Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1891, Page 7

| . ee . * A z % 4 & . an : ipHp -VENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. 7 > ee ies , : a hidcuont Ml physicians who ‘It was vou who wrote to Justin!” she cried. POLLY'S PROOF OF BRAINS. MR. AND MES. BOWSER, REPEIES OF CHILDREN, AN ANONY HOUS LETTER |: se out!” cried Helena, | mre tintin bik perfat lity to Helons he | Weemoomeed fe” Fittn AU Bey etna po | “lores ihe prose =roe Tanne o Epoweise =e oe ANAL i Bs whe ste Sema mt out!” cried Helena, | had ever guessed) told him just what the world | ones) told him that his nervous system was ina | | While she thus addressed him he was men- | One Bird, at Least, That Selects Her Phrases | Some of the Peculiarities of the Family as | Some Surprising Answers Made to Questions = penser —- —— darted to her | believed and just wh: asserted. He leit her, | curiously unstrung condition. eF could not | tally dazed and unmanned by the tierce recent for Proper Occasions. Related by Mra. Bowser. in English Schools. a his head with | and then, with quivering nerves and a mind P i reesic encroachments of his disease. But a gleam of | prom eu: From Comell's Saturday Journal Roth arms, while he remained ented. stooping | grown drunk from his new and abruptangaish, | ryt Sing ast hens cea ae, despairing intelligence lighted his tt ve ircesend coi an aconeaune oie ak as caneare nl vi R THE EVENING STAR BY ms, wh : WRITTEN FOR and kissing his temples and brow, and for a few | he lot himself drift, as one more victim of ite ing was to stave off by their drags and their | 48 he heard her and looked at her. feabed foes | russ terrte tek Theives uaamebdiodt | tn mtn ee go | Son agi EDGAR FAWCETT. seconds resembling the picture of Isabella with | grim greed, into’ that black tide of | ZR Ra : ; “Tee ped Hla » ye | For the past four years I have owned a talking | through the ‘ to t- | once before Bishop Wilberforce for ng the xa ; in eo rte ’ te the letter,” he 3 ve owned tame experience a# to money mat appeared before Bishop nse EES her pet of basil, “You're the best and mostlov- | human "tragedy whose _ctillen course | tenet gions or yg arning fever that | gasped, i rene eltergieemet parrot. The resuitof my observations has been | ters. When we had returned from our bridal | confirmation; the bishop, feeling sure that be A - pos Hd F one she Sontinned, And then, | is forever flowing through our landscape of | watches for fresh chances of onslaught. “God may,” she answered, while her grasp.| that one parrot, at least, ix endowed with rea-| tour Mr. Bowser aaid to me: had confirmed him before, bent over and said (Copyrighted perme cs eden, @ not! peel ao apt a. ae = certain = pe 2 ~ Hoey ramon ‘God may, Tallmadge Van | soning faculties to a surprising degree. “While half of what Ihave belongs to youT | in a low tone, “My boy, I think I have com CHAPTER 1 “He is everything you describe him, and | hired a room there. For an hour he sat. writ- enact jen the pasied from the room and soon | | The following narrative of Polly's doings and | do not propose that you shall be obliged to beg | firmed you before. ‘The lad opened! his great Toa LEMENT tase | Moreybenides was lagten's rey ae ing to Helena: and shen bis letter wos tinished | By April he returned to New York, looking | afterward from the house. Ina few more dare sevings is an tnadorned, plain statement of |for your half. Being the head of the house I wide even and replied, “You be lis No’ ENIEN ‘Oh, yor ‘o humbugs!” lang! justin. | he ineloxed within it v fis death. a evoi " : or . - set @ ts thn tt Welle tn pall paprorts Peleg deve | beteey errigdcapeentn Keser peti loin! somewhat better. Helena, hearing that he was | ‘ey brought her news of his death. facts, devoid of all exaggeration or embellish- | shallcarry the wallet, but I propose to band hat would have happened if Heury TV of is is the history of Helena Worcester’s | ment. I make this preliminary statement be- | yon over a certain s strangely unhappy life. There were times, : I every Saturday night. | France had not been murdered?” asked ponies - i cotta nr | cause there is a di.position to receive with con- | It will be pin money.” teacher of a sharp-looking bos. The promp eiey Cortona orate ior het. | siderable salt the most serious utterances of | “How good you are was, “He would probably have died she spent eo many secluded years, when she | *titers of presumably humorous fiction and, | “I think it is only just and right. know «| natural death.” bitterly reproached herself for having caused | in the next place, some of the remarks of my | dozen married men whose wives have to almost | Ina Sunday school, “What did th. s i ry her consin's death by not going to him and ii i ii do w! m ed we hone whieh trattic and enterprise have | After this granted Fequest on the part of his | porarily to unseat her reason. For several days | ite the same look that you had when you) pin? hin her pardon. aioe parrot betray a greater degree of intelligence | get down on their knees mae = —- Jo when they came i 24 a oe oe mene eee Wife Justin would spend at least three evenings | those who attended her felt that che must either | "ent away. Evidently you are mending.” ||" But’ there are cestain spirits in this world | ‘8 i8 usually accredited to feathered bipeds. | could kick such a man ce almost sommnolent | of each week alone. inthe library with his | soon rally from dementia of cles be taker to | _ “Be carefal not to forget me, came his | that are made all the more miserable by their | _ Poly was purchased for $12 ata bird store | think you ean use a weel op Latimer burned t ‘e a pale woman, | cherished work. He had never cared for the | an asylum. Then a change for the better eame, | Y®™Ring. as she was about to de If you! own gentleness and. nobili On these an | 9" the Bowery. She is wha “Awa dollar, perhaps.” ., ee remarkable beauty, whose | theater, aad now he grew equally indifferent to | followed by a long bodily prostration thai | 0 Iehall breast icy blasts in sooking your fre | gated sorrow is always coldly entailed. and the | JO"bIe-hended Mexican,” the head and neck | “A dollar’ "Mk wife trying to get along on a FOUNgaters appear to get white, although she had not | all sccisl entertainments. on happened | three! riod ae ts. , side ae = ghainse tatesin, (Tf thane at tac ‘peeer wr Segten ta being a bright yellow and the tail and wings | dollar a week! Why, you little darling, you in digesting their historical Long ago she had | thet Helena not only wont to musical affairs | | All this time che had not seen Oswald Biag-| ,, Oh, Til not forget you.” replied Helens. | inzies would seem to increase by a new factor | t pred with red. ‘The rest of her bedy shall have at least ten, and if that is mot