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I haven't changed at all.” She regarded him criticalch “No, you haven’tâ€"in looks.” “I haven’t in any way,” he re- plied earnestly, and with an under~ tone' of intention in his voice. “And youâ€"you :30 all I imagined.” “You imagined ? Then I was not ,8. reality three years ago. I was a mere figure of your brain ! What do you mean ?’.' "I meanâ€"whyâ€"that in all these years I have been imagining you in all sorts of ways, you know.” “Oh ! Sometimes as fairâ€"haired, I suppose, and sometimes as darkâ€" haired; sometimes with a bump, and sometimes crossâ€"eyed !” ' "Nonense !” “Well, it’s what you saidâ€"'all sorts of ways.’ 'And yetâ€"do you remember the silly speech you made to me when you went away ‘2” "Of course. Only it wasn’t sillyâ€" it was the solid truth.” ' “It didn’t seem very solid then; but perhaps it does now, however, at this distance. You haven’t anâ€" swered my question, yet, though. What was it you said 1‘” “Whyâ€"that~what’s the use of my telling you over again if your memâ€" ory is so good?” “It’s your memory that's in quesâ€" tion, not mine. Confess you don’t remember . ’ ’ "But I do, of course. It was that I wouldn’t forget,” he said triumphantly. Miss Martindale dropped her eyes, raised them again for a brief, flutâ€" tering moment, and again dropped them with a pensive little smile. “And you remember what it was I said to you then ‘2” he asked im- pressively, leaning nearer and lookâ€" ing down at the bent head. “You said--â€"-of course, you were only saying itâ€"but you said you would remember every word I had said to you, every look of my eyes, every tone of my voice. You were quite sentimental that night.” “It was meant, every word of it. No man could forget it. I know it now.” “Now ? Didn’t you know it then ‘9 What do you mean ? You talk as though you were not the same man you were. Aren’t you ‘P” ‘ "W911, every man changes, you know, every seven years. Scientific fact, I believe.” “But it hasn’t three.” “Oh, of course, not really changel’ “Ah! And you have that photo- graph of me yet?” “Of course! As if I wouldn’t! It has never been out of my keeping since I stole it fromâ€"-â€"” "I thought I gave it to you myâ€" self?" she said, with some surprise in her voice. "Have you forgotten how you, begged it from me that night 7” “Of course I have not forgotten.” “I-Iow beautiful the moonlight was on the water that evening, and far off some boatingr party was singing! It was perfect l” “Yes, perfectâ€"at least, to me.” "Do you remember when we glided into that stretch of lilyâ€"pads and I lifted them dripping from the water, each drop like a diamond, and you sai(lâ€"â€"~â€"-” “And I said I wished they were real so that I could give them to you,” he said boldly. "Did you? I thought it was that the drops would spoil my gownâ€"the gown you admired so much.” been sevenâ€"0111 y ‘11 did admire it. I have always seen you in that gownâ€"and your face luminous in half shadow, the glint of your hair, and your arms gleaming in the moonlight as you trailed your fingers in the water and made silvery ripples over the polishâ€" ed black mirror of theâ€"erâ€"river." He drew a long breath when he fin- ished as one who felt relieved. “And it was as we neared [wasn’t it, that you told me you wanted my picture ?"- “Yes.” The corners of her mouth twitched a little. h ome, that "What a splendid memory you have. !” she said. “A marvellous memory, I call it. 1 wish I had one like it, though it’s not what I would call accurateâ€"if that’s a sam- pleâ€"because, you see, you didn’t ask me for my photograph that night.” “But you said yourselfâ€"~” "Yes; I did. I just. wanted to test you. Now, I commence to doubt that you really still have my pic- turc.” “I can show it to you.” "Are you certain it’s not some other girl that you've mistaken for me ‘2 One is liable to mistake one person for another, unless there's some special reason.” “No danger! There’s not another girl in the world like. you. I knew you the moment I saw you." “Knew me ?" filesâ€"aerate". the ballroom.“ “You were not thinking of me un- til you saw me, then ?” g “I mean," he explained slowly, like one who picks his way, "that I knew you for the one girl I cared about." "Ohâ€"h ! I remember you telling me that three years ago, but I didn’t think it was at a ball that that knowledge came to you. We met firstâ€"let’s seeâ€"where was it ?” "Atâ€"~atâ€"â€"~â€" It‘s idiotic, but for the. life of me I can’t remember for the moment. You were the important matter. 'All elseâ€"â€"-” ' - "Ith hardly to be expected you should recollect,” she said, compas- sionating his confusion. "It was at the Brownings.’ ” “0f courseâ€"the Brownings’. I knew: but I couldn’t think of the name. I remember Jack tellingâ€"” “Jack ‘? What Jack ?” “Erâ€"Jackâ€"Jack Browning, of course." “Oh, I never knew there was a brother. And he told you.” “That he wanted me to meet you. He said, ‘Arthur, there’s aâ€"â€"â€"-’ ” . “Why, I thought your name was Jack ! But possibly that’s changed in three years too. You used to be -7’ called J aclx . I], r “A man may have two names, mayn’t he ?” "It seems like it.” "I mean he may have more than one name. My name is John 'Arth- ur Graham. All my old chums at college cafled me Arthur.” “I might have understoodâ€"~50 stu- pid of me. So Mr. Browning was a chum of yours at college ‘1’” “Yes; great friends we were." "And that’s how you came to 'know his sisters? Charming girls, weren’t they ’2" “Very, very charmingl Only I don’t want to talk about them now, it’s such a waste l” “Why ? Have you quarrelled 7" "Noâ€"not exactly.” “I thought perhaps you had, be- cause Grace Browning just passed and neither of you spoke, I thought it was curious.” “Yesâ€"of course, I saw herâ€"butâ€" it’s rather a painful subject with me and so, if you don’t mind, let’s get off it.” He looked away sadly, with a per- turbed expression of countenance, due naturally to the pain he was feeling. There was silence for a moment or so, and then, hearing a little sobâ€" bing sound, he turned towards her. She was bending over, her face buried in her hands. Like a flash it came over him what was the matâ€" ter. She cared for him, and thought he cared for the Browning girl. “Mollie !” he saidâ€"“Mollie dear ! It was nothing of that kind. I’ve never cared for any other woman but youâ€"honestly.” Suddenly shellifted her face. There were traces of tears in her eyes. "Oh, you fraud !” she cried. “You utter fraud 3” “I tell youâ€"â€"â€"” “You imposterl 'And you fancied I believed you ‘2" She_drcw a letter from the folds of her gown and found a place in it. “Road that. Arthur Graham, and thenâ€"” Graham read the part she indicat- ed. “And now the greatest news! Of courseâ€"you sly puss iâ€"I know of your flirtation with J ack Graham three years ago, and that you gave him your photograph. Well, my dear, it seems that Jack’s twin brother 'Arthur saw the picture and rescued it when Jack was burnâ€" ing his scalps just before his mar- riage. 'Arthur kept it on his manâ€" telpiece for three years. Now, Molâ€" lie, what do you think ‘? He pro- poses to break his journey at Blenâ€" field and pretend he’s Jack, stay at the Carters’, and pick up the ends of the affair with you where Jack dropped them. Isn’t that pudencc ? He. has made a bet Jack that he can do this, and he should be taught a lesson. -He is exactly like Jackâ€"as good-lookingâ€" impuâ€" with .and nicer, and I’m afraidm” “You needn’t read the rest,” Miss Martindalo interrupted. “It’s noth- ing to do with you.” She turned a severe countenance towards the cul- prit. “It is a very nice trick to try and play on a girl, isn’t it ? So gentlemanly l” “I suppose it wasn’t fair, butâ€"" “But what ? I want to be just.” "Well, it wasn’t all a lie. To me the picture was all I said, and I have known ever sinCe I met you that I cared for you; but I suppose you are awfully offended, and it’s all over ‘P” “It should be, shouldn’t it, as a punishment? There ought to be some punishment surely.” "I shall lose my bet. Isn’t that enouglL? Unless you’ll let me win it ? “Why, how can I ‘2" “The threads, you know; let me pick ’em up where Jack dropped them. Then I’ll win. You said you were walking, weren’t you, that day ? Mayn’t I come to-morrow for you a?” “You don’t deserve it, and I won’t promise; but I shall be at home at ‘three, andâ€"â€"- Your waltz, Mr. Dal- inger ? Yes, so it is. Too bad you had such a hunt, for me ! I was just ‘going in." Miss Martindale’s hand fumbled for a moment adjusting her roses; then she moved away to the ballroom, leaving behind her on the floor a bud just opening to the world. Graham picked it up and put it in his buttonhole. "I am quite sure. to-morrow be a pleasant day,” he mused. will FIGHTS Ill EARLIAMENT SCENES IN' THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS. The King Was Asked to Withdraw â€"â€"Members Have Been Forâ€" cibly Ejected. What was, perhaps, the most rc- markable "scene" enacted in the House of Commons since the days of Cromwell, had its origin, curiously enough, in a. comparatively trifling and unimportant incident. The date was July 27th, 1893; the hour ten o’clock .at night. Mr. Chamberlain was "pitching in” to Mr. Gladstone, and, just as the closure fell, somebody shouted out “Judas.” - This unparliamentary epithet was promptly reported to the Chairman, and he replied that the expression had not reached his ears, and ordered the division to he proceeded with. There- upon some few Conservatives