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CONDEMNED | Mrs. E. Bagot Harte. CHAPTER XIV.—(Continued). written to her on behalf of Audrey. But “That's a question that I don’t right-} 0; her hopes in that direction were ty know how to answer,” he replied, in | dashed to the ground. an unnerved voice. “My horse will] There was no news of Audrey. | soon be dead, and there’s danger in} “I wonder what has happened to de- that to other passing traps. ‘It’s my] tain her?” Hilda asked herself the duty to stay here and to warn them} question to the accompaniment of and to look after my cab. But you, | Srowing anxiety. miiss, had better be finding your way| Perhaps a telegram would arrive in along. You'd best go back, I should] @ few minutes with a satisfactory ex- say, (o Westminster bridge, and there | Planation for the delayed return. Per- you'll come upon a policeman, and te | haps: Audrey herself would soon ap- lim you can just explain what’s hap- | Pear in person. It was so easy to miss pened, and ask him to send along as-{ train, yet how injudiciou§ to do so in sistance.” this case. Meanwhile the wisest—in ‘ \ quite safe for me to go alone?” | fact the only—course was to remain in- “i. isn't what I’d advise your doing if | active and conceal all anxiety. there was any better way out of the} But as the day grew old and no news tr »; Dut there isn’t, so far as 1 can | Of the absent girl arrived it was not easy to act up to this wise decision. The carriage was not sent to meet any of the trains; nothing that could ac- centuate the mystery of her non-return did Hilda feel justified in ordering to be done. Night came; still no news. Morning dawned, and the silence over- hanging the girl’s absence remained unbroken. “I must act ,do something,” thought Hilda, with suddenly augmenting fears. “To remain inactive any longer would be criminal on my part. Happily, George being no worse, I can go out for a short time to send off a telegram asking for news. But to whom ought it to be addressed, and where sent? To speak to these men? Ask help? | telegraph to Reggie would appear to be Pui pointing at—. But he is the only per- son to whom I can appeal for informa- tion, for it was to see him that she went to London. Risks of my inquir- ies being misunderstood must be run. “Then I will go.” “Keep to the wall of the embank- it'll be something to guide your- men vice was welcome. Trembling limb, cold from fear and ick from nervousness, Audrey groped her way through the darkness. d her a curious stillness prevail- either movements nor sounds to be heard, save from afar. . i must try to walk quicker,” she thought, with growing nervousness. lasiantly she increased her speed. now sounds were near at hand. footsteps were close by. Should Aro here has been an accident,” she said. “Could you go to the assistance of the cabman, whose horse is in- ured - es answer. But men’s heavy foot- Immediately after breakfast I will go eteps came hurrying toward her. She sdk oe al aad aay ihe ni be pao 9 | agsihye a fast, and as quickly as possible a tel- to-cee tint she ete well dressed, | @&'4m containing the words “Where * ag ’|is Audrey?” was flashing up to London. eud it was also sufficient to enable her For days Reggie had labored under to. see. that ties. ‘were ‘of the ‘lowest a depressing sense of the uninterest- type—scoundreis in appearance to the ingness of his existence—nothing to finger tips. s @ ae ; - live for, save the necessity to make an = renee ie. : ani iia’ wee income to support himself. “But the sa é $45 fies ee ye asl, na? pei receipt of that telegram electrified him hae elicdeae sae, & ’| into forgetting himself. ec ce ae ee: ape ee ai “Where is Audrey?” he _ repeated, vO HmMed ee eet a moment | doubting the existence of his own eyes. cowardice and courage contended for “How the deuce should I know? And supremacy in Audrey’s mind. And) Just in the name of sdodniees as during that moment the fog suddenly caused Hilda to telegraph to me? Looks—looks—but heaven only knows what it looks like,” he muttered, re- luctant to diagnose his own thoughts. “Tt is such an extraordinary thing to less dense, and a cab was also approaching. Both facts instant- oubled her courage. Help! help! Police! police!” she heat ty ericd, with all her might. telegraph to me. And it is not in her Her lips had just framed the last nature to do extraordinary things. I ‘word when a heavy blow, well aimed » can’t understand it a bit. What an- swer shall I send? I must send one as quickly as I can. Hang it all, I’m be- ginning to feel desperately upset. What " AMG SRO x can have become of her? I have been . “quick—Jim! said one. | thinking of the dear little woman ‘at it safe,” was the rep | Carlton Park, happy and well looked st make tracks jolly quick, for | after; whereas— But, hang it all, ac- nk you've done for her!” tion is what is required of me now. I'll what about ehuck- | telegraph back without a second’s de- ? It’s handy.” lay to say that I can’t understand’ the telegram and have not seen Audrey.” Having dispatched the message he walked back to his chambers and pro- ceeded to work himself into a frantic state of anxiety respecting Audrey’s safety. ing, felled her to the ground. cr moment and both men were by the side of her uncon- kr scious form, CHAPTER XV. All through the following day