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Show TI1 turn from the door, and then Viokril silently into each other's face. Tbi Karl's lips were firmly tut. anl fab eyes full of tears; the Countess ws weeping Utterly. He went with htf to her room, and with all Uis oid chars and tenderness comforted her. At that moment Anrle waa forgotten. ye: no ore was sufferlrg no. i ban she was. Hyde had knelt iff her rofa. ar.il taken her In hia arum, and rovi veil hi r face with tears an AU!D af MAIDEN LANE Sequel to . The Cow of Orange Ribbon. A I'OVE STORY BY AMELIA E. BARR opinv; hi. IDO, hr I CHAPTER X!V. "My dear la.l.ir! i: g irutii iCouir.Mjj.j wio and How Anlii h. !' Jited ycu urt-!-'' II is my lie: ire to he o. George. You cor. i ot, atir-- r this iirfcr.ui.ate dethe wlt.iout Moinn Doctor ay, fo'iu proofs of your ability to tale tate of hia daughter's future." be How toon tan this business I ml v, her heart, and ii!i nil and whatever was (Miiioynl, lad inn one nuise to take off sho must bn-aengagement with a man so far below her standard of simple morality. So she looked nrxiously at Annie as she entered, at d Annie would cot There was a keep her In sippet sc. letter front Mlits .ioran last night," she raid. "She loves George yet. She the unfortunate letter, and this time It found its owner. I think he nas ii next his mail at this very moiuert. "I am glad of that. Annie. But who has the first letter?" I thlr.k you know, Mary. You mean Mr. Van Arleni? k , j Ms..es, and she had not been able oppi.se it parilrg so heartbreaking at d so final. The last tears she wa ever t- - shed dropped from her closed eyes, as idle listened to his departing steps; ami the roll of the carriage carry Irg him away forever, seemed t roll over her shrinking heart She cried out feebly a pitiful little shrill cry, that she hushed wltn n sob still more full of anguish. Then she began to cant over her suffering soil the balm of prayer, and p rest rate with closed eyes, and hands feebly hanging down, Doctor Itoslyn found hr. He did not reed to ask a question, he e bad long known the brave that was consecrating the child-heasuffering so sharply that day; and he said only "We are made perfect through suffering, Annie." This is the last sorrow that cm come to me, father. And my dear Annie, yea would have been a loser without It. Every grief baa Ua meaning, and the wtb of life could not be better woven, if only love touched It. I have been praying, father. Nay, but God Himself prayed In you, while your soul waited in deep resignation. God gave you both the resignation and the answer." My heart failed me at the last then 1 prayed as well as I could. And then, visited by the rot yosr-scIn you, your bead was lifted ip. acrcmpliihed. In about throe weeks, 1 should think. Cut wait your full time, and do tot (to without the 000(10011018 of This throe or four your position. weeks Is necessary to bring to perfection ll.e wailing of two years. I will take your advice, sir. I fharlc you for your generosity. All that I have Is yours, George. Yes. Ard you can write to this dear girl there Is no more to be aald. every day In the Interim. Go cow and I Then to him as soon as write shall other I had I what ray. tell her dreama for yen, as you know they I am sorry are over now 1 have awakened. No, no! Be content, Annie. The j George, Annie! Bear ejaculated Dear Arnic! replied the Earl with right must always come right. Neitha sigh. She la one of the daughters er you nor I could desire any other of God, I am not worthy to call her end, even to our own love story. Rut you must suffer. mine, but I have aat at her feet, and j much. None of us weep If we Not fer-to how and to how learned love, Is of no value. And I have what lore t disappoint-mengive, and how to bear I will tell you, that when Col. noticed that the happiness of ary one la always conditioned by the unhappiEaye Insulted me last year and I felt tor my aword and would have sent ness of some one else. Yourbutcousin there him a letter on 111 jioint Annlo and Cornelia will be happy, that must are that others suffer, they and go stepped before him. 