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I ly i, assessed by; ' an insane desire to seize her S.i my; arms anr3 kiss my heart out on her soft. ; red lips ur.til she had iiromiseJ to iova me a;u. . ; s she used to d*. .Mij:x thun i :.T'e. indeed, 1 i :'<! to tarn, my head sharply from her that 1 might! not be tempted beyond myself by the! '. cf her fiowerlike neau'v and the careless affe'-tioniilecess ! of her manner. when she laughed, as she did constantly, and thcne two even of small pearly teeth pesped cut : the f reh radne;s of her mcuth, I had to set my face hard, and rerain.1 n. doggedly of my engagerr.er.t to : Madge, of Lilith's dependent pop: and or a hundred other things, to keep ciyself from kissing her parted lips. And the worst of it was that L Kn -* j she would net have minded it the least , bit. My kissMS. If they were not too passionate, would have meant just no- thing to her. but very much to me. F->r I loved her with every heart beat <>l r.-.y heart. I had loved her as a chil 1 I loved her ten times more now ; early womanhood; loved her wU:i ;. yearning tenderness a romami adora- tion, ar.d a longing that was fierce ii Ita Intensity, with every element indeed that goes to make up the one paasion of a man's life for a woman. She did not know, she did not under- stand, she never suspected it for a mo- ment. She was by no means a good : actress, and she could not have preserv- 1 ed her unruffled friendliness and chatter- Ing joyousness had she guessed the feel- Ings which wera warring in my heart Had she shown she cared for me even a little. I must infallibly have broken down In my role of kindly and Indulgent guardian, and taken on the very differ- ent one of ardent lover. But had I been the vainest of men I could not possibly have construed Lillth's light-hearted manner into encouragement for love- ' making; and so honon>revailed and that | kiss was never given. At the variety theatre, which she her- self chose as tha place of amusement aha most ardently wished to visit. 1 was all I could do to prevent her from her keen enjoyment Personally. I had ' Na-Dra-Co Laxatives Choose which Grain ac. feminine high-kicking and mushroom > ^2iF!!Ste'S? 1 *S^\ singers failed to amuse me. and the you like bet for your white Sugar and buy St. Lawrence Pure Cane Granulated white, in original bajs-Fine grain, medium or coarse. Each the choicest suar. Atk > oar Grocer. V. UWIEHCE SUCAH UFIMEUE5. LIMITED MOKTUAL. -tj-l ing all laws of gravity. M Bache- ket's system, is made pv^saib'e by th discovery that the effect of a- mag- netic coil on certain metals is to repel instead of attract. One of effect of magnetic electricity on chlnery set In motion. . ing the air train. As soon as tne But Liiith. whose sense o 'electric influence is set in motion far from keen, laughed ecstatically when a man with a reddened nose and a. brok- the COUS, instead Cf attracting, can push it away, with the result that it is immediately raised and held en hat sang about going "On the booie from morn till night. _ . . From dewy eve till clear da> light." suspended in th* air clear of the held her breath at sight of a very or- 'track, the only connection between dlnary trapeze performance and thought t ' e car am j [j, o track being the brushes U;xl for contact purposes Fiimc and Otherwise. "Every time I see grandfather's sworl I want U> so to war." ' Well?" But every time I notice grand- a nu.-' '1 liuct with the refrain. "Get away ' boy?"' followed by an emphatic clog- dance, "sweetly pretty anJ clever ." (To be continued.) A FRENCHMAN'S INVENTION. father's wooden The Gibbs I d really Wonderful System Demonstrated tu British Railway Men. A new and wonderful system I which, it is claimed, will revohi: ; ize hish-sp a ed traction throughout! i the world -. a* demonstrated in Lon * ! don recentiv befcre mechanical ex- i perts of sev'eral of the most impor- j secrets of .social ort I cool like to know j taut British railways. This new . ccess the most important is to oe akft tanc oruisn raiiwavs. .LIUS icw system, which ia the invention and pretend you are uving The Wedding Eve ; Or, Married to a Fairy. any girl of seventeen I except ah! fatal exc hated to remember! the little and grisettes of the Latin quarter in Paris. Yet Liiith was perfectly modest in her manner, and I had clearly seen how ungry. undesirable attentions from strangers could make her. But there was about her tone, her looks, and her gestures, a spontaneity, a sans-gene. | which smackjed of the world of Bohemia. I but which never for one moment Ml gested the cultured and decorous influ- ence of Morland House. .i of a French . but I could see that she was and dance." she vUmtrtd to BO to look at me." Tion-t talk like that for Heaven's nake. I exclaimed. In a low voice, ben.i- five-mile circuit track in order that the enormous claimed for it (300 miles an may be tested. The svstem as detjwvnst rated by a . ae. n a ow voce, en.