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Show V TIE JBjf DELUGE AW of "TTIFCQSrdte DAVID GRAHAM PHKURS, (cocrzy&fr CHAPTER XXIV. sscs bytfa con&tMz) In "I dont the least care whether you are or not," replied I. What are saaBs-nzz&z- Continued. L the Albatross steamed Into the you doing here, anyhow? little harbor, I saw Mowbray It was as If I had thrown ofT Hie Indolence at anchor. I glanced cover of a furnace. I came to the toward Steuben Point where his woman I love, he cried. Yougetstore the lived cousins, and her from roe! You tricked me! Vivians, Rut, thought I recognized his launch at by God, Hlacklock, Ill never pause untheir pier. We saluted the Indolence; til I get her back and As Lang-don'- s punish you! He was brave enough now, drunk with the fumes from his brave words. All my life, he laged arrogantly on, Ive had whatever I wanted. Ive let nothing intei fere nothing and nobody. I ve been too forbearing with you first, because I knew bhe could never caie for you, and, then, because I rather admired your pluck and Impudence. I like to see fellows kick their way up among us from the common people. I put my hand on his shoulder., No doubt the fiend that rose within me, as from the dead, looked at him from my ees. Ho has great physical strength, but he winced under that weight and grip, and across his face flitted the terror that must come to any man at first sense of being In the angry clutch of one stronger than he. I slowly released him I had tested and realized my physical superiority; to use It would be cheap and cowardly. You cant provoke me to descend to expression. I rather expected him to show some of that amused contempt with which men of his sort always receive a new Idea that Is beyond the range of their narrow, conventional minds. For I did not expect him to understand why I was not only willing, but even eager, to relinquish a woman whom I could hold only by asserting a property right in her. And I do not think he did understand me, though his manner changed to a sort of grudging respect. He was, I believe, about to make some Impulsive, generous speech, when we heard the quick strokes of iron-shohoofs on the path from the kennels and the stables Is tllere any sound more arresting? Past us at a gallop swept a horse, on his back Anita. She was not in riding-habit- ; the wind fluttered the sleeves of her blouse, blew her uncovered hair this way and that about her beautiful face. She sped on toward the landing, though I fancied she had seen us. Anita at Dawn Hill Langdon, In a furious temper, descending from the house toward the landing Anita presently, riding like mad "to overtake him thought I. And I read confirmation in his triumphant eyes. In another mood, I suppose my fury would have been bevond my power to restrain it. Just then the day grew daik for me, and I wanted to hid Heart-sick- , I was away somewhere. ashamed for her, hated myself for having blundered Into surprising her. She reappeared at the turn round which she had vanished. I now noted that she was riding without saddle or bridle, with only a halter round the horse's neck then she had seen us, had stopped and come back as soon as she could. She dropped from the horse, looked swiftly at me, at him, at me again, with intense anxiety. I saw your yacht in the harbor only a moment ago, she said to me. She was alqiost panting. I feared you might meet him. So I came. As you see, he is quite intact," said I. "I must ask that you and he leave the place at once. And I went d Indolence saluted us My launch was piped away and took me ashore. I strolled along the path that wound round the base of the hill toward the kennels. At the crossing of the path down from the house, I paused and lingered on the glimpse of one of the corner towers of the great showj palace. I was muttering something I listened to myself It was Mrs Mulholland and the four And I felt like littlo Mulhollands laughing aloud, such a joke was It that I should be envying a policeman his potato patch and his fat wife and his four brats, and that he should be In a position to pity me. You may be Imagining that, through all, Anita had been dominating my mind. That Is the way It is in the romances; but not In life. No doubt there are men who brood upon the Impossible, and moon and maunder away their lives over the grave of a dead love; no doubt there are people who will say that, because I did not shoot Langdon or her, or myself, or fly to a desert or pose In the crowded places of the world as the last scene of a tragedy. I therefore cared little about her. I offer them this sugges -tlon: A mah strong enough to give a love worth a womans while Is strong enough to live on without her when he finds he may pot live with her. As I stood there that summer day looking toward the crest of the hill at the mocking mausoleum of my dear dream, I realized what the incessan' battle of the street had meant to me There Is peace for me only In the storm" said I. Put, thank Cod, then Is peace for me somewhere." Through the foliage I had glimpses of some one coming slowly down the eigzag path. Presently, at one of the turnings half-waup the hill, appeared What is he doMowbray Langdon. ing here, thought I, scarcely able to believe my eyes. Here of all places! And then I forgot the strangeness of his being at Dawn Hill In the strangeness of hts expression. For It was apparent, even at the distance which separated us, that he was suffering from some great and recent blow. He looked old and haggard; he walked like a man who neither knows nor cares where he Is going. He had not seen me. and mv Impulse was to avoid him by continuing on toward the kennels. 