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wes ne, as extinet as the dodo.” looked at him inquiringly. animal,’ a She gravely 1 reassuringly inclined her head, distinction is gratifying, and your wi: remark {!s apropos of what?" He did n i at her as she moved filling some blue Pe ah * fodils from a heap on the he had Just brought to her. U and allghtly p her masses of dark brown ~ colled simply round a sha 2. her eyes, large, almost too large, of a steady tender gray; her. ce, {t# singularly placid expression, eminently attractiy that one would naturally second time. about look he, sb HE feeling of gratitude In the human sald thouch: . with few ¢ t haps have said the male 0 wer, Dut stood look'ng the room an bowls with daf- table which She was tall built even to attenuation; ir were y head; werk w was | was a woman ata “You are strangely and wonderfully quict to-day." she said, as she sank into a low chair by the open window, having arranged the flowers to her sat- isfaction. Tam learning the value {t not a aiMcult lesson?" % silence.’ © ‘You forget I am a man, Margaret," with a In his votee, “1 hy this moi ard some good news, Forbes, of od me the post of + sloner yo m: Russtan ‘Trans-Sibe was somewhat stru those articles of mine fan Tatlway. It seems, “WHY, ea journey down the new He by in the Mercury. It ts considered a great stroke of luck tn for a beginner ] Ukely to lead 1 be away a long time." s he spoke. Journalism, a anxiously at her er said, brightly. the front if o you got a chance." iy, My rit and yet you stood them like a very patient angel, 1 fargaret,"’ irrelevantly, ‘how dave we known each other “I think,” reflectively, were about 60 high"—holding her h about four feet from the g-ound: an unswerving de things sticky. “Nonsense; you always try yourself out so much older than I," je, irri not. reall “Am L not "At one time [ remember call me your second mother. “T wads it fool," the said, shortl: Margare and something better. He looked ts m very gind to hear of your good “You ow Falways said you would come to ways very good to me,” "i sotistte: mvings must have often bored yoy hor- an am long ‘ever since you nd with tion to jam and a to make sald 1 you know you are smiling a trifle wickedly. you used to » and stood looking down at the carpet, a per- on his face. the frown over to plexed walked Quietly window Dick? “Is that a proposal, somowhat breathless! . “Do you think ft Margaret, dear, be serious: I and I want you to marry me." Her face grew white. Then he and sald ‘Margaret, will you marry me Bho turned and looked ‘at him, startled, he said, a conundrum? love you “1 did not think that you cared for me in that way," she murmured, half to : herself, There was a long silence. She sat with hands folded on her lap, staring Some sparrows were , ous of t ; twittering noisily in the branches of an old elm that grew In the square, and the subdued hum of th not unpleasantly upon her sounded, she reminded herself dtytant tramMe stole the busy humming of bees In. an’ old- fashioned sweet-scented garden, “Sneak to me, Margaret,” length. he urged She turned to him, her eyes dim with unshed tears. “ cannot tell you, Dick,” she sald SAMARITAN’S HARD LUCK. | Took In Dispos Awoke Minus Everythi! i, H. Keeley, a mason and lives at No. 261 Second avenue, Friday night he was passing Ni Duffy, the head of the house a girl boarder out of the house, Being a ‘sympathetic man, the night in his house, They did woke up until 4 P.M. and found ev dapiualsy <= cash and the furniture. Omy and says he recovered chairs, cary and a pawn ticket for his clothing. } McCartney, of N dred t to the Dufty house yesterda: ed Family and lasterer, Laat 2037 Becond avenue, when, he swears, one there, after a row, put his'wife, daughter and Keeley asked tho dispossessed family to spend 80. ‘There were some drinks. Keeley never the next day ything In the house gone, he three women were arrested and held for trial in the Hariem Court, Hugh § East One Hun- and. Fifth aigeot and Martin Mlssler ys Kosi Nort ep or One aes Hundred c " she Morning Gazette, has of- gently, “how grateful I em for the honor) ¢ you have done me, but Lam afraid what you ask la impossible, No, let me ivh." as he made an effort to speak: { am ma Years older than you, and 1 shall be an old woman when you are in prime of llfe. If we married, {n eighteen months you would regret It. 1 know, «dh . you Would be very good to but 1 should feel it all the same. and have an uphill fight vou. Iwill not be a drag on your enersics 1 osatd_ men muttered he, twice In one dy. was an ungra to tempt Providenc Marguret, do you lov she sald «imply afier a pause, were ten years older or I unger things might be dif- raid he master: his boyleh face Mushed and reso- “It ts not tmponsible. dL love you {frerence Margaret I know you jthink I'm lute of purpo give me a trial.” She shook her head she suid gently, “I know Tam acting for the best.” The wound I am tnflicting may be painful now, but tt will heal. Tt will heal.” she murmured to herself, “ani leave not a near behind.” He walked two or three times up and down the room: then he carefully ad- justed a daffodil that looked like te pling from ths bowl, Finally he wail, and tis volce had a break in [t, ‘In this ir final answer, Margaret?” itis finul.