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.. civil to the step father to whom he owed so c ~ough ; she was your own ohild-I ,your De Gretton will give her lovelmess a golden " I cannot ask men to man v me," Christ· Love's Chase. settmg ; she will have sense. to see that, 1f me sa.1d colflly ; but the rebellious blood much, which was one reason why Nora kept hhsbfind's only." A>".l'El\ READING HERRICK. a soft place rn her heart for her rather "But dear tome as my own, Nora. You the new life will give her no ecstatic happ1· rose under her transparent skin and!wa.rned "It must be sweet to be in love,graceless step· brother. ca!.not deny that I have been a good mother, ness, it will bung at least enjoyment and Mis. Brnce to let that pa.rt of the subject .At le1tct, so all the maidens prnve it content." rest. He seemed immensely relieved when a g11od wife." TOLD IN TWO LE'ITER~ ~ .Alas! my heart's so ha.rd," she sighed, S) the mau, who really loved his mother· the Captam answered with a sort of nervous 1'lora. shrugged her sl~oulders; she fe1t in· ··Well, well, I did not say you could, " I fear that love will never move it; ll.I "28Cerlar ~ New expressibly weary of the whole d1scus6ion, le's child in his own faint half hearted child ; I wish 'ou would not mterrapt so dec1s1onFor, out of books, I cannot find nl : York, Oct. 2s; 1882, .A smgle lover to my mmd. " Not to-day, Vance ; Lord de Gretton of the woman's pertinacity, of her own con· fashion. swallowed the glittermg blit that ridiculously. Nora. was the person we were "Gentlemen My father resides at Glover, fuse.l thoughts. is ~ommg over, and--" daugled so temptingly before him, and not d1scussrng; and I do Aay that It 1s rather "I've thought of all the lads I know; Vt. He has been a great suiferer f rom Scrof"Oh, ah, so he is !"-with a quick grim· "I do not complain," she said. "As you only deserted her in the hour of pen!, but hard the only iesult of all our trouble and .And on each one have long reflected ; ula, and themclosed letter will tell you what But since I find they a.11 have faults, ace of disgust. "Well, so long as I don't say, my father would have married some pushed her forward to her doom. expense should be an en11agement that may "marvelous e.tl'ect Perforce I've every one rejected" take Nora with me, he will not grumble at one, and it m12ht have been worse." Perhaps it was hardly strang-e that, m come to nothmg after all." Sl1e leaned agamst the wmdow there, my absence," It was a grudging admission at best, preoenoe of such strong temptatiou, Duncan "Nora must t.1ke her chance with the rest .A cbltrmrng prnttu·e of despair, This was indisputably true, as Lord de though 1tcost no small effort to make ; but Bruce should prove lnmself thus weak. of us," Cnsttna said coldly. "Life callnot But growmg weary soon, she cried, Gretton had, in his cold and silent fashion, from Lord de Gretton's chosen one 1t was Life had never been over-bright to !um since be all sunsbme even for hei. Her dull looks changmg all to laughter, has had in his case. I think his blood must more than once displayed a stately disap- more than enough ; the step-mother was Nora's mother died. aud it seemed at its All sunshme ! Even as she spoke the bit"Cupid, Ive chased you long enoughh:<ve contamed the humor for at least ten aff~cted almost to tears, proval of Vance Srngleton's httle ways. very darktst when fate brought Lord de ter jeg,lousy-prompted \fords, ill new~ was ! thmk it's your turn to come after I " years; but 1t dtd not show, except 111 tho form Bnt those who !mew the rmud aver "Shall you be away long, Vance?" asked "Thank you, Nora dear," she said, with Gretton to Nettleton and across the path of fiashmg over land and sea., the news of au of a scrofulous sore on the wnst, until about 'l'hat1t wasiwho followed her. a grateful whimper. "I knew that sooner Nora Bmce, his mother. engagement in which our at ms had aeffeied yoars ago. From a few spots which ap-w. H., in the Century ·· Bnc a-Brae." "Not more than two or three days," he or later you would do me Justice, woulcl see It 1s not easy at the best of times for a a defeat, m which our toes had been savage- five peared at that time, it graclually spread so as ~~~--·.-...