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He never thought of He would nothave re- membered her existence but that, wandering aimlessly along the terâ€" race, he saw her in the drawingâ€" room. He almost owned to himself that there could not have been a lovelier picture. Wishing to finish something she was reading, she had brought her book to the.window and couched down where the light- fell. He saw a fair, flowerâ€"like face, a shining wealth of dark hair in which lay gleaming pearls, a flowing mass of purple vel- vet upon which the white arms shone like snow on a purple crocus; the lovely figure, the graceful attitude, the picturesque dress, out square in the front, leaving the white neck bare, the wide hanging sleeves, the slender white'handsâ€"all made a pic- ture that he must have admired had the subject been. any other than the money-lender’s daughter. Seeing her, he thought it Was pos- sible she understood something of billiards, although “women never knew anything useful.” him, and fancying from his manner that he wished to speak to her, she opened the window and went out to him. “You will be cold,” he said, with unusual thoughtfulness. She went back to the drawingâ€" room in search of a silvery scarf that she used. She thrCW' it careâ€" lessly over her head and shoulders, where it looked so picturesque, and became her so well that he could not help noticing it. "This is dull work, alone,” he said. “It is dull for both of us,” she re- plied, briefly. “We will ask being here some nice people down at once; this kind of thing will ' never do. I wanted to ask you, do you knew anything of billiards?” “Billiards?” she reapeated wonder- ingly. . “Yesâ€"many ladies play remarkably well. It is such a great resource”. "Do you want me to play with you?” she asked, quickly. "Yes; I am bored to death. I am tired of smoking I never read much, and there is nothing to do!” "Extraordinary," ' she “nothing to do!” “What do you mean?” he asked. "I mean nothing. I am very'[ sorry. I have seen a billiard table; ‘but I have never played. I will try to learn, if you like." "Beginners are generally very awk. ward,” he said, frankly. “I cannot think how it is that I have forgotten to ask any one over. 1 must not bel so remiss again." They walked down the terrace unâ€": til they reached a, rustic garden seat, and, with an air of utter exhaustion, the earl sat down. Hildredtook her, seat, unasked, by his side. "Lord Caz-aven,” said I-Iildred, “at thought has just struck me. We have: been marriedâ€"how long? since the: third of August, and it is now Oetoâ€"l cried â€"- her; and do you know that you have; never once addressed me by name? zidney Disease and stomach Troubles â€"â€" More Evidence of the Efficiency of ~ Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills. W stomach and 1 always I l Kidney disease and liver disorders are almost found together, and for this reason Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills, on account of their direct. and continued action on these several organs, wonderfully effective in curing complications. Mr. James Keeley, caretaker of tlze Primary School and Presbyterian church, Newmarket, 0nt., states 1â€"â€" "I find that Dr: Chase’s Kidney- Liver Pills are the best medicine I ever used. I was troubled for some such I The fiver lli Persuasion ' Or Lady Caraven’s Labor of I": .z. ’H’i‘drici'é". W: .HMMH 2-H»? 'My schoolfellows used to call me l‘Dreda,’ my father calls me ‘Hilâ€" ldred.’ You have so contrived as never to give me any name at all. You do not say ‘Lady Caraven,’ I'Hildred,’ ‘wife,’ or anything of the kind. How is it?” “I cannot tell," he replied, blank- {ly. The question had evidently puzzled him. "I will not do it again, Lady Caraven, if it annoys you,” he said;pand then there was silence between them, broken only by the sighing of the wind. - "Lord Caraven,” she said at .last, “will you be very angry-.with me if I ask you a, question?” “No; without knowing what ’the question may be, I predict that â€"- certainly not.” “This question has troubled me very much; it has been the one .thing which I have pondered night and day â€"a question I cannot answer, one that I feelis the key to a secret.” . "You alarm me with that long pro- logue. Briefly, what is your ques- tion, Lady Caraven?" "Briefly, it is this. Why did you marry me, Lord Caraven?” She saw l 11 asked him what I was to do, mg ‘and poun ds "Why did I marry you?” he echoed, with astonishment. . “I ask you the question,” she went on, “because I have watched you and studied you, and I am convinced at last that you did not marry me for love.” “Love!” he cried. that to do with it?” “I thought," she continued, “that you had married me because you lovâ€" ed me. I knew that you were cold, undemonstrative, that you had no sympathy, little kindness; but I be- lieved implicitly that you married me for love.” “I had never