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Science can mnke a house comfortable: but it cannot make a home. Tolerance is noble, but to practice It is often exceedingly Irritating. THIS WOMAN RELIEVED FROM SUFFERING Hr Lydia E. Pinltli&ma Vegetable A Remarkable Story CompoBi I wish even worn in Dover. DeL tike your wonderful medicine sa it lhasdooesomucbgood tome. I had cramps and faint spells and very bad puna One day I was over to my neighbors bouseand she told me I ought to take Lydia would Vegetable impound. Sol went the store on my way home and got bottle: and took the j The idea of being alone in this infernal lane: without human support, overpowered him. Moreover, Webster had personality. Ho exuded it Already Sam had begun to cling to him in spirit, and rely on hla support. Dont go I" "Certainly not If you do not wish it sir." Webster coughed gently, to show his appreciation of the delicate nature of the conversation. He was consumed with cariosity, and his threatened departure had been bnt a pretense: A team of hones could not have moved Webster at that moment "Might. I ask, then what . . "Theres been a misunderstanding," aid Sam. "At least, there was, bnt now there isnt if you see what I mean." "I fear I have not quite grasped your meaning, sir." Well, I I played a sort of you might almost call It a sort of trick on Mlu Bennett With the best motives, of coursel" "Of course, sir!" "And she's found out I dont know how shes found out, but site has. So there yon are!" "Of what nature would the trick be, sir? A species of ruse, sir some kind of Innocent deception?" Well, It was like this." It was a complicated story to tell, and Sam, a prey to conflicting emotions, told It badly ; but inch was the almost superhuman Intelligence of Webster, that he succeeded In grasping the salient polnta. Indeed, he said that It reminded him of something of much the same kind In the Nosegay Novelette, AU for Her," where the hero, anxious to win the esteem of the lady of hie heart, had bribed a tramp to simulate an attack upon her In a lonely road. The principle's the same, said Webster. Well what did he do when she found out? "She did not find out, sir. All ended happily, and never had the wedding bells In the old village church rang out a blither peal than they did at tlie subsequent union." Sam was thoughtful. "Bribed a tramp to attack her, did .r her "Tee, sir. She had never thought much of him till that moment, sir. Very cold and hanghty she had been, his social status being considerably Inferior to her own. Bnt, when she cried for help, and he dashed out from behind a hedge, well. It made all the difference. "I wonder where I get a could 1 h said Sam. "Moat decidedly us." Thank you very much, sir. I would not have presumed, but If yon say so The problem confronting ns, as I envisage It, resolves Itself Into this. Ton have offended our Miss B. and she has expressed a disinclination ever to see you again. How, then, Is It possible. In spite of her attitude: to recapture her esteem T" "Exactly, said Sam. There are several methods which occur to one , . They dont occur to me I" Well, for example, you might rescue her from a burning building as In True as Steel.' . . Set fire to the house, eh? said Sam, reflectively. "Yes, there might be something In that." I would hardly advise snrh a firstdoee before supsaid Webster, a little hastily-flatt- ered ever thing," since, it been have taking per. I at the readiness with which and too can hardly believe bow different IfoeL I had Just wanted to lie in bed his disciple was taking his advice, yet all the time: and when I started to brash acutely alive to the fact that he slept in shout ten minop I would give out how at the top of the house himself. utes. So you know badly I felt. I "A little drastic, If I may say so. It and at bed at eight used to go to get np he better to save her from might all work can I Now seven, still tired. In The Earls Secret'. day and stay op until eleven, and feel drowning, as "Ah, bnt where could she drown?1 all right all the time. My housework is all I do in summer, but in winter I work "Well, there Is a lake In the in a factory. I have told a good many grounds . . . of my friends, and I have nad three "Excellent I said Sam. Terrific 1 come to mo and tell me they wouldn't knew I could rely on yon. Say no do without the Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Samuel Murthy, 219 Cecil St, more! The whole things settled. Ton take her out rowing on the lake: and Dover. Delaware. 