Year: 1878

said, that could never bear Co think OF Castle
DAILY without Days corner hanging on behind
it, and finding its chief solace, and all the
aDuse meut and glorifcation of the life lived
there, in the connection. / don't see that one
las the least right TO exist without the other
suppose it is the clan feeling have got bot
do in earnest think there ought not II be
great places or very beautiful things unless q
whole company of people are to share at least
in the glorification of them. SO much ought


not to be shut mp AID hedged round for the


delight of two or three. If everybody lives to


himself, and only represents himself, then


every body might be comfortable, but there


need be no grandeur"


eve are getting into mszes of political eoono-


my, am afraid, and had better wait for John


to lead us through. There is your mother COM


ing to meet Us with Lesbia."


II wonder what they are talking about


that so interests mamma. She looks quite an


imated. Lesbis kno 8 how to amuse mamma


better than do; wieh she would teach me


her srt," said Ellen, with q tone of self.re-


proach in her voice that made Bride look at


her with more complacency than she had felt


before. She was not quite invincible then
every body did not put her FIRST.


Lesois had persuaded Mrs. Daily to take
turn in the fower-garden, to see how the
les were improved by the wedding and plant
ing out that had gone on through the winter.
She perceived quickly enough that Mrs. DAILY
was not affected by the sight of the improve
them pointed ont to her, and the implication
running through Lesbia's talk that she had
not worked for herself, bot towards the time
when the owners would return to the Castle
sgain, met with no contradiction from Mrs.
Daily. Neither she nor Lesbia tro;, bIed them
selves about the exact bearing of what they
were saying to each other. 1t was only in this
strain that Lssba could speak while pointing
ont her improvements to the old m m'stress of
the place and it was pleasant to fall into
it, that she would not vex herself with even 9
remote glance at the conditions which only
could make her words come true. II iswas q
day dream they were making for themselves,
the old lady of the Castle and the young one
found equal satisfaction in upholding each
other in it, so that no consciousness qnes
tioninR was allowed to creep in and imperIl it's
foundations.


When they had fioished the round of the
garden and pleasure grounds, aud were slowly
pacing the sunny terrace with it's view across
the head of the lake towards to MAam Turk
me atans, Mrs. Daily, to her own surpriss,
tons of the first years of her life at Castle Daily
and of Pelha ms child hood. 1t was the sight of
Lso-na-Weel's dark head, for once free from
clouds. which Lesbia happened to remark
upon, that made her begin. and the interest in
the girls brown eyes tempted her on to fuller
account than she bad ever given any one else
of what she bad suffered long ago, when her
eldest son at ak years old had et.ayed away
from home and been absent for fourteen hours
Ellen was baby then, living with her fos ar
nurse in q cabin at the foot of Lac na-Weel.
Pelham had been carried to sac her once or
twice. and, taking advantage of his nurses
carelessness, he had slipped from the house
early one morning, and set forth to fad his
way across the mountains alone-a sturdy,
fearless little fellow, used to climbing, and
hard to turn back from anything he had set
his heart upon. Hehad been missed some time
before anyone had the courage to tell her; and
then then what an - agony @ Z it had been to bear the
one party of sesrchers after another with no
news. No one had ohsnced to guess the direc-
tion the child had taken, and of course every
ones thoughts turned to the lake at once, and
she could not help seeing how little hope most
of them had. aud that the search was half pre-
tence with the greater number who went. She
was ill at the time, and not allowed to leave
the house hersel'; and she told Lesbia that she
believed her DISLIKE to Castle DAILY arose from
the painful associations that the views from all
the Windows had with that days watchings.
She coeld never aft srwards see the shadows
of the clouds fitting over the hills, watch |
the wttsrs of the lake deepening into the glow
of sun. .t.~ttttott recalling the horror
which thst day bad gone down. At last. long
aft ar dark, "a I'll, strange, wild looking man |
had brought the child home, with the ttory of |
how he had found him gs leriug bog berries |
mouDt ain its ominous name. because shep
herd ventured to pasture his focks on that side |
of the hill for fear they should fall over and
shudder at the long past danger.


"And then it was all over, and how happy
you must have beeu," said Lesbia.


"Bnt, my dear, it was not all over, aud that
is why my thoughts go back t, Aat day 80
often, tracing onwards from it many of the |
troubles of my life. Toe man oams up those
steps q was tthndng at the t1p) VITA my boy
on his shoulder clutchi az his elf-looks with his
little hands, and whether 1t was that the poor |
child was afraid of being soolded for running |
away, or whether the man had fascip ted him |
somehow, don't know, but for minute he |
clung to him and would not g. down even to
come to me. shall never forget what felt |
- the devouring anxiety tt have him safe once |
more in my own arms ont of the keeping of |
that dreadful wild man. For he was q dread nj |
man. l shall never forget his face as he stood |
under the light in the hall with Pelham cling. |
ing to him. 1 knew him by report he had |
bad character, and was living in the mount. |
aims aim ,st as outlaw. OF course we re-. |
warded him amply (; but that did nc satisfy |
him. He seemed to feel as if he had sort of |
right over the child because he had saved his |
life, and he would hang about the Castle even |
after bad warned him to keep away. He used |
to meet Pelham out on his walks when he got |
a little older, and tempt him to make excur- |
sions into the mountains with him, and offer |
him present once it was young eaglet that |
he had taken out of its nest on the top of L C. |
na-Weel. could not overcome the horror the |
association gave me, and had no peace till |
had persuaded Mr.. DAILY t. send Pelham to |