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Show plcnle, but I set to work and soon go It changed so that it would do very well. Slattery seems never to have But asked any one to ride a tandem. when I had written It. It seemed so dreadfully stiff that I had to put a little beginning and end of my own, which seemed to brighten It up a good deal." the QueCtC Declared by Henry Ward Beecher "I thought there was sometning fenny Quaintest Spot in All America " Foundations of the about the beginning and end." "Did you? Fancy your noticing the Cli Place Date Back to the Year 1608. difference In style. How quick you are! I am very slow at things like that. I ought to have been a woodman, or (Special Correspondence.) Harbor Bar. Three great cities of Canada East Impregnable In the early days of war. All gamekeeper, or something. I was made the fiullicriil palm-tre- e some- are tops th on found lines. I those have But Y Montreal, Quebec and we will say Its heights were scaled, 'tls true, but bright green parrots screech, CON DOYLE thing now. Tho while line of across and the surf be not storm. It goes Ottawa, the that by stealth, by although running just "What Is that, then? booming down the beach; see In me? Oh, I do pray that you may Ottawa of Gibraltar Ontario. in the These the three river F.hrenbreitsteln, In 1 Texas, But "Handling. I have a chum shell never see them, though th not repent It! The gentle heart was and land lies close aboard, he says It Is a rare life. I am to cities would be great anywhere In the Rhine an unassailable sheer ledge of ruilled amid Its joy by the thought of buy a share world. no me seems roek to In his business. It is all in stronger than Ive shnp'ed the last long silent tack os Its own unworthiness. takes me lo tho Lord. Montreal Is of course the first and this strong old fortress citadel on the the open air shooting, and riding, and Repent It! I feel that I am a saved sport. Would it would It Inconvenience chief city of all Canada. It is most heights above the river. It was a Give me the Serlpters, Jnkey, n the pip man. You do not know how degrading much, Ida. to come out there with emphatically the largest In population, natural fortress, Impregnable as beetatween my lip. this city life is, how debasing, and yet you me?" I'm bound for somewhere south and far but it Is great In other respects. It ling cliff. now absorbing. clinks forever Money Ida nearly fell off her perch In her has a beautiful name. The city Is beyond the track of ships; Hut the great guardian of the city In your ear. You can think of Ive run my rags of colors up and clinchnothing amazement. The only words of which else. From the bottom of my heart 1 she could think were ed them to the stay. hate It, and yet how can I draw back me!" so she said them. "My goodness And God the pilot's cornu aboard to tak without bringing grief to my dear old nie up tlio hay. "If It would not upset your plans, father? There was but one way In which or change your arrangements In any mnlnsiill-lmu- t Youll my hits o things could defy the taint, and that was by way." He had slowed down and let go when I'hrlst has took my soul. the to where a moved away home having widow so so Influence of the steering handle, so that the great N youll lay me quiet somewhere at th .n the pure and or high that It yers were grouped round the net, landward end of the Mole, may brace me up against machine crawled aimlessly about from house. the all towards that draws me down. I have felt one side of the road to the other. "I "'here I shall hear the steamers' sterns Jittering slowly was head her that influence already, from the heave, rose to follow her, but t, I know that know very well that I am not clever or And the topsail blocks when a i ! it whirl with new thoughts, and she W'hen I am talking to you I am a better anything of that sort, but still I would n for ropn-yurbest fouls a sheave. man. It Is you who must go with me do all I can to make you very down again. Which would be happy. It st 3 through life, or I must walk forever Dont you think that In time you might Harold or Charles? Hie thought j Give me a sup of Lord, I'm as a moth alone." Ds f ,v r with as much solicitude come to like me a little hit? drifting Into port. Harold child. "Uh, Harold, I am so happy! ho plans for her only ( The landrail lies to windward, snd the Still Ida gave a cry of fright. "I wont they wandered f ha 1 seemed to her to be In many ways wind comes light amt short. man shadows, while amid the darkening like you If you run me against a brick And Im for signing out, and off to take one by one the stars wall," she said, as the machine rasped ni u a, noblest and the besteveryoung to was she 0 it V, horn she had known. If my watch below, peeped out In the k sky above against the curb. "Do attend to the And prop a fellow. Jnkey Lord, ItS ' man It would be such a man as them. At last a chill night wind blew up steering." iut aItut time for me to go. she