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nina CHAPTER XIII—Continued. “It's a pretty little bit of melodrama you are building up,” he said, with a laugh. “Oh, of course, you think that girls are never governed by either reason or logic,” she said, with a pout. “Please forgive me,” he said, hur- riedly. “I did not mean to insinuate anything of the sort. You may, of course, be quite right in your sur- mise. And, if so, why——” “Yes?” she questioned, after a long pause. “fT don’t know,”-he replied. » that we can do anything.” “We can do a great deal if we try,” she answered. “In which way?” “Will you promise to do your best?” she replied, laying her hand gently on his arm They had got by this time into the road leading back to Mawgan Chase. The high hedges sheltered them from s ng wind. The daylight was ng rapidly out of the sky. There was not a solitary individual to be seen in 4 direction; they were alone with the and the woods. He felt his h bound at her touch. He wanted to e her hand and draw it within b m, but he had not the courage. For a moment or two there was silence. They were walking very | “T don’t 8 slowly “{ will do anything I can,” \he said at h; “anything you wish me to do “Would it be difficult to find out if anybody by the name of Robert Web- ster was a passenger by the Nebras- k “You do not believe there is such a person?” he questioned. “I do not. I feel convinced the name is a blind. I cannot tell you why.” “I will write to the owners to-night,” he said. “They ewill certainly have a list of names.” “Then we shall have to find out,” she went or o the man is, what he knows abou rion, why he wants to gel possession of her trunk, and——” “y, > questioned, WV 1 have to checkmate him, that is ali. You will have to watch him closely. Take the coast guard into your confidence if needs be. In any case he must not be allowed to take possession of Marion’s box.” “You make me feel like a conspira- tor,” he said, with a laugh. “{ wish I were a man,” she answer- ed. “I think I should enjoy nothing so much as ci enting a scoundrel.” “I'm ¢ you are not a man,” he said, without looking at her. She glanced up shyly into his face for a moment, but did not reply, and a minute or two later Mawgan Chase | loomed dimly through the trees, ? He shook hands with her at the gate, half hoping that she would in- vite him in. He had nothing special on hand that evening, and would have been grateful for an invitation to din- ner. It was a long time since he had spent a whole evening at the Chase, and the picture of the cosy drawing room was a very alluring one at that moment. Hsther did not invite him, however. She stood in too much awe of her mother. Grayton made his way back to St. Chloe in a very thoughtful mood. knew it was foolish to dream of She was out of his reach. vy a man with only sixty pounds a and no prospect of a rise to think ge was worse than mid- summer adness. From Esther his thoughts very nat- urally turned to Nevins. He could not deny that Esther had some reason for her suspicions, and the more he thought about the matter the more suspicious he became himself. The plea of Nevins that he was suffering from nervous collapse accorded neither with his appearance nor con- duct. An invalid would scarcely ex- pose himself to wind and rain as he did. After a frugal supper Grayton wrote a carefully worded letter to the own- ers of the Nebraska. If it should turn out that no one of the name of Web- ster was among the passengers he would have sufficient ground for tak- ing the coast guard into his confi- dence. It was late when he went out to post his letter. The box was cleared at 5 o'clock in the morning. Hence be frequently ran out to post his let- ters just before going to bed. The wind was still blusterous, though the clouds had disappeared and a crescent moon hung low in the west. The vil- lage was deserted. There wasn’t even a belated toper to be seen. He was just turning away from the Jetter box when a shrouded figure scudded past in the shadow of the church yard wall and disappeared in the direction of the bay. “That's Nevins,” he said to himself, and he crossed the little square and followed after as noiselessly and as swiftly as possible. The tide was nearly at its flood and only a narrow strip of the bay was uncovered. Grayton hid himself in the shadow of “The Shadow Between” = BY = SILAS K. HOCKING. the cliff and waited. Nevins kept close to the water’s edge all the tings, heedless of wet feet and a cold search- ing wind. To and fro he tramped, eager, alert, watchful. “Esther Mawgan is quite right,” Grayton said to himself. “It is not for an ordinary trunk that he displays all this zeal. And, what is more, he is hoping he may find it when no one is near to watch his movements. Clearly there’s a secret that needs unravel- ing.” He waited until the tide had begun to turn, then he followed Nevins back into the village, keeping well out of sight. His limbs were stiff with cold, but his brain was unusually active. “Y’'m going to solve this riddle,” he said to himself again and again; but he little guessed how perilous was the enterprise. CHAPTER XIV. Love and Discipline. lieanwhile Clement Mawgan was being slowly molded by the discipline of labor and the equally trying disci- pline of obedience. How irksome it all was no one knew but himself. He had been used to having his own way in everything; he did just what he liked within the limits of his means, selected his own time for the doing of anything