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Show Bre0dIn- LV II " - "Mamma wilt be 1 muBt wars you," she said, and few minutes," she now she was looking d'recUy at me, said, 1 come t0 Bee your motner," "1 shall never love you replied I. I came to Bee you." She flushed, then ,"ever 8 a lnK time," replied L froze and I Tm old enough to be cynical about inougnt I had once more "got upon prophecy." ner nerves with my rude directness. I shall never love you," she resensitive our nerves are j8gerly "For to bad impressions peated. reasons many you of one we dont wouldn't understand. For one you ike, and how insensible to will understand. coarsely bad Impressions of one we do like! 1 understand the many reasons' aee fve offended again, as usual," you say are aid I. beyond me, said I. "For, You attach so much Impor- dear ex. l, H?' e, y.i pes ne f Hi QiyjD GRAHAM nife PHUURS, Autlxr o THECQSZCttc htf &Q3B3T2E2BCZ (gWJZI&ffr J9QT CCMfriNtt Continued. XII suppose there Isnt anything CHAPTER d t youd stop at In order to gain your end." sat opposite me. and I ,jy Hoi L, Into confuBion, Nothing, said I. and I compelled and thrown m by ner to meet my gaze, ly time 1 lifted my eyes,of his wrap, rew a ong Ihed, criminal expression and I drank hugely and thought there was a sobbreath, eve He ate and In it like a have would It nannera frightened child. tr ely bad larded H me had I made as But I repeat," I went on, is "that if or lifted such quan- - you wish It, I shall never try to see i noise as be, ttet But you again. Do you time into my mouth. ere wish It? I don t know, this noisy gluttony he a m( she answered r bang-aito maintain that net slowly. "I think not." who has thief reco gone a As she like spoke the last word, she liftabet house and, on his way ed her eyes to mine with a lock igb the of at the pantry, with the forced friendliness In them that Id ias paused hem to beside him, gorge rather not have seen there. I wished of plunder d her to be blind to her defects, to the gf, stains and smutches with which her sur,oked at Anita several times, each remark roundings must have sullied her. And lth a carefully-frameRICA . each time I found her gaze on that friendly look Beemed to me an and I could say nothing, could unmistakable hypocrisy In obedience Repos to her mother. However, It had the loeb away In a sort of panic. Her d. I have effect of bringing her nearer to were atrangely variable. my 1 i them of a gray, bo pale that It own earthly level, of putting me at will like the steely light ease with her; and for the few remainilmost silver or t at the edge of the ing minutes we talked freely, I indifw ferent whether my manners and conon; again, and they were so that shone with the deepest, versation were correct. As I helped mark lag, they ft blue, and made one think, as her Into their carriage, I pressed her At) arm slightly, and said in a voice for looked at her, of a fresh violet over her in a block of clear Ice. only, "Until re of it behind her In the box at the sent! XIII. During the first and second ng tnlsslons several men dropped In FRESH AIR IN A GREENHOUSE. leace o ak to her mother and her b In! At five the next day I rang the didnt ever come down town, bell, was taken through the parts could tell they knew who I was drawing-rooInto that same library. fives It exas-eway they Ignored me. he ei me to a pitch of fury, that !i hat o Insolent air of theirs a jerky r: ie at me without so much as a and no notice of me when they of h leaving my box beyond a faint, rdb, villous smile as they passed with e ij ee i I knew what it straight ahead. that t, what they were thinking spot frlj King," as the news-r- s had dubbed me, was trying to to he i man-meho- d snow-lin- e a1 fel-ih- d tance to petty little dancing-maste- r tricks and capertngs. You live always have lived In an artificial atmosphere. Real things act on you like fresh air on a hothouse flower. You are-fr- esh air? she Inquired, with laughing sarcasm. I am that. retorted I. "And good for you as youll find when you get used to me. I heard voices In the iext room her mothers and some mans. We waited until It was evident we were not to be disturbed. As I realized that fact and surmised its meaning, I looked triumphantly at her. I see you are nerving yourself, said I with a laugh. "You are perfectly certain I am going to propose to yon. She flamed scarlet and half-starte- d up. "Your mother In the next room expects It, too, I went on, laughing even more disagreeably. "Your parents need money they have decided to sell you, their only large g asset And I am willing to buy. What do you say? I was blocking her way out of the room. She was standing, her breath coming fast, her eyes blazing. You are frightful!" she exclaimed In a low voice. "Because I am frank, because I am honest? Because I want to put things on a sound basis? I