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By M BBRADDON
f
. you mill treason. Don't you knew the aecreb
of that kind mother's heart, Helen ? She
Anth- t " Lenn ArDLY'S ESWATR" "W'hneetehII's Wninn, ' ETO., ETC, 1 does her duty to Aerian, bi t she gives the
mem . i
r house share of lova to me, She will love any
wife who loves me."
tiring in wbieh men care to croupier. He " You are cruel to say ao," cried Rehm)
hoe left nie my books, and my music ; 4L,WO might- onving tom hi., arms. . a what, are you Inane
Oecupation, not a man's. He to have everysEtiog and he nethint, he who
have left me nay bride. There are women is at good? /0
enough in the world for him to subjugate- "He has the estate, and he is Sir Adria%
He might have left her free.Do you call that nothing ?"
" Watch," wrote the anonymous dettourn "Yes, nothiug, oothiog, nothing, if he is
con Ile had not watched, but the discovery not Imppy, No, 1 /mit betray him, 'won't
had been made; the bitter, humiliating ne otutti .1,, jot and a hypoorite. 1 toyed
truth had been forced Wm him ; tdmidlend him before I knew you. 1 will try to forget
had given him the key to that secret accuse- you, and to be true to him."
tion. That $ servant's hand, should have di Helen, don't be a fool."
CHAPTER, xn.
TOTAL Sunhatieme.
All Helen s seriousness seemed to have
taken flight, as if blown away by the balmy
west wind. Once more she woo gay and
volatile, for ever oz the wing with a cease-
less vivacity. The change puzzled Lady
Belfield, who liked her daughter better in
her serious mood.
" My dear child, you seem, as if you were
bewitched," she said.
Helen blushed, and was &ilea for a few
moments, then replied with a laugh.
" I am SO glad summer is coming, oo glad
to be out of doors again. You must not
forget that I am a wild Irish girl, end love
my liberty,"
"1 ant pleased to tree you happy, Helen,
answered the mother, kindly, and then
Helen went back to the tennis court, and
the balls were flying across the net again,
and the girl's graceful form was skit/mina
over the grass, swift as the flight of a bird!
She came back to the drawing room Mush -
red and excited at tea time, and then Adrian
'had her all to himself for an hour or so,
while she lolled in a low easy chair, resting
from the fatigues ot the afternoon, foul
allowing her lover to wait upon her. She
lied a prettily deprecating air, as if apologis.
ing.for taking pleasure in a sport which had
no interest for him. 0
"It is a foolish, childish game, I dare
sany,"-she said; "but it is something to live
She did not know how such a speech as
that wounded her lover ; or how much it
revealed to him.
pointed. out that treanhery, seemed to add He drew her to his breast again, snared
to the sting of degradation, to the agony of her as easily with an unmannerly speedh as
betrayal. with the honeyed phrasea of Et modern
He had considerable power of self-control, Romeo. His iviluenoe over her was a thing
and exercised it this evening. He talked apart from words. It was the despotic
easily and even gaily all through dinner, power of a strong man's will, which to a
but the conversation woe a trio, Valentine wenn woman „ems destiny, Adrian mane
talked much and seemed in excellent spirits, a step or two forward, ernero,ed out of the
Helen sat silent, and Adrian didnot attempt shadow and stood suddenly beside them,
to draw her into the conversation. The girl recoiled from her lover with a star.
"flow tired you look, Helen," said Lady tled air, horrified at being, seen by a gatne-
Belfield, after an animated discussion upou keeper, or some such insignificant person;
the news in the papers of the day. but at sight of Adrian she clasped her hands
Adrian and nis mother were strictly con- before her bare and stood metionless, as if
servative, but Valentine had taken npon she had been turned to stone,
himself the opinions and the arrogance of
"I did not think myself passing rich,
an advanced radical. Hence politics always
offered a theme for lively discussion and a hitisaid ireetely, as his brother,
mutely, with the
little temper. Nothing so dull as a one- :4:9" "',n2 ."°":" and •hh hadf d
a mint moo with wino eace angry
°pinioned family 1
"Yes, I am rather tired," nswered
college dons and aggrieved authorities of all
a
Helen, listlessly. "The day been so .
kmds. "I thought myself like Nathan with
has
in one ewe laznb," laying his hand lightly
dreadfully warm."
upon Helen's shoulder, "and you have rob -
Adrian went back to the drawing -room bed me of that one inestimable blessing."
with the two ladies. Valentine stopped "Don't talk about robbery," said Valera
behind, ostensibly for his after-dinner tine, "that's arrant uonsenee. Men are the
smoke. slaves of circumstances in such matters.
