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{IS ‘13 v (If: CASTE. G QQWW CHAPTER XXIII. “Yes, you might be very sure that I should be willing to wait,” Dor- cas was saying, in her clear, 10“? voice. “As far as 1 am concerned. two years art: nothing; only, Wan they come to on end”- â€"â€" with a lit- tle tremorâ€""you neednot trouble yourself about me. I‘rank. Then, 01‘ before then, if you like, you may give yourself to some other man.” - _r . . “Now what do you mean by that?” ‘ he answered. They had met, as they had agreed to do yesterday, near the village, and he had told her 01‘ his interview with his mother as they walked along the field path that was little used by passersl-by in winter. There; was a stile that crossed this path in one place, and they were standâ€"- ing still there now, lest, by going further without pausing, their walk should end too soon. "I only mean that. I will not havej you bound to me,” she said. “I may be content to bind myself, beâ€"i nothâ€"; cause to marry you would be in-g but gain to me: but for you, you ought to forget me, if you can.1 That is what your mother hopes and do you think I If I had a son, I should {.110 you will do; blame her? do the same as she is doing,” girl said steadily. “Yes. I can quite believe that you would; I don’t credit you by any means with having no hard places in your heart.” he answered, with a laugh. “But never mind that part of the business; we are talking of whether or not you mean to consider that I am engaged to you._ to his, I have simply to say that. as youhave accepted me, you have no further che in the matter. i am your promised husband, as you are my 1‘n'omised~wife; that is how things stand. and how they must continue to stand.” "But I want to have you free.” "fl. daresay you do. I daresay you want that and all kinds of other unâ€" reasonable things.” ing over the stile, and looking with laughing eyes into her face. “When we are married, it is my be-= lief I shall have pretty hard work to break you in.” “Ah. Frank, married!” “We shall be married two years.” “I do not believe it.” "No; you prefer to believe that I we shall never be in exactly shall be a scoundrel. without either. honor or constancy in me.” "I will never blame 'you,, thoughi Just listen, you change your min 1. a moment to me; I am very reaâ€" sonable. I think, perhaps. if we were to go on seeing one another, you might not tire of me. or want things to be different, but consider, and you are we we never to meet, never to hear oi‘ me for two whole years! Do you think. leading the kind of life you will lead. seeing many people, going to many places. coming across other girls .who will he so much fitter for you to care for than’mcâ€"do you think that. these «three little weeks will not come preâ€" sently to seem like a dream, and that you will not want to forget them, andâ€"the foolish thing you: did before they ended?” “I only say that. if I. do. I may cry ‘lchabod' over itiy life. for the glory will have departed from it.” "Ah. my dear, you will not think that, when the time comes.” “I shall think it, you may be sure, sooner or later. When I lie on my deathâ€"bed. if I never do before. Perâ€" haps you. will be an old then. and I shall ask you to come :nrl give me your forgiveness, and when we meet we probably sha’n‘t know one another. That would be. hard. I shouldn’t like it. Dorcas. -'l‘ha;il:. God it will never be! Look lune." and he began suddenly to ieel his waistcoat pocketâ€""l. rode all the way 10 \‘iorcester this mornâ€" ing, to get this for you. I daren’t ask you to wear it now, I suppose." but you will have to wear it one day over your wedding ring. I set my heart upon getting opals. for remember. ‘given by a lose their color when and I Opals. you lover. always the lover becomes faithle _m- . v has w C’ ‘ Now. i He was leanâ€"1 1&1.) 1 \‘v' 0 Ill 3 ll : mamaevaésammumuememe coNFUSHeN g 0r 3 9; Gentility lg Vs. ,3, 9 Nobility of Soul. l WW¢W3$W$$$$$$$ $3$§$$$$$Â¥$W$$ $$V5$fi$§ lthpugbtâ€"as we were not to hear éfrom one another, and as I Sitsâ€" ‘rected you were given to incredulity ‘â€"â€"you would like to, have an infalliâ€" ? ble way of finding out whether I‘ was :bchaving as I ought. There, you see the stones are bright enough at lthis moment. but in two years’ time 31 suppose .you will find them all as :dull as ditch water.” ~» "I thi'nk you ought. not to give me this; I think I ought not to take it lfroni you,” the girl said softly. » l “Take off your glove, and let me I:put it on your finger,” was his only 3 answer. And then she hesitated