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---- eyes. Guy followed with a fierce, sprung the news upon, and pursuad* GUY HILLIARD’S SKELETON, impatient stride. She threw open ed her that she ought not to marry | ----------- ■the door, and there, supported As though the trance would make I From People's Home Journal. against the wall, was a portrait of any difference to me!” CHAPTER III- herself, with the babe in her arms, “Perhaps it ought to.” I said; BY EMMA GARRISON JONES. as large as life. Her golden hair “one has to be careful. My friend, I He turned back, aggravated and fell back from her smooth brow in Dr. Dallinger, would tell you exact- disappointed, and made his way to shining ringlets, and her azure ly what importance you have to at- the house His head burned and robe. gweeping off from the should- ■ tach to this announcement, » throbbed, and a strange feeling er8 jn clouns of misty lace, fell to! “I shall marry Dessie, whatever filled his heart; he had never felt the floor in gorgeous folds. Never !J he says. But perhaps he may help so before, or looked so either; for wa8 anything bo perfect o- so love- me remnye her scruples,’’ said Sir the little servant gill, chancing to And the babe, a mass of white Tom; and we walked over to the meet him in the yard, shrieked and embroidery, with a rouqd, dimpled, I great brain specialist’s together, ran out of his way. He was a deB-1 laughing face, and chubby hands I Dallinger’s report, to my great perate man—almost a dangerous peeping out. Guy stared at the relief, was very satisfactory. He one—Guy Hilliard, the good na- beautiful creation in utter astonish said that the abnormal state of the 1 lured, quiet, well-disposed school- ment; then forgetting his wrath, nervous system to which the trance I master. Truly, jealousy is as his jealousy, everything in his joy, was due was not likely to show it strong”as death, as cruel as the he exclaimed: self in any other form, or to be re grave. ‘ Oh, Violet! where did you get produced. Considering that fifteen It is first class in every respect. The proprietor having been raised »tUic» looked luuaeu up up^meuy !■»•« the .... . it? Il is yourself over again, and years had passed since Miss Caryll’s Violet quietly from in the business knows just how to conduct it. Meat at retail and whole- | little frock she was embroidering,! the loveliest thing I ever saw.” trance, it was highly probable that •ale prices You can buy by the quarter, less or more, and at prices ug he entered ’ "Today is your birthday, Guy,” [ she had outgrown it altogether. as low a« you would have to pay ranchers Beef,Pork,Mutton, Sausage "You are jarlv thia evening, ,ghe repHed goftly -.and that ig my "It can only be induced now by <tc. K. A. M atthes , Proprietor, dear,” she »aid, pleasantly. present. I heard you say once that a great emotional shock.” be said; • He made her no answer. Her1 you would sooner have a portrait “and the only notice you need take ___ ____________________________________________________________ i gentleness seemed to increase his of me and babv than anything else of the matter, Sir Tom, is to exer warmth; she was so artful, so cun- !in the world; so I coaxed the money cise greater vigilance than is usual ning and treacherous—nd he had ! ut of fftther ftnd eilgaged an ar. ly done against the lady ever being loved and trusted her so. tint to paint it secretly, that! might buried alive, even if she is pro ‘ Violet,” he said, hoarsely, throw- give you a surprise. But be had to nounced by a medical man to be • irg hiinseif on a chair, "you see work hard to get it done against to dead.” ' I am almost insane. I cannot bear Sir Tom thanked him effusively, day.’’ •this su-pciise any longer—I will I Poor Guv! the truth flashed on and he was impatient to get back to i not bear it. As vour hurbind, I 1 That was the I my place to write and put his fi i him like lightning •dem Hid an e.\plana>ion. I saw . , r seer ¡secret; he had seen the artist going ancee’s mind at rest. He was stay b the whole stay that man leaving i he house again a * J Anr] ('iiiviifur utwi had /InnF»tLin coming. and doubted his [ *ng with me while he had to be in about | f w m nutoa ago—ami he has been • . wife while she was working to London having a house fit tod up here fur hours. Violet, I want to i please and gratify him. His face for his wife’s occupation after the know what it means?” I turned all manner of colors, and he marriage which was to take place She bent lower over her work J stood in silence looking heartily at the end of the month. I but made no answer. Miss Caryll was evidently not a ashamed of himself. • "\ iolst,” he went on. his agita good correspondent, and her lover "I am done now, Guy,” Violet tion increasing “ at a fearful rate, ’ "1 said, the misehievious dimples , had been obliged to wait almost a Si I cannot live with you if you persist j deepening about her pretty mouth; week for her first letter, the one in in ket*| jog this secret from me. My "I w.ll g ».” which she told him about the trance. wife must have no skeleton* in her "Oh, Violet!” he burst out, “for