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a CHAPTER V, “I have waited long and patiently, Grace—even you cannot deny that. I must speak to your mother to-day.” Mrs. Santley looked wistfully into her lover’s face, but she did not con- tradict his assertion. In every rela- tion of life Grace seemed to be the one to obey. Obedience, as Ruth had tola her, was an absolute necessity of her bature, and in this instance she yielded it with a shy,proud pleasure. There had been very little of conven- tional wootrs between these tw Vincent Erle had taken the glad wel- come of her eyes and the unconscious ery that broke from her soft lips the day of his return, as full assurance of her unaltered faith. He was only too willing to ignore the gi previous disloyalt ke up the thread of the love a where they had dropped it five years back. As for Grace, the whole world had changed since Vincent Erle’s return; it seem if her whole nature had al- tered with it. From morbid misery, she had come back to a joy so full and intense that she trembled to think that it might not last. The girlish love that her mother had ruthlessly trampled on had been shy and timid, childish and destitute of all resistant power; but it had been ve loygl and true, and it awoke to new and more vigorous life in the richer soil of the woman’s so. row-tried heart. Grace had loved Vincent Erle, al- though at her mother’s bidding, she had sent I k his simple presents and hand, as, also, when, at behest, she became He1- and put, as she barrier between an eternal thought, them. The girl often recalled the vague, blank misery of those 4d: . With an aching sympathy and pity for the Grace Leger who had been so poor a puppet in her parent’s hands, and who had let the best gift of life be stolen from her. But even now her mother should not come between them again. She had but one lord and master now; he had broken all her other chains, Though she felt that she could be strong on this one point, there was still a large leaven of timidity in ce Santley’s nature; and her eyes became so wistful and her face grew so pale at Mr. Erle’s suggestion that he laughed with affectionate amusement at her fea “You shocking little coward—is your mother such a scarecrow to you still? Do you think she will refuse you to me again?’ “She cannot do that,” swered. If her lover had had one un- doubt, it vanished before the | glance of her clear, truthful “But | ! She will utmest, I she will be very angry, try your patince to know.” But she shall not wear it out, I prom- the ise you,” he said, warmly; and Grace, j knowing how fully that promise, rewarded grateful look. Each was silent for a few secozd then Mr. Erle remarked: “You must think your mother has an she might rely on him with a insuperable objection to me, Grace, whereas I, in my vanity, had thought she only despised m poverty. But, since I am no longer a poor man, I im- agined myself an eligible wooer.” re laughed, but the laugh was un- id the troubled look came into sisted; and Grace replied, hurriedly: “Not you; but—but—I think—I am flashed, but he an- her objection is so general her! est sh 1 uld be equally general; but I »t see that she takes any trouble to p other suite at a dis e.”” eve are no others; and bi les—" sides what?’ Vincent asked, as irl paused, a deep blush suffusing her cheeks. “Do not rob me of the} pretty confession, dear. Yo other would be dangerous.’ Your eyes said that. though your lips were dumb. Shall Lt that as my answer?” ssent; and Mr. odded a shy e continued, gravely: nen I care for nothing else; I will see your mother at once dear, and, be- lieve me, I shall win her over to ovr e by no means shared this han- confidence, but the look of resolute red wer on her lover's face ri , and she made no further ¢ tion. Her heart beat fast as her lover coolly accost Mrs. Leger the pair ultimately retire to the dining room for a private conference. Ruth laughed when she found her ister wandering restlessly through dor, drawing room and green house, and learned the cause of* her perturbation. ‘Well, you are a self-tormentor!” Ruth declared, twisting the slender fig- ure in the pretty lace dress round the better to survey the pale, pretty, but | led face. “Of course, mother will 2 ’ and Vincent will say ‘Yes,’ and delicately hint that, your ¢ ent being given, there was really no need to ask for hers; that will be am end to the matter. The mater will be in a fine rage for a day or two, but that will not keep the bells from ringing or the cake from being made. What dress shall I wear at the