for a ,mcnt, but after jobeyed him. I He put on her ring, and then took z-her hand and kiss-ed it. i i “I have married you now,” 3 said. i . mo- that moment sin; r he 1 there again.” - 3! "Ah, Frank, don’t talk such non- sense!” ‘ "i. won’t have you call it nonâ€" :sense. .1 am in dead earnest in evâ€" ery word 1 say. Look, this is just ithe least trifle small, but I am glad ioi that. ' I want it to stick close. glV'hen I am going away 1 will trust 3you to no loose fetters. Dorcas, I iwish you could wear it?” l “Yes, but I cannot.” l “Well, I suppose you cannot. It 1would set people asking questions. lLet me take it off then. There, what will you do with it? Could you :put a ribbon through it and wear lit round your neck?” “Yes, I could do that.” l “Do it then. And how often will {you look at it to see if I have forâ€"l :golten you?” i “I. don’t know” â€"â€" with a little! i laugh. “You will be doing it pretty ofâ€" ten, I suspect. You vill be bringâ€" Iing me up two or three times a” day lfor judgment. By the way, ldon’t happen to have another-101ml labout you, I suppose? lwould rather .‘uit me to receive one i too.” - “You don’t need one. very wellâ€"~” "What do I know?” 3 "That you lafr'aid of.”â€"..aid very softly. You know too?” But, to thisfair question she would mot give him an answer. rl'hey saw some figure in the disâ€"' Etance presently, and-began to walk :on. - ' ' "I will. agree to whatever mother asks.” she had already lquietly. “You may tell her so: .and if you like you may tell her too l ' -. . ithat I do not wonder she is angiyi iShe and that. ant . The only thing is that it. l (191iYer it. EI think we. have done. wrong { foolishly. {seemed so hard to help it. But it no more than reasonable, at any Irate. that we should suffer for being lfoolish. I almost think I should. (like her to understand that I felt ltlltti-.” : “And about my own peopleâ€"’ she ;had said. "It may seem wrong to ihavc all this go on while they know 'nothing; but I have been thinking ) ' of it ever since , you were here yesterday, and ~the more I think the more I feel that it would do more harm than good to let'them know I'know that you are very generous and good. dear, and that at this moment if you thought it would bind us more. surely to one another, you Ewould go villingly and tell my fa- ither what there is between us; but 'if you were to do that it would onâ€" ly make him unhappyâ€"7am} perhaps she will never need -to be. unhappy iahout this. At any rate, I want lhim to live these two years in peace. It could do no good to dis- turb him: and ifâ€"if you ever come back to me, I‘rank, he will under- istand why I told him nothing jlong as there was nothing certain to ltcll.” l "In fact, mother, she holds “Remember you are my wife {engagement "NOW, and you will commit bigamy if ' continued to I . you I I think it, have nothing to be[ “And ought you not to know that your, said i _â€"______________________â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€"â€"â€" “She agrees to everything :you wish. much of you this time, ye_t. it has She would have agreed to three years; I strongly suspect, if you had been shrewd enough to resolve to make terms with her instead of with me. Only remember,” he added eagerly, “it is too late to do that i now.” . “I was a fool not to do it, though,” Mrs. Harcourt. thought to herself quickly. And then she sat for a. good while meditating on what her son had said. A “She appears to be a rightâ€"mind- ed girl in some respects,” she thought. “She may be disinterested enough: she may really love him (how, indeed, could any woman he wooed help doing that?)â€"-and even at the‘two years’ end, possibly, if she could be made to understand that a marriage with her would inâ€" jure himâ€" Yes, I am sorry I did not go and speak to her,” she reâ€" ppated, with a. feeling 0f regret. “It cannot be done now; only, if by posâ€" sibility Ii‘rank should retain his feel- ing for her to the two years’ end, then, if she were generousâ€"” thought Mrs. Harcourt, and suddenly broke off her silent sentence. Perhaps she was half ashamed of the plan that began to form itself in her mind. it was only for six days after their that Frank and Dorcas see one anotherâ€"six ,you ever let another hand put a ring I strange days, sweet and unreal, as she seemed to her afterwards. She had _time enough to think them all over when they were gone, but at the moment she seemed to be hur- ried through them, breathless. The present, in its‘exquisite happiness, in its exquisite pain, had become the world to her. To see him