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CHAPTER XVI.
"•1 daughter of the gods, divinely tall.
And most divinely fair."
','There was a feverish glow on the round.
pd. dimpled cheeks and the dark eyes
severe as bright as stars.
.Nannette, her maid, knew that she was
:reatly agitated for the little bands that
.hasped the bridal bouquet were burning
ot through the dainty white kid gloves;
rout then, that was very natural, for just
Before the ceremony on her bridal morn,
's the most important epoch of a young
girl's life.
Irene's heart sunk as she looked out of
the window and noted the darkening the.
Was it a forecast of what her future
would be? ah, surely not, and she turned
away from the window with a shudder,
her face paling like a snowdrop.
The Ceremony was to take place at two
o'cloek sharp, it wanted a quarter to that
time now.
Already the guests were becoming im-
patient in the spacious drawing -room.
Suddenly some ono looking from the
window saw a horseman ride up to the
front door and hurriedly dismount. And
a moment later a note was slipped quietly
into Frederick Esmond's hands as be was
coming hurriedly down the broad corri-
dor.
And even while he read it, his face
growing strangely troubled, a coupe drove
up to the door from which a gentleman
alighted,and was ushered very quietly
into the house.
Here, and now, we must digress in our
story, dear reader, and return to the
scene of the prison conflagration that had
startl
ed._all London' a f
ownhz
pt/
mot re i-
-outs, andw which
many a brave - and
noble
fireman. ini
hn a
had lost his life. Many a pedes -
Irian too, had lost his life by the burn-
ing timbers which the. high wind carried
-Kra :t distances, their bodies being found
in close proximity the next morninls.when
day broke.
e In the little town of Glen Haven, some
• distance down the Thames, A few hours
later, Dr. Rodman sat over a late break-
fast, v
tl
n over er le London morning
m' paper as he sipped his coffee.
4 He was startled by a sudden and im-
peratism peal. at the surgery door, and
1 woudered, half impatiently, who wanted
him. Ile had no patients in danger, and
stone who required so early a morning
visit.
A man to see you, doctor," said the
little maid, popping her head in at the
,door of the breakfast -room,
Dr. Rodman closed his paper with a
igh; that was always the way, he was
enerally interrupted when he got deeply
interested in an article, he told himself.
Entering his surgery, he found a man
standing by the window, who turned
treacly upon his entrance, giving him a
nick, scrutinizing glance from a pair
keen, dark, piercing eyes.
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stranger. It was not often strangers
came to the little village of Glen Haven.
The doctor noted that his visitor was tall
and slim, wearing a suit of exceedingly
bad -fatting, shabby clothes; the doctor
himself was extremely fastidious on this
particular point.
Are you Dr. Rodman?" inquired the
stranger.
The doctor bowed.
"I have a slight wound here I should
like you to dress," he said, baring his
arm.
The doctor started. "Why, this is by no
means a trifling affair," he said; ;your
arm has been burned almost to the bone;
you must be enduring excruciating tor-
ture.'
"It is decidedly inconvenient, and a lit-
tle painful," admitted the straneer, set-
ting his white teeth together hard in a
grim smile, as the doctor commenced his
operations.
"One could imagine you had passed
tbrough a recent fire," pursued the doc-
tor. "Ah, I ane right, your clothing is
singed too. May I ask if it -was at the
great prison fire in London, the papers
are £till of?"
"Your surmise is quite correct, my dear
sir," responded the strauger, with a
haughty air of nonchalance. 'I have just
come from London, and I was so unfor-
tunate as to bo struck by a piece of burn-
ing timber. My coat sleeve was entirely
burned• away. I was furnished this gar-
ment by a friend."
"Ahl that accounted for the ill-fitting
coat."
"A .fearful loss of life," commented Dr.
Rodman.
Yes.
"I wander if tin `o ,' a �+ nv`� r -
y f ill 24 1 9 fi
tt
caped? There seems l o ,euntmdereble
cq •t'ontroversy over thntit; -they claimn
everybody• to a man lies beenfoepid, or
accounted for,'" A ;sudden gleam shot in-
to the stranger's. eyes,
"Is the full acebunt—all the ,particu-
lars—in this morning's paper?" he asked,
vainly striving to appear calmn,
"Yes,' replied Dr. Rodman.
