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ME PSBL F Bdnne aereptitinge w‘ To doiiy togin at / thet 4 Bha e selfâ€"abuse or marital excessâ€"imp ul W vare o sn 2 o ag 1 L C E8 " A Painless Gure. ~of the heart, hysteric feelings it ., are ull symi)toms of this terribl« spring of vital force having lost i: ic writersand the superintondent. ;a.,, § .. M f i5,m3 cssy : ,{?k% i en e ».\*-\;‘\-.-% c gand % E@ o 124 c h ied pr esc is3 t":}; .;,\ ,»;!“v 31 msiaiae) Cln q (e e s U \:‘4\0‘ \"’““."'l":a pggsnttillit sc HAIR COLORING WOMEN‘S ILLS i# great majority c At CGure The Urstion: and The Rugso Mats, 1n vrei \':xritâ€"’t.\'. t arnomnt.> Mind H99 34 CHogeare **Why, of that gourd I brought home from town yesterday. . You. know Mrs. Walpole‘s got a gourd in her drawingâ€"room ; and every time I went into the vicarage [ said to myself: **Oh, how lovely it is ! How exquisite ! How foreignâ€"looking ! If only I had a gourd like that, now, I think life would be really endurable. It gives the last touch of art to the picture. Our new drawingâ€"room would look just perfection with such a gourd as hers to finish the wall with." Well, I saw the exact counterpart of that very gourd the day before yesterday at a shop in Bond street. I bought it, and brought it home with exceeding great joy, I thought I should then be quite happy. I hung it up on the wall to try, this morning. _ And sitting here all evening looking at it with my head first on one side and then on the other, I‘ve said to myself a thousand times over : "It doesn‘t look one bit like Mrs. Walpole‘s. After all, I don‘t knoyv that I‘m so much happier, now I‘ve * Much ot what?"" Hugh asked, stili bending over the book he was anxiously conâ€" sulting. 6 32# , That evening, as they sat together silently in the drawingâ€"room,: Winifred engaged in the feminineamusementoficastingadmiring glanâ€" ces at her own walls, and Hugh poring over a seriousâ€"looking book, Winifred glanced over him suddenly with a sigh, and murmured half aloud : ** After all, really I don‘t think much of it." At the word, Hugh flung down the manuâ€" script in a heap on the ground with a strongâ€" er expression than Winifred had ever before heard fall from his lips. "*I hate the poplar !" he said angrily ; "I detest the poplar! I won‘t have the poplar! Nothing on earth will induce me to sit by the popâ€" lag |" "How cross you are !" Winifred cried with a frown. ** You juamp at me as if you‘d snap my head off! And all just because I didn‘t like your verses.â€"Very well then; I‘ll go and sit there alone.â€"I can amuse myself, fortunately, without your help. I‘ve got Mr. Hatherley‘s clever article in this month‘s Contemporary. Hugh answered her never a single word. To such a knockâ€"down blow as that, any answer at all is clearly impossible. He only muttered something very low to himself about casting one‘s pearls before some creaâ€" ture inaudible. Presently, Winifred spoke again. " Let‘s go out," she said, rising from the sofa, ** and sit by the sea on the roots of the popler." «* Well, surely, Winifred," he cried at last after.a long pause, ‘"you think those other lines good, don‘t you ?â€" And when like some fierce whirlwind through the land. The wrathful Teuton swept, he only dared To hope and act when every heart and hand, But his alone, despaired." «My dear Hugh," Winifred answered candidly, * don‘t you see in your own heart that all this sort of thing may be very well in its own way, but it isn‘t originalâ€"it isn‘t inspiration ; it isn‘b the true sacred fire : it‘s only an echo. â€"Echoes do admirably for the young beginner ; but in a man of your ageâ€"for you are getting on nowâ€"we expect something native and idosyncratic.â€"I think Mr, Hatherley called it idiosyncratic.â€"You know Mr. Hatherley said to me once you would never be & poet. You have too good & memory, . Whenever â€" Massinger siss down at his desk to write about anything," he said in his quiet way, "he remembers such a perfect flood of excellent things other peeple have written about the same subject, that he‘s absolutely incapable of originâ€" ality." And the moreâ€"I sse of your poetry, dear, the more do I see that Mr Hatherley was rightâ€"right beyond question. You‘re clever enough, but you know you‘re not original." Hugh bit his lip in bitter silence.