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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1902-12-18, Page 3• Peoemboor .1,8t10.1.902 Md7 Authot of du Percy s 4); °Tile Unseen Bridegroom," • "A. Terrible BY MAY AGNS FLEMING Secret." 0•0440.0.0.6110•0110440•04•041110.01•4111111•11.0.411•00,90 Secret_ ••-_ There Is each a thing as blowing up recite, or au earthquitice Might ben- ne/It, oi. the sea might overflow, Or you and all year brothers in vil:ainy might get paraiytic strokes, or Sat- an Ipight come and carry off the whole of You bodily to. your future home. I'm sure I 'wish he would. Ain't you proud of yoUrSelf to haVe carried off a little girl so beautiful- ly? When you found you eoeldn't do It Went!, you got another to help . you. Two great, -big men to Carry 2 off one little girl! What an achieve - is inent! What a Victory! 0 ray!" said •Pet, in tones of withering irony. "Jet, flash, azni sparkle, little grenade! Dart fire, little stiletto, . 1 but you can do no more! Snarl and ; show ,yotir white teeth, little kitten: wrapped himself In his very mildest men antle of reserve, d leokeel niore Pered the youngbut your clews are shielded—you r of the two; " I can - like a banished prince then a, coin- and liot bite new. Expand your Wiugs, Will spring out as she passes mon Christian. Pet saw this; and throW this shawl over her hea4 wbile 'iny bright little humming -bird; but her own heart, as proud as his in an- you tie her hands and feet." you will find them clipped. Try to i r other way, swelled with wounded ' "MI right," said the other, "Jup- SOW to yeunatiVe heaven, ray 'dee- feeling and indignation; and she . in- iterl how she goes it! Can't she zling glorious bird of paradise? and wardly vowed to let him see that she walk, spanat, thought te], cared just as little for him as he Garnet, site's. a regular stunner, and / lyou , ysur,, tering ited - earth -stained, to the could possibly care for her. Poor no mistake." .dtiot.drooping plumes will fall flut- Pet! this conviction and resolution The other made no reply. His lur- "Welt. that is a grand flourish of cost her the first bitter tears she id, burning eye e were fixed on the rhetorle on your part, I make no had ever shed in her whole .sueshiny dark, brilliant face of Petronille.. doubt; but you'll excuse me if I life; but as she felt them falling All unconscious she • passed on, don't understand a word of it. You - warm and fast, she sprang quickly Scarcely had she done so when, with 're a schoolmaster, and ought to up,' dashed them. indignantly ft -way, the quick, noiseless spring of a pan- understand what's proper; but your as if ashamed to own even to her ther, Garnet darted from•behind the grand tropes and figures of speech own heart how much she cared for bushes and flung a large. plaid. over are all a Waste of pgwder and shot "No; he shall never know that I firmly in his arms. Wit equal agil- . the head of Pet, ' and rtspeti her in plain English, and don't keep on when a.ddressed to me.' • Jest telk hire. cared two pins about him!" exclaim- ity. the other followed; and 'Pet was calling Me aanies, and I'll feel greet- ed Pet, with flashing eyes and flush- securely- beund hand 'and foot before ly obliged. It's real Impolite in you ing cheeks. '•Iie dislikes me: I can she had sufficiently recovered from to talk so; and I wonder you ain't see that plainly enough; and if he her surprise to make the slightest. ashamed 9f yourself, Rozzel_ Gar - was a prince of the blood royal, I struggle. net!" . would not stoop to sue for. his fay- "Minel Minel at last!" whispered • "So you don't understand, Miss or. I don't care for him; I won't a voice she knew tog well, rIlea,uti- Lawless?" he said, slowly. "Shall care for him. 1 just hate hina-a ful eaglet, caged at last!". I tell you in plainer words my mean - a stiff, haughty, young Turk—there In vain she struggled—In vain she ing?'' • • . now!" strove to cry out for help. Feet and "140,• You needn't bother yourself," And then, having relieved her mind hand e were secttrely bound, the heap said Pet, Shortly. - , "The • less you by a ':real