he might consider expedient or necessary, took as long over any small task as he chose, and flung im- patiently to others anything he did not like. Now everything was reversed, He could no longer go and come as he pleased. He had to toe the line daily and put into every working day his full tale of hours. Richard Jackson was a disciplinarian; also he prided himself on his business methods and on his unswerving sense of justice. It was nothing to him that Clement be- longed to one of the oldest families in the country, or that he had been trained at one of our most famous uni- versities. In a business arrangement there .was no room for sentiment of any kind. He had hired the young man io do certain specified work, for which he was prepared to pay him a liberal wage. The agreement was that he was to put in so many hours a day. Saturday afternoon and the whole of Sunday he was to have to himself. If the arrangement did not suit him he was free to go at a month’s notice. There were a hundred men as well qualified as he ready to take his post, and who would consider them- selves immensely fortunate if they could get it. Clement had no complaint to make. If the confinement and the long hours irked him, that was largely the re- sult of his training. He was no worse off than the vast majority of men; in- deed, he was infinitely better off. That Mr. Jackson was not a sentimentalist could not be turned into a grievance. Mr. Jackson had been trained in a hard school. He had started life in a Lancashire cotton mill, had risen to be overlooker, then to be manager. Later he started manufacturing on his own account, and prospered. He had been diligent, painstaking, economical. Dur- ing a period of good trade he had made a huge fortune. Now he was a member of parliament and the owner of a mansion in Kensington, That he was not an educated man was not his fault. He could not do everything. Nevertheless, during his spare time he had read widely and was a genuine lover of books. His de- sire to be looked upon as a man of culture was perhaps a weakness, albeit an excusable weakness. Had he been differently circumstanced in his youth he might have become a man of letters. His business habits and training he carried into everything. He ran his do- mestic establishment much on the same lines as he ran his mill. There was no lack, neither was there any waste. He believed in getting his money’s worth for everything, and he usually got it. At the end of a manth he praised Clement for his care and diligence, and suggested that he hould take an extra day off. This was reward in- deed, and Clement began to feel more comfortable. He spent his brief holi- day as he spent most of his spare time in trying to discover some trace of Marion West. He never allowed himself to forget for a single day that his main object in coming to London was to find the woman he loved. All else was subordinate to that. He was eager to get on, eager to earn money, but mainly that he might win the greater prize; he had not yet attained to that exalted plane when work for its own sake is a sufficient reward. Had any one taken the trouble to watch his movements he or she might have wondered what aim or object he had in life.. He 4loitered slowly, and apparently without aim, through the most crowded streets. The shop win- dows did not appear to interest him. The bulk of the people he did not see, the carriages and motor cars never claimed his attention for a moment. Now and then an alert look came into his eyes and a flash of interest swept across his face, but only for a second. | task, but | seemed to him as though he might go | on searching in that vast labyrinth of spoke to no one, recognized no one; he felt as much alone as if he had been out on the moors or cliffs of his native county, and when the daylight faded, and the streets became a little less crowded, he turned his face west- ward and sought the shelter of his humble lodgings. He had been a month in London, and every Saturday afternoon and ey- ery Sunday he had spent in the same without success; and it crowded streets until his head was gray and never catch a glimpse of the face he wanted to see. One pair of eyes was ridiculously inadequate for the task he had set himself. He might have passed her again and again for all he knew. While he was looking across the street she might be almost brushing his sleeve. While he lingered at a crossing she might pass behind him. It was tantalizing to be so com- pletely at the mercy of chance. If he had 2 clue of any kind his task would seem less hopeless. He was not even sure that she was in London. She might have left it again weeks ago, or she might be ill, or have given up the struggle in despair. He tried to worry as little as possi- ble—tried to take a hopeful view of the situation. But in spite of every- thing he endured many hours of acute mental suffering. When he got back from his wander- ings on the day in question, he sat down dejectedly before his frugal fire and gave himself up ‘o the most gloomy reflections. London seemed a big, heartless, merciless place. What chance had a young and friendless girl in such a seething cauldron of humanity? For a young man without friends or references to be flung adrift in such a place would be to ex- pose him to awful peril and to proba- ble disaster. But for a mere girl to be so placed was enough to make the most careless shudder. What had become of her? It was a question he was always asking him- self, but the days