AS aoe AS GOLD. "CHAPTER XXXIV. knot his eyebrows. “It ring in you to put up with him, aN ee Vetrightvy informa Hench- aay “yard. as d, as he head by Farfrae. And thus out of er- | chard, abouts a § packet that ae ror enmity grew. When Farfi ening the tea-kettle “Oh!” she cried playfully, turning to “See—the blinds are not down, and ree ae. can Jook scandal the window. drawn in—what a Whi hen the eae were lighted, the ; and the twain sat’ at curtains drawn, rong me?” ae ws,” said Joyce, lifting s c h disappoint- dinis rae got indoors that ev-|\ “itso, there it is now,” was singin tea, me fare Dae ie looked serious. ect; ing why, she let her ae linger slic cael on his face. “Who has called?” he absently ask- “Any folk for me?” jucet tta. h have acted as she did when aby t ‘Hench: ‘two late et, when bad one could readily notice “Michael,” said she, “I must again you months ago ‘couch—-but you never ap- ee pees how the death of her aunt ba ented hes taki Journey on th what be- came. of the parcel heat she asked. He could not say—he would consid- eroanee asia a aped itecif ont Henchard’s face. Had that safe been and precedented in the est, far beyond ‘the “ordinary! ext ing he mal to the ‘and about eleven orclock Donald entered tno of the reen door, with no je wor- shipful about ask you,” id Hen- may Rossibly have left In my old safe in the * said Farfrae. peasy Omi was not of much conse sree! fenchard. “But rains Slee "here ‘ey be. "That eee z should see 1 Mrs. F felt 2 bit weary; and has “Well—nothing worth talking ie ET eae tesponded sadly. hard returned to the letters, sorti ferent Gale iis ron. will; pat | fran ee Scot: “throw it. I chmen are always “"No—not always!” he said, drowned; aa panes Leith, ss was d! And poor Willie Dunbleeze murderet went the way and Maitland Macfreeze—they fell in- [nov ao twinges, as oer |) aso eas old goosey—I was we a general sense, of cow speaking You are Aiea so literal. we have finished fea, sing me that fun- the song about high-heeled shoon and r tags, and the one-and-forty woo- I couldna fred (aR pea fate Cra ane replied. ive him emplo, loym nieneat cannot re- She could i with eae: Leia somewhat wan. oe Halen tage: however, _sup- press her agitation and her eyes filled o—it is not so serious as know its serious- do. what ‘we have | Ww: and why should we st Fa seemed seri Their Brads idee Vati . in, You've heard, erno field was was chattels ‘eaieh “Jertied Ti itis ae ceeded to to the stayed in the preced- was sorry at the intelligence, gud Mr. Vatt continued: “Well kmow he’s days, and as his mai is sp we ore ay we men eae it all as mine; and Im or young, an ee be thought pushing!” said eons ‘a pause. ec aariit self only, several have ‘won't refuse ?” I don't speak for ay. You named it. WehWe thought of going away,” inter- oug Poine eres € posed Lucetta, looking ai it anxi- “Ie it was only a fancy,”’ Farfrae mur- mured. wish of a “T wouldna refuse if it is aie: respectable majority in the “Very well, then, look u self as ee ‘We have has Jong aid: cree From this evening onward Lucetta Re! very wrudence incarnate, she uneasy. Bete ae pei ate fe- | when what had “happened was ne fault + came ory of 1: 3 ne ya nek: panant that you cae, me in? These letters Sno lin fact, related to that unhappy: busi- ‘Though, thank God, it it is all over ed bartras, “Luckily she marrie and married well,” said Henchard. “So t she otk pain cae ee ailatl ““Farfrae, willing to humor Henchard, though quite Ee and burst— Now a ing with y yawns, gave Roane * the. ee went ons, “there oe of your present wife’s death you ” said ar] aN be went on to me,” es of words like ine.” es,” said Soon so ipbsently, “such is hee way of w Hencl hard unfolded. another Jeter do that in fairness <i tr-rue,” said Farfrae. “But idn't you marry her when your died?” Farfrae asked this, the woma) on are already married another— Hlenchara answered “ young lady mi Saat ines tae I heart that bore transplanting very ae “She had, she had,” said Henchard, emphatically. ‘opened. third