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‘:" Yclar 100139PhY is heYond'Yettr Yeers,
-11..0ree SWAY nothing ilboUld 'Beetle so
' pled langleteten one Et renew*
'0_Yottelel" :echoes Belinda, raising her
•i• belefeelcioltlY* enel forgetting the 14panisli
Ageent *Ad her ailsumed character together.
eeWhilthave T to do With youth sir? When
Onne Why, from the time I was
11
4 &there, her eyes met Hogetes felt in
he PeePOitiittieti. She40pe, and •droop e her
erinelgeeing.
tePlenty of hard training hes; come to mt!
,ettittoylife, senor " elle goes on after& seam,
• 00 Without MILher eyes again to hie.
, te, Aefiemetimes I feel, a littlatoo keenly, hint
e; • Well my nettle Lagtimaa fibs me.But w,hy
ahotdit 'talk Of suoh things to -night!, You
'• *doyley cemetry, Spain?" turning to ,hito
;
withthe most- irreeistible, of all eoquetry;
„ tlee 'coquetry eef ignorance. "Ito ?.
e ern abotild run downthere some Clay, now
' elhat you. see Lao neat... • I will be 'our
YOU oletre"
•
!Done,",says Roger, gayly. 41. Ite is
hatpin that we teke elpanisheetber -to-
"- • llbe;efieelora Lagrimas, telt not?"' ,
• e'T don't hink I said anything tabout
together,did 1? But never mindabout
tbete•,;;Xete we ,qtan ,go down' to, Granada,
firat,il y,M; like: It will take tot 'about a
. wells eo see the Alhambraeand , then '
Atit fehieExcellenoe quite eute," pointedly,
-; uehet. his time iabis own, that hie, friend
Wjfl gitielien lowered absence 2"
Oh, no question of that*" eaYe Boger,
• seelsitlieha airy -assurance of an unfettered
ma." Th ei doubt is rather; vi1ltheSenora
LagriMatekeen her promise?" ,
•;.*
,No question of thael Ready, after•three
utes' temptation, to be led 'captive by
;thefirst strolling aotrese Who actioets
•• him from a balcony ! SO much, for engaged
thinks Belinda: "So •mnoh for the
iominee of tavie young 'hearth, the fidelity
, - of a lifethue, eto. Let no try this' devoted
•' lover of Besieges Mete further.
"I' mentioned: yoter Idea& eenor, • be
Olitile knOW that yea &repot" alone here.
• You May ncit have notieed mb, but I tier-
• tatply saW yea taiiight at the Casino with
leadiee" •. • • • "
, .Raget Temple looks the *Very plotter° of
inntioance. "t the Casino?" he repeats.
• ' With ladies? ' Alt, to be sure, I believe I
s rie.„ aorantanoes
. .
.•
• -alrerfoorwaas eawn'tigirlitetle girl for one, a
0,0 • girl- yery- enntenrnt, yarrille reps ; you.
• &need a wane with her; and another lady
.1 • not go young. Your meanie's,probably,
• senor?"• ' •
eeeeStep•mainma," :assents Roger, un-
beciehingly, e and the steprinamme also of
the little-, sunburnt girl ' With whom I
"Consequently you and the girl -are -
that Lea knotty point, the precise
relationship between' that young lady and
• myself. I will not allow:yon to 'call her
Iara. rre.
--eteeee
• •,
• '4r.,'•
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beeitblese ottelokityseteliti vilest Reetir
• 4: •
Temple,WOuld neXt !i 4
, Captain Temple for a en r 'two
'keeps silence. Thente eleeoett„ Senora Le.
'grieilitler he eriee Pattie. • •
- But no answer eoneteetOis. eppeal. •
"Only 'one word -do Yqu live hike? Is
ihere:any ohaiioe oT, seeing', you again
kJ -Marro* laitlet ?"e•
Belinda Pa 01440k:fate, •
lee shall listen your voitle • toward
eleven io'eloole: If you do not tsike pity on
me,. I shell remain out , here all night; re-
membereheare-brokea." . • •
"Bo Mach lore etteaged ;Men, ft eke',"
thinks Belinda. "'Oh, if I was reallywicked
-ref I Was, half es had as they. give me credit
ter -weld we not have cemitely in earnest
out of all thee?". • • , ' "
• "The balconies are not very far •apart,
senoea," remarke.Mieger presently. ," It
'wettld „he; quite ..Poriblet,fer „a; elesperate
man to leap from One to the Other." '
- A bsefaintipressette inetioious laugh, As
Beliore'etonlY ropey to this thrilling Beggee*
I , all certainlymakeethe attempt be.
