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JIMA what he did say with- weadd have made Male allusion to it.
out Ina perhaps. th. {sort un- As matters stood, however, she was in a
tee • could biome tkgsgly ot: be most querulous and smokable wood; she
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gr M �MMj rMito
dkmg could t rail at the nmuse nse of her
Pis".". ' "hips. mtserl,• at1l au, woatsmlike, abs was
TTT now
�kful for a psetast for usoorktms the
vials of 4h wrath oe somebody or some-
Wag
the youths i atxoms b gszrisea who,
with the two or three visiting aesidat e.
were diagramed to rebel at Kiss Hail's ap-
parest absorption of all the available
cavaliers at the post, and call her a too
lucky girl, could but have heard Mrs.
Ray twee nightly tirades and hourly re-
buke*, they might have realised that
here, as elsewhere, the rose had its
stinging thorns. As for Mia Travers,
she confounded her sister by Wring it all
very submissively and attempting node-
feuse. Possibly conscience was telling
her that she deserved more than she was
getting, or than she would be likely to
get until her sister heard of tee adven-
ture with Mr. Ilayne.
"By the way," said Mr. Royce one
evening as they were stamping a t the
snow and removing their heavy wraps iu
Rayner's hallway after a aeries of garri-
son calls, "Mrs. Waldron says she ex-
pects you to play for her to -morrow
afternoon, Miss Travers. Of course it
will be my luck to be at stables."
"You (tear better music every after-
noon than I can give you, Mr. Royce."
.•Where, pray?" asked Mrs. Rayner.
turning quickly upon them.
Mr. Roved hesitated, and -with shame
be it said -wallowed I�liat Travers w rout
the question:
"At Mr. llayne's, Kate."
There was the same awkward silence
that always followed the mention of
Ilayne's' name, Mrs. Rayner looked an-
noyed. It was evident that she wanted
more information -wanted to ask. but
was restrained. Ilocce deterwine.l to lie
outspoken.
"Several of us hare got quite in the
way of b --topping there on our way (mut
afternoon stables," he said, cern quietly.
"Mr. Hayne has his piano now. and has
nearly rs•overeel the full use of his eyes.
He plays well."
Mrs. Itavner turned about once miore,
and without saying so much as good
night, went heavily upstairs, Jesting
her escort to share with Mr. Royce such
welcome as the captain was ready to
accord them. If forbidden to talk on the
subject nearest her heart, she would not
speak at all. She would have banged her
door, but that would have waked Irby.
It stung her to the quick to know that
the cavalry officers were daily visitors
at Mr. Baynes quarters. It was little
ccnhfort to know that the infantry of-
ficers did not go. for she and they both
knew that, except Maj. Waldron, no
one of their number was wek„Inv under
that roof, unless he would voluntarily
come tomer.' and sac. "I believe vena
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s•t. u pisses me. very potttfb{y It is
j v
it because ant ala.
"And yet, though my boon ate con-
stantly
oo-
s tantly occupied, though they are bens
firms res MM eight, no ase of tilt se
is mors ve than another. There
are five a di who oasts daily. 'rime
ase some who du net osms at a6. Ahs
a wretch, *eves/ 'Owns ars two or
the. that do not oaf who I wish would
alp. I would like to know them.
~Tet they know -they could not help
it, wit b Yate here, and I never forget --
that I am your promised wife. Steven
oto you not some;maes forget the coodi-
ticsu of that promise? Even stow, agab
and again, do l nut repeat to you uvea
you ought to release un. and free )04/f
self? 1)1 course your impulse will be to
ay my heart is changing -that I hav
seen others whom I like better. No;
have seen no one 1 like as well. But is
'like' what you deserve, what you ask
And is it not all 1 have ever been able to
piowire you? Steven, bear we w Miens,
for Kate is bitterly unjust W we at
times, I told you again and again last
summer and full that I did not love you
and ought nut to think of being you
wife. Yet, poor, homeless, dependeu
as 1 am, how strong was the tewptatite
to say yes to your plea!
"You know that 1 did not and would
not until time and again your sweet nei-
ther, whom I do love, and Kate, who
had been a mother to tae, both declared
that that should make no difference; the
love would come; the happiest marriages
the world over were those in which the
girl respected the man of her choice
love would come, and mime speedily,
when once she was his wife. You yVear-
see leclared you could wait in patience
-you would woo and win by and by.
Only profile* to be your wife before re-
turning do the frontier and you would be
content. :Steven, are you content: You
know you aro nut; you know von are
unhappy; and it is all, not becau.e I am
growing W levo some one else, lot be-
cause 1 sun not growing to Give you.
Heaven knows I want to lore you; fur
eco long as sou hold we W it my promise
is sac' ed and slhall be kept.
