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LADY AYLMER
CHAPTER 1,
n10)1 A:in DOROTHY.
"With yen, you infernal young idol, 1
haven't got the patience of it mouse, I hope
you'll live to repent lt. Memetine keep
out of my way, and don't expect more than
your four hundred a year, because you
Won't get it, Aud if I hear of you marry.
Ing anybody under a hundred thousand
pounds I'll the off your alloWance. After
you are forty we can think about ib, It in
only just to tell you that 111 have a chance
1 ehall marry again in the hope of having
an heir of my own. Yours, AYLMER."
So ran the letter that Lieutenant Digit
;Aylmer received from his amiable uncle,'
the Lord.
A nice, cheery letter for a young man to
receive when he contemplated marrying a
girl with u fortune of a thousand pounds I
But he made up hie mind that hewould
marry Dorothy Strode, in spite of all the
angry uoolea in the world, and marry her
he did privately, just ao if that letter had
never been written.
It was as Mr. and Mre. Harris that Dick
and Dorothy went out hand in hand to
face the world.tegether.
Fortunately, under the circumstances
there eves no one to interfere with Doro-
tby's plane. Her aunt, Mise Dimadele, was
dead, and a distant cousin, who lived in
Egypt, was the only surviving relative.
It was not likely that ehe would meet
David Stevenson again. She had lett him
behind her with her old life at Graveleigh,
miserable enough, she was sure, for his
love had been very strong and sincere, and
would probably haunt his life to the end.
There was no one, in short, to remind her
of the path but Barbara, an old retainer of
her aunt's, who adored her young mistress
and would not be parted from her.
Six' months had gone by—six glorious and
blissfully happy months, during which Mr.
mad Dire. Harris kept tbeir secret well, and
Dick was all the world to his wife Doro-
inNow, as the Forty-third were still quar-
tered at Colchester, it became a question of
some importenoe for them to decide where
Dorothy should rage up her abode after
this. U"lcheater or its immediate neigh-
borhood
eighborhood was, of course, an impossibility, as
ber whereabouts might at any moment be
discovered, and also Diek'e real name.
Dick suggested that she might go to Chelms-
ford and take rooms there for the time ;
but Dorothy had stayed more than once in
that sleepy little town, and it was there-
fore almost as impossible as Colchester
iteelf. So finally they agreed that there
was no place to hide oneaelf and have a
good time all the same. and therefore they
came book to town during the last week
of Dick's leave, and they took a little
fiat in Kensington, just where Dorothy
and Berbera could got on very oomfortably
without any other servant, and yet could
be near to good shops and a tolerably
lively street.
"I'm afraid you'll be awfully dull, dar-
ling," he said to her when they had taken
posse0eion, and their last evening had come,
• because, of course, you won't know any
one, and you are not at all likely to get to
know people."
"I shall have Barbara," said Dorothy,
smiling bravely.
"Yee, you'll have Barbara, but Barbara
won't be much company for you," he an-
swered. "1 do hate all this concealment.
Ibate leaving you at all, and I hate having
to live, as it were, onthe sly, and I'm
afraid always that some one you know or
one of the fellows will be geeing you, and
that they may get hold of a wrong idea
altogether, and—and—I sometimes reel as
if I should like to kill that old savage at
Aylmer's Field."
"But, Dick dear, nobody will see me and
if they do they will think I am Dorothy
Strode still. Remember, I don't know
many people in alt the world, and none of
your officers know me at all, and if they
even happened to see me with you they
wouldn't think anything of it. Really 1
wouldn't worry about that if I were you,
dearest, and as for my being dell—why, I
never am dull. I never have been used to
having more than one person at a time—
Auntie all my life. and now you. I shall
get on splendidly with Barbera, and I
shall always be able to look forward to the
days when you will be coming home."
•'And I shall come like a bird whenever
J get the ghcet ofa chance," he cried,
tenderly.
'And 1," cried Dorothy, "am going to
make a study of gowns, I havealways been
used to make my ordinary gowns, and I
shall have lots of time, and I am going to
begin as soon a8 you are gone. I am going
to make myself some beautiful tea -gowns ;
they will make me look married and digni.
fled—they will make you respect me sir,"
"But you don't want to look married
and diguified," he cried, half alarmed.
"Sujtpoae you meet some one you know,
and
1 shall not be wearing a tea -gown,
.Dick," cried Dorothy, with a gay laugh.
"Alit no, no, of course not," he answered
relieved. "All the same, though, did you
not tell me the other day that you had a
conein somewhere or other?"
