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I MASTER OF By Robert milMlllllMIIIIIIIIIMHMmlHHItllHMm CHAPTER XXHL Thua it wn that poor Annie returned I her home and waa received once agaiu a member of th little circle at St GurloU's. Hut thing were aadly changed for her, poor child; and some times as I watched her patient eudurance 1117 heart rose in revolt and 1 blamed luyaelf for having been th tneau of ttringing her home again. But when people hare poverty before them they cannot afford to exaggerate sentimental troubles, and 1 aoon came to the conclusion that the best way to help Annie was to help myself to obtaiu situation, in fact. As all hope of ob taining employment in St. GurloU's was cut of the question, I turned uiy atten tion to other Quarters. After many heart rending disappointments and endless cor respondence, I obtained a situation aa overseer of a copper mine in IVvon. 1 waa in the midst of my preparation, half happy in the thought of being able to inhabit a part of the globe where my misfortunes could not fiud nte out, when 1 one day heard a piece of newa which killed at one blow all my hopes of the future, and made my life mere Dead Sea fruit. A report spread over the tillage that George Redrnth was abont to be married forthwith to Madeline Graham. When Annie heard the news, she cried tritterly; and I, blind as usual, believed she cried out of sympathy for me. "It ia a ahame, Hugh!" she aald, "after luring made you lore her, that the should wilo away another man. "Don't say a word against Miss G ra ti ain, I returned, "for ahe ia an angeL" "Iss, hold your piece!" cried my aunt TU nawt to us, and why should yon interfere? And. after all, 'tis better as it Is. . She could nerer hara wed wi' Hugh." There was aouod sense In my aunt's words, though at the time, with the fiercest jealousy and hatred raging in tuy heart against the man who had sup planted me, I could not haten to them. A few days' reflection, bowerer, brought me to a better state of mind showed tne that I was a fool, and that the newa nrhich had wrought such an astounding effect upon me was only what I might tare expected. It waa a fine bright night, clear and till, though the shifting clouda in the ky predicted storm. I had strolled out, ud found the sea as calm as a mill Mnd, fringed with white where the edge lapped the stone upon the shore. The moon was shining radiantly upon it; also upon the boat house, which I looked at tenderly, remembering how I had carried Madeline there. . With a heavily drawn igh I was about to more away, when a hand waa laid upon my shoulder, and turning, I found myself face to face with Madeline herself! Yes; there she stood, looking more like spirit than a thing of flesh and blood tier face was so white, her eyes so sad. She was wrapped from head to foot in costly fun, while a black hood was thrown lightly over her head and tied under her chin. "Madeline!" I said; "Miss Graham, you here at this hour?" "Yes," she answered calmly, smiling a little; "it is a strange place to find tne, is it not? . But then you know, Mr. Trelawney, I , am a strange creature. I may as well confess the truth. I followed you here to-night." After our dinner this erening, I came out with Anita, Intending to pay you a visit at tins cottage. When we came -within sight of the gate, I saw you standing there.' I paused a moment be fore stepping forward to speak to you, and you mored away, striking across the marshes toward the sea, I Bent Anita back, and followed you here." I was not altogether glad that she had done so. It waa torture to be near her, to look at her, and to know that- she had come straight from the caressing arms of another man. However, I commanded rnvself sufficiently to say: "It is not right for y,ou to be here, Miss Graham. Will you let me take yon tiome?" ''Yon fhall do so presently," she an swered, not looking at me, but keeping ber eyea fixed upon the sea. . "Now I want to talk to you. Is it true you art going away T "Yea; it la quite true." "And yoa will be glad to go," ahe con tinned "to leare your home?" "Yes,"-1 replied; "I shall be glad to go. As to my home why, I hare no home now, all is so sorely changed. There will nerer be happiness for me here again!" , ''You talk very bitterly," continued Madeline. "What do you mean, Mr. Tre lawney?" "I mean," I answered, utterly losing my self-control, "that, through all these months of darkness and trouble, I hare lieen sustained by one thought, one hope. Miss Graham, we are alone 'together to night; there is no one but you to hear tne. I may nerer see you again in