' • More thea that, if you say that it is
your will +fiat I seclude thyself from
thew attentiuru, give up dancing, give
up riles, drives, walks, and even receiv-
ing vieita, here, so be it I will o:oev;
out write this W one, Steven --not to
Kate. I am too proud to ask ler to show
i e the letters i know she has received
from you -and there are some she has
not shown me --but I cannot understand
1 man's complaining to other persons of
the conduct of the woman who is, ur is
to be. his wife• Forgive me if I pain
you; sometimes even to myself I seem
old and strange. I have lived sn much
alone, hare hail to think and .lo for my-
self so many years while Kate has been
away. that perhaps I'm not 'like other
girls:' but the respect 1 feel for you
would lee injured if 1 thought you strove
to guide or govern me through others:
.and of one thing be nitre, Steven. I nu1.1
bowie and respect and kook up W the lulu.
I marry, love or no love.
"Once you said it %%ami l Lill you it
you believes' I could 4e false to you. 11
by that you meant that, having given
my promise to you to 4e your wife at
some future time, I must whet,' avail
to k,ve you. and will be considered false
if love do not come at my bidding or
your••• I say to you solemnly, release tote
now. I may not love, but i cannot and
w ill not deceive you, even by simulating
love that does nut exist. Suppose that
love were to be kindled in my bean.
Suppose I were to learn to care for some
one here. You would be the first one to
know it; fur I would tell you as ns-ui as
1 knew it myself.' Then what (seed 1
hope- for --or colt? Surely you would rile
want to many a girl who loved another
man. But is it mach better to marry
one who feels that she does not love you?
-Think of it, Steven; I am veru
lonely. very far from happy, very
ores h,sd over Kate's evident trouble,
and all the sorrow I sin bringing you
and yours; but have i rnidbd or deceived =
you in any one thing? Once only has a -
word been spoken or a seem- oecurred
that you mould perhaps have objected to. -
1 told you the whole thing in my letter -
of Sunday last, and wily I had nut told
Kate. We have not wet since that -
night, Mr. Bayne en.l I, stud may not:
but he is a wan whose ,tory excites my
profound pity and borrow, and he is one -
of the two or three 1 feel that 1 would
like to sew more of. Is this being false
to you or to my promise? 1f no. Steven,
you cermet say that I hare not given you
the whole truth.
"It is very late at night -1 o'clock -
and Kate is not yet asleep, and the cap-
tain is still down stairs, reading. /le is
not looking well at all. and Kate to sore-
ly anxious about him. It was hiss evi-
dence that brought years of oslraci*m
and misery mien Lieut. Hay no, and
there are {-ague indications that in his
own regiment the officers are beginning
to believe that possibly he was not the
guilty man. The cavalry officers. of
curse, may nothing to us on the subject,
and I have never heard the full story.
if he has hum, es ie suggested, the vic-
tim of a aoswndrel, and Capt. Rayner
was at fault in his eridencc, no punish-
ment on earth could tie tin great for the
villain who planned d 4is rum, and no re-
morse rook' atone for' Capt. l:ayner's
share. I never saw so sad a face on
mot taI roan As Mr. lla\nc':.. Steven
Van Antwerp, 1 w i,b i were a u;tang I
would trace that ulymtery to the bitter
end.
"This is a strange letter to send to -to
you: i.ut 1 stn a strange girl. Already 1
am more than expecting son to write
and release um unevinddienally; and you
ought to do it. I do not my 1 want it
"Faithfully, at least, yours.
"Nwt.t.ig.
"P. S, gitoield you write to Kate, you
are not to tell her, remember, of my
meeting with Mr. !Jayne. Of course I
am anxious to have your reply to that
letter; lett it will he flee days yet"
An odd letter. indeed, for a girl not
yet twisty, and not of a hope inspiring
character; hot when it reached lir. Van
Antwerp he did not pale is reading it;
his face was glia(ly before . b•Ran. 11
anything. be tr[tar.ad N hiliel by same
reisksed by nose. Thee
=inns fracas. hoar Docket the letter
Atom' of ••revalmui RaMt*,” ieT apa�j b
DettrWrnt,-' •'Meaiox's Tartu," ETC.
LCewJ 1i lay J. a Ilpptnteu Camaguey, �•d•iphta, .ed
published by vend ar'r gement with then]
('ef A1'I:5.R Vull.
Mani had cone -the swath of gale
W YsMsr, skeet and storm, in almost
every Motion of our broad domain -and
March at Warrener was to the fall et
blustering and conscienceless as iu New
England- There were a few days of sun-
shine during the tinct week; then came a
fortnight of raging snow storms. The
cavalry Leaps, officers and men, went
about their obie duties as usual, but,
except for roll all on the porch of the
barracks gad for guard n*ounting over
at the guard house, all military emeriti*
emoted seagended. This meant livelier
time. for the ladies, however, es the oAI-
c ers were enabled to devote just .o many
more hours a day to their entertainment
There were two or three hops a week
over in the big assembly room, and there
was some talk of getting up a german in
honor of Miss 'havers, but the strained
relations existing between Mrs Rayner
and the ladies of other families at the
post made the matter difficult of a000st-
plisbanenL
There were bright little luncheon, din-
ner and tea parties, where the young
officers and the younger ladies met every
day: and. besides all this, despite the
fact that Mrs- Rayner had at first shown
a fixed determination to discuss the rights
and wrongs of "the Bayne affeir," as it
was now beginning to be termed, with
all comers who belonged to the Risers.
it had grown to be a very general thing
for the youngster', to drop in at her
house at all hours of the day: but that
was because there were attractions there
.which outweighed her combativeneu.