refused to leave their seats. But still there was no sign of any active disturbance when, suddenly, a, gentleman named Hayes-Fisher seized .23. certain Mr. Loâ€" gan by the coat collar. Then indeed, the “fat, was in the fire," and at once. First one mem-' her, and then another, joined in the scrimmage. The Irishmen, true to the traditions of their race, rushed back into the House from the diâ€" vision lobby to “bear a hand in the fun,” only, however, to be met in the doorway by the pugnacious and reâ€" doubtable Colonel Saunderson, who “floored” two or three of them most effectively and scientifically ere he himself was sent sprawling by a well- directed leftâ€"handcr. John Burns was also in the thick of it, but his efforts were entirely diâ€" rected to quelling the disturbance by pulling the combatants asunder. In the end the Speaker was sent for and PEACE WAS RESTORED, "but not before the undignified brawl had been carried to such length as to draw down from the Strangers’ Gal- lery a, storm of well~descrved hisses... Curiously enough, the next really serious Parliamentary "upset" was also about a division, but this time it was the Irish Members who refused to go into the lobbies. The House happened to be in Committee at the time, and the Chairman, warned proâ€" bably by past happenings, promptly sent for the .Speaker. ,That high of- ficial at once “named” the offenders, and their suspension was moved and carried. Still, howover, they declined to budge. Whereupon the Speaker leant down, spoke. a few words to a mes- senger, who hurried outside into I’al- ace Yard, and, almost are the reâ€" bellious Members know what was happening, 3. score of sturdy police- men had inarchcd in and surrounded them. But even then there was no pas- sive yielding to overwhelming force. On the contrary, the Irishmen‘resist- ed to the utterinost, and had to be carried out bodily, kicking, strug- gling, and squealing. Among the most violent was Mr. Crean, who “floored” Colonel Saun- derson in 1893, and who was said to have monopolized the attentions of ten constables for ten full minutes. Mr. li‘f’ILIugh, the editor of the Sligo Champion, also “distinguished” himâ€" self after a similar fashion; while Mr. Flavin, A GIGANTIC KERRY MAN, was heard boasting next day that it took fifteen of the "Sassenach hireâ€" lings” to “down” him. This was the first occasion on which outside force had been employâ€" ed to coerce the people’s representaâ€" tives within the “sacred precincts” of the House itself since that memorâ€" able April afternoon, in the year 1633, when Oliver Cromwell, taking with him a band of soldiers and also gathering up the scntinels from the sentryâ€"boxes as lie came along, unâ€" ceremoniously “dissolved” the Long Parliament. But similar stern measures have not infrequently been resorted to by the attendants of the House. By them, for instance, Charles Bradâ€" laugh was forcibly ejected, in 1883, after delivering what Mr. Gladstone afterwards said was the finest speech he had ever heard at the Bar of the House. ' On another occasion it was the lad- ies who brought upon themselves a like ignominy. Grown bold through tolerance, they invaded the floor of the House, and, on being called upon by the Speaker to withdraw, actually defied the authority of the Chair. Of course, this could not be permitted, and force was employed tocompel them to leave. It took nearly two hours, however, ere the last fair re- bel-was get outside; and ever since then they have been compelled to em sconce themselves behind the grille, in a position where the Speaker’s eye need never aflicially rest upon them, silent, and THEORETICALLY ABSENT. An exceedingly turbulent scene, and one which, according to modern ideas, was entirely unjustifiable, was that provoked, in 1872, by Sir Charles Dilke’s opposition 'to the Royal Grant. Similar motions are now frequent- ly made, as a. matter of course, girl without creating the tiniest rippl of excitement. But this one was the first of its kind, and oldâ€"fashioned Conservatives, as Well as some Liber- als, regarded it as little less than a species of sacrilege. No sooner had Sir Charles comâ€" imenced his speech than someone mov- ed to exclude the reporters. The Inn- And then the long stick and in the other {houses bag tles, cats or dogs' teeth, nails, bones pins, bits along the, trails on some deadly mission. tion was carried. House gavc itSelf up to a delirium of disapproval. Yells, howls, cock; crows, drowned every attempt the honorable baronet to make him- self heard. His seconder, Mr. Auber- on Herbert, fared no better. And, in the end, they had to resinne their seats, having utterly failed to ad- dress a, single intelligible sentence to the assemblage they hoped to