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: least, © Certainly dra " "She is not a 2" Madge inqu then care! * "It seems almost a loss is really very ess tones. Very." "1s she--a Something i 18 not h, my dear Adrian. A with & Hite shrug' of her shoul n't drag me. ) 1 the least a nly out Woon L N 0 Ww J In" uid Drotewion were i Hota as to birthe-well, beer and candles: : orman, Re ose ar to of. 80 "She npver n' are divcinet scuss! dancing person, w| seems IE oe. | 'she I have seen Her the ot h is 1 n 0! t The light, icy in a 1 TE hy gE me and Lilith in Northumher-, Be. : < nue. a fortnight ago. "It was far r, as I instantly decided, to talk the Subject out, as ge ed an altogether wrong. idea of the ter-of 11th, ng curb on L ~*1 want to 'speak and listen 'to me?" ut, do 'pardo "With pleasure, if vou really wish it. n me for asking the question, you think it is wise?" 0 I think what {s wise?" We stood close to, othe Xr. Both, i I pretty is lady?" n Se tone vexed me great: Yo highly educated or so ou' 1% BIL I Rat ad "Will you sit down 7, I knew, excited, and beneath ou Or, Married to a Fairy. 7p, : TRL cr EE a co fils fessional 'model, ed, in lne same at a 'low-bred infatual | t for she sito ator she ogan. dai. adge: Sxciaim, nto 1 tod: nk elgh well ¢ t way f No, are they? a we 3 s prety a ace by the way, e.: jPerh CIHoALrs, - acca a seal shen ; \ 2 Eht.me that.shed (0-decelvesme?. ] 3 you fire to ton 1 people, especia evidently dear Adrian; ft Fo Tot to your about this |Plore you toibreak drag upon you lon galled you, and---- other word! and pure as you are!" "Adrian!" she cried you be so deceived? you will only break gether, facing each were pale, both I" apparently col- Sina er and:cannot forgive. Is it to prepare t t this attempt solo ensnare | angie 1 Pp & 8 sraet ni 0 nh RBRIEY 8 ur mis< n say such words to me!" "But Deing mah. #ho asl by 8 ugh Sao t u vou ear fear of your e i ) Xa an," she cried, suddenly | te 1 f Ae a see the evil, only, but for yours, that off this 3 this impudent Wind shameless vagrant. 'Buch a connection will be a: miserable & after its chains have "I won't listen to an- Lilith Baxon is" as 'good of ell; 4 to I u | her (insul a {my om, I would ne it, having firmly resol fi Soran Toy i rade contract into wi 'when 1i Thore than 'children, and a woman yy ie | That my uncle woul L| from blame wi hop id n 001 tell .* Insenaibly to. my ard, my 'fiance ha er during the past fourte {in "spite of her full and /life and her many fir noticed and resented this, But all' decep Was ove! 8. when, ts, "T had confes 'were I free, I should marry the future my wife and I itogether - with the worl against us. Up to 'thi for my gwn sak ¥ with if again, "How Ran Listen, dear; :i with 'her: n stan lected manner lay "an undercurrent of fierce excitement. x mean," she sald, looking straight nto my eyes, "if 1 ask you no questions fhout this little dancing modél person, merely request you to destroy her hotographs. and to promise me never to old any communication with her again, #nd if on my side I promise never to re- er to her, will not that be the best and wisest end to the business?" ' "No!" I exclaimed energetically, "It will not! Yon have to hear the whole truth about Lilith Saxon, and I am sorry that' you should so far misunderstand me as to suppose that it is truth of which I reason to be ashamed." "I suppose nothing," she began, and then suddenly, to 'my great astonish- ment, she broke down. 'Passionate tears strcamed down her face, and for a few seconds her frame was Shaken with sobs. But as, in be- wilderment and 'distress, I advanced 'with the idea of éonsoling her, she wav- ed me impatiently away. "I am only overtired with the jour- ney," she said; she whose flawless health and energy were proverbial. "I on't look at me while I am crying in this stupid way! 'It makes me look hide- us : x 1 retreated to the far end of the room, and pretended to be occupied wit my brushes and colors, Gradually Mfdge's quick sobe ceased, and, taking a bottle ©of eau de Cologne I fetched her from my dressing-room, she threw some of the scent on her handkerchief, and applied itto her cheeks and eyelids. Then, af-y 3 ter a prolonged powdering of her face, end arranging her hair before an an- tique mirror which hung on the wall, she went back to the armchair. 