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: POLLING UP AND PADDLING DOW
_BY SYDNEY ORAT,
or all tho similes thet poets zealous
ke 8 river oF a rapid stream.
At times thelr quaint concelts are rather trying
end
‘To more folks, who don't preter
‘To be on fancy's wing forever flying,
But bere is one not bard to comprehend,
For everybody know:
Tite often taken; and tow whl wt le ruubeams dock
A smiling surface, strange aud hidden forces
Not seldom bring its human fretght to
How we must mind the shallow and the edd:
Pull hard and lor
og against the rushing ti
For if our life’s a river running fh
Through shades
Of courao-_to rou
jetaphor completel
‘Weare vorne.
tho boatmen on that iver
And Seat
restful days some tran
roteed ea 7 be saidto put it briefiy-—
‘Wore always polling up or paddling down,
wreck,
of night and cheortul beams of mora,
the
men, too, who stem the torrent chiefly,
quill journeys crow
Now, Padaliog dow donn no doubt a wondrous plessan,
ger Ii
ony sometimes, con tented et witl ne present,
‘We're rather apt in davger's war to drift,
£o you who pull up stream, and dail
Against the wi
wrth the current calmly floats aloog-
Some glide on life’s broad stream through
scenes of
Some front the wave whose lng waters frown,
wely do our dut;
Butall of us oan bre
‘Whet up or paddling dows,
we're polling
te
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the ye
‘Gcorgo anf, im tne onte of ing blbear
ar 15% by
lora Garlands Courtship
THE GREAT CHAMPION
BICYCLE RACE FOR A YOUNG GIRL'S HEART
‘TRE LATEST AND MOST THRILLING STORY PRES!
FROM
‘HH PEN OF THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE AUTHOR,
LAURA JEAN LIBBEY,
Gio ete ete.
‘This story was commenced tn No. 1250 of THe New Yorr
"Rinaaibe “Courant
it Newsdealers.
CHAPTER XXY.
‘Back nuinbers cau be obtained
7 (amie stone wie nov BE FUALISHRD IN woo roma)” | K
‘THM MYSTERY CONCERNING SEYFORTH WYLDE EX-
PLAINED,
go back, dear reader, te, the fatal night o @
Ler us
which the ‘terrible arrel took
forth Wyldo and “adtoranate Clkrenee
‘eeling himself get iting ¢ the worst ‘of the
errand Hato ing himself no mated for Dat
had scarcely fled a rod from the spot
loft Dana ere he etiimbled actoes the body o
lying prone upon his face in the dust by
side.
For an instant Wyllo started, and. he
about to hurry on
him—a oui so diat
‘breath a
vencount-
na, Wylde
retreat, leaving his rival
where he
of aman
the road-
was just
hen a strange idea cama to
ybolical that it almost took his
ite saw by the din, uncertain moontight that the
man’s face Was eaten out of all human semblance,
though by the
He was slondor el ke meet jase about
is height, with
ok uso ts dead man as cans of ia ing
a terrible revenge upon bi
It could be done so Fre nood bat change
clothes with this other, place his own rin
stiffened, liteless Singer, place, his bat bes
Zon the
beside bim,
morrow tlie whole country would be
Finging with the story ot ars te 'g murder, and
Clarence Dana would, of course,
twas a plot worthy of @
cused of it.
¢ hurriedly
ot
get about to execute it; and inva very short space
ime rytate ae {nas complete, even to
placing p Wate papers iu the mans breast-pocket.
“Now,” cried Wyide, exuitantie, “we shall coe
who comes out best in Woolas afte, He laughs
best who laughs last, Jas rely a
pillawing for trl de my it securely from
‘of the world until then~ay, even
Flxay ‘anti after Dana is put safely out of the
‘will come forth, bat it will be too late to call
=e bas the death to Which they sentenced
made the one ne mistake of bie Lite by as
bimseit that he must be
iid not fall in love with any 0 ‘ono ee ‘during
°Ta the. stranger's garb and slouch hat
hia may bastly toward the rallay ‘atl,
just in time to catch an out
on
jade
aud was
To boarded it, caring littie in which direction be
ud by da}
Tot iia Josten
ext morning
here as anywhere else,” he muttered to
bimsclt witha gem fgb.
