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of happiness, had JOKE WAS had left’unguarded for a time his sing- thought, then turned with quick de- ‘her proud pinnacle NOT St. John why it was APPRECIATED ing bird, and the hungry trappers cision to her maid: asked Floreuce had without a Glfl. of were opportunity. "Marie, you write a letter at my /that all her life been $11,000,000 In not unmindful of the will Checks Mak *** ' there been no warning Columbian All of that bright, sunny morning. dictation?” care? Had ( Student Angry. v: “Certainly, madarae.” voice to tell her of this black, black With flaahed < Barbara, having given orders to be de- fece and flashing .. 0 my place here,” rising. cloud, which had hung, weighted with Marcellus Hartley nied to all visitors, had bent over her “Then take Dodge, favril' ‘ '« Why Barbara Bretton’s a strange which The seated herself at the desk, sorrow, over her? was It that grandson of desk. It was task at maid Marcellos Hartley her that she was occqpled. Before her lay a drawing ofT her gloves as she did so, her father had rescued from dead millionaire, yesterday ? saying: life? Her father? No, she had no recipient sheet of note paper covered with writ- and of check* representing ~ ing. A tracing paper was at her side, “Miss Avice will soon be at home. I longer the right to call him such. XVho 000,000 from his She shivered she classmates &t the paper on which her hand rest- must hasten back lest she should miss was her father? as class day exercises in «•«* and the question. And Columbia Z ed was covered with a copy of the me. asked herself I verslty. That the Ambition —he pot even her brother. reference U) Travis was handwriting before her —an excellent “I will detain you but a moment. I legacy he will receive from the handwriting Then, for the first time, she thought of grandfather copy, too; so like tbe original that, You are sure your will hi* was not Milton Lennor. had pWiinl unless one suspected mjschlef, they not be known?” of This man to the young man was made said he was unworthy of her. What manifest would hare been in total Ignorance of “Sure, madame.” I He did not arise to accept the check, had this awful secret to do with him? CHAPTER XVll—Continued. CHAPTER XVIII. any change. "Very well, then. Begin: but compelled Roi Cooper Magrue, *£ Discovery. well wisher would ad- A while ago Dr. Hayes had called the presentation He bent. In answer ,to press a pas- Marie’s My Dear Milton." "Afriend and orator, to carry them on. consult three days of his absence three eter- to sionate kisa upon the bead he had It was hard to recognize the youug These were the words heading the vise Mr. Milton Lennox to : where he was sitting and pi^. well the of La Madeleine be- nities, and she had smiled at the ex- them in •gain reclaimed, whUe a moment’s and lovely bride of a few months back page, and Barbara smiled, a smile not records ! his hand. Neither did he m fore further submitting to the imposi- pression. Now she could herself so ter a word swept the beau- in the sad-oyed woman who smiled a altogether good to see, as she trgp- ot acknowledgement of» triumphant smile over being practiced upon him. The measure time. Was each moment gift entering room. scrlbed them, again and again, with tion which recalled so unexpectedly tiful features ,to be again replaced by greeting to the girl her marry laden, that it so pressed against her that curious little appendage to (to woman whom he would has no the death of his grandfather. that sadness, as his eyes "Florence!" Avlce exclaimed, spring- name, heart and brain? Was the air peo- look of tired “M" which was so characteristic. right, not alone to the Meredith It was a joke designed by ing her “you have been ill acknowledge pled with mocking voices, which the gni once more lifted themselves to hers. to side, So absorbed was she In her work but to any name she may uatlng class. Not until its not for the proud honor shouted the story Into her ear? effect “But what am I to do?” he asked. again, and have sent me!" that she did not hear the light tap at without a blush. For shown by their popular fellow the heritage of “Does —does Mr. Lennox know of studeat "Women’i hearts are not always mar- “No, dear, not very ill—not 111 her door, or the soft footfall that stole of his own name, and did it dawn upon the students children, the writer is this?” she asked, at length. that i ketable articles. Suppose I fail in this enough as to be so selfish as to take across her carpet until the words, his unborn breach of good taste had been into unveiling a “He has just learned of It/* misery? Think! All ray no further at reason—pride and a wondering In- ; which is repj if to protect her from me; I read it in up haughtily. sented