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wV log eyes. is Heart's Desire 'I must go away soon," ahe said. MI cannot let George go out Into the world without any one, And then I must leave bun alone." 'Yea; but be will have me," aald Da rid. grimly. ptrraarloaa. iliry vat sflant liar cooeta, worked p by bla wrath, atood before her with purple cheek and flam VS elL I have aald what I came to aay, By SIR WALTER BESANT CHAPTER XXI. "Quick. David, quick!" cried the oM nan, eagerly. "Let ua gtt to. work. Ok, you waate half the moraine: let ua g on. At this rate," he alghed. "we ahall take months before I get back the prop erty." "There will ba no trad a tbia morning, uncle," David replied, standing In tba doorway. It waa a wtk after I bad told Mm tba truth. Ha bad been turning It over in bla mind in tba Interval "Why not? David. If you wera near ly seventy yoa would ba anxloua to get on; yoa would not ahllly-ahally OTr a etngle bit of paper. Let ua get on. Da rid. On, you'ra got all tba power now, and I am in your hands. I won't crum ble, Darid. No, taka your own time, my boy; taka your own time." The poor old man waa etrangely al tered la four or fire week, that be eliould tbua bumble bimaelf before bla nephew. But Darid had all the power ao ' long aa he had any of thoae coupons left. "You little thought when I came here that I waa going to gire yoa ao much trouble, did you. Uncle Daniel? You thought you had the whip hand orer me always, didn't you? But you see, firat the fall from your pony, than the low of your papers, then the atroka, then my coming home and finding thoae papera all part of the Judgment! and now there's more to follow." "What more? Oh, Darid. what more?" the helpless old man only groaned. "To-day, uncle, I hare come to talk about my aunt'a wllL Will Nethercote told me. You did not Yoa thought that aa Boon aa our little business waa finish ed I ahould go away and nerer come back any more. Yoa thought yoa would keep the money, did you? Not ao, ancle; mot eor "I thought you would nerer find it out, Darid," Mr. Leigh an confessed, with somewhat aurpriaing candor. "I aoou found that you knew nothing about it. and that yoa nerer go about and talk; and I was pretty certain that yoa would nerer find out Well, now yoa know, what difference doea it make? Yoa art no nearer the money." "We ahall see. My aunt might Just aa well hare left it to ma aa to yoa. To be aare, I nerer thought she had half ao much. She began with a thousand She most hare pinched and aared. 8he left It to Mary, on the condition of her marrying with your consent; and, if not the money waa to go to me. And if I waa dead, the will aaid nothing. So you thought you could stick to the money, Uncle, you're a foxy one! You ought to be in the Statea, and thirty year a young er. There yoa would find yourself at home, with plenty of opportunity. Well 1 am wiaer now than I waa. And aee now, uncle, I don't mean to go away until this question la settled. What are you going to do?" -Why ahould I tell you?" "Keep it te yourself, then. I will tell you what yeu thought you were going to do.: I're worked It all oat First if you let George and Mary gat married before the law lets you taka Sldcote you will lose Sidcote." lie began, In bla alow way, to tick off hla points upon bla fin gers. "Tkat'a the firat thing. After yoa bare got Sldcote, yoa will be still loath to let the money go, and yoa will keep Mary waiting on. You think that I ahall aoou go. Then you will keep the money aa long as yoa lire. But suppose they were to marry wlthput your consent all the money cornea to me comes to me. That aticks, doesn't it? You can let them marry now and you will lose Sld cote; you can let them marry after you bare got Sidcote; and you will hare to pay up; If you keep on refualng your con sent, you can keep the money aa long aa you like unless they marry without Then you're got to gire it to me. You're bad a taste of me already." lie waited a little. His uncle said nothing, but watched him from under bis long, white eyebrowa not contempt uously, aa on the first Interriew after bia return, but with the reaped due to the atrength of the aituatlon. " ery well, then; yoa would rather gire that money to Mary than to me. But you would like to get Sidcote; you hate the thought of giring It to me, yoa intended to keep it yourself. Yet there la no way out of it if you want Sidcote Perhaps yoa think you would gire R to Mary, after you bare got Sidcote. But auppose she marriea before? Then