"0h, Esther I Yea, but she,"eareleltly,
. "le in Egpyt'•
" But, my dear child she won't .be in
Egypt alwaye," he rejoined; "and if the
comes back to London, which she is sure to
do" --
"By no paeans, Dick," interrupted Doro•
thy, quietly. "Esther is just es likely to
go ofl for the summer to New Zealand or
Finland a8 to come to London. And she
would not specially hunt ore up if she did
cerno here. She is beautiful, and rich, and
very independent in her mind, but she is
nix years eider than 1 am, and thinks very
little of family ties. In any ease, supposing
that I met her in London tomorrow, eh°
would certainly not try to pry into my
affairs, and even of I had your leave to tell
her part of the truth, she is perfectly safe.
I assure you that yeti never need worry
yourself for a single moment about my
tumble Esther."
So Dick wee paclficd, and the following
day went off to Colchester—not in re very
happy frame of mind, all the same. "I hate,
leaving yen, Dolly,' he raid vexedly. `I
hate it. 1've 1i good mind to throw up my
commia0ion and trust to Fate and the old
savage."
[l Dick, Dick 3" she cried, 'Otow can you
be so foolish? Supposing that 'the old
savage' did. turn round on yon teed etopped
know that I would not rather be 1n India
as Mrs. Aylmer than have those dreadful
parbinge here •"
"IVs, uu " lie oried, hastily. ""1 couldn't
eake yeti the there. I've
of horror of the 5801, and Iw alwaye ld do any.
thipg to avoid running ltny snob risk."
So he went away,with a lump in his
throat which made im glad be. wee safe
in a cab, leaving Dorothy to face the next
week by lterselt—that is to Say, except for
Barbara, who was jubilant ab having got
her long holiday over and delighted to be
at work again.
To Dorothy, Barbara at this time woe a
wonderful atudy, of which she wets never
tired. For Berbera had been born and bred,
in the eouttry, and had lived more' years at
liraveleigh Hall thanporothy could remem-
ber, and her oomme'tts oil town people and
town ways were more thaw 81nu8)Og.
" Ah ; they did things iu a queer sort of
fashion at Holloway. My curtain Joe livee
at Holloway—you know, alias Dorothy
he's a plumber • in quite a large way of
business, and has money in the bank and
two children at boarding -school learning
French and music and Heaven knows white
beside. Mre. Joe used to go out every Sat-
urday night to get her stone in for the
week, as ehe always eaid—for Sunday, I
used to think. Never did I see such mar-
ketiugs 1 A quarter of a pound of butter
and tour fresh eggs. She regularly prided
herself on those fresh eggs. 'My dear,'
said I one night to her, 'them eggs have
been laid at least a weak, and I doubt if I
should be far out if I went as far as ton
days.'
'You see, Barbara', says ehe, 'you've
been used to a country life, with newly.
laid eggs, and gallons of milk and butter
by the stone, and I dare say you feel a bit
pinched•like here. But if I'd let myself
go in butter and live on new•laid eggs at
twopence ha'•penny eaoh—well, all I can
say 18, I should have had to rest content
without any boarding -schools or anything
put by in the bank,'
"1 don't say, alias Dorothy—Mrs. Har -
tis, ma'am, 1 should say," Barbara went
on, in her wisest tones—"that I wiah to go
against my oouelnJoe's wife in that respect_
—a thrifty wife is a Drown of gold to a man
that has to work fora living; but at eggs
that have never seen a ben for nearly a
fortnight, 1 do draw the line—to call 'em
fresh, that is.'
But although on most evenings Dorothy
used to tell the old servant to bring her
sewing and come and sit with her in the
pretty little drawing -room. It must be con-
fessed that at this time she found her life
dreadfully dull, and as each day went by
she seemed to miss Dick in her daily life
more and more. For though ehe had been
used to a quiet country home and a quiet
country existence, there bed always been
plenty to interest her.
If you live as Dorothy Strode had been
used to live all her lite, you know wily
Janet Wenham was not at church on Sun-
day, and why Elizabeth Middleham`s girl
leis that nice place at Whittington, and
how Elizabeth eliddleham cried for days
over it, and her girl's intention to take mer,
vice in London and see life. And you know
all about it when Mrs. Jones has her mauve
dinner•gowndyedohestnut-brown, and how
it is that the rectory curtains keep clean
year after year, although white silk with a
delicately -tinted stripe would be ruined in
three menthe in some houses. lyes, you
know everything about everybody in the
country, almost without knowing why you
know it.
