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i A 'Bead. Past jg . By MRS. lOYCTT CAMERON CHAPTER XTL Felicia, when ehe drove away from Mrs. Talbot's door, had been quit cer tain that, la spit of bar warning, Roy would yield to the temptation of going to call upon Mr. Desmond. Felicia bad learned a food many lea eona of Ufa alnce the month of Septem ber, when aha and Mr. Talbot had kill ed time and pursued health together at tha Yorkshire aeaslde village. She had fctna through ber experience and they ad not been pleasant onea to undergo, bat, at tha same time, they had been beneficial to her, In that aha had by now completely got over bar fancy for tha 'wicked man" with whom aha had Im agined herself to be deeply In lore. Lord Augustus Wray bad not coma well out of his Ioto, affair with MUa Grantley. After an taOulta amount of trouble, Felicia had persuaded her fath er .to fire a reluctant consent to her en gagement with thia penniless scion of a needy aristocratic house. Ha had con- seated provisionally, that la to aay, It tha young people would wait two years, and were in the same mind at tha and of that period of probation, then, Mr. Gregory Grantley agreed that he would giro them hi blessing, with aomethlng aubstantial added thereto. Felicia waa orerjoyad; thia concession upon her father'a part aeeiued to her to aurpass her wildest hopes. Two years to a young and enthu eiastic girl who loves aeema but a small thing to secure tha whole happiness of her future life. She embraced her fath er joyfully, and waa overwhelmed with gratitude at his goodness." Not so Lord Gus. The state of his finances was auch that ha could In no way afford to wait two yeara for tha realization of his dreams. Ilia debts pressed upon him dally; duns pestered and pursued him from morning till night he bad raised tha last shilling ho could realize; be waa, to use his own worda, ' stone broke. To request sucn a one to wait for two years for the fortune which was to coma to him with tha lady of his affections was like asking a start Ing man to do without food for another month, and promising htm a good dinner at the end of it. Lord Gus kissed his Intended very af fectionately, wruuk his future father-in-law's hand, and professed himself deeply impressed with his kindness. Then, hav Ing got in the good city of Bath a aecond atring to his bow, he put himself into a train and betook himself to that ancient town. "I should hare preferred Felicia, of coarse," said Lord Gus,' to himself, "h U young and she suits me; but I can't wait two years, not two months in fact, for any woman; and there la al ways Mra. Cogger I don't much like the idea but two yeara! Oh, no, couldn't do it at any price not good enough T So, a week later, Felicia received a letter from her lover, with the Bath postmark upon it He waa afraid she would think him a great brute, he wrote, but then, he had never been good enough for; ahe waa sure to meet with aome one far more worthy. Aa for himself he had thought it wisest and best to offer his hand to a lady whom he had known for many years, and who waa good enough to take him as he waa in all hia unworthiness. Mrs. Cogger had consent ed to become his wife, and they were to be united early in the following month. He ended by piously praying that heaven would watch over hia deareat Felicia, and make op to her for all the sorrow he felt constrained to bring upon her. That waa Felicia'a lesson. She suf fered very keenly at first, but aha got over it, being chiefly assisted by the facta concerning her rival that" cam to bar eara. Mra. Cogger waa 60; In stat ure aha waa short and inelegant; in fea ture, plain and uninteresting; her man ners were said to b vulgar, and her tem per violent and excessively jealoua. Mra. Cogger, however, waa undoubtedly rich; aha waa tha widoW of a Bristol merchant who had left to her an income of alx thousand a year. Having purchased Lord Gus, she proceeded to pay ber money down for the doubtful acquisition in a truly liberal fashion. She paid his debts, and ahe made handsome settle ments npon him, so that he derived some substantial consolations from bis mar riags in exchange for the lack of those personal charms that, a man ia apt to think desirable in the wife of hla bosom. Perhaps the one soft spot In her heart waa tha feeling that ahe had for Roy Roy, who had never wished to marry her, and whose heart was still constant to tha love of his boyhood. She