He was not Tong in ev completely metamorphosing
api
10 one whio met. th
Eppecte ‘man ‘with’ the lines ‘on ‘his
streaks of
this was the stim, dapper, bandsom
Wylde of yesterday.
ig delight knew no bounds when he
orelaerly
face, the
ray in his hair and in his long, flowin,
beard, would ever have dreamed for a moment that
per,
¢ Seyforth
read
the
paper the next morning, finding fn it a detailed ae-
count of “the atrocious murder of
Soyforth
Wylde,” as itstated in heavy headlines, and the
t Dana, who prot
tested 01
Bisentire Intieene.
But his exultat
farther down, to his intense anger he learns
terrible railway accident and the
over and over again
was short-lived, for as he read
rmed of the
@ ground le white teeth ina veforyeny on Tae,
and psa ions loud and deep broke
from his
ie devil is in league with him,” he eried—he
might etter have said the angels of Goa ot aot of
course, they will
very long.”
find him soon, He can
eth rhes doy after day passed, and there was no
ign of his ca
2.
given
Shou discover the whereabouts
and reveal it to the public.
At thie state of the Affae, {9 vending
accident his ¢}
Touran advertisement i fhe Hartford Cox
the effect that Mr, Garland wi
ure, Wylde began to grow forious
to the party who
its of Clarence Daua
over the
ye rested
nt, to
gar-
plicants must apply before noon
den
the ‘allowing da
WElde laughed a ltt, low, mithless Jaugh.
‘be beginning’to be kind to me at
ast es imuttoreh. ST have an idea, tbat I could
» that position, and if 80, I could be near little
' een {he next morning found Wylde back again
a
Head a ached the main, street ere &
nem bud slanting phase presented i
He found himself the ey tonite of all eyes,
When be left the train be tepped into ones |
16 Fer
posite hit 10 bad been his fellow-
passenger for some siitie Tetanee, and who never
took his eyes from his face during Bale the journey:
much to his intense annoyance,
a tha atreotons also, and took a seat Oppo"
site him.
jay I ask what you mean by this unwarrant-
able aa Wylde asked, unable to control his
pardon, sir,” retorted
er.
"IL beg youl the
“but Pye got Hacer Jn’ the way of peering tke fa
; there is @ mur-
the faces You kuow,
pie emmy
are eoflering 8 a big re’
ten n’t get over the conviction t oat a
toland Ran, T can see that your bulld doesn’t tally
With the description. Tan right sorry that T a
ofall
oe tnc8 brightened considerably.
Bo annoyance, I assure you. Search for
a night. Leave po sone uaturges.
it any more than I ao" re
tamed the other, vfetvently.
And with these jefe, words Wylde le reached over and
shook the other's hand so fervently that the man
was amazi
dey cba tted pleasantly forsome time, and then,
uring an abrupt bend in the road, Wylde found
biel oes oly T
;ood-bye,” he etal Tising bastiy, and making
bis way from the
Tho man foked atter him euriousiy.
” he muttered. “And how
quick, Mand brisk-like be talked for so oid » man:
ig going directly to Yowers. Som: i
shoulan’ wonder a Par Moto It he wea related to
them in some way; he took suck an unusual interest
in the e
Meanwhile, the subject of his thoughts made his
‘way hasty a to the house.