- j i ' . in* ray Bead over the menu and pretend- nxxiel of the Jarsjest size, did all iiic to stu.iy it. "If vcu knew how I that w;is claimed for it. A speed of '.t>:nk nf you as a littla wild Mower, set apart on a hlfth bank awav from the do- 300 miles an hour w.1? attained. scientist, j time when you're not. e!i. railway chief tot Touzh Lock. "Boo. hoo! AH the k <is iiaa holiday fr^n: school cep'n me. -.' My How's that !" "I'm too yo-ung to go to school vet ' 15<-' . How SwiM-t of Her. CMAPTEH XIV. (Continued). "\>-r. very nice." sho answered RRIM ly. "Everything I \.-ant. in fact. 15ut I'm a perfect little demon for spoll- liiK my dresses. 1 never can keep any- thing decent more than a week or two. Hut I will try and take more care of things If you ouy them, for me." She accompanied this speech with an- other of those upward looks of hers, starry blue eyes in liquid bluish white, such a look, half-audacious, half-Inno- cent, that only Liiith could jive: and. udlcsjs to say, she had her own way about the hat and the umbrella, and In- sisted upon sporting both, and having her old hat put into a bag for me to carry, together with the shoes. Luckily, it was September, and there was hardly any one about. I do not care a Straw for fashions as a rule, but I did not particularly relish being seen parading the West Knd laden with such awknarcUshed and shaped parcels as a wide, shaay hat. a pair of new slippers. A Hair of old boots, and a large bus of bonbons. litllth as a companion was in herself sufficiently conspicuous. Her delight at IHT new patent leather shoes with steel buckles, and her big black hat crowned with marguerites, knew no bounds. Sh tlippetl along, wreathed in smiles, stop- ping at every shop-window, flourishing her' new silver handled umbrella, and .Mory now and then standing in the middle of the pavement to lift the edge of her skirt and gaze admiringly at her feet. * "1 could scream for joy!" she confided to me. "Now, when 1 have the gloves ami the handkerchiefs, and the watoh and (he i>urs, and the roses. I shall be perfectly happy, and shall want to il^nce Instead of walk. (.'Ivurly a decorous deDfi'tment wnlW shopping in the West Knd of London while shopping In the West Knd had been one of the Items neglected In the "nnlshins" curriculum at Morlanu lloiise. "If > ou really won t have your parcels sent direct to Brtetol, you must at least let me charter V hansom for them. I said, and forthwith hailed a cab. "t'.ut surely." she objected, "you are KII|:\S to get "me something to eat'.'" I want to have some dln'ner. Just when j of which are usually dull and narrow- you hav have yours. I am sure you would i minded, and the more amusing ones too let me if you knew how hungry I am." t often scand.Umongertng and vicious in 1 thought. If not something worse. Too soon I should be "on the shelf." so far even as an innocent shopping stroll with "But. my dear child, your train "Oh. there are plenty of trains!" "The last goes to Bristol at nine "But there is a later one at ten." "It Is not in the time-tables." "It is only on Thursday during the summer I'.esides. what does it matter if I don't go back to Morland House to- night'.' Mrs. Morland doesn't expect me. and my friends at Weston-super-Mare think I have gone to Bristol. Why shouldn't t have a lovely treat, and stay in London, and have some dinner wiih you. and go to a theatre " "Child! What are you thinking of?" "And spend the night with Mrs. Jack- son, at IJiiitersea. as I did that evening I came up. ntteen months ago." I looked at her In dismay. Was it possible that fifteen montl^s of the care- ful and expensive repressive training a lovely little Bohemian was concerned, ami 1 determined to make the most of It. "You must certainly go back to Bris- tol to-night." 1 said, in a tlrm. judicial tone: "but If you are a good girl youi absolute "And cast "away to di by the road- ' obtained. s:d*> when the plucker wearies of them!" Tho rrnin f-i-ivpl. thrort*--! I hardly know why 1 six>ke the bitter train tia\el .ortp. .,-..,: a< a s -tre tlrnir words, but their effect on Liiith was without visible moans of support. < startlin AH th- color faded out of : e i t her above or below. At a \viz-! e at ard touch it is avay Hk- flash. : It's easy to tell oi&**l how they There S nothing S" flT'.ornJUsiy lin- Oxford circus and a piteous expression : Jevourinir di^^anoe at the terrific ' might have succeeded after they came Into her eyes, such as one sees in , ,V_ ,, fl . : of Morland House, and example of 25 Bluings 1O cents. . - ox Wash Day Makes the Clothes as White as Snow Try It ! Manufactured by 