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APRIL 15 1898.
VETERINARY
TOI1N GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate el OLtarle
itJ Veterinary -College. All diseases of Domestic
animals treated, Calls promptly attended to arid
charges moderate. Veto niary Dentistry a srecielty
a.nd ret..iderce on Goderich street, one door
East -of Dr. Scott's office, Seatorth. 13.124t
G. H, GIBS,
veto:inlay surgeon and Dentist, Toronto College ot
veterinary denMede, kronor Graduate of Ontario Ve t-
oiletry College. Honor member of Ontario Veterire
sty Medical Society. Ail diseases of donaestio animals
siolifulty treated. Ali Wig promptly attended to
day or night. Dentieny and Surgery a 11PenialtsY•
Offioe and Dispensary -Dr. Caumbeire old office,
litain street Statorth. Night calls answered horn the
office. 1406-52
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Pablo. Money to loan. Office over Pizkard's Stcre
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CAMERON, formerly of Ci
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In Cameron, Barrister and Solicitor, Goderich,
Ontaako. Office -Hamilton street, opposite Colborne
Rotel. 1452
TAMES SCOTT, Banister, &a. Solicitor
son's Bank, Clinton. Office - Elliott
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fl S. HATS, Barrister, Solicitor, Oonveyaneer and
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son & McInnis' shoe store, corner Main and
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Hensall, every Wednesday. H. Kinunan, L. D. S.,
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MEDICAL.
Dr. John McGinnis, -
Hon. Graduate London Western University, member
of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Mee and Residence -Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm.
Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church
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office lately ocoupied by Dr. Ellett, Bruce-
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Date resident Physician and Surgeon Toronto Gen-
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gold medalist. Trinity Medical College. Member
College ot Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario.
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isrussels, Ontario. First Claes Honor Graduate of
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body seemed to stiffen and yet to relax; to accepting your kind invitation," said that
straighten atO yet to droll), her every •personale°, a little p
motion was more swift and yet more assur-
ed. The 4' dragoness " seemed to cry "Ha!
ha !" and to tweet the fray from afar.
" We have just been talking of yoa," she
1
There wat something in her voice, some
new, vibrant ring that caused her charges
to glance at each other with renewed
astonishment. It was hardly noticeable,
but there was certainly an animation, an
alertness, that had not been discoverable in
her tones before.
• "Oh," eaid Fales, "this is ungenerous.
We are only expected to leave our charac-
ters behind us, as you know. We should
not be subjected to a sort of 'anticipatory
vivisection. I hope you were merciful."
"1 didn't say -anything," answered the
' " dragonees " ; and really I am very 'much
surprised, for it was something I didn't ;
. know anything about."
! t` I am relieved," said Fides. "Of coulees
when yon know something then you will
say nothing ; I am safe."
She laughed lightly.
I" So," he said, lookieg complacently
around, "the drakoness ' didn't come af-
ter all."
Ruth glanced helplessly at MiS3 Frew,
who in bewilderment was watching the ten,
cenacions Pales, and the extremely cons
adious " dragoness."
"THE .DRAGONESS."
BY GEORGE A. HIBBARD.
They questioned her about the managr.
ment of her sehooleher libraries, her chari-
ties. They tried her on more general sub-
jects. Musio-she played a little aid ack-
nowledged that she sang in the choir; but
though she knew that musieal Italy had
found an Attila), she would nct have
recognized a Wagnerian "motif" if she
• had met one. Alt -she knew the histories
of the old masters, and bad read Ruskin
" for' the style." Literature -they were
about to fall upon literature as a topic upon
which 'she could certainly be induced to say
something; when suddenly she looked up
pleadingly, and spoke with more decision
than had hitherto been apparent in her
tone.
" It is very good of you," she said, "to
• ask me so many questions about myself, and
about things that I know do not interest
you, for what can you care whether we
introduee manual training into our public
schOchNeislmit the works of the positive-
thinkee4o the shelves of the library, or
advocate co-operation among the poor? I
wish you would talk to me about your-
selves, you do so many things."
