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 h'^lLi both ki«J " •*«'»•" ^l^lStcl. behind, plcu.fcj " lto«'«'«y'"'°• I ,Mv' Andyoalovthimwen? â- â€¢A 'a**' ' ' .A luod, Md I'll toU yon, child, will have to wwt " tie bri(I»lnK"n "!»•""**• 1 to tte home in the wheat field jader the apple tree. '..otlong.i'the»t««P«ktâ„¢- ' i when do they 8pe.k in vain J- U inany the farmer ooy yen love tVn the Summer comes again " .nily rang a mocking lauifh ISSp. how little you know I ,. 'jrmer boy and 1 were wed ^r^Mda half ago! ^jieverofgoodmaycometoiM. ffuierer grief or iU, DSt from any planet or Btarâ€" icy or lorrow of the future ye»w iSsBcrtalconldevershow; ,; jjcweth the way that we shaU take, that li enough to know." ifOElIAND_SUNSHIlJI. CHAPTER IV.-(CoNTiNUED.) L»te on the following afternoon I am no- oagh the fields aa f aat ai my limbs can ne, my h»t in my hand, the basket I (cppottd to be carrying to old MoUie a jter of a mile behind me, stupk Into the lie near her cottage, aflush of haste and rable excitement burning in my I have only two hours to get to le Vicarage and back again, and I have so iich to tell Judith I shall not be able to ly hiif I want to say before I am obliged na lioine, Fcrt:iDately I overtake her in the very It ne'd next to the road, on her way from [ollie'j cottage. "My dear child, you have^aced yourself ito i perfect fever " she exclaims the mo- it she looks at me. " Do put on your kt ud sit down for a minute or two You liike yourself ill." Oh, Jadith, I have had such a delight- fce " "I am glad to hear it. But do not try to =e while yon are out of breath. " "Audi missed you so much, Judith, t time I goto Velfry you are to come c^?lad woBuui like Mn. ^thmbaAto^ oidithedliliBreiuMibetiraM OS." " Bot youMenotmgry wtthaie, Jadithr* Aagry with you. jmi^Mt little thiMl No. ButI*mMgrywitliaM«,,na_^ with mywjlf." ^^ ««-«»* '*Yooh»Tano reMon to he utgrr wfth yourself. If they «r» â- Â© bliwl Jj? "They don't know how Uindtttey h«!» •l»oghs quite heartily- Judith's aooda areas changeable as the wind. "IwiUoot wit them ye», poor and obscure a. I »m- I win te«di Mb. Rutherf otd that even' a worm win turn when it is trodden npoa " "But, Judith, she ne»er «4d V iord •gMMt yon. She as much as said this moraing at breakfast when I mentioned your name. th»ft she was sorry sny stop had been put to the old intetoonrse. And she said to me afterwards that the fact was die had always thought you too pretfy and attractive to hare you much at Velfry, aa BrroD had absolutely nothing-at present: and marriage with a girl eqnaUy poor would simply have ruined him." *• Must every girl who sees her sons faU in love with them f " I rappoae.she thinks so. But I think she was more afraid of their falling in love with you." "Byphhas money enough to mury a beggar girl, if he pleased." '« She did not mention Ralph's name. She only seemed to think of the danger to Erroll." " She only cares for Errell. But she will give her darUng to you If ypn were old and ngly, she would give him to you just the same â€" she would encourage you to run after, him ;. she would force him to make love to you. And all lac the sake of a few paltry thousands. Bah 1" 'V.ho said so? ' she asks, smiling Incred- Jly. "Eirollsays so, and I say so; and we isjtke Mrs. Rutherford do anything we I 'l! it. 'we' already?" she says, pushing unfiS back from my hot forehead. 'Ob, Judith, I like him so much, and he "lithe drst is true, the last is very for- "i:i6 quite true. I liked him the very jt evening, and now " I" ^2d now?" Judith finishes, looking at â- "N"-- 1 love him. And, oh, Judith, it " Mue me so happy I never knew P»t It ffas to be really happy until now I" |!!'Mtnras her head away. I fancy she »Uttle. It is cruel of me to thrust 'I'-yaponher-8he whose love has not « ?o fortunate £s mine! [|»^th, I have told you my secret, and ^I can guess yours." *« looks at me swiftly, the blood rushing *:erfice. Jrw care for Ralph, don't you " •'-rRal^h!" she repeats monotonously. ,;^^Utoldme. He guessed it long ago «:«eliewent to China." ,^ttroa guessed it " dij."