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Greed For Gold Or, The 5»gn of the Arrow .^^-a CHAPTER XVI. Grayne Hall.--The drawing-room.-- Vere--Vere still in mourning for her mother, although a full year since her death had elapsed--and her maid talking. "You may say what you like, Miss " does not alter facts. She i > a governess to 'a taking the posi-i hold--mistress." you, and now s tion you ought "Hush, Lucy }'" "It is the truth, Miss Vere. The place is not the same since she set foot in it." "You must not say such things, Lucy. My father likes her--Jikes her very much." "Which is more than I do, miss; and she knows it too, and will pay me out for it. You will see, she will work things so that presently I shall be discharged-" "Oh no, Lucy." "Oh, 1 know, miss. Sorry I shall be, goodness knowns, to leave you, after knowing you from almost a baby; but I can see farther than my nose. Governess indeed ! You'll find she wont be satisfied till she governs us. She just twists Sir George round her finger-" "Hush, Lucy ! you must not talk so cf my stepfather." "1 beg your pardon, miss; but it just galls mo to see her come here only a little over a year ago as a servant, and now behaving just as if Perhaps it would be 1 if he "That w , Lucy--plea > my i And obediently the maid left the room. The servants felt very bitterly against Miss Westcar, and Miss Westcar knew it; and tho very knowledge made her wield her whip the more. A protest meant discharge; the household staff knew that from experience. It was quite true that the guidance of the house had devolved on Vere's late governess. She was something more than that now. She had mado herself indispensable to Sir George, and she so cleverly manipulated that gentleman and tho things surrounding him that he could not bear her absence from the place. As the maid left the room Vere sighed, and said "Ei the f strange power she ■ it--thii >rge. :. is 1 turn him round her finger." It is a foolish thing to speak one's thoughts aloud at any time, more foolish when there is in the house a lady who would not hesitate to listen. And that was so at Grayne Hall. Miss Westcar had been standing in the conservatory during tiie conversation, and she instantly resolved that the maid's prediction of her own discharge should be verified. Now she was standing in the drawing-room entrance. Then she advanced, and said : "As your governess-, dear it is my duty to tell you that to think aloud is outre; as a woman of tho world I may add, by way of advice, that it is a dangerous habit to fall into. And this 'she' and 'him' you were mentioning, and the finger-twisting process--Stay I ask to whom you were referring ?--what it meant?" She knew quite--perfectly--well, but she wanted to entrap the girl, wanted some real reason of complaint to caxry to Sir George. As yet her power was not great enough. Despite his 1 ea/i-over-heels belief in Miss Westcar, the old man was not quite blind to the duty he owed his dead wife's daughter. Her youth and inexperience had be< She threw away the stalk of the rose and picked up a photograph of the man she was thinking of, and looked at it more closely. "He loves me, I know, and I, try hard as I may- Oh, what a fool I am ! Why should I let this feeling for him find place in- I will end It. Sir George shall send him away. The thing is growing--dangerous." And then a man's voice--the voice of a man who had entered the unperceived : "Holding my photograph, Miss Westcar ? Drop the shadow for the substance--hold me," She was angry with herself for being found out in that way; but she drew herself together and repulsed his approach. She must set her foot on this feeling and crush it down. She put tho photograph back, and But he laughingly st his back to the door £ left by, and said : "Don't go away yet. thing to say to ynu, say. My time here i "Short ?" "1 am leaving for--for : I must say--be seated--pl< He indicated a chair, and she sat. She felt that she knew what he was going to say--that a crisis had arrived; and she steeled herself to meet I have somc-which I must s very short." it. i betw i her the ngers, Westcar." :an readily be s do not often But yoi them my question ?" "About my thoughts, Miss Wes car? My thoughts are my owi Pray pardon me." She bowed coldly and passed froi the room. A mocking smile ran over Miss Westcar's face, a smi with a blend of triumph in it, as she j, said • i "The fool ! the childish fool ! But ] she is right, though. I can twist Sir j. George round my linger; and 1 shall. . too when the twisting-time arrives;, --the time of twisting the wedding- | ring round my