good cry," Pet got up vy shawl Was half smotheiang her, say to me the better l'Il like it," and whistled to her dogs, and set off and her captor's arms held her like "Here, push on! push en!" seid the for it, scamper round the yard, to the a vice, 4 gruff voice oi Black Bartbehind great detriment of her gaiters, and "Now Or the cave! On .On!" them. "No use standing plavering the alarming increase of her appe- there's no time to Jose" cried Gar- here all night. Up witb the glint, tite. net, with. fierce Impatienc, stetting Jack, till nuon'selle sees where's Little did Pet know the real cause forward as though he were carrying she's going." t of Ray's avoidance. High-spirited an infant over •the heath, ' ' All this time the 3r had been wrap - and proud, almost morbid in Ills • __a pecl in the blackness' of Tartarns, but . CHAPTER XiXI. zling, sparkling vision of beauty and • . . . . I now the etwo mon descendc•d the • stone steps, and one of theta -holder, brightness more and more every For sorne moraents, Pet contintied Oh darkelantern, let its rays etrectin time he saw her, he felt it his duty to struggle violently,, but Anding all amend, Pet eueiously cast her eyes to shun her as much as possible. To her efforts vain—and being hallesuf- about. and sew she was in a narrow know this starry-eyed, dazzling, focitted fere want of air, she• fell back eockY PeSSage, with her head . note dancing fay without loving her, was in her captor's arms; and lay, per- n•ore then an inch from the top. „ fectly still and quiet, • ' . maine, with his passionate ,admira- Her • whole appalling danger burst Ba.r?gt.ow.;••Gion flwr6stirlelso;sailciadi.•13.1ealelc. a simple impossibility; ann Ray Ger- tion of beauty, and fiery gipsy blood, upcin her at once; and though for show little nut•stard-seed, here, the loved her with an intensity that on- one instant her very. heart seemed to way. J ack. and 1. will ' keep in your ly hot, passionate, Southern nature cease its beating, she neither fainten:. wake."' • • . . like his can feel. And with this mad nor gave herself up to useless tears "Mustard -seed aild" snapping-tur- love was the certain conviction or • hysterics, according to • the. Usual ile," muttered Pet, as she. prepared that he might as well love a costs:Mi. of young ladies; when In reel to follow Garnet.. :"Pet, my dear,. danger. Not she, indeed! "bright, particular star," and hope Pet's you will have as many allasee, bee thoughts ran somewhat after the 'fol - to win it, as the wealthy heii•ess ef lowing' fashion: • • ., . • Judge Lawless, who was soon destin- • "-WW1, Pet, child, you've Went and ed to muke her debut in the gilded salons of Washington City, where all the lions of the capital. would soon he in adoration.' at her feet. And he—what was he? The grated - son of a, gipsy woman, educated by' the bounty of a stranger, .What was he that he should dare to lift his eyes to this peerless beauty and belle? Proud, as we have said he was, to excess, he shunned and avoided her for whom he would have given up the wide world' and all it contained, had he possessed it, lest in some unguarded moment he should disclose to her the secret of his fierce and daily increasing love. . And in this unpleasant state mat- ters stood on the day when Pet Set tee out from Heath Hill to Old Barrens ct Cottage. Pet was a good walker; • but, owing to the intense heat, she was completely tired out by the time she reached the cottage. Er-, ....--maaie alone was there, ready to Wel- come' her friend with her own pecul- iar sunshiny smile. It was very pleasant, that cool, breezy sitting room. • But the pretti- est, pleasantest •sight of all wee la • lovely young mistress in her simple, beautifully -fitting dress of Wee ging- ham, with its sinewy collar and•little black silk apron boasting the cun- ningest pockets in the world; her shiny hair, floated -twined in broad • damp braids round her superb little . . head; and where the sunshine linger- declare. Suffocation . mast be. ' a . ." yeseast •course." • . • , ed lovinily upon lt,. seeming like -. a . Pie/Leant death, if .1 .inay judge by The man pointed to theereinote end shining glory over her sinboth •white, this spechnen. ,... brow. . 