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Angela. shook her head. and. looking but partially convinced, led the way down the passage and into the room, where, to her astonishment, she per- ceived that the dinner-table was fur- nished with a. more sumptuous meal than she had seen upon it for years. the fact being that. Pigott had reâ€" ceived orders from Philip which she did not know of. not to spare expense whilst. Arthur was his guest. “What waste." retlewted Angela, in whom the pressure of circumstances had developed an economical turn of mind. as she glanced at. the unaccus- taned jug of beer. “He said he was a teetotaller." “I do so how that you don't mind dining at half-past twelve, and with my old nurse," Angela said, as they went together up the stairs to the room they used as a dining-room. “Of course I don’tâ€"I like it, really A loud “hem!" from Pigott arrest- ing her attention. stopped all further consideration of the matter. That good lady, who, in honor of the occasion, was dressed in a black gown of a for- midable character, and a many-ribbon- ed cap, was standing behind her chair waiting to be introduced to the visi- tor. Angela. proceeded to go through the ceremony which Pigott's straight- upâ€"and-down attitude rendered rath- er trying. “There must," she would say, we something wicked about a man as is draid to have his own bonny daughter look him in the face, to say nothing of his being that mean as to grudge her the clothes on her back, and make her live worse nor a servant-girl." Having. therefore. by a quiet peep through the curtains ascertained that he was nice-looking and about the right age, Pigott confessed to herself that she was heartily glad of Arthur's arri- val. and determined that, should she take to him on further acquaintance, he should find a warm ally in her in any advances he might choose to make on the fortress of Angela’s affections." “Nurse. this is the gentleman that. my father has asked to stay with us. Mr. Heigham, let. me introduce you to my old name, Pigqttff Arthur bowed politely, whilst Pigott made two elaborate courtesies, retiring a step backward after each, as though to make room for another. Her Spfiech too. carefully prepared for the occasion is worthy of transcription. T'Pbo'recollection of his statement of the previous du {lulled iqto his mind. One of his first acts was, at Pigott's invitation, to help himself to a. glass of beer, of which. to speak truth. he drank g good ‘dogl: "Whit," she asked. rem wallow p nu" m a “Hem!” she said, "this, air, is a plea- sure as I little expected, and I well knows that it is not what you or the likes is accustomed to..a-eating of din- ners and teas with old women; which I hopes sir, how as you will put up with it, seeing how as the habits of this house is what might. without mis- take. be called peculiar, which I says without any offense to Miss Angela. 'cause though her bringing up has been what I calls odd, she knows it as well as I do. which, indeed, is the only consolation I has to offer. being right sure as indeed I am, how as any young gentleman as ever breathed would sit in a pool of water to dine along with Miss Angela. let alone an old nu: e. I ain’t such a tool as 1 may look; no need for you to go a- blushing of. Miss Angela. And now sir. if you please. we will sit down. for fear lest the gravy should begin to grease;” and. utterly exhausted by the exuberance of her own verbosity, she plunged into her chairâ€"an exam« ple which Arthur bowing his acknow- ledgments of her opening address. was not slow to follow. . .Angela'watched the proceeding with xntereqt. with his preoccupied ways. W, VI vuv vâ€" _._ _ . she loved to picture her in some quiet. happy home, beloved by her husband. and surrounded by children as beau- tiful as herself. It was but a moder- ate ambition for one so peerlessly en- dowed. but she would have been glad to see it fulfilled. For of late years there had sprung up in nurse Pigott’s mind an increasing dislike of her sur- roundings, which sometimes almost amounted to a feeling of hor- ror. Philip she had always detested. " she would XXIII. air and uncanny His companion gone, Arthur turn- ed and entered the house. The study door was open, so he went straight in. Philip “ho was sitting and staring in an abstracted way at the empty fireplace, with a light behind him. turned quickly round as he heard his footstep. “Oh, it’s you, is it, Heigham? I suppose Angela has gone up-stairs; she goes to roost very early. I how that she has not bored you. and that old Pigott hasn’t talked your head off. I told you that we were an odd lot, you know; but, if you find us odder than you bargained for, I should advise you to clear out." "Indeed, I am glad to hear it. You must he easily satisfied, have an Ar- cadian mind, and that sort of thing. Take gome whisky, and light your pipe. “Thank you, [have spent a very happy day!’ .Arthur did so, and presently Philip in that tone of gentlemanly ease which distinguished him from his cousin,led the conversation round to this guest’s PI‘OSpects and affairs, more especially his money affairs. Arthur answered him frankly enough but this money talk had not the same charms for him that it had for his host. Indeed, a marked repugnanoe to everything that had to do with money was one of his characteristics; and, wearied out at length with pecuniary details and endâ€" less researches into the mysteries of Investment, he took advantage of a pause to attempt to change the subject. l.“' E “Y-e-s, I suppose soâ€"that is, if you like it. It is a. pretty name, Arthur. Good-night, Arthur," and she was gone. ‘Angela hesitated, and Angela blush- ed, though why she hesitated and why she blmshed was perhaps more than she 00qu have exactly said. “A1121 will you 05,11 me Arthur? Ev- erybody I know calls me Arthqxjr.”_ g‘Wth?" . “Because then I should be saymg. ‘Good-morning, Angela,’ instead of ‘Goodâ€"night. Angela.’ May I call you Angela? We seem to know each. oth- er so well ,you‘ see." “Yes, of course," she laughed hack; “everybody I know calls me Angela. so why shouldn’t you?" "Well,” he said, “I am much obliged to you for your advice for I am very ignorant myself and hate anything .to do with money. I go back to first prln- ciples and believe that we should all be better 'without it." . “I always thought,” answered Philip with a semi-contemptuous smile. “that the desire of money, or, among savages races, its equivalent shells or what not. was the first principle of human nature.” me of Fate; that sovereign," throwing a coin on the table, “is Fate's own seal. You see me, for instance. ap- parently poor and helpless, a social pa- riah. one to be avoided and even in- sulted. Good; before long these will right all that for me. Ay. believe me, Heigh'am, money is a living, moving force; leave it still, and it acâ€" cumulates; expend it and it gratifies every wish; save it, and that is the best of all. and you hold in your. hands. lever that will lift the world. I tell you that there is no height to which it cannot bring you; no gulf it will not bridge you." 1 “Except." laoliloquized ‘Arthur. “the cliffs ot the hereafter. andâ€"the grave." His words produced a cation effect. Philip's eloquence broke of! short. “It is a. worship that rarely brings lasting happiness with it; In our greed to coUect the Ineans of enjoy- ment, surely we lose the power to en- joy." “Pshaw! that is the cant of fools. of those who do not know. of those who cannot feel. But I know and I feel, and I tell you that it is not so. The collection of those means is in it- self apleasure, because it gives a. conscgogsnessof power, Don't talk to “Perhaps it is-â€"I really don’t know; but I heartily wish that it could be eliminated off the face of the earth.” “Forgive me," laughed Philip. "but that is the speech of a very young man. Why. eliminate money. and you take away the principal interest of life, and destroy the social fabric of the world. What is power but mo- ney. comfortiâ€"money, social consid- erationlâ€"money, ay, and love, and health, and happiness itself? Money. money, money. Tell me," he went on. rising and addressing him with a curi- ous earnestness. “what god is there more worthy of our adoration than Plutus, seeing that, if we worship him enough. he alone of the idols we set in high places, will never fail us at need?” '7' u’- â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" "And what are you going to do?" asked Arthur. “Oh! I am going to read a. little. !then go to bed; I always go to bed about nine;" and she held out her hand to say good-night. He took it and “Good-night. then; I wish it were to-morrow." and total ignorance of the ways of the world, produced an effect as charm- ing as it was unusual. Needless to say that every hour he knew her he fell more deeply in love with! her. 