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o _ L 8 h S m s aciite, . B" F $ «f ® «P . * 8 ‘ d 4 + * B fffl.}‘,:‘" V B ‘ BA / faesd ""Yh ‘ j 5’ K Pm “ ' \v I (ee ' i ( (._ C 6 ’-:Il. (. ql C J ‘ ie â€"Aagn _ <Ges iâ€"f’ t C C ' j 3 * Yeaml eqeer P , * i. h. \_ GaC 1 Lo ) 3 ‘.'_j‘= < 8 5@ = fy___ %. eopisentnnts Auiitiee. Fyore 1 .h:‘:':.ul. thank your grace," was the I Gy. 2 SA20LL4A~ caananne. «... i- mOn, It‘s very goottâ€"2704 on : < “ ticket a -'n“lnnl Brnhym'l‘nu (;.. ’~ g up m his palette. cofpe or grace started and Ausbe uor M T Ulvesta Tw said ; and she left the dais and won" UP| , WJhto the easel. As sho looked, a smileâ€" | _ ‘a emile of aatisfactionâ€"bearaed in ner| ® _ Oj< w=.monplace face. E <ig). #On, It‘s very goodâ€"very ," she | | on Tuce : C ther=gtâ€" | / o on in in | s up from his palette. . 4 0“_,, on m':v started and fl_\nrhM nn:rfl!: Il throw maotty EME APOCCC "The duchess bit her lip. She wis not mpcustomed to meet with refusals, 64â€" pecially from persons of Senley Tyer®" elnan. "I am sorry you mre engaged," she anid. "You would meet some nice people. I think." "I am not engaged," he sald. "I shall spend Thursday evening in my room here, with my books and my cat. Nice penple ? ‘What care I how nice they .-l!nnylnm-lumm'rmul am afraid yur people would no‘ be nice i to me, your grace. ‘They would wonder who I am, and why on carth I was there ; and I should wonder, 100." "You are an extraordinary man," she maid, laughing, but with a faint tinge of annoyance in/her Inugh. | "I see it is af no use being civil to you." He amiled. "Not in the very lcast, your grace," stow, languld response, he assented. me REWERTCT "I am getting very tired," she said. "fen‘t the time up ?" f He glanced at an old English clock en a carved bracket. "Another quarter of an hour." "Let me see what you have done," she said ; and #he left the dais and went up to the casel. As she looked, a smileâ€" ‘« amile of aatisfactionâ€"bearaed in her P #1â€"1 don‘t she sald. . "I at nny better mA e _ E "I beg your pmrdon," he guld , 3 CCC gcon alter It." He took up his brush, an * with a few strokes. made the face mor\ truthful, and. necemsarily, plainer and older. "How is that ?" he anked. ‘ Her grace stood. red and uncomforâ€" tuble, her eyes fixed upon the now too gandid portralt. "Youâ€"you are SDOWINF it," she sald, angrily, disappointedly. CSUPU U OWA CeLet me ber: of ©HETCFTCOOTOOSa C "Exactly," he pold. "Let me you to go r.ck to your place, AM me to print my plcture. your "pâ€"1 will not sit again toâ€"da POsnes C on k‘ REsutuy. TCORTLD Snbanls you to go br.ck to your place, and loave me to print my plcture. your grace." "pâ€"1 will not sit again toâ€"day," she raid, teckoning ‘0 her maide "I will eome aguin toâ€"morrow." "Xot. toâ€"morrow ; 1 am engaied. my grace," he said. respectfully out firmly. sarhen then?" she demanded, haughtâ€" grace," he said. pespectFul? CC i "When then?" she demanded, ha y. He congalted an IvOrY tablet. "This digy three months, If you p duchess," the eald, in exactly the mne. L0 002 c\ im row I Her gracp MAT"" """" Wing. as and reddef, opened her lips, as If to erush him\ with A haughty rejoinder, tien march@d to her place, and resumed For seat witfout a wor 4. A faint s ie played about Senley ‘Tyera® thin Wips O® he painted out the eruci), cand{d. lines and blotches he mad put in, nd he worked on until .the oldia@hl lx:‘hour. "Then he laid aown his t ® stood motlonless, fike a machine that had run down. The Duchers of Mudatsire rose. . The mald put 0n her bonnet and cloak, and Her grace swebt to the door, Senley Tyers glided to it and opened it. "Goodâ€"morning, YOUT grace,‘ ‘he sald, th his