WT'v-VvTt;f -T .V'r. VJ f ' ,-ri "ffiA-1 yyvv '. y t . X) " ' ' S 4 '?. t'lyt. "ctiVyry "v" 1i '?pem iVrrtlie Bight of bte urn vwt, mI new they deemed U beet te keep within. Everything Indicated that Perry had get te the scene jut la time te prevent a bloody aad desperate fracaa, for the few ranch people who appeared were etUl quivering Willi excitement aad dread. Ewen waa almost tee much agitated te peaks I "Gote Mr. Maltland a aoea aa yen can, doctor; thla haa given him a fearful baking up, Mrs. Gewaa k having a room made ready for Mr. Ferry. Aht here's young Cowan new. Ready!" ha asked. - "All ready. Mether says carry the gentleman right in. She wants you te come tee," he added, in a lower tone, te 8ergt Qwynne, but the latter made no replj. And se, berne in the arms of several of his men, Lieut Perry was carried across the intervening space and Inte the main building. When he recovered con cen con scleusneM, as the morning light came through the eastern windows, he found himself lying in a white curtained bed in a strange room, with a strange yet kind and motherly face bending ever him, and his captain smiling down into his wondering eyes. "Yeu ere coming round all right, old fellow," he heard Stryker say. "I'll call the doctor new; he wanted te see you as seen as you waked." And then Quln came In and said a few cheery words, and bade him lie still and worry about nothing. The row was ever, thanks te him, and he and peer Nelan were the only victims; but it had been a great shock te Mr. Maltland and ren dered his condition critical. Perry listened in silence, asking no questions. Fer the time being he could think of nothing but Nelan's less. It was such a cruel fate te be killed by these he came te save. All that day he lay there, dozing and thinking alternately. He wenderedat the tenderness and devotion with which the kind old Englishwoman nursed him and seemed te anticipate his every went. Quln came in towards evening and dressed his wound, which new began te be feverish and painful. He heard his colonel's volce in the hallway, tee, and heard him say te the doctor that some body at Rossiter was eager te come down and take care of him. "Besh!" said the blunt surgeon; "I've a far better nurse here and n rcserve te fall back upon that will be worth a new life te him." And, weak and feverish though he was, Perry's heart thrilled within him; he wondered If it could mean Gladys. Twe days mero he lay there, the fever skill fully controlled by the doctor's m ink t ra tions, and the pain of his wound sub dued by Mrs. Cowan's cooling bandages and applications. Hut thwe was a burn ing fever in his heart that utterly re fused te go down. He strained his ears listening for the sound of her voice or the pit-a-pat of her feet fall in the'corrl the'cerrl the'corrl der. At last he mustered courage and asked for her, and Mrs. Cowan smiled: "Miss Maltland has been here three times te inquire hew you were; but it was while you were sleeping, Mr. Perry, and she rarely leaves her, father's bed side. He is very ill, and seems te be growing weaker every day. I don't knew what we would have done if we had net found Dr. Quln here; he has pulled htm through two or three bad seizures during the pait year." "Where had you known the doctor be bo be fere?" asked Perry, with an eager light in his eyes. "Newhere; but it was as though one of his own kith and kin had suddenly made his nppearance here te welcome Mr. Maltland. The doctor 15 a first cousin of Mrs. Maitl.ind's; she ' was from Ire land, and It was from her family that the ranch was named. Lord Dunraven is of the peerage of Ireland, you knew," added Mrs. Uewan, with the cheerful confldence of the Englishwoman that every person of any education or stand--ing must be familiar with the pages of Debrett. "Tlnw dinuld I knew onvtlituer about It?" laughed Perry. He felt in merry mood; another page in his volumeof sus picion and dread was being tern away, and Quiti's relations with the household were turning out te be such as niade him an object of lively Interest, net of jealous doubt. Then came the callers from the garri son. It seemed as though all of a sudden the blockade had been raised and that no peeple were se warmly welcomed at Dutiraven as the very ones who had been especially prescribed. Mr. Maltland, wcak and ill as he was, had asked te be allowed te Bee Cel. Brainard en the occa sion of that officer's second visit; Stryker, -Dana, Graham ond-Parke had all been allowed te come up and see ferry a tow moments, but Mrs. Cowan was vigilant and remorseless, would allow them only a brief interview, and, with smiling de termination, checked her patient when he attempted te talk. The third day of his imprisonment Dr. Quln came scowl lag in along in the afternoon, manifestly annoyed about something, and said a few words In a low tone te Mrs. Cowan, and that usually equable matron fluttered away down stairs In evident excitement. "It's Mrs. Belknap," explained the doctor, In answer te Perry's inquiring leek. "Slie has ridden down here with Dana and sent her card up te GladyB who can't bear the sight of her; I don't knew why; intuition, I suppose." Presently Mrs. Cowan reappeared: "Miss Gladys has asked te be excused, as she docs net wish te leave her father at this moment; and the lady would like te come up and see Mr. Perry." "Tell her no!" said Quln, savagely. Ne here: I'll go myself." And down went the doughty medical officer, and straightway the rumbling tonesef his harsh volce were heard belew: the words were indistinguishable, but Mrs. Cowan's face indicated that there was something in the sound that gave her comfort. She steed at the window watching the pair as they rede away. "Miss Gladys shuddered when she had te shake hands with her that day when we came away from Mrs. Sprague's," said she. "I hope that lady is net a particu lar friend of yours, Mr. Perry?" "We liave been very geed friends in deed," said he, loyally. "Te be sure, I have hardly known Mrs. Belknap a month, but both she and the captain have been very kind te me." All the same, down in the bottom of hU heart, he did net wonder at Miss Maitland's sensations. He was beginning te despair of ever seeing her, and yet could get no explanation that satisfied him. "Yeu knew slie can walk only with great pain and difficulty even new," said Mrs. Cowan. "Her ankle was very badly wrenched, and she hardly gees farther than from her own te her fath er's room. Yeu ought te feel compli mented that she has leen here te your deer three times." 