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Second Cousin Sarah ar tkb avtbor or -jmnz judge, spinster." "umm mats suxsr." etc.. ere. CHAPTER XXVI. (Continued.) This wan the man whom she had seen at her father's house,, who had lodged with them at the button factory, and of whom she had caught a glimpse eren at Bedge Hill. Tots and John Jennings were in the main thoroughfare of Hol borne, both interested in the shops, when he touched Tots on the arm. "Don't you know me?" he asked in a husky Toice. Tots gave a little scream, and clung more closely to John Jennings. "Oh! don't let him take me away!" he cried at once. "I don't want to take you away, Bes sie I only want to ask you how you are, after all these months," said Thomas Eastbell. offering a Tery dirty hand to the child to shake. "Come, you let her alone, will you?" aid John Jennings sharply. John did not admire the looks of the man who had forced himself upon the notice of Reu ben's adopted child; John held Tots in trust, and was watchful of his charge. The man before him was a forlorn speci men of humanity, ragged and dirty. John did not know Thomas Eaetbell at first eight, but he was a judge of disreputa bility he had seen so much of it in Hope street he had become so disreput able himself. . "I have as much right to the child as you have," said Tom in a surly tone, "or as your master has, for the matter of that. The child's shtole, and you know it.?' "I don't know it." "And its father will come to claim it precious quick, too see if he don't and you can tell Mr. Culwick, too, direckly you get home. Say Tom Eastbell told him so or Vizzobini. You ought to know Vizzobini of the Saxe-Gotha.I' "You are Thomas Eastbell, then?" "Yes, and I don't care who knows it. ,You can give me in charge if you like say for coining last year I shall do it myself in an hour or two, if you dou't I hate the workus, and it's awful cold outside the prison. Where's Sally?" "Your sister, do you mean?" "Yes, of course I do," answered Tim; 'she ain't at Sedge Hill." "Never mind where she is." "Oh, I don't, mind. She won't -help nc I'm her only brother, and starving In the streets. But you can take .my compliments to her, Mr. Jennings, and V, Ua. 1Tn rrnia ' " M Ul 17 UCalU (. Llllj i... JUL. Reuben was hard at Trumpet work when John Jennings and Tots arrived home with the news of their meeting with Thomas Eastbell. He was working against time somewhat, but he set his pen aside to listen to John Jennings' recital and Tots' scared interpellations, paying particular attention to Mr. East bell's information that the child would be fetched away presently by her father. "And he said that Sarah might hear of him at the 'Magpie?' " "Yes," answered John Jennings. "John," he said suddenly, "you must take a letter to Sarah at once." "Very well, Mr. Reuben." "Don't say anything of your meeting with her brother," "Trust me for that," said John know ingly. "She is not strong enough for any fresh trouble," said Reuben, as he drew a sheet of note paper toward him and-wrote very reluctantly an excuse for not being able to see her as he had promised. He alleg ed no reason he would explain when he saw her, he said and he re-read the letter somewhat critically after he had finished the writing of it. It was a brief epistle; he should see her to-morrow,, he hoped, and that would be time enough for explanation of his breach of promise. Sarah trusted him implicitly, and would know that only business of Importance could keep him from her. She did not expect a long letter from him, and a heap of reasons, at that busy hour of the day. Let the letter go. In the evening, somewhat late, Reuben Culwick, not too fashionably attired, was at the "Magpie." It was eight o'clock or later, when Thomas Eastbell's pock marked coutnenance peered round one of the swing doors. The "Magpie" was Tom's forlorn hope. He had sent a message to his sister, and she might at tend to it. Who knows? He caught eight of Reuben Culwick, and his first Impulse was to back into the street. Then he wavered; and while he was hesitating Reuben came from the public house and confronted him. "You need not run away, Tom East bell," said Reuben. "I haven't done you any harm," he returned; "I haven't done nobody any harm never. All that you have heard about me has been a pack of lies. I ve I my child's happiness against Sarh East been as honest as I could be, and this j beli.8t and X acted like a mother, in the Is what comes of it. I m hard up I'm ,,- i,ne of H.isnins- W tn mT hP starving, Mr. Culwick, I haven't tasted food to-day." "Where are your friends?" "They turned me out of their house. They said I was a blundering fool. One of them kicked me, last time I saw him." "The Captain?" Tom Eastbell laughed sardonically. "No, he can't kick. He broke both his legs in the country, jumping from a window of the button factory to get out of the way of the police. He can only swear and cuss me now." "Is this Edward Peterson the father of the little girl you met this morning?" "He says he is. He gave me money to take care of her altogether. But it wasn't enough, so I lost her," said Tom coolly "or rather," he added, interpret ing Reuben's look of disgust correctly, "my old woman lost her. It was her fault. She never had a mite of feeling