must not think of herself. from the east, and brought them back to "Yes, I will. But tell me, Ida, whether t' d. i! John Masefield. to believe that both the realities of life. ,s 4 had reason will come with me." you I V se men loved her sister. Which would "You must go In. You will be cold." 1 dont know. Its too absurd! "h. 1 ravels 8,000 Miles to Get Married. the "My father will wonder where I am. How can we talk about such things is s! 1. the best for her? Hut perhaps Miss Sara Thompson, a young could She decided. I Shall was r to I say ,tter You already when cannot see you? anything to him? CD music . , teacher of Clarksville, Fa., Is "If you like, my dailing. Or I will In the nape of my neck, and thenspeak a forget the scrap of conversation I have Par! before, the morning. 1 must tell my mother to- to twist now on lur way to the gold field of ", fv answer." to round head jcli she had heard the night my ' re- . O '4 f f l, (I Alaska to marry the man she loves. the secret which her sister had night. I know how delighted she will "I know. That was why I put You In tlaj i would be. She is unaccompanied and In spite of front upon my letter. 1 thought that ( id to confide to her. If Ida I do hope so. f r J tell her, there was but one person It would make It easier. Hut If you this has no fear of the 8,000-mllJour"Let me take you up the garden path. would prefer It I will stop the machine, could. She raised her eyes, and v ney. be'Or,' , is so It Denver standing Harold ? dark. Your lump Is not lit yet. and then you can sit around and talk ' 1 ' ,fe Wi,s Miss Thompson fiance Is Rev. M. Vi " I then, dearest. . about It. sLt t Ubf! I r la stationed who at Koonce, Egbert f "TUI tomorrow, Harold." "Hood gracious!" cried Ida. "Fancy 'you were lost In your thoughts, 1 My own darling!" He stooped, and our sitting face to face on a motionless ,a he, smiling. I hope that they were 1. their Ups met for the first time. Then, tricycle In the middle of the road, and sant ones." ! j rising. as she pushed open the folding windows all the people looking out of their win'tih, I was planning, said she, ,p. u f it seems rather a waste ofoftime as a she heard his quick, firm step as It dows at us! e working passed down the graveled path. for things have a way would look rather funny, wouldnt A "It r.i, He a smselves out Just as you least ex- - 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 t ( The Grand Battery. a mischievous little fairy In front of front of us?" "tVhat were you planning, then? I her. Citadel, Quebec. "Oh, no, this Is better than that." The future. situated on the island of Montreal, was the stern old citadel. This com And have you anything to tell me? "Or I could carry the thing." Vhose? she asked, with a solemn face. Then, Ida burst out laughing. "That would thirty miles long, ten miles wide; and mands the city and the river a fortuh, my own and Idas. Lnd was I Included In your Joint fu- - suddenly throwing her arms round her be more absurd still." rising up out of this level Island Is ress built many years ago and costing sister's neck, "Oh, you dear, dear old "Then we will go quietly, and I will a very bold and rugged and even pre- millions of pounds. The one unique Clara! I am so pleased. I am so pleased. look out for steering. I wont talk about "1 hope all our friends were Included." cipitous ledge of rock, tree covered thing about Quebec Is the great Dut It at all If you would rather not. But I a noble Don t go In, said he, as she began name ferin terrace, named after that disthe with mountain, 1 house. 4 of move slowly towards the really do love you very much, and you Mount CHAPTER VII. musical tinguished governor general. . Royal, or In the would make me happy If you came to wtuted to have a word. Let us stroll up VESIT TADXEM FELUTTAS. What Is the Dufferln terrace? It Rev. ,M. E. Koonce and Mist Sara Texas with me, and I think that per- French, Mont Real. and down the lawn. Perhaps you are Is a royal mount, and between is a massive wall, forty to fifty feet, It T WAS out Just three I could could a time make you I Thompson. are after bring you If haps t ijd. you this and the river is the great city, built up on the steep side of the ledge, Rampart City. The romance began days after the Doe happy, too. a fhawl." tor and the Admiral and public and on this wall is a magnificent prom when the couple lived on adjacent "Hut your aunt?" many of Its residences foh. no, I am not cold. had congratulated Ida It sister would like foothills, enade; you look down uinm this sheer farms near Clarksville. Miss Thompshe to the much, "Oh, far was very your up buildings climbing speaking fl each other upon the can understand that your father might giving them a charming location. For ledge, 150 to 200 feet below on th InSt night. She noticed that there was son left homo to study music In New closer tie which not like to lose you. Im sure I wouldnt a slight quiver In his voice, and, glancMcGill university