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CHAPTER VII.—Continued.

Ogden flung the shoe down with an im- precation, and the whip after it, He then climbed the wall and tried to run, but the ground here was rough moorland and he fell repeatedly. He saw no trace of little Jacob. He made his way back to the house, sullen and savage, and besmeared with dirt and mud,

‘Give me a lantern,’ he said to old Sarah, ‘ and look sharp.’

Old Sarah took down a common candle- lantern, and purpously selected one with a hole in it. She also chose the shortest of her candle ends, Ogden did not notice these particulars in his impatience, and went out again. Just then Jim came in. ‘ Well,’ ssid oid Sarah, ‘what d'ye think master’s done? He's licked little Jacob till he’s weanly kilt him; but t’little one is right enough now. He'll never catch him.’ ‘What! has little Jacob run away ?’

‘Ay, that he has, and he can run, can little Jacob; and he knows all the places about. Ihave no fearson him. Master’s gone out after him wi’ a lantern wi’ a hole in it,and auveahinch of candle. It’s like catchin’ a bird wi’ a pinch of salt.’ ‘Little one’s safe enough, l’se warrant him.’

‘We mun stay quiet till the old one is in bed, and then we’ll go and seek little Jacob.’

’ Ina quarter of an hour Ogden came back again. His light had gone out, and he threw the lantern down on the kitchen floor without saying a word, and shut him- self up in the sitting room.

The furniture was in great disorder. The chairs were all overturned, the mahogany table bore deep indentations from the blows of the hammer. Some pieces of old china that had ornamented the chimney-

order was rather pleasing to him than otherwise; he felt a bitter satisfaction in the harmony between it and his own mind. A large fragment of broken china lay close to his feet. It belonged toa basin, which having been only broken into three or four pieces was still repairable. Ogden put it under his foot and crusbed it to powder, feeling a sort of grim satisfaction in making repair out of the question.

He sat in perfect inaction for about a quarter of an hour, and then rang the bell. ‘Bring me some water and, stop—put these things in their place first, will you?’

Old Sarah made some order in the room, removed the broken china, and brought the water.

‘Now, bring me a bottle of rum,’ ‘Please Master Ogden, you've got no rum in the house.’

‘No, but you have,’

‘Please sir, 1 have got but very little. I think it’s nearly all done.’

*Do you think I want torob you? I'll pay you for it,’

* Master Ogden, you don’t use drinking speerets at Twistle Farm.’

Ogden gave a violent blow on the table with his fist, and shouted, ‘Bring me a bottle of rum, a bottle of rum! Do you think you are going to have all the rum in the world to yourself you drunken old witch ?’

There was that in his look which cowed Sarah, and she reflected that he might be less dangerous if he were drunk. So she brought the rum,

Ogden was pouring himself a great dose into a tumbler, when a hesitation seized him, and he flung the botlle from him into the fireplace. There was a shivering crash and then a sheet of intolerable flame. The intense heat drove Ogden from the hearth. He seized the candle and went up stairs into his bedroom,

Sarah and Jim waited to see if he would come down again, but he remained in his room, and they heard the boards creak as he walked from wall to wall. This con~ tinued an hour. At last old Sarah said— ‘Icannot bide no longer. Let us go and seek the child,’ and she lighted two lanterns which, doubtless were in a better condition and better provided with candles than the broken one she had lent to Mr. Ogden.

They went into the stable and cow-~house and called in the softest and most winning tones that their voices knew how to as- sume. ‘ Little Jacob, little Jacob, come my lad, come; it’s nobbut old Sarah and Jim, my dear; Master’s gone to bed long ago.’

They went amongst the hay with their lanterns in spite of the risk of setting it on fire, but he was not there. He was not to be found in any of the outshouses. Suds denly an idea struck Jim.

‘If we'd robbut his bit of a dog, who'd find him sure enough.’

But Feorach had disappeared, was with her young master.

