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mftrff Mwfln.i'' :r--tc n THE JSTEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON. MISS MILNE AND I. CHAPTER I. I had boon nlttlnfr for fllx long boon Blttlnff for wenkfl behind my iloorplato waiting for tho patients that, In tho first hope ful days of my now venture, wero moRt confidently looked for. Contra ry to ovoryono's ndvlco, I had decided upon makliiR n practice In profor once to buying one; but bo far they tho patients wero conspicuous by their absence. It was, I mty, tho end of my first six weeks tho lonRcst and weariest nix weeks I hnd ever passed. Hault hour dragged out Its sixty mlnulcM. nnd each inlnttto saw tho death of a hope, until now of all hope I was near ly bankrupt when the consulting room bell gave out at longth Its first wild peal. Tho Instantaneous result was simply Indescribable. Tho good old soul who ltept houso for int. nay, did every thing from cooking to praying foi mo and who Hhnrod to tho fullne30 of her warm old heart In nil my hopes nnd fears, hastened to smooth the hnlr and clothes of tbu Iluttons, nmi liurry him to tho door. Ho tho But tons assumed a dignity and Import ance that I -shall novor forgot, while 1 lushed to my bedroom to put on .my frock coat nnd call up my profes tdoniil nttltudo. When 1 entered tho "Insulting room," as the Muttons persisted Ir calling my well arranged snnctum, 1 found a tnll, blonder girl stnndlng thoro, with (dear-cut. well-pronounced features, a prominent chin nnd large luminous eyes, having dark nhnrtowa hoiioath. Shu wnn dressed In a dark jfray wateipioof that flttod liofr per fectly, a hat of thu fashion of two years ago, and a pair of much-monded iilatocolorod gloves, Her lnnnnor was (pilot but thoroughly r.olf-possoss-cd; sho rono ns I enteral, and told mo that nlio kept a tobacco nnd papoi nhop In Arlington streot, closo by. Shu hnd, she snld, boon far from well of lute, nnd would bo glad If 1 would give lior something that would enable her to gol through lior work Upon sounding her chest I found thnt hIiu was mirroring from' plourlsy, nnd ndvlsud hur to go homo and to bod for a day or two, adding that If sho con tinued to got about In lior present condition she would probably havo a flovoro llllnoss, Tho following dny I visited hor at her little shop, at thu back of which vim n nmnll apartment thnt did duty ns n sleeping, sitting and eating room. I found hor lying on thu sofa, breath lag painfully and heavily, and as I nsked automatically tho stock ques tions, urn! nt thu sntno time took In tho contents of thu room, I rapidly roallzod that I had anything but an ordinary patlont to deal with. The girl's manner, tho nentnesn of hor lrcfln, thu perfect clennllncss of the tiny room, thu character of tho fow books on thu nholf, which wero parti) theological nnd partly woll-choson hovuIh, contrasted most markedly with tho Htartllng aliflonco of ovory comfort nay, almost ovory necessity of life. Having glvon hor nil necea nary directions nnd prescribed tin noccHsnry medicine, I roso to go, and ns I did so uskod If sho would allow mo to solid hur a hottlo of some wlno 1 had, that I thought nppllcablo to hur caso. Sho thanked mo, nnd from that day until sho had recovered not wlno only, but soup, nnd other iiocessnrlcB wero dally supplied hor from my house. In a fortnight sho aviis quite herself ngnln nnd busy In lior llttlo shop. , From that dnto tho wholo aspect of 3ny practice wns changed; tho Hiir gory boll got no prolonged roit: the old hmiHokoopor beenmo oxultaut; the Iluttons found tho place anything but thu sluocuro'ho had at first anticipat ed, and I, from tho crest of the rising wave, Haw a great professional caiooi Just ahead of mo. hut tho strangost lnrt of thlH strange turn events had ho suddenly tnkon, wnH thnt ovory pa tlont, or nonrly ovory pntlont, could lio traced, either directly or Indirect ly to my frloiid In Arlington street. "Miss Mllno. sir." many of thorn would nay, "has advised mo ta connuU you with reforonco to my child's lioalth. MIhh