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4 Setserinetns Lament.
On thou oewspeper earr1ors)03eeY-___
,
11 would give me abundance ofjoy
to toy
For a minute or two
or throe,
With the toe of my shoe
on thee,
Upon the seat of thy pants,
what tun!
if I' but got the chalice,
'tis clone.
Last night and the night before,
tnd more,
X have listened at the front door
and swore—
For no paper was seen,
'taint fair,
For it never has been
put there.
Now, young man, 1 just wish to say
to.clay,
9,`hat for my nelvspaper I pay,
or may.
And' give you fair warning now,
if
I catch you (I think I know how)
Your career will be o'er
I fear,
You, will peddle papers no mere
down here.
$o take waraine my lad
And why,
Becauee I am mad,
Good-bye!
--Brantford Expoeaor.
THE. S.ISTE.RS.
The story, as told by himself for the in.
format -ion of his children (who, as children
ever do, canto intime to have interests of
their own that transcended in importance
those that were merely personal to their
parents), was much more brief and bald
than,this, and. the reeding of it did not take
many minutes. When he had finished it,
in dead silence, the lawyer took from the
packet of papers a third and entailer docu-
ment, which he also proceeded to read
alouii to those whom it concerned.
This proved to be a certificate of
the marriage of Kiegscote Yelverton
and Elizabeth Leigh, celebrated in an ob-
scure London parish by a curate who had
been the bridegromn's Eton and Oxford
chum, and witnessed by a pair of humble
folk who hod had great difficulty in cone.
posing their respective 'signatures, on the
25th of November, be the year 1849. .And,
filially, half -folded round the packet, there
was a slip of paper, on which was written—
"Not to be opened until my death."
"And it might never have been opeued
until you were all dead!" exclaimed the
lawyer, holding up hie hands. "He must
have meant to give it to you at the last, and
did not reckon on being struck helpless in a
inorcient when his time came."
"Oh, poor father !" sobbed. Elizabeth,
whose head lay on the table, crushed down
in her handkerchief. And the other sisters
put their arms about her, Patty with a set
white face and Eleanor whimpering a little.
But Mr. Brion and Paul were incensed with
the deed man, and could not pity him at
present.
It won late before the two friendly ad-
visers, summoned to canner by their land-
lady, went back to No. 7, and they did not
like going. It did not 'seem to them at all
right that the three girls should be left alone
under , present circumstances. Mr. Brion
wanted, to summon Mrs. Duff -Scott, or even
Mrs. McIntyre, to bear them company and
see that they did not faint, or have hysterics,
or otherwise "give way," under the excep-
tional strain upon their nervous systems.
Then he wanted them to come next door for
that dinner which he felt .they must cer-
tainly stand much in need of, and for which
theydidnot seem to have adequate mate-
rials ; or let him take them to the nearest
hotel, or to Mrs, Duff -Scott's ; or, at least,
to permit Jahn to give them some brandy
and water; and he was genuinely distressed
becanae they refused to be nourished end
comforted and appropriately cared for in
any of these ways.
"We want to be quiet for a little, dear
Air. Brion, that we may talk things over by
ourselves—if you don't mind," Elizabeth
said. ; and the tone of her voice siknced all
his protests. The old man kissed them, for
tbe first tizne in his life'uttering a few
broken words of congratulation on the won-
derful. change in their fortunes ; and Paul
shook hands with great gravity and with-
out saying anything at all, even though
Patty, looking up into his inscrutable face,
mutely asked= for his sympathy with her
wistful, wet eyes. Ancl they went away.
As they were letting themselves out of
the house, assisted. by the ground -floor
domestic, who, scenting mystery in the air,
politely volunteered to open the hall door
in order that she might investigate the
countenances of the Misses King's visitors
and perchance gather some enlightenment
therefrom, Patty, dry-eyed and excited,
came flying downstairs, and pounced. upon
the old man.
"Mr. Brion, Mr. Brion, Elizabeth says
she hopes you will be sure not to divulge
what we have discovered to anybody," she
panted breathlessly (at the same time
glancing at her lover's back as he stood on
the door -step). "It is of the utmost con-
sequence to her to keep it quiet for a little
longer."
But, my dear, what object can Eliza-
beth have in waiting now? Surely it is
better to have it over at once, and settled.
I thought of walking up to the club by -and -
bye, with the papers, and having a word
with Mr. Yelverton."
"01 course it is better to have it over,"
assented Patty. "1 know your time is
precious, and I myself , am simply
frantic till I can tell Mrs. Duff -
Scott. So is Elizabeth. But there is
something she must do first—I can't tell
you the particulars -'but she must have a
few hours' start—say till to -morrow evening
—.before you speak to Mr. Yelverton or take
any eteps. I am sure she will do whatever
you wish, after that."