fora long, and in ,fail, mind -if I' fell; and
am stifled' down in ill _Abet :harbor nifia
below, -my goatletee-pheintiveire^" will be
upon your conscience. ' , "
A laugh, rather- more maliolous, tether
louder than befere, is her reply. '
Senora Lagrinteelefoe, the bet time,
will yea:e'er Will yen net comet -Mt and -speak
tome?" ., , • •
And eat) 'mare Belinda' a eileece Says
"No.": •
e“ I give yen 'three chances, Senora La -
grimes'. ' • „ • • .
PiilLealigreeim. ate"
"Belinda,nie• dear 1"
'She flashes out upen him like a steeln-
wind ; her lips apart, her eyea: gleaming, so
that they eolipse the saint's diamonds on
her throat. • : • ,•'
" You. --you dare to- say yen recognized
me all the time?" This she asks hain as
000n as her indignatiOn gives her breath' to
tweak. ' ' •
"1 recognized you all the time," Roger.
confesses, humbly.. "1 knew you when I
was lighting my pipe; I believe, before you
save meeits all. Why in the world should t
not reeognim, you, my dear child?" '
"Betiense fluid beekfool enough to dise
guietemeetettunder,thiserabbi lea:jeith• a
fleece little gesture she apostrophizes 1 Mies
Burke's fine silk. • "Meganse--oh, if I., had
knowneet I could have guessed that yon,
°fan people, would,see ing,! And the non.
sensa ydu -talked, 184; ethe noneentie 'you
deied to talk, knowing it to be me!" '
'4' We have been talking very pleasantly,"
answers Roger Temple. "I cannot say I
remember talking any pertioular nonsense."
"What, notewhen yote•eold the; tee eel
•-face that oirournetencee had Pot me Under
your guidance; that you meant eo, reform
me? Yoe to reform Mel"
“ It was a rash speech, I admit. 'I- am
not sure that it was noneenee."
“ And thee. oar tour .in Spain -but you
•
•in vet, ever trouble tribeelete ',ebout '
•: • ,• . • .
hey talked en• end ott, !ince epre °nay
'garage laforgotten, and, preeentlye 080.,
glintlees,Legriraettegain, and Roger the
ilandetieg,Engliehman who has fallen but
• tooattiokly vieeine Legrimeee charms.
ley'and by the Ale, all eieceieeetegrowietreeh
.a flicker of pink 11140 begins to show' above
the 'glorions 'chain or mOnntain peak. toward
the eaat, and with, sestixt *Belinda realizee
• that it is inerningl-that Miss Burke will.
he hack befoe0 noon.: Oise Roger is ebe lover
of Rose, and that "he has deoieed to, belied
her life at • blepharie Augustus
;Outlet
"Captain Temple; do yott know that the
sun is going to rise, that We have been -out
here shwa midnight, yoa and I? I hope
yeti; never Mean to eelk xetorming me
again. „Oh, if Rose knew 1 Shall yea tell
her?" • •
t4 Shall eou tell Mr. jonee, Belluete?":"
`And -then their eyes meet, with a• eweet,
midden leek 04intimeey ; they have bee
acquainted now near upoeete emzen hones
end the girl questions him no more..
• They bid good-bye and: part. ; *the tad
• promise exchanged; though no . wore •13
promise be spoken, of seeing each other a
the same place and time to-pberrow nigh
CHAFTER '
,
. TUE FINGER OP, BATE. .
"You would never guess whit has ha
penee, Roger, never! And I am not at a
'Sete that I sea Wise to tell you, you naught
thong:3811101i Legrit4B4 Sunburnt- •shall keep to that, you: shallkeep to that,
----iihe is -ill= taird-shime lineuglyenever,"" -Chtetialie Teiliple. Whatever Rose sees;
Well, ter ,r part, I ittnot see a good
feature in the young person's face," says
ees • ' "Ligrimes," with a ecentemptuous shrug
e • • ell her shcitildere. '44 A. skinclike &gimes;
•Wide month, a 19w forehead I" :
' "MagnifiCent eyes and eyelaeleee. teeth
1. like every, gtettiefid little hands and feet,
• andthe sweeteet Smile, when she oheoseie
, While, in the World." " , • •
..•
should think hers a vile teeeper,
;.•• judging by.her expression; and as. to her
manners!: I have been here some time,
• henote • I 'know the lid by sight, and by
reputation: She playa' boys' gainful With
'• boys; robe henrooste after 'dusk with that
dog of hers; she talks-eweera, scene people
wiU tellfottelike garniii of the streets,
"And for ea& and all of these oddities I
like her the •better '!• interrupted Roger,
Warmly,. 4' Belindiiiielutie the kind of girl
• to grow into the MOSI.oltaming of Wernen,.