seen youâ€"I saw you only once,” he said, in astonish~ ment. “I know, I remember. Still, I reâ€" peat what I have said to you; I -â€"-I fanciedâ€"I am quite ashamed to tell you the truth. but I will do soâ€"I fancied you had seen me somewhere and had liked me.” i ' He laughed, but the laugh was not pleasant to her. “Did you'really think that?” he asked, musingly. “Poor child!” Then he turned briskness. “Why, what has "Do you really mean to tell me, on your word of honor, that, you’do not know Why I married you?” She raised her fair, proud face to his. “I assure you most solemnly that I do not. It is the greatest puzzle I ever had.” "Did your father tell you that I -â€"I loved you?” “No,” she replied, thoughtfully, "he did not. Indeed he assured me that love was not needful for hap- piness. He never said you. loved me â€"â€"he said you wanted to marry me.” “And what else? Go on. What else?” “That if I consented his highest ambition would be gratified.” Lord Caraven murmured some ter-' rible words between his closed lips: ‘ “Then he never told you why this‘ marriage was forced upon me?” ' “No; he never told me that.” “Then I will tell you now. He comâ€" pelled me to marry youâ€"and I begin' to perceive that he has sacrificed you as well as myself.” “Sacrificed us?” she repeated. “You cannot mean the word!” “I do mean it, both for myself and you,” he replied. “I will tell you, Lady Caravan; it is right, that you should know the truth. I have been a spendthrift and a prodigal. I have. owed your father the sum of sixty‘ thousand poundsâ€"ll had mortgaged Ravensmere to him. I was also; deeply in debt to others. I had lit-E erally come to my last shilling; dis~ lgl‘ace, I‘Uin. poverty and shame werelaliflll‘ all before me. Your father had the management of my affairs, and when told me he had 'LWO hundred thous- to her with sudden] . ply. ' in your A low cry came from her lips, and she covered her face with her hands. "I am sorry to pain you,” he said -â€"“sorry to distress youâ€"but it is better that you should know the real truth. Your father is ambitious; his hopes were fixed on your mar- riage. He offered me the alternative â€"â€"I could choose beggary, ruin, shame, disgrace, the total annihila- tion of my house and name, or I could choose the money and marry you. Your fortune has saved me from worse than death. I am -sorry to tell you this story; but it is best that' you should know the truth." “Yes,” she "it is best.” She drew her hands from her face and looked at him. man could he have been that the an- guish and despair on that girlish face did not touch him? “Then you have never loved mé, never cared for me?” she said, faintâ€" ly. . “No. I am grateful to you; I can say no more.” ,. He saw her draw the silvery shawl round her shoulders and shudder as though she were seized with violent cold. “I feel now,” he said, “that it was a cruel thing to do. You. are young: and your whole life is blight- edf At first I thought and believed that you understood everything â€"- that you were. as mercenary and am- bitious as your fatherâ€"that you were as ready as he to give yourself and your money in exchange for mytitle; I thought that you, through him. knew the full value of the estate and everything on itâ€"th'at you knew all the house containedâ€"that you were as keen and shrewd as he was. I misjudged youâ€"I beg your pardon for it.” She raised her pale face to his. “I swear to you,” she said, “that I would rather have died than have married you had I known the truth.” “I believe it, and respect you for it. For some short time past I have fancied that in thinking as I did I Was mistaken. Now I know it, and am glad -to know it. I am sorry that you were sacrificed to me.” ' “Did youâ€"do youâ€"pray do not be angry with me,” she said_“did you love anyone else?” “You ask me if I had ever loved one sufficiently to ask her to be my wife. No. I had not. I have never asked any one to marry me, for the simple, allâ€"sufficient reason that I have never seen any one whom I 'should have cared to marry.” “And are you very unhappy with me?" she asked, gently. I “What a strange question! Unâ€" ‘happy? Well, no; 1 cannot quite sa ‘that. I am, as I said before, grate- agreed, desDairingly, lful to you; and now that I find you“ have been victimized, I am sorry for you.” What nature of, I “Now that our marriage is an ac- ;complish‘ed fact, do you not think ithat we might manage to make 1110 best of itâ€"might try to forget this wretched beginning) Could you nevâ€" er care even ever so little for me?” He looked at her thoughtfully. “No, not in the sense you meanâ€" not to love you as a man should love his wifeâ€"never! You forgive me if these seem liai'd.