* whe sail drearity, ‘Then I must say good-by, T shall not you again before 1 9." _ 1 wish you every DICK, | rising and holding out her As he took It he looked into her eyes and Jump. rose In his throat. ‘Ia there » Margaret?" he sald huskily. And he abruptly left the room. ‘The door closed behind him and she down in her chatr, gazing with unseoing eyes out of the window. The chirping of the Irrows: Uke a great harsh, plercing vibration sound—a Irenlir Kaw that into the very flores of her be Th seemed no “more sunlight left in the room. The elm tree in eA 9 Very near and «) very shad. tick of aE nth shelf, which had been silent all now swing !te pendulum to and Ko ek-tosk—as if tt a being suddenly come Inte Ife At length she burst into a foo re, with "On! my dear, my d the best. it ts for the beat te fovember. Two summers come and gone wines that spring mori Ing. Margaret had just left a couple of falry storles with an editor, Her work was slowly finding Its way Into mags zines. ‘There was a summor radiance iinged with an autumn sadness in all she wrote, ‘The Strand was dirty and the pve: ments greasy with a thick ating of London mud, East and west the current of humanity flowed. A\ crowd jostle cach others elbows at Charing Cross ast and west, coming and going—the Suez of London. “Margaret!” “Her heart gave a great throb, leaving her for a moment sick a and faint. gasped, ‘where ve you come from? “Why, Dick," T have just come from that hansom.” e said, nodding his head composedly ‘But if you want further detalis let us get cut of this crus He brushed through a crow! of bew!l- dered country folk who were standing in the throng in stolid perplexit: “Tam so pleased to see you,” said as they galned the comparat! quietude of Northumberland avenue, have just come back to London. | rived at Southampton only three ago. It acems almost providentlal me you Hike this." dence has not deserted you, tt fad ferent opinion until a minutes ago, dhe qutetdy. "H y you remember"— ‘ T Lave an excellent memory for tri: ly. Then xhe look im In a friendly, scrutinizing way. You have certainly altered; your fi browner than of old, and are one of two wrinkles that I do remember to have xeon befor fd quickly, . Cleans by dissolving scouring) the dirt or tarnish. . {diplomacy THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1901. ws old ia the Bast. 4tructions from my paper to —If possible. after the powers ha Je som workd” len erm c mitations of ih nun red with the ¢ the boy nat “but. by of eolo Hate yo is something gained way.) with af SE have forge note = marriage mg martiaget Wh “Who told: you » said with appare T think—ves, it wan James's Chronicle." Again he bi nd looked 3 ret? whi she coming fwhen is then woman is a born dipl sist “TL should present,” she gayety. He drew Th turned Quanls avenue inte WHHL walk ty a weddln) show to wend you said with some breat of the Whit the hay nd whe vi ugh the @. under th shary he sali Horse hes. ‘The r culrames of the troop seemel to her blurred It fusel dream. Surely rs on she must WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?" Dick appeared to have forgotten that he bad ay, for he walked by her side fdly stick. in tr, swinging his The fog ta lifting,” she sald, pres- ently, feeling the silence oppressive, ‘and, look, there {s the sun, his face ruddy with the, exertion the mis remember a day similar to this, ° replied meditatively. ner, Margaret? Tt had small success In Journalism ted faUures, and you drew a usury of my future from the way before the ‘oi prophecy agal of ‘trying to happy duit | wish y alie 1 Koftly. ‘ou wish happiness for my Aad he insisted. him, a flash in her looked at Did he Know he was tor- happiness, her, he happiness of the one nd up in the other.” you not wish to know all about Margaret?) You were always my jante in the past hnivered slightly. “Another time.” she sald. "Iam afraid [ must be get- ting back." he sald. gently, "1 nother portunity Towill try a is nweet, w xray eves, lingered may not Listen, het TV ete pe Afast ved he words ‘her head, crowned with own hair, has a slightly im- Is older than myself. ‘garet? Do you sketch “You are. ungenerous, twieting gether, “Crauford was a fool. Crauford ts I told bim os we leaned over th n' looking at n glorious sun: nthe Red Sea, when even the moat hearted man grows poetical—I told him 1 at ‘Roing: to marry when I came hom “Crauford 1s prophets’ he gal Margaret, ‘ar, won't you look at me? There Is yvoman 1 care for—and she re- sho muttered, her gloved hands tightly to- but only stood look- of tears at a soll- ing his wings in the hing, Ing through f tary ftamii sunshine ontinued, with un- I went away’ doubting so much faith tn your thought It. possible’ you In your eatimate of me. conquer my love—yes, I dear—but failed. So" T k to you—you will not zain, Margaret?’ ‘A trie prophet.