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The Signal, 1898-8-25, Page 3I years awl the as m.w im t'a ker. Il., o,,. '1 of Caird' ial 1114.1., ani• e hokfi dyes ilar mato. ad .eckare 'dyes iter to retail ,rde Mimeos" ri 6foented 1a aaond By.. 1 one, to say 10 fOu0di3w Make thea ewe made A, the coots urightly, sad they mom -owuun eyes e huon•d that sell them at 'm. ,till Ini.rehiag hive always yy true merit mit:rtr,a sat usbrd 00 sea e ters. If a rade he will be teatuo,g metaled N !erre rid eff.etual emelt is year ✓ Mee. said Buis an ter we er a g0 out ter -girt days go Bouts. 'temp, t$,i e, the leaves Is. ntly totems the morales (ring the day- used ay used MiN. • nj staliTe7a r ,it the very in get, and IUGH, les, Quebec. are fades n shrink, mil ons that yes lire that oe is. they wit blasting it. 's Books ewe Dot.. es Story of as rte ...its se 1 post paid te =roll Me. row or 11.00. q, UsNW, ire.. '0, 011T. dRFOR ,$'s LOOMS. Houeee. NT, Me.ular ONT, soon u ht ;R and B • ss W stir erlren Olt. teeter tea the mom. City 011 Ci, sateen reroute. !81 !1,i . e d 0 H.ewess s C.a.a,ec., Ora )at.it tom will ROMS C„A les. xa, nl.de+ Mo , 111�0s�! Mwta-w� adieu WOWS M row IIT. 9S?U. sw M, wok IM roram rat (111?)$3b s1ig 341 is. gran r .e. tan arise• SON LOLA ay CRAIGSNAY A. MAacHMONT. et man or women-Turri•n--of Mon- treaa?" And be pruuouuced it with de- liberate emphasis and looked bard tut() Beryl's face. "Not tb my knowledge," she replied. w. "No, uo, probably nut, probably out. Ma fol, bow Ibuuld you? 1t is a mime eosam0s euu•tlb, and any Lets could easily hear it end then forget it assize la 1t not so?" "I have never heard it," repeated Beryl, irritated because he dwelt oil the Po in int. "but whet is the bw ase you have come ou?" "Precisely. Tint is the point. Just ss. What is the busiuea? Well, 1 have not come to talk about myself or about my name. That luta nothing whatever to do with it, uothiugwhatever." Theu be added, with another of the smiles which the girl found so unpleasant: "That I mentioned it so pointedly at all is only my vanity. It would hove been with deep, deep pleasure if 1 had tumid that tbs reputation not of myself, but of my violin -I am a musician - bad reached to Leycesier Court, but 1 could not expect it, and 1 am rightly served. To be frank, it is a questjon 1 put everywhere, everywhere I go, be- cause my fame is my lite." Beryl saw that for some Both lad? Wloote anfi„(;aryl erre was misleadtng ber and doing it olum glad when it wag all over, uud the girl lily and lrtouriuurly. "Will you tell me,pleas;, what it is was pleased to think that she could now you west;” she said sharply. English are so practical, cep clip Lack into her quieter ie, with th the properly and made quite plata Lar aW- pointed, eo bloat. Y a 7 Whether or nota longer engagement' would have led so his diaillauon it is dllacull to my, lint the end of the two ooatbe' engagement rod the approach el the wedding day found him mere la- fatuated than ever with Lola, and Beryl was soglad at his quite boyish de - heist thabsbe preyed earnestly her own unpleasant auticlpations and forebod- lug■ weibt never In realised. The wedding was brilliant. It took sow oil • gluriuu.day fu n the late au- tumn, and the whole district of Mo- oombe and round Walcote kept holiday, Lula having urged that everythiug should be done to give to the eveut the utmost possible importance fur the largest number of people. Sir Jaffray bad giveu this wish of hers the most liberal interpretation, and for mauy years the comity lead not seeu a mar- riage marked by more oeremouy and pomp and socompeuied by such wide- spread merrymaking and lavishly gen- ensue bosp1tality. I am • meditating a work t knowledge that she laud played her part You Enga will tell an. that 1 believe tads toward the marriage. aviel.b•ve a poudpgioaa eR,a c on the r.. 'ttbm•)0 not enntnmplate ttfai n her meld. n la a t1eatsaelmty au 1 be say rah; felt that between her lOsMmment, thaviolin. 'ln-ranui snd Lola DOtahe telt that as they were yotbingeiewe than the addition d a fifth to leve. as near neighbors all through string to my beloved imatltooeat. That dogma at trleudly rel their lives there mumnlw h Le 101110 is a daring thing to do. Mini Leyccater, atiuusLtp wain. H 14 not?' tsi wait'*4443 met" ahs Itt "Whatat do 70111 was • great relief to her, however,' that Sir Jaffrey and Lola planned a very long boneymoou. Lola would not go to the continent, but preferred Amer- ica and would not be sattafled until Sir Jaffray bad agreed to take her over the ground of one of his rough humbug and . hootlad expe'ditiou's She wale no con- ventional bride, she declared. anddidu't want • conventional honeymoon, and be yielded t0 thle, r to everything she N aked. They planned a tour, then, which would take some mouths, and 11 w.. re- . olved that they should be away during the vtbole et the winter and Dot return u ntil the new year was .MTw-i Dar tee mobilo old. >..