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The Brussels Post, 1901-8-22, Page 2, .).tifgoifwermii.womm(ciivti.. :1)0 ".Tbe WoOhlg constantla,' The - Red Witch 4)Kehli.3:0•34,1041.E.M00.1WKVii.,WWW1i4V.,41;44100i1:0.40t. "Marry him 9 Why did I merrY: anxiously ; "but you 1 van trust, Mut ? Oh, well," said sbe, with a Donna -I suppose 9" fittle light 1atigh, "that's just it,, "Suppeio it by all means." YOU :lee. I wish 1 cetild 1 -di you. I' /landau smiled blandly, and thrOW Sc U o really, But the fact iS, I dou't,bisettit to the forgiven terrier with know raz,self," 1111 ilnerring atm "Lad, they have 81m elmePe:I., aa if she had said ail , been married -11m -long 9" there waS to be said, and dropped "Two years. There. was some ay - another lump of sugar into the little eangemeat between the fainilles-e, delicate eggshell cup bafore"her, !some money mutters -that made it 'Money is a power," remarked her almost a necessity that they should couSie, eeatantiouffly. bo married. Tho old .man was por- "And Ile is possessed cif it ? Yes itlytic, They eald another stroke she paused again and then would kill him. lIe ,was especially looked up •with one• of her brilliant ' nnxious about tho inatca beeause- ' stailee, "There is somoblfing i thatoi Yoleude wee alone it the world, end. r I dare say," fffie said airily. ',Frederic was her nearest relative, "I raust always thiak, that any- told . the estntes adjoined, I can thing so unsuited as—" I understand such a fear as that,. The "AS lie is to me 9 That's so, eel, Gra 1111141 00 tho verge Of the grave, teinlY," interrupted Mrs. Dundas and her accertanco or refusal ut his • complaeettly. , 1 decree the point on Whiell 11 10 100 "As yeti aro to him, 1 vas 'going might hang, Yolanda obeyed to eay, went on her 0011SID, 191th a, "Which all means that she married ealm glance. "Were you 9 You should show more speed." $lm smiled again, and. turned her lirnly face full opon. Coe- sLantict. That the girl regarded her with distrust and suspicion she knew but the knowledge cost her nothing. A good,inany people regerded her in the eame light. There Was aillUS0- went to be got. out of it always, and sometimes a little revenge, whiel1 to women is often sweet. "And so you •think Mr. Dundee too good for mar" -she said, leaning forward and iiiciug her groat velvety eyes on Constentia. "That does Dot matter -and I did not say so. What eeally surprises ne all is, that you dld not Marry Lord Varley." "Lord Verity. I" Mrs. Dundas for quit* half -a -minute regarded Cott- stantio, with a settled attention, over the head 01 the Maltese terrier lying upon her lap. TIaviug satisfied her- eelf, she went, dn. "Oh I" she said, with the air of one who has solved some troublesome puzzle. "I hrLllY understood you. Ile was not Lord Varloy then -when. I knew him, you must remember. We parted" -she paused-"becau,se-ehicily, I ildukt because of what the vulgar would term jealousy. On his part, you will understand. IIe was always a trite difficult, that poor, Frederic 0Them was a wretched bittle Italian prince, and there were his presents -chocolate M elaborate • boxes -or were 11_09 pearls 9 One forgets. At all events, after them came the deluge -for Fre- deric. You put Inc through my paves so I feel bound to 'recollect if it were pearls or sweetmeats. Dot really it tries me ; it is so long Toet us say pearls." said Con- stantia, aryl/. "By all moans, if you think it ats more neatly, and gives , better e8.1150 for the rupture. A rupture it was with a vongeaace, Ile has •a. oslo temper, that dear Frederic. But, fortunately mine is good. I bore rid- inirably with his ravings and re- proaches, that were all about to - thing, when ono comes to look into it. I expect I am well out of though I really do think, if it had notbeen for that German. Count, I should bo Lady Varley now." • "The Italian mince. you moan," "Ah, true. It's quite all the same thing. Certainly it was some one." She lay back in her chair again, and looked out of the window. The oga sunset was glorious, and some of ---`taaatafocrinissai rays enterea the room and if in love with lier- arouad her chair, It was as tad - fashioned an affair as comfort of the t