you would be obliged to gire it all to me. "Go on, Darid; perhaps you are going to propose something. "I hare been thinking things orer, un cle. Yoa are getting old, you may die any day; then Mary would be free. It is true that aha might marry to-morrow in which caae I ahould be entitled to ev erything. But I don't think ahe would be auch a fooL If I were Mary, I ahould wait You are aerenty now, and" you're loat the uae of your legs. You can't laat very long. I ahould wait if I were Mary. Yes; It might be a year or two It couldn t be longer." HI uncle heard without any emotion thla argument In favor of bla approach ing demise country people uae plainness of speech about auch matters but be felt bimaelf very far from dying, aa mas terful men alwaya do np to the very end, "Well, David, auppoaing that what you aay la common sense, what next? If Mary marriea at once ahe la a fool, and then I have yoa to reckon with. There la a good bit outstanding on the old ao- eouat, tad I don't auppose there would be much coming to yoa when compound intereet and ail cornea to be reckoned up." "Aa for your outtaanding accounta, we shall aee when the time cornea. And aa for compound Intereet It will be tor you to pay that on my aunt'a all thou sand pounds." "The Intereet went for the keep of Mary." "I haven't beard that there'a word about that In the will You're bad bar terriers aa housekeeper for fire years, and you're pocketed the Interest Way, I take it that you made & per Cent That'a three hundred a year. There will be a beautiful day of reckoning, uncle. The aale of your coupons la nothing to it" "You were going to make a proposal. Darld r "Buy me off. old man." "Alwaya buy alwaya buy!" "To be sure. You're got to buy your own property back becauae I'to come home. You're got to buy me out on the chaace of the money coming to me, Please yourself. What do you aay to buying me out at thousand?" "O thousand pounds?" "Yes, Uncle Daniel, "a thousand pound. And a rery moderate figure, too. Consider, If they were to get mar ried, you'll make fire thousand by the bargain, not to apeak of the Interest If they don't you'll have the satisfaction of giring your nephew a few thousand pounds back out of the property you're robbed him of." "A thousand pounds! I'll think It orer." CHAPTER XXII Mary went to plead with Darid for her uncle. He waa tn the deserted farm yard of Berry, with Ita tumble-down buildings. He leaned against the gate, thinking alwaya of the fields he had lost, and the way In which they had been taken from bim. Of course bla first thought waa to get out of her way. "Don't run away. Darid." ahe aald; "I came to talk with you. "Well, come through the gate then. Mary. Will yoa talk In the cottage, or will you talk here?" "Let ua at ay outalde here In the shade, Darid. When will yoa ceese to worry your ancle?" "Did he tell yoa that I worry him? Haa be been complaining?" "No. lie eren denies thst yoa bare any share in the new trouble that seems to hare fallen upon bim. But I kno that it la caused by yoa. Alter erery one of your morning visits he is miser able. Every day he growa more nervous and more lrrkable. He sheds teara when he Is alone. I am quite aure that you are the cauae of bia trouble "Well, Mary, perhapa yoa are right I may be the cause of it Perhaps I may be the cause of a good deal more trouble than I have done, "Oh! David, think he la an old man; be ia afflicted with paralysia; yoa are hastening bia end. What good will It do to you if you worry bim into his grave? Will that restore the past? Will that make yon what you used to be?" Nay, that it will not do. But when I Bee him at my mercy, crying for pity, I think of the day when I came to ask him to lend me a poor fifty pounda, with which to try my luck in Canada, and he laughed me In the face. Well, then. Darid, does it do you any good to remember that day? Let the past be dead, David, and lire for the future' You don't know what you are eaylag Mary. What ahould you know about It? You are ouly a girl" he apoke roughly and rudely, bat not unkindly "what do yoa know? Let the paat be dead. Why, all the world la crying becauae the past won t die. I only wish the paat would die." Here, It aeema to me, David hit upon a profound truth; for very nearly all the world not quite it would be, unhappily, far better if the paat would die. "If the paat ahould die, Mary, I should forget that I waa once a aubetan- tlal ma a, who sat respected at the mar ket ordinary, rode my own borse, and farmed my own land. I ahould forget that. I bad to go away from my native place and take ahip with the loweat emi grauta. I ahould forget Mary," be whispered, "I can truat you I bare told no one else I ahould forget that I bad been in prison yes, in prison David!" She ahrank from him, but recovered, and laid ber band softly upon bla. 