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flllows, a background for a girl’s foe«, irul with a sort o f undirected vision, aiore like feeling than seeing, I per- rtlved Ihs doctor In the slisdow* be- fond the bed, watching. The girl's «yes were blue. They seemed very lurgo In her pale and thin face. They spoke to me In a silent lan guage that I knew. They reaehed out to my soul with a natural, deep long ing. I extended my hand to her, and she giTis|M'd It with u quick, childish clutch. "M y brother!” sulil she, and the tears rushed from her eyes, I have since lieen Informed thut I acquitted mysetf admirably. Three witnesses have testified In my fa v o r- four. Indeed, If I Include my sister, whose emotlouu! state muy lie held to Impair the vnluo o f her testimony. "You were n dear," declared Mrs. Gilbert. “ I could have bugged you." Hut this Is the wny It appeared to me: That I was confronted by a slt- us I Ion utterly ImpoHsIble nnd beyond mortal tact and discretion; that o f two courses open to me I chose the worse nnd might have done much better than I did even with Hint. You must take m.v evidence against that of all the other* for 1 alone was competent to Judge of tny conduct, ns you will pres ently see. My sister told me that she had lieen known 11* Della Gray, the first name probably having been derived from Delphic Gray was the name o f the skipper o f the flshlng vessel that had rescued her In Ills home she had lived until tier ninth year, when n lady, a summer visitor In Newfoundland, had taken her away to the town of Chatham, N. II Why the Grays had consented to have her go she did not know but It was something about money The Indy from Chntham wns n Mrs. Lawrence, nnd she lived In n good home. At her death two years ago m.v spier had come to New York and had bed» employed ns n stenogra pher In the office o f a lawyer, a cousin the doctor. " I f you were uingiilfled ns aow he doesn't know It ■* he ought %» surely not Wh irs. Gilbert much as Hml you could carry the lust give me the money for the need might have learn • 'Didn't have Flatiron liul'dlug In your pocket for fill, and I ’ll manage all that. Hlldu altered the iiiws id . • or undone a liiMelilmx It'll What o f ll?" III enjoy It as coming from you, but the divine bandlw or d I would " i t ,V"U me.ill Hull she i.oesu't look 1 ant ns gifts. Do you understand?*’ have given 111111 Ii m Is with (Ike you," said < 'minor I tell you •| thought I was her brother,” said Mrs Giltiert. It v..... I . ” .wever, yiurre dead wrong There's a strong I l "A ren 't you proceeding on tbc then wlio appeared family resemblance" i ry that I'm her husband?" This was the first time to in,, knowl "And you're the man," said I. “ who " I t wouldn’t make any difference II edge that she liud venture •> far as saw 11 horse for 11 few minutes two you were tier father,” she declared the drawing room, yet >1 walked years ago sud spotted u pli<>t< graph of ; “ We don’t want clothes from our f i without a sign of weakness nnd with him tonight at a glum e Do you stip- tlier We want the money for then a noble carriage And. oh. *be waa po c I could go to Hie ueitriMt «’.table But we ll take diamonds. Oh, you mu* beautiful lieyond dream* and i o.v .1 horse and u good one, too bn. Hilda lots o f pretty tb'ngs! Isn't She wore a sort of tea gown, l sup -slid pa: * him >>IT on you ns a son o f It lo ely that you can do It? Anil I sd ' i pose It might be called, of green fabric, lieitri'iu nnd Humble?" | r.!ic u dear?