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"I think I can mend it, dear," said.
Moan, sympathetically.
"Now, 'Sirs. Piddiford," insisted Mme.
Debrisay, impressively, to her landlady,
"I give you your choice—either that sav-
age brute leaves the house, or I will."
"I'm sure, Mite. Debrisay, ma'am, it
would vex me sore to see you leave. Such
a quiet lodger, and sure money. I will
speak to Mr. Rigden, ma'am, and see if
he can send the dog to the country. He
is a good lodger, too! but that taken up
with the dog I don't know he will ever
part with it."
"I neither know nor care," said Mme.
Debrisay, solemnly. "I give you two
days to expel the venomous cur, at the
end of which time, should he remain,
consider I have given notice."
"Dear, dear! why will gentlemen fancy
these wild beasts?'. 'almost whimpered
the landlady.
"Gentlemen!" repeated Mine. Debri-
say, with a fine scorn, as she regulated
her cap.
"To think how nicely settled I am,
with two such first-rate lodgers, and
then to think of being upset by a nasty
dog. Ah! get out with you!"
This to the audacious animal, who dar-
ed to present himself on the threshold
with an inquiring look. A violent flick
of the duster she had brought, in antici-
pation of something to be "wiped up,"
again routed Dandie.
"Be sure you explain matters to Mr.
Rigden this night!" said Dime. Debrisay,
with emphasis, "and let me know the
result. Either he
sends away his dog—
or
—
or goes away with his dog or Miss
Craig and I go, this day week!" tragic-
` will, ma'am—I will!" sniffed the lit-
tle landlady. "I foresee a heap of trou-
ble. Mr. Rigden—he is that obstinate
and touchy!"
"And you will find I can be touchy,
too, when I stand on ni rights. Now,
Mrs. Puddiford, I wish to hear no more
about this until you bring me your de-
cision to -morrow."
The landlady retired, pressing the cor-
ner of her duster to her eyes, while the
yelps of the dog were heard from be-
low, where he was being tied up.
"I think, dear Deb, I saw the very net
which would go with the ground of this
shawl," said Mona, examining it care-
fully, "at Peter Robinson's; then I could
lay the broken pattern over it ,and copy
it with black filoselle."
"I'm sure, if anyone could, it's your-
self. You have the clever lingers!"
"You. see, I did a good deal of lace
work at the convent, and other work in
Germany. I am really fond of my needle.
I do not even disdain darning stockings,
provided they are taken in'time; there
is something soothing in those long, even
lines of running."
'Well, I ani sure you are welcome to
mend all mine, for I hate it.! But •I don't
like to see you sitting silent over your
stitchery with a pale, sad face, as if you
were comparing the present with the
past. Ah, its' a terrible change for you!"
"Not half so bad as you imagine, Deb.
The comfort of being with you is great;;
the consolation oe beiug.elle to help my-
self is enormous, and at twenty, I shall
he twenty in a couple of monthsthere is
so much of life to be explored, that I
may find an unexpected oasis! I am
not always thinking of the past evhen I
seem in a brown study—I ani sometimes
speculating on matters that puzzle me,
which aro probably beyond me, still,
they have a fascination."
"What are they, aerie?"
"Oh, there are a goat variety of puz-
zing things. One, for instance, is the
awful risk of marrying. It seems to me
that the rarest of all qualities in' human
nature is constancy—yet marriage is for
life! Your own charaeter and taste may
change several tinges before you are
forty-five or fifty ,ancl how can you still
love the sante person?"
"Ah! don't talk like a heathen, child.
True love grows with your growth, and
always sees the same charm in the thing
it loves—unless, indeed, that thing
proves faithless and cruel; even then,
some natures cannot be choken off."
"I cannot understand," returned Mona.
"I understand forgiving. a great deal—
even faithlessness and change—for the
sake of the old love; but to love anyone
who was indifferent to me seems im-
possible."
