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
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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— — —
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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.