\vordsâ€"â€"you have asked me for them.” “it is (better to speak frankly; then we shall both know what we are doing.” She dropped the silvery veil that shrouded her head and face. "Will you tell me,” she asked, meekly. "why you cannot care for me? Am I not fair enough to please you?” "Yes, you are fair enough: but love is not to be taught or boughtâ€"it ‘comes unperceived. I cannot exâ€" press myself well on the subject; but it seems to me absurd for a. man to say to himself, 'It is my duty to fall in love with such and such u. \s 0- man, so I must do it.’ ” “But if that woman were his wife?” she suggested, gently, “No man can love against his will, wife or no wife,” was the hasty re« “Then, Lord Caraven, am I to live house always an unloved, uncaredâ€"for wife?” she asked. “The fault is not mine,” he reâ€" plied. “I believed that your father had explained to you that the xviole wasâ€"was distasteful to me. Believing that, I married you; now that I have found out my mistake, I pity myself and I pity you, Lady Caraven. I-’ despise myself now for and a daughter.’ ’ backache, but since using Dl‘.! Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills I am all' right again. ‘ ' “It is my belief that they are the most efiective medicine a person can pentine for the children when are use for kidney disease and stomach,had coughs and troubles.’ ' Mrs. Boss, 100 from severe the back’ and stomach disorders. At Pills. This treatment seemed to be times I suffered very severely from exactly what I required, for it was or Edmanscn, Bates do 00., Toronto. what I have If I had to .. \......v .u We were descending in South Wales. choose again, 1 should choose dis- graée or death.” The night wind sighed around them, the sunlight had died away, the moon was rising in the sky. "I am grateful to you,” he con- tinued. “I will do all I can to show my gratitude; you are and shall be mistress of the whole place. It is yours in so fag: as your money has saved it; you shall have every desire of your heart, every wish gratified. Your position is one of the highest in the land; you shall have every- thing to grace it. You shall have entire liberty; you shall invite whom yen like, visit whom you like; you shall go abroad when you will and remain at home when you will. You shall be your own mistress in every respect. I will always see that ev- ery honor is paid to you.” - "In short,” she said, “you will give me everything but love.” “Well, if you choose to put it in that light, yes.” ‘fI accept the gently. “There terms,” she said, are many women .who have to find the happiness of their lives in the fulfillment of duty; I must do the same.” Some girls, proudly indignant, would have left the house; others would have retaliated fiercely; oth« crs would have grown sullen and re- vcngeful. She was calm almost to heroism, although a more cruel pos- ition could not have been imagined. Even his own confession that he could never care for her had not quite destroyed hcr leve. He Was very frankâ€"among his sins and im- perfections deceit certainly could not be set- down. Yet how different it all was from what she had thought it would be! "I am quite sure. of one thing, she said to herself. "It. is almost cruel to write such stories as the histories of Lancelot and Elaine. What a difference between such men as the stainless knight and my busâ€" band! There are women living as fair, as tender, as lovely as Elaine; is there a man like Lancelotâ€"like Lancelot before he loved 'the Queen?' Ah, me! if I could have had such love as his! But I must be con- tent.” It seemed to her like an answer to an unspoken prayer, when she opened a book and saw these words of Car- lyleâ€"“Say unto all kinds of happi- ness, I can do without thee. With selfâ€"renunciation life begins.” That was to her new lifeâ€"~self-reâ€" nunciation without happinessâ€"life all duty, with no reward but the knowlâ€" edge of itself. "I can do it,” said Hildred. “It is an uncommon fateâ€"n1 can master it. It might break a weak heart, an- ger a proud oneâ€"it shall strengthen mine. Fate is what people make it â€"I will make mine.” I; /,___. To prove to you that Dr. Chase’s Ointment is'a certain (To Be Continued). 1: - g and absolute cure for each ' and every > form of. itching, bleedingand protrudih piles, the manufacturers have guaranteed it. e tes- timonials in the daily press and ask yournefgh- bors what they think 9m. You can use it and get your money back if not cured. 