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DURHAM, ONT He told me of his plans and spoke of his situation. “You know the reason for my going,” he said, “even if I have never spoken of it. I am not much of :1 Joseph and am very little given to running away from a beautiful wom- an, but in this case I am fleeing from death itself. And to think what a heaven it would be! You are right, Caskodenâ€"no man can withstand the light of that girl's smile. I am unable to tell how I feel toward her. It some- times seems that I cannot live another hour without seeing her. Yet. thank God, I have reason enough left to know that every sight of her only adds to an already incurable malady. \Vhat will it be when she is the wife of the king of France? Does it not look as if Wild life in New Spain is my only chance?” Brandon, tired of this everlasting watchfulness to keep himself out of temptation and dreading at any "10- ment that lapse from strength which is apt to come to the strongest of us, had resolved to quit his place at court and go to New Spain at once. He had learned upon inquiry that a ship would sail from Bristol in about twenty days and another six weeks later. So he chose the former and was making his arrangements to leave as soon as pos- sible. I assontod as wo joined hands, and our 0va won.- moist as I told him how I should miss him more than any one else in all the earthâ€"excepting Jane, in mental reservation. The real causé of Brandon’s manner had never occurred to Mary. Although she knew her beauty and power, as she I told June what Brandon was about to dc). knowing full well she would tell Mary, which she did at once. Poor Mary! The sighs began to come now. and such small vestiges of her ill humor toward Brandon as still re- mained were frightened otf in a hurry by the fear that she had seen the last of him. She had not before fully known that she loved him. She knew he was the most delightful companion she had ever met and that there was an ex- hilaration about his presence which al- most intoxicated her and made life an ecstasy, yet she did not know it was love. It needed but the thought that she was about to lose him to make her know hei- malady and meet it race to face. So Mary was angry this time-angry in'earnest-and Jane felt the irritable palm more than once. I, too, came in for my share of her ill temper, as most certainly would Brandon had he al- lowed himself to come within reach of her tongue, which he was careful not to do. She did not tell Jane the cause of her vexation. but only said she ver- ily hated Brandon. and that, of course. was the key to the whole situation. After a fortnight this ill humor he- gan to soften in the glowing warmth of her heart. which was striving to reassert itself, and the desire to see Brandon began to get the better of her sense of injury. could not help but know itâ€"not as a matter of vanity, but as a matter of factâ€"yet love had blinded her where Brandon was concerned. and that knowledge failed to give her light as to his motives, however brightly it might illnmine the conduct of other men to- ward whom she was indifferent. Upon the evening when Mary learn- ed all this she went into her chamber very early and closed the door. No one interrupted her until Jane went' in to robe her for the night and to retire. She then found that Mary had robed herself and was lying in bed with her head covered, apparently asleep. Jane quietly prepared to retire and lay down in her own bed. The girls nai- Iy shared one couch. but during ary’ s ill temper she had forced Jane to sleep alone. There was but one thing leftâ€"Ne w Spain. After a short silence Jane heard a sob from the other bed, then another and another. “Mary, are you weeping?” she asked. “Yes.” ' “What is the matter, dear?" “Nothing," with a sigh. “Do you wish me to come to your _ Ffes, I do.” 80 Jane went over and lay beside Mary, who gently put her nuns about her neck. “When 11).! he leave?" animated After a short silence Mary continued 'halt banteringly: “Answer me, sir! I will have no more of this. You shall treat me at least with the courtesy you would show a bourgeolse girl." “I am not intending to say one word about your treatment of me that day over in the forest. although it. was Very bad and you have acted almnxinahly ever since. Now is not that kind in me?” And she softly laughed as she peeped up at the poor fellow from be» ueath those sweeping lashes, with the premeditated purpose of tantalizing him, I suppose. She was beginning to know her power over him, and it was never greater than at this moment. Her beauty had its sweetest quality, for the princess was sunk and the woman was dominant, with flushed face and flashing eyes that caught a double luster from the glowing love that made her heart heat so fast. of m run-h 1min and effort? War: tf:2= 13'." :‘1 ‘iwvl' 1:) 2!" [IN prnyvr. ”14w! nw 1‘3’. into twnptution?" Ila hm] (Iniu‘ 1.1-: mm. fnr hp hm] dnm- nil 1m (-2: a: ”WM 0:". haul not 'hvlpml him. :‘Iuw "-~z .' was tclnpiutjuu thrust upon lmu wire; least exported and when tlw way was so narrow ho muld not vsmpv. but must meet it fat-(- to fawn. Mary soon rz-mvvx-ed her self posses- sionâ€"women am.