Then Rayner himself overheard some
comments on the mistake she was mak-
ing, and forbade her diacmesing the sub -
ject with the officers even of her own
regiment She was indignant, and de-
manded a reason. He would name no
('cosh! ,she Aare aeon the Jfq.re that wan
.Gwkiag is the snowy. .
names, but toll her that he had heard
enough to convince him she was doing
him more harm than good, and. if any-
thing, contributing to the turn of the
tide in Haynes favor. Than she felt out-
raged and utterly misjudged. It was a
critical time for her, and if deprived of
the use of her main steepen ..f offense
and defense the battle wart sure to go
amiss. Sorely against her inclination,
she obeyed her lura. for. as iias been
staid, she was a loyal wife, and for the
time beinlc.the baby became the recip-
ient of her limdititled attention.
True to her declaration, she behaved
run coldly ami with such marled distance
of manner to the colonel and his wife
when they met in society immediately
after the dinner that the colonel quittly-
toll his wife she need not give either
dinner or reception in le.norof Mrs. Ray
ner's return. lie would like to have leer
(10 P osuctbing to welcerne )lite Travers,
for he thought the girl had much of her-
father
er
father in her. He knew him well in the
oil days before and during the war, and
liked him. Ile likee•i her leeks and her
sweet, unaffected, (lorry winner. 1I.
liked the (e,ntraat between her and her
sister; for Miss Travers had listenel in
silence to her sister's exposition of what
her tnanner shoul.l be to the colonel an.:
Ms wife, and when they met she was
bright and winsome. Thee colonel stood
and talked with her shoat her father.
whom eh.. could rem, other only vaguely.
but of whom she never tired of hearing:
and that night Mrs. Reviler rebuked her
..c -rely for her disloyalty to the Cap-
tain, who had given her a home.
But when Mrs. Rayner heard that
Maj. and Mrs. Waldron had invited Mr.
Ilayne to dine with theist, and bad in o
cited to meet him two of Cie catalry
officers and their wives, elle e% hue incensed
beyond measure. She and Mrs. \?aldrun
had a brief talk, as • remit of which
Mrs. Rayner refused to speak to )ire
Waldron at the evening party given by
lire. Stannard in honor of her anti her
Meter. It was this that brought on the
crisis. Whatever was said between the
Wen was not told. Maj. Waldron and
(:apt Rayner had a long consultation,
and they took no one into their eonfi
dwstr; Dart )fie- Rayner obeyed her hue -
Ong, went to Mra. Waldron and apetoe
IOW fly rndener• and than went
orf* bat and returned the call e,f
itlbe colonel's wife; but abe t-hoen a height
I•t eenbocn, whets she knew well the lady
eta toot at home.
1!e ratlsed heal We ceshgt, sipper-
tsay• as hes bean maid. (glad back much
%vi• ion easeletios to Maasalt eyes the
Met at me great a eardel as she was
fag her hashawd end dolour tests dusty
Mid b Alae. Ia vesrr tett-. bow -
ever, tae contest war withdrawn fun
her by the fact that for a week or mo
alter his evening at the Waldrosts' Mr
Bayne diel not reappear in garrison,
she had no cause to talk about him
Officers visiting the house avoided men
tion of his name. Ladies of the caval
regineut callhig upoa Mrs. Rayner an
Miss Travers occasionally spoke of hi.
and his devotion to the men and
bravery at the Are, but rather as thoug
they meant in a general wary to compli
meat the Risers, not Mr. Hayne; and
she hard little of the man whose
ince was ao sore a trial to her. What
site would have said, what site would
have thought, had she known of
meeting between him and her guard
Nellie, is beyond us to describe; but
never dreamed of suck a thing, an
Mia Travers never dreamed of telling
her -for the present, at least. Forte
nately, or unfortunately, for the latter
it was not an much of her relations with
Mr. Hayne as of her relations with
a dozen young bachelors that Mrs. Ray
ner speedily felt herself compelled to
complain. It was a bl seed relief to the
elder sister. Iyer surcharged spirit was
in sore need of an escape valve. She
wan ready to boil over in the mental
ebullition consequent upon Mr. Hayne s
reception at the post, and with all the
pent up irritability which that episode
had generated she could nut lave con-
tained herself and slept
But here Mins Travers came to her re
lief. :ler beauty, her winsome ways,
her unqualified delight in everything
Drat wee soldierly, speedily rendered her
vastly attractive to all the young officers
in garrisuu. Graham and Foster, of rte
m
re
and
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w
his
b
so
exist-
ence
the
ed
she
d
half
kifatitrc. Merton, Webster and Royce, of
the cavalry, haunted the house at all
manner of hours, and We captain bade
them wele-ome and urged them to come
oftener an.1 stay later, and told Mrs.