_f' Rethinks his mother guess- Ivt '"' ^^y she did not ask you '.^'^^nyniore." ^J^""*^!" you all this?" • iLl""" '^° °°- "^^^ "1^. Jadith. 'oald not have said it to any one "If • t W.' '"'^^* ^*"« ^°'^«i something hotr "'^^""' and voice. « To L. '^^aytotellyou a thing like r?::i^^t^"""""'*^ ^*Njf "°" ^« ««h other I '"yOr^"*^" out of the I *^»^yort°"° "y*" l*iaod 1 *^"' "Beoanse you evtt ^®**'»' "»d I have "*«» 1 I,, **'"»«*Mngleft *• had been an heiten witheisiiiliim JmliUi'i haHftJ ^^ Birt; aa so. â- h»4l|llw||i.d If EmOl and I many eaak ettar, is f •h^MBeday. Ikm^thi^ of iMr heart ii »D «• Kmill .ittia down' in- to •^i«pwtaUenNmb«r of eede^: andAehastsldm^ "»»* «»* I "h^ make a dear UfeHe wife." "You lookTety weD Je-n^t, Judith." Isay.watohiivberaeshepBtathe finlahfaig touch to her drese. I thought I had looked veij weO myself whsnlleftmy jcoom a lew taiantee aco* botmyfsithinmyawaaivaaiMM is just a UtUe ahsken as I look at the taU slight figure in the simple blaek net drees, with thes«iaare-cnt bodice and knots of gold- ooloored ribbcn, and the dnster of over- blown faiat Oloire de Dijon MSM en her shoulder. â- * • Judith dreasee in a bolfl pietoresque style which would not rait my Utile figure and ehitdlah faceat all. 8ha can wear mote effeotiTa bouquets, aad larger hats^ and longer traina. and hJi^rrufBas, and andag- ling of cdors iHiidi my aimts would call " audacious" and yet they always look weU upon her, though they would make a per- feet fright of me. Her dfe« to-ni^t is quiet enough, aad yet its eflbot is not quiet as she comes into the drawing-room and is introdttoed to Erroll by his mother as "your old playmate," though I thiak they must have met before, f ornelther givea more thn a casual glance towards the otiier, and, a moment later, Judith is talking to Mr. Ruth- erf urd, whom she has of course been in the habit of meeting at church on Sundays and occadonally at other houses. ^j «uv.»u.u ttmui â- / â€" â€" â€" â€" -»., since those Judith, you frighten meâ€" you make um^' *?""f" "'^•P I^^ IW â- "-â- f*?"""'!S*!y""»g â€" v,-.T^...^, ... .. man and sheachlldwho came to play with bislittlesister, tod to tease his ^ji^unger Ibrother with threats of excluding him from their girlish gaimes., -^ Erroilof course takes possession of me, and, though I cannot be blind to ;^ fact that Juditii Is athouaand times more lAtract- Ive thanlam, he at all eventi doles not seem to see it as 'Ito Isaois over thebkck of Into miserable Don't let us talk about her any more," I sob, leaning my face down on her shoulder. " I am sure I do not want to ^talk about her. Tell me all about your visit, and how much you enjoyed it. And what did she say to your aunts when she brought ycb back?" " I don't know what she said," I smile through my tears; "but I think it was something they all liked. Tney think there Is nobody in the world Ifke Mrs. Rnther- furd." Judith's red lip curls, but she does nbt In- dulge in any more Invective â€" she seems anxious to make Ae forget the burst of pas- slon which had so distressed and frightened me by bestowing upon me an extra amount of petting, and smoothing the tangled curls out of my eyes, kissing my tear-stained cheeks, blaming herself for having given me such a receptionâ€" I who had hurried over to see her first of all. " You poor little thing " she says, with an odd mixture of tenderness and something like cruelty which makes her so puzzling to people who do not know her as well as I do. "It was a shame not to have listened to your love-story, wasn't it, and to have tried to (pake you believe that they only wanted yosr-j^oney? But you love Erroll; and, if you. think he loves