1 had no especial feeling against him; I had not lost Anita because she eared for him or be for her, but because she did not care for me simply that to meet would be awkward, disagreeable for us both. At the slight noise of my movement to go on. he halted, glanced round eagerly, as tf he hoped the sound had been made by some one be wished to see. His glance tell on me. lie stopjied short, was for an Instant disconcerted; then his face lighted up with devilish Joy. You! be ciied Just the man! And lie descended more rapidly. Af first I could make nothing of this remark. But as he drew neaior and nearer, and his ugly mood became more apparent, I felt that he was looking forward to provoking me into giving him a distraction from whatever was tormenting him. I waited. A few minutes and we were face to face, 'HOW HOHRim.K TtIT FKIR CHANGED MY WHOLE "WAY OF outwardly calm, but my anger slowlv LOOKING AT HER, AT HIM. AT E Ein THING lighting up as he deliberately applied to It the torch of hts Insolent eves He jour level," said I, with the easy phil-"- f rapidly along the path toward the was wearing his old familiar air osophy of him who cleat !y has the kennels. assurance. Evidentlj, with tor of the argument. An exclamation from Langdon his recovered fortune, he Had recovHe was shaking from head to foot. foiwd me t0 turn in spite of ered his conviction of his great su not with terror, but with impotent e was was holding her peiionty to the rest of the human rage. How much we owe to accident in his amis At that sight, the sav- race the child had climbed, luck on The mete accident of my ph steal su- me in shook age himself I free. the chair that made it tall and had pci unity had put him at hopeless dis- - dashed toward them with I knew not 1 was won tumble. And its forgotten advantage; had made him feel inferior what curses from me. Langdeiing again that I, so short a time to me as no victory of mental or don, intent bursting upon her. did not realize before, had been crude enough to tv noral superfluity could possibly have I fascinated and fooled by those tawdrj lone. And I myself felt a greater con- until sent him reeling backward to the and snatched her up. Her earth posmgs and pretenses. For the linn tempt for him than the discovery of as I now saw him, was obviously sh il las treachery and his shallowness had white face, her closed eyes, her limp form made niy fury instantly collapse. low and vain, a slave to those pool together inspired. In my confusion I thought that she a osteal I in I shan't indulge passions flapdoodle, was dead I laid her gently on the tion and cynicism and skill at vices old went on. I'll be frank. A year ago, as mankind and tedious as a tread-null- , if any man had faced me with a claim grass and supported her liead, so so gloriously crowned, the face the commonplace routine of the upon a woman who was married to me. small, so still and sweet and white, like the A Id idle and foolish and purposeless probably have dealt with him as clever, handsome fellow, but the more vour vanity and what von call honor stainless entrance to a stainless shrine. How that horrible fear pitiful that he was by nature above would force you to try to deal with n whole wav of lookii g at changed my the uses to which he proH'uted bun urular situation But I live to learn, her. at him, at her and him, at everyself. i l t I'm fortunatelv, not afraid to fol-thing ' He fought hard to keep his e es ste a new light There is the vanity Her eyelids were quivering her ily on mine; but they would vvaur an cf so called honor; there is also the shift Not, however, before 1 ha demand of justice of fair play. As I eyes were opening her bosom was found deet 4swn in them the begin- hive told her, so I now tell you she rising and falling slowly as she drew She shudYou see, oa were is fiee to go. But I shall say one thing long, uncertain breaths. nings of fear. Go! go! mistaken, said I. You have nothing to you that I did not say to her. If dered, sat up, started up she him cried. back! to say to me or I to you. do I Bring uot deal with shall Bring you fairly her, He knew I had looked strai 'lit to the see to to It tbit there are ten thorns him back! Bring him There she recognized me. bottom of his real self, and had seen to every rose in that bed of roses on Oh, the cowari that is in every man who which yam lie You are contemptible she said, and gave a great sigh of has been biM to