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._ my“, rQIjE-PK’ ‘. ,:,-< '14; I.«' -*.i . on CASTE; CHAPTER XX. Frank Harcourt had said to him- self that he would go back to town upon the following day, believing that to go back to town would be the wisest thing that he could do ; and yet, when the next day came, it found him still at Woodlands. Perâ€" haps he had not the Courage to atâ€" tempt so speedy and unexpected a departureâ€"to take a step that would arouse a hundred questions and con- 'jcctures. "I shall feel rather like a fool if I run away,” he even said to himself. "If a man is always to take to his heels whenever he comes withâ€" in sight of temptation, he is likely to have an active time of it.” Was he to pass another day with: out speaking to her ? l-Ie vowed to himself suddenly that he would not ; he would be careful ; he would perâ€" mit himself no repetition of the folly of Sunday, but he would go to the house and call on Mrs. Trelawney, andâ€"enjoy the delight at least of looking again at Dorcas. It was nearly three o’clock then. He should find Letty at home, he knew, for she was at home always ; but, as he apâ€" proached the house, he began to vex himself with fears of missing Dorcas. On a fine (lay like this she was most likely to be out,- he told himself ; and so indeed it proved, for Letty, as she came irto the room, greeted him with an exclamation of regret. “Oh ! 1 am so sorry, but Dorcas has gone to spend the afternoon at Mrs. Gibson’s,” she said. "Has she ? That is just my luck. you see,” Frank answered, in a tone of vexation. “I have been looking for her all the morning, hoping she might be coming to skate." “No ; she skated a little yesterâ€" day, but she did not care about go- ing back again toâ€"dayâ€"in fact, I don’t think she had anybody to go with,” said Letty innocently. "I wonder if she would have gone with me i” cried the young man, with a sudden impulse, his prudenâ€" tial resolves in an instant gone to the winds. “I am sure she would,” said Letty. “Do you think she would go with me if I came for her toâ€"morrow ?” “I should think she would like it very much.’ ’ “Then, Mrs. Trelawney”â€"eagerlyâ€"- "will you tul. her I will call for for her ? At what hour shall I come ‘2 At eleven o’clock?” “I think eleven o’clock would do very nicely. She will enjoy it, I am sure, so much,” said Letty grateful- ly, delighted to have secured a. plea- sure for her darling. V - "I ‘daresay I shall get into hot water about thisâ€"but I’m hanged if I care i” he said "mpetuously to himself, with, most reprehensible recklessness. as he walked rapidly along the frost-bound road to Wood- lands. _ ’ And he was so unwiser elated that. he almost laughed aloud as he picâ€" tured to himself the effect that would be produced at Woodlands toâ€"morâ€" row when he should announce his inâ€" tention of forsaking the Company of his two fair friends there for that of Dorcas Trelawney. But, as it turned out, he was spar- ed either the pain or the pleasure of making this announcement, for when he came down to breakfast next morning, he found upon his plate on the table a little note, bearing his name upon it, in a handwriting that me did not know, indeed, but that some instinct told him in a moment ,was Miss Trelawney’s. It had happened, unfortunately for him, on this special morning, that he was the last to enter the breakâ€" fast room ; the rest of the family were all assembled when he sat down in his place, and every feminine eye in the room (as he Was guiltin aw-are) Was on him, either openly or furtively, as he took his letter up. It was a very short note, and it was as cold as the winter morning. “Dear Mr. Harcourt”â€"-Dorcas had writtenâ€"“Mamma was mistaken when she thought that I should like to skate toâ€"mor-row. As I have no intention of skating again,. please do not trouble yourself to come and fetch me.” That .was " the whole ; and she signed herselfâ€""Trulyxyours', Dorcas Trelawney.” maeseeeoseeeoeeoeem Weceeeeeee ‘ §CGNFUSION i § i srvsus, '1 g 01- ‘ . c I'ioesungy, I I - -_Vs.r‘ 7 C Nobility of Soul. He made up his mind without 'alâ€" most a. moment's hesitation, that he would go and ask Dorcas'for an ex- planation of her letter. Its tone had disturbed and puzzled him, and to go to her, and ask her what she meant by it. seemed. the only. nae tural and straightforward thing to do. So, half perplexed and half angry, he presented himself at eleven o’clock, in spite of Dorcas’ injuncâ€" tion, at the Trelawney’s door. It was Dorcas alone whom he wanted to see, so he asked for her when the servant let him in, and a minute after he had been shown into the drawing-room she came to him there. She kAmC rather quickly, in a vexed way. She did not think that he had not come in spite of her let- ter, but she thought that he had somehow failed to receive her letter, and she was annoyed, because now she saw she should