linger. Lady Grayne I --um ! sounds a deal better than i the plain 'Mrs.' I was called with I Alfred. Poor wretch ! I suppose I he is wearing himself out in a con- I .vict ceil. Well, it is the fortune of ivellini CHAPTER XVlL "I have quarrelled with my uncle." "Your uncle ?" "Well he is a sort of uncle, you know--by marriage." that I was sori-y you had quarrelled with your kinsman." "It was about you." "About--me ?" "He said things about you which, relative of mine as he is, I could not suffer him to say in silence." ' "Concerning--me ?" "Oh, in no offensive way; do not think that. On the contrary," be added bitterly, "he could scarcely have spoken of you in warmer terms had he cared for you as mjuch as I do." Evelyn felt a thrill of satisfaction. The old man was even " speaking warmly of her to others. Truly the seed she had sown had germinated. And the plant that was growing ? Well, she had tended it very carefully; she deserved the gathering of the fruit. Keggie was continuing : "We had the usual war of words-- the usual sermon, my extravagance. He is my guardian, you know, and I suppose he considers that a license for preaching to me; and he used the same old text, 'As you sow, so shall you reap.' " And Evelyn thought to herself if rich would be her harvest! And what she feared was coming, came. "Evelyn, you know me--you know I am not altogether a bad egg, don't you ? And you must know that so far as you are concerned--" She would have given the world to stop him, but she had no means of doing so save by positive rudeness, and that she felt she could not exercise; she cared for him too much, and cursed her folly at the caring. "The result of my display of temper to-day has been that my uncle has. practically, shown me the door Well. I am going. My income is nearly a couple of hundred a vear without a farthing's help from him. And that's why I want to talk to you, Evelyn; to ask you to share that with me in content till things get better and briefs come in--as "Then you do care for me ? Answer me--honestly ?" "Honestly, I do care for j-ou." "And caring surely merges into love ?" She had to admit to herself that it had done so in her own case, and bitterly regretted the admission all the while she so thought. She answered slowly : "Perhaps." "And people have been known to niarry for love-" "Really ?" "Sometimes." "What, in real life ?" She shrugged her shoulders as .she spoke, and the eagerness left him; it was so expressive that shrug. "Are you citing such instances as examples which I should follow ?-- expecting me to do so ? "No," he answered slowly, "net expecting it--now. And yet there have been women who have found a man's love brighten up a poor home and give it a brilliancy far exceeding a loveless rich one.' "That would be very pi-ctty, Reggie, on the stage where the 'poor but honest' maxim finds such favor; | and such well-turned sentences no doubt steadily increase the circulation of the cheap novelettes. But there is no proof of the truth of it in actual life. Can you tell me of ore instance of a woman who has taken the horrible plunge into poverty for what you term 'love,' who, after a short time, will not sell her very soul to get head and shoulders above the slough again ?" "Evelyn, let us come to the point. Honestly, do you care for me?" "Again, honestly, yes." "Much ?" "As much as ever I cared for any one--and more." "Will you marry me?" "Why not ?" "I will tell you why plainly--even if it sounds brutal. Because I understand the subject we have been discussing very much better than you do. Love in a cottage is a very pretty picture to look upon, but hateful to endure. I loathe poverty --the horrible, horrible, "grinding want of money !" "Is money everything to you, Evelyn ?" He put the question--he little knew how he had touched the spot. To Evelyn it was indeed everything. (To be Continued.) HOW SLEEP MAY BE WOOED. She i ing bin all f uck the financial note she hardened up at once. She was as acute on the money question as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The chord vibrated. He called back to her the thought of her scheme "I km reated \ • yo igs of this life, and i away you might miss tl of Grayne Hall; but, Ev going to ask you to go t away with i Most of the mental devices for wooing sleep have failed because they have nearly always tried to resort to "local treatment;" in other words, they have made a homeopathic attempt to stop thinking about something else--a process which might also be called "elimination by substitution." But all thinking, spontaneous or forced, draws more or less blood to the brain, prevents