Mr, Garlan: ra at home, and glanced up tro
bis moruing paper as the gate opened and a t a
Rdvanced up the walk to the ‘where
“Mr. Garland, I presume,” said the a iting
hig bat and, baiting abruptly before him.
an bowed, and the man went op,
nerliauoglys
“1 saw your advertisement for a gardener in
yesterday's paper, sir, and I came to apply for the
Position, sincerely trusting that I may not be too
You sare ong among many who have called,"
anewored Mr. Garlands “but T have
selected any one. Do you thoroughly gaterstsod
‘dening in all its branchest” and he looked sus-
cious at the stranger's rathor siall and delicate
ce am wonsidered quite fair,”” was the very re-
nd, with a
ta
pues vou oa ahoutd uot bave applied, i
wn.
unless you considered, youreelt excellent. I a
Very particular, both as regards the ‘and the
work to be done.”
“T feel sure that I can suit you, sir,"” was the re-
sure
ly he ively uttered.
Pe AWhat isvour pate!
ent’s hesitatio
“Pal, T'showid say that a bind ought to get
ould say that a bird on;
‘tolerabl en flowers. eGR you
gong, isleraly well, wi
ft retorenoet ‘ has
LNG one, unfortunately, la this country,
a. just roby Eogiand.”
surely you must have brought recommen-
dations with you from your last employer over
he man ‘hung his head.
teat mlaht as enc, bold Lenongh to tell you the
over two days, but to my cost i
mistake, fir that uve re got to
lvipg, and you person I have applied
The man's apparently straight, simple story
amused Mr. G
He had always Pride himself npon being a
alent judge of buman nature, but for one in bis
ite ho got thoroughly taken in when he eogaged
the clever
‘hind hed sald thet money was not so much an
object as a good home; in fact, he bad not even in-
auired the wages offered f
set to work at oes a ‘Mfr, Gariana
was watching bima from the brary window it oc-
carted to him that the man Worked rather elumeil
at gardening, and that he uit the task « allotted
to him ratuer early to go down to rvants?
a
‘The new-comer created quite a flutter of excite-
ment among the maids, and they discussed the
now aequlstion to the Lousebold with much gusto,
as mald-sorvants always mil.
RS be sure be! na 3 ‘ie old,”
there's something 1m that
said Lotty, * but
ae rem iuds one of of
that comes 168 to the
tie gona Tasked hita tf he'd Ike me to show him
ilere to find, the vale and the spade, and such
like, he said, ‘Pardon me.’ That's what. ail the
eo’ outs say when. they don't happen to catch
just what is sald to them. fed my ques-
dion, and be replica, ST ieould be very pleased. if
you would suow me where the gardening utensils
‘Pointed them oat, and hosaid, “Thanks? Now
1 tell'yony iheto n't one enrdoner ie thousaied
that would be as polite to one of the maids as
though she were a young lady of the house.
CHAPTER XXVI. .
“WHY COULDN'T We LIKE ME!’ THOUGHT LOTTY,
LOOKING THOUGHTPULLY INTO THE MIRROR
- THAT REFLECTED HER PRETTY FACE.
* as for Soy forth Wylde, he could bardly bide his
time to speak of Flora to the servants in a round
About war, for to bly great annoyance he had ot
Seen ber daring all the Tong hours of thee afeerns
and day's work which Sey:
‘Wylde ad ever performed tn all the years of
is lazy | indolent life,
His hands were Dlistored in handling the heavy
spade no hoe, and the heat of the sun, under
‘ruich he had stood the greater portion of ihe day,
he found to be quite intolerabie,
to goodness that the sitwatlon of but-
jr teen open to him instead of gardener.
was resting, thinking Gtacontentaly of of
aise a eg crap youDE ‘oleg ered out to hin:
ing tired over your job,
hen you've Doe ha i Bat a few nous 95 yett
That Wil Rover dot” and a merty laugh, accom
Papied the words,
as we must call bim, looked in the direction
wwiteneo the voloe, ca eaw Lotty sitting om
wish zo ‘would allow me to help you,” be
said. “IPs a pity to see such slender little bands
lo so much wor
Lotty laughed, ‘and thfow back her sellow braids,
wish every 01 fas considerate of me as
you are, Mr. Bird,” ae
“! Every one ought to be,” he murmured.