by life I have never known a care, a sor- glanced “Dr. Richard Hayes." It was his credulity. | these three checks. I tak,! his eyes, his voice, his g°sture. Let a wonderful discovery pleasure in presenting row, except when poor papa died, and “I have made card Avlce Meredith held In her slen- “It is unlike him,” she asserted. them to you, »ij him guard well fils pretty bird, hut "I as —and the that has come to which may assist madame," Marie a mornings later, with lips." ’ evidence of the interest of the cla* we will steal it, spite of his watchful sorrow der hand few will hear it only from his you. Florence, you not see Trav- continued. ! in your welfare.” —then give It back to him when it will the knowledge that he whose name It “Will you not believe his written care is? He is so wretched.” "A discovery, Marie? What Is it?” Mr. Dodge was evidently shall have lost all value in his eves. bore awaited her presence In the draw- word ?” offend* “I cannot, I dare not! This fate “That which will give us most ex- written word? You have a let- and the other exercises were Win her. Richard, at any cost; and if ing room. “His hurri* which keeps us apart so cellent pretext for assuring Miss along.—New York Press. it so be that you cannot win her by seems terri- ter from him? Show it to me.” shrink away Avtce that her lover wishes to rid She went away slowly down the honeyed words, we will find other ble that (Avlce, do not (To Be Continued.) from dear) sometimes I feel as if himself of this marriage and thus stairs, half glad, half annoyed, that he WAS A FLOATING FIRESHIP. means to answer our purpose.” me. I must brave all the world and fly to inducing her to lend herself to our had come. The Influence that this OLD TIME WHALING. "And then, Barbara, you swear to him—that I care not where we go, so plans." man exerted over her was a strange Derelict Sailed for Thousands of Miles grant me my reward?” your that I can feel his arm about me, and “Tell me It, my good girl, and one. Away from him. she instinctive- The Profit Was Not Nearly So Qreat in Safety. "I swear it!" him; his lips once more pressed to mine. reward shall be doubled.” ly mistrused with him, he fas- as Is Supposed. A naval officer recently “That promise will lend passion to return* It is all a nightmare to me, and yet “I am not covetous, madame. I have cinated her, while her heart never "The Emily’s cruise produced not from China tells an extraordlnnry my words and a truth to tny utterance, quickened by a single pulse. all so plain. I can recall every little already determined upon my reward far from $43,000 in oil, not counting story about a derelict which has bees even wheu spoken to another. Had shall ask nothing But, He rose now to gseet her as she en- word during our engagement, which and for more. what she sold on the coast of South floating around the Eastern sea Th« you but set me to war with men, to you, Avice has tered the room, and seemed to her I could not then understand, but which let me tell Miss seen it America. The green hands who sail- Fannie Kerr is a four-masted bark o! hurl back in their teeth the insults confidence, his face was paler than its wont. In- now is written in fire before my eyes. fit to give me unlimited ed on a two-hundredth lay should have 2,426 tons, built of steel. She left these men have dared to deal you, how deed, now she looked again, she was The moment that woman spoke I notwithstanding that I shudder when received from this oil $216 each for Newcastle in April, 1902, with a cargo eager I should be for the fray! But sure that it was so, and that a sort of knew it was true, all true; and as the I look at myself In the mirror, so the cruise that was forty-two months’ of coal for San Francisco. She warfare with women far more dif- changed My suppressed agitation marked his round* sudden darkness came over me I am I by my disguise. man- long, or $5.37% a month. From this, in safety, but task, only to be undertaken for the Horn her cargo ficult wished, even as I swooned, that I young mistress likes me, and has even ner. they had to pay for the your dear sake and the reward I have of course, caught tire in the South Pacific, and might waken Now, gone far to place her keys with- “It seems very long since I have years." never from it. so as clothes they bought from the captain, after trying for more than a month to •o madly coveted all these my keeping—all the key of seen you, Miss Avlce," he said, earn- each moment, each hour, I live again in save her or what is called the slop bill. Mr. extinguish the flames the ship becamo “There!" glancing at the tiny, Jew- I should desk, which Is kept by a tiny estly. that scene, until feel as if I locked Hale’s slop bill amounted to $25 a so hot that