'Forget, so. 1 will go now, Annie, bekm, dear uncle,' she said, and 1 did so may ho .with a proud, sore Ik art at first, hut cause urtll I have written to Mr. Van Ariera I shall not feel free. And quite cheerfully In a week or Iwo; 'and at the last Hunt dimer he came also, I do rot wish him to come here, to me with open hand and we ate and and In his last letter he spoke of drark together, and are now firm such an Intention. Bo the two letters that of Hyde friends. Yet, hilt for Annie, one of us to Cornelia, and that of Mary Darner other flying might be dead, and the like Cain exiled and miserable. Think to Van Arlena, left England for of these thirgs, George. The good of America in the same packet, The, tone of the Manor House was belrg a son Is to be aide to profit from j cow set to a key of the highest Joy mistakes. father's your and expectation. Hyde unconsciously that a with handclasp They parted Went to both hearts and as Hyde struck the note, for he was happily busy from morning to night about passed his mother's room, he went affairs relating either to hia marriage la, and told her all that happened to fata future aa the head of a or to and smile a with listened She llm. heartache. She knew now that the great household. All his old exigent, to extravagant liking fer rich ckithlng time had come to aay farewell the boy who hail made her life for returned to him. He had ror.atanl Ho must mar- visits from hia London tailor, who twerty-seve- n years. the of world, and go brought with him a profusion of rich rest the like ry and from only mothers cloth, silk and satin, and who firmly her, away a believed that the tailor made the know what supreme in this event man. There were alsu endless Interacquiescence pleasant views with the family lawyer, endlcsa Implies. But she bravely put down 11 the clamoring selfishness of her readlrga of law papers, and endless consultations about rights and auc-- . long, sweet care and affection, and cessions, which Hyde was glad aqd aid cheerfully: to leave very much to his Very much to my liking la Cor- . grateful wisdom and generosity. father! noble wife and A Moran. laving nelia Some of the last days were occumother she will make, and If 1 must lose thee, my Jorls, there la no girl pied In selecting Jewels for Cornelia, In America that I like better to have with weba of gold ard silver tissues, and Spitalflelda Bilks ao rich and thee." "Never will you lose me, mother. heavy, that no mortal woman might Ah then! that la what all sons hope to outwear them. To these Ansay. The common lot; 1 look for nie added from her own store of lace, pothlrg better. But see now, 1 give many very valuable pieces, and the thee up cheerfully. If God please. I happy bridegroom was proud to see hall see thy sons and daughters; and that love was going to send him away thy father baa been anxious about with both arms full for the beloved. The best gift, however, came last, the Hydes. He would not have a stranger here cor would I. Our hope and It was from the Earl. It was not la In thee and thy sweet wife, and gold or land, though he gave genervery glad am 1 that thy wife la to be ously of both these, hut one which Cornelia Moran. Hyde felt made hia way straight beAnd even after Jorls had left her fore him, and which he knew must I she smiled, though the teara dropped have coat his father much It waa the following letter down qpon her work. She thought f the presents she would send her to Dr. John Moran: My Dear Sir: It seems then, that our dear children love each other so well, that It Is beyond our right, even as parents, to forbid their marriage. I ask from you, for my son, who la an humble and ardent suitor for Mlaa Moran's hand, all the favor his sincere devotion to her deserves. We have both been young, we have both loved, accept then hia affection aa some atonement for any grievance or Injustice you remember agalrst myself. Had we known each other better, we should doubtless have loved each other better; but now that marriage will make ua kin, I offer you my hand, with all it Implies of regret for the past, and of reaped for the future. Your servant to command, RICHARD IIYDB." Is the It greatest proof of my love , I can give you. George," said the Earl, when the letter had been read; "and It Is Annie you must thank for it. Have you noticed, father, how Visits from hit London tailor, fragile-lookin- g she is? Can daughter, nod she told herself that small and he slowly dying?" Cornelia was an American, and that she really "No. she In not dying: she Is only be had made for her, with her own and brain, a lovely home going a III tie further away a little handa