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j THE ODD TRICK. ' -Lncilet" "Eh? I beg your pardon. Gilbert Did yon speak to me?" "8peak to you? I asked yon three times to give me auothoroupof ooffee." "Did you, door? I'm no sorry I" and Mrs. Corin extendod a slim white bond for the coffee cap. "May I ask what bo engrossed your . though 18? ' iuqnired hor husband, a lit tle irritably. Lucile smiled "Ob, you'll only laugh t me if I tell yon." "Nevor mind. What was it?" reiter ated her husband, a little mollified. "I I was thinking of some lovely Turkish embroidery they showed me at Liberty's yesterday, and" "My doar girl, what can you possibly do with Turkish enibroidory?" inter rupted Mr. Corin impatiently. "Well, do yon know that's what I've been wondering ever since, and I've just discovered" "But" "Yes," continued Luoile, regardless of the impertinent monosyllable, think it wonld look perfeotly lovely to trim a tea gown. It could outline a sort of crepe de chine, you kuow, and un demeath" "Tut, tut I I dou't want yon decked out like a houri iu a harem. " "Gilbertl" "I don't like all these new fanglod things womon get up in to look like fig ares on a Japanese fan" "But, my dear husband, there's noth ing Japanese about Turkish embroid ry!" exclaimed Lucile as she pushed back hor chair from the breakfast table. "Never mind; I don't like it Be sides yon are really too extravagant, Luoile. I cannot see the necessity for all those wonderful toilets. " "My dear Gilbert, don't talk about things you don't understand." And, gathering up the small pile of letters that were beside her plate, Mrs. Conn made her way to the door. "Oh, by the way, " said her husband, little hesitatingly, ."do you very much mind giving up the Claytons' ball to night?" "Giving up their ball I Why, in the name of all that's reasonable, ahould I do that?" "Because I ask yon. " Mrs. Corin shrugged her shoulders in uenoe. "Yon will write to exouse yourself?" "Certainly not Why, I've got a per feet dream of a gown to wear, and I mean to thoroughly enjoy myself. "That is to say yon intend to make yourself conspicuous by your flirtations, as usual." Lucile laughed. "1 will not allow it Yon shall not .go on in this ridiculous fashion.." "My dear Gilbert, don't yon think that, it is you whovare ridiculous just mow? Yon silly fellow," she continued, drawing near him, "what does it matter -to you if half the men iu the room are in love with me when you know that I'm not in love with them? There, don't talk nonsense, and be off to your rida " "Why don't yon oome, too?" asked her husband, half mollified again. "1 oh, nol Couldn't possibly spare the time, doar. Heaps of things to do and letter to write 1 Good by for the ' present. " And with a laughing farewell she tripped out of the room. The smiles, however, vanished as she sank into a low chair in her boudoir and picked one note out of the heap that lay in her lap. Mrs. Conn's pretty dimplos disappeared and her brows con tracted into a frown as she read: ' Dear Mrs. Corin You know, of course, that I am engaged to Miss Kathleen Mayse. Don't yon think under the circumstanctw it would tie better for you to return me somo rory fcwl ish effusions of mine which you still huvof 1 am sura you will gee the advisability of this and will be good enough to give the packet to my friend Applegarth, who will call upon you at 12 this morning. Yours sincerely. W. E. "I shall do nothing of the sort, " ex claimed Lucile when she had reread the letter for the third time. "Engaged to Kathleen Mayse, indeed) Engaged to her thousands, be ought to have said a horrid, plain, little, red haired thing without an idea in hor head. It is per fectly disgusting, the things men will do for money, bnt I did think Wilfrid was different I did believe iu him at least " And she rose from her chair in dignantly. "Why, not a year ago, he was ready to blow his brains out because I would not marry him, and now" She finished her sentence with a dra roatio gesture worthy of Dose herself. A dangerous little person she looked as she paced up and down the pretty bou doir. The fact was that Mrs. Corin was suffering acutely from tbe complaint which in our nursery days we called "dog in the mangemess." Married before the close of ber first season to a man whose hold on life and fortune was more unstable than any one had supposed, at 21 she was left a widow with an income which allowed mall margin for opera boxes or Pari sian toilets, both of which, with tout ce que s'en suit, were exceedingly dear to tbe little woman's heart. Launched among a certain set, however, she was .swimming with the stream to no very safe port when Gilbert Corin an elder ly banker came, saw and was con quered. Some one says somewhere that there are no wedding bells which do not ring the knell of somebody's happiness, and certainly on Lucile's second marriage morning Wilfrid Endicott might well have been dubbed the "Knight of tbe Kueful Countenance. " Be sod tbe pret ty little widow had, for some time be fore Corfu's appearance upon tbe scene, been engaged in a very serious flirtatioa so serious indeed that