It seemed as if another week was cl set I have borne it as long as oj give me—forgive me; I have been to pass after he had answered it, I can—as long ns I will. I com- a great fool, I know—but forgive before he was to receive her reply. mana you now to tell me all. to I As post after post came without me, Violet.” make everything clear, or from I the expect’d letter, even I liecame I Holding her babe with one arm, henceforth our lives are divid d. >» she put the other round his broad rather uneasy. He had written on Violet was very pale and her fin- I To every perron send shoulders and drey him close to Monday evening, and as the post ing us the amount o|gers trembled nervously as she I her side. He bent his head to kiss Lonton Abby took a day and a one yearly subscription tn The II khai . p together with ten cents extra, stitched away at her embroidery; her; but the babe gave a gleeful half, he could scarcely expect a re we will semi free a copy of The World Almanac for 1895. Single copies I •till, that little, dancing, mischiev spring. and buried both fat fists in PEV **11 Wednesday evening. When may In* ordv-ed al this office for 25 cents ous sparkle lit her eye». Friday morning came without any his heavy whiskers. • “Violet, will you explain?’’urged "That’s right, baby.” langhed thing of it, I was quite ready to I her excited husband | X inlet. "pull 'em hard, h- deserves h« a the the young baronet express "No. sir; 1 have no explanations it;' but she added, the moment af his intention of running down to to make.’’ the Abby by the first train, and THE He -ose to his feet, white and ter, her eyes overflowing with tears, "yes. •uy. I forgive you; but you sufficiently interested myself to of stern. "Then you are no wife of fer to accompany him. I must never doubt me again. ” * mine. I cast you off—wa»h my He appeared glad of my company "Never again. Viooet,” he an hands of you. You can go hack to and we reaches Trimby, the nearest swered, tenderly. "You have cured your father, and tell him that you me completely; we shall never have station to Lenton, early in the after- .have blighted and blasted my life,1 I noon, ana in the absence of anv another skeleton. ” and broken my heart.” The Best Reference Book Printed. , conveyance, started to walk the ( the end ] | She rose, also, and gathered up A Volume of over 500 ten miles to the Abby. her babe. "I will go, Guy,” she | lilUA/1 •> ■ » 1 1 Lvz-tei azx ’ , AW\ AflP HAMPER SODA ONLY TEN CENTS EXTRA WORl}j)®7IE?VlN71C! AND SNCYCLOPZDIA FOR 13 05 It Treats 1,400 Endorsed by STATESMEN, EDUCATORS and STUDENTS everywhere, - Maa - Reached Such a St ata of Far- d fwctlon That It la a Veritable encyclopedia of Facto, Statla* tics and Even-.a drought r*own to January Flrat, ifK»S. )n V1 V HK 1*91 volume 1» a whole liorrry T la itself. One can hardly think of a quevtioa it cannot answer. It telb all about party platform«, election tta- tiwict, the new tarii. religion« of the ¡i, if earth, population everywhere, »tate and (* government Matutica, occupation« of ' men. foreign matter«, literature, science ; and education. It ia . . , fin AMERICA’S STANDARD YEAR BOOK. PRICE, postpaid b, mail. • 25 CENTS. Address TH« WORLD, New Yorit •aid. quietly. ( FOUL PLAY He stood still where she left him, » ( From Vicksr'i Ftrvslds Companion. listening to her light footsteps as CHAPTER I. cending the stairs Was he awake 1 (—tn his senses? was it a reality? BY J. H HESEI.TIWE^ « ( Was she leaving him—his Violet— ‘•What a fiend!" said Sir Tom ths mother of his b.fw-the only Warburton, so suddenly and ener- woman he had ever loved* He geticslly. that he startled me • at on the point of rushing after • "Who? Miss Decima?’* I asked. was her and imping her forgiveiw-ss: innocently, for the letter he had to.Hh.1 hut that stinging pain caiue b back .,.k l*en reading when „^ th when he utl uttered the , ! to M. heart .nd b-M him Uek rqda,nation fr„,„ hi. S.rm At that instant, he heaid her voice * ‘ ’ No. Deeaie is an angel, bless calling aoftlr from the head of the her. he said. “Rut what a brute stairs ! old Grendall. her guamian. is. He ____ "Guy. Guy. will you come up and his daughter hare done their ( here, please* I want you a moment." >»est to prevent Dvasie marrying me He went up. She met him in By her father’s will, you know, all tie pavaage Rear with me Guy." lVa<ie s property comes to Grendall , *he aaid humbly. “I will gn di if she dies unmarried Here is his . rectlv; but! have something to latest more. It seems, although •how voe first.” I'eaoie did not know it. that when She led the way to a small room she was five, she han a sort of I just I stood their chamber, the trance, and she was almost buried eame little sparkle burning in her •Hve. The old villi.n has just TO BE CONTINVEb. Catarrh ■as troubled me foe tl yw taken four botUeo of Hood'• aaraopariUs and am perfectly oared. I tklak Hood « Sarsaparilla has io equal, and believe that many who are in poor health and have be c om« diecoofecod, would bo reetoaodte good health if they would only give Hood’s 8arsaparilla • fair t r U 1"W wJRwwsca, Artorta.Ora. Hood’s Pills