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Show . ptrnie. hut it ihanB-- sri to work jrvnfl soon te. that it w ui3 ilo very nev r to have dieadfullv shff that 1 had to put a Ut tie lieglnnlng and ml of my own. which stented to I light n it up a good deal." 1 thought there was sometnmg fenny about the beginning and end Did ou - Famy your noticing the difference In style How quit k you are! am i ry slow at things like that. I ought to have been a woodman, or gamekeeper or something I was made on those lines But I have fouud someY DOYL& thing now '"A hat ts that then- ' see In me Oh, 1 do pra that ou may Ramhing I have a chum In Texas, not repent It' The gentle heart was and he says It la a rare life I am to ruffled amid Its Joy by the thought of buy a share In his business It Is all In Its Own un worthiness the open air shooting and riding, and Repent It' feel that I am a saved sport Would It would it Inconvenience man You do not know how degrading jou much, Ida, to come out there with this city life is. how debasing and yet me " how absorbing Money foieer clinks Ida nearly fell off her perch tn her in your ear You tan think of nothing amaxement The only words of which else From the bottom of my heart I she could think were My goodness It hate and yet how can I draw back me'" so she said them without bringing grief to my dear old 'If It would not upset jour plans, father- There was but one way In which or change jnur arrangements tn any I could defy the taint, and that was by lie had slowed down and let go way" hating a home Influent e so pure and so of the steering handle, so that the great high that It may brace me up against machine crawled aimlessly about from all that draws me down I hate felt one sid of the road to the other. I that Influ me already I know that know very well that I am not clever or w hen I am talking tu you 1 am a better anything of that sort, but still I would man It is you who must go with me do all I can to make you very happy. through life, or 1 must walk foieter Don't you think that tn time you might alone come to like me a little bit?" Oh, Harold, I am so happy Still Ida gave a cry of fright. "I won't they wanderrd amid the darkening like you if you run me against a brick shadows, while one by one the stars wall," she said, as the machine rasped peeped out In the blue-blac- k sky above against the curb. "Do attend to the them. At last a chill night wind blew up steering from the east, and bi ought them back to Yes, I will But tell me. Ida, whether the realities of life you will come w 1th me You must go in You will be cold Oh. I don t know. It's too absurd! My father will wonder where 1 am How can we talk about such things Shall I say anything to him when I cannot see you You speak to If you like, my darling Or I will In the nape of my neck, and then I have the morning I must tell my mother to- to twist my head round to answer." I know That was why I put 'You in night. 1 know how delighted she will be front' upon my letter I thought that I do hope so It would make It easier But If you Let me take the garden path. would prefer It I will stop the machine, It is so dark Your lamp Is not lit yet. and then you can sit around and talk then, dearest " about It. Till tomorrow, Harold "Good gracious'" cried Ida. Fancy My own darling'-- ' He stooped, and our sitting face to face on a motionless their Ups met for the first time. Then, tricycle In the middle of the road, and as she pushed open the folding windows all the people looking out of their winshe heard hla quick, firm step as it dows at us'" & passed down the graveled path. A It would look rather funny, wouldnt lamp was lit as she entered the room, it? Well, then, suppose that we both and there was Ida, dancing about like get off and push the tandem Along in a mischievous little fairy In front of front of us?" her. Oh, no, this is better than that And have you anything to tell me?" "Or I could carry the thing. she asked, with a solemn face. Then, Ida burst out laughing. That would suddenly throwing her arms round her be more absurd stUL sister's neck, "Oh, you dear, dear old Then we will go quietly, and I will Clara! I am so pleased I am so pleased." look out for steering. I won't talk about it at all if you would rather not But 1 CHAPTER VII. really do love you very much, and you would make me happy if you came to VERIT TADSEM FKUCITAS. Texas with me, and I think that perT WAS Just three haps after a time I could make you days after the Doc- happy, too. tor and the Admiral "But your aunt? had congratulated - Oh. she woKtfl Ilka Huh.