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UNDER AN AFRIC SUN.
Br GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.
CHAPTER X. —mad againab you, Daae more, if yon
Yllgby'a awakening from 111s stupors value your life,
ewhere
eld iss Helwel en?" mockingly, "' 1
imrangor and more wild than his recovery „
dunning It
value. mlife.
Ina could grasptu the Where he wee, hours
and he ' Then we lethel" 7'I have taken her
Saaad bienselt lying upon the soft duet, eo The her
h•
OW that he could hardly move an inch. Awa I on'b madden me,Ramoa, I oma quiet,
le was dark a8 ever ; and he lay listening easy-going but dangerous whoa
and hoping for the relief which did not et some roused.ngVITfellow,e to she ?"
unoanmemetof lase pe,to oand l still and 6telling hink uhimeelf do not know." „ trod Dishy and
:Haat he had exaggerated, and that Helen You he, hound ! i $ y , ,
wee safe ; this was but an accidents weak as be w as), he sprung at the Spaniard
As ho lay there, longing to rise, and and caught hies by the throat.
dreading the pain that followed every move- The moment before, Ramon was calm and
anent], he became ooneoioue bhab the air was smooth and aofb of word ; but, as he felt
-cool and pleasant and refreshing to hie burn. Digby'e hadne at his throat, he flashed out
dug brow. Then, by stew degrees It struck into a rage thee was almost volcanic. He
shim that the wind came in a soft steady obru gglod, bub vainly, weak as 1178 sggroesor
,unrrent on one cheek ; and by-and-by, was for he too seemed to be anffering from
ereaten snggeeted to him that this) cool tom a lojnry which turned him faint. lob
current of air mutt come from some opening hhies glittered were as herce cefand n menacinglytrgand' Ala,
low away in the great cavern,
He shivered at first ab the idea of plung- thend the
senorwitr 18 j miens, he, feelsbecap nggo,
dng farther into bhe darkness, for how did he tett child is not e
/know where his faltering steps might load Pretty mill yon nohere this before I strangle
;frim, and what hideous chasms might be yonl' Dried Digby savagely. "Where ie
yawning in his path . Helen?'
Still, there woe bhe cool current of air ; "Fool I idiot! dog l" hissed out the Spent
so, forcing himself to rise, he began to walk and, delivering each word as if it were a
,slowly and cautiously in the direction from deadly blow. "Don't ask me. Go and
which it came, with the result that, after ask your cunning false friend. Ask Fraser,
about an hour's slow progreseion over what when you con find him. He has taken her
Wes reallybut a short distance, he suddenly away."
=aught siht of a pale greenish ray of light, „ Whab? It is not true. 11, le another of
and his heart teemed bo give a bound. your cowardly trloks to throw tae on the
The rash was easy. Ten minutes' cautions scent."
gseogre8s over the dash brought him to bhe "Indeed? Then, where is Fraser?"
-opening, o rift in the rook overgrown with " Murdered, for aught I know, a8 you
/ranging creepers ; and pushing these aside, tried to murder me," oried Dleby fiercely,
he found himself gazing out of what was but with a horrible suspicion gaining upon
like a roughly broken natural window him fast.
do the perpendicular rooky face of the " Yau are a boy—a weak boy," snarled
barranco, which seemed togo down hundreds Ramon. " Your friend, where le he? Ah,
et deet below. How far up, he oould not it is always the friend who deceives."
" Ramon, for Heaven's sake, the truth,"
It was dull, and the wind blew In Dried Redgrave. "My child I my child I"
t&tful puffs, whioh swept the leaves aside, as " Gone with this ;idiot's false friend.—
dee stood there for a time, asking himself There, go, both of you. --I tell you I am 111.
what he would do. He was In no trim for
•'climbing up such a place as this ; but would
be possible to gab down ?
Io seemed a risk ; bub anything was bet-
-ter than staying in that loathsome plane; so,
teseiteng the stoutest creeper within hie reach,
the began to descend ; and, to his great de-
light, found, after cautiously going down
about a hundred feet from creeper to creep -
that the rooky nide of the barranco grew
leas perpendicular, and leve and less so, till
there was no danger, only an awkward descent
soja slope,whioh landed him at last by a trtokl-
dng stream ; while, on gezing up right and
lett, there were the rooky sides of the ravine,
'and above them, the doll gray eky, with
elle tiny orange epeok far ahead.
Then he grasped the idea that it was
early morning—before sun rise, and that he
=tut hove passed the night. in a feverish
oLnmber in that dreadful place.
The next step was easy. He knew that if
the followed the little stream, sooner or later
36 would lead him to the seashore : and after
staking hie thirst ab one of the poole he bath -
sed hie feverish temples and set off refreshed.