The lawyer hesitated, suspicious of the
wisdont of the delay, but not seeing how
mach harm could happen, seeing that he had
all the precious documents in leis own breast
pocket ; then he reluctantly granted Patty's
request, and the girl went upstairs again
with feet not quite so light as those that had
cerried her down. Upstairs however, she
subordinated her own intereAs to the con-
sideration of her sister's more presging
" Elizabeth," she said, with fervid and
portentous solemnity, " this is a mists for
you, and you must be bold and brave. It is
no time for shilly-shallying—you have
twenty-four haute before you, and you mime
a0t. If yon don't, you will see that he will
jest throw- up everything, and be too proud
too take it back. Ho will loee all his
motley and the inthience for good that it
gives him, and you will lose him."
HoW shall I acb ?" asked Elizabeth,
leaning instinctively upon this more
eourageoue spirit
" How ?" echoe.d Patine looking at her
sister with brilliant eyes. " Oh t" draveing
a long breath, and speaking with ityeerning
pitmen that it was beyond the povver of
geed gratunat to exprese—" oh, if -It was
only rad I"
CHAPTER, XX XIX.
Asr ASSWAA7100.
Thet evenieg Yelverton was leisurely
fialehing hie dinner at the club When it Mite
was hrought to him, Ile thought he knew not going to be called Mr, Yelverton by
the Writing, though he had sever seen it you Never again, remember. My name
before, end put it lute his peotet until he is liLingseete, if you, wish to know. My
°mild politely detach himself from three people et home, when I bad enypeople,
semi -hosts, semi -guests, with whom he was called me King. 1 flaunt you might as well
dining. Then he went upstairs rather call hie King ; it will keep your dear name
geickly, tearing open his letter as he went, alive in the family when you no longer
eaid, arrived at the reading-room'vv
sat dou answer to it yourself. Nnve "--as she
at a table, took pen pon in hand and
dashed oft paueed, end wae looking at him rather
au immediete reply. "1 will certainly be etrangely—" what were you going to say ?"
there," he wrote, in it hand more vigorous " I was going to eay that I have not
then elegant. "1 will wait for you la the wasted this week since you went away. A
German picture gallery. Come es early as great deal has happened—a great many
possible, while the place is quiet." And, changes—and I was helped by something
having closed his missive and cousigned it outside myself to make up my mind."
to the bag, he remained in a comfortable " I don't believe it, -1 don't believe it,
arm -chair in the quiet room, all by himself, Elizabeth. You know you love me, and
meditating, He felt he had a great you know that, whatever your religious
deal to think about, and it indisposed eentimente may be, you would not do vio-
him for convivialities. Tile week since lance to them for anything less than that.
his parting with Elizabeth, long as it had You 4tre taking me because you love me too
seemed to him, had not quite run out, and well to give me up—for any consideration
she had made an assignation which'though whatever. • So don't say you are not."
it might have appeared iniequivocaa to the She touched his shoulder for a moment
casual eye, was to him extremely perplex- with her cheek. "Oh, 1 do love you, I do
Mg. She had come back, and she wanted love you !" she xnurmurede drawing a long,
to see him, and, sne wantento see him alone, sighing breath.
and she asked him if he would meet her at He knew it well, and he did not know
the Exhibition in the morning. And she ad- how to bear to sit there, unable to respond
dressed him as her dearest friend, and to her touching confessiou. He could only
signed herself affectionately his. He tried knead her hand between his palms.
very hard, but he could not extract his ex- "And you are going to trust me, my
erected comfort from, sach a communication, love ---me and .yourself ? You are not efraid
naacle under such circumstances. now ?"
th,e morning he was amongst the first " I will trust you—I will trust you " she
Itt batch of breakfasters in the club coffee- went on, leaning towards him as he sat
room, and amongst the first to represent the beside her. "You are doing more good
public at the tioket-windows of the Cerlton in the world than I had even thought of
Palace. When he entered the great build- until I knew you. It is I who 'will not be
ing it was in the Possession of officials and uP the mark—not you. But I will help
workmen, and echoed in a hollow manner to you as much as you will let me—I am going
his solid foot -fall. Without it glance to give niv life to helping you. And at
to right or left, he walked upstairs least—at -leasti
least—you believe n God," she
to the gallery and into that concluded, yearning for some tangible and
cosiest nook of the whole Exhibition, definite evidence of faith, as she had. under -
the German room, and there waited for his stood faith, wherewith to comfort her
mistress. This restful room, with its car- conscientious soul. " We are together in
peted floor and velvety settees (so grateful that—the chief thing of all—are we not .?"