suffi- | tion their ideas of geographical facts are also ‘ ith Blagden, but that they drifted out to-|den. Since the death of her imusband he had | A® ae er word. This kinsman of hers | of mystery the whole sad problem of human | “#"K green color. cient I make it $20 or $30.” unfrequently. to say the least, original. A ase from er father, but she | gether for different purporerof livection, ceased to live in the sate house with herself, | “2 about the only living person just now for | $y gevseieT? For several weeks after “Poll Tt was the old story over again. He cut me | ¥oWng hopeful said that the surface of the well there until a certain | People sew them in each other's company, | When they met (their place of meeting was | Yom she cared with any real depth and ten- eae Eira Seed eis member of my family serious apprehensions as | down to #8—$7—$5—$4—€2—-and at length, | @Fth consisted of land and a. whet ¢ her days caused her to | and gossip grew like rank grass. Meanwhile | here, becaise Helena had sent for kim) she | 4tness, For years she ‘had believed him the | rassron iN pRAPI. yinpows, | {0 Her conversational abilities were entertained, | when we had been married about four months | then.” asked the teacher, s Helena was innocent of theleast guile, and if | locked: excessively and. still. showed | 80%! of honor: always she had personally liked NIN DRAPING THE WINDOWS, | for she was as nilentas okl Gen, Moltke himecif, | and I soked hie ten eta he turned on me | 4 sone might seek a nummery or 2 s ‘i him; and the menace of death which at present when we were startled by her sit in a clear, * espe orinigelatse vy | the friend of ber husband had dared to breathe | marked signs of ness. His per- a eee eee rice heat |S°Me of the Most Popular Designs for y nging + | with: ! bide in absolute social se 4 word of passion in her ear she would bave | sonal appearance bad also greatly changed: his | Seemed to overshadow him woke in her Shades and Curtains, ee oe “What! More money? Do you think I've pe! eroathons pat for some of ushe | - Helena echoed his laugh. “I've the best | Putting both communications into on envelope | home again, came at once to his residence. school that we perhaps one erg be jealous. she onl “ith that ™ jhe directed them to his wife. After that -he | Her pity for him was characteristic of her gen- — script absorbing vou so! Haven't I, Oswald?” | shot himself through the heart, and when. the . “Tins treating you as an sdorpions, like the | (she called Blagden by his first name, nowa- | people in the hotel discovered his insane deed ‘ par! eee prralairatan 2 *. Not long | davs; “it seemed so natural togher, siace her | he had been dead quite n long tne, ee id-fashioned New | husband did the eame.) The effect of his death upon Helena was tem- | While these raw spring days last. You have not had never ¢ shrunk back from him with horror. locks and beard were much grayer, and his face | thrills of feeling full of dreamy self amaze-| = got gold mine? What on earth do you want in this resolve. —— was botis lkaggard and Ii woe Bose ata me s ithont | Boney for?” 3 Stix Megduncli beak coms CHAPTER I. : We crass : ap very long togeiher ete must See eS Se fester ae PAD EeO A “y — Tve got to get a few litle notio | gation and has to be cut through with « steam soon said to hin The doctors agree ; ete metamorphose. Twenty years age 5 i 7 “Bat you can't want a dollar's worth—« | ™ nally visiting hospitals and | : = ‘ bard yrs said to her durfig the next visit she paid him. Be ce ae . was the first line of a popula’ refrain. The | ya oie asiine’ es . According te the “Schoolmaster,” or her pi | . ea ier rea appier than you were?” a period shades, deep greens and wha © parrot had come to acquire the words : “3 j cleaning up of a stable.” and an answer to pee Laotian prplentenod tam | Helena was stainlesaly innocent. As for Oswald | .,.7) 1 want tonsh you @ question, Docs aoe peaceful in spirit?” she | foliss termed refined colors, drabs and browns - gp epeeg foie we kad company, the talk | question ‘hont inmurance heed thie | 7 with whe had once mingled, all that be- | Blagden, the repose and quiet sclf-command of | What question?” f in spirit | £27.86 Yeats past. the fashion beeamo a sort | pear tyttis Polly bogan to moke great PTO6-| fell upon this very subject and Mir. Bowser | - 5 xd by the compa ily dead to her, and for exeelient rea- | that gentleman defeated his closest scrutiny. | "This: When poor Justin and I and yon were for those who are peacefal in spirit | of «‘go-as-you-plense” fashion, with a tendency | Caron the foca ee ee ear of the perfectly | Promptly observed: fray the expenses of the birth of me 10 her own belief. All this time Tallmadge felt hi | be bled 7 the . y happy.” h ws “4 “A wife has just ach right to the family cntuliy thew udge felt himself consumed | being babbled abont by the busybodis and th, a, “I do feel ax if | PThaps among the better classes toward ecrus | that a skye terrier, “Dud by name, ran Jast as ma 7 rier Puthfully throughout my entire | with growing and indignant hatred of Justin | RO*ips of the world did you know that we acertain Faraone descended upon | and natural holland tints. Now, however, for | ¥elphig throagh the hunting for the sup- | (rillet as the husband nnd there ought to be a d her “death, “to serve duty and shrink | that this man, whom fate had so blessed by ho. tale LY cuiaie tint desire of yours has passed?” be) window shades, and the uewest things from | bow-wows end the cerns oe Bee ee he | concac?” queried one of the ladies. Soon summer. mall wrong. And set nothing but sorrow | giving him such a wife ae Helena, should hold | had heard that foolish folk wwe questioned. abroad are in brocade styles and damask | being distinguishable from the real article. “Certai ud T never ask what use she ae ee a - E anit mo oth ae = aan eee | hae in such insolent disregard. There were | you know. I couldn't help being aware f f him | figures. Some of the patterns are in pin cords |The warwhoop of onr milkman—I lived in a, aka spor rgeeny — vane being?” inquired ai ™ sie aha? ‘loved: for one I felt « bonndless ‘ an | then" sre brake Te, of equally dom e {and stripes with buds and flowers interspersed. | Harlem at the time eS i en ak am, to one I gave a sion 80 inant in ner gaze and tone, “You did “wrong | Pain fi “1 try not to be| Then again we have lace in combination with hoop, wore faithfalle Coprdeecae wt, | He opened his wallet and handed me three | if ans, between ortrens, a box a P whoop, we th 7 “0 s fi that it almost resembled love. Yet each io tele cok Ota hie: vengeful.” she said. “I pray not to be. Often | tho window shade. In some cases the lace is re ae Bbehally seeretaned, = nicely ‘det A fort isa place to put You were our : y not | - histle of the lett ten-dollar bills, and five married Indies ex- eft with me memories that are horrors, K iy inerea e trusted 3 THnink the praving helps me. That is all.’ | arranged asa cross stripe and permits one to | the most diffleult sored ite bas ones doe ea | claimed in choras: Ge bee chek Ce eee h in his way has dealt my spirit the | 1 ” a 2 Ah, impetus he exclaimed, | PHM. after a slight pause, she added. havoa peep hole in the shade when drawn | This feathered phonograph also learned to sing | “How wish I—was-Nirs.—Bowser! etre: Boge eller edt pattie wo of wounds. y very urly ill. Helena, hearing of this | +4 d spoken it would have sealed my own Prats Pi eae in perfect time th ds, vc |, Before the evening was ove: I had the money 2 i ; | illness, made efforts to seo him, but his physi- | doom. Youaad Jastin, would have foreed me Bye eee te sown. Ve) skye json thee “window stiaden | oes fe Reece th TNS | hidden aw Pes ; ir jenly. ; mates Bee tak toes and our company had scarcely n | cians ‘forbade her presence ‘at his bedside. | to live elsewhere. The pric hat this creature should be Tiving ine. ‘the | tec Wetec iechscpen cacti cen departed when Mr. Bowser held out bis hand a e had a small piano of | There were several houre when his life almost eee eon ee : Y, perhaps in exnitation, somewhere not Le» — mie 5 sig of them had nite tone aud seated before this cle would | hnng bys hair, He won delivious, ard in hus | Listed cee ateee eae ees eee But there's a worse thought than Sa: eee ae en wae : a to be reculling and rehearsing | delirium often spoke of a letter that he intended | an undying passion! {‘— inate capt whistling and saying. “Come here, rou Dude* | “Hand ove " tive melodies of Schuman. | to write, though to whom and with what intent | “Hnsh.” she cxid, and in her voice the note of . What in it When we first got the parrot it beeame ens-| ‘What do you mean?” yee | Schubert all the strange grief and | his watchers failed to gather tor. | TERTOOF continues, yet ‘That among the few people Ttheet nown- tomary st meal times to Sek “Polly want come?” | ‘“That thirty dollars.” . Being asked what c doom of her astonishing past. ertain night, whi se was doz What you tell ie f h aad dar to tha non : “But i 5 t a qe | eee ees Aly i irelpe tp ng ah meas te oe 2 facie I innocently converse, whose hand i 9 liege ea en) ey authe hall ago ryan ceee oe ~~ Hamilton. The only child of a wealthy father, i is ve = ible ¢2 ay on whom I smile and who smiles back on Zeus , seat enongh to take it back.” who ido! vr to the verge of folly. she had |. In the chamber next to that y were, yet yon never sp me—oh, no, no!” she cried in agitated self- FG | igor q 2 * “You know very well why I gave it to you. reached had lain was a writing desk. , it is almost as dark treachery,” she went | iterFuption, “I won't think of it, “Tallmadge. sees a paper bag sh It was to show off over Thompson and Jones, z single he now approached. Searcely conse that of the ankuown writer of the | iPS too distressing! T've promised myself to f and says, “Polls wanta somes’ as the doce whee | Who never allow their wives a cent’ Romperaty encount, ho deeceibed ly, one day. E t he did he opened the desk and se@ted him- | loxthsome anonymous letter which killed my | 2 all these ideas and imaginings from my she hears nuts being eracked or sees oranges | "Well, Ul see about it. hing to pat hot plates down with. ry | self before it. Then, with a hand of perfect | poor, foolish Justin!” She surveyed him now fools It's so much better simply or apples. ng Crnekec’ OF seen OPRsbe®T After we had been in bed half an hour and he | -, Tue members wf girls’ class were asked « man named Justin he began a letter to Justin Worces- | with’a scorn which'picrced him all the more | t? tell one’s self that what's done is done and ‘This in certal th han what | thought I was asleep, be got up and searched | {¥ questions. One was interrogated fearf s a merciless missive, indeed, and | because such utter ‘grief was its 1 that thirsting for vengeance is just as futile as is commonly called “inatines’" Tt showe the about for two long hore atter that money. I] what as, meant son qui written as though some cold observer of ent. r wine. E 4 erein cer ad tucked el e clo e sit After ell it ‘only ‘been vomewhat as retepeimdl ary ime ey chbeun todie! | hace é Nous | ‘Tallmadge made no direct answer: he had at sxercise to a certain extent of the reasoning | bad tuck meteena mans aa pines eye! s Helens the moon. If | cuss in it his believed blindness and elf-ab- not the coura dit occurred - et Perhaps th — t into bed I heard him chuckling: sked for that luminaryhe might Then it went cruelly on to treat the | she : Shh on that he he.! : = rots Mane CAG MME eee a “The idea of any sane husband gi Ited with some noted astrono- ports and slurs concerning Helena | had entered the room. Just as he reached her i the whole prized interview to end igs Z found in Poliy's use of the word “goodby.” | Wife 730 all in alump! Why, she'd have just possibility of securing it for Her. “You stand today.” one se seemed to grow steadier and more con- | **ightless trivislities : wuse of the word “goodby. . When any inember of the fami x oat | Wasted two-thirds of i she made a wry face and gave her Jus- | tence in the light of a husband who will- | trolled of mie: “Helena!” he cried. “We a tat Bole ail bate tee nen i been married about a year and I re- urchin at understood and “perhaps from exper . lid nothing and romebody went md told of at Another was asked how beef g his | 4 a8 made and she replied, “Buy a tin of beet “extract and follow the directious on the id. ht he slept horribly, and Soe a WR j any mw mber of the family puts on a coat | "iy He permitted himself sorrog- | ingly turns his back upon what many another | «hail m: You don't mean that you felt 6o ill chat he sent f ! fc caine te oe member whatashock it gave me when Mr. T did hope, Heler™, | husband has shed blood when hed! red it.” | dismiss me from you forev ae a ‘ it hes ‘soa mapa iid Bowser retu to the house one morning nadge Van Dyke, would | And a second sentence ran thus: “Yon are| “Forever,” she repli, with one lifted hand | pere is some mental trouble worryits on put on. Even | about half an hour after he had started down the jest of those who proffer you their outward | waving him away. “You knew, and you might | YW" S#id the practicioner, who was ‘ulso his Z % Agi in conversn|town. He came rushing up the steps, un- he never sought | respect. for behind the mockery of all such lip- | have saved him! You might have save friend. a " 5 rrot to cody!” When | locked the door and banged it open and his naving the full | service lies their conviction that you are either | through ine!" Her yes blaze “No, none,” replied Tallmadge, feeling the! GER ; pa oodtby en ; feeling. fe ee Sag Needs A : face was as palo as death as be out: = ction, she was married to her music | terribly fooled or terribly indulgent.” for an instant, and he saw her lip curl. “As if | fFCe of bis lie while he spoke it. ‘That night : i eHellotT iaciie Mena cen a a my wallet —— That's just what I said. e Chure | Talimadge had finished bis letter when he | I, his loving wife.’ she went on, “would have | 2 Was obliged to take to his bed, and the old " iubed ander sanllas Pivcusatnoeee Wart cent: ‘our wallet? Why, I found it under | “Amd now, dear,” asked a governess, “What at she had been wrong as to Tallmadge Van | heard an approaching step. It was that of his | let ¢ * think ‘those hideous things, | Ver, wh eds were in his system, gave s “ello!” improperly substituted for="good. | YOUr pillow and left it on the mantel there.” | 8 {ou tell me about Minerva" “Nhe was te ke'snot having cared for her. The engage | hired nurse, roused trom an unsuspicions nap. | had { !? ‘Then her mann streng sont return. A Userce son his certainly shows a correct associ 4 von—you've looked inside of it!” Soddess of wisdom, amd she never married, «fearful blow to him. He was not a| The sick man rose, thrusting his recent work | to one of intense sdrrow. ond tremalod he next atternoon Helena came to him. She i visible worried by his new overthrow. ‘The | Usually hollands, with a centro} section cut ont | Hon of ideas and ia not what is generally un- ‘0, Thaven't. It's there, just as I found 0 asin of Hele but t int ment of the desk. As he did so “Had T only k lad Lon! owl s : - $69 Tus hich BOA Dene, the sang aaeed Le giaieaaes aceue ene Sica aA the” ciao: She tase trou the bight of bine ork ewtched { feFer maude Tallmadge be shall never get | in the form of a sphere or diamond and w bitof | Cepstood us “parrot tall” a Sk ind nk bun ned cowniel Ge ENGAGING MISTRESSES, past and had been debarred from telling her so | shocked and dismayed, had almost to support | her and passed from his sight for the last time | thoroughly well.” he to her, “until Trish point Ince inserted. Sometimes strips of | and distil Whil * hasiggee b on | Contents over thrice, and as he uttered « reat — simply beeause of the clear-seen wish on her | him back to bed. in Blagdon li Consent to be may wife.” _ She started painfully, | iace and holland shade cloth alternate, althougk | dangerous for oc. Ketan rs “fouch. the bied, | sigh of relief, I asked: . Enviable Independence of the Servant Girt isther « part that she should become his wife.| Hix recovery was delayed because of the | Soon afterward he quitted New York and his | #74 drew backward several steps from his bed-| the most approved use of the combination is | another can handle her at all times with perfect ight! Ralligence Ofice, © was prowl and sensitive. He had | effort he had used and it was not uatil a fort- | subsequent place of abode was, never really | #42 the application of the lace entirely ut the bot- | impunity, she holding out hes head to. be Rei, % ~ Sate: “Ye i: From the New York Commercial Advert ser cared for society, though it had opened | might later that he was sulficiently recovered | known. Sonie people stated that he went to j enero ‘You think me out of | tom of the shade. ched and enconraging other familia “And suppose I hud opened itand counted | The owner of an omployment burean in 6th itsarms to him asa gentleman of leisure with | to leave the house. live in the faz west: others that he had. re- i, Helo: ek omen foward myself Polly hax maintained am ater. | Your cash? “ : am come handsome, it not huge. and a face | Weeks elapsed, however. before he came nd bad resettled himself in 1 she murmured. Th PKHics Geeaghante | tude of unbroker hostility for four ye whit!” ne ease i figure which marked him alike for good | across the letter written in his semi-delirium, | the cenct fax trait sode, where be |. A father wanted us to marry each he twenty leading ufaeturers of wall | Oi of her wai 3 “Suppose I had even helped myself to $5 or | CUting domestic help, said to representative looks and gra and then be found that his memory of having te the precise truth of ‘his where. | ther.” he pursued. | ““You remember, that.” | paper take oath that they do not use arsenie in | QuEIE Of be s of, #10. af this paper Sodny: This Justin Worcester. as Tallmadge now bit-| composed and transcribed it was almost as | abouts never netually trenspired terly reflected, was a young man with twice his | vague as the airy incident of «ome dream. To i own persona! attractions. These alone, the | bis amazement the chirography did notat all re- kinsman of Helena decided. had eaused him to | semble hisown. As if by malign inspiration win the hand of his young pupil. Of course, | he had wrought every stroke with an amaz-| ssionately argued Tullmadge, Helena had | ing secretive skill.” Astonished, even dis- mu inveigled (and her father as well) by a| gusted, be was on the verge of _tear-| yes, Talltaadge: I re er.” any way. One of these mannfacturers writes: | end of which P. : = - a ve nfact es: | end of which Polly had in her benk. ‘ou—vou help yourself! ‘A good cook or other Lonschold servant is Meanwhile the pangs of seli-accusation were | gue calle Gaccumesl, lifting himself on | «Wall paper dealera the world over have never | gain Thave tried to make ue: bu: te eee es, Didn't you tell me that half your! the most independent person in New York tortu facie. Dye. - Ee oul | seatee acteaayeyun. Ie there uo hous fo oa? Salesmen who are continually hand- | Quite recently Polly bit a triangular money belonged to me, and that Thad just a8| aay she never has to waitfore place. If c of Justin VW ingle life, 121 recovered suct pa ie: rall paper never fall victims to its in- | of my hand and there is no hope of au my to the family wallet as you?” r . ofa een AN icsieey es treat inp won. Color mixers, many of whom | reconciliation. Itseems to be anothe® case of Sosa en eh hae te he tres . But that int Ag sada oe half century or more spent their en- | Hill and Cleveland. 