~ The criticism was many times worse than harsh ; it was true ; and he knew it.> But & truthâ€" ful critic is the most galling of all things. **Think ?" Winifred answered. "Why, I think, Hugh, that if Swinburne had never written his Ode to Victor Hugo, you would never have written that Funeral March for your precious Gambetta." R Our own Republic stretch her arms again To raiss the weeping daughters of Alsace, And lead thee home, Lorraine. °, ** Well, what do you think of. that, Winâ€" nie?" he asked at last trinmphantly, with the air of a man who bhas ‘trotted out his best warâ€"horse for public inspection, and has no fear of the effect he is producing. Hugh took no notice.of her.intercalary criticism. He went on with.ten or twelve stanzas more of the same bombastic, wouldâ€" be sublime character, and wound up at last in thunderous tones with a prophetic outâ€" burst as to the imagined career of soms future Gambettaâ€"himself possibly : " He stilllshall guide us tcward the distant goal ; Calm with unerriag tact our weak alarms ; Train wll our youth in sill â€"of manly arms, And kait our sires in unity of soul ; Till bursting iron bars and gates of brass Hugh turned over his papers for the piece * by request," and after some searching among quires and sheets, came at last upon Aa clean written copy of his immortal threnody,. He began reading out the luâ€" gubrious lines in a sufficiently grandiose and sepulchral voicoe. Winifred listened with careless attention, as to a matter little worthy her sublime consideration. Hugh cleared his throat and rang out magniioâ€" quently : | «* She sits once more upon her ancient throne, The fair republic of our steadfast vows ; A Phrygian bonnet binds her queenly brows ; Athwart her neck her knotted hair is blown. A hundred sities nestle in her lap, Girt round their stately locks with mural crowns : The folds of her imperial robe enwrap A thousand lesser towns." * ¢*Mural crowns" is good,‘ Winifred murâ€" mured satirically ; ‘it reminds one so vividly of téle s’tone statues in the Place de la Conâ€" corde.‘ * Road me Gambetta," Winifred said with quiet imperiousness. _ * I‘ll see if I like that any better than all this foolish maundering Philosophy." THB v THREAD:=~OF â€"~LIFF# CHATER XXVIII.â€"(ContinuU®En.) SUNSHINE â€"AND SHADE, CHAPTER XXIX.â€"Acerorxts Wiut Harâ€" PEN, During the whole of the next week, the Squire und a strange artisan, whom he had specially imported by rail from London, went much about together by day and night through the grounds at Whitestrand. A certain air of mystery hung over their joint proceedings, Thestrange artisan was a skilled workman in the engineering line, ke told the people at the PFisherman‘s Rest, where he had taken a bed for his stay in the village ; and indeed sundry books in his kit bore out the statementâ€"weird books of a scientific and diagrammatic character, chokeful of formule in Greek lettering, which seemed not unlikely to be connected ~with hydrostatics, dynamics, trigonometry, and mechanics, or any other equally abstruse and uncanny subject, not wholly alien to necromancy and witchcrafs. It was held at Whitestrand by those best able to form an opinion in such ‘dark questions, that 1:hei new importation was " summat in the elec-l tric way ;" and it was certainly matter of plain fact, patent to all observers equally, that he did in very truth fix up an elaborate lightaingâ€"conductor of the latest pattern to the newly thrownâ€"out gableâ€"end at wha» ha.d’ once been Elsie‘s window. It was Eleie‘s window still to Hugh : let him. twist ; : and turn it and alter it as he would, he fear»d it would ~never, never cease to be :}::sie‘s | window. m | GrxTtLEmrxâ€" Please forward me to the above address, at your earliest convenience, our most powerful form of Ruhmkorff fnducbion Coil, with secondary wires attachâ€" ed, for which cheque will be sent in full on receipt of invoice or retail price list.