'ies; in prison. Ana now i am no longer fit to ait and talk with George and you. But I am fit to talk with my uncle, because, bad aa I am, he Is worse." "But if be is, Darid, forgive him." "I win worry him," said Darld, "aa long aa I can. I will nerer apare him. I've got another But never mind. Oh I when yoa are gone, Mary, he ahall have a life that he little dreams of now!" "David! It is terrible. Can nothing move you "Nothing, Mary; not even yoa. And mind yoa, don't try to put yourself be tween him and me, becauae he won't stand it It Isn't me that won't atand It becauso I don't greatly care who knows; but It'a bim. He likes me to come; he watches for me and - waits for me, though be knows that when I am gone he will turn and wriggle In bli chair, and cry and curse. Yet he wants mo back. Say no more about It Mary." It waa Indeed useless to try further Darld, and I hae done no good. It yoa would only forget" 'I cannot forget 8tay, Mary: one tbtug I must any. Remember afterward that I aald It In time. Then, perbapa, you'll think that it It hadn't been for him I might hare been a different man." "What la It David?" "It te this." Hla face aoftened the moment be ceaaed to think upon bla wrongs. It waa but the wreck of face which bad once been handsome and futl of Hope; but It waa belter and healthier to look upon than the face black with rrveuge. "Will tella me that you are going to marry George without your un cle's consent?" 'Yes." 'You know that be must then give me the whole of my aunt'a money?" Tea." 'Very well, Mary. I am fooling him. Nerer mind how. But you ahall not be wrong!. You ahall bare all your for tune. Marry George without any fear. Remember you ahall not be wronged! I am aa bad aa you like, but 1 will not rob you, Mary; I will not rob year CHAPTER XXIII. It waa heard lit tie olDce of the paper which bad secured my service that there waa to be held a special meeting, on an evening early In October, of the Royal Geographical Society, In order to hear a paper read by a German traveler recent ly arrived In Europe, after a lengthened atayln the South Sea Islands. At the hour of eight the chairman en tered with hia captive traveler. The latter, certainly one of the tallest and finest men I bare ever beheld, took bla place In front of bla ma pa, and began, after the usual Introduction, to read hla paper. After thla paper waa read, the usual irrepressible persons got up and began to discuss. At thla point 1 retired to add a few things to my article aud baud it In. I then repaired to the Savage Club, which at 11 o'clock Leglna to be a cheer ful place. Here I fouud, in fact an ani mated circle, and among them my friend of the It G. S., the liaron Serglua von Holsteln. who had been brought by one of the members. It Is alwaya Interesting to meet with men who hare been on desert Islands, or lived among cannibals. It la enough for aome people ouly to gate upon auch a man. For our part, at the Savage, we found the baron not only an interesting person, but also a singularly amusing companion, and brimful of anecdote and atories of all kluds. We talked tilt late. At about three In the morning, when we had gone half round the world with bim, he told ua a rery aingular and aurpriaing atory. He had not been the only European on a certain Island ail toe lime, be earn, For six months or ao be bad a companion In the shape of a poor fellow an Eug llshman who bad been washed ashore upon a piece of timber. The natives were going to spear tbia human Jetaam, when he Interfered and aared bim, and continued to protect bim until be waa able to get bim off the Island In a vessel hJch came' a blackblrdlng. 