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1U i E CHA R IT Y 6 I R l B y E F F I E / L R O W L A N D S ns gently as possible bad to ft him o f A u d rey’s strange »version to seeing him. “ It is only a whim,” Jean said, hur ried ly ; “ we must humor bar.“ T h at asms night it was, when they w e re sitting alone in tha tiny dining room, that Jack suddenly poured out tha w hole miserable story Into Jenu'a earn; tha story o f that b a ll; o f how ha had been hoaxed into driving over to aee Mr. Benson, who had never sent for him ; o f a l l the horrible things be had heard about Audrey ; and, lastly, o f bow he bad corno upon her in the summer house, with Bev e rle y Koch fort ut her feet kissing bar fcaods. • . . “P u t yourself In my place, and judge I judged. D o not view things as they fo r Australia, and might bo aboant for y ea n , perhaps forever. So after all. Sheila had bean p artially successful, for she bad Separated this man and wife. I t was deputed to Jean to tell Audrey that her husband was goes, but she let tw o days elapse before she broached the subject o f his name. Tha fit o f woeping bad done good rather than harm. would be as right as nlnepenca,“ tbs doctor bad «aid to Jean on tbs morrow follow ing Jack’s hurried departure. “ B at he is not here, and he win not come, ao we moat think o f what w ill be h a lf dosing, half dreaming, by tha “ Taka «ara o f youraalf, Audrey, « a a toot boots! Thla «now is ao t o a t la il* Audrey walked briskly over tha m o w , a slender, graceful figure In bar hoary, black garments, her iorely face lovelier than ever In its somber setting. Sbe was warmly greeted by Dr. Thorngate, who was just leerin g the ricarage as sbe arrived. Audrey thought he looked worn and troubled. “ M y w ife w ill be rejoiced to see you." he said, and bis gaae followed the girlish form in an affection that waa deepened only by admiration and respect. Mrs. Thorngate waa troubled, too, and though she welcomed Lady I r e n a with all her old lore, aha waa not haruelf. Audrey felt pained and full o f sympathy. “ I am sure you would rather 1 did not etay, dear Mrs. Thorngate,” she said, simply, rising and drawing on her wraps again. “ T o o hare something mg your mind, and w ill be better alone." lir a . Thorngate’s answer was to burst into tears. “ M y heart Is broken 1* aha sobbed. “ Oh, Beverley, my boy. asy boy 1 And I hare lored you, honored you, believed la mm “ I am afraid aba w ill b e t when rite is than I deserve,“ be said, as he leaned told all,” Jean added, thoughtfully; “ still It la best all should be known. I shall h is weary, aching brow on bia hand. “ I w ill not be bard upon you at all. keep nothing from her, either now or In Lagd John,” Jean-said, very gen tly; “ for the future,” and an, when at last she I think I should have been misled as you ■poke o f Jack’s departure, Jean very w are by such apparently strong circus», gently but thoroughly pat nil the facta ntantial evidence. I am glad you have before Audrey that Mr. Fullerton had apoken out to me. and I only wish A u managed to glean about the masked ball drey had done the same, for then we and its miserable results. Sbe was shown M urray’s confession, signed and attested m ight have arrived at the truth.” “ W hat is it you mean?" Jack asked, by Sheila Fraser. Sbe was given all the teoking up at her, eagerly. information there waa to give, and then “ I mean that I now am convinced that Jean very sensibly, and with more than W illie is right, and that there waa some ordinary tact, went softly away, and left p lo t connived against you both at that her alone to fight the battle out by her- I have no definite proof, only a ------ ----— --- V — - — - — * A -, ik lli t W « l woman s intuition to wont u upon, out im i abati be enough. Th is must be sifted. “ W ill yon sand for Jack’s mother, please, Jean, and ask her to come home? Now — now I am alone I should like her advice. I t Ja only right A n d proper as his w ife I should consult his mother.” th at I am right, and that you and my Ten days later news came to Mount- d eer one were both the victims o f some berry that Craiglaads waa preparing to conspiracy. On the face o f it the whole receive her grace o f Harborough, who a ffa ir is aboard. Don’t yon love each waa returning with her son. Lord Iverne, •titer better than all the world? I shall and her daughter-in-law. Lady John Glen- w rite to W illie and tell him all my durwood, and, as may be supposed, the village was greatly exercised In its mind And the resalt o f that letter waa to over this Intelligence, having bad Its p e t W illie Fullerton on the track o f curiosity whetted considerably by the M urray, whom Jean seemed convinced yague and unsatisfactory