1 i t iB |e "You can go on with your story now," | celve 'her by any tale of distress ? w ~ ghe said, "if you really want to tell it. hough I warn you it is a mistake," She did not look hideous at all after her tears. She was unusually pale and & little overpowdered, but I had never Seen her look gentler or mare attractive. "It isn't a long story," I said, "but it {6 most necessary that you should know it." Last summer I went away for a few days to a place that fellow Collars told me about. I meant to stay for a week-end only, but I did not return un- til the following Wednesday. Do you remember?" +1 remember very well indeed!" "At this place, Lythinge, in Kent, near Bandhythe.'T put up at an inn, the 'Rose oe Crown," the only one in the village. t t first night I was. there there. came ihe inn a ehild called Lilith Saxon. -~ "Ac ehild 7" ® e was not quite sixteen, and look- od much younger. She was half-starved and ill-used. The landlady, Mrs. Nokes, knew all about her history, and can con- firm what I say. Horatio Saxon, the fa- ther, was a lazy, drunken brute, who had once been an unsuccessful actor. He had married a lady, the daughter of = & Lely arate, the Reverend James Prit- ohard." 1 paused, and glanced at Madge. The softened expression had left her feat- ures, and her mouth looked hard and set. "I found the ¢hild practising dancin in an empty 'room. Her mothet * ha worked hergelf' to death in 'this man Saxon's service, and her little sister Bessie, had 'dled of cold caught from singing at night in. the streets, This i Tovely. child was being dragged Ry this villages, | t t old reprobate about the marsh and made to. dance In taverns to earn ppers to keép him in beer, and tobac- co, and laziness. The child's Story touch- ed me. I got her some food, and when. after 1 supposed she had gene to bed, I strolled out to smoke and think in the moonlight by the churchyard that over: hung the marshes, Lilith crept after me to tell me that 'her-father had not re- turned. As I was leading her home, we met him. He was drunk, and tried to Air het. 1 intervened, and he turned his on to me. Hi : ful . e ri ©. struck at mre, and, - fell on a heap of stone.in Io he fall Killed him} i 5 & ds watching fie closely un- er frowning brows. She did not ap- pear in the least touched, but she never once moved her. éyes from my face as I eontinuga speaking: 1 "Can't you see 1 Jesponsible for the tra, the child-of her 'a I tho c felt in. some way gedy which rob- only. protector, vile h he wag? I 0 [0 k Then I visited her cousin, a certain John a is ot Rye * Bus SE th in CW ¥ 4 educatio has Yemained ov Bile 3 ever gince, 1 meen 'her for more. than % came across her most unex. i Heriot Suse: Shs eighteen next yea nd wil then Ving Bristol. - More than once about consulting you, as uture, on 5 Hie 'Madge's mouth g ed, hoarsely. wes you had quarreled with her, companion, me, she ree. carry her wealth amd her needy family of her grand duke; and I-- well,' I could, as I did table 'and turn over pag digious hurry to find the next train Bristol. a train in balf an suit me perféctly. bell-rope to summ my bag, night in Bristol, my fll-luck o S visit, and Mrs. Morland's earnest request that I would let her Whenever 1 purposed calling at Morland not bear as conversant with my afta' now, when I st had beén telling tale Madge I¢hurrigd.o graph office, ing message hope Morland: Studies, afternoon. ed abou land's answer should s ourney. when 1 hear and ajith at quent] ' will never reproach you; I will neve even mention her name. you you must choose between her and a. But "Madge," 1. sald, turning upon with sudden sternness, trothed, and tn six 'months you will be my wife, either before or after marriage unless you retract the accusation made against me and Lilith, "we But I feel no love are Tr I warn her be- for you 8 you have " She