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acKet. a ~~ GREEN TEA is preserved in the air-tight SALADA Finer than any npowder, Insist upon SATRoX BY 8. R. CROCKETT. CHAPTER XLVIIL--(Cont'd.) "You wish to return this ring," the olerk repeated a little uncertainly, as if he could not have heard aright. "Is is not satisfactory?" "Perfectly," said Mary. "But my brother bought it under a misappre- * ton's face which so a : Then, having retited behind some] { BEAUTIFY IT WITH. hension. The money--the money he aid for it was not his own. That is, e had no right to spend it, and I want it back!" Mary was conscious that she was not doing herself justice. But 'the case was difficult. So she smi That smile "wandered" the assistant. He promptly lost grip, but with a last instinct of self-preservation he fell back on his reserves. "Mr, Ashton!" he said. The ~responsible-looking man, now delivered from his surtout, came out of the office with a letter open in his hand and a quill between his teeth. He removed the latter and also the frown from his brow at the sight of the pretty girl, and passing his hand automatically over his thin hair with the action of making sure that it was not standing on end, he came forward to the counter at which she stood. "Well, ada, and what can I do for you?" he said, bowing to the early customer. His face grew graver, however, as Mary stated her case. "I don't think we can; ili fact, I know we cannot he said, very excus- ably. "Mr. AShtdn," said the girl, earn- estly, "I do not ask you to do this thing as an ordinary business transaction. But the circumstances are peculiar. I must return the money my-brother » Speat with you. I am the daughter of r . Bissett--the---the Lecturer, and I am only a.girl," with a little gasp- ing sob, "but--1 am trying to set things right!" * The sob took the responsible man by surprise. He stared at the pretty rl. here were tears in her eyes. @ thought he had never seen any- thing quite like it--at least not for five-and-twenty years. Then suddenly Mary Bisset smiled at him through her tears. He had once, very long ago, seen something like that. "Bat I am. foolish to trouble .you with it," she said. The res; ible. man. smiled in. bis turn, ahd rubbed his hair-parting in some perplexity. "It is gravely irregular, and I don't know what my partner will say, But let me see the receipt." With the money in her pocket, all six Doutde ten of it, Mary walked erectly -down the North Bridge; and out upon the arches by which 'that fine highway swings itself contemptu- ously across the screeching, snorting underworld of the Waverley Station. The tears were still wet in her , but it might be the wind that t them there. k in the shop on the North Bridge there was.a smile on Mr, Ash- r mething else than the snell bite of the north-easter had brought there. He held Dick's receipt in his hand and examined it medi- been crossed out on the stock book?" he called out suddenly. "No, sir," said the smart clerk, looking out from behind the window case shutters. - "Ah, well, see here," he sald, tear- g it up into fragments, "put the ring in the show-case and write a new ticket. And, ah--you ean have Wed- pesday afternoon for a holiday. You jeed not mention the transaction to r. Merrylees!" . The clerk said aloud, "Thank you, certainly not, sir." are to do. : , der td D | "3 that you must have no more to do with |son. And, Kit, do. 'not forget your "DIAMOND DYES" § that yoo riust have no moro to do with son. _ And, Kit, do nat forget yout Just Di Ton or Dol § hae dese in Jour bance and Bice re anal fies Ti Boil § this money. I return it to you. If remain to you in this, wor.d.. trays Just ip to tor ; ize prosecute. T can' for your mother, Bias Sool The 2 ; to Dye give such evideneé as wilk be sufficient may have that rest which is the alone! Ca he car : * fo to . "Bul woul e to ge you, Bach 15-cent pack- PE 4 2 forvard sake, hep through the college and biished : iii age contalas itl: Mave; bi caled "as. 1. condi) ith credit im sume'plofession | hope % . tions so simple any | What does it matbor2_ Dick is nothing Lid Ba Tottor ended' Sharply; Hout EN 'woman can tint soft, | to me. It served me right for loaye taking or signature, and to Kits" MP delicate shades to him. I should have known better | ing, eng Wl nin Ei dra EL dye rich, permanent | than to have taken you to thie wreteh- | ygpicion, this otied that he 10. colors in - lingerie, | 0 supper party. But I only care for) yusinder 'had been cut. short bythe silks, ribbons, skirts, | 700: 3nd I'wanted to see you." . . méeossity of concealment, or pene waists, dresses,| You must OL S68 lo S13 pores in ux ¥ to take sdiantige ofa chutes arteq the end o vary Seutoncs; you have) re Tho be contiuted) J *. | your career to think of and your| en putabie companions: I forbid ; . gain to speak » "How did you get--where?" put the matter plainly, Mr. |to Ken--Kit," ghe said, relenting 12 ttle, high show-cases, he coughed discreetly 'behind his hand. i "And at his