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,‘ ' ,. , . ~ ‘ “7"”, â€"' v “V. ,, V ‘ p Y I ‘ 4 in the pretty flat. face to face with thelycn over to‘the constable at once. and ,,‘ LAD A R. < I sci-est trial of her life. don't think, my young gentlrmm,’ I adds, 1 A week before the had written toher ‘ that Tom Murimamhwlng got the sack; , cousin, Esther Brand, but she had had no to fill your inside with ill-getter) goods: . ,reply. That had not surprzsed her much, I’ll help you With the bench in the very ' WHAT Is GOING ON IN THE FOUR 18d! of very moderate (leairee." said Lord zfor Esther was a restless soul. never so . leMt.”' CORNERS OF THE GLOBE Ailm", “Rm-“38 “amber Cli'fifeltc. "Have , happy as when moving about from place to l " Well, so I suppose he gave in." said i I ‘ one 3" . Q place. Apart from that. London is scarcely Dorothy, who was deeply interested. ‘ ‘_‘ "No, thank vou, sir,’ “Well, of course he had to." returned 0” “"1 31'" “0PM Ennis 0' INN“! ‘ _- CHAPTER IV. a new mu. returned Dick. 45 Lad ijmel. w“ “Lung “tone in bi. u_ j _ . , the place to look for rich and idle people in bur amokin I - "elm and wonder“) , "Aid Wha‘ Will becom? 0‘ Mr3- HUNG -S§=ptcniber, and Dorothy had addressed her I Barbara, With praeticai piiiznness ; “but, I ml‘filllflfll Rrieflrâ€"lnxerrsllnc “ltd ‘ y‘ g “g ’ g i when you are gone to India, eh '3” the 01d letter to hrrc-vusms bankers, knowing that alltlie same, he never forgave me for having W‘nlnx‘ 01’ “Hem Date. Vb“ “1"” Diet '00“ bring him. When 3 man asked with a great air of interest. i it would be the surest and probably the ’ been the one to get the better of him, and I 1 l 30 - - ~ - u l - ~ - n - ' - . . - v l . ' 1‘ {as persons out of 10,000 die by he thought proper to come again to give in Well, sir, said Dick, I always make it quickest wayofhnding her. But when Dick 3 never forgot it, not to thr- very last day [he “sass,qu gnu-e ' bi, daemon. a rule never to talk about my friends’ ‘ was gone, Dorothy leg-an to get very anx- we were at the Hall. Ali ! Miss Dorothy, l ‘ B h d m ‘ v ; private at‘airs, even when I happen to ions for a letter from Esther, to watch for darling,” you had thought proper to marry t . , . h f E _° W" 't in Some 0. mill}: ‘30 3° 9"? ; kuowthen: " uhe post, and to wonder impatiently what David Stereuson, you would have had to o "mm‘mu I e pews 9 “rope' Old "1 3'03", bl": 586d "1 WICkedl-leu- A] “You won't tell me,” Lord Aylmer cliuck- , Esther could possibly have done with her~ do without hie. He never would have had The Pyl‘enses 0‘ the Qneen's bony-“101d hlndgome mu, "m, with aqufime tenures, > led. “Oh, very well, very well, never , self and whether she had got her letter or me about him, and I wouldn’t have taken 3” esummed 3'5 tiara” 3 3'3“- ‘ gagged I,“ ‘nd a goodly crop of white l mind. I can take a hint as well’ as any. Inch. But for several days there was still i service under his roofâ€"no, not to save mv- The use of blood as a curative agent is . , ‘ _ ' body.” Isilence, and at lost, just when Dorothv was .5er from ending my davs in the work. said to be on the increase in Paris, curly hair. hour first thought on looking at v - - . D' .k- ‘ .. - - < ' = . n ‘ _ W hen it suits your purpose, it s , beg..ining to despair, it came. :hoase. The smallest number of mu, n ma m”. H h“! W“. “What a charming old gentle- thoughts ran, as be watched the handsome, 3 "Here is yourletterJhss Dorothy," cried : "Barbara, Barbara 2" cried 532“ is sem‘ in $0,,” . mg jg, as, in man j" your "Goad, "\Vh“ a pair of steely wicked old face. Barbara. burr} mg into the room with it. chiding‘y, “not for me?” Um“ Brim,“ I ’ 8 . , . . Then he at u from his chair. “ If ‘ou . “On Barbara!" Doroth 'cried, excitedlv. "Well if you but ut it in the ' ' ' ' eyes !' your third, “\‘V hat a Mephistophc- g p y ’ I L p t “ a” At the head of the 1350 women nurses in I”! 