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JJLJLJLJU â- Tulu The PoweF of PeFSiiasion o Or Lady Caraven'5 Labor of l.ove. PI*** '"***I*^*i" i-Hri-H . H .. t M l .. l .. i ., r . i ., i ., t M ti n t . r t !tt I - l - H ' CHAPTER V. May was cirawing to a close, when Lord Caraven ono evening received a. letter which appeared to give liim the keenest delight. He read it, and tljon went with it to his wife. "Uildred, here is good news; but I am too h;.\sty â€" perhaps you will not think it good news."' "If it plenses you so much I shall," she replied, gently. "You have heard me speak of my cousin, Sir Uaoul L,aure3ton, the 'hero of a hundred fights?" " "No," replied Ilildrod. "I have never even heard his name. "That secma strange," said the earl. "tiot at all," she replied, quietly. "You forgot that you have never â- poken of your family to me at all. 1 do not know the name of a single relative that you have." He looked incredulously at her. "I am very careless." he said; "but I did not think that I was so bad as that. I will make amends now by telling you about Sir Raoul Laureston." "Raoul," repeated Hildred. "Is he â€" no, ho cannot be a Frenchman. Lord Caraven. if he is a relative of yours." "No, but the name has puzzled many people. His mother was a French lady of noble birth, and one of her ancestors, named Raoul de Cour- celles. distinguished himself greatly In the French wars; it was her fancy to name her boy after him." Hildred repeated the word "Raoul." "I like the name. Lord Caraven," she said, slowly. "And I like the name." he told her. "I do not know any one in the world whom I like better than Ra- oul. Yet he gives liimself great airs with me. He is' â€" you will laugh when you hear it â€" he is my master â€" at least used to be in years gone b.v. But what I wanted to tell you is this â€" he is coming back to England â€" and he has always made his home at my house; he has never lived any- where but at Halby House or Rav- onsmera â€" never â€" and 1 hope never will." She looked at him wonderingly. "I understand. But what has that to do with me?" He looked somewhat confu.sed. "After all, you are the mistress of the house, the chatelaine, and I should not like to ask any one to make their home with us who would be at all â€" now let me see how to ex- press myself diplomatically â€" who would be displeasing to you." "Thank you," she said, briefly. "After all, home â€" whether it be happy or miserable â€" is alwa.ys home, and I should not like to make yours really uncomfortable. If .vou say that Sii- Raoul will be in your way at all, I will not ask himâ€" if .you think you will be as happy with him as without him, then I shall be pleased to see him in his old place." "I thank you for your considera- tion." she replied, with dignity; "but. as nothing could possibly make what you call 'home' more un- happy for me. and the coming of a stranger, who may prove a friend, will be some little comfort, I say unhesitatingly, 'Yes.' " He looked at her half sadly. "Are you really unhappy â€" really not happy?" he asked. » "If living where no friendly face » ever smiles on mo, where no friendly voice ever reaches my ear, where no one cares for me or takes the least interest in me, be happiness, then I must be very happy," she said, bit- torl.v. "Is it so bad as that?" he asked, and there was a shadow of pain on his face. \"Is is worse," she replied, -fftnly a few short weeks .since her heart would have beaten fast with happiness to hear words spoken so kindly; now she turned away. and from her heart to her lips ro,so the unspoken prayer; "Heaven help mc. for I am beginning to hate him!" The name of Raoul Laureston was known throughout the land; he had I proved himself to be a hci-o. It was ; not merely in Government dispatches ! and newspaper paragraphs tliat ho i was praised; his name was on men's ; lips when they gathered together and \ talked of Old England's glory and her gallant sous; when they told ] how English soldiers fought and died, with the strength of lions; the bravery of heroes, they always men- I tioned the brave Colonel Raoul I Laureston. ' He was not only wealthy â€" ho was j the younger .son of the younger branch of the house of Caraven; he . had no great patrimony: his whole 1 fortune aznounted to about five thou- i