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.. Atlanta, ij-
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