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.7,” r .ggf‘; 61 on cAsrs. memes;- eeeeeeeoeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeageeeeeeeeeoeeeeeeeeg CON FUSION Or Gentility Vs. _ Nobility of Soul. WWW “WWW $WWWWW$W$$ $W$¢W$$W$ SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS .â€"Mr. 'l‘relawney, a scholarly recluse, marries Letty, the niece of Mrs. Markham, his houseâ€" keeper. CHAPTER XI. “I wonder if he will love me more after 01:: baby is born !” Letty be- gan timidly to think to herself when the summer came. There arose for her in those months when she learned that Was going to have a child ; prospect, though half ..terrifying for a few brief first moments, rapidly bright summer she came to fill her thoughts and heart| with a joy that, cven’in the Small degree in which it' was revealed to him, her husband could but dimly understand. To him, indeed, the expected adâ€" vent of a child into his ’ hitherto peaceful house, I fear, was only a very doubtful matter of congratulaâ€" tion. "God bless me !” he ejaculat- ed precipitately when llh‘. Gibson first communicated the tidings to him, and he half started from his chair, and then sat down again, and passed his hand nervously through his hair, with a look upon his face, ‘far less ,like rapture than consterna- tion., ' But happily when this took place only Mr. Gibson was present in the room, and the doctor felt no hesita- tion in openly laughing at him. Pos- sibly in the course of a long expeâ€" rience he had seen other expectant fathers affected in something of a similar way from the same cause. He laughed for a moment or two, and then he composed his face, and said :â€" "You mustn’t put on a look like that before Mrs. Trelawney, you know. Why, it's a very good thing for you, isn’t it ? You don't want to grow old, and not have chick or child belonging to you ?" "I don’t know. I think I could stand being without them with tolâ€" erable answered rather lugubriously. "Well, you are not going to be called upon to stand it, you see.” "So it seems.” And Mr. Trelawney looked'round his quiet study with an involuntary sigh. Perhaps he was asking in his heart : "Shall I have this haven of rest invaded presently ? Will there be no peace for me presently, even here ?" and was inwardly shudder- ing at the thought. But when he saw Letty, happily he had' tenderness and manliness enâ€" ough not to betray to her that Mr. Gibson’s news had given a shock to him. He went to her when Mr. Gibson was gone, and was very good and kind to her. If she was happy in the prospect that Was before her. he Was happy too, he said. It would make a great change in the house, of course, “but we must not take alarm,” he told her bravely, gulping down something, perhaps, as he spoke. "We shall do very well, I have no doubt.” And then he kissed her, very Warmly and tenderly, and left her with the happiest heart that she had had for months. Presentlyâ€"when her new happiness should come to make her strong. She referred everything to that time now. “It will all be so different then,” she was always saying to herâ€" self. " "For it will make a wonderful dif-l ferenceâ€"will it. not, aunt ?” she exâ€" claimed eagerly to Mrs. Markham, when she came to her at last. For weeks she had been looking forward to Mrs. Markham’s visit, and when at length her aunt arrived she reâ€" ceived her with almost hysteric gladness, and sobbed and clung to her with an excitement that seemed unaccountable in her sight. “Oh, aunt dear, I’m so glad you have come l" she cried. “You will manage everything now â€"- won’t you ? I have tried so hard to keep things straight, butâ€"but I haven’t been able,” the poor thing said faintly, with her voice beginning to shake. Perhaps she had hardly meant he- forehand to disclose the vague sor- rows of her married life to Mrs. a new dream of hope: the half ludicrous, philosophy,” Mr. Trelawneyl Ilike her ; husband’s‘ | answered, Markham, but one after another she poured them out after this. She was one of those feeble women whose ir- resistible instinct it is to throw themselves and their burdens on some breast stronger than their oxvn and the- temptation before her, in the shape of Mrs. Markham’s moth- erly bosom, was too great for her weak nature to resist. So she cried a little silently, and then she began to tell her aunt how she had struggled and suffered. All the poor trivial miseries, half sad, that those unmanâ€" had those handmaidens of hers herâ€"she told ageable brought upon piteously, not sparing herself or her} ‘ :lawncy’s lips, but he bravely gulped incapacity ; all the Weary sorrow of her heart in her sad discovery, (lay by» day,' of how little her husband’s. _ I V Iher once,” he replied evasrvely, after happiness depended on herâ€"how litâ€" tle he needed herâ€"how much he had lost in marrying her. The whole of this, with passionate, desolate weepâ€" ing, she poured into the elder we- man’s ears. “He is so good to me ; only goodnessâ€"it isn’t wouldn’t matter awayâ€"it Wouldn’t matter to him I died toâ€"morrow,” she sobbed, again and again in her bitter sorrow. but it is It. was not easy for Mrs. Markham} ' “Yesâ€"so I hear. love ; it I’ll try to be‘ happy to him ‘f I went help 1 if don’t mind so muchâ€"that was what --u-uâ€"---u_-â€"-u-u-_-â€"---â€"---â€"â€"f_-.