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THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD
SY ANNIE S. SWAN.
"Love ghee' itself and Is not boughtF'—Longfolloet
CHAPTER XXVII.—(Cont'd.) to care about me, and keep me in the
"They've been: wrapped in cotton- way I should go; and if it please the
wool—all of them," observed Fordyce
airily. "And some of it wants strip-
ping off. I hear Margaret Tenterden
and Madox are going to make a match
of it. Some think they are married
already."
a "You may take it from me that that
i.i2't true," Staid Jean, with consider-
able emphasis.
"Bhe mightdo worse for herself,
and what chance has Rankine? She's
a peerless creature, and I hear on
every side that her reserve maddens
the men who meet her. She can have
her pick, you bet; and, personally, it
wouldn't surprise me if she never left
America except on a pleasure jaunt"
Jean smiled a small inscrutable
smile, which slightly netted. Fordyce,
"Now what does that mean? Tell
. me exactly."
"It might mean that you would keep
her in America," admitted Jean. She
was surprised to See his face redden.
"I! Oh, no, thank you! I've never
spoken to the woman; and though I
think she's a clinking good aetress, she
isn't the sort to appeal to me."
"Well, she can't marry you or any-
body, for she's married to Rankine,'
said Jean on the. impulse of the mo-
ment. "Please don't tell anybody, for
I believe I'm the only person in the
world who knows it. Mise Rankine
doesn't, and why I told you, goodness
knows! You will keep it secret—
won't you?"
"Sure thing," said Fordyce, with
uplifted brows of surprise, Thenl
after a moment he leaned forward a
little and looked her quite squarely
in the face. "Say, have you an idea
why I've come here to -night?"
"None—and I don't remember ever
having asked you," she answered
frankly, ese
never have, though I've wait-
ed, hoping you would. Well, I'll tell
. you—1 wart you to marry me."
Jean grew as pale as death. Why?
Becauee her heart gave such a leap
that the knew just what had happen-
ed.
She lived this man and had not
, known it until the moment when, look-
ing into her eyes, his own quite earn-
est with feeling, ha put the moment-
ous question which meant weal or woe
to a woman e. heart.
"I—to marry you!" she stammer-
ed "But why?"
"For the usual reason—because I
want you." he answered steadily. He
rose just then and took a step nearer
to where she sat, with her head drop-
ped on her hands.
"Look here, dear woman. I'm not
going to embroider the facts er make
use of a dictionary. You know a good
deal about me, I know—some things
that are trim and some that aren't.
I Ira en't played the game in some.
directions, but I could, perhaps, clear
myself if I set out to do it. I hadn't
a chance with the woman who mar-
ried me for ' iy money, caring for
somebody;, -''-,e. I had a rotten time,
and .ist grip, and Iet myself go.
.zL: the head and front of my of-
fene . I hated and loathed myself all
the time, and never had a moment's
happiness Or peace. I've pul''.ed up
stakes in that particular country, and
I'm looking—metaphorically speaking
for a better one. When I saw you
that day at the Dormer House, I
knew that you were in it, and could
Show me the way! I want a home,
Jean Demeter; a kind, good woman
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God I've served so ill, Little children
about my knees, who can thank God
for their mother! That's my ease,,
and if it appeals to you, why then,
say the word and I'll do by best. 1
don't promise miracles, but I'll run
straight, Jean, and do what one man
cap tp make yop happy"
If it ap'poals!
"Oh, God!" said' Jean Dempster
under her breath. What would she
not give to be able to take him at his
word?—nay, to lay her head on his
breast there and then, and go forth
into the light of happiness and home!
She rose too, trembling very much,
and still as white as death.
"You—you don't know—there is an
obstacle! I'm not—Pm not all you
think me. I too have had a dark ase
in my life. I did wrong—but I was
wronged. Will you go away now—
yes, now! this moment! And to -mor-
row morning you'll receive the whole
story) Then—then—I will wait—"
If he were disappointed he made
no sign, but took up his hat . quietly,
without seeming to protest or ask
for explanations which he saw she
could not give.
He went out and Jean •. was left
alone. She sat till near""midnight
writing, pouring out her heart on the
page; then tore it up and began writ-
ing again, this time stating only the
bare facts of the story that had sent
her an exile from her home. - Then,
on the stroke of midnight, she stole
put into the quiet street and dropped
the letter into the pillar -box with a
prayer.
She had no sleep that night, and
it was a heavy -eyed and pathetic wo-,
man who dragged her tired limbs up
Broadway next morning to the Dor-
mer House.
