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-a si yOLAMDE l BY WILLIAM BLACK CHAPTER XXlV.-ConUuU And at but Yotand grew to fear th worst. On evening she had sent (or hir father, and she went downstair sod found him la th sitting room. "Yolande, you ar a white at a I'joat." "Papa, she said, keeping a tight f uard over herself, l want you to come up stairs with ma. I hart told niy mother you were corning. She will see you; she is grateful to you for the kind messages 1 have taken to her. I 1 hare not ask J the doctors but I wish you to come with me. Do not speak tocher It Is only to see you that she wants." He followed her up the stsir; but be entered first Into th room, and he went OTer to the bedside and took his wife's hand, without a word. The mem ories of a lifetime were before him as he regarded the emaciated cheek, and the strangely large ami brilliant eyes; but all the bitterness was over and cone now. "t'eorge. said she. "I wish to make sure you hare forgiven me, and to say good-by. Yon hsre been mother as weil as father to Yolaude she loves you You you will take car of her." She closed her eyes, as if the effort to speak hsd overcome her; but he still held his wife's hand in his; snd perhaps he wss thinking of what had been, and of what far otherwise might hart been. CHAPTER XXV. Now, h is not possible to wind up thi history In the approved fashion, becaus the events chronicled in it are of some what recent occurrence indeed, at the present writing the Wlnterbournes and John Shortlands are still looking for- : -IS - 7 . DUNCAN WILL PLAY "MELVILLE'S WELCOME HOME. ward to their flight to Allt-nam-ba, when Parliament has ceased talking for the year. But at least the story may be brought as far n possible "up to date." And first, as rejj.ird the Master of Lynn. He is in a hotel in Princes street, Edin burgh, in a sitting room on the first floor, lying extended on a sofa, and smoking a big cigar, while a cup of coffee that had been brought him by affectionate hands stood on a small table just be side him. And Shena Van, having in vain cudgeled her brains for fitting terms of explanation and apology, which she wished to send to her brother, the professor, had risen from the writing desk and gone to the window; and was now standing there contemplating the wonderful panorama without the Scott monument, touched with the moonlight, the deep shadows in the valley, the ranges of red windows in the tall houses beyond, and the giant bulk of the Castle Hill reaching away up into the clear skies. 'Shena," aaya he, "what o'clock Is It?" "A quarter past nine," she answers, "Capital!" he says, with a kind of sar donic laugh. "Excellent! A quarter past nine. Hon t you feel a slight ribra tion. Sheua, ns if the earth were going to blow up? I wonder you don't tremble to th ink of the explosion!" "Oh, yes, there will be plenty of noise," aays Shena Van, contentedly. "And what a stroke of luck to have the Grahams at Lynn! liagguig the whole covey with one cartridge? It will soon be twenty past. I can see the whole thing. They haven't left the din ing room yet; his lordship must always open the newspapers himself; and the women-folk keep on, to hear whether . Queen Anne has come alive or not. Twenty past, isn't it? 'Hang that fel low, Lammer!' his lordship growls. 'He's always late. I'll send him about his business tbat'a what it'll come to.' Then Polly thinks she'll run upstairs for a minute to see that the blessed baby is all right; and we'll say she's at the door when they hear wheels outside, and so aba stands and waits for the letters and papers. All right; don't be in a hurry, Polly; you'll get something, to Ulk about t presently." II raised himself and sat up on ths sofa, ao as to get a gtlmpss of the clock opposite; and Shna Van whose proper title by this time was Janet I .el le es me and stood by him, aud put her hsul on his shoulder. "Will they b very angry, Archie?" aha saya, "My dear girl," aald he. -I don't care the fifteenth part of a bras farthing which of them, or whether any one of them. Is on our side. Not a bit. It's done. Indeed, I hope they'll howl and squawk to their hearts' content. 1 should bs sorry if they didn't." "Hut you know, Archie." said Shen Van who had her own little shsre of worldly wisdom "If you don't get rec onciled to your friends, people will say that you only got married out of spite." "Well, let them." safl he cheerfully. "You and 1 know better, Sheua what matters it what they say? 1 kuow what Jack Melville will say. They won't get much comfort out of him. 