rumors that bad could throw some light on the subject. been circulated about the same said Lady A week had gone, and Audrey wea John. wonderfully better; it waa her first real Dinglewood Hi waa shut up, and it day o f convalescence, and Jean waa sit was understood vaguely that Miss Fraser tin g with her, reading. Downstairs Jack waa visiting, though where no one exact w aa trying to com fort himself, when sud ly knew. I t was generally voted annoy denly a fam iliar voice accosted him, end ing that Sheila should have been absent he found himself shaking ~hande with just now. Sbe could have thrown light M arshall. Marshall, grown older, and on a good deal o f what waa perplexing, looking very wan in her simple black for and have, moreover, given the real ac h er beloved mistress. I t somehow com count o f wbat bad happened at tbe b e ll; forted Jack to see h er; she seemed to whether It wee true that L ad y John bad brin g back a little o f the sweet Influence flirted and behaved ao abominably, or that bad sarronnded Constance Fraser. whether Dr. end Mrs. Thorngate were know that tbs hard, con tempt no os tons suddenly brake with s little gasping sob; he did a r i see the thla, ansali bende cover the white, lovely fa c e ; he did not know th at Joan bad slipped fresi her «h air s a d was holding Audrey's weeping form riaopod la bar a rm s No. ho knew none o f th is fo r ho had gone straight down s ta ir s be had pished up Ma hat aad ul- C H A P T E R X X V III. I t was s week since they bad carried sw a y ail that remained o f tbe ones hand some, merry young Lord Iverne end buried him with pomp and solemnity in tbe Harborough v a u lt A telegram bed winged its flight across the ocean to Mel bourne, from whence M r. Sampson bad received a curt announcement o f John Glendurwood’ a safe arrival— a telegram briefly giving tbe sad news o f one broth er’s death to another, but no answer bad been vouchsafed, end the law yer could not but entertain strong doubts aa to whether tbe new Marquis o f Iverne was gone still farther on hie travels, sod so tbelr message waa unread. C raig lands waa very sad in those days. T b e duchess seemed to break down alto gether after her eon’s death. Yet, despite all this, she was gentle and kind to A u drey beyond description; she could not have given tbe girl more love i f she had bean her own child. T h ey were quiet days, and peaceful, and Audrey found many little duties to perfocm which help ed to make the hours fly. She was very pale and delicate, but she refused to al low Jean to consider her an Invalid, and never w eary o f Sitting about the warn “ I t does me good,” she said to Jean, who was fearful o f every eold wind (bat Mew pa Iter darting “ I mast go. Jean. I — I fori sometimes aa I f I should ge mad la tbe beassi” H e waa In u terrible predicament. T w o y e a n back he bad committed forgery out in A fr ic a ; be bad cleverly escaped de tection, and had come to England, think ing all danger gone. Unluckily for him, hie movements and real name bad been discovered; be had been tracked. I f the money were not forthcoming in the next twenty-four b o o n be would be banded over to justice. “ Audrey, whet can I do? W hat can I do? I cannot ait here and know that he, the boy I have loved, is condemned to a felon’s cell. H e baa been my joy, my one delight, and Qua refuses to let Audrey felt her heart beginning to beat with a sense o f pain and apprehen sion. The very mention o f this man's name fell like a black shadow on her heart. She trembled as she recalled all the evil his cold-blooded treachery bad worked between herself and J a ck ; the memory o f Ms passionate love words raised a blush o f shame to her face even now, but she put her own feelings on one side to minister to Mrs. Thorngate’s sorrow. “ W ill yon let me take this off your shoulders?” she asked. “ H u sh ! Nut a word. W e are friends, are we not? Beat, s ttu M naeteetnred D e a le r s u i an« lo H by l a Good D em an d . Conspicuous by tbelr simplicity or their quaintness or both among the many sample clocks of more modern designs shown in the salesrooms of a clock-manufacturing concern were a few of the old styles There were old- time, so-called Gothic clocks, once a favorite sty le ; not s very big clock and with the top not flat bat carried up to a ridge line like a sharp-pointed roof, with the gable end to the front, and having as Its base, on either ride, at the top o f the body of tbe clock, a little spire, tbe lower section of the door of tbe clock, below the dial, painted with There were cottage docks, them smaller than tbe Gothics, and like all these old-time clocks am simple, and trim looking, with upright, square-cor nered cases. And then there were