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J«*,J.> ^ ,^ i\ m fhe Power of Pepsiiasion Or Lady Caraven'5 Labor of. Love. CHAPTER VI. The earl was at home expecting Sir Raoul. He was shown into the library, and Uicre in a few moments he was found by his kinsman. They met Willi out-stretched hands and warm words of greeting, but the earl looked sorrowfully into liis kinsman's face. "You have sufTered very much, Eaoul," he said, quietly. "Yes, and ntver tliougiit to see you again. You are changed loo, Ulrioâ€" I feel inclined to ask where Is the punny faced boy whom I lov- ed so dearly ?" Lord Caraven laughed a little bit- ter laugh. "The truth is, Raoul, I have not turned out very well. I may have been a good boy, but 1 have scarce- ly made a cosd man." "A fault acknowledged is often half amended," said Sir Raoul. "Yes," admitted the earl, careless- ly ; "hut I feel no great desire to amendâ€" I half wish that I did." I hear wendrous news, Ulricâ€" that you are married. Is it true ?" The oarl's faci; daa-kened, as it generally did when any mention was made of his wife. "Y'es," he replied, gloomily. "I am married. The fact is, I feel quite certain that you will not like my wife, and it annoys me" "Like her ?" echoed Sir Raoul. "How strangely you speak ! Cer- tainly I shall do mo»e than like her, your wife and my cousin. I tell you that the thought of seeing her is a pos)ti^•e pleasure to me." With hasty steps Lord Ccravcn walked up and down the room. He seemed a.t though about to speak, but then stopped abruptly. Ho stood at last in Iront of his cousin. "Raoul," he said, "I am not good at keeping a secret. The truth is, I do not like my wife." "You were compelled to marry her. then ?" said Sir Raoul. "It was either that or ruinâ€" snich ruin as would have left me [icnni- less. 1 did hesitate, for some time, whether I should purchase a revol- ver or marry Miss Hansome "Was it as bad as that ?' Raoul. as light footsteps passed his ho dress, door. "That is the young countess," said to himself â€" "my new cousin." , What Was she like ? After being at the opera she would not rise until late, he felt sure. He himself went down-stairs early. Sir Uaoul liked the fresh morning air. The first sound that fell upon his ears was the singing of a bird, and the next the falling s-pray of a fountain. He looked around. He si-aw then what improvements had been made in Halby House. A con- servatory had been built out from the breakfast-room, long and wide â€" a conservatory that was almost an aviary, so full was it of bright/- plumaged birds; a fountain stood in the midst, masses of brilliant bloom glowed upon the walls. "This was a welcome for bride," thought Sir Kaoul. haps, however, she has not taste {or flowers." No one t.>eemed to be about; breakfast-table was prepared, there was no one to preside. Raoul looked round; he thought would go through the conservatory, and peihaps by that time there would be some news of breakfast. He opened the glass door, and walk- ed through a fairj'-land of sweet blo.ssoms; the spray of Uie fountain fell with melodious music into the ; clear basin below. I "How beautiful !" thought the ' sinipie soldier. j He walkeu on until he saw a I vision that suddenly struck him I dumb. At the end of the conserva- i tory was a large vine-wreathed door; 1 the green leaves formed a . perfect j screen, and against theni stood a figure such as Sir Kaoul had never I seen before and never afterward for- gotâ€"a tall, graceful, girlish figure figure that was " "' Raoul," she said ; "you will want nursing and taking cure of. You ore going to remain here, to make your home with us ?" "I hope so," he responded, heart- ily. "I have no other home. This would indeed be one." She had drawn nearei' to him â€" so near that the delicate lace on her dress touched him. so young, with every fair gift of life before them, every gift the world could bestow lavialied on them, yet miserable because they did not love each other â€" husband and wife, sworn to love and honor each other, yet further apart than strangersâ€" even disliking each other I It seemed to him pitiful. "I Wonder," he thought, "if I "I am so glad," she said, in her ^ could do anything ? If 1 could only soft, caressing tones ; "and you will | restore peace and harmony to them. really let uic take care of you, just as though you were my ow» brother come home from the wars ?" "Have you a brother ?" he asked. "No," she replied; "I am an only child." "And I have no sister. I have al- ways wished for one. When 1 was a strong man who did not know what 1 should not have lived in vain." 