Done would ever know how strongly 1
Jean Dempster hall been tempted to'
keep silence! Had it only been Harry
Fordyce's money that tempted her,.
she might have done so, and trusted
to luck to see her through.
But she cared for the inane Some -
pp a e
ome-ppeale
to hers mightily, and the idea of
building up, of helping to reconstruct
a life that had been in ruins; was a
work after her own heart.
But she had acted fairly and
squarely by him; keeping back no-
thing, glossing nothing over, Nor
did she bide from him in ono brief
sentence at the last, wrung from the
depths of her womanly heart, that 1 c
he cared.
.And now she had to wait—wait, c
probably, as the women at the HollandHouse were waiting, in silence!
She thought as she went mechanic -11
ally through the morning's mail, a
what power men had in their hands,
how they could wreck— and did i
wreck—tire peace of women's lives, e
yet how clear and necessary they were
to the whole scheme of things, how
empty every woman's heart where • e
some image did not dwell.
She was thinking this when the t
door of her room opened about eleven 1 S
of the morning, and he came in. !.
P o
was still let, and a year had elapsed
since the American tour. in that
year nothing had' been heard of AIan,
and both Judy and Claud had arrived
at the conclusion thiit he was dead.
Not so Carlotta. She lead •eeaead
talking about it, but Judy was quite
Well aware that she still ening to her
belief in Itis safety. The silence was
bitter and inexplicable, but her faith
still held on. Judy loved her for -it,
though in secret she wept end like-
wise marvelled at the fealty that ha
stood fast through temptations such, as
merle, .in the way of few women. S
still Iived the austere, almost c:ois
teemed life with her parents' in Bruils-
wiek Square,, spending little- working
hard,' perfecting her: art and, appar-
ently, living for that alone, Prom one
triumph to another she had gone, and
Judy knew that she had made: im-
mense sums of money, and that she
was husbanding it carefully, „though
for what purpose she had not an. idea.
She was expecting Carlotta that
afternoon, but the time passed and
she did not come. The ladies dropped,
away one by one.They were chiefly
political ladies, and the topic of eon-
versation had been a' certain crisis
that had arisen in public life, and in
which Judyyherself .was intensely in-
terested.
The Government was going out, and
it was, of course,. a :problem what
would become of Claud in the next ad-
ministration. About a quarter to sift
he came in and only two ladies re-
mained. He chatted gaily' to them
for a few minutes.
Claud had deve'-oped into a very,
self-possessed, capable sort of young
man,. never at a. loss in any circum-
stances. He had none of Alan's diffi-
dence, Judy- often compared them
in her mind and wondered' that they
could be brothers,
"Thank goodness they're gone!" he
Said when the door closed on the last
of them. "Did any- of them give the
show away?" ho added with a touch
of the boyish slang which he reserved
for home an intimate occasions.
"What show?" asked Judy. "They're
all talking about the General Elec-
tion, of course --and. Carlotta didn't
come." -
"Didn't she? 1 know why. She
was in the House. this afternoon, and
Lord Clitherce took her to tea."
"Oh!" said Judy, with a little snap.
"She promised to coma here. Hes
always following hee about—isn't
he?" a
"Pretty well, and we couldn't blame
her—could we, Judy?—if she listened
to him, for, after all, there isn't much
hope, is there, now? .I think she has
been jolly good to be true as long as
she has been, with the kind of` life
she leads, and the men who would
marry her if she would give them the
chance.
"Slee says Alan is alive still, Claud.
Even when I toll her we've. given up
hope she just looks away with far-
seeing eyes as if she dreamed dreams
and saw visions. Of course it's her
temperament and such patience and
faith, I fear, are not possible to cpm -
mon or garden folks like us! The only
one who shares it with hex, is Christy,
She believes solemnly- , and positively
that weal see him again." •
"I wish I had their assurance," said
Claud, his kind, clever face shadow-
ing, while the eyes behind the glasses
grew suspieious:y dim, "Welt I've'
meat news for you. They've given I
the Dublin appointment, and I,
enter on my duties nest month."
"Oh!" said Judy with a gasp. "How .
aper fectiy sp'enclid 1 How lunch sal -
"Twelve hundred. The only fly in
the ointment is that I shall be muz-
zled politically, for a servant of the
Crown is supposed to have no poli-
• „
"There is uo use talking about it.
Iiow, Qlaud " she°answered 10'52 voic0.
which only a tremendous effort kept
perfectly steady. "It will be tilne
enough when other" things are ar-
ranged."