Somehow, he could not think about He-
len. He fejt as if he dared not. He could
mealy dwell upon the fact that a pitfall had
been prepared for him, and he wanted to
=all Ramon to mount. Then, too, he want -
red to know where Fraser was ; why he had
mmol come to his help, and why he had one
off before him.
Strange problems these for an injured
man to solve, and the only result of his ate
tempts was for his head to grow more con -
lased.
It was a long and painful journey ; and
the sun had risen houre before Digby had
=apt out on to the blank sande, where quite
a gals woe blowing, as bhe great Atlantic
billows came rolling ir. Then he made his
way round to the little inn,
The landlady gazed at him in horror, and
began talking to him volubly in Spanish, to
oee•bfch Digby could not reply.
"The senor—Senor Fraser 7" he said ; bub
^bhe woman only shook her head ; and he wee
'3he point of starting off, when Redgrave
-name hurriedly to the door to ask if Fraser
and he had returned,
" Ah, you are here I" cried Redgrave
excitedly. "What does all this mean?
'Where to Fraser ? Why are yon hurt?
Haien ?'
"Yes—Helen ?" gasped Digby excitedly.
"".How is she?'
"Gone 1" cried Redgrave, with a fierce
'vindictiveness in hie tones whioh made the
Sroung man gats et him wonderingly.
"Gone P" panted Dlgby, catching sharply
et the table, for everything seemed to be
:whirling round.
"Yee. You do nob know? How is ihyou
:aro hurt like this ?"
°Don't question me. A. fall. But Helen ?
•ii, mon ?"
No," said Redgrave sadly; "he Swears
lbs
knowe nothing."
"It is not true," cried Digby fiercely.
"S'Ib ie his work. He planned to murder me,
and ho has taken her away"
Redgrave stood gozing at him wildly for a
long space; and then gripped him by the
mem. "Come," he said laconically• and
:almost ready to fall with bodily weakness,
but with his agonising thoughts spurring
bin on, Digby thrust hie arm through Red -
,grave's and walked with him step by step.
In a few minutes he saw whither he Was
being led ; and ten minutes later, with his
theart sinking lower, Redgrave was going
down the path which led to Eamon', house.
"You will not find him," groaned Digby;
'bot Redgrave, whose face looked stony in
:lte despair, made no reply, strode on to the
-door and knoobed.
A quiet -looking Spaniels servant answered
"i'he Bammona,
"Where is your master ?" odd Redgrave
sternly.
"In bed, ill," replied the man.
*ftk1 hat does he say P" naked Digby
3aoarsely.
•'tWhat Ramon is in bed ill."
"' Ib is a lie I" roared Digby. "Ho ie nob
Imre. Redgrave, get horses ; we mush
%)row and hunt him down."
" What is this noise P" said a familiar
Atoka; and Ramon, looking painfully eallow
and ill, =see into the open hall. "Ah,
Medgravo'- –My dear Dlgby, what is thin?
Some one a7, attacked your
"No," said the youg man. "Yee," he
:added fieroely. "An enemy—a cowardly,
•ireaaeherous enemy struck at my life, eo a0
to separate tee from the woman I love. Do
p Spanish dog1—from the
you hoar? you S
oman I loe and who leve me. NOW,
answer, if you value your life—where le
Melton?"
"Helen? Vi by do you a0k me?"
' "Beat= I oan see throngh your cursed
%lot, Now, sir, once more, if yeti value
Tont life, opeak bhe troth. Where 10 Holen 1"
"Is the young senor mad, Redgrave ?°
:said Raman coldly.
'ILobmo answer, Redgrave,—Yes, sir, mad
TSE BRUSSELS POST,
SEPT. G, 1889,
"No detail bore," said Redgrave, An hour later, when they two were alone,
"No ; but queation hie man Pedro, Pro. and after all further explanation had been
mite him any nribe no that we may get at given, Fraser said softly, tie fano nearly
the truth," hidden by the oloud from his cigar : Yee,
"VI'e are on the wrong went,' said Rod• old fellow, why should I deny lb ? Who
grave dismally, ao they walked away. could help loving ao aweeb and pure a
"Pedro knows nothing, 1 am sure." woman 7 T lova her boo well ever to let her
Digby did not feel convinced ; bub he think otberwioe of me than as her true and
could do no more, and he followed Rod. chivalrous friend, The rent is oar smelt,
grave to the desolate home, elok and wears' Tom," And after a pause , " She love, you
ed out, hie injuries from hie fall fatting blas —her every thought is yours ; and a8 for
to keep hie bed for the next three days, and me I have bob one wish—to sea her happy.
submit to the doctor's ministering, At the There ; you floe I can take your band."