odern order would permit, Vertu, not carieg. for hilt," "At all events, she married Var- ley, not raring far any other mom" "That Is a point gained, martin- ly. What an interesting liLLle cousie you are, Constautia ; you tell . ohe so , maay things. Mow can / sufil- eiently rewar11 you for dropping in upon me to -day and dissipating my dolours, awl giving- 2110 your coin - pony rib my five o'clock gossip 9" "I was glad to 001010 and see you," said Constaniia, who by noture, wns honest, "for ono thing, because you are 0.9 eouein ; for another. because you were known to me during all my enrlier life. You had dropped out of it, of cOurso ; your long resi- dence abroad: Made a gelf between us ; but We haye passed that now; and I hope We shall renew the old relations." "Yea are Immensely too g said Mrs. Dundas, who wits evidettly more ninnSed than she cared to show "As I shall live hero for smne months to come, I want you to post Inc up about, my neighbors." • "Well, there is "Oh, never mind the women, toil me about the men." "If you want the very latest comer there is Mr, •Shronge, of Inchirolie." "What 0 Ile here to ? The world,, small itEa it is, is full of surpriees. We met .hini abroad -not Mr. Dun- dee ; Uncle Timothy and I. Me Was quite a pet of 'Uncle Thu's, but I 11.111 bound to confess he did not affect me Much." "Where is your 'Uncle Timothy now 9" asked Conetantia, remembee- ing with a sudden rush of friendly thought 1110 klucl,gray-headed old man who loos her cousin's guardian, and who, if only a vague memory to her, was yet a gentle one. .. "Dead," said Mrs, Dundas, pleas- antly. "Dead A We never heard it !" Per- haps Constantia was more Flinched by the callousness of her cousin's tone than by the intelligence Itself. "Dead 0" she said again. ."Why, yes. Quite a long thno now -three months if 01001111(0. I thought yeti must haVe heard of it eoen in these benighted regions. Why, be died before my' marriage. Indeed," with it little smile, "I sbouldn't weeder if his departing this life in the hot waste he clid Ocala disease they told me it wi(s, aftartvarcis) had not a good deol to do with my present arrangements." "You menn---?" questioned Con- stantia, who had shrunk rather away from her. "That ray inicle, wlien ne died, id 1, hie without a SouwhereWith to bless myself -or dress myself, which and it suited her .to perfection as she lounged: in it, in all the easy it- I was a much niore important molter, gs the law forbicls us to go about solence of beauty that admitted of no Unclothe:I, but is light on the matter ,cozesticnso of prayer. You ere evidently one indignantly, 1 quite tinderetar4 pe,se of• Manner is certainly to be desired, but a fertune is better still, Take it my clear giI 1yoUleene" ' "I think Z shell take My dePeir- ture, at all eventS," said clOnfitalitiPe rising to her feet, witiela were AziX- eltely formed, if rather roughly shod. "YoU WoUl1 leave me-,-tlesert Me'? lVhat brutalitY I"' cried Mre, Pea - des in an agontaing She rustl- ed out of..ibe deep reeesses of her ohair with tho itetivity of a MiscIliir veils kitten,. aint'aelied 'held Of her cousin. "Yon shan't go 1" she de." elared, "Make tip. your mind .to that, And as to, your dreaming that you are °flooded wi th ui, ut, that out'o.f YoUe ellertuing head oltoge- ther, It is a elutrining head. I MS - Sure Yon, ConStentia,i sOite of the murderous Sonya that is•nt presort darkening,your brow. .Yoti have a •howl and face thut would have re- ,cluced Mies Alanners-eille last Am- clic= importe.tion, thelatest success in pork, the beauty of otn• Bowe seoson-lo despair I Indeed yo e aro rathc 10 her." "I don't fancy, 'then, that should be ono of Miss Mnoners, adtreirers." "Of course aoL' iISUUYMISMT=. dor:Mending, the nugry Modesty, of the reply ; "you and she would hove been rivel beauties and at clagp„,ers drawn. I meant. only. a • compliment in comparing you to her, though I certaiely thiak the compliment was to her. She *was fLawless, howevbv, in color and skin. There was oely 'one inietake ahoot her. and 11016 was bet mune. She hadn't ,a inanner 41 the world." - "1 tort beginning to thiok that that is of little conscquelice," "Very good, very good, indoed,'' cried