"Time for details. But the big fact
TIAs` to be settled, old -girl, here and
now. 1 wont marry at all unless
you'il.f'aIi 01.'-'
"And what about Cicely?" asked
Judy, whose acquaintance with her
d future sister-in-laen was of the slight-
_ 1 est, though she had no fault to find
he�wlth her.
"Cice;y' is '0f the mime mind abso-
lutely. We've often'talked about it,
There "'could' be no other arrangement
so long as things are as they are with
us, and there's. always Stair—"
(To be continued.)
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A Moral Rebuke.
Maid—"The now neighbors would
line to cut their grass, munl,.an' they
want to know if you will lend them our
lawn niotver." '
mistress (highly shocked) --"Cut•
their lawn 00 the Sabbath? Certainly
not. Tell them we haven't one.'
Saved by Waste.
"Never mind. What are politics
anyway- inquired Judy in high
scorn. "Just a game people play!
When I was listening to all these
women grumbling this afternoon I
ouldn't help wondering that the
ountry is so well oft as it is under
he present legis tion."
"But you kept at eleiltcngue in your
lead Ludy?" ingitirorl Claud, inueh
nm, eci, as he limped himself liberailq
o the last remnant of the teacake.
"ill, yes. I quickly enough learn -
d that the person who can hold her
tongue gets all the information she
wants. But they're sorry, every one
f them, to go out of office. Won't
you miss it frightfully?"
"0h yes. I shan't like office rou-
ine, but I can't afford to cluck" it.
ome day, perhaps, the ship may come
n and I shall be abe to go back to
olitics. Why knows? I might stand
for a Division .of Ayrshire. You'd
ike that, Judy?"
"I suppose I would. Well, you'll be
able to marry Cicely now, Claud."
"Yes, I'll take her to Dublin. But
you'll come too, Judy."
Judy had no answer ready, but
tented to find something interesting
nd absorbing in the light from a
onrewhat stormy sunset, coming
through the gab:e window, which gave
haracter to that queer Iittle London
rawing-room.
Oliee more she ,VMS to be laid upon
he shelf, or to find herself the. super-
iuoue woman, the odd unit in a house-
ho'.d of three. A strange, swift Wave
f rebellion rose up w'thin, threaten -
ng to engulf her.
7 got your letter, and I've just one .1
question to ask," he said. ! P
She rose, trembling, and whispered, l
"What?"
"Was that true at the end—that
you would come to me if I hadn't a -
penny in the world?" �- f
"Yes! Oh, yes!" she cried, and
next moment was enfolded to his i
heart, s
So the future of mother and Mamie! a
and the little house at Hunter's Quay s
was assured. !
Just for once in a grey, prosaic' c
world, a woman's dream came true. � d
CHAPTER SiXVIiI, 1t
'run•` CCIMS..
Judith Rankine, attired in a very.0
pretty afternoon frock cf old rope
ye:vet, was entertaining a small and
select party of friends at tea in the
drawing -room of the little flat at i
Queen Anne's Gate,-tvhich WAS roc. ,-•
possible to the combined means of t txW
Claud herself.
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Claud, G as private sUcretary to i '>
Qabinet Minister, may be said to have
embarked upon his political camera
Ile was extraordinari:y clever, and t6 r x vs ,'.i • . r 3
possessed certain qualities other then
purely intellectual ones, which com-
mended
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him specially to .a man in
high power who required 'tact, dis
cretion, and, above all, foresight in
the helper at his e_how.
Claud possessed the diplomatic I
sense, and he was both successful and "
happy in his work. Certainly his ie-
Selling waste ranee enabled the Lon-
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Payers 1257 ina recent,tl.ree months.
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Non -Stop Lives.
There are twenty-four hours in a
day, and the ideal division recommend-
ed is—eight hours' work, Dight hours
sleep, and eight hours' play.
That sounds all right, but, even if it
were the established rule, would it not
hold the ,law of .being a "non-stop"
day? If we weren't sleeping we would
be working or "playing," and the lat-
ter, while it covers and includes all
forms of recreation from the very mild
to the extremely strenuous, does not
provide for "stop." t
It might be argued that lying la a
hammock and reclining 00 a.garden.
sea are "stops,' en one sense vee, in.
another—the real sense -no. • There
is a great difference between'"resting"
and "stopping!"
What 700 want to .do occasionally
ie to stop and think -of yourself, That's
palled introspection—looking into your-
self to see how you are getting on men-
tally, morally, and spiritually.