passed away and he got no answer. He still hoped for the best, still reflected on her courage, her energy, her brightness, her re- source, and yet there were times when it seemed to him impossible that they would ever meet again. Never once, however, did he enter- tain the idea of turning back to the old life of idleness and self-indulgence. Hard as it was to submit to discipline and put in so many hours of work each day, he felt that it was infinitely better than dawdling about from morning till night with nothing to do. He might have miserable hours of loneliness and foreboding in London, but he would be more miserable eat- ing his heart out at Mawgan Chase. At least he was doing something. He was no longer dependent on his moth- ér for every penny he spent, was no longer depriving his sister of the small luxuries she had never been able to get; and the sense of independence— of manhood—stirred his heart with emotions he had never known before. On Sundays he ran after the most popular preachers, and always with the same end in view. He tried to salve his conscience with the reflec- tion that his motive was as lofty as that of most other people. They went to be entertained; to have their ears tickled with pleasant sounds. He went to seek—and it might be to save —the woman he loved. He did not pretend to be greatly interested in some of the services he attended. Not a few sermons made no impression on him whatever. In some cases he made but a half-hearted attempt to listen. He generally went early, so that he might get a seat that would command a good view of the congrega- tion. If he failed to see the face of the preacher that did not trouble him. (To Be Continued.) HUNTING WILD HORSES. A Favorite Sport New South Wales —How the Animals are Broken. Whether “brumby” is a survival of the aboriginal name for a wild horse or a corruption of “unbranded” ap- pears to be a question which philolo- gists have left undecided, but brumby hunting is still a favorite sport in New South Wales. Districts like the Clarence and Stephens and Manning river water- shed are still the home of numerous droves of brumbies, and hunting them is declared to be a very exhilarating pastime. The first step taken is to stake out a corral and make all secure except a narrow entrance, which can subsequently be gated. On either side of the entrance and projecting from it funnelwise a “booby fence” is pre- pared, To the simple minded brumby it presumably looks like a stockade, and pieces of fluttering cotton make it look impregnable. When this is ready the young bloods, well mounted, gallop out and round up the wild horses, driving them’ with shouts and much loud snapping of stock whips toward the mouth of the funnel. * In a group of brumbies there is al- ways a leader, and when once the hunters have got the leader heading for the corral they are pretty certain of the rest of the drove. The flutter- ing cotton rags of the sham fence are sufficient to deter the brumbies from breaking through the flimsy barriers, and in less time than it takes to tell the wild horses are safely corraled and the big gate shut on them. * Then they are left for four and twenty hours without food and water to reflect on the situation, and-after that they can be broken in without much difficulty NORWAY. It was expected that the Storthing would end its session before the end of August. 4 se It is estimated that over 20,000 bas- kets of fruit had been exported from Stavanger up to the middle of August, this year. The fruit industry, like most of the others, is growing in Nor- way. oa 8 The remains of a kitchen mound, dating. from the stone age, were dis- covered at Hafrsfjord. Shells of oysters were - uncovered and stone vessels, evidently used for cooking purposes, eee It seems that the tobacco crop in Norway will be very good this year. The tobacco industry is on the in- crease in this country, the acreage this year being about 20 per cent greater than in 1906. oe 8 P. H. Hansteen, formerly a high official in the government of Norway, has celebrated the 74th anniversary of his graduation from the University. He was born in 1814 and is recogniezd as Norway’s oldest “student.” eee The private and savings banks of Norway must be very prosperous. Last year, about this time, twenty- six of the largest of these institutions had a surplus of 356,242,149 crowns; now they have 375,845,957 crowns. se A new method of burning tang, or seaweed, was discovered by Bull and Johansen, and as a consequence the tang burning industry has made great progress of late. There are many landowners along the coast who have yearly profits from the industry of 400 crowns, and the aggregate profits for the entire country are now about 700,- 000 crowns a year. se 8 One of the worst disasters in years took place at Skonevik, when the steamer Folgefonnen, with 70 people on board, was stranded and at least 40 of the passengers perished. The ship was torn wide open and sank in three minutes. Several hundred people witnessed the tragedy from the shore. Most of the passengers were in bed and did not have time to get free of the ship before it sank. see A memorial to Per Sivle was unveil- ed on the top of a mountain, called “Norhue,” in Elverum, recently. The beloved poet used to make the summit of that mountain a fevorite place of rest and observation, so it was fitting to erect a memorial there. Like Vinje, Aasen and Barborg, Per Sivle wrote in the peasant dialect and his works are dear to the people of