The Exeter Advocate, 1888-11-22, Page 3THE THREAD
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SUNSHINE ,AND sHADE,
OF LIFE
.CHAPTER XXX,Tein Seemi leenere se,
01 never .fele more eeteeiehed in MY We,'
liatherleyeerearked one lay gene. weeks
]ter to to *cheitien eircle at • ehe.-• Cheyne Row
CIO, .0 then I felt on the very .finte morn,•
ing of my yikit to Whitestraech Telk ibeet
Wag dreve.o. by 4 1...4dy, indeed 1 .Why, that
• frelleittle.Weinett78 gee •the Seed In haree0,
ae right andas tightasif he weee reseed,
able cheetteneeteger. It'it tee eterprieiem
Thalherdei doest"fow; His life, le ditiehed.
There the Men elope. • The Huetweed and
Fether meydregout 4 Wretched CleMeatte eh-
ieteece yetler another twenty yeare. But
the. htee. 10. .tteed, bopeleeely deed. .deetivie
Cheer himeelf"e noe .reete homey defuoct.
That girl has extingnielted •,
"Are there any .01111dree, then!" ene Of
the choeme etrele Pee in mettelly. • • .
"Children 1 lie. There watt a Vidid
here jut after old Alre, Itleyeere ,deatb, 1.
believe; but it tited, and left the mother A
poor a_zoolg, her own MiSeralde faded photo-
graph. She num a Wee lithe girl enough, in
her etnall way, settee, ehe Wee here he tOwn;
ameteng and. meelgledy ; hot the Beni has
deem for her, as ;thee (term for the Berth
elaet face ir, *Wain a exec of Incompatibility
ef despe; itio u. You Oan t atop three dep.* at
Whiteettated witheret feelteg theee'a ekele-
ten in the hengeine% bete!'
The ekeleton h the home, Jong • carefully
Indeed te ite 'Petite mipeed, had indeed
began 19 Pererebulete the Hall be open day-
light ;lure* thetoter leerittel of Iletheriee's
Yeah. He reached the amety remodelled
"home emit in time teedrete for 'Mentz. When
be deeeended tetheillelleteteddrawtogovem,
deetnieuteat lete,eaWhiteetreed. .etedel Weitt
AP a Pelee supply, anc eandlee ere ex.
peeeive—sha gave hie •ertte With A ileitite of eg,
Imo ohligetien to peer dials -clad It/eared.
Mrs. himeteger WAS indeed ateredt—eally
Altered, Threes it wee* teTh quie eeet owe emit it wane truer thieg after at to
ceselou bad to urea thet *leader pele !eve Werren than to love Hugh; * greeter
yettog wife. She mowed her patentee in triemph to have woo Warreu'a deep and
her deep black areal ; oeleure suited Wilde eerneetregard -than te have intereteed Hughei
feed ; in moureing,, she wen herdly evett (alley (Men with a relfieh peselein. She felt
pretty. The little Arritegement he piok and ell that; hut being woman, of mum she
wbite" heel faded elmoet tete white atones the raiser acknowledged it. She went on ht.
phaketeselnelprovedefleeting pigmentislee wee lag herd againtit ller own heart, beh
the 014 deed Weree lave, god to the dotr
not werranted feat celooria Bet Iletherly did
bia beet with lenge gelleutry out to notlee meet of the new and Uviog hater Poe;
Mt the while aim enetended to henteltelte wee
thereltydispleyblo her prefoutee effeetiee end
her Pottle eentletereter, She meat waver merry
Warren' whore Abe truly towel and wbo
belly 10;ied her ler the *eke Of tIANt Hugh u°avez‘r „4,10,11 610 R4at relnuked with
gone lest nIght," Hatherly atetwered Omer.
"Tee only goo'* *Nee; in the ceew,
tilos seld—and I can eeelly helleve her, to
lade° by the remainder, Ib get streek by
lighteiog tseeetormy night, and diliapeeered
then and there entirely -1,e
"This te etraege—very strange I' Islegh
went en to himself, never heeeieg the bah.
kiting interruption. t' The sated% eiti
leeted on tele tide ot late. Theriee
dietinee hummock here, like the
Onel At Grimeati,—I womier What On
earththeee were* and mound of sand can
mean Wind's hot gateg to attack thie
eitle of the river, to, is lee'
"Ab, Squoire," amen at work in the field
pkIt n,gm:Ong up to Join them, And
leening upou his pltchforke—e' eh he glad
yo've come to see It yourself, naow.
That jait what it be, The Sand's a.drif tine
Ab said to Tom, the nighe the thunderholt
toOlr tle owdpoplar—ah "Tom," Says
'that there popler were the only bag as
stepped 'he liver en' the mod trent ShiftLng.
It's•*hilted all along till le'a reaehed the
tare
an xTow it'll ithitit en' abfft
an abift till it geta to Taaweetoftor
ynyhap to Nortiech.,"--Ana If yell
look Sttofre, yeell See ler your:O.—the
leer's eeellellY rennin' raebly where the
tree hail need to stand; en' the sand'e
driftin are eedriftioe came xi1 elleya drift
down yennerib Gametes,. Anit's my
beltet tell never etop till ithi mellowed 'up
the Hell mei tbe Nebel@ oWhiteetrencl."