*' and she carried a small black book. I “ ■»iti your aider Isn't a boras." pro- “ I • uroly never dreamed of having a think my mouth must have fallen open te o il 1 nil!’ r "She's 11 hiliiui:i being like her." said I, and was sur like a dead man's when I saw the fig Tli re « 11 thundering sight of differ 1 t-i fftid that I had told the truth ures 18X7 In gilt upon the book's cover ett'-e." ( 1 Mrs (iilbert nnd I went shopping My ancle's diary! “ There’rf this difference.” sa il I — lie. 1 <!ay at the earliest possible hour. “ Hilda,” said I, without pause or pre “ tlmt It’s iv, j to And n mart who I had not supposed that It was possi face, “ 1 know what that 1 Teh knows xoinctliliig nbout u horse And f r a man to tell so many lies In] me what you ba v* found In It Please now let me tell you what this voting one ' i <x t spent the forenoon with tcu me «tralght away.’’ lady Is whom I have hml tin* peculiar Mr Cllliert. nnd we talked o f noth |Ier b|ue pye8 opened a bit wider. pleasure o f meeting tonight She I* a In« 1 't “ my slster” - e v e r y word ot ghe |coked at me, then down at the thoroughbred Saxon, the last one left ml ie .1 lie. o f course I spent tho aft- book and then at me agnin. alive. I sltotjld suppose; certainly the c h : o il or most o f It with Hilda, whom "W hy, I haven’t found anything,” she mo*t beau: Ifni example Hut what I called by that new name, though L „ b j " j j ugt got jt this minute. A am I?" knew It was not hers. and. to make mai,i gave |t to me. I haven’t even "English," raid Con u or promptly me tiers worse, she had fallen Into a opened I t ” “ Just as I'nglh b 11* she I»-" dubious state of mind, and I must re u n Gilbert's maid, under orders, "Both tny father nnd tny mother hoarse to her all Connor's proofs with had lieen waiting for my arrival, of were tiorn In W ales." said I. ’ Both an nlr o f serene and blissful convic course What did had wltaf you would enll Norman nti tion. for If a mere shadow o f doubt It mean? ci- try on one slrp- and Cymric on the could no affect her spirits what would "That is a vol other I am colored like a Norman, but the plain truth do? ume o f my un no person who has made even the most On Christmas day Hilda woke to find cle's diary,” said enraorv study o f the subject could fall the plain room from which we dared I. “ Beyond ques to recognize nty Cymric blood at a not yet remove her bright with many tion we s h a l l glance. On the other hand, there Is Dot flowers which the nurse had softly set: find here tho th" faintest shadow o f a possibility in their places. This waa the best day answer to our that this young lady has one drop of that Hilda had had since the lieglnning ! riddle, the solu that blood In her veins.” of her Illness. The tide of returning tion o f all our There was a moment’s silence, then health had begun to run strong, and so doubts." Connor said, almost with a sob: we were able to make It something like i I took it from “ Yon don’t like her.” a real Christmas without risk o f harm .; her band. It was the word o f a warm hearted But the climax was reserved for the “T h e e a r l y Irishman. That good fellow bad ear evening, after Hilda had had her sup June dates nestly rejoiced In the Idea that lie was per. Then the lights were extin should be the working to make tw o people happy, guished, the door was opened and In Lx" stte ones," said 1 and and now he wns disappointed. I took there walked a Christmas tree, appar- t "~’’ —^ would have ently upon Its own legs, but really pro- is w a cubist opened the Ixiok. MAS TREK- pelled by the serviceable Connor. It but Hilda's biased with candles and glittered with baud* cl< ed suddenly upon it. ■ rl tinsel, nnd Its boughs were » e ll laden— “ Oh. mu yet,” she said faintly. 771 lietter. Indeed, than I was aware—for “ Somehow 1—1 dread It." the wise Mrs. Gilbert had bought some The palms o f my hands were wet. gifts for me from Hilda that the dear and 1 was swallowing air. but 1 man girl might not lack the pleasure o f giv aged to summon up the appearance o f ing. calmness. What do you expect to find here?