" Why," said Ruth, in surprise, "I never
thought of myself in that way. I only do
what every one else -has done.
Except myself," said the " dragoness,"
with a grim little smile, and almost as
humiliated an aspect as she might be sup-
posed to wear if some one bad asked her
ethoaNrei.
t thee digamma was and she feed not
k•n
•
"1 *wonder," observed Rath, in 1er em -
harassment, "if there will be any o ,e here
to -night? 1 hope that Uncle Sig will
come."
" Who is that ?" asked the " dragon-
ess."
" The dearest old imbecile that ever
walked -or rather rode, for that's about all
Uncle Sig ever .does. But you wouldn't
care for him, he isn't learned in the least,
unless as to the pedigree of a debutante or
a race -horse ; isa't clever at any thing ex-
cept leading a cotillion'playing a hand at
whist, or driving a tandem.
"Really," said the " dragoness," and
Miss Frew; closely as the watched her,
coald not detect whether the rising inflec-
• tion indicated scorn or not. " I don't think
1 -ever saw any one just like that."
"He's always in love with everybody,
including himself, and will do all the nice
things for you that only a thoroughly self-'
ish man would know ho'w to do."
" Buthe's at the Dallison dance," said
Miss Frew.
"No ; for that's riut off because -be-
cause "-she heeitated, for she did not like
to say that it had been postponed because
of the arrival of the " dragoness " and her
own inability to be there-" Mrs. 'Tom'
thought it would be better later in the
week." „
The " dragoness " glanced at Ruth in-
quiringly.
"Oh, Mrs. Tons,' " she said, in reply to
the mute question, "is the friend of the un-
righteous.; the leader of the army of the'
New Order of Things' ; the brightest,
;prettiest, most extravagant married woman
in all Andros; my greatest friend, and
auntie's pet bete niore:"
"You forget Harold Redmond," suggest-
ed Miss Frew, maliciously.
"In that case translate bete noire black
sheep," answered Ruth, calmly.
"1 am sure," said the " dragoness," with
what, if she had been one who would have
been likely to have felt any sympathy - with
sech personages, could have been thought
only a tone of respectful consideration, "1
should like to see them."
• Dinner ended, and as Ruth rose from the
table and passed into the librery she was
brought face to face with the fitetethat there
Was an evening before - her. Eight, nine,
ten, eleven -one could not reasonably ex-
pect to seek a well-earned rest before that
time. Three hours ! As she, took up some
sewing -some "plain sewing," which she
had prepared "for a first effect" -she -
glanced despondently at Miss Frew, who
had seated herself at the piano, and had
already begen to play the "Fire Music " as
if she could sympathize with the encircled
and imprisoned Brunnhilde.
"And how," said Sigourney Fates, as he
entered the room, "do I find my burdens?
Your uncle's last words were that I should
look after yeti, and I come to fulfil my
trust."
"If," anewered Ruth, "we are as bur-
densome to you as we are to ourselves,
pity,you. As we know no possible way of
killieg time, we were about to kill our-
selves. You have saved our lives." Then,
turning to the " dragoness," she added,
"Miss Kittrtdge, I want to present to you
our very dear friend Mr. Fales."
Ruth and Miss Frew gazed at the " drag-
oness " with unconcealed amazement. She
had looked small, dowdy, insignificant, as
she sat in the chair near the fire, and looked
helplessly about the strange room ; but now
her hand had sought a large scarlet fan that
lay on a table near her, and with this care-
fully interposed between her face and the
blaze, she glanced slowly up at Sigourney
Fales. A brighter light had come into her
eyes, a warmer flush was upon her cheeks;
about her mouth played an enigmatical
smile, half challenging, half appealing. Her
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,ahr irragr.