'No one has got two lives; why shouldn't he marry the girl he's fond of?' that's about all they'll get out of him." And so at this point we may bid good by to these adventurers and come along to another couple who, a few weeks later, were walking one evening ou the terrace of the Home of Common. It was a dusky and misty night, though it was mild for that time of year: the heav ens were overclouded; the lights on West minster Bridge did little to dispel th pervading gloom, though the quivering golden reflections on the black river look ed picturesque enough; aud In this dcus obscurity such memlier and their friend as had come out from the heated atmos- phere of the House to hare a chat on the terrace were only indistinguishable figures who could not easily be recog nized. They, for the most part, were seated on oue or other of the benches. standing about, or idly leaning against the parapet; but these two kept walking up and down in front of the vast ami shadowy building and the gloomy win dows, and they were arm-in-arm. "A generation hence," said one of them, looking at the murky scene all around them, "Londoners won't believe that their city could have ever been as black a pit as this is." "But this generation will see the change, will it not?" said his companion, whose voice had just a trace of a foreign accent In it. "You are going to make the transformation, are you not'" "I" said he, laughing. "I don't kuow how many are all trying at it; and who ever succeeds In getting what Is really wanted will be a wonder worker, I can tell you. What'a more, he will be a very rich man. You don't seem to think about that, Yolande." "Aboot what, then?" "Why, that you are going to marry a very poor man." "No, I do not care at all," she said. "That is because you don't under stand what it means," said he, in a kind ly way, "You have had no possibility of knowing. You can t have any know! edge of what it is to have a .limited in come to have to watch small economics, aud the like." "Ah, Indeed, then!" said she. "And my papa always angry with me for my economies, and the care and the thrift that the ladies at the Chateau exercised always! 'Miser,' he says to me 'miser that you are" Oh, I am not afraid of being poor. At this moment John 8liort lands mad'.' his appearance. "Look here, Yolande," he said. "I suppose you don't want to bear any more of tha debater "No, no," she said, quickly. "It is stupid stupid. Why do they not say what they mean at once not stumbling here, stumbling there, and all the others talking among themselves, and as If tv erybody were going a sleep r f. assure you," h said. 'However, your! father thinks It'a no ne your waiting ny longer. He's determined to wait until the division Is taken: and no on knows now when It Will Im, He says you'd better go back to your hotel I auppone Mr. Melville will see you so fsr. Well." said he, addressing Jack Mel ville, "what do you think of the diuuer Wluterbourue got for you?" "I wssut thiuklnt of it much." Jsck Melville said. "I was more Interested la tha members. I haven't beeu uesr tha House of Commons since I used to rum up from Oxford for the boat race," "How'a tha company going?" "Pretty well, I think; but of course 've nothing to do with that. 1 have no capital to inve.t." Except brains; and sometime that's as good aa bank notes. Well." said Short la mK probably remembering an adage about the proper uumW for em lny, "I'll bid ye g.od-nlirht. for I'm going back to the mangle t may take turn at It myself." So Jack Melville and Yolande together set out to find their way through th cor ridor or th Hous out Into th night world f Ixsndon, and when they wer In Patac yard Yolande said she would just aa soon walk up to th hotel wher her father and herself wer starin-. for It was no further away than Albemarls atreet. "iid you hear what Mr. Shortlamls said?" she aked. brlvlitlv. "l'erhaos. after all, then, there Is to be no ro mance? I am not to be like the heroine of a book, who is approved because shs marries a mmr mnii. I am not to tunk any such noble sacrifice-.' "iKm't be too sure, Yolande." said h. good-naturedly. "Companies are kittle cattle to deal with; snl an Inventor's nuaineis is still more uncertain. Ther is a chance, as I say; but it Is only a chance. However. If that fall, there will be something else. I am iiot afraid." And I am I afrnld?" she said, liartit- ly. "No! llccsiise I kuow more than you. And perhaps I should not speak; for It is a secret mi, no. it is not a se cret, for you have guessed It do you not know that you have Mouagleu?" He glanced at her to see whether she was merely making fun: but h ssw in her eyes that she was making an actual, if not amused. Inquiry. "Well, Yolande." said be. "of course I know of Mr. HHll'a fantasy: but I lon't choose to Imild my calculations for the future ou a fantasy." , She has bought Monsglcu," Yolsnde said, without looking ui. Very well. I thought she would do thst if she heard it was lit the market. ery well, why shouldn't she go there snd send for her relatives. If she has any and be a grand lady there? I have met more tlmn one graud l.idr, who hadu't half her ii.ttnr.il crar of man ner, nor half Iter kindliness of In-art." It Is very sad then." suid Yolnnle, who wss afraid to drive lilin info a more leclded aud definite opposition. "Her is poor woman who has the one imble ideal the dream of her life It has beeu her hope aud her pleasure for many and many a year; and when It comes near fo completion, no, there is an obstacle, and the last obstacle