Show that was going on in Lord They advanced to Jocelyn’s mind very end of the pier and sat down upon a seat looking into the seething waves below them Meanwhile Mrs Van Loo ambling in the rear smiled knowingly to herself as she perceived the propinqnlty of the pair Muriel was an excellent swimmer and had gauged the situation to a She know that there were no nicety rocks beneath her : that there was no current in spite of the apparent roughAnd immersed in ness of the water that warm tide it would be easy enough to cling to the pier framework So even as until she was rescued Lord Jocelyn had begun to stammer the first inane words of his proposal she arose slipped and fell backward and downward with a shrill scream into the sea Her scream was by her mother who wholly ignorant of Muriel's scheme came running up yelling at the top of her voice and waving her arms frantically For the fraction then of an Instant Jocelyn hesitated flinging off his coat be leaped Into the water He felt it close over his head and went down until his feet touched for a bare moment the Bandy bottom then he was upon the surface again and making his way with sure swift strokes toward where a slight figure clung to the frame of the pier As he progressed he shouted encourA few strokes more agement to her and he bad reached her he clasped the girl in his arms and felt her own close round his neck Then Muriel fainted and he felt her loosened hair and descend in a cloud over him raising it he kissed her on the lips Next moment he was striking out toward the shore bearing her in his arms where she lay with a complete confidence Soon feeling the bottom under him Lord Jocelyn waded to the beach carrying his precious burden He placed her on the sand and bending over her in Intense anxiety was rejoiced to see her eyes unclose Loo’s In the meantime Mrs Van aroused the summer shrieks had struggle the (Copyright by W Q Chapman) It positively thrills me when I go for example to feel my tallor’B I am being fitted by a man who holds to be as good as 1 am and demands the same respect And when "The way to find adventure" Lord I dine out to know that the butler Richard Joeelyn was wont to say "is who takeh my hat is really my social equal is most novel and fascinating to go forth blindly a sort of perpetual knight errant in quest of anything you know!” “Ah yes” said Mrs van Loo withthat may happen He who sets out "But among our best in his‘ out enthusiasm with any purpose mind is doomed to perpetual disap- people a different feeling is growing try A Seaside Comedy pointment" "And I haven’t found an adventure for nearly three weeks" he added as he finished bis last game of solitaire He rose the light of a new resolution in his eyes and rang for his valet “Talbot" he said as that servitor appeared "I’m going away” "Yes sir” replied Talbot Tespectr ively waiting for his master to reveal the place of his destination “Where shall I go Talbot?” continued Jocelyn "New York’s too hot for me” “I ’ave ’eard say air that 'Craig’s Peak’s the place this season There’s a very nice hotel there sir called the which was told me ‘by a ’Randolph’ young woman who — ” “Spare me these amatory confidences Talbot I beg you" replied hlB master "I shall go to Craig’s Peak and spend a week by the seashore Put up my things this afternoon” It was still early summer and Lord Jocelyn found the hotel only half full There seemed little probability that the quiet unassuming "Mr Jocelyn” of the visitors’ book at the "Randextraolph” would discover anything ordinary in that sedate and fashionable watering resort After the third day Mr Jocelyn had begun to weary of the varied and not too fascinating sports of picking up gathering plant specimens from the mountain slopes and discovering new and rare entrees upon the menu Perhaps that is why he fell a victim to the designs of Mrs and Miss Muriel into that up” “Don’t say that Mamma” cried Muriel earnestly "Don’t you recollect that delicious French count last- season who turned out to be a butler in disguise?” “I remember the Impudent fellow well” Teturned her mother "He actually dared to stay at our hotel and I must say his manners left nothing to be desired But a butler — ” "Perhaps Mr Jocelyn too is masquerading” said Muriel archly Lord Jocelyn placed his hand upon his heart and bowed “I pledge my honor” he said “that I am not a butler Indeed it would require attainments far greater” than t my own" "O Muriel!” said her mother re“My daughter means” proachfully she added "that you may be somebody greater than you acknowledge — a member of the peerage for example” She gave Lord Jocelyn so penetrating a glance that for a moment he felt convinced hia secret was discovered But Muriel intent upon