'I feel mero like butting ray brains out for being asleep," .muttered Perry in reply. "I wish you would wake me next tlme, Sirs. Cowan. 1 shan't bcllove it until I see it, or hear her volce at the deer." She bad excuwd .herself te Mrs. Bel knap, and the doctor had denied that lovely woman her request te be allowed, te ceme up and see Mr. Perry; and yet the very next day, when the big four inule ambulauce from Rossiter came driving up te the front deer, and Mrs. Sprague and Mrs. Lawrence, escorted by the colonel and Capt. Stryker, ap PMred en tn veranda, bow did It ban THBIANOASTBB DAILY INTELLIGENCES SATUKDAY NOVEMBER pen that the ladles were speedily usliered upstair te Miss Maitland's own room, and tliat, after an animated though low toned chat of half an hour with her, they were marshaled down the long cor ridor by Mrs. Cowan in person, and, te Perry's hugs delight, were shown in te, his bedside? It looked as though Quln were showing unwarrantable discrimina tion. Stryker and the colonel, tee, canie In te tea him, and the latter told him that both Mr. Maltland and Mr. Ewea had begged that the arrested soldiers might net be punished. Including Sergt Leary and Kelly, there were nor, twenty men under charges mere or less grave in their character, and he had asked that a gen eral court martial be convened for their triaL The colonel deeply appreciated the feeling displayed by the stricken propri etor and his overseer; he waa touched that even in hisertrfme illness and pros tration Mr. Maltland should intercede for the men who had made se hostile an In vasion of his premises and brought upon the Inmates of Dunraven a night of dread and anxiety; but disclpline had te be maintained, he replied, and the ringlead ers in the move had been guilty of a flagrant breach which could net be over looked. But en the following day the fourth of Perry's stay the doctor came down with a face full of gloom and distress. Beth nurse and patient noted it, and in quired the cause. Fer a time Quln avoided any direct reply: "something had ruffled him up at the pest," he an vweredt "can't tell you about it new. Ill de it by and by. I want te think." He examined Perry's leg, dressed and re bandaged the wound, and then went back te Mr. Maitland's room. They could bear his voice in the hall after a while, and Perry's heart began te throb heavily; he was sure the low, sweet tones, almost Inaudible, that came floating along the corridor, were these of Gladys. When Mrs. Cowan speke te him en some or dinary topic, he Impatiently bade her bush he could net bear te be disturbed and, far from being hurt at his pctu pctu lance, Mrs. Cowan smiled softly as she turned away. Then Quln came back, and, nfter fidgeting around a moment, abruptly ad dressed his patient: "Perry, de you remember that morn ing you rede down here right after re re veille and met me en the trail or at least would have met me if I hadn't dodged and gene ever te the ether side of the valley?" "Certainly I de, doctor." "I may as well explain that singular performance first. Yeu may have heard that I didn't get along amicably with your predecessors of the Eleventh. Their colonel was nss enough te totally miscon miscen miscon strue the purpese of my visits here, and I was nsi eneuirh te ruake no explana tion. The Maillauds went away; I was net called for again while the Eleventh remained; and therefore I said no mero about it Mr. Maitland rcturned unex pectedly seen after you came, and the first I knew of it was the signal lights telling me he was there, ill, and that I was wanted. It was the night of the colonel's dinner party. I couldn't ex plain then, and decided te go at ence and explain afterward. When I met you all of a sudden the next morning, the first impulse was te get away out of your sight, and I obeyed it simply be cause of the unpleasant experiences I had been having with your fellow caval rymen. I did net want te have te an swer questions. See? I was ashamed of It, but tee late te turn back." Perry nodded. "I understand it new," he said. "Well, what I want te ask is about Sergt. Gwynne. Did you meet him be bo be fere you get back?" "Yes a mile or se out from the pest." "Yeu stepped and talked with him, didn't you?" "Yes for several minutes." Mrs. Cowan's neodlework had fallen In her lap. She was seated near the window, and had been busily Bowing.' New she was looking up, eager and intent. "Yeu've known him a long tlme, haven't you?" "Yes ever slnee he joined, no's ene of the best sergeants I ever knew." "Yeu would hardly think him guilty of any dishonesty, would you?" Mrs. Cowan was rising from her chair; the needlework had fallen te the fleer. "Dishonesty! Net by a geed deal!" was the reply that bade fair te be even mero impulsive, and was checked only In deference te the presence of a woman. "Well, neither would I, from what I've seen of him; and yet Mr. Maitland's seal ring was found en him last night." "My Gedl Of course he could explain It In some way?" "He couldn't or wouldn't