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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-04-28, Page 6Ei 6. aaa... a itaa THE HURON EXPOSITOR. VETERINARY. TWIN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario ty Veterinary College. All disertses of Domestic Animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and charges moderate, Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty Office and residence over W. N. Wateon' Sewing Machine Shop, Seaforth. 1112t1 -DRANK S. Beattie, V. S., graduate of Ontartc Vet erinary College, Toronto, Member of tht Vet erinary Medical Society, etc., treats all Meows of the 'Domesticated Animals. All call' promptly at- tended to either by day or night. Charges moder- ate: Special attention given se veterinary dent's - try. Office on Main Street, Seaforth, one door south of Kidd's Hardware store. 1112 KAFORTH HORSE INFIRMARY.—Corner of Jar. vis and GoderichStreete, next door to the Pres- byterian Church, Seaforits, Ont. AU Ms) see of Horses, Cattle Sheep, or any of the do stioated animate, snoc4ssfully treated al th- in armary or eleewhere, on the shorted natio. -barges m ate. JAMES W. ELDER, Vetetinary Surgeato P S.—A large stook of Valera ary Medicines ecept con stantly on hand LEGAL ep. S. HAYS, successor to the We firm of Dickson _no & Hays, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary public, &c. Money to loan. Office—Cardno's block, Main Street Seaforth., 1235 HIGGINS & LENNC1N, Barristers, Solicitors, Notariee Public, &c. Offices - 1211 Yonge Street, Toronto, °titan°, and Seaforth Ontario. Seaforth Office—Whitney's Block, Main Street. Money to loan, THOILts Muirott Amiss, JAHR8 LuNNoN. 1291 our ATTHEW MORRISON, Walton, Insuraoce On Agent, Commissioner for taking Iffidevite, Cenveyancee, &o. Money to loan at the lowest rates. M. MoRani0N, Walton. T M. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &c e) Office—Rooms, five doors north orCommercial 7notel, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papa's jewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich agents—Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215 ARROW & PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors, &c., Goderioh, Ontario. J. T. GARROD, Q. C.; Wm. Pneuereor. 881 rIAMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barristere so - len Honors in Chancery, &o.,Goderick, Ont M. C. 0RXRD,01, Q. C., PlinaT HOLT, DuDLIT Holanla ANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, &Bolton Con Int veyancers, &o. Solicitors for the lBsnit o• Johnston, Tisdale k Gale. Money to loan Ofloe—. Eliott Block, Clinton, Ontario. A. H. MARinal JAMS 8001T. 781 HOLMESTED, snooessor to tht. .ate firm X . McCaughey & Holumsted, BAUTHrber, So. Mho?, Convsyanear and Notary. tiollottor for the Canadian Bank of Oemmerbe. Monsy to land. Farms for sale. Offica in Scoti's Block, Main Street, Seaforth. W. CAMERON SMITH, BARRISTER. Solicitor of auperior Court, Commiseloner lot taking Affidavits In the High Caurt of Justice, Conveyancer, Money to ,Lend Can be consulted after office hours at the Conlin, r- clal Hotel. HENSALL, ONTARIu. DENTISTRY. W. l'WEDDLE, Dentist, Office over Hamilton . & McInnes' Shoe Stare, corner Main and John S eats, Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gas ad- ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. 1189 DR. BELDEN, Dentist. Special rates for next six months. Greatest care taken with all work, and beet material used. Office—Over Johnson e Hardware Store, Seaforth. 1228 pp AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton'will visit Heneall at Hodgens'Hotel every Monday. 1288 iT KINSMAN, Dentist, L. 1) S., 11. Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zurich's at the Huron Hotel, en the LA88 THuRaDAT LN BAoH MONTH, and at Murdock's Hotel, Henson, on the maw AND THIRD Femur in each month. Teeth extracted with the least pain poesible. All work first-class at liberal rates. 971 DR. C. H. INGRAM, Dentist, (successor to H. L Billings), member of the Royal College of Dern tal Surgeons, Ontario Teeth ineerted with or with- out a plate in gold celluloid or rubber. A safe anew - theta° given tor the painless extraction of teeth. Orlioe--over O'Nell'e bank, Exeter, Ontario. 1204 N. B.—Platee secured firmly in the mouth by Yemen.' Patent Valve. MONEY TO LOAN. neneONEY TO LOAN.