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[PAUL VANE'S WIFEJ
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"11', it Proles warm!" 408 -Murray ,train; (rote to Miss lisle le a. ter fmly
'slit. with his ju!ly smile, •SITpo,r we i Hived et I• ,milt, (lett le l.nlw. No au
return to the motel, eh, Bud)" looking 1ewer emite '0ud they (10(1(8''-111 .11 that,
upward at old Sol, who was s1•011-(} Mr the ul w p,apery had snail that he was
ci 'Ihi' _' the meridian, beautiful 1.(naml , hover
Smdden1)' he dodgede with a 18114 "11 , lint thea, was one thong that seemed
it. surpmse 01111 alnrt8. ! stringy to them, and that was that the
"Heavens! Look, look! :A halloos— isu1 man in his runt's uttered but sel-
nrai - -- dem the flame of Loraine, whole nt was
said that lie loved. 11 was \'II iml, 11-
w1180 \ (01011, until they began to sus-
pect 111- guarded secret; and when at
hast he ;asked of news of her, they ?cern
afraid to tell him the truth. They
feared that news ,of her death might be
too great a shack to hint, and pretend-
ed that they knew nothing of her fate.
The keen brown eyes of the sick 0011
rend deceit in'their faces, He did not
believe that they were telling him the
truth: It was annoying too, that at this
remote summer resort in the malshurls
one got so few daily P 'I
ly no news from the outer world,
"
"Ilov long have I been hart.? he ask-
ed his kind friends; and when they told
him it was bordering upon tree weeks
he because almost-frantie with atuiety.
"I must go to Lisle; i cannot wait
(mother day,' he cried, and weak as lie
ons, he took the early -morning stage,
after bidding Murray and I1en(se1 n
grateful farewell Ills heart Waw. on
fire with anxiety -to leere whit hind he -
(woe of lovely Vivian, and as the slow
0btge yen -toyed ove0 the wo10y u(ileS
the
that lay .between, there was always
one fervent prityer in his heal t, that
she had, been saver( from her danger,
that he should mud her at Lislt. alive
0(id'vvel1.
Oh „that long and weary' slay, hew
ssfo',ely it went! How he chafed at its
slowness! Vivien,' Vivian, Vivian! the
ore thought, the foie prayer, kept throb-
bing in his tired 'brain 11dlu' after hour,
The blinding glare of ;the September
sun, liow fiercely it ben'[ Upon the dusty
road, as, 11), weary, miserable, he droole
ed in the ' eeak,' counting the lagging
monis'
Snesc The greet glowing 001 of day
i behind the moultaiteto ns
began to sok bolus d1
as the dusty stage pulled up in Trent•
of the Lisle Hotel and. the few weary
p118sengers alighted in' a hurry. There
had been a few plssenges,,altlough l:u-
gene Fairlie (111,. 80(110ely 000,8101(5 of it
in ;the preoccupation e' his nuns.• ,-l18
did+npt enter the loose,,tsoagreat 1180
has inipationee, but draggd'a'lnuieelf with
weak, halting footsteps 'aptthe broad
Mann street straight toward the rec-
tory, never glancing right or left at the
few astonished townspeople he met.
Oh! how glad he was to see again
Iter pretty cotage home standing Intek
in the green, old-fashioned ,garde[!
Surely he should see her presently oat
there among the lilies—herself another
lily, so fair end white and ]etre. He
stopped dizzily outside the gate • and
clung to the arch of m0olflowers, gaz-
ing into the shrubberies with eager,
yearning eyes.
"In a nionehrt we shall meet;
She i, singing in the meadow,
And t.ho rivulet at her feet
Hippie's of in light and shadow,
Do 1 ]tear her sing .as of old,
Jay bird with shining Bend,
.'1y own dove with the tender eye?
But there rings on a sudden a -passion-
ate cry,
There is some one dying 00 dead!"
He,walted, watched in vain. A strange
sense `of desolation' clung about .the
place, The door's and windows were it11
closed, the shutters 'drawer., He thought
with 1a keen pang of regret, of the day
Ile ted conle•here with Emilie and 80en
the young wife sitting by her hasler1d
on the garden seat, •so fair and swot
and loving. Alt; only to see her there
again, what would he Trot have given.