~~ answered carelessly; and, looking up, Nora that we always aC'ted for your good-your man with a small rncome and an extraval:(ant ly cruel ; and fi rs t on the long list of the to cover his cntuo body. I assure you he was family to keep his head "a.hove water;" and dead was the no.me of Arthur Beaupre. Mrs. was surprised to see a. vivid flush stam the father and I," terribly af!llctod and an ObJeCt of pity, when "We were not talking of my father," the when times arn b;1.d the mev1table submerg· Bruce was selfish and 1111sympathet1c, but smooth brouze skm. ' he began usmg your medicine. Now, there am Vance Smgleton blushing l Even in her other mterrupted, with jealous haste ; "that ence seems ever at hand. 1v!rs. Bruce was not mhuman. I·'ven she shed 11 few tears few men of his .1ge "ho enJOY as good heal th an active, energetic woman, a thntty house when she thought of the young hie cut self-absorbed misery she could hardly help is qmte anotrier ~hml.(." as ho has. I could easily name fifty persons ··But it is your father I must speak of, keeper, and a manager of notable talent; short at its b11ghtest, and ot all the innowho would testtfy to the facts in hIS caso su11Ung at such a phenomenon as that. CHAPTER I. '\V. M. PHILLIPS." Yours truly, He ca.ught the glance, interpreted its won- Nor'a.-your poor father, whose future com· but, as she herself sau.l, poor as the llrnces cent hopes that must perish with 1t. With "We understand th<tt a marriagEi is Sr· der and amusement aright, and bit his lip fort depends on you. Lord de Gretton could wet·e, they were the p11ncip.t! people 1n a httle hyater1u cry i.he thTew down the 0 ml vi ould do so much to make him hap,>y Nettleton, and that cons1de1at10n demand· new< paper. ranged betwAen Lord de Gretton of Gretton vexedly. "<:lood·bye, Nora. I won't forget your and set his mind at ease ; he said as much ed some expenditu1 e rn dress. ··Poot, poor Arthur, and poor Nora too! Ca.stle ancl ~fos Nora. Brune, daughter of a duty for me to state to yon the benefit I wedd1"'g present l" he cried, with a revenge· last mght." This, translated, meant ~hat Mrs. Bruce 'Vho ts to break the news to hei ? I ca.n· Captarn Dunc rn Bruce, R.N." have derived from the use of Nora did not answer, Mrs. Bruce sus had a daughter to marry. ani that Nettle· not." "There. Nor"' I" Mrs. Bruce's handsome fulnod; and then wlustlmg a little out of " I can," Cristine crierl through her aquilme face flushed with trmmph as she tune to cover his confusion, be strolled r,ff, pected her of not listening, though in truth ton adjumed a Cavalry ct,.pot, In which she Nora was n'.lt long in following his ex· every word she spoke sank straight to th~ hoped to find a happy huntm~ gruund for teeth; and, looking up, Mts, Bruce saw first read t be all important paragraph out that her dauirhter's face had gwwn deathly Nora and Cristme. for the eddi.cat1ou of t.he breakfasting-party, ample. Her head and heart ached heavily, very bottom of her sore heart. Six months rigo I was completely covered with It was a.11 true. Tbe milltl life had been The step sisters were hardly likely to white and h<:r eyes had a c, uel st~ ely and then push"d thA fashionable paper across and she longed with a wild eager longing to a te1rlble humor and sc1ofulous sores. '.lhe to her step-daughter. "All the co:: mtry be once more alone-alone with her know· harrl and cheerless ; muc1'9'ork and little prove rivals, she thought, as she surv"yed ghttf'r. humor caused an mcessant and intolerable knows it now. My dear, dear child, you ledge that her fate was sealed, with the pay had dimmed the bright eyes and broken them with a critrnal 1<pp1Aciahon ot their " " CJ.n you, C is?" she ahked doubtfully. ltchmg, and tho slnn crncked so as to causa memo1y of her old sorrow, with her sore the brave spirit with which young Duncan widely differing chat ms N or,t was demded· [ am ·ure :, ou ar., vet v good and brave are a favorite of fortuno indeed l" ~ the blood to fiov m m1111y places whenever Bruce had set forth upon his lite-voyage. ly the h:i.nd~omer now ; but h~r"' w,1s a Bu.~ how stiange you look nh1lcl, almost--" Nora's first impulse was to push away the and achirg heart I movecl. My sulferrngs we1e great, and my Her hours of freedom were so few now, Hts lot had been the lot of :qi.any another beauty tl1at was Jong m rtpenmg, and she Almost as tnou;:h I cared," Cm.tme hfo a bui den. I commenced the use of lth6 }>aper angrily ; but she felt that her motheF's anxious eyes were on her, and, restraining were diminishing with such cniel speed, In man who, unbacked by inflnential fri:mda or was youngt.r thau Mis~ Smgleton by fully suppl.,mented, with a reckless lau"n 80..RSAPARILLA m Apnl last, and haYe used the impulse, answered with tolerable com- six weeks' time she would be Lord de Gret· powerful