age, too!" he said to himself. * * * * * It was five o'clock of therafternoon. {Kit Kennedy had been at home twenty minutes, after having waited in {for over an hour at the Surgeons Hall in the hope of meeting Miss Mary Bisset. flaring jet of gas which his agreement | with his landlady permitted him to {use at his pleasure. He did not even 'close the shutters, but sat staring out into the gioom of the long uninterest- (ing street. He had dulled the edge of {his remorse with a day of such hard [study as he had not done since he came to Edinburgh. With the zeal of the reformer he had performed 'much more than his 'appointed task, and had, in fact, gone on'reading an Eng- {lish translation of a recently trans- lated German treatise 'on Greek ac- cents till the reading rooms of 'the { University had been closed. Now he 1 had neither the heart nor the necessity to begin any further studies. Rob Grier had not comé back from | his guinea-a-month tuition, and the fire was smouldering under the roofing of blackislate with which Mrs. Ghrie- tieson covered it every time her lod- gers went out. Kit could hear that lady shuffling y came a, sharp knock at the door, not {loud and indignant like the postman's when he has come all the way up four flights of stairs with a postcard, but light and decisive, He sori Mrs. Christieson open the door; and 'then a voice said clearly in a tone and accent that thrilled him home?" "Aye, he's at hame, At least 1 think sae!" returned Mrs. Christieson with reserved suspicion. "Will you tell him that Miss Bisset has a message for him?" The landlady came in muttering. "Did ye ever see the like?" And with ia countenance indicative of the grav- est disapproval she opened the door of the sitting-room and announced Kit's vigitor. With. a -quick spring Kit closed the door of the little closet-bed where he and Rob Grier passed the night in exceedingly close quarters. "Come in, Ma---Miss Bisset," he said. "I am sorry I-did not see your father when I calied. I meant to have told him about my visit to his friend Mr. Strong." for---his- tactful -- interpretation - of Mary's visit in the presence of this hostile third party. But Mary was uncompromising. "] wanted to speak to you myself," she said. "I did not know that you had called for my father." Kit stood with the door knob in his hand while Mrs. Christieson lighted the gas and stirred the fire, "I shall not need tea till Mr. Grier comes in," he said. "Thank you, don't trouble about the fire any more!" For Kit had learned other things besides the classics from the "Orra Man." For. instance, he made sure lnow that Mrs. Christieson lad retired to her own domains by the simple process of looking down the pa 3 and then turned to shake hands or ME the 3 lad i ut that young y was in an ex- coedingly business-like mood. "This is yours," she sald, quiet: handing him a roll of notes. "Wi ¥ i? gasped. n his aston- ishment. But his hand being still out- stretched, he mechanically took the bank notes and tuned. them over helplessly. vg ~"What---what is "this" he "1 wil "and then you must decide Ww] } One thing I am deci " | friends!" He had not lit the single' about in her little kitchen and he sme't the odor of burning toast. There which somehow had found its way| to the heart, "Is- Mr. Kennedy -at! Kit thought rather well of himself said: 1 Name was a com- el with it the 'weakness inherent in all compromises, There came a little throbbing' qua- ver into her voice as she turned to- Tu ¥ "And so we shall, Mary," cried Kit; following her ie "I do not care 1" i) stm But his visitor was already in the narrow passage sure that Mrs. Christicson's ear was e could only follow his sweetheart silently to the "Good- outer landing. ] night, % Mary Bisset, without again looking at ing her down the stairs till she was lost in the gloom of her father's door- "way. . | "And wull ye hae your tea roo, or wull ye wait for Maister Grier?" said his landlady, putting her head out at the door of the kitchen. "At ony rate, come in an':shut the door!" | "I don't want any tea! I shall never want tea again!" said Kit, seizing his {hat and rushing downstairs. Mrs. Christieson lifted up her hands and stood looking after him. "Lord sake, is't as bad as that?" she cried. And having shut the outer door with a bang she returned within, mut- | tering that "it wasna sae in my young | days, the idea! 