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Everything they possessed, from a pair of
Pers to the lace on their Sowa ‘was pus op
ize the victory of thelr favorite. For onge Flora
Garland's yolible tongue was silent, much to the
ainazement of her companion
sotee’t you in with us in tis scheme, Florriet™
cried three or four of the girls, anxiously crowding
t.
gad Pm not,” declared Florrie, “1 know
Hg to win without a doubt.”
rou
* You dont meat to say that you are the seventh
daughter of tho serenth sont” arled Milly Bauke,
y
At this, a great shout of Jaughter broke from a
“Te seenis that he bas eaptured the eit
Four heart whihont any storming,” deciared Mili,
mnischievously; “bai diame you,
he is bn fow shail we Row, gi,
Ug "paper ‘to tnd out,” added Mill
e race for ourselves,”
dir. Just leave oi 8
Well
if it e
a suppose we could study, ‘and
, Uo} certainly not—no, indeed! echoed the
gins, i a choru:
Ar that omeut they all came in sight of the tall
turrets of Milboarne
Oh, erivious. goo
ness, we've been
pinla? crlad Fi lorie
milssed,
Solast look who's staring out
wat
as the girls Taized their eyee, the ‘ace quick!
But
me? Bemis, * ‘ where
You sai e might spend fifteen minutes out-of
Goors, dida’t you, miss?” asked Florrie, demure
“Yes; but—
Bat you di ‘aida't say just where,” broke in Flor.
“an
scarum crowd of girls to got down to the depot un
attended,
“* Who suggested going down to meet the see in?
yes
Boor of rosy If little
adel of | shit
and escape from the tow
enough to elim
To's no such Wuing 8 get: | ho
eves glowing.
hi
iri, and stop)
1, mouth have
inv
z
5
that Instant the frightened black eyes and the
Junghing bine ones met, and Florrie dimly realized
looking i ry bndsonie face
atthe. Sanget wi Had mt ot the cep
that mornin
She realize t he had saved her, some-
from ‘ersbng deathe
wt hurt,”".whe gasped—" only at a trifle
mh
* How did the accident eome about?” he asked,
anxious to divort ber thouglits, for Thoaww is
ips bexin to tremble, and tears ewiinusing
riha wloedark
At, {hts the Tadicronsnest of the situation oo
stunts
witl ttle laugb, Vtg Florrie, and she laughed outright, the
No} but it’s jue this; Tam sore that Clarence | suilles aud ditupies In ber face chusing away the
Pana, aa es all Dim, will Win, He looks just as | tears,
though he could win anything be sets bis mind on, catgd i tell Fou exactly It Bappened,” she
from a bleyele race tu Ome it's be cart! ‘burst of lavghte on 1-1 was sent
She diet fowon as we girls call 1 for being a
y lessons to-day. ‘The sun was
ning too golded autside to aubjalt t0 any suc
Tavicrnined. toontwit madame, if I could,
ve
apple-tree,
ue mare I looked at i, tio garer T hows i!
attempted it, and—and if it had not been for yi
J would bare fallen that terrible distance, and
Those ‘rords, and the glance that accompanied
Do 5
all shat fun going on? them, sent a strange thrill turough the young man’s
ea
at ‘thank Heaven that I was here in time to be
of assistaneo to yon!” he said, warmly, his blue
st was by ne merest ‘chance I
‘Was out for 8 little
ned slong this
5
ree?
they no sooner reached the porcl | hls bieycle, Which stood im sight against the outer
greeted them at the doo
"young ladies,” gasped Al
have you
Fou mn steed—your bleycle, d
Pighe asken, woking up at him shyly ‘rom
tier ber long lashes
oh that the one you are going to win the race
fees he asked, with all a young girl's entuu-
“Ni “smiled amusedly, wondering how she hap-
ned to recoguize
«I was not practic-
Mas lm dang the machine to the depot.
ng.
Tiky dent on the for mie torehose from, and hey
aad stich a serie mistake over theaifair, One
dies" safe tl
tts of a make I don’t
pity there fst “ome lady.
od, mischleronsl
OM ettened
n't ride?” he ventared, questioningly.
@ litle,” returned, Hortiey frankly; but.
