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Nhat hax taken place since we parted in the plente
Thee + s face fl
un to Jeave school next week,”
your home, Miss ¢ Garland?” he
Hartford" Here rhe stopped short, and
her Be black. ee ited with fete heard yes
terday that thor was coming for me} but 1 Go
ot way
“Most young glels woud be only too pleased,”
ho said, ly tather puztled at the rr mark.
which I am wanted,”
the occasion for
the ait aie, bitterly.
Fo did are to ask the question, but ke was
justaging to Kae why.
“The reunton between your familly and tyourselt
gst be @ very dear anticipation,” he remarked,
Flora Garland threw back her dark cutis, and
ime! ‘@ very white, angry young face toward
“T am asked to be present at my father’s coming
marriage,” she said; adding: **1 am to have a step-
mother.
Reyforth Wylde saw the way clear to get into the
i “$8000 gra cesat once, le held out both hauds
ow fast how fo sympathize with ¥o1
Gast re, Rail. ave steprmdther wpe
self. how it fe. My home Is home to
me no, Tonge. Thad alinost rather die than go
ere.
“T would not care if my father had married al-
fone else than the one he bas chosen.” she
uipel
ar. the matter eral thew bas
tro daughtors: They used to. be hore at school
Thelr Inother Drought dom Kore nome three year
ago, an adimoniehing all he te
\ers
a pat 3 with bee darlings, ur the: 7
shone lose anything by it. ong’ etre 2 the
as telegraph
Sedge then, there wasn’t tint tn Bilbtne
Seminary wo cea get Glong with phem,
fearhers wo pia lespair. ‘hose iy ie
and heavy every aay of
they are ar ta and
ase to hot
oar tis yea, and, sist tot thn
home! My father is to
there they ill all be.
ea
ing toearn my own living, 1—I would run
ou @ good idea,” he sald, eagerly:
jon’ you get. married, and. thea
wantdnt bare tb x0
‘The Idea scomed to strike ber like a briltlant tay
of sanlight ht Plezving throng the darknera
\d-do something to spake
foal sory for what ho is about to dot”
fobied,
“But, really, why don’t you marry, and avoid
being under the same roof with your erm step-
mother that is to be, and her two dreadful dang
aoe
“Tdo not know anybody! cried Flora, wretctt-
edly—“ that is, any body who would thik of asking
he to marry bitn.”
“Are you quite sure of thatt"” asked Seyforth
Wylde, jow, musical yoice.
Eee ate ausivered, hopelessiy. “I have nover
bad A lover,
How woald I do for one? he askea, abemptiy, | """Verpil® wnsrened Dora, a eneious expression
“Aga wane would you say if should ask you | crossing het face, “The ductor looked very grave
here and now, me, an take you | when he w pinion 1s that the
way from mit ‘th + ‘misory that ea be Sone une cht will not live tw on ™
det the root of a step-mother who bas daughters of started. Thad a of Dora been oceupled to the
ber clusion ots erste cleo by her ow thouzhts,
a ve Cooked ‘up at him with the greatest of aston- a must coasity seen the sudden paling
ishment. the ures’ 2 ‘count enenees ba she “wae not oe
i inean it, Florris—Mise Garlanat” he evied, | ne of the Qunkersike Tete Vefare hi
hoarsely, “1 ore yon, and [ have Jord son or iss et alts Wet erupied wit ti ‘that Audas kiss
the moment I first saw you. 1 know tt ve wt Me Mize CA Sir on ack tinprinted upon the lips,
ot fine beh See al
‘and al
ake mua fe e appiest man on earth by being his
do you say, Misa Garland—is it ‘yes’
ms
‘The proposal was s0 sudden it fairly took Flor- |*
Tle’s breath away,
‘+1 am called asay to-morrow to San Francisco,”
he said. “Do lot me take you with me as my
little pride, Florrie.””
