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MONTREAL. glimpse of her across the room at the --H 8 held in the large coach-house of the inn where I was staying, I saw nothing of her until one misty morning, seen when the tolling of -Lythinge church-| cess in a fairy-tale. 7 by : bells. summoned me fo the wind-swept). After the service I turned to Mrs. graveyard where the body of Horatio! Nok, DING; her: eyes 'with i ig wid : Saxon was to be interred. an elaborately embroidered pockethand- ER [ J The inquest had proved a formal and Kerchief, .. y ats td pu + ; (4 e nn : ve speedily concluded affair. - Several wit-| "I want to speak to Lilith about the jy : 9 nesses testified to the half-drunken con-| future," I sald, and without waiting for dition in which Saxon had left the inn at ment I ted DE ihe West Sandhythe on the evening of hi ah Toad. . death. Others there were who gave evl-| The fact that I. had paid -M ice 45,50 pir SonAlion Then NS nd Salons funeral expenics clearly" ga entered the: bar of .the : me, In the opinion of the few perso: Or, Married to a Fairy. after ten o'clock "and shouted for his! present, a Prost Tight a y ; daughter. Lilith and I were there 10! with his daughter about the future: As corroborate each other as to his fall, | for Lilith, she seemed instinctively to hse Ln . </ | and Nokes, the landlord, proyed hig sum-| turn to me for guid and tection : Joong oy me and Jus discovery. ot the With 8, dociiily (and gentleness which ody where ay in A ouched m 2 I CHAPTER VI.--(Continued). fence, jon, seemed, but of hopeless The 'dead it jay, drunken habits - had "Ht i poeply. Barres has while: 'A light touch on my shoulder made! Bohemian habits, remem so weakened his constitution that the pered Bagerly, 'let us got: oft the high- a very pretty little girl with a lot of 1 ight have made ¢ BERRI : me start violently. I turned and saw state of his heart alone mig! road, and £0 down toward the sea. I J J a ire. -- « Lilith, whom, In thei new dread that was fair Hatt, cohput fourteen: 1 should fay: any sudden shock fatal to him. fc Was | haven't been near the se since last Sat-] ; 2 creeping over me, 1 had altogether for-| po wos' with "him at Lythinge?" clearly a "death. from misadventure," | urday, and I do want to hear the sound . Arie Jotten, peering over my shoulder into and was in no way complicated' by any | of it." Mayn't 'we 'take the lane toward £4 rd Nk { [ide = (fol RAL oratio Saxon's face, "She 1s at the Rose and Crown under testamentary arrangements on the Part| West San hythe 2 NA ul : i A Fr on Ad We == = es, who was wi Ao "Father is dead!" she sald, in an awe-| Mrs. Nokes' care, at this moment." of the deceased, for an examination of | "The marshes are thick with mist," I H Ar atric hither soedkind Wal FRAN | oor Sih Hs Shai bistnee| Bl SEI SOMMER tor | aomurtomere hen MKS a g a a own as I had found him, | had neither money nor friends. I know rin A ven Pipe, and several ure "The the plate iL es and, taking Lilith by the hand, I led her, (I didn't charge him anything--didn't| PEURY 5 SCONES: =| through them.' Please, Mare Hervey!" crying silently, back to the inn. Then | think I should get it if I had. %| No one mourned for him, no one re-i "I have so much to say to you. Amd a nT I summoned Nokes from the bar 'as| training for a girl tramping about the to 4%, M0 oie", ONY sow ner at down in 'the valley we shall not be able : 3 fs auletly ns 1 could, and immediately out- Sountry ith Rim 1h 21 sorts of weather, Se inquest, was dressed in an fLAitting to see each others faces," I said. " ee Be oe *, 4 wide his doors I to m briefly wha fads black stuff gown, whic ung all "But you can hold my hand, which is B I g Wi LARTER and, ook Hin wich wil | aterante Jn, Shin, Bal heh Be ones" hE Sader, form And acge Just So apg Po 1 Bend. Which * _ Build Concrete Bar AXON : be able to do something for her, to get| uated the blueness a nel She held it out to mo as she spoke, Be, ana 3 hi pee really dead i L)ad fudged her a nursemaid"s or soullery-maid's| eves, put 1 Sannat zay that she a peired and hand in hand we began the steep Hk an a 8 ' left him a few minutes before. Death, | place somewhere. But it isn't everybody Sheth ng formal jan rvately, that She assent down a narrow lane, with here 2 - : Ls ) ' indeed, must have been almost instan-| who would have her with such antege-| Nokes "inform D I'S W fon ere-4 little tiled or open-timbered} : 2 ee +a CTA taneous, for he had not even uttered a |dents." i was "scandalized by the girl's want of | cottage perched high on the steep banks Gi i Y OU will find that they are best groan. He lay there; a dark patch upon| "Surely," said I, with dijculty re-| feeling, he first night" the] J hich bordered the