"A• oharming•woman 1 'After the pattern
• Of thenthet lady who ie not se young; the
Step-Matnina V' • , . •••
'•" No, not after that pattern precisely,
, senora. Your vest •experielice .nenet have
-taught 'yen surely, that there are more
and whether the solieme iseip to the Mies
Ingram standard of &opera". or beneath it,
I mean to hold yon to year word: We ,are
going to spend a week en Granada together,
you and I." ' •
" Of -course; Rose evitleins. What '• (mule
be pleasanter?' Rose with us, ancle--"
" And Annette Jones, too, if you please,"
iriterrnpts•BelindNa (furiously abrupt tran-
sition in hervotoe.. "In the gelfighnees, of
Yeur Own leappinesseerou and ROB% you
seem entirely to forget either people's. I go
nowhere without Augustus, now."
"Without 'Augustets," repeats Roger
blankly. 44 Why Belinding it possible --
can youernean
"1 Masan thatl will go nowhere Without
Mr. Jones. Now. come, Captain Temple,
or as We are discussing family xnattere, let
the call you, by a sweeter future namee-
emu° now, etep-papa, don't pretend! NO
'concealment between near and , dear eeda-
•eiyeseeetaif,yoteand.Roelee.didenet know
everything ant my poor Augustus justeas
well as Idol" ,
"I should be very sorry to know one
thing," mete Roger cidpably negligent • of
his future matoli-mtalting,dutiei me a peteet.
•44 I should be very sorry to know that you
• leinde of eharnaing women in the world than eared seriously, young, ignorant of , life as
e
one. Belinda hag been reeg-allowed to :you are, for.,,a person likee4eilesr '
nue a leetlatoti wild, hitherto, • but °intim- .• It seemed as though the obnoxious mono.
; dances, I am happy to say, will place. -her- elyllebleiwouldnea-rlychoke hint:- --.7-----e-
•. eind,et-tny guidance new." . .. ' : --" dare 1. And,,pray, who said anything
•44 Will the', will they, indeed, Captain about caring,eair ? Lam goingto marry
Temple!" interpolates Belinda, mentUllY• Mr:Wines-we Settled the whole affair to
.e We shall see neoroabout that by and by I" night -marry, not care fOr him." ,
"She will live in my house, will stane. to Marry, not berafor • him. As Intiole m-
• ine inthe position of a daughter, and I pnision as a man eau feel; theoretically,
mean„to foer\
" ,rni her." . -• toward e distractingly pretty little girl, not
"Ale, hea ens, how' praiseworthy 1- Hoer five ' feet distant from him in the,
Christian! • Iteforra Belinda ? With the moonlight, ROger : feele et thie moment
%
aid eta Orlin English governess and a staff toward Belinda ' O'Shea. • Rose was
• •of attendant. pesters and masters of course?" right. The Vansittart blood • runs
' 66 Well,no; 'answers Adger.. “ I have no in • her :1 veins,‘ .poor .• child, hnd :the
' great belief in prim English .gover- blood is bad! 'Scarce seventeen Yet, and
names,' neith'er are pastors or mestere very she has the cold, mercenary tnatinote of a
Much more to my Amato. I shall refer* 'woman of thirty, wed not by 'any nieemii a
• Belinda, as much as she needs reforming, good woneen of thirty, either 1 •
by kindnese alone. It strikes Me, that 4i you are slow with your congratulation
what the poor little girt Wants ie not stern- _and the matoh is really a' desirable one,
nees; but lover"
- Belinda turn e her head away with &jerk;
' her theoat, eavelle, the big tears rise he her
eyes. If ho had staid anything but this, if
• '' he had called her Ugly, winked -any hard
' -name he chomp she could have borne it bete
the wet,' thee' bar° left eiliteet, 0101 on
went to the operal saw him. If I drove
in the park I saw him. It was an eefatua.
