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* CONFUSION I : OF CASTE. Or Gentility Vs. Nobility of 5ottI. CIIAPTfJU XIV. A few weeks Dorcas spent in tUe •xciteiuenta of a first friendship and then Frank Hurcourt returned to London. Mr. Treluwney bad got rid of the th had lost more the old life began again, and the Biinxnier days went on as they had been used to do before Frank's revolulionar.v advent. For a little while the child remained dull and quiet ; her former games had lost their zest for her ; she pined for the C'onxpanion.ship that had I)een bers for those brief weeks â€" for the [ili-a- Eures she had tasted, whose flavor had spoiled her for the food that had satisfied licr before. But gradually the present ranie seen Mra. Markham was when she waa about fourteen years old, and for nearly three years after this Mrs. Markham happened to pay no other visit to Shepton ; but when the g-irl was seventeen she at length came again, and the six or eight days that she stayed with Letty then amply suQiced, I fear, for the shrewd, ob- servant eyes to lind out a good deal to which poor Letty, in her tender cowardice, would gladly have kept them blind. Till now Dorcas had lived on the whole a ?r!cluded life, but yet, though she had had few companions, there had always been certain houses in together, and neither of them seem- ed to need any other companion- ship. Ho taught her Latin and Greek and on the whole she took to the.so j Shepton that had been open to her, ori) in"his"''"ide "tind 'jjjrcas i '"â- "^"''Ses pretty kindly. She also, j so that she had been by no means her playfellow and once ''"P''^''^' became instructed in his- altogether without friends. T*iey ' ' ' tory, and geography, and in various 'had, for instance, been kind to ner other excellent things. It soon grew ! at the vicarage ; Dr. and Mrs. Cib- to be not only her father's daily I son too had often asked her to visit occupation, but hi^ delight, to teach I them, and perhaps some half dozen her. He put almost all other work ' other families amongst her father's aside that he might devote himself I old acquaintances had taken some to this ; morning and evening she notice of her â€" partly from, old and her studies were his one most friendship's sake, partly from kind- prominent thought. Perhaps the ' news to herself girl had a little more teaching than} At the time of Mr. Trelawney'a vras fiuito good or wholesome for | mai-riage the whole of Shepton, as her, yet on the whole she throve you know, had agreed that he had upon it, and she enjoyed it too. She ! perpetrated a piece of egregious once more to absorb the I>a:^t.'arvT| ^^^'^'^'l^^'^k ''».,"PP«henmng, and she i folly,_ and they^ ^^^ .''"?^^t'^.,^J™„^°h b.y fine degrees Dorcos grew â€" not, to probably, to forget Prank, but .cease to think of him every hour. "I suppose a child's heart is really about as unimpres.sionable as wa- ter," Mr. Trelawney sometimes thought to himself, as he watched her with speculating eyes. It would be the same if he liim- self were removed from her. he used to think : she would forget all about him in a few weeks, and be contented with the first sub.stitute that fell in her way. He told him- self this with a sort of bitterness ; but, neverthelese, even thou;:;h he suspected that his own fate in sim- ilar circumstances might be, the some as Frank's, it gave him a sen.se of ^•ery imf{ucstional)le satisfaction to see how rapidly, to all appearance, Frank was forgotten, and with what coolness the little dauasel settled down again into her old content- ment. Perhaps she had really forsotten iiim ; perhaps she had merely locked up the recollection of him in some secret chamber of her heart, of which she only opened the door whou no one saw her. A child's na- grew gradually â€" to some extent, at any rate â€" to love these studiijs that were so dear to her father's heart : for his sake probably in the lirst place, yet also perhaps a little for it by declining to visit Letty, and so for a good while a number of houses that had been open to him once became closed to him, and people who would formerly have themselves. She could enjoy Homer j greeted him with a cordial shakp of the hand, if they had met him and Letty In the s .-eet, passed him now with a bow. So Letty did not trouble Shepton society with her presence, and â€" so- hen he read it to her in his musi- I cat voice, and could even catch I something from him of his own en- I thusiasm. Grad\ially, as the years passed, she became more than a pupil to him : "^iety being grateful to herâ€" was, per- she became a help in his work. He could trust the careful fingers to make correct extracts for him, and the careful eyes to search for many a reference and note. The work she did was possibly dull for her some- times, or at least it would have been if her love tor him had not made it dear to her ; but that love beautified it all. She was proud of being useful to him with a sacred pride ; she would not have let any other hand take one iota of her labor from her. So these two lived in one another; haps, the more kindly treated by it on that account ; and as for Mr. Trelawney and Dorcas, they mixed a little in it, in a. very