Lite itseif, if (1008'snry.
' ale (mewed the gate at hast 01x1 went
into the lonely place. A serpent Crawled
Heiress his path, out lie stepped over
11 with at quick shudder as he mounted
the steps of the porch. He rang the 'bell,
land the sound cause back to hint in hol.
low echoes, The rectory seemed absolut-
ely uninhabited.
"'(bey are at Arcady most likely. 1
will go thee" be thouglit, turning away'
With 0 bitter sigh, for 018 _loneliness of
the rectory had struck a 0tr0nge'des-
pair to his heart.
Toiling on up tlia village street, pre-
sently he came in sight of Forest Church
with the long bars of the' setting sot
shining on its stained-glass windows: Be -
gond it stretched God's Are, its utott-
nreent11l stones glimmering (01111ely in
the fading roseate glow. Why did, his
heavy fives lest on them with such pain-
ful Um -fwd. 1W'hy, did they single out
a new stone—tall, y'et broken off at the
coldly to his heart and 1111111.14 (pen
the little gate he'• followed the grassy,
wilding paths to • the broken shaft un-
til luwehng. faint whit treubhng firms
weakness, upon a nice na111e grave, he
looked up tend read deep m the merbie:
• "VIVIAN VANE.
He got no fulthel'. for ,lust at that
1 grooa the flying body of a gran was
previpitated swiftly downward from a
rocking balloon Melee talent, seeming at
first as if it would fall into the boat,
but, swerving slightly in its
torrifie downward course, piling -
ed headforemost into the cold
waters of the lake, sending wide circles
across the water tiat almost overturned
the light (vont of our two friends.
'Steady)" cried Bowen, seizing the
oars and bedding forward, He peered
into the limpid depths of the lake and
saw, oh! horror! the form of the man
far down. entangled in the rank weeds,
their weird tendrils, holding him like
skeleton arms in it 4011413' embrace, int
prisoeed him in as death trop from which
he struggled fiercely to get free.
"(rod, how horrible! \Ve must not lets'
him drown! cried Bud, trembling; but
almost before the wordy left his lips,
Joe.'luro'ay ivn8 in the'water. His
friend, watching with hated breath, saw
hitt dive with a free and splendid 100 -
tion, down, down to the asststnnce of
the drowning man. Leaning eagerly for-
ward, he watched the rescue—t}}ae short,
sharp
struggle that' die 11104-e 0.0.,111e,0.0.,111e,was,remelnlgiered ever afterward with
sensations of horror, for, as he freed .the,
victim from the inelttsping arms of the
pines, he tuned 'upon him, intent On
self-preservation, aa' drowning mete
clutch at straws, and pinioned legal 171 a
tight embrace that rendered both help-
less. They began to sink slowly lower
and loner. The blood rushed to Mur -
ray's brain, until it seemed that the
weight of the•tnliverse might have been
pressing it down. Great spots flashed
before his eyes; the limpid water turn-
ed to blood. Ile was spffoeating, drown-
ing, with but one sentient thought: •
"I amu dying—dying! I shall never
see my love again= -my little Elsie!"
With a groan he resigned himself to
death, but ,just at that perilous moment
the clinging arms of his companion re-
laxed their hold, and( ;Hurray,',by a su-
perhuman effort, shot up)vord with his
harden to the surface of the water,
where, utterly exhausted, they., were
tiaw'n into the boast by his friend Bud,
Under the powerful strokes of the young
man the 'Witter Jird flew across the bo -
sem of the lake with its precious frdiglit,'
and both unconscious men were 00011 re-
ceiving the best (tare and attention the
hotel could offer.
It 1118 two song weeks before Eugene
Fairlie opened his beautiful brown eyes
again to fall consciousness of himself
and the world. A wound he had re,
ceived en his temple while down in the
teeter had held him prostrate an a. bed of
sickness. Slowly reason resumed its
sway and memory returned—torturing
memory of that last night of reason
whose latest ermse1ous moment was of
ate•—of her, the wildly, hopelessly be-
loved from whose side he bad so fatally
fallen in that perilous moment while
fighting bravely for her rescue. To this
.{first moment of eonsci00snesa his
jphonghts went back to her, and the first
word on his lips was her name:
..Vivian!"