Mllno tells mo sir, that you nro great on Joints." I called suvorai limes to maim nor for tho enorgetlc, way In which alio was nioro than repaying me for my efforts to bo of uorvlco to hor. I ordered .my morning paper nnd to Lncco from her, nnd often ran In to weu if I could In.nny way forwnrd hor Intoreats, but ovory effort nnd offer was firmly but grntofully declined. Sho would look up with i sad but tin tiffectod Htnllo. nnd naauro mo In a per fectly natural way that thoro wns nothing that I could do beyond what 1 was doing that would In nuy way lighten her bunion. Tho nature of tho strange clrcum stances that had combined to bring n girl of such innnnors, good looks nnd ovldonco of past rospoctnhlllty In to Biieh a poverty-stricken position was to mo n constant sourco of won derment. I Hindu hor tho contor of n hundred plota and tho heroine of a scoro of romances, but all from the shallows of my own Imagination, for bIio neither by direct nor Indirect nllu slon gnvo mo tho slightest cluo to her past. Hut ono Saturday morning when I mil cd to pay my weekly 1)111, nil my well and laboriously worked out day dreams of her woro dispelled by tho midden npponrnnco of u beautiful llt tlo godlon-bnlred child upon tho scene. Ho was about two yenra of ago, and vlion I entered was shouting for his mother to come and see a houso ho had built from tho packota of cigar ottea ho wna playing with aa ho ant upon tho counter. For tho. first time tho equanimity of my mysterious friend wna entirely xipst't, Sho blushed ns alio entered, to tho very roots of hor hair, and In a very confused way stttmniorol out: "This llttlo follow la a nephew of mine, doctor, and I hnvo adopted, him ml taught him "to call .me mamma, 39g 4999f Ho Is a great comfort to mo In mj lonollncss." For a Bccond neither of us Bpoke, but In that second ovory posalblo solu tion of thlB now mystery, this llttlo goldon-hcndcd mystery (that was al ready playing with my watch chain), resulted through my .mind, I enmo out of my mnzo confldont of but ono thing, nnd that ono thing was that In calling tho llttlo fellow her nephew sho had lied. I could only stammer "What a lovoly child 1" Then I proceeded to business and soon left hor. A week Biih3equontly I wns hurried ly sent for to sco "Miss M lino's nophow." I wont at onco, and found tho bright llttlo follow In a fit of con vulsions, which turned out to bo the premonitory symptoms of a sovcro nt tnck of Inflnmatlon of tho lungs, thnt kopt him hanging between Ufa nnd dentil for many dnys. Miss Mllno was standing over him,' wringing hor hamlB with an Intensity of emotion that was altogothor tinnunt-llko nnd fiom thnt moment I was confirmed In my conviction that tho child was her own. When I cnllod to boo my llttlo pa tient tho next dny I found tho Inflam mation firmly established, and having altered hhi prescription, I dispatched her to n neighboring room to borrow some boiling water, thnt wo might mnko a poultlco for tho llttlo follow s chest. Directly sho loft, tho thought struck mo that very likely thoro was no mntorlnl to bo had whorcon to spread thu Unseed, nnd seeing n bun dle of clothing on tho top shelf, I pro cccdod to unpnek It, hoping to find something suitable. On how inlnuto a thread a dostlny mny hnn,g! "Throw a stono," Bald an old pclontlst, "and you alter tho ouith's axis." I pull down a bundlo of npparontlj old clothing, nnd I ruin two lives. This fateful bundlo wnn loosely wrapped up In a plcco of black lining mntorlal, from tho cornorn of which peeped out what I had taken to be sonio old calico; but I hnd no Bnonor untied the parcel than I found, first a whlto lawn mirpllco, then an exquis itely worked stolo, an Oxford hood, n long blnck cassock nnd a photograph of tho gentlomnn who hnd evidently owned nnd hnd boon photogrnphod in thin costume. When MIbs Mllno returned Bho found mo staring Into this, to mo, In oxpllcnblo collection of mysteries. Sho started back with an oxclemntlbn of pnlnful astonishment, and thon, In stantly rcovcrlng herself, bIio Bald, with no