--_--u_-_-n----i-â€"----â€"-_- _________________‘_____________._ "Aboutâ€"the baby.” “But, my dear, you couldn’t help it,” he said. She lifted up her arms and put them round his neck. “I won’t keep you,” she began at once to whisper. "I only want you to say just once, that you’re not. very much disappointed. Dear, is it true ? Are you really not. so vexed ?” And she gazed in his face with an earnestness that filled him with distress. “Certainly not. Certainly not, my darling,” he answered tenderly: “Oh, then, I Won’t mind it‘so much either. And she gave a Sigh of relief. "I’ll try not to mind it at all presently. Have you”â€"suddenly â€"“have you seen her yet, dear ?” “Yes, I saw her for a moment." "And did you"â€"-â€"very timidly, but eagerlyâ€"“did youâ€"think herâ€"nice?" “Xesâ€"yes; very nice.” Mr. Trclawney scarcely knew after- wards how this falsehood could have passed his lips. “Oh, I’m so glad ! They say”- in a tone of tender Complacencyâ€"- “Nurse saysâ€"she’s so like you.” An ejaculation rose to Mr. y, Treâ€" it down. "I suppose I may have been like a moment’s silence. “And she’s such a line child, they say.” Thatâ€"that is very great comfort, Letty.” “Oh, yesâ€"a great comfort. And now. I can’t stillâ€"but if you it being sorry I had been afraid of most.” And then. with a fluttering, wistful smile, she loosened her arms. and, to comme her, While hm. own hem.“ looking sadly at her for a moment, was aching. But into her arms, and did the best she. [said gravely to Mrs. Markham out- could to soothe her. ' “Presently, Letty, it’ll all easier to you. Only don’t you fret about it. You’ve gottln'ough‘ the worst by now, I’m thinking. Just you wait till your hands are a fuller, and you’ve more things to do than always to be thinking whether Mr. Trelawney’s fond of you, and thenâ€"why, we’ll be having you as happy as the day’s long. You’ll be too busy to be then, Letty." And she stroked Letty’s hair and coaxed and comforted her till the faint smile came back again. "I think he will care more for me presently, when I am not so useless. I always think that. Won’t he care more for me then '2" she began to ask, with wistful earnestness, pleadâ€" ing for an answer for which the other woman had not the heart to let her plead in vain. These were good days to after Mrs. worriting yourself Letty Markham came to her, when, with all the petty harassing troubles of her life removed. knowing that other hands had taken the burden from her neck, ,she could sit and rest in still content. At the beginning of the winter, on a November day, Letty’s child was born Somehow, before it came, she had fallen into the habit of think- ing with certainty that it would be! a. boyâ€"a boy who would grow up to be in all things like his father, not she wanted no repetition herself ; but a boy who could learn all the deep tliings'bis father knew, and go to school and college, and then write books perhaps, and be a good, wise, clever, learned man. This had been her desire and hope, over which she had dreamed for months ; and lo ! when the child came, it was no boy, but a girl 2-â€" and the answer to Letty’s first eager questionâ€"“Is be alive ?â€"â€"â€"is be strong ‘2” knocked all the rickety castle she had been building to the ground. . of "Yes, Letty,” was Mrs. ll'fzirkham'sl â€"only it’s not a he ;” and then poor Letty’s eyes grew wide. with a sud- den blank surprise, and the poor little lips broke into a feeble disap- pointed cry. "Oh, I didn't Want a girl ! am so sorry ! What is the good 0 a girl 9” she began to wail. “Oh if it only was a boy i” Letty was still crying to herself, and she' looked in her husband’s face when he came to her almost as if she expected to read a. sentence of condemnation in his eyes ; for had he not wanted a. boy as much as she did ?â€"-and she had brought him no- thing but a girl ! ' “Dear, I am so sorry l” she whis- pered to him, timidly, as her hand stole into his. “Sorry about what, Letty ‘2” innocently. seem ' bit' She took Letty' Mr. Trelawney turned away. “I suppose she is very weak ’2” he side the door. , “Why, yes, sirâ€"she’s weak, of courseâ€"but I don’t see anything else [that’s wrong with her,” Mrs. Markâ€" ham a.nswered, a little on the de- fensive. "Well, but she talks so strangely. She says she hadn’t expected to have a child." “Not expected one, sir l” prise,” “Lord, sir, she couldn’t have said that l” "I assure you she did. She began about it as soon as I went to herâ€" about being unhappy, and not hav. ing expected it.” With a look of dismay Mrs. Markâ€" lham Went past Mr. 