—Straight loam; at 6 per lei cent., with the privilege to berrowee of repaying part of the principal money at an time. Apply to F. HOLMESTED, Harriett)), Seaforth. MEDICAL. TAR. C. SHEPPARD, Physician and Surgeon, Bay - .1, field, Ontario, succeseor to Dr. W. IL Wright. 1225-52 DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY, OFFIC/E, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist Church, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural Groundre J. G. SCOTT, M. D. C. M., (Ann Arbor and Via- . toria,) M. C. P. S. 0. C. MACKAY, M. D. C. M., (Trinity,) F. T. M. C., M. C. P. S. O. fl E, COOPER, M. D., M. B., L. F. P. and S., . Glasgow, &c., Phyelcian, Surgeoo and Ae- concher, Conotanee, Ont. 1127 T‘R. ELLIOTT, Bruoefield, Licentiate Royal xi College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edin- burgh. Brucefield, Ont. 930 Tot W. BRUCE SMITH, M. D , C. M., Mambos of lit the College of Phyeloiens and Surgeons, &o., Sedorth, Ontario. Offiee and residence same u oocropied by Dr. Vercoe. 848 _ .4k..LEX. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal College 'of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston. Silooeseor to Dr. Medd& Offict lately occupied by Dr. hieckid, Main Street Seaforth. Residenoe -a-Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately °ovulated by L. E. Harney. 1127 AUCTIONEERS, T P. BRINE, Licensed Auctioneer for the Coun ty of Huron. Sales attended in ail parte of Ohs County. All orders lett at Tao Rereerron ,Ooe will be promptly attended to. WM. IVIVLOY, ,Auctioneer for the Counties of HUTOII and Perth, Sales promptly attended to, charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. Orders )by mail addressed to Ohlselhurst Poet Office, or left at his residence, Lot 3, Concession 11, Teackersmith, will receive prompt attention. 129611 _ W. G. DUFF, AUCTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Conven &neer, C011eotor„ Book-keeper and Aocountant Real Estate, Life, Aocident and Fire Instiranot Agent ; Money to Loan, Correepondence, &a. Parties requiring his uervices in any of these branches will receive prompt attention. 0871oD u DAWIT'S BLock, (or DTAIR8), MAIN Staloff. 810F0RTH. 118e McKillop Directory for 1893. JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Dublin P. 0. JAMES EVANS, Deputy Reeve, Beeohwood. DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Beechwood. WM. MeGAVIN, Councillor, Leadbury. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, Councillor, Leadbury. • JOHN C. 410.RRISON, Clerk, Winthrop. SOLOMON J. SHANNON, Treasurer, Winthrop. VV111. EVANS, Assemor, Beeohwood. CHARLES DODDS, Colleotor, Seaforth. R. W. B. SMITH, M. D., Medical Health Officer, Seaforth. RICHARD *POLLARD, Sanitary Inspector, Lead - bury. HURON AND BRUCE Loan and Investment OCDM1=3.A This Company is Loaning Money OL Farm Security at_lowest Rates of Intere'St. • Mortgages PUrchased. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Cent. Interest- Allowed Deposits, according to *mount and time left. OFFICE.—Corner of Market Square and North Street, Goderioh. HORACE HORTON, M on:wow Oodurich, Aughei 5t1,1885. A RMAJO. i3y JIIART1L8 M. CLAIM, IN YouTies CompAtrioN. IN SIX CHAPTERS.—CHAPTER I. THE DISCLOSURE, " Hilary !" deep, peremptory voice rang out from this entry„ 44 Aye'senor." TellArma to come." Hilary put aside his broom of matted twigs. He was aesmall, old man, toothless, bent, with dark ooinplexien and a grizzled beard. A cook' fi • square paper oup vvas set upon his head', and he wore a white apron. H put his heed out of the door and listen ed. In a moment he heard the twanging notes of a guitan; the tune was very melan- choly, but everyi note showed the skilled performer. Hilary trotted out toward the grove of stunted pines from which the sound came. "The senor !, Lie say•you might come, Armajo !" Armajo, a solidly knit, erect boy of seven- teen peas, hung his guitar on a branch, and came out of the pines. He had a brown skin, jet eyes and long black hair. His expression was dejected, but frank and amiable. His costume was a little fantastic, but very neat aud becoming. He were a felt hat, a flannel shirt, and dark trousers gath- ered into rueset leggings which overlapped his ehoes, A brown flowing neckerchief was tied uuder the fold of his flannel collar. Atmajo glanced sorrowfully about as be came out of the pines. His lofty stand overlooked a mighty region. To the north lay rugged mountain ranges, rising in height and grendeur as they receded. Those most remote glistened with snowy summits under