“Din afratd you are one of those cajoling fatter.
e ia
“IN @ Tam not,” he insisted.
arebiy.
in my honor,
“Tf Jou are 90 eorry for mo, why don’t you pitel
in and help,” eried Lotty,
«J will on one coDiltion,” he replied.
“ Name it,” crfed the gir, s
“No, indeed sad La .
simpleton as that. roung girl
nee ao added, with 8 great rosy blush; © who
ino beforehand to & young geot, and
“Won't
ess waat | rw
we am not good ak guessing,” he said,
1 me?””
hy, he actualy declared that she must marry
im, because she bad promised that she ‘would do
whatever he ask hed tat w
“But I am not goi
antago," be, dela
ae > take euch-an unfelr ad-
laughingly, « When I pro-
rop down on one
7 ‘fo ts too beary comedians
do ‘io these 0 onenight siand shows. Tthink I could
do it to caro catiefoetion,: But to get back
ee the subject under discussion, “i'l shell the pease
if youl do the talking. Tait 8 go?”
‘hat depends ngs what you want me to talk
al
pose feamdlo faction,
ta
etal young ladies:
er aS ie atd Lotty; 50 the new gantencr is a
highctver, aud wants Bot auch gam a the young
ladies of the yw, if that
n't cool, iperinete a and herlitiie etrovied nose
Went up bigh in, the eit, and there was a decidedly
ert curl of her ye, ted lips,
‘You mistake i mew you dow he declared,
harstodl
uit to as:
pire to tadies sould when
so many other p' ree iSabous" ”Jeokg ito hee
face with bis ‘eine Wek much as to say
that bated With Her to think of any
Oe else Sou know 4s only natural for ane to
wane. to koow the ‘ud t people one is living
hat’s, $0, admit Totty. “cWell, there's
Mr. Tad Mee G it. Garland’s two
ghtere— Miso > Siete fsabel—by a for-
‘iss
il thew there te lee Flore
Jandy he's eae Gatlane's duvgl thter by his first w wife,
n° seo only two of them about for @ tine,
orstiss Flora is quite i.”
fated. the new gardener, with a great
Whee how long! bas oe been fllf"
ie tod she was, brought
chet
Bae gina peut Tome in 1a
WEi Me or ag—fallen, and n¢
cate ¢ of her swooning away?” be
ask low
Haven't soa. ‘esta the story?” asked Lotty, in
amazement, “ Why, I thought there wasn’t a chick
of ghild for males found but knew {t by heart.”
heard of it," he said. ‘Tell me about
's dreadfully uncanny story Still, I dov’t
mind ‘elliog you about it, f you want to hear it 0
badly. Miss Flora Garland—that is, the one that’s
soil “hed s lover 9 right handsome fellow, by the
name of tM.
it 80
other young man called to see the Courtney
They : 1°
Flora Garland’a lover was found
‘been foully nd lef
then it all care Of corse, the young
man who left this bonse with bim was arrested for
; but rangest part of all is, that
e during a railway
accident,”
i: What does Mise Flora sey in regard to the
«Why, sho stontly deciares thai Mr. Dans—that
Js the young man aecused-never did it. That she
would’ ji Bon _ihat an angel tro
Tetven “hed “somnttued ps erate‘ the one ao-
cused.”
te worrying a gree J al moro aver the young
man Who is ice than about b
murdered lover.
“ What—what are you's:
as the other routtered,
unger bis | breath.
adie 20 remake Go on, Tell me what
else. the opie
SC hod wey thas she te tery much ta love with
Mr, Dau; nod a young gent who was
archery tournament when oe
ishos everybody by saving fet at be was, Proposing
marriage, to her at the very moment he was ar-
"This young man stood just the other side
of the bushes from thet, where he could hear all
feithont belng sce
That wher did the eel say when he proposed
to het?” asked Wylde, in'a low, busky voice.
