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13 If HWMWiiriiiH'iwwiiimimiww"ti is Heart's Desire By SIR WALTER DESANT El- over Hi foolish softness, and bxtnt silent It was not often that he talked so much with his nlec. Sit yeart before this, about half nut nine one evening la th autumn of the year 1.VM, George Sldcote, walking home, loumt air. Lelghaa ljrin la the middle of the road oa Hey tree Down. Hla pony waa graalug quietly beakle him. and ha waa lying on hla back eenseleta, with an ugly woand In hla head, tha aoar of which would oarer leave him. Ha had fallen, apparently, fata hla douv. No i eusieioo of lUure or robbery waa en tertained; Bret, because no on ever beard of violence at Challaconiba, and I secondly, beoauaa ha had not apparently been robbed. So, at least It aeetued to CHAPTER V. At half-rast four exactly Mr. Lelghan. rf Gratnor, commonly called Ianiel Daniel I.etghan, or Old Dan. or Mr. Daniel, according to tha aoclal position of those who spoke to him, awoke with a start from hia afternoon nap. lie waa tha rich man of a pariah In which there waa no squire; ha waa the Tillage ulaer; be waa tha terror of thoae who owed him money; ha was tha drirer of the hardeat bar tains; ha waa the strong and masterful man; ha waa th scourge of the weak and thriftless; he waa the tyrant of tha Tillage, lie knew all this, and ao far from being humiliat ed, he enjoyed tha poaition. The girl who aat workiug at the opeu window waa hia niece, Mary Nether cote, She lived with Daniel, and took care of him. He railed at all the world xcept her; ha quarreled with all the world except hia niece; and thoae persona who averred that ha waa kind to her because ha had tha keeping of uer money nd took all tha Interest for himself, and had her services aa houaekeeper for nothing, were perhaps only Imperfectly acquainted with tha old man'a motives and his feelings. Yet tha atatement waa true. He did hare the keeping of her mduey a good lump of money; and he did give himself tha Interest la return for- her board and loJging; and ho did hare her services aa housekeeper for nothing. Daniel Leighan awoke aaddenly with a cry, and aat upright la hie chair, clutching the arms, his eyea rolling In horror and amaiement "Mary!" he cried, "I aaw him; I aaw him the man who robbed me, I aaw him plain and I hare forgotten I hare forgotten! It waa oh, I knew just now I have forgotten, Mary!" -Patience, uncle, patience." Mary patted and smoothed tba pilowa Into their places. "Another time yon will remem ber; you are aura to remember, If the dream only cornea again. Lie down again and think." Ha obeyed, and ahe corered hla head again with his ailk handkerchief. Ha had started from hia aleep, aa if atung Into wakefulness by the recollection of eome thing horrible and painful; and his dream had vanished from hia memory, leaving not a trace behind. But the terror was left, and the foreboding. Mary aaw the terror, but she knew nothing of the fore boding. Yet her uncle'a mind waa filled with anxious fears. She aaw the rolling eyea, the clutching of tha chair arms. and tha look of bewilderment; but she only thought her uncle waa startled, like a child, in hia sleep, and crying out. like a child, for help when there waa no danger. He lay atill for a few moments while ahe stood beside him and watched. Then he tor off tha handkerchief and aat np again. "It la quite gone," he said. In despair. "I hare loat tha clew. Yet I hare bim h, I saw him; clear and distinct! tho man who robbed me. And whilo I waa going to cry out hla name Just aa I had hia name upon my lip I awoke and forgot him." "If it cornea again," said Mary. In credulous In spite of her words, "you will be sure to remember. Perbapa It Will, come again. Patience, uncle." "Patience! when I had tha clew? Pa tience! when I could follow np the rob ber, and tear my papera out of hia hands? Patience! don't be a fool, Mary!" "Well, uncle, If It haa gone, you can't bring It back again, try to forget that It ever came; that la the wisest' thing to do. You shall hare your tea, and then you will feel better." "Mary" he turned to her piteoualy "It ia cruelly hard. Can't yon remem ber? Think. Perhape I talked la my sleep some men do. Hare you never beard me aay anything call aome one by name? If I had only the least little clew, I should remember. "Why, uncle, how should I remem ber?" "It came back to me all ao clear so clear and plain. And I hare forgotten, Oh, Mary, my money! my money!" "Yes, uncle. But It la six years