'Hie fir.9t dinner-bell had rung when the earl returned, and Sir Raoul did not see him until dinner- time. Lady Caraven was the first to enter the drawing-room, where Sir Raoul awaited her. She looked very lovely in her evening dross. It was of white â€" white tiiat shone and aches and pains meant, 1 used to I gleamed â€" with picturesque patches of wish that I had a woman's gentle mind and heart to guide me ; when •health and strength left me. when I became almoirt, helpless, I longwd for the gentle hands of a woman near me ; but my longing was never gralified." "You must let me take a sister's place," she said, gently. "You do not know what your coming means to me. fi. will give me what 1 need so sorely â€" an occupation. You will let me nurse you when you are ill. wait upon you, read to youâ€" tend you in all ways ')" "1 alii afraid that you will spoil me. Lady Caraven." the! "No; but I will try to make you •Per- well and strong again. Do you mm-j^jraally promise me that I may do i this •?" His pale face flushed. "Do you know," he said, "that you really embarrass mo ? I feel as though some fair young princess were olTering to take charge of me. How can 1 thank you ? It seenss to me that the desire of my heart is gratified. 1 have a kinswoman to love at last." She laid her hand on his arm and walked with him into tlie breakfast room. the but Sir he scarlet. She wore scarlet and white flowers, with a suit of opals. He had thought her beautiful before, but now, with her while neck and shoulders and rounded arms all shown, she looked, he thought, mag- nificent. Then tlie earl came in. He passed .shown, she looked, ho thought, mug- his wife with a sile»t bow, never once looking at her, and she drew aside the skirts of her robe to let him go by. Sir Raoul could not help noticing that she seemed to dread lest they should even loach him. There was not much hope of love or reconciliation there. Lord Caraven went over to him at once, shook hands with him warmly, and asked him how he had spent the day. "Very happily, thanks to Lady Caraven," he replied â€" "she has been all kindness to me." The earl looked both pleased and impatient. "Ulric," said Sir Haoul, in a low voice, "what induced you to tell ma that your wife was tall and dark â€" nothing more ?" "So she is," he replied. "Soldiers are frotty good judges â€" they see the women of many lands â€" believe me when I say that I have what "You ought not to have risen so, ^ ,,, , early," she said ; "and. now yoti ! "ever met or seen a more beautiful must atone for that by taiing somehV"man than your wife.'' of my te*i. I pride myself on being ! 1/ ^he be not fair to me. a good tea-maker." \1l^^ ^ ,''°''./^"' ^^^ ^ ^ *u-T J' , . ^ , , ., i.i .,, .. the earl. I am glad you think so. Looking at her he thought that, ^ ^,j^^._.^ ^^^ ^j^,^ ^j ^y^^v^tv. If she pnded herself on her exquisite , ^j „,^^ g,.^^ ^^^^ so .-luch the gra-ce and her guhsh lovchneKs ^11^^45^-1 do not object. 'There is the would be only natural. He was pcr-!^^,,^ ^^^,^ j^ dreadful that the sound fcctly charmed with her; she was 1 modest and unalTected; there was a ; all s-:('mmetry, i certain grace in her frank, kindly with a slender, graceful neck, white i manner whicii made it impossible not as snow, lovely shoulders, round, white arms, draped in an elegant morning dress. The lady was standing with her face averted, so that he could not at first see it. He beheld a ,. , I queenly head, covered with masses "^ i of black, shining hair. He stood for â- Yes, it could not ba^e been L^""'^ ^7,J"'""'.'f^ '°f,' V,\'i^hâ„¢2'; worse. Wo not let crite, Raoul. That lesson would have ! *'"'â- "«'' f'°r'/u """w lasted some men their lives â€" it has not been suificient for me. 1 do not think, honestly speaking, that I am one whit a wiser man than I was. The only thing is that fortune has been with instead ol against me." "Poor boy," said Sir Kaoul, pity- ingly; "we must hope for better things. Shall 1 see your wife to- night ?" "No. 1 think not. Lady Caraven has gone to Covent Garden â€" a favor- ite opera of hers is being pla.ved. She will not be home until late. You look very