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and ciost confident smile asked me to foome season. The Rodneyt at the time, however not obliged to answer them she "sald. he flush hat d in ber ch It convince( love--and engag le experigficed a queer sinking Heart. "You can say that you any one should be s& 40 ask" Suddenly she caugh th and stared at him in a sor "Heavens!" she whispered you're not, by any chance engaged, are you?" poised half way to her lips not, by any chance, engaged you? Appalifng thought!" He laughed delightedly. "Péople won't ask about me, my dear Con | née. I'm already married, you | jw. . But iL-6hy ofie--ghould ask mot obliged to answer." 'looked troubled and uncertain may be really married, after all," glated. "Who knows? Poor der my wing mplish in thy ly, *1 must take you u You have much {0 ucd next twenty-four hourly not the lens of your duties belog subjngation and Ragglesd Tootles is fit lis old. It mw terest as He piclow Once in awhile be bites 100,. Do you like babies?" = "Yes, 1~1 think 1 do," be sald doubt ingly, "1 daresay I could cultivate s taste for 'em; but. 1 say," with cage enthasiasm, "1 love dogs!" "It ay be distinctly in your fave tbat Ruggles loathes the real Roxbury He growls every time that Roxy Kissel Edith." "Has he ever bitten Roxy for it?' "No," dublonsly, "but Roxy bas baé to kick him on several occasions." How very tiresome-to kick and kiss at the same time!" *» "Raggles is very jealous, you under | stan "That's more than I can say for deas old Roxy. But I'll try to anticipate Raggies by compelling Edith to keep ber distance," he said, scowling dark ly. "Has it vot occurred to you thai Tootles will he pretty--cr--much of 8 | nuisance when it corn to mountain | climbing?' He felt his way carefully | in saying this. "Oh, dear me, Roxbury! Would you | bave left the poer little darling at bome--in all that dreadful beat? "I'm siire 1 couldn't have been blame: ed for leaving her at bome," be pro tested. "She didn't exist untl] baif an hour ago, Heavens, bow they det spring up!" The remainder of Brock's day. wad spent in getting acquainted with his fanifly, or, rather, his menage. There were habits und foibles, demands aud restrictions that be had to adapt hime self to with unvarying benignity. He made a friend of Ruggles without bald trying. Dogs always took to him, he admitted modestly. Tootles was less vulnerable. She howled consistently at each of ULfs first balf dozen ad vances. I1i§ courage began to wane with shocking rapidity. His next halt hearted advances were in reality in. glorious. retreats, Spurred on by the sustaining Constance, he stood by bis guns and at last was gratified to see faint signs of surrender. By midday he had conquered. Tootles permitted him to carry her up and down the sta- tion platform (she was too young to realize the risk she rani, [Edith and Constance, with the beaming nurse and O'Brien, applanded warmly when be returned from his first. promenade, bearing Tootles and prondly heeled by Raggles. Fond mothers in the crowd of hurrying travelers found time to | look upon bim and smile, as if to say. jtbury wouldn't have had the | "\What a nice man!" He céuld almost inquire." @ henpecked baclielor, believe the next quarter of an hoor they 8d in the liveliest, most inconse fashion, getting on excelient with each other and arriving at lense of appreciation of what lay d of them in the shape of peril and was the most delightful person | bear them saying it, which no doubt accounted for the {ntense ruddiness of his cheeks. "Do 'yon ever. spank her? he de | manded once of Mrs. Mederoft after | Tootles had brought tears to his eres with a potent attack upon his nose. | She caught the light of 'danger in his | nervousness for ten years; eng # it coprinnell Lo provide mm with a sister-in-law and a wife who was devoted to another man. TTT OHAPTER VY. The Distant Cousins. trying ordeals and bad lost not a little of "his sense of locality, but be was rapidly recovering it ds the pathway became easier and loss obscure. At first he was irritatingly remiss in an- ! swering to. the name of Mederoft; but, | to i=etify the stupidity, it is only nec: emsary to say that he had faHen into a condition which scarcely permitted | him to know his own nanie, much less - that of another, He was under the spell. 'Wherefore it did not matter at | all what name he went by. Iie would have answered as readily to one as the other. , He blandly ignored telegrams. and letters addressed to Roxbury Medcroft, and once he sat like a lump, with ev- ery one staring at him, when the chair man of tlie architects' convention ask- ed if Mr. Medcroft had anything to | say on the subject' under discussion. | He was forced, in some confusion, to | attribute his heedlessness to a lifelong | defect in hearing. Thereafter it wag | his punishment to have his name and fragments of eonversation hurled about in tones so stentorian that he blushed | for very shame. In the Bristol, in the | Karotner-Ring, in tbe Lichtenstein gal- lery, in the gardens--no matter where | be wWent--if he were to be accosted by any of the genial architects it was al- ways