â€"Faithâ€" fully yours, Hucrx MassinarrR. As he rose from the desk, he glanced half involuntarily out of the study window. It pointsd south. _The moon was shining full on the water. That hateful poplar stared him straight in the face, as tall and gaunt and immovable as ever. On its roots, a woâ€" man in a white dress was standing, looking out over the angry sea, as Elsie had stood, for the twinkling of an eye, on that terrible evening when he lost her for ever. Oneseâ€" cond, the sight sent a shiver, through his frame, then he laughed to himself, the next, for his groundless terror. How childish ! How infantile! It was the gardner‘s wife, in her light print frock, looking out to sea for her boy‘s smack, cverdue, no doubtâ€"for Charlie was a fisherman.â€"But it was intolâ€" erable that he, the Squire of Whitestrand, should be subjected to such horrible turns as these. â€"He shook his fist angrily at the offendâ€" | ing tree. " You shall pay for it, my friend," | he mutter=d low but hoarse between his : clenched teeth.= You shan‘t have many| more chances of frightening me !" , _ As soon as she was gone, Hugh rose from | (RGUC4OR Coil, E liott‘s Patent." The wire his chair and 'walkedgalo‘:rly igto hal% own, ?ad"?nfi"“““"fld‘i’*"?d‘m to. the study, Gordon‘s * Electricity " was still in | If(:l rd ul‘ pstroleum: barrels. . When the his hand, and his finger pointed to that inâ€" i a ndon workman had securely laid the entire criminating passage. . He sat down at the, fDPMA*U® a undisturbed by loungers, . he sloping desk and wrote a short note to a. repox_-ged adversely, with great solemnity, wellâ€"known firm of scientific instrument! onh i ettld“l onlfall: and electric light makers whose address he had copied a week| "° emef o Hugh Massinger. . No sufficient before from the advertisement shees of PCWO*!0" the purpose existed in the river, * Nature." This adverse report was orally delivered 4 in the front vestibule of Whitestrand Hall 3 Wuirestrarp Harnn, and it was also delivered with sedulous care ALMUDHAM, SUFFOLK. _ | â€"ag por orders receivedâ€"in Mrs.|Massinger‘s GrExtLEmrxâ€"Please forward me to the, OWD Presence, When the London workman above address, at your earliest convenience, | Z:?:.?PE;??MR a:ftfr makng his carefully Winifred took up a bedroom candle and lighted it quietly without a word. Then she went up 10 muse in her own bedroom over her new gourd and other disillusionments. But i n the domain at large, * But ‘Mr. Hatherley said to me once you would never be a poet,‘" Hugh repeated with a smile, exactly mimioking. Winifred‘s querulous little voice and manner. * As my own wife doesn‘t consider me a poet, Winiâ€" fred, I shall venture to do as I like myself abg‘g't my private property." & You‘re all right, you geot struck, I fancy." 6E D.« EAFL O FFOIi __ «‘Coaductors ! Fiddlesticks !" Winifred answered in a breath, with wifely prompâ€" titude. ®* Lightning never hurt the house yet, and it‘s not going to begin hurting it now, just because an fm- mortal Poét with a fad for electricity has come to live and compose at Whitestrand. If anything, it ought to go the other way. Bards, you know, are exempt from thunderâ€" bolts. Didn‘t you read me the lines yourâ€" self, ‘CGod‘s lightnings spared, they said, Alone the holier head, Whose laurels soreened it,‘ or something to that effect? Eoo P ETT B o 00 M o omm eoeienniy "ms.â€" I‘‘s dangerous to leave the house so exposed. I‘ll order them down from London toâ€"mor: row." C AERNMINEAadinedipAiiente@iirienteatenitets Ridabisicire Artirds mc fecebidn icb ‘"We must put up conductors, Winnie," he said hesitatingly, with a hot face, " to proâ€" tect those new gables at the east wing.â€" T4X CE e c o 1 D U 1 C Winifred took the book from his hand, wondering,â€"with a masterful air of perfect authority. Heyielded like alamb. On imâ€" material questions it was his policy not to reâ€" sisther. Sheturned to the page wherehis finger had rested and ran it down lightly_with her quick eye. ‘The keyâ€"words showed in some degreo at what it was driving:"*Franklin‘s Experiment"â€"" Means of Collection "â€"â€" "Theory of Lightning Rods"â€"" Ruhmâ€" korff‘s Coils"â€"" Drawing down Electric' Discharges from the Clouds."