Miss for any-
‘She’ “ ‘te Non ited ita he knew
‘rave me two or thtee leseons
list samme, "thought! it was jolly sport, though.”
Tale, oul ald you bse 10 give this one a trial for
splendid riding down the
poked, Bliss Bemts, severely, Dever taking hor ¢) un her raid Jest in it y.
from Florrie’s fac, ma hy, Va ke nothing better,” declared thought-
of us.” declared the gitl “We were not tes For
‘tro souls with bul siogle tought,” but ‘twenty
souls and twenty hearts that beat asone, in that in-|t
Se Bem 0. reply.
staalty 6 of ‘he re cere her.
was,
Tho very | t
Shehad i te
iy mean 11” glancing toward
sro biedeles outcide, He had not meat Ie to tell
the truth, but she picked him up t. enildeniy that
here Was no enc ue of ih and he was obliged
0 auswer, “ Why, certainty.” .
She glaiived ruefully down the long stretch of
sunny Toad, then at the tall, dark windows, aud
a
ain her face broke iu into the merry smile that
je her so bewitchin:
eh would be the ernest kind of a lark, and
mis would never find it out,” she deciarcd.
ral inet were neves uy I don't care If 1 do!" ‘and. she spruug to her feet
of the seminary: and t in delight
‘Tompson ai ‘The buge trom gate was locked from the inside,
Ler attention. Tt wa
‘Once in the schoo!-room, there was no time for | and
For Fi
that tho work of a monient to throw it open
0 emerge On to the broad w: tide; then
She duce Let think of what the con-
tbo, i what had transpired should
by'nny poseible means Teacl the ears Of Morra's
her. She was tho only child of a rich Cut
planter, who bad placed her fa‘toat establishment,
on the’ death of her mother, whon she was very.
bun
her room,
seqnences
ul only that. week be od teleqrapied that b
mist be expected Bo take mratters au
the worse, tle latest a1 ail bad brought in
remittanco for he t uation, accompanied by
a shore note stating thit Florrie’s father thanked
isa Bemis for the excellent supervision and trains
ing hia danger bad recvived, but dling he tuieht
Brerent Miao at the claim her any
There would be a terrible contretemps if this
ffir came to ight,
No wonder Miss TH die was beside herself with
terra unfortunate afleir, Again and
tusin searching Dartlosatarted out t6 fil the miss.
lng Florries bub one by oue they returned without
MAT length the darkness waned, and the etin rose
ink and golden Ey. _Suil no trace
“otk
stories, and all the school-
ief, ‘The whole seminary
Was turned into inourying. ”
Only Heaven could uni
Florrie Garland.
@ foretold the fate of poor
4 witAT Po YOU S4¥7*URIED IR RIVAL, “70 MAK
ANG THE STAEES A GIKL'S REAKT, AS WELL 43
THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WOHLD, IN THIS
vases moves RACED”
Lf, let us go buck to Florrie Gatland,
aan pear, ‘at the time we let her, riding among
the sweet Wild-slowers, In the dreamy sunlight of
that summer afternoos
At the Brst oprortity Clarence Dana had
plained to Flortie that they ought to have been
acquainted wit i each ote ‘Tong ago, for their par-
is had bee! ighbora down In Cuba, for
Tong years. "Their conversation had beet 0 bright
gnd gas—ike most soung people Thrown together
for the first. time—th t they quite forgot the laps
Of time, until the sun,-slowly upping out of sigit,
recalled thom to their surraundin
Suddenly Florrie stopped short, with a little gasp
of disay.
“Oh, my! the sun is sinking in the west!” she
cried iu ciarin, "T can scarcely reach the sone
nary before dusk, Suppose we turn back I at once?”
‘To this her companton readily ag
It had been so sweet, 80 ToInestiey riding amid
the wil-flower bloomsand exchanging with each
other the story of their early Hives, ‘hat bad been
passed almost within a stous's"¥goW of each other
mit elther koowing of the@cxistence of the
and without warning the elements
chanted” the sty daskeneds ant great storm.
clonas arent athiwart art the cunitt hea weavers
storm’ cried Claroueo Dana, oe ocenning
the clonds, “IT am afraid we have ridilen too far;
and, to make the matter worse, the road which we
hase come js all the ray down mera. We had
better £o back immediately.”