and fourth letter, yy reading o1 to the house with ne coches thought. But sitting here in cold blood he could not do ot _ such of hearts appalled CHAPTER XXXV. id atee Lucetta had re- LL call | mu is bed, meditating ‘h « * frae is wel yell What's the atte ee acacoe hes oe vestaraog ject t these | pect position, aiare mag jand more words fell successively upon er One word,” he was sayi quite fair to this young thy to read steuch lene er what was intended for your eye alone ? Well, yes,” said Henchard. “ By not ede her name I make it an example omankind, and not a scan would destroy to one. tg oe ER I them,” said Farfrae, “ As another man’s wife it would injure the woman if it were kno “FNo, I-shail not destroy them,’ Henchard, putting the “etter arose, and Lucetta t back to her bedroom aralysed | state, For very Taran could not undress, of the bed, fet out the secret in ‘ie ‘parting words? Her ‘fe a eee then to ie she saw ‘that he a scene that the] TORTURE USED BY BY THE JUDICIARY Stes CONFESSIONS. bea as ofthe mental ¢ onanit of Frenel te. on an almost ower by the magist the preliminary oi ae gations who have failed to seoure remunerative , miserably underpaid and with their prospects of promotion dependent a Oe ne pees of convictions they juges d’In- struction eral | 00 at nothing. to obtain admissions of guilt from the ac- Be rae ‘The methods ‘ome magistrates of this class adopt Ss tem of torture. @'Instruction adopt methods of persua- pol out no er, ag sobbed hyster- aS “when he bee restored her Farfrae th spoke of late ufficient. es then, i ‘ood on had been’ thes to ye for listening. Imay tell more about her som ning, Lucetta remained | see attack. The! bold ee ae tell- ing Donald Fhe ee dimly conceived, was yet too She decided to’ employ. persunsion— but with the enemy Peles Bovine laid her plan, she Tose, and wrote to him who kept her on these tenterhool een overieard, your interview with m: ight, and saw, the aritt ‘What became of the poor girl?” ask- | all yproity tly worn features, t! To per the peaks recognised she orn ingen and slip- paces wetted _brgathlessiy you | ment and subjected being and clear spring water is placed tempeinely just beyond his reach. He beg: a drink, WW ‘Another method is to hint that the ii have vate he is amenable to “reason” he may be permitted to see her. ‘ TO FORCE A CONFESSION. There is literally no limit to the po ers which the Juge d’Instruction pos- hi rae te oa in solitary confine- ‘once or twice each examination by the magis- ed to send him up for trial, which r sulted in his acquittal. Recently in Paris the brother of a tana was accuse’ urder, and, although a married ma: yah a Family,» was compelled to spend four moni ison before he wa Coe ceed hia taeenae that the presiding ing judges wait tat the investigating magistrate had broken lonth to taste before the taller finally ea rat ns fellows for asinine | caus en tal to the private room of the Juge win struction, an of candy, cakes its. in- | portant nae on ‘An English woman of assured social position in every way was recently pay~ ds in ests Conn. Some m ‘| she had been in Tadia gust which fa isa off country she brought with her @ most remarkable story—so remarkable, ae ee only the personal reputa- the narrator and the one other cpeosyed entitle it to consid- urrence pl ne tie ieacratid es, - Moora, 3 Northwestern India. ters are connected w’ Pm LONE ee land. The narrator's pe ed at a table r e ing pct | fot aaieng: the lawyers | oo fore h eee and the door to the bathroo: her, who calm- iy ergided “Rech Gr waa tas gest & surprise for her to speak emained for a moment in silent eae ‘Then it pany dawn- ed upon her tnat the figure not that of a person of REAL FLESH AND BLOOD, the unseen world “Not before you have answer- | no ed my questions,” replies his tormen- | § not. accurately bably not very long, when the us stranger vanish into a thinner beats panes acts Rigas or two he si bh guely conscious that in a minute or so after she had first seen the strange visitor