Hugh elavoinger peed to sileage at the
epee where the Whiteetrend poplar bad
once etood wIth an utter feeltag of aoking
helplenteem
taking pelmet:dell at ettert of hie
heert and hokieln. A ategle olance teld him
boyeed doubt the rnau was tight. The
cipler heel stood as the sena troll herder
Ocean,. He 114 !mitt It down, by wile Aud
guile, of deliberAte intent, thee eight of the
thuncieretorm to get r14 of the *legit) mute
evitneeti to Elaites suicide, detel Pow, hie
Nemesia had werked itself oat. The Sea
was advauciug, inett by inch, wtth irreatt
tible ;nevelt, ageing; deemed Whiteetrand,
Inch ay inch 1 Nay, yard, by yard, tem
mg ACTOR to the oppeette beide, and roughly
metteurfog the ellemetee with hie eye, Hush
the Witide and WaVOS of the CterMett
and Mit:chasm's constant flow of rhapsodies
about his oharening morbidezaa inWeste
end drewhig.roores, had begun to bring hte
Mapieeee lag mote pronaineatlY iatc
110100,. The skipper of the Muth Turtee
had pee up one. Ab was the mode to speak
of hies nOW in artistio cotelieS, no longer as
4 Melancholy inetence of well-meaning fags
Tire, but as a young man of rising though
mistioeleratood Wenn knottleege ot
" was allowed to be profound. To
be were, he didn't yet sell ; but it was
underatood in astute huytng eirtees that
peophe who conicl pick up an early Reif dirt
cheap and were prepared to hang lenig
OPeegh to their purcharse, would he sore in
the end to itee the colour of their moeey.
That winter SW, Itinnowes the happiest
Warren bed yet Rooked there • for he gegen
to pereeive that Riede WM ;denting, a
tremeloue,eitentefaced,unacknowledg
filbert el way, shewaslearninglittle by Utile
te love him. She would not eonfessit istfirst,
even to herself. Elide was too leech of a
woman to admit in the intimaey of her own
inert), ter Imo in the ear of any ontaie
cottddante, that having mew loved Ifeele
she ientld now veer round and love Warren.
The owe of personal ooriaissteacy rune deep
80 Welnse. They can't 1 ear to Mtn tbeir
dead selves, even though it be in erder to
;lee to laigher and ever higher plane of
effeetien andedevetion. Still, in epite of
evelythitig, ado Challoner grew by degreeis
dimly aware that ehe did actually love the
quiet youog marine pauter. She hied a
ha.rd atruggle wIth, herself, to be ante be-
fore AO could quite recognize the fact's. but
she eecognised ie et last, and in her OWn
heert frankly Pitnittstl Warren was
net indeed externally brillittet med. vivid,
like Hugh; he diettet etterkle with epigram
and repertee. But while Hugh swiettillebed,
Warren Ralfh Pater* burned nether with
OleV and goody danns, was easy
enough for mybeely to admire ugh;Ilhie
etrong pante glittered In the eye of day ;
eoly thew; who dip Uttle below the
face ever eeeohed the profoneder depths et
geed end beauty thee 1417 bid in *ugh A
mend ee Werrenhe Yet Elide felt he her
that chomp, veto teem seam, erre:owed eaw thelover bed been diverted uorthwerel
1
with the lea geed chime of the Chet= Rew raw feet Awe he lad elated the tint of the
And hire. Bouverte leatetets Wedneidey noeler. Ile Alwept evehled elme beteleg
ermine, be tried hard with eetteclentlous *pot ; tbe Tay interval thee hail elapsed
efforts to keep the converegien from flag. Once hielmt vleitenehled him, all the better
.ing vrhilbly. At Um; tie euceeeded with to rage et eight the agent* Om rIver heel
crediteble skill; ited Hugh, locking. Serall adValned netanwhIle la 14 Omit Weston.
*this wife with a curictie simile, mid in lq "1 mat get eu euoiceer to come
tone of gettuine pleasure: 14 How delightful . down and lee ta *hie," 1140 mid alertly,
We, efter ail, Wavle, to get a hold of
itoutebody, clime from the real live world of
London, in the ndatit of our feeellind ante-
diluvieu Whitentrend witty 1—I declare,
Iletherley, It does WW1 heart good, like
charopegue, to ligen to eou. A breath sI
Bohemie Mown won Suffelk the element
you arrive. Poor drown,. etienoleutt Feta -
tied Suffolk I 'Silly Suffolk," even the
eberiginee themtelvee eell le, itei catalog,
we, I m almoet beginning to fall aoleep
myeelt by fume of example.'
At the words, Winifred fired up in de-
feuee of her tredve country. "Pm term
Beetle' the said with. sone asperity, "1
don t kuow why you're Always try-
Ipg to run down Suffolk 1 If you
didn't like Tao you should lave avoided the
attire ; you should have (tarried. your reepect.
rel pretence ellewnere. Suliblk never lava -
ed you tohonour it with your auffragea. You
came and eottled here of your own free will.
And wbo could be ulcer or more cultivated,
11 1; comes to that, than some of tair Suffolk
eboriginee, as you call them? Dear old Mrs.
Walpole at the vicarage, for example."
