to forego your resolu- supply of stores for use forward, as well as in tion. Must I ine eed wait until you are of the cabin. In the morning,1 will issueorders age. hefire I can call you my wedded wife ?" to them, and then, dearest Adele, we will i"larold," she replied, and her low voice make the most of the time left to us in this tremubl d with feeling while she spoke, "you gay city! Let me see-to-nightthe masque. know that it pains me to refuse you anything made ; to-morrow night, the opera ; afterthat* -know, too, how wholly and devotedly I love just such places as suit you best !" .you. I have long since banished all maden " One place, I would visit before we leave, reserve, and told you of my love. Utterly dear Harold !" disregarding a thought of the world's censure, " Which is that, my Adele?" I have fled away with you from the spot which "The cathedral where, reverenced almost had been my home from childhood. Now all as the relics of a saint. are deposited the mor- I ask-you tay call it eccentricity, but do tal remains of Christopher Columbus I" not call it cruety--all I ask is, that our union "I)ear Adele, forgive me that I have not be delayed until I am mistress of my fortune, thought of it before. The cathedral is near and can ha it, with my hand im thine, where the governor's palace-not more than five I have li toy heart !" minutes' walk from the spot where our boat But wherefore the necessity, sweet lands. If it would give you pleasure, we Adele ?, saidH arold, in a tone of impatience. could easily go there before we go to the ho- Were I poor, the case would be different. tel to sup and to dress for the masquerade." But I have ample means-that you well "'Then let us go, dear Harold, Next tothe know -" tom) of the greatest and best of men-that "Yes, Iarold, I kn'w it. But I do not WAsIuINcroN whom heaven left childless that feel independent now! Let me but feel mde- a nation might call him Father--would I hold pendent one hour, and then I will resign all in honor his grave who discovered a world of independence into your hands, and become savages, and planted upon its shores the flag the most dole, as well as the fondest of of civilization 1" Wives ' , "I honor your feelings, as much as I ad- I c-n refuse yon noting, sweet Adele. It mire your taste, Adele," replied Harold. is I aho am the sup liant. But I will not ""We will return to the volante, and drive to tease you again. It should be enough for me the cathedral I" to have you ever near me; yet I have a con- stant fear of losing you. Mere we united by CHAPTER XXV. those bonds which no man can sever, I should Gustave Henderson sat in his chamber In not feel so uneasy." the European hotel in Havana. It was the "Two years, winged with love, will fly best chamber in the house ; for,regardless of swiftly y, my Haro d !" price, he had ordered the best, well knowing S~ " I'iihaps !" said he, with a sigh. "But that a lavish display of money, and a lavish o you know, Adele, that-nit to speak of use of the sane, would itsure good atten- year1, or months, or weeks-I am already dance, and all the more certainly endorse his counting the hours .' statement that he had come to Havana on a Whet will you sail for New-Orleans ?" visitof pleasure.' lie had reg'htered his name she asked, with woman's. tact changing the as "General Weston, of Kentucky," knowing %ltme of conversation. the great respect which Spaniards entertain tWlteofave r you like, Adele. Are you ror men who ham military rank. d tied of 1lav ana " lie ordered his meals to be served hn his No, Harold ; the climate is delicious; the room, and when the head-steward came to people arc gay ; thy few friends we have made take his order for dinner, he was ner jch ib. are very kind. BuntI supposeI am like the pressed with'tle taste;.as well as the liberdle rest f my sex. We, you know, could not ity of the "Gehe'ral," as the latter, glancing reman contented in P radise. Tltotgnhgayefy over his bill 'of fdre, gave his orders. His .5 a I ~ o 54 TIE SECRET REVEALED. 4 knowledge of wines tmae the steward's eyes "That is true. I think I will take you to - i th a uead with me' to-nigsht Pedrojl" I E henan iui the general, intconcus1i, sne sq..s n1U5.'?i% , && , - tosed him at don' loin, and told him to make " Ola ! Massa Gin'ral, you mean that?" - haste, the steward voted him a prince, men- " To be sure ! Go to a costumer, and e- ily, l hurried away, not only to serve lest two dresses ; get for me the dress of a lint bt i tell tho landlord what a prize they gipsy king, a gray wig and beard, and a good hantheir new gest. - mask. Dress you as a gitano, also-get awi hai petite of G -stave had not been good of long, black hair; and then attend me here! at sa, lie was not proof against that leveler " Yes, Massa Gin'r.d. Ol ! Pedro at the whielh equalizes ladsmen--nonmatter what maasquera, eh? He will dance with Zella! t.eir shore poanitio mybe--when they first Caramba 1 but it makes me glad almost to try the sa. But now his a appetite returned, death!" lie felt a( if his journey had nearly found a And Pedro hurried off to procure the terminus; for that ie should fail in his under- dresses. taking did not enter his mind, He was in a tind where money was almost omnipotent ; CHAPTER XXVI. wh re desperadoes and assassins in abundance; The Tacon theatre-one of the monuments stood ready for hire, and his intended victims, of the rule of General Tacon, the sternest, sutnowing of his vicinity, were within lie but the purest ruler that Spain ever gave to rneknh ,the Cubans-larger than any theatre on the lIe ate heartily, and drank freely, for the American Continent, and probably the larg- wiuno Was gooy. But he was earetul not to est in the world, was filled to overflowmig drink so uch as to cloud his intellect in the Its huge parquet and orchestra box had ldast, or to loosen his tongue or unsteady his, been floored over even with the stage;the nerves, scenery had been removed, thus forming an He hnad poured out the last glass of wine, inmense ball-room; while all of the boxes, when, unamnounmcil, Pedro entered his room. four tiers in height, were filled with specta. Gustave had told hills to do so, whenever ie tors who cared ot to dance, but eat there en- hil anynews fir tim _ toying the fantastical panorama on the con- "Well, amy good lad, what news have you ?" stantmove below them. ie asked, blautaly. A band of one hundred performers barely "Pedro got good news for Massa Gin'ralI" furnished music loud enough to serve the en- sad the be tmtan, with increased respect, for tirety of the vast saloon ; and the spectators he had learned below that his patron was a could see more than three thousand people General instead of a Captain. movingat onoe to the gay cadence of the waltz, "Well-drink this glass of wine, and then or the slower and more dignified step of the out with it,' said Gustave, filling him a brim- Spanish eontra.dance. using tumbh r of golden sherry. Through the centre of the space reserved for "Macleos graci as; Massa G in'ral i Me been dancing,.whirled the many who came to dance ; to see Benito about the masquera!" said Pe- but in the corners, in the wings of the theatre, dro, after he tossed off the wine, smacking and moving about in the saloons, and in the is lps after the pleasing effort. gardens to the rear of the theatre, were those "Well-what then ?" who came to enjoy the mystery of the mask, "The man you hate, El Sei'or Morley, will and play their fareial parts in the characters go as un 31wir ro Aotricano-I mean one which they assumed. Representatives of American sailor-moan---anh will wear a mask. every known nation, and of some unknown The Seaorita that is with him, will go like tn ones, were there. gstan--gisy, 'ou call urn; Zella will go The genuine down-East Yankee, with his gipsy, too, for her mother;" bell-oro ned hat, swallow-tailed coat' with "hiow do you know all this, Pedro? They brass buttons larger than a dollar striped are not dressed yet, surely ;'it is but just trowsers, cow-hide boots, and shirt-collar up growing dark." ws a to ltisar whittled his stick of pine ifs he "Because, M asst Gin'ral, that was the way whistI d s Mkee Doodle; tthe prettiest sof they dressed last iight, aid Bnito heard the paeantirla q )hibited small-feet, and-limbs Settor Morley say to Zeila that they would that wAui;d have killed Elieler with envy; here wear the o une dresses to-night i" a ri bright Id scowled as if he never bad " Ah-so? WThen your information ie prob- 'sold lae. and ilk:stoekings in ted TGldier.e ably correct. But you uir halpot Zelha was cadores : there ;.crowned Richard Teriiro goimg. la it. aeustem, here toallow servantsmoved lgi in his hump-beaked dignity, to go to the masquerades ?" forgetting, for'the nonce' the bench whereup- ",Socnt ienes they let unm gq,-M1ssa Gim'ral. on. ,.hed, h olled his twenty thousand .cigars Who could tell Zella from real lady,? Se thst;vary'day here a..gipsy offered tOtbell sot n re blagk than hal) he Spsh ladies !!' your fortune; theea Dootor.Sangradqpwith f ! page: 44-45[View Page 44-45] HILLIARE HENDERSON; OR, his sasdtdle-bags on one arm, and a basket of " Yes, Massa Gin'ral. Pedro all same dumb cureall pills on the other, offered his services as un burro." to the fattest, conieiest, and healthiest of all "When you speak, do not call me General whoim he imiet, sa ing, with more truth than -call me La'Torrillo; and speak with rever- most doctors would utter, "if he didn't have enee. If, by a sign, I gIve you leave to speak, a chance tt phtasie them well, therenever say that I am King of the Gitanos." woul be anv slk. "Yes, Massa--si, Signor La Torrilo." Every nation, class and character, had its slowly, and acting as if he were- merely represent native the:e. But with only five of making thie circuit of the room, Gustave these, have we anythiaag to do. approached the spot where Harold and liis The ball had ten opened about one hour, party stood ; ie appearing all the time to be when a person entered who merits a descrip- wateh ing the dancers, though many a covert tion. lie Wore a robe of black velvet, upon glance was bestowed by him uplon those whom which strange Arabic or Egyptian hiero- he sought. glyjhieas a re profusely worked in embroidery In a short time Ite stood within a few feet of go'. '1 is deseended nearly to his nsan- of Adele. Then slowly ta ring toward her, daletd feet, acing only loosely bound around and confident of the perfection of his disguise, his wast b a sush, whieb, t bough made of lie looked so steadily upon her face and form silk, raemtlbled the high-colored and mottled as to attract her attention. She saw a pair of skin of a serpent ; upon his head ie wore a black, glittering eyes fixed upon her, mnuted the kind of crown, wbich wasi also covered with apparett age, and thiestrangeggarb of him who emblematic Mlertaglyphics. his long hair, stood gazing at her, and pith an involuntary and immiiense floinvg Ieard, were white as fear clung to llnrold's arm, and moved yet anow. Aid his faormn was bent as if with age. closer to his side. Leaning upon a curious staff, around which He noticed her agitation,and looking up, at the carved form of a serpent was entwined; once divined its enuse. He looked the old the old man moved slowly on, followed by Sgipsy full in the eyes, nid noted that those another, nat nmnel younger person in appear- eyes blazed yet the bIighter as he met their ance, nhn was a'so dressed as a gipsy; butini glaice. far htferent et% It, whose swarthy skin seem- 'The feeling of hate is intnitive-mesmerie- ed also to tell that he was one of that race of al. Though lie had no reason to believe that wanderers, 30ons of lstmanel. he hnd an enemy on the Islaad of Cuba, yet Through the right-apertures of tle mask in ihiat glance lie felt, whoever it was that worn by the eld'st gipsy, a pair of black, stood before him, that man was, or would be, fiery eves flashiled continually, as lie looked his foe. through the throng, evidently seeking some "Come, Adele," said Iharold, "let us move person or hairsuns. And the hands which on ; come, Zella, we'll find a better view, in grasped his staff shook 'ith the nervousness another place." of I assion ratht r taiit ith the tremor of age. Ie spoke in a very low tone, yet Gustave "I cannot sue them, Pedro-I cannot see heard his words. them!' le 'whispeaa'-d, huskily, to his attend- They moved away, and did not pause until ant, after to land 1ust d almost entirely around they were upon the other side of the theatre. the great bal-room. Ole! 'Ithe- ''raid of you, signor-3etno "Massa Gin'ral's eves are not quite so sharp can see through mask }" said Pedro. as Pedro's," replied he other, quietly. "Let "'Ihey have reason to fear me 1" said Gus- bin look under the box whieh is draped with tave, bitterlt'. " But I have inot done with thie granl statndaral of Spain, the box reserv-|them yet IFollow me, Pedro, and observe 4d for El Gapilano lencra!!" my caution!" And with a signirennta gesture, the disguis- " Yes, signor." ed boatmanindienthc d the point which lie Gustave now again made the circuit of the wished Gustave to observe. - room,' just as he had done before, and again There arm in arm. stod a yotng Amen- pausing in front of Adele, fixed his dark, en sailor in mask, wills a lady isn gipsy dress, passionate eyes upon her. whose b.entiful form Gustave at-onee recog- She was uneasy--more, she Was frightened. *ired,- u hough her face 'as masked. And [Harold saw it, and determined to put an end hlose by her side, somewhat taller, with a to the surveillance which so annoyed her. form equally perfect, stood another mask. Advancing to Gustave, he said whom ho kuea eg ally well. ' "Bir Gitano, be you what your dress im- "Iarold Morier, Adetle, and Zella," Ire plies; or not, I wish to know what reason you muntteretd. "Pedto." he added, "keep near have for following tny party around, and *ny side; ;but say notlhintedo nothing, with- staring thus impertinently at a lady who is dut I 'oniand you. I wish to talh.with those under my protection ?" *opls without being kaow," "She iss daughter of my rase !" said Gns. TlE SEtCR] EALEtI, 4& tave, in a deep, hollow tone, excelleitly tlis- guised as he was in dress and voice, I knew gulsing his natgrnl voice. "Why is she undar him.' T the protection of a h!use-dweller, when the And as sheo said so, Zella shuddered, tents of her People are opepi beneath the " We Vwill go, then," replied Harold, palms? - "Come, my Adele,; 'fear noevil I No harm " Von assume our part well, old man ; but can reach you, bud through my breast it flrte let me tell Vola ta bhe is not, a gipsy !" said finds passage." Harol1, w'ari." She comes of no vagrant Andl--old, with his party, atonce left th. lood !" theatre. The form of the gipsy king seemed to straihlitla:e aLdtcawithe singer. CHAFTER XXVII. " l taJ t hat ran i,4 noble veins one thou- Guteve had produced al1 the effect wils Sand years before the Saioo name was hnown, his malicious heart desired, in startling Marl is not tle' btlo.+l of vagrants! ' said he, lanughti- old and Adele ns he did-f4or lhe merely Wish- ly, in tb s euadstcrin a;nd hollow tone. "Young ed to annoy them at that moment but whoa man, you klniow not the lineage of that orphan he saw that the eyes of Zella were lixed stead, girl- I do!' ily upon him, he'feared reCognitiOn. 'There' Haroll started as if he ha il Ieen bitten by fore it, was that he whispered to Pedro: E a serpent. r taT hear .vords of doom pro-. " If asked, reveal myi psyn nme;then re. noncedl. Adele, too, trembled from laenl to treat and m eet me in the left saloon of thd foot. Zella alone remieainiedI unmoved, intent- first story of the- theatre." And imstaritli ly looking at the eyes of the now-excited after, turijed ad disat peered iuuong the peo- gipsy king. ple who erow:el the room. " Perthaps you know r?" said Harold, at From amidil a er. wd in this saloon, lie saw last. "If you do, ygis will be careful how the hasty egress of IHarold Morhy and his you t rifle cit er w .ti te or those I care for i' party, and felt from tids that they must have I tain a king aion iy peopic, w'y should taken the alarm--perias discovered his iden I car for the worls of a, honse-dwelling boy,. tity even through his disguise. eveh though he makes his home upol the f:e halfeursed his haste; for if they knew se'" sa d'Gustave, st rnly. - him to be near, thy most assuredly woud~bq " Wht anal-what. are you?" cried Ilarohl, upon their guarl,.uid his attempts tocapture now tmaclh excited ;,f'r he was sure that the Adele and Zella, or to destroy larold Morleyi my'ste'rious struiger knew himti. would meet with many obstacles. ta King'of the Gitaaaos! larold Morley, Withdrawing Pedro to a Place where thoiV that is enough fir you to know." . conversation euld not. be easily overhoard1 And Gastave, whisp, ring a few words to te asked him whtat ki-nd of a man was Bobitog Pedro, tiruaeal and moved on amid the crowd IIarold's calaciro, or rolante driver. before- IIaroll, aistonished as he ,was, could "Like most of his gang, Massa Gin'ral,- speak again. smart. and a big thief!" was Pedrto's reply. Bnt catching Petdro by the arm,.he askcd ; "Does he love money?", asked Gnstave: "Who was that han? If you know, a -" Who that has .to w rk for it does net doublooa shall ia aird i'ou for indfrming me." Massa (hi'ril? Benito loves winte a good And Unrold dre'v' a doulyon ri'om his deal, but money vet more," answered Pedro pocket. "Do :yon think I could bribe him to work "Li Signor Torrilo -- El Rey tIe los qia- for mo while:ie is in lorley's employ ?" not !" sail Pedro, as he reached out his han4 "He'l nork best for hime that pas bcst" ail took the coin... said Pedro., Ilartld wonhl hive aske51 furthr questions, "Woul.l ho be faithful, thiak yau, tome,il butt in an isa~uit Pedro hadl ttned and glided I pid him' double as muchas he gets from through tIhe crowd witis the ease of a serpent. the other ?" " Master Iarohi, let us have this place " Yea, Masta Gin'ral, ,Ie woual1 bteaf"oo quickly ;I have .nade adaseravery," saidt ZelT if lie did not; and Benito~i sin fdal I" la---who, before soealim, riow exhibited great , " an yon masnageto-bi'inghimtomyrooni agitaion. at the hotel ?" '- a 4 What discovery, good Zella ?" asked lIar ,, "Nothing is more easy, Massa Giii'ral,'f ol. . ter he bas' done driving his' olatc for thit " I dare not tell you here, MasterfHarold," night. I know where he lives." i'ae re1ied- "Let us co to the hotel, or on " Welt,Pedr9, seet that you have him atm laerad the yacht, as quickly as we can, end I rooms as psn as possible. Ilere are a cotup ill tell ou. We.are not safe here." of doulbloons.tu- use as per-inders, or as yot "Did 'you kn4aw the mnask who called him- like. Only use eaution, and be snre thiL h self a gipsv living" Iwill not-tetray me:t before you bring hnis." "Yes, )Iutstaer Harold-hut too well; dis- - "Yes, Mssa Uin'ral; I bring him all san r i s 1 i 1 r' r M f f 3 {9 I a i F C, .r, I 4 44 ;, :; 1 i 7 I 'I% t I 1 6 page: 46-47[View Page 46-47] dILiLARE l I flERSON; Ok, as & chicken under my arm-spurs and all," 1 choice bottle of old vino de Caihla and a said Pedro, receiving his golden auxiliaries plate' of patos dc Florida, I'll tell you why I and departing. -calledyou, and of good fortune in store for both of us. Do you hear the gold jingle in CHAPTER XXVIII. my pocket, Benito ?" Benito, the calacero, Wa-reathier astonish. " I truth, I do," responded the calacero. ed when he was awakened from pleasant " Gold shall jingle in thin e, aLo, if you give dreams in his roan'c by Harold, and told to heed to me. Come, will 3ou go to Gerge- mount his horse ; for, though he had fallen na's ?" asleep, a glanc at the lighted shop-windows "Yes. I have two hours to spare." in the vieinit , tld him that the hour was far earlier than that when his employer usually CHAPTER XXIX. left the pleasures of the tall. When Harold, with Adele and Zella, was " Where shall I drive,?xcellenza ?" was his secure in the privacy of his apartments at the question, while llarold assisted Adele and hotel, and not until then, did he ask Zella Zella into the carriage. what was the nature of the discovery which "To the hotel first ; there wait until I at she had made at the mjtsquerade. ready to go to the boat," said H arold, as he "You talked with him who pretended to be sprang into thoecarriage. a gipsy king, and yet knew him not !" said lie did not notice when he spoke that the Zelfa. young gitano, aho had tlh him that the name "I did not know him ; but he was imper- of the older gipsy was La Torrillo, was close at tinent, and I reproved him." his side. If he had, he might have been more " There was something faseinat'ng, and yet cautious. terrible in his dark eyes," said Adele. "I Benito sprung into his saddle, and the vo- was terrified ; yet, for my life, could not but lane in another second was whirling away to. return his glance." ward the hotel whei e lie made his head-quar- "I knew not only his eyes, sweet mistress," ters when on shore, having there retained a said Zella, "but also a ring, which, when he suite of rooms from the time he arrived in the disguised himself, he had forgotten to take port. from his finger." - And securely perched on the cross-piece "Who was it?" asked Harold. back of the eolante rode Pedro, hidden from "None other than Gustave Henderson, Mas. the view of the occupants by the falling top, ter Harold," said Zella. "I knew him in an which is seldom used except in rainy weather. instant."