sand pounds. But he was a soldier. born and bred; he could never have I been anything else. He was as I brave as a lion; he knew not fear. They told wonderful stories of him in the army â€" how he had saved lives when his own life was in peril; how he was loved and worshiped by the men under 'his conmiand. It ^as a good thing to belong to Raoul I Laureston's regiment; he never for- Igot any man serving in it; he had I the interest of each one at heart. I Many a young officer who. in other I hands, would have gone to the bad â€" would have ended a shameful lite by j a shameful death â€" with him became ' a good and brave soldier. He had j the gift of winning men's hearts; his words were few but eloquent. I Like all great men. he was utterly ! devoid of vanity and egotism; in his soul there was no room, for small vices. So, among a world of common- place men. ho had made for himself a name and fame. When the red flag of war was unfurled, and every home in the land had sent its sons to maintain the honor of Old Eng- land. Raoul Laureston's name bo- came a hou.sehold word. Mothers whose sons were at the war wept on hearing it; men told what they had read of him. and their hearts grew warm as they spoke. Then came the battle when, at the head of his regi- ment, he rode "into the jaws of death," sword in hand, his brave face shining with the light of cour- age. "Follow me!" he cried; and. sword in hand, he closed with the foe. Men told how the red sunset found him still there. How many lives he had saved with his valor none could say. There were other bravo men present who declared that Raoul Laureston had made the day their own. He was knighted for his bravery, and then, as though fortune did not know how to lavish sufficient favors upon him. ho succeeded to a large fortune, loft to him by a compara- tive stranger, his godfather. But the brave soldier never quite recov- ered from a terrible wound he had received in battle. The slightest elTort, the least exertion, brought on an attack of illness that was always dangerous. And across his brow, just over the right temple, was a deep, red scar, left there by the bayonet of a foe. He was .sent to France and to Italy. It seemed as though his militarr career was end- ed. It had been a terrible grief to him to have to give up his profe.ssion and live abroad. He said to his doc- tors: "While I have life I shall hope; the health and the strength I have lo.it may return to mo â€" I may hold a sword again. Heaven is kind." But for the last four years he had been at Nice, and had grown weaker, and a great longing had come over him to see England again. ,"lf I must die." he said, "let mc die there." And seeing that the home-sickness Was a bar to his recovery, the doc- tors allowed him to return. It was strange â€" the journey did him good; he was stronger when ho reached Loudon than he had been for some time. Then he wrote to the only relative he had â€" Lord Caraven â€" asking if he should, as u.soial, make his home with him. Ho had not heard of the earl's marriage- Lord Caraven never wrote a letter unless he was compelled to do so â€" and Sir Raoul . had not road the notice of it in the English newsiia- pors. Had ho known of the mar- riage, he would never have dreamed of going to his kinsman's home. He heard it from one of his bro- ther officers' who hastened to wel- come him to England, and was at lirst incredulous. Ho had always loved the handsome, willful boy who looked up to him with such affec- tion, and it had been a bitter source of trouble to him to find him inclin- ed to go the wrong way in life. Uaoul Laureston was many years older than the earl, but they had al- ways been good friends. In his liglit, frank way he had scolded the handsome boy â€" now he scolded the man. He had done his best to ex- ercise a wise control over the earl. There were times when he fancied that he should succeed â€" there were others when he knew that he had failed. It was with positive incredulity that he hoard of the marriage. When Major Vandaleur told him the news, the brave soldier refused to believe it. "Caraven would never have mar- ried without telling me," he said. "He has not written to me for years, but he would have written if that had been the case." "I assure you," declared Major Vandaleur, 'that I was