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fbe •ware, the earl and he have not
turf ----"
"I have heard something of it,"
i seed the doctor. "But surely there
Fiji can be little difficulty in Itneiiug hint!
Meanwhile-----'•
"Please tell mo what is to hu dune.
1 tun staying in the house. and will
see that you• iustructiuus aro carried
out."
Tho doctor inclined his head and
went upstairs again, a:,d !Berton fol-
lowed him.
Norah was still kneeling hey-ide the
bed, ttie, earl's hand last clasped in
hers. and hhe looked up eagerly us
the doctor entered.
"What is it?" whispered tho doctor.
"i-1 think ho moved!" said Norah
almost inaudibly.
Even as she spoke, the old roan
stirred and opened his eyes. Tees
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like intelligence came into them, and
i his lips moved.
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11E1A Of SINIIIIN Guildford Berton, standing at the
foot of the bed, felt a sudden the 111
♦ TUE of fear. Was the old unun coming to
O his senses? Would he be able to speak
reveal the truth, and expose hire?
'The e_u•1 looked at her piteously
and then, as ho caught sight of
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tore oft for a floc- (at ;v way exciting."
knelt beide the
"You aro sure of that?" interrupt -
feeling of ed the doctor.
"Of course. I could repent almost
every word," answered Berton glibly.
carutaitt- ••I had said something that made
him laugh—but not heartily or excite
ul to ceily—and a moment after he fell for -
by ward."
"Strange," said the doctor. 'These.
d attacks generally follow upon great
excitement or display of paslion.1
"hero aro certain signs which indi-
the usual cause, too -limn!"
3 it a bad attack?" asked Guild -
Berton, sorrowfully
"1'c8, it is."
0- ••And—and you think he will diol"
p- his heart beating quickly.
"I do not say that," replied the
as doctor, gravely. "'19to earl is nn old
is man, his ngo is against him, but on
he other hand he has led a remark-
's' quiet life of late, has be not?"
'N I c: t soy that positively,"
"I may telt
Guildford Ilerton's face, his eyes
seemed to flush and ho looked iron
him to Norah, and his lips moved.
"It is something ho wants to tel
me," she murmured. "011, what i
it, what is it? Papa, pupal It is
—Norahl Speak to mo."
The doctor did not Interfere, and
she bent lower, until her fuco was
close to the old man's lips.
Tho piteous, imploring look in her
eyes grew more intense, and at last
a sound came from his lips.
"Yes, pupa!" panted Noralt.
With a great effort he gasi-ed:
"Sconedrea! Scoundrel! Don't,
Then a vacant smile played over his
face and ho wandered ol'f. '•My
daughter, your ladyship! My daugh-
ter. Beautiful! Yes. Iter mother—"
Then his eyes closed, and the face
seemed to fall back into deathlike
rigidity.
Guildford Berton almost uttered a
cry of thnnsgiving.
"Ifo is delirious," ho said, sorrow-
fully.
Norah with a mono, hid her face,
and the doctor laid his hand upon
her shoulder. asito
"Yon must bear up, Lady Norah,"
he said, gently. "I am not sutra
that ho is quite unconscious, and—"
"Yes, yes, let me stay!" she plead-
ed, piteously. "I will not let 1)1111
ee, I will not distress him. You will
e stay with hits?"
t st, y," Ise said to Guild -
ti undertone, but
net murmured her
nd for a nurse,
remain and as -
bequeathed, occurred first, and the
small handwriting jultl.e•1 up and
down before his eyes. '1'Iten ho laugh-
ed with bitter cynicism. The earl
had left hint only a favorite watch
• and chain, "us a murk of toy esttwiu
noel regard."
.1 emelt and chain for all the years
of patient sen,icu and endurance!
'then CAM() the lnportunt clause.
"And the remainder of all that 1
possess, or have power to Leaueath,
1 will to my daughter---"
strange to say, a blank occurred
where the neuro should have been
written.
Ile puz:eied over this singular fact
for seine minutes, then tui ner! to the
date, and hit upon the solution. The
earl had made the will soon after
Norah's arrival at the Court, and ho
had not known with any certainty
whether she had been christened any
other name in addition to Norah.
