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bâ€"â€".â€"._.-â€"â€"â€"-~â€"._~ . . of ‘ if she cried a greaf deal over her aunt, she might find a. way to go and enjoy herself at the “pattern.” “About. her aunt, ma'ani. Very bad, she says.” ’ "Oh, I’m Sorry to hear that. how is Bridget now?” “The same way, nia’am. says she’s sure her aunt is worse!” And But she OR, THE RESULT OF A FANCY DRESS BALL i. E L “How can she know that?” asks . L Hilary. W1;â€" â€"- .â€"â€"â€"_â€"_~ â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"JC‘= “I don’t know, miss.” ,- -_J_LLI.L_LmW1â€"!TWLU- 4-1â€"4 élwlfimuum Mrs Clifford who has served '1 â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"-â€" .. , . . . . long appreticeship to Irish servants, CHAPTER III. and who has heard of the "pattern," !1 dare say she expected a ring. poor She’s I {who had made several ineffectual atâ€" tempts to stop this revelation, and who is now feeling very uncomfortâ€" comes forward a step 01‘ E 9 “Where is Bridget?” asks iii-“1'21, 'able. “1 am afraid, Miss Kinsella, L alluding to the parlor-maid. nervously, we are keeping youâ€" “She’s crying, ma’am. She’s had andâ€"-â€"." bad news, she says.” | “Not at all. Not at all, me dear. “Bad news?” iThe day is young.” I-lilai'y two. i ‘_‘Did you hear,” says she impres- isively, “that Lady Bolton had a. lit- -i'le daughter last night 1’” ‘ “No ? ye don’t say so i” This iS Miss Kinsella’s formula. She iises instantly. "Poor dear young crea- ture. I must fly to her. Good-by. Good-by.” She hurries away, all .sails set. 4 “Hilary,” begins Mrs. Clifford, Disappearance of deserts. vast spaces whose waves have nevei been parted. by the prow of a sailing] :«wW» VIA-mt flail ,______â€"â€"-â€"-â€"-4 DESERTS '01: THE fillllll WHICH ARE BEEVEIH SAILED . .â€" SEAS sailing Crafl has Increased Their Area. like continents, have theii Oceans, 0n the high seas there are vessel or lashed by the propellor of a Now Hilary had gone down stairs five minutes before with partnerâ€"a magnificent cowâ€"boy I get an ice, and is standing near the: buffet enjoying it, and looking prct-l tier than usual (which is saying great deal) in her cap and gown, when she feels a touch on her arm. Looking round she sees Jim. “Our dance, I think,’ ing advantage of the fact that cowâ€"boy is a stranger from the Darâ€" racks at Cloiibrre, whereupon cow-boy bows to Hilary, and retires. from the scene. Jim regards her with a reprotchful eye. her I the l says he, “with Nemesis at handâ€"and! the sword of Damocies -â€"and all the rest of it.” "What do you mean, Jim ?" “Ife’s come !” III-1‘6?!) ‘ I "Your future Lord !" says Clifford, these [girl __to says Diana, “That's a :paltry florin .' !I lover. you, I suppose. '2 ’ says he, tak- gmelancholy coin to Di, can’t you ‘2" gDiana, “Still urging on your wild career!" HJ'oplie. about to fall ‘thought I couldn’t indeed as ‘1’ what does this mean '?” turning to her sister. mean !” says Clifford. the Very word for it. A I wouldn’t stand it if were you, Hilary. I’d fling him By-theâ€"byc, you have it with You can Show the ‘ "Hilary, “Oli ! "Don’t 'mind him,” says Hilary, :who is choking with laughter. “But the 'oli, such a thing has happened ! He 'came down the stairs to get a glass of water for some. one-â€"-â€"” “That wretched Blake girl,” gasp'. who now anticipates a cat-2.2» “And seeing me in cap and [‘~'.“.\'2'l, \‘as an attenda1 ‘. I resist the situation----l felt if I were in a situation, he took me so entirely balm. fide, and I answered him. illlll Called ’Sir,’ and got him the glass of waâ€" gvoui‘ lh‘idgcf's aunt. "Come, let us see Miss Kinsella. Let us get it over,” says she . 