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"Lo, 3113 sueletea xs neap," Keith Athelstone goes home that night to his rooms, Ana feels 111 0115 heart that lie has been a coward. He knows he has had no right to wring from a wernan's weakness swell a conces- sion as that which he has won. from Leer. eine. She is not of the stuff that heroines are made of, end truly there is no" heroic" dement About himself. It is a great mistake to fancy people are either very good or very bad in this world of ours. Only too often there is comply e.. mixture of both in their characters, and circumstances or streneth of feeling alterna- tely throw their weight into the balance. But alonetomightwith his own thoughts, and with the fever -pulse of passion dying slowly back into its natural beet, Keith re- members what has passed, and has the grace to feel a little ashamed of it, even though he declares to himself over and over again that he would act in just the same way under similar circumstances. It is always hard for a second person to judge of our actioes. No one cap, ander- stand those aeeret springs—that inner me- chanism which moves us to doeertain things by certain impulses. That one mad mo- ment had bean to Keith AthelstOne as the turning -point of his life. A tory tempta- tion had to be withstood, or yielded to. He had chosen to do the latter. With hie hot-blooded, impetuous tempera- meat—with the knowledge in his heart that he loved this woman beyond and above all ethers in the world, beyond all possibility of forgetfulness—he knew also that such a thing as mere cold, prosaic friendship was an utter impossibility. At Kuno moment like tomight, when senseaand heart thrilled with Answering rapture, passion ran riot in his veins, when the sidling and longing of his life :woke one impetuous desire and hurled aside all scruples, as the streneth ot Samson rent asunder the withes that bound Ids mighty limbs—at some such moment AS this, forms and ceremonies, right and wrong, all would be Again forgotten, and those words of Lauraine's would be verified when she said " there can be no safety 111 such a compact." He pens towed fro his room—the rooms Lauram'a judgment and choice had select- ed and furnished—lefty And luxurtous apartments that look out on St. Tantes's Park. The radiance of the early summer dawn —beautiful even in a great city—is over all be akv. A faint breeee resales the trees— the bias sing and chirp among boughs that re moist with the night's rein, just some ender freshening shower thathail fallen scam an hour before. Those young tired eyes of Keitit Athel. atone's look out ou it all, and a sigh parts his lips. "There are ao many women in the world," he mutters, as be ceases his rest- less pacing, and comes and leans against the open window. "So many that are beautiful and yertnen, e.nd easy to win, and yet all iny life is but a longing for one who can be nothing to me. How hard fatale I" The cool fresh air blows over his brow, but it does not still its aching. His whole soul le hardened, and bitterly ashamed. He has gained his will, he has forced Laraine to say, "stay," but all the same his triumph bringa no satisfaction. That she Ioves hint he knows, but she is not a W01111111 to lend herself to the base frailties of a lax morality., to sink to the low level that pursues its joys in secret and smiles sereuely on the face of soeiety at large. There would be no playing at innocence with her, and she was too proud as well as too passionstenot to suffer intensely in the struagle. And then, after all., hew wouldit end—how do these poor pretences ever end? The barrier is ao frail—a look, a word, a chance meeting, and it is o'verthrown, and then -- He springs impetuously to his feet here. He dares not pureue the train of thought any further. " I won't think of the end," he mutters, impatiently. " 1 shall see her still and sufficient unto the day is the—evil---there. of The evil? Might it come to that for Lauraine, and for himself : * "My dear,' *aye Ledy Etwynde to Lau- raine, as shesits in the boudoir of the latter, "your roses looked charming; there was something so .simple and artistic in that arrangement ; not like a florisee bouquet. But why did you leave them in the garden? I found them lying on the grass when I walked there this morning, and as I love roses, though they have not, the subtle mean - lug of our own peculiar flowers, I brought them in and put them in water." Lauraine flushes hotly, and then grows as suddenly pale. " I—I dropped them, I suppose," she says, bending over snme crewels she is sorting. " It is of no cansequence. I get 50 many flowers." Lady Etwynde glances quickly at the beautiful, troubled face. She has taken a warm liking to Lauraine, aud when alone with her drops all her fantastic ways and conversation. She leans back now in her low chair, ard looks long and thoughtfully at her friend. "1 had not much time to