"Stick to that, my dear; it will carry
you safe through a good deal. But I
don't think you know much of love, or
tou'd know, as I do, that it hopeth all
hings and endureth all things."
"I can believe that of a mother's—a
taster's=a friend's love. But the love of
rovers is different, There is a personal
feeling in that which, if it evaporates,
can never, I fancy, be recalled; nor do I
see that one can complain of iter disap-
pearance, There is nothing to be doifb
but to resign it without a struggle, and
let one's own passion exhale and die out
as fast. as possible."
"I declare! You talk like a book! It's
all very fine; but it's natural feeling,,
not reason, that rules such matters—and
so much the better for us poor, miserable
creatures. Yours is a man's creed—not
a woman's, dear. Men never will be con-
s tent."
"Very likely. Then another tremena-
ous puzzle is life. 'Why are we sent here
to endure so much certain pain—to taste
such uncertain joy?"
'You are getting beyond me altogether.
Good men etll us to work out our salva-
tion."
"Yes, good men of your church; but
mine says that I never can!—that a
mental act of faith—which to many
minds is impossible—will do more at the
last moment than a life -time of tender
consideration for others—of self-sacri-
fice—of purity."
"Par exemple! You would ma.e a
first-rate Catholic, Mona. I am no great
things myself, but I would be proud to
see you in the true Church. Ab. there's
nothing like it, as churches go! God. for-
give me, but I haven't been to confes-
sion for a year or more!"
"Never mind, dear Deb; your good-
ness to me will more than make up for
that omission. But there is small chance
of my becoming a Catholic; can you not
see that ?"
`No, I can't. I tell you what I can
see, that although you are an angel to
are, there is a good dash of his batanie
Majesty in you."
"Perhaps there is. So be it, if it will
help me in the battle of life! As far
as I can see, the one unpardonable sin of
life is poverty."
"0f life, Mona ? No, of society. Yes,
life is world-wide, society is a corner—
often a shabby corner. Faith, dear, you
and I are a. brace of philosophers; only
we are too wise to have a theory. Here's
dinner; I hope it will be more digestible
than your doctrines."
The next day was stormy, with heavy
thunder showers, and Mine. Debrisay
would not hear of Mona taking a jour-
ney to town in search of materials to
repair the damage done by the deunqu-
ent Dandle. Moreover, a council of war
had to be held.
Mr. Rigden was observed that morning
to draw his umbrella from the stand
with a degree of violence which upset
all the other umbrellas and sticks, and
"banged" the front door with a reck-
lessness which was in itself a casus belli.
Soon after, Mrs. Puddiford appeared
i
with a rueful countenance.
"Well'm, I have spoken to Mr. .Rig-
den. He is noways inclined to hear
reason!"
"He wouldn't be a man if he did, un-
less it were on his own side!" ejaculat-
ed madame.
"He spoke most disrespectful," con-
tinued the landlady, beginning to play
with the corner of her apron. "He said
he would stand no more d—d. nonsense
(them was his words, ma'am), and was
sorry be had just begun a month, as he
would have to pay for it (he is a month-
ly tenant); that he would look out for
rooms, as soon as ever be found another
place, free from cantankerous old wo-
men, he'd leave, if he forfeited a fort-
night's rent. I ata sorry to say he so
far forgot himself. but then` was his
very words, ma'am."
"I assure you, Mrs. Puddiford, it is
not of the slightest consequence wheth-
er Mr. Ridgen considers me old and can-
tankerous or not. I congratulate you
on getting rid of a troublesome, ill-bred
inmate!"
"Well, that may be; but it is hard to
lose six pounds a month!"
"Very well, Mrs. Puddiford, if you pre-
fer it, we will turn out and leave Mr.
Rigden to make a menagerie of your
house!"
"No, Madame Debrisayl far from it!
You and Miss Craig aro real ladies, and
I would be grieved to see you leave;
only six pounds are six pounds, and then
there is the dead season coming on!"
