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-Parted byFate 1
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By LAURA 'JEAN LIBBEY . ip
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Author of "Parted ait the Altar," "Lovely Maiden,"
,
"Florabel's Lover," "Ione," Etc., Etc.
, es, ehile
.youog gal 111w you coma oe marrsea,
He's aetuidly followlug us."
"Oh. Neddy. I ant horriblr afraid of
that man," gasped, Moue. "I.-1 -40111
kituw why, but I am. A premonitioo of
coming evil seems creeping chillily over
.my hetet The was anything but ieve
In the gaze that met mine; 1 read sn
-Om fiery .eyes that !looked into mine
deadly hatred, siush .as one reads in the
oyes of a relentless. hitter foe, Come.
let us herry away, and elude thim in ibet
throng."
Noddy agreed, and they were soon on
ethe hithethelit. The tall, darktbeared
etrunger reaehed the door just in Shoe
eee the two slender figures enter their
hooch end. alio away.
"Cali you tell me who that beautiful
.young lady is—the dark one, I mean,
who just entered that coupe?" he askee
.of one of the attendants of the academy.
hI have heard the name, but I cannot
.call it to ihind just now, sir," answered
the man, "She conies here to the weeks
13- Thursday reception. 1 con tell you
this much, though—young as she is,
sehe's married."
•
"Can you hind out her name and al.
dress for me?" Ise asked,slipping a bill
ihto the man's listed.
"Yes, sir," midthe attendants tomes -
sing his cap respectfully to the* liberal
stranger, "Call any time after next
-r.Phursoley, and 1. will hare it for you."
The attendant emiled as he iooked
after the tall. stristocratie figure until
the stranger had vanished from sight.
"It didn't seem to make any difference
to Olint—my hint that thebeauty is mar-
rieds ood• ;is not tor him," he muttered.
4: • .• CHAPTER.
THE PATAL securer,
This was Thursdast 'The strahigex
'would not find Out the mune of the
'beautiful girl whose face had attrsteted
him until Thursdny. How ceuld ho re•
, strain his impatienee until that tunei
the el:he:ger eeeed himself. as she Osseed
sup and -down his room an the hotel in the
greatest of exestemeht.
"The Mee is fatally like, she mast
be her child," .he muttered, his Wee
darkening and his eyes Hashing. "I
I:menthe,: it was o girl."
He turned from the windoweagain
peeing the room with !hurried strides, as
if to koep pace with his thoughts.
• One could see tit a gianee ,that he was
tt fOreigner—eritleutly a Frenchman—a
tall, dark, hundsome man, with a proud,
resolute face, which- wore at all times
An aspect of almost fierceness. It was
a face that Was seared with a story, as
though it had been burned there With
liost imps. There were greet lines of hole
tilde pain around the restless, dark eyes
NV.hierh the brooding shadows iever left,
that told of sleepless nights and wretch-
ed. days. •
"The -eighteen years is almost up," he
Muttered, with a bitter imprecation;
("and. so help me Heaven, when the time
lie come I shall blezon the whole story
to the world! Oh, 'Ilidene! Uldene!" 'he
evied, "you might hare made ht friend
-of me, but you (those to make me your
bitterest enemy! How dared you alio*
.your ehild to marry, though she were es
..beautiful as an .houril Ala you gnaw
why she should not, yet eou did not
warn her.
• "She must part from !the man she has
-wedded, as you, before her, were parted
t from your 'love. Yes, she must put the
whole world between herself and the
eaten she loves, if she would escape the
fatal curse of the daughters of her race,
• Early Thursday morning the stranger
presented himself at the academy, -and
heeeived the desired informatioh.
The lady's name was Mrs. VIdene
Chester, and he lives at No. —
Avenue.
"Uldener he muttered - as he turned
away. "Ah! I was .not mistaken, them
.It is her child! It must bel The mime
„is 'not a. conuni'm one. And her facel
all who could not trace a resemblance
in the girl's dark, glorious face? It mad-
dened me as I looked at it—set my brain
•suid my heart on fire."