speak to you last night," ahe says presently; "and you left so suddenly. I was afraid you were ill." "011 no—I was only tired," answers Lauraine. "How charming 'your evening was. I rarely hear such music as at your house." " Yes ; Signor Alfieri was delightful,' agrees Lady Etwynde. "Did you like his new song, by -the -way?" "Do you mean the English one?" asks Lauraine, feeling an oda little thrill at her heart as she remembers the passionate melody which had so moved and stirred her. "It was perfectly exquisite." ' "1 wrote him the words," says Lady Etwyndeecalmly, - "1 You 1" exclaims Lauraine, in surprise. " le-ot that I believe in such sentiments," continues her friend, sniffing. "For the matter of that, I suppose no poet is quite idiot enough. to believe that he writes, un- less they are things like the , Boudoir Bal- lads.' But it sounds well to talk of love being all in all, though no one believes it is —or indeed, wants it to be. Moonlight, and kisses are all very well, but we want some more substantial .food in life than "You don't believe in love, then?" questions Lauraine. "Not much. I have outlived that faith. Most women dm At sixteen, you know, we believe in all men ; at twenty in (Le; at thirty in none. I believe in none at pres- ent. I have given myself up to the pleas- ures of the mind, and they suit me ulna better. I am a disciple of culture." "1 know," smiles Lauraine. " But you might find a kindred spirit even there, %V hat then 1" " Well, I have not nauch fear of that," says Lady Etwyvele, gravely. " You gee, the men I meet and. assoMate with are more or• less hobby -riders. They each have a special subjeot, and devote themselves to foo much so, in face. But I suppose it is difficult to draw the line. A fair end aclequete amount of culture is de- lightful, but it leads people on to wild lengths sometimes. I am wondering in my owe mind how far the deers for its an- quisition will lead me. Still, one must have some object in life—especially if one is e omen and not married ; and I shall never be that." Why is ie so improbable ?" asks Lana - eine. Why? Oh, because I don't care for snob a prosaic termination to my liberty for one thing, and because I don't believe in Alen for another. And society—society as it is now—has really very little interest for me. It bores me, ig point of fact. All the same, my dear, the men I meet and whose society I cultivate are not at all the sort of men te inavire romantic sentinients—thayou think- s() t' "Candidly, I do not," smiles Lauraine. "And as a woman—however hard she strives to cultivate her mental powers— must also have mite outlet for the weaker and more sentimental portion of her nature, I take refuge in writing poetry. It is very safe, and does no one either good or hs.rm, which is more than we ean say of some of our modern poets. I have never shaped my (talons by what people think or believe, and I am not going to begin now. I am called eccentric, but I would rather be that than commonplace. You, slow, are very different. You are full to the brim of ro- mance, and you still believe in moon light and kisseai Unfortunately, I can't preach a inission to you, for you are married ; and as for art and culture, well, your position demands incessantsacrifices, and the higher good must suffer. Perhaps, after all, it is best to live for the life about one, not aorne abstract thing that only has interest for a few. The one owns a wider ratge of sym- pathy, and has at least the advantage of being understood." "I 11111111 110 amount of learning or mental culture—to use your favourite expreesion— shoidel destroy one's sympathy with the common joys, and needs and sorrows around us," seam Lauraine, thoaglatfully. "Life has to be livee ; we can't get over that fact, and to shut ourselves apart in the sellish absorption of one speeial idea, and sneer at all who cannot understand or cannot pause to investigate it, is really a sort of sin against ourselves and our fellow beings." "Do you mean that I do that?" asks Lady Etwynde, quickly. "011, no ; you have plenty of sympathy even for those outside the rale of culture,' But a great many of those Who surround and flatter you at your aisthetio court are the most prejudiced and narrow-minded !edis ideate it has ever been my lot to Ine‘Ah et2' " ," sighsLady Etwynde. "1 suppose you are right—it ia 8, caee of a, little knowl edge is a dangerous thing' with so many of us. I often wonder whether it is best to take life very seriously, or laugh at it as a good joke." "I should think our own natures could alone make either case possible," says Lau. rain°. "But the greatest mistake is to put your heart into ea" continues Lady Etwynde. "It is like giving a license to your friends and enemies alike. The purely selfish peo- ple are the only class who get any real. en. 3oyment out of life after all. can •scarcely be enjoyment," says Lauraine. "A life apart from love—from