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“The old mon is just bristling with ms-
picions. Is there any way, I wonder, to
throw him oil the Bceut?”
He sat for some minutes, gnawing
his mustache and frowning at the c r-
pet, but prewlitly his blow <-l.-n ■ -d, and
lie langhed aloud in the way a man
laugh; whose fancy is tickled by soma
specially good jol. -.
“That will d<» it!” lie <1< : ’ b «1 .i*> h -
roue to go to lad
The baron’s prophecy concerning trie
weather proved correct, and it was with
a somewhat rueful face that Conrad
looked through the streaming pane next
morning. And yet, upon reflection, he
had to admit that in cue way a rair.y
day fitted into Lis plans almost better
than a fair one would have done.
Breakfast being over, he promptly
proposed a game of billiard , which was
enthusiastically a- leptcd by the young
ladii .s, mid fur the perils of which the
b.iiun aw no remedy but to take a cue
himself
Tho forenoon hour- were
lra'ight with severe trials l'ur this t on-
•eieutious father. While hobbling round
rhe table ms wi ll as his gouty knees
Mould ullow him, it was little short of
agony to note the soft glances which
Conrad Kestler distributed pretty equal­
ly between the two girls and to have
to listen to the playful re-marks—full
of veiled meaning, as it seemed to him
1
choice but to say ‘Yett, ’ ami after that
don’t you think that your holidays
would begin for good and all.-’’
“I don’t believe I said if.’’retorted
Elsbeth, growing furiously scarlet.
Think again. ”
She thought sl in. and the eyes
which Lad Le a a..emptir.g to store de­
fiance sank suddenly before his gaze.
"Well, ” nsked Conrad, “is my visit
to l>> prolonged or net? ’
“No,” she answered breathlessly,
v. ..o ' her pulses throbbed in v-xpcctatloi:
<•! somuihing which she both longed
1i. nud di earned without quite under-
btandiag what it wa>; “I cannot say it
a second num. ”
"Aud if 1 stay without being asked?
Tell me, Elsbeth,” and letting slip cue
of the oars Conrad bent forward and
p<-ssessed himself of one of the small
ui gloved hands that luy in her lap.
It v.as exactly’ at this most unfortu­
nate juncture that Miss Wilkin.», who
had happened to select today fcr putting
into practice her theory of early rising,
»tupped out from a side path onto the
.¡hore of the lake.
Neither of the occupants of thu boat
observed her, but for a full minute thu
English woman, who was nut short-
sljrhted, stood rooted to tue spot. Then
she rubbed her eyes and looked again,
and firmliy »he turned decisively on her
heel, like u person who has come to a
resolution, and hurried back toward the
house.
Thuugh Miss Wilkins was both an
- tber wear long skutu or marry a man ’ enough is to have alL I can, if I please,
r»rs’»
"Weil. no. 1 suppose not.” said the
1 mon. still in a tone of helpless bewil­
derment.
“And in consideiaiion of my being
the -.on cf your old friend, do you uot
think’ ’------
"1—I think of U‘tbi'.g at all just
now. 1 l;uc .. nothing, ike matter must
’ .■ ouasidri'i-d. I must talk to Miss Wil-
M:ss Wiikin© a a- talked to, with the
result tli.it Anna and Helene, while
standing a< the drawing room window
¿iter breaktast, were greatiy surprised
to sec tbi carriage that bad come round
to the door sent back again to tho
stable. They did net know whether to
be pleased or provoked. Without either
of th m having gene through the proc­
ess known as losing one’s heait, they
had for the last few days been feeling
puzzled and vaguely jealous of each oth­
er, which was an uncomfortable sensa­
tion. On the whole, they had been glad
that the guest was going. And now this
delay. What could it mean?
By the evening of this same day they
knew what the delay meant, haring
learned, with as much astonishment as
genuine delight, that, thuugh at pres­
ent no husband was in store for either
of them. Providence had assigned to
them a prospective brother.
And that was the end of Elsbeth’s
holiday.—Longman’s Magazins
a great man It was on the very day
when vour father told me that I might
be great if I choose. Of a mrse I knew so
much before, but it. pleased me; it stim­
ulated Die. I told yc-u here, on this spot,
au l you approved aud cheered me oil.
