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`J35 IJIIBCIBVJCIVIIV Us xv-en-v -cw -.au~`a::\..-- At the risk of being` adjudged in- sane-yes. In-I1_L __ 4.1.2.. -3.. -- can-I-3` I nun CVI\I-Q DG|.lU"'JUEo _ Put on this ring; until I can `get you another. Your ha1`::Es are notsmall. It will t your middita nger. Now I am in earnest. V ` So am I, she ssiid. They were very much in earnest, the event proved, and tie garrison derived unmixed pleasure Jfrom the total, un- conditional, obvioxfs surrender of Miss Hampden. She was as open in her in- fatuation as she had always been in ev- erything else. And Ardsley was equally infatuated. He took: back the class ring and gave her a diamond which cost him three months pay. They were al_togeth- . er happy. So, just a fortnight `before the day arranged for their wedding, the . gods demanded the first payment 01:` their loan. Ardsleyr was ordered off on ascont. `Miss Hampden was the sort of g 1* who might have been expected to tan this reasonably. But she did not. She l clung to Ardsley and cried like any lit- tle girl and did not. behave in the least like a woman whee had seen countless scouts. And she le:.'him go to the wars remembering her sunding` with her arm against the wall and her head upon her arm, sobbing as if her heart were utter- ly broken. He hixmlelf was moved am!` stern. Loring would have liked to re- mind her that hearts which were really wrung did not show their pain. He had not yet recovered. A_.'l..`I.._ 2:: ....4. ........- 1......|- 0.... er... IIUU JVU LUV?` DAV! Ardsley did not come back from the scout. He was in a fight on what ahoul have been his Wedding day. Others were killed and their ha.-dies were recovered and buried, but Ardsley e body was new 3 `er found. There was a tale that a fire had been seen on the battleeld the night after the encounter, and in the midst of tho, re :1 tree with a form which might have been that of amen against it. There were Indians grouped around it. Miss Iiarnpden never heard the story. She nevereven guessed at what had happened until 20 years after- ward. , ii " ' IV Ina VII She was the superb and spiritless wife of ~-a mighty gene al, andshe was ac- % companying her husband on a tour of ` inspection in the West. They were at an agency one day and were visiting the tepees. It was the agency of the Indiana that young Ardeley had fought two decades before, and b the genera.1 s wife hwasnerving herself`:-not to showwshat she remembered this. , I I ,, ll . .I,,_3 DALI) LVLIJVLJ-I wunvu mag; The general was examining the trim ` key; that hung on a string around the neck of a half blind squaw. ur1-__.. :_ _ 111-4. n..:..4. -1--- .;:...~lH HUUL UL II nus; uaauu w\1uu.uo Here is a West Point class ring!" he exclaimed. I19 UJLMLII ll-I-IC\-In His wife repeated her words of 20 years past. . ; May I see it? she asked coolly. , . She took it in her hands and turned it about. `She could make out the do sign. though it seemed to have passed through some heat that had melted it. There was no doubt in her mind. Nov- ortholeaa she looked inside. `The heat had not affected it there, and the ini- -tials were quite plain even yet. 1o'l'\ A 3! ...I.- ...-.3) OI.T 1-nan 1-"I1;(' ' uaxu W019 qulvv ylouaa vxvu Jvvo D. A., she said. It was David Ards1ey"s ring. The re did not touch the letters. I understand now why they xgovor could tell `mo which was his grave. _ ..