Hugh belaticed an olive an the end of Ilia
fork. " .4.n Amiable old Hecuba," he answer-
ed provokingly. " What's Hecuba to me,
er I to Bombe! Her latent dates aro about
the period of the aeige of Troy, or, to be
more precisely accurate, the year 1820.—
My dear Ilatherley, when you come down, I
feel like is man who haa breathed froah
air on some high mountain—stimultecd
and invigorteed. You palpitate with act-
uality. Down bore, we etagnate in the
seventeenth century."
Winifred. bit her Up with vexation, but
said nothing. It was evident the aub-
jecb was an unpleasant ono to her. But
alas at least would not trot out the ekele-
ton
West morning Hugh showed Hathtrley
round the Whttestrand estate. Hather-
ley himself was not, to eiay the truth,
"n the beat cf humours, Mrs Afaesinger
was doll and not what ehe ueed to be i
she obviously resented hia bright London
gossip, as throwing into stronger and clear-
er relief the innate stupidity of her ances-
tral Suffolk. The breakfast was bad; the
coffee sloppy; and the dishes suggested too
obvious reminiscences of the joints and en-
trees at last ,night's dinner. Clearly, the
Massingers were struggling hard to hely up
appearances oa an insufficient income. They
ware stretching their means much too thin.
The Morrie drawing room was all very well
in ita way, of course ; but tulippattern cur-
tains and De Morgan pottery don't quite
make up for a rechcruire of kidneys. Rath-
arly was an epicure, like most club -bred
men, and hia converse for the day took a
colour from the breakfast table for good or
for evil. So he started out that morning in
a dormant ill -humour, prepared to tease and
"draw "Messinger, who had had the bad
taate to desert Bohemia for dull respectabil-
ity and ill -paid F.quiredom in the wilds of
Suffolk.
Hugh ahowed him first the region of the
eandhilla. The sandhills were a decent bit
to begin with. " lEolian sands 1" Hather-
ley murmured contemplatively as Hugh
mentioned the name. "How very pretty!
How very poetieal 1 You can hardly regret
it yourself, Messinger, this overwhelming
of your salt ,marshes by the shifting Bands,
when you reflect at leisure it was really done
by anything with so sweet an epithet as
./Eolian. '
"1 thought so once " IlHugh answered
dryly, with obvions distiaste, "when it was
the property of my late respected father-in-
law. But circumstances alter cases, you
know, as ,somebody once remarked with
luminous platitude ; and since I came into
"We wait put up a breakwater °amen.,
I alappme, SIPCO a Opine edreinietratiOn
refusee to beep us. I wonder who'a the
men to go to for breakeratere 1
Ire Owe to night, if I knew whom
and check the thing before it
arther."
4 that Swinburne am?' Haber.
I ?eked nenalegly, "1 forget the cent
run ef the portieuler linee, hut ehoy occur
aomewhere tn the Hymn to Proterpins
Will ye teld 'the deep lea e itb reins: witty* ehieten
the herb witb rods?
Will ye take her to chain her with chalet who Is
013er ibaa all, re cede?
I don't expect, my dear hey, your etigineer
will do much for you. Manes hut pigmy
before them iteturel powers. A tweekwatern
Itelpleee ageing the ceaseless dashing of the
etersiel lee."
Hugh Marainger airnoet loit his temper—.
epeciolly when ho rt fleeted with hitter self-
abetsement that therm were the very Jim
he had quoted to Ehlie—iu his footfall
preoerritoriel days—about Mr. Alio,.
say's sensible propoaals for obtAining anhad Another letter from London
%Junction egainat the German Oeeen. this morning. The marketh looking up.
"Eternal ilea ! Eterna fiddleatiales 1" he Beneon has mid the Rade de Ville.
answered testily. " all very well for franahe.' "
you to talk.; but it's a matter of lifo and " I'xn so glad, Warren," Mae anawered
death to mees—tl e ye got to build a. break warmly, ".80'n a aweet plot:ire—one at
water, the.* what It comes to. And is your loveliest. Did you get is good price
breakwater'll run into n pot of money."
"Pity the old tree ever got burnt down,
anyhow, to begin with,' Hatherley mur
inured low, endeavouring, now he had fairly
drawn his man, to amine a ayrnpathetio
expression of countenAnce.
The rest Hatherley never knew ; he only
knew that at dinner that night Mrs. Mass
inger's eyes were red and sore with crying.
For when Hugh reached his own room—
that pretty little dressing room with the
pomegranate wallpaper and the pale blue
Lahore hauginge—he found Winifredfiddling
at bis private desk, a new black -walnut desk
with endless drawere and niches and pigeon-
holes. A sudden something rose iu his
throat as he sew her fumbling at the doom
of the cabinet. Where had she found that
carefully guarded key ? — Alia, he knew !
That fellow klatherley — Hatherley had
taken a cigar from his case as they went out
for a stroll together that luckless morning ;
and instead ot returning the case to its
owner, had lain it down in his careless
way on the, study table. He always
kept the key concealed in the case. --Wini-
fred must accidentally have found it, and
tried to worm ono her husband's eecrets.—
He hated such meanness in other people. How
ranch, he wondered, had she found out now
after ell for hcr trouble ?