and some old French houses, and off upon the York and meantime Mr. Koonce example, was to unite their either, If I were he. But. after all, Amer- of face, she the hospitals. Here also along the majestic St. Lawrence, miles away in graduated, became an ordained mining up at his dark, clear-cu- t two and felt families, off She Is not and ica very far nowadays, saw that he was very grave. the ister of the rresbylerlan church, and to turn their friend- Is not so very wild. We would take a base of the mountain are the magnifi- either direction, up or down ttjat It was settled, and that he had stream, while across the river far re- then went with tho American army ship Into something grand piano, and and a copy of cent homes, many of them. tome to ask her for her sister's hand,Churches many and the best, but moved aro the I.aurentian mountains to Porto Rico as first lieutenant. He even dearer and Browning. And Denver and his wife 'She Is a charming girl, said he, aftd limestone rather of geologic centuries, was afterward sent as missionary to more Intimate, that would come over to see us. We should of native gray lot a pause. reThe In durable. of Alaska, and It was on bis return Walker Miss Ida and banners hard dark but the be their would a It he winter, d Clara cried waving warmly. she Is, family party. quite , India ceived a letter which caused her some Jolly." general style Is Gothic with magnifi- green In the summer. This terraced home that the. engagement was anJAnd no one who has not lived with amusement. Ida sat listening to the stumbling cent spires which rise out of their promenade extends fully a mile or nounced. tj r and known her intimately can tell surprise ami considerable flow charming and good she is. She Is It was dated from next door, and was words and awkward phrases which were large, square, solid bases with ma- more around and In front of the upper handed In by the page after whispered from the back of her. but , Land Dispute 200 Years Old. Uae a sunbeam In the house. jestic grace far up with the sunlight, city and the citadel. It is one of the ts breakfast. there was something In Charles ,'o one w bo w as not good could be Down on tho fish wharves of Chea( but In costs all. the over It mobt money, spacious promenades "Dear Miss Ida." began this curlouS clumsiness of speech which high so absolutely happy as she seems to be. in architecture so world, with room for thousands, and ter, Pa., where Edgemont avenue Is Heavens last girt. I think, is a mind document, and then relapsed suddenly was more moving than the words of the there andnothing Gothic room for all, more spacious even than runs to the Delaware river, are a graceful as the "Mr. Charles most eloquent of pleaders. He paused, grand so pure and a spirit so high that it Is Into the third jierson. number of historic house that are Anthe The the grand piazza of Venice. Catholic, unable even to see what is Impure and Westmneotf hopes that he may have he stammered, he caught his breath be- church spire. of hisAt the city end of this great terrace, now attracting the attention evil In the world around us. For as the pleasure of a ride with Mls Ida tween the words, and he blurted out glican and the Protestant, all have Interest centers Particular torian. Mr. of be In we the his all the here. of tandem on crest can blunt Walker rock. little how can we the see church upon noble as .and very tricycle. buildings hopes phrases it, high long Charles Westmaeott will bring It round his heart. If love had not come to her St. Peters of Rome a smaller one. Is an ldetl location for a hotel, and around the old David Lloyd house, truly happy? You In front. Yours yet. there was at least pity and sym She has a deeper side, also. She does In half an hour. The which Is fast falling Into decay. here there Is a hotel Indeed! Citizens will tell you It Is Just how old this house is nobody not turn It to the world, and It Is not very truly, Charles Westmaeott." The pnthy, which are nearly akin to It I seen of have the size of the great Chateau Frontenac! natural that she should, for she Is Very whole was written In a large, loose. Wonder there was also that one so Basilica. knows, but when on May 4, 1703, and read descriptions, of It, photos and sehoolboylsh hand, very weak and frail as she should shake this Wilj cuing. Hut she thinks, and has'asplra Jointedon the But ou must always look out for but the location must oe seen. It Is Lloyd deeded the property to thin t 91 of her own. up strokes and thick on the strong man so, should have the whole of the the Pickles presence liam Is an archthe citizens! The man at home often grand. The building itself IVou cannot admire her more than down, as though care Hnd pains had course of his life waiting for her decl was noted. structure of or the rather about charm least the knows circular, itectural on sights the cushion slon. Her left hand was I 0n. Indeed, Miss Walker, I only ask gone to the fashioning of It. It Is supposed Lloyd built the house I succeeded by gooval Shaped with a great central tit he brought Into nearer relationship Htrange as was the form, the mean at her side. He leaned forward and took bis own town. in un- open court, full of sunlight and of soon after ho gained possession of with her, and to feel that there Is a Ing was tUnr enough: so Ida hastened It gently In his own. She did not try to ing down Into the basement Dec. 28. 