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•«<^«****<!«****«!««4k**«!*4t**«««**«**««««««**d* Or CONFUSION I „,„,„, I OF CASTE. Vs. ;> Nobility of Soul. * ClIAI'TEU XVII. Time pusses so ciuickly whcx.. it pusses luonoionously : they woKo «iio iiioniiiiK aiid found thiit DortaH WHO nineteen. "Quito a great ugc," her father said to lier, and she luuglied, and answered. Yes, she woiiid be Krowing old soon. She , laughed, but, after a uioo^iit or two slie also Kave a little sigh. "J wi.sh that .something would happen sometimes," she said to hcr- Bclf on this nineteei>tli birtliday. "We are all very hal)py, I know, and I suppose I ought to bo content : but, oh I when one thinks what a big, big world it is, and what lovely things and places I here are in it, ftud that we never see them, never go near Uieui. nfaker have anything new to think of from year's end to year's end ! " .She stood at her window in the bright winter's morning, looking ovit at the b'.cio sky, at the leafless trees, and thiiilviiig this. She was just a little dullâ€" a little tired of her ijuiet life. The years would f.o on sn fust, she thought, and she si ould piDW old, and know nothing beyond this little siiot of earth â€" n-thing of all the far-olT things about which other pco[>le know. Some one passed Dorcas in the village one day, and looked at her rather curiously as he went by. "Who i.s that ?" ISlrs. Gibson, who was walking with iier, asked. "Ho seemed almost as if he thought he knew you." But Dorcas shook her head. "Ho could not know me, for I don't know liini. Ho must bo a stranger," she replied ; and Ijien no- thing more wa.s said. The next day, however, she met the same person for the second time very near to her own house, and, though ho again passed her, no sooner had he pas.s-ctl thanâ€" as she quickly hecame aware, for it was frosty weather, and the roads wore hard â€" the sound of his footsteps ceased, as if he were standing still to look after her, and scarcely had she paused at her own garden-gate before those same stejis matlo them- selves heard again, not retreating now, but ai»i>roaching her rapidly, while suddenly a cheery voice called out her name. "Mi.ss Trelawney !" it said ; and she turned round and found the stranger close he.side her, his face bright with pleasure, and his hand already .stretched out. "1 mot you ycslerd.^,>', and I was almost sure it was you, even then, though I didn t like to speak. Oh, I suppose you have quite forgotten mo ?" ho exclaimed ; and then suddenly, as ho looked .straight at her, there was something in the open, laughing eyes that all at once stirred her memory, and made the color come up to her cheek. "Are you â€" I am not sureâ€" arc you I'r â€" Mr. Ilarcourt ?" she said. "Why, 1 never thought you would remember ! I am so glad you do," ho unswi'rcd heartily. "Ju.st think of it being moie than a dozen years since I was here, and of us knowing one another again I Wellâ€" and how are you ?" "tiuile well, thank you," she an- swered demurely. And Mr. and Mrs. Trelawney ?" 'They arc very well too." "I Was coming to call on you, you know. 1 meant to como this very aft(!rnoon. I have only been here a couiilc of days. You can't think how I was templed to stop you when 1 saw you in the street yesterday. 1 felt .so sure it was you. Do you know, you are not a bit altered !" the young man ex- claimed, and looked into her face straight again with his frank eyes. "Mut you are," she said. "No Iâ€" am I Oh, I don't think 1 nniâ€" very much â€" or ela<>, you see, you would not have known me." "Hut 1 did not know you a bit when I nu't you yesterday. I think 1 only kn(-w you now becaust, â€" you could not bo anylfody else." "Oh, 1 am sorry for that. 1 hop- ed you had really recollected nu>â€" though, indeed, I .suppose you hard- ly could. Why, what a lil'tle morsel of a thing you were when I saw you Inst ! You were only si.i," "And you were twelve." "Yes â€" and now 1 am flve-and- twenty." "And J am nineteen." 