He went up to his room to dress for din- The day had been one of those precocious You bring a lovely fascinating girl into the
ner one evening, after having lingered longer summer days that perk themselves up in the house where 1 live, and say • bhe is mine,
than usual in the drawing -room with Helen. midst of the spring, and Helen's complaint she is taboo, you are not to fall in love with
bile had been out of spirits, fretful, like a of its sultriness was not unfounded. There hero But I am mortal. I e,m of a clay that
child overtired with play, and he had been was a small wood fire in the grate, for show is quicker to take fire than most other clay.
soothing her as tenderly as a mother might and not for heat, and Lady Belfield took I have not been under the same roof for
soothe a wilful child. her accustomed chair, not remote from the four and twenty hours with your privileged
Pinned on to the pincushion upon his hearth; but Helen went at once to the young lady, before I am over head and ears
dressing table he saw a slip of paper, with open window, and seated herself on a low in love with her. I don't give myself up
four words written upon it in a large round ottoman close to the threshold. without a struggle. I say no surrender, and
hand "Somebody is false. Watch:" The moon was near the full, and all the try to be as uncivil as I poEsibly can to the
He felt as a mail feels who finds a cobra garden was steeped in light. The girl sat young lady. Helen will bear mo out that I
on his pillow. Who could have dared to idle, watching the night sky, above the tall was a most consummate savage during the
put that diabolical scrawl there. Someone cypresses and deodaras that bounded lawn earlier part of our acquaintance. And then
in Ms mother's household—some servants and shrubbery. we hunted together—nothing so dangerous
eating his mother's bread, had been black- Adrian seated himself at nis mother's as those long hours of easy intercourse in
hearted enough to stab an innocent girl's book table, and took up a volume of biogra- the huntieg field—and I got fonder and
reputation. pixy wbich had arrived that afternoon. fonder of her, and she—yes, 1 know she be -
His first impulse was to tear the paper to Helen stole a look at him presently, and gan to get rather fond of me. But she too
atoms; his next was to putit away carefully saw him engrossed in his book. She was cried no surrender, and then she took to
in his letter case, with a view to identifying not surprised that he should be so, as it was being uncivil ; and thou I knew it was all
the writer. a book he had been particularly impatient over with us both. Tennis finished us; and
"I will have every one of the servants in , to see, and the librarian had been slow in you will please to remember, Adrian, that
the library to -morrow morning," he thought, sending it. Lady Belfield, finding the other 1 tennis was my mother's proposition, not
" and each shall write those four words be- ; two silent, had resumed a new German t mine. Poor simple soul, the wanted to see
fore my eyes until I discover the wretth who novel which she had been reading in the Helen and me more like brother and sister,
penned that lie." afternoon. They had been all three seated and she thought tennis might help to bring
Yet to do this would create a scandal. thus for about a quarter of an hour, when us together."
Better that than to exist under the same Helon rose quietly and went out into the "You are laudably candid now," said
roof with the venomous traitor who wrote garden- Adrian, holding passion in cheek with the
that insult to truth and purity. False? with Softly as she moved, Adrian heard the strong curb of pride. "Would it not at
'whom should she be false? What tempter flutter of her muslin gown as she rose and least have been better to be candid before
had ever tried to seduce her front the !passed out. He lifted his eyes from the resorting to a secret meeting like this, and
straight line of faith and honor dace she had ; Page which he had been staring at fixedly, degrading your future wife by a clandestine
been his plighted wife. Spurn that paper ; without the faintest knowledge of its con-
+ courtahip while she was betrothed to your
brother, would it not at least have,been. wise s he might, the argument it suggested tents.