her. two pet dogs had begun to bark furiously in Tt had been her invar- other iable cal to take a bath at this time: ening Wi jand tinwented a ado si adj sed by the latter Se) t But for pernatural edly have from 1) eading tabl pen! eriee have been bitten by the- a | fr s | ed. | MeN EEE DOG ACTORS. \peme @f the. Remarkable tists Which: They Arc Taught to Perfe A dog which ore to Shir an im- che stage these days a |S obliged to bea very skillful actor. he had come down | tir manne: had been one of cynical carelessness; but he now put away his grim half- smile to come if yo On: thank you,” she said apprehen- T am sorry to see you ldoking s ~ | il,” he ‘Gamers d, with aanceaied, col pe asked, ke this { You sieht thiok thet you have done enough! When 1 came lere Twas a young woman coming au old one. Neither my Ane ess any other man will 5 gard me with interest long.” eden wi his ed, His old reelii of supercilious pity for woman- kin i nrensified by this Ly paper of matrimony or “So be it. Every x sorap a shall be “AhI” she said emu- ess; “but, not till T have proved meet 4 faithfal and deserving wife seria ties Reawe mn ” he said. “ But y oe ee enero and said he would send en the eee “Now don’t doubt me,” he added. “I can keep my (To be Continued.) BOYS THE BEST COOKS. A cooking school teacher says that \aneot taste of the public has become very ne | turning dog, dressed pesclenn: ‘was con- subject. BETRAYED BY A STOOL PIGEON. At Versailles Pierre rere char oie n fee with murder, was sent to t] ae on evidence obtained by ing him in solitary year and then by allowing him to t m Inclosure where there ; ‘sidered a novelty. training of dogs tor the mod- jern variety stage has come to be one e acts on sketches. earsed and staged with ' Greatest care. The Russian dogs have been found t every word be sattored | 4 down by the Tuge 4 tn seated against the |Yorious kind ae known case is that ea at length summon private. office and addressed ‘My dear Mr. il, for a moment that an t us talk freely like ‘Supposiny To upset the Sei tiog Government and you were in my place, what would you do. = ith me?” would be such @.bare-brained at; “that I should “up in the luna ——_ HE KNEW — I think, sid the minister’s wife, ta you ought to cultivate more vehem« in your elocution. ace mean that I ought to make more oa: arenes Rats might help to make F oT doubt it very y miuch. In fact, that method would bei Sk the oe Posite effect and send way with on un: Je0- ey! vod a moun with ("ithe most elaborate bit ef canine act- lzowa’s. 2, {ing in the world is, however, robably Mine. Lucy ‘Kol hat rr trouns Peis ceigeacnd tha hfocot © Bus- ian farm. A troupe of » dozen. dog hi transmitted. case the possibilities of the gona Maes di Rimac, ations and forgotten 33 miles from the it has gained but 2,800 feet in ce | Sevation, but within the yard limits of Tittle bays aad, "tenches oe trate ands Not to confine the K Fai iry O “Omnibus. [222 T think See bedt ae gets a ima of romance ‘ime in his life. The green glade of olden ce is probably yy a busy street, Lied arm-| week and had not amusement or-elad knight by ss man in ek Tittle typewriter, perhaps. The but, ee me the me ys of chivalry, I dare say you See allen that @ bald-headed, middle-aged, stout old and more apt to be a trifle crusty in a tiresome ieee ee the part of a modern knight er- rant. Let me tell you all about’ it, and how it ended, It’s commonplace enough, I know, ant most say sone through ee bac! ig else in Baaington, and our hal transacted all her business for her for something like forty years. It was & you feel ae even to pra T stood waiting for a chance it being ee with ‘times times she turneds back in pay zh watched her with interest. There was derful ty—very pretty—and daintily dressed, and—well, I seized my op{iortunity like an ees os who is worth his salt is bound ppecene Ae said, raising my hat, sy I think you want to cross the 7 hn’ dookedl vetliee Seto “T think I shall get on all right,” she answered “if you would kindly tall £ me when to start. penpites re ey eee Gin very sorry,” she sai BES eS ee It_stuck in the m I looked. ‘around Sure enough,a few ds wasa shoo lying in peo ios lng very lonely and get- horribly wet. id here for a moment,” de Seto Sr i on one foot, with the tip of @ little stockinged toa Jost touching the ground to steady her. laughing, shoe has come off. i very you Jaugh af, me,” Une ald win a Ute “L must have looked very sil- said, be ted a Paddington iia 50. me came yut her inside and went ‘om will think ks, toa) jeer we turned 4 nine eee advant- Paced da m- the mbes acquaintances, and it seemed as if nett helther com could tell the ge 9 ‘of agreement ment wore ene eagerly. We had read the the same places, d there was an i See it. I wonder! fa I could 18 ea cet] ey Only too soon Where I had decided to "align © ly t- tiving tol tee earn- of ike pai Souonk from the moment her Pence § ae he eee nored | "tie t driv hich foun ful, and treated me Cat or- rm. for Siapiaiy, though, to be old Jady herself bors’ vith, me with won good temper. ri iact vint about /—a))80- old crea- eee al Ly ernie said. she would. like, b a t up we in thee brary. Buk acter, ful to say that, tl red ie poeta eee in love tide ‘ith the ni s that vhen, aoe the call ‘ae! ‘fairy versity, she fe Tuggle against fate as m' ‘But you ought to ees thankful to me for one. thing ded. “Tt Nonsense!” oan, ‘Dotioned ts be romaatic any veil » she said, “it was L gested you said ie Javited to, alte PRVhich just, shows what tory creatures contradic- HER ANXIOUS FACE. In lookingg up a word in the diction- ary several days ago my eyes fell on the definition of “ emulation "—“ the act of attempting to equal or excel in ae ities or actions; rivalry, desires of su- periority, attended Grit an effort 43 attain it. Only the evening before we had been talking about a little woman who was once pretty, but now bias a harrassed and an: expression of countenance. locable pectin wall bellave You | ver ould have done the same thin; afraid she might her if I follow- her like tire nial the rain had ay, oe of ough the knees tal climbed dov some Se aaa with which were furnis Pri ae ie the corner, half te ing, halt oasis ‘There was nobody she said frank- oad week ih sone turn for one kindness if I drove you _ into consumption.’ T think that upon the whole that was ee tr She sles) spas a ite by emulation of othe ‘The strain will kill her if ne eee ie ne Nobody in this world owns words ae the dictionary defini- ee ‘Nobody.! For ‘iri as we may,there oo a a feria eee het pee ther, wears herself out in at can rag much more id _be, - | his services should give him the right 2 re ‘al ont better our chil- care free % A PUBLIC EXECUTIONER — é ni ges M. DEIBLER, OF PARIS, HAS GUIL- depended LOTINED 502 CRIMINALS. ething About the Headsman of —Has Meld the Position Thirty-Nine soe Seon Retire to Private Lite, in France who has probabl; tute more | ees being leur om. his eee: as eae publi Cog REE France with a of 502 of- ficial deaths to his cot Speaking of his getitenient see Fi- garo says editorially: ie is very old, hand trembles, and his antacive His achievements are known t all; he has dealt more than 500 Mounds all of which’ have been fatal, but not bj end, ‘and so I drew other day he cam Saee and the people of that pro- ince are very particular. In a e | dag possibly gruesome identity of * is’ will have fallen upon another than fe is now aN, year be permissbi it | t POPU- pourreat had, and he has ed in an ne Patraseing. gosition at € seal ‘He carefully tests the aus rel again S-|at his home. ie France ‘appointed for executions each t) own scaffolds. hough L was by this | Bee en he a is ating, a manag ie efracto: reonal a earance M. Deibler fee mn Pee Monsieur de Pari i “ha aoe eyes and sage. Hie always dresses in black, vith long me frock re. and ong ilk hat. si qui jet, as Fr eaceul wil uch aS POs | heft ee muse that on fing in the home of Monsieur d as been reported that, she was a ineeet ‘of the famous Samson, Cae ee) ‘0 he