Doubtless he had intended to ask
and fill in the space, but ho must
have forgotten It—or being too proud
to ask the question, had put it oil
from day to day, and left the space
blank.
Guildford Berton held the will in
his hand, thinking almost painfully.
Ile had no great liking for forgery,
but he would not have hesitated to
manufacture a new w ill, leas ing
everything to himself, if ho had
thought it politic to do so. ibit
forgery is, in a sense, more risky
1 even that murder, and ho shook his
s head.
I Besides, what need to alter tho
will, seeing that Norah, to whom all
was left, would certainly be 1113 Wttu?
For at that moment he telt assured
of his ultimate success than ho had
fi�ver dune. late had stood by hint
MO -persistence almost miraculous,
and his luck would rcrnain with him
to the end.
leo put the will back, and the deed
box in its place, and leaning back,
gave hlruself up to the luxury of an-
ticipatlon.
If he could only have the titles, as
well as Norah and the earl's stoney!
Or the Court! But they must both
go to the wandering vagabond of a
nephew—the 1 i;count Santleigh, who
was no one knew where!
"Perhaps he might be persuaded to
sell his birthright even now, and the
knowledge of the earl's illness could
be kept from him," ho thought; ane
at the utero thought that he, Guild-
ford Berton, might some day reign
and rule in the great house at which
his father was steward, his blood
grew warns and his heart beat pleas-
antly.
At any rate, Norah—his future
tvife—would be ono of the wealthiest
women in 1•:ngiand. The earl could
not make another will, and he,
Guildford Berton, would take caro
the existing one should not he de-
stroyed.
Altogether, ho spent a pleasant
hour or two, while Norah upstairs
sat holding the unconscious hand of
the stricken earl.
('1'o be Continued.)
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entertainment the post of honor is at
the left and not at the right. as with
us. 1f It Is a dinner 1l will begin con-
trary to ours, with dessert, and end
with soup and rice. At home dogs ore
tied up; in China ails are, at least those
belonging to boat people.
The Chinese are not at our antipodes
with regards to position on the globe,
but they are our opposites in almost
every thought and act. Our shocS are
alt blackened, the Chinese whiten the
sides of the sole.s 11 theirs. To tis eb-
servalion without sympathy is torture,
but the Chinese seem to like to be ob-
served working, eating, or whatever
they are doing
The mourning color in China is white
and not black, and the Chinese must
think it white cloth upon a dinner -table
as dismal as we would a table covered
with black crepe Whist foreigners
come first to China they notice that
men wear pettle,onts and worsen trou-
sers. As n matter of fact, both sexes
wear these last, only the peasant Ivo.
men foreigners most see do not have
either a petticoat or n frock, but only a
long jacket; and the literary mon, that
is to say the gentleman of China, al-
ways wears a tvalstcoat over Ids coal,
end not under as we do. We use our
hands to play battledore and shuttle-
cock: the Chinese have no battledore
and Melt the shuttlecock. If a British
Loy is puzzled, soy, in doing a sum. he
scratches his lead, but a Chinese boy
off a shoe and scratches a fo tt.
es are curried not In front
lin the arms of their mothers, but upow
their backs.
IIE WASN'T UP TO MUCII.
in an Irish court reently an old man
was called into the witness box and be-
ing old and a little blind he went too
far in more senses than one and
instead of going up the stairs that led
to the box mounted those that led to ttrs
bench.
The judge took the mistake good
humoredly.
"Is it n judge you want to be, my goon
man?" he asked.
"Alt. sure, your Donor," was the re-
ply, "I'm an mild man now, and nicht)*
it's all I'in tit for."
TIii: FUNNY TWNG I
A Indy who had engaged a greenhorn
as 1118141 rang for her one evening. Det-
ling no response, she rang again. She
then proceeded to the kitchen, where,
to her arnazernent, she found the nets -
servant convulsed with laughter. Point-
ing to the hell, she exclaimed.
"As sure as 1 live 1 never touched it,
and it's waggin' yet."
A PURR DAILY LiFE.
Make your common daily work en
instructor In divine things. Fill up the
measure of your daily life with all that
is pure and good and true, and these
lowly temporal things shall be, by
God's blessing, as the first rounds of a
ladder reaching from earth to heaven.
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