forced itself upon his mind; haunted him "Watch." to spare her the humiliation of being spied
and goaded him almost to madness as he He put his book down softly, and went upon by servants."
hurried in his dressing, anxious to be early across to the window. "What do you mean ?"
in the drawing room, to see Helen o again be- Helen was walking slowly along a path
I
fore dinner, to be reassured and comforted that skirted the lawn. His eyes followed
'the white robed figure till it disappeared at
by her presence, by the ateady light of truth
in those lovely eyes. 1 a turn of the path which led into the heart
of the shrubbery, where a labyrinthine
Not a word would he say to her of that
, walk wound in and out among the thickets
foul slander, that stab in the dark; not for
worlds would he have her know of that base of choice comfere, laurels and arbutus. Those
11rubberies had been laid out and planted a
. s
attempt to blemiah her name. But he want-
ed to be with her again. Never since the century before, and had been improved and
first hour of their betrothal had he been soadded to by every new owner of Belfield
Abbey.
It was a little more than half-pastmeven
.eager to see her.
The ground Eloped on the other side of the
shrubberies, there wore steep grassy banks
when he went downstairs, his heart beating
s
heavily, passionately, impatiently, for the loping down to the stream, and by the side
d
of the stream there was a long Italian ter -
"Only that it was some servant or hang-
er.on in the Abbey who gave me the hint
that brought me here to night."
"08e of the servants spoke to you about
me, about Helen?"
"No one epoke to me. 1 found a paper
in my room, with a suggestion that there
was falsehood, and that 1 should watch."
"Phe she -devil," muttered Valentine be-
tweeu his set teeth.
"What, you know who wrote it ?" asked
Adrian, surprised.
" No, but I can guess; some old busy.
body. The housekeeper, perhaps."
What, Mrs. Merrable ? That good old
him comfort. There was the sound of the . race, with a row of cypresses on each side , soul never did anything underhand or tried
piano in the drawing -room, but not his of the walk. to make mischief in her Rife. But whoever
This terrace had ever been a favorite pro- my informant was, I am grateful to the
mother's touch. A modern waltz lightly
menade with the ladies of the Beltield hand that lifted the veil. You and Miss
played; fitfully, as if the player were pre-.
Deverill nitght have left me in my fool's
occupied. Scarcely had the white gown vanished paradise ever so much longer."
He noticed this detail as he opened the
door and went in. Helen was seated at the itito darkness, when a man's figure ekirted "There you wrone no both. Things had
the lawn upon the oppositeside and then come to a crisis to -night, and it would have
piano at the farther end of the room, her
disappeared in the shrubbery. 'There was been our duty to confess the truth to you
head bent ever the keys, in an attitude of
jnat light enough for Adrian to Identify that to -morrow. All I wanted to be sure of
self-abasement; Valentine was leaning upon
s hurrying figure as his brother Valentine. was that Helen would give up an ample for -
the piano, talking to her, his head close to
He went cut, bareheaded and crossed the tune and the privilege of being Lady Bel -
to here, his lips almost touching her hair.
of lawn to the shrubbery. Hia quick ear caught field, in order to share a younger brother's
The girl started guiltily at the opening
the sound of a man's footsteps on the wind- pittance, and the obscurity of a younger
the door; the man went on talking, moving .
g
mpath, and with that foi his guide it was brother's position."
not a muscle.
"Say yes," he urged; " say yes." easy for him to follow in the right direction, " And Miss Deverill has made her '
chrtice9.'
though neither figure was visible in the "Well, I believe she was on the point of
"Well, yes, if you like," she answered,ch
carelessly, and resumed the waltz, whi
thickly shaded paths by which he went. making it definitely when you interrupted
she had stopped for a moment. He knew he was gaining upon them pre- us."