to the weary), its great Meissen vases in the He was a scrupulously truthful man, and
middle, and casts of antique statues all he hesitated for a moment. "Yes, my
round, was quite empty of visitors, and dear," he said, gravely. "1 believe in God
looked as pleasant and convenient a place of that is to say, I feel hirn—I lean my little.
rendezvous as lovers could desire. Tif only ness on a greatness that I know is all around
Elizabebh would come quickly, he thought, me and upholding me, which is Something
they might have the most delicious quiet that even God seems a word too mean for.
talk, sitting side by side on a semi -circular I think," he added," that God, to me, is 110t
ObtOLOATL opposite to Lindenschinides what he has been taught to seem to you."
"Death of Adonis "—not regarding that "Never mind," she said, in a low voice,
unhappy subject, of course, nor any other responding to the spirit rather than the
object but themselves. He would not sit letter of his words. "Whatever you be.
down until she came, but strolled round and lieve you are sure to believe thoroughly, and
round, pausing now and then to investigate if you believe in God, your God must be a
it picture, but thinking of nothing but his true God. I feel it, though I don't know it.'
beloved, for whose light step he was listen- "Yon feel that things will all come right
ing. If his bodily eyes were fixed for ns if we have faith in our own hearts,
on the "Cloister Pond" or " Eveninn "
0, and love and trust each other. So do 1
,
or any other of the tranquil landscapes Elizabeth." There was nobody looking, and
pictured on the wall, he thought of Eliza. he put his arm round her shoulder for a
beth resting with him under green trees, moment. "And we may consider our re -
"far from the madding crowd's ignoble ligious controversy closed then? We need
strife," absolutely his own, and in a world not trouble ourselves about that any more',
that (practically) held nobody but him and "1 would not say 'closed.' Don't you
her. If he looked at autumnal rain slanting think we ought to talk of all our thoughts—
fiercely across the canvas, he thought how and especially those that trouble us—to each
he would protect and shield her in all the other ?"
storms that might visit her life—" My "1 do—I do, indeed. And so we shalh
plaislie to the angry aerie I'd shelter thee, Ours is going to be a real marriage. We
I'd shelter thee !" And visions of a fair shall be, not two, but one. Only for the
morning in Thuringia, of a lake in the present we may put this topic aside, as be -
Bavarian mountains, of a glacier in the lug no longer an obstruction in the way of
Engadine and of Venice in four or five our arrangements, mayn't we
aspects of sunlight and moonlighnsuggested "Yes," she said. And the die was cast.
his wedding journey and how beautitul the"Very well, then." Ile se,emed to pull
world she had so longed to see—the world himself together at this point, and into his
that he knew so well—would look hence- fine frame and his vigorous face a new
forth—if—if— energy was infused, the force of which
Th
ere was a step upon the corridor out. • seemed to be communicated to the air
side, and he turned sharply from his con- around her, and made her heart beat more
strongly to the quicker pulse of lelin "Very
ternplation of a little picture of an Isle of
Wight sunrise to meet her as she came in. well, then. Now tell me, ,Elizalteth—veith-
" Well, my love," he murmured eagerly, out any formality, while you `and I are
"what is it? Don't' keep me in suspense. here together—vvhen shall we be married ?"
Is it yes or no, Eliztebethrl
The question had a tone of masterful
Her embarassraerit.neet d away before command about it, for though he knew how
the loolr he bent upolinlier as a, morning -pontaneous and straightforward she was,
mist before the sim. She lifted leer eyes to her natural delicacy unspoiled by artificial
his—those honeet eyes that he could read sentiment, he yet prepared himself to en -
like a book—and her lips parted in an effort counter a certain amount of maidenly relue-
to speak. The next instant, before Mace to meet a man's reasonable views upon
a word was said, he had her in this matter. But she answered him without
his arms, and her mouth met delay or hesitation, impelled by the terrors
his under the red moustache in a long, and that beset her and thinking of Patty's
close, and breathless kiss; and both of awful warnings and ProPhevings--"I will
them knew that they were to part no more leave you to say when."
till their lives' exul. While that brief cere- " Will you really? Do you mean you
mony of betrothal lasted, they might have will really?" His deep-set eyes glowed,
been in the black grotto where they kissed and his voice had a thrilling tremor in it as
each other first, so oblivious were they of he made this incredulous inquiry. "Then
their surroundings ; but they took in pre- I say we will be married soon—very soon—
Bendy the meaning of certain sounds in the so as not to lose a day more than we can
gallery on the other side of the curtain, and help. Will you agree to that ?"
