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"You fancy it is loneliness,” said Harriet slowly: I do not. Charlie did you never think 2’” An eloquent silence ensued. “No I never did,” replied Charlie, quite. slowly: a new light breaking in upon his hitherto darkened mind. and totally forgetful of all those abstruse calculations he went through. daily in the _' ‘sa nctum." - "Ah. yes. indeed, thank goodness,; poor dear child! Listen to what shei says?” I And Mrs. Charteris read the letter; through once more for her husband’Sg benefit.” " You must go to her at once, Har-l ry.” Mr. (‘harteris decided. When it} was finished; " she is evidently dying3 with the ‘blues.’ “’arrenne had no: right to send her to such an isolated' i must be, no matter how much she mayf have wished it. (‘ould you not” manage; to bring her back here .with you. Har- Nonsense I” exclaimed Charlie, feel- ing scarcely less excited. and entire- ly forgetting, in his enthusiasm, the “ sweet thing,” in cockchafers he had received by the morning‘s post. “You don’t say so !” - U ’ you.” “ Charlie,” cried . springing to her feet from our Katherine.” -wv wrulv JV“ LU mu for awhile. Give him and the children my love, and ever believe me your own Katherine. “Tyne Royal, Oct. 10, 18â€". ' ‘Dearest Harryâ€"Are you angry with me because I never answered your: long. kind letters? Well, I could not;3 that is my only excuse. And yow wi11,§ I know, forgive me. I am very lonely: here, andâ€"and a lfttle frightened. \Vill, .you come to me? Tell Charlie, I will: not keep you longâ€"only avery little- timeâ€"if he will just spare you to me? C...- -____1_-‘ t". -flv' -v “Good-bye, my love, good-bye!” he whispered, hoar'sely, pressing his lips to hers, and holding her close to as loyal and true a heart as ever man had; but an instant later her head dropped upon his shoulder, while her form grew heavy in his arms, and he carried her up to her own room insen-' able. Katherine went 11p 'to him as in a dream. and putting her arms round hl‘S‘ neck, raised her face to his. “ Katherine, Katherine,” ’he cried, bitter pain and disappointment min- gled in his tones, “you are silent! You do not even wish me God-speed! 0h, darling, have you fongotten that I, too, love you with all my heart and soul? I am troing away, now, per- haps I shall never see .you again; have you no word to say to me? Surely, be-: fore I leave, you will kiss me once' of_y0ur own free Will 3’” e sent was gone, that Mark was going, and that all the world beyond was a blank to her forevermore; while the same dark sense of lingering evil that had haunted her all the morning fell upon her heart once more threatening to stifle her with its vague, dull pain. She felt her senses leating her, when Sir Mark‘s voice brought her back again to a slight remembrance of the pre-_‘ Lady Warrenne strove hard to speak, but the words appeared to freeze on her lips; speech and thought seemed alike to have deserted her; she could only remember clearly that Blackwood “ Yes, it is better so.” He had conâ€"3' her fe ceived the idea, poor fellow, that be rather .was more or less of a nuisance to his hall d< ,own wife, and though very loath to as free part' with what he loved so well, still: Way jc he could not endure the thought that panyin his presence was distasteful to her! Whatex "I will arrange everything for you, Tyne Katherine, so do not put yourself to almost any trouble: but if you have any parâ€" Hall, a. ticular wish you had better tell it to she anc me now, as I have business that Will‘it. I“ ,take me to town early toâ€"morrow morn- latter 1 ing. You can start for Tyne Royal, ti‘fiu'llv the day after that, or the next day.! time ‘tc unless,”-â€"dropping his voiceâ€" “youlfgougwe, would prefer remaining here until af-l broad s ter the funeral.” Katherine shivered. “I _r where ’s think that is all I have to say,” hefmaid a1 went on, a faint tremor pervading his and altc voxce in7 spite of all his manliness. “ Sol son, wit now bid me good-bye, my darling, and 3 m bcdvg -a=nd'â€";think of me sometimes, Kath-i This erlne .’ i mum.“ -. tue robed, so motionless she sat; while over her, tall and fair, stood Sir Mark, like some ancient knight guarding a sleeping fairy. Presently he broke the wpell. "Good-bye, Katherine," he said. "Good-bye," rising from among the cushions and looking half frightened; " good-byeâ€"so soon i” ‘ V'W a dead silence that lasted for several minutes fell upon them both. Lady Warrenne, sitting there in a. huge crimson chair, her tiny figure half hidden in the velvet cushions, might have been mistaken for a marble sta- To this she made no answerâ€"indeed, he scarcely seemed t9 e.xp_ec_t oneâ€"and 'h nusr promise me. Chirlie, "our Insects and nonsense away; and keep the boys CHAPTER VI. ;, Harry, do come! I want r to such an isolated lde this Tyne Royal er how much she may 'ould you not” manage 9'“ VV5 ‘3, feet.‘ ‘tvvhis letter is Mrs. Charteris c i E goodneés, ; what she , 5 the letter! 5 husband’s ;' é mce, Bar-1° When it} ltly dying? VI 3 had no? t‘ a isolated 5 O ne Royal 5 Q] h she may? Ii 11" manna-A2 s1 meexly; " Indeed “I don’it' fiancy it harm. nurse,” Kathe meekly ; “ indeed, I styo‘nger.” consciously. â€"..‘h I: “Yes, a boy 1” Lady Warrenne re- "sponded gratefully, though why she y ‘ shou'ld' have been so grateful that the 1 ’ child should come under the denomina- of non of a “son and heir," Harriet could a? not conceive, unless Indeed she lanol- 1 ed that somebody else might be so. r 1 ‘ “You naughty child, not! to send for .me before," Mrs. Charteris, said, lov- tr inggy. “I am really angry with you ;and ”horribly jealous of that formid- =abie dragon I met just outside your‘ ;; door,_who seemed anxious to carry me 1 off at once to the lockup, and who, I I, . “My darling!" cried the warm- hearted Harriet Charteris with asob of intense emotion running over and kneeling down by her side whiln V-;l,._ ~ “How is Lady \Varrenne 2” Harriet 1 asked in a low, hush-ed tone, as though ; afraid of waking somebody. " “Beautiful, ma’am, beauitful. You 'l'Da’E'edtfl’tr' be nervous,” replied the Lady of the Bed-chamber, with an obvious sniff, and at. the very tip-top of her most. energetic voice, as though deter- mined to ignore Mrs. Ch-arteris’ at- tempt at quietness. "‘Follow me, mu'm”â€"i»ezadi.ng the Way into an adi- joining apartment where, amidst a 5 She was 21an who always enter- 3 f ed. with her whole heart: into any mat- ; ter, however small, she had in hand, ‘nev'er letting “the grass grow under '.' her feet," and so the next evening, 3 rather late, saw her alighting at the : hall door of Katherine’s new residence. . as fresh and charming as though rail- _ way journeys and 'the fatigues accom- ‘panying them were of no consequence whatever. I Tyne Royal, as she entered it, seemed 'almost as fine a house as Warrenne 5 Hall, and by no means gloomy, as both 5 she and Charlie had agreed to consider ‘ it. It. was not so large, perhaps, as the latter residence, but was quite as beau- ; tiltully kept up. Still she had little Etime to institute comparisons as shel ' foilowed the ancient butler up the broad staircase to the upper corridor, where {she was met by an under house- matd and a large, red-faced, muscular, i and altogether remarkable-looking per- . son, With an eye that wouid have cowed 3 ax hcdyguard. 1 This vaustere individual waited in 9016mm silence and a rather menacing attitude for Mrs. Ch-arteris’ first re- mark. ' ladies lown mysteriously into cozy bundle. “That’s a dear boy.” said his Wife, pleasantly, running out at the room to‘lnak'e preparations for her journey. ' “He certainly has a wonderful gen- ius for experimentalizing,” returned Tinsley’s father, with a smile that ex- pressed the highest pride in his first born' 3 predilections “Brit yen may be happy in your mind: I fprcmise he shall not soil so much! as the tips at his fingersâ€"in my apartments, at all events.” : luaE something was due to the r small inmate of the chamber; 19 pushed back‘ the pink flannel to .at the wee face it contqinedx and 1.15552; gi‘néh: seivantligin the place.