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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-9-20, Page 7v!• g RONIN' THRO'„ THE RYE. ht nd to him eant iso easily (if ever we meta ----_ look at him with such earelvss, friendly eyes, and say, "How do you do?" to him so glibly, Wby, then, do I 'stand silent, f OONTINUBD., with uplifted hand, staring at hien" I am ous, winsome, levely woman, as to a dumb with paha--not love; T am looting flower, a picture, or anything else delight- at (ilii in sorrow—not love. Oh! what fol t0 the eye?Tho very sense oP pleasure have the past years held for Irian that they cominunioatee to us males us grateful have altered,floe, loop, azlclfigltro, so fear- itto the cause, therefore we love it, fully? You rosy be loved for your own Yost Silvia will have consolation aflvrod salve, Paul Vasher, but never more will to hurt enough and to spare. She is alter- woman love you for your beauty. Gray, ed., there is more expression ill hor Paco; haggard, worn—who could bell -eve that She has Suffered .keenly, I think; sin cethat you had ever been proud, lanporious, pas - night at Luttrell when 1 saw her last. She sionate? A. bitter pain shoots through my boas her wish, but, if oyes speak truth, it heart as I recall the facie that I saw In my has brought her little Hence, looking glass throe hauls ago—pale it was, and a little fallen; but without such s I pause In untying my: bonnet -strings. ut- to think o£ how Paul and I would have faring Si rib on it as on his? No I After spent. this Sabbath morning if I had been all it is he who speaks first, and my words his wife, the my husband. We should have used to be so much more frequent and walked to church, I think, across the glis- ready than his! toning, fresh park and fields ; we should I was going to the Manor House," he have paused now and again to gather a says' Hower or two by the way. We should have He is standing beside me now We snake given each other lectures as to our deport- ment each other no greeting. when we got into church; be ould "Let me loo(. at you," he says, coming have put nay bonnet straight, and made a step nearer; "I have not soon you for ` A me tidy in the porch before 11e went an. In three years' remember." the Litany I am sure he would have kiss- He stands looking into my face, line by ed me, and in the Ten Commandments I line, feature by feature, for a full minute; am stun I should have kissed hien, and their be turns away. during the sermon—for there is nobody to You can -tor have cagey as Id]ct," lot see—I should have slipped my hand into seas, ay s, never—to look as you look to - his brown one. I catch the reflection of my £loo in the 'Hush !" I cry, starting aside; "we mirror, and start bank; it warns vie of marl° our., last farewell, spoke our last what I aril doing= -thinking; and I have thiswords on that axenotChrishing-morning; in er vowed that I will never look back—that I —n thing, we nothing to each other —nothing, will keep my eyes fixed straight and steady ''And may we not remember?" on the monotonous level of to -clay. "Remember I" I repeat, turning pale. "If you don't want to find the governor "Do you not see that there isthe sin, there danoing a hornpipe on the dining -room tho wickedness? We must not remember table, come down 1". says Dolly, rushing ._see will not?" in, and I follow her in hot haste. "Speak for " Heavy as my heart is my heels are light P yourself, nowd, ea says, g bitterly. "I am too old now to learn the enough, On Sundays, for some unknown meaning of the word forgot. Have you reason, papa always seems to feel our num- learned it?" ho cries, with the old jealous bars pressing more heavily upon him than ring in his voice that T knew so well—and any other day; he, so to speak throws our it turns me giddy and siok with the mem- existences in our faces as a fact of which Dries it brings. we ought to be deeply and abidingly "Why did you come back?" I ask, smit- ashamed; although what finger we had in Ing any two hands together, "why did, you the pie, and why our presence in this life do it?" should be set down to our determined and "Why did I? Because if I had not I unaided obstinacy and vice, is rather more should have gone mad, or died of longing than we can understand. At these times to hear the sound of your voice, and for a the