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Show I hopo If he meddles with Womd en again, he will seek an Dutch girl, who will coniinoii-sens- e know how to direct her letters or else be content with one lover. "Arenta, I shall go now. I have given you an opportunity to be rude and unkind. You cannot expect me to do that again. Arenta watched Cornelia acroaa the street, and then turned to the mirror and wound her ringlets over her finI don't care, sho muttered. gers. It was her fault to begin with. She Men tempted Rem, and he fell. always fall when women tempt them; It Is their nature to. I am going to stand by Rem, right or wrong." To such tbougnts ahe was ragtng when I'eter Van Arlena came home to dinner, and sho could not restrain them. He listened for a minute or two, and then struck the table no gentle blow. "in my house, Arenta, he aald, "I will have no such words. What you think, yon think; but such thoughts must he shut close in your mind. In keeping that letter, I say Rem behaved like a scoundrel; he was cruel, and he was a cowan!. Because he Is my son I will not excuse him. No Indeed! For that very season, the more angry am I at such a deed. Now that! THE A AID sf AUIDEN LANE Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E. BARR (Coprri.tat br Amalia TOOL CHAPTER XV. Hush! Love le Here!" On the morning that Hyde sailed for America, Cornelia received the letter he had written her on the of Rem's dishonorable conduct So muru love, an much Joy, arnt to her in the secret, foldings of a sheet of paper! In a hurry of delight and expectation she opened It and her beaming eyes ran all over the Joyful words it brought heraweet fluthad tering pages, that his breath moved, and his face been aware of. How he would have rejoiced to see her pressing them to her bosom, at some word of fonder memory or dey sire. In the afternoon, when the slumping for the day had been accomplished, Cornelia went to Capt. Jacobus, to play with him the game of backgammon which had become an almost dally duty, and to which the captain 1 owe attached a great importance. your daughter as much as 1 owe you, sir," he would say to Doctor Moran, "and I owe both of you a bigger debt than I can clear myrdf of." This afternoon he looked at his vle-itwith a wondering speculation. There was something In her face and manner and voice he had never before seen or beard, and inadame who watehed every expression of her husband was easily led lu the same obCornelia Sho observed servation. closely, and her gay laugh especially revealed some change. It was like the burst of bird song in early spring and she followed the happy girl to the front door and called her hark when she had gone down the steps, and aald, as she looked earnestly In her face: You have heard from Jorls Hyde? I know you have! and Cornelia nodded her head, and blushed and smiled, and ran away from further question. When she reached home she found Madame Van Heemskirk sittirg with her mother, and the sweet old lady rose to meet her, and said before Cornelia could utter a word: "Come to me, Cornelia. This morning a letter we have had troin my Juris, and sorry am I that I did thee ao much wrong. "Madame, I have long forgotten It, and there was a mistake all round, answered Cornelia cheerfully. "That la so and thy mistake first of alL Hurry is misfortune; even to be happy. It la not wise to hurry. Listen now! Jorls has written to his grandfather, and also to me, and very irmitm wtyvi ewarw pw ia to look after the stables, and father to buy more horses, and to hlia ing men of all kinds. And a long letter also I have from my daughter Katherine, and she tells me to make tier duty to thee my duty. That Is my pleasure also, and I have been talking with thy mother about the house. Now I shall go there, and a very pleasant homa I shall make 1L Then Cornelia kissed madame, and afterwards removed her bonnet, and madame looked at her smiling. For nearly a week Cornelia was too busy to taka A rents Into her consideration. She did not care to tell her about Rem's rruel and dishonor serv- 8ha aelxed and read it able conduct, and she was afraid the shrewd little Marquise would divine some change, and get the secret out of her. After a week had elapsed Cornelia went over one morning to see her friend. But by this time Arentn knew Her brother Rem had everything. been with her and confessed all to his sister. She heard the story with Indignation, but contrived to feel that somehow that Rem was not so much to blame aa Cornelia, and either people. You art right served." she said to her brother, for meddling with foreigners. and especially for mixing your love affairs up with an English girl. Proud, haughty creatures all of them! And you are a very fool to tell any woman such a crime. Yes. It Is a crime. I won't say less. That girl over the way nearly died, and you It was a would have let her die. shame. I don't love Cornelia but It was a shame. "The letter was addressed to me, Arenta?" K. Barr) me laicful letter. She seized and read It, and then without a word, or a moment's hesitation threw It Into the Are. Rem blustered and fumed, and she You stood smiling defiantly at him. are like all criminals,' sue said, you must keep something to accuse yourself with. 1 love you tuo well to permit you to carry that bit of paper about you. It haa worked you harm enough. What are you going to do? Is Miss Darner's refusal quite final? Quile. ll was even scornful. "Plenty of nice girls in Uoslun. "I cannot go hack to Boston. "Why then?" "Because Very's cousin has told the whole affa.r." "Nonsense! "She has. I know ll. Men, whom I had been friendly with, got out of my way; women excused themselves at their homes, and did not see me on the afreets. 