They began to be rather alarmed, for it was very cold, and intensely dark. The lad was certainly not on the premises. They set off along the path that led to the rocks. They examined every nook and cranny of the huge masses of sandstone, and their lanterns produced the most unaccustomed effects, bringing out the rough projections of the rock against the unfathomable black sky, and casting enormous shadows from one rock to another. Wherever their feet could tread they went, missing nothing; but the lad was not amongst the rocks. It began to be clear to them that he could

Feorach

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not even be in a place of such shelter as

fully by: gone to bed, but was not asleep. If he No damp onher deck but the even-tide’s | thought about little Jacob at all, his reflec- weeping,

i rt. hit aati old Sarah and me, and he’s nowhere about rour ; x or- s B is " paaea. a ot ie vididier Tort ae premises, and he isn’t about the rocks

piece lay scattered on the hearth, He| ‘Ate ye seekin’ something, Mr. Ogden ? lifted up a chair and sat upon it. The dis-| ‘ I want something to make a noise with, Sarah.’ She fetched the little silver horn

that. He must be out on the open moor, ‘We mun go and tell Mestur,’ said Jim, ‘If he’s feared about th’ childt, he willn’t be mad at him.’ So they returned straight to the house, and went to Mr. Ogden’s room. He had

tions were probably not of an alarming kind. The child would come back, of course.

- Please; sir,’ said Jim, ‘ Master Jacob Isn’t come back, and we can’t find him.’

‘ He’ll come back,’ said Ogden.

‘ Please, sir, I’m rather feared about him,’ said Jim; ‘It’s nearly two hours sin’ he left the house, and it’s uncommon cold. We’ve been seekin’ him all up and down,

neither.’

Mr. Ogden began to feel rather alarmed. The paryoxism of his irritation was over by this time, and he had become rational again; indeed his mind was clearer, and, in a certain sense calmer, than it had been for two or three days. For the last half-hour he had been suflering only from great pros. ration, and a feeling of dulness and va- cancy which this new anxiety effectually re- moved. Notwithstanding the violence of his recent treatment of his son—a violence which had frequently broken out during several months, and which culminated in the scene described in the last chapter, when it had reached the pitch of temporary insanity—he really had the deepest pos- sible affection for his child, and this pater- nal feeling was more powerful than he him. self had ever consciously known or acknows ledged. When once the idea was realized that little Jacob might be suffering physice ally from the cold, and mentally from a dread of his father, which the events of the night only too fully justitied, Mr. Ogden began to feel the tenderest care and anx. iety. ‘I'll be down with youin a moment,’ he said. ‘See that the lanterns are in good order. Have you dogs ready to go with us—they may be of some use.’

He came downstairs with a serious but quite reasonable expression on his face. He spoke quite gently to old Sarah, and said, with a half-smile, ‘You needn't give mea lantern with a hole init this time,’ and then he added, ‘ | wasted all that rum you gave me,’

‘It ’ud ’ave been worse wasted if you’d swallowed it, mestur.’

‘It would—it would; but we may need a little for the lad if we flnd him—very cold you know. Give a little to Jim, if you bave any; and take a railway rug, ora blanket from my bed, to wrap him>in if he should need it.’

The dogs were in the kitchen—a large mastiff and a couple of pointers. Mr. Og- den took down a cloak that belonged to Jacob, and made the dogs smell at it. Then he seemed to be looking about for some- thing else.

that had been the doctor's last present to his young friend, ‘ That's it,’ said Mr. Og- den; ‘ he'll know the sound of that when he hears it.’

The little party set out towards the moor. Mr. Ogden led it to the place where Jacob had crossed the wall; and as Jim was look~ ing about with his lantern he called out, ‘ Why, master, here’s one of the shoes, and —summat else.’

The summat else was the great whip. Mr. Ogden took the shoes up and the whip. They were within a few yards of the pond, and he went down to the edge of it. A slight splash was heard,and he came back without the whip. The weight of the steel hammer had sunk it and hidden it from his eyes for ever. He carried the little shoe in his right hand,

When they had crossed the wall, Mr, Oge den bent down and put the shoes on the ground, and called the dogs. The pointers understood him at once, and went rapidly to the scent, whilst the little party followed them as fast as they could.

It led out upon the open moor, When they were nearly a mile from the house, Mr. Ogden told Sarah to go back and make a fire in little Jacob’s room, and warm his bed. The two men then went forward in silence.

It was bitterly cold, and the wind began to rise, whistling over the wild moor, It was now eleven o'clock; Mr. Ogden looks ed at his watch. Suddenly the dogs came to a standstill; they had reached the edge of a long sinuous bog with a surface of treacherous green, and little black pools of peatwater and mud. Mr. Ogden knew the bog perfectly, as he knew every spot on the whole moor that he was accustomed to shoot over, and he became terribly anxious. ‘We must mark this spot,’ he said; but neither he nor Jim carried a stick, and there was no wood for miles round: The only re« source was to make a little cairn of stones. When this was finished, Mr. Ogden stood looking at the bog a few minutes, measur- ing its breadth with his eye. He conclud- ed that it was impossible for a child to leap over it even at the narrowest place, and suggested that little Jacob must have skirt» ed it. But in which direction—to the right hand or the left? The dogs gave no indi- cation; they were off the scent. Mr. Og- den followed the edge of the bog in the right. and after walking half a mile, turned the extremity of it, and came again on the other side till he was opposite the cairn he had made. The dogs found no fresh scent ; they were perfectly useless. ‘ Make a noise,’ said Mr, Ogden to Jim; ‘make a noise with that born.’