“Oh, T coulda’ wt conldn’t?? gasped the girl, ia
wouldn't dare to; papa would be
es oom to care how terribly anery you
not marry on that account Daten Wyk
really Mr. Wylde, Ic onde nk of
she riety osntusealy: "ihm too 3 0 be any-
body's wite.”
You are the sweetest ago In the world,” he do-
clared; «you are just mow staniling on the thresh:
old whore girliood and wornant
sever of my oleae “cis ‘pare
Sracriod ‘its even fouoger dan sou Why, Ss
Dana's ances ie noe a ay over sixteen?”
I
ted that Ho young girl shoul evet
‘a person whom she does not iove. I~ tike
ou very myich Indeed, Mr. Wylde, but [ ata sure T
ae not love y
“Hare you ever met any one whom you have
fancied more than i. do a he asked.
For an instant Florrie dropped her curly head,
and. her thoughts flew to oe sunny aifternoony
cely a fortnight before, and the fair-haired,
handsome young man riding by ber side throug
tere rose blooms and the sweet scent of the ‘lover.
aJows, and how, unconsciously, her heart lad
gone oat tothe handsome, But
gen what was the use of thinking a Sin, arhen 18
trothed to another? She il to herself that
the onght to be wery {hank (al rae Mr. Wylde bad
dropped that rem larence Dang—that
already, eng: waced oi other—for phe acl
Toute of nothing cise but i fi ant
had noticed it, an warn:
to fall in love ‘ei bandeome cl larence:
Dana, ere she Knew that he felt like Interest for
horse!
A ‘on would Milly Banks say when she knew that
hhandsome young man already had a ewontnoart?
Form kuow that would never get over
teasing ber. Bbowt the atten
Florri silent so long that Sefer ws
grew. ‘alarmed
“Yon do not answer my question,” he sai
“ Have you ever met any ong Whom you thik Sou
would ‘have preferred to me?’
The in threw ber head back proudly,
“ ot” she wered, defiantly.
He ‘breathed tree reer.
fe rell mes st to be Yeo! or ‘No? adding:
“ wid say * and inet not 0 inclined, ae
on
need ny
could be po engage ora A ite inl
Foul roo
tat
i havea const
a charming society
my flancee with
and very foolish, ‘The thought
° to her, What « nice thing it would be to fell
Sty Banks, when she stepped into tho seminary
that afternoon, that she w4
All the girls thought Sie the most ronderful
thing in the w orld f? be engaged to somebody.
Brea ally be terribly jealous; “ood hen,
too, she could nel ‘bare the laugh on her for wasting
nother aie ‘a * intended.” ay ith
eedroune
thts ne uppermostia her pretty, ally little head,
Flora tgmed to him. 4 ngaged 90
Ppouldn’t, min ing 3 very,
n,? sho faltered, That is, if you really want
Fnose were the words that wrecked all the after
years of Flora Garland’s life.
(To be continued in our next.)
Please remember that Leura Jean Libbey
writes exclusively for The New York Fireside
‘Companion, in which paper all her new stories
AN OLD LETTER,
ei ORT Mester.
ellow and dim with age;
lafully gazing, ees
Thold the tora old page,
Only a token
From one who loved me well;
seat feted wring
arce the fond words can tell,
—_ a teter,
vee!
1
"Minding
only a letter,
Sellow and old te torns
spo my Rent it .
Row Tansadand word,
‘Tener ae teve wed sweet,
‘the writer ota dead
Never again we
Only @ letter,
” Hid In au oaken chest:
Ingo, close to my heart,
When Tain tail to reatt
Entered according to Act of Congress, In pe one) 1992, |
George 3 ro, Lan the OMce of © a are, by
Congres, Washington, B. Ce
HE TIDE OF PATE
By WENONA GILMAN, -
Author of * Fal the Tomboy," " My Little Princess,”
“ Hearts and Ltves,” “ Blinc Dan's Daughter,” etc,
hie tory wan commenced in No. 129 of The New Tome
Picea Courant.” beck mutnbers can be obvaited
from ail Sewsdealers,
frmn stone wilds Kor oe
isaeD it BOOK FoR}.