-__ __._I `_..4LsA LE4 - -AL:-:ign`n 0*-H . The general broke the `string and picked up the "class ring from among the scattered baubles. The squew was chat- tering and Whining and clawing iionnd . on the earth"-. The general held the [ring out to `his wife. She `raised the dark . eyes that had been ao7brig'ht and happy fhe lest time it had`_.;b`e'eh heldfonteh Now. ltht-xn: I wants to talk to yer. [f yer go to raisin any row, yer ll git a _bullet plumb through yer head. Who are you?" I asked. Yer kin call me most any name. And what do you want here? I'm after the swag. Then you must be a burglar? Fur sure. So my burglar had come at last. Int up in bed to get a good look at him, and after one glance I felt sick at heart. The burglar of my imagination had always looked the gentleman. This fellow was a low browed, common looking man who hadn t been shaved for a week even if he had washed his face or combedhis hair during that period. He not only looked common, but he looked low mind- ed and tricky. 1 had always given a burglar credit; for wearing good clothes, but this man had on a cheap suit, and it was badly worn in spots. I was dis- appointed and disgusted, and he saw I was and asked: `I A , ,,,. - I,,-,_ wziia I have it? ` 'sh,.o~as'kod-. V. '. The `general put, 'i`tf` in-hiii:_d, `and the hand cloud over is. " a....... ., ._ ;-# '90 .41.-_ _-.xa......unt.;.`-...:;.14".. III nunu Uullvll uvur u. ` . "Thank you, she ;u1a.-=saw3nac1o'n Ovttou in San -Nrgtoxxbaut. \. . ` V Our: Stank` of Scribblers and Exercise Beoks Cannot be Equalled for Value All Sizes in Different. Bindings of the new Presbyterian Book of Praise with; or without Music. 1'noncIear*o%ut, wm sell Balance of Baby car- % rlages at cost Prlce. [sOOTT's BOOKSTORE, BARBIE. BARR] E 4 - BOOK COMPLETE STOGK or s BOOKS ANDSUPPLIES, VY Ina uuu Iilxlxu pm. Are you sure that you areabur- glar? I queried. lll \J ......-...~.. T nuns Unovnv-u,` T nu, ROBT. CR1 STOE, sIMcoE's.=r`PIoNEEn NEWSPAPER. BA_RRlE"S LEADING JOB PRINTING OFFICE. ADVANCE No. 5 DUNLUP ST.. TOP FLOOR. 1=3RoPRIEToR. BINDERY From the time I could read the life Ind adventures of Sixteen String Jack" ` up to a. few months ago I had a pro- found admiration for the highwayman. Next to the highwaymau came the bur- glar. I don't know but he was an equal favorite in my imagination. For yeaps I left doors unlocked and windows_.op_en. hoping a burglar would call, but for reasons unknown to me my house `was avoided. ' "Often flue Guapest. Always `the Best. LARGEST CIRCULATION, MOST NEWS---RMOST ADS. ONE ISSUE A WEEK, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. lull - .1. LI\JLl\4\4lI "1 "0! course I am. Haven't I bin ar- ` rested ve or six times and served two different: sentences fur burglary? rm . _, ,,_ .__ L.-. 1- |..\:I' .- ,1.'a.........4. .....-....... .,....,-..--- .... _..-,-..-_, . That may be, but I had" a different } idea of the fraternity. You are not an intelligenc looking man. You wear very shabby clothes. You ca.n t: speak ten words without making a slip in your \ grammar. Be candid with me. Aren t you a chap who got. in here by mistake? Wasn't it: your plan to rob the clothes- linu or steal something from the wood shed? ..-..-. . o o 1 , ___\.| |_A What yer givin me. ole man?" be A exclaimed as he tapped me on the head with jhe muzzle of his pistol. After I gits through with yer yer ll think I m a burglar fast; 'nu1'f. Git ovar ag in the wa1`1! Now, then, if yer move a nger I 1l bore yer! _.n ...-- |_...'.| ..4......`| ......:....4- LI... .l 11 IJKILKJ JLI. 6 One Side of my had stood against the 1 wall, and 1 moved over at his bidding. ` My clothing hung on a chair at the foot of the bed, and he laid down his pistol and picked up the garments in succes- sion and searched them. From my tron- sers ho took a roll of money amounting to about $40, from my vest a gold watch, fpuxn the breast pocket of my coat some papers of no value. to him, and after a glance he rcatnrrietl them. On the dresstr was my diamond irunrfpin, and when he had placed that with the other plunder I said: a c ,1:-_-.1 LI_-A. ._.