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ney Smith's wise .maxim, 'Take
short views,"
None of then x said good -night to
him when he left for home; they
were not intentionally:", unkind, but
they were awkward, and they felt"
that the strange affair of the af-
ternoon had made a great gulf be-
tween thorn aid the culprit. Very
slowly he walked through the noisy
streets, very reluctantly crossed the
great court -yard, and mounted
flight after flight of stairs, At the
threshold lie hesitated, wondering
'tvhe her'- it would be possible t,a
shield them from the knowledge,. Re
could hear Sigrid singing in flat,
kitchen asshe prepared the supper,
and something told him that it
i�"ouid be, impossible to unecal his
trouble from her, With a sigh 'he
opened the door into the s.t:.ing
room; it looked very bright, and
cheerful; Swanbild stood at to;..
l open window lsat,ering the fowors
all the window -box, red and „olte
geraniums and seutharn is led,
grown from euttizlge given by eec:',
She gatvo him her usual merry
greeting,
"Come and look at my garden,
rithiof," she said, "Doesn't it
1k lovely ?,a
'Why you are late," said Sigrid,
All with th.o eecoa, her face
heti with the fire, which
on Haat summer day.
tng at him,. "H(3w tired
+, ,sit dawn end eat
man ° usage the
(XIV.—(Cont'd)
was .far tea much
situ d to ba elite to feel .any gr k=
titude itis this. Mr, , Horner, ,how
,ever, left hilts no time to reply.
think you have takezr, leave Qf
your 1301150S, Boniface, he isaid, ve-
hemently. "Save yourself the in-
uoy axtce "of prosecutxn?, if you like;
but it is grossly unbar to the rest
of your employees to keep a. thief
le your house, U there is ane thing
noticeable in all suoeeseful concerns
it is that /km omprotnising severity
is eliQ'wf to cher trilling errors,
even to carelessness>"
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�y latts�rae;)a, has hitherto laser
easlttl, movie Mr. Bcanifaace, ctui-
"and I have never QUO On
t priue i alt;, and never wtil. Why
We to have a law of mercy and i
M*. to exclude it from every -day
Ilut that is the 'way of the
It manages, while callin
itself' Christian, to shirk most of
Christ's •eoanwands."
I. tall you,,, said Mr. Verner,
who was now in a towering passion,
"that it is utterly against the very ,
stoles of religion. The fellow is nal;
repentant; he persists in stielcing,
to a lie, and yet you weakly forgive+
hire."
"If," said. Mr. Boniface; quietly,
you Blas` to 'IittIe more. a Frithiof
Falck you would know that rt is
quite impassible that he could con-
sciously have taken the money.
When he took it he was not him -
cell. If he lied waisted to hide it—
lei stead at—why did he :actually- re-
turn to the shop with it in his pes-
session t $e might easily have dis-
posed of it while he was out."
"If that is your ground, then I
object to having ra man on my pre-
mises who is afflicted with klepto-
mania, But it is not so, The fel-
low is as long-headed and quick-
witted as any one I know; he has
managed to hoodwink you, but from
the first I saw through him, and
knew him; to be a designing—"
"Sir," broke in Frithiof, turning
to Mr. Boniface, "this is more than
I can endure. For God's sake call
back the detective, examine further
into this mystery; there must be
some explanation!"
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'How elan asny man examine Pur-
er 9" said MX, Bonafaeo, sadly.
be, note is missed, and is actual -
ted 'upon you. The only pts- hays dot a
"Planation, is the tion 'ere :oven Derr Si erstsen would
tot yourself whenyou took it, grumble at. The heat has. tire,
Then the least you eau de is to , .you, and yon will feel better after
of the case,
`What sort of a. mala
"I used to dislike him at first,
and he naturally disliked we tie
cause I was a foreigner. But lat-
terly we have got on well enough,
Re is a very decent sort of fellow,
and I don't for as moment believe
that he would steal,"
"One of you must have done ill,"
said Sigrid, "And as I certainly
never could believe that
it, I am forced to think the other
man guilty, Look, Frithiof, why
hotald we wast time and strength
in worrying over this 7 .After all,
;,.hat difference floes it make to >.as
in ourselves? Business hours roust,
of Bourse, be disagreeable enough
to you, but at home you must for-
t the disagreeabies; at home you
are my ''ero, unji stry accused, and
b. .ring the penalty of another's
crime,"
(To be continued.)
rLA TS AND T0118000 S31011E'
Varieties of Growth tilled by
Influence of Tobacco,
Prof. Molisch, the plant physiolo
gist ttf the University of Fragne,
sae ahowli in some of his earlier
work that large numbers of miero-
organisms, plants as well its ani-
mals, and the seedlings of higher
tits are extremely sensitive to the
uenee of tobacco smoke, gorge
tag evenki"'ned thereby. Many of
deleterious effects eeperieeeed
formerly attributed attributed to the
quantities et' illu?ptinra:tixtg gas
«.sInias Iaiaax," ;resumed Mr. Ile you have had asoaaaeth tip."