- and if Tinsley once gets into your laboraâ€" tory kw will undoubtedly blow himself ape”, . ,_ â€"vv vv’ “1“ me. unless indeed she fanci- xmehcndy else might be 30. r .ughty child, na'v to send for ,” Mrs. Oharteris, said, 10v- .. .Luslus Lever, mum, ) talkin’,” broke in a nice at the door. . started. Harriet rather _vâ€" \- uvu‘Lu e perfectly strong and her; so I constitute my- :f nurse in ordinary, with at to‘ your. “old soldier.’ ” really stay with me for atherine exclaimed. de- bh, how good of you! But . will he say, and the want to , never let that 11! 50 11111011 as explodes, or he and 'worry you I 10w, glad lit- worrit her arrys soft, her fragile 5' 011 near the preci- o of stock in the 0511., traction trailwa $40,001). He has established his y er brother, James Brooks, in the . business at Sacramento, CaL, ,000 or $12,000. To his er's sister, Mrs. Flaherty, he has a $2,500 home at Sacramento. H 1 mer home and birthplace in Savannah, N.Y., Lawrence E. Brooks has just re- turned to Dawson City 1n the Klondike gold counzry. Mr. Brooks is popular- 1y supposed to be worg'tah upward of $300,000, Four years ago he was a laborer in a vineyard at Fresno, Cal :at $1.50 a day; five years ‘ago he tramped from San Francisco to Port-' la nd, Ore., because he would not spend the $60 he had saved. he shoveleâ€"d m’alt in S. K. Nester’s malthouse in Geneva, N .Y., and‘ _ lafttetr he was working at bottoming out the Erie Canal. He went to the Pinching economy. He returned to San Francisco in September, 1898, and had more than $100,000 on deposit in the Crocker-Woolsworth Bank besides about 270 pounds of gold dust, and he placer mines on Eldor- ado Creek in the Klondike region. 1 . Worth Upward of $300,000â€"Sufl‘erlngs by Which lie Gained Ills Gold fin the Klondike. After DaVinQ‘ a brief 171.514» 4.... L:_ p- “Yes, you do,” returned Harry, bravely; “you want Mark; you want the. best fellow that ever breathed ; you want the father of your boy." “Oh, no, no i” cried her poor little ladyship, excitedly, bursting ,into tears, and throwing her arms around Harriet’s neck. :L BLOCK 019 “Katherine,” said Mrs. Charteris, “Why do you not say at once what it is you want, my dear 9” “Want!” Lady Warrenne repeated, a conscious flush overspreading her fair face. “Why, You are dreaming, Harriet! \Vh'at can I possibly have to wish for? I want nothing.” And she glanced with nervous fondness to- I v-v-vuv 9v Um- vv‘ 55.) ul. “in. So things went on until Harry’s I leave had almost expired, and she and sLadY Warrenne were sitting one morning in the nursery, the baby slumbering peacefully in its little cot close by. Katherine had fallen into close by. Katherine had fallen Into one of her absent moogls, and sat gaz- ing with wistful eyes 1nto the leapang fire, when she was startled by the touch of Harry’s hand laid gently ups on__l_1er knee. __â€"â€"‘-..yâ€"â€".q° vwdvv'w These signs and tokens of a“mind” were all carefully noted and marked down in her busy brain by Mrs. Char- teris, and, oddly enough, were secret- ly exulted over by that unfeeling young woman in tine privacy! of her own apartment, besides being fre- quently the subject of numerous let- ters dispatched to Cbarteris Park. her arms she was a picture of mingled Pride and intense gratification; yet there were times, nevertheless when her eyes resumed their old, restless, unsatisfied expression, and when she would sit before the blazing fire dreaming for an hour together of far- off scenes to the total forgetfulness Ofmgll surrounding objects. That Ladyflwarrenne was happy in her new-found treasure there could be httle doubt. With the little one in CHAPTER VII. Nearly the whole of the stipulated month passed away pleasantly and BWiftly enough, enlivened by daily skir- mishes with Mrs Ruskinâ€"the belliger- entâ€"in which