published the fas a Sakon, Mme. ‘Deibler daughter of the executioner o ES RUNAWAY, SUICIDE. rei en LIGHTHOUSE - KEEPER'S RETURN. of a lighthouse Bee lonely life if ld of a lighthouse-keeper of Chicago which . ee on the heroism is not always to the keeper himself. The keeper tended is at a Poe day in early Tee ae the keeper ly, Franee < Hotand endurance give aw: tm, | town | the cel Bravery of ee Wife Hct Him From a Watery Gi masonry at the ae receives the water supply of the the wer ets tower waiting for him, wit ee up the small cargo. “It was soon safely and the rope descended for the i grasped it the ay swept ora rhe grasp ‘ a heavy gust “adele struck ey ae he was. hurl- the ragi F, tesinea Tmapossible that the woman a weight 0 ed in at Then, face oe at "then, oe the bea band touched the floor she nied, was her slots worn’ through eee ans her knees rainst the stone Walt ond her left. ann was torn and bleeding. ‘The sudden jerk when fell had wounded her arm and disabled it, yet she had not given in, “{ kne thei no rahe said, when she enone Gia? pen abt locked “You were at the other that abgs up with y right hand and my teel VALUE OF PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS. 2 + fw The Great Benefit h They Confer on Old und Young. \Among the many plans ae have been suggest lay ani ebration, w ill give th | also. the feeling, that they are she of “Queen Vi playgrounds poditieids, dotted over the | Kingdom, may express the popular ap- ti of Queen nda ate benefi- ¢ and lasting nee aes pond Where are one or two errors which. inst, daptissld ats the und. for oom Bey wait a the pressur breathing- Space Cadena wo the general land command: grounds, too, are, n¢ as well bd die) piles It is antes ys and ot necessai rural communities | lace in which They ei spass in Bea fields and pas: ‘ural communities which move upon Feckoned at so much t PRUSSIAN SABI CB. dollars seems a big id may drag the dirt, no one will consider it a dishonor to wear it. In Russia and Northern countries a sable coat or ol cloak is Lae distinction, and Sven; Sacer ambition to weal "z6 big fur coat,” undoubtedly re- ferred to the fine Russian only at the courts of A. Darin; ‘afraid to te thei BANDITS LED BY A WOMAN TERRIFYING THE PEOPLE OF BEL- GIUM'S: mG. CITIES, Dick renter teeny ple es After Night fali—The Police oe icommuicsale Baill ed, ium has a gang of bandits pers Belgit | oes “doough fa Gieir miethods: atid uy grease paint to thein en han as Jeader is‘a wo- Is as ‘tho 1 belie could desires To add to their natural piratical outs they wear slouched. hats and a1 ed like coh leader. are TRAE @ Tne Dobn panera aoiRte ybers gue tacnsyacdal they begs a avlae and pillaged belated travellers on the ways. THEIR LAST cauiiatt One of their last exploits was nean thiatelé ecw tate, St ur dusky figures sud it ‘and they ice that one of are leo : mas] Porian when they were seized, thrown violently to the ground and gagged. \e woman her- self shared in ¢ m stood, aloo, ‘Sehile ‘the re nest of tis gang di Pillagi was aeeenarsuel the woman iyanea irs Eaunwes ‘them. tp and they tad ‘nelle ex away with it when t! in the mornin; result of this and a number of robberies which have occurred and are, still occurring is that there 3 BOE of © people ive tae ate fested ant cmon are afraid td xf numbers to be safe from attack. end SAI THE SKELETON DANCE. Grotesque nee ea of the Natives ef eats Wales. Dancing on ioe ght” by Brendll rather too violent an introduced into the eae ball room, T It is not a zeligious exercise like the ec e their broi bree oe ee up things by a By eh spot edged by a forest some ere near their huts is chosen. ‘Theny is built sable, meee tess asin Eure id the “aitferenee. ‘tebe ee NOTHING SERIOUS. Doctor (examining an sppleant fet life Insurance) Frye Bie mother die of ‘Roplicant—Well, sir. ade say as es for the ribs. sists of a lot of shields baka , 2 anied by voices, the re- verse of tun _ When the fire burns brightly, hea d. the hideous din o} r ap ie ens gies but perhiner, ground.