10!. Without We Shadow 018 JOHN. By-the i was reading it aloud to Barbara. don’t want me an ' lon er sir I shall 20 E In a moment she had torn it 0 en arid Miss lloro‘h' 'au mi'lit have ot over . . I g ’ ' ‘ p L 3’ I 5 2 the hospitals of Japan is the Countess Lord Aylmer was a wicked man, with a l bye,l hope you are less anxious about her , is from Russia, Fancy Miss Brand being:E and a ' m ' res ects to the lad '. "Oh it :me." the old woman answered. . i . p } y p )n ‘ But slay ! I think I ought to say here ' z'cre' “fie Of. Adm‘ml Nem‘ Md he“, fiued to the brim, and running I than you were ashort tune ago. jinllltussia. Bu barn, and she says : i that, although ‘1 have cdied her old in . The A1897"!!! mmmmmn Dflhebel NMbO. over with a“ manner of a“, Lord Alymer jumped tip in a fury and : My Very Dear Little Dorothy :-â€"Sc you : many parts of tins story, lmtbara was not, Is SIO‘VIY “Mimi-f- 1" lb? ‘43“! Of 0‘93“ ‘ ‘ lstumped his gouty foot hard upon the ,are married 3 I can hardly believe itâ€"in- iand could not reasonably be called an old “i was 4W) feet high : 110W ":15 only 300- 'Ihey say, you know, that women novel- l floor. I“ Damme," he cried, “ that woman idced, since having your letter this morning, , woman in the common acceptation of the The Pastor’s College in connection with i’ ists always make their heroines all good, 3 is like an indian-rub‘l or ball, and as hard I have been saying to myself over and over i word. She Was a your or so over fifty, and Spurgeou’s church has sent, out, 921 persons as nails into the bargain.” again, ‘Dcrothy Strode is marriedâ€"little is very strong, hale woman i.t that, and at into the ministry ;-33 in we pg," may, a To-day it costs $87,500,000 per annum Dorothy, -w».w._...., ..._-........_ .â€"â€"..~â€"- W..._-- -â€".. â€"wâ€"...... . r 4 till they are as insipid as the dummies in a ,- tailor’e window; or else that they go to the other extreme, and make their villains such unmitigated villains that it is impossi- ble to find one single ray of Virtue where- with to redeem their character from its inky poll of utter blackness. But let the ten you that, If an the womm “ovens”, who ed to recollect himself a little. l yes, yes, of courseâ€"to be sure. l and see her. write stories in the English language were to concentrate their efforts upon the task of trying to depict the villainy of Lord “ Then she is better," said Dick, with ’ Dorothy has got married,’and still I do not this time to Dorothy she was as a very rock an air of profound and anxious interest. “ Better 1” iii: the least realize it. So you are very gand tower of strength. Damme,” the old savage ' happy, of course, and you are going to have i \Vell, by virtue 5f tlieletter from Esther cried,“she’s outrageously well,sir. Damme, fa babyâ€"that is almost an ‘of course' also jBraud and in the joy of expectation at her her healthiness is posnively uggresive.” " But that must be a great relief to your mind, sir," said Dick with perfect gravity. ” Relief l" the othet echoed, then seem- “ Ah ! in the lioiidoir.” I)le felt himself dismissed with a wave yo'i waited so long before you‘t-old me of And your husband has got a good ap- pointment in lndia which he does not dare i to refuse. That looks like bread-and-cheese ‘ and kisses, my dear little cousin. However, ,not that money makes any difference to l l money least of all. But why, my dear, have looming, Dorothy passed that day with [quite a light heart, and even sat. down to g the little piano and sang one or two of the songs that Dick liked best. And then she ,want to bed and slept, leaving the door I Well, go I one’s happiness, and so long as you love Vopen between her room and Barbara's for I dare say you Will find her 1 him and he loves you nothing else matters, fcompany and she dreamed, as she always i did, about Dick. Nor was it a pleasant dream. She saw ijmerin Datum] depravity. I am afraid of the old lord’s hand, _aud_ being never your new ties? I have wondered so often ; Dick on board or a large steamer, wearing very anxious to remain in his presepce, he . where you yiere and what had‘ become of awhito clothes and a sailor hat, .ooktug very betook himself away, and went to find her .' you, and about four months ago Iwrote to - bronzed and happy. He was leaning over that in the end they would have to call in the aid of their masculine coufreres to ade- quately complete the portrait. For the noble lord was all bad, thoroughly badâ€" what up in the North country they call “bad, core through." Yet he had a delight- ful manner when he chose, and in early middle n u had made a genuine love-match l with a geautiful young woman at least sixteen years younger than himselfâ€"a