'At length about eight o’olcok, just as it was beginning to get dark, she suggested that he should go and sit. awhile with her father. What a thing it is to be young and in love! How. it gilds the dull ginger- bread of life; what “new capacities of enjoyment it opens up in us. and. for the matter of that. of pain also; and us in everybody else's eyes except our own. and if we are lucky. those of our adored! The afternoon and evening passed much as the morning had done. An- gela took Arthmr round the place. and showed him all the spots connected with her strange and lonely childhood. of which she told him many a curious story. In fact. before the day was over. he knew all the history of her innocent life. and was struck with amazement at the variety and depth of her scholastic acquirements and the extraordinary power of her mind. which, combined with -1193 simplicity THE DURHAM Cfifiéfiiéhfi. fieéember 30.1897“. mm There was something so excessively uncanny about his hosts manner and his evident conviction of the origin of the wavering figures on the wall. which had now disappeared, that Ar- thur, felt had it not been for Angela. he would not be sorry to get clear of him and his shadows, as soon as pos- sible, for superstition, he knew, is as contagious as small-pox. When at length he reached his great, bare bed- chamber. not, by the way, a comfor- table sort of place to sleep in after such an experience, it_ was only after . “There is bad Hews," she said, almost “efore be greeted her; “my cousin George igvery ill _wi_th‘tylphus fev‘e‘r.” coolly. “Well, I must say it does not appear to distress you very _much_.._" _ “No, I can‘t say ii does. To be honâ€" est, I detest your cousin. and Idon’t care if he is ill or not: there." “How do you mean?" “I can hardly explain what I mean. but sometimesâ€"it may beat night. or when I am sitting alone in the day- time-o. great calm comes upon me. and I am a. changed women. All my thoughts rise Into a. highet. purer air. and are. as it were. tinged with a re- flected light; everything earthlyaeem “There is,” she said, “something about my father that separates him from everybody else. His life never comes out into the sunlight of the pas- siung day, italways gropes along in the shadow of some gloomy past. \Vhat the mystery is that enveloyys him I neither know noroare to inquire; but I am sure that there is one.” ”HOM do you explain the shadow ?" “I believe your explanati in is right. they are, under certain (n 'lditiODS of light, thrown by a tree that grows some distance off. I have :ren some- thing that looks like figure: on that wall myself in full daylight. That he should interpret such a sin‘ ‘le thing Next morning when they met at their eight o'clock breakfast. Arthur noticed that Angela was distressed about something. As she appeared to have no reply ready the subject _dr0pped. or prayer, can pass from the Lther world to ourselves. But the very fact of my father's terror proves to me t: at his shadows are nothing of the so t. for it is hardly possible that spirits can be permitted to come to terrify us poor mortals; if they come at'all. it is in love and gentleness. to com- fort or to war-m, and not to work upon our superstitious.” “You speak as though you knew all about it; you should join the new Ghost Society," he answered irrever- ently, sitting himself down on a fallen tree. an example that she followed. vv-n-vvv â€"-- _ “No, I do not," answered Angela. af- ter a minute's thought. “I have no doubt that the veil between uxrselves and. the unseen world is thinner than we think. I believe. too. that com- munication, and even warnings some- times. under favorable conditions, or when; the veil is worn thin by trouble sdrne hours. in the excited state of his imagination. that. tired though hewas he could get the rest he needed. After breakfast Angela proposed that they should walkâ€"for the day was again fineâ€"to the top of a hill about a mile away, whence a view of the surâ€" rounding country could be obtained. He consented, and on the way told her of his curious experience with her father on the previous night. She lis- tened attentively, and, when he had finished, shook her head. mind." “You do not think. then." mid Ar- thur, in order to draw hwr out, “that it is possible, after all, he was right, and that they were somt thing from another place? The rea;ity of his terror was almost enough to make one believe in.- them. I can tel_l you.’_’ “Nonsense, Mr. Caresfoot, nonsense," said Arthur, shaking himself together: “I see nothing of the sort. \Vhy, it is only the shadows flung by the moonâ€" light through the swinging boughs of that tree. Cut it down, and you will have no more writing upon your wall." as he does "I have thought about it_ sometimes, that is all, and, so far as I have read. I think my belief is a. common one. and what the. Bible teaches us; but. if you will not think me foolish. I will tell you something that comfirms me in it. You know my mother died when I was born; well. It may seem strange to you. but I am convinced that she is sometimes very_ near me." h' “130 you mean Ehnt you see or hear er " “No. I only feel her presence; more rarely yaw. I am sorry to say. as I me some whisky. there's a. good i’ellow, and I'll drink damnation to all shad- ows, and the trees that throw them, Ha. ha, ha!" “Ah! of course you are right. Heigh- am, quite right.” ejaculated