*’ I have never seen upon the face of I any grown person such an expression j I asked. • -r'7- ¿ ¡¿ E Ob, you will think very meanly o f o f entranceinent In pure Joy as glowed f. « on Hilda’s In the light o f the shining me,” she cried, “ but. Indeed, 1 have •J-W. j tree. A t the sight o f It I lost my sense been overpersuaded and sik-uced since of shame and deception, nnd n child the very first hour. Then for Just that like faith took hold upon unvjbat this earliest hour 1 believed, hut never a ft And 1 have drifted on nnd would all come right and that 1 should erward find a w ay to make her happy nil her on, uot knowing what to d>>. I could see no escape from the evidence, and life. By the next day, however. I had re yon were so surer’ "D id Mrs. Gilbert tell you that?” covered some part o f my common “ Why. yes. but I ’d have kuown that sense, and the difficulties o f the sit uation were clear to me again, but the you believed without a word from n et ■y- rath o f esoa|>e from them was not You were such a good brother!” And clear at nil I spent that day chiefly she smiled through her tears. “ But 1 knew in my own heart” — hi meditation and the next as well “ Listen,” said I. “ Answer me. Did Then a voice seemed to tell me that lift I needed the counsel of a woman, and you wish to believe? This may be our whom could 1 appeal to but Sirs. Gil- very last minute. 1 think this book iK-rt? By this time Hilda had been can never convince either o f us, sure transferred to the Gilbert residence, a ly not me, unless it tells me who you But, remember. It may favor not too great to be accepted by really are. a young lady whose brother owns half part us fo rev er I have known from o f a very productive gold mine. I se the first instant, and I know now, and JO*'» > \ cured a private Interview with Mrs I always shall know, that we are no more to each other than cousins Gilbert and disclosed to her the truth. "Oh. impossible. Impossible!" she through Adam, and so I ask you. do iLdRD£NBEfiG AND CONNOR BOTH iaTARIED BACK FROM ME, cried “ Why. you semed to know each you wish to believe?” STARING. “ 1 think not.” she whispered, with other at the very first glance"' "A s I was five years old when I last white lips. “ The book!” Ills hand, which he was not u. ?ewilline It opened under my hand at the o f her late patron He died within a saw my sister and she was barely few months, and then liognti Hie day* to give me. one." said I. "a recogrition would not pages headed June 4 and June 5, nnd " I will speak to you," said I. "us to u amount to very much, even if It had under the first o f these dates I read o f dire poverty, the days o f embrotd friend and to you. doctor, whom I occurred." the follow ing I d my uncle’s hand: ery have not the pleasure o f knowing so “ Captain Enos Gray and his w ife “ Ah. but there’s Instinct.” Mrs Gilbert described her meeting well, as to a man o f honor and discre "Mrs. Gilbert.” said I gently, “ there came today, bringing the child It has with my sister and spoke with tears In tion. I am very deeply nnd strongly Is no more chance that I ant this young blue eyes and bright golden hair. It her eyes of the efforts she had made attracted toward this young lady. It Indy’s brother than If 1 were the lieard- could hardly be more unlike poor little to Induce my sister to accept "the least would lie a strange and hard service ed noudad In the Central ; Hilda, who had my dear sister’s col zoo.” little thing." that 1 would not render her. a bitter “ But what shall we d >?” she ex oring. brown eyes and dark hair. De "She won’t let anybody do nnythlng sacrifice that I should hesitate t*> make claimed. "Indeed. *hD is a i w y deli s c r ip t io n had for her.'' she declared. for her advantage Do I wish sl.e were cate nanttcr W e cannot tell her now. q u i t e prepared 1 "Except her brother,” said I. nnd the my sister? God known The question She would not remain In tills house. I me for this, yet thin hand that still lay in mine thrilled already begins to press upon my heart. know her She has the strictest ideas I would take no with happiness ns It answered my In the very first Instant 1 knew