mterest, essays to make his way four yea1 s; so that for a "hile tho th1n, ' 0,mld 1 care for a man who threw me o~e: it regula1ly smco that t ime. My oond1t10n 10 a jealously-guarded profession. Younger ton's wife; and then-then she must fling dark, pass1·milte look1 ng girl contrast.,<} dis- a.r1u slighted m<:> Jor-N01 a 2" began to improve at once. The sores have posureall healed, and I feel perfectly well in every The last word w.is uttered in sheer rnr· " Fortune is fickle, Mrs. Bruce"-she all her thoughts forward, must Jet her fancy and luckier men had passed him in the race advantageously with her light haued, light· of life ; gates at which !us patient ment respect-being now able to do a g;ood day's eyed, hly-~lnnned step sister. B·tt there prise, for N ora stood within the dooL"way, never called her mother's successor only play with the future, and never dally had battered in v:.i.in had opened in his sight were some who even 10 those early days dis- winter th.in her white di·ess, and with " wo1 k, althougn 73 years of age. Ma.lit Inquire "mother"-"she may w1thchaw her favors with the dear, dea<l, dangerous pa.st. to golden keys. No wonder that rn his early what has wrought such a cure in U'l:Y\.,.;..S-e, and In six weeks' time it would be sm to open cerned a rnre and splendid promise rn the dreadful look of froz~n horror m bei: d~rk still." I tell them, as I have here tned to foll you, Mrs. Bruce only nodded, and her son, the big silver locket that had lain :n her retmnnent he felt dai;ed and at odds with e.11 g1psy-look1ns< child, aud proph<isied a day g1ay eyes AYER'S SAl\SAPARILLA. Glover, Vt., Oct. ··Arthur," Bbe cued, in a long agomzsd m which C:r1stme'~ clull 1 egulanty of out. Vance Singleton, looked up with a half· bosom so long, to gaze through blinding the world. Yours gratefully, ·· Remember, this is the first piece of good hne would pass uunot1ced rn the ~low of wail th<tt seemed to wound her slender 21, 1882. tears mto the brave blue eyes, the frank angry smile from his coffee-cup. liIRAllI PIDLLIPS." tluoat in pasi111g, for she clasped it with "Do you thmk De Gretton will back handsome face that smiled back so kindly, fortune that has ever come in his way, child. Nora's ripened beautv. ·uch a strnnl!!e p<>thet1c g<·sture and her pal· out?" be inquired gracefully. "No fear of to press her chilled lips to the irrespons1 ve For bis sake you w11lnot refuse it." AYER'S SARSAPARILLA cures Scrofula Among the first to maim the discovery Mrs. Bruce was a clever woman in her that, Nora 1 l: ou are a pretty git 1, and glass, and feel as though she touched the cold and all Scrofulous Complaints, Erysip· was Arthur Beaupre, a blue eyed, h'l.ndsome hd lips moved so stfily-"Arthur ! What wiser m you;r gr·nerat10n than I thought yon. cheek of the drnd-sm to dream night and way ; she saw the girl's softened look, and young Lieutenant of Hussars, who had been IS Jt 'l J elas, Eczema, Ringworm, Blotches, struck while the iron was hot. day of the hot red sand in which her soldier'VV1thout a word Cnstme Singleton placed Sores, Bolls, Tum01·s, and Eruptions of l:'eer as he 1s, I think he bas made an ex· Nora walked stiaight across the room to one ot Miss Smgleton's most favored and the newspaper rn her hand. 1'he1·e was no cellent bargain." · boy had fallen-am to remember that one the Skin. It clears the blood of all impuconstant partners, until gray·eFd Nora the table at whi"h h1-1r father sat, forlorn and summer day in wluch Arthur fleau· golden mercy m the hard revengeful woman'8 Mrs. Bruce flashed an angry glance at the rities, atds dlgest1on, etimula.tes tho action of haggard lookmg in the brilliant mormng ca.me upon the scene, when he transferred thou)l;ht, but tho a0t itself was merciful. 1'o pre told hrn love, unabashed Vance. Nora's pale face shadow· the bowels, and thus restores vitality and his attentions, with startlmg and unflattersunshine, a desperate purpose swelling m "Oh, Arthur, Arthur, why did you die break the news 1n any tender fcmmme ed a little, and Cristme Singleton shrugged ing rapidity, to her. strengtbens the whole system. and leave me here? Life without you is too her heart and mging her on to feverish acher slender shoulders disdamfully. Cnstrne was not slow to note his defcc· fashion would only have been to prolong could make him happy with a t10n. Bhe PREPARED llY hard, too bitter !" she had cned m her re"'.l'he first effect of your new dignity, tion ; and she resented 1t, 111 her cold silent .Nora's agony ; to strike straight home was Nora," she said, with her faint supercilious belliou8 pam, and, m the tit st bttterness of word ; why should she not spev.k it? It fashion, bitterly enough. She never, even wisest and mo.t kmd. Dr. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. There r<trig th1ough the long room one smile. "When Vance begins to pay you her grief, had prayed wildly and passionate- could n0t injure Arthur now; and for her to her morn than sympathetic mother, open· what did it matter? wild heart broken cr y, the echo of which Sold by all Druggists; $1, six bottles for $5. compliments, you may feel that you are a ly that she too might die. ed her lips upon the snbJect ; but her crys"Papa, look at m...,, please," she said quite lmgered uncomfortably for many months m great lady aheady." But the Ani1el of death had been deaf to tal clear, pale blue eyes glittered w1th·au Vance smiled, and nodded his black her prayers. Does he ever come for our call- cooly and firmly. "D.:i you wish me to mar- angry fire as they followed the young and Mrs, Bruce's ears, and then Nora. Bl'Uce fell to the ground face forward, like one stricken Does ho not rather love to follow ry Lord de Gretton ?" head, q te untroubled by his sister's ing i He raised his eyes at the appeal, then well-matched pair about the room, anrl m to the heart. sneer, those who shrrnk from and fly from him, her inmost heai't she reg1atered a vow to be "You h<1ve lulled her!" the s tep-mother "Tru-.iuJ Nora. Ydu have risen aed set the willing sacufice aside? A year, dropped them quickly on the paper, and said revenged, a vow that was kept consistently a low tonecried, with mmgled fear and anger ; but enormoualvi timation in the last feVI' and half another, pMsed away, and found in the bitter days to come. " You muat choose for your· elf, child. Cnstme only shrugged her shoulders with days ; and, rissie proves a better her not only liv1ng still, but with unfaded Arthur Beaupre waa more than a pleasant inwleut contempt angler than s as hitherto been, and beauty and undiminished charm ; for the Lord de Gretton has done youagreathonor. partner, he was an e)1gible pai t1, as the pr u· "Better fo~ her perhaps if I had. She may brings even the m.i.llest of fish safely to man whose mere comrng threw the small He has much to offer," dent Cristine had been careful to inform live to wish that death had come m such a "To offer you, pnpa ?" land, I promise her a compliment too." commnmty mto a nervous flutter had wooed His thm face flushed ; but he answered herself before she accorded the full sunshrne merciful fash10n, and you may wish it for Cnstme's eyes flashed dangerously, and her for his wife ; and she was from that mo· of her smile. The eldest son of a rich mer· her too." ment, in the estimation of her neighbors, promptlyMrs. Bruce hastened to interpose. " Yes; he can give me what I have not cha.ut and lauded p10pnetor, young, h!l.nd· . The ~ords were spoken in the heat of pas. "How you children do squabble!" she the luckiest, happiest girl, not only in all said peevishly. "Ooe would thmk you took Nettleton, but in all England too. Happy? known for years-freedom from debt. some, and a general favorite, he had been s10n, with only such meanin~ as pas~ion the mark of each manreuvring "mamma" gives; yet Cristine ~mgleton lived to feel no pleasure in your suter'sgood fortune1 You Ah, well, they did not know l Tears had peace of mind-a little rest before I die." He pushed back hi~ scanty gray hair with and his marked devotion had been t~e that some t·pmt of malignant prophecy had will hardly Jet her speak between you, not washed the faint roses from her smooth Nora, my cle:ir"-with sudden affectionate creamy skin, had not dimmed the bright- such a tired gesture. but looked at her with proudest feather iu Oristme's cap of con- descended upon her that dny, and made her ool101tude- "yonr coffee 1s quite cold. Rmg ness of the dark gray jet.fringed eyes be- such a trusttul smile, that she hesitated no quest. To lose him to any one ~ould have the mouthpiece of a cruel, overshadowing been hard mdeed, to lose him to Nora was fate, for some more, Vance ; the child has had queathed her by her Imh mother ; pain had longer, THE BIG "That is enough, papa," she said bending unbearable, She had never loved her step· For long weeks Nora. Bruce lay between traced no wrinkles on the low smooth brow, no bre!lkfast. ' down to kiss him. "When Lord de Gret- s1Ster overmuch : she hated her from that life and death, and those who watched her nor planted one