his host, faintly wiping the cold sweat from his brow; “it is nothing but the moonlight. Hiow ridiculous of me! I suppose I am alittle out of sortsâ€"liver wrong. Give Arthur started, and followed the di- rection of his eyes to the bare wall opposite the window. at that end of the room through which the door was made. “I see," he said “some moving sha- dows." “What do they resemble?" “I don’t know; nothmg in particu- lar. What are they?" _ “What; are they?" hissed Philip, whose face was livid with terror, “they are the shades of the dead sent here to torture me. Look she goes to meet him; the old man is telling her. Now she will wring her hands." Vâ€"Siâ€"le'n‘oe ensued which neither of them seemed to care to break. Meanwhile the wind suddenly sprung up, and heâ€" gun to moan and sigh among the half-clad boughs of the trees outside â€"ma.king, Arthur thought to himself. a. very melancholy music. Presently Phillip laid his hand upon his guest's arm, and he felt that it shook like an aspenfileaf. a “Tell me," he said in a. hoarse whis‘ per. ffwhatA d9 3’?“ S€°_tHer°?': and. for a moment. a great fear crept. into his eyes. “Indeed!” CHAPTER XXIV. rémarked Aft-bur. rather shows acurious satate of “Ah!” she broke in, blushing, “you acquirememts. I am sorry to say I am not the perfect scholar you think me. and. about most things I am shocking- ly ignorant. I should indeed be silly. if. after ten years’ patient work un- der such a scholar as' Mr. Fraser, I did not know some classics and mathema- bies. Why, do you know, for the last three years that we worked together. we used as a rule to carry on our ordi- nery‘ conversations during work in La- bin and Greek, month and month about, sometimes with the funniest results. One never knows how little one does know of a dead language till one tries to talk it. Just try to speak in Latin for the next five minutes. and youl will see." “Thank you. I am not going to ex- pose my ignorance for your amuse- meat; Augusta.” She laughed. “No.” Gibb said. "it is you who wish to amuse yourself at my expense by tryiqg t9 mks mg holieye my I am a. "My own," she said. shyly; “that is. they are a. translation of a verse of a Greek o-de I wrote for Mr. Fraser. I will say you the original, if you like; I think it better than the transla- tion, and I believe that it is fair “Thank you. thank you. Miss Blue- stocking; I am quite satisfied with the English version._ _ You positively alarm Angela was right; the view was charming. Below lay the thatched roofs of the little village of Bratham. and to the right the waters of the lake shone like silver in the glancing sunlight, while the gables of the old house, meping out from among the budding foliage, looked very pict- uresque. The spring had cast her green garment over the land; from every copse rang out the melody of birds. and the gentle breeze was heavy with the scent of the unnumbered vio- lets that starred the mossy carpet at their feet. In the fields where grew the wheat and clover, now springing into lusty life. the busy weeders were at work. and on the warm brown fal- lows the sewer went forth to sow. From theearly pastures beneath.where purled a little brook. there came a pleasant lowing of. kine. well-content- ed. with the new grass, and a cheerful bleating of lambs, to whom as yet life was nothing but one long skip. It was a charming scene. and its influ- e 7e sunk deep into the gazers' hearts. "It is depressing to think," said Ar- thur, rather sen/tentioualy. but really chiefly with the object of getting at his companions views, “that all this cannot last. but is. as it were. like ourselves, under sentence of death.” “‘It rose and fell and fleeted Upon earth's troubled sea. A wave that swells to vanish Into eternity. Oh, mystery and wonder Of wings that cannot fly. Of ears that cannot hearken,. Of life that livesâ€"to die!’ " quoth Angela. by way of comment. “Whose lines are those ?" asked Ar- thur. “I don't know them.” me. Angela. Most people are quite content if they can put a. poem writ- ten in English into Greek; you reverse the process. and, having coolly given expression to your thoughts in Greek, wnxlesceml to translate them into your native tongue. I only wish you had been at Cambridge. orâ€"what do they call the place 2-Gâ€"irton'. It would. have been a joke to see you come out double-first." “ 1‘ '1! I wish I could tell you; they pass aw ay with her who brought them. leavin nothing but a vague after- glow i: my mind like that in the sky after t} 9, sun, has set. But now look at the x flaw; is it not beautiful in the sunlight All the world seems to be rejoicing." to pass away from me, and I feel as though fetters had fallen from my soul. and I know that I am near my mother. Then everything