the August sun, and betneen them were deep 08110138 and valleys. Far to the eastward an extensive prairie stretched its broad level to the horizon. Be- hind him towered the bluff sides of Mount Crum, rising from timber line not far above the boy to the bare, irregular apex. Over all arched the burnished sky of Colorado. Armajo did not continua to look at this landscape, but slowly turned his eyes to solitary fir not far away on the plateau. Beneath its drooping bougbes a fresh mound of earth was visible, It was a grave—his mother's. At the foot of a cliff two miles belom, the Denver stage -Coach wheeled for a moment abruptly' into view, whirling down the steep mountain road. TWA, coach bore away the Spanish nurse who had lived as helper in the family ever since Armajo was born. She was returning now to her own people in New Mexico. Armsjo's lip quivered as the coach disap- peared. The world seemed desolate, terri- bly eiew and comfortless. Hilary, standing at the edge of the pines, shook his head as Armajo advanced and entered the house. " What's the matter now, Hilary ?" de- manded Sandoval, a tall and brawny miner, on hie way from the dump above to the forge beside the brook below. He bore an armful of drills, and looked curiously and suspiciously after Armajo. "It will be trouble, Sandy. The two, miter shall they agree." " Queer boy that. Takes after his mother, eh ?' "The senora 2 Aye, she put in him some Spanish, too, But he favors most his fath- er. They are too much a -same." "Old Walton is made of sledge -hammers," said Sandoval. "The boy is nervy and has a head for business, but if he aint a fool he'd better give in to his father." "A fool !" Hilary glanced sharply at the miner, as if the word bad personally offend- ed him. Sandoval simply met the glare with a sneer. He was a cold blooded, crafty fellow, a skilled miner, and was much trust- ed at the mine, though little liked. For Hilary, who was a man of quick tem- per, of unknown nationality, and who apoke English very crookedly, Sandoval had no feeling but contempt. Meanwhile Armajo had entered the dwelling—a rude log struc- ture, chinked with clay, having projecting gables and two adobe chimueys. This rough outside was belied by a surprisiog in- terior, The dwelling was smoothly floored and partitioned; several rooms opening from the entry were furnished with taste, even evith elegance. Armajo entered a large library at the rear of the hall. On two aides were long cases filled' with books. One wall was hung with maps and chart., showing surveys of mines. On the centre -table were massive silver lamps, rolls of tracing paper, manuscripts and blue prints. The windows were draped with handsome curtaine. Figured portieres, clearly a feminine ad- dition to the apartment, half -drawn aside from an archway in one corner'revealed an la assaying room beyond. The rick furnace, the iron block, the crucibles and shelf of acids were in view. But Arma's gaze ran down a little passage at his right, which opened into a cheerful sitting-room—his mother's favorite retreat, He could see the white rush mat upon the flan, the gaily decorated screen, and the silken throw gathered across a jutting cor- ner of the piano—brought with much diffi- culty to that mountain home. The faint odor of heliotrope floating to his nostrils filled him with a setae of loss and lonelinees. " Sit here, Arma," said his father, in a peremptory but not unkind tone. The youth started, and crossed the room hurriedly. ' Though his epirit had bowed under grief, his manner now betrayed sup- pressed defiance. Armajo had been much amid the moun- tains, in the society of the silver -miners, away from young associate., and was old for his age. He felt himself almost a man, but at home was still treated as a boy. Eugene Walton, the father, was of muscular figure and active habit, though his hair was gray. High brows, aquiline nose, project- ing chin and facial grace gave him a relined and distinguished appearance. Well known to Armajo were the alert sir and the firm contour of his lips, indicating a character that the boy well uneierstood. What he could not see, however, were the spiritual wearitaces and the world -worn mood of this man, who had borne for a quarter of a century the vicissitudes of frontier life. Father, like son, was dressed with a picturesque tidiness rare amid the mines. Armajo sat by the table. Through a window he could look out across the plateau to a cluster of weather-beaten