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spend too much | “He said | UGUST BELMONT hit the magk when he sald wom money on dress,” sald Mr. Jarr, looking up from bis paper. that If they mado a little more sacrifice’ —— “Never mind what he sald,” replied Mra. Jarr, “I. read someting about it Betore, and he's like all the reat of the men—they are always sooldink abeslt 6s ow extravagant women are! Does he go shabby? What are his taflor’s | bill ‘Ah, but he can afford it!’ sald Mr. Jarr. ‘ That's: Just the point: I wae going to make," sald Mrs. Jerr. “He can pride, too, Toore extravagant,» Poor people have thelr They all give advice, and that's all they do give ine I what he. said," asserted afford it. #o he Isn't millionaires all talk alike. “gull, there wan a great deal of » Yarr,. “He said if the women gaye @ little more to the ch atead and ppent jess on dress ‘and trips, decent salary to {1s pastor." and old Rockefeller ts alway per, and how ‘can people—poor péople—save any m Millionaires get 1t all? I read’ about young Mr. class to ask help from no man—that's'to keep them from asking help f bim—but to work and strive and not to be discouraged. Talk's cheap, that's why millionaires part with {t so ea ‘ ‘41 yaid—Mr. Belmont I mean," continued Mr. Jarr, “that If the preacher who eloped from Hempstead with the heiresa had receiveed a living salary and not got in'debt and discouraged he might have remained a good man, “Oh, always some excuse for the nan! sald Mra. Jarr, sharply. “but none | for the woman! The women are extravagant, he says, They didn't pay the} preacher, Why didn't the men‘pay. the preacher? Why dicn't he pay th> preacher? I notice those millionaires are always the ones whe are trying to get other people to pay for things even in church. J, P. Morgan takes up the collection In his church, Andrew Carnegie makes a big fuss about giving money to libraries, but he wort give any unless other people pay part, and ol4 Mr. Nockefeller is just as. bad, and now this Mr, Belmont talks in the same style!’ “hey ‘all do give. They are very charitable, and If they give with thoir means we should ive with ours—tn proportion, I mean,” said Mr. Jerr. “Do you give your proportion?’ asked Mrs, Jarr. “Why, I can't «et you to G0 10 churoh even, and I think you should seta better exmple to your children Mr hurch down at! Hemp- the church would be ablé to pay # telling peaple to save money and. pros: ohuy when he and the other Rockefeller telling Aix Bible re andj anata Fy RE rere pT *t the question we are discussing at all!’ sald Mr. Jarr. “Oh, yes, It 1s," replied hia wife warmly, “Oh, yes, It ia! Mut even at church you men want to blaine things on women! You would be the firat person to object if I didn’t look woll dressed when we went out anyw even to church, and yet If it wasn't that I take good care of the few dresses I have and fix over my things and trim my own hats half the time, I'd be a pretty aight." “Do I dress like Berry Wall?” asked Mr. Jarr. 8S ot dsens well enough maid Mrs dark and when your_clothes Ket worn @o you have them made over and put on new trimmings, do you Mx over your olf hats like I do? No, you get now things, all new!" “y got my straw hat cleaned the other day. I didn't «et a new one, aid 17" growled Mr. Jarr. “Did Mr. Belmont advise you to do tha?’ asked Mra, Jerr. “I'll wager, too, that Mrs, Belmont has plenty of good clothes! Why should tt be poor people that are always expected to make sacrifices? Let the rich set the example. ‘They can| very well spore what thcy give. They can't begin to spend their money, and yet they are always calling on peop! who find !t hard enough as it is to live on the Aittle money they earn, to give, to make sacrific “There's something In that, fd Mr. Jarr, “Tn looked at Jt that way!’ “Of course you didn’t. All Mr. Belmont had to was something sneering about the women trying to look nice one day in the week and hundreds of men as allly as yourself were quick to agree with him!” : ‘Oh, come now, It's not wo bad as that!’ said Mr. Jarr. “Let the mil!ionafres mind thelr own business, sald Mrs. Jarr. ‘They don't have to worry about how they'll pay the butcher and the grocer. In fact, they let! their bill run so long that the tradesmen grow almost frantic. I've had them tell] me so. But we poor people have't. pay promptly, and when we do scrimp and: wave and get enough to buy a dress to look respectable on Sunday we are called | extravagrant. It maker me sick.” g "You are not Interosted In what millionaires my, then?’ “1 am not!" replied Mrs. Jarr emphatically. please: oe sald Mr. Jarr. "Lat me look at the paper, A July 22; 1907. orem pene mnemenigoctss NOTinC Lint One OF THe s@ manor: I. & HAPPY, = Howe SR cy To WIPEYLL BE TICKLED DEATH WiTH Monday, | By Gene Carr’ 7 ANOTHER Tine iE WiNDow'p, BE OPEN! iad Health and Beauty. By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. The Result of Worry. stated many M + times before in there columns, nothing will ar- rest the Inroad of sray hairs once they have got a good start. Bcalp massage and ton- tse rouge must do, it will wash off. as it very properly #hould, and not re- main to clog and enlarge the pores. A strawberry tint for the cheeks {s harm- Jess and imperceptible. Make It after this recipe: Fresh ripe strawberries, 3 quarts; distilled water, 1 pint. Place in @ fruit Jar, and set the Jer in a gauce- Dan of water over a alow fire. Lec the water almmer for two hours. Strain through a fine hair steve “When cold, 44d pure alcohol, 12 ounces; best Rus- E.C—As tes occasjonally| ™20 Isinglass (Uissolved), 30 grains; will restore the |PUr® Carmine, frat éisaolved in the al- color — bat not oft sak 15_xraine; otto of roses t drope+ oll of neroli, 2 drapa; ofl of cedrat, 6 ten. If it depresses drops, Keep closely stoppered in a dark Place: Apply to the cheeks with abit of absorbent cotton. ——_____ ‘ . A “Tipping” Story, RS—POTTER PALMER told an amusing story about country house ping, according to t Enautrer, pereurale "You know," 3 ‘ cure a bunlon. The toe must .de | these tips are, mamuannrees eaten sprung back Into joint and neia|be remembered, how, indeed. some nent fh place by: @ stout bandage of -sur-|Ple are obliged ¢o refuse to vinlt lacne eon's plaster, and & broad fiat shon|country houses because they can't a whould be worn afterward. The moment | ford the expense, a & shor that {x too ahort or that has a| “Well, there Is a story in this jine “badly made heel Ie worn, the Joint Ix/SUOUt the famous Jonas Hanaway, Pushed out of pince again and the| “Aa Hanaway was leaving the country Srouble returfias house of a duke a string of servants walted waylay him. As to Rouge. Hae PACE atts coerce AITTLE ROSE.—I know of no rouge,| “And Hanaway put on the overcoat harmteas or otherwine, which and’ gave the man a sovereign need only be appliod once a week.| ‘Your umbrelia,” mild another, Mo prettiest red cheeks I know of are| “And taking the umbrella, Hanaway the direct result of good health and a [#Utendered another soverel Hee acta taipcntst ayslenetid esas [Us CURR ate cise and wholesome food are what you| «gir, your gloves need. Here 2 a rouge formula, but Why, friend,’ sald Hanaway, ‘you when you scrub your face with the!may gloves. They ara complexion brush, wtilch all people who | worth a sovereign.’ — hk The Newlyweds’ Baby Captures Paris. you very much I would advise you to have It dyed; but _{f you prefer to make a fight for It, try this restorer with thorough scalp mas- Citrate of tron, 2 drama; nux ___yomlca._2_“Mrams>__cocoanut —oll_11-27_ Ounces; bay rum, 2 ouunces, Bunions, le 8.—No outalde application will . Sa: HIS ST wun OwN HOUSE! ——.—— (By Perniission of George Munro's Sons.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | ‘The Hon. Bertle Cecil, of the Firat Lite Guaris, second son of Viscount Hoyaliled, b ng man of fashion. goink the Stttnne ot the most axclinive sclal set \° ¢ 7 dist fest one. Strikingly Ha, Romans, fitan immense favorite. with both men and women. Spending i king. Ms penniless. he ba: led uD h iy with a countess, known as LAdy Clenavere. His younmer brother, lates, a4 ‘end appeals to Bertic for ald. The fatter te too poor to help him, Serkeley suggests that bis brother ask the latter¢ sham. Lord. Rockingham (known as “The Beraph"), Bertle refuses con Gosnexere ape! & 7 for money, Heel and Tunawey accident, and are A formers pluck. Cecll goes to there the crisis in his finances “s penniless. Little Lady . of, Rockingham, tries to console J) mlefortune, HAPTER ——reontnaed + The Debt. ETITE REINE stood by him allent. P Her Groud, Imperint younc lady ship had a yery tender heart, and ashe was very sorry. , She had understood What had been sald before her of him vaguely Indeed, and with no of Its cee ineaning. yet. still, with the aulck perception of @ brilliant and netted chi (ooking xt ter -he-raw wilt astonish: ment that her eyes were filled with tears, He put out his hand and drew her to him. “hy, lttle one? what you you know of these things?” How did you find me Tre “C he Nie tt end,-lfting her face to hia, earnent, be: seoching and very eager. I came—I