"How was he to gain nu' interview
'with th.e girl?" lie asked !Muncie,. as he
stood motionless before the cueiber in-
- dicated, end looked keenly at the louse
far back on the green ;sloping lawn.
Opening the gate noiselessly, he eater-
-ed the grounds, made a circuit of them,
finding himself in the beautiful flower
garden at the rear of the house.
it AS 110
position -
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Were to be detected there by any of the
_servants. Still he was one of. the coolett
end meet daring of men. Ile would be
.ermel to the ettatruener.,
Sittigg'isliv
i llatactive Liver
; When the liver is clogged by the ina.c-
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I torpid and fails to filter the bile frem the
; blood, thus producing biliousness end a
; general impairment of the digestive system.
f, The tongue is coated, the bead ee,hes,
! digestion is imperfect; there is aching of
i the limbs and back, feelings of fullness,
, weight and soreness over the stomach and
liver; the eye becomes yellow and jaun-
diced, and the complexion muddy; the
terine is scanty and highly colored, and the
wels irregular, constipation and
t loose -
4:
st alternating, There is little use of
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be set right until the kidneys and bowels
are made active in re:toying the waste mat-
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•
While 3ie wos Munising, te way 'to hie
fuithermee of his objeet, fate fiefored
him unexpectedly. He isew '.the sidedoor
thht °Petted oet upon, u porch. euddenly
Wens anti a slender, graceful figure
emerge from it, Cross the Pol'Ohs and
stroll down into the groueds. Un .OW
sciously fate guided her footsteps In the
sere path that led to the :spot where the
stranger seised, well concealed by the
ehadowe of the rose arbor
It wus Indere. How wondrously
beautiful she looked In the bright glow
or the moonlight She was robed it ss
dtess ot soft, elieiging, tleetcy white.
with therli red roses on her breast, and
Nees ieher dark, merlins heir;
Ologionds glittered in the pretty, pink,
shell-like ears, on the white hands,toed
ran like e river of glittering fire around
the white, perfect throat; but they could
not outshine the glittering splendos ot
the starry eyes that sought the 'dark
night sky So wietfully es she waleed
'81t)"134"folloglish 1 out to give Nay to
nervous fears and presentments," she
meth .half aloud. "I will forget the
Mirk, hauoting face that has made even
my dreams horrible, Why should I net
be happy? I have Rutledge's love, whY
eheuld I not be Sleepy, I ask whet
again? I do not believe the bitterly
cruel story 'Mark Sefton wrote to Rut
-
ledge's mother. I am almost eighteen,
and the fate that was pt;rdicted has test
overtaken me—co sword has fallen upon
my heed."
. The moonlight lay white and silvery
on the detv-steeped flowers; the night
wind etirredhhe leaves of the roses, and
their odor seemed to float around her.
and enfold her. !there woe no sound
save the twittering of the birds as they
sought their nests 1» the poplar trees;
nothing else broke in upon the sweet
hooding silence of the night.
And in that fatal hour. when the birds
twittered, the moonlight fell peacefully
on the roses, stud the light of Heaven
seemed fairest, beautiful, hapless
dene's doom fel upon her.
IA dark shadow fell over the scarlet
blooms, looming up darkly between her
. and • the moonlight; suid glancing up,
j with a low cry, i.. beheld a men stand-
; ing in the path behae her. In it flash
I she had recognized him as the stranger
she had seen ia the picture gallery a
few days before, and whose face, waking I
Ior sleeping, had been before her ever°
S/PC0
"MIS:I!" he cried, swinging forward.
"Make no outcry, as you value your
! peace and safety—nye, your very life! I
am no robber—no intruder; I have been
, searching the earth over for you for
nearly eighteen years. and I have found
you—at lest, Uidene."
She recoiled in anger and dimity too
greet foe words. Who was this man
j who dared address her thus familiarly?