Norway. ese Rev. J. St. Munch died at the age of 81 years. He was one of the most interesting personalities in the church of Norway, being fearless and inde- pendent. Because of his refusal to subscribe to the doctrine of enforced marriage and enforced confirmation, he broke with the state church and resigned from his pastorate, but he returned to the fold later, in order to enter the home mission work. He was a pastor at Dodgeville and Wiota, Wis., from 1855 to 1859. es 2 * I mentioned some time ago the fact that a new Norwegian-American steamship line, to connect Bergen and New York by direct route, was to be established. To begin with only two ships are to be built. Their length will be 450 feet; their breath, 55 feet; their depth, 30 feet. Their speed will be 16 knots normally, and 18 knots under high steam. The trip from Bergen to New York will be made in 206 hours and the trip from New York to Bergen in 203 hours. Thus faster and the United States than was evet Gleanings of Important News of Norway, Sweden By MARTIN W. ODLAND. The work at the Boseberg coal mine has been suspended after having con- tinued for the past 100 years. The mine has employed fifty men. ees Uddevalla nursery society has de- cided to have an exposition in 1909, and Goteborg and Bohus will unite with them in securing premiums for the exhibitors. ss The month of July was an unusual- ly dry month this year, the observa- tions at the Upsala meteorological in- stitute showing a total rainfall of 48.2 millimeters. The average rainfall for the last 70 years has been 68.1, making this year’s record over 19 mil- limeters less than the average. sre The fountain in the Brunnspark in Goteborg is now twenty-five years old, the fountain having been dedicat- ed in 1883. The fountain was the work of the sculptor Hasselberg and cost 40,000 crowns., the donator be- ing Cavalryman Carl Krook. ae * Countess Miranda, more generally known as Kristina Nilsson, was re- cently serenaded by the Vermland school choir, which has been making a tour of Denmark. She expressed hearty thanks for the song and ac- knowledged the honor by singing the Vermland song. eee A meeting of primary teachers was recently held at Eksjo for the discus- sion of the question as to the reform- ation of the primary seminaries. Rec- tor K. Rudvalk opened the discussion with an able paper, after which the resolution in the matter was unani- mously adopted. A deputation was ap- pointed to wait on the government in case the demands of the teachers were not assented to. ses One of the provisions of the will of the late King Oscar provides for the establishment of a commission to be known as Oscar II.’s Establishments, which shall have charge of a great many articles of a historic as well as artistic value, left by the late king. The total value of the collection is 1,567,108 crowns. Among the impor- tant objects in the collection are three art cabinets, once the property of Marie Antoinette, valued at 80,000 crowns; a Brazilian silver service; Karl Johan’s field silver; a fine col- lection of empire bronzes valued at 5,000 crowns for each group. In ad- dition are included the silver, wedding and jubilie gifts, and statues and art works that have been kept in the vari- ous palaces. The coin and medal col- lection is valued at 41,216 crowns. The establishment of this commission guar- antees the saving of these vauable art works to the nation. ose DENMARK. Copenhagen will soon have the privilege of entertaining a Chinese cruiser, which is to be sent out by the Chinese government and which will visit the principal seaports of Europe. see The Lifeguard, of which Crown Prince Christian is the chief, has cele- brated its 250th anniversary by pub- lishing a memorial work, a copy of which has been presented to the li- brary of the Askov high school, which is highly praised for the large number of members it has furnished the league, es 2 Mrs. Birgitte Berg-Nielsen has re- signed as director of the governmental schools of household economics, a position she has held for a long time. She was criticized for devoting a part of her time to private schools, while remaining in the government service, and resigned on this account. She is succeeded by Professor Feijl- berg. time will be made between Norway made before, and the’ route ought to become very popular and draw the bulk of the emigrant traffic. SWEDEN. During the recent visit of the presi- dent of France three of the torpedo boats were damaged in maneuvering in Stockholm harbor. It was not thought to be serious at the time, but more careful investigations showed the damages to be considerable. ees \ Dr. Peterson has concluded his in- vestigations of the poisoning cases which recently occured at Domnorvet, and finds that the poisoning was caused by bacteria in the ale sold in the town, the bacteria resembling the meat bacteria. The epidemic of poisoning has been stamped out since the discovery of the cause. es 2 « The English minister at Stockholm recently received from the vice-king of India, Lord Minto, a telegram stat- ing that news had just been received there that Sven Hedin had safely reached Rukyok and set out for La- dakh, which place he expected to reach in September. es 8 The income: from the large agri- cultural.meeting at Eslof amounted to 51,400 crowns, of which 45,252 crowns ‘are for admissions. The expenses of the convention were lareg, but the in- The profits of the National Bank ot Denmark, during the fiscal year end- ing July 31, 