1 A being inel•e• perfectly guiltless.. 9;,i :..the room; ' and Pet, turning . her. ee,ein that direction, sate a sort of -"Well, I declare,• •Ermie, I don't ! than Pet, in seine' Wayk, never exiete opening in the wall, sekviog. evident- • know any place in the wide world ed, and this, may in some ineasureate-a, ly ...for a done„.a„d covered. by a pride at times, and loving the deo- fore aleffg; as: the most notorious blackleg ..from here to the .Canibal ;s- it-m.18a Well if I'M not in a fix toe put your foot -in it:beautifully, have- nieht! What will their say at homer,- n't you? - 'ashamed. of yew- • Asathea, went on the paesage, grew self, to let Reuel Garnet catch you,. ,avider and wider,. unthrat .lagt „Pet arid. lug yen along like this? • I won, feued 'heeself in a spacious rocka • der where they're goinge•to bring me bound 4.13feet/tient, well -lighted, . rudo- to, anyway. Ohl- won't there . be ly-fernished and occupied by seme • . weeping •and gnashing of teeth; when haliedoien roegh; hard -looking mem in they find I've gone, vanished, mad° nee garbef sailors. They were lying myself `thfn 'and no clew to nlY • in various attitudes about.. the flow . Tgr oLurror isilimrs.zucooRD . ,,,,,imprwomolomomposimummigamempowouniimmon, hung disordered anti uneombeti .1111111111111T L1,111).i,1 alleatalleilleeell1111011111111011111le alone, and the npartnant lit up by a. over her shoulkes, while joweis . swinging lamp, exactly as it had been the night before. She glancod flashed from the ;pendants in her ears, and sparkled on th smiL, at the clock and saw that the hands beautiful hands. Something M that pointed te half -past ten. A little round stand had been placed close to. face MeVed Vet as nothing' had ever done before—there was suck a look of her bed, on which all the parapher- Italia of a breakfast for one was proud, sullen despair in the Wild black eyes; a Sort of tierce haughti- PlieLecb(eld ab a: ehaast dewer,aatnth°lofoot wito.hf ness In the- darkth , weird face; a, look water, combs, brushes and small of PaSelonate impatience, bidden ane a • guish, undying woe, in the slumber,. looking -glass, ing depths of those gloomy •haunting Pet, with an appetite not at alt. diminished, sprang out of bed, haste eyes, that Pet wonelere'd Who she il,y washed her face and hands, brush-, be, or what great sorrow she ed out her silken curls, said ' hex; had endured. There W0.5 an air of xnorning prayers, and then sitting refinement about her, too—a lofty, donn at the table, fell to with A commanding hauteur, that showed ; Zest and eagerness that would. have she was queen and mistress here. ; horrified Miss Priscilla Toosypegs. "Thi is the girl, Itiadanie 1War- guerite," said Garnet, respectfully. As she completed her Meal, Mar. "I intrust her to your care until the guerite entered. captain eninee,"Good Morning," said Pet, ,, „ "She shall be cared for. That will The woman bent her head In a, do," said the woman, Waving her slight eteknowledgment I hand until all its burning rubies end " suppose it's daylight outside," blazing ..diamonds seemed to encircle said Pet. it With sparkof "Yes, it was daylight five hours s fire, " Carnet bowed low, cast ago,ws the reply. triumph-. "Well, it's pleasant to know even ant glance on Pet as he passed and' • that. What tun I to do for the rest hissed softly in her ear; "Aline own— of the day, I want to knOW?" mine own, itt, last," The cold, proud "Whatever you please.,/ black eyes were • "A wide margin; the only thing I fixed piercingly on Pet; but that • young lady bore it its she had done would please to do, if I could, would litany Another stare; without flinc he • be to go out and walk home, That, ing. .1 suppo'se, is against the rules," "Sit down," said the woman, with "Yes; but there are books and her strong foreign intonation, point- drawing materials," . Mg to a sat. ."Thankee; poor amusement but Pet obeyed, saying as she did so : better than none, I expect, Who is "I may as well; I• suppose; am I commander here, the captain