The Heart-Cure.

" Yes . Don't be alarmed . FOIIOAV me-I promise you that all shall be AVOU . " It AA-as through a narroAV , dark , dirty alley , up a flight of rickety outside steps , in by a broken doorway , then up dangerous stairs , then through a gloomy , recking

passage , and finally the ) ' had entered a square chamber , with blackened walls and ceiling , hi Avhich was one bed upon a bed frame , another bed upon the floor , and a small charcoal furnace in the narroAV fireplace . There wero two or three stools

, and tAVo old boxes Avhich might servo as seats . The light struggled in through a window , half the panes of which AA'ero of paper , ancl revealed upon the higher bed a man Avasted almost unto death with

consumption ; by the side of tho bed a Avoman sitting ; ancl upon one of the boxes tAA o children , a' boy and a girl . For a time Arthur Latour was like one

paralyzed . It Avas to bun as a pest-house , ancl he felt as one might feel Avho had suddenly trodden upon a deadly serpent . "Well , Avell , " broke in tho doctor ' s ebony A'oiee , " IIOAV is it to-day 1 " " Ah , good sir , dear kind friend , the end

is nigh . " It AA as the Avoman AA'I IO answered . " A better end than I can know in life , " Avhispered the man upon the bed . Tho Avhisper Avas hoarse and hollow ; and tho effort produced a spasmodic cough . Tho doctor approached tho bod and the Avoman made Avay for him . " You arc not gaining strength are you , Eben ?"

" No , Doctor . I can't deceive myself any moro , I knoAV I am dying . But Avho came with you 1 Didn't I see another 1 " Meantime the woman had met tho doctor ' s companion , and at this moment had recognized him .

" Arthur Latour , " she exclaimed in glad surprise . " God bless you , sir , for coming to us in such an hour !" Arthur beheld a Avoman yet young ancl comely , though pale and holloAv-eyed , ancl poorly clad ; ancl Avhen she had spoken he

recognized her . He remembered in his college days , a young man AAdio had built boats for the students , ancl A \ dio had piloted them in their fishing voyages upon the coast . That man Avas Eben Burroughs . And he remembered Eben ' s wife , Sarah , then fair-faced and buoyant , Avho had in those other days , entertained him often at

her frugal board when a day ' s sport had kept him at the river . And he remembered IIOAV kind tho boatman ancl his Avife had always been to him , and how many times they had done their best to please him . And one thing Arthur Latour

remembered . Ho remembered a golden-haired , A iolet-eyed , sunny-faced maiden , a relative of Sarah ' s , whom he had met at the boatman ' s cot , and AVIIO had sinned upon his path like a star that gleams Avith heavenly influence .

And this woman AA'as Sarah Burroughs , and the man upon the bed Avas her husband , The children he remembered , one as a prattling urchin , and the other as an infant in it's mother ' s arms .-

" Arthur Latour ! " echoed the sick man , making an attempt to raise himself upon his elboAV . " In mercy ' s name , " cried Arthur , when he could find speech , " what ' s all this ] Mrs . Burroughs ! Eben ! 0 , my soiil ! what does it mean ? " ' " My friends , " said Dr . Tapely , " Arthur didn't knoAV whom he A \ r as to meet Avhen I

brought him bore . This is the first IOIOAVledge he has had of your misfortune . " " In heaven ' s name , " pleaded Arthur , grasping the woman by the hand , all his manliness of heart and soul coming to the surface and showing itself in word and

look , " how has this come to pass 1 Why do I find you thus ?" He sat doAvn upon one of the stools , ancl Sarah Burroughs told him the story . Her husband had received an offer which had induced him to come to the great

city . In time , the party for whom ho Avorked failed , and at about the same time his own health broke CIOAVII . Since then they had struggled on . Eben had sank gradually ancl surely beneath the fell diseaseand they had been reduced by

, degrees unto their present condition . " And only yesterday , " said Dr . Tapely , " I found them . I . thought , Arthur , you would blame me if I did not give you a share in this work . "

There Avas a strange meaning in the expression of this last sentence , ancl only Arthur understood it . He understood it fully , and accepted it gracefully . His heart Avas in healthy tunc IIOAV , and its throbbings Avere strong and true . He knew exactly AA'hy the doctor had brought him , ancl he accepted the situation .