suppose, Tf I came lying and pretending and let you He and pretend, and let your parents and Sam He and pretend, you would find me almost tolerable. Will, Im not that kind. When thefes no special reason one way or the other. Im willing to smirk and grimace and dodder and drivel, like the rest of your income-producin- Bucket-sho- p Affifi fact, out proti Qblsat old hosld young men ap-4- ; up as I had be-bstuck to my seat I had that point at which courtesy intermission, two 1 did not get ed COO! cowardice. caned and strained at her me and over me, presently gave ecome py disguising their anger manners of a Ser. But that disturbed me not a the more as I was delighting in soling discovery. Listening and :.ng as she talked with these men, whom she evidently knew noted that she was distant and politely friendly in manner habitant while the Ice might thicken it was there always. I knew ft about women to know that, if oman who can thaw only for one ft the most difficult, she is also constant "Once she thaws 1 me!" I said to myself, n the young men had gone, I d forward until my head was to hers, to her hair fine, soft, ut, electric hair. Like the In-fool that I was, I tore out all of my brain In search nethlng to say to her, something ou!d start her to thinking well She must have felt my breath Iter neck, for she moved away f. and It seemed to me a fehlver I passed over that wonderful din of hers. back and Involuntarily said, tardon." I glanced at her mother aa my turn to shudder. I cant ft give an accurate Impression atony, mercenary, mean face. re looks that paint upon tho wtmtenance the whole of a Sash of lightning paints upon ukne8 of the night miles on landscape. The look of Mrs. disapproval at her 9r, item command that she be clvll, that she unbend showed pol4 woman's soul. tt wish It." I said, on Impulse, 51 Mlersly in a low voice, "I :er Iry to seo you again." 'M feel lather than see the Uildenly hosting ia her skin, ft in her voice a nervous-like fright as she answered: ir mamma and I shall be glad Wu whenever you come. I peislsted. he said, after a brief heal- td retired, ntempt tf for the bad 8. atioo. & B Bra iarV enoo!1 ause m e itltur shinsf :t i u r, !b sposi find I Itted enl is ta'4 rder. o s e a' her cared mini lift it boc.J 4 s I 1 ms. Sf' of i fa-s- tem AND T CAUGHT HER IN MY ARMS The curtains over the double doorway "' between the two rooms were almost dern' She presently entered from drawn. nted i I admired the picture she hall. the rents' big hat, her made In the doorway-h- er oojef embroidered dress of white cloth, and that small, sweet, cold face of hets. And as I looked, I knew that nothing, her nothing no, not even her wish, could stop me from trylm, command Kot!1 to make her my own. That resolve the i pof must have show n In my face It or she p- for It Inspired that j passion paused and paled. I "What la It?" I asked. "Are you persisted. les'i tolled the of me?" afraid faintest change in fin t curve or her orfrl She came forward proudly, a "You Ups. sh ed 7 persistent, arent scorn in her eyes. e al be arraia ' I answered. "Thatyou?" la why I "But If you knew, you might J )' got whatever I wanted." of me." lo k afrato of Iair It." "I am." I confessed. "I am said she. a feU-Inme In don't," I replied. "You you because you Inspire . 190 ritlgar, and you think I am that is beyond my ,ntr1, follies lu my cause I have many committed r tome others." that quality have moods lu which fo lies have al ot contradict me. J4 defy fate. But those in'"! of my own willing-from your ways been MnL.m for Inl j "you laughed on- Wnt "I hve pur-and ha me. compels one that Hut Pylons. And I pursue nH or dlucouraglDTr Instance, you." She smiled-- not seal J h a on horself laid and seated M tranquilly. curiously Impr k a " corner, the P W as I nud. j mforL day 1 ,aw to1 ld liitrenchmont, 'on her t . And-- you pulse was to carry own will." at my astonished was ud2fyJ flattering," said she. my M) a 1,ue terrifying. For she was wondering where bit superlef her ntB ent bravely on "I had gone, my awe of led I B 7 ,ei W , dJ haa1"'4 g p ml IIER-N- OT ONCE, BUT friends, thoso ladles and gentlemen. But when theres business to be trans. Lets not acted, I am business-likeare deyou with thinking your begin demo and so and me. hating ceiving spising me and trying to keep up the deception. Lets begin right." She was listening; she was no longer longing to fly from the room; she was curious. I knew I had scored. "In any event," I continued, "you would have married for money. You've been brought up to it. like all these miserable girls of your set You'd he without luxury. If you had your choice between love without luxury and luxto ury without love, Itd be aa easy foretell to as do d w htch you foretell behow a starving poet would choose tween a loaf of bread and a volumo of You may love love; but