He knew not that while he was toss-
ing here in delirium that beloved name
had been carved upon a broken shaft
r
that stood up, tall and white t state-
ly,
st
ly, behind Forest Clnireb, nor thtat lm•
der it they had buried 1 droned. woman'
with golden hair—a woman mourned by
Paul Vane es his beloved wife, Ile cid
not know this yet, nor that Patel Vane,
sick at heart and despairing, lied given
up his church and gone direful to see( -
solace in strange scenes for his awful
bereavement. He hoped against hope
that sweet Vivian had been saved from
her awful peril and restored to home
and lore and friends. It was his first
waking thought and his first eonsci0818
prayer.
CUAPTER YYIX.
•4., ,Toe ;Murray end his friend had learned
long ere Col. Pairlie had recovered eot-
sclonsn0ss the harrowing story of the
captive balloon, and knew who he was;
knew, too, that his hapless companion
l0at been drowned in the descent orf the
11011ooe into the James River, The daily
paper's had duly chronicled the tragic
story, amt they had read with grief and
horror Vivian's dreadl01 fate.
"W'o ought to write to'his friends that
Colonel Fairlie survived and is here ill," top, tapering whitely agan51 the ghn-
Bud Bentsen said; and aecardiegly Joe ions tints of the 013. A (8(1d fear struck
"Resllrgitm;"
1111w long Coloeel 1i10iem
1i8"fav G,
smelled and lleart-breliee by this ter-
rible shock, lie could never afterward
remember, The sun had sunk
01111 the All r,s had crone tut it] the
azure heavens, the dew fell on the flow-
ers and the white, upturned face
of the
elan lying there half unconscious in his
despair, 01t1 why had he failed to save
her Me?- Why had he lived while Vivian
died?
"I knelt in tears above the turf th1lt
blossorled o'er the mound
That held my world of love • and grief
Within its narrow bound.
The grass 00118 epringiag sweet and green
Above her dreamless head,
And lien rest was calm and peaceful in
the city of the dead,
"Kneeling in heart -breaking silence, 111y
face on that lowly grave,
The passionate tide• of anguish rolled
over me wave 011 suave.
On that dearest spot under heaven, the
heart, in its overflow,
,
i
Whispered its *reef and devotion to the
silent sleeper below,"
The night 0(011 far spent when 1110 un-
happy 1111111 lifted his head from the dust
of he glove anti looked up (vit11 burning
eyes to the pitying 011(05, the silent-wit-
11C53e5 of his pain. 111 the long hours of
brooding there had crept into 'Es heart
who had
at bitter tato for the , woman ( v
wrought this nTedeein.ibl'e doe. '
Staggering up to his feet slowly and
painfully, like one Bile Imdaeceived a
nlll0tallwound, Colonel Fairlie leaned his
hot brow against the cold guar le, and,
lilting
his right hand upward Glut Ileai-
ven !tight witness his sol01nr vow, ex-
('inhmed hoarsely:
"Best in peace, sweet Vivian, the inno-
oent victim of revengeful woman's
hate! 13e it mine to avenge your wrongs.
Nothing shall divert me front my path.
itcp by step 1 will follow on her re
mmselees tract: until f have paid her
blow for blow, until 1 have wrung her
nivel heart as She has wrung 1(1it10 111
your death! here, by' you grave, fair
Vivian, I swear vengeance to the death!"
Somewhere in the distance a clock
struck the ioideight hour es the noun,
htyiug !listen -Mug lips 01100, twice, nuke
to the cold marble, as if to seal his bit-
ter vow, t1}rued away with the fire of in-
ciplet(t undmess-111 his eyes,
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Hut sweet' Vivian fame [vas not lying
under the marble shalt iu 10 0st.Churolt
yard, as all the world believed, See
was tossing in delirious pant ntuong the
01108y pillows of Emma Morley's little
cottage horse, hatched tenderly by the
wulo(h and 110r pretty, romantic daugh-
ter.