Rayner he wanted some kind of a sup-
per or collation every night. He shat be-
forelig guests a gond dent of wine, and
dradIW good deal more himself than he
Mid ever been known to do before. and
they were keeping very late hours at
Raynerat. for, Kalil the captain. •'I don't
care if Nellie is engaged: she shall have
u good time while she's here: and if the
treys know all about it -goodness knows
you've told them often enough, Kate -
end they don't mind it, why, it's nobody's
business -here, at least,"
What Mr- Van Antwerp might think
or care was another matter. Rayner
sever saw him, and did not know him.
He rather resented it that Van Antwerp
had never written to horn and asked itis
consent As Mrs. Rayne-r'a husband and
Nellie's brother-in-law•, it seemed to him
he stool in loco parentis; but Mrs. Ray-
n er managed the whole thing herself,
and be was not even consulted. If any-
thing, be rather enjoyed the contempla-
tion of Van Antwerp's fidgety frame of
mind as described to him by Mrs. Ray-
ner about the time it became apparent to
her that Nellie was enjoying the atten-
tions of which she was 1a) general an ob-
ject, and that the captain was sitting up
later an4 drinking more wine than was
good for him. She was aware that the
very number of Nell's admirers would
probably prevent her becoming entangled
with any one ut them, but she needed
something to scold about, and eagerly
pitched upon this.
She knew well that she could not com-
fort her flu -lewd iu the anxiety that was
gnawing at his heartstrings, but she was
jealous of comfort that might come to
hien from any other source, and the
L.•tle of wine and jolly companionship
she dreaded most of a11. Long, long be `4
fore, she had induced him to promise
that he would never offer the young offi-
cers spirits in lois house. She would not
prohibit wine at table, she said; but .be
never thought of there coming a time
when be himself would seek consolation
in the glass anal snake up in quantity
what it lacked in akoholic strength. He
was impatient of all reproof now, and -
would listen to no Wk; but Nellie was
ye:urs her junior -more years than she
would admit ezeept at such time's as
thee, when she meant to admonish; and
Ni-lIle ha.l to take it.
Two aveeka after their arrival at t(tar-
rencr the Irlr,en of Mr:. ILayner's song
--morn, noon and night -was: '-\chat
would Mr. Van Antwerp say if he could
but see tine or 'leer that?"
Can any realer recall nn instance
where Cie a-:u•.e of an absent lover was
benefited by the ceaseless ' warning in a
woman'', eer. •'Remember, you're en -
treed!" The hero of antiquity who
caused himself to be attended by a aha.l-
wine rlieva whispering ever and only.
'Reim .iiher. thou are mortal," is a line
figure t•e ContompLde--at this remote
date. Ile. we are told, adn.ltted the
seed. rusmitted to the inflietlon. ittd
Mea there a woman who will admit tli:ut
she need-, any instruction as to whit her
Oneduet should he when the lord of her
heart is away? Lives tls•re n wo,nan
who, aul.rhitting. because she cannot es-
cape, to the reinstant reminder, "Then
art engin n,l," will not resent it in h •r
heart of hearts anti poswibly r•ven•;e her -
.elf os the one alone whom elle hulele at
her mercy? Left 10 herself -10 her p!en-
enMty, bet eioeaCk'ne-, her intial4' t> O-
denus s"the mete of t lie agment roe ,e .11 -
/Ir Itself. and. if it have even faint
a1111atieB, hold iia own. •• With the
beet Mentons in the world.- num, to
/semitone eines hoe been ruined tljt tRe
injudici.xaa irginga of a mother; hag to
talk an engages' girl into mutsjl, hely
an the infallibility of two woollen -4
imsrrled shier or a maiden aunt.
Jet whet Mr- Van Antwerp would
wait qli ith •
hearitehed
prettyhim
'OM ppltnea crenae-. It
was easy bdr. Mao, hie
roust, , her ti d 01 hi.iW Titling guard;
connee-
tions, ht. and W llsocial standing,
the door was opened, and he was some-
thing more than welcomed. said the gos-
sips at the Surf haw. What his peel
history had green, where and how nis
life had bees spent, were matters of lass
000aquenos. apparently, than what be
was now. Ile had been wild at college,
aa other boys had been, she learned; be
had tried the cattle business in the west,
she was told; but there had been a quar-
rel with his father, a reconciliation, a
devoted mother, a long sojourn abroad-
Iieidelberg-a sudden summons to re-
turn, the death of the father, and then
the management of a valuable estate tell
to the sat.
There were other children, brother
and staters, three in all, but Steven was
the first horn and the mother's glory.
She was with him at the seaside, and the
first thing that moved Nellie Travers to
like tin was his devotion W that white
haired woman who seemed so happy in
his care. Between that mother and Mrs.