But in town, in London town, it ie all so
different. It is true that when you get
known in London the gosslpping is nearly
as bad as if you were the centre of a small
village set ; but to a girl situated as Dor-
othy was, London is a social blank.
Oh, dear, dear, it was all dreadfully slow,
and before she had been a month to her
new hnme Dorothy was pining, pining for
some woman friend to talk to, to confide in,
to be friends with. •
011 course, to Bet off against this, there
were the gay and glorious times when Dick
came home, sometimes only between after-
noon paradeandmorning stables, which
meant a little dinner somewhere, 8 theatre
after it, and a wild scramble and rush to
catch ,e train leaving Liverpool street at
aome unearthly hour in the morning. At
other times, however, Dick managed to
squeeze a two -day's leave out of his colonel,
and then Dorothy felt—ay, and said, ppor
child—that life w88 worth living, and that
she would not change her lot for that of any
other womad in all the wide world.
So, poor child, her life Blipped by in a
continual change from grave to gay, with
bright spots of love set in e. large surfaoe
of unutterable dulness and wearying
depreasion."
"I wonder," she said one day to Dick,
"whether, when we are able to he alwaye
together, you will get tired of me and if I
shall bore you ?"
"Ho,' said Dick, promptly,
"You really think not?" eagerly.
"I don't think at all," he said, tenderly,
"because I am sure of it. What makes
you ask me that dearest? Have I ever
looked bored or as if I was tired of you P"
"0h, no, Dick, nol" elle buret out
"only you are so good and kind to me, and
it theme so wonderful that you, who have
been in the world all your life, should take
so muoh trouble for a little nobody like
me—I mean that I know nothing, how
should I, after living all my life at Grave-
leigh ?"
Dick laughed aloud at the earnestness --
of her face and tone.
"My darling," he said, holding her close
to his heart, I have been no more kind
and tender to you than you have been to
me. You don't set half enough value on
your dear solf,tbe most preciousself to mein
all the world. Believe me a man does not
Dare so molt what hie wife kuowe as what
the is—and you forget what 1 always re.
member, that you tight have, liked the
other fellow beet, end you didn',"
"The other fellow," Dorothy faltered.
"You mean David Stevenson ?"
"Yee, I inean David Stevenson," Dick
answered. "Many a girl would have taken
him before a poor pauper devil, who had to
ask his wife to live 4ncog. in a poor little
hole like thie. Do you know, I want round
to have a look at Stevenson's place, Ho).
dyed, the other day, and when I naw It—
alma b tell you what I did, my sweet-
heart?"
"Yee," answered Dorothy, in a whisper.
"I went round to the ohurehyard where
she lies, our best friend, and 1 thanked God
and her, if she eould'hoar me, that my dear.
little love had given me her pure love in
exchange for mine,and that SI Dimedale's
wither had never been to part 08. Don't
hart me spin by asking me doubting gees -
done, my darling. Don't, Dorothy) don't,
my dear."
"Dick, Tick I" Dorothy cried, "3 never
will. 1 love yen, 1000 you, love you I'
"And you will always love me , teasing.
""Even when" --
Dorothy blushed, but she put her arm
round his nook and drew his mouth down to
hers. ""I shall always love you bostlf all,
she maid ; ,"mud however muoh I may
to the1 ild I shall love it most beoaueo
va of ,
ON,
(To n000NTI:MEP.)
of y
A MONKEY KILLS A CONE A.
The I8i,ngt•rous R*tptlte Strangled by 140
courageous Enemy.
One day I was much disturbed by'the
enueual chattering of a troop of monkeys,
in India, a short distance from my Mingo.
low,' writes a traveler, I proceeded to the
00ene of; their uproar, when they fled in,
wild disorder, with their young clinging to
the females by the neck. I looked around
to find, if poeeible, the eauso of their trou-
bles.
In a small tree I Boon found a good eised
male speoonen left behind, gazing intently
toward the roots of the tree. Fallowing
the direetfou of its ayes, 1 was astontehed
to see a large cobra, coiled and apparently
asleep. He was the cause of their annoy-
ance, This monkey seemed mare daring
than hie fellows, and did not appear the
lease disturbed et my presence.