'Tbia fsl low," aald the baron, "waa the most In tolerable creature In existence. Earlier In hta existence be had committed murder, and during the whole of bis stay on the Island be was suffering agonies of remorse; all day long he wept and groaned, and waa afraid to leare me for fear of being speared. At night he would not sleep at a distance of more than foot or ao from me for fear. And he was alwaya visited erery night by the ghost of the respectable uncle whom be bad slain." "Did you ace the ghost?" "No, nor did I hear Its voice. Yet It spent the best part of the night in abutting the poor man, and be In an aweriiig it with prayers aud protests tion. Aa for revenge, I auppose no oth er murdered man ever took ao much out of his murderer. Well, it waa tedious. At length my Englishman declared that he desired nothing so much aa to got away from the Inland, and give hfmsolf up to Justice. If be could only make his way to Auatralia aud then get a paasage to England, he would give himself up and confess the whole truth. "A lively companion." "Yes. But to look at him yoa would think him a dull, heavy fellow, who seemed to have no spirit for such a do perate deed. Well, I got him away at length, and waa left happy at last and alone. Before he went, however, I wrote down, at hia request a statement of the murder; a confession, In fact which u and I witnessed. I warned bim that ahould make any nse of It that I thought fit Aa yet I have done nothing with It and as I dare say be is dead by this time, I do not see why I should not tear it up, Here It la, however, written In my old note book." (To be continued.) A Gay Deceiver. "George," aald the bride of a week, didn't yoa promise me that you would give ud smoking the day I married you?" "That'a what I did," replied George. "And now," ahe continued, "I find you puffing a cigar, Just as though were not in existence. What explana Hon' have you to off er?" "Well, I kept my promlsa all right," answered the husband.. 4 "I didn't smoke a alngle cigar on our wedding day." . . If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he daci, ltnuat ba I b whtt h gives. South. . il , CT "rT' tld 1 " Br -erf Poets for Wire Fences. There la probably a greater mileage of wire fence- In Texas than any other three States, and Teiae people ought thercforo, to be the best Judges of how to wake theui permanent About "strata posts" a Toxaa stockman lu Farm ami Ranch eaye: Numerous plans hare been given for making secure corner post for wlro fences. I hart tried many plana, and have found every plnn to make a corner post bear the strnln of a long fence to I a failure. The strain con tiuues without Intermission, and final the corner post gives way. With hort fences the difficulty l not so great. I huve built some nutuireti of miles of wire fencing. My plan now Is to use what I rail a strain post Instead of putting the strain on the corner post I put down a good corner post; and at least twenty feef: from this put down another good xt large and deep Into the ground. cotiat PotT -a roaTa for wire rtm tn At the ground. I run wire to tne I top of the atrnln post, and atretcli these wires tight This puts most of the strain on the strain post, and all the strain placed on the corner Mt comes at lu bottom. Agnin, mo atraln post la not put Into the ground straight but leans to the corner. The effect of this Is that the strnln tends to force It deeper Into tho ground. In stead of drawing It out. It will be found caeler to put In a god corner post and two strain posts than to put In one corner po" I" the way often directed. I show the plan In sketch aent herewith. It will be best first to atretch the wires around the atraln post making them secure to It and then to complete the fence by building a abort fenc at the comer. Of course, such care la not needed for ahort lines of fencing. Wsaosi for Fruit Itarrele. Professor Waugh, of Maasnchu aetts, any a tn a report: In handling the fruit In the orchard, between the trees and tin storage-room, or Inter between the storage and the shipping station, some suitable wagon ought to he provided. A stone boat Is some times used and Is not the worst thing that could be found, especially for short hauls and sinnll load. It I better, however, to have one of Mi low-down vragons made eecnll.r for handling fruit In the Illustration one la shown aa It was actually ruiule "p at home. Some sills were hunj by waooi roa ha5di.iko.buit. strap Irona from the front and r?nr axles of a common wagon frame, and on these some boards were laid, milk ing a floor for carrying tho barrels. Handling barrels of apples In and out of the common high wagon la hard and expensive labor, and It la npt to damage the fruit. The Dairy Darn, ! The dairy barn, ns built la the near future, may not have to much loft room, but Instead a number of struc tures In the form of silos, but not air tight or ao solid Into those several months' or the entire winter's supply of roughage may be cut Inland Farmer. "Wortatnc" the Peach Tress, "Worming" the trees