tion, and it had been freaehowever I vete
not free I" Rays; Rose in a tone of exquisite
abnegation.- 411 was not free, and he be.
heved beautifully, poor Stanley He went
to 'Gibraltar witle, his regiment, and we
have corresponded a little since; only the
other daY,' indeedei 'sent bine an anuounote
Metal et peek* Robert's death. What a
blew this inept he, to hineee
A look not so much of anger as of pain
passes over Roger, Tempte's etiae. Be, „mey
haveneaged eco be" enemored of ' 'lose; he
hes not ceased to be enaineted of his 'own
idea love for here the love which, wig* or
•foolish in itself, lees for a dozen years been
,par t and parcel of his life. For the sake of
that, not becanee ef the fade flietattore
'these Awe! elderly -London ,butteretet•
her! What is sheelie iMPostor for? If
'mew that might detest her 'les& I. be- ,
lieve the creature in false t9 her own eon-
goieeoe. I believe She ammo neat" •
,So things have, gone on until they are ail
we Pee them wive. Mies *Burke oelleoting
iclees for her new great. work on sooial re-
form, "-The Woman of the Future ;" Be-
linda running wild, neglected-, as nearly on
the road to ruin as was ever innooent,
honest little human'soul, about the streets .
of B. Jean de Luz., The praetical at war
with the ideal, same so often find to be the
case in this imperfect, world. '
, Nothing can be bleeder than the meeting
between Pelinda'e step-maiemee and her
precePtrese. Mise Burke has held religiously
to the letter'of the herein sealed betvieen
• hem in London, has , kept the girl cone • e
eeiently out of Roaie's .witY doting the *. •
feels Woended. • east three years. , Rosie has, heed to , hers;
. '• 1 eeoh, quarterly payment for material
•
, watehfulnese and ant:meter intellectuat. oul-
take bee been_ peed _ in ;advance without a:
• question. They. begin to talk platitudes.' 7
lOt -1 little suziburnt ; Miele Burke trusts dear
•.1 Rest! thinks dear Belinda grown; though
1 Mrs. O'Shealeatioyeroonee the fatigues .of
„ travelling e A every wearying journey from '
London to St. Jean de Luz, ' • .•
• "Ye, indeed, •espeoially when one ie .
e,*e•-**48,travelling alone with one's maid," °nee
read foi• 25c 50c
. prieties, see virtuously conscious that she
iBose, sensitive eeenetatathe -moaner pro-
.
12 1-2• and 15c deaux and elsewhere. "One does -feel BO
only " met " Roger Temple in Paris Bor-
p miserably helpless without a, gentleman I"
"Well, for my part I see no uee in them
whatever," soya Mies Burke. "When you , ,
are alone you have -nothing but ' year lug- .
gage to lbolc after,' When you are burdened '
with a man," title with depreoiatoeY
glace in the direction of Roger, 41 yea
have -to look after hem- and your things: •
tees." '
" things I" exclaims Belinda, in her
mpoking yoioe. Well, Miss Berke, in.the ,\e„,
present ate,tenf affairs, my 44 things" would
not require much looking after, with a man .
or without one : Do you know, meeam," -
seriously; "the washer*wornan says there /
is realty nothing more of mine for her to /
bring back. ' Thelatit remaining tattere .
hie have vamieleedeeesarried away by the '
sbirds„Ituppose, t� build their nests." •
Bite pcteues hereelt on her accustomed
favorite piece, the *weer of the tilde, and
looks round cheerfelly on the cOmpany se
she volunteer° this information.
A cold glitter conies into- Burke's-meg.
"You are almost of an age, I must say,
Miss O'Shea, to/begin to oare for order.
neughty,jealons man --only when he corn - *.e....,,, .«.... ..,, ... 4e. eees see..