wherein her memory must always furt'ier away, every hour. Some hour dwell. Indeed she let her thoughts she will be called, and she will anxo far forward to see, and to listen swer, and we1 shall see her no more do rot call that dying, to the happy boys and girls who here. But gleefully and If It be dylr g. Annie will go as might run and shout and simply, as if she were through the fair large rooms, and the calmly some religious rile or duty. aweet shady gardens her skill ard taste had ordered and planted. Thus She loves Gud. and she will go to jber generosity made her a partaker Him." r Ms The next more in g Hyde left of her children's happiness, and was It home father's forever. his has a Imposof pleasure partakes sible that such a purling should bo share of It. and comes Into contact nol only with the happiness but happy. No hopes, tin 'I reams of fuwith the other partakers of that hap- ture Joy. n ul l make him forget the piness a divine kind of Interest for wealth of love he wns leavlrg. Nor generous deeds, which we tuay all did he wish to forgot. And woe to the man or woman who would buy comappropriate. i t bv forgetting The next morning Mary Darner posure .d by really forfeiting a purl ion of their called. She knew that a Idler from Cornelia was possible, and she knew exlsiemi1-- by bcirg a suicide of their alio that It would really he as fato-jfu- l own moral tut iiro. The day Mark winter day. ai to herself as to Hyde. If, as she suspected, It was Hem Van Arlona with a monotonous rain and a dark .who had detained the misdirected sky troubled by a ghostly wind. Infell on the side tic hi use the one eorcelvable wav there only (letter, iresult as rcfnrdel herrelf. She. an heart lilt a weight. The Karl and .uptight, honorable Kngllsh girl. lov- (.'oiiiitci-- watched their son's carriage pos-tlbl- 1 rt lf I give yn ten minutes to hasten. After that Neville. produce 1 cr-time, I fh!'. :ctnrr. to hia emlceuae or re.ural to obey him." and report The ga :!er lad never before leas accosted in eueh language. Aa word intelby werd waa translated to his ligence. be .imi ifcsied an unspeakable error. He left tie chamber at enc r.d witl.in the li ne tan.cJ there were all hearts gourds heard wlhb ro-stand rti'.l. the e low movement of ,'eet hertily aide to al, the dismal mournclangor of Iron, and anon tbe ful sound of a human voice. But nothing (ould Lave prepared ClunyS comrades fer tic sight of their old companion. His till form waa attenuated to the lai point; hU eyes, unaccustomed to much light, would not at once respond, they looked aa if bis hair they had lost vision; straggled unkempt over hia shoulders, and the awful pallor of the prison on hia fare and neck and handa was more ghastly than the pallor of death. Hia clothing had decayed; it bung in shreds about hi limbs; but there was . a glimmer of his oid self in the pitiful effort he made, as soon as conscious of human presence, to lift up hia head and carry himself without fear. Cluny!" cried Cluny! "Cluny! Israel; and then Cluny distinguished, the buff and steel uniforms, and knaw who It was that called him. A long; sharp cr. of agony, wonder, Joy, answered toe call, and be fell senseless into Israel's anna. They brought him wine, they lifted him to tbe open window, they laid bare the skeleton form of hia cheat, they called him by name In voices so full of love and pity that hia aoul perforce answered their entreaties. Then the Coventor offered him some clothing, but Israel put it passionately away. They were worse than Babylonish garnieits In hia sight; he would not touch them. He asked only for a public litter, and when It waa procured, they laid Cluny in it, and hia comrades bore him through the streets of Paris to their lodging on the outskirts of the city. When they left the gates of the prison ttcre was a large gathering of men, and It Increased as they proceeded, a pitiful crowd, whose very silence was the highest eloquence: For they understood. Cluny lay prone and oblivious to their vision. They had seen him come from tbe Bastile. He was dead, or dying, and these angry, weeping soldiers were his comrades. They began to mutter, to ezclaim, to voice their sympathy more and more intciliglhly. Women, pray ing and weeping audibly, joined the procession, and Israel foresaw the possibility of trouble. He felt that Its some way order must be restored, and Inspired