silver thread m the blne· Kora smiled a little bitterly, and quite as moment with a fierce and virulent hatred never knew which way the scale wvuld turn. ton asks me, I will say 'Yes."' scornfully as Cristine, whoae angty glance black lmghtness of the soft tipplmg hair. "Heaven bless you, Nora I" brokP, in that was not for one second softened, that But youth and strength con'l_ uerec l even the The tal 1 slender form was still erect, mst1nct she had mtercepted. For twelve years noeven exulted cruelly m her bitter :.nd qmok- w1oh to die, and slowly but surely the Mrs Bruce, with an effusive gasp. thing m the house had been so little constd· with ~upple,healthful grace. Only her heart ly0coming grief. Her father said nothmg; but, as the girl "angel with the amaranthme wreath" with· ered, had been so mtimtes1mally umml?ort· was dead. And yet even the hardest might have drew. She was so sure of this last fact that clung to him with sudden pa.ssion, she ant, as the comfort of Nora Bruce; but tl.e been melted by that bnef tragedy of love heard him draw a long breath of relief, But in w1thdrawma he left the stranrre comfort of the future Lady De Gretton was she grew to feel a certain pride and safety in and death. Hardly had the pretty summer apathy that made the"' girl a mere autom~· * * * * ~ quite a different thing. Had she been one the th'Jught, to look with a certam superior 1dyl been lived through, hardly had the ton m the hands of those around her. L1fo Vaguely and dreamily the girl ponde1e1 shade less miaerable than she was, she must scorn apon the world that could hardly hurt her past, and nerved heraeli to face the young man told his love and won from the have taken a cynical pleasure in watohmg her mere. 'With all the hopes ancl d1eama future, the futurn that stretched so blank shy sweet girlish l;ps the falterrng confes- held for N(Jra no possibility of happmea now; she coulli only, she thought, be more or Je,s her step mother's transparent manceuvres, of youth buried in Arthur Beaupre's grave, and bare before her. s10ns of hers, hardly bad Captain Bruce's wretuhed ; and it was easier to yield and aud must have extracted a malicious amuse- she wai1, at one.and-twenty, aa safe from consent been asked and given to the mar· " I can bear it," she eried, with a sort of make her father happy than to dash his last ment from tne hot coffee, thesmoking cakes, fierce pa111 as desolate of hope. bitter pathos-"oh, yes, I can bear it, or nage that ·nuld give to Ins bnlhant child at home. Aud the deltcate confect10ns, now pressed upon It was not a good or healthy frame of mind, my heart ts dead ! But will it be long? I as fair a lot as he could have desired for her, hopes and hve on rn misery her with such tender ca.re, But, with a but it was t hat rn which Lord de Gretton tlunk not -I hope not ! JYiy mother died at when, ltke a thunderbolt out of a summer so 1t chanced that A lb0 rt G.ant, Lord de broken heart, a shadowed past, and a future found hei, which rendered her phant as wax three-and·twenty, and she left love and hope sky, there came upon the scene of tranq u1I Gretton, m the 57th year of Jus age, became the accepted husband of Nora Bl'Uce, then from which one shrinks with sicJl.ening to her father's wish, her step-mother's Im· behmd ; I Ghall go to mme." happiness the news of the South African barely twenty-one. dread, it is hard to bugh e-ven m bitterness periou s will. She nurs.id lier moody thoughts nnt111 troubles, the sudden summons to the seat of (TO BE CONT!NUED,) "It will save your father's hfe child " Cnstine Srngleton, in au elaborate after· war. and scorn. "But that is not the only newspaper-no Mrs. Brnce said, her shrill voice quiveri~g noon costume, oame toiling up the steep hill One day Nettleton gossiped at afternoon tice Nora has won," drawled Cris~ie, ns she with nervous excitement, _per sh:i.r;i: hand to whe1e she was s1ttmg to iemmd her that tea, on the croquet·lawn, and m the t ems· How Small Expemlitm·es Cost. looked up from the bread-and·butter she some face all aglow. "Cih, Nora '- there Lord de Gretton was expected. court over the news of ~orn Brace's ene-age· Five cents each morning-a mere trifle was cutting fantastically and eatmg not at was real pathos 10 the look she cast across "And you will be so fit to zeceive him !" ment and the girl's astoundmg luck ; next Tlurty-five cents per week-not much ; yet all-for, m her new-born c:i.re of the bride· the shabby room of her husband, with his she added, su1veying the pale girl with day the gossips