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OR A BITTER RECKONING i By CHARLOTTE M. BRAEMB CnAPTEU X. (Continued.) She began methodically to remove ev ery article singly, placing them neatly In a heap on the table, after reading or looking at them. Then she turned to the other side, going through it in the same ray, and reached the bottom without discovering anything more than is usually to be found in a lady's desk. With a dis appointed air, she began to replace the articles, when Miss Mailing's address book fell from her shaking hand ou to the floor. She stooped to pick it up as it lay open; and, in doing so, she saw the edge of a photograph peeping from the pocket In the cover. She took it out hurriedly, scattering, as she did so, some dead pressed violets on to the table. She bhuddered when she raised the tissue paper, for it was the photograph of a grave. She went to the dressing table, where the candles were still burning, to read the name of the photographer at the back of the card. The printing was in a language she did not understand; but she guessed it must be Spanish. She turned to the picture again, and in the strong light she could almost make out past of the inscription on the plain headstone The first name, she was sure, began with the letter "P." In order to assist her, she procured Miss Mailing's magnifying glass, and, with the aid of that, she spelled out the name, or as much of it as she could see. "P-a-u-l-i-n-e" she could clearly trace; then came a blot, followed by "1-1-in-g d-i-e-d M-a-y IS .", The remainder of the inscription was undistinguishable. "I never expected this! The grave of iaahne Mailing! Then who is my mis tress? An adventuress a usurper! And I shall have a hand in dethroning her!" She wiped the perspiration from her white, quivering face, placed the photo graph iu her dress, and locked the desk CHAPTER XL Jack was by no means heartless, and his conscience pricked him more often than was pleasant with regard to Ethel Mallett. He wondered a little if she had really ceased to care for him, if she had jet found a successor to him, or if pique alone had led her to offer him his free dom. She had sent him back the littlo ring he put on her finger when they were bo happy together, and, with a strange inconsistency, he carried it about with him continually. Just about this time Jack began to think that he ought to call in Bucking ham street, if only to show his gratitude for Mr. Mallett's many past kindnesses, for the old gentleman had often been able and always willing to do Jack a good turn in past days. Once convinced that he ought to do a thing, Jack did it. The morrow would be the first of Sep- fomhpr nml the hrtiwa ivn-a full of neo- ple who had been invited to enjoy the abundant sport Malliugford offered. A number of amiable young men were lounging about the corridors and billiard room all day, who talked of nothing but the probable weather on the morrow, the chances for and against good sport, and the respective merits of their own and other men's guns. Jack obtained a few words with Pauline before breakfast, and carried his point. "I must have several things for to morrow," he said, 'i kuow you would not wish me to be differe.it from others, and I cannot get wh.it I want withooi going to town myself." Pauline would have dearly liked to go with him, for she had a horrible fenr that he would find out something if he should call on the MalkUu. She was not supposed to know of the existence of such people for Jack had never spoken of them to her so he could "Cl well as him not to call on them; and ehe could not leave her guests without some very serious reason; tuusc iucuhj she was "forced to feign a complacency she was far from feeling as she an swered: "Of course, if you must go, there is nothing more to be said; but you will no; stay one half-hour longer than is abso lutely necessary? If I dou't know where you are. I have scch a feeling of unrest and anxiety that life becomes a sorrow for the time being." There was honest truth in these words, and Jack was flattered and grateful for her love. He kissed the beautiful lips, and promised to be back at the very earliest moment possible. When Jack was in the train, with a quiet half hour before him for thought, be felt curiously cloyed with the sweets of love, and was ungrateful enough to wish that Pauline would leave the love niaking a little more in his hands, and that her affection was of a less assertive character. Two or three hours later, when he had rushed through the business of the day and stood in the Malletta" pitting room, shaking hands with both father and daughter and exchanging cordial greet ings" he felt as if he had been living in a "hot house of affections for the past weeks, and had just regained the invig orating open air, where the hardier. Lealthier class of feelings flourish. He wondered a little at Mr. Mallett's cen'ality, knowing nothing of Kihei's generosity in taking the entire responsi b lity of their