The Huron Expositor, 1898-04-01, Page 6-
EXPOSITOR
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TOHN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario
eJ Veteritary ColleSe. All diseases of Domestic
animals treated. Calle promptly attended to and
charges nicderate. Vetei inary Dentietry a specialty.
Office and reeidence on Goderich street, one door
East of Dr. Scott's office, Seaforth. 1112-tf
G. H. GIBE%
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist, Toronto College of
Veterinary dentists, Honor Graduate a Ontario Vet-
erinery College, Honor member of Ontario Veterie-
my Medical Society. All diseases of domestic animik1ItuIyals
. treated. All chile promptly -attended to
day or night. Dentistry and Surgery re, specialty.
Office and Dispensary -Dr. Campbell's old office,
Main street Seaforth. Night calls anewered horn the
Office. 1406-52
JAMES L. KILLORAN,
, Banister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary
Pubdc. Money to loan, Office over Piokard's Store,
foruierly blechaniee*lostitute, Main Street, Seaforth.
1528
Mir G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt &
,L1L• Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderich,
Outako. Office-Hanallton street, opposite Colborne
Motel. 14§2
'Tamss SCOTT, Barrister, 8so. Solicitor fox Mot.
id eon's Bank, Clinton. Office - Elliott lock,
Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage.
1451
El. HAYS, Banister, Solieltor'Ounveyancer and
J1jg Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion
Office-Cardno's block, Main Street, Seaforth.
eio 'ay to loan. 1235
IBEST, Barrister, Solicitor Notary, &o.
Ofilos-Roome, five doors north oftlommercia
fel, ground floor, next door to 0. L. Papst s
awelry store, Kahl street, Seaforth. Goderich
ents-Earneron, Holt and Cameron.
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tor sale. Office in Scott's Block, Main Street
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DENTISTRY.
-Et W. TWEDDLE, Dentist. Office -Over Richard-
son & MoInnis' she° store, corner Main and
John streets, Saaforth.
flR. BELDEN, dentist; crowning, bridge work
and gold plate work. Special attention given
to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work
carefully performed. Office -over Johnson Bros.'
Ilardware store, Seaforth. •1451
DR. H. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Rapti College
J.•./ of Dental Snrgeons, Ontario, D. D. 8„ of To
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/onto University. Office, Market Block, Mitchell,_
Ontario.• 1402
"INTL A. R. KINSMAN, L. D. S., D. D. S.
if Honor graduate of Toronto 'University, Den.;
tat, will practice dentietry at his father's rooms nil
Exeter, and at his room at Mrs. Shafer'. restaurant
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MEDICAL.
Dr. JOhflf McGinnis,
Hon. Graduate Landon -Western University, member
of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Office and Itesidenoe-Formerly occupied lay Mr. Wm.
Plokard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church
Air Night calls attended promptly. 1453x12
TNR. ARMSTRONG, M. B., Toronto, M. D. 0. 11.,
JJ Victoria, M. C. P. 8., Ontario, successor to Dr.
Ilillott, office• lately mewled by Dr. Elio*• Brum-
eld,Ontario.
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Iv. Glasgow, &o, Physiolan„ Surgeon and Ara
coneher,• Constince. Ont. 1121
IME. BETHUNE, M. D., Fellow of the Royal
College of PhyrIcians and Surgeons, Kingston.
noomeor io Dr. Maceticn. Ofetoc lately occupied
Dy Dr. Mackid, Na", Street Seaforth. Residenos
--OornaZ of Victoria Square in house lately occupied
by L. E. Daneey. • 1121
DR F. • F. J. BURROWS,
ir.418 resident Physician and Surgeon Toronto Gen-
eral Hospital„ Honor graduate Trinity University,
member of the College of Physionans and Surgeons
a Ontario. Coroner for the County of Huron.
garornag.--Same as formerly occupied ay Dr.
opposite Publics Batumi, Seaforth. Telephone
No. 46. K. B -Night calls answered from office.
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
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J. G. scan, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and
member Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron.
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gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Member
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario.
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JEANNIE GRAHAME'S AWAK-
ENING.
BY THE AUTHOR OE "THE SW:ITER OE SELKIRK."
). CHAPTER I.
ogen's heart in two days' time without so
much as naming love to her.
Indeed, the poor girl's shame at doing any-
thing useful was so great that she gave him
but scant opportunity of seeing, far less
speaking to her.