passes. and I am left myself again." ‘nd what: are thé thoughts you have at tmse times?" take Ayer’s Pills, and you will sleep better and wake in better condition for the day’s work. Ayer’s Cathartic Pills have no equal as a pleasant and effect- ual remedy for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, and all liver troubles. They are sugar-coated, and so perfectly prepared, that they cure with- out the annoyances experienced in the use of so many of the pills on the market. Ask your druggist for Ayer’ s Cathartic Pills. QVVhen other pills won ’t help you, Ayer’ s is Q} THE PILL THAT WILL. Béfore Retiring It is predicted that paper is the com- ing material for matches. The pros- pect of the wooden match industry be- ing appreciably affectgd by a new pro- -...._ v vuv MAI “- isters of the treaty nations first had residences in Pekin the name of each country made use of in diplomatic cor- respondence has been, of course. that power. The same was the case with Japan. Japan. there can be no doubt. prefers J i pen. whence Japan. the land of the Rising Sun, because it is more poetical than the harne “’0. On the Bach treaty nation has chosen its own name for moral effect. It has been a matter for international diplomacy. and the Chinese government has inveri- ably givezf way to the wishes of each of LL- Lâ€"--Ar flow the Celestial-s Have Named the 8.00.!» «f the- Earth. “11% the Chinese first knew the Japanese they named ‘tbem "\\'a.” meaning “submissive" peeple. By the change of a vowel in 2.00 years. Wa be- came W0. In the Chinese declaration the treaty powers as represented by its ministers and his Chinese secre- tary. From the time that the min- Esters of the treaty nations first had m:AA‘-‘-- 2-â€" “ ‘ . kwo, meaning “the flourishing coun: try" for ying. the treaty character for Gmat Britain. has that sense. Fa menns Law, and France. Fa kwo, is the "law abiding country." Germany. known try." The United States republic is the M31 kdo. or “beautiful country." Italy is the “country of justice"-â€"I - ._â€"v - _ v-“v - \rvunu "WU my fate without a. quaLm. I hm sun that when our trembling hands hove drawn- the veil from Death. we shall find His features. passionless indeed. but very beautiful." Arthur looked at r with astonish- ment. wondering what. manner of woâ€" man this could be. wh,o in the first flush. of youth and beauty, could face» the great unknown without a. tremor. When he spoke again. it was with some- thing of envious bitterness. that. in my opinion. your remark ebont the whole world being under sentence of death was rather a morbid one.” :EYby !_ It is obviously true." :‘Yes, in: a canoe; but to my mind this scam speaks mom of resurrection than; of Heath. Look nt tho earth pushlqg up_her flowers. and the deaid can. on the contrary. only bring me nearer to the purpose of my beiml Certainly I shrink from death itself. as we all must. but of the dangers bo- yo'nd I have no fear. Pleasant as thin world is at times, there is somethim in us all that strives to rise above it; and. if I knew that I must die within this ’hour. I believe that I could meet tnees breaking into bealzty} There is no sign of death there. but rather of a renewed and glorified life." “Yes. but there is still the awful fact of death to face; nature herself has been temporarily dead before she blooms into beauty; she dies every. autumn, to rim again in the same form (PW/TY Spring. But how do we know. “.13 Chrysalis: As soon as a man be- 81118 to think at all.he stands face to face with this hideous problem. to the solution of which he knows himself to be drawing daily nearer. His posi- tlon» I often think. is worse than that of a criminal under sentence. because the criminal is only deprived of the QDJQYIpent _of a term. indefinite. i'n- dead. but absolute-{yâ€" Ti'miged; Bfi'tflzn'zlâ€"n at large does not know of what he i» Qppmved, and what he must inherit in v-uwv “v “W’v ‘ ”V‘IV . the aeons that await him. It is the uncertainty of death that is its mpst dreadful part. and, with that hanging over our race. the wonder to me I8 not only that we. for the most part. put the subject entirely out of mind. but that we can ever think seriously. of anything else." “I Member." answered Angeln. “once thinking very much in the same way, and I went to Mr. Fraser for ad- vice. ‘The Bible,’ he said. ‘will satisfy your doubts and fears, if only you will read it in a right spirit. And in- deed, more or less, it did. I cannot. of course. venture to advise you. but I pass his advice on; it is that of a very “Have you. then. no dread of death. or. rather. of what lies beyond it I" know has no power to harm me. tint can. on the contrary. only bring Ina MCI-Au. ‘. A A CHINESE WRINKLE. (To Be Continued.) PAPER.