"Season indeed! Do you fancy the sea-
son affects an out-of-the-way population
of clerks, and teachers ? Miss Craig and
I will look out for you, and praise you
up to the skies as the best of landladies,
which you are!"
"I ata sure, ma'am, you are very
good, and I believe you are lucky! I
am not sorry Mr. Rigden is going, only
for the nioneyl He was desp'rate par-
tic'lar, arid the dog is a hinderance t"
"0f course it is—shocking brute! We
will do our best for you, Mrs. Puddi-
ford."
"I am sure," added Mme. Debrisay,.
sotto voce, when Mrs. P. had gone, I
hope, I'll succeed, for if her rooms re-
main empty she'll think I have lost her
six pounds a mh, and 'there will be
wigs on the green'!"
•'T }nape nothingont
disagreeable will arise
for I have grown quite at home here!"
exclaimed Mona.
"That man had a nice little room
above stairs for his lumber, If I could.
get 1 ar a good lodger at six pounds a
month without it, she ,might let you
have it for a song," said Mute, Debrisay,
reflectively. -
"Ah, Deb, you are a profound schem-
er]„
* * * * * *
Tho next day was bright and fresh of
ter the tliunder, and ¥one having given
a lesson in Gloucester Place early in the
afternoon, went on to Regent's Circus
to match the lace, intending to make
madanhwl ood new,
Haringte's
done heasr• sghoppiasng, she crossed
to the other side, and walked a little
way toward Tottenham Court Road, hop-
ing to find room in an omnibus, with-
out having to struggle at the regular
stopping -place. Presently a Royal Oak
omnibus came up, and paused before she
hailed it. Mona Iiastened-to enter as
soon as an elderly and somewhat de-
cropit-looking man had descended, with
the help of a stick and a baggy um-
brella.
The omnibus moved on before the old
gentleman had one foot clear of the step
and Ile fell prone on the damp, profusely
watered ground. The driver of a hansom
could hardly draw up quiekty enough
to prevent his horse from trampling on
the prostrate figure, which seemed un-
able to recover the perpendicular.
Mona, by a natural impulse, bent down
to assist him, and a burly policeman soon
set him on his feet.
"No bones broken,"' he said, cheerfully,
feeling his legs and arms. "Here's your
stick and umbrella. You go into the
confectioner's store, and take sumniat.
You'll be as right as a trivet in five
minutes,"
So saying, he proceeded on his stately
march, leaving the sufferer standing,
with 'difficulty supporting his trembling
self on his stick, and looking round him
with a pitiful expression of bewilder-
ment.
"I am afraid you are hurt?" said Mona
kindly. She did not like to desert him,
for she felt he was not a Londoner.
"I've just an awful pain i' my back,"
he said, pantingly, "and feel dazed like.
If I could sit doon a bit."
"Come into this shop and have a glass
of water," and she guided hint into a
pastry -cook's close by, where she found
a chair, and, feeling alarmed at the old
man's extreme pallor, asked if he would
not try a little brandy and water.
"Aye," he said; "I must 7iuve some-
thing to raise my heart!"
His eyes closed partially, and Mona
begged an attendant to bring the restroa-
tive. Her patient was a small, spare
man, with thin grey hair, small whiskers,
faded blue eyes, a contemptuously ,up -
1 turned nose, and a wide, thin-lipped
Be was neatly dressed in a pep-
per-and-salt colored suit, and though not
1month.
a gentleman, was' by no means of the
working class, nor yob like a city clerk:
"Try and .take a. little .,f t1ih" urged.
Mona.
"Thank ye, thank ye."
He put the glass to his lipe and drank
very slowly. "The Lord be thankit," he
said, placing it half emptied on the
table, "for saving my life; but I am
saur shaken!" Again he drank. "0w!"
he uttered a strange sound between a
groan and a sigh. "It was near a' ower
wi' me! t ass inueh beholden to you,
my young lcddy:. I must try an' get
awe' to my bed, but I can scarce sten'.