He sim ply steed there, white as a sheep except where these bruises made him green and blue. He had denied the charge flatly when accused; and yet there it was In his chest I never saw any man se taken aback as Capt. Stryker; he said he would have sworn te his innocence." "Se would I! se I de, by Jupiter! It's some foul plot! It's" But he get no further. Te his own amaze, te the utter bewilderment of Dr. Quln, Mrs. Cowan precipitated herself upon her patient, seized the hand that lay nearest her en the coverlet, and burst forth into half articulate, sobbing, indignant words, mingled with kisses showered passionately en that astonish ed band. "Oh, bless him for the words! Oh, Ged bless you, Mr. Perry! Ob. the feels! the lunaticsl A thief, indeed. The idea of his being accused! Oh, Gedl what would his mother in heaven say te this? As though he had net berne far tee much alreadyl It's his own his own ring, I tell you! Who else should wear it? Who dare take it from him new? Oh, the Infamy of it nllt" In her wild excitement, in her inco herent pralse and lamentation and wrath and indignation, her voice, her sobs, rang through the room and out along the bread corridor. Even In their amaze the two men heard a hurried step ap proaching, a limping, halting, painful step, yet rapid and impulsive. Quln, ab sorbed in his contemplation of the ex cited woman, paid no attention; Perry's eager eyes were strained upon the deer way, where, the very next instant, with pallid features and startled mien, Gladys Maitland appeared and steed staring ill upon the spectacle of Mrs. Cowan kiss ing and sobbing ever Perry's band. Al ready he had divined the truth, and strove te warn the tear blinded woman of her presence; but Mrs. Cowan's ex citement had increased te the verge of hysteria; slip v,is laughing and crying new by turns, blessitig her soldier patient for his faith in the accused sergeant, and then breaking forth anew in Indignant expletive, "Who are his accusers? Who dore say thief te him? Netene Is fit te leek him in the facet Twos the very ring his mother gave him, his own! his own J" And then the doctor seized her and turned her se that she mutt see Gladys Gladys, wild eyed, panting, staring, tot tering forward from the doorway. One sharp cry from the woman's lips, one spring towards the reeling form, and she had caught the girl in her arms. "Gladys, Glalyi. my little petl my own baby girll Loek up and thank Ged! I've tried te Leep my premise and his secret until he released me. I've tried hard, but it's all useless; I can't, I can't Oh, Gladys, sweetheart, your mother's smiling down en us this day. Who de you think haa come back te us, aafe and strong and well and brave? Who but your own brother, your own Archie, Gladys?" CHAPTER XVIIL c .th V--- ES, certainly very pretty pretty new. It's such a pity that Englishwomen grew coarse and stout and red faced se very seen after they nre married." The speaker was Mrs. Belknap, and her soft voice was tuned te a pitch of almost pathetie regret They were talking of Miss Maltland, who hed just been as sisted te her saddle by the colonel, and new, followed by the faithful Griggs and escorted by Capt Stryker, was rid ing away homeward after a brief call at the pest. Fert Rossiter, ence se hum drum and placid and "stupid," as the ladies termed it, had been the vertex of sensations for a whele fortnight, nnd ene excitement had trodden en the heels of another with such rapidity that people were growing weary. Perhaps the happiest man in garrison was Capt. Stryker; he had refused te bo be bo lievo in the guilt of Sergt Gwynne when Capt Wayne came te him te say that there were men in his troop who openly accused the sergeant of having that cher ished sal ring secreted in his chest Se cenfldei.t was he that he had geno with the captain and Mr. Farnham te the stables and there told Gwynne of the charge against him. Gwynne flushed hotly, denied the truth of the story, but hesitated when asked if he would allow his chest te be searched. This was quick ly noted by Wayne and Farnham, and the search was Insisted upon. Gwynne then said there were a few items In that chest which he allowed non te see; he pledged his Beldler word that they were nothing but a paper or two, seme llttle photographs and a book. Thcse he asked permission te remove first; then they might search. But Wayne sternly re fused. The sergeant turned very white, set his lips, and hesitated still, until his own captain spoke; then he turrendcrcd his key. Wayne and Farnham bent ever the chest while the troop first sergeant rapid ly turned ever the clothing, books, etc., with trembling hands. There was a llttle compartment at ene side, in which were lying Berne small items a pocket com pass, a pencil case, some keys, n locket and a neck chain, and, among thcse, something wrapped in tissue paper. This was banded te Capt. Wayne, who un rolled the paper,and there wasa mass! ve seal ring. A crest was cut in the Btene, and, taking it te the light, Wayne was able te make out the motto, "Qued sur sum vele vidcre." It was the ring Mait land had lest Stryker looked wenderlngly at his ser geant, who steed there as though petri fied with amaze and consternation, pale as death, and unable te say a word. Asked te explain the matter, he could only shake his head, nnd, after awhile, hoarsely muttered, "I knew nothing about it I never placed it there." "De you mean te tell rae you never saw It before?" asked Wayne, sternly. And Gwynne was silent. "Is this the first tlme you ever saw it, I say?" repeated the captain angrily. "Ne, sir; I have 6cen it befere," was the answer. "Then you must have known 'twas stolen, and you have connived at Its con cealment," was Wayne's triumphant conclusion; and en the report of