ago. nearly, and you bare done rery well aince. And It ia not aa if you had lost al your money. Why, you hare pros pered while all the rest hare been doing badly. You must think of that" "Lost all my money?" he repeated tes tily; "of course I're not lost all. As if a man could bear to lose a single penny of the money that be has spent his life In saving. Do you know what I have loat, girl?" She knew rery well, be cause he told her erery day. "There were bonds and coupons In the bag to the sum of near upon a hundred and fifty pounds a year nearly three thousand bounds they meant As for the share certificates, they didn't matter; but cou pons coupons, Mary; do you hear pay able only to tha bearer a hundred and fifty pounds a year a hundred and fifty pounds a year! near three thousand pounds!" His voice rose to a ahriek, and suddenly dropped again to a moan. "Three thouaand pounds! Payable to the bearer, and I haven't got them to present! If I were a yonng man of thirty. I might recorer tha loas; but am old now, and can nerer hope to make It up nerer hope to make It np again!1 It waa six years since that loss had occurred; but this wall over tha loat money was raised nearly avery day, and almost In tha same words, so that the s-Irl felt little sympathy. "U was six o'clock whan I left Ash' I tL . a, a hunan. Th irl lat IihnI thu " wno carriea dhu Dome, for nla DOCk' story ao often that her Interest la th ' . . 7 uu. r B,0T. " wtch Mills ha.l tkAiiii mwiiha.t "Si l iVWk CBBia BBd not DeU Uen. when I atarted to ride home. 1 had eev- .7 . nr tnrM n,,hf Daniel enty pounda In gold upon me fifty Jlf "7 apeecWeae and aenaelea, and noun.la in nna h. and isot in I hut for a faint pulse he seemvd dead. other; my tin box la a blue bag waa JVot" revered eonaelouaneaa, tha round my neck, and It waa filled with uw aasej were concerning aurltia anA hnnii an.t ahara Mrtlfl. a certain tin box containing pa Decs which catee. At half paat eevea It was dark declared waa hanging la a bag from then I rode Into Wlddlcombe. After New t Ho. box ne ana that I remember nothing. Why have I forgotten tha ride through tha lanea? W hjr don t I remember passing through Howedstone Gate te tha open down? let I remember nothing mora. Mind knew anything. Preseutly, when ha counted hla money, ha swora that ha was twenty pounda short Perhana It waa tha agony of mind lea used by thla loae .pet ha pa tha blow rou. I won't have It said la nv htarin P hla head, which caaead tha Par air that I ever gave anybody anything, er oU 1 Thla affliction fell upon that I left mv baa- Win about like a fooL aim a month or ao after the accident Yet when George Sldcote picked ma p 1D,a 7 Pu w alr beside the bag waa gone, and twenty pounda n (aDI UJ proppeu aim up with pll had gone too twenty pounds!" Iowa, and he went abroad no mora. But "Well, but, uncle, coustuer; yon had kta brlB clear aa before, hla will seventy pounda In gold la your purse atrong, and hla purpose aa determined. and only twenty were taken. It It had been a thief be would aurely have taken the whole, and your loose sliver, aa well aa your watch and chain. Why, all thoae were left" CHAPTER VII When Mary had given her nncla hla tea and cleared away tha "things." aha left him to hla papers and hla pipe, took "I don't know. Perhaps ha thought her hat and went Into tha porch, where the bag of papers would aatlafy him. aha stood for a moment dangling her hat How do I know? What made me fall by Ita strings and shading her eyea with off the pony? I never fell off tha pony ber band. oeiore. Then, with a Uttla tn.h Bnnn h.. "Well, uncle, but think; every day yon cngt ,nj , brightening of her eye. aha iruuoie your poor neaj aooui it. ana pltMi through the garden to the back notntng cornea or It; why not try to for- 0f tha house, where she knew George get tha losa? Think what a proaperoua sMote waited to take her to tha choir man you nave been In all your Ufa. lou practice, for 'twaa Saturday evening. anouid be thinking of what you have, when Mary came through the garden not what you have lost" be took both her handa In hla, bent over Uo on; go on. Eaay for a girl Ike her and kissed her grsvely oa the fore- you to talk. There'e the difference head, aa If to aMl hr nor. foe his with a woman that ahe only enjoye th own. There waa little of the aweet love spending; while tba man he heaved a language between these two; they be deep algh. and did not complete tha aeo- loneed to each other; thav were ao well tence, "Oh! Mary" he reached out