end of those throe days, during which time There ie little more to toll. Ramon did
Redgrave had scoured the island in every nob die bub he was still anything but bhe
direction, Digby was able to leave his bed, soma men, whoa the Rodgreves returned to
while the newt of the dootor as he tended England, wibh an escort—Redgrave pore
Ramon was of the darkest lid% having found means bo pay off his lndebb-
"He may recover ; I can say no more," ednese to the Spaniard, nob a very Large
wee the only reply Digby could obtain, amount—when ho had suoeseefully parted
' It was on the fourth morning that, with with hie interests in an inland of which he
the gentlemen of one who bore for him a real had long been weary. How he obtained
affection, sallow and hoggard•looking, Red- the money he did not say. Dlgby suspect.
grave helped Digby to a seat in front of bhab ad that it name from Fraser ; bub the latter
once pleasant villa, where he could breathe would nob confute,
bhe sweet pure eea.air, and at the same time The other malber was a year labor and
be sheltered from bhe fierce rays of the sun, there were no oarde.
once more shining in all Ite glory. For the
gale had blown over, and the tea softly rip-
pled in bhe gentle breeze.
"No Haws -110 news I" groaned Dlgby, as
he lay baok with his head resting upon the
pillow hie host had placed ab the back of his
chair. "And I used to think this place a
perfect heaven 1"
That day had nearly patted, and after
being within doors during the hottest time,
Digby was again seated beneath the tree, gaz.
ing sadly out to sea, and asking himself how
long it would be ere he reoovered his
strength.
"I must find them—I must find them," he
groaned. And then he started up, tottered,
holding on by the baok of the chair, dizzy
with excitement, for unmistakably that was
Fraser's voice he heard ; and direobly after
tho gate was opened, and Helen entered
with him, leaning affectionately upon his
arm.
The moment they were inside the gate,
Helen darted into the house ; and from
where he sat, Digby could hear Rodgrave'e
cry of joy, and realize as well as if he had
Been 11 that the mobbing girl had thrown
herself into her father's arms.
" My darling I" said Fraser softly, as ho
took off his het and stood gazing toward the
house. Then with a bitter sigh, he turned
Tiro END,)
SI, AVERT IN ZARM AN,
FOREIHN NEWS
Bur•on+lil;mite of the .l'epuiatloa Aro la
a The total receipt of bbo Eiffel TOWOr since
07018 or Servitude.the opening on the 15 t of May to the 30111
of July amount bo 2,921,730 InstatesHalt of the prooeode from a two dnye' ex•
hibitlon of the Angelus, 2,000 frame, has
boon eenb to Mrs. Millet, just 200 frauoo
more than Millet eold the picture for.
Tho International Congress) of Soolebiee for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animate, in
Paris assembled, have patted reaolution000n•
damning blinkero,and the long whips and the
bits uow 1100.
The biokebein of admission to the Paris
Exhibition used to July 31 number I0,09/2„.
000, tee against 5,110 000 during the cornea.
ponding period in 1878, The highest number
of admissions in a day has boon 298,000.
Ooe of the most prominent men on the
French turf, Baron liireoh, was pub up at
the Perls Jookey Club the other day, but,
bhough his proposer and seconder wore
popular men, he was heavily blaokballed.
The Sultan of Turkey wishes to reduce hie
weight. Prof. Sehwaningor of Berlin, who
oured Prince Bismarck of hie too pronounoed
tendency to stoutnera, will, ab the request of
the Sulban,inetruob two Turkish phyoiolane in
his poolel method of treatment,
Preparations aro already being made in
several German university towns to cele-
brate nexb year the throe hundredth anni•
versary of the invention of the microscope,
Zacharias Janssen of Middelburg put toge-
ther the first mioroecopo in 1690.
The longest unlnberrupbed debate on re•
cord was, on Aug. 1 bought to a close by
the New Zealand House of Representatives.
It had caused a continuous sitting of seven•
ty-six hours, entirely given up to the die -
melon of a Representation bill, Yet the
debate was nob finished.
Tho great bell of Hung wa, which has long
lain half buried In the ground has ab length
been lifted by foreign maohiuery and hung
in a pagoda built of iron by a foreign firm.
A000rding to prophecy, this bell woe never
to bo lifted until China bad entered upon a
new career of prooperiby.
There is now in forbidden oiroulation on
the Continent a book containing the lettere
of the Crown Prince Rudolph and Marie
Votoera, the cause and companion of his
death. From these it is seen that Rudolph
woo so much in love with the girl that he
offered to renounce all hie titles and digni-
ties for the sake of marrying her.
Considerable friction has arisen at the
Paris exhibition through the attompb of the
jury which awards prizes) to sit in judgment
on the product of the factories ab Sevres,
Lobelin, and Beauvais. They all refuse to
be judged or examined or reported upon, and
the oonbeso between them and the jury hes
finally gone for aootlemonb to Premier Tirard.
The well-known detection of a crime, in
"Diplomacy," through the perfume of a
woman's glove was reproduced by a recent
000urrenee In Paris, A man who found his
room robbod of all his jowlery perceived a
peouliar perfume, and a few days later
noticed 11 again when patting two well -
dratted women in the abreeb. They wore
arrested and found to be the thieves.