My first impulse wee to dispatch the
serpent with a stout cane. On second
thought, I concluded to watch the monkey
and the what it would do. I never wit-
nessed anything more interesting than the
aotinne of that beast,
He slowly left his perch in the forks of
the tree and quietly, with great caution,
moved downward toward the serpent until
he had approached with in two feet of the
reptile. He looked like a eolemn old man,
curiously moving his head from aide to
aide,ae it closely inspecting theobjeotbefore
him. Then he took a firmer hold of the
tree with one amend wrapped his tail olose•
around the trunk.' He reached forth his
hand until it wesevithin six or eight inches
of the serpent and quicaly withdrew ie
aeaiu. I was muoh excited, and wondered
ii he knew the dangerous character of his
adversary. Was he playing unknowingly
with death ? I could" scarcely refrain from
rushing to his reeone,but resolved to await
the issue and watch the strange proceed -
legs.
The hand of the monkey again moved
toward the venomous reptile. Is he going
to seize the creature ? Thoughts of hie
danger came think and fast, as almost
riveted to the ground 1 watched. Sudden.
ly with the quickness of lightning, the
monkey grasped the serpent around the
neck, close to the head, in such a manner
as to render it impossible to inflict uta
deadly bite, while its body encircled his
81110.
The astonishing scene is indescribable.
There were loud hissings, mingled with
ohatteringe and almost sareechinge, a8 the
monkey danced and leaped in frenzied
delight. With many odd grimaces and
queer wrinkling of the brow, the monkey
seemed almost frantic. He would stop his
wild contortions and seriously examine
the head and eyes and protruding tongue,
again grin and dance about. But stranger
movements soon followed.
After a short time of thie display of glee,
he apparently became tired, and stooping
down on three legs, he began to rub the
head of the, serpent on the hard ground.
He would rub awhile, then, with much.
aeriousnese, examine the head. Then rub
it again. Blood began to drip over his
hand. This rubbing and examining he
repeated again and again, until he had
completely rubbed o0• the head of the
cobra. Then, with much chattering and
apparent glee, he dropped Ide writhing
body to the ground and scampered off to
join his companions in a neighboring
grove.
your allowance, where would you be then ?
1f you are in the at my you have alwaye ;r'.
the ulnaiioo of t",iug to India, and I don't "OP, Dick 1" reproachfully.
UNSER R CLOUB.
OIIAPTER Llv,
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Brettiaon'e progre0a was slow, but he
refused to alt down and teat,
"We musiget there," he said, "we must
get there."
"Ole it much farther ?" said Brettioon a,
last. "I am weaker than I thought,"
"'Seventy or nighty yards ; just beyond
those rooks," said atrattnn.
"Hall, then 1 am strong enough," oried
Brettieon, with a sigh of relief.
"Come along," he whiepered quickly.
They were hurrying along, when there
was a joyful cry, and the sturdy Breton
woman ohoson' for Dale's attendant oried
out:
"Ah; monsieur ; quick 1 quick, I Here—
help l" •
Dale was holding Myra's wrist with hie
left hand and struggling violently with the
admiral and Guest, who were afraid to
exert their strength for fear of. injuring
Myra, who was supported by Margot with
one arm, while with ber strong Sngere she
grasped her patient's wrist in turn.
"Quick, monsieur 1" cried Margot ; "it
is a fit, He ie half mad."
Forgetting everything but the fact that
Myra was in this scoundrel's grasp, Strat-
ton sprang at him, eatohing him by the
throat to try and make him quit hie hold.
"Mr. Stratton 1" oried Sir dark in angry
amazement.
The name acted like magic. Dale shook
himself free of the admiral and Margot,
loosening Myra's wrist in the act, and with
an angry snarl, like that of some wild beast,
fixed his hands on Stratton's throat,
Twine over as they swayed here and
there he naught sight of Myra's faae sou-
vulsed with horror while she clung to her
cousin, and her look unnerved him so that
i1 would have gond hard with him but for
the arrival of a party of four men who had
landed from the boat that had kept pace
with them along the shore.
One of these was the fisherman, the two
others were a couple of gendarmes and
another fisher, and the two officers threw
themselves into the fray, with the result
that the next minute Dale wee firmly se-
cured and held.
"This is the man, then," panted one of
the officers.
"Yea," said the fisherman from the
cottage. "I say he tried to strangle this
gentleman in the night at my plane. Look
at his throat."
" It is quite true," said Brettieon.
"And you told ue, monsieur," cried the
fisherman reproachfully' "that your friend
was imbecile, and that we need not fear,"
"Yes." said Brettison Badly. "I was
wrong, but I have been punished for my
sic. Malcolm Stratton," he continued,
turning to his friend,"I call upon you for
For a few moments there wee a wild and
wondering look. in her Oy0S, hub it wan
softened directly by' her tsars, as 01)0
whipered :
"I don't quiet, grasp it All, Malcolm.
