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To Rath'esurnriee be did uot repeat his
invitation. After n few more words with
Bryant about Appledore and its present
tenant, he tookids leave, his manner tothe
giti being the same as his greeting had been
—friendly, but entirely indiffereut.
Aa Soon as' the visitor had left then),
Bryant looked gravely at his daughter.
"Why do you grudge me a little ohmage ?"
he said in the pathetic tone which he kneW
had power -to move her, "Why' won't you
let me go to Munby I am pith well now
—you know I am."
Ruth stood thinking. Her difficulties
were thickening. She hed always believed
that she had hastened her fatlaer's second
seizure by her confession, to bine on the eve
of her Marriage. She fended that his mem-
ory had been affected by this last illness,
for he had often smoke to her of Michael
es if he were ignorant that she
oared for some one else. • His manner
to Mr. Beviugton to -day had shown her that
he did not in any way suspect the relations
between them. It wag, she coneidered,
essential for her father's oaks that he should
never learn the troth:
"I did nob knciw you oared for change,
dear," she said lovingly. "I aro only think-
ing of Michael. Ibis not my ftiacy ; indeed
it is not, The last time he came to Apple -
clime he spoke very harshly of Mr. Beving.
ton, and I promised him I woMd not will-
ingly see this gentleman again. Do you
not think that my husband would have a
right to be angry if we were to accept Mr.
levington's hospitality ?"
Bryant looked disappointed and fretful.
"That's :Silvery well now," he said, "but
you must excuse me for saying you are in-
consistent. If Michael told you this, how
was it that you stayed talking on the beach
alone with this young man ?"
He was looking at her inquisitively, and
the girl shivered at the danger before her.
She waited no collect her thoughts before
she answered:
"I was telling Mr. Bevington what I had
promised; I let him know that my husband
does not like him."
Bryant's face flushed with vexation.
"That was extremely imprudent and un.
necessary. You are wise for a womantRuth,
but still you are only a woman. No man
would have said such a thing. I am sure
it was very goodneatured of the young fel-
low to armee and see me after such an it -
salt. I'll tell you what it is, my dear, I
don't want to hurt you, and I know there's
no use in meddling between man and wife,
but there's something about Michael's be.
haviour to you that doesn't satisfy me. I
know he sacrificed himself on my account
—tee doctor told me as much when he came
to see us of—but what I don't understand
is this continued absence. He must come
back to Purley now and again. ''Well,then,
why don't he T1111 over to see you V'
Ruth put her hand over her face, and he
thought she was crying.
" There, there, deer child 1" he
said;
"forgive me I Try and forget
whatI've said. I know • you feel as
I do that After what Michael's done for
me I ought not to seer a word against him,
or dispute his wishes. Well I won't say
any more. Kiss me darling; and you shall
help me write a letter to Mr. Bevington.
I'll let him see that we can't accept his
kindness once for all,"
CHAPTER XXXII.
Philip Bryant waa-right when he said
Michael Clifford naust Sometimes have gone
back to Purley. He did not know thtit on
these occasions Michel had contrived to
make his stay as short as possible.
His anger against Ruth ihadsudsided; he
had not been alas, to sustain t, and he so
ardently longed for an excuse to present
himself at the cottage that he was afraid
to remain in Purley, lest he might be tempt
-ed against hite better judgment to Visit
Dolmouth. He knew that his best hope
of winning his wife's love lay in avoiding
her till she should make the first ad-
vance to reconciliation. He could not now
go back to his first idea of trying little by
little to win Ruth's love; their last meet-
ing had made that hope impossible. Ere
would not now take Ruth as hie wife till
he had proof that she no longer loved this
other man. He told himself angrily when
this thought came that she ought never to
have thought of Reginald Bevington as a
lover.
