He Could Fill the BUI.
k day or two after George B. Cor
telyou assumed the duties of Secretary
of the Treasury, he was visited by an
elderly man who wanted aa appoint
ment as eonfldential clerk to one of the
Assistant secretaries.
Notwithstanding the fact that he was
rery busy at the time, Mr. Cortelyou
gave the elderly person a hearing. Ou
account of his age, Mr. Cortelyou said,
he felt that he could not comply with
the request So, gently but firmly, be
Intimated to the old uiau that it was
about time for htm to go. This, bow
ever, did not dampen the lattcr's spirit
in the least.
"Now, sir," said he, "as I feel myself
peculiarly competeut to fill one of
these confidential clerkships, I hope
that you will further cousider my ap
plication." Then, wagging his bead
most Impressively, be added :
"Oh, Mr. Cortelyou, I could be so
confidential !" 'Success MagaKlne.H
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"lie must be a good fellow."
"Nonsense ! Where did you get that
Idea? He never goes to a club
and "
"But his wife says he's a Tery good
fellow and when a man's wife "
"Oh! That's another thing. There's
a big difference between a 'very good
fellow' and a good fellow.'" Phila
delphia Press.
Seeking Something Easier.
4 Wby did that great financier want
to get Into political life?" asked one
Wall street man.
"Well," answered the other, "condi
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er for a man to stay at the head of a
Tallway system than It Is to hold a big
government office." Washington Star.
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CHAPTER XXVII.
Jack had gone. He had waited on at
the little cottage a weary week after that
evening when Jean had crept down and
aa gently as possible had told him of
Audrey's strange aversion to seeing him.
"It is only a whim," Jean said, hur
riedly ; "we must humor her."
That same night it was, when they
were sitting alone in the tiny dining
room, that Jack suddenly poured out the
whole miserable story into Jean's ears;
the story of that ball; of how he had
been hoaxed Into driving over to see Mr.
Benson, who had never sent for him ; of
all the horrible things he had heard about
Audrey; and, lastly, of how he had come
upon her in the summer house, with Bev
erley Roehfort at her feet kissing her
hands.
'Put yourself in my place, and judge
as I judged. Do not view things as they
are now, or you will be harder upon me
than I deserve," he said, as he leaned
his weary, aching brow on his hand.
'I will not be hard upon you at all,
Lord John," Jean said, very gently ; "for
I think I should have been misled as you
were by such apparently strong circum
stantial evidence. I am glad you have
spoken out to me, and I only wish Au
drey had done the same, for then we
might have arrived at the truth."
'What is it you mean?" Jack asked,
looking up at her, eagerly.
"I mean that I now am convinced that
Willie is right, and that there was some
plot connived against you both at that
ball. I have no definite proof, only . a
woman's intuition to work upon, but that
shall be enough. This must be sifted,
Lord John, sifted to the very dregs. I
love you both," she continued, tears dim
ming her eyes. "You have been more
than good to me, and now that Audrey's
mother is gone I feel I must be friend,
sister and mother In one. You will see
that I am right, and that you and my
dear one were both the victims of some
conspiracy. On the face of it the whole
affair is absurd. Don't you love each
other better than all the world? I shall
write to Willie and tell him all my
doubts."
And the result of that letter was to
put Willie Fullerton on the track of
Murray, whom Jean seemed convinced
could throw some light on the subject.
A week had gone, and Audrey was
wonderfully better ; it was her first real
day of convalescence, and Jean was sit
ting with her, reading. Downstairs Jack
was trying to comfort himself, when sud
denly a familiar voice accosted him, and
he foupd himself shaking hands with
Marshall. Marshall, grown older, and
looking very wan in her simple black for
her beloved mistress. It somehow com
forted Jack to see her; she seemed to
bring back a little of the sweet Influence
that had surrounded Constance Fraser.
She had come direct from seeing Mr.
Fullerton, who had briefly told her all,
and she now asked to see Audrey at once.
"Let me nurse her, my lord," she en
treated; "her, my dear's own child. Will
you go up and tell her I'm here, my lord?
Perhaps I'd best not go straight without
saying."
Jack's face flushed ; he hesitated ; then
he rose and went out of the room. He
could not bring himself to tell Marshall
he was forbidden his wife's presence.
He went steadily upstairs and stood
outside the door. The handle was turn
ed, and from within came the sound of a
faint, low voice. He meant to have call
ed Jean, but the sound . of that voice
stopped him.
It was Audrey speaking. His heart
beat violently, then turned as cold as
iron In his breast. She was speaking of
him, but how bitterly ! Each word seem
ed to go through him like a knife. Jean
had been pleading his cause, but he only
heard Audrey's answer.
"I refuse to see him, Jean ; I refuse ii
hear his name mentioned again, i'es,
yes ; I know you think me. a foolish
child, a fretful invalid ; but I am more
than this. I may not be very old in
years, but I have suffered as much as
any woman of fifty. Do you forget all
he wrote In that awful letter? Oh, Jean !