1693. This soon beto her room, and had hardly slipped on draw It back from him. t eunanent bond between us. earthing the Janitor, and through him green, but from the outside rooms, on the land, as the disputed Lloyd he. known I said life? came dress have "for she It, when May an old yellow descriptive circular the terrace overlooking the old French Jt had come at last. For a moment her light grey cycling tamlem with Its large occupant "Oh, do attend to your steering, said In French giving all the dimensions house far beneath, and the majestic SL tract. ttr heart was numbed wllbiu her, and saw thedoor. He handed her up to her she, smiling round at him: "and don thin a llood of sisterly love carried all at the Lloyd obtained his title by deed of the Lawrence alive with many steamer of the building. It Is one-hal- f say any more about this today, riease heiere It. Down with the dark thought saddle with a more solemn and thought the church wardens of the Swefrom one-hal- f one-hal- f the and the and country width, going, coming length; which would still try to raise Us un-- 1 ful face than was usual with him. and dont! at Wlccocoe, which dish congregation a view make the mile river, the height and, therefore, Just beyond "When shall I know, then?" a few moments later they were flying Mowed head! She turned to Harold on his part is criticised severely act In In SL of this Rome! size Peter' country, the almost unparalleled I smooth know, suburban "Oh, tonight, tomorrow, dont with sparkling eyes and words of ploHS' along the beuutlful. by Rev. Mr. Ross In his letter of June roads In the direction of Forest Hill. I must ask Clara. Talk about some' ttfe upon her lips. 21, 1714, to the Society of the PropaI should wish to be near and dear to The great limbs of the athlete made the thing else. did about talk nnd And with gation of the Gospel In Foreign Parts. machine something they quiver spring of you," said he, as be took her heavy cm was hand left still her the Ye glebe lands, be said, alluding but while else; grey mlgnon hand. I should wish Ida to be rnj sisevery stroke; to this tract, "was Irreligiously sold ter and you my wife." figure with the laughing face, and the closed In his, and he knew, without ask She said nothing. She only stood golden curls blowing irom under the ing again, that all was well. by some Swedes, under ye name of strawr hat, simply d ' at him with church wardens, to a powerful Qualooking ;T9 DS C'ONTl.NUKD parted lips and little great, dark, questioning eyes. The luwn held firmly to her perch, and let the ker, who now plows and sows It and round beneath whirl hul vanished away, the sloping gard- - treadles disposes of It at bis pleasure; but It SPEECH Mile mile FOR AN UNSPOKEN after feet. . the brick villas, the darkening sky her Is hoped his precarious title will he beatwind the flew, Mriih half a pale moon beginning to show they one Jailed for Words Ths Irish Patriot day Inquired Into, and the church AT the chimney tops. All was gone, ing In her face, the tires dancing past to her rights again. restored until on either side, ranks Didn't Nay. two In of long a dark, thd she was only conscious which had been given, This and tract, round was had Croydon Land A member of the passed league Irnest, plcndlng fuce, and of a voice, they to the Swedes church by Armgardt away, disconnected from herself, were approaching Norwood once more sent from Dublin to a certain district to get up a meeting and make a speech the voice of a nan telling a woman how from the further side. Pappagoya, could not be wrenched "Arent you tired? she asked, glanc- says the New York Journal. tie loved her. He was unhappy, said the On reaching the town where the meet his life was a void; he had come ing o'er her shoulder and turning tol T11'1 'H the parting of the ways, here lay hnp-h- h wards him a little pink ear. a fluffy Ing was to be held the speech-makand honor, and all that whs high golden curl, and one blue eye twinkling met a friend, and, both being genial pin lid. corner of Its fellows, they retired to a public house u from the very noble; there lay the . rT "Not a bit. I am Just getting my and had something. Then they began A ' iiund. the lonely life, the base pursuit ? t e reminiscences talking over the sordid, selfish alms, Ifo swing." f money, "Isnt It wonderful to be strong? Tou and the first thing the k iled hut the hand of the woman that in loved to lead him Into the bettir ahvajs remind me of a steam engine. knew wns thnt the attendunt had come fl In to