his offi cers Cel. Brainard had no alternative hut te order Gwynne's clese arrest Only Stryker's appeal and guarantee saved the sergeant from confinement in the guard house The next sensation was the sight of Dr. Quin galloping back te the pest like mad and belting unceremoniously into the colonel's gate. Then Stryker was sent for, and the three officers held an excited conversation. Then the orderly went at a run ever te the quarters, and in five minutes Sergt. Gwynne, erect as ever and dressed with scrupulous care, looking anything but like a guilty man, was seen crossing the parade towards his colonel's house. The men swarmed out en the perches as the tidings went from lip te lip, and seme of the Irish troopers in Wayne's company were remarked as being oddly excited. Just what took place during that Interview nene could tell, but in ten minutes the news was fly ing around the garrison that Sergt. Gwynne was released from arrest, and in less than half an hour, te the wonder ment of everybody, he was seen riding away towards Dunraven with Dr. Quin, and for two days mero did net reappear at llessiter. But when the story flashed from heuse te heuse about the garrison that Sergt Gwynne was net Sergt. Gwynne at nil, but Mr. Archibald Wyndham Quin Mait land, late of her majesty's th Lancers, the only surviving son of the invalid owner of Dunravan Ranch and ether valuable properties, the amaze amount ed te stupefaction. It was known that old Mr. Maitland lay desperately weak and ill the day that Quin the doctor came riding back. All manner of stories were told regarding the nllectlng na na ture of the Interview in which the long lest son was restored te his over joyed father, but, like most stories, they were purely the offspring of imagination, for at that Interview only three were present: Gladys led her brother te the room and closed the deer, while geed Mrs. Cowan steed weeping for joy down the long corridor, and Dr. Quin blinked his eyes and fussed and fidgeted and strode around Perry's room with his hands In his pockets, exploding every new and then Inte sudden comment en the romantic nature of the situation and the Idiocy of some peeple there at Res siter. "Jey does net kill," he sold; "Maitland would have been a dead man by the end of the eek but for this; It will give him a new lca6e of life." And It did. Though the flame we3 feeble and flickering, it was fanned by a joy unutterable. The boy whom the stricken father believed hla stubborn pride and condemnation had driven te despair and suicide was restored te him tn the prlme of manly strength, all ten derness, all forgiveness, and Maitland's whole heart went up In thanksgiving. He begged that Brainard and Stryker I would come te htm, that he might tliank them for their faith in his son; he bade the doctor say te Perry that the moment he could be lifted from hla bed he would ceme te clasp his hands and bless him for being a far better friend te his eeii than he had been a father. The sergeant's return te the pest was the signal for a general turnout ou the rart of tlu man. all of whom warn curi EFjP 'i eus te see hew ha would appear new that hU Identity waa established. Of course, his late assailants could net join in the crowd tint thronged about htm, but they listened with eagerness te everything that was told. "He waa just the same as ever," said all account. He had nevcr been intimate with any of them but always friendly and kind. One thing went the round like lightning. "' Yeil'il be getting your discharge new, sergeant," said' Mrs. Iked, the voluble wife of the leader of the band, "and taking up your residence at the ranch, I suppose. Of course the BrltfJh minister can get It for you in a minute." "Net n bit of it, Mrs. Reed," was the laughing answer, "I enlisted te serve Unde Sam five years, and he'a been tee geed a friend te me te turn from. I shall serve out my time with the th." And the sergeant was true te his word. If old Maltland could have prevailed, an application for his son' discharge would have geno te Washington; but this the soldier positively forbade. He had eight months still te serve, and he meant te carry out his contract te the letter. Stryker offered him a furlough, and Gwynne thankfully took a week, that he might be by his father's side and help nurse him te better health. "By that time, tee, the garrison will have grown a llttle mero accustomed te it, sir, and I will have less embarrassment In going en with my work." Twe days befere bis return te duty there came a modified sensation in the shape of the report that a trooper of Wayne's company had deserted. He was a man who had borne n bad reputa tion as a turbulent, mischief making fellow)1 and when Sergt Leary heard of his going' he was tn a state of wild ex citement He begged te be allowed te see his captain, and te him he confessed that ene of his llttle party of three had seen the ring drop from Mr. Maitland's finger the night of the first visit te Dun raven, had managed te pick it up and carry it away In the confusion, and had shown It te his friend in Wayne's troop when they get back. The latter per suaded him te let him take it, as the lockers of the men who were at Dun raven were sure, he said, te be searched. It was known that he had a grudge against Gwynne; he was ene of the men who was te have geno te the ranch the night they purposed riding down and challenging the Englishmen te ceme out and fight, but had unaccountably failed at the lest moment They believed that he bad chosen that night te hide the ring in the sergeant's chest: be could cosily have entered through the win dow. And this explanation the only ene ever raade became at ence accepted aa the true ene throughout the garrison. During the week of his furlough the sergeant