resumed their normal attitudes. "Come She looked a little frightened, but she
and sib down," said Mr. Yelverton, drawing steed her ground. "If you wish," she
her into the room. "Come and let's have a whispered, all the tone shaken out of her
talk." And he set her down on the velvet
ottoman and took it seat beside her—leaning "11 I wish!" A palpitating silence held
forward with an arm on his knee to barn- them for a moment. Then" What do you
ea& her from an invasion of the public as say to to -morrow?" he suggested.
far as possible. His thoughts turned, She looked up at him, blushing violently.
naturally enough, to their late very import- "Ah, you are thinking how forward I
ant interview in the caves. am," she exclaimed, drawing her hand from
"We will go back there," he said, ex- his "Do you mean that you will?" he ex -
Pressing his desire frankly. " When we claimed, the fierceness of his. delight
are married, Elizabeth, we will go to your tempered by a still evident incredulity.
old home again together, before we set oub "1 will," she said, "11—"
on longer travels, and you and I will have "Hush—hush! Don't la there be any
a picnie to the caves all alone by ourselves, He, Elizabeth le
in that little buggy that we drove the other "Yes—Listen. If Mrs. Duff -Scott will
day. Shell we ?"freely consent and approve—"
" W
We might tumble into one of those ter- "You may consider that settled, anyhow.
i
rible black holes," she replied, " f we went
there again." I knovv she will."
"True—we might. And when we are nig`haAt_ndt if you will see Mr. Brion to -
married we must nob run any unncessary «!r. Brion? What do we want with
risks. We will live together as long as we Mr. Brion? Settlements?
possibly can, Elizabeth."
"No. But he has something to tell you
She had drawn off her right glove, and about me—about my family—something
now slipped her hand into his. He grasped that you must know before we can be mer-
it fervently, and kneaded it like a lump of riecLe
stiff dough (excuse the homely simile, dear " What is it? Can't you tell me what it
reader—it has the merit of appropriateness, is?" He looked surprised and uneasy.
which is more than you can say for the lilies "Don't frighten me, Elizabeth—it is noth-
and jewellery) between his two strong paling.
HOW ,
he did long for that dark cave !—for tnm,atter, is it?"
I don't know. I hope not. I cannot
any nook or corner that would have hidden tell you myself. He will explain everything
him ardher from sight for the next half if you will see him this evening. He came
hour. back to Melbourne with us, and lie is wait,-
" Why couldn't you have toldme a week
ago ?" he demanded, with a thrill in his ing to gee you."
" Tell me this much, at any rate," said
deep voice. "You must have known you Mr. Yelverton, anxiously; "ib is no just
wou would take Inc then, or you would not cause or impediment to our being married
have come to me like this to -day. Why morrow,tegis it 1,,
didn't e'eu give Yourself to lue st first? " No. At least, I don't think so. I hope
Then we should have been together all this
won't."
time—all these precious days that we have CC
yeti '
Very welL We will go and have our
wasted --and we ehould have been by the inneb 6.ten. wegi Join tile tabk dlhote
Elea at thin moment, sitting under those big the Exhibition, Elizabeth—that will give us
rocks, or wandering , away into the bush, a foretaste of our continental travels. To,
where nobody could interfere with us." morrow we shall have lunch—where? At
As he spoke, it party of ladies strolled Mrs. Duff -Swan, I suppose—it would be
iuto the court, and he leaned back upon his too hard upon her to leeve her literallyeat
cushioned seat to wait until they weft gone the church door. Yeti, we shall have lunch
again. They looked at the pictures, with at Mrs. Duff -Scott's, and I euppose the
ono eye on him, dawdled up and down for major will insists on deinking our heelths in
five minutes, trying to assert their right to ,
coampagne, and makieg us a pretty speech.
b5 there if they chose ; and then, too un - ea
, otever mind, we will have oar dinner in
toinfortably conscious of being de trop, on. pew,. rge.mettew ,,,,iiiig we shall be at
Parted' After Which the levers were alone home, Elizabeth, and you and I will cline
agairi for a little while. 11/41r. 'Yelverton stan
re-
ried possession ei Elizebeth's hand, and maid tete-astetts, without even a single parlor-
storepeeted his rather cruel epleetion.- to stand behind our chairs. r dont
'
quite knoty yet where I ehall discovee theed
"me t° t'llislWhat eort of dinner it will ho—but I Will
"A week, ago I did not know What I
know tow,„ she rook& fled Cut before 1 sleep lo night."