“ {TE you had only come tome and told me thie &
W geo bu » .
lat Why elery eae fer yn saying that Miss
ings” exclaimed Lot
mething unintelligible
>was what Miss Flora answered,”?
he ide hai sprong from his seat, elinching his
hands sexettedly together,
on!” be cried, as Lotty hesitated at
Miss Flora was 80 {ll she was
he eke
tol
Yes: e will be w OF
said that she” igh uit ae ite atierneon No
the window—she likes to
asked,
e eaves,” said
trae chatted away for some, moments longer.
Thon 1 suddenly oneneted to her that er cn-
Panion we 1g HO attention Whatover to W
Fhe was say
Suddeuly, ie the very midst of her remarks, b
got up, and without saying so much ax one word ‘8
vi juickly oe grounds,
a long, ewinging, rapid ate
“T like that ain mut tty oeriy,
ed inter ted encugh in rai ‘id WI
stise Flora. After I got talking ‘about
meal, aud how pinay fellows 1 could have by Jost
giving ‘them a smile, he seemed to lose all interest;
but. then, arise graciots! when will, I ever
learn to bat tell ‘mi
Re
ing
or
thal of Kin who fo always taking
abut reniso. or mae fellow being after her. Maybe
he was jealous, to start off like that.”
"The. vain, foolish gid Inughed a little, low,
chuckling. laugh,
‘ols are aways, laughing at their own folly!"
anid a voice behind ber." What seems to anise
"TL ras ot th malds, whose duty st was just
was one of the maids, whose duty ft was
or Flora~that is, when the other
ed ber services
"sie aad, with-
wat waiting an anew
ou tow? Tot indolent Sithough she
did . core in the least to hear al
up attending, {9 3 Miss Flora; when that
x cli stalled jo up her balr in curl-
I was Sat oat to give Miss Flora a
eins sot vraer, and 20 fore moment 1 did not ax.
fhe
ne thaw f takes to tell it, she few ap
rooms and I found mpeelt ing ii rng
@ dar and futo the ball
tells stars,
‘comerwben 1 called your? she
cried, sbrilly, wed eho got me in her room,
s+} was only waiting to give Miss Flora a'glass of
water? f Te explain
<< Let ber go. thon es on wait until ays air is
gave she cried. mfort or di iscceZOrt
joes not make ried et ot erence to met Aud i
fade up my mind 1'd be even with Bliss Courtney
for that, If it cost me my pi: ace!
{To be continued in our nezt.)
Please remomber! that Leura Jean Libbey
can furnish her old
stories only,
THE RIVER OF TEARS.
naw
Ont wallot pt op old an
On! pi im tn the ‘yin a do.
Your sun end mine ba J.
Where have you gone to, my only one?
‘here have you a nidden your light, my sun
A begua.
‘Where do you come
from, ob, sullen stream?
Why have your waters that ruddy glearn,
‘As you glide along in a strange, uad dreamt
Ie It the sunset that stains you red?
Is it the heart's blood of those long dead?
Or the faint reflection of rapture fled?
For me, obt river, you too)
“ark, swoet anil of wo oda sweet eyes,
dreams of an earthly paradise.
For the River of Tears floweth thick aod fast
From the mountains of many a golden Past,
Till it reaches the River of Death at
reas, im the year 1272, by
os cera Cor
Entered, accord t0 ale Site
stings Ure ane on
188 “HAVILAND, «
REPORTER.
By WENONA GILMAN,
Author of, whe Tide of Fate." ~ Val the Tomboy."
my ittte Princesa: rs and Live
“Bund Dawe Daughter,” ete,
Mz
Lory was commenced in No. 1286 of THe New Your
cesliECoMFaNON. Dack Nunibera ean be Oulained
from all Newedealers,
{ruts STORY WILL NOT DE PUNLASHED IX BOOK FoRM.]