governor dons not look upon us as de- look of your sweet face." cent responsible souls, but as so many "Then do you not love her!" the erring mouths that he is bound to fill; and for my words leap straight from my heart to my part I feel intensely ashamed of being ob- lips without my own volition. liged to eat at all, and that I should hold a "Love her?" He looks down at the pool very, different position in his eyes if I could at our feet, looks up at God's heavenly do without any such sublunary matters as azure shining through the exquisite leaves. food and drink and clothing. While he "Phis is my life with that woman"—he fulminates against the beef, the butcher, makes a gesture toward the black, foul the oaxving-knife, the plates, and the waters—""that„—with a gesture toward round world and all that is therein, I the sky—"is my love for you. Tell me," speculate as to whom he might consider he says, "tell me how have these years a suitable person to rear and maintain his passed with you?" family, reserving to himself the small " They have not killedme " I say, turn - rights of controlling our souls,bodies,looks ing away my white face, "and" (with a words and actions. Clearly he thinks it little laugh) "they have not made me no legitimate affair ()this ; but a man who thin, but—" will adopt ten children, and provide for Why d , I lift my desolate. tearless oyes them, is not to be met with every day. to those dark, weary ones, heavy with the While as to Providence—whom he passibly love that must not, dare not be given to regards as the person to blame -why, Pro- me ? videnco, in providing us with a father, evi- He draws a deep breath and turns as dently considers it has done its duty, and pale as death. there is an end o't. By the time the gov- Suddenly I step out of the shadow into ornor's plate is empty his angry mutters the sunlight, and he follows me. have ceased, and peace, dove -like Riad beef- Half -way across the • orchard I turn to inspired broods mildly over us. him and speak. The best of men is better full than "You have come back, Paul, which you empty, and the most rampagious of men should not have done without warning; is ten degrees less rampagious when he has and we have met, as we should not have eaten a good dinner; and, if I were going done. But this is our last talk together: to keep house, I would not forget that the henceforth we are acquaintances and meet way to a man's heart is through his stem. as such. If ever we fall into such words ach..1 will give Dolly excellent advice on as we have fallen into to -day, I shall go the subject when she marries. away and never come back again while At dessert aremark of papa's strikes me you are here. You will not drive me like a blow. away, will you? Paul! Paul! you are "Vasher is corning here this afternoon ; 1 stronger than I—help me to be strong saw him yesterday, and made a point of too!" By which it will appear that my long night of fierce struggle with my un - Fancy papa pressing anybody to enter rely heart has availed me but little. his hospitable house—it sounds wonderful- "Am I stronger?" he says, standing ly like the spider and fly! still. "'Whether I am or no, you shall not Did he seem unwilling to come, then?" have appealed to me in vain; have no fear asks mother. —I' will not drive you away." "Not exactly; but he hesitated in a queer A minute later and he is in the dining- way—said he never went anywhere. He room, and I am sitting in my chamber inquired for you," continues the govern- alone. or, nodding at me. "Did he?" I say, with my eyes fixed on the apple I am peeling. " Yon will call there to -morrow, " he says to mother. "Yes. And take the girls." "I won't go," says Doily, in an angry aside to me; "not if I aro tied in a Dart, like a pig going to market!" "Supposing he comes now," I say to myself, "before I can get away!" and I sit in a restless misery until. the familiar chuck of papa's thumb releases us. "Mother," T say, in the drawing -room, "I am going out at once. I shall not come in until I think the coast is safe." "May I comp with you?" asks Dolly. "Not now, dear," I say, kissing the soft cheek that has never blushed or palest for love of any man living yet; "we will go out together to -morrow." As I go through the garden I press my hands hard upon my heart, and a mist creeps over