"Have you found out oioything about
her yet, or. Athol" asked Emma, day.
after 'day, with eager 000i08113'; but his
answer was always
"Nat yet, Miss Emma; but 1 hope she
will soot be better, (aid then este call tell
us sornctbirag about herself, llj'the way,,
i midst ate gratulate you on being such a
good little nurse, 1 (tope if 1 nim over
deli I shall have some one like you 00
care for 110,"' land handsome Dr. Chaney'
vv ould look' so softly into the girl's
starry eyes that Euu,u's cheeks wound
Hush like 00111 roses.
Ilut this morning, (cher Dr. Charley
paid his doily visit, the patient was not
eir well, and the iuu•ovement he had
laueiO4 .yesterday was not visages'
"Has' anything oecuu'ed to -disturb
her? She looks wildly excited Nestrr-
day she was decidedly improving; to -day
she has typhoid syoptituis," he said, aux
iolsly, us he noted the bounding pulse,
flushed cheeks, and .feverish, unseeing
eyes. Ho started as 110 gazed at' her, 110,0
8111111:
"Bring a lighted candle, please.
He held it eagerly before her eyes ler
the darkened room but the white lids
did not waver,' the bine eyes did not
shrink. The sudden fear that had come
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geld he lingered with her for several
minutes at the cottage door, thinking
what a tender little wild flower she
was, so fresh and sweet and romantic.
Emma did not ge in just yet. Site lin-
gercd to watch the young physician
vault lightly into the saddle and ride
away, and 11hen he vvas out of sigllt'sfie
sighed softly and fell into it dream that to the left, and is making for the high
lasted until her mother's impatient precipice, Unless some hand shall soy
voice recalled her 11110 tihc house, her, the. blind girl will be dashed tat
pieces en the cruel, jagged re11t5 over
CIGAPTER XXXI. two Inmdred feet below, It is a moment
1Vherc have you been; Eu 11111? 1 }nate
of such awful peril na buttcidom 001110S
been waiting g for you over ten minutest" I 10 o»y one in a lifetime, and Emma,,
'h• 1lorlesaid 51(11.813, tying her} shoekcd and helpless, elm not stove to
s, y, I ! avert thedanger. She sees Vivian ahead
bonnet shines 118 she spoke, ((•itdl ten avert g
air of one who is going out.
"I was only at the gate, m arm a,,"
linnhn;t answered, with at roguish twinkle
in her bright eyes as she thought of
the tempting novel' she was ]folding de•
mutely ander her apron --the gift of the
fuseinetiug Dr. Miller, while she had
1iugerod with (lint,
takably on the fugitive she hears (hoarse
cries, and sees Vivien throwing her
onus wildly outward as though feeling
(xyu000UcX56Ooococcocc
CZAR and CZARINA
AT HONE
a 1. (1'. Norreg0111l, in the Louden 'Daily
11011.'1
When on New Yearn Day, 1.16x, the salut-
ing gun un the ! c.a:-Paul Fortress 'by a
1100111' fired hall cartridge ag011,0tthe 88(11
ler Place, the Czar and his family left their
caveat for good and took u0 their residences
12: 01o,tkoc—Selo. S)oee then only on two
0118(uns have they Visited St. Petersburg,
51111 111111 011ly tor a 100 00ure—at the open -
Mg of toe first tioalna ,.l,u at the 10080ala-
tion of the cathedral bulli in memory of
oft.:fal.ner 11. on lar spot (t1,ern he w60 "wal-
dcred,
Tsarskoo-Selo Is situated ma the battle
Railway half an hour by train lrom 01.
