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¥ wrote to her. ke into my. farthing. I fur: All ural 'were pabbiin The at Adrian Herve: le vile Bas ruined him, and with some other fellow. Noy ous ny story formed the ighly amusing and unvera. ut I heard none of resence but my man of renshaw, and, neither of ess mights, of heartache, and fast- t Joye of vain looking and bitter re- wret, of drudgery over figures and ac- counts A cruel humiliation, the. refrain of x SON beat through my throbbing eal 'My heart, in need of rest, No longer hopes nor gathers; Without will, without power, Far 10 go or fly Take me home to thy "breaet, Oh, valley of my fathers, For one hour of Fences Before lonely 1 d. 'When all was over, and with honor tar- nished and name disgraced, crippled in fortune and stricken in heart, I found my- self alone with Wrenshaw, I turned to the faithiul old eervant and told him my vlans. "I must leave London and all these peo: ple," I said, "and go somewhere where no one knows me, or I shall go mad. I can't paint--it may 'be that I shall never paint again. My day is over. But if you'll have the patience to put up with me, I know a lonely old house half-way up a hill that rises from the marshes which stretch to the tea. There, you and I, Wrenshaw, can live in quiet for a time at least, until the wounds are a little less raw, Will you come?" anywhere with you, sir." 80, on a bleak November day, Wrenshaw and I became inmates of the old: French House at Lythinge, on the steep. sloping moorland above the marshes and the cea. CHAPTER XXIX. All through that bitter winter Wren- shaw and I 1i our hermit life under the vast red-tiled roof, colored gold with lich- en, and hung about with ivy, of the old house above the marshes, About our little garden enclosure, wall- ed in by fragments of what wae once a Roman stronghold, the Kentish eheep strayed, bleating in the driving enow, and huddled together for warmth against the madsive fragments of the ancient stone- wo Down below us in the marsh villages, lights twinkled out at night, and high above, on the crest of the cliff, the win- dows of the square-towered churéh gleam- ed red on Bunday eveninga. Our supplies of food were brought by hand, for there was no road across the strip of rugged moorland to where the ancient, half-tim- bered house stood in complete solitude, and far from any other dweling-place. 1 * had taken the house for a year at an ex- ceedingly low rental, as the owner was only too 'glad to have it occupied at any t } of the year but the summer. All day long, whatever the weather might be, I took long walks by the sei. I eould not paint. The light was bad through an eptionally severe winter. But had the ekies beén azure, and the sun. shine that of Italy, it would have been the same. I could Wot paint. I had lost all incentive to work. Money was of no value to a. a) a for TA he BOON6P. oF n¥ pany atten bar I..shou The. - oso and Crown" ban changed hands, the Nokesea having failed to make it pay. Consequently I ran no rigk of meeting any one who would recognize me and remeuniber Lilith. 1 took the house in the. name of 'Mr. Wrenshaw," and, apart from thie precaution, it" is improbable that any one would have known me, for, during the days that elapsed after I firét learned that Lilith had left me, my hair | t, ; you Pd 1 Jonge. you Sh be ki a | Rave "Sotnersd Ion: Dicky dear, come home to but I've : CHAPTER XXX. "I can't die yet. I have so much to ell 0 nu." Lilith said this as she lay that night propped up by pillows on the couch by th re. A doctor + had Boon sent for from Cran ling--for 1 could not bear the ~ wise old doctor from SBandhythe ho tragedy he had eought to avert--and hi pronounced the patient to be dying from the results of overstrain, e! , and ex- posure acting on a delicate constitution, Heart and nerves had broken down, lungs Jere seriously alloted; and the = tor he! on no. hope o I wan 0 gecond RYeioians 0 opinion. Death wae written in Lilith's face, in her hollow eyes and sunken mouth, in the yel- lowish, waxen tint of her skin, and the terrible emaciation of her form "I haven't had enough to eat just late- iy, ang, 9 have been so cold sometimes without a fire," ehe said. "I haven't had yo to look after me, Dicky. But it has. n't been the cold or hunger, though they were hard enough to bear--it's been here,' and she pressed her thin little hands against Tor heart--'"that's where the ach: ing has been, and that's what has killed me. Ob, I know I am dying--I knew it two days ago, and I was dreadfull zh ign ened at firet, And then I thought » could only come to you, and your pardon, and get you to forgive me, y; might ret forgiven--somewhere