Well, I don't, of course, till any of the
men about my ambitions. Mostly, 1
suppose, they have got their own. borne
of them. I know, don’t soar above a
country living—I laugh in my sleeve,
Nell, when 1 listen to their confessions
—country living—a bouse and a gar­
den and a church. That is a noble am­
bition truly! I laugh, Nell, when 1
think <>f what I could tell them, the
rapid upw ard climb, the dizzy height,
the grasp of power and of authority!”
He spoke very grandly and waved his
hand aud threw his head back aud look-
<-d every inch a leader—one round whom
the soldiers of a holy cause would rally.
The girl’s eyes brightened, and her cheek
glowed, even though she ri-meuiliered
what at that moment she would rather
have forgotten—the word.; of h<-r father
at breakfast. “Challice has done noth­
ing, ” lie said. "He has attempted noth­
ing. Now he will never do anything. It
is just as I expected. A dreamer! A
dreamer!”
“It was here, ” Will continued, “that
I resolved ou greatness. It was ou this
spot that 1 imparted my ambition to you.
Nell, on this spot I again impart to you
my choice. I will become a great states­
man. I have raouev to start me—most
fellows have to spend the best part of
for Infants and children
HTRTY year,' observation ofCaai-aria with the patron a.;© if
millions of persons, permit us to »peak of it without guessing.
It is unqnestionahly the best remedy for Infants and^Children
tho world has ever known.
It is harmless. Children like it. It
“I shall row tn the varsity boat."
gives them health. It will save thoir lives In it Mirtjiers have
become a bishop, a judge, a statesman
something which is absolutely safe and pvaetR-ally perfect as a
—anything, anything. Nell, ” hi» voice
child's
medicine.
dropped, "the thought makes me trem­
ble. 1 feel as if I shall not be equal to
Cantoria destroys Worms.
the position. There is personal dignity,
Castori* allays Feveriahuess.
you know. ”
The girl laughed. “You not equal,
Castoria pr© von ta vomiting S.suv Curd.
Will! Why, you are strong enough fcr
Castori a ©tires Diarrhuta and tViroI Colio.
anything. ”
Castoria reIievo«_Teotting_Troubloa.
“I have made up my mind what to
do first of all. When J go to Cambridge,
Cantoria oufm Constipation and FlatnleTicy.
1 shall take up classics. Of course I
CastoHa neutralizes tke effect* of carbonio acid gas or po?snnonw ail*.
must take the highest classical honors.
I shall carry eff all the university
Castoria does not contain morphine, opium. nr other narcotic property.
'■s PlCTO*^
A ruby of the best quality and more scholarships, and the medals, and the
Cawtoria assimilate» the food, vegnlates^llie .toma-.-ii and bowel*,
TO
English woman and a govtmess she was ‘.han three carats is worth more than a prizes. Oh, aud 1 must apeak at the their lives in getting money enough to
—of which Conrad’s conversation was nut a prude, but the scene she had just diamond of the same size and weight.
giving healthy and natural sleep.
union! 1 must lead at the union, aud I give them a stait. I shall bo tho leader
chiefly composed.
witnessed had played thepart of thatwell
must be an athlete.” He was tall and of the house, ♦lind, to any one but yon
Castucin
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bottles o-ly. It in .iot sold in hnlk.
Nor wm the afternoon an improve­ known last stvaw to which the camel’s
thin, aud he stretched out his long arms. this ambition would seem presumptu­
ment on the forenoon, except for a cou­ back is so apt to succumb. So lung as
Don't allow any one to .©11 yon nnytliixip ©1*0 on jib« plea or promise
“I shall row in the bout—the varsity ous. It is my secret which I trust with
ple of hours, during which the host suc­ she had seen in Conrad a prospective
boat, of course. I shall play in the you, Nell.” Ho caught her bauds, drew
that it is “¿nst ap good'* and “ wl*l answer every purpose
ceeded in luring hi3 guest into the smok­ husband for one of her marriageable
eleven. ”
her gontly and kissed her ou the fore
ing room. The rules of hospitality charges she had had eyes for none but
See that y«»u^rntJt)-A-S-T-O-R-I’A^
By WALTER BESAHT.
