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- 2 Or, Married Re © CHAPTER T-{Cntinned), From =» worldly point of "view, it was 'undoubtedly a magnificent match for me. ? ret. Lorimer, only child and heiress of the "Diamond Queen"--as Lady Carchester 'was called, on accou: enormous Amonnt, of diamonds she habit. nally wore in the evening stuck about her small, wizened poreon--han e, bril Mant, witty, and accomplished, conld have mated Jor better than with the,oon of a younger son, whose allowance was but a thousand a year, and was never likely to be more. It was true that I had been ex- oéptionally successful in my artistic car- er, 'but picture-painting, except in very instances, is not a lucrative profes sion, and for one person who would buy oanvag representing seashore and waves there are fivo hundred who would pur Su Ivan She MEN nd po LButl was happy in my art an my 'dreams, dreams Joroungh which, all un. Jado a Soma in fairy figure, quite unlike ge Lorimer, sometimes fitted. ¥ ue idea of freshness, , and girlish grace, a oreature @ ine and sweetness, glad lau spontaneous caresses, unaoqu ik rench novels, ignorant of all vanced, and decadent, pessim but reveling in youth, and life, and This elender, golden-halred sylph of y day-dreams, and often of my night. 28 well, floated tantalizingly be my eyes under the park trees, and I wished, ne T had often wished before, that I had sufficient ekill as a figure painter to commit my floating fancies adequately to canvas. And yet of what use was it to dwell ou such visions, suoh yearnings af- jor an impcesible ideal? My way in life ay peatly rolled and made emooth for mo. Rooter or later, my Cousin Madge, the arbiter of my fate, would 2 of being a !'girl-bechelar," and, failing the man she could love, would eignify to me her royal permiesion to buy. the wed- ding ring. We should in due course en- dure a Jong and elaborate wedding in a church orammed with most of the "smart" eightsears of London, and ladies' papers, social weeklies, and Radical evening shvete would alike whronicle the bride's white satin, or "ivory bengaline," the brides- maids' gowns, and the expensive presents showerod upon the happy pair; from the diamond tiara, diamond sun, diamond necklace, diamond bracelets, and rings of the bride's mother, to the bound valumes of Longfellow's poems presented by the bride's old governcea. Well, it. was a picture many men would look' forward to #ladly, We should live n a hig house, in a hig square, and give ig receptions, or costly little dinners, as We ehounld p a yacht, of course--a very large one, iretcad of the tiny vessel #0 dear to my heart--and we should always have it full of people, nice people, "emart" people, well-bred people, all singularly alike in style, manner, and conversation, the only original pereonality among om being that of my wife herself, who, for all her atronage of Bohomin, was at heart na hilietins, and detested casing too much of insipid geniue with dirty nails. We should ho everywhere at the right time-- that da to say, the fashionable time. We ehould be in Cowes for "the week," in Brighton for wood, Btaines for Ae- vot, Rome for the carnival, Algiers or Oairo for the winter, Scotland in the au- tumn, Paris in the New Year, London in eanly ewmmer. 1 had done it all, and was #0 couetiinted that I preferred all these places without the cackling crowd with . whom wo g¢honld certainly rub shoulders and excliange inanities all the time. Andy for home life--oh, that would acaroely oxiet! Madge would be the first ito 1rugh st the "small clerk and his wife" notion of gifting one on each side of the t adgea caprico prompt her. in country lanes in the summer, She would etiil have her troop of more or lesa platonio admirers, and econer or later abould probably be glad to relegate to them the eonstant attendance at balla, theaties, concerts, reco-mootings, and re- ceptions, which I already found eo irk- , . Locklly, it is not the fachion for huebands and wives to be ineeparable in society. And ved in my' ideal life that {deal wife and IT would be {neeparable indeed would repre my art, and I should work for her. Through my studio 1 eould sce Her slim figure flitting, fairylike, and vould hear her bright langhtar cheering me after a long day of happy work. She woud, know © aa little. of the outside {aun able chattering world as I cared ry it: she wonld live with me, and for me, and. 1 for her. Bub here my meditations cearcd, eo I fonnd mywel{ opposite the door of Nichelre Wray'e studio, in a side street off High Btreet, Keneitigton, ' CHAPTER II, A». "Ola Nick" himself, ng we used to call him in Pare, opened the door. He looked pale, aud 11, and very dirty; but Iria were the Rembrandtechque style of 800d looke, to which dirt. lends a mellow: tees and a deepening of the shadows by wo meare unpicturesque in effect. He waa very 4, sud thin, rnd gaunt. A Youg, drcoping brown moustache hung over the eornemw. of a heavy, gensmal mouth, and lig hair, worn prepoeterously long, eo thot gH lookédl eomething bo tween an artiet's model and a dancing master, w2e plentifully streaked with prey. Fa forehesd was broad and full of intelligence, and the keen, analytical