-.. more. rm all the land lay uodden. wet and sore. And who nu soldiers` plumes with fury tanned. Caught. in the conniot. hissed the anaky palm, And far. tar out among tho gleaming Ilolt. ` M O! billowu rolled a ship that prayed for calm And nanny havens. Au 3 wgeping shout _ She dripped and ahivered till, like I and In-n`II| I THE REAL BURGLAR. "I `have always believed that men were drii'en to burglary through _pover- ty or misfortune or unjust treatment. How was it in your case? -1,- L:..._.__ L_,-._.....- `I k`- d 34. d 82. 1--|.\ ACUVV VVW-1 Iv on-Q Jvvnq you ``I went; into the bizncss because I wanted sun1'.hiu duafl easy. he replied, with a solemn wink of his left eye. one day upon the white. bum: vouud Inc! an aerial sprite. Fall nun ho bots. Coax-co had he pursued whoa. lo! upongtlwlhon Struck in deep menaoc many uwel clad hand of the wan uymy. Then `twin nu` sud hull, Ran the stern otrito. high raging man -631! I11 nlin HIIU Bl Iyyvu nuu unuvvovu upon. anaw - UWVC pnlln. the sea sung. and she saw the smiling cont. -Louiso Morgan Bill in Century. vvatln an -ovum...-u y ya... x... -.-.. -`.-. __, 7 And duesn`t. a burg1ar a oonsbience trouble him now and then?" T AI, - A____ IIVJIILJILI IIIIOI An-.1 IV I-I`.l soovoau "1 never heard if it. did. If the put leece lets us alums, our consciences are all right. Where's thu rest of the stu , ole mam? I a Cl C I _,, _-__LI_2_,.. LIL`) Ill (III ( Are you asking if I have anything else of value you can carry o'? nnrx... .____...| rm.. . In un Mun! 'Y`hnvn A wmosronm du 11-`us cAaiiiiiN;}? CIEKV `IL VHIUU `ylgu Uuu \IlltL.V V./A49 Fur surel. Thls is no haul. There isn't 'uuft' money in this to pay me fur wulkin half a mile. _1--.... L- `Dhn ha-J Witllilu uuu n xuuv. A ` It will gure up close to $300, and it seems to me that is pretty fair pay for ' an hour s work." shat up. Now, then. git outer bed. What for? . \ eI`m goin' to tie yer fast while ! ransac-ks the crib. Where s the wife and children? Out in the country. . That's good. I ll hev the crib all to meself. Put on yer trousers. Now sit` down. - -n .1 , 1 ,u, -__2_._n. LL`- u.vJ'I. UUWH. ' . He placed the chair against the rad!`- ator, and as I sat down hewhipped a! sheet on . the bed. tore it in strips and 1 tied me to both chair and radiator. He t was nervous and alarmed all the time. ` but attempted to hide it by blaster. I nally told him that he ought to be ashamed of such nerve and was reward - ed by a cut! on the ear which. kept my headringing for five minutes. When he had secured me to his satisfaction, he- looked me over and said-: . _ , L, -u_I.'_ I_A._I_-.. I-.. at no $`.Z'Z~S `Zi.'&'a&2"a. 53s"7-' "' ' . Ho opcmd |u"'1,h`e,dnweu in IUUBUIJ ILIU UV? LII-I UIIIIIW ``I m goin down into the kitdhgn tor aunthin to eat, and if yer try any (trick: .on me it ll be the wuss fir yer.V 4411. 2.. _. ....- L- ._.. .'l-..... H `I -nnliaai ~Ull III III II UU UI-IU WIIDB bub J It is no use to go down. :.I. replied. . There has been nothing to eat inthee house since the-tolkdwfvent away a week ""'T!?'!.1 !? F:nnmnt' 3, 1393 3! CHARLES 3. LEWIS. :'11 law 00 sgo hungry; Lies : :_ ;_|_:.. 1. .:......u. H mm 1:. s:ou.u'cvi AAA _8..`.. -l .I-...-I.._ |__|n _ .9 , _ _ . , _IQ VII ovuuaa Dav" 9 -:"i ll take a look about. If yer yell `out or try to git awiy. I'll be right on . toyerinaminitl" ' - ~ I) .. 1.11. 4.1.. I._J..-_.._ .-..J ._.-..A A--._ n-sou. o as vwuuvu I u--<-vu- ` `L331: he;/e.` culIyT" he growled as his - `stood looking at me. ,I hevn't found no bankbook yin. " ll ! ._..:...L. I....l. ....A_...`I I.._. ...__...II 1-.. ding. ` 4 ble. .--.. .1-uuuunvnn nut: ~lUv5U~ I-`-ID-W odd piece: of guuu-y. mm adouu old .ooiI_n_c and the bsby o. astlngybnnvk, tuimng llolpenhioo. 6017...`. .....~..I.a-o. _.a_ -_ L-|.'..:v._-._I.I Well, shag ; nnolherxllsappointment. I supposed the burglaryo beabove rob- bing intanteof their"-pennies.` If I'd, had the least idea the: any such man as you was around. I'd have taken precautions to keep yonont. By the way, how did you enter?" ' By the kitchen door. f `` Yes, 1 left it- unlocked in order to save a burglar time` and trouble, Where Ire you going now? T ulnl 5-1.... .. |....