was the object of each day that dawned; to remember each word that he had sroken to her, the effort of every hour that followed their brief meet- ings and partings. One day, when he had known beforehand that they could only be together for a few moâ€" ments, he wrote to her and gave‘ her his letter, the first. and only love letter that she had from him. When he put it in herdiand he told her to answer it, and so she answered it in a dozen halfâ€"shy, halfâ€"passionate lines. “Is this all?" he said, when he received the little note from her; ibut when he came back next day he said some words of thanks and ,blessing to her, that made the colâ€" or come to her face. “You have given me what I would not part with for a king’s ransom!” he said. ' “Will you keep it?” she asked him la little tumultukusiy. “And, Frank, :whe-n you want to be free, will you Send it back? I want you to keep itâ€"that it may come back when you Change. I shall understand, if you send it to me without a wort.” She had told him already, more .than once, that the only thing she -asked from ‘him was to let her know ’when he wished to be free. "Let me have the certainty that you will 1do that," she had said, “and I shall the _quitc‘calm and happy. I can trust you while you giveno sign, if ,1 may to Certain, when you begin to forget me, that the sign will come.” “And how soon will you begin to look for it?” he had asked her, when “I can picture you perfectly~evpecting the postman to to you every morning. You will set up a system of daily watching for the letters in ubout‘a week, I should say, from the time I say goodâ€"bye to you. That’s your notion of the way to trust a ‘fel- low!” I And then she laughed; but she hardly denied that what he'said was likely tof.l‘.e true. They tad to scheme and plan to achieve their daily interviews, and ”' Elli: fl. We 3535853 QiliiE l3- ls sent direct to the disea parts by the Improved Blowsgif! llcals the ulcers, clears the alt: passages, stops droppings in the throat and Fermanantly cures Catarrh and lay Fever. Blown: . . free.' All dealers. or Dr.A. \V. Chase . Medical.) 00., Tot-arm and Bcflelo. sometimes she knew that people in :the. village saw them together, but ,even at the risk of being seen with :him she could not bear to refuse to 5111001. him. Twice again he came to l as ltlze house and saw her there, and the second of these occasions was the last time they met. He came with l 0n that day openly to say good_bye {you a great deal more than she does to them, and Letty was. in the 1.001“ :with me,” the young lllarcourt. with a half laugh, when to her later in the day. i he talked man tom Mm [nearly all the time he stayed, ‘ full ;of regret about his. going. 9 :‘Though we have not seen very 0n Account of Severe Pains in Small of Backâ€"Deranng Kidneys the Cause of Trouble. DR. GHmSE’S KIDNEY-LIVER PILLS A great. many people who suffer from b matism and that there is no cure f Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. ney medicine. which was very weak, 'pains which would catch me kidneys I began a course of treatnie again. This medicine seemed to act The distressing pains in my back h Mrs. Boss, 100 Manitoba street, fered very much from severe. pains merits of the kidneys, I began the use. of Dr. not long before the pains entirely lef ly what 1 required. for it. was wcll again. We have also used Dr. Laughs and colds, and I never knew ln‘. Chase's Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills, Toronto. Mrs. Here is her letter 2-â€" lllrs. J. Lessard. 150 Aqueduct street, Montreal, and whenever I stooped I could bar or them. Que., states :â€""’My main dly straighten up again on account of the severe in the' small of the back. Believing that my ailment was caused from deranged at with Dr.- Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills, ackache, lame back and pains in the limbs think they have rheu- At least nine cases. in every ten can be cured by the use of Dr. Lessard was badly crippled before She began the use of this great kid- trouble was with _my back, and toâ€"day I am all right directly on the kidneys and as a result improved my health generally. ave entirely disappeared and I St. Thomas, Ont., states across the small ofâ€" my back. feel real strong and Well.” :-â€"-"I had a. very" weak back, and at times suf- Belicving these to be caused by derangeâ€" Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills. This treatment seemed to no exact- t me, and' I was quite strong and Chase’s Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine for the children