- In a brief half hour, the volante arrived in "Why did you not tell me on the spot r front of the hotel ; and Pedro, the moment it asked Harold. stopped, dropped fr'm his seat, and hurried "I thought it would not be wise, sir,4' said over into the dense shadow of a house oppo- Zella. " He thought himself so weil disguis- site. e that he could pass unknown; and it was "In two hours, Benito, I will be ready to well, I think, to let him remain in that belief, go on board. Be here at that time," said while we, upon our guard, prepare to avert Iarold, aloud, as he assisted Adele and Zella any danger which lie may le preparing for to descend. us-for 1 know from his eyes that he means " I will be here, excellensa," said Benito. evil to us." A moment after, Harold and his company "Zella was right," said Adele. "The only entered the hotel, wonder is, that sh' could meet his gaze and "lust! list, companero !" said a low voice retain liar composure, when I, who did not ab the opposite side of the street, know him, could unot do so." " Quien viva? Who's there ?" asked Be- " Zella is a brave girl," said Harold. "And nito. now the question is, What course had we Let- . ".Come over and see," replied thi voice. ter take in regard to the villain ? lIe has " Duablo Who can see in the dark? tracked us hither undoubtedly with a revenge- Come over here, if you want anything of me. ful purpose. lis hot haste of hatred hns for- Who are you, at any rate ?" tunately betrayed his auripuse--or, at least, "Us amigo - an old friend, Benito mio. his presence. Come here a moment. Es PedrIllo, the boat "TLet us at once leave the place for Nitw man." Orleans,"'said Adele.r - Benito new recognized his voiee, and secur- "Ile can follow vs there," said . arold. lag his mule to a post, lie went over. " '" But we will be in our own country, whets "I lied reasons for not going over to the the law will speedily teach him a lesson if ie light of the posada," said Pedro to Benito, as offers to annoy us,' said Adele. the cacero went over to him. "Come with "That is true. But I do not like leaving me t tiorgona's wine-shop, and there over a this place without, in some manner, learning I j t T i I S T Isa I tis intention.I He is good at disguise; as we And edro pro iccd thejelidwFetli:" have seen; bqt I overirate mys.lf gheatly,if " tiuantbd ! The saints are oh oiu side, I eanddb sd disgdise .in elf as to meet and surely, Pedro!" cried Benito' his eyes sjpark- sound 'Ihini Witinit auy danger of recogni- ling as he looked upon the coin. "'Who is tion,"*said Iarold. this new master of thine?" "I tremble to have you risk it," said Adele. "A great general-a prince frofS Kes- "Oh, do let u3 g ) from the place at once p' tucky." "I will, if you insist upon it, my sweet "Kentucky? Where is that?" Adele; but it will te at least two .das to "I do not know, exactly. it is somewhere get the yacht ready for sea." in North America, But le, is tich, and as " Well, lt us go at the end of those two free with gold as the sea is with spray on a days, Ilarold." - wind day." "I will, Adele. And now I will order sup- "I believe you," said Benito, still looking per. By the time that is fairly discussed, the at the gold. "I wish that I had such a mas- boat will be at the quay, and we will go to ter." . our palace of oak, where no danger reach "Nothing easier, if I but interest myself us." for you," said Pedro, as he drank otT his glass of wine and refilled it, while Benito did the CIIAPTER XX5. ' same. "How much does the man who hires Pedro lel tie way into a private room at your volantc pay you ?" Gorgona's, and calle I for a bottle of wine of "I charge him but half a doubloon a the highest priee, with a nonchalance which right; and that is g.odpay- -better than wo quite astoisihed Benito, the volante driver. can get from los pobres tubanos." And when e aied to his order a couple of "'True; but my doubloon doubles it; be- brace of pVos de Florida--a small duck of sides, I have my extras l" delicious flavor, and thought a great delica- Benito looked at the doubloons which still ey among the IfH iiier'os, espeelally as it is lay upon the table, and sighed. a highi-priced dish-Benito opened his eyes , " 1 think my master can find use for you," wider, continued Pedro. "But he, too, has his so- "Have you found a gold-mine, Pedro ?"he crets. If I interest myself for yoi, will you asked. "By your dress, I see. that you have keep his secrets ?" been able to afford the masguira, and now "May I lose my tongue and die without you order a supper fit for a prince." ' - the sacraments, if I do noti" said Benito ; Pedro only laughed, and jingled the doub- and he again formed and kissed the finger- Joons in his pocket. cross. "Bring two bottles, tanto," said Pedro, to "Well, we will sup merrily, my old corn- the waiter who brought the bottld of wine. rade ; and then, when you have finished-with "Gentlemen of our condition can stand two your employer for the night, we will go and bottles without winking." see mine, and you shall talk with him yon And a'uin lie jingled the gold in his pocket. self." "Do 'nfold me this mystery, brother Pe- "Ab, Pedro, you are too kind. But you dro. Yiu know I am a true comaradel" cried ever were a free-hearted fellow ; even if you Benito, nervously. are a little free-handed sometimes, and rather "I ivil, Bonito--amigo mio--I will, if you quick with your knife, yet you have a good, will swear on the holy cross not to reveal my heart !" secret. Do but that, and listen to my advice, "A good heart 'for a friend, compasero, but and, as I told you before, gold shall jingle in a bad one for a foe. But here come the your pockets, too." ducks-cdices preciosas. Fall to, Benito, fall "I have sworn !" said Benito, as he laid to, and let them swim in wine. With sixty- his two fore-fingers across each other at right eight pesos ia my pocket, I can't afford to angles, thus forming a cross, and kissi g feel stingy,." them. "I have sworn by the Cross, Pedro ; Benito didnot need muchs pressing, forsel- and you know I will not, dare not, break my donr did lie indulge in a feast. his breakfast oath. tow for the secret." ' - of coffeeand salt fish, his dinner of jerhedr, "Well, Benito," said Pedro, Is be poured beef boiled with rice, his supper.of chocolate for each a bumper of wine, " the'truth is, that and buiscuit, was an near luxury as he ever I have'a generous dmployet, for'wham I work attempted to go. As for wine, the common ahe64. I no longer depend on chausee fares red vintage, which sold at one real a boltie- in the harbor. I am hired at a double on a sour enough, too, to sharpeO'one's teethi'was day, and am, besides. allowed about as much the beverage he was most used to ;' thdngh, more for pocket-miney. As this is' my first' sometimes, lie took a glass of fiery diuad- day, my master has allowed me four doub- iente when some of his brother 'calaciros -in loons i Do you see them ?" vited him to do so. t , page: 48-49 (Illustration) [View Page 48-49 (Illustration) ] ) 4 IILLIARE U1ENDERSON ; OR, Pedro luul spok en truly wlien he s'aid thatt ounce of gold hidden away for Lire winter of l~Bonito loved nei tey. lie lovedI it so well, life." that wlhets it was on ~e in 1118is jo seioti, it '' Suppose that I taike ohu itto my employ, wrung his heart to part with it, eveu o r the uItti the samec terms that 1 have cngngcd. ncc'esaries o~Iife. Pedro, wvill you Le fitittil to rue " asked' The two nowe went rtttheir sn phr heartily ;(ltastave. and, for a Lrn. nuthitug; was hvarl1 Iot the I will, cxce~n~a." Ai:l a win leaito kiss.. jingle of glasses ntul the elitter of their knives ed 1lue fitigir-erosp. '' 11 tie ntui u n. I willjII anti furls, tell the ki or Mo rley tint will driiy for him At list, they fniulcel. Nting ltt hones no longer" wi(re 1et of their uliiek. '1ity h luemputied "You iJ1 noat tell lii o. IPu tutu," said' twco bottk s of e i in i vte as COut(iitc(l fis (.iitnve. I wi-li \ 1to 1"(+i l: fr him just a lanir it old r:ului S ji a gutie ii th jilctuty of as luefoIro, nnd, at tL ;I ci-u u Imi, to &,1 C) my 8e (n(tittcin u~l~;. "I V ieu \ (lt ;;)go ( tui i o t 1 imntt dru'vi t) " YkCS, (.iCCtiCi u.' his 11oat, itlru Iiii o h t i \oU tiinl; of It:ti'- ''You ate to 1lt'ireu-ci f' ittu11 hretghr, ig hii s Fr1 c-''s i - eulro+, t') I~t'tii, wtuui(' Pedro, there, of nih I. i- n (1(t u-d it i+! uiomus, they 1ta1t tiuuiu1o - i+tt wu'I' it i t h ve 1 i t iiit knowv 11 .tu t " o~ i- .:1 1 i-. il'.:lllnd tiurt;unt-PI it ( hay ul ii.'aisl)- ti1, heliche guits. Yuiti.i . 1.: +lit Ten 't of :rs- , I r:all no,' ' tiulI}(li~tui. tanhday,iutah I ui ti ut i c t h u.,swien (tI I ''till snuuutt'r td+)11i + to itin' quay.' t iiirCe. J)() P-nul.(+m:1,.1 iltuy1 utlio?9" cunthiu (t't" I'- +uu' ' ainu :i fu-r your 1+uo I -lo + t tii-r-ltv, uJc1 ua.'I hare Ift, I will 0110 p iittie v1' ,', :Itil " ]i 1d Mi. hlu It 1 ;' i ' ltait~iifor lea'- -11 C eini iii V 1"ti, ti the l'uuih il de ii1g thitoern-a r '(1i)11 ll/ Curp.wut'- n Ij ijuuuu" '' INlic hteettt, aou~uzu:; 1 it t(tigbt 1 jIt'l "Y1cs ;Ii'111gou in ii? 1:t- , ++IIi if you het~c yciu g 'ra 11in s FI - ii liu1 1l 1so. "IIij ring me stu-i iif rtutuc 'u 1..i1.+;- i n+,'1'(- Xlutcni hk-tI itnti i t. I-a- .t. Ii 1 nie at dry, ot it iil rut tic' rlry fur it. I1uwil bet,'I in, to-nnpurrow, to etu(. iii.:tii rs eul at your frien(il fit lifetI"ti~e huay." .i As itt-au lturl Itme forit-ktltto (Meect ' (u odl. -Co t '.1'1 lt r(Iiilitu-t1(ray IHarold's cii l I 1ut' i +"I iiuk to his that tii;otliert Ins iill i t a uu x ltu 'i ill. ve!aric, , wiuie I uul e ui- I+ !'3\ &iU itteu;l tue uti t 'iui 1111'ii Iat (ii xl I tIm11 fol- Iidowtl toward tit.' Ili--li' jluIiet luw 3 ti t it ttituut 1tia i - t u u111 (1'Ikdr'o, ii ierve luitti' i-:.i-cr! ui(tl ht"1ou. will onlyv kiuni uelt- i-i . 'ii. tCIlAPTEIt XXXI. I 1'. this mll,utat(/ i.i ry I4,+ eio Wh en PtyIrd a-o te iidute clauili t'in itluiclm. !ltukoi mugittie 'i lowuti ouu qIs ii-eu.tmued to 0uuilWc F:it.n authil hi- 1tur ;suiltetut lii-ca/a- I trnt upitutlos ~uuliui tao ff lur1im, u t. louf ijubr i usu rpt ''Yes ;till1(1rilue Ii(itt I1" d11o still ed lltofwed ucr'iintu h'C u1ibloudccn ittin~g convy yfurticrs~i ti Ltn IdIniitmccs* ral, an~l 'itrot:( iio'? I isi cap11 and oiw. -lie sure I(le ICt-re t (it i u iio tui OWtt li'Cta tig aetv ton.--ann (I itule iust:iiul h ftlloweci ttl its n uuacme , Wtihi0 -1°iiu su-ia, niul * by ]Benito. 'Ii haoy iuuriiul tni it thucrus good pitul.' IA t eep l tur sier' t.1. lz /:a( iuuir:ii, atuul winie, ' Yes, llissa C irural. P. 1rttiill lie hero also. ,Ie dit 1ru jt yVt ,i (1 alit ! if 1he'lai,'it~s ure-itsthe 'ti?1 l ( (\(ii- ( ( .t my kiuife amii 1i; irdu- wuuuil Itilc e aeuiuimut. I'ue two mWitnitt amuk tetlo (fA rcd gliaa of Alice." trmne, amidnlejui(rt u it 'This, thetn, is fCLduto,'youu'r fr'iitd r said ' Tlittgs n1iujsir hi. I. Ok f:i\(ty t for n Gustnt-e. ciilmiiiumtln," sttidntu i1sc e,t itt(1ui', "bcn 1(The same. .xclluitaFi ssi tt- hue was onuce nire '1', ". ' It wtiltI-e nniat eecloitig lu-fr--Pro )ei~hliru-pin". ". thing to get IlnuoldC(+11(lo iia- ilout.- "/ Murlu-y '" ploy. Atud thn,t t 111( ue nid of I'edro's ' V i ' , (xet' fflii."ktnife, tl'y iillCitttit$ with1htult Pii} (sil(1) 1 Docglie (( \nti ell " setled I htoo 1(0.I~it cist u (fltZeIla; t.Nt cy. ri'un~i." ?" for clth'J la Btlnrgue pzuj is~ i hfid to OooI Y oUlwu'.hdlike to wr lr1etter rpity"r' to 8lield hter, fronm miy tp. lu. il linre will 't Al. t-s ex-ellen~aefr Iu-it cr-y-poor."I lie atomuslACei liet i I in-. t lwtitithi loth of - . aI- ,.-c" (r..tt.ri....r.,to..it',t.i..,.t.d i 1i :... ut ,1,..E Ihanuil,. u.rle I r' r' ss" /1,11/11 J/A' : , , rr rl' , J 1 J r1 1rtrl ! rr '1 t j , :7 J ,f uj , /1 1 d i 1j r ' K r i J { l/ r J r fr W4 , I 4 page: 50-51[View Page 50-51] -1) i i a f gi 1 q 4} 1 cream .f a suecess which cannot but be mine. 4-__ CHAPTER XXXII. " I know von will chide inc for my folly," said Adele, to Harold, when they met at the breakfast-table on board the yacht in the morning which followed their last visit to the masquerade, "but I must tell you of a dream -a fearful dream! which I had lastnight. I know that you laugh at all things superna- tural, and disbelieve in ominous dreams, yet this dream lies like a leaden weight upon my heart "Dreams, my love, are only the effect of a nervousness felt before sleep; and whatever wild, nervous fears or fancies you feel before you sleep, form the burden of what you sup- pose to be dreams. The truth is, that they are not dreams-they are the same fancies felt while you are in a semi-somnolent state, half- awake and half-asleep. But I will not laugh at you ; tell me your supposed dream ; and, afterward, we will both laugh when it fails in reality to come to pass." knoww I was sadly nervous when I retir- ed," said Adele. "It was a long time before I slept. When I did, I thought my spirit was disembodied, and that I was permitted in spirit to sweep through the air and see all things as with my mortal eyes. Half-enchanted with joy, I flew over beautiful gardens, full of fra- grant flowers ; over lakes which glittered like molten silver ; over vine-embowered cot- tages and splendid palaces ; over streams which bubbled and gurgled over sands of gold, and through groves where myriads of birds sung in wild yet dulcet harmony. "I was delighted. I flew over broad fields of cane, and rice, and coffee ; -I looked down upon groves of orange, lemon, and lime ; I rested on the emerafd-crowned palm; I pluck- ed the ehiramoyft from its stem, and placed it, melting in its juicy ripeness, in my mouth. "Suddenly I saw a votante like that in which we ride, and it halted by the ruins of an old palace. There was but one person in it. I hastened toward it, and came so near that Icould see thatyou were in it, andalone- none but Benito, the driver, near you. You seemed to be curiously looking at the old ruins. And now, when I wished to join you, my wings, hitherto so airy and so swift, seem- ed to fail me, and I remained like one anchor- ed in the air. " While I fretted to be free, again, as be- fere. I saw another volante driving toward the spot where you were. It stopped behind a half-ruined wall, and from it descended Gus- tave Ilenderson,. With him was a man, whose dark, ferocious look made rme shudder. In Ids hand, this man carried a dagger. Hen- derson pointed toward you, and stealthily, like a serpent gliding toward its prey, the murderous-looking man crept toward you. "I knew his intention--I struggled to fly to your side-alas ! I was helpless ! I tried to shriek out a warning to you, but my lips were sealed with fear and horror. Closer, closer crept the assassin, while you, heedless of danger, plucked fruit from the trees which grew amid the ruins. "Oh, the agony which I felt ! Now he was close to you, only one tree--a huge palm-- between him and yourself. You paused be- neath its shade--he was close to your back-- his hand holding the glitteringsteel upraised! With one fearful effort, I broke the dreadful seal of silence, and shrieked: "'Harold! Harold ! beware!' "I woke, and found myself cold as ice with terror, and trembling from head to foot. Now, do not blame me, dear Harold, if I tell you that I do think this dream is ominous; nor chide me when I beg you, for my sake, not in any way to expose yourself on shore. I know what a base, treacherous, revengeful wretch is that Gustave Henderson. He is not a brave and open enemy ; the assassin's knife -the poisoned cup-either would he use to rid himself of one whom he hates and fears !" "There is the foundation of your dream," said Harold, with a smile. " before you slept, knowing his characteira t husaud fears of what he might do torments) your n ind. Was it not so ?" "Yes, Harold ; yet I know I slept soundly when I dreamed that dream." "You think so, love ; but never mind, let us try to "1o justice to the breakfast which our good Nathan has provided for us. By the way, do you believe in dreams. Nathan ?" "Do I, capting? You might jist as well ask me of I believed in the Gospel of Saint Luke !" replied Nathan, who had listened, open-eyed and open-mouthed, to the narra- tion of Adele. "Yes, capting ; I do believe in dreams. I dreamed, the only time I ever was in love, that my gal gin me the mitten ; and sure enough she did, the very next time I axed her to go to meetim' with me. She said she'd found better company; and she went and took up with Ben Smith, the shoe- maker, and she's been his lap-stone ever since !" Both Harold and Adele laughed at Nathan's story ; but Zella remained silent and glopmy. "What is the matter, Zella, asked Harold, kindly. "I, too, have had a dream, kind Master .Harold," she said ';but I will ndt tell it to be laughed at. Only I beg you to beware of Gustave Henderson. lie is a bad man, and dangerous, because he works in the dark." The reply of Zella brought a shadow once 6 l i 1 i i A THE SECRET REVEALED. ,.: , 11 i l l page: 52-53[View Page 52-53] I 't I 82 HILLIARE HENDERSON; OR, more upon the face of Adele. She could not vor ?" asked Adele, smiling through her shake off a foreboding which seetiid to chill tears. her heart. "Ef there is anything on airth that I'd The breakfast was eaten in silence ; and no 'specially like to de, Miss Adele, it would be - one but Harold did justice to the faultless ca- jest whatever would please you," said Nathan. teriug of Nathan. " You love Mr. Morley, do you not ?" - "Jest as Jonathan loved David, in the CIHAPTER XXXIIIL Old Testament, only a little more so," an- N+t long before the hour of noon, Harold swerved Nathan. tli Adele that he was going on shore to visit "I fear that his life is in danger if he goes' the va ious hotels, to see if he could not dis- on shore alone, and he is too brave and proud cover where G ustave Henderson hiad located to take any one with him." himself, so that lie could have a police sur- "Jest like him. lie was always ventur'" veillainee placed ipon him. For Harold hal some to a digit." brought letters t introduction to the Amnri- " I want you to make some excuse to go on can Consul-Gn rd, who had presented him shore in the same boat with him. Do not let to. ti governor, wio had treated hini with hiim know that I asked you to go, nor let him great reelect ,ad kinilm es, especially after think that you go for any purpose connected enjo ing the hoslitalities of his beautiful with his safety. But after you get on shore, yacht. Therefore he felt confident that, if do lot lose sight of him until he returns in he requested it, the use of the police would safety to the vessel. Will you do that for be accord d him. Not that he feared any me, athan?" open attack from his enemy-that he was "1 will, Miss Adele, and the human critter ever prepared to meet-but treachery was to that lifts a hand to harm one hair of his bead be guarded against. had better begin prayin' afore he lifts a Let ine go with you, dear Harold," said singer!" Adele, anxiously, when he expressed his in- Adele went to her state-room, and brought tention. out a richly-mounted revolver. " It would scarcely be proper ; besides, I " Ihere is a present for you, Nathan," said. shall run no risk. it is daylight, and I will she. "It is carefully loaded-use it, if you conic off before night. lRemieimber, we are to must, ii defence of his life." ho to the opera to-night. You and Zella prs- "I will, Miss Adele," said he. "I've no pare your dr sales. I took our box yester- doubt-that it'll tell a s'arching story ef it baa day." to speak at all. I've a pair of hose-pistols in -Diar harold, I cannot keep that dream my bunk-flint-locks-that m grandfather from my mind." used in the battle of Bunker IIill. They're l"Pshiaw, Adele! do not let such weak fan- good, but most too cumbersome to carry eit a take possession of your mind. Besides, about by daylight. But excuse me, marm; is it not for the very purpose of putting the they're calling away the boat's drew on deck, villain tinder surveillance that I go ?" and I must be off, or lose my chance to go " I cant help mily fancies, harold, and I ashore." ;htl i1 i no mire at peace until we are again And Nathan hurried on eek. - on the lii.' unt rs of the dear old ocean." " Ef you please, capting,* be you goin' "'lhnt il soon occur, dearest. I have ashore?" he asked, as he approached Harold. t.rdi to have our vessel ready for sea " Yes, Nathan." ls t miorrowsv." "I've got to see about them small stores, "Tianiks, dear uirold, thanks. Do not sir, and ef you've no objection, I'll go ashore idamiie mie for iiy anitety-your life is far in the same boat." mire d ar to mie than my own. With you, "You can certainly do so, Nathan, and re. the wi1 "Ifull of suishine-without you, all member that we will most likely go to sea to- would I e clouds amid darkness. I would be morrow. have everything on board to-night doubly orphiained, doubly widowed then." that is needed." And hi ars came into her great dark eyes "Sartingly, eapting-sartingly." while she spoke. And when the boat was manned, Nathan -' Cheer up, dear st, I will soon return," took a seat in the stern-sheets, near his com- said hiarold, and with a kiss upon her fair meander. I row he bade her "adieu for but a little while," and went oi deck to order a boat to CHAPTER XXXIV. Barry hinm to the shore. - When Harold Morley reached the shore, he , The moment lhe was gone from the cabin, found Benito waiting, aithfully, according to Adele rung a bell. It was answered by the orders, as he had always done since he first steward. employed him. Upon landing, Nathan hur- " My good Nathuan, will you co me a fa- ricd away, as IaroId supposed, to visit the ,I" I) THE SECRET REVEALED. store of Don Juan Cabargas, there to make !question," said the landlord, with a look of his purchase of provisions. But Nathan hur- .surprise. " It is a favorite drive, with straa- ried past that store to a vo/ante stand near gers especially. Far more attractive, though the large s 'loon known as "La Longa," and loss frequented, than the Pasco del Tacon. looking out a driver who understood English, It once was more beautiful, and is even now told hi to raise the cover of his carriage, more romantic." while lie hired him to follow and keep within Harold looked again at the handwriting on sight of the ro'antc of Harold, which he de- the register, and in his mind assured himself scribed, and which he knew must pass up that the hand of Gustave Henderson had writ- that street. ten-the name of "General Weston." He WhenI Harold entered his volante, he said thought for a moment of asking a description to Benito : of the person representing himself under that "I wish you to drive me to each of the name, but considering that it might be im- hotels in the city, in succession. I expect an prudent, he refrained and returned to his ye- acquaintance in the city,'and would look at lane. their registers to see if he has not arrived." "Do you know where the Bishop's Garden "Yes, crcllenza," sail Benito. And he is, Benito ?" he asked, as he entered the car- mounted his mule, casting, at the same, an riage. apparently-careless glance at a country-look- "Yes, excellenta - very well," replied Be- inig roante nea- by,-into which a very fleshy nito. And a gleam of satisfaction shone in man was getting, who looked, with his bronz- his keen black eyes. ed face and huge, black whiskers and mous- '.' Then drive me there," said Harold. And tache, his broad-rimmed Panama hat, his sinking back upon the cushioned seat, lie add. loose nankeen coat and trowsers, like some su- ed, in a low tone: "I will solve my doubts gar-planter from the interior. The calacero at once, if I can. I will not be dogged around of that volante was Pedro, the boatman, and by Gustave Henderson ; if he persists in an- there was an evident understanding between noying me, he will be apt to lose the number him and Benito ; for as the latter started his of his mess." mule and drove close by him, glances were exchanged which Harold did not notice. When the volane which contained Harold CHAPTER XXXV. passed the spot where Nathan sat in hisvehi- When Nathan, continually following the cle ensconced well back in its huge top, he volante of his captain, saw that the one just was surprised to find another volante follow- ahead of him seemed to be doing the same ing the first s closely that his driver was thing, stopping whenever the white mule forced to fall into its rear. Cautioning the stopped, and going on again when it moved driver not to lose sight of the volante with forward, lie grew very uneasy. He knew that the white mule, though to keep so far in the Harold was alone, and if the single person in- rear as not to appear to be following it, he the volante was Harold's friend, 1h would bade hin drive on. drive up and speak to him. From hotel to hotel --- Spanish, French, Several times he thought he would'order American, an 1 English -- Harold rode and his driver to pass the suspicious solante, and carefully examined the registers of each, hop- to close up with Harold, so that he could in- jng to find the name of Gustave Henderson ; form him that a suspicious craft was folhw. or even if lie had'registered a false name, to ing in his wake ; but then, remembering the recognize his handwriting, which he had seen directions given by Adele, that he was not more than once. to let Harold know of his vicinity, but merely The last hotel which he visited was La Po- to keep so near as to protect him when in sola de la Europa. Here lie saw the name of danger, he held back. "General Weston, Kentucky ;" and though Gustave Henderson and Pedro were both not certain, thought that lie recognized in the so intent in watching the volante before them, handwriting chirography similar to that which that they took no heed of that which folfr he had seen emanating from the hand of Gus- lowed. tave Henderson. When Harold, after his visit to the Posada " Where is General Weston ?" he asked of de la Europa, ordered Benito to drive to the the polite landlord. Bishop's Garden, and the latter set off at a "-Absent, sir. He bade me say, that if any brisk pace toward the gate which opened on friend called to see him, he had gone out to the road that led over the sierra, Pedro said, the Bishop's Garden." in a low tone : "The Bishop's Garden? Where is that?" "The mullet has taken the bait, Massa asked Harold. Gin'ral 1 Benito is bound for the Bishop's "The gentleman has not been in Havana Garden !" long, or he surely would not have asked that "Good I" muttered Gustave Henderson. page: 54-55[View Page 54-55] 64 HILLIARE HENDERSON; OR, 'i II " Good I Mr. Harold Morley will soon be see it lone. I should be haunted all my life bound for a worse place !" it I dd. I have not such cold blood as Pe- And he sunk back upon the cushions of the dro has ! Dios me guarde, they are coming !" volante with an expression of savage satisfac- tion upon his well-bronzy d face. CHAPTER. XXXVI. Benito urging his mule rapidly on, soon We will now return to Nathan, and those pissed the city gate, then sped away over the upon whom he kept watch. The old steward .ierra, an I soon was beyond the suburbs of grew more and more nervous as the volantes the citv, passing through a series of hand- left the suburbs of the city, and when they some grounds which surrounded beautiful came in sight of the broken gate-way and the count- y villas. ruined wall, he groaned: " H ow fir is it, Benito, to the Bishop's Gar- "The dream-the dream ! Sweet Jerusa- den ? asked Harold, at this time. lem, but'm afeared it's coming true 1" When "It is a league anl a half from the city. cx- the volante in which Harold rode disappeared el/raze. But we will soon be there !" replied from sight, he would have had his driver ihe calar ro. pass the other if he could. But the road was And driving