fell back a step, staring at me with dilated eyes. "You love her so much!" she whisper: do?" should marry Lilith." There was a long pause. T CHAPTER XVIIL 'If I set"you free--what hen she drew a quick breath that sounded like a sob; ' "You are free, Adrian she sald; 'and passed out of my presence without an- other word, At the risk of appearing a heartless I was sorry, genuin y fond of her. ng-and, when she chose, sym han I = She was both beautif or dress. and Tiendship, xceedingly kin brute, I will admit exactly what I did after the door had closed "upon Madge, and I knew myself to be a free man. ely sorry, that I 1 was extreme- I had never met nor have I encountered since, a cleverer or more charming weman, or a more amus- pathetic Few men admired her more ul and fascinating, and had an absolute genius With all that, she'was gener- ious, brave, andy unselfish; loyal in her d-heart- . although it was very difficult to de- holly genuine. of gladness and he Idea. or life," and for several years er match for her of view than I. And now we were 7 id, seiz the of And yet my feeling when she broke an engagement which had grown up with us for at least ten years was wholly one Madge, as 1 knew well, would speedily be able to console herself among well-filled ranks of her admirers. years ago, when I 'had suggested, my uncle's wish, that she should marry had been altogether opposed to She had often expressed her distaste for the notion of being "tied up not thus relief. the Five by {8 had never missed an 'opportunity of try- ing to make.me jealous of her strin, suitors, each of whom was a much of et- from a. worldly .point Madge could wit to 'the time- pro- for in It was eleven o'clock, and there was for 1 proposed n the occasion of Know in ouse. Clearly, it was not a ablishment, in spite o n the habit of visi heir homes, it 'might be as'; ti make sure that she was at Clifton before undertaking the journey, hy as 1'chafed at the delay, I could the thought of 'missing her; 80, Mauch 1 did not: wish Wrenshaw to re "From Adrian Hervey, Roo n Rivermead Street, oming Back to t impatien until peed And in little more our it came. he hurried. to e egraph store open the fateful bro ve. § » ix "Pray come to- e than vexed, Lat.onge; I was 'wes . : Mrs. Mor! lovely young e friends gen on my Tg ble en tb un row | Wit hour, which would dry hand was on the on Wrenshaw to pack to stay when 'I. remembered the my last advance too well-kept es- f Mrs, Morland's admirable manners; and sinde Li ting other pupils at lith was well to be "too fairs, especially rongly. suspested that he about Lilith the nearest tele- and despatched the follow ply: paid, to Mrs Stans to 6, The m Chelsea: Am down to see you and' L4lith, this ease reply immediately." my rooms I went, and fd t- rs. € on my | "than boy's knock, wn enfel- or- an morrow afternoon, Tal] © Iltracombe to-day. with friends, | e Stanhope ; Was. emen ws fre-| ing, and no Bae oltello Soper sh ; d. 's opiniénual point, hr Suh all my artistic career,.I had had to n+ | dure hundreds of more or less cov § sneers. concerning the influence: of ' my aristocratic connections, and my | velous luck in drawing an allowance u £ on which I could at least live in. ease and comfort, with p spect of wedding one of the wealthiest heiresses in London. : : Now, all these conditions would he changed, and in the small hours of the morning, walking restlessly up "and down my studio, I faced all this as one does face. things in'the early grayness before the dawn with cold, uphohetul mind. * It would ,be an uphill fight, no doubt; but I must throw myself into it heart and soul, for the sake of the wo- man d loved; and what more precious incentive could 'I have to stir me into winning wealth and fame? (To be continued.) | RCL | RE Si PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA. Who Enjoys the. Complete Confl+ deneé of King George. . Amongst the numerous : foreign descendants of Queen Victoria there is only one to whom King George accords his 'entire confi: dence and friendship. That Prince the immediate: pro-| | Prince