CHAPTER xu
fameey who admitted the trembling
figure of the nurne into the. ‘ately ealos that Ward
Cleseland called howe.
low Lyla over kept hemelt from erying ou
her surpe excitement at seeing
fis) when she) a Believed 20, much "ier * ied, ste
could mever aftermard i
the quiver fe fatigue of
a wong eho tho tle persone Meith thoap-
'@ Quaker even eniphasized more than
tore
‘sone from Doctor Chaudler to nurse the
child who is
w you coming tip the
hou! m I say
stoop," anenered Doran i UM Fou come thie way?”
She ted the way to a room Tse’
own during the term of her at
vin that bone
vou will take of your bonnet," Dora sald,
“L rele take you to the baby.”?
is ict” asked Lyla, patting her question
fe ‘oredy ered ately as possible, yet waiting In
tumult of exclterwent for the
too 8
‘made no further remark, but stood staring
mae of the TeLOW win a5 da bad changed her bon-
and bad ce rored fhe frot one 2 a Tiat
vith ie ‘apron. n Lyla
ie
"sho said,.quictly. ‘Wilt you tako
me to the e chi it id?
Dora turned In eltence and ted the way.
iftly pened the door of a darkened cham-
Pand, no following Net,
siy a8’ she hia jad opened it
ative dark
0.ente
Goo: iscless
1g from thetiane into the comp
ore & moment blinded Lyla; too, her
beart: nes es hee 5 to saftocat ion; ‘bat tier @ mo-
meni jomed to the shadow,
and. whe) re anced i jlenily.
upon a prettily draped brass
bed, man ni faintly, and beside the bed, stroking
the litte aid ‘sh "intinite gentleness, 8 m
Hs fs disheveled, bis face. pate, HIS
a bagened ‘from too apparent’ care aud elecpiess-
ness,
Tn an instant Lyla bad recognized Ward Cleve-
land.
we stood like a statue in the center of the floor
able to mote, looking with breathless interest
the tablean—het husband and her child,
eRChiler the tal is upon her, the wonder is that
fhe did) not die, Peslaps it was only the remem,
he Ife of her eita depended
that ‘kept hey from it. of
Inlgity waters in her ears and the swirl of iets
before her eyes; Tat ehe did not tune Ward C
Totnes Sot heard “her enter: aad thors. was
sufient timo for, bee her to recovet herself before it
her to speak.
“aviten se stot felt a ive foul do 20, sho went for-
ward and at eside him,
ive hed’ grown strangely calm ta those few min-
utes, and when she spoke her olee was sil, almost
“Won are Mr. Cleveland, , J rosumet” she gaia.
“Tara the nurse whom Doe! an
‘That w. The role, ras ged ‘taor the
strain 1 ‘Ward Cleveland. started
Sie rem upon hie ear there in the silence of
What seemed to him the chamber of dea
He arose and looked at her cnrion: cif 8
simple little duro It was! The litho aaa
rounded form was clothe
evi
‘eut, the
covered inary nose-glasses, And
how oold an Brita ‘she looked! “Yet he sighed be-
re reply
sald, © husky ner bie
‘ey forthe oniey eh a , and th
chill | Dostr Chandler ‘ee wo hat you are
¢ for children. If you succeed
ins vane a ehild's if, there te nothing sou can
at I shal ae. ot wi make ia rid
iis volce
life i more to
times ‘moten tore him a has ever lov
bis child. 7 know that | i ait Gepends upon you,
e him for me, ere is no extont to
whtob' eu may not comi me"
How Lyla's heart beat! In that moment hearing
bim speak like that of his chitd-of fer chitd--she
felt thas abe © could forgive him all the past withont
askiny hose words she felt that she contd
ve bin’ 'dhiealy a ring all the rest of her I
suitering anything for heel, AM thi ween
ment In Ito place ‘ove # In the
warm, earalng | inlah Jove tha ited bi
heart ini those old happy days-—tore that had ever
died, but that had been so pain
Sho was thankful for the tucrifces that sho had
deen take for him grateful to God that she
bad | ieee a ve ieuder for him, She ut
her own Reart t tha ran
tracious God, let mo gave the life of the
child £6 for him, and She let me die, that no evil may
ever befall ita thro
She did not reply atond at once, but when she
could control her voice, she answered, more gently
than before:
"if bis life depends pon devoted nursing, you
may be sure tha it al You need not
ear to trust him
‘sara choked the ‘ttorance of tho unhappy
faiher. Ha pat ont bis hand and elutehed that of
the nurse, fo for gore mint ide
thetr child before be could 6
Something in the plain, Glakerish figure seemed
to draw him to her, and he understood, with a feel-
Ing of thanksgiving, that he could trast her,
‘Thank you,” he said, simply. “I fool that T
may, and balf my anxiety Is gono in the thought, I
fut Miss Dalton ts ny superior.”