Tars. Dundee-, elapping, her hands, '1'011 you, what, sheid have Seen nowhere if you had beet besldo Lir I" o "Aad how about you 9" asked Con- stantin. sarcestically "were yon. no mealy within the camp "?" "Well, 1 guese I ran het' 'pretty barcl," confessed Mrs. Dimdas, %vita etch 0 careful hilitation oi the nao sal tone that Constoatia was assered belonged to Miss Manners,' iffiat she gave way a little, and sinned. ''That's right,'Said her cousin ; now that We've jumped that fence, sit devil and tell Die all about it."' CMAPTall II. ."About what ?" asked Constantia. "The county, of course. You be- gan, you grew angry, then' silent. I still wait to hear Who else adorns this portibil of the Emerald Isle on which a cruel fate has cest noe." "It was your home once." Miss MeClillieuddy had resented herself, rind wits onw making friends with a macaroon. She was still young enough to 'like cakes of ui1 kiads, and macaroons, as a tulle, her 3101.1Se- I7old didn't run to. "The. Moores still vegetate, within. the olcl Manor, and the vicar is godlier and mould- ier thou he was. There was never anyone like him, I think." "There is a good deal of console-, Lion to be got out of that bit of 001 - formation," said Mrs. Dundas meek- ly, "Well, go on." She was a tall WOillan, but so ex- who lutist get to the root of the sub- *quisitely formed as to make her ice., 50 .1 explain to you, was 'height. forgotten. lier lithe figure destitute, ia a, foreign land." :alio Woe yet full, and she tapered toward paused as though struck by this ro- an her points. Iler hands, her head, mark, and then broke into a charm - her Teet.-all were small. 'ITer mouth Lag imja.h, "It sounds like one of inteeferod a little with the heavenly those printed charitable appeals, ,picture. It was large, riante, and doesn't it 9" she said ; "that makes yet, whoa one looked at it, a trifle- 011e laugh, but in reality it was un - :Nat trille-eritel. Yet it War; good pleasant. To find oneself ui testy , Uatured, too. That 510 felt little, stranded is inconvenient. Feeling endure little throughoot her tato, looked around 1,1,4 had (us_ pilgriamoe was 'written missed Frederic -that is, Lord Vat. - clear 'letters opon'her brow. ley. Counts and marquises inraim- She laid her delicate, lough -boring- arable wore at iny feel, but where ed hand upon her beautiful bosom was the money that would have now; and coughed faintly. This helped to inake life sweet with broke the spell of silence. Perhaps thwn No„her, she had broken it purposely, With a She made a little greeeful gesture view to asking another 'question or with 1100,11 1101' hatals tbal. suggested two of her guest and cousin ; but if Lo the onlooker a puff from a 001101.1- w), Constantin, thwarted her, albeit „1.,, „iod, unconsciously. "upon the whole matioinental ho - "You have told Inc nothing Pet of 1420/1, So far as 7. could eee, there Mr. Durides," sho said. was only John nuncins. WaS "Why should I 2 You have met hiat-doubtlass judged, and favorably. too." Thoto is not an aLOM of rata col! about this speech. "You re- member you gave him the palm wlieu. coMparing him to me 9 Let uS; theroforti, skip the old boy and go on to something more interest- -big. About the country, for =- example'," she, said. "That; might be an old story to 'yen. It la the same to -clay as it was years ago, when you lived there, but for, a few paltry changes." "ThOso paltry' changes meati all the rest. Tell me of theni." "There is Latly Varley." 'All 1 lehtit of her, 'beyond the fact that her Wings have been al- ready provided 9" "1 don't think she is altogether happy in her marriage," said Con- stantin, Ives too young to _grasp the meaning of the side lights. "Whet 1 Not with the irresietible Feederic 11.15 temper was not Con- tddorocl his strong point in the old dale, you will reeollect, If She is noW indifferent to him.----ay-the- bye, it is it trifle too soon to be oz bad terms, eh 9" "13ful tonne (loos not express it. There ls something volgar about that. I nly said that -I -thought she was not happy. I am sorry I said oven that," exclitin,ir,3 'be girl "(Jarrett Barrett has 'inherited' his uncle's property after all -though that terrible Old Englishman always declared Ito Shauldra-and is now living at nelleisle," 'Ah 1 Clariett :Barrett, I remem- ber him also -just a little. Ile, was' charming, oh ? A ennoble Irlehmair --tim.using alWays. Ile can't be all, however ; there inust be somebody besides your blanket man and this splendid , spceimen of the early 3rish." 