4 os choice from many offers. She knows that sbe reigle b e : an ordeal of the keenest torment, and after | © a “ “ ‘aking time with bare arms to the| Among the traits of parrots may be men- i ver said anything w1 is in the one occupation where the demand mere adventerng irae Ber. “ina “tle |g “up, the Taheets which, contained ity for | oem ordeal of the Keenesttarment and aftr xpi pelo ea. A shoulders in ooloss, mixing hem and stirring | ti sto ional jenlousy? Thinking 1 | could possitily be construed to mean a ¥ such | exceeds the supply. She does one thing almost while all wor be ee 4 i y 3 thought a murderer thousands of times. The a em up Continually, never suffer, although | might have twice as much amusement if I had | thing! Never, under any circumstances, Mra. curty bionde-heir-lats deceptive blue eves and | always to be cowardly beyond words. | (OUST te one ore , xuilhy cat at We bent —whiete sing Nant hens) CODIEE Satan, ues’ infeagpeaiiy’ aot tee [toe ate Ce & Bowser, do you dare to lay a finger on my wal. | '2beard of im other occupations—she pute his, beguiling silky mustache, “had made | But this extraordinary work of a brain and | fhovooghiy tolhave recovered eeme bark, | Partnlly true, since his malady was now grow- jet came, Men NOE infrequently eat, their | twa ‘opera singers could have ahown more | et st e Y wel" |her prospective employer to a severe exam- a deliberate “set” for a rick wife. He|hand in the clutch of fever—work which nor- ‘ . ra rat sis ~ : 4 jl r = i i ; Pe . milder and intermittent form. It was one of are i arsenic is one of the most expensive materials | animosity toward each other. Polly refused to| “I never will—not even after you are dead !"’ | ination. . drag Helens among the fashionable cliques | sinter tracisation, and instead of estvoring battle the sharpest vigilance of science. ‘Tall-| fond of you,’ she said acd weantite eke | effects, and for that reason, if for no other, it | house and [had to get rid of the other one, t it interesting to note the care | came up to the desk and inquired if the girl le . nS | madge was not agai rostrated by it, but ioe i : would not be to the interest of the wall paper | after which the gratified bird resumed her | be took to dispose of that wallet at night. He h itten about ‘ which she hed always hitherto despised. He | the curious lines ie placed them under lock | WES sch reatit he seat 0 physica of Cram tesieepee husbands bute nage aad | manufacturers to use it when cheap substitutes | former loquacity. would slsly leave it down’ stairs—drop it into | sailed in irene ns spake eo ae ee would aim to shine asa leader of society. an¢ er as during his illnese, Helena | S*eat eminence. iher pity fox tuisranan Haay with P45 conan a | Bre easily © able. Parrots will eat great variety of food, but | the umbrella jar in the hall—hide it in the | rosy-cheeked German of” about twentrare was sympethy ieelt. Soe gave @ congrata- | ,TB° judgment which he heard strack him as| which she had. slresdy felt fer binr sad oes FIGURED MUSLIN. CURTAINS. | the one I am describing objects to dry bread or {bare Led room or under our own bed. Once | she walked in with qreat dignity and touk would never seek a divorce: she wastoo | latory diuner in inis honor and invited only | deplorably commoaplace. “Your system ix| her abruptly yet firmly confident that some | Suburban cottages will have their little Quoon | #K®- On receiving a piece of cracker Polly | he made « dreadful mistake, and I didn’t feel a careful survey of the Indy. jest and gentle for that; it would all merely | such people as she felt sure he would wish to | MUCH Tu down. Mr: Van Drke.” the pnewned | future day might unite them in marring Anne windows draped up this summer | \7 carts it with great frag eprom rg A [eg Seep ln) knowing that our bed | “Here is a aynopais uf the conversation which remult im an snshition of lingering misery on | meet. Joa he br bint wae ne iS ir, and Fshould recommend a trip te | Heelan Gh galte geatacy beset Tal nadge:| with nothing more chic than | thoroughly soaked before attempting to eat it | slipped his wallet down behind the inside | "ndy Yon say you did the cooking in Me ue sweet creature whom ied. ery peop fe e 1 cuties: fe close * wee nid i Bi ne . jo i 4 Y ” . So Tale pdr oe iaaukunera wepeins 40 Ra onl gue ant ee ees cevistons toc | . with an entire winter passed on the | Jet his head sink backward. When he rove and | the curious petit. m curtains, | Birds are not supposed to be as intelligent ax | blinds. “It went down to the sill aud rolled to | 175 family for three years. jooked abou toate ure white with touches here and there of | dogs, but the parrot soaking food to make it | the ground and some one picked it up the next | “Girl Um.” Tallmadge wax ubout to consider this conn- | !7gked sbout him ee Hegves vere Gusiat’ olor. For sume tise mudin cur | more palatable shows aeisueen intelligence as | Morning before we were awake. I was yet An sel seriously when Helena again summoned | happy. And yet he realized that his viens lad | {#8 embroidered with a tab _ the dog that burys a piece of meat for the same | asleep when Mr. Bowser, hat ing sneaked out him. “You see,” she said, as she gave him her to burn with an increase of the dread | bee® very. popular, ve rail | PUrpose. of bed to look after his wallet, suddenly shouted haud, “Iam intinitely better than when you cr Which had never yet. been driven | them in those little printed color de: »| Parrots have a sense of malicious humor. | ut: met me last. But you" —end then she p E ‘m half malarial, as the doctors de, | fect of which is enhanced by the a p of | When Polly has succeded in biting the fin-| “By the great horn spoon! but you want to regurding him with eyes ti claved, and half cerebral. " His lips now moved | 2 mali cotton bali fringe, the balls showing at | & yorecker seul Grier ge bed eae peed aged a ee ce! er on | meg wee yl society atall. ¥I ed el from the dining room, Justin struck bis Itstener | St of pity = and he heard his own voice, ax though it was | tervals the color of the design. | Siw rejoices over her triumph, for she laughs a — hold arrangements as Lbave explained them opt nips beetifs poorer an cae lace wary emence of salf ustistiod effroutery. | “Lam not well,"” murmured Tallmadge. “A | tis voiceofsomeene sive addressing him in dis- NEW DESIGNS IN CURTAINS, —— At te eee) ee ——— — ing | trough Mrs. S.: A wore loving husband than Justin | This was not really the case; Justin only spoke | touch of my old trouble has returned to me.” | jointed fragments: “She has really forgotten. | A curtain which attracted considerable at- | ™ linen even sith rou that erik [Blige me Parag tor] a eo} ‘The girl was utterly apathetic during the ster could not well, be imagined. | with natural wartath and feeimg of his own | A* he xpoke he was deeply moved by ad She thinks she has not no brain fever—you | tention recently in a down town wi lisdking uae Seek Captrses Gann en eee = here's that talk, but mow whe became animated, and this Tallmadge occasionally visited them, | domestic happiness. When he praised the | Hoa of her renewed loveliness, more interest- | should never have gone to Florida, of all places t IPoiny oy epee: Petrie rercighoe newer ‘what followed: 1 passed there was every reason for him to | which scandal so daringly employs when guil wknowledge himself the very falsest of proph- | is unproven while innocence has been coubi Old Mr. Hamilton followed bis dear wife | Never having liked Justin Wore to the grave, during these two sume years, yet | he became the Lusbandof his cousin, Tullmauge before bis death silently blessed the husband, | found this evening a new reason for disliking who had already made his danghter charm-| him. Ina conversation which these two men ingiy happy. Helena and her lord seldom went | held over their cigars, after the ludies Lad gone - "1 . - 2 lain colored jate veloura, reddish brown, with | it ‘alls to the ground with a clatter she langhs “I haven't seen it.” O . “ “a fely duteousness of Helens, Tallmadge almost | ing than of old because her 1 those devilish doctors kept you there be- | P | it falls to the gi t ugl “1 ‘ouldn't vou change the dinner bow ened beassheld! astepf siguscl 5" therberk | growed kis teeth; but-whea be retscred. fo ter, bereavement had cust about her. us it were |extine they thought only of their fees “youll | side, Dorder of Fase Tea elas MeN Se cee | peteaied wgeccenpscet Set hen a eee ee ee ee . a ~ co terme’ of affectionate interest ana | ® delicate and indefinable ilm of sadness, il nd youll marry her—she'll never | one-half inches wide. ‘The gimp had an unciert | betrated ctie - now 0 5 ont of b i A be better Se tesa od seames! ween can nak [ance comin pon aseeetye ne ceeninn | ik Ghustra hese which bleids: fisslt wih tes | Looe ee you, in | look as though taken from old vestments. Produce that wallet or I'll leave the house ! . "t think of 7. "Where I was be- | saz a 2 perfect aut ; s Pe velties daye by “Where did you leave it?” Bh come to-dwell with himeclf and wile 10, that | about going to places with ticiena and never | sunshine of wome perfect autumn day time-“in time.” And then his murmurs ended. | | People secure many novelties now « days by “:Where did you @ fore, they” % vatty, Kemenant Rouse uptown, ehich was a |comphcens dene Gk fallow, any ssore tha che my dear cou & Meanwhile Helena had not left him. The | S¢tting plain goods by the yard, and applying Fee Tota ya _ Lady—"Well, all right; we'll arrange that. Eller aunghatdl ante anh cattee does, at my laziness in not going —then Wt 1 tess gloomy companionship thar physician whom she had met just before en- | their own decorations, either of appliqued ve my ¢ Poet ptey corp ama Girl—“You said you bad one child. How old his gentleman waa Mr. Ovwald Blagden, and | seemed to Lalimadge, for a few turbid seconds, | “Sour companionship is never gloomy,” he | fering Tallmadge » room lad requested her not | So"d# aNd gimp orl fo yp woe nerteggicetiore (ee ee ee ees ne beeen ge “ his age was certainly ten years more than that | as though he must strike speaker on his | Teplied, with @ somber sort of gallantr: to remain there long. She now waited in the : 7 : The tw is \y—““Five years. of iectnietend. indep seken coke linaemen lips. she answered by @ pathetic little adjoining room und instructed her. cousin's | ®ich are now to be had. The two men who stood facing each other at Girl “Of course that child is not to come Worcester frankly and frecly seit thet be hna | Phat night he drank more wine than at any | ~ “Al,” Helena soon returned, iit ch eed meee ca cee the moment when this brief conversation oe- | and the lo A him ral day near the kitchen’ i owed all his proficiency fn music. Blagden (~ | time since his illness and its cifect upon hum | Your advice. your aid, on a very melancholy | word of her having thus remained. 5 % curred were excellent specimens of American | eusht it a good time to “get even” with him, | Lady—“"Not necessa- c : . 2 wsk—" And » uhe : ae done day anxiously inquired if he had yet} Girl “Well, ldo not want Jail tall gray man with scintillant black eyes anda | was by no means mild. He went home and! matter. 1 meant to ask And here she ‘ly G o'clock in the evening. ‘ citizenship. Tue wealthy banker, Peter E. |p irl not want any children in Host distinguisied general appearance) had | unlocking a ceruin compartmcut of luis desk | broke off, with forlorn shakes of the head. “Bug f Fequest, brought her some ee a ry eo cmeeerod, atti | Sea punta nu eraaeten come to America for the purpos@of placing on | took from it the anonymous letter which he a you con- t in lieu of dining, and she seated y a - thursday nights off and one Sux : 7 ; 2 aS Jerolomon Harkinson, the inve: ° the New York stage an opera of his owncom-| lad written Justin Worcester. “Send it, - _ herself alterward with a book taken from one ¢ m this world’s epninnibar pes eg on Ke iL why position which had enjoyed fair success abroad. | whispereda tempting voice. Thehandwriting, | “Yes. - Th holy | of the shelves. Her mind could not fix. itself, . oughtful brow the promi . r ae ee fie had felt very hopeful, at first, about the | os he now reassured bimeeif, Was murvellousiy | aa he wont, 2 however, upon the printed page. It_was al” Z sen ates ny beeen Of erent achieve: | why do ron Sook om Bowser all right! “ier: Anan siccess of the opera here, but soon he diacoy- | dugguied. Coukl he imitate i iu the way of | Kind of morbid desperation dro: vavs wandering to him whom she bad. left 73's |“ Harkinson,” said the banker, “I was suspicions as to where thet imoncy | Witton, so eal von So nave always bed that, cred that ever if performed there woukl be | a supenscription on an envelope? “Noy” he ; nounee these wor ; siihin the adjveent chamber. She recalled her ‘ 2 once myself. “respect a man none the led on . db hg te pets iieht el tw it aimed at something | soon concluded, — but he could print | formal and ord 2 With respect | dead father s Wish tat she should become his i , account of his lick of money, out I cannot | "=You—you can't possibly suspect thet I vo th Blagden was not without | Justin's name with pen and. ink, aud ; was all wife. “Her heurt began to bent excitedly ax she throw my only danghter away ona maw of no | knew where it wal? ei sin means of his own, and through the aid | this he had soon done. But even after he Ye yp ce an allmadge, | thougle, “Why should [not consent, once and 4 a financial standing. Youre an inventor. If, | “It’s all right—all right! Pretty sharp game Mr. and Mrs Worcester he secured few | had inclosed the letter within the envelope Fucked by aveuse of his own quiet, | for ail, if it would bring him back. to, benlth? A within three months, you shall have invented a | to throw those papers'down on the ries bes le eR ee Thee Be 5 Bitte ett | Gee Aiststod. he Red bo Sed intent Of sally | Tiniect. Gay cabjects which atientee en | vamin enrcly would forgive mo 4 his epicit|- 9 ! 