soft, listJens volce. This day week at the same hour." Mer grace pursed her lips. She long» ed to ray something insolent, butâ€"well, she wanted her portrait in the Aca» demy very, Yery badly, and smothering her wrath, she bowed and departed. * OW"Am U 0 Caropped into a chair MR uol #raits as well, and better, thar but these aristooâ€"atsâ€"Idiots in us, Tiger, because we Ar them and pretend that we € whether they come to us or edd P C OWiNa‘s ;aâ€";lvifllhlnlv this _ mor would ruin @s ; but y« that it won‘t, h ? W‘! Ti c 9 d in uy 08050 N LL wn c i them and pretend that we don‘t care Mlhy«-mwmormh One would think this morning‘s comedy vonllrulna:butyw-ndllmv that it won‘t, th ? We know that the maidâ€"yes, and the duchess hernelfâ€" will go up and down Vanity Fair tell« _ag <verybody how Insufferably rude That i1iâ€"bred nobody, that painter, Senâ€" PAom M RTCIDCCIT 1 o rtarted and fusbed angrily. ‘t wish it to be fatterin," "I don‘t like to be Inughed ter than you do, Mr. Tyors." ine nnrdon." he SMd ; C1 C# they . stared at him. ET opened her 1p8, with a haughty . 4 to her place, and hout a word. _ ut M MITCC ile played about Senley ips as he painted out the E lines and blotches he nd he worked on until 1 DNTOLL 121 RMNTOETTC be Inughed | [ Mr. Wyora" | UH wid . d esn | ja An with a few | 5 rx truthful. | $ i8 stder. . | El d s 1 uncomforâ€" the now too | !! d ," she said, 'l'f t me beg of » e, and loaye I your grace." § toâ€"day," she | " ids "I will enga:,ed. my $ ~ out firmly. | rded, haughtâ€" | : tablet. y if you pleas», “ tly the same | . , grow redder lips, as if to hty rejoinder, , and resumed about Senley inted out the 4 blotches he rked on until . ‘Then he Inid o4 motiontess, Lan down. Ing all h avold him will say, * he must be a dare to treat Werly,‘ and th more eagerly. make fools of it one !" He raised and a hin ey she will make He sprang they were as enught the #o quickly to th amail vial fr emall vial from a shelf, | a few drops of a clear 1i« glass, and drank it. A moment afterward the 1 ed and announced : "Lady Florence Hathcote A woman, lovely as a V in the doorâ€"way. She was U lily in complexion, with & which in places glistened 1 Her eyea were violet, her 1i in the doorâ€"way. She was tall lily in complexion, with aub which in places glistened like Her eyea were violet, her lipS as lips could be. « Tall, graceful, lovely as t which glowed whitely in mat site her, there was only one speck on her perfection. In feature shone forth a pride w speck on her perfectJon. In formi AH feature shone forth a pride which even Sntan might have envied. Her calm, serene eyes played for & mement on Senley Tyers, then awept the reom, then came back and rested on him, and her lps parted. 1 It was only the commonplace "Cooi« morning" that she uttered in clear and low yet bellâ€"like tones ; but if it had been â€" "Kneel, #lave !"* Senley Tyer® eould not have bowed his head more huinbly. e had tried to retain his crect attlâ€" tude, to keep the languld, lietioss sangâ€" frold which hadâ€"so angered the Duchess of Mudshire, but they melted away like last winter‘s snow before *he glance of these violet eyes, the clear ring of the imperious volce. K e whh sev eb agera ced With tightly | compressed lips and quickly benting heart he stood sllent with bent head, a slave who hated and loathed his slavery, Lady Florence crossed the room, and stood upon the dais, Her maid removed ber ladyship‘s long, loose uister and hat, and revealed her mistress in all the splendor of evening dress, The light fell upon a shimmer of satin, the glitter of diamonds, the soft glow of mrh.uwlnvhmunwlonll- ness, calculated to dazzle the eyes of any