way. We could only & t first and chi vk the end the shining white roadway, with a nar- [straining my feelings, "having a drunk- She cried a bit the eat night, as see a few feet In front of us into the| | ¥. a rst and c eapest in he end. row red stream trickling from under the | en and disreputable father, and no money | landlady explained, "but she seeme fo white nebulous mass that seemed to " Ta) hd dia Baton wound in his head TIX a nd and no friends, 18 her misfortune and | right next morning, . I mean to make | roll'away at our approach. The air was Concrete buildings cannot bufn' an many dol By Mr. Noke's advice. I.borrowed a|not her fault. And, from what I have| her stop inside the house until the fun- strangely still, the very song-birds twit- { Tats ate saved i lower i ea ? horse Trom the farm by. 'tile vhiirchyard' heard, her mother was a lady." : | eral as it would seem sq disrespectful | tered nervously as though ed 3 Dy F Insurance and rode off as fast: as. the animal's "Couldn't-have been much of 'a lady, to] to the dead for her to go to hanging down in spirit by the clammy mist, and, - need practically no repairs' ¢ sturdy legs could carry:me:ta'summon a' marry old on," laughed the doctor.|about'the Royal Arms after you, like as| with-the exception, of wi group oi Frey 3 painting. NA pi doctor from Bandhythe, a "doctors| "No, no, my dear sir. Take the word of | she wanted to. 'No,' I'says to her, 'un- hawkers, haggling in th pe liar jar- 2 . ale A were unknown in Lythinge, with the ex-| an older man--domestic service is the| til your poor father's decently under gon by the wayside, & dusky, 1-kempt, NS ; 3 a sii sention of the local "vet at clatter. only safeguard for a pretty girl with| ground, here you sto And I.gave Wer | raggedly picturesque group, We met-no| Con; eC. barnyards make the kind ing journey over the moonlit roads will| vagrant instincts and no education. Our| baby to mind, But yesterday what did| human creature until we reached the iy os 3 feed floor and save many in: : eed bills, as your stock gets every particle 3 linger long in my memory. :Fialways as-| early impressi are the str , and I do but find her in thé top room in the| level of the marsh. 3) I ; sociate it now. with. the" scent of hay, | you don't make a decorous member of | wing, She'd set baby and Willie down Here, strange to say, our path lay ; , deed 8 stacks ot which, Iragtant "after a society ut ot a sir Whose childhood on the Noor, and she was actually gan clearer before vs, A slight wind, from i that you feed to them. heavy ' d 1 ly high- early girlhood is spent in tramp! to them in a mos e! | th wi { Vv an 2d ip 3 way Pains, bordered the lonely high about the Santry as a gypsy." ug with oor Mr. Saxon' scarcely - cold! and ride ADE he yapors, ohooh : < 'Send for this free bool! What the: Parmer: ~My mind throughout that ten-mile ridej "I am extremely sorry for the poor| Dreadful, I call it, sir, though I 'don't ed the bridge over the military canal, [ 4 Can do With Concrete. It shows just how ~ to And Irom Jandhythe was in a _ tur-| child," 1 said, speaking In ax calm and know how it may strike you sien and made our way. to the coast by . the aay. to build yom concrete" barn, eas. TeRolved-- Tallis future shoan: bh Wa a Was afbrute to her, but, to MLA et, Ab Ch fact, I al- ¥inamg Toad through! theile Boa , building thas you may free from toil and 'poverty I could| tell the 'truth, I feel in some méasure together failed to see why an intelligent! our heads a -sea-bird' wi "wheeling G s 's { P make it. Under the aearcdod stars, in| responsibil for his vielent death, for, gir] of sixteen should be more than tem-l young uttering a short, wali note, i ol C . the sweet-scented. summer-night still-] meeting thom together on the highroad, porarily shocked -and pained by thé vied the one touch Wanting do te? he : ig 'Comant ompany ness, 1 took myself to task about my mo-'1 interfered to prevent him from abusing lent death of such a father as Horatio| mysterious loneliness of :the-Boene . : y Herald B wn fixes. and ait Bot LA to deceive myself, her, and it Sas in SuRing out 'at €| Saxon had been. Possibly, as I admitted At last a martelld tower loomed] - / . . ! uilding, Montreal til oved the child, not vet with a man's| that he overbalanced an i h i 1 3 g . : eg. Tr > er' oo IS NERD love for a woman, bat with a protective,| been thinking over what I can do for lo myself GIL) of Voy AtIORE Toclings yaguely Tle us Hough The Hehten: . pitying tenderness. "1 had never yet met| Lilith, and if 1 can find out her relatives to are in spite of the man's neglect Bed bog rl Ho BE B Hd 8 human creature who interested me soit will be better, I should say, for her ae 4143 4-but, then, would any girl he Kit of or A 1 ga hy deeply, and had it been possible, 'so|to live with them during the next two an ein bo fectingas haye followed mer ng ras) ha > e, Heo ng 8: strong was the romantic passion = with| years, while she attends a school for| of Yery strong ortsuch a ras ith seated herself on the dry sand, which she inspired me, I 'would have! her education." 