his tMured of the fact that there was no long oony nngers and made aa if be were raking In the gold "to think only to think! of the pleasure I have had la making the money! It waa little by lit tie, not all at once. No. no; I aaw my way, and I waited. I laid my plana, aftd I had patience. Be aura that not a field have I got but I worked and planned for It The world la full of foole; weak I told yon the other day, my dear." mcu mil uiTt no ouaineaa wun prop- "What did he savl" erty; men without grip, men who Just "Ha aal.i th.t u.. i k.fnMt,.n,t hold on till somebody cornea and gtvea He had calculated It all out on paper. ui .uufi uu. xour cousin uina was i and ha waa K. ..i.l th.t th a need to renew their vowa. "George!" aaid Mary, aoftly. "Mary!" George whispered. They aat down together on a wagon shaft, side by side. I aaw him thia rooming." ha said, slowly Mary knew very well who waa meant by "him" "and I told him what auch a fool, Mary.' CHAPTER VL Mary aaid nothing. Uer cousin David waa doubtlesa a great foeL but people said unkind thinga about ber uncle'a conduct toward him. "If I bad not secured his property, some one else wonld. It Is still In tha family, which ought to be a great oom- i'jn io mm, wnerever he baa gone. George Sidcote la another well, he lan't exactly a fjl, like David; but he doesn't get on he doesn't get on, I fear very much " Uncle, spare him!" uecause he wanta to marry yon. child? Ia that a reaaon for interfering with the course of business? When the pear ia ripe, It will drop! if not Into my told me nothing of thla," mourn, into soma other mans. Uuaineee It w not kely st ha would tell before love, Mary." ,n It. i ... in If I could give my fortune, ho would hia Hr . mnA ,. ..bt m. if w. un, uui oi nis UiraCUJtleS. ' w.. anvthlna- mn that f mUhmA tn aa iour fortune, Mary? Where la It? Well. Mary. I waa roused a bit br this, What fortune? You hare none nnless you marry with my consent Your for tune? hy, it depends. on me whether you erer get It I don't aay that I ahall nerer consent Show me the right mao not a spendthrift Mary." "George is no apendthrift" "Nor a man In debt" "If George la. in debt It Is not his fault" "A substantial man, and season would be the last 'Very well, he said, 'the law provides a remedy when the interest or the principal cannot be repaid. Of course,' he added, '1 am not going to lose my moltey.' This Is what he aaid first. Mary." Oh! and what did ha aay next?" I told him that If he would giro hla consent your fortune would nearly pay off the mortgage." What did he aay then?" Well, Mary, then we had a Uttla row not much. He aaid that It waa clear I only wanted your money, and ha should nerer give hla consent I aaid that It waa clear be meant to make any excuse to refuse his consent. In order to keep your money In hia own handa.' I am sorry, George," said Mary. "Ha TWO NEW CANADIAN PROVINCES With Hkatrhrwaa and Albert the IiotulnloM Will Have Mate "oUiee." Tha word province In Canada liaa tha aaiua slgutflcanca as tha word Stata lu our couutry. Wbru we say, therefor, that tha iHimlntoa has ur ganlied aul Is about to taka lu two new provluccs It means that tha seven States ara about to be Increased to nlue. Tba seven provlucv-e ara (Juo tna, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Print lid- ward Island, New Brunswick, Maulto- ba and British Columbia. Tba two new provinces ara Alberta and Sas katchewan, Tha lulortor department at Ottawa bat issued a map showing the bounds rlca of these two tnornioua new provinces, and the map printed hero has btu made from It It Is thirty-right years stnea the Do minion of Canada was formed by the confederation of tha provinces then ex isting. That was the birth of Canada s a nation. Two years later the Brit ish Parliament rcd the ltupert'a land act, which provided for the ac quisition by the Dominion of the vast prairies of tha West, which were call ed the Northwest Territories. It had already been discovered that wheat waa a wonderful crop In the southeast part of thla region, and ao many set tlers flocked Into the little corner rail ed Manitoba that In 1870 this territory was admitted Into the roufederatton aa a province. As a State of the Do minion, Manitoba Is Just one year older than British Columbia. But none of the other four big ter ritories has ever had a government of Its own, AsHlnlbolrt, Alberta. Snekatche- an. and Athabasca were simply lump- wan, and Athabasca were simply lumped together as the Northwest Ter ritories. They had