I 11 hot seas this stranger who forced him.
1 self into these ehounde to accost her?
I She raised her voice to call the ser
vents to her assistance that they might
sennuttrily ejeet hint, but he anticipated
the movement, anti caught her white
arm, in a clasp that made het wince
with pain. .
I "You would rue it to the day of yonr
I death, girl, if you were to summon your
! servants, or perhaps 3 -our 'husband, here,
i and they shoald hear what I have to say
Ito you.. Your ears, and yours aloue,
lutist hear what I have to tell."
j "You are certainly ti madman," cried
I Uldene, indignantly, struggling to .free
I herself from the .strong, steetallke
. that held her white arm fast.
"You shnli judge'ofethat leter on," he
held, quietly, adding, with on iotenee
bitterness that quite frightened her:
I"Your mother while a relentless foe of
; Inc in years gone by; see that you do
not do the hunt for I can crush you.
I or save you from a fate more bitter than
death, if I so will it."
I The words he uttered held her spell-
bound. They froze the piercing cry on
her lips, made her reel dizzily forward,
like one about to swoon. She would
have fallen but for that steel -like clasp
that never loosened its hold of her white
elm for a single Instant.
Quickly, and in a low, hoarse voice, he
began his story—the startling revelation
whieh was to burn its way to her betin,
, ,
WINGI1AU TIMK AUGUST ..2k
noir, IMO, 4:0440: iOtt hall+ herb warns
Something like pity -stirred the man's
Wort au he looked down ih,o that bin'j-
111331,
ogonized face tip -Wheel to the
ght of the pitying utoun„
"014. 'how .ean 1 part with iltaledge
.when I love , irlin so?" site moaned,
stretching out her white tirms to the'
.idglit stare, "How could r liee the long
sears while my lite lasted, watt -1%141g the
souonne suns and the winter mows come
and go, and know that 1 nniet see hins.
tot More? Oh, 1 essetti never do it! No,
no, ito, 1 wail not:"
'Yoe his eake, if yon love hiln, on
will go, even though It breaks your
heart Yon know what the future Will
bring to you. Oh, unfortheate
ilaugb-
tr of on unfortenate thee, ,YOU settinot
escape your doom on' more than' yoor
noceeters could, for Meg generations Le-
fton you. Youdare not 'defy fate, lf
you persist in ellughig to him, 1 must
Warn hint—you hut see for yourself that
inuet—let -the consequences Ise what
they may. I eleell give you one hour
to decide. Uldene, although muter the
cireunoanocee you should net hesitete
moment. •
"An hour from .now I shall come to
this spot and you shall tell sue your
decisioe. if you are not here, 1 shall
go to the house, late its the tosiir is, and
calt foe your husbend, You know hat
too well what the result of that luter-
leeW Will be, 1 nave ;to omee to say."
Without another word be turned and
left hero
Cidene fell with a cry •sehbitter that
it etttetled even the sleeping birds in the
trees. The momdight tell ever her as she
lay there Sti the long, green, dew -wet
gross; the summer wind swept over hers
ilethig away among the- trees as> though
it knew. and could tutherstniel, teat
among the odorous roses e human heart
was breaking and some olio was praeiag
for the sweet boon of detail to end lt
all,
An hour later the moon., that in all its
rounds tee witnessed 80 netny pttiful
tragedies. was still •shining, the earth
MY green and still, the birds were in
their nests, the -.flowers were asleep, the
greet boughs were atilt, and again the
du rk•browed straeger mine slowly up
the broad, pebbled, flower -bordered
path, keeping well in the shadow of the
trees.
Ile •stood still and motionless.
"She is not !berth"' he said to himself,
Almost an hour he waited. There
was Ito eaund of footsteps, oh shadow
of a figure.
: "hake her wilful, desperate, fatailY
beautiful mother, she has brought down
her fate on her own head," he said,
grimly, walking swiftly up the path that
led to the house.