Miss . Kiteridge - blushed deeply-" Sh'e
must have gone to bed at ten o'clock ee err
nightla her life to have that complexion at
her age," Mite Frew had said -Miss Kit-
tridge blushed deeply, as indeed she had a
way -of doing upon all extraordinary and
some ordinary occasions, aud spoke up
bravely, before Ruth suceeeded in finding
that most elusive object of searth-soine-
thingeosay.
"Ob," she observed pleasantly, "1 8up-
pose I am the dragoness ' ; but, please,
why did J not answer to your ideas of !the
character ?"
Rath cast on her a glance of unquestion-
able thankfulness.
,
"Why, you --you're too young," slam.
mered Fales, utterly disconcerted.
"What a subtle compliment !" laughed
Mi.s Kittridge.'
What Fales answered and what the
" dragoness "said that evening are of no
particular consequence, or would oily aid.
in a slight degree in forming any conception
of the remarkable character thus unexpect-
edly introduced to Andros, or would tend
only slightly to promote an underetanding
of the singular events that took place dur-
ing Mrs. Abernethes absence -events over
which she is to this day puzzled. Sufficient
it is toelay that Sigourney Fales and the
" dragoness " seemed to find inesthaustible
subjects for conversation ; that Soon Miss
Frew returned unnoticed to the piano, and
Ruth slipped unperceived into the adjoining
room to finish a book she had began before
Christmas,. At first neither of those gave
great heed to the flight of time, /but as the
more rapid minuteehand had ove' eaken and
passed once and again his staid id serious
fellow -wayfarer, they gradual y became
aware that they were getting sleepy. First
the onyx and gilt clock in the drawing
room struck the hour trippingly ; then the
quarter was sounded by the old timepiece
OH the landing, that had come i down from
anotheregeneration, when they tOok account
of such trifles ; then the half rang out -faint-
ly from some remote region I above; and
,
then again came the hour. !
"He is telling her his very eldest story,"
whispered Rath to Mies Frew, as _she joined
her in the music -room; "and she is actually
laughing as though she enjoyed it."
Another sixty minutes passed, and the
situation was, becoming serious.
"She is begging lum to tell her," repeat-
ed Miss Frew, "how he got out of Paris
during the siege, and if he once begins upon
thee we are lost."
Another hour dragged ore and fin lly
Fades, with visible reluctance, managed to
rise. (
"Did he ask her to drive with , hi
whispered Ruth.
"1 think so," replied Miss Frew, dr w-.
sily.
" What did she say ?"
"1 think she said that she would."
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When Miss Frew and Ruth came d wn
the next morning they found the- " d ay-
oness "already in the breakfast room.
transpired long afterward that she ad
arisen when the day was still so new as
not to be recognized by good society, nd
had patiently awaited their appearance.
" Well," she said, brightly, " what are
you going to do this morning ?"
Before Ruth could answer, a servant , n -
flounced that Ma. Dallison wished to speak
to her.
"I'll bring her in," exclaimed Ruth.
"Do," said the " dragoness." " I w nt
to see her eo very much.
" Are you still alive ?" asked Mrs. al
liton as Ruth met her in the hall. "And
are you already prepared to adopt dress
form? Do you feel an overpowering
sire to vote ? '
"Come," answered Ruth, mystelious y.
Mrs. Dallison, with her light, rapid tretid,
arossed the threshold of the breakfast-roo
and stopped short. Certainly the "dr g-
oness " was no gorgon, but she seemed to
have an astonishingly petrifying effect up n
those who beheld her.
"Oh !" exclaimed Mrs. Tom," envolu
tarily.
Mrs.-Dadlison wishes to see yeti," ea d
Ruth, rushing to the rescue'and looking et
the " dragonese " who stood up nervously
clasping and unclasping her hands.
" Yes, Mies Kittridge," said Mrs. Dal
son, recovering from her too evident asto
ishment. "I am going to have a little cli
ner and dance at the Country Club to -nigh
and I want you all to come."