came—ploase don't be an- agry—because I heard them say you had no money, and I want you to take mine. Do take {t. Look, it ts all bright gold, and {t Js my own, my very own. Papa given It to me to do just what I Tike with. Do take It; pray do! Coloring deeply, for tho Petite Reine had that true Instinct of generous na- Les nouveaux Maries et leur Petit Ange sore Nove avons Fnonnear of te plaisir de prébenter ‘ux lecteure de NOS LOISIRS: Monstour ot Mede- ime Nouvemarié et lear petit ange. Ce dernier ent dg de ctx mots 0 peine, mats I! seat déja le place HE ‘Paris paper Nos Lotsira compltinenta Artist George McManus by pub- yoni I never want the money, Take it. please take It; and If you will only let_me ask papa or Rock they will give you pounds if that ian't enough? do tet me™ re drew her to him; woice_ahook ever felt his striving “Petite Reine, how some man will love you one day! Thank you from my heart, iny Ilttle Innocent friend.” most sensitive delicacy for But growing ardent in her el0- quence and imploring in her entreaty, ashe shook on to Cecil's knee out of a ttle enamel bright napoleons—#s0—that fell in a gilt tering shower on the gras. He ptarted, and, looked at her tn a st- lence that she mistook for offense. She leaned nearer, eltement, gleaming and malting with passionate entreat “Don't be angry; pray take It: It Is sweetmeat box twenty hér ex eyes pole now with and with her large my own, and you know I have bon- and books, and playthings. and and dogs till 1 am tired of them; Indeed I don't thousands and thousands of ecll. In sllence still, staoped —an® when he spoke his no slightly, and he ea dim with an emotion that had not known in all his careless the child's words and action touched him deeply, the caressing gen- erous innocence of the offered gift be- wide hopeless smote hint with wa keen pang, yet moved the enormpus extravagance and hankruptoy of his career, with & strange pleasure Patite Reine,” he murmured gently, vainly for his old lightness. out hera? Mer face flushed with giadnens; she She bent nearer to him. swaying her! ginjied with all a child's unshadowed slender figure with its brightest gossa-| 5, mer muslins, lke a dainty haredell/° 443) then you will take It? and if Votre More only etme oak them for It; papa and Philip never refuse me anything!”’ His hand wandered gently shower of her halr, as he put back the Napoleons that he had gathered up Into her azure bonbofiniere, “Petlte Reine, but child, and my sake from your over the you are a little angel. I cannot take your money, my you must ask for none for father or from anticipation a old Atlas, 5 : Highly impractical moral: Anticipate always; precipitate never, Hi not to ponsummate, ‘Twill improve ‘while you walt!!— ‘Bpectally true of = kina [ Mehing the accompanying reproduction of “The Newlyywedu—Their Baby" under the title of "The New-Marrled and Thely Little Ang The paper Aedertbes McManus as ‘one of the funniest artiste of the age,” Nos Loisira however, alters the Baby's brilliant remarks of “Da—Da—De-—-Dal” to read: ‘Tam tap Wtthe Angel. When I cry you oan eee my tooth” | j “The Newtywets—Thelr Baby,” i ty announced, will eppess weekly in Noa! “pistes, ay Se Mahesh betty tare eve « pho Pate tts ahs ‘eanibeabigetn ' ipo halt mata Does He Love Her? Dear Betty: AM «@ young Girl of twenty and oon-|had a nici married." other girl, A week ago when out | sere reenger, Aint « rar see « man of twenty-six called at my to pee eiy brother, From hie at- my WHEN SLOW HASTE 1S BEST. HERW is frequently as much difference between and reality as there Ja between a brilllantly Mghted batlroom and “the cold, gray Cawn of the morning after,” or between lovemaking in .the moonlight ‘and the bulld the Kitchen fire In the Gamp dawn? or the before |ward in his soctet: and after siab of the moth who has sought the fame. | courting. The moon in the sky is a much more enchanting proposition than If you actually lad it to hold in your arms; for you would then be Y practical problem Who shall burdened with woe Alwaya anticipate, WUlo!