gaze of hiz gray eyes contradicted the more anim:2l tendency shown in his over-full red lips and protrading iaw, «At the ¢tudio we had admired him i{m- mercely, and had eketehed that fine hend of hia from every Jpssible point of view. With al his slovenliness, Wray was im. mervsely vain, particu'arly of his long, slender white hande, which he even some. waa indnoed to wash, eo highly did he value their beauty, But on this par tieular day they bod not received this attention, and 2a be atood peering surlily at mo from hehind the halfopen studio oor He fooked like nothing in the world ut a big, sinewy, handsome gipey tramp, overlean from lack of peuce and long fast. ing. 8 oni #ce from where T stood that the io. woe almost destitute of furniture, tapestry haunginee, ths big ° brass vie, the old oak chairs, which had de- Seated hat a few mapthe Yack. mare gone: nthe syuare of carpet the Tugs haford ire Brenlnse bad vanighed' from the" bare. vinewept (hoards Wray saw my glance, and /grinbed sar- ~ £ denfcally, oti ¢ CME ean't hoo all Associates at. seven _and-twenir' he observed, with mock de- e of 1x suscead; and some he . You halong to the former 'category. 1 tn the laltes." 5 Ou tha de ood an om 1 an emnty- o TAY" breath smelied f 4 2 Hibs he wis sohor, Amin secmed 0 divine my thoughts, and in he Jxughed. ' d to a well-fed bird lke you 'a wax should drink to forgot that he Siwy fal Cy 168 a, doean't, "don't, talk tin a cheap no ho Chairs are gone" 'eal ne. age -Shairl. I want to kfow in tha you Are up tof How hn pot inte thie condition?" = = ¥ a the Jo i ine 'a : n came to Tendon, took a - . hid a few 0A ok leon; thang! it ld wus ab my HE 19 of it all Aually, | fa he Wedding fire in tho winter, and wandering togéthor I She | to a Fairy. : pr ------ Sh --. today." 1 said. "She was much disappoint. | a undertake." + He flushed an not to being pi by 'women, and I don't relish it." 'Nongenee, Wray. Your work is valu- able to any one who understands art." He ghook his head. 4 "Not now," he eald, with something like a groan, 'I seem'to have lost heart, And I went up 0 him and laid my hand on arm, Tok ste, " 1 eaid, "1 A not going to put up w any move of your pride. Tho idea of a man as full of talent a8 you letting all heart and hope go out of him over the question of a few 8 "ig an outrage on your fl artiste, am going out now to order a little din- eh! ne; "No use. I am going out, 100, for good. By hi] o'clock I hah he turned foto the wl . "Where will you go?' "Oh, the workhouse, or ¢he Thames, I Pont be a fool, Wray! Why in the world didn't you borrow the money long agol Bouts of fellows would have given you credit.' wl Tor 3 "Do you think I would have written my- self down a failure by applying for money to keep body and soul together fo other men already joalous and carping at m supposed success? At I, was too il to think for days together. Influenza'e 8, 80 1 was left alone, Then I shut my doors_oun the lot of m; and gave out that I had smallpox. I didn't. want them to spy abodt an Float over my | Povey, #omehow something about it hag eaked out. To-day I had grown reckless, and eomehow I didn't mind yon so much. You are an eetabliehed euccesw, have no meanspiritednces about you; but _we part here, Hervey. You go up and I go down, I'm flve-aud4hirty, and sick of striving. Good-by." : He held his long, thin hand out toward me, but I would not take it. "You will stop here," I sald, pulling out my watch and considering the time, just while I go out and buy you a; coat. Then you will come with me to my place, and my man Wrenshaw will fix you up with everything you want. I have to be out all this evening and to-morrow. 1 shall be out of town for a day or two; 1 am longing for a breath of the eea. While I am away 'make my place your head- quarters, and you will then have time to look about you. Leaviug this place won't do you any harm, if that's your true opinion of the get you are surrounded by ere.' "Do_you think I will accept your chax- ity? Become your pensioner---"* "No; I don't, But you are going to bor. TOW some money of me, and pay me whon you are on your feet again, Moantime, wait, here while I go out for the coat." "Hervey," he called out after me, ag I was leaving, "if I am in for becoming in- debted to you, I may as well do the thing Yhoroughly, I haven't had a smoke for days. For Heaven's sake, give me a cigar, or a cigarette, or something!" I loft him my case, and returned in a very ehort epaco of time with a ready- made coat, bought in High Street, Ken. wington. This I persuaded him to put on, and then we bowled off together im' a havngom to my studio and roome, in tho neighborhood of Cholaen., I was sorry had to leave him so much to himself, for I yoplly thought he was in a very bad way. Truth to tell, in spite of my per. sonal liking for Wray as a man eud ad- miration for him as an artiet, I did nod much relish Jising him up at my place. [ was 0. bit of an old braohelor about meth- od, and beeides, IT knew well that Wren- haw was a martinet in euch matters, and that Wray's habits would be very Yittlo 10 hia liking. Bat Madge's word was law, and I shonld not have been flesh and blood it J had not raised a hand to eave a man of genius from going under. 