else." Her head fell back on my arm, and éhe stared for a moment wistfully nto the "You must not talk of forgiveness," I whispered: "I have nothing but ilove for you in my treart--there is no room there for any other feeling. Lie still and rest, dear; don't try to tell me anything. You have come back to me--that is all 1 want to know." She put up her band to my face, and stroked it with a little caressing gesture I remembered well-remembered with a stab of infinite pain. is very good of you, Dicky, to be so nice to me and to ask no questions. But I must tell you gome things, eo that you may understand." Her voice was very thin and weak. Con- stantly I had to make her stop in her rapid, whispering talk to take some re- storative, and tering hair which looked, in its glossy abundance, pathetically full of life and vigor against her wasted cheeks. "I know I have been very wicked," she began again after a pause, 'and I have treated you dreadfully. But somehow things have been all wrong from the he- ginning. When you determined to make a lady of me, and sent me to Morland House, I was miserable. You see, {he girls quizzed me and stared at me, and n't used to their fine-lady ways. couldn't bear being shut in and kept a prisoner. And then I was very, very fond of you; you don't quite know how fond I was, I think, It. would have been-all-wight- and I'd have been quite good, if you'd pro: mised to marry me when I came out of school, a when 1 ara yOu were going to marry '8. sort of de- seperate to Gn! Nd NG. put up with two yeas of that echsol, ang then perhaps end in log oh "a narsémaid overness, ater all. And tars . 3° e paused and turn er eyes from me to the fire again. "pater Blab arent | be slowly over her pale checks, and ess as she went on spepking: "He fell in love withme as soon ag he saw me, he said. Not in your romantic, adoring Xay, Dat in ois way irls like: ike. e'd make meslipi and he'd sn i won kiga me so th ¢ 8 burg and go on, saying he'd ki i it I San t run away wi I dull €nd miserable hi you never had grown as gray fs that'of a man of 1 fifty © oa the evening, 1 would come fn "dogs "and 'would sit in front of the wide, be fashioned fireplace, watching thé burn. + ing dogs; and brooding over my lost ils ith, who had vanished frm in Jay life like ion the marsh fairy I had cal Wrenshaw enjoyed the ol itude. He mis- trusted his own sex, and hated nearly all' women. Madge was his one weak spot, I soon discovered that he occasionally About me,, of course. Bhe had had too much delicacy to write to me direct, but I knew that she would sym- pathize, Only I did not want to hear of her eympathy,.. I wanted we) Jvear my. sor row alone." Winter: broke. lagh, inte', a aformy spring, and a #it10u8 Maren' came in, swathed in driving snow. One bitterly cold day I had epent searching with the shepherds for lost lambs among. the snow, and had come home late, tired out and numb with cold, to eat a little food, and then sit and doze and dream before the lia sad tie to bad<Te kept tuili- tary hours--but*1ateé into the night 1 eat, tempted by the warmth and too drowsy after a long and Ting day in the bit- ing cold to rouse myself the gomiatcee state into which I had llen, I lived again through the scenes had that day witnessed, and searched ng 4 | the feathery natal th prick aces. But in my confused fancies 1 seemed to w was Lilith for Wwe were |" nd an sony of a I beheld the deep drifts theatrionl eo ha 4 fekaia if Adds and go to bedi at nearly, al Wonder what upset' m kind, and make me id him. And A did love me just at first, and he hated: you because rag eo fond of you, and would tell mé how well you were enjoying yourself among your grand relations," and aki0R Lady Margaret laugh at me. He ndsome and so 5 aa, Wilh. you wet 'm; 5% ing me, and T ri have to servant after all. I wae afraid of him at first, but then--then I got to love him, and one morniny Tran away from school and wag married to him in St. Peter's Church at Bristol. And at firet I was very happy. Afterward, when you wot rich, he wanted to get, rid of me ud 104.g8t hold at ; your money throug J8wore_ it wasn't a real marriage, ot that he had a wife already. I don't know if that's true. »After he and I were married, he {went and saw: Mrs. first, until they ranged between them that while te and I lived together about the country; Jon sliculd be deceived, so tn you rf send the iy Ave had no money y 1 made Dy dancing." 