the captain and crew aban- eled watch which hung from her side, suspended her watch I you by go mad. Sometimes I wonder, Avlce, key to chain. “Pray, how do mark time year, and, Judging from the list, it is doned her the 6th “you must now leave me. Remember on of June and took why I was not In your place on that arranged It, however, that this key your calendar?” she responded light- likely that the forecastle men did not always, this girl is but the to their boats. They landed at Kauai, Richard, day when Milton Lennox saved your should drop upon the carpet. What ly. "By mine only three days have buy much less. Instrument of my vengeance. I care an island of the Hawaiian group mad* life; why my horse could not at any more natural than that I should pick fled since that pleasure was mutual." "Capt. Luce, with his lay of 6 per not that real wrong should come to their way to Honolulu, where the cap- time, without a guiding, saving hand, It up, to restore It to her at the earli- “Three days? Rather three eterni- cent, should have had due ordinarily her further than that the fruit for the tain made his report and the crew wm have borne me to destruction and est possible moment? Meantime ties- Does my language appear to you $2,580 for the three years and six which his hand already is extended discharged. On the loth of March last dashed out my helpless misery against opportunity was too good a one to be exaggerated? Doubtless it does; yet months, or, say. a month. Mr. should wither beneath his touch —that SO4 the captain of the steamship Heath- the stones!” lost; at least I must try It In the lock how often do we throw away the drop Hale docs not tell what his lay was, more shame should come to the Mere- dene, bound fro.j Yokohama to For- The words had burst from her quiv- at some fitting time, to see if it would of water for which men would sell not but If he average sl6 a month for the dith name through one who bears it mosa, sighted a vessel adrift, from ering lips, but now gave place to fit. It turned easily—so easily that, only their bodies but their souls! voyage he was doing as well as third lineally, than had it been intrusted, desk and which smoke seemed to arise. Steam- choking sobs. almost before I knew it, the Avice, the man you love is unworthy mates usually did. In considering with due honor, into my keeping. Re- my ing toward her he discovered that she "Florence, darling, be calm. God its contents were laid open before of you, yet on him you pour the treas- these figures we member, also, that Travis Meredith remember, of course, was the long missing Fannie Kerr, willyet send a way out of all this mis- curious eyes. The desk had been her ures, one morsel of which I would that good mechanics used to work for was but an instrument in Milton Len- and somewhat which had been gradually drifting ery. Every night I can bear Travis father’s. It was large guard with my heart’s blood.” $1.50 a day on shore previous to the nox's hands—that it was he, and he lady’s dainty be- westward several thousand mile* for pacing up and down his room, no mat- old-fashioned for a “Unworthy of me, Dr. Hayes? And Civil war, that the crew received their •lone, who brought this shame upon the nearly nine months, with her oarga ter at what hour I may awaken, until longings; but she prized it all you, who profess to be his friend, come board in addition to their wages, me; and let this thought send any Well, and still on fire. It seems selfish In me to sleep while more highly on that account. I here In his absence to tell me this! that even now In 1900 first-class farm passing shade of pity from your idly There he Is thus tortured. . Oh, Florence, turned the papers over. How little could he whom you call un- hands work for a month and board, heart." brother, S2O The Bachelor Born. w-hat have you both done that you were a few notes from her worthy fathom the smallness of such and even less. "It does, my own—it does! Let me fath- “There was never yet a bachelor of should deserve this bitter punish- tw’o or three old letters from her an act? Sir, I must beg that you will “The owner’s share of the oil was but strike at his heart —aye it a pile, tied up in blue forty whose has not been at .tear ment?" er, and little rib- leave me!” rising In her haughty an- two-thirds, or, say. $28,000, but he paid heart out and trample it beneath my heel—- lover. This was all.” woman's feet to take leave, “He who has sent It knows, perhaps. bon, from her ger, to her feet. all expenses of the outfit. It is some or •nd, though that moment were my a fair as she would,” says a well-known But now, Avlce, you can understand “What, then, was your wonderful “No!” he answered, also standing surmise to say that he $6,C00 last, I should not