Jim blew a loud blast. There came no no answering cry. The wind whistled over the heather, and a startled grouse whirred past on her rapid wings.

An idea was forcing its way into Mr. Og- den’s mind—a hateful, horrible, inadmis- sible idea—that the foul black pit before him might be the grave of his only soa. How ascertain it? They had not the neces» sary implements; and what would be the use of digging in that flowing, and yielding and unfathomable black mud? He could not endure the place, or the intolerable supposition that it suggested, and went wildly on in perfect silence, the compressed lips and beating heart, stumbling over the rough land.

Old Sarah warmed the little bed, and made a bright fire in Jacob’s room. When Ogden came back he went there at once, and found the old woman holding a small night-gown to the fire. His face told her

MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1976.

‘Th’ dogs is’appen mistaken’ she said; ‘little Jacob might be at Milend by this time.’

Mr. Ogden sent Jim down to Shayton on horseback, and returned to the moor alone. They met again at the farm at three o'clock

in the morning. Neither of them had any news of the child, Jim had roused the household at Milend, and awakened every- body both at the parsonage and the doctor’s. He had given the alarm, and he had done the same at the scattered cottages and farm- houses between Twistle Farm and Shayton. If Jacob were seen anywhere, news would be at once sent to his father. Dr. Bardly was not at home; be had left about noon for Sootythorn on militia business, and ex» pected to go on to Wenderholme with Colos nel Stanburn, where he intended to pass the night. CHAPTER VIII.

During what remained of the night it is unnecessary to add that nobody at Twistle Farm took any rest, The search was cons tinually renewed in various directions and always with the samenegative result, Mr. Ogden began to lose hope, and was more and more confirmed in his supposition that his son must have beea lost in the bog. Jim returned to Shayton where he arrived about balt.past four in the morning. When the hands assembled at Ogden’s mill, Mr. Jacob told them that the place would be closed that day, but that he would pay them their full wages; and he would be grateful to any of the men who would heip him the search for his little nephew, who had unfortunately disappeared from Twistle on the preceding evening and had not since been heard of. He added that a reward of a hundred pounds would be given to anyone who would bring him news of the child, Soon after daylight hand- bills were posted on every street in Shay~ ton, offering the same reward. Mr. Jacob

returned from the factory to Milend, and

prepared to set out to Twistle.

The sun rose in clear frosty air, and the moors were covered with suow. Large groups began to arrive at the farm about eight o’clock, and at nine the hill was seen covered with searchers in every direction. It was suggested to Mr. Ogden by a police- man that if he had any intention of hays ing the pond. dragged, it would be well that it should be done at once, as there was already a thin covering of ice over it and it would probably freeze during the whole of the day and following night, so that delay would entail additional labor in the breaking of the ice. An apparatus was sent from Shayton for this purpose. Mr. Ogden did not superintend this oper- ation, but sat alone in his parlor waiting to hear the result, There,was a tap at the door and the policeman entered.

‘We have found nothing in the pond, except—’

‘Except what?’

‘ Only this whip, sir, that must belong to you,’ and he produced the whip with the steel hammer. ‘It may be an important hindication, sir, if it could be ascertained whether your little boy was playin’ with it yesterday evening. You don’t remember seein’ him with it?’

Mr. Ogden groaned and covered his face with his hands, Then his whole frame shook conyulsively. Old Sarah came in,

‘I was just asking Mr. Ogden if he knew if the little boy was playin’ with this ere whip yesterday—we've found it in the pond ; and as I was just saying it might be a useful hindication.’

Old Sarah looked at the whip that lay wet on the table. ‘I seed that whip yis-~ taday. But I dunnot think that our little lad played wi’ it. He didn’t use playin’ wi’ it. That there whip belongs to his father and its him as uses it and not little Jacob.’

Mr. Ogden removed his hands from his face and said: ‘The whip proves nothing. I threw it into the pond yesterday evening myself.’

The policeman looked much astonished, ‘It’s a fine whip sir, to throw away for nothing.’

‘Well, take it thenif you admire it. make you a present of it.’

‘1 ’ave no use for it sir.’

