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"I am very careless,” he said; “but I did not think that I Was so bad as that. I will make amends now by telling you about Sir Raoul Laureston." “Raoul,” repeated Hildred. "Is he â€"no, he cannot be a Frenchman, Lord Caraven, if he is a relative of yours.” . “No, but the name has puzzled many people. His mother was a French lady of noble birth, and one of her ancestors, named Raoul de Cour- celles, distinguished himself .greatly in the French wars; it was her fancy to name her boy after him.” Hildred repeated the “Raoul.” "I like the name, Lord Caraven," she said, slowly. ‘ “And I like the name,” he told her. “I do not know any one in the world whom I like better than Raâ€" oul. Yet he gives himself great airs with me. He isâ€"you will laugh when you hear itâ€"he is my masterâ€"â€" at least used to be in years gone by. But what I wanted to tell you is thisâ€"he is coming back to Englandâ€"â€" and he has alWays made his home at my house; he has never lived any- where but at Halby House or Ravâ€" ensmereâ€"neverâ€"and I hope never will.” , She looked at him wonderingly. .“I understand. But- what ,that to do with me?” He looked somewhat confused. "After all, you are the mistress of the house, the Chatelaine, and, I should not like to ask any one to word I has make their home With us who would be at allâ€"now let me see how to ex- press myself diplomaticallyâ€" who would be displeasing to you." “Thank you,” she said, briefly. “After all, home â€" whether it be happy or miserableâ€"is. always home, and I should not like to make yours really uncomfortable. If you say that Sir Raoul will be in your way at all, I will not ask himâ€"if you think you will be as happy with him as without him, then I shall be pleased to see him in his old place.” “I thank you for your consideraâ€" tion," she replied, with dignity; "but, as nothing could possibly make what you call ‘home’ more unâ€" happy for me, and the coming of a stranger, who may prove a friend, will be some little comfort, I say unhesitatinglx, ‘Yes.’ ” He looked at her half sadly. "Are you really unhappy â€"â€" really not. happy?” he asked. "If living where no friendly face ever smiles on me, where no friendly voice ever reaches my ear, whereno one cares for me or takes the least interest in me, be happiness,_ then I must be very happy,” she said, bitâ€" terly. “ls it so bad as that?” he asked, and there was a shadow of pain on his face. "Is is worse," she replied. Only a few short weeks since heart would have beaten fast happiness to hear words spoken kindly; now she turned away, from her heart to her lips rose the unspoken prayer; “Heaven help me, for I am beginning to hate him!” The name of Raoul Laureston was known throughout the land; he had so i, The hirer of fantasia Or Lady Caraven’s Labor of i . . looked up to her with , ° MHWH‘ ewswewme-MHM proved himself to be a hero. It was not merely in Government dispatches and newspaper paragraphs that he was praised; his name was on men’s lips when they gathered together and . talked of Old England’s glory and her gallant sons; when they told how English soldiers fought and died, with the strength of lions; the bravery of heroes, they always men-â€" tioned the brave Colonel Raoul Laureston. He was not only wealthyâ€"he was ithe brave of the younger zit. the younger son branch of the house of Caraven; he had no great patrimony; his whole fortune amounted to about five thou- sand pounds. But he was a soldier, born and bred;lhe could never have been anything else. He was as brave as a lion; he knew not fear. They told wonderful stories of him in the armyâ€"how he had saved lives when his own life_Was in peril; how he was loved and worshiped by the men under his command. It was a good thing to belong to Laureston’s regiment; he never for- got any man serving in it; he had the interest of each one at heart. Many a young officer who, in other hands, would have gone to the badâ€" would have ended a shameful life by a shameful deathâ€"with him became a good and brave soldier. He had the gift 0f winning men’s hearts; {his words were few but eloquent. lLike all great men, he was utterly devoid of vanity and egotism; in his soul there was no room for small vices. . So, among a world of common- place men, he had made for himself a name and fame. When the ‘flag of war was unfurled, and every ,home in the land had sent its sons 'to ,maintain the honor of Old Eng- land, Raoul Laureston’s name came a household word. whose sons were at the war wept on [hearing it; men told what they had read of him, and their hearts grew warm as they spoke. Then came the lbattle when, at the head of his regi- ment, he rode “into the jaws of ldeath,” sword in face shining with‘the light of cour- Lord Caraven unless he was compelled to do so â€"- notice of it in the English newspa- .riage, he would never have dreamed come him first loved the handsome, willful boy who ‘older than the earl, but they had a1- Raoul thas he married?” . l I u red . b?