separation upon herself, and still less of her father's hope that fhe had got rid of a nameless nobody just in time to leave the road clear for o "suitor more worthy of her iu every way; and Jack felt somewhat piuu-1 that Mr. Mallett should wake so light of the hole business. But Le did not let Lis annoyance ap pear upon the surfaee. lie told of the success of the paintings for Lord Sum mers of his hf-I f"r tbe f"t,ir of ,hp ear life at Mallinsford. end impressed his bearers with the fact that he was brimming over with good fortune and happiness. Kthel did not My much: but nhe ap peared to be quietly, kindly interested: .nd. though he was paler than .he used be she did not give one the Idea of lovVlorn daml. She sat liitening to the conversation, and wondering if her father would touch on the subject of their identity during Jacks visit; but Mr. Mallett did not wish to be made the topic of gossip among Miss Mailing's guests, and therefore kept his own coun sel. When Jack was about to leave, Mr. Mallett decided to walk part of the way with him, and accordingly went down stairs first. Jack turned, with the door handle in his hand, to thank Ethel for what she had done yet hardly to thank her, either. "I can't go without thanking you for being so candid with me, Ethel," he said. "Of course I was very surprised when I received your letter breaking off the engagement; but equally of course there was nothing for me to do but ac quiesce in your wish." Ethel felt how ungenerous this remark was, seeing that his neglect had led to what had happened; but she would not be driven into reproaching him, and so give him cause to justify himself. Her feelings were too real to bear dissec tion, and she avoided the discussion. "That is all passed," she said, grave ly; "better let it rest." Though she did not say one word in self-defense, there was a world of re proach in the subdued tones of her ad vice; though her speech was so indif ferent1, her whole manner asserted her right to be considered more than blame less throughout the affair. Jack felt miserably small under her calm gaze, and his respect for her was vastly increased by this little passage at arms; and, as he was carried by the af ternoon express back to Malliugford Park, he could not shake from his mind the fable of the dog and the shadow. CHAPTER XII. The rain was coming down in torrents, and there was a general expression of disappointment on the men's faces round the breakfast table at Malliugford Park. "But you know it is really too bad," Cecil Danesford observed to Miss Mail ing. "Your head man had fixed to-day for the north end covers, and he says they are the best on the whole estate; and now this rain comes and spoils the whole thing. It is annoying, jou must allow." , "Poor creatures men!" said the Hon. Miss Collins, reflectively. "The comfort of their lives depends upon the one amusement of the hour. Deprive them of that and they are stranded helplessly. Glad I'm a woman!" "Well, I hope you will have got over the first rush of slaughter by the 17th," Pauline interposed, bringing the conver sation back to the original object. "Why by the 17th?" several asked. "Because I shall then attain my long- leferred majority, and dear old Lord Summers insists that there will be a big affair on the happy occasion." "A ball? Delightful!" exclaimed the ladies. "And I shan't be here!" ruutfered Ce cil. His attention was suddenly arrested by an advertisement in the Times, which he held in his hand. "By all that's mysterious!" he exclaim ed; and then he sat gazing at the news paper in mute astonishment. Bertha Collins leaned across, and look ed at the place he was pointing at. "How extraordinary!" she exclaimed. "For pity's sake, let us into the mys tery!" Pauline said; and Bertha read out the following advertisement: "'Malliugford Park If this should meet the eye of Sir G. M., he will hear of something to his decided advantage by applying to Messrs. Daws & Raven, 10 Leman street, E. C " There was general astonishment anil various were the surmises as to what it could mean. Jack, glancing at Pau line, was surprised to see her agitated and white to the lips. She motioned to him not to notice it, and fought deter minedly with her emotion. The others were too much absorbed by their curiosity to take much heed, and she bore herself as usual until breakfast was finished. "Will you help Mrs. Sefton and me to finish filling in the carls for the sev enteenth?" she asked Jack, as she left the breakfast room. Jack promised to join them in the boudoir in a quarter of an hour. He did not like to think of Pauline's look. He was a poor struggling artist, who had hitherto lived by the exercise of his un aided talent, and Pauline was a rich, high-born woman, his superior in most things that count in this world; yet he would not make her his wife if he did not believe her life to be spotless and with out flaw. This was the idea that haunt ed him as he recalled her look at the breakfast table. If ever a woman's