moderate way. and Dorcas had her friends and favorites, and Indeed, on the whole, was, perhaps, made a good deal of â€" because people were so sorry for her. they said, and because it was such a terrible disadvantage to a girl to have a mother like Letty. "Of course nobody woiild ever be so cruel as to say a word to her, but she Is sure to hear" the truth sooner or later, poor dear," they often said ; and in and as for Lettyâ€"! Well. Letty had i '^'â- "t»» t^'^eir tenderness over her her own place, they thouightâ€" but i brought the story of her father's that was not in the inner circle of '"'^'''''nge at times so curiously near the heart of either of them. The : tti*""" "PS that, if Dorcas did not iive her life as she best could, doing the work that fell to her to do, but closing her lips for the most i not guessed it, part over all her futile regrets and | ignorance, and futile longings. It was hard, per- ture is so strange a thing. She had) gentle, loving, feeble woman had to been full of talk about him all the time that he was with her, carrying his name so perpetually on hei" lips that other people grew tired of hear- ing it ; but from the fast day after his departure she scaicely any longer | haps at times ; but then the world talked of him at all ; oven when she i is full of hard things, Letty always seemed to miss him most she held I patiently thought, and if .«he had her peace about him. | he'" troubles she had also so much So time went on, and the waters ^ besides to make her glad. If, indeed, seemed to have closed over Frank's : ^r. Trelawney and Dorcas could name, and Dorcasâ€" a happv but' bave loved her a little betterâ€"! lUit sedate little maiden-fell back into | tben they were so different from her: all the old wavs that his visit had i ^bey were gentlefolks, and she was interrupted and broken up. Once 1 0"'y '^ P°"'' woman, and so it would more she became her father s com- | ""' ba\e been natural, she supposed, and the pride and gladness ^be Wiis glad, with pure, unselfish panion of her father's lite. The months passed on after Frank's departure, and the .vears passed on, and he never came again. Such placid years ! â€" in which winter and seed-time and surumei- and harvest succeeded one another in a (tuiet and contented round â€" haji- py. and busy, and uneventful. The hair began to silver as they pa.ssed on Mr. Trelawney's temples. and Letty lost her youth and Doi-cas sli[>ped imperceptibly out of child- hood, and shot into a tall, slim girl, with a bright and pretty face, «iiiakcr-like still in a certain quiet and demui-e cxpi-ession, yet with light and lavighter too behind the lashes of her sweet brown eyes. "She is very like my mother," Sir. Trelawney often said, and yet he s»iid it always dubiously, for the girl was like her grandmother, but yet it was likeness with a dilTeronco : the «iclicalo features came from Mrs. Trelawney, but the character of the face â€" a certain modest aiul yet frank and fearless brightness that it had â€" she had irJiorited from some other progonitoi- â€" not from Mrs. Trelawney, nor from her fiithor, nor from Letty. With intense tenderness her father would often look into her eyes â€" not really reailing much in them, perhaps (girls' eyes reveal so little), but with pa.>^ionate love and faith believing that ho read a whole world of hidden things. Was there anything a daughter could be tt> a father that Dorcas was not ? Between them there seemed to be a natural sympathy, deep as their two lives. Thoy spent their days love, that Dorcas was such a little lady ; she never for a moment wish- ed that it had been othurwisc. or grudged her husband one gram of his; might he so only in outward ° ai>- gucss it, it was almost more her fault than theirs. But yet, up to this time, she had and, happy in her in her unconscious- ness that there was anything in her historj- that was kept a secret from her, she went her way without sus- picion, and took her place in the little world amidst which she lived. frankly and fearlessly ; until, when she had a little while passed her seventeenth birthday, there came this visit of Mrs. Markham's, which set her pondering about various things of which she had scarcely- thought before. In truth, at this period of her life, the girl in her heart was a rabid little aristocrat, and whatever w;is unrefined or common, even though it delight and satisfaction in the child And she would look, with eyes made tender with love and thankful- ness, at the little maiden, whose delicate and dainty prettiness was so far removed from anything that the unkindest lips could have called vulgar or imreiincd and (in spite of the sword in her own heart) feel proud that it should be so. "Yes â€" she don't take after you. Letty, or any one of the lot of us," Mrs. Markham sometimes emphati- cally said. Mrs. Markham hal long ago taken another situation as housekeeper in a distant county, and, tliough she was growing old, was still buxom Piles To proT3 to yon thab Dr, Chaee'd Ointmvnfi is a certain and ftbpolute ouro for each and every form of icch^cfir. bleo(Ua(r*nd protruding pilc3. th« manufacYizrera have tru:uâ- ?lnteedi^ Scetes- timoniOit iii the daily prcBS oml a-sk your iielith bors what they think of it. Yon can nso it and K«t Toor money back if not cured. (>i)c a box. at all dealers cr Edmamsok.Bates Sc Co., Toronto, Dr. Chase's Ointment and healthy. Every year or two she would come to see Letty, and stay with her for two or three days, and during these visits Mr. Trelawcey would treat her with gi-eat kindness, and Letty w^ould always have much to .