1 have no doubt all Boston Is talking of the an air." "Co away as soon as you ran. I don't want to know where you go Just yet. New York is Impossible, and Boston Is impossible. KuLher says go to the frontier, 1 say go South. And 1 d would let women alone they are you go in for politics." That day Rem lingered with his sister, seeing no one else; and In the evinlng shadows he slipped quietly efaway. He felt, that Ills forts fer two years were forfeited, and that he had the world to begin over again. Without u friend to wish him a (JodspreJ trie wretched man went on board the Soulhern packet, and In her diin lonely cabin sat silent and despondent, while she fought her way through swaying curtains of rain to the open sea. This sudden destruction of all her hopes fur her urullier distressed Arenta. Her own marriage had been a most unfortunate one, hut its misfur-- t tines had the importance of national tragedy. Rein's matrimonial failure had not one redeeming quality; It was altogether a shameful and retribution. But the heart of her anger was Cornelia hilt for that girl," Rem would have uiurrled Mary Darner, and hla home In Boston might have been full of opportunities for her, aa well as a desirable change when she wearied of New York. When Cornelia entered the Van Arlena parlor Arenta waa already there. She looked offended, and hardly apoke to uer old friend, but Cornelia waa prepared for some exhlbl-nn- r. Sh kat wot been to aee Arenta for a whole week, and ahe did not doubt ahe had been well aware of something unusual In progress. But that Rem had accused himself did not occur to her; therefore ahe was hardly prepared for the passionate accussations with which Arenta assailed her. I think, she said, "you have behaved disgracefully to poor Rem! You would not have him yourself, and yet you prevent another girl whom he lovea far better than he ever loved He has you from marrying him. gone away 'out of the world, be says, and Indeed I should not wonder If he kills himself. It Is most certain you have done all you can to drive him to It." "Arenta! I have no Idea what you mean. I have not seen Rem, nor written to Rem, for more than two years. "Very likely, but you have written about him. You wrote to Misa Darner and told her Rem purposely kept a letter, which you had sent to Ixird Hyde." I did not write to Miss Darner. I do not know tne lady. But Rem did keep a letter that belonged to Lord Hyde." Then anger gave falsehood the bit and she answered, "Kcm did not keep any letter that belonged to Lord Hyde. Prove that he did so. before you accuse him. You cannot." I directed Ixird unfortunately Hyde's letter to Rem, and Rem's letter to Ixird Hyde. Rem knew that he had Ixird Hyde's letter and he should have taken It at once to him." "Ixird Hyde had Rema letter; he ought to have taken It at once to Rem." There was not a word In Rem's letter to identify It as belonging to him. 'Then you ought to be ashamed to write love letters that would do for any man that rrceiveq them. A poor hand you must be to blunder over two love letters. I have had eight and ten at once to answer, and I never failed to distinguish each, and while rivers run Into the Mt I never shall misdirect my love letters. Very clever Is Ixinl Hyde to excuse himself by throwing the blame on poor Rem. Very mean indeed to accuse him to the girl he was going to marry. "Arenta. I have the most firm conviction of Rom's guilt, and the greatest concern for his disappointment. I assure you I have." "Kindly reserve your concern. Miss Moran, till Rem Van Arlene asks for it. As for his guill, there is no guilt In question. Even supposrg that Rem did keep Lord Hyde's letter, what then? All thlrgs are lair In love and war. Willie Nicliolls told me last night that he would keep a hundred letters, if he thought he could win me by doing so. Any man of sense hui-lnes- well-deserv- You knew It was not "Fiddlesticks! You knew it was Hyde's. yours: Where Is it now?" She asked the question In her usual would. "All I blame Rem for dominant way. and Rem did not feel "All I blame Rem for Is. that he able to resist It. He opened his pocket-boo- k and from a receptacle In it, took asked you to marry him. So much for Is" THE LION'S WHELP A Story of Autnar af Cromwells Tim BY AMELIA E. BARR. "Tha Bow af Oranga Ribbon. Tha Maid (Copyright. 