flamed expected to stay here all night?" them speak of?" • "Yes," said the woman, curtly, "My husband," said the woman ' "and many more nights atter that. proudly, may occupy my bed. will sleep proudly, • "And where IS he now? 1 should on one of these lounges while. Yc'.4 like to have a talk with. him, *and remain," " have things straightened .out a little, "Well," said Pet, "I would like to if eseible " . know what I am brought here for „Ile is absent, And will Aot 'be anyway, . Some 'el Rozzel Garnet's back for some days., • ' capers I suppope. He had better look , out; for .when I get free, At the gale "Bum! this is then, the . . hiding- • lows don't get their due, it• wonplave or the smugglers they.nmeee 't be ,sijch a, ilISS about—eh?" said 'Pet. .ruy fault," • "Rozzel Garnet hact nothing todo es, they are smuggle -re— •worse; e • ? with it; he 'was but meting' for • ano- perhaps," said the woman ullenly. ther in bringing you here.i.• • "There! 1 knew I'd gild it, I, al - with ways said: so!". exclaimed. Pet, ex- , • "For another!" said :Pet, ultingese "Oh1 if could .only get the utmost surprise; "veno. the mis- • out!' Sie here, I '.acrieh you would let chief is it?" • , "That you •are not to 'know at pro- lei(' escoPci" "wa6. it you drew these?" "No; my husband," 4noWered the wainati. " hey are an fancy' eske..hes, he says," There was a sort of bitterness in the last words, notieed by Pet, who was eagerly and admiringly examin- ing the drawings. One, in particular struck her; it represented a large shadowy church, buried in iningled lights and shades, that gave a gloomy, spectral, weird appearance to 'the sccne. At the upper end, near the grand altar, stood a. youth and a maiden, while near stood a white -robed clergyman, book in hand.. • A dying bird seemed But- tering over their heads and ready to drop at their feet. The fe.ce of the youth could not be seen, but the lovely, child1lk faee of the girl was the chief attraction of the drawing. Its look of Unutterable love, mingled with a strange, nameless terror; its rare loveliness, and the passionate worship in the,seyes upturned to him Who stood beside her, sent a strange thrill to the very heart of Pet. The lace was familiar, just, as those we see in dreams are; but whether she had dreamed of one like tide, or had really seen it, she could not tell, She gazed and gazede ad the longer she gazed, the surer she was that ehe had really and, certainit, seen, if not that fate, some -brie very like. it, be- fsokIe'etachn?.""eau tell eliiofrdtihnigs list au.' plart,„ eY 4 .sent When the proper time conies, • The woman looked at her With her nate with Many other things, will wild black eyes for. a moment, and •.he revealed." • • • . • . then went oil 'with her occepatien ial• .: "So I'm like a bundle of, goods,, cleaeleg 9g the table. . • 'left till called for,' " said•••Pet ; "Because," persisted. Pet, "I'm Of 'now,. *Ito could have put theme 'no• use to any one here, arid they'll selves. to so much • unnecessary trots. . ., ble to have me Carried of, I Want be.an'xious abau.i me UP hotne. They' to: knoW. I. tholight I hadn't . an florini'l.t3 turtwItt'nPiewt,eiolutt,e4yhonuiyaknoenW...s.;ith - enemy in. the' world but. his' •excellene ' cy .the right worshipful Roziel Gar- sheetrin./gvorlte its,eLlitshoatlilt.trlepwiyasizttge:0'ainbdroPttteht,,, • net. • It can't be Orlando Toosypegs,. • stirely—Ininerari-m. 1 •do Wender who. pthleeadsit;inegt f, ,sgiohtertteptiaiendbciwodknst uo,evicer, • Lei it .can be," said Pet • musingly • Pet ' ' 1PeerP3rey' esal.var11,1allya.ilv6peilixYlg; • SIICUalIIIVel;.. °Of (8°Plentleetihrldntgli;itIligSre.113;. sca.tA- whereabouts?, Phew! this shawl , Is • .....vitlx the exception of two, w..ho sat fairly smothering' • me,' • I wish I ptaring cards- • •• • • • • . Could slip it off; and ,the. Way I'd • .1 hey turned their eyes carelessly. yell would slightly astonish Mr. Gar- enough an Rome), •Garnet enteved; • net 1 suppose papa eynt4have name but ati • their, eyes fell.' on Pet, . • each ing postersstuck -up all around 'man speanr tti his feet, and• stdred at • eTudestown. :I fancy I'ne'rea.ding one.