-the-wisp love. Never precipitate Lost-In-a-mist lov ‘| ‘This le the true path to bd! Happiness always al Haste theq then not, child. Calm down your thought. child, No causs to wish you were dead. tention to me I think he cares for me. Every time I see him he saya, “It I @ young git) I would get He doesn't say this an eister I mot him and be escorted GENTS ® nder Two Flags. Rock. Do not look so grieved, little ‘one; I Jove you none the less because I refuse ft." Petite Reine's face was very pale and grave; a delicate face, in its miniature feminine childhood: almost absurdly Mke the Serap! her eyes were full of plaintive wonder and of pathetic re- proach. “An whe sald, drooping her head with a sigh, “It {2 no goad to vou be- cause jt-ls sucha little; do let_me ask ‘tor more!” He smiled, but the smile was very weary, 9. fear. yoy must not ask _for more; I have been very foolish, my lit- tle friend, and I must take the frults of my folly; all men must. I can ac- cept no one’s money, not even yours: when you are older and remember this you-witt-know -—why>but-f-de-not-thank you-the lees from my_heart— She looked at him pained and w ful. "You will nol take anything, Mr. Cecil?" she asked with a sigh, elancing at her rejected napoleons. He drew the ename’ away, “1 will keep that if you will give it] me, Petite Reine, and keep it in mem- ory oF you. oe = ‘As he poke he stooped and Kiased ber very gently; the act had moved fim more deeply than he thought he had it in him 40 be moved by” anything, and the child's face turned upward to him was of @ very perfect and artatocratic int- “bonbonniere Joveliness far beyond her years. She colored ag his Ips touched hers, and swayed slightly from him. She was an extremely proud young sovereign, and never allowed Catensesy yer sire tingered by him, grave, with something intensely tender and pitiful in the musing jook of eyes. She had a perception that thia calamity which emote him was one far beyond the ministering of her know! edge. He took the pretty Palais Royal gold: WO of’ my friends wer discussing the younger oti ‘s engagement the other evening. S i A rybody will think'!—— began the elder. yboily? anked the other. “All there is to ft in what John and f think The real trick was to find that out. Now we know, and there's going to be a cweddlng.” Few. giris have such Courage of thelr convicttons. for that mattey what others think With a boy It lx different. Tom, from the first, Js’ more interested In being pleased than in pleasing, He peers out upon lite from bis own corner, pro= nouncing. sentence upon ail now comers. His convictions .are .mwift an sure. Ho Is uncompromisingly himself, One must take him or leave him for what he Is. . ‘ : Few girjs-have convictions, From babyhood most of them are concerned principally about But here ts a typieal girl's listory—a Ife arranged entirely according to what people will think: At flye, apeaking pleces Zor Unelé Henry, Intoxicated, byhis approbation or cast into the depths by hie jndifference. At. fifteen, choosing the — Job’ wileh will be considered mont Indyiike hy ter net, devoting her spare hours to dressing like everybody else, with short sleeved shirtwaist, ‘Maring skirts and plaid hair ribbona—to wear a fat Upping down when everybody wears hats tipping up, ts’ martyrdom, At elghtoen, ‘trying to please gentlemen. epllers, corresponding with newapnper authorities to learn whether a girl's manner should be quiet or I y K Girl's Life Story. At twenty-two, elther she Js marrying becanse people say she migit be an old maid, or else refusing to marry because the girls think her sweetheart’ collar ts too low or do not Ike the cut of, his coat. At thirty, going Into mourn- ing for mother-in-law because there will be comment if she does not. At forty, : dyeing her gray hair so that no-one will know she ix growing old. At sixty Advising her granddaughters to do thus or so ‘because everybody else studies munte, or-whiat not = > From the cradle to te grave ahMassumes nome role, posing before the foot- , lights for public approbation, foollahly imagining that all opera glasses are turned upon her silly performance. Probably she never feels a real conviction of her own, never forma her own conceptions of the plot of her Ife. The Beauty of Independence. Many of us, when alone, think our own thoughts, but at the firt encounter with a contrary public option they are, routed ignominiously. The great woman ix she who “In the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the Inde- pendence of solitude." Most of us wear masks until in time, behind them, our very souls Jose thelr tdenuty. Most of us conform to, eax we tmagine others have. What will people think If we do not attend church or visit our second , uxins? What will they think If we contradict jto-day what we sald yesterday? 4 If we are Inconsistent shall we hold the admiration of our nelghbors? 