have lived in vain!" cleared writer, and this, generally speaking why I dare not meet Travis. He must discovery?" her mistress asked, Im- before her. “I do not speak without a year for the use of the ship, a profit Then, with a light kiss upon the fair, Is absolutely true. However, there li have strength for both of us. But tell patiently. proof; but such proof as will bring the by no means excessive, even though white brow, he left her. one type of a very rare ton me something of yourself.” “I am coming to that, madame. I first cloud upon the horizon of your the vessel herself were probably worth man, one She to his steps he tuuately, who from mixture coll listened as “What can I tell you, save that It Is was somewhat disappointed at the re- happiness. Will you not trust me, no more htan half a year’s income, for a of crossed the hail, until the door opened love of and rigidly more like preparing for a funeral than sult of my Investigations, when I set Avice, without forcing me into dis- the whale-owner had to take risk self miserliness and closed behind him, then she the a wedding? I do not know that any- about examining the desk more mi- closing all?” of a ship making or losing voyage.— eschews matrimony. wrung her hands together in a very that, thing would have been in readiness nutely. The bottom appeared to me “Never, sir! Say what you have to Harper’s Magazine. Of such a one the story is told passion of despair, while a look of but for the treasure I have secured in unusually thick; the Idea struck me say. I do but listen that I may the being on one occasion somewhat im- misery swept her bright eyes and red across beaufTTul- my new maid. She wears glasses and that there might he some secret com- better refute your malicious charges.” How Their Care Is Different From Any pressed by the gave face. the ugliest cap you can imagine, so partment. For a time It baffled all my “As you will, then. You have never Other Kind of Chicken. lips of a certain damsel, he some doped! pon- “How easily he. too ,1s How that her personal appearance is far efforts to discover It, until finally I doubted, Avlce, the fact of your parent- Setting hens should be as well fed thought to the married state and readily task for the advisability entering he undertakes this from prepossessing, but she is won- touched a spring and a tiny drawer age?" as thoße that are laying, but the feed- dered over the of reward never gain! he a he will Yet derful. I hesitated at first about tak- slipped out before my astonished Pure and simple amazement was ing should be different. Grain should it. Racked with doubt, he ordered loves me, and ills reward is worthless it* ing her. as the lady who had last em- gaze. In it were two papers—one ad- In the glance lifted to his. be left where they can get It whenever meat pie to be prepared, and on to me. I listen as a child to lesson ployed her was In town; but her only half. There a not dressed to his and well beloved “I do not understand you,” she said. they desire to come off the nest. This appearance divided it in already conned and grown wearisome. recommendations were so excellent son, Travis Meredith, and one what "I feared that you would not, and I is done not only as a matter of con- was ample! Then the reflection Strange, strange, that these men lay and she seemed anxious of so to come purported to be a legal document wish that the explanation had been venience, but also to Insure the hens crossed his mind that in course their all at my feet, and‘l cannot even that I determined try her, have npcefr to and “Well—and then?" left to any tongue but mine. You do getting all they want to eat, and also time a subdivision might be pick it up. Yet the myself by •toop to one at done nothing but congratulate "The legal document, my lady, was not know, then, that "by the law of na- tq get them In the habit of coming sary. The portions were divid'd whose 1 would crouch for a single since.” feet ever the formal adoption of a daughter by ture you have no right to the Mere- off regularly, which they will be more a tremulous hand into two. He look- crumb throws Instead his scorn. “How glad I am! And you not me will Henry Meredith, Esq., bearing date dith name, although the law of man apt to do if they know the food is al- ed, hesitated and scraped them ah But he, too, me once. Aye, change loved and your mind about the wed- which would bring Alice Avice to her has given It to you.” ways obtainable. It Is beter to feed on to his own plate. The damsel bad by the memory of that love, and my ding?” present age.” “The law of man?” she repeated, all whole grain in good variety, such to find another lover. differing, so shall he suffer! Milton! “No, 1 think not. Travis al- seems “Her adoption, do