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Ho looks nt lioylo ns tliotigh prepared to dis pute him for her to tho death; but thero Is no occasion for him to ho on tho defen sive. When Hint cry, when tho word "Mntirlce" hns ninhol from her lips, Ornnlt, ns thoiiuh he had received a inor tnl wound, hnd loosed his hold of her, nnd now stands apart from them, stnrliiK vacantly nt tho half unconscious (rlrl. Tl.ls ho had nover suspected. Tlmt her heart was not his, he know) that it was In tho keeping of another bursts upon him now for the first time, without a mo ment's warning, and crushes out of hint his Inst hope. There Is something tcrrlhlo in tho glance ho hits bent upon her. Ho has apparent ly given no thought to Dtirnn, though in him ho finds his rival; nil his thoughts am centered 011 Nndlnc. As it slio feels tho terrible concentration of his regard, she shivers in Duran's arms, and slowly lifts her head. Her eyes met lloylo's. "Sol" ho says, and 110 more. There is such n cruel meaning in the one word ho hns tittered that Nndlne, freeing herself from Duran's restraining grasp, goes forward as if to refute in per son whatsoever lie may daro to Insist upon. Yet, as she draws nenr to him, tho ex treme agony of his expression touches, and forbids her to say anything thnt may hurt or wound. "Stand back I" snysBoylo in alow tone. "Do not conio neur me. If you touch mo I will not answer for myself. Probably I shall kill you." "Pntill" She lias forgotten everything savo tho doipalr that shu has brought to him, and that stands marked upon his pallid face. "I warn you to keepnwny," repeats ho in tho sauio dull, methodical tono ns be fore. "If you spoko forever you could not tell me mora than I know now. It Is too Into to cajole or deceive mo further. You mnst be satisfied with the old vic tory." "If you would but listen" "To bellevo ngaln to bo again undone? 13e warned I" cries he with a sudden ac cess of violent passion. "If you approach mo ono step nearer, it your treacherous volco sounds once moro upon my ear, I will dash your false brains against that wall opposite!" Ho draws his breath fiercely, and his hands work together in o convulsive frenzy. "Trnit rcssl" he whispers, a cold fury in his tone; "how has it been between us? I gave you all my love, my life, my hopes. You gave men serpent's smile and glnnces falso as belli With desire in your heart for another, you held out a hand to mo, and swore you knew not tho meaning of tho strange word lovet Stand back, I tell you, if life is still of value to youl Nay, not a word! Treacherous devil that you are, I would still spare youl" "If you would only let me tell you how" She has placed her hand nppeallngly upon his. With a sudden cry, wild as though coming from a beast hurt unto death, ho seizes her, and flinging her far from lilm, sends her with a crash against the furthest wall. She drops like n stono to tho ground. Duran, holding her to his heart, looks round. Boyle is no longer to be seen. Without waiting to learn tho consequences of his fury, he had rushed from the room. . . "Well, nt last my duty Is at an end; my final guest has departed. I can now rest my weary limbs," says Miss Grey some hours later, sinking Into n chair as sho speaks. "You look awfully done," returns Mas sareene with deep solicitude. "I am tired. I confess it. With all this nnxloty upon my mlud, to bo obliged to go about among the guests and apologize to them for poor Lady Vnl worth's absence, was more trying than I knew. Auntla was of no help nt nil. She was thorough ly upset licrtelf, and for the llrst hour un presentable. Then she rallied a littlo, but to hardly any purpose Oh, Geraldl what a terrible evening this has been I' "It has had its good side, however. You aro free," "Free yes." "To let mo love you," "I have had no tlmo to think of that" Sho regards him earnestly for a moment. "You will compel mo to believe you sel fish," she says slowly. "Is it selfish to consider abovo every thing the welfare of the one boit beloved? If so, I plead guilty. I tell you I have thought of nothing slnco slnco lloylo's expose but tho fact that you have been delivered out of tho hands of such 11 man." "Ono must think of Nndlno." "How is she now?" "Well, but still terrified, His violence did her no bodily harm, but sho is oppressed by nervous horror, and will not consent to remain alono for even a moment. jho is now in tho morning room with Mr. Durau and auntie." "You were surprised nbout Duran?" ' 'Weren't you? When sho called out to him that time, and when ho caught her in Ills arms, I could hardly bellevo my senses. Well, it is a good exchange for her. Slaurlco Duran Is handsome, and rich, and her heart's chosen. She is a ltuky glrll" "Aro you unlucky?" Ho asks the ques tion wistfully, looking down nt her with his plain, kindly face rather disturbed. "I am ugly and poor, and not altogether sure that I am the chosen of her who Is all the world to me," "Ohl you are you?" returns shoseuten tiously. "And as for Maurice Duran, I would not marry him, even if he had tho grace to ask mo." "And you will marry mo?" eagerly. "Time will provo that." Sho laughs nt him a little saucily from under her long lashes, and holds out to him a hand with such dainty sweetness as brings him to her feet at once. "My darling girl!" "A darling girl, no doubt; but not yours yet, however." "And why not, slnco yott are free?" "I was quite free all nloug, It seems!" exclaims she with a quick Hash of wounded pride that brings tho hot blood to her cheeks. Sho springs from her sent and paces rapidly up and down the room, Presently