- her In endisguiseti wonder. • . • of them:. 'Lost, strayed, stolen :or run Off 'With some; deleded • young the light: het...slender, 'girlish' forme 'There she -Stood, in the full glare of. man, a, small brewria yellow, and el 'awn te) its full • height; a. . her ' and ,•rutibing . little. as she knew about. art, • she She. got op and- holding her eyes ' tied about • Pet took them, and open yeah er nriean's, kneeled. down • ' they had been •sketchecl by a* And said h usual nightprayers,•and •. )7.11•awst.i..,r_iicard..: . .. . then'. jump into bed, and fell fate „ .s1e . • . . • , Oh; how prettyl." she exclaimed ' • . ,....., When Pet awoke, found herself ' • ' - . • .• ' _ .. ,. 3 Th h °rout' neSS• Prot W. liodgfien Zink MOW Analyst to the Dominion Govern- ment, states that "euulight Soap hag "a thorough cleansing power, with- " out danger to the clothing or Skin." Women ^ivito want wuhing done thoroughly cannot use bett,er than Sunlight Soap—Octagon Bar. VnlIke commoh soaps, there Is no damage to the clothing, and no danger to the Okla; hence the ear, Ing: Sunlight Soap. reduces expense. 'Try Sunlight Soap—Octagon. Bar,— next wash day, and YOUlayill see that Prof. is right.; He should know. 218 cABLER,As clusoRAs c°,43mgAs Cameras WE NAVE A LARGE RANGE OF' ' CAMERAS frit't BEST pQR , A CHEAP CA1VIERA IS." BROWNIE NO , 2 WHICH WE SELL "Mv husb h " ed the woinan fixiag her eyes _with a! 'keen, suspicious glance on Pet.' - 1'011, nothing; only it seems to me - as if I had seen that face nefore. I cannot recollect when 'or 'Where.", • "You l ' ' "No, I don't.; I never imagine' any- thangs Oh, here's another. What a pretty childl why—why, she looks like yen!" . • It represented a beautiful, dark lit- tle girl, a Mere infantabtit resplend- ently beautiful, '"She Was my child," said the wo- man, in low, hard despairing, voice, ,a,s she looked straight before her, • "And where is :she?" asked Pet, softly; "I don't knew—dead r expect," said the woman in the Same tOne of deep,•steady despair. Pet's eyes softened witle deep sym- pathy; and doming over, she paid •earneetly: "I an so. sorry for 'you, • Hear long is it since she died?" "It lie seven years, since we. lost her; she was two years, then. 'I do not know whether she is living or 'dead.' 0 Ritat•Rital":.Cried the man,. :passionately.: While her whole, fewer .shook with the. .violence . of einotfon; . • ' • • ..No tear fell,' no Sob. shook her breast, but words can never describe the' utter agony ef, that despairing cry. • .. • ' • ••• • There we're tears in Pet' e eyes now ose flashing, ;necking, defying exes;•and in sitent •ssimpathy.she took the woman's. hand ia her own little .brown •lizip;ers, 'and softly begaza e (ask»; it. To be continued. : • 4 black .girl, not quite right' in • her short dancing, :dashing culla of jet head, wearing a red -and -green -silk .eanina ..around her crimson 'cheeks; • - • dress, with black eyes; a pair of gait- her bright, undaunted black eyes wide 1 er boots, and black hair. Any per- ' open end returning every stare as 'son giving information concerningcei/iposedly as though. she were sit - the above will be liberaIly rewarded' • thee in bee father's hall, and • these . with froze five to tee cents, and pos- • men were bee servants. 'Very.-- much '.: se:si the everlasting • gratitude of the. -011t, of place. leolced •Pet; in het. riela 4 community generally.' That's. it ! sheeny robes and dazzling lieituty„ 1 wonder tvherethey're; taking Me mind those roughly -clad, savage-looka • to? Good gracionsi If they should ing men:. •• . . carry me off to sea; the matter evcaild • • 'Wheee is 'she?" asked Roizel Gar-. be son-zious. 'Pon'amy, weed . ,and 'riot, uhhercfng their blank sthre of healer if 'ever I get out of•this serape, , mirpitsa. . 2 .• , . . if I don't make Mr. Roam], . Garnet . en he't-eth'es 'misses?" •• asked • one of mind what he's,up to, then my names. •• the hien, Without. reMoying•his 'eyes lh not pet -ear -r!' .1'm strangling, 'I ..e. la Pvt. .. • • • • . , half its cool and pleasant as this • count for the light manner ii whin cottage of yours. Now, at Heath • she treated. her - Captivity. :Saucy,. .s.ereen of thick- dark baize. • Hill its enough to roast an African. 