"Can I be -permitted to glance oven; it?"
inquired the stranger.
"Certainly," responded the doctor, court.
eously, and a moment later he placed the
paper in his hand, and proceeded dress-
ing the painful swelling arm, and band-
aging it.
The man gave a quick start, and a gasp,
and something like an imprecation buts
front his lips. Glancing up the doctor
saw that the man's gaze was fixed intent-
ly upon the paper.
The stranger had read breathlessly
every syllable of the account; it was
waren he had come to the list of those
known to be killed outright, and whose
bodies had been found. that he gave that
sudden start. The list was headed with
the name of Leon Forrester, and beneath
were the words—"face burned beyond re.
cognition; identity established by a deep
red, triangular soar over the, breast."
A score or more of times the stranger
rend that paragraph; it seemed to hold
a peculiar, subtle attraction for him, and
something vory IIice malignant triumph
gleamed in his black eyes.
"Well, Leon Forrester," ho muttered, "if
you lost your life in that fire, you are
certainly dead to the world, . What a
cry there will bo raised among your ene-
mies about retribution ---Pahl"
He ran his keen eye further down the
column, The . article closed with an item
of later news. It had been ascertained
that several of the prisoners must have
escaped and Scotland Yard detectives
would be put on their trail, at once; their
capture was only a question of time.
A curious whiteness spread over the
stranger's face as he read that,
The arm was bandaged and, then the
stranger admitted frankly' to the doctor
that he was entirely without fends.
"It did not occur to Ina before that my
wallet was in the breast pocket of the
burning coat I tore off and flung from
ane," he said, "until this very moment. I
shall be obliged to remit the amount lat-
er on."
"At your convenience," responded • Dr.
Rodman, What else could he say? very
courteously be bowed his visitor out,
"slrt odd specimen of man that -with
the manners and bearing of a lord in a
laborer's garb. I suppose that is an-
other hunt's labor given to sweet char-
ity, and he ruminated crossly over the
fact that people generally paid the
tradespeople's bills, but always imagined
the doctor could wait, Three-fourths of
his outstanding bills he never expected
to collect, which caused him to be worry;,
ing most of his time as to how both
ends -
would be made to meet; expenses al.
ways ran on, whether money rolled in or
uot. Meanwhile the object of his thoughts
hurried down the grass -grown village
street, turning out of his way many a
time to avoid meeting a pedestrian.
He reached the batik of the river where
he had left a small skiff.
"If I could but get back to London
again," he re
mune
d. "It is all verywell
to flot down with the tides', but rwing
back with
a boat, V1 I
m , with this arm disabled,
is practically out of the question. There
18 no other way than to tramp it back,
though it _.18 fraught with danger at ev-
e'ar tak<•p.
tt. was a`most dusk of a sultry after-
noon three days later that he entered
London.
"A daring stroke," be mutterecl—"daring
to come hero, but it had to be done."
By a. circuitous route, ho made his way
tc a shop in rather a dismal locality
which bore above tho door a sign which
lead,
HENR.t LetTOUIZ, Hareem Artist.
bob Undeher rstand theeonature those
emo[ sieur's
business, The man... was a genius in 'his
way. Ifis shop was famnous from one end
of Laudon to the other. If a gentlepban
met with an :readout discoloring his fact+
cutting part of his lip, and damaging an
eye and eyebrow, in less thanan horn"e
time the skilful human artist bowed the
gentleman out of his parlors, quite • as
good as new; the discolored face was
carefully painted to blend ,perfectly With
his complexion, a flesh colored pleetai'
skilfully fitted in, and a false eyebrow,
so carefully adjusted that even his best
friends could never have detected • that
there was anything amiss with hire -
Hence monsieur's world-renowded fame fol'
his skill. •
Monsieur was standing in, his door -way
puffing a Cigar—an excellent one, by the
way, the stranger noted, as he stepped
him into theestablishment,
past Szing up his visior In nraid glance,
Monsieur Latour concluded that the man
had little nmoney to pay for his services,
if he reunited them.
The stranger deliberately threw off a
bandage he had worn upon his face, and
tilted back the broad felt hat he wore,
turning- about and coolly meeting La•
tour's eye,,
You!—by all that is merciful!" cried
the artist, shrilly "you--"
"Never mind mentioning names," in-
terrupted the stranger, grimly; "we have
been old and true friends too long not
to have remembered that."
"I am astonished—nonplussed! I have
just been reading of the great prison lire
and that—ah, here is a customer; step
into that little private laboratory of
mine to the right, first door, and I will
be withyou
almost irnmedi tea ."
a
"Ile—of all men in the world, v mutter-
ed the Frenchman, as the strauger turned
away. By .all that is merciful, I thought
it was his ghost, rising suddenly up be-
fore me."
It was quite an hour ere the artist. fin
ishod with his customer, and hurriedly
sought his laboratory.
"Hc has gone," he muttered, "and of
course helped himself to anything here
he fancied; woll, it could not be helped."
CHAPTER XVII;
The room into which the stranger was
ushered was a Hong, narrow apartment
where the curtains were always closely
drawn by night and by day lest by chance
some passing pedestrian should pause by
the window and glance in at this chamber
of horrors and wonders combined.
It had every appearance of a dissecting
room; false limbs, hands, arms, and
teeth, lay scattered promiscuously about;
beards of every size and color, and on
sombre black pads, an eye, so human in
its expression, as it glared up at the in-
truder, or beseeehing in its agonized ex-
pression. as to fairly stagger and para-
lyze one. •
The stranger glanced eagerly about
him, taking in every detail of the apart-
ment in a keen, instantaneous survey. He
was equally busy with bis hands. Wig
after wig was tossed over in quick -sec-
cession.
"I
uscession-
"I see nothing that would answer," he
muttered, with a ground out imprecation;
"nothing at all. I shall have to place my-
self in Latour's hands, and there never
was a more dastardly traitor; he would
betray bis own brother if he saw that a
big stake could be obtained by it—Aho
His eyes had rested upon a small vial
containing a whitish liquid, and bearing
a lengthy label in Latour's handwriting,
It's action is immediate," he repeated.
"exactly what I require; as a general.,
thing these applications take a week or,,
more to accomplish their purpose."
Some twenty minutes later, a figure
stole hurriedly' out of the sideddoor of La -
tour's laboratory, taking care to close
the spring -locked door noiselessly and se-
curely after him.
Few experts would have ecoguized'•in
the golden -haired stranger --boasting',.
luxurious blonde moustache, and
r
l
¢ea
,faim'hair clustered about us�emu 1e s
a wa
that: would
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y Iv c Charmed an'•,
• fist ---who iseaeel forth on to. .tbo large J
."don teteeets, as the same lade- tuau, neat
cleanly- shaven face and elosgly croirfined
dark hair, who had recently entered .La.'
tomes shop; even his clothing had under-
gone a radical change. He had helped
himself to the Frenchman s best ' suit,
which he had found in an: unlocked ward-
robe.
"With Latour ignorant of what my dis-
guise really is, I can feel tolerably safe to
mingling once more with my fellow -men,"
and a laugh fell from his lips that was
not pleasant to hear.
As is the habit of many a man. Mori-
sieur Latour made the mistake of leaving
his well-filled wallet very often in his coat
pocket. The stranegr benofltted by that
carelessness now.
Hailing a hansom•ca.b, he gave orders to
be driven at once to the nearest cafe and
to be waited for there.
The waiter in the cafe was amaisd at
the order given by the stranger.
"He ordered everything," the waiter paid
to the chef; "saying, 'be sure and bring
enough'; when it was set before him he
ate ravenously; one would think to see
him, he had not tasted food for many a
day."
The stranger's keen ears overheard this
dialogue. Heavens!" he muttered sav-
agely, "in all things one must guard
against ill -appearances, not to lay one's;
self open to—suspicion. He paid his hill
hurriedly, and left the cafe with a hind
restless and ill at ease. To Hyde Park,"
he gave order, as he ro-entered the cab.
When some little distance from there he
dismissed the cabman and set out to make
the rest of his ,journey on foot.
Evidently he had not far to, go, for as
he reached the bfidclleton mansion, he
stopped short, glancing furtively around,
then at the closed windows of the house
with apprehension.
A young woman stood near the entrance
gate, tying up the branches of a flowering
buret.
The stranger had evidently seen this
Young person before, for Ime recognized
her at once as the gar'dener's comely
daughter.