4 Why should we not rather say with Shakespeare: “I had as lef not be, as lye to be In awe of such a thing as myself’? Why not seck to stand In favor with ourselves? With oursalyes we must always live, for_better or for worse. a “Who Is ‘ Everybody #’’ : ( The desire of the American girl to please people comes doubtless from & social instinct, and consideration of the opinions of others is not in itself a sign of weaknes! 2 < But ‘Who ts everybody?" as my happy little engaged friend asked. child's gift, a tiny Paris toy; but It had been brought to him in a tender com- Passion, und he did keep it; kept it through dark days and wild nights, through the scorch of the desert and the shadows of death, till the young eyes that questioned him now with such innocent wonder had gained the grander lustre of thelr womanhood and bad brought him a grief wider than he knew now. AL that beside him under the drooping a\ moment, “ax the child stood mn boughs, with the greev sloping lower valley ‘ween at giitipwex through the wall of leaves, one of the men of the Stephanien approwhed him with an English ch, as It was marke. “Inatant,’ had Jald apart from the rest of visitors’ pile of corr spondence; {1 took It wearily—nott ing but fresh - embar aments could come to him from Engiand—and looke at the little Lady Von "You wili allow meT She bowed her graceful hea all the nalve unoonaciousnees of wiio--had--ai} mei: togetiher—they made her emciante tie broke the envelope and ad: blurred, scrawled, miserable Jetler—the Words erased with passionate strokes And blotted with hot tears, and scored Out In impulsive misery, from Berkeley, hin brother, telling of a fearfut step to’ which need of, funda had at length Ought the lad’ ‘It was long. yet at & ANce he wcanned ite message and ‘Ite ning; at the first few words he with child, m now its whole as well ax though he Tad studied every line. AW strong tremor hook. hin from. head to foot, a tremor at once of px slonate rage and of as, parslonate pair his face blanched to a deadly white Ness; his teeth clinched as though he Was restraining some bodily © suffering and he tore the letter in two ar stamped It down Into the turf under iis heel, with a gesture os unilko his common Kerenity of manner as the fiery passion that darkened In hin eyes wan unlike the habitual softness of bis too plant and too unresenttul temper. He Eruished the senseless paper again and KEKTH OWR THIS TE RTARR DeNeAtt “hte heel; hin lips #hook under the ‘silky abundance of his beard: the -natural habit of lone ustee kept him from all en in the violence of litterance, ahd e Its shock he remembered the young Venetia’a presence: but. in that’ one fleree, unrestrained _geature, the shams and suffering upon him broke sout de epite himaelf rimmed mweetmeat box, and slipped It into hia walntcoat pocket; It was only a me home and let my sister go with Ee brother. He told me many thing! |in confidence, which he said he would not tell any >t can be trusted. Do you think he cares for me? Fr. M. | It looks that way, but do not be for-) Let him do the Shall She Write First? | Dear Betty: man of love with a young my own age (19), I love him dearly and I feel that he loves me. He 18 Kindly advise me whether or walt MR. It ts 8 AM in | | in Europe. {1 should write a letter to him until he writes to me, Welt until ho writes to you. man’s privilege to write frat. He Lost His Fob. HAVE kept company with a young lady for the past nine months. 1 have made a good salary, but now Iam out of work and cannet treat her her girl, as he knows 1| "The child watched him, startle’ and awed, She touched his hend xoftly. “What fe [tls ft anything worse as I haye done before, I dA not know what to do, Please advise ne. WW. Vv. Go right on loving her and hustle for another Job. If she is worth winning | sho will not throw you over at a time then you most need her sympathy and | friendline: . To Call on His Parents. Dear Metta; ii AST summer I met a young lady In a park by catching her by the arm and holding her so she could not get away, Afterward 1’ took her home and made an engagement with her fo call, and wince then I have been keep- jing company with her and haye found | Jer to ‘be a straightforward young liady. She haa a nice father. Her mdth~ jer ts not ving. Js it right for her to |keep steady company. with me, and would it be right for me to take her to pee my parents, as my employment) iienty will be devouring her with his eyes. causes me to live away from hornet A. B.C. right. By all’ Cort ft weuld be means 40 90. <> By Ouida <p» Ue manner of lie vinlic | When all is sald, when the wisdom of othera has been fully weighed. the “real trick,’’ she sees, Ia to fd out what one thinks one’s self, and to shape one's Iife In harmony