'J'hey both laughed suddenly. They were standing siill outside the gale, and .shd had not yet asked him to come ill. She was nut ((uito sure whether it was ler business to ask him to como in, or whether ho should olTer to do it. She hesitated for a moment or two, and then, a little doubtfullyâ€" "1 think mamma is, at hoiuc, if you would care to see her," she said. "If I should caro I" ho repeated instantly. "Well, 1 don't think you need doubt that. Po you supi)ose I forget what a good friend your mother was to me ?" And then without waiting for any warmer in- vitation, he proceeiled at onie to open the gate, and they both walk- ed in. "Why, there is not a bit of change about the jdaco !" he e.xrluimed ne.vt moment. "There are the flower-beds with the little walks all round them, and the ivy-border.sâ€" and the very same .-^eat, 1 do declaie, under the pear tree, wheie we used to sit while I told you ghost stories. I remember I frightened your very wits out once under that tree. Are you afraid of j^iiosts now ?" "Not a bit," she said. "Then I should have no chance of making your hair stand on end, I suppose, if I wore to tell you ghost stories again ? And, besides, your hair i.s long now, so I could hurdly exix'ct to do it anyway. It u.sed to be very ^hort, you know, in tho.se days. "Yes â€" I remember." "Almost as short as mine is now. And it was always tumbling into your eyes. Sometimes you lost your temper over it. 1 suppose you never lose your temper now ?" "No â€" never." "Ah ! do you mean that se- riously, I wonder ?" And then ho looked at her sus- piciously for a moment, till she smiled a little, when, with a (piickâ€" "Oh, I don't believe it a bit !" lie went off again into one of his bright frank laughs. She ushered him into the drawing- room, and then left him, and hasten- ed away to find her mother. She did not know how eager and full of life she looked as she presented her- self before Lett; , with her news upon her lipa. "Mamma, who do you think I have met just now 7 Ho is down in the drawing-room. He has come to sei you. It is Frank Harcoiu't I" she said. "Frank Harcourt ! Oh, dear me. Dorcas I What, I'raidi turned up again !" Letty exclaimed. It wjis curious how oven slio, at Dorcas' tidings, began to dimple and llu.sh. .She had been fond of this lad a dozen years ago, and Clio thought of seeing him again threw the gentle, linucl little woman into a (Uittor of i)lcasure. >She came into the drawing-room shy and yet eager. The sight of the tall, broad- shoidderod yoimg man frightened her for a moment, yet. by the time he had grasped her hand and told her how glad he was to meet her once more, it was wonderful (as she said to Dorcas aiierwards) how she al- most felt at homo with him again. "I don't know how it is, but he alway.s had such a pleasant way wit'' him, and, bless the lad ! he takes us uj) now just as if he bad only said good-by to us yesterday," she said, us she and Dorcas talked the visit over presently. They sat down, and ho began to tell his history to them. Yes a good hu at Kton till ho was nineteen, tlieii ho had gone to Oxford. He had taken his degree two years ago. .Since then ho had been moving about a great deal ; he had been all over Eiu'opo ; he should bo abroad pro- bably still, only I was summoned home .suddenly last suinmei'," he said gravely, "by the death of my father. H canto I'cry uno.\pectedly. I havo been in lOngland since then â€" tor the last six months, and I sup- deal had happened to him since saw them last ; he rlad stayed pose I f»hall remain hero nowâ€" at aii.v rate, for the present, for my mothei is glad to have me with her " "You can't imagine how often 1 have thought about you all !" he exclaimed. "Those weeks I spent here â€" why, they wero amongot tho happie.st weeks of my life. I think I mu.st have iieen an awful bore to you" â€" this to Letty â€" "coming break- ing in on you at all hoursâ€" but how good you always wero to me 1 â€" and as for Dorcas â€" I beg your pardon" â€" hurriedly â€" "but you know you were Dorcas then â€" " and suddenly he laughed, and did not bring the broken sentence to an end. "You don't know," he said, in.