'The Marrington.'s are always at Cairn." "I know. Mrs. lIarrington as Eng- lish as ever ?" "A trifle More '; it grows oil' her as she gets older. She now quite shudders when the word Ireland is Mentioned, and dreams out loud, im- possible dreams oillying to Some knoWn S1101'0." -- "Does she still keep on Wondering v(lysha married her husband 7" "Yds, rffie wonders still ; aMost as Karl. es you do." "For a youthful maiden, you have an admirably sharp tongue. . But you bave. at least provethyoursolf human. ; you have orrecl, nay pretty bonstentia. I think I' tolti. you ex- actly why t narried 111r. Dangles." "Yet at iii•st, you gave me thc alca. that—" "Never mind the 'at first' of anY- thing. Allow for the shock of re- ceiving so Want a question without a, kindly forerunner to give one a warning, and time with -which to an, swer it with becoming solemnity." She delivered her relmice with the most careful artlessness. Tho other thing of watch he spoke Coostantitt colored. "Blunt"-Yas, belonged to other times .enth other..the judge's sense of decorum. 13ut she hod neon blunt. And yet it wars manners, when the judge was a brief- the latter was impervious to social considerations now. TI.b. merely glar a straight in front, with a wonder- fully ' tender smile on his cloar-out, hanclionie ace. "So she eared, after all," he mut- tered ,softly. "A.ad-and keeps the letters, Ileavea bless her! And 7 - Why, bless my.soul, I do believe I at .a.°'fltriliatliiiYa—n ;oft the judge controlled a powerful Inclination. to sneeze. •. ,,TICKETS, PLEASE!" 4.: OgIt`tgP.' ' a01..LE CV*. TAkING. TiCIETS ON . TILE PEN/N . .., ,S171.4.;17,14.11c11,=, ItAILWAY. , . ' ' ."ThIs kid 1Av4, ' abon t Whi0i1 thel.0' vadt 153' thertlitheitins.”'ISroW that; Mil- Australian bluejaelcet is 'inuthe Iore- , 10018"some -dispnib, -is 0116 ptOperty or ititry Control' is Do' longer necessary, geothial, tviiile .3.3r00101i; itiissien, ;Ger- an' Engliell company. For a tihie iC it luis, hoWeVer, been handed ovev tO man; FrendliAtod' 4Litfvd ;10:16,4, oin- wioi occepied partla by, the Clerintins, the British. The varied nationalities tors wore all' iti Ude' 0000 8.1 at the P11 tly' by the janalicee, and hir .the who use it may here be seen. - An Clow the •;leetch. was made, . . . . . • . , 1- ' VVHV TilE JUDGE . RELENTED I .agly,lia loonfound it, the 'thing was reprehriri- 'SuPpose'We'conicl by '‘oine means lu- sible; and not as young men' -and' dtleo-therefri diSeusg Out engagement women were aectatomed to b,ehave in, together; edinething- would surely be his young— , said, and then ploy would make it, I ' Then the' sudden anger died away, .up, and live hooey eyetatiCerwordsr." and into his eyes came a'softer light 'Splendid!' ,10 onlY It could 'hi '!aa the memOry of 'those days 0090, 10100; , before hint: After all yourig Their v;olcea frided,away in the dis- ',people will he-- tance, and only the soft splash of "DuIdogle 111 be- be—" the fountains broke the dreamy still- JEmery, wthn ia,apprehensiva ' "Oh, Lance, what wotdd the,,judge naso. glance around, Initial •himself up on. say 11 he saw us 0-°w?" I Thoughts emelt-as came to the judge the verge of im indiscretion. With a. Vh's-t Would `1/1:"s ‘-' '1'31?" 10100' ra"" in the 1iie ef a Man' and sigh of relief he oted the long e"I queth :Lance imperturbablY, !lend. themselves not at all to decep- stretch of empty orridor. can't understand why they tion. n ' Presently the soothing netes 0.2 should both obSect to our caring for I rose at length. and. drew him- Walaz from the. distant hm.par, eClirOoeach Other'''. he went on. "There .self upright,. the weight of the die - seem* no reason whatever. The .appointed years rolling away 'from governor has .never dote ,an unjust him like the memolY 0 thing before. But now,. when I ask dream. - • • • for, a reasonable objection, he shuts I Mope, the phoenix, sPrwag