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