Show NOT ALL DROSS' r Four in the morning and years shall pass away ere Walter Templar will again strike ua with his resemblance to glorious he shall be night dark and awful in its 'uncertainty Will fate ever let him again appear in bis former personation except in the regretful memory of those who laved him well? O’ Fred my friend— my brother how poacefui thou nleepest dreoming perchance of happiness with thy betrothed while the companions of that romaneo so pleasing to thee are upon the rack The brightness of thy picture makes mine blacker by contrast 0 Terese Terese!’ He stole softly from bis chamber Which bad become oppressive Sleep with tiro elements of his soul tempestuous and his mind upon the rack? Nay As well bid the that was impossible ship in the mightiest storm to rest in motionless quiet or the raging elements of that storm itself to trnlupiil peace rm to bid Sir Waller Templar nan to sleep Into the garden— into the garden Walter Templar Vent — Vent for thy feelings 'and thoughts — vent vent to tko chaos and storm within thy soul ‘0 Walter Walter! bow is it with thee? Beloved of the 'soul of Terese I how is it with thee?- wailed the Hebrew maiden upon her sleepless couch Where is thy Walter maiden? TIow is it with him? It is dark without no ?Tis four ruoon nor star in the sky in the morning ot that promised maiden and thy Walter is in tho garden All without is clothed with the thick drapery of darkness for it is the black season of the rear Thv Walter is in the garden Terese waiting for in morning of tho promised a fever of mind and impatience to speak with thee of tho issue to’ himself and thee It is four in the morning but inorning seems not to hare come Ominous to thy beloved and thee I Dark is the season of the year dark is nature without in the sky no mao n nor star! Such is thy Walter in tin? garden mni- donIIow shall thou be illuminated night then? He will not spurn the ciforing Terese is a peasant child and he a wealthy noble of proud wealthy Eng- land nor that I am a daughter of a de- spised outcast people!’ ' Teresc bad repeated this assurance to herself many times for in it she found the consolation of certainty Walter with Ills somewhat hetrodox and defiant ’ cbufhhlcr which made him disj'Osed to do what others would not do on tho aide 'of nature’s claims and she vMd of unartifieial' man would knew choofee’ her sooner for whht she was and what they had been together in the past than he voUld had she been an empressOne of his outbursts of soliloquy as he illustrates the paced the garden-walcorrectness of the maiden's view ot tho character of Sir Walter Templar Pshaw! Tell mo not of propriety! of our past is hero— herd in- my own heart I had power to win v young girls heart— I had omVmyself t6' Ipse! There lies the wrong the only impropriety to me and to this I was blind —blind so long perhaps becauso blindness was bliss and 'tbs' revelation of 'light our darkness made visible All other impropriety I would have spoken away with a word I would have said Terese be tuy wife! J would have said to the world Teres e the gifted maiden k aay wife Had tb?r told are fske is a ! and likeness of Walter Tempi w She was not like Terese yet she was-fitting type of on Hebrew daughter — the heroian Terese is the wife of Sir Walter ic Judith who struck oil' the head of tho Assyrian captain to free her people and Templar aye and I would have maintained her in that quality at least against save the holy eitv Such a deed was the all gainsay ers of my class Oh! hilt while sublime Eleanor worthy to perform I va? blind to the future which this rev- What a rival for Terese? More than elation of love would have made gloria rival was Eleanor Had she' been 'no more Terese hpd won the prize for w hich ously illuminative there was hid behind tho curtain of blissful companionship her opera aimed and her Walter would with Terese the betrothal to my cousin have come joyfully on the promised toand the expectations of my family This morrow to declare the happy issufe to tell has changed a bright opening day of her that their path was without a cross love which I saw not yet felt its blessed' in love’s bright prospect — that the fu-- " ness into a dark future which I dreamt ture before them was day not night not of’ But Eleanor was the betrothed of WalThat alone was the’1 view that made ter She was a member of his family all dark to Walter Templar that was for whom be would give his life She the threatening cloiu which Terese bewas also a twin soul made in the eame held and trembled as she gazed In its mould for whom he would sacrifice his and their in darkness tho crossings life a thousand times patby And he to her? love was lost in the labyrinth how stood the ease There was no one to her created whom1 she looked upon CHAPTER XIV from so high a point of view as her couE L E A N 6 II T H E K E