had fresh food for conjec· 11, would buy coffee and su1rar for n whole elect, Mrs. Bruce had for once ignored her gray head bent above the rickety old wnt· much disfavor. "I wonder you cara to ture, m the departu10 of the -th Hussars, fam1:y, $18 Zti a ye,ir-and this am,unt in· own children, "Did you chance to see the mg-table, and the mornmg sunlight stream· dream away your days in this wood ; 1t and young Beaupre's chance of ever commg vested in a savings bank at the end of a year Universe last night?" mg through the high narrow wmdow find- must remmd you so of Arthur Beaupre." back to "the girl he left behind him." and t:1e mterest thereon computed annually Norn shook her head indifferently; but rng out every line in his fine worn face, The cruel thrust went home. The great By the lovers themselves the news was would in twelve years amount to more tha~ Mrs, Bruce colored and bit herl1 p. every wrmkle in his poor threadbare coat- gray eyes dilated ; and, with a face as white $679 - en'.lugh to buy a good farm m the "What nonsense you talk, Cristine!" she "remember what a life 1t has been for the a.a death, the girl hurned down to meet her very differently receiveJ. Arthur Beaupre West. was too deeply in Joye not to adnnt that the cried sharply, makmg a desperate effort to last twelve years for us all ! Don't, my dear future lord. Fi 10 cents before brenkfast, dinner and summons w'"s at least mopportune, but too catch her daughter's stud1ously·averted sweet girl, that I have loved hke my OWl.i true and ard£nt a soldier to find 1t wholly supper; you'd hardly miss it , yet it ts fifteen eyes. "Even 1f dear Nora's time were not cluld-don't forget what hes in ) our power unwelcome. The excitement of the commg cents a day-$1.05 per week. Enough to CHAPJ'ER II. so fully occupied as it needs muHt be, you now-don't condemn us to ~uch an existence fray thrilled through his quick young blood buy a small library of books. Invest this know she never ca1·ed for society papers as forever I" "It will be for her good, I believe," said and set his blue eyes l),fl'l.rne with a different as before, :.i.nd rn twenty years you have oudo," Nora did remember distinctly enough Ca.ptain Bruce a little nresolutcly, fire from that whtch ha.ti brm1ght a hot rich 0 1 or $3,000. Qmte enough to buy a good ' "Neve1· did care," corrected Cristine. what those twelve years-the years of her ··It will be for the good of us all, I house and lot. "Tastes change-don't they, Nora? She will step mother's married life- had been-years kn)w," answered Mrs. Bruce, with no glow to Nora's crerJ.m-smooth cheek. T.in cents each morniu!{- hardly :ll'orth a "Yon must not f1et, darlmg; you are a of grmdmg poverty and much pretentious shadow of doubt m her brisk crisp tones. be a. leader of society now. " second thought ; ) et, with it you can buy a soldier's wife, you know," he sa1cl, with "That she will," clumed in Mrs. Bruce show, years m which she had suffered much " De Gretton 1s a gentleman, though so p<>per of prns or a spool of thread, Seventy proudly; and she seemed to loom fargerand more actual hardship than either Mrs. Bruce much older, so unsmted to her, perhaps, m proud and fond authority. "\Ve shall thrash CNI s per week- it would buy several yards more mi posing than ever in her smart morn· or her daughter-for ChnstmeSmgleton had many ways," went on the Captarn, with these mggers sooner than they thin~, and of muslm ; $3G 50 m one year-deposit this then I shall come back for my reward." ing·dresa and cap of gorgeous color . "Oh, beeen pe1sistently put forward at her step· nervous mcoherence. He looked so gallant and bnght, so full of amount as before, and yo1i would have Duwmn, to t hmk that our dear child should sister's expense- but years that now seemed " Lord de Gretton is liberality itself, and, $2,340 in twenty years, qmte a snug little brmg us such pride and joy I It is more in the retrospect, peaceful and \J.appy as for age, what does that matter? She has high hope and cour"ge, as he stood there iu fortune. '.!'en cents before each br<·aktast, the morning sunohmc, loath to speak the than we ever could have hoped for-Heaven cno11gh. lived out her romance with young Beaupre, dnmer ana supper- thirty cents a d~y. It ... "Nothing lasts forever I" the girl cried, and is the most fortunate girl in the world farewell word, and yet eager to depart, that would buy a book for the clulJ ren; $2 10 bless her !" And, murmuring the piou~ FIN~ bened1ct1on, she buried her still fine eyes in with a hard bitter