She played more brilliantly than ueutzl, it sently, for he could hear their voiceEs at in- "1 can at least simplify the question,'
tervals, faint gusts of sound blown towards said Adrian, icily, "by assuring Mis
seemed to Adrian, with the spasmodic
hint on the evening air. He followed to the Deverill that after what has happened to
brilliancy of an indifferent, unscientific play-
, who incts of executiozi
d dash sloping bank, and standing there in the night, I withdraw all claim upon her ficklit
shadow of a cypress saw them on the moon- or her consideratiou. She may hold herself
now and then, occasional moments in which lit walk below him. He was near enough to as free as the eummer wini that is blowing
the &Igen have an unaccustomed precision
and power. She played for the next ten them to hear every word, every Meath, and in our faces."
harriedhe had to oontrol his own breathing "Forgive me," she cried, with passionate
minutes—a waltz, a mazurka, a nocturne of
Chopin's : all with the same air of being en- lest they should hear him. They were entreaty; "oh, forgive me, Adrian. I hate
• d b h . standing by the waterside, she was clasped myself for my inconstancy, my vveakness,
Then she rose from the piano hurriedly, in his arms, her head upon his breast, and, my folly. Be more merctial to me than
and went across the room to Adrian. Adrian could hear her sobs in the stillnesa, am to myself. Forgive me 1"
"How early you are down 1" she said. the passionate sobs of a despairing love. "When Icon," he anewered, and bit them
" There is nothing strange in that," he Never had his arms so enfolded her, never without another word.
had her passionate tears been shed for him. He had left the Abbey before Helen came
answered coldly, but you are not getter- "Break with him, dearest, yes, of course down to breakfa,at next morning, and he left
ally so early. What compact were you.
making with Valentine just novv." you must break with him. You were meant the following letter for his brother to be mine, not his. He has moat of the "Von have shown yourself my superior
His brother was sitting at a book table good things in this life. He ia the elder born, as a loy,er, you. have in all other ammo -
near the piano, reading a nevvspaper, and the honored and wealthy. But I have you, plishments in which men wish to excel. I
apparently unconscious of anything going ort and I mean to keep you, and hold you submit to fate, which gave me failure and
in the room.
" It is about our tennis tournament. We against a kingdom of brothers,"
are to have a tournament you know."
I think you he used me ill, and that
Helen heti IWO. MP Wqr80 ; but it is a (pal-
ity of nay nature to love you, and even
while mnarting under the ono Of a deep
wrong, you are etill to me something more
than a brother. Yell are 8. part of myeelf.
Ile as happy as you on, and veill take
comfort in my desolation from the themolit
of your happineas. But above ell things Qa a bright mintier morning there are
make her happy. She is ell that is lovely feer plosanter places In all Europe than
and sweet in womanhood, but she leeks one of the great pine forests of uorthern
strewth of character or atebility of porpose, Ramie. The whole air is fragrant with the
ea you heve already . proved, Bear with rich scent of the woods, and atray aunbearns
her, and be patient with her, A8. I Would play peep -bo amid the floating shadows, and
have been, tier nature will expand like a bright-eyed squirrels flit hither aud thither
flower in the warmth of your love, but it tonoog the trees, and birds twitter merrily
will be warped and withered by unkinclneas overhead, and every now and then a stordy
or neglect, resign her to you as a tutored Rassiao boy, round.faced and yellow.
trust. Let mo never have to call you to AO, haired, conies trudpiug past, With basket
count for her peace of mind. When <moo of naushroome in his hand, looking up at
ray mind and heart are reoenelled to my you as he passes with wide wondering ogee,
lose, I shell accept position as your But the forest is a very different place
wife's brother, and Mizell %satiate all. a when the winter made are howling and the
brother's responsibilities. Ta. Helen I am winter onows are lying deep, and not a
leaving Etogland in the hope that abeence gleam. of atuashine broke the cold, gray,
rimy teaoh me the lesson of forgiveness. lowering aky, over which the great clouds
Good-bye." roll up thick and dark, ia gritn warning of
the coming storm. Then is the time to pull
nisi was all but in a letter to Lady
your far °tip well over your face, and head
Belfield, Adrian explained that he was going
to London, whence he would start for Nor. as straight as you eau for the nearest log
hut, glancing warily about you as you go,
way, aftor a day or two spent in prepare -
lest you should saddenly find yourself con -
tion for his jonroey. He meant to spend
the almoner and early autumn in Norway fronted by the pout gray body and sharp
white teeth of a hungry wolf on the lookout
and Swedee, and thence to go to Vienna and
to follow the Danube nouthward and winter for " immething nioe.for supper."