1401. by Dodd, I. Thau and tha Othar Ona. af Mai dan Lana Etc. Mud Conpany. All riihtt rntrvrd ) CHAPTER XVI Continued. home for many weeks, perhaps For Matilda had concealed every months. A rerent experience had fault and every unkindnesa by her proven the necessity for this exclusprompt action In the matter of Lord ion of strange elements. Early in Neville, and Jane had been loving and June, Israel had takpn Cluny to bid praising her for It. until the sweet- farewell to his old General, and the ness of their first affection waa be- meeting had tried both men severely. tween them. And Matilda enjoyed At Its close Cromwell went to a desk praise; she liked the appreciation of and wrote a few llnea to the officials her kind deed, and waa not therefore of the Massachusetts Colony; in them, disposed to make light or little of commending Lord Neville to their what she had done, or of Its results. kindness and care. His hands tremAnd, pray, how cornea my lord on bled those large, strong hands tremtowards recovery? bled as he gave the letter to Cluny. Life was nearly gone; Then he kissed him once more, and Slowly. body and mind were at deaths door; with a "Farewell'' that was a blessing, but be can walk a little now, and In he turned away, weeping. two or three weeks we are going It Is another friend gone, he said lover away far away, we are going to my mournfully to his own heart; brothers In the Massachusetts col- and friend are put far from me and mine acquaintance Into darkness. ony. "You will come back?" Cluny was so much troubled and "I tbink it is unlikely. Father feels affected by this visit that Israel change approaching. The Protector's thought It well to take him to see the health ia falling rapidly; he is dying, ship which was to carry him to the Matilda. solitudes of the great waters and the " "If he dies? safety of the New Yorld. He was Im"Father will leave England as soon patient to be gone, but there were yet as Cromwell Is In his grave. Cymlln a number of small Interests to be will keep old Swaffham fair, for Cym-li- n attended to; for they were to carry will never leave England while with them a great deal of material necou are in ll. essary to tne building and furnishing oi their future home. Every day reAnd you can bear to talk of leaving England in that calm way, with- vealed some new want not before out tears and without regrets. Jane, thought of, so that It was nearing the it is shameful; it is really wicked." end of June when at last all was de"Dear Matilda, do not be angry at clared finished and ready. I had to do what I had me Then Jane hastened home, reto do. I was married to Cluny three solving to see Matilda on the followBut when she reached days after he came home. We all ing day. thought he was going to die, and he Sandy's House, Mrs. Swaffham met wished me to be bis wife. Now did I her with a letter In her hand "Lady not do right to marry him when and Jevery asks you to come to Matilda, "You have behaved disgracefully. who Is In great trouble, she said. how, he wished?" So Jane went to her friend. With "Yes, she answered, but her face then, he shall acknowledge to George Hyde and Cornelia Moran the wrong and voice showed her to lie painfully her, also, she found the grief death he did them, ere In my home and my affected. "Jane, I cannot bear to lose brings. heart he rights nimself. "Is Cornelia going to be married? "That Is what I hear." "To Ixird Hyde?" "That also, is what I hear." Well, as 1 am In mourning I cannot go to the wedding, so then 1 am iieliglitcd to have told her a little of my mind. "It is a great marriage for the Doctors daughter; a countess she will be." "And a marquise I am. And will you please say, if either countess or marquise Is better than mistreat or madam? Thank all the powers that be! I have learned the value of a title, and I shall change marquise for mistress, as soon aa I can do to.'j always you had thought thur a great deal of sorrow we had both been spared. "Well, then, a girl cannot get her share of wisdom till ahe comes to it. After all, I am now sorry I have quarreled with Cornelia. In New York and Philadelphia ahe will be a great woman. To take offense Is a great folly, and to give offense Is a great folly I know not which is the greater, Arenta. Oh. indeed, father ," aha answered, If I am hurt and angry, I shall take the liberty to say so. Anger that la Jane knew how to comfort Matilda. hidden cannot be gratified, and If peoStephen le alafn! were her first ple use me badly, it la my way to you. I ahall have no one to love me, tell them I am aware of It One may no one to quarrel with, ahe added. words. She could hardly utter them. But Jane knew how to comfort Mahe obliged to eat brown bread, but I, "You will have Cymlln. for one, will say It ia brown bread, "Cymlln la Cymlln; he is not you. tilda; ahe could talk to her as she and not white." I will say no more. When a woman la could not to the ladles of Cromwell's How was Stephen slain? household. (To be continued.) married, all la over." Then Jane rose to go, and Matilda she asked, in a duel? No, thank God! He fell, as he himBARRYMORE NOT ON SHOW. tied her bonnet strings and straightened