1
irmaybe veered" . • e . - ••• • now allege at reaeing. the 'Aar/icier of
'. It is nocinnext day ; and inliosiefe. evel; others, sets him down simply as “ jealotia "
Moorish -looking drawing -room at the (a !mistake into' whit% vanity not un -
Isabella the lovers 1are love -making, the freqUently conducts intelligence of her.
widow in an -embroidered India flettelin caltere),and twit -tenement} eir about poor -
wrapper, and as Coquettish and playful of Stenleyie infaenation and deepeeet eyes;
deineanor as any youthftil bride of eighteen. and her own innocence and the embarrass-
" If it ,will ease your conscience to make ment of riches, that aveeiee her in the way
confession, I promise solemnly to restrain of admirers, until the very excess of her
my jealousy,' Bays Boger; not, et may be folly brings her lover baok to good temper.
presunied; without sonte uneasy. eonsoience Dear simple-heerted little ' Rosie 1' Who
twinge of his own.. "Yon ,have made cart be angry with her long! Her vanities
andther conned; 'Rose ?" : are so childlike, her flirtation, like her
The droop of Mrs. O'Shee's °yeti& says whole character, so transparent. -
"You may be sure he rushed to England
"I was sure -of it. That little Portuguese as soon as ever he get the news of Uncle
Jew at breakfast -no, the Spisiiish • officer Robert's death. I tem not a fool, Roger,
last night at the 'Casino I 1ton,, if it is and I den% think myself quite hideous, but
that getodebeking: Setanish'•aceundrel-'----" I ktiow very Well, that men like' to ,..nicarry
.. “ Oh, Roger. don't be violent 1' How can in he and that in my dealt way I/era an
I help men being so ridiculous? -91-ia 1, who he peel Can't .yon fence him looking
never givenne iny. encouragement I No; it toned the house, speculating? .: Atid then
is neither the elpanierctnor the Portuguese
-I meanet es soMe one else.as well. 44 Oh,
4 do feel se .guilty, I'm sure' `these things
never happen to anybody but me." ••
“ I, dam say they -happen to most pretty
women," says Roger. "But put me tnit
of my torture, denick. ' Who is my latest
' "Belinda. should be extremely grateful
for your -your pity I" she remarks, as scion
as she can command, her voice enough to
apeith. "For my 'Parf,'I don't•in the least ,by a little paint? All that glittering finery
• value that 'kind of regard" • 'Mr. Jones' first offering, I presume."
"No?.Andwhit kincleof regard do you "No," answers Belinda, calmly. 41 There
i'Velee, may I. ask?" Bays Rope Temple, hie has not been time, / . tiorry.to say, for
• tone softening. • • • • • offerings yet., He walked home with ,me
"Ale -what kind? when I have known after I lett you and Rose at the Casino
• Yon a little longer thane= minutes I- will (poor Augustus felt, as I did; that our come
tell yeti.", _ perky Was not wanted), and I 'milted biee.,
"The asy the:Mhambre. together; in, just� keep me coMpany whifirt ate iny
for instance?" • gripper. • And he proposed. , , . •
1Petliape. Meantime, in Belinda's name, • Be proposed. ,1
‘11..nd you—" •
I thank you a thousand times for the pity • "Accepted him, 'step -papa -what else
YOU are charitably enough to beseovPripon ehould I do? And' thee, when I was alone
., bort/ Good -night; goner. I. leavereyon to hgaiii; the thetight struck me qf borrowing
' :think over your hoe, peojecte of mfermeeion Butenes Sunday dike jest to See ,bow I
"alone:" e. liked the taste of fine clothes; and I stole
• And with a nionking motet:tee." Lagre, this necklace* at. Item the throat'of old
. 'mate" salutes bine then, assurnittg the alr Beets, who lives•on bur ,second landing -a
.of,a, princess at least, and with a grand pitiite necklace only, not real diamonds
'• sweep of her rustlihg silken train, leaves
,the balbony. , . • . ' ' • •
She quite Iffm,1 say, With, tho , air of
' princess; the moment she is out 'of. Sight,
at..,...nett a rent in the dilapi-
'rival* Bolden' s '
.•11 Well; you must know, .dear, Spencer
-went to the post:bifida thee morning ane
•thereAveg a letter for me." • • •
e It'AVatia deolaratiOn?"
" it was from cook. left orders with
her • to write mgularly, every .weele-mid.
indeed a friend of lepencer's is steying in
the 11.011Seista pineatitiOn. Inever like to
doubt the honesty. •of• the lciwet classes,
Roger, ilia of courde• • you. cannot make
&may with' tables end *lairs ; still there are
the cloaks and Ornaments; and as to 'the
"boraealtinzyrivaii; R,osie. my rival ? While
you- tialk about the cook and the bouee,
linen, I am burning with impatience, re-
member."