CHAPTER :ix'',
-CRUEL FATE HAS PARTED HS, Dente:co."
The death -like swoon into which 111-
dene haa fallen WaS of Aloft duration;
with a shock, memory returned to her,
She sprang to her feet with as bitter
ery as ever fell front mortal lips, and
gazed fearfully around her, •
Her enemy was not there; but within
the hoar she knew he would return for
his answer; nothing could prevent that.
And then—ah, God help her! She dared
not think what would ,happen then.
An hour! She 'had 11 11 hour's respite.
What might not be accomplished in that
length of time?
Ships had been _wrecked, yet whole
crews -had 'been ,sated 411 half that length
of time; floods had covered whole vil-
lages, but in the hour the water was
rising the people tad fled to the hills
and saved themselves.
"hole cities had been swept by flames.
and the people bad htved themselves in
the first hour the alarming warning
had been given.
Why should she not make the most
iieeperate effent of thee life to save her-
self in. this fatal hem.? Ah, if he could
hut the whole world between herself
and her niereiless foe—fiying, not alone,
but :defying ' fate itself by taking Rut-
ledge with her!. •
"Oh, my love, my love," she moaned,
"lo 1=W of aJJ, how ant I to part from
and cause her to cry out to Heaven for
mercy, or death.
An hour passed. A !horrible hour that
had been counted by the girl's spasttl-tt!C
heart-iltrobS as She Estelle(' to one of
the bitterest, cruelest revelations that
ever fell upon shumau ears and broke
a :human heart.
Long Alice the stranger had looeeneil
his hold ol7 her, but she del not ettempt
to fly. She stood before him with bated i
breath, seemly breathing lest shit might f
105.0 a word that fell from his lips.
At length die concluded !his horrible.
recital. and stood with folded arms be-
fore her.
"Now you know all," :he told eahnly.'
"Will it be necessary for this store to
Io repeated to your husband. or will eeti •
quietly eeriest the alternative?"
With a piteous cry, poor, hapless 111-
de110, the elehd. 'of met sportive fate,
evet herself on her kneee et the strang-
ces feet, crying out that the sorrow slat
Iota fallen upon her was too great to
bear, and begging Heaven to let her •dhi ;
and en(1 it all.
"Rutledge must never know it." late
sobbed, in wild, piteoue entreaty. "tie i
Nrolild titre from sue in ithhorrenee awl
teething, and tint would ha more cruel I
hum denth to endure. 011, 1 n!.ver
&earned thttt anything like this wing
°vet 1115 haplese, miserable head. Olt it
'methd have been better if my love hith
(Uhl in the honr he was to have mole
nu. Het Wide than merriest me. /1 was
Monstrous, inhuman that I did not know
—that 1 'could nut hart. been we rued; j
and, oh, the pity of it, the pity of iti I j
love him 0 thousand thnee better thee t
my poor, misetoble life."
"Yen forget that your mother fled 1
ems pm when eon were ai Ltti t1*il41."
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If it were iett Sur her to deckle. her
greet, passhmate, Mimi love would ,
Intenee her. She stood in the long, dews '
wet .grass, holding out 'her little wnite
hemie to the star -gemmed sky; and only
that -(•n knew the struggle that was go -
lug on in her son), fur site knew tlore
weeld ewe a day when the curse- of
(loci would, fel immo Iter, as it had paten
upon,. every daughter ef hee (well tow.431
.
Jt otter the 10130.1)344, she dhl net pert
once awl forever froia tier love ere
it was too hash
(loth teueh Me bow 1 ens to hive
up my love whom I 10Ve WO 1" Path'
4,41 MOM. "011, White ('1(4344>4" nhe
criod, "(dowse ftor *1)01nsk you to
decide human 1114'-13human soul to.