8o I left him installed on a eofa-bedstend dn my dreassingroom, with the run of the studio, and at three o'clock in the morning, when I let myself into my place after seeing Madge an | Aunt Louise home, I found all the lamps '1it iu the studio, and Wray in a big arm- chair, pufing away at a long Indian pipe, which ¥ kept as a curiosity, and looking eingularly picturesque and hegdsome in {my favorite old brown velveteen smoking- ooatb. auge you wouldn't come to lunch tof t comm eeton elie wants you to|who treat ly. Nail nt of thy or She's end Tin 11 ow water he said: m 1 | ow g. Slored her? Nee "him 'among her I ton TLE Sortemb a happy WE. me." In her heart she knows ar iondle brain at the expense Qualities more necessary to a n- intellect, If she had less more feminity she would be irresistible. As it is, she can't even make you in love with her." LE a Tee "You haven't the least idea," I sal "how you annoy mo by dircussing her." : "If you were in love with her,' Juay gedly, "you would be delighted to discuse her. A man can't help leading the conversation onto the ereature he hap- pens to be in love with." "Yet you don't admit the existentce of love--as I conceive it." . "On the contrary, it le a necessary ovil, a temporary madness, which clouds our mental vision and makes us put an undue and altogether disproportionate value on some commonplace woman, whom in our saner moments we should know to be no more desirable than any other fo- minive thing. I don't underestimate the value of love; I simply decline to eee the value of ite tomporary publeol. } "You have no ideals," I began, when he interrupted me. . "And what is your idea of womanhood?' hoe seked triumphantly. "I have found Jie evening any amount of stray sketches n which you have tried to embody her, and bave never quite eucoeeded - But you bave got near enough for me to gee that, for all your lofty talk, your ides! the eweet and eilly seventeen-yoar-ojd girl, the yellow-haired, blue-oved, small mou ,. emall-honed, small-featured, smallgouled type, 'who pinch their wrists, read French novels on the sly, and fall in love with their father's grooms. That'is the sort of woman you will fall in love with when you fall in love; and, 26 you are bound 10 take the.affair too seri- ously, I don't envy you the disillusionment thet falling out will mean." I avewered with a yawn and a laugh. wes eecvetly annoyed at"what I oon. sidered Wray's ill-bred inquisitivenees in routing out my private sketches and notes, and there wis much in his talk which jarred upon me most disagresably, Before, however, 1 left him for the night, he came over to me and wrung my hand. "To tell the honest truth, Hervey," he said, "I meant to have made away with myeclf by this time, and your kind ao- tion eaved me. I don't suppese I have been spared to do much good in the word; and the worst of it is that I am almost oertain to bring illdrek upon you. For covery fatolist knows that eaving a man's life is the best way to turn him into a dangerous enemy." (To bs continued.) pene ialt COL. W. BR. NORTHRUP, K.C. Would Make It as Easy for Poor to 'Get a Divorce as for the Rich. Should Canada have an equal divorce law for the rich and the poor? Cel. W. B. Northrup, K.C., member for East Hastings in the Dominion House of Commons, is firmly of the opinion that thé pre- sent facilities for severing the mar- riage tie in the Provinces of On- tari, Quebec, - Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, are only within roach of the well-to-do, inasmuch as a special Act of Parliament, ini- tiated by the Divorce Committee of d|the Oanadian Senate, has to be passed in every instance, and an Act of Parliament costs all the way from $300 to $5,000, according to the fees charged by the lawyers and the distances the parties to the four. "This coat of Ho greeted me with what, for him, .was almost effusion, and e i that could not sleep if he went to bed before ours is far too shabby for a gilded worldlin tinued, "fush as the glorified ained he like you," he con- aTment you no for me, + | over brain fever, and was liable to at- | tacks of mania if I was thwarted, Wren- ty tumbler Gr |: "fot, launched out Jom preity Fite to Nite! \ A Ake hroks | i Soon, nd} Frehased today is far too venshaw objected $0 my appropriation | of thia coat and this pipe, and was very { anxious to explain that the latter was an ornament. I pointed out to him that ita value would be doubled if it were made neeful as well as ornamental, and when he didn't see it I gent him to 4 "You sent Wrenehaw to bed!" I repeated in curpree. "Why, that's a dibepey I should never 'have ventured upon. How did you manage it?" "T told him," eaid Wray, with a twinkle in his gray eyes, 'that I bad just got shaw promptly eaid good night, and went | off like a lamb. Aren't you going to have a gap of some sort before turning in? am dying for a whisky-andsoda." On this hint I unlocked the epiritcase. I wae tired out, as these social functiona always weary me, but Wray was in the hirhest epivite, and as I could not snub a man I had Just saved from starvation, I had to yawningly invest myself in dress. ing-gown and «lippars and sit up for a chat and smoke. Pa "Firet," he said, "tell me what your cousin wore this evening." "She wore a very beautiful drese," I an- wered, "sniothered with orystal y co that ghe looked like a glistening fount. in. Then she bad her usual diamond line of diamond stars at the back of her head. Aq to Lady Carcheeter, ehe looked for all the world like an ir- rid; beetle." 