tired, Raoul â€" 1 should advise you to go to bed." "I am rather disappointed," he said, at last. "I hoped that I should see my new kinswoman to- night." He was disappointed. He fancied that Lord Caraven would never have If he had thought the figure beau- tiful, he wj^s even more enchanted with the face. That it was the mo- ney-lender's daughter never for a moment entered his mind â€" that ho saw before him his cousin's wife never occurred to him. Thi.s beauti- ful girl was, of course, a visitor. to feel at homo with her He was entirely so ; and he smil ed to himself. They were seated at I the table as though they had known each other for years. "But sturdy," he said, "we ore remiss. We are not waiting for ; Ulric." I Her expression changed slightly, ' a.'! it always did at the mention of i her husband's name. j "Lord Caraven never takes breok- I fast here." she said, slowly. "Our I hours are not the same." ! "Then he is a bad judge." remark- ed Sir Raoul. "1 would far rather j take breakfast here than anywhere j else in the world." I She made him no answer, but the like himself â€" one ol Lady Caraven's ' dark e.ves drooped sadly. If he knew, friends, he thought to himself half j if he only knew, the secret history sttidlv. It was not to. be wondered I of her life 1 at. with this glorious yoimg beauty near to distract him. that the earl did not care for his wife. He went forward to speak to her. a,nd then for the fust time she was conscious of his presence. She rais- ed her dark eyes and lool»ed at That day passed so quickly and so pleasantly to Sir Raoul that he could not realize his new e.xi.'^tence. She brought him books and photo- graphs ; she talked to him and amused him ; she made the time pass so quickly that he marveled at him. There are moments in life not 1 ^^c '1""^'« intelligence, her womanly to be forgottenâ€" this was one. The !"â- '*-. There was a touch even of dark eyes appeared (<o look right | fienius in her noble, keen apprecia- into his heart, and he seemed to re- i '-i"" »' art, in her passionate love spoken of her as he did if she had | cognize the ^oul that shone through '^f music. Then a dainty little lun- bcen what he had hoped to find her. them. She walked up to him, still icheon was brought to hini» after sweet looking at him. a.s though drawn bv j "'hich she insisted on his driving out Farewell to his idea of the companionship of a. delicate, refined woman I Farewell to his idea of passing long, pleasant hours with the earl's young wife ! He remem- bered that as a boy Ulric had been devoted to the fair sex; he had often rallied him on it. He remembered a thousand and one scrapes into which the boy had fallen from his proiiensity to airtalion. He knew that his cousin had been calle<I "the handsome earl," and the only snitis- factory conclusion at which he could arrive was that the girl-wife must be displeasing in appearance. Sir Uaoul rcliied to his loom, slightly disappointed and discii- magic to him, his eyes half sroiling into the depths of hers. He bowed at her approach. She looked for one half-minute into the worn, scarred, noble face. "I cannot be mistaken." she .said, holding out both her hands in wel- come. "You must be Sir Kaoul Laureslon '?" "I am." he replied. "And you ?" "And I '.>" she said, with a charm- ing smile and a look of pretty as- toni.s'lunent. "I am Lady Caraven." The fair face was .sm.iiing at him. the lovely eyes were full of wel- come, the ruby lips smiling kindly. It seemed to him that her whole with her Sir Raoul laughed. "I shall begin to think that I am a carpet knight," he s-aid. "The hard work went befoi-e il." rejoined Hildred. "You will enjoy a drive. Sir Kuoul â€" the sun is warm and the a;r is mild." He sat b.v the side of the beauti- ful, lentier-hoarted. graceful girl, and they found a hundred objects of cen- versution. The fragrant air. the warm sunbeams, the beautiful face, the .sweet, cares'jring voice, all greut- l.v allected .Sir RnouJ. Then, when they retiiMied. she bade him adieu until (liiaier-tiiiic of the dinner-bell has a greater charm for me than the discussion of a lady's beauty ?" Then he set to work resolutely to watch her, to see if in any respect she Was deficient. He could not dis- cover anything. She took her place with consummate gi'uce. She was well verfSed in all the etiquette of the table ; she was a "charming hostess. He