Clifford's own love, however, was Ruth's
best advocate on this point; he could judge
her feelings by his own. He knew that he
ought not to allow himself to care for her
as he did, but when he pried to think this
out and go back to the beginning he could
not find a clew to guide him. He could
not possibly fix a time when he had not
loved the girleeit seemed to him that
he had always thought of her in one
way, and had longed to have her for
his wife. His love seemed to go back
to her very young days, when she
was still studying with her grand-
father, and when Michael had only had
occasional glimpses c f her, and had dreamed
out a possible future as he rode back to
Parley.
Only one fact stood out clearly revealed
to him as he thought of his disastrous
marriage. If Ruth could not bring herself
to love him his life was irretrievably mar-
red. He knew that he could not thine of
any other woman, even if it were possible
to free himself from Ruth. She had even
come between bins and Dorothy, for he
could not forge this sisters' just and wet -
founded warning, and he could not forget
the jar it had caused between them.
He had invited himself to spend Christ.
was with his brother in Scotland, and he
was now on his way. He hoped to per.
suede Dorothy to come and stay with him
at parley as goon as hie house was ready.
At present the brick -layers were idle;
there had been a sharp frost for a fortnight,
and this seemed likely to continue. Ti the
weather should change before the end of
January the builder &soured Mr. Clifferd
the house could be ready for occupation by
March. Clifford longed to be at home
agalte and yet he was now asking himself
what excuee he should make when the
house was ready to receive het, for hie
wife's continued absence.
It was a relief to reach the end of hie
journey. Late ae it was he rejoiced to see
that his brother lived on the feather side of
the little town of Dalgarno. There Was
glimmer enough left to show hihi that the
square house stood by iteelf in its own
grounds main the country."
The sight of Dorothy was very cheering.
She looked stronger and healthier than he
had ever Seth her, and he was rejoiced to
see hie tall, bronzed brother whom he had
not seen for More than a year.
At breakfast next morning he was intro -
dined to his two nieces, Maggie and Lucy.
Since he had eon them they' had passed
from children /MOa oeaple of fair-001mA
dark -eyed girls. They reminded him of
their fair, eweet Scotch mother ; they had
her yellow hair and her eat, kind voice:,
with their father's da 'it eyes, and tall,
erect fignre. It pleased Michael to see how
devoted they 'were to Aunt Dorothy,"
and he Was surprised to see the change
whieh increased respemsibilities had worked
in Dorothy. She was twice as brisk, ;r -ore
like the thoughtful mether of a family than
the petted invalid she had been at Purley,
"You are stronger, are you not ?" he
said to her.
"I hope so," she answered, "but do
you know I begin to think I might have
done a, great deal more than I did ae Purley
if you had not spoiled me. You see I had
grown to think your notion that I was not
strong enough to be useful was correct.
Instead of trying to find out for myeelf,
how much I really could do, 1 simply
indulged myself at your expense."
It was delightful to Michael after hit
long solitude from all family ties to find
himself once moreavitla those who loved
him. It was especially delightful to be
again with Dorothy ; but for a day or two
he avoided any opportunity of finding
himself alone with his sister.
Dorothy had divined this avoidance ; she
also shrank from a talk which muet neces-
sarily turn on her brother's marriage.
Hitherto she had only slacken,of his wife
when she inquired for her and for Mr.
Bryant. At last the chance came, David
Clifford took his daughters into•Edinburgh
to see an old friend of their mother's, and
Michael said he should ets.y at home with
Dorothy and take a walk with her on the'
moor behind the house. The house stood
alone. In front there was a view of the
river backed by fields, but behind was a
wide -spreading moor that stretched up,
heather -covered, to the pine, drowned hill.
The sun was shining brightly, and Dore-
thy's pale cheeks glowed with the keen,
bleak air and exercise as she led the way
across the moor.
"I wish you could have seen this heather
in autumn," she said; "it was such a
glorious purple against the blue-greenof the
pines I Those brown masses of faded
blossoms show you what it was. Higher
up the heather grows so deep that when I
played 'hide-and-seek' with Maggie and
Lucy they could not find me; I only had to
sit down and the ling bushes hid me com-
pletely."