"Alt, iny dear, yea knew ft iri your ClIAPTER Xin
heart, but, you would, not listen to your etneetTiasooTT tees To et neoleoann
heart "
wive
" Didn't you know all along that it mot bussed four wane shell gine le, bee
" Yeleerton—"
She was beginnieg to speak eeeleusive hub Prosaic- al were their surroundings' and
he stopped her. Nei" he geed, "'I am their eccupation—sittitig eb 0, lotig tal he
at the end and she at the corner on his left
hand, amougst A sceetered crowd of hungry
folk, in the refreshment roma of the. exile,
bition, eating sweetbreads and drinking
champagne and. Bodo, water—it was like it
dream to Elizabeth, this foretaste of conti-
nental travels. Tez the background of her
Consciousness 4he had it sense of having
acted madly if not absurdly, in committing
herself to the programme that her audacious
lover bad drown out ; but the thoughts and
fancies floating on the surface of her mind
were too absorbing for the present to
leave room for serious reflections.
Dreaming as she was, she not only
enjoyed thehomely charm of sitting at
meat with him in this informal, independent
manner, but she enjoyed her lunch as well,
after her rather exhausting emotion. It is
commonly supposed, I know'that over-
powering happinese takes away the appetite,
but experience has taught me that it is not
invariably the ease. The misery of sus-
pense and dread can make you sicken at the
sight of food,ibut the bliss of rest and
security n hawing got what yea want has
an invigorating effect, physically as well as
spiritually, if you are a healthy person. So
I say that Elizabeth was unsentimentally
hungry, and enjoyed her ssveetbreads. They
chatted happily over their meal, like truant
chilclreu playing on the edge of a precipice.
Mr. Yelverton had the lion's share itt the
conversation, and talkedwith distracting
persistence of the journey to -mor-
row, and the lighter features of
the stapendous scheme that they
had so abruptly adopted. Elizabeth smiled
and blushed and listened, venturing occa-
sionally upon it gentle repartee. Presently,
however, she started it topic on her own
account. "Tell rne," she said, "do you
object to first cousins marrying ?"
" Dear child, I don't object to anything
to -day," he replied. "As long as I am
allowed to marry you, I am quite willing to
Id t other men please themselves."
"But tell me seriously—do you ?"
Must I be serious? Well, let roe
thing. No, I don't know that I object --
there is so very little that I object to, you
see, in the way of things that people want
to do—but I think, perhaps, that, all things
being equal, it man would notchoose
marry so near it blood relatien."
"You do think it wrong, then ?"
" I think it not only wrong but utterly
preposterous and indefensible," he said,
that it should be lawful and virtuous for
it man to marry his first cousin and wicked,
and indecent to marry his sister -in -law --or
his aunt -in -kw for the matter of that—or
any free woman who has no connection with
him except through other people's mar-
riages. If a legal restriction in such mat.
ters can ever be necessary or justifiable, it
should be in the way of preventing the
union of people of the same blood. Sense
and the laws of physiology have something,
to say to that—they have nothing whatever
to say to the relations that are of no kin to
each other. Them's my sentiments, Miss
King', if you particularly wish to know
them."
Elizabeth put her knife and fork together
on her plate softly. It was a gesture if
elaborate caution, meant to cover her con-
scious agitation. " Thenyou would not—"
it were your own case—marry your cousin ?"
she asked, after a pause, in a very small and
gentle voice. He was studying the menu
on her behalf, and wondering if the straw-
berries and cream would be fresh. Conse-
quently he did not notice how pale she had
grown, all of a sudden.
"Well," he said, "you see I have no
cousin, to begin with. And if I lead I could
not possibly want to needy her, since I am
going to marry you to -morrow, and a man
is only 'allowed to have One wife at it time.
So my own case doesn't come in."
" But if I had been your cousin?" she
urged breathlessly, but with her eyes on her
plate. "Supposing, for the sake of argiunent,
that Thad beenofyourblood—wouldyou still
have had me?"
"Ah" he said, laughing, "that is,
indeed, it home question." -
"Would you ?" she persisted.
"Would I?" he echoed, putting a hand
under the table to touch hers. "1 really
think I would, Elizabeth. I'm afraid that
nothing short of your having been my own
full sister could have saved you."
After that she regained her color and
brightness, and was able to enjoy the early
strawberries and cream—which did happen
to be fresh.
They did not hurry themselves over their
lunch, and when they left the refreshment -
room they went and sat down on two
chairs by the Brinsmead pianos and listened
to a little music (in that worst place that
ever was for hearing it). Then Mr. Yelver-
ton took hisfiancee to get a cup of Indian
tea. Then he looked at his watch gravely.