have to tell him i_n words (which are ‘ often so far from easy to speak, especially when you are not sure of your own desire to utter them) what she had been flattering herself for the last few hours that she had told 'him already so very neatly and effectually on paper. “I wrote to prevent you from tak- ing the trouble of coming,” she said, “And why did you not want me to come ‘2" he instantly demanded. “I think you understand, though you will not allow that you do,” she said sadly. "Upon my word, I do not !” (KNO 1?” “Noâ€"a thousand times over i” “Well, I only mean this : I think that something you have heard about us since Sundayâ€"something you have heard aboutâ€"mamma”â€"with a drop in her voice, and a sudden tender- nessâ€""has made you ashamedâ€"” And then a lump came into her throat, and she stopped. “I don’t quite understand you,” he said. He felt intensely sorry for the girl, into whose face the color had flushed hotly. He began to speak quickly and eagerly. "'I don’t quite understand , you, but if you mean anything about your mother’s marriage, then you are tery wrong in what you think, for I have known that always.” “You have ?” she said, with quick surprise. “Most certainly I have.” “Of course I believe what you say” she answered, after a few moments’ pause ; “and, as that is so, I am wrongin what I thought. At least, I mean I am wrong in part of it. But stillâ€"I have'been thinking, and I see it has been a mistake”â€"and‘ then her voice began to tremble a littleâ€"“I see it has been a mistake in us to try to‘mect together again now in anything like the same way in which we did when you were here long ago. We were both children then, and our different positions did not matter, you know. But now we cannot meet any longer as if we were equals, when in reality we are not equals. I mean socially," she said, with a little touch of pride. “We cannot be friends when the peo~ ple you upon me.” “What have you to do with thel people I live amongst ?” he answer- ed hotly. The color had come to his face : his position was a painful one. He could neither deny what she had said, nor assent to it ',‘. for how could he deny it when it was so nearly true ? and how could ' the assent to it when assent meant seâ€" live amongst look down a To prove to you..,thab Dr. Chase's Olntment'ie a certain and absolute cure’ for each and every form of itching, bleediugand protruding piles, the manufacturer-shave guaranteed it. See tes- timonials in the daily press and ask your neigh- bors what they think of it. You can use it and‘ getgour money back if not cured. ('ch a box. at all ealere or EDMANSON,BATE3 6: Co.,'f‘oronto, QrQ‘Ghasée’s Ointment; paration from her ‘2 “You may be very certain that I do not care a straw for what the Warburtons think i” V , I ' “Yesâ€"but you care for what your mother thinks,” she said, in a low voice. And then he was confused for a / second or two, and she saw his conâ€" fusion. "Of course Icare for what my mother thinks,” he answered hastily after that momentary silenceâ€"“but what has that to do with your argu~ ment ? There is nobodyâ€"nobody in the worldâ€"who would appreciate you more than my motherâ€"if she knew Juan." It was certainly hard for him that he could not say to her, “My moth- er is not like the Warburtons. I have but to speak a word to her, aid she will come to see you." He had scarcely ever in his life longed to say anything more than he longed to say this, and yet he could not do it. All he. could do was to ask her presently not to make him sufâ€" fer for the prejudices of other peo- ple. “What they say I have nothing to do with ; what they think I don’t care a. straw for. But I care for you and your mother, and if you are to turn your backs upon me, 1'11 never come back to Shepton again l” he exclaimed. “We don’t turn our backs upon you. It is not likely we should do that,” she said. “What else do run I-all it when you write me such a. note as you did last night' ?” "I wrote what I did last night he- cause”â€"with a little quiverâ€"“beâ€" cause I thought it would be a relief to you to turn your back upon me.” “What an opinion to have of me!" "I thought you had heard that story about mamma since you were here on Sunday.” ' “I know what made you think that. You thought it because I did not speak to you when we were all skating. Yes, and that is how peo- ple get misjudged !” cried the young man in a burst of indignation. "If you knew the truth, and what it was that really kept me from comâ€" ing to you:â€"” And then suddenly he broke off his sentence, with his face on fire. “You would have spoken to me, I think, if you had not been with Miss Warburton,” Dorcas said, very quietly, after a moment or two’s silence. "Dorcas, I am not ashamed of you l” the young man cried. “I could not leave Maud alone yester- dayâ€"you know I could not. But what has that to do with it ? Ashamed of you !" he repeated