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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.