vvuu lIl\I\.|a|l(lI.\.\-I HIC, Ll._)U. . `Half-way down the elevator he had made up his mind to drop -the whole thing by returning and de- stroying the letter; but at the bot- tom Business shoved Love aside, and he hurried on to meet the dir- ectors of the projected company. Rv 'fhf`IA n nIn.sl.- +1-H; kn.-.LI.......,... Her thoughts went back to the golden days of their rst housekeep- ing when she had run down to the 0 `cc so often of an afternoon that Ralph declared her a precious little nuisance `and secreted caramels and chocolates in his desk to encourage another visit. With a sentimental fondness and a vague half-pain she jziptoed across the room and drew open a drawer. The -upturned sheet and the %uperscription. Dear Girl- ie, caught her eye. She glanced hurriedly at the upper right-hand corner, taking it for some old for- gotten letter to herself, and noted the date with happy surprise. In her delight she did.,not remark the addressed envelope that was lying half-concealed beneath it. She be- gan to read: Dear Girlie : "" ' """ ` ""3! ' Just his stupid business! she `ex- .-claimed, her dimmed eyes sparkling joyously. And I m sure more business made him hreak `it off "where he did. And it s all my own letter! And lie called me girlie! (`L _.__-LA ___u _I'sometimes- think we have not fully understood each other of late.. I, at least, know that I may have seemed cold at times, when, in real- iity, I was perplexed with other lthings. I have been somewhat wor- gried and not quite myself, for all of which I intend to make full atone- `ment. I shall explain all soon. v\- /N . 1 Believe me,'Girlie, that the love I give you is the true love of my heart. I am making all arrange- ments.so _that we may-- 15' | Boyo! she cried, making a little ,run toward him and throwing her arms about his neck. You dear, good fellow! And I ve been behav- ing like a little wretch, haven't I? With you worrying so much over your business, and never once com- plaining! No, no, she protested, as he hade an involuntary gesture of remonstrancie, ,it s all true, Boyo, every bit of it. And I ve been, oh, such a naughty girl! 11' 10.! _mf`e`But it s my fault. I insist! she protested. IBELBI S JIII\.I ll\- EC-lI\.\.| IIIC \JlllI\ro V She pressed the scented sheet! ;soft1y to her lips, just as` Ralph A1n~ `lslie entered the room. ; "' " """_'J "' Her moist eyes and his shirt front had approached such dangerous proximity that he was permitted to grin his perplexity above her head, unseen. Somehow, the scent of her hair tangled with his thoughts to a" purpose, and recalled the golden days that he had we11-nigh thrust away. Dear, patient, faithful Maud, -still as-trusting as the first time they had laids lips to lips! And she "had mistaken the broken letter for her own! The pathos of the blund- `er softened `him and helped consign the other woman to oblivion. {Order yotuy wedding mvitations , -1- a_rly\ and at the. right place. _ The. :.;Ad\ 3Y_l.: Job.` -' -Printing. D ent - :>a% `:svscMt.y}.: :.i;`~t.I2i V 2. .. ,1. ,1 V T :4 m.'.;;;, ;1;;;e; "e;,3;;;"ies no-. body's fault in the world but my own. -I've been working `too hard, and______!! `_`;'i`};c:;1"_I must punish you by- ahem!---- ` - Something nice? Then, ,recol- `lecting the letter: And what were we going. to do when you nished :making the arrangements? , Europe, he lied, laconically. I lvsay, Girlie. he added. hurriedly, cat- [ching a glimse of the open drawer land beginning to lead the retreat to lthe door, ``let s not go home, but {have dinner down town--- * m'4And aitieri iiit. zthHe`theatre! she icried. Just; like old. nmes! -TnaL A. ovuuu-anti-gs Ln 91:4 11` He hurried back to the oFce, dos- . ed the door carefully ..behind him. ,`Then'he applied a vesta to the en- velope that had Bertha Somethimz- or -Other w'ritten across itsface. 