'Marguorite spirited. daring, full •of eXuberant .0".11.114::),(itt;Ln'iNeVe. It, 'and ' called:' Goodneset how hot I ami" said Pet, ' life, fuel, freedcera, and,frelic, ebeIVO.S; "Well; said a woman's voice from• . but, withal, in genie matters commencing to fan herself vigorous- : her within, with a strong, foreign ac-: ly. " simplicity was perfectly wonderful, e, a! . • .,. • ,. .„ . . . , "The sea -breeze makes this• cool." For instance, she knetenoW she was ••Ca'n I see. you eamomerut on blisi- said ,Erminie; "that is the reason. .1 .'it prisoner; 'she fancied she might be , naaeta. • . • ..., am so glad you came Over this a.f- . taken off. Somewhere, or 'held 'captive , ..");csee-enter." And Pet 'saw. 'a small ' ternoon, for 11.a.y, you know, as not for a while.' She . feared no worse delicate -looking hanl. pth ush 'itside e .coming home to -night. 11.- is really fate; She k:She of none; sha leder. sercien, nitil Gal ti-lt digapPeart d with - too bad, I think, that'he, should leave even dreamed of any, Sh•e knew. In.., • ,• . . "Here, little nettle -sit cloa!n," said ' • P,laek Ilan, , pushing a stool toward . Pet., "How do .you - like the looks of this.'here Placea:Votind Wointitil" • "Well," said Pei ; • "I should say all:re was no danger or olieveR brook-. . blo lo..lit night: and by the load( of 1 hhaee, 1 • don't expect' they • would I-. . flirt much for - their pains. if 1 hey did a_ . .Rosezel Garnet pretended. to love 'hoe uti and go hack again to that th some New kork'so soon." - . ...-might.urge her again to marry him; 'when is he going?" said Pet but that gave ' her, not the Slightest violently fanning herself, though her uneasineSs in the, World.. •• In .fact bright bloom of colter was far less Pet' S love of advehtUre made her a1. most like this scrape she had get'ine vivid time it had been it moment be- . fore. • to.. It wouldbe something to talk The day after to -morrow, ho about Inc the rest of her life; it mad "• o her quite .a heroine, this being c re says; and not to turn for perhaps ed off; it was really like seiriet a year. I will feel dreadfully lone- Teere's ilt) denier of ilis With theSe • sentiments, Pet My them?' • es are so headsti.ong and self-willed . listening. -intently and "Welie no; 1, reckon there itn't," • that there is no doing anything With quite %Olt wondering what was to Cellle next 'said ,Blitek Dart. with a grin,. "'se* ,themt-don't you think so, pet?" Said It seemed tee, her they Mast have ing it's right under a hill, and nor- ,-"Erminie. smiling. walked nearly' half an hour, •when 1 111” hut solid reeks ahoVe and he • - 'Never thought on the subject as I 'they mune to a dead halt, and elle 1')w. ' . a know' of; but I dare say they are. heard RozZel 'Garnet say:, . . ' "A etrong foul/nation," said Pet: They're not to be blamed for it ...Now, i .Dart, give thk. 810.0 "like the true thureh, it's built on though; it runs in man:s wretched quick." • a rock. f should think ft would lie nature. Ah! I never was proPerly A. loW, shrill, iseetaiaa whistle tale damp., "though, when the tide rises thankful for not, being a man, till hewed; and then Pet heard a rustI- and fills it: and as I ,ain .subject to • one day I went and dressed myself ing, as if of bushes pushed Aside; a reettmetisni—" • _in a suit of their elotheass Such heavy sound, • as if of rock's' remov- . "No dengee," said Bart'. "I'll riek wretchedly feeling things as they , .ing; and then Garnet, stooped down, ,Your drowning. There! Garnet's call - were, to be sure! I've never been in and passed through a narrow aper-. ing you. Go in there." the stocks, or the pillory, or stretch- ture, and thence, carefully gtaiding Pet arOse, arid Garnet holding • ed on a rack, or wlking through a it With one hand, he descended ' ',tack the baize screen, motioned her • ee•-• treadmill. or any of those other dis- a short flight of steps, Then he pans.' to tn'er. he obeyed, and looked agreeable things; but ever slime theft 