Dorothy's "hide-and-seek" amused Mich-
ael. •
"I'm afraid Purley will seem very slow
and dull after Dalgarno," he said; "and
yet, dear, I want you to come to me for
awhile, when the house is free of work -
people."
Dorothy looked up at him, and she saw
that he was smiling, as he waited for her
answer.
"You will not wane me then," she said;
"you will have your wife."
He did not leek vexed; he seemed to
have his answer ready.
•
"I hardly think so, Dr. Buchan told me
that Mr. Bryant has a very weak heart;
he does not think he can live long. I doubt
if he could bear the fatigue, of another
move. Buchan considers that fresh seizure
would carry him off.; he says the pure air
and the quiet of a place like Dohnouth
are more likely to prolong my old friend's
life than a market -town, which occasionally
has some stir and bustle in it. Don't you
think it would be really selfish to ask my
wife to bring her father to live in Purley ?"
"I always told you you were like
Sir Galahad, Michael," she said impetuous-
ly. "You are too good in this case. I only
wonder how your wife can bear to stay
away from you; I suppose she is very good
too." She felt that her lip was curling,
and she also felt that she was on very ten-
der ground. She suddenly stooped to
gather a tuft of moss which lay gleaming,
a brilliant,- tender green., at the bottom of
a little heath pool thawed by `the warm
sunshine. She did not see her brother
suddenly redden under his stern mask
of self-control.
"My wife is extremely unselfish, Doro-
thy. I can't bear to think what the
leas of her father will be to her."
Dorothy felt irritable. It was natural,
she thought, that Ruth should be fond of
her father, and all theselnonthe the devot-
ed sister had been trying to accept Michael's
very singular arrangements in the light he
gave them; but in Dorothy's opinion a
woman's love for her husband must exceed
any mere family affection—especially when
Michael was the husband in queestion.
She gave him a cheering smile.
"Ruth will grieve a good deal, my dear
boy, but she will get over it. Time ie a
wonderful healer'and I'm sure she Will
resign herself to God's will. You will go
to her at ones when it happens, will you
riot? And you will certainly be able to
comfort her.'•
"I hope so." He turned from the sub-
ject and began hurridly to tell her about
his last foreign journey. He had come
home through Germany and he had met
with some amusing experiences in, his en-
deavors to make himself 'understood. He
made his sister laugh till she quite forgot
her discontent about Ruth.
"If she only knew the truth," Michael
said to himself as they went back to the
house, "if she •could only guess it how
angry my little Dorothy would be I"
He told himself she should never learn
it. No one should ever know how Ruth
had deceived him. He meant that part of
their lives to be a buried, memory between
him and his wife. Dorothyshouldnever know
it. Hie vislit to Dalgarno had done him
good; he was becoming hopeful. The
rest from incessant work, the freshness of
his surroundings, and the delight of being
with those of whose affections he felt sure,
had helped to heal the heart -wound he had
received on his visit to Appledore. He
took walks with his brother; he skated
with his nieces, who were extremely elated
by their uncle's companionship; but at
the end of a week his restleeenees - had
returned. -
At breakfast he told his brother and
Dorothy that he was due next day in
Nor,foflk.
‘Ithe house is ready," he said, to
David, "you will spare Dorothy to me at
Raster ? And why should you not come
too, David, for a few days—you and the
girls?" s ,
So it •was eettled, and Michael announced
his intention of travelling by the night
express to his destination. Ile Said he had
taken a most unusual holiday, and that he
must make up f QV it by saving as much
time as possible.
0.You will not have shirted before Iconic
llama," David said, "I shall bring the
sseolla Past, ancl who knows but that
I may bring in Something to change your
mind ?"
