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CHAPTER XVIIL Continued.) I tied tones.
Very well, then," said Yolande, and always!'
he went to the fireplace, and placed
the bottle conspicuously on the mantel
shelf. Then she went back to her moth
er. "It shall remain there, mother
as something you have no further need
of. That is done with now. It was a
treat temptation when 70a were living
in lodgings in a town, not in good air;
and 70a were very weak and ill; but
oon you will be strong enough to get
over your fits of falntness or depression
without that" She put her hand on her
mother's shoulder. "It is for my sake
that you have put It away?"
In answer she took her daughter's hand
In both hers, and covered It with kisses.
"Yes, yes, yes! I have put it away,
Yolande, for your sake. I have put
it away forever now. But you have a
little excuse for me? You do not thiuk
o hardly of me as the others? ' I have
been near dying and alone. I did not
know I had such a beautiful daughter
coming to take care of me, tool And I
don't want you to go away now not for
a while at least Stay with me for a
little time until until I have got to.b
Just like every one else and then I shall
have no fear of being alone I shall nev
er, never touch that!"
She glanced at the battle on the man
telshelf with a sort of horror. . She held
her daughter's hand tight And Yo
lande kept by her until not thinking it
was prudent to make too much of this
little incident, she begged her mother to
onie and get her things on for another
short stroll before tea.
Toward the evening, however, It was
lear ithat this poor woman was suffer
ing more and more, although she endear
ored to put a brave face on it and only
desired that Yolande should be In the
room with her. At dinner, she took
next to nothing; and Yolande, on her own
responsibility, begged to be allowed, to
send for some wine for her. But no; she
seemed to think that there was some
thing to be got through, and she would
go through with it sometimes she went
to the window and looked out listening
to the sound of the sea in the darkness.
Then she would come back and sit down
by the fire, and ask Yolande to read to
her this, that or the otner thing.
Yolande did not go quickly to sleep,
for she knew that her mother was suffer
ing the labored sighs from time to time
told her as much. She lay and listened
to the wash of the sea along the shingle
and to the tramp of the last wayfarers
along the pavement She heard the peo
ple of the house go upstairs to bed. And
then, by-and-by. the stillness of the room,
and the effects of the fresh air, and the
natural healthiness of youth combined to
make her drowsy, and, rather against
her Inclination, her eyes slowly closed.
She was woke by a moan, as of a soul
in mortal agony. But even In her alarm
she did not start np, she took time to re
cover her senses. And if the poor moth'
r were really In such suffering, would It
not be better for her to lie as If she were
asleep? No appeal could be made to her
for any relaxation of the promise that
had been given her.
Then she became aware of a stealthy
noise, and a strange terror took posses-
sion of her. She opened her eyes ever so
lightly glimmering through the lashes
only and there Bhe saw that her worst
fears were being realized. Her mother
had got out of bed and stolen across
the room to the sideboard In the parlor,
returning with a glass. Yolande, all
trembling, lay and watched, bhe was
not going to interfere, It was not part of
her plan; and you may be sure she had
contemplated this possibility before now
And very soon It appeared why the' poor
woman had taken the trouble to go for a
class: it was to measure out the small
est quantity that she thought would al
leviate her anguish. She poured a cer-
tain Quantity of the black-looking fluid
into the glass; then she regarded it as If
with hesitation; then she' deliberately
poured back one drop, two drops, three
drops; and drank the rest at a gulp,
Then, In the same stealthy fashion, she
took the glass to the parlor and left It
there; and crept silently back again and
into bed.
