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( ^d««t;««»«d«««««*$»«dd««««#««*»d*#«««ft««*««<t** i CONFUSION Or * Gentility » Vs. I Nobility of Soul, f* I OF CA5TE. CHAPTEU XXIV. The broiik had come, and for a little while Uoicus drooped ; and then the inevitable necessities of her common daily work, surrounded her again in the old way, makinB de- mands upon her again, as they hud done in the time before Frank came, helped her to ch'op gradually and in- Bcnsibly once more back into the life that she seemed to have leaped out of so wildly for a little while â€" that familiiU- life that had been so monotonous, and yet so full of peace; so uneventful, yet so full of a ijuiet thankfulness. In lier heart the girl was changed, but outwardly there ceased .soon to be any change at all in her. The old things went on again as if there had been no break in their placid (low, a.nd only she herself knew that between her present and her former life there lay a. wide gulf of separation, part-, ing that present from the past as clearly as. a river pai'ts its two shores. With a sense of painful sclf-re- prouch, gradually Dorcas bcfjan to try to give her heart once more to the work that, during those weeks while Frank had been with her, she had performed only niechanically. Perhaps it was (iillicult to sit for hours now in that quiet study, wllli a juiiid devoted to somothiiif^^ that nas not Frank ; but a reuiorspful lendcruess for hei' father wade her at least struggle bravely to do it, the consciousness that someone had come between them, to make hiiu no longer tirst to her, rising within her a thousand times with often an almost passionate pain and pity. If Frank came back how should she ever be able to tell her father ? t^ho used to think. If he came ! Uut he would not come, she always said. It was scarcely so much fear of what might happen iji the future that pair.ed and troubled her as a self- reproachful consciousness of what had happened already â€" of the fact that Frank had become dearer to her than her father â€" the three weeks' lover dearer than the father who had lived in her life for nineteen years. Thi.9 was the bitterest pain she car- ried with her, the thought that haunted her when she put her arms • ».bout her father's neck â€" that set a Bavor of remorse into every Kiss she gave him, and every tender word that i>ussed her lips. She was deceiving him, she thought. It might be all ine\itablc, but none the less for that did her heart accuse lier for it. "Ought I to tell him '.'" she thought to herself again and again : but when sPie saw his undisturbed content she could not do it. k So, in her penitence - and pity, tiiCMigh .slie told her father nothing, Bhe grew to devote herself to hiiu more even than she had done in the days before Frank came. She could only in this way show her self-re- proach and her tenderness, and he, as was natural, saw nothing but the tenderness, and never suspected any other feeling. Sometimes, perhaps, he thought she was a little graver than she used to be ; but she was growing to be a woman now, he pro- bably argued, and, as was only right, was putting away chiklish things; and, if she was grave. so much the more w.is she lit to be hi.s couipanion. As these i-ionths, that were so full of quiet happiness to him. passed on. he came to associate her more and more in every thing he did. They spent the larger part of every day together ; he talked to her of every thing that was nearest to his heart : he made her of .service to him in his work in a hundruil liivial and yet to him delightful ways. "What .should I do without my Dorcas to help nie ?" he often said to her. with a pride and tender- ness that stabbeel her like a knife. Sometimes during these months l.elty would tal.k to Uorcns of Iran'k. and bring a brief satisfac- tion to the hunger that the (jjirl al- ways felt to hear his name. The two women would sit together, and talk of the things that he had said and done, and Letty would praise him. Ill these days Dorcas knew that she loved her mother better than she had c\er done before, becau.