face expressed suddenly arouse I fear, nts fiancee's had done so when Bertlui Col lins read that advertisement in the Times. He went back to the breakfast room be fore he joined Pauline, read the adver tisement again, ami copie,j ujo r.Tlress into his note book. "If I am in the neighborhood with a few moments to spare, I miy look them up and see what it means." he decided. Then he followed the ladies to the boudoir. Pauline, still looking unlike her self, was siting with Mrs. Sefton. Jack said nothing to them, but went straight to his work of firing in the invitations from the llt of names given him. Mrs. Sefton left the room after a time; and Pauline, turning to Jack, put her baud entreati;ig'y ou his arm. "I know what you are going to ask me; but I can't talk about it just now not to-day. I will tell you to-morrow, or the day after; but don't speak of it now. I ask it as a favor." Jack felt perplexed. He had expected the moment they were alone together that she would teil him what had caused her disquiet. He felt unhappy and wor ried, yet he could hardly force her t speak upon a subject that evidently dis tressed her. "Of course, I don't want to worry you, darling," ba answered; "but I mutt con fess I am curious, and I shall be glad when you can tell me all without dis tressing yourself." "Thank you very much, dear. And now I want to ask you if there is any one you would like me to send a card to for this ball." Jack flushed as he replied: "Yes; there are two people I should like you to invite Mr. Mallett and his daughter. They are everything desira ble, or I should not suggest it; and the old gentleman was very kind to me iu the days that are gone." "Was the daughter kind, too, Jack?" playfully. Again Jack flushed a little. "I think you are a bit of a witch," he said, with a laugh. "I may as well tell you, and then there will be no secret in my past for you to find out by and by. Yes, she was kind to me, and once 1 thought I liked her wen enough to make her my wife; but that was before I met you, you siren!" "Y'ou don't think so now?" "If I did, should I be here?" The rain continued to pour down steadily, aud the scratch, scratch of the busy pens went on without interruption. Pauline finished her list first, and sat hack in her chair, with a thoughtful, chastened look on her face which was ftp i illi OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS SECRET SOCIETIES IN SCHOOLS. ECRET societies in high schools and other secondary schools are scathingly criticised In a report to the National Educational Associa tion by a committee appointed to investigate their effects. "Pactional, and stir up strife 'and contention," "snobbish," "dissipate energy and proper ambition," "foster a feeling of self- Importance," "expensive and foster habits of extrava gance," "weaken the etliclency of tbe school," "detract in terest from study," are some of the grave charges made against these organizations. The indictment is severe, but not too severe. Children from 1,1 to 14 to 17 or 18 years of age are not mature enough to derive benefit from organizations of any kind which are not supervised by older persons, but are mature enough to receive from them much harm. They are then Mrangeii un.iKe ner usual imperious air. nt the nse whpn thpv nre ne to lmltate aI1 tlult Ia i,a(1 or Xfifni" If !l' , l h"t, ,m,r.e i foolish in the conduct of adults, and the only way they beautiful, if that were possible, although 1 . . . , ,, , . ' , , . ., ' he wondered what had brought about so c;,u la kM't from following this tendency is by restricting great a change. He felt a forewarning tllolr opportunity. School secret societies enlarge the op that this was the little cloud in their sky ' portunity. This is the main reason why pupils fight so I stoutly to prevent their suppression. The touchers, who should know their effects best, are practically unanimous in condemning secret societies, and there Is no reason to doubt that in doing so they aim at the good of the schools. The National Educational Association will not abolish school "fraternities" by hearing reports or adopting reso lutions. Children are persevering. They are especially that would darken the whole heavens. "At last!" he exclaimed, as he threw down his pen. "You have been a good boy," Pauline said, with a smile. "We could not have finished them to-day without your help." "So I shall lose him, after all, if 1 can not satisfactorily explain this morning's fright!" she reflected, alone in her dress- ' persevering when wrong. They are most persevering when they think they are spiting the teacher. Nothing gives the average boy so much unqualified satisfaction as to think lie Is making the schoolmaster sit up nights and rack Ills brain over the subject of school government. As long as boys' fathers have clubs ami college young men have "frats," high school boys will want "frats," and probably they will usually have them, no matter how often they may be put down. If teachers could enlist the