anxie- cerning Audrey hovered over Hil- da’s mind . But now that evening had 3 vas: feeling lesehebmbiadean “What on earth can have become of come she was feeling less troubled, for } 10,2" he asked himself time after time. ehe did not for an instant doubt that|«{ wonder if Hilda will telegraph her auxicties would soon be at an end. | again?” “Only another hour and she will be} But ae did nie She her RS iiys: ‘ utter uselessness of it. a look back again,” said Hilda to herself, as St innit dinmancelin erence ahS she consulted, her watch; then, turn-| ram several times, then threw it Sug toward Nurse Eleanor, she said in a| down and sat thinking. Where could flow voice: “How do you think the | Audrey be? Where could she have fs tonight? I think he is bet- t t rac gone to? Why had she not written to explain her absence? Fortunately, Sir ter George was better; for time must be “He is no worse, and that is saying | given to this important family mystery @ great deal,’ was the repiy. “And | —Audrey’s hes della Was it in » ei = Py any way connected with the mystery of ‘won't you go and rest, dear? You look hip iillness, pr the’ avatars hats MER broken off the engagement between Reggie and Audrey? It was clear that inquiries must be set on foot at once, but those inquiries must be cautiously made—nothing that should cast a slur on Audrey’s character must be done or said. To go to London and place the matter in the hands of the family law- yer was impossible; distance nega- patien so tired.” “Yes, I'll lie down on the sofa in my owa room, and when Miss Villiers re- turas will you ask her to come and speak to me at once?” : Hilda had every intention of remain- ing awake, but as she lay still, listen- ang, tired Nature asserted its right to repose and she fell asleep. tived it. To ask him to come down to bours passed, still Hilda slept. Her! cariton Park would mean loss of time, maid crept again and again into her! and every moment was precious. Al- room, looked at the tired, careworn | ready Hilda was blaming herself for face of her young mistress, then stole | haying wasted too many of those pre- out, thankful each time to see her/|¢jous moments. Now she must act sleeping peacefully. promptly, ask advice and immediate It was nearly eight o’clock when she | help from some one whose judgment, awoke with a start to see daylight | powers of secrecy and fidelity to her- streaming in through the curtains. Her | self were above suspicion. To this Mirst thought was of Audrey and her | man—for the work to be done was a first action was to ring the bell and} man’s work—she must tell everything msk for her. unreservedly. “Miss Villiers did not return last| No need to ask herself twice who night, my lady,” replied the maid. “She was not in the train.” A dead pause followed, and during an avalanche of fears rush- | ¢* mortal. : Sa imo Hilda's mind. Quickly she was penning a note to ef ss on him, quickly it was being dispatched. Has the postman been?” she asked, He wasdant dong ix fie. “I am very glad I was still at home when your letter came,” he said. “Had stood out in her mind as the one who would face more for her than any oth- suddenly. “Yes, my lady, and I have brought you the letters.” Eagerly they were taken from the] have been on my way to London, en salver and as eagerly was the hand-| route for the South of France.” writiag of each address glanced at.} “I am thankful, indeed, that you had ‘Ehree of the handwritings were} not started. I am in great trouble, and strange to Hilda, and she hastened to} know that you will advise me how to assure uerself that the possessors of | act and help me.” i these strange handwritings had not| “Yes!” He feared to hear what was that man must be. Guy Erskine’s name it arrived ten minutes later I should’ “Oh!” he exclaimed, briefly, adding quicki: will do all that I can. to help you. When and how did she dis- appear?” _ “The day before yesterda: he went up to London in order to see Reg- gle. Yes; you may indeed look sur- prised. It was very indiscreet—for she was determined to discover why he had broken off the engagement. She promised to return here, and I have not heard from her since. I am sure that something mysterious has hap- ‘pened, as it is not in her nature to cause others unnecessary anxiety.” “Have you no clue to where she is?” “None. I telegraphed to Reggie ask- ing him, and this is his answer.” Hil- da handed a telegram to Guy as she spoke. - : ; He read it with an expression of re- liet. “Probably she has gone to stay with some relation,” he hazarded. : “I am sure that she has not,” was the emphatic reply. “Then we must communicate with the police. If she has disappeared mys- teriously, the only thing for them to do is to institute the usual type of in- quiries. They must be supplied with a photograph of her and a description of the clothes she was wearing when last seen: I am so sorry that you oh ars have this additional cause of anxiety. You have enough to bear al- ready. But I am certain there is no need for real alarm about Miss Villers. Her letter telling you where she is has miscarried. I'll go at once to London and see that the matter is attended to.” “And will you go and see Reggie?” .; “I cannot doubt my brother's assur- ance that he knows nothing.” It was gently said. “And I hope that before many hours I shall be able