In her for anybody save herself." "And I found the child when she was lsQf "And then Peterson turned np, and stormed and raved at me, till I told him where the child was, and he stole it from you back again. He was fond of that child when he was in a good temper, which wasn't often though." "His wife is she dead?" "Iiong ago, he tells me." "Where is Edward Peterson now?" "In Worcester Mitcheson's place, near the river and yon can pat the bobbies on to him, if they're not taking care of him already. Ha has treated ma bad enough." - - w : "Who is with him?" "An old sweetheart, whe will marry him when his legs get better. "Is it Mary Holland-?" " "That's her name. The woman-whe was at Sedge HilL." You know her well enough." : "And she is with Edward Peterson at Worcester?" "Yes." - .. ,. Reuben Culwick waited for no further news: he had learned more than, he had anticipated; he thought. he saw all very clearly to the end now, and where his duty lay. He darted from the friendly shelter of the "Magpie," and hurried into Holborn, and from Holborn through sun dry back turnings into Drury Lane, where he met John Jennings, who passed a' great deal of his. time walking np and down the street in which Reuben Culwick resided. - "John," said he, seizing him by the arm, "you must go to your sisters house. Find Sarah Eastbell. Tell her I hare discovered that Miss Holland is in Wor cester, that I have left London in search of her, and to end all suspense at once her suspense as -well as mine. I hope to be back on Monday." "Is that all?" ' "Yes. Now be off at once." Reuben hurried to his lodgings, beg ged his landlady to be careful of Tots till his return, looked in at Tots sleeping calmly in her little crib,- stooped over her and kissed her without awakening her, and then hurried away to the rail way station, in the hope of catching a night mail that should carry him on a portion of his journey toward Worces ter. - CHAPTER XXVII. X Reuben Culwick was in the loyal city early the next day. The cathedral bells were ringing when he was searching in Mitcheson's place for Edward Peterson. The man who had leaped from the top window of the button factory and broken both his legs was not difficult to find the inhabitants of Mitcheson's ...place knew all about him, who he .was and where he was, and the country police had been watching for his convalescence for weeks past, in order -to conduct him to safe quarters. Edward Peterson was too ill to be removed at present indeed, of late days the police had not been rigi lant, a turn for the worse having taken place in the sick man's condition, and it ?emf tolerably certain that he was drift- ing from the laws of his' country In un due haste. Reuben understood the position before he had reached the house a policeman on duty in the street gave him the full est particulars. It was the back room of the first floor to which he had been directed, and where he knocked softly for admittance. Some one crossed the room lightly, opened the door, and looked hard at him, with the color flickering faintly on her cheeks. It was Mary Hol land, pale and thin, who faced him on the landing place. "You have found me at last, then?" she inquired. They did not shake handsthe shadow of the past mistrust was still between them, and there was no getting from it in the first moments of their meeting. "You know that we have been search ing for you advertising for you?" said Reuben. "Yes; but I did not care to answer yet," she replied. "You are attending upon Edward Pe terson?" "My husband yes." "Your husband!" repeated Reuben slowly. "He is wholly friendless now hs is terribly alone and at the last I have found the courage to do my duty," he said. "Then the little girl Tots " "Is mine. It was his promise that I should have the child back it was the revelation that she lived that kept me silent when my suspicions might have given a clew to the truths which per plexed you. To have betrayed him at that bitter hour was to kill my llttlie girl. He swore it and I knew how desperate a man he was, years ago," she added, sadly. "When he first came to Sedge Hill I wrote, warning you of dhnger but not knowing what the danger was which threatened Sarah Eastbell." "I see," murmured Reuben Culwick. "I was a woman in the toils, and knew not what to do," she continued. "When Sarah had disappeared, he said she should return in safety to Sedge Hill if I would keep my peace and I was forc ed to trust him. Ah, sir! do not blame me too harshly it was my child's life. I could not have brought your cousin back had I owned that man for my bus band I was in the dark with you and my little Bessie lived." "And you love this man?" She answered: "He killed my love years ago. I do my duty in calm ap athy, that is all. Years ago he was my hero. He was honest then, and I was very young," she said. "We were mar ried secretly. When he grew tired of me, when he went wrong, he abandoned me without remorse, and took my child with him, in a spirit of revenge that nearly broke my heart. My marriage and that child's birth were not known to the world I found at Worcester although your mother always doubted me. I tried hard to live apart from the past, when I believed my little girl was dead, but It all came back last autumn. This," she added, almost