Now, if ever, was the chance for tib
" dra.goness " to prove herself the tru
duenna ; now was the time for her to exhibi
that &mess of character and promptness o
reselution that would in future assure t
her unquestioned obedience and respect
But she did not seem particulaily deter
mined, or at all certain what she would do
Indeed, she looked helplessly at Ruth, an
only asked, mildly,
-" Do you think that we could?"
" Of course," assured Ruth, joyfully ;
while in inetaneous process she thought :
"01 all things the Country Club, Mrs.
Tom,' and probably Harold. What would
auntie say and her heart glowed with
sudden warmth for the " dragonese."
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" If,' mid Mrs. " Tom," as she stood
upon the door -step,
eompanied her, " th
any more like that,
;stay there. I am g
Satisfied person, but
that is alone enough
emerald with env
coupe, she viciously
When Ruth niter
at the table, she fo
evident distrees, 8)1
something she foun
vhith r Ruth hid a�-
rurt4 districts c ntain
hope that they will
iuerally quite a self -
a coibplexion such as
to make one perfectly
!" and entering her
slammed the doore
ed and took her Pla.ee
nd Miss Kittridge in
clearly possessed' with
extremely difficult to
elq.
' I," she began, hen paused---" I want
to ask you somethin About -you 'Wow -
what ought I to we r to -night?"
"Ob," -exclaim Ruth, "almost any-
thing will do."
"But," exclaim d the " dragoness,"
hoplesely, "1 don't seem to have even any-
thing. You see I ever have cared very
much about -my th ngs." Then she added,
in a sudden burst of confidence, "1 wish
now that I had."
"1 think," inte pted Miss Frew, "that
you might, if yo wouldn't mind, take
something -of mine.'
" Oh ! would youlet me ?" cried the
" dragoness," with an expression of the
deepest gratitude in her tone. "Do yo
think they would fit ?" ,
"-We can try," answered MO Frew.
[
Miss .Kittridge Advanced before the lgreati
mirror, while Ruth and Mies Frew fell back
to get a betterView of the result of their
labors.
"It is simply perfect," said Ruth, im-
pressively, in itrepressible admiration.-
The " dragoiness" looked up with a 'abort, .
excited laugh,/ retreated a step, and then
gazed Silently at the reflection in the glass.
For a long time, motionless, wordless, she
stood conte,mplating the small, slight,modish
figure the mirror revealed to her, studying
it as one might some interesting stranger ;
then she sig ed d eply, and turning,. made a
swift, positi a ge, ture with her right hand,
such as one nak le when he puts something
from him. i
"1 feel Sp stir ngely," said the" dragon-
ess " ; " thipre d n't seem to be so much of
me. I supPose hat is because it fits."
" Yes,"lasse ed Miss Frew..
'‘ But tien," Jeontinued the " dragoness,"
turning h4r head, and vainly trying to look
atraight 4own lier back," it seems se if I
were (tog g a p rt. I must have a relieved,
or I shad disgr ce myself."
" Oomje do*n stairs and walk about,"
suggeste Ruth. '
ttNoer," said the " &agonises," am she
stood Wore P the drawing -room door, "1
will nose imagine that I am about to e-
countez for the first time an assemblage of
my feller -beings whom I wish to impress."
Dra ing herself up to her full height, and
bearing herself with a dignity not unworthy
of the 7tatuiest presence, the " dragonets "
advan ed through the doorway, iwept into
the'd tkened apartment beyond,and sudden-
ly finding:herself face to face with a startled
young man, who had just risen from a chair,
retreated ignominiously and in utter con-
fnsio .
"()h,
Harold," exclaimed Ruth, hastening
ftirw d, l' I had no idea you were here."
I " I just sent word," he answered, without
oncellooking from the " dragoness,", who,
blushing , furiouely, and evidently on the
point of flight, stood just within the room.