present at the ceremony. He was married at St. George's, Hanover Squai'e." "I must not dispute what you saw with your own eyes." said Sir Raoul. "That granted then, whom lias he married?" "A Miss Ransome," was the brief reply. "Hansomc? I do not remember the name." Major Vandaleur laughed. "No, you have probably never heard itâ€" though there ai-e few young men in the army who could say as much. Ran.somo is a lawyer and money-lender." The soldier's face fell. "A money-lender! You cannot be serious? Caraven marry a money- lender's daughter! I cannot believe it." "It is true. I remember the lady's name â€" Hildred Ransome. I did not see her. although I was in the church during the marriage; the crush was so great I could not. The bridegroom's tall head towered above the crowd; I saw a vision of white and silver, but not the bride's face or figure." "A money-lender's daughter! Is she beautiful, Vandaleur?" "I cannot tell .you; I have not met her. The only time I heard her dis- cussed was on her wedding day; she was only just eighteen, and people said she looked very unhappy." "Only eighteen! And when was he married, Vandaleur?" "Last .year, Laureston." To prors to yaa that Dft Cbiwa'a Ointment la tt oarUtin and nimolota oare (or eaob •nd evar/ form of Itchinir, bleodlairand prolndlnff plln, Ihs nUDofaotnren hare Riumintaed It. Sm ta*- I imoniaJs In tha daily preaa and ask rour nalfh- lora what tbajr tbiak of It. Yon can uas It and .-at jonr monar back If Dot ourad. 60o a box, at Itll aa<J«ra orEoitANSON.RATCsft Co.,Toront<\ Or. Chase's OIntnient "Then she is only nineteen now; that is 'very young," said Sir Raoul, musingly. "I am afraid I should bo an interloper. And 1 should not feel at home. Caraven is very fond of her, I should sa.y. I do not think that I shall go to Ilalby House." "You have plenty of money." re- turned the major, brusquely; "wh.v not buy a place of your own?" ' I would do so â€" that is, I would have done so long ago, but that I am uncertain about my own life; it has hung ui>on a thread so long that I have never drea'med of anything for m.vself." "I ought to be a judge," said the major: "and I prophesy from, your appearance that you will grow bet- ter â€" not worse." Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a note for Sir Raoul. "It is from Caraven," he said, as he hastily broke the seal. As he road it, his whole face brightened, a light came into his c.vcs. "I knew the boy's heart was in the right place," ho remarked. "There could not be a kinder -letter than that. He will not hear of my remaining here or going el-sewhere. I am to go to Halby I'ouse at once, where everything is at my service, and his wife joins in begging mo to Had Lost Hope of Getting WeH Tears of Keen Suffering: From Kidney Disease- Dr« Chase's Kidaey-Liver Pills. -Owes Life to Mr. R. J. McBaIn, Niagara Falls, Ont., a man of 80 years, and waJl known throughout the Niagara dis- trict, writes: "I btlieve if it had not been for Pr. Chase'* Kidney- Liver Pills 1 would be in my grave before this. I was very bad with kidney disease. and suffered with dre«lful pain-} in my kidneys. Beingr di.siappointed. in the use of many mo- dicines. I hud almost given up hopes 0f e^'er getting better. â-  "Ono niiorning. after a night of Mpeciatly hard suffering, a friend aalifrt t« SCO S9> and aaked whjr, I did not try Dr. Chase's Kldnoy-Llv- er Pill9. I got a box at once, and took two pills, which was a rather heavy dose: one pill Is plenty at a dose. I used them re^larly for a month, and at the end of that time was a changed man. "It is now about five years since I began using this pill, and since that time I have felt as good aa I did 40 years ago. I am almost; i^O years old, and I am free from all tliseaau, except rheumati.'mi, " and this Is much better than it used to bo before I u.sed this medicine. I rccomiu«uU Ur. Chuuie's Kidnoy-Livsr ^ Pills with all my heart to any pei^ son. man or woman. Thi.s isi my opinion of tbeae valuable pills, and you may use it for the benefit of others." Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pilla are especiall.v appreciatod by people of advanced age. The kidnc.vs are fre- quently the &Yst organs of the body to break down, and there are few old [K-opic but suffer from kid- ney disorders, and resulting pains ajid nciics. One pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all dealers, or £d- tuuuiiou. Bates St Co., ly>roatO^ A GEATEFUL TEIBUTE. FHOM A MAN" WHO LOOKED UP- ON HIS CASE AS HOPELESS. Joctors Diag^nosed His Case as Catarrh of the Stomach, but Failed to Help Him â€" Many Remedies Were Tried Be- fore a Cure Was Found. ['"â- rom the Bulletin, Bridgewaler. N. S. We suppose there is not a corner â- n this wide Dominion ii: which will not bo found people who have been restored to health and !Jtu>iigth through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. There tiro many such ::\sctt here in Bridgowater und its vicinity, and we are this week given (jurmission to record one for the ben- efit of similar sufferers. The case Is well known in this vicinity and the tenacity of the disorder was re- markable. For six years Alfred Vei- iiot, a surveyor of lumber for the (Treat lumber firm of Davison ta Sons, was a victim of a serious dis- itrder of the stomach. His suffer- ings were excruciating ond he had wasted to a .shadow. Doctors pre- scribed for him. yet the agonizing |)ains remained. Many remedies :vore tried but to no avail. The cose was diagnosed us catarrh of the stomach, food became distaste- ful, life a burden. The trouble went on for nearly six years, then a good .'Samaritan advised the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The pills were ffiven a fair, patient trial, Mr. Vei- not using about a dozen boxos,.and before they were all gone a perman- nt cure was effected. Mr. Vefnot is now able to attend to his business when it looked as if he was doomed to die. He is grateful to this great medicine for his cure and has no hesitation in .saying so. Because of their thorough and prompt action on the blood and nerves those pills speedily cure anae- mia, rheumatism, sciatica, partial pai-alysi.-., St. Vitu-s' dance, scrofula and eruptions of the skin, erysipelas, kidney and liver troubles, and thf> functional ailments which ma.ke thS"! lives of so many women a source of constant misery. Get the genuine with the full name "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People" on the Wrapper around each box. Sold by medicine dealers or sent post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for 52.50 by addre.ssing the Dr. Will- i.ams' Medicine Co.. Brockville. Ont. go. The boy is not changed, you see. His heart is good." And the major, having some little respect for Sir Raoul. forebore to tell Ivim what rumor said about the handsome earl and his heart. "I shall go," said Sir Raoul, â€" "this has quite decided mo. You think 1 am right ,do you not?" he added, seeing a strange .smile on the major's faco. "Certainly. I was thinking of the earl, not of you," and long after the two friends had pai-tcd. Major Van- daleur looked very grave. "It is like going into a wasps' nest." he said. "Kaoul is a Jioble, simple-hearted soldier. He will have little patience with the earl â€" per- haps even less with his wife." No such thought troubled Sir Ra- oul; to him it seemed quite right and just that his kinsman should ex- tend the hand of welconio, that his wife and himself should beg him to visit them, that their home should be his. "I may be able to do him some good," said Sir Raoul. "Ulric al- ways listened to me." So he was full of hope as he drove to Halby House. "What will this young wife be like?" he wondered. "A money-len- der's daughter â€" nothing very noble or brilliant; but Ulric loved her, I suppose. She will be a city de- moiselle. Let us hope, for Ulric's sake, that she is pretty and accom- plished." He caught himself wondering more than once what she would bo like, and then he laughed at himself for his pains. "I have few relatives," he said, "that the fact of fniUiiig a now one »s something wonderful." His worn face flu.shed with finotion as the carriage stopped at Ilalby Hou.se. "When a man has but a few friends, he knows how to value them," he said to himself. "I know Ulric will be pleased to .see me again." (To Be Continued). THE FIHST DINING CAR. Built by the Pullman Company in the Year 1860. The flrst dining car was called llu "Dolmonico," of course. It muirt have resembled our present beautifu: dining cars but slightly. Built bj the Pullman Company at their pio- neer works in Chiciigo, it was put into .service in 1806; and after • short but distinguished cai-<!er, de» cended to the position of boardlin car for constructors along the lino, but it did r.ot come to this, o course, until great improvement! had been made upon it in subso quont models. It was built in lw< sections, with a kitchen in the mid^ die. One end was reserved for lad" ies und here no smoking was allow< ed, but the other end was a buffet arrangoinunt and got itself nick- named "The Beer Garden" before il had been In service many moons. The floor of the car was uncarpoty ed and the seats were ordinary low back coach seats, upholstered i| leather. The car was finished ia Walnut, but the ceiling wa.s covered* with oilcloth. The provision supply store-room and refrigerator wer« under the centre of the car, and ac- cess could be had to them only b^ means of a little brass ladder sus- ponded from the side of the car. II was rather a precarious adventure for dining car employes to make a visit to the larder wlvilo the train was in motion, iiiasnuich as ihor* were .a groat many covered bridges and otlier obstructions along tho line in those days, which would un- doubtedly have swept them ii:ta eternity had they not timed their trip down the little brass laddci strictly according to .scliedule. Th« kitchen was supplied with an ordin- ary soft-coal range. Still, in spit* of all the.se peculiar disadvantages, the bill of fare for that time was considered most elaborate. Tho most interesting Uiing, how- ever, about the "Dehnonico" was th« way in which the employes kept tab c.r. receipts. When a passenger en- tered tho car the conductor handed tho waiter, who was to take care ol hiin, a small paste-board ticket, which the waiter straightway de- posited in a padlocked tin T)ox fn the kitchen. At the terminal station the tiokot agent came into the car, unlocked the tin box, and with du« ceremony "counted up the house." The conductor and other emplo.ve» while not being re(|uired to give at exact account. were expected te make' an appro.ximate check in no cordance with the number of pas sengers served. Talk about youi graft! Are there any opportunitiw like that nowadays? THE LONDON SEWT3R tFUNTER. The London sowoi- hunter before conuuencing operations provides hini.sclf with a buU'sMjyc lantern, a cnnvus apron and a pole some .seven or eight feet in length, having nn iron attachment at one end .some- what in tho sliaiJC of a hoe. For greater convenience the lantern is invariably fixed to the right shoul- der, so that when walkirg the light is thrown alicad. and when stooping il.s rays shine directly to their feet. Thu.s accoutred, the.v walk slowly alorg thi-oHgh the mud, feeling with their naked feet for au.vthing unus- ual, at the baine time rakiug tho ac- cumulation froni the walls and pick- ing from the crevices any article the.v see. Nothing Is allowed to e."*- cape them, no matter what its value, proviilcfl it is not vahieloss. Old iron, pieces of rope, bones, current coin of the realm and articles of piatc and jewelleryâ€" all is good fish which comes to the hunter's net. COSTLY CANALS. The oldest and the most importani ship canal is that of Suez, begun it 1856, and completed in 186.9. It ii 100 miles in length, and cost $\)ii, 000,000. In 1892 §10,000,000 wen expended to widen it. Ships are al lowed to pass through it at a speet of 5 1-3 miles per hour, so that iti whole length can be traversed in 18J hours. Night navigation is madi possible by electric lights, whici were introduced in 1887. The toll; are S2 per ton. In 1870. 486 ship: pafiscd through the canal: in 1880. 2.026; in 1900, 3,441. In the yeai 1899, 221,348 passengers were trans ported. In 1887 tho Emperor Wil- liam Canal to connect the Norll Sea with tho Baltic was begun, an« the canal wa.s- opened in 1895. itj cost was §10.000,000. Its receipti do not cover expenses. Still anoth- er canal connecting tho North Se« with tho Baltic was opened in 1900, Its cost was SO. 000.000. The Man- chester Ship Canal cost 885,000,000 Ajn.sterdanii is connected with the .set by a ship canal opened in 1845, anc Rotterdam is likewise connected witi deep water by a canal opened ii 1866. The Gulf of Corinth Cana was (inished in 1893. It cost about §5,000.000. BABY'S OWN TABLETS. 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