“No; Miss Dalton seh Hl this morning and
could not remain, Sbe 4 worn out, You Jook jaded
yourself. I'm ata ne
t be. Tam not tired.’ Don't dis-
‘OU may be sure that what there 18
pane rot ‘morta woman to do to suve this
ey
ehytash Tahal do.
ad forgotten herelf, and the earnestness
ot hee mark st prise ‘ibim. He looked at her
curlously for a moment, Jgn bowed gratefully.
igre Ghcre any orders
ho asked, t
3. t rant absolute qed for the objld—mind,
© enter thla room anless
{you wish given now?
‘tye
absol
rie except, ‘ned footer
But you can't do ita alone, You must have
+] an assistant.” -
“ Yor ay fet that. Tt
sonmmicced. ve
with itn rayse) on
Bite the one that no cue Hato enor uttess I ring?
“7 will: but y “
romise that ie “al Shore
fot me come:
it. Love the la 1 ah
you Know What it maga ae
bet > know what
e Would cay of hime In connection, with het
bate She turned to him awitcly, unable to con-
tro] the questi
Voice trembling
yon her
slightly What areyonae hint Only his adept
ed father, as 1 ae) it, and he has your wife
fora mot fer. res him ag much aa you do,
jocs she Ni
ie healtated, his face cotorin 1g deeply; then &
sudden resol tution came To initn, one of those tm-
jeart was torn with
Relevover the child, and turning passionately to the
nurse, he ert
‘1 aon trating
the secret, of my iif,
You see what thists fone In that Tdo it it the
anit Sites, motte antes ewer ce nor death,
i ithe tives, F can endure anything for bie sake.
is mines the sow ot the. one or iy whole
lite. nite Is: ait 1 nave ett tots rreclus ast that I
Jost and a cow- |
ard to ved and trusted tne
That rt ‘is at a i it vat way happiness acd 1
a
can n
The nl covered bis face with
die. Hols oid ‘waa Meobhing aloud,
a felt that she must throw her
ame about ‘his that she must beg his pardon
on bended knee for the wrong ‘hat she haa done
him; that she mast comfort him with her tender
ene and love: and then memory returned
Sho remembered, all that it would mean to im,
all the sorrow and shame and disgrace, and she
Knew that sie dare
She stood there stent his sobbing {n heart-
breaking sllen rehed iat leave the room
Rhea ne-could bear iene
weal ton she Knew that ie ‘was gone and that she
lone, sh eral oe to tho ehild by
Falling upon her En ees ving to God for
them both, pray! ‘hg as sho hail never done before in
I the bitternoss of her wretched life,
PTER XLII.