-'tead of ending it, "liow often I have wanted to see you â€" and what a curious thing it is to feel that 1 am here again at last I", "I am sure we have often thought of you too," Letty saiii. She al- most uncon-scioubly put her hanr. half caressingly on tlie young man's arm us she spoke, in the old way . it seemed so natural to do it that she did it almost without thinking. "I don't know â€" " and then si e looked at him kindly â€" "I don't know whether you used to be nicer than oth.cr boys â€" but 1 suppose 1 am fond of liojs generally, for 1 always likeci so to have you here. I used to tliinlv, many and many a tiiuo how much I liked it." "You will make nie vain if you tell me that," he un.svvcred, with half a laugh, but as he s|ol-e he took her hand, and showed his gratitude by giving it a clasp that almost brought the water to 1 e; eyes. "Well, I shall see you again â€" very soon, I hope ?" he said to Dorcas, as he shook hands with her too â€" with somewhat less fervor. Am! with that ipiestion â€" whicli Dorcas did not answer â€" I e took liis iloi-ar- ture. and two women watched him as he went cpiickly down the garden jiath, almost with as springy and ligl'.t a step us that with vvhioli he had been used to ticad it when he was a boy. 'J'here was a little more color than usual in tho chiok.s of both of them. I think in them both their pidsca were beating a little ([uickly. A few evenings later Doicns met Frank Harcouit again at a party given by the I'enroses. Throughout the evening ho was markedly atten- tive to her. At last the guests arose to go. "Are you sure that Ji'.lizalieth is here, my dear ?" Mrs. Penro.'-e said to Dorcas, as she shook hands with her ; and the girl answered â€" "Oh, yes, I am sure sho has como." 1 rank Harcourt was talking to some one as she left the room, and did not bid good-by to her (which surprised her a little perhaps); hut when sho had put on hrr hut and cloak, sho found him waiting there by Elizabeth's side. "We go the same way, do we not ?" he said at once. "No, I don't think wo do," .she roi}lied, and oiiened her eyes ; but at tlijit he began to laugh, and merely exclaimed â€" "You are as bad as Elizal oth ! Come along. I alwajs go to Woodlands past your house." he stepped out at t'lio door, and in anot'er moment she was walking along the little drive to the gate very contentedly by his side. The night was dark, and after a minute he asked her to take his arm. The road was more faiiiiliar to her than it was to him. and perhaps that thought occurred to I er ; pos- sibly, tod, she might renioniber how a couple of years ago. when A!r. Hardy used to make tho same le- qucst to her, alio had always e.xcusod herself, and said she had always pieferred to walk alone ; yet now, when Frank Harcourt ofercd her his arm, sho took itâ€" she hardly knew why. "What a long tinw it is since we DR^A.W. CHASE'S nc CATARRH CURE Is sent direct ta the diseased parts bj ihe Improved Blowtr. Heali the ulccii, clears the a'r P«i«««»», Jlops droppings In ih^ Ihrokt an.l permanantry curei talarrhandll.vFever. niowc;- U.JI., Il*'""' '"â-  "f- A- W Ch.se Medicine Co., Toronto and Buff.ilo. , Wo had been out together all day, I and then we ran back to the house, I and I had to say gvioil-by to you â€" and I Was awfully cut up I" "I remember you saying good-by to us," replied Dorcas a little mark- edly. "Whatâ€" you remember that, yoti mean, and you doubt the rest ? She Had Nervous Prostration Wa» Very Tnin, Weak, NervouR and Run Down â€" Fully Restored by Using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. There nre few diseases more riimnUt to euro than nervous prostration. Before the discovery ot Er Chases Nerve Food doctora usually gave some stimulant to whip up J he exhausted ner,ve« and quicken the hcart'u action Dr. ("base's Nerve Food acts in nn entirely difterent way. It gradually and naturally creates new nerv« force, Biid buildj up tli« system