-^ay to her that she could say to no one else. The last time that Dorcas had pearance, found little favor or char- ity ill her sight. To a large extent it was because he was so perfect a gentleman that she was so proud of her father, and if her mother had been as perfect a lady, she would have loved her better than she did. I am afraid, by a good deal. As it was. somehow- she knew instinctive- ly that Letty was not like her father. She knew itâ€" she seemed al- ways to have known it ; vaguely, as tar as any comprehension went of wherein lay the dirVerence between them, but very certainly and clearly indeed as to the difference itself. Hut yet to her mother's shortcom- ings Dorcas had been so long accu.s- tonied that she had come â€" as was only natural â€" to accept them simply as matters of course, without won- der or question, or only â€" when the.v were brought prominently before her â€" with a little occasional annoy- ance. They were not aggressive faults (poor Letty 's failings all hor life had been so much more of the negative than the positive kind) : she might be a little diiierent from other people, but she was not startling, and â€" and vulgar, as surely Mrs. Markham was ? She could not make up her mind to like the latter, that was the hon- est triilU of it. She was a dainty little lady, and she was uslinmed to think that this red-faced woman, who called her father "sir" and spoke bad grammar, and could not bo kept from making the bods r.nd mending everybody's stockings, >vas her mother's aunt. I am afraid that during these days the girl made Letty 's heart aciie many a time, and filled her with fears that she knew were very cowardly. How could she still hope now, when Dorcaa was elmost a wo- man, to keep it any longer hidden from her that she and her people had been so far beneath her father's class ? and yet, she had not courage to tell the secret to her that she had tried so long to keep. "I ought to do it, perhaps," she said to Mrs. Markham sadly one day â€" "I feel that many a time : but when I think that, if she knew it, she'd look down upon me (for she's hard at times â€" oh, I think we're all of us hard when we're very young !) I don't know how to do it. And yet I feel she'll find it out some day, and majce it worse for me than if I told her now." 'Well, Letty, my dear, if I was you, I would tell her, and have done with it," Mrs. Markliam re- plied to this speech. "You've got nothing to be ashamed of; and, for my part, I think better of Dorcas than to believe she'd ever cast it up to you, or bear a thought on her heart against you for it. She couldn't do that, Letty, and you her own mother, though maybe she is a little bit stiff just now, and stuck-up with pride, as girls often are at her age. But she's a good girl in spite of that, and she couldn't be good and not be tender over you." "Aunt Markham, mamma lived with you, did she not, when she was a little girl ?" Dorcas said a day or two afterwards, abruptly, to Mrs. Markham herself ; and Mrs. Markham â€" knowing how much in the dark the girl had been kept â€" took a moment' or two hurriedly to arrange her thoughts, and then â€" "She lived with me before she married your father, my dear," she said? "She c;une and stopped with me after her own mother died." 1 "Oh ! â€" and was that in Loudon?" â-  "Xo ; here." The word slipped j from Mrs. Markham's lips before she: perceived that it would have beeUj wiser to have omitted it. | "Here in Shepton ?" in a tone of great surprise. "Yes." Mrs. Markham gave her answer un- willingly, but with Dorcas sitting before her^ looking with hor keen eyes into her face, how could she help giving it ? "In Shepton ! Then you lived here ?" cried Dorcas. "Yes, my dear, I lived here for a bit." "And that was when papa fell in lo\-c with mamma 7" "Yes." "And mamma was married from your house ?" "From â€" yes, yes â€" she was married while she was stopping with me." "Papa and mamma always talk so little about old times. It is odd that I never knew before that you lived in Shepton. What house did you live in, Aunt Markham ?" asked Dorcas placidly. But this was too much for Mrs. Markham. She suddenly rose from her seat, on the pretext that her sewing was finished. "Perhaps I'll show you some day. my dear," she said, with gi^eat out- ward self-possession, but inward un- easiness, and. taking up her work- basket, she walked away, and left Dorcas alone, puzzled, but still far from guessing the truth. (To Be Continued). POOR iJI&ESTION. HENDEHS THE LIFE OF THlft DYSPEPTIC MXSEHABLE. Food Becomes Distasteful and a, Feeling of Weariness, Fain an4 Depression Ensues. From LeSorelois, Sorel, Que. Of the diseases afflicting mankind dyspepsia, is one of the worst to en- dure. Ita victims find life almost a burden. 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