Ah
They both cried out in one voice together;
for Winifred had opened a pigeon -hole box
with the special key, and was looking intent-
ly with rigid eyes at—a small gold watch and
a bundle of letters.
With a wild dart forward, Hugh
tore them from her gasp and crunched them
in his hand; but not before Winifred
had seen two things first, that the watch
was a counterpart of her own—the
very watch Hugh had given to Eleie
Challoner • second, that the letters were in
is familiar 'hand—no other hand than Elaie
Challoner's.
She fronted him long with is pale cold face.
Hugh took the watch and letters before her
very eyea, and locked them up again in their
pigeon.hole, angrily. "So this is how you
play the spar'upon me 1" he cried at last with
supreme contempt in his voice and manner.
But. Winifred dimply answered nothing.
She buret into a fierce wild flood of tears. "I
knew it r' she moaned in an agony of alighted
affection, "I knew it 1 I knew it 1"
the estate myself, to tell you the truth, I So, after all, inspite of herifight andherpre-
can't forgive the beastly sands, even though ,tended coolnees, Elsie was corresponding still
they happen to be celled _Mellen." with her husband ! Cruel, cruel Elsie! Yet
They walked along in silence for a while, why had she given him back his watch again?
eaoh absorbed in his • own thoughts That was more thish Winifred could ever ex-
- —Hatherley ruminating upon this inelan- plaim in her simple philosophy. She could
°holy spectacle of a degenerate son of only cry and ory her eyes out.
dear old Cheyne Row gone wrong for
ever:• Matitinger reflecting in his own mind
upon tlae closer inaight into the facts of life
which property, with its cares and reaponsi-
halides One—when he suddenly halted
with s sflstfitfi 'tarp whistle at a turn of the
'Path, aew 1" be cried "why, what the
dickens is this? The poplar's :disappeared
—at least its place I mean."
" vet! Mrs. Messinger toashree all
lecttrg to have sold the Rade, anyWay, be-
iOginie • of the. deer Old efitotr once Rae...4'M
leble to do e great idea More for .them efeW
*hell. Soon. be. be A pciii.tien te keep
• eltem comfortable. — And ele you
kstnehow, these -lost feW years, --I'M ashamed
M ray bee is the feet nenet the 14—
I'Ve beetle to .fetio get of emewee ;Joke.
to he eueeeeeted,glem
F4eie dropped her e (dee 4 tette lowir
44 I'm eorry ter that, Warren," she Anewered
elty137. • .
"Why 1" • • • •
" letecente ette of the
titiegs, I most aclmired abent yo,A when
tat how yen wee etter.a• tardy desire tO do
geed week. Lr 1t ..ewo make, extd to: leave
.eeeeette to take care ot in.the dim hack -
wetted,' •
". Butt Mahe I've gamy tome remetee now
wieh for euecene—YOte know- wity—i've
'sever teld yea, but I begin to hope—rve
watered tri hope the lme few •m.outbehel
knew ith preelnaletneee .of me, bee gtil I
hope'... ---that wheu can earn eeetigh to meke
*wile • -
Stele etopped geed eleort °nee .om. tee
ottrrew petit:that wooed :le and ot *mew,
the eletebeeleg etiee-weeds, and fteetteg
with .her parallel plait:04 Armlet en
the emited, ent letne off le 4 deeperatelW
replete tom, .46 Werrefie if I etweldn't
poesy ego unenchemint, you may he quite
*ere ettcoem eeyr.ate would .never, never
induce ette etterrY rte." ! • • .
It wee the Otet thee ha Al lair life elm bed
seta a ;Ingle word *bent mehrlege before. him
And Wereee therefore et enee accepted ie.
,pezedoeicelly but rightlY, geed amen,
"Then yonloveme, Bleier be.eeihd, ellttemle
ling, • :
Vele* be t fiettexed with panful trevearte
Boole federate Menem ehe mural:made thrill-
biog. "Don't make niveayeee Bete*, w ortele
9;4 Of me 1 --Dear Waren, you know 11180
you detiely. I.:feel and always fat. dee
-windeyoolike atter.. After ellrvelettfereil,
deatt torture tee thereo---I :CAA nOVere ;toyer,
never merry yeel
"Bet you de Imre me, Bleier .
BIticht etym. fell irreeolitto to the ground, It
was herd dght between le:tend vete But
Wereen'e pleedieg: feee coegnered to ehe
.e.e.d. "Ido !eve yew, Werrime' anawered
"Theo -I deal; roiled the rote" Weave),
erieel with a joyous bane, seizing . her bend
80 hie, "If you love me, Elam I mu, wait
•fetever, Sumo; er gloom, merriege- or
00 xesniage,. eeti welt for ever. I oply
Atte know yeu levet me,"
Yon will time to wet:e ter evert" Hiatt
Amweted " Yew :bee* mettle ,
the word, and. 80 'OW Of royeelf I hare mid
let I lore you, Waugh but 1 eart WNW,
THE 0OUG103'8. LAT SUING.