this world, therefore I will say it I love you. I hare lored you all my life! , She put up her hand and said, hurried ly, "Mr. Trelawney, please say no more!" Rut It was too late; I took her hand and kissed it "I lored you," I continued, "in those far-off days when we were boy and girl together. Then years afterward the sea gave you back to my arms. Once again I had looked into your face, my darling, I had but one hope, one thought I know 1 waa a madman. I knew there waa a gulf between us broader than the sea from which I snatched you, and yet fool that I was. I lired in my paradise, and refused to see the pitfalls which were looming ahead. It waa enough to know that I lored you, and that some times I waa , gladdened, by a sight of your face. ' I paused, and dropped her hand; she was crying. J'Miss Graham," I cried, "don't cry, - for heaven's take! You hare a right to hate me for what I bare said." She quickly brushed away her tears, and turned to me, smiling sadly. ''Don't- say so, please. I honor and respect you mora than I can lay more than I can confess, even to myself. shall pray always for your welfare and happiness, and I shall nrr forget you as long aa I Ural" THE MINE f j v vis: Buchanan. Suddenly I said, "Mis Graham, when are you to be married?" She started,' hesitated for a moment, and then re plied: I don t quite know. I am going np to lAndon shortly. We are to be married there." ' Krery word she nttered seemed to atab me to the heart. Up to this I had clung to a wild hope that the reporta I had heard might hare had no foundation now that hope was goue. . "Why," 1 asked desperately, "are you going to marry your cousin?" She started again, and trembled slight ly. "Why do people generally marry one another?" she answered. "Still, there U a very grave reason why this should be. My cousin ia comparatively poor, while I am rich: he has grave dimculties before him which I can relieve if 1 am his wife." "Did he put all this before you?" "No; he does not eveu know that I am aware of it Ah! Mr. Trelawney, we have all our troubles, and my poor aunt is breaking her heart over hers. Things have been going wrong ever since my uncle died." "And you art to be sacrificed to set them right again T' , , 1 ,- "Where does the sacrifice come in?" "Did she ask you if .you loved her son?" "No! She asked me If there was any one else whom I wished to marry, and 1 answered her truthfully: I aaid there waa not" Wa walked back orer the marshes, Madeline leaning lightly on my arm; but we never spoke a word. Having reached the-road,, wa 'walked on toward Redruth House, and paused at the gate. "Good-by, Miss Graham;" I aald, hold ing forth my hand. Before I knew what ahe was doing, ahe had seised H and raised It, to her lips. "Good-by, dear friend," the murmured, "and may God bless you!" then, with a oh, ahe turned and waa gone. I stood petrified, watching in a dated kind of wonder the figure as it mored up the moonlit arenue aad disappeared among the trees; then, with a sigh, I turned away. Bitterly as I had suffered through my lore for Madeline, I did not for on moment wish that the episode, in my life had nerer been. CHAPTER XXIV. Soon after daybreak the next morning I took the road. All I carried was my staff and a email knapsack on my back; my other worldly possessions had gone on, days before. My aunt and -Annie watched me from the door; my uncle walked with me through the village, and a short distance up the highway. At daybreak next morning I reached my destination a mining settlement on the rery borders of Cornwall and De von. I found it to be a lonesome plac$, situated on the banks of a small river, and surrounded on erery side by the wild blocks and tors of the moor. I reported myself in due course, and was forthwith installed In my position. . The miners were a wild lot and the last overseer, an elderly man, had more than once gone in danger of his life. As a person still suspected of riolent proclivities, I had been chosen to take his place. The truth was, the place bore the worst of names, and few men would hare accepted the situation, at any price. The agent during our first interview, hinted that the miners ' needed an iron hand to rule them. That very afternoon 1 inspected the place, and found myself inspected in turn by as villainous a set of faces as I had ever encountered. There was much muttering and murmuring, for the fellows wanted to be under the di rection of one of their own number, one Michael Looe, a red-haired giant' The next day, the first after my In stallation, I found out the sort of oppo sition with which I