felt that ahe would do a good deal to sar him from pain, and yet ahe feared that a certain amount of Buffering must inevlt ably be in store for him. "Perhaps it will be better that he should 'see her and realize that aha haa forgotten him and ia happy In her new life: it may be the best cure for blm in tha end," ahe aaid to herself, and at this moment her brougham drew up at the door of her father'a club In Pall. Mall Aa it did ao a gentleman was coming slowly down the steps of the club. He glanced at the lady in the brougham, once quite idly, and then again more at tentively. Felicia, too, looked keenly at him. Where had she seen that face with the pleasant gray eyea and the refined, regular featurea? Suddenly there came back to her mind the breezy hill slopes above Keppington Hall, the flickering sunshine throngh the branches of the beech trees, the blue distance in the val lav below, and tb great atone house sleeping In It solitude near by; and then th atranger who cam strolling up tha hill to addreea them, and whose persist ent attention to Gertrude had somewhat mortified and annoyed her. She half put out her hand and smiled. The gentleman stopped at once and took off hla hat "8urely I cant be mistaken; It ia Mr. Ralkes, la It not?" Edgar Raike loked down at her oddly for a moment; he drew himself a little away from th brougham door. She ask ed him whether he had been at Kepping ton lately. Oh. ye. I am alwaya there, and then he looked away for a minute, and added rather quickly, "I am a 'poor re lation of Brian Desmond's, Miss Grant- ley, an out-at-elbows younger aon of a cousin of hla mother's, whom he haa taken pity on. I am hla bailiff or agent. or whatever you choose to call It at Kep- plngtou. I am only In town now to see him on business. I suppose 1 ought to have told you that before but, one has a rt or raise ana me. "I don't see anything In It to be ashamed of." aaid Felicia heartily. "A man need never mind working for hla living If It la In an honest way," and she felt she liked him all the better for his little confession. "I don't know much about work," he answered, with a smile. "I am afraid I am rather laiy up there there Isn't much to do. you know. It's a very Idle Ufa, I fear." "Still, whatever there Is to be done, I am qnlta aura that yon do it Mr. Ratkea. Ah! here la mv father. Papa, thia la Mr. Ralkea, a gentleman I met In York ahlre last summer." "Oh! Ah! Well, my dear, you had better ask Mr. Ralkea to dinner. If you are doing nothing to-night we shall be delighted to see you at 8 o clock sharp, Edgar Raikea waa upon the point of pleading another engagement, but a rer tain wistful glance Into Felicia'a dark eyes made hint change his mind, and he mnrmnred hi acceptance and thank Mr. Grantley atepped into hla daughter's bronugham. "This man, at all events. Is honest' Felicia aaid to herself, and then she re membered that she bad liked bim when they had met him at Keppington. and afterward, too, when he had called upon them at the hotel, only that his attention seemed to have been absorbed by Mrs. Talbot She recollected how foolishly piqued and anoyed she had been that thia had been the case, and how angry with herself she had felt afterward, be cause she. Felicia, whose heart was at that time presumably in the possession of Lord Augustus Wray, should have been ao lost to self-respect aa to have felt Jealous yes, commonly jealous, be cause a goou-iooking young man, who waa a perfect atranger to ner, anouiu ave taken no notice of her, and should av seemed to find pleasure In the so ciety of her friend. white lace, with tha glitter of diamonds Ttpoa har neck and arm. Punctual to a minute," aha cried gay ly, aa aha preceded hint Into tha drawing room. "Ah, how I do love people who coma punctually to dinner! Uow do you Uka my dress, Royr "It la perfect" h aaid gravely, look ing not at her drees, but at her. "I dare aay 1 ahall not dauce much. aha want on In a eort of hurried manner that puaaled him, "only with you and with Brian." Then, after a little pause, aha added In rather a strained voice: By tha way, after all, you will havt to put up with only ma for dinner, Roy; have had a note from my husband, In which ha atatea he will be unable to get back to dlnuer, being detalued by busi ness, I hop you will ut find it dull alone with me. Shall w go down?" He offered his arm In grave alienee and they weut dowustalrs to dinner. "How odd It seem to be