deep inhalations and bars the gate to the kingdom of dreams. Any device, on the other hand, which will make take deep, long breath.' ly (the invariable forerunner oi sleep) may be counted upon as a. genuine remedy for insomnia. Even deep breathing which is forced, is better than any purely mental attempt to win sleep. But if the deep breathing can be produced involuntarily one is sure of a passport to Nodland. After several nights of experinie.il to this end the present writer decided to apply the principle adopted by the masseurs, who begin their manipulations "at the point farthest from the scat of difficulty," which, in the case of insomnia, would be the feet. Lying on the right side, with the knees together, and considerably flexed, the victim of insomnia should begin to pedal both his feet slowly up and down, with the movement entirely in the ankles. The pedaling should keep time with the natural rhythm of respiration and be continued until it is followed by deep and spontaneous .breathing. Several people who have tried this remedy report that involuntarily deep breathing- invariably begins before they halve pedaled up and down a dozen times. In obstinate cases of insomnia, the patient may need to keep up the pedaling two or three STABLE CARE OF HORSES. Among the horses in this country there is probably more suffering from mistaken kindness and lack of skill and judgment, than from deliberate cruelty or wilful neglect. An immense mass of empiricism, prejudice and false notions in relation to horse management in health and disease has become traditional, and is handed down from one generation to another. Even when the horse is in apparent health, with no morbid symptoms whatever, it is bled, purged and blistered; harsh diuretics and "condition powders" of unknown composition are administered, with no very definite or intelligent aim, but under the vague idea that such treatment will somehow improve the condition and appearance of the horse. If we are to retain the pristine health and vigor of the horse under the artificial conditions of domestic servitude, we must furnish it as far as possible with equally pure air, wholesome food and water it has while running wild. In the first place, the stable must be kept perfectly clean at all times. When allowed to remain in such a condition that if a man stays ten minutes his clothing becomes saturated with pungent ammoniacal odors, it is not a fit place in which to keep a horse. The animal cannot retain perfect health in an atmosphere loaded with foul gasses. The stalls and floor must be cleaned every morning and kept clean. The droppings and wet, foul litter should not be tossed through a hole behind the stall, and left piled up there a reeking dunghill, with the gases and odors of fermentation penetrating the stable. To say nothing of the waste of manure, which is often an item of some importance, such a practice is utterly incompatible with pure air in the stable. The manure and litter should be kept in a sheltered place and frequently sprinkled with some absorbent, as gypsum, swamp muck, or if nothing better is at hand", dry coal ashes or road dust. During warm weather the stall?, guttets and entire floor should bo washed frequently with plenty of water. Dry land plaster sprinkled plentifully on the floor will absorb ammoniacal emanations, but when wet it becomes a sticky, objectionable mass. A solution of coppers, at the rate of one ounce to two gallons of water, sprinkled freely in the stable, is a very effective deodorizer. When the stable is cleaned up in the morning the partially soiled bedding which is to he used again should ho removed o some other part of the stable to near the horse's head, in rith a quite t .uld the i table? >n.«? if the feet, alter The t The i the xplai , kn< vay-- ' go and he When he gains his liber-i 1 shall have changed my name by arriage, and be moving in a circle e is never likely to even touch the Inge of. Sir George has one foot i the grave; once married, it will 2 difficult to help the other -e shall be better off later on." "Meanwhile ?" It was almost the first thing she had said; she had let him tali. And now the way she did speak rather disconcerted him, she spoke so cold- "We "Cat ha lagine mise ing Sat- sult obtained is probably s blood is pumped from the hea with the removal of brain ten general relaxation follows, witl quent deep) respiration and i suiting sleep. dry, and manger, or custom. How groom enjo :e one under SCRUB AND PEDIGREE, e march of pedigree stock like a mighty avalanche is sweeping over this country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, bringing