'Miss Bisset'<no less, and 'I have a meksage for Mr. Kennedy,' as bold as brass. And then when she tak's her leave,. the puir i laddie wants nae tea and gangs flesin' doon the stair -as if he was oot 0" his mind. It's a crying shame and a dis- grace, and sae I wull tell Mistress Mairchbanks when she comes up the stair to hear the news." | But Kit was not long before he re- turned. - He had bought a small cash- box with a lever lock, and to this he consigned the bank notes which he had so wonderfully, recovered. He noticed that nine of them were new and ¢trisp, but he did not know the reason. He only knew. that she had given them to him. Bo se be Was sion ng Laver the great I 0X > nnyli- ggate joiner had made for him to hold s books and clothes in He looked shamefacedly around, and then with a swift, furtive action he kissed the aper which her hands had totched. ut he did not know what these rust- ling sheaves had cost th& girl. Then he placed in the cashbox besides the jnoney the tassel of an umbrella, | mysteriously into _his_ pocket in spite of the fact that he had never owned an umbrella in his life. Down in the room below Mary Bis- set was surveying herséf in the glass. She had been dabbing her tear-stain- ed eyes with a handkerchief after the immemorial manner of women, and was now "seeing how she looked" be- fore going into the kitchen to her mother. "I did it for the best," she said. "And I am very glad. But I did want a new dress and cloak this winter. I suppose this will turn. And at any rate . he will never know--I shall never, never let him speak to me again!" But at this.point somehow she could not dab fast enough, and had to sit down and bury her sobs in the pillow lest -her mother should come in. and ask her what was the matter. The late post brought to Kit in his fifth floor chamber two letter and a visitor. The first letter was from his mother and the visitor was his father. CHAPTER XLIX, KITS MOTHER'S LETTER. "Dear Son (so the letter began), I know not when I shall get this letter written nor yet how I shall get it forwarded to you. I- must depend upon the opportunities of a kind Providence. "God knows I would not distress you unless there were need. But so sore has been my trouble and my need 80 pressing that I have no other re- source. "You know, dear Kit, that I have never complained, but have been rath- jer thankful that life held so much for such an one as I. But'now I cannot om like a Possession, and at such times I go in hourly fear.of my life. He has shut me out from the sight of any human creature ever since he heard of your winning the college bursary, at which I could not conceal my joy. "Now he speaks of taking me to believe, si Leith Walk. street called Leith W 2d dod, s "Bo diligent at your lessons, dear 'have bean such 'outside; and Kit was glued to the crack of the kitchen door. Mr. Kennedy," said | m. - | "Good-night!" said Kit, dropping her hand in a dazed way and watch- 'Sandhaven, there to spend the winter] I know not what he ha mind. But as we are'to pas: din- burgh, T- to h know not how. | 0 and on hrough endlese hours. Fie "ON SMART FROUKS. The one-piece dress simulates the two-piece frock, and embodies all its youthful appearance. Very smart and dashing is this frock with its becom- ing tailored V neck-line. The back is | perfectly piain and straight, while the front of the skirt has a box-plait at the centre front-and three side plaits at the hips. 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I will live straight and be content, ~for life is not long at the most." Ais That ig a suicidal policy and leads to sorrows multiplied. Another says: "I have done my best, but things were against me and I have never been able to-get beyond where .. 1am. I take a step forward and seem to slip back a couple. I do not feel disposed to move on again at my time * of life." n x The Cowardly-Outlook, . But these outlooks are those of the unheroic. A strong man never argues like that. He rather says: "It's better to fall than pot-4o' climb; it's better to fail than not to try." A .. Why, just call to mind the innumer- able who have- started Jife worse than oyreelves and have made d, If you complain of poverty, take, a trip to the workhouse. It will be a splendid cure. You will feel so Then go to the nearést hospital, You for many weeks; and the very best ° way of overcoming the spirit which lets the hands hang down and won't try is to refresh the memory with jn- ... stances such as those of Robert Burns, Lord Leverfulme, and many other ta- mous men. They won through be- cause they made good. i . "To no one-is lite absélutely favor: - "l'able. Faults are everywhere and er- '| rors are alway® taking place. The-pér- fect man has not yet'been born. It is folly, therefore, to expect that we are to get through without effort: It would be umwise were it possible, for the 2 very struggle to win will make us bet- ter winners, and if we are not success- ful--well, we have our ambition still. wh There are always some people who "oould if they would." ml , "The power to do better is within as our own if we just determing to live for it; and the worthier the life - {the more honorable "will be our © =~ achievement. Little, if anything, is gained in these | days by resting on our oars. There is .~ danger of drifting then. one shot we must try again. If we miss It cir- cumstances have been stronger than ourselves, the very fight has avatled 'us much, 'Every man is nobler for the 'desire and effort to succeed. = The Lh est sin "Hi : # ; t a ad nos 1s to give up. : Where yo uhave faltered, 'make good e A it --and when. you make good, keep up. 5 og » Lg i Pe