1 worked avtally "hard, lor three months ned a little Aas And 1 eomdnt ve ad | would not linsat ome ? @| be eaid, fingering the pistols, 'and as at alb but and uldp't bears of peaudut bears front Ld o | KDW Le I couldn't. I beg teasing hin to ta 60 kind to Whaterer hat 1 rd "80.1 left' Sud went to him. But he, the woman nd was with took ud my jewels and 'money, which I offered her to get to see him, ney; laughed at me, and told me that pow I had left you and could send no more money, he hated me as much as he lo And then I gof very, very ill, they sent me back to London. nd 1 tried to find you, but you were ae ons nay 'the id was eold. And. I went back to -the nd persuaded = 1 think she Sans to be kind, an gave a little food.now and then. lived in a room by m: Ju BE tol sure I was dying. ht of 3 Mas you You a ox sald on d one hy dha if Vien the world, he w me French a jnge. 56 I came here. But I dared not knock at the door lest you ie be too angry. And 1 wae weak and faint and so tired, and ¥ grew sleepy with cold outside your door. Then at last you found me in the morn. ing. But it was gilly of me not to knock, jor 1 might 'have known you would be She died in my arms at daybreak, fall. ing asleep with a little sigh like a chil tired out--thie woman who had never lov- od me, and who had never even been "my wife. And I buried my heart and my youth and all my hopes in thie ------ With her in the churchyard on the cliff over the marshes, just where she had told me she wanted to lie, years ago. In her puree we found a sealed envelope in which wae the certificate of marriage between "Lilith Saxon, aged sixteen, and Nicholas Wray; gf Rod thirty-five." "Every fa Ist knows that saving @& man's life is the best way to turn him into a dangerous enemy." ray'e words, uttered on the d suicide, rang in my earc during the jour- ney I undertook, intent upon taking the life I had eaved. Killing him wae too good for him, bub he had Tiered Lilith, «nd 'I 'could not let him 1 In Voir 1 met the man face to lagt. In the vast dining-hall of 'a ace dated palace, he and the black-haired wo- man were presiding at a boisterous! sup+ ver-party. Handsome, loose-lipped women, gilly youths, and older men with sinister faces, drank and sang and shouted ~and in the midst of them Wray lifted his ey: 2 ae. i and saw me' in the doorway, waiting' Yor 2 Was glad to take him thus, while h Jas enjoying life after his fashion; an 1. waited guietly- while, with-his. old: "of posing, he drew his tall figure to ite full height and drank to my héalth, "the loved | tvpe that will Much of wer. vivid imagination and in his er] sympathy for ary. it is the ] ut never drive them, There with labor in any Guggenheim pre: perty in' y any ay orion ion of the Daniel Gi i says: 'The Drone ethics are Mio of the community in which the business exists," he says. '"The stream rises no higher than its source unless it is forced higher, American business is Tar better than it was a few. ago, and yet there is room for. vast improvement. It is mot now on the plane where individual greed is the '| some actuating factor." This is what happened'in the Gug- genheim' offices when rebates of freight, charges became 'abhorrent and were declared illegal. The first blow was struck by the Interstate| & oR when he I came between him and starvation or' 5 A TK health of an old friend I have been ex:| pecting for some time," before excusing himself to hig _ guests and joining me at]. the door. Not a word did we exchange until I had followed him into his room on the floor above, snd locked the door that we might terruption: "Then Ti took rom: in, case of pistols from the po my ovegeont, and taid them on' the e. "I know everything," ¥ said, "For your dinth 5 be bet fy vereonal vengeance. Bub' for thor int mous wickedness of your treatment of ilith, whose death lies at your door, I "You are right from your point of view," n't mean to_kill you, you will probably 1 me. You have always had the devil's wn luck! The odd part of it is, though Lenvy you, I can't dislike you. I am near. 1v forty--old before my time, and heartily sick~ of" everything-<you 'have taken care: of yourself and been a good hoy; yet you e | look @s though the gilt 'was off life's'gin. werbread for you. too. But we are both of us, saintvand sinner, muck tod! 4 quarrel ov ve Her Te not wi Harpies or druges, en time. anathema, Daniel Green 'ordered - that 'every. effort be made to carry out the spirit of the thing. There must be no single rebate. Then he found that 'interstate rebating had stop- 11 ped; but that within the State is «continued ; he found. that he was taking, rebates i in. Coloradoof $1.50 a ton on ore shipments. 