When her o father brought him into the
kitchen to sate good-bye she was too much
mortified at being caught in the act of mak-
ing a pie either to;hear or reply to his words
of farewell, but she heard him all too plain-
ly say to her father as they passed the win-
dow together -
"What a busy little housewife that Jean-
nie of yours is, to be sure,"
Then she burst into team He had gone
away thinking of her as Jeannie and a house-
wife, and her name was Imogen, and she
could play the piano -it was too, too bad.
CHAPTER II.
Strange are the revolutions of the wheel
�f fortune.
August had 'seen Jeannie Grahame the
daughter of a Small tenant farmer on the
banks of Loch Leven; December found her
an orphan and an heiress, fated and petted
as heiresses are wont to be, in the home of
some hitherto unknown English cousin.
The stout farmer had succumbed to -a few
days' illness shortly after the Laird's, visit,
and his widow and daughter were still de-
bating the possibility of keeping on the
farm'when a letter arrived from a lawyer
to thee effect that a long missing brother of
the first Mrs. Grahame had died in Australia,
6equeathing a large fortune to Imogen. -
This bequest, however,was burdened with
a condition sufficiently unpalatable to our
heroine, whose first thought on hearing of
her good fortune had been (though she would
not have admitted it herself) -"Now I shall
be a mate fit for John Holdernesse."
This condition wail that she should marry
within twelve months his dear friend and
fellow -traveller, John William Linton, or
forfeit the whole property to a. charitable in-
stitution named. What was to happen in •
the event of the said dear friend refusing to
marry her was not provided for, probably
because the testator's experience had net led
him to expect that any man would refuse
two hundred thousand pounds. Therefore,
as Mrs. Grahame remarked, "all Jeannie
bad to do gin she did not like the man when
ehe saw him was to make tunnel' so disagree
able that he would rather lose the oilier than
tak' her."
Close upon the news of the legacy came a
letter from an unknown English cousin beg-
ging that the daughter of her dear never -to -
be forgotten Imogen would favour her with
a long, long visit.
" I have three daughters all about your
own age," wrote Mrs. Earnshaw, "who, like
myself. aro eager to embrace their Scottish
cousin, and introduce her to all those gaieties
from Allah circumstances have hitherto de-
barred her."
• Even though this lady had not Written on
crested paper and dated from "Earnshaw
Hall,' Imogen would have been eager to ac-
cept the invitation, for she felt that she
could never blossom out into a fine lady
under the eye and criticism of her step-
mother, whose ideas of drove and ot morals
were equally Puritanical.
She salved her conscience .by providing
Most generously for her atepmother's contin-
uance in the old home, and set off for Eng-
land to her unknown correspondent in direct
opposition to her advice.
Earnshaw hallwas near -the cite of York,
where a handsome carriage was waiting her
arrival at the station, nor did that carriage
convey her, as the reader of romance may
have anticipated, to some dismal and dilapi-
dated old house, the abode of desperate and
mysterious crimmabs.
Qn the contrary, Earnshaw Hall was a
cheerful, modern mansion, whose mistress, a
dashing, well-to-do widow, had no evil de-
signs upon the heiress, not even a ne'er-do-
weel son in the background to marry her to
Mrs. Earnshaw was jiitt one of the many
people who fOrget all about their poor
friends, and who really love their rich ones
• very dearly_•
Her daughters, who were similarly consti-
tuted, received» their rich cousin with the
.greatest kindness, and laid themselves out
for her pleasure and improvement.
These young ladies who were great in the
mysteries of the toilet, soon detected Imo-
gen's hankerings after the vanities which
had been, perhaps, too rigidly forbidden by
her stepmother's "sumptuary code."
They leaned to the opposite extreme, and
under their instruction Imogen soon learned
to stain her fair hair yellow, to tone her pale
cheeks, and deepen the red of her lips after
the most approved fashion, to darken her
eye -lashes and accentuate her eyebrows, and
to make the soft grey eyes, which nature
meant to languish modestly beneath their
lids, stare with belladonna.
Whether these were improvements upon
nature is, of course„ matter of opinion ; that
• they were great alterations is a Matter of
Ib
months of her year of freedom were gone,
was December now, more than three
and still the unwelcome husband assigned
to her gave no sign. Mr. Linton was trav-
elling abroad, so the lawyer told her, but
e expected to be in Engl nd early in the New
Year.
"Are e-ni there, Jeannie ?" cried the far-
mer's wife, pushing open the garden gate.