whenthey had it to fail to relieve the trouble at once." one pill a dose, 25 cents a. box. at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates &: CO» been ‘50 nice to think that you might drop in any day,” she said, in her Simple warmth and kindnem. “And you can’t think what a. pleasure it has been altogether to have you here again. I hope, now you have come back once, you won’t let such a long time pass before we see you next.” _ v "Noâ€"that I 'will not, if I live!” he answm‘ed to this: speech, with an emphasis that made the conscious color come to Dorcas’s face. “Un-w fortunately, I don’t see my way of returning next year; but the year after that I mean to come, if 1 am in the world at all.” It, was a mild winter day, and when he rose to go he asked Dorcas frankly to come down to the gate with him. And then he said goodâ€" by to Letty, and, to the amazement of that simple woman, instead of bidding her farewell in the usual way, took both her hands in his, and kissed her. ' "He quite made me jump, dear,” Letty said afterwards; “and if you could have felt how be squeezed my hand, too! But he alâ€" ways had that kind of hearty way â€"bless him! He’s a dear fellow -â€" that’s what he isâ€"and I feel like a goose‘whcn I think he’s gone away." And as she said this she gave a lit- tle half, sob, half laugh, that was almost more than Dorcas could bear. For the girl by this time bad part- ed finally from her lover, and was very desolate, feeling as if all I the romance and all the glory of 'her life had passed away. She had borne rep bravely to the end, but in the last moments she had. put her arms about, his neck, and wept bit- terly. She knew that he meant to come back, but yet she believed that he would never come back. It was something almost like despair that rose in her heart as she took his last kiss, and blessed him, and let him go. I They- had parted at the gate, and she stood there watching him till he lturned on the summit of a. little risâ€" ing ground, and waved back a final greeting to her. The church clock had just struck five; the sky was gol-dcn behind the trees where the sun had gone down. "And my life is ended,” the girl said to herself, thinking, girlâ€"like, that to live for her lOVCl' was the only life worth leading. And then she went back to the house, quietly, wearily, even with her eyes dried already. For it was all ended; even the passion and the agony seemed over for the moâ€" ment. The. day was gone, she thought to herselfâ€"the.little day that had been so bright and brief. (To Be Continued). my )'~_.â€"_â€"-: FREE MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. FREE MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. Under an insurance law enacted in Germany several years ago, 30,000,- 000 people receive .in return for a return a nominal sum free medical attendance. The theory was that suffering humanity would .recei ve cheap and efllectiye relief from its bodily ills, but in practice there are many drawbacks. The doctors hirâ€" ed by the State hold that they are expected to do too much for the. pay they get. In orderto keep down expenses some. doctors are in-'- clined to impress upon the patients that nothing is the matter with them. ‘ _.____..3_-»...__. A I‘lleT'l‘Y SIGHT. One of the most beautiful sights in the world is the annual migration of butterflies across the Isthmus of Panama. 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Ferguson, 105 Mansfield street. Montreal, says :â€" "I have found Baby-’s Own Tablets the best medicine 1 have ever used for children. My baby was attacked with dysentery and was hot and feverish. I gave him the tablets and they promptly cured him. Before this he had been rather delicate but since using the Tablets, he has been much better in every way. I can sincerely recommend the Tablets to, all mothers with ailing children.” . Baby’s wn Tablets are guaranteed to be absolutely free'from opiates and harmful drugs. Children take them readily, and crushed to a powâ€" der they can be given ‘to the youngâ€"- est infant with perfect safety. They are sold at all drug stores or will be sent post paid at cents a box by writing direct to the Dr. \i’illiams' Medicine 00., .llrockville, Ont... or Schenectady, N.Y. In the hot, weather the little oncsi ‘l‘hey speedily 'rcâ€", l twins. A LIFE Ill PERIL. STORY OF A GIRL SAVED BY A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. _â€" She Suffered From Headaches, Dizziness and. Night Sweatsâ€" : Her Friends Feared She Was " Going Into Consump- ' tion. From L’Avenir, St. Jerome, Que. Among