my eyes, blotting out the gar- den, the flowers, and the sky. He is conn- ing, here where his feet trod every nook and corner beside miae, here where we had our One perfect dayof happiness and con- tent; he is not coming to me—ho will sit jot in the old familiar room where we sat to- gether so often, and I shall be out here alone. Wo are both alive, and well, and strong, living in the same place; but be- tween us lies a woman's plain gold wed- ding -ring. I hurry away to the orchard, and sit clown under the very same tree (4wllore Jack and I sat so many years ago With our beasts and birds all about us. I wonder if the time seems as long to hila as• it does to 3110, er if I look as old as I feel? (,Tank's ridiculous old question of whether 1 would rather, be a bigger fool than I look, or a bigger fool than I am,. (Lore comes into my mind and provokes a smile.) Twenty-two next birthday is a ,considcn•able ago; but, perhaps, if I were happy, it would not thein so much. How the bees aro humming and buzzing all about the trees, as though they smolt the pink -weld -white buds that are forcing their way through the dull brown boughs! • I leave any place and saunter along to a belt of terns that girdles round a dark, sul- len pool, sot with clank yawls, and ugly henbane and nightshade, lying in the 1'ar corner of the Orchatrd.' at is, in fact, an outlet to the meadows beyond, for behind the pool rises a low stone wall with a stile, I do not often come this way, for I hate the spot; and yet it fascinates ane, and I pause to look down into tho sluggish depths, A sudden tongue of sunlight pierces the close -set trees, and teem bias on the black water, and in the momentary il- lumination I Soo strange, loathsome, anis- shapen horrors; that writhe, and turn, and wriggle away into dark oerners. This pool typifies to mo a foul heart that conceals many an Ugly secant, and slinks away from the light that reveals its deformity, A stop behind in: makes Ino lift any eyes from its dark surface, and there, on the other aide of the wall, stanch] Pet Vasher. ilY DRUM 13. MATHllili8. hard, looks at me under her drawn brows, then releases 1110. "Perhaps you wander at jay coming hetet" she asks, slaking into an airy -chair `Very much," I anSwOr, laconically. (What as nerve the woman ]hell " l cttir father made a great point of Iny. coiling iio (toes not know the relations that formerly subsisted between you and Iny husband, I think?" "No, nor your share in the matter. You would not have been admitted Within his. doors If ho bad, We :.aro honest folk, we Adeirs," "Indeed!' she says, with a faint sneer; "then dwelt must be rechristened." "Tell him your worst, madam; and to hoar you talk about deceit is about as suit- able as if the father of lies took to preach- ing morality, Wo know nothing here of sucla womanly mesons plishments as spying, forgery, theft; in our part of the world we do not track mon for years and marry them when they are mad. Our neighborhood should be the better for containing a lady who is so great a proficient in all these branches of a woman's education." "Don't oalI the means I made use of to reach my ends by each hard names," she says, indifferently; "they served me well enough." "Such ends as they aro t" I say, quietly; yon(• "and„ such a reward as they have brought "Yes,” she says, with her o1c1 slow smile, the smile of my dream; "they have brought me all :2 wanted. I was his first love, and now I am his wife, and the mother of his son, and you were never anything but his sweetheart." "You were his first love," I say, slowly —"true; and ho oust you as'de like a soil- ed glove when he found out your real na- ture, nor could you win him back, though you stooped to the dust to bring him. You are his wife—but did you become a wife in any with -non, decent, honorable way? And you are the mother of his child. Yes. Does 11e love that child? Does he ever look upon him without remembering your immod- esty, your perjury, your fraud? Trust me, Silvia, that innocent child will never be any link between you; rather is he a chain to drag you further and further away from theman you call Husband." "Yea," she says, deadly pale. (Have I touched her at last?) "But after all I' have conquered, I am Paul Vasher's wife, and you are duly Helen Adair." "Yes," I say, slowly, "only Helen