"I am here, mother," replied a clear voice
from the thickest of gooseberry bushes, "but
I do wish you would not call me that hor-
rid, vulgar name."
"Jeannie has been the name of many a
better woman than either you or me," replied
Mr. Grahame.
"But it is not my name. My name is
Imogen."
" Weel, weel, Imogen be it," said Mrs.
Grahame, "but haste ye in bye and help me
to seek out the sheets for the beat bed, for
your father has bidden the Laird."
"Bidden the Laird," repeated Imogen, as
she followed her stepmother into the house,
"Yes, he met him on the moor, and it
seems that the shooting lodge has gotten the
rdof blawn awe' wi' last night's gale, so your
.
father bade him come here. '
"Oh, mother," - cried Imogen, in whose
eyes this unknown landlord of her father's
W&B the most important of men, "how ever
shall we manage wi' Kitty away !"
"It is a pity it happened when the lass
W08 on her holidays," returned Mrs.
Grahame, as she threw piece after piece of
spotless napery upon her step -daughter's
arm. "But men never think O' thee things,
so we maun make the best o't. I will do
the cooking and you do the waiting and
your father sit_ at the table wi' the
Laird."
" Couldn't we get Jess Moir in to help for
the day ?" suggested Imogen.
"Jeannie Grahame, I wonder to hear
you !" cried the other. "1 am going to put
out your mother's dinner service that she
got at her wedding and that has never been
used since her funeral, and is it likely that
I am going to consign it to the tender mer-
cies o Jess Moir? And never while I hae
strength granted me to lift a pot will I suffer
anyone under this roof to be poisoned by
her cookery. If you like to take the cook-
• ing I'll do the waiting, but your ain ecu-
• mann tell you that the fitness of things lies
-the other way."
There was no lenying the truth of this
proposition, and the speaker continued-
• " And if you let your foolish pride shame
my housekeeping and your father's hospital-
ity in a pinch like this you are not the lassie
I take you for."
This appeal proved effectual, for Imogen
loved her father dearly, and would have
been sorry to see her bustling, good-natured
step -mother mortified.
Nevertheless, her heart.was full of discon-
tent and false shame. What is the use of
being christened Imogen, and being able to
play the piano if your step -mother will call
you Jeannie, and your father invites the
Laird when the servant is on her holidays?
Intogen's mother had been a pretty, penni-
less English girl, who hadiound her way to
Kinross as nursery governess to the minister's
family, and everybody said that William
Grahame, a tenant farmer on the banks of
Loch Leven, would repent marrying such a
feckless Wax doll. She died before he was
wearied of her pretty uselessness, leaving
him with an only daughter, to whom she be-
queathed her pretty face and her sentiment-
al name and nature.
Grahame's second wife was everything
that the wife of a small farmer ought to be,
and she had striven hard to make her step-
daughter the same, not without success un-
til Graham -e had taken it into his head to
send her to boarding -school.
From this school Imogen had returned
with her head full of nonsense, holding, for
instance, that work of any kind was incom-
pattble with "being a lady," was a thing to
be ashamed of,to be avoided, if poSsible ; and
if Unavoidable'to be concealed and per-
formed in secret.
Great, 'therefore, was her mortification at.
having to present herself in the character of
a useful member of society to the honored
guest, opening the door and setting the
dishes on the table, dressed in her usual
afternoon dress -plus a neat apron -for her
stepmother would not hear of her donning
her best for the occasion.
Yet, if she would but have thought it, Im-
ogen never looked better ,than in that plain
serge dress made by her own clever fingers.
Its untrimmed bodice showed off her grace-
ful figure to the very best advantage, while
its dark blue, relieved by a knot of lighter
ribbon at the throat, enhanced the pale fair-
ness of her skin.
The _Laird, who took in all these details
concerning the daughter of his hospitable
tenant at a glance, was an Englishman.
This small slice of Fifeshire recently inherit-
ed from his mother was the only portion of
his possessions which had not been mort-
gaged 0 the last farthing long ere they
reached his hands.
His embarrassed circumstances, however,
were certainly not reflected in John Holder-
nesse's appearance, for he was a big, strong,
brown -bearded, blue-eyed, cheerful -looking
young fellow as eyer shouldered a rifle or
made love to a pretty girl.
He bowed to Imogen with an air which
said plainly enough that he did not mistake
her for a common servant, .:and how he man-
aged unsay that without words is no greater
mystery than how he managed to steal Im-
C1 k..161 rl" 4=0 Irt. X AL.