“Oh, Will, you are too ambitious.”
head. “Dear Nell,” he said, “lung be­
AND ALL
would not allow of his being kept there his good qualities, but now that he had
“No man, ” he said severely, “can 1» fore my ambition is realized you will be
by main force, and thus it came about proved a failure from the matrimonial
1» on ©very
The fac-simile
too ambitions. 1 would grasp all. 1 by my side, encouraging aud advising
CHAPTER I.
that on each oi the visits of inspection point of view she had suddenly become
and consoling.”
r rnj.rer.
“Nell,” cried the boy, jumping must sweep the board ”
ri^natnre of
be paid to the drawing room the baron alive to his defects.
“And then?”
Ho spoke as a young man should and
aliout, unable to stand still for eicite-
suffered great distress. The first time
Evidently the baton was quite right. ment, “it is splendid! He has told me
“Ah! There, I have not yet decided— tenderly, as a lover should, but there
I > AYS TO
it was the sight of Conrad sitting on a Thus she told herself as she hastened such things us I never dreamed. Oh, the law, to maintain the social order; was something not right—a secret thorn
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorio
CHICAGO footstool and holding a skein of sky toward the house. A man who indulged splendid things! Wonderful thing3l >• the house, to rule the nation. Litera­ —something jair.d. In the brave
blue wool that was being wound by iu such objectless pastimes as this could
-i"..--virmneMMiigai
ture, science, art—which?”
words, in the tender tones, there was a
“Tell me. Will.”
Anna, which gave him a shock, while be uo moro thau a heartless libertine.
"In whatever you do, Will, you are touch, a tone, a look out of harmony.
“I am ashamed. Well, then, he says
the second time this same Conrad turn­
Will Challice could uot tell his mistress
—he says, ” the boy’sfacebecame crim­ certain to rise to the front rank. ”
The Quickest tn Chica ing over the pages cf Helene’s music
“Certain. Your fatLer says so. Oh, that all day long there was a voice
son, “ho says that I can become what
go and the East.
considerably aggravated his state of
The dreamer sat down and stared. “I I
“Don’t fall intoa rage. Go away mid
ever I please, if I please. It is all in I feel as if I was already a leader of the within him crying: "Work, work! Get
mind. Fine weather was, after all,
don
’t understand,” lie said.
up
and
work!
All
this
is
folly
!
Work!
autuse yourself. You cau do anything
house.
It
is
u
splendid
thing
to
rule
the
me—all—all! If I want to become a
Quicker to Omaha am greatly preferable to rainy weather, was
"No more time will be lost,” the you please. Come back, however, in
statesman, I may. If I want to be­ house. I feel as if I was lord chancellor Nothing con be done without work—
the conclusion with which he went to
worker weut on. "I have begun to time tor ball.
Kanaa3 City.
come a judge, I may. If I should like in my robe—on the woolsack. Nothing work—work!”
bed.
work. Fur some time past 1 have been
Tile Animal Part obeyed. Hu Went
to be a bishop. I may; if a great schol­ so grand as to lxi lord chancellor. I feel
Next day was not much better. The
Pullman and Tourist Sleepers,
working at. night. I am not going t<5 out, leaving the other part over hi*
CHAPTER III.
ar, a great writer, I may. All, he says, as if I was archbishop of Canteibury. I
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sportsman indeed went out after break­
It was at the beginning of the Michael­ stand it any longer. ”
books. He spent the morning with other
is possible for me if I choose to work— It is a most splendid thing, mind you,
Dining Cars.
fast, the barometer having rl3cu, but a
"That’s what made me so heavy iu men as industriously disposed as him­
all if I choose to work. Oh, Nell, isn’t to be archbishop of Cantei bury. What mas term that the very remarkable oc­
H. H, H. CLARK,
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heavy shower brought Lun back in the
self. He found a «fringe lightness of
it—isn’t it wonderful?” He dropped his I could be more splendid? He wears lawn currences or series of occurrences began the morning then?”