betrayal of tho emotion that wbb welling from ovory poro of her: "I hnvo got tho wotor you require la thoro anything moro I .can get, doc tor?" I thanked her nnd snld I wanted nn old ploco of stuff whereon to aprend my linseed, and hnd boon turning over what I had mlstukon for a bundlo of old linen. "Von will find nothing thoro that Is suitable," sho said, with assumed compoaiiro; "hut this hnndkerchlof mny do." And together wo mado nnd applied tho poultice. I cnllod tho noxt night to boo how my llttlo pntlont wns progressing, nnd finding him bettor, I woh about to leave, when MIsb Mllno nsked mo It I could Hpnro n fow moments In which sho would toll .mo "something of hor past life, which sho would llko mo to know." With thin request, I noed scarcely sny, I willingly compiled. Miss Mllno began by tolling mo thnt her father was a small farmer In lllnnkshlro. and ns ho was poor and Mossed with a largo family, of which sho wns tho eldost, It wan her fathor's wish that sho should cam hor own livelihood. With this object In view, alio had applied for nnd obtained a Bltuatlor In n largo drapery establishment nt the went end of London, whore bIio wns not only very happy, but vory success ful. Four months after her entry. Into this establishment sho cnught cold, nnd hor porslstont cough nwnknnod the anxieties of tho proprietor, who fnrthor sent her to a loading phy slclnn. After making a careful exam ination of hor chest, tho physician told hor that If sho hnd beon In n po sition to Bpend tho coming wlntor In tho south of Franco hor recovery would bo easily Insured; but as It was she would hnvo to take tho greatest possible euro of horsolf to provent n sprend of tho fatal dlsenso that had al ready takon coualdernblu hold upon her lungs. A few weeks subsequent to hor vis it to hint, tho snino physician wna con sulted by I.ndy M . who wna Buf fering from exactly the sn.mo aymp touts, and whoso wealth rondo red it stay abroad an onay matter. As the, lattor wns leaving tho consulting room, tho kind-hearted old doctor wild: "If you do decide to go to Italy, I.ady M , I would tal;o It as a great privilege to bo allowed to recommend a girl to you na lady's maid to whom tho voyage would bo an unmistakable boon." Lady M rendlly agreod, and It wits nrrangod that Mlsa Mil I no should call upon hor tho following morning. Tho lutorvlow ondod by hor being engaged nnd In n fow woeka thoy started for Montono, nnd together they wandered through tho south of France and Italy. In tho early aunt mor months thoy returned to l-.itglnud. Mlsa Mllno at Lady M 'a request still holding hor position na lady's maid, Tho position wna nn easy ono ami exactly aultod to hor require nionta, tho only, to her, objectionable condition being that ovory .member of tho household wna oxpectod to attend matins each morning nt tho little church In tho park nnd coufeaslon onco n week, Tho clergymnn of thla llttlo church wna paid ont.lroly by Lady M , nnd hla wholo tlino wna tnkon up In fill filling tho requirements of a High Church ritual. "Ono morning," said Mlsa Milne nnd ltore her voice lowered and bo enmo If possible, gadder "'I finished my work, nnd as It was the morning for confession, I sot out for the church to fulfill this, at first, to mo a terrible task, but now a comforting duty. Ab I entered, tho clergyman, the Itov. John Carlosso, who, though of English education, was an Italian nobleman, poor but of extremely ancient Hnonge, about thirty yenra of ago nnd excep tionally gentlemanly nnd clerical In bin manner, was pacing up and down tho aisle. "Upon seeing mo ho hurried Into the confessional, whllo I hastened to di vest myself of my load of llttlo sins. Ills voice carried moro than usual comfort to mo, and I left tho llttlo recess, hallowed by many memories, with a light stop and my hoart so lemnly glad. When I reached tho church door, to my astonishment 1 found my confessor had gono round tho other way, and was awaiting mo In tho porch. On his faco ho carried the ovldonco of grcnt excitement, and his manner was nltogothoruinllko any thing I had noticed In him hoforo, but nothwlthstnndlng his emotion, ho ask ed mo, with porfect self command, If I would mind stopping Into tho vestry a moment, aa ho hnd somothlng of lm portnnco he was anxlouB to communl cato to mo. "Mechanlcnlly I whlkod In, nnd ho, closing tho door, took a chair, and placing It exactly and closely In front of .mine, sat down, Ho paused na though to collect himself, and then taking a deep breath, ho blurted out. 