•Itight.. yoncletk deny 014>11410 obsoure
thh, fnee or the moon es they pooh
scientnly pledge to you that within the
to.ar I will putt from my Meat'slevy,
tooking uo moon, though it will be the
.hittereess of death for 1110. lt, on the
other heed, yonder clouds sail by, ane
tie shadew drifts over the 1414)034 1 will
chug to Rutledge's love, defying fate
itself. I plc -ago. myself to Heaven thot
those white elomts ishall decide for weal
or for woe, for joy or the coldness mid
darkness of .despair,"
Never i this .world was there a more
piteous look than the beautiful young
face turned upward to the moonlit, stur
,sounned sky, and the white cletuls that
were to decide either or death for
her,
She knelt 'down in the dew -wet grass
with her ice-colh hands clasped over her
heat, tilteo•usly watching the white
'clouds. Nearer—warm- they approaele
ed the great white light, Uldene eaught
her breath in apanting gasp. Did the
angels realize her woe? *Mond they in•
tereede for •het beggeng ehat mere)!
nitght be shown Iter? She Was tio youny,
mid she loved him so. ,
0130 instant more, and they would de
Ode her Arturo. That instaut seemed
the length et eternity. Nearer, neve'
they approached the sot, bright, say Ty
orb, and as she watched them, slo vly
hut sorely they *Obscured it, hl*, Yesl
it was Heaven's solemn warning to hex
that she Mustpert eroin her, love if she
wpuld save him. In that moment the
• girl torned away with ,the bitterness et
desalt in her heart, and paSsed slowly
up the. lithe grove, .sweet with the breath
of purple, toesing plumes, to, the house
• She had thought to gain her 01011 wont
without being observed: but this was
not to be. In ..theefIrl'id01X.•she came
Pace to face with. Untie:Igo.
"I 10118 jupt About starting out through
the grounds lie search of you, dear, ' tie
said. "Whet were you doing out itmohg
the roses 50...Jong?"
He started ehruptly as he sew her
face. It WaS OS White .11S mable, and
the large, dark eyeshhad in them a hunt,
ed look, dueed by terror.
"Uldeneh' he cried, sph4ngin4 to bee
'side, and throwieg his strong orms
about the slender, swaying figure,
"what is the matter, dea•r? Are you ill?"
He could not Understand then, but he•
knew but too well afterward, Why she
eltrank back in Ids tams, clinging to
him. weeping and kissing him by tures,
clueping her white arum so_ tightly, so
piteously, about him, yet shuddering at
his fond• earesees. Ilhsv could he know
that while she dusag to him she Wati
silently bidding hini furewell forever?
"You are not seelle darling?" he sash
angionely: "YourthhhethuestehhnteelbitIly
nervous. You have been exerting your-
self to entertain lately. Such a round
of gayeties, parties; baits, rides. ,recep-
ticns every day withesse- cessetion is
beginning to tell upon you. (Jo to your
room stud rest, dear. I will look hi, in
the course of an hour, and see how you
are. Your face is white as death, and
your 'hands hire burning hot. If this
,state of affairs coutinues, I shall ellt
in a doctor."
A doctor! Ab, who could "minister
to 'a mind diseased?"
She knew, poor soul; -that she must
part with him while her strength lasted.
Slowly she unwound her white arms
from his neck, end turned from him,
stifieng the bitter cry that rose to her
lips, She dared not look into his face
again, lest hee courage should- fail her,
Slowly she turned. and with an 1111'
steady step ascended the ,stairs.
Nation, her maid, 0418 in her boudoie,
stitching aesity at n marvelous bail dress
of rose piek satin and seed swarls. that
she wits to. wear to a grand ball on the
fallowing evening. •
"Put .it away, Nanon, and leave ine,"
said 'Mame. "I went to be alone. See
that no mot distarts me, Nanon," she
went on, piteously.
l'hen the girl reitehed the door she
called her back.
"Come in in an hour from now, Sam
on," she whispered, with lips, "and
on the table yondee you will- find a seal!
ed letter, addreesed to iny husband. Take
it to him with your owe hands. Let
no one know. You will do this, Nituon?"