The fac-
simile
signature
of
is on
every
engem
seen
4FoieALL
Itching, Torturing,
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there is nothing ives :such
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- GEO. LEE, Mansnintin, OFT., .
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on the hands so bad thB.t he could!
not work. Ille had do tors tre&t-
j1g him and tried all t e remediee
ha heard of, but of nct avail. At
night the itching wa4 so severe
hal could nob gasp. Pr. Chase's
Ointment being reco mended to
hiM he tried it and on box coin.
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; rice, 60 cents. ScItl hy & dealers, or
Edmanaon, bate,' &leo.,
Tomato. Oat. t
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APRIL 1, 1898.
her new friends, so the secref of their past
acquaintanae was safe so far. ,
Yet she might have betrayedit heriielf by
her extreme agitation, but for the diversion
e entrance of Mrs. Earnshaw
e daughters in fult ball costume.
t down upon Holdernesse like a
whirlwind, overwhelmed him With questions
without waiting for answers, inisisted that
he must cone with them to -the ball, and
carried' him into the big watnette which
was in waiting before he well ,new what he
was about. 11 ,
Oh ! golden evening for Imogen, and still
more golden,ilays that followed 1 when she
sang to him in the drawing rdom (she had
beinadoing her best of late to destroy her
sweet but stain compassed voice by learning
impossible sena) or played billiards with
him in the bilhard room, or flirted with him
on the skating pond.
His presence had settled all hesitation in
her mind as 0 her future action: Dearly as
she loved all 4iat money can gilit).-keenly as
she had enjoY d this brief command of for-
tune -she d John Holdernesse better,
and was quite' repared to abaliden ail, if he,
this -man of encun-ibered lands and broken
fortunes, as she now understood him to be,
but said the werd. •
But be did net say it sotnehowe though her
cousins were most generous in leaving him
ample opporcipaities to do so -there were
even terrible moments when Imogen began
to suspect that he was not a lover after. all.
CHAPTER III.
• It was Christmas Eve, and the eve of a
large party at the Hall, when Imogen, com-
ing quickly int n the conservator tt for, some
flowers to complete her toilet, came upon
Mrs. Earnshaw land John Holdernesse in
such`close conversation that neither 'observ-
ed her entrance.1
She would have gone out as quickly as she
came in, but the sound of her own name
arrested her in site of herself.
"Imogen is a eharming girl, John," Mrs.
Earnshaw was Saying,' "even thongh she
were not an heiress, and I am sure I have
given you every Chance of wooing and win-
ning her on your 'own- merits 1"
I shall never either woo cat win Miss
Grahame' " was John's reply, "even though
my heartwere not irrevocably fixed othor-
wise. I could never love a woman like that
-a painted wax doll -a mere milliner's lay
figure 1"
• Alas, poor Iipolgen, with all her painfully
acquired graces. 1 "Your heart bein so fix.
idyou
created by t
and her thr,
They swe
' over the crisp en w swiftly SA any mawkin,
she made for the city of York.
To catch the !night express on' its way
north was her intent, and it took her a good
hour's walking, and running to do so. The
train was justStarting as she rushed into
the station, and jumped in without a ticket.
Thank heaven there was no other passeng-
er got in at Yor . She would be at Muir -
end before John oldernesse, whom she felt
• sure would not delay his northward journey
until the day after to-morrotv could keep a company constantly amused by
The train ha,d 'whissed some miles on its • her apt use of slang, s' She amuses me great -
ea occurred 0 her that the ly, but -I should not care to invite her to my
aseball field. A girl may cause a smile by
tie apt uee of some slang phrase. But,
inwardly, those who applaud her place her,
at the same time, in their estimation. No
girl ever won an ounce of respect by being
slangy. On the contrary, many a girl, un-
conscious of the cause, has found,
herself gradually slipping out of people's re-
spect by the fact that her talk was dotted
with slang phrases. Oh, she - is clever '
aaid a woman not long ago, of a girl who
way before the'
Jeannie to *iom John Holdernesse had , home nor have my girls know her. It is a
! lost his heart might not be her old self after poor popularity for a girl, which has as its
all ! e only basis the es p and bells of the jester,
The life of the jester is never long."
"Only a few weeks more," thought Imo-
gen as she sat in the drawing room one even-
ing alone, ready dressed to accompany her
cousins to a grand ball, "and then ?"