"11'm so glad you've come," continued
atb. "1 want to presept you to Miss
iridge."
s "lam afraid," said Redmond, at length
recovering from the hardly restrained laugh-
ter that had almost prevented speech,
"that I have disturbed you,"
"You have," said the " dragoness,"
sharply ; "very seriously. I never felt
more disturbed in all my life."
The strong, morning light streamed in
through the window, and falling on the
yellow and gold of the decorations, spread
in a sallow flood over all the place. It was
a severe test, but the " dragoness " stood
it -stood it gloriously.
" Now," said Ruth, "1 know that Miss
Kittridge is going to ask you to stay to
luncheon."
"Are you ?" begged Redmond, pleading-
ly.
"Yes," answered the " dragoness."
The pretty ballroom of the Country Club
was well filled, but the crowd was not so
great as to spoil the dancing. There was not
that crush and ewirl of humanity that is
found so often in even larger rooms -com-
pacted masses where indinidual motion is al-
most impossible, and the dancers flow along
in a human current. But the floor so smooth
Eta to reflect the lights in blurred, bright
blotches, as a dancing floor should, was well
covered, and along the walls, hung with
hunting " prints," in which the " pink "
coats afforded • brilliant color, were thick
rows of chaperons. It was a charming
room -at any time simple and tasteful in
its adornment, ba now it seemed partic-
ularly attractive, as the " buds " of the
winter, in a state of semi beatitude, and
the "veterans," married and unmarried, of
other seasons, with a more critical and con-
taiiied enjoyment, sped onward in the
dance.
Ruth, pausing as the last bars of the last
waltz lingered on the air and then gently
sank away, looked about anxiously.
"What can ' have become of her?" she
thought. "I haven't seen her for half an
hour."
Those who had hurried over the floor in
the wild rout of the dance, now, like rallied
soldiers, had fallen into more regular order,
and Ruth walked onward in their ranks.
"Where can she be ?" she asked, with
her lips only,aa she passed Miss Frew,
Mies Frew shook her head.
"It is very strange," thought Ruth.
"Can, it be that *he isn't having good
time ?"
The, slow onward narch had broug t her
opposite Mrs. " Tom' " ' who stood by the
door, es radiant as a debutante, and as sa-
egacions as a dowager.
"Have you seen the ' dragoness ' any-
where 1" asked Ruth, eagerly.
"The ' dragoness' ?" - answered,, Mrs.
"Toni." The name had in some way es-
caped from custody, and forever and aye as
the " dragoness" Mies Kittridge was to be
known. "Why, yes, I think I saw her a
few moments ago.
• "1 hope she is enjoying herself," Eaid
Ruth, anxiously.
"I rather thought she was' " replied Mrs.
"Tom," with a slight air ofmaliciousness.
"I think you'll find her somewhere down-
stairs."
• Ruth descended the steps that led to the
floor below, followed by eigouiney Fales,
• with whom she had been danoing. From
the lower landing she was able to obtain an
immediate and comprehensive view of the
large but cozy apartment, with its broad
fireplace and great, low divands,that formed
the main room of the club -house.
In one corner, with all the cushions in
reach gathered for the more comfortable
support of her small person, sat the " drag-
ones.s," leaning back languidly, her small,
,slippered feet peeping out from under
"Symphonies in needle -work
Where dimpled pearly shadows lurk,"
while Harold Redmond leaned eagerly over
her. '
"011 !" said Miss Kittridge, in a surpris-
ed, slightly injured tone; "were you look-
ing for me ?"
And now what follows is wild, inc-ornpre-
hensible, inconeeivable. No one ever exact-
ly understood it at alt; no one certainly
ever atteiepted to give any account of it.
It seemed'as if something had happened to
spur the not -lagging life of Andros to still
greeter speed -as if home new influence
more pote lit even than Mrs. " Tom " herself
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had arisen and was powerfully ae work.
