| Show I BERTHA CLAY BY M. M I S 4 ii Iii S It ii a Io ly Io Iy The full sky hung a vast then C IS ballo 11 Jn In the moon S 'S i were the illicit with an ever chang le crowd and Just n round a U. corner H t band was playing playing a S their cn ears by Sl mellowed 11 Doming coming to toS by the More nervous than ho tic had over been In his life even upon the ho occasion of his maiden cus Cato CUto sat down by Jo inos side s The young sin one soft check ir upon tim thu II upon life her ier Wa was Pa gazing fT down and of the tho street b below J w. w Her fulP fat race face was half In Shadow Shadow- nd half by the lights of the tho Rue u de la Ia Pal jr but whatever cr larS lur lar S thoughts might be he her expression was calm and untroubled Her very placidity I Ca Cato's t os n nci u SLI e S May 1 I smoke lio ho S that Hint perhaps the frn fragrant grant weed might flight ulm t-ulm him him anti and nerve him to tho task lie be had bad set for fot himself Now Jo was not particularly S fond of but S this oc- oc she sho assented with the utmost graS gra- gra S S Shail hail Had known knorn her di to smoking this would pi have hate encouraged S. S S S M. M 5 ui uin ui a Ji cigar S iiI his pocket and lighted IL It He lie felt the critical had arrived hut but f St for foe the tue life of him ho did not know how to broach the subject S At ln t a happy thought struck him He lie would lead up to tu the by i in HO Mo to speak peak phd and then If hO re re- re any one encouragement t would make mak makeS S bold to of the th doubts an and andS S hopes which were tormenting him lie took a whiff at his hs cigar nod and blew blewS S It forth In a ring then sent another an an- other oilier to join It Th The two rings melting S Into one cite floated slowly away on the still air See how the two rings form into uric one he said softly throwing Into his voice all the sentimental feeling o of which he was capable is a symbol of eternity murmured J Josephine dreamily tug ing tile the circle of as a's It slowly away Cato involuntarily moved K it little S closer to her Tes es he said and it has haa another too It Is to bind S two together I Josephine cust down her S eyes S 55 1 don't dont understand you she sho said salO almost in a whisper S. S But the vivid color that rose in her herS S face and which was apparent even in S the thu din dim light of t the that was a certain mendacity in S her remark Cato noticed the and it gave him hini the tho confidence ho Ire needed Flinging his cigar away he leaned forward sg far forward that his breath breathS S fanned her hunting burning cheek and said in ina ina a voice very low but quivering with emotion k The wedding ring binds two tuo to- to f K c Josephine's heart began lo to heal beat 5 5 but she could find nothing ti to toK K S reply This was rather vague ague as yet t although she sho understood thoroughly I what was meant But it would be most C f. f of liar her to show how any I. I of this knowledge Sy St all she shei i S could do was to wait sait for foi further Zulu and more explicit words Those were not long In coming coniing Josephine almost whispered Cuto taking her unresisting hand Joseph jilt ine you OU must know what 1 mean I Ir r know how unworthy I am urn of you J I IS S know how presumptuous Jt it is of me inc to that you OU will not entirely repulse mo 2110 still I do 10 have the audacity S 10 Toil ToJi me that I do 10 not hope 1 fit that hat you will niko mo inc tho u 5 rj- rj Kt man Jn iii tho world wold Ity in S wl j S S i certainly but a Josephine 5 55 to Say Ray ye yea and yet t faintly S lu to her liberty U We Vc have nave with siLlier such sieh u it S short she murmured nui dA ton ten days days' And then besides r lovos iOOS not times time's fool We VC lovers dont don't count by ty mortal hours t Wo H We Ve repeated Joseph t Ine tue with a little laugh Cute Cato his eyes shining with t. t paled happiness rosC and atud coming close clos closeS to lice her chair bruit bent over her S 5 Josephine Something in your vole voice u me tee hope that thai you yu cared for me that you you you- Is It possible Speak S Josephine looked up at hint him with i u ismile smile and a blush bluish S What can cai I say say You have tatter taken my answer for granted You have scaled scat ed my tHY lips S No hut but I will though exclaimed I Cato Cab taking her bet in his arms arnin and press S lug ing- Ills his lips to hers Josephine my in luvel You will be mine S 'S Always If you will have it so is she repLied softly entire ly 13 Forever S and aye aye ayeS S My i darling When bomb