All oil es can recall the names of
financiers who have crashed and ulti-
mately found -themselves behind prison
li'alls. Perhaps, if they had "stopped"
and 'taken stock of their inner selves,
they might have seen their own moral'
depreciation and saved themselves
from the dock. • •,
"To See ourselves as other's seems!"
is dopbt!ess a great help, but to see
ourselves as we really are 10 of still
greater importance.
That's why we ought to "st'op," The
"non-stop" life of work, sleep, Pleasure,
recreation— the filling of every hour
with this,that, or.. the other interest,
is the wrong sort of life.
In the biographiesof many of out'•
great men, it is extraordinary bow of-
ten it is revealed that they "stopped!"
Lord Kitchener "stopped" daily to
take stock of himself.. So did Glad-
stone.
-What about yourself? You cannot
know how you -tiro real you—are get-
ting on, if yon don't no wand again
atop to look at yourself. 1f all is well,
you go on content; if something is
wrong; you put It right.
Human Wireless.
Though lie did not know it, through
the aeons of man's exi,atence, it was
to a "`receiving ser—more compli-
cated and miraculous thau ,thet other
lciud of receiving seteet at man owed
his precious gift of vision.. The eye is
a receiving set tii'L' works on wa50
lengths of incredible minuteness, and
can instantaneously;and automatically
"tithe in" to stations, however near or
far.
It is no bigger than a boy's marble.
The filmy aerial, though less than a
square inch in size, will effectively
pick ..upincoming signals from the;
nearest object or the most distant star.
Each eye works at one and the same
time on hundreds of different wave-
lengths without • undue "jamming."
Each has its own telephone exchange
with thousands of "laud -lines" connect-
ing with tho •brain- - '
Ceaselessly, silently and swiftly
these receiving sets of Nature work,
often sixteen hcurs a day, year in and
year out, with no rest but a momen-
tary' wink during their hours of receiv-
ing. So it is uo wonder that they need
occasional repair and tuning up; and,
if they are overworked, like all ma-
chines they break down.
When thia happens the brain gets
bad reception, it makes errors of judg-
ment, and it makes miscalculations
which may have unhappy results for
the individnal,
ro—
Close Work..
13111 had succeeded in getting a job
in a motor factory.' He di;i not even
know himself how he got it, for he
i know rotting at ail about engineering.
On his second day at work he
I chanced to meet a friend of his who
was equally ignorant,
"Hello, Joe!" he said How's bust -
0018 "
"0h, all right!" was the repine "How
are you getting` along with your now
jebT'
"Creat!"=said 131:1. "ilat it's terribly.
close work. Why, do you know, we
have to work 1,o a thotlsaodth of an
inch.
"Heavens,' 13111! Bow marry thous.
"Millions, Joo luillions!
World's Gasoiinc Use,
The United States urea four-fiftIse of .
tee world's gasoline, the United I{lag
dorsi only,ccvcn percant,, as much, and
China in a year enough tot last the
United States eight hours,
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Kecp Minard's Llnlmcnt in the„house.
muneration was far from princely,
but his advancement 'in'the world of
politics was merely a matter of time.1 9 r x h
Already he was becoming favorably,
known as a speaker, and had acquit. -
ted himself well on certain emeegency
The 1 isiorie pile, Dodiam Castle,, which Las been' made a gitt to
tem by rsqueet of the late Marquis Curzon of Kedleston.
occasions when he had hadto takel
another mans place on short notice. 1
Judy and he shared a home.' Stair n
e
andths are there in an inch?”
Poes1121e Cause,
' I don't know what's wrong with
ine—I'm dizzy."
You• must have. read
that.circular
letter you, just got inthe mail"
Marvels of Nat
are,
A London girl on a visit to the coun-
try came to er pond whose shallows
were full of tadpoles—thousands and
thousands of, little` black tadpoles -flop-
ping about in an inch of mud and
water,
"0h," she said, "look at th4 tad-
poles! And to brink that some day
every one of the horrid, wriggling
things will be a beautiful butterfly."
A Seasonable Hint.
Family Paper—"If not convenient to
move household furniture outdoors to
clean, place a damb cloth over 'the
piece of furniture and then boat it."
We tried this and the wife made us.
come back.
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CURIOUS MARRIAGE
CI:,REMONWWS
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Generally speaking, the idea of a
wedding is the conventional one, .but
there 520 cases on record where the
tastes of some people have pot 'agreed
with this. Indeed, there have been
vonlo-very eccentric and very romantic
emari-ia,ge ceremonies solemnized. %MVlen
and women, thevery opposite in.char-
acter and disposition, 'Ova teen united'
sometimes the union proving ;a happy
one, sometimes the reverse.