that nbout incurring obligations She would risk o f error and clasp. she was not. but when 1 looked Into rather die In the street." therefore had the Then I told her that her real nnme her eyes and saw the loneliness and the A t tills I went into a panic nnd vow child brought to was Hilda Owen and that If there was longing I would have died rntIn r than ed that I would keep up the deception me. I f this w aif anything In the world that she wanted grieve her. So I sat there and lied." to my last hour ou earth though It really came from her big brother Hob would go right “ Great!" said the doctor "Y ou ’ re should sink my soul beneath the reach the D e lp h ic 1 out and get It To which she replied the man for my money You li«d like o f mercy. think It is the by saying "R obert" several times very a gentleman Nobody could have doue A few days later Connor came to supposed son of softly nnd sweetly. It bettor I don't know what would my rooms with a very long face. First Officer A l The hour wns up, and w e were all 1 bare happened If you hadn’t." “ There really Is a snag In our story,” ston, whose body excluded, leaving Hilda with Dr. Ilnr- "G ive me a week." cried Connor, said he. "W h y In blazes did those was found with denberg and a nurse who had Just ar "and I'll prove she’s your sister, no Newfoundland Grays keep this thing it upon the raft. - o ' rived. Mrs. Gilbert rode home in her matter If you're an Eskimo« Why so quiet? W hy didn’t your uncle find According to the enr, while Connor nnd 1 walked aim man. it's a positive certainty ’’ h!s little niece? It Is inconceivable list, there were lessly for a matter o f half an hour, "And meanwhile what?" said 1. that the Grays did not get a list o f the on the Delphic when 1 led him to Dr. Hardeuberg's “ Go right ahead." said the doctor. Delphic’s passengers. That would have ’Charles Alston house. The doctor wns at work with "Accept her affection upon false pre told them plainly who their foundling ( i n f a n t ) and hi* microscope. tenses." said 1 "Client her Into tnk 1 think wns She couldn't be anybody else, nurse.’ "This Is the tiest result I ’ve had." lie lug gifts from a stranger: sit by her and surely they must have known that that ’C h a r l i e ’ "P E R H A P H 81!F. S A W W1 sahl. "This Is absolutely confirmatory." bed and he!" her to build air castles • our uncle (whose name, with yours, stood for Char L O V E D E A C II OTHER.** He had been studying n pnrt of 11 with the very solid foundation o f tny was In every account o f the wreck) lotte, as is common in England, and drop o f blncd taken from m.v sister’s money Ami you have been so kind as would pay them handsomely for bring not for Charles. 1 shall institute In finger tip. wherein he saw the germ to call me a gentleman!" lug the little girl to him. Didn’t your quiries.'’ Then, evidently w tten Inter; the Infinitesimal enemy thnt warred " I f you do the other thing." said the uncle leave any papers, diaries or rec "Lieutenant Alston seen' to have ngaluat her health, and recognized the doctor with fervor. "I give you my ords o f any kind which might throw had not a relative In the world. The creature liy Its nspect. professional word that the result won't child is undoubtedly his. but it will not some light on this matter?” "Doctor.” said 1, "yon have permit look to you very much like the work “ All my uncle's private papers,” said lie claimed by any one. I have decided ted me to hold a somewhat exclth a o f a gentler, an If you value her safe I. “ were taken in charge by Judge to send $20 a mouth to the Grays for Interview with your patient I hope ty you'll play brother ” Mahlon o f the supreme court. H e’s Its supi>ort. This will give irs life an I she has taken no harm." "That's talking." said Connor "And, "H a rm !" he cried. "1 should think dead, but I'll write to his son Jim to added value to them, and they will anyhow, she Is your sister, so what rear It more carefully." ’ not. She’ll get well In half the time." have the house looked over.” harm can there be?” Here were all mysteries explained. "W h at result would follow ." 