Petersburg, immense, beautifully kopt parks
surround the palace, with maganeent old
Moe and gorgeous shrubs, with delay stow
white pavillon a1110 Mlle Wol'K8 ami eculp,000
and beautiful terraces and colonnades. Close
to the palace 15 a great lake with richly
wooded shures and a most picturesque little
!stand, on which a pavillon, modelled as a
Greek temple, gleams out radiantly white
her-.(vay, among the luxurious, vivid green foliage,
511d6eai5' Iinuoa 0111(05! 511115 10 the The palace le a stately construction In late
round i« des roti. The w'bile fig'"" "Milan renaissance style, built by Catharine
g 1 g II, It !s, however, arty used on state ae-
has swerved suddenly aside from the caatone, at etticlal ,bangue ts or 00000015.
broad road leading over Natural Bridge Tim imperial family 00 a rule lives at a
• much smaller palace called the Alexan-
dr0eski,
In May the Court moves to Peterhof, on
the Finnish Pay, and stays there till au-
tumn. Here also there are vast, magnificent
parka, extending the whole way to Greaten-
baum. right opposite Croustade. The great
0atao1 1m Peteruoff, built by Peter the Gran
and considerably enlarged by Catherine 11. 15
situated on a low ridge ruining parallel to
the coast line at a few hundred yards eta -
Lance. Peterhof 15 chiefly renowned for Its
waterworks and fountains, which aro built
on a larger scale Mau " 0hoee of. 8crsaittes ane
for beauty and effectiveness more than rival
them
ler a corner of the park, tight on the shores
of the sea, sheltered behind tall brick walls,
guarded by many sentinels and mounted
gendarmes, three small residences are sttu-
ated,aot -much bigger than the average
dwelling house of an ordinary landed pro-
prietor. . The largest of these Is inhabited
by the Imperial family. The 1eoend is at
the disposal of the Empress Dowager during
herr-lataly not very frequent—visits from
(10100 ne. The third, the Farm, indeed de-
eerves it 0401(10, being an old peasant house,
fitted up so that It may serve as an abode for
the Imperial family.
It was first need when after some of the
imperial children had been suiterin0 (roan
measles, the larger residences had to be die -
infected and replastered, The whole family
then for a time moved across to The harm,
where the little convalescents speedily recov-
ered their strength. The stay here nod 00
charmed the children that year by year now
one or the other of the girls pleads feeling
ill, and entreats her parents to go for a few
day, to The harm, which has proved to be
such a wonderfully health restoring Place.1
have been told thatt he request is oc ool00ally
granted, But the Czar and the Czarina 000
really delighted to (1050 an excuse for staying
for some days h1 the small, cosy rooms of the
1
quaint
the cares anfarmhouse and responsibilities offor a
their
exalted positions.
On the whole, in whatever light the ac-
cident at the Nele Year's salute may be re-
garded,
It Was Intal Wayat for a newte fortunate levererial mit.
Tho climate. of St. Petersburg is far from
healthful, the social obllgattons are very'
cumbersome, Peterhof anti 'I'sarekoe-8(l0, on
the other hand, are real s.ndtoriums,and
thee' rituntlon away from the capital allows
the strict court etfqultto to be considerably
relaxed --even largely dispensed with, Neither
I. the Czar nor the Lzarine takes much 'menet
In court ceremonial or !urinal social func-
tions, They are both extremely lend of their
! handsome, bright children and devote as
much of their spare time t0 their company
as they can manage, It Is a common sight
for the courtiers of Czar Nicholas to see the
Autocrat of All 'he Hussies romping merrily
With n bevy of delighted, boisterous children.
Of course even In the qute t precincts of
Peterhof end Tsarsaoo-@ell the time of the.
of her, sees the white forts poised dizzi-
ly on the verge of the hrirlge, the dark
gloom beneath her seeming 1iko the
:el way down to hell. A night bird
cries shrilly in the near distance, almost
freezing the blood in her veins witch su-
pernatural
perhmtural terror. With la
born of despair, Emma shakes off the
I weakness seizing upon her, and, dashing
i wildly forward, gains so Tepidly on Vie -
"A the gate until the moonbeams1Ian.Hutt just as she_,'is about to take
Had quenched all the stars in OvidIan.
fatal step into the awful chasm Ern
light, ma grasps her white robe with a frantic
r Alns the trail white fahue slips
through her nerveless hands. Vivian
totters, falls over the dizzy height, and
it cloud of earth and stones, loosened
by her weight, falls with a hissing sound
into tlw rushing torrent below. Emma
fell to the ground with her hands be-
fore iter face, and but for the fact of
her wild shrieks reaching the ear's of
the young physician as be 0anle by on
his midnight rounds, poor Vivian must
have . perished in that dark hour, and
this story of a pouts wife's trials world
never have been written,
ITA De continued.)