«ie her moth- er loved I'Yank; they had this bond of sympathy between them â€" the strongest bond (though Letty did not know it) that ever hud drawn them to each other. "1 ought not to let her talk of him," the girl said often to herself ; "it only makes mc think and hope." And yet, again and again, she would devise schemes to make Letty talk of him ; and the kind, simple soul would dwell upon his goodness and his pleasantness, and, with happy pride, would recall the fact a hun- dred times of his faithful remem- brance of them through all these yearsâ€" till Dorcas' heart would throb and burn. Yes â€" ho had come back to them unchanged after so many years; could she forget that, or help thanking God for it ? And the days were passing on â€" summer com- ing, and autumn coming, and must he not still at heart bo true to her, since he had given no sign, nor sent her letter back ? She used to look daily at the ring tliat he had given her, daily, and almost hourly some- times. She did not, of course, be- lieve that wlicn he forgot her it would change its color, and yet each day, when she saw its hue unchang- ed, she almost knew that she was comforted, with an utterly irrational and childish comfort. "In another year I shall almost know," she said to herself on her twentieth birthday. How these win- ter days recalled the time of Fran'k's brief stay â€" the winter days, the leaf- less trees, the frozen roads over which she had first heard hi.s stef. She lived again through each remem- bered meeting with himâ€" forgetting the anniversary of no day or hour. It was in the middle of January that he had come, and iu little more than thi-ee weeks he had gone away. One afternoon Letty found her ' stooping over the open drawing- I room window, and gathering violets, I and the girl started and colored j when her mother came suddenly and : spoke to her. "He said he would I keep the violets 1 gave him, and look at them to-day. Has he re- membered, I wonder !" she had been thinking to herself. "Seven months !" she said, when July came. "Seven months from to-day," she thought one morning when she woke. It was a pleasant suimner day, and the summer and the sunshine had been giving her new heart of late. She was rambling alxiut the garden this morning, after breakfast, sing- ing a little to herself. Often, as Frank had frophesicd she would do, she used to go to the garden-gate, and wait for the postman there to take the letters from him, lest r er- haps there migiit be that one tor her that should decide her fate. To-day 1 she went and waited for him, and â-  when he came he brought a letter to i her â€" but it was not a letter from i Frank. The writing of the addres.s j was strange to her. She took it, I and looked at it for a moment or two â€" fuzzled â€" a little startled. I "Who can it he from ?" she I thought. She opened the envelope â€" she hard- j ly knew whyâ€" with a certain sense of 1 expectation end alarm. The note Piles To proTis to yon that Dr. Chisc'B Ointmgnt laacertain and ah!«>luta euro tor paoh and every form of Itching, bleedinrrand protrutllng piles, tlio manufacturern havo miarantced It Seotcs. tlmonialn In the dailr press and a.sk yournoinh- bor« whatthey think of it. You can ufiolt and (t«t your raonoy back if not curoi. GOo.ibox. at all dealers cr Edma.nson.Batbs & Co., Toronto, Or^ Chaso's Ointment that she found inside was only a short one, written in a woman's hand that seemed to have trembled a little as it wrote. "Dorcas Trelawney." it began abruptly, "I have been very ill, and 1 ha.vo no daughter to take care of me. My son will have me believe that, if I ask you, you will come and stay with me for a little while. Is ho right, and will you come ? If you con.sent I shall be glad. i\h the future will, at any rate, settle itself better from our learning to kjiow each other. F'rank leaves me in two or three days, and should you come you will find me alone. Let me have an answer. If you write that I may expect you, you shall hear freun me again." And then thei-e was added merely the bare sigimtureâ€" "Frances Harcourt." Dorcas felt as it she was in a dream for a little while, as she stood with this strange letter in her hand. She was not glad, she was not sorry ; .she only, for the first few minutes, stood looking at the words with no other feeling but be- wilderment. And then, suddenly, the arrested Hood of life rushed back upon her, and she flushed crimson, and began to tremhle, body and spirit, with an irresistible, passion- ate mingling of joy and pain. Her Frajik ! â€" her Frank ! who had not forgotten her ! â€" that was her wild great cry of gladness ; but i>nother cry almost as great ca-me with it. How was she to show this letter to her father, and tell hiui the thing that would take the joy out of his life ? It was a long time afterwards â€" several hours afterwards â€" before she told him. She passed thosu hours alone in her own room, without courage to go to the study where she knew ho was waiting for her. lie j would call her presently, she knew, and in her cowardice and anguish she waited until he called her ; but it was a long time â€" it was past twelve o'clock before she heard his voice at the foot of the stairs at last. She answered to his summoBS then, and went down to him, white, and with her knees trembling. "I thought you had gone out, my dear," ho eiuietly said, as she en- tered the