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Show ! TKjaer 3 X s, i v ioA( S y y r y y I " 3 3j 3 Si l LOST A STORY CP THE ON THE.... vr VI VELDT By H B. n : f 'i V A Ji '.' v - i'- iv j? y, CHAPTER IV (Continued ) Waa It anything, dearie She uttered an exclamation a she saw BHie-belwhite faie The Boers theyre going to attack us, Biuebeil? Is that ls tt?" No, no, auntie not so far as I know, said the girl, wih an attempt at a wan smile At least, Chat wasn't what dad wanted But dont ek me tonight, auntie, Im tired Good night " Miss Elizabeth was all of mother she had eter known. Good night. God keep you, dearie, the elder woman whispered. Her words remained with Bluebell after she had shut herself into her room God keep her1 There was One to whom she should turn now for help. In this most terrible crisis of her young life. Bluebell thiew herself on her knees, burying her face in her hands. the Oh, God, show her what was right thing to do. Help her, oh, God, for there was no other w ho could tell her what she must do! Saxe her father from the consequences of a deliberate crime by selling herself to this scoundrel! It was a fearful sacrifice' Did God demand It of her? Nay, would she be doing right In making it? Bluebell was a good, weet, girl. She had always shown respect and affection for the moat unlovable man who was her father, even when he was least worthy of respect; but she had an unusual amount of common sense for a young girl, and was not likely to be betrayed Into any sentimental and maudlin course of action. As she knelt there a sudden thought came to Bluebell, bringing the warm blood in palpitating wave over the pallor of her white face, and quickening the throbs of her heart that had been beating so low and despairingly. It was the thought of Adair Rothes. If he were only here, Bluebell said to herself, "I think he would help me. He said he wal my friend." Her thoughts wandered from the terrible crisis of the moment to the brief time of happiness In the afternoon when Rothes had first met her. It had not lasted long, that was true; but somehow the memory of Rothes' clasp of her hand, of his long look into her eyes, brought a kind of brief sweetness into Bluebells heart, which even the pain and sorrow of the pres-.ecould not quite blot out Wheqshe rose from her knees her x mind was quite made up. - I shall not marry that man, the said, ahd her eyes Were full ot a strange, deep determination. "It would not make dads sin the less If I did so. It would be h Bin on my part to marry n man like that It would be adding sin to sin. Dad must escape, but It will be In some other way. I will help him to do so. He must escape to England, and auntie and I will caiTy on the farm here. This determination brought a certain restfulncss to Bluebell. She undressed, got "Inter bed, and presently went to sleep, though it was a sleep disturbed by troubled dreams of Boers attacking New Kelso, setting fire to It, and tying up all Its occupants to stakes In order that they might be burnt also. Adam Leslie had a worse night than his daughter. He was up at daybreak and riding over his farm. As he was returning about 7 oclock he saw a tall, dark figure approaching him on horseback. He recognized it at once, and his heart ank- Moore rode quickly op to him. Mr. Leslie could see some excitement on the usually dark, impassive face. News, Leslie great news! he exclaimed, as he came close to the other man, and flung himself off his horse. he dropped Listen, man: but first bis voice what of my love affair. How have you succeeded with the little true-heart- nt bride-elec- t? Leslies rubicund face blanched, but he endeavored to put on an air of assurance. "My dear Moore, she will come round; I am not afraid of that Of course you must allow for a little reluctance at first; but there Isnt the slightest fear but she will give In, But youll give us a day or two more of grace, will you not?" His tone of abject entreaty told more than h!s words did to the keen ear of Gerald Moore, who turned aside for a moment, and passed his hand over his lips as If to conceal their expression "Yes, I will give you a day or, two more, he said presently, for theres some work before you, Mr. LesBe, If, as I think, you feel inclined to tell something which the British general at Ladysmith would give his ears to know. In a few days some of the Boers side may biggest men on be made prisoners". "Tla! Is that not tidings worth hearing? I could give the Information myself, but I wish you to hare