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 I^^Z •-^ 1 !Vf.;;i] â- \iM :M\ [Now FOBT ITBUSHBD-l lAlX KlOHTS Rm«BVBD.] LIKE By M. B. BRADDON, t^" ?: Author nf "IljiOT ACDUtr's SBCEIt!," "WTIiABD'9 WKntD.^BrO. â- ^.d** 'mi;.' CHAPTER XXXV inâ€" " What is it that You Fe»b?" Tory was in high health aiid spirfta, hb thoroughbred back ahoiB with xaodiah bo- Terity, and hia tufts arrai^ced after the very latest fashion. His Indian bangles jingled M he walked «^ Bb miststtm's nde, and hia neck ribbon was o£ the pu^ colour. There is always a n«P-' colq^ known only to the elite^ No woaflr does it become known to the exterwil ^Rttld^.than it is deposed from the workrooms of the best milliners, and from the toilet of fashionable beauty* Tory's mistrejs was not looking her best. She had lost her bnlliant oamatiotf, and the splendour of her Irish .eyes was dim. She looked five years older than when her father had seen her at the begin- ning of the last London season. " My dear Leo, yon look ill an4 worried," said the Colonel, as they drove aiway from 1 the station, Tory sitting on the seatapposite. them, shivering in his Uttle oioth orerqpat, trimmed with Ascrachan, arid looking about him with his topaz eyes as if he did not ad^ mire the country. •• How can I help it? 01 course I have been worried," answered Lso, discontented ly. ' Do you suppose I have not f^t the- disgrace of Helen's conduOt.** " Is it generally known, do you think " " People knoir there is sdmNbing wxo^ig. Valeitine ordered every thg to be' sold off about; a month ago â€" all tliese pretty Japan- ese things, which I took an infinitade. of trouble to get for them. They ^ent for a mere song. I made Beeching fangr gxil many things for me â€" screens and vases, and portieres â€" anything- 1 oonid'find nom for. Of course people nave talked-^and I h*ve been pumped perpetually about^ l^r. But it is an odd thing that I ^vp nCvei: met with anybody who posifiTMy^kribwa that she is with St. Austell. It is strange that no one should have met them abroad." " I suppose they have been very-earefuL" " Yes they certainly must have avoided the beaten tracks. I have watched for paragraphs in Oalignani or the Society Papers, and I have cut out half-a-dozen little allusions to St. Austell, but not one hint about her." " She must be with him," said the Colon- aL "I showed you his letterâ€" the letter I found in her dressing bag â€" when we were on board the Clotho. That seems decisive." "Yes, she must be with him," replied Leo, but not with conviction. She remembered St. Austell's pretemat- oral sang froid when she accused him of running away with her sister. She remem- bered how he had left Charing Croes. "I wiU showyou the paragraphs when I can get at my despatch box," she said. " And now tell me all about yourself. Why did you plant yourself in this dull neighbor- hood, with its wretched associations." " Because I had a good deal to Say to my son-in-law. No^ that St. Austell is a free man, there ought to hs no time time lost in gettiog a divorce, don't you know." " la order that he might marry Helen," raried Leo, as if she had been Stung. ' Of course. It is the only thing that can set her ri((ht." " And do you think he would marry her if she were free to-morrow?" Leo asked, eontemptnonsly. "Do you know Lord St. Austell so Uttle aa to suj^ose that he would burden himself with a wife, when he has secured a mistress â€" a mistress whose attrac- tions must have grown stale by this time â€" a mistress who, no doubt, has made the one grand mistake that all women make under inch circumstances, and has bored him with tears and contrition. A divorce will only advertise her disgrace. It will not bring ber one iota nearer marriage with St. Aus- JdL" " Let me once see her free to-nuurry, and '9lt. Austell shall make her his wife, or ao- 'I'ennt to me for her dishonor," said the Colonel fiercely. " He won't refuse to meet you. He is a crack shot like yourself