"Do you know," he said, "1 really have
an immense deal of business to get through
before night if we are to be married to-
morrow morning." '
"There is no reason why we should be
married to -morrow morning," was her im-
mediate comment. "Indeed—indeed, it is
far too soon."
"11 may be soon, Elizabeth, but I deny
that it is too soon, reluctant as I am to con-
tradict yen. And, whether or no, the date
is fixed, irrevocably. We have only to con-
sider"—he broke off, and consulted his
watch again, thinking of railway and tele-
graph arrangements. "Am ' I obliged to
see Mr. Brion to -clay ?" he asked abruptly.
"Can't I put hint off till another time?
Because, you know, he may say just what-
everlie likes, and it won% make the smallest
particle of difference."
"Oh," she replied earnestly, 4‘you must
see him. I can't marry you till he has told
you everything. I wish I could !" she
added, impulsively.
"Well, if I must I mast—though I know
it doesn't matter the least bit. '4Vill he
keep inc long, do you suppose ?"
I think, very likely, he will."
"Then, my darling, We must go. Give
me your ring—you shall have it back to-
night. GO and pack your portmanteau this
afternoon so that you have a little spare
time for iris. Duff -Scott. She will be sure
to want you in the evening. You need not
take much, you know—just enough for a
week or two. She will be only too delighted
to look after your clothes while you are
away, and"—with a smile—" vve'll buy the
trouseeau in Paris on our way hoine. I am
credibly informed that Paris is the proper
place to go to for the trousseau of it lady of
quality.", '
" Troueseaus are nonsense," said Eliza-
beth, who perfectly understood his motivee
for thie proposition, " in these deys of
rapidly changing fashions, unlees the bride
eanncot trust her husband to give her enough
r000tity'
"Precisely. That is just what I think.
And I don't want to be deprived of the
ples.sure of dressing you. But for a week
or tem, Elizabeth, eve are going out of the
world just as far as We San get, where you
won't want muck dressing. Take only
vehot is oceessary for comfort, dear, enough
foe a fortaight—or say three weeks. That
will do. And toll me where I shall find Mr.
Brien."
They were pass ng out of the Exhibition
building—peseing that noble group of listen-
ing hounds end huntsman that stood be-
tween the front entranee and the gate—and
Elizabeth was wondering how she Omuta
find Ma Brion at once andreake euro of thet
eveoing interview, When she might eight of
the old lawyer himself coining into the
flowery enclosure from the street. " Why,
there he is " she exclaimed. "And my
sisters aro with him."
We are taking him out for an airing,"
exclaimed Eleanor, who was glorious in her
Cup -day costume, and evidently in an effer-
vescence of good spirits, when she recog.
nized the engaged pair. "Mr. Paul was
too busy to attend to bine and he had
nobody but no, poor map! So we are going
to show him round. Would you believe
that he has never seen the exhibition,
Elizebeth ?"
They had scarcely exchanged greetings
with each other when, out of an open car-
ria,ee al; the gate, stepped Mrs. Duff -Scott,
.
on nor way to that extenewe kettledrum
which was held in the exhibition at this
hour. When she saw her girlie their festive
raiment and their cavaliers, the fairy god-
znotter's face was a study.
" What 1" she exclaimed, with heart-
rending reproach, you are back in Mel-
bourne! You are welkin about with—
WithyOUr friends"—hOOking011 her eye -glass
the better to wither poor Mr. Brion, who
wasted upon her a bow that would have
done credit to Lord Chesterfield—" and I
am not told I"
Patty came forward, radiant with sup -
premed excitement. "She must be told,"
exclaimed the girl, breathlessly. "Eliza-
beth, we are all here OQW. And it is Mrs.
Driff-Scott's right to know what we know.
And Mr. relverton's, too."
"You may tell them now," said Elizee
beth, who Was as white as the MA1Blitl round
her chin. "Take them all to Mr. Duff -
Scott's hoose, and explain everyehing, and
get it over—while I go home.
CHAPTER, XLI.
MiS.TELYER.TON STATES IIIS INTESITIONS.
"1 dont think you know Mr. Brion,"
said Mr. Yelverton, first lifting his hat and
shaking hands with Mrs. Duff -Scott, and
than, with an airy and audacious cheerful-
ness, introducing the old men (whose name
and association with her proteges she im-
mediately recalled to mind) ; "Mr. Brion
—Mrs. Duff -Scott."
The fairy godmother bowed frigidly,
nearly shutting her eyee as she did so, and
for a moment the little group kept an
embarrassed silence, while it sort of electric
current of intelligence passedbetween Patty
and her new-found cousin.
"Will you come ?" said Patty to him,
trying not to look too conscious of the
change she saw in him. "It is time to have
done with all our secrets now.