� Beryl was heartily glad of the ar- rangement. It would spare her from what was a great secret pain-tbe con- tinual presume of Sir Jaffray -and she reckoned that by the time eye their re tarn sin would bgve drilled betself so thoroughly in the altered state of things that the pain and smart of the wound would be pant. She set herself a liberal round of daily work of a varied kind and held to it with the resolve that it should provide ber sufficient occupation to keep her aloof from mach ioterooarue with Wal - cote manor. But she laid her plane in necessary Ignorance of ■ coulee of events which were destined to mix her up more close- ly than ever with Sir Jaffrey and Lola In the early part of the New Year Beryl was booked fora visit to au old friend's boon, and after busying her- self with some of the preparations she was walking one afternoon in the 'park .lose by the drilia and not .Sat !IOW_ house when she noticed • stranger go- ing toward the house. Her father fre- quently bad people whom she cid bot know to rill upon him on various mat• urs of business, but strangers were still rare enough to attract attention, and this one was certainly out of the com- mon. Hs was fair, handsome and foreign looking, and the girl bad time to notice him closely, as they were both walking toward the house, and he wan some 90 or EO yards 'head of her. A. she entered the house by a side door the servant met her and said that then was a visitor waiting to see ber in the library. "To see me, man. "Yes, miss. on particular neat, miss." Beryl smiled. "Are you sore there is no mistake? What is his name?" "Turner, mite, pronounced foreign. I esuldn't quite catch it, and be didn't gave me • card." "Well, I don't tmdentaid 14, bat 1'$ p and see him." - 8be went without waiting to take off bey hat, thinking there was some mis- take or that the visitor was on some begging expedition. You wish to see me?" she asked when the man robes and bowed with the air of • man of the world ■t his ease. "Min Beryl Leyoester have I the pleasure of .eeingr' " Ye., " the immered rather stiffly, not liking ber closer scrutiny of him. "Then 1 have oome to beg the honor of • few words eta a matter which is of great consequence to me. My name i. 'Iberian -Pierre Tarries. I don't know whether your fellow got ft correctly." "I do not knew the name." "Tice la true -I am afraid quite true Nev.rthelen you ea• render me a great service, and it may be that what I have to sal will 1oMrest you greatly- It may take some time to say all I want to say, however. May I pray that .s at you beated? I have a leg that 1s • •Dad servant since i -met with an accident some two years 000." He placed a chair for her with an air of exaggerated politeness, and she sat down, out of ooMlder•tion for him and disliking him more and mOre evet7 miaete. inked impatiently. "I am troubling you, I see. I am sorry," be said, lifting his white, thin bands and shrugging his shoulders, white out of his blue eyes she caught a sharp, swift glance that almost startled ber with its keenness and told ber he wu acting and wanted to read the ef- fect upon her. She tried to look M•ta- pid and impassive u possible. But she watched with astonishment the effect of the words. The man started back in his chair, ell the light air which he bad *named dying instantly sway, while In place of the mask which be bad been wearing astonishment, disbelief, triumph and white rags played over his face and gleauied in the eyes which stared fixed- ly at her. Nor the instant the man's erne character showed itself unmistaka- bly to the calm eyes which looked at biro from the expressionless,oless., wearied, disinterested face. The moment afterward be was again the actor, cursing himself for baying Wet his self control and speculating an- grily whether this dull, stupid, conceit- ed English girl had noticed anything. Soo quickly did his expression change that there seemed to be scarcely a pause before he answered, though in a voice which vibrated with the shock of the surprise: "1 should thick you may be right. and that this is not the 'awe Mira Crawmhay. 18 could Dot be, of course. The enthusiast that I knew was living abroad with ber father, Dot thiukiug of marrying one of your Eugli'h uoble- men. " "Theo it must be the same," said Meryl in the Name level toile in which she had atrnrk her first blow. "Lady Wah'ote came from the continent ouly about two years ago." But he w'-- Dot to be caught off Ms Challen?" she asked the He said it was to see you bnnness--private burl - "I really don't care whether -the vT♦ lin has 4 or 6 or 60 strings," she an- swered u if crawly, but really inter- ested now. "That seems to me inconceivable, ah- aolntnli imposaihle, IL 1 d jl...Sfth .eking" -be began to speak with rapid energy, as though the sobjeet emitted him away -"I could produce effects by the Ode of which the mightiest effort Of the grandest muter would be but as the soaping of • learner. 1 could -but what am I doing? 1 am an enthusiast; you are uninterested. I apologise. Pray forgive me." Beryl bowed very alightly and looked wearied and impatient. "1 did not want to talk of my work Or my project either," he said, resum- ing. "It is only iucidental, though I am so full of it that, like • ben that would lay an egg, I must cackle of it. But, alas, right in the middle of a path stands a difficulty. 1 am rich in my art, wealthy in my love of my instrument, but poor In my pocket. To storm the world with • musical treatise for • weapon ie impossible to the man with - Out means. I am seeking the means." "Yes. What in the coat of adding • 1 tb string to a fiddle?" asked Beryl stu- dy. "1 thought they were cheery." -.slimes& .b•s ale at bar to suit gee were laughing at him, but the cold, inpanive, uninterested expression of jeer face measured him. It is not the cost of the string I am seeking," be said, "but the agent. who will take- from nip the inspiration and help me to proclaim my idea to the world." "I am afraid"- began Beryl, bet be stopped her with a wave of the hand. "You cannot help me, you would say, but you cat, I think and I hope -not yourself, not yourself. Pleats listen. 1 bays in many parte of the world pupils who have studied under me. It i. them I •m seeking, to gather them into a oompany, to touch them with the Ere that burn. in me and bind them into a hand who shall proclaim everywhere what I wish. Among them I bad once BETWEEN TWO STOOLS ♦ CANADIAN CRY. By BERNARD Mt g.VQYs If the Purley garb had beets lse/0• they would ut t:uprse have been look- ing their a forward to t6 tone • In g life un a Canadian farm would .:arse and they should go tai the city. A belief In the primal curse laid on Adam and agriculture *remitutt farm inbredd I n our young people t. But as the Purley girls were not boys they had to postpone such notions. They were by nu means common girls. There was breed in both Ellen and Alice. There was noone at this time better able to tell you that the Purley girls were not comutun RI[la flora amuslua. I:rant.