1 ns!: I did so nnd received next day this When I returned to my apartments I The child was kept carefully and some ed. " If she should now bo told that I telegram: received word that Mrs. Gilbert had am not tier brother?” Sent volume your uncle’s diary. 18XT. what secretly because It was n source requested me to enll her up by tele containing full explanation of this af of revenue. A t my uncle's death the Ilardonbcrg nnd Connor both start phone whatever the hour uiicht I e fair to Mrs. Hilbert. Dec. 2fi. I didn't tell Income ceased, and a stranger was per <*1 back from me, stn’rlng. K v > ■' -’> • ''!• ' t I o’ie ' 1 you this. Understand’’ J. M. mitted to take the child away. “ Good heavens!” cried the di . let structlou- Naturally I called upon Mrs. Gilbert, " I have a name for you at last,” said •‘ What do you mean? 1 wouldn’ t have "1 liappeued to think." said the lady, but the lady was from home. I would I. “ Not my sister's. Charlotte” — that happen for a mint o f money!" “ that you’d want some help tonior have gone away, but a beloved voice “ I would like Hilda lietter." said she "But you know thnt I’ m not her row.” floated down to me as I stood In the softly. “ You called me that first.” brother, don’t you?" "It's very kind of you.” I replied hall. "Mrs. Gilbert has had this book since “ I?" lie gasped. "No. You must be "About wlint?" “ Go into the drawing room.” it said the day after Christmas,” said 1. "or There wns no other female child ox "W h y your presents; the things “ 1 will come to you.” the next at the latest. Why did she cept your sister on thnt ship n ow yoti’H buy for Hilda. O f course she So I must meet Hilda without know hold It?” can wo don tit?" "Perhaps she wanted us to wait a lit "You have seen us both," said 1— needs everything, Just simply every ing what Mrs. Giltiert knew. A cold •*>>.», « h o onn recognize the features thing, hut don’t you buy necessities for chill struck npon me. Dec. 26! That tle." No wornnn wants them was days and days ago. and all this “ Perhaps." said I, “ she saw Just the r o f that microscopic creature which Christmas W e want trinkets, luxuries, useless time Mrs. Gilbert had been urging me very truth, that we loved each other.” (: you have to magnify n thousand times tiling*. It took me five years to lieat to treat Hlldn as n sister Was It pos- “ W e must always be very kind and ! suppose, In order to sre It at all.” “ I ’ ve got L&00 on It tonight," said that into uiy husband's head, and tveo - slblc that l could be mistaken? No; sweet to her," said U lld£ X h e Christmas Sister 5X c> . . . T ì y Bd83£: H O W A H V F I E L D I N G C o p y rig h t. 1MM. b y C. N . L u r ie . . . k j '¿> .r ;? .■•?..? .?..?..?..?./?.:?./?.;-?./?^o E ICE arc two tun iters will' limy lii'lii tu give me n* iim o f your mimi for u few Uh’ 11 yi ni l i nci l i Iim i il < lone, you very lll.cly liuv. In n ... i 11 <1 lur. First, 1 mu Hie only original mi I Vlvor o f ttlu I >cl|ililo, limi wn* hml ■ [ Hen In Mny o f J k H 7; nerumi. I i imrt ! nhIp with Tom Campiteli I <1 1 o\e 'Ilio Goldell II uh I i mine III lllnlln wreck o f the I >«*l p It l< ’ Me me ll story; the (iolil eti ituxli mino merely iilnjul . In tlio tmciiKronnil an n hi mreo of affluence. I w it H f i v e yonrs old when the Delphic W iih lout. With my fatiier limi ninth- er ami in fit lit sister I hml lu ll ed from Liver pool in thin ill fated v o 8 a o I, which wan In I T O O K COM M i ll IIY ColltHlon b e fo r e Tin: miioi i ni ii Hhc got out o f «Iglit o f the harlmr. She ren im i.I and wni laid up for «everal clay* not very much damaged. btit um i of tile |i ■ W by another ship. My parénte eli.... to atay by the Lclphlc, I know not why It ha* alw ay* been sup|io*eil Ihnl ■ho ■ I ruck au irclierg off the ba n U h I can toll you only that the dbn-ier was at night. 