To give an Ids% of the importance of the
slave coalition bo the people here, eayye e!. ram
zibar leiter to the London "News," It ie only
ne0000ary to mention the fact thab not leve
than oeven•eighths of the population are
slaves. Some Arabs have a0 many as 1,000
and bhe number of those who count them by
hundreds is not small, Tho leo wealthy
rooidente Lind the beet possible employment
for their capital le to buy slaves, whom Bor•
vines they leo out on hire to the Europeans
for high wages. A small negro boy whose
whole average pries would be 920 can earn
20 poem a day. The Europeans, in whoee
employment those nogroea are, often have
not the leasb suspicion that they carry the
lion'e share of their wages to their Arab MU,
tars. Tho blookade has nob been suaoeasful
in preventing the trade in slaves, in which
every one on the coast, ab laaab every Arab,
bakes part. Although the selling of slaves in
bhe open market hat not been tolerated since
1873, it still bakes piece in aloud rooms
(Europeans being excluded therefrom), and
ie perfectly legal, Ib may seem strange
Attie negro laborers oan nob be transported
by sea, which is allowed in the case of wo-
men and domoable slaves. In ,pito of the
constantly luoreasiog price of slaves
in east Africa donkeys are still
dearer than men. A strong work-
man or porter poets on bhe average from
9100 to 9120 (£15 bo £1S), The Suriae for
qhs harem are naturally the most costly
human merchandise, eaoh well-to-do Arab
having throe, four, floe, or even elx, Pretty
young negresaes are always In demand, and
usually fetch from 950 bo 9160, while Abys-
sinlan women bring as muoh as from 9200 to
9500. Those who wish to poseese such
luxuries as women from Jeddah, in Arabia,
have to pay fancy prime. It needs no long
stay in this oounbry to become convinced
that however horrible the hunting of sieves
may be the present form of slavery in Africa
is nob so very much worse than the political
slavery of some of the working maooes in
Europe ; indeed in many respects the work
enacted from the slaves is lighter, The
slaves in Zanzibar do nob live in separate
villages an in the Cameroon, bub masters
and slaves form one houeehold. Before
most of the houses one 0000 0 lazy, laughing
crowd of finely molded negrosees, They are
the house slaves, when lot 10 not by any
moans very hard. Although the Arab
recognized in the European a superior the
negro very often has more reepecb for bhe
dignified Arab, who, although he eats in
common with his sloveo—perhaps would Duan
play oarde with them—still remains always
a born arfotoorat.
A Young Giantess,
The most famous child in the German
Empire just now is Elizabeth Lyska, Every
German daily has told its readers how she
looks and nota, how much she sato and
drinks, and what kind of olothos she wears.
All Berlin is calling upon her, as all Vienna
oalled upon her a few weeks ago when she
was all the Austrian capital. Professore and
offroere, and doctors, and privy conncllloro,
and other German big wigs aro received by
her daily. Even the greab 'i irohow passed
several hours with her, chatted with her
familiarly, and eventually wrote an elaborate
description and biography of her, which he
will00an read before bhe Anthropological
Society at Berlin.
El z sbeth is getting all this attention be-
oanee she is big. According to Virchow,
she is the biggeeb girl of her years whom
Europeans of modern times have seen.
Though but 11 years old, she is six feet eix
inches tall, and weighs about 300 pounds.
Elizabeth wan barn on the Manor W les•
solyj in the valley of tho Dennbe. Her
parents were poor peasants, not taller nor
broader than other peasants. She was the
yonngesb of five children, none of whom,
save herself, is remarkably large. Four
hours after her birth she weighed 10,ponnde.
She grew as other children grow till she was
four years old. Then oho began to be a little
giantess, In her filth year oho gained ten
inches in height, She onbgrew her blue
cotton gown and wooden shoes so rapidly
bhab Papa Lyska, who was trying to support
Mamma Lyska and four other little Lyskao
on something over 9100 a year, was pub to
his wits' ends to get money enough to keep
her decently clothed.
From her fifth to her ninth birthday the
grew only an inch or two. Between her
ninth and tenth birthdays the gained a foot;
between her tenth and eleventh, a foot and
four inches. She could pitch hay, cut grain,
plough, and dig potatoes with any mon on
the manor. Her hand was as) large as three
ordinary feminine hands, and her arm Was
capable of a terrible blow. With an open
handed ouff over bhe ear she once knocked
a young man, who teased her, senseless to
the ground.
Her appebibe became enormous, For
breakfast she took several cups of coffee,
seven thick slioeo of blaok bread, almost a
pint el honey, and half a date pieces of
the fruit in season. For dinner she often
ate a pound and a half or two pomade of
pork, five or six potatoes, and other veg-
etables in oorrespondingly large gaantibiea.