â€" perhAps in much better practice. He will give you satisfac- tion, 1 daresay â€" but he won't marry my aster." "You are diabolically Litter against that poor girl, Leonora, and I most say I think Ik very unwomanly on your part." " Ah but you see women look at these things from a different standpoint. With yon men, a woman has only to go wrong in order to become interesting. Yuu open your erms to her, are ready to shelter ner and fight for her. For a woman to be very pretty, and to go astray in the first bloom nf her prettiness, is to oonuhand your affec- tion and your chivalrous service. Women had need be ornel to each other or vice irriTiid Vh at too high a premium." The Colonel was distressed at his dangh- te's tone, but he was very glad to have her Mciety, all the same. Her presence bright- ned the cottage, and put flurht for the time being to those morbid fancies which were le- finning to weigh very heavily on the Colo- aei, the fanq^ that his daughter was ill and dying in a fv-off land, that St. Austell mi^ ht iU-treat or desert her. Even Tory was an acquisition, and the suiht of that intellectual aaimal, sittini; bolt upright on the hearth- rag, with his mouth open, and bis yellow •ye balls glaring at the fire, helped to raise Gslonel DeveriU's drooping spirits. The Gladstonian performance with a lamp of sugar, might pall, it r^oated more than t.renty times a day â€" nor was it all rapture to hear Tory pl»y " God save the Queen" upon a damp oottege piaao â€" bat there was aaef alnessia a dog that mahedat eveiy open door, and ahnt it with a cheerful tang. Evtn Tory's dinuxr made a little diversion in the long winter evening, and affsrdel sabjeict for conversation. Mrs. Baddeley did her best to obeer her father, but she waa evidently ont of spirits, and the effort te a p pe ar lively was lumost beyond her stitogth. Her awn a£Fain weie not free from uttiuq^enieBt far Jn qtite of the devoted Becdrfag's aidâ€" gfte^ pa asu^ been able to decline gracefuUy on the plea that she had a husbibnd in India, ,^L. 1 think yon Jtnow^I am not a pii^," she woQld say, "and ladmirKthwfe iqvriar Mrs. Rochejaqaelin Green beyond meastire, but I don't think Frank would qitit* likeNMBe "l!» meet kvt„en pitU eomtte. OB»#nnoÂ¥lT6id being f riendly^tenrards, yo^ see, I "l^Wft be pestered with carJifl for hot pwties,* «tld FriMik might be angky;" ' -» s\ Bn| now, Frank's regiiiiBBt wina return to England in the following March, and Frank would be no longer a dear fellow in India, useful to be referred to on all occa- sions, but by no metms troublesome or in- quisitive. Me would come home, and his arrival would be the signal for clamourous tradeepeopie to push their dbmands. His welcome to the nest in South Kensington would be a shower of bills, lawyers^ letjE^^f and county court sumtnoqilfs. ' A, " I'm afsaid poor Frank will have to go thcoogb theBankmptey;^art,"^tised Mrs. Bsddeley, with a oompaasimiati sigh. " I hope he won't much mind. A good many people do it now-adaysâ€" quite nice people and society seems to think very little the worse of them. Short of bein^ inordinately rich, money doesn't count in society." Beasoniiu; thus, the f Air Leonora told her- self she had no cause for being down-heart- ed yet iq the pictureEqn% sftokuioo oi Myrtle Cottage bik^. "SP^** " "'^^ S respect of future difficulties grew daily arker. She had hitherto lived the kind of life in which there la no' leisure for aa fa ti» dT*»rths%ar -diffienUg;- she was oonsidehkUy in debt. I^e liad not loraotten that ahe^ad a hnabao^^ India, aDd while be remyied there eminently oaafBtM Iher, the siiafta 4gl$a§mSi»*ti i of appeaL join in any that v( jinnifl in no thought and now all at once she found hersdf wich nothing to do but read novels and think of her own^aira. The novels were tor the most part IBsa interesting than her own embarrassments, and they iaM^ n distract her. The quiet beauty of he! sar- ronndinga, the broad,«iver, thei-wooded hiUa in the