'I‘relawuey withâ€" out uttering anothcr word, and reâ€" entcred the sickâ€"room. "I declare my heart was in my month,” she ,told Letty afterwards. “You might have knocked me down with a straw.” But the next minute she Was sitting laughing by the bedside, for Ilgeity, as soon as she came near, Iturned to lter with a happy face. andâ€" “I’vc been telling him I'm so vexed .and he says he doesn’t mind,” she. !gladly whispered. "Isn’t he good? I was so afraid he must have set his heart upon a boyâ€"l l. he says he {doesn’t mind one bit ; and he says 'she looks so nice,” she murmured. with a quivering, joyful smile upon iher lips. What name were they to give child ‘? Mr. ’l‘relawney’s name Gilbert, and Letty had thought herself that her boy should be the was to . an- ! other Gilbert, so that from the very :lirst she might try in all things to .make him like his father ; but now she had no boy. so the nomenclature of the baby had to be decided afresh. “1 think you had better call it after yourself,” Mr. Trclawney sug- gested ; but Letty pleaded almost pathetically that this might not be. ’she said. "My mother’s name was Alicia,” Mr. '1‘relawney presently remarked. A Oh, I ' i heI irate, seemed better to her. sis-A. s. erases WW ‘ II 250' is sent direct to the diseased parts by the. Improved Blower. Heals the ulcers, clears the air passages, stops droppings in the throat and germananlly cures Laiarrh and a from. All dealers. or LA. W. Chlsc _ Medicine 00., Toronto and Buffalo. chnr. Blower ".It is a name that has been several times in the family. I don't know that I admire it much myself, stillâ€"if we should be of nothing better-â€"” It seemed, however, that Letty had thought of something that, at able to think Who Found Quick Relief and Lasting Cure in the Use of- Dr. Chase’s Ointment. If you could read a. few of the letters which come to these offices from persons who have been freed from the miseries of itching, bleeding, derful preparation. Mr. John Tuttlc, to get cured, but only succeeded when I used Dr. " ‘ b u ht me-relief‘fro'm the dreadful itching, _ panama“ m g I am grateful for this freedom from suffering, and (teen-e others to benefit by my experience .with Dr. Chase’s Ointment.” Ont., states: "It-have used-Dr. _ Only persons who haw endured the perfect andrpermanent cure. Eli-(H. 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Eamanson, Bates and 00., Toronto, Chase’s Ointment. burning sensations. all At all dealers, or a cure for 131165 and itching skin diseases. or protruding piles, you would soon realize the marvellous power of this wow le letters which show the heartfelt gratitude of cured ones: “Like most men who do much As 9. led nearly everything I could hear of in a vain efl’ort The first application-of this grand pro- ‘and less than two boxes»~made a Chase’s Ointment for itching piles, and can truthé torture of? itching piles. can have empt; relief from the” .‘misory, and. has-Inuit: life Worth living. 'I cannot 'say- on- It in peso . You can be absolutely I response, “perfectly “.011 and strong} “I’d sooner ho anything than that,” “There is a name I should like," she said timidly, "if you didn’t think it was too old-fashioned a one. I wonder if you would ?â€"and if you would mind her being calle after aunt ‘P” -"Whatâ€"-Dorcas ‘2” he asked. He was silent for a. few moments. I am afraid in his heart he did not like the name much. -. Perhaps he thought it was p,ebean, aod savored too much of charitable societies ; but Letty’s wistful eyes were looking at him, and he felt at this time very dant to her, and had not the Cheeks, tenderly J----â€"------_---__-------.I-n---_-_-I---II--;I---I-I-------------~' _~_____-___-__â€"______________________g________________________________,________.__.___â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"~. A TALK WITH GIRLS. 0 HOW TO OBTAIN BRIGHT EYES AND ROSY CHEEKS. ___.â€". Pale, Anaemic and Easily Tired Girls Often Fall a Prey to Consumption. In young girls we look for abun- health and strength, r053 bright eyes, firm, plump heart to deny-anything that she askâ€" flesh and constant cheerfulness. Ho“ ed. So he was only silent for a 1110- often, however, we meet young girl: ment or two, and thenâ€" “Well, let it be Dorcas, if like,” he said. “I wouldn’t have it if you rather not, dear.” you pale, listless, would ditions are due to a general prematurely old, feeble, thin and irritable. These abnormal and dangerous con- weak: bf who seem ness of the blood, and should “But I have no objection at all. cured just as promptly as possibll It is a very good name. as you say, it is old fashioned, it is perhaps none the worse that.” "I should like to give her the name are the of a good woman.” “Well, your aunt is that, Letty.” “Yesâ€"is she not ?” and the grateâ€" dose. "Oh, act upon the the bring health, strength and happincsa I should to those who use them. [111 tears came to Letty’s eyes. she’s so good ! She has been same .as a mother to me. like to call baby after her, that she might know how we both felt.” So they told Mrs. Markham that says:-â€"â€"“It is'with the baby was to be christened Of course, or the whole life of the patient will but be ruined, if” indeed, decline and con- for sumption do not speedily follow. Dr, Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peoplt natural, logical and surt cure for weak girls. These pill: make rich, red blood. with ever) They strengthen the nerves, whole system and Mrs. Hiram Rilikler, South Pelhanl township, Welland County, Ont. pleasure that l Dorâ€" give this tribute to the health-res cas ; and Dorcas she was accordingly storing virtues of Dr. Williams’ Pink christened in due time. (To Be Continued.) +â€"â€"â€"â€". TEETHIN G TIME. Pills. When my daughter Lena be< gan the use of your medicine she war in a most wretched condition. I! fact we were seriously alarmed lest she might not recover. 