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’ By. Fergus Hume. National Phen y ; goes ae of ‘Brian, thi Le a thing ts % sone know psc} ss ‘CHAPTER XXVII. (Continued) Across. the Walnuts and ant the Wine. Holi. Beart Wrottiby looked up eudienly as i) Fitmgerald asked this question. “he went to England in) 1868,” said ‘the aged one, “I'm not quite sure if it ‘waa July or August, but it was in 4) 1868," ‘olt4 “Kou will exouse me, Valpy, but 1 y, think, that these reminiscences Of 9 ballet dancer are amusing,” sald -U'i)@rettiby, courtly, pouring himeelt out a ‘Ml | glans of wine, it us change the sub- gacideot.” Notwithstanding the plainly ex- Hi"pressed wish. of bis host, Brian felt | "An, but you wit ave SiMetrongly inclined to pursue the con- | With & careless Ia versation, Politeness, however, for- v party such a thing, and he consoled him- jay@@lé with the reflection that, after din “ner, he would ask old ‘Valpy about the te ballet dancer whose name caused Mark Nid Frett¥by to ewhlbit such strong emo- ityotlon, But, to his annoyance, when the gentlemen went into the drawing-room mean! yy took tho old eolonist off to sie a, dy, where he sat with him the | hung ike ry Dr ay aye vitowhole evening talising over old times, roa’ quietly and Fitegerald found Madge seated at t Jano in the drawing-room playing one lendelasohn’s songs without wonts, “What a dlemal thing that is.you are Us sooeplaying, Madge,” he said, lightly, as ) he sank Into a seat beside her. “It Is "more like a funeral: march than any- thing else.” ae! “Gad! so It te," sald-Fellx, who came «ope Wp, ati this moment. "I don’t care my- melt about ‘Op. $4 and all that classical humbug. Give me something light~ Belle Helene,’ with Bmoelle Melville, and all that sort of thing.” “Felix!” said his wife, in a stern tone, ‘My dear,” he answered lessly; s\womerdered. bold by the cha: he had motaken, “you! observed''—— sav “Nothing partiotlar,” answered Mrs, vor Rolleston, glancing at him with a stony sureye, “except that I think Offenbach 1 how.'" "IE don't," sald Felix, sitting down to svoithe plano, from which Madge had just bap ria nd, to prove he aln’t, here i sgoes. "He ran his fingers lightly over the e--Keys and dashed Into a brilliant Offen- bach galop, which had the’ effect of faking up the people in the drawing- room, who felt sleepy after dinner, and gent the blood tingling through thelr veins, When’ they wore thoroughly oused Felix, now that he had an ap- a spreciatlye Budlence—for he: was by no ,@means an individual who believed In pagrasting his sweetness on the desert air prepared to amuse them, “You haven't heard thg last new song 19 py Frostl, have you?" asked, after fhe had brought his galop to a conclu- ° gion, "i" "Ts that the composer of ‘Inasmuch’ ® @ad ‘How 80?" asked Julia, clasping eOher hands, "I do love his music and jocthe words are so sweetly pretty, oy 'Frighttully stupid, ehe means," whis- pered Peterson to Brian, "They've no hore meaning in them than the ttles,” dee“Sing us the new song, Fellx."’ com- wt Mmanded his wife, and her obedient hus- lend ubeyed her, #e' Tt was entitled, “Somowhere,” words by Vashtl, music by Paola Froati, and raordinary com- fons wi y meah anything— fa, Ie the meaning can be discoy- |, Felix had a pleasant voice, though fag not very. strong, and the music vas protty. while the words Wore mya> @ ical, The first verse was as follows: conde Ping cloud, a breaking wave, foint Nght’ In a moonless sky; oils vole” thal trom the: alten rave Sounds sad In-ane long, bitter ery, inthe aan bere th afnati house “Bo You don't Delieve in re's a Banshee in o1 ald, onae, with & gey ami supposed to cheer our deat! her howlings; 13: are no whos 4 hyd of @ raising, The ghost: filer the ghosts of Peed roe what nay have wind sent an eerie rus! sult leaves of th walked back in 6! magn nce to the te future seemed Bo bright and than on the crowded tand, ‘Was not the sea Made for the free— learn ‘that when with @ fair blue Pucitlc waters And tien ithey would go young bride, himself about the crime of No! himself, “her father’ Wag one 0! his horse into a canter, “It no difference to me so long present like a heaven help me!’ eleton at t wPaltine mn sas amevwhera, love, som he scoond verse was very similar to tho frst, and when Felix finished a murmur of applause broke from every ‘AN Low lawestly. eo netty," slmhe Lisi NA ay in ih f i pha oa ol “But what Js its meaning?” egfBTian, rather bewlldered, xf mM tlt hasn't got one," ““Somplacently, "Surely you don’t want iywvery song to have, a moral, like a book of ‘Aesop's Fables?’ Brian shrugged his shoulders, and “turned away with Madge, “LE must say 1 agree with Fitzgerald," with the blood throbbing Jn pale moon shining down on asked replied Felix, in the mooulight; then again sraany plain, dotted here and the b vied Household Hints, Where’ to look For a cook Is a good thing to know hwhen you simply must have one right soon, ott on the tale and a ‘3 and. newspapers, unr 90 a8 to read | "Always a reapo lay, Disraeli, | Don't get mad— Try an ad, Among Morning World Wants And your troubles will end before noon, ‘ THIS STATEMENT {s based upon the experiences of the Housewives and Restaurateurs who found cooks last week through Morning World Wants, ter reading half a p other Aiken ones, but Calton, \gonsatlon 0 jcapltal letter Ks it ure, (es a of Whyte's murder, was in danger o} to MORAY napa (ta a ik nah Bia e sp bee fa done able Invitation of. Mr. Brian refused to stay at Yabba Yallook that night, and ‘after: sayin; food-by to Madge, mounted his hi Oh, yes! they would live on ‘the ocean, and shé would find how muoh pleas- antor it was on the restless waters, with thelr solemn sense of mystery, of a Hanson Cab ie maried away Tm fe i uF heunted ghost? our family,” as I've never seen the ma myvelf, I’m afraid ahe's a Mrs, amily, Tb q Pbalarer pH rer aid Tela is answered ight touch Sued ‘hm and a faint h the Ha aard house, they OHAPTER XXVIII. Brian Receives a Letter, Neste ovation ‘the | hospit- Frettloy, light, He felt very happy, ang lott the reins Moon his horge's neck, he gave himself. up.unreservellly to his thoughts, Atra Cura certainly. did not sit behind ‘the horseman on this night; and Brian, to his eurprise, found him- self singing "Kitty of Coleraine” as he rode along jn the allver mgonlight, And was he not right to sing when the pleasant? ( Land for courts and slaves alone? Moore wus perfectly right, She would wind and all sal set they were flying over the home to Treland to the ancestral home of the Witageralds, where he would lead her in Under the arch with “Cead mille faithe”’ on it and every one would bless the fair Why should he trouble another? He had made a resolve and In- tended to keep it; he would put this Secret with which he had been iptrusted behind his back, and would about the world with Madge end—hor father, He felt a sudden chill come over him as he murmured the last words to wander "I'm a fool,” he sald impatiently ag he gathered up the reins and spurred can make as Madgo remains ignorant; but to sit beside him, to eat with him, to have him always @ feast—\ Hoe urged his horse into a gallop, and 1 know not. sweet, where you may stand, 7 + va Aa it thd golden al ‘ bel iad ee) ne a turf, with the suck tS know Twill touch your han reah, ool night wind blowing kcenl, And kiss your Ups. a0 = soy TARA Behe agulnsb his face, he felt @ sense of re- Nef, ai though he were leaving somo darit spectre behind. On he. galloped, his young velns, over miles of plain, with the dark blue, star-studded sky above and the him; past a silent shepherd's hut which stood near a wide creek; splashing through the ovol water which wound \}: the dark plain lke @ thread « eh allver tho wide, there wiih clumps of shadowy trees, and on side he could see the sheep sour- wald the doctor, quickly. “I Uke a gon With some’ meaning In If The oowry Tee i URtaL apectres. on OF the one ou sane I a4 mystica) as 0 and'he see ‘the Barciike it nt growning: it hout any of his genius shining bi! Ipbtly In: tho distance; ‘ Nene ee uPhtistino! . /avenue of tall trees, over wh 4 janes HS murmured Pellx, under | ing shadows hig hore thundered and | waannannnen then the wide, Biassy space In fromt at se, with the clamorous barking: 6 Jof dogs. ‘A groom, roused by the clace . der of hoofs up the avenue, comes round iH the site of the house, and Brian leaps: Ss horew aid, liking the reins io Walks into bis own room, he finds @ lighted lamp, brandy packer of dic ting his n the sofa, ay neu the window a the wool breeze, hen mixing tor