1 '' 1 ' co-o- pe J-''- 1 good tramp, said Sam, meditatively. Webster shook his head. "I really would hardly recommend such a procedure, air." No, It would be difficult to make a tramp understand what you wanted." Sam brightened. Ive got It I Ton pretend to attack her, and I'll . . ." "I couldn't, sir I I couldn't really 1 should Jeopardise my situation. Oh, cornel Be a man!" "No, sir, I fear not Theres a difference between handing In your resignation I was compelled to do that only recently, owing to a few words I bad the guv-no- r, though subsequently prevailed upon to withdraw It I say theres a difference between handing In your resignation and being given the sack, and that's what would happen without a character, whats more, and lucky if it didn't mean a prison cell. No, sir; I could not contemplate such a thing. Then I dont see that there's anything to he done," said Sam morosely. Oh, I shouldn't say that, sir, said Webster, encouragingly. "It's simply matter of finding the way. The problem confronting us you, I should My "Us, I upset the boat J plunge In suppose you can swim?" No. air." "Oh? Well, never mind. Ton'll manage somehow, I expect Cling to the upturned boat or something, I shouldn't wonder. Theres always a way. Tea, thats the plan. When Is the earliest yon could arrange this?" "I fear snch a course mast be considered out of the question, sir. It really wouldn't da "I cant see a flaw In It" "Well, In the first place, It would certainly Jeopardize my situation. . . . Oh, hang yonr situation Ton talk as If yon were prime minister or something. Ton can easily get ait other situation. A valuable man like you," aald Sam, Ingratiatingly. No, sir," said Webster firmly, "From boyhood up Ive always had a regular horror of the water. I can't so mnch as go paddling without tin uneasy feeling." The Image of Webster paddling vns arresting enough to occupy Sajeta thoughts for a moment. It was an inspiring picture, and for an lnstant-Ufted hla spirits. Then they tell again. Well, I dont see what there Is to be done, he said, gloomily. "Its no good making suggestions, If you have some frivolous objection to all of them." My Idea," said Webster, would be something which did not Involve my own personal and active ration, sir. If It is all the same to you, I should prefer to limit my assistance to advice. I am anxious to help, but I am a man of regular habits, which I do not wish to disturb. Did yon ever read Footpaths of Fate,' In the Nosegay aeries, sir? I've only Just remembered it, and It contains the most helpful suggestion of the lot. There had been a misunderstanding between the heroine vn-- l the hero their names have slipped my mind, though I fancy Ills was Cyril and she had told him to hop it . . To what?" To leave her for ever, sir. And what do yon think be did? How the deuce do I know?" He kidnaped her little brother, air, to whom she was devoted, kept him hidden for a hit, and then returned him, and In her gratitude all was forgotten and forgiven, and never . . I know. Never had the bells of the old village church . . ." Bung out a blither peal. Exactly, sir. Well there, If you will allow me to say so, yon are, sir! Tou need seek no further for a plan of action. "Miss Bennett hasn't got a llule brother." No, air. But she has a dog, and, Is ' " greatly attached to It.", Sara stared. From the expression on his face It was evident that Webster n Imagined himself to have made a of exceptional Intelligence, It struck Sam as the silliest he had ever heard. Tou mean I ought to steal her dog?" Precisely, sir." But, good heavens nave yon seen that dog?" The one to which I allude la a small brown animal with a fluffy tall." Tea, and a bark like a atenm siren, and, In addition to that, about eighty-fiv- e teeth, all sharper than razors. I couldn't get within ten feet of that dog without Its lifting the roof off. and, If I did. It would chew me into small pieces. I had anticipated that difficulty, air. In Footpaths of Fate there was a nurse who assisted the hero by dragging the child." By Jove!" said Sam, Impressed. He rewarded her, said Webster, allowing hla gaze to stray nonchalantly over the country-side- , liberally, very liberally. If yon mean that you expect me to reward you If you drug the dog, said Sam, dont worry. Let me bring this thing off. and yon can have all I've got, as welL Come, now, and my cuff-linthis la really beginning to look like something. Speak to me more of this matter. Where do we go from here? I beg your pardon, sir?" I mean, what's the next step In the scheme? Oh, Lord!" Sam's face fell. The light of hope died out of his eyes, "It's all off! It cant be done I Ilow could I possibly get Into the house! I take It that the little brute sleeps: In ' the house?' That need constitute no obstacle, sir; no obstacle at all. The animal sleeps In a basket In the hall. . . . Perhaps yon are familiar with the Interior of the house, sir?' 1 haven't been Inside It since I was at school. I'm Mr. Hlgnetts cousin, yon know. Indeed, sir? I wasn't aware. Mr. Hlgnett sprained his ankle this morning: poor gentleman." Has he? said Sam, not particularI used to stay with ly Interested. him, he went on, during the holidays sometimes, but Ive practically forgotten what the place Is like Inside. I remember the hall vaguely. Fireplace at one side, one or two suits of nrmor standing about, a sort of window-ledg- e near