Miehael smiled; he had promised to take
his nieces to play golf some distance off,
and the expedition would take the best
part of the clay, as they were to lunch at a
T I111.t S
friends house. Dorothy walked part of
the way with them, and mine home rather
of Michael's wish that she ehM,11(1 s'o bitch
Sealy by. herself. She smiled as she thought
to Purley; elm determined if he did net
forbid it that she woalid go over to Dol.
mouth and make acquaintance with Ruth,
It ivOuld humanize the relations between
them; for Ruth's answer to Dorethies letter
on her marriage had been so formal that it
was evident she did no wish for a corres-
pondence. And also the astute Dorothy
promised herself to discover whether Rath
could not be persuaded to give up her
watch over her father for a few weeks
and devote herself to her husband,
"I am much better fitted to take care of
MrsBryant now than I was when he came
toPurley," she said rejoicing in her new
etook of health;
The golfing party did not reach home
Long before David did. The girls, full
of excitementund delight, gathered round
their father, buzzing out all they had to
tell, especially to recount Uncle 1Vlichaers
exploits ; while their allele was busy with
the contents of a packet of letters brought
in for him by hie brother,
Dorothy sat watching Michael; and she
sew that he kept one letter in his hand
while he read the others. She guessed that
the reserved letter was from his wife, and
when he had left the room she felt sure that
he had gone to enjoy the letter in private.
The others went away, but Dorothy sat
waiting till Michael came back. She saw
as be entered his face was Jul], of suffering;
he came up to her and in a low, dejected
tone; "Something very sad has happened,
dear. My poor old friend has gone. • Ruth
bee lost her father."
Dorothy stared at him in wonder'; he
seemed unhinged, 'utterly cast down, and
yet he had himself said that Mr. Bryant
had not long to live. She pulled herself to-
gether and thought of Ruth and her sorrow.
"Poor girl !" she said tenderly; " you
will go to her at once,won't you, Michael?"
His face hardened as she looked at him.
"I cannot," he said roughly ; " I am clue
at Norwich to -morrow; two hard -worked
business men are coming to meet me there
the day after to -morrow; I cannot break
the appointment. And there is something
else of a pressing nature; I am asked by a
man who has always been one of my best
friends to go with him to look at some land
considerably.south of Vienna. We have to
start in three days; I do not see howl can
go to Ruth." '
porothy was staring at him in utter sur-
prise.
"But, Michael,you must go to your wife.
How can she manage all alone! There will
be the funeral, you know."
"That will be over by now; she did not
write directly,and the letter has been de-
layed by going to Purley. I suppose she
thought I had returned. I had not told
her I had lengthened my visit here." He
paused and began to walk up and down the
room. Presently he came back to his
sister.
"I want you to do something for me,
Dorothy. „I want you to go to Ruth,"
Dorothy ' felt in a mist; she began to
think that Michael and his wife had cer-
tainly quarrelled. She had thought it
strange that he had not spent Christmas at
Dohnouth; yet if there had been a coolness
, between them she fancied that Ruth's
piesent sorrow ought to heal any cause of
disagreement.
" I will go if you wish it," she said
slowly, "and I will do all loan; but I am
afraid I crtnnot be of much use in comfort-
ing a person I have never tieen.
"I know, you better than you know
yourself," he answered. "You will be able
to
help and comfort Ruth. You knew her,
father and you liked him; and I am sure
"the longs for sympathy, though she says
she wiehes to be alonelust at first. If you
can be ready to start in two days' time I
will write and telLher to expect you. She
must not be alone, even if she wishes ib."
" Of course not--" Dorothy hesitated;
she up at her brother's saddened
face.
"I know I ought not to interfere" [she
felt almost too 'nervous to get her words
out], "but Michael dear, if you could only •
go to her for a day it would be so much
better in every way." Dorothy oould not
understand her brother's conduct:. Of course
his wife ought to have summoned him at
once, but the poor thing had perhaps been
stupefied with her sorrow just at first. "I
dare say it Was all very sudden," she•adcl-
ed softly.