light the lamp. Vhy a steum engine?" Orth. And how he loved her Ids life so and was Is "Great goodness!" he said, "I because It powerful, f uiM show. He loved her for her "Well, and i t unreasoning. Well, I didnt sent down from Dublin to get up if for reliable, "Mncss. for her womanliness, - N 4 '.LV . r.r1? v? last, you know, but but meeting here and now It Is too late. strength. He had need of her. Would Dieim that what Is mean. the What the I said doesn't It well. matter, "Oh, ' ' 1 to him? And then of a sud you know r?' other. i listened It came home tfi her matter with you?" f Old Lloyd Homestead. the said does It matter," "Yes, but li at the nmn wns Harold Denver, and ? :j Why?" U' on of tho strong gra.ip of David out to to have "I have your my something riqairt you Miei lime organiser. all wns the woman, and that Vat she was once." held." not the and, that laughed have notwithstanding the demeeting You l.loyd, jicrlor God's work was very beautiful the mind. "I said his all friend, a laugh. that's Into gruesome "Oh, right," termined broke opposition of Jasper Ycates, imi IP (teen sward beneath her feet, the rust j i "Here, you write out a speeech and ho succeeded In hating the land conting leaves, the long orange slashes In am quite Jolly." nil lie. "Oh. no. you are not. And why did you will send It to the local papers, wide firmed to him by tho proprietary western sky. Hie spoke; she source will print It just as If the meeting was i'li'w what the broken words were, write me sui h a dreadfully stiff letter?" sure In Dublin won' held. Then the people "There, now." he cried, "I was put she saw the light of Joy shine out know the difference." n his fare, and her hand wns still tn It wns stiff." A Canine Giant, This was quickly done and the speech "Then why write It? is ns they wandered amid the twilight. of tho largest dog ever hones Tbo next nevcrMdlvercd was own appeared composition. that "It wnsnt my They said no more now, but only wan-$''re- d In the papers. Iho Stockkeeper says, aro now Ymir aunts?" known, then? day "Whose and felt each others presence. name The fun of the thing comes In over French Cathsdrat. being exhibited at tho American MuAll wns fresh around them, familiar oh, no. It was a person of the was the arrested that feet leaguer the of Natural History, New York. Is seum Chateau a noble The is and built Frontenac But on it sintterv." Pud yet new, tinged with the beauty of of building the and was sentenced to four months In sn the general plan of St. Peter's heights of Quebec! Historic, Goodness! Who Is he? skull, the lames of his neck Tho (heir hew found lltlppllU'SR. dog's picturcome out. I felt jail for a speech thnt he never deliV' and looks 1 knew It would of tho larger bones of eno In miniamuch "Did you not know It before, like he Ward it a and Beecher esque, grand! very Henry part of Mattery, ered, at a meeting that was never held. waked. that It would. Youve heurd ture. said: "'urloua old Quebec! Of alt of hla blud legs were found in Texas did not dare think It." the author?" Not so dtlea on the continent of America, the last year by onie of tho cxplorera for Quebec la a great city. Are They All Tender? "Ne'er." What a mnak of lee I must wenr! of the emperor of Run great In its population, but quite won- quaintest. It Is a populated ellff. It the above .neniloncd museum. Thla himcommand at By expressing wonderful Is ftow could n nmn feel ns I have done "lie called The Secret U three enormous volumes, hound tn derful In every otbet aspect. It has Is a mighty rock scraped and graded. dog, the scientists say. was as largo without showing It? Your slater, at self lie wrot a book Made g Easy. seal, with purple silk linings, and foundations which go back to lfifiS. Here Is a small bit of mediaeval Ku as tho largest polar bear ever seen, black H.dved: or. U (east, knew. all sijrts of let another In red seal with white linings, and mnny of Its French homes are rope, perched upon a roek, a curiosity snd looked and actd like a bear. Its of models ou es gt Ha!" It j all with massive clusps In gold and 11 anywhere from 150 to 200 years old. thnt has not Its equal In Its kind on bones were found cmheddcl In solid "It wns last night. She began to praise V "Po you ver, have been filled with cuttings from Tla out laughing, burst rock, and It must have been dead when J"Hi. I snld what I felt, and then In sn Quebo was a frown'ng fortress, this side of the ocean. the entire American press referring to rick was formlrg. tho czar. of the death lat stnnt It w'ss nil out," and to a the Illness "It was to Invite young Indy j "But what could you what could you iapital of lower. Canada ' A STOPYtfom BOTH FORTRJESS AND CITY few A. AN X 1 3 T V lime-juic- blue-blac- ' ryIk . h-- , tct J .;? y S & ' snow-covere- red-head- West-niacot- one-thir- d one-eight- h 5" tth pink-bande- rr o.l er 1 M ,r. .v soul-killin- g L old-tim- land-leagu- Y rt 1 m. er 's! . L-l- li. rtlT V 1 tter-writin- otu-ftll- |