said, cul•tiyt
"I'm obliged to go to the hotel and
take this lace I have mended to one of
'the lady boarder's, 1 may be 'detained
0 long while, so upstairs 11081'' to our
mysterious patient, nal mi1(11 yoe do
not fall 001000p 0801. your silly love-
dreants1" She' bustled out of the house
as she spoke, aild took ler way through
the moonlight toward Forest inn with
her little bundle of mended Ince, while
her daughtar closed the door and
sought the sick -room.
The beautiful invalid had fallen into a
deep 'shunter, and lay breathing hi'itr- ions diseases
ily among the pillows, Itercontagion's eyes hail House' flies spread g
open, her churka burning crimson with 811011.0s typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
fever. En110 stood Over her pityingly 1 smallpoxWilson's and consumption. Fly
for siege time, 111011 the temptation to . Perla hill the flies and the disease germs
loon at the nes' book overpowered her, tea.
and turning softly away, she entered I • -
the door of her own little bedroom I
le opmn WHY HIS LEGS SHINE,
adjoining, turner' 1rp the flume of the
ell lamp to its highest extent, and sat Mystery of a New York Statue if
down for just 'one little peep at "Lady Washington Explained.
Gay's Pride,' points of interest in the 1
One of the j
:.b, Emma, dear romantic little soul,
holy long Glut peep la .`steel! 'Why angst financial district is the bronze statue of
you look at the middle of the Hook to Washington in the front of the United
800 low the plot progressed? Why States Sub -Treasury on IVall street, czar Is pretty fully occupied. He rises early
glume nt ale curl to see if Lndy GaY
t303,8he Nen- York T'niO', It ns almost and Otter a 64110 dna a light breakfast near. -
sets
t 5 y every day sets out for a morning s ride.
Could m;unrieel moble Alex. next
rtlu? 1nveriably pointed oat to visitors, and He Is a good horseman, his lithe, erect figure
Could You not hear the t n the „t k d • leudtut ttsetf extremely well m the saddle.
1 bl t
I AI' 111 nC sex 1'n 'n n inost Invariably 7t question is asked:
the sick woman tossing and 'moaning „ At ml o'clock he is back at kis writing d�k
fever mooted higher and high,
"Why do they polish only the knees
as the e f+
e•? Cn'the mantel beside the glass of
water lay' the powder that should have
Leen given her hours ago, but it r0•
I nined there forgotten by the faithless
little nurse in her-absorptiolt in the
novel
The night hour's were on apace. The
invalid lay nponithe couch, her stupor
occasionally broken lay 40)1110110 met-
terings, tut Emma had for a little
while forgotten everything bet the fas-
cinating {Ines over which she pored. In
Lowy she wan wandering through the
sylvian shades of Elmer Court with
handsome :flex. Warren, and imagining
to him wasan awful reality. Poor ''iv- iv -
herself the scontful Lady Gay, while
Me was blind! site compered the hero with Dr, Charley,
Emma sobbed bitterly when Di. Char- the former suffering,I nm sorry to re-
late, from Ennea's partial judgment.
Suddenly the gjrl awoke with a start
of surprise to her real surroundings.
Throwing dawn her book, site ran into
the other room, Her eyes turned to-
ward the snowy bed. Heavens!
The room was empty'!
Emma stood staring with dilated eyes
at the empty bed, a superstitious awe'
filling her soul with dread. 'Phe beau-
tiful stranger had vanished as mysteri-
ously as she carpe. Where was sale?
Would she 08'01' find her again?
Det her trance of horror lasted only
a'moment, and, turning, alae ran wildly
down the stairs with a renlizetlon
of the truth coning swiftly to her. The
patient had risen from her bed and wan-
dered in the delirontn of fever.eau"But she is blind. 1311e eau not go
very fear; I will soon overtake her;'
sobbed lreullet; and quick 111 a flash she
vias out into the glorious late September
night. The chill of the nearing mid-,
night Boar strnc1 coldly on her heated
1.•;180•, and she remembered that her
charge had cm only a tett white ((1)01-
per, laid 51105 bareheaded and shoeless ie
the night.