1-He poked the ashes about in the grate _a1:ffl ~swore softfy at somehing sev-` era1.times,. but when he swore it'.was the dark-eyed wdman~ who was in thoughts. ` \,llC\l- JLIDL, lll'\C LVIU MJIIIVDE -Just a minute, Girlie, he said. at, the elevator shafts" I ve forgotten something. 1! Q7 0 t 11 1 . 1' hr` I WEDDING INVITATIONS. `Yot we W. 1 to whom `.i . 5 aille, tie man _ ' T R.chaRr<`1g:,gcclit0 be married, had` `(`,:;y He was employed In the :25 oiithc proprietors pf 21 Q0911- C mm medicine. His friends Vpnothjng of his work, and -on few oceasimis when he had to "critic himself on legal document; a1w;,y5 :1 `wholesale drug- vt. when his engagement became ' his friends congratulated] gm most cordially; they took It for med that he was about 120 111a1'1'Y rmonev. and that in due course. would'be in :1 position to emer- inthem lavislily. G1-ace s friends .,ea}1 of Opinion that it was her ' J.-. 1...,1 .....,1n Dlolmrd nu-n- 1' Crawshaw had much mom` any friends, and a plagn _face; me; kindest and most:.1nt1mate . dcould not have descnbed her " For :11] that, she had 3, of me, brown eyes` which 1 atoncd for the shortcom- ther features,` and her , _ kind 0}: goldn , sh rlittered w en .t e `W upfn it. She had besides ' ocks, and as she enough to know which. gcss were most becoming to her,` cca re,-U11), refrained from wearing zyof the Others. ` `Richard .Frai1le, the t_o who-ms ...m;me(1 to marned, had` gm 3}] OI U})llll(,lll Lllrlt `IL wan uvu oney that had made Rlchard pro-: se, and one day two_ of thm,_who ere pretty and penmless, jestmgly old her that they would have to re- ... 1350 }~.an9I1:n fhpv mu xv n\1 (1.5 ML uau GIVVWIJV ,and he was constantly devas- ; new and delicious ways of tell- ~~:herth.'1t he w0r!~`hipped her; but .` thought she detected a subtle crence in the tone of his voice. a Jlding it difcult to keep up the 3" Of his part? She knew` that _ loved` him >10 WC that she `could out all the wnr1(1 and live for _alone, but at times she hadga . ble feeling nf nncertalinty :as `to love for hm-. On one occasio .~WIth her, zxs though her society almost zxhhnrrcnt to him. 1 ' _ the same evening that her two d5. had rt-minrlcd Grace of \thc` `,. :ct1vene.c.< uf riches to a man. nchagd was tn have dined at" metfs hottsc at Rrchmond. At 3,. _ er to 51x tht-rc came attelegram Vj words did not a1ways ring true. . '.' he been pretending all the ` shc H.-'k(` herself; and Hwasl` had been awi and embarras- ` We Branc, Fivh Poims;/ Millet. % M:A%NAa: i: gnriooooooooooooooooooooog `lcaeaccooocoooouubo V _ ,. = Book I ` xv. _ .v. F. . v_ mutant BANRWG SAVINGS L _..,...e on an-nnnf and inf9fei`i'}'E and Statements of this Batik Ste _andu_.11yAsubmi&d_"i6'Ll a strictly mdependent aud.idt_.[ 2*: ~\ T (ByWc-1les1e.yPair{;i.M.A;3P.)7 j v'IW ji,_-`-- ,I-`- 1`. 2.9-` % opens an account And inteyegg . , _ V` V - V ? A .,...%~L:s%a;dded'V%c{u no ll it}! 0% 2 from him: Please excuse` me to- night. Important business 'here. Love.-aDick.. It was the third time in a fortnight that he had stay- ed away from her. 0 .1 'u I 1 irktndinnerjherwfather chaed her for being quiet; and told her he was `glad `her future husband had the good _sense to remain in. the `city when .there was` work to be done. She roused herself from her day-' `dream of the man she loved, and ?smiled. in replyito her father. Af- lter` all,"she told herself, what her lfather said was right--.