the thousands of young girls who bless Dr. Williams Pink Pills for safely carrying them through that most; perilous period of their lives when they step from girl< hood into the broader realm of wo- manhood, there is none more en- thusiastic than Miss Gabrielll Thomas, a young lady known to mos’t of the residents of St. Jerome, Que., and greatly esteemed by all her acquaintances. To a, 1‘0}. orter of L'Avenir du Nora, Miss Thoma: said : "From the time 1 was fourteen until I was eighteen years of age my health was very bad. 1 was very weak ; had no appetite and could do no work. At night 1 perspired greatly and frequently slept but little. I suffered from headaches; dizziness and could scarcely mow about without becoming breathless and I finally reached a stage who: my friends feared 1 was going into consumption. 1 was under the care of doctors, but their treatment did not help me. I then tried several advertised medicines, but. with tlul same poor ~1:esults_,3md I had com: to think I could not get. better. One day I read ir. a newspaper the statement of a young girl whose symptoms were almost identical with my own, who Was cured by the use of Dr. Wivlliams’ Pink Pills. 1 then decided to’ try this medicine and have reason to bless the day I did so. I had only used the pills a few weeks when I began to get better, and in a couple of months every symptom of my trouble had disap- peared and I was. as strong and healthy as any girl of my age. .1 have since always enjoyed the best of health, and I shall be glad indeed if my experience proves helpful to some other s'ufiering girl.” The happiness: of health for both men and women lies» in tho'timely use of Dr. Villiams’ Pink Pills, which act as a nerve tonic and sup- ply new blood to enfcebled systems. They have cured many thousands of cases of anaemia, “decline,” con- sumption, pains in the back, neur- lalgia, depression of spirits, heart palpitation, indigestion, rheumatism, sciatica, St. Vitus’ dance and 1' ar- tial paralysis. But substitutes should be avoided if you value your health ; see that the full name "Dr. Williams" Pink I’iils for I-‘ale I‘eo- pie” is on every box. Sold by all dealers or sent post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50. by.addressing The Dr. Williums'. Medicine Co.,' Brockville, Ont. -â€"â€"â€"-<r TORONTO - FIGURES. Professional Men, Banks-rs Schools, Colleges, Etc. Aceording to the city director), Toronto has 409 disciples of Black stone. For her 225,000 inhabitants them {are 383 physicians to administer ti \thoir physical needs. ' 1 l l ! 0f druggists there are 146, al ri'oprietors of stores well stockcc and well keptâ€"not like the ap-othe cary of old with needy shop and z beggar-1y account of empty boxes. ’l‘bere are 117 artists, some noted The others hope to be. 0f banks and bankers there are 34: having several million dollars no: theirs. Architects number just 60, al willing to submit you "plans am specifications” on short notice. There are 216 barber shops an: perhaps four times as many harbors lh'essina.l~:crs number 522. There are 5‘.) Public Schools am . nearly 800 teachers. There are fiv. special free schools in connectioz with orphan homes: 19 Separatt Schools: two industrial Schools un (101' Public School auspices and mu .under Roman Catholic auspices: om Technical and three lligh Schools. Toronto also has six schools: ans: colleges for women: one art school AAA .one language school: three college; of music; 17 colleges and rniv-eroi ties and seven business. colleges. There are 11 libraries. not mclud ,ing college libraries. ()f churches and religious ins-Lita tions Of all denominations: there am 267. Of these '13 are Anglican, L‘] Baptist, 9 (f-ongregationa, 41 file thodist, 32 Presbyterian, 1.") Catlin lie, 45 miscellaneous denominations 53 missions and 9 convents. ._.___,. 5- HOUSE OF ’J‘l’ELV‘E TWINS. A Chicago paper gives an amusing history of a comfortable lam {dwelling situated between Stony. ‘brook and Campbell’s Station, neat: York, I’a. It is known ibrougbou‘ ‘the township as the llouse o E’I‘welve Twins, because six sets 0 twins have been born under its roo in eleven years. The house was or iginally known as‘ the lludy loino stead, and it was to Mr. and Mrs John Illudy that the first two pair: of the twelve little. visitors-came ’l‘he llmlys sold the homestead, an: it became the abode of 'llaviizl Stile: land his: family. The Stilcsrs wer- .not long in their new home \"hf‘l ltwins arrived. Then they moved ou- and the family of A. I]. 'i‘lm‘fiiax moved in and was blesscvl wit: