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Now'Mr-s. Noah had a singular influence over her youn master. who was in the habit of consul ing her with regard to his aflairs. and nothing could have been more unpropitions to the success of grandpa's suit than knowing she disapproved. Besides this. Guy had only the revions week lost a small amount loan under similar circumstances. Standing silent for a moment. while be buried and reburied his shining boots in the hills oi sand. he said at last. “ Candidly. sir. I don't believe I can accommodate you. I am about to make repairs at Aikenside. and have par- tially promised to loan money on good security to a Mr. Silas Slocum, who. 'it things work right.‘ as he expresses it. intends building a mill on some property which has come. or is coming. into his hands." “ Yes, and I was so to miss you. Iâ€" Iâ€"it makes me feel aw ard to tell you. but I wanted to borrow some money. and I didn‘t know nobody as likely to have It as you. That woman up to your house said she knowed you wouldn't let me have it. ’cauoe you hadn't it to spare. Mebby you haven'c," and grandpa waited anxiously fog_Guy_'a reply. _ ‘ " Do, pray. Guy. how long must we wait here ‘2" Agnes asked. impatiently, leaning out of the carriage and partially drawing her veil over her face as she glanced at Grandpa Markham. but a look from Guy silenced her; an I turning again to grandpa. he asked : "That's mineâ€"that’s mine. my home- stead," gasped grandpa. turning white " What did you any ? You have been to Aikenside to see me ?" tion. All apology and regret. the stinging driver tried to make some excuse. but Guy stopped him short, telling him to see how much the w on was damaged. while he ran to the 01 man, who had recovered from the first shock, and was trying to extricate himself from the folds of the oemlet cloak. Near by was a blmknmith’a shop. and thither Guy ordered his driver to take the broken-down waggon with a. view to gejtipg _it repeired._ “ No. young men. Don'tbe mall. He‘ll never do't again; and sprigs like him think they've a right to make fun of old oodgere like me," was grandpe’e meek expostule- approaching at a rapid rate. The driver, Paul, saw him too, but soorning to give half the road to eueh as Sorrel and the square-boxed waggon, he kept steadily on, while Grandpa Markham. determining to speak to Guy. reined his horse a little nearer. raised his hand in token that the negro should stop. As a natural conse- quence the wheels of the two vehicles became interlocked, and, as the powerful greys were more than a match for Sorrel, the front wheel of Grandpa Markham's on was wrenched off, and the old man precipitated to the ground. which, fortu- nately for him, was in that locality covered with sand banks. so that he was only stunned for an instant, and failed to hear the insolent negro'e remark: " Served you ‘ right. old cove; might have turned out for a gentleman ;" neither did he see the sud- den flashing of Guy Remington's eye. as, leaping from his carriage. he seized the astonished African by the collar. and demanded “ What he meant by serving an old man so shameful a trick, and then insulting him ?" "Tell him l‘want it done at once." he said authoritatively, as if he knew his name carried weight with it; than turning to grandpa, he askagi agaip if. he were hurt. “That darky shall rue this job." Guy said. savagely, as he gazed pityingly upon the shaky old creature beside him. “I‘ll discllarge him to-morrowifl “ No. not speciallyâ€"jolted my old bones some. You are very kind. sir," grandpa replied. brushing the dust from his pants- loons and then involuntarily grasping Guy‘s arm for support. as his weak knees Logan to tremble from the effects of excite- ment and fright. Driving at a brisk trot. through the grounds, Sorrel was soon out upon the highway; and with spirits exhilarated by thoughts of going home, ho”kopt up‘tho trot. until turning a. sudden corner hi3 master gnaw the earrings from__Aik_en_side “ Odd, but clever as the day is long." was Mrs. Noah‘s comment. as, after seeing him safe out of the y,ard she went back to her vegetable oysters. which were in danger of_bemg overdone._ _ _ this." he said, as he passed into the hall. Mrs. Noah received his thanks graciously and led him to the yard, where Sorrel stood waitmg for him. Bvemington. which hung upon the wall. “ This will last Maddy a week. I thank you. ms’am. You have added some can- sidersble to the happiness of a. young girl, who wouldn’t disgrace even such a room as this," he said, as he psosed into the hall._ Grandpa believed she did notseehim and comforted with that assurance he began to remark upon the mirror. saying. “ it made it up ar as it there was two of you,” a remar which Mrs. Noah fully apsreoiated. He saw the silk chairs nexty. n slily touched onetosee it it did feel like the gored, peach-blossom dress worn by his wife forty-two years ago that very spring. Then he tried one of them, exam ined the rare ornaments in the room and the grand piano, and came near bowing gain to the_;_x>_rt_rait of the first__Mrs. " How ’ahamed of me Maddy would be.