"1 agree with you," he replied. "And I
will come with pleasure." Mrs. Duff -Scott
was accordingly made to understand, with
some difficulty, that the mystery which
puzzled her had a deep significence, and
that she was desired to take steps at once
whereby she might be made acquainted
with it. Much bewildered, but without
relaxing her offended air—for she conceived
that no explanation would make -any differ-
ence in the central fact that Mr. Yelverton
and Mr. Brion had taken precedence of her
in the confidence of her own adopted
daughters—she returned to her carriage, all
the little party following meekly at her
heels. The girls were put in first --even
Elizabeth, who, insisting upon detatehing
herself from the assembling council, had to
submit to be conveyed tMyrtle street;
and the two men, lifting their hats to the
departing vehicle, were left on the footpath
together. The lawyer was very grave, and
slightly nervous and embarrassed. To his
companion he had all the air of a man. with
a necessary but disagreeable duty to per-
form.
(To be continued.)
The Milk Turned Sur.
I will not tell you her name, bat one of
the neighbors says that during her brief
visit the other day the milk turned sour.
Her countenance looks a yard long. She
sighs perpetually. The cloud on her brow
is deep. If beaten out thm, I believe it
would cover the sky. Her voice is doleful,
and, her eyes show no radiance. Her
wrinkles are numberless. She is a sorry
picture, and all because she is the victim of
one of those complaints common to women.
Her system is deranged. She needs a
course of eelf-treatment with Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. This will eradicate
thoroughly those excruciating periodical
pains and functional weaknesses incident to
her SOX, and at the same time build up and
invigorate her whole system by its health -
imparting influence. A trial bottle will
convince.
A. Sermon on Dish.Cloths.
Says a writer in the New York Ledger:
"I think I could preach an excellent ser-
mon with dish -cloth for a text. I have
tried all sorts of cloths—linen, cotton and
mixtures of these materials—and for a long
time could find nothing that exactly pleased
me. One day, in a fit of desperation at not
being able be lay my hands on just what I
wanted, I caught up an empty flour sack.
It suited to it T. The soft, fine cotton
makes absolutely perfect cloths, and when
my supply of these runs short I buy cotton
as nearly like the sacking material as I can
find, and stitch it up into bags in precisely
the same shape."
&Belayed Luncheon.
The old Hadley landlord—Jimmy, run up
stairs, quick an' ask your mother Ler th'
Home Book of Ettiketty.
Jimmy—Whateher wanter find?
The landlord—That gent has jest asked
fer some connysummay an' I want ter find
whether it's bird, beast 'r jest napkin.
• More Advantageous.
" 1VIy husband hasn't treated me very
well, lately, but I'll get even with him,"
said Maude.
'1 wouldn't if I were you," returned
Estelle. " I'd get ahead of hint"
RetWeen Two Fires.
Washington Star: " His friends all ad.
vied him to go on the stage," EARL the un-
successful tragedian's father.
"Yes, I see now ; it was his friends
egged hun on, and the audience egged him
Clara—"I thought you expected your
French maid on this steamer ?" Maud—" I
did. But the steamer didn't stop at Queens-
town."
Ettiployer .Are you honest? Boy—
Y8flger. " And faithful ?" " Yesser."
"Do you sneak out and gt) to the ball
game ?" " Yesser." "That's right ; so
do L"
An old lady of Clinton, Mo., brought suit
egeirist the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com.
party for $5,000 for killing her hueband and
$50 for killing an old sow. Wheti the
matter came up she dismissed as to her
husband, butt refused to fall it cent on the
sow. •
yon homy thiet Harry Clothes -
fit had entered as it divinity etedent ?
ffeesie--No, but when 1 ince hun on the
boulevard yesterday I thought he stared at
me hateler than usual.
The =eager of is Chicago apartment
building eays there is it gtatit rush of 'muse -
renting people to get into hoardiug-placce
and hotele before the openingof the WorkPe ,
erman
rup
For Coughs St Colds.
John F. Jones, 1dorn,Tex.,writest
I have used German Syrup for the
past six years, for Sore Throat,
Cough Colds, Pains in the Chest
and Lungs, and let me say to any-
one wanting such a medicine—
Getman Syrup _is the best.
B.W. Baldwin, Carriesvilleaenn.,
writes : I have used your German
Syrup in my family, and find it the
best medicine I ever tried for coughs
and colds. I recommend it to every-
one for these troubles.