Henry of Prussia. is" Henry of Prussia, brother of the. German Emperor." King = George and Prince Henry bear to each other certain close affinities. - They are, for one thing, first cousins; Prince Henry's 'mother was King Edward's eldest sister, our Prin- cess Royal, afterwards wife of 'the German Emperor Frederick. Also the * facial resemblance of King George and Prince Henry is most marked. Mopeover, they are: both sailors. ng There are no two brothers in the world; perhaps, who are more un-, like in character and - disposition. than 'the Kaiser 'and his only bro: ther. The Kaiser is a Prussian to| the life : and impulses of "a thousand years of Hohenzollerns may be said to hel personified in him. ~ His brother, on the other hand, has from infancy been his 'gentle "mother's son." Inthe days wheh the Kaiser and his brother 'were boys it was al- ways Prince 'Henry who stood up. for. his 'mother, and whatever was English in. the . Prussian ..Courts With the Kaiser it was always the Hohenzollérns = who . were to by championed. =~ Queen" Victoria quickly developed a «strong affec: 7 a lively lad, was very kind-hearted and studious, and always got along wells with his English * relations, Queen, Victoria as easily conceived something alinost amounting to dis- like of "the heir ito the Prussian crown. And the time came when laine of his magnificent palace in Berlin, Prince Henry one day en- countered in the apartments of the Empress Frederick, charming Princess who was 'as Eng: lish as any daughter of Windsor or Buckingham Palace could well be. Hesse, and her mother had been King Edward's ill-fated sister popular Princesse Alice. -1 The happy pair, however, found themselves em i by the - unfeeling Bismarck. Jutetel old man had becon , and all. the affectations }20 Ary E but 'he gave them some pleasant doubts and fears. marriage 'eventually... al been Blessed. with The : course, rather more. be | Personages. tion for Prince Henry; who, thoughy' pearance in the garden, as soon as the bees dome the larva | {of this beetle contribes to get upon a bee's body, s0 as to be: |away to the feeds in Berlin, a he was the Princess Irene of 'embittered once had 'become = lov teh of Prince Princess Irene of Hesse, very: un- 2 Their yal union of Buel day-has |. greater felicity. his: wife * are, 'of closely related nis usual, even amongst Royal wor nd no Ro, Prince and + Insects are now 'makin Sei place a garden y these wonderful creatures. A t a dirk alors beetle--tfie etle--may "be observed; poi) 'carried bee's home, wher food" th ;| system to Blair full working order in the course of 8 OREN. TT Kirkcaldy Dean of Guild Couit, for an extension of Kirkcaldy Hospital,' {ofte for I Mr. James Fairweather ; ghire 'schoolmaster; 'éommitted sui- cide after a walk of thirty miles by ep himself on the suspension bic C by Lieut.-D. P. Menzies of Menzies- ton, has been placed by' clansman Alexander D. u ; the' agents in the city. b is expected. that t| : At the anuual meeting of las- Atholl -G Bow | Qhoral Jad (Orghéstrdll Union Bok 1 Ghe was made to the need for | .a_ large concert. hall. 4 ; The financial statement for the season showed a surplus of $5, or rai Street; Glasgow, Margaret Brits 55 years of age, was so serious ¢jtelephone, will 'be in Plans have been passed by 'the d Court, for J] nsisting of additional ward, 'con- ining 20" beds, operating theatre [other rooms. . ~~ hin Castle is on the market. | the property of the Earl of} usie 'and extends to about acres, with a rental of over per anpum. a y Nairn of Rankeilloin has ed to give a permanent home * 'the Victoria nurses of Kirk- , an Ayr. gow, issued an appe: port the movement. MA While the | motor car of the Glas- gow Fire Department was proceed- ing to a fire it collided with a taxi at the corner of, Buchanan Street. The passenger of the taxi was badly. injured. 3a : ge at' Glasgow. On the cairn on the battlefield of n a large wreath of ivy 'sent Menzies, C.E., In- el stomach and Intestinal worms as BON, UBE a reme ly at. death," but swill- act ae & tonic: Ju> uneavinled. EA {nstructions ie