Only tell me that is it true --that you really
love me, door 1"
"As true a0 that I`oan hold your hand
io mine, clear from all etain, and that you,
are free—my love, my wife,"
"But," oried the admiral in the further
explanations which ensued, " do I upder-
stand, my lad, that yeti all along tools thie
men for Dale?"
"Of entree."
"But you had surely seen him et my
house?' •
0.1 saw from a diatanco the man arrested
on the wedding morn, but ire was eurroand-
ed by the crowd, and I never caught hie
face,'
"But you were present ail the trial,"
said llrettleen.
"No, I never entered the court. 1
could not go to gloat over my rival's fall,'.
I merely waited for the result,"
"I remember now ; I saw you waiting
there," said Brettioon thoughtfully, .And
I, of course, caw the prisanere'aide by aide,
but from the gallery, right behind and far
above. I never naught a glimpse of either
face until they burpedto leave the' doolt,.
and then it wan this man'a only—the other
prisoner went first."
"And I could not see in Chia wretched
madman's altered features the scoundrel
I had oeen 111 court 1" oried the admiral.
"Who could have dreamed it was the
oame 7" oried Guest. Poor wretch, his
face was like an old well-worn shilling till
that fit Dame on. Here 1 Mal, old fellow,
quick 1"
"It is nothing—nothing," said Brettieon
ain*.ly aa'Stratton saved him from a heavy
fall. "My encounter lest night—a little
giddy still. Your arm, my boy ; l'm better
now, Well ; for have Knot saved yon boat
—brought you full happiness and joy?"
THE DITTY BOX MUTINY.
What Threatened to be. a Serious Mutiny
°were by the Kindness and Tactor
the TWO dates.
A curious instance of "how smell a mat-
ter kindleth strife" was many years back
fforded in connection with the boxes in
which English aeameu keep their needles
and ouch -like things. Theee same "ditty
boxes" were in former days very nearly the
cause of a serious mutiny in one of the
flagships, in which the not ' overwire com-
mander, upon newly joining, began the
practice of throwing overboard any such
boxes he caught sight of on going his morn-
ing rounds 01 inspection, considering that
they spoiled the effect of the tete of china
with which all the men's meas tables were
adorned.
• It happened that nenerous visitors, gen.
erally escorted by this commander, came to
see the flagship and, of course, admired the
neatness of the orew'e meet faeces, and
especially the show of china, whioli 'was
pointed out with pride by him. One after-
noon, however, after there had been during
the morning au espeoialsearch for and large.
capture of•boxre, which were then thrown
overboard, the seamen, justly enagod at
tide destruction of their little neceesarieo,
rose en mates, and amaahed the whole of
the much -admired crockery. The marines,
however, would not follow suit, and effect.
uiilly resisted the efforts to smash their
china made by the sailors, who desired to
thus complete their works of deetruetion.
These seamen then rushed up on the fore.
eaatic. During the destruction of monkery
the overexcited mate of the lower deck
kept frantically brandiehing his ewbrd, but
at the rear of the marines, and quite clear
of the flying fragments of crockery.
The noise made roused the commander,
who, ruching up to the quarter-deck,ealled
for the marines, and ordered them to load
their muskets. At this point the mato of
the upper deck and the mate of the main
deck, who knew the seamen well from long
and cloth experience, stepped np to the
commander and begged him, instead of
causing the mariner to load, to pipe the
crew down, which he did ; and then these
two mates went forward, and, speaking
kindly, induced the stamen to go below
and leave the forecastle gone, which they
were casting loose, while some of their
oomrades were endeavoring to break open
the powder magazine • Thus what threat-
ened to boa moths mutiny was happily pput
an end to, ,caving the seamen the unpins.
net teals of sweeping up their broken
crockery. As might have been anticipated.
nothing further occurred ; for all good
officers, who have an intimate knowledge
of the seamen of the royal navy, :can bear
witness to their attachment to.lotliciary
officers, es well as to their great loyalty
to duty,
Many love and marry; fewer marry and
love.
the sake of ell here to denounce this man
to the officers." •
"I cannot said Stratton, with a quick
look fibm Myra to Sir Mark and back.
"That task shall never be mine."
",Will monsieur say those wmde in
French ?" eaid the officer who had spoken
before. "I understand Englisha little,but
1 cannot trust myself at a tlm8 like this."