Andros had been " gay " before; it was
giddy now. ,
Many marvelled at the ch-ange, Mrs.
" Tom, ' as incapable of jealousy as of any
other meanness, was radiant.
"1 cannot conceive," she admitted,
"what has come over the spirit of our
dreams -or rather the spirit of our ways -
for we were never before in such a state of
wide-awakeness."
Sigourney Fades, who had heard the re-
mark, happened that night to take Miss
Kittridge in to dinner.
"1 know,". he said, referring to Mrs.
"Tom's" speech, "what has made the
change." •
"What ?" asked the dragoness," inno-
cently.
"You," he answered.
She looked directly at him, as she had a
way of doing with those to whom she was
talking.
" What -perfect nonsence 1" she said.
"The idea that it would be possible for
one person to affect a whole society, and
that person myself ?"
She paused.
"If you can change the world for one,"
, he murmured, "why not for all ?"
The " dragoneas " laughed merrily.
It must have been the " dragoneee." . She
had become the rage; all men extolled her
fairness, her manner, her gowns, and most
women envied her their praise ; but master-
ed by her careless, fearless, unconseious car-
riage, they forgot any bitterness they might
feel, and liked and admired her too.
The " dragoness" drove and dined and
danced. • No duckling -ugly or otherwise,
and the " dragoness ' was distinctly "other-
wise" -ever took to the swim more kindly
than ded this strange, unaccountable being.
From luncheon she went to "teas," from
" teas " to dinners, and from dinners to
dances. Indeed, there was little to which
she did not go -nothing at which she did
not stay, once having gone.
"1 hardly know you," said Harold Red-
mond, as he led with her the Harpending's
cotillion. •
"That is not strange," she answered; "1
hardly know myself."
She traced with her foot a mysterious
figure on the white, duck -covered floor, -and
looked up. •
"Come," she said, impatiently, "one
more turn before the music stops."
It was very strange; she seemed to
breathe with stroniter' freer lungs; to revel
as if in the expanse IAa more ample life.
"1 must have igen frivolous all my life,"
she confined to Ruth, "and never have
known it. Is not that tragic? Then she
laughed, and added, "1 feel as if you were
bringing me out."
And it did seem as if the " dragoness "
were some open-eyed delnamite, just realiz-
ing the possibilities of a life dreamed in
dull school -rooms over dreary exercises -a
longed -for life where all the world would be
as it was between the pages of hidden novels
---,distracting and delicious.
The Abernethy library is no pretence.
The large book -eases rise on three sides
from the floor to the ceiling, filled on the
lower shelves with many "tall copies," and
on the upper with lighter volumes that
seem to have risen naturally to the top. It
is a large and handsome room, with heavy
wood -work and a massive fireplace. Here
and there are - serious-leoking bronzes, and
in One corner a marble shows in ghostly
whitenees.
On this dull February afternoon it seemed
particularly dark, the gray lightof the wan-
ing afternoon only illumining a narrow
space about the windows, and leaving the
shade sed depths of thereon): in au obscur-
ity broken only by the occasional fitful
gleams of the fire. If. Mrs. Abernethy, if
Ruth, or even Mies Frew could have looked
within its book -lined walls at that particu-
lar time of the winter day, they would have
beheld :a scene that would have surprised
and perplexed them.
The " dragoness," with her hands behind
her and her back toward the embrasure of
the deep window, stood like one at bay;
while before her, in evident agitation, with
pale -cheeks and flashing eyes, was Harold
Redmond, utterly unconscious of the eh-
surdity of his own appearance." Whether
the " dra,goness " was aware of itlor not was
uncertain, for though at times she seemed
inclined to laugh_hysterically, there were
moments that was evident she was quite as
near bursting into tears.
"No, no, no !" said the " dragoness,"
.with steadily increasing emphaeie.
"But -why not ?" urged Redmond, vig-
orously.