-e, tramps tier than young Tom Hilts, the rum of • barna and steal chit k •no. It teas a farmer In the meat cuncewlun. He bort of uuty to heat a hat these partl- Yard to drop 10 tlUmitellmts of an even - ruler one's N4 01'0 saying. So she went' ley, but reallylto tu tadui111 to old Nell, Mr. ler- i° stlently, carrying her empty platter. ley,The seme was high enough to screen played rudlmentcry music on the or- her from obeervatlun, and If they ran gin, and Aller, an she sIl *001 her - to the w ir1,-1 to are 0.410 way sell in ll. a work. dell won knew there. she could dart behind the Lha k that Hills admired tine..aid she fell eurrnnt bushes that crew 10 that part O • little 11►tthafed by 1L Un of the orchard. and so get back to the 10. ro the followleg morning 'after k• had house unprrcrlved. been there rhe would reins sometimes It was the voles ut H1Ib as she went shout ber Wine au that beard. as she drew chaser. Alice would say to her ea Nell was churning, ur scrubbing, or• washing • " You are thrown away In a place dishes, ' Nell, how lively you ars l like tide." be said. " All very well for Ellen. She eats nide for the country. You were m,tde.for the town. So was I. I hate the farm.- I am Soing to be a doctor. 1 shall eater one, of the medical colleges in the fall -I d. •'t Wormy- wtsiels„— you 1st that you w 1fiW-; I through, tee centuated the rtlllnw1. She would walk out t•? the orchard states and tack again. At the end oft orchard ley the concession line, a grader road that disappeared over low hill& east and weal. There was • wicket by which one could pass out. CDs* to fele wicket, and agalnet the dose-boterd,'1 *ems of the orchard, her father he -1 nailed tueethrr a rude Neat. On the utile* aide of the toad. north. fay Up - ton's bush It Max one ut the small Incidents of the girl's humdrum life te walk. perkp*. ales air teles a weak. as tar as the seat and to look east ante west along the r..ad. Scarcely any- body ever seemed to come nicht. It ex- cept un Sundays, when tete farmers drove along It In their bungles to church; but it was the means el com- muniration with the outer world and therefore Interesting. .Ellen was sur- prised, as she appruaehtd. to hear voices. She had been %%Liking Itnw"r before, now eh. walked slower still. " Tramps," she said to herself. The convereetlon of tramps is some- L]Ilat she You neem as happy as a bird. guard twice. Yuung Hills night well admire her. "Well, if so 1 am more than for- Abe was .tralclt and well -made; a tauwas, rand news. little over thy-hvrrage height of wo- lf 1 ria.. t Msreiet I1} i f. .Her fogturas were regular, It 1 eau start my ntalieseseetr eh�etio ter fare war a - Pd ar a nobleman at the head ()tit in F,ug- siren, and shetia.t a gaud pante eye..P OTs than That Atumasa ui raret�'xyid'>> th mr' ire=aito-- 11'a neattt..faco , hand. omy il." a js.alreWlg.-m - wan recanted all nvtertter� tier about it t0-aatia�..:. half woo." dere were strong. and though her fig- •• Not to Nell "." "Her husband is a great lover of ore was amulr, it was not auPetfiu- Why m. nuc at present. Nell fs had masse," said Beryl, and siw saw t , been plultile y heir for her tae ss satirtcml. 1044 4310 .e r(410 "' ""m44 some change to the 1011. of her v Dice been moulded by being Ion seven years he Hor tongue Ie too sharp for. you spade him Bash one of those keen glances of his rigbt.into her eyes. She parried it by &maiming a look of lan- guor. "Have yon asythiug more to ask?" And she Iee. Her vi.i" r rote at the terse these "I thank you very mach for -the e courtesy and kiudneas with which you have received me and for the time you bays given me." Aud be bowed with the geggginated politeness which bad irri- tated BeryL "Montreux, 1 think you said?" she asked ■s be reached the door and his hand was on the handle. iia._torttsd quickly at the gasifies, wbicb be seemed in glome way torment "Montinui' L niy btrttfpleee, Mho Leycester. I am Pierre Turrian of Montreux, the violin player. That is all of my connection with Montreux. My teaching has been elsewhere." "Oh, I thought yon meant you had had Lady Walcote as a pupil there," abe replied, .. though the point were unimportant. "Oh, Do, no, not at all; not there) It Wail in Paris, Queen Paris, that 1 had the pleasure. Oh, no, no! That wcald be ridiculous. Paris is where 1 have made my fame, such fame an I possess, not Montreux. That is not of the world at all." He laughed as be said this with the air of one who would laugh out of ex- istence the cobwebs of an absurdity, and the ecbo of bis laugh bad not died away when the door closed behind bin. °BAPTSM VI. Pfaalta TQaaE1.