tents, and rude huts roofed with bark or dirt. This comprised a camp known as Trefoil. From this centre trails radiated to the various claims or prospects. A crashing of rocks drew Armajo's gaze upward. Over the end of the dump, a few hundred feet I above, a burly miuer, his blouse gray with the stains of the tunnel, had, discharged the tramcar. Ito jagged contents rattled down the declivity. " You are old enough, Arma," aaid Wal- ton, alowly, " to realize something about business and not betray my confidence. Well, this mine here, the Hi•Spy, is turning out very poorly." "Sandoval calla the Hi -spy a 'come on' proapect," said Armajo. "He says it bears nothing but cheap rock. Just good •enough to kelip one expecting better luck." "Sandy will leave Trefoil in a hurry if he tal s too much I However, he is right. It ha led me on until my money is spent. I amf already in a bad fix. If we do not strike high-grade ore next month, I must shut down the worke, quit camp, and push out anew in life. " Why, father !" cried An:neje, in dis- May, Children Cry for "But I have provided for you, Arma." "Never mind me, father. I'll go with you wherever you like, and do what I oan to belp." "Thank you, my boy. You speak gener- ously, 'but to help me most you must be properly qualified. I have made arran_ge- ments to send you east, Cupples and Gir- ton, my Denver attorneys will remit you a hundred dollars a month ler the next ,year. By that time I may have some new enter- prise in hand. If not, you will at least be able to make your own way." "-And what am I to do east ?" "You will enter a commercial college." " Father 1" The young man's disappointment and aver- sion were manifest. "If I am not to stay with you," he said, "1 should like to be a musician. If I go east, sir, I would rather study music." • "Music ! Nonsense—nonsense? You will go to a commercial college, as I said." Eu- gene Walton arose irritably, and strode te and fro across the room. The son faced him with flushed cheeks and angry eyes. The father, accustomed to control,was arbitrary in his commands. The son had a combative temper, ,and anger now flashed from their opposiug wills. Coming back to the table Eugene Walton stood for an inetant looking out on the plateau with stern expression. Sparks and smoke arose from the stack of the forge. Gazing past a corner of the house he eaw the drooping fir and the new made grave. His face softened. He sat again before his son, and was silent for • moment. He had something eo say which he approached re- luctantly. At last he began. " You had better call yourself Joe Walton, in the east." "Call myself Joe! Why? I am not ashamed of the name my mother gave me." "Joe is short for .Armajo. They will think Armajo a foreign name, and it is a foreign name. Nobody knows how it is spelled, no- body knows how to pronounce it. My old friends in New York would laugh at it." "'Von wish me to go to New York ?" "To New. York City. Yes. Of oonrse you may write your name in full if you like. I merely give you a hint about it. Your mother gave it, as you say. And perhaps you will sea none of my old friend.. twenty years New York has changed, of course.' " Well, sir, I thank you, but I don't care to go east." This was said with determin- ed accent, yet quietly. For Armajo, too, looked out and saw that new made- grave. The father went on in a low tone "‚Von will have a companion in your school course." Armajo made no answer. To judge by the set puree of his lips these tidings made his opposition firmer. In still lower tones the father added: " That companion will be your eister, whom you have never met." . -Armajo opened wide hid eyes. A sister He Was dumfounded. He had supposed him- self an only child. Eugene Walton raised a warning hand, as if to arrest unwelcome • queries. , Anna, I must tell you a little about my • life. I WAS born and reared in New York City, had every advantege, and graduated at Columbia. At the age of twenty-five I married a pretty girl fretn Maine, a genuine Puritan, sweet and noble and pure. Ah, if she had lived—well, ! She died and left a baby girl only a few months old—my little Olive. '1 suffocated amid the old scenes, and leaving the child with Esther, my wife's sister, in Syracuse, came West. At Santa Fe I met Flora, your mother, just from her studies in New Orleans, and she became my second wife. I have lived since on the border, and have known great variety of fortune." He arose restlessly, looked