'l‘o- gether they enter the'drawingâ€"room. “You’re surprised to see me, my dear.” Old Miss Kinsella comes to meet them with a beaming face. "An’ so early too. But you know that your l'lridgct’s aunt is also a cousin of my charwonian, an’ she says she is very bad toâ€"day.” “The slim woman ‘2” “Oh, :10. Miss Burroughs, dear-â€" And I hear that she wants Bridget very badly; and I knew you would want Bridget rises abruptly, and turns to Hilary. E | i :very little toâ€"day, being so tiredâ€"” “I thin-k that is why we should want her,” says‘Hilary, turning to the old “busybody thankless,” with a rather severe air. “But when her aunt is dying, says Miss Kinsella, her old inaid’s curls swaying backward and forward in an angry fashion. I-ler face takes a with the biggest L on record. ter, whereupon he kindly pressed 1 , _ “A “Oh, no l” Not really i” this,” holding up the memorabie ‘Jgmeom” Wm- ‘ "d When you have two other servants too, and “My good girl, I’ve been staring at fiorin, him for the past two minutes. He was talking to Diana, and evidently crossâ€"examining her about you. 'At least I hope it was that. Diana about herself. I’ll have cross-examination of my own her later on.” "You won’t tell To me it [Hilary seemed as if he was crossâ€"examining fihowever. a Icious relic; with ideal to “into my hand !” "Good gracious, what is to be done?” says Diana. ' "You think I ought to return it?” mistakes her. “I shan’t, .1 shall keep it as a preâ€" biit wasn’t it a great give for a glass of Water, Di? Wasn’t it very extravagant of him I’m. here ‘2” him ? Do you think it would be safe says Hilary, in a tone of frightened lto marry such a spendthrift as he entreaty. > “Not I. But Diana will. And after all, Iilary, why shouldn’t youI get it over at once ‘2 It isn’t as ifl you were bound to marry him.” “I can’t. I.” defiantly, I’d rather die than see him. I______’J‘ His eyes are on the stairs above him. he. “For here he cc‘mics !” “Oh, no i” says Hilary. In fact. Ker is running down stairs at the top of his speed, tol find that glass of waterlfor theI fainting Swiss peasant. barely time to stand back from Jim, and give him a him that eternal infamy will brand lhas proved himself to be '3” Yicst i~ ‘ . “won’t. itliat I have asked him to lunch to- 1inorrow, Clifford makes a quick movement. When he sees youâ€"â€" I r now thoroughly frightened. “I expect you’ll have to £110,” ‘says 'think I would face him after Hilary has 1 toâ€"morrow. “Oh, I’m not thinking of that all,” says Diana, in a. voice of guish. “And how you can make of itâ€"I am only remembering ill“.â€" tliat he is coming! H and Never !” cries Hilary, “Do you this»? What on earth did you ask him for?” “Why, for you i” says Diana i: “Sees me ! the her solemn way. "Then it is useless. Nothing in the world would tempt me to meet him ’1 “But you will have to see him glance that \Vflvl‘ns sooner or later.” “Then. it shall be later, when he him if he now by 0110 word betrays has forgotten all aboutâ€"the glass of at they?’ ' “I fcalinly. Igoiiig of Bridget.” .tvncheons,“ n when death is in question “The cook and the nurseryâ€"maid hardly count,” says Mrs. Clifford, “and, as a fact, I want a parlor- maid very much to-day. I have people to luncheon.” “No, ye don’t say so l” says Miss Kinsella, leaning forward, all deâ€" light and anxiety. She has forgot- ten her present crusade iii her burnâ€" ing desire for gossip. “An’ who are ’ says Diana is the doesn’t matter,’ “What does matter “It i “I should think,’ says Miss Kinâ€" sella, enraged at the refusal to gratâ€" ify her cariosity, "that a. luncheon party should not count with the dy- ing of an ancestral relative!” She doesn’t know herself means, but. it sounds splendid. “When re’ro dying, re don’t/ think of says she, which certainly 15 an incontrovertible fact. "Well, but you see we’re not dy- ing,” says Hilary. “Of course if Bridget’s aunt is dy- ing,” says Mrs. Clifford, “she must go to her. However, I hope she will not lose her way there, and go to this ‘pattern’ instead.” her, when Ker is in their midst. water," Seeing a smart-looking maid (even “Taht wouldn’t take him long,” “Oh! Mrs' Clifford’ mo dam" we at this hurried moment he notices says Clifford. “I expect it has fad- that “beauty lies Within 1101' eyes”) cd rom his memory by this; what he with an empty ice plate in her hand, may taking igloomy forebodiiigs as to the away from somebody, he rushes up to |erliness of a breathless loss of his two-shilling piece!”