sitting down to dinner alone with you like thia!" aha cried, with a brave effort to aevui gay and happy. "Do you remember our luncheons by the river and the sand wiches ana cherry pica 1 used to coax old Keslah luto making, so that 1 might bring them out to you In the corner of tha meadow under the willow trees T How nice It was! th softened lamp light, th fruit atid the flowers, tb dim background of picture and old oak In th empty room for the servant had left them and Kitten, In her white dree. "With the light shiulng upon her corn-gold head, sittiug opposite to him while they capped each other a remlnls cencea of those happy days long ago In which Brian I Esmond had had no ex istence! "Briau will be her very soon now,' aha said, glancing at the clock. "How I wish be would com back; let us go upstalra and watt for blm In the drawing room." There waa a sound of wheel at tha door, and tha bell. rang. For on mo- -i - -i v v - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'I'he Klml You Huva Always Uought has borno tho signa ture of Cha. II. Fletcher, and luts brrn miwlo uudcr his 1eronitl supervision fur over ilO years. Allow no ona o deceive you In thin. Counterfeit. Imitations nnt JuHtUan-irood'' are hutl'iperlment, inl endanger the health of Children Experience against KxperlmeuU What is CASTORIA Castorla Is a harmless substitute for Castor OH. l'ore gorlc. Drops and Hoothlncr Hyrups. It Is 1'leawtnU II contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other lN'nrcotlo substance. Its acre Is Its guarantee. It destroys Worm and allays VeverUhness. It cures IMnrrhai. mid "Wind Colic. It relieves Tecthlnjr Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assltiillntes the Food, regulate the HUmmon nnd Howels, Rlvlntr healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Fauucea Tho mother's Frlcud. The Kind You Me Always Bought Boars tho Signature of r - - In Use For Over 30 Years. VMf .iir.ua m.hny, t , mum emsv. .. Lincoln tha Farmer. Matters soon reached a ctlsl which ment Kltvn'a fare was radiaut; If It had drova the junior partner out Into the not been for very shame she would have field again, where ha undertook all flown downstalra to greet her returning aorta of lough farm labor, from split- prodigal, but the consciousness of her ting raili to plowing. Aa a man-o(-all matronly honors prevented her from do- wort however, Lincoln did not prove ing anytning ao very uu.iittnine.i. a toaether aat a actorv to his eroo overs. There seemed to be a little delay it. ... tnn tn., mnna stnmn downstairs; no manly feet, conscioua of , . ,, . mmi.i nrti.mlr outrageous lateness, cam, tearing up tha on othn farm tnJ wg nd MlMng hMfJ of m ; " , plow dins, he was officially declared dead quickly by tb. .wish of a woman', silken " . Such practices wars Irritating, If not presumptuous, and there is s well known story about s farmer who found . h. M.l m.nM l.ln. I. . A.I.I Ka Fa. He.si.eHa.4le. In tha days of tb first settlers In ths Chickasaw country, when Davy Crock ttt atlll frequented the lllg llatcbla, "Old Man Olddlna" waa a prosperous cltlxen of the Forked Deer settlement Ona day be atari! on s trip to Ar kansas, and thenceforth for several yeara .Forked Deer knew him no more. As travel In Arksnsss waa danger- skirts against the banisters; th. foot man threw open th. door, and there en tered Gertrude Talbot In amber aatln and black lace, with a huge bouquet In ber baud CHAPTER XVII. I have brought a friend of mine to pay his respects to you, Mrs. Desmond," said Mr. Talbot that afternoon, as she entered Kitten's pretty drawing room in -owndes Square. Kitten herself had Just come In from her solitary drive. She stood in the cen ter of the room pulling off her long gloves; she looked Just a little bit sad and weary, but ber whole face bright ened when, glancing past Gertrude, her eyes lighted upon the young man who entered the room in her wake. "Roy!" ahe cried Joyfully, running for ward with outstretched bands to meet him. "Kitten!" "Oh, how glad I am to see yon! Do you know, that I thought you bad for gotten ma, and that you were never coming to see me! "So you two are great frienda al ready!" aaid Mra. Talbot, in a voice of disappointment "And I thought that I waa going to Introduce you to a new beauty, Sir Roy!" "Mra. Desmond and I have known each other aince we were children," ex plained Roy, and then be thought no more about her, but aat down on the sofa