Bet with all Lyla’s cau attention, the baby
scemed to grow ho better,
For severai days she se: ft him, hovering:
aout iis bead both mene Bad day, domg all thee
mortal power to dg and, taku Only that
ecessary tamReeD her from positive
You £e. Doctor Chandler,
a a ct oe hy gicias one any
ene Be atin bane BHT Rec
dies It will n nursing. lon’
fnow how Lam n ane to wa the cate that sho ties
taken of him. basgour peyoud that of woman,
Hho is an angel,
va vering of the heart
for the terrible
ering over her.
oclor Chandler Jooked more grave than uscal,
He atill more convinced tl of
Eye it Tite its Genmsocted wil that shinee Yat
Cleveland knew nothing of it he felt
also. ass!
wiHe has Tot penetrated the dsguls,” the doctor |
told bims self, “it is the nuree, ible ealor
oman and yet
mong her isa
could never wall Tiheoueh in room, even tutor that
ee, without attracting my attention
But wi ard thought nothing of
There was one thing upon ‘eich La
had not
mnted when cho entered shat house, and that was
the ‘number of hours whieh she was foreed to pass
fe that Foom with ber obit anit ier busban
a terrible trial to he
or the child was 80 greet
Ward sometimes, and at citer he wonld enter the
and leave it w! reoly a word to her.
rote aay a reat ear sola Thpon the bub¥'s face
gone day as he stood beside her rhe he had tot
heard bi is heart went out to her.
Mo you thik he ie wore, Mies Meredith?" he
geked, ith a contraction of the beart that
titer onset
She glanced up, started to soe him, but regained
ber TO et ial almost at onee
“This 80 diff 1,"ahe answered, drearily.
«Certainly he Heino better, atl the fatntest change
for the worse wonld tan’ death.” raenté
“Taon't
"Yo id, gent]
believe you ave sient at ai Hor tro wighte, You
can not stand that, ya not better lie down
Gnd ete call the ofver moray
“snes Stoo her head,
snamered; Tahal stay.
hang came an Tere not here”
She broke the sentence abruptly, ber volce dling
‘weak 10 control.
It any
quivering with’e
Ghat Tean frame into
baby's own siother, I he could come down to
lea aa you have
a 49 believe
to serve you.
soe that yom ‘love the eu yourse
sice > broke, choked with anguish, He look-
ed, at. her in alarm,
There!” he exclaimed, soothingly.‘ You are
tired to deaths Towiailf on to oblice me, that Fou
would d lie down ir an vise you that I
will sit here mysel
ever small, i willy once.”
Don’ Claimed: I could not!”
“Phen waite Tite
Ie went out, and’a moment later abo heard the
ey t tara! fn a door tha tat ee sparated the child’s room
open, and she saw Ward
Given oling ‘imag seat ‘invaitd’s chair from hi
a lie placed it in a cozy corner oF op
1OW-
illea it with | pions,
@ door again, he
SNow i
You
voice, Bi Could facet ins ho
Ineo ana climbed into the chair. J!
id thre’
it for her himself rew his own embroidered
“Let my 1 well trained you are by seeing
how long ‘tn vi ake for you to go to sleep,” he
a rete 1s, tremulous
‘She smiled The t him, faintly, tremulously,
longing with all her poor, Mined heart to 0 throw het
about his neck, to jay het ead upon
it her vet
earned co nek of iim In those dass—
touch that she fad mover a mased In the ssiget
time of long ago, 7 endlermens,
eclf sncrifee ‘ bie ‘malate, th
will appear, Other journals can furnish her old
o
mich Fou to have entirercharge here, and toallow no
¢ fb the room that you do not desire.”*
Known. Was Itty the old Dayar Tina thers
been a secret : that he: ‘sould oe not tell her?
She recalled a thousand times bis words to her
when she had frst comer “41 was too great a coward
To'tmnat thowonan wh loved and trusted mie.”
‘Mail the fantt been bers, then? Tlad it all been
Jack of trust on her part that had caused ai} their
Witter woot
ifow she longed to know it all--to find the real
OF hestione~as sho, lay there in the
frente chal that he hind placed for her and watched
im a beelde hee boy: She remembered
ad listened t0 and believed Dora mien
Hetiad sad that Ward gid not love thelr baby.