‘ {bridegroom’s ' . MOLhels 'above the crowd; I saw a “510” Of l.much. never wrote a letter and Sir Raqul had not read the pers. Had he knOWn of the mar- of going to his kinsman’s home. He heard it from one of his bro- ther officers‘ who hastened. to wel- to England, and was at incredulous. He had always him with such affec- tion, and it had been a bitter source of trouble to him to find him inclin- ed to go the wrong way in life. Raoul Laureston was many years ways been good friends. In his‘ light, frank way he had scolded the handsome boyâ€"now he scolded the man. He had done his best to exâ€" ercise a wise control over the earl. There were times when he fancied that he should succeedâ€"â€"-there were others when he knew that he had failed. It was with positive incredulity that he heard of the marriage. When Major Vandaleur told him the news, soldier refused to believe "Caraven would never have marâ€" ried without telling me," he said. “He. has not written to me for years, but he would have written if that had been the case." “I assure you," declared Major Vandaleur, “that I was present at the ceremony. He was married at St. George’s, Hanover Square.” "I must not dispute ‘what you saw with your own eyes,” sald Sir Raoul. "That granted then, whom "A Miss Ransome,” was the brief reply. ' "Ransome? the name.” Major Vandaleur laughed. “No, you have probably never heard itâ€"though there are few young men in the army who could say as Ransome is a lawyer and moneyâ€"lender. ’ ’ ‘ The soldier’s face fell. "A moneyâ€"lender! You cannot be serious? Caraven marry a money- lendcr’s daughter! I'cannot believe it.” g "It is true. I remember the lady’s nameâ€"Hildred Ransome. I did not see her, although I was in the church during the marriage; the crush was so great I could not. The tall head towered I do not remember white and silver, but not the bride’s face or figure.” “A moneyâ€"lender’s daughter! Is she beautiful, Vandaleur?” “I cannot tell you; I have not met her. The only time I heard her disâ€" hand, his brave 1cussed was on her wedding day; She was only just eighteen, and people age. "Follow me!” he cried; and, sword in hand, he closed with foe. Men told, how the red sunset found him still there. How many] lives he had saved with his valor none could say. There were other braVe men present who declared that Raoul Laureston had made the day their own. He was knighted for his bravery. and then, as though fortune did not know how to lavish sufiicient favors upon him, he succeeded to a large fortune, left to him by a compara- tive stranger, his godfather. But the brave soldier never quite recov- lered from a terrible wound he had 'reccived in battle. The slightest effort, the least exertion, brought on an attack of illness that was always dangerous. And across his brow, just over the right temple, deep, red scar, left there by the bayonet of a foe. He was sent to France and to Italy. It seemed as though his military career was end‘ |ed. It had been a terrible grief to him jto have to give up his profession and live abroad. He said to his tors: ' “While I have life I shall hope; the ‘health and the strength I have lost .may return to meâ€"l may hold a sword again. Heaven is kind.” But for the last four years he had been at Nice, and had grown weaker, land a great longing had come over ‘him to see England again. “.If I must die,” he said, “let moi A die there.” And seeing that the home-sickness“ was a bar to his recovery, the docâ€", tors allowed him to return. It was strangeâ€"the journey ihim good; he was stronger when he and Ereached London than he had been for isome time. Then he wrote to the only relative he hadâ€"Lord Caraven ,-â€"â€"asking if ie should, as usual, 'make his home with him. He had met heard ‘ of the earl’s marriageâ€" the‘ i was it I 'docâ€" v did. ____________________,____.____â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"‘_“â€"â€"‘â€"-â€"-_ 'said she looked very unhappy.” “Only eighteen! .married, Vandaleur?” “Last year, Laureston.” an every form of itching, a SS bleddi'agond protrudln piles, Iho manufacturershave guaranteed it. co tea- imonials in the daily press and ask your neigh‘ ma what they think of it. 1 on can use it and Itch our mono. back if not cured. 000 a box, at -. colors or DMAnSONJMTEs & Co.,Toronto, [@raGhase’s Qintinent‘ To prove to-you that Dr. Chase's Ointment is a certain an absolute cure for each “Then she is only nineteen now; "I am afraid I should be And I should not [feel at home. Curaven is very fond of her. 1 should say. I do not think that I shall go to Halby House.” "You have plenty of money,” re- turned the mojor, brusquely; “why not buy a place of your own?” “I would do soâ€"that is, I would have done so long ago, but that I am uncertain about my own life; it has hung upon a thread so long that l' have never dreamed of anything for myself.” "I ought to be a judge,” said the :major; "and l prophesy from your appearance that you will grow betâ€" terâ€"not worse.” ‘ . Tl'icir conversation was interrupted Iby the arrival of a note for Sir ,ltaoul. » “It is from Caraven,” he said, as Ehe hastily broke the seal. musingly. an interloper. Ashe read it, his whole face 'brightened, a light came into his 'eyes. ’ . “I knew the boy’s heart was in 'the right place,” he remarked. |than that. He will not hear of my iremaining here or going elsewhere. 