$'l WORT. Beryl'selsitor did sot ap.ak for seem n•mesta, but sat as though collecting his thought sad seeking the beat way te eommeaea The girl eyed him very closely and serlo•.17. He was well droned, his Melbas beteg oat in omittaestal fashion, and w bad altogether the appearaoee of a ice of /he world, alert, resooro•ful, shrewd amt. as she thought, ealealating sed viedietfis. It wee evldeN to her that the busi- ness which had brought bin' to Logou- t*? Goers was, orbs had said, important, aid that be was setfoe.ly deliberating 'hew to Ialrodeos i1 and bow not In aloha • to Wake. w vitt M a Barprios to you, se ," be sere at Swab'. h ..1 stale length, a 1N d eaavhay parsing kis life fend &swum Ids white, long w~. reglied Belong "YoyedemN Imes my1 Ton are n» yea Sever beard f• r 043.0 Beryl went to another room, the win- dow of which commanded a view of the drive, and, herself unseen, watched him as he walked away slowly like one in thuaght Once or twice be turued stealthily and slyly to look hack at the house, and the girl imagined that even *ben be was • long way from the house she could we on his face the sharp, for- bidding, evil, menacing look which bad mere than once distorted his handsome, cruel features. Long after be had disappeared amid the small clump of fir trees which fringed both sides of the drive close to the tarn of the lodge gates Beryl re- mained lemming 'gaunt the window (rime looking out, full of the totebod- tsg which the man's visit had roused. Then, being a practical girl of meth- od, abs went to her room and wrote out every word that she could remember of the interview and added her comments and the impressions which had been paused, and abe locked the whole away he ber most secret and secure hiding place. The points which stood oat meat clearly in her mind were that the for- eigner, Pierre Turrian, had Itnme very strong motive for finding Lola; that the tale be told about his musical mission was from .tart to finish a falsehood; that the fact of the marriage of Lola to Sir Jaffray had moved biro beyond all power of self control; that in some way Montreux was mixed up in the matter, and that be had beau anxious to learn whether Lola had ever mentioned the same of Terri= to her. her father's housekeeper. Her mo- to ncy her lame in love. She Is not fiber died when she was fourteen, and like you, my dinky --now Is she?" since then she had been the mainstay 'Plea 1lelener fame the young man's Of the household. But even Drec[Ical v,Igun,us kiss, so atilt It was. Also glrls have their day -dreams ono she let the plate tali. and it fell on a Of Ellen's d begun e h her nesse boulder that lay there and broke b d ills had LO comed-do In three Owns -tea, roughly aeltii-1lr- bead was what Alice tort, t in her cuter ones and a small triangle. Neil place. The Idea of a ttott, flutfY-halr- sprang away. agonized. like a wounded ed, and little thing like Alice among hare. She knew now how much she pots and pans and cows seemed ab- had thought of )ti115. Creeping and surd. Alice had such difficulty In etooping treMnd the currant bushes. she waking In the m•mTeiM that oho usual -- reached- the fosse. -- ly came down when the porridge had _What's that ? whimpered Alice. been poured out on the plates, ; the ba - hen rhe heard the plate fall; (Been - con Med, and the tea made; and she tangling herwrlf hurriedly from her 100 - had it t a pretty way of excusing er'a embrace. Young Hills looked herself that nobode grumbled. At started. lie came In at the wicket• dressmaking and millinery Alice was Alice timidly follow Ing, And they found tel ber element, The gwrawrat& that-_ iay-e-broken--en-tire Moulder. sat atL h den's teen and taut ngure„meeAye t. yyedit-she oust were her work. So were the`'bala'-IM” have been l stentne. said A11We. which both glisters turned the young trt J her lune h at nI1hl lt. sh•' met him a the principal street. Hs was walking with a very stylish girl, whom Alice at once racugulted as one of the custom- ers of the establishment she worked for. Her own hands had made the jaunty the amsel wore 00 becomingly. How pretty and spright- ly she was ! Why should she not be -daughter l a e eto lthy tether Das she was, sad with, pooling ut enjoy herself ! The fw•o were carry- ing on an animated and laughing con- vareatlmn. How strange it seemed to Alice to tow to Hills and for htm tee putt off his bat and just pane her with , t■ wain The erre buw . d a a smile an before the poor little woman's eyes. She went 14to the store where she 'was employM. feeling mean and poor. The soot-stalued roots which formed the prospect from the lofty workroom eindow never lookeu more prosaic. It had only one redeeming feature. • suer of water and sky and distant scenery seen through a narrow open - Leg tetwt•en tall buildings. Rut now lhie v1.•w of the lake only made heel wish that she could sink down into- B. B. B. is the best remedy in 1ts quiet delete; and be forgotten, and the world for Eczema, Salt Rheum, not lw In the way of people any more. SALT "1 had Salt Rheum of the worst kind, as our family doctor called it, and could not get anything to cure me. 1 read of Burdock Blood Bitters, and determined to try it.. I got one bottle and be- ] used half of it 1 could tell it Nag doing me good, and after taking six bot- _RHEu-m [les 1 was per- fectly cured, and to -day am a happy woman at being cured of that terri ble disease. " Mos. MAGDALENA Volo,', Rhineland, Ont. Then for a m.iment or tw anger would come to her relief. and she asked heroelt why she should care so mugli for one who was evidently not wl;>!lh caring for; whom head rias turned 'by every pretty face he raw, and who thought afore of Monett than anything or anybody In the world ? Then the whistle_ in the 'awaking - low communication the o MECHANICS' I!v•1 rrC'ra. 'awaking - low blew and the forewoman saki that G01)gull'H MECHANdis' INSTITQTa of East LIBRARY tHAHreet a,d ND S,ivare 1uli4srs),1tO0Y, ere Open from 1 toe rel., H d IN LIBRARY. ABOUT 21x10 V9 Leading Daily, Weekly and IIIWtraled trepan, Magazines. au•., on P'1M. -ttMttttle-ti'ia•g [CT nNLII p,1.0e _animates free tie of Library end Beading L�Arptieatnwl torte-t5'•ved by H WLHytenItr�ern.y aej rlcb.I� Zek1! lMa d ( •Tetter, Scald Head, Shingles, Boils, Pim- ples, Sores, Ulcers and an Blood and Skin DisiseiL_ vf4 4e4 he stow -Its Miss Purley was wanted. So Alice drte her eyes and hastened down, She had to receive, Instructions about a hat that a .mart young woman was ordering. At a glance Allen saw that It was the very girl oho had seen walk- ing --with HI11.. She was accompanlyd r chrt- ei tet w re tarljo% v w .Th. -n 1CtRr! her srdee •pd -st1 fish GEL little wren lett'ibutd do to keep mlatreae or herself. The girl was pleasant enough--patronls- lag swan- she. wad n -forcible. good- natured,, high-roloul'ed •sort of girl. who enjoyed life to the full herself and 140.4 others to enjoy it torr -one of those creatures who always 'have the Loud pedal down. so to speak, and are Insensible fo dlminuendo, not to mention plan° pass*R.