I had better get into a cab,"
"You had better rest a few minutes
first," said Mona, who felt sincere com-
passion for him. "I ant afraid you are
more hurt than you think."
"I am a puir frail bodie. Eh, but my
back is twisted. 'What'll they ask now
for a cab"—he called it "comb"— "to
Camden Town?"
"I am not sure—eighteenpence or two
shillings."
"It's a cruel, costly place; but," apolo-
getically, "1 canna help it; 1'11 just pay
for the spirits and water, and gang my
lane."
He dived into a side pocket -he routed
out his trousers pockets -his breast
pocket -all in vain.
"Guid preserve us!—it's clean, gene!
My pocket has been picked!"
"Oli! that is dreadful! I hope you had
not much in it?" .
"Too much to lose! A bit of gold,
half a crown, and a saxpenee. Nov I
canna pay for my drip of speerite•."
"That is a mere trifle—I will pay it."
Going to the counter she said, "This poor
gentleman's purse has been taken. I
must pay for what he has hod."
"I dare say it is an 'accident that may
happen to him again, if he finds kind
young ladies to pay for him," said the
buxom woman behindthe desk,, smiling
—"sixpence, please,"
"Do you feel equal to going home?"
said Mona, who was beginning to feel a
little ashamed of her quixotic attentions
to this elderly- waif. "I will get you a'
cab, if you like."
"Wait a bit. Where do you bide? I
want to pay ye what you've laid oot."
"Oh! never mind; 'it (toes not matter."
"Ye are a Scotch lassie?"
"No, 1 never was in Scotland."
"Ali! I thocbt ye were, from yer bon-
nie reed heid."
"Indeed!" said Mona, laughing.
She could not bear to have her hair
considered red.
"Weel, I'll no leave this till I know
where I'll find ye."
"There is my card then, but I live
ever so far away. Pray do not trouble
aabout me; 1 am very glad to have been
of any use to yott"
"Ah! but you were! you have saved
my life. If you had not stood between
me and that cawb, I'd have been a deid
mons Pll try and get home."
Struggling to his feet, and seizing his
umbrella, he hobbled to the door. Ilona
followed him.
"You'll hear from rue," said the old
man, thrusting the card into his breast
pocket; "P.11 never forget ye, never.
Could you find me a shut•up eawb? I
canna bide yon things, wi' the driver
stuck up behind."
map m„•.,..ma
Some buy inferior tea, because it is cheap.
Might as well buy a cheap tea because it is in-
ferior. The same thing, but not economy either
way. With
you have Strength, Flavor, Quality and Value --
that's economy.
"Yes; there is one.”
A very battered vehicle drew up.
"You drive me to Ilrs. Smith's, num-
ber saxty-sax Carolina Crescent, King's
Road, Camden Town—d'ye know it?"
"Yes, sir."
"What will ye charge?"
"Two and sixpence."
"Two and sixpence! Wliar do you
think yell go. to•? Naw, eighteenpence."
"Ask for his card, and make the people
at your house settle it," suggested Mona.
"Make it two shillin', and I take you
safe and aisy."
"Varna. weal. Good-bye, missee; I can-
na help thinking you are a Scotch las-
sie,'
With infinite difficulty and • many
groans, .he scrambled in, dropping his
umbrella during the process. Mona pick-
ed it up and gave it to him. He seated
himself with his back to the horse. still-
ing and nodding to his young protectress
as he drove slowly away.
"What a funny adventure!' thought
Mona. "I wonder if Madame Debrisay
will scold me."
But 'Sime. Debrisay was in a placid
mood when Mona reached hone—fur ma-
dame had her moods. She had passed
the morning and some of the afternoon
auditing her own and Mona's accounts.
The result was, on the whole, satisfac-
tory, though—"The way money slips
through your fingers is meet amazing,"
she observed; "though we have done
pretty well, we couldn't afford a trip
anywhere—not prudently; and you can-
not put by anything. At all events, you
have not reduced your own bit of money
mueh, that's a comfort; keep a tight hold
of it, dear."