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middle of (lie forenoon, and though it
"That was tlie cause. Now, however, spirits. There was no remonstrating
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voice, and his eyes glistened—his largo sleeves, and he sits in tho house of lords. which ate the cause and origin of this
cbiared off soon he showed uo inclina
dreamy eyes—and his cheeks glowed. But I must work. The road to all these history. Many men have failed, and I am going to work iu eanie-t, and all voice within him reproaching him for
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tion to sally forth a second time. Some­
his laziness, urging him to get up and
"If I choose to work! As if I should not splendid things, as your father says, is many men have succeeded. Will Clial- day long."
dr«*»
thing was said about a twisted ankle,
"1 don't care, if it’s leal, but this is go to work. Not at all That voice was
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choose to work! Only those fellows who I through work. It wants an hour yet to lico is perhaps the only man who has
uid as here again main force could not
Asst. Oen. Pass. Agt.
have get no such glorious prospects are dinner. I will give that hour to Eurip­ ever done both, and in the same line, a dream. I don t can. to long as 1 silent. He was left quite undisturbed.
lie called to aid there was nothing for
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lazy. Work? Why, I am mad to work! ides. No more wasto of time for me, and at the same time. The thing came ueedn’t work with you. But, I say, what He talked with the o lueu over tobacco.
it but to stand al the window and grind
upon him quite suddenly and quite un­ will the men say? 1 can’t pretend to Hu played billiards with them. He lay
I grudge every hour. Work? You shall Nell ”
his toeth as ho watched Conrad pacing
expectedly. It was at 2 in the morning. have a twin all of a sudden. ”
iu a chairand looked at a novel He had
see how I Will work!”
Ho
nodded
his
head
and
ran
into
the
EAST AND SOUTH the garden beside bis eldest daughter.
He had spent the evening quietly in the
“N-no. Besides (here are other diffi­ luncheon and beer aud more tobacco.
IIo was a lad of 17, handsome, tall house, eager not to lose a moment.
He stood it fairly well until a pause was
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and straight; his eyes were full and
The girl looked alter him admiringly society of three men and two packs of culties. We belong to each <'flier, you He went down the river in the college
made beside a bush of late roses, but
We must share these room-. boat. He had an hour or two of whist
limpid:
his
face
was
a
lung
oval;
his
aud
fondly. "Oh,” she murmured, cards. His own rooms, he observed, as | see
of the boat ob­
when Conrad, in full sight of his win­ Neither of the occupants
! Listen, I have quite thought it out. At before hall. Then he retamed to his
mouth delicate and fine, bat perhaps "what a splendid thing tube a man and
served her.
dow, broke off a pink rose, end with
night we shall be one. At breakfast and room.
The baron was in his dressing gown not quite so firm as might have been to become archbishop and lord chancel­
OF THE
an exquisite bow handed it to his com­ when he was told that Miss Wilkins desired. At this moment ha bad just lor and leader of the house 1 Oh, how
in the hall we shall be one. You shall
His other half looked up, surprised.
panion, the baron sent for Miss Wilkins wished to speak to him immediately. It held a conference with his private tutor. clever he is, and how great he will be­
give me the entire use of these rooms
“Already? The day has flown.”
and commanded her to invent some ex­ was with a hairbrush in one hand and It took the form of a remonstrance and come!”
all day aud all the evening for work.
“One moment,” said Wil), “befure
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cuse for summoning Anna to the house.
In examinations, of course, you will re­ we go in. Y ou’re a serious sort, you
a razor in the other that he came forth explanation The remonstrance pointed
“I’ve had a serious talk with Challice
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Miss Wilkins obeyed, with the result to grant the interview. He listened in out that his work was desultory and apt today,"said the private tutor to his
main here l'tckc-d in, while I go to the know, aud I’m one of the—-the lighter
that when next the baron looked out of silence to tho governess’ tale, but she to be interrupted at any moment for any wife in the evening.
senate house. Yon will go to chapel for ornaments of the college, and I sit
the window Helene was sitting on a gar­ knew by the look that came over his purpose; that steady grind was incom­
both.”
LEAVE
arrive
“
Will
is
such
a
nice
boy,
”
said
the
among them, it would be awkward
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den bench straight opposite in lively only partially shaved face that this was patible with the giving away of whole wife. “What a pity he won’t work1”
“N-no! Chapel must beloug to you. ” breaking off all at once. Besides”------
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conversation with Count Kestler, and the limit of his patience more decisively mornings to musical dreams at the I “He’s got enough money to begin
“I say you will go to chapel lor
“I understand. Continue to sit with
with one of the same late roEes bloom­ even than hers.
both.” This with resolution.
piano, or to rambles in the woods, a with, and he has never been to a public
them for awhile and talk as much idiot­
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ing in her waistband.