laugh. "I th~ught papa to have so splendidly soltd a reality to fall Nora could not bear to damp his spints with a week, enough to pay for a yoar's subscnp· the black shadow of her fen.r. She gulped and I were to live alone for ever, Mrs. back upon." Jlim of snowy cambric. t1011 to a good newspaper; $109.50 par year Vance Smgleton grmned broadly as he Bruce ; then you came, and all that life "Ah, ye ! Poor Arthur, if he had been her sobs down with :>n heroic effot t, and -with it you could buy a good melodeon looked up with pale bravery into his face. gave vent to a mimic sob ; Crissie drew he_, ended," living-- ' "Heaven keep you, Arthur, and send you from which yon could procu1e good music, At any other time the retort would havEo faintly·ma,.ked brows together, and glarec "Luckily for us he is not, " Mrs, Bruce to pleasantly while the evenmg hcurs away. into her coffee.cup. Captain Bruce fidgetec cost her dear, and, as it was, t he step· interrupted fervently ; "otherwiso the way back tome!" " 'Till death us do part.' Remember that , Ani this amount mvested as before, would uneasily under the pathetic appeal and mother's hps quivered; but she forced a would have been block1·d mdeed. It would 111 torty yeare produce the des1ra.blc amount smile, and answered au~,velylooked across at h is daughter. have been heart-bre(1king, maddening, to Nora. Only death can come between us of $15,000. "Nora 1s a good girl,' he said a littlener· " As this wui ena now, you pretty P.aucy see a marvellous piece of good fortune come now." He quoted the words with a sweet mockvously ; and the trouble in his voice anC: in puss-with a marnaga ! You d id not like in the wa,y of an untramed girl hke Nora MY STOCK COMPRISES: his eyes made the girl's heart ache, yet gave my comrng, Ncra; you were a passionate and run the risk of berng rejected. No, no," ing smile that dwelt wholly in the deep blue Ensily Accotmted Fo1·. her at the same time the only grain of com· chlld even then, and you set yourself against - shaking her black head with a sort of easy eyes and scarcely altered the grave firmn~ss "Well, Father Brown, how did you like LA.DIES' KID B001'S A.ND SHOES. fort she was then capable of receiving. She me from the first. But J·cm· dear father and cheerful resignation- " I was very of the hps; but it aied away ae he went on, the sermon yesterday?" asked a young LA.DIES' CALF, KID BUTTON & LA.CED could, at least, with -Lord de Gretton's aid, would have married some one, Nora- he is a shocked when I heard of the poor youn).{ and left the mobile face entirely sad. For preacher. make hfe a llttle easier to him. man that must be looked after-and as well fellow's death ; but now I can see it was all him too the partmg wrench was come. "Ye see, parson, " was the reply, "l L.A.DIES'FRENCH KID, BUTTON & LA.OED. So she smiled back cheerily, glad to see me as another " They clung together for a few brief mo haven't a fair chance at them sermons of for the best." LA.DIES' KID SHOES, BUTTON & TIE. the worn face brighten at that smile, swal. Nora laughed in spite of herself; there Duncan Bruce thrnst his hands into his mcnts, the do.rk sh'l.dow of a cruel destiny yours. I'm 1111 old man now, and have to LA.DIES' GO.A.T & PEBBLE, BUTTON & TlE lowed a mouthful of coffee, and turned to was something so supremely absurd in the rockets, jingled savagely the keys therein, hovering over them the while. Then, with sit pretty well back by the stove, and there's Cnstine with the careless questionthought of the imr-'C<tous woman who had and relieved his feelings with an impatient a sharply-indra wn breath that was all but a old Miss Smithie, Widder TJJ.ff, 'n Ry land's .A.lso Mens' ancl Children's of the above goocls " And what does the Uuiverse find to say lon1 ridden rough shod over Nora Bruce sigh. His wife's mock piety jarred upon sob, Arthur Beaupre tore himself away, and aaughterR, 'n Nabb Birt, 'n all the rest set- MEN'S LONG BOOTS, COARSE AND FINE, laboriously explaining her twelve year·old his finer taste; but he did not attempt to Nora kn<lW that she was alone. of me?" tin' in front o' me with their mouths wide MEN'S LADE BOOTB,lJOARSE AND FINE. "Nothing that you nMd mind," broke in marriage to the possible Lady de Gretton of contradict her, Oa this occasion, for a won· The days that followed were filled with open a-swallerm' down all the best of the Mrs. Bruce hastily, with a thereatenmg the future. MEN'S FINE SHOES AND GAITERS. der, the m11.rried pair were really not at cruel wearing pam for the girl