f oregroond, and the dark ridge of tha moor beyond, had no cbwm for heir. *^ It is a cnt-thro»t plade," she exolidmed, vrith a shiver. The Colonel andliis daughter dined at the Abbey on Christmas Day. It was a green Christmas, mild, misty, depressing. Leo wore one of her loveliest gowns â€" an arrange- ment of dark red velvet with glittering rttby beads, which made a glowing atmosphere around her, and suggested cheerfnlness but nobody was honestly and uneffectedly cheerful at that small Christmas dinner. Mr. Bockstone made the bravest effort at mirthfulnesB, and filled up every gap in the conversation, but there was a gloom npon Valentine's face which would have spread a dulnesB in the most convivial circle, and Colonel Deverill was obviously depressed. His dreams had been troubled on the prev- ious night. Strange, shapeless visions had disturbed his slumbers, and filled his mind with gloom. He was weighed down by formless apprehensions. He could not define to himself what it was that he dreaded. He only knew that his mind was full of fear. " I think I must give up goiut; to the Abbey," he told his daughter as they drove home. "L^dyBalfield u charmingâ€" and Sir Adrian is as good as goldâ€" hue I cannot get on with Valentine. I'm afraid I'm be- ginning to hate him." " That is rather hard upon him," answer- ed Leo, " for he certainly is more sinned against than sinning." " He was a negleccfnl husband." "True but he was veiy good-natured. Helen could go where she likM, and enjoy herself as much as she chose. If she had had only common prudence she oould have ' got on Tery well indeed.** In his retirement at Myrtle Cottage, Colonel Deverill waited for the post which brought him his letters and his newapapera with keener impatiaLoe thui he had ever felt before for those Inxuriea of modem life. On board a friend's yaoht, ov at any sleepy little Swiss or German water-cure settlement, he had been oontant to let his days alip by and to know no more of the outer world than waa revealed to him by an occaaional " Morning Newa " or " GaI- ignani " content to forget the days of the week, and to be anrpriaed by the ehnrch bells on a Sunday mwning content al- most to forget whioh party was in and which waa ont, whether hia country "waa driftingto minanderaBadioalC*binet or be- inggnidedto glory by Conaervativea. Lettera, he had told himaelf, ware alwaya more likely to bring him worry than pleasure, and un- less he was expecting a cheque from his Irish agent, he was apt to be indifferent to the going and coming of the post. But now he waa intently expectant of every mail, and had a blank and cUapirited feeling when the honr waa over. He waa. expecting aome kind of oommonioatioa ftom his runaway daughter â€" a letter of p^tenoe â€"of intercession â€" a letter of fiflu love, telling him that he waa not utterly forgot- ten, that even in her ainfnl life aha wm atiU hia daughter. He had bean expeotiac saoh a letter ifor montha, and hia heart aimned as the new year begaa without bringing him one line of greeting from the lost ooa. " I an] poaa she ia i^raid to addraaa mt," he thongbE, "And yet the ooght act ta-ba afraid. I waa never aevere to my children." He had a permanent address in London, under cover to a aolioitor'a firm in the City, where all lettera were taken charge of and readdrasaed to him, and tiiia addi«a»waa known to Helen. She weald have had no diffionlty ia writing to him had alia beea disposed to write. The new year begaa aadly nnder ihaae. circnmatanoea, and even Tory'a blaadbh- menta conld not nalntain nhaarfulBuaa. Mra. Baddeley yawned over lier ao^vel, beaide the wood fire, wliioh waa the wly cheerfnl thing in the hoaae. Early in tiiayaar thaae oaaia a badgat from Frank B«ddaley, wliidk Ida wifa ittad ,with good-homoorad ladilfarwca tiP aha oama to a passage it wMA ha» ah ee k aaddei^ pued,' aad har whola aqpwt "^at ia dsUt' adrai OaColeaatax- «ited1y, "aaythiag aboatJhar f ' :^ "No; bntitiaasmethtoir abdailifaa." ii'Bsadit-Nkl it, phM^ ga^ad A^r, atBrtoU^c hia iMad aHipB tha ' ' ' ^a^le, Mtil tPt. oil tM)rity. ao yea maat ba "««» •",^•"1*" tiat Halea weat to Ceyloa witt 1dm. Ttay may have beea together fai Italy, aayou â- ay! batJM.paiv^ at C y yVft* ' " ^^^ iStoSSSrf ST PiiJiarSepment, waa there whaaM oama. ^^W^!!