his Ige spurs into the flanks so narrow that it was impossible. And he if his mule, lie hurried on. groaned in agony when he saw the volante llarold sail no more, but gazed upon the ah ad of him drive just within the gate, and heauCtiful scenery, which continually met his there stop, while the man in it descended and eye, with ph-asure. walked on with the driver, who dismounted at I wi5h I ba1l brought Adele with me !" he the same time, so fastening his mule that no said to hims 1f. "She would have vastly en- other carriage could get by. joyiel a rid' liic this !" Ordering his driver to stop where he was, They soon arrived at a gate, which was Nathan leaped from the volante, and hurried quite dilapidated, as was also the wall on on through the gateway. In a fewseconds he either side of it. Driving quickly through came in sight of the ruined palace. this, into a grove of various trees, such as 1 "0 Moses-the -lrcan - the dream !" he pain, cocuaiut, guava, cinnamon, and others, moaned, as he Ine ric on, clutching the wea- they cmne iin sight of a building which had pon which Adele had given him. evidently once been a noble palace, but which Fortunately, for many paths diverged there, was now alrmEst a heap of runs. Broken he saw the receding forms of the men who had columns, fallen walls, shattered statues, and occupied the rolante ahead of him, as they fountains which seemed long since out of use, hurried up one of the paths. met the eve all around. But fruit and flowers Stealthily as a panther, but swiftly, the old grew profusely, and the broken arches were steward followed them, passing the well- covered with vines and creepers. known volante in which his master had ridden, "This is the Bishop's Garden, excellenza I" where Benito had fastened it. said Benito, as he checked his mule. On-his heart beating faster than his pulse, Harold thought of the dream of Adele, as and so loud that it sounded like a drum in his he looked at the rnins, and for an instant a ears, Nathan hurried. cold chill went to his heart, while he felt of The path was winding, but fortunately it she weapons which he always carried with liim had no branches, for those whom he followed when on shore, and then looked around to see were now out of sight, and had there been if any one else was near. diverging roads, he would not have known But not a person could be seen or heard ex- which to follow, for their feet left no track cept Benito, who sat carelessly in his saddle, uipon the hard gravel. whistling a Biscayan air. lie had probably walked and ran a quarter "I thoughtthis place was much frequented, of a mile, though to him it seemed to be lenito!'' said he. treble that distance, when he came to the "It is, steor, later in the afternoon. We verge of a small space which was nearly free are early. Besides, there may be many people fr'om trees. In its centre, shaded by a I'rge, in the walks. They extend some ways further, royal palm, was a small fountain, which though it is not good driving for the vo- gurgled up through a group of broken marble lante I" water-gods. Leaning against this tree, Nath- Very well--I will wait a while. Keep the an saw his master, but the other twopersons ro'ante here while I take a stroll !" were not in sight. "Yes, excellenza !" and Benito dismounted, "The dream-the dream !" moaned the old and fastening his mule, waited a few moments man, and he was about to rush forward to until Iharold was out of sight. Then he liur- join.Harold, when he saw the calaciro who had tied off into a by-path, muttering as he driven the volante nearest to his own, appear went : suddenly on the border of the open space not "They may kill him-but I don't want to , thirty feet from him. The man was crouched n I TILE SECRET REVEALED.6 down, an held in his hand a long, bright- " The tother man must be round here some- bladed knife. His position was such that he where," replied Nathan. " He came along could creep toward Harold's back unseen by with this chap as far as I seen 'em. He's the latter. been dogging you ever since you got into the In a moment Nathan's revolver was held to volante, and I've dogged him." a " bead" upon the calacero's head, with a " Yes, it is Gustave Henderson. He must hand as steady as the finger of Time. be sought out, arrested, and punished," cried But Nathan did not fire. He watched the Harold, as he drew a revolver and rushed to. motions of the would-be assassin, and at the ward the spot where Nathan said he first saw same time looked for the other man, whom he the calacero. intuitively knew to be the employer of the He found no one there but broken flower- first. stems, bent grass, and several broken branch- "El I could take 'em both, 'twould be a es, which betokened that some one less eau- clean job !" he muttered. tious than the calaccro had been there, and But the employer 'did not show his head, that within a few minutes. though Nathan, who had shrunk back into a Something white slinging to a bush attract- clump of guava bushes, thought he saw the ed Harold's attention, and upon reaching it, small trees shaking strangely, near the spot he found it to be a linen pocket-handkerchief. where he first saw the calacero showing him. Had he doubted before, here was proof of the self. late presence of his dastardly enemy. The The would-be assassin was now within a few handkerchief had the name-" G. Henderson, feet of his intended victim. Old Nathan pre- Georgia," marked in one corner. pared to act with a nerve fitting the perilous With renewed eagerness, after this, Nathan need. As the calaccro, who till now had-crept and Harold searched the entire surrounding along the ground, rose to his feet behind the groves and thickets, but without success. At palm-tree, Nathan took deliberate aim, and at last, Harold determined to return to the so- the very moment when the villain raised his lante, and see if lie could not be found there ; hand, while the steel glittered in the air, there and if not, he intended to go at once to the was a sharp report, and without a groan, or governor-general, and stating the facts of his an uttered word, Pedro leaped high in the air, attempted assassination, to procure an order and fell dead on-his face, burying his knife to for the arrest of Henderson as an accomplice wle hilt in the soft ground. of the dead man, and the real instigator of the "The dream hasn't all come true --the attempt. arcam hasn't all come true !" shouted Nathan, " What shall we do with that poor eree- as he rushed from his place of concealment. tur ?" asked Nathan, when Harold said he was and threw his arms around Harold's neck, going to the solante. while the tears streamed down his cheeks. "Let him lie where he is, until the proper At the same instant, had he not made so authorities come to take care of his body !" much noise,' a bitter curse might have been said Harold. "He will probably be recogniz- heard in the bushes on the left, from whence ed ; I think I have seen his face before." Pedro had crept ; and a crashing as if some "I knots I have;" said Nathan. "He's not person had hastily fled away. ' in the same rig, though, that he was then. "What, in the name of heaven, does this He has carried me off aboard in his boat; he mean ?" cried Harold, in wild astonishment, has a wherry in the harbor-or, least-wise, he as he looked first at Nathan, then at the man had ; for I calculate he has got done wherryin' who lay dead at his feet. in this world. That was a proper nice shoot- "It means, capting," said Nathan, actually in'-iron Miss Adele gave me to-day." sobbing with joy, "that Miss Adele's dream "Did she~ send you to watch over me t hasn't quite come true. That ereetur there asked Harold. was jest a goin' to knife you, when I let fly at " Sarting she did, capting ; ef she hadn't, him. He won't knife anybody any more. I your goose would have been cooked before put the ball right through both his ears--'ye this time o' day, sure ; for Ididn't know noth- see?" in' about your bemn' in danger." And Nathan coolly rolled the body over on "Heaven bless the angel! To her and to its back. you I owe my life ! Heaven bless the angell" Harold saw the knife clutched in the death- "El I didn't say amen to that, I'd be worse grasp of the corpse,,and Instantly compre- than a Universalist ; and my old father, who hended his recent peril and the noble service was a hard-shell Baptist, thought there which Nathan had rendered. couldn't be nuthin' worse than them, though "But this man could not have been alone ; his son ain't jest of that opinion," said Na- he must have had confederates-an employer. than, as he followed Harold along the path This is Gustave henderson's work. Where is ;that led to the spot where the volantes had been he?" cried Harold. I+heft. st . ' 7 z . ' _t , ; i ' - ,} t(' ,la ij #+}. page: 56-57 (Illustration) [View Page 56-57 (Illustration) ] IIiLLIARE HENDERSON, OR, Upon arriving at the place where he had left his volante, Harold found it thre-the white niule standing tied asLUenito had left it. He shouted for Benito, but neither answer nor man caine. But the driver, who had Lrouglht Nathan, hearing the shouts, came and said . " Seor, if you seek Benito, von will not find himlire. About twenty minutes ago, he and a large, fit shy man came running out of the garden, and taking a vu/ante which was fastened just before mine, turned it, and near- ly upseitmng my vo/ante in passing, drove off at a gallop toward the city." "The murderers! Even Benito was in the plot,'' said Harold. Then turning to Nathan, he added : "We must lose n time-can you act as calacecro, Nathan? I will get into this man's roan/c, and drive to the governor's pal- nee. Can you follow with the vo/ante that be- longs to Benito ?" I reckon I can ; leastwise, I can try," said Nathan, turning the white mule and prepar- ing to mount, while Harold went on the other vo/ante ; and tossing its driver a piece of gold, told him to drive with all possible speed to the governor's palace. CIIAPTER XXXVII. When Harold arrived at the palace and sent heis card to the governor-general, he was in- stattly admitted. Upon his relation of the attempt to asstassi- nate hin, and the death of the man who at-, tempted to commit the deed, the governor in- stantly ordered one of the officers of his guard to take a file of men to scour the entire neigh- borhood, and to arrest any persons whom they might find there, also to bring the body in for recognition. And when Harold told him whom he supposed to be the instigator of the attack ; and under what false name he thought he had registered himself, the gor- rnor at once gave him an officer and a guard of soldiers, with orders to arrest Henderson and Benito wherever they might be found- itt the same time ordering the volante and mule of Benito to be detained in the government stables. "If they are caught, the garote is their des- tiny !".said the governor. "We have an oe- easional murder in the night-time," he added ; but never since I have ruled upon the isl- and, has such a bold and desperate crime been attempted in the day-time. Let the criminals be secured, and an example shall be made which will strike terror to the black hearts of all others who are like them in disposition."' Harold at once went with the officer and guard to the Posada de la Europa, and inquir- d for General Weston. "lie returned less titan an hour ago, paid his bill, took his baggage, and went away, senior," replied the landlord. "Did he leave word whither he was going ?" asked the officer. "No, senor," replied the landlord. "iIe seemed in great haste ; though but last night he said he should stay some weeks." "Which way did the rolante go which car- ried him ?" asked the officer, "Down toward the harbor," replied the landlord. "We will get him yet, senor," said the offi- cer to Harold. "his excellencythe govern- or-general, will doubtless offer a reward for both the fugitives, and they cannot long es- cape our vigilance." Ihen taking a careful description of Hen- derson and Benito, the officer returned to the palace to report. Harold started to return to his vessel, re- questing the officer to say to the governor that he would return to the palace in a, short time with Nathan, to give any evidence which might be required when the body of the as- sassin was brought in. - CHAPTER XXXVIII. In a short time, Harold, with Nathan by his side, stood once more in the cabin of his beautiful yacht. "I never will laugh at your dreams again, dear Adele," said lie, as lie pressed his lips upon her brow. "To your thoughtfulness and Nathan's courage, I owe my life." "Then you have been attacked ?" And Adele, as she said this, turned pale. Yes;' amid ruins just as you describe them, beneath a palm. hnd you seen the spot before-seen the assassin as lie approach- ed me with his uplifted knife, when I was un- conscious of his presence, vou could not more correctly have described 'what actually has occurred, than you did hen you related your dream. But Nathan, with the weapon which you gave him, shot the vile assassin down at the moment when his hand was raised to drive his weapon to my heart," "Thank Heaven ! O Nathan ! I know not how to thank you-how to reward you!" cried Adele, grasping the old man's band. "In saving his life, you have saved my own." "Then I've got all the pay I ask for in this world," said Nathan. "I only wish I could have killed t'other one, too." "Was it Henderson that he killed?" asked Adele. "No-merely a tool of his," replied liar- old. "The chief villain has escaped, for the time; but the authorities are after him, and his life is forfeited if he is captured." "I hope they will secure him," replied Adele. "While such a villain lives, and, bloodhound-like, is on our track, your life .I * 4 ii 1 I 1 page: 58-59[View Page 58-59] THE SECRET REVEALED. will never be safe1 !Nathan cannot always the party which ha.1 been be near you; I may never again have such a garden had returned. T dream. Oh, I pray that he may be captur- successfully, for any per ed !" but had brought away lie will find it difficult to escape. Under In his pockets, they had such strict police and military rule, the es- loons which, the governor cape of any well-described criminal is almost edly the price -of blood an impossibility. And now, my Adele, hay- But there were no paper ing come off merely to assure you of my safe- which could bring how ty, and to thank you for the precaution which Henderson. But the hand you took in sending Nathan to look out for old had found, the descri me, I must return to the palace to be present which the landlord of t at the examination of the body of the assas- all went to prove that it sin, and to learn if any arrests have been had hired the assassin. made." "I would ask your cx Nathan will go with you, will he not, old, now, for the irst tir dear hIarold ?" statement which the l "Yes." "whether the Bishop's " Then I am content. He has proved his fashionable resort ?" truth and faithfu ness, and I had rather that "Quite to the contrary he were with you alone, than any other twen- sons ever visit it." ty n"n." Harold at once stated Don't, Miss Adele-lont make me too had told him. proud ! said Nathan; and tears of joy stood "lie must have been in his eyes. " Though, to speak truly, I'd have him before us at onc rather hear one word of praise from your lips, ernor; and an officer w than all the singin' I ever heard in meeting ; patched for that purpose. and I used to be mon-trous fond of that." In a short time the lam '-Take this, and wear it for my sake," said mod to death (for he kn Adele ; and she drew a diamond-ring from laid against him), stood in her fioner, and put it in his hand. the governor-general-w Nathan looked at the golden circlet and power, holds life and deat the glittering jewel. 1Ho tried to put it on "Why did you tell th the end of his little finger. Then, as it failed he inqired after General even to go on the tip of that finger, he burst that the Bishop's Garden into a hearty laugh. lonable resort'W' asked th "''would take a hoss-collar to fit my fin- "Please your excellent gers, Miss Adele," said he. "Please don't or the cutleman who reg think me unmannerly or ungrateful, but I'd General Weston, before no more know what to do with this- purty my house in the morning jewel, than a parson would with a pack of gentleman, whom he des phayin'-keerds ! Ef you'll only jest give me scription answered to thi one lock of your black, shiny hair, I'll keep possibly call to see him. it jest as long as I live." tian was a friend who And be handed back the ring. , to see. Also, that he was Adele took up a pair of scissors and sever- day at the Bishop's Gard ed a long tress of her beautiful hair, and with truth, know nothing, for a voice which quivered with emotion, said : there. He wished his fr " Take it, Nathan, and I will yet try to and bade me tell him, as find some better way to reward ou." very words which I use " Please, Miss Adele, don't talk of it ay and did so. I had n more. I haven't done nothin' more duty, and I'm well paidal that an tig andime understand eac other, and made to assassinate this g there's no danger of there beim' any odds be- "Upon m olemn oat twixt us at the last reckoning." fortunately, livcd so long "No, indeed, Nathan ; but we must go cellency, that my charact ashore, now, to see what is going on there," bear the closest scrutiny.' said Harold. "Your explanation ap -an truthful," said the go CHAPTER XXXIX. return o your hotel, with When Harold and Nathan reached the pal- you are under surveillance ace of the governor-general, they found ta leave-the city without my i 599 sent to the bishop's hey had sought, un- sons lurking there, the body of Pedro. found several doub- said, were undoubb- l paid in advance. s, or anything else, e the matter unto kerchief which Har- ption of his person he hotel had given, was Henderson who ellency," said Ilar- ie, thinking of the ndlord had made, arden is a place of y. Very few per- what the landlord in the plot. I will e," replied the go- as immediately dis- dlord, frightened al- . ow not what charge the presence of was ho, with vice-regal h in his own handLs. is gentleman, when Weston (so called), was a place of fash- e governor, sternly. ey, General Weston, istered his nnme as he went away from , said to me that a cribed (and the de- s gentleman), might He said this gen- m he much wished going to send the len-of which I, in I have never been iend to follow him, an inducement, the d. To oblige my o other earthly rea- attempt was to be entleman I'' h, no, sir! I have, in Havana,your ex- er and conduct will pears to be candid vernor. " You can the knowledge that ice, and must not special permission. page: 60-61[View Page 60-61] 60 IIILLIARE HENDERSON ; OR, t1 I THE SECRET REVEALED. 61 And should v-on, cr any ( ne else, bie so for- leas as was Gustave Hletdesin, Vt r ' te for tunate as to tind an:d a r , this Gneral W es- crime and villainy, lie was yet an arrmin cow- t.n, at as 11emh1 r-o, or linito. the calaeiro, ard, morally and physically. u, or th . sh1. ree 've from my hands j When hesentPedro forward to do the deed ote hunir d011o O i 1i.' which he dared nt risk himself, after having fIun, tuiruing to an id, the governor add- cunningly entrapped Ilarold into that lonely place, he watched the movements of his hire"- i (i+ofT r a:: 1 a d1e(sriltion of the hag with treimulous interest. Ie had no 1 I h ho lldtl throngh51 thli city, and thought of having been followed ; and when, n.r thel idant." it the very moment which he thought would .i " bndr lird, nw a liti- more at case, was he Harold's last on earthi, lie heard a shot, tlriitd t, d, art ; 1 the governor, turn- and saw Pedro fall dead upon the ground, he :ug tI l:roil hi a fmle, sail : was so stricken with terror, that without wait- : r. I liave 1nI angi-ate] and ex-it iting to Sev by whom the shot was fired, he h 1 t.. not'r, n I amill , i - Ie l wildly through the bushes'toward the St to'ier.mci:i. 1 ht I have IL 1ovr 11Cnee where he had left the rolante. lie knew urb yi. I lunte nthr. 1 .a:n ti:n: to Ot whether Ilarold had niany friends to aid cr ratulat at upoi ,- r enp:l from the lito or not-lie only knew and felt that his a --ia Ihe."'1p lot had filed, anid therefore, that his own "g :it ftlvt ha.k 1 r excellence fir life was in danger. 1. :1 f : y'u c r s," repli il IIar- ,In rushing through the thicket, lie ran up- . " t n vt eritnt:n to you this faithful on lenito. rt 1 : d I .: ", whoe rdai ni"and " Saneta Maria-excellenza ' What is the 'itchlf..1 c rn ii vied miule, I feel that matter?" asked Benito, liniiself terrif ed at preent one wit ee worth is far above his the agitation which Gustave exhibited. rt'"' " All is lost, Benito!" cried the chief con- I He 1- Ins , ' iond service in ridding spirator. "Pedro has been slan, and we must our ii-l I tf a rt- h itwort lv to live upon fly for our own lives! Hurry with me to the itr ( the ott rt:o . " lhat is his name, volante-we can reach the city before the alarm ser is given there ; and then when I get my money Nhan har,.lan . y :r e lb ney-a from the hotel, we can find son e place of con- :.1 rs i to yt ttinthir eitfoir' I was eealment un'il we can leave the island. Hasten, t 'tIl n ow equialiy f.iit hfdt Ito ne.'' m good ntw, I have plenty of money, and "aitltftlu:ushoull ever ihe rewrdtd," will not desert you if you do not desert mc. tiitl the gon rnor, kindlt. Ant taking frio We are both in peril,~f r this Seior Morley I is pcket a large atl magnificent watch, will follow us to the death." from which hung a chain be ring a massive "I am ruined, ruined, senior !" groaned enierald lor a s.l, lie added : Benito. "I will fly with you, because I must; "'atlian Slr.nklan I, accept this from the not because I wish. If I stay, the garote will Governtor-Geeral of Cinba. nt alone for say- be my doom !" lag the valued life of your tiuster, but in re- By this time they had reached his rolante, muenim r ne if one who valte dclty wherey- and lienito was about to unhitch his mule. t It it I.1.' "NO; io not take this! We will gain time ' it rentblet from head to foot with by 1 Ii ntg the other which Pedro drove," said agltaatiina s th governor ha:ld hlims the G it ave. "' When Morley and his friends mnagnificent preen t. 'Tears ca:ne up in his cone here, they will see this rolante, and, eyes. Ie knew' not what to say. thinking you arec here, will waste time in took- At last, ie statuiieredottt: itg for you. That time will be precious to --Please, casting, do jest ray what I feel. us ; for in it we may reach some hiding-place I cnt ; miy heart lis come cliar up into my that you know of, and be safe until, with my ti rat, ant stieks thIl re I' abundant means, we can find a way of lear- 1he governor smiled good-naturedly at ing the island. Let me but once get back to Natians enIbarrassnent, and asking Ilirilil my own country, and I will make you a rich imI to take a glass of wine in his private apart- man, Benito. liNCnts, toll tan otlicer to see that Nathan was Benito sighed, but hurried on; and turning provide,l with refreshments. the second rolante, leaped into the -sddic, --^-while Gustave sprung into the seat. . C'IAPTER XL. Putting spurs to the mule, Benito dashed We'll john, if von like, dear reader, in a by the other volante, nearly upsetting both lok afher Mr. hlenderson anti lienito, not carriages in the passage, and at a swift gallop l hiig, however, for any part of that guber- sped away toward the cit . natorial reward. If I recollect rightly,'I hpve "To the Posada de la Europa, Benito. My stated elsewhere, that knave and conscience- trunk there is half-filled with gold I" said 1~ Iienderson. "We must secure that; for in is seen near bece?" asked Gustave, ore he my gold lies our best chnice of safety. looked before him to see what hmid of placo Benito answered not a w ord, but rode mad- he was entering. ly on until thec reahel the city, where more i " No, exccllena. The mule will go direct temperate speed was necessary, to avoid creat- o his stable, which is half a league from here. inig a suspicioi-whichi might delay them, if No one will know where we left the volante; not cause their arrest. for, as you see, all is still now in this street. Soon they were at the hotel, where Hender- It is only lively im the night-time. The class son, or rather, as he was known there, "Gen- of people who live here, sleepinm the day-time eral Weston," called fir his bill, paid it with- and do their business in the night. Look, cx- out even a glance at the items, and having cellenta." his single traveling-trunk tossed into the Henderson looked ahead of him. A long, nodnti!e, 'bade Benito to drive on. narrow room, so low that ie could barely The latter 'll silent, again moved swiftly stand upright in it, contained no furniture forward with ho nieni', driving down toward but several black and greasy-looking tables the lower eti of the harl)or, in the l.eighbor- and a row of wooden benches by the wall on hood of the Punta, into a section mostly in- either side. These benches were occupied by habited ly fishermen. men who were sleeping, and IIenderson ehud- Where are you going, Benito ?" asked dered as lie looked at themn. 