had to reckon. As I stood by the open mine, giving some directions,. Looe ran up against me, with a pick-ax on his shoulder, and almost capsized me. A hoarse laugh greted this performance. . "Can't !ee look where you'm gaun, Meaater?" cried the fellow, grinning sav agely. I loked him steadily in the face, as one looks in the eye of a furious bull. What I saw there did not daunt me. .The fol low waa a bully, and I had dealt with bullies before. If I was to retain my authority in the place, I must bring him to his senses. "What's your, name?" I said, quietly. "My name?" he repeated, leering round at the others. "Mike Looe, if you maun knaw. As good a name as yourn, I'll wager." , "My name is nugh Trelawney; and, as I am master here, I'll trouble you to remember it If you don't my man, I'll find a way to impress it on your mem ory." "Yon will, wiir'ee?" said the giant "And so you -be measter? Mates," he added, looking round, "d'ye hear 'un? Take off your hats to 'un!" And suiting the action to the word, he bowed mockingly before me. My blood was now up, and I faced him reso lutely. "Go back to your work," I said. 'No more words. Do as I bid you." "Who'l make me?" he said, brandish ing his plck-ax. Before he knew what I was about, I wrenched the weapon from his hand, and flung it on the ground. He clenched hla fist and made a rush at me. I waited for him, and landed him a blow which made him stagger , back, dazed. .. The men . flocked round us, murmuring and threatening. But Michael Looe had confidence In his own prowess. He weighed fifteen stone, and had the fists of Anak; so that I, though a tall, strong man, loked no match for such a giant He uttered a fierce oath, and bade the men stand back. ' "Pair play, lads!" he cried, grinning again. "Lea' the new chap to me. Don't ee see, he means flghtin'?, With that the men made a ring, while their champion stripped off his waistcoat and began quietly turning np his sleeres, showing an' arm with mnscles Ilka iron bands. At this juncture, an old man, one of their number, but superior in manner to the rest, whispered In my ear: "You'd best bolt, Meaater.. He'll smash 'ee Ilka an agg, as ha did chap , afore 'ee," I i.-. : r - .;. 1 it My answer waa awldre. Oh . ut toy rit, down went my hat oa th ground, sad. eW-aJat say eWta, I faced tW glaa.1 This rather turned the tide of feeling la y faror: at any rate. It elicited a feeble cheer. The man prepared themselrva for enjoymcat; a, rtal "stand up", fight was Imminent. I Mike Looe came at me like Goliath, 1 but at th first encounter I discovered that he had no science. I myself had a little, and though far his Inferior ln weight. possessed muscles and sinews of ateel, due to my healthy life and con stant exercise, from boyhood upward, In the open air. The result is easily pre dicted. In -matters of (Istiaaa, science, combined with pluck. Is everything. Be fore many minute had pas-d, Michael Looe had received as sound a thrashing as man could dow're. lie lay on th ground, his head supported on th knee of one of his comrades, and looking stu pidly up into my f:oe. I turned to the men, with as much rood humor I could sume under the ornament of a black eye and a bleeding forehead. "Well, my lads," I cried, "you see I've paid my footing. If any of you think I haven't paid enough, let him stand up, and I'll glre Mm a little more." This speech, quite In the humorous manner of my late opponent, completed my victory. It was greeted with an up- rosrioii lsngh and a cheer. To my as tonishment, the men crowded round me, and began shakin han.l. Then Mik Looe, rising slowly, held out his enor mous fist. "Shake ha. ml. Measter." he snld. "If you can lick me. yon ran lick any two o un. You nay sack me to-neet and will ing, but I'll to bail you'm the right sort to he meaner here!" So we shook hands, and from that mo ment my physical supremacy wa undis puted. Instead of dismissing my late opponent, I kept him In his place, and he afterward became my right-hand man. After that day, I had rery little trouble In retaining my due authority as orerseer of the Gwemlorey mlue. (To b continued. TRAFFIC OF THE PACIFIC. Some Advantages of Pnaret Round aa the Gateway t the Orient. ' ' Puget Sound, according to a writer In the Review of Reviews, lathe logic al gateway of the 1'ulted Stat to the Pacific orient, by reason of the fact of Its geographical position. The short cut from the United States tJ the or lout as one will fee when he con suits his globe, is northerly by way of the Aleutian Island. Tlie.averagi map presents the coasts of North America aud of Asia as