the front door . . . Precisely, sir. It Is rlose beside that window ledge that the anfmal'e basket Is situated. If I administer a slight soporific . . ." Yes, but yon havent explained yet how I am to get Into the house In the first place." Quite easily, air. I can admit you through the drawing room windows while dinner Is In progress." "Fine!" Ton can then secrete yourself in the cupboard hi the drawing room. Perhaps you recollect the cupboard to which I refer, sir?" UTAH - "No, I don't remember any cupboard. An a matter of fact, when I need to stay at the house the drawing room was barred. . . . Mrs. Hlgnett wouldn't let ns Inside It for fear we should smash her chins. Is there a cupboard?' Immediately behind the planes air. A nice, roomy cupboard. I warn glancing Into It myself In a spirt of Idle curiosity only the other day. It contains nothing except a few knick-knacon an upper shelf. Tou could lock yourself In from the Interior, and be quite comfortably seated on the floor till the household retired to bed." When would that be?" They retire quite early, sir, as s rule. By half past ten the coast la generally dear. At that time I would suggest that I came down and knocked on the cupboard dour to notify you that all was well. Sam was glowing with frank approval. "Tou know, youre a master-mind- ! he said, enthusiastically. You're very hind, sir I "One of the lads, by Jove!" said Sam. "And not the worst of them I I dont want to flatter you, but there's a future few you In crime: If you cared to go In for It" "I am glad that you appreciate my poor efforts, air. Then we will regard the scheme as passed and approved?" "I should say we would I It's a bird I "Very good, sir." Ill be round at about a quarter to eight. Will that be right? "Admirable, sir. "And, I say, about that soporific. . . . Dont overdo It. Don't go killing the little beast. Oh. no, sir. "Well, said Sam, "you cant say It's not a temptation. And you know what you Napoleons of the Underworld are! r It Is not always possible for on who wishes to luvo America to spring on to the next boat A long mornings telephoning to the offices of the and tlie White Star brought Mrs. Hlgnett the depressing Information that It would be a full week before the could sail for England. That meant that the Inflammable Eustace would have over two weeks to conduct an uninterrupted wooing, and Mrs. Ulgnett'a heart sank, till suddenly she remembered that so poor a sailor as her son was not likely to have had leisure for any strolling on tha deck during the voyage of the Atlantic. Having realized this, she became calmer and went about her preparations for departure with an easier mind. The danger was still great, but there wws a good chance that she might be Id time to intervene. She wound up her affairs In New York and, on the following Wednesday, boarded the Nuronla bound for Southampton. The Nuronla Is one of the slowest of the Canard boats. It was built at a time when delirious crowds used to awoon on the dock If an ocean liner broke the record by getting across In nine days. It rolled over to Cherbourg, dallied at that picturesque port for some hours, then sauntered across the channel and strolled Into Southampton water In the evening of the day on which Samuel Marlowe had at In the lane plotting with Webster, the valet. At almost the exact moment when Sam, sliding through the windows of the drawing room, slid into the cupboard behind the piano, Mrs. Hlgnett was standing at the customs barrier telling the officials that she had nothing to declare. Mrs. Hlgnett was a general who believed In forced marches. A lesser woman might have taken the boat train to London and proceeded to WIndlea at her ease on the following afternoon. Mrs. Hlgnett was made of sterner stuff. Having fortified herself with a late dinner, she hired an automobile and CHAPTER XVI set out on the journey. It was only when the car, a genuine Episode One. If there la one thing more than an- antique, had broken down three times other which weighs upon the mind of a In the first ten miles, that it became story-tellas he chronicles the eventa evident to her that It would be much which he has set out to describe, it Is too late to go to Wlndles that night, the thought that the reader may be and ahe directed the driver to take her Instead to the "Blue Boar in growing impatient with him for straywhere ahe arrived, tired but ing from the main channel of hla tale to thankful have reached It at all, at to and devoting hlmaelf what are after all minor developments. The story, for about eleven o'clock. At this point many, indeed most Instance, opened with Mrs. Horace s writer on women, having had a tiring Journey, Hlgnett, the would have gone to bed: but the faTheosophy, going over to America to begin a lecture tour; and no one miliar Hampshire air and the knowlrealizes more keenly than I do that I edge that half an hours walking would take her to her beloved home acted on Mrs. Hlgnett like