bigger dockA larger than tbe cottage clocks and larg* er than tbs Gothics, clocks with their long door deeply recessed within a wide, bordering molding, tall, square, cor nered, prim-looking and yet engaging d o c k s sue- as once, made of mahogany or mahogany veneer, stood on many and many a mantelpiece, docks with big dials and tong hands and with a sonorous tick. Among these large docks there were some with cases leas severe in design and finished, with some ornamentation about them and gilded half-columns one on either ride of tbe case, in front, docks such aa once adorned the shelf of many an old-time parlor. These old-style clocks were not old docks, bat new d o ck s Snob as are still manufactured and sold. “Clocks are now made of many ma terials as to tbelr cases and In Innum erable styles" said tbe salesman, “and ws are adding new styles all tbs time, and tbs greet majority of people buy these docks of later designs But ws still continue to soil docks o f s few of those once fam iliar old styles 80ms of these old-style clocks We make witb modern spring Improvements within tbelr old-time esses and others of them we still make with tbs old-time doc*- w eights “ O f all these new old-style docks comparatively tow era sold In tbe city. They go mostly to smaller towns and to toe country. B at It would not do to say that they are bought by old-time people clinging to old-time ways and styles They may find such buyers but other buyers anywhere may fancy them for tbelr quaintness or. for old-time so- sodatioos.” 1 am opposed to divorce. Extreme cruelty is about the only reasonable plea, la my mind, for potting asunder a couple whom Ood baa joined together. I know there are plenty o f people who will claim that God baa little enough to do with much of our marrying tbsoo days, but. though there la a groat deal of light-mindedness among our young people on the subject of mar riage, I still think that tha onion of any couple in marriage, particularly if there la a child, or m art v. »imAusa. standing barely within the law. Wo are fur down In tbo ecnlo o f humanity whan wo are Just grazing tha law. Laura hro not made tor noble and courageous and upright people; not tor people who know bow to make blessings of their burdens and make torches at their faith to carry them over tha rough places; tha law Is not tor tha proud man mads la God’s imago, who knows bettor than to complain; not tor tha gifted wotoan who understands tha 4 alue of patience and bar doty to the human race. The law Is not for the man whoaa word is aa good as bia bond or tha woman who, -aa most of bbr slaters do not, understands the nature of an oath. Tha law Is tor people who easily “roe bargain," who whin# under duty and squirm about for release from their share o f tha heat and burden of tha day. We are in a sorry plight when the law must tattle our difficulties— wa admit our failures aa men and woman when wo cannot order our own lives to some working out of sweetness and lig h t Wo have no right to make laws to legalise Immorality. Wo bare no fight In the light o f human reason or plain logic to license any evil. Many people ask If one does pot think It better to part than to live un happily together. No. I think It better to stop living unhappily. It takas two to make unhappiness. Let our men and women bn men and women In the best sense. Let them stop playing at life and get down to plain living and working In which alone the human being finds his highest development Let women stop being laay end men stop being false not only to the wives they have married, bat to themselves and the whole human race! Let ns earn to have pride In morality and stop running after tales gods of fashion. Homs and Its sanctity, tbs fam ily with Its holy ties o f love and common sympathies, these are the priceless treasures which to-day many women spnra tor fins costumes and the dissipation that seems to be a mania with tha fashionable woes aw i Chicago Journal. ----------- ---------—7— — — 7---------:------------■...... Quaint and Cations. Stone Chambers, which once formed places o f Interment, are frequently din- covered within large barrows o f earth raised by the bands o f man. They era to be referred to the period of the Danish Invasion, which Is generally termed among antiquaries the “ Stone Period,“ because the f metals was than In a great measure unknown; and while a few are to be found In Groat Britain, there are many more of them In Denmark. These tombs, which a rt covered with earth, have most prob ably contained tbs remains o f tbs powerful and tbe rich. They am al most all provided with long entrances, which lead from tbs exterior o f the tant to state ber errand. A t last aba came to the point “ It’s the