"GM hoe tricked I have been, how
careless! I can never forgive myself,
and Dr, :Miller will never forgive 1(0,
either! she thought, with the bitterest
self-reproach us she flew rapidly down
the . moo111it rend, with straining gaze,
trying to catch some glimpse of the loge
tine in the far distance.
CHAPTER 1 SSII.
"Which way shall I go?—whidl Ivey?"
Emma cried;' anxiously. But what -1s
that far ahead of her, that white fig-
ure flying swiftly,al if pursued by in-
visible foes? It is the one she. seeks.
lots of love,'" Dr, Charley rep
Cl 1 1 1 and Emma light of, foot, dashes on in
ley told then the truth,
"Oh, bow' sad It is!" she cried, tear-
fully. "Perhaps she will die, undo we
will never know her mune o• who her
friends were. And to thin(: that when
she seemed so much bettor hist night I
wanted to leave her and go to the hail
•1t Forest inn! lin glad now that you
locked me into my room, mamma, and
tied my lands to keep me from climbing
out of the window!"
Mrs. Morley appeared embarrassed, and
the young doctor looked from one to
the other in much annsement, for L1n-
ma's passion for dancing was welt known
in the neighborhood, and also her Moth-
er's aversion to ft, But Eauna'e worth
had throe it new light on the subject of
his 1(ltieot's relapse. Most probably
there had been high words on the sub-
jr( t,
ub•j:1t, and this Imd overexcited the deli-
cate patient last eight.
1110 carefully prepared a powder for the
patient, which he ave lits. Morley, say.
ing that it aught have the effect,of
checkihp; the. 111411 (over that now raged
In the 11111(it's vers,u
"1 will cell again at nlld0fghb 10 see
if she is tetter h0 said; Ind Emma -
told hint that she would sit up with the
patient ,all night. She went with Liter to
the deur, aid Dr Charley, with a sly
4!01110 Midi his lerolder to see that the
mother wits -not looking, gave the re -
worth' little maiden a novel to read:
":1 love stop ''Gady Gay's Pride.'
'that will help yam to keep awake," be
said, (utas a smile, .
"Oh tbanksl 1:shall enjoy' it so
111110111 1-..,d0 like lots of love. Has it
got' i disappointed :rife in rt?" whisper-
„eaEmma, eagerly clasping his arm in
her excitement,
"Yes, I think so—two of then, and
and not the whole statue?”
Miaow and guide 'has to shake his
head, and admits that he does not know.
It appears that some years ago 0 ped-
dler vette sonic neve kind of polish crone
to the Sub -Treasury and extolled the
virtues of his eeuiponnd to one of the
guards. "Why," said he, "i could even
polish up that rusty old statue out there
in a jiffy"
"Go ahead," said the guard.
- The agent went to Work with n will
and in a few minutes bad,steeeded in
taking off the beautiful 11011 oxidizing
from the legs of the statue as far as
the knees. Jest then .Mr. Muhlemnn, the
De.pntl Assistant Trlaeuror, come up
the steps, and in less time than it takes
to tell it the agent found himself (MGT:
at the• foot of the statue, while Mr.1Tuhlenan lectured the surprised till&
in forcible language of the vandalism
of indiscriminate polishing.
But not even the variability of 1111
New York climate has been seffarlen1 ,
yet to rester(' to the polished parts th air
old dull beauty,
ret , ,
laughingly, amused at her eagerness; pursuit. As she begins to gain unnlis-
♦ -i
Joseph's Cook,
The old Emperor of Austria pays his cook, D f Th
Petsk'., year snldry, ons( same Czar is a good tenni( player and a good cars-
.1:00,0u011.:Porskt ws oncthe cook of Count Rhein- man, He takes great (0181880 in motoring,
gnum. years ago viten the Lm- and nearly every day goes out for a 4rive
he 0( of Avtstrla was deinhig with the Count, with 1'rinee Orloff, who to an' 0x0081 0NnuP
bo was s cooked
the way d cerlr An boar's ler, nt the wheat Ile Is also a goo$ stint.
