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inn, up the staircase bHt the corridor
was on fire, as the man had said and tho
flames rushing up the very door OF the
very rooms he had just tenanted. Tx
darted on. however; recolleccting that
he had seen side door out OF his own
sitting room. He dashed in caught the
handle Of the lock of the side door
and shook it Violently, for it was faston-
cd
4 will open it. cried voice from
within, that sounded strangely familiar
| TO his ear.
The lock turned-the door opened
and Henry Ashton and Alice Herbert
stood face to face
Good heavens = he exclaimed cttch-
ing her in his arms. But he gave no
time for explanation, and h@iried back
with her towards the door of his room.
The corridor, however, was imPassi
bic.
You will be lost yon will be lost :
he exclaimed. holdin, h r to his heart.
And you have thrown away yogr own
lie to save mine : said Alice.
i Will die with YOU, at least : r.
plled Henry Ashton; that is one con-
ISOLATION. But no think God, they
have got ladder--they ar, raising it
up-dear girl youare saved :
lie felt Alice lie heavy on his bosom,
and when he looked down. whether it
was fear, or the effect of the sitting, or
hearing such WORDS from his lips, he
found that she had tainted.
IL is as well, he -al; it is as well
and as soon as the dicr was raised, lie
bore her out, holding her firmly, yet on
lerly to his bosom. Taere was a death
like stiffness below. The ladl shook
under HIS feet; the flames came forth and
licked the rounds on whicl his steps We're
placed but steadily. firmly, calmly, the
young soldier pursued his way. lie bore
al that he VALUED on earth in his arms,
aud it was no moment to g,ye on7 tn 5ugat
to fear.
When his last foGtstcp touched The
ground, universal shout burst forth from
the crowd and even reached the car Of
Alice herself; but, ere she could recover
completely, she was N the comfortable
drawing room of good merchants house :,
some w3v farther down the same street.
The st. lawrence sailed on the follow
in, day for ouebee, and as you well know.
went down in a terrible hurricane whici
swept the ttlantie in the summer Of that
year, hearing with her TO the depths of
ocean every lyins tb;ae hat She had car
ried cat of Enrana Bat on the !av that
she weighed anchor. Alice sat in the draw
ne room oftae merchants house, with her
hand c!aspel in that Of Henry Ashton;
and ere many IeoDths were oYer. The tears
for those .ar bsings she had lost were
chas,l bv han3ier irobs, as she ave her
honlto the ma, She loved with all the
deoths of first affection: bat whom She
would never have seen arain. had It not
been for the .trap,e incidents which pre-
ceie and ATTENDED t,l3 os.urten.e7o Of that
fearful night.
PAytHa TIE PRiNfrR.-Gcntezlreati-
CT, the pon;lcrolo -icaily overwhelming
cryascutanizing eNtrlct from the nirihc
records of antiquity which follows, is, II
the Almanac lie not, an cNsrsct lfon a
venerable manuscript found in an ant
ouatod bakeoven, explaining the origin
of the mannorin which primers are gen.
orally paid
And SkinAintcr, the mighty ruler o.
the Squash h-hoads, having called his chief
officers to his side. commanded them
thus:
SO We into all my dominions, and
comm nd my people to gather their
.Tho officers d;d az thav we're com
ma,Jn1 and after \ certain tim. the
rnler called thnm aoa;, unto him. and
da,n.,I.3 ~ .br,, how h;s c,1.ts hal