found time te spend many hours by the bcdslde of Lieut. Perry, who was rapidly recovering, and who by the end of the week had been lifted into an easy invalid chair and wheeled in te see Mr, Maitland. When net with Mr. Perry, the young trooper's tougue was ever wagging In his pralse. He knew many a flne officer and gallant gentleman in the servlce of the old country, he said, and he admired many a captain nnd sub altern In that of hla adopted land, but the first one te whom he "wormed" the first ene te win his affection was the young cavalryman who had met his pain ful wound In their defense. Old Malt land listened te it all eagerly he had already given orders that the finest thor oughbred at Dunraven should be Perry's the moment he was able te mount again and he was constantly revolving in mind hew he could show his appreciation of the officers who had befriended his son. Mrs. Cowan, tee, never tired of (tearing Perry's praises, and eagerly questioned when tbe narrator flagged. There was another absorbed auditor, who never questioned nnd who listened with down cast eyes. It was she who seldom came near Perry during his convalescence, she wheetartlcd and astonished the young, fellow beyond measure, the day the am bulance came down te drlve him back te the fort, by withdrawing the hand he had Impulsively selzed when at last she appeared te bid him adieu, and cutting short his eager words with "Mrs. Belknap will conselo you, I dare say," and ab ruptly leaving the room. Peer Ned! In dire distress and per plexity he was driven back te Rossiter, and that very evening he did a most sen sen sibleand fortunate thing; he told Mrs. Sprague nil jbeut it; and, instead of con doling with liim and bidding him strive te be patient and saying that all would ceme right in tlme, the llttle woman's kind eyes slione with delight, her cheeks flushed with genulne pleasure; she fairly sprang from her chair, and danced up and down and clapped her hands and laughed with glee, and then, when Ierry ruefully asueu nor u mat was me sym pathy be had a right te expect from her, alie only laughed tbe mere, and at last breke forth with: "Oh, you great, etupld, silly boy! Yeu ought te be wild with happiness. Can't you bce ehe's jealous?" And the very next day she had a long talk with Dr. Quln, whose visits te Dun- ' raven still continued; and ene bright afternoon when Gladys Maltland rede up ' te the fort te return calls, she managed te have quite n chat with her, despite the fact that Mrs. Belknap hhewed a strong 1 desire te accompany that fair English i girl in all three of her visits. In this ' effort, tee, the diplomatic services of Capt. Stryker proved rather tee much for the beauty of the garrison. Was it pobsible that Mrs. Sprague bad enlisted him also in the geed cause? Certain it Is that the dark featured captain was . Miss Maitland's escort as she left the ' garrison, and that it was with the con- t Ecieusness of impending defeat that Mrs. Belknap gave utterance te tbe opening sentence of thla chapter; Sir. Perry had distinctly avoided her ever slnce his re turn. One lovely evening late In May Mr Perry waa taking his first rlde en the new horse, a splendid bay and a perfect mutch for Gladys Maitland's favorite mount Already had this circumstance excited smiling comment In the garrison; but if the young man himself had noted the close reseinblance it conveyed no i blissful augury. Everybody remarked '. that lie had lest much of his old buoy- nncy und life, nnd it must be confessed he was mt looking cither blithe or well. I'arlte hail suggested riding with him nn limitation which Perry treated se coldly that the junior stepped te think a moment, and began te bee threugli the munitien; nnd se Mr. Perry was suffered te net forth alone that evening, and no euu was f urpnsiil when, after going out of the went gaUi as though bent en rid- i ing up the Menee, he was piesently been , te have niade the circuit of the est and was idewly cantering down towards the , lower valley. Out en the eastern prolrie I another horseman could be seen, nnd preKWitiy lue two came legeuier ixn. Brainard leek down hla binocular and gaz"d out a.'ter them. "1 declare," said he, "theso two fig ures are no much nlike I cannot tell which of them U ferry." "Then the ether Is Sergt Gwynnc, col cel col ene!," nald Stryker, quietly. "Put him in our uniform, nnd it would Indeed be hard te tell the two figures apart Mr. Maitland told me last week that that was what be startled and struck him the firbt tlme he saw Perry." "Hew Is Mr. Maltland new, de you knew?" "lie gets no better. Alter tue nrst week of joy and thanksgiving ever his boy's restoration te him, the malady seemed te reassert Itself, Dunraven will have a new master by winter, I fancy." The colonel was silent a moment Then he suddenly asked t "By the way, hew was It that Gwynne wasn't drowned? t nevcr understood that" "He never meant te be," said Stryker. "He told Perry all about It He was ruined, he though t,ln his profession and In liisew.. country, and he knew his father's inexorable prii?; he simply decided te put an end te Arclile Mull 'and and start a new life for himself. He vrc'e his letters nnd arranged his property wttn. that view, and he called the (toward te cnable htm te swear he was in his state room after the steamer weighed anchor. Then in a jiffy he was ever the side in the darkness; it was flood tlde and he was an expert swimmer) he reached a coast ing vessel lying near; he had money, bought his passage te France, after a few days at Cape Town, and then came te America nnd enlisted, IIe get a con fession out of ene of their irregulars who was with him, Perry says, and that was ene of the papers he was guarding se jealously. IIe had given ethers te Puny tliat