s. Rocky aloguta4leacZelcd.grta-agleY.liate
One of the Meet Werthy and enterpriaing
settlers on the Little Solomon Meadow,
c iy Mountains, ia UenrY Peck, lie
tne prowl Weed of A tangly, oe fetl of the
amyl) (re !ti tnet Miter int° the makeep
of the 'abuser *merit of eciciety as any
family ta be found on the bread frontier- 1
was brovolat to their aude log cebitt by aeAl•
deoa '1'hough a atrauger estd witeout a
enodcw at A claim upon men. boepttelitY, 1
was eeeetved cordielity watm, aa
the loYe of A brother. It was eemaing and
the mush reign wae light With the glow of
rich pieet le 4 OrOA etOne fitePlag4. 111 a,
raw on atools around the laeatth were father,
Mother, and foam ebildrea, the °bleat a boy
of ig years, - The 4mm wag fall of the
neomartes roxio ety11144tfott and decere
Eitel with trephiea of the chase. My
attention was ettracted by the akin of
a cougar that was exiie large, al 4XotPX:
td• tb" les sereoe CLAWS
were gieZnning in the lighe ef the piteh fire.
Mr. Peck eotieed the occeniou ef my weeder
and /mid, "That beast woe killed by my
sop," and pointed to the fair pito; ebild-
Nitith the aelrit of A hooter I mixed for the
Pertieelers, lie releted the stout and I
thoughe Teta eyea epaekled and Itte cheek
limbed with pardonable pride., "When we
etene to thm valley itt the early ettoweter.
"` there Were no neighhcla Within thirty
milee et ea, We staked eff tide claim pod
lived in te teen It was eive,eatey for me. te
retura te %quell Valley ter prevtatona I
Wee a tautly place te !owe a temily hut
you* of experience had pcepered rtit fer
tierdshipe, tte Wittig wee left as the defender
et hie ;nether and little eietera. The jeer
lefty wm !Ong, trying One and Weela regetre
my Abeenee for a week, Willie Ited oven
well tralued ta the nee el Ugh* repeetteg
ter the &geld of Udine§ is etentlitte
eiteriaee pretele eittlated Pe We are. The
eettelid nighe After elepartere Willie heerel
teottitepe &acne tbe tent. They wee light
>mei =mural mad beepoke A Sneaking fee,
either nein or . beset. Of COnfte the bey
thought le wee
neetneente. Treitten,
moved by native oegeveneable propemitty to
eteal, With rifle at bend he eitt heeded elie
lapel ef the tent and peered foto the /were,
darleamie It wee en the *Wen of rent, tied
the mewl was deeltemel by eleude ; ehe wind
was ewayieg the grass, arid the telly eellef to.
eho eye wage rothes waves of dezkneve thet
voted in derwity team =melt to foam Rep -
ergo rauelog elmelowe. Before the tette en
the eveeing bed beva a bargees log of dry
pine extendlog fell length el the emotes
Walled MOM, It bed. burnt brilliantly sied
mac the nerreet confines et the reekeehUt
el a Immo No eleteifiel ThAt ell the femily lay
dOW11 happy to sleep mendly e.uel meetly,
And they Were all *sleep except the bare
little boy with at gun on shutting duty.
&fay CaMe the lurkiag intruder under cover
of night, while within the frail structure
were all thine dear once as helpless as litta
lemba. The Ste bad burat at; low the* the
log wee a Meek, cherred steak from which
were shooting elegem; of pele demo et htter
vale of e few, seitouche but ate hitt the emu-
tertog linehee pee wee too weak to aid the
bey"! aeldeg eyes in penetrating the night
en other side. The ahr etepe piteed beyond
tbe light limbo that flitted trent the dying
fire.
A PAM OF OtAllINO entfi
relleeted beek the linnet. It was not an in -
diem but a wol or some other prowlieg
boate, thought the boy, and he watt o Nog
sr Afraid. Wolves hew terrare for
eliiiereu tele. ;trete trete “utsi,le of story
iteeern. Tue aeletts tee neuter encouutere
us only a illy inlet awl is as catily frightened
au a rebbit. $., when Willie auppeeed ts
titnid, aneakina welt had caused rue dread
no wet itehanied of his leek of courage. Bat
e determined to aboot the beam* if it ceme
near enough to the uncertain it !lad
been ettracted by the ainell of bailing meat
and was evidently determined to secure sonic
scraps that were scattered about for an even
-
lug meal. It kept out of the rump light for
40 long that he grew rustle:fa and doter -vaned,
to fire ut the dim outline And at !emit scare'
the prowler away. It wee evidently id nod
of the fire and would come no nearer.
The trusty little gun owe wetted to poet.
tion. Just then the lice blazsd up brighter
than More and afforded is fair chance to
aim at the erouching and seemingly fright-
ened creature. A flesh and e tharp reporr
A eaream rang out and a menster bounde
from the darkneas toward the tent. It was
it wounded and ferocious mountain lion, ir
cougar. The eyes of the beast had been
fixed upon the burning log, and he supposed
his pam came from the fire. Ho adzes' the
log irs. Isis strong paws and ruahed wita. it
against the tent and mashed it down.
Fire wets scattered everywhere. The tent,
the bed and the clothing of the frightened
family were Boon in is blaze. With a howl
of pain the cougar dropped the fire brand
and ran away. The family were helpless
while their clothes and every morsel of food
was consumed by the fire. Of their suffer-
ing for three days in thia onely mountain
valley you probably do not oar to hear.