-must be right. ` 2'- ` .' After dinner she put on a hat and |cloak, and strolled -down the road to -the home of her dearest friend,- Joyce Spinthorpe. She always felt peculiarl grateful to Joyce, because it was she who had introduced Dick to her. She tapped on the drawing- room window, -; and Joyce came out yaonesease.` 1 1 63% ' ``1 " r h ta J He s busy---working late. Look | here, Joyce, I want you're do some- lthing for me. I m in trouble, and I 1 want you to help me--wil1 you? vac: `J-o-|r\IIv I"l'\ O1`I`I7"I;9`IH I (`an W`d.IlI. yuu LU uclp u.nv-vvux uu; You know I'll do anything I can, dear. But how came-you to "be in any troub1e-you, with all your frxends, and position, "and--er-- urn. Ania-. 3+: nhanep esrirl `T-7.-rare, what s the trouble? Well, to cut a ng story short -.-T `She; paused. - Go on, dear. , If you had more . money than i you wanted, _and _you. were engaged, and you had a horrible suspicion'-'- forgive me `for saying it, but It must -that your chief attraction to `the man to whom _you were engaged was your money, fwhag would you` do?A . I think I, should know instinct~ lively whether the man loved me or lmyrmoney, satd Joyce qunetly. Well, I don t know --at least, 'I m `not sure of it ins`.t mct'i~vely. I hate toahave to confess it, even to you; `but I m not quite sure about it. You see -dear, `before father had that luclry year in the city we were poor, and while we were poor we` had few friends. Directly the money came th:--er-the men came round, too? 15"`!--L9~ -...-11.. aonlainnr`- Whgn WC!C PUUI`. _ _ I shouldn t if I were you, But ! I Irlcnus, anu pualuuu, a.uu'-'.L-' Oh, nish it`, please, said` `Grace. You were going to say `money. I know: "Bother the rn-cmeyi; I wish I were poor-._ ' HT ..L.....1A.. + H I um:-n -tun Ra the`-'3! -U13 TUCII cauuc Iuuuu, evu. ` That s easily explained. When }you were poor you could not enter- tain people; you hail -no `chance of meeting men. T ; Possibly yop re right. Don- t |`think I'm too hm-r'id,'dear, will you? I Some people wouldsay that I could- n t love at man and` suspect him of being after'my money a,tVthe.sa1ne time. Ifcso, I must `be an exception to the rule. -Besides, "I don t exact- ly suspect him-only `I wantto make quite sure about`it,'that s all. ' What are you -going to do? _ If he thought. that ' all his money and---.--- "`You want me to tell him `that that is the case? i - F You can .say that heard it. Joyce "was ' glad that `AGrace?.could not-Asee her face, Acsfincfly. She father had lost adored" Richard. Fraille. At `the same` , .. hldYi%d`.'11`r, ndtifov".Ahe::;r:ow,- a`nd,. perhaps never; would A Iove ,he.r. She,- told herself that he was; marrying. 7 t=Grace,:.for_1jhe;-, money. If ` thefen'g'agement were broken off.----J, _'--"i`": {try well, she said; ``I ll tell :th;m. t . - . ., -` . T `They -discussed the best way of ` _spreadmg the fa!-se7- news, and decide . ed that Grace should suggest tea at a shop`in Regent: street} Joyce was, to _keep the appointment, and ex- plain that at the last` moment Grace` `had not been well enough: to come. T1}";r1`she"_wc_>uld tell the lie. ____-_94_ 1.. I,E,_- .**-"I5 Put: _wmu_u ten tne ue. V . - Of. Ir _; , , course, you wont. let hun ithink I've asked .you to tell_ him, sand '-Grace. As an old friend; you ll sug_g_s_t' to _him that n'i'arri`age with a penmless gxrl wguld _hardlK be pru- dent-or something 11ke_ t at. ` . V` vl'\II Anna G-cunts` am. `A AA :L .