•s. Alit•• had to wall for some mt*elftI rlbtynn and French ornament' the nr•prletreee IMP going to glue her, 60 she eould not help overhearint Stle_QQDy_er�Ltioa of the two as they retired fur a few - moments to the rear of the shoo to weil4 far aasllt t .whs. was aomI,t- 'In for thoom tie I met you again today with Mr. Hllle; I deriare, Mewl. that -this Is becoming eerioum," said the friend. Nonsense, you tormenting wretch. How can one help being p"tlte to one's friends ? Bee tss�---he j� CRkunalf 1 _�o .sells; lt$in . "Snubbing was out of the queat :ie. my dear girl. You could not snub a handsome man towave your lite." -. " I coeld-1 have: scores of them.". "Oh, you outrageous fibber ! Snub him to -night, then. when he comes to give us that bicycle lesson -come. I thallange you." 1 don't see why I need make -my- self unplea`ant to my !fiends just to please you, you nasty thing." " There ' 1 knew how' It would be. Yea wouldn't grub a handsome young man like Mr. Balla for the world; be- side!, I believe you are a little bit gene on blm;..and.-j am sure he is -on You.", "-Oh. you absurd girl. I believe 1 'hair have to freeze him to -night, f only to show what a perfect lunatic l'OU are. The r.ame Alice read on her card o[ dlrectloss was " Miss Maud Delan- If you will come.' he said. rt « " All right," sale Alice, with a glitter In her eyes. And they mounted and glided away, and the last thing that Hills maw [het night befewe eek to Nee his own dower w�' th&.ODeet and Purves; veheeling along' Yds by side In t reat et yle, and looking aa happy un[ , That mus the Met time he maw her for frena. many menthe. for soon af- terward,. he .'hanged hie lodging", and betook hlmeett to his studies with re - Nonsense. Nell la feeding the farmers' heads on Sundays. Al 11 cows, I'll be hound. Nell would not stood, the division of labour had much stick 'about lbtening. There Is somo In Its favour. But how if one of the other se.lutloti Nobody has been here sisters lett home, and that not the to -night, that I'm certain 01." dressmaking, crochetlrtg, white -banded •• UD ! I know what It was" said one. but the other ? ,Ulf -e, with a reassured manner. Nell There was an evening when Alice must have given a tramp a •plate of had to go to the village store a mile victuals sometime, and he brought It away. Ellen thought, " Suppose here to the neat to eat his lunch. Teen young Hhlpp should come In to -night." he would leek about for somewhere to The though[ was a pleasant one. She pet the plate, and he would big it on opened the front door, plucked a rose this bough of the aPPIi el=se. • that Rleame' there in the evening here 1a a place iuet made [for it right UUggp�t, and pinned It to her belt. She over the boulder." had read of people drawing others to She put the two large flag oe%ta on them by force of will. She wilted a fork of the branch. It wag atilt! that Hills should come. Still keeping plain that the plate might have been her mind upon him she sat down at lodgirg there and fallen down. the organ in the parlour and played «Yet are a regular Sherlock Hot- "' Annie Laurie." When she came to nes," he said, k! -sing her again, "but the end of it hay old father, smoking how did the plate fall?" his pipe in the kitchen, clamped his •• ooh a squirrel, or a bird, or the wind horny hands. She went to the door or something." ' soon afterwards, and there, climbing But there woes a doubt In the Oren the fence, so as to Lake the short cut mind as she went along the read after across the meadow. was young Hills. saying good ,eight to her lover, and en- tered the house. 14nvpose Nell had began to treat violently. When Hills, barn llatening after all. , Nrwea weed ictldtti. came. limo. dill - -" rt _watt do there with the words, ' May I come in pie In _that *',' *O neighbourhood who went she was concealing her agitation at the about their taalu In a o manner thnt organ, but -her hands trembled. Al w -as afar from «hole-souled. The ab - aha turned and spoke to him he said, wrbing• thought wall nut the butter " Why, Nell; how cold your hands are 1 ace Nom. Dewing, ffh Alice; nor Don't stop ie' as I heard you at the ploughing. for Halla Nelle let 'Annie Laura' u 1 came over the was the bitterest.. She could not help field." repeating to herself those unwticorde Did a a T' and she began t0 Ditty sentences eh Httb. "1 am hard. and the air a_aln. 1 ,have no romance about me. I " I wbh there was someone/ to stye CO{tld not Dosdbly b• in love. Oh, mei her promise true," said the young 00" And she laughed blttsr17• as mart. she moulded her butter. "It's verY " Oh, that's all romance -girls don't pace to h301 some one to love me: give ' promises true' now. They have but I wish I could tell Nell," thought to think of butter, and agar, and Alice. Then she pictured to herself seeking. Bn gdes. there are no the delights of the future when, ae poetical young men to ask them lithe presperous physician's w Ise. she to,' she said. archly. should live In the city and have all "Oh, there aren't ?" sort■ of social delights. "Only tell "I've never met them. The young the fell," was In H111a' mind al1 lay men now are all for dollars, and going though all he said was, "(See," and to the city, and getting their names a ha," to hie horses. tinder this w'ar y " the refrain " what a little dear All, -e " Well U that wrens ? M. and she Is nine, mine, mine." " It 1s not romance." Ard being strong and masterful, and And she launched Into a mad Seetsb horvtng -had Dome &[tooter at the High. raglan. 