anew in his teeth' end .says,, childishly, .91e. his- heart, • and • as he 'pushed the objects because he does!' " drooping palms aside, and stood by . "Moe, silly!" , 4thee fountain, the mantle of 0 by- "Coafouad their. impertinence!" gone youth enveloped him once more. muttered the judge, "I—" • Preseatly he heard a 0110116 noise in 'Mother laehaves iu exactly tho adjoining • arbour -a retitle of same way. She really likes my -my boy awfully, I know.; but— •017, •Lancel Only one! I am afraid of those palms! Someone --the judge,. perhaps, or mother---" ''01), that's -all rightlii-reassue- ingly. "Listenersnever hear goosl of themselves!" • • • ' Atuongst :the palms a listener wriggled impotently. 'Mother will neVer- - give her Con- sent!" -dolefully. "And the governor is adamant! There's a SCrow loose soniewhero, little woman," continued. Lance. :exactly' friends. They are frigidly here's - a reason , 11Irs. Li.s.te,r and the governor are not Lance! I've discovered it!" . polite what they meet; but—' "Of course t "The deuce you have? Trust a Woman—" • 'Mother and the jedge, were in love with mien other ever so many years ago. Lance, they were ,aetually en - formed into a tropical forest,, with tially tempered the judge's aepeelty. "Confoand the youtgster," he'inut- tered loss angrily, , abeelutely 'defies me!' 7 mide ,him understand that nothing would ever inane° .me to Coonteetince stielt a marriage, and yet here he hos been all the . eveoing . daegling after -- Sylvia is a nice course; bat she is her daughter. And .to Lance's marriage with- it child of Mary Listos; 7. never will consent. What happened, years ago has been neither forgotten nor forgiven. Ital;- He broke off suddenly on opening a door- et the end of the corridor. Instead of Um big-, taro raccniet- court, where he anticipated a cigar- ette without .dauger of Interruption, the judge fothici hinisalf In a region.. o0 tropical gloom. . , 'Dint 'shedOws of 'towering palms shot onward from the .ilense biasses 40 vaguely2-clefined foliage, and lost. themselves in the gloom overhead. Here and there the dim light of a Japaaese lantern glimmered faintly hi the darkness, accentuating rather than dispelliug the languorous gloom; whilst ' numerous ,clarker . shadows dotting either Side of the long cen- tral isle suggested. Iliad= PoOke And - cunningly constructed arbours. "A London racquet -court trans - THEIR. FORTIMES TOLD, VAUOI.T.$ ITORX,P WW1 ECAD TMEIR FUTIIItg PBX- . DIC_TPD, A Gipsy TO1c1;00.0zt:ne:di's Coming Preatness--Abrahana ','Sonie day," said a, wandering gr:ijamrY 6061(0 eA't.1100 3°)11.cwhayYs oifti°110.1111,1 ina, "that child' of yours will be am- ong the great ones of the earth, Kings 161 vie.,with, one tinothea, to do ,iiim'honor; and when. be' dies rat- :1.a115ili0;1n:711:lllle1r;ufitio.d'loudlYat ,,opbic118looureaout it gloss 'of wine for 1110 'prophet" to drink the boy's health ; but he liv- ed long enough to see his soil, Cui- Heppe Verdi, on the bigh road to the honors and fame which wore shower- ed on the greet musician later, and which closed recently in a national funeral arid the grief of cootinente. Ten years later, a ta11, gaU116, raw-boned youth,' wile had oaado journey to afeW Orlaeane ae a hired man Oil a flat -boat, Woe toraPted by 10 fellow-werkman to have hiS fortune Cold by, ao old Weiner' wile had a ' rePukation` for diVining the future, '!"You 'are' low now,' she' said, af- ter consalling the•eards, "yory low; but you Will rise high, You will be the greatest man in all America., but ,seo bloodshed arid -but, net! I must 404toatinle90attotaig7 Ambere:that's good enough;" the youth's companiOn -said, as he dragged 11411 away, laughing hugely lit the prospect of Abe ever rising higher than a flat - But thirty years' hater; when Abra- ham Lincoln waS inaugurated as President of the United' States, ILECALLED TEE PROPEBOY, "Dv Jove! And " spacial moonlight effects for lovers!" „ They quarretled, weot away, mar - muttered the judge, smiling a little ried the wroog people and lived un - at Lady Gresham's rather .bizarre • ideas. "Small wonder her inclyshIp's affairs • axe the rage of London! Their accessories are certainly un- ique, and by no means uncomfort- able," he added, seating himself in Dne of the arbours. Behind him the palm closed - over the entrance, -alniost hiding -it, ana for some _moments the isolation and tratamility Soothed the judge's pre- -vious perturbation. But irritation returned as his sou's love affair retorted to hon. tered, ''Confound the yokIngstor," he mut-. "Why couldh t, he have fallen them note, do your' • pieced out the Story I -I just went "Of course not, Lance! 