Rayner there had speedily sprung up an
acquaintance. She had vasty admired
Nellie, and during the first fortnight of
their visit to the Surf house had shown
her many attentions. The illness of a
daughter called her away, and Mrs. Ray-
ner announced that she, too, was going
elsewhere, when Mr. Van Antwerp
himself returned, and Mtn Rayner
decided it was so late in the season
that they had better remain until it was
time to go to town. In October they
spent a fortnight in the city, staying at
the Westminster, and he was assiduous
in his attentions, taking them every-
where and lavishing flowers and bon-
bons upon Nell. Then Mrs. Van Ant-
werp invited them to deft ler at her own
comfortable, oleo fashioned house down
town, and Mrs. Rayner was eager to ac-
cept, but Nellie said no, she would not
do it; she could not accept Mr. Van Ant-
werp: she liked, adinired and was at-
tracted by him, but she felt that lore him
she did not Ile was devoted, but had
tact and patience, and Mrs. Rayner at
last yielded to her demand and took her
off in October to amend some time in the
inter:or of leve elate with relations of
their mother, and there frequently carne -
Mr. Van Antwerp to see her and to urge
his suit.
They were to hare gone to Warrener
imruediately after the holidays, but Jan-
uary came and Nellie had not surren-
dered. Another week in the tete, a long 'innocent" Site felt that but for the
talk with the devoted old mother whose stand made be Ilavne himself morel of
heart was so wrapped up in her sties their number would have received him
happiness, and whose arms seemed realm_ ince, comradeship again by this time.
ing to enfold the lovely girl, and Nellie and ail.' could hardily sloop that night
was conquered. if not fully convince.] from thinking over {chat she had heard.
of iter lore for Mr. Van Antwerp, she But could she hate neem the figure
was more than half in love with his that was slinging in the snow at the
mother. Iler promise was given. and rear door of flayne's quarters that very
ten elle aceetne.l eager to get lack to the evening, peening 61110 the icelited r0o31s,
frontier which she had known and loved and at Out, after many an irrew.lute
as a child. •'1swant to see the mem- turn, knocking timidly f.r admission
tains, the .no peaks, the great rolling and then hiding behind the corner of
prairies, once more," she said, and he the died unto Sum estop and I« k.' 1 his
had to consent. Man never tweed more the
tailed heal out into the wintry dark -
importunately than he that the wedding neer in wondering effort to find the vie
Dome should off that very winter; but l icor, she would not have slept at all.
Nellie once more said no. She cor ('
ouid not It was polancy, once more moon -
and would not listen to au earlier date ing about the garrison and up to his old
than the summer to n,me. trichia ('latw y had txs•• drinking; bout
No one on (earth knew with what sore - t e wanted t.. know, "could he vales.foreboding and misery he let her len, pt ititb the lieutinanL?'
was something that Mrs- Rayner could
not help reutarking-his inicenquerable -
as.raion to every mention of the army
an•1 of his own slight on the
frontier. Ile would not talk of it even
with Nellie, who meta an enthusiast and
had spent two years of her girlhood al-
tnAGt under the shadow of Laramie Peak
and loved the mere mention of the Wyo-
ming
yuming ',treeing and valleys. In her bus-
liana's name Mrs. Rayner bad urged hien
to drop lois business early in the spring
and sonic to them for a visit Be declarer)
it was emelt impiasiWe, Every moment
"f his time Faust hxe given to the nettling
of estate affairs, so than he could heti free
man in the summer. Ile meant to take
hill bride abroad immediately and o p,•ts'
a year or more in Europe. These were
details which were induutrienuily circu-
lated by Mrs. Rayner and speedily be-
came garnenpn property. It *anted 41
the men that in bringing her sister there
etig:;p ed
she had t iolateel all precedent to
begin with. and in this instance, at least,
there was general complaint.
Mr. Blake said it reminded hint of his
early boyhood, when they used to take
Mai to the great toy stores at Christmas:
"Look all yon like. long for it as mach
CHAPTER IX.
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as PHI pltasn•, lett don't It„save•” Merton ".Mrs. Clayey, tn,s n.s.f watch Aim."
and Renee, of the eavairs, rolid i1 w•aa Thursday sbeen -:.ding over your letter
.simply a challenge to any better fellow of r last, ells- fit. inu " caroti
to eut in and cut out the Knickerbocker; Kies Travers, "and there is much that 1
and, to do them just r'qi ,obey did their Gel i ought In Answer. Yrw and Ka;.•
tx.1 10 carry out UhJ'ir theory. )lothaero much of a mind als,(n the
t hey and their criminal/it of the. Millers - • (1; but t yol. with w hied i tun aorrcwtnd-
were motelWIun ill lhelrattentk'nes to Miss - td; cwt you aha• fur m.,rn imourtetve
Tra%crs, and other belies, leas. favored, than she G, and far more evwrteth
naa.le acrimonious (ninment in came -. There `M much about your letter that
'Pelle". .\ "laid"' +i•ctcr of one• of cite I touchers me deeply that I want to be frank
,. tern captains in the -t1h. a channel • an 1 fair in my reply. 1 have been (lA•c-
w ll. we .tern asorti(isiu .1 rbaraet. r wilting all this evening, wax rout at dinner
r.- I .-teel in her (esthetes end grimly iglu.• (10. a that, and base made many calls
Ira"' in that Brews, wart nw,re l to r cute this afternen', but, tined as I am, my
sure of ti. -r more attractive ne'ighbne• - letter mutt ,.' repetition
for lay. (.61
"11 1 ha.1 given Inv beat tee a gentle- : will he but the end
of eedte Is it
man.- *aid • he. and her manner was in- that 1 am ,•.i and allergy yin re' that
ng alrnggk which etch
1 ran mit and writ., eo calmly in .ply 10
brut . -e "f the ie
ng
bestowal wotl.l (cost lath hint and her, i yowl- fervent and appealing letter?