- that apparently she is just Hilary, and says in tone : n with evidently misâ€" disposition, “the remember is, Ker's lie’d “Nonsense! I son’t believe shouldn’t misjudgc the poor. Of course I know very little about anyâ€" thing that’s goin’ on meself” (there isn’t a thing going on in the neighâ€" borhood, touching poor or rich, great or simple, that she doesn’t know), “bciii’ only a poor, desolate old maic.” "1} glass or water, please.” H ever think of that again,” says Him-1‘)" after a Seconds ShOCk, 15 Diana, who is highly incensed with “Oh! nOt 5" (1050th Miss Kinsel' equal to the occasion. her husband for even pretending to la,” says Hilary, with mild irony. :j-‘l glass Of Water. Sll‘l‘?" show up Ker to Hilary in a. mercenâ€" “You have 350“ M1" Peter! you ' And In a hm‘l'yr my good ary light; girls are so troublesome know.” E1121; . . sometimes over the vagucst thingS. “Well, I have, me dear,” says the ‘ You Shall have It, 5113” _ “That’s what I sav,” savs Hilary 01d maid! brightening “And it She goes over to the buffet, pro- wh'o is rather enjofing hérsem “i must he confessed by all that me cures the glass of water in question, told you I thougfit him a .born nephew, I‘ether Kinsella., is a. host and brings it back to Ker. spendthrjft.” in himself. llut even Pether says I "Oh, thI-dnks_ A thousand thanks” aqull’” says .Diana boldly “I’d k]10\V nothing. YOU’I'O 1101. 1111') 110- 83575110, 111 a hurried “’uY- rather marry a spendtlirift than a day” he Says to me' A“, surely’ lle seizes the glass. squeezes a flor- niiser any day l” Mrs. Clifford, that’s a most extraor- ‘ ' ‘ . . 7’ . ‘ i 1 . â€" 111 1.1110 Hllall S ha'nd. and 15- gonc- ' Which am I?” asks Clifford am dinary remark to make to me, who Hilary stands still for a moment, xiously. am out 0’ me bed at seven sharp then subsules into the dark recess of “Oh, you 3 You're nothing 1” guys every morning" 0’ me life- But a. closed doorway, her brother-iii-law “ ' that’s what he’s always tellin’ me. following her. his wife, who is a little with him. indignant You’re not ‘up toâ€"day’ he says. I “A nice beginning,” says he wrathâ€" At this (31mm. , - . suppose it has some meanin’, but fully. “How do you thinklyou are suddenly 110mm has {11112111. faith I can’t find it out.” going to meet him after this ?” . up Close‘ to him. ’ ° Hilary is shaking with laughter; alvI-Ie won t remember,’ says Hil- “poor old girl 1 Look at her, Mrs. Clifford comes to the rescue. 3‘, v _ y D Married to . , - '7'! “It is slang,” sa s she. “A sill “Won't be ‘2 Don tnyou think says he, whergofiogigg£31312?{0- expression. You Inslrlst tell Mr. Kiri: somebody. W111 tellnhim? gather, and peace is restored Sella not to talk slang to you. 'And 1011111111 \vhat urinary, darling, you “Vin: appearlldatc” perhaps, l5 the “70rd. Don’t “That you were dressed as a. par- lorinaid tonight ‘2 'And when he sees you, as he must, don’t you think he will put two and tivo together?” “Perhaps he has no head for mathâ€" ematics,” says I-Iilary, but even she feels that this is frivolous. However, the discussion is brought at luncheon !" entreats Diana softly. ‘ v . "No ! No ! lVever !” says Hilary, With emphasis. “Iâ€"I couldn't!” CHAPTER IV. “Miss Kinsella is in the dhrawnâ€" room, ma’am,” says the cook. you think,” with a view to changing the conversation, “that Mrs. Brawne looked very well last night!” “And her dress,” says “Oh! charming!" “No such great thing," snaps Miss Kinsella. “Did ye look at her sleeves ? Chinese silkâ€" 8d. a yard!” Hilary. to an end suddenly by Diana, who It is next morning, and very early “It looked all right,” says Mrs. comes down the stairs to them With too, cons1dering the dissipations of Peter Kinsella, and