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"My darling, I must hasten home,"
he told her.. "But you have not in-
formed me why you Baine hero, Vio-
ltet."
"Mamma wished me to come. I
was rot quite strong; I wanted a
change."
"And why, did you' not write to me,
Sweet 2" he continued.
She paused bre moment. Should she
tall him or not ? No—&lie could not ;
she Loved himi too well, and .she was
somewhat ashamed. ,She found an
excuse ; there was no need for it to
be a very good one to satisfy trim'.
"I knew, you wore true to me,
:Violet,'.' he said. "I knew; that it was
your mother who had persuaded you
—who had written that cruel letter
without your sanction, perhaps
without your knowledge."
"I knew, that ehe was going to
write it," Violet told him ; but he
was not afraid even then. No man
Is eo completely blind as a man in
love.
"Then you sanctioned it to try
me—you sanctioned it to see how
much I loved you ? Listen, Violet,
a;weet—I shall go ]tome, and I shall
work as no man over did.. I shall
begin at once to get your house
ready for you—I shall wait no long-
er—and when it is ready, if your
mother does it t give her consent,
I shall rum away with you. Do you
hoar, my darling ?—I shall do as Jock
c.' Ilazeldean did."
She laughed faintly. Even
tcM them that ho would clieerfully
give half his fortune to make Violet
his wife. Ho had asked them to help
him, and had promised him their re-
ward. Mrs. Kaye went on a short
visit to her cousin, and was dismayed
to near from Violet that Felix had
been to see leer—that he had gone
back Home with the hope that all wags
right.
*'Why dial you not tell him the
truth, 'Violet ?" asked Mrs. Hayt>,
steadily. "It was cruel to deceive him
further.,'
"I could not, mamma," site replied,
her eyes filled with tears. "Ile looked
so ill and unhappy, I could not."
"It eyes cruel kindness, Violet," de-
clared Mes. Hays; but shs said no
mare, 'knowing that, in her da.ngh-
tor's place, she would have done the
same thing.
It was arranged that Sir Owen
should go down to North Alton and
renew .his offer of marriage. If Vio-
let consented, the marriage must
take place, Mts. Haye said, in Lon-
don. If they were married at Lilford,
Pelle Lonor,<nle was quite capable of
going into the clntreh and taking the
bride from the altar'. She was eerie-
for
orryfor iihn, and She felt 'that it would
be needless cruelty for the marriage
to be celebrated just before his eyett.
"It will be hard enough," she said
to Herself, "without that."
So all was arranged as she desir-
ed. Sir Owen went to north Alton,
and the beautiful, fickle girl who had
had Ioved Felix Lonsdale had given
him up, plighted her troth to a
then she had not the cour- man she d)a not love—plighted It
age to ,stir : "The latter was all because he was rich'. IIe had tak-
t3•ue, and I bavo given you up of en with flim a magnificent diamond
ceived�him accord. er "Even
loak then
and ,smile, of e-. g their and s to be telasledge
he
tis placed it on Her finger, he looked
wistfully into her face.
"You caro for me a little, Violet,
do ecru not ? You aro a cold bride,
after all, for a man tot w,in. If I
thought you really liked that law-
yer better than nee, I would not
ask you to marry me—upon. my
soul I ;would not; ! I give you all
I have—my love and my fortune.
Surely you have a smile and a
Was false, even though he read it
in her own handwriting. Ile would
not believe it unle•es Sne told him
so herself aity,'thing was more
credible than that site should have
deceived him and broken her word.
When he believed that, he snid to
himself the heaven's would fall. 1Vitom
could she be going to starry? How
absurd ! How ridiculous I He lead nev-
er heard her name mentioned except
with lite own. He knew that she bad
many,' admirers, .but who would dare
to speak of to arrLage to her when it
was well known that she was engag-
ed to him ? XIe could well understand
that it was Jennie's -owl] sensitive
care and anxiety, for him that had
led her to make the mistake.
less would go, however, and see Vie,
let, and hear from her what it all
meant—belt not at night —certainly!
not when it was late, as though he
wee aeravd of being ,seen. Ile was
her betrothed lover, she w•as his pro -
no oy. wo
"1 mast not stay' longer," he said.
`•I shall go back home a different
Iran. It is a terrible thing to knote
that one's fate lies altogether In tiie
hands of a single creature ; but when,
they are ,such true, swept hands as
• ytours, Violet, there is nailing to.
fear, I will go back now to nn'; work,
which is sweetened by, my; love. Darn.
ing, ,say once more .far me the words kind word to eve me in return.