1908, were 3,955,000 crowns and a fraction. This is the best showing ever made by the insti- tution and must be gratifying news to the people of Denmark, who, it seems, can not have suffered so griev- ously from the much talked of panic of 1907. The capital stock of the bank remains the same as before, 271,000,- 000 crowns. see Mr. Friis, chief of the department of justice, has resumed his duties, after a year’s leave of absence on account of ill health, and his return is hailed with delight by the new minister of justice, Mr. Hogsbro. Mr. Friis is one of the finest jurists in Denmark and will render Minister Hogsbro inesti- mable service in preparing the various propositions coming from the depart: ment of justice before the rigsdag. Holding a whole town at bay, five masked men dynamited the safe of the Provincial bank, a few miles from Montreal, and then mate their escape with $12,000 and five thoroughbred horses from the mayor’s stable. The affair occurred before banking hours Saturday. $ Lionel Sackville-West, second baron Sackville, is dead in England. He was British minister to the United States from 1881 to 1888. At the request of President Cleveland he was recalied in October, 1888, Rev. G. M. Gray, Baptist Clergyman, of Whitesboro, Tex., says: “Four years ago I suffered mis- ery with lumbago. Every movement was one of pain. Doan’s Kidney Pills removed the whole difficulty after only a short time. Al- though I do not like to have my name used publicly, I make an exception in this case, so that other sufferers from kidney trou- ble may profit by my experience.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. At First Sight. “When we were married a year ago,’, said Mrs. Oldby, “you were constantly telling your friends that our marriage was the result of love at first sight on your part, and now you are always finding fault with me.” “Yes; it is true that it was a case of love at first sight when I met you.” replied Oldby, with a sigh, “and I'll never forgive myself for leaving my spectacles at home that morning.” Both Eager. “At last,” he sighed, “we're alone. I’ve been hoping for this chance.” “So have I,” said she, very frankly. “Ah! you have guessed, then, that I wanted to tell you I love you.” “Yes; and I want to say ‘No’ and get it over with.” A Nice Hint. “I know what I'll do,” said the girl whose bashful lover would not pro- pose. “I’ll go out as a trained nurse.” “But that is a profession. You know nothing about it,” he replied. “Haven't I had six months’ experl ence sitting up nights with you?” Badly Deceived. Mr. Jaggers (returning from the beach at 1 a. m., and finding his wife waiting for him at tie head of the stair-case): “The two-headed w-w-wo- man ’n’ the m-m-movin’ stairway, b’gosh! I’m back at Coney Island, af: ter all!” Your Druggist Will Tell You That Murine Remedy Cures Eyes, Makes ak Eyes Strong. Doesn’t Smart, Soothes Eye Pain and Sells for 50c. A BIRD LOVING BARON. Has Provided 3,000 Nesting Boxes on His Estate. At least one man with a big estate has made use of it to help birds to live there instead of turning it into a sort of open air slaughterhouse. He is Baron von Berlepsch and his estate in Thuringia is a bird sanctu- ary. According to a writer in the Pall Mall Magazine, he has planted trees and bushes favorable to the birds he wants to cultivate and has supplied 3,000 nesting boxes in addition. Of these 3,000 boxes 95 out of every 100 were occupied, last spring. In one thicket, a little stretch planted with low bushes, there were a hun- dred nest built by the birds at the rate of a nest to every foot of space. A close hedge of whitethorn and wild roses protects the grounds on the vil- lage side from the children who might want to come a-birdnesting, and ingeniously contrived traps await ma rauding creatures. Not at All. John and Mary had@ been sharing one chair all the evening. John sat on the chair and Mary sat on John. After about three hours of this Mary suddenly excleimed: “Oh, John, aren’t you tired?” John smiled ‘a brave, patient smile. “Not row,” he said gently. “No, not new. I was «about an hour ago, but now I’m only paralyzed.” MOTHER AND CHILD Both Fully Nourished on Grape-Nuts, The value of this famous food is shown in many ways, in addition to what might be expected from its chem- ical analysis. Grape-Nuts food is made of. whole wheat and barley, is thoroughly baked for many hours and contains all the wholesome ingredients in these ce- reals. It contains also the phosphate of potash grown in the grains, which Na- ture uses to build up brain and nerve cells. Young children require proportion- ately more of this element because the brain and nervous system of the child grows so rapidly. A Va. mother found the value of Grape-Nuts in not only building up her own strength but in nourishing her baby at the same time. She writes: “After my baby came I did not re- cover health and strength, and the doctor said I could not nurse the baby as I did not have nourishment for her, besides I was too weak. “He said I might try a change of diet and see what that would do, and recommended Grape-Nuts food. I bought a pkg. and used it regularly. A marked change came over both baby and I. “My baby is now four months old, is in fine condition, I am nursing her and doing all my work and never felt better in my life.” “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well- ville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. TI are genuine, true, and full of human interest. Ae