that one could have im agined. Ah, the ingratitude of it! It has been her romance, it has beeu th charm of her life. She has no husband. no children. She has, I think, not any relation left. And because you are proud you do not care that you disap point her of the one hope of her life that you break her heart?" "Ah, Yolande." said be, with a smile, "Mrs. I'.ell has got hold of you with hv old Scotch songs she has been walking you through fuiryland, and your reason has got perverted. What do you think people would ssy If I were to tske away this poor woman's money from her rela tivesor from her friends and. acquaint ances, tr she lias no relatives; It Is too absurd. If I were the promoter of a swindling company, now, I could sharp it out of her that way; that would be all right, and I should remain au hon ored member of society; but this won't do this won't do at all. You may be as dishonest as you like, and so long as you don't give the law a grip ou you, ami so long as you keep rich enough, yon can have plenty of public respect; but you can't afford to become ridiculous. No, no, Yolande; If Mrs. Bell has bought Monaglen, let her keep it. I hope shs will install herself there, and play Lady Bountiful she can do that naturally enough; and when she has bad her will of It, then, if she likes to leave It to me at her death, I shall be her obliged and humble serrant. But In the meantime, my dearest Yolsnde, you ami I liar got to face the world together. When they got to the hotel they paus ed outride the glass door to say good- by. . "flood night, dearest Yolande." "(lood-night, dear Jack." And then she looked up at this broad- shouldered, pale, dark man, and there was a curious smile In her beautiful, sweet and serious face. "Is it true," she asked, "that a woman always has her own way?" "They say so, at all events," was the answer. . "And If two women have the same wish and the sume hope and only one mnn'to say no, then it is still nioro likely he will be defeated V "I shouldn't any he hod much chance myself," Jack Melville said. "But what's your conundrum, now, sweetheart?" "Then I foresee something," she said. "Yes, I see that we shall have to ask Mr. Iycslie to be very kind, and to lend us Duncan Macdonold for an evening. Oh, not so very far away not so far away as you imagine; because, you know, when we have all gone up to Monaglen House, and we are all Inside, perhaps seated In the dining room,, having a-little chat together then what will you aay if all at once you heard the pipea out side, and what do you think Duncan will play, on such an evening as that, If' not Melville's Welcome Home?" (Tha end.) "It's lively enough sometimes, I can yvA'i ' iJ - Fr l!!tr!lrMlnn He- Soma horaea hav the bad bablt of pulling at their baltcra when iistenml at the manger and always breaking them. While It Is generally considered that th horse gets along much, better In th box atall where he Is not fasten hI M all It Is not always possible to arrange such a plan, so that some thing must be done to break the hal ter breaking habit. The following plan is aduilttnl to work nicely and to break any horse of the habit after a few weeks' trial. Take a strong rope long enough for the purpose ami, after I'HKVrms IU1.TI R llHKAKISO. doubling it, puss nn end encli side of the horse alsiut midway between the front and lilml legs, l'nss the ends through a ring, then through the liolo lu the mntigcr and then tie the ends In the liultcr ring. When the Imrso pulls back the rope tightens around the body and pulls liltu bark, so that after a few trials he gives up the plan. To prevent the rpe from tnuklng ttio back of the luuso sore, make a soft pad of several thlcknesso of now un llen(lnil muslin, coVcriil on flic out side with n piece of denim or any equally strong, clcttn iniitrrlul. Make small straps'' of soino of tbe material and sew to the pml, the rope pnsslnc underneath these loops. The Illustra tion shows the ien plainly, I'lgurt 1 Indicating the shaping of the pad nt the center sen in. Indianapolis News. Practical Land t.evtr. Fig. 1, pnisjiectlTe sketch; Fig. 2. side view; leveler. E, extends buck di rectly over right side of boat, C; short end of Iron, II. bolts to rear side of B, In middle, nnd long end Is hinged by bolt to top end of (L which la bolt ed on top of runner with "upturned end flush with Inner aide of rnnncr. Op erator stands on tiont, C, ami by nslng lever, K, raises or lowers semper. B, which Is hinged on runners by bolts between C, (i find H. II. Boat. C, Is hinged to back of scraper with bottom 2 Inches above lower edge of semper. Iron, D, Is 1 14-Inch wagon tire and has half twist at x, x. Chuncey Avery, In Ohio Farmer. The Urnsnsy Potato. Fresh Investigation .regarding tlio new Uruguay imtuto Indicates that the plant will probably not prove of much practical value where the common po tato or the sweet potato can be grown with success. It Is a tropical plant which will not thrive In cool weather, and even where It has succeeded it Is of such a weedy character that It