if they faced each other ami were almost parallel, whereas the spherical contour of the globe In fact makes the Asiatic shore line almost a continuation or projec tion of the Atnericnn shore Hue to th other side of the glubcy Thus, the most direct route from either San Francisco or San Diego, Cal., to Japau or China, Instead of being westerly by way of the Sardwlch Island!, Is northerly past Puget sound and tbe Bering sea. It Is 1.2C0 miles farther from San Fran cisco westerly via Hawaii' to Yoko hama, Shanghai or Hongkong than from Puget sound northerly to the same .destinations. In other words, tbe Sun Francisco round trip to the orient via Hawaii U 2.50O miles 1 in.r than the Puget sound round trip via Bering sea. which Is equivalent to a week's voyage for a flftwn-knot ves sel and nearly nine days for a twelve knot vessel. This advantage of a week to ten days in the length of the voyage Is the logical basis for the faith In Puget sound as the gateway of oriental commerce. In the second place, the Pugot sound route for American commerce with the orient Is about one-half the length of the New York route via the ,Sucz ca nal; tlje haul Is 11,575 miles, as com pared with 5,830 miles fiom Seattle to Hongkong. From New York via the Suez, canal to Yokohama the distance Is over 13.000 miles, as compared with 4,240 miles from Tuget sound to Yo kohama. Why should the Unitid States circumnavigate the globe to reach the orient by way of Europo when It has a short cut of' Its own with one-half the length of haul? Another definite and convincing ad vantage which American commerce will enjoy In taking the direct trade channel from Puget sound to the orient is tbe avoidance of $2 a ton charge levied upon it by the Suez ca naL In view of the facts that within the past year steel rails have been car ried from the Mississippi valley to Yo kohama and that within the past six ty days flour has been transported from Minneapolis to Manila and Hong kong, In each case at the low rate of $8 a,ton, It Is patent even to the lay man that the $2 a ton. handicap via the Suez canal Is sutBchut In Itself to transfer future American commerce to Puget sound. Josiah Allen's Wife on Farmers. "And: no one," sez she In a tragic manner "no one that boasts of de- Bcendln' from an old genteel family wuz ever a farmer." Almost Insensibly to myself I men tioned the names of George Washing ton and my own Joslab, and sez I, "Adam, for Instance, Is from an old family." "Adam who?" sez she. ' "Why, Jest plain Adam, Eve's hus band," sez I. "Oh, Bhaw!" Fez she. And I didn't contend with her, but knowed farmin wuz a honorable occupation or the Lord wouldn't set the first man he made at It Llpplncott's. The Old Lady from Dover. There was an old lady of Dover Who baked a fine apple turnorer. But tbe cat came that way, ' . And she watched with dismay The orerturn of her turnover, . St Nicholas. , , Of the Same Family. ,, The man who talks about bis yacbt when he owns a sailboat Is In the same family where his wife calls the chore boy the coachman. Tlta-Blts. AFTER THE i .. . - .- ...... -k i , , .-vo 1 . .:v - ...,,: . . i .- . . l a 1 Jk . -f . ... Every man who took part la tbe third attack on Nanshan Hill fell before the Russian tire? and In the lull which preceded the advance ot the next Japanese line, the Russians could be seen peering over their earthworks at the scene of awful stillness. London Illustrated News. THE SORROWING MOTHER. I .ant night I dreamed he cams to me; 1 held him close and wept and aald: "My little child, where hare you been? 1 waa afraid that yon wr daad." j Then I awoke; it almost seemed Aa thouch mv arnia eould feel him Jet. I had been sobbing In my aleep; . My tears had mad tb pillows wv . cannot think of him at all Aa th bright angel ha must ba, But only aa my little child Who may b needing mw. Do not make him grow too wis, Angels ye who know; I am dull and alow to learn, Toiling her below. Do not fill his heart too full With your hearenly Joy, Lest the mother' place be lost With her little boy. Those may dar to doubt who bar Their lored one here below; For me, I do not now beliere, I fto nnf hnrin -I Itnnw. Katharine Pjl In Harper's Baiar. HAT Is your particular line of robbery?" be asked aa he ap proached her small, canopied table at the charity bazaar. Palmistry," she returned smilingly. "Shall I read your band? It costs half a crown. I'm afraid you might dlscorer my true Inwardness. Let mo read yours. I'll pay you Just tho same." "Very well," she said readily, ne sat down opposite her at tbe little ta ble aud she placed her hand on the small velvet cushion. . A dark gentleman loves you," be began promptly. "Which one?" she inquired demure ly. "Several. They are all villains. Avoid them." "Thanks. That Is very Important What else?" 