I i ' Ah, Ster,•n, it is what may be maid oi
me; Fut, if cold and hearth -se to you, 1
hare certainly given no man at this gar -
eaten the faintest reason to think that he
has inapirmd any greater intermit in him.
They are all kinel, all eery attentive. i
have told yon how well Mr. Royce dance*
and Mr. Mertens rhea and Mr. roister
raids ani tante. They entertain me
vaatly, and 1 do like it. More than this,
Steven, i am pleased with their evident
a.lmfratiow--toot alone fitment and pined
that they Nonld admire me who am
lave ams guy plMe to .,&1_* is se long pied to jnat--eettilat alone, I frankly
not i ng dm earth would induce me to
:w'oept attention. fmin any one eine, not
even if he were millions of miles away."
But Nellie Travers was "n'ceptnng at-
tentions" with laughing grace and ere
joying the anxiety of these ruing fellows
imtreneely. The Neese w.,uld have been
gkenly with.,ut her and "the boys.,"
Raymer was prompt to admit, for he was
ill at eerie aiad .tlrely worried, while hie
infiamaabie tags was fuming over the
situation of bar bsahand's affair., Un-
der cwd1atry rlgsoet•trtoa she would
fel *Nis domed we pretenstes for mar COQ' *wwi 11161 �� ir>>i�►
that had reeohed kite $ kw (tpyp pro*
out, and all slime is AS rams. late M
night, he red It over *gets. threw k
upon the Skim at w tion he was abbot
this. welt ' teedeo ee
boded Ida face is W ones ands
dold b sosideb.
To et tlottrttcvsD.
ODDS ANO ENOL
A
urn.
sNaae-- New mad Then, $ se.
1{104 sr use wwet .! Se
J.setrft/t. Jetlttnp. e.
I1 b • preleye (/i eotsuoad HM,
yud'e YdluwsvOil t ar . Nn .are Fur
chapped hands, •eelllug, sore throat,
creep, eta Mas (iso wpiats,
u.ephin. 1 U , 0.t
TO ours croup, ries 10 to 30 drops of
Yells. Oil us sayer iatessally, mad rub
the threat and sheet with the Ohl. It
fails. 2
A {lee her It
Proud F■the€,,-W.1 ,s.s beck to the
old last, my boy. So )rust tut tkruagk
college all right 1
Farmer's lien. - Yes, father.
P Ir. -Ye know I t.4d you to gaudy
up on chemistry and things soa e'd
know beet .hat to do with ditierest
binds of land Whet do you think et
that flat madder there, fur Metopes 1
F S.--Crseky, .hat • place for •
bael. I game i
('ar.ak I'eagtia sad C4 s
And all Diseases ut oke Throat sed
Longs coo be cured by the ese of Scott's
Emulsion, as it cntaiue Cue boding vir-
tues of Cod Liver (1i1 and Hypopbas-
phitse in their fullest form. See what
W. S Muer, M. D , L R C. P., eta.
Trus,, N. ll., says : "After three years'
experience I c .naider Scott'• Emulsion
one of tie very beet in the market
Very °salient in Throat affections
Ked by all Dressieu_50c. and $1. 4
lee Tfawast Ile Bad ata
Pat made a bet of • dollar with Mite
that he could carry • heed 1,111 „f bricks
up three ladders to the top of • baildisg
Frith Mike sitting no the hod.
• Th. ladders were on the outside of tit•
building. On the third ladder Pat made
• misstep, but aught himself in time to
ave Mike tallied forty feet to the stone
sidewalk. Arriving at the top. Pat said:
"Before*, I've wan the dollars"
"Ti.,' replied Mike, ' but whin ye
ehltpped, I thought I had ye
eeleh Belief ihr Us.dar\e.
Had suffered with headache, sed tried
everythinv I could think of without .!-
feet until I used Burdock Blood Bitten,
which relieved me rigbt away, and I as
now remarkably well.
A sets TORAsrwa*,
2 Oleo Almond, Qs*.
*r..ed ag le newspaper sates.
Bill Collector -'-See here, 1 have
written you a dozen letters about that
bill you owe my tiros sod you haven t
even reed them „
Country Editor ---'•Were they writ-
ten on both aides of the sheet r•'
"/ cogniz
►f t -our...
"A11 such communications go into the
waste basket without reading
I will llaaly curtail my own liberty in
anything 11 thereby I an restrain an
other • license.-- Archbishop N hatley.