CHAPTER X)
dificult @ mater to attompt to
deneribe Notalte Haviland’ seveations after Edgar
Bronson’s declaration. | She looked upon herself as
inarsted. fo uitny aed white she
{obeH herself for being capable of submitting hers
self to such w thing, there was a pride of which she
would have believed herself incapable in her abil;
ty to show Royce Lowel her heart was not
roken.
‘One moment she wept the most bitter, passion!
tears of her life, and the next her delicate lagers
would clinch with fury as she thought of the burail-
into, to whlch she had ‘been sub Bhe wi
trying, in a balf-hyster!
Ht She! was glad: but
stained face that sho presented to the ‘ity eater
‘when she stood in his oftce the following morning.
ad better go back to your room and re-
darling,”” Bronsoa said to her below
You look utterly worn out. Go back
and ‘all your maid to put you to bed. I will come
there ‘away from the office.”
She ‘Shock bet head disnllt,
answered, sovtly.
“No,” she ai ba fi lalgness to-day
would kil'me. I must d 0 om
nit don't regret the rowise Fox made me last
ion
miENo.” eho replied, with a fovertsh flush bat
don't tet us ns even, of it now. To-night will be 8001
m 1 wee jo to-day’
"one oof “ino ‘mate Tad come tnto the
et busines like ott tones Bron-
id, after a glance at the paper that lay before
ME-There bas come a report of a fatnily said to be
starving in Hester Street, 1 ehould hike for you to
down there and see the
The name of the people is N Wi iy. saree a hove tee
mn be ere
Whe the namie on or oe
he did not va for more ‘cxplanation, but bowed
and left the office.
2 be ont of his presence, though
jowledge it even
1 hes
cool street was ing to
aher the stilling ‘at mosphere ‘of his oftce,
She
walked briskly, striving vo put all fear aud thought
ge e fature behind ber, Endeavorng fo becom me
rested in her follow-pedestrans, but euccood-
@ little more color
ever when he entered ihe horrible, ramshackle old
building in Hester Street than there had been in
tho morning, nd te shiver of repulsion, that
er her as she sor the filth and squalor of
mings did more to draw her out of her-
self than anything eso could have
Hae ied har eke eareCully, and turned to a
dirty urchin in the door-way,
“Can you tell me where the Wileys live, ite
magn?” sho asked, Klndly
is grimy (bit out of bis mouth suffi
etentiy Jong to pip
fe top floor.”
She handed bin a pen! “7 and mounted the rickety
airs, half fearing that they, would fall even bo-
neatly her {rail rail weight. softly on the
oor of the back room, and Fas brides bya eal
$olce to enter, She tured the knob and walked in,
ned
Te was the fret time that she had been sent upon,
an errand like that, and her heart beat quick!y as
she glanced about her.
‘Toom was almost bare of furniture. The
windows were. broven there was no fire in the
stove, and at the far end of the room,
‘that was almost destitute a coverin
at the very threshold of death, and
Peo nourishin
. Uo
lag woman
‘ide ber, her
fount for that poor atom of hn-
ness, and there it lay, fading like a sickly flows
the autorun blasts arent stem.
aliyy haitcrazed eyes met Nate:
lie's, a Sari hives passed over the girl. All
thoitght of self was abandoved. She went forward
iitly and taught the scor hand of
mother in both her own. .
ow’, She forgot that sho wi It never oc-
red to her that she had simply come there to te-
Dott tle case. Bue saw suiferiigy and she was there
toaleviats it,
is it?” she ‘asked, scarcely able to force
her voles above @ whisper.’ You re terribly il
ittave e you @ nurse?”
Have you
ited fee
By Nave no. doctor bo answered, faintly.
“ Where should I get a'nurse? Why, we have not
even food!”
‘The word were broken and tnterrupted by «
and hollow that Natalie started as
if ae baat heard @ 8 sound from the Fe.