|. .|_...; TI _-.. ..'.-n vv saw; - "\`{ !1'ex.v't;\":er I have a dollar left I give _it to the Society of Reformed Burglars. ", `I OIIIL ...... .1..- AL ; (17.11 .......L.. "==a;:;.";'.::;;:;*..., .,.;.~,,t.o.1a you?" I naked in be poured the pennies- into the` pocket of his not con. ` II Ln-I -_I.._ ..-A.Q!I L- -..-_:--1 ---!J-I- - ---v u rvvuvv VI IIIU TUE VUUW A35 why not?" he queried with Q cunning leer. We the biznese of '3 bar- glar to take all what comes. T llI1!-Il AI._AI_ __ -LI_ -.. .1: _- ___-_A__- -..L iv we -0- In on-oun- fie left the b'e'droom and went down! the hall. and I heard him in the gno_st o'j~ chamber and the servant`: room. He was gone about ten minutes. and what: he came back he was in bad temper. As I wasn't. stocked up for burglars he had found no other plunder. act ....I. L--- ..-.n`_n9 |_.L --..-...I-.1 -- L- if yer donV tT bank Ayer Vsuar where is it?` ' ..--y-. - . , q -u u A. c.` n _-u nu Una`: Q-4`--V1 v- -vvcv --V- - 5----u Oh, yer does. eh? -WellT i wants.` more money. See? Yergot. money hid so-mewhere, and if yer don't shell out` I ll cripple yer!" _ uv-....v.... ..-. ....-.._.T.:..n..- 3.. 4.1.... a. no vonrrnv `Iva 0 You've got e'voryTd6Vllar in the house." Withuthab he pulled up a chair, sat down. took a match from his pocket and lifted one of my bare feet on his knee. He was going to burn the sole of my. foot to make me betray the bidingplaco of my cash. nunn .......'a...n .. `-1... 4.\.:..-.m \....:-. IJOJU llvvhu I was about to answer when I saw the form of a policeman in the .door. He ` had seen lights ickering about up. stairs, had entered the yard to nd the- side door and the kitchen door open. Sus- pecting that all was not right, he had entered the house and looked about and made his way up stairs. My burglar had his back to the door. As he held the lighted match in his ngers the ofcer stepped forward and gave him a blow with his club, which knocked _him of! the chair and seemed for awhile to have nished his career. When the hand- cutfs had been slipped on lviv wrists, I was untied, and _the oic-~ cl I sat down to compare notes an(lw:ut for the follow to regain consciousness. We didn't hasten matters by the use of brandy or water or a palm leaf fan. We gave him all the time he wanted, and meanwhile}. went through him and recovered my own. After a long half hour my burglar opened his eyes and sat up and inquired: What's goin on here? Nothing much," I answered. You were not satised with taking all I had, but were going to toiture me in hopes of getting another shilling or two. This ofcer came in just then and cracked your head. V And I'm a prisoner?" You are. 7 Say. gents, I'm a poor. unfortunate man and was driven to this, and I hope yer ll take pity on me, he whined, hav- ing no more pluck than a child. HT 51...-.....I.\J- `L.-...n1.xun nu.-nu.` ks-awn RA- Q-II \lIt|onaIIhr\a\.voI June- ``I might look around here myself for six months_ and not nd one, I an- swered. ` v. -...'y vu- `- wi11'rte11 or take this?" heao~ mand+.adVau he scratched the match on the floor. I-Ulllllllvkl. llI\Ilul a. autumn No, air, they are not. If yer ll let me go, I ll leave this part; of the country and never come back. Gents, think of me dear old mother. V I,_,_ L____ 3--.. -13 Illa IJU JJJ\lL\I ya fax-an vacuum in vod--\-I I thought burglars were brave, de termined men, I -said. - -nu. Wu. AL ._ _--_ -, ..4. 1': _...sn 1-; .....- IMU [AUG]. Ulu Luvvuuso What! Do burglars have dear old mothers to weep and worry when arrest and prison come? _ * l(`7_..~. A-|n'un ..\s.A wound Ot':`l\ HA ISA l1V\- III-I\A `ll. lCI\.Ill uuuaun Yes, air, and my wife will be so up- set that she won : be able to go to her wasbin. " ' , -__, AL- |-___|._...'I -1 - ._....