in Greece. So thought Verde, (Johnny) Masloff,
ic If you should feel tempted to join me Russian peasant boy belonging to the ham.
let of Paylovsk, in the northernmost corner
during any part of my travels,' would go to
of the Province of Vologda, as he struggled
Frankfort to meet you, end would adapt my
homeward through the frozen forest at
wanderings to your comtort and pleasure.
nightfall. He 1 ad been sent on an errand
My engagement is broken—suddenly, like
a dream from which one ewakeneth. All by his father to another village several miles
the good fairies were at my brother's ohris. off, and had spent so much time in games
with some of his playmates there, after his
tuning feast, and one of them gave him power
over the heart of woman. Ho has stolen work was done, that the eau was setting
Helen's love, almost involuntarily, I believe, when he darted on his way back.
so you must not upbraid him with treaohery.
Make the best of the position, dear mother, of Itthewfraoasatydaisinar faelltelvikeneinageoldThheanndhi
l press-
dotueas
all you can for your younger son and his ed against Vania's face to push him baok.
betrothed, and be assured of illy co-operation The rising wind moaned drearily among the
in all you do." frozen trees that stood up white and gaunt
on every side like giant skeletons, and the
The letter was a shock to Lady Belfield.
darkeuiug sky showed that there would be
Her loyal nature revolted against Helen's
treachery. She, who was truth itself, could more snow before morning.
Vania WA8 a brave country boy, accustom.
not understand how any other woman could
ed to "rough it" in all weathers; and he
be false. However her heart might secretly
would have cared little for either wind or
incline to the way ward,self-indulgent young.
snow had that been all. But there was
er son, her sense of honor and justice were
outraged by his triumph. something else which was troubling him
much more. In the thick wood that he was
Helen came into the breakfast -room while traversing—a gloomy place even in broad
Lady Belfield sat with Adrian's letter in her
daylight— it had grown so dark the moment
hand. The girl's white face and hollow eyes,
the sun sank that even he, who knew every
with traces of prolonged weeping, made a
foot of the way by heart, began to fear that
silent appeal to the mother's pity, but even
he must have got off the right track, for the
that remorseful countenance could not lessen snow -drifts seemed to grow deeper and deep -
Constance Belfield's contempt for the of-
er as he advanced.
fender.
This thought (in itself anything but a
"I find, Helen, that I have been looking
pleasant one) was :quickly followed by an
on at a comedy, and that you had your own
other even more diEquieting. Out of the
seorets, while I thought you were to me as a
cold black depths of the forest rose sudden.
daughter, and that I knew your heart as a
ly a hollow, long -drawn, dismal sound,
mother knows the heart of her child.'
which Vania had heard too often not to
"Do mothers always know ? ' faltered know it at once for the cry of a wolf, or
Helen. "There are things in this life that rathter of several wolves together.
no one can reckon against. Oh, Lady Bel- The boy started to run, for with such
geld, forgive me if you can. can' h
t -°iP enemies on his trail there was no time to be
your despising me : I don't wonder at it. lost. But any one who has tried running
He has told you how base I have been," with through knee-deep snow (especialty with the
a glance at the open letter, "but indeed if stifling cold of a Russian winter taking
you only knew, if I could ever make you away one's breath at every step) knows
understand how I struggled, how I tried to what fearfully exhausting work it is. He
be good and true, and how my heart went had barely advanced fifty yards when the
to Valentine in spite of myself. Indeed, horrible cry broke out again, sharper,fiercer,
agied not to love him—tried to hate him, to nearer than before. The monsters had
avoid him, to shrink from all contace with scented their prey, and were in full chase
him, but it was all in vain. From the of him
hour we first met, a fatal, foolish, mistaken Vania looked around him as he ran, with
meeting 011 1227 part, a cruel sport on his— a numb horror such as he had never felt
front that hour I was lost, my fidelity to before tightening round his bold heert.