1 egroes, iu Gustave, at last. - lattoes, and swarthy white men, lay prmnis- "To the only place in this city where I cously there, and ragged, filthy, fierce-looking think we can he safe, ."-:llen:a. It is a re- wretches they were. sort for smuggle's and hard eases, and it will , Scarce one of them but carried a knife in be the last place where the police or military the sash around his waist ; unshaven and un- will look for a gentleman !'" shorn, they looked like the offscounings of What is that ? asked Gustave, pointing to the world. something whienh looked like a huge barber's The place itself was horribly dirty :n a stench chair, made of iron, and mounted on a large 'of garlic, tobacco, ani aguadiente, almost stone platform. stifled Henderson as he advanced to a knd of It is the Girote !" said Benito, with a liquor-bar at the farther eid of the room, to shudder. " Dios me guarde, itis the garote l"* which the negro whom Benito called Pablo And lie hurried his mule past the dreadful had carried his trunk. in-trument of death, which in Cuba fills the . "In trouble, elh, Benito?" asked Pab lo, his place whichthe gallows Qecupies in our more one eye shining like fire. merciful G) land. "Yes, Pablo, and you must take care of Very soon after this, they came to a nar- his excellenza and myself uhtil we can leave, row and illthy ailey, close by the frowning You shall be well paid-his excellenza will walls of the prison and fort, known as "La give you a half-dozen doubloons now as an Pnta." Into this, with a coolness and skill earnest of what he will do, if you' will hide that quite astonished Gustave, for the hubs of us away safely." the volante wheels almost touched the walls oni "Certainly-there are ten of them, Pablo," either side, Benito drove ; and turning a cor- said Gustave, handing out the money. "But ner, he paused before a dingy-looking house of can you not give us a better roons than this stone, over the portals of which was fastened and one not so public ?' a sign, with a fish, a bottle, and an anchor for "Yes,",said the negro, asline clutched the its emblems. gold in his hand, while his single eye burned lie knocked against the door with his yet the brighter as he gazed upon it. '° Yes, clenched hand, and it was instantly opened by excellenza, you and Benito follow me." a hideous-looking negro, who had lost one And taking up thi trunk again, he opened eye in somi' way, and who, half-naked as ie a door which was back of the bar, and so was, looked more like a devil than5a man, ounningly contrived that the shelves upon "Pablo, take his excellena's trunk in ; we which the liquor was placed turned with it, will be your guests for a time," said he, as he and revealed a room some ten or twelve feet st rang front his horse. " nter, excellenza," square behind it. In this there was a table he said to Gustave; "'tis a poor place, but and half a dozen chairs, also a couple of safety here is better than death elsewhere." bunks, mih like those to be found in the Anid starting the mule on with the volani, forecastle of an old-fashioned merehant-ship. by a heavy kick, lie entered the den with "Ihere, excellenza, you will be safe from the Gjstave. very devil himself. You can order whatever Will they not track us by the volante, if it kind of food or wine you want-touch this spring, it will ring' a bell. Whisper your * The same machine upon which the brave but yn- order at that panel, I i11 hear and attend to fortunate General Lopes met his fate. it. When old Pablo gives his word that a .. ,, f , t . s page: 62-63[View Page 62-63] 62 BILLIARE HENDERSON; OR, 'I 4 Ii f( man is safe, he is safe. Tha-police don't like " If the gain was sure, and the project to neddle with me ; for when my friends are possible," said Benito. "They are men who aw.ike, they are a hard set to meddle with. value life lightly when gold is balanced Benito knows mce well ; he did me a favor against it." mice, and I have not forgotten it. Give your " Do you not think that I could get twenty orders, and I will see that you want nothing ' or thirty of them to aid me in taki Let us have some god brandy and some sion of Morley's yacht, while she is at anchor? food, qie', tl'hen," said Gustave. "I am ie would never dream of such a rash and tiedanid faiit." daring attempt, and probably keeps no watch "You shall have both in a little while, at night.e czcre lera. I will pass them in by a sliding- Benito was so astonished at the proposition, panel, ne:ir the floor; for when the door is that for a moment he made no reply, but lutiieied niey bar looks right, and no one will looked in open-mouthed wonder at Gustave. (Ieali that there is a dior here. And, excel- When he spoke, he said lenza," added Pablo, "if you hear a good " Excellenea, I believe you North Amen- deal of noise here when night comes on, fe I cans fear nothing. Do you not knowmthat no alarm, for my friends are not very quiet the yacht lies within-hailing distance of more after they wake up. 'they will drink, and than twenty men-of-war, who keep sentinels lay ear s, and sometimes fight a little to on the alert d y and night?" keep their Iands in. I can't stop them. And "True; but boats with muffled now, adios, crcellenza, I will attend to your pass them in the dark, and board her without orders directly." noise." Pablo closed the door ; and Gustave and "Then the government guard-beats," con- Benito were alone in the noisome, window- tinned Benito, "tire rowing about the harbor less den, which was evidently Pablo's "best all night long." room," perhaps his parlor. "We should hear their oars and could "This is cursed bad luck !" muttered Gus- avoid them," said Gustave. have. "I thought that I had everything so "But the yacht could not be captured fixed that Morley could not escape me. How without the alarm being given," said Benito. ny plan failed, or who na there to aid him "It would be impossible, excelena ei." is more than I can comprehend." "No-not impossilk, with cool and de- wIth a:1 ruinedme,i xcellera !" d Benit, termined men. A single blow with a knife with a heavy sigh. " My rolante and mule, would silence thme watch on deck, if there was my house- yen my poo- earnings which lie one. I have been board of he, an know buried in the elilar--all are gone; for if I the way to the cabin. I think she could be return to save anything, they will have me in taken easily," replied Henderson. the gerote. Ay, ar de nti! I amt ruined !" "But suppose you had her in your pos. "Not so, I tell you !" said Gustave, ii- session, what would you do next ?' asked patiently. "I du rich in my own land. Let Benito. us but escape from this island, and you shall "Why, make sail and go to sea," said Gus- have gold enough to buy twenty volantes and tave. mules, id a house be-ides. I will make you " Excellena, no vessel is permitted to leave overseer of my dlantation, and give you fifteen the harbor, or enter it, after sunset, without hundrv4 pesos a near." she is a an-of-war; aid even tl:en she must Benito's lugubi'ious face grew brighter when have a permit, or they will fire upon her he heard this. . from the Moro Castle. If the guard-boats "I will manage to secure a passage off, did not retake the schooner, ste would be through Pablo," said he. " More than half sunk before site could pass the Moro." of his customers are snugglers--the rest are "I would hardly care, if those I hate were wore i Pablo will do what he can for me. sunk with her !" said Hndersoe bitterly. Being a house-owner, I went bail for him "Others might value their lives more, e. once, when he was in trouble, and he does eellenra." not forget it. 'true, he paid me well for "IHigt-hiist !" said a voice outside, and the doing it; yet ie thinks it was a great favor, sliding of a angel was heard. and, am content now that lie should think " It is Pablo," said Benuto. so edc ots ntig o o~d And as he spoke, a large tray was showed rbte di e, t say nythin for aon id- into the room through an aperture in the low- b'betne ut sented engaged in a deep, er part of the ceiling. Benito took it up, and study. At last, lie started up and said : placed it on the table.i enito, the class of ten who harbor "Pablo understands the wants of your ex- here, would enter upon almost any des operate cellcnza," said the cal ewro, as e took first a expedition, if it promised gain, would they clean, white table-cloth and s etreadoitkonrthe ot " 1ftable, then put from the tray sundry bottles 68 labeled brandy, rum, and wine, with glasses to know not how I dread this delay," said Adele. drink from.Then came some nice white rolls "Until he came' like Satan, into our Paradise, of bread ; a cold chicken, some butter, sar- I was happy. But now a constant terror op. dines, pickles, and cold tongue. Also, lemons presses me. If you are absent from me,im and sugar, and some fruit, fancy conjures up a thousand dangers which "n e is a better caterer than one would seem to beset you. The drink which may suppose he could be. These things look clean, pass your lips, the food you may eat, I fear in spite of the filth which abounds in his will be poisoned ! 0 Harold, it is agony" place," said Gustave. "It shall not last long, love. If within "le has sent for them to some first-lass three days Henderson is not arrested, I posi- restorador," said Benito. "Shall I open a bot- tively will sail, whether it pleases the gov- tle of wine, excellenza ? He has not forgotten ernor or not. I will prefer your pleasure to a cork-screw." s all other things." aOpen a bottle of brandy for me, Benito," "Thank you, Harold. Do not think me said Gustave. "It Mill serve my nerves bet- unreasonable. Remember thatI- am but a ter than wine. We will eat and drink, and weak, nervous girl, and pity rather than con- then think over the matter of which I was demn me.' speaking." "I do not blame you, my Adele. Do ou "Very well, excellence. Trouble does not think you will enjoy the opera to-niht Y' spoil my appetite. Poor Pedro ! but yester- .."If you insist upon my going, Harold, I eve he and I supped merrily. And now he is will try to enjoy it. But I would' feel far cold, and will sup no more. Poor fellow! if more happy, enjoy myself a thousand times he hiad not ever been so willing to use his better, here, if you were to remain on board. knife, he might have lived to pull gray hairs We can make an opera for ourselves. Zella from his beard." with the guitar, you with your flute, and I While talking, Benito kept his hands busy,: with my harp. Nathan, can you .not play end soon had a couple of bottles uncorked, some instrument ?" 'in' and the food arranged for use. Henderson "Nothin' to speak of, Miss Adele,'eti whetted his appetite with a brimming glass of the jewsharp. Used to be greaton the little. brandy ; and Benito, after asking permission, drum, when I was young, and went to yearly followed his example. muster andtrainin'; but them days have gone by!I" --And Nathan heaved a deep-drawn sigh. CHAPTER XLI. "I will not go to the opera, then," said After his interview with the governor-gen- Harold, pleasantly. "I should not enjoy any el, Harold returned to the yacht, accom- music if there was a sadness at your heart. panied by Aathan., Get us up a good supper, Nathan, and we'll The latter, as soon as lie got on board, spend a happy evening here, where no dan- went to the cabin, and, approaching Adele re- gem can reach us, and where the world is all spectfully, exhibited the present which he our own." had received. "I'll do jest that, eaptin. I got Mr. Mor- "Please keep it for me, Miss Adele," said ton to put down everything that we wanted the old steward. "It's too nice for me to in the shape of stores on paper, and I left it carry, except sometimes on aSunday. I'm with 'Tom,' the head American clerk at old afni- e of loam' it, or breaking' it; and then, Cabargas', and I find that he has sent every- besides, there might be a temptation for some thing aboard while we've been scootin' around one to steal, it. I know you'll keep it safe; ashore. I can give you jest ne nice a supper and then, ef I should happen to get washed as ever was got up at the old Tremount, in overboard, or be sick and go off all of a sud- Bosting ; and they used to be some on sup- den, I shouldn't like anybody to get hold of opera when the "deacon' looked out for cup- it butyou and the capting. For'twas through board matters I" you tlat it ever come to me." And Nathan hastened away to his duty ; Adele told Nathan that she would take care while Harold gladly threw himself down upon of it for him if lie desired. a sofa to listen to Adele's dulcet words ; for, After saying this, she turned to Harold, and when she was happy, her voice was like the asked : carolling of a bird. "Are we going away to-morrow, dear liar- old ±?" "I intended to, dearest," replied he ; abut CHAPTER XLII. the governor wishes me to delay a little long- By his watch alone, could Gustave Render- er, so that I can appear as a witness against son tell that the day was nearly at an end ieuinderson, if he is arrested." and night approachin; for the room in "I fear that lie will not be found. You which Pablo had placed lim and Benito was -g4 U Ia THE SECRET REVEALED. ; page: 64-65 (Illustration) [View Page 64-65 (Illustration) ] yf s . . ,{ 4 s J IIILILIA1cE IIENDIERSON ; OR, 1 3 r st t4 I windowles, and ia- lamp hung in the centre) a orle I tlieni the only light they had. lie I euhow or, with the aid of food and' l.'or, aohr.d hhiiself into a much better of miil, :t1 hal almost reasoned Ben- io ii0o the belef that the yacht could be e +pturel, in the harbor, with a dozen or two p iek 11d and desperate men. WIhile tIhey were cnuisiltiuig upon this suliject. the secret door wans cre fuly opened, and Pablo made his ap- alt-held two papers in his hand. O ne was :n evening gazette, containing a highly-col- orel account of the attempted assassination ; thet oti r, a proclamation issued by the gov- r:or, cou"t:iining a i- scription of the person rf o1n Gustave Ileiiderion, ai s We-ston ; and one Blenito, caic'o," accused of at- tempting the assassination of a distinguished foreigner ; and offering a reward of one hun- hed didouloons for their apipreihension, dead or a ive-thus" outlawing" them completely.I Your excellency sees that the governor places a ligh value upon you ari U1 nito,'" said Pablo, with a grim smile, as he handed the papers to Gustave. . Not So high a I p1la uponr myself,'"said Gustave, attempting a ghastly smile. Look you, Pablo, I will give double that amount the imomuent that 1 can see my way clear of{ the city!" r Two hundred loubloons? Ciramba i seaor, you can depend upon getting away for that son ! I will manage that mat ter' ivmelf. I can disguise yu, antI get you of' in a fish - ing-boat that will make the p ssage across to Key We st in eight or ten bours, and there you'll be safe from all Cuban laws." Perhaps our can so serve m that I can take miiyself off, and reward you yet more," said Gustave. "1 do not understand, your excellency. One thing is certain, the sooner you are away t he better ; for such a reward as the governor l.as otired u il set ten thousand lpairs of eyes, ten thiousan l heads upoi the constant watch. I know that my plae will be ran- sacked to-night ; but the police will never find this room," said Pablo. I have thought that, n ith your aid, I might possibly take possession of a yacht that is anchored in the harbor," said Gus- tave. "You have men here who would run a little risk where there was a good prospect t gain?" Pablo shook his head. " Senior " said he, gravely, "you are in danger enough now, without incurring more. I sliall not risk my own head and the ruin of my house in any venture like that. If you will pay well, I'll stake my life upon getting you clear of this island ; if rot, you can look to your own esfety ; for I will not betray you. But attempt no further adventaree here, when a price is already set upon your head l" Gustavd saw that lie was helpless; and though the sirit of anger burned like fire away down in his black heart, he answered, with forced composure: "It shall be as you think best, Pablo. I place my fate in your hands, and will abide by your advice. Secure a passage hence for Benito and miiyself, and the money I'named shall be yours before I leave your house." "You shall be safe out of the harbor by to-morrow night. senior. I will engage my men to-night, and make a l ready for to-mo- row night. You will have to go over the city-walls by a rope-ladder--which I have us-d before- and embark a league's distance up the coast ; but I will see you safely off.' " Very well, Pablo; I trust in you. have your preparations made secure ; and if you need gold to bind your men to the work, conic to me." - "Yes, seiior," said Pablo, turning to rMtire. " Stay a moment. Pablo," said Benito. "I have over one hundred doubloons hidden in i my house. I like not to go away without then. I can easily go off and leave tiy wile I -for she has a sharp tongue and a viegar temper-but I do not like to lose my gold, nor yet to leave it where it will not benefit anybody-, for it is so well concealed that neither she nor any one else could find it, were they to search a life-time." "'Cell inc where it is concealed, and I will try to get it for tou," said Pablo. " Al- though." he added, " it is likely that an espial is alre a y kleput upon yoxr house." If there is, I have a way of entering my cellar whieh no one but myself knows. It is but a few paces to the old church of Saint Ursula ; anid from one of the deserted vaults I have a passage which I dug out myself,and blocked with flags which I can move. I fixed it so that I mi 'lit hide my money without letting rmy wife see it; for she used to take every dollar of my earnings and put it in silks and laces on her own back. Now she has to get along with cottons and ginghams." 'Maybe, if you was to black yourself like me, and put on old clothes, we iight get it. I'll go with you, and help you, if you'll give me half," said Pablo. "half is better than none--I'l do it," said Benito. "Well, von stay here till I go and get in gal to tend bar. It won't take us long, and none of my esustomers will get very trouble- soame,before midnight. I'll bring the clothes and some lamp-black first, though.'' And Pablo departed, carefully closing the door behind him. "I do not like to have you leave ue, Beni- 9 -1 w~ Ma ci f 3 page: 66-67[View Page 66-67] f1I THlE SECRET REVEALED. to," said Gustave, nervously. "If by any though she had her suspicion ill-chance you should be taken, you would will learn in due time. betray my place of concealment to save your- Having seen Bonito and self !" their missions, we will pree "Never, seior, never " said Benito. "I how his dame, Cotignola, b never would be so treacherous as that. Be- and the news, which had alre sides, to betray you would never save me, of his flight and outlawry. with such a governor-general as w have now. There was no appearance Fear not, senor-fear not !" her highly-colored face, as s Pablo entered, a moment after, with the upon which was a bottle of mans of disguise, and aided Benito in so al-- pie of glasses. On the co tering his a ppearanice that his most intimate wore a very pleasant express friend would not have recognized him, were necessary, because opp " You will do ; come quickly-for I d not fine-looking man, somewha want to be away long," said Pablo. Benitb, dressed in the dashi And turning to Gustave, he added: sergeant in the "Queen's L "Keep perfectly still, senor. My gal will ment always on duty aear th be in the bar, and she does not know that any governor. one is here. The lads are waking up, out That she wd not only an there, and may be noisy ; but do not mind him, but had known him be them. ferred from the tenor of thei] - Then, lifting a trap-door, which ne#her "You do not blame me, m Benito nor Gustave had noticed before, he ha," said the sergeant, as he said to the calaciro: glass, "for volunteering to c " We'll go out this way, Benito-i± is the heard that a guard was to be most safe, though not the nicest. Senior, be rest Benito if he ventured ba pleased to shut the trap when we have gone, you would rather it would b and by no means attempt the passage your- other man who would be a si self, for there is danger in it." "Blame you, Sergeant S "I shall await your return," said Gustave. deed! On the contrary, I th "Anid I pray you to be cautious ; for if you my heart ! And I'hope th two were lost, niy chance for escape would be rascal Bonito will never von slim indeed." roof again. He is my husba -.- but suech a husband ! Mean, CIIAPTER XLIII. ly-a very brute! My dress The wife who had been linked by the eer- meanness! Yet the other emonics of " Holy Church" to Bonito, the he has earned more money i calaciro, was not a woman calculated to them, and never spends a e make him very hiappy. Hie had married her gars. He has hidden his m twhen she had reached the sour-cider stage of -I'd like to know where." life, but before sire forgot thrat she had once "Perhaps he has put it in -been good-lookirig. Thle consequence was, sergeant. that when she changed her state of ancient "No," replied Cotignola. maidenhood for that of a married woman, she q~uiries made at every bank thought that she must live and dross up to it he does not come aek, o the full extent of /os means-not her own; for, and garoted, his olante ar though lie supposed her to be well off when mine, and this house, also! lie married her, she had not a peso beyond quite penniless." what she had expended in jewelry, dress, "No, indeed, Cotignola,"s false hair and teeth, to catch him with. " Iis big white mule and h This did not suit Benito, who was miserly will sell for more than a the and parsimonious ; and long before the usual that, well managed, with time allotted for honeymoons had passed, make you very comfortable.' their quarrels were sharp and frequent. Be- "Yes," said Cotignola; a ing as gifted of tongue as the, eloquent Lucy herself a of wine, and Stone, with a spice of Xantippe in her humor, evident gusto. having sharp nails and a heavy will, the In- As she put it down, she dy generally got the better of poor Bonito, which caused her to start to who seldom I rou ght any money into the "Did you hear that ?" she house wich shre did not got before lie left, look frightened as she spoke. For this reason, lie had found a place to "I certainly heard somneth hide it in, and a way of secreting it on his sergeant; nnm rising, hre dre (own premises,; without her knowledge - al- one hand, anid a pistol with 1 g9 / 67 ins, as the reader ablo started on de them and see ore his absence ady reached her, of mourning in he sat by a table wine and a con- ntrary, her Mace ion. J'wo glasses osite to her sat a t younger than ng uniform of a aneers "--a regi- o person of the good terms with fore, may be in- r conversation. ty dear Cotigno- refilled his wine- ome here when I sent here to ar- ck ? I thought o me, than some trmger to you." inola? No, in- iank you with all at the fool and ture under this nd, to he sure ; stingy, coward- -that shows his calaceiros tell me than any two of nt for wine or ci- oney somewhere bank," said the "I have had in- n the city. But if ie is naught d mule will be I shall not be aid the sergeant. andsome volante usand peso., and this house, will nd she filled for drank it off with heard a noise, her feet. asked ; and se ring," replied the w hris sword with thre other. " But page: 68-69[View Page 68-69] i TILE SECRET REVEALED. c$ IIILLIARE HENDERSON , OR, it seemed as if it was under the floor. Is I "Come down into the cellar and see," said there any one else in the house ?" the sergeant, while he reloaded his pistol. ' Not that I know of." " I've shot something, that's sure ; and, I hope, "No cats '"'got a bag of gold, besides, for my trouble, if Not a cat." the devil hasn't carried-it off." It ritay be rats." And the sergeant put his sword back in its If so, I never heard them here before. scabbard, so that he could take the lamp in hiark : sieak in a whisper. 