I levo so dearly,` I belong to you„ kind
wonder teat he spoke in that
Felix.' „ strain to her. She was coo weak
whire had alsup,s said them before ever to be a great sinner—too
:sweet
]oohing her bt aitl with esan sere- weak to sin and forget her sin.. It
avec>t smile, beauriful eyes seek- looked her in the face now as she
with:Mg his. Now the fair face drooped stood with the light of the baro -
a burning ndtsh. She was nett net's eyes upon her, the diamond
guilt enoug and guilty', but not ring on Iter finger, contrasting the
guilty enough to repeat thosef sine wooing cf her utwe lovers, anti
wow knowingfull well which was the
"I am afraid Mies '1i'estern will find better.
you here, Felix." she said. If she <tto I not kitial:'" s!'c n,:::rc], with
does she will send for mamma." ail e quirite .nd?"—at smile that
"Aro you so closely guarded, my
darling?" he laughed. "Ah, well, pleased liene *thLLLt be clauped her in
Herter menti ! It whie tLt1l and kier;-1•:1 her..
ill not be for long. 1 elm shed lieruelf
of a ,mighty sorrow', a mighty pas- �E ROAD TO HEALTH
sign. All her little affecta-
tions, her miserable • a,po o-
1 Lies Through Rich, Red Blood anal
gees, became as nothing before F elix's Strong N®ave&.
heart-rending dirstress anal • hope-
tets.aness. Debility is a word that fairly ems
Transit 1" he said. -"Do not add to Presses >nan ailments under one name.
your nuc by another false si ioh do 'oor blood, weak nerves, impaired di-
not meek sb by'me =mew ma a to
you estion loss of flesh. No energy,no am -
van t whom; you were dismissing un- baton, listless and indifferent. This con-
hletly. '.Cell me, is it true ?" clition is perhaps the penalty of over -
"Is what true, Felix ? Do not look. work, . or the result of neglected health.
so angrily at mne—you frighten nee. You must regain your health or succumb
Ls what true ?" entirely. There is just one absolutely
As She spoke she shrunk back from sure way to do this—take Dr. Williams
slim; until s'he stood near the lilac Pink Pills. These pills will bring you new
bushes, the branehres of which were life, fill 'every vein with rich, red blood,
bare now of floweret. .. restore elasticity to the step, the glow of
"Not there," be cried; "for Ilea- health to the wan cheek; they will in-
ven's sake, not there ! You stood there spire you with new energy, and supply,
a few smart weeks sl.neo with your the vital force of life and body.
arms; round my neck—with your hand's There is not a corner of the civilized
In nine„ swearing to be true to me, world where Di•. Williams' Pink Pills
saying that you belongedd to have not brought health and hope and
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they will tell you these statements are
solemn truth, Mr. Charles Saulnier, Cor-
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run down and so weak I could hardly
work. It seemed as though my blood was
little better than water. I tried several
medicines, but I got nothing to help me
until. I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills. It was simply astonishing' how
quickly these pills began to help me, and
how much new life and vigor they put
into me. I am a cook by profession, and
the fact that I was able to cook for 15
men last winter is the best proof that
the pills have made me as sound as ever
I was."
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boxes for $2.50, or by trail; from the Dr.
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mined wife. Ile would go up to from• there if you would not drive
Line mad 1"
She returned to Mw, and they
walked some little distance from
the lilac bushes,
"Violet," he said, "I can hardly
believe that our rneoting thus is
real. I must be in a dream, from
which 1 shall soon awakes and
laugh to think that I believed in
What was happening. It can not be
that I, Felix Lonsdale, have Karl to
steal under the cover of the dark-
ness, to meet you, my promised
wife, and that you who have loved
me, who have kissed me, and who
have looked on ane as your future
husband, are tiere to tell me that
you are false to me. Stand still—
so—and let me look into the lace
wherein I thought all happiness, lay.
Now tell Ire—is it true ?"
He held her before him ; site felt.
that h'is eyes were fixed on her—
they seemed to burn to her very
heart.
"'You put things so strangely,"
she said. `'L hardly know• what an-
swer to snake to you. You are not
fair to Inc. I have found that my
engagement to marry you is not
wise for either of us, and I tell
you so. I see no heinous crime in
that."
"Yon promised to love me, and
me alone, until death—do you mean
to keep that promise ? No prevari-
nation—speak truthfully—`les' or
• No'; do you mean to keep that
up a promise'? Speak, Violet."
his comfort when he did return. But lie had to bend low; to !tear
Felix went, the hated himself for her answer ; it was a whispered
going at night when no ow could five "Nod'
lou premised i o marry me,
him --for seeking a clandestine in-
terview with his promised wife. The to' bo my wife, to spend
night was ,tlat'1: and the wind blew 'Your life with me anal brighten mine.
cold. It was alter dark when 71e
reached the entrance gate. Ile found
it open and Jennie waiting for flim
inside.