~..n{ . l l would he take it? . wise, or would he let Joyce see that 1-n_s:-A:-F-ur sumvctning use tnat.'= ` ! _f`.Y,ou .ca`n~trust me to do it prop"-1` prly,,",isaid:i_Joj cc ; _an_(l_;.;` Grace went - home again. ` race ga.ve'.ou`t that .` she had" a headache and would not ` be-at'*home -to anyone "that day. She l thought it `was as well to keep up I the pretence of `being indisposed in 1 case. of any inquiries that might be _` made, ~3.ftCl'VV3.l_'dS.' After. -lunch * she. ' went upstairs". to her, room, lay down on a couch,".and opened a` book. But she_-did not read; in fact, it was "not until she found that the book was too heavy and she -was about to put It down again that-she noticed that she had been holding theibook up- sidegdown.` She dropped it with. a smile, and,` closing her'eyes,' gave herself up `to her thoughts. [With her mind s eye she saw all that would happen atja certain little tea-l shop in Regent street in about two -1 hours time. Dick would be there about 6 o'clock--the appointed time.- He would walk through the `shop, and would go upstairs to ,a. littlel room at the back, where they had` frequently had tea together. Not seing her there, he would walkout again slowly, looking carefully i at every table to make quite certain that she was not there. Then he would walk up and down. the pave- ` fnent outside the shop, and look at his watch every `minute. Would he` be very disappointed when he `saw Joyce and learned that she--Grace --was ill and -could. not come? ' And when he had heard the lie, how Would... he: pre- tend that he was uninuenced by! the _turn of events; and secretly det- : ermine that the engagement should event ally be broken off, or would he ta e Joyce into his condence ' and tell her that in the altered cir- cumstances marriage would -be un- he really did not care for.money as long as---- V I I 1 up . :__ ` ` i ' . . , , . ; )Grae; , I ve, nevger: ,kr'1Ow1n" Dick . t ~ , bj;ej A ,1at`e,; . *beore.-.;.-,;~HaveA~ you`: v ..order,e'<:1_ " eh? -.s.e:;e,,_4y0iu. haves` h1'.5it -fom , ti'o$, -, ,:.s11e` * addefd I\ II5 I Grace asked herself the question over and over again. She wonder,- ied- how he would take 4 the false news. Would his expression sud-` denly change and betray his real feelings `in ;spite of himself. She- longed to kl_l'ow,the result of the in- iterview, and felt something like a criminal awaiting the verdict of the jury. And then the. thought sud-. idenly dashed in pn her `that she really was a criminal.` The. thingl she was `doing, was not right; the [lie was not excusable, and her con- duct to the man she loved was niean and despicable. She jumped up and rang the bell. -~-- ` ' * ""'F`n`1 Tn`rn'r\- ,9 -1-.. `.....'.l A... L..'_. -- a.u5_'|.uc UCIJ. _"' "` ell Jackson, she said to her 215-! tonished maid, -to put Nobby into the dog-cart at once;.I want to, ca.t-l [ch the next train to town. ` 'kT-LL_- _-..-_ 41.; r._..___; ,_1" -, ~- LII I-IIC IICAI. Ipldlll LU LUVVlIa Nobby was the fastest cob" inher.I father s stables; Nobby had beer; known to get to the station in 20 minutes; and Grace hoped -`that: he would beat his own record that Laf- CL _ .I_._...- - J !.__..