very night" "They seemed te take te each ether like brothers from the start," said the colonel, with a quirt smlle. "Just about," answered Capt Stryker. Meantime Terry and Bcrgt awyuue have been riding slowly down the valley. Night has ceme upon Dunraven by the hour they reach the northern gate no longer closed against them and as they near the house Perry slowly dismounts. "I'll take the horses te the stable myself: I want te," says his trooper friend, and for the second time the young officer stands upon the veranda at the doorway, then holds his hand as he hears again the soft melody of the piano floating out upon the still night nir. Slowly and net without pain he walks around te the east front, striving te meve with noiseless steps. At last he stands by the open casement, just where he had paused in surprise that night u month ngone, and slowly drawing nslde ene heavy fold of curtain, gazes longingly In nt Gladys Maltland, seated there nt the piano, just where he first saw her lovely face and form. Presently, under the soft touch of her fingers, a sweet, familiar melody comes rippling forth. He remembers It in stantly; it Is the saiue he heard the night of his first visit that exquisite "Spring Seng" of Mendelssohn's and he listens, spell bound. All of a sudden the sweet strains are broken off, the musle ceases; she has thrown herself forward, bewed her queenly head upon her arms, and, leaning ever the keyboard, her form Is shaken by a storm of passionate tears. Perry hurls aside the sheltering curtain and limps rapidly across the soft and noiseless rug. She never dreams of his prosence untit, clese at her side, a volce she has learned te knew and knew well a volce tremulous with leve, sympathy and yearning murmurs only her narae, "Gladys," and, starting up, she leeks ene Instant Inte his longing eyes. Sergt "Gwynne" Maltland, lifting the heavy portions a moment later, steps short at the entrance, gazes ene second I I the picturcsque eccne at the piano, drops the porticre, and vanishes, unno ticed. Things seemed changed at Dunraven of late years. The th are still at Rossiter, se is Lieut Perry. It may be the climate or association with an American sister hood, or who knows? perhaps some body has told her of Mrs. Belknap's pre diction, but Mrs. Perry has net yet begun te grew cearse, red faced or stout She is wonderfully popular with the ladles of the th, and bus found warm friends among thorn, but Mrs. Sprague of the In fantry is the woman she particularly fan cies, and her gruff old kinsman Dr. Quin is ever a welcome guest at their fireside. It was he, she told her husband long after, who undid the mischief Mrs. Bel knap had been nble te sew in ene brlef conversation. "I've known that young woman ever slnce she wero pinafores, Gladys. She has seme geed points, tee, but her ene Idiosyncrasy la that every man she meets should bow down te and worship her. She Is nn Alexander in pet ticoats, sighing for new worlds te con quer, has bccnncoquettefiom thouradle, and what fihe can't forglve In Ned Perry la that he simply did net fall In leve with her as she thought he had." Down at Dunraven the gntca are geno, the doers nre very hospitably open. Ewen Is still manager de jure, but young Mr. Maltland, the proprietor, Is manager de facto, and, though there is constant going nnd coining between the fort and the ranch, and the officers of the th ride in thorn at all hours, what makes the ranchman se popular among the rank nnd file is tlie fact that Sergt. "tlivynnu," ea they still call him, has u warm place in his heart for one and all. nnd every year when the date of hla enlistment In the th comes round lie gives nbarbccue dinner te the men, whereat there ure feasting and drinking of healths and eeng and speech making, and Leary and Donevan nnd een the recreant iiclly nre npt te be boisterously prominent en such occasions, but blissfully w for there hasn't leen a shindy of any kind since their old cemrade stepped into bis possessions at Dunraven Itaiich. Mil' gr A N'etcI Dress Hull. At a recent convention of merchant tailors Mr. Henry Turner, president el the Tailors' National exchange, appeared in a new and original dress suit, which he offered for the consideration of hit broth or tailors, with a view el making it tin fashion. If h should succeed ic this, it will be tht last great tri umph of thai democratic move ment which wa inaugurated In America witli the Declaration of In dependence. Nc potentato ei NEW DltESS BOIT. prince could survlve this blew te royal prcrogatlve as a setter of fashions. This is what Mr. Turner propesed: The coat is of dark material, with a light shawl cellar, silk faced, with nc lapel seams, nnd with the skirt and feic part cut together, Iwlng only partly sep arated by the waist beam, The ckirtt are lieldly rounded ever the hips, nnd the fere part and sleeves ornamented with elaborate embroidery. The vest is of w hite figured bilk, closing with four buttons, hating u moderately curved crease and plain lolling cellar. The trousers nre of lavender shade, nnd contrast "very effectively with both the coat and vest." IuUrritlnc Kuclueerlng I'rul. The method of const i lining the founda tions of the great drawbridge ever the Thames nt New Ixnideu is of exceptional interest. Timber curbs were constructed, which were sunk eighty feet into the bed of the river, the bottom of which was soft mud for 'this depth. The mud inside the curb wns excavated, nnd the piles driven Inte the solid gietind thin obtained. The heads of thcse piles were then beuiid together with concrete, en w hlch the masonry of the pier w as finally erected. ExchauKC J3L MMffm ism ytif 23, 1889. PICTUltKSQUE DRESSING. A SAMPLE THEREOF DESCRIBED BY OLIVE HARPER. Raw a Girl Who Ha Net a rtfmitlfal