^^' weat off wiA aome w aha Utm aU, aad yoQaret«nafabeiMiaal^ i.^^;, «. Jin "Great God r %ri*d Colonel Deverill, â- !arting up from the broakfaat-table, and wBlkiog about the room *«ai » distracti^ air "What doisa it aU nkean^ H ahe is aot ia Ceyloa, where is ahe! We know that ahe ran away with St. AoateU. There is hia latter to prove it." " She may-4u^e^iDhia^ed Iter adnd at tSie last," said Lso, looking atraight before her with a troubled brow, for even to her care- leaatemperamant the niattar b^ws te aaaunie a myatetioua aipeofc "HarooaiaieBoeBB^ have been awAkenad, aiad aha mo have gad away from him, aad a6t with him. She may have goae into a conventâ€" or joined some Angfieaa- riaterhood. "Who oaa tell?" " What am I to do " groaned the Colonel, walking up and down la aa agony of be- wilderment. _jj " Yon might advertiaeâ€" put an advertiaer ment in the " Timea," ao worded that she alpne would understand. Jjet it be repeated twenty timea, at certain iateryala, so that if she ia in any place .whare tlse ' Timea ' goea, ahe must eveatoally aee your adver- tisement." .„ " Huv oui I advertiae ao that ahe will be the only one to understand T" " Oh, we must invent a code. We must recall something in the pastâ€" k^own to us only â€" soma pet name. Don't yon remember you once used to call her Paaay. She would know that Panay waa meant for ber." Leo took oat her pencil, aad wrote npon Major Baddeley'a eavelope. "Pansy 'a sor- rowful father entraata her to write to him. A father'ii heart can forgive eve^rthing. She baa a home atiU with him. Kilruah." She rmd thiaraagh draft to bar father. " She could not fail to dnderatand that," ahe said. "Thoaetwo names. Pansy and Kilrush, in juxtaposition wonld be unmis- takable." " Yea, I think ahe would naderatand," re- plied the ColoaeL "Thtreare not many people who could write from Kilroah. You are right, Leo. I'll aend the advertisement to the Times by the next post â€" with a cheque. I anppoae that ia a kind of thing one moat pay for in advance." The advertiaement appeared a4 the head of the second.colnmn, three days later, and the Colonelcontemplateditwithteara in hiseyea. He could fancy hia daughter reading it in her aeolnsion or deaolatMn. Since he had discovered that she waa not with St. Austell, he knew not how to picture her to himself whether deserted and penitent, or aaawoman who had drawn back npon the btink of the precipice, and had fled from btr tempter. All his hopes for her had beea dashed by thatletter fromMsjor Baddeley. Aa a father, he had wept over her folly and her sin, but as a man of thA world it had seemed to him a gxd thing that ahe ahoold become Lady Sc AoateU. He felt that from a society point of view her repntatiod was gone for ever, and that her only chance waa to dare aociety in a new character. As « Peeress, and a beauty, she might yet become the centre of a brilliant circle â€"on the con- tinent. The advertisament appeared time after time, week after week, until the twentieth insertion had run ont, and the Colonel's cheque was exhausted. There had been no reply. The year was two montha old and the spring flowers were blooming in the shrub- benr lordera at Myrtle Cottage, and the litUe lawn waa gay with the golden crocna- cupa, and there luhd beea no alga or tokea from Helen. Mra. Baddeley atayed on with her father, though the London aeaaoa waa begiaaiag. It waa not that aha loved Devonahire more, but that ahe feared South Kenaington moat. The tradea people were pnahing for their accounts, and lawyers' lettera were growing frequent. It waa eaaier to face theae Uiinga at a diaUnoe than on the spot, whwre every vibration