having dismissed the night before. Diana and Hilary lClifford, wondering what Miss Kinâ€" sclla is going to say of her dres’s at that floridyoung Romeo, warns Ilil- have only just got downstairs, and the next house She goes to. m-y that 11 they don i; go home at to be told, in their languid state,. “And Mrs. Dyson-llfoom ‘2” asks once they Will probably be mixed up that that old gossip-mongol" is waitâ€"llliliii'y', inischievouslv. “What did with the rank and file at the end. rl‘liis awful suggestion has its effect. seems more than Mrs. Clifford stares ing to see them, can be endured. you think of her dress?” “Faith, there was nothing to Soon they are on their liomeward at the cook. think of” ‘iqu MM Kinsolh [monk _ , ,_,,I. , ,,, .,_ .~,.. .. - Eva), am: ‘At last.’ as Diana Says. “by on earth didnt you say we.puv “I couidn’t see M H 4 _ 1 - n , . ' , . n , , - - , f' ' . I . U . . csln‘vta‘ . _ t ‘ _ W010 111 btd ? says she, in an irate ‘ Oh! lie, Miss Kinsella l” says 11.01d leads off the conieisation- tone. Him“, “wlmt ,m ilmimyuion.” . . . I. ( I t. a . :11 ball in a light and airy fashion. "I don’t know, ma’am. I didn’t “I thought she looked Very pretty” “‘Ixfer has just given Hilary two know what you’d wish.” says Mrs. Clifford vaguely who is Shillings, ’ says lie. And of course she didn’t, being‘now wondering how to get rid of “what 1)” pressed into upstairs service for the her, Diana peers at him through the first time. The parlor-maid had “So did Meejor Blackburn that fast-growing brightness of the coul- been in the lowest spirits since the -])ig d'agoon from the barracks, Me iiig dawn. If he wore not the most post at eight o’clock came in, and idear Mrs. Clifford, I must tell you,” ubslomious of men she would have had been quite incapable of doing leaning forward and loworiii lier told herself that perhaps there had anything ever since. The news the voice and O‘lV'ill‘l‘ a glance ovgr her been a last glase of champagne, letter contained was that her aunt shoulders at, then hoor to see if it but... was a little bilious (the aunt lived was firmly closed. "I’m the last 11 ;r , .l _ , ‘ u , . ‘ ' ‘ . i- r , , , H \05, 135511110 .3011, 5&35’91190}? lln~ Flaiee, and she had never seen one in the world to pry upon any I saw him do it. I dont think her), and‘ that there was to be a one, as you anW, me deal. But I v - . u . . ‘ . 4 , . ' ‘ DJUCII of him, do 3011? Most fel' \ely big Dillteln" held this eVenâ€" went into one of the conservatories ‘ : lows give the girl they are to marry a ring or a bracelet, or a from trallyâ€"wag of some sort, but I never going .ing in her own place, about five miles situation. (A dance on the her present “pattern” means a. heard of a. two-shilling piece before. highway where four roads meet, and just to see if the Chinese. lanterns were burning’ all right, and sure enough, there she was, she an’ the Meejor, lookin’ bigger than ever, an’ Perhaps it’s fashionable! We're where the peasants congregate on her hand clasped in his behind her rather out of it. down here, you stated occasions to foot ,it gayly to fan. Thev do sav that, is why sh= know, so we mightn’t know. But and fro, with the assistance of'somc -l)uvs them. big fans just to hide be: to ine it sounds shabby.” old piperâ€"generally, and by prefer- hifid with meejors," "You must be mad," says Diana. ence, blind.) It had occurred, “I don’t think there is anv real “It's Hin y who ought to be mad. I what this I I it. I should have been surprised if “who told you ‘9 I thought it wasn’t. expected untilâ€"â€"” “Nobody told me," says Hilary, "I merely asked her if she had heard she had. Because certainly I hadn't. But she’s gone, anyway.” “Thank Heaven!” Mrs. Clifford Sinks into a seat. "What is to be done about Bridget?” “I know,” says Hilary, stopping in the middle of the pas de quatre she has been dancing up and down the Iroom with an imaginary partner. “I thonght it all out while that old lady was gossiping with you.” "You know?” “Yes. I’ll be your parlormaid for i this occasion only.” (To be Continued.) mg...” ill MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MIA-II: ABOUT JOE-IN BULL AND HI" ':."EOPLE. Occurrences in the "Land That; Reigns Supreme in the Com- 3 . mercial World. 