you poems. love life )our kind of life better!" She lowered her head. "It Is true," Is she said. "It is low and vile, but It true." be"Your parents need money" I gan. She stopped me with a gesture. "I "Dont blame them." she pleuded. am more guilty than they.". I was proud of her as she made makthat confession. "You have thesaid I. In you," woman real a of ing even If you T should have wanted you I now see makes what Hut baduL what I thought a folly of mine look ware like wisdom. IN 8MALL TKirvGh. Congressman Evidently Was No Hero to Hie V.'ife. There Is a certain congressman who. whatever authority he may hold In the councils of state, 1s of comparatively minor Importance in his own household. Indeed, It has been unkindly Intimated that his wife Is "the whole tiling" In their establishment. Representative and Mrs. Blank had been to Baltimore one afternoon. When they left the train at Washington, on their return, Mrs. Blank discovered that her umbrella, which had been Intrusted to the care of her bus band, was missing. "Wheres my umbrella?" ahe demanded. t "Im afraid Ive forgotten It, my dear," meekly answered the congressman. "It must still be to the train. "In the train!" snorted the lady "And to think that the affairs of th nation are intrusted to a man who doesn't know enough to take care of a Success Mag woman'! umbrella! mine cant be altogether without sensitiveness. Whats the other reason the reason? That you think you Ipvs Borne one else? Thank you for saying it for me," bhe replied. You cant Imagine how pleased I was at having earned her gratitude, even in so little a matter. "I have thought of that, said I. "It is of no consequence. But you dont understand," she tine. pleaded earnestly. "On the contrary, I understand pen PURIFIED LIFE INSURANCE. fectly ," I assured her. "And the re son I am not disturbed Is you art Benefits from New Law, Which Re here, you are not with him. mains Substantially Unchanged. She lowered her bead so that I had no view of her face. "You and he do not marry," I went Through the Influence of Gov, Hughes, the New York Legislature deon, "because you are both poor? cided to make no radical changes in "No, she replied. "Because he does not care for you?" the new Insurance law. It was pointed out by Gov. Hughes that the New York "No not that," she said. "Because you thought he hadn't law has already accomplished wide spread reforms, with proportionate enough for two?" benefits to policyholders, and that It A long pause, then very faintly: hould be given a thorough trial be No not that Then It muBt be because he hasnt fore any amendments were seriously as much money as he'd like, and must considered. It Is estimated that the find a girl who'll bring him what he cost of the mismanagement of the past did not average more than 20 cents to most wnts." each policyholder, while the benefits She was silent to present and future policyholders "That is, while he loves you dearly, he loves money more. And hes will- will amount to many times more and ing to see you go to another man, be be cumulative besides. The speed craze of the big companies and the exthe wife of another man, be everycessive cost of securing new business I laughed. thing to another man. "ITl take my chances against love of was the most extravagant evil of the old managements. Under the new that sort." You dont understand, she mur- regime the cost of new business has mured. "You dont realize there are already been greatly reduced, along many things that mean nothing to you wiili other economies. The showing made by the Equitable and that mean oh, so much to people ' Life Assurance Society In Its report brought up as we are." Nonsense!" said I. What do you for 1906 was a strong argument mean by 'we'? Nature has been bringagainst meddling with the new law. In the Equitable alone there was a ing us up for a thousand thousand saving of over (2. 000,000 In expenses, years. A few years of silly false training doesnt undo her work. If you and besides an Increase In the income he had cared for each other, you from the Society's assets amounting his to as much more. The ratios of the wnuldn' be here, apologizing selfish vanity." Equitables total expenses to its total "No matter about him, she cried Income was 19.42 in 1904, 17.38 In In 1906. The 1905, and only 14.48 Impatiently, lifting her head haughtily. The point Is, I love him and dividends paid to Equitable policyholders In 1906 amounted to $7,289,734, always shall. I warn you. "And I take you at my own risk V which was an Increase of more than 9 over 1905. Her look answered Yes!" While the Equitable made a better "Well," I took her hand "then, we are engaged." showing than any other big company, Her whole body grew tense, and her all reported radical economies and unhand chilled as it lay In mine. "Dm't der such conditions the Legislature