of the electric bell jarred her aarvea, sod set her heart beatiag vebemeatly, ia apprehen- sioB of immediate eviL Hera at least, though she received the lettera, die did not hear the bell aad ahe waa out of reach of aay importnaate creditor, who might be so andacioua aa to deiaaad aa iatarview. So ahe put her wma ronad the Coloael'a neck one momimr at breakfaat, and told him ahe wonld not deaert him. She woidd atay till Frank'a return. " God bleaa yon, my love," faltered her father, " I thought yoa would ataad by me in my lonelineaa. Indeed, Leo, I am half brokea hearted about your auter. iter pre- aent exiatence ia a myatwy to me, and I oaa acarcelv bsar my ufe aader the bnrdea of that myatery. u ahe waa aay where withia the reach of this paper," ateiking his fiat npon tiie Times, that lay open on the table, "she mnat have nndaratood my appeal Where in HtaTsn'a name ia ahe hiding t Some one moat know." " Yea, aome one maat know," anewered Leonora. " I will tell yoa of one thing that yon can do, fatiiar. Yoa caaaot go to Ceyloa. The joaraey ia too long, aaa you are too old. But yoa oaa telegraph a quea- tioa to St. AnatelL Aak him if be knows where Helen ia to be found. Aak him to anawer you on hia honoar. Ha cannot refoae to anawer auoh an a^eaL" " I'll telegraph to bim. Yoa an right. Leo. I maat fiad oat where aqr poor girl is. I mnat leave no atoae naf " iW" iv***' h^Oqrlaa. )MMfa.U Mf-iiJs-fVf â- ^t;-^-^-. He did aot lilu to aead hia ooeaa-meaaage from Chadford Poat-«ffioa, where it wonld inevitably excite ooiioai^ and give ocoa- aioa for goadp ao ha went to Exiatar aext day, iateadiag to aead the maaaaau from there bat tf tar ha had »li|^tad at the Exeter Statitm, it aoddealy occorred to him that ha waa jaat ia time for the Loadoa e x p r aaa aad oa the apor of tha noaMat, ha decided oa gpfiig to Loadoa. Ha tabgranh- ad to Mrs. Baddalw. pnaairiag tontara aextday, aad betook hia tiokaft for Water- loo. It waa aiz o'clock whaa ha anirad, aad dark, ao ha pas liiaiaalf la a hanaam, aad drova atraight to tha Badaaiatan, aad waat lato tlia ooffaa room to «irdar Us diaaar Whaa iM had giraa th«add«ai^ hatt^aaat ,aaTaa,haw«Bt to tharaadiacirmMB, aadaaat- cd hlnaaU at tha tablaMi7ttiaii*rta oam. poaa hia maaaaga. TbHWWwatalagraili teaii oa thatabl^ »|Bt ha bagaaaraoga draft oBLaahaaftafp^h I «Ta L«d Bk. Jbdtpn, C«i^' " ' **T aiitMst Ti^ liilfirg i^i ^f iri He wtA the worda tiwa timea woaderiM tt they wer» str«HU{«aoi^fh. He paaaed^tar tha third raadiagj wi^. hu JiBiâ€" d wHlia i iiy dg; «id to^tag up abaently. with hb pdi la hia head, aaw St Auatall ataadUbg ianoat of thafireplaoe loek- ^ioffdown at.him, ' My God l" ha ories, atartiag to lus feet. "TUa la a moat axtraordiaary thing. I thonsht yon were In Ctiylon.' •-•I waa until a f tw weoka ago. I came home the week before bwb-H-too, aoon my doctor tella me, but I waa heartily aick of the place. You don't look over well, Deverill." „ ^^ « The Coloael waa rhaatly. He had droP back into hia seat, and waa arranging papera Itefore him with tremaloaa finger He handed St. Aiutell the rough draf the meaaage without a word. ' What dooa it mean?" St. Auatell asked' after he had read tha blurred words in the Colonel's big penmanaUp. t v u " The qaeatioa u plaia eaough, I think. Until very lately I thought my daughter was with yon in Ceylon. I hear she was not there but all the same you are likely to know her pnaent addreaa. For pity's aake tell mo where ahe iaâ€" lat once. 1 am longing to find herâ€" to protect and oherish her. I am ready to forgive allâ€" to forgive her and yon." The room was empty, but the Colonel spoke in avppreaaed tonea, with the conaoi- ouaneaa that he waa in a public place. " My dear Colonel. I wiah I could help youâ€" but I can't. Aa for forgiveneaa, you have nothing to pardon in me except the fact that I waa madly in love with yonr daughterâ€" and tried to win her â€" and fail- ed. If my ain in ao trying waa grea^ my puniahment was greater. I never loved any woman as I Iovm Helen Belfield, and ahe threw me over at the laat moment." "But I have your letter of instructions about her journey â€" everything must have been planned between you." " It was, so far as I oould plan but I tell you she threw me over. She was to have met me at Exeter, but ahe didn't. I waited for three traina, and then went on to London in a rageâ€" mad, despairing. 