Harriet always came aft victorious, to the ’former’ s intense disgust, until at length she was fin- ally defeated, and Lady Warrenne was looking quite strong and handsome again, While the baby had grown pos- itively beautifulâ€"in fact, the most beautiful baby in all the worldâ€"and knew its mamma perfectly. At least 80 Its mamma said, and of course no- bOdYâ€"not even Mrs. Ruskin, that most formidable personageâ€"was ~ rude en- 0u_g_h to contradict her. to aoout $9,003 a year. has a half ipterest in an 1 at Pasadena, Cal., that supposed to have cost him uwy; nve years ago be '0m San Francisco to Port- because he would not spend had saved. 'l‘nn um“. a.“ consmeration aside, how can selfish as to keep that beau- all to yourself, when you I: would be so proud of him, 4-4.1- ~_, A l896.‘ He had $140, had been saved by He returned to FIVE STORES ring the year that Pacific coast. He Francisco, that ‘a in the ”Very L‘al., at a To his moth- t bottoming went to the has given He has ’ L08 An- there- ,‘ ’3 1‘5 Ql‘ ter me quite aw’ile on dat j Knocker J akeâ€"How’d you it ? Skinner B111. t0? me quite DO you think be What she is worth, Goodness, no! Her Brooks looks like. not yet 36. He (1. California he has hi3 hotel. a valaf 4.: "I shall mine in the Klondike two I years more and then shall quit. I have . had one offer of $75,000 for my Eldor- ado claim, but I want $120,000 for it. What am I going to do then? I shall travel all over the world until I get dead tired of it, and then I shall yâ€"ettle in San Francisco and be a bloOd, as well as one may with so limited an education as mine is. Yes, I shall re- turn to my birthplace quite often. You can’t. imagine how good it seems to get back here. again for a few :days’ visit. 1UL 01 paw and blues and danger.. I bought a claim, No. 41, on Eldorado Creek, in September, 1897, for $22,000 and sold it in January, 1898, for $45,- 000, and got besides about $10,000 in gold from it. “I sent all the gold to the cilsco Mint by the Alaska 0 Company and Went to work for asec- oml year 01 gold mining. It almost killed me, but I cleared more than 4230 pounds of gold from July, 1897, to paid for. a whole 83 n ’lz‘ran- - bllIIaIO to Oakland, Cal., and thereby ; got a ride in a freight car across the r continent. In California I was a dlsh- - washer, window washer, street paver, _ street car driver and stableman. l . D 9 . cold and lonliness. I was '~ City for three months, and I never be- fore knew, so hard or cruel a life. I seriously contemplated suicide. There' er bend and Where I could dig goldmlt I I ;uuxs 1003s UK?- a man. of 45, but is yet 36. He dresses simply. In ifornia he has the best rooms at hotel, a valet and a stylish equip- physician. - square it. 'fore dey ketc‘h’e Spent all d up wit’ u Central tracks and later was watch- 1 man at the New York Central bridge 1 over the Ian. Montezuma marshes and the Seneca iver just east of.- Savan- nah. There were seven of us children and four were older than L We were very poor, lived in a shanty and ate but the commonest, cheapest load. Mother died of typhoid fever when I was 10 years old and father, held the family together, until two years later, ' when we had to get out and earn our own livelihood. I went to Syracuse; and lived with my mother’s sister, Mrs. Flaherty, while I sold newspapers and blacked boots for my living. Then I got a job in a livery stable at Auburn and then I worked on the Soule farm, near Savannah. The late A. T. Soule took me to work for him :‘in the ship- I ing department of his factory in Roch- ester, b-ugt I was too ignorant to read I writing .well, and I made so many I blunders that I R' N AWAY TO PALMY RA. ON THE HE 413. Q PENNI‘LESS HIS HOPE. _ _ '_‘J I â€" vuutu them of the finding of N "C3 V . gold paws. BI [uadqltiltles on a creek known gand I Wit-2 and be. He showed sp-eci- l proaching 88.1 e hlmselfi‘hgd seen Joe E indeed I \ fl) -'\A‘Iw.J _L‘ face is her fortune 0n dat job. married her for uuenngs from