her phase of the subject turned the conversation most opportunely for him "Well” she said "if a butler with the perfect manner of that Frenchman were to save me from Imminent death — by drowning for instance — I would as willingly give him my hand as if he were a Duke” "Muriel! My dear!” Bald her mother horrified ' But her sentiments were In general those of profound satisfaction for there was no doubt Lord Jocelyn was That night he fairly captivated dreamed of Muriel and also on the next These dreams were but the pale reflection of his thoughts by day And what with long happy rambles and of walks the subjugation moonlight the young man become complete “Muriel” said her mother as the second week drew toward a close “Lord Jocelyn” (for so she had come to speak of him) “has asked permission to call on us next month in Boston Do you know Muriel that you can win that young Englishman if you want to? And the rent roll is thirty thousand pounds a year — just fancy!” “If I marry Mamma it will be for love” said Muriel “If indeed he is a Lord" continued her mother ignoring the answer “I wish we could find out for sure I’m pretty well satisfied he is for he knows all sorts of people in England though why he should be masquerading here is more than I can tell I shall ask him point blank when he proposes for you” "For me?” cried her daughter indignantly “Among the better class of Englishcustom to men it is the invariable ask the mother for the daughter’s hand” said Mrs Van Loo But Muriel’s thoughts ran along quite different lines There was no doubt that she was sincerely in love with Jocelyn Whether he were a lord or not she had pretty well made But his up her mind to accept him should come to her direct proposal and not through any intermediary She puzzled over the problem of acthis all night until she complishing fell asleep and she awoke in thdmorn-inwith the germ of the idea fully matured Next to the promenade along the shores of Craig’s Peak the pier is best known to visitors at that perhaps summer resort How many engagements have been brought about at the structure far end of that Imposing to the tune of the waves and the light of the moon it is impossible to say — space would not permit it Certainly they have been numerous — and Mbriel knew that no place could be better suited to her plans The next night was especially favorable for a high tide was washing the steep and so that rocky shores of the mountain the pier was the only place for a Thither about eight in promenade Lord the evening the three repaired Van Loo of Boston "My dear” said the elder lady "that tall distinguished Englishman Is a personage in his own country or looks don’t count for anythfng” "He may be an Impostor Mamma" said her daughter cynically "Remember that one that made up to us last summer at Atlantic City?” "Muriel” replied her mother “don’t be suspicious It is not a fascinating quality in a young girl Leave that to me Your metier is innocence with Just a dash of but not too strong Why didn’t you pack ‘Burke’s Peerage’?” “I did Mamma" answered her "But I left out the daughter dutifully ‘Landed Gentry of Great Britain’ because there wasn’t room In my trunk" “Bring down Burke then” commanded Mrs Van Loo and she put on her l rimmed eyeglasses preparatory to the hunt Muriel soon reappeared bearing the volume "Jocelyn Jocelyn” Mrs Van Loo murmured turning over the pages “Here we are Muriel darling Jocelyn fourth viscount of Doublewith Manor Stockton Heir — Richard And no brothers or sisters lie will inherit the property” undoubtedly "The heir always inherits the property” answered Muriel '“Without a doubt dear that is Lord Jocelyn In disguise” said Mrs Van Loo “Tonight I shall speak to him” She found her opportunity and thus began the acquaintance which at first a bore to Jocelyn developed into a romance It was the week of the full moon and moonlight walks were a specialty of Muriel Van Loo’s Before the week was ended the three had becomo fast friends On the seventh day Jocelyn his room for the following week In spite of many experiences Lord Jocelyn felt himself fast succumbing to the charm of Muriel Van Loo To begin with her hair was bronze and Jocelyn adored bronze hair— when it was in his proximity Then she had the clearest blue eyes with just a suspicion of raillery in them — find blue eyes were Jocelyn's specialty in default of brown hazel or gray And and innocent Muriel's unworldliness ways produced a profound impression Needless on tho young rnan’B heart to say the many rivals of Lord Jocewho had delighted to bask in lyn Muriel’s smiles before his advent hatBut their glances ed him cordially of scorn passed by him like the cool breezes that blow all day over the summit of the peak If