bend ons cooked, and desired that the chef
should be complimented. Two lays atter{
words o'huge packing 0000 arrived et Schoen.
bran w lth Coma Ravi ngaitta's compliments,
On being opened the case was found to conn
Min Persia a bit breathless, hilt olherwl e
all 010110. The (Emperor laughed al. ,he ,coke,
accented the gift and l'erskt has been the
royal chef crer 01100.
and till 1 o'clock—luncheon time—Is occupied
in receiving the reporle of his ministers,
seeing foreign ambasendors and others, to
the same manner his afleruoons are ninthly
spent, the day often including a review of
one or other reglmtnts of the guard. 1301
from dimmer time the Emperor so. to
speak lays down his Crown and 0080toi his
time to his faintly.
Dinner as well as luncheon Is generally
served to the Imperial family to a private
room, not even the adjutants being more than
occasionally invited. Sauce the famous Nihil-
ist attempt of killing Alexander IL by ex-
ploding a twine under the dining room at
the Winter Palace lit has been a custom at
the Russian court to have meals served al-
ternately in different roosts. The custom 1e
still adhered to. Gen, M. --told me that
once, being Invited by the Czar to an in-
formal luncheon he 1010 rather stu•prised at
finding the table laid In the Czarina's bou-
doir; 'Next time.' the little Grand Duchess
Tatl0na pertly remarked, '1 suppose we shall
lunch 1n the bath room,'
After dinner the children say good night
and the Czar generally, plays bltlards, of
which he Is very fond, or there Is music., of
which he 10 still fonder, being himself a
ak(lled, and talented executant on the plane,
often playing to Uta intimate circle either
solo or accompanying the violin of his sister,
The Czarina also is very musical, having
a predilection for modern Itilieu music,
The persons of the imperial household
whom the Czar honors with his personal
priendship and , who are his constant com-
panions.In his excursions and, his sports are
Gen. M31111ln, Commander of Ino Palace;
(ten,. Hmnarnff, Commander of the Guard,•
and among his adlutaats . Prince ` Orloff,
Count Heydon and Gen.rental n. e
During his annual autumn 80111s0',:,(1 the
Flnulsh waters among the lhOu'$dnds of
beautiful tslalas he often goes *bre to 00-
;4 c day with the guns. 00 Obese cruises
he is accompanied by the Czarin . and the
children, the latter 10 partial:lac 1 01,180
forward to an expedition full; of novel 'splr-
lea:r, .
The 1hildrso are glade to -:'cad cs mn_1I as
(10'113' 00 outdoor life, and hl1 Melte of
exercise. Tiler!, eduootlon lsicnndu 1 .tally
n1 1'ngnsn Tines. Between themselves ahoy
0nca1: mostly 110'1110,halt hilt their Irar-
1s. 1-n1 lily Engilahi .The 601(1.h;:
learned to .peak Russ 411:`Au(le (011and , but
with Owarm' and 0i children ,he al-
way-, y,1d t30000t
The thud en have .m11es which they
use fm rflmg t unit 000'l the
little Clown 1r11! 4 } ns his o((1 doe•
toy nn p1,101 10010 h rdes.
lie le, muttit0e ba of (mu',
etrung'.attd a4;trd 4110 the Jolliest little fel-
10w iflnbl • very fm- odv+u ed fm• I11s
vedr a Iloco000s .6.01111, m1 ridings
1rav .11 •ottree If __merriment to has
e for'.- kl( lei Indeed, (hey arcto I.h whole
ort The 41 la's, the Grand 101,1,0», s Olga,
Tatiana, Marla and Anl,tns11' are front Itis
to (11. rears of age They are all very pratty,
rather thin anti loll taking after their
bnmds0010 mother, Int lively and robust,‘
thanks, to their healthy life. In the open air.
You are one of their tenches, I pre -
come?" "No, The 0 dressmaker."—I,ot(s-
1ille Courier—Journal.