bitterly, "is a strange time for explanation." "I have not come for explanation I have no right to demand it," said Ren ben; "but let me ask If my father knew o( your marriage to Edward Peterson?" "I dared not tell him. I was very poor I was alone in the world, without a friend, and he had confidence In me, and liked ma for my dead father's sake. Would ha hare wished yon to marry me had he dreamed of this?" she added, with an Impressive gesture toward the door of the sick room. "Why did ha wish this marriage " said Reuben. " ' "He told ma on the day ha died that he had rained my father deceired him In some wny of business and' got rich by his disgrace," . she said. f "Heaven knows if this were true, or the wander ings df a demented mind. . It is beyond our guessing at, and belongs not' to our present lives." - I "Mary Holland, it was true," said Reuben, solemnly; "I bring a proof of it In his atonement reparation." - "Impossible." . "He has left yon all his money." . There was a wild scream an awful yell from the room which , Mary Hol land, or, rather, Mary . Peterson, had quitted, and Mary ran back into the chamber, followed by Reuben in his haste to be of assistance to the affright ed woman. It was only a cry of delight. Captain Peterson had heard all the news. "Is it all true?" he gasped forth, turn ing to Reuben as if to a friend on whom. In this crisis of his life, he might rely. "Ail the money is left te Mary Hol land," answered Reuben. "How is it how is it that that this can be?" he inquired, catching at Ren ben's hand and clasping it with his trem bling fingers "yon see how excited I am, but I can bear good news. Good news will' save me yet, please heaven." "There has been discovered another will, signed, by my father the day before his death. In it my father bequeaths the whole of his property te his faithful friend and housekeeper, Mary Holland." "That's my wife," said Peterson, quickly; "don't forget she's my wife. We were legally married years age, upon my 'soul, I swear it it's easily proved isn't it easily proved, Mary? Tell him so don't stare at me like that." "Yes, I am his wife," said Mary, thus appealed to; "I 'am not Mary Holland." "Oh, that makes no difference," cried Peterson; "you were Mary Holland, you have always been known by that name to old Culwick, and it's your money I know law enough for that. All yours and all your husband's why, it's as clear as daylight. This brings me back to life! Where is the will?" "I have brought it with me." "Give it to me," said Peterson; "it isn't safe in other hands. I I will keep it till I'm stronger." "Let him have it," said the wife, care lessly; "it will calm him, and rest is necessary." . "I would prefer your taking it, Mrs. Peterson," said Reuben, producing the will; "better still to leave it with a trust worthy solicitor to act upon. There will be no opposition to it in any way from Sarah EastbeU." "It will be safe enough in my hus band's keeping," said Mary, with strange listlessness. Reuben gave her the will, and she crossed with it to her husband's side and placed it in his hands, .which with great difficulty began to unfold the paper on which Simon Cul wick's last testament was written. "I I shall be glad when I'm better," Edward Peterson whispered at last; "yon can put it under my pillow now." "And the child?" asked Reuben, curi ously. ! A gesture, quick and deprecatory, from Mary Holland came too late to arrest the question, or to check the excitement of the prostrate vagabond, who half raised himself in bed in his vehemence. "I'll never see the child again I'd rather die than see her. She shall never be more than the beggar's brat she is!" he shouted. "What has she done?" "She turned against her own father when there was a chance of making money, it was she, that cursed child, who betrayed me." The color vanished from his face again, and once more the leaden hue suffused it, and the eyes closed, as by the pres sure of the hand of death itself upon tbem. Mary was at his side, when life j seemed coming siowiy oaca again, sue said to Reuben: "Leave me now. You see what he is what he has ever been. I would pre fer to be alone to the end." Reuben passed from the room and left the dying man to his strange, wife's ' care. He had done his duty, he had sur rendered his father's will into the hands ' of those it was. to benefit, and it had been coldly, almost unthankfully receiv ed. Let him get back to Sarah EastbeU and to the brighter life wherein she moved. (To be continued.)' . Had a Fuel Supply. The 7-year-old grandson of William' Dudley Foulke, the Civil Service Com-1 missioner, went with his grandmother to the Senate to hear Senator Till man's speech. They had fine seats In the front of the member's gallery, and the little chap made a brave show in his velvet suit and long curly hair. He listened intently, but didn't make out much of it until Senator Tillman re ferred, with much emphasis, to "an- thraclte coal." Then he piped up Joy-' ously, so he was heard all over the chamber: "We've got some; we've got some." New York World. . Strictly Professional View. "Why don't you try to live down your past?" asked the visitor at the Jail. . "It's no use," answered the prison er. "Not if you're sincerely sorry." "Bein sorry don't do no good. When dey've got your picture in de rogue's gallery you've got to git out o' de busi ness. It's worse dan bein up agin a trust" Washington Star. Hard Fall. Tess Did he seem hard hit when you told him I was married? Jess Not exactly. It took him by surprise, though, and he was inter ested. I Tess Wanted to know how the wed ding came off, and all that eh? Jes No, he merely asked, "How did it happen 7' Philadelphia Press. Extremely Improbable. "Another thing about these apples, the dealer said, opening the barrel for his inspection, "is that if you put them in a cool place they will keep all win ter." "I am quite positive they won't" said the customer, who happened to be the father of a half grown boy, "but ril take them." Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. Swift. t MEETING "OLD EPHRAIM." ? - . W In an article entitled, "After Big Game In Wyoming," a' writer In the Pall Mall Magazine tells of an exciting meeting between himself and a large grizzly bear. The Interview was some what unexpected on both sides, and It lasted only a minute or two; but while It did last It occupied the undi vided attention of all the participants. I chanced to be riding ahead, says -the author. "There's a bear!" whis pered Jack, as a big gray head ap peared over the fallen tree. What fol lowed In the -next few minutes takes longer to tell than it did to .happen. As I sprang down from the saddle to shoot, an enormous grizzly of the largest kind jumped up on the trunk of the tree, behind which he had been feeding on a dead elk. As I pulled the first trigger he sprang down, all claws, hair and teeth, and charged straight at us. The shot was a clean miss over his back as he jumped down; and here was grizzly not thirty yards away, on a down hill run, and obviously intent on get ting first blood. The second bullet went home, right in the center of the. broad, furry breast, as we afterward ascertained. He turned a complete somersault, and lighting on his feet again, came on, ap parently uninjured. My rifle was now empty, and there was no time to reload. The next few seconds were a kind of nightmare. I turned and jumped at the saddle, but my horse, seeing the bear close behind me, swerved and bolted before I could mount. Grizzly, now only a few yards away, was rising to strike with a gi gantic, clawy, sinewy paw that could, with a single blow, break a buffalo's back or tear out all his ribs. With a cold thrill down my back I also swerved and bolted up the hill for all I was ever worth In what Jack afterward described as ten-foot strides. He, meanwhile, with unload ed rifle thrown on the ground, sat on his horse fifty yards away, and emp tied his six-shooter at the bear with out apparent effect I glanced nervously over my shoul der as I ran, and then saw that the fight was done. Grizzly, obviously mor tally wounded, having missed his blow, was blundering on down-hill, not knowing where he went Even an old king of the divide, "weighing a thou sand pounds or so In sinewy, muscular flesh and bone, could .not long with stand the effects of a half -inch ex panding bullet propelled by five drams of black powder through a good rifle barrel. A BOYS' COOKING CLASS. Thirty-two stalwart young men, some over six feet high, have formed themselves Into a cooking class, which is probably the only institution of its kind In the world. All of the boys belong to the Orange, N. J., high school, and' the cooking class meets after school hours. In quiries have come from England con cerning It and similar classes are to be started there. The class has been in existence over a year, and the pu pils are athletic" young fellows who EHBBYO CAMP CHEF3. have no idea of taking the places of cooks, but who want to shine at sum mer' camps, where the gentler sex is not present Good, plain, old-fashioned fare is prepared and the dishes are made up in the most appetizing manner. Every kind of vegetable, and fruit that grows In the garden, bread, biscuit old-fashioned buckwheats, stews, roasts and soups are prepared by the boys. The fact that the good things cooked are eaten by the chefs, sitting com fortably at a table where the lady teacher does the honors, is one of the reasons why the boys enjoy their nov el lessons, and a larger number of boys than can possibly be instructed are clamoring for admission, liiterary Names. "Yes," says the fond mamma, "I think we picked real pretty names for the two twins. - Pat got them out of a book. I always did like a name with a literary tone to It" "And what do you call the little darlings?" "Fauna and Flora. It's from a book in the' library downtown that tells about The Fauna and Flora of the Western Hemisphere.' " Judge. A Discovery. They had been diseussing the baby's ears, eyes and nose. "And I think he's got his father's hair," said the Joyful young mother. "Oh, la that who's got it? I no ticed it was missing,'' said the girl who knew her before she was mar ried. Exchange. Spectacles Not Dressy. -Polite Chinese consider it a breach of etiquette to wear spectacles in company. Eating Dicers SSttX. Nothing is a source of so much trouble as an old sore or ulcer, par ticularly when located upon the lower extremities where the circulation is weak and sluggish. 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