â€"Why, what was all this ? She turned round inquiringly. / Hugh shufflised in an uneasy way in his chair. The husband who shuffics betrays his cause. ‘ 66 WG munsat nut nn> anndnatarae â€" Wiania D L2 |~â€" Hugh groaned. The unconscious allegory was far too obvious in its application not to sink into the very depths of his soul. â€" He turned back to his book, and sighed inwardâ€" ly to think for what a feeble, unsatiafactory shadow of a gourd he had sacrificed his own lifeâ€"not to speak of Winifred‘s and Elsie‘s,. Byâ€"and â€"by Winifred rose and crossed the room. * What‘s that you‘re studying so intontly ?" she asked, with a suspicious â€" glance at the book in his finge:s. | Hugh hesitated, and seemed half in clined for a moment to shut the book with a bang and hide it away from her. Then he made up his mind with a fresh resolve to brazen it out. "Gordon‘s Hlectricity and Magnetism," he answered{quietly, as unabashed as possible, holding the volume halfâ€"closed with his fore. finger M;T the page he had juast hunted up‘‘ i6 h o m i e eA > PA «¢ I‘mâ€"I‘m interested at present to some exâ€" tent in the subject of electricity. I‘m thinkâ€" ing of getting is up a little." got it, than 1 was before I had a gourd of my own at all to look at.‘ " see. . Poets can never ors equally, | â€" This particular thunderstorm, as chance n elavborate| would have it, came late at night, after t pattern to | three sultry days of close weather, when it whas had’ big black masses. were just beginning to was Elsie‘s| gather in vast battalions over the German wist ; and %cean: and let‘loosge at last its fierce artâ€" he fear»d it illery in terriblevolleys. right over the be;:l::sie‘s j village and grounds of Whitestrand. _ Hugh 4 ' Massinger was the first at the Hall to the inbellig obserye from afar the distant flash, before , The reason for this is notfar to seek. In ; hilly countries the hills and trees act as ; natural lightningâ€" conductors, or rather as | decoys to draw aside the fire from heaven from the towns or farmâ€"houses that nestle i far below among the glens and valleys. But | in wide level plains, where all alike is flat ! and lowâ€"lying, humanarchitecture forms for | the most part the one salient point in the ! landscape for lightning to attack : every | church or tower with its battlements and | lanterns stands in the place of polished knobs ! on an electric machine, and draws down upâ€" ! on itself with unerring certainty the desâ€" | tructive bolt from the overâ€"charged clouds. Owing to this cause, the thunderâ€"storms of East Anglia are the most apalling and desâ€" tructive in their concrete results of ‘any in England. The laden clouds, | big _ with electric energy, hang low !and dark above one‘s very head, and let loose their accumulated store of vivid 'fiashes in the exact midst of towns and | villages. The plot was all well laid now. Hugh had nothing further left to do but to possess is soul in patience against the next thun derstorm. He had not very long to wait. Before the month was out, a thunderstorm did indeed burstin full force over Whiteâ€" strand and its neighbourhoodâ€"one of those terrible and destructive eastâ€"coast, electric displays which invariably leave their broad mark behind them. For along the low, flat, monotonous East Anglian shore, where hills are unknown and bi%hreu rare, the lightâ€" ning almort inevitably singles out for its onslaught some aspiring piece of man‘s handiworkâ€"some church steeple, somée castle keep, the jurrets on some tall and isolated manorâ€"house, the vane above some ancient castellated gateway. J ‘ T t T iss o2 EuC S e oo B OM PRERIRE self, as he went his way rejoicing, that the Squire of Whitestrand must be very well heid in hand indeed by that small pale lady, if he had to take so many cunning precauâ€" tions in seoret beforehand when he wanted to get rid of a single tree that offended his eye in his own gardens. 