“ he thought, glancing sidewise at Mrs. Noah, who had witnessed the blunder. and was now looking from the window to hide heglaugpter: __ _ ___ oops of the oamleb cloak worn by the man in the glass. and Grandpa Markhun’l face turned crimson as the truth bunt upon him. Happening Vtoliit his eyes before one of the long mirrors. heap ied himseli, wonder- ing much what that “ queer looking chap was doing there in the midst of much elegance, and why Mrs. Noah did not turn him out! Then mentally asking forgive noes for this flesh of pridey, and determined to make amends. he bowed low to the figure in the lens. which bowed as low 111 return. but di not repl to the good-untured remark, “ How gye (loâ€"pretty wellto- day?" "Bu BOY AT LAST. A SOCIETY NOVEL. By the author of “Bdnh Lyle." “Mildred ” Forum non-o." "Ohumu d'Or," 0:40.: "mad would like thinâ€"it's her mturo." o whispered. advmoing a flop or two, md setting down his {not a nonly u}! stew?“ 911.9589: . s '1" 'i‘here was a. familiar look about the 1 What a cozy little chamber it was where Maddy layâ€"just such a room as a girl like her might be supposed to occupy. and the oung doctor felt like treading upon for- bidden ground as he entered the room which told so plainly of girlish habits, from the fairy slippers hung on apeg. to the fanciful little work-box made of cones and acorns. Maddy was asleep. and sitting down beside her the doctor asked that the shawl which had been pinned before the window to exclude the light might be removed, so that he could see her. and thus judge better of her condition. They took the shawl away, and the sunlight came streaming in. disclosing to the doctor's view the face never before seen distinctly. or thought much about. if seen. It was ghastly pale now. save where the hot blood seemed bursting through the cheeks. while the beautiful brown hair was brushed back from the brow where the veinswere swollen and full. The lips were slightly apart. and the hot breath came in quick. panting gasps. while occasionally a faint moan escaped them. and once the doctor heard, or thought he heard. the sound of his own name. One little hand lay upon the bed. spread, but the doctor did not touch it. Ordinarily he would have grasped it as readily as if it had been a piece of marble. but the sight of Maddy. lying there so sick. and the fear that he had helped to bring her where she was. awoke to life a curious state of feeling with regard to her. making him alniostas nervous as on the day when she appeared before him as Candidate No. l. " Fool her pulse, doctor; it in faster most than you can count." Grandma Mark- ham whispered; and thus entreated. the doctor took tho hot. soft hand in his (mm, its touch sending through his frame a thrill " Keeps talkin' about the big books. the Latin and the Hebrew, and even Catechism. as if such like was ’lowed in our schools. I 3030 you didn't know no better ; but if M d y dies, you’ll have it to answer for, I reckon." The doctor did not try to excuse himself, but hnstily took down the medicines he thought he might need, and stowed them cegfqlly_away. Maddy's case lost nothing by Mr. Green’s account, and by the time the doctor's horse was ready, and he on his way to the cottage. he had arrived at the conclusion that of all the villainous men outside the walls of the State's Prison. he was the most villainous, nnflfiuy Remington nextt He hilt] expected to hear from that ex- amination, but not in this way. and rather nervously he made some inquiries. as to how long she had been ill. and so forth. Maddy might have been just assick as she was if the examination had never occurred ; but it was natural for those who loved her to impute it all to the eflsots of excitement and cruel disappointment. so there was something like indignation mingling with the sorrow gnawing at the hearts of the old couple as they