who had no sermon, 'n what gets down to me 19 pretty The lau17h appeared to cheer the elder wo· odds. glance at her rebelhous child, '· excitement and no duty to buoy her spmts poor stuff, parson, pretty poor stuff." MEN'S AND LADIES' SLIPPERS.! :ili\ll! "Nothing that I shall mind; be sure of man nnmensely; she threw one arm around In his mmost heart Captain Bruce was up, and whose over-active imagination tor· All the above goods sold that," she answered, with forced boldness, the girl's shoulders and would have kissed quite as an11:ioua for the marriage as hrn tured her with ever -present pictures of the and a cool stare in Crissie's pale gleaming her, but she slipped acftly aside. wife, thcp1l:(h he shrank from expressing his perils her lover ran. As the summer faded Neuralgla Treated by the Tmling Fork. "Yon look eo pretty when you laugh, wish w1~ her outspoken frankness, He had and passed away, as the autumn days grew eyes, "I thmk I can guess the style of pai·Dr. Rason applies the tuning fork, while agra h that Cristine most delights in." child; those teeth of yours are like httle a conscienee, and 1t pricked him painfully brief and chill, and the first keen breath of vibratm{?, over the course of ~he painful " Of course you can, that young lady pearls against your pretty red lips, Ah, 1f when he saw the betrothed pair side by side wmter blew over the land, the great gray nerve. The s1ttmg usually lasts about half --(0)agreed sedately- "the usual delicate badi- my Crissie had only. your attractions I" and read the chill repugnance on Nora's eyes had an eager longing look that was in· an hour, and the patient 1s generally roliev nage anent 'May and December'-'Our new She paused and sighed profounrlly, as pale, beautiful face. But the pricks we1·e finitely pathetw. the bright color faded, ell without further treatment. H e records heraldry is hands, not hear ts ;' you know though Cristine's foture was really too only sharp enough to make himself uneasy the softly-rounded cheek grew thin and bis method m the Ginn. Lan. and Olin. that sort of thing-awfully amusmg, but gloomy for contemplation. Nora checked and unhappy- they did not stir him to save pale. 11hocking sty le." her with irrepr essible scorn. Nothmg about the girl. "Nora looks wretched," said Mrs. Bruce, IA.1'\JD { "Never mmd, my young kid, I'm going "Would not you like to be so pilloried, her seemed meaner than this desertion of "After all," he would argue plausibly making her pettish complamt to her s1leutly up to see your mother a bout this." "That s Cris '" Vance rose and stretched himself as her daughter. enough, "puttmg us out of the question, observant child. "Really we are the most he put the malicious questiou; a nd then, " How your opinions change, Mrs. Bruce ! such a marriage 1s the bes.t thmg possibfo unlucky family that ever IJved I Tbe dress- all right," yelled back the small bo;y, "you withoutpausmg for an unswer, he turned to It is not so long smce you held up Crissie as for her. She ha.s loved once-she is her maker's bill has just come Ill ; it will make just go right along up ther e. Pa filled a receive prompt attention, his step-father and said, "l am off to town 1i. model I might vainly emulate, and bewiJd. mother's own child, Heaven bless her I- and your father more miserable and disoontented man full of buckshot the other day for going to·day, sir. No ()hance of your company, I C·ted me with the long l ist of her graces and that once will mean for ever ; and left than ever, and really is enough to turn to see my ma." STORJiJ: One door west ST.ATESMAN ofil o suppose?" iierfections. Mmd, I am not grumbling at to herself, she would make all the rest of her every hair on my head gray, Yet see how A pohtica.l newspaper is probably called He looked as though he rather dreaded that," she added hastily, as the other was life a dream of sorrow. My beautiful Nora our campaign has ended I You are alto· an organ because it is freq_uently a wind m than desired it ; but Vance was a.lways 1.ilout to interpose-·" that was natural a poor and sorrowful old maid ? No, no ! gether unprovided for I" strument run by a crank. - rii'PMMSWN& h '* _ ... ooew &! e··cwuwww At tiliWfiS*iWiiMQ&! A snw- m·UW&*F86£3§f# iianwp2+tQiA AQAtiMHWMllWDilf&WLil@& Rfi& A MARVELOUS STORY FROM THE So Ayer's Sarsaparilla 4JUPIDITY AND CRIME. FROM THE FATHER: ~fe~!~l'.'~ !~ Ayer's Sarsaparilla. ~ TWIN-NAVY 10 ~~PLUG SMOKE !;oo·ts&Shoos. ~~~ .............................. ~~- CHEAP FOR CASH. 0RDERED WORK REPAIRING DAVID DAVIS.