60¢ a. box. at all dealers or Enuansosfiams 85 Co.,‘Toront/a, Drfchase’s Ointment lbs SAILING ABOVE THE CLOUDS. A Young Woman’s Experience in a. Balloon. A young woman who has made several trips in a balloon describes a journey through the clouds in which she nearly lost her lie. The ascent was made for the purpose of reporting on the Leonid shower of meteors which was predicted by the astronomers, but which could not be observed from the ground on account of clouds. The aerouauts had risen without accident, and were So high in the sky that all sounzls of earth were inaudible. About nine o’clock in the morning there rose to us the s-hrill, wild, un- mistakable note of a, ship’s steamâ€" sire-n, mingled with the clash and clang of hammers in some shipyard. We were evidently over some big seaport town. “hat was to be done? Clearly, nothing. To pull the valve rope meant a headlong fall of nearâ€" ly two miles; to climb the rigging and pierce the silk above the equator was a gymnastic feat beyond even our captain's sailor training. We had to leave it to fate. ly noon my father declared that we had fallen two thousand feet, and were still falling. Soon after we could see the earth under the clouds. Once below the clouds we saw that the end was near at hand. For a few uncertain moments we were lost in the dense blanket ; then We re- appeared on the lower edge, to find green fields and pastures below is. among the mountains of Glamorganâ€" shire, and as we swooped down to half- I knew it to fail to relievethe trouble Manitoba street, at once." St. Thomas, Ont., states :â€"“I had a. very weak back, and at times suffer-â€" Cd very much across the small liexing tain way of curing back pains and pains kidney disease of my back. Beâ€" Dr. these to be caused by deâ€" Scores of rangements of the kidneys, I began ‘ this; and many time with kidney disease, pains in the use of Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liver ments similar to the above. earth :1 wild gust caught our iemptied balloon and dashed our car to the ground with a shock. Finally our anchor caught in an oak tree, not, 1ong before the pains entirely and in a minute or two we scramâ€" left a I - bled out. me. all was quite strong and , . 1 well again. We have also used Dr. “e had been ten hours in the baiâ€" Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Tu». 10911.. 3'01: had escaped the sea by 1h they Skin of our teeth. lliose who came I - . to our assistance told us in their cows’ and I ne‘er first words that we were a mile and a half from the Atlantic, towards which we were heading directly as we fell. Yet five minutes more in the . ten hours that we had been aloft $353.31]? and we had been lost, . for at the thousands have proved time the sea was wildly rough. have sent US stats} Therefore, I am not claiming too one pm much in calling this balloon ascent a (305a 25mg. a box, at a“ dealers, one of the records of British balâ€" looning. There is no quicker or more cer- Chase’s STREET DUST. ..â€"_. Its Injurious Effects Are of Kinds. Few persons realize what a sanitâ€" ary agent is the sprinkling-cart in our cities and towns, because few 'ap- preciate the dangers to health and life that lurk in dust, especially street dust. I The injurious effects of street dust are of ‘two kindsâ€"those due to the mechanical injury of the gritty pow- idcr and those due to the action oi the disease germs contained in it. When one realizes that. the streets». even in Wellâ€"cleaned cities, are a re- ceptacle for all sorts of filthâ€"de- caying vegetable matter, such a: cigar stumps, banana skins and ap- ple parings, manure and expectoratâ€" ed matter,,â€"â€"-ground up into a fine powder with soot and particles of sand and cobblestones, one can readin understand that disease may be caused by the inhalation of clouds of such dust. There is no doubt-that many cases of consumption are directly due to the dust of city streets. The gritty particles irritate the mucous memâ€" brane of the nose and larynx, and set up a catarrh which prep-arcs the soil for the tubercle .bacilli, present often in great. numbers in the same dusrt. Other diseases may also be caused in the same way, and it is believed that cases: of lockjaw, which some- times wound, arise from the entran’ce of the germ of this disease intothe bronchial tubes from the dust of tire streets. The amount of dust in. a city varies according to the care taken to clean the streets, but it varies especially with the kind of pavement, macadamized streets be- ing. in this respect the worst and the asphalted streets the best. But city streets, no matter how paved or how well swept, need constant watering 'to keep-the dust laid, and particularly is this the case since the automobile and the trolley-car have come with their rapid moveâ€" ment, which raises thick clouds of dust. -- In some places in the United States the experiment has been made of sprinkling the country roads with petroleum, and the results, so far as laying the dust is concerned, are good. The oil, howaver, soils the ulresses of ladies, and is therefore objectionable. Better results have been obtained recently in France by the appliCation 0f coalâ€"tar, which makes a, surface like asphalt, but not so impervious, capable of arresting the dust particles as they form anew and incorporating them in it- self. In cities, however, this is im- practicable, and the watering-cart is. there the only safety. ..._.-_.+‘._......_. ELECTRIC TRACTION. 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