watched by their fever-stricken darling. Farmer Green, too. shared the feeling. and numer- ous at first were his animadversions against that sprig of a Holbrook, who was not fit to doctor a cat. much less examines school- marm. But when Maddy grew so sick as not to know him or his wife, he laid aside his prejudices, and suggested to Grandpa Markham that Dr. Holbrcok be sent for. “ He's great on fevers," he said. “ and is good on curin’ sick folks, I ’spose; so. though he would have preferred some one else should have been called, confidence in the young doctor's skill won the day, and 1 grandpa consented. and Farmer Green was sent for the physician, to whom he said, with his usual bluutness: " Well. you nigh about killed our little Maddy t’other day, when you refused the stiflicut, and now we want you tocure her.” ML- .1--a.-._ I--l_-J ”- The doctor looked up in surprise. but Farmer Green Boon explained his meaning. making out a moat aggravated case, and teprgsentinglltladdy as wild with delirium. THE RESULT. It was Farmer Green's new buggy and Farmer Green’s bay salt which. three days later, stopped before Dr. Holbrook's office. and not the square~boxed waggon, with old Sorrel attached, for the former was standing quietly in the shipyard. behind the low red house, while the latter, with his nose over the barn-yard fence, was neighing occasionally, as it he missed the little hands which had daily fed him the oatmeal he liked so much. and which now lay hot and parched and helpless upon the white oounterpane which Grandma Mark- ham had spu_n_and woven herself. But Maddy‘s disappointment was keener than his own. and so, after the sorrowful words, " And I failed. too.”he tried to com- fort the poor child, who. leaning her throb- bing head against his shoulder, sobbed bitterly, as in the soft spring twilight they drove back to the low red cottage where grandma waited for them. CHAPTER V. “ Poor Maddy! I dread tellin' he: the moat, she was so sure," grandpa whispered. as he stopped before the office, when Maddy waited for him. Guy laid a little emphasis on that last word, and looking up quickly grandpa was about tosay. " I am not so much a stranger as you think. I knew your father well ;" but he checked himself with the thought. “ No. that will be too much like begging ‘ gay for a deed of mercy done years ago.” 0 Guy never suspected that the old man before him had once laid his father under a debt of gratitude. The more he reflected the less inclined he was to lend the money, and as grandpa was too timid to urge his needs. the result was that when at last the wheel was replaced and Sorrel again trotted on toward Devonshire he drew after him a and heavy heart. and not once until the village was reached did he hear the cherry chuckle with which his kind master was gout to encourage him. um he as a it be tomato-u and got: u no 91131! buil n will, and to» our old house “ I’ll tell you whnt I'll do," he uid. after a little. “ I’ll (In-:3) Slocum a note to-night saying I've ehang my mind. end shall not lei him have the money. Perla , then. he won't be so anxious to to one. and grill give you time to look among your 'ends." dmoet as his hair blowing in the April wind. “ Thm‘s 3 “ram 0! water on it, And. .119 '2!- if 1!: 10"?!” 9°“ 8°}: .“E ”5° down.” Guy was Guy was in s dllemmt. He had not asked how much Mr: Making: yantgd. md u the letter had not told him, he Dunn-ally concluded it a much larger sum then it teelly was, and did not one just then to lend it. “Guy." and 'the doctor came closely to him. whispering huskily "you and I are murderers iu the first degree. and both deserve to be hung. Do you remember that Madeline Clyde whom you insulted with your logic. and the Catechism, and Latin verbs? She‘d set her heart on that certificate. She wanted the money, not for new gowns and (calories. mind. but to help her old grandfather pay his debts. His place is mortgaged. I don't understand it; ut he asked some old hunks to lend him the money. and the miserly rascal.who- ever he was. refused. I wish I had it. I‘d give it to him out and out. But there‘s nothing to do with the girlâ€"Maddy. they call her. The disappointment killed her, and she's dyingâ€"As raving crazyâ€"and keeps talking of that coniounded examina- tion. I tell you, Guy.l get terribly mixed up when I hear her talk, and my heart thumps like a trip~hammcr. That‘s the “Well. Hal." he began. jocosely. but the joking words he would have uttered next died on his lips as he noticed