“ “My God! there is
this in the world, and I—oh, Father
armand I never dreanied that th
angthing like this in the work
eras silent for a moment from sheer inability
to Seal then she went, oD, swifd
“Cau you stay hero alone while I go out and get
something for you and fend for a doctor???
Again the woman emit
Why not?” she asked. days and days 1
bare Iain here alone, without hope. Do yon think
Teonld not stand it for a few minutes 3 longer when
Lknow that God has seut an angel to my rescust
Don’t mind me, ma'am. I don't cate for mysel
there is nothing that could save nie DoW: But, foF
the lore of Heaven, get someting for iy baby to
att, Tbave oxpectod that he would die every hour
did tot wait to hear more. She nodded
to Be sick wonuan and flow away opon het errand.
wd told Marie the night before that theit
ue’ money Gould not last them long, with an in-
come of but i dollars eiweek to increase tho
mall hoard; bat she forgot all that, and wae axuia
ihe milionaize's daughter when sho was ordering
the ne things fo for the sick woman and her child. There
ing that could possibly be needed for
them youhug, aud jelly, and milk—everything
that a sick or well room might require, even to
coals for the tiny stove that she bad seen tn the
1 eent a telegram to the phyxiciam
sided ‘her from ebilahood, aad returue
She carrted fa ber all she could of the
tore she had provided, and the eves of Bary Wiley
blazed with gratitude 'ss she hid beet
jone.
Neither of them spoke while Natalie lifted the
and with her own
red sinall
al
that the grocer bad sugeestod.
ould bare aw allowed aenerthing ‘si within rach;
Dt the the danger
thattand afcer a few mouthfuls ele arose to place
{upon the bed beside {ts mother.
fio ran bald blinded with the tears that fled her
she turned ead she sam a man
Sealed there, with bis lttered wat fn bis band,
‘His face wore the most extra:
wattaly Spreaton “Of gratitude dint abe ever re-
mem! ered vo ave seen, He bowed low before her
with pec aid, @ voice broken with
Emotion, hee Veried out:
ces You, mia I don't know who you
are tee ¢ from, but may the good
Goa bless you! You bave saved that baby's Ufe. 1
came home him die, and font
arms: ote one rd's OWD angele.” ed
His Oe utterly, the tears pot
face, and arid ing torwerd to the ‘it, be oct
igre aml eaneht ibe sik woman in b
They, ‘sobbed aloud together,
Natalie bore tt for a moment, then she went w
to bina and gently placed her baisd upon his shoul
“SYon, must mot do that!” she exclaimed, pity-
fngly, 4 presunye this sy ‘and she ig
very in. ‘You are exelting bee aclenely ‘and making
her wi it you woud save her life now, you
must be both véry quiet and very brave.”
‘The man arose
your or i milan” be ¢ sald, standing be,
the
ow I'am scting
‘ou don't kiow-
aby; but perbaps
what it's to give up all he ope, and just as you are
ready to cat your oWa throat ih despair, you tnd &
hand extended from hea save you. I am Dot
rho bas brought bis family to shame
aad starvation through drivk or auy fault of his
ow. It has been siiuply wut the world calls hard
fuel 4 Every. man's 1B against me.
God'ae taken pits at ext”
Natalie extended ter hand, The man fell upon
bis knees an; nd bowed his head upon it, Natalie was
weeping so!
4 Thee he exclaimed, briskly, at last; “we
are al very foolishly. ‘This is no time to
ereite, your "wife. I have sont for my physician,
nd am sure be will come the moment the message
We will é both wife
Wiley, bit peer"
bot ‘should like
truth. It would sera
like sailing tder false colors in heaven if f should
ty sory of my life. Tt has not all been
gute ‘opocent, a ut it was misfortane mi
han fault. They call me John Wey here Tulsa;
Dut that isnot my name, It is Anthony Blair.”
|APTE]
Astuoxr Duan lanced in he direction of his
The great haggard eyes of the sick woman
threw at bin a look 60 appealing that suddenly he
Femembered what he was doing, and bowed his
head, his lips sealed for ke.
watt not knowin
tered th mother and
Provost came in as eh
cordially shook hands wi
bev ou to do beens stone ee in ‘your
mas oiehing, and
er for
im, with tears in ber
ates thae eile her?