To this Florrio readily assented, and they tarned
their wheels around at once; but it was no easy
mnatter making their way uphill in the teeth of the
wind, which was now blowing agaie, ‘The youn
in despair, as the after-conseque
this hour of folly tare sel hita fn the face,
BR
He was
quite the uncomfortable situation.
that moment 8 wat out of the terrible ditem-
me sngzeated ett tohim. In the distance he saw
tuppenred to bee (armhouss, If they could
Br make their way here he would pay the farmior
iandsomely to hite eyance
and take thetn back tthe en nominal
eutlomis, thong the ea an
“sing it into ext
ground
ier ent wou aud
farther merriment; " oe to again withe i SCAT M st Somme Tyo Uh * destin ation, he a
fens studious a 2 8H the ast a Se ny spans aa the vo a on 3a ae ie ‘had Fisted
Tate ba witl rm rit ars. ightning flash-
ee undk cating asin mastnches Doated bee f countey road lke swittwinged salon ea thunder rolled, ‘aug the Tain fairly descended
the pages—the fe the you Florrie was only a very young aud very fore iD : ects,
ior st erosse Ue pat path ‘an moraine 8 | tess itl, deat eater, and for this ens f was io very ptihle objects indeed that pre-
7) she sau grainmar } that Sou may not parsh in your Jalgment sented themselves at tho door of the old farm-
of this She was only bet house.
“ Psha
ria delta bang, & td slamming it into ner dest.
«don ome over bie thisafternoon.
Lennt avaay
action.
having a Shalt hour's sport WI
if the trath must be added, to ave a
good joke
Sas Hemi nad noueea te GirYs inattention with | npon the stern Miss Bemis for putting her in the
tow.
tn fnwand chuckle of delig
a
vengeance @5
Yroutd be trap perce ia her
mete out puitishm her h
oho urguised, Flora W
ng-smoldering
saytbi thing bai letter-
gene
eyes.
thing rash! an
hed they find mer iving white and cold, perbane
she'll feel sorry for’ail that she has said and done.”
Intent upon this thought, Flora sprang to the
het lon
at ‘hers hon study, ihe gr | airy edorous wit, the brea
ant eon mle tog perk fh forget mow au euiekly¢ the Lime was passing.
sete tn
eubdued
te rite Uitony, ‘and. slowly the door opeued, aud
le
at
et-room under lock at
At was so delightful, ‘sxinai orours the balmy
ring Howers, that
in the western sky, and
stil they Foue Gu ad on,
“ The world forgetting, by the world forgot
a barknees drew om apace, decpeniog slowly aud
to Di
By one the Tights
of the seminar
one
rent oily, and darkness ‘fell over the buge buildiug
‘eatling. among the oaks on the brow of the bill
‘Ten o'clock stru k fom
Aa the sound ide » the old Bag aid not
nto it
vis sper ring voice
eure stole silently into the dimly
ebted nas
i Bo gure ald don's let Misa Beots bear
world, Milly,”” whispered the girls, anxions-
‘Dot Fetire until after tev, you know,
her door
you for
window and threw up the sas! ioe
— always keeps Wide open to hear
craryUiing tat th eotog on. It she cathe you ab
CITAPTER I. the door of the’ disinal tower toe pour Fin
Tape WERE BOTH TOENG AND THuOLOUTLESS, AND | her mugs would Know no bounds.” Kemlember,therd
MOURS FLEW BY ON GOLDEX Wi Bonk the vneavy tele fosliae back, Milly.
distance to the groand was 80 I know, and I curtis > whksper
Flor, drow back her carly head with & shulder: | Milly, witha. ‘heads end in am lustant
that moment it occurred to her that reaching
the ground would not be as dificult an undertaking
as mig 0] |, for a sturdy old
wv hard by the window.