the strange look of excitement. and anxiety on the doctor's face. “What is it?" he ueked. ” Are all you! patieyts dead?" There was no probability of this, as Guy lived in another town, and could not have ofliciated had he wished. But the doctor was too much excited to reason clearly about anything. save Madeline Clyde‘s case; and during the next few weeks his other patients waited many times in vain for his coming. while he sat by Madd ’5 side, watching every change, whether or the worse or better. Even Agnes Reming- ton was totally neglected; and so one day she sent Guy to Devonshire to say that as Jessie seemed more than usually delicate. she wished the doctor to take her under his charge and visit herat least once a week. The doctor was not at home, but Tom said he expected him every moment. 80. seat- ing himself in the armchair. Guy waited until he came. " Put anybody you like in my place." he said " anybody but Guy Remington. Don‘t jbr_t_hunder‘s sa kc. take him." Sumrfioning around him those who had been most active in electing him. he refused to oflioiste again. assuring them that if any more candidates came he shouldeithor turn them from his door or givs them a. certifi- ostejvithout asking s_qusstiou. If the doctor had hated himself the pre- vious day when he rode from the prod cottage gayte. he hated himsalf doubly now as he went dashing down the road. deter- mined to resign his office of school inspector that very day. And he did. Maddy did not reply, but the great tears poured down her flushed cheeks, as she thought of her feeble old grandfather work- ing on the road and shovelling snow to earn his bread ; and the fever, which had seemed to be abating, returned with double force. and when next morning the doctor came. there wasa look of deep anxiety upon his face as he watched the alarming symptoms of his delirious patient, who talked inces- santly, not of the examination now, but of the mortgage and the foreclosure. begging him to see that the house was not sold ; to tell them she was earning thirty-six dollars by teaching school ; that Beauty should be sold to save their dear old home. All this was strange at first to the doctor. but the rather voluble Mrs. Green. who had come to Grandma Markham's relief. enlightened him. dwelling with a kind of malicious pleasure upon the fact that Maddy's earn- ings. had she been permitted to get a “ stiflicut." were to be appropriated toward pa_yjn_g the debt: _ “ But never you mind, Maddy.” he said. oheerily, when he saw how excited she seemed; “ we shall manage somehow. I can rent two or three rooms cheap of Mr. Green, he told me soâ€"and with old Sorrel I can work on the road, and fetch things from the depot, and in the winter I can shovel snow, and clean roofs. We shall not starveâ€"not a bit of itâ€"so don't you worry, It will make you was, and I’d rather lose the old homestead a thousand times over than lose you." Maddy had a vague remembrance of such ‘an incident, and in her heart forgave the doctor for his rejection. and thought only how handsome he had looked. even while tormenting her with such unheard of ques- tions, and how kind he was to her now. The sight of her grandfather, who came in to see her. awoke a new train of ideas. and bidding him to sit beside her. she asked if their home must be sold. Maddy was not to be put off with an evasion, and so grand- pa told her honestly at last that Slocum wrigld probably foreclose, and the place be so . Her grandmother hardly thought he did, though she was not in the room all the time. " He had tagged 9. long while, and was groggy i_nteres ." she gaid. Then, promising to come again: he rode tepidly away. to visit other patients. who that afternoon were in danger of bemg sadly neglected. so ooneten y wee their physician’s mind dwelling upon the little, ow chamber where Maddy Clyde was lying. As night closed in, she awoke to artiel consciousness, and heard that Dr. olbrook had been there prescribing for her. Turning her face to the well, ehe seemed to be thinking; then calling her grandmother to her. she asked, “Did he em_ooth my _hs.ir._ and any. _'_ poor objld PL" “ Guy was a fool. and I was a. brute." the doctor muttered. as he folded up the mm of paper whose oontents he hoped might doimuoh toward saving Maddy’e life. ‘ awn “VI "mama .v.vâ€"'-‘I And. alter a time. Maddy did ‘awaken, but in the eyes fixed. for a moment. so in- tently on him. there was no look 0! recognition. and the doctor was half glad that it was