with that conviction. Sg EE GES The Champion Glutton. DEWSBURY (England) champion glutton has been beaten by a big black» A pudding, He matched himself to consume it in a given time, but failed. ‘The pudding wae three yards long and was served hot, He consumed two yards, but the last yard wi too much for him. last month? eyes on her with a dry, The Seraph booked surprised and re- He turned hi uish in them; be was hot, weary any Acarorly” consclous what he #Kld oF {Rested a moment what he answered. “No, I didn’t," he sald, after a pause: : MAvornetworner! he repented, me-| "I have done it for men, but-not_ om 4 chanieally, While his heel tM ground | that day; I was shooting at Hornsey down in loathing the shattered paper | Wood moat of it, if I remember right. into the grass. There can be nothing | Why do you ask?” } : | It tw the vilest, Dblackest | +7 wii! tell you, my lord, If you grant > ana ares aa i mea private In vie i Sho linge! wistfully; she did not tep yonder,” the Seraph said curtly, Ike to | him. signing ‘the wsurer toward the grand-| with you,” mhe pleaded, You are vexed at son thing; I cannot help you, but Kock w -Uie Duke will, Do let me ask them He-lald his hand onher shoulder; hin volce, as he answered, was jroarse and stalronse. Moow) thins) pareon te 15y) jaxia. Closeted in Rockingham’ the Marquis, Baront bega “{ogreatty regret to be the messenger’ of such an errand. This bill, which in a aresstngly. study, with inkteadly g natea ly. dear. You wil please me| Moment I will have the honor of show- vest by" leaving ie Drone—tell | 28 You, wan transacted by my house (Iam one of the partners of a London tite allent, can trist you to discountine firm), indorsed thus by your on it, the bli! was made paynabls at two months’ date, it was understood that You accepted it, there could be no rine She Kave gave him a jong, sarnéaty” Kk. she answered, simply rae le! whos sccep! with such @ signature as yours. The vill Yemeni ebareliwegine was negotiated. I was in Leyden, Lu- = ‘That hight when Eara Baronl defer-| eck and other places at the period. I Appronehed-the Seraph “the | heard nothiag of the matter, When § returned-ie-Lemion-a-ittie-tess than ® week ago, I saw the signature for the firat time. 1 was at once aware that it was not yours, forI-had some paid.bilis, signed by you. at hand, with which entinthy: Most-Nobte-te Marrriit of Rosin Rian T think! the Seraph, instead of leaving the stranger there dlscomfited, nodded and paused with his Inconsequent good nature, thinking how mutch leas bosh tt would be If everybody could cal} him |compared it, Of course, my only remedy like hie. family and his comrades, | Was to seek you out, althoughid’ was -« ee oe | nearly certain before’ your present de: that the bill was a forgery.’ No more words! Lay the bill Raront—-bowed-and-emoethed-out upon the console. the crumpled document, holding Jt with one hand, yet leaving visible with the counterfelted signature one vther, the name of the forger, im whose favorthe bil was draws. That other signature was—Bertie- Coat}, —— ‘The Seraph rang: his own servant an- |awered the summons. | ''Go.to the Stephanion and inquire for Mr, Cell, Be quick, and request him, wherever he be. to be 30 good as to come to me instantly—here,”* ‘The scrvyant bowed and ‘withdrew; «= perfect silence followed between these | two 40 strangely: axsorted companions, | (To Re Continued.) “Would you, my tord,” continued the usurer with his strong accent, “be x0 good as to favor me by saying whether thin algnature be your own?" The man held before him a folded paper. so folded that one Hine only w visible, across which was dashed in ait characters Rockingham: Seraph put up his eyeglass, stooped and took a ateadfaat look, then shook hin head. “No; that ts not mine; least, 1 think not. Never made my Ro halt a} quarter #0 well In my lif “Many thanks, my lord,” sald Baroni quietly. “Cre. question more and we can substantiate the fact. Did @ your lordship Indorse any bill on the 15th of ther at rt eis ent admirers #0 Simpkins arranged the portralin 0: ner Gaugniel > ent ae air creature, Miss Gladys intends to » that her knights may ait photos each of het Mrs. that none could feast his eyes upon the f make another arrangement of the group #0 azo upon her. In Misa Gind rearrangement of the ts and arrange them in the equare frame Miss Stmpkinet given jm te-morrow's Bening Wore, idef Can you out out the nine portral eo thet alf eyes will be turned ppon ‘The solution of this pussie will be &

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