19lien in love with somo ond else? Win,' should. he fall love at an?" "Love!" scoffed the fudge. •,-Loval and had a good cry." "You -you darling!" silks; theit a. Woman came out of the shadow and stbod beside him. Some instinct in'the judge recogniz.: ed her even in° the gloom, and the 5(11110 instinct also told hint she had 1:"Io`o'IYlocit:3-Llyngcrti heard what thoeo silly young people said?" he strimmered. "Yes" --gently-"I heard. ray head ached, se 1 canie away here, and they hart begun to talk beford I 06 391415 most unfortmeat.e,'' c011 - tinned the judge, lameetably. "Most unfortunate." , "And 'there'e nothing to ho done, 1 Sup/Mse, trat take their advice 1.0.1 Lailc. it over?" "Nothing." , "And"the eenfidence sud- denly returned, .and he moved, sit...L. -"and I suppose it is elute,. 1.08 about the letters, and --and other things?" - "Quite." fountain splashed softly. A few moments pause; whilst the "And the photograph, John -was that true also?" *"Tlmt explains". "Quite trite. And—" lialMily ever afterwards." . "What'?" ''' their parents half an hear later they Arid when Sylvia aad Lnimo mot "Why the governor kccps an old wero mettwhorically petrified with photograph of your mother . locked wonder. Nor wag their astonishment away in his desk. One day, quite hy lessened when the I'll -ciao CalinlY 1 11 - accident,• I saw it, and ---,o . formed them "that he and Mrs. Lis-' omother komPs 't• bundle of letters, ter, having talked matters over, had and when she reads. them her eyes decided to give thein a theme of gel, - nal? Ilgwrineyds eredjohanferwia,nrcd17.LaTnliceey, 1(00 ting ting tired of each other." ther's name was Robert." the judge, after helping Sylvia's The climax arrived, liowevor, when "Tito governor's, of course. Dar- mother into ber carriage, deliherata- ging, I don't feel a bit angey with lo, boot down, and kissed her on the but he coold not, see the end, That came later, ori that tragic 'eYening of April ldth, five yeara later, when the bullet of the mad *tor, Booth, crashed into the President's brain. But 16 18 by no means always evil that those tellers of fortunes. predict. It is, said that, more than twenty years ago, whon the present, beauti- ful Duchess of Marlborough was lit- tle more than tin infant, a fortune- teller prophesied that one day she would.- wear a coronet and that she would become the ancestress of a lino of kings. The first part of this' good fortune has come true, and who cau toy that the hitter part of it is impossible ? When Miss Winifred Dallas -Yorke 11111111 a -young girl, just giving prom - Ise of the grace end beauty of later years, a well-known Brighton for- tune-teller told her that she would wear a 1/lichees's coronet, a, prospect that seemed then almost impossibly remote, And yet 'a , casual meeting at a country railway station led to the me:Ming which made iter Ihithess of Portland, Nearly seventy years ago a re- markable future was predicted, for a. young apprentice in. a. Troy grocery store by a stray customer. "I guess you'll smite," the strange man said, but you remember my words. Be- fore yon die you'll have us much gold this store would kmIJ, 111010 than. any,rnan has in the world to- day, and 3110re than you'll know what to do Ivan." ' To the boy who was then earning ct. dollar a week, with small prospect of ever achieving 'anything more than having n, store of his 'own, this pro- phecy was amusing. "When that comes," he laughingly said, "I cal- culate you'll never want to work What is it? A youthful cliseaSe that time can elways heal. Lance Will oatgrow this folly, even as I did -- the ettlicr thing." IL A repetition of the sounds previout- ly described ought to lugge shocked hardly her nature to be so. IIer less junior, and