Did tis 1ook like lack of love?
Clearly she bad not unsderstood him. There ware
the traces fn the handsome face of an avful erick
at Was sil} liven his heart, and i allonize to her
mare clearly than ever
Fenen ho thet the eiepe, wad close
Be, srindow potty ‘behind ‘bers fh fo puened
and too as he vould
be sed. io a ia i spel, bat stood there,
"i
at nat NO woman exer
smiled like that into the face she
dha not loves but Ward GiSseland thought lithe of
“pid 1 distur you?” he nsked, remorsefulls.
I'm so sorry. Twas afraid the draught from
igdow would give you cold.”
Twas not asleep.
“Then you are not a well-trained nurse, To
dot il breake down, and ‘hen
Heginala will die, fee Tam utter selfish"
Tshall never been down while be needs nie,”
she dunwered, faint
je Ieaned ‘over anid Kesed one of the hands
that ay upon the art of ber cha
“Forgive me!” he said, gents.
ould not have. done that, but»
angel than the soma
ary many Like yor tn ‘he world, Miss Meredith :
vaned against tho casing of the window,
with xin hands in the pockets of his trousers, an
wn upon her, the smile still upod’ bis
(Perhaps 1
ete
Tow ‘changed he was! ‘Thero was scarcely a
trace of the boyish, lover who had won her heart
those dear, dead days, and yet how infinitely
‘There was every~
or over that, and yet she
foal if she could
"And the hareet part of tt all to bear was that
ge. ne that she was crying out against the only
fing Impossible with God himsclt—to give back
este
Sho bad almost forgotten hie question in her
regains until recalled by the expression of his
fro none of us angels,” she avewered,
sone ‘and all women are ike i,
“ Ftlyou believe that? he asked, in-
ergtouty
tatnly To
Wen ty to onestly answer @ ques:
tion tae shot ike 0 pat 10 $0 a
<i mil ansirer it honest stab aan a mn?
“Thank ry se, if you can,
that you ee: my wile. Rurpos ‘ha ‘in my youth
Thad loved a woman, that I hd made her my wite
that to u that alter my first
rites death Thad n Taare sem sion telling you
of the secret tmerringe had Suppose
that aftertanh, when Picea migired
Eor'eome simerT should cel vod the trate and box
yout forgiventss for the past.“ What would you
Io?
Sho was trembling llega aspen,
“T should forgive you,” she ans’ “perhaps
becano there montd be nothing Ue t6 ao and t
should make tho bost of the situation by trying to
‘ow love me as you tind never loved her.
Waal Cleveland ce not reply. ‘te looked at
wen
EEPEN mr Rolpelensly walked
‘besiato “S Sok Bie
Goto My heeaid, almost curtly, tothe nurse,
She en exen, appearing to obey him, but
inher own heart
tte hina fond bee the truth aed she 1s ranking bis
tto.a poration. ‘God bel you, my poor Ward, and
from any furlber suffering!
Tete sre wiiat, magi 1 will Rove your chil
for ya an en 1 will go—abere, tt natters not
is death—that I did not trust
yon when, Jour heave wag. eth med My punish-
arent fs Jost —ernelly Just”
cuaprer XUm.
Ly. lept perhaps an hour,
exch viti a fe whe) find Ward ( ‘oveland onlin
ther, She rose hi ts to where abe
tras for the morsent, thish put wer baud Up quickly
toadjust her eap,
«You are all Tight,” ho eaid, kindly, “and bave
had a capital sleep, only it was not long enough. I
sine come often now, and seo myself that you take
the need, Do you feet ese tired
Sune refreshed, tha
merete ilas there beon any cad eney?