appearances on'v. in many wavs perhaps thats why relief. She leaned against a tree and You are still Up rose his vanity, the cowards sub women like you But there must be looked at Langdon. : some good Ik von. or possibilities of here? Then tel! Mm. stitute for courage You think I am afraid of yon, hot good, or you could not have won and Langdon gazed sullenly at the I cant, he .answered. sneered, bluffing and blustering like kept her love ground. I I . . He was staring at me with a dazed dont believe it. the school bully. Besides he has Mie r y 1 I j 1 1 m given you to me. Let us go. Let me take you to the Vivians. II. threw Out his arms in a wild, passionate gesture, he was utterly unlike himself. His emotion burst through and shattered pose and cynicism and hard crust of selfishness like the exI ploding powder bursting the shell. cant give you up, Anita! he exclaimed in a tone of utter desperation. I cant! I can t! But her gaze was all this time steadily on me, as if she feared I would go, should she look away. I will tell you myself," she said, rapidly, to me. We Uncle Howard and I read In the papers how they had all turned against you, and he brought me over here. He has been telegraphing for you. This morning he went to town to search for you. About an hour ago Langdon came. I refused to see him, as 1 have ever since the time I told you about at Alvas. He persisted, until at last I had the servant request him to leave the house. But now theres no longer any reason for your staying, Anita, he pleaded. t He has said you are free. Why stay when you would really no more be here than if you were to go, leaving one of your empty dresses? She had not for an instant taken her gaze from me; and so strange were her eyes, so compelling, that I seemed unable to move or speak. But now she released me to blaze upon him and never shall I forget any detail of her face or voice as she said to him; That is false, Mowbray Langdon. I told you the truth when I told you I loved him! So violent was her emotion that she had to pause for And I was I? overwhelmed, dazed, stunned. When she went on, she was looking at neither of us. Yes, I loved him, almost from the first fiom the day he came to the box at the races. I was ashamed, poor creature that my parents had made me! I was ashamed of it. And I tried to hate him, and thought I did. And when he showed me that he no longer cared, my pride goaded me into the folly pf trying to listen to you. But I loved him more than ever. And as you and he stand here, I am ashamed again ashamed that I was ever so blind and ignorant and prejudiced as to compare him with she looked at Langdon "with you. Do you believe me now now that I humble myself before him here In your presence? I should have had no heart at all if I had not felt pity for him. His face was gray, and on it were those signs of age that strong emotion after 40. brings to the surface You could have convinced me in no other way, he replied, after a silence, and in a voice I should not have recognized. Silence again. Presently he raised his head, and with something of his old cynicism bowed to her. You have avenged much and I have often had a many," said he. presentiment that my day of wrath would come. m He lifted his hat, bowed at me without looking at me, and, drawing the tatters of his pose still further over his wounds, moved away toward the landing. I, still In a stupor, watched him until he had disappeared. When I turned to her, she dropped her eyes. Uncle Howard will be hack this If I may. Ill said she. afternoon, stay at the house until he conies to take me. A weary, sigh escaped from her. I knew how she must be reading my silence, but I was still unable to speak. She went to the horse, browsing near by; she stroked his muzzle. Lingeringly she twined her fingers in his mane, as if about to spring to his back! That reminded me of a thousand and one changes in her little changes, each a trifle in itself, yet, taken all together, making a complete transformation. Let me help you, I managed to say. And I bent, and made a step of my hand. She touched her fingers to my shoulder, set her narrow, graceful foot upon my palm. But she did not rise. I glanced up, she gazing wistfully down at me. Women have to learn by experience just as do men, said she, forlornly. Yet men will not tolerate it. I suppose I must suddenly have looked what I was unable to put into words for her eyes grew very wide, and. with a cry that was a sigh and a sob, and a laugh and a caross all In one, she slid into my arms and her face was burning against mine. Do you remember the night at the theater, she murmured, when your lips almost touched my neck? I loved you then Black Matt Black Matt! And 1 found voice; and the horsa wandered away. The End. l. FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL. WHEN MILESTONES CHEER. Dischxrged Becaues Doctors Could Not Cure. They Always Gladden the Heart of the Pedestrian. Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave., In a walking trip a milestone along After lying for the way is the most companionaule Anoka., Minn., says: five months in a hos- fellow in the world; your spirits rise pital I was dis- as you near him as though you were charged as incurable, about to greet a human friend, and and given only six they keep almost consistently on his months to live. My high level till his brother a mile disheart was affected, I tant advances to meet you. had smothering And when you overlook one of this and some- friendly cqmpaay because of an enspells, times fell- - uncon- croaching bank or screening boughs, scious. I got so I says fhe Travel Magazine, his neighcouldnt use my bor further on comes to you doubly arms, my eyesight welcome. At the latter end of this was impaired and the kidney secrepassage in the journey your spirits tions were badly disordered. I was flag a trifle as though oppressed by a sense of desertion. You may even completely worn out and discouraged when I began using Doans Kidney scowl Si the overhanging bank which Pills, hut they went right to the cause Is more than a party to this concealof the trouble and did their work well. ment. I have been feeling well ever since. Those worthy persons who attend to Sold by all dealers. 60 cents a box. the roads should see to it that every Foster-MllburCo., Buffalo, N. Y. milestone within their province stands out frankly from Its leafy background. Observance of this, however, would Something New In Tablecloths. She had come Into the store to buy rob the wayfarer of that leap of the tablecloths and she stated in the be- heart which is his when the stone tells the story of two miles done rather ginning that she wanted something new. than one. For however much the landThe salesman was jiatlent and scape and the minute world at his feet showed her everything In stock, but may claim the footfarers admiration he Is still- keenly alive to the virtue nothing suited. Oh, dear! she exclaimed, fussily, of decent distances covered In his havent you anything different? days journey. The clerk brought out one of the A Whistler Criticism. discarded tablecloths that he had put The late James McNeil WhistV. back on the shelf, and said with an was standing bareheaded in a hV air of Interest: shop, the clerk having taken his t Here is one of the very newest madam. You see, the center Is to another part of the shop for comin the middle and the border runs parison. A man rushed in with his hat in his hand and supposing Whist right around the edge. Let me have that ler to be a clerk angrily confronted "Why, yes! him. one, she said eagerly. See here, he said, Thi3 hat doesnt fit. Only Royal Doctor. Whistler eyed the stranger from The only royal doctor in Europe Is Duke Carl Theodore of Bavana. ew head to foot and then drawled out: German princes have had a more roWell, neither does your coaL mantic career than Duke Carl Theo- Whats more, if youll pardon my saydore. He recently completed, with ing so, I'll be hanged if I care much for the color of your trousers. Unhis wife as his assistant, his der the Spreading Chestnut Tree in operation for cataract. Poor people flock to his hospital, Everybodys. where they are treated free, the duke Not to Be Wasted. asking payment only from those who Ben Cary had near his house a can easily afford It He it was who swamp, which was a breeding-placsuccessfully treated the kaiser, when, for herds of mosquitoes. was he eight years ago, temporarily Some enterprising neighbors, who blinded by a swinging rope when learned of the crude oil treatment, in. on Hobenzollern the the cruising went to Ben and tried to persuade North sea. him to exterminate the pests. Exterminate em? said Ben. Not Old Coins Discovered. much. Not much. Why, Mis Cary in Workingmen demolishing the old an I just paid $32 for screening the smelter house of the first United States mint, on Seventh street, Phila- side .piazzer that shes been pestering me about for years. How we goin delphia, have uncovered a number of to get any good of it, if we kill off relics of the early days of the repubYouth's Companion. lic. These relics consist of a number the skeeters? of foreign and domestic coins, dating Wisdom of Solomon. as far back as 1793. Some of the inIn a dog case at Felixstowe, Engteresting finds are a number of test land, one witness testified that the coins that were experimented with by dog whose loss was sued for the officials in the olden times. These was worth $125, while being another swore coins are similar to Chinese money, it was worthless. So the judge awardeach containing a hole in the center ed $62.50 as a fair average. damages that was filled with various kinds of inetal to bring up the value or the n - de-sig- n, e man-eatin- coin. Ugly Appendages. s Hasnt Woldby got his yet? Why, he told me he was going to look up his ancestry the first chance he got and "Well, I believe he got a chance to look up his family tree, but he saw some things hanging to the branches that discouraged further research. Catholic Standard and Times. 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