2 chine, appliance. or what-not that is worth | justice is sure! i he came to live with Jpstin and his wife. This | despatching it. For » long time he sat and | subject, any subject, which intimately were watching ns now x shall be yours. I would guadly |°"As near as could be found out the rill pins siena herself hd one day proposed and | gazed down apon i, with bous hands, wapport- | cerued herslt : let tents started her by gliding to TATE ve you more time, but my wife in insmting | got the money, but there was not oreugh sant usband warmly seconded it. At first Blag- | ug his bow ." Neatly all this while semp- : } i ¢ and whispering, “He's got ont of very day tp ‘Glad ince.” feomsinie poy indy den drew back from the proposition, grateful | tation was growing stronger in his soul. ai | ® long paus : - fail | bed, Mrs. Worcesivr, and he's writing,maam.” | We saw recently an ecru enrtain, devigned whnete weary lage saad aaeaeince ? | f@ warrant an arrest, and whenever 1 allude to | rooza, sveming to be very anuch bored. aul vet reluctant. He staimmered at least teg | last be rose and preseatly he had leit the house. | Madge, that T '¥ well,” she whispered back, “let him do | with a rope, straw colored, the size of a elothes | of slueplose nights Ser pool alurtieacs toneas Soa ee ee PEPE ps as RE 4 TRAMPED FROM ALASKA, polite exeuses to Justin for not accepting it, | During the next ten minutes the letter was ir- | Of that ymous letter, pleases. But you must wrap something | line, caught against the curtain in many odd | Yrei re a . y any ing: . but there was not a real excuse ‘in ‘any | revocably posted. He felt his heart stand still for a moment. bout him, Johu. It's even colder than | ways with tasscls of frayed out ends." until the product of lux genine stood complete | “It's all right—all right! I wouldn’t have a f g valle felt his - flying machine that positively would. fly. ? . — : 5 ec ioeiiae Gg, siti dieened allied g What.” he managed to respond, “would be ‘ . ne =* flying bs 4 y. | certain person's conscience for all the money in no longer @ young man, but he had never | remorse. What Lad he done, he asked himsclt, ler soft uehed an raw bot her | woolen wrapper and his slippers.” bedsihdbt does artierpmenbapiativernt Mervandaged pie rerpek btwn wipe Vossen reat et @ woman of su s presence. | except an act of the most timmaniy bascuess? | hands qu al And how docs he veom, John, like | Hétting and attached toan electric battery, is | 1 doy teat the two men, the mane ot icomeclar} Infantile Realism. gy Torey a vg emer nee iis inane wand then he would toll himself that her | And if this act bore no fruit more evil than | $0 love to punis! Ehore’s himself?” an invention for entrapping the Jersey stor i on asical endowments formed for him her chief | that of his own self-contempt, would not such | that sort of [ine enn ot penis, oliepel kanta: “Pore mab “He, ma‘am! He's queer as possible? yelept the mosquito. The netting hangs in | ment not a word was spoken, . charm: then, soon afterward, he would realize | dark product alone be forcetul enough to affect ag Talon areas 5 ee Queer?” Tolds around the bed or crib, and the occupant | ment Hota vor Ps olhggeae . Then the capi- that this was false aud that if she had not had a | sternly his entire future life’ i | Pageant Phare ntirap often feel | Yes, ma'am. His eyes are flamin’ like, and | can enjoy an hour's sport yy lighting x Tau ote of musie in ber soul he would have been | But the fruit which it bore was far bitterer | it — re revenge that makes mo wish to | he don't appear ayif he were in his own right | and waiting attack. ‘The stork. attracted captivated just the same. No sooner had he | than that. Lp (Sopees ee is pir nae dos giiviapee eked cong ‘ie bas a ie : | senses.” < the lamp, will alight on the canopy. gone to live in the same house with her than | library, at work on his history, when jhe letter | t * ine cms A portiere hung between the two rooms. | vention consists of pressing a button and tur; Bat it is growl he regretted the step, though neither Justin | came to him. He opened it. read it Think; if sore one whom you love very dearly } Helena stole to it and parted its folds a lite, | ing on the fatal clectrie shock. is fs growing late. Let us de- nor Hetena dreamed that his happiness had not | and turned white as death. “Only a fe had been killed t She had a clear view of the sick man as he sat BRASS CURTAIN POLES ‘The inventor gasped and turned white. 4] time. His horse gave out during the trip aud in all ways been mater ted. Justin | utes ago his wife had entered the room, clad in| But he rose, chen, and in a few diffic before his desk, thong only his profile was : ote 7 , 5 hoeston donne acneahe Sellials bam prrendry etchings —wgawnap-er bea picture | told her that he taust termin: ‘ » | visible to her. That werved to decide ber, how. | AP faney ends are now being made in gilt, See aes a id! In. broken tones, : hhe was obliged to continue on foot and take re- t t i 4 if { didn’t forget all about that part of it. rument, and yet, as time went on, he failed | show with Blagden, she said. She looked | abruptly: that be was more ad | ever. She went back to John and spoke thus: | #!most orange color, instead of the brassy | (71 : © Togquthed Se peaive aoe akan ten Leusciey geeteer iia: sled! Nis’ Sud ax ea | eenpaent Nieueit: : oat once for Dr. Meredith. Tthink Mr. |looking tints. Lion heads are being also of- | {here is ne descending attachment to the dod oat for either the most complais | Feenlled — her appearance, and the / to the carriage whic Van Dyke is out of his mind. I think so be- | fered in brasa with rings suspended from the | (Zo be continned.) winked of husbands. image came to bim with a new 1e followed hima, . fuse in her eager com- | cause his face is twitching strangely and he jaws for the purpose of catching up the ends ae a Of conrve Tallmadge Van Dyke was among | aad ‘rightful irony investing it. ‘ihe side ligt | passion, to the very door of the carriage. If he | holds his_pen in such an odd way. Bosides he | Sf curtains, "Tike te mot mon: tatty eee PTS SSO the frst to heat scusndalows rumors. Me weut | fFola a near window had struck ber hair iu this | were not Letter quite son, she told lim, whe | is muticring to. bimwelf all. the while, Go at | totere ween. shown’ ofly’ ie eereinn ere; |The Conductor a ot Kast. ty the home of the Worcesters and daring each | Way, bringing from it certain peculiar hazel | would go to hirg, -it with Lim, to him, do | once. I will wait here. work. 8 | From the Buffalo Commerciai, visit carefully watched. ‘These visits took piace | glimmers that he loved. She had worn gloves | any little —— he migitt desire of hei John promptly obeyed. Perhaps five minutes | A novelty this season is a cretonne which | He was the chronic car joker on that line of fins th sand Oswald Biagden wax nearly - a —— tay eee. Ba =o Boe iW ere they not cousins: beggar ater Helena ‘weit again to the portiere. "Still | does not exhibit any special featrres until held | road and seldom boarded the train without in