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Keep at the inâ€" dividual, the average man, until you see returns coming, then if you want to keep things coming your way keep up the fight in a way which will keep them coming. ~+ UATASTROPHE. The surgeon of an English ship of war was noted for the monotony of his prescriptions. He apparently considered salt water taken exterâ€" nally or internally as a cure for all the ills that flesh is heir to, for he ordered his patients to take it, no matter what might be the malady presented to his notice. One day he went sailing with a party of friends, and in the course of a squall the boat was upsct"e§nd the surgeon came near being drOWnâ€" ed. ' “Well,” said the captain. of the ship when he was tel-d of thenarrow escape, "I’m glad you were saved, but it hardly seems possible in any event that you couldr'h'ave really STRANGE now does it, doctor '3” in. the American Union. area of only 1,085 Texas, It has. an square miles. the largest state, has 262,~ V. , m... - -L-‘ 4._ ‘ great medicine. paid, at 25 cents a box, by address~ i will ' There submit it. drowned in your own medicinecchest, lozenges as for his 810€lllellce.. 290 square miles, and is more than cried : twice as big as the United Kingdom. the bllllet 1" ly going into a decline. trouble became Finally UN complicated with a which govt her great difficulty in swallowing. She was placed under the care of a doctor who said her blood was poor and watery and her whole system badly run down. The doctor’s treat» ment did not help her much and then acting on the advice of a neigh~ bor, I began to givewher Dr. Wil‘ liams’ Pink Pills. The confldenct with which this medicine w‘as urged upon us was not misplaced, as] soon noticed a distinct improvemenl in my daughter’s condition. The ust of the pills for some wen-ks complete ly restored her, and from that timt she has been a cheerful lightâ€"hearted girl, the very picture of health." These pills never fail to restorc health and strength in c-aSvs like tln above. Through their action on thc blood and nerves they also cure sucl diseases as rheumatism, sciatica. St Vitus’ dance, indigestion, kidnej trouble, partial paralysis, etc. Thert are many soâ€"called.tonic pills, but they are all more imitations of this... Be sure that yor- get- the genuine with the full name. “Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pal: People" on every box. if your dealt or does not keep them they will b lsent postpaid at 50 'cents a box 02 .six boxes for $2.50 by addressing the Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. ___.__‘-.¢._.__.._ PUSH NOT LUCK. Business push is necessary f0: business success. 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Intelligent publicity prove. the best investment. won’t be any luck or chance It is a tangible certainty which is reliable as an asset and on- which the returns will always justify the expense. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"+â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"‘l NAMING THE (.‘ll lLl). Now, necessarily, when the neu girl baby arrived, there was much discussion among the members of tln family as to what her name should be. “We will call her ‘Geraldina,’ " said the fond mother. “Why not call her “Esmeralda ?’ " asked the first grandmother. "I saw that name in a story once, and al- ways wanted to try it on a baby.” “0h,” murmured the second grand- mother. “that would never do. Let us call her ‘Fanchon.’ ” - "But don’t you think ‘Eltessa’ is a pretty name, and so odd, too ?" put in one of the aunts. “ “ ladies,” ventured the poor father, who sat near by, “but you seem to forget that we am trying toxflnd a name for a humar being, and not for a fiveâ€"cent cigar." .I‘ An eminent barrister, noted a: much for a habit he had of sucking: war H1 with.a bullet in em ..xcuse me, once defending a- murder case. was standing Rhoda Island is the smallest... state-hand" and the .usual'lozenge? (in‘- tin other, when suddenly, in thoâ€"midst of a fine burst of eloquence, his facr fell, and in a tone of agony hq “Gentlemen, I’ve swallowed ' .u FER-701mm? ' 7". .' " .> "wrist.- ' ' 'fi. t; ' I! . ll r e t! . A “swivwa: ‘;&r¢r§¢$hrisé:g374éré «3. '7‘5 Th:i§:?»ss\o "/ 5. . x ,. a’? 3.