Race for a BY- Wife HAWLEY SMART CHAPTEIt XVII. Maude Dcnlson's eyes flashed, and her Hps quivered. She laced her hands close ly together; but all she said was the monosyllable "Gren." Small mercy was Mrs. Upcroft likely to meet with at his hands; her insolence had already made Itoaen teeth crate. "Unfortunate, Mrs. Upcroft," he ob served, with an evil smile; "but I am afraid the butcher will have to wait for some time before ho next enjoys the pleas ure of your society. You see, you have unluckily admitted, before myself and Ml6s Denison two witnesses, bear In mind that you were privy to tho remov al or abstraction of a deed of value, even If you did not actually remove such deed with your own hands. The law, of which you are aware I am an expounder, calls a casualty of this kind by the name .of felony, and recompenses It with varied terms of transportation. It is unpleas ant, Mrs. Upcroft ; but I fear, unless you can recollect where those particular pa pers are, there Is nothing for it but to wait here patiently until the police escort I am about to summon has arrived for yon " The sulky insolence was taken well out of the unhappy housekeeper before Rose's speech was finished. Like most people of that class, she had but very vague ideas of the power of the law, and on almost morbid horror of encountering it in any shape. The barrister's accusation, too, sounded very plausible to uupractlced ears. "Oh ! Mr. Grenville, after knowing me all this time, whoevcr'd have thought you'd go against me In' this way? Oh,- dear! oh, dear! what shall I do?" "Do what you ought to have done, at once. Tell Miss Maude this instant where those papers are. None of your nonsense about not remembering. You know perfectly well what you've doue with them. I'll give you two minutes to collect your ideas, and if you can't do It by the end of that time. I'll lock you in here and send for the police." "Oh, please don't ! I don't know, right-, ly. I think, Miss, they were all put up in an old trunk In the garret overhead," sobbed the now thoroughly cowed house keeper. "Go and see, Maude," said Rose, quiet ly. Miss Denison tripped out of the room, leaving Grenville to the quiet contempla tion of his victim. "Oh, my! oh, my!" sobbed the house keeper, "to think of those old rubbishing things being of any consequence! And what right have you, sir, to say I took, them? To think of my being accused of taking things, after all these years! But L suppose a poor servant's character is not to be taken away for nothing? I'll have the law of you, I will." T "You're right, Mrs. Upcroft; you will, and very much to. your detriment, too, if the paper I want is not forthcomnlg. You're not talking to a woman now. You'll neither frighten me, nor get the slightest mercy at my hands. You're In as fair a way of spending the next six or seven years at Portland as any body I know; and, by heavens, I'll take pretty good care you get there! They have stood your Insolence long enough here. If you want to take a few things with you, I'll ring, and one of the maids can put up your box. I'll run through your accounts after you are gone, and fan cy I a.n substantiate a tolerable charge of peculation to boot." The housekeeper had rallied a litttle, but this last speech of Rose's completely crushed her. She knew that she had carried on a systematic scale of robbery for years. She flopped down on her knees, and implored that mercy might be shown her, backing her entreaties with many sobs and tears. "Here they all are, Gren," said Maude, entering the room. "I tumbled them Into this towel; I couldn't carry them In my hands. Good gracious, Mrs. Upcroft, do get up. What is the matter?" "Stay where you are, and apologize to Miss Denison for your impertinence, be fore you rise," thundered Grenville. "Quick, woman, and I'll be lenient about the second charge I have against you." "Ob, please forgive me, Miss Maude! I didn't mean it indeed I didn't !" whim pered the crestfallen housekeeper. 'There, that'll do," said Rose, con temptuously, while Maude stood in open eyed wonderment at the complete subju gation of her ancient foe, "Eureka!" he shouted, as, after running his eye over some half a dozen mouldy papers, a more musty parchment than usual came beneath his ken. "This will do. You can go, Mrs. Upcroft, without a police escort for the present; but you had better bear in miud, In future, that if you are Insolent to Miss Dcnleon you will settle with -me, end that next time I promise you It shall be a settlement in full." With a low curtsy the discomforted housekeeper left the room anger raging In her breast, but mixed with a strong proportion of fear. Her malevolence would know no bounds If she should ever see her opportunity; but for the pres ent Grenville Rose had establlshedwa wholesome terrorism. "Let ber go, my darling," said Gren-, ville, as he stole bis arm round Maudo's waist. "This Is the deed I wanted. I, must leave for town directly after break fast. Armed with this, I think I can wifely say I'earman shall trouble you no moro. What guerdon Is your champion to have when he has rescued you from the dragon?" "Notbiug', I'm afraid." "You 'ingratel What do you mean?" "What I said. I fear, Gren," replied the girl, as she lifted her smiling face to his, "that I have given my champion oil I have to give already, and If that don't satisfy him, I can only " Miss Dcnlson's further views on the subject were never promulgated, for rea sons that ere palpably obvious; nor will an ordinary observer be much astonished t festr that the cousins put la a dis gracefully late appearance at the break fast table a fact that may be quoted In support of ray great theory, that early riving is dependent on fictitious excite ment, and not In accordance with natural laws. Breakfast over, Grenville bad a hur ried interview with tho squire, the result of which was great jubilation on Harold Dcnlson's part, and a remark that he had always had nu immense opinion of Gren villu's talents, and that he thought prea ont circumstances already justified his opinion. "Good-by, uncle," said Rose, as .he stood on the steps of tho carriage that was to convey him to the station. "I think I'm right, but you mustn't, blamn me If I've made a mistake. I'll telegraph as soon as I have had counsel's opinion on my friend hero;" and he tapped his traveling bag, In which reposed tho anx iously sought for deed. "Heaven bless you, boy! I feel you're right you must be. Good-by. Drive on." "Stop stop I he can't go like that;" and Maude, like a flash of sunlight, dash ed through the porch. Tho Idea of any body leaving GHnn without a flower in his buttonhole! "Gren, dear, one mo ment, while I put this in your cottt. Keep it," she whispered, "to remind you of me." "N'ot much necessity for that," he re plied, as he bent over her. "But you shall see it, darling, next time I come. Good- by : "Sot for long; mind and write; they won't care now, will they?" "Can't help It if they do. I shall. CHAPTER XVIII. It is Monday afternoon. The usual crowd of refuse humanity clusters round the door of the great turf exchange. Ex- pugilists, low publicans, noblemen's but lers that were traders on men's weak nesses or lust greasy, brass-chained, shovel-hatted, brazen-throated, brazen- browed with wolfish greed of gain stamp ed more or less on their features the hungry, gold-seeking mob oscillate round that low doorway. The turfite's temple never shuts; the fell war between backers nnd layers never ceases. Eager murmurs are heard midst that vulture-faced crowd. "He went very bad in the market this morning." "Tell me they offered threes, at the clubs." "What's wrong with him?" "What against The Saint?" and similar hurried interrogatories fall on the ear. Now a brougham, now a well-appointed cab, whose driver throws the reins from his lavender-kidded hands to the next tiger; now the hansoms of ordinary life drop their respective occupants at the small doorway. The Subscription Room is full; round the big circular desks much paying and receiving is going on. The sofas round the room are crowded with loungers; the tessellated pavement is trod by a fluctuat ing mass, who ebb and flow to different points as some one or two large specula tors vociferate the odds, or cease to do so. It is the settling day after the broken week at Newmarket, and sinister rumors are rife about the first favorite for the Two Thousand. He has stood at five to two for a long while, but report says that three to one has been laid and of fered, to any amount of money, at the rac ing clubs this morning. Half-past four fatal hour lor many a favorite at Tattersall's, the adjustment of last week's accounts is over, and the ring has time to turn its attention to forthcoming events. "Three to one against Coriander for the Guineas," Is vociferated In more than one quarter. Nothing positive seems known about the horse; but a panic has set in, and backers stand aloof from a wager that yesterday they would have Jumped at. Some few adventurous men take the increased odds to a little, but speedily repent as they find the disposition to lay that price rapidly Increasing. At this juncture I'earman, attired In deep mourning, entered the Subscription Room. It was nut a lew uays since ins father's funeral, and, to do him Justice, he would not have been there had not a friend telegraphed to him early in the day the onslaught that was being made on Coriander, Business must be attended to, hq argued, whether racing or otherwise, and knowing his horse to be perfectly well, ho ran up at once to town to stop this demonstration against it. Foremost among the opponents of the favorite was a big, corpulent north coun tryman, who enjoyed the reputation of by no means throwing his money aw"uy. In turf parlance, when he persistently bet against a horse, "he knew something." "Here's 1,000 to 300 against Corian der !" vociferated Mr. PJyart, for the sec ond or third time. "Put It down to me," said Pearman, quietly. "Yes, sir. Will you take it twice?" Pearman nodded. The bookmaker pencilled It into bis note book. The crowd, attracted by the fact of Coriander's owner coming to the rescue, had surged round them; but no sooner bad Mr. Plyftrt completed his memorandum, than he reiterated his hoarse war cry of "Here's 1,000 to 300 against Coriander!" a shout in which he was immediately joined by two or three other large speculators. "Put It down again, PJyart, said Pear man, grimly; and now, Inspired -with con fidence by the way in which his owner had supported him, several, backers in vested on the favorite. For ft little, It seemed as if Coriander would rally in the market; but the layers of odds far exceeded the backers; and finally came forth Mr. PJyart's ominous shout of "4,000 to 1,000 against the favor lte for Ths Guineas !'" "I'll take that 1" .cried Pearman, though his astonishment knew no bounds; and, as the bookmaker noted It, he remarked, with a sneer, "You'll find ray horse bad to get out of on the Two Thousand day, I don't think you will hedgeexcept at ft loss." I "Perhaps 9, sir perhaps so but I'll bet you an even hundred he don't start." "Doitol Mid I'll make It r,000, If you like." "No ; you might start him on three legs. I on t risk moro than a hundred ou his not starting; but bore's 4,000 to 1,000 ha uon t win, onco moro." Pnra Pearman shook his head, nnd, at all events for onco In hla life, walked out of Tattersall's thoroughly puuled. Ho knew his horso to bo perfectly well, ho had neen him that morning. As far as he had tried him, ho hail never trlod a throe-,vir-old better. What wcro theso rlug meu going on? They mako great mistakes , at tlrass, theso members of tho magic circle. Their brethren of the Stock Exchange occasion ally get the worst of It also; but, as n rule, either backers or shareholders are Justified In feeling alarm at a persistent asaault on what their money may be In vested In. Tho dccllno of the favorite for n b'c race In the market Is hardly so ills astrous to the world In general as bank shares dropping twenty per cent below premium. Before Pearman left London tho next day, ho was aware, from various sources, that Coriander status In the letting was still further shaken, and that is much as five to ono had been offered against the crack of forty-eight hours ago He thought of It all th way home, and fslt moro utterly bewildered than he had ever done before In the whole of hla turf cxnorieuce. Could Sam Pearman have been present at n conference held In Silky Dalllson'a rooms, between that astute gentleman and Grenville Rose, though ho would have been still a long way from enlightened