man. HenleyTyers exchanged the canvast of the easel and spread some color on his palette, keeping his eyes awny trowm her, as if he could ncarcely trust himâ€" self to look ; and when he laid the palette asii« and wivanced to put het in the proper pose, he still kept his eyes down. NOAE 0 S e cpan oc oc in e fools of Itâ€"fools of It; t" Me raised his head as a touch of absolute pain eyes and across his lip# , and If we do not take ¢ will make fools of us." e sprang upâ€"his quick ©200, TT . Lady Florence was being painted half sitting, baif reelining on a couch, net fam drooping in her right hand, her left supporting her head. She sank on to the couch with an indifferent, careâ€" lers air, but at onet wesumed so gruce ful an attitude that Fenley Tyers bad very little io do in the way of arrange« Ing. A few touchcs to the folds of the magnificent dress, and. the pose wi* complcis. Jn giving there touches hls band trembled. but Lacy Fiorence did complets. In giving Uie®® 277"°00, band trembled, but Lacy Fiorence did not notice the fact. He was to her just a painter: no thing more. Vane Temy est, destrous of doing his frisad a service, had asked her to let Senley Tyers paint her porâ€" trait for the next Academy, and she bad consented, as she would have done \It Vane had as% »d her to allow an artist of the pm_lum!n to draw her portrait in colored cha Even the dress was Me had happened to better Ict him do you paint ; it will create a Acaitemy next season, advertisement for m firstâ€"rate at silks and t be a genius, or treat the dear d and they will fle monds, and all that told. 1 don‘t know ReH, t C0003 T0 welt." And Lady Florence had 'mll«'l faint« ly, and said : "Very well. it wht be a| bore putting on evening dress in the dnytime, but If you think the picture | U will be any the better for it, wellâ€"‘ and she had slightly shrugged . het| ® shoulders, surprised that Vane shou!d | n take so. much Interest in "the painter," | a and hould call him "my friend." This was her fourth witting, but It| v would scarcely be saying 100 much to asâ€" | sert that she had not exchanged a dozen | t sentences with Senley Tyersâ€"had scar: | g cely looked at him, in fact, and that if she had met him in the street, would | hardly have recognized him. If any one had told her that this man | ! knew the sound of her footstepâ€"that | lw.pnumnnlnt«lhl-tulun was obliged to have recourse to a strong | drug to "pull himself together," and enable him to retain his composureâ€" she would not have believed her informâ€" ant, and . would_ have laughedâ€"â€"no, emiled; for Lady Florence rarely laugh» edâ€"the idea to scomn. Henley Tyers, the artistâ€"a kind of | superior photographerâ€"dare to think | dh«lluymwlylmnnnun f thinks of . bis mistress ! Well, Lady } Wml‘mhlumdlw .tâ€" or, | pelteving. it, would have set the inan | down as. mad. She was the only daughter of the Eart | | of Warlock, the peer who, when once | asked what he did with his immense | wealth, repiied. with calm hauteur, ‘Sir, ; lrolllllt."lh.wflll‘luhfilhm‘ , | houses, milnes, money from him ; but , | she ulready posseased a large fortune h derived from her mother, who had been * | a famous helross, M d NCY L2 12 , has been to ner, er frinds by all i. And the result ? ‘He must be great w PETHOMM MTCCC With her exquisite loveliness, and her vast riches . present and prospective, Lady Florence Henathcote was an object n SDCCONL Whitsh many E7. OO hoi eb ner pysitet m in the matrimonial market which many a man had longed to sectire, There was no novleman in the empire, barring one of the royal blood, who would not Lave sound CHAPTER VIIL een to mer, ana Wurl~ nds by mll means 10 he result ? The