kissing hands,“ aha con fessed. “ Jenny and dia ain’t aura we’ve got It rig h t We’ve practiced a tot— Jenny klasing mine and ma Heeing Jenny’s— bat Jenny gets laughing, ao wo don’t know any bettor In the end than wa did In the beginning. Would yon mind telling me which side up la right— palm-aide or ktruckle-ride? And do you catch hold anywhere, or dosa the queen hold it steady without r I Tha w ife o f the minister waa able to assure the perplexed matron that ” knuckle-el de” w as correct and that lightly sustaining finger-tips were per mitted to be placed beneath the finger tips of royalty; moreover, that she need concern bereeif shoot none of these little niceties, sines only the sub ject of a sovereign waa expected to kies her hand a t alL For an American, the deep conrteey waa sufficient Instead of being relieved, however, the woman was much annoyed. “ A person might as well be bong for a sheep aa a lamb.” she declared, “and If I’m going to courtesy, I’d rather kiss, too. Besides, there's all that prac tice wasted, and Jenny’ll never get done laughing at me, klosing her hand tor nothing all those times. All la, If aba giggles, I bel leva I'll up and box her A well-known New Yorker who spends a good part of his time in Paris relates bow he once mot a fellow coun tryman who Invariably sported a boga red badge hearing tbs legend of toe National Republican Oommlttss After a tkne the New Yorker's cari osity got tbe bettor of htan and ha ari-ed bia fellow countryman why be was displaying such an emblem to tha W ater P rep« as T e tta ie . A drop of water, even three or four drops falling on tbe bead seems a thing unworthy of attention; neverthe less in China a alow and continuous dropping of water on tbs bead baa been found to be a method of torture under which tbe most hardened crim inal abjectly howls for mercy. “ It's just this way,“ cbse rfully ex When a professor in tbs Borbonne, plained the other. “ One day at one tbs famous university of P a ris stated | of tha big botala I noticed a number o f this to his dam the other day one of chaps who got tits bast o f me at all tbe students laughed Incredulously and tiroes. I bethought me that It would be mid It would taka a good deal of that a good idea to consult one of the w ait sort of thing to affect him. ers aa to tha reason. Incidentally I The professor assured him that even tipped him. one quart o f water dropped slowly onto “ A great light hurst upon me when bis band would be beyond his endur I was politely informed by tbe w aiter ance. Ha agreed to experiment that one of tbe gentlemen indicated A quart measure filled with watar wore the Legion of Honor, that tbe w as brought in, a microscopic bole waa other sported tbe Insignia of tha Order bored In tbe bottom and the perfoim- of tbe Star of India, and that the third st*ce began, the professor counting. was tb s proud passe asor of the Order Daring tha first hundred drops tha of S t Michael and S t George, Gentle student made airy remarks. With tbs men wearing these and other orders, second hundred he began to look less added the waiter, were Invariably given cheerful, then gradually all his talk the utmost consideration. died away and his face took on a hag “ It didn't take ms long to drop In gard, tortured expression. With tbs line. I dug down Into my trank end third hundred the hand began to swell palled out the badge you now see and look red. Tbs pain Increased to adorning my manly chest I pat It on torture. Finally tbs skin broke. and have worn R ever since. Of course At the four hundred and twentieth drop the skeptic acknowledged bis none of oar French friends has tha doubts vanished and begged tor mercy. least Idas what It represent», but It’s a decoration, and that goes with them. He could bear no mom Since I donned It nothing baa bean too good tor m e ”— Harper's Weekly. ■ • « h i aa S Watteetoes. B oobs moths look vary much Uks but terflies hut there era two ways In which yon can always tell tbs one tram tbs other. Each has little slan der feelers growing from tbo bond, bat tbo butterfly's feelers or antennas, as they are celled, have knobs on tho ends Tho aatonnao of tho moth somo- timos have tiny feather» on them sad ■ onset!mas little spire* bat thay era never knobbed. Thao, too, in slight ing tbs butterfly always bolds bar B ia latelllareaea. wings erect, while tbo moth's droop or Purchaasr— You told ms that parrot I bought o f yon was tbs most Inteili- gsnt bird in year collection, while tbo feet Is bs doesn’t talk at a ll Dealer— That's wbat I meant wbon I spoke o f his Intelligence. • There Is s good dosi ai cheep w it about hogging girls la tbs welts, bat s a s matter o f f a c t whoa a nun hogs a woman, ho does not do It In s crowd.