when ber elder ly suitor declared himself, and Lucile murmured tbe fateful "Yes," she had a Bearer approach to a qualm or con science than she had ever experienced. Without doubt had Wilfrid been suit ably endowed with this world'! goods were wouia nave been small cbanoe fur uilbert; but, as things wero, "marriage was a luxury they oould not afford. Lucile told the angry young man when ne came to upbraid ber for her faith lossuoKS The littlo woman was not with' ont a taste for dramatic situations, and on the whole she ruthor enjoyed her farewell interviuw with Wilfrid. She wept a little iu a booomiug fashion and guvo utterance to a few sentiments of the "Blanche Amory1' type and ended by saying that she would like to keep ins tatters us a souvenir cf their "droam. " Though she had laid express com mauds ou Wilfred as to their ooudnot to nach other after ber roarriuge,Luoilo had jo intention of their being obeyed. Un fortunately, howevor, and as every silver lining bas its dark cloud, Gilbert Corin was as jealous as a Moor, and some whispers concerning his wife and Endi cott having readied nts ears it was speedily mado clear to Wilfrid that Mr. Corin was by no means likely to find a plaoo among tbe maris complaisant. Acting on tbe principle that when a man's heart is broken he gathers up tbe pieces and melts them together again at the nearest candle, Wilfrid had gone to Kuthleen Mayso for consolation, which consolation was possibly all tbe more effective tint, as a setoff to her red hair and hazel eyes, the young lady was sole heiress to one of the richest iron found' ers in England. The engagement had been formally announoed a few days ago, and some bow Lucile's maid had not found that ber lot lay among the lilies and roses of life erer since, and this letter capped everything the oalmly impersonal tone of it it might have been from any on to any one aud her bands clinched as she thought of the contents of the packet that she was so summarily called on to deliver up to this Mr. Applegartb. Mrs. Corin unlocked a drawer in her writing table and took out a small par- oel neatly tied up and docketed "Letters from W., June August, 1893. She untied it and glanced over one or two of the most passionate. "To think that he oould write like that and then be so utterly faithless," he exclaimed. "I've a great mind to send the whole lot to that little Mayse girl!" She paused. It would be a de lightfully dramatic thing to da It sa vored of French novels and Dumas plays. "No, no. It wouldn't be safa There's no knowledge, she might make a. scandal, and if it got to Gilbert's ears it might be awkward. No, I suppose there's nothing to do, after all, but meekly deliver them up. Bow wretch edlytamel What a stupid, commonplace ending! 'You've oome for a parcel for Mr. Endiqott? So sorry to have given yon so much trouble. Thank you. Good morning.' No, I won't! I can't let it end like that Wilfrid shall come for them himself, of course. I'll tell this man so. He shall eome tomorrow morn ing. I'll receive him here, and we will lay our last goodby. " And Mrs. Corin 's busy brain imme aiateiy went to worn witu tbe mise en scene the gown she would wear, tbe attitude she would assume, the words sbo would use ah, Wilfrid shonld re' member that interview, she was telling herself, when the maid brongbt her a card. "Show Mr. Applesnrth in here. " Be bowed a little stiffly as he ' ad vanced, and certainly, if he was suffer ing from nervousness, Lucile's manner was not calculated to reassure him, Mr. Applegartb, will yon be good enongb to sit down?" The young man took the seat she in dicated, and began: Endicott told me that yon wonld be kind enough to receive me, and" "May I ask-what. else Mr. Endicott has thought fit to tell yon?" Applegarth looked up in surprise it was rather the tone one might use to a presuming footman. "No doubt you are acquainted with tbe whole story," she continued loftily. I am aware that there are certain letters of Endicott's in your possession, which be thinks yon would bo glad to get rid of, and as such things occasion ally miscarry in the post he fancied that the simplest way would bo for you to give them into my charge. That is all I know of or care for in tbe matter. "Why did not Mr. Endioott come for them himself?" ' Applegarth suppressed a smile. "It would not have been quite wiBe, would it?.. Be is not, I believe, a regu lar visitor at your house. " "Neither are you. " "True; but I am also a total stranger, wnereas ne was l mean every, one knows that you that is, " he concluded hurriedly, "as you were formerly ac- quamtances oomments might be made if he were seen doing so unusual a thing as calling upon yon. "Oh, is Miss Mayse so jealous, then?" The embassador became interested in a minute speok upon his coat sleeve, and made no reply. "Here are the letters," continued Luoile, after a pause, holding up the lit tle packet, "but you can tell Mr. Endi cott from me that unless ho comes for them himself they shall not leave my hands" "But, Mrs. Corin" "I am quite determined. Your friend can call upon me tomorrow morning at 11:30. I shall be quite free