friends at be greatand clever, mius, or he would not dear d:. <hess so cavaâ€" will fleck to us all the What a world it is, eh, 4 1 know itâ€"know it ‘ And we use it. We â€"fools of It: allâ€"all but id of cabinet MRRm NCOE esA ppened to remark : You‘d m do you in all your warâ€" 11 create a sensation mt the xt season, n:l _lae P -pl_c-ml: it SenmUn, RTD CC RCTIDCO t for my friend. He is silks and satin®, and diaâ€" all that ; at least, so T m med like red gold. her lips as perfect quick ears s the cat‘s footstepsâ€" t, and tak but a slave still. d as he spoke, pain came.into lipw . "All but ike care, Tier, chalke. was Vane‘s cholcs, ; played for a then awept the and rested on ind taking , poured . ¢ liquid Into viston, stood tail, fair as & auburn hair, much about it my* se knock the Venu® arhle oppoâ€" e flaw, one n form and which even room, and d out into (and had went her and helress. I She lay back on the cou guldly, Indifferently, looke ruom. She did not glance n on the easel, or attemp} th « arist, as the Duchens of M done, She was there to he whether the artist did it i1 tered nothing to her. EOnEo Eo maoie.. i Tiger, the cat sat up and lookod st + for a moment speculatively. : . stretched Itself, and aprang on het i=/ Lady Florence stroked it with hor fan, and the animal colled itself and purred. Senley Tyers, upon whom no move» ment of Lady Florence was lost, sald : "You ar fond of cal®, Lady Florâ€" â€" He did.not even this re familiar. .. Her >olfâ€"contemp on his like a dash moment ; then a 1 immovability ro#e Y _ "You are not ANX portrait should be & EBCOA She shrugged her ed the eat. _____ SNNCCAP "I am afraid 1 about it," she said, ference. "And yet most xious," he raid. "Â¥es. Her G has just left, 1 t tears if her po expected and ho Do wie oo o ctas He went to the “fi held it up, a #m his dark, pale face. Lady Florence 10 and smiled.. * _ fiThe duchess sh think," she sald. He set the canyi the wall. "And you, Lady standing before not see how‘the and give me your D STIU "And you, Lady Worence ?" he «s standing before eamel. "Will ; not see how‘the ture is progres and give me your pinion 7" She dropped her lap the c which looked at it# abn descent and arcl ite back, and w toward the plet! Jooked at it = an indifferent eye, said listloss\y ow WO 02 ons Em n atd "Have you flat me as you hay» fiattered the d Nr. Tyers * "No," he said, under his breathâ€"â€"her ne eonfused and en.â€" barrassed himâ€" that were imps sible. My difficulty 3 in painting truthâ€" fully." } She looked at him with eold Inquiry He printsa to the face on the sanvas and co..cnued, his polce very low ant hushed : iA "If you look 4 mirrco, and then at the face I painted, you wil understand it 1\ mean, Lady Fior. T OOns mm iinll eHOR PMR C CYO was Eity. You miy know that She moved her hrad slightly | negative, "I have EROTUCC I "I have heard of him, seen his pic | tures. 1 didn‘t khow. 1 know nothing about art."" | "Well, Etty hi if would have found ; it impossible Imitate _ the delicate tints, the white of the face you see in the mirror. The hnir again. Yours has a red gold on it which would ha\ driven even old« Flemish marters to despair, 1 have tried to sugitestâ€"to ( suggest it onlyâ€"In my plcture, and you |, see how dull the paint is compast with the original."