afterward they re returned turned tu to the Hue dc do they found 1 S' S both sergeant and his wife I mg lug them One glance at Josephine's blushing happy fae and Mrs Mra Busier knew thai I S. S her diplomacy had succeeded opened her hor arias anns and Josephine S S rushed into them white while Cato explained to the Well said Duster Buster to his wife that thai L night when they were alone in thou their r Lr own room I 1 am very glad very grind I indeed l But ut who would have thought I it S Mrs Duster turned to him with wilh a z zi L i lofty smile l 1 told you so she he replied 5 I- I IV S Turns Up Damn If ever evel profanity is excusable it IC car certainly was so iso In ill the hue case of Mr Cato Cat carci ci S 'S Dove when ho gave vent to this vigor vigorous S ous expletive Married now fur for nearly a year to tb the 0 sweetest girl in U the e world and ii In Inthe a S the possession of a practice which nine tenths of the young limbs of the law lac lawin V in London might have if envied n vied ii doubtless lid did envy omy it might have heel I supposed that Mr Doves Dove s lot lut in Iii lit litS lift lift- S S was W u bed bod of roses AnTl Antt so indeed it was one die ex exception 55 an exception so trivial that I it t ought scarcely to be mentioned An And 1 S yet it was the crumpled rose leaf bc tic neath the princess's bed of lawn down 01 or I to be more tragic the one little drop I of arsenic in the delicious cup of ot wine lie adored his bis wife his wife adored S him Perhaps It would bo bo as welt well to say scy hero here that without ii his Is knowing p it this life of continued sweetness had bd S become Just a little oh just a little S cloying But can we blame hint him A fly lox honey hohey but when he be falls into S the honey pot po well what then And yet that Is scarcely a fair simile For Cato was happy very very happy But still there ther was that little cloud upon the horizon horison a faint little cloud and p. p yet portending perhaps n a storm Iii And that thai cloud Well it was simply ibis Fur For the last two wi kH as regular regulars S s 65 he tue utah mall itself there had been to o him a strongly perfumed envelope 5 properly addressed containing a dodger S jj U is called in theatrical parlance on were displayed In Lu bold and glaring glar glar- in ing typo these words MLLE ZULU t. t The Queen of the AIri The Only Bali S S Com tint and See Sec lIar Her Tonight Gardens Now this was not pleasant It was S anything hut but pleasant Of course ho be knew who Mile Zulu was But why in inthe e time the name of his Satanic Majesty the Majesty tho language M Cabs not OUI-M OUI ours did did this Queen of the Air iK i like In this thin wat vat He lie had saved tier her life well ye yes hut but s surely h hp had shown b her herS r rin S in Paris li he wished that i cr lode to cpU Just there and why now L Shu had come to London did she s lr in tIlls this exceedingly v S war I t recall herself to Ids his memory antI and ando antIS o PO hint sp p obtrusively that she would like S th I acquaintance to l lt c Again Cato Cat rr lie or excessively S voi J h appeared at tM I Iii heading of this anul tear tr-ar ml ii into fragments p lie ca caS cas It IMO S u u in M lii his bask u-aste-bask L li H. H II i I. I state an nit office decided furnished for bs s csUr J Impress li i I ii them your clients client my boy think rolling we c are zue in iii luxury Jc- Jc 1 n n f il lot be 51 likely I to ob to total sum of te bill In iii t. they wont won't dAre dAro to 5 nd 01 In ill accordance with these words nord of 11 tho office of Buster Dove wa vt almost regal in its ils appear appear- a at co cc S oriental rug rB covered ered the llie floor desks chairs mere tile finest procurable for foi money a a. superb hung over tile the led Ieti Ilie- Ilie I. I lb bran and lie fr ocd walls wore tings it the 10 i l lights of tile tho bur bar and amid others of landscapes scenes flum mythology To the left of the Intel It was vas lams there jn iii the lie d vs a or tIle the honeymoon when Cain Cuto as alixi ous to have always the sweet face facu nf of C his before him was an pot of M ra DOt Dovo h After pitching the tho offensive hit bit of or paper pa- pa s tie per way Cato turned to time the docu- docu C upon his desk dc and amid Mo iii i tet at t m himself In th J ut rc sc case In which he and his wire ie engaged for the tite It was a celebrated ease case the Papers I let with full descriptions of i the lie pro In iii time the court room and should y the fortunes of the dna of o Dove were made But not long was was Cato