__:-_n__ Vvuulu Una; Ina Uvvu ICLULU uuu. 51' temcon. She dressed hurriedly, but did not forget to put on her newest and smartest Vfrock. The `dog-cart came round to the door as she; walk- ed downstairs. , ~ `(I ___-..L L- __L-L LI- . .4- SP cu uvvvuauuu-H. _I want to catch the 4.50 if pos- sible; can you do it?" V " `. ``I ll try, _.miss. _ _ l `She settled herself quicklyin her place, and then became so absorbed. in her thoughts that she did not now tice thatNobby s`feet seemed scar- cely to touch the`ground. The train came in as they drove up to the .station;' the `station mast.er had no- ticed` the_ trap m,the . distance-, and was standing by the _side of the. open door of a rst class carriage as Grace .ran_ across the platform. She.,jumped In, and sank back in the `cushions with a- sigh of relief, ~Sup`_erstition was in her ;blood, and sh'ej-'rega'rd_ed -it as a 'o_od*omen that she had, caught the tram. ` l : Cigar C-n15 n 'V`:4b` inoandan c-|`r\u-10 landf- ;.BlIC uau I.au5u.L Luv slant. 1 She, felt a little hapnier now; but, still, there was the possibility that she would not" get to the tea-room 'hjefore_ Joyce had, told the 4l,ie..-. In, any case, she had quite made up her v_n'1ind`what she would do; she would tell. the truth and bear the conseq- uences. whatever that might be", even if Dick were `offended, so of- _vfetid`et1.,t:hat-_-.-she ` did not like _ to think of that; but she adhered, to her -resolve that she would tell-"him the`tr'uth. . The train was punctual, and a cab `brought. her to the tea-rooms in Re- gent street by Jive minutes -past- six.; Ituwas h`ardly_:lik`e1y.~.that Joyce had` had time `to tell the lie; and, besides, ;'the`1 clock. she. a had `seen might have V heeniwrong. 'ByVtl'llS_' she meant, of V course, that the clock. might have -'bee n gfast; e it fiever occurred to "her that otheue was similar chance of its being'-";slow.- IH`owever,- when` `she hurried upstairs she was surprised ._.'t-o_"nd .JlC;?{cejsitting. alone at V the favorifteata e,,_ e ~ :_;,.; v --- '> .`.~.` ,'-n_;'j T"--`.._..-. IGVUI any II-Illl\ro "Wliat s the jliatteri asked Jo`y::'e.! She realized at `once tha; she was gqingto be - depraved o_f, the -pleasure ;qf<;a,jq1_1j]: chat aloe . vqft1t R'i"cha.rd `Fraille, "aqd she was not`, "pleased. AGra'c_e.attr1puted her loiok.of distrss 0 a-.gemi_i'ne `cori<':ern*_ for hrself. mm...-.`.r.. nnhind who matted-- she to-a genumc g:uuccu1:_.1u1 ucrpcu. , The:-e."s- nothing -the._ma_tter, she its :-,id` quick}y, I ve thdught bet- i~.ter3 Eof th1s,busmess--_that s all. It .doVe5u'. 7tkseje`111=fairf-ff-0r'r1gKt;qA " ' ` ;9f.`..'Phn~{ I'm` ;on_1y,`(rr-the .w y, said L ` ` " "_She`*-trie to smile; and very J #1, going so. A , _~;.f,"` _,:`.:, eyetgi Lgdear, ,th apks,`;. sajad ,Gga :. _ v_e. nevggg .1-gnownj Due}; `.,--:3 glry; fT}H_eA seemed to be` in innusuallyl {good spxrits, Vvprotestegl that he -was I { raNepous,- be<:aus_e- .he had had no time for -lunch,.an" drank three cups. of tea. He was` about `to drink '3` fourth whenejoyce suddenly remem-' bered appointment with` her` dressm er, and hurried away. . N51: nn:l` Gang` 41:.-unfit! Q-`air ;u1caa|ua.ncx, auu IIIJIIAUU CW9 [`.`Dik, said Grace, direct}; they were alone, there's `something--er . .:_--some.,thing-her xvdice _sank `al- most to a whisper--4I want _to tell you'll ` l_ _ _ V . _ , _ V - vA....t .1.-- ..1.- 4.1.1-1..:.... ..........a.l-3.4.}... you." ~ And tjin sh fold "Him evetrfhigl that shc; had contemplated,_ an--his. face_ was very grave as he listened. \7nn rnunl- Ancnhaa rng.'nnur chn` I696, Wd Vtly glcvc :1: 14 ua|.\.u\..u. You must despise, menow,_ she`! {said at the. end of her confession. % You mu'st--you; do. - ACan t you- [won t yciu--forgive` me? I Af\Ino6a I In-.-.43.