‘Then [ reckon,’ said old Sarah, ‘as you haven’t got a lad about nine year old; such whips as that is considered usefal for thrashing little boys.’

Mr. Ogden could bear this no longer, and said he would go down to the pond. When ho had left the room, old Sarah took up the whip and hung it in the old place, over the silver spurs. The policeman lingered. Old Sarah relieved her mind by recounting what had taken place on the previous evening. ‘I'm very glad as you brought him that ere whip. The sight of it is like pins and needles to hiseen. You ‘ave punished him wi’ it far worse than if you ’ad laid it over his shoulthers.’

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Mr. Ogden gave orders that every one who wanted anything to eat should be freely supplied in the kitchen. One of old Sarah’s great accomplishments was the baking of oat cake, and as the bread in the house was soon eaten up, old Sarah heated the oven and baked two or three hundred oat cakes. When once the mixture is pre» pared and the oven heated, a skilful pers former bakes these cakes with surprising rapidity, and old Sarah was proud of her skill. Ifanything could have relieved her anxiety about little Jacob, it would have been this beloved occupation; but not even the pleasure of seeing the thin fluid mixture spread over the the heated sheet of iron, and of tossing the cake dexterious- ly atthe proper time, could relieve the good heart of the heavy care. Even the very occupation itself had saddening asso-~ ciations, for when old Sarah pursued it little Jacob was usually a highly.interested spectator, though often very much in the way. She had scolded him many a time for his ‘ plaguiness,’ but what would she give to be plagued by that small tormentor now?

‘The fall of snow had been heavy enough to fill up the smaller inequalities of the ground, and the hills had that aspect of exquisitive smoothness and purity which would be degraded by any comparison, Under happier circumstances, the clear at- mosphere and brilliant landscape would have been in the highest degree exhilirat~ ing; but I suppose nobody at Twistle felt that exhiliration now. On the contrary, there seemed to be something chilling and pitiless in that cold splendor and bright~ nese. No one could look on the vast sweep Of silent snow without feeling that somewhere under its equal and unrevealing surface lay the body of a dear beloved

enough. His dress was coyered with snow.

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The grave-faced seekers ranged the moors all day, after a regular system devised by Mr, Jacob Ogden. The circle of their search became wider and wider, like circles from a splash in water. In this way, before nightfall, about thirty square miles had been thoroughly searched, At last, after a day that seemed longer than the longest day insummer, the sun went dowu and one by one the stars came out. The heavens were full of their glittering when the scattered bands of seekers met to- gether again at the farm.

The fire was still kept burning in little Jacoh’s room. The little night-gown still hung before it. Old Sarah changed the hot water regularly every hour, Alas! was there any need for such comforts now? Do corpses care to have their shrouds warmed or to have hot water bottles at their icy feet ?

Mr. Ogden who had controlled himself with wonderful success so long as the sun shone, began to show uniquivocal signs of agitation after nightfall, He had headed a party on the moor and came back with a sinking heart, He had no hope left. The child must certainly have died in the cold. He went into little Jacob’s bedroom and walked about alone for a few minutes, pac- ing from the door to the window, and look- ing out on the cold white hills, the mons otony of which was relieved only by the masses Of black rock that rose here and there. The fire had burnt very briskly, and it seemed to Mr. Ogden was rather too near. As he drew back the chair he gazed for a minute at the bit of linen; his chest heaved with violent emotion, and then and there came a great and terrible agony. He sat down on the low iron bed, his strong frame shook and quivered, and with painful gasps flowed the bitter tears of his vain res pentance, He looked at the smooth little pillow, untouched during a whole night, and then thought of the dear head that had pressed it and might press it no more. Where was it resting now? Was the frozen snow on the fair cheek and open brow, or,—oh horror, still more terrible !— had he been buried alive in the black and treacherous pit, and were the dear locks in the mud of the bog, and the bright eyes filled with its slimy darkness forever? Surely he had not descended into that grave; they had done what they could to sound the place and had found nothing but earth, soft and unyielding—no frag. ment of dress had come up on their boat- hooks. 1t was more endurable to imagine the child asleep under the snow. When the thaw came they would find him, and bring him to his own chamber, and lay him on his own bed, at least for one last night, till the coffin came up from Shayton.