hunger, less. I was at Circle” months, and I never be- , ard or cruel a life. 1 ; mplated suicide. There? more to be got and 1‘ rom scurvy. J an came one day overâ€" ! ity in August, 1896. He :9 mine_rs _in Circle Citv i have a coat , -u u. ULCCA nuown lama 1 “.115 IJQSiLiVe the He showed speci- lPrOflChiflg- My 1193” W imself had seen Joe {indeed I was almost in of gold there in men {fortunate-1y a friend of Circle City went acommended the use of ' Very few even 4Pink Pills. I began usin .s, l joined the first 5 1893, and had taken th 1 who went on the ,‘fore I noticed any char re down the Yukon ;that time every dose 0 ,wson. It was cold , blood seemed to thrill gold hungry were fveins, and by the time: attention to that. fthe fifth box everv tra< Indian, showed me fease had vanis v 1 ‘ but h: t in a week (I had fin excellent health. W! t and recorded and g the slightest KUr‘n MT nhfi n square Policemanâ€"Who banged UP that way? _ Irishmanâ€"Main Q’Laffertg’ Policemanâ€"Was there a mass 9 Policemanâ€"I mteém, bod else presen ' IrJirsbmamâ€"Indade there W33 Policemanâ€"Who ? Irishmanrâ€"MJself. bed“L at Uwuc. The wise phy“ E at such times and 1101: let hi to a Wild discussion, which can to nothing between persons of ,un' There IS 3 eQua] mental attainments temptation always to talk “81109,” 95,; 960131157 by those not in the “ shop. The lawyer is asked his op-i ' parlor; the physician is consulted on the street corner. Such advice iSWO usu.all;y just what it costs the person asking it, namely, nothing. N0, Should be called on to give an on “ {01: no remuneration when 511011,an Opinion may have cost not onlytime and money, but when it 1133331”. measure, involve the reputation Of‘he Pierson giving it. It the publEc is to be ins , t all it should certainly be taught no to force any man to “ talk shop, ’ ing, noon and night. er. 1n meroial hgre um: uspamofm 1g 01: was to drlve the busses to a 3 tell ‘the C. A. R. st‘ " . nger, (all kinds of wea 'ircle I-the sudden exU‘ . . .mes of heat 1 r be- .Along 1n the ear . 1}'« spring I w a. 1 idenly attacked with Lho most There gpains in my limbs and body, Ld 1 Inelief in doctors and then u medicines, but -1 Every profession has its petty an- ; noyances, but prol_2al.-ly the medical ' Profession, above all others, fromtha mysteries attached {to the human body is more subjected to foolish and silly questions. A physician may spend j the day, indeed much of the 24 hours. fin seeing cases, and, as a recreation, . he may drOp in socially to see afrien¢ or attend a dinner of some other so Icial attraction, and at once his neigh‘ l bors begin to talk about the “ wonder: [ful human frame," and such thing: land then some brilliant membe-f a!» i the company will ask, Doc-tor, is'toem much sickness in the cstyf’" 3-5 11 11” poor physician was a collector 015“? tistics or knew just what the Wild" ,tion of the city was. Anather Demon , ‘Will call across the table or. room. 1 “ Doctor, do you think 1011811t ‘0 be vaccinated Z” and probabl.v 50?” eo- Pecially scintillating member “111.53! that she does not believe in vaccina- tion, which of course, settles matters at once. _ mm . ,,--. vv ucllCVCI' 11w ld l the slightest symptom of the troubll >r ‘1 I use the pills for it day or so and soon r, feel as well as ever. I feel thatlowe :- {my health to Dr. Williems’ Pink Pill; a {and never lose an opportunity oire- ;commending them to others suffering if f as I was. :8; Dr. \Villiams’ Pink Pills cure by h 3 going to the root of the disease. They d 5 renew and build up the blood, and e I strengthen the nerves, thus driving .' disease from the system. Avoid imi- Itations by insisting that every box 0 . you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper , ibearing the full trade mark, Dr. Wil- ; Eliams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. If I fyour dealer does not keep them they . {will be sent postpaid at 50cems abox, ' for six boxes for $250 by addressing 3 [the Dr. ‘Villiams‘ Medicine Co.,Brock‘ l ville, Ont. They Are the Kane 0!" the Patients!!! Lung-Suffering liovtor Man. After 011“". Currd by Every Do NO DOUBT USELESS QUESTIONS. N‘fidlclnes 9(1. b‘ver since then! 1g hard and frequent a. but have continued 1th. Whenever Ifeel nose. counted. TV thnll throughn}; fhnn T 1..