‘Moro than once Flora
had tested the strength of
its Tenehes from the ground belor
“Ie Feoutd climb down the apple-tres, T'd do it
for puro spite?” sobbed th
bat Fi orrie was no coward:
words, she cl timbed
ET low-eill and caught hold of the great
bough, survering thé greensward below breathicss-
Jy and critically,
She did not notice the tall figure of & young man
Icaning Idly against the arched gate-way in in tbe Tet
the seiainary grounds, eearcely tieuty fect dis-
To had beer idly eurvesing the tall structure,
en hig eves. suddenly encountered the lovely
youre face that appeared at the
«By George! if tlsn't one of the pretty seminary
1s," he muttered, beneath his golden mustache—
“the very prettiest one that I saw among the group.
down at tne depot this morning! er face has
haunted me ever since.”
At Oat ‘moment be fairly ean bt his breaths fo
azement, Withont a word of warning, he saw
the girl reach her white, rounded ‘arm suddenly for-
a9p tbe great Lough of the apple-tree, and
The neRt hectant the bouge with ke beantiful’ pure
dea was araying earthward, and er be could fai
reat, upw:
the afte en it comes t
one mates thor overaieht itistime
test shriel
two figures.
lve, tbe girls huddled togethe
and discussed the alfuation in whispers, thong
hey enuld gcurcely control thelr indignution over
Poe Florrie’s puui
is
‘Bemis 1s etn worse and worse,” they
“It used to be that shutting any one up
nthe towerfoom aw boNe oF two would eatisty
her, ‘Then ele got go she would keep a girl there al
he ; but w to keeping one of
wre all rebelled:
ices quite droy
find the hushed babble of angry voices
ed tho sigling of the wind outa
Suddenly through the long corridor ech
then another and another, that
prought them al to their feet, aud Bying, panic-
‘ken, out into the hail.
further end of the long gallery they saw
One Was holding a lighted taper hight
ater
nd waving it fenntealy 0 to
oo ae. very threshold of tho
deain the chrieks, loner and Toner than’ befor
foil upon the sul air, In les time: than it toes
a
‘The
to tell it, the whole crowd of girls, Just as they
10 the sp
~eeanine ‘uainet the framework, with a face
Nite as death, stood Milly Banks, and beside hes,
equally as terrifiod, was Miss Rema,
lind anette eerie bap, rie? Was
@ thought that Masied access thelt mitidse Had
they ound the ‘sink lying cold and dead in the dark
Ww his ‘he saw it azain shoot
a treniendons for teeta nid ory of hor. | siliy. eam thei Settation, and in a few broken
rom the ens lips as she bung there suspend: | words told the
«a ‘i mda
‘3 only @ question of a few short Instante ere
thosa'fral white Lands would felae thelr hold end
fhe gitl would fall headlong to the greens}
OTe realized ft all in an instant, Quicker thea it
takes to tell it, net pre qmghty, (dean, the youn
man had cheared the hi zh, cted fence, ant
had rey the tee, ‘id Just bt that stant hie
it fours wore realized,
writ fh a wild o1 wat terror, Flora Garland fell to
the earth, and Suet in the very nick of time the
young maa caught ber in his stalwart arms, and the
dark ‘curly head just eveaped by w haire-breadth
the have dg gran rocks half covered with moss and
long, ® that lay at the foot of the old
apres,
sawat @ stance that the girl was not hart,
only tetribiy frightenes
She attempted to speak, but be held up his hand
nti,
you recover your, breathy” he
tach a a sudden plunge throngh space is not
SSinctee to poompe apecrhy T imagioes and at
=
erent past Miso Bern's room, she canght
sight oe the girl, and she rushed out into the cor
ridor , But instead of the tlerce anger
tic ii nd expected, as Miss Bemis had en-
mntered her there, drawing back the bolt, the
Principal bad rushed forward with & boatee ery of
dismay
‘Great, Heaven!” she ejacniated, pander hor
Dreath. |“ I—I forgot Flora Gariand Bad 1
Telensed!?”
Miss Bemis was too terrified to even think of
‘Milly Banks at that moment, or to rebuke her for
daring to interfere
taper, she rushed past tho girl and
throw oen ‘the tower door, One glance, and they
both eaw that the room Was emp ote inl was
been
not, there!