While her inoreaoiog appetite and size
were playing dunks and drakee with the
meagre inoome of the Lyska family, her
father died. His widow was almoab penni-
less. Someone suggested that the young
giantess might be turned to Scandal ac-
count. A Vienna manager of freaks was
broaght to the manor to look at her. He
agreed to pay Eiratboth a salary which in a
week would buy the Lyska family more
bluecotton gowns and wooden shoes and
black bread and honey than they could use
up in a year. Frau 'flake said " Ali right."
Elizabeth was immediately "pub on exhibi-
tion, and within two weeks was famous
throughoub the two German empires.
Elizabeth is handsome. She has long,
dark brown wavy;,hair, large dark eyes,
Olean out features, and white tenth. Her
figure is ohapely, though somewhat Imma-
ture. She has a very fetching smile, which
bas made her the objeob of all aorta of at-
tention from light-headed young men.
Three students of law, an elderly man who
pretended to be a Freiherr, and any num-
ber of ,young tradesmen have written her
love lettere. Ten of her correspondents
were willing to waib for her " to grow up,"
if she were nob already willing to love them.
Elizabeth, however, le too childish still to
be even amused by this one-sided correspon-
dence. Sho is contented to play with her
dolls, and paper puzzles and picture books
while not on exhibition for bhe benefit of the
rent of tho Lyeka family. Sho ie altogether
happy and %atiefied with her new life on the
stage, Her appetite, strength, and height
are inereaeing slowly. Sho takes gymnastic
exerofaea daily to develop her muscloa. Al.
ready she ie able to perform easy feeto of
strength. In time her manager thinks she
will be the champion strong woman as well
as the champion big woman of the world.
--Pedro, your arm." away, and caught eight of the pale drawn
He reeled, and would have fallen but for face of Digby standing mobionleso in the
his servant's quiok action ; and as he was shadow beneath the tree,
lowered fainting to the matbing•covered "Ah, my dear old Tom I" he cried; and
floor, Digby saw that bis head had evidently his whole manner changed, as be liberally
received some severe injury.rana
�" What is lb?"—Hurt?"
bhim,
" Reap baok I" Dried Digby, in a Buffooab-
CHAPTER Xl. ing voice. "You mean, despicable traitor 1"
"I cannot understand ib," said Redgrave What 1-01, I nee," said Fraser genial-
wearil . "1nde onb the aidpart of ly ; and then a mocking look mane into his
ygr face as be added slyly: "Don't take on
yesterday; and when I returned, Helen had about it, Tom. We can't all win."
disappeared." Digby was too weak to reply ; be merely
" Bab you heard what he said, Mr. Rad- darted a bitter look at hie friend, and Bank
grave—Fraser—gone.—Oh, it seems impels- helpless, and with his brain ewimmine, in
aible I" the chair. He was condom of voices and
Redgrave sank wearily upon a stone, and of seeing figures come tie 10 were through a
let the pool wind which name fiercely from mist. Then, a0 a0 etrupgled back to him -
the north blow upon his brow. self, it was to find that Helen wan leaning
"You don't speak, sir," pried Digby pas- over him with her arms about his nook. •
sionately. "You?" he panted.—"I don't—I don't
" What oan I nay, sir ? Tell me about understand."
yonraeif. What did you mean by charging "Have you nob told him, Fraser, my dear
Senor Ramon with an attempt to murder fellow P" cried Redgrave.
you?'' "I? No. Poor boy, he was too areas.
DIgby impatiently explained. No ; too upset.—There, Tom, my dear lad,"
""
"Ic le strange," said Redgrave , but I he cried, going down on one knee and taking
cannot think he would go so far as that. hie friend's hand, 'don't let's play at moss.
"Never mind whether he mould or would,"
cried Digby. "Helen—we must find Helen. purposes."
. I—I--don't understand," said Digby
Is that man disoeiving us?" hoarsely. "Soon expained, my dear lad. I
Redgrave shook his head, " Yon saw the was very suspicious of Ramon as you know,
condition he was in. There was no deoeib though yon snubbed me ,and after the last
in that." pressing way in which he proposed that we
"Could he have taken her away ? Is she should visit the head of the barranco I felt
hidden at some place he owns ? sure there was eomebbing on the way. "It
" No, It is too improbable. These are not is a plan to gab rid of us) for the time," I
days of abductions, young mea.—Oonld said. And after turning the matter over in
Helen have deceived me?" he muttered.,m mind, I thought I would let him think
Bat Dlgby caught what ho said. " No,we were going, and see us eaart, then abep
he oried proudly ; "she is Incapable of de- back and watch."
oelb." "Year cried Digby eagerly.