“Tt seems to re the result of cold and Lack
of nourishment than anything else,” ho answered,
after a careful exaniination.
“Then there is no reasom ve she should not re-
corer”
* he replied, after a
ae ‘tate she ise fery sik roman, and
ire the most careful nursing and co
Meotia
‘Natalie ‘planced furtively at Anthony Blair.
‘Tho expression of dogyed despair that came into
his eyes Tuade her feel weal an
“If you bave taken ber interesta ‘in hand,” Pro-
send a good nurse
Natalie infully.
“Yon have doubtless heard of my misfortune,
doctor,” tho sald a Eo as she could.
‘Siored pain
“No; I have be
Thare iss been a disagreement between my
father and naysell and have tele ayy home. E
have only
thought every one knew before this.
lary as Feporter op The Cabinet now.”
n't let ns epea of i just at present,
you this to show you why tis ime
bark for'me to jrorlde the protessioual ‘narso,
ut I havea maid whos refused 2 ee rt me in the
hour of my her and myself I
think vee can took out stony your patient, Tam sure
you will not hesitate to give us your services, and I
Pronuico you that she shall not want for care”?
Anthony B Jair turned away. Ti
his ey ‘a sob in his throat that ve vel oth
strangling. ‘an. “ere
tion with almost breathiess interest, SNe han ds
wrung together nd dripping with a moisture that
was as coll as too, It seemed to bins tbat bis wife
od child od aiseady been given back to nin from
the grave, and be would ate se pele op op bis life a
freely to the
frou ave’ spoten his tretnutous word ot grat
tude,
He watched her as she moved about the room
after that with the same devotion in bis eyes that a
1 faithal dog expresses in following the movements
his mas
She listened attentively to the directions that the
doctor gave, jotted most of them down upon a slip
of paper, then rece’ romise to call again
fa hue aiterooon, she wished! him good-bye. “he
id What was possible 10 make the rooin’ more
comfortable, then she took up the hat aad gloves
‘which she had Inid as
UFpave pot to feavo you for awhile now,” she
ald, with one of her sweetest smiles, to Antbony
Blair, “There fs tay work at the office to do, you
know, You have heard. the “aoctor's instructions:
about what #8 t0 bo done for your wife: and Tam
to leave ber in your care, I shall return as
Possible for me 16 do so, aud tn the
meantine you must remain right here in this
707 don’t know how to thank Fou, miss,” be said,
brokenly; “and even if J were an eloquent man, I
don't think there would De any words to express
hot I feel. You have suffered yourself, and you
know what {t is.” ~
Natalie turned her head away fora moment, An
xpression of pain contracted her eyes, and her
Folcetatered ab she replied, in an almost inaudible
‘< Yes, I, too, have suffered.”
absolute pain shot through Anthony Blair's
neat ns whe heard
“Won't you tell ine your name, miss!” he asked,
almost titidly.
“It is Natalie Haviland,” she answered, briskly.”
“There! tan bolt afeaid that you and T have
bea indulging in « sort of sentiwentality over Our
edo. You have found
Peade and T have work to > do. Good-bye, I sball
oa ack jst as soon ble
fon the
© bed, touched the eni cheek alo fce her tender
Bngers’ nodded. brightly. to Avthony Blair, thea
flashed out of the dingy toom like a gleam of
sk otbony Biair watched the door throu
enh thang BI ed 2 rough which
softly he Orewa - kety
and took bis wife's ban
10 to
sleey
of a woman.
to
8 BOOT Ww OMAN, saidto,
ees ee in Sores
Mme,