a common capital at Begins, Aaalnlbola, and have al ways been ruled, under the Dominion Parliament, by a Lieutenant Governor and an Executive Council. Out of these four territories the two new States have been formed and the vide that each shall be represented In the Senate of Canada by four mem bers and lu the House of Cuumi'ina by five members, the number lu the lower house belug reudjusled from time t time according to population. Each ahall have a Lieutenant Governor and a legislative Assembly, to I com posed at tha outset of twenty-five members. The government of Canada Is to pay to each province the sum of S.V),(X0 a year for the aupport of Us government and legislature. The Dominion lands will continue to be vested In tho crown, but the Canadian government will compensate the provinces for them by a series of annual payments. The present estimated value of the public lands Is l V) au acre. The map shows that the two pror. Inees take In all the territory of tha four territories excepting a little of the raatern parts of Athabasca and Sas katchewan. The time will probably come when It will be deemed beat to divide thaao provinces again Into smaller ones. Each of them Is about four times as large as New York State, and their total territory la about as large as Central Europe. This Is a great region, which, with Manitoba, Is estimated by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture to be destined within ten years to produce annuslly ft.Vi.OOO.non bushels of wheat SOO.OtiO,. ()00 bushels of oats, and 60.000,000 bushels ef bsrley, and this without rrtipplng more than about one-third of the tillable area. The two provinces divide the vsst area nearly equally. Begins will be the capital of Saskatchewan; the capi tal of Alberta will be temporarily at Edmonton until the legislature of that province decide npon Its permanent situation. Washington Post Mttle l.Mt'e I'laln Dree. Both of Die beat known American dachesaes ara becoming Increasingly economical la the selection of their CANADA'S TWO NEW PK0VINCE8. In the map the two new provinces are shown by the btsrk lines; the dotted lines Indicate the terrttortra out of which thry are forcurd. one ho and I reminded him that. If you did not receive your aunt's fortune, David would be entitled to the money. Well, ha waa not the least put out Ha only laughed hla laugh la the sort that makes other people cry and aaid that you were a good girl, but silly, like most girls, and If you chose to throw away your fortune he waa aorry for you, but he could not pre vent It Well, Mary, I came away. Ho that la done with, and this la the last knows the worth of money; bring that year there will be one of the old stock in man along, and we will see. If not the old place." well, Mary, I sm getting on for seventy. and I can't last forever, and perbapa perhaps, I say I shall leave you my money when I die. You can wait till then. Six thousand pounda la a tremen dous big lump to part with, when a man a not obliged to part with It And I am not obliged to give my consent No. no: and after I've lost three thousand three thousand! Besides, 'your comfortable "Courage, George," aha aaid; "ws will do something; we will go somewhere somehow we will live and prosper yet." " 'Somewhere!' " he echoed, "and somehow!' Well, I have a pair of hands and a pair of broad shoulders yes. But you, Mary, and my mother?" "Courage," abe aaid again, "have faith, George. Even If we have to go away, we ahall be together. I was reading wh X T .W'Dt t0, m,arr, for7 ywterday a atory about settlers In Can nate the good of marrying? Better .a. i, v.a i ..,.,. rr,. ... There was the Northwest Territories will now disap pear from the maps. The fact Is that territorial govern ment for them is no longer sultablo, becauae their Interests are becoming large and complex. In 1001 their pop ulation was IBS, WO. No census boa been taken since, but the Candlan gov ernment estimates their population to day at about BOO.000. Over three-fifths of the large Immi gration that began to pour Into Can ada in 1001 has settled In three of these territories. The tide of pioneers Is pouring over these wheat and cat tle lands of Canada. It has not yet reached Athabasca, but farmhouses and hnmlcts have been spreading over the three southern ter ritories, end the country will keep fill ing with people for years to come, for the lands still unoccupied are almost boundless. As yet, the newcomers have hardly more than touched the outskirts of the wheat lands. Manitoba