Adrian was shaken, and I began to ask mY- He was now in tills very worst place of all—
self if I had ever really loved him." a wide clearing in the Forest, where all the
She flung herself on her knees before Lad
trees had been felled except a iew. If the
Belfield and buried her tearful face in the wolves caught him there, he was lost, and
mother's lap, (fobbing heart brokenly. T
-t their yells seemed to come nearer and near -
was hardly possible to be angry with a
creature so bowed down by remorse and the er every moment.
All at once a dark shadowy mass loomed
consciousness of her own sin. up right in front of him, plain even amid
'My child, it is tlae most miserable turn the blackness against the ghostly white of
that fate could have taken," said Constance the snow. He knew at once that it must
Belfield with sad seriousnese. be the huge pile of split logs which he had
"Von were all the world to Adrian, and noticed in passing that afternoon, and he
the loss of your love may darken all the sprang up it like a wildcat; but he had
beat years of his life. He is not the kind of barely reached the top when the gloom
man to recover quickly or easily from such around him was alive with whisking tails
a blow. You will never be all the world to and gnashing teeth and fiery greenisn-yel-
my other son. I have 'studied them both low oye0.
from their cradles, and know what stuff The next moment the evolves were leaping
each is made of. Fondly as I love Valen- up at him on every side; but luckily the
tine, I am not blind to his faults. He lia,s woodpile was too high for them to reach the
passionate, self-willed nature, and to be top with one bound, and Vania, snatching
loved by him will not be all sunshine. This up a piece of wood, struck so fiercely among
young head will not eseame the storms of the scrambling monsters that at every stroke
life, Helen, if you are mated with my son a wolf dropped back into the snow, howliug
Valentine. It as your heart that will home with pain, with a crushed paw or a broken
to bear the heavier burden in your life head,
journey, it is you who will have to suffer The yells of the wild boats and the ehouts
and submit. Adrian would have subjugat- of Vania himself made such a din amid the
ed his own ivelinatione to moire you happy- dead silence of the lonely forest that the
Valentine will expect you to yield to him ha boy began to hope that some one might hear
all things." it, and come to his assistance? But the help
'1 know that he is My master," ansveer- for which he was looking seemed likely to
ed Helen, in a low voice. "If his will were come too late; for the constant scrambdng
not stronger than mine I should have been of the wolves up the sides of the wood -pile,
and Vania's violent leaps to and fro on its
top, had begun to loosen the logs, which
were already tottering, and must soon, roll
down altogether, Miming the poor lad right
among the bloodthirsty jaws that were gap.
ing and gnashing for him below.
But just when all seemed over, an unlook-
ed for way of escape suddenly presented it-
self. A pale gleam of moonlight breaking
through the gathering storm -clouds show ed
our hero a single tree standing behind the
wood.pile, and only a few feet away from it.
Could he make a spring and clutch one of
the branches, and so swing himself up into
the tree, he would be safe.
gathering all his strength for the perilous
leap—for he knew that if the first attempt
failed he would never live to re eat n. .t,..
YOT.IN(1, FOLKS,
----
BESUGED BY WOINBB.
AN' ADYANWhIlE WOUTITERN111:70STA,
true to Adrian. I know that in our life to
' come I shall be his slave—his fond adoring
slave. But I shall be utterly happy if he
• always loves me as he loves me now.
Nothiog ill this life could be misery, for me
so long as I am sure of his affection. '
"It would be bard if that should ever
waver, when you have eacrificed so much—
principle, self-interest—for his sake. You
know that your poeition as Valentine's wife
will be very different from what it would
have been as Lady Belfield."
"I have never thought of position—not
even when 1 aceepted Adder. I thought it
would be nice to have a home of my own,
and to hear no more of debts and difficulties
and unpaid rents. That is all I ever thought
of front a mercenary pont of view.
(TO BB .ONTIN17..4d.) daring lad shot out into the empty air. The
wolves yelled and leaped up at him, bueit
was too late. 'crania had seized the nearest
Shinplaster fractional currency is likely bough. The slender limb bent and cracked
terribly beneath his weight, but it did not
give way, and in another moment he wee
ea% among the higher branches, jeei 88 the
whole tine of logs came crashing down at
once, burying three or four of the wolves
underneath it.