In an instant hie hands were grasped •• Well, I started early, and left a lino for
tightly, and Redgrave was gazing almost you to follow ; and of course I let you go
affectionately in his eyes, "God bless you n while I dropped into the bushes and
for that, my boy I" he Dried in a choking watched—yon flub, then our friend."
volae—" God bless von for that 1"
Digby returned the warm frank pressure ; «Quick 1 you torture me," cried Digby.
and from that moment ib seemed as if they That ought nob to be torture,said
worked together with renewed spirit and as Fraser quietly, as be glanced at where
one, Helen clung bo leer injured lover. Well,
"I cannot think bhab Prager would figght there is little to tall. I taw you go ; and
against me or play a deceptive par,," cried an hour after, when 1 was beginning to grow
Digby warmly, after a long discussion which snepiaiona of myself and my doubts, I taw
followed a vain search for news. Ramon come out, and I followed him right
"It tabard to doubt one you believe to be up „to here.
a friend," said Redgrave. " But there is no �" Yee.
donbb of one thing." Here he came as with a message fm•
"And that is Y" fallenploring help for you, old fellow. Yon had
"Fraser loved my child." fallen from one of the rooks down by the
" Ohl Impossible 1" Digby's ejaonlation 00ashors, and wanted brandy and bandag•
was wonderment and doubt.
"The scoundrel i"
" Was she nob sufficiently beautiful and " Yes ; the mandrel was very sorry our
true and good P" host here was out—so he said, but glad to
Don's talk like that, as if the were no esocrb poor little Helen down to her wound -
more.' ed lover. She followed blindly, thinking
I noticed it from the first,"continued only of you ; and when she reaohed the spot,
Redgrave. I saw how he wars struck by you were nob lying thorn, bub a boat was
her ; and in my trouble with Ramon's ad- ready,to sail somewhere or another, Ramon
venue, I fou+d myself thinking how =oh only knows."
happier she would be wibh the quieb, grave,
middle-aged student, and I hoped tbab she "And then, Tom," cried Helen, who had
would return his affection." been listening excitedly, " Mr. Fraser camp
"And I, sir P'r cried Digby resentfully, up as ho was trying to drag me into the
"Ab, yes. I saw that you loved her too; bee„e'”,!' cried I reser, laughing ; " that
but I looked upon you as the hob ohang% isn't fair. Let ret bell my own story. You'll
able lover of a day attracted by the first
pretty face he naw. But Helen ohm you." knock all the chance every day too play kn gbb•etra have a
"" And Fraser—did he ever ?"—
"Goon, for pity's take," cried Digby,
Speak to me ? No. I whaahed him caro• "Alt right. Ho dragged her on board,
fully, aeama+t would who had hie daughter's pushed off ; and I thought I was boo late ;
happiness at stake ; bub he seemed to think bub a wave checked big, and I rushed Into
in your position. I do nob think Helen evvere
his chances were hopeloos, and. to eer the water and gob hold of bhe aie, When he
suspected his love."
raised the boathook and struck nee. Well
' She oonld net. I never dreamed of that naaturally made me fool savage. My
hand went to my belt ; and somehow, I
such o thing."
"No." said Redgrave sadly ; "when one hardly know how, I gays him a topper with
is young, one is selfish and blind to all but my geological hammer ; and the nexb thing
self. You both ware blind," I saw clearly was Ramon Drawling out of
"Then all bhie pointe to the foot that the sea, while I was trying to manage bhe
Feasor hes been playing a double par, boat, for a fierce puff of wind oamo down
the barranco and nearly capsized as, —
against us all ; and that by some °tinning That's all."
jugglery, he has persuaded Ilelen to listen
to him—bo aaoompany him— No ; I'll "No, no ; that can't be all," pried Digby
never believe that. My old friend has fallen excitedly.
a victim to the fate 1 eloped, No, Mr. "Well, not quite, The squall increased to a
Redgrave, I can't believe bhab," gale. Ib woe impossible to land ; we were
Inquiries were made in every dlrecbion blown right out to sea—ocean, I mean—and
eepeotally down in the port ; but no voted after being needy swamped about a hundred
had touched there ; nob even a fishing boat thousand times, we managed to get under the
had left the little place ; and it was blowing lee of Palma, right aoroaayonder ; MlssHolon
so hard off shore that no boat would have hero behaving like a heroine ; and there we
dared to approach or leave from that Hide of etayode wbibhsoine friondsof Mr. Redgrave Uil1
the island. Ute weather lulled, and thou we auilhd kook
"Let's go book to Ramon's I am sure eve There—that is all,'
shall learn something there, cried Digby ab"No • thab 10 nob all," cried Helen, finish.
last. "That scoundrel is at the bottom of ing "He has said nothing hardly about hie
I'm .� defending me from that nor
allantr In f
Ib all, T m ante. g y g '
They went straight to the Spaniard's about his bravo true chivalry all through our
honed, to meet the Engllstt doctor of the perilous trip. You might to be proud" --
place, about to leave. She panned, and took Digby m hand between
"Bad, air—very bad, Quito insensible, hers as she looked blushingly in his eyes—
Concussion of the brain from a fall or from "We ought to bo proud to have so true a
Pomo blow. The oast is serious, ''m afraid."