1u n..•rn. L HAj711. 10N, L,t,rartan. " I think. Mime Purley, you hive no further use for me, and we'd better part " In that case." raid A11ce. toeing her temper, "It's just as well we Bald noth- ing about It to pllOr old Nell. And I eupte.se 1'd better give you that piece of the broken plate wb hk thasit you gave me Lal -roar--- itcom- i.ee ?' 1 "Just as you Ulm." be tapped, 1.001u- -Bythi. time tidy -telt ber door, and the said good -night.. Tbe7 db not wait till . there was wnobod7 coming, and kiss, as was Heir His vengetulneas was not swan g. He went to 100 hl■ post - letter 40 offloe andber. made y,h00 t) nor tttnatelY. as he thought„ k be yet gape bash to ths..Dead.-.Letter til- ... flee. He completed the address, and went home rather gloating on the mls- eryr that it would' cause the young wo- nma. The ran. started bock 1n Ms chair. an English young lady with soul, Ere, enthusiasm, and it is ber I am now ask- ing." He spoke with much lively gestic- ulation' "Excuse me if I say this is nothing to me," said Beryl stolidly when be paused. "It is a subject I can take 00 interest whatever in." "I am ashamed 1 have taken your time without a shadow of reason. I have finished now. I have reason to know that the young lady had some as- sociations here and that at one time you knew her. She in MissCrswahay-Min Lola Crawshay." "This was what he wanted," thought Beryl. with rapid intuition, "and be has wandered through the male Of his .+W story to Mt at this." She did not even let her visitor tee that .be wn surprised. e'I have . friend of that name," *hs said, as with caution. "Whet diem?" There was no mistaking the gleam d quick, interested delight which passed over the foreigner's fano et this, though he hardened to hide it under the mask et overdone gesterea 'That is good news for my violin!" he ezolittned "But it can't be the same," said Beryl, with her "Me former alt olid s d stu- pidity. "e doesn' play the slL" "No, no; that is right. Her lustre - aunt to the piano, but her soul in the soul of the beeves made mnsktian. She lives somewhere here?" he said, with • gesture of interrogation, in which hands end arms and shoulders and eyebrows all west op together. "Sits is the wife of Sir Jaffrey Wal- lets sed is sew 1a Asteria' with bar llSetmnd,j' aaswer•d Meryl 1n a_asat'• renrtplas•. level tome, wittiest a true of emimotten to ►0. fuses. ettees T. le tontinuaL reel. school, he thought how he would take. Father likes thle," she said, as ber honours In every subject, be a success fingers poundeu Inc keys. as a doctor; perhaps he would enter " But Ellen-" She went from that "parliament. He eras as determined Into something stall noisier. afterwards to "push himself" as any young gilding into a slow. plaintive move- Canadian could possibly be. As he ment. turned his plough at the end of each " Does that mean that you are ager- harrow, and started a new one, hie re ?• looked the embodiment of vounir and "Sorry for what " manly vigour. His strong, writ -cut " What you said about there being features, bronsed with the sun; his n0 poetical young men." Agure, well -knit and shapely, would " Oh, no; It's a lament that there are have pleased an artist. Ar the soil none." turned neatly over, he was In imagin- This sort of thrust and parry went atton ploughing his way through lite. on till Nell made a "palpable hit." She Another Mar came round, and Hilae wounded Hills' pride. Elbe said that end Alice were both in the'city, the young farmer men going to the city former working hard at him medical always showed badly by the side of studles, the latter In a millinery el- cfty men. They were trying to ate tablishment. They looked a hand - pear what they were not. some pair es they walked nut in the Presently Hill. arose and said lie evenings, or went to church together was going on to the village. en Sundays. Even thea seemed tee- " Alice 1s gone there -you will meet. ter than life on the farm. What tree- ber," said Nell. dom, what happiness there was in it. "110 11ppng," seed Mills, " I'm ao1Wp Hills would talk of hits eurrrem at fir you thlhk .o badly of farm lade." studies and of the influential friends " i suppose lou are -very artery in- be was making. He felt th.t he wae Um/ sagas and Lemon. "Claude asked Ma mother the other night for a lemon." Pahl Mr. Chtpper- ly, " and then for the lump sugar Ile cut the lemon In two. and, holding one of the halves with the cut side up, he placed • Ione of sugar on It, and pressed It dcwn gently. The lemon juice that was freed by this venture was absorbed by the sugar: the lump finally became saturated with 1t. As the Juice near the .ur- tace was taken up by succeselve lumps. ('laude liberated that In the deeper recesses of the lemon by .queea- Ing, and so he made tete two halves do for seven lumps of sugar, and ;t war evident that he found much.,en- jnyment in the eating of them. " After Claude had gone to bed: i got a lemon from Mrs. Chlpperley, and i gat her to net out the lump .ugbr for me. I cut my lemon In halves, as I had seen Claude do; 1 pressed a lump of sugar gently against one of the halves, and : watched the sugar darken as the lemon }bice erne in It, and. when it wow. conipletely filled, I ate It, and eating It I found myself Matte In agreement with ('laude toueh- ing the merits of *him simple combina- ttnn " rras"te. "Ab, aha charms of a vanished child hoed I" sighed the e.ntimentaltet" I ,r forgotten all of them," maid the proud, person. "except a eharm for welts."