so. He did not wish her to associate him with her late disastrous failure; he would rather she should think of him as some one come to cure her. for cure her he would. he said to himself. as he gazed into her childish face, and tho ht how sad it was for such as she to '9. When he first entered the cottage he had been struck with the extreme plainneee of the furniture. betokening the poverty of its inmates; but now he Iorgot everything except the sick girl. who grew more and more restless, and he t talking of him and the Latin verb whie meant to love and which was not in the grammar. _ 1 ovorunt. But somehow the not mural him. All font 0! Mndd vnninhod. inning behind only nn intense coin to flhelp. it poonbio. the young if] whose new mmodto cling round mown as he to t for and found the rapid pulse.” u 1,, __l_l I-..l..- â€"â€" .-r-- (â€"V- “ If she would woken." he add. loying the hand softly down. and phoiugpis other upon perpuroingforeheod. ‘ my, ,3_ 43.1 ‘____|___ u the touch of no other land had uluuu, " one. IWU. "use, qur, uvu. That was all; the bot] stopped; and vain were all their liateninga to catch another sound. Fifteen years 0111fv had [>335ng over t_h_e_for_m now_(orever_ ati l. How long it seemed before another stroke. and Guy was beginning to hope they had heard the last when again the sound came floating on the air. and Dr. Hol- brook‘e lip quivered as he now counted aloud. “ one. two. three, four. five." " One. two. three, four. five, six. seven. eight. nine. ten ;" Jessie counted aloud. While every stroke fell like a heavy blow upon the hearts of the young men, who a few weeks ago did not know that Maddy Clyde had over had existence. it was the Devonehire bell. and its twice three strokes betokened that it tolled for somebody youthful, somebody young, like Maddy Clyde. Jessie wept silently, but there were no tears in the eyes of the young men. as with heating hearts they sat listen- inf.l to the elow. solemn sound! which came ee oing up the hill. There was a pause; the aexton‘e task was nearly done. and it only remained for him to strike the age. and tell how many years the departed one had numbered. doctor at home and willing togo with them. Indeed. so impatient had he become listen- ing for the first stroke of the bell which was to herald the death he deemed so sure, that he was on the point of mounting his horse and galloping off alone, when Guy drove up with Jessie. It was five miles from Devoushire to chedsle, and. when they reached'a hill which lay half way between. they stopped fora few moments to rest the tired horses. Suddenly. as they sat waiting, a sharp. ringing sound fell on their ears.. and grae ing Guy’s knee. the doctor said. “ I to! you so; Madeline Clyde is dead." They would go to the village, Guy said, hoping that the dqotor might be peregaded hoping that the doctor mig‘hl: be persuaded to _aoco;qpany “30111:“ hey @an the The question startled the young man. who did not know what to answer, and who was glad that his coaohman a he to him just than asking if he shoul drive through Devonshire village. or go direct to Honedale by a shorter route. “ No. not momma, but Miriam, the waiting-maid we left in Boston. She told me about it, and taught mete pm different from momma, who sometimes eeps her eyes open in church when she is on her knees. and looks at the bonnets near us. Do_ you prey._brother qu ?_" "WHO “night. you all this, little one 7-â€" not 39m- mqther. aurely.’_' Guy drew her closer to him. but to that childish yearning for knowledge he could nofimwndmp‘he “(is l.. Then she plied Guy with questions. con- cerning Msddy's probable future. “ Would she go to heaven. sure! " and when Guy answered at random, “Yes, " she asked. “How did he know .1 Had he heard that Maddy was that kind of good which lets ple into heaven ? Because. brother Guy." and the little preacher nestled closely to the young man, fingering his cost but. tenses she talked, “ because, brother Guy, folks can be goodâ€"that is. not do naughty thingsâ€"and still God won’t love them unless theyâ€"I don't exactly know what, I wish I did." “I d'id like her so much that day," she said, “and she looked so sorry, too. It's terrible to die! " gears? came at? one}; into "her“ eyeafand hidin her face in Guy's lap she nabbed bitter y. Contrary to Guy's expeoationa, Agnes did not refuse to let Jeanie go fora ride. and the little girl was soon seated by her brother’s aide, chatting merrily of the dif- ferent things they used upon the