destined to york work not lot long enough even for him luini to t his recent ric c. Foi eely had he ho begun ills his labors than a knock knoek at tic the dour door Inter Inter- in j tod hint him Coc m lii Ii he called out out a snap snap- lie door leading Inlo the outer offIce offic- opened and the confidential of tile the thin appeared He lie was a Zt Iitti up dried old lila thoroughly honest and reliable but a 5 slow sho step halting speech timid dul berate manner that occasions e Inclined to to exasperate the someI some some- I iii 1 r member of ther the r U what is it asked Caio ato a lit Ie sharply looking hooking illi from his papers then thun catching sj sight ht of what odd for fi such was as tim the decidedly common lace name of the Hie clerk ucla in iii hit he more ThOI mildly Oi i. letters Give x them to me mc r Yes r- r sir sr U. rc sir deferentially and amid a a lady slY sir i iline I line we su ft tr r iVo S opened tin the letters with wilh i pi paper cUtter Oh urn sort ort of a acy S T 5 r f rad lad sir i- i P dd fol foiling hug 1 Is hands and anul slowly twirling Us him thumbs Very peculiar Indeed sl sir 00 now evidence in the Brighton scandal case t Strang-t lady sir Sa I C I. I is ls t I Cato ato paying only emily a casual attention t tt n I hat PoUd was saying had I opened tIlt first letter From U it dropped out an aim another other printed slip ship advertising limo Iho gream zulu lulu was as really too much two two 1 in dav almost in one post host th was worse still ti to come this exclaimed Cato Cab fret frel fully Another playbill Who Is till his hat sends M. me inc every day herWOOd ho her WOOd ei I fit Of course course- this was oh lor l'or lie tho of lodd lie knew we I it W. wai for he had liy by no means forgotten the lie adventure in Paris Mademoiselle Zulu on th 1111 I of time Oh Oil the en of time tho an of hr- hr f I mi IT I in lie roi aside ashile nn l took up UJ ill nii- Ici lor or The Tho e J q Ji Ami of ci jt ji vivid jn Jo ecu color 5 lit It U H thou i n a iio t o em on mii ux the 1 Sl to r my photograph photograph- il tm also aiso the tho tom gotten nd what a Zu A picture oJ 01 I L i. i r artist lu ut which ex ex- t d nIt ll the ol ot her hem bi and lull as litile lo to hit iK Oil lint as Mill w v IM is a it nice iiii thing for u a t i-t bar bar ister and a tuna man at atwell well els to ud yet tin thi sIght wa not liot altogether disagreeable U to Cai Cati II lI gazed upon the a certain amount of of pleasure I Ia It wa a ally n-ally n ii work of art you know Pu Po Id 11 seeing his master thus thins al orld ara anti and peeped curiously over his shoulder lium lin h gasped halt half in ill a sort ort o of ed admiration and half in amaze amaze- mer t Iy sir OHIO stated started as if it ho he mid hud been caught caugh S In Iti Koine net oC of which he should b be the color rose faintly hit into lite ehr k I l 15 the lie photograph upon th hv table tuble he hi demanded aehl what la is it S ht s in there thc responded hi his S SS i manner fur lor desert desert- trig ins him Ilin pointing to the outer of office flee ho Cato Irritably not anI un an- I in III the least leant angry a as h lp was himself for having gazed gassed with wit ii at the lie quos e and amid doubly with wit io having discovered him In th the act acL Why V time the photograph S sir r respOnded pon the dd ld clerk c The lieas lieu lie as ant t to be displayed Cato ate looked hooked at him for a halt hal bewildered und and then as tilt truth dawned upon him he lie roc hastily to hit S heeL What The rimo original of this likeness i I III out then waiting waiting for Tor me uie Ate Are you I S Ire folded his hands and andS I answered in his usual halting man manner S nor ner and with just Lbs suspicion of a roost moat remarkable thing for I trained C clerk who as a rule had Mt hui S JIK 15 well neil under control as auy butler In Iii the of un an aristocratic family Well SeLi di Ir the original out ru han hanEi ia i g i E i. i vo so munch much diess and so little visible tills this has so little dress itIl and KG much machi visible that Its It's hard hara for me to tc wear Cato scarcely knew what lu to do Hn flu I his throat stroked his dim chin ant and I thin th lil his eye r to fall again time the photograph This glance decided lilT lila After all would bo lb no harm burn harmin I in III i ruing her Perhaps li was a client mid nd ii hi justice to Buster yes es tu in Jus Justice tice ES to IV he lie haul had no right to re refuse fuse which might come comite to thu is firm 4 I nit il tin r ini i. i I |