R. Schm.alhausen, Druggist, of
Charleston, Ill.,writes : After trying
scores of prescriptions and prepara-
tions I had on my files and shelves,
without relief for a very severe cold,
which had settled on my lungs, I
tried your German Syrup, It gave
me immediate relief and a perma-
nent cure. (i)
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New jersey, U. S. L
A TAN ON BACHELORS.
A RCM That Will Make 1Jumarried Geer -
glans `Warm.
A bill Inc passed the Georgia Legislature
imposing a. tax on bachelors. Under its
terms it will cost it Georgian $25 annually
to begin the bachelor business at thirty
years of age, and on it rising scale of $25 for
each five years it man of sixtywill be put to
the expense of $150 for the privilege of going
without a wife.
A more ghastly piece of legislation could
hardly be conceived, striking as it does at
the very roots of personal liberty.
Government has quite as much right to
fine a man for not wearing a beard as for
not marrying. Government has also the
same moral right to impose a. tax on bach-
elors as it has to fine the poor for the benefit
of the rich under the guise of a "protective'
tierif£
"Government" is only all of us and "all
of us" can do as we please—Poe/Atka (R.
1.) Tribune.
Better and Better.
"Batter than grandeur, better than gold.
Better than rank it thousand fold,
Is a healthy body, a mind at ease,
And simple pleasures that always please."
To get and keep a healthy body, use Dr
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, a remedy
designed, to not only cure all diseases of the
throat, lungs and chest, but keep the body
in a thoroughly healthy condition. It
eradicates all impurities froan the blood,
and overcomes Indigestion and Dyspepsia.
Blotches, Pimples and eruptions disappear,
under its use, and your mind. am be "at
ease" as to your health..
Enrope mad the Far East.
It has rained only twice in twenty-nine
years in Aden, and then. only enough to lay
tdie dust.
It is estinnsted that the treasure lying
idle in India in the shape of hoards of• cons-
ents amounts to 250;000,000.
hi Corea slteets of paper pass for money;
one sheet brings one quart of rice or twenty
sheets a piece of hemp cloth.
The accommodations of the Vatican may
be imagined when the Pope put 3,200 beds
in it at the disposal of the French pilgrims
free of charge.
Old French forts are being sold very
cheap. A Frencls artist has bought the
Fort du Gaesclin for about $1,100. They go
from a few hundreds to $1,000.
• A Girl's Essay ma Bois.
Boys are men that have not got as big az
their papas, and girls are women that will
be young lathes by and by. Maze was made
before women. When God looked at Adam,
he said to himself, "Well, I think I ORM de
better if I try again," and then he made
Eve. God liked Eve so mu& better than,
Adam that there have been mere women
than men. Boys are a trouble. They wear
out everything but soap. If I had my way
half the boys in the world would be girls,
and the rest would be dolls. My papa as so
nice that I think he must have been a little
girl when he was a little boy. --St. Andrew's'
Church Record.
Are most esteemed by every intelligent man
and woman. Derangements of the liver,
stomach and bowels speedily present to un
the living question of obtaining relief. It is
at once found in Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets, which mire sick headache, consti-
pation, indigestion, bilious attacks, eta.
Purely vegetable a,nd perfectly harmless,
they are unequaled as a specific for the com-
plaints named. One tiny, sugar-coated
Pellet a dose. In vials' 25 cents. Carry
them. in your vest pocket.
The Funnels of Great Steamers. ;I
Most persons would say that the
diameter of the largest steamer funnel is
four to six feet, and would want to wager
that ib is not more than eight feet. How -
far from the actual ske such guesses are
may be understood when it is stated that
the funnel of the Etruria measures a little
over 18 feet in diameter. At even it short
distance away this can hardly be believed.
It gives an idea of the enormous sixe of the
big steamers.
An Accompaniment Wanted.
Minnie (with novel, to Mamie, at piano)
—Please play something pathetic, dear, I.
have just reached the chapter where the
heroine stands weeping on the shore as the
hero sails away, perhaps never, never to
return.
tituntsitiveness Rebuked.
l'ttcic: Is Ttiff.y a drinking tnan ?
Bluffy---Yes e an eating inan, and a sleep-
ing man, and a clreeeing man—just like all
the rest of us ! ,
BaSe is Gm Slave 'Who raYs.
• Jinkg—How did Beate come to recover ?
Dr . Pourthly tried to con-
sole him by speaking of his debt to nature,
end Nate seid he'd be banged if he paid it,
Flemming, of Cempbollford, 'WO.%
severely injured: by the premature exploeion
of a blast ;yesterday.
Aaron Vetterly was kiliosI ab 1Vtorrieburg ,
yesterday ist e collieion between two bellatet
trains on the canal 'Werke.
The wages a shop glide in London. begin
35 to tele, tt, yeer. •