you say?” Bar- her face blanching and her slender as corn, oats and wheat. The reason she wailed, may bury the as anxious Milton It Milton!” “I most as that bara almost gasped. “She Is figure swaying like a reed. is that all the food a setting hen The Pitcher. steel in your heart, but you have kept take place. Poor fellow! No not needs should then, of his flesh and blood? You are "You do not understand,” he con- is for her bodily maintenance. She The pitcher takes a tellimr pose. mine an open wound all these years." doubt he fears in some way his trou- And holds the hall on high. sure of this?” tinued gently. “Poor child! It is is a non-producer, and will finger tips. may therefore Then turns It with his Then, starting from her seat, she ble extend to me. It is scarcely “I have brought the paper that you simply this: You are but the adopted be able to satisfy her needs without Hl» new in-curve to try. up the en- worthy, however, to a wed- Th**n »wlftly swings his strong right arm-* paced and down room, be called might examine it.” daughter of Mr. Henry Meredith." soft food, vegetables or meat, though ding. since no one Is to be present. Th«‘ vicious deed is done! grossed In thought. As she had said, I •With trembling fingers and white “It is false! My father! my father! a little of these will be a benefit The The umpire dodge* skillfully shall not even wear white.” hoaraely shouts: "lia-all one! the goal was within her vision. At face, Barbara snatched the sheet and come back from your grave and refute danger lies in feeding so much vege- And Florence shuddered, remembering whatever cost she must attain it, with ran her eyes down the page; but, as this cruel charge!” table food as to loosen the bowels or The pitcher takes his pose again, her true motive veiled from every eye •her own wedding dress, laid away for- true, —as as Bo«h fret firm on the ground. she read, the pallor deepened, and her “It is Avice true that so much meat as to stimulate a desire ball high. from the man she made ever. Again he holds the on —even the in- head sank back wearily upon the my lips utter the words. I would to to discontinue setting and go to lay- And slowly turns It round. tears of sympathy started uncoils strument of her retribution. Let him Quick to chair, as though overcome with sud- God that I might spare you, but it may ing.—Country Life in America. Then once more he himself. believe It was ambition which moved Avice’s eyes. The batsman to undo. den faintness. not be. Henry Meredith adopted you The ball smacks In the catchers glo'A her. believe her heart “You see, dear,” she continued, “to shouts; “Ba-all two. Let him was The maid, watching her narrowly, when a helpless Infant He gave you A The umpire for which she sighed, talk of myself Is ever to drag open Human Clod. his —the rest handed her a glass of water. his name; he intended that the world The pitcher fiercely grinds his heel rest with him! At a fitting time she your wounds. Besides, I take no Tcss —Some men are awfully slow, In desperation grim. . “Itwas from I-a Madeleine they took should never know; he was in every htgtU the folly of his pre- pleasure in any of it, save that Milton they? Once more he holds the ball on would show him this child!” Barbara almost gasped, sense a father to you.” aren’t All eyes are fixed on him. hopes. queen loves I Yet his love for Jess —Yes, and they’re It drive— sumptous But the would me and him. striving to her calmness. "The truest, the best that ever so aggravate Once more he swiftly lets understand. lam such recover Then fiercely slaps his knee have come to her own again. me I cannot a lived!” she sobbed. "But if this be Ing. There was one sat alongside of coldly “Yes, madame. What of that? You Because the umpire cites. „ Touching the silver bell upon the child and he Is so grand, so true, so true, whose child, then, am I? What me coming down in the car this niorn* In foghorn tones: “Ha-all threat surely had heard of La Madelalne be- Is firm and set, noble! I miss him so sadly!” him, ing. The pitcher s face table, she ordered Marie summoned to • relation was I to that he gave me gleam In his eye fore now?" Tess A wild her presence. “Miss him?” “Yes, yes! I have it, his name and his love?” —You werent* trying to flirt Shows his determination, as heard of of lie holds the ball ou high. away? —” with him? ‘¦To-morrow," she said, when the “Yes. Did you not know he is course; but The man was silent He hurls it in—the bat swings round Liverpool, JeRS —Gracious! no; but ha was It with a thud! . Frenchwoman appeared before her, Some business called him to The sentence remained unfinished, Avlce watched him. with an awful And meets fence! days reading a novel, and he was never The hall soars o'er the