When 1 returned they were nemly dead
from hunger and cold. But the cougar Me-
ese lay fifty yard a away.
elm had never joved her, tted whom site her-
glf goad. never heed. bed she only
known blot asha nay was In all his Kg C7V4
and po7tish loner nettuee, That, mil' be feel-
ish, but it's intensely womanly. We must
take Women tut they relay are. They were
madame at fire, and ell our philesepley will
never mend It.
She couldn't endure thet fitly me
amid imegine elle had forgotten her Iowa
end her aorrovr for Hugh. She Couldn't en-
dure, alter her experience with Hugh,
that Ally mita should take her, thus
helpleae And mullion. II awed been au
heirets like Winifred, now, Maga might
perhepe bevel beeri a little differeut ; but to
tendon his etruggliug life still further,
when oho know how Itttle his Art brought
him, and how meal% he longed to earn an
income for his mother aud Belo to retire
upene.that atm coulthet bear to facie for
moment, She would dimiss the subject ;
elle woad make him feel ehe could never be
his ; it was only tantelialog poor hinde,
hearted Warren to keep him danelithe about
any longer.
" Elsie," he mid to her one clay on the
hills, ae they atrolled together, by olive and
Pinewood, among the esPhodele end thaw was born to mkt e good rnee happy, end
I d make him heppy with the greateet pies
mire in life, if only the good man would
recoonise my Abilities for the production of
happiness, and give me the desired oepow
tunity for tranalating my benevolent wallet
toward° him lute actual practice. Bat good
men aro pauffully /warm nowadays. bey
for t82 don't unarm. They retire baalefully. Very
"Forty guineas, That's not an bad as few of them seem to flog by accident in
prices go. So I'm going to buy Edie that their gay ehallopv toward the port cif SAO
new dinner drawl you and I were talking Remo,
about. I know you won; mind running
over to Menton° and choosing some Idea
stuff at the draperei there for me. Things
are looking up. Thereti no doubt Pm
rising in the English market. My current
quotations improve daily. Benson eays he
aold that bit to a rich American. Ameri-
cana, if you can once manage to cinch 'them,
are capital customers— `patrons,' I sup-
pose, one ought to imp ; bile I decline to be
patronised by it rich Amerioart. . 1 think
. customer,' uftcr all, it much truer and
.ancerer word—ten thouerind times aa
meuly and indepettcient" '
"So I think too, I hate Patronage. It
savours of fiunkeydom ; betrays the toady-
ism of faebionable art— the 'Portrait -
of -a Gentleman' style of painting.—Ent oh,
Warren,
I'm so sorry the Rade's to be trans-
ported to America. It's ouch it graceful,
delisate, dainty little picture. I quite loved
it. To me thee seems themoetterrible part of
all an artist's trials and troublea. After
you've learned to know and to love it
tenderly—after it's become to you something
like your own child—an off spring of your
inmost and deepest nature—you sell it away
for prompt cash, to a rich American, who'll
hang it up in bin brand-new drawing -room
at St Louis or Chicago between two horrid
daubs by fashionable London or Paris
painters, and who'll say to his friends with
it smile after dinner: ' Yes, that's is pretty
little thing enough in ite way, that tiny
seapiece there. I gave forty guineas in
England for that; it's by Relf of Londo i.—
But observe this splendid 'Cleopatra' over
here, just above the sideboard ; she's a. real
So-and-so '—torture itself will not induce
the present chronicler to name the part.
Millar painter of fashionable nudities whom
Elsie thus pilloried on the scaffold of her
high disdain—a' I paid for that, sir, a obol
twenty thousand dollars 1'"
Warren smiled a smile of thrilling
pleasure, and investigated his' bootslwith
shy timidity. Such sytnpathy from her
outweighed a round damn of Americari pur-
chasers. "Thank you, Elsie," he i said
simply. "That's quite true. I've felt it
myself, —But still, ' in the end, all; good
work, if it's really good, will appeateotne-
how, at some thno, to somebody, eometvhere.
I confess I often env y authors i4 that. It is evident that the Ottawa harae himself
Their finished work is impressed npon it again.
thousand copies, and ?scattered b atheist
over' all,. the world. Sooner Ma later it's
pretty,' dui% to meet the °tre5. et most
eteong thee who are capable /of ap-
prechsting ,i6,—But a Rebating is a
much more monopolist product If the
to °Arty it info the wholty 'soon , spciety,
etreeg man hapPene ati` firet eiotte „et and
the painter may' feel for the momen his work
halost, and his time thrown'awayl so far as
anv-direct appreciatien or loving aoripathy
with his ideta la concerned.—Still Elsie, it
gets its rewardin due time, Wisen we're
all dead and gone' some aoul wllljlook upon
t
the picture and 13e glad. And i
made urciervetiete. when, Elate told herb% by
bit rim whole gory thAtsame evening at the
Villiellosee, "that you tregod hitn very
ithelitilly Weed, and thee WILTIngel 4 great
deal toe good And kind and sweet to _you.
Soule girl. don't know when they're well oft
Warren% 4 brick—theter whet I cell him."