Yolande rose. Her face was pale; het
Hds firm. She did not look at her moth'
er; but Just as If she were assuming
her to be asleep, she quietly went out of
the room and presently returned with
glass In her hand. She went to the
chimney piece. Very well she knew that
her mother's eyes were .fixed on ber,
and Intently watching her; and, as she
poured some of that dark fluid Into the
glass, no doubt she guessed the poor
woman was Imagining that this was an
experiment to see what had been taken
out of the bottle. But that was not
aulte Yolande's purpose. When she had
poured out as nearly as she could calcu
late, the same quantity that her mother
had taken, she turned her face to the
light and deliberately drank the contents
of the gloss. It was done in a second
there was a sweet mawkish, pungent
taste In the mouth, and a shiver of dis
gust as she swallowed the thing; then
he calmly replaced the bottle on the
chimney piece.
But the mother had sprung from her
bed with a wild shriek, and caught the
girl by both hands.
"Yolande, Yolande, what have you
done?"
"What Is right for you, mother,
right for me," she said, in cleat and sal
"It Is how I mean to do
CHAPTER XIX.
The frantic grief of the mother was
pitiable to witness. She flung her arms
round her daughter, and drew her to her,
and wept aloud, and called down ven-
geance upon herself from heaven. And
then, In a passion of remorse, she flew
at the bottle that was standing there.
and would have hurled it into the fire
place, had not Yolande (whose head was
beginning to swim already) interposed,
calmly and firmly. She took the bottle
from her mother's hand and replaced It
Wo; It must remain there, mother. It
must stand there until you and I can
bear to know that It is there, and not to
ish for It."
Even In the midst of her wild distress
and remorse there was one phrase in
tb's speech that had the effect of silenc
ing the mother altogether. She drew
back, aghast her face white, her eyes
taring with horror.
You and I?" she repeated. "You and
7 - You, to become like like "
Yes," said Yolande. "What is right
fur yuu is right for inei that is what I
mean to do always. Now, dear moth
er," she added, in a more languid way,
I will lie down; I am giddy .
She sat down on the edge of the bed,
putting her hand to her forehead, and
rested so awhile; then insensibly after a
time she drooped down on to the pillow
lthoogh the frightened and frantic
mother tried to get an arm around her
waist; and very soon the girl had relaps
ed Into perfect Insensibility.
And the a cry rang through the honse
like the cry of the Egyptian mothers
over the death of their first-born. The
poison seemed to act in directly" oppo
site ways in the brains of these, two
women the one it plunged Into a pro
found stupor; the other It drove Into
frenzy. She threw herself on the sense
less form and wound her arms round tho
girl, and shrieked aloud that she had
murdered her child her beautiful daugh
ter she was dying dead, and no one
to save her murdered by her own moth.
er! The little household was roused
at once. Jane came rushing In, terri
fied. The landlady was the first to re
cover her wits, and Instantly she sent a
housemaid for a doctor. Jane, being a
strang-armed woman, dragged the hys
terical mother back from the bed, and
bathed her young mistress' forehead with
eau-de-cologne It was all the poor kind
creature could think of. Then they tried
to calm the mother somewhat; for she
was begging them to give her a knife,
that she might kill herself and die with
her child.
The doctor's arrival qnieted matters
somewhat; and he had scarcely been a
minute In the room when his eyes fell
on the small blue bottle on the mantel
piece. That he instantly got hold of;
the label told him what were the con
tents; and when he went back to the bed
side of the girl who was lying insensi
ble, in a heavy breathing sleep, her chest
laboring as If against some weight he
had to exercise some self-control over the
mother to get her to show him precisely
the quantity of the fluid that had been
taken. The poor woman seemed beside
herself. She dropped on her knees be
fore him, In a passion of tears, and
clasped her hands.
"Save her, save, her! save my child
to me! If you can give her back to me
I will die a hundred times before harm
shall come to her my beautiful child
that came to me like an angel, with kind
ness and open hands and this is what
I've done!"
"Hush, hush!" said the doctor, and
he took her by the hand and gently rais
ed her. "Now you must be quiet I am
not going to wake your daughter. If
that is what she took, she will sleep It
off; she Is young, and I should say
healthy. I am going to let nature work
the cure; though I fear the young lady
will have a bad headache In the morn
ing. It Is a most mischievous thing to
have such drugs in tie house. Yon are
her maid, I understand?" he said, turn
lng to Jane.