4d, and removed the thick shawl in rye had a pretty good notion . of :coat/ugly around, . % what they must be like. It was a which he had enveloped her., Pet's , no r00m ev„ mama, than tea one • first use of her breath was, to burst. ' she had left; and better furnisheel, • regular martyedom while I had them out angrily with: The rocky floor was covered with In - on. and how the Mischief anybody ',well, les it wondep you took the • Can ever, survive in them le more dl - tatting, and chairs, couChes and than I know. Think of descending to rne dead! You ought to be itslutreed t tii,1110were strewn tneliScritninately blamed thing 'off until you eholted posterity in a pair of pants!". Of yourself, Ur. Oarnet, 'smothering itro)tind. •A bed with heavy Ctirtains, • Erminie laughed, and Pet rattled a young lady this way, in n bur •Ilstood, iii one corner, and a stand,, • on till after tea, then, when tile sun containing bpoks, writing; materials • blanket like that: I wish you'd let had long set, and 'the dark, eool, inc go. I don't wa.irt, to be Carried and. drawing utensils, stood op • - evening "shadows began to fall, Pet ' got up, kissed. Erminie, and set out ,, liket4 baby dny longer,Le • posits!: Pet gave all these but a t so fast, Pretty. one,", se,ifl fleeting glance, and 'then her whole • on her return to I/eath Mil. . Garnet, in a low tone of 'moeking attention was caught and ooccuoi, d • "You ought to.have told some of exultation. "De in no haste to quit bY the Person who stood' between the servants!, to come for you " said these louse for they are to be your them, with cne hand resting cu. the Ern -tittle. "It is rather Inc lor. yea home or the future," hark of a (glair, and her eyes , fixed to go alone." "Iittrophl a pretty home they would with .a, sort of stern, hafighty strut - "Oh, there is no danger," said Pet, bel 'You'll lisi;ye to consult me about iv CM Pei, '''.• ' ., "Good -night." And Pet started off : that, 'Ur. Itozzel Garnet, Let,. ine It was a woniat Of sonnt (Ivo vita. • go, I toll: you! A body *lit as ' tirirty 3fears of age, of middle size. at a brisk walk.• Two men, crotiehing behind a Well let a bear cairn them as youl"' and dressod in a soiled and frayed "AS Yeti please, tny pretty, lady- 111404 satin dress, Iler Mee had ovi- elute') of stunted sPruee shushes, Weft love!" miticttlartiet, "I do not.think ti..ntly once been very handsome, Inc, • watching her With lynx eyes as her "ached.. xt, 'yet] Will eSeetne So eaSily title thne it still boee trace's of former beanie"! slight, graceful $orrn, app as *you did the hist, That Vas YOur but, now it was thin, Sallow end was not niiite dark, but what the victoryk this is mine, Then, fafied--looklin% still more faded, in Scoteh eall "the gloarning," arid the . hour, of bright drool Agtire was ptaisly ton.. , you sald neither earth, air, fire, nor contrast with the unnaturally large, spicuotia on'the brOVM, bare, heath. water, could hold 'you, ' Vprhaps Austrous bleat eyes by whleh,lt was "There AS 40inel At lasti," %MS.', Muth rano 0 rOok cant". . - , lit up. Mr hair, thick and black, . PDOn't bo Os sure Tar Carnet . , . will she .had so often. read cif i novelsg l'1.1." in* ' some I know, and grendmother miss him so much: But yelling, /nen, _ or like a -tragedy in ,e, pheyn, • • ' Illowing down. Windy ithe — 1. o.o.o.414.44o4:44:444444.*********.4.44*****4.444444,4144•.*****,..44•4 1.1••••00.1 Another holiday season is here, bring ing its Christmas duties as well • as Christmas ,cheer. You have presents to buy and you feel that the selection of nice and appropriate articles at prices within the limits of your purse will prove no small task We have made extensive Preparations for holiday selling with a wonderfully large assortment of beautiful, • unique, artistic and in a large measure exclusive goods. .The.attractiveness of our Stock and the absolute • fairness of our prices combine to make gift selectlons a pleasure. Watches Cuff Links Scarf Pins Hand Mirrors Silverware Cutlery Clocks Chains Lockets Bracelets Stick Pins Neck Chains . 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