You ouii prove that it Is benelitiiig you by keopiiife" a record of yaur weiKht wliile iiHins it. Mrs. S. W. West, Drayton, Wellington County. Out., writes ;-"About two yoara ago I got terribly run down, and ftnally became a victim of nervx>us pro.itrnt ion. 1 had no nppotito, »eemed to lose interestt ami ambllinn, and could Konrccly drag mynoK abotit. Hearing of good reBult.0 from tho tiso of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 1 used three boxes with great honofit. In a short time 1 gained cloven pounds, and ns I wa» very thin when I liegan lo lise th« rojncdy I was very proud of tho increnso of weight. "Then the following spring 1 hccnmo rather poorly, and they aaaiii built mo up, and gave me mich a Unod appetite that I wanted to oat nearly half the time. I was so pleased with tho cure the Nerve Food brought about that I r«comuri«n(Ud it to others, and they have told mo of tho lienefit.a they had obtained Irom lh<« preparntlon. You may use Ihii* tostinioninl in order that others may loarn of the good there i« In Wr. (ih».5e'.s Nerve Food." fir. CtaJUN'* Nerv* Food is aeld at 50 rents » box at all dealers, or EJnianaon, Bates & Co., Toront« N'ow, what a tning that is to tcli one '" "Oh, I don't express any doubt about the rest. I don't remember your being cut up ; that is all." "No, because you were too young to know anything about It. liut I bad a lump in my throat,' I can tell you that." "Had you ? I hope you soon got rid of it '?" inquired Dorcas polite- ly. And then he burst out laugh- ing. "Wnat a hard heart you havo ! Do you never feel lumps in your own ihroat, or anything of that sort ?" "Yes, someiimes." "I know I was horribly sorry to bay good-by that day. I don't think I was ever so sorry about anything." "1 don't think, you wero sorrier than â€" we were," the girl hurriedly said. They were the softest words that she had spoken to him yet, since Lhoy had met. I'erhaps, liithorto, though she iiad been glad to be with iiim, she had hardly let him see that si e was glud ; she had been rather brusque to him ; if she had liked to talk to him she Iiad not made it too evident th.tt she liked it ; but now this little sentence came out with a sudden sweetness and eari:o.s1.ness in it, and ;vhen site halted near the end, it almost seem- ed as if the word upon her lips had been not a f<lural pronoun, but a . ingulur one. Did he notice the little hesitation and give a true reading to It ? Tliey were s lout for a lew moments after her answer to him, and then it was :-ilio again who said something next â€" about the clearness of tho evening, and how, if the frost went on, they should have skating soon. Did he like skating ? she asked, and did he know what great skaters the Miss Warburtons were ? And then they talked of winter amusemc.its for all the re-t of the way home. They parted when they reached the garden-gate. Klizabcth had been wal'king iilmosit by Dorcas' side, her lantern throwing a quivering light o\er the pathway at their feet, and perhaps neither her presence nor the flicKering illumination had aided their conversation much. Yet when, as they were bidding each other good night, the disturbing lantern, lifted for a moment, gave him a parting look of her face framed in its soft swan's-down-edged hood, the sight was so pretty a one that he almost thought it made up for v'lite-.er e'se Klizabcth's escort miglit have made him lose. "T shall see you again soon," he said, ns they shook hands. "Shall you ?" .she merely answer- ed. And then ho took his hat ofl and was gone. (To Be Continued.) BRIGHT BAfilES. Are a Joy to Mothers and a Trea- sure in the Home. All babies should be bright, good nntured and well. If you have a child thiit is sickly, fretful, nervous, restles.s nt night, or sufTcrs from stomach or bowel troubles of «i. • s»rt, give it Baby's Own Tablets and it will soon he well. There is no other medicine in the world will so safely t\nd speedily cure indiges- tion, sour stomach, colic, constipa- tion, diarrhoea and teething trou- bles. 