a new prosperity to the farm with improved stock, enrie'eing the soil,-and marketing the farm crops at pedigree prices, driving the scrub back with the ox team to oblivion. Professor Burnett says: "The scrub lust give place on higfi priced land i the Angus, the Hereford, the Shorthorn, and the other beef breeds, which can be grown and finished for the market in from eighteen to twenty-four months, and be sold at the top of the market. "If inferior little should make equal gains for the food consumed they still produce an inferior grade of carcass which is worth fi'om 10 to 25 per cent, less than the well bred and the well grown steer. If tho inferior steer is produced without loss, the premium on the better steer is profit. There is a very great, difference in the value per pound of a well bred calf and a iscrub. The well bred calf pays you a profit on every bushel of corn and every ton of alfalfa he eats. He is an embryo gold mine as he waits to be shunted down prosperity track; the other calf has a hang dog look. He would much better be hung young. "The feeder of mature cattle often selects inferior grades of steers, of colors on account of their lower cost as feeders, and claims there is greater profit in them. This may be true with the man who feeds, but how about the man who raised the feeder? If good feeders sometimes sell for more than they are worth this raising them." SRAINS OF GOLC. Philosophy is nothing but discretion.--John Selden. The only wealth which will not decay is knowledge.--Langfoid. Ali imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.--Johnson. Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.--Henry Ward real influence is measured by He c IglH 3 be thin] 2 of hii funeral than marriage, and yet I can see that he is on the point of prjH>osing matrimony to me." She took a rose from a vase and stood thoughtlessly picking it to pieces, petal by petal, "What curious creatures men are ! --1 might say women, too. Who would have imagined that in my nature love would ever find a place ? And yet, try to root it out as I Till, I feel an indescribable thing, which be love; and for a boy Reggie . Grayne, boy. If the old -it i for ,uld 1 Heggi. iventy-year-old luspected this By courtesy cle.' But the boy is not a favorite. urday shopping in tl bargaining with the butcher for a joint, perhaps, and rubbing shoulders with all the- Ugh ! It is too horrible to contemplate. Whilst byway of recreation, perhaps, I should have the darning of your socks, the buttoning of your shirts. No, my dear Reggie, I have a soul above sruch things." She had, and an ambition too--an ambition with such a summit that he would never see its peak, and a method of climbing it that would have made him turn from her in loathing and horror--had he known. Her sarcasm made him say moodily: "Arid yet I have been foolish enough to think you cared for me." "Nothing particularly foolish in i Alcott. t of yo sclf.- ought V\i. i.n alwa; i Wint Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.--Landor. Politeness is a sort of guard which covers the rough edges of our character and prevents their wounding others.--J oubert. The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.--Ruskin. A bride is highly prized, yet she i SHEEP NOTES. By continually changing no one can build up a line flock. Merinos will make good mutton if the sheep are properly handled and made fat. In purchasing sheep to form a flock, buy none but first-class animals. Keep in mind that the earliest lambs in market always bring the best prices. The flesh of the sheen partakes of the flavor of its food more than that of any other animal. The sheep that is sold for mutton because it is not worth keeping hardly helps the sale of mutton as a For poor lands and short pastures sheep are decidedly better adapted than cattle. The most unfavorable conditions under which sheep can be kept is in feeding on low, marshy pastures. Assort and grade the flock of sheep intended for market according to One good sheep will bring in more clear profit than two poor ones; ln fact, poor ones are often kept at a the best investment a sheep fanner The fleece and the carcass make up the sheep, and if either is inferior, the sheep is inferior, no matter how good the other may be. It is much the better plan to keep sheep in a good condition all the time,, much better than to allow them to run down a part of the A lamb is, perhaps, the most difficult of all animals to recuperate after it has once started down hill. To improve any kind of farm ai imals and to fix their chief characteristics it is