"You will not be angry with nee,
sit', will you?" she said. "But it
seemed to me. almost as though some
one were being killed. I am quite
mere they Hove persuaded my young
lady to marry some one else. I heard
11Pr crying bitterly th':.•° ear ring."
But Felix could not ji-$cuss 'OM sub••
ject nearest to itis heart even with
this faithful, humble friend.
"Do yen think I shall be able to
see Miss 11'aye, Jennie?" lie asked.
"Yee, sir. I will give her a mes-
sage that 111 . few minutes will
brine,her down her to you. She will
the front door in the broad day-
light, and ask to see the ,gnr1
who had promised to marry him.
Suddenl,v lin i•emembered dint if he
slid so, he must betray Jennie. Vio-
let's return had been kept a secret,
and the family would at once suspect
her of having betrayed it. Another
thing had occurred to him—it they
did not wish him to see Violet, and
he went in a. straightforward, hon-
est way to asle for her, they might,
and most probably would, refuge to
let him see her ; they woukl invent
some untruth or other, and, if she
were really going to London, he
should miss the only chance he had
of seeing her. It was Humiliating
and mortifying, but •ho must act as
Jennie proposed ; he had alt no Mightther
resource. He would g
and see Violet.
Again he wrote home to stay that
he should not return until late; and
Kate's kind eyes filled with tears as
She read, thinking of iiow hard ho
was working, and her heart misga.ve
her that it was alt for nothing—
that the prize he was laboring and
waiting and hoping for would never
be leis. She bad Beard of Violet's
absence from home, and her quick
mother -wit lead. soon told her that
of this absence Felix knew little
or nothing. She drew a bad
augury from that. It ;leaded mis-
chief to him, she felt sure. She
wee a mpelle4 to content her-
mit with +he thought that • she
would sit for him arid attend to
I shrill •hast;en. home; I shall prepay i iii ,l i t :,i1 ._,> a 1l wished not be angry with me.
your lioune, and when it 10 ready I dm al. "lie :aid to herself if that into And in n T•ew minutes' she bad kept
will take you if all the world should cot 1.1 not go through with this new her word.
try to prevent me, for you are try r.ri ' 1 .b.oll. r that she '(. pate
let the • ,,1.
vvea.ltu, the rank, the title liars ; that C'IL I'..R XXIII.
•
own. I x11.2.11 go panic happy hacau`e t elite anust give all up and go back to The girl Jennie cJ liv. rest her mess -
1 trust in you and believe in ynu. Beare. She loved l•!'.•l,x, and elm did age, and Violet quickly appeared at
I shall never believe tli:.t you have not, or vvoule the ewer, love lir Owen. the gate of The Limes. her,
cltan,gevl to me until ; cm till me c ct r ,..1::::
head a. flew. tninutee for tbe.�•e re- Bt>1'or•e I� calix had ;spoken to ,
yeur elf, Goori-bye, niy darling, flections ; ung then he was telling. her before he lead touched her hang, the
love of my heart, igool-bye 1 ! of th.e future, of nil ,lie would enjoy— ? r ontent he Mel luo1:,'�d Into her fair,
She twitched plus ax he went clown ' hazy ptoplo woul3 envy licr, and what drooping face, he kr tw that she
the high -road, and tlic impulse was iL pa erica sit wou13 take in the' teas bgtiilty. leomnthiug had gone from
strong, upon her to call hint back great, bright tworld. Cillo lh,tened, fur it that he wit•' nev.et to see again:
and say to him that she had given the words were pleasant, and forgot something was therat which wax
11Jtn up—that the life of love and mee pain. ; never more to Have it. She gazed
struggle that Ile cfft:red her had no To. FeIix Lonslale there came 1 at ham and gave a little late ery :
,harm for her—that she had weigh- ,gang rumor.:, but he would not be -then, standing before hila, site buried
it her Lace in her haanale. lie went up ito
ANCESTRY OF TUE HORSE.
One of the Oldest as 'Well as Most
'Blued of renewal Species.
The earliest written history has
or 'No.
Igo you. mean to keepi,that promise .?•
Spea1 rrence to the ns and there is
k—`Fes'
"'No," elle whispered, again. evefeery reason tae horse believe the animal
"Will you tell me why, you refuse, e•xlsted berore man learned to pen
Violet ' • his thoughts and experiences. As
Agadir slie took courage at the early as the orehistoric period, as
and both, and had deliberately given
that preference to wealth—that he
must go home; and learn to forget
her.