'There is sonic one his left hand. In his right, he carried his digrg in the e liar. I am sure I hear it !" pistol; and thus prepared, started again for " o do I, and I will soon see who it is !" the cellar, followed by Cotignola, whose en- a tid the sergeant. riosity overpowered her fears. fakee off your boots, so that you can walk Upon entering the cellar, the sergeant saw without being heard," said Cotignola. " I the man at whoi he had fired stretched at will show you the way to the cellar-stairs." length upon the ground which he had just And she took off her own shoes, so as to walk digged up. In his hand he still clutched the lightly- spade which he had used. But the oth- "'lak're another glass of wine before you er person, human or superhuman, was gone, go," added the woman ; " it will steady your and there was no bag of gold to be seen. nerves. Shoot whoever you see, no matter "Is he dead ?" asked Cotignola, with a who it i." shudder. The sergeant took some more wine, and "I'll see," said the sergeant ; and ie turn- wiped his lips on ('otignola's cheek. Then, el the body over with a coolness peculiar to whispering to her to lead the way, ie follow- sur ons and soldiers only. ed until site opened a door which led to thie " Yes, dead-dead as Christopher Coluni- cellar. The moment this was opened, a faint ihus, and-eli ? Why, fifty ounes are mine, gkamrr of liht was seen below, and the sound as sure as I live !" cried the sergeant. "It is of soine one digging came more plainly to Benito, with his face blackened like a ne- their ears. gro." , ' With proper presence of mind, the sergeant "Benito? Are you sure ?" cried Cotigno- instaitly extingished tire lampavhich Cotig- Ia, with rt exhibiting the slightest sign of a nola carrie min her hand, and putting hris fin- hysteri al attack. ger on Iis lips, t inieate that she must be " Ye -look for yourself! Wlien his face silent, ie went dowir the stairs a couple of is washed, you'll see that it is Benito, plain steps, noiselessly, and then bent his head enoih." down to survey the interior of the cellar, if " But the bag of gold-you said something ie couil. _ about a bag of gold !" cried Cotignola. According to Iris report as made afterward, " Yes ; Benito digged one up here, and he saw a strange as well as a fearful sight. handed it to something, or somebody, that He saw a ragged negro, as hue supposed, care- looked more like what 1 suppose the devil is, fully digging a pit in one corner of the cellar, than anything else. I heard it jingle, and whie tire devil, or his image-a black man just then I fired. Now it is gone with one eve, and tit in the middle of his " Yes, and there is the way it has gone !" forehead---stood, grining, by his side, hold- said Cotignola, pointing to an aperture in the ing a light, wall, through which a man could creep easily. At that moment, the man who had been " Well, I shall not follow the thing I saw digging said, in a low tone ; here," said the sergeant. " I'm not afraid of "lvi' come to it-the gold is here." anything human, but I'll swear that it was And the sergeant sw thyii lift a good-sized not human ! I'm going to the governor, to bag, and hand it to the being wiro looked so report and to claim my half of tire reward for like thne arch-f'enld; and ie also heard the getting one of tle fugitives. It may be my ring of golden pieces. luck yet to get the other. Dead or alive, it At the sane moment, the sergeant leaped makes no matter! So the proclamation into tire cellar and fired his pistol at the man runs." in tire pit. In an instant, while the cellar " You will not leave me alone, will you, resounded with a terrible yell, the light went dear Spinola ?" said Cotignola, tenderly. ont, and ie founiId herself m butter darkness, " Why, no. I'll send a neighbor or two in while Uotignola was screaming,i a paroxysm at once, to stay until I conic back from the of terror, abohve- palace." The sergeant hastily groped his way back " And you'll come soon, will you not?" np the stii s, and scolaiing Cotignola out of "Oh, yes. I shall have to come for his her hys-eries, inale her religit tire lamp. body. The governor will have to see that. " nhat have you seen? what have you It must be seen and recognized by the Amer- shot ?" she asked, in a half-sob, half-scream. ican captain, I suppose." 69 "And after all is over, you'll come and see me often, will you niot? I shall be so lone- some. my dear~3pinola!" " You will not find me remiss in my visits, eara mia. I have not forgotten old times. Now we'll go up. I will take just one glass of wine, send in some neighbors to keep you company, and then hasten to report to his excelleney, the governor." CHAPTER XLIV. Gustave Henderson felt anything but easy af er Pablo and Benito had left htim alone. As Pablo had intimated, the " boys " in the outer apartment had begun to wake up. Their harsh calls for liquor, their frequent 'oaths and brut 'l language, f l distinctly upon his ear, andhough he was not himself al-vays perfectly refined in his language, he felt chill- ed and shocked at what he heard, even though the languages used-Spanish, French, and Dutch, as.well as English-were not all well understood by him. He felt uneasy, for he feared that if the po- liee or military should come while Pablo was absent, that they might by some accident dis- cover his hiding-place. And again, lie feared that Benito might, by some mischance, fall into their hands while out, and in spite of all of his protestations of fidelity, betray him. More than once-ay, more than a dozen times-did the Georgian find it necessary to resort to the brandy bottle, to stimulate his failing nerves. And when, suddenly and all unexpeefdly, Pablo by main force lifted up the t p-door from'below, while he'(Henderson) was stand- ing upon it, tossing him over to one side of the room, he trembled all over with nervous- ness. For the negro was panting for breathe as if he had been hotly pursued, and huge drops of sweat were pouring down his greasy face, like oozing water along the side of a eoal- none. Ile flung a large bag of gold upon the floor, and shut down the trap without speaking, and then pouring out a glass of raw rum, drank it off in one swallow, What is the matter? Where is Benito?" asked Gustave, pale with consternation. The devilish fool is dead , but there's the gold he risked and lost his life for 1" said Pab- lo, almost savagely. "Good Pablo, be not angered with me, but explain, will you not?" said Henderson, gen- tly, for the ferocious looks of the negro tern- tied him. Pablo drank another glass of liquor before he would reply. By that time he had re- gained his breath, and seemed more calm. "We went to the house-Benito and me," 'ii -I ri }i .4 -Ir - said he, "and got into the cellar through the old church-vault and passage, as he said we could. And we went very still, and I struck a light, and held it for him while he dug up the money. Just as he handed me the money, I got a glimpse of a soldier, who fired a pis- toi at Benito, who fell, with a death-yell, on the ground, just as I put out the light. The soldier seemed to be as badly scared as I was, for he backed up out of the cellar, and hallo- ed for a light. I stopped to feel of Benito, to see if he was sure dead; for if he had been alive, I would have brought him away. But it was no use-the ball had gone right through his heart. So I kept the money,, and got away as fast as I could, and ran all the way home, except when I was near a guard or sentir.el I" "Were you followed ?" asked Henderson. "No, senor, I think not. I did not wait to see, until I was at the entrance of the hidden passage which leads to the trap-door. I list- ered there, but heard nothing." "Then-you think I am safe yet ?" "Yes, soinor. But I shall get you away as soon as I ean. There's bad luck with you. Isere are two good men gone on your account, and you have failed in what you came for." "True, Pablo. I wish to get away as soon and as quietly as possible." "You shall go, sure, to-morrow night, so- Bor. Now I must get in to my bar, and keep the boas quiet. They're getting rough, to- night.' "Take in a couple of doubloons, and say a friend treats them," said Gustave, offering Pablo the money. "No; I have made enough.for to-night," said Pablo, pointing to the gold. "Poor Ben- ito ! I would not take more than my half, were he here !" And Pablo took up the bag of gold, and sliding back the panel through which he had passed the tray of provisions, put it through. Then pointing to one of the bunks, he said : "Senor, you had. better try and sleep to- night, if you can. To-morrow night, you will have no chance, and you will need all your nerve and all your strength. You need not fear any danger. I will be on the watch. Ia the morning I will see that you have a'good breakfast ; and by that time I will have seen the men I want to use to-morrow night. Bu- enos noches, senor." ' "Good-night, Pablo," said Henderson. "I will try to sleep, but I fear it will only be a trial." The negro made noreply,butcrept through the panel, which led into a recess close beside his bar, and in a moment he was at his usual post, as Henderson knew by the change of confusion outside. The man evidently had great influence with those whom ho called page: 70-71[View Page 70-71] IIILLIARE IIENDERSON, OR, t _ 41 i ' r i { } . 4 Y t t 4 . ' _ tr 3 k I t £ f 2gisi i i his customers, fbr they made far less noisd said the old steward, as lie went to call the sifter heappeared. first mate. -P X . Te latter came into the cabin in a few CIJAPTERt XLV. minutes. and arsked for orders. It was the noon of another day. Harold You will hoist the Spanish flag forward, Morley had been sent for early in the morn- Mr. Perkins, and fire a national salute," said ing by the governor-general, to recognize arid Ilarold. "After that, we ill aeigi anchor, identify the body of a un said to be Benito, and stand out to sea. I am bouid for New t lie a/accro. lie knew the body the moment Orleans." he saw it, as did also Nathan, whom ie had 'Yes, sir; but I fear we will have heavy :ini with hirm-much to the joy of Sergeant weatherouhsiile, before another day's sun ipinobi, who now became entitled to the re- rises. T eiearometer is away down er the low ard which lhad been offered for Benito, dead notches, aid the weather signs ar te lbad," or ali e. . said t n e mate. larold inquired if any trace had heci found "No. matter, if we can make a good offing of Jlendersrn, but without success. No ofli- before tire blow reaches us," sail o i eer, either police or military, had found any gn ly. " We've tried our staunch little erlft, iepi to liit hir ' n gsat. and know how she can weather out a storm." tp g ivt.enI trl niesty to go to sea t -"Yes, sir, she is good; and it we hav seven ti1'g verrir, I ha;"olclriiw solicited Idlit treorofeight Lorn's sato r.ae e'l~c a iepositioni of imt iseif ani Nathrn mightbe(f i irstart of the gale, we'll clear taerr, so as to lie used against lendersor, if enough into tire Gulf of Mrtco, for sea- ii we capt urged, ani that lie right be al- riom.'' I l to cml for lh(w Orleans, prrnising to )We'll try it at ar ite. Fire tie salute r turn, as a witness, if sent for t-y the gov- 'Io as yoa arc rea F, aid then ilautor. e rnor. My papers are all right." The governor-general assented, almost nn- " A'. a r. sir i w hngiy, for' hie had become nich interested And Pe.kins went on deck to fulfill his i- im liarold, who hailund nreservedly told him as rections. mniuci of iris history as related to Adele and Sooni te heavy booming of the brass piece the llenrhisons ; rind the governor, like most echoed over the harbor,ind seat its sounds if tlh old ciii alric Spaniards who come front rattirg thor trhe tron nd W its regndst tite sunny lndofAdusahd atatefo hcig throughthe town. With a regutlarity, nc ngef Andriluysia, had a taste for which io rman-of-war in port with her full roivzice, efigendered by tire literature of iris battery could have excelled, the gun was fired native laud, as n ll as its eve in history, every thirteen seconds, until the requisite Pro rising fithfl to revisit avernaifie nurnrber of the salute was given. lived, arold took leave f the governor, af ihen, as the flag of Spain came fluttering ter nn exhonge cfhip-risendt-retrrd oasine iown front the fore-truck of the schooner, rhentne. of frieudship-naid returned to is and the cririson signal-pendant, " Adele," haceit h went aloft, the Amrerrean flag was seen flutter- w ien ire eateris the enin, Aele et n hi ing from a signal-staff upon the Castle Ca- win tiis hr;r he.frIts lie, ahrichr hind henr shad- baaars, aid its heavy grins thundered back tire owed with care fur tihe last three days, row return sne of there Governor. wore an altered and iocire joyous look. And while yet tire srok.r "We are going to sea, dear lHarol," she iAlnd whiley the amdoke-fwreaths were *said. " I know we are.' " e circling amove tie grand old fortress, the crew SmIe yoing tad anhe dea Harold of the Adele were engaged in heaving up her "h akve youi ha lanotier drear, my love?" ancor and loosing her sails to the breeze. lie ;sei inn a lmakerttonc. - Many an experienced eye looked with won- yNoe hintd pn ifiketeht forour aith ryder at the rapidity with which so light a crew eyes ril open, if that will hury 3 on off," as Ilarold had, got his beautiful vessel under- se rehilied. way ; but they knew not what young Amen- Jucre will be rito ied of dreams, dearest," can seamen, who loved him who comruanded wire. "'lire reality is at hand. Inian hour therm, could do. n" Jil l "e eiecrirwad" "O In less than an hour from tire time that "Jtiy h-joy s-e cried. "Oace more we Harold had told Adele he was "outward will tterbound," the gallant yacht, under all her can- 'riln the ghas waters ro the ndark-blue sea e vass, was standing out to sea under a light O" Nthngs as bodiless and our souls as free" bunt pleasant breeze from the southward and Ntiin, tell Mr. Perkirs tiat I want to eastward, which allowed her to lay her course se hm," sail hanrold. with, a flowing sheet. " Yes, captain, I'll do that in a jiffy. In w a c'en a most as glad as Miss Adele, thlnt we'~ CIIAPiER XLVI. going to wet our critwater outside once mere," After Pablo left himt, Gustav'e IIenderson 70 TIHE SECRET REVEALED. 71 threw himself down upon the bunk which cannons being fired. The regularity of the Pablo had pointed out, and tried to sleep. fire soon satisfied him that it-wad a salute But no sleep came to his eyelids, weary as he which he heard, and when Pablo came an was. IIis nervous nature was too thorough- hour or two afterward, with his dinner, ho lv aroused to be calmed down into slumber. asked him what the firing was for. o the long night passed away, and as he saw "The American yacht tired a salute, which by his watch, the day returned, finding him ,was answered from the Castle Cabanas, and still awa;e, feverish,and half-sick. then she went to sea. I saw her pass out by At an early hour, when the drunken orgies the Punta," said Pablo. outside had ceased. and the exhausted revel- "Good ! The sooner I am upon her track era had gone to sleep, Pablo made his ap- again, the better," said Ienderson. "Can pearance in the back-room, bearing a tray, you not find out where she was bound, Pab- u pon which a substantial and well-prepared lo?" breakfast was seen. "Yes, seor, as soon as the Evening Gaze- The senor has not slept well," said Pablo, ta is published. It will be out in an hour or as he put.the tray on the table. two." No ; I could not sleep," said Gustave. " Bring it to me as soon as you can get it," "I am unused to so much noise. And lam said Gustave. "And then, after I have eat- nervous." en my dinner, I will pay you the money, and "The senor will be in safety in twelve or we will conclude our arrangements for my fifteen hours,' saidI'ablo. "1 made my iar- getting away." rangeiments last night. Two old smugglers, "Very well, senor, I will attend you. , who hamve been running in salt froi tie Flo- . And Pablo left Henderson to enjoy his dm.- rida Keys, have engaged to carry the senor ner, which he did greatly; for he seemed to o'er to Key West for two hundr d pesos. feel as if his safety was sure, and that ho ,'hey do not'know who be is, and must not; would now again be upon the track which ho for with one hundred doubloons staring them had sworn not to leave, until success crown. in tie face, they might betray him! They ed his efforts. will be with their boat in the cove I told hin of, be oni the city walls, at midnight. I About two hours passedbefore Pablo me- will see the senor safely within their care." turned, bringing with him the gazette. Ihe -- I know not how to thank you, Pablo-not paper contained a long account of the death t , spik of the money which I will give of 3enito, which evidently had been gather. von.' ed from the verbal report of Sergeant Spi- Cacuratm ! I want no thanks! You pay iola : for it was well spiced with the super- rue well -that is enough. Now eat your natural. At the end of the statement, the breakfrat; then try to sleep. You will need editor remarked that the deposition of the nerve and strength to-night!" distinguished American, " El Senor Morley," Is there no danger, in procuring such had been taken, and that he intended to sail br'eakfasts as this, of exciting suspicion?' immediately for New Orleans ; but would re- aa I (hlust ave. "lsenito said that you had to turn if the great picaro, Henderson, was ar- en i to a restoracler." rested. What oi that? I send my gal, who also "To New Orleans!" cried Gustave, as he waits on two rich old maids in the neighbor- read the article. " There is where I would ho 'd.Theywillnot think anyt thing strange. like to catch tie gentleman. There, I can epio in Ilavaanl, when they are getting have him arrested for stealing Zella; aid while inoney, never ask whose pocket it comes he is detained in prison, it will be easy to take fromn" Adele and Zella back to Georgia. The fool Aid Pablo, with a grin on his Satanic face, will play right into my hands! Pablo, can- disappeared. not I engage the menwhom you have spoken- how the fellow has altered in his respect to, to carry mc direct to New Orleans?" since he saw the roclanmation !" said Gustave. " I hardly think you can, senor. Their llefore that, I'was an ' cccllenza.' Now 1 boat is small-it wil do for so short a run as ani but a simple ' scdom.' Yet I believe I can that to Key West-a matter of thirty leagues trust him.' or thereabouts ; but to New Orleans is a great With this expression of faith, Ilenderson ways, and a heavy gale might come on, and attacked his breakfast with a fair appetite. own you'd go ! From Key West, it will be - very easy to get a passage to New Orleans in Gustave ate his breakfast, and now that all passing ships." was still, feeling sleepy, he threw himself into "Well: Iwill see. Anid now for the money, a bnk, and soon was sensible to all worldly Pablo. Feeling confident that you will o 'inas cr thoughts, lie sle pt sounnly and your part, I will at once pay you the two well,'mutil lie was awakened by the sonid of hundred doubloons I promise. They are in r l i. _ page: 72-73[View Page 72-73] 72 HILLIARE HENDERSON; OK, t 1 i 3 }r 111111[[[[[ t f F( k f f j 4 E_ z I yj {j}1 #1ii C- t( F 1 my trunk. I got a great part of my money exchanged into doubloons, in New York, knowing that they would be most useful and handy here." And Gustave unlocked his trunk and coun- ed out the sum for Paulo. The negro took it, and noticed that quite a large sum m gold still remained i the trunk. "has not the senor got a money-belt?" he asked. No," replied Gustave. "lie must have one," said Pablo. "We cannot carry the trunk over the wall, and it would not Le well to tempt the men, who carry. you away, with a heavy trunk, in which they could hear the jingling of gold. I will get you a money-belt, and a quilted vest, with places left for money; so that you can carry your gold without danger of ita being known that there is so large a sum in your possession. I am as big a rascal as any of them, senior, without I pledge my word for a man's safety. When I have done that, he is safe, if he bore a million pesos' worth of diamonds upon him." I feel that it is so, good Pablo, and will Lake your word and advice implicitly." You may, secior," replied the negro. "I will go and get the belt and vest at once. Your trunk and clothes must be left behind, fur we will have to scale the wall, and then walk over rough, rocky round, without a path for a full league. You cannot carry more than you wear. Keepl a full purse in your pocket, so that you can pay the men who carry you away, but be sure that you do not let them think you have any more." I wil le careful, Pablo." "For your safety, you will, senor. And now rest all you can-you will need it." Again Gtistave was alone. CHAPTER XLVII. The beautiful yacht had not fairly got out of sight of Moro Castle, when the ' weather- signs," of which Mr. l'erkins had spoken, -e. gan to show themselves so distinctly that the veriest tyro in the study of storms could not mistake them. Adele-who, with Zella, hr.d been on deck ever since the vessel had weigh- ed anchor-looked upon them with curiosity and without fear. For, in her short experi- ence, she had seen how the yacht behaved in a storm-how staunch and trustworthy--and, besides, she had an unfailing confidence in the skill of Harold, his officers and crew. As the "Adele" drew out from the land, the wind, which drew rather off the shore, freshened rapidly ; anId Harold, who was in no haste, told Perkins that lie might as well nake the vessel snug, under short sail, and lay her to, for her natural drift would hike her out of danger, and she would not roll and pitch so much as she would shedding before the ale. This the first officer speedily did,-and when, at twilight, Adele went down with Harold into the cabin for supper, the vessel lay, close hauled by the wind, under a balance-reefed foresail, heaving steadily with the sea, and as graceful as a mermaid at sport, or a swan upon the water. It was far better thus, for there was no straining of hull, rigging, or spars, and the crew had but little to do, but to watch the heave of the sea ; excepting, alone, the hielnisman, who was obliged to watch for the falling off and coming to. Everything seemed pleasant to Adele now. Her voice was as cbeerful, her smile as bright, as it had been before Gustave IIenderson's presence had been discovered in Havana. Uarold, too, was fully himself again-Zella seemed quite glad, and old Nathan had hard work to keep down the exuberance of his spirits. "I swow to gracious, capting !" said he, as he poured out tea, "that I feel ten years younger since we've left that miserable one- boss place ! Call that a city ! with streets no wider than cow-paths. sojers at every corner, and wimmen a sniokin' all the time like so many chimneys ! Ef Ilhad to take my choice between hein' there and crista' in a New Bedford whaler, I think I'd go in for the whaler. Though an easy death by htangin' or drownin' would be a heap better than either of 'em." Harold laughed at the idea, but Adele said that she thought Nathan was quite right. "In truth," said she, "Nafhan is always right." "'Ceptin' when he is wrong, Miss Adele," said the old man. "When were you ever wrong ?" asked Adele, with a smile. - "Oh, a great many times, Miss Adele !- 'specially when I wasyoung. I used to stick crooked pins under the seat of the deacon's trowsers, when he stood up to sing in meeting', for his pdw was just afront of our'n. And I used to put red pepper on the stove at sing.. in'-school, and sneeze everybody out o'doors and cough 'em into fits. I used to be a wild lad ; but them days are past." And Nathan heaved a heavy sigh. After supper, Harold went on deck for a time, accompanied by Adele ; but as the storm grew heavier as the hours of the night advanced, they soon'returned to the cabin, where Adele, with her music, made all hearts joyous until the usual hour of retiring. Another day was just dawning. The storm had grown stronger and stronger during the night, and now it blew a perfect hurricane. But the gallant schooner, laying up else in decks. Put one of the crew over him as a the winds eye, rose and fell with the moun- sentinel, with orders to kill him if he attempts tain waves, as easily as the gull, which makes to escape from confinement, No person must those waves her home and resting-place. be allowed to speak to him! Mr. Perkins was the officer of the deck, and " Ay, ay, sir !" was standing near the helmsman, quietly "Have the vessel laid to the wind again, sinng him a yarn about a nu ricale he had sir." once weathered on an East Indian voyage ; "She is upin the wind's eye again, and tiw when; with a startling vehemence, the look- carpenter reports all right and sound below, out forward shouted ' sir. "Sail ho ! Close aboard ! Port your "I am glad to hear it. When this blow helix !" 