Redgrave and Digby exchanged looks.
""Do nob have him dfetnrbed. I shall be
hero again in a couple of hours," said the
dootor ; and ho walked briskly away.
Dr, J. B. Campbell Tells How Els Soul
Made a Journey of 500 Miles in
Short Order.
Dr. J. B. Campbell, of Fairmounb,
reoently made a return to the health
officer of the death of ,Tonne Kuntz,
a farmer of Skyyesville, Jefferson county,
Pennsylvania. The death was to all =-
sauna an ordinary one, and no report was ler. Olivier or �l,avr•e, advisee people to be
made to the coroner and no special mention careful in driakieg older, if they would avoid
of it was made in the newspapers. Bab from typhoid fever. French cider le made, as a
developments tint and from the dootor'e tate, with stagnant water, the microbes in
own printed statements the death was due which do not perish during the fermentation.
to a fall down the stairs at the dootor'e own rho fever germs thrive upon the juice of the
vitapathio college in Fairmount at 2 o'clock apple. In proof of this theory Dr, (slider
Sunday morning, July 21. The fall, he otters bhe fact thab typhoid fever is more
states, caused oonouseion of the brain, from provailenb in Normandy, the great older -
which death rooulted twenty-four hours making diebriob, than in any other part of
later, Here ie an account of bhe peouliar France.
death written by the doctor himself, in It ie poeaible that the widowed Crown
which he attempts ho eobablioh an alleged Princes,. of Austria may yet become Empress.
wonderful soul oommnnion, but in which he Tho Archduke French, the heir presumptive
makes no explanation as to why he did not to the throne, and the eldest son of the
report to the coroner and the health office Emperor's second brother, the Arohduke
the foots of the death as heroin abated : Obarlee Ltnie, is devoted to her and wants
"Sunday morning, July 21, ab 2 o'olook, bo marry her. A great obatacle to his wish,
Jonas Kuntz, a young man 18 years of age, however, le the face that be is an epileptic
a very sink patient, who had been brought and extremely weak minded. The Aroh-
to our sanitarium a week before, ,scoped duke Charles Louis hat formally renounced
the vigilant care of his nurse and going to his rights, to the frantic rage of his third
the stairway fell down, producing a ooneus- wife, who is twenty-two years hie junior.
aloe of rho brain, so that with hie oihor ail• Herman Oeiriohs, the riot New York
manta he diad in twenty-four hours after club man and poltbioian, astonished bhe pee -
the aooident. There were no telegraph pia of Long Branoh on a recent Sunday by
faeillblea bo his oounbry home in 1'enaeyl• owlmming three miles out no sea and baok.
venin, or mails that could reach the parents He had arranged a match with some Now
as quickly as we wished. So on the nighb York professionals, who did nob tarn up
after bhe accident, when the young man in time, so Mr. Oelricho swam out alone to
was aboub to die, I wlehed to reach the par- show what he could do if pressed.
ante wibh' the sad intelligence that their eon
was dying. How to Treat the Eyes.
"I eat down in his room in the presence
of others aa the young man was breathing Sit erect in your obair when reading, and
his last and passing into a trance state I bo- as erect when writing as possible, If you
name clairvoyant, and with a etroug desire bond downward you not only gorge the eyes
my soul left my body and went some 500 wibh blood, bull the brain au well, and both
milee to Pennsylvania to find his parents. suffer. Tho oamo rule should apply to the
I soon reaohed the place, found the house neo of bhe mlorosoope. Get one that will
and entered, finding the parents in bed enable you to look at things horizontally,
asleep, all unconscious of the condition of not always vertically.
their dying child. I attempted to arouse Have a reading lamp for night use. N. B.
them and did arouse their souls, and to —In reading, the light should bo on the
make sure that I had found the right persons book or paper and the eye8 in the shade. If
and for a teat I inquired if they were the you have no reading lamp turn your baok to
parents of Jonas Kuntz and was answered the light and you may read without danger
yea.' I then inquired the man's fireb name, to the eyes.
as f did not know. I inquired, for a fubher Hold the book at your focus ; if that be -
ton bo myself, if ho had a middle name, and gins to go far away get epeouaolee.
was told that ho wrote hie name John W. Avoid reading by the flickering light of
Kuntz, and this proved to be correct. the fire.