No, He wakened gneo, but went to sleep azain
shortly after, and has been alnost motionless ever
Bisa Be! has bad the most quiet sleep I have seen
jin
and looked down upon the
ent ‘then, fearha lost He. arouse. tho. Ile, one
from his sleep, Ward nodded to her and quietly
lett, th
She ai ‘stood there, looking intently down upon
the
‘ihre was @ great change taking place, and she
saw ite Ils countenance waa exactly like that of
Harry Molesworth when the chango came for him:
‘but Doctor Chandler h at the time, and
she remembered that ihe didnot know wetter it
meant life or death,
TF tho ehilttawakes from this sleep to conselonse
"the doctor had sald of Harry,“ he wil live.
eetow that apeect returned to her
Her heart leaped tao her a
She Knew that the turntng-point had
son’s life, and that nothing could be
one bit watch and Waiteand pra
“Bho had forgotten Ward, Cleveland—forgotten
werything under heaven except that boy—and
Groping on her: knees thore beside that bed, hel
the little band, with her fingers on the faint puise,
and prayed.
How eartiestly che’ prayed rk God and hersclt
could have told, | How terribly she sudfered tn her
awful anxiety! She longe Il her goul to take
fhe lite forty in her fncins, to eal the life back into
most stagnant veins at the cost of her ow
Tet clasnes were thrown astdo in that supreme mo:
ment or everything was forgotten save ber mother-
love.
Once the under-nurse cam ked in, but
she enw her superior iknceling thee ‘with the’ tiny
ist her, fingers, and slipped quietly
Bray, in'the bal she
* How is the baby?” Ths former nurse as
‘«Tdon't know. “He seems to be TieepinaY the
rofessional ansivered. “I did not dare intcrrapt
Miss Meredith.”
Dora went her way, entering the room of Madge
Clerelam with a gown ehe had been sent to, fetch,
was paler and more bitter than ever; but lit-
tle ranteution was paid to herin those days. Her
goul was in rebellion against Ward Cleveland, ho
had refused to allow her in the sick-room of the
shila to whom she had been Almost a thather, and
8 no injury she would not have done him,
had it een in her power, But there seemed to
be no evil that she could work, “She was helpless,
impotent in stret
"Thank you, Dora Mrs. Cleroland bad sald as
the ginentered. |" Will you send an ond
dame Maupassant ‘to conse 9 tomorrow
“ a fee madat anne 10
jow Is Reginald,
1 Pea wot tell $04, moalome.”
? "You tsed to seem 80 devoted to
But, Mr, Cleveland has issue
rs that no one ig to enter that room: ‘withow
the erminton of the head nurse, She has only per-
mitted oter once."?
nd does no one go there?
No one but. Bir, Cleveland 3, madame: and he
stayg thera more than Ralf ha time, ‘They
togetner there, and But I be
lame.
fact that Kn
who have hind charge of him ali his lito.
t te hate
tural that J sould not feel too pleasantly dleposed
toward the woman who bas abut ine out, nor toward
Me, Cleveland, who hae allowed it, But that should
¢xeuse me for tlling tnlen of either of therm ‘at
ra,
ould
ic tinvgreat chair out of is
Mnacelt toayy with the: embroidered cover you
gave him. He ‘covered her up tn it, and she slept
thore while he hed ‘beside the baby, They
{How do yon know that, ‘Borat
i dot throng the ‘window.
‘dat shatow erosae e"s face.
that she was Jealous of thenurce. She
ment that there were any relations
fireoa hor hab d_ his child's
even she would ni @ sanctioned
She faushed weith.an affectation of ea
40 funny, doesn’t 1?” ‘he sald, Heht-
ty. The ea of ie waiting tpon that carious:
joking creature iy that way! Why, she is old
enpugt to be bis
‘a forgot herself sufficiently far to interrupt
er mistrens
‘Are you sure, madame?” she cried, I have
had some doubts Of, the Woman, Might she not be
a yong woman in disg
Madge start
What pees fare you talking, Dorat”
she asked, sharp
the el: but it seems to
sometimes ‘ything cau't be right. I
fm anre, to do bit justies, that Mr. Cleveland does
not au suspect Jeg ut er ie is som thing rong W
501
is something prong. ma haw a manner That
‘Don’
natural. ask me what ft means, Tay
for Lean’t answer, not knowing. I a e Mr.