to destroy the peach borer ia In the routine of the peach grower, and the present la the teaaon for It, provided precautions have not yet been taken earlier to make It unnecessary. . But with erery precaution examination la needed to find out If the vigilance waa to no pur poae. .Whether the one or the other, npw la the season for It . The external evidence of the presence of the peach borer la the gum exuded by the tree and the) sawdust i leicree.lon the Corn Crop. r. O. Holden, Professor of Agricul ture at the) Illinois Agricultural Col- lego at Champlatn. ta a man whose name and memory should be much re leoted, not only by farmers, but by all who art consumers of American grown corn. When a college student ha waa teaching school In Michigan. He asked hla students to each bring him ao ear of corn from the crib at home. Tbey did ao, and he allowed them the different grades, from very good to very poor. Then he aked each one to plant three seeds from the beat ear In a bog, and water It The result waa an excellent crop of large. well filled ears. The pnrcnta became) Interested, and soon began to plant only the lest corn for seed, much to the advantage of their crop. After ho went to Illinois, he Iwgnn to talk tho benefits of selected corn for seed to tho farmers, and soon not only wem roost of them converted to his Ideas, but the farmers of Iowa and Mlnurl were looking fur Mter seed. Later on he became director of a farm near nioomlnglon, where they usually planted twenty thousand acres r corn, with an average yield up to that time of forty to fifty bushel per acre. The first year lie Increased tho yield by ten thousand bushels almve the best previous season, On some acres he brought the product up to seventy bushels per acre. . Thla year he bad a special train from which to talk about corn to the formers of lown, and If we hare thla year tho largest crop of corn ever grown In the United States, Professor Holden 1 entitled to the credit of having add ed million of those bushel to the crop by his advocacy of tho doctrine of uilng only the lcst seed. Hnme-Msde Corn Cutter. This Idea of a corn cutter comes from Australia where the machine Is iiMcd In harvesting, sugar cane and sorghum, as well ns corn. The Imple ment has been tried by a uuuiher of farmers In this country and pro nounced a success. It I made by bolting the blade of a strong heavy myths to a sledge or sled, as shown la the Illustration. A rod of wrought Iron about one Inch In diameter la HOMC-MADK CO H.N Ct'TTKR. bent to fcrmer follower, aa shown. One of tneso, machines Is expected to cut about 2Vt acres per day. After cutting, the crop Is less easily handled than when cut by hand, but the total saving In labor la considerable. Wire Chicken-Catcher. A ciiitaen catcikcr , la needed on many farm which can be made from No. 8 wire. Five feet of wire will be long enough. Rend a loop at one end for. a handle, with a .shepherd's crook at the other end, bending tho crook email enough, of course, to hook n round the leg of a chicken while It la eating. If the hook la made the lea it bit flaring, but 'closed up AlMiut a half Inch, It will hold the chicken securely by tho foot. This Is tho best way to catch a chicken when wanted on short notice, Muny farmers train a dog to catch chickens, hut this councs a com motion among the fowls and Is on way to make them .wild. Uneasy, frightened fowls are uop thrifty, Ilka quiet, contented birds. rulverlxlns: the Boll. Considering the pulverizing of the clods that turn up In the most heavy land after plowing, prevention Is tho best method. If tint field, je Wl. drained and not plowed when wet there may be no clod. It will, how ever, take two or three sen son to thor oughly fine tho soil that has. leen In jured by previous mlHinanngement Fall or winter plowing, turning tho land in ridges and leaving It ns rough ns possible, so as to expone.the moist surface to the f rout, will .do the work, but unions there are underdralns to carry off the water the' plowing may do as much harm aa good. Larse Requirements of Celery. Celery grows beat in a soil of high humus content, la a great user of wa ter and a large consumer of plant food. Quality Buffers when there la a lack of ample food and dvlnk, the crlap and aweet qualities giving way to atrlngl neai and bltternesa. Half the secret of keeping a pleas ure garden In proper condition con sists in duly regarding the little thlnga that ought to be done and doing all work at the tight time, ' " mmm sew tr