by the wisdom within, be raised his hands and In a loud, ringing voice, began the favorita and to the hymn of hia troopers; words they had been used to sing In moments of triumphal help or deliverance they carried Cluny, with the solemn order' of a religious service. safely lcto their camp. ! THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Author si "The Cromwalla Tima DY AMELIA E. BARR. I Bow of (Copyright Thou end the Other Cne," Cruise Ribbon." The Meld ef Malden Lens," Etc. 111, hr Dodd, Hoad ft Company. All rictus movwl.) CHAPTER XV. (Continual.) The Bastile! St. had heard enough In Paris of tint stone hell to make her tremble at the word. All night she endured It, but In the morning she waa resolved to throw the Intolerable burden cn some one more able to bear It But on whom? Sir Thomas would aot have the subject named la hia presence. It would be cruel to tell Jane, but there was Cromwell. There waa the Protector. It waa Lis business to look after Englishmen, else what waa the use of a Protector? Besides which, Cromwell loved Neville. Matilda could not tell how much or how little Cromwell knew of her meddling la a variety of plots against hia life and government, but she expected her fathers name would secure her an audience. Her first request, however, waa met with a prompt refusal. She was aot to be daunted. If her own name waa not sufficient, she bad others more potent So she wrote on card these wordi: Lady Matilda de Wick has Important Information regarding Lord Cluny Neville; and for Mistress Jane Swaffham's sake aha aaka an Interview. This mescage waa Instantly effective. While Matilda was telllrg herself that she would not do tbe least the door homage to the Usurper, opened hastily, and he entered her presence. In the twinkling of an eye all her resolves vanished. She fell at hia feet, and taking his hand kissed it, whether In homage or in entreaty, she knew rot. My lord," she said, and then she My lord, I crave of began to sob. yon ao many pardons so much forbearance I will never offend again. He raised her with an Imperious movement, and lead Irg her to a chair, remained atandirg at her side. We will forget the past Is to be forgot for your dear father's sake. Quickly tell me what you knew, I am in a e for hia life for every hair of hia bea. that falls wrongfully to the ground And in regard to sending more troop, to Boulogne against the Spaniards look not for them, unless, by the grace of God and your orders, Lori. Neville la presently, and without hlnderanre, In Ergland. Then, I wil. stand with you, and I do hops tha neither the cruelty, nor malice of an; man will be able to make void ou: agreement concerning the Spaniard for aa to the young man's return, I' la the first court In it, and I shall I must see that he Is restored t that freedom of which he has beet unjustly deprived. It rannot be be lleved taat your emlnency has hat anything to do with this deed of sheet wickedness, yet I must make mentioi of the jewels which disappeared witl Lord Neville, and the money, and th papers. I have some reluctance tr write further about them, bellevint that you will look more partlcularb than I can direct. Into this matter By the hand of my personal friend General Swaffham, I send this; anti in all requisites he will stand for Sir, Your Emlnency's Most Humble Servant, "OLIVER P. When this letter was sealed, he sent for Israel, and telling him all that fat had heard, bade him take twelve o' their own troop, go to Faria, anti bring back Cluny with them. Cromwell's summons affected Ma sarin like thunder out of a clear sky He had forgotten Lord Neville. I will make inquiries, he said U In two or three days or Israel. week I must be on my way hack to Lon don, sir, In two cr three daya. I carnot be hurried, I have much other business. You must wait. Waiting is not In my commission. Ir. I am to work, or to return to Lon don without an hour's delay. Lord Neville la particularly dear to hi. great hurry." Without one unnecessary word she highness; and If my Inquiries meet i- - e , fill-fllli- re who-feve- u-- cniiK-iitme- -- - i s Hyda had knelt by Do not be frightened her sofa. at what you Strive for It little by little. All that la bitter In outward things, or In Interior things, all that befalls you In the course of a day, la your daily tFid If you will take It from Hia hand. Then she waa silent and qalte