himself a giuss of v sn Cy soda he turned up the lamp ‘ed his letters, Brian's correspondence did but notwithstanding this, af- page of small tal and scandal, he flung the letter on the table with an impatient Siacuiation, The rats, prinolpally business roved to be from Lat teeta Id opaned it with a Le Calton was a and his epiatlos {had done much. to cheer Bitawerald in the dismal period which succeeded his when he ting into @ morbi Wate ot mind, Bean. th herefore, ol his cate and soda, and eae re = | Carrie” Writ Shirt-Waist Suit lines it may be worn for utility wear and would look “BEAUTIFUL BENNY,” of Police that jhe Will Kl! Herself 1f You Don't, Chief of Police, Murphy, ens to kill herself if her "Beautiful Bonny:" “My Dear Chief: Please hel my sweetheart, Benny F. Blaif. last week and the acts me; saying he Hous eta in time beak aie gle T have mot seen 1 go every ni al vabout’t the “at for for him, ‘Stern To-morrow an 3,800 vas, {ee Deine shades and black, IMPORTED CRUSHED ROSES, 6x in a bunch, im all desirable colors, Flowers, suitable for Women’s and 16 and 18 inches long, Special 9 by 12 feet, in Oriental Designs, Also an Exclusive For a Young Girl. HD illustration hows a natty suit made in shirt-walst, fashion, ad- mirably adepted to the young cirl in’ Her teens, Cut in very simple very pietty YOU MUST RETURNI| 8. Jersey City’s Chicr of Jersey | City, received the following letter to- day from 4% young woman who threat- doea not find wen: to the Bion" iat with him one night @ lett him it searching Tt love him iva wo would Nfe for him. He has vten tld a me that Dress Goods DOUBLE WIDTH DOTTED WOOL BATISTES, 3,400 Ydo, J £t shist waist snite and children’s bg , ©) in Navy and Gobelin Blue, Brown, Cardinal, Old Rose, Hellotrope Tad Block ‘PRINTED CHALLIES, in Polka Dots and on light and dark eabare hs tat desirable Millinery Novelties IN FLOWER HATS, MONTURES, FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE, FANCY AND OSTRICH FEATHERS, To-morrow, Sale of WREATHS, of Roses, Bluettes, Po; opps and ane Field ildren's Hats, EXTRA QUALITY WHITE OSTRICH PLUMES, Axminster Rugs Also AMERICAN FIBER and KISHMIR RUGS, CHINA and JAPAN MATTING, WILTON, AXMINSTER, SAXONY, eRUceeLS and SMYRNA RUGS, at MODERATE PRIcE: AAI EAA tb RR Women’s Shoes Complete assortments in CORRECT STYLES for SPRING WEAR, WALKING PUMPS, GIBSON and OXFORD TIES, in Black (Russla Calf and Kid, Patent Leather, White Buck and Canvas, ne, West Twenty-third Street * Daily Fashions made up in any of the new woollens or waidh, fabiics, ‘The wulst ia tucked and has a plain bishop sleeve and the japed by woven go) The pattern gives the entire costume. Quantity of material required for mo- dium ize, 58-4 yards, 82 Inches wide. Evening World Pattern No. %#18—B ia 10 cents, (See coupon.) WOMB. ..22. 2. coc ecceeccccccsscccsccce Taclosed find~...cccccce..conts ts payment for Evening World pattern Evening World Fashion Coupon. ‘To CASHIER of BVENING WORLD. HHBB. . cece ccccccenccce TRMC. weecccccccccees y he ecame a woman he would ary me. Now I would like to marry 2 aia otha Seay mny and would mi cl y Bey Agha al, 1 wolee pee pene. Bu Bat this not show Benny ts a ole 6 feat if Sage tet has witiful blue eyes, town ee sad rosy cheeks. Ail the girls love im. I must see him soon, Chief, or I fell sch mysett cARRin.” CASTORIA Told You Avg bait oy of h to}, Brothers unusual offering of 43 35° 85c $1.25, 1.50 $2.50, 3.25 Values in ‘ $19.50 Value $26,50 and Tan Novelty ‘Toga Ties» AMUSEMENTS, INBLAND'S OWN BAN with Kelly ‘Trio, Miss aiken rat hI | &o, (from Lows £ 8} tony, Bitte Ry, Fred H Co., Moo) ore. & ilttleriela He Sioson. & mer ‘Tenley, Roberts, & Roberts, Marguerite & F Shangapaor, Barrett oy, Countias, Thomas’ & Attraction, st phe Wife," 20, orthern Lan. 5 Osta aren! ina! H. Woodrust, Vv The Musical EDE y WOMLD LN WAX, OINBMATO MU AER Pree. Renee RAPH, ( “PROCTOR’S BIG FOUR. owell, founey, ispps & & Vaud, wnt ane 3 etree Others lew Groups, J Jassnurulan YT al ae To. Fai Pho, iueiks Eeegawy ah AMUSEMENTS, HAMMERSTEIN'S ¢ Mn Tho Matinee vy me at “ 6, Fatire bye Hyonina th lerbert Woodland Ae Kort Le 4, 88, ii 15, Mat ve HOO Nao rat ee rh bet, a Lex, Av, & 107th, Mat, Wed, & bth a Sek ae ASW BtMon Bt.&Lex. ay, Mat. 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