out her ribbons and her gloves, self could have wished, fighting the Famous Actor's Cutting Rebuks to doing these trifling services with a enemies of his king. He was with tenderness that filled Conde and the Dukes of York and Group of Club Men. The real bohemian does not wish Jane's heart with pleasure. "Good- Gloucester before Dunkirk, and was to be pul on show for the delectation bye. dear! ahe said with a klaa; "I killed while meeting the rush of those terrible Ironsides. Camuy wrote me will come as often as I can. of persons who do not understand that he said 'Mother!' joyfully, with him. There la a story told of Mau"Very kind ol you. Lady Neville, rice Barrymore which Illustrates this answered Matilda with a curtsy and hia last breath. "Poor Stephen! point. Entering the famous bohemian a tearful mockery; "very kind Indeed! Oh. indeed 'Us very well to cry, club in New York one night, he found But will your ladyship consider" a lot of ctimmerrlal men In full pos- then she broke down and threw her 'poor Stephen.' when he la beyond arms round Jane, and called her "a your pity. You might have pitied him session. They greeted "Barry efHe had hardly got himself dear, sweet, little Baggage and bade when he was alive, that would have fusively. fairly sat when one of them slap- her give Cluny some messages of been something to the purpose. All hia short, unhappy life haa been one ped him on the back and aald: "Bar- hope and congratulation, and to partaf- constant battle with Puritans and povry, apeak us a piece." Then a chorus ed with her In a strange access of Yea. get funny, old man; cut fection. But true friendship haa these erty. Oh. how I hate those 8tuarts! aid: We've all heard that you were a moods of the Individual and would not I am thankful to see you can weep for up. God him, Jane. I think you ought. great entertainer. Barry glaied ha true without them. around for a moment and then said, Jane walked home through the city, knows he loved you well, and most And he Is the last, the I'll do a handspring for and Ita busy turmoil struck her aa thanklessly. quietly: What a vain show It last de Wick. Root and branch, the you. gentlemen, but I can't speak a never before. de Wick tree haa perished. I wish I piece. Then he reached through the waa! A passing show, constantly silence and picked his hat off the changing. And suddenly there was could die also. And Cymlln, Matilda?" hook. That was the last lime ha the galloping of horsemen, and the "I shall marry Cymlln at the propdrew and a stood little still, crowd entered the club. aside, while Cromwell, at the head er time. "You may have sons and daughters." of his guards, rode at an easy canter Southern Strawberry Picking. I hope not. I pray not. I have had man street. bared hla the Every down Norfolk, Va., men shipped north In head aa the grand, sorrow enough. My father and his soldierly figure one day recently 12,2ou crates of sons are three a saw He a and good swift ending for the Jane, sy. strawberries, or about 732.000 quarts. passed chased away for a moment the house. It was built with the sword, smile The season was at its hight last week, sorrowful gravity of his fare. But he and it has been destroyed by the and some of the growers In the vicinleft behind him a penetrating atmos- sword. No, Jane, the line of de Wirk ity had between 3'k) and 400 negro phere of roming calamity. Hla glori- is finished. Cymlln and 1 will he the pickers at work. They begin at day' ous life was closing like a brilliant lost Earl and Countess de Wick." lircas and earn from $1 to $1.25 a day "And Prince Rupert?" aim setting in a stormy sky. In wages. The average yield this sea"Is a dream from which I have The fifteenth of May had been set son Is about 2,500 quarts to the acre. his assassination, t. mm well knew awakened." for The crop in that section Is about 20 all the secret "But he may stil be dreaming." plan of this conspiracy ; per cent short. Imt the berries are knew every member of it , and un tho "Rupert has many faults, but he Is better than usual. The negroes do after iiik ir when Jane Swaffham saw a man of honor. My marriage In not plek the lierr' s one at a time, but him Ixindon streets, so Cymlln will be a barrier sacred to up passing A plantation owner stern and scornful, he had grab handfuls. both of us. Our friendship can hold ordersaid that his workers from a distance ed tha arrest of one hundredjust of them. Itself above endearments. You need looked like a gigantic Hook of blackJane heard constantly of these not fear for C)mliu: Matilda de Wlek birds. event, but ber heart had closer inter- will honor her husband, whether she ests. The ship which was to carry obey him or not. Cymlln Is formed Same Reply In All Ages. Cluny and herself to America waa for power and splendor, and he will "Wlial," asked tin youth. "Is tha lying at the wharf nearly ready for stand near the throne." first step toward knowledge?" "If there he a throne." sea. There were to lie no other pasThe discovery that jou are a blank sengers; Cluny and Jane alone were "Of that, who now