“Oh!” the other half gave way. “But ic stuff as you please Presently you
Albany inclusive Also Tangant, Shedd», Hal
•‘I am almost sorry the young scamp book of poetry in hand. The explana­ school. I have been firing his imagina­
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“Only three more days till the 16th!” is going today,” he remarked between tion was to the effect that the great tion, however, with the rich and varied
what ani I to du all duv?”
will find that a chang • of companions
«lid all station» front Roseburg to Ashland luelu-
was the only thought to which the poor his teeth, “so that I shall not have the prizes of thu world are all within the prospect before a boy who really will
“I’m sure I don’t know. Do what and of conversation has become neces­
•ive.
harassed father could turn for comfort.
you like. If yon like to stay here, you sary. ”
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satisfaction of turning him out of reach of every clever lad who starts work and has brains. He is a dreamer.
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When in due course of time the 16th doors. ”
can. You may play or sing. You may
LEAVE
ARRIVE
with
a
sufficiency
of
means
and
is
not
He
has
vague
ambitions
Perhaps
I
may
Nobody uotu-ud any change. The two
up M arrived, the sun rose once more, dazzling
Portland
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He had spent the evening u ith three men
4SU PM
Five minutes later the drossing gown afraid of work, and that he himself— have succeeded in fixing them. But who
Roseburg
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in
one sat al table and ate like one.
and
two
packs
of
cards.
and cloudless, exactly as it had done on had be&n exchanged for a morning coat, none other-—possessed abilities which knows? He is a dreamer. He plays the
read your French novels You will not
the first day* of Conrad’s visit, and ex­ the muru pressing defects of toilet rem­ would justify him in aiming at the very piano aud listens to the music. Some­ he crossed the court, were lit up—he disturb me. But if you bring uuy of They talked like one. They talked friv­
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olously, telling stories like one. After
wondered how his ‘gyp’ could have
actly as on the first day he stole down edied, and the baron, still with a half highest.
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times he makes versus. Who knows been so careless. He opened nis door your friends here it will In- awkward, hail they went back to their chambers.
because
th
?y
will
perceive
that
you
are
the staircase of the sleeping house and shaved chin and with a look of ill sup­
But he must work—he must work. what such a lad might do?”
“You can leave inc,"said the stu­
and entered his room. Heavens! At the double. Now, wu will go to bed. It is
SLEEPERS
along the lime avenue which led to the pressed fury making him alarming to He had been to no school and knew
dent. "1 shall rest for an hour or so;
table on which the lamp was burning half past 2. ”
shores of the lake. His portmanteau was behold, bobbled out once mure into tho nothing of competitions with other fel­
CHAPTER II.
then I shall go ou again.”
sat before a pile of books—himself.
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lows. He must make up for that by hard
Two years later the same pair stood Challice rubbed his eyes. He was not
This very remarkable arrangement
CHAPTER IY’.
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carriage
had
been
ordered
directly
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Scarcely two paces from his door he grind. Think what it may mean to a iu the same place at the same season of frightened. There is nothing to alarm a
weut
ou undisturbed for some time. No
Iu
the
morning
Will
awoke
with
a
I
after breakfast. To judge from thu barely saved himself from running young fellow of imagination and of thu year. Term was over—the thud
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man in the sight of himself, though strange sense of something. This feel- j one suspected it. No one discovered it.
expression
of
indecision
which
sat
ou
against Conrad Kestler, who seemed tn dream, this throwing open ot the gates term of the first year at Cambridge.
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sometimes a good deal to disgust, but ing of something is not uncommon with j Il became quite natural for Clmllice to
his face his impending journey did
of the temple of ambition, this invita­
“I haven’t pleased your father, ” said if you saw in a looking glass your own young gentlemen who go to l>ed about t go out of his room in the morning and
Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) uot fill him with any special delight, a* great a hurry as himself.