out toward the drooping fir, and paced the floor with trou- bled face. Armajo recalled the stories he had heard concerning his own father; that he had been twice a millionaire, and was known as " High Roller Walton" through- out Colorado, because of his extravagant habits. Artnajo himself had spent several terms at school. in Denver, amid the best of sur- roundings and opportunities. It stunned him to think that thee easy ways must cease; that poverty perhaps lay at the end of the commercial couree. And this sister! He could not realize the news. He asked further explanation,. , " Has Olive been in 'Syracuse ever since, father ?" "Until lately. Your dear mother wished It so. Perhapa she did not like to be re- minded of my first wife. Armajo recalled his mother, the hand- some, proud, black-eyed little woman with whom he had been in tenderest intimacy. He could well believe her jealous of her do- mestic sway. Something like aversion to the half sister, thus tardidly made known to him, whom his mother had never wished to see, crept subtly into his soul. The father continued : "So Olive has re- mained emit, in good hands—Esther was a splendid woman. She died some months ago, and I have arranged that Olive shall live in the same family with you in New York." "I know nothing about looking after little girls," Armajo replied, sulkily. "Little girls 1 She is two years older than you, and is probably much better schooled. She will be, I hope, like a mother to you." "A mother to me !" Armajo bent his arms forward ou,the table, and put his face in his hands. A mother! As if any human being could supply that loss ! Then he arose in hot impatience,. "1 don't want to go east. I don't want to meet my sister. I hate the idea of a com- mercial college 1" His father broke in on these rebellious words with a voice whose impassive author- ity awed the youth into silence. You will go, sir, on the next stage, day after to -morrow. You may give up the time -book and prepare yourself. ale sorry to have you leave unwillingly, but I know best." He said no more, and Armajo, glad to escape thus easily from the father whose will he dreaded, hastily left the room. At the outer door he tore from hie pocket, wherein he had oheeked the working hours of the day shift employed in the 111 -Spy, and tossed it back into the house. Then he tramped savagely to the grove, where he stalked about in a fit of rage. "What's the matter now ?" said Sandoval gruffly, returning with his newly sharpened drills, and hearing the lad's mutterings. Armajo, angry and restless, took this inan into his confidence, " Father wants me to go east, to enter a commercial school. I hate it 1 Ho makes me go, no matter how I feel, or what I like 1" Sandoval treated the matter very coolly. He was foreman of the day shift. He bore an unlighted candle in his , hat, and his clothes and shoes were clammy with the drip of the tunnels. Arm knew Sandovan to be shrewd, and so waited anxiously for the man's reply. "Let inc give you a pointer, young fel- low,"1 said the foreman, " This world is full of smarter boys than you aro, and smerter meu than I am, Your father is no fool. Never be guided by a man who knows lase than you, 6but don't be ashamed to profit by the wisdom of anybody who knows more. "That's my advice. You'll pull ahead fast when once you learn to know your bet- ters, and can benefit by their counsel. Take your medicine. Go east. It won't, hurt you to see the world and learn something. Pitcher's Castoria. You on come back again. You make me tired." Whereupon Sandoval strode up the trail, to the timbered mouth of the Hi -Spy. Armajo stood looking aftee, much I- umili- ated. Yet to see the great oity of the east To exchange the dull life of Trefoil for some- thing of the splendor of the metropolis! Even to meet the newly discovered Water might not be unwelcome—if he could only have his own way. CHAPTER H. ARMAJO'S SISTER. • A young woman stepped out upon the lower baloony of a handsome house on East Seventy -Second street in New York, and gazed up and down and around with the ourioshy of a stranger to the city. The lower sashes of the parlor windows were raised, and through the curtains the girl had come out. She saw the low, rounding wall of Central Park in the distance on one side, and the far -stretching street leading toward East River on the other side. She heard the roll and rumble of the trains upon the elevated railways. Every sight and sound interested