Jean! You don't know how his words
have struck home ! He says I have
wronged him 1, who who who "
Her voice grew choked for a moment,
but she soon mastered her emotion. "No,
Jean ; there can be no friendship or kind
ly feeling between us. As he has judged
me, so let me live; my pride and my
honor will support me without him. I
I trust I shall never see him again ; I
shall be happier when I know he is far
away. He said he was going on a tour
of the world. Why does he not start?
Why does he add to his former cruelty
by staying here?"
"Audrey, you are unjust, you are un
like yourself ; you judge your husband
most cruelly. If you could only know
how he has suffered "
Audrey broke in with a hard, bitter
laugh.
.. "I see he has won your heart, Jean.
Well, we will say no more, except that I
am firm, and that if Lord John has any
pride left he will not force himself upon
me, but go at once."
But Jack heard no more; he did not
know that the hard, contemptuous tone
suddenly broke with a little gasping sob ;
he did not see the thin, small hands cover
the white, lovely face; he did not know
that Jean had slipped from her chair
and was holding Audrey's weeping form
clasped in her arms. No, he knew none
of this, for he had gone straight down
stairs, he had picked up bis hat and ul
ster, and opening the door, he had walk
ed out Into the. wind and rain, looking
neither to the right nor the left, turning
his back deliberately on all that he held
dearest In life.
Before the dawn was broken Willie
Fullerton had followed Jack Glendur
wood up to town, but though he searched
every club, chamber or well-known haunt,
he nowhere found the man he sought, and
when he awoke from a well-earned night's
rest, it was to read a telegram from Mr.
Sampson, stating he had received one
from Jack, who had sailed the evening
before from Southampton In the Mlnosta
for Australia, and might be absent for
years, perhaps forever. So after all,
Sheila had been partially successful, for
she had separated this man and wife.
It was deputed to Jean to tell Audrey
that her husband was gone, but she let
two days elapse before she broached the
subject of his name. The fit of weeping
had done good rather than harm.
"If only we had him here now, all
would be as right as ninepence," the
doctor had said to Jean on the morrow
following Jack's hurried departure.
"But he is not here, and he will not
come, so we must think of what will be
best under the circumstances."
The young doctor had a look of warm
admiration for Jean. What courage, de
termination and common sense she pos
sessed, and withal how large a heart!
Certainly Willie Fullerton was to be en
vied !
"I am afraid she will fret when she Is
told all," Jean added, thoughtfully ; "still
it is best all should be known. I shall
keep nothing from her, either now or In
the future," and so, when at last she
spoke of Jack's departure, Jean very
gently but thoroughly put all the facts
before Audrey that Mr. Fullerton had
managed to glean about the masked ball
and its miserable results. She was shown
Murray's confession, signed and attested
by Sheila Fraser. She was given all the
information there was to give, and then
Jean very sensibly, and with more than
ordinary tact, went softly away, and left
her alone to fight the battle out by her
self. When they met again there were tear
stains on the girl's white face, but she
was wonderfully quiet.
"Will you send for Jack's mother,
please, Jean, and ask her to come home?
Now now I am alone I should like her
advice. It is only right and proper as
his wife I should consult his mother."
Ten days later news came to Mount
berry that Craiglands was preparing to
receive her grace of Harborough, who
was returning with her son, Lord Iverne,
and her daughter-in-law, Lady John Glen
durwood, and, as may be supposed,, the
village was greatly exercised in its mind
over this intelligence, having had its
curiosity whetted considerably by the
vague and unsatisfactory rumors that had
been circulated about the same said Lady
John.
Dinglewood House was shut up, and it
was understood vaguely that Miss Fraser
was visiting, though where no one exact
ly knew. It was generally voted annoy
ing that Sheila should have been absent
just now. She could have thrown light
on a good deal of .what was perplexing,
and have, moreover, given the real ac
count of what had happened at the ball ;
whether It was true that Lady John had
flirted . and behaved so abominably, or
whether Dr. and Mrs. Thorngate were
correct in saying that somebody had imi
tated hv ladyship' domino, and cleverly
tricked the whole room of guests Into
Imagining that it was Lady John who so
thoroughly disgraced herself and her hus
band's name. Then Sheila, too, could
have given the exact history as to what
had occurred between Lord John and his
wife, and what was the meaning of all
the extraordinary rumors that had been
circulated.