But n ow that he was sitting up on this
tummy perch, cramped and no loner kept
warm by the violent exertion of beating off
the wolves, the piercing cold of the wintry
uight began to tell Upon him in emotion
ania was a true R1.1881Atl, and could bear
without flinching a degree of odd that
Would have killed a native of a warmer
clime outright; but even be now began to
feel that he could not steal retch more of
this, and must either drop down among the
wolves or be frozen whore he sat.
A flach, a crack, a sharp cry from the
neared wolf, e lusty shout of several voices
at (me, and a broad glare of light through
the gloom wand the dowardly beats hate it
general scamper. The last of them had
hardly vanished into the thicket e when
Vatiht's father, three or four other peasants
with axes and plod torches, and the village
Watchman with his gun, came just in time
to catch the half-froXert bey ee hexf:RII. t-•
ing among them.
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"Indeed I know nothing about it. The
toureament will be something to live for I
suppose,"
"Oh, Adrian, you never spoke to me be-
fore with a sneer."
"Did I not? There must be a beginaing
for all things,"
She stood lookleg at him, stricken,
guilty. That light nature might be false,
but was not yet ekilled ia hypocrisy. His
mother mitered the room at this moment,
and he went over to her, taking no further
;notice of Helen.
His heart was as heavy as lead. Good
heaver8, what an idiot he had been to need
this rough awakening to an obvious bitter
fact; what a blind, besotted idiot he must
have been not to zee that which was visible
to every sertnnt Mills mother's house,
I trusted her so completely,' he said to
himaelf, 1 thought her so pure add true,"
Not for a rnomerib after that revelation.
could Adrian doitht that hie brother had
stolezi the heart of hia betrothed.
"Nature made hiin to rule and me to
or -e," he told himself, "How could
ever hope to be nieteriOust Where hetwovtld
be a coiripetiter. He hag beaten mein all
disappointment as a peat of my birthright. to come into use again.
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Qaeon Victoria travela maw es bile Centtte
etie of Balsnerel,
Valtiable cattle have died in Ountherland
front browsing on the sprine of yew trees.
There are 180,000 liquor sal000s in Eng
lend, 20,000 of whioh are in London.
The Sultan has prohibited the exportation
of Arab horses from any part of his dentin,
knot.
China now furnishes a third only of the
tea used lo England. India furnishes the
greater pert,
It la rumored that the British Govern-
ment will try to establish a tax on bicycles
aml tricycles.
Translators of French worka are so plenty
diet £20 now pays for -she transleaion 01 8117
new French novel.
Sino Sir Morell Mackerzie went to San
Remo to attend, Emperor Frederiefe, he hoe
received fixed weeitly sum. /
Mine. Carnet is said to look not more
than "twenty-five." The Empress of Aus-
tria "cannot be over thirty-five," seer im-
partial obser vers.
A coffee tree in tho palm house M Kew is
now bearing such a crop as, anthorities say,
has been rarely known in tropical countries
either for quantity r quality.
A Swedish farmer has hit upon the idea
of lighting his farm by electric lights, and
has purchased a dynamo and connected it
with a waterfall close by. The man intends
also to eznploy it for working threshing ma-
chines, and for sinailar work.
A Hampshire Justice discharged a home -
maid who pleaded guilty to stealing a cloak,
e muff, a fur boa, and a handkerchief be-
longing to her mistress. The Judge said
that she was only " wearing" the olOthes,
and that wes "a thing that servants did
every day."
Mary Richardson, aged 4, daughter:of a
miner living at Monk Bretton, England, was
playing with several children recently when
some one entered wearing a hideous mask.
The child screamed, and seizing a media
ran up stairs. In her fright she iguited her
clothes and died from the burns.
Eleven years ago the cashier of a bank at
Tuam, county Galway, paid out 100 by
mistake. He was compelled to pay it back
in installments. on March 21 one of the
local priests handed the money to the clerk,
it having been intrusted to hine for reetitu-
tion.
While the propodtion was being made to
reform the House of Lercls this advertise-
ment appeared in the Times: "Secretary-
ship, companion to gentleman, or any posi-
tion of trust vvauted, by a representative of
historic noble house. Unmarried. Can play
organ. 'Unexceptionable references."