her keenly. One hardly knew whether to call her a -girl or a young lady. The fresh complexion and light movements were girlish, but the mature face and tall form gave a womanly appearance. She looked eagerly up and down the street, as if anticipating the ap- pearance of some one not in sight. No one was near, save a bronzed youth bearing a valise, Who approached at a brisk peoe, reading the numbers on the houses as Le came. He saw the silver figures over the transom, and turned up the steps of this very house. t It wen Armajo, but not quite the Armajo of the mining -camp. His hair had been trimmed close and his mountain garb ex- changed for a city suit. Reaehing the topmost step, Armajo stop- ped. He thought it rather superfluous to ring the hell, with an open door before him and this lady on the balcony to answer queries. He looked toward her, but her back was turned. The youth hesitated a moment. Then he removed his hat and asked, "Dos. Mrs. Corwin live here 2" The young lady ;turned, smiled slightly, said " Yes,"- stepeed back Into the parlor ,and hall, and invited the young man to come In. At the same moment Mrs. Corwin came from the basement and appeared in the doorway. "This Is Mrs. Corwin," said the young lady. Armajo turned to Mrs. Corwin—a kindly person, drawled in black. "1 was sent here from Colorado to take lodgings," he said. Mrs. Corwin, in surprise, looked toward the young lady, who had drawn aside the curtain to go out once more upon the bal- cony. Miss Walton, this is your brother 1" cried Mrs. Corwin. Armajo and his sister stood looking at each other, both in wonder, for each thought the other older than expected. Armajo saw before him a young lady above the ordinary height of women, and taller than himself, of large but graceful frame, with sparkling blue eyes, rosy cheeks and thiok brown hair, One would have 'thought her age more than nineteen years. Her handsome profile was out after the same model as his father's; her chin was oval and her nose aquiline. Her serene and gracious air—something indescribably well- bred in her refined face and bearing—over- awed the youth. When her look of antonishment gave way, to a flash of pleasure and of welcome; when she crossed the room and took his hand cor- dially; when she kissed him and said, "1 am so glad you've come 1" the youth leaned back against the table with a choking in his throat which forbade speech. Armajo, proud, impulsive and hot temper- ed. driven east by his father's authority, had entered New York depressed and sul- len, feeling unfriendly to hist sister and all her surroundings. Yet his heart Was natur- ally warm. Her sympathy and affection touched him. Despite his prejudice he could not but feel an instant liking for her. Olive affected not to see his embarrass- ment, "Ho must be tired and dusty. I will show him up -stairs myself," she said to Mrs. Corwin. Come with me, Arma." She took him to a large'well-lighted room in the second story. It was neatly furnished, and contained writing -tables and book -racks. "This is our study, although I am told the commercial college does not require much work to be done at home. Your sleeping.room is next to this, and mine is in the extension at the and 61 the hall," "Are you really going to the commercial college ?" he asked. " "Why ?" inquired Armajo, much puzzled. His mother had never interested herself in business affairs. Why should his sister be expected to acquaint herself with hook -keep- ing, banking, agencies and theelike—matters which it seemed hardly necessary for a lady to study ? "Indeed, why 2" repeated Olive, turning quickly to him. She hesitated a moment, and then aeked " Did father send any letter by you?" " No." "Nor any word ?" " No. He gave me no message at all," Her eyes filled with tears. "What did you expect from such a father ?" cried Armajo, fiercely. His pent up feelings broke into passion. "He has no regard for our wishes. I hated to come mot; he compelled me. His heart is in his business. It is not with us." - "Oh, don't, don't !" She put up her hand, shocked and distressed. "Ile is our father. His letters to me have been very kind. You must not talk that way about " Yes, he's our father ?" exclaimed the lad. "But he hasn't a father's kindneas. His will is law. He cares for no one but himself," "He has been good to me; and if he were ever so harsh, how wrong for us to be any- thing -but forgiving and reepectful to him in word and deed 1' The following