Far one° at least during Ociartallip,
Roger Temple ciontriveg to Unite' veracity
with sweetnees.', '
"Well, it seems he called very some after
we left. A tall, militarytlookieg gentle-.
nean with a moustache,'. cook. stays, "and
.would es,ke no denielebut walked in as it
.the place.wite his own e,-ehose are exaotlY
her wordier' and looked round eveey-
thing, and, particularly hard at the
Phetograph of Claptein !Temple the
brecerfast-roore.' A,h, Roger, what he Must
have suffered! Well I knew whit lee Must
have suffered at that moment I" -
What. who must „hay° euffered, inee
love? The end of , the etory is naturally,
that cook Marehed for the teat:Toone' on the
military gentleinan'edepaittiee and .found
them nneeing." . •
"The end of the story ie nothing ot the
kind," said Rose,. fl et tering hp her feathers
like a little glisten*. "The end of the
etoty' is that cook 'gave • him My acidities
-here --eenid-leameatiaidtoltlehire-othereieWe-
that made him moat tuelio.ppy-and he sell
he phoeld follow me straight to St:3ean de
Luz. I call that something.like genstanoy,
poet fellow! Although he must have known
the hopeleesness of his position, to resolve;
without a inoteent'ahesitation, upon folio*.
"Other people, knowing the 'hopelessness.,
of their positioti,'have remaitied constant
to you, Rose," says Roger 'Temple, tenderly.
Does it illeth scram his,mind shat fidelity
same to be more closely allied with the
state of ',heeetesenests than with that of
holm? ; ' •• .
• "And I shall have you both open My
hands at one°. .Aiid.I aim sure he is of the
moat fiery, combative temperameetthose
glowering,deereeet eyes that give e Man
step -pees; not of course' fcir a moment, elk& a look ,of power, and beautiful, long,.
epeaking of Augustin; personally. Beane auburn moustache, and, • six feet one at
new 'teller at Oitapham-if he does leave out least, adds Rabe, with a reproachful glance
a few�f hie h'a, peer fellow, he makes op at het tome's inferior stature. ' •
amply for them with, his • r's-evillar at ' '44 Rode," says Roger, with a thoroughly
Clapham, , opera -box, 'diamonds. My cap- sincere sigh, "de you want to drive me
peat/mos is greatly improved by diamonds, clean out of my ',lenses!? Who ishe ?'Deep.
ie it not'?" ' Holding tins pendant • of the set eyeit; auburn nu:Motet:he, power. and
saint's necklace between her empire eix 'feet one.1 I aannot endure it, Rosie.
"Certainly. What Alyea not impreved There . are limits, remember, even. to xini
long.:suffering.', ,
•
Rode. dimples and Calcite • and mots her
,eyelids up and down as, all unsuspicious of
latent Irony, she. drinks' in this* flattery
which is the very meet and 'drink of her
smell ion!.- ,
:44' It is Colonel Drewe, !then, as yod hisiet
epee knowing. He refused, it aeelneeto
give his name to the servants, but I -Oh,
there areintuit!�nB that cannot be Mistaken:
It is Stanley Drowe." • „ •
“ DreWe, Drewe-the lackadeieeal • ole
dandy with a flower in 'hie butte -whole,
whean you have got in your photograph
book? Yoe hod itt tremendous flirtation
not?"
Colonel Drewe one, my detelehati yon
not?"
14 You would not blame me in that affair,
Roger. If you knew all.. You were far 'ftwey
to„come upon your portmit. I wonder,
now; whether it was quite proper Of me to No achievement inlife clan, ever be made
leave ithung up,yet I Nothing would pain
rieso morathan, for Colonel Drewe to. think
me indelicate." . •
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We are pertain, I suppose, that it is.
Colonel Drawee Rosie ? There is int one
elseamong your ntiMer01111 iioiitne Wheel
ehe cap w,ould fit2'.! • • ' _ •
Olt. yes, on this point Rosie is confident.
If it had net been for' the mouseache it
Might have been the Rev. Rowland' IA-
scellesewhom she met -last year at Meleern,
the Most elegent„the most spiritual -minded
without Order.' 'When I was •seventeen I ,
had no greater delight than in the neat ' •
areaneement of hiy wardrobe.", • ' , •
• "Bat:Theta no wardrobe to: koog olein; '
Ma'am. -Wardrobe ?'. Why,: thia. is my Only
frock, and as ice stook--", • '
"Melinda; MY deatMetinda, 'yon forgot 1
Another time!" interrupts Rose; coloring. •
"What heve you been doing with yourself to- •
daYeny love? And last night -did Mi. Jones
see yen' Befit home? '' I had a note. from him •
this morning saeiing he tied gone off to, the -
f • 'n But no• with. a oomenous little mountains, aild•that I must ask you for '
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sighover her Malvern -remiiiiecenceathe particularsteelibew 'what dine it all mean e“. • . ,
Moustache, settleseit. Colonel .DieWO • it .' She friske,overe like a. littla•lambkin; toIt. :je•-e.-.-e-'-'7
Must be and no other.. ." And wheat mikes her step -daughter's aide, and pneting her
it the moieremarkehle; Bogen" Ode Rose, erne round her. viaegte-Belincle: holding here•. e . . .. , ....