he had known Jocelyn and Muriel arm in arm Mrs he Van Loo waddling comfortably behind of the feeling3 that he inspired at an interval of about 200' feet would have been genuinely concerned for Jocelyn was singularly warm- As the couple approached the end of the pier Lord Jocelyn dared to take hearted It soon became evident that Muriel Muriel’s hand in his and press it gentreturn concealed beneath the corsage of her ly A slight but unmistakable Fifth avenue gown a heart that thrill- oi the pressure from her slim fingers convinced him that his passion was of romanticism ed to the promptings delirium and a not tho discovIs how wholly mads unrequlred This Jocelyn Had Muof happiness possessed him ery: scheme "What do you like best about Amer- riel left her it is probable that this asked her mother unfulfilled ica Mr Jocelyn?” would be the last chronicle of Lord one evening alfor anhe was adventures Lord Jocelyn's Jocelyn “Its democracy" “The feeling that ready revolving in his mind the fbrm swered promptly But one man is as good as another is de- of his matrimonial proposition lightfully strange to one used to the though the girl was aware of hts agitation she did not sense the actual of my own coun class subserviency culatlon And then he knew that fate had settled his prospects unless his scheme should thwart them When Muriel suffused with blushes and Btammerlng her thanks placed her hand in his he almost wavered in his purpose But deep below the surface susceptibility of Lord Jocelyn’s heart then ran a vein of shrewdness inherited from his father the fourth viscount And so when the meal was concluded he requested a private interview with Mrs Van Loo “Mr Jocelyn" she said— forgetful of her lapse of the preceding evening— "I can never thank you enough for saving my darling girl to me She is all that I have had to live for since my husband died” she continued weeping softly “And the thought that I must some day lose her perhaps to some one who would be unworthy of her has been the dread of my existence But now — she went on smiling upon her auditor “But — but — stammered Lord Jocelyn “Remember the old proverb Mr said Mrs Van Loo tapping Jocelyn" “ ‘Faint begirt never his wrist archly won fair lady”’ "0 I am not worthy of her” Lord Jocelyn groaned “An honest man Is worthy of any girl Mr Jocelyn” Lord Jocelyn stared at her in affected incredulity me to tell "You almost encourage you my secret” he murmured “Mrs Van Loo I am not altogether what I have represented myself to be" “You amaze me Mr Jocelyn” said that lady concealing a desire to shout aloud in triumph It was coming at last then this avowal of his nobility “I am not a gentleman” muttered Lord Jocelyn burying his face in his hands “You are one of nature’s gentlemen" Mrs Van Loo rejoined “Not even that” "What are you then?" asked his auditor tenderly “I am a butler" Jocelyn groaned and sat bolt upright facing her "You bear no malice because I got you into difficulty then Jack?” “Not a bit” said Stanfield cordially “I’ll be glad to return the compl- iment” "Then for the love of Heaven help me Jack” said JocelVn and he told him all while Jack listened with absorbing interest "You see Jack I’ve got myself in bad” he said :“Now I want you to undersee the girl— privately you stand — and convince her that I really am Lord Jocelyn and that the mother I was a fool to me misunderstood do what I did— a silly ass who needs kicking I know the girl would have stood by me anyhow and now I've gone and bungled everything through nature Jack my beastly suspicious you fix things for me and you shall be my best man and get a diamond pin” “You bet I will” replied Jack heartily “Now Dick you’re rattled Go and take a nice stroll along the beach till luncheon time and when you come back I’ll have things fixed for you” “I will” said Jocelyn gratefully starting off with a swinging stride and as he watched him depart Jack Stanfield murmured: It’s “It’s worth It it’s worth worth even a diamond pin” Whereupon he went off to have a quiet talk ' with his bride The luncheon gong audible for half a mile drew Jocelyn homeward With appetite sharpened by bis walk he hurried toward the hotel in whose dining room the guests were already asenOutside on the piazza sembling gaged in earnest conversation he perceived Mrs Van Loo and Stanfield Gratitude arose in his breast toward his friend So even in that Bhort space of time he had contrived to strike up an acquaintance with that them not lady As he approached without he saw Muriel’s shyness slight figure emerge from the dining room and hurried up to Intercept her She saw him coming and shrank back dismayed not knowing what to say But he was at her side pouring it man and a gentleman after his