-; 1-. . om of the IIOublo day or so and soon . I feel that Ion 7i1?ia.ms’ fink Pills there an? lamb]. I sought 3 Patent 59; Dom. “‘ yatagfnan at waist, gun in hu'ud am Puemnded round her neck the :n- alg'mat . 0f chieftianship, a large silyvr disk bearing in relief a represemaz 15x1 . Peek patron Saint George. ' = hi8 confllct With the Dragon. Such heroic quahties, however, 1‘0 (91y brought to the surface by excr'uj “9113.1 circumsmnces, for the Virtues o: t?” Greek Women generally are essen- “fifly domestic. The more rem the m Ote the community 21.1151 “To :AA‘ _ ‘ I n dam take L_‘I l - . . ‘ y 8W3 m her su-bm15510n [O the :11)- H1195, was pardoned and became :1 gm 391‘th in the househoxi 0 131109 0f Kodjani. A phOLOgrapi a. ‘L l , at the time ranrnqpms lm!‘ it: wxen at the time represents her 1:: full Klepht costumeâ€"sword,’ ”SH-*3? and. Ya-taghan at waist, gun m‘m'uq a.“‘1,3‘1l’51)etlded round her neck me. :n- food and water to their relatives {'11 the intrenchments, but, as one of wear awn folk-songs records, would 1111:14- seives on occasions, “bravely fight 211:; gladly strive for Freedom.” The Il'flllt: Ofone girl, Marighitza, a native of the ““386 0f Makrinitza, on the hiiis above V010, now Greek territory, was gore eSpecially mentioned for inzrvplâ€" dlty, and when the insurrection Was over she was sent for to Athens to gedpresented to the King and Queen n FETED BY THE INHABITAN'LS. A far more sensational story, how- ?"r. 13 that of a woman named Per- 3, "The Pigeon,” who was an ac» 9131 mbatant in the rebellion. dur- mg “1011 her brother met his death. 0n the. occasion of hostilities this v.0- man Slowed a band of brigands and be- came their leader under the name 1 '. 3118318111, to which her followers mid- â€""- -V-lvv v-" ». a the sgbnquet of Spa no, “,1 :5». ° ardless‘ After pursuing the milâ€" mg 0‘ K189“; for some two years with- (Incl-fl My. One of the surviving heroines of this famous siege, who died in A111- ens some 69 years later, expressed mil her deathbed a wish to be buried in the, pallikar’s dress which she had Worn during the war and had ever since treasured in secret. The Greek {107. Kostas Palamas has made this infidel}: the subject of a long poem, in which he describes how Captain Rhine's daughter donned at her father’s cw.- mand the full White kilt, braided rust, and jacket and felt capote, and stood in the breach at his side, pistol in hand, while he directed his cannon 31 the enemY- Her father slain, She. had 95-- caped inone of the many sorties mm. the assistance of. a comrade, who ai- terward became her husband. Nor was the outbreak on Pelion in 1878 without its heroines. The daugh- tors and sisters 01' the patriOLs my. only braved the whizzing rifle bully.» find. the risk of capture to earn 8 aw-"W- , , - q of the interior. ~ The heroism Which the long struggle im- independence called forth in me Greek men was shared by their mogu- as their sisters, and their daughters, The domestic history of these troubled times is faithfully and graphically re- corded in the folk songs of this suffer- ins people, and to these spontaneous outburst of untutored feeling we midst turn to hear how. the wife of the lie- pill: ghieftain waited with great in;- patience for news of 'him, or lamented him as dead; was carried cap-“give 1:) the harem of the Turkish General, or, rather than submit to such a fine, precipitated herself and her child UX‘cI‘ some precipice. During the prom-am- edczcge ol Missulonghi the women an ,1 girls aided the defenders by bringing materials of every. descripiion 10510;; breaches made by the Turkish uni-- rough it Wil 50' Now The m John A l’flj andf 01‘ t ling: L.