1 am to go to I-Ialby l-'ouse at once, _where everything is at my service, and his wife joins in begging me to Years of Keen Suffering From Kidney Diseaseâ€"Owes Life to Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills. Mr. R. J. McBain, Niagara Falls Out.. a man -of 80 years, and wel known throughout the Niagara disâ€" had ghase’s Kidneyâ€".month, and at the end of that time trict, writes; "I‘believejf it not been for Dr, o-< 1 er Pills. I got a. box at once, heavy dose; one pill is plenty at dose. I used them regularly for iiver Pills I ’wduld be in my grave was a changed man. before this. I was very bad kidney disease, dreadful pains in my kidneys. disappointed in the use of many me- did 40 years ago. dicines, 1 had almost givon up hope of ever getting better. "One morning, after a night 0 especially hard called to sec 2:9. with and suffered with I began using sufl'ering, a friendlbe before I used this and asked why I lrecommend Dr, Chase’s Kidney-Liver} - f‘this is much better tllalinleiéiléfi‘g tcigcents a box, at an dealers, or did not try Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Livâ€" Pills with all my heart, and son, took twa pills, which was a rather opinion of these valuable pills, and a you may use it for the benefit of a ‘ others.” “It is now about five years since _, this pill, and sincelad‘m‘ce‘1 age- felt as good as I. man or woman. This is my quently the first Being that “me I have I run almost 80gbody to break dowu, and there are S vein“ old and I am ‘ free from an {few old. people but suffer from' kidâ€" laisei'me ’Oxcept rheumatism andincy (llSOl‘dCl‘S, and resulting pains l ~ : ‘ ' .and aches. One 13111 a dose, 25 l manson, Bates &. Co.. Toronto, And when was he I 3that is very young,” said Sir Raoul, ‘ ""l‘here could not be a kinder letterl A GRATEFUL TRIBUTE. FROM A MAN LOOKED UP- ON HIS CASE AS HOPELESS. â€"â€"â€"-â€" Doctors Diagnosed His Case as Catarrh of the Stomach, but “Delmonico,” of have resembled our present beautiful dining cars but slightly. the Pullman Company at their pio- neer works THE FIRST DINING CAR. .â€"â€" Built by the Pullman Company in the Year 1866 . The first dining car was called tln course. It must Built by in Chicago, it was put . , _ into service in 1866; and after I Falled 13? Help Elmâ€"Many short but distinguished career, .des Remedies Were Tried Be- cended to the position of boarding fore a cure was car for constructors along the line, Found. but it did not come to this, 0; , course. until great improvement: From the Bulletin, Bridgewater, had been made upon it in subse N. S. We suppose there is not a corner in this wide Dominion in which will not be found people who have been restored to health and strength through the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. There are many cases here in'Bridgewater and its vicinity, and we are this week given permission to record one for the benâ€" efit of similar sufferers. The case is well known in this vicinity and quent models. sections. with a kitchen in the midi: dle. ies and here no smoking was alloW< ed, but the arrangement such named “The Beer Garden” before if had been in service many moons. It was built in twd One end was reserved for lad: other end was a buffet and got itself niclo The floor of the car was uncarpetv ed and the seats were ordinary low- back coach leather. seats, upholstered in The car was finished in the tenacity of the disorder was re walnut, but the ceiling was covered nrarkable. For six years Alfred Vei- not, a surveyor of lumber for the great lumber firm of Davison 6:1 Sons, was a victim of a serious dis- order of the stomach. His suffer- ings were excruciating and he had wasted to a shadow. .Doctors pre- scribed for him, yet the agonizing pains remained. Many remedies '.vere tried but to no avail. The case was diagnosed as catarrh of the stomach, food became distaste- ful, life a burden. The troublewcnt on for nearly six years, then a good Samaritan advised the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Thepills were given a fair, patient trial, Mr. Vei- not using about a dozen boxes, and before they were all gone a perman- ‘nt cure was effected. Mr. Veinot is now able to attend to his business when it looked as if he was doomed to die. He is grateful to this great medicine for his cure and has no hesitation in saying so. Because of their thorough . and prompt action on the blood and nerves these pills speedily cure anae- mia, rheumatism, sciatica, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, scrofula and eruptions of the skin, erys‘lpelns, kidney and liver troubles, and the functional ailments which make the lives of so many women a source of constant misery. Get the' genuine with the full name "Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People” on the wrapper around each box. Sold by medicine dealers or sent post paid at 50 