the Bench a toms sudden contact with this lovely, red- 08.30 off indeed.' Love and hope held haired cousin, after all the years of the tiller of life in. those days, and. silence between 111011, had eel' her feW rooks of disappointment distig- teeth on cage rsomehoW, and taken ured the chart. A quarrel, however, wreciced hie dream -ship, and he and the girl with whom he Was to have sailed for the wonderland drifted apart. Iti the yOurs that Caine after, bot011 had married both had children, ana later on both were Wit10111111.1. The chronicle woe commomilace "What an old allot I cunt" Ile enough, and, but for their ehildrenai mutthred. "At my age, to actually love affair, the key -stone' of tho Story -- But to think she eared would have lain for ever under the those yew'sl why, bless my soul, it your words ate ever full of wisdom. cerving of the perfect llpS 11111011 811.01.1 duSt' 0! th0 0"t" ' 111 1101 b0 quit -e -Ton -0--" "It 1001 all dead and gone with "Lance, We must be carotid. 3 dm to -day. :You are posil !rely exhillunru- ca611i.aildsunneht it1111111t.'"1/E0,0116111‘00 NS8111.4a a?vitle8nlit: lntgaaggon't':, thought the judge-.'11e1.1g1 sdreld7.1 heard smoothing move." right, 'darling, 7'11 be a mea - 1 um so glad you 0017101 to see citing ; and when cute has been in a ly loving, reildY to Why shoule its dead body be drag- emit of discretion, tut what about house for only twenty four hours, to ,eondone ; bon cinuarlide doubt-, g,ed. into tho light now? At fifty, our perverse relatives? They're evt- less and with a generous air : bet `ghosts -especially those of an un-, deritly unfit to look atter their tava happinese, so 'we must do it for them. . Sylvitt."-,-solemniy - "we must do something." "Cif course -make 1110111 happyl" "Ensier said than done," rejoined twenty years older Ilion I, and bard- ul I the softnets out of her, and ly My beau -ideal of what a husband thrown out all the coolness. The should he ; but he adored me, so Donne she knew now, could never gave to aircull1S1aliceS and nun' have. been Um Donna (tie far, at Med him." letnet; as she was anice(1ned) "1 date say you might have ,tiorto whom she heti so firmly believed in werse.'' her childish clays. Was it a -touch of "Far worso ITe Is lannensel;v artificiality -in the lovely woman or rich, and thoroughly believes 111 ine." "Why should ha. not 9" "WhY, indeed I, Sweet cousin, the scene -tithe mockery in tho large seals 9 l'he quick' drooping of the twig lashes to conceal those tell-tale orbs or the almost imperceptible one naturally feels depiessec. 11 riot With you, my pretty cross -ex- .1‘,1,0 there no subtlety, no unscrupul- satisfied yoaih-are,--,-- minima% is. truce to frivolity, how- 0108 will h5.01,-„,,th th, 1mrry inu8k. ? . over 1 Let me be the•extuninsr now. /.., n ! "Oh, Le nee, do be earefull ThoSe clac-e-lin"gl'''-roakless- , or a., Lint luck:miss tr‘avtadga,,,mitteoiX1t-.0,1,,bloattl.80(Itt,Settcaare00,11 Whs' 010110 al tli° cci"tr•Y 81'10 ? cusable thing, •eud ael.;.uo What brings him here ?" To. bo Continued. iy. "I have been starving -positive- ly starving -for a. real moment With lLanc.e, ruefully, Mr. Stronge you have mentioned, of it necessary. "Ho, or his father, purchased. pro. ----4---- you all the .eveningi" - 1 "We'll have to think out a plan," Party here some years ago.' -- -- I/ENNEItY Various sounds -indescribable ,00 !said Sylvia, confidently. "It Otto be "Rash man, whichever urnc it s." pope'', but eloquent enough to those clone. 13ut now we must really go "Be is not the sort, of a person Ouward ! said, Mrs, illitiars 001- 1 eimerrii0d-f ol I &Wed , startling the bath. People wilt notice-- Oh, to whom we have been.aectistomod," temptuously to her Maimed, • who 'judge out of his reverie. 11,ance, only one, remember -only ----- =id Constantin.. "There is 1401110- eow,red undor l he bedclothes became As le roe ,gilized 1,rome'e ware la ill -lore you deceitful boy, you have thing very brusque 1(1)0010, b1111 ---e1 hr, 11101001 I, 110 heard burgIrrs 111.11M- , .1 . i 1 1. 