you, what are the odds wheth»he does or not? Girls like you never know. If a man telU you once he loves you, you go on believing to the end of the diapterâ€" ay, and die happy in the belief And Heaven knows yon are more to be envied than we miserable creatures who want so much more than we are ever likely to get r "Erroll loves me," I say simply. "He would never have kissed me as he did last night, if he had not loved me more than any one else in the world." " Did he kiss you " she asks, but with- out looking at me. We are walking hack slowly through the fields towards Osier- brook, my arm round Judith's waist, her hand on my shoulder â€" she la so much taller than I that we generally walk like this. " Of course he did. Judith, will yon tell me one thing Do yon care as much for Mr. Rutiierf urd as I care for Erroll I will never tell any one â€" ^not even Erroll â€" ^If yon will only whisper it to me." "If I cared lor any one else, Usle, I should care mere foi them a million times tiian yen could ever care. I am not made ci such slight elements as yon are childâ€" to lore any one with me meana to love tiieai with every pulse of myheart, with every breath I draw, 16 kmg aa ip^iife shall laab*! ** I love EiroD like that," I say. kwktog up into her dark fludied iaoe. "I hope not." fn " Why do yon hope not?*' "Beoaiunitisnot.abaHpy thing to leva any me lUce that^ Such idolatry, faringa Ita just prndshment with it alwayf Bat I am not oahi^^abMtfe yoo, IMa. Fob wfll nevwlpTfraayoBaiiinpe than ia good lor «ad^MBahaphy*^tii«pnIiida^ aai, the piefaide Is iniBbed, begha to aiag in her foil nwBo-eopcaae voiee. " Bm hMrtlask tiom fhse. leM, XM woili simlamr sml loTCw "^m. whHroar hMrts anaoiiiMc. Ws iws our paie umI Mto; Hot, wiMn ow Jots «M waUMB, CfeBtan Omu. Sid* Ic7 riSI^ "IdonotseeanytUag very difficolt to iinderstandinthaVEnoUdeelaTCe,as she runs through the interlude in hme dear, erisp way. ' Do yon not " site smiles. That issimple enoogh," a^ lauglu, as he turns the page. •• 'WetiV Ml waleh Ifla loTSfS Fot smIh (laiMMS swMt â- Bvy anaad a tevus. W« daw not smltoaita gprt. •• •Oo, taoih with itom imroTlnK ni7 hewt, WiMM ttiobs I SM, Aad tdl it that ooc lOTiac Must stm a seen* IM^ "IsthatiOir'ErroUaskaina low tone. " Not quite alL Do you like It V "I cannot say I like it; butâ€" "â€""Bub whatr " I will tell yon some other time. Glo en with the song." ' " *A word, a look mitjTUudcd Hm oft biougitt danger ni^ SoMo* is our laont waidtd Ffom sewdi of Jealous eye. " 'Still most tlie wamiiv be, lore. That erst I gave to thee The heart I ask from thee, love, A secret gift must be. " Thai yqat" Erroll says, as she rises from the piano. She crosses the room to- wards me, and he fdlows her and, for a moment, I fancy he looks paler than usual but Judith is laugiilng. " My poor little child, who has banished you to this distant comer " " I have been here all the time." " And how did you like my song?" she asks, sitting down beside me on the sofa. " It Is an odd song I did not like it much." "I do not care about it myself. Is It really eleven?"â€" as the little time-piece rings out the hour in Its musical chime. "How quickly the time has passed " "Thanks to yon," Erroll says, looking at her as he stands before us. "To my music, you mean. It is a plea- sure to me to play upon such an bstrument; my own piano saw Its best days more than twenty years ago." "How shall we amuse ourselves to-mor- row " Enroll asks. " Do you play tennis " "Not well I have had no opportunity for practice." " I will give you any odds you like." " ThSipkB I like a fair field and no favour n the games I play," Judith laughs, look- ing at him. I cannot see her eyes, but his look handsomer than ever, I fancy, as they meet that laughing glance. "Then shall we pull down the riverâ€" or rather float down, and pull ourselves back again? It is a long time since we