'and'obeyed and irked a pire dotted here and there by stunted . reeds dedicated my whole life to her service. The doctor fixed his eye-glasses on his nd Ios De i Ray ab of As to the wisdom or folly of harboring | nose and turned to look at me where I g an. Such Zentiments In my heart Zo oe Josred along by the side of his gig in Re while Lath heen Working inhi | lovely, neglected, vagrant . who e moon 5 acl in " wf fate had cast in my way, I could not go| 'Do I understand," he asked dryly,| covered the small hootinaker ang Tepait, into that question. A man loves wherel "that you intend to adopt Lilith, and try er 8 shop dn, a een centn 3 Lo be he must, not where he should, and al-| to maife g lady of her" with Projecting. uppes vy the a oe ready this child of sixteen, whom I had| The blood rose to my face at some-| John Saxon, first a read mat le that day encountered for the first time, | thing in his tone, but I kept my temper, | This John Saxon:I had foun % 2 p was more, infinitely mote, to me than any! forthe child's sake. cal-eharacter, & Radical, a E8ethinker other living -thing. "There is no question of adoption," I|and a most: argumentative an quarrels As to forming any definife plan for| answered, "but I can afford to help| some little man, whose opinions were a her future, that I .certainly. had, not| Lilith, and I intend to do so." stiff and unyielding as his boots andi done. In some measure her fdther's "Ah! To Help her by giving two yéars' | shoes, and who clearly eyed me with death lay at my door, and I was bound finishing polish to an education that has contempt as a pampered aristocrat!' to mee that she was not a loser by it."At| not vet begun! And what is to become| when I bent my head to enter his low: the same time, I knew, quite well that|of-her at the end of the two years. After ceilinged, i11-1it shop, smelling of lYea- net duty, but personal inclination, mov-| learning to jabber French and play the| thet and strewn with the implements bo ed 'me to provide for her future. All| plano, you won't find her very willing to| his trade. : A that I had really decided upon was to] take up domestic service; and yet, what Mr. John Saxon was dark, short, and seek out her' relatives, and ascertain alge can she do?" _ 8, ill-fayored. - He was seated on a wooden whether they were willing, for a con- "Two years is a long way ahead." I! bench when I entered, bullying two boys. sideration, to provide Lilith with 'a{ was beginning, when he cut me short. | who assisted him in his business, When: home while she attended a school to "Pardon me for asking you'. he said,| he earned that my errand was not to amend her deficiencies in the matter of | "put are you a married man?' purchase boots or to have them repairs} education. "No. But I really cannot see how| oq Hut was connected with his cousin As to what would be her subsequent that affects the question." Horgtio Saxon, his ill tempef broke ou career I would not trouble myself to "The world would see, Mr. Hervey.| at once. think. She would never want a home, The world is apt to misunderstand the "An -il1 weed, that! A spouting; or friendship, or advice, or money, while | motives of, a handsome young single mouthing vagabond, with a lazy, useles; I lived; but even while I thought thus, gentleman of good family, who takes al chit of a daughter. It's money, iI Sup in a glow of protective affection, I real- philanthropic interest ina lovely little poséf Orace wants: Well, he. won't -ge ized with a pang that my life was not! grnhan beggar-girl: You take my advice, any-from me.' I'ad enough of them las my own to offer her. 'Had I been free, sir, Leave Lilith to my wife; she 1s!}ina" they were 'ere. Calls h h 1 Feit 1 could have taught her to lovel),qy superintendent of a home for train- Conservative, afd talks about his wifef' RR Seuid lave fo molded her sweet. | n."young servants in our town, and she 'aving been a lady! That was always| Pithie Jature 1 afin a Year or two she will no doubt be willing to get the girl| /Grade's way. . When he 'was. a 'play Poi Bid Toast of the afters Which | in there. Then, if you Teally Want to do| sctof, on thirty shillings a week, it was, I could find it in me to lavish upon her.