Could she ever bring herself to niarry any
man hut John Holdernesse, and yet even for
his sake could she bring herself to aleandon
all the new found joys of riches?
"Besides, I should abandon them in vain.
I shall never meet him again, and if I did he
has never thought twice of the country girl
whom he knew only as the servant on a little
farm !"
The door opened as she thus mused, and
John Holdernesse himself stood before her.
She knew him at once; but there was no
recognition in his glance. The fine lady be-
fore him called up no memory of the busy
little housewife on the banks of Loch Leven.
"1 must introduce myself," he said, with
the easy frankness that she remembered so
well. My name is John Holderneasie. I
am a very old friend of Mrs. Earnshaw's,
who has invited me to spend the Christmas
holidays here. Am 1 right in supposing you
are her cousin, Miss Grahame t"
Imogen bowed. • She saw he did not know
her. It was well she thought -be would see
and know, and it might be, love her as a
"lady " before he recalled her as a " maid-
ef-all-work in that inooreland farm.
Fortunately the reserve which often seals
the lips of true love had prevented her from
ever mentioning John Holdernesse to any of
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PROSTRATED, EXHAUSTED.
NO SLEEP -NO REST.
LL do not appreciate
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fi
edMrs. arnahaw, " why
come here fit all ?I'
"Because I was rash enough to
repairing my fortunes by marry
-money," replied Holdernesse, who e
knew nothing of the fatal clause
uncle's will; "aid because did n
how impossible it was for me tb
woman while I leved another."
"Might one askthe name and of
this fortunate or Unfortunate other citronasked
.
Mrs. Earnshaw drily. ,
"Her name is Jeannie," returned the
young mam ; " She is the daughter of a ten-
ant on a property which I once possessed in
Scotland, now gone the way of most of my
other pessessions-to pay debts whichYtvere
inherited, not contracted. Her other name
I never knew; it is the custom in that part
of the country to call tenants by the names
of their farms."
" Why, John, who would have suspected
you of a romance ?"
"It is a very prosaic one," he answered,
smiling, "with a work -a -day little heroine,
washing dishes and baking pies and tripping
over kitchen floors in country -made shoes.
This is the figure, evith pale fair hair and
eyes as gray as the loch at daybreak which
has always been getting between me and the
fine lady heiress."
"01 course, you have won
your paragon?"
"No, I onl knew her for two days, and
had no idea h w I toted her until I left her.
No doubt she had many lovers; she may be
married by th a time."
" John Ho
advice ?" said
pause.
" I shall be
hink of
ng for
idently
in her
t know
oo one
CH PTER IV. •
Christmas afternoon was well advanced
when Mrs. Grahaine, walking gingerly across
the yard from her dairy to her kitchen door
caught sight of a 'solitary little figure toiling
along the anow-bldcked farm road.
" Yon's either \Jeangie Grahame or her
wraith !" she cried running out to meet her
with an alacrity 'which -showed that she
leaned to the first opinion.
"Keep me, Jeseenie Grahame!" she cried
"whatever brings you here by youseV in sic
weather? And what a mercy you hae no'
brought ony o' you brew friends wi' you, for
Kitty is on her holiday, and I'm in the house
my lane."
She had got into the kitehen now, and
was untying her hat, and taking off her coat
before the blazing fire.
"Whatever hae ;3roti been doing to your
head," she cried. It iz free a' the world
like the inside o' a brass jelly pan, and
wooed .and
"My advic
marry you to -
that, the next
your Scottish,
"1 Will tre
Seekers do," s
of your avio
if .my little
have me, I w
begin life as a
cannot get he
solation in that popinjay heiress.
your -e -e"
"Oh, mother," Sobbed Imogen, "don't
ask me any more 'questions, but bring out
one of my old gowns, and let me put it on."
"1 hae gi'en away the feek o' them to
poor folk, but I think your au'd blue serge is
still in the drawer upstair," replied the good
wife,. "I'll fesh it doon and it can be air-
ing_while you drink& cup o' tea and eat a
bite, for I am sure y' It look since and twice
water."
"Cold and hung y as our traveller was
she could not do justice to the country dain-
ties set before her, so eager was she to get
• into all the outer trappings of her old self.
"I've Fit on the muckle pot," said her -
practical hostess, "and we will see what -hot
water and soda will do to cleaning your hair
of that 'stuff."