"Forgive me, then, Sir Mark," said
Brettieon firmly, and speaking now in ex-
cellent French," and you, too, my child,"
he said, taking and kissing Myra's hand.
i have tried for your sake and that of the
man I love as a eon co spare you pain, but
the time has come when this must end. turning here estoward the ilk
Officers, this mac, an imbecile save at rare g y up y, and
intervals, when he has these violent homi- displaying her white teeth, "the way, that
cidel fits is James Barron, or Dale, a con- I adore the deer, dear little children!"
"alar,got!'b.cried bliss Jerrold austerely,
viol escaped from one of the English prig- and she rose and walked away.
Dna yrs • - !'Faith of a good woman 1 what have I
Myra uttered b a wild cry and hid her face eai3 v" muttered Margot, looking now at
on her aunt's breast. 'e
that Barron•Dele and I enderoon certainly
died in their attem[ft to oaoapo from your
great prison. The oorreepundeneo lute
gone on, monsieur, till now, and 1 believe
that the lilpglish n itb0r1tiee were about to
send an otiiear to investigate the matter;
but, as you have been informed, the man
has been growing worse and worse while i11
Cesterday)heahad ,ft the
abteek-a BStrville.
Ile paused a moment or two, leaking
gravely at Stratton, „
Tho difficulty da solved now, monsieur,
said the officer gravely. "He did not re.
cover from the fit. Our dootore have
found the cause of those attaoletl—a pistol
bullet wail hnbedded close 10 the brain."
" The bullet from his own pistol,"
thought Stratton, " The shot . meant for
me,
A few minutes after Stratton left the
officer, and went straight to where Myra
WAS waiting, trembling with excitement,
" There is tome fresh peril, Malcolm,"
ehe oried as she caught hie hand.
"No, dearest," hesaid slowly ; " the
act cloud has passed away."
CHAPTER LV.
T1110 LAST CLOW.
",7ules,you are a bad—a naughty 1" cried
Margot angrily. "You and your wife never
tell me of what takes plane while I sleep ;
you send me outwith my patinae, and never
tell me he f8 dangerous ; and then you rob
me of my bread by getting him sent away.
It is ruin, and I must go back to the town
and starve. '
"Never," oried a pleasant little voice
behind her ; and she turned sharply round
to seeEdie and Guest, the former smiling
through her tears. 'Have no fear about
that, my poor Margot. Come up to the
house and help, as my poor cousin is very
weak and i11."
" My faith, dear miss, I will," oried the
sturdy Breton woman.
"Ah l bah, madame," she said, looking up
from her knitting. "Wast do I do? Noth-
ing. The beloved Mies grows better and
more beautiful day by day, and is it I ? Is
it the good physioian come from St. Malo?
Name of a little cider apple! no. Look •at
the dear old monsieur there."
"He says to me, 'You most go up on the
cliffs this morning, Margot, and bring me
every flower you can find,' I go, madame,
and--"
"One moment, Margot; you always forget
I am mademoiselle, not madame."
"The greater the pi ty, mad'moiselle. You
8o young looking 0ti11 you should be the
mother of many children, or a widow like
me. el hat of the monsieur? I take him
every morning all the flowers, and there,
see, he is as happy with them as a little
child:! Of my other sick one—look at her
Aunt Jerrold looked through her half.
closed eyes, smiled and nodded again.
"Faith of a good woman !" said Margot,
"does ehe want a nurse, does she wane a
phyeietan9 No. The. good doctor ie by
her side, and ever since the day when the
bad man was taken I have seen the beauti-
ful brown of the sea air and the rose of the
sun come into ber cheeks. It is a folly my
being here now, but if mad'moieelle and
the great sea captain will keep my faith-
ful services till they marry and be happy
and oh, niademoreelle," oried Margot,
(T110 E01)3
VICTORIOUS JAPAN.
She la Noes, a Naval and IRLtes'y rower to
Ile Reckoned With.
The natio which has 60,000,000 men
°epable of bearing arms, but whioh is
leaderless t which has untold wealth, but
does not know how to use it, has succumbed
to the nation which,. ail told, women and
children included, is not much above
"Brettieon 1" roared Stratton. where Guest and Jldie had gone down to a
Brettieon, have
M.' you taken leave of rook pool in which they were fishing With
Mre
y their hands for prawns, but catching eaoh
your aenee0 1" cried Sir Mark. " James other's fingers instead deep down under the
Barron 1" wends. "They will all marry, and very
" Bah 1" said the convict, " the game ie soon. Ah 1 alone old maids!"
up, Heudereon's my name, Sam Bender- The one to whom she specially referred
sou, Jamas Barron's fellow -prisoner and had gone to Mt down now by her brother,
mete. Poor old Dandy Jem wan shot dead who was scanning a vessel in the offing with
that night t Where's Stratton ?'' he cried, his glass
with a curious change coming over hien. "French man•of'•war, Rebecca," he said.