1 had been most completely fooled." " But she meant to run away with you " " So I thought on the previous afternoon." " She made her plans deliberately her trunks were all packed." "Indeed. That looks businesa-Uke. And yet ahe threw me over, you see, and carried her trunl a aomewhere elae." " No. Her luggage waa all left in her own rooms at the Abbey. Wherever she went, she most have gone in aach a atate of mind that ahe took no trouble to aecure her own property. Not even her comforta for her journey. Her travelling bag â€" my own wedding gift â€" was left. It was in an inner pocket of that bag that I found your letter." " And she has not claimed her belongings since then," asked St. Austell, witha troubled brow. " No." "And you have heard nothing of her since that time â€" absolutely nothins'" " Not one word. I thought she was with you. You were heard of in Paris â€" with a lady." " A passing acquaintance â€" and a Paris- ienne." " You were heard of in Venice â€" again with a lady." " An old friendâ€" a Florentine Countess, who was good enough to so about with me a little in my solitudeâ€" we dined together, and lunched together at fresco, hw a dozen times. That was all. And you have heard nothing about your daughter â€" ^from August to March â€"you had no letter from her â€" no information directly or indireoUy." •• Hot one word.' " Then, Colonel Daverell, I can only say the bnsiness looks very alarming," said St. Austell, turning his face to the mantelpiece, and reating hia head apoa hia arm. The Coloael aaw that he waa deep'y mov- ed. There waa a dlenoe of aome momenta, and then the older man aaked in a fal- tering voice â€" " What ia itthat you fear " "I don't know. Iâ€" Iâ€" can't tell yon. My feara are vague and ahapeleaa but it ii a ahock to me, to fiad yoa are ao completely ia the dark about her. I loved her devoted- ly, Coloael DeverilL If ahe had trnated heracdf to me aa ahe proadaed, I woidd have made her my wife, now that I am a free man. I would have done all that a maa oao di. to recompeaae her for heraawifioe." " I oelieve ahe maat be ia hiding aome- where in aome Anglican aiaterhood, aome semi-monastf retrisat, where ahe is not al- lowed to see the newapapera, or to write lettera to aayoae ia the oatar world," aaid the Colond, alter a panaa. " /ea, it may be ao," aaawered St. Auatell, moving away fromi the mantelpiece, and â- eating himaelf oppoalte Colonel Deverill at the writing table. "It may be ao. It wonld be like her to go and bury heraelf alive ia a fit of religioaa eathaaiaam. She waa a creature of rapid changea of mood. When I thought I waa most stcare of her, knowing very well that ahe loved me, she spread her winga as anddealy aa a batterfly, and waa gone. I waa hardly anrpriaed when ahe cheated me, but I waa very angry. My pride waa wounded. I had erovelled before her, and I told myadf I wonldgrovd no more. So I went off to the Ccmtinent ta a anllea atata of miad, aad I weat to Ceyloa in the aame temper, and my life waa loathiome to me all the time I atayed there." " Upon ray aonl I am abrry for yon," aaid the Coloael, " thbnsh I aappoae I ought to be tha laat maa la ue world to aay ao. It ia a moat aahappy baaiaaaa, aahappy from firat to laat. She might have married aa ex- celleat yoaag maa, who twuld have given her a fine poritiea. She choaa to jilt him for tiie aake of hia worthlsaa brother, who aegleotad bar. Her whds Ufa faaa been a mistake." "Which she is tiylag ta atoaa for, perhaps, Iath4 dttll roaad of coaveataal work, mlalataiiag to tiM liok; faediag the haagry, pnyiag, faatiag, waariag oat her yoaag life aad her baaaty witiiki foar walls. It is aiaddaBllBg to ooatamplata," said St. AastalL Ha had fsarad shaft Balaa aodght hava BUMl«,«»af with humU. Thai hha hadMt hand! top waak to wichstfwl â- taat rta lK Md had pcifarrad daatii to dJAiMioar. ' it'ba a we^uu blt^. eaAipwi^ »7«t«'y."he«aid. ..