1 11(1111110.in his (+pis ; had three, when_ 1 said 0013'--" roughness, a lack of repone---" F.! a irm 1-011 s re 01.1) 111001. ciiiiiken- j Anger wm-, 11.,0 1,11.1 and pa ra lime 01 . "I've no 114 r 1 Millar objection 10 "A Inc of rupees," put. in Mrs. hearted man I veer sal.v I I feelhor-an ger the I Lowe should op, :V01.11. 01111110111001 then] if Y01.1 Wish i t" thoogffi I, he was osiong her to sub- 'Greet Scott!" gasped Lance. , But the judge said nothiag-only stared after the carriage with a. won- derful smile cm his fe.co.-London Answers, CADDY liNEW A. conjurer, after a pevformance; was ono 'evening returning to Ills ho- tel in. a cab, owl being fatal of a joke, ho resolved to mystify gabby. When. the cab stopped he alighted, and slipping 1115 hand into his poc- ket, drew out a handful of gold, cabby, ettteh,. said toss- ing a sovereign to the 1111111, who still Sat 011 the box., Cabby caughta,-nothdilig,' enas the coin conicl not be foutul he ilecused his fere of "bilking" him. - Aro you Sure it is not in your p keoc- t ? asked 'the conjurer.. his fingers therein he dl.'0W mit a sovereiga. - TILE TIMM E DID COME : to -day Russell Sage is credited with a fortune ..of 5100,000,000, growing. every year ; and the "prophet" liv- ed long enough to audio the 'prom- ised share of it, which took the sub- stantial form • of aa annuity of $1,000 a year. To Prediet that. a Yorkshire sta- ble -boy would rise to the rank of n Coart -official and Minister would or- dinarily be a very rash prophecy : bat 16 came true in the 'case of the stabie-hoy who, after being in turn jockey and valet to the nuke of Luc- ca, rose ultimately to the high of - flees of Minister of the I -leasehold add Minitter of Vinaace in the :Duchy of Parma, and 07(10 knOWD. to the world as Saxon Ward. Among other remarkable prodic- 1,iens for which there is good author- ity aro 'that widen foretold that the CZarina, of Itussia, would lia,ve seven daughters before bearing all heir to ThrOn0; and that Of De. Charles Perrin, a pelmist, who told Prest- dent,rnoire that he would die 'with- in two years of the date of the Pro- PheeY. actually died within eighteen months.. The Queen of Italy Is said La pay frequent Visits to fortime-tellers, al- ways, hoWever, incognita, and to have received seine remarkable warn- ings from them, IL is common knowledge thnt she wag distinctly a wrned of the t1'011710 Tate that. would Overtake her husband, whose essas- ablation is such a, recent and painful memory; but in spite of every Pro- catilloit.that her love for him 1101114deviSe slit was unable to avert his Talte it and be gone, he said, as 110 toesed It 'to theh cabby, wo again failed. to catch 0,10 dusty° coin, Thn e conjuror, thinm king the ime bad gone far onongit, now helcl °tit a fifty tent place, Mere, cabby, said heatake this bit of silver ; it will psove moro sub- stantial than the gold, assere you. Cabby, however, was almoist Pett•i- fled with fear. . Stand back, he roared, I know you note, thOUgh 901.1 r hoofs aro 001/0r - ed With patent leathers, YOU don't boy me, Mr. Devil. And he drove rapidly away. How ,did it happen that Miss Sin- gleton rOfused to 0180130 6110 young elergYinim ? Why, 1011011 ho propos- ed to her, she, being a little 01000, Iludas au yly. "se1wlt glut 1111110081y!onito the organ fondSo she nTeIshould sqltarpie:we6a11nrod Ie01' afhe nly drnle his 1114 ortym everything. Inuulnerable 11w101,11811(014001Ca 11 1,1 011.0y Oat, Wails° (lo 1, e , ,,, ." e • t 00, 'Step 11 . 011, Lance"- - inc 1 re . t•dcl Lim she hod yr:noised mo - his, There, don't look at ma SO 01111. 11,0 '31ovuori: ' and 01113.1113 Why Quently--"I've thought of a plan: 1,63' 00 1.101110 0 tiler missiom destinY. Notwithstanding these Prophecies coming 'true in the aboVd eases, there is no doubt. nine -tenths of them are mere guessefi and PrciPhreice which are never fulfilled. • WOULD DO. VI, poor hungry man, 11 Loewe to give you a, nickel, what would you dowith it ? hundred the lady with the angular 'smeller and the vow - lain spectacles. 011 tell yer, 1111101, replied the gen- tleman with 1,110 straggling whhicers and yearning bread pouch • 111 pit o Turkish bath an' buy a ollyinubble wid tit' &amp, *Where's th' tem, main ? • Tho North American alligator is not dangerous to men, Tho Aleicao end Indian alligators are, on the oontrarY, eilmeruely so.