"Yes, sir."
"Ah. Well, I think for to-night you
had better occupy that other bed there;
and the young lady's mother can have
a bed elsewhere. I don't think you need
fear anything except a headache In the
morning. Let her sleep as long as she
may. In the morning let her go for a
drive In the fresh air, If she is too Ian
guid to walk." .
But the mother cried so bitterly on
hearing of this arrangement that they
had to consent to her retaining her place
In the room, while Jane said she could
make herseli comtortable enough In au
armchair. As for ths poor mother, she
did not go back to her own bed at all;
she sat at tue side of Yolande's bed
at the foot of it lest the sound of her
sobbing should disturb the sleeper; and
sometimes she put ber hand ever so light
ly on the bedclothes, with a kind of pat
as it were, while ths tears were running
down her lace.
she began to recollect She thought of
what she had done perhaps with a lit
tle touch of pride, as of something that
he might approve, if ever he should come
to know. Then, though her head was
throbbing so dreadfully, she cautiously
opened her eyes to look around.
No sooner had she done so than Jane,
wh was awake, stole noiselessly to her
young mistress' bedside. Yolande made
a gesture to Insure silence for she saw
that her mother was lying asleep; then
she rose, wrapped a shawl round her,
and slipped out of the room, followed by
her maid.
"Jane," said she, "do you think you
could slip Into the room and bring me
my things without waking my mother?"
But you are not going out, miss?"
said the maid, wondering. "The night
Is scarcely over yet Won't you go back
and He down?"
"No, no," said Yolande, almost with a
shudder of dread. "I have had terrible
dreams I want to go outside and
have a headache besides; perhaps the
fresh air will make it better. But you
can He down, Jane, after I have gone;
and don't wake my mother, no matter
how late she sleeps. When I come back
perhaps the people in the house will be
up, and I shall try to take some break
fast "
The maid went and fetched her things;
and when she had dressed she stole
noiselessly down the stairs and got out
side. How cold and damp the air felt;
but yet It was fresh and new and
strange; the familiar sound of the sea
seemed pleasant and companionable. As
yet in the dull gray dawn, the little
town appeared to be asleep; all the peo
ple she could find as she passed were a
policeman, leaning against a railing and
reading a newspaper, two men worklnp
at the roadway, and a maid servant
cleaning the windows of a first-floor par
lor. She walked on, and pushed back
the hair from her forehead to let the cold
sea breeze dispel this racking pain. But
although the headache was a bad one,
and although It was a most rare thing
for her to know what a headache was,
still It did not depress her. She walked
on with an increasing gladness.-
She was getting near to Broadwater
when she saw along the road a pony
carriage coming quickly in her direction;
the next moment she perceived that her
mother was in It, and that Jane (who
bad been brought up in the country) was
driving. A few seconds sufficed to bring
them to her; and then the mother, who
seemed much excited, got out from the
trap, and caught her daughter by both
shoulders, and stroked her hair and her
face, In a sort of delirium of Joy.
"We have been driving everywhere in
search of you I was so afraid ah, you
are alive, and well, and beautiful as ever
my child, my child, I have not mur
dered your
"Hush, mother," said the girl, quite
calmly. "It Is a pity you got up so
early. I came out for a walk, because
my head was bad; It Is getting better
now; I will drive you back If you like."
She drew the girl aside for a few yards
caressing her arm, and stroking her
fingers.
My child, I ought to be ashamed, and
miserable; but to see you alive and well
I I was in despair I was afraid.
But you need not fear any more, Yo
lande, you need not fear any more."
"I hope not, mother," said Yolande,
gravely, and she regarded her mother.
For I think I would rather die than go
through again such a night as last
night"
"But you need not fear you need
not fear!" said the other, pressing her
band. "Oh, no; when I saw yon lying
on the bed last night then then I
seemed to know what I was. But you
need not fear. No, never again will you
have to poison yourself In order to shame
me."