saw. too, that, with all her wealth and all her beauty, she was an excellent mistress of the household ; her ser\-unts were well trained and obedient. "I do not see myself," thought Sir Haoul, "what more Ulric can de- sire." He could detect no fault in her ; but he did stop to wonder* what their dinners mu.st be like when they were quite alone. The earl might have guessed the nature of his thoughts, for he said suddenly : "We had some friends coming to- night, but 1 postponed their visit, thinking that you would bo tired. Raoul. We never dine alone." The young countess made iro re- mark. Sir Raoul ..saw that she had plenty ol self-control; no matter how sarcastic or bitter her husband was, she was never provoked to reply. ^ "She has that virtue," he said to himself, "self-control â€" and it i.s a sure foundation for many others." (To Be Continued). To prora to you that Dr. Cbrue'n OictmciitisaccrtsiD and nbnolute euro for each and every form of itchinit, bloodinjTftnd proLnaUnff piles, the manaracturorn have (;a.i;i>ntei9d it. Soo tcs- tir.ioniaI.H in t!K) daily rrsss an.! as): j-our neigh- bors what, the.r l.iiink orit, 'Voucan apo it and 1 , ,. „„, ,i„„„„,....,t.. ;.,*., ^^r-^\s^„'r. bsct if not c>jrcd. «o ft boT, Rfr i "ced not degenei ale into scrvitui.e . orkcselfâ€" that is thi very alpha and omega of all inwarf command. BULLEfi m wmmii TOB.ONTO SOLDIEK TELLS WHAT HE KHOWa. He Says That BuUer Did Not Ad- â- viae the Surrender of Lady- smith. General Redvers Duller hns found anotlier defender. The latest per- son to take up the cudgels in his belialf is William Carey, the son ol John Carey, of Claremont .street, Toronto, a youth of 22 years, who enlisted in the Second Rifl« Ilrigado at Liverpool in 1899, and was hur- ried to the front with Duller. "There were only four of us Can- adians in the brigade," Carey says, "and I tell you wu were proud cf tha way the troops from this country behaved themselves. With mo were 'Dick' Richards and Ernest Pont, both of this city, and Jack Honre, from Bolton, Ont. Both Pont and Hoare were killed in action, and Richards is now finishing his tim« with the brigade. I was with pool Jack Hoare when he puKsed away, after being shot, and his la.st words were, •Well, Bill, I've done this foi my Queen and country; we could not all go through â€" take this message to my mother.' As requested. 1 deliv- ei-ed the message given me. Out ol about two hundred and fifty who started out in our company only about fifteen are now alive, the rest of them helving been shot or havina succumbed to sickneas-. We were with Ceneral BuUer right throuuli the different encounters to Pilgrim's Ptest, where the general left Ilia army, and I toll you that wo were sorry when he went. Wo had lots of fighting, and I might say thtif only for our bayonets we would have beeii defeated. The Doers always ga've us the worst of it at the start of the fights, but when they saw us ad'vance with bayonets drawn they generally gave in." THE SUKRJKNDER HELIOGRAM. But it is on the heliogruKi which BuUer is understood to havo bent to General White, advising him to surrender Ladysmith. that Carey comes out strong. "I was a signal- i.st on the heliographs on the day the advice of suri-endcr was said to have been transmitted, and, in spita of any statement to the contrary in the press gr otherwise, I know Uiat no such message over was transmit- ted." He says; "1 had to do wilt the heliograpiiing on that niemorabl! day. and if the particulars of tlu message are ever made known it will be shown that General Duller never even suggested surrender to General White. "When General Joubert was at^ tacking Ladysmith we were twelve miles away, and I took Gewernl White's message on the heliograph to General Duller, suying, 'I cannot hold out much longer." General Dul- ler almost cried when we gave him the moss«ge. and he immediately an- swered, 'Hold out as long as you can; 1 am only twelve miles away.' Then General White signalled that he thought it would be impossible for him to hold out, whereupon General BuUer ht'liogrnplied, 'If you mu.st surrender get the best ccjnditioii.s pos-sible lor your men.' That is the only connection in which (^i^ieral Duller used the word 'surr-ender.' and ever-y one of us with him commended him for good advice. In the opin- ion of all of us connected with the Second Rifle Brigade, ho is the only man who could really get an army corps out of England to-day." « "NO." On the corner-stone of that fabric which we entitle manhood is eiv graved the monosyllable "Ko." H( who early learns the use of that in- valuable word has already lonrnec' the way to peace, and coniforl. anc safety. An easy coilipliance fru."