Is only one-fourth as large i ... i "" u'nenn save money i gtre you W00(ien house and the clearing, with the'., tha old territories, of Asslnlbola, nd Alberta, but she 000 acres In wheat Inst territories gnthered n v 1 1 1 1 f lino rn rwi w mtm is.jii i.ii,. i ;:;";. zz:.:: r" :Z"iv torett nd; 1 thought it might . Saskatchewan a too ; . -1 reft" how they worked, this ,md over 2.000, J. t 7 iT'm i 7t Palr 01 tlers, and how tbey gradually " , fhm as If many young neoole had to aa w th- -i-t ' ,i i" year, while tne , - - - i tut on, vieuriiiK mora lauu mm iiicrcaniiiK uuu thplr stork till ttier horn ma rlrh In v. Yes. I know." She laughed thlnkins erTthlnir nxeent mnnn. I thought nf nnr. how much her uncle had given her for selves, George; we shall not want money dress in the last year or two. "Well, un- If we can lire on a farm of our own cle, but if I do marry without your somewhere, and if we can work for our- consent you will bare to give the money selves. You ara so strong snd brave; to my cousin David." . An not mtnd hard work-; and and "Yea, yes; of course. What's tha rood it n hi,, faith nnr fin A u wnmi of telling me that? But David Is dead, If ws must go from here, we will go with no aouow oy mis time, ana then the cheerful hearts, and leave my poor nncle money mast remain with me, of conrae. to hla landa and wealth." cut you won t do that, Mary; you'll lie threw his arm round her neck and never be ao wicked as to do that Be- kissed her again an unuaual demonstra- -'"i vcounu wun tlon from him. ms bars never been made up, and I don't doubt that when we coma to look Into them It will be found that he owes me a great deal still. I wss very soft foolishly soft with David." Mary made no reply. Her nncle had been, Indeed, soft with David; so soft that ha had sold him trp and turned him out, and now possessed his land. (To be continued.) Polite, "Bo yon have Invited Brown to din ner? I am afraid he won't think much of my cooking. "Ob, well, you musn't let that tron hla yon; he la too polite to lay any- Mr. Leighan slghsd tartly, ao doubt thine." Houston Foat wheat crop from only B7B.G07 acres. This acreage In the territories was a mere bagatelle compurcd with their enormous area of fine farm lands. The government, after careful Inves. Mirations, has reached the conclusion that the amount of desirable farm lands still unappropriated In Aaalnlbola Is 19.000,000 acres; In Saskatchewan, 17,000,000, and In Alberta, 10.000.ooo acres. It will take hundreds of thousands of farmers to cut up all this land into homesteads, but the process Is going on. and when these lands are all par celed out settlers will begin to move into Athabasca, whose agricultural ca pabllltles have Just been Investigated In a comparatively worougn mannor, and, It la said, with astonishingly fa yorabla results. Tht bills creating tha province! pro- children's frocks, says the New York Press. Time was when their graces of Manchester and Morllmmugh thought the ehoereat of fabrlca not good enough for their youngsters; when neither thought of paying less than 100 apiece for their Infants' robes and when the rest of tho bnby attire car rlod the total of every days nppnrel to an absurd figure. But the Princess of Wales, noticing a tendency on tha part of wealthy women In Kngland to overdress their young hopefuls, began putting the simplest of clothes on her own children and tho Duchesses of Marlborough and Manchester were not slow to copy ber senalhlo example. Any one seeing the Manchester ami Marlborough Juniors lu their wnr.s nbrond would not dream they were tho children of pnrents with duchies and ducats. Duchess Helena even goes to the extreme of putting her pets, lu ginghams o' mornings, and Duchess Conanelo has been seen looking at or dinary prints in London bazaars. He Fixed Illm. In the course of an open-nlr revival meeting In a Georgia town a man In the audience interrupted the leuder with tho question: "Where would re ligion bo If you took the devil out of It?" The lender looked the mnn over and replied: "Ask the devil yourself. I Judge, from your looks, you're on spenkln' terms with him." Atlanta Constitution. Bared. "So your daughter graduated?" said Duddson. "I suppose she saved tht country on commencement day?" "Yes," answered Mr. Briscoe, "sha saved the country a great deal. Sha was taken 111 suddenly and couldn't read her essay." Detroit Tribune. To tha man working In the sun: The) man lying In the shade Isn't having as good a time as you think ha la.