fashion So they had to part company and I understand that Lynn had come: to our country although I didn’t believe that he’d have the audacity to fly as high as this” "Merciful haven 1” sobbed Mrs Van Loo "he wanted to marry Muriel” Lord Jocelyn pale but very into the midst of advanced them “Do you believe this Muriel?” he aBked But the girl trembled and shrank “Don’t touch mer away from him don’t speak to me!" she cried that it is true” Jocelyn “Suppose went on “What then?" "Young man’' said Mrs Van Loo “I advise you to pack your haughtily things and leave Craig’s Peak by the next train That’s all I have to say to you Muriel come with me!” And she went into the dining room followed by her daughter Jocelyn turned to Stanfield "Stanfield” he said his voice shaking with anger “I ought to give you the thrashing of your life for this but in consideration of the service that you have done me I shall merely You have Ignore you henceforward shown up Miss Van Loo to me in a new light and saved me from an irreAnd blunder” turned he parable away him But Stanfield followed and' stopped him at the end of the piazza "Dickey” he said “listen to your best friend I own 1 did mean to fun with you But when I saw Mrs Van Loo my Joke became earnest sober reality For I had met winters ago at Palm- Beach and the daughter too Dickey” “Well?" asked Lord Jocelyn coldly ' "There was a duke’s son there Dickey who seemed attached to riel And she played the same trick on him Dickey She fell into the surf out of a catboat “Now you toddle along to the depot Dickey” he added taking his friend by the arm "and I’ll be there with your things before the train starts" A month afterward while playing solitaire in his apartment on Madi- son Avenue New York Lord Jocelyn received a scented envelope bearing: the Boston postmark It contained long letter a wild babble from Loo imploring his forgiveness "That wretched friend of yours confessed that he had played a practical' Joke on you” he read “Come and: see us Muriel and I have not forgotten our hero” it ended Lord Jocelyn paused and sighed for his memories of Muriel were still tender ones Then he tore the letter into pieces and threw them into He called his paper basket valet “Talbot” he said "remind me to- morrow to send Mr Stanfield a diamond scarf pin" a boarders who came running along the shore and arrived in time to find the girl disengaging herself from Lord arms Mrs Van Jocelyn’s Loo flung her own stout arms around Jocelyn’s neck “You’ve saved her! You’ve saved my girl!” she gasped “O Lord Jocelyn how can I ever thank you enough?” And even in his confusion Jocelyn perceived that his secret was discovered He did not see Muriel again that night but went to bed conflicting emoSometions struggling within him thing in Muriel’s actions perplexed him Had she fallen on purpose? He recollected some words of hers that in thlB new light savored of a mysterious meaning She bad alluded to the possibility of being saved from And then— that fall bad drowning been almost a deliberate step backward And she had been so composed in the water — had indeed clung to the before he reached her pier framework Miserable doubts tormented him and these were in no wise lessened by the fact that Mrs Van Loo had evidently known for long of his disguise Rut In the morning a whimsical It thought came to distract him drove away his cares so that by the time that he had descended to the breakfast room he was smiling He bad slept late and all the boarders had gone out with the exception of the mother and Muriel He found their seats placed with his own at a new table and them about to begin breakfast As he entered Mrs Van Loo solemnly arose and ambling tos ward him Imprinted a kiss upon his brow There was no mistaking the nature of that kiss Lord Jocelyn had been before — several times in engaged fact and in each case the mother of his had Imprinted on his forehead that identical species of os- A wan smile played round Mrs Loo’s mouth didn’t quite catch that Mr Jocelyn” she said “I’ll tell you all Mrs Van Loo” replied Jocelyn “I was brought up as a boy in the household of Lord Jocelyn’s brother In England When he died without issue I was made first footman to the present lord I was to be butler I served him promoted faithfully for four years” his passionate denial of the story As he went on he saw conviction gradually creep over the girl”s face “It was all a Jest” he cried "a miserable wretched foolish jest Muriel Say you believe me I am Lord Richard Jocelyn himself and I — ” What might have followed he did not know for at that moment a drawling voice called him from across the out Electricity for Thawing Pipes Shutting off a water supply to a' house is about as Inconvenient and