‘The window was open-the bird had
In lees time t
to tell 5 ‘tho whole
d servants wore dis
directions in search of the ising
mis Was DOW thorol
takes
2a, ad
in al
Mise Be ughl;
i {hey retnmed bringing no tidings Ot Flora,
Their knock, ae e door was answered in all
(rae the Qismay of the old. tara
Pa wife when she beheld th er
“Ntney were brought ioto the warm, cheery living-
mat once and mide weleont ead in less
time than takes to tell it, ce Dana
it had
made a clean breast of the fair whieh bad enrwed
0 disgstrously, ond. begged the good farmer
‘nt bie wife hem.
au wasan ‘uncommon escapade, they both agreed,
that * young folks would be young
Bites Wat, ‘after anno great arm had? been
lone.
Te was quite ont of ti question for Fl 10 bo
taken back to the seminary that bight: the storms
leree; but the rmer and bis wife assured
Chat they: wauld ceo thatthe girl was
at sn aeund at ‘uch minary gates before any
ting: and, furthermore, they both be-
foved with bime thar i would be fat better not to
mention the fact ht a foung man had Been mixed
up in the ery one, hereabeta
knew of Mist Bemis temper, aud it 0
thing iu this world she abhorred more than anotien,
sgertainly was a hat young man,
9 Dana's great 8
2; he found that the old
ily rt related to bis chum,
ai ior ‘That be had written them that be
up on the nive-o’ctock tenia that
mane ett nt Sow, owing to ie storm, they
tui looked {oF bin. ‘it beat
he wor but avery hott distance 10 walk, BY
cutting ‘feross lots nd trough the clover-meadow
to 0) house,
Farmer Trent bad twovvonng daughters of shout
Flora Garlands age, ard thes proceeded
her off to their own room at once and exchange! ee
eee etoting for apparel from thels own want
farmer’ oe performed alike oftes
ht they all enjos that went
round over thei rialenas Appearance, as they aut
down to a good, old-fuioned, appetizing supper
Saltan hou aver
ye could never have told
08
n ne
tne But the dimpled, MEUISE face opposite him
wh the peucby cheeks, = dark eyes and jetty
urls.
wife bad seen pretty girl{the world over, but never
eat Id gone ont I first sit
one to whom. his
g that Florrie might
© go back
imisiit, marry ber then a ‘there
with bit forever. |The he grew startled at the
Yery audacity of the tholzht, He quite ‘believed
pass
ue ‘oud ne a rritied ifphe knew what was
jn bis mind. organ in fhe parlor, and here they
and si Ze, and fold stor orice and
tors its, sitting around the
eat bic Ai-fasbioned elock out in
all ropa
Fiddles, an
huge Tog fire, until
th wide bell strnok nine!
“Come, girls,” Sad tre farmer's wife, taking
up the candies, “it's tiny foF you all to g0.up to
M ‘is, doth the daugkers set up a lively dis-
wb, not for at least ar boar yet! Tt ian’t often
we have company, you How?” and, as usual, the
girls bad their way, Theold Tote sat down axain
to ‘ic patientiy to te pertymaking for another
"AE that moment theee as a sound of footsteps
on sie graveled » walk Wi ah iened.,
) D 2 biieht
tha te ana forth Nislie,” be ania
springing to (you will all excuse me,
will go ont ino ‘oe bal i @ micet him. He wil 4
ite amazed to find it
“ie ie stepped to fed mi cwide, old-fashioned cor-
ridor fatty young man In a mackintosh,
and wit! umbrelia tuned ‘side out, emerged
throm vie doorway.
“ a Yopdertole” he gasped,
oa bart e ite nig How the deuce came
know? storm
“That's pretty of it,” assented
‘of long hours Biss Bemis walked the Boor ot
Ciacence; ahd? p fow WEUS tite Wholo otory Wad
told of just how it happened,“ But come fnrto the
Parlor and see Flora Garland for yourself,” added
nce Dana, enthusiastically, “and you won't
wonder at a fellow for losing his bead, ]'il wager
anything.
anks, I prefer the company of my cigar
te sent dining _bread-end. shutter schoolgirl, ny
dear my honor, these nico lit 18
Sino he make me
Bat Duna insisted ‘upon his friend, coming tnto
the parlor, Sit hehad but known hot ave
ended, he would have barred hi
had {cost him lis heart's blood.