then. and" "He cannot possibly do that" "Why not?" "He has to travel up to the north this evening with Mr. Mayse ou business, and he is particularly anxious that" "What can it possibly matter to him whether the letters remain with me a few days longer? Is he afraid that I may address them to Miss Mayse by mint ate?" Applegartb's hurried denial was trifle too emphatic not to have a doubt ful ring about it, and Mrs. Corin was too ketn not to notice it Ho was afraid of ber. Then he would put off tbe jour ney and come to ber. "Let me entreat yon, Mrs. Corin, to reconsider the matter. It would make tbings so much easier for every one if yon would trust met Won't yon teal np the letters and let me take them away?" "I have already told you thai I will give thorn to no one but to Mr. Endi oott" "But" "My mind is made up. Thank yon very much for all the trouble yon have taken, and exouse mo if I must wish you good morning. I have some shop ping to do." Applegarth rose. "If yon would" ho began, when suddenly a man's voice sounded with' out. "Mrs. Corin is in the boudoir, you aid?" "My husband!" exolaimed Lnoile iu consternation. "What shall I do?" Applegarth looked iu surprise at her banged couutenauoa Was tbe worthy banker a veritable Otbollo that she ap peared so alarmed as she stood there. tbe letter still In her hand. As the ban die of the door turned she looked round wildly for somo hiding place for them, and then suddenly catching sight of a pale green cardboard box, with a big gold "Liberty" painted npou it, she flung them hastily into it, jammed down the lid and sank into a chair just as Mr. Corin appeared on the threshold. "Lucile Ob, I beg pardon," he added, stopping as be noticed Apple garth and glaring at him with an air of suspicion. "I did not know that you were ougaged, " be continued, address ing bis wife, who was nervously fidget ing with her rings in a way that was anything bnt reassuring. "Have I disturbed you?" Applogartb stepped forward quickly. I was endeavoring to persuade Mrs. Corin to purchase some of our newly imported goods." "Then" "I am a traveler of Messrs. Liberty &Co.,"ho continued boldly, seizing tbe box, while Luoile gazed at him with wide open eyes. I see, "said Corin without relaxing his frown. "You've come about tbe Turkish embroidery, I suppose. " "Exactly," replied Applegarth promptly. "It seems 'to me that shopkeepers do quite enough in their showrooms to in dnoe people to spend money uselessly without pestering them at home. "We only venture to oall on our old customers, " explained the young man apologetically, "and really this em broidery is so very beautifuL " Yes, I dare say," interrupted tbe bankor, "but I particularly dislike that sort of thing. So gaudy and" Ob, exonse me, I assure you the col ors are most beautiful I' "My good man!" exolaimed Mr. Corin, ohecking what looked like a tend enoy to display his wares, "it's quit? useless. Mrs. Coriu does not wish for any of your embroidery. " "Ob, but I do, Gilbert," put in Lu cile anxiously. "I do very much. "There is a lovely strip here for 20, " interposed Applegarth at random. "Twenty pounds!" cried the banker, "Twenty pounds! Perfeotly preposter ous. Certainly not. We don't want your embroidery; we won t have it, do yon understand? Uood morning. 1 "Good morning," replied tbe other quietly, taking up tbe bandbox. Oh, but won't you leave the box?' cried Lucile hurriedly, "perhaps" "No, no, take it away; I hate that sort of thing lumbering up the plaoe. " Applegarth bowed, and the door closed on him and the box. The next moment Lucile's sobs caused her hus band to turn toward her with astonish ment. "What on earth is the matter?' A fresh burst of weeping was his only answer. "What's wrong, Lucile?" "Yon are so unkind to me, came brokenly from behind the flimsy bit of embroidered muslin that did duty lor a hanrifcerouief. "Unkind? What nonsense I Because 1 won t let you throw away money by hanuiuls on mere nonsense?" "It isn't nonsense. Besides you al ways say that you never do anything to please me now! "My dear child," he Bnid soothingly as tbe little frame shook with hysteric al emotion. "Oh, I know, you don't care about me uow. Yon think I'm silly and friv olous and" I think you the sweetest little goose in the world," be ejucnlnted as he drew ber bands away from her face and look ed into a pair of blue eyes that possessed the rare aud enviable quality of looking all the prettier through a few tears. "No, you don't, " and a big drop tbat naa trembled on tbe eyelashes fell with a splash upon his hand, and Lucile knew by experience tbat tbe battle was won. "You never let me have my own way." "Is it about the ball tonight?" he asked coaxiugly. "I didn't mean it, of course. " "It isn't tbat," she said, with a shake of tbe head, and only half yielding to bis encircling arm. Sorely you wouldn't cry about the embroidery, darling?" "I did want it so much, and" "You silly child! Well, dry the tears. You shall have it. We'll send after the man at once. Be can't have got very far, or I'll go round to Liberty's myself. Will that do?" Before Lucile could answer, however. tbe