Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-10-11

nc oeCn so needless as 10 disregard sage
llugh's warning2 But he had never seen
a wolf during his sQjoum in these Canadian
wilds.
Faster, faster! Turns that frightfully
heightened his journey, but gave him mo-
ment's respite, for his pursuers were by
this means thrown off their track, and were
some time in recovering their speed The
moon shonc out brightly. Every tree
seemed outlined against hesky with pain
full distinctness; here gnarled old oak,
that had been rivcn with some fierce bolt !;
there cump of cleaning evcrgrcens, that
Knocked him in their security. And now
the river widened. Hardly a week before,
he and Rose Ardlcy had enjoyed a gay
frolic of skating on this very spot. Was
she still veXed with him ? Oh, if she
could but know
In imagination their red tongues seemed
to touch him. One of them seemed to hurt
himself in some way, for there came a sharp
howl ofpOin. The pursuit was stopped for
an instant, and then they came on the fast
or. Charles Vancc's limbs were weak, Lis
pulses throbbing from exhaustion, his very
brain rceed, The fiery eyes seemed to
scorch him with their lurid glare, and now
he could hear the rapid eXpectant breath,
Sonear safety, and yet---A dispairing cry
broke from his lips. Rose, Rose! Fare
well to her, to happiness, to ALL
Rose Ardley, the centre of a gay group
of cousins and friends, was this selIsamc
evening doing her utmost to be attractive.
She was fascinating at all times and sea-
sons but when she used little effort
could make herself doubly so, She had
forgiven Charles Vance a dozen times since
that last angry morning. He would be
sure to come early, she complacently told
herself, and be duly pcmtent. After all,
Charles Vance was brave, noble fellow
She thought she would not iIirt one bit
that night with anybody else. The guests
all arrived. All but Mr.. Vance. Rose
wondered, Had he been really yeXed, and
was he staying away to punish her ?
Well, let him stay. She should not NOPE
or wear the willow. Loyelom girls were
always absurd.
50 Rose Ardlcy was the gaycst of the
gay. They had quadrillc; some Of the
elder ones sat down to cards. DR.. Catran,
n deeply scientific man and great mesmcr-
list, and three or four others, went into a
discussion on that wonderful subect-clair-
voyancc. The doctor had been relating
certain remarkable incidents, when it was
proposed that test should be given then.
Who would become a subject?
No one appeared inclined at first, but
Miss Caltran finally acQuicsced, and took
her seat in a chair in a small room they
to. The doctor had succeeded
in sending her to sleep, when Rose looked
in. Her attention was Immediately ar
rested, and she watched the experiment
with much caEcness.
"Would any one like to put any Qucs-
tons ?" asked DR.. Caltran.
There cnsued silence. Eleanor Ardly
broke it.
"Rosc will. Rose is always ready for
anything" And Miss Rose acquicsced at
once.
81 don't know what to ask, or what
would most like to hear" she said, with a
cay laugh.
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dni+o q ' cirn,o honnn 20 oo+,or ror,d
Me- Cu,tron n,nooT"I w - r'e n aV''ri
lnn'hcr E h." T 1in ,ro ~ ~ ap4, ," ,,
nestinc bor whiin oyon tcotb Which, which, w roS
very handsome,
"Wcll,n said Rose, daringIv.
"Placc YOUR hand in hers" directed the
doctor iNow think intcntly of the sub
icct in which Won wish her TO feel infer
csted. and then ask yolr oucstion.n
A thousand thoughts filled Rose Ardlry's
brain in an instant, but that of Charlie,
Vance was the most monument What
should she saw ? for dclicacy seemed 70
hold her bacl, on this subject,
"NIake basten cried Eleanor. "Whot is
Charley Vance doing7 Has he conc 70
sleep and forgotten to come here Or has
he zone VISITING elsewhere ~
Rose colored. 81 think will not ask