“The very man I want!” he burst tion to mount the steps and enter that the young man. He was slight and boy­ face and figure doing something else 3. Ho got up and dressed. A cup of tea ! to leave himself at work. It became nat­
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glaring at his guest. “Will you great and glittering dome. The temple ish looking still, but on his face there you would be astonished—you might made him remember but imperfectly ural to go to hail at 7 With a mingled
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1 within is all glorious with crowns of was a new stamp—he had eaten of the even be alarmed. Challice had heard of what had happened. "1 must Lave had recollection of work aud amusements.
came to an astonished standstill on have a word to say to you!”
gold, set with precious stones, and with tree of knowledge. “I have won no men seeing rats, circles, triangles even, too much whisky,” he murmured. "1 Thu reproaching voice was silent, tho
At Albany and Corvallis connect with I finding himself on the edge of the wa-
“Now, then,” he began when Con­ crowns of bay and laurel. Day and scholarships and taken no prizes. My llu thought of Ins misspent evenings, saw myself—actually myself—Lard at Animal Part was left at peace, and thu
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‘ ter, and exactly as on that first day the rad followed him into the room, “I night ascends a hymn iu praise ot the grand ideas about university laurels are
Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) boat was chained to the shore, only that know that you are leaving my house to­ living. They themselves — the living changed. You see, Nell, I have discov­ which were by no means innocent of work. ” Here his ey s fell upon the table. Intellectual Part weut on reading ut
thia time K13beth sat in it, with hands day—fortunately, I cannot help adding who have succeeded—sit on thrones of ered that unless one goes into the church whisky and potash, lie concluded that There were the books—books on politi­ peace.
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your conduct. It is bad enough to flirt day long. This lad, only by looking in put in all the time working for a de­ vanish as he gazed.
looks. He eat down Iiewildered. Th<u
“Cliallice, ” he said, "is it wise to
Stales, i anailu anil Europe can be obtained at
barefacedly with grown women, but let at the open doors, gasped and blushed gree. ”
It did not. On the contrary, it be­ it. seemed as if thcru w«.-> a struggle burn the caudle at both ends? Come,
lowest nite, from O A Wilcox. Agent, McMinn­
me tell you that a man who takes pleas­ and panted. His color oame and went;
“You know,"said Neil, “we don’t came, if anything, clearer. There was a within him as of two who strove for you told me this morning that you were
ville
E. F KOGERS,
Asst. G. F. AP A., Portland, Or.
ure in turning the beads of children in his heart beat; he could not stand still. think so here. ’ ’
“Work!” cried one.
“I working hard. What do you call this?
reading lamp on the table which threw mastery.
R KOEHLER Manager
His companion—they were in a coun­
short frocks should keep clear of respect­
“I know. Then, you see, I had to a strong circle of light upon the bent won’t!” said the other. "You shall!” You i.auuut serve two masters. ”
able houses. Have you anything to say try garden, and it was the spring of the make the acquaintance of the men and head of the reader. Then Will Challice “I won’t!” A most ignoble quarrel,
"It is quite true,” said thu reading
in excuse?” asked the old gentleman in year—was a girl of 15, who hung upon to show them that I was a person of— began to tremble, and his knees gave I yet it pulled him this way aud that to- half ou being questioned. “I have fore
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a more subdued tone, struck, in spite of his words and adored him. Some wom­ of some importance. A man who can way. The clock ticked on the mantel­ i ward the table or back in the long easy seen this difficulty for some time. I
en begin the voluntary servitude to the play and sing is always useful. We are shelf—else there was no Eound. The col­ I chair. Finally the struggle ended. He called on the tutor this morning, aud I
himself, by the other’s look.
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“I have only this to say—that when man they love at n very early age in­ an extremely social college, and the— lege was wrapped and lapped in the si­ fell back. He closed his eyes. When lie told him of my intention to work. He
B aptist —Services Sunday 11 a. m. and
you met me in the passage just now I deed. Nelly at 15 loved this boy of 17 the friction of mind with mind, veu lence of sleep.
I opened them again, the room wut cleared laughed aloud. 1 insisted. Then he
7:30p. ni ; Sunday school 9:50 a iu.; the
was on my way to propose for your as much as if they had both been 10 know—it is the best education possible
young people's sooietv 6:lop ui
Prayer
He nerved himself. Hu stepped for­ of the breakfast things, and he saw pointed out the absurdity of pretending
years
older.
daughter’s hand. ”
meeting Thursday 7:30 p. tn. Covenant
for a man—I’m sure it is—much better ward. *' Speak, ’ ’ he cried, and the eound : himself sitting at the table hard at to work while one was idling about all
meeting first Sat eacb month 2:00 p. m.