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THE DEPARTMENT AT OLTAWA,

That was a remarkable episode in the history of Responsible Government which happened the other day at Ottawa. Let the loeal chronicler tell the tale :

‘¢ It seems that the difficulty between the Customs authorities and the Ohio Bridge Company as to the amount of duty charge~ uble on the iron for the Chaudiere bridge arose out of the fact that the Customs of. ficers, Bartram and Henry, discovered that the iron weighed eleven tons more than the weight upon which duty was collected, re- presenting a value of $14,000. The ollicers having satisfied themselves of the corrects ness of their information, ordered the seiz~ ure of the bridge on Saturday. The seisure was accordingly made, but the contractor was permitted to proceed with the work of construction until the importers of the iron were informed of the action,

‘‘ Yesterday a representative of the Ohio Wrought Iron Company at Toronto, Mr. Hills, having heard of the affair, came to the city witb the intention of settling the diffi- culty. He visited the Customs Depart- ment and inquired for the Minister.

“ He was informed that Mr. Burpee was absent.

‘‘ He asked for the Commissioner of Cus- toms, but was told that he was absent also.

“ Finally he asked who was in carge of the Department, and no one appeared to know.

“One of the clerks, however, thought Mr. R. W. Scott was acting Minister.

“The representative of the Wrought Iron Company thereupon despatched a message to that gentleman, asking him who was supposed to be acting Minister of Cus- toms in the absence of Mr. Burpee.

“ Mr. Scott did not know, but he would ascertain.

‘« He did ascertain and returned an an- swer, stating that he was acting Minister for matters of importance, but not otherwise.”

What a spectacle for taxpayers! We have thirteen Ministers, twelve of whom draw $7,000 a year each, and one of them, the Premier, $8,000 a year, When they were in Opposition they first of all laughed at the idea of thirteen Ministers being re-~ quired, and then complained of the oc- casional absence of two or three of Sir John Macdonald’s colleagues as a fraud upon the people and a hinderance to public busi- ness. But now, O tempora! &c:, such a thing as a quorum of the Cabinet is almost unknown. Take to.day, for instance—Mr. Blake is in England; M. Cauchon is engag- ed ina family difficulty at Quebec; M. Geoftrion is among his constituents ; M. Letellier is holidaying ; Mr. Burpee is down East; Mr. Coffin is on the sick list; Mr. Vail is nobody knows where; Mr. Smith is in New Brunswick; Mr. Scott, who in ad» dition to discharge his duties as Secretary of State, has teen Acting Minister of Juse tice, and, as will be seen above, Acting Minister of Customs ‘ for matters of impor- tance but none otherwise,’ has just gone East, and Messrs. Mackenzie, Cartwright, Laird and Huntington are left to ‘run the machine !’

This utter indifference to the public in.

terests is the key of the way to the unders standing of the following exhibition :

SALARIES AT OTTAWA.

TIRES = concniocqrepensenprencesags 2333,597 BEE senatuethcenrnenddotedues 337,830 BIER ssenternnreresacinn outegniin ot 419,823 EBT: <turerbinsiovynnsocoioes eree 424,534

It explains, also, the increase of $28,000 in the yearly Contingencies; and leads us to turn from the Departments and ask with the Globe of the 10th June, 1870: ‘If the expense, confusion, and misgovernment are so great at Ottawa under the very noses and eyes of thirteen miniseers and as many deputies, is there any reason to hope that matters under the same general guidance are better in the Outside Service ?’

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AN ASTOUNDING SNAKE STORY.

A dispatch from Milford, Pa., July 24, says: A four year old son of one Riley, living on the old Milford and Oswega turn- pike, in Blooming Grove township, came into the house on Saturday last carrying a rattlesnake. He had one hand clasped tightly around its neck and the other above its rattles. The mother of the child was terrified, and screamed to the boy to drop the snake on the floor, which he did. It coiled up ina minute, and filled the room with the din of its rattles. Mrs. Riley seized the broom and soon dispatched the serpent, Her little boy cried over the death of his venomous plaything and said there were more where he got that, and he would go after one, Mrs, Riley summon- ed her husband from an adjoining field, He asked the child to show him where he got the snake. Heled the way into the scrub oaks about a quarter of a mile from the road, to a small ledge of rock in which there were many fissures. There, basking in the sun, the farmer saw dozens of rattle. snakes. He took his child in his arms and hurried away from the spot. Procuring the assistance of the hired man, the two, armed with flails, returned to the den. They attacked the serpents, threshing right and left. For five minutes the con~ test waged, the noise made by the rattles of the snakes being almost deatening. Riley and bis man killed 21 of the reptiies, and many escaped into the fissures of the rock. Kiley’s little boy had wandered alone to the dangerous rock, and had cap- tured the snake and taken ithome. It was two feet and a half long and had seven rattles.