}... qpcd won't you--xo_rg1ve' mg ,r'; 1 } .'70f course, I f.org1ve'3fou,_,gar; {,there s rnothmg to -forg1ve'.' ;It s ; strange, though`-"-ju st 21 litt1evstr_angeV .--4_-that this should have happened _tAo-day. * ` - A34 caucus:-`c-4:1 4AI\"A\ :01 In`: 1vn;4-a f .A An; unusual note in his voice inade *her loo-k up. The shadow of a smile was on his mouth, and he was look-] ing out `of the window at the pave- ment below. He was gazing so in- tently at something that she looked out in the same direction to see what it was." Her eyes fell on the ,con- tentsvbill of an evening newspaper, the top line of which ran:. Failure| onxthe Stock Exchange. She look- ed back at Dick; he was watching |her now, and he was very grave. _ 1 . "_`There s sogr;et`1;x[iir1_gV tl'1eVU matfe_r, i .`]%},(:k, she sTa1d, . quxckly; what 15 It. _ mil 2 ooocoooooouooooooqooonbooooboooooooooooooood _ t ,_ . \ ( By Jack London.) _ QOOOOOOOOOOOOCWOOOOOOQOOOOQOOOOOOOOOO;OOOOOOOOOO , Girlie had always been a choice` %term of endearment with Ralph Ainslie. And it must be confessed he had applied it with great wisdom -and discretion-,-frcm the little lady who swayed his destinies as~a gram- mar. school boy down to Maud. `The list of -the favored was quite as 1eng~` thy one, to be sure; but then a young heart and a roving love are` `necessarily correlative. Such. is the nature,of things, and who would alzi ter it? But when the soft madness! of the courtship of -Maud fell upon] .`-him, thexphrase had ripened to;a| fuller signicance, and" he had] thought-at the'time--that it would] never again be transferred. In re-[ turn, Maud had called `him Boyo. Never had. sweeter phrases. been! more sweetly mated. Girlie a_nd' _ Bovo!, Well, the two were marriedi and---- | A - ,,1:_ :_n__ -._-__..L1...I Li- 4-.-.5...-4-. auu-_--. . . > ' Amslte xdly crumbled Ins toast and gazed acrpss the breakfast table a at Maud, blue-eyed and _matronly; but the wom_-an s face pnctured on. his m1nd s retma at the moment was"! I I dark-eycd and rebellious. No wife- lly sedateness in this other, nor calm stren-gth of control, but rather the lwaywardness of mutable desires, trough-Shari impcv.'iou.~'.uess anal pass- ing strange moods. A creature slight of heart frorloyalty but great or soul for love; well he knew her. . 'l3..`..1_n.\n :L u--an 6`-an Iqr|n(\t1c1<:l\Il: `IO! LOVE; wcu IIC KIICW ucl. Perhaps it was the unconscious `radiation of his present mental~atti- tude, or the sum of his attitudes through many days, that made Maud lonely~on her side of the table. At `least, she felt depressed and isolat- ed, as if in some way the_ bonds that once so tightly bound them. were `undergoing an extraordinary expan- sion. `She had expectcd that the fer- ~vid kisses that so sweetly punctuat- ed their engagement ` period would change to the staid homage of tried aection, but not that _, they would become only- a meaningless duty, the mere mechanical performance of a function. His whole; demeanor had come to lack that subtle seri- ousness and enthusiasm the absence of which a woman is so quick to detect. . nxn--49- 41.. ...-;.4..._ fn.f.....l7! L- UCLCCD ' - '`What s the matter, Maud? he` `asked, present1y,_ observing for the| irst time how wretchedly the break- `fast had passed off, and actuated by -a desire to make amends. .What s 1171.0 matter? he frepeated, noticing` that her dreamy stare continued.! 1 A.....A.L3...-.. _....-nun.