The most a,treeable. restorative tonic
-and mild stimulant a )1,lburu • Beef,
Iron and Wine, Im
It is stated that ninety three per cent.
of all children taking the temperance
pledge remain faithful to their early
ries.
l usightly pimp:e s, blotches, tan, and
•h name; humo,s . 1 the skin are re-
moved by using t)r Loa's Sulphur
Snap' 1 m
Senator Frye predicts that "within •
few ye.rs a national election will he
fought on the question :d the abolition
of the liquor traffic."
Dr Let's Worm Syrup has remove I
tape worms from 15 to. an feet km/ It
also destroys all other liuds of
woruu.
len
Of all our industrial chases cue man
in twenty is ot.titted by the bion- truths
her steady and atonement• work ; unfit.
ted, indeed, for any work at all.
Hagyard's l'ectoral Hallam lemons
the phlegm, curing emelt*, codd•,boara
vers, croup, asthma, bronchitis and all
affections of the throat and lungs. 2
It is a sad comment on the morals ..f
Boston that there are so many drunken
woolen there that • "Hone" for intemp
erste women has to be provided to take
are of them.
Burdock Blaod Bitten is • medicine
made from root.. beets and herh., and
is the best known remedy for dyspeptic
constipation and bibonsne... and wul
cure all blood diseases from a common
pimple to the weirs{ scrofulous sore. 2
A negro insisted that his race was
mentioned in the Bible. He aid he
heard the prwcher read about bow
"Niue, Demos wanted to La born
again.
N.tnre has lat ishly prnvided cores for
all the di flesh is heir to, tut the
proper preparation of teeny o: them has
not yet Leen discovered. In Wilantes
Wild Cherry w. have • care Ger Coughs.
Colds, Whooping Cough, Croup and
kindred ailments, prepared from vege
table drugs, in a pleasant •nd enneen
bated form, and whish invariably Iivea
Prompt relief and rffnts • speedy Pure.
Sold by all druggists. Im
Mamma, what's hereditary r asked
Bobbie, laboriously tripping neer the
syllables of the Ong word. "W'hy, it
is- it is anything yen get from yoga
lather or me," replied the mother, a
hula wended for • definition suited to
his years. Wanes of two minutes.
"Tian, ins," he asked, "is .panksng
hereditary r
0. 0- Rtcsasns & Co.
t?elute,-i was cured n/ a sever. aback
of r$eem•ti•m by ming MiNARliti
LiNiMEENT. •Res Frytag all other re-
medies for 2 refire
Aber* 170., N. H. `Opo* Ttvntet.
C 0 Rxew. arm ! Oo.
Ones. -- I had • velrelel. Felt en had
Otis Meer. that i feared i wield 1n.. it.
I seed KIN 411.D11 Li?fI31RNT sed ft
sated him like megis.
Dalhousie. Cneserorsaa littretsart.
1
THE DOMINION IN BRIEF. I
iiiro•••.b.a, a1 ligefe o.
IL Topper bee •-halved V Ulla"NaNiagM+e.
I
L.
' A lura•. steasasr rsa las. lillitaz Friday i
b' ► 'y wt of ouaL
Fifty feet of the wall eirrowadlet ltlttg.toe
sen tricky ta(rrhlrhs.
110 Welland Horse Ilksdwr' Aseoclattue r
have decided to di bead
Hee Rmowkk, • britt* army (Aker. i• I
sertoesty W at Landon, Ons t
A twteea-moafhrdeka la swallowed sums
lye Is Maotieel sod died
The School IoW bee received it. thud read. I
'
ing in the Maattoba LrgWaturs. •
Tor 1<srmptiose Hill bas received iia third 1
rsdlag is lbs Ilaaltuba l.sgieletare.
There Is • good deal of excitement in He'l-
l/0fax now Friday, near Berkman' • l'. P. It. train
streak and killed tieurge Murphy, a farmer.
Thieve@ stops WM from a yoking elan they
found laaear►bis in a lase as Meetr.al Fri-
dallier
ri
daTy.
he bricklayers .oq'k'yed by the city of
Montreal an out on striae Tar an increase of
warmer Mao., (barged with shooting at hie
wife's paramoar rear Belleville, will be tiled
by
a jury.
Mr. Juke Andrew, Profeehor of Elocution
i. MCOW University, diet in Montreal at
this age of et:
William H. Benjamin Odessa, has left for
parts unknown. 1110 babihtus. are fixed at
about *{0,000.
The mail steamship Peruvian, which ar-
rived at Halifax on tiaturday, had a very
moth portage
The Quebec Court of Appeal retitled to ,
gran the -memo of lawunlegue' the 1V ulfs-
tuwn murdmer.
David George Swinton, of Fenel en Fain,
has been found guilty of uttering forged
ebequs at Itulleville.
Cardinal Taschere.0 eel--dratol the nine-
teenth anniversary of his euusstrratwn r
an*bishop, uu Thursday.
Mr- C. M. Coanxl ami H. C. Kelley, Erie,
Pa-, wee trying W purchase large quantities
of los st Kingston last week.