^. •dnoation and nu^^Xifc Wm, and thoroua^^V^tTL- the matter ^5S^* ^f^^t me.' POLICE TOfiTU] (*0 Bl OSTtS^IS., Familiar I IB tke renal ,^ Cdesttal BBsHre. R -Si a bioad arched gatewavl I^'^JSj to«eai»*«^y inside sh*d. i»* ^^lt^9 the moat wretche ^J^^'^w, which u say. •togSfr.W'""""' r. falllna tH UHOOMBKD CONFUSION ^.tr faces, gave to them a| mi^J^^^ They looked gorl ^xpiession, that a,. Qwted WioE. It IS a peculiar faculty-." to misquote proverb.sJl""**! w invanably to pls^e thec,5^,^ '"^T not belong. """t vit.,, J Nine men ont of ten tili!,v iv tempers the wind to^ ^t-U from the Bible. whereiLi:»«SS the author. " PonrinToul^ S*J waters "is al^.a.Sdfe'^^ ume, whereas it U not thew • i« " knows Its origin. " • » Uck, of^rpuiiin'ru!rto This is arrant nonenL'^*««i says: " The proof oUhe^..^ eatingthereofiidnotin7hJ»M A nan convinced »«! Jl7 " Uofthesameopin^'?*^ ThiMs an impossible conditio, J for no one can be convinced of m. " and at the same time hold to « one. What Batler wrote 1°» sensible A famous passage of Script^, i.. muqaoted thus " He thst u wtwl among you, let him cast the fint?' It should be " Let him firjt cut,* Sometimes we are told: "Beyi great a fire a little matter kindleTrt. St. James said " Behold how miu ter a Uttle fire kmdleth," whiciir,i different thing. ^^ We also hear that " a miw im aoi J mile," which is not as sensible orfwdil the true proverb :«' A miss of an iuhJ rood as a mile." "Look before you leap" ilunm " And look before you ere yon leap." ^w^ Pope is generally credited with iniHtheyamun jurt written, " Immodest words admit of no deleggt, For want of decency is w*nt of Hose,' though it would puzzle any one to fiii verses in his writings. They wen i by the Eurl of Roscommon, who died Pope was bom. Franklin said, " Honesty ii tlie policy," bat the maxim is of Spaniih and may be found in " Don Qoiiott,' T first ril** loo^" **^?. **^? •?j1i This was the distni l*2a-g,iS? revealed the fi • ••"^-LTto ba human bem^ jSSlM^h" men, peerirs (3ie " American bftrb â- ^'^f^%^ UliuD tftelitiwia^ A .H **" ""Li!^ me, "Fankwil they **?" »*^„?SS*I noticed who, ^^s^lenoutof all pro] ^•flSig he had received on t| "tT urn confess as a cnmi ' "?r t- i^itnoss. A witness «d.£lihlnka atubborn and u S?vfa^toeatedas barbarously •"^SmlnJ. In an adjomirg c '•SsSS:her '.retched objec " ♦!!m.ch and moaning pite /wsSt mas^of bruises and l\ «ildew^"«^«"l°""'"°^ I " heaVy wooden cangues hS«w«r "hackles and were f teofrtore, which they had â-  •hanetor they movei?. jJn^^ip'K "^M COMIC 0| Crossma this outer yard, Mb another gateway. How to 'M One's A^e. Just hand this table to a lady andnqd her to tell you in which colamn or cok her age is contained, and add togetlwt| figures at the top of the colnmns ioi" her age is found, and yon have the g secret Thecal iathbj ohaJ aa. **mll your f«rhar,"lA dlr*e%r _^^f^mm %iik«tt«|»ii«iv«iil«i(tsiad» oard Hi U:(ii. notan' 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 11 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 2 3 6 7 10 11 14 15 18 19 22 23 26 27 30 31 34 25 38 39 42 43 46 47 50 51 54 55 58 59 62 63 4 5 6 .. i â-  12 13 14 15 20 11 22 23 28 29 30 31 36 37 38 "9 44 45 46 47 52 53 54 55 60 61 62 63 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 56 67 58 59 60 61 62 63 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 il 26 ii 27 a 28 29 a 30 « 31 fi 48 iS 49 4) 5C a 51 SI 52 8 53 3! 54 » 55 9! 56 Si 67 S 58 a 59 59 69 6t 61 (1 62 63 A Queen's Popularity, The Qieen R^g"" 'SP^^Jf ifjSI another proof that "hek^ws^wj* the hearii of her people. OanraWm as ahe waa being driven »bout 7 g g the Paerta del Sol wit^ ".MjS a prieat bearing the h»t clittced » out of a houae close to*heUe*^L.nJ. restaurant which visitors to MwiW " fSl to remember. Nosooner.iid»»«* Regent see the sacred proc?