A very short_time after and Jeannie (she
bade good-bye to Imogen forever) was ar-
ranging her old, smooth, flaxen hair and
knotting a bit of faded blue ribbon at the
collar of her trim dark gown.
There was a confidence between step-
mother and daughter that night such as
there had never been before. Jeannie told
Mrs. Grahame all her own folly -her unre-
turned love and her fortunate discovery.
The good wife rose to the °minion at
once.
She would not admit the possibility of
John Holdernesse's Jeannie being any other
but her Jeannie Grahame. Had she not
always said that mair lasses got sweethearts
by minding their work than by dressing
their heads, and ale for the fortune which
Jeannie must give up if he took him, had
not marry for love and Work for money been
her uniform advice to all young folks; and
after all was said and done his idea of pov-
ery would be something very different from
her's.
Thus they sat together talking by the fire
far into the Christmas night. Mrs. Grahame
was just thinking of bed when the yard dog
gave tongueVand a quick step ran across the
frozen yard.
"That's him, Jeannie," whispered the
good wife '• "haste ye and let him in."
John Holdernesse came to the back door,
and it opened wide almost before • he
knocked.
There stood his little Jeannie looking just
the same as when he left her months ago.
He threw proprieties and explanations to the
winds,and eaught her in his arms and kissed
her again and again as though he had been
an accepted lover all these months standing,
while Jeannie clung to his neck and hid her
lace upon his snowy shoulder as though all
the usual words of betrothal had passed be-
tween them.
As for Mrs. Grahame, her behaviour was
O model for all third parties. She could not
consign the lovers into the frozen back par-
lour, so she threw herself into such vigorous
preparation for an impromptu supper, as en-
abled them to do all their 'talking by the
kitchen fire under cover of her. fuss and clat-
ter.
dernesae, are you asking my
Mrs. Earnshaw, after a short
glad to hear it in any event."
is that you ask Imogen to
ight, and if you will not do
best thing is to go and see if
ove is still unwed."
t you better than most advice -
id John. "1 will take half
. I will go to Scotland, and,
aid is still unwed and will
11 get rid of everything and
poor but debtless man. If I
I certainly will not seek eon-
" A wilful
turned Mrs. E
ing to spoil m
to -they :r to.
The Christ
Hall, always
were this year
Imogen was
seemingly, th
dancing, jesti
except John
aged to avoi
eyes the heire
agreeable.
Yet, in spit
the gaiety ar
were far awa
banks of Lore
spised self, w
successfnI riv
could ever ea
gain which ah
world beside
The merri
bells had not
when she stol
and in the sol
on a piece of
an will have his way," re -
rushee,; but you are not go -
parties by going away either
orrow."
* * _• *
as festivities at Earnahaw
great events in the county,
more brilliant than ever, and
the finest, the gayest, and,
happiest of the company,
g and flirting with everyone
oldernesse, whom she man -
all evening, and in whose
s had neve e appeared so dia.
of her seeming absorption in
und her, Imogen's thoughts
in her old home on the snowy
Leven, and with her old de-
om she now knew to be her
1 in the only heart which she
e to eall her own, the heart to
was prepared to lose all the
ent was still at its height, the
etbegun to ring in Christmas
away from the merrymakers,
tude of her own room scrawled
paper the following Words "It is nee ssary for me to go away at
once. I will xplain all later." „
'1
Having ad
ed worldlin
aside her ba
and drew fro
her very pia
it happened.
Then dow
thief, put int
ressed this to that good-natur-
lelrs. I Earnshaw, she threw
:dress land all her ornaments
the recesses of her wardrobe
est dress -a bicycling suit as
the back stairs softly as any
the clear starlight night, and
The Autobiography of a Quarter.
I am only a poor, dirty, little twenty -five -
cent piece, but who knows the stories I
might tell, if I but set my mind to think.
Possibly you think that this dirty drees is
the only one I have been used to., but you
are mistaken. I will tell you, a few reminis-
cences of my past life, and then you will see -
that I have seen better days. First, whea
I came out of the mint I was a bright silver
quarter,and the envy of my other brothers
and sisters whose clothes were More be-
grime&
I felt very proud when I passed into the
hands of a gentleman, mind you, a real
gentleman, who gaye me to his little son in
O beautiful red purse, as a birthday gift.
How that boy treasured me at first, but
after awhile, strange to say,' I seemed to be
almost burning a whole in his pocket, so
much did he wish to spend me. At last the
temptation grew to strong and he yielded.