wedding, Gracie?” But Mrs. Santley could not view the matter as light-heartedly as did her sis- ter, or enter into the jesting tone. The moments of suspense were periods of agony to her. Whatever happened, she would be true to Vincent Erle now; but it was terrible to the dutiful and affectionate girl to think thet on this, her second marriage—the vnion on | | Grace an- of true and faithful love—the curse of ler mother’s disapproval must rest. Grace hardly dared look round when, at last, after an interview that seemed to her to have lasted for hours, the dining room door opened and Mrs. Leger and Mr, Erle reappeared. But | there was something so joyful in | Ruth's little startled cry that Grace | half-rose to her feet with a confused feeling that there was some pleasant surprise in store. She was not mistaken, for, before she could make any move, Mrs. Leg- er’s arms were gracefully wound about ker, and her mother’s soft-toned voice s murmuring congratulations in her “My dearest child,” she said, “it will be hard to part with you again; but young birds will leave their nests, and what can we do but let them go?” Ruth’s bright hazel eyes flashed one swift, surprised, inquiring glance at Vincent's face, but could see there only a look of quiet contentment. If Mr. Erle were inwardly amused and slight- 'ly contemptuous, he did not intend to make either feeling visible to his antic- j ipated shrewd little sister-in-law. But it was not easy to puzzle Ruth Leger. While her elder sister was thankirg and kissing her mother, Ruth ; calmly settled the riddle by a guess | that came very near the truth. “He has made a bargain with her,” she decided, with a nod of her wise little head. “We are bought over; how he must despise us all!” There was bitterness in the thought; but it did not last long. Vincent Erle had a long talk with the sharp-witted girl that night; and, if he did not quite succeed in convincing her that the compact he had made was very credit- able to her side of the house, he left }no doubt upon her mind that he, at Jeast, was well content with it. “We both wish that things in this house should remain precisely as they j are,” he explained, leaning with one elbow on the high mantel board, and leoking with eyes that were full of kindly comprehension down at the jgitl’s pretty, troubled face.. “Your mother has keen accustomed to ad- minister Grace’s fortune; let her do it still.” “But such an a and contemptible lvehemently. “Grace’s come to you with her!” é “I think not,” Mr. Erle replied, de- c vel; “the terms are of my mak- jing. Mrs. Leger only accepted what I i; propesed, and I am thankful that she , aid.” Eut—” The girl was about to per- ist, when Vincent pushed the soft s back from the knitted brow and . in his gentle, peremptory fash- rrangement is mean ” exclaimed Ruth, money should ion: “There is no ‘but’ in the matter; ; Some day you will understand why I ; would rather not touch Mr. Santley’s Perhaps Ruth did dimly comprehend bis meaning even then; at all events, she made no further objection, and, from that time, things seemed to go on moothly enough. If Ruth were rot entirely satisfied, it was something to see her mother so radiant and the loy- ‘ers so quietly happy as they were. ‘The wedding was fixed to take place almest immediately. Mrs. Leger, who was eager to make her power absolute, agreed that a ‘i ngthy engagement was not only 'unnczessary, but, in the circumstances, would almost savor of the hypocritical. “You have sorrowed so long and loy- ally, my darling,” she murmured, in a ; tenderly-compassionate tone, “why should you rob yourself and dear Vin- } cent of one hour of happiness now?” Grace was not hard to convince, and, jas her mother’s pleading was warmly i j seconded by Vincent, she yielded at last. Just as the first snows of win- ter fell, she knelt, for the sécond time, iat the altar steps, and once again yowed to “love, honor and obey” the ; man who knelt beside her “until death | them should part.” For all the tremulous joy that thrilled her, she was a serenely-pretty ; bride. : i “Her face was a poem!” Lady Caro- | line Carlton declared, in her quaintly- affected way; for, though the wedding , was, by Grace’s wish, the quietest of ‘ ceremonials, Lady Caroline had asked | for. and, as a matter of course, ob- ined, an invitation to it. As I made the match and brought ‘that willful bridegroom of yours to ‘your feet,” she said, laughingly, to Grace, who held a high place in her favor, “I think I have a right to be j present! Do you know, dear, he as- sured me once, in the most approved {melodramatic fashion, that nothing short of a miracle,would induce him ‘to forgive you or even willingly meet | you again. I never contradicted him— indeed, I: am not sure that I did not praise a resolution indicating so much strength and spirit of mind—but, as I | knew a face like yours was the best miracle-worker, I simply lured him here, and— You know the rest of the | story.” Grace blushed, and kissed the soft, wrinkled cheek of the queer old lady who had so successfully played the part of Deus ex machind in the story of her love; and the latter continued, | in her happy way: ! “If am glad that I did meddle, desr. and you may make much of that ac- knowledgement, for I do not have to | pride myself on that once in a hun- , dred times. But I have liked Vincent ‘all his life, and, though you used him | very badly once, I know you are just ; the one wife in all the world for him, ‘so I am pleased to see you come to- gether. You have each known what suffering is; and now I think and hope that you will both be happy.” “I sincerely hope so, too,” Grace re- 1 plied, raising her large blue eyes, which shone with the steadiest light of hope and joy. “I will try to make him ‘happy, dear Lady Caroline, and strive to make amends—for all.” There was more meaning than her ladyship guessed at in the last low- spoken words; but she thought the girl's speech very proper and pretty, and rewarded Grace with a kiss. “Happy is the bride whom the sun shines on!” Ruth cried, gaily, as the dazzling winter sunshine turned ‘the bride’s blonde locks to gold. “Good- bye, my darling sister! Good-bye, Vincent, dear! Accept my blessing and the augury of the skies!” The happy pair looked up at the heavens high above them, saw the sunshine, but did not see the “cloud no bigger than a man’s hand.” CHAPTER VI. “Dear Ruth! I am very, very glad! I hope she will be happy!” Mrs. Erle looked up from her letter with a face so bright that her husband put his paper down the better to ad- mire it. “So am I—-or I shall be—when you restrain your raptures and tell me Ruth’s news,” he said, with a smile. “I dare say you can guess it, Vin- cent.” “Not at all improbable, my dear,” Mr. Erle answered, coolly chipping his egg. uppose I venture a wild guess now—Tom Carlton has proposed?” “Yes;” and Mrs. Erle opened her eyes in wonderment. “How quick you are, Vincent!” “IT am,” her husband agreed, modest- ly. “And Ruth has accepted him—I um quite sure on that point.” “She has; and Lady Caroline is very nice to her. The wedding is to take place in May, and uncle John gave her five thousand pounds; and— Oh, Vin- cent, we must go home at once!” The little woman rose in her excite- ment and came over to her husband's side, flushed, smiling and radiant. Vincent Erle drew her down on the stool beside him, and brushed the love- locks back from her fair face, as he said, half-laughingly: “Sit there, Mistress Grace! You cau never stand while I have to consider the amazing budget of propositions you thrust all at once upon me! Sup- pose we take the last first, and deal with the question of returning? You are tired of Paris and me?’ “Of neither—beyond endurance,” Grace answered, in the same jesting tone; but Ruth is to be married in May!” “The beginning of her honeymoon, then, must mark the termination of ours! Well, what must be must be; and you are eager, I imagine, to be busy with the details of Ruth's trous- seau. I suppose you had better order your packing to begin.” “You are not cross, Vincent?” the girl asked, puzzled, as she sometimes was, by the serio-comic earnestness of his tone. “Cress? I?’ and he laughed and kissed the pretty, earnest face. “I am as glad as you can be, for I am almost as fond of pretty Ruth.” “You should be,” Grace replied, a faint shadow coming into her eyes. “She was your champion always, even when—” She paused; and her huband filled up the blank with cheerful readiness. “When I most needed championship —eh? Brave little Ruth! I think she would always cling to the losing side. But she is the winner now. ‘fom Carl- ton will make the best husband in England.” “When Vincent Erle is out of it Grace observed, saucily; then she add- ed, in a more serious tone, “He should be, for he will have the sweetest and dearest little wife.” “Agreed! And now that matter is settled, the next thing is to get home and congratulate the perfect pair!” The evening of the next day but one found Mr. and Mrs. Erle comfortably established at River View. The meet- ing between mother and daughter was, as a matter of course, affectionate, but that between the sisters was rapturous indeed. Ruth even forgot her tall, handsome lover, who stood, rather sheepishly, in the background, as she hastened to welcome the returning bride. “It does one gocd to see you, dear!” she whispered, as she fiung her loving arms about her sister's neck. “Home will be like home, now you have re turned.” “And it has only been like Paradise lately, | suppose?’ Grace queried, re- turning the embrace with interest. “But. come, Ruth—I must speak to my new brother now.” Mrs. Vincent Erle uttered her con- gratulations in the cordial, gracious manner that had come to her with her new happiness; and Tom Carlton's honest face flushed with pleasure as he thanked her heartily, adding, witha little laugh: “Ruth said you would be pleased, otherwise I do not think I should have had a chance with her!” “Certainly not!” Ruth replied, put- ting her bright face in between the twe and blushing very prettily. “I put Grace before everyone, you know; and, had I to choose between you and her, I should not hesitate an instant!” They beth Jaughed at her assevera- tion as a coquettish exaggeration. ‘They were pleasant days that fol- lower Grace Erle’s return. The course of true love, for once, ran smoothly, and Ruth’s wooing and the prepara- tions for her wedding went on with a brisk cheerfulness that augured welt for the life beyond the bridal day. Lady Caroline, if not entirely satisfied with her son’s choice, was too wise a woman actively to oppose what she could not possibly prevent; moreover, she felt that she herself had done much to bring about the match. “If I had not been so obstinately bent on reconciling Vincent Erle end Grace Santley, I should never have flung Ruth Leger and Tom together. So much for playing the part of good fairy!” She exclaimed, with the queer little grimace of one who swallows some not particularly palatable mor- sel. “However, 1 suppose it might be worse. Though not to my mind as charming as her sister, Ruth is pretty and well bred, and her connections are in no way discreditable. One thing is certain—Tom would, im any case, have chosen for himself, and died an old na Conn i bachelor and let the estate go out of the direct line.” ‘ ‘Acting on thes? common-sense re- _flections, Lady Caroline not enly re- ‘ceived the bride-elect with kindly courtesy and made a handsome addi- — “Movement in Western Range Stock. Scattered reports received by the Na- tional Live Stock Association from va- rious sections of the range country and the different markets indicate that the rather confused conditions that exist- _ tion to the list of bridal gifts, but in- | ed up to a few weeks ago are rapidly , terested herself in the becessary pre- barations, Although she comported herself in the friendliest fashion, to the manifest delight of Mrs. Leger and the grateful , content of honest Tom, who, until he | met Ruth, had sincerely believed his ‘mother to be unapproachable among ,; Wemen, and only allowed one saucy ; little puss to be anything like her equal now. | “But it is all mere toleration, Grace, dear,” Ruth reriarked, as the two girls stood together at the French window watching Lady Carlton’s carriage pass out of sight. “Her ladyship does not, and never will like me—as she does you, for example; but she almost turns defeat into victory by her beau- | tiful tact. I believe Tom really thinks | She is—content.” “And is she not?” Grace asked, open- ‘ing her bue eyes in astonishment. “My dear Grace’—and Ruth laughed —“‘if I could only find a reasonable | pretext—if Uncle John would only in- mother turn out to have planned a lit- tle burglary, or forged a little check, or killed a little baby for the coral on its neck—how pleased she would be to | break off the marriage, even now!” “Ruth! On the bridal eve?” her sis. ter uttered, reprovingly; but the wild ‘little creature proceeded recklessly, and Grace though there was a tinge of bitterness in her jesting: could manage it! But, as we have no scandals to cover up or iniquities to hide, and, as she has no wish to seem less than the reasonable creature her son hes always thought her, she very n—and of me!” Grace looked so troubled and sym- pathetic that Ruth repented her half- involuntary outburst, and said, light- ly: But do not magnify this little nas: ing shadow into a real trouble, Grace, Grace, what a fanciful little coward you are!” “But it is a trouble, surely?” “Not a bitat least, it does not affect me. I know that I shall make Tom a her heart, it is not worth the winning. But I feel convinced that she will lov me dearly before a year has passed.” There