in a voice that attracted attén- tion. He could have heard them If they had been a block away. It be came a habit with him to instinctively | Jift his hand to his ear when ome of | them hove in sight, baviag seen him first. | "That's what 1 get for being a liar" {she lamented dolefully. Constance haa { just whispered her condolences. "Do you think they'll consider it odd that you don't shout at me toot" { | "You might explain that you can toll | what 1 am saying by looking at wy | tips," she said. He Was immensely re- lieved. organié pains that some in bed four days at a time, or sleep and did not want to me or 'bother me at alk I would suffer for seven h woman's: If you wantspe= 2) cial advioo write fo Sb Lydia B. Pinkhant {(/ Medicine Co. (confl- dential) Lynr, Mass, | Your letter will be opened, read answered by 8 wo- man and held in f(g strict confidence. Seeds, vvus prevenumng af the plant. Many of thes 'winter birds live on. the berries left hang<] ing on the trees, the mountain ash berry, or the berry of the Northwest maple, 'or barberries being typical examples of thé 'winter food of the e¢omimon grosbeaks. Many. birds formerly migratory are pow no long- er 80. A notable instance of this is the common Crow, and fahe n he ptays is ingreaséd cultivation, ot ayed tha y the cistom of farm- ers of manuring their land in"%he winter leaves large quantities of grain, on which the birda can feed. There is also the fact that unthresh | ed corn is offen stacked for the win- ter. The visits of northern birds are erratic and difficult to understand, sometimes ne species appearing in great abundance and at other times some other species. - Some six years ago the North of Canada jay, of Whiskey Jack, as it is called by the |} lumbermen, appeared here in large numbers. This was their first. records ed appearance, in any guantity, singé 1837, when the Hon. W. Allen ob: { served a simflar visitation. 2 The northern birds particular! prevalent this winter are the: pine grosbeaks, evening grosbeaks, ref: polls, and an unusually large num- ber snow bunting of snow-birds ga they are commonly called. It aps pears that the migration of governed almost. 'en Considerable Qifficulty bad to Hoover; | Quantity, a Te mane at) cone at the Hristo! the rooms. - Without going '{fito detsiis Brock resignedly took the only' woom left in the crowded hotel, a 6 by 10 cubby hole on the top floor overlooking | the airshaft. He had to go down oné | Blight for his morning tub, and Ye nev- | er got it because he refused to stand | in tine and await his turn, Mrs. Med- | croft had the choicest room in the ho- | tel, looking down upon tha beaufiful Karntner-Ring. ~ Constance proposed, | in the Foodnges of her heart, to give | up to Brock her owil room, adjoining | that of her sister, provided Bdith' | would take ber in to sleep with her. Edith was perfectly willing.' but inter | posed the sage conclusion that gossip- ping rienials might not appreciate a preference so unique. Roxbury Medcroft's sky patior ad- joined the élevator shaft, The bead | gray eyes and bastily snatched the of- | | fending Tootles from his arms. Miss Fowler kept him constantly at 'ever met as well as being the | work wiih his eyeglass and bis Eng utiful, 'There was a prightly, owing alr of self reliance about "fhint charmed und redssured bim. the capacity for divining and the ridiculous with splen- discrimination. Moreover, she gt and be serious with an im- igence that gratified his ut in the least inspiring that she wis merely clev- e blissfully fmbued with 'that she had surprised berselt ve. 'In fact, be was quite pleased' with bimselt--for pardoned ff one stops "résourceful a woman of she 1s very, very preity. further andlogy, ghiy likable' chap, | da thorough. a A | pitles along. the w very that be was "gue | When uot amosing herself: { lish, peither of which be was manag: estimate. In fact, he 1a with' the persistence, if pot the sullen. vess, of a hard driven gli¥e = He did not have time to become Hired. tn he done aay was man of was always something or learned or unlearned foll to overflowing. He family. The wife of his hosom. Was franquil- lity itself, Rhe was Cay berselt; x watchs ing Brook's misfortune Was nap- | pla or reading: or sen it tor cool i drivks. With all the 8 po dutiful wife ghe wis contin | responsihitiities upon tha ient ahd useful creat sister. Brock 'sent telegrams f Ber from = Mupiel,, na 4 t. for : well enough to please Mer critical | i id rovided evergreel Dn LE will remain; goshawk is another bird p considerable . quantities this and although an inveterate rats, mice, and other rodents, he is also a poult Its particular prey - being turns to the farmyard for that in the winter timé pal the presence of this bird of rather a disadvantage thal vantage, : it Old Folks' Co "Tells of a Sure Cure and & Never.F: fort for Colds, Coughs, Cat: Just think of it--a direct bi medicine, full of soothing pine essences that reach congested membrane in Ew No drugs to také--nothing dged or tke infant, bec ozone ig the purest, safest: tars) night that I couldn't sleep. 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