17 IHF DTR Y M o o sn C2200 2 ULRL worded statement, he went out clinking g coin of the realm or two in his trousers‘ pocket, and with his tongue stuck, somsâ€" what unbecomingly, in his right cheek, as who should pride himself on the successful outwitting of an innocent fellowâ€"creature. He had done the work he was paid for, and he had (Eone it well. But he thought to himâ€" La¥®‘s c 0o 2 0 in aie LELET 1 _ The Squire hingelf, however, â€" made 5 no «secret. of higâ€" own personal and ‘ private intentions to the London workâ€" _ man. He paid the man well, and he / exacted silence, That was all. But he _ explained precisely in plain terms what it l was that he wanted done. . The tree was an eyesore to him, he said, withhis nsual frank | nessâ€"Hu h was always frank whenever , possible-%;)nt his wife, for sentimental reaâ€" ‘ sons, had a special fancy for it. He wanted , to get rid of it, therefore, in the least obâ€" l trasive way he could easily manage. This | was the least obtrusive way. So this was | what he required done with it. The London , workmannodded his head, pocketed his pay, | looked unconcerned, and held his tongue with trained fidelity. It was none of his businesa to pry into any employer‘s motives. Enough for him to take his orders and to I carry them out faithfully to the very letter. The job was odd : an odd job is always inâ€" l ‘teresting. Ho hoped the experiment might . prove sucosasfal, ! The Whitestrand labourers, who pissed by the poplar and the London workman, time and Again, with a jerky nod and their pipes turned downward, never noticed a certain elender unobtrusive copper wire which the strange artisan fastened one evening, in the gray dusk, right up the stem and boles of the big tree to a round knob on the very summit, ‘The wire, howâ€" ©ver, as its fixer knew, ran down to a large deal box well buried in the ground, which bore outside a green label, " Ruhmkorff Induction Coil, E liott‘s Patent." The wire ?nd-co‘fl;’n!mina‘;md + ifi:& Pi_l‘ 014_310 to.the E EosEntnd O DARDARCCCRCD AOIGC ILY be, or how it could work h lighting the Hsll. nobody knew ; but th intelligent artisan : had let the words drop céually in the course | of conversation ; and th Féherman‘s Rest snapped them up at once and retailed them freely with:profound gugo to all afterâ€"comâ€" ers. ; ol thatinee n . GEF} 1. P C SEREDCANLS 13 4 even O0pinq in an off hand: fashion that he must be beniny laying electric lights on. Conâ€" _servative in Nogp things to the backbone, the servants bestored the meed of their hearty approval on theelectric light : it saves so in trimming and cleaning. Lamps are the bugbear of big oouzm-yl%uses : electricity, on the other hand, needs no teading. Ip was near the poplar that Squire was going to put his installation, as they call the arâ€" rangement in our latt:r.dy jirgon ; and he was going to drive it, rusour remarked, by a tidal outfall. Whay alidal outfall might ho s mm Wnn d t on oo Y P ane 1+ /Â¥ % k 0i atisan with the engineering air, who was ‘g:nised to be «@summat I ; ths electric diz, carefully ° txcamined, junder. Hugh‘ Wh‘ftions, many parts of ¢ he grounds o l h *®trand. Squire was §‘ jing to lay out ® £% en and terrace afre?" i, the servanss CORJ°CtU.q in their own sodi‘ ty : one or $wo f_f,ffefl’::fceedingly mode" 1 in their views, i Hugh slept but little that eventful night ; his mind addressed itself with feverish eagerness to so many hard and doubtful quesâ€" tions. â€" Hetossed and turned and asked himâ€" self ten thousand times overâ€"was the tree burnt throughâ€"burnt down to the ground ? Were the roots and the trunk consumed beyond hopeâ€"or rather beyond fearâ€"of ul timate recovery? Was the hateful popla A man must be a man come what may. Hugh leaped towards the window and flung it open wildly. "I must go !" he cried. "*Ring the bell for the servants." The savage glee in his voice was well repressed. His enemy was low, laid prone at his feet, but hs would at least pretend to some spark of magnanimity. ‘"* We must get out the hose |" he exclaimed. *‘ We must try to save it !" Winifred clung to his arm in horror. "Let it burn down, Hugh !" she