“Yes,” she said timidly, and the than poring over Plato. Then I found of his own voice terrified him. Who work.
The baron’s jaw dropped.
day. This is awkward. ”
M ethodist E piscopal —Services every
“My daughter?” he stammered after manner of her saying it betrayed certain so many things in which I was defi­ ever heard of a man questioning himself
“What do you propose then?”
“
Good
gracious!
”
he
cried,
springing
Sabbath 11 00 a. tn. and 7:30 p. m. Snnday
a moment of stupefaction. “Her hand? I things. “And you will work, Will, cient. French fiction, for example, and in the dead of the night? “Speak! What tn his feet ‘ 'Is what I remember of last
“I propose that you stay indoors all
si-hool ■» :3u a m Praver meeting 7 00 p
won
’
t
you?
”
I don’t understand. Do you mean Anna
I knew so very little about art. Ob, I does this mean?”
night real—uot a dream?”
m. Thursday. S E. M bnikoib . Pastor.
the morning until 2 o’clock, locked in. ”
"Work? Nell, since your father has have passed a most busy and useful
or Helene? You cannot have them both,
“Not a droam at all. I will no longer
Then the reader lifted his head, placed
C umb . P besbyteriaf — Services every Sab­
“What? And you look on while you
spoken those words of encouragement 1 time.”
you know, ” he added grimly.
bath 11 no a m and 7 3C p. m. Sunday
a bookmark to keep his place and turned have my career blasted at the outset by are mugging?”
nchool 9 30 a. ni. Y. P. C. E.. Sunday 6:30 He stood It fairly ucll until a pause was
feel
that
there
is
nothing
but
work
left
“Thanks; I don’t want either. It is
He forgot to mention such little things slowly in his chair—one of those wood­ your confounded laziness. I think you
“Exactly. You may read French nov­
p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday, 7:30 p. m. j
made beside a bush of late roses.
your youngest daughter whom I hope in me—regular work—methodical, sys­ as nap, ecarte, loo, billiards, Paris and en chairs the seat cf which turns round. understand me perfectly. I am clear of els. Y’ou may go to sleep. You must bu
I\ H J ones , Pastor
that seemed to have been impatiently
tematic woTk, you know. Grind, grind, London as forming part of his educa­ Yes. It was himself, bis own face that you whenover I please. I join you when quiet. Only you be here all the morn­
C hristian —Services every Sabbath 11:00 I watching tho avenue. A new and happy ! to make my wife. ’ ’
“But my youngest daughter is Els­ grind! No more music, no more singing, tion. Yet everybody will own that these met the face of the returned reveler. I please.”
ing. In the afternoon you may do what
a. tn and 7:30 p. ni. Sunday school 10!
no more making rhymes—grind, grind, are important elements in the forming But there was no terror in that face—a
a u> Young people’s meeting at 6:30 p. m. smile brightened Conrad’s face. Instinc­ beth!”
“Oh! And have I the same power?”
you please. I may quite trust you to
tively
he
raised
his
head.
The
sight
of
H. A. D enton , Paator.
“And it is Elsbeth whom I want to grind! Isay, Nell, I’ve always dreamed, of a man.
serious resolve rather—a set purpc«e,
“Y’ou? Certainly not. You are only avoid any effort of the brain. Ohl Apd
S t . J ames C atholic —First st., between that childish figure seemed to have marry.”
you know”-----
“I see,” said Nell.
gTave eyes. He. the reader, leaned back the half that won’t work. Y’on have get you will avoid anything stronger than
G and H. Sunday school 2:30 p. in. Ves­ solved some doubt that had been pursu­
“You have, Will.”
This time the baron required a longer
“But your father won t. Ho is all for in his chair and crossed his legs.
no power at all. ”
tea before hall. No more beer far lunch.
pers 7:80. Services once a month.
ing him.
“Ard to find that things may actual­ the senate house. You do take a little
pause. Without taking his eyes from
It makes me heavy. ”
“Yes,” he said, and the voice again
“Oh! Well, I shall uot stand that. ”
W R. H ogan , Pastor
It was not until they woro some dis Cunrad’3 face, he put out his hand and ly come true — actually — the finest interest in me still, Nell, just a little startled the other man. “You have a
“Y’on cau’t help yourself. I am the
“No more beer? This is tyranny ”
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tance from the shore that Elsbeth said, felt his way backward to the armchair, things thateTer I dared to drcam—oh I” interest—in an old friend?”
right—a complete right—to an explana­ Intellectual Principle. Mine is the wilL
“No. It is ambition. Iu the evening
K nowles C uai - ter N o . 12, O. E. S —Meet» a a little unsteadily, “So this is really whero he sat staring for a full minute.