was such a cheery confidence expressed in her bright tone and radi- ant eyes that Grace felt more comfort- able. After all, she thought, with a quiet reflection of-the girl’s own smile, it was impossible for anyone—even the most stony-hearted of mothers-in-law to resist her sister Ruth. It was a busy day, and there was not inuch time for reflection, sorrowful or otherwise, on the part of any of the in- mates of River View. Fer the mar- riage was to be a-very different func- tion from Grace Santley’s quiet wed- ding, and even at the eleventh hour there remained much to be done. The bridal dress had been fitted on and found perfect. The bridegroom's gift of lustrous Orient pearls had been clasped around the girl’s white throat andfwrists; the bridesmaids had flitted in and out in their dainty lace and sat- in costum¢s and big, flower-crowned hats; the cake was already installed in the place of honor, and the presents were dul, unged, forming a daz- zling array on half a dozen sideboards and tables; but, though so much was accomplished, there was, in the opin- ion of the indefatigable workers, some- thing yet to be done. But Grace Erle was a little weary, not so much of the toil as of the inces- sant hum of conversation, the jesting and laughing, that made the house a rathef distracting place just then. Vincent Erle and Tom Carlton had gone to town together, and were ex- pected back by the 8 o’clock train. It v was temptingly fair and bright, the long avenue looking picturesque and inviting in the mellow light, when Grace’s inclination conquered duty, and she flung a black lace shawl, man- tilla-fashion, over her fair head, and sallied forth into the cooling freshness of the evening air. With no special purpose in her mind, Mrs. Erle wandered on, until she came to the pretty wicket gate that opened on the lane. It was possible, but by no means certain, that her husband and Mr. Carlton would take that road from the station; if so, she would be the first to meet them, and hear and tell all the gossip of the day. She was still girl enough to take an innocent pleasure in this thought, still bride jJenough to count the moments of Vin- cent’s absence, and aail herself of any pretext for shortening time. So she stood on the top bar of the gate, her eyes turned eagerly in the di- rectien in which the men might be ex- pected to come, a fair picture of ex- pectation and hope. Never had life seemed fuller of prom- ise than it seemed to her as she stood in pleasant anticipation in the twilight of that soft spring evening. She was happy in her husband’s love, for all the pain an trouble of the past seemed but to intensify, by force of contrast, the new féeling of bliss. And then Grace thought of that other happiness that formed a part of her own. She glanced back at the red- brick, ivy-covered house, in whose dia- mond-paned casements lights were be- ginring to shine, and pictured pretty Ruth donning the habiliments of the uorrow for her bride-groom’s. benefit, stanciug before the thll glass in all the glory of wreath and veil and bridal pearls, a beautiful vision, at which Mr. Carlton was to be allowed one tantaliz- ing peep before he was banished for the night. \ “I wish they were here!’ Grace mur- mured, a little impatiently, as the last thought flitted through her mind, and she craned her neck, as though the ac- tion could by any possibility hasten their coming. As she did so a man’s figure turned the corner of the lane and came rapidly towards her. (To Be Continued.) Some fruit trees have a great deal tc bear; but the peach is mostly to be pitted, : ; dulge in a fraudulent bankruptcy, or © “Certainly—on the altar steps, if she | ely makes the best of a bad bar. | On, | nearly that time, and the evening | | | good wife, or I would not marry him; | and, if the girl who makes her son: happy does not, sooner or later, win | becoming clearer, and it is now pos- sible to speak with some degree of certainty, as to the fall movement, says Kansas Farmer. The ‘movement of both cattle and sheep has been late this season, due principally to dry weather and unfavorable condi- tions on the ranges. The copious rains of the early season in nearly all sec- tions were followed by a long period of dry weather, In the far West the drought injured the feed in some sec- tions, while in others the grass had advanced to a point where the sun and dry weather only made it better. Scarcity of water for the cattle was ; another drawback, but as far as can be learned the actual logses from this cause were but trifling and confined to a few