'A blonde gentleman also loves you. He Is about my height and color." "I shouldn't call you a blonde, ex actly." Well, then, I shouldn't call him a blonde, exactly." "Is he a villain, too?" "Not at all. You will be very happy if you marry blm." He hasn't asked me," she said. "No; but he's going to." She studied her own band. I see him." she cried. "How wise you are! He Is now far from here." "He Isn't!" Indignantly, "tie very near." "Oh, then It can't be the same one." "The one I mean Is the one you should marry," he said. "Oh.' yes, now I see the one you mean," she said. "There, on that cross line. But he Is very attentive to a short, blue-eyed lady." "Not at all. . She's only a "Sister to him?" "No; not even that Just a calling acnualntance." "But he calls her by her nrst name." "That's what I meant by a calling acquaintance. But how do you know he does?" "I've heard him," she said with posi tlveness. ( "I thought this waa palmistry?" "Oh, so It is. Well, I flnd,It In the line under this finger." . "Well, they're old friends, you see." "But you said she was only a call Inir acaualntance." "I was looking at the wrong line," he said hastily. "Let's go on.' This not exactly .blonde gentleman Is going to be very wealthy, He will give you every luxury." , ; "How about all the dark gentle men?" abe Inquired. . "Some of them m wealthy already." .. , "They will lose It all last winter on were quite 111." "Yon know that, anyway,"' she re marked. ' ' .- ' : - "I am Judging by a until break la .1 " :: A Little Palmistry j THIRD ATTACK ON NANSIIAN HILL :.. '. , - .. the life line. The not-exactly-bloud gentleman sent you flowers." "Yea. It was very kind of him. 80 did the dark gentlemen." . "Thctra meant nothing." "What did his mean?" she quleried. "Undying devotion." "How nice! That must be the blond gentleman who Is so far away." "It Isn't eltberl It la the one who la very near." "You seem to read a good deal about other people In my hand," she ob served. "Maybe I wasn't looking at It as al together your hand," ahe aald an daclously. "Whose would It be, pray?" "Suppose we call It mine. One ought to be able to read one's owu hand pretty well, you know." She withdrew her hand. "It's possible that you read more In It than I do," she aald. "In my hand?" "In mine." "Is It the same thing?" he begged. "How about the bluo-eyed -lady's band?" "She enn give It to one ot the dark gentlemen." "Well, thnt might be good arrange ment. Rut as to giving mine to the blonde gentleman" "Yes?" eagerly. 'That," she said mischievously, as she arose, "Isn't a question of palmis try. Besides, you've had your money'a worth already. Here conios one of the dark gentlemen." Home Monthly. . RIVER MONSTER IN AFRICA. Amphlblona Animal la Hetween an Elephunt and Hlppopotamu In HI 10. If Sir Harry Johnston had not re cently returned from Uganda with the first skins of tbe okapl there would be more reason for receiving with Incred ulity the story of a French traveler, says M. Trllles, writing from NJole, that while exploring the northern Con go three years ago be heard from the natives of "an euortnous amphibious animal something between tho ele phant and tbe hippopotamus In size, and In nature very ferocious toward man.' 'Unbelieving, he paid little at tention to what had been told blm. "nowever. later, when in the neigh borhood of DJall, near the Oreat falls, the accounts were given with more de tail. The animal in question, or at Jeast one of its species, lived near the source of the Mourk; it lay In wait for the canoes, upset them, and In prefer ence attacked the women and children. Twice the natives fetched me to see It as It slept on the sandbank. But on each occasion It had disappeared when I got there. "On returning from my travels I asked many questions about this ani mal, but It was unknown. On the coast I never heard It spoken of. But since my arrival here I have had re peated descriptions of it. The people of tbe upper Ogne give It the name of the nzemedzln (the water tiger). Ser geant Sans of the NJole tirailleurs shot one recently at less than twenty me ters, but, unfortunately, the wounded animal escaped him. "The people here make out that tbe nzemedzln Is smaller than tbe descrip tion given by those of , the Interior. Its color Is a light tawny gray, dotted with black spots; the hair rough, In stead of smooth, as In tbe otter; tbe tall long and powerful, the