"Because -because you are crying for the
moon," she said, "and that. you know, is
very silly."
"But if I want it, I want it," said Har-
old, stoutly.
"How absurd you are !" said the " drag-
onese." " Science will tell you that the
moon is only an old, cold, dead star."
"It is my star," he said sullenly.
"You should wish for some fair young
planet," observed the " dragoness," glancing
out of the window into the bare brown gar-
den, where the great spongy snow --flakes
'milted as soon as they fell, that is just
swinging out into space and life."
"1 love you; I do; and I cannot say or
think anything else," said Harold, evidently
reverting to some former stage of the in-
terview. ,
"Oh !" exclaimed the " dragoness," with
a little start, " it is very wrong of you to
say this."
"There are a great many whys," she an-
swered, seriously ; so very many." She
paused for a moment, and then went on,
more slowly and sadly "1 know that you
believe that you feel what you say, but how
long do you believe you would feel as you
do now ?',
" Alw ys.
"1 thi k not," went on the " dragoness,"
and then for a moment she did not speak.
"1 have not treated what you have said
with the seriousness that it has deserved,
with the lrespect that I have really felt for
C"...aelEVDC) ret.X.ease •
The W-
enn, is on
signature every
of
it. I thought that perhaps we could get
put out heilsand, but as,Redmond made a
along the best ' in that way, Harold "-she
movement as if' to take it; she swiftly placed
prize what you have said. I prize it too
it behind her-" do not think that I do not
highly, perhaps," She again paused. "No,
no ! You must not .make me say anything,
for anything I would want to say I would
be sure to regret."
"But can't you -won't you-"
the " dre.gonees, ""you must not ask me,
and I must not ask myself. I must not,
oannot feel anything. I am an old woman."
"You are only six months oldr
am," urged Redmond. ' _
"At my age that is a very great deal,"
who, with a lever's instinct, knew that in
that sentence all is said, that in those simple
words lies his strongest argument.
oness," still more seriously. "But you have
loved others, and you will again. Before I
came here -In -lust tell you all the 'whys'
-you know You cared for Ruth; you had
all but told her so."
make a mistake.If she suspected whatiyou
have told ine', she would be very miserable.
it,
biu t
You love her; and she loves you. You are
hers by right of youth, of beauty, of love,
and you shall not -I shall not let you-
.
You must love her, and you must marry
hf
"But I had not teen you."
ethan I
'
" What I may feel or think," interrupted
,
"But I love you," said Redmond again,
said the " dragoness," firmly.
"Yea, you do now," responded the "drag-
" I am only the fancy of the moment.
toltts-'do" ni tilt think now that you will do
t
, <
you will, and the time will come
when you will bless me for what I have
done • when you will laugh at yourself for
thinking that you ever could have been in
love with an old woman like me. Yes, Har-
old, that time will come, and you will thank
me for saving- you from yourself. No one
shall ever know what youhave said to me;
not Ruth, for she might imagine that this
meant more to you than it really has; you
will Orget all about it ; and I --e'
"And y`ton ?" said Redmond, as the
" dt agoness I paused.
"Kneel ,down," she said; and as Red-
mond , sank on one knee at her feet, she
brushed back an errant lock of his hair'and
bending over, kissed him on the forehead;
"and I will forget too," she murmured. .
1
I
• V.
Mrs. Abe, imethy, under the graceful arches
vof the Ponce de Leon, opened her letters,
one after anOther, with that complete calm
which is the; product of an easy conscience,
an assured position, and the knowledge that
• the most elaborate menu has held no terrors
• for you in the past, and is not likely to do
so even in the future.
"It's very singular that Ruth does not
write mote frequently," she said to Aber-
nethy, "/'and more fully."