penniless as well as a beautiful young' woman, upon whom he had lavished sovI ladyship. the houseâ€"had, in fact, been gone some by a horrid young man,_David Stevenson, But Lady Alymer was not in f the old house and had your letter returned . the side of the ship, with a cigarette in his lmouth, just as she had seen him many a time before he reached it; so Dick jumped ; whom I disliked always beyond measure, ltime, and by his side there stood a beauti- into a cab and went back to Palace Mau- le informed me that you had left immedi- lful ladyâ€"not a sinus to Dorothy, who met him with a new idea. “ flick, darling.”she said, “I know that you are worrying about me, and what I lately after dear auntie‘s death and that he i did not know your present address. I felt ,a little anxious about you, but. eminently ;relieved to find that you were evidently girl like Dorothy herself, lbut a beautiful woman of about thirty years gold, such a woman as Dorothy fancied her [old friend at home, Lady Jane Stuart, i might have been at that age. Tlisy seemed shall do when you are gone and I have I not going to marry that detestable young to be talking earnestly together, and after thought of something.” “Yes. Have you thought that, after all much love and attention that within three ' it would be safe for you to go right, our, mouths of his marriage his love had burned and risk everything 2" itself out and was as dead as any deadl volcano. A few weeks later, Lord Aylmer . practically separated himself from his wife, I to the time. “No, because you do not go till Septem- ber, and by then I shall have got. very near No, it is not that at all ; but . coral and bells as I should have 'done over a man, who is, I have no noubt, all that is ‘ good and estimable and affluent, but whom, I as I said, I have never liked. “ Well, my dear child, you must let me be god-mother to the baby when it comes, 4 that I may spend as much money over its a timeâ€"such along time it seemed in her dreamâ€"Dick took one of the lady’s hands and raised it to his lips; then she laughed and said something, and Dick caught her to 1 him and kissed her on the lips. Immediate- -lv afterward, while Dorothy, with frozen ,llips, was gazing at them, Dick turned his The Orsini family at Florence is about: to sue the Emperor of Austria to recover a sum of money due to it ever since 1749. Miss Braddon, the novelist, has lost her husband, Mr. John Maxwell. He was a publisher, and '25 years ago started 'Iemple Bur. Robbing graves is the only crime under Chinese law, for which the thief may be justly killed on the spot by anyone finding Elizabeth Vierebe died recently in a German village, aged 93. She had been a servant in one household for seventy-nine years. A wealthy English woman has married a coloured man, who, previous to this union, had made his living as a clog dancer, in variety balls. The Hudson Bay sales in London this year of martin furs alone netted the com- pany over $200,000. Other grades have also brought advanced prices. Abbeylsix, in Leinster, is troubled over avenerable pauper of 105, who, having been a Protestant all his life, has now concluded to become a Catholic. The statistics issued by the syndicate of silk merchants at Lyons show the produc- tion of raw silk in the it"‘orld for 1893 to be 51‘“)qu they con‘lnued ‘0 Share “‘9' you will have leave until you sail, won’t wedding gift to you As for coming to =h (1 (ll 1; d h f ll ' th 'th , . you ea. an on e er u in eeycs WI “me house' and he appeared. before the f you I” -â€"my darling child, of course I shall come I the glance of an utter stranger. 0v” 27’00_0’0(_)0 pounda' . world 55 "we" 33 P039“? 