"Ruth does not enter into detail she
only says there was another seizure and
there was no return of consciousness. She
called in the Dolmouth doctor, and he told
her it would be useless to summon Buchan,
She says all Was over before Buchan could
have reachedDolmouth. The rector there
has been very kind. Once for all, I 04/1110V
go to her ; if you will take my place it will
be a great relief to me to knovr you are
with her."
" I will go whenever you. like, Michael."
He had decided to put coffins own start
till to -morrow, and he now sat down beside
Dorothy and Planne'd out her journey with
his usual rapidity. He told- her that he
should probably be absent two months, and
that when he returned to Purley, if the
house was still unfinished, he should join
her and Ruth at Dohnouth.
During the evening he and Dorothy were
unusually silent. His strange abruptness
had convinced the loving sister that there
was some mystery, between. Michael and
his wife which he did not care to explain.
Meanwhile Michael was in a strange
state of alternate hope and depression, He
wonderedwhatDorothy would have thought
of his wife's letter. At night when he
went to his room he read it through again.
Ruth began by telling him tffiet her father
had died three days. before; she told this
simply, but with a sadness that brought
tears to her husband's eyes.. She said the
rector had been very kind to her, and had
helped her in making arrangements for
the funeral. "lam Sure," the letter went
on, "your first feeling will be to come to
me in my trouble. I entreat you not to
do. this ;I could not bear it. Please leave
ine"to myself. I owe you too much already,
and 1 do not wish to add to the .debt. No,
Michael; it, is not only that, I must tell,
you the whole truth. I am trying to look
at my future life really, and by God's help
I hope to do my duty to you, whether you
forgive me or not. But do not let us meet
yet; let things take their course. If we
force ourselves to be friends, if we meet
now, it will only Make our future, what-
ever that may beamore diffleult. Do not
come to DolmOuth ; but now that I am
alone, if you will sometimes Write to me I
shall be thankful to get your letters."
Michael felt less hopeful when he had
tend the letter again.
"Women are governA:by their feelings
he said to himself. "Her father's death
has made her penitent ata emotional. She
perhaps feels that she has unsettled and
spoiled my life, If she were really sorry
elle would be glad to give some proof of it,
she would have asked me to come to her
and the would have written at once."
He grieved for the loss of hie old friend
and for Ruth's bet the sore ill-used
'feeling had come baok, lie oeuld uot
bring himself to forgive his wife's persis-
tent avoidance of him, or to feel as kindly
towards her as he bed been feeling When
her Letter reached WM.
(TO DE oolasnatualn.)
ECHOES OF THE CREAT STRIKE.
,
The HeSi Weapon or the laboring Classes
IS the Dallot,
Withlbe lingering echoes of the great
and clisaetrous strike in the United States
its folly and infutility is beginning to dawn
upon its promoters and chief sufferers.
Once more the unequal contest between
capital and labor has been decided in fever
of the army which was best supplied with
the sinews of war. The great railroad
strike, as did also the coal strike, has ended
in disaster to the poor end the triumph of
the rich. The reports of statisticians give
the logs in the last strike alone at from
$90,000,000 to $100,000,000, without includ-
ing indirect loss in curtailing the summer
traffic and delaying the delivery of manu-
factured seasonable goods. Of this nearly
$70,000,000 was lost by the workingmen.
What a fearful goat in misery and suffering
this unequal struggle has entailed upon
the helpless and innocent dependents of
labor. The best and most effective weapon
of organized labor is not that which strikes
down by starvation its helpless and de-
pendent wives and little ones. The beet
weapon of the workingman, both for de-
fence and. _offence is the ballot, and until
organized labor goes as a solidified aggres-
sive army into the arena of politics aid
strikes at the root of industrial oppression
there cap be no amicable adjustment of
labor disputes and legalized protection of
the weak against the strong. Once let the
labor element assert its powers by obtaining
control Of Parliament, and strikes will
cease because labor will be the power
supreme in the framing of social and other
legislation. A strike is a contest between
a weak, unarmed main with a helpless
family dragging,at his waist, and a well.
fed, well -armed opponent, clad in the ar-
mor of wealth, with starvation standing
over to umpire the fight.