-In- dlanapolls Journal. But the last two evenings had bees aa.Dalm to Alice's' wounded heart. )Ir. Joe Purees and the bicycle had pre- vented her from asking hermelt whether or not she oould live without H141*. She had just surrendered herself to the absorbing wheel. and was full of grati- tude to the nice young man who had taught her to ride It Metered of cry- ing at nights she had corse [tome with tired knee" and well -oxygenated blood, and had slept like. a beautiful little 'statue of the maiden in the arms of Morpheus. And then, actually, ellen she got to after that curt good -night there was Joe Purvis waiting for her. We can have quite a spin by the electric light Are you going out blending to- night ?" presently asked Alice of her vL-a-vis, wpm she had returned to the worksootn. -The answer being aw affirmative one, Alice asked if she " Two',a company, but threes none, replied -Miss Purvis. the girl addressed. "Pm going out with the young gentle- man I go with. But It's too bad you apouldn'tgo. Have you got a wheel?" "I could hire one." acid Attce.- " Then Tl1 get my brother, Joe, to go with ycu. He's at a bicycle works. He'll be pleareet enough. Between you and me, he thinks you look stunning. He was the one you saw with me the other night." Will he teach me to ride ?" Good gracious ! Can't you ride?" "No, I've never been on a wheel, but I want to learn." " Well, MIAs Purley, you are the cool; st cucumber I ever met with. Pam& the pins. There how do you think that looks 7" She held up the bonnet she was trim- ming. " That's splendid; how nice It will look In church on Sunday.' " I can't help laughing to think how you will fall off the wheel to -night ! But I thought yew- lead a young man." " led you ?' said Alice. Still. It doesn't do to be going out wlth them ell the time. They get tired of you. They think ,they're everything to, you, and that 1f they lift up their finger you've got to go wher- ever they want. Bei enough when 1e lesebe Primed --()neat Nonttl *by don't you astray threes piles of rejected jokes? Hnmoi'ist-Ob, i may be editor of • osmle weekly setae day. -New Torb Truth. dot.01434 vigour. Alice tore up his let- ter after reading It once. She took the broken piece of platter out of her [rook, kissed It. and hitched tt out of the window. " 1 say Hille, have you heard that old Purley is dead," said a fellow student. as they sat together In the examination. hall previous to the papers being given out. No; to that so ?" said Hills. rather startled. " Ye.," said his friend, who came from the next township, "and cut up l'tem*rkably well I hear; lett the girls t.EAue each. They say the little one's engaged to a mab named Purvis, who Is getting un like a hduae afire at the bicycle trade." MRI had no time, however, fOr his wits to lee wool-gathering udttl after she exeminatlone. In the Week of reset that followed then) he began Io Tank of Nell. His memory brought up that scene of the sumtner evening, when rhe played " Annie Laurie," He re- membered with grat;fle&tion that she' had given many signs that she rather liked him. 1f he came out well in these e!em.,-rurpose, for Instance, be was a ntsilUit-he could go back borne with some eclat. Her talk almost the superiority of city young tree would not apply. What a time it -was since he had been home ! Tender memories of the place began to weave themselves fa his mind, He telt sure that Nell would be glad to see him. Dear old Nell, what a woman she was ! When the results, came out 111111 found with exultation that he wee ID - deed the gold medallist. A few days after came a letter troth his fatter --a rare event, for hie father was no scribe. The old mein was of course delighted with hie eon's succeed. Mettle/IMAM, the letter gave a piece oLnews about the Parleys. "1 suppose you have heard et old Mr. Purley',' death. He left the girl's well off, a good deal bet- ter than fdke expected. Alice le to marry nonce man in the city. Nell hate rented the farm and gene to England to see her dad's relations." Nell wee away a year. She cams hack to the old home to arrange momd matters of buslness the following May. Soon afterwards Hlllm made up hes mind to take a holiday aid e'en the old epee. In the train down his rnlnd was full, of rornantic thoughts. How delightful the country was after the Ironbound smoky' city ! There wadi wonderful rejMcing over hlm at his owr. home. In the evening he took hie way to the Purley farm. where he heard Nell was staying with haw ten- ants. He could not help thinking of tt s [ lead goyoung gentle- manto .meet l a Ane lance sometimes. He gets mad and sulks, and then, after a bit. I come round: (eh, it's just sweet !" " You don't think your brother'll think me a bore to -night ?' " Not he, Coma around as we go biotite and I'll fix it. ' u'll, have a lovely time." When mug not home to his room that evening he found a little note from Alice, wlrkh ran thus :-" Dear Tom, don't call for me to -night, for what do you think 7 A young gentle- man is going to give me my first lee - sun on a bicycle -Mr. Joe Purvis, the brother of one of the girls at our place. I know you would Hke me to tears Bider your awn Alice." " W.i11, that's a pretty enol thing," theetyrtit Hills, as he threw'hlmeelf into a chair and re -read tt. What buoinese had Alice to lie going off with another young man ? Ills sense 00 proprietor- ship was dbturled. It was true that he was going to give a very attrac- tive young woman a telethon in bicy- cling that very evening -but then he, like every other athletic young man, was an expert In 'ryrling. and .should be ready to give aseletanoe to am- blMeuN neophytes of either sex when 11 came In fres way to do so. And who was this Joe Purvis ? He telt like emashing his noise. Mr. Hilts was dle- turtred. He looked armee and band- sman, however, as he took hie way to the rather fashionable street in which the Detaneourte lived. Bdt he found three young mete there already hetp- tng Miss Maud and het friend to keep on their wheels. They were mew who were a snatch fur him In every way, acct with a teed deal more ease of manner. Meted. moreover, was de- cidedly mere. Hien went t)40e early In • state of funning irritation. By way Of wreaking hls mortification on ectrtebn4)', he .at down and wrote Alice A cutting aid bitter letter. He was too absorbed In the littleness of filling this fun of cruel and barbed phrases, and of thinking of the withering( effect It would produce on Alice, that, in- credible as H may sfem, he forgot to put anything exeept her name ors the nuteide of the envelope. Consequently when he law her two days afterwards, and mho asked him. In quite a bright and piquant way. " how he liked giv- ing Wee Maud leeluncourt bicycle lea - son. -" he was dternbtowbded for a mo- ment " Didn't you get my letter ?' " What letter' i've had no letter" " Strange. And how did you like your blrycltna evening ?A " Oh. It was lovely." " And ber. Joe P,,ry . 