hush in the room seemed intense. Olive, standing with one hand on the mantel, mused with downcast face. To Armajo a new view suddenly opened. The words were a sharp rebuke, but the kind and appealing accent took away its cruel edge. He saw that his sister had been bred to treat her elders with deference. Her heart was buoyed by faith; and a charge against her father directed her thought, not so much to the evil imputed, as to her own higheat duty. A reproachful question rose before Arma- jo. Should this banished daughter show toward their father a loftier courtesy than he? Presently Olive looked up. She saw in his eyes the assent his tongue would not utter. Then she reached out her hand with a yearn- ing gesture. "Don't tell me you were compelled to come—that you were unwilling to meet me, your sister 1' "1 would never have been unwilling if I had known you." He took her hand, and the two moved slowly down the room to the front whadow. Olive, looking out thoughtfully, said: "1 have wondered why father sent me here to learn type -writing and bookkeep- ing; but it must be wise for every girl to have 0. means by which she can earn her liv- ing. Ien't he rich ?" "He was, but he is not now. One year he has plenty and spends it like a prince ; I next year he ie in debt. For myself, I should rather have little, and know I could always depend on it?" "Perhaps he wishes iny help in business." "Perhaps. More likely, when we finish here, both you and I will have to start out for ourselves." , She looked at him pilteously a moment. Her uuoontrollable Ion begs mastered her. t "Then, Arum, let us/stert together ?" 'The appeal of her eyes ad voice moved him. " We will, Olive," he replied firmly, and with these words hknew that he had turn- ed a corner in his life. J The past and its romantio memories of mighty mountains and wild silver camps; of the blythe and spirited little mother who knew eo well how to control and guide her wayward boy; of that sombre funeral be- neath the drooping fir—these things could never be forgotten. But the presence of Olive awoke new and unexpected. sensations. She was kind, congenial and cultured. Her vision of right conduct was clearer and higher thau his own. She Wall of his kin, and he was drawn by his better nature to a prompt and cordial alliance with her. So elated was he by the surprising tarn which affairs had taken that he felt an airy sense of relief and joy, and for the next half- hour conversed with a gaiety of spirits which he had not known for a long time. He learned that Olive had received abrupt directions from her father only ten days be- fore to come at this time to New York bed enter a commercial college, where she would meet Arms. No explanation had been vouchsafed beyond the assurance that he thought this to be the best course'and that it was now time she should know her brother. , Olive was very eager for information about the parent she had not seen for sever- al years, and asked many questions as to his looke, his Imbibe his ways, his health and prospects. Armajo replied wearily. He had already become careful not to speak disparagingly of his father. By one stroke Olive had won a moral ascendancy over hirn which went far to subdue the stubborn anger he had felt ever shoo° this journey had been com- manded. "And now," said she at last, "would you like to see a ittle of the city? I have an errand on Sixth Avenue, if you care to go with me." In a half-hour they were before the count- ers of a milliner. Here occurred an incident trifling in itself, but of weight in the affairs of these young people, whereby the young men in leis turn took control. Olive, who had come to buy a hat, carried eaveral to the mirror. "This ie the one I like," said she' poising upon her head a small, flat felt witha tiny feather. , "Why do you ohoose that 2" asked Ar- majo, in a tone of great diseetisfaction. "1 am so large, you know. I need some- thing to help me look smaller." Armajo shook his head. He had an acute instinct for proper attire. He replied gravely: " When I was in the academy at Denver some of the Soph's wore high hats, and I wanted one to make me taller. 