eympathy —from the interests of others— can never be anentirely hg,ppy one, though it may be in It sense untroubled." We are having a very grave conversa- tion for a morning eall, says Lady Et - weenie, suddenly; "and it all came about the flowers. Was that your own idea, my love?" "No—Keith—Mr, Athelatone suggested it," Lauraine answers with again that burning blush on her delicate cheek. You and he are very good. friends, I suppose," remarks Lady Etwynde, rising to make her adieux. "Bub all the same, my dear, I should suggest to him to get married. A rich young man knocking about town is sureto get into misehief. Yes, he'd be much better off married, and there's that pretty American girl—what- ever her name is; you know her, don't you ?—well, Absolutely dying for love of "Indeed?" says Lauraine, mildly; "I should scarcely think she was the sorb of , girl he would admire." "I never said he admired her. Only I suppose there was something or other be- tween them New York. At least they met there, and her aunt is awfully thick with hitn." "He has never mentioned her name to ine,"answers Lauraine, wondering why that, sudden, sbarp pain is. at her heart—why the bare idea of Keith Athelstone's marriage should be so ha.teful. "All 1—well, I suppose there is nothing in it but talk." says Lady Etwynde. "lou and be are just like brother. and sister. He would be sure to have told you" Brother and sister 1 A hot, shamed flush creeps to Lauraine's brow, and monads it self over her fame and down to the milk.- whi te throat. Brother and sister 1 and at, her lips still burns and in her heart still lives the memory of that kiss of last night. Lady Etwynde goes, and Lanraine Sits there alone, and thin Ice with shame and terror orwhat she has weakly yielded—permission for hisvisits, his presence, h is old a.ccustotned privileges that the world deems so natural —that she k.nows to be ao wrong now. At the bottom of her , heart Hee a bitter con- tempt of herself and of her folly—it stings her to hot anger with him—to a haunting dread that will ever pursue her. And yet * * * and yet * * CHAPTER X. OH, THE LITTLE monn, /via) HOW zrOan IT • IS, AND UTE LITTLE LESS -7 -AM) WHAT "My dear Lauraine," says Mrs. Douglas, on one of those rare occasions when she is at Lauraine's house, "isn't it rather bad form to have Keith dangling after you so much ? Of course everyone knows you are jest like brother and sister, and Sir Francis is so kind to him and all that—still, people will talk, you know, and really nowadays 11 woman can't be too careful. Society is terribly scandalous." Mrs. Douglas has made one of a dinner party at the Vavasours', and is at present sitting by her daughter's side in the greit flower-scented drawing -room. Lauraine quietly waves the great white fan of feathers in her hana to and fro, and look coldly down at her mother's face. ""Jho has been good eneagh to disown; my affairs with you?" she asks, acorafullY. "Pray don't be offended,' save Mrs, Douglas tnid1y. "People will talk, you know, and really Keith's adoration ia very obvious. He never even seems to see there is another woman in the room when you are by. It really is not fair to you. Why doesu't he Marry that Yankee girl who is always running after him 11 would be the best thing he could do. "I will ask him if you evish," says Leer - eine, coldly ; or perhaps it might be bet- ter if you put the question yourself." Mrs. Douglas feels decidedly uncomfort- able. "I am only speaking for your good," she says, "For your child's sake you ought to be eareful. 01 course, Society is very lax'end women can do things nowa- days that in my youth would have been thought disreputable. Still, yoa make yourself quite too remarkable about Keith. It is far better to have twenty men dang- ling after yoa than one." A hot flush burns on Lauraine's cheeks. " I decline to discuss my a.E'airs with anyone," she says'very coldly. I am perfectly well able to take care of myself." " Ah, people always think that?" says Mrs. Douglas, fa.uning herself leisurely. Of course you are your own mistress now, and eau do as you please. I simply give you a hint. You can'tshat people's mouths, you know. They will talk." Lauraine's heart beat quickly, stormily, beneath its shronding laces. A new trouble seems dawning for her, and yet it but rouses in her heart a fierce desire to brave the world—to laugh -to acorn its whispers. la aim not Strong? Ras she not honor --courage, fidelity? ' "I will not affeet to misenderstand you,' she says at last, looking calmly into her mother's face as she speaks. You think Keith might forget—or I? But you might know us better than that. We are not likely to scandalise Society—be at reat on that point. Is it not possible for a woman and a man to mere for each other without love, and without—shame? "Possible 2-- that m ecy be," said Mrs. Douglas. "But probable—I think uot. I don't believe in Platonics when a