doubts? Cromfool!" answered the sage. cabin their well Is falling sick, and you may feel to find lu Its bjgrk-ribhe- ,'ir God save the King In the air. If yon had married Stephen, he would hava been alive to join In the cry. I could weep at your obxC.nacy, Jane. "Iwet It pass. dear. I was suckled on Puritan milk. Stephen and I never could have been one. My fate wan to go to the New World. Stephen haa escaped this sorrowful world and "Oh. then, I would he were here! Thia sorrowful world with Stephen In it was a belter world than it la without him. Jar.e, Jane, how he loved you! And I loved him, aa a companion, friend, brother, if you will When yon lay hla body In de Wick, cast a tear and a flower on his coffin for me. God give him peace! came. At length their "farewell The last words between them were soft and whispered, and only those sad, loving monosyllables which are more eloquent than the most fervid protestations. And so they parted, forever In this life. The next afternoon Jare and Cluny rode through Ixindon streets for the last time. On the ship they found Jane's father. Doctor Verity and Sir Thomas Jevery. There were no tears at this parting; nor any signs of Borrow; every one seemed resolved to regard it as a happy and hopeful event. For. though not spoken of. there was a firm belief and promise of a meeting again In the future not very far off. Israel held hla littla daughter to his heart, and then laid her hand in Cluny 'a without a word; the charge was understood. When the last few minutes came, and tha men were trooping to the anchor, Doo-tVerity raised his hands, and tha three or four in the dim, small cabin knelt around him, and ao their farewell was a prayer and their parting n blessing. Israel and Doctor Verity walked away together, and for a mile neither of them spoke a word. Aa they came near to Sandy's, however, Israel said: "It is a short farewell, John. It wil be my turn next." I shall go when yon go. To the Massachusetts Colony?" I am ready to go when the Yes. time comes. It is not far off." A few months at the longest "He la very ill? "The foundations of his life are shaken, for he lives not in his power or his fame, or even in the work set him lo do. No, no, Oliver lives in his feelings. They are at the bottom of his nature; all else Is superstructure. And Fairfax, as well as Lambert and others, think they can fill great Olivers place! no man can. "For that very reason, when he departs. I will away from England. I huve no heart for another civil war. I will draw sword under no leas a general than Oliver. "Good night, John. Good night, IsraeL Have you told Martha? "Not yet. She will fret every day till the change comes. Why should we have a hundred frets when a dosen may do? But when Israel went Into Martha's presence something made him change hla mind. The mother had been weeping, and began to weep afresh when sue saw her husband. He anticipated her sorrowful questions, and with an assumption of cheerfulness, told her how happy and hopeful Jane and It did not feel Cluny seemed to be. like a parting at all, Martha, and Indeed there was no need for any such feeling. We are going ourselves very soon now. The worda were spoken and could not be recalled, and he stood, in a moment, ready to fare the storm they Martha looked at her might raise. husband with speechless wonder and distress, and he was more moved by this attitude than by her usual garrulous anger. He sat down by her side and took her hand, saying: (To be continued.) or ha-said-, DUKE OF YORK SNUBBED. long-abse- Mounted Police Had Good Idea of Their Dignity. Listening to the conversation of mounted police, aa one encounters them everywhere in the Northwest, it ia distinctly evident that they are men of a different stripe from the Tommy Atkins of the British regulars. says !xslle's Monthly. The mounted policeman la a head, not an automaton nor a flunky. Thia waa curiously Illustrated during the visit of the duke of York to the territories last year. Aa the-- royal train came into one of the frontier towns two liveried outrunners dashed breathlessly to the platform, shouting excitedly for the police to gel out the royal horses!" The troopers of the university type smiled and said nothing: but one of the frontiersmen In khaki frowned and took a bite of chewing tobacco. The two little men in royal liverr became apoplectic. "Don't you men hear? Get nut tho horses! Who's going to get out tho horses?" The trooper In khaki again calmly took consolation for the Insult from Have some? his tobacco. No? Horses? Did you say horses? WelL don't burst your buttons. What do you think you are for? Get em out yourself!" To Enlarge Washington University. Samuel Ciipple. the St. Ixiula millionaire, who l.ss just sailed for Europe. slates that uiNin his return ho intends to enlarge the Washington university and make it the largest school of engineering and technology In the world. j j : World's Largest Spider. The largest spider In the world haa been found in Sumatra. Its body is nine Indie ir rlrctimfcrenec and U legs spread seventeen inches. |