" Ah 1 there, Now, tnan, noehuffiing. The 'Tine vessel, but only a confounded' imita.
game's in my bonds, you know. Come, pay tion of one of ours."
up like a man. They're waiting for you " Yee, dear, I suppose so," said his sle-
et the church—my wife—what's her name ter.
—pretty Myrs—my mate Tem'e widow— "Are you getting tired of the pbaoc,Mui k?"
gentleman James, sir—all the swell—but I she Bald eu.idenly.
did it—I engraved the notes," , " Eh? Tired 1 What for? It's beautiful
Heamiled and chuckled. and calm, and there's water and a bit of
" Proud of them. Puzzled the clever shipping, and every one seems to be happy
ones, The Rothschilds hardly knew, eh, and comfortable. "fired? No I Are you 3"
Jem? Well,you always were a swell. And so " Oh, no, dear, only 1 thought we could
you mean to marry the gal ? Well, 1 warn not go on much longer like thie."
you ; ft's getting too hot. Better not off "Lel fare alter it, then," said the admiral
together till the acenUo cold. There, gruffly. "Don't catch me at it. ,lyra
Pve warned you. I thought to : hasn't suggested suoh a thing."
nabbed. All right, gentleman, 1'il come "Ste? No," said Mies Jerrold quickly.
quietly. Easy with my mate. Going to "0 Mark 1" ehe cried, "1 am ao glad to the
be married this morning. Do you hear her happy once again.
Stratton ? married this morning! My wife, '•ilod uteoe her, yes. I think she must
you earl have her, My little widow. Hush I have had all the trouble meant for her life
quiet, will you. We shall never do it. Oh, in one big storm, so that she may have a
gee, I'm game. Ugh, hard work. They're calm passage right to the end."
after us, and we shall have to rush 'em. "I pray that itmaybe so," said Aunt
Right, Joffe 1'll stand any rink. Hold deltoid fervently, 'How happy she
together, and then down the make 1" looks."
' Now, then," he whispered, "ready. ",lee," said Sir Mark, closing the glass
Off'. Ah I" he shrieked, " don't shoot— through which ho had watched her while
don't shoot. Cowards I Ugh 1 the water his sister spoke.
—a long swim—but it's for life—for liie; • On this particular morning, when all wee
and poor old Jem—handsome Jem, shot—` bright and annoy, there yet' was 0110 01011d
shot I" near, for a eervant oame out to toy that
The man's whole manner changed : the monsieur was wanted.
twitching of the muscles, the exrete4 play- Stratton Sprang up, and Myra rose and
log of the nerves, and the wild look in the olnng to his arm, her eyes dilatieg with the
eyes gave place to the vacant, heavy stare, dread of spine new trouble. But he et on0e
and his hand rose slowly to his neck, and caimed her.
played about the baok of hie ear. " There. Oen be no trouble now that we
Shot," he maid, " "hot," looking up et could not meet," he whispered :
the admiral and smiling, "A bullet.- be. Tho officer whn heti arrested Henderson
bind the ear—never found it yet—never was standing in the little morn Stratton
fannd -" used, and with hien a thin, earner% looking
" Quick 1" 'cried Stratton, stepping for man in black, who seemed to weer an
ward so as to Hide ibe ghastly contortieus otgnial uniform as well as air.
that avowed the mnn's,face from the ladies "1 have oame, mon8ieuri rospeoting,the
clinging together in'e frightened group. man Barron -Dale," he meld in very good
" Yee," sold Brettioon, with a sigh of Reglleh. "Ail you know, monsieur, wet
relief, "for make, officers, take him have been in coinmunicetion with the Eng
away,i"• liah authorities, and) as we have reported to
They bore him instantly toward the boat, yon from time to time, there has been a
just se Myra uttered alownigh and fainted relu0tance on their part i0 investigate the
dead away, matter."
Itwas some minutes before ehe 01003° to " Yeo, I have heard all this," said
again, to find Stratton kneeling by her side' Stratton, trying to be calm; •
holding her hand, while the others stood a
little aloof.