1 It is many years since trade was so bad in Leeds as now. Burnle Weavers‘ Association a membership of 12,000, an income of £206 weekly, and is worth £20,â€" 833. The front at St. Mary’s church, Torquay, is supposed to be 1,000 years old, and its restoration. is be- ing discussed. The birth of a baby in a family at Yeadon, Leeds, establishes the re- cord of five living generations in a direct line. The new White Star liner Baltic, which is. to carry 3,000 passengers, will leave Liverpool on her firstvoy- age on June 25th. ' Mr. Wm. Barrett, who was at Fininere, near Buckingham, other day, had lived for over years in the same house. . Prof. Atkinson, the great specialâ€" ist in boneâ€"setting, and founder of the Animals Institute, died on the 14th ult. at his London house. It is proposed to inaugurate a movement in Staffordshore for a county memorial to the late Sir Thos. Salt to commemorate his pub- lic work. A hall erected at Bradford in memâ€" ory of Dr. Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was opened on the 20th 11112., and handed over by Lord Masham to the public of the city. The hall cost £55,000, of £4,500 was given by Lord Masham. It is stated that the late Duke of Cambridge has left his baton, uni- form and medals and decorations to the Whitehall Museum. It is fit that these relics of the old soldier should he sent there, for there are few buildings in London with which. he was more familiar. g The Kids’ Chronicle is the title of a new Liverpool journal. It is pub- lished by the Street Arabs’ Institute. By a .Khedivial decree just issued, the number of British officers on the lstrength of the Egyptian army will be considerably increased. Lady churchwardens are quite the vogue in Buckinghamshire. There are no less than five of them holding this office in the county. Congregational music as rendered in these islands is hideous. says Mr. Moody, organist of Ripon Cathedral. I-le is prepared, according to the Yorkshire Post, to hold rehearsals of the congregation in the nave of .the cathedral; At a wedding in Burley-inâ€"W-harfcâ€" dale, a. Yorkshire village, the brideâ€" igroom failed to appear. A search was made for him, and he was found sitting on the river bank cry- ing bitterly. He refused to go to church, and the ceremony was abanâ€" ldoned. M. Favre, principal station master at Calais, France, received from King Edward the Cross of the Vic- recognition of his the torian Order in services during many years to mem- bers of the English royal family passing through Calais. “M..â€" Mistressâ€"“Do you love babies?” Maidâ€"“Not at three dollars a week, ,niuni.” Tramp No. 1.â€"â€""Do you know, Mick, that the old duller who has just gone up the street had the imâ€" patience to tell me that if I hadn't spent my money for beer I might be .ownin- a brick house?” Tramp No. 2â€"“What', did you say?” Tramp No. 1â€"“I reminded him with great sar- casticness that yer carn’t drinli‘ brick houses.” ’ Proud Motherâ€"“You will be five lyear-s old t-o~m-orrow, Willie, and I want to give you a. real birthday treat. Tell me what you would like better than anything else.” Willie (after thinking earnestly for five ininutcs)â€"â€"”Bring nze a whole box of lchocolate creams, mother, and ask T-cnniny Smith to come in and watch therefore, to her simple mind, that Iharm in her," says Mrs. Clifford, me eat them." ‘ I , steamer began has I 'ert than before. 