" The parents awoke, saying to eaoh other Avoid otrafning the oyes by reading in the
'Something is wrong. Jonas 10 dying or gloaming.
dead.' Mn. Kuntz, the father, hunted up Reading in bed is injurious as a rule. It
the Rev. B, S. Metzger, and Choy both came must be admitted, however, that in oases of
here as) fast as possible, and did not know by eleeplesenoeo, when the mind Is inclined to
other methods that the young man was dead ramble over a thousand thoughte a minute,
unbil they arrived here. I returned to my reading steadies the thoughts and conduces
body in time be whiten the death scene. I to sleep.
saw a large angel [standing an the young Do not read muoh in a railway oar,
mania right aide making passes with his Authors should have blaok•rnled paper in.
hands upward as if he would draw the young stead of blue, and should never strain the
mane soul out of hie body. Then 3 saw a eyes by reading too find typos.
group of a dozen of angels just above him and The bodroom blinds should be red or gray,
reeeivlug the freed soulpo, tadianbwibh smilers and the head of the bed should be toward
and happy in iia new-born immortality, it the window.
areae.' Those ladies who nob only write, but sew,
Campbell is president of the American should nob attempt black seam by night.
Health college ab FPairmounb, Regularphy- When you oome bo an op that enggeato
oioians do net recognize it, but the instibu- the wearing of spectacles, leb no false mod•
tion has several hundred students from all Baby prevent you from getting a pair. If
sections of the oonntry. Reliable people in you have only one eye, an eyeglaes will do ;
the neighborhood say that both Mn. Kuntz otherwise ib le folly.
Go to the wisest and beet optician you
know of, and state your wants and your
ease plainly.
Rembember that had epeotaoles are most
injurious to the ayes, and bhab good and
well-ohosen ones are a dootded luxury.
Geb a pair for reading wibh, and, if name -
It
eery, a long-distance pair for use our of
doors,
It le the greatesb mistake in the world to
wail) until your eyesight is aotnally damaged
before visiting your opbtolan. — [Cassels,
Family Magazine.
Oured of Fluting.
" No more flirting for me, boyo," remark•
ed a drummer to some of his acquaintances
as they eat smoking and chaffing the
other evening. " I used bo go without
smoking when I wan dying for a cigar,
just so I scald go in the ladies' oar. But
I'm cured. On my laat run into Linooln I
met a nine young lady. She was agreeable,
and of course I made myself as nearly so as
possible. Had a pleasant half hour wibh her
before we reaohed the station, and of course
when we gob off there I asked her if there
were any parcels I could carry for her. She
emiled bewitohiagly and said I might help
her if I would be so kind. Thou gho pointed
to the seat right behind where we were site
ting, and there were three babies, assorted
sizes, asleep. She said they were all here,
Well, I was in for it, so 3 pinked up the
biggest ones, one on either arm, while she
took the kid. Wo marched out and found
a carriage, and I put her in and was about
to e0y good -day, When she smiled again s6
bewitohingly and asked me to get in. I
couldn't refuse, you know, so I went along,
We drove out to somewhere near bhe capitol
and Mapped before a dee house. A man
aamo running out, lifted out the babies,
kissed them, lifted out the young woman,
kissed her two or three tlmcs and told the
u youbelieve it
driver ho could go. Would b ,
she was so epoony on that hutsband of here
elle never eafd good•by to me nor looked in
my direction at all ; and that ain't the worst
of it. I had to pay bhe carriage hire myself
and lost half a clay's time in the bargain,
That woman cared me of flirting so long as
and the Rev. Mr. Metzger assured them that
they received no communication regarding
young Kuutz's death exoopb thab received by
the boy's parents while they slept.
Sympathy in Affliction,
A little boy of three years, whose mother
played the organ in chu ,1t, and who woe
obliged to bo left to the raw. of others, was
asked one Sunday morning what ills kitten
was crying so piteously for. "I don't
know," said he, in tearful tones, "but I
'apoob the old oat hoe gone to church,"
Thankful for Small Mer0100. Not a Bad Definition.
A French soldier en aotive sortie° was Jocose emploer: "Patrick, I understand
employer I
informed by the Mayor of hip village that you aro a gentleman of good intellectual
his father bad moonily died. Iraoknowledg. abllib'iao, Can you tell me what a knight -
moot he wrote as follows : "1V1, le Mairo, I errant is P" Patrick (the proud father of
„ ` heartily thank yon for my father'e death. twins) : "A night erranb 10 it P Sure fb'o
I
"goraoa old man" Whispered Digby as he l u U is a little aaaldent that often happens in meeolf as) knows phot that is better nor any
"oan p , I live. families. As for myself, lam in the hospital other orayturre. It's gin' fur the dootherat
r
bald out his hand, oan you 4 minus one lag, with which 'have rho honor wan o clock in the rennin', sure 'tis."—
"Can 17" Dried the other,warmly gawping To Lovers—Never put off till tomorrow rs tier Dr's Bazar,
the extended hand,
What you oan woort•day. to salute you C p