left-field "you enter upon your new service. but I expect him back in a few for Barbara had swooned away. dread gathering in her eyes. She The pitcher's ready to turn the page I — namejsmud } Once a week you will report to me. now, and I am trying to learn my first The maid summoned no assistance, staggered forward toward him, and when wa». t Philadelphia You have left the service of the lesson in patience. He said It was as aided her mistress 'return laid little, trembling hand upon Press. Just she to one Wesley’s Loving Cup. parted," * Countess Ren*, whose sudden depart* the last time we should be consciousness, though no tender gleam his arm. English j»r she added blush. A loving hup of old are for England prevented her person- with a of pity was In her ruthless and malig- "What were my parents?*’ she said. Where to Find It. Bishop Asburji for your “God grant it!” exclaimed Miss St. wood, once owned by ally vouching character, but nant glance. In a hoarse whisper. “Ifyou have one The man looked worried. as a sac- John, solemnly. mother, and frequently used whose most excellent written testimo- “Ha, ha! my lady," she thought “I spark of manhood In pour body, an- “What are you seeking?" the wise Wesley when ” ramental cup by John nials leave nothing to be desired. You “Dr. Hayes is so often at the house have struck home to your heart, swer me man asked. tM even he administered the sacrament to will use your utmost skill- In properly now,” Avlce continued. “Do you have I? But wait until 1 see you “The La Madeleine give "I am trying to Republican records of find the of at the As* fulfilling the duties cf your office, and, know, Florence,” speaking In a mys- little band Methodists writhe beneath the knife of torture, no nt-mes.” he answered, slowly. "You party of Cook county," was the reply. “ t bury home, has just been &lve of course, Marie, as you have not In terious whisper, “that if he were not whose keen blade I will bury deeper left on Its steps at night.” “Ix)ok under the L’s in the city di- 0 were Westleyan University. Midi!.*' reality left m> service, I will continue such a dear and old friend of Milton's, and deeper, until the whole truth, Of Quickly he threw out his arm, as he rectory,” advised the wise man. “Hilly the town, 'Conn. 1 your wages as "heretofore. You may I should think he was In love with which you so little dream, Is revealed spoke; but too late—the girl bad fall- lives somewhere on the West side."— now go.” me?” < In all its fateful -course.” en senseless at bis feet. of Glass. The maid courtesled In recognition The ingenuous confession brought a "Ah!” she said aloud, as the breath With a certain tenderness, born of Womanlike. Bricks of her mistress’ generosity, but, smile to her listener’s lips. Glass houses of a very substantial 'as came fitfully once more through the his professional skill, be lifted her to Mrs. Popley—What do yon B * reached the so, what then? Do you think? can now bo built. Silesian g’® she door* the clear, musi- "And if white, gasping lips, “you are better, the sofa, and, with the aid of the rem- Baby spoke her first Word to-day. kind recalled makers turning out glass bricK* cal tones her. A minor (?) think Milton would be Jealous?” madame; I have been very much edies he drew from his pocket, soon Mr. Popley—Well, and It are had been forgotten, Imagine well! wont all sorts of building purposes, point ”1 canndt Milton Jealous.” frightened.” saw the long lashes lift themselves be many years before she'll be having for you man?” claiming for them such advantages "It would be as well, perhaps, Marie, “But do like this “Yes.” answered Barbara, trying to frofn the marble whiteness of her the last word.—Philadelphia Press. o if a week hence you brought me "He fascinates and yet repels me. am long, fluttering sigh escape variety of shape, free transmission a smile. **l better now I have not cheeks—a and genera* page of your yoflfig mistress’ writing. I cannot understand him; but—l shall felt well all day. This ohlld. then, was the ashen lips. Wearisome Topics. light, strength, cheapness when adaptability. 1 may find It useful.” be very glad Milton comes taken from La Madeleine? So. so, Mr. “La Madeleine?" she whispered, Rod rick—Did you enjoy Mr*. Ttolr- > For a moment the two women’s eyes home." Lennox, with your pride of name and shudderlngly, then covered her face er’s reception? Favor Monday. met; then the maid bowed again And as she spoke she sighed. lineage, do you know this her hands. Van Albert—No. Indeed. Suicides :Ih and secret?” with The rasa day for - Withdrew. Yes, Milton Lennox was absent He For a few momenta she sat lost la How long had it been that she, from talked shop and the women shopping. Monday Is the favorite mlttlng suicide. s