But Mr, Boniface interrupted He eat obediently, though
od almost choked him; Swanhi°d
faarzcying that he had one of his ba
headaches, grew quiet, and after
him very sharply,
"You rill please remember,
Moines, that you are in no way eon -
with the engai;ement rrr cars- ward was not surprised to find that
of those emplOYOd iso t,.;s he (lid not as uaeal get cut his
writing materials, but asked Sigrid
to go out with hire for a turn.
"You are too tired to try
translatingl" she asked.
"Yes, I'll try it later,''' he s
"but let us have loal•f au htours' rt
ttogether now."
She consented at one, and we
to put on her hat, well kuowina
that Frithiof neves •shirked )us
work without :good xe Tanis then
leaving strict orders with Swanhild
not to sit up after nine, they left
her absorbed in English history,
taunts and insults showered on and went down into the cool clear
bion. , "lair," he said, trying iii vaita twilight. Some children woro- p3ay-
to govern his voice, r'you have 'beets ing quietly in thea court -yard 3 Sig
rid stopped for a munute to speak
to one of them.
"Is your fattier better this even -
I" she asked.
"Yes, miss, and he's a-goin' back.
to work to -morrow," replied the
child, lifting a beaming face to the
friendly Norwegian lady.
"I should have thought you had
troubles enough of your own,"he
aid, moodily, "without bothering
yourself with other people's."
"But ,since our own troubles 1
have somehow cared more about
them; I don't feel afraid as. I used.
ch crvfluentiy vitiates the Melee -
ere of such rooters; but Iilalisch's
perivaents left no roost for doubt.
itis really tobacco stroke that
{:elves the harm. His pictures show-
,ng„tho growth ;(if pea and vetch
seedlings in the presence and in the
t absee of tobacco smoke arm very
tr(eanking.
has more recent "e .perimenta
scd older platnt"s of various spm
iaminding altec;ea of ,spider-
t, echeveria•, t7iaaterriUM, selag
le, and "others, "olaea Qf these
showed any til effects from
lee treatment, although exposed''.
for a long brae to earl 4trilosphere
filled -with tobacco smoke, Other
house. That iaa entirely my affair,
gas is set ,forth in our deed of part,
riership."
"Whieh partnership will need
r vowing in another rix xaolAt est"
said Mr. Berner, gnawing red with
anger, "And I givo you fair warn-
ing that' if this dishonest fellow is
kept on 1 shall then withdraw my
capital and retire from the busi-
ness."
With this Parthian shot be went
out, banging the door behind him.
Frithiof bad borate in silence all
very good to me; but it will be best
that I should go.'"
"I would not have you leave for
the world," said Mr. Boniface.
"Remember that your sisters are
dependent an you. You must
think first of them,"
"No," said Frithiof, firmly;; "I
must first thin]- of what I owe to
you. It would be intolerable to me
to feel that I had really brought
any loss on you through Mr. Hor-
ner's anger. I must go."
"Nonsense," said Mr. Barldface;
"I can not hear of such a thing..
Why, how do you think you would." to do of sick people, and people
get another situation with this mys- who have lost those belonging to
tory still hanging over you? 1, who,. them, I want always to get near -
know you so well, ani eenvineed oa er to them,"
your perfect freedom from blame; "Sigrid," he said, desperately,
but strangers could not possibly be "can you bear a freshtrouble for
eonvinced of it." yourself t I have bad news for you
Frithjof was silent; he thought of to -night."
Sigrid and Swanhz"1d suffering "Roy?" she asked, breathlessly,
r -
through his trouble, he remembeher mind instinctively turning first
to fears for his safety.
"Oh, no 1 Roy is still at Paris.
They heard, to -day that he could
not be back in time for the concert.
