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Show A SAVINGCLAUSE. A DUCAL DR. JEKYUL AND MR HYDE. ' her hands clasped convulsively on the roses that she held. .She did not know what to Bay to him, but she knew that she must say something. Welbeck Abby and Other Historic Places Among the Property Claim-e"I have behaved very badly," she flirtation with Mark Challoner, but by an Australian as the Rightful Heir of the Duke of Portland. women often do things without think- said, in a low, shamed tone, "and I am sorry." ing of the consequences. UnfortunateUnless the duke of Portland Is bless-e- only and had an aversion to animal ly, however, it meant a great deal to "And yet you went on," Mark rewith more than ordinary sang frold, food. Mark Challoner, and he took it very peated mechanically. e must be at present more than a litThe duke's habit of tinkering at hla seriomsly Indeed; so seriously that he I "Yes, she said; "I went on. tle 111 at ease regarding the Bafety of various houses was well known, and, eaatd by falling in love with Monica. seemed not to care. I felt as if I He hltd faueled himself in love more could never care about his historic title, his millions, and his of course, the prodigious subterranean anything again. estate of 183,200 acres, including the work became famous, which he carried taa ence inhis thirty-od- d years of I was mad, I think." She paused, and famous Welbeck abbey all of which on under Welbeck abbey. It took ten iffe, bv when he fell in love with Mon-&- a he looked at her attentively. "Do you are claimed by George Hollamby years, kept 600 workmen constantly he Knew that his fancies had only remember," she went on, "the night of Druce, the Australian who believes employed and cost $10,000,000, and re- been fancies, for he had reached tht Lady Mason's ball? Do you remember himself to be the real duke. sulted in the only underground picture reality at last, as we all must sooner how I stumbled over 'the step and you love with " you In the beginning the gallery, ball room and riding school in or later, and had learntno toman Perhaps twice. to comes love tbe that Druce also had the building "And I caught you," he said. "Yes, present lord of Welbeck felt convinced England. Mark; deeply as he was in love, felt I remember. that there was no foundation for the craze and his former employes declare It was then that that no particular desire to put his fate to " He paused in his turn. queer Jekyll-Hydstory by which that he used to buy houses, change Druce expects to prove that his grand- them according to his own ideas and the touch. Things drifted pleasantly "It was then that you realized that father, Thomas Charles Druce, and then sell them again. Oddly enough, enough, and he drifted with them. you loved me," she finished, quietly. But fate ia tbe. shape of a woman "Your face the fifth duke of Portland were one too, he once started some subterranean betrayed you." Intervened. and the same persons, and that, conse- work under his Baker street shop. His eyes met hers, and softened sudLike Mrs. Druce, the later chaimant The woman, Mrs. Danvers, was one denly. quently, he Is entitled to the dukedom to the Portland estates means to bend of the women whom, he had once fanand estates. But later developments "It seems so long ago," he said. have supported this new claimant's all his energies to getting a look Into cied he loved, and she did not let her"Yes," she answered; "It seems bo assertions in such a startling way that the interior of the famous Druce vault self forget the fact. Neither did she long ago, but it is really only three it would not be surprising if his grace In Highgate cemetery, and this, of 1st him forget it, much as he wished to. months." of Portland himself felt his title and course, for the reason that its con- Now and then he went to seo her, "Only three months!" he echoed. fortune to be in danger. At all events, tents will decide the question whether more from a masculine love of peace "Well, I shall never know such happy the struggle for their possession prom- or not the fifth duke of Portland and at any price than for any other reason, months again. I shall never live in a ises to be one of the most dramatic Thomas Druce were identical. In De- and now and then she asked him to go. dream of Heaven again. That Bort of ever fought out In the English courts. cember, 1864, there was a funeral at She asked him to go one day about thing does not come to a man twice. Fresh evidence gathered by George Highgate cemetery and a coffin, sup- three months after the change in his Perhaps it is a great deal that it should Druce and his lawyers throws a new posedly containing the remains of relations with Monica, and he went come to a man once." light on the romantic story of the fifth Druce, was committed to the vault It though he did not want to. When he She looked at him wistfully. duke of Portland's alleged masquerade is claimed, however, that this was sim- got there he flgeted uneasily in the "How you must hate me," she said. as Thomas