man is under sixty and a woman is forty-five. No more does the world. Take my advice, dear—there is safety in numbers—dont think only of the attractions of oue." "I am not the sort of woman to Make many friends," Lauraine answers, tranquil- ly. "And the few I really like are more to me than the whole crowd of others. But your warning was quite unnecessary, mother, and I think yon had. very little right to utter it." She rises from her seat as she speaks and gOes towards the other end of the room, where the Lady Jean sits radiantand enter- taining, being one of the few wise women who teke as muoh pains to conciliate their own sex, as to charm the other. Mrs. Douglas looks after her uneasily. "I have done no good," she thinks, "Per- haps only harm. But, after all, she is warned, end really it is quite too ridiculona to think • he can hang about her for ever. I thought• be would have had more sense. And she has been married two years—he ought to have forgotten by this time. As for Lauraine herself, she was always so romantic), I don't blame her so much ; but Keith—and what od eacth can ahe see in him except that he has long eye- lashes? I elways thought him quite stupid myself, and Leamaine has mind enough of her own to like cleverness in other people. But I do hope she won't got talked. about. It would be altogether too dreadful, There is Lady Jean now—" Her reflections are cut short here -a robe of amber silk seems to float past like pale gold cloud and disperse itself over the low chair and Ambusson carpet by her side. Emerg- ing pale and languid from amidst the cloudy draperies is the face of the Luny Etwynde, Mrs. Douglas greets hers eagerly. It is rarely indeed that conventional gatherings like the present are graced by the presence of the lovely iesthete. I make an exception in fevour of Latlet Vavasour," she says in her soft, plaintive voice that seems to rebel against the very burden of speech. "13u11 Society is not congenial to me. My tastes and in- clinations move in every differenc groove. Why will people be frivolous ? Life is not meant for eating and drinking and scandalmongering. What can it really matter who ia dressed by Worth, or Pin. gate or Elise; or whose husband ran off with an actress, or whose wife gob talked about at Ifurlinghaan, or anything else of the same sore? Yet this is all one hears discnssed in Society. Ah, when a perfect culture has given us a perfect understand- ing of the beautiful, wo shall also have a truer morality. The soul will soar far above the senses, and we shall look back in wonder at the ignorance we 01200 enjoyed." "No doubt," murmurs Mrs. Douglas, vaguely. She is quite pliable to compre- hend what Lady Etwynde means, but it would never do to let ber perceive it. " We shall be translated --advanced, as it were," continues Lady Etwynde, dream. ily. " We shan't tie back our gowns, and impede the action of our limbs. We shan't cramp our bodies into the machinery of bones and wires, that gives us thin most odious of modern inventions—a We shall languish no longer for happiness and occupation. Our minds will soar into purer ether. Ah ! happy days that I see in the dim future, and yearn for in the mists of present darkness." ' 'Exactly," again asserts Mrs. Douglas, in increasing bewilderment. "But don't you think 'waists' are very much admir- ed." She posseses a very elegant figure of her own, and has her cosets made by special French artist. lt therefore brings no thrill of blissful expectation to her that advanced civilization preludes such an abolition as "stays." "Admired 1" murmurs the Lady Et. wyude, dreamily. "By the Philistines— yes ; by the thoughtful—the advanced— elle intense—oh, no !" " The Philistines !" says Mrs. Douglas, in growing bewilderment. " thought comets were not introduced till the time ot Queen Elizabeth." (To BE CONTINUED.) A' Child Attacked bv Rate. One Saturday recently as a child belong- ing to a labourer named Grey was lying in a perambulatorat Ottlt Lane, London, (Eng.) it was suddenly attacked by a number of rats from a neighbouring sewer. A girl in charge of the perambulator was gathering Rowers at the time, and the screams of the child attracted her attention and that of a navvy, who, fortunately, was near at hand. On their approach the rats made a hasty de- parture, but it was found that the child had been bitten about the ears and nose, which were bleeding. The injuries, however, were not serious. The recent drought has brought an immense number of rats to the locality, and their half-starved condition appears to have made them peculiarly vicious. • On the railways inTran ce, passengers are sold cooked snails in packages. • TliE B1JSINESS WORLD. What Is Transpiring in Trade Circees—en- terestiug Steele; temen Malty Points. Toronto bank clearings last week were olv:r;rtehltteh$6e7111:11,Piti8117pIntrabeabval 471 lo:ku; catl rIC:eaai n4Wg iYat :41 a:5871g510v:9"6t The totat clearings of Canadian banks last week were $18,500,000, a decrease of 7. 