'goes down, we will return with the prisoner Perkins sprung forward -it was not yet to Havana." light enough to see far from the vessel. But "Oh ! have mere upon me, 9r. Morle,' before he hid reached the fore-mast, lie caught groaned Henderson,blanclied with terror. I a glimpse of a small craft on the crest of a I must die, kill me here ; but do n t take me sea, driving right down upon them. back there 1" "Port -port hard !" e shouted to the Iharold made no reply ; but turning upon lehusianin. ihis heel, walked aft--for he saw Adele, who But it was too late ! The next second the had just come on deck, wrapped in a shawl, small vessel struck the yatst upon her weath- followed by Zella. s-bow, with a concussion which made her "What is the matter, Ilarold? have we trebe from tuck to kelson. And the con- struck upon a rock ?" asked Adele. "1 heard cushion crushed the smaller vessel as if she and felt a terrible shock !" she added. had been but an egg-shell. "No. A small vessel an against us, and One wild cry, and as the schooner under was shattered," he replied. "Our vessel is a full of canvas as her helm was put up unharmed." forged ahead, the shattered fragments of the "Were the people on the other one saved ., other drifted off under her lee. she asked, fee ingly. One man, as the vessels came together, "All were lost but one, and he had better made a wild, desperate leap, and clutched have been lost than to have put his foot on the fore-rigging of the schooner. He would my deck ! It is Gustave 11enderson ! have, lost his hold the next instant, for the "Gustave Her.derson !" gasped Adele. schoongshipped a sea, had not Perkins, with "Can it be so?" a giant effort, grasped and lifted him in- "Look for' our'self!" atnd Hlarold, as lie board- spoke, pointed t' G ;stave, upon whose wrists At the same moment Harol wto had been Perkins was now engaged in fitting a pair of startled from below bythe co ssion, rushed handcuffs. upon deck and hurried forward. As his eye "It is! But, Iharold, what are you going rested upon the face ofthe man whom Perkins to do with him ?" had saved, he cried: " To put him in irons, and carry him back "tireat Ieavens ! it is Gustave. Mender, to lhk atna, where a hasty trial and a certain son'." death awaits him1" Adele steerred strangely agitated for a mo- CHIAPTER XLVII meant ; then, while tears stood in her eyes, Sound thu pttump, and see if the schooner she said leaks !" cried Perkins, not--even in that mo- " Harold, will you be less merciful than meat of fearful excitement"-losinr; his press. God? Vile as that mants. hte Almighty lies enee of mind, or forgetting his duty. spared him from a fearful death! You know But llarold and henderson stood facing how I dread him--how I hate hint; yet now, each other-the first, with a fierceand angry when lie is helpless, I ask you to spare him!" 1 ok - the latt r, pale, trembling with tee ror. "That lie may again nttemjt to assassinate lis knees shaking, his fae'as whites the foam me-or perchance do worse, y trying to rob upm the dark waters. Amiu lie was the first me of you?" asked Hirold, with something to alga'. of bitterness in his tone. " ForGod's sake, spare my life, Mr. Mor- "No, Harold, no! But spare him ; put y'' h!"e groane. " I have just escaped a hin on shore,somewhere, and if lie is human, fearful death ; do not. murder me !" lie will feel so grateful for your clemency " I am o'assassin h' said Hlarold, contempt- that he will never persecute us more." unousiv. " But you are too great a viihiri to "I doubt 3iiuch whether he can be clas'd live '~ Jutice claims a victim, and I will not as human !" said Harold, deeply moved b.9 deny her due. Mr. Perkins, put that man in her noble appeal. " But I will spare him, double irons, and have him coatined between- because you ask it io down into the cabin, THE SECRET REVEALED. Y " I . T hY ads i _ + 7 x t + f { i is ii z 4 t ' i _} " Y ,. . _ 73 page: 74-75[View Page 74-75] F I' t s ' 1 { i } z4 Iy t $ 1 E 3 (3 i tk T i i 4 { 4 , i F 3 f { i) i i HILLIARE HENDERSON; OR, dearest, while I go forward and ask him some questions. Then, after seeing him so secured that he can do no harm, I will join you in the cabin." "Do, Harold ; and there I will thank you for listening to the voice of mercy." And Adele, with tears streaming from her eyes, went below. Harold walked forward to the spot where Henderson stood, looking sullenly at his now manacled hands. 'You need not put irons upon his feet, Mr. Perkins,'' said Harold. Then, addressing Hienderson, he said: "Sir, one whom you have persecuted most cruelly and unjun tlv, has pleaded with me to be merciful to ti u. I have not yet decided what course to pursune. Your own conduct will influence my de csion. If I carry you back to Cuba, the laws which you have transgressed will demanyl von as the third victim of -our own con-piraev to assassinate me! If I do not take yon back there, but at some con- venient lace 1:in1 you, what assurance will I have that you will not again try to take my life, or to persecute her who but now pleaded with me to spare you ?" "My honor! tUpon my honor, I will go home to my plantation, and never leave it, or breathe your name or hers, or think of, or do, a deed of hiari to either of you!" Your honor ?" and Harold looked coldly upon him. " Mu of honor have enmities, but they do not hire assassins to terminate them!" My oath ! May I be accursed of Heaven and among men, if I do not keep my oath I" sail Hlenderson, imploringly. " I will take your oath; but mark me, Gus- tave henderson, if you break it. I never will spare you again! And until I can put you on shore, yom m1)rust be content to remain un- der guard here. Now answer me a few ques- tions." "Ask them, and I will reply truly !" said Henderson, meekly. - "how long had you ben in Cuba when you attempted to have me assassinated ?" "Only two days. I went to New York, found out what port you had cleared for, and * followed you." "how did you escape from the Island ?" "In a fishing-boat, manned by two men, who were to take me to Key West. They went down with their boat, I suppose." "From Key West, you intended to follow me to my next port?' "I did." "Did you learn whither I was bound ?" "Yes-to New Orleans. It was so an- nounced in the lavana Evening Gazeta." "And you now will swear, upon the Holy Evangelists, that if I spare you, you will cease to follow me and Miss Dumesle-will never attempt to do us harm, and will return, after I have landed you; to your plantation, and will remain there ?" "I will, so help me Heaven !" "Very well, sir. I will have such an oath written out and subscribed by you. Mr. Per- kins will relieve you of your' handcuffs, but you will be placed in a state-room, which you must not leave until I am ready to set you on shore. A sentinel will be kept before your door, and his orders will be to shoot you down if you attempt to lass hiiu "I will remain where you place me, air, and not transgress your orders." "Very well. Mr Perkins, you will place this man in Mr. Merton's state-room, and put a trusty man on guard, to be relieved every two hours? The officer of the watch will per- sonally see to the safety of the prisoner once in every hour. Mr. Merton can room in the after-cabin, until we make land. See that refreshments are provided for Mr. Ilenderson. And the moment the storm lulls so that we can carry sail, inform me; for I shall steer for the nearest of the Florida Keys as soon as possible." Having thus given his orders, Iarold went below, for he knew they would be implicitly' obeyed. "Adele," said he, when lie entered the cab- in, "at your request, I have spared him, and taken his oath that he will not follow or per- secute either of us more I" ' - "The pizen sarpint won't keep it, eapting," said Nathan, who had been a witness to the interview on deck, and who had followed Harold into the cabin. "I know he won't; he said so with his tongue, but the devil in his eye lied all the time." "Well, my word is passed. Spare him I will, this time--but never again, if he breaks his oath and crosses my path !" "We will hope that he will keep his oath," said Adele. "And now tell meAHarold," she added, "could you, when by such a fearful chance he was thrown helpless into your pow. er, have delivered him up to certain death, without compunction ?" "No, Adele ; on calm reflection, I could not have done so, and I thank you as much for your interference, as I honor you for the noble ebarity which you have displayed to- ward a fallen foe. You ar., in all things, my better angel!l" " You flatter me, dear Harold. I try to be right and to do right. I knew your good, brave heart would second my thoughts, as soon as you took time to consult it.' Mr. Perkins came down at this moment, and said: "I think, sir, if you especially wish it, that we could edge away for the Tortugas, under THE SECRET REVEALED. 75 o;r foresail, and make it before night. If we a "station whale-ship," ner rigging was did, there are almost always vessels there, ac- clumsy and her sails as black as her masts- oording to report, from Kev West, looking which last looked as if they had been scrap- )t for wrecks, and we might land tle man ed the day she was launched, but never after, there."even if she had been launched in the year one. " That is so, Mr. Perkins," replied Harold- Harold ran his yacht under her lee, and You can keep the schooner away, if you rounding to, hailed: think it is safe.' " Schooner ahoy !" - " Hallo !" came back, in a squeaking voice, . CHAPTER XLIX. froma little,-dried-codfish-looking man, who The drift of the schooner had been wester- stood at her tiller. ly, slightly tending to the north; and when, "What schooner is that, and where is sho at noon of that day-the clouds having clear- bound ?" ed away, and the gale much abated-Harold " The 'Whale,' a wrecker, Conch Thomp- took a meridian altitude of the su, he found son master-bound to Key West I" screamed by his latitude, and the deal-reckoning of the diminutive human. their longitude, that they were not far from "Will you take a passenger?" the Island of Tortugas. "Yes, if he has got any money, and hasn't Sending a look-out aloft, the man, in a mo- got the small-pox1 ment after reaching the fore-cross-trees "lie's all right in those particulars," said shouted: Harold, laughing. "heave to, and I will "ai " ho - send a boat with him aboard." "Where away ?" asked Harold.' "There isn't any need of my heavi' too-- "Two points on our lee bow, sir." it'll be half an hour before the old schooner " Can. vou make out her rig ?'' gits headway onto her." "No, sir; but she shows canvass high out "You don't make much by speed, then, $n of water." your business ?" Mr. Perkins, take your glass and look at "Oh no ! We go in for luck, and wait till her from aloft. I expect it is the light-house, it comes 1" said wenzen-face. The land is not ten feet higher than the water, Harold now went to the state-room where and makes no show when you are eight or Henderson had been kept. nine miles off." "I have hailed a vessel which is bound to Perkins had no sooner got aloft, and level- Key West, and which will take you as a pass- ed his glass, than he said: eager," said he to Gustave. "Have you You are right, Captain Morley, it is the money enough to reach house with? - If not,I light-house." will furnish you." " I thought so," said Harold. "I have enough, sir," said Henderson, Turning to the helmsman, he said: , quite humbly : for he had been treated far " Keep.her off a couple of points. Slacken better than he expected. "1 am thankful up the sheets a little more, some of you men, that you have spared my life--for I did not forward there." deserve your clemency." The schooner, with more sheet and full "No matter-speak of it no more. Keep sails, dashed onward with increased speed, your oath, and I will forgive you. Get ready aid ire a short time the light-house, and two to go at once-my ,boat is waiting. They or three small islands,* almost level with the know nothing of you on hoard the vessel sea, covered with a few stunted bushes, could which I-have hailed, and you can explain how 1e seen from the deck. There was no build- you were wrecked and picked up, as best suits ing except a poor hovel, in which the light-, you." house keeper lived, except when a gale drove "Thank you, Mr. Morley, Your kindness him to greater security in the light-house it- completely unmans me. but I would ask one self., Myriads of gulls, cormorants, man-o'- favcr." war hawks, and pelicans, were seen ciroling "What is it?" through the air a ove the island, often diving "To see and thank Miss Dumesle for her into the sea for the fish, upon which they kind interposition." live. "I will see if she wishes to see you," said In the inner harbor two large wrecking- Harold. And he went to the after-cabin. sloops laid at anchor ; and in the outer harbor, " Oh ! that I could rend his heart out, and as the Adele neared it, a large, black-hulled, spit itin her face !" said Gustave, with fiend. loafer-looking §chooner was just getting un- ish bitterness, the moment he was alone. der way. She looked as greasy and nasty as "Keep an oath forced from me when my life - --.-_-- was im peril? Maybe I will; but if I do, may + The largest of these islands is now occupied by a I roast in the hottest furnace in the regions United States fortress. infernal !" r S 74 }, t #. k # 1 .I -I }t SV V 4 9 L( page: 76-77[View Page 76-77] 7t HILLIARE HFND)ERSON; OR, a i E I' Harold came back, and as he heard his step, Gustave subsided into the same apparent \tuutble mood which he had exhibited before. "Miss Duunesle does not desire to see you," said Iarold. "But 8e 0bade me tell you to go and be a better man. As soon as she ar- rives at her majority-in less than two years --she will return to Georgia to claim her property ; and if then she finds that your ref- ormation is complete, she will greet you as a friend. And now, as the boat is waiting, you had better he off. I myself wish you success in all lawful and honorable pursuits." Henderson made no reply, but followed Harold on (leek, and in a very few minutes stood upon the deck of the " Whale," which had just begun to gather headway. Having shipped his passenger, Harold now bade his helmsman to put the helm weather, and bore away on his course to the westward again. "rake your bearing and distance, Mr. Per- kins, and lay our course for the Balize," said hIarold, cheerfully, after speaking to the belmsiman.- Seeing Nathan standing by the cabin hatch- way, looking gravely toward the schooner, he naked the old man what he w'as thinking of. I'm awful glad, captin , that Jonah has left us and gone into the Whale !" said Nath- an. "And of the Whale never p ued him ashore ag'in, the world would be better off. That's what I was thinkin' of, capting !" Harold laughed at Nathan's not incongrous idea, and rwent below. CHAPTER L. "How far is it to Key West ?" was the first question which Gustave Henderson asked, when he got on board the schooner," Whale." "A matter of seventy-five or eighty miles," said the shriveled -up skipper. "When will we get there ?" asked Gus- tave. "If it hl thard enough, in a couple of days." said the skipper. "'Two days? Why, a crab could crawl there in that time !" "Yes; a crab would have the advantage of us in goin' to windward. B~ut we're in no a hurry; and the old schooner is confrtable, if she is ugly, and isn't fast. Yoq can't capsize her; and when she once gets agoin', she keeps agoin' till you dro her mud-hook, and bring her up I We've plenty to eat and drink, and that's about all that a man wants in this world. D'ye chaw tobakket mister?" And Captain Thompson pulled out a huge plug, and extended it toward Gustave. "No, thank you." said Gustave. "Maybe you drink rum? I've god some capital old Jamaica down below. Took it from a wreck up on Caryefort reef, five years 71 THE SECRET REVEALED. ago. Had four puncheons-used 'em all up btit one. Come here some of you and steer- I'm going below to treat the passenger." Having been relieved from the tiller, skip- per Thompson led the way down into what he called the cabin. It was a dark, greasy- looking hole, about twelve or fourteen fest long, by six or seven wide, ,just high enough for a man to stand up in, with two bunks on each side, filled with blankets and quilts, which looked as if they had never been in- jured by contact with soap andewater. In the after-end of this den was a greasy table, set firm against the stern timbersrand over it a lot of shelves, with ledges in front to keep the dishes from sliding off. The captain took a couple of tin cups from one of these shelves, and a broken bowl half- full of Muscavado sugar ; also, a couple of pewter tea-spoons. Then be inserted his arm into a side-locker, just abaft the sternmost bunk, and drew out a jug. "Take hold, mister," said he, to Hender- son. "This ere Jamaica is jest as mellow as honey, and don't need no water, though I like sweet'nin' in it." Henderson poured out a eup of "Jamaica," added a little sugar, and rank it off, surpris- ed to find it really good-far better than li- quor of that kind which he had paid a high price for. When he spoke of this, Skipper Thompson said : "It's good, for tyo reasons. First, I've had it a good while, and most likely 'twas pretty well on in years when I got hold of it. Then, it always improves liquor when it is carried aboard ship. The jouncing up and down, and stirring about, makes it richer and mellower, I think. Churns it, you see." "Probably," said Henderson ; and he tried a second "nip." "B the way, captain, what is my passage ?"he a ed. "Well, seem' that t-ou like rum, as I do, and aren't like to be stingy, I'll leave it all to yourself," said Thompson. "Will that do ?" And as he spoke, Gustave took a doubloon from his pocket, and laid it down on the ta- ble. "Yes; with a thankee on my side to boot, and jest as much rum as youcan drink, and all you can eat till we get in, if it's a month from new I" said the skipper, pocketing the col'. "If I had not met with bad luck in the gale last night, I should have been in Key West sooner !" said Gustave. "Bad luck? fHow was that?" asked the skipper, as he refilled his cup. left the island of Cuba in a fishing ves- sel, bound for Key West. The schooner which hailed you ran us down in the night.. A I ,,. ,:4 VC 'O. n te wreck. She light-house at thte Southwest Pass of the Ba. i\ _. :1 w:t t ' W ~l dall." lize, was as pleasant as could i desired. Wuat a p tv ! Now, if she had only come Nothing of interest transpired on board, but ashore where ,we could have wrecked her, everything went "merry as a marriage bell." 'twoull have been consolin'. 'Twould have Shortly after the "light was made,' in sea- dOne us good, even if the crew went under ,oing parlance, and while the yacht lay in a for we should have saved sonethin' out of dead calm, gently heaving upon the long- ier. 'T te another drink, mister. Rum is rolling ground-swell, a large steam towbat jest as cheap as waat r aboard the ' Whale.' was. seen coming out over the bar with a Woullin't vou like a bit of pickled king-fish, merchant-ship alongside. or son ed, stewed conchs, or a cold, boiled "I think shall ave to buy a breeze, Mr. craw-tih, just to give you an appetite f..r Perkins,' said Harold. who had been walking - supper, wileh we'll have in an hour or two the quarter-deck with Adele, looking for a luru'' pilot to conic ofi', and hoping'fo' wind enough No; thank you," replied hlederson. to take him to an anchorage in the Mississi- Do you suppose I will find any vessels in pi. "Have the gun cast loose. I will signal Key \Vest beund to New Orleans?' the steamer to come alongside as soon as sls Prehaps you may ; but it is no ways sar- casts oft from the ship." tain," s-id the skipper, taking down an old- ' Ay, ay, sr I" said Perkins. And e call- black pipe from among the dishes on a shelf ed the gun's drew to quarters ant tilinag it. " If von are goin' to New Or- .Iad I not better get the sail-covers up lcan, though. you'll be sure to get an atily from the store-room, also, sir If we don't chance to Apalachy, or Saint Marks ; for the have them on, our canvas will be so blackened we 'y packets tufro New 'ork always stop I with smoke that e'llook like a coal droghr at key West and run through the Nor'-west 1 out of Newcastle.' Pass i inside of the Mule Keys and Tortu- "By all means ut on the covers, Mr. Per gu. s tvia' the Gulf Stream and a hundred kmis," said Harold. mdles or more of distance. From them "Must we be towed all the way up the rv- place you can go on the railroad, so I've en to New Orleans?' asked Adele. heard .tel--though I never saw a railroad, "We would be avery long time in g ting an h lat exactly know what it is like. Is'pose up under sail; for the river is crooked, thu yu-v s ?" current strong, and the navigation unsafe," "Oh. yes; and rode upon them often " replied Harold. "Th y're not built any like a tail-fuee "We will not have a very good opportun- are they ?" asked the skper. l ty to njoy the river scenery, of which have "Nut exactly," sail ustave, launig. hBeard so mub," said Adele, " while that huge And then he described a railroad, its care blaci steamer is puffing by our side. and 1 utives. for the benefit of the skipper. " We will not have hr alongside, love. I Tie la ter listened with great attention un- will have her make fat to us with a hawser, til Gustave spoke of a speed of forty miles sa so that we can tow astern Besides, it is hour. Then the skipper shook his head.i above and not below, New Orleans that we "Ilcan believe alt you said about the iron will find charming scenery. While we are rails, aun wheels, and wagons as big as houses, there I will take you up the river on a trip. fa1 stean-engin's to draw 'em," said hue , so that you can see the beauties of the great l)ut when you come fqr to go for to say Gardent the Southwest." they'll run foray, miles an hour, mister, you "The steamer hias got the ship overt me bar, pile it on most too thick. Vhy, a dolphin sir. and the latter is making sai, said Per-t couldn't do that and keep it up. Jest say kins. at this inmnt. twelve or fifteen, now, and take another "Then fire the gun, and hoist the Union drink, and I'll believe you jest as much as if Jack forward at the sime time," said Harold you'd sworn to it "' In a minute after. the pivot-gun of the Gustave did not think it necessary to en- yacht sent its thunder-voice across the waters, deavor further to convince the captain, who and the blue Union Jack fluttered from the probably would not have believed anything fore-topmast head but his own eyes in the matter ; so he took the (l'he steamer, which had ,just cast loose from proposed drink. nan then lighting a cigar, the ship now headed for the yacht, and in a went on deck to try and get some fresh air-- short time rounded to close alongside. She for the cabin smelt rather rank of bilge-wa- was a powerful New York built boat--the tcr, grease, tobacco-smoke, etc. "Gladiator' her name. I wish you to sceud out a hawser, make fast, CHAPTER LI. and tow me to New Orleans," said Harold, to The passage of the "Adele," from the time her captain, who appeared upon the wheel s:me lost sight of Tortugas until she made the house, and asked what was wanted- I i 4 [ '1 r t " . page: 78-79[View Page 78-79] _. 1 78 JIILLIARE IIENDEllSON; OR, itt 14 i-j -, ,prw - ++! de - " r - t rDo yo wish to be towel up rlone, sir? am sure that yoi will enjoy ourself. And) or nwil 3onu wait for sorne of Itlie otlier Ve'Bs s 1ioj)eZella wtc":," alded rl, kindly. ,i light outside ? It will issn the xpens." aWhy ( seemsosad fla , kinlly I care not for the expense ; take only this lie asked of the m beautiful s of late, Zwhoa at nelit, and nke the trip as quick as you cain.' near them, silent, eiul quroonewhosat 'Vry well, sir." uCembroidery, tth her eyes fixed non And soothe Ald1enann kinnthefamini rog.,upon which shc was work- it bi(ieineathi j h ows, w h sj b s -.il f-t, in '- try to lie lheerfil, ind s r aro . tw of one of the most powerlsi steainers onf m You and Miss Aaele:arelt.good t ri10, but tue river. Ishadows-.shadrjv, leCj) Couling io(ito thes51111- In a little while she was in over the bar; shine and I aiiot he1p bint ein theuirin- the stenicer si ekeinel up)her"speed theiC rine;un inothep tiieel1Theiriinflu- t(sn-li of of e srulicd, t i- n.Iootind moy sadness-it will wear all l(!rnlsrar I"ath1 finding aa." al orcgavc her the usual jerrnt to l ro. And while Zella spoke, Pearly tears gather- Aele foui inothin in the o e ed in her great black eyes ait rolled d n nctyrr rich, lark cherk, like dew upon the trans- h auls of A ~ i("u Ni, io interest her-theJ paint rind (If the pomegranatc back frou reii u n t dierck ;s firing hoeti we idl try to chase away those shadows," dit black Clo s Hrpod' atheleek al o was baillIlrold. "I will have 110 unliappiness glad to flli Ilarol's advice,ab rid to go be-on board my peted yacht. All here should low with birs into thels city be longderbe adness ani msie, joy arind pleasure." isrold ?" asked Adele. ntthis moment to ask what "N') longer han it is ; ant t - his sister would prefer for dinner. dear Adle," ie replied. 