53 1f “0 breach “Yes.” straight back, and help Barbara to makeI With a shriek, Dorothy awokeâ€"the un A““““°~ ‘5 the “W counu‘y "1 the had ever been opened between them. Not by Lord Aylmcr's desire, thisâ€"oh l no, but because her ladyship had never.been i so genuinely in love with him as he hadj been with her, and was moreover perfectly alive to the solid worldly advantages of 2 being Lord Aylmer’s wife, the mistress of Aylmer’e Field and of the handsome town i house in Belgravo square. I “ Of course, I know that there are oth- l ere," she. said in reply to a dear friend, who ‘ thought it her duty to open this young' wife’s eyes, “ and, of course, I know that. Aylmer wants to get rid of me; but I don’t mean to be got rid of, and I put up with, the others because I think daing so the least. of two evils. There is only one Lady Aylmcr, and she is a strong and healthy young woman, who means to be Lady Ayl- , mer for at least fifty years longer. Yes, I E know, my dear, all that you feel aboutit. I 1 WWW “99793350 3'01"“ feeling mwm'd m9- ' stay with me till I am ready to come after , Oh, yes i it was your duty to tell me, but I am not going to cut. myself out of all that very fond of her, and altogether it would makes life worth living, just. to oblige a husband who has got tired of me in three months.” To this decision Lady Alymcr had front ' that time forward kept most rigidly. As far as her husband was concerned, nothing seemed to annoy her. and whenever she wished to do so and consiesceuded to try to get her own way by means of a little flut- tery, she generally succeeded; and now that Lord Aylmer had got into the “sixties,” she was simply a stately, eveii‘tempered, irou- ( willed and exceedingly healthy Woman, who ' looked as if she meant to live to be ninety. It was partly on the subject of his wife’s , extreme healthineas that Lord Aylmer was thinking that morning as he smoked his cigarette and tried to assure himself that the twinge: in his left fact were merely a sign of it coming shower and nothing in the “I‘lien might we not to go sea for a month. I am pitting for a breath of sea air, and it will be good for you, too.” “That is easy enough. go ‘2 Tenbyâ€"nr would you rather be nearer to Graveleigh.” “We could‘ not go to any of the places near Graveleigli,Dickâ€"I should be meeting people there.” “Yes; but we might go to Overstrand or Cmmcr, or go down to one of the little quiet places nenr Ramsgate. like, we might even go to Ramsgate or Margate itself.” “I don’t in the least care where l” Dor- othy replied. is thisâ€"you remember my cousin, Esther Brand ?" “l’ve heard you speak of her.” “\Vcll, when you are gone, would you let me write to her and ask her to come and you? She is young and kind, and I am be very different for me than if I had noâ€" body except Barbara.” “My dearest, you shall do exactly as you think best about that,” Dick said, without. hesitation. "It is a good idea, and if she is nice and won’t. worry you about being married in this way" “She won’t know, dear," Dorothy cried, “I shall show her my mnrriagedines, and say that you are gone, and that I am going to join you as soon as I can." “She will be sure to ask my regiment.” “Not at all. Besides, you are going out to an appointment, are you not?” "Yes, true. Well, then, do as you think best about it,” he said. “Of course, I shall be a great deal easier in my mind, and then she will be able to see you off, and all that. Oh, yes, it will be a very good ; spouse. Why, if you ' up to you for the temporary loss of your I gather from your letter that he is all that is good and kind and brave, to Where shall we i say nothing of being handsome and loving I and true~-â€"you lucky little girl ! “Expect; me when you see me, dear, which will be as soon as I can possibly get myself to London. If I were on the other jside of the frontier, I could pretty nearly fix both day and time. As it is, I can only say that I will 1058 no time in being with you, and I will stick to you till I see you safe on board the P. and O. steamer. “My love to Barbaraâ€"how she and I . don’t tell it. will yarn together over the old place and But. what I wanted to say i the old days lâ€"nnd much love to you, dear little woman. ate From your always affection- “ESTHER.” This letter in itself was enough to put Dorothy into the wildest and gayest of .spirits, and Barbara was almost. as much delighted; for, truth to tell, the old ser- may to the prospect of supporting her loved lyoung mistress through her hour of lone- ‘ ‘ liness and trial, and was therefore greatly relieved to find that the responsibility of the situation would fall upon the strong and capable shoulders of Miss Esther Brand instead of lying upon her own weaker ones. “It. is so‘ good and sweet and dear of Esther,” Dorothy repeated over and over again. “Just like her to throw everything else aside on the chance of being able to do a good turn to some one in need. Now, I don i; feel half so nervous as I did." “Nor I,” echoed Barbara speaking out. of her very heart ; then she added, with a sig- nificant smile : “Miss Esther never could abide David Stevensonâ€"neither could I.” Dorothy could not help laughing. “Ah 3 I think you were all just a little hard on vant had looked forward with no little dis- l ~was streaming in at the sides of the window ' blinds,and Barbara was just comingt-hrougli . the doorWay with a little tray [caring j Dorothy’s early cup of tea. . i “Did I scream, Barbara '2” Dorothy gasp- ed. “A bit of a cry. What ailed you,ma’am'.