- ln-ttvr skillml in this art than mon~â€"mu1 mutimu-d: With the mood that was upon her I wonder Brandon maintained hh self restraint even for a moment. He felt that his only hope lay in silence, so he sat beside her and said nothing. He told me long afterward that while sit- ting there in the intervals between her speech, the oddest, wildest thoughts ran through his brain. He wondered how he could escape. He thought of the window and that possibly he might break away through it, and then he thought of feigning illness, and a bun- dred other absurd schemes, but they all came to nothing, and he sat there to let events take their own course, as they seemed determined to do in spiQ: of him. Mary', 311ny confessing all by her ques- “I do - not know,” responded Jane, “but he will see you before he goes." “Do you believe he will?" “I know it." And with this console tion Mary softly wept herself to sleep. tion. “Master Brandon, you need not go. I will not hurt you. Besides, it this place is not large enough for us both, I will go. I would not disturb you.” She spoke with a trmuulous voice and .1 quick. uneasy glance, and started to move backward out of the alcove. “That's it. I don't know, but I want to know. and I want you to sit here be- side 1110 and tell me. I am gain: to he rmoucilod with you despite the way you trmtml nut.- when last wv mvt. l mu going to be friouds with you whvth- vr you will or not. Now what do you say to that, sir?" She spoke with :1 tiuttvriug little laugh of uneasy non- nssumuw. whivh shnwml that lit'!‘ hvut't was nut umn‘iy so «‘miiiclult Ilm' so imici as her Words Would make Im- “UV“. I'm)? Brandon. "51:9. 15' so l'a‘::t!_\'. 3::th [withing "to say to that." but suit He had not been there long when in Game Mary. I cannot say whether she knew Brandon was there or not, but she was there and he was there, which is the only thing to the point, and, find- ing him. she stepped into the alcove be- fore he was aware of her presence. in Late one day Brandon had gone over to this quiet retreat and, having select- ed a volume, took his place in a seclud- ed little alcove half hidden in arms draperies. There was a cushioned seat along the wall and a small diamond shaped Window to furnish light. Brandon was on his feet in an in- stant and with a low bow was back- ing himself out most deferentially to leave her in sole possession, it she wished to rest. ‘Lady Mary, how can you speak so? You knowâ€"you must knowâ€"oh. I beg you”â€" But she interrupted him by taking his arm and drawing him to a seat beside her on the cushion. She could have drawn down the Colossus of Rhodes with the look she gave Bran- don, so full was it of command, en- treaty and promise. After this, for a few days, Mary was quiet enough. Her irritable mood had vanished, but Jane could see that she was on the lookout for some one all the time, although she made the most pathetic little efforts to conceal her watchfulness. At last a meeting came about in this way: Next to the king’s bedchamber was a luxuriously furnished little apartment with a well selected library. Here Brandon and I often went after- noons to read, as we were sure to be undisturbed. w i :40 “Oh, that you were only a burgher’a daughter!” “Yes, I know all that; but I am not. It can’t be helped, and you shall an- Iwer me." - ‘Theie is no answer, dear lady. I beg yonâ€"oh, do you not see"â€" “Yes. yes; but answer my question. Am I not kind, more than you de- me?" . , “indeed, yes; a thousand times. You have alwayl been so kind. so gracious tad no 'cqndepcending to math“ Ian ms silence. :his the sum total of an wrmilmtions mmlo :It fit” his: vs! “I am uf' aid you had better be bad. I give you fair warning,” said Brandon I huskii). He felt her eves upon him all the time, and his strength and good ? resolves \\ ere oozin" out like wine from - an ill eoopered 118k. After r11 short Si. 1 ie11< e Marv continued, regardless of the 1 warning: only that you, thank you. thank you,” answered Brandon almost shyly, not daring to lift his eyes to hers. Mary saw the manner quickly enough â€"what woman ever missed it. much less so keen eyed a girl as sheâ€"and it gave her confidence and brought back the easy banter (I her old time man- ner. used to have so much? Kind? Have I always been so? How about the first time I met you? Was i kind then? And as to condescension, don’tâ€"don’t use that word between us.” â€"â€"v vâ€"â€" v “No," returned Brannon, who in his turn was recovering himself; “no, I can't say that you were very kind at first. How you did fly out at me and surprise me! It was so unexpected it almost took me or; my feet.” And they both laughed in remembering the scene of their first meeting. “No, I can’t say your kindness showed itself very strongly in that first interview, but it was there nevertheless, and when Lady Jane led me back your real na- ture asserted itself, as it always does, and you were kind to naeâ€"kind as only you can be." . That was getting very near to the sentimentalâ€"dangerously near, he thought, and he said to himself, “If this does not end quickly, I shall have to escape.” "vvuy, 1w L131us uuw, uuonunvu Mary, with a distracting little pout. “Don’t you know genuine out and out goodness when you see it? I’m doing my very best now. Can’t you tell?” She was anxious to know, but asked the question partly to turn the conver- sation, which was fast becoming peril- ous. As a girl she loved l‘. 'andon and knew it only too well, but she knew also that she was a princess, standing next to the throne of the greatest king,- dom on earthâ€"4n fact. at that time the heir apparent, Ilenry having no chil- dren. for the people would not have the Scotch king's imp. and the possibility of such a thing as a union with 119an- don had never entered her head, how- ever passionate her feelings toward him. it was not to he thought of be- lWM‘li people so far apart as they. lirandon answered her question: “I do mt know about going. I think I -2..:‘!. l have volunteered with a ship 'T ;:i sails in two or three weeks from Miami. and I suppose I shall go." “Oh. no! Do you really mean it?" it gave her a pang to hear that he was aetually going. and her inVe pulsed higher. but she also felt a sense of re- lief. somewhat as a enllseiemiulls honsehrealu-r might feel upon tinding the door securely loeked against him. It would take away a tempini‘on whieh she can not resist and yea dared not yiel to nine-h longer. “You are easily satisfied if you can that good,” laughingly returned Mary. “I can be ever so much better than that it I try.” “Let me see ybu try,” said Brandon. “Why, I’m trying now," answered “I can come back at you with your own words,” responded Brandon. “You don't know when 1 am kind to you. I should be kinder. to myself at least. were I to leave you and take myself to the other side of the world." “Oh, that is one thing I wanted to ask you about. June tells me you are going to New Spain.” “No, I won’t! I will not be bad even to please you. I have determined not to be bad, and I will notâ€"not even to be good. This.” placing her hand over her heart, “is just full of ‘good’ today." And her lips parted as she laughed at her own pleasantly. “But the position is reversed with us. At first I vas unkind to you. and you were kind to me, but now I am kind to you, and you are unkind to ma.” z‘Yes; I think I recognize it, butâ€"but "be bad again.” ”I think there is no doubt that i mean it.” replied Brandon. "1 should like to remain in England until 1 var save money enough out of the king-K allowance to pay the debt against my father's estate. so that I may be able to go away and feel that my brother and sisters are secure in their home-â€" my brother is not strongâ€"hut 1 know it is better for me to go now. and i hope to tind the money out there. I could have paid it with what I lost to Judson before I discovered him cheat. ing.” This was the, first time he had ever alluded to the duel. and the thought of it, in Mary’s mind, added a faint touch of fear to her feeling to- ward him. She looked up with a light in her eyes and asked: “What is the debt? 110w much? Let me give you the money. I have so much more than I need. Let me pay it. Please tell me how much it la, and I will hand it to you. You oancome tomroomandntlhbrl “Heaven help me!” he cued. “There is no fault in any one. Nel- ther could I help n." she murmured. “No. no: it is not that there is any fault in the ordinary sense. It is like. suicide or any other great self inflicted injury with me. I am (llll‘erent from other men. I shall never recover." “I know only too “1-“ that you are different from otlm‘ uwn. andâ€"and I. too, am different from other wmnon. Am I not?" “Ah, (lii‘forvnt! There is no othor woman in all this wide. long world." And thvy \\'t‘i‘t‘ in each otht-r's arms gain. Sia- turned her shonidvr to him and rostod with the support of his arms about her. Her eyes woro that down in silonce. and she was evident- ly thinkin ' as she toyed with the have of his douhlvt. Brandon knew her varying exprossions so well that he saw there was something wanting. so he asked: “Ah, yes! You know it. But-«m!â€" do you wish to hear me say it?" will send If to you. Now tell me that I may. Quickly!” And she was alive with enthusiastic interest “There, now. you are kind again. as kind as even you can be. Be sure. I thank you, though I say it only once.” and he looked into her eyes with a gaze she could not stand even {or an instant. This was growing dangerous again; so. catching himself. he turned the conversation back into the banter- flushed cheeks unhoode and “110110012- “Not 1," she responded with em- phasis on the pronoun. She shook her head slowly. “No." “What is it? I cannot guess.” “Did you not like to hear me say tint â€"that Iâ€"loved you ':” ‘tn The head nodded rapidly two or three times, “Yes.” And the black curving lashes were lifted for a fleet- ing. luminous instant. “It is surely not necessary. You have known it so long already, but I am only too glad to say it. I love you." “No.” said Mary. with a despairing shake of the head. as the tears began to nomusin. “No. never!” And tall- “Now that I have said it, what In my reward?" he asked, and the fair (ace came up, red and rosy. with “rewards,” any one of which was worth a king's ransom. “But this in worse than. insanity,” cried Brandon as he almost pushed her from him. “We can never belong to each other. Never!" She nestled closer to him and hid her face on his breast. to say?" She nodded her head slowly, “Yes.” “What is it? Tell me. and I will on :rnndon held the girl for ll moment or two, then fell upon his knees and buried his face in her lap. “Ileaven help me!" he cried. She pushed the hair back from his forehead with her hand and as slxe fondled the curls leaned over him and softly whispered: “Heaven help us both. for I love you I' Mary followed him nearly to the door of the room. but when he turned he saw that she had stopped and was Handing with her hands over her fan-o. as if in tears. Ile wont hack to her and said. “I tried to avoid this. and if you had lwlpod me it would novor"â€" :m Lo rouwmborod how he had always do- Spisod Adam for throwing the Name upon Eve, no matter how muvh she may have deserved it, and continual}: “No. I do not mean that. It is all my fault. I should have goxw away long ago. I could not help it. I triad. oh. I tried!" i 110 sprang to his foot. “Don’t! Don’t. I pray you.” he said wildly. and “mum ran from her. Mary’s oyvs were bent upon the floor. and tears were falling our hov- “Ah. you want to pay the debt that I may have no excuse to remain? Is that it? Perhaps you are not so kind after all." “Please don’t; please! Not this time! Ah, ha ve mercy, Charlâ€" Well! There! 'l‘herei Mary mother, forgive me!” Then her woman spirit fell before the whirlwind of his passion. and she was on his breast, with her white. arms around his neck. paying the same trih- nte to the little hlind god that he would have exaeted from the lowliest maiden of the land. “No, no; you know better. But let me pay the debt. How much is it. and to whom is it owl: 3‘? Tell me at once, I command you.” "No, no, Lady 1\' :17; 1 cannot.” “Please do. 1 ing, it I cannot com- mand. Now I know you will. You would not make no beg twice for any- thing?” She drev. closer to him as she spoke and put her hand coaxingly upon his arm. With an irresistible impulse he took the hand in his and lifted it to his lips in a lingering caress that could not be mistaken. It was all so quick and so full of tire and meaning that Mary took fright, and the princess tor the moment came uppermost. “Master Brandon!” she exclaimed sharply and drew away her hand. Bran. don dropped the hand and moved over on the seat. He did not speak. but turned his face from her and looked out of the window toward the river. Thus they sat in silence, Brandon’s hand resting listlessly upon the cush- ion between them. Mary saw the elo- quent movement away from her and his speaking attitude with averted face; then the princess went into eclipse. and the imperial woman was ascendant once more. She looked at him for a brief space with softening eyes and, lifting her hand, put it back in his. say- mg: “There it is againâ€"if you want it." Want it? Ah, this was too much! The. hand would not satisfy now. It must be all, all! And he caught her to his arms with a violence that fright- ened her. :‘13 there something you wish to “Then it is souwthing you wish me "9 now but night. ' He sought refuge in his own spsrto meats and wildly walked the door. ex- claiming: “Fool. tool that I am to is! up this store of agony to last me all my days! Why did I ever come to this court? God pity meâ€"pity me!" And he fell upon his knees at the bed. bury- ing his face in his arms. his mighty, man’s frame shaking as with s palsy. That same night Brandon told no how he had committed suicide. as ho put it. and of his intention to go to Bristol and there await the sailing ot the ship and perhaps find a partial res- urrection in New Spain. Unfortunately, he could not start for Bristol at once. as he had given son). challenges for a tournament at Rich- mond and could furnish no good excuse to withdraw them. lint he would not leave his room or again see “that girl .who was driving him mad.” It was better. he thought. and wise- 1:. too. that there be no leave taking. but that he should go without meeting her. “It I see her again.” he said, “I shall have to kill some one. even it it is only nlght. and when morning came ho arose looking haggard enough. but with hi! determination to run away and .00 Mary no more stronger than ever up- But Providence or fate or some one ordered it dlflerently. and there wu plenty of trouble ahead. Figures of the moon as religious em- blems can be traced to a very high an. thulty. The ancient Egyptians had two moon godsâ€"Khons or Khonsu and Tel or Thoth. The latter Were the moon on his head, either as a full moon or as a crescent. The divine honors paid to the cat on the. banks of the Nile were probably due to its sup- posed eonnection with the mean. as shown by the changeable pupil of the feline eyes. In Greece both l'hu-hus and Phfl,‘b0 were moon gods. and by Isis the Greeks understood the same planet. The Romans had many gods. With them Luna was the. moon. the daughter of Hyperion and sister of the sun. According to Livy. the temple of Luna stood on the Avertine. Growth of ('lIh-u. During the uim-twmh century Lon. don grow from n my of 300.000 people to one of BIAMJMJ-thut is. increased elgbtfold. ' New York incrvased from ”.000 to 3.500.000â€"-noarly sixtyfold. The. ancient Goths. Germans and Finns were all "1001] worshiwrs. and in ancient Britain the moon occupied a high position in the celestial hier- archy of the Druids. who were. always reprvswnted as hearing (-resvents in their hands. It is possible. too. that Andraste. the goddess to whom Beadi- eea appealed with outstretched hands. was the moon. [ti-ulna l'hcno:u~...-.hern. In Russia no photographer can prac- tice his art without a license. Sea-on o! Mllrf‘fl‘l'l In China. The Chinese believe there is a season for everything. and in accordance with this belief they think the opening yea; -â€"the season 'whon the pouch petal bursts from the cauxâ€"ls the most aun- plcious season for forming matrimonial finances. “Well. no; mt, unless it dawn and bmrowu money.” â€"910VOM 4’” Dealer. . Joktn' Friend. [I 0!!! Days. In a romantic and picturesque old hall in Derhyshire. England. is one of those curious relics of bygone timel which carry the mind hack to the hab- its and customs of our great-great- grandt’athers. A handeut‘t‘ looks I strange thing to be fixed to the screen of the. banqueting hall of a harenlal mansion, but one is there. When the banquet had advanced toward its [49- nith. if any gentleman among the guests refused to drink the full quano tity that was deemed the proper thing at that time he was merrily carried to the oak screen and plaeetl with his arm npraised and St‘t'lll‘f‘d and locked tn that position by the iron ring. [In sleeve. then wide open. uttered a tempt; tug receptacle for the wine which he had refused to drink. and the content! of the goblet. with as much more as the roisterers thought tit. were poured down the unlueky victim's arm. and woe he to him if he did not take the Joke in the spirit in which it was giv- Poverty Itself lo Duct-ace. “At the same time. you.do not con- tend that povegty u a diagram." 'l‘oo l’lelwl-n a high. The. pains of living a (iip'tzitnry tn ll anvivnt country with a tradition o! splendor is illt'<tt':ttwl by this anecdote from India. It is related that the Vice- t'oy's vyv iig‘htc-«i one day upon a dish Lit \\'hi('h he gnzmi for a moment with inervduiity. “What is this?" he de- manded at last. A trembling retainer gasped that it was !‘it‘t‘ pudding. No less an pvrsonnm- thnn the vim-r0)": eon- sot't haul ordered the httmhi.1 pudding which eminent statesmen may he wen eating: at their einbs with nndiaguisml enjoynwnt any day of the parliamen- tary session. But the viceroy frowned. “Take it away.” he said. “Never let me see such a thing again." This is how the orient diti‘ers from the occi- dent. Rice pudding might have ruined the dignity of the vice regal table in native opinion. Moon War-ship A-onu Many Peoples. I heard him tossing in his bed 0.1! [70 In: comm.)