room. "Can you come to me for a little while now ? Lookâ€" I want you to copy these passages." And ho would have begun to show them to her, but suddenly, with a strange, passionate movement, she put her arm close rbout his neck. "Yes â€" presentlyâ€" I wil'i do it pre- sently â€" but I huve neen wanting to come to you â€" I have been waiting all the morning to toll you some- thing," she said â€" "and I don't know how to do it ! Oh, my dear, you must forgive me !" she cried all at once, and dropped down on her knees beside him, and laid her head, sobbing, upon his breast. "Dorcas*â€" what is it ?" he asked, in a startled voice. He tried to lift up her face and look at her. "My darling, tell me. How could you be afraid to tell me anything ? Speak ejuietly, and let me know what is troubling you," he said, in a sooth- ing voice. She tried to tell him, but in her 1 sorrow for him she was crying too bitterly for a time for the words to come. Only by degrees, in brejken, almost unintelligible sen- tences did they come at last â€" till the story was told, and his blank, un- su.s^jicious mind slowly took in the truth. She was going from him; he had lost her â€" the one love of all his life. A.S some drowning creature .see- ing death before him might looli bac'k for the last time on the world passing suddenly beyond his roach, so. when comprehension came, did it seem to her that ho looked ii.to her eyes. She remembereel that pathetic gazeâ€" despair, reproach, the agony of a great loneliness all mingled in it â€" for years after her own pain in all the :e.it had pa.sscd away. The greatest things come too swiftly sometimes; we rise and begin calmly to go about our dail.v busi- ness, while perhaps the angel of death or separation has his sword already drawn to smite us. To Mr. Trelawney the blow that took the best thing iiom his life came truly as a thief comes in the night, steal- ing from him, without warning, at one stroke, the hope and gladness of twci\ty years. She was kneeling still beside him tl.ey had not said much to one an- otlu^r. He had read her letter ; she had told her steny to him ; be had only asked her one or two e|Ucstions There liad been that one look of hopeless anguish ; but after that not any great sign of emotion. As she knelt seibbing, jiresently he put his hand upon her hair, and began to stroke it. "Hush, hush, my dear !" he said to her, as if she had been a cliild. "Vou .see, we have been a great deal to one another. It has come sharply." he said, after a little while, in a low voice. "1 think that possibly, if you hud warned me, Dorcas â€" but perhaps not, my dear â€" perhops not," he added, quickly. "And so you want to go to him?" he said, wistfully, after .another silence. "Do!-cns, rJe you sure ? Had Bleeding, You scarcely know him. He seemed to mt â€" well, a boyish kind of fellow: no harm in him, perhaps, but" â€" with his lip ([uiverfng â€" "too slight and immature. I should have thought. My child, «vill ho satisfy you â- ?" ho broke out, almost with a cry. "I cannot think it ! I cannot think it !" Ho made her lift her face, and put his hand upon hor forehead to hold It back, that he might look ut her. "Only a boy â€" no student ; think of that â€" a mere light-hearted, shal- low bo.v !" ho reiterated, bitterly. "He is not shallow," she answered, in a low, quick voice. "Well, at any rate, a mere boy â€" a boy in minel â€" and you havo been used to men." "You are not juist to him; he is a man too," she saiii. "I cannot see it ; 1 think you are under a delusion. I cannot under- stand it," he said, piteously. "Proud, worldly people, too, who will look down upon you. Dorcas, how can you bear to. go to them when they do not want you ?" "Frank wants me," she said, with a half break in her voice, and yet in a tone that was like a little cry of joy. Yes, this was the whole; a strang- er wanted her, and where be called her she must go. With a strange anguish, as of ice gathering about his heart, he began to feel how ho had built up the gladness of his life like a house without foundations, grounding it on the sand when ho thought it had been groiuided on a rock. How long had he been living believing that he was first with her when he was not first ? An un- speakable bitterness and sadness took possession of him. It seemed to him that he had trusted hor, and she had deceived him. In the agony of his sudden loneliness he could not judge her justly, nor believe that ho was still dear to her, liecause she bad let a strangoi''s love outweigh his passionate love of twenty years. There was the open book upon his desk on which half an hour ago he had been marking those passages for her to copy, and suddenly he closed it and threw it on one side. She would never do work