| Anything for her, You can see my Wife| ai) 'igh and mighty, and 00 grand for ( But Lady Madge's image interposed be. | 8bout it, and place in her hands any| Cousin John. But now he's a tramp, A sum you like for Lilith's clothing rand beggins and cadging at beer shops, and} tween me and this realization of all m : ¥ irl need never know tor d: lik key t 7 4 ' : Jad Ae SE : Sh dine Fr dreams, and I fancied I could see the| expenses. 'The girl ne making his girl dance like a monkey to P T is n ; BE REE - A PAINT ot cheap simply because the price is #corniful 'curl of the lip and hear the; Whom she is indebted for the money, and | apy organ, he's glad enough to get put up : y 808 i y like that, both you and she will escape under Cousin John's roof." LS . - % : wil fo "irate philanthropic. Interest a a| being hiaced Ih in aitogsther talag post-| "iu. Thea you are u Heaioar 1 ven | Ml low--if you would economize on paint, you ¥l of sixteen he found danct for | Hon, Now. isn ere some Selise tured to observel "Surely in that case ; y , Se price per f ah ina pi di tavern," ancing oF, what I say?" you don't think the worse of a man be- ? Fah; must look beyond the purchase price per gallon. The words and tone, even in imagina- o doubt there is. But Lilith Herself! cause, under the economic conditions| fill : : : j CH 5 x SC a TLAEg ik a tion. sting me. 1 'whipped the fat aides | should have some Voice in the matter] of "is age, your cousin is unable tof (NIMINANGE : ~The cheapest paint for youl to use is the paint of the farm horse so that in rapid mo-| Here we are at Lythinge. I can see the make a living for himself and his J 7 x i 3 : > 39 id ton 1 might forget thelr sting, and, Siurch ayer the i We ol tall over daughter?" n Ashtierss wie od ] \ : that takes the least amount for the job, 8 may cost a little galloping hedvily, found myself at a lit-{ this matter a nother { 5 His little, fierce, 'eyes glar at | : 4 babi : Boma bog Sl adr So B16 Pat eleven In thy sleeping town of | Meantime, I respect your motive and! me savagely under -his overhanging, ] more pet gallon, but because it 1080 y covers more (Sanhdhythe, not far from the address of | thank you for your advice, which I am black eyebrows. ; \ hd + " y > va \ . Gnas Yea ih the doctor which Mr, Nokes had given| sure.is well meant." ~ "I'm not a Radical," he snapped out. : surface, wears better and stays bright fonger, itis the most { ay > v 4 i fos a ad oR me: eturning alongside of the doctor| "But which you don't mean to take, | «jm a Socialist. : The state should pro-} in hig gig, after a great deal of time had! en? . Think it over, Mr, Hervey; think vide for. those who can't 'elp hake n wasted.in his stable in slow and it over! f selves;sbut 'Orace and hts daughter can py preparation, he informed me that "I will," I sald; and I did. 'elp themselves. He might do porter's was acquainted with the dead nmn, But not for a momerit could I recon-| work, and she's old enough for demestic 'having attended him once in Sandhythe | cile myself to the thought of my beauti-| service, If she'd ad any sense, I'd 'ave fora a ioplectid seizure brought on by| ful Lilith washing dishes, scrubbing and | sent the old woman. whe. cha 3 : scouring, at the mercy of another wo-| mends for me away and taken her on, A man of some education and intelli- man's' orders and another = woman's|and I'd 'ave put'Orace the business. | tongue from morning till night. It would! }e'd work more and eat less than those. like betraying her confidence to hand her | greedy boys," he added, with a malevo- over to the tender mercies of some un-|jent look in the di known mistress, kindly and practical, | apprentices; "Bi who would no doubt isapbrote of Lis od," nor him, ei: lith's beauty, and, finding her "too good-| Boar, and, as.for her, throwing her {* looking for a servant," would cut off or| heels about dancing in the attics up-4 fasten up her beautiful yellow hair, en-| stairs all day instead washing and case those lovely, slender feet in coarse ning, and she pan't cook worth a 'boots, and thrust "blacking-gloves" on 0, 1 'elp those that 'elp them- those little hands of hers. :® . s 3 8 wi That sweet frankness and genuine love | 4 man without a penny. in Tor the Desiities of nat re and ihe roes about calling se charm of an open-air existence wou tive because he thinks it's a swell th 'have to be exchanged for a respectful|to do." * TR aA il thing taciturnity, and such gratification as! "Long before this T +f conld be found by an occasional "Sun-| hope of Anding a sho] b y afternoon out" with a "young man," |'der the roof of her fa robably one of the soldiers stationed at| was ready fo' take my' leave, andhyth . fit it my duty to inform Mr, Join : jrihar 1 news on d. | | useing ; ng. ms and the doctor or oust : Xk w | oa Hie oP enmonatol one - el " Ca have been ready enough to bell ture, hat thev would nat have Been | ; 7 nd n ¢ 0 res!