'No,' eaid mother, 'you are too young and too short. If you wore a beaver it would only call at- tention to your stature. Take yourself for what you are, an i be content. If you are short, why, be boldly short and he happy. People won't think of it if you keep to your proportion; but as 80011 as you attempt fictitious height you advertise yourself.' Now, Olive, you belong to the stately order of ladies—" " I ? To the stately order—" - " Certainly you do. Instead of wearing your hair tight to your head, fluff it out generously; put on a full-sized, high, im- posing ht; modest, but as large as the fashion allows. Here—like this one. Try it. Ever so much better! Then folks who see you will say, • What a magnificent crea- ture !' But if you wear a dwarf affair they will say, 'Why does this splendid girl make a fright of herself with a dot like that?' " Olive blushed rosy red. She tossed her head ha pique, and quickly tried on the other hats. Then she beckoned the milliner. "Id! me which is the more becoming," she said, donning successively her own and Armajo's choice. "They are both pretty," replied the mil- liner, diplomatically. "Ob, take this one 1" cried Armajo, im- peratively, pointing to his selection. There was much of the father in this young man. "It is quite in vogue, and looks nicely 011 you," said the milliner, in smooth, insinuat- ing tones. "Then give it to me," rejoined Olive. But when the parcel was made up he took it with a discontented air, refusing to have It sent or to let Armajo carry it. All the way home, albeit polite, she was very re- strained and made her brother uneasy. Arrived at the house he saw the welcome sight of hie truuk and box of musical instru- mento, Which he followed to his Apartment. Meantime Olive hastened into the sitting - room, where Mrs. Corwin sat sewing. "There 1" she said, and threw the parcel upon the table. "Did you find a pretty one ?" "Arena found one. Look at it. He made me buy it." " Indeed 77 "Yes. I wanted one of the little fiat gray ones—something like those you and I saw—the smallest thing in fashion. And just see what I've -bought. He told me I'd look like a fright iti the gray," Tears of vexation stood in her oyes. Mrs. Corwin opened the packet doubtiegiy, but when she SAW the hat exclaimed in sur- prise : d This is lovely 1 I'd as soon choose my hat in the dark as have a boy pick it out for me ; but this is certainly handsome, Try it on, Why, Miss Walton, it is very becoming and goes charmingly with your suit." "But I am so !ergo, and this het towers so dreadfully 1" " Oh, no. It h becoming. You ere not mo very large. Your brother has done well. He may have a knack that way. He is dressed in very good taste himself. I never supposed a boy from the west would hit it so closely." "1 preferred the gray, but he said I should look like a fright in it." Mrs. Corwin leughed merrily. " Don't let that worry you. Girls ere fortunate who have plain-epoken, sensible brothers. I had none myself, or one or two disagreeable habits might have been overcome in the be- ginning, and I should have found a husband earlier. Of course you are not one of those silly girls who are always thinking of mar- riage. I only mention it. Boys are rough and blunt, but they often correct a host of faults and warn their sisters against many mistakes. The slaters grow -grateful in after years." As Olive tripped up -stain., more contaut- ed with the new hat, she deated whether, Arma, after all, was,right. If so, her course this last two or three years was a mistake, for she had tried to reduce her tall stature. Olive had been struck by this hint, that frank acknowledgment of one's figure, and dress modestly proportioned, draw least at- tention to defects. When Armajo came from his room an hour after tea, bearing with him a violin he heard some one at the piano in the perlor. He halted on the stairs, certain it must be Olive, for they two were Mrs. Corwin's only guests. She played, and he listened with keen in- terest. A minute later he hurried down the stairs excitedly. She was rattling off the notes with slighting, sprightly touch, like one whose thoughts were but half upon the sound. Preeently she discovered Armajo etanding in the doorway. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. t a • le 1 bed for &seer was the best 1 ever ate. Thanks to COTTOLENE, the mew sad successtut ahorteshig. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR (Fr - Wade only by H. K. FAIRBANK it CO. Wellington and Ann Streets, MONTREAL. 1111MIIMINEM=.111.111111 BAUSL AU G H, • PHOTOGRAPHER, THE OLD RELIABLE, Makes all sizes and styles of Pictures knowa to the art. My gallery is on the ground floor, and fitted with everything to maks first-class work. 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