on the subject, yet he would have learned a good deal. It was the Friday night before that eventful Monday. Grenville bad re turned from GHnn tho day previous. A mouldy old parchment lay on the table between them; It had apparently been consulted and thrown aside. "Rumford says the deed Is perfectly Rood, and Mr. Denison Is quite certain there has been no enfranchisement. That's the cr.se, Gren, Isn't It?" Rose aodded, and Mr. Dalllson for a fcv minutes puffed meditatively at his cigar. "Well," he continued, "the law part I leave to you. I presume that is all right. Rumford's opinion Is quite good enough to go on, and old Denison, you say, was ?<c clear there has never been an 'n ranchlsement. Odd there should not have been ; but no doubt Pearman de funct was quite unaware of the existence of our friend here;" and Dalllson Jerk ed hit- head In the direction of tho parch ment. "He wasn't the man to leave such a blot In his game If ho knew It. Tbouh for the matter of that It was no blot so long as ho lived. Now, look here. I must trust to you for the legal work ing of this affair; the racing part I -n manage. We've got Sam Pearman In a regular hole. and. better still, he doesn't know it. I can make probably a good bit of money out of this, both for you and myself, without any risk whatever; hut ulterior events must decide that. Mr. Denison, at all events, must make a good bit; but without hurting his interests, in fact rather furthering them, you and I niieht nick un some five thousand pound apiece. Do you understand?" "Not in the least," repneu urenvuie. "Well, there's not much necessity you should. Leave that to me; but you must work the legal machinery as I direct. Can you put It In motion by Wednesday or Thursday?" "Let's say Thursday, certain, rejoin ed Rose. "Very good, that will do; but don't let's have any mistakes about It." "All right," nodded the other. "I'll guarantee that, and go down myself." "Good. You told me the stake you were playing for, to start with, nnd as you are in real earnest about winning a wife, I think one may trust you. I shall com mence operations at once. I'll see Plyart the bookmaker, to-morrow, and put the first part of the program in his bands. We're going, you and I, tfa lay about a couple of thousand each against Cori ander; and I'm going to give him free license to do as much as be likes for him self." (To be continued.) HE DEFENDS DIVORCE. Maine Jtulsre Declnrea It I a Heme dy and Not nil Uvll. In the course of nn address before the Twentieth Century Club upon the subject of divorce, Lucillliis A. Emery, chief judge of the Mnlno Supreme Ju dicial Court, gnvo utterance to Home views that have created much com ment nnd discussion nrnong the clergy nnd others, n Hanger (Me,) dispatch to the New York Herald Bays. Judge Em cry paid In part; "I have read a great deal nnd heard n great deal nbout the dlvorco evil. Now, In my opinion, dlvorco Is not an evil, but rather u remedy for evil. Like other remedies for evil, it muy and docB have nttendnnt lesser evils, which wo must Berloimlyfconslder nnd cllml mite If possible, but in Itself divorce 1 not an evil It Is n remedy. The evil precedes the divorce, but comes after marriage. I shall not consider the moral sldo of tho question. I am npcnUIng from the legal standpoint nlono In considering this remedy for many of the evJIs of society. "Mnrrlago Js n civil Institution, es tablished by statute for the benefit of man. It is not a sacrament. There is nothing divine about it, but it is n purely human Institution. Law juis es tablished It. Its rights and abuses uro defined, not by the church, but by law. "To be Biire, dlvorco may, In a sense, have an ill effect upon society. It would bo better, of course, if all mar riages were Ideal, but tliey nro not. Wo find theso terrlblo conditions, Tho remedy may bo a choice of two evils, but I say thut In choosing divorce no ddy lias chosen tho lesser, I have heard It said that dlvorco should not ho granted because of tho children, but I maintain that It Is better for them not only better,' but Jess hurtful. And I eny these things In tho light of hon est experience," About once a year the Queen of Slam wears a state robe which Is considered the most magnificent garment la ths world. - - a m i n .n.r , . m m . X EDITOR Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. wwwwwww,rmw"v m w w - - - - - - - w - v miwmtti, a i T-a. j a w--- -v tr r - -r- y v-vvvn.