Abernethy glanced up frorn his paper,
growled Pleasantly, and went on with his
rea'cl'Ginog'
od gracious i" said Mrs. Abernethy,
• a t I Liked de n 1 a;y
experienced husband, Abernethy
had come to read with readiness that strange
code of signals known to man and wife -
that priera system of matrimonial com-
munication
rn
munication swift as telegraphy, secret as a
cypher -and be looked up quickly as he
caught the rising reflection of hie wife's
‘Hvoice. ear what Mrs. Everingbam writes -to
me," continued Mrs. Abernethy, excitedly.
"You know I asked her to look out 4 little
for what be going on. And now just listen
to what , she says: 'My dear Sarah,'" she
read, " ' you remember with what rein°-
, tame I always speak of what concerns
others, but your parting injunctions and the
interest I take in you and yours, in a rnan-
• ner will account for what I am about to say.
We, of course, agree perfectly in our ideas
as to certain demoralizing conditions that
have lately displayed' themselves in Andros;
and as to those who are chiefly responsible
for their' existence. I know what you think
and feel in regard to certain matters, and I
am sure you will fully enderEe my opinion
as to a number of facts that have come to
my potice.; I hesitate to write it, but Miss
Kittridge, I fear, is not a proper person to
be intrusted with the guidance of two ghee
in the society of Andros. I need only men-
tion to yots the fact that she is teen alniost
daily in the park with Mrs. "Tom "-how I
hate these odious and undignified appella-
tions that have now become only too com-
mon !-and that Harold Redmond is a con-
stant visitor at the .house. We all know
how unhappy Mrs. " Tom" has made her
poor mother -our school -girl friend -and
weimust accept her for that mother's sake;
bet Harold Redmond, though entitled by
family and fortune to the highest considera-
tion has forfited by his heedlessness the con-
sideration of all self-respecting people. The
latter part of the season has been very gay,
and the girls and the "dregoness," as she is
commonly known here, have been every-
where. Sigourney Fades is most attentive
to her, and rumor says that they will soon
become engaged, if, indeed, they are not en-
gaged already. Report is also equally beey
with the names of your niece and Harold
;Redmond. If you do not wish to see-"
Mrs. Abernethy paused. " We must start
for the North at once," she said, sternly.
- VI.- .
• How it came about no one ever exactly
knew; the matter was as much wrapped up
In mystery as the whole of this strange
affair. But before the autumn Ruth's en-.
gageinent to. Harold Redmond was ,formally
announced. That "love conquers all things"
is an old saying that, although not eneitled
to rank perhaps with the brand-new truths
of scientific investigation, may still find
some advecates and adherents. <Many have
believed that it was the ,steady 'persistence
of love that finally conquered Mrs. Aber-
nethy. It is certain that if it was so, it
• W88 no mean victory.
After a, brief 'betrothal, the wedding took
place. And one morning in late autumn,
when the yellow leaves brushed lightly
Nave:feos:a the carpet on which the two walked
from the olsurch door -beneath a shower of
rice and 'blessings, Ruth and Harold 'Red-
mond went out into life together man arid
"Lowe it all to you," wrote Ruth to the
" dragoness " from Algiers, whither the
wedding trip had taken her. "If you had
not come, we would not have seen each
other so constantly and loved each other so
much. It was very cruel and very kind of
you Vs send that great dragon with the
jewelled eyes for my wedding present. .Gor-
• geous as it is, and magnificent as it will
• look in the centre of -the table on state oc-
casions, you must know that I want to for.
that even fer a moment I ever thought
of you other than as I do now -the' dearest
kindest, wisest being in all the world.
There is no one in the universe like Harold,
I am sure, and I know that I do not deserve
such blise as this. I am afraid that I have
been very vain and thoughtless and selfish.
I must get you to help me to improve my-
self -to elp me not to waste my life as I
have in tie est. You Must merry Sigour-
ney Fele. tIo loves you passionately, and
I know that you like him very much. I am
sure that is what it must come to at last.
Nothing could possibly be nicer, and I am
sure you would be very, very happy.
• The End.
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