\. WQDLIIIII Then you are the husband of a wash- -woman? 01-- .__._A._ `I'D... ...--_ `VWIIJIOILJ | Iva true, sir. See. gents-I m wep- in. I'm as sorry as I kin be, and if yerTll' let me go I ll never even steal an apple as long as I live. Try me, gents-try a broken hearted, sorrowful `man, who must have been walkin in his sleep, or he'd never hev got in here. T -1. -....._ ...4.. .'l-..I ...- I-A-nan turned back to me and whispered: | [IO U l.l\JV_u| nauv uwv -nu -av-xu And that was_myT ideal, my hero, 9; my burglar. He had come after a`score ' of years of waiting, and I had found him ignorant, vicious and only a step .; above the brutes. I went away and sat down by the hall window and gave way to my grief and disappointment, while the oicer lifted the mudsill to his feet a and walked him down stairs and escort ed him to the station. I hoped the "man ' might nerve up and become a hero as he faced the judge and jury: but, alas, he , pleaded guilty. shed tears when sen- _. teuced, imd as they took him away he I .utr__ ..-.. 1'9... .. `|..........i.._ ..-..a `I --4;. IIIIIJUII IIHUII UV Univ `Dania vvu-liutlvnvvn Yes. air,TI m a burg at, and axes ye: humble pardiug Iur uisturbin of yet sleep that 'nig1'1`t. \( _ I `Automatic Photqgrsphy. ' | We `e'utomatio.pl1otographot a deer taken `at midnight is one of the marvels of photography. This was secured by means of Em automatic arrangement de- vised by Charles Hughes of Red Bluff, Cal. By a mechanical device the "deer, in touching-a linen thread. while mov- ing along a trail at midnight. put inac- * tion the movement which opened the camera, ashed the magnesium powder and then closed the ishjntter, ' - Activity Acoonnted For; "I have been reading, said Mrs. Darley, Lord K_elvin s astounding statement that there are 1,000,000,000 molecules in a cubic inch of gas and that in each of these molecules there are several atoms emovinrg among themselves . at the rate.Io!j"70 miles 8: minute. , ..n,,_ _a- __L"nn '......1:...1 "1': haul.- dug..- u WI! ITIIIIU UL IV I-IIILVD II .Graciou! replied II it any? wonder that I_;heAgas meter in en- ; dowdwith perpetual motion? -V-Dotroii ` I"|'_.-`; 1).`...- U 1' \}\l V! av-I Fre Press. Fwlgecause she had been allowed to live in posts during vmost of what should have-been her boarding school days and because" she was pleasant to look upon and to converse with at an age when V most girls are impossible, men had fall- en in love with her pretty much ever I since she could remember. It was said 1 that she had refused all the bachelors in all the frontier regiments. This was V not `far `from the truth. A woman who had married one of the rejected ones `said that refusing was .a habit Miss Hampden had formed, and that it began` - to look as if she might never break ' herself of it. In the nature of things this was repeated to the girl. Her good E `temper was one of her charms. It is " so much better a habit than accepting them all, she argued sweetly. Never- theless, she wondered if there were not ` some truth mingled with the malice. 13-1. `I':.._L-..-..L l -......... ........ Ll... `I....L urvaauug If you knew how often I have heard that! Yet I do not think I am. I am simply sincere, and you are a little too vain, all of you, to grasp the difference. I like you awfully well-no, now, don t misunderstand me. I don t love you, and you are too nice a _fellow to be married- to a girl who only likes you. V uecnue `No, she repeated, `"1 do not think I m spoiled. I am not agitated and tearful \ as I ought to be, perhaps, under the circumstances. I used to be, but I ve " passed that. ` I have been so placed that men were making love to me at an age when other girls were playing with doll. `It's partly because I am pretty and partly, largely, because there are so few women out here. When 1 have been in the east, I