5 per cent, from the previous week, but an inorease of 8. 8 per ceae over the cor- responding week of 1892. The greet panic of 1857, acconwained by 11 general suspension of apeoie payments, was precipitated by the bankruptcy of the Ohio Life and Mutual Insurance companies. The Bank of England minimum discount rate has again been reduced./ per cent., and now is 2/ per cent. as compared with 2 per cent. a year ago. The discount rate is 1,?4 in London, and there is at present a pleth- ora of cheap money in England, no doubt caused to some extent by a disinclination to invest both in Australia and the United States at present. The estimated revenue of the -French Ministry of Telegraphs is X1,386,332. It is estimated that there were 19,573 papersnadapiaasbtylisheea.drin the United States and Ca The banking system of the world dates from the establishment of the Bede of Eng- land about 175 ye0r2 age, The net debt of Canada on 'Tone 1 We. $237,443,000, equal to about $48 per capita, of population, and nearly half a million more than on May 1. The stock of gold in the U nited States Treasury is now under 890,000,000, the smallest amount since the resumption of epode payments in 1879. The reserve of the Battle of England in- creased last week .Z1,752,000 and the pro- portion of reserve to liabilities now is 46.55 per cent, against 41.53 last week and 45,47 a year ago. The rate of discount is 3 es against 2 per cent. a year ago. The New York bank statement of last week is rather unfavorable, owing to large movement of currency to the west The reserve deereased$6,565,600,and the surplus is now $14,421,900, as against 523,545,850 a year ago. Specie decreased $627,100 dur- ing the week; legal tenders decreased $9,- 060,900; deposits deoreased 512,485,000; loam decreased $2,2'e0,000, ancl circulation increased. $43,500. The Central Telegraph Exchange at Paris, France, is simply a bureau of trans- mission, and neither directly receives nor distributes dispatches. It transmits 36,930 telegrams daily anti furnishes employment to 500 men and 400 women. Every province in China contains coal and it is really oue of the first coal countries in the world, but it imports about $2,000,- 000 worth of it every year. lt has also valuable iron and copper mines, and Japan- ese engineers are now teaching them mod- ern mining in place of the ancient methods the Chinese still employ. A Loedon, Hug., despatch in regard to the shrinkage of silver in India says -I— Among the recommendations contained in She report of the commieeion appointed to consider the COM of and remedies for the derangement of the silver money system of India is one advising the stoppage of the coining in Indian mints of silver for private account. It is estimated that ten per cent. of all vessels passing through the Sault Ste. Marie Canal are Canadian. When one reflects that the great Lake Superior country claims the richest copper and iron mines of North America, besides the vast wheat fields of the North -SI -est and the great nickel mines of Sudbury, the importance of this canal cannot be exaggerated, The New York weekly, bank statement to -day was a bad one. Reserves decreased $5,644,000, and the total surplus reserve above legal requirements now amounts to $9,776,800, against 514,420,900 last week, $29,793,8'25 this weee last year, and $6,200,- 000 for the corresponding week in 1891. The other decreases this week were: Loans, 53,690,800; specie, $1,310,090 ; legals, $7,- 480,000, and the deposits $12,389,900. Cir- culation increasen $37,000. The total amount of silver which has been purchased by the United States Gov- ernment since the passage of the Sherman silver purchase law to November1,lt,he100 89!,.. was 12.0 479 981 ounces, for which ernment paid $116,783,590, or an averag*of 96.0 cents per ounce. The aggregate loss since the law went into operation, on the basil, of the present, market priee at bullion, is said to have been $22,000,000. This represents the loss to the Government under the operations of the silver purchase law, and the profits which have gone to the sil- ver mine owners. The New York Herald publishes a table showing that the shrinkage in stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange for the past year, on account of the operation of the Sherman law, is $700,000,000. It says: This estimate leaves out altogether the prodig- ious mass ot State, county, town, and city seeurieties, as well as the shares of banks and other inatitntione. If one could add the shrinkage in value of traction and horse -car railroad see.urities all over the country, and the shares of manufacturing, inining, and tradingcorporations every- where, the figurtm would be stupendous. In real estate values the depreciation through the South and West has been equally great. 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