'I li"should -We arcga aiid catfish, by all means, Nathan. ike o ream lng eoughio eumiuicat de iii a latitude where they are coinsiderd like to remnl-agentiiuli ihe Nort ri eat delicacies. with m nertvage n le NorI for Ih"Frogs, capting! Did you say FROGS?" niotiue lsles thua whruise up the Medit l. Yes, to be sure. A Frenchmuan thinks r tl.'' ter- there is no better dish on earth." "ai o1e alightful that i! e "rd n ll, captiig, a Freicnman iankeep on Ade wi dethus- t"at T .1lie ' a r ld thutn-inso, till his thiinkin'-hox i u all worn Adele, witherntheuia in Toes that laFd out; hrnt when I cook a frog, or eat one, a n utel aE r a their m ane cr e Jerusma is welcoIme to eat rie ! Sweet And ila ts nt i i :r r,1iheirc rareser, Jerusaleim . Precious Gilead I Jest to thinly ci atsniuie r angua /ear-4.eeat n frogs! 'IThe'll go fo eating' mokey8 r h hm n t, and they're thairfirst Cousins ! i'' ou Wsroll ! Shiln a vage w ill make mrue Harold laugheicil hartily at Natha' d too happy I To lhink that ve shill together of frog-eatingarid hrertaly aNroathato have glide uon 'enuitia'r silver tide -- wander tI e old Steward tasteadishly pollried to have among the relies of fallen CG ce-tread quarters, without beisg aware of wl hind- where L'rorn trod-llarol, you are too good wererf what they t+,sucha iiecedlittle good-for-nothing rogs, te'a ll t havin' nirogs, nor nary catfish aboard, "eapting, I s'posc some msutton out oshf the ice- "Adele, your joy is the light of nv life ! box, and o me i mof tneC tba of a ie sail he, pressing her little hand to his lips a a b'isi n ith pigeons in pie, That n luielh gives you pleasure, is delight to keeji front stnv i onvegeta ewilldto Inc. As sooii as I can miake ny Preparations O, ysta ingsaid Nathan' for suchl a lenth~lened v " a..0 e will sail. d , 's !--anrything, INathanr ! We will for suchat liclee iae, we will sail dine at thre tSaint Ciarle ' to-Inorrs Meantime, we wil see all that is to be seen, us what you likento-day." t row : give and enjoy all that is to lie enjoyed in the Crescent City. It is a gay place, differing CAT I rriueh front Havana, and like -only itself. " Tired of New Orleans LII Your knowleie of French ill coine in play said Harold, just two weeks after their arrival, there ; for more than half its people are of as Ie sat in erjustt ftr their privateCaor i Prench descent, andI preserve tlie language CJharles",ont f the most pariat the "Saint aid, to a great degree, the customs of their the American Continent. princely hotels on "If they are as gay as the Snisbeaus hThey had been obliged to take rooms on ie thel whm awe a lathind usins biau h ; fr the schooner was being overhauled there will be no danger of our dying of canu," fg her voy ti hro fuhl reparatory to mak- saidAdele. , g vo ge otefr. 'ast- " Fully as eay, they are," rephed H arold's remark was caused by a sigh fromra betteras ye, ntha f ar" rele arold. Adele's lips, and a murmuredI wish that the3 And better yet, riot half si, Ir- iiiru-r:s. I were at Lea again. I Aso 55~ , 79 TUE SECRET REVEALED. 1:: wv l'us a tuosdiesomeC, dissatisfied CHIAPTER LIJL *, ...r 0 .,' sai l sh. B u st, aero d, you can A t the sam e hour w hen 1 arold M orley w a s l ii s i iuna iue hy I detest the hollow-heart- conversing with Adele, in regard to the place e&eeriouuial, fashionabl world ! The worn- of amusementli which they would patronize e in it--two-thirst of them, to say the least- that evening, two other persons were hold- seem to think that dress and flirtation is the ing converse concernig them, which was of chicf end of life. The men, that to swear a far more serious nature. Sothic, iniok iat good dea l drink gluttonously, One of tienm was Gustave IIenderson, who, andsi na e love to the silliest of the opposite disguised, and under the false name of Ahet sexis o b necinsplilie I" urad, ad arivd tsataftrnoonn ther , is to bu are sarcasticaly severe, Adele." Mobile boat, sir Lake Ponchartrain, and who " Not half so rsehi so as truth and justice had met, at the " Verandah," a man whom ho demandss" sail Adele. "Though remember, knew to be base enough arnd sufficiently des- dar Iarold, I do not class yonuiwiths such perate to enter upon any erstuprise which ,nni, any snore thati I wusld cliass muyself as would pay. a fanshiy:ilyo woman. You kno that I have This man, who was the second party alluded not bean scare1 in a fashionable atmosphere, to in the first paragraph of this chapter, was Left. alone shiot altogether from childhood, I a slave-trader ard black-leg by oplun profes- a -isiky wh ait N ture andbookshave made me.". sion, and in that business had made acquaint- s Aslde, and I thank lHeaven for ith ances from Maryland to Texas, and had more It ws3 the purity and grace which Nature than once fallen in with both the lendersons, gavevos which first won my heart. Were and been quite intimate with Gustave in you like the fashionable women whom I, as Georgia. well as you, despise, youwould not, as now, But so well was Gustave disguised, that Mr. reigns queen over n undivided heart." Yaney, the slave-trader and lack-leg, when "I know it, lurolid ; and were you like the spoken to by him, did not recognize him, men I have described, yo would not possess Gustave, whosusually wore exuberant whisk- the undying love of Adele Dumesle, as you ere, and long hair, had been closely shaved. now do." His hair was cropped' quite close; li wore a Upon that point we are both agreed, pair of green spectacles, and was dressed in a then ,"ail Iailrsld. " Now let us lay out a full suit of sombre black. A black fur hat, . programnte for the night. They give ' La fle with quite a broad brim, and a stiffly-starched ie Reginnt ' at the French theatre to-night. white cravat, with a face blanched by a proper At the American, Spalding and Rogers exhibit application of pearl-powder, made him look what Nathan calls their 'horse opera.' At the like anything but what he was. Is "make- Saint (Carles, the bills announce Julia Dean up" was intended to represent an itinerant Heyne, Alah Isaacs Menken, Edwin Booth, preacher ; and as such he would have passed an. others. There's a choice-talent, beauty, amog nine-tenths of the half-observants. genius, and all that ! Where will you go, whom one meets intravel. Adele Y" " Have you no room here, friend Yancy, "Justs where Captain Iarold Morley pre- where I cans ee you in the way of business? fears. I Am entirely at his service-that is, Let us be alone amoment, and I will convince for this Saturday evening. But to-morrow you that we are old friends," said Gustave to night I will not go to the theatre. I am not the trader, when lie met him in the bar-room a r'lieuse, but I will not attend places of of the Verandah. amam ,-ent on Sunday, even if it is fashiona- "Yes - I room here; but curse me, if I ble here'" know you. You are rigged like a preacher, "1 shall not ask you to, my Adele. I re- and they're not my friends by any manner of member too well the lessons of a Christian means. You're nota preacher-are you?or a -mother, not to pay a proper regard to the traveling-temperance lecturer, broke down Christian Sabbath-much as I disregard the and wanting help?" fanatical ideas of the Pharisees. who would "Order a bottle of brandy and two glasses make it a day of penance, instead of a day of up to your room and see," said Henderson. worship. Bt let me think-I propose we "Well, curse ne if I denth If you'veany witness ' La ple de R'E-mncnt' at the Thiatre business, I'm on hand ; for it is as dull hero Frangaise. ' It is a touching little piece, full of with me as playing' whist with old women for life, with good nmussic. Arid lhen MIademoiselhe a lippeny-bit a corner." Ada, whomyou thought so pifrsuelle, dances "Or coon-hunting in Georgia when Master there." Zip has taken water," said Gustave laughing. "I shall be happy there, or anywhere by " By the mule thatkieked Baalam, I believe your side," sail Al' and she pressed her I know you! Come up to my room anyway, rel lips upon his white bIrw with a fondness stranger," said Yaneey. "I'll ring for the usore than sisterly . - liquor and cigars when we get there." t I l , _ ._. page: 80-81[View Page 80-81] f ,f E ! t 2 t !!E i f t {i fE it =k= t f t 81 THE SECRET REVEALED. A IIILLIAIE HENDERSON; OR, An 1:v s,' e' -story of!I sedavK.ey'West, and on my ::-age over r t i -, - I i t r tu w e h s h r e - A b e t D u a n d . " rot,,i hev te i. t o n\Vell, rooi here with me, Gus. I'll have Wh n th w re in th room, arnd Yancey your name registered below as Albert Dui- har rig te beoll ant orderedebrandy and el rand, and thent we'll go to work in this ma- (t o :ioveis e vend sithe green spectacle ter. I'll earn that ten thousand dollars. or vron over hiseyes, and said, inc:his natural you may black me up, and sell me fora nig-. voice .ger! I ye got a plan in mly mind already." .have von forgotten our last game of eu- " Let me hear it,' said enderson. hre at thue oil Pulaski, I ancey ne' " You say that ou have the proper papers S Why,e urer, if it isn't Gus henderson !" for reclaiming Zella, proving her to be a slave, eail the trader, in rstonislneit- " Why, and all that ?"' 'trm, have yon been in a mad-house ? What '' Yes." are you rigged tout in that outlandish style "And an order for taking Adele back to he for? You h-ia sacrificed the best pair of natural-or, rather, orlagAdeeiatohr niikers that e cr grew in Georgia except o h er legalguardian ?' mine " "We shall only need them to sate ouF- And Mr. Yancey sootlhigy stroked down selves, if in any way my plan mniscarresanot his own glossy-black 'card and tmoustache, otherwise," said Yancy. It is a long story, but I nustpletyou ve enWell, let inc hea' your plan," said Gus- it aid then if you'll help re in hr ltter tave, rather impatiently. P Il put ten thou:iloand o dcarrs i 3 iou bran Keep cool - keep cool, and touch the I t ts tur as m e i rs inyour brandy lightly," sail Yancey. " We can (1o ocrsure as my name is GsHader- nothing to-mght ; but if we work things right- sort" Yly, we can do all to-norrow might. My plan us are good for Ihatani lcenty more, is this : During this evening and to-morrow, Ins.Wit till troerny cones, ant then we can find out where this Mm"lev sto :s. To- *Inll l'':tr "si tuji c l sce what I can do. morrow night we will invei: le uto T o-i One li i, asm e-l'i'm spoiling for somethirg htrelinigh0w1 wllineilehimtaout of his spolin, g freenething motl sone way by a false message, and to do. irs a:'r how, and greenies scarce, then have him arrested for stealing Zella. lIe or sy'so si:irp with the news of tricks put can get no bail on Sunday night ; I will se out ba the cursed newspapers, thnt, a fel ow that the officer shoves him mnto a ell, an Theaca hr l-d n i e-t ' keeps him there until exatnminutionidiosr comes The v r were soon on hand, on Ionday. When lie is juged, we cant ani then Gistavo related minutes the whole Adele and Zella into a carrinc by sending ae history of Harold Morle.'ns fars visit to his messenger to say that Morley has fallen nd brother an all thesuequent events as broken a limb on board his ynchd. They iknowalreah to teli reader, not omitting a go off in a boat without any he(sitation, think- single point. For lie knew that in priteuring ing thyacgLigo badte kah;w a future alviter and co-operator inl rYncgwh ge the going boa board the yacht; we it was best that thelerisholdkno eh will get them'i on board the el , -e~r .f m it hwn t I thlatde -ould know exact- friend, who is to be towed to sea to-morrow l how ettie li l atethim so tiit lie might be night at any rate, and I can get him to inn the better fist d 1 t uatch ti in future. into your place, for it will he buta few hours' Yancey listened quie- taking now and run out of his course. Once on board his then sip of brandy he was too cautious to vessel, with you and me to guard them, they be a Gard-hrankerdnisn u ahis regalia" will be as safe as if the devil had them." ' utt Gave b nd fi e b ra that the iv Jupiter! Yancey, you are a king at yacht was tound for New Orleans when he contrivance. Your plan cannot fail. There "Se he at ere'u w,TGe- sae frmer sail: is but one thing in it which I do not like." Ihv is frienw hGus-I saw her to-day. "What is that ?" I have asfriend ho has fitted out a clipper "If we do not appear against Morley on for the corns". of Gtiinea, ati she lays in the Mond do, no allieti uedgl i o o stream close beside her, and looks as much MOf c hatssf wiat Before like her as another vessel can, "nly she is he is free we will be at sea-lhe will have no nearly twice her tonnage. The t tthow- trace of us-; and if he loves the giil as much ever,has asd ieitais unbentand is being as you say lie does, ten to one he'll go crazy repainted antiorefitted." and blow his brains out."g "Ten Morleyni.staying on shore . "said "Perhaps not; and then he will come to endersn. MGeorgia anti kick up a fuss." there's wheretlet the h sat Charles- ")If lie does that, you can blow his brains thes e the gsstyet?', h. ave you out for him, and that will be an end of it !" chosen a oWtel yet?" "I'd rather do it here," said Gustave, bit- " No When I do, I shall register the name terly.' - You could not without spoiling my plan " There he is sir," said the servant, as lar- entirely. And besides, Gus-I mean no re- old stepped out of the door; and he pointed flections, though-i'm most decidedly oppos- to a short, thick-set manii, who was an ctiro ed'to shooting anybody that wears a gemnithe- straniger to Iiarold, antl who at that moment, man's clothes without giving him a lair chance was speaking to a couple of other men wiomu for a pop at me. If you want my help, you Ilarold knew, by their tress and eimblems, to must take my plan just as it-is, without addi- be members of the city police. tons or amendments. If not, say so, and I'm " Did you wislh to see me, sir ?" said lIar- done with the matter-though we'll be friends old, addressing the man whom the servant ais fast as ierqtofore." pioiinted out. Yos knw, Yancey, I could not do with- "our name is Ilarold Morley-is it not, out uon. 'And I accept your plans without sir ?" asked the gentleman, politely. a thotiultt of amendment. I have over bye " Yes, sir," said larold, frankly. g-t'lbt'di fi t lars with me to work on -besides " I have a little us ess with you, sir, of a a letter of credit from Iilliare, indorsed by private psature. M:y I ask you to walkwith bankers in iew York, for ten thousand more." me a short distance' "Good! With such tools in and, we can't I do not wish to be detained long, sir, but find the wordfilf it in tii5Vorinn apers. i ow, I will wallk a little Way, if y ou will state your S on your spectacles a nii, and we'll take a business !" replied Harold, loving up the walk over town, look ast the hotel registers, street withthe strangerwho,withwhat seemed get some oste, drop into the theatres, pick to i imsingular famihiarity, took his arm. up my frniend Iwhto is bouiid for the coast. Anid hiad larold looked around, lie would make the bar-ain with iin, and then come have seen that the two policeman who had home and turn in for the night to dreams of Iteen spoken to by the stranger, had followed action on the morrow." else upon his heels. "Good! I am with yojn, and comp'etely When they had passed beyond the crowd. under your diretions. ''ake that purse-it which usually loitered around te great hotel, is full of gold ; use it freely-it is ;our own." Ilarold paused, and said: And Gustave handed Yancey his purse. " If you have business with me, sir, you "I'll use it in the common cause," said can state it herc without making it necessary Yancey, with a laugh. "-I have a pocket- to extend our walk." book ; but I deposited the most of its coitents " I au sorry to say sir, that we must extend in bank last ight." our walk, without you choose to order a car- "A fare bank probably," said Gustave, with riage ! said the striumger, politely, but firmly. t smile-" To be brif and to the ponlt, Mr. Morley, "To the best of my recollection, that was my nme is Stoker-I am one of the detective the batik in which I deposited my funds," police, and I hold a warrant for your arrest said Yacey, quietly. "If we have time to- upon a criminal charge! I hope that you wl night, however, I may make a-draft and g t make no resistance; for I have help at hand, it cashed at the samebank. But put on your if it is needed! .specke, Gus, and let's travel." And as he spoke, the other two officers ranged up alongside of him. CHAPTER LIV. What is the charge, sir ?" asied Harold, Harold Morley was sitting quietly with as soon aslie recovered from a surprise which, Adele in their parlor on Sunday evening, at first, made hum dumb. listening to her dreaiy anticipations of the "Negro-stealig, sir-.a very serious matter pleasures they would find in their occidental in t1is State !" said the officer. voyage, when one of the waiters said that a "May I see the warrant? person wished to see him below, "Yes, sir, as soon as we arrive at the city. "Who is it ?' asked H1arold. - prison! There I will give you a copy of it " iOne of yourofHicers, I understood him to "Vou will permit me. at least, to return to say, sir," said the servant. the hotel to acquaint my friends of my po "Very well--I will go down in a moment sit.ion---willhyou not?" asked Harold,in agony, Excuse ne, Adele -I expect it is Perkins, for he knew that his prolonged absence would waiting for orders about the work to-morrow. frighten Adele, terribly. I will be back in a few minutes !" "it would be againstall rule, sir! said the And Ilarold took his bat. anti went down officer. "It might cost me my place i You into the b:r-roonng. can easy send to them in the morning, for "Where is the officer?" he asked of the your examination before the Recorder will svant, who had called hia. take place at am early hon. I am sorry for "*I saw htim an the front steps as I came you, sit', but 1 must do my duty!" down. sir," replied the waiter. "At leastet me send a notoack1 sad "ome and show uhin to me i!"said Harold. -arold. I page: 82-83[View Page 82-83] $2 HILLIARE IIENDERSON; OR, " f t f i J ' ? i {3 + f ,! I } s f 2 t - # t f i I 8g THE SECRET REVEALED. " If you write ain open note, whiclr will not heart, could for an instant be comfortable in r any way compromise me, after wo get to a felon's cell, no rnatter how spotless he stood the prison, I will deliver it!" in conscious innocence. " Since I am your prisoner, on what I as- sure you is a false charge, sir-for I have the, means of proving my respectability, I must of CHAPTER LV. course yield to our own terms, until I can Patiently Adele waited ten fifteen, twenty do better !" sai4 yHarold. " Move on, sir, I minute for Harold's retun uyh i o respect the law and its officers. Criminals come. Impatiently she waited an hour long- only have cause to fear them !" er, and then both herself and Zou became "That is so, sir !" said the officer. "And I exceedingly nervous. truly hope, s r, that you will be acquitted Adele rung the bell, and asked fQr the serv- upon examination. It is not a pleasure to me ant, who had called him out. to arrest a gentlemnanly Person like yourself'." The waiter came. Harold made no reply, but walked on with "Where did you last see Mr. Morley?" the officer until they reached the city prison. asked Adele. Here lie was ushered into the office, and for "lIe went away with the gentleman who the first time saw the warrant which had been sent me after him,a adam," responded the issued for his arrest. waiter. "That was the last I saw of him." It was based upon the affidavit of Gustave At that moment another servant ame Henderson, planter, of Georgia, that Harold in a hurry, bringing a man in a boatman' Morley had stolen a quadroon slave-girl from dress, who said that le had been sent byMr. his brother, HIilliare, whoeproperty she was, Perkins frg~m the yacht, to ask Miss I)umes and that the said Morley had brought her to to come on board as so as possible. Mr. New Orleans in his yacht, and that she was Morley had fallen from the deck into the fore. now In Ih' 4tssion at the Saint Charles hold, and received a severe injury. Hotel, in said city. "uick-QuIo , my hat and shawl, Zella- "This is iy reward for sparingthe wretch and get yours also," cried Adele, upon bear- when he was in mly power 1" groaned Morley ig t ~s In anguish. Now she thought she knew the reason of He then asked for pen, ink and paper, and his delay in returning. Net for aiiinstant did wrote a hasty note, addressing it to Miss she doubt fliat the message hind not come di- Adele Dumesle, at the Saint Charles hotel. rect from Perkins. She even thought that In it, he told her that business detained him the boatman was one of the crew of the yacht from her, and it would not be likely that e " mOrder a carriage I will ride to the v- could return to the hotel before ten or eleven er, she added. Poor Harold, how wrong was of the clock on the next day. And he im- I to blame him for bia delay! 0 hastemy plored her to keep her roem closely, and to Zea- haste I"r hO a eerp Zella with her, for Gustave I enderson Not five minutes had elapsed aight have forgotten his oath, and yet be ceived the message, before Adele andZe, lurking around. This, he thou ht was suf- with the boatman riding besidelthe driver, fcient guarded, an d he handed it to the ojil.were hurrying at them fs t e tie cer, with a request that it might be carried at horses, tfathet river-side. once to the hotel. It was dark upon the water, but Adele heed- The officer looked at the superscription, ed it not, and handing the carriage-driver a and shook his heal, piece of gold, she sprung into the boat which "u r. Morley," said he, " it pains me to re- waited at the edge of the levee. fuse a favor to a gentleman in trouble, but in It was rowed by four mcei, and rap idly it case the girl intnioned in the warrant should swept over the dark waters. Soon theywere be missing in the morning, they would say alongside of a vessel which she supposed to warned her or your friends of this trouble. prafferedby thieboatman who pulled the after- and I should be held responsible. You will oar, Adele caught hold of the man~ropes and have to bear your confinement, sir, in, silence, sprang over the side. Followed by Zelladshe until the Recorder takes your case in hand; hurried to the cabin-door, rushed dow, athe then my responsibilities cease, and I will do e nt erd thca b ,-door, nru s d nthea anything thait I can for you" do stps, eiitered the cahmn, aiid in an instant saw andhingMirstokerand threyofthat she was not on hoard the "Adele," And Mr. Stoker handed the officer in charge She turned to look at Zella, and her eyes of the prison the warrant for committal, met the fiendish gaze of Gustave Henderson, The latter calling the turkey, bade him and two men who were utter strangers to her. ' sondu t the prisoner to a cell by himself, and "Trapped !-trapped, at lastI" cried the to make him as comfortable as lie could ; just fiend in human share-Gsav edesn a,5 if a man, wdl-bred, seusitive,.nd proud of Adelc looked ata im but one instant; an; 4I I L}}k{F- - with a moan of agony, fell senseless at his There, in drkness and wretchlednessof fet mind and body, lie paced the narrow limits' Zella, whose eyes, burning like fire, had of his cell, and counted the hours as le eard been fixed upon Gustave 11enderson, knelt them tolled by some distant steeple clock, n- now by the side of her mistress, and tried to l the gray dawn stole, yet darkly, in to show lbring her to life-for she thought she was hi the grated horrors of his dungeon. deal. And'thent still hie had to count the hours. eCarry the lady into the after-cabin," said For not until eight did a human being come one of the en wht stood by henderson. near him. Then a coarse, repulsive-looking Se oihms only fatedd" negro came .along, carrying a basket filled hlenderson benut down to lift Adlele up. with coarse bread, andtid another ofollwted with Back ! you villain !