Charles Druce. The con- ply tbe means which the duke of Port- luxurious drawing-rooand sickened "How yeu must bate, and scorn, and " tention la, of course, that, for some land, now come into his title, took of at the overpowering scent of hothouse despise me. How you reason of his own, this eccentric noble- disposing of his second identity, for flewsrs, and wished himself somewhere He interrupted tor again. man, who, however, had not yet come which he bad no further use, and that else. "I don't hate you," he said, slowly, Into his dukedom but was known as the coffin placed in the vault was I don't despise you." con"and a few minutes' incidental After Lord John Dentlnck, made himself a empty. Of course, if the vault is open- versation she looked at her earnestly, and she He to was time it new Identity as Druce, ran a variety ed and a body found in "Druce's" lead up to morethought looked back at him in wonder and matters. serious shop In Baker street, London, under casket, the Australian claimant to the "You see a good deal of the L'Estran-ge- s amazement that name, and still as Druce, was Portland dukedom and estate will be 'You don't hate me," she cried. "You now," she remarked, tentatively. married twice. The Mrs. Druce whose put out of court at once, while, on the don't despise me! Oh! I can't beMark glanced around the room and suit in behalf of her son against the other hand, should the coffin prove wished himself somewhere else harder lieve it" duke of Portland was one of the sensa- empty, there would be an excellent ever. "But It's true," Mark said, in the tional cases of the last century, was chance of Welbeck abbey's having a than I "Well, yes," he admitted vaguely, same quiet way. "Shall tell you why "Druce's" new master. And it may be added the heir of the it's true?" second wife, Annie Berkeley, and at that the possibilities favor the latter "I think I do." She moved a 6tep nearer. 16 sudwhen Mrs. the head Danvers raised her years ago, the time when she tried to get the event, for, "Yes," she whispered breathlessly, dukedom away from the owner of Wel- vault was opened so that another body denly and looked straight into his ' "yes." beck abbey it was not known In Ens-lan- might be deposited there, it was eyes. "You have treated me very badly," to coffin noticed that the said. she Monica?" supposed "I suppose it's that the supposedly noble went on, "and in a way that no he had been married more than contain the remains of Thomas Druce He glanced around the room again, woman has a right to treat a man; once. But this new claimant, George bad collapsed and fallen together just but there was no escape for him. but there is a saving clause, and that is Druce, declares that Thomas Charles as if there were nothing Inside to keep in the he admitted, "Well, yes," you have told me the truth Druce, who he claims was the duke, it in shape. is same "I suppose it vague manner, You haven't lied to me. Nine women The present duke of Portland is 46. was united previously to a woman Monica.". out of ten would have lied to me, for named Crick men The son of this carr- Besides being entitled to wear the Mrs. Danvers glanced at him fur- nine women out of ten are cowards at iage, George Druce, went to Australia, strawberry leaves, he is Viscount tively from under her long drooping heart. You are the tenth woman, and Woodstock, Baron Bolsover, marquis and the present claimant is his heir. you have told me the truth. If you of Titchfield and baron of Cirencester. lashes. The fifth duke of Portland, as such, went were she other "If it man," any had lied to me I should have hated and never married. Neither the two wo- He is lord lieutenant of Caithness, Interfere. to trouble shouldn't "I en, despised you. If you had pretended men whom he espoused as Druce ac- magistrate of his county, and was She fool him as much as she that you didn't know I loved you, no might cording to the claimant's theory) knew Queen Victoria's master of the horse. liked and it wouldn't matter to me. words could have expressed tbe scorn him to be a nobleman, consequently, His grace's chief scat, Welbeck abbey, But different." are you and contempt that I should have fell when he died, in 1879, no objection is famous both for its age and its dream-lik- e him was A upon feeling for you. But you did nothing of the was made to the dukedom's passing to beauty. It was built on the site of an " he and Mrs. he when left Danvers, kind, and so and so abbey, and .its present holder, who is a direct de- old hardown his to his made home, way breath Monica caught her quickly in scendant of the third duke of Port- stands In a park 10 miles in and He did. he what a was almost sob, but she ly knowing a sigh that land's third son. The present duie inMonica were to meet at a ball that said nothing. Astonishment held ber herited, besides the title and accomsight, and they had arranged a good silent Astonishment and something Muscles Left Unused. panying fortune of several millions Most men else. Women do not take enough excerlse many dances