Tne leave the
are: ap Monmorrew iorninn Sanita" "Chret
eagerly, “and you wi hiss seeing her, and f
shoul 'y for that. She is the moat etl
ttle. creature’ you ever saw, and as
ange el (rom heaven,”
do ni much
kely Toei not bo able to ‘race
but, sately to please, you, Twill
is entranee theres
it angels, and very
the eomparison:
2 join group
for'balf an hour. Bui, mind, T-dvaw the Une a
ity mninntes. i coud stand the ebutter of a
pack of girls longer than
mm in arm, these two a men, who had
lifelong. friends, entered that homely ite parlor
‘When they left’it they were avowed enemies unto
the death, and all for the fain) fresh face and dano-
Sng da 8 Jovels school xin.
Wylde bowed less grace to the
farmers comely Gn oghters; then he tamed toward
the slim sip of & ele! his fiend ‘was introducing,
and saw hin stat flush, his dark wet
fash with sulted please. ‘and a stile play ab
50.
5S
the, pe the slight, dark mustache Becoming .
am 60 pleased to have met you Gar
Jona, he murmured, extendiny whites aristo-
eratic hand, and, to Clarence Banas intense an
noyance, he took’ the seat directly by Florrie’s side,
though there were eertatuty far-mere conferable
gas on either side of each of the farmer's daug!
wiring the halt hour jfhat followed, Dana
annnel fo see how bis
to {aseiuate litte Flore
tween them
fet well eucugh sloze, and. kep
path until he had secured more of & eaten 2
winning the girl's affectio:
mblg Reticed, too, that ‘Wylde had changed his
ind about betug in a hurry when the clock struck
the next half hour, and the next, and the next, une
til a faruer’s wife declared her patience
9 Lord that ie nad
meek
Nasatane
“You leave very carly in the morning, do you
not, Miss Garland” asked Wylde, as they all stood
out i the corridor towether saying good-night,
he farmer answered for her:
start from "here at six, Goa wit
sce you off, and $83
said Wylde, quietly; and that was t
Fankled in Clarence Dana's heart all tight long.
‘The tw 9 young men occu] ed me same apatt-
ment bot for the frat time in thelr lives neither
Esto
fruined from mevtioulug Flore Gatlabd's name, A
how thougit bad taken quick and deep root In the
beaut, of ‘each: ‘and his manhood
friend was now his t pleazantries
were stidenly beushed 4 as; and quenched by the
fires of hate and distrust.
Clarence Dana was 80 thoroughly tired out with
the excitement of the Previous afternoon, Yrut the
sun was shining bigh f wens he
gwoke the nest day. “dn an inetant he bal sprung
from the bed to looie at his watoh, for, fo bs con
sf:
ne glanee at his
seemed ito
Was
Great “Heaven!
oretock”
4m the shortest space of time on record, Dana
as dressed and dowtrstains, Ie met one’ of the
Farmer’ is dautiters on the
<hilss Garland fs starting late,” he sald, looking
Fery anxiously about for Flori,’ Will you please
go to her and su: teady now to aecom-
Fang her back ts the eemiuacy? Your father onl
mother go with us. I believe that 1s the arrange-
ment.”
‘The gisl looked at him with wide-open, innocent
‘aed oI how of fi
rs de ids dane betre ae me
ming?
he gasped, “it is eight
Why, bless mo, air” she eried, what ean you
be talkiug about? Miss ok Garland a d ft
Ca Glock. this morning with
Wylde weut as fai
of the Seminary, rath them.
for you, sit: “Teil Me, Dana, w e comes dome,
that {t'8 a very fine morning, Indies the arly b bird
that at by ae the won Whatever he coul re
remark,
Glatente Dana ieatied back Sasinat a mide pil
lar of the portico, white aud epecchless with
“He bas thrown down the gauntlet, and that
means wat between us in this race for a fair girl's
fayor from this time on, apd Taccept his challenge
as the cross rot ‘just i site
He lett this
where tc search for
the village hotel: fad he Petooke
himself there straightway. The frst person whom
he mict in the ofice was Seytorth Ws:
“Step out into the grounds, please,” he said, ex-
citealyoe be came up to bia. “1' would like a
word with i you,
nif you ke,” replied Weide, Jighting a
tresit sia anid too ‘at ‘the fair, hand-
gome, thus! naty song i ai before him through
rine of reine sinvke.