Having heard her friend's summary,
and assisted to -reduce the sea of small
account books, scribbled scraps of paper,
bills, and receipts to something like or-
der, Mona related her adventure, and ma-
dame did not scold.
"Well, it was funny! May be the old
gentleman is a millionaire in disguise!
they are generally queer. May be your
sixpence will prove the. sprat that, caught
a whale."
"Icon leave tco much imagination, Deb,"
said Mona, laughing. "There was noth-
ing of the millionaire about my old man.
He was too humble for a moneyed man.
If they are queer, they are generally con-
sequential. I fancy he will stake his
way here. Ibe is very feeble, however,
and 1 inrame `cawbs'--as he calls them
—are too costly for his taste. I am al-
most sorry I ;ave him my card, but he
was quite determined to have it. Ile
seemed so dazed and helpless, I felt
grieved for him; but he is not by any
means attractive." -
"Well, I shall be curious to see what
will come of it! It is my belief that
your meeting didn't happen for nothing,"
and lime. Debrisay shook her head sol-
emnly. "I believe you are a lucky girl,
Mona."
"Only lucky in having you to befriend
me! 'lour cap is very crooked, dear—go
and put on your bonnet! I am not a bit
tired. Let us indulge in a hansom to
Kensington Gardens, and stroll about till
it is time for a late tea."
Prem some unrevealed cause, there
seems to be a tendency in events to accu-
mulate at intervals, like the seventh
wave, which scientists tell us is always
the largest. So after the monotonous
ripple of many quiet weeks, the crop of
incident which has been ripening, bursts
its bounds and expends itself in a few
days.-
The
ays.The Saturday following Mona's rescue
of the old Scotchtnan, she was surprised
and delighted by the receipt of a letter
from ,Evelyn Everard, now Lady Finis-
toun.
After voluminous apologies for her si-
lence, she expressed her warm sympathy
with her "dearest cousin"
(To be continua..''.)
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As there is no way out of this job ete-
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To prevail with the rank and ,file of
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Everyone who gives a dollar helps do
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The one distinctive feature of our ase
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WHAT WE EAT.
Coloring Matters and Commercial
Cheats.
In the Delineator's campaign for safe
Foods, Mary Hinman Abel writes, in the
May number, a chapter on Coloring
Matters and Commercial Oheats of vital
importance, and afetr reading it one
realizes something of the impositions
that are practised on unsuspecting
households. Mrs. Abel says:
"No caterer can afford to disregard
the aesthetic slue of the food question.
To please the eye is to prepare s. we!-
conzie reception for the food itself, and if
this were the whole story, there would
be no heated discussions on the subject
between the manufacturer and food en-
spector, no 1o.ws passed to suppress the
coloring of `•gods. But the using of arti-
ficial coloring has brought forward two
serious possibilities; first, that poison-
ous ingredients will .be used for the purr.
pose; sceond, that second grade or 'even
spoiled foods may be made by this aneans
to appear better than they are, and so
deceive the purchaser. By the use of
mineral coloring, peas, beams and .other
vegetables are sometimes greened before
canning by 'being .boiled hi a very dilute
solution of copper sulphate, The practice
has never been common in this country,
and ooppered vegetables are now exclud-
ed from our markets by law. The lead-
ing brands of butter color as examined
by chemists, are ana.de of mai tar. `.,Nose
colors are also used ,extensively to give
the desired tint to beverages, as sods
water, and to restore tih.e color to fruit
and vegetables that have lost it in the
process if cooking. Most important of
all, these colors are the great reliance
of the manufacturer who puts up a very
cheep grade of jam,, jelly and catsup,
since tomato and apple skin and core
are not up to the mark in flavor or
color. Our people should again loader
what should be the color of milk anis
cream; to .accept the fart that heat must
eluinge the bright hoes of fruits and
vegetables, and to learn the effect of
time and temperature on the color of
meat,,,