-9. , ; LIIGL IIUI \.Il Luella _ 3 Anything wrong? I m sorry you should` learn \\\ \ `Whi1e housewives with other rangesare poking re % and changing dampers,I * sit and read the `Joy of Living _. -` . ' 2 to I Now I.hav"ea -`Pandora , - V` and, aswith mother,_my troubles are few- After re is started, I - simply bring thermometer to desired heat and lavethe oven in charge cf, the baking.-"` ' `It's built for faithful;-service. ` - ':E`."'.?*-".. 'l'raln..np a girl In `the way she . should and when she is married. she will not depart _lu'n It. ' - V Mymothe; taught me how..,to bake, and told me why she always used a McC1ary Range.-. -. - . The Proper Girlie." .`"r~s=.so; 4~w% st: `m==u~=. cum- it. .;hei',c.i; deat;&bht1 perhaps. it's as"?-well after-I;fall. Youjlmnst know it sooner or,1atirT.'*i Your `father was hammer- .~'.e_d onitheg-Stock` "Extzhangea this ['1n'2orning.~ ,Now, don t distress your- self; "it's ,_only .te'niporary. He s sure to be allowed to start again directly his liabilities are met,` and I can `manage that. You think I ve been jcurious in my manner to you for the last month or so. Well, I ve been very "busy in helping the rm to bring o ut--don t laugh at this--a new patent pill, and it s going most trernendously. I ve made lots_ out of it. I ve_ seen.your father, and xed up~ h1s~`a'a1rs, and that s why I was late this afternoon; _ so don t worry, any more. ` V` \IIIJ~ 'IIDI III\/I `in ,Grace lutched Aat theedge of the 't:bIe for at moment,. and then, re- covering Herself, she laid' her hand in thatxeof her lover, while her eyes half:-lled with strange tears. M7 112-1. LA--v .-.-..-`A `VIII! f\G' On uu.`.1u}cu VVILII Dlvlllllsb Lwuxao _ Oh, Dick, how- good you are to me! .I wan t to kiss you for this. {You must think I mVdreadfu11y mean E1--;1fter _a1l '_I ve,.L told you. Fancy leven thmkntg that you ."I-Inch mid T33:-I: dnn f cnv 211v`. CVCZI $lI3IIl\llIs. |Ild.B JUL! ` .` ` ="Hush, said Dick, don t say gmyi more about that, and as to kissing, `my dear, I m afraid it can t be done in agpublic -tea` room; in fact,` our rst chance vyill be in an emp~ty_lcar- riage on a fast train home, and even then I think it. will be advisable to wait until the `.trainbstarts. Her ye_ T<.:1osed _ drqamily 1and opened agamr A famt tnige of col- or came mto her cheeks. ` vs! 1 :1 ` "5 V K I I I E I I I I V D D `re `r--v----w Let s. go at once, Dick, she whispered. " And they went. ` .LV1il1lL'1 uuw. . , \ . And it s an age since Ive heard yyou say. oyo, he retorted. A . `U3 .4} Inf qnnrn:-;9h: #119 11I1rI'| `Ra1'ph, with fminine irrele- vance, you never_ca_1l me Girlie any` more. Then, plamtnvely, ``-I m only1 Maud now. 541,,` :u_ _.. -,.... .1... T9... 1....-...A you buy. .L.IU_yU, uc lbt-'Jl|.\.\l. `He did not appreciate the hurtl lush hadsuused her check; no 'more did he know how hard had lbeefr. her struggle to abandon his pet name after he- had `ceased- his { Girlie. For half the tragedies of Ithe world areworked out .in the sil- Ience of women s hearts--tragedies that blundering -men may never `know nor` understand. 7` ~- --_-.._ ..._..--- ...qaa-O-so `-\cI- A4-`pear, ` KIIUW .llUI, UIIUCIDLGHIZL. { Her eyes grew mlsty, but other- wise she made no reply. - Ainslie rose and. went to her side. [ Oh, Ralph, I don t know-every- 'thing s.wrong, all wrong! she sob- !bed on his shoulder. 7l'\I,._ _, , 4.; -3 . L-.. `L..:._ --..... 111... n. 1 E U60 U11 Ins bnuluucl. _ I The scent of her hair was hke a icaress, but it did not recall the erst- Ywhile pleasant memories that` it Ishould, for he frowned unobserved iyvhile he patted her shoulder sooth- I mgly. _ ` ' |usl o #1 have tried so hard to be good` and true-to be Ralph s wife.