paws short and webbed and fitted with very sharp nails six or eight centimeters In length. Tbe nail Is horny, as In the tiger. The animal only lives near wa terfalls and Is carnlverous. It snatch es women and children as they bathe and defies even the crocodile." ATHLETIC GAMES IN 8YRIA. Custom of the Oriental Undergoing Gradual Transformation. ' Oriental peoples are very averse to physical exercise of any kind, says the World To-Day. Their idea of enjoy ment is to sit under an awning and play backgammon. That a man should go out and run around a . track In shameless nakedness and this with a hope of gain, only confirms them In the belief that all Americans are mad. But tbey are Imitative people, and years ago the influence' and example of the 1 v 1 i,- younger teachers got a few of tbe pre paratory boys out for footraces. That day, for Beirut at least, the death blow was struck to the picturesque dresa of the Orient. You can't run a 100 yard dash with long, baggy drawera and a silk gumbes that flops around your ankles. Even If you "gird up the loins," by tucking your skirts Into the sash, tbe effect Is more startling than speedy. So, one by one, the students) ' ordered trousers from the city tailors. At first they iwere poorly cut aud . viewed, with suspicion; but to-day there are not three men In the col-. leglate department who wear the old costume, and many of the students dress with taste and an elcgnnce that their professors cannot afford to emu late. , Tennis and basketball soon won their place In the students' favor; and now we have gymnastic apparatus and a rcgulur graduated athletic director, who has learned physical culture and boy nature through a long experience In the gymnasiums of America. But It was football that did the most to ward unification. The valuo of team work is a new Idea to eastern college men. Tho old Ideal was that of "every man for himself." It baa been so slnco the time of Alclblades and Absu loin. If It bad not been so the history of the world might have been different It was comparatively easy to see the Joy of winning a footrace or a tennis match; but to play an unthcatrlcal part In a football game, obeying a captain and working for the good of the aide, that was a very different thing. We always play the "association" game, and It used to be the Ideal of every player' to get the ball and carry It down the field all by himself, while tho audience cheered "Bravo. Jurjy!" 80 we arranged matches with tbe crews of visiting British frigates, and from sad experience our boys learned the value of back plays and frequent pass es, and began to see dimly the truth that good football Is played, not with tbe legs or tbe mouth, but with the head, and that hard teamwork la far better than grandstand plays. That lesson may change tbe map of Asia some day. The Advantage of Ilelng 111. One of the greatest difficulties In life Is illness when the hands are full ot work, and of business requiring atten tion. In many cases the strain and anxiety, which causes resistance to the Illness, Is even more severe, and makes more trouble than the Illness Itself. Supposo, for Instance, that a man la taken down with the measles, when be feels that he ought to be at his office, and that his absence may result In se rious loss to himself and omers. If he begins by letting go, In his body and In his mind, and realizing that the Ill ness Is beyond bis own power, It will goon occur to him that he might aa well turn his Illness to account by get ting a good rest out of it In thta frame of mind his chances of early re covery will be Increased, and be may even get up from his Illness with so much new life and with his mind so much refreshed as to make up, In part, for his temporary absence from busi ness. But, on the other hand, If be resists, worries, complains and gets ir ritable, he irritates his nervous system and, by so doing, Is likely to bring on any one of the disagreeable troubles known to follow measles; and thus he may keep himself housed for weeks, perhaps months, Instead of days. Lea He's Monthly. Confidential. Little Willie Say, pa, what la a re mote period? ' Pa A remote period,' my son, Is the period due at the end of your mother's remarks. Remember, however, I am giving you this explanation In strict confidence. la an Assured Position. Mrs. Cobwlgger So your husband thinks his position in society is now) secure? . , Mrs. Nrwrich Yes. H It so sure) about It that he has stopped hiring a dress suit and is having one made to order. Judge, ' 1 He who serves his friends Is a buag man,' ' '" 'i, "' -I.- 1 ii ' ..: '