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Second Cousin 5arah BY THE AVTBOR Or AMIE JVDE. SPiHSTER." "LITTLE MATE KIRBY." ETC.. ETC. CHAPTER XV (Continued.) - She left the door ajar, and walked across the room, littered with many vol umes, toward a desk heaped high with papers. The whole place was a true au thor den a glimpse even of old Grub street times, when authors worked bord Cor their daily bread, and none knew what became of the profits of their scribbling, and no one cared save the thieves who old books. In the midst of the chaos on the desk there lay a little dainty note, stamped and sealed and unopened, which had been placed there by the landlady during hi ' absence from home; and it was in a lady s handwriting, of that Sarah Eastbell was assured. She was not particularly- reserved about examining it; indeed, her impulse toward it did not allow time for those finer feelings to develop themselves which two years' training had striven to pro duce. She pounced upon the note like a hawk, in fact, and took it up with trem bling hands, and with her big dark eyes dilating. "Mary Holland!" she exclaimed. She examined the letter attentively. The handwriting was large and charac teristic, and clear; the monogram on the back of the envelope was M. H. ; the post mark was Worcester there could be no possibility of mistake. "Why has she written?" exclaimed Sarah; "how dare she write to him?" At the same moment a hand touched her arm, and Reuben Culwick's voice said politely: "When you have quite done with my letter, Miss Eastbell, I should feel oblig ed by its return." Sarah Eastbell gave a little scream of urprise, and turned to greet her cousin. She extended both her hands toward him, and he did not check the impulse, but received them in hia own, and shook them warmly, winding up proceedings by taking his letter gently and delicately from her. Reuben very unceremoniously "cleared a chair of about half a' hundredweight of books, by tilting the volumes forward to the floor, and Sarah sat down and looked timidly and yet scrutinizingly toward him. He did not speak to her again; be gave her time to collect her ideas, or to observe the effect of two years change, of two years' trouble and hard work and worldly drudgery upon him. This gave him time also to note how years had re modeled Second-cousin Sarah how the gawky girl had grown into a handsome young woman, whom he could only iden tify with past forlornness by her large, dark, wistful eyes. And. she saw, with a trange heart-sinking for which she could not account, that there -was a startling change in him who was facing her. v "I am very sorry," she said at last, and in spasmodic fashion. "I am in my right place," lie said, with a little laugh that was hardly natural, "an individual totally undeserving of your sympathy." "Why have you never written to me or grandmother? Why have you not come to Sedge Hill? Why have you kept away from those who would have been always very proud to help you?" . "That is why I have kept away, Miss Eastbell because I am proud enough to be above all help. You must not mind what I say; I am more irritable than I used to be I have grawn to like my own company, and to dislike visitors of all de grees. I am a sour kind of fellow now, who prides himself upon saying hard things, and so the less you see of him the better." "You are not offended with me?" she Inquired softly. "You take it as an insult that my blind grandmother and I are in your father's house, and possess your father's property, but we " "I will not hear," cried Reuben, fiercely Interrupting her. "When I knew that my father kept his word with me,. I became less of a philosopher than I had bargain ed for more human, more selfish, more of a coward and I am only slowly get ting over the sense of disappointment which followed the disinheritance. I was vain enough to think myself a hero, when I was only a poor money-loving prig." "I I hardly understand," said Sarah, bewildered at this confession. "No, no probably not," he said quick ly, "and why should I trouble you about my feelings, even if you did?" "A word would have saved you from this cruel drudgery." "A word to Mrs. Eastbell. who but there, I have nothing to say against the old lady. She is still well, and enjoys her affluence ?" "No," said Sarah, shaking her head energetically. . "So I have heard," responded Uiuben. He glanced at the letter in his hand, and Sarah said at once: "Why does my grandmother's compan ion write to you?" "Out of pity," he added dryly. "How is it that she is acquainted with your address, while I have had to scheme and search for it why has she not told me?" "I must leave that for Miss Holland to answer for herself." "Will you ever come to Sedge Hill?" "As soon as I can afford it," he an swered; "when I have a decent coat on my back, and sufficient spare cash to pay my railway fare to Worcester and coat and cash are both earned by the sweat of my brow I will pay you a return visit." "I have not done any good," she mur mured, "but I am glad I have seen you very glad. Good by." "Good bj." He shook hands with her, opened the door and allowed her to pass from his room. He stood on the landing place and watched her descend the murky stairs; as she glanced up at him and smiled, be could see that the light waa shining through her tears. "Time has not spoiled