80 [or commercial centres, which i steamer; immense solitudes whore tlu flap of a sail is never heard nor tht strident cry’ of asiren; veritable dos erts whose silence is broken only by the. howling of the wind and the roai of the waves which have been vainly pursuing one another since the days of creaticn. These deserts lie forgotten betwixt the narrow ocean highways travelled by vessels. In such waste places of the sea a disabled ship, driven out- of its course by a hurricane, may. drift for months, tossed by the cease: less ground swell, without being able to bail assistance; her only chance of escape is the possibility that some oceanic current may drag her into a more frequented region. FOLLOW BEATEN TRACK. It. is generally supposed that by reaâ€" son of the universal increase of mariâ€" time t’aflic the sea is everywhere fur- rowod by vessels. This is a mis- take Ocean commerce has grown enormously during the last half cen-« tury. but that development is due to the substitution of steam naviga- tion for the old fashioned eiiiploy'mcnt of the sailing vessel. \\ hen the first. to churn the water vith its paddle wheels, the sailing fleet ceased to increase; with the adâ€" vent of the screw propeller they bed 1gen to decrease. The gradual but constant disappearance of sailing ships made the ocean more of a (less Sailing vessels had their established routes in accordance with winds, currents and seasons; the gaps between the routes taken by outward bound and homewaird bound ships were often considerable; moro- lover, the capricious elements not in« frequently played the mischief with nautical instructions, and as a. result the field of operations for .ocean ship: ping was vast-1y expanded. OCEAN HIGHWAYS. This is no longer true toâ€"day. ’l‘he liner goes straight ahead, in deli-cum buried of wind and wave; the ports between plies are great industiial whither come numberless railways, serving as pro- longations of the lines of navigation. Freight cars carry their loads of merâ€" which she chandise to the lesser ports and the cities of the interior. The railway has killed coastwise navigation. The ocean highways are therefore anything but numerous. The most frequented of oceans is the Atlantic. Apart from the Pola' seas, we see that in its northern part there is onâ€" ly one desert zoneâ€"a dreary waste of waters between the routes from Europe to the United States or Canâ€" ada, and those from Europe to the Antilles. In the south, between the routes from South Americ- on the Western American coast and the routes from South Africa, extends a. desert occasionally traversed by the steamers of the lines from Cape Town and Mozambique, which, when the coffee season is at its height in Bra,- r‘l, cross the Atlantic for cargoes at litio Janerio or Santos. V PATH’LE‘SS DESERTS. , The Indian Ocean is freiuicn-ted only in the north, by lines out of India and Indoâ€"Chiiia. and a little way in the west by liners from Oceâ€" anica, which call at Colombo and then make straight for Australia. Two lines, each with a steamer a month, follow a slender lane from Australia to Cape Town. The Pacific is the Sahara of great seas. Saving only the steamship-s from the Far East to California and British Columbia, a l . v- _ . line from Sydney to San Franco-Lice, and a oneâ€"lilorse line (with sailings four or five tillECS a year) between 'Teliiti and the United Sta.l.(3:SIr-â€".‘Z\LL\'0 for these more ribbon like slrcal's the acific is a desert. Only a few naâ€" t'ive canoes ply darineg from island to island in archipelagoos, :irt around with coral reefsâ€"veritable oce- an graveyards, the terror of seafaring men. How many ships, of which we have received no tidings and of which not so much as a drifting spar has ever been pickeE] up, have been drag- ged by irresistible winth into these solitudos of the South Pacific, no one will ever know, for the ocean guards its prey full well. Sometimes, howâ€" ever, a little part of its secret leaks out, and then We divine the shocking tragedies of which it has been the theatre. ._......~_+___ The average man spends too much time making money and too little on- joying it. 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