Cloreland does not know. But what is ity and
Shs!
Dora bad not intended to.sny 80 m
not meant to utter any words beyond asimple co:
plaint of Mr, Cleveland, Bellet “at Nags
rout insist upon her entrance 1
ena Eoared herself tobe carried away
ft sho bad spoken all her susplcions.
‘Madge arose slowly.
‘it is curious,” she said, musingly. “That ts
the woman who tried to prevent my seeing Viola's
children. Twonder if there is anything in it?
must discover.”
Meanwhile, in the sick-room, Lyla had ceased to
pray, andawas watching with bated breath for the
charige that she knew was comiug. The breathing
the cbild w: more regular, the brill-
Sat ise of fever woo slowly leaving: yet. sho
geareely dared even then to bope, Ter excitement
was go inten: t life was as dead t
ceased to remember
st
erything except that it
boy who lay there fighting desperately for his little
fe.
Fear lay npon her beart like a terribly heavy op-
guished excitement the per-
Fplratio stood upon er face like drops of
re than once, to prevent the drops from fatting
the face of the child and disturbing that
ws sleep, she had put up ee hand aid
jo her very heart seemed
xed upon the little
tuto ber own.
25, @ faint, weak sutle ‘pon the sweet
uth, and, in a voice that Was scarcely audible
even fos the uedrear he baby narmured
Where is Dowat I like you
petten” Who feces
Hove wtidy her heart plunged! Yet she know that
she dared not excite him. “She lifted him tn her
W id of tendemess—-a tenderness that
my. darling
huingey mother’ Do soa erertands
Rega, Reger! rluiaectinnicits
my)
ve, I'm t least give ment of
tani “Call nie Mamma,” 0 2”
aTMAd not expect hint to’ unvderends ae did
not even wait him to understand. But something
igst be allowed to a starving heart.
my miamma®” he asked, drowslly. “ Weray
ts seenst "00 won't go away, will ’oo!
“Noy ny precious one. fo"to sleep, my babs.
Sared—ente
ast words were whispered with frantic
shane ing as she saw the little lids close. | She
felt that she was becoming hysteriea! she
laughing and erying at Fe Same time and kes
Ing, that sue, must not disturb him, she piaced hin wi
back upon the bed, then lifted bi
sk, with her hands ela sts closely, the teare pour
her smiles.
Thank God! He
conscious that
therosras some one st inside the door Of the room
Who tind heard ber, ‘She kinew not how long that
silent figure had been mn atanding there; but she sud-
denly opp and the woman came out of the
low}
shadow 6 nome hugo animal that Walls
for an opportn rally to spr mn its preys
The Tooking at each ¢ ter in silence 1
recnning the face of Ward
adge reeognlzing—~the ace i he
+ (To be continued in our next.)
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‘This story was commenced In No. 1274 of THE Naw Tonk
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CHA VI.
“Wrty I swow!” came the startling declaration
ina nasal tone, and a great giant of an old woman
with Fellow halr and gree suddenly aj
@ some grotesque apparition in the room
hero the diabolical scene ‘above described was In
Pro:
"The men who ete working the horpttte iniquity
all started back in amazement, and gazed wi
blaring eyes on the "strange figure,
tinge’ el) T wow?” came the exclamation a second
‘The men in @ moment partially recovered from
their ‘amazement, and Hewlett, the arch-instigator
of the role afar, demand ied
* Who are yor, and where did you come from?”
fal, IY name is ‘Saliy Jou Brown, aud I
came frofy Bosting
Well, Mrs. Sal
«Mise saliy 8 sea pleat” and the queer look
ing old creature d uth and asenined
a simpering expression. "under her, goggles, at the
some | time eourtesying In the most approved girlish
ee Wel, Mies Sally Jane Brown, how did you get
into thie hou
eyvalked ta on my foot.
“You walked In, eb