COREANS STARVING.
Munger the Most Decided Foe They Have
to Contend With.
Mr. Ye Sung Soo, Corean Charge d'Aff-
aires at Washington has recently received
espitches from Seoul which reveal a most
alarming and pitiful condition of affairs
among the people of that rocky peninsula.
A long letter from his son, written some
time before the Chinese and Japan troops
invaaed the country, confirms beyond all
doubt the belief that the most decided foe
the people of the little kingdom have to
contend with is starvation. Hundreds are
ding daily. .Some struggle_ ,to maintain
themselves, but others commit suicide rath-
er than contend against hopeless chances.
. This horrible condition has been brought
a,boutley the failure of the -crops for two suc-
cessive years. Last year theywere ruined be-
cause there was too much rain, which wash-
ed away all that was planted and growing.
This year there has been a long -continued,
drought, which has been equally disas-
trous.
The suffering
produced
by these events
among a population• of ten millions of
people who are strictly agricultural is very
great. Farming is the onlyindustry of Corea,
and although there is some money in cir-
culation, it is very little, and the Govern-
ment in nollecting taxes for its support is
forced tri take rice, grain; beans, and'even
horses and cows.
Last year the Government storehouses
were thrown open to supply the people
with. food and seed. This year the store-
houses were empty. Then (allowed riot
and rebellion among the natives, who were
starving. It was this rebellion that brought
the troops of China and Japan. What food
and provision were left have beentakenby
theinvading armies. ,
The Japanese fleet has closed the princi-
pal port, which is really the mouth of the
kingdom, and the Chinese soldiers are
quartered at the capital, or heart, and are
playing sad havoc with it.
ENGLISH TOURIST'S ADVENTURE.
Suspended from,a Cliff While Gathering
Wild Flowers.
Mr. H. J. Staff,' a kj.verpool clerk on a
touring trip in Ireland, has had a remark-
able escape from death at Howth. On
Tuesday evening he descended by the
grassy slopes which lie some distance
downward from the top of the cliffs for the
purpose of gathering wild flowers. He was
thus engaged at a point between the dee
of Howth and the Bailey Lighthouse when
he accidentally cnissed hie footing and
went toppling 'downward. This occurred
at -about 5:45 o'clock, and when he awoke
to consciousness about 9 o'clock, three
hours afterward, Mr. Staff found himself
resting on a platform abopt a foot wide,
lying between two ledges of rock, and on
hich some stones and herbage had
accumulated.
The intervening three hours were passed
in merciful oblivion. His position was one
calculated to make -the stoutest heart Oral.
Above him the cliffs towered to a height
of 200 feet, while the waves played 100
feet beneath him. Here he was, suspended
between heaven and earth, with only an
insecure resting place intervening between
him and almost certain death. He called
for assistance, but in vain. As the night
wore on he still continued to call at inter.
vale, but still no answer came. Morning
at length broke, and with it came rescue
About 7 o'clock John Leyland and Andrew
Moore, two fishermen, were engaged in
hauling lobster pots, when the cries from
the cliff reached them. They saw the
awful position of the man on his perilous
petch. They rowed the boat to a point
beneath. him, said Leyland attempted to
climb to his assistatice, balmn vain. Moore
advised him to return to the boat, and he
did so, and both men tented to Howth for
assistance. The knowledge of the coming
help inspired the poor fellow with renewed
courage. The the,
on arriving at
Ilowth, acquainted the police with the
state of °Rant, and ultimately, after further
exciting scenes, a rescue party of coast
guardsmen succeeded in removing the
unfortunate man frotrahis perilous position;
no sooner had they done so than the plat-
form of rock came crashing to the foot of
the cliff.
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