‘” l Barbara asked. 2 “Oh! I was so frightenedâ€"I had such a ; horrid dream aboutthe master. I thought.”â€" , But Dorothy did not complete the sen- !tcnce, for Barbara put out her hand with a horrified look. “Nay, now. Miss Dorothy, Whatever you do, don’t tell me.” “But why 2" cried Dorothy open-eyed. 1 “You should never tell a dream before i noon, Miss Dorothy,” returned Barbara, portentously. . “ Oh i” exclaimed Dorothy, “ isn’t; it ,lucky‘.“ She knew that. Barbara was agrent believer in luck, and signs and omens. “It's fatal, answarcd Barbara. solemnly, whereat Dorothy burst out laughing and the ' worst feelings of dread with which she had ‘ awakened passed away. ,' “I think,”’she said, after breakfast,when 'Bai‘bara was clearing the table, ” that I [shall put on my hat and go up to the High { Street; I cannot finish this till I get- some more lace ;” then she held it up and showed I it off to Barbara. “Isn’t it sweet?" she ex- , claimed, with intense satisfaction. “It’s lovely," returned Barbara, who was i overjoyed at the prospect of a baby. “Then do you wish me to go with you, ma’am, or will you go alone ‘2” “Do you want to go?" Dorothy asked. “Well, ma'am, to be honest, I don’t. I ‘ want to turn the room out for Miss Esther. l You see, she may come nearly as fast as her letter, and I shouln’t like to put her into a dirty room." “It can’t be dirty, Barbara," cried Doro~ world to which ruminating animals are not. indigenous, and yet cattle and sheep of various breeds thrive there amazingly. Overland telegraphic communication ban tween India and China has at last been established by the junction of the Burmese and Chinese lines on the 16th of March. The smallest race of human beings known are the inhabitants of Andaman Islands. Their average stat-tire is 3 [â€"2 feet, nnd few of them weigh more than 65 lbs. M. Guzman, a musical enthusiast, he! left 50,000 francs to the city of Paris to pay for musical entertainments for the sick poor in hospitals and asylums. The Czar is the most comfortably fixed financially, of any European monarch. He has no civil list, salary or allowance. Hé just helps himself to all he needs, and the treasurer’s only duty is to see those needs supplied. State Councillor Joseph Kemp, who has been nominated President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 1895. is the first Conservative Catholic who has been appointed to the highest office of the little republic. He is 60 years of age. Gallini, in his “ Travels in Africa," do- clares that the people of the west coast are exceedingly fond of dancing. He once tried to tire them out, but as long as he could raise his hands to his violin they continued to dance, and he was forced to desist. Gen. Sommer, commanding an Austrian brigade in Bosnia, has been experimenting successfully with dogs for war purposes. A hundred and fifty dogs have been taught to carry the mails into the mountains to distance: that occupy them two or three hours. The Earl and Countess of Devon have thin in ever we .-' . . . . ‘ world to do with gout at all. And just as a Dim, came); he,- hands together and David. I didn't Want to be Mrs. David, it thy, laughing, “ because nobody has over $5" Eelelbmgednthm: dlf'gong weddmgé l worse twinge than usual made him wince laugh“ quite jOYOUEIY. non, Dick, dear," is true. But apart from that, I don't see slept in it." e M ' w 0 rec 0'0 0W en mm a" VT?