Adair; but she has a pure heart, an un - seared conscience, a fair name and the en- tire perfect love of Paul Vasher in the past, in t:.e present, and forever." An infinite content fills my voice as I speak, looking up, with happy eyes, at the blue vault of sky beyond us. "I aim husbandless, childless, lonely; but do you think- I would change places with you?" "Take care," she says, with a low, wicked laughter lying under her sweet voice; "your good name, did you say? You are very proud and sure of yourself now; but take care you don't lose it some day 1 All things come to him who waits, you know; and I could wait a long while to see your pride brought low." "You judge others by yourself," I say, with oonteanpt; "but I know that honor is of small account in your eyes. Hero we set some small store by the commodity." "Are you not afraid o seeing my hus- band again?" she asks. "It must be very hard upon you, poor thing!" "We do not find it so, madam." "Yea have seen him?" she exclaims Towers rye gods!) but, as papa has fortun- at*y quarreled a l'outranoe with every other uoighbor invited, and as it might he awkward if he had to take his enemy's wile in to dinner, he has declined for ob- vious reasons. airs, 'Vasher has returned hor visits as she received "her visitors, alone, and the county to a maxi cries ale! upon Paul : and the county to a woman, with a spiteful though true instinct, takes the part of the husband, and calls fie on the wife.. Sena°times I think Inever made a great- er mistake than when I made Paul go back to his wife, Upon him I entailed a life of utter wretchedness; what his existence is his face tells plainly enough; and the tougue of scandal even has not been stop- ped, although any name . has not yet ap- peared in the matter. Footsteps come softly oyer the grass, and Simpkins appears somewhat unexpeotedly before me. There are signs of hurry and discomposure on the ancient man's coun- tenance, that nothing short of papa's agency could call up, and I look round hastily to see if that gentleman is harass- ing his rear.. "You are wanted directly, Miss Noll; Mr. Vasher is hero." "What Inas that to do with me?" I ask,. reddening, as I remember the countless occasions on which Mr, Simpkins has seen us together. "Mrs. Vasher is dying, Miss Nell ;" and may he be forgiven, but a look of positive satiitaotion overspreads his fade as he makes the announcement-. "And what has that to do with .me?" I ask again. "011 I nothing, miss, nothing (" "I don't believe a word of it," I say, promptly. "What is she dying of?" "Something in her inside, Miss Nell; her 'art, I think," "Very well; I am coming. I don't be- lieve one word of it," I say to myself, as I follow Simpkins toward the house. "It is' only another of ber tricks. Besides, if shwa -yore, why should she want to see me, of all people?" In the drawing -room 'find Paul Vasher alone. " You will come?" the says, meeting me half -way across the room. "Deeply as she has wronged you, you will not refuse herr' In his voice there is some strange, new feeling. Is it remorse? "What is the matter with her?" "Heart disease. Her mother diedin just such an attack as the one I left her in just now. The doctor said she might die at any moment." "Are you sure?" I ask, skeptically. "People may have heart disease for a very long while before they die of it. And I can't understand why she should wish to see me," "Perhaps she wants you to forgive her," he says, in a low voice. What is Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's t preserzptzon for Infants anti Children.- It contains neither ()plum, Morphine nor . other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor 'Oil, It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Minions ofMothers. Castoria, destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria, prevents vomiting,, Sour Curd, cures IDiarrhala and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas. toria is the Ohildren's Panacea—the Mother's Friend. Castoria, "Castello. is an excellent medicine for chil- dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Da. G. C. Os000a, Lowell, Mass "Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and'use Castoria in- stead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Da, J. F. l rscsasos, Conway, Ark. Castoria, "easterly