the chance of a little glory, and also of a pecuniary reward. You do not need to sell this Information under several hundred pounds. The eyes ot Adam Leslie glistened. Avarice was one of the mans besetrich ting sins. It was the haste to be which bad landed him In the fact of the billionaire Gerald Moore. He grasped Mooree arm. ' "And you can give me this Information I? For pitys sake let me know te Moore. The other man bent his bead, and V . .. ... ,. A IS Mackenzie ;.' i V !f . for a ftw mlnutob spoke in a low but deliberate and dlbtinrt oi'e. Leslie drank in eeiy word His hatred of the Boers was only equaled by h's lust for gold, tfrrd the two passions seem? a way to be satisfied here, rendered his rubicund face agitated and convulsed with emotion You are willing to inform Then go, and at once'" exclaimed Moore Not a moment is to be lost' It Is utterly Impossible that the information can be carried to Ladysmith in any other way I solemnly assure you that no one else knows it but myself You can reach Ladvsmith by 9 o'clock So then, without more ado, go' As Adam Leslie, full of the design that was to delUer ths very leaders of the Boer army Into the hands of the enemy, hurried within his steading, the other man looked after him with a smile So you have worked into my hands, And he friend Leslie, he muttered rubbed these useful members togethr as If Leslie were literally between them. Now my path will be eay. Yes, my charming B'uebell. you will find Gerald Moore Is capable of revenge as And well as love'" And he laughed if you will not yield to persuasion, my dear young lady, why, then, we must needs try force'" CHAPTER V. Bluebell had come down prepared to give her father her answer, and to make her proposal to him, in the morning; but to her surprise and consternation, she learned that he had gone off en horseback, no one knew whither, not saying when he should return. It was Sam who saw him go, said Miss Elizabeth, In a frightened tone, and he says he went in the direction of Ladysmith; but of course he may be going much farther than that he may be going by train. Do you know nothing about It, Bluebell Bluebell shook her head. She was more put about even than her aunt by this new move. What could It mean? Dear auntie, youre not afraid of the Boers, are you? They have never done us any harm, why should they now? Though they are fighting with Britons, It la with British soldiers armed themselves, not with helpless, unarmed people, especially women. The day passed, the women going about their - usual avocations; f but Adam Leslie did not return. It was not till late In the evening that he rode at a hard pace up the avenue and into the steading, right up underneath the stoop or veranda. Bluebell went down to meat him, then turned away with a shudder, for she could see he was deeply flushed and his eyes blazing, while he staggered slightly as he got off his horse. Sam! cried Bluebell to the Zulu servant who had apppeared at the sound f the horse's hoofs, take my fathers horse Father, take my arm," she said, in a low voice. But he flung her off with an oath. Away Into the faouse! You are a disobedient creature, and I will have nothing to do with you! he snarled. He himself staggered Into the sitting room, where he lay down on a couch and fell asleeep, without even remor ing his great riding boots. Bluebell could not speak to him that night. She crept away, bitterly hu mlliated and distressed; and Mias Elizabeth came In and endeavored to comfort her; but it was such comfort as one who Is Ignorant of the real nature or depth of a wound can give. By the morning her father had alept off his drunken fit. Bluebell managed to get a few minute alone with him after breakfast, during which be was sullen and silent, not exchanging a word with the women.. Bad aa Adam Leslie was, he had still a few instincts of a gentleman, and one of these told him that he had been guilty ot a base and dishonorable act In sellling the Information which was to betray the Boer leaders Into the hands of an enemy. Father, 1 must speak to you for a minute, Bluebell said, very pale but very determined. "I have been think lng over what you sald last night I cannot do what you wish. It would be a crime to sell myself to a man . loate.snd"fegrTs But but you must escape. This Is the time to do it, when all the country is in confusion, and You 'people are leaving every day. must go down to Durban and get to England. Aunt Elizabeth and I shall stay on here, and we can send you the money we make. The only thing we have to do Is to throw Mr. Moore off the scent He had been glaring at her with a look that vaguely tprrified Bluebell up to this moment Notp he Interrupted her In a hoarse, sullen tone "You are mad, child! Yon dont know what you are talking about! I am not going to 'scape, or to do sny As for such thing, la th meantime you, you will hae to make up your mind Sooner or 1 er to marry Gerald Moore; but he la not going to Insist at once. You will have a week or two In which to accustom yourself to the idea that seems so disagreeable to you. He turned without another word, and walked out of the room. Uuebell -- locked after him, with mingled agef j t and humiliation In her heart. th He had not alwas been like TEMPLE AID B.uebell could remember her Scow far-off years ot thildhool In brow land, when a sweet-faceha red woman ruled the house. The attendance at the regular quar- Adam Islie had been as differeat conference of the Salt Lake slake, fro Is as terly now day from what he was uieucioua aggregatiou of nebutous held at the Assembly hall, Saturday t been clouds swarms has and starry night W aa small and was a had die, mother subject of cumsweet Then the proved by the researches of the late tb and Leslie had been turned out of Professor Keeler of the Lick observa- in t by several of the speakers inheritance he had thought would W tory to be flying away from the earth throughout the day. In hla remarks to and the sun at the rate of 11 miles In at the afternoon meeting President his, by a cousin, long supposed Srlftc mi fionrri, second' But so vast Is its dis- Angus M. Cannon intimated that ths dead, turning up, and in a sullen. sveiy Ua the ffl People dip dt all deeply Into tance that 100 years reveal no visual Idea la being discussed ot doing away Rant mood the man had set off enT1 of Uilan) and et effects of the great nebula's swift re- with tha South Africa taking his sister wltt flowers beiause of their Saturday meetings aud conbeautj, treat If lt were near by It would him The passion for making monef I tuse of the the fining quarterly conference to Sun- them delight of finding seem to become rapidly smaller. a lorely had entered his heart, whiih seems , gpots on loel bumnier das daya to have no longer any sweet hon aai because of their dear assocm- in the exercises After the wlft his opening since It h affection to soften Million' of n IlmniL Must the scientific sense blunt Ritrln of anl kindergarten reports In a recent lecture at the Royal in morning, died, and he had become harder 1 '"aesthetic one without Often Sir Andrew Nobli work, given by President Gannon la more sullen and more immersed doubt, and stltute, London, botanists eu the though Remoney making until this fearful eaE m? themselves demur, this wiH be mentioned that In experiments witt th. absence of Mr Young of the T. Anna lief Mrs In used Hyde, had come high thsesgt. by power society, explosjvts gunt Pistils and stamens, nsitaA day or two passed Gerald Moo rle,and receptacles these things will chronosrope had been employed end of the primary association by Mrs. Blu and seemed to have disappeared, Dtalwa)s go well with artless talk which registered the velocity of tht Camilla C. Cobb, Mtowed favorable conbell began to breathe more freeeiy about sweet blooms and bright berries, projectile at 16 successive points be- ditions in all tbeke branches of Latter-da- y bad It was poswith the simple verv Eng 1th fore it left the bore. Perhaps, after all. he was not so work. Thomas C. Griggs,. superas she had thought, perhaps her evi- Da fi'en by the unlearned to flow- sible with this apparatus to register intendent of Sunoay schools, said a time to the millionth of a second. In dent aversion to the Idea of marrying er. , new plan waa nnder consideration by l n the other him had offended him, and decided band, there are the older experiments, where the ve the officer that of establishing cot1 toaay lovers of nature and field locity did not exceed 600 or 1,600 feet him to act a more merciful part th; schools, or Sunday schools tage Sunday the per recorded whose lb second, projectile he had at first Intended affection for the flowers In of those unable to attead the homee an4 time by knocking down a aeries oi plants is so great and fixed that Meantime, too, they had heard Presiservices. tbe frontline steel Sunday to Boers. Into th. regular visit triggers time of projecting the news invading further they may safely tbii new aad bore. Cannon the Idea, of But with velocities h feel dent to 2,500 approved wondrous world, to presentOne night Biuebeil bad gone ly emerge from It as much In love as and more per second, the trigger. In- thought there were hundreds of reown room rather earlier than usual vr with the old, they will still care stead of dropping, frequently plowed turned missionaries who wonld be glad She bad had a headache an unoonk mon ailment with her and, saying tg for the flower because of Its beauty, a groove In the projectile, and anothei to assist in tha work. her aunt that she felt sure that ther becMe ft growg jn tjje best places at device waa necessary. Elder Kirkwood, a clerk in tha tithth hst time of was a thunderstorm coming, she bad year, because it vividoffice, said that Salt Lake atake ing Ncall ly to them the glad, sorrowful I wr ROVED COAT HANGER. her good-nigand went to bed: b! had been doing remarkably well In tba of ehildhood or the tender pass days not could The numerous sleep. for a long time she already and offerings, and tba g of true love on the market would legii one to think paying of tithes The night was very hot an unusui Flowers indeed, was expending large to his tor church from altogether no room that thoug for apart season, when, thing at that Improvement wai the days are swclterlngly warm, thi the Klence of botany, are Inextricably left, but the contrary la true, aa we the relief of the needy poor. Many woven about human life will When show la our illustration. Ths great names, he aald, had been added to Abe nights are correspondingly cold an4 b th ot la of painting there was the strange stillness majority hangers are made of wlr. Haot vitUe payer during the post thf forms, which fit the garments only ir year, and in tom wards the number air which precedes a thunderstorm outline, tending to stretch thy coat had been increased four-folBluebell lay waiting for the first audj and crease lt along the Una of th. den clap of thunder, the first dazzling Bishop Preston urged upon hla hearwire. This fault Is remedied In the blaze of lightning, all her nerve fin ers the Importance of attending meethanger here shown, which baa recentstrung, not by fear, but by the over further importance of ly been patented. It la formed of me- ings, and tha charged electricity In the air, and hei on time. there He, too,, dwelt tallic sheets, preferably ot aluminum, being own throbbing temples. ir ' and Mtd' or h mefaT-jviaubjeet sheet ttthtng, although afty Tight" Pa At test Bluebell's ears, stfainad t amount of while the answer the purpose. It Is intended to that tithing catch any noise, detected a strang the hanger in a sufficient lected this year may not be so large as throbbing sound; but It seemed to bi that collected last year giving as a very far away. It was certainly no reaaoa that last year largs aume of Was It thunder. the rumbling of back tithing wer paid, and- - further real sound, or did it exist only In he: o In the reason that ths crops this year are not throbbing tympanum fancy, her ear? Bluebell lay still and lie nearly so bounteous as last still ha tened. had never known a time la tbe history No, It was no fancy! She heard It of his eonneetlon with th work when again, and this time more distinct tithes had been paid so promptly and It was the sound of horses hoofs of o freely. Be stated farther that ha many horses hoofs Bluebell welt bad never known so good a market for knew, though the noise produced was th products of the farmers paid in not that ot several distinct sounds, tithes; that all tha produce brought In but of one galloping along the wagon' was readily turned Into cash. of the veldt path Bluebell started up in bed, a sudden Elder Aspen told of the harmonious trembling se'zing Jger. The Boers! Ot relations existing In tbe high priests course It was the 'Boers! She did not Blackley of th the toot-wh- at SHAPED ANGER FOR. CLOTHING- - quorum, and Elder have a doubt on th. subject But In lt th. accompanying picture work of tbeLU S. !le-- . Joseph E tha-- to the ;,votte4 direction were they going. Atrrp'H con- tbe lump nud of to number sad also bf spoUs saspee size, catch at Taylor a locking spring they were coming towards New Kelso! far The skate is also provided form to pearly every pair of ahouldera. Mid that 500 of the money donated to She could hear their horses approach- rith heel, a Dew horns for the school was the tmal clamps, which are la When the coat is placed on the hanger will-fi- t ing every moment smoothly from tbe collar of th church, faig case opeiated by the movement of It hy a Almost mechanically Bluebell threw foot plate fan conjunction with the down to the lower edge of th form, he, Y Smith Miaa gave a report herself out of bed and dressed herself thus aldTng greatly In maintaining the sinner, the operating lever being M. L A., ahow- Y. L. of work tba the Into her her then feet thrust quickly, to the rvnner in proximity to ahape of the shoulders, which generalslipper a All the house was silent It by pivot pin t the foot plkte, In ly show a need of pressing to remove steady progress In th thirty or was about 1 o'clock In the morning, rder that th hanger. In more associations In the stake. anion of tilting the th traces of tha and every one was In bed. Should tate In either direction will open or addltion to supporting the coat and Elder John T. Caine also addressed she go to wake them? Bluebell hesi- Jose the clamps. - To hooks are provided by which tha the place the akates vest, gathering, urging all th brethren tated. Perhaps the horsemen would m tbe feet when the clamps are once trousers may be attached, be faithful In the discharge of their to pass right on; they must be going jroperlydJusted the. foot . plats .iA duties; 7 towards Ladysmith. Was If not bet1 Hsw Fora, or Fhoaosraph. to tha shoe and tbe skater then td Grant was tba first J. Heber on ter that her father should sleep in ests hla weight on the runner, which Apostle Among the exhibits at the Paris exsession. He efternoon tbe at a was Invented Ignorance that the hated Boers wer speaker to tha catch tbe position Buses phonograph. engage spring belief so near. that enIf he knew of their proxthe bolding a To by Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish expressed ytate and lock It securely. Inimity, who could tell what bad step conference on Saturday was a bad plan the akate the toa of the shoe Is gineer, which uses a his hatred of them might Induce him stead of a cylinder. Th aa evidenced by the light attendance. to take? wire ip of steel and over It, la place ot It waa a bad plan, he said, nntil the the usual stylus, passes a small elec- BelnU Bluebell determined to remain where get aa appetite for meeting on she was and watch. She stood behind tromagnet connected with a telephone that day. H apok of receiving a the muslin curtains, which alone protransmitter and battery. The soundfrom a man la London, who aald letter waves cause a variation In the Intentected the unshuttered window, watchLatter-da- y Saints wer the tba that of unmagand the the sity electromagnet, ing. Her heart beat fast and seen who lived ever he had net, acting upoa th wlrt pasting be- only people evenly, and nervous little shoots of The to their speaker also religion. leave neath a np Impresran it, permanent of her pain through the palms live up to should Saint insisted sion th Uttar. ths Upon reversing hands. upon so aa to of their the on the reacU magwire the religion the action, principle be continued ) (To net and corresponding sounds are bo an example to other. transmitted by the telephone. In orWith the Eyes of Faith. AngufM. Cannon, the president of der to obliterate tbe magnetic trace ., Some idea of amateur photography tha Stake, at Sunday afternoon on the cylinder, lt is only necessary as lt was in its early days may be Ion said that drunken nets and proatl to revolve It under the magnet while gathered from an Incident which the AROMATIC DETACHING DEVICE, this Is tntion were Introduced Into this comto a continuous cursubjected late Bishop Walsh am How confided to prssed against ths catch and the foot rent. munity and encouraged by the his note book. Before he became a lifted, which tilts the foot plate and who followed tha Latter-dabishop he used to call together the lose nee tha clamps. the mountain. Saints scrota ot Anatomical antiquity old men of the parish on New Ycara . wer not out Sir that Norman and Lockyer points Saloon day, and on one occasion he displayed Tsaassss KlnCl Great CkU(S the statues and plaques carved In atona known when oarprontitotecame here, people to hla guests a photograph of two old leveral years ago, members of the and wood to he seen In the Gixeh mube eald; but when those who drove ua men who had long worked at the recGvloglcal survey suggested that In seum prove that tha from our home In th east came ktnong In were times tory. They f aer the Tcunesse river, photographs! of Memphis, 6,000 years ago, had- -a licensed the saloons and enot Joining the Ohio, as at pres-eg.- 1 their working clothee, one with a of anatomy. aa, they knowledge flowed Into the Gulf of Mexico profound vice, nntil now there la not a spade and the other holding a little couraged Science, he therefore thinks, is as old tree aa if about to plant It. A very though the channels ot the Coosa and as In the community that baa not tofamily have advanced art, and they deaf old man, Richard Jones, took the Albania rivers. This conclusion has or acquaintance inhabit- member some Another remarkable fact la gether. In been reiently In a his and corroborated hands, looking smgu that the excavations In Italy bava Ing these denTf4nfmy," photograph la manner by Mr. Charles T. SImpeon at lt aald: "Beautiful!-Beautif- ul!" brought to light score of finely finfie aald ibat his people must submit So the rector shouted: "Who aO they, ofthe Smithsonian Institute. The orig-ln- il ished surgical instruments for certain to have these evils in their midst, that on was based Its tbe Richard?" Suggestion Why," he said, which are, In almost every of the land, but Mr. gimp-set-'s operations, of form, precisely like those they are comnaaded not to pull np tbe Abraham offering up Isaac to be sacparticular confirmation depends upon the reinvented in modern times and used tare, but pray for power to make Zion rificed! The rector tried to undeceive which these- - influence diarlbutlon of a particular form of him, and as the old men who had been frah-watmost advanced surgeons rf to- an asylum Into the by mussel which, although Tt cannot cuter. photographed were sitting opposite day. him, he said: Youll see them before Is peculiar to the Tennessee river, Is Mr. Cannon spoke of th attempt to Richard ajo found In the Coosa and the Ala you If you 11 look up Utah a prohibition state at th make Death Is Mastodons Tailor, As these creatures cannot smiled serenely but all be said wag; bann. was obtained as a trick statehood time. mastodons of three have The bones "Yes, yes, I sees em before me by tixrerse the land, the Inference is that been discovered in Death Valley, Call of hired clergy to a hatched by pack Jomerly the waters of the Tennessee faith! Youths Companion. a and their miner, discoverer, the people.,!. Utah. of. their .flovefl. southward Into thv streams ferula, deprive, has taken out a claim for tbe purpose elvll and religions liberty. above named. t of excavating them. Another Indies Prophetic Mrs. Bingo Bill ta latrodaead Is You went to Mickle-ma- n, tlon of tbe popular appreciation ot the Tn Flight ot a Great Kstmhb Cattxrms. the palmist, didnt you? And how money value of the remain of preOn of the most ' Representative Taylor of Ohio, who waa he? striking spectacles historic animals is, the fact that Mrs. Klngley "Wonderful! His powers of divination are really rewaled by telescopes Is that of the mining claim has been filed In Southwas prominently identified eltk the Great Nebula in Orion. In the commarvelous. What did he say?" "He to cover the excavation movement to exclude Brighum II. RobCalifornia ern plexity of its glowing streams, spirals said I would be without a cook for ant of a fossil whale of the PHoceae opoch, erta of Utah from a scat in congress, strangely shaped masses. Inter Detroit Free Press. nearly a month. Friday Introduced a measure Intended cepted by yawning black gaps and ' TTh T H Follnw.. to bring about federal prohibition of Its Drawbacks. sprinkled over with stars arranged In "Dreadful! exclaimed Cholly Anglo-man- e suffestlv groups and lines. It ba It propose a constitu"If Todd whistles any dog will fol- polygamy. as he looked at en old painting few rivals In the .heavens,- - The low him." tional amendment for nuiform law on Mr. Taylor where the costumes Included doublet And If Waller sings any dog will marriage end divorce. of astonishment made by the Perand hose. ' It's picturesque." slgtt of this nebula la belghtened by follow him." aim his ffoea conthat however, tays, haps. But how could a man roll up knowledge 0f jg enormous size. The -- ."How far?" -siderable beyond a merr uniformity of entire solar system would hla trousers like they do in London? such law, and Is expresdy desigoed to Oh, until lt gets a good grlp.oa appear as a Record. reach polygamy and put an end to it. tiny speck beside It Washington Star. Yet this tre- hlm.Ph!!adelphla I I BOER CAMPAIGN IN NATAL A A' A Inftttu all. St J d, Illicit 1 WWHHmm; n ora natu-,raIU- U ht coat-hange- rs . d. , .'' 1 r (,, . er ed lf old-sty- le de-te- fa wire-wou- wax-cover- -- n y Its., 4 i ; s , priest-mummlfle- rs ad J -- er AaU-FoIjca- ) ' |