-..vu. jui V 1 u'w" "D "" ini mo a rect nomlnu , for all political Ills. nomination !. , In nil othnr iletinrfm.knt. . ice nnd skill nro accounted valuX I WORKING OZBLS AS WIVES. nni.KOE education eccnts to lnsuro rcduc- Cl tlon of progeny among collcgo-brcd fathers I and mothers. Not two-thirds of tho men I nrn.in. hnvn children. Not SO per cent of tho girl graduates ever wed. Thoso who becomo wives seldom or never bring fnmiiies of children into tho world. In this dilemma President Mary E. Woollcy, head of aiount Holyolto College, a Massachusetts Institution, ac knowledged to bo ono of tho leading girls' colleges of tho English-speaking world, comes to tho rcscuo with tho admission that working girls mako hotter wires than collego graduates or girls reared In Idleness. Tho working girl appreciates tho dlfferenco between housework at her own convenience and toll for a fixed number of hours six days n week In store, olllco or fac tory under orders from soino ono else. The collego grad uate or tho girl reared In Idleness condemns her Hus band to llfo In apartment hotels and boarding house becauso sho thinks housework n burden. The working girl wife Is seldom seen In the divorce court Sho does not taunt her husbaud with hla lnado quato Income or moan because sho has fowcr dresses than her father used to provide. She leaves recrimina tion and dlvorco to wives who rend novels and primped while their mothers did tho housework. ' The business girl makes housekeeping a business and hor homo Is a success. She Is a helpiuoct nnd not ft drnwback, and tho man who weds hor mny well consider himself In luck. Such Is Miss Woolley's hlgH opinion of the largo class of young women to whom wo must look for tho mothers of tho next generation. Chicago Journal. A THE MAN "ON THE JOB." WIDE-AWAKE and energetic chTmn who takes n 'lvely Interest In politic op Poecs tho plan of direct nominations upon grounds that ore striking. If not novel. Ho says he prefers government b7 "tho few who stay on tho Job and know their busl- ness." That is to say, no wouiu rainor trust tho experienced iol"ltlcions than tho amateurs who wake up occasionally and go In for political reform. Ho fays the substitution of direct nominations for tho ef fective control of a few persons experienced In govern ment Is long step toward Socialism. Ho wants a po litical revival, with tho '.coders the first to approach the mourner's bench. And ho believes that desired reforms can bo more quickly brought aloirt by converting the leaders than by putting affairs in tho hands of tho Inex perienced and the Incompotent. Tho plan of direct nominations Is yet In Its experi mental stage. Much has been hoped from It In somo elections It appears to have given a reasonable degree of satisfaction, while In others it has resulted In much disappointment This, of course. Is to bo expected of all reforms, but It should teach us not to dwell too fond- enco nnd skill nro accounted yrS'W1 ouglneers nro set to tho (ask r i-h,.?w mbJ i i . . v ""name iht n.. , vhuui. jviuiivu wwyor must be hM " l,m catcd lawsuit A skilled financier mn.T Zzf 1 m vi it I'lliiM. II il ih in tin ,,na . - dm.- or government less complicated? In T f' nartv imvornmnnt nrnmii. n.i . 8 wntHn u. m ,'., mud, J.UIII1C8 JO HftftlA ' n science, Thoro must bo who political, 2" govonintent Is Impossible. W dlroacrM To convert tho political leaders to rhrht bo n hopeless task, but obviously no "J convert tho masses of the people, Und7.!-btoA oxperlence and knowledge and skill mZ f vail over InoxncrJoneo nn.i i,..". ?. . - " niiuiuiiri Th - mil ii 1 1 v "nil run 11 . man n . j MU1U H II . KIIMMVUirwilH U U 111 1 Jill. K.-, AOE PENALTY QUESTIONED, of war that Us men immu ..7 , .... ,,, r ncienr. r . .a . . ....... ,H UMH ar ii'hvu tnu im'i linn iin,rAi,.i . . ' ia tim J i ll IHl MIIXIOUK 10 k'Cl'tl it tin fll Ilia lil(, .... i . 