With her Moat sapient analogical air, '44 I eel( uncompromisingly tatiff under, the patois
deolare, it like the finger Of fate --I 7. begins to . gush and titter, school -girl ..
clmenied Of .poor Maier. O'Shea only lase faphione ill her ear. 'Miss Berke and Roger.
night!' •It seemed eome one in . America melbas left'to make conversation for each
had toldhinterray engagement -in dreams. other: ' .. • : .. • - , . , . , e
elate in dreams onlye one. dead are restored, ' (To .ba Continued).: . :,. . .. • ,
to usie.and he had brought me over the •, e • , e
Mote lovely turquoise and :pearl set ait a . How It Feels to be weeeee«, • .
wedding 'present .(Mtijot . O'Shea , always gtente, 'IL Mason, the •peroled prisoner
used to gay how pearls becarne • me)etand who was brought from West Virginia lent , ; •
was 'exceedingly pleased . at , the' marriage, 'weekeleyellereChertingeenewa8-418trung " • -
and said he Wished you jOY .fronehisheart. up three times by 6 mob in thewilds. of
Was it not heist remarkable '1",, Weet Virginia, about ' forty miles frerri any ,
„ - 41 Most remarkable and most tinpleateani,"
railroad.Hewas sweated of stealing
ansWeis Roger*. gettingannoYed• in earneat: .$43 from a store in Celhotin
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County, and.
"'For eitid's Bike, Iteeer dream • lie: 1etere Wee eaptured in Roane County by a poem '
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dreitmel ' Rivals' -of flesh and blood, pciteee- of horsemen, who 'levelled their guns on •
ful 'colonels' and elegant • •pireonse I can :heel jest as he Was •entering a- cornfield., • '
!hand, not the others. --e. ..
But happily, at this very delicite ltib'e. leinian
' , •.He was thee subjected to a variety Om- ;
tieatinent which -would make a
tiiitieethes door °pone, andetheennerande ipt ene-e-erctilierilliteddei7Viithei. 'View to making ,
Belinda and lass Duette puts an end to thehim conferee. He said; "At dusk I was. • •
taken out of the jail to a beech tree about.. '
, JO rods away. They threw the rope over a ' • ., .
imb and evtuno me off • Over a little:mil- • .
. e• • , • tankment. The' pam at firtit was terrihlee
Mies Lydia Berke is by ne meorezi an un- but soon stare . flitted before my eyes: •
favorable sample •ontwardly of the Women There were more than '• a' million_of there, .
atilt) POW. ' she h" tt tglereige aseaCIY it Seemed .to nie,: isiOVing ,in. ovety..(bron-::;. 1 - : ,
coeaplexioneetelerebleeesandy tairveteeth ewe, Then I began to-Seii, all the different • ' • . Y '
almost Over-white,andeeen„ and. it Pak of ,colots -imaginable, bleeding in the Most . •
very , wide-awake, and 'email grey :eyes', beautiful and fantastic outlines. '1 tell you.
Her Welk isWiry; her figure like a , bit .04 if you. bed,. a thonsirid paintbrushes,' and -•
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watoh-epring; her . age -the hitheiward all the paints in the world, you could not . • T
side offerty..What in this bright, energetio. make so many;•pretty otdors. This senea-
slomodkrlegir
lady . 6eihohelatdrrhdavaend'ilisobdenioieeld ittihtodreamI don't know how long I hung,
e ,
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tion was pleagant, and I thought I was in a'. 4 As
Belinda's young- life? What has caused but any Meet severe pain was just tas I Was '
the inalienebledisceepenetee between thee*? •corning to my senses twain. • I shook , _.
ine"-- Ohio State Jomnat
lawM;taiillayt. rIoilit;andnegine witahmied' will no
kill
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violently; And it seemed as though it Would '
Mix together then Will oil and -water'. Born . . • • , ,
love scene. .