“Now,” aald Dab, when they were out of he
Ing distance of tho loungers od the front plane,
“shat have you to say in defense of your dastardly
action this morning?”
Seyforth Weide Fuised his ne datk eyebrows in
apparent snrpi
EDon’e tale in enfamas to me, my dear boy,” be
sald." Really, ‘rakes, too much brain-work to at-
tempt to unravel them,
m have no ‘brain material to spare! re-
torted Dana, it exasperation. “1 want to know
Sine youn iitend to convey to me by tata morning's
affair. You are a scoundrel to play me such a das-
tardly trick.”
Sey forth Wyldo's dark eyes gleamed with a quick
fre as this seathing epithet was hurled at lim; } but
controlled his temper by a wouderful effort
nd—at
answered cool:
“Do sou mean my accompanying Miss Garland
as far as the seminar;
“Of course that is what I mean, and you
{4 retorted Dana, hotls, and longing to Hira bis
{skpuctent rival thep and there,
“Pardon © girl yourself
yest ites insolentiss and J rightly
Bajeotured ‘that, You haa no mortage whatever
upon pretty Miss Flora, I was rather taken with
her, too, my dear boy; and I said vo, myself, Allis
{ait in love and war.’ But, renlly, [feel very much
obliged to ¥ sure, for introdueing ws; an
0 tell Son the eat, Trather fancy she tus a slight,
Preference for me.’ Now, don't challenge me on
the spot to mortal combat, for no one knowa as Well
8 sourwcif that there is no better shot in the
ry than I, and [am equally as good with the
do challenge you, here and now, you mis-
erable scoundrel—you false friends gasped Dana.
“ wat illow ‘ho had a spark of manhood al
id not have stooped to tho tndechotvted t trek
Jouhare just proven 5 yourself guilty of. You shalk
meet me to-morrow
Ome moment, plea. But pardon the interrup-
tlon; 1 have gomething impariant to suggest, In
ten days from to run against
each other for whe champion pot {he world with
our bicycles, Why not, t
clear to win the Tove of the peesiese
loser to drop quietly out of th
test, ‘Nothing could be teitereyou eae fee that
for yourself.”
“Done!” eried Dana, white to the lips. “I con-
ft, It will be a race Which will be more than life
mn
@ Flora Gatlands
sent
death, I will not give Flora Garland up to you,
depend on that.”
m find no fault with the conditions?” said
Waite wiih eeneer,
* How can 1?” roturned Clarence Dana, throwing
back his fair, handsome head. “ Every one knows,
the whole world over, that my reputation as abe
cyelish tonone—you kuiow that very well.”
‘Auain. that 6 ‘a that as ot pleasant to see,
ergpt about Sevforth Wride’s dark haughty face.
ir until that meeting, then, my deat
| Wside, insolentiy, with a wave of ‘his
he turned on his heel and re-entered
Tho ‘hotel’ white Cigrence Dana; mastering his
anger as ext he could, strode haitlly away in an
opposite diroet
Suddenly W, vile paused and looked after him,
fool!” be muttered, ‘i his breath, “to
hing t
mn too F'veill bale him by ‘alt
Teans or foul —ay, T shail be victorious in winning
jot only the championship tn the greatest bicycle
race that bnt in the dual rdle of
Tacing to the death to win this lovely young girl’s
heart and hand. No matter what his powers of en-
Garanee on the wheel may prove to be, I will win—
0 hove
im be continued in our next.)
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Flense remember that Laura Jean Libbey
writes exclusively for-The New
Com mponion, in which paper all h
appear. Other journals can furnish her old~
Mories only. we
“TIDY UP A BIT.”
AN OLD LADY'S ADVICETO YOUNG WIVES,
BY FRANK MARION, .
young wives, Jet mo 1 say to you,
wD Ye sit,
your} ‘haben ei ‘will be at home—
ou neat,
“Ty Be0 ye
Rach their laps poueity
“Ty ong Uke ofthe Gourting dase
pa
5
i
~ » Hemakee some men discouraged, and
‘hdr fort with aber grit
their wives ith uskenpt als
it.