to tele- graph to you saying that Miss Villiers is found. How is Sir George to-day?” “Holding his own so well that the doctors are looking less anxious, I am delighted to say.” Guy tried to say that he was glad to hear it, and failed. Not until this mo- ment had he realized how great was his hope that this criminal, his rival, was doomed to die soon. By his death all would be righted—Hilda’s happi- ness—all! And that all included abil- ity to tell Reggie the truth with regard to the ownershhip of the penknife. No other mortal should ever know it. But Reggie had a right to know it. Now to this murderer was being granted a new span of life, years in which the joy of basking in the sunshine of Hil- da’s love would be his. Foreing himself to smile, to speak reassuringly, Guy rose to leave. Why prolong the interview? Why prolong moments of sore temptation—mo- ments in which his arms , ached to strain her to him, and his lips longed to rain kisses on hers?. Now her hand was resting in his for a brief, heavenly moment. It was Hilda who suddenly recollect- ed that he was going without a photo} or description of Audrey. These were quickly obtained and ten minutes later he was on his way to the station. (To Be Continued.) THE HALLOWEEN JOKE. , How It Struck a Little Girl Who Had "Never Seen a Jack o’ Lantern. Prof. George D. Herron, apropos of Halloween, said: “In Montezuma, in my childhood, a crowd of youngsters made a jack 0’ lantern to frighten a little city girl with on Halloween. The little girl came from Indianapo- lis and she had never seen a jack 0’ lantern before. Yet,when on the lone- ly and black road, the big, round pump- kin, with its illuminated and grinning face ,appeared before her suddenly, she was not at all alarmed. She ran indoors and said: ‘ “Hush! don’t make a noise, for the man in the moon has just come down, and he is sitting out there in the lane. He hasn’t any body. He is nothing but head, and he looks just like he does in the pictures.’” i A Trick in Hatting. Foxhall Keene was talking about au- tomobile driving. “Tt is difficult work,” he said. “One can’t devote too much time to it. There is always something to learn.” He smiled. . “There are tricks in every trade, you know,” he said. “Even in retail hat selling any dodges are employed. “T said to a hatter one day: “J don’t see how you can afford to iron for nothing all the silk hats you sell.’ . “We have to do it, sir, he said. ‘The hats would last too long if we didn’t.” Foreseeing Trouble. The Suitor (a few years hence)— Darling, on the very next visitor’s day Til go to Sing Sing and ask your fath- er for his consent. The Frenzied Financier’s Daughter —Oh, promise me you won't, George, dear! Why, that would shatter all our hopes of father’s sentence ever be- ing commuted for good behavior.— Puck. Threw Her Over . “When are you and Miss Smith go- ing to be married?” “I don’t believe I’ll marry that girl.” “Do you think that is treating her right?” “Well, she has herself to thank for it; she made me angry.” : “In what way?” i “Why, she went and engaged herseit to Charlie Scadds.”—Houston Post. half, or over 48 per cent. ced 63 per cent, of pig iron more Lynn. aT are Kid much for the large real estate inter- ests of the Pinkham family, class of business suffered most ‘from | she this fearful depression, so when the Centennial year dawned it found their property swept away. stone state is the real backbone of the Of labor conditions in South Amert ca, Frank Wiborg, author of “A Com: mercial Traveler in South America, says: “The large planters of Ecuador complain that they lose a part of their crop every year through inability to get sufficient laborers to harvest it. Ag in most tropical countries, the ques- tion of labor is most serious, for among the lower classes the necessi- ties of life are so few and so easily obtained that there is little or nor incentive for steady application. In Ecuador the attempted solution of this is the introduction of the saine vicious system which our government found in force in the Philippines and has since been trying,so desperately to root out—namely, peonage or ¢ert service. “To gain a hold on the laborer the planter offers him a small loan which he, with characteristic improvidence, eagerly accepts, with the understand- ing that he is to enter the service of the planter and pay back the debt lit- tle by little. Until it is paid he can not enter the employ of any one else. It is to the advantage of the planter to keep the debt unpaid and it seldom happens that a debt once contracted in this way is ever canceled. More- over, the debt always grows, for fines are constantly checked against the la-|: borer’s account—if he misses a day or breaks a tool—until it actually results that the longer he works the more deeply he is in debt. 3 “Then the various members of his family are drawn into the employ of the planter for the ostensible purpose of helping to lift the debt and gradu- ally they, too, become bound body and soul. The peons are not slaves; this is vigorously asserted on all sides. But they might almost as well be slaves, for even if their bodies are not pur- chasable their debts are, and through their debts their services, and a plant- er desiring thé service of a certain peon can get it by paying the peon’s present employer the amount of his in- debtedness. This