TO Prance Canadians of Kingston passed
a resolution thanking Mr. Mercier for the
*10,000 grant W Toronto Fuivereity.
The Dennis county ('.enervative Associa-
tion In Manitoba are petitioning the Ikemin-
iou Oov.rveeat for a reduction of duties.
Mr. Beattie, of i.00d n, was d .i{gid out
of his buggy by highwaymen, 1 ut disevver-
ileg bea senot the an they wanted they
hit him ga man
Portage la Prairie, Man , Beard of Trade
win ask the Dominion Government to deepen
114.18 iare a canals and aid the Hudson
Hay Railway.w
Fifteen engravers in the Burlan d tank note
printing rataWnbment, Montreal, have gote
iso strike leaser e a workman was tined $1.75
for spoiling work.
A proposal to raise the prise of liquor
lineosee in Montreal having failed is th•t/'ity
Council, • rtralgbt prahtbitkn rssoiutuo
wit he brugbt to
A petttloa was presented to the House of
Commons from ole Toronto ' Board of Trade
and City Council in favor ut %b. 64 hour no -
tattoo of tams system.
Mies Bering, an alkgrd clairvoyant and
specialist, has been pnneruted by
Ilift. Wesley Webb, officer of the Medial
tllukty, mad fined $50.
Rev. George Jamieson, formerly of Am-
berstburg, 14.s just died, leaving $100.(8J) is
two nephews who has been working in the
woods of Northern Michigan
I. M- Palaver's stave mill at Dawn, Ont-,
was burned no Friday night- Lora, eve
e13,00u: insured. ('muse of are, the explosion
A a lamp in the engine room.
New Hamburg grants Lewis Hahn, lumbo
dealer, a bonus 0 $'.,11I0 for the purpose. el
eda1lirhing • 1 urnitui a factory, guaranis
fog the e.nq,bymeat of thirty horn.
A baridsonie bram tablet will be placed ii
tit- Ga.rgs'a Cathedral. Kingston. by "A
Battery is a nu rrtu r$ti"n of Northwestthe fie ret
terymein killed during loelilce.
In • family mw William Hears, a farme
living near Amer, Fier County, waeattaei
, 4 by his seventeen -year -nM son with a slut
and is so badly cut about the head that their
aro no hopes of bis recovery.
)Jr. George Bury, jun-. who has been pric
✓ te secretary to Pnwideet Van Horne for th
Last four years, has been appointed euperit
tendent of the North fay section of the Car
W ien Pacill• Railway, including the Asti.
brach•
( Me shareholder of the Canadian Dire
Meet (•omp.ny is applying W the Court ,
Chancery for 11e removal of his name fro
the share list, owing W alleged mie.tat
'Dents in oke prospectus. TM case le elf
,,@tiding.
T1. eykionce taken in Hank' before tl
Front Valley ('anal Conunimioners was i
tarot at constructing the canal on 1
grounds that it would develop the remora
4 tee memory and tend to lower the press
'sigh railway tariff.
The American tug Mogul has been tibial
1 Vitoria. B. U., for alleged iufr'artica i
Canadian codnms law. mat hoods so t7
rams of (*10 have been d.positnh pending i
appeal to Ottawa. TO troches ares or
the towing of a rcb000sr•
Rm(aasfy the city of Mooned in a liqu
sae a subbtenatd a wrong witness,, who not i
sp owiinw was .reined, handcuffed and i
amm two days in jail He sued the rity al
recovered *100 and testa Judge Wurb
rrvsrelrooademned tie' treatment the witm
waived.
SWIM strangers are said to have been
fhielpb recently, gleaning Information as
�have u
their i
'� drmie � have In
Heel. The law requires all partnersbipeto
egt•Mwed within six mouths ander penalty
flee of *100
rive hundred dollars of the fend ter
aro.avlal to the late Prof. Young d Toros
Jnivenity, for wbioh 14,100 lea bees w
scribed, will be used to percher a trot
RIM of the late Profaner, and s1. balm
.UI be devoted toward ole sowedatkm a
maintenance of the philosophical beech
be library of tba vnivevelty.
Mesas are eed•arariag to serum a you
sea sament Jame, wbo came to Sar
lyes laglead a few alasabs sin He s
slag- t. bavtag 4 vast elestse
pga�y, est wettbed vague,
geed aavis
(4.et
oat • a "swaNta bre ha s
bls lasiil - y cwt Not $1710, ni
tastlk s W gists sal et bar her with
r Womble la Be wes fsagrarly kat
e Word J1ama'Mame Mk Snit _
ta the see
til at ulnas, eh lookkg the (•r
Si WO by Primer ileree, who bast 1
rich • hairy mop. Apar he had talks
he gem berok awaited hr Primly 1411
✓ lanbd bks e• the head with kip)
soya, las mise .Daryl flak te W M
es ha as ewwweeleet MEW A skiss
e smi sd m airemuses slsenhlI
seed di soap west? Bay very Iset
tu.re•• ttarsa.at is errs W ear sift