1e a eery re 7OTOOT*maMUT1 puppy t^ hi He's just kind and delightful." deed," said Nell. banteringly, as be already building up the nucleus of a-. left the room. clientele. Occasionally there were As H111e sauntered on hla way to the descriptions of girls to whorn he had village, in the evening light. he was been introduced, hut these weft not almost, unconacieusly to hlrtse, partloularl7 Intere[ to Aline. Rhe weighing the respective meritsi theltwould lather hearmtlnhim praise her two Purley stria That he would one locks and her attire, day be the accepted lover of one ut There was one thing that gave her them he did not doubt. He wave a pru- nom. heart -ache. It was 111116' 4• - dent young man and he knew that old termined dislike to have their en - Mr. Purley was well off. He had been ggement spoken of at home. He • thrifty farmer. Moreover, he had ,,yid that nothing had tetter tie an- on two occasions sold land to railways. pounced till his beet ream. was over. Hills had, up to now, favoured Ellen and spoke vaguely of his father and His practical eye took in her good allowanewa, ao th.t Alice had to be points. She world make him a better tnnter:t. All the Ramo rhe wept 1e wife then Alice. But her tongue was 11eeret sometime* at the thought that s0 sharp; 0ometlmeil she made a fel- she muni not even tell her teeter. When low fx1 0,0•11. While M was thlnktng rhe had her heleley In August. and this he met Alice, and Alfw was look- went home t) the faun for a week, lag very Obarmhtg. She was very the senee of a erpsratlnO secret toe - 'nun Meese', to a!e Hills. Shm^ld tween her and Ellen mads, her heart th!•y,walk ro s.4 b Uptom'a bush ,- very heavy, oreoser rhe wan defy - It ties i i%YETY nr ottr en to D•infill pI"1'vif ;obis; '"-COOS they woule. And when AiDS! get In Hlllawhen F.Ilrn enquired e3.• 414 him. her eyes wore fright and her face She was much paler when Hillm aealn hayi'y Ellen,' began to sat heetrNf 1f saw her in the May after Wm 1nme she really oared for Hlll.. When a summer helfday at his fathtr'le farm, week had plumed and he had not 0p- with Its harvest work. As for him geared she maid to herself that she did he was like a glans refreshed, and not care for him at ail. A week later began his etudes amain with much she heel to ccwiteee to herself that then vlgagrAIaO aha ab•rm d social en - was a faint hope In her breast that he gage . to Mgan to fay. sway 0001' might moan enme again. Rut towards him He got enough Invitations Bahr. sad After. R)ty dear." said Mn. ?Marty, "whet le the disarenre beeweem idealism and r.all'm?" "idealism." replied Wederly, "is what we eapsrienced diming oat segagemeet" "Yee ,'• ash em.. "end rsattem?' "Ott" he replied, 'that's what we M tap against now. "- radeate llew► th• e end of the week the real testa of through student Mends to flatter atm, her feelings was shown 10 her 1n a and to awake in him further that sudden and unexpected way. personal unbitten whleh wets one of 1t was one of the Ant eveeinge in hi, moot promimeet chores. t ertet ice. June. and t1t.111 and quiet. She had He bought a emit of evening elottne Just washed ma the dishes and carried snd a book on etiquette. He missed out a plate of fnalment"' to the chlek- no opportunist, of informing hlmaelf ens. and as tee orchard looked tempt- of te. usagea of pollee society. He Ing, she strolled on upon the sponse wee • very fine -locking young man. g ram* that grrw tip. ""41116-11"' 0u1 M Hs moil knew a number of fine girl*, the soft earpet of dry leaves of years any on. of whoTh would *. • molt before- Tear fnnt.lmn. wen Aerofote deelrable mateh for a young doctor. as milestone as moist 00 her .unreeled- And hle little milliner hones to pane Inge were. Th. note of • hid new In secret mr she hent funny Over ber and again, the distant low of a new. breneta end bet*. Ib. lump of a hetwteal frog, only se - One bay u she was returning from en evening long aMn. am he came aloegr the road by t'ptnn'a hush. It war Plat such en evening am thlr. Am he drew near the hark of the orrharvt he Wave •ttgtalo figure sitting en the old seat. " Why, Nett I' 1w-aaW. loytuUy. as he rams up. How bendiest/he rhe Peak- ed ! How she hest developed ! Wh7 she did not look Tike the mane girl. " Oh. Mr. 1I Ills, how you startled ma" eh. said. ' Not unplea*antly, i hop., dear old Nell 7" Don't let us be too .antlmental." [the sold. " 11111 enplane I whin to he senti- mental, euppnre I am detemenined to Ore Ieutlm0ntal '" "There pre two very important rea- tsnnts a.alnet It. In the first place, do Yon know why 1 have enme to thea very place to -night ' it Ie to throw away .nmething." She drew drorh ber broom a little milken hag and produced Ram It -a wee triangle of platter "That 1e • piece of • broken Plate. Mr. 141115. It wets broken on the 1,nnl- der In the orchard. thee* 1t gave" Acct rtuing elle threw It across into tiptoe's hash. " The seeond evasion. Mr Halle. Is that 1 am engaged to be married tw �- M Legltehmen." e