Fae Can Manage te Cltn Ur Cestnmrs Individuality Happy EAVct of th Cm of Ortaln Tain Trine. (Special Corrrpeodanca. New Yerk, Nev. 21. Yeu wouldn't bcllove that was a real girl, and that she looked just se if you hadn't really seen her; but I assure yer that 1 met this picturcsque person the ethtr day, and suircd at her from behind a pile of dry goods Uilti!overy detail of her costume was Indelibly -ilscd upon my mind. Tills person was net a pretty woman, she had a rather sallow complexion, she was ever SO, I knew, and her dark eyca were sunken and had circtae around them that told of ill health, or tearful vigils, and the cestume was daring, yet It was se well adapted te the wearer, somehow, that it all made up a picture te remember. A rtCTtmCSQCB r-EUSON. The material was a seal brown plush, with the facing of meire of the same shade, and down tbe front of the skirt wero three bands of mahogany plush, and this same shade was also used for facings te the rovers of the dlroctelro cellar. There were caps te the sleeve of the seme. A round the neck was wem a full handkerchief of crcpe llssc, and deep ruffles of the same material were at 'the wrists. The hat was large, of seal brown plush, with the crown completely covered with ostrich plumes, shaded from "black through brown te cream. With this was carried a Tesco parasol. This is all right, but It is net every body who could make that rather stiff looking cestume appear a part and par cel of herself, and it is this which I wish te impress upon the minds of my wo men friends, that each ene ewes it te her self te study hcrself and her dress in re lation te herself. Many very pretty and Individual effects can be ochieved by the understanding use of the vain llttle trifles in the illus tration. The hair can be arranged in a becoming manner with seme dainty little pin, and this style adopted and continued until the sight of it Is fixed in the mind of every beholder, The new jewels are, after all, the same old jowels reset, but they are wonderfully pretty, and the beautiful aigrette would be a desirable addition te any evening toilet The hair pins, the lace pins, the necklace and bracelet are all beautiful, and are, aside from their Intrlnsle value, just a hand some in garnets as in diamonds, and they can be raade te serve in adorning beauty just as well But never wear false dia monds. They deceive no one, and no lady can respect horself while she knew she has en imitation jewelry, Hew pretty the embroidered crepe jabots are I lcave my amlable readers te imagine. They are of cream crepe, with tiny flowers in colors, and with "bit ribbon bows," as a Scotch saleswoman said. The ether ene is of Mechlin lace and crepe llsse, with a tiny bow of rib bon ns a finish. Thcse little additions te a toilet are very dressy, and, when bought ready made are very costly, but ladies can make them with very llttle trouble and expense, There are what are called "pineapple handkerchiefs,1 and they can be dotted all ever with cel- .-3, '5; THESK DE VAttlnriES. ered silks in a very short time, and where there is net nn embroidered edge, a rufile of fine lace can be sewed en. Tills, then, Is caught a llttle abeve the. middle Inte a careless bunch and shaken and let fall in natural folds, whtel are then '.acked into that form and, with a "bit ribbon bow," it la made into a pretty jabot that is always a dressy ad dition te a plain gown. Be then, let us all remember that we can be pictu resque, stately, graceful or harmonious, if net handsome, according te the care we bestow upon our garments, and theii fitness te our needs. Couldn't Fart with That. A few of us had arrived early at Sun day evening services in a church in an Ohie town, when the minister was taken with a tickling In the threat Aftci coughing for several minutes he asked ii any of us hed a troche. A young fellow and his girl occupied clese quarters in one of the seats, and his thumb and ringer went down Inte bis vest pocket at the request. "Ahl Themas, I shall be greatly obliged," said the geed man as he ad vanced. Themas fished up a lozengo with some red letters en it, started te hand it te the minister, but changed his mind and dropped it back Inte his pocket "Well?" "Yeu see, Ir,B-whIspered Themas, a he rose up, "I've only get one, and I can't part with that It saysi I love you' en It, and I'm going te slip It te Sarah as seen as you folks step looking!" New Yerk Sun. Crusty De careful, waiter, your thumb is In the soup. Waiter I don't mind It, ilr; Vm U4 i te It-Epoch. ,.. y9 f A&iXBltlrS $P5 An'X T(taBV. QUTlCUtlA An Awful Sere Limb Condition lmpclc-m. Cured liv the Cntli enra llemedlet, m twomenun. Cured by Cutieura Vm three year I was almost crippled wit nn nwrul Mre le from my knee down te air i ankle; the klnwfi entirely Kene, and theBwih 2 waa ene meM of dlncjue. Homnphynlrtansure. neitticrd It Incurable. It haddlmlnUticd afoot' one-third the lu of the ether, and I was In a hepeleu condition. Alter trying all kind of rcmcdlrs and upending 'umdrcrt of dollars, from w htcli I get no rellel whatever, 1 was per uncled te try your CirricvnA ItKMKniM, and the remiU waa na follew: A tier three days I noticed derided clinnce for the better, and at the end of twomenthal wna completely rnred. My lleth wa purlfled, and the bone (which had been exprwed fur ever a yrar) (tot Hound. The flesh bexnn lofrrew, nnd Unlay, and for nearly'" two ear pet my leg 1 n well aa ever It waa, pound In every w;icct, and net a ala-n of the dlM-use te be neon. B. U. A HERN, Dubois, Dedge ., Oa. Skin Disease 17 Team I have, been troubled with a nkln nnd acatp illieiine for Heveiileen year. My head at time wn one running aerciand my body waa cov ered w till them nalnrgn aan half dnllar, t tried a great many remedle