by Kltten'a side. How glad ahe seemed to see him again; ahe who need to snub him and laugh at him, and turn her back upon blm in the old days; how delightful it waa to be welcomed like this by her. You are very much changed," he laid, almost Involuntarily. xes! I suppose I am. A woman dnea change, no doubt, after ber marriage, and I hare been to so many places, and have aeen ao many new things and so many people abroad. I think I was very ignorant little person, Roy, when my dear old daddy waa alive.. You see, I waa alwaya a child to him, and now 1 am a woman, i seem to nave jumped from on. to the other, to have bad no girlhood!" and ahe half aighed. He bent down and looked anxiously at her. "Kitten, sre you happy 'f "As happy as a woman can be who has married a man ahe' loves with her whole heart," she answered proudly and a little defiantly. When he came back an hour later to ber house to dine with her, as she hnd askdd bim to do, he found her standing dressed in her ball drens under the light of a swinging lamp upon the lauding out side the drawing room door. As be came np the staircase she seemed to him surpassingly' fair vision of youth and beauty in ber soft, clouded raiment of "Ah. my dear little woman!" ahe said, aid ths road, dressed In hia not too affectionately and gtihlngly, "her I am Immaculate farm clothe, with s book again, you see! how too too lovely iDsteaul ol s pitchfork in his hand. delicious you look In that perfect drea! "What ate yoo reading?" inquired uow wen 11 suns you. n. th old gentleman. from Felicia'a dinner party I thought II ... ,!,,. .,i.l .... . . . a M M eSJK m M IWUIMki would drl round by your door and c. anawered Lincol his wonderful eye ry you off with me to t.dy H unte j. fc f fa, your brougham, I see, Is wsiting for you, ,., ,,,; dear, so I can dismiss mine and we can Studying wnstT n tm.Alh.r anil Trill mint fulloW US 10 LW Sir. a hansom. Sir Roy." Tb old man stared st th speaker "But-you are very kind, Mra. Tal- (or s moment in utter amasement. bot: but I cannot go with you; my bus- "Great God Almighty!" he mut band will be coming back," stammered tared a he pasted on shaking his head. Kitten, confusedly. From Frederick Tievor Hill's "Lin Gertrude smiled more thsn evershow- c0 the Lawyer" In th January Cn Ing all her gleaming trtn, ana ninging tury. np her black: giovea nanua wnn an prcssive gesture. "Oh, my dear child, how dolinclonsly young and fresh you are! Don't you see that that naughty husband of yours had no more notion of going to Lady Hunter's to-niaht than your footman hadr What can you mean have you seen ton Star. himr faltered Kitten. "Ah. I underntand men better than you on ca pity him, Am Karlf Beforaaer. sm looking," said Diogenes, "for sn honest man." "And when you find him, what are you going to do?" '8-ah! I'm not going to find him. That would apoll the Joke." Washing- by th court, and his estate divided among hla heirs. A year or to later. however, he turned up, and tried to get possession of his property again. He was promptly seised and taken Into court. "What do you mean by coming round here, trying to take this proper tyT roared the court at him. "It's my property," asserted Old dlns. "Everybody knows it's mine." "Not at slir replied the judge. "I'll admit your caae aeema a bard one, but It can't be helped now. This court baa decided that you are eitlnctus de functus, which Is Latin for dead. Thia court cannot err. Dead you ar. If you want any property round her you must take another name and aet to work to earn It Mr. Sheriff, adjourn this court snd we will all go and see that wrestling match you spoke of." Maek More I Ike rolat. "Ef yer real Interested," aaid Deacon Skinner, "I'll tell ye what I want fur that horse." "Oh, I wouldn't be Interested In know In' thet," replied Farmer Khrude, "but I wouldn't mind knowln what ys'd tske."-Phllsdelphls Ledger. -An. i unuermana men uruer man TJ""" TT TTT TT TT jr i i TT . iTii ni t Tf bipf- KHEUM ATISM . in, my dear, of courae I have; I passed ;s vr,r xmr v. BODY RACKED WITH PAIN sister, no doubt." she added, looking a ........ . . , . t. . , . . , . , little away from her victim. No other bodily suueriny is equal to that produced by the pain of Rhea "Yes, it was his sister," answered Kit xnausm. wnen me poisons ana actus, vrn.cn cause ims disease, become in ten, very calmly, half turning to Hoy; trenched in the blood there is hardly any part of the body that is not si "It waa atupid of me to forget It. but fected. The muscles become sore and drawn, the nerves twitch and sting, of course, I remember now. Brian told the joints inflame and swell, the bones ache, every movement is one oj me that he was dining with her to-night." agony, and the entire body is racked with pain. Rheumatism is broueht on "Then had we not better go on to ths hy indigestion," stomach troubles, torpid Liver, weak Kidneys and a general .11 r snld Gertrude, considerably taken naptv. ,. .vatm Tli r.ft, aback; Brian Desmond had no and througll nature's svenucs is left to sour and form uric acid, and other acrid she knew It, but the young wires coot- hoJ.n. hirh ohsorhed into the. LlonH. PlienmotUm .ff J " " ... , mum fuvvi Te . . ... t x a. an anice. in some cases 11 lanes a wandering form ; it may be in the arms or legs one day and in the Shoulders, feet, hands, back or other parts of the body the next. Others . . . j .. i. nH. ana couraze siruca iht uuu.u. "Yea; we will go together to the ball, assented Kitten, and she went. "Do rou" want to break her hesrt7. vtii.n.rpd Itov. anitrllv to Mrs. Talbot th. went downstairs. : . a . , , "Oh dear, no! only to open ner eyes, euncr more eenousiy, ana are never she answered, with a careless ahrug ol her beautiful white, shoulders, (To be eonHnneil.i Wher It I Useful. Patient What do you think of this faith cure business, doctor? Doctor-i-Oh, It's all right cases. ratlent For example? free from pain. The uric acid and other irritating substances find lodge ment in the muscles and joints and as these deposits increase the mus cles' become stiff and the joints locked and immovable. It matters hot in wkat form thV disease may be In soma the cause is always the same a sour, acid condition of the blood. - This vital stream has lost its purity and About fifteen years ago X had a sever attack of Rheumatism and could not work with any satisfaction. My ls were badly awollen and drawn ao .1 could soaroely walk. X tried many rem die but could a-et no relief, I was fin. ally reoom mended to try B. 0. 8. and It soon cured tn sound and well. I am now 74 yiar old and have never bad any return of th trouble, JOSEPH FBOMB HAWX.XT, Box 104. Aurora, 111. Sometime ao X bad Rheumatism and work. T IT tense I could not rest or sleep. had to ault and between ni Ch. Dalns In my back shoulders waa ao in- - I tried everything but nothing did me any arood till I heard of and took B. 8. S. This medlolne cured me sound and well. XI purified my blood and made me feel Ilk a new man. CONRAD LOHXt, ' Anderson, Ind. 129 B. 18th St. Doctor Well, say when a person freshness, and instead of nourish lmnelnes something alls him and then ling and feeding the different parts Imagines he la cured of it Cincinnati trith health-giving properties, it fills them with the acids and salts of this Enquirer. ' painful and far-reaching disease. The cold and dampness of Winter always intensify the pains of Rheumatism, and the sufferer to get relief from the A. other. Bee u. . agony, rubs the affected parts with liniments, oils', lotions, etc., or uses Green Do you believe there Is real- piasters and otflcr home remedies. These are desirable because they give ly. such a person as tho fool-klller? temporary ease and comfort but have no effect on the real trouble which fa in Brown E.rDy tne way, now oia the blood and, beyond the reach of such treatment. S. S. S. is the best rem. are you? Green Forty-flve. Brown Well, if there is, h must have retired from 'business. edy for Rheumatism, It goes into the, blood and attacks the disease at its head, and by neutralizing and driving out the acids and building up the thin, sour bl6od it cures the disease permanently. While cleansing the blood S. S. S. tones PIIRPIY VFRFTARIF up the stomach, digestion and every Professional Advice. The new. doctor bad been called In to see a lady with a swollen Jaw. "Does it hurt you to talk?" asked excited nerves, reduces the inflammation, dissolves the denosits in the iointa." the pill dispenser. relieves all pain and completely cures this distressing disease. 3. S. S. is "Yes," she replied. certain cure for Rheumatism in any form ; Muscular, Inflammatory, Articu. "Then don't," said the M. D. "Two lar or Sciatic. Special book on the disease and anr medical advice, with. r dollars, please." .1 diaree, to all who write. 7r awift rem inn an.. 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