h-.wen t made much of a sen- sation. I've grown a bit hardened, per- haps. Custom has dulled the edge-- which was fearfully keen and cutting at rst-of being told that` I am breaking a heart. But though I am only 22 I ve lived to see dozens of you marry and be happy. You'll do the same. 1' llI\L Dunn all-A11 and-I , umnnucnpl T.nun when 1|-nova- a tnwgx-Vnnt and (air. _ mm the thorns at not somewhere about It. And `intoeach 1110'-comb Iludow Imilt ouno. ` ; "L No 1110 is coxmblto Vyithoiit it. L when hoop a mu hail-S as the httlo noun. Romexnboring over, qlwsy. . Tint for ovary night T 0! narrow Ind blight Will be givbn a bright. glad day. ' -larriet Woroqtcr in Good Houuhoplnc. dwell- 1'here are `oolonele and major: and general: and some old captain: who holdthat" ' Isabel Hampden was the most attractive women who ever graced the.) .frontier, and in their time most women ` seemed attractive because of their scaroi- , ty. She was handsome and accomplish- ed and clever and something more than all .these_ which was inexplicable, but very potent. , She had been brought up 3 in garrisons and large cities, and by the . time she was two and twenty she knew i the world rather well. Moreover, she { knew men-not girls and women, but 9 men. H LLL\A-Jay. \H.|.I..I.AV urn " As Miss Hampden waltzed on? with Ardsley she knew that Loring was wrong; that this tall boy, fresh from West -Point, as new in experience of the ` world as the `brass buttons on his blouse, we the man she was going to love. He "would love her, of course. It is to be feared that it did not enter her head that he might not. She liked his strong, I rough cut face, and his jolly, stone 1 3 `gray eyes, and his drawling, heavy d voice, and his Waltzing, and the way i ' he held her. After the dance she deter- ? mined that she liked his hands, and 4 when she looked-at them she saw a ring. ' Is that your class ring?" she said. Yes, he told her. A e . May I see it? ~ . He gave it to her, and while she ex amined it he Eat"an_d admired her. On V his part he liked the women who car- ried themselves haughtily; he liked tall -women; he liked straight black hair . and olive `skin and dark eyes and. large features and . a. neck of statuesque pro.- portionfs. In short, he likedsexaetlyvtho . thi gs he hadnever -1aneied' up tothen. . e-Mii Hampden raised hereyes and met . La . `an..--.;...`:1...a. 1.....a.. as .....`.-. 1:1... " .. VIII? IIOXIIII Cl:lAAll\Q VV DUO! volt OQIUIQQV \ 1 But Lieutenant Loring was the `fast victim of her practice. He proposed to_ her, unfortunately for himself, just after she had met young`Ards1ay. I61 LL-_..l.L LL}- .......-..-..-.. A-`L-L -...nu`I-A --:`i-;:"h:o`1;.=,V'1;tJ1`:'hi.; that maybe I would marry you, said Miss Hamp- den. But I've changed my mind some ._-- 9! VVIIJe Loring was accustomed to a great deal of frankness from her, but itclashed with his notions of feminine modesty for a woman to have entertained thoughts of marriage before the offer thereof. ` L A '3, ,,,, "L 2,, Ucnvo vvou Weren t you just val trie prompt in determining my intentions? he asked. Has the event proved me wrong? she returned. 1 He lost his temper. You are spoiled, he said. ` - `GTO uuncn `run:-no `urn:-I A`I-an T I-not-VA |-Inn-nu` I880 - 1 Oh, yes, you will, Jack, and I ` shan t mind! N ow I've promised to dance this with the new Mr. Ardsley, and if we stay out here any longer every -one will guess what ha happened. ~ Thoy 11 know when they see me. Dun-`ts be a goose, Jack. Ic s only the heart that is trying to take itself . aeri- ously that exhibits the pain. - u'n.._n.. :.-.....-.... .. ....1..;-..A. ....... Lu...-. Avian Oh, no, I i':m_ uvnn -s`i1vza.1'lmx'1ot;!, moaned Lor- T II`, VIA 1 can no.3 UUBLJ uuuu VAAALIIILD vuv yuan Don t discuss a subject you know nothing about. `You have no heart. IL. 1.51. I...;. ....:4.I,. .... ...................A...A 1..