transfer of debt and service is a common practice.” WEALTHY GIRL LIVES ’SIMPLY. Mrs. George Gould Has Sensible Ideas on Training. Mrs. George Gould by no means be- ileves in keeping her daughters in cotton batting any more than she does her sons. This season the oldest daughter, Marjorie, has been sent to a fashionable day school in Fifth ave- nue, after having previously had gov- ernesses at home. During the week Miss Marjorie stays at the school, go- ing down on Friday afternoon to Georgian Court in Lakewood, where she stays until Monday morning. This daughter of one of the wealth- iest men in the country is most sim- ply dressed, is unaffected ard is much liked among her young friends. She has had so much country life as to be more athletic than the average girl, and looks forward each week to her few days at home, where she rides and drives to her heart’s con- tent. Pennsylvania’s Wealth. Of all the coal of every kind that was mined in the United States last year, Pennsylvania produced almost Of coke it than 46 per cent, of steel over 56 per cent, of steel rails 36 per cent, and of structural iron and steel more than 87 per cent. Putting all the steel, iron, coal and coke into a huge mountain, Pennsylvania’s share would exceed 56 per cent, while all the rest of the United States furnished but 44 per cent. These are the impressive dimensions value of railroad property Pennsyl- vania is also far ahead of any other commonwealth. There are so many things in the way of natural resources in which it leads that there can be no doubt that for solid wealth the Key- Union.—Philadelphia Press. the great merchant, “as I have always done, for sale, and I give more to the poor than any two men in this block.”—Chi- cago Tribune. A Connemara Valley. Sick litile valley, meted out for sadness, Bent thorns which rarely above your brown floods rise, Brimming full your streams are, brim- ming full yet holding Little joyous commerce with the sun and skies. Sadly in the night-time the moon, be- sieged by shadows. Over your bare boglunds holds her pal- lid court; Sines Scarce an evening flower lighting for her pleasure, Scarce a silvery ripple dancing for her t. sport. In your. bareness finding, in your sad- ness seeing, Something strangely tender, strangely: near my heart. Yet. O little valley. little bog-filled valey, I who linger near you sigh and sigh to part, often I look Turning with reluctance, bi hath ackwards, Seeing. feeling. counting been before, Finding in your bareness, seeing in your sadness. ; That which, having left you, find I nevermore. in the London Outlook. what Reed and the Little Judge. In the days when his brain and body were bigger than his reputation, “Tom” Reed was taken in hand by a friend who sought to make him ac- quainted with a somewhat noted Maine judge, whose infltence, it was hoped, might prove valuable. As a precautionary measure, the struggling young lawyer was warned not to of- fend the eminent jurist, who was ex- tremely sensitive with regard to his diminutive ‘size. maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819, com- ing from a good old Quaker family. For many years she taught school, and during her career as a teacher she be- | came known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, she was possessed with a wonderfully sympathetic nature. a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. four children, three sons and a daugh- ter. ins. drugs were used in medicines; people relied upon nature’s remedies, roots and herbs, which are to-day recognized as more potent and efficacious in con- trolling diseases than any combination the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics and power over dis- ease; so bountifully provides food for the body so she also provides medicine for the ills and weaknesses of the body, in the roots and herbs of the field, and as a wife, mother and sympathetic friend, she often made use of her } knowledge of roots and herbs in pre- paring medicines for her family and friends. her sex, search, Mrs. Pinkham believed that the diseases of women have a com- mon cause, and she set to work to find a common remedy—not at that time as a source of profit, but simply that she might aid the suffering. the women of the world know to-day. their mother, combined forces to re- . tg store the family fortune. of this state's material wealth. In th?) soiveq to give to the world the vege-| that table compound that Mrs. wees 0 0°00 0000 00 0 02 0000050 0 nnn “what would you do if an injunction came to you, ‘Sell all that thou hast and'give to the poor?” Covered Head, Neck and Shoulders— ony from a terrible humor, complete- ly covering my head, neck and shoul- ders, discharging matter of such of- fensiveness to sight and smell that I | == became an object of dread. a sulted the most able doctors far and near to no avail. cura, and in a surprisingly short time I was completely cured. thank Cuticura, and advise all those suffering from skin humors to get it and end their misery at once. Keyes, 149 Congress Street, Mass.” dear teacher a present? her some of that cheap candy like I had the other day. you so ill.” A BRIEF SKETCH OF HER LIFE How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the ‘‘Panic of ’73’’ Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. _ THE STORY READS LIKE A ROMANCE had so often made from roots and herbs for such of her women neigh- bors and friends who were sick and ailing. Its success in those cases had been wonderful—its fame had spread, and calls were coming from miles around for this efficacious vegetable compound. They had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then came the question of selling it, for always be- fore they had given it away free. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the mer- its of the medicine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and these pamphlets were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent. self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the de- mand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts, the family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising on a small scale, and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise was assured, until to-day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words every where, and thousands of pounds of roots and herbs are used annually in making this great remedy for woman’s This remarkable woman, whose In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, They had Although Lydia E. Pinkham passed to her reward some years ago, the per- petuation of her great work was guarded by her foresight. During her long and eventful experi- ence she was ever methodical in her In those good old-fashioned days few of drugs. work and was careful to preserve a Mrs. Pinkham from her youth took a record of ev case that came to her deep interest in medicine, in botany— | attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice —and there were thousands—received careful study, and the details, includ- ing symptoms, treatment and results, were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and repre- sent a vast collaboration of informa- tion regarding the treatment of wom- an’s ills which, for authenticity and accuracy, can hardly be equaled in any library the world. Another act of foresight on the part of Lydia E. Pinkham was to see that some ‘one of her family was trained to carry on her work, and with that end in view, for years before her death, had as her chief assistant her daugh- ter-in-law, the present Mrs. Pinkham Therefore, under the guidance ana careful training of Lydia E. Pinkham, In 1873 the financial crisis struck} and a vast experience of her own. Its length and severity was too | covering twenty-five years, the present Mrs. Pinkham is exceptionally wel! equipped to advise sick women, which is always glad to do free of charge. The record of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, made of simple herbs and roots, is a proud and peer- she believed that as nature Knowing of so much suffering among after much study and re- How her efforts have been rewarded as this At this point the history of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound com-| less one. It is a record of constant mences: conquest over the obstinate ills of The three sons and daughter, with | women, greater than that of any other ne of its kind in the world and will ever stand as a monument to noble woman whose name it bears. ' one medic’ They re- Pinkham Auricular Proof. “No,” said the higher critic, “I can’t accept the truth of everything in the Bible. Now, there’s that story of Baalam; I don’t believe that an ass could speak, do you?” “How can [ doubt it now with the evidence before me?” replied the plain Christian.—Catholic Standard. A Fairly Good Man. { “Brother Spotcash,” said his pastor, “I should obey it, of course,” said Everything I have in stock is Ask Your Druggist for Allen’s Foot-Ease, “I tried ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE recent- ly and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corns,.and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not‘be-with- out it now.”—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J.” Sold by all Druggists, 5c. AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR. Suffered Agony for Twenty-five Years Until Cured by Cuticura. Perhaps Not the Last. “There goes Muchwedd.” “Is that his last wife he has with him?” “Well, it’s his “For twenty-five years I suffered ag- latest.”— I con- THE BEST COUGH CURE No cough is too trifling or too serious to be treated by the right method, and the right method is | the use of the best cough cure, | which is | Kemp’s Balsam | This famous preparation cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, grip and consumption in its first stages. Irritation of the throat and bron- chial tubes is immediately removed by the use of Kemp’s Balsam. Sold by all dealers at 25c. and goc. Then I got Cuti- For this I %, P; Boston, Wants a Holiday. Mamma—So you want to give your Tommy—Yes, ma; I'd like to give “Why, Tommy, that was what made “Yes, ma; I know it was."—Chicago The introduction took place at an| Journal. y Da : auspicious moment. The judge con- | apa Np Thompson’s Eye Water descendingly offered his hand, when. TENN a pedorreagh eh Syrqj from his superior height, Mr. Reed,| aammation, allays cures wind colic. esc tm looked straight over the head of the little man. and. with a comical side glance at his friend, asked blandly? “Where is he?”—Exchanse. about our friends we had much better hold our tongues. If we can’t find kind things to say