hearty sup port of parents in the contest the result might be different. The remedy for secret societies and other follies In second ary schools is for parents to tell children to obey their teachers, and, if tliey disobey, to punish them. Chicago Tribune. ing room. "He will not allow a secret be tween us. What can I do? If I con coct a he to account for it, there may be an advertisement in to-morrow's pa per that will expose it. Who can want to find Geoffrey Mailing after allowing me undisputed possession for the last six years? If they find him, they will tell all, and he will claim his inheritance; they cannot want him for anything else. I must discover how much they know, or how can I fight them? I can't trust another; 1 must do it myself;" and, with these thoughts riming tli rough her mind, she crossed to the bell, which B.ihetta promptly answered. "Babette, 1 want to run up to Loudon this afternoon, and I don't want the whole house to know about it." Babette's eyes flashed with a quick glance of intelligence; but her lids droop ed instantly, and she answered, meekly: "Certainly, mademoiselle." "If the people see the brougham leav ing the house, it will set them wonder ing; so I want you to run down to the village during luncheon and bring hack one of the public flies from the inn tliere. Tell the man to drive to the stable yard i the in fact, you can come back iu it; and let it be there by a quarter past three." "Very goo 1, mademoiselle." Babette's face gieanied with mruel de light behind Pauline's back as she left the room. "So you think you have only to go to Messieurs Daws & Rayeu and show your that the oflicials should be prevented from engaging In other business and from using the company's funds to fur ther their private interests. All of those propositions are manifestly Just and unde niably expedient. Washington Post. THE POST CARD NUISANCE. UNITED STATES Judge at Trenton let us give his name Judge William M. Lannlng, has charged the United States grand jury to look up the matter of sending "flashy" post cards through the malls. It is high time that some official took notice of this growing evil. Any Chicagoan who walks State street or other avenues of trade must notice that week by week the mailing cards exposed for sale in shop windows are progressing from mere vulgarity to abso lute indecency. Some nre of a sort that should promptly bring their seller or the man who sends them through the mails before a criminal court. The matter is one of more than ordinary importance. A society exists for the purpose of stopping the sale of Indecent books and pictures. But the purchaser of such articles is usually a degenerate seek ing them for the gratification of his own vulgar and de praved taste. Against the evil of the Indecent or vulgar post card tliere Is to-day no defense. The purest-minded maiden, the most refined wife, may at any time have delivered to her by the government of the United States n card carrying an indecent suggestion, or a vulgar innuendo, open to all to read, exposing her to the ridicule of all who see it In pass ing. The Postoffiee Department Is now doing something to stop this. Let the censorshp be rigid. Chicago Ex a nil ner. SUGGESTIONS ON LIFE INSURANCE. H'E insurance in New England has for many years been managed with exceptional efficiency and honesty, in New York that kind of man agement has too often been lacking. Many persons now far advanced iu years can recall the time, some thirty years ago. when a num ber of New York life insurance companies went to the wall. Some of these had many policies outstanding in all parts of the country, and their failure was so com plete that the policy holders did not receive a cent. And well-founded report that the receivers of the defunct woman so simply, my good friend! Mr. Daws is quite prepared to receive you with politeness, aud to tell you that he really knows nothing more than that his client, whom he is not at liberty to name, is anxious to obtain the address of the companies fattened on the spoils wrung from widows and orphans did not mitigate the anger with which outsiders looked on that carnival of diabolism in the Empire State. It is because the record of New England Is in happy con trast with all this that advice from that quarter on the trouble In the Equitable Life of New York has a special interest. A committee of New England policy holders In pretty face, and maybe a ten-pound note the Equitable has spoken words of truth and soberness. or so, and they will tell you all about This committee declares that no matter what may be the the person who sent them that advertise- j result of the various investigations now In process, the meut! But you do not outw it a French-t r,ollcv of the comnanv should be transformed In the fu ture. It believes and who will deny? that the company belongs to the policy holders, and should be managed by them; that the surplus should not accumulate beyond the just needs of the society, but should go to the policy