— Thad inion that migat be right And I tried t y tried, ter- Ami (not i recetved ine ree Ching grate tine raul rke her of Horse 1 plumes and glcaming guard es in acon. soon WEEPING, SHE PRAYS FOR Only 15, and Her Mother Cannot Aid Them. SOOOODD CDOOOOO Junt another story of the east side. mother. Mra. ’ king no Tng- The same old, pitiful story that in| ish and trusting only in the child for a | whom she had work r fingers to Ukely to endure until that ume when | the sone, dans not n know where wo hre all wise and well-to-do and be-| Jeannette “had her Job" at $8 per week, yond all the beckonings of temptation, | !0r where she spent io learning atenog- raphy th her mether © her. Jeannette C 0 f Ste. Ms only Nfte JERE® All Mrs ¢ ny knows (is that the girl old, tall for her years and bright be- | tert home, 1 M9 Esst Mifth street, jond them, a type of German blonde | last Saturday morning and has never leveliness, living with her widowed | turned She knows rene of he daughter's mother In a rear tenement, and sent | friends, haw no idea of what imagina- out to make her living as a typewriter, | tlons cr longings the girl may have had Poverty at home, tight and life on | and can give the potler bit of help Aes . in thelr sear Hrondwa: ML she Mo Is to sit In the dingy She had her chotce ir tenement tears Ing down he . wend r back to me, The pelice are searching for her now, urged on by her well-nigh — Insanv THEY MET, WOOED AND WED, ALL IN TWENTY MINUTES. -- Ieteleininiet Shteteieb MET, WOOFD AND WED IN TWENTY MINUTES. Scene of the Shortest Court- ship On Record Was Office of Police Justice. Courtship began Me proposed at 2.27 P.M. y begga Mu mony end M. Inieleleleinbelmieinicieiei-teineletei=!: “This {s the shortest courtsh record, I belleve.”” remarked Ju the Peace David Van Wyek in his oMe in Hudson atreet . Hoboken, to-day, “It lanted just twenty minutes The contracting parties were Wicher * Stagler, thirty-three yeare olf, and| “1 do, jargaret Jong. venty-five years old | In oth mnutes Justice Van Wyek The bridegrom is an attractive y | war reading the Words thar were take man of Hobokee, tr: vaple man and 9 red Stagler registered merely as a New) S$ Waa no over that he Yorker. He ts good looking and appears! dropped a large fee Into the Justice's to be well-to-do, [hands before he started with his newly Stagler called on Justice Van Wyck] won bride for New York to make a business call. They were en-| Miss Jong’s parents do not ve in gaged in earnest conversation when } iss J America. She liv ith friends and Jong, who lives In apartments over the! they were agreeably surprised when they Justice's office, pased by. recelved a note telling them the mar- Stagler was at once stricken with her beauty. He eyed her with n sweet smile. Misa Jong, who knows sue is pretty reciprocated in kind. That was enot bride-to-be found Triage, Tho [this ctty to ton later. het Stag bride'y off Hay. There ctv were nent to wil be a recep: er happened to call in this way,’ HER DAUGHTER TO RETURN. Police Search for Jeannette Cerny, a Pretty Stenographer of} |x economically 155, 157,159 East 23d St.'207, 207;, 209 Two Doors West of 3d Ave. | Splendid Bargains for Friday and Saturday. Every department of our large stores is suggestive of money saving possibilities. Never before were we so thoroughly prepared to supply you in a manner more satisfactorily or for instance, take these few examples: Long Credit | 75c. Weekly Opens an Account i Long Credit Sideboard, like Y polished ong linge and two small drawers tone ling ith felt), French elmit actual val $25.09; cial at Large, Hisdierse Tulted Ve- Cozy Corners, Dens, and Turkish Rooms designed and con- structed. Estimates given on applic ton A complete and rich liny of (ri- ental Draperies on hand. * Made Her Beautiful. Every Lady in the Land Can Now Hiv: a Beautiful Skin. A TRIAL BOX FREE. It has remained incover the wecret of a perfect sk! bas at fast found the key to femlu beauty, All the sighs and heartaches o & poor*appearance may now be banished for it ts within the means of every lady young or middie aged, | learest and my ned comp arto a romana heart Fannie 1. Halston, 628 Lexington avents wort, Ky., says: “When DT becan using Mme. Ribault's complecion beautiers 1 did ar iny akin, my not think It porsible to « co was in a horrible condition, I ¥ 1 with red spots, pimples, blackhrads tches and freckles, L suffered « nd deaths, and when 1 set a trial of Mine, Bibault's beautiers 1 iin proved so wonderfully that my friends did The an excuse tO} said Justice Van Wyek to-day ‘Six go Into Justice Van Wyek's office and} months ago Btagler’s brother came. to the next thing Btagler forgot all about | this country. After had spent the Justice and began a whispering con- | nis money to secure work he became Ii versation with Miss Jong. I Nave died inthe atreet (1 sent him to St ry's Hos- “I'd give all in the world for you, said Btagler. “Well, what's to hinder you from loving me. There's the Judge," she re- Med. “Do you mean 1t?" ‘After hin death I saw to It that he was properly buried. 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