Is liable to become a nuisance when It escupes from cultivation. Those who are experimenting with the new potato express some hopes thut It may yet be Improved to such an extent that Its vigorous productive character may bring It Into use to n limited extent. At present it Is not recommended for commercial uses. Spreading Manor. ' Calculate the amount of mannure on hand and estimate the expected amount next spring. Then measure off or estimate the area of land that the manure will probably cover. ' Do hot waste the manure by spreading It over too much space. A small plot that Is well manured will give larger propor tionate crops, and at a lower cost, than a large field that Is manured insuffi ciently. , Homeopathic doses of manure do not give good results, Concentrate your manure on the least space possi ble for a fair return; . .' (mIoD I.ASD lEVKLKR. I T.gt la Cos ea s re. A poultry farm, whether ' ducks. geese, chickens or turkeys le the sd. ctalty, accumulates a large and malo dorous surplus of eggs that refused to develop tuto fowl The awag pet Siin wmil.1 ttiittnsii thst If ther la an. tbtna on earth that la utterly wsefh. - - less It la a stale egg. Millions or stale eggs are used every year In preparing leather dressing for gloves and book binding an Industry that Is largely carried on tn the foreign tenement houses of New York aud other large cities. They are also used la manu facturing dlainfectanta and In the preparation of sboeblacklng, and even the at;-! la are made Into fertilisers. The eggs that have not yet lost their virtue also have other uses besides the more common ones for culinary pur Mises. It la estimated that fully M. OOO.(KK) doaen are used by wine cUrl fiers, dye manufacturers, and In the preparation of photographers' dry plates. Exchange. Roe.4 llHllitlnir. The importance of the new office of public rosda, which Is the official desig nation of the division of the bureau of agriculture devoted to the study of roads snd road building materials, has Imcii recog!;ed in a larger flnsncUl appropriation than was accorded the s"d office of public mad Inquiries. Toe scope of the new division hna been ma terially enlarged, now taking cogni sance of the chemical slid physical character of rond materials, work which waa formerly done, where mmi slble, by the bureau of chemistry. Oue of the features of the new office, aside from Ita enlargement and the authority which bus been given It to confer with prospective builders nnd offer them ex pert advice, Is the post-graduate course In highway engineering, which has just been lunguratcd, with a view of giving young civil engineers theoreti cal aud practical training In rond build ing. Itomemait Wire Htretrher. Take round stick 2 feet long and '.Hi or 3 Inches In diameter. Make opening In end 0 Inches lung and Inrgs WIRE STRKTl IIKII. enough to allow wire to slip In. Put handle on the other end nnd then with stick nt right tingles to Mt and wire next to nst twist ns tight us wn tiled. Any wire can be broken with this de vice and you don't have to hnvo any thing to fasten stretcher to. Ex change. How to Mate a liar Hwsep. A. E. Shrelller. of South Dakota, snya: "The following Is what 1 be lieve to be a cheap and practical way to make a bucker, or tiny sweep. All the materials required for this purpose are two lxS's, 14 feet long; one 2x12, 14 feet long; three 2x4's, IS feet long; one 2x4, 12 feet long, and .10 feet of Mnch'rope. Cut the IS foot 2x4 Into pieces I) feet long and mlnt them at both ends with a sharp band ax. Next spike these 1) foot pieces on the 2x12 plunk, 4ty feet from each end, placing the 2x4's 2 feet and 4 Inches apart. Cut the 12-foot 2x4 Into four equal pieces, place upright ou the edge of the 2x12, .1 feet 8 Inches apart, and brace t..ein solid by nulling the IxH on the stakes, Cut rope to 1.i feet length' and put one on euch end of the 2x12 nnd you have a reversible bucker, or sweep-rake, bet ter than you can buy for twice the cost." Preventing Scab and Rust, The results of various methods of treatment to prevent apple scab are given In bulletin No. 8H of the Ne braska Experiment Station. Re moving cedar, trees from the vicinity of the orchard nnd destroying the ce dar apples Is the customary way to control tho cedar rust, which Is closely related to applescab. Thorough spray ing with Bordeaux Is effectual against both seal) nnd rust, nnd the spruy should be applied In n line mist nnd with considerable force. All parts of the tree must be wet thoroughly In order to prevent the runt securing a start . . topped the Crowing, Those who live in crowded neighbor hoods in town or city are often debar red from keeping chickens because of complaints of neighbors of the early morning crowing of the cocks. The authorities lu an English town have devised a remedy for this trouble, con sisting of placing the perch where the cock roosts ao high that when ha stands up to crow he knocks his head against the roof and desists. - It Is claimed that a swinging board oyer his head auswers the same purpose. in