again for him, ho said. Already it felt to him as if the life of all these previous years â€" the life even of yesterday â€" had be- come an old thing far away. As ho Sat silent in his chair it seemed to fade back from him like a dream, and leave him oncg mare a lonely, childless man. (To Bo Continued.) And Now Claims That the Best Thin^ in the World for Piles is Dr. Chase's Ointment- The doctors nr« wrong. They usually claim that an operation, with nllits risk, pain, and expense, Is the only cure for piles. We can prove by the statements of thousands of good, honest men and women that Dr. Chase's Ointment not only promptly relieves the suffering from piles, but also positively cures tliis dreadful ailment. It frequently cures after the knife has failed. Mr. J. V. Miller, who is enipU>ycd as cooper by the Kennedy and Davis Milling Co., Lindsay, Ont., states; â€" "I believe that Dr. Chase's Ointment i.s tlio best tbing in tlie world for piles. I nay this because it has positively and thoroughly cured me of itching, bleeding jxiles, and this after all other reoiedies I could procure had failed. I can recommend this ointment to anyone su-ITerinA' from piles, knowing tlmt it will certainly cure." Mr, F. Maim. mochinJst, with the Canadian Locomotive Works, and who lives at 24 DufTerln street, Kingston. Ont.. states; â€" "Dr. Chase's Ointment is, I believe, the uios* attective treatment for piles that Is to tc ohtai'ned. 1 h.ive used it nnd it cured mc of bleeding pllea of a most aggravated form. Only auffeiv i'r> f. om piles can understand what I went through. The misery caused by them was something awful, and I don't believe I could endure the same tort^ire again. At night.s especially I «iffercd dreadfully, and coul.l not get rest or sleep. I found a positive cure in Dr. Chase's Ointment. aI^d gladly recommend It t« Others." Thcc'! is no disputing the merit of Dr. Chase's Ointment and Iti effectlvencfw ns a cure for Itching. l)lc«<ling, ond protruding piles. In nearly every community arc to be found people who have been cured Ol this wrclched disenfje by Dr. Cha.«»e'» Ointment. It in for sale by nearly all dealers, mX 60 cent* a Iwx, •r will *wt sent post paid on receipt of pric* by feXliuanson. Dales and Co., Torouto. POINTED PAHAORAPHS. Some men become sadder without becoming any wiser. If a miser leaves a will it's mere- ly a dead givcj-away. IDxpcrionco makes a man winer and poorer simultaneously. The way of tho transgressor is fre- quently paved with gold bricks. A successful business man is one who Induces other peoplu to bus what he doesn't want. Tho wise small boy tln-ows his mo- ther's slippers after his big sister when slie start s on her wedding tour. The wise man formerly built hit house on a rock, but now ho builds it on tiie .sand, and calls it u sea- side hott'J. It is probably called the "almigh- ty dollar" because it prevents som* girls from breaking into the spinstei class. The average woman doesn't care any more for the privilege of voting than the average man does for th« privilege of putting a baby to sleep. BABY'S OWN TABLETS. Keep Little Ones Well During the Hot Weather Months. If you want to keep your little ones hearty, rosy and full of life dull- ing the hot weather give them Uaby's Own Tablets the moment they show signs of being out of or- der in any way. This medicine cures all forms of .stomach and bowel troubles, which carry off so numy little oncvj during the summer moulh.'^, and is the best thing in the world for sle-i-plessne-ss, nervousness, irritation when teeth- ing, etc. It is just the medicine lor hot weather troubles; first, because it alwa.vs docs good; and, .second, because it can never do any harmâ€" guaiautecd free fiom opiates. Mrs. W. K. lln.vsam, Kingston, Ont., says; â€" "1 began using Uaby's Own Tab- lets when m.v little girl was about tSiree months old. .At that time sha had iudigistion badly; she was von.iling and had diairhora con- stantly and although she hael an ap- [•aretitly ravenous appetite her food did her no good and she was very thin. Nothing helped her imtil wo began giving hor Baby's Own Tab- lets, but after giving her the.se the vomiting nnd diarrhoea ceHi.sed and she began to improve .-ilmost at once. I ha\e since u.