cried. ®" Who cares for the popfa.r! T‘d sooner ten thousand poplars burned to the ground than that you should venture out on such an evening |!" Her hand on his arm thrilled throu i with borror, Her words stung him %v};tlllml? sense of his meanness. Something very like a touch of remorse came over his spirit He stooped down and kissed her tenderly' The next flash struck over towards thé sandhills. . The thunder was rolling graduâ€" ally seaward. f | ‘Winifred opened her eyes with an effort, | and saw him standing there, as if apellbound, | by the window. She dared not goet up and | come any nearer the front of the room, but, | raising her eyes, she saw from where she sat, or rather crouched, that the poplar stood out, one living mass of rampant flame, a flaring beacon, from top to bottom. _ The petroleam, ignited and raised to flashingâ€"point by the firs which the induction coil had drawn down from heaven, gave off its blazing vapour in huge rolling sheets and forked tongues of | flams, which licked up the crackling branches of the dry old tree from base to summit like & much touchwood. The poplar rose now 0% solid column of crimson fire. The red #°W deepened an1 widened from mome . to moment. ‘ Even the drenching rai that followed the thunderâ€"clap seemed E‘?Verless to check that frantic onslaught,. L2¢ fire leaped and danced through the r!l straight boughs with mad exultat?D, â€" hissing out its defiance to the . b‘g round drops which burst off into tÂ¥ balis of steam before they could reach *# red hot trunk and snapping branches, / Even lefé to itself, the poplar, once ignit«!, would have burnt to the ground with g«ttling rapidity ; for its core was dry and lisAt as tinder, its wood was eaten through by innumerable wormâ€"holes, and the hollow â€"entre of mouldering dryâ€"rot, 1where childrg! had loved to pl&y at Hide' andâ€"seek, acded now like a roaring chimney flze, with e fierce draught that carried up the circli=g eddies of smoke and flame in mad career 4o the topmost branches. But the fumeg of the petroleum, rendered instantly gaseous by the electric heat, made the work of d’e’struction still more instantaneous, terâ€" rible, and complete than it would have provâ€" ed if left to unaided nature. The very atâ€" mosphere revolved itself into one rolling pilâ€" lar of fluid flame, | The tree seemed envelopâ€" ed in a shroud of fire. All human effort must be powerless to resist it. The poplar dissolved almost as if by mapic with a wild rapidity into its prime elements. ’ 27 3 S " hner tingling ears, to crush if Pisgible thehideous roar out. But the light and iound sseem:d to penetrate everything : 8ShG was aware of them keenly through her tery bones and nerves and marrow ; her entire being appeared as if pervaded and ovy.. wheimed with the horror of the lightning In another moment all was over, and sh was conscious only. of an abiding awe, a deepâ€"seated afterglow of alarm and terror. Bu; Hugh had started up from the sofa now, both his hands clasped hard in front of his breast, and was gazing wildly out of the big bowâ€"window, and lifting up his voice in a paroxysm of excitement. ‘"It‘s hit the poplar |" he cried. "Its hit the poplar ! It must be terribly nsar, Winnie! It‘s hit the poplar 1" um M inw.. 3 ° _0 6 [ 11.3 VJYA« dEL0adâ€" bosom. Winired nestled clâ€"se to him with a sigh of relief.. The nearness of danger, real or imâ€" agined, rouses all the most ingrained and profound of our virile feelings. The instinct of protecSon for the woman and the child comes over wen bad men at such moments of _ doubt vith irresistible might and majesty. SMIL differences or tiffs are forgotten and fosiven : the woman clings naturally <in . h€: feminine weakness â€"to the strong man in his primary aspact as comforter and protapor, Between Hugh ‘ ‘nd Wiflifred the estr&\gemenb asg yet was but vague and unacklwledged. Had it yawned far wider, had Darnk far deeper, the awe and terror of that preme moment would amply have sufficed to bridge it over, atleast while the orgy of the hunderstorm lasted. ‘ Fornext instant a sheet of linid flame seemed to surround and engulf the whole house at once in its white embrac. The world became for the twinkling of * eyen one surging flood of vivid fire, one roatand crash and sea of deafening tumult, Whi. fred buried her face deeper than tyer ou Hugh‘s shoulder, and put up both het smail hands to her tingling ears, to crush if Pissible the hideous roar out. But the light and iound ssem:ed to penetrate everything : ShG was aware of them keenlvy thronoh â€"har .. Even as she spoke, a terrific voiley seemed to butrs: all at once right over.their heads and shake the house with its irregistible majesty. Winifred buried her facs deep in the cush. ions. "O Hugh," she cried in a terrified tone, " this is awfulâ€"awful !" Much as he longed to look out of the winâ€" dow, Hugh could not resist that unspoken appeal, He drew up the blind hastily to its full height, so that he might see out to watch the succsss of his deepâ€"laid stratagem ; then he hurried over with real tenderness to Winifred‘s side. He drew his arm round . her and socthed her with his hand, and faid her poor throbbing aching head with a lovâ€" ef:; B.cares8" upon, his / own / broad | hosom E2._21â€"", 31 1 ¢xpect we shall catch it ourselves shortly," | The clouds rolled up with extraordinary rapidity, and the claps came fast and thick and nearer.. Winifred cowered down on the sofa in terror. She dreaded thunder ; but she was too proud to confess what she would nevertheless have given worlds to doâ€"hide her frightened little head with sobs and tears in its old place upnan Hugh‘s shoulder. ""It‘s coming this way, " she cried nervously after a while; *‘That last flash must havo been ] awfully near us." | g9p n ce â€""oge, * +AZC . 10 CREIF ears. A pale light to westward, in the diretion of Snade, attracted, as he read, his passing attention, **By Jove!‘ he cried, rising with a yawn from his chair, and laying down the manuscript of "A Life‘s Panilosophy‘ which he was languidly correcâ€" ting in its later stanzais, "‘thats something like lightning, Winifred ! Over Szaie way, apparently. _ I wonder if is‘s going to drift towards us ?â€"Whewâ€"what a clap ! It‘s precious near. I expect we shall . catch it ourselves shortly," the thunder )r throbbing aching head with a lovâ€" tess upon his own â€" broad bosom. ec nestled clsse to him with a sigh of The nearness of danger, real or imâ€" » gouaea all the most ingrained and FWELEIL _ Te sy 09h sous 20 had made itself audible i ‘TROX "The B of & eyen one roatand oults | Wig. 13n Sver on th het smal) in their â€"___Dealer in Scheol Books, Patent Medicings, Dry Coods, Gzoceries, Boots and Shooss Hats and Caps, Hardware, Harthonâ€" | ware, Orockery, Glazs, Smoked Hams, Shoulders and Side Meat, ' Lard, Batter and Hogs, American and Canadian Coal Oll, Machine Olls, otc., ote., at lowest cash prices. Highest Market Prices paid for Butter and Hgas. Just received Car load of new Salt in barrols and 56 lb. f sacke. Selling cheap. B. B. O3BER, @.6. Bseamsville, Ont., Will visit Smithville every Saturday, Jorâ€" dan every Tuesday and Grimsby â€" every Fhursday, whore he will be prepared to do Dersal work in all its branches. Vitalized Air for Painless Extraction. Oprreaâ€"Station Street, Beamsville. DBPNTIST, Cor King & McNab 815. Hamilton Ont Vitalized Air Cas. Vitallzed Air, ete., for the painless extraction of eeth. Upper or lewer set only 96 00. Tecth extractâ€" d free of charge every Mandaay afternoon, Barristers, Solicitors, &o.,&0. ST. CATHARINES, ONT. 4. H. Ixerrsorem. J. C. RraKERT, q.0 A. W. Maroom. W/88 _ Kiag treet east, Hamilton nald other Aunestheries House i ::-_ ilbor. * Capierromorm mm on â€"a n arh 238 x ; worm let him invent an illunfi:fi%‘ifi' 3“:%?1% keyhole. They don‘t want their husbands wlen coming home late from their clubs to slp in and rp Stairs and catch them asleep yhen they want to make believe they nave been sicting: up waiting for them all night. m â€"pâ€" j 7 NClK, Uhat timsâ€"honoured seaâ€" mark. But as they strained their eyes through the deepening gloom, the stern logic of facts left them at last no further room for syllogistic reasoning or a priori scepticism, The Whitestrand poplar was really gone. Not a stump even remained as its relic or its monument, All the way up to the * Fisherman‘s Rost " %repeated againand again below his br eath : much the worse in the end f)r Whiteâ€" ©Sand,‘ o â€" AAFLP doadss oput In‘for" the cight ‘to the Char at Whitestrand. They meant lie by for a Sunday in the estuary, and to walk across the fields, if the day provâ€" ed fine, to service at Saade, As they approached the mouth they looked about in vain for the familiar landmark. At first they could hardly believe their eyes : to men who knew â€" the east coast well, the disappearance of the Whitestrand poplar from the world seemed almost as inâ€" tredible as the sudden re.noval of the Bass Raick or the Pillars of Hercules.. ~Nobody wounld ever dream of cutting down thas glory of Suffolk, that timsâ€"honoured seaâ€". mark. But at thaew «srrainai uL lll o0 )SLBR, TEETZEL, HARRISON & OBLER, Barristers, Solicitors, ete., HAMILTON w s s ANT ak/ y â€"y., 10 15 =*" ~B" ,_If ‘was growing dusk, Warren Relf and Potts, navigating the Mud Turtle around by sea from Yarâ€" mouth â€" Roads, put in for the rizht to the Char at Whitestrand. They meant lie bv for& nnAase: K Alcis ut nnt 1 ’ BQCRttyy vvvl-ll.l-ls. The saying smote Hugh‘s heart sore. He played nervously with the button of his coat. "‘*I wish you could have kept it Winnie," he said not unkindly. ~*Buy it‘s not my fanlt.â€"And I bear no malice. I‘ll even forgive you for telling me I‘d never make a poet ; though that, you‘ll admit, was a hard saying. I think, my child, if you don‘t mind, JI‘ll ask Hatherâ€" ly down next week to visi; us.â€"There‘s nothing like adverse opinion to improve one‘s work. Hatherley‘s opinion is more than adverse. I‘d like his criticism on 4 Life‘s Philosophy betore I rush into prirt at last with the greatest and deepsst work of my lifetime." rFFTTIPE regret; and the Trinity . House delsted it with pains as a lost landmark from their sailing directions. Hugh set his workmen lnstantly tostub t P the roots. â€" Ani Winifred, gaz og mournâ€" fully nextday at the ruins, observed with a sigh : "You never liked the dear old tree, Hugh ; and it seems as if fate had interpored in your favour to destroy it. I‘m sorry it‘s gone ; but I‘d sacrifice a hundred such trees any day to have you as kind to me as you were last evening." Buat when next morning‘s light dawned and the sun arose upon the scene of conflagration, Hugh saw at a glance that all his fears had indeed been wholly and utterly groundless, The poplar was as thougk it had never existâ€" ed. A bare black patch by the mouth of the Char, coversd with ash and dust and cinder, alone marked the spot where the famous tree had once stood.. The very roots were burnâ€" ed deep into the ground. The petrole um _had done its duty bravely. Nov a trace of aeâ€" sign could beobserved anywhere. The Rubhmâ€" korff Induction Coil had melted into air. Nobody ever so much as dreamed that human handicraft had art or part in the burning of the celebrated Whitestrand poplar. The "Times" gave it a line of passing regret; and the Trinity . Rouse delsted it with pains as a lost landmark from their sailing directions. YKERT, INGERSOLL & MARQUIS A M iL EUN * * = ONT. Moexer To Leaxw ox Easy EErxMs, R. 8. ZIMMEBRM i N, ZIMMERMAN, DENTIST H. McDONALD, LC Surgeon Dentist, P. GREEN, DENTIST, really done for? Would any trace remain of the barrels that had held the tellâ€"tale petâ€" roleum ? any relic be lefté of the Rahmkorff Iaduction Coil? Wha; jot or tittle of the evidence of design would now survive to beâ€" . tray and convict him? What ground for reasonable suspicion would Winifred see that the fire was not wholly the result of acciâ€" dent ? Over No. 8 Kiag Stree East Hamilton. . OHIT!IENDEN WINONA, ONT PRACTICAL DENTIST (TO BE CONTINUED 32 James Street, HaAmMiLTo®, (Over S .well Brothers ) SECORD, iamilton.Gas Vitalized House Blake St. Kast tiough that, you‘ll iyiflg- 1 tvhink, my ad, J‘ll ask Hatherâ€" 0 visis us.â€"There‘s opinion to improve ‘s opinion is more JOHNK HARRISON, K. 8. OSLER. eyes 3 K B We