Teruly hope that all ‘young wives
‘That tone ti re doth fit,
Seg ie ero ot heir ways,
Aut tidy
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to Act of Congress. ta the year 182, b
ice at the Eraria “ou
ington, B.C.
By OLD SLEUTH,
Author of * Old Phenomenal; or, The Double Trag
dy,” “id Steuth, Badger Co." Billy, Joyce,
the Government Spe
cul Detocticay * The Man
Wes a Fool ; or, ‘The
‘Duke of New York? on The, Honlertad .
Curcer of an Orphan Tei weit
‘Tom, the Pete
Paks ead
co “iting ete.”
commenced im No, 1211 of Tay New Lone
bere Gam bo wmeaince
2
Lory
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[rms szone WH. Nor Dz PLOLISRED 1x BOOK yoRM]
HAPTER XXVIL.
2 do yective vated through the door just tn
tie tosee the feliow waow be bad dropped over
ie stoop-rail lay his stron upou the gil
who, at the eteclive’s command, ia bd left the room *
0 20 down aul get into the couch,
we Woman had followed the detective into the
wal ‘and abe at once eried
“Let the gal go, Mike; “there's a ‘cop? in the
house!”
‘The man “tumbled”
tumbled to the Tact of danger to hime, and the
secret of te Singular, disconfiture a moment Ae
vious, opened the door, ran out of ti
Touse, and tumbled down the stoop to the atees,
as though the devil were after
The detective immediately Tentened to the room.
The to, men_whom, he had knocked down were
eseape by the rear windows; bub
Ginnt seized thenacloally seized abd held thera
Doth as easily as though they had been two way
ward cbildren.
You can't get away s0 nice as all this, my dar.
lings? he sais and tm a iy he put the * Garbies
on the pair of
Ned walked me two prisoners through the pay
lors. ont ba the hall.
man stood there with @ pale face and
terrtied expresso) ion.
Madame, you may hear from me anon,” said
gue hero; anid he walked the two mea toward the
oor.
The woman hailed him,
“One moment? she cried,
“ Well, madame?
“ How'mueh money do you want?”
“For what service?”
« 4 Permitting: your two prisoners to go tree.??
am a stranger in New York, madame; I
haven't leatnedt how to take a bribe yet 2? answered
the officer; and he marched his two prisoners down
the stoop, and ordered them to get into the coach.
The resented girl had already taken a seat in the
coach,
The detective told the driver where to go,
seating himself beside the rescued sinh, he aske
Po you know elther of these me
tetas ever re he ‘moment they
this
in two wars at on
aud,
dz
jzed'me upon the street aud put me in
coset came the auswer, in a trembling tone,
One of the men said:
0 girl tes and we'll prove it! She came will-
togly with u:
‘The gis] would have Drotested, bat the detective
touehed her arm and she was silen
“You ma: you have got Tnattors all your
n, but you will find out you
Well, I took the ‘chance ofa mistake.”
“You may get a furl
The detective knew whe the last threat meant
well enough. The two men, he surmised, had some
politica infinence, ant calculated upon having the
Meer removed from t the force
ur readers are we aware, the threat
sonstow much over Ned Balfou ala not
etective took his men to the statfon-honse.
‘There waa Beat ot stir when the strange! looking
eountryman marched in with his two prisoners
handout ed.
it have one here?” deman
wnat janded the sergeant
The detective W
rnispered a fow momenta with the
girl, and she stepped forward and made a
charge agai inet the two men,
10 are you, and what authort
arrest tee Tien! qrked tho eergeang, 50% t®
looking counteyman walked into
where he was followed by the
Forma
Wh
rescyne-]
tne private room,
sepeeant,
wed ie _Sbield as a detective connected
geant Was aa old detectl
know our hero by reputation y uoctiee himself, and
The men were
6 detsotive il the tation with the ‘oun,
Whose real name proved to be Ethel Morrow eas
Hiss More Sirtow vt ia ber story to the detective,
han, without a friend in th ld,
Her septation rvho bal inheriied the a ail prop
which ha belon nKed to the poor girl's nother,
the house: whet dhe bind re
tective
firiven hor
marry i
tased
Fe