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Some men are hai-d to please, es>- pccially in their llustere<l and ill-na- tured moods. A good story is told ot such a man, a banker. One (lay, when nothing had .seemed to suit him, he broke oi.t suddenly to one of the clerks, in a tone like a thunder-clap: "Look here, Jones', this won't do! These figures are a perfect disgrace. An oHice boy could do hett<'r. Look nt that five, will you? It looks just like a threo. Nohociy would take it for anything else. Look at it, I say." "I â€" erâ€" T beg painlon, sir," began tho trembling clerk, "but â€" et^wcll, you see, sir, it is a three." "A throe!" roared the banker; "a three! Wls.'^, ,vou idiot, it looks just like a five!" And th'! subject dropped. Smith: "See Jone.s over there laughing so heartily? Somebody must have told him a funny story." Brown; "More likely Jones told it him.si>lf." Tho Maid: "Do you think it's un- lucky to get married on a Friday?" The Bachelor; "Of cour.so. Why should Friday bo an ex£Oi>tion?" WEAK AND HELPLESS. THE CONDITION OI" SOLS. -ifM. WESCOTT, OF SEAFOKTH. Suffered Prom Headaches «.nd J>iz$ ziness â€" Could Not 3taaA tlie Least £zertion. From tlio Sun, .Seaforth, Ont. Mrs. Vila. Wescott is well knows to nearly all tho residents of Sea- forth. It is also well known t© hei neighbors and friends that sho pass- ed through a trying illness, but ia now happily, in robust health. To the editor of the Sun, Mrs. Wescott recently gave the particulars of hei case for publication, merely in tin hope that her e.xperience might be ol some beiiolit to some other sufferer, she said: â€" "For some time past mj health was in a baa state, iny whoU system being badly run down. 1 was troubled with headache, muok dizziness, my appetite was poor am I could not stand the least exertion I consulted ditierent physicians, bu( their treatment did not seem to ben^ efit me, and I gradually became sa bad that I was unable to attend t« my houBehold duties. 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WHERE THE ORDER CAME FROM The colonel was entertaining soma of hi^s friends with stories of Army life, and tho talk turned to tho in- flexibility of orders. That remind- ed the colonel of Tim Murphy's case.' Murphy had enlisted in the cavalry service, although he had never been on a horse in his life. He was tak- en out for drill with other raw re- cruits under command of a sergeant, and, as luck would have it, secured one of the worst kickers in the wholl troop. "Mov,-, my men," said tho scr- geun , â- â- ". .iddressing them, "no oni is allowed to dismount without or- ders from a superior officer. Remem- ber that." Tim Was no sooner in the saddl* than he was hurled head over heel) in the air, and come down so har< that the breath was almosit knock- ed out of him. "Murphy," shouted tho sergeant, when he vliscovered the man sjji-ead on the grouuvl, "you disonountedl' "I did." "Did you have oixicrs?" "I did." "From headquarters, I suppose?" with a sneer. "No, from hindqua.rter9." . "Take him to the guard-house!" ordered tlio sergeani. JOHN WAS READY. In these days ot propo.sed interna- tional alliances it is interesting to read of tho little diUlculty, in which a Chicago newsboy lound himself in- volved, and how he extiicated him- self thei'pfrom. He had wandered over into one ol the "foreign quarters," on the west side, whore one can hear nlmo.s-t ev- ery language except our vernacular, and he was set upon by two or three boys. He defended himself bravely and was holding his own fairly well, un- til the two or three were joined by ns many more, and then the battle began to go against him. "Say," he yelled to a group of boys watching the fight, from the sidewalk, "is there an English boy in tho crowd?" "\'cs," fhoutej a stockily built urchin of about his own size. "Come yero. then." panted (he young Amcricnn. laying about Iviui with all his might, "and we'll cleau out the hull gang." And they did. • 4. 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