'Never mind Lady Carchester. Wag Jour cousin' dress cut low? With short sleeves?" 4 "Very low, and po élcoves afb all--only. Atringe of diamonds over her shoulders, 1 replied, in tones af omphatic disap proval, : ; © "How delightful she must have looked! That Tenmifal cream-colored neck a i SI, onl hoes ful, the pleasurable sensation of ui ¥t ot 1 se ; ever, fe fe--and Heav wi es Dem en eend bi a sifu to my, relations ue |' EY Were | us . Pon 0 "disapprove of a BE nes, makes such remarks poe. | "How in pn ok - Angular you are!" {onenly plswich 9 ng across 3 ne mo paves ma in. is 20 sony 0] you #0 7 tal Jour Irionda, who can approoiate 4 u case and their witnesses live from Ottawa. In the Maritime Provinces and in British Columbia there are divorce courts. Ool. Northrup ac- cordingly moved in the House of Commons the other day that the Government should take the ques- tion into consideration with a view to reform during the present ses- gion. He did not advocate increas- ing the grounds of divorce, but that there should either be no divorces or else there should be divorces for rich and poor alike. As a result of the debate which followed along non-party lines a' conference will be held with the Senate and a joint] committee appointdd to investigate the whole question with a view to simplifying Parliamentary proce- dure. Apparently the Dominion legislators are not yet willing to recognize 'divorce. Col. Northrup obtained his ele. mentary education at Belleville Grammar School and Upper Can-~ ada College, having the distinction of being "head boy' at the last- named institution, and captain: of the school cricket team for two sea- sons. The same year he won the championship cup at the annual races, X ni At Toronto University he, " distinguished himself, taking n merous 'honors and. obtaining the 'will Ool.'W, B. Northrup. ried, his present wife being the wi- dow of Mr. Clemow, of Ottawa, and sister of Lieutenant Wm. Fitch, of the Royal Grenadiers, who lost his life in the charges of Batoche in 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Northrup dur- ing the session entertain largely at Ottawa, in fact more than any of the Conservative circle outside of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Borden. Mr. Northrup is also one of the active members and best players of the Ottawa Golf Club. 020909 VBT oe S38 veeV0) On the Farm ¢ te sar iasat The Heavy Horse a Money Maker. For both farm work and for sale, the heavy horse is a good money maker. Jn past years the so-called fast horse was the ideal animal, but now the automobile on the farm has driven the running horse out of business. The carriage horsa of to- day ig a heavier animal than in days gone by. The farmer now who goes to work in the field, or who hauls loads on the road, cannot afford to spend his time with a light team that can raw only a small load. Labor is too scarce and high priced. Deeper plowing and more work must. be done on the same acreage. It is imperative that heavier teams must be used. For a number of years the weight of best selling horses on city mar- kets has steadily increased. Only a few years ago horses weighing from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds each were considered large enough for heavy teaming. - Now the demand is for horses weighing from 1,600 pounds to a ton. No city company can af- ford to hire an expensive man to drive a light team. Increased sup- ply and commercial products have brought this condition. For these reasons the heavy horse has risen in value of late years and" the importing and breeding of heavy horses have been taken up on a large scale. 'But the demand for heavy horses has always exceeded the supply. weighing around 1,800 pounds find ready sale at over $300, and real choice ones of this class in the larg- est cities bring from $400 to $500. There is every evidence that , the heavy horse is the coming work ani- mal for both farm and city and that good prices will hold, if not in- crease, for years to come, . The farmer who is in the field for making side money from his horses be wise to breed the weight and an own gb. sderland If you own an undersized mare don't keep her for breedi : Good heavy drafters|: culprit," True yssinia, ° below collecting the branch broke, and the climber on the gatherer and broke his neck, himself escaping with injuries from | | which he eventually recovered. The {family of the dead man sued the { | survivor for the blood-money, some hm He had jlo Zonsy aud re- used to pay, whereupon the plain- tiffs demanded his life. P The case worked its way up to the supreme tribunal of Menelik him- eelf, by which time bitter feeling had been ' engendered, and the claimants now refused to * accept bléod-money, even if offered, demanded their full right. 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