She knew that she wan in honor
and in conscience bound to tell him
this, but slie did not. She, watched
him as he walked clown the high -
mad, knowing that he wont away
with a. sense of hope in his heart
that was hereafter to cause him
more deadly pain. The wrong that
she slid him) in letting him leave her
with the truth untold was as great
as the wrong bhe had done him, in
breaking her plighted troth.
'CIiAPTGR ZZII.
Felix was at rest for a short
time. When he grew. calmer and
thouglt more carefully about Mrs.
iiaye's letter be ceased to feel any
great surprise. Mrs. IIaye was, he
know, a worldly woman, and noth-
ing was ntoro natural under the
circumstances than that she should pretty housemaid., written with many
cease to care for her daugh'ter's apologies for the liberty she had
,marriage with. him. But, with the taken ; but she wanted him to know
hope that had sprung up afreesh that her young Lody would be at
in bis heart, it seemed to him that home at The 'Limes that night, or
itis strength and energy lead no . her road from North Alton to Lon-
bounds—that he could work as no I don. Her master and mistress were
one had ever •tvrerkad. Violet was . going to London with. Miss Violet,
the mainspring of it all. If he dost she added, and she was afraid there
!.ter he knew that he should never was 'Meatier on foot. 1t was her
te•,re to do another hour's labor. own private opinion that they had
Die began afresh with) such zeal, persuaded Miss Violet to marry some like any one as I have liked you,
one else. ii he event to The Limes and you will never really care
about any other Woman as you
have cared for ins—I know, It, but
' It can not be helped."
Ile held up his head with such
hours, trying ng o dignity, such passion of despair,
tato gold, Sir Uw,en was i time.
that she was silenced. The false,
busy, too. He had come to A. calm, settled despair came to him, light words, th'o false, light excuses,
a perfect understanding with against which he struggled blindly, all withered into nothing, and she
Mr. and lairs. Hays. He Be would not believe that 'his love knew! that she stood in the presence
ileve• ally gar theta. lie had implie hcr slowly. He took hair hands from
faith in Violet—implicit trust. Until
she told him that she was false to' her face and raised tliem to lle
him, he r.'hould not believe one word awn. Then the lovely eyes closed;
to that effect. they could not meet 1iis. He drop -
One morning he received two let- Pod, her hands.
tors. One wan from Violet, and it "ou aro guilty, Violet! Great
Said: Heaven, yo'a have betrayed me 1 You
"Try' to forget me, Felix. Ihave meant what you wrote to -day?"
never been worthy of the great frdiere was something; so quiet in
lore you have given me; I am not his despair that Violet imagined
worthy of it now. Try to forget me; lies tone to be one almost of in-
fer I have .been thinking it all aver, difference, and tate thought gave
and I cat see that cur engagement her courage. If he had shown any
must' bo broken. You said you would sign of great pain site would htave
believe it when I wrote it. Believe been frightened.
It now, for I say that it must end. "-I could not help it," she replied.
In the years to come we may be "Do not be angry with me, Felix.
friends—never anything more.' 1 know, it is the poorest of ex -
"Violet." ouses—but it is true; I can not
Ile read. it with unbelief. Some one help it. It teas of no; usti going on
had compelled her to write it. It In the same dreary wan. It must
had not 'been' one of her own free have come to an end some time."
will—of that he was sure. • "Let ins quite understand," he
The eeeond note was from his Said; "let me snake 110 mistake this
humble, faithful friend, Jennie, the time. 3V.hat leave you done, Vio-
let?"
"I have not done anything; but
it seems better that we sh'ould
part. No good can come 'of our
engagement ; it was a mistake."
He looked sadly at her.
"You say so, my darling, to wham
1 have given the best love of my
heart—my lite itself—you say that?"
"It is true, Felix" She replied;
"and I aan very sorry. I shteill never
escmir.�g indifference of los Inc.o
"I Call not, Felix," site said. "Tau
trill final many another more wait-
ed to bo your wife tliatn I nm."
eT do not want any one bet you
who have ptnuieel. What le there tail and Ie It was a small, peas
le the Life I offer you that you dis-
like
go. scrubby
likes•'1 betided brute, with rough,
".til of it escrp,t—that 1 Fhonla3, ; mane and tail, and no 'trace in ;the
111(4' to be with vett. 1 (IJrlike the
poverty. the obeeurity, the want of , skull or the dcpressivn for the face
rant: Lal pohition. 1 an:, not so noble)! gland. From tltit+ sloekn are descend-
a•t yon hetet always thcnigitt ires, t'el- ed tate carthorse and the ordinary
Ix. I lav*' wealth and Iux never breeds of western Europe:
lorav ii:at�ltii'i:•ince. s;huul�t never
be content in the little home that
110 'naut;h to fill my life. I felt
that white I n1ocr:1 in it. I asked
myself how I shoals live through the
Jong years there. 1 1i'>rl I l,' stir
c•rabl:', and you Tould be alterable,
too."