together. sterling, the Portland town house in would have stayed away from The ball Mark's eyes rested on her face with Grosvenor square, London; Welbeck Aside from using a few of the muscles, after hearing what be had beard, but sorrow and regret He bad do all. not Their exercise at in Fullerton they passionate house, Ayrshire; abbey, Mark went loved her for months, but that which Castle Ceisnock, and the estate of waist and abdominal muscles sre too The moment he spoke to her Monica had But securely laced in and boned ta admit passed between them that night LangwelL in Calthness-sblre- . knew what had happened. The mo- bad Increased I his love a hundredfold. there was a mightily important part of of freedom, and the neck is tie so ment she looked into bis eyes she knew She seemed to him more than ever a the fifth duke's estate which bis suc- tightly that the head will Lot turn, that he had found out the truth, and but she was cessor did cot inherit, for tbe reason even the arms are restricted, for the meant to prize worth the winning, all truth that the too, not for elm. that he was tot that nobleman's direct new shoulders are so low chat the up- kntw and the knowledge, so suddenly He held out his band. descendant. This was the grc.it do- per arms cannot be moved; and tje him; and unexpectedly borne upon her, he said. "ProbIs good-by,- " main of the Portland family in Loudon, wrists are tightly encased, says the "This a in bewildered her startled and way Times-Heralwe shan't see much of one sow held by Lord Howard de Walc'en. Chicago ably With the majority of women all the that she hardly understood. the loss the It Includes rch fashlorablc parts cf "Do mind not dancing this another after we may as well part but better the city as Cavendish Sijuar.i. .'or.iar.l excercise is taken with the muscles of waltz?"you he asked, as be held out his street tbe knee, with the feet and with a few arm to her. place, Harley street, Well-ec"Will you sit It out with friends." and Great Portland street and the rent of the body. But the great majority of Slowly and hesitatingly she held out me? I want to talk to you." hand in return; then, as bis closed roll proceeding from them averages the muscles of the upper part cf the her She shivered a little, but she made are unused. left a Those body something like $3,000,000 year. in over it In the strong claap that she To get the straight front you mast no demur, and he led ber away knew so well the color flamed suddenly estates, also, Druce of Australia means found search of a quiet corner. They to claim as the real duke of Portland, banlph the flabby muscles frcm the one at tbe end of a long passage, and hotly in ber pale cheeks. and should he be able to prove that the arms And shoulders and get a good, where the music of the violins "If only there was something that I only fifth duke and his grandfather, Thorn deep chest inspiration. You taint be came to them could do!" she cried; "If only there faintly, and Mark went be to able lift able with he were arms, the body may your same, yonr was something that I could do!" Druce, to the point ne was thoroughto turn Lord de Walden one of whose to hang suspended by your hands, to straight He looked down at her. ly roused for once, and be was not a ancestors married a daughter of the swing by your fingers, and to suppwt man "There is one thing," he said, "but to beat about the bush when be fourth duke of Portlandout of house tbe body by Its upper muscles at well was you will never do It." thoroughly roused. as by Its lower ones. and home also. And then he dropped her hand and "I have heard something A child of a month will hang by Us It must be admitted that day by day he said, "and I want to a?L you if it is turned away. bands to a lead pencil. But few George Druce seems to be strengthenFor a moment Monica stood where true." , can fifth duke th as to the contention his people support weight ing "What have you heard?'' she .sked. he left her, still and silent Then she of Portland' double identity. Aside for an instant by the hands. Yet unHe set his teeth. fpoke to blm. from the facts that persons who knew less one be well developed about the "Don't go," she said; "don't go. I "I have heard," he answered, "that the duke mistake portraits of Thomas waist line one cannot have a pretty you have been fooling me all thi I don't go," Druce for ones of the nobleman, that figure. He came back to her In surprise-and kading me on for purposes Tbe host cxoerclse is ol tafnel by time, at such tiroes as It Is possible to trace 1 "What is it?" be asked, "Don't have heard that our of your own. the movements of Druce, tbe duke dis- bard work. Get into the habit of lift- friendship has to you trouble any more. The past Is past. nothing appears, and that both men exhibited ing your chair for yourself, of nlting but an Idle flirtation, and a rmans of Let it rest." similar peculiarities la dress, a whole upon yourself, of moving your arms to a man who no longer loves lie was turning away again, but eh; efeala of other resemblances