isolated sections. In the moun- tain ranges the cattle have found good feed in the high pastures where timber is plentiful, but some sections report a scarcity of hay and will market their cattle when finished rather than carry them through the winter. The greatly discussed shortage of range cattle has manifested itself be- yond ‘doubt, principally in the North- ern and Western sections, where ship- ments will show a falling off from last year’s record of from 10 to 15 per cent. The heaviest decrease is in aged cattle, three years old and over, of which class there is an actual famine in some sections. Young cattle are also not as plentiful in the range sec- tions as last year, but the territory covered by Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota report a large increase, hardly enough, however, to make up for the decrease in the West and North, The percentage of range cattle that will go for feeders this year is con- siderably less than usual, owing to the good feed that has prevailed on the range and the strong demand for beef cattle. Most of the markets re- port a good percentage of arrivals fit for beef, and for the first time in some months the range steer is worth more for beef than as a feeder to be finished on corn. The demand for feeders in the West, including the territory west of the Missouri river, has been far less than last year up to the present time; but in the territory east of the river the demand is larger than it has been before in years, ‘This is be~ lieved to be due largely to the condi- tions surrounding the corn crop. Ow- ing to the drought and hot winds at a critical time, the crop west of the Missouri river as a whole is below the average, while east of the river a fair- ly good crop is assured. Feeders of Kansas and Nebraska have been wait- | ing and holding back, demanding low- ' er prices on feeders, Within the last two weeks there has been developed more of a demand, but it is largely filled at home, these two states having been well filled with young cattle and breeding cattle last year. Creating Herds by Selection. The Dublin (Ireland) Farmers’. Ga- zette tells how an excellent dairy herd was built up by a process of selection. Only the heifer calves of the best cows were retained in the herd, the tribes of the others being gradually weeded out. These, when old enough, were bred to bulls, the records of whose fe- male ancestry had been closely inves- tigated and found to show that the dams in his line were of excellent dairy quality. The Gazette says that the herd now has 50 per cent of cows giv- , ing milk that contains over 5 per cent of butter fat, while the milk of 75 per cent of the herd gives over 4% per cent of butter fat. This improve- ment in the dairy cows is practicable on every, Texas farm, though the Journal would not advise that the dairy breeds be used by any but the professional dairymen in effecting the object. The farmer can get better to- tal results from his herds by using cows of the beef breeds for milkers, even though their milk yield contain less butter fat, because of the salable value of their male calves, Gobblers tar Next Year. Get rid of all male turkeys as soon as the market opens full for that class of stock, and get a male from some source which will insure against the possibility of his being related to the hens, says the “Poultry Keeper.” If a gobbler has a dash of the “wild” blood in him, say one-fourth, it will ve an advantage. The use of young gob- blers should be avoided. One that is two years old should be preferred to a yearling. The hens may be as young as one year, but if older it will be better. The point should be to secure vigor in the young ones, and as in breeding and the use of immature parents has done much to cause loss to the young ones hatched in the past, it is important to secure strong young turkeys in order to be able to raise a larger number than is usually done every year. The loss of a single young turkey in a brood is quite an item considering its value for market when it matures, and the safest way to prevent loss is to begin with the breeding stock and se- cure vigor. Price of Canned Meats.—There has recently been a considerable decline in canned meats, and there is no imme- diate prospect that the price will re- cover, as there is a falling off of de- mand from the government and foreign markets as well.. 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Send 5 cents to Ripans Chemical Co., New York, for 10 samples and 1,000 testimonials. PATENT cstsmer eco’ 251 Tot, wan De { | Si NRT | —_—T- _