please dont," I said gently. "Im wisely decided to leave the law subnot so bad as all that If you will be stantially as It stands. as generous with me as I shall be with you, neither of us will ever reForgetting Something. When the train that conveyed Pre gret this. There were tears on her cheeks as Ident Roosevelt through Virginia on his last trip south stopped at Char I slowly released her hand. lottesvllle, a negro approached th "I shall aBk nothing of you that you are not ready freely to give," I said. president's car and passed aboard a Impulsively she stood and put out big basketful of fine fruit, to which her hand, and the eyes she lifted to was attached the card of a prominent 1 mine were shining and friendly. grower. In course of time the orchardlst re caught her In my arms and kissed her not once but many times. And It ceived a letter of acknowledgment e from the White House expressing the was not until the chill of her face had cooled me that I released president's appreciation of the gift, her, drew back red and ashamed and and complimenting the donor upon bll fruit The recipient of the letter was stammering apologies. But her Imof course, greatly pleased, and, feel pulse of friendliness had been killed; she once more, as I saw only too plainIng sure that his head gardener would be much Interested in the letter, he ly, frit for me that sense of repulsion, read It to him. The darky who felt for herself that sense of served In the capacity mentioned lis"I cannot marry you!" she muttened gravely, but bis only comment was: tered. You can and will and must," 1 "He doan say nothin' 'bout sendln back de basket do he? Success cried. Infuriated by her look. There was a long silence. I could Magazine. easily guess what was being fought ' Text Somewhat Apropos. out In her mind. At last she slowly eloRev. B. J. The the not Hamralll, can "I refuse," drew herself up. she said, and her eyes sparkled with quent preacher of the Hanson Place defiance that hart hate In It. "Yoq Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, have the power to compel me. Use was preaching at Sayvllle, L. I., from It, like tho brute you refuse to let me the text "Look well to your foundaforget that you are." She looked so tions." After repeating the text he leaned heavily on the pulpit desk, young, so beautiful, so angry and so which gave way and plunged over the tempting. altar rail, nearly hitting the laymen in "So I shall!" I answered. "Children have to be taught what Is good for the front scat and acatterlng the Bible them. Call In your mother, and well and the preacher's note among the holders of the pews. The aged preachtell her the news." Instead, she went Into the next er barely escaped a tumble over the altar with the heavy desk. room. I followed, saw Mrs. Ellersly In the corner seated at the WENT TO TEA farthest from the library where her I been had negotintlng. daughter and And It Wound Her Bobbin. "Wont you give us tea, mother?" a not trace surface on her said Anita, Tea drinking frequently affects peoof the cyclone that must still have ple as badly as coffee. A lady In Salisbeen raging in her. "Congratulate me, Mrs. Ellers'y," bury, Md., says that she was comaid 1. "Your daughter has conaented pelled to abandon the use of coffee a good many years ago, because It to marry me." Mrs. of Instead Ellersly threatened to ruin her health and that speaking, she went over to tea drinking, but A began to cry real tears. And for moment I thought thore wus a real finally, she had dyspepsia so bad that had lost twenty-fivpounds and heart Inside of her somewhere. But she no food seemed to agreo with her. when she spoke, that delusion vanShe further lays: "As this time I ished. was Induced to take up the famous "You must forgive me, Mr. Black-lock,- " food drink, Postum, and was so much she said In her hard, smooth, pleased with the results that I have realof shock Is the voice. "It polite never been without It since. I comto lose daughter." my ising Im about to Improve at once, regained menced And 1 knew that her tears were from five pounds of flesh and my twenty to "come had Anita up relief joy and some went beyond my usual weight. of menace the scratch ;" the hideous "I know Postum to be good, pure, averted. been had genteel poverty" and healthful, and there never was an "Do Rive us tea. mamma." said article, and never will be, I believe, tone cut my sarcastic Her cold, Anita. that does so surely take the place ot razor a nerves aud her mother's like coffee, as Postum Food Coffee. The and her. at I looked sharply blade. beauty of It all la that it la satisfying wondered whether I was not making a and wonderfully nourishing. I feel as bargain vastly different from that my If I could not sing Its praises too loud," wns picturing. passion Read "The Road to Well Me," in pkg (To be Continued.) "There a