explored the abbey ruins together, is it not " "A long time. What fun we used to have on that Island When wewere children! ' " Vesâ€" wheh I was Robinson Crusoe, and oa were IVidiqr, aid wo iinade May be the savages I" Erroll laughs. "Then !et us ar- range to go to the Island we can easily be back by lundiMn-tiffle. if we stjurt directly aftw breakisl^?:^^ losle say?' Judith asks, want to ilDoasBt aomsbody sayâ€" "Tsrtowisal As rttSMsa fans al «toM«e|, I I UBBotsupriiedtiMt Erroll shoold ba fMoinafeed by th* otovamsos, the fearleaa cxpresdflo. of epiidoa, tiie streag individm* all^, whkh had faaoinated me b tiiia giri finan the very first boor in which i made her acquaintaaosb Batat tiie same time I am rafter glad whan Mia. Batherf ord oomea bad: aad Jnditii goaa away to talk to bw; I bad said ones that I had nav«r been jealous, but I am cbildish enough to be je^ona now of every word and look Erroll l^ves to anyone else. " Yon do not hate her now, Enroll, do you " I ask a Uttie wistfnUy. "I do net like her"â€" sinking into the chair beside bm. 'Ton do not 1 1 thooi^t yon hwked as if yoa liked her very muob, jost now." " Yoi^ little jeafaras thbg i" "Oh, I dont mean as if you love her, of course J" "Love her I" he echoes, shrugging hia broad shoulders. ** I love no one but yon. Lisle, and you ou|^t to know tliat very #eU." The assurance comforts me. I admire Judith so much myself that I can scarcely believe any one could see her without fall, ing in love with her. But, after all, if Er- oil retlly cares for me, however he may be interested ot amused, he can never love any one else. I would not be interested or amused by any othw man, let him be ever so attractive, if Erroll were in the roo b but men are not like women â€" love with them is only part of their life, while with ui it Is the whole o existenoe. If Erroll loves me better than any other girl In the world, surely I may be very well content • ' • • • -m .- 'm (TO BE CONTINUED. my chair wUspeoring tsider speeehes my silly delighted ears. Hesaenusoglad to have nie back again at Velfry, and I am so glad to bebaokâ€" theeveningseeinstoflypast as if It had wings. Mrs. RntimfEird is fmd of music, and Mr. Ralph Rutherfhrdilib seems to enjoy it, though he genorally listens from ai chair in some distant comer, and neVer either thanks the perfojrmer or makes isay oom- nieiit on thie performance. Tonight Miss trying* sings ipd play* for hours with the most indefatigable good nature, botli Mrs. RutSerfurd and Ralph listening with thorough appreciati«i to claisuwl " arivs" and " all groa," which give Erroll an oppor- tunity of whispering a great many sweet speeches to me that the acoompanying music only seems to make sweeter, if we heard it at all. " Perhaps I ought to ' do the pretty ' to Miss Irving now for a little while, since Ralph lias taken himself off," Erroll says at last. "It wont do to neglect her altogether, wHI' it?" ",0h, I don't think Judith mmds 1 She Is not that kind of girl." " No she seems quite willing to cover our ' asides' with any amount of fortissimo chords, andtoendnre ourwiiiaperiag through her songs with the mott philosophic Indif- f'srencs But I really must go and turn over her music for a little while â€" noblesse oblige! ' He saunters across the room to the piano, looking very tall and itAt aad handaeme In his simple evening dress, with a moss-rose- bud in his buttonhole, his crisp hair care- fully parted, his blond monstache carefully curled. Ashe bends over Miss Irving t .» -^ v-^-tttt â€" » â-  â€" cannot help thinking-" What a handsome Jl"'-,, f '^l "^f^ 3%« to have'a p'easant heiten pair 1 "I think yon must. aH be tired of my music ' Judith declares, turning round on tbe piano stool. Mrs Ruthrfurd had left the room with Ralph, and I am constrained to say I am not tired, though I do not (iare to sit by myself on the soh while Bmdl turns