her yet," he muttered; I am glad that I hare seen her." Sarah was in the street then, looking up and down Drury Lane, and doubtful which way to turn. She was soil besitat lng when Lucy Jennings suddenly stood before her. "Well what did he say? What have 70a been talking about all this time what good have you done?" aha asked with graat agernaaa, "I have done no good." "He would not accept assistance? He was hard and uncharitable he taunted yon with all his heart's bitterness?" "He was kind. 1 I think that he w as glad to see me." "Did he did he speak of me?" "Not a word." : "Not one! I am glad of that," she an swered moodily. Before another syllable could be ex changed, she had turned into a narrow court and disappeared, and Sarah East bell was left to proceed upon her home ward route. CHAPTER XVI. Sarah. Eastbell went back to Sedge Hill with her maid, in a disconsolate frame of mind. he had left home full of confidence in the result of her mission, full of faith in being of service to Reu ben Culwick, and of Reuben being grate ful for her efforts in his behalf, and the result had been an ignominious discom fiture. She had left home against the wishes of her grandmother, and in oppo sition to the advice, of her grandmother's companion, Mary Holland. Still the granddaughter was not sorry that she had been to London, although she had failed in being of service to Reuben Cul wick. She had seen him; he had prom ised to come to Sedge Hill some day; he was not altered so terribly as Miss Jen nings had asserted; he had spoken kind ly to her; he was not jealous of her po sition in his father's house; he had suf fered more from his own ventures, in iife than from his disinheritance; it was not the one misfortune, but the many, which had altered him and aged him, and he would be the same frank, warm-hearted fellow presently, she prayed. She reached Worcester in safety, and a hired fly took her the rest of the way home. It was between 8 and 9 o'?lock of that autumn evening when the great front door was opened to admit her. The staid man servant wore so grave an ex pression of countenance that Sarah eaid quickly: "All is well, I hope, Wills? Mrs. East bell is upstairs, I suppose?" "She is downstairs this evening. In the drawing room." . "She has been ill-advised to go there. The place ts large and cold, and Sarah Eastbell paused in mute aston ishment, for the sound of a violin, not unskillf ully played, came from the di rection o the room in which she had been told her grandmother was. Music had filled the house with harmony of late days, for Mary Holland was a fair pian ist, and Mrs. Eastbell was fond of music, it had been ascertained: but violin-playing had not been one of "the compan- 18 accomplishments. "Who is it?" she cried. "It's Captain Peterson, Miss Eastbell. If you will aNow me to explain how " But Sarah Eastbell was of too excita ble a nature to wait for an explanation. when the mystery was to be cleared up first-hand, and she swept by the servant and went at once to the drawing room. There were four persons in the room be sides herself, and she looked from one to another with a keen watchfulness that hardly died away when her appearance was observed. Her heart sank a great deal, but she had the self-possession to keep a bold front to the enemy for sure ly 1t was the enemy who had appeared at Sedge Hill in the unlucky time of her ab sence, and whose coming she had feared before that day, although not expecting it in this fashion. Half sitting, half reclining by the great coal fire burning in the- steel grate,, was the old blind woman, her spare form draped in heavy ruby velvet, over which meandered a gold chain thick enough for a door fastening. On her gray hairs had been set a turban kind of headdress, but it had slipped sidewise, and presented a grotesque appearance. Mary Holland sat quiet and grave over her wool work, and near her were two visitors. The younger of the two was her broth er Tom, glossy as a raven in a brand-new suit of black, and the stranger was a middle-sized, good-looking, highly colored. dark man of eight or nine-and-twenty, who at the moment of Sarah's entrance was playing a violin fantasia for the ben efit of the company. It was Mary Holland who first per ceived our heroine, and rose as if to cross the room toward her, subsiding into her seat again as Thomas Eastbell sprang from his chair-with a shout of welcome that nearly scared his grandmother into the fire. "What, Sal Sally Sarah!" he ex claimed, correcting his address to her as he proceeded, "to think that you weren't at home to say how d ye do to your only brother after all these blessed years! Kiss me, gal how are you? Shiver my tim bers, what a beauty you have grown to!" "Keep back, please wait a moment. she said in a low, suppressed voice. But Thomas .Eastbell was impetuous like his sister. He flung his arms round her, and clasped her to his bosom, crush ing her hat and fall m the process. "I'm delighted to see you, Sarah you don't know how glad I am to see jou again," said Tom; "we were always such chums like. Why, you and I scarcely ever had an angry word we 'agreed to gether beautifully." "You came here wnenr asked Sarah, listlessly, as she got away from him, and removed her hat and cloak. The fanta sia had ceased, and the violinist was standing looking down at the carpet in a