is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Anotran, M. D., 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, IT. Y. "Our physicians in the children's depart. ment have spoken highly of their experi- ence in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria bas won us to look with favor upon it." DstritD HOSPITAL AND DisPENSARY, Boston, Mays. ALLEN 0. SMITH, Pres., The Centaur Company, '7"T Murray Street, New York City. WHAT TO WEAR. The Effectiveness of Paris Green. °bailie to Be Fashionable for Autumn and The effectiveness of Paris green is of Winter Gowns. varying results, as the experience of G. Square necks, it seems, are superseding M. Nichols demonstrates. Experiment round outs in Paris for dressy house and stations bulletins and Government reports `Do not be angry," I say, after a few evening wear. recommend 1 ib. of Paris green to 9 seconds' hard thought; "but I cannot go. But they are by no means deeply gallons of water, applied early in the sea - 1 could do her no good; and I have a feel- decollate, and the modest little square son. For the first application to half- ing,a conviction even that she is not so ill worn by Juliet in her balcony is °onside grown potato vines., %lb, to 50 gallons as you think. Remember ber powers of ered the most becoming limit. of water was used with no effect. .After dissimulation. If I go, harm will come of Belts, too, are much worn, wider than waiting 48 hours on sunny weather, the it; and Ido not." green, 1 lb could not tell her that I forgive formerly, and made of a glistening gilt atch aagain 50 gallons. The latter braid and silk heavily embroidered with spraying disposed of about half the in - "During the past hour," he says, slow- gold and with great buckles fashioned ly, I have begun to feel for hor. what I like wreaths. sects in 48 boars. The patoh was sprayed never felt before —pity. If you had seen ' Indeed, wreath jewelry is the very latest the third time with tae lb. Paris green her face when she sent for me—" ; fad; and besides the buokles there are to 5 gallons water, and the work was "I will go with you," I say, quietly, wreath brooches, wreath fastenings to done effectively. Had Mr. Nichols spray - and leave the room. ed earlier, he would doubtless have found Mother and Dolly are to be found no-' bracelets and wreath hatpins. They are the 1 lb poison to 200 gallons of water where; so I fetch nurse, make her dress made of metal, with flowers in a different effective. It is almost impossible to cover herself, and then go down with her to the sort, or gilt with silver and copper trim- all of the leaves with Paris green so that thrown off herguard. mings, or perhaps of pure gold with the carriage that is waiting at the door. It is blossoms superbly enameled. every insect will get its death dose in a "Certainly. Is there anything so extra- a strange setting t to the and to whiousI was to •More useful and less expensive belt shou]dlinvariabl time. The first application ordinary in that?"ybe made as soon as the "Sooner or later you will burnyour En- go as a bride, and now I am going here to buckles in favor are of heavy gold wire first larvae hatch, using water liberally in curious swirl designs,that loop over gers, she says, rising. see Paul's wife, my bitter enemy. so that the Paris groan will be settled "Thank you for your good advice " I f Nurse's amazement distracts m each other in fastening; and all of them into the creases arra rods of the leaves say, taking up my basket, with alacrity; thoughts during the short period that newermadame—who is a in la' declares she will makef shionablertor and caught on the hairs If not applied but I should say you wanted it all for elapses between our leaving the Manor house gowns this winter. And now the until the larvae are well grown, they are yourself. stand me You cannotou a be expected to under- House and reaching Paul's door, where he house gowns theilnselves: so wise that they will eat all around the stands waiting to receive me. art with "By the way," she says, looking into through halls and vestibules, He takes o an ccs' Kilted surah in a tender pinkish gray, poison eefnoretpohne_'t, take theder those eta - the old-fashioned surah we have known Paris the glass at hor own exquisite person, tagon-shaped room, looking out on to a cumstances, it should not be expected the "how did you hear my husband is not gay flower -garden, and leaves us. A queer these many years,s is the ground work of poison would be effective in less than 48 proud of m9 son? Servants' gossip?" taste for a man's room; it looks.far more a ver .fins dross. Black ribbony,velvet hours. Used stronger than 1 lb to 200 "No• I leave that to you. Have you like a lady's boudoir. braces the shoulders becomingly, and es- gallons of water, the leaves are often in - your spy Jane at The Towers?" "Eh?" cries nurse lifting her finer and tends down the skirt, ending in big flyaway bows near the bottom. The jnred. ""Yes; she is i an excellent to wretch. Well, pointing Nell l'�the mantel -piece; "only lace,which in a shoulder cape and. peplum I am going. I intended to see von, and I look, Miss Nell! hava done so. I'm glad to find your mis- I start violently as my eyes fall on the is put on to give width to a too slight fortunes have not brolsen yenr CHAPTER VIII. ' spirit. Tell picture,which represents a young girl with figure, is imitation Iaint. A Rash Experiment. It is a week since mother, sorely against your father I came," she y's, from the the first freshness of early youth lying on Plain art green chhallaellis, of a web-like r"I am a ruined man !" hex will,drove her fa- graydoor; unless, indeed, you would wish to her lips and cheeks lookingwith joyous, , fineness and a tone as dim as the milky Passers by paused and noted the indi ponies over to y green enameling seen sometimes in old , regarding The dr and left cards for Mr. and tell him the whole story." happy senile out of her veil of loose brown video( who sat on the fence re arding Mrs. Vasher. For a week we have gone I ring the bell, and she vanishes. hair; upon her head is a wreath of poppies Venetian jewelry, ise beautiful. The with sad dejection the new ]louse over in out every afternoon immediately after Was ever such a woman?" I say to and woven flowers and grasses; she wears costume is in three pieces, a skirt and the ungraded lot. dinner, lest in the very plentitude of nude- myself, as I sit down "no shame, no fear, a white gown, and she is—Helen Adair, as underb e of the challis, and an over- I am a ruined man I" he groanedheavyembroidered city she should elect to return the visit. like wax in hor hands. Her words cut Ino "Nobody 'ud ever know it was intended with black and gold in a rich Russian We might have spared ourselves the like knives, again and again. Did I wince for you," says nurse, impartially,"" design. The dark edge that outlines the Somebody remembered that he was the trouble, however; for her chariot -wheels you man who draws the plans for $2,000 have not turned in at our gates; and— under them, 1 wonder; I think I touched used to look summut like it—but, Lord! upper portion of this is a blank velvet, houses that are printed in the news - her once or twice; I am sure I tried hard the difference the paint do make to be cut to follow the lines of the blouse. somewhat to my surprise, I confesss-1 enough." sure!" Pompadour blue °Inane in old pinks and papers. ,,,, calve tone conclusion that for once in her browns, and liberty satin showing I am a ruined man . he said for the life her haughty spirit is abashed. I plait up my baslret, iilnooent cause of I look round the xoom : at the walls hungg third time. I am going ob my pretty woodland this my being caught, and go out into the gar- with pale -yellow silk with a deep rich bog- pink reflections, are the main features Then they understood that lie had tried afternoon, alone as usual. Mother is in don, iny.heart beating, my pulses throb- der of poppies and corn -flowers running of the other two 'toillets. The flowery to build a house from one of his own the village, Dolly invisible; and lam hunt- bing. How that evil, lovely face brings round; at the damask curtains, with the iii a is of the e,lsas an over- designs- ing for a basket to bring back my flowers back to my memory that ni ht at Luttrell same border; at the white carpet, on blouse in ecru guipure, and the satin, in.Suddenly bethink me oftheone that when, though I knew it not such happi- which the same flowers are scattered in shown in the blouse, is ornamented by contains mother's wools, and I cross the ness lay before me! Now the warning is delicate knots. 