I3•' Icokal at h"r in amazement.
"Would not love content you ?" he
asked.
(To he Continued.)
we infer from the rude drawings
the animal by his first masters, the
European horse was uniformly color-
ed—probably dun, with dark mane,
•
Bauchi energy, such industry and
perseverance, that every one won-
dered at him. Re let there. wonder
lie knew whly he was working.
And, while he • was counting the
t t t turn each! one
late that evening oho would keep
the entrance gate and the garden
gate open, and she would manage that
he should see Miss Haye. ».r�.�tm,,,,�,,
Be read both letters through, but
he did not lose his reasonthis mo.
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The Blood home, or the
5011 wo:tkl give ate. There would not i hand is
roughbrod,
on the other, ' ' a later im-
portation into Europe, either from
Arabia, by wily of UMW; and Italy,.
or, as some think, from north Africa,
the home of the barb. It lute -been
,Aria: ed that these eastern horses
are the descendants of an earlier
clome;,ticethan of the same etoek. I
have, however, recently shown the
existence in an Indian domesticated
'toren skull, as well as in the skull
of the race horns, Ben d'Or, of la
distinct trace of the depression for
a face gland, and the suggestion
consequently presents itself that the
eastern horses, inclusive of thorough-
breds, are descended froth equus siv-
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still have been functional.
The thorougltbi'ed, as contrasted
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the equine Istock is capable, this be-
ing displayed not only by the trace -
fulness and beauty of its bodily form
and the relatively small size of its
head and ears, but likewise by the
greater relative length of the bones
or the lower segments of the limbs,
as compared with the upper ones,
namely, the humerus of the fore limb
and the femur in the Bind pair. 'In
this respect, therefore, the blood
horse departs tlie farthest of all the
tribe from his taper -like ancestors,
as itdoes its height at the shoulder.
But it is not .only in its skeleton
that the horse exhibits traces of Its
afflinity with its predecessors. On the
hinder part of the foot, atlittle above
the hoof, is a structure known as
the "ergot." This, which apparent-
ly attains its greatest development
in Grevy's zebra, of Somalliland, cor-
responds with one of the footpads of
the tapir, and point to a time when
the ancestral horses applied the un-
der surface of the fetlock to the
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limbs in the horse, inclusive of the
ly on
the
Mongolian
orelegs lof otherssbut n
species, which
are likewise rudimentary, o; vestigial
structures.
Although it has been suggested
that these also represent footpads
with which they. by no means agree
in position, it is far more probable
that they are all really remnants of
glands, similar to those found la
somewhat the same situation In the
hind limbs of many deer and ante-
topes, and that their disappearance
as functional organs was approxi-
mately coneident with that of the
loss of the face glands of the aip-
parsons, owing to both, being no:tlong-
er required. Even now, it le said these
callosities, when freshly eut, exude
humor the smell of which will
BRIDES BY THE POUND.
An amusing method of securing tate
marriage of his five daughters Inas been
adopted by a wealthy tradesman in Ber-
lin. As suitors were not apparently in-
clined to seek the hands and affections
of the daugters, the father advertised
that he would pay to the accepted suitor
of each daughter a dowry in cash pro-
portionate to the weight of the select-
ed damsel immediately after the wed-
ding ceremony. A young lawyer was the
first who submitted himself for the fa-
ther's approval, and, having produced
satisfactory etvidence as to his respecta-
bility, he was presented to the daugh-
ters. Ile visited them for a week, and
then chose the stoutest of the five, to
whom he was recently married. When
the ceremony was over the lady was
weighed and registered 17 stone, the fa-
ther immediately paying over to his
son-in-law a sum of 13,000 crowns,—
Westminster Gazette.
The 'Iiilln!fiaari¢tn delegation at
ernna glassed the Ord'inaryl and extra-
ordlna•r'y! array estimates yesterday, +►
v'mein as a credit of $3,750,000 far cause a horse to follow for almosei
the purchase of ncw, field guns., 1 1. , any distance, ."-• , t t