But Sheila was not on hand to be
questioned, and,, In default of encourage
ment, it was really wonderful how soon
the excitement and curiosity began to
die away and how readily everybody grew
to consider Audrey as having been most
injured by the trick that had been so
wantonly played upon her. In fact, by
the time Christmas was due, Lady John
and her doings were a theme too old to
be mentioned anywhere, and the affairs
at Craiglands would have been passed
over as almost Indifferent and uninterest
ing, but that, just as the joybells were
proclaiming the birth of a new Christ
child, the icy fingers of the death angel
were laid upon the heart of Duncan, Mar
quis of Iverne, and he was taken from
his bed of suffering to a reign of peace
and rest.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
It was a week since they had carried
away all that remained of the once hand
some, merry young Lord Iverne and
burled him with pomp and solemnity In
the Harborough vault. A telegram had
winged Its flight across the ocean to Mel
bourne, from whence Mr. Sampson had
received a curt announcement of John
Glendurwood's safe arrival a telegram'
briefly giving the sad news of one broth
er's death to another, but no answer had
been, vouchsafed, and the lawyer could
not but entertain strong doubts aa to
whether the new Marquis of Iverne was
gone still further on his travels, and so
their message was unread.
Craiglands was very sad in those days.
The duchess seemed to break down alto
gether after her son's death. Yet, despite
all this, she was gentle and kind to Au
drey beyond description ; she could not
have given the girl more love If she had
been her own child. They wero quiet
days, and peaceful, and Audrey found
many little duties to perform which help
ed to make the hours fly. She was very
pale aud delicate, but she refused to al
low Jean to consider her an Invalid, and
was never weary of flitting about tho
duchess, eager to do all and anything in
her power to alleviate the sorrow which
was oppressing tho mother's heart. The
only distraction was Willie Fullorton's
weekly vlHlts, when his breesy, happy
manner seemed to change the very atmos
phere. Snow hnd fallen heavily and It lay on
the ground during the whole month of
January aud onward. Despite this, how
ever,' Audrey would persist in going out
as much as possible.
"It does me good," she said to Jean,
who was fearful of every cold wind that
blew on her darling. "I must go, Jean.
I I feel sometimes as If I should go
mad in the house!"
She had this retttless feeling on her one
afternoon toward the middle of February.
"I shall walk Into Mountberry. I want
to see Mrs. Thorngate do you mind,
dearest?" she asked the duchess, who sat,
half dozing, half dreaming, by the Are,
"Take care of yourself, Audrey. Put
on stout boots! This snow Is so pene
trating !"
Audrey walked briskly over the snow,
a slender, graceful figure In her heavy,
black garments, her lovely face lovelier
than ever in Its somber setting. She
was warmly greeted by Dr. Thorngate,
who was just leaving the vicarage as she
arrived. Audrey thought he looked worn
and troubled.
"My wife will be rejoiced to see you,"
he said, and his gaze followed the girlish
form In an affection that was deepened
only by admiration and respect.
Mrs. Thorngate was troubled, too, and
though she welcomed Lady Iverne with
all her old love, she was not herself.
Audrey felt pained and full of sympathy.
"I am sure you would rather I did not
stay, dear Mrs. Thorngate," she said,
simply, rising and drawing on her wraps
again. "You have something on your
mind, and will be better alone."
Mrs. Thorngate's answer was to burst
Into tears. i
"My heart is broken!" she sobbed.
"Oh, Beverley, my boy, my boy ! And I
have loved you, honored you, believed in
you so much !"
Audrey knelt down by her friend.
"Let me help you. Tell me all," she
begged, her own eyes growing dim and
misty with pity.
It was a very brief story. Beverley
had written to his aunt that morning.
He was in a terrible predicament Two
years back he had committed forgery out
in Africa ; he had cleverly escaped de
tection, and had come to England, think
ing all danger gone. Unluckily for him,
his movements and real name had been
discovered ; he had been tracked. If the
money were not forthcoming In the next
twenty-four hours he would be handed
over to justice.
"Audrey, what can I do? What can
I do? I cannot sit- here and know that
he, the boy I have loved, ' is condemned
to a felon's cell. He has been my joy,
my one delight, and Gus refuses to let
me help him."
Audrey felt her heart beginning to
beat with a sense of pain and apprehen
sion. The very mention of this man's
name fell like a black shadow on her
heart. She trembled as she recalled all
the evil his cold-blooded treachery had
worked between herself and Jack ; the
memory of his passionate love words
raised a blush of shame to her face even
now, but she put her own feelings on
one side to minister to Mrs. Thorngate's
sorrow.
"Will you let me take this off your
shoulders?" she asked. "Hush ! Not a
word. We are friends, are we not? Rest,
and be at peace, for, by God's will, I will
save him from what you fear !"
(To be continued.)
Cautions All Aronnd.
Hotel Clerk (suspiciously) Your
bundle has come apart. May I ask
what that queer thing Is?
Guest This is a new patent Are es
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Clerk (thoughtfully) I see. Our
terms for guests with fire escapes, sir,
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Didn't Help Matters.
Daughter (In tears) But, papa, what
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Irate Papn He's an idiot, and Is
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Daughter Oh, no, papa; I know he
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Irate Papa Would he? Then he Is
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