hold ers in the form of reduced premiums or otherwise; that present Sir Geoffrey;" and the girl provision should lie made !y law, u necessary, to prevent a chuckled grimly as she went along. "That ! needless surplus: that the funds of the Equitable should old Daws will hardly risk losing his be regarded as those of savings banks, and their invest share of the plunder, even to oblige a ' mtllt should be surrounded by the same legal safeguards: sweet, so handsome, so soit-voicel a lady as you, madame!" and she laughed again as she pictured the meeting between her mistress and the lawyer. "1 wish I could be there to see!" Pauline stopped to speak to Jack as they cross the hall after luncheon. "I shall lie down for the whole after noon; my head is aching so dreadfully. What will you do with yourself, Jack? A wet day is such a terrible infliction in a country house!" "I shall work. It's a week to-day since I touched a brush: it will be a grand opportunity. I should advise your taking a g 1 rest while you can get it," Jack responded, in a matter-of-fact tone. Pauline set her teeth in her underlip and left him, her mind racked with anx iety and fear. "At all cost I must be in a position to tell him something that will not he con tradicted. I must find out how much those people know before to-night." (To be continued.) Common Siuht. "Let us wait and ee the lady contor tionist," said the bachelor In the side show. "Wouldn't Interest me," replied the benedict. "I see one at home every day." "At home?" "Yes; my wife has one of those blouses that button at the back." Knew What He Wanted. Wedlerly If there is a woman In this town who is a better cook than my wife I'd like to meet her. Singleton Your wife is an expert, eh? Weddcrly Expert nothing! Didn't I just t 1! you 1 was anxious to meet a better cook? D THE DECADENCE OF THE DANCE. AM ING, it serins, is not what It once was and even the waltz lias deteriorated. People romp and call It dancing, to the disgust of those whose memories recall the grace and stately dignity of the movements of former times. "To-day," says "Professor" Bow-en at the convention of the American Professors of Dancing, "dancing consists mainly of jumps and Jerks. Grace and dignity have vanished from it and the two-step is responsible." It Is proposed to abolish the odious two step and bring back the minuet; but this we fear, Is as Im practicable as it Is to bring back the "grace and dignity" haraeterized the manners of serious people Km) years I'lie present age Is averse to many things that pleased It takes life In a hurrv anil The drama. that ago. the fathers and grandfathers. takes its amusements in a touch-and-go spirit the poem, the novel nil are said to be decadent. Like manners, they have been abbreviated. The two-step may be sad enough, but it has the merit of being in accord with present tendencies. Baltimore Sun. w mm THE HELLO GIRL. E have all felt nt times that the telephone still lacks a great deal to be a perfect machine, that there Is Inattention, poor connection, needless delay and sometimes almost impudence In tho telephone service, but how few ever feel that it Is not an automatic machine that they are using, that the voice they hear answering their impatience is not a part of the machine, that tliere is a personal equation to be considered, a woman away off somewhere In the unldentilied "central," who lias feelings) and self respect, just as other women have; a woman who will recognize a cross tone just as quickly as if she were visibly present, and a woman entitled to respectful treat ment, Just as much as If she were In her own home. The fact that you can stand miles away and talk into her ear does not detract from the right to the kind word and civil treatment. .Turkey City Journal. $$xJfxiSK3S?SS SKILLFUL HUNTING. $ Stnrtinu Ilitn Ifiuht. They had been engaged all of ten minutes. "Horseless carriages and wireless t?b'graphy may I il right hi their way," she said, "but " "But what?" be queried, anxiously. "I don't think much of kissiesscourt ships," she continued. Where IeHfnet I Yntnsih'r First Floorwalker Poor old Bjones has completely lost his bearing. I'm afraid lie will lose his job. Second Floorwalker Nonsense, lie's to lie transferred to the complaint desk. Philadelphia Record. A sign of politeness in Thiliet on meeting a person is to hold up the clasped Lands and stick out the tongue. Five minutes of thorough, systemat ic search for a lost object is often more effectual than half an hour of desul tory hunting, which, in its excited flurry, often passes in plain sight the crtlc'le which it seeks. An example of this principle is often seen in the case of the small boy, who, when the family have scrambled vainly about for the dropped thimble, announces that he will look for It "Indian fash ion." He lies quietly down on the floor, and bringing Ids eye on a level with the carpet, soon spies the missing object. In "A Girl in the Karpa tl.iatis," Miss Dowie gives another in stance of