road. But when Guy tol her where they were going. and why they were going there. the Guy didn't know very much experi- mentally about praying. and so he did not respond. but he thought of Lucy Atheretone, whose life was one set of prayer and praise. and he wished she could know of Maddy, and join her petitions with those of the grandfather. Starting suddenly from his lohsir, he exclaimed, " I'm going down there. I cannot endure to sit here doing nothing to make amends. It will look queer, too, to go alone. Ah, I have it! I'll drive back to Likenside for Jessie. who has talked so much of the girl that her mother, forgetting that she was once 3 teacher. is disgusted. Yes, I’ll take Jessie with me. but you must order it; you must say it is good for her to ride, and. Hal, give me some medicine for her, just to quiet Agnes, no matter what, provided it is not urychnine." “I can’t. Guy. I've done all I can, and now. if she lives, it will be wholly owing to the prayers that old saint of a grand father says for her. I never thought much of these things until I heard him pray; not that she should live any way, but that if it were right Maddy might not die. Guy, there’s something in such a prayer as that. It’s more powerful than all my medicine swallowed at one grand gulp." "Doe." he said. laying his hand on the doctor's arm. “I am the old hunks, the miserly rascal who refused the money. I met the old man going home that day, and he asked me for help. You any the place mustbe sold. It never shall, never. I'll see to that, and you must save the girl." the doctor's omee had said about 'heing poor and wanting the money for grand a ; while Mrs. Noah had given him a rat or erated account of Mr. Markham's use: visit; but he had not associated the two together until now. when he saw the matter asit was, and almost as much as the doctor himself regretted the part he had in Maddy's illness and her' grandfather’s Here the doctor stopped. wholly out of breath. while Guy for a moment sat with- out speaking a word. Jessie. in his hearing, had told her mogherAwlget glge giok_ girl in Keeling; but when I looked st her, tossing from side to side, and picking st the bed- olothes. I knew it would soon be overâ€"thet when I sew her egsin the r little arms would be still enough. on the bright eyes shut forever. Guy. I couldn't see her dieâ€" I don't like to see anybody die. but her, Maddy. of all othersâ€"end so I come away. I! you ate lon enough. you'll hen:- the hell tell. 1' on. There is none at Honednle Church, which they attend. They are Episcopniiens, you see. and so they'll come up here. maybe. I hope I shall be denier then an adder." xenon I hove not been up to Aikonside. I wouldn't lone Muddy no long on there was holfo. but there in none now. I did not to am this morning. I couldn't nuke she! 900'. mph “9W2"? WI! “W W?" She'wu 15.” Guy whispered,remem. " Once more to the breioh. dear friends I" The Scotch Highland costume in absolutely exempt from bagging at the knees” It has alwaploturesqueneen far aurpeeanngfl) M'r- Oscnr Wilde‘s black breeohes. W3" stocking‘s and stiff dress coat. and more befitting the mathetic mnnismnoo whose emblems are the sunflower and the lily. Accepting knee-breaches as the msthetio clothes. several persona have written in their favor that they will avoid the baggi- ness to which trousers are subject at the knees from the devotional posture and from the habit of sitting with one leg rest- ling on the other. Not to discourage this ‘movement. but to prevent disappointment in a worthy effort, it should be mentioned that this idea of the exemption of knee- breeches from being kneed is a radical error, for that their being fastened just below the knee, and the tightness which befits this garment. allow no slack for the bending of the knee; therefore would knee-breeches be kneed more than trousers. That shorter form of breaches which does not come to the knee would be requisite to avoid this bagginess. Yet the tights worn under these would bag. The msthetic clothes are not free from difliculty. but no one should be discouraged. The cause is worthy of a great effort, and of a great sacrifice if necessary. Let every aspiring msthctie say with Harry V.. N (\nnn mnrn in H... k.