a restorative. One glimpse of Wlndles she felt that she must have before she retired for the night. If only to assure herself that It was still there. She had a cup of coffee and a sandwich bronglit to her by the night porter, whom she had roused from sleep, for bedtime Is early In Windlehurst, and then Informed him that she was going for a short walk and would ring when she returned. Her heart leaped Joyfully as she turned In at the drive gates of her 'home and felt the gravel crunching under her feet. The silhouette of the ruined castle against the summer sky gave her the feeling which all returning wanderers know. And, when she stepped onto the luwn and looked at the black bulk of the house. Indistinct and shadowy with Its backing of trees, tears came Into her eyes. She experienced a rash of emotion which made her feel quite faint, and which lasted until, on tiptoeing nearer to tlie house In order to gloat more adequately upon It, she perceived that the French windows of the drawing room were standing ajar. Sam had left them like this in order to d as This Woman Was, Htr facilitate departure, If a hurried departure should by any mischance be She Wrote. Fingers Trembled rendered necessary, and drawn curhave left Mrs. Hlgnett flat. I have tains had kept the household from thrust that great thinker Into the back- noticing the fact. AU the proprietor In Mrs. Hignett ground and concentrated my attention on the affairs of one who Is both her was roused. This, she felt Indignantmental and moral Inferior, Samuel ly, was the sort of thing she had been Marlowe. I seem at this point to see afraid would happen the moment her the reader great brute of a fellow back was turned. Evidently laxity with beetling eyebrows and a Jaw like one might almost say anarchy had the ram of a battleship, the sort of a set In directly she had removed the fellow who Is full of determination and eye of authority. She marched to tlie will stand no nonsense rising to re- window and pushed It open. She had mark that he doesnt care what hap- now completely abandoned her kindly pened to Samuel Marlowe and that scheme of refraining from rousing the what he wants to know Is, how Mrs. sleeping house and spending the night Hlgnett made out on her lecturing at the Inn. She stepped Into the drawd tour. Did she go big in Buffalo? Did ing room with the purshe have em tearing up the seats In pose of rousing Eustace out of his Schenectady? Was she a riot In Chi- sleep and giving him a good talking to cago and a cyclone In St. Louis? Those for having failed to maintain her own are the points on which he desires In- standard of efficiency among the doformation, or give him Ills money back. mestic staff. If there was one thing I cannot supply the Information. on which Mrs. Horace Hlgnett had alAnd, before you condemn me, let me ways Insisted it was that every winhastily add that the fault Is not mine dow In the house must be closed at but that of Mrs. Hlgnett herself. The lights-ou- t. (TO BE CONTINUED.) fact Is, slie never went to Buffalo. Schenectady saw nothing of her. She Bun's Rays Nearly Start Fire, did not get within a thousand miles of how simple a mutter It is for Just nor to did she St, penetrate Chicago Louis. For the very morning after her a combination of circumstance to proson Eustace sailed for England In the duce a fire was recently demonstrated liner Atlantic, she happened to rend In a striking manner, in an office buildIn the paper one of those abridged ing at Corning, N. Y. A flask that was passenger lists which the Journals of being used as a flower vase was full New York are In the habit of print- of water. The rays of the sun, coming, and got a nnsty shock when she ing through the window and falling on aw that, among those whose society the flask, were concentrated In a spot Eustace would enjoy during the voy- about the size of a nickel, much as If a age was Mlu Wllhelmlna Bennett, burning glnss were lining used. The reon the oak dusk daughter of J. Rufus Bennett of Ben- sult was that the finish to the wood. The was burned through And Mandelbauin and company. nett, within five minutes of digesting this possible results of this slmpe combiInformation, she was at her desk writ- nation of everydny circumstances were ing out telegrams canceling all her clearly revealed by the Incident, which as tills wom- happened on a Saturday afternoon engagements. an was, her fingers trembled' as she wlieu there was no one near the desk. wrote. She had a vision of Eustace If the concentrated rays had fallen on and the daughter of J, Rufus Bennett paper It would have been set on fire. St. Nicholas Magazine. trolling together on moonlit decks, leaning over rails dump with And It sometimes happens that the and, in sort, generally starting the whole trouble over again. things you did not aay are more to be In the height of the tourist season regretted than the things you did say. 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