The real cause of Emperor Frederick's
suffering at San Remo, and the &acuity of
getting a tube to fit the incision frideis throat,
was that the cut was very bunglingly done.
The windpipe was opened at the able instead
of in the middle. The operator, Dr. Berg-
man, is aaid to have been extremely surv-
eil&
Great preparations have been made ta
Shoeburyness for firing what is known as
the "Jubilee Shot." A nine-inehibreech.
loader will be fired at an eleYationlf 400,
and the carriage has had to be much
strengthened. The range is expected to be
a little over ten miles. Strictly speaking,
for a jubilee ;shot, the gun should have been
elevated to 50 0.
These are the matrimonial experiences of
the daughter of a Parisian wine dealer: 1.
Married a singer. 2. He ran off with
actress. 3. Divorced. 4. Married an ex -
priest. 6. She eloped. 6. Divorced. 7.
Married a Mae or'e son, the officiating magis-
trate being her second husband, vvho showed
no ill -feeling and joined in the subsequent
festivities, after delivering a touching exhor-
tation to the happy couple.
The Morning Star is the smallest ateamer
which has ever made the run between Eng-
land and the Cape. She was designed by
her owner, Capt. R. Duncan, of London,
and was built at Leith. She. is 26 tons,
yacht measurement, is of teak, copper fast-
ened, and is classed A 1. Her length is 50
feet between perpendiculars, over all 56
feet, with 11 feet 2 inches depth of bold.
The Chiuese authorities were offieielly
notified of the last eclipse of the mom, and
were instructed what to do when the event
took place. They were to wear court dress,
beet gongs, and save the moon front being
swallowed up by the sun, as usual, as long
as the moon WESS above the horizon. When
she disappeared they were to make one low
obeisance, but need not bother to save her
any longer when she was below the horizon.
Bob Moody and his son-in-law Billy
Berrie went out honting recently in Maine,
and each killed an old buck. Moody's deer
wouldn't lie still, so the young man came
over and emptied the other barrel of his gun
into it, and went back to his own. Mr.
Moody started to cut the clear's throat, and
stuck the knife through, when the deer
kicked out twice, jaroped up and ran, swam
the river, and got away.
The treatment of sewage by electricity is
to receive a practical test at the Metropoli-
tan (London) Board of Works' outfali at
Crossness. The electric current is said to
have a wonderful disinfecting and purifying
influence. The evolution of gas stirs up the
tbo nascent oxygen is brought into
rapid canted with the impurities and re-
duces them, precipitation is expedited and
tho whole cleansed. It is to be hoped, mye
Araiwre, that the coat will not swamp this
new and useful field for electricity.
Hookmwinging and widow -burning in
India have been abolished ; but it is sold
that in tho dominions there is a
mete in Whieh Wiled any of the members
dies a fiaigie attaehod to a bamboo, and the
bamboo given to A dlidt to hou over the
corpse of the Wormed, Thorn hitting re-
tired to a convenient diatanee the men of
the mete open fire eti the flag, tobably by
way of allowing dietreee, Ova oi helping the
soul of the decettood on its Pommy to the
other world. It Esomoblinee hormone that
the man holding the flag ie shot, and au
order has been lemma by tho Government
prohibiting firing at the flag in Ware.
Mies Leila Robinson, the Woman lawyer,
was some blino ago the arnietarit counsel in a
case in which an important witness was a
man who is in the 14tte1oolmeetta State
Friable on a life sentence. Tho unhappy
wretch had not been out of durance for
seventeen years and it sight of a bit of the
world, even though that bit Wag no more
cheerful or attradive than the Court -room,
finea hie whole owl with a wild joy, no
was so thoroughly delighted that in a mo-
ment of rapture he thtew his ELMO about
Mim Robinson and Mooed her fervently oel a
meow of expressing his appreciation of the
distant glimpse of liberty he had, through
mesani of the summits to the witness box,
enjoyed. The man apologised humbly when
remonstrated with, bet pleaded that he
amid not help it,
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