T It O T K E D sin Walter There' might be many more TERESE T1IE BELOVED! i the world Ids equal — his superior in Oh Lovtj no habitant of earth thou art many points but in some respects it An unseen seray-we believe in thee would have been difficult to overmatch A frith hose martyrs are tho broken heart him seen-noand thus Eleanor looked upou him-witBut never yet have e’er shall sSi The naked eye thyhru as it shall be all that pride of family which alat Thy mind has made thee as it peopled hearen so strongly traited Walter s character Even wiih its own desiring phantasy But Hie piifeof Terese in h beloved And to a thought such shape and image given As haunts the umyuenched soul parch!1' weawas the pride of an affectionate yaaring ried wrung and riven' By lies d' woman's heart Now t hie love of family which tiuyed Eleauor Courtney his cousin-wathe u go deeply and entirely the characters of betrothed of young Sir Walter Templar Sir Walter Templar and his cousin Eleallis parents and uncle Sir Richard nor was n off pride of aibtocraey and Courtney who struck by 'the remarkaclass but that same instinct of race and ble resembiahee Which existed between tribe which existed in patriarchal days Walter and Eleanor in person and character very naturally though very unbefore 'aristocracy bad tilth and when founders of families and fathers of na-- j wisely had' looked upon them as proper tions were no more than lords of sheep matey when maturity should come In the circles of the select exclusive aris- i and pasturage Here again did Eleanor Courtney resemble Judith the Hebrew tocracy of England the proper mating heroine aud perhaps in this trait both of families is an matter and us Walter was the only son and bslr she and Walter wore Jewish in type of of his house and Sir Richard Courtney character What then in two such nawithout a son who could bo chosen bettures such dominant souls shalEstand ter than Walter as the husband of Sir between this family love between two Richard’s eldest daughter He would betrothed cousins who had often nestled in oue cradle and who grew up together represent iu himself the head of his father and mother’s family’— the hereditain early life Boor Terese even thy ry representative of tho Templars and a strong woman's love returned by Walter with all tl?e intensity of his' passionfitting representative of the Courtneys Indeed it was evident from the extraorate nature cannot prevail unless Eleanor hereelf should give her betrothed to dinary resemblance in character and him and hiscoimiu Eleanor thee that he was more a Courtney than a TemEleanor would Imvo made her cousin What wonder then that liis pa- ' Walter Emperor Of the world had she plar rents and uncle should entertain the very possessed the power: and would have sooner seen him dead in glory than displausible design of rpating Walter and Eleanor and as his father JSir Walter honored iu life ’Terese in her woman's died when lie was a boy and left him to love would folknv him through every ' the guardianship of his uncle Sir Richphase ofi his life even should dishonor ard everything in the future seemed to mark his footsteps mid crime stain his favor that design as one which would soul She would be as the angel of Mercv fulfill itself most weeping over him and his grave of glonaturally and without Doubtless also it would had he 'a cross ry would be to her a horrid toml not have met Terese and been associated Walter in turn would have made Eleawith her in so delightful a romance in nor Empress of tho world arid he would which love had sprung up in the hearts have battled for her against a host Teof both This was the matter which so rese lie would nestle in his heart A feartroubled Sir Waiter since the revelation ful vengeance would lu take upon the of the heart of Terese which also flashed heads of any who had harmed Eleanor out the revelation of his own Terese lie would shelter from harm as he Eleanor had been : would a tender chihl !! e subtle mesmeric power which the ruling spirit of Walter Temphir poshis equal his councilor often his guide sessed over her Terese ns remarked hhc hail helped to mould' him and he before had grown to think his thoughts had helped to- fashion herThoughts feel his feelings was affeetedby Ids symand purposes rtvd programmes of his life were partly Iroia the mind of Elea- pathies and nil hers ran upon biih hhe was in fact like the plastic wax nor' and part of her mind and views had upon fthieh was- stamped his imago aud charThey were twoj originated with him Teacter But Eleanor was YValler in her positive spirits of the same order own nature The Creative Mind aud rn was his medium hfhc was the cne Hand had fashioned her in ‘tho hinge for ho a5 ai most fitted to bo b:- - peasant girl’ I would bave answered ‘sbo I would say to is a child of genius’ those who deemed that character plebe- |