1 know now why 110 uses a stole collar of white organdy and yet - hall and enter the dools, •room to fetch' fulfilled, and any lot in life is fixed. My this room; it was to have been mine. The low lace The plain portion of the flowered it. What a noise those tiresome boys are adventures• this afternoon are doomed to sex of the occupier is shown by the mas- bodice is dull green silk, the collar dark making! Iwish Papa was not so nonspiare conclude in a somewhat ludicrous loan sive writing appointments, the whips and rod velvet. ous by his absence. It is no use to box poor Dolly in a state of siege, standing on the tabic, and all the orderly litter of a per, for, in crossing the orchard, I find driving -gloves, the half -smoked cigar on Apropos of these toilets, their cuts, ' their ears, I say to 3nyself with a. ]gh ;textiles and decorations, madame who When Baby was sick, we gave her r Casria. they are altogether past that. The wools Pilo of planks against the wall; whither' man's favoxite room. .And this is my Edwas mothering them, said: When she was a Child, she cried for Ca9toriai have got entangled round the handle of the she had bowl driven by our new and putout that I have never entered, until I tomo to 0 You see the only anew material here is When she became Miss, she clungto Castoria tyrant, the raja, He was installodin the it as a visitor to his wife. I looku the black crepe, which Iain reality, only basket, and— What is that noise in thep—Paul a spotted bare y' When she had Children, she gaveethem Castoria. distance? surely a boll rang? The door orchard last Monday, and a very lively is standing at the door, and 1 rise to go to barege crinkled somewhat like opens almost instantly, and Simpkins an- time we have had of it ever slam; indeed, hint, leaving nurse behind. At the door orepon As yet, Dooet is the only one to nounaes "Mrs. Vasher." it would be llarcl to say why lie is here at of the room where Silvia lies he leaves me make barege gowns, but I," and madame The room is a long one, and as she all, unless the abundant abrasions. inflicted and I go in alone. 'Tao room is so darks swelled like the important frog in the comes stepping across the space that lies by his horns on the family legs and shins aned that, corning out of the broad day fable, "I shall male all use fashionable between us I stand still, with my face find favor in the governor's eyes. light,' can barely make out the outline of for autumn and winter house gowns. The turned toward her. When she is quite close CHAPTER I\, Silvia's face against the pillows. As I ap- new °ba h os that I have seen at the to turned she holds out her haind. Ido not proaoh her, an elderly wonlan by hor side manufacturers' aro very charming. _. �s.�-aseras� d �� y�r— stir but stand looking from her false Pace A anoalth has passed since Silvia came to rises and passes out. Swim are rest g patterned like silk, with g to her false hand, from her false hand back 800 rn°' aucl naw we are ill May—fragrant, . You sent for arra," I say, looking down bouquets, but throe aro others that are again to her face. lilossoaning, voluptuous May; and the on her, "mad I am hero," target] with ((iiia vines between stripes, ""What!" I say, very low. ""You dare world is covered like a bride with the Now that my eyes aro more accustomed and other plain ones again in dim:and offer an honest wojuan the hand of a . months white fiower of flowers, that here to the light, Isee that sheds mortally pale sparkling jewel tones. Those will be my forger? Has not even your varied experi= and thole melts odorously into faintest and her breath 001105 in quick, short favorites, ancl I will combine them with encu taught yon the gulf that lies between pink, .,r burns into violinist orir115011 and pants. lace, ribbon and velvet in contrasting the two? You do my father's house much scarlet. You aro voter royal and sweet, you "Do you know- that I am dying?" she shades. One gown that I have in any honor, madam. But, since you are here, Mayflowers, but I do not love you so well says,lifting her haggard, lovely eyes to any mind will be in old blue, with a Gteek T will ask your permission to retire." as my face. "I dare say you aro, very glad?" border in goid thread, embroidered by As I pass her she lays her0and upon my daffodils Desperately ill I see plain enough that hand, at the skirt