"Yee, my lad y,' nnswered the gill,
coulee:se-het and wonderie- at the
strange request, "it shall be dime as you
wieh."
The girl -looked back 'Met -tally as she
reached the door, iiiid as she saw that
Miele despoiring face then, gie saw it
never again in this life.
Left to herself, Flamm 'rose swiftly
and Which the key hi the lock. No one
must intetrupt her while she wes writ
ing that WON: Letter to Rutledge.
She went to her writing -desk, opened,
it, and drew forth a •sheet of paper.' Phr
the next twenty minutes the silence et
death filleh the room, broken only by
the swift whirr of the pen on the white
paper and the slow ticking of the etch):
oa the mantel.
It ohs not 11. iong letter, and and it
was; blotted by limiting, bitter tears.
Three are the words he was to read;
"Thitleage: When your eyes rest upon
these lines I shell be far away. 1 am
leaving you wilfully and deliberately:
and, oh, ley darling, I cannot telt ree
why; Think -of me as you seat Om
nurrelage WaS It bitter mieetke. Heaven
knows I wish Ohm the 'bottom tot my
heart it hod never been •consummatel,
/ am going out of your life quietly, itut.
ledge. It mill be worse than *leeks,: to
estateh tot me. You will never find me.
Never!
"Relieve Me false, if Toe will—ernelly
false, Perhaps Outs will make the b. (set
ant dealing yen easier to heat Vete
hag patted us, Itutl.tage.
"There is no harden, 410 II10111 fOr
MO for What 1 1800! done. 'There is
how on eatth. There is none, phshaps,
luILeisitoetn, expect none.
il
quite hate my memorY, tut.
ledge, for 2 vannot bear that. Itemem.
her it was fete that Parted es. Wh t
shring to you tomight with tears luta
kisno. 1 Ayes,. :bidding hoil a silent,
;Orme three Oh
She tiered not 108110.0110 -Word Of the
greet love that woe blisteihig her itasrt
--no, not Antv
te ersi--for her tweet 100.3314hreak ever It, Time, too. was IfYing,
Hind her. A ery ingro•r
broke her lips. tor,. ,glaneteg at the
glides) clock, .she tow Awr hour of 0)4p/to-
ms* tit 01 3, up.
Folding. -foul settling the irtter. she
Placed en the table, eoveeng
possionete kisses; tor It WAN, .14 00441 133
hie thuds; hiseye* were to • read whet
Idle hod Writtest—hhis 10Ve Of her heart
whom she was 144141ing farewell and
from whont. PAW ball 'parted het
"It isihtiod'a setribetson that has Allen
spot me!" she waled, Ss AO threW or(
tho pretty white melt dress' end dowsed
ti• heavy traveling cate, "In my mast
folk, thlahing Heaven would pttlfltr.111
PIPs I. took him from Y '
erlie-, and. Atow
tiled boo, in taro. 4814044 'Watt front 1110,r
itH it • Sol), she fastened the tong,
dark cloak alsoot -1100, 14e4 threw o deth
vett over ler agonized Mee, Them Vele!
011.0 gimlets behind her,. she Bed from
the room aucl out ot the anklise.
As vises erossea the vestibule she SAW
her mortal she ;Idealising hi) the 110044
Merlde stews that led te the porhh.
lie .saw her stud drew back tato the
ehetiew, waiting until she had. 0914) up
to Wm.
"You have decidedwiSely and well,
Uldette," he said. ,glanei(g at her these.
"You are wilhog to part front him top
ever,"
she cried, in a low voice ef
intense esighish. "4)11, (huh no! But
nnl foreeil to part with •Iiine And yea
know it, I Ma ;who% but my wreteheh,
bit:1,4,11)lg boort 1 will leave with .311314.- It
stuelde were not a crime, 1 would kilt
Meseif 'with my own bands here ituil
how, rethee than go with yoor
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FATAL ,MISTAK.N.