A very pretty bush," he 'observed,
"those roses must have a specific mime;
may I ask what it is?
Jacqucnlinot roses," the girl answered.
"But, goodness gracious me!" she went on,
ob'servlug the fair-haired, handsome
stranger, with a simper and a giggle,
"if you think these roses are nice, yon
ought to see those in the other parts of
the grounds; why, the whole park is a
wilderness of roses:"
"This is a very fine place," Ito remarked;
"I should like to live here,"
"Why don't you apply for the assistant -
gardener's place?" silo suggested, eagerly;
"he's going to leave next week. It's aw-
fully quiet here now, though. It would
be a splendid place for you.
The strauger booked at his white hands
with a cynical laugh.
"I would. not care for such employment,"
11e said, with a contemptuous sneer; "it's
not to my liking."
Oh, that's it, is it," the girl retorted,
with a pert toss of her yellow head,
that's what most of us would like, I fan
ey, to be lords and ladies of leisure—with
plenty of tho needful; but when our
pocket says 'no,' we havo to buckle 'to.,.
But I needn't have been' out to service
unless I wanted to," she went on,
a
with'
simpering giggle; "there was aright
smart young tradesman wanted me, but
I wouldn't have hint; oh, dear, no; and
then there was an old bachelor who was
,iust crazy for me to be Mrs, Tim Tourte-
lett; but I sent hint about.his ilt•rsiness;
eluiblc. You (lo the very proud, sir, says
I, but do you think I'd be fool enough to
marry a man old enough to be my grand-
father? No, I guess not. The idea of an
c'.1 man shying around a young girl; so
foolish as to imagitte site could fanny
him. When I marry, I want a handsome
yonng man."
Not one word of the girl's chatter haul..
been hoard by the stranger; his thoughts
wore elsewhere, and lie cut short her re-
marks by asking abrnptlym "Who lives
lure?"
"duly the servants,^ she answered.
"Time family's all broke up."
1tovy ' he asked, and the glittering
eagerness in his eyes :aroused the girl's
ouriosi'ty,
, 'gm, you know them, sir?" she asked.
No,--elt—no!" he answered, carelessly,
"The house is closed;" went on the lo-
ctuecious girl, delighted at having a ready
listener, and that, too, a very handsome
Young man. "Xost of 'the servants stay at
the lodge; they won't sleep over night in
the house, for there was a murder com-
mitted in the east room; and they do say,
at .midnight, the ghost of the murdered
Man. haunts the place." An uneasy shiver
ran through the stranger's frame.
`Brut the other members of the family;
where are .they?"'.
"Tizere was no other member save Miss
Irene," responded the girl; and she left
London very suddenly, vowing she had
shaken the dust of it from her feet for-
ever,, and that .she would never return-.
never!"
":You have no idea where she went?"
"Nobody knows that, sir," the girl re-
sponded; wondering at the evident interest
he displayed in Miss Middleton's move-
ments; adding, "I would know if anyone
thereabouts did, for /used to be her maid."
"Ah!"
"Did you speak, sir?"
"No—no; pray proceed," be murmured,
hoarsely, "Was she happy when she went,
ole -or -unhappy?"
She seemed glad to go. Why for weeks
and weeks before that, she would pace the
floor half of the night, sobbing and wring-
ing her hands; crying out that her life
had been wrecked and her future spoiled.
Of course it must have been on account of
bet uncle, sir; the man who was mur-
dered.. Miss Irene was awfully fond of
hunt She was a very sweet and gentle
young lady, was Miss Irene. There was
only one perbtah on earth whom she
loathed, and that was the man who killed
the old banker, Leon Forrester "
"You say she hated him, said the stran-
ger, a dull slumbering fire creeping into
his eyes. "How do you know, pi'aY?"
"I've heard her say so. `Katy,' she has
said to me, many a time 'I abhor even
that man's memory. I w old rather die
than be brought face to ace with him
again.' On the day he was sentenced to
prison, she cried out that she wished it
had been a life sentence he heal got, or—
death."
Did she say that?" asked,tiss stranger,
hoarsely.
Yes; and you can't blame 'her for it,
either. poor girl, when you remember
what he did."
The strauger turned on hilt heel without
replying, and strode angrily away.
'So she hates Leon Forrester, does she?"
he muttered, with a sardonic laugh, as he
whipped off 1110 heeds of the tender, nod-
ding blue -bells with his walking -stick as
.he hurried along.