letting brains do the work of the muscles. The party was riding up a steep mountainside when suddenly the au thor discovered that she had lost her gold watch. It was an heirloom and much valued; there was nothing to do but to turn back on the trail. About two miles before she had made the discovery her horse had slipped, and she had rolled off. It must have been then that her watch was dropped. The little party returned "U the path, wildly searching here ami there. When they 'reached the place f the tumble there was a grand hunt, which lasted a long time. Then, tired out and heated, the pea relief s returned to where the horses were tethered and acknowledged t hem wives beaten. "I've turned up every fern leaf and grass blade," said one. -It's no use," exclaimed the author; pud she declared she would not look again for all the watches in the world. A young artist in the party had staved witji the horses while the rest w,.re hunting. Now he announced that it was his turn to try. The oth ers laughed, but they willingly sat down to rest while the young man went off down the hillside. It was l,ot long before they heard a "Hur rah!" and the artist appeared, holding up the watch In triumph. "I almost always find things." he said. "I search like a dog. I lay down on my face and listened, and I heard the ticking when the watch was a meter away. Then I crawled on my hands and knees until I found If ELEVATED RAILWAY. Any Hale of Speed Can lie Attained with Perfect Safety. Several of the larger cities In the United States nre In need of nn ele vated railway to accommodate the heavy railway traffic in the more densely populated sections which the surface lines nre unable to handle. Because of the unslghtllness of ele vated railways at present In use, their further use has been discontinued In favor of the underground road. An Ohio engineer has Invented an ele vated railway built on entirely new ideas. This structure is made of a series fif Individual posts, firmly set f - U.KVATI.I) HOAIl AM ( Alt. iu the ground and Imbedded in cement to make them permanently rigid. These posts are formed of a number of tubular sections united at the joints by collars, the latter made with sock ets which receive the braces. Fpper and lower supportiMl by these braces, being further braced and by a span mechanism. supporting tracks are the whole supported All of the braces, arms and other parts are made if tubes fir pipes. The rails are car ried on the outer extremities of the horizontal crossarins, and are arranged iu parallel pairs one above the other, so that an upper and a lower rail con stitute a track for a car. All the cen tral posts are cipilpped with lateral arms for one or more lines of cars at each side. It Is claimed that by this construction It is possible to build an elevated structure which will stand perfectly rigid and which needs no special provision for expansion or con traction In Its frame work and track nd has tight Joints In all tempera tures. Furthermore. It occupies the minimum ot surface room possible In an elevated road, and being tubular throughout, obscures light less and Is less objectionable to the eye than any other now In use. Any speed can be iitained with perfect safety. CALLS IT A GOOD LIKENESS. Faithful Kmploje ot Korifotlen at lOnd nf a Qnarter t'entnry. Jacob Kiis, the sociologist. In an ad dress to a worklngmen's club, praised generosity. "I see a handful of children here," he said. "May they grow up generous. May none of them grow up Into such a man as an old banker whom I know. "He Is a millionaire, and he lives iu a palace, but bis heart is as hard ns steel and as cold as Ice. "(hie of his men completed the other day his twenty-fifth year of service. For twenty-five years this honest man had forked for tho banker faithfully. He and his chief were both ioor at the beginning, but where, In the quar ter century, the banker had accumu lated millions, the faithful, mlddle aged Ixiokkeoper had only saved a few hundreds. His salary, you see, was only JfHo a week. "He didn't think the banker would remember the t weiity-lif I li anniversary of his engagement, but the old man did. That morning he handed the bookkeeper a sealed envelope. "'George,' he said, 'today ends the twenty-fifth year of your work for me, and you have worked steadily and well. In this envelope is a memento of the occasion.' "The bookkeeper opened the envel ope, trembling and eager. Within lay bis employer's photograph. That was all. "In the face of a disappointment so bitter tbe jKior fellow could say noth ing. Well.' asked the banker, 'what do you think of It?' "'It's just like you,' said the book keeper, simply." New York Tribune. I'm, l liiirned It. "What did you get for your mother In law joke?" "A dollar from the editor and a six weeks' visit from my mother In law." Meggendorfer P.laetter. When a woman entertains with an afternoon card party, It Is Inelegant to call her function a "card party;" th latest Is to say she entertained with a "card fight"