CHAP -TER X. „
"4..tontsus1" • ,
of no superhonest•stock, reared, in no Wiper.
honeiat 'wheel, one virtue from •earliest
babyhood took sturdy root in 'Belinda's
Bontethe virtue of absolute treth.
Manna exist s� fine that their poeeessote
can.detect the presence ot certain' floweps
'or animals as if by inetinot. Belinda is
gifted with the same. prescience, the same
kind of moral divining -rod as regards.,ixi.
posture. And poor Miss Burke, while viie.
fnrever preaches Eerneetnesse-Wotnerece
Work, Women's ,Mission,.. an•.areh in-
postor--false, sham, to her finger-tips! Not
an Mieterestine type to the philosophic
student of character; but to, an ignorant,
ardent ,mind like ' Belinda% about . as .
nauseating a specimen of human nature as
one race cati produce. . • ,
• They never came to openOrviolent rep-
Belinda's' money stood between Miss
Burke and•Want ; Miss Burke 'stood between
Belinda and her, etep-mOther. They de.
testae eaeh. other, were necessary to vidh tnoney,.Mary, Je.ne. • I gave you 74. °elite '-
ether, kept together. 'ee not a good half of yesterday: • Do -on think I am a ,gold
the world forever petforreing that: game mine?.;Hem's a quartet." •
duo, in the!! queer -coneedY of ' entre; Ws (Uptown an hour Were " What's thet ?
:jamble of mistaken, eilfore d Contemn*. , Carry this State by 15,000? I've get $50
ehipte that we cell eopiety3'.' ! that says he Won't. But up,, eentlemen,. or '
"Poor little Belinda is eo curiotely shut up. Money taiket"-eChicage Tribune.
fdriavvolrogi anlioseleti°Intlielo'f'cpciiihrSptoitstie,t4"Mair's , The clii—"er--Id of Pani 'Ball te. • we' nt
Burke explains, Whenever the Stibjeet seims . into spalms -on hearing the sbrill whistle
to require 0016extenuation. Bat, *her ot the steamer 0*.ty of Neveport, 'at Bul-:
health ..beitig delioato-het papa, ettd : lock's Point re .ynwtleyreabendtehired,v; arfihitnd
niatinri.a both inee early g. eaerehle-Latarey to
ttef.ateTuhre-trfamilis f a
such met shell have Whim 1 am Mrs.; Angus: in India ; indeed, • it, Was in Poor Major reconcile the -ont.ef. door hie am: ..reutaitt eMieh ul:limhiin:
taa &mos ! Was it wicked, 1 wonder 2" 01Sliiia'a lifetime, and I am •Sere his pas- my ednecleeee." • . ; titheisftereht::hyiwsthliiiited;viasysinu:nweictiaestshar09:0;ge0.us
sudden Compunction for the sacrilege she skins Were so vfoldrit never &tied look tit ' Mute is . the Out.ana-ontest.
had conirnitted4 corning back upon h'er. any man twiee. Rut 'whatever' party t Was that ever walked," Belinda will 'stay to let '
iniPcjalw!'fit'afr with which he exeites, the wonde
* blessed old Beduin,- when they sit Otted safe Diewe,*es certain' tie be there too.,, It I once, and by Heaven, ho wee epthieg to
Cepteie !ran*, do yOtt think, now; the 'aeon at durieg tine whole Beason, celonel petite 'friends, "1 SaW Tarte& at the pay h
e email boye. r ot
A Point in His FaVer.
• "This is scandalous," ilia BIM Leshly
•as eliausitered her opoaseinto the hall very
early in the • morning. "Yon meet have
been making a nice exhibition eif youraelf
•down town." , • • ,
'I was perfeptly (hie) shober. orderly, an ' ,
dignified all er time," replied Mr. L anew* •
ins; an injOred leek that all:nest threw him
off bis balance. •, '
"That is nonsense," said, his Wife po Bi-
tiyely, "just a incimeet ago,while•I was look: ;
ing•out of ,the epsteite window, I ease you
tryiegth unlock the door with a tooth- '
pick. ,• ,
' rosh'bly. 'itoehlbly ; but, Yon becishei
life 1 keeav too much to pick my teeth wiee,
her door -key (hie) didn't I?" • • .
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A yietipt His Wifc'd Rapacity. • '
" Seeinti-tO mo 'yon are always wanting
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