Reason." Ice-lik- 1 ( ef 1 fr necessities as a into society." down for the break aj and i ;he curtain went rep ut It EllersIyS joung lady, under this coaree terior assure you there's hidden a rather sharp outlook on human nature aud well, nerves that respond to the faintest changes In you as do FAILED tea-tabl- SUMMARY NEWS It is rumored that a serious uprising is Impending In Plnar del Rio province, Cuba. Mayor Griffiths of Springfield, 111., to was drowned while endeavoring ford a stream of water ou horseback southeast of that city. Lieutenant Hart was killed and tbreo sailors Injured by an explosion of gasoline on board a submarine bout at Portsmouth, England. shoe August Meyer, a dealer of Brooklyn, was so severely beaten by highwaymen that he died several hours later in a hospital. Col. Guessekoffsky, assistant harbor commandant at Sebastopol, was killed by a revolver shot. In the vicinity of the docks. The assassin was a rested. Former President Cleveland will deliver the principal address at Wilmington, Del.,- next Saturday at the unveiling of a memorial statute to Thomas F. Bayard. A triple drowning occurred Sunday In the Rio Grande at the Indian Pueblo Isleta, twelve miles south of Albuquerque, N. M.. as the result of the capsizing of a ferry boat Carrie Nation, after haranguing crowd In front of a downtown saloon In Washington, was arrested on tbe She charge of disorderly conduct. 20 collateral. on was released f Observations of Atlantic steamers arriving recently at New York are very Interesting as showing that the waters of tbe ocean off other eastern coasts are now abnormally cold.' The government report! show that in the ast three months of 1906, tbe most recent statistics available, more than 20,000 persona were killed or injured on railroads, or about 700 a day. Twenty-eigh- t passengers, Including twelve women and children, were drowned by the sinking of the French schooner La Jalouse from Cayenne for SL Lucias. The schooner sank off Barjbadoes. Frank T. Edeson, a lodging house keeper of Ios Angeles, shot his wife through the bead and Instantly killed her and then blew his head off. The couple had frequently quarreled over financial matters. well-to-d- . - Francis Murphy, the veteran tem- perance apostle, Is seriously ill at his home in Los Angeles, with a complication of ailments, and his physicians are In doubt about the probable outcome of his case. .A dispatch from Lisbon says that an explosion of dynamite at Covlhllo, a manufacturing town, klljed thirty persons. It Is believed the explosion was caused by dismissed workmen, who sought vengeance. steamer The overdue Norwegian Preston, Captain Olsen, from New Orleans, Is ashore at San Andreas, says a Colon dispatch. Tbe steamer EUls has gone to the scene to take off the passengers and mall. of George Curry, late governor 17th on Manila the from sailed Iloilo, on the transport Logan to assume tbe duties of governor of New Mexico, to apwhich position he was recently pointed by President Roosevelt. Don C. Henderson, once private secretary of Horace Greeley and for many years publisher of tho Allegan (Michigan) Journal, has been taken to the Insane asylum at Kalamazoo by direction of the probate court The grave of Michel Pacha, tn Turkish admiral who died at Touion last January, has been desecrated by thieves, who stole the body. " The thieves, It Is believed, expected to find In the tomb Jewels of great value. Albert Nleslnger, a plumber, of St. Louis, has been arrested on the charge of having thrown vltrol Into the faeo of Mrs. Lena Wunach, who had refused to marry him. Both her eyes were burned out and her face disfigured. The government officially declares tobacco Is not a luxury, but a necessity, In a decision by the comptroller of the treasury. The question arose through a number of Panama canal lalHjrcrs held lu quarantine demanding tobacco. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Carnegie will be the guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Charlemagne Tower during the Kiel yachting week. It has already been arranged that Mr. Tower shall present Mr. Carnegie to Emperor William. The first tornado ever known In southwestern Iowa devastated a path 100 feet wide and two miles long through a farming section lx tulles north of Ottumwa. No houses were In the storms path, but orchards were torn up and livestock killed. Charles Shafer of Syrnmes Creek, Ohio, shot his wife and her mother, Mrs. George Thacker. He then took son upon a hill, ahot his Syear-oihim dead and attempted to burn the Dumestlo body. Then he suicided. trouble is given as the cause. The suit of the United State roads, against the which are charged with carrying on a monopoly In the production, transportation and ssle of bard coal, waa circuit State filed In the United court In Philadelphia last week. , coal-carryin- |