The man's dark, haughty ftiCe flushed',
a1 her vehenten1hwerds, but its
made no reply. •
"There is one grace- 1 should IMO tc
134 or you," contained Ulaene bitterlY.
"and that is—that 1 may leave hire
"I have had too tune)" trouble,- to find
you to lose sight of you," be answered,
grimly. -
"I wilt not go with Yen," she =led,
decisively. ."Our paths lie in different
directions. You have broken my heart,
DOW leave nie 111 peitee."
'Think what the result Would hey°
been, in all its horrot if 1 had not in -
teetered. :Your husband would, have
termed from you io horror and loathing
too greet for worde. The ;1111, 10041
have Dhoti *him from you, and you knew
it, Why, then, wait for the Allele? Bee
ter to go steely and save yourself, end
spare 1)103,"
"Why have I been So bitterly (wears,
ed?" cried Uldene, piteously. "I have
done no wrong, committed 110 sin. Why
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then, am I to be sio bitterly punished?
I wish to Goa I had died in my in.
fancy:"
“That is the prayer that has fallen
from the lips of every daughter of your
race," he Answered, grimly. "But death
does no•t come to them until the terrible
prophecy has been. fulfilled: There is but
one Way, and one 101137 only, by which
I could consent to leave you to your.
self,. if you 'shored; pith& 'net- to :fel
companying Inc."
"And- that way?" whispered Uldene,
broil thl testy.
"Is to immure yourself while your
the late within the walls of a convent."
(To be continued)
Tribute To The British Race.
The one inam-mtable factor, however,
remains, regnant and supreme. Men
change their skins when they tra-
yore:: the seas. ; They change their
centuries in the long lapse of time.
Their minds etemain •unehanged by
tinis). or place. To -day the British
rime is the, same: ing spirit that it
was centurie,e oge, at the ba,ginning
of the illustrious linc of govereigus of
which Edward VII. is the latest.
The "Anglo-Saxon grit" fieeetill there
ha undiminished measure. The self-
control amounting almost to stolidity,
the dogged resolution, and disregard
of hostile, odds, the swift jealousy of
rights, end privileges, the en.terprise
of a Warrier race that look eupon;1111*
the, world ate its field', of conquest—
these rugged masterful features, to-
gether with innume-rable fine and
gentle traits. are ell there as they
were in the days of the Black P.rince.
The change is objective not ubjec-
Livu men, new issues, new cir-
cumstances, 8urrounid the now King.
Dee he is still King oS England, and
England; is England still It isi 'in
that tact that the most auspicious
promise of abidles.--.1‘.7tew
York Tribune,.
'Canada a Nation."
Canada. as aueh is not and never has
been a dependimey of any nation. It
15 d•ifVel'illli,tiiiitlh•;•Dominion, governed
by iWlifijariti;li ,peopl•swith. the
IVIng eailliiidt's;Britons at their head.
Canandtt is no snare! a }British depend-
ency then is Engle/Ai or Seotland or
XI:hi and,
C'anada. "belongs" to the: United
Kingdom, in; tho came eense that the
United Kineeloca belongs to it. nod in
no ether. Beeh is and' both •are 0.
pari, of the common British( posses-
sions throughout the world.
Canadians cannot .too soon rid them, -
selves, of the old phraseolom and the
ichstts tho.t el Lug to it. That Phrase -
is not in the least expressive of•
facts in these, tinr,s; nor is it condu.-
eive to self-respect among 'as.
Callittla,100 rep..sttt, is the possession
only of thee British people who in-
hab'.t it or coroo to make it their
home. It is dependent on none but it -
t:10. It is subject to its King, the
ouprams• head of the great eleterhood
of British trio.tions of which it is a
flt'i1)br. 11 1*Its free and indepena-
mit and happy and prornieing 0. eetthe
try, the Halifax Chronicle concludes.
SA 111 MIA int aid, it ounds smiles
upon. .
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