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Wo admire or tomb!,! i Mmm.t ins ii 1 1 tr tint tin nnr adam m H-.i. tf la wllh rraftfft In lh riant Tl Uin n tnnn fit illulit nii mifiro. In lirlntf mil IIm Vttn tJriki distinction to orb her. Columbia (S. a) Stotn It was at a dinner given by tho members of a certain English circuit In honor of an eminent Judge. Tho legal element predominated, nnd ths conversation from tho first ran In a legal channel. Those among the com pany who did not happen to bo bar risters or solicitors sat silent, listen ing with vacuous smiles to the ex change of learned opinion which was being carried on round them. Ono only among this dumb minority, says II. 0. Drowu In tho "Conclusions of an Everyday Woman," seemed Impatient and III at case. Ho was a big, Jolly, Iooscly-mado man, wearing clothes which somehow did not seem to sot naturally on him, the conventional dress suit apiearliig less appropriate to his handsome tlgnro than would have been, say, tho loose short and riding breeches of a cowboy or colonial squatter. Ills checks werb bronzed and his bright, clear glnnco spoke eloquently of an outdoor llfo. As tho dinner advanced and tho con versation plunged deeper nnd deeper still Into tho profundities of legal erudition, ho became moro and moro restless nnd perturbed. At last, how- over, ono of tlioso lulls occurred which mny happen occasionally at even a pro fessional dinner, and It was then that a resounding volco vibrated through tho room, causing tho learned brethren assembled thero to forget for an In stant their professional Imperturbability. "Now I nm going to tell you all," boomed tho volco, "how wo skin stcora down In Texas I" All eyes wero turned In tho direction of the perpetrator of this amazing an nouncement, our mend, of courfco, of tho bright oyes and bronzed cheeks who, nothing daunted by their Icy stares, proceeded to cnlargo upon tho technique of his business, that of cattlo breeding, and continued his unlntor rupted. monologue, until tho dinner was entirely at an end. Theso lngal "Johnnies" inlght know something about tho law, but what ho did not know nbout cattle wus not worth knowing. When the diners had arrived at that conifortnblo, Jnformul period whoro chairs nro pushed back, tho eminent Judgo who was tho guest of tho even ing turned to his neighbor and tald : "I want you to Introduce to me that young fellow who has Imparted to us so much useful .Information upon tho subject of cnttlo raising, I should like to congratulate him upon tho reproof he has so tactfully administered to us all, "In future, at legal banquets, I shall certainly do all In my power to koop tit tabla frniu taJM"- Vhnik' which U NEW IDEAS Df KUUNEBT. nasssssssssw tm dull In nil concienca .wben.only law yers nro present! and when there nro outsider who cannot Join In tho dis cussion, It shows a lnck of good taste, uesiiics." . Ho tho man with tho bright eyes nnd bronzed cheeks becomo tho hero of tho ovcnlng. EVICTION IN NEW YORK. Brttn tho Mnrslml Was Moved WKcb II UlnposseNsod iht Ilwlilif. Thirty llttlo children sat on cbonp wooden benches In tM Bocflud-story room at 11 Suffolk street tho oilier day. Every ono of them wus nigged, Most looked as though thoy Jind ' not had onough to eat. Hut thoy were hriglit oyed. and nlort and not for n moment did their nttontlon stray from Ui whlto-beardod old rabbi who was teaching them Jewish prayors, nlthpugh tho smoary little pictures on tho walls and tho myriad of noises of the roaring East Bidp "treot must linvo been a constant temptation. And thou tho door opened' and City Marshal h&tti rus stepped In, dispossess warrant In hand, says tbo New Joxk correspond ent of tho Cincinnati Tim-8tar. The struggling lltUe coagraUo U Um i..iifii'r i ii iTii u - tnoir muo - - . old teacher stood Imail. UH tbo poof imi-" -jA ' nu ft-. lined from , street below. in itniirvi. iv in nM tiding through nnd in a IB"""-'" ' ...... - jin. tw-r I'llOKOll Willi - rrtJT wcui-iiih "--;-. merer. " Mm tnnrsuui o . a.i.m i ...w ...... .....iitfniuiw b t of uio pw nnt(M rnbb . JJO oih"' v.M ,t a noor. old, tw-r:; red with tean,p"j-to moved amen? 1W iiiufw - .... '.triruu T ; it. . xinir 1KJlVt .r. weu tistti in nil 'v" - i.tyiur . . I n III I uih . anim Old raw jou v- on, old man aw for w vpLrz f llttia cm