- - 1 each other upon the can understand that your father might closer tie which not like to lose yon. I'm sure I wouldn't was to unite their either, if I were he. But after all, Amertwo families, and ica ts not very far off nowadays, and to turn their frlend-sht- p ts not so very wild. We would take a Into something piano, and and a copy of even dearer and grand Browning. And Denver and his wife more Intimate, that would come over to see us. We should v Mlsa Ida Walker re be quite a family party. It would be ceived a letter which. caused her some jolly.- surprise and considerable amusement. Ida sat listening to the stumbling It was dated from next door, and was words and awkward phrases which were handed In by the page after whispered from the. hack of her. but breakfast. there waa something In Charles "Dear Miss Ida." began this curious clumsiness of speech which and then relapsed suddenly was more moving than the worda of the document, Into the third person. "Mr. Charles most eloquent of pleaders. He paused, Westmacott hopes that he may have he stammered, he caught his breath bethe pleasure of a ride with Miss Ida tween the words, and ha blurted out Walker upon his tandem tricycle. Mr. in little blunt phrases all the hopes of Charles Westmacott will bring It round hla heart. If love had not come to her In half an hour. You In front. Yours yet. there was at least pity and symvery truly, Charles Westmacott. The pathy, which are nearly akin to it whole was written in a large, loose-joint- Wonder there was also that one so and schoolboylsh hand, very weak and frail as she should shake this thin on the up strokes and thick on the strong man so. should have the whole down, as though care and pains had course of his life waiting for her decigone to the fashioning of it. sion. Her left hand was on the cushion Strange as was the form, the meanat her side. He leaned forward and took ing was clear enough; so Ida hastened It gently In his own. She did not try to to her room, and had hardly slipped on draw it back from him. her light grey cycling dress when sha "May I have it, said he. "for life?" saw the tandem with Its large occupant Oh, do attend Xq your steering," said He door. at the handed her up to her she, smiling round at him; and dont saddle with a more solemn and thought- may any more about this today. Please ful face than was usual with him, and don't! a few moments latep they were flying . When shall I know, then?" along the beautiful, smooth suburban "Oh, tonight, tomorrow, I dont know. roads In the direction of Forest H11L I must ask Clara. Talk about someThe great limbs of the athlete made the thing else. heavy machine spring and quiver with And they rfld talk 'about something every stroke; while the mlgnon grey else; but her left hand was still enfigure with the laughing face, and the closed in his, and he knew, without askgolden curls blowing froth under the ing again, that all was well. d straw hat, simply little ;to bs coxtikced j held firmly to her perch, and let the round treadles whirl beneath Mile her feet after mile SPEECH the wind flew, beatthey ing In her face, the trees dancing past Ths Irish Patriot JaDod (or Worda. Bs In two long ranks on either side, until Didn't gay. they had passed round Croydon and A member of ths Land league was were approaching Norwood once more sent from Dublin to a certain district to from the further side. up a meeting and make a speech, Arent you tired T' she asked, glanc- get says the New York JournaL ing over her shoulder and turning toOn reaching the town where the meeta him little pink ear, a fluffy ing was wards to bs the speech-makone and blue eye twinkling met a friend, held both golden curl, and, being genial from the very corner of Its lid. fellows, they reared to a publie houss "Not a bit I am just getting my and had something. Then they began swing." e talking over reminiscences, "Isn't It wonderful to be strong? Yon and the first thing the me remind a of steam always engine." knew was that the attendant had coma "Why a steam engine? in to light the lamp. so because ft la Well, powerful, and ' "Great goodness! he said. "I waa and reliable, unreasoning. Well, I didn't sent down from Dublin to get np a mean that last, you know, but but meeting here and now it Is too late." you know what I mean. What la the It doesnt matter," said ths "Oh, well. matter with you?" .. other. "Why?" TejrtUtTrVl5e-fflaUe- r, saldthe "Because you have something on your organizer. "I have to report to my sumind. You have not laughed once. perior that the meeting was held." He broke Into gruesome laugh. "I ""Oh, that's all right" laid hla friend. am quite Jolly," said he. "Here, yon write out a speeecb and I are not. And why did yon will pend ft to the local "Oh, no, you papers, which writ me such a dreadfully stiff letter?" will print ft Just as If ths meeting was "There, now, he cried, "I was sura held- - Then the people in Dublin wont It was stiff. know the difference. Then why write It? This was quickly done and the speech "It wasnt my own composition." that was never delivered appeared next "Whose then? Your aunts?" in the papers. "Oh. no. It waa a person of the name day The fun of the thing comes In over of Slattery. the fact that the leaguer was arrested Goodness! Who la her and waa sentenced to four months In "I knew it would, come out, I felt Jail for a speech that he never that ft would. You've heard of Slattery, ered, qt a meeting tbat waa never delivheld. the author? T "Never. ArThey All i "He is wonderful at expressing himcommand of the emperor of Rusa book called The Secret siaBythree enormous self. He wroteLetter-writinvolumes, bound in g Made Easy lved; or. black aeaL with purple silk linings, and -. models letall sorts you. of of gives another tn red seal with white linings, 4 all with massive claspa tn gold and silburst out laughing. "So yon actu- ver, have been filled with cuttings from one. ally copied the enUre American preaa referring to "It wm to invite a young lady to a tbs illness and death of the late esar. A$- 1 A.CONAM 1 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION. (CHAPTIlt Contiwkd) far as 1 know, claia nutated, as the widow muted awa to where the players were giouped round the net, or VI "Ab sauntering slow it towards the house She rose to follow liei, hut her head was In a whiil with m w thoughts, and she aat down again hlch would be best for Ida, Harold or Charles- - She thought It over with as much sulkitude as a mother who plans for Ini only child Harold had seemed to her to be in many ways the noblest and the best young man whom she had known If eter she was to love a man it would be Buch a man as that. Hut she must not think of herself. She had reuson to believe that both these men loved her sister Which would be the best 01 her ' But perhaps the matter was already decided She could not forget the scrap of conversation which she had heard the night btfore, nor the secret which her sister had fused to confide to her. If Ida would not tell her, there was but one person who could, She raised her eyes and there was Harold Denver standing before her. You were lost in your thoughts, aid he, smiling "I hope that they were pleasant ones " Oh, I was planning, said she, rising. It seems rather a waste of tints as a rule, for thing have a wav of working themselves out Just as you least expect. "What were you planning, then? The future." Whose? Oh, my own and Idas And was I Included In your Joint fu- tures?" I hope all our friends were Included. Dont go In," said he, as she began to move slowly towards the house. I wanted to have a word. Let us stroll up and doWn the lawn. Perhaps yodare cold. If you are I could bring you out a shawL Oh, no. I am not cold. I was speaking to your sister Ida last night. She noticed that there was m slight quiver In his voice, and, glancface, she ing pp at his. dark, clear-cu- t saw that he was very grave. She felt 'that, ft was settled, and that he had come to ask her for her sister's hand. "She la a charming girl said he, after a pause. Indeed she is, cried' Clara warmly. "And no one 'who has not lived with her and known her intimately can tel) how charming and good she is. She is dike a sunbeam In the house. No one who was not good could be so absolutely happy as she seems to be. Heaven's last gift, I think. Is a mind so pure and a spirit so high that It Is unable even to see what is Impure and evil In the world around us. For as long as we can see It. how can we be truly happy? She has a deeper side, also She does not turn It to the world, and it is not natural that she should, for sjie Ih very young But she thinks, and has aspirations of her own. You cannot admire her more than I do. Indeed, Miss Walker, I only ask to be brought Into nearer relationship with her. and to feel that there is a permanent bond between us It had come at last For a moment her heart was numbed within her. and then a flood of sisterly love carried all before it Down with the dark thought wrhich would still try to raise its unhallowed head! She turned to Harold with sparkling eyes and words of pleasure upon her lips "I should wish to be near and dear to both of you," said he. as he took her band I should wish Ida to be my sis- ter. and you my wife. She s&ld nothing. She only stood looking at him with parted lips and great, dark, questioning eyes The lawnhad vanished away, the sloping gard-- n the brick villas, the darkening sky with half a pale moon beginning lo show over the chimney tops. All was gone, and she was only conscious of a dark, earnest, pleading face, and of a voice, far away, disconnected" from herself, the voice of a man telling a woman how he loved her. He was unhappy, said the voice, his life was a void; he had come to the parting of the ways, here lay happiness and honor, and all that was high and noble; there lay the round, the lonely life, the base pursuit of money, the sordid, selfish alma He needed but the hand of the woman that !he loved to lead him into the better he loved her his life path. And how He loved her for her would show. sweetness, for her womanliness, for her strength. He had need of her. Would she come to him? .And then of a sudden as she listened It came home to her that the man was Harold Denver.-authat she was the woman, and that all Cod's Work was very , beautiful the green sward beneath her feet, the rustling leaves, the tong orange slashes In the western sky. She spoke; she scarce knew what the broken words were, but she saw the light of Joy shine out .on his face, and her hand was still In his as they wandered amid the twilight. They said no more now, but only wandered and felt each others presence. -- AIL was fresh around them, familiar and yet new, tinged with the beauty of , their new found happiness. he Did you not know ft before. gsked. I did not dare think lt. What a mask of Ice I must wear! How could a man feel as I have done without showing It? You? sister, at least, knew." "IdaT It was last night. She. began to praise you. 1 said what I felt, and then In an Instant ft was all out." I But What could you what could you soul-killi- . JFnn. 1 Zfide of -- But any one to tide a tandem. when 1 hid written It. It seemed so Wi with difficulty, anil had been fired shots veial afe t Trial Unable to In the fu discovered sere Jury they -- Ulade that followed their discovery Ctirtis Jett would Hardee was killed, but McKinney But fiP on made his escape have be cnvVl at Jackson, K of the murder Attorney J O Mar cum, and B:y of the jury fa HEPPNER DEATH LIST GROWING of Thomas White vored lh cnv . - . CNLCKY. Number of Victims Placed aa High at are men vv ho never Toirter. also. Dttk e?dg ja jail at LexingThere Four Hundred. A et lrjd unsueee-fldu- l lives, aij ton, an! tblrn trial will The world may be their ovsler, ths show Latest TYcvekipnianlS from miles 100 mtan Lut luey have no ovster knives. Cyntblan. -- Ni w York Tuues. Cue. death list will pass all ten Heppuei mountains the Jackson, Now estimates prominent previous and in the !5rass region under IlCB SIMPLE AA'ANTS. citizens are beginning to make estl very dlffrcnt Iditlons from those Fellow Are you looking fos The one fall no 250 to from of 400, mates IASitt county existing I any one that I van help you tiud? all Not number. former the below 1 am looking The Interest change of venue ing Pei haps The (Hi) Some art was second onib the verdict When these bodies will be found. tor a sou lu law for mj mother. washed to the Columbia river, fortj Pi Iucv ton Tiger. Judge Redwing U8e( to hear arguments on the jaage of location. It miles away, and some are probably ln TAKING NO CHANCES. waa stated bjtaay In the court buried in the cellar bottoms right town had house tht presiding Judge There ate several large shifts of heard from Gnor Beckham, who men at work, and corpses are being is generally keyed to have had something to with the change of found many miles away. At the rats venue to Hann county. bodies are coming in the list will eaa ily reach 200 atually found, ldentl OUTLAW kRDEE KILLED. There are doubtless fled and burled Man yfh Etched From Glasgow, dozens more Mont,i, pun Down, At bile the bodies recently found Wiliam Hari, who waa sentenced were in horrible condition, many wer to be hansod (Glasgow, Mont., June frozen stiff when found, a phenomenon 26th, fortho order of Charles Sneary, rendered possible by their covering of near Colbo?3, tn September, 1901, halL Great banka of frozen ball etlll and who esojed from the Glasgow He In the drifts with the bodies. Jail the 6th lib, was killed by the Corpses not thus situated are so thartabeen on his trail the bad that the workmen hate to touch posse e miles them. Where people were rolled beseventy-fivten daytkout past wall of hall during the flood southesst of Ctegow. Charles R. HI 11, fore First Urchin Yer a chump one of the Fee, was killed by they are stripped naked and theli 'spend yer last nlckle fer mince pie. Second Urchin Q' wan! Donchefi flesh whipped into a solid bruise. know lfs a disgrace ter die rlchF- New York Sun. ' .THE 8WEET GIRL GRADUATE. brush, and It bo Slattery seems wU. A STORY: I I VT Life: 1 a5' you-wg- So yon lost again?" Of course. ha couldn't awiin. tng Star, Washington Eve lJtAhLL!! W , ; A BAD START. I suppose," be said, It would b useless for me to ask you to be my wife." It would," (be replied, "If that's your style of going about 1L" Chicago Record-llerald- . , I DISMAL. Remember,? said the optimist, "ev--. ' be Sunday by and by." Yes," groaned the pesslihlst, on$ I'll bet there'll be morning and evening ervlces .right along, too. Chicago ery dayll Record-Heral- GOOD REASON. Jobb Did old Cumrox give any reason for wot allowing his daughter to marry you? Lotts (gldomlly) Yes; he sahl ho was afraid he colildn't support mt I the stylo 1 was accustomed to," , , TAVO red-head- ed West-macot- I "Couldnt the hors&you bet on runf Yes. He could run very well. But y - A RAINY DAY RACE. ' MISSES. Wring lu fhe country now, eh?" t's Yes." Dont you miss the early momtoji noise and bustle of the city?" Well, when I miss the 7.03 train do. Philadelphia Press. ed They ted trailed Hardee and Kinney prisoner who had es caped ith Hardee, about sixty miles tlssourf river. When they found Cy had crossed the river, the posse tossed the river and struck their trill again, and followed it for twelve fifteen miles. About sundown Monday evening they thought they were In the brush, and Bto endeavoring to locate them when a (hot rang out from the brush, and HOI fell dead. The ball struck In his rigty side, and he died instantly. HardeS and McKinney were in the X COURSE OF TRUE LOYE, ETO. ; Esther I suppose you would Call the Brewsters a perfect match. They Section of Montana Being Denuded of always act like a pair of lovers." Constance Vegetation by Insects. Why, they are quar, News conies from the Bridger Creek relling more than half the time." Boat I all what mean," lu Esther .in Thata Montana that probacountry bilities there will be a grasshopper ton Transcript plague In that section this summer. The young hoppers are reported to be so thick now that they arise from the ground in clouds upon being disturbed. This condition is said to extend over n large territory of range country. Tbe grass, wtych has attained a very good growth, already begins to show the work of the Insects, and stockmen say that It is likely that within a few weeks the range will be practically denuded of all vegetation. J ' pink-bande- PALATIAL HOTEL AT PALM BEACH, FLA QUICKLY BY FIRE LAST WEEK. DE8TROYED Florida Monte Carlo, The Breakers, at Palm Beach, Fla., Casino, tbe one of Flaglers magnificent east-coa- owned by a Chicago Ann, and that was doomed. hotels, was destroyed by fire soon " An hour after the fire started the last week. ' - The fire started In the kitchen of hotel, the Casino, the store and two a- - rt er old-tim- land-leagu- , -- la - t3. er Choily ? The Breakers, Palm BeaCh (Fla.) Hotel, Destroyed by Fire. The Breakers, and la fifteen minutes adjacent cottagea" were heaps of glowthe immense wooden building, which Ing tinder. The mammoth Polnctana had accommodations for 600 guests, caught In half a dozen places, but Its efforts prevented A strong wind superhuman Was a mass of flame, carried brands and sparks to tbe destruction. BLIND GENIUS. Membtr of Surveyors Craw Drops 150 Though Sightless, Became Inventor and Business Man. Feet to Death. , t David N. Selleg, a remarkable blind Aleck Romero, one of tbe railroad at Newburgh, N. Y., aged surveyor's crew nt Emigrant gap, met maft, Is dead 53. Cal. Although sightless from boyhbod, with t death near Auburn. tragic Romeo was chojjping down a tree, and i drying lo get out of the way when it fell he tumbled over a precipice Ko feet high, Jjreaking his neck. He dfed while on the train coming to Afbn. Romero was bora In Auburn ins mother Is probably the oldest . I resident of Placer county. I am head over heel' la that the! more you contract debts tbe more tbey New York Tlmea. expand. - FELL OVER CLIFF. Here Jn debt, and the worst of It - j , ABSOLUTELY TAST nOFB, . , She la the most luonslstent woman I ever knew." Never doeir'what she ought to or What you fkpect, eh?" Xhat-- fs Just iL Borne .times sbo does' Sbe la inconsistently 1 inconsistent.'" New York Times. I THE TEMPTATION. Judge (to witness) You say you hla have know the prisoner all your life?" he became a few years aggby own efforts, one of the foremost busiHe ness men of Newbujg patent digits of his own Invention and empKtyed'Tnany men. He also helped to develop n system of industrial education for the blind. msno-facture- d MEASURING Witness "Yes, your Honor. Judge Now, in your opinion, do yon think be could be guilty of stealing tbln money? AVltasSIIo B1U." muck tv ns It? TIti - t |