I went into the possession of a woman, who'
placed me in a nasty leather bag, with lots
of such dirty pieces of money. But not for
long 1 A lady cameto the store, and I was
given to her for change. I was so glad to
find myself once more arnidet respectable sur-
roundings that I almost wished that I might
be allowed to remain there.
But, alas I My hopes were soon'frustrat-
ed. The lady saw some tempting bananas
upon the street One day, and I was given
into the charge of (with horror, be it said),a
dirty Italian man. , How I shuddered as_I
was put into his greasy pocket, to think
how long I might be compelled teremain in
my present abode. To my great joy, a few
hours later, I found myself being handed
over to a young gentleman. On his home-
ward journey he met a poor, half-starved
Woman, and having- nothing less than me
he bestowed me upon her. I was pleased te;
Owl myself of some use in the world, for I
saved that woman from starvation. She
gave me to the grocer, and from thence I
was given to» an old clothes dealer, and
while I resided at his domain, some cruel,
heartless wretch bored a hole through me,
for good luck as he said, but what good luck
it brought me I fail to see.
A restraurant keeper next became pos-
sessed of me, and from him I passed into the
keeping of a lady and gentleman who were
lunching. Seeing that I was lucky, they
decided to keep me. But necessity is , a
stern master and they were obliged to part
from me. - So, on I rimed frepit one to an-
other, until 1 at last lie in the palm - of your
soft white hand, and they say I do not
weigh as much as' when I was young and
that I -shall have to go .back to the bank.
But then that is the way of the world, when
it is tired of anything, it casts it aside, and
so I suppose it will be with me.
ASKS GOD'S BLESSING.
It was not until some days later that
Jeannie, having made the wise resolve to
hide nothing from her Inver, approached the
subject of her twofold identity. •
They were walking by the frozen margin
of the loch, crisp snow underfoot, and clear
blue sky overhead, and Holdernesse had just
finished the story of his travels since they
parted, which had taken him half over
months hsheither," she said. "1 have been
ave not been at Muirend all these
staying at a place called Earnshaw Hall, in
Yorkshire. I was there all the time you
were there. I only left a few hours before
you diod:"
not Jeannie • but another me called
"No,
at Earnshaw Hall, Jeannie ?"
Imogen, who was Mrs. Earnshaw's cousin,
and who had a fortune bit her -only there
was a husband along with it."
" What?" cried Holdernesse, in a voice
that made the still air ring again.
"A husband, John ; but I could not have
him and the fortune -because -because he
was not you."
'• But he is meV' cried Holdernesse,
"My name was John Linton. Why it was
changed to Holdernesse does not matter
just now. I asked Sirs. Earnshaw not to
tell my proposed wife that I was the man of
the will,as I wished her to meet menvithout
prejudice. But how • did she not identify
yon as my Jeannie?"
"Because she knew nothing about me un-
til I was an heireas " replied the other ;-
• "but how did you not know me? I should
have known you anywhere and anyhow."
"1 am not at all sure that Yon would if I
had got myself up as a Sioux Indian," he
returned bluntly. How could I know my
sweet little country maiden under the mask
of that painted, plastered, impossible crea-
ture? Yet I know now why, when I was
disliking Imogen most, Jeannie always
seemed nearest to me."
"Imogen is gone for ever," she said, "and
promise me, John'that when your are lov-
ing Jeannie most, Imogen will always seem
furthest away from you." -Dundee Conner,
When Girls Use Slang.
"It is unfortunate that slang phrases are
so easily slipping into our everyday conver-
sation, and taking apparently so fixed a
place in our talk, writes Edward W. Bok in
the Ladies' Home Journal. "And the worst
of it is that so many people are usingslangen-
tirely unconscious of the fact that they are
doing so. If the common usage of slang
were confined to a particular order of girls
it would, perhaps, serve as an indicator of
character, and pass unnoticed. It would, at
least, not touch the sensibilities of gentle-
folk, But it is not so confined. Slang is
invading the very nicest of circles; it is be-
ginning to influence the talk ofour most
carefully reared girls. And this is why the
habit shouldneceive closer attention. Girls
are forgetting that slang phrases and refine-
ment are absolutely foreign to each other.
A slang phrase may be more expressive than
O term of polite usage, but it is never im-
pressive, except to impresis unfavorably.
"It is high time that our girls shouM
realize that they should speak the English
language in their conversation, and not th -
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