-back I If she must a basket of tin e) a be carried. I will carry her myself'!" said As they piussed each cell, they thrust a Zela. lifting her mistress up and .-arrying her piece of bread through the bars, and setn a to ai sota, which the ni who first spoke had cupof water, and hoarsely cried: "Breakfast, 1QittteJ out. dere, and went on. 'Pll pay you for your sauce, my wench, Nine o'clock caine and passed. By his whets1get you back on the plantation!'' said, watch it was a quarter to ten when the same Gustv, bitterly. " I , take your pride o licer who ha~d arrested hint ai no ith thi down, or cut your heart out !" turnkey, who opened his cell. 'Alen Mi. Zela made him no reply; but when tIe Stoker requested him to go with biu to the lvrsn who, bw hula authoritative tonte, seemed offhi eo othe IRecorder, and promised to use to be master of the vessel, brought some wine his influence to have the Recorder examine and water, used it to endeavor to recover her him in a private room, and not before the mistress. Aluith iot without effect, for soons public. Adess. A ithom e e rycs Eveu this seemed a favor to Iharold, who slowl begae ato enclose. ,-hranuk from appearing bfore the pubhi 'a e eerliet" that stae-room," said the under the accusation of critne, however-unjfit ca-tain, ointug to a room. "Take her in it was; and he endured the agony of waitig thereandh attend to her. No one shall harm in a private room until the Recorder hd die- you or her, If you do not attempt to escape.- posed of the eases of drunkenness, theft, ami Such an attempt will be useless, for you are vagrancy, which daily come up before him, guarded, and will only cause you to be treated before his Honor cou d see 1im. more has ,,y." It was twelv9-full meridumar-before, lar- Adele, though not yet fully in lier senses, old was visited by the Recorder and the prose- seemed to comprehend a part of what the eutung attorney. . captain said, and, aided by Zehla, tottered into "Where itIme comphaiuant in this case?" the large state-room whicir the captain had said the Recorder, as he looked first at tht pointed ut, and sunk upon a coi h therein, warrant and then pt Morley, whose genteel 'fle next moment the door was closed, and looks seemed to impress him favorably. Zella heard a bolt shoved across on the out- "Ho has not shown himself this morning, side..hadi ls n us sir, though he told me last night that hom Adleard it also, and burst into ears would be on hand early," saidthe officer. For a long lime she sobbed and wept; amid. "That is strangee" sid the Recorder. "A both Zella and she trembled when they heard man who makes a charge like this should bu . the heavy puffing of a steamboat alongside, on hianud t'o substantiate it." aid felt, from te jar, that the vessel which " '1e villain knew that it was false, sir, was their prison was moving, and, undoubted- and has caused my arrest, I fear, only to hwas being' tuned to sea.' cover another crime of his," said to aroeld.n y"If' you have anything to say relating to CIPAITEIt VI. '- the charge, you can say it, sir," sail the e- It was a terrible night to,I1arold Morley--- corder, kmly. "At the same time," he ad- that night spent in the city-prison. Though ded, "I would caution you agaiuut making confined in a cell by himself, in which the any admissions which may eriminate your- furniture eonsssted of an iron bedstead, a self." straw mattress and a couple of blankets, he "I am no criminal, sir," said IHarold, proud- otdr hear the howlings of some drunken ly. "Permit me the use of pen and paper women on one side of him, and the fearful for a few moments, and let me give the names curses "f souedrunken rowdies on the other, of gentlemen resident here, whom Iwish sent Had not his mental agony been so great as to for to vouch for my position in life, and to as- banish shumer from his eye-hds, he could sist me in proving not only my innocence of not have slept with those terrible sounds the charge, but the conspiracy which has4 ringing in his ears. - made mue a victim." . page: 84-85[View Page 84-85] 84 HILLIARE HENDERSON; OR, The Recorder himself handed Ilarold the whose mate has fallen before the eruelsports. required articles. The list was soon made man's gun. out And not until hearing Gustave Henderson'. "Be pleased, sir, to send at once for those voice inangry conversation outside the state- gentlemen," said Harold. room, and learning that, even if she bad not The Recorder glanced at the names with a a friend on board there was one who was man look of surprise. The first men in the city- enough to protect her from unmanly outrage bankers, merchants, and judges-were upon and cruelty, did she begin to.so recover her the list, faculties as to be capable of thinking what ie instantly sent an officer with the list, had been done, or could be done with her. and then asked Harold to take a glass of She heard Gustave Henderson say, ini bit- wine. ter tones: This be did; for he was sick at heart and "Captain Rhett, I will see the girl. I tell faint with long-continued agony. you she is to be my wife; and there is no use And gaining strength, Harod then related in her fooling about it, and shammin off the history of his connection with the Hen- ness.",sg e attempt of Gustave to have him "Mr. Henderson," said the one whom he issarsinated at Havana-how he subsequently spoke to, in a stern tone, "you force me to shared him, and all. m p a mind you that I am captain of this vessel. The story seemed almost Improbable to You, sir, are but a passenger. I took this the Recorder, but soon Harold's friends came lady and the girl on board to oblige my friend flocking in and satisfied the Recorder that Yancey, and agreed, for a certain consider hiarold's tale was true. An officer was die- tion, to land heri Georgia. That l dBut e t hoe oe by the sir, I will not allow her to be persecuted here request of Harold, to see if Adele and Zella You, over your liquor last night, said enough still were there, to convince me that you were a cowardly, heart. le soon returned, and told that they were less scoundrel; and I advise you to bear your- gone, and also what message iad decoyed self quietly on board of my schooner, oryour- them away. passage may be shortened considerably. I d Lost! lost !" exclaimed Harold, in utter ave borne with you for the sake of my despair, when he heard this news. "The friend Mr. Yancey, until I am out of patience wret-h has decoyed them away ! My Adele Now, sir, you understand me. We are at sea, is lost !-lost !" and the lady is safe. Offer either by word or Andbe sunk, insensible, to the floor, deed to annoy her, and you will find your fath- Of course the Recorderdismissed the charge, her's son in trouble." and urged upon the officers an immediate Adele, who had listened intently-and oh, search for Adle and Zella; and also gave how gratefully to these words !-now heard orders for the arrest of Henderson wherever the retreating footsteps of some one. It was he might be found. evidently the captain, for the next moment Meantime, the friends of Harold had him she heard a strange voice say: removed to his hotel, and called in the best "You had better heed what he'says, Gus. physicians in the city; for the blow had been When Rhett's temper is aroused, he is a whole fearful, and when he recovered from his team ; and if you don't walk a chalk-line th s won, e raved i wild insanity, him, you'll spill your pan -of fish into the His cry was for "fAdele," one moment; fire." Gestae e lenduttered fearful curses against ," What business, Yancey--what business, Putaerk n dersn." I say, has he to interfere between me and the Perkins and Nathan came up from the girl?"h yacht when they heard of his trouble; but he "He chooses to do so. That is enough didn't recognize either of them, and the you and I to know, Gus. Likee e-oug physicians were obliged to calm him by the he catches niggers and deals in them, as Ido administration of strong opiates. -he has a tender spot in his heart, and some little quantity of that scarce commodity CHAPTER LVII. known as honor left in his bosom. He p rob-. Poor Adele lay sobbing and weeping for ably remembers that he once had a mother-... many hours, after she and Zella discovered may have a sister to think of. I don beli that the vessel on board of which they had that you ever had either, Guse; upon y word been so cruelly entrapped, was moving Zella I don't, judging from the flinty character of in vain strove to comfort her. She would your heart. Now, take my ad vice, and ret not but believe that Harold had been assassi- 'well enough' alone ; whea you get th~e lady nated by, or through Gustave Henderson; and and the quadroon on your ownground, why, e armourned afor hinmwithel the sorrow of a then, you can do as you please. Hero you widowed heart-mrourned as mourns the dove caninot."y I THE SECRET REVEALED. " So it seems. But they shall curse the day He did not permit himelf to despond, took when I have them fully in my power: I'U such medicines as his physicians prescribed log the wench to death with my own hand, to allay all nervousness, and slept all that he and Adele shall envy her her fate. Come to could. my room and get some brandy-come ! I With but one idea-one aim before ini- must drink, or go mad." the recovery of his lost Adele, it is not won- "Thank Heaven, we can rest for a -few derful that when, two weeks after, h received days!." murmured Adele. And, wearied with an answer to his letter from John imonds, be sobbing and weeping, she fell asleep with her was almost himself again. Strong eiougi, at head resting upon Zella's breast. any rate, for travel, and as clear in mind as he had ever been. SCHAPTERLVIII. Simonds wrote to him that Gustave Hen- For many weeks Harold seemed forever lost derson had been home for some time, though to the world and his friends, so far as reason no one had seen or heard anything of Adele was concerned. But, at last, through the in- or Zella. "Yet," said Simonds, "I am sure eesant care of well-paid physicians and the that they must be here, from the manner of attention of devo edriends-not least among both the brothers. They, of course, are not whom were Perkins and Nathan-he so far re- now visited by any of our society, but they covered his senses as to completely compre- wear an air of content ,n even triumph, Vend his situation. which betokens that they have succeeded inorth. And though lie was very weak, he insisted some deviltry or other- upnkoig eryptiular inregadt . "oeRto me as secretl and as quickly as upnkoigeeypriua nrgr o "oethe manner in which Adele had been induced you can. Bring the certificate of your die.. to leave the Saint Charles Hotel, while he missal from the charge imade before the New was chafing in a prison-cell. Orleans Recorder; for, if I understand the lie was so calm, and so earnest, that the law, you cannot twice be arraigned for the told him all. With a strength of soul which same offence, and we must hi ready for auy astonished his attendants, e bore the inlr- tricks of these double-distilled,-super-extra itnition quietly, and said : scoundrels.b "Hen person has carried her and Zella back "You will find all of your old friends and to Georgia. I will be calm, and grow strong, many new ones ready to help you, and none and go there and recover her. Bring me a more so than John Sinonds. If the ender- little wine and some light food i my strength eons bark too loud, or try to bite, I'll hoot will come to me gradually, and in body as them both as I would a pair of mangy cure, well as mind I shall be myself again. I feel and stand before a jury conscious of acquit- that I am very weak, and that this has been tal, on-the plea that hyenas are hybrid, and a long night or me." injurious to the community, and ought to be They dared not tell him how many nights removed." and days he had lain there, the taper of life Harold dterminred to start on the succeed- flickering in the socket-how long he had] ing day after receiving this letter. The pre- known no light, but had tossed in the black vious evening lie devoted to taking farewell oblivion of manes. ' of his kind friends at his rooms, and to ar- Within a week lie grew so strong that he ranging his pecuniary matters. lie paid all could sit u and write. And he wrote It long his bills, and then caused his lawyer to draw letter to John Simonds, detailing all that had up a deed of gift and tranafei', making ov. occurred, and suggesting to hil what to do the yacht to Perkins and Nathan Sha 1 for the protection of Adele and Zella, if, as if by any mischance he should not retura to he supposed, they had been brought back to them. Henderson's plantation. Both of them volunteered to go with him- "Write to me the instant you receive my Nathan, with tears in his eyes, insisted ulon letter," continued Harold to Simonds, "and It. But Harold, after showing them the let- let me know if Adele is there. Fear not to ter which advised him to go as secretly as tell me all that you know and can learn. I possible, firmly refused to let either of then have been fearfully ill-for weeks a raving do so. maniac, I am told. I an now well in body "If I succeed," said he, "I will come back and mind, but need strength, so that I can with Adele, and go, as I intended, in the yacht travel. By the time that your letter reaches on a cruise to the Mediterranean. If I ail, it me, I will be able to bear that fatigue, and will be because I am dead. In that case, the shall start for Georgia as soon as I receive yacht is yours; and my will, drawn up this is." day in original and duplicate, properly wit- Having dispatched this letter, Harold reso- neased, signed, andealed, will show how Intehy set to work to nurse his strength, and much I love endssah." you for your faithful to recover his physical -and mental energits. kindness." ii, v t 4 r _ .. ?' _ r +"S, {c '^"£t"" rti 6{s' ;', i , JN T1 r + ry, c( R %a' ., ,v _ _. _ -\, _ - _ - . : LLB' r page: 86-87[View Page 86-87] N8 IHILLIARE HENDERSON ; Ofi, 4; I 87' THE SECRET REVEALED. Both of those good men wept as Itarold tender care of Zella had so far restored Adele, thus talked to them; and it was with diffoul- that she could walk about her room .and ty that Harold could induce them to say on two or three occasions - in the night.. "good-night" and "adieu," so that he could time only-Ililliare enderson, who seemed get some rest before starting for Georgia in strangely kind to her, had assisted Zella to the morning. ____hake other out of tl iouse into the garden, whereTtheLfrei air, and the fragrance of the AdelerDumestefhdbeCAPTER LIX. orange-blossoms, and oilier flowers, might Adele Dumesle liad been landed in safety by aid in giving life to her almost dormant vital- Captain Rhett at the plantation of Ililliare ities. Henderson. Arriving off the harbor at ight, No person but an old Guinea negress the captain of the slaver, who all the way had named Dinah, had been permitted to idol protected her from insult and persecution, communication with Adele or Zella, besides La add her and Zella in his own boat, Ilillinre; and the poor ghl utv n acyfloedi n erneadknns irl knew that his for- while Gustave and Yancey followed in an- bearane and kindness as but cloak to con- But the Adele who landed there then, was ce"Oh, ie e could ut but a shadow of that Adele whom we have --know that he yet lived ar from Harold seen so happy in almost all the ehapters-of our That was her constant thought. story. One evening, old Dinah, who, whenever her Sfie was so weak that she could not stand master was not present, spoke kindly aer unsupported; and if Zella was not every lityingly to Adele-a manner ekntly and instant by her side, her nervous terror was trary to that which she exhibited in his pres- so great that she would fall into hysterical enec, said, as she was alone with Adel and parosmis. Zella : hlilliare was overjoyed at the final success "Will de child be quiet, if ole Dinah tell of his brother, but terrified at the situation of herome good news " Adel. When e had seen Captain Ihett "Oh, yes! Yes ; if, indeed, you have good p aid off, and the latter had departed with news to tell me I!" said Adele, eagerly. For Yancey, who, with ten thousand dollars in in her heart she feltd preentegerth the hand, concluded to try a trip to the "coast" news was from Harola presentiment that the himself, Hlilliare hell a consultation with Gus- "Be quiet, d tare in regard to both Adele and Zlla.Gus- "Masa e den, chile, and I tell you. tave wished at once to begin his work of re- chile has seen him sheassaDoar, nd'. Die vnue upon Zella, by flogging her and putting you tink of dat "mnow what her into the rice-field to work with the comn- And the old negress assumed an air of im mon hands. But Iilliare, who did not wish mense importance. a nif Adele to (die before his ends were accomplish. "Did he send me no message ?-write me ed, advised a different course. no letter Y"' asked Adele. "Let her nurse and attend upon Adel, "lie was agwine to, but Massa Simonds say until she has recovered sufficiently for us to no.--him unprudent. S i el es yo foreder arrien wh cyou, as Zonce pro- go out in garden, to-night, like I tell him you posed, and then you can treat Zella as you done before, and he'llroeadt ke, and I will not interfe i, e' come and take you , a I will nt it'ere," said Hilliare. and Zella away, if it cost his life. Andhe "We will keep their arrival a profound say ie'll buy old Dinah, too, and not let her secret from every one. I will attend upon work never no more. Xi! won'tmyefaidprpsbyod'nh'gldwndtdycms!? dis chile be them m yself, aided, perhaps, by oldDina gla when dat da coes I",wntdi hle whom I know I can depend upon ; and, if we It was hard forAeet epqitwe do not alarm or annoy her, Adele will soon she heard h to her, gloriousenew. come around and he well again. Kept secure- Oh ! hinase en' a herout erwo.waee 1 in the house, not a prying neighbor will ajar while the old negress was talk or wa dream that they are here. For the vessel she seen the flashing of Hilliare Hendes' yo am iun seen off the coast before eyes, as he listened to every word, brief, in- dark, and now, long before it is light, she will deed, would have been the gleam of sunshine be far out at sea." which seemed to come from heaven to warmowr+ Gustave, impatient as he was to wreak his her poor sorrow-chilled heart.cm cowardly hate upon the defeneeless, now com- But she did not; and -e withdrew in utter pletely in his power, could not but acknowl- silence, to communicate what he had heard to edge the wisdom of thee remarks; andthere- Gsae n ofr lnfrdcsv fore gave his cold assent to Hilliare's prop- ateeon-va plan to ri themlan for deeioe foe, at once and forever. It was some weeks later. Quiet and the CHAPTER LX. " Hilliare Henderson, you have murdered Night came on-soft, dreamy, balmy moon- this man shoutedtd Sionds. light. A gentle breeze rippled the distant wa- "It is false 1" said enderson, whose face te, and the waves were dimpled with silvery was white as snow. "Mis Dome s and this gleams from above. The low wind rustled girl c'+n prove thatt it is not so !" through the leaves' and flowers, sighing a dnThe iorieaccursed brother ustave has young girls sigh vyhen they are happy. It done it! Neighbors, s c y erch h was a lovely evening-too lovely for any of out and arrest him. I will stay here with the God's creatures to think of daring its beauty body until you retuaters started to obey the by deeds of darkness. M t l lyi niare Iendereon had visited Adele short- directions of Mr. imonds. ly before night came on, and in the kindest What was Adele Duniesle doing all' this manner had a ked after her health. He bad, time to her great joy, though by her unsolicited, She had shrieked but once. Now she was t a wak in the garden during the calm-fearfully calm. ic face was pale as -vening; and she could hardly conceal her the magnolia flowers w wiieitinoluf joy when she assented. heir head. id eemtin of(joyS wherent o al. Shetook Harold's hands and folded them A~ ny difsumateet afilm usuro. Ait, what a consummate actor a villain can be, upwmi his bloody brcast~ She bent over and when lie is such by Nature, and not by force kissed his white 'brow. Then, in a tone low, of circumstances b but terribly distinct, she said : Adele had counted the minutes after Hilliare "Hear me, an high Heaven! of man, I will left, until hie came agin. She hal drank heart and soul by teculyo aIwl r lakes of wie strengthen both be maA foe forever !.Harold, ever drop of nerves1andlbody for the ocesion; and when your blood is a precious jewel!- will set illiare did comne, lie found her with a flash-; them in a coronet of revenge ! If your spirit ink; eye lad iue seal cheek. But hoeudid not can look down from heaven, it shall see hoWr appear to notice it, but simply told Zella to true to this ow will be Adele Dumesle " get a shawl and hat for her- mistress, and, And Zella, too," whispered the quadroon, wit hmtoasisthe i wlkngout, as she knelt -by Adlele's aide. "For Zelus with him, to assist her in walkingou.. .7 d' '--buyesh Adele trembled with agitation, and not loved--in silence and in grief-but yet she from weakness, as IHilliare pretended to think loved, and hers will be thd vow of revenge, when they walked out upon the graveled too.!" whom Simonds had sent to pgths of tihe beautiful garden. The gentlemen who iod a et They walked for some distance in silence, arrest GustaveIenderson, returned with him, for Adele (baled iiot trust herself to speak. and said that they had found him asleep ini At last, they paused while they stened4o bed in the room wl'ch he usually occupied the sound of a night-bird peculiar to that in his brother's house. section, which seemed to be perched in an Hilliare Henderson now felt easy. He orange-grove n1"ar them. Upon one. side. of knew no proof could fix the dastary de the graveled path where they stood was a upon himself or brother. He therefore said, hedge of the bayonet-pointed cactus-on the in a haughty tone: other, a hedge of acacia in full bloom. . "If you are disposed to pursue this matter Adele reached out her hand to pluck a flower any further, Mr. Simonds, you can go and from thi hedge, when she heard footsteps be- get out warrants for myself and brother. We yond it, and her name distinctly pronounced. shall not shrink from aiyinvestigation." At the same instant she saw a blinding flash. Before Sinionds could reply, Adele- arose, of fire flying from hbe lied ge, not ten feet be. and, with a supernatural calmness, said : vend er-heard the loud report of a gun, "Hill iare Henderson, you will escape the and a cry of agony from the same well-known laws of men, but not thevengenee of Heaven ! voice which haid pronounced her name. Mr. Simonds," she added.,1«hcnceforthI place With a wild shriek, she bounded through myself under your protection, and let him the hedge, and tie next second she was upon claim me, or my girl Zella, if he dares n Let her knees by the side of hlarold Morley, who him or the fiend Gustave now try to hold was struggling in the agonies of death. "either of us 69e instant, and they will learn a "God -Goo of Heaven " she shrieked, lesson which will be ended down-down in "ave-O save my arold i" hell Take my Harold home to your house, "Adele ! dear bless-Adele-my will--- Mr. Simonds. Come, Zell; we will go there, friends !"he incoherently gasped; and as John to-night." Simonds and many friends rushed Ltp on one The Hendersons glared like hungry tigers side, and Hilliare 'enderson and Zla on the after the departing girls. But 'they saw te their, lie looked butonce at them; then his many angry faces toeare an attempt to de head fell back andhle waa--DKAD I tamn them. They were permitted to return 1 .( " page: 88[View Page 88] S88 HILLIARE HENDERSON. to their own house, while the surrounding fearing the result of a trial , they gladly gaye friends of poor Harold bore his body back to up to Adele Dumesle her own property, and the good planter's home. gave Zella her freedom. Adele was, by his Reader, my story is so nearly done, that a will, sole heiress to all df Harold's wealth. few words will link it witBhi "Beath Secret." Her subsequent career, after she left the The Hendersons could not be proven guilty South, was told in the "Death Secret." of the murder; but proof went so far, that [Tax aNZ4.) f4 Y S - - tV