maid appeared at the door holding the fateful green bo. "Please, madam, the gentleman said that perhaps tbe box had better be left till tbe firm's cart called for it " There, isn't that lucky?" said Mr. Corin as he smilingly placed the box on bis wife's lap. "Now you've got all yon want. " But having taken out every separate piece of embroidery several time Mrs. Corin did not think it so lucky. She found tbat she had by no means got all sbe wanted, and while she .cried with rage Wilfrid Endicott aud his friend shouted with laughter. Cf snch con- trasts is our little life composed. Lm- don Truth. JUST LIKE A WOMAN I i THIS IS WHAT A "BEAR OF A MAN 8AY8 ABOUT LOCOMOTIVES. Iron Horse An Vnmkr Creature roll of Whims-Some of th Odd Thing They Do They fiecm to Have Instinct " Llka Lira Horm, That locomotives are freaky orcatures and deserve classification as "she" for no one ever beard of an engineer calling bis machine anything else is attested by William II. Crawford, ohlef of the constructing euglnoers' corps of the Baldwin works. "It is not an uuoommou expression aid Chief Crawford, "to hear that such and such a thing works with tbe regu larity of a machine, aud one is not ur prised when such a comparison is made, for machines are supposed to work with mathematical regularity aud never to vary from the speed or action to which they are set The locomotive, though, is a striking exception to this rule. It seems decidedly opposed at times to a monotonously perfect performance of its work, and to rid itself of tbe depressing effect of sameness it indulges in tbe most ranoiful and inexplicable freaks, driving its master into bewildering wonder. To attempt to tell you all iu curious ways would be as great au un dertaking as to tell why a woman does thus and so. In this respect there is a great similarity between locomotives and women. No one ever heard of an engineer peaking of his machine as 'he,' and no one ever will unless it becomes more submissive to reason or less inolined to act according to its own whims and caprices. Thus an engineer must know his engine before he oan manage it He cannot mount a cab in which he has never sat before and obtain good work. Be must become familiar with its hab its and ways, and whenever he changes engines be bas to begin all over again. Engineers do not like to go out ou any other engine. They never gain complete mastery over any, but approach it nearer when they have been on one for some time. This seems strange, in view of the fact that there are so few levers to be controlled to manage a locomotive. The only parts of the machine necessary to be touched to move an engine for ward, back it or bring it to a stop are tbe throttle, the revereo lever aud the air brake. The throttle is the controller of the main valve, whioh admits or shuts off steam to the oylindor. The reverse lever runs over a semicircular bar of iron, in which there are several notches. When this lever is thrown open, the en gine will move forward. To reverse it the reverse lever is thrown baokward. The only other lever necessary to be used governs tbe brakes. "Like horses, engines seem to know who holds the reins. An engineer on an engine not his own is at an utter loss what to do if it begins playing trioks, one of the most common of which is running away. The engineer will get out of the cab, leaving the maohine standing quietly and submissively as oan be, when of a sudden it starts along the traok at top speed and generally keeps on running until steam is exhaust ed unless it runs into another train and is brought to a sudden stop. Just why engines do this is a mystery. How the throttle opens itself or bow it can run with the throttle closed is beyond the knowledge of enginoers, but they do it and sometimes play havoc too. "Another trick is foaming. Without warning the water in the boiler will begin to foam, aud instead of generat ing steam will bubble like a teakettla This can be remedied, though, by tak ing a new supply of water. It is an old trick for discharged employees and dur ing strikes to have a piece of soap drop ped in the boiler to produce this effect Often, too, it will go 'lama' This hap pens when the eccentric is slipped or it does not 'cough' properly. The eooeutrios work on the axle of the main driver, and often tbe outer ring will slip and fall on the axla As they work the steam chest, the supply is cut off when one of them slips, aud the engine comes to a standstill. 'Coughing' is not the result of a cold, but is tlio discharge of the steam from the cylinder after it has been used. There ought to be four 'coughs' to every revolution of tbe driving wheels, but when the valves choke it will 'cough' only once or twice, and the relief is a large dose of oil. One of the oddest freaks of an en gine is jomping. I do not mean to tell of tbe wonderful tales of engines leap ing across canyons when bridges were gone, but frequently when running at a high rate of speed, if some small ob struction is mot on tbe track, the engine will jump 10 or 12 inches and drop squarely on the rails again. 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