con- vert to their way of thinking. Perhaps the late Mr. J. G. Biggar was responsible for more Parliamenâ€" tary scenes than any other Member before or since. _I-Ie it was who led the twenty-five Irish Members sus4 pended by Speaker Brand "for deâ€" liberate and planned obstruction" on that memorable July morn in 1882. He it was, too, who once caused our present King, then, of course, Prince of Wales, to be turned OUT OF THE HOUSE. His Royal Highness was, on that particular occasion, technically a "stranger," and under the rules of Parliamentary procedure then in vogue. the Speaker had no option, when Mr. Biggar persisted, but to re- quest him to Withdraw. But the fury of nineâ€"tenths of the rest of the Members at the insult of- fered to Royalty was frightful to witness. Indeed, for a while, fears were entertained for the sturdy old pig-jobber’s personal safety. But of all the many minor scenes that have from time to time upset the equanimity of the House, the most curious, perhaps, Was that which had its origin, on August 5th, 1871, in the reading of a message from the Queen concerning Prince Ar- thurâ€"the Duke of. Connaught. The Speaker, as is the custom in such cases. received the document from the Prime Minister, and started reading as follows: . “Victoria Reginaâ€"Her Majesty beâ€" ing desirous of making competent provision for the honorable support of her third son, Prince Arthur, on his coming of age, relies on the at- tachment of the House of Peers”â€" here the Speaker stopped confused, while 'oud‘ MURMUR OF SURPRISE broke forth from the assembled Mem- bers. In the midst of the turmoil Gladâ€" stone rose, and remarked confuscdly that a mistake had been made. “I move,” he went, “that the considera- tion of the message be deferred until Monday next.” This, however, was greeted with loud cries of “What message?” “We have no message.” The Prime Min- ister looked about him helplessly, as if not knowing what to do. But just then a messenger from the Upper House arrived in hot haste. There, too, he explained, they were in a similar predicament. They had got a message addressed to Her Majesty’s "Faithful Commons.” A great shout of laughter went up as the messages were exchanged, and this gave place to ironical cheers as Gladstone again presented liimself at the Bar. He, too, could scarcely keep from. smiling. But in his heart he was exceedingly angry. And it is said that the official responsible for mixing up the two documents got one of the worst wiggings he ever had in his Ufaâ€"Pearson‘s Weekly. THE UBEiHi’flii THE RIG-II PRIEST 017‘ WIELDS GREAT POWER. ___â€"â€" A Subtle Poison Is His Agent, and His Victims Succumb ‘ Quickly. OB In Jamaica, the most beautiful of the West Indian Islands, there slun- bers beneath the smiling exterior of things a volcano of dark superstition and savage fanaticism, which occa- sionally becomes active with deadly results. The high priest of Oh, or the obcahman, as he is more. comâ€"- monly called, wields a power in the land that the stringent measures adopted against him by the British government have been unable to put down. One may rend in the Jamaica pap- ers quite frequently of the imprisonâ€" ment and, where murder can be provâ€" ed, the execution of seine member of lthe deadly brotherhood of Oh, The practice of obeah is said to have first arisen in Egypt, taking its name from the idol Ob. From there it spread over the whole continent of Africa, and with the importation of slaves from the Guinea coast to the West Indies was transplanted to a. soil in which it flourishes with ever- increasing virulence. The old planâ€" ters were aware of the deadly char- acter of the obeahman, and as it was supposed that he carried his magic, or obeah, under his hair all slaves were shaved before being landed. WHOLE FAMILY POISONED. One of the most noted men of Ja- maica, Judge Joseph I-Iurlburt, in sentencing an obeahman convicted of the poisoning of an entire family to death recently Said : “It is my be- lief that a ' special statute should be put into effect against this bale- ful practice. I do not doubt that many men quite as dangerous as this prisoner are at. large to-day. Obeah is the most serious problem the mo- dern West Indies have to face. No man can be Said to be safe from sudden death until this thing is stamped out by the most stringent measures." Outwardly there is nothing to dis- tinguish the obeahman from the or- dinary villager, unless it is perhaps his sinister look and peculiar slouchâ€" ine; gait. as. carrying in one hand a of' death, the philtcrs and charms. of that once the shadow of anyone taken he can never be healthy, and great beauty 1005505308 0110 . ~\_ \w .