--c(l the Tablets for other troubles and have found them all that can be desired â€" they are the best medicine I havo ever used for a child." Those Tablets are readily taken by all children, and can be gi\on to the smallest, weakest infiint by crushing them to a powder. Sold at drug stores or you can ge-t them post puid at 25 cent!) a bo.x ny writing direct to the Dr. Williams' Modicine Co., Urockville, Ont., or Schonectadv, N.Y. "I!ut how do .vou know the.v have a new servant in the hou-se '?" "B.y the mixed, c.vpression of awe and humility that is on the faces of all the family." Wife â€" "That last sot of china is the best we ever had." HiLsband â€" "Urn; it's all gone, isn't it ?" Wifeâ€" "Yes; but just think, dear ! It last- ed lour gjr!..j and a naif." Bridogi-oom (handing his bride n brooch with her name s-ct in dia- monds â€" "Here dear Ida." Uridc (aside) â€" "Oh. dear, wh.v didn't 1 have some good long mune, like Marguerite ?" SIGNALLING UNDER WATER. An interesting experiment in con- jnection with suhm.irine fog-sigiuil- I liug has been carrie»l out by hang- [ing a bell 50 feet below a buoj moored in fiftben fathoms of water, which Was struck electrically froa a neighboring lighthouse. Dji means of such submarine signalling it Is stated that a person placing aj ear against a rod held in contaci with the hull of a vessel is able t« hear the bell from three .,u five milei away; in fact, it is believed that thi ringing of the bell jnoy be heard al a distance of even ten or twelv miles. CORNET ETIQUETTE. The coronet of a duke consists o alternate crosses and leaves, thi leaves being a representation of tht leaves of the parsle.y plant. I'lii Princes of tho Royal blood als< I wear a similar crown. The -Stat' headgear of a marquis consists of i diadem surrounded b.y flowers an< pearls placed alternately. An e^u-l however, has neither flowers noi loavos surmounting his circlet, bu' only points rising each with a pear on the top. A viscount has neitliei flowers nor points, but only tin plain circlet adorned with pearls which, regardless, of number, af placed on the crown itself. A bar on has only six pearls on tho gold en border, not raised, to distinguisl him from an carl, iu)el the number o pearls renders the diadem distincr from that of a visce)unt. INTOXICATING DEANS. Among the peasants of Soiitheri Italy. Sicily, and Sardinia a curioui malady has been noticed b.v pliysi cians, whicli is caused by eatinj beans. One of the most remarkabli effects of the malady is a species o int/O.xication resembling that pro- duced by alcoholic drink. In som« cases persons predispo.sed to the nuil ady are seized with the .symptoms of into.xication if tho.y pass a fielc where the bean plant is in flower tho odor alone suflicing to alTccf them. MARVEULOUS CENTENATUAN. According to tho Tribune dc Gen- eve, there has reccntl.v died in Al- bania one I.smail Iludgo, who was born in 1741, having reached, at the time of his death, the e.xtraordinar.v age of 160 years. The old man up to the last was in full po.s,ses,siun ol all his senses; in fact, his vigor was so great that at the age of I5S he has been known to walk eleven miles without being tired. Ho had a splendid set of teeth at the time ol his death, his general appearance be- ing thiit fjf u healthy, middle-aged man. TAUGHT FOR 1.000 YEARS. A singular illustration of the per- sistence, with which the Jap.anese •adhere to the faiuil.v vocations ia seen In an announcement iu n .Iai>- anese newspaper tJiat a celebrated : dancing master was to hold a ser- vice in honor of the one thousandth liunivorsary of the death of his an- Iccslor. who was the (Irst of the fajo- ily to take up tho profession. A WOODEN CHIMNEY. A wooden chiume-y stack 160 fee' high is in o|>eration at Muplmi, ii the l^roviuce of Hurango, Mexico The inti:rior is lined with corrugat cd iron, and there are platforms a', intervals te> throw water on tlu wood if it catches (ire. Alice â€" "What a gallant person Mr. Dunkley is. He never addresses me without beginning 'Fair miss.' " Dorothy â€" "Oh, that's force of habit. He u.sed to be a "bus conductor." A lawyer went to bnthe. ond en- countered a huge shoi'k. Their eyes met for an instant, then tho shark blushed, and swam away. Mr. Billu.«i â€" ".lohniiy, is there any hot Water in the house '? I'ac man- aged to upset a jnr of fruit on the tablecloth" Johnn.v Hillus â€" "N<>. but there'll be plenty of it when momma comes back." FAMILY GLODE-TROTTING. /in Austiian is now travolini Switzerland oa return from a toui which he uiulertook for a wager o S4.000. The teruis are that ho woj to wheel befoie him from one end o Europe to tlie other, a pernmbulato; containing his wife and child. Hi has been absent twenty moiitb,^ wearing out thirty-seven pairs o boots. I'ATUEU OK THIRTY. There is a happy father of thir ty children who lives at Devercn Uelgium. Ho has been marrio« twice, ttn<I his progen.v is coniposei of twent.v-two boys and eight girls MICE CANNOT EXIST. Mice cannot exist on Papa Littla an island in St. Magnus Day, oi the west of Shetland. To test thi truth of this statement several luic* ut various times wei-e taken there" hut the s<iil proved so uncongcnia that they 8«ou died. ^S ^â- ' : ^3^F7^ - 5:--«