The gardener's daughter •'iboked over
the hedgerow after hila with pouting lips,
He wheeled around and walked off
without as much as saying, 'good-morn-
irmg, Miss.' Perhaps he is some great lord
or an eerl or a duke, or something like
that. Of course it isn't at all likely that
I shall ever see him again, but, oh, tnY,
wasn't he handsome! and then with such
an odd style; it isn't very often a man
with fair hair and a blonde moustache
has such midnight dark eyes "
And Ka'y turned to her rose -trimming
again with a sigh, ever and anon glanc-
ing over her shoulder at the vanishing
figure,
Suddenly it struck her that there was
Something decidedly familiar about that
swinging stride es he hurried along.
"I cannot think just now if I have ever
seen hila before or not; but it will be sure
to come back to my memory if I have,
very shortly."
CHAPTER XVIII.
"I shall find her if I have to search the
ole world over to do it," muttered the
as he hurried awayfrom
tet
1
.liddlvtona r 1
m mslin
tut ,lris.auau�wt,s, an
what d"wl,r
ess, vitally interested in finding
007 line, shall divulge a little later on.
e'°t`11d hot call at the detective bureau,
to have 7l. man de` ailed to assist in the
search. Timis would have been widely at
variative With his interests; he pushed his
determined search alone to unearth some
kind of a clew to her whereabouts; but at
the elui of a fortnight he owned that he
lyse baffled.
Even the young lady's bankers were ig-
norant of where she could be, it had been
long months since she bad drawn upon
theism. Somehow they had gained the im-
pression, in some vague way, that she
was in Paris,
To Paris the stranger journey at once,
and there beetin his search anew.
IS Tl'1P,
GREAT a
BODY-BUILDERSee the British Medical
Journal, Sept. 16, '11,
and the Medical Times,
Nov. 18, '11.
Laaemooes c oft =tat, f;-4.1°
sai
Leaving him for the present, declaring
though he spent days, months, or even
years, just as sure as fate he would find
her, at last, we will return to the object
of his searoh, Irene, and her wedding -day,
and to the note t Frederick Esmond sin d had
just received and over which he stood
pondering with knitted brows.
He immediately despatched one of his
servants in search of the duchess.
"What cannot be cured must be en -
dined," he said, placing the note into her
hands.
The duchess glanced over the note hur-
riedly.
Ah, well! everything will go on smooth -
fill
said. "He has sent some one to
fill his place. No doubt that was the gen-
tleman who absconded from the coupe.
whom I saw from the drawing -room win-
dow."
Meanwhile, in the boudoir above the last
touches were being given to the bride.
elect's toilet.
"Did you tell her about the accident?"
asked one of the young girls, pushing
through the group to Irene's side.
'Look how you have frightened her, Jess
Reynolds!" reprimanded one of the bride's
maids, severely, "The accident she tells
about," she said, turning to Irene, la
scarcely worth mentioning, it was simply
this: The minister who was to perform the
ceremony missed the boat, therefore, find-
ing it impossible to reach here, telegraph-
ed that he had sent on to another minis-
ter, his friend, to have him perform the
ceremony in his stead. He has already
arrived, I believe."
"T. have heard that it was a bad omen
to have a change of ministers, or of
bridesmaids at a wedding,"' said Irene,
shuddering; "I once knew 01 such a case
and when the hour for the ceremony
rolled around the bridegroom was miss-
ing."
That will not be your case," laughed
Jessie, "for Frederick Esmond is pacing
up and down the corridor with all the im-
patience of a school -boy, begging to see
you at the earliest possible moment.
There's devotion for you."
"You will Lave one of the handsomest
of husbands, Irene," said one of the girls.
in a whisper, "and what is better than
all, be is marrying you for love alone.
You ought to be so happy, dear, yet your
face expresses --what shall I eall 1,1—some-
thing very like terror:
"It is only your fancy." murmured
Irene faintly, "why should I feel terror?"
Why, notating; only you 'look so."
It was like a strange, confused dream
to Irene, when Frederick led her down
the e+mrralor end at the door, the duke
rtee* er
armand
raceeded with
herintonto
ht ur!:arlor where the guests .ver
a
I"semn mVid
_1 mut!:ntur of admiration rang through
tite met, trews. Was there ever a more
i gloriously fair bride, she seemed so child-
' ish, so dismayed.