"That's whet I caU him too," Elsie tett
ewered half tearful. "At lout 1 would, if
briek WAS a war ever Applied to anybody
anywhere. Bat still —I pan nOTer marry
hirer
"Thank goodnets," Elie sad, With 4 jerk
of ber head, "1 ween'* born romantic and
hysterical. Wheuever any nice good fellow
thee I Oen really like awl= itito my ken
and aahe mc to marry 111mo—which meter-
tunetely none of the nice good fellows of my
acenalninuce show the leitet inelinetien at
moot to do --I ehall Ammer himpromptly,
ike a bite— ertbur, or Thomas, or Guy, or
Walter, or Reginald, or whatever elve his
sti d mane reey happen to be—lir,
at ley'a 80 Arthur—ate] proceed to make
him bat ay fir Ter, Bet hr.uso peeple 8e5*0
to prefer tentelhine them. e'er my own
pert, my deer, roe died:tot preference for
making men heppy waenever possible. I
.CHAPTER XXXI,-,Comiso Ronan— .
When Warren • Relf steered' hack is his
barque to San Remo and Maio that next
autumn, he had not yet exactly been "boom-
ed," as Edie had predicted; but his aatistic
or rather his business prospecte hadamprov-
ed considerably through the intervening sum-
mer. Hatherley a persistent friendly notices
about thee unlucky poplar whom yeavrest, 1ef his work in the "Chewing Crewe Review,"
(TO az CONTINC2D )
Guarding Atainat Mistakes.
"George," said the fond young girl, "I
believe thoroughly in economy, hut there is
one mistake I done want you to make.
There is is French Copper Ring that is much
talkei about in the pipers, and I want to
say to you now that 1 won't wear one."
"All right, dear," said George; get
yon is gold ring tvith is solitaire eamat 'in it.'
The Doctor Was Off.
"This is a very graye case, my man,"
said it doctor, leaning over aswounded man
in a hospital.
"Is it really dangerous, doctor ?"
"Very; you have injured in the lumbar
region."
"Now, that's just where you're off. I
was never in Maine in my life. I kot this
wound in the Bine Mountain region."—
RTarper's Bazar.
•
Tiny silver acorns are the newest in bon-
net pins.
Miss Minnie Westman, aged twenty
years, is is mail carrier in Oregon. Her
routs lies through a mountain region which
is filled with bears and other obstacles to
travel, and yet Miss IN estman, who rides
night mid day, knows no fear. She rides a
sturdy horse and carries a trusty revolver.
So far, her only adventures have been with
bears, but they have nob- been of a vary
serious nature, though by the average young
lady they would no doubt be regarded as
startling.
The Ottawa liar is getting m hie work
again. He telegraphs the N. Y. 'World that
the Canadian Ministers are awfully scared at
the new threat of reteliation, and he addax
"'No greater misfortune could overtake the
Dominion at the present moment,' amides
proininent official to -night, 'than the pro-
mulgation ofan order excluding Canadian
articles from the United States. It would
paralyze trade and cause a financial crisis
from bhe end of the Dominion to the other.'"
The Republicans when in power, says a
correspondent of the New York Times,
passed laws ostensibly designed to extermin-
ate polygamy among the Morntons, but they
were very careful not to exeoute them. Since
President Cleveland was inaugurated polyg
amy has been practically exterminated.
Nearly 600 Mormons have been put in pri-
son, about 8800,000 of -their property has
been confiscated to public use, and it may
be rusid that the Mormons have now sub -
Witted to the kw, and admit the destrue-
tion of their cherished institution of polyg-
.
a great may.
'
feeveries-
ay Itogrzsli. mAnsiCnr,
When the dram hing rain deeps
Silver bright in hill and dell,
Aud Novecaber with her ;spell,
Quit Against the summer's. bleom
Shediug of A older gloom,
Serrow with a eudden eteet,
Crept foto my pentive beery,
And I dreamed ef days trove by
With eoft SerreW in my eye.
Preateed in sorrow, but ere long
Opened ell my haehe of wo',
Where with itledling Seal I read
'AyeoE minetrel heerta long deal,
Chencern ancient talee, and theo
Shekeepeareee atorlea o'er again;
'fitting new from page to page,
Song to meg end age to age,
Bet at last I lit open
Thom ;tweet werblitige by 4ine.
Of a heart as pnra 05 heaven
With sule/intew feelinga
Mitten who with seeped fire
Thee the Mutes did inaplre
Shoorom bnuUo, hesiuteehleet,
0' end on I read and bent
My head above the deeding leaf,
Weeping there, but net free% grief,
Rather that planet mut eon dee
Feerleee its **ghee so high
Ny Sridge of ramie&
I built it leidge of faudea and it was pawing
Iaw
The rop-10 were not ot (hia wtirld thee hid
pietured tlittea
ell theresaint eed Went like shadow*,
to twol'ite,
They wire weleento wilco they 011ie, and
'twee lied to HO tl'ern go,
r they Ailed the teeetie bridge with a life
loved to ewe,
Aud theegityary theydear weret bet lariat," theY
weroI bad yearned 80 heitig together ell the light
and lave 1litleff,
'All the Modred spirit -world whieh would
A Plucky GiA.
You may say what you please, but, after
all, the pluckiest creatures on the footstool
are women. •
Out in Fort Wayne, for example, a burg-
lar broke into the house of it banker. Ile
felt as happy for a brief, sweet moment as
the Pennsylvania farmer elm hes just struck
" ile" There were georgeous trinkets ill-
imitable brid-a.brac, diamond rings, watches,
and no end,of plunder. He was in luck, in
clover, in heaven.