40,000,000 souls. China, which hes more
than 300,000,000iobabitanto, probably,
has been the " under dog" since the
struggle began lost Bummer.
It was reported on June 13th. last year
that" the rebellion. in Corea was become
more active, and that 2,000 Chinesehroops
were marching against the rebels." Japan
was of the opinion thatthe.. rebellion arose
from the misgovernment of the Bing of
Corea, and in order to protect Japanese
interests in hie eountry orderea that
monarch to give' his people the reforms
theyasked for, and thus bring the rebellion
to aspeedy end. Failingprompt obedience
the Japanese took the matter into their
own hands, and thuscamp into conflict
with Cities. . There were a few desultory
battles, and on August locJapac declared
to the Powers that she intended to fight
China. On the previous day a naval battle
had taken place, in which a Chinese war-
ship was sunk and many lives last. On
August 8 the Ohineee were defeated in two
battles, and lost 500 men. On August 17
and 24 Japan
1100:0110 WORST OF IT, .
losing 1,300 men, and on the latter date it
was reported that China had an army of
34,000 men in the field. From this time
forward, with but few exceptions, the
fortune of war went against the Chinese.
On September 7 Japan had 100,000 men in
Corea, and on September 17 China lost
17,000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners,
Port Arthur, the Chinese stronghold, fell
on November 23. The fighting went on by
eea and land. On February 12 the Chinese
forts and warships at \Vei•Hai-Wei were
completely surrendered co the victorious
japaneee, .and talk at Dune began about
overtures for peace.
Up to the middle of last summer there
was nothing ea marvellous in recent centur-
ies as the way in whioli the Japanese were
absorbing and assimilating Western ideas
of civilization. But there is nothing in the
history of the world quite so astounding as
the way in which .this small Eastern nation
bas managed herself in the present war, Io
turns out' that she was not only sending
young men to colleges, but buying and
building ironclads, guns, and amassing war
material, and training an army and navy.
Within the memory of comparatively young
men, Japan was a nation to laugh at and.
write comic operas about. Japan is now a
military and naval power to be reckoned
with. She is victorious, and she will have
money. From this onward she can hardly
fail to take a most important position in
relation to the commerce of the world and
the question of the East.
"They were supposed to treat him as an
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The Equipments or These Farms are Very
Conlelate and Efficient.
For several years the provinces and the
Federal Government have been taking an
active interest in the improvement of agri-
cultural methods throughout the provinces,
mays the Scientific American, and at pres.
sent the equipments of their :Recalled
"experimental farms" are very complete
and efficient. The central experimental
farm, situated near0ttuwa, comprises 'some
500 acres of land and a complete outfit of
buildings and the necessary machinery.
The buildings are eepeoially fitted up for
cattle, horses, pigs and poultry, and all of
theme are well stocked. There is a dairy
equipped with the modern appliances for
carrying on experimental work. The farm
includes a Beed testing and propagating
house and a conservatory. Beeldee thie
central station, there are e13vsn expert
mental farms in other parts' of Canada, and
these carry on experiments in agriculture,
horticulture and arboriculture with muoh
profit. The several farms are situated so
as 10 render them as helpful a8 possible to
8118 most thickly populated dietriote, and
in their equipments and general methods
they resemble closely the central station.
The staff of workers at the central experi-
mental farmincludes a director, an ogri.
culturist, a botanist, an entomologist and
a chemist. There are also a poultry mana-
ger, 8 " foreman of forestry" and several
assistants to assist the members of the staff.
The wetk is varied in nature and has to do
with practically °eery thing width relates
to farming in Canada. Tho adaptability
and Merits of variousvarieties of 'wheat
are, for example, the anbjeut of careful en-
quiry.
Experiments art carried on to determine
the vitality and purity of various agrioul-
turalseeds, and toinveer.igate the nettle°
of the diseases of planta and trees, and the
cure for the rev8gee of !needle. Veldoue
variettee of fertilisers are tested to determine
their comparative value with different anile
mod crops. 'the study of the afire of animals
18 a very important interest, and the vain
of ditterent breeds of stock and their
adaptability to various climates and other'
conditions aro caretlsfly investigated.
These ntatlone 01x111)00 the ecientliio and
eoenomio sides of butter end cheese making.
Experiments aro carried on to determine
the best methods of planting ani pruning
6100E for fruit raising 0r for shelter or
timber. Theinformetiotl gained in all this
work' is carefully recycled and published.
impostor, and at lest sent us word definitely for general distribution.