It was not to shame you, mother It
was to ask you not to take any more of
that that medicine."
You need not fear, Yolande, you need
not fear!" she repeated, eagerly, "Oh,
no; I have everything prepared now. I
will never again touch it you shall
never have to sacrifice yourself like
that "
"Well, I am glad of It, dear mother,
for both our sakes," Yolande said. "I
hope It will not cost you much suffering'
"Oh, no, It will not cost me much suf
fering," said the mother, with a strange
sort of a smile.
When they got back to Worthing, Yo
lande set about the usual occupations of
the day with her accustomed compos
ure; and even with a measure of cheer
fulness. She seemed to attach little Im
portance to the Incident that had Just
happened; and probably wished her
mother to understand that she meant to
see this thing through as she had begun
It But it was pitiable to see the remorse
on the mother's face when a slight con
traction of Yolande's brow told that from
time to time her head still swam with
pain. At night when Yolande went into
the bedroom, she noticed that there was
no bottle on the mantel-piece.
"Where Is it mother T" she asked.
"I have thrown It away. You need
not fear now, Yolande," her mother said.
And then she regarded her daughter
nervously. "Don't mind what I said this
morning, child. It was foolish. If I
cannot bear the suffering well, It cannot
be so hard a thing to die; that must
come if one waits."
"Yon are not going to die, mother,"
said Yolande, gently patting her on the
shoulder. "You are going to live; for
some day, as soon as you arc strong
enongh, you and I are going to Nice, to
drive all the way along to Genoa: and I
know all the prettiest places to stop at
But yon must have courage and hop and
determination. And yon must get well
1.1 AJ
vlSERWilfiELtl TINPSi
1 ITHAIdVro-hJVE.Ol
800.000 perYear
The German Emperor, with an an
nual Income of about fonr million dol
lars is a poor man, and has (Treat dif
ficulty in making both ends meet, de
clares the London Express. He does
not receive a farthing in his capacity
as German Emperor, but fulfils the
duties of this honorary position free
of charge to the federation of German
States. The Kaiser draws his Income,
first, as King of Prussia; and, second,
as a private landowner.
His Income as King of Prussia
amounts approximately to $4,000,000,
per annum. The Emperor of Russia
receives an annual allowance of ap
proximately $5,000,000, and the Em
peror of Austria an annual allowance
of more than $4,000,000. Both these
raouarchs receive additional allowances
for certain definite purposes, and both
of them own vast landed estates far
superior in acreage to the German
Emperor's possessions.
The Sultan of Turkey receives an
annual allowance of $10,000,000, and
the King of Italy draws over $3,000,-
000 per annum; while the Incomes ot
several monarchs of smaller States are
nearly . as large as that of the King
of Prussia.
The amount of $4,000,000 granted
anrinally to the German Emperor in
his capacity as King of Prussia Is not
taken from the national exchequer, but
from revenues from State dominions
which were formerly the private prop
erty of the Prussian royal house. The
Crown lands were handed over to the
Stater and in return the State pays a
fixed annual Income to the monarch.
The Kaiser owns eighty-three land
ed estates, comprising a total of 250,
000 acres. He is the greatest land
owner in Germany, and his posses
slons far exceed those of the three
landowners whose estates rank next
to his own In acreage. These are the
Prince of Pless, who owns 125,000
acres; the Duke of UJest, who owns
100,000; and the Duke of Ratlbor, who
owns 75,000 acres. Some of the land
of the Kaiser's estates Is rented to
farmers; but the Emperor carries on
business on his own account In several
parts of the country.
The Kaiser's workmen are paid ab
normally high wages, and all his em
ployes receive liberal pensions in their
old age or in case of sickness. He
also provides liberally for the widows
and children out of his private purse.