-- she {raised her head bravely and looked him in the eyes--but everything seems wrong. ` Something has come over us-between us. I had pictur- led everything so different after we were rnarried, and .now--I. don't know, I-I _cannot understand. wn....... .1...._..n 1.... ..................A `-|;cl RIIUVV, 1- .l LI.lIlI\JIu UIIUCIBUGIIU There, there, he murmured, hisl face a study in surface masculind kindliness, I m afraid you are sick, just a" little `under the weather, you `know. Your re not quite yourself. A touch. of fever, or cold, or some-` thing. I 11.send up Dr. Jermyn on my way down town. Dn-`qnnc ,- `GA f|Al"QA' 111:9 1l1;CA ' Ill uuvvu. Luwu. i .3! way Perhaps. he added; with wise forethought, as he kissed her at the door, perhaps you need a little change of air or something. I think. a little run of a. week on so down to your mother s will do you good. `But she shook her head. Now the scenes begin, he mut- tered to himself as he boarded} his car. To-day comes the first, then to-morrow another-and they will continue to increase, quantitatively and qualitatively, till even a mans` lendurance can .no longer stand them. Better put an end to"the trouble now than to permit it to grow. I ll __write Bertha at once and settle it out of lhand. _ _ V . _ I It waswith this laudable inten- : tion that he seated himself at his deskand invoked the epistolary de- Tmon. `A peremptory call on the itelephone interrupted him. It was "an important deal, and Love must `ever wait on Businesls. ` DA..- `.'LL`A 11-: 7.- \.\..Luxa U1 Lu: p1UJC\;LCu culupauy. By three o clock the bookkeeper was wondering at Ralph Ainslie s prolonged absence. At half after Mrs; Ainslie tripped past into her husband s private office. She had thought it all out, after the delight- ful fashion of womankin_d, and reached the conclusion that she knewvso very little of men, after all, . and that whatever had happened was the result of her own morbid brooding; so she had come there to be nice to her wronged husband and `be forgiven. She opened the door ,of his private ofce softly, con- 'fronted the blank emptiness of the room, and decided to wait. 1-1- . ecaooannptboreaohed in I tlnt way. It must be driven out or the system. Only Cele :-y King will do {this quickly. 25 cents, as 1 311 orbymall. S. C. Welln&Co..'l`ox-onto wvul. wan. Uu uuaulcaa . Poor little Maud! It s not her fault, l_1e mused_, as he stowed the ;.ha.1:fgmshe.d m1ss1ve away in a. =dra_wer; only a queer concoction of Midsummer madness and my own brute selshness. And it s Bertha. who-inoculaited me, too. II-In`;,\Irn1r Ilr\1:ro-I 9|..- nlA--_1.-.. L 1181' [Mai Illt`_\ \\Uu1u navy Lu 1- in spinsters for life, because they ere poor. The little joke was pas- dover instzmtly, for one of those ho had helped to make it saw from he sudden change in Grace s man- er that she had drawn the Only` ssiblc inference from it. `She-- race-was \\'c:t1th}", therefore, she as about to have :1 husband. Neither of the two friends. knew fthe pain they had caused, for, as` thappencd, the thought they {had ggestcd had often forced i`tse'-If in-T -Grace`s mind. It first came when he_hz1dbeen engaged a. month. She `ncted shc l10IiCt`(/1 a change in chard's mzmner towards then; any a time after that she told her- `that she was sure he had chang-, but she rcr-i. the temptation eproach him. The truth was she tdn_0t have gzivcn any denite rea- fqr nding fault. He was just as ntwe to her as he hadealways .nm1 hp u")c r~rn1cfnnf1\r rlnvm-