But having releiltly hearer •a good
deal about olderiy,men marrying Young'
girls, let us start our list of entraordin-
fuel weddings with ,one that occurred in.
-a Snl'rey town seine years., ego; when
all the aL1l follt,seemed to ran amok.
In this instance an old.man of seventy-
eight years of age -(Ile hacl been a sol
dier) led to the alter an aged; damsel
Who had herself seen seventy-two sum- `
mans. Thera were three bridesmaids,
respectively' 'aged sixty, sixty-eight, ,
and seventy years; All of 'thorn :were
spinsters, The best ntsiWas,eeventy-
five, so their cdmbined'ages brought
the total up to nearly tour centuries-''
and a quarter.
Marriages of Freaks.
- In travelling shows the freaks who
help to draw the money from the pub-
lic often intermarry, and it is not an
unusal thing to find the fat mail mar-
rying the skeleton womsn, and the tat-
tooed Tuan. the bearded lady, but some-
times two like freaks marry.
There was a Colonel. Grover once
who married an American: giantess;
He, too, stood Oft tin. The pair, when
they appeared in public, used to re
calve as mach as :2150 a week,
But possibly the most unconventlon-
-al and peculiar marn•iage, ceremony on
record was that performed years ago
by the Consular Agent at Cincinnati.
The br'idegrooru was a well-to-do resi-
dent of that town, and the brideelivecl
M Italy. When the wedding was per-
formed the contracting parties were
thousands of miles apart.
TheConsul filled in a alanit cortin.-
cate, which was. forwarded by him to
the authorities in Italy, who, in the
preemieo of the parish priest, exhibited
it before the bride,' who in turn af-
i!xed'her signature, accepting it as her
action. The marriage became perfect-
ly binding, although, of course, tine
newly -married couple could not pos-
sibly' live together for quite a little
time owing to the distance they were
apart.
The Wedding Ring Omitted.
Iiow a word regarding that Maim -
little little article — the wedding
ring.
.., As is common knowledge, it some-
times Ilapliens that this little article is
forgotten, and t!lere have been oese',s
where the door -key of the church has
had to do duty; but it isnot often that
that portion of the marriage Service,
"With this ring I thee wed," etc.,' is
omitted. Yet there is an instance of
this on record. It occurred at .Liver-
pool.
Atter the party had left the church
it was discovered that the clergyman
had forgotten these word., and, of
course, in their absence, Ilio bride-
groom would be ralievod of his most
serious obligations, to say nothing of
the fair woman being minus the ring
itself. In this -ease, therefore, instead '-
of sitting down to the breakfast, back
the couple Marled to the church, and
were thus practically married twice
on tho salve day.
A very uneornmon kind of marriage
was once celebrated in Cumberland.
Both parties were deaf and dumb. ,
They held Prayer Books while a friend
pointed out the different passages in
'the service as the clergyman spoke
them, add they made the customary re-
sponses in the 'deaf and dumb alpha-
bet.
Finally, let us just give a few de-
tails of what occurs at a marriage
ceremony in the Phiiippino Islands.
When two Negrito marry, the whole
tribe is assembled, and the affianced
pair climb two trees growing close to
each other- The branches of the trees
are then bent by the elders 1111 the
!leads of the couple meet, and when
the bride's and bridegroom's 'heads
have thus met, the marriage is de-
clared legal. • -
Poultry -Farming of Long Ago.
Although hot-air and hot-water in-
cubators were not known in Europe un.
til the last decades of the eighteenth
'century, the Chinese and Egyptians
Practised artificial incubation of fowls'
eggs thousands ofyears ago. The an-
cient Egstptiaes
ncient'Eg3•ptiaes built enormous ovens
of semi -dried bricks, often covering an
area of as -mach as 6,009 square feet. itia
Similar egg -ovens aro in use en Egypt
to -dais„ the craft having been handed
down_ through the ce,nturies, from fatti-
er
ath -
er
to son. Through the centro of tho
egg -oven runs a passage which opons
up on each side to circular vaults, 10
which the actual hatching is done.
Fires are, kept alight in each vault, and
all ,surplus heat, and snnoke escape
from a Iasge hole in the roof: Dur-
ing incubation the porous egg -shell ad-
mits a slight amount of oxygen and
allows the escape 0f oilier gases.
• Every clay the shell grows more brit-
�'tie, so that when the time conies for the
Live chick to lir•oak forth it has uo dif-
111c -tiny in dcillg so
A Parent,
First Solent,ist (viewing monkeys in
cage)—'lett is ,apparent to me—"
Second Scientist "Ali! .I diff not
1lnow you claimed so -close a• relation,