unas anything pleasant to its occupants this side of a bad fire and so the min- ute a service pipe freezes there is aft emergency job for the water department or the local plumber There is ' no way of thawing these frozen pipes so satisfactorily as an electric outfit such as several manufacturers of elec- trie apparatus make for this purpose and every public department and company in a place where frozen i pipes cause trouble should have one" In some ready for Instant service cities the electric lighting company fa sufficiently progressive to own suctu outfits and to do the pipe thawing that is necessary The work is reallj? part of the service which a water department should render however and3 wherever past experience has shown that such freezing is likely to recur annually the electric thawing outfit1 should be regarded in the same light as the outfit for keeping hydrants free as something in a well’ indispensable managed department — Engineering Record Philosopher Erastus Johnson the only colored' in ha a thought out many of the secrets of easing the toil that he knows best and is ever ready to impart them topiazza “Come here Jocelyn” it said in others The stony stare upon the lady’s tones of unmistakable contempt “When they comes to me fer adface would not have disgraced Stanfield and Mrs Van Loo were vice" he said recently to one of the him approaching Jocelyn hastened summer campers “I alwus tell ’em It “Last winter I left him I had saved toward them puzzled at the tones of depends on what their is perfesslon a hundred pounds I wanted to be a Stanfield's voice If at the dignity o’ they’ve arrived' gentleman From observation of Lord “My good fellow what in the name sawin’ wood I alwus tell ’em to saw Jocelyn’s guests I knew that 1 could of thunder are down here?” you doing the biggest fust play the part I am a gentleman “Have you got a job said Stanfield “If they asks why an’ they mostly even though a butler Mrs Van Loo with the ‘Randolph’?” does I say ‘So’s you’ll only have the And shall that stand in the way of “What do you mean Jack?” cried little sticks to saw when you gets tuck” Muriel’s — Jocelyn In astonishment ered out’ A stifled sob from Mrs Van Loo “0 cut that out Dick” said Stan“An’ I’ll tell ye now” concluded stopped his words field “You can’t throw that bluff here Erastus graciously quite as if the “O abominable — abominable— a butmy man” camper had asked for “pointers” on a ler —” she cried and rising fled from “Is this the fellow you were speak“it’s Jes’ the same backyard job the room wringing her hands in dising about Mr Stanfield?” asked Mrs put the big sticks to the botVan Loo acidulously may It’s mighty bilious putting up her tom exercise A cold chill crept down Lord Joce- tortoise shell glasses “Muriel come of ’em to the top” — Youth’s He looked round helplesshere to me” lyn’s spine Companion “Sure that’s him” said Stanfield ly Why had he not told the girl first? After all what did the mother grinning “Called himself Jocelyn Too Much Following matter in such a case? That proved did he? The last part’s right enough After the marriage service in the’ the for his name’s Lynn — Dick Lynn — and toward He Btepped nothing little country church the pastor was French window in agitation opened it a better butler I never met in England giving the newly married couple some and emerged into the arms of his old until he got the craze to be a genexcellent adviee for their future guidwho with hi3 tleman” friend Jack Stanfield ance in matrimonial life “Pay atbride had come to spend their “Jack you shall suffer for this” tention to me” he said “You must honeymoon at Craig's Peak “Is this a Jest cried Lord Jocelyn never get cross with one another Althat morning or what?” In such a ways try to do everything “Jack I’m in terrible distress” he “Yes the shock of exposure must be way that there is no unpleasantness when the first greetings groaned terrific poor fellow” said Stanfield for either of you It is the husband's I helped you compassionately were over “Old man “O Dick Lynn I duty to protect his wife and a wile once — when Mrs Stanfield was trying warned you not to try your games on must always obey her husband and You haven’t forto elope with you follow him in the walk of this life — " Lord anybody in my neighborhood gotten it?” broke "But please sir” Jocelyn had to get rid of him Mrs in the r t Stanfield felt his heart leap "No Van Loo on account of this mania of young woman once mcie in old man I haven’t” he said grinning his He started to impersonate his tlon “can’t you alter thrr rM about the walks ot iii vi “Strange chapter of accidents wasn’t son Richard —a poor enough specimen it?” ot a man madam but still a noble country postman!” man ' |