«u. '2 containing bits of broken hat- of cloth, etc., he mama. country roads as? but}: Be- more sinister trade of obeahman deals in :love It is. too, a well~known fact that in cases of law- suit an obeahman is retained as well as a lawyer. Usually he "war ’* at. home on the case, but occasional- ly he accompanies his client to court for the purpose of casting spelils on the prosecutor and his witnesses and influencing the judge and jury. CULTIVATING PLANTS. The obeahman is well versed in all the vegetable poisons of the island, and sometimes cultivates in some re- mote valley in the mountains .a patch of deadly plants. He knows that the presence of vegetable poison is much harder to detect than that of mineral. One of his favorite methods of poisoning, which is diaâ€" bolical in its ingenuity, is to soak the undergarments of an intended victim in a strong decoction of peris- onous herbs. The poison (is of course absorbed by the perspiriag body of the OWner of the “doctoral” garments, and his mysterious death soon follows. Equally dreaded sides his with the oibealh- ni'en are the “Mial people,” or the "fan-eyed.” The minimum is be- lieved to injure his own or his depriving them It is bdievred (is clients’ enemies by their shadows. in the event of his failing to recover it he must inevitably pine away and die. The shadow when taken is supposed to take up its habitation in the giant cotton or ceiba tree. This tree, like the Druidical oak, is still worshipped in Jamaica, and sacrifi- offered at its roots to apâ€" 9; cos are pease the wrath of the “duppies, or evil spirits. So great is the Jana- ican veneration for the cotton tree that One is never cut down, it being the belief that in such a case "the in its buttressfleikc deaths,” dwelling the axâ€"wirfldcr’s roots, would enter soul. The ceremony of reCovering the “taken” shadow is very curious. rllhe “shadowâ€"catchers” are known as They charge exorbi- tant prices for their work, and are the aristocracy of their profession. The person desirous of regaining his drink "angel men,” shadow must neither nor smoke for several weeks. CHANT OF THE “ANGEL seen.” When he is declared “fit” by the “angel man” the troops to the nearest cotton rtree, and, forming a ring, dances about the “worker” and his client, (Shantâ€" ing : Lord, have mercy, oh ! Christ, have mercy, oh! Obeah pain hot, oh ! Lord we come fe (for) pull he, ob 'A no we. put he, oh! 'A pirit tek he, oh ! 'An’ we come fe pull he, eh! Shadow, your fadder want you, oh ! Bwoy, you fadder want you, oh! Bwoy, .your modder want you, oh l Faster and faster the ring circles till many fall exhausted. When tin “angel man,” concludes things have gone far enough he gives the signal to stop and declares his client re- whole vill nge stored to health. Then the cotton tree is pelted with eggs and newly killed chickens placed at its rootfl to compensate “the deaths” for the loss of their shadow. However childish the obea-innal and his devices may appear to the enlightened reader, he is a mey real and very serious menace to the West Indies. With a compound of the fine for from the, inside of the bamboo he in. oculatcs his white enemies with t-‘hé seeds of tuberculosis. “0mm glass placed. in their food he pro pares the way for an agonizing death. So skillfully does he work that the. victimguhilo conscious of feeling ill, does not realize ti‘l‘l too late that he has incurred some servant’s hatred for some probably fancied injury, and that the o‘beaha man has been called in. r 4“ JAPAN’S BEAUTY SPOT. In Japan the nose is the oniy fea: ture which attracts attention. The nose determines the beauty or ugli- ness of the face, according as it, is big or small. This is probably dun to the fact that difference in noses constitutes about; the only distinction between one Japanese face and an~ other. The eyes are invariably 'h’lack the cheekâ€"bones high, and the chin receding. In Japan, a‘ woman uho has a huge proboscis is always a and a reigning belle. There are few large noses among the natives, and lucky is he. or she who In most Japanese pic- bcautiful woman has this tures the featiu'e abnormally developed .gmmw... ANTIâ€"CONS li’l‘ LEAGUE. About sixty ladies and many more gentlemen have joined the Anti-Cor- set League at Leeds, England, which is an ofTshoot of the Leeds Society of Physical Culture. The males have vowed never to marry "corset wrecks.” Ladies are exhorted, at the peril of CKCOll’lIl’ltlthfli.lClll from the society, to bandon the use or corsets entirely, and there is a barn‘ and fast rule that every woman member shall have no restriction of bands or other tight clothing round the waist, but shall endeavor to have all garmean suspended iron: ithe shoulders. i i ; . :VWWWWWEK.- -. . . .. : 2.1.5“; na:;; .M....m.â€"-w.3n. ___V .3; 7., 3.5 V,JW.¢.,.....~... M \ _... .