hur- riedly. “Did it look much like be- ing ashamed of you to ask you to come to-day and skate with me, be- fore them all ‘P” “You did not ask me to do that of your own will. It was mannna who got you to do it. She told me.” "You thought that I did not, and that I do not, care to be with you?” “I thought, and I think still,”â€"â€"- and then she raised her head, and there came a little quiver in her voiceâ€"“that you would rather not have other people know that you are on intimate terms with any of us." "Dorcas l” he cried. “You will simply drive me wild if you go on treating me like this,” he said. “You see how much power you have to pain me, and so you use your power â€"and it is not generous.” "What is not generous ? To tell you what I believe to be the truth ‘2 I think it is far better to be honest" she said quickly, “than to pretend that you do not understand.” “If I told the whole truth to you at this moment, you would see whether you had been understanding hitherto or not.” And then the blood sprang up into Frank llarcourt’s face again, and the words he did not want, or at least did not dare, to speak, leapt so very close to his lips that he started to his feet, and went to another part of the room, and turnâ€" ed his back upon her that he might not utter them. Was the girl herself glad or sorry when he left her ‘? “When will you let me come again ?” he said to her, as he was bidding her goodâ€" by at the hall door ; but she only shook her Iliad. Throughout all the rest of the day she could not keep from thinking of him’. She tried not to do it, and yet, tryas she would, his Words and looks and tones came back to her. "Was I hard on himâ€"-as he said?” she began to ask herself. "He was so good to me, and I think I never let' him see that I cared .for his goodncSS. Perhaps he has gone away believing that I meant to reproach himâ€"and I never meant to reproach him. Would I not have gone with him gladly toâ€"day if I had only thought of, my own __pleas_ure ? But I let him go away, and never. ~ told From a Skeleton of Skin and icons Mrs. Edwards_.Was Built Up to Health and Strength By Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food. Mrs. R. W. Edwards, 33 McMurl‘ay street, Brantford, Ont., describes her case‘as follows: _.1 "For five years I have suffered more than wor I . ' exhaustion. The pains in my head would at times almost drive me would walk the floor in agony, un me back to bed. “Sometimes I could take no food for four days at a time, ds can tell from nerv0us headache, nervous dyspepsia, and crazy. I could not sleep nights, but til I fell exhausted and unconscious, and my husband would have to carry and experienced terrible gnawing sensations in the stomach, bad taste in the mouth, and coated tongue. I was pale, nervous, irritable. easily ex- hausted, was reduced to a mere skeleton of skin and bone, and my heart would palpitate as though it was about to stop beating. My greatest suffering was caused by the dreadful pains in my head, neck, and back, and all this was in spite of the best efforts of th “For the past nine months I have used Dr. Chase’s Ner ree leading doctors of this city. vo Food, and for a. considerable time I have not experienced a headache, or any of the symptoms mentioned above. From a mere Exclaim this medicine has built me up in flesh and weight, until now I am strong and well, do my own housework, walk out for two hours without feeling tired, and amthoroughly restored to health. Is it any wonder that words fail to ex- press my gratitude for this remarkable cure ‘3 You can use this testimonial for the benefit- of other suf» ferers.‘ ' It"would be impossible, we believe, Chase’s Nerve Food as a system-builder. nature, and is certain to be of benefit to you, can,, Bates &. 00., Toronto. to produce stronger evidence to. prove the. Wonderful power of Dr. It contains the very essence of the most potent restoratives of 50 cents a. box, 6 boxes for $2.50.. at all dealers, or Edmanâ€" mera-waym‘w ' v“ i "‘1‘" " ~' ' ' him that I earedâ€"and now, perhaps, is. of course, only Possible timing he will not come back any moreâ€" an exceptionally and he will never knowâ€"" . What was it that he would never know '1’ The girl broke off her senâ€" tence there, and sat looking a little sadly into the fire in silence, with her hands clasped on her knees. (To Be Continued.) ._.._.....+... BABIES WITH WORMS. A Grateful Mother Tells How Her Little Boy Was Cured. Mrs. A. Sauve, Rowanton, Que., is another happy mother who thanks Baby’s Own Tablets for the health of her boy. The little fellow be- came the prey of worms â€"- that curse of childhood. His rosy cheeks lost their color; his little legs and arms became skinny; his eyes lost their sparkle and he became sickly and peevish. His sleep was restless and feverish, and his food seemed to do him no good. His anxious mother almost despaired of seeing him back again to good health. -fowever, she heard of Baby's Own Tablets. and gave them to her child, and now she says: â€" "The Tablets made ‘a, Wonderâ€" ful change in my little boy. All signs of worms have disappeared, and‘he is now in the best of health. I can honestly say that Baby’s Own Tablets have no equal as a cure for worms.” ' - Baby’s Own Tablets are a certain cure for all the minor ailments of little ones, such as constipation,- co- lic, sour stomach, indigestion, diâ€" arrhoea, simple fever and the irrita- tion accompanying the cutting of teeth. Guaranteed to contain none of the poisonous opiates found in the soâ€"called “soothing” medicines. They are for children of all ages, and dissolved in water. can be given with absolute safety to a new-born babe. Sold by druggists at 25 cents a box, or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by addressing the Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. SOME untied: FEATS RE CORDS IN QUICK WORK THAT HAVE BEEN BROKEN. Britain’s Naval Building Record Is Undisputedâ€"Fast Work by Farmers. A spinning mill, five storeys high, and 260 feet in length, which has lately been completed at Mosesgate, near Bolton, has occupied 10% than a year in building. This, for so large a structure, is a. record for England. The mill will acoonimow date no fewer than 98,000 spindles. In the way, however, of naval build- ing, Britain’s record is undisputed. The firstâ€"class battleship Bulwark was ready for launching within sevâ€" en months after work had been beâ€" gun upon her. Within that time 5,500 tons of steel were built into her. The Bulwark is 400 feet beâ€" tween pcrpendiculars, seventy-live feet beam, and displaces 15,000 tons. She was built at Devon’port dockyard. RECORDS IN COALING. While on the subject of .naval re- cords, mention must bemade of two extraordinary coaling feats re- cently - accomplished. There is alâ€" ways wild emulation in this matter between our big warships. Every- one turns to and helps, from the officers downwards. Just a year ago I-I.M.S. Mars! took in 1,070 tons of coal at the rate of 203.8 tons per hour. Her best hour’s Work was 288 tons, or' nearly four a minâ€" ute. But the Mars did not hold the coaling record many months. H. M.S. Prince George, at. Portsmouth, recently got in 1,200 tons at the re- markable average rate of 226 tons an hour. - ‘ I > Last year saw two other amazing pieces of sea work. At the Dover National Harbor Works, one day last summer, no fewor than forty of‘the gigantic concrete foundation blocks- Were laid between eight in the morning and five at night. These blocks weigh forty tons apiece, so the amount of stone laid during that day was 1,600 tons. About the same time the enormous dredger Samson had an official trial in Brisâ€" bane Harbor, and broke the world’s record for this kind of work by bringing up 11,000 cubic yards of stuff within sixty minutes. Mr. Brock possesses many records in his special department. Certain- ly no other. firework manufacturer ever equallad in rapidity a commisâ€" sion which ,this celebrated pyrotech- nist once executed for the Portuguese Government. Thirtyâ€"five tons of fireworks were ordered for a display on the Tagus at one month’s notice. To give some idea of the enormous amount of work this implied it may be said that the line of ships on which they ,were displayed was a mile long, and some of the set pieces were 250-feet lo'ng and eigh- ty high. Temporary decks, jury masts, and all serts of precautions against fire had 'to beprovided. Yet in three weeks all waSirleadys,-gtéand the program went off ‘ " WITHOUT A HITCH. Farmers can point with pride to some startlingly rapid pieces of work. One man, with the assistance of two “Shockers,” and using three horses and a, sixâ€"foot binder, 'last year out 'and bound forty acres: of wheat in two days. This record was achieved by an American near Decatur, in Illinois. England’s harâ€" vesting record belongs to Mr. Pros- ser, of Erdington, who converted growing wheat into bread within dry seamen. At. Blockley, near Moretonâ€"inâ€"theâ€"Marsh, Oxfordshire, a. somewhat similar ex~ periment. was successfully carried out last year. For actual work these achieva- ments cannot, however, compare With the really amazing performance of a Plains.- settler in New Zealand. aIScotchman by birth. He and his Wife, without any assistance what- ever, milked seventyâ€"nine cows twice daily for a whole summer, and de- livered each day 2,000 pints of milk at the butter factory near by. So long ago as 1811, Sir John Throgmorton, a. Berkshire landown- er, wagered a thousand guineas that he would sit down to dinner at halfâ€" past seven in a Well-made, woven and dyed suit, the wool of which had been fleece on a sheep’s back at ' fiVe o'clock the same morning. The test took place on June 28th of that year, and the baronet ,won the wagâ€" cr easily, his suit being ready by a. quarter past six. Some years af~ terwards a millowner at Galashiels, Scotland, beat this record, the suit in this case being ready within eight hours. _ ENGINE BUILT IN 91‘; HOURS. It seems to have been a point of honor with most of the great rail- way companies to see how rapidly their men could complete a locomo- tive for use. An American company began it by building a locomotive within a week. Then a French com- pany succeeded in putting together a' passenger engine in sixty-four hours word‘ng time. The Northwestern, of England, in 1878, built a “goods engine in twentyâ€"five and a half hours. The Pennsylvania company responded by building an express en- gine in sixteen hours, fifty minutes. At present the record is in the hands of the Great Eastern Com- pany, of England. At Stratford, on December 10th, 1891, they ac complished the remarkable achieve- ment of erecting .a. six-wheeled coupled goods engine and tender in nine hours forty-seven minutes of actual working time. The engine was put to work as soon as her paint was dry, and since then has run almost a quarter of a million miles with only ordinary repairs. -â€" Pearson’s Weekly. _.._...+ A REMARKlBLE use, TOLD BY MR. ORLIN POST, OE GRUMIDGE, MANITOBA. Suffered Greatly for Five Years With Rheumatismâ€"Doctors and Many Medicines Failed to Eel; Him, But He Got the Right Me. dicine at Last. ' From the Echo, Dominion City, Man. Recently while chatting with a re porter of the Echo, Mr. Orlin Post, a well known farmer of Urumidge, Man., gave the following story of five years of great suffering from that most painful of diseases»â€"rheu~ matism.‘ Mr. Post saidzâ€"“There are few people, unless they have beer similarly afflicted, can understand how much I s-uflered during thosf five years from the pains of rheuma- tism. There were times when I was wholly unable to, do any work, and to merely attempt to move my limbs caused the greatest agony. ] tried several doctors but they scenr ed quite unable to cure me. Then 1 tried several advertised medicines, that were highly recommended f0! this trouble, but they also failed to bring the longedâ€"for release from pain. As these medicines failed me one al'ter'the other. I .began to look upon the trouble as incurable, and was almost in despair. At this time some friends asked metwhy 1 did not try Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills, and I decided to make at least one more effort to obtain a cure. I knew my case was not only a severe one but from the failure of other medi- cines a stubborn one. and I deter- mined that the pills should have 2‘ fair trial, so I bought} a dozer boxes. I took them according tc directions, and before they wen gone there was a great improvement in, my condition, but 1 was not fulv ly cured. I then got another hal dozen boxes, and by the time th» third of them were emptied I had no: an ache or a. plain left, and was able to do a good hard day’s work with out feeling any of the torture that had for five years made my life mis erable. You may say for_mo that i do, not think there is any medicim in the world can equal Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink Pills as a cure for rhcu‘ matism. It is several years Sille my cure was effected, and I llflV'l never since had the least sign 0: the trouble, I think I Can speak with authority.” - ' When such severe cases as this art, entirely cured.it is not surprising that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills . haw made such a. great reputation throughout the world for the Clll‘t of other diseases due to poor or wa~ tery blood. Paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, anaemia, consumption, dys pepsia, palpitation of,tlj.e,hearf, nervous headache, female ailments and neuralgia are among otliér troubles they have cured in' thoL- sands of cases. Only the genuim pill will cureâ€"substitutes never curâ€" erl anythingâ€"and to aVoid substi- tutes you must see that the full name “Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People” is on the wrapper around every box.- These pills arr sold by all dealers in medicine, or will be sent post free at 50 cents a ' box or six boxes for $2.50 by ad-- dressing the Dr. Williams' Medicine eight hours. A record of this kind C0,, Brockville, Ont. .. . “firm-c; r7; {34‘ .W.M'".fi‘awl _ . ..._ __‘,“ fl ,5, ,‘wflwmfi magnum... ('fi‘gx’.‘ ., , .A. V .1, (“g-1,2. ,. ,_ - . - - - - - - I, I---» I..- _ , .-.~ .‘4‘9 r' . icing-mile i i fv"."v‘ v! 1' ‘ p. ppfiquqwo f" -. -.‘,'.Y’,Z“:TFCT~/’x my - A. ’ {cu-usa '.",~. 9"." 95*. iv? 5.5.! mm 1. «r...»- 27‘: , .; , D (.7 ., “a r; ,e S . .v." -. ~â€"-"‘-¢iumm' =3.“ 4*, . . »« rs..â€" has). {act ,.-: ,4 - .méuJau-ooq.» m1“ s hag-ti- ‘ $55.".- . __ N. .__. ___, _____ __ , _._.'_â€"â€"â€"- mmflmzme ' . ‘ - “"V" ‘5'"- ' 'l_ hfly“‘Fu \ ,\~ nix-ma, \ ~ *Mfl)‘: 5.. ..~ ; A . 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