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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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