'MIsb Mllno, I lovo you,' then clnsplng one of my hnnds botweon both of his ngnln, 'Llovo you.' "Ho then bounded from hla chair, and apparently regretting hla expres sion of IiIb pnsslon, folded hla'nrms across his bronBt, and for n second or two pneed tho room In Bllonco; then suddenly stopping In front of mo, nnd, I folt, looking nt my bont head, In a volco far moro aolf-contalnod, ho snld: "Tho church of my fathers, tho church of my own boyhood, nny, tho articles of my present faith, an I road them, Invoice. Insist upon collbncy In a priest. Hut, MIbb Mllno,' ho continued, 'I am human. I hnvo fought hard and long against this wonkness until I nm no longer nblo to contlnuo tho battle.' Thon sinking on IiIb knees -hoforo .mo nnd taking both of my hands In his, nnd wringing thorn In tho dopth nnd strength of IiIb pnsslon, ho poured forth, with a fnvor bogotton of hla tin tlonnllty, tho Btory of his lovo nnd his fight against It. When ho had flnlahod hla torrlblo story, I nsked him In a volco far less audlblo to mo than tho throbhlngsiof my own honrt: 'What do you wlsu mo to do' ho naked mo under BOino pretext to go to Brixton, nnd ho would follow nnd meet mo thoro. "The dny following wo will bo married, and thon nnd thon '" hero MIbb Mllno foldod her faco In hor hands and continued: "Ho drew such a plcturo of our nftor llfo, Its swcot8, Its lovo, Its happy contontmont. that 1 too', being human, consented. Tho fol lowing dny wo woro married" nt Brix ton, nnd that day saw tho last of all happiness nnd nil hopo In .my llfo. "Wo took two rooms In n qulot street. In Brixton, nnd I hnd not boon married twenty-four hours boforo I found that In my huaband thoro woro two men distinct nnd utterly die similar tho clorgyman that I had known, nnd tho husband that I had yet to learn. Tho ono had nil tho capa city for making mon nnd wonton, os- peclnlly wonton, lovo nnd rovoro him; In tho othor was combined ovory nt trlbuto that goes to tho mnklng of bad mon. "I lived with him for two' months. Tho grontor part of his tlmo wna, of necessity, oxpondod in clerical duty; ho would return onco or twlco a week, nnd whon ho camo In would often klsa mo, nnd that qtilto fondly; thon ho would put off his clorlcnl suit nnd put on n ault of twoed, nnd with tho chnnge of clothes tho wholo man would altoi aa If by magic." MIbb Mllno looked up from tho tiro and added: "You mny know, air, something of tho sclouco of thla sud den chnngo of character, hut I only know thnt It hnpponod and tho hor rors of It." (Tu bo Continued.) To Piuitra'e Utter fhlcvti. Kxporimoiitfl aro bolni mmlo in Franco with ono Invention nnd in Knq litiid with another for tho purposo of iruvuntiiiK thiuvoH from extracting let tern from public lotter boxoa. in tho I'rttnrh invention steel teeth nro placed closo to tho mouth of tho box, whllo thu IlritUh invention contdBts of a wire invention Incidu thti'pillur box. Tho weight of tho letton carries them through tho cko, hut they innnot bo pulled up with n plcco of string or HomethiiiK Micky, thu uhuuI means adopted by. tho letter thief. Mined the Wnltkers. UepresiMitut-vo Hnhcoek of Wisconsin elmxod off hid luxuriant hhu'k board dtiriiiK tho lai-t Fonsion of congress ami tho tloorkooporu rofnswl to Admit him to tlio floor of thu hoitFo until ho had boon identitlvd, Mr. Uaucock had not Injun tdi:ived boforo in lo yen re nnd us ho sulked down the nlslo toward his neat tho ntvinliors looked K'nrehinuly nt him, many failing to roconito thoir colli'amio becaiifo of the ntaenco of his whhkors. 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