It is I' who have brought this trou-
ed his terrible search for work
when he had first eome to London,
and he realized that it 'was ehiefly
his own: pride that prompted him
never to return to the shop.
"If You are indeed willing that I ble on you. Though how it carne
should stay," he said at length, K about God only knows. Listen, and
"then I willestay. But your theory s I'll tell: y ou e zaotly how everything
the theory that makes you will happened."
ling still to trust me—is mistaken. By this tinge they had reached
I know that there is not a minute! one of the parks, and they sat
in this day when my head has nal down ona bench under the shade of
been perfectly clear." 1a great elm -tree. Then very quiet -
"My dear fellow, you must allow ly and minutely be told exactly
me to keep what theory I please. what had passed that afternoon.
"I am glad," she exclaimed when
he paused, "that Mr. Boniface was
so kind. And yet, how can he ih:1 k
that of you`?"
"You do not think it, then r4 ' he
asked, looking her full in the [nese.
"What ! think that you took it, in.
senses. The note was there,' and absence of mind`? Think that it
you can't possibly explain its oris would be possible for you delil,er-
ence. How is it possible that Dar- ' ately to take it out of the til] and
Dar-
nell could have crossed over to ;:pin it in your own pniket! Why,
your till, taken out 'the note and of course not ! In actual delirium,.
I suppose, a man miget do any-
thing, but you are as strong and
well as any one this. Of course,,
you had nothing what:eve- to do
with it, either consciously or un-
consciously.''
"Yet the thing was somehow
there, and the logical' inference is,
I can account to myself for what thatT must have put it there,"he
must otherwise be an extraordinary .�"I don't care a fig for logical in -
mystery' You had better go back Terence !" she cried. "All I know
to your work now, and do not:wor- 'tint t,h�tt you hacl nothing whatever to
ry over the affair.Remember that do with it. If I had to die for main
I do noii, hold you responsible for taining that, I would say it with.
-hat, has happeined. Tnv list. breath."
ter' this, . n course nothings caught her hand in ills, and
There is no other explanation than
this, and you would be wisest if you
accepted it yourself."
"That is impossible," said Fri-
thiof, sadly.
"It is equally impossible that I
can doubt the evidence of my own
pinned it in your pocket? Besides,
what motive could he have for do
ing such a thing'l"
"I don't know, said Frithiof;
"yet I shall swear to my dying day
that I never did it myself."
"Well, there is no use in arguing
the point," said Robert Boniface,
wearily. "It is enough for me that
nore could be said:-
OTd kPTER FXV
his he walked clown'.:tae" sort. of
avenue of pianos :Inc. nR,Lmoniu es
in the inner hop, therecame to :his
rni:nd, why, he could .not have told,
v'ordts snohen to him long before by
that ecileft
t euston,er 'who had- on
mind so lasting an impression,
"Courage 1 the worst will pass.'"
Though b:c could . not exactly be -
u ve she words vet he clung to
lisi . with a sort of , .d ,. perat o'o.
11so he hapnenod to. notion the
cl<nlc itnd practically adopted Sy 1-
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of tobacco smoke,, butt did not re -
spend to the illuminating gas.
( l.+.arlier experiments showed, that
various nareoticsprovoke abnor-
mal developments of the breathing
holes on the shoot of the potato.
1:,xperinoente with tobacco smoke on
the potato ando u other plants led
to, the same results, often, with the
acoaunaalafion of xnasMes of liquid
under the swollen areas,
Insome plants of the bean faro-
ily
the • tobacco smoke caused th
leaves to drop off in a very abort
tine.. The sensitive plant (Mimosa
pudica) a and the lack locust (no -
bine pseudocacia) and others :. lost.
a.31 or nearly all ;of their leaves in
from twenty-four to forty-eight
hours after being placed in an
atmosphere containing tobacco
grebe, To a smaller degree smoke
salols wood and paper and illntninatt
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tw gas produced re5l S soli ar „ tit
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Breluneriaa utiiis and Splitgerbera
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gwroth. When placed in a large
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from a cigar or cigarette waren
blown in, the leaves of these plants,
ordinarily growing at right angles
to the stem --that is, in a horizontal
position—hegan to turn on their
stalks, in the course of from twenty-
four to forty -tight hours, until they
were in a vertical plane. In the
case of the brehmeria they contin-
ued their rotations beyond this
paint, describing a spiral. Similar
disturbances were produced upon.
these two plants by illurninaiing
gas. But other plants used in the
experiments ,showed similar effects
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