still, and he aat and watched the gradual lifting of the spirit's cloud watched, until the pallor of her face grew luminous with the inner light, and her wide oicn eyes saw, aa In a vision, things Invisible to mortal sight; but open to tbe spirit on that dazzling line where mortal and Immortal verge. And aa he went home, atepplng slowly through the misty world, be himself hardly knew whether he waa in the body or out of It. He felt not the dripping rain, he was not conscious of the encompassing earthly vapors, he had passed within the veil. And his feet stumbled not, nor was he aware of anything around, until the Earl met him at the park gates and touching him said reverently "Father, you are close to the highway. Have you seen Annie?" "I have Just left her." She Is further from ua than ever. Richard Hyde," he answered, "she Is on her way to God, and aha can rest nothing short of that (To be continued.) want TALE8 OF PRECIOUS STONES. Diamonds Ware ' Not Known to Ua Until ths Discovery of India. Not until India waa discovered were diamonds known to the Western world. The Indians called rock crystal an unripe diamond." and up to the eighteenth century India waa supposed to he the only country where that precious stone could be found. Yet as far hark as BOO B. C. a didactic history" of precious stones was written. and In Pliny's time the supply must have been plentiful, as he wrote: "We drlpk out of a mass of gems and our drinking vessels are formed of emeralds.' It Is difficult to determine whence all the gems came, as discoverers took enre to leave no record. The rations which traded In them were afraid of their whereabouts being known, and even the most ancient merchants would not disclose any definite locale. "Diamon" was the name given to a youth who was turned into the hardest and most brilliant of substance to preserve him front "the Ills that flesh is heir to. Amethyst was a beautiful nymph beloved by Racrhus. hut saved from him by Dlnna. who changed Amethyst Into a gent, whereupon Bacchus turned the gent Into wine color and endowed the wearer with the gift of preservation from Irtoxlcatlon. The pearl was thought to be a dew-dro- p the shell had opened o receive. Amber was said to be honey melted by the sun, dropped into the tea and congealed. . He Was Satisfied. "Life, said the parson, "is mada up of trials." "Yes. and I'm glad of It." replied the lawyer. . . CHAPTER XVI. His comrades bore him through tho streets of Paris mated ell, and then put Into hie not with attention, on the Lioment, handa Prince Ruperts letter, with her I am Instructed to waste no time. We finger directing his attention to the must then conclude the envoy of tbe terrifying postscript And she aaw Commonwealth of England has been with fear the rising passion In his robbed and slain, and it will be the and for a moment duty of England to take redress at countenance, trembled when he looked Into her once." You talk beyond your commiseyes with such piercing Inquiry that he could not resist nor misunder- sion." "Within II, air." stand their question. Retire to the anteroom. They will Sir, she cried, with a childlike abandon, in this matter I am single-hearte- serve you with bread and win while as I can be. I wish only to I make some Inquiries." It la beyond my commission to eat put a great wrong right" "You tell me tho truth. I believe or drink until I have had speech with you, ha answered; and I will take Lord Neville. I will wait In this upon me to see that It is done. Say presence, the authority of your emnot a word to Jane Swaffham until inence, and Israel let hia aword drop and leaned upon It, gazing steadfastly there be a surety In the matter. Then she rose, and looking with the while into the face of the careyes full of teara Into hia face. aald. dinal. Tbe twelve troopers with him, Sir, I remember the day you pulled followed aa ore man, hia attitude, down tbe hazelnuts for me In de and even Mazarln's carefully tutored Wick park. My father walked with composure could not long endure this you, arm In arm, and I had your hand silent battery of, determined hearts until you lifted me at the gates and and fized eyes. He gave the necee-arorder for the release of Lord klaaed me. Sir, I entreat yon, forget all that baa come and gone since Clnny Neville. If such a prisoner that hour, and dlamlsa me cow, aa was really In the Bastile, and sandthen, and