bare been over your bead, of rcathln.? up on proving no love him. eau,,ht his arm with both her hand? you that you longer brought to light which will be amartng shelve- for articles, cf exercising your "This, he went on, "may have been and clung to him. looking up at him And if proved only coincidences. Tbe duke tnu?cle tn all occasion, d ryes. play to you, but it has boon cainvst to with had a peculiar skin disease, and it ap- then take a few well planned exercise earnest. one she said, "the one me "The fI deadly, desperate thing." pears even now in some branches of for tbe development of the shoulder. well, you Know that I love yo i. 1 hate thin? what is it? " the Druce family. The duke was the Fo shall you come Into th? position cf never told you In to many word. bn. 1 is face clouded, no perfect figure. Boston Hrall. lightest of eaters, and would touch emand women a are know woman, "Need ask?" be returned. "I you you esh except cfckken, and a former somehow without Doing think you know 83 well as I do. these things Ii in A. F. Gatilt, president cf the Dominploye of Druce's In his "larar" You know that 1 love you." me eTen now told. loved have could you Baker street has recently declared that ion Cotton company and the acknowland stood be- But you love tbe other man, aid for She rose from her tJ former chief took two meals a day edged cotton king of Canada, fs dead. fore klso, a tall, slens er.swaying Efiure. bis sake never mind." Monica L'Estrange did not think of tbe OQnaequenoes when she began a d d e -- m so-call- d rhcp-keep- er to-nig- d. to-nig- ht to-day- ," full-grow- n , ' She was still looMng at Him. "If," ahe repeated slowly, T conH have loved you now even now what ' then?" "What then?" he repeated: "why, all would be well then. But what ia the good of discussing impossibilities? It only wastes the time and helps no one." Her eyes fell, and she drew a little away from him. "Are you quite sure," she whispered, "that we are discussing impossibilities?" at her reproachfully. "Are you trying to play with again?" he asked in a hurt tone. He looked ma She winced. "But "I deserved thai," she Bald. still No, I am not trying to play with you again. It in't that; it isn't " she broke off. breathlessly. that "Then what is it?" he asked, quietly. , She hung her head. "I can't say it," she 6aid. "Why do you try to make me say it? Don't you " She broke know? Can't you guess off again, blushing and trembling. Mark made a quick step forward, and bent down to look Into her face. "What do you mean?" he asked. "Do you mean that after all there is a chance that you might some day learn to love me?" The hot flush deepened in her cheeks. "No, no," she whispered mean that I that I have "I back. learnt al- ready." He drew a long, deep breath. "Are you lying to me now?"he asked, in a low, strained tone. "Are you to me from a sense of mistaken lying or are and remorse, you telling me pity the truth?" She was half crying now. "The truth," she answered; "HeavI think I en's truth nothing less! have loved you always. But I was blind. I fancied that I loved the other man but but Oh! don't you believe me? Can't you believe me?" She looked up at blm, and In her eyes he read the old sweet story the story that is as old as life itself and yet seems ever new. The figure of a miner, carved from a block of Coeur d.Alene ore, mounted upon a pedestal of copper and lead ore weighing many tons, will ba sfe.tur of Idaho's exhibit In the Palace of mines and MetalThia lurgy at itheWurld's Fa,ir. unique statue 'will be contributed by the mine operators of the Coeur dAlenes. In the Ethnographic Museum of Rotterdam may now be seen a beautiful carpet which the Shah of Persia recently presented ta Queen Wilhclmlna as a souvenir of his visit to Holland some time ago. Woven into the carpet Is the following Jns(riptSon In Persian: "Pnveitel Hozzaffer ed Dm. by his Majosty Shah, Emperor of Persia, to ber Majesty (WU helm in a. Queen of Holland. In the year of the Hedjim 1320" The carpet measures 2 sejare yards and in each sqare yard theTe ro 30,000 stitch os. The largest bronze statue ia Lai that of Peter the Great at St Petersburg. It weighs about 1,10 tons. world Is Swallows fly low before a rail because the Insects they pursue an nearer the ground to avoid the moisture in the upper air. The Japan one have discovered n method of producing artificial no onej can toll from which pearls the genuine article. The first complole manuscript cf lh Old Testsment was finished in iZO B C. It was translated into Saxon m S3: A. D., The and into French ia 1531. birds'-noRt- s used for soups an little gelatinous things made principally from the saliva of birds of China. The be-o- tie-- pot should never call black tinieps the pot is ted. up tiny the ket gallan- - tear-dimme- 1 t A bup-lne- letter that goes wroii back, but yoi tan' T9Tfy over come lose a love letter. It may be sweet and good to die f er,e's cerintry, but most people pr fer the natural ceior. Always has a balance? to his se-- it-T- he tightrope walker. creJ |