Sudslenly a girl of fifteen appeared on the
scene. Bah 1 a mere chit of it thing in
petticoats. He would simply remark
Shoofly 1" and she would speed on her
way to the attic and there" indulge in a
ent shower of tears.
Not a liit of it. She drew a very pretty
e revolver and coveree him. • He forgot
n his haste to bid her good -by and broke
for the door. A bellet struck the panel so
earfullyclose to his head that he Warne
reflective and, stopped to think. She cover-
ed hint' again, and he knew that if he budged
he would step from that hanker's 'parlor
right into kingdom come,
so the "pesky
varmint.' sto'od glued to the floor until a
policeman relieved the young girl of her
captive.
In 1886:there were 1,418,726 'milch-cows
in Ireland, of the estimated Value of L25,-
537,068,. They -were distgibuted as follows
—Munster,, 545.517 cowe e ;Ulster, 443,819 ;
Leinater, 236,703e Connaught; 192 687.
It has been estimated that in Paris the
average, consumption of eggs 'every year is
150 per head ef tit.° population, while of
chicketie a elomputation arrived at a. few
years ago statedethat, every year there are
about80;000,000 of capons and chickens
consumed, in Erman
uever prove untrue.
For thbi world 8040 deeepthre, and ita crew
team all so vale
I wisti my "bridge of fanclea" could be
tweeted to reptant
But lae 1 far idle yeerning, far 4 Wlsh that'S
all in vete,
meet leave my heldge of fencing and return
to eazUsagajsa
For ray people *emu grew we
weery at the wurld,
To expect; them to stay oitit me wan as atax'
meet Abetted,
They ceeld out be oentented 80 .111180 alwity
with me
Mut my life was as mesa
man's to the sea.
SA y
A read Lost 80 the Sas.
Why mourn fer the hours that have vanish -
Why helm for the thipge Oat ere loot ?
Why weep for the flowers eif gamer
That 11e 'need) the cold wiuteret froet I
Cao wo make time etane still az turn beck -
ward,
Or revive the dead Una on, the lea?
We might teee as well try an searching
For is peal thee is lest in tbe tea, 1
Why clierieh a dream that hes ended?
Why look dowel the elite Of yeaela,
But to 'after a long buried morrow
To open the wound with now teens e
is over ;—forg.t it. As melees
(No metter how wartime wo bee
To try to go Leek, an recaver
A pearl thee it lout in. the see!
tey burleu to day with regreteng
lie het might have bele; nut we but
known .
Wily long for the MM4h,telovrd ranee
After um aweot einger has fiewn
Will all the regrets and the to:lenge
Avail egainat Fatisti item deeree
no,—for the Past and its chencea
Are as pearls that Are loot in the tee
Why waste preeiouv snornetna in thieking
Of tmenes that were beautiful tben
Why linger o'er graves thee hold treasures
Ihst ne'er will be with us agein?
Wi
Why wish for our youth and te gladnesa
Shben frun morrow and care we were free?
"Tie gone from on.. greep,—gene forever,
els a peael that is lost in the sea 1
His Carefal Sponse.
.,itarzhist—" Wife, gif me dot leau shirt
dot !tureen in."
Wile—" No, Fritz, you had better vait
untilour birfday, veto vtil he only six
more vetka from day after termorrow."
The Reason Re Left.
"What's the matter, Johnny," asked
one of the neighbors' boys as his eompanio
came out of the alley gate. "Ain't fimshe
your dinner a'rea3y, have ye?"
"Didn't ye gas any ?"
"Yep; but I didn't stay to finish it."
" What made ye leave so soon ?"
"Well, I stid something at the table and
everybody but pa laughed."
--
A Hopeless One -
A man very much excited burst into 11.
Pasteur's laboratory the other day.
"Oh, Doctor," he cried, "1 have been
bitten 1"
"By it dog ?" asked Pasteur.
"No ; worse than that."
"By it cat ?"
".4. kind of cat. But oh, Doctor, can you
cure me ?"
" was a wolf, then."
"Not a wolf, but much worse. It was
my mother-in-law 1"
In that case," said Pasteur turning to
his work, "nothing can be done."
Why He Was Rushing.
"What are you rushing so for ?" inquired
stoekbroker of his friend.
"To draw all my menet out of the bank,"
was the reply.
"What, has the bank failed ?"
"No; but I have."
How Much She kIaci Left.
The ability of little folks to arrive at logi-
cal conclusions was well illustrated in it
Waterdowe primary ,,school recently. A
teeoher in one of the lowest grade% had been
impressing the meaning of easy frectional
terms upon the minds of her little pnpile.
Efer statements were chary and so easily
comprehended that even their infantile in -
intellects seemed to grasp all that was given
teem. One little fellow," however; was
ttle, wlos and the teaoh er repeated her ex
Flexible mucilage; To twenty parts of
alcohol add one part of aalicylie acid, three
parts of soft-soap, and thee aaartsof glycerine.
Shake well, and then add it mucilsege:made
of ninety-three parts of gum -arabic and one
hundred and eighty parts ofewater. ',Thie is
said to keep well and to be thoroughly elas-