bottom." skirts. that wino before the swallow dares, and she is; something in her voice tells mo Yes,' said madame, as she closed the a� "You shall not go," she says, quietly, " take , . that she is not clying,no,nor in immediate door on all wonderful things so soon I same Isere to speak to you, and I will." Tho winds of Marsh with beauty; violate danger o.0 death. to be burin to New Yost:, "roe 1*0 be I cermet struggle ,with this wonnaal, so dila. Did you only send for n1 to ask ane flint chillness ti*lister cllaliles, are to be I stand still perforce, scornfulandsilent, ut sweeter than the lids of June's that? if so, Z atm batter away." Brevived,while she scalls Iny face with an intent- ted?" rho auks, nt- Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses Are you so hal'd-1lear" ness that I can foe ,:chat clip itnanurnIureti ere they can beholdbetween her short plants, "Emil" The amount of gold expo/and from Cape "You aro very much altered," the Says, Bright Phoebus 111 his strength." ' She takes any .hand and lays it against Colony daring August was 4830, 623, and slowly. "You ,are nob very pretty now. and all the delicate arra that our or g her heart, walall theme to be leaping out on Thursday £96, 000 in gold Was shipped. y y g g°" of her bodyy PP What my husband saw in gots I could ous coming has caasod to fade awa . Thewith that boat never - It is an, y y "Do you think th,i;t is shamming. Soon- announced that the I ronolt Cham- IIGVOr imagine." dial not wait, like you, till the earth was . bars upon reassembling, In spite of my anger, I break into a warmed and ex or ,later It will 1411 mnomelet to -day, er- , p 1 f fifty wall be asked for d pran]..od to receive you; they haps, or to-ni0rroty but 50111 titin ' P on acoounnal credit of naso an(((ion francs hearty joyous laugh. grow tvit11 the grass, and inapt up through sometime." on account of the Madagascar expedition. She looses any hand and sits up in bed, . g It is very strange, is it not? For you the cold, hard ground, bniving the linger-,, really area 'tar batter looking woman; and lug chilly winds and night frosts to bring and her fleece of hair ripples alt over her The man who attempted to explode a yet lhey are fail tt. r Some wicked spirit lis beautiful nalassa i ing shoulders and the eeverlid like a Edema of bomb in the vestibule of the Ilothsehild's g floor Silo busy, molten gold', banicing0ievo in Paris on Thursday still ever waits on me and informs 'nohow best tocanillg earth -mother. „ • to irritate Silvia. Her oyes darken and than sop hie If 1 were dead you would forgive' sue, refuses to reveal his identity. He admits n twrce, before all the would. notf" ,, _. „ h flame ander mine. like those Of a furious • Fortunately, papaw you notf I would toy to, that he is a deserter from the Arany, animal. u I n resty, Is not so far gone ""If you know that I j ever saw so fair a face so apt in nfadnoss and hospitality as too invite I coo d not live very The Trades Union Con .gess in sessio at illustrating ugly passions. ""If you have Mrs. ''Washer to dinner, and aslong, YOU would forgive nieP" •at Cardiff, passed a resolution ' n she has boon ""Perhaps." ,P on condeanning anything to say to me," I continue, con- hero he Is perfectly uncus leious of the""Emperor the p en's interference with the tomptuously, "release me and day it; It wheels within P Then say so now,"she says, feverishly, liberty „ wheels; and long may he With hor hands ()lasted over her b ty of the press, and hen. of Ge sang won b trouble ane, rel i ixi so, say 1. Ile, Mother, and 1 have " n laboring pithy with the wort Ilbeanon of German !'ora moment she draws bet breath been invited to a dinner -party at The heart, that you do forgive m'e.'' in their struggle for liberty. y (TO Bal CONTI>! DED.) MOST SUCCES'SFj/L REMEDY POR MANOft BEAST. Certain in its streets and never blisters. (teed proofs bolow; KENDALL9 SPAVINp�npe�yrgy��an, Box. l Garman tionderton Co., ill„ Fob. Wk.a MS.DIiExnnLL t70. Dear Sirs—Please send vie one of your Horeo (looks and oblige, 1 'amused a groat deal of your 3(ondalrs apavjn Curo with good sechoss • it is a wonderful modieine. l onto had a mare the:6 had an Ooonit spavin and live bottles cured her. 1 keep a bottle on bond all the time. Yours truly, ems. Powaam. 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