«»^^ ping her carriage, "he 'd.fWad.^" JJl to the priest to take h« PJJ.hN vehicle. Her daughters W ate M?^ J down from »b8ir "eat^ "ttS«n«'«* either hand, she followed «t"5J%Mis walking behind the o^J^^ crowd collected forthirith « g, spread, and, tooched fy we « ^, S^'pic" h««niUty, »"»«; Jd^tf* £d he? children to th« C«o«^ ^t churcB " It her children to was to rhis beloDga^' isd priest and the host »»»"„witkk« Ljeaty. ^^^^i'ft^^^S^^K Uttle onea, prayed for '""^iSalaj* one of the altars. 0» "^SaSW? street «« •»««ri^^^' J^iT^tfeW-* Jj Regent was applauded ""VT^^iJ Regent rmo '"onTy'^^pest^o-^ start oould atiength.be mida ^^^^^„ the enormona crowd that had ^J^ which waa ao dense roundjhjljgy ^. whioh that it waa the Spanlah R'PohUcW" «« ^J^hrfrf^ b Jforth more to ^^^T^SU-^^ thai a whole army oorpi ot *» doa Figaro. «*What a rare A Back-Handed OoaP^ mtt, Emily « " Ibaaa watohiag her for tiro osy only smiled once. Hi. fxpens- ?«?i^ and "within Ml inner court. Is JSfaTtood abroad, low wooded liuhoutoThaU-hed. Here at [r nsSSin, amoking a silver '*a ufteSng tD the represent iXWge.ticulatingM,dt, ;ithighkey: Standing about ^ndM were yamuni runners, SS« «d the^various iunctio, flKsTeonrt of justice. I had g^unjustintimetoseeso ftOftinese criminal trial. The poUcemjn wore short, St i^ets on which were »ewndi SSoth a foot in dUmetor btf ore S; the dlBce werebig red charBC 3d appendage, gave the wear, "ly gritesque appearance T Siwmedianaoa the mimic St tiE. Government cfficia's ^eriou S. Over the atrange gf^hering. ^m the raftera of the buiU rhandr«i gay-colored lanter with big gUt inscriptions, and b °" THE WHOLE SCENE, Ifiam the perkUh-lookuig manda rn^d s^tacles and the on fsartier to his hat, to tho gilt Silaateras, waathelife and p. Sfthestoge. The mandarin w the poUcemen and yamuni ruj thwr ludicrous bulls-eyes, were and the others the cast aa Even the wretched prUooer, cla rats and prostrato on his fac court, waa a clever actor, to â- tar, m»y be, drawing a silary to that of the Uaiing man â- andaria at the table. To paas through the middle g oomplete cbaoge^rom the realm comedy. To these immadiateJ; however, it ia perhaps needlejs was anything bat a farce. A er tare visitor in Nam-n«an, and 1 my entranoe arrtsted the att wliole court. Evan the ptieon. Bsdi to see wh*t was the mtetraption. The mandarin t dulr, and, " chiachinning pi' his clasped hands, motioned m IT WAS AN AWFCL TEAGEDT Bus momentary diversion e wanton as before. The 'cute 1 nan with the high keyed vo was presenting the prisoner mandarin. As he finished, w dve wave of his hand from th the prisoner, the latter rcis The mandarin beamed at bin aeverity through his glasses Idm curtly. The culprit, if hung his head and mutten Perhaps it was merely a me iaaocenoe, perhaps an app Whatever it was, it seemed i ef the mandarin's wrath, i plodve order which was al scathing and condemnatory, couldn't understand a word, Ml owl through his spectacle Tne prisoner prostrated h ot aubmission two policem nunboo roda, and advanced. ad maa meekly bared, his os tnadfliag handa folded hu kaaaat, and lay flat on hii «i|ha were already a mas4 4a last flogging, administ ' btvt four days before. A BRTTTAL-LOOKI^ hald Ids head, another his f â-  ViA atrokea the two polic liestrato man by turns, t %tfaie until each had deliv â- ixih complement of twei Mhrarad, wttai the accura ba.lbe aama place, it fii|ttw, of battere tiie. tb^ E?" The n f jtrrow just below #ak repeated, the in tile Dead of tl length of the i mag^Md flash. the ii7^tohod' ma aine-wasi|uiveru •bering belpleaaly rollMl.wadly in i L the WiU^eys li tquiiidafin, who tlaae he mi n*" 0â€" T-'jssrtfS^f"' mandarin w led Urn a« wret irad wb iJtnj LWilUB g t unfoi lunate 'Honeatly nnabl t'hiifDrt '%W |5dlrta.J= "' zJrz • tJ" ^m Umak