she lifted her lovely face, ing a body of his own musketeers wet with the team of contrition, and with It, directed Israel to accompany Cromwell took. It between his broad, them. The Governor of the Bastile had so strong hands, and kissed It. even as forgotten Cluny, that hia came called he bad kissed it in her childhood. Go home, my dear, he said softly. up no recollection. He did not know All that can be done I will do, and whether he waa In the prison or not. He did not know whether he was without delay. Matilda curtiled and went out. alive or dead. The very hooka of the Thera waa In her heart a strong be- prison had forgotten Cluny. Their lief that this time Cromwell' In- keeper grew cross, and poaltiv of aa volume quiries would be as effective at they Neville's were sure to be prompt. Indeed the after volume refused to give up hia first thing the Protector did. waa to name. But Israel and hia men, atand-irthere an determined and ao silent, dictate the following letter to forced him to go back and back, un"To Hia Eminence Cardinal Mazsrln, til he came to that fateful day when, Sir: In a manner most providen- before the dawning, the young man tial It has been made known to me had been driven within those terrible at Thla prevent gates. that Lord Neville On whose order?" asked Israel, moment In the Bastile prison. I know not why my friends should be treated speaking with sharp authority. On the order of hia eminence. Caraa enemies, arcing that I have been faithful to you In all difficulties. Truly dinal Mazarin, waa ths answer. I thought so; then turning to the my business la now to apeak things The head gaoler he added, "you have the that I will have understood. danger la great. If you will be sensible order for release. We are In haste. "Time la not counted here. We of It, nnleaa I.nrd Neville be put at once In charge of these by whom know not haste, was tbe answer. I send this message For If any harm Then, said Israel, flaming Into come to him. I win make Inquisition passion, "you must learn how to d g Ma-sari- Oliver the Conqueror. You and Lord Cheer up, Jane! Neville will yet arrive at tbe height of your wishes. This Is my Judgment, and If It be not true, yon may burn me in the ear for a rogue. And you will marry Cymlln? Faith, I know not how I am to But In all help tbe catastrophe! sobriety, I think Cymlln loves met and you do, too, dear Janet Oh. I could weep my eyes dry when I think of your dear lover, and all ha haa ao suffered. It la IntolInnocently erable! In bar way, Matilda was doing her beat to console and encourage Jana as they talked over the sad fate of her rescued lover. Both had been weeping, and there waa n more afr foctlonate confidence between them than had existed for many years. (To be continued.) Too Much Talk of Birth. When the Society of tbe Cincinnati waa formed there waa tha moat vehement opposition to tbe principles of founding here an hereditary order. There la less danger today of an aristocracy of birth winning any real ascendency In thla land than there waa when tbe nation waa Juat breaking away from the English tradition. Bat there la today In some quarters aa unmistakable development of snobbery which lays an absurd empanels on the circumstance of birth. A llna at worthy ancestors la an excellent thing U any ancient virtues hare been transmitted to tha children. Aa honored name in aa enviable possession when Its living owner beam himself worthily. Membership In aa hereditary patriotic order la possibly an advantage ao long aa It Inspires the member to serve hie country today n causes no lees holy, though maybe leas heroic, than those which hie order commemorates. Other advantages than there birth does not confer. Philadelphia Ledger. Old Tower ef Punishment. Henry Norman, the traveler, eeysi High above everything else la Bok- hara towers the Miner Kalaa, the great tower of punishment. It le built of flat red bricks aad Its graoe-fu- l proportions have not suffered at all from the effects of time. At the top It widens into a kind of esapsa He, set with oblong windows, and at Ita foot there la a depression which looks aa If It had been scraped out of Use ground. From one of these windows eondemned criminals, trussed like fowls, were pushed out, and thla depression la where generations of them fell. Thla practice haa now been prohibited by tha Russians who rule tie country. ... |