All these payments consume a large
proportion of the profits, so that the
Emperor's Income from his estates Is ,
comparatively small.
Practically speaking, the German
Emperor is thus obliged to live on his
royal Income of $4,000,000 per annum,
which is altogether Insufficient for his
requirements. The Kaiser has no per
sonal extravagances, but lives a sim
ple and strenuous life of hard work
and little luxury. He spends little
money on his table, for the cuisine of
the German imperial residence is no
torlous for its inferiority.
The Kaiser is not a dandy, and
spends a comparatively small amount
every year on his clothes. The horses
he rides are not of a particularly
good breed, and not unusually expen
sive. He Is not a gambler, and does
not Indulge In other dissipations which
would be excusable in his position.
ne Is, however, extravagant in one
respect namely, In keeping up the
Imperial magnificence of his court on
a scale never previously attempted by
a Kin? of Prussia. The support of rel
atives forms a first charge on the
Kaiser's income. He has to provide
an annual allowance for his six sons,
and has to maintain a separate court
for several more distant relatives.
Apart from his expenditure for pur
poses of royal display, the Kaiser de
votes a large sum every year to the
encouragement of art and of the
drama. He is continually ordering
monuments to be erected at his own
expense, and buys pictures for presen
tation to public galleries.
The Kaiser maintains the Royal
Opera House, the Royal Theater in
Berlin, and the Royal Theater at
Wiesbaden at his own expense.. All
three theaters are conducted only par
tlnlly as profit-making concerns.
With all these financial burdens tho
Knlser is unable to make both ends
meet on his Income, and has been
obliged to borrow money from some
of his wealthy subjects. '
UNCLE SAM: Some more of them blamed toadstools, I'll be darned."
-Wllltamsport (Pa.) Grit
ANCIENT GRAIN ELEVATOR.
India
Oolah la Banklpnr, East
Unique Straotnre.
The most remarkable grain elevator
In the world is found In Banklpur,
East India, and it was designed and
built long before the modern storage
houses for cereals were dreamt of. It
Yolande passed from one vision of
terror to another all through ths long quickly, mother; for I snould like to go
night; until In the gray of the morning away with yon; It Is such a long, long
n siuwi iwvu tu a sort ot nun-stupefied
consciousness. She had a headache
so frightful that at first she could
scarcely open her eyes. Bat she did not
mind that; she was overjoysd that she
could oooTioos herself of her escape from
time since I smelt the lemon blossoms hi
the air."
(To be continued.)
In Arabia horseflesh is a favorite ar-
tlele of food.
THE OOLAH IN BANKIPl'lt.
was built for a granary In 1783, but
has nevr been used for that purpose.
It is 420 feet round at the base, with
walls 12 feet In thickness, the Interior
diameter being 100 feet; It is about 00
feet high, and might contain 137,000
tons. Inside Is a most wonderful echo,
best beard from the center of the build
ing; as a whispering gallery, there Is,
perhaps, no other such building In the
world. The ascent to the top is out
side by steps; at the top Is a platform
10 feet 0 Inches round, which has a
stone placed In the center. This stone
can be lifted, and access obtained to
the Interior. It is said that Jang Bad
ahur of Nlpal rode a pony up the steps
outside to the top.
Market for Stomps.
A new industry in the region at the
head of the lakes Is the gathering of
the tree stumps for use In the Maine
shipyards. A large number of wooden
ships are built every year, and It has
been found that the most efficient cor
ner brnctM are those made from these
st'imprf, and hundreds are shipped east
every day. The roots of the trees and
a short section of the stump are used
In making the braces, and stumps
from trees about a foot in diameter
are found to be the, best. The etump Is
taken from the ground and roughly
hewn into shape before being shipped.
After its receipt at the shipyards it
Is made Into a perfect brace. The cost
of a carload of the stumps is close to
$400, and the freight charges run over
$100 a car. Milwaukee Sentinel.
A fool and enthuslusm make a
combination.
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