necessary to cross only animals of similar types and characteristics. One advantage with wool growing is it is a product which does not take fertility from the soil as grain growing. Fattening sheep should not be allowed much range to run over, but should be kept in a small lot where they can be kept quiet. THE KING 01 HIS YACHT Strict Etiquette Is Observed, But All on Board. Enjoy Themselves. When the King of Great Britain is on board his yacht the daily routine is in many respects much what it is on the yacht of any wealthy Britisher. His Majesty has an early cup of tea taken to his bedside, and he appears on deck at an hour when the white boards have scarcely had time to recover from the morning "swill." Being a keen and practical yachtsman, the King knows the value of a before-breokfast blow. Unless invited specially, the distinguished visitors on board do not intrude until His Majesty has had an opportunity of a chat with the superior officers on board as to the yacht's projected course for the day, and other matters. But a few minutes before breakfast is announced there is--if the weather is favorable --a general meeting of Royal host and visitors on deck. Sometimes the King will look in upon the crew at breakfast, or he will make one or two suggestions respecting the yacht's fittings and When £ t ob- l the King di tomary habit of breakfasting alone; when yachting His Majesty takes his place at the head of tho table and forms one of a cheery party. In spite of all that has been said to the contrary, the King is not a large eater, nor is he particularly given to very rich dish-His Majesty is extremely fond of A GOOD CUP OF COFFEE, long reported that when paying a visit to the Con-' inent a special coffee-making indi-idual was engaged. Soon after breakfast the newspa-_ ers, letters and telegrams arrive-- that is, if the yacht is lying off a part of the- coast where there is a post-office and railway station. when taking a haliday the King has a large amount of daily business to attend to; documents requiring his signature, various State papers and numerous official papers needing Royal assent or approval gone carefully through. The King's secretary and an assistant make matters as light as possible, but there is much that must be done by His Majesty himself. Towards noon, when business for he time being is finished, the King goes on deck. Often he will smoke a i igar and sit about genially chatting- with his guests, or else he will peruse a newspaper and watch the crew attending to their many duties. There are nearly always some ladies among the company, and to these guests His Majesty is as attentive as any junior officer could be. An elderly lady of title once told the present writer that the King's manner toner can be. LUNCHEON ON BOARD the King's yacht is not by any means an elaborate meal. Being a true sailor at heart, the King is al-wuys loth to spend much time during the best part of the day at table. He i be. If the luncheon eader of the band is requested to nish his programme on deck. Karh„timo that the King returns to he deck after an absence of any rngth he carefully consults the compass, the quarter of the wind, and such other important issues as go to make up the interest of life on a yacht. If some members cf the party are desirous of going sight-seeing on shore His Majesty takes a share in giving the orders to the men who are to escort the party, and ho offers his personal counsel to his guests as to the places of the vicin-ty best worth i tea may or m l deck. The ladie thei ; be i special i handing function, and they delight i the dainty cakes and pastries round without the aid of a man servant. Much pleasant chat is exchanged while drinking tea; there is none of he formality of dinner attending it, nd bright talk and laughter freely ringle with the rattle of tea cups nd saucers. Should there be an in-alid guest on board, he or she is /heeled up to the tea party in a forget, for a [ lea' i whic: FLESH IS HEIR. Dinner usually lasts about forty ed, tnough the King never forget: that he is on board his yach-that the solemn walls of Buck Palace and Windsor Castle a away. WThen the King rises fl on cloaks and wraps before ing to the deck, where they ently joined by the men guesti SWINDLING AS A ME ART The Gang and female Accomplices Known in Scotland Yard. The French police have in custody, several members of a gang of alleged swell mobsmen, who have, it is supposed, carried on their practices all over Europe--in London, Paris, Gibraltar, Ostend, Brussels, Baden-Baden, Naples, Trouville, Monte Carlo, Nice and also in Cairo. They were