“
It
is
wonderful,
Will!
”
Both
of
“Of course I do. Will. ” She blushed tion. I have felt for a long time that Mine i* the clear head and the author­ you may go out and play card* I shall
Masonic hall the tlrsi and third Monday evening
the
end
of
my
holiday?
”
in each month. Visiting member» cordially In­
“Young man, is this a joke?” he ’ them began to think that ths finest and dropped her eyes, Their fingers something would have to be done. I’ve ity.”
stay here. ’ ’
vited
MF® O. 0. HODSON, Mee.
Conrad looked straight into her face, sternly inquired at last, and being told things had already been achieved.
touched, but only for a moment, The been going on in a most uncomfortable i “Wbat am I then?”
They weut to bed. It seemed to Will
MRS H. L. HEATH, W M.
still with that shadow of a huppy smile that it was the most unimpeachable
“It is like having your fortune dou­ touching of fingers is very innocent. manner. In spite of my continual re­
“You? I don’t know. Y’ou are me— as if tho other part of him—the Intel­
C uster P ost No. 9—Meets the second and fourth hovering about his lips.
bled
—
trebled
—
multiplied
by
10.
Bet
­
earnest he added, “but Elsbeth is in the
Perhaps it was accidental.
Saturday of each month in Union hall at 7:80
monstrances I could not persuade you to yoiuself—without thu Intellectual Prin­ lectual Part—ordered him to go to sleep
“That depends upon whether or not schoolroom; she is in short skirts; ter. If my fortune were multiplied by 50,
p m. ou second Saturday and at 10:30 a. m. on
“Nell,” said the young man, with work. Y’ou must have recognized that ciple. That is what you are. I must de­ without further thought.
4th Saturday. All members of the order are you ere anxious to prolong it. ”
I could spend no more, I could eat uo deep feeling and earnestness, “whatever you contained two men, the one indo­ fine you by negatives. You cannot argue
she”-----
cordially united to attend our meetings.
This curious life of separatiui and <>f
“How can it depend upon myself?”
B F. C lcbinx , Commander
“Will be 18 on her next birthday," more, I believe I could do no more with I do—to whatever height I rise, I shall lent, dreamy, always carried away by or reason or create. You remember, like
J. A PECKHAM, Adjt.
partial union continued, in fact, for the
she asked as defiantly as she could.
completed Conrad. Baron Dornenburg it”
always feel”— here he stopped because the pleasures or caprices cf the moment, an animal, from assistance. Y’ou behavu
“Do you not remember once before went through a rapid mental calcula­
“Genius,” said the girl, blushing, be­ he could hardly say that she had stimu­ a feather brain; the other ambitious, nicely because you have been trained. whole of the undergraduate time. Grad­
W. C T U.—Meets on ever? Fri­
asking
me
to
stay
beyond
the
16th?
Y
ou
cause
it really did seem an original lated him or inspired him—“always clear headed and eager for work. Your Y’ou are—in short, you are the Animal ually, however, a great change cam a
tion.
day, in Wright's hall at 3 o’clock p m.
over thu lazy half—the Animal Half.
said, ‘Please, please, ’ then, and I said
L. T. L. at 3 p. n>.
thing to say, “is better than riches. ”
"Bless my heart! So she will. ”
feel, Nell, that it began here—it began part would give my part no cliauce. Part. ’ ’
F"
■ - - •
M bs . A. J. W bitmori , Pres. i ’No, ’ but if you were to say, ‘Please,
“It is, it is,” the possessor of genius here.” He looked about the garden. » Very well. We are partly separated.
‘ And do you know of any valid rea­
“
Oh!
”
He
was
angry.
He
did
not
C lara U. E s » on . Sec’y.
[To BE CONTINUED,]
please. ’ a second time I would have no sonwhy a woman of’ 18 ishould not replied, with conviction. “To have
On this spot I first resolved to become That is all. Partly separated. ”
know what to reply. He was humiliated.
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