---t. A--- loin-‘11- I" "My fatherâ€"did you know him?" Guy asked, in some surprise, and then the story came out, how. years before, when a city hotel was on fire. and one of its guests in imminent danger from the locality of his room, and his own nervous fear. which made him powerless to act. another guest had braved the hissing flame. and scaling the tottering wall, had dragged out one who. until that hour. was to him an utter stranger. " I have thought better of xt since." he said. “ and am sorry I did not accede to your proposal. One object of my coming here to-day was to say that my purse is a‘ your disposal. You can have as much as you wish, paying me whenever you like. and the house shall not be sold." From the soft cushions of his carriage. where he sat reclining. Guy Remington saw the old man as he came out, and alighting at once he aocoeted him plow antly. and then walked with him to the garden. where, on a rustic bench, built for Maddy beneath the cherry trees, Gnnd Markham sat down to reet. From 8 ~ ingot Madeline it was easy togo back to the day Guy hud first met grandpa. and refused his application for money. _ She did not recognize him. She only hada vague idea that he might be some doctor, but not Dr. Holbrook; not the one who had so puzzled and tortured her on a day which seemed now so far behind. From the white-haired man kneeling by the bedside there was a burst of thanks- giving for the life restored, and then Grandpa Markham tottered from the room. out into the open air. which had never fallen so refreshingly on his tried frame asit fell now, when he first knew that Maddy would live. He did notcare for his homestead; that might go, and he still be happy with Maddy left. But He who had marked that aged diaciple‘e every sigh had another good in store for him, ordering it so that both should come together. just as the two disappointments had come hand in hand. “ Hush, you disturb her," the doctor and, gently pushing Jessie away ,Imd himself selling Maddy how she felt “ N o. no: it's home, your home, and you are gettin well." J easie cried, bending over the bewil ered girl. “ Dr. Holbrook hm cured you, and Guy is here.md I.ondâ€"" “ Where in I now? ane I never come home, and is this Dr. Holbrook's ofiioe? Wonderingly Maddy looked At her. end then, as n confused tecollection of where they had met before crossed her mind, she smiled faintly. and said: The grandparents and Jessie he suffered to remain, and sitting down by Maddy he watched till the long sleep was ended. Silently and earnestly the aged couple prayed for their darling. asking that if possible she mightbespared. andGod heard their prayers. lifting. at last, the heavy lethargy from Maddy‘s brain, and waking her to partial consciousness. It was J esaie who first caught the expression of the open- ing eyee, and darting forward, she ex- claimed, “She's waked up. Dr. Holbrook. She will live." “There are too many here," he said. “ She needs the air you are breathing." and in his authoritative way he cleared the crowded room of the mistaken friends who were unwittingly breathing up Meddy'a ver_y life. “ She is dying. doctor." said one of the women; but the doctor shook hie heed. and holding in one hand his watch. he counted the faint pulse been. "with his eye be measured 01f the minutes. Maddy was not dead, but the paroxysm of restlessness had passed. and she lay now in a heavy elecpso nearly resembling death that those who watched by her waited expectantly to see the going out of her last breath. Never before had acer- riage like that from Aikenside stopped at that humble cottage. but the neighbors thought it came merely tobrin the doc- tor. whom they welcomed wi a glad smile. making way for him to pass to Maddy's bedside. Guy preferred waiting outside until such time as Grandpa Mark- ham could speak with him.but Jessie went with the doctor into the sick room. start. ling even the grandmother. and causing her to wonder who the richly-dressed child could be. a the hill. across the meufowland used I. low-roofed house, whoao walls in and the stiffened form of the b0 for whom the bell had tolled. and who hsgbeon the potient of another thm Dr. Holbrook. boring dhtinofly to hove houd tint num- ber (tom Modd hot-ell. “ I tho t oy told me “Jun of course it's the.” c a doctor rejoined. “ Poo: child. lII would hove given much to hove uvod or.’ Joanie did not spook but once. when she asked Guy “ If it was very far to haven. and it be supposed Huddy had got them by this time ‘I ’ " Hush. Jessie; don't uk nuoh ques- tions." Guy aid; then turnin to his oom- pnnion, he continued: “ We' go just the some. I will do what I cantor the old n‘mn‘ ;" and so (no carriage greys on. down Thu Burch" Mon-mom. (To be continued).