â€" '. : "‘ and shiver, the door opened gently and a man-servant made his appearance. “M r. Aylmar is here, my lord,” he said. “Will your lordship see him '3” “Certainly, of course," exclaimed his lordship. "Show him here at once. ” The man retired, and in a minute or two returned with Dick, who said "Good- morning” to his uncle with an air of chest- ful civility. “H'gh !” granted the old lord, “morning. “'ell ?" “Well, sir,” said Dick, “ I have thought the mailer over, and although I have not and never have had any wish to go to India, I have decided that. it will be best for me to accept the appointment you were good ennuuh to get. for me. “Oh lâ€"er, I'm glad you've come to your senses at last," said the old lord a shade more graciously. "Well, you had better go and sec Barry Boynton about itâ€"that will be the best. And then you’ll have to net your afl'aira put in order, make your will and all that." , "I hnvc made my will." said Dick, promptly, ".tltliough it's true I haven't ; very much to mass it for.” ' “Ah! that's goodâ€"those things ought always to he done before they are wanted. By the bye, Dick, are you hard up or any- ' thing of that kind 2" Do you want. any money 1'" “No, air, thanks. I could do with a: hundred or two, of courseâ€"who couldn't? But I am not in debt or anything of that sort." I The old lord caressed his white mus-3 iaohe and looked at his heir with a sort of j comical wonder. “'I’on my soul !" he re. 3 marked, “3 can‘t tell how you do it.’ i "Rh 2" said Dick. not understanding,l and in fact not interested in his unslcs thoughts. "Well, how do you do it? Exptnslve she cried, “I’m so glad youdon’t mindâ€"I feel quite brave about. being left now. I do wish, though, that you could see Esther. She is so tall and strang, very handsome, smooth. dark hair and great dark eyesâ€"â€" quite a girl who ought to be called Esther or Olive. And then she has always been rich, and for five yearsshe has been abso- lutely her own mistress, and has travelled about every where.” “Won’t she think it; odd that you have inever written to her all this time 1" “I don't think so. Esther is not a girl who thanks you for letters unless you have something special to say.” Dick put his arm round his little wife’s waist, “And you have something very, very special to tell her, haven't you 2" he said tenderly, then cried with an uncon- trollable burst of anguish. ” Oh, my love my love, you don’t knowâ€"you will never know what it. will cost me to go away and leave you just now, when you will want, me most 01 all.” . “ Never mind, Dick," she said, bravely, “ Iain not afraid. Looking at her, he saw that she spoke the truth and only the truthâ€"her eves met his, clear and true, and the smile which played about her sweet mouth was not marred by any expression of the agony which she had suffered during the few previous days. A week ago she had been more Dick’s-weatheart than his wife ; now she was not only his wife, but had also in her eyes the proud light of motherhood- l “ Filled was her soul with love. and the dawn of an opening heaven." CHAPTER V. ALONB. There is no need for me to tell of the ,mouth wmcli Dick and his wife passed tti;.«t...-r n‘. a iii-eluded lltile watt-ring place that there was so much amiss with him." “H’m l" remarked Barbara, with another sniiff, “perhaps not. But. for all that, Miss Dorothyâ€" Ma'am,I should sayâ€"David Ste- venson was a mean boy, and I never could abide meanness in man, woman or child.” “He was most generous to me,” said Dorothy, with a sigh. "Yes, to serve his own ends," said Bar- bara, sharply. “You may take such gene» really as that for me. Not that I was speaking of that, ma'am, for I wasn’t, but of the time when David was a boyâ€"a hor- rid boy, who thought nothing of stealing the boat apples and letting another take the blame of it." “Oh, Barbara l Barbara 1” cried Dorothy, “you’ve got hold of a wrong story. \Vhy, I know that once when DaVid stole some of Auntie’s apples, and young Tom Merri- man got the blame, David came and told Auntie himself." “ Yea : and for why 2" demanded Bar- bara, with uncompromising eternness. “Be- cause I happened to have got the young limb at it and collared him before he could get away. ‘ You are stealing Miss Dims- dale'e apples, David Stevenson, I said‘, laying hold of him sudden-like ; ' and you stole them other applea that Tom Merri. man has been sacked for.’ ‘And what's that to you, you old sneak 2’ he asked. ' Sneak or no eneak,‘ said I, ‘you’ll turn out your pockets to me, my fine gentleman; and you’ll go straight up to the house and you’ll tell Miss Dimedale that it was you stole the apples last Week, and then you’ll go and uh Tom M-crriuian’s pardon for having let him lie under your fault.’ ‘ That I ahan't,’ any he. "l‘hen,’ ea 1 I. ' I just walks you right off to Miss iuudale, and she’ll see you with your pockets full, red. handed a: you arr». So,’ any: I. ' it’s no use to struggle, l've got you safe by the arm, and w .' wear: to keep you, whether j “Well, ma’am," Barbara retorted. “ 1 can’t say that I know a dirtier person than Mr. Nobodyâ€"on the whole.” Dorothy laughed. “Well, then you evi- dently have a lot to do, and I would just as soon go alone. So I will go soon, before I get tired or the day gets hot;” for,although September was half over, the weather just then was most sultry and trying to those not in the best of health. She was soon ready, and went. into the cozy kitchen to ask Barbara is there was anything that she wanted, but she did not. hap n to want. anything at all. “ o I look all right 2" Dorothy asked, turning herself about. “Yes, you look very sweet this morning, Miss Dorothy,” said Barbara. “I wish the master could see you this minute." “80 do I." echoed Dorothy, promptly. “Well, he will see me soon enough, econ enough. Good-by,Barbara." I (1-0 as CONTINUED.) â€"-â€"-â€".â€"â€"-â€"â€"- l [ ENGLISH SPRING. iIdeal Weather Prevalllngâ€" London's “eta.- morphoslsâ€"Shopkecpcrn' Complaints. A despatch from London says :â€"Ideal spring Weather has prevailed during the past week and London is looking its best. The parks are crowded morning and after- noon. and everybody seems to be enjoying the change from the cold and fogs of win- ter to the sunshine of coming summer. Thus the season begins suspiciously, though there is the usual stack of complaints from tradesmen who grumble because the mem- bers of the Royal family intend to spend but little time in town. Then, again, the shopkeepers are grumbling because the Queen is’going to crowd two drawing-rooms into a ortnight, for, in their opinions, a prebendary of Exoter Cathedral, is one of the most popular men in Devonshire, and the Countess has been nnwearied in good works. Vincent Silva. a member of a band of robbers and assassins in New Mexico, kill- ed his wife because he was afraid she would betray him to the authorities. When he boasted of hi: deed to some companions they killed him and buried him in the grave with his wife. The Em rose Domger of Russia has a jointure $500,000 per annum. and a palace in St. Petersburg, a country place and the villa Livadia, where the Czar died, for life, all the establishments to be kept up by the State, quite independent of her income. The young daughters get $200,000 a year when they come of age. The Austrian state railways are now using liquid fueL It is reported that. the results obtained from the Holden injectors have been excellent in all respects, par tic- ularly on account of the control the system gives the firemen over the fire, and that theee injectors are to be adopted on the engine: of the Metropolitan railway of Vi- ennui. The Japanese speak backward, write backward, read backward and even think backward, awarding to European notions, wear white for mourning. The poet of honor in at the left, not the right, of the host. The best room is in the rear of the house, not the front. They prepare to enters. house by removing the shoes not the hat. They tie their horses’ heads to the back end of the stall, and laugh at funerals. Jacobitea still exist in England. On the 30th of January, the anniversary of the erecution nf King Church I., they held a memorial service and decorated his statue at Clmring Cross with flowers. On a card "fitmentâ€"flat tn Pads-3 Mansionsâ€"Hin- cu :m. X.” 'u’k cuss-z. nor of the scramble 8'0“ “he I‘ 0" "0" And I‘ once Ml" Dima‘ mete “390‘ be ‘00 mull Public (“5?th “as the inwril‘fion ‘ " Rem‘mber' 0 K1" en,ned all the rest." u'n'c- I): L: i»... at the 1...: to get ready dde “0" the WW d°y°u know what and they hm p-rticulsr sympathy with "1" “mt”: We be", 00‘ meow“ 9° Dick shrugged lxis abandon. "Well, i 4- a route-'- d-ty Meaning for the 81’1"“ ‘1“ “will Slevw'on 7' “Y3 'N0.' such events at Queen's drawing-rooms, “We Que“! “HY” “QM”!l 51"? n l” "‘0 lit. 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