an- other girl's music, even though tliat other gjbrl be my own f aufliur fdend. "Sing someth ing " Erroll snggeats. as Judith's hands wSader at random over tiie ksya. *nVhatahaUI sing r she aakf, looUi^ up at bbn abaetitly. tHdle she playa on in a slow, dreamy fadiioo. as If she were eom- poebg. *«Anytiiii% yon like. I dent know yonr down, great She li still looking np sia he that far^ff AxaMaiai In gold-brown eyea. rm^^mhik she is loqking at b|m^|lji is listsail| to hat " What dtm looking at^tfi». " J like whatev^ jojjg^e," I answer at Why lodians Love the Waipath. Colonel Royall of the army Is one of the best known Indian fighters in the service. He is now on leave, his health bebg much Impiured by many years' life on the frontier. Speaking of the present diet rb- ances and the love for murder which every Indian seems to possess in a greater or less degree, he said I once asked a re- markably intelligent Indian who was known to have killed a white man some years ago, why it was that his race enjoyed so much going on the war-path and killing people. The conversation which ensued ran some- thing like this, the Indian begins bg ' Did ycu ever shoot a rabbit ' "'Yes.' • ' ' Did you ever shoot a deer ' "'Yes.' " ' Didn't you get more fun out of killing the deer than the rabbit ' "•Yea, I guess so.' "•Well, there's a heap more fun for an Ir^an to kill a man than a deer.' "That waa Indian logic, and pretty good logic, too, I should say," Colonel Royall re- marked, and added: " My experience has been that the mbute an Indian sheds human blood, it seeaos to affeot the whole tribe b the same way that the smell of blood would a pack of wild beasts. It intoxisates them. They become devils. They are bereft of al reason. They must satisfy their lust for murder, and the settiers on the trail they take become their victims." " 0h,I am rare to have a pleasant time at Velfry It is enough for me to revisit the places where I was happy as a child." "Have yon nevw been happy at Velfry sboe you were a child?" Erroll asks, smiling. " None but AiIdren are ever really hap- py," Miss Irving answers carelessly. **I do not agree with yon there. I am ' hKpfigr now tiiaa I ever wa* m • child." I do adit lopow wiiy .2nditii ahenid ehaaga coloor at this speech, bat diange colour she OBilalnly deea. Iranppoee yen have a good rsaaoa te be happy." she way, bokbg net atlrias bnt at me. "I bate a vtoy good rsasoo." '** There is d^ one th^tiiat can niake », turn, jn :moamt «salp hsf|)y b tids worid." .-')Tjii:-'u^- MAndw^tbtiiat?*' '*TokM^#«bat1iiapi _^4;^^ re- hafpf far t;t til Wire Siege Gims. Si^e guns built of wlr» are the newest description of ordaanoe for the national service. A very tough steel wire is used, having a breaking strength of 100 tons to the square bob, which Is wound over a steel tube as tape may be bound en a reel bebgf.eqnentiy fastened off to secure its' cohesion, and so neatiy put t^gether as to look precisely like solid metal. An experi mental howitzer has been made upon this prbdple, and passed a satisfactory proof at the Royal Ansnal It has a calibre of 10 ins, but wdghs only about 70 cwt. Jn its trial this howitzer threw a shell of 360 lbs with aebaige of 28 lbs. and attained a velodty of 1000 ft per seoondâ€" a result may be com- pared witii two gnas of a slnflar weight which are at p ra a rat fa tiie servioe. Oaeof tiieaciBtheSin. howitBer.whidifireeashell of just half the wd^tâ€" viz.. 180 Ifaaâ€" with a vebeity fli 950 ft; and tiM otiier is the 100- peondergnn ol6 6eaIIh«^ wUdi. witii its lif^t shot of lOOOa, m a na ge toreadi a vel- odty of l^Oft per second. The trial "pgapoB^aspN in. jgte w«y ii^yaifed by the Mrab to wlddt'ItbMlMeB buijeeted. U/O^li^bti/^iluiMi^^ the sn iriMbakfs»tkeera(^kid«fflaee the iWiil i-^.' •I I i i'li â- â€¢Ml 'I t i-r ii ' i'tf ,i^ii "ivi 'iiiirtfililHri ^^jglHigll iMiniiiiiiiiiiiai^^