4'See the railroads and insist on an equal rate;" he said to his repre- Two . weeks later his some tiger-cats, like that women down-|f staire, or little soulless toys, like Lilith-- "If you speak her name I wile shot you before you can defend vi you please. for me. As an ard -| spirabion, and as 10 more charm » 1 have lost all in- hat funds are no long: | isn't worth play. ol must remind you Tou y the beginning. what' Whén I took that girl : 4 ant her, and she wae miserable where she wae, By the time I had got tired of her you were | mad about her, and after all you married the woman you wanted, which some- thing surely. Once you had got her, I Dever encouraged her to come after me. The m jstake Nas taking that type of; 'girl usly. i will not listen while you insul dead," ad "I will count up to ia Sits e ube Wray | task of Hladin i 9 of rt: "hale hay orld of me warm in id | Waving over Lilith's grave 'in Enthings RA A rd 1ie a, there De ore' ab § + "Fix an even rate of we' oi ol ] 5 el It Sides he. people 'expect to © ¢ Perhaps such wionghul. practices brought, the muck, rake' ote our} Taationar lifes wer pha For ftoen monthe iE "watohed the Shang: § 5 1 | ing seasons oxer th Inarehes, hugein his | of 1h 'as their own 'expe : they do not raise the right kind. Pp is that horses of a nonde- t character, lacking proper | form, weight or style for any *| ticular purpose, never bring prices and' are, th fitable to raise. 'average farm: SE go Se : the road | : After it has been 'used enough to make the smooth, the drag ults if used. en the cath begins er has no business to attempt to saddle | raise - fancy in J 4 knowledge of br ing and training |, and are profitable only to men who | thoroughly undérstand the business of Lreparing them for market, * ¢ draft horse, however, is the -- that does. the hard work not only on the farm, but in the 'big cities and he is always in demand. e reason there have been so few , drafters raised in ithe last I few years is because too'many farm- ers took up trying to produce road: sters by breeding their mares to light stallions and as most of them were not willing to pay for the se vice of a first-class animal, the | sult is that the country is filled with second and third-rate ho: es par cular use and Which bring low prices. f It is gratifying to note, however, that farmérs are coming to their senses and are now breeding more drafters' than ever before. Ushig stallions on mares of the same type | with proper weight, he can produce a type of animal that will turn out & profit at three vears™ i Draft mares will do. Practically as much work on the farm as horses {and 'mares will prove 'the host gas i The duebtionter 1 how ba space | to leave between the trees is one of Yort well Pred back. they may be as dsia 1d those RAT " free 4 i at % gto Awenty question of distance depends en- 'tirely upon the system of training (and richness of the so The common system of koeping the orchard. in sod practiced by many apple growers, and except in Very rare cases; amon small grow-. ers, is practically unknown. Thor- gh culti ation, 104 the pect Be hap 4 the ti plant f Growers differ widely iro "the | B51, bol red of Fist on, bik y 'agreed that plo ing as arly as: b1i%ible in the spring, thorough vation during the first half of the | summer: season 'and the growth of |; a cover crop of some kind during o Es {fall and winter are essential to | care. 2 the peach o |W - tain fame in Eastern Europe as the ut all are | was ce oan recently at Bada- gora in Bukowana, one of those remote country districts of Austria Hungary, where mammoth wedding festivities: on 'a scale unknown in America or Western Europe. are the rule. The affair at Sadagora exceaded i 'magnificence and lavish hospital- ; any function on record in that by riet, however. It was a Hebrew = edding. Sadagora 'enj a cer. seat of the renowned. Babbinical asty known as the Miracle Rab. bis} The bride was the daughter of e Grand Rabbi of this line, Aron Friedman, and 'the groom, 'Sala- mon Friedman, belongs to a branch of the same Rabbinical dynasty go Czortkow. The marriage was ai janged by the chiefs of the two milies, entirely without the kno ledge. of the young peopler In Ee jek for the first time only aloe, ihe ha ad taken 'it for gr iv Th d be noghite and had invited mili the Blk Ana Hn: came down on Sadagora in thou- sands, Many of im, $ing: stature patriarchial "dignity. - They re black silk caftans, Tow shoes 'and white stockings, while their ladies were attired in a sort of crin- oline and adorned with 'rich jewels. al There were some 'dressed in 'the latest modes of Paris and Vienna. The a af the, Grand plage in dd : gardens: rand. Rabbi' rded By 'motinted troops. blé to or going: 10m. 0. dense aad had. a hand ich : ing the asine days th I hocks accotnted: for 500° comers ] head;of poultry ; The Grand Rabbi was ps of pocket to: the tent of at Jeast h 840, 1000. 1 idegroom will # i tion where h ees | too