1 reuiemher the uwnk- enlug, the thrill o f half realized ler rur, the wild noise* and the trampling. My fuiher was carrying me. wrapped III a coat, my mother following with little Hilda. Then nomethlng crash«'.1 1 recall no fi*ellug o f a blow. t>ul tny conacloUHiu”« went out like n candle Tbo next thing I knew ll wan dawn and I waa In n Ix.nt with one nailer who had a wo ndefl bend and wan i-nv erod with hi r>d. It lina beiMl BUp poimd that th . bout wn* lowered end f m most In true panic atyle and aboard her w rere pitched out except wounded xnl! lor and luyaclf Eventually we were picked up my companlor milling a w Hcloim iin.l d ng. I waa taker ton ami t-cni »'j thence to an New York, b whom I wax ren died when I wn* thirteen. Ic H t n u ll propertv In triiKt. I nttei Ittmbla collegi » nod school o and eventually took my Inherit: went west. T wo year:, later c affair of t Coldun Hindi, and I ” 1 have found another,” said tic "There floated away from that wretch cd vessel, lienven knows how, a sort o f llfo raft, very small and not prop erly a purl o f the regular equipment o f the ship, though It was sleuelled with her name. There Is a tradition that one o f the officers o f the Dalplile Invented tills style o f raft or was In terested In It In some wny. Anyhow. It was aboard, and It floated uud was picked up by a lulling schooner out of Newfoundland. It bore the dead body o f a man mid a living child. The man had saved tills child even after Id* own dentil, for Ids stiffened arms held it. A little g i r l " - 1 took Connor by the shoulder. "You are going to tell me," said I, “ that this girl was my sister. Don’ t do It unless you're sure. I am very much alone in the world A slsler would mean to me well, perhnjix rath er more than you could easily believe." lie took some sheet* of paper from Ids pocket. They were foldisl and fns toned together at a corner. "Th ere’s n list.” said he, " o f every human Ixdng on the iHdphlr. I told you that nearly all the original pas senger* were transferred to another vessel What resulted? Why. Just this—there was only one girl baby on the ship!" Tin*’ simplicity and force o f th!* statement staggered me. There re mained, o f course, ninny questions, but I was unable for the moment to frame one. "L o t me tell you,” said lie, "bow I tlmt got on the track of this. It wns through Mrs. Gilbert. Hhc Is Interested in tho Woman’ s exchange, as you're aware, and thus she came to know a very U'autlful nnd charming girl who brought embroideries to the exchange t• * be sold. Tills girl fell 111, and—well, she wns pretty hard up; that's the fact nbout It.” The tears rushed to my eyes. Ill nnd destitute, iny sister, and I so rich that people pointed me out In public places ns the Holden Hush man! •'Mrs. Gilbert was very good to her,” continued Connor, "but I guess the best thing she did for her was to tell me that the young Indy wn* a survivor o f the Delphic and had been brought up by foster parents at a place in Newfoundland. I thought I saw u story, nnd I tvlegrnptied to our eorre- spondent lu Newfoundland on my own account. When I got Ills answer— which was 11 [leach, us you’ ll see—I made some Investigations here through (lie agents of the line to which the Delphic belonged nnd bad the luck to tumble straight on 0110 old fellow who rich. Tho larg'-r |inrt o f the year 11*1“ I knew everything und had records nnd H|»ent In New York and t heron I mu:*. I all that. Then I went to Mrs. Gilbert had everything except a home. On I'm and told tier what I had learned. You •/.’hi o f l>o< oinbor o f that year I wax may Imagine her surprise In view of her acquaintance with you and the living In liixurloim bachelor apart tnentx, more lonely than I war In the fact that she didu't know that yon week that 1 spent on the (iohlen Hush were the original