* Iratcs everything Respect for otheri pet your moneT all dealers or Er all dealers or EnMi.vBON.BiTZs it Co., Toronto, but I'especi for chanted. He could not .sleep: b.vgone ; heai t was in the greeting she scenes in his own life rose bciore : hini. And Lord Caraven had him. It was lorig after midnight j that he did not like this when he heard the roll of a carriage ' charming and lovel.v girl ! and then the soft rustle of a silken I "Vou are looking very ill. THE LOVE OF MOTHERS. Among the lower animals the mo- ther's love for her oll.spring lasts only until the olTspring are able to shift for themselves. The hen will fret and light, for her downy chicks, but when the.v become feathered and i He thought long and anxiously ! coumience to do their own foraging â-  after she had gone. How strange it ! !â- ''« ">°'-'"-'" ''*'" becomes indillerent was that Caraven. always delielited gave said most j in beautiful women, could not .Sir j for her ! What a sad thing ! cure Both Doctor Wanted to Burn the Skin With a Red Hot ironâ€" Patient Was Cured by Dr. Chase's Ointment Mr. Alex. McLean. Tarbot Vale. • the excruc'lating puins. I "My experience with Dr. Chase's K.S.., writes :â€" For two years l| "Again I decided to con.sult a doc- 'ointment is that the first applica- worked us s6.;lionman on the t'o- tor. This one strii>pcd me. and said ,. ... ... ,, , minion Coal Company's Railroad Uie piles would have to be burned ''"" '^"' "'•' '"'"â- <' ^ood than did between Sydney and Ulace Ray, ^ with a red hot iron. I shivered at '•I'c two doctors, and tt has made N.S.. and during that lime was ex- 'the thought of humlng the fle."sh. and .mo as well and as free from piles as posed to all sorfb of weather. Gra- told him I could oot think of under- any man. Since being cured 1 work- dually my health failed, and I l.e- going such nn operation, so he gave ed during the winter in the lumber came a victim of protru ling piles, jmc some salve, for which he charged ' woods and experienced no return of At first I did not know 'vhut my 1 me two dollars, but it did not dojmy old trouble. I am not putting ailment was.but consulted a, d-.:ctor, mo any good. jic too strong when I ."tay that IV. and thcS'igh he treated mc for piles, "I wa.s in a do-.per.ito condition ^ Cha.ses Dintmcnt was worth $100 thc.v only grc'.v worse. and had given up hope of e\-pr a box to me. Vou are free to use "I Was forced to give up work r.nd .being freed from this dreadiul suffer- my tcsitinioninl for the hcnefit of return to my homo. My sufei i'l.n '. ing when a friend told me abo;it othersi, as I ftol it my dut.v to make could srnrccly be described I could Ur. Cha-sc's Ointment. He .-taid ho known this great ointment." not walk or lie down, but while the had seen so many cases that it had' Dr. Chase's Ointment, 6(i cents a »cst of the family was sleeping I j cured that ho would pay for it him- bo.x. at all dealers, or Eduuuition. â- rould be groaning and ac4iiiJ|[ froni self if it -failed to ciuo. i Dates &, Co., Toronto. to them and thinks only of hatching another brood. The mare loves hei- foal and the cow her calf only dui-- ing the suckling period. Canine dauis cease to show ivlTection to tlieir progeny after the puppy age. So Ibreiugh the entii-e animal kingdom beSow the human species, the iiuvter- nul in.stinct endure.'^ only while the young ones- are helpless and ceases "when they have grown up. How dif- ferent is the love of a human mother for her chikii-en. That love never dies, and seems to grow more in- tense accoi-ding as the children be- come less and less worthy of it. The black sheep is often the best be- loved. LADY CUHZON. Lady Cur/.on, vicereine of India, a Chicago woman, is actively engaged in iiromoting every sort of philan- throi^ic work among the native wo- men of the country. The Queen Victoria memorial, which she ha.-v undertaken to advance, is the out- growth of the Lady L>uflcrin medical fund, which gives to the poor of In- dia the attendance of doctors and nurses. 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