As the duke led her up to the floral
horseshoe beneath which the minisicr
stood, and Frederick awaited her, by
chance she raised her eyes to the clergy-
man's fare. The wonder of it wets that
she did not fall down dead at his feet
then and there; the same clergyman who
had wedded her to that other one on that
fatal day, stood before her now.
She did not cry out; she did not swoon;
she would have turned and fled precipi-
tately if she could, but the deter -ways and
passages were blocked with people.
(To be continued).
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able by-product of the farm and
spend their money for commercial
fertilizer, I do not wish to discour-
age the use of commercial fertilizer,.
but it should never be used until the
stable manure is first taken care of
and applied to the soil, if there is
not sufficient manure to meet the
demands of the farm crops the de-
ficiency should be supplied by using
commercial fertilizer.
It is rather difficult to estimate
the value of stable manure in dol-
larsd
an cents as commercial ferti-
lizers are valued, since the stable
manure adds much valuable humus
to the soil as well as direct plant
food and the commercial fertilizer
is valued for the direct plant food
alone.
Dr. Aikman says that the humus
of the stable manure is worth quite
as much to the soil as the direct
plant food. Valuing the phosphoric
acid at five cents per pound, the
potash at five cents per pound and
the nitrogen at fifteen cents per
pound a fair average value of the
stable manure may be estimated as
follows:
10 pounds nitrogen al 15c. ...$1.50
10 pounds potash at 5c .50
5 pounds phosphoric acid at 5c.25
•
$2.25
Then if we add the value of the
humus, commission charged by
agents and freight on commercial -"
fertilizers, we may still be conser-
vative when we double the commer-
cial value of the manure and count
a ton of well -cared for stable ma-
nure worth $450 to the farm.
Its value is not appreciated be-
cause it is a by-product and because
fanners have fallen into the habit
of .neglecting properly to care for
the manure and apply it judicious-
ly.
The manure when allowed to ac-
eumulate about the stables is in the
way and is a repulsive, bad-smel-
lii g product; but when drawn tri
the field and c1strz utd:eter t
St
soil by'tneans' cif spreaders it irutib
of the way and is also preparing the
soil to grow a large, crop.--W.H.K,
Iv'OTES OF THE SHEEPFOLD.
T.)on't be afraid of a little grain.
Good sheep are Iargely the product
of good food.
Better buy the best rams you can
secure. A few extra dollars on a
ram makes a lot of difference in the
Looks of the flock. The mutton -part
costs the sante, the extra money ex-
pended all goes to buy the quality,
and we cannot get too much of
that.
Why not buy a couple of high-
class ewes? A kw years hence you
will be able to give your boy a niee
little flock of ewes, in the mean-
while raising your own reins, sel-
ling the surplus to your neighbors,
doing a little missionary work, and.
they cost no inure to raise than the
kind that are just "sheep.''
Do not be afraid to shoot any
prowling dog that may be found on
your farm, and particularly if it
should happen to be in the vicinity
;,f the sheep.
THE AN AND THE COW.
Udder troubles are frequently the
result of bad feeding.
Sunlight and pleasant surround-
ings are great factors in stimulating
large milk,'ields.
The cow should be fed so that she
will produce a full flow of milk and
maintain practically the same !lesll
condition.
The high producing dairy cow is
an animal that follows in the wake
of civilization. She never goes
ahead. Conditions must be suitable
before she can be" of any value to
the farmer.
The cow should have a capacity
to produce more milk than she is
called upon to produce in ovdin:fry
dairy work.
Prisoner—°'I didn't steal the
horse. T
e. -_ only took himfel-
low
from the 1-
a f e
low what stole him." Captor --
"Shore. I 'phoned that to the vigi-
lance committee, but it's no go,
They 'phoned me Jiang up the re-
ceiver."
Stern Parent—"Quite so, quite
rl
S.. You 'Wl ,
L te,h
lie"t 11
at{m-1 Lel
havepro-
posed to my daughter; but—r.--
you say nothing about your posi.
tion, Nervous Suitor— °'My pod-
tion, 'sir ? Oh—er----the usual one,
I believe—on my knees, you know."