Iiclpblc survivor.” " I never told her,” said I, “ but I sup- claim with only tho haggard face* of I posed she knew. It has been printed the mountain* for cotupauy. On tho evening o f the day that I often enough.” "Mrs. Gilbert says she never reads ha\e named I returned from n rather early and very lonesome dinner and i the papers,” replied Connor. "Th ere found a young man named Connor was only one kink in the story, and waiting for me I had never met him that was the reason why the rescue before. lie wn* a xtnrdy, pleasant fel of your sister was kept so extraor low. Celtic aii'l Dutch on the, face of dinarily quiet. Why didn't your uncle him. and lie In leduced himself by |..v hear o f It? 1 don't know yet. but that * seating a letter can't alter the fa c t A * to her being -ct.V/T front u very ex- a survivor o f tho Delphic, my man lu 11 in n b I e a u d Newfoundland says there is no shadow ft y charming young o f doubt whatever. Yon w ill seo In his story"— i I ,u 111 r ° >*. M 's He was Interrupted by a ring at my | Leslie C llb e r t . A w Ii o h i ' so in e telephone. I heard the voice of Mrs. wlint misguided Gilbert: "Oil, Mr. Owen, Is that you? Has cliarltlea hail <>.•■ t / / * i- i," ¡j co s t o n a lly up- he told you?" "Y es." I unswered. / / ‘ '•7*' j pealed to my “ Isn't It wonderful? Isn’t It beauti pocket ".Mr C o n n o r ful? I'v e told her! You must come will td l you a up you must come right up. Take I V | s in -p ris in g sto an electric, you nnd Mr. Connor. I ’ll ry, wrote this wait for you right here. The doctor lady. “ I would Is with her now." This overwhelmed me, accustomed have liked 10 tell you myself, but ns 1 was to Mrs. Gilbert’s exuberant my 11noTnr.11! s a id ho tuslsis upon style o f conversation. I could only SUE. his right lie Is gasp, “ Where are you?” “ A t the drug store on the corner,” a Journalist, and this is his story My idle replied. "M r. Connor will know heartiest congratulations." In my apiirimenix 1 lie tables were H u rry!" It appeared that Mr. Connor really littered with photographs, us they al ways are. My fad s h i r e I was a 1 o j dlil know, and wo olieyed Instructions has been the study of the different nnd hurried. We found Mrs. Gilbert, 1: 1' da o f men and the faces that they nnd she led 11s a little way along a wear. I do not study horses, but ll rather poor street, but not squalid, nnd happened that I had some photographs Into 11 bleak hull liedroom In a lodging that had been sent up from a friend’s house. That was the room tn.v sister had atock farm In Kentucky, and It seem ed to mo that Connor saw these before used before Mrs. Gilbert liad trans he fairly got Into llie room. He <11.1 ferred her to a lietter one. It wns a not notice an y,of the portraits o f peo "hall room.” somewhat larger than a ple, hut plumped straight down upon prison cell, sparely but neatly furnish the picture o f a horse which he recog ed. unprovided with any means for a 1 sol Instantly, though there was no heating except a wretched apparatus fitted to the gas fixture. My sister had li ttering on It. "Humbert!” lie cried anil went on to lived there. She hml lain III In that give mo the horse's pedigree- Itertrnin narrow bed without care, without at I 0 1 one sldn and Humble on the other, tendance. doubtless poorly fed. it- ,1 all the r e s t o f It- but suddenly thought of tt, nnd I remembered that I- ■ ko off this strain and came to the evening's extravagant dinner with nan- | sea. I (ness that had brought him there. I am no? ashamed to say ttiui tny ,'lrsf, with Inimitable brevity and (/ill, lie sketched tlie» wreck o f the knees shook under me when I wns I summoned to the larger room. There 1 Ipblc. • You,” said he In closing, "w ere the wns a lieti wlth Ita head ngninst thè wall opponile thè door. I saw only n s ,le survivor.'* pnrt o f It, Just a whlteness o f plletl “ Yes," said I. H « \v y m p) Iff zm . % « 1 % 1 K;