highly decorous manner. v "Saturday evening late, after you had gone," answered Tom. "Grandmother waa awfully pleased. I can tell you. Cap? tain Peterson, my sister Sarah Miss Eastbell, my particular friend, Captain Peterson." Sarah bowed, and looked har,d at the Captain, who made a grave obeisance in return. . . "It affords ma great pleasure, to have the honor of an introduction to Miss East bell, ha aaid in a low tone of voice, which died away in a whisper aa he rat down again. "And to think that yon and Tom are both together in this great, grand, windy house," said Mrs. Eastbell, "both taking care of me In my old age! you used to tell me all the good news of Tom, Sally, and how ha waa getting on in the world, and prospering, and that need to keep my heart light." ' " ' - "Ay it did," said Sarah, sorrowfully. "And I'm very much obliged to Sally," said Tom, with a sudden grin that was as spasmodic as a clockwork figure's; "some sisters would have backbited a brother while he was away, and set his'relatives against him; but you didn't, Sally?" "No." , "Not that you have been talking much about me lately, I understand," said Tom, "since the dear old lady has come into a. fortune. But you did once and I'm grateful to the last day of my life." He leaned across the table in order that he might peer more closely into her face, and Sarah answered slowly: "We will talk of the past and of the future at a fitting time." "As you please- Take your own time, Sarah," was the reply; "you will find me and the Captain in the picture gallery presently. The Captain is a follower of the arts himself. "Oh, Thomas r' said the Captain, rais ing both hands deprecatingly, "an ad mirer of them--that is alL" v "A composer, a genuine composer!" cried Tom Easbell, slapping his hand un ceremoniously on hisfriend's music book. "I beg pardon, 'grandmother; I am in good spirits to-night that's . all," said Tom, deferentially; "Sarah's back, and for a moment I bad forgotten my be reavement." "What bereavement? ah! your wife," said Sarah; "is she dead then?" "Dead and gone, poor. soul. Doa't jou see how deep my mourning is?" "Don't give way, Tom don't give way," said Captain Peterson, as he took his friend's arm and led him sobbing from the room. "Hasn't he left the door open?" asked ; Mrs. Eastbell. "I thought so, by the blowing down the back of my neck. It's a pity he doesn't know better than to leave all the doors open, but I soppose they're used to wind at sea, Sally?" "Yes, grandmother. V "Now that they've gone, t I want to know about your wild-goose, chase to scold you for it to ask after that siuck up fellow Reuben, who "... "Presently presently I must see those men at once," cried Sarah, start ing up, with eyes gleaming - and hands clenched. . She lost not many minutes in follow ing her brother and his friend to the picture gallery. Thomas Eastbeil, sprawl ed in Simon Culwick's chair, with his legs ungracefully dangling oyer the left arm. Captain Peterson, reserved in- the presence of his particular friend, sat with his chair tilted against the marble man telpiece. . "Come in. Sarah, don't be bashful," said Thomas Eastbell.- "You are very welcome, I assure you." Sarah shut the door at this invitation. and walked quickly toward the visitors. taking a seat close to her brother, and looking sternly and fixedly at him. "Why do yon come? What do you want? You are here with a purpose," said Sarah persistently; "state it, if you please." "It is very simple," her brother said, coolly. "I am not the child' I was; I have learn ed to know the world, and to take my part in it. I know you, Thomas East bell. I know of no good or honest action that you have ever done. Knowing that, will not have you and your friend in this house. You play a dangerous game in your defiance of me, for I am mistress here." "Oh, indeed! that's it, is it?" said her brother with a sneer; "I am to tell my grandmother that she's a cipher in her own house that she's nobody, and want to grab all her money when she died." "Tell her what you will," s.aid Sarah; 'the answer which strips the veil from your bad life will be sufficient to drive you from us." (To be continued.) JUDICIAL DECISIONS. . The Voice of Experience. The bride's mother was visiting her and together they sat In the sewing room. The bride was fixing the sleeve lining of her husband's overcoat. "Well, I think that's a neat job," rev marked the bride, as she finished her task. The mother examined it and shook her head solemnly. "You don't like it?" suggested the bride. "It's too well done," was the reply. "Too well done!" "Yes; it's a tailor's job." "But if I can do it as well as a tailor " "Why, then, of course, you'll have to keep on doing things of that sort. Oh, I know all about it. T tried it my self when I was first married, and later I had to ruin two coats before I could break your father of the habit of bringing everything to me. Just listen to the voiqe of experience, daughter, and make a bungling job of that, even if you have to tear it all out and do it over again. It's no trouble at all to discourage him now, but it will be a 1 - T. - XI i i. jear ui u liiier. it is ui lue uuntRii importance that a woman should begin married life right." Brooklyn Eagle. As between a surviving partner and the executor of the deceased one, the firm name is held, in Slater vs. Slater (N. Y.), 61 L. R. A. 796, to be an asset of- the partnership which the executor has a right to have sold for the settle ment of the partnership affairs. " A tenant of land, not merely of a room or apartment, is held, in 'Arbenz vs. Exley; Watkins & Co. (W. Va.), 61 L. R. A. 957, to be liable to pay rent for his term, though a building on it, included in the lease, is totally de stroyed by fire without fault on his part, unless the lease otherwise pro vides. ' Violation' of a statute forbidding the employment in factories of children of a certain age is held, in Marino vs. Lehmaier (N. Y.), 61 L. R. A. 811, to be evidence of negligence which will support a civil action for injuries re sulting therefrom, although it is pun ishable under the statute as a misde meanor. - t a The owner of a structure to be used as a toboggan slide at. a bathing resort is held, in Barrett vs. Lake Ontario Beach Improvement Co. (N. Y.), 61 L. R. A. 829, to be liable for resulting in juries in case' a person attempting to use it falls from it by reason of in sufficiency of the railing, although it is in. possession of a tenant. Under a bequest to one or more per sons living, and to the children of an other who is dead, it is held, in Col lins vs. Feather (W. Va.), 61 L. R. A. 660,. that the legatees will take per capita unless it appears from the con text or some clause in the will, or from the circumstances in view of which it was made, that the testator intended a stirpital distribution. The right to" work convicts in pri vate chain gangs controlled by private individuals is denied, in Simmons vs. Georgia Iron and Coal Company (Ga.), 61 L. R. A. 739, and a convict confined on such a chain gang is held to be en titled to be released from the custody of the individuals controlling it, and remanded to the custody of the au thorities lawfully entitled thereto. . A sale by an officer of a corporation of stock therein, nominally made to other officers, but, in reality made, as he knew, to the corporation itself, and paid for, as he knew, out of the as sets of the company, is held, in Hall vs. Henderson (Ala.); 61 L. R. A. 621, to be void as against the corporation's creditors as a gift to him of the com pany's assets, whether it is insolvent or not. Notice of protest of a bill of ex change, to a drawer who has executed an assignment for benefit of creditors, is held, in Taylor vs. Citizens' Savings Bank (Ky.), 61 L. R. A. 900, to be suf ficient to bind its estate in the hands of the assignee. The other cases as to whom notice of protest or non-payment should be given after appoint ment of receiver, assignee or other rep resentative of insolvent are collated in a note to this case. So Salth the Proverb. Old Lady So we are to have a new minister, eh? What's his name? Daughter Stone, I believe. Old Lady Well, now;, that's good. They do say there are sermons in stones. Over heard la the Kitchen. '"I don't like the way that coal scut tle acts," said the range. "He ap pears to be full." " 4 "Well," consoled the shovel, "we will have to excuse him. You know, he hasn't been full for so long." At the Football Game. Fullback (after .. the 1 last tackle) Where am I? Where am I? Quarterback Most of you is here on the ten-yard line, but I think your nose and right ear are in the center of the field. . Conditions Reversed. Kidder The proverb, "Every dog has its day," doesn't go in Algiers. Easly Why? i- Kldder For the very good , reason that there every dey has his dog. New York Times. There are 9,900 boys in the British navy,- including GJOO under training.. WOMEN USE MAGIC MIRRORS. Japanese Lucky Glaaa la the Simplest and Best Example. A magic mirror is now a part of ev ery well regulated London household. The belief that certain bright sub stances can be so impressed with the magnetism of a person as to reflect to the clairvoyant gaze that person's thoughts and feelings is almost as old as a woman's vanity which firsi prompted the mirror. Perhaps the Japanese lucky mirror If the simplest and best known example One side of this is very highly pol ished, and the other is chased in low relief with figures of clouds, birds and talismanic ideographs. Its -me chanism is such that when' a beam ol light is thrown upon it and reflected upon a dark wall a luminous figure 01 portent appears within the luminous circles. This, of course, is achieved by means ef a slide slipped into tht center of the mirror. There is another kind of magic mir ror which at certain oblique angles wili disclose figures which at right angles are Invisible. Another kind set at th bottom of a cylinder reflects from tht base in the ordinary way, but the wav ed and flutted inner surface of the cyl inder twists the reflections into al". kinds of fanciful shapes and produces focal circles at various points. Th gazer here sees from one point of view a strange, shadowy face beside hi? own, and from another misty, radiani halo about his head, while from a thirc a face is seen clearly in his jown re fleeted eyes. 'These are all mechanical contriv ances. The more psychic kind of magk mirrors depend for their efficacy upor their power to absorb physiological magnetism, although many of the float ing or revolving variety produce theii effects by hypnotizing the gazer.-De troit Tribune. - V .sssi . . . 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