arrested in Treuville and Paris, but only two, named Randeli and Ross,, will be detained in prison, writes a Paris correspondent. All the others, whose names are Maclaren-Innes, Deakin, Macdonald, Brown, Bloom-field, March and Waters, will be released in a few days, when the Minister of the Interior has signed the decree of expunsion, banishing them from France. Ross is detained in custody for having at Trouville attempted to rob an English gentleman named Green of several betting tickets of the valuo of £20. Randall was arrested for stealing a pocketbook containing £600 from a horse dealer residing at Neuilly. Both men will come up for trial shortly. The gang is known to the Scotland Yard authorities, and M. Hennron, the head of the French secret police, and two of his smartest officers, MM. Aschwenden and Garrette, have been watching them all the summer, following them from Trouville to Dieppe and finially to Paris. At Dieppe, Bloomfield, March and Waters arrived at tbe Hotel Royal on a splendid automobile. About a week later they are accused of having decamped without paying their hotel bill. They abandoned the motor car. The detectives tracked them to Paris, where all three were staying at different hotels. They had in their possession the usual sharpers' accessories--"faked" roulet wheels, marked cards and several ingenious appliances for cheating at baccarat. I was shown by the police a largo collection of labels which had been removed from the trunks of the alleged swindlers, showing that they had stayed at the best hotels at the places they visited. They are mostly tall, good-looking men, nlways faultlessly clothed. They occupy the best rooms in the establishments where they stay, dine at fashionable restaurants, and generally give one the impression that they are English gentlemen of independent fortune, spending a holiday abroad. As an indication of the luxurious fashion in which their wardrobes are furnished, it may be stated that on being ar-few days ago, one of the gang .asked tho police to keep a sharp ' ' unks as they contained £200 worth of clothes. SELECTING THE "PIGEONS." It appears that when the gang has -laid its plans to work a certain re-rate and take Is. When they eons," as they their victims, they find some for engaging them-in conver-, "And it is rather strange," , French detective to me, "that gh Englishmen are very reserv-home, when abroad if another Englishman addresses them in their jmmon language, they never seem > suspect him." The swell mobsman is an expert judge of character. He seems to know instinctively the man who has ty or money which can be swindl->ut of him, and when he has once succeeded in breaking the i request for "Good morn nsuspicious racy becomi acquaintance havo selected the ght, by a polite ir by some equally e, further inti-The new-found ted to accompany !l-dressed fellow-countryman to the races, where the 5 several of his accomplic-ictions follow. The chief mentions that he has a in hand, on which he in-it £200 or £300.. The strongly advised to do If he demurs he is usually persuaded to back the certainty with just £100. Of course, the horse the gr- anger i iwell mobsmen divide the spoils. The disconsolate "pigeon" is afterwards invited to dinner, and later is requested to take a hand at cards in tho rooms of one of the gang. By means of exceedingly ingenious aids to swindling the process of robbing tho victim is continued, and when he gets tired of losing money or has no more, another "pigeon" is caught an similarly plucked. At Trouville members of the gang were seen speaking to some of the most prominent members of the British aristocracy, who evidently little guessed the real character of their faultlessly-attired and charmingly-mannered neighbors. M. Hennion says that he has some other members of the gang under observation, and that if they are not arrested before the winter they will probably be heard of at Nice and Monte Carlo when the Riviera season FEMALE ACCOMPLICES. The members of the gang are usually accompanied by several good-looking women of considerable personal attractions and with a generous supply of jewelry. These women frequently play an important part in ' g the "pigeons." One of the nrost successful of these female accomplices is the beautiful Mrs. D---, formerly well-known as a barmaid at a leading hotel in London. She it was who completely captivated a Yorkshire gentleman at Marseilles last winter, and on his way back to compartment with her she performed the narcotic trick ile confederates "pigeon s pocket--- and her husband aid £24 per week for None of then? wo-been arrestee**,