1 h> John>on.Rlck<rd>on Co I in.itcJ. Monlr*l. Can. that most well-bred and exemplary man- nered person. Mrs. Stanhope Morland, had so utterly failed to eradicate the na- tive Bohemianism and unconventlonallty of my little marsh vagrant? She was quite In earnest. Her blue eyes gazed s frankly up Into mine as though there were nothing of a start- ling nature In her proposition. Against mv will the thought flashed Into my mind what would be the future of such a girl young, coquettish, extravagant, pleasure : lovlng, and at the same time wholly innocent, conllding and affection- ate. should she fall into the hands of a villain? Yet there were certain clearly defined points of difference between this lovely. unconventional maiden ot to-day and tho child of a year ago. whose highest ideal had been to livo and die my ser- Tlxis girl knew the power of her own beauty, and her manner, though friend- we will drive to I'addington, these ? ner eyes, sucn as one sees ir , , - -i jr. those of a dumb animal unjustly treat- Speed of five iniies a minute. oelv ed. "What is the matter child? Are fail. parcels of yours In the cloak-room, where I suppose you left your other lug- "Xo: It's to be sent on from Weston- super-Mare." "Well, in any case. w will drop all ( tears were gathering in her eyes. "It's nothlnR I'm tired something' you said. Do give me a glass at cham- pagne: It will pull me togfther." I called to a waiter, who at once serv- ( ed her. and In a few seconds she was ' laughing at me over the edgo of herj "But I know It does every Thursday. Do you suppose that, living there. 1 shouldn't know?" "Then." 1 said. Ignoring the interrup- tion, "we will send a telegram to Mrs. Morland. announcing the time ot your return you will be fearfully late, by and bye " "Oh. the telegram Is already sent! Just before I met you I telegraphed to tell Mrs. Morluud not to expect me be- fore one o'clock or a little after." "Then she knows you are In town.'" "She'll know by this time. But she will think I am with my friends, BO It's all right. So that, you see, Mr. Hervey. we needn't go to Taddlngton Station. which Is a nasty, ugly place; but 1 can lust have my dinner now directly. Here is a shop with lovely red tomtitoes and dear little live lobsters and small bot- tles of champagne in th window. I've had nothing to eat since nine o'clock in the morning, and its seven. After din- ner you must take me to a theatre. Just to see a little bit of it I'd rather go ' next merry meeting. "You will send me down some chain.-, pagne when vou are married to Lady Margaret Lorimer. won't you?" she said. "So that T can drink to your future hap- i pln*ss. *"or 1 suppose I am not grand enough to be allowed to come up and see the wedding?" It Jarred upon me intolerably to hear her allude to my wedding, and I am ashamed to ay that her matter-of-fact mention of it. and the total absence ot . feeling she displayed on the subject, hurt me more than 1 can say. "I do hope." she said, later on, a little timidly "that you will think b->tt-r of your determination not to allow me to KO on the stage. After all how am 1 go- ing to live after 1 leave school?" "You will marry." I said a little bit- terly. "Never!"' 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It wns "Bohemian, ' and Bohemian in Its old sense, and not Its latter-day signification. Not the ; wvalthv. noisy irregularity of comlc- song s'lnsing, musjc-hall loving stock- ! broKeis and their kind admire, but the ; hand-to-mouth, happy-go-lucky. half- i tears half-smiles existence of strug- i Kilns poets, painters, and journalists, tt life that 1 had known closest In my st'idont days, was brought before "But, my child, somewhere where there's dancing, like | and occasionally coquettish. feel forced Into a loveless marriage echo of the worlds French verbs at Morland House for an- other nine months, until I am 'finished to R turn, like a Joint nicely roasted!" She was In bubbling good humor, eyes and llrs laughing, and little dimples peeping In and out of her cheeks. I took her Into the restaurant which had cap- tivated her fancy by no means the - -, place I should have chosen for dinner me irresistibly by this tfvcly. shabbily | everything. dicss.nl child, with tho worn shoes, th?! Heedless to say. e tnln, with a lady, although it was well known for the excellence of Its cuisine. It would certainly be the last time that 1 and my she "might 1 as well have her own way in' to me to know what poverty means any more." | Her lovely eyes sought mine with an expression in them, hulf-puziled. half- . tearful, which I could not understand. "You are doing all this for me."' she, murmured: "although yea don't even want me for yourself. 1 can't under- CHAPTKR XV. 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