the drawing room wigh | gloves 1 . o ne : . A in the woolen wrapper, Tallmadge had | up to the light, when it shows brilliant color- | tej it withbut end Chopis and Mendeuselbe | he had always liked, and she hed a. cluster + her own relations | ftang himself ou the bel.” His eves were ins ‘3 press nari whale paras asia ‘or wn hour oF twoat a time He smelt thowe Lh . Tit ested: | closed and his brenghing was so heavy that she | _ Mirrors with quaint old frames are coming | * S&€T#i laugh at the company’s or trainmen’s murmurs. The hum of their low is g his hand, “you ure orphaned like my- | could hear it from where she stood.” And yet | into fashion again. expense. Yesterday, however, Me arrived late ‘J reach Jestin Worcester, where he How the echoes of her voice pierce elf, Tallinadge, and have no kindred neurer | sie somehow doubted if he was asleep. One of the latest things in sercens isa gigantic i ii in Me Masuey sitting on sander mane “We shall be back for luneheon, of | than I. ae : After a brief delay of irrosolution she passed | web with a spider of proportionate size. marmage had brought him entire financial ease . in her sweet v Tho answer that ho gave almost strangled | jnto his chamber. Her step was very light; it tee — had devoted bimseif to the writing of a his- cteristic chimes Sage ad ng Hg Ne forgot what it hd did not rouse him. She peused before the ‘Minnesota's Wonderful Climate. daily crowd of fellow-travelers, when the con- tory of masic, # most ambitious work, and one | cords. : aged sabgr 7 tregllbes rif back upon | desk. A sheet of paper lay there with writing | From Natures Restos ductor appeared. hose wide-sweeping design necessitated earn-| He rose, staggering. He kad nover been a | the cushions of the im upon it. As her eye swept the page she felt . ae Haventgos any ticket,” began the i labor and keen research. Justin was | man of much moral or wental strength. He | Once at home again he ed upon | dreadful pang of recognition. ‘The characters | _ “Curious winter phenomena we have here,” | 1:. Neual vein, and’ the crowd Trnited tee daily willing to give it both; his task hed possessed intellect it is tru0, mp a ht vizile suicide. Th stor his passionate were thove of the fatal anonymous letter which | remarked the St. Paulite to the visitor from St. | gay : netrated with enthusiasm: wer w wit a e je of convi 4t | condition her image rose ore im, radiant il justin. ey ‘mse! “Ye otice ic] A ‘i q ” a? naghtngly te. tan that bet en | that ow swept through kis sou! iaade him fect | Cltk ite reesctintea Geeates Suppone, wiiea a | into her memory long get Cee emselves | Louis. “You notice that icicle up there on tho | “Allright; give me 80 centa” responded the Hone “commonplace musicians who | that be stuod on the verge of madness. His | certain lengih of time had lapsed, she suould | With trembling hand he lifted the page. Tt] CO™Ce oF that eight-story building? Should | oficial. are born only to record: the glories of their | Memory darted through a hundred past luci- | forget Justin's cruel death?” And after all; hed | wath wees, ft she | Sy it was ton fect long. Well, this very morn- | ._ “Never carry anything so herr Bond testers. Now and then he would call from his | dents, feceut or more remote. Some men | he not been the merest madman to let a fimay | Jnnew 40 teeribie ea eae, OF, want she | ing one just Hike that dropped as Sexy Bones traveler pickod out a wih, Sue dia ot pas Fit a8 abF | to Helena and Blagden. “Come in,” he | would have been agonized by murderous long- | sheet of paper send him to his death? ‘This letter was addressed to her dead husband, | W: ing and the point struck him square | «Af, your first,” ; animal ‘eur- say, “and hear me read this ige that | ings. He was not; he scarcely thougla of Biag-) in spite of all bis spiritual torment, Tall- | just as the other letter had been. Even the | on ares of the head. It went through! him lake ont you today.” shen a eee rie Te just tinished.” And they would obey his |deu. It was of her be thought, of her whom | madge could not retrain from thecherishing of | date was the came. And vet it wus anfolded, | like a shat and ined him to the sidewalk bolt | was di hed ont, he took it and trip Beels fuminons, admiring or disapproving as the | he had almost deified. 1m his allegiance, his |'a certain hope. This hope gave him a new in- | It was convineingly a duplicate, as a statue. long ‘sl laborea inspection of it, still mountain wolves ¥riter's point of view pleased them or did not | Confidence, his worship. people | centive toward perfect recovery. The winter | The truth flaked. through her mind. For an ae to his $20 bill, at the same time aggravating bold. The moun- Please. Occasionally there would be musical | are » was not beginning to set in. What if he escaj instant she turned sick and giddy. Then she ly. As soonasthe icicle melted he conduetor with su; juous animals were parties at their pretty home and then Justin pe its vigors and spent several months in Flo stood quite still, with her ping Oe white | walked off all right enough. See?” all right? Air- or baatl brakes? enthusiastic over the forsook his manuscript to shine among his ow e1 conscience, then he was to | instead of Egypt? About the idea of Florida | and her eyes fixed on the form of rostrate chained? ‘on this ticket? of Alaske. His 1,600-mile his wife's guests as the truly charming | than she. Yes, he had | there was « certain nearness to Helena. He | man. Everything was plain to her. He bad An} journey over the great mountain ranges an he was While he devoted himself more | would start off without again seeing her, and | done that das thing months ago, and now hen ae and through the desolate ‘of that great to his history, music in a practical sense inte: ¢ in the early spring he would return. By that | in his deliriam, or semi-delirium, he had auto- handed over region. Tatiens tennsed Lae kindly. coted hiss the lean He loved to write about it 2 time a good interval would have separated her matically repeated the act. it He could not exchange « word with id did not care half so greatly to beer it. from the savagery of her affiction, and by that | "A grea: through seals? they realized that, ‘distress and cided oabtless for this reason Helena proposed that 0 7 time his own aching conscience’ might have him. ae skeand Oswald Blagden should attend certain ~ ceased to deal him these poignant qualma. eins concerts together. This arrangement won | thi He made his resolve that day and started soon Sustin’s vesly aod henaty aaameute . afterward. Buta stay of four months (during aoe lee | #0 good of you, dear Oswald,” he once which Helena wrote six or seven precious H £ E “aid to his friend. “I am the worst and most i and warmly fond letters) left his health still in