* To be Continued, Ripans Tabnles : hest liver tonic Ripina Tabulos cure nauses. | " sha mns aveat master of flesh t ‘The great muster of flesh t e, gad sald ttefd me . Mr. 4, . Aimost conf\ â€""no that ueh, and | ‘ round nt the plo ; ollinte in it3 p Mudshire, who whe woul) shed not what she to be." ‘ portrals ard t a Shecr, OM ed at the port=alt id be‘ satist , Mr. Tyers * imost . under is eonfused and en. that were imps : I“fl, P .. |\Greal 3ilk and his. | But n' dume:.l |"°:"":o‘d" A. i ser &« Co. of H 4 Swea |sale of ‘\n«lmg?allonfl a that it |stock offihe 501# will be offe but a8% leagh j, worth of'g?udl bor * (FouMe |atock igffy is season‘s importa it _ Vane |date inflity} Ruyers will find """::‘:“‘l'" buy firff c« goods at less that sivg The 2k Prices to sh« e ploture far o. e n, seen his picâ€" 1 know nothing said, with ?n(r at lace azalnit the Iind Blackf, j colored Peau de Soie 75¢, reduced from $1 Blaclifhn colored silk Bengaline 7#, reduced from $1 * ap} colored silk Merveleux 79¢, reduced from $1 to 1.13 Japgh «0| Kiaka silks, all reduced from 20 to 33} off regular goods Every yard of dress goods has se GOOUS | _ beHiveed and‘s Tud licket 1 to every piece, showing the uction made on each E ):nr{.',lect 2 oi at Kerrs when in town. NOTHING TO weat malleis PRICES Sale the balance of this month. Cxtâ€"Rate Prices on Overcoats ng mEN‘s OVERCOAT DEPARTMENT Men‘s heavy Scotch and English tweed, tweedâ€"lined, single and 1 dwé:lo‘b::umlwmfiblok. 'u'l.coll'u 82 Dii,-_ , ai t , extra‘s : ue â€" > Heavy English nap beaver, silk velyet collar, extri fongtls uy " â€", ~â€"~epy Heavy EnguS SBP "OPTC00 7 _C0 KA and @8 3 \ ble and single breasted, wonfi.wmdss..‘.........f. Beaver, in blue and black, tweed and satinâ€"lined, â€" silk velyet eollar, cheap at 7.50, but Sells Bb ... 02002666635 n 6+b 665 Beaver, in blue and black, tweed and satinâ€"lined, . silk velvet eollar, were formerly sold for $10, now they sell for, .. . .> Beaver in blue, black, fawn and drab, satin lined, silk velvet eollar, Tn\rl. ivory and buffale horn buttons ; _ a coat that will sell at sight to men who dress well at 812 to $15, you ean have one of them this week for.), : oas‘s‘eie o6 on e Piea s Best \\’mtaol-Enflnml beaver, fancy tweed and satin linings, deep silk velvet collars, English elastic hair eloth shoulder, single and double breasted, in blue, black, brown, drab and fawn, all for half the price they were made to sell for, only Canadian friexe ulster, tweed lined ; deep storm collar, a cheap _ cont at 88, but you can get it during this sale for......>+ Irish friese usters, hwvi"-wuight eloth, very deep collars iweed lined; you eannot af ford to miss this 812 coat for. ... ...« Gor. ‘ine Imported Irish friezo ulsters, heavy fancy tweed lining, Prussian storm collar, a regular 818 coat, price .....}>+>>> Heavy tweed and nap, single and double breasted, tweed and satin lined, velvet and storm eollars ; every cont in this lot is worth $6, but will be sold this week. for. .ls ee. esns 699 Youths‘ ulsters, in heavy imported Irish Frieze, Prussian stbrm eollars, all wool fancey tweed I'lninfil; these are a‘l cut 2 to 4 inches longer than the staudard length for youths‘ ulsters Boys Overcoat Department. 123 Boys‘ overcoats, in lmg\‘ ish Napp, Scotch tweed ; heavy allâ€" wz"l tweed lining» ; igh storm collars, with or with or without cape ; this coat n{umothr will pay from $4,50 to ”cok.ephfboy warm, but The House wili offer the 123 The Whie owse, 22 and kERR & CO, of Hamilton, will begin a great clsari , n dreas goods on Saturday, 16th inst., when their whl:lg e goods will Inoll’endnunun;l':l\tdineonnfi of 20e off , worth of goods bought during is sale. Nearly the whole is season‘s importationâ€"very desirable goods and upâ€"toâ€" «L. Buyers will find this a most desirable opportunity . to s goods at less than importers prices for them. t UA dfi oid ctenlyaliins I gilk and Dress Goods Sale ind 24 St. Paul Street, ST. CATHARINES. YOUTHS‘ OVERCOAT DEPARTMENT wEws ULSTER DEPARTMENT show the Actual Reductions 3 74 4 990 9 99 2 97