without effect until I lined CirricmiA Ubmkdirs, and am thankful tn suite that nncr twO.jnenUii or tlirlr hws I am entirely cured, I reel It APT duty te you and I he public te stntfl nbove cusiV. U It. McOOWKLL, JamKJyirgjN. J. " ' ' i Tl, t. Anether Marvelleus Cure The CUTieuitA, ccTinmA Hksei.vkxt, and CimciiiiA heai Iiiine brought about a marval marval Ieid cure In the cum of nulcln dliwnMen my llttle son eight year old. 1 have tried almost all remedies nnd nle the mestemlncnt doctors, nil alike nilllnccxrcpt the wonderful Citticuua IUmkiiiks. ED. N.BROWN. T!0 N. ltllli Kt., Omaha, Heb. Outicura Reselvent Thoncwllleodl'iirlflerand purest and best of Humer Curt, Internally, and CirricviiA.the great Hklri Cure, mid Uuticuba HoAP.anex HeAP.anex iiullttMkln)!eaulltlrr. externally, are a posi tive, curs for the every dlaeaaa nnd humor or the kin, scalp nnd bleed, wlU let of hair, from pimple te scrofula. Held twery where. Price, (icrnA.SOv,SeAi Iicj Khei.vicxt. l.en. Prepared by the Pot Pet Tmi Dkuii ami CUKMtCAX. CoKiviiATiex, Bos Bes Bos eon. tf-Send for " Hew te Ciiik Hkln Dlsensen," M pages, W Illustration, and 10) testimonial. PIM I'l.m hinck-heud, red, rough, chapped, HOAI' aim in iy skiu prfrenicu ny uuticira HOW MY BACKACHES. Buck Ache, Kidney Pain, and Weak new, Horencsa, lameness, Htrnlns, mid Pain rollnved litonemlmito by the CuiicmiA Anti-I'aik 1'i.antkii. The first nnd only tustaiitaneeui puln-kllllng plustcr. Sanferu's Radical Cure for Catarrh. CUIIK Itr.lHNH FROM P1IWT APPUCA- TION, AND IH RAPID, ItADIUAL, AND PERMANENT. It Is the mucous membrane, that wonderful scml-lluld envelope surrounding the delicate tlssuuH of the air and feed passages, that Catarrh make Its stronghold. Once exUb exUb llshed, it enu Inte the very vl.ul. and render llftt but ii long-drawn breath or misery and dis ease, dulling the sense of hearing, trammelling the power of speech, destroying the faculty of smell, tainting thn breath, amrkllllng the re fined pleasure of taste. Insidiously, by creep ing en from n simple cold In Uie head, it M-. snult the membranous lining nnd envelop the bones, eating through the delicate coats nnd causing Inflammation, sloughing, and ether daugereii symptom. Nothing short of total eradication will secure health te the patient, nnd nil alie vial I ve are simply procrastinated siiiriTlnc. HAKfOHn's Radical euns, by Inhalation nnd by Internal administration, rarely falls even when the disease ha mad frightful Inroad en delicate consUtuUenn, hearing, smell, nnd taste have been recovered, nnd the disease, thoroughly driven out. Kanmrd'a nndlenl Cure fhr Catarrh Consist of ou bottle of the Radical CtraK, ene box of Uatahiiiial Helykut, and !- , riievieti Inhamck, all In ene package j price. l. AnHlWDAJllVHUI 11AUIIAAI. tUSS. B d,. everywhere. , sf POTTItn DnUO dt ClIKMICAL CeRI-ORATfOW. ! Bosten. nl-lmWJMw . T RET11INQ BYItUr. TO MOTHERS. safe. Ne Opium or Merphia mixture. Wlllra- ''K?, Ileve Celin, Urlnlng in the Bewel and Promote n DimcultTcetblng. lrcpared by DRH.D.KAHB--- 'If It; 25 eeut. 'Trial bottle sent br matrW cents. ST K- m IIA'IU Pit t 1 U !. I A VU J" I'l.vKta'l.eU. aUAtWIfl, I , I CATARRH, HAYFEVZR. Ely's Cream Balm v Cleanses the Nasal Passages, Atlay Pain and Inflammation, Jlval the Bere, RwUire the Heuse of Taste and Hmell. TRY THE CURE. A imrtlcle I applied te each neitrll and I ngrccuble. PrlceIriceiiUatDruggUUi by wall, registered, (M cents. KIA' nilOTIIRIW, scpll-lydiw Ne. M Wurren Ml., New Yerk. W UNDKVKMIPKD PAIITH t Oi the Human Uedy Knlargrd, Developed, Htrcngthvned, ete., I an Interesting advertise ment Imiif run In our miliar. In mulv Iji In qulrte we will say that there I no evidence of v -A'i', humbug about this. On the contrary, the ad- ,,3v vertlHer are very highly indorsed. Iutreted "f S ix-riMins may get scaled circular giving all par- f iiciuurs, uy writing 10 we I'.nir; Mr.iHUAli , lire. fllfydAw ' UUNKENNKHS. U0.U0H1IAIUT, In All the World there I but One Cure. DH. HAINES' CJOLDEN SPECIFIC. It can be given In a cup of cotTceor tea, or In article of feed, without the knowledge of the patient. If necessary ; It 1 absolutely harmless and will cirvct a permanent and speedy cure; whether the patient I a modcrate drinker or an nlcohello wreck. IT NUVEIt VMUi. It operate te ijuluUy and with such certainty that the patleiit undergee no Inconvenience, und ere he Is aware, hi complete reformation Is cfli'Lted. 43 puee book of particular free. CHAM. A. LOCHKU. Drugg'at, Ne. U Kant King t., Lancaster, Pal ecISkXxI iUtnce. PmiiADKU'iiiA, February "1, 183!). HttMIAIIIAN 1 . BKAU .1 IMPERIAL AND ROYAL ATJSTRO IIUXGARIAX CONSULATE. According te the Instructions of the Royal Hungarian Ministry for Agricul ture, Industry und Commerce in iiuda 1'est te this Imperial and Royal consulate it Is hereby attested te that the Royal Hungarian Government wlne cellars at Iiuda-IVst were established by the Hun garian Government, February 1, 1882, and that the establishment is sluce under control of said ministry. The alia of these wlne cellars la te suja ply the world's markeU with the best wines produced lu Hungary, free front any udultcrutien. Mr. II. E. Sluymakcr, agent of Lan caster, Pa., has by tbe Government's gcuerul agents of North. America been appointed ngunt for Lancaster for the sale of thcse wines, which are bett!d in lludu-Pcstiuder the supervision of th Huugarlun Government, and bear the original protective label of the Royal Huugarluu Ministry for Agriculture en the bottled. LOUIS WESTERC1AARD, Imperial and Royal Censul of Austria Hungary. f" M ni:AL V. A 11. II UNO. COShUIJkTK, AT I'HIL.'A., l'A. t'-', '? s y. t J, ' &( ir . Vsi JS'-il iV. w .3 7rS 'V5.. SK". ,S m . ii ? 3? k j t i t kHL
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