-.-mu nnsava-coca vuvvv-an -vu ---u v V -' uuy.-.- . - He left her with an exaggeratea how as young Ardsley camo up. , A- mr..'.... u....-...:.... .....14.......1 Am A4-1.` nu val Block; III ,|u_'g_-,unuu- lhlnoout run th `blue " For you, hrothor. unotlmo, some any. ' `"1 an glad .;*;u`t.:.hink so, as Icon- ivod the degign. . - H9 axpeoted to be |:a1.} th_z\t he was clever; ,, ' 0 __-_ -31 .`.I.-r...l.I -_`.1 A.I.-n. `run; ltllull MU Nun vlvvvou Indeed I" was all ghq aid, and that ' ` \ i1'hdier0ntly.- ` 'll`I:l -.'.. _--I-I " bknnat wan ) tnaybgtheyennnronilannboiunddnrl. " kt A n1-ndn vii. ndrnntfln. dflfl Aiv. asnwu 5&2!-llriaunn n-Iauaw\- -y- viwt --- ---- hia. She smiled, but it was like no smile-she had ever lieatowed on a. man before. He looked at Igor very gravely, and her hand closed tightly over the ring; In dznoment she was studying it ` TRIAL BY FIRE. Ilyilleyurllruluaplnnutluuultlc - itthg` g].f`.' Iomogtimp. stir. [tho nlilllhl .1; ghfdnol an an! Qhn hlhn iike this. In unumw she "said. __i- J __.#I LI_2..I.. __ A- T --._ IIIIILUL Ull U! '!fow 9:>i`l- lithe!` thought you ! `ta cunsucl; IDS 'rI1nNoIu~ai:1N ADVANCE. ;xo`nxo it, You are not addicted 607331833-, it ' Vvq1_'x}d`uqn. ~- 1 % ` Us 1 D 9 IA nl 9,_l 9;. vv VI-cu wv_w_-ne C `I am. no . But, I, don't think it would have at_terin'g to he sur- pris_ed,_that you have done `it. It struck ine as beingquite the thing youwould naturally do." V "That is very pretty. It is perfectly, true. It happened oddly enough that Arde- ley chanced not to have heard. of Miss Hampden s reputation by the next night.` He was rudely awakened to 5 knowledge of it. There were private theatrical: in the hopreom, and Miss Hempden was the .-leading lady. Now the suitor was ` quite recovered, and he meant to play a joke on those in the audience who were n`ot-and` these were some eight or ten. three of .them married. He proposed to the heroine in nicely rend lines and was rejected by herwith ' a perfection that spoke her practice. So the audience thought, and it laughed. When the laugh had su_bsid,e.da the here arose from his knees. He walked to the footlights and sighed. ' II AL --A11 ,9 LA I nn':J T `snug nu-A `fAh, we11, ie:aaid, I have one Vcrumb of comfort--I an: not the only. man in this place who is in the same x! " ' -'j.`he astouiided Ardsley looked about himA,`andehe picked out the entire num- ber by their faces. Miss Hampden drepped her head in her handsean V laughed with the rest. ' 13-5--..--u `LA nn`n Lou`:-1113:: u-rennin tin, `-'-'s7i?3;'a?e 3 "E3352 hom with. Miss Hampden? he asked. [(7 1--.. _- __A --.311 `:`\`D4\ -nan nAn `In; &-u6-vu 1: sun: um-v a-_y--vv Between the act Ardsley made in- quiries and learned the truth. He was bitten with a desire to obtain the `unat- tainable, and he was not one to dally. He went behind the scenes. I. ,...Z _ ELI- JSJDD -LLIII-lllfinvnlo xv vuuumvwuu I fear no one will take me after tho light Mr Graves has put me in. May I do so? She nodded. and Ardsley went back to his cat. ` . UV-I a.-an -away vu So you hive refused the entire army? he asked as they walked home. Not quite. ` ' The entire department? Well, he fair percentage of it, she admitted. Are you going to refuse me? I can t say until you are offered. I oifer myself now. And I accept you now. . V Good enough. Will yon announce our engagement tonight at supper? \ at A1. 1.1.. _:..1- -1` l..'.:...-.`. ...J~'...I..u.J in O A few weeks ago I was left to keep bachelor's hall while the rest of the family paid a visit in the country. One night at midnight, as I peacefully slept in my bed, something happened to arouse me. It took me a minute or two to discover what that something was. but I made no mistake. A man stood over me with a cocked revolver held close to my head, and as he saw that I was awake he growled: * LII