cents a box or; six boxes for $2.50 by addressing,’ are Dr. Willâ€" iams’ Medicine Co., "fliockville, Ont. The boy 'is not changed, His heart is good.” go. you see. And the major, having some little , respect for Sir Raoul, forebore to tell him what rumor said'about the handsome earl and his heart. "Ishall go,” said Sir Raoul, â€"â€" “this has quite decided me. You think I am right ,do you not?" he added, seeing a strange smile on the major’s face. “Certainly. I was thinking of the earl, not of you," and long after the two friends had parted, Major Van- daleur looked very grave. “It is like going into a wasps’ nest,” he said. “Raoul is a noble, simple-hearted soldier. He will have little patience with the earl â€"â€" per- haps even less with his wife." No such thought troubled Sir Ra- oul; to him it seemed quite right and just that his kinsman sho‘uld ex- tend the hand of Welcome, that his wife and himself should beg him to visit them, that their home should be his. “I may be able to do him _ some good,” said Sir Raoul. “Ulric alâ€" ways listened to me." So he was full of hope as he drove to Halby House. "What will this young- wife be like?” he wondered. “A money-lenâ€" der’s daughterâ€"nothing very noble or brilliant; but Ulric loved her, I suppose. She will be a city do- with oilcloth. store-room and under the centre of the car, and ac- cess could ‘be had to them only by means of a little brass ladder pended from the side of the car. It was for dining car employes to make a visit to the was in motion, were a great many covered bridges and other obstructions line in those days, which would un- eternity had they not,timed The provision supply refrigerator werl sus‘ rather a precarious adventure larder while the train inasmuch as there along the swept them into their trip down the little brass ladder strictly according to schedule. The kitchen was supplied with an ordin- ary softâ€"coal range. Still, in spite of all “these peculiar disadvantages, doubtedly. have , the bill of fare for that time was considered most elaborate. The most interesting thing, how- ever, about-the "l'lelmonicd’ was the way in which the employes kept tall on receipts. When a passenger on- tered the car' the.conductor handed the waiter, who was to take care of him, a small pasteâ€"board ticket, which the waiter straightway de- posited in a padlocked tin box in the kitchen. At the terminal station the ticket agent came into the car, unlocked the tin box, and. with du( ceremony “counted up the house." The conductor and other employesl while not being required to give a): exact account, Were expected to make"an approximate check in ac cordance with the number of. pas sengers‘ served. Talk about you: graft! Are there any opportunitiel like that nowadays? “9‘ COSTLY CANALS. The oldest and the most important ship canal is that of Suez, begun if 1856, and completed in 1869. It i: 100 miles in length, and cost 893,- 000,000. In 1892 $10,000,000 werc expended to widen 'it. Ships are al‘ lowed to pass through it at a spect of 5 1â€"3 miles per hour, so that it: whole length can be traversed in 18g 1 hours. Night navigation is madi possible by electric lights, whicl were introduced in 1887. The toll: are $2 per ton. In .1870, 4-86 ship: passed through the canal: in 1880 2.026; in 1900, 3,441. In the yea] 1899, 221,348 passengers were trans ported. In 1887 the Emperor \Vil- liam Canal I to connect the Nortl Sea with the Baltic was begun, am the canal was opened in 1895. It: cost was $40,000,000. Its receipt: do not cover expenses. Still anotlr er canal connecting the North Sea with the Baltic was opened in 1900. Its cost was $6,000,000. The Man Chester Ship Canal cost $85,000,000 Amsterdam is connected with the see by a ship canal opened in 1845, anc Rotterdam is likewise connected witl deep water by a canal opened if 1866. The Gulf of Corinth Canal was finished in 1893. It cost about 35.000.000. moiselle. Let us hope, for Ulric’s sake, that she is pretty and- accom- plished.” ' He caught himself wondering more than once what she would be like, -and then he laughed at himself for his pains. “I have few relatives,” he said, "that the fact of finding a. new one 15 something wonderful." His worn face flushed with emotion 'as the carriage stopped at I-lalby House. “When a man has friends, he knows how to value them,” he said to himself. “I know Ulric will be pleased to see me but a few to any perâ€" llr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills are- especially appreciated by people of The kidneys are fre- organs of the Ed- again.’ ’ (To Be Continued). 0â€" THE LONDON SEWER HUNTER. The London sewer hunter before commencing operations provides himself with a bull’sâ€"eye lantern, a canvas apron and a pole some seven or eight feet in length, having an ‘ iron attachment at one 'end some- what in the shape of a hoe. For greater convenience the lantern is invariably fixed to the right shoulâ€" der, so that when walking the light is thrown ahead, and when stooping its rays shine directly to their feet. 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