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Show Telling' a Snake SUrj. Beeclier and man a like looked Rockford JJJCieorge Is this a joke? llinisutawney Spirit. admiring shop windows! Tis this Living Choirli. the blanched vTlio is on the verge of lunacy. acIt is not xvithout a certain degree-o-f was thrown one has the loveliest things no, tis glancing angrilv into Once Huh Ingersoll "Raul, Raul!be cried, withabitter face of Matilda "Millington. hat! Theres just what I want Henn I of all to chagrin and humiliation that we this me, the beg cowered society guilty moan, explain cidentally into The woman who had there's something that would be or I entreat of you. to whack sexeral ftet off the lour were took There proceed his Reedier. is under glance, Ward Yonder accusing sweetly liecoming to you. me I cvn't; ask George; kindly-usedhe Dont word whom the of all of tail that serpent xve spoke of last heart of grace at an article like one Mrs. aasnoot-Haul, hiding his face in his five gentlemen present, groaned of worid week but careful investigation liaslej London. brought from were prominent in the she gasped hands. Yes, ves, quite so, h! were us to believe that it xvas not as large feet of her Miss Millington rose to topics brains. A variety with a hysteric laugh, "a juke a A subdued scream from the carmine but as at first reported. As a rule, wedo decided slowly. brilliancy, discussed with lips of fetching Miss Millington. A mere joke. whole question is this, George 1 he not believe in economy in giving tie "The lie retorted one. had is a to "It few very the made of religion. passno allusion lew tint only a very Rockford, she said, in an lev voire, coui.-dimensions of a snake. When toiling savagely. ers in the thronged thorougiii.-irloose of woman distinguished infidel was, of a would silence in to you marry walked feaThe three turned to glance at the pallid Miss principles as regards well, dogged- too polite to introduce the subject a snake story, a large yellow serpent, tures and qui veringlips ol the you mu the street. There Haul put , with a spring calf in its stomach hack j aid the ly. stealing? himself, but finally one of the partji woman, who stood with her hands Millington into a No! he shouted. done. and Hob comes just ns cheap as a common een home sent her betw to see a tilt on her heart, looking the picture of driver and "Then nothing remains. I suppose, desiring terrihlv was snake with a toad in ibsmonth. Hevereux Marv remark garter drs paid. Reedier, made a playiul to me to say good-byfor in large quantities aii.l you? but oithe Naturally at shocked Ry buying asked What has happened?" Mary about Col. Ingei sols idiosyncrasy, (laying cash, we are enabled to give she told her husband of the peculiar she queried. pevereux anxiously. which had Nothing whatever, he roared- ns he termed it. The Colonel at our readers the benefit of the disOnly in disjointed phrases at first incident of the afternoon resulted in her giving Miss Millington lustily, It'you hold such loose princi- once defended his views in his usual count and furnish them larger and cmdd .Miss Millington explain a t .sr.l). in fait he waxed do letter authenticated snake stories mishap. Almost before they knew it she was PI1 rhetoric; "It was nil a trick! exclaimed "Mv parse stolen snatched out sex euil for the money than any of our conshe and her accusers. They quent. He was replied to by gone Haul, pacing up and down tlu-itemporaries. lint this of my hand. xve spoke of last week was severseparately or gentleman in very effective repartee "Let us tell this policeman. cried small drawing room in his agitation; had departed,oneeither not in d which. the woman's a swindler indeed, a together, ill) to the expectation of all. al sizes too large for even those of Marv. exitedly pushing her towards Contrary "I will explain the matier to you U1 1 thief! remained an abstracted our customers xvlio have the most an officer who was approaching. in Miss detail, George, said Haul, sadly, of secret Millington's The Miss sobbed no! Millington. "No, not a worn, ini voracious appetites for the marvelsaid and As listener when I led a trifle more composed. be ous. They could not, somehow, you have just been say- ela tiorate dressing seemed to the introdueed here? who is real topic our what Meantime, to revealed duty gentleman Mary's mini, swallow it. Some of them made heing no publicity. Hear anything suddenly On.iitwe to punish this I We will drop her acquaintance, of w;th the hope that Mr. Reedier firoic attempts to do so, and rather than endure that. woman? could not recognize the thief it all coarse, observed the little wife. sawould answer Col. Ingersoll ling to make still further attempts. No, no, replied Rockford gravely, Ah, but that w ill not absolve us Rut xve do not wish to he too expassed like a tlasli. remarked: !Ve have shall her let cried nothing go! ,.;d "Let us go home to my home, of responsibility in this matter, acting, and xv therefore take our Mr. Reedier have you nothin I must not shrink more to do with her; and ifsheshouhl hatchet and cut it down said Mary Heveivux. "We can talk Haul, excitedly little the moral duty which isobvious here. pursue her criminal practices among say on this question? The main outline of it over iueitly there. our-- : The return trip was a gloomy one, I must tell tieorge Rockford ot alt others less tenderhearted that The old man slowly lifted himself was correct, but a more conservainflict. selves. why let them in marked contrast to the ga.vety ol this. from his attitude and replied: tive estimate ot t lie size of the serMarv Hevereux smiled, Marv wrung her hands in sympain fact, if you will ex- pent places its length at between the outward journey. Arrived in Nothing; Mrs. l)ivereu's drawing room. Miss thy with the poor, erring creature, shrugged her shoulders a la cuse me for changing the conversaeight and ten feet. And then it wes who had been theirguest half the day caise. 1 will snv that while you gentleMillington Hung herself disconsolatenot yellow, either. It w.is, it aption, The very policy I urged upon men were mind was bent pears. a common black snake. We ly in an easy chair and closed her long. my Ea talking "Oh, dont, don't! sheened, it Paul, she said, with a slight. 'Go upon a most deplorable spectacle are constrained to add this foot eyes, thus shutting out the vision of cowardis elsewhere. It will ruin her life! get hanged world. this troubl'-somwhich I witnessed note to last week's snake story alter And it will break liis heart, for ho ly but it is the easiest way out. was in your "How mueli mom-Wlmt xv as it? at once inquired protracted interviews xvitli Messrs, ;PJ her dearly, said Haul, sadly, ...caI Col. Ingeresoll, who, notw ithstaiuling purse? asked Mrs. Pevereux in a loves and Hilts, who it seems are lantill -but it must be done. The Condemned's Statement. enn his peculiar views of the hereafter, is not xvilling to stand over a sixteen-foo- t sympathizing voice. .aw. Why not let him find out for himhis kindness of heart. "Fifty dollar.'," replied Miss Milsnake, and have no desire to dNearly a score of years ago, when noted for and And it self. urged the gentle Mary, ::e. Mr. Reedier, as I was etract anything from the fame of the said lington with a deeji sigh. Why, I was a reporter on a St. Loins daily ioub sawI was not my money at all, it was my inflict sm-- punishment ns he sees fit? town Araof the Inferno or the (()WU me. That infernal French bit of sophis- says a, writer in the Nexv Y'ork Sun, a poor lame man xvitli crutches author aunt's. I had drawn it from the bank bian nights. it! an atrocious murder was committed Cut lus I came here. She needs try again! lie exclaimed. before his way and just picking carefully slowly jtr it, must buve it the first thing to- 1 am not a coward and will do my in a locality about MOO miles away-- through a cesspool of mud, in the ifter. Hoison Rings, morrow morning to pay the rent. duty, though a more unpleasant one A farmer killed his wife, mother and endeavor to cross the street. lie had in our setsuppose never fell to my lot. I think xvas filth car" In Italy the poison ring reached the middle ot the I In the morning he wired Rockford brother, and then coolly sat down just you and your aunt to be very well when a great big burly ruffian, himmalicious the of ried to perfection earoff, said Mary quietly; on the doorsteps and xvaited to be self all you dress to come to (Haul's) houseot th rushed up to him, nee. Tne anello morte was liest possible moment. He was brac- arrested. He admitted the crime, and bespattered, so fashionably. ok crutches from under imagining. the jerking to interas means a resorted nerves for his I the make "Oh am handy ami painltil occasionally things ing left him sprawlepot the unfortunate man, in course his and reasons door-helexplained Mill view when the rang. go a Icing way, explained Miss ,.ie helpless in the pool of liquid of putting an enemy out ol the way. of time was convicted and sentenced ing and It was Miss Millington pale, lington. "My nunt supports me she A hollow point in the bezel, worked which almost enguiled him. dirt, has a very small income and now I to be banged. A few days previous gasping. Wlmt) a brute lie was, said Col. by a spring, communicated with the Wlmt din she say? What did she to the date of execution we got a siy wn have lost her fifty dollars! Old w hat Ingersoll. receptacle behind, for the poison, in not say? Everything that a weak pointer that the murderer was going shall I do? all such a xvay that its villainous xvwuer lie was, brute What a they say under to make a statement or confession ol echoed. Mary pevereux was sadly perplex- anil sinful w oman could, in giving his adversary a P: ed. She counted the money in her the cireumst.inees. The loveof dress startling interest, and the city editor man rising hearty grip of the hand, intlirta old the said Yes, won dehad tempted her; her position of own purse twenty dollars. bundled me off in a burry to get a from his chair and The point was blushing back Ins mortal scratch. wa she said, pendence was so galling; the necessiI found the sheriff a very "Hear Miss Millington. scoop. . black hair, while his yes glit- fashioned to look like an ornament. long will this be of any service to you? ty of keeping up appearances was so man, and very soon tered with tlieir old time lire as he So deadly and enduring was the poisin absolute the ultra fashionable set alter my arrival I was permitted to bent them on Col. It is nil Inn e oy me. 'bitll Ingersoll: yes, on eontained in these rings, that some Miss Millington gathered the crisp in which she moved: and, after all, see the condemned. I explained why Col. and you are that man. twenty or more years ago death xvas Ingersoll. unsucbeen laid not her but of lie I had come, and hits green (taper to herself, replied: fil The human soul is lame, but Christ- nearly occasioned hy handling one cessful; she had caught a husband heaved another sigh of despair. Yes, I am going to make a stateenable unxvittingly. A curio fancier xxas crutches to the it gives ianity "Thanks, she murmured iaintly, a good man ment; but how do I know you are it to pass across the pathw ay of life. turningover gems in a slum in Haris, Haul pounced upon the truthful wlmt you represent? but it is not enough. 1 must have is your teachings that knock these when he fell fainting and was xxith It setHere is my card. epithet. lifty dollars. Then my aunt can crutches from under it and leave it a difficulty restored. Itwas found that "Too good for yon, he cried. He tle her rent, and will repay the sum Rut that won't go. Anyone can he had been ounded by a poison shall know of this from mv lips. I print xvliat lie likes on a card. I want helpless and rudderless xvrerk in the by degrees after 1 n m married. slough of despond. If robbing the ring. The ease was so urgent that Mary would deem it dishonorable to with- a certificate from the paper. human soul of its only support on This instrument of destruction was felt just iiied in going to her husband's hold this knowledge from him, I have I telegraphed to the city editor this earth worn in perilous times; in order religion be your proalso dehim. sent her for to charwhere, me desk, he a back and great private telegraphed heart's it to fession, commit suwhy the oxxner ply your that is here? slie in He dollars! asked she found twenty-fivcoming light acter, but the prisoner shook his content. It requires an architect to icide rather than might fall an enemy, s into Miss Millington absorbed the finan- dismay. head and said: erect a building; an incendiary may hands. Another kind was furnished 1 cial reinforcement with some appearof expect him every instant, lie Irnnt takeanvthing thatsort. reduce it to ashes. at the hack xxith a slide, which could ance of satisfaction, but her voice said, calmly. I want- a xvritten cert Urate. silence and down man The old sat tocried me slipped back by the wearer, who she she Let go, rushing It took me two days to get it, and brooded over the scene. Col. Inger- be rang with added tragedy as xvould drop the poison into the wine I was in a sweat all the time for fear soll found queried where the remaining live dol- wards the door. that he had a master in lie offered to a hated guest. Th's Haul turned the key, took it out, some other paper would get on to lars were to come from? his own of illustration and kind was affected by (tower Ilorgia, Miss have been it. sank would Never the proposal Millington pocketed the case. I lost no time in getting up said nothing. whose own signet ring bore an Mary wept. to the jail xviththe paper, and the put by Mary Hevereux that the serv- into t lie suited to his character ants should be njfpcnled to! It was Oh, Haul, husband, you arc cruel, condemned read it carefully and then . His Girl Cleared Him. Faisceque dois, avien qnepour-raobserved: MissMillington who suggested the she said, between her sobs. of Another form Mr. Rockford wasannouneed. Haul 1 am now poison ring necessity of laying the case before A Missouri farmer had some wheat quite satisfied that you xvas the one xvliieh had for its bezel tlu-as women and sisters. Tlieir unlocked the door and let him in. He are all right. xvas so he one sure and night, the key to a casket. The werrer hearts were as solt as their hands had had difficulty in getting away Ami now- for the statement, I re- stolen, were hard, and between them the from business, he said; but the tele- plied. getting out paper and pencil. that he knew who the thief was that would hand his ring in a confidential h m needed five dollars were without gram was so peremptory; what could Well, you can say that after ma- he came into toxvn and serured a. manner to a visitor, and desire h.s from him article some hand be the matter? to raised. deture reflection I have decided to xvnrrnnt for a certain young man A deathly silence fell on the group. clare that 1 aminnocent of the murjexvel box. The key, in being turnid Scarcely hail the arrangements living near him. When the case came in a somewhat stiff' lock, would g:v reached this happy conclusion when Haul, who had counted so confident- der of which I have been convicted. up for trial the defendant said he the unwary confidant a prick, whh h ly on his power to disclose to his Rut but you Haul Pevereux returned. which know would prove an alibi. In order to had for him fatal results. London friend make ledge "Still here, Miss Millington! he exThat's the statement, sir, and could do this he had brought in his girl Standard. claimed, in his pleasant, hearty voice. him misera ble tor life, suddenly found thats all. 1 claim to be an innocent a buxnm lass of 22. She took the tieorge Rockford man, (food night. Glad of it. Stay to dinner and go himself tongue-tied- , looked from one to the other of the trio I had been badly sold. That xvas stand and swore that he sat up with to the theatre with us this evening. Invention of The Telescope. from seven in the evening until astonishment at this the sum and substance And oh! HUi li a pretty present ns in complete of the sensa- her Some of the most important dibroad next daylight morning. lie had brought home for his wife. A stramre demeanor. tion, and indeed all he xvould lav. be can mistakWill meanReople the scoveries have been made accidentavery easily you kindly explain lmndkerehiel of finest French camen, olvserved the plaintiff's lawyer. A bric with a frill and entredeux of Val- ing of this scene, one or the other of a lly, says writer in the Budget. Kaiser and Minister. I dont care Iknowhe was there. he in asked the direct M embroidyou? the quiet, the and letter enciennes, lucky instance of this kind was she replied. Berlin letter. .hist like my manner of t ho business man. ered in one corner. did "What about? discovery of the invention of the tel talk No his one answered. infirmities and you age Although darling husband! said Mary Dover-oLove! she answered. A escope. promptly x kissing him furtively, when Miss rap at the door broke the silence. render it difficult, the Great ChancelWhat time did the old folks go to Nearly 300 years ago there xias Come in cried Mary Hevereux. Millington 'h back was turned. lie whenever remains lor is standing in the town of Middleburg, on bed? living To her intense the servant surprise At dinner Mary showed her new in received audience the I the island of YValcheren, in the Netem wink the by 10. young about gare treasure, which Miss Millington who had been recently discharged Sure be xvas there at midnight, herlands, a poor optician namedllans with a resolute Einperor for the transaction of any the room walked into admired. greatly Lipjierslieim. State business. Outlie occasion of How sweetly pretty! shoexel, aim- air. A man of shabby a ppe-eOne day, in the year 1G08, ho ea Yes, sir. ed, examining the dainty mouchoir and ditto manner closely followed his first interview after his accession Why are you sure? working in his shop, his chihhen Marked with her. with her eyeglass. the throne, Kaiser Wilhelm, mindto She tolooked her blushed, M helping him or amusing themselxe Excuse mine too, by the my coming right into ful of the fact your initial, Ivin? lie xvas indebted that and lover, laughed, and getting a with the tools and objects way, your parlor, said the woman, with p about, when suddenly his little near "One which you will soon lose, curt politeness, but my business is for his acquaintance with statecraft noil to go ahead, she said: how see exclaimed: Well, Oh as clock the the to struck sir, papa! kind Haul thatjust greatest living masterthereof, that ye don't want to let archly. quoth Oh no, you mistake, she replied, the grass grow under vour feet about and that he had been brought up, 12 the old man jumped out of bed the steeple comes. Half startled from this announcit See? What I mean to sn v is, you one might almost say. at the very up stairs and hollered down, Sarah, my name is Matilda. mar some wants o ement, Ilanslooked up from his wotk, feet k. of Rrinee 1 theold inyer that was stole dramatic didn't The urged catnip thought spoons, performance you? xve and lie while anxious seated such his tea, wo to a to know the cause of l u start Wlmt if xve did? cried Haul angot reading report. teresting. The three young people broke the back of The Chan. ellor, however, absolutethe rocking chair child's excitement. were in high spirits until just as they grily. Wlmt?" roared the indignant ser- ly refused to comply xvitli the mon- and went over backward keplunk! Turning towards her, he saw that were departing, when Mary Hevereux Then the was looking througn two she in Parthe must matter. archs understand jury made an annoying discovery. She vant. request r At the you were seated on Samuel's knee?' one held close to her eye the other had lost her hire handkerchief! Why. I'm an honest woman. Iam, don me. sir, he remarked. I 1 am not alone in object, put in Samuels lawyer, arm's length; and calling las dsupt.. Haul was more than annoyed; he though I eook and wash. Spoons is present moment was downright angry. The little ar- safe w here I am and how many of the presence of my young King, who and bis honor remembered the days iter to his tide, he noticed that whiietbe honors me with his friendship and of his youth and sustained the obticle had cost money, and he said those present can say the sane-eye lens xvas one held at a distance waspiuno-cor.Walk out ol the place, shouted confidence, but I am also in the jection. there was no senses in losing it right VX. He had seen it in his Haul in a Irenzy. off in this way. presence of the representative of 1' of royalty, in transacting Then taking the two glasses, hi twominutes and a. half I will. wife's hip not live minutes before; Take a Herring for Your Cold. where tould it have got to? replied the resolnle person who lmd State a flairs with whom no Hrussian pea ted his daughters experimentchm11 ; soon discovered that she had The natural inference was that sheeome to vindicate her character. Minister enn do otherwise than re- Pittsburg Dispatch. I was traveling with a circus once ed to hold the lens apart it t!(. had dropped it, and all three looked "Sam them main standing. Rowley, jienhne The Emis-roremained silent for n in England and got laid up with a proper focus, and this had prudurrilo about the lloorof the theatre, whence spoons Her follower with anapolngt tie air moment, and then grasped both the cough, cold and sore the wonderful effect that she bau the crowd had now departed. throat I that Chancellor's I'll he found hands, extracted as save for it served. three handsome siiversoup "It it's exclaiming ?9 to you. Yuli are quite right. Thus thought was going to lay me on the His quick wit saw in this a said an employe of the place; "call spoons from the side pocket of his dnl so: Of ahelf for the rest of the a, season, but it lias always lieen, and thus it shall tomorrow. derful dis-- very. Ho immed.n n co.it, deal sailor came along and cured It is, however; duo to the me. of his "Hawneil with me, he whistled remain. Meantime Haul's quick eye obthey le took a raw herring, split if, set about making useand ere Iona served a strange thing. Miss Mil- through the aperture mused bv hist Kaiser to add that h- invariably 'brail of lenses, knowledge in a it cloth, wrapped saturated the fashioned a tube of pasteboar arises from his chair and remains whole lington, who was condoling with his trout teeth, by M. Millington!' In thing with coal oil, and tied which he set the glasses a Them spoons was lost the davshe standing lienever theold Hiince is almost tearful wife, kept her fist it about te.es- r my throat and neck. I was a?oni tightly dosed; but between the lit te lunched with you, went on the discussing affairs ol State with him. well iu two focus, and so the days. W hen I came here proper fac was invented. finger and the palm thereof a shred Amazonian accuser, and next dav I told about the Ger-; remedy to a of lure was visible. they was pawned with S. Rowley, a A Sxx Francisco ' which nifm matron in whose family I has paper hf j' ooa Without a wit cousin of mine, which is here. Rooks or Sam Dickey, the down, who A an leave Haul wrenched this article will show I ain't making no trumped-u- p kept tab finds that but three Ameri- boarded. roar, Y m a said she, its an old Ger-- ; often set the wh hy, can have out of her grasp. doubted the Shes that newspapers charge. got pawn ticket for man family remedy, and has been died of What's this? he cried. the Michigan in a sommer, you!! find, nr,,! tUinjured killing Judge Terry by Marslud used H wit' by my people ever since I cau house ami was buried in It was the missing handkerchief. se person tossed her bead, indignantly. Nagle xvda u justifiable act. he!( remember. It's infallible. field. .Vlas! poor Yorick. lug-ersol- be exclaimed 6TTEET3E1BT DUST. bv rwa tnve. . r Longni.inn Magazine TT inwt nil it poMen ravn ol anilr throw, Athwart tim Wbn don monjr the nooiluml wavi in vifw. Uv Dav "Oh-li-- 11 Briplit-hairx- l bo ft dainty oiio-me tlie jmi h followed tip the t lue and Sweetheart Dnisy knows.) (Soft dmiirgnof Had .And why 1 1 know h e, W iBPt ah turnM an ah'Ht paze To wheie. far off. a heron fhw. Nor Hptke he till, with trvniMsnjj jhrus, hand into my own I drew. t Then Duhy rohiergrew Than her Min all n nmepa ken when the clote, And why hlie tiuhi mo lair a Inn 1 kaw Daisy knows. and Mxet lir j t What time the trailing garden nprnys y with t he suinrriT dw ; When rpienchod was tite permit uni blaze, And d. mined the pnv lotietm blue Drimv and I rnme through Tlie lnp hnmelp'de oi hrnr roue. w h . e m e And u wpf plnd we two. Sweetm-uiJ know-a- mi Dainy knows, Vr' - e urn-nee. r i '.all Lit rNvor. Lov nil potent Morereign, who The fate of lover- - dost dispose. Why tli. s old world for me iIhu--new y knows. I know end Sweetheart Prmie T 1MIAN iTkEKC iTl I! l i 1 1 1 .Oil some-xxha- t. tin-stor- OLIVE l.OUAX. Haul Revereux end his wife wore lirtriis.sing the etlin's of tlio french proverb, 'Va te f.t ii'e p.TKli'f nillours tto elsoxxliero). The hanged as of opinion that iailnrc to punish a rogue tor his roguery xxhen disroxored was moral ownrdii o of t lie most contemptible kind, s'.nce it threw the necessary vindication of outraged hiw upon some one hravp man, perhaps the last of a score of victims. llislpanipil disquisition was by the onnouncpiaont of n call. wife's friend, Miss Milling-tonhis from get young lawyer xx inter-rnpte- il Miss Millington, though not n !eauty, was a very attractive young woman. I. allies cxchiiincij, 'llow fetchMen saiil, tdylish! was manner sprightly, ing! lhr jind her apparel positively splemlitl, Millington, repeated Revereux 'Well-MarMrs. Devereuxs name was Mary1 'dln ofi down town. By Ti-uee- the way, George Rockford at the eluh last night, announced his ongage-jnen- t to Miss Millington." Naturally Mrs. Rcveroux's greeting took the form of congratulation on the happy event. Ah! yes, dear George!" exclaimed Mies Millington with enthusiasm, one couldn't have a better husband in one sense. In every sense, 1 should imagine said from what I know of him, Mrs. 'evereax. young thxn'ge Hock ford is young, 1 good-lookin- and a Christian; good pm!i!ies those, eh, Mrs. Revereux? I should think so, indeed! Still there is one great drawback to his desirability ns a husband, lie is explained Mrs. Millington; rieli. a Helms fair from far being salary in a wholesale house, but no independent Fortune. lovewill suffice," observed sweet Mrs. Hevoreux, remembering Haul's parting kiss. MissMillington looked ns if she were about. to utter a doubt of the value of love as a circulating medium, but biding perhaps that it would be useless to comment on a condition of affairs which she had accepted for Ixdter or worse she dropped the subject. I came to get you to go with me for a walk,, said the fetching one, Tlio weather is charming. airily. The stores are bew ildering. Can you conic? .Mary Revereux complied with delight. Walking alone is dull business. before leaving the house slio called her cook and gavo her some necessary direction, You have changed your cook since 1 was last here, remarked Miss Millington, when they woro in the ,st reet Yes, I'm sorry to say we found woman was dishon- that the other est! at How shocking! The very day alter you were here lunch we missed three striding sil- ver spoons. Naturally, she had to go. Di.l vuu chargo her with the theft? said Mrs. Hevoreux, Oh, no, I thought looking much distressed. it better tor our own peace of mind not to have any expose. It was as mn h as I could do to prevent Mr. lieveroux from causing her arrest. I said, Slicd get caught sootier or Infer let somebody else arrest her. lie said that was moral cowardice. 1erluips it was a bit of weakness on l.iy part. Si ,11 I am not the first who 1ms elected for that course. You know the French proverb, go get banged elsewhere. We shall be harmed on the straps In this car. whispered Miss Millington, with her most fetching smile; It is packed. Obliging males favored the two charming young women who relinquished seats, and the democratic vehicle, which runs for all. soon brought them to the special spot where they desired to alight. Ah, tkofascinating occupation of U'Cf .ff 01' to-da- - to-da- y - i pei-son- U d wild-eye- It Wil ;U nd i ho good-nature- d it O'H. 1 mana-uvre- ijipHci s ;IY 1 xx e Ca-sa- easy-clini- r. -- - n l ox-e-r Icni-c- l- piano-concav- e - a- - r I j S : 1 - xx 3'iQ by-vo- l j I eirc-u- s . fa |