she stops short beforo him, and lifts her dark, angry eyes to his. "I wonder you have not too much prldo to care for tho woman who was despised by that thief 1" sho says, with angry excite ment. "I care IrMlllicent Grey, It is absurd to dwell upon such a thing," returns he strongly. "Shall I ever forget it, I wonder to be rejected by such as hlml To learn from his own lips that I was merely used ns a blind; thut while paying attention to me his whole heart ami soul was devoted to anothcrl" "Uutwhat a soul and heart I you should consider that." "The meaner they nro, tho more I re sent his conduct. And to suy it beforo them all! my nunt, Lady Valworth, Sir Thomas, youl When ho thus scorned me publicly, witli that evil smilo upon ids lips, I had only one wish left." "And Hint?" "That I weroninan, to thrust the words back iu his throat and kill him." "Aud yet you held mo from him ut tho moment. Ho is still in the house, how ever. I will compel him to apologize to" begins the hot Irishman, making for tho door. "No, it would be useless," Interposes Bhc. quickly "It is done it cannot be undone,and surly himothor has suffered enough. Thero must be no further dis turbance." "I can follow him, however." "I tell you, you could never undo what la done. Let him go; he is not worth notice. I Bhould bo ashamed to confess that his sting hurt me. And we are bound to remember his mother." "Aht poor Lady Valworth I Sholndeed is the one to be pitied." "So you would say, could you see her 'Where ts she?" "In her own room. Sir Thomas was with her. His grief for her was very touching, but sho seemed, I thought, Im patient under it. Sho looked old, crushed, broken!" Milllccnt turns nsldo, but not beforo ho can seo that tho hot tears nro running down her cheeks. "Poor woninnl" says ho softly. And them "My darling, you nro worn out. You luivo been thinking for every one. Let mo now think for you. You want rest. Let mo persuade you to llo down for n littlo whllo." "It would bo useless. I could not sleep. Tho very nlr Is heavy with trouble. As long ns that man remains in the house I hardly know how any of us can breathe. "That dllTlctilty will bo conquered in n few hours. He will lcnc, of course, by tho early train, "I suppose so. His poor mothcrl" "Milllccnt! Try to forget it all for awhilo at least. Think of something else" ho pauses and looks at her en treatiugly. "Could you not think of me?" "If I hudn't you lo think of I should go mad," returns she, with sudden soft vehe mence. Sho holds out her hands to him. "You are my one comfort," she whispers brokenly. They do not hear the door open, nnd in deed she Is still tn his arms when Mrs. Ilrand's volco falls on their cars. "Is this what you call 'taking a little rest'?" sho asks, with deep reproach. There is, however, uo linger In her tones ho looks too sad, too deprested for nny open demonstrations of annoyance. "Mrs. Ilrnnd," says Massnrcene, ad vancing eagerly toward her, "you know how it is with mo and Millicent. You must have known for a long time. Now thnt this unhappy affair has left her onco ngaln her own mistress, do not rcfuso to let 1110 plead my cause." Mrs. Brand has sunk into a chair. "You are very persistent," she says, tapping her fingers upon the table near. "Because I am very much In love." "And Milllccnt?" "I daro to hopo that she has found 6omo room in her heart for me." "Let her speak for herself," says Mrs. Brand, with a faint touch of impatience. "Well, Millicent, how is It with you?" "I love him, auntie," says Miss Grey demurely. "I can't help that, can 1? And I wouldn't if I could 1 Ho is not rich, of course, but money isn't every thing. I have been very dutiful up to this. That you must nllow." Sho says nothing of the secret passages between her nnd Massareene, and of the determination lately come to, to defy the world of relations for his sake. "Onco you choso for me" Sho pauses. Mrs. Brand blghs. "That choice was not altogether happy." Still Mrs. Brand is silent. "I think perhaps if I wero to chooso for myself this time, it would bo better." At this her aunt rouses herself. "I had hoped to seo you make a great alliance," sho says mournfully. "You, wllli your fortune, and and that unfortu nolo youii't man, with his prospect of un earldom. All is shattered now. Every, thing Is nt an end. But still there would ho n brilliant future boforo you If" "1 shall not glvo up Gerald," says Mil licent, drawing back from her somewhat coldly. "You and Undo Timothy can leave your money to whom you will; I sh tll certainly marry Gerald." Mnriiurccne, coming forward, takes her hind and lifts It to his lips. There is a great warmth and gladness In tho gaze ho directs nt Sirs. Bram, Perhaps she gives it lt.t value. So true, so unmeiccnnry a lovo us this is not to be despised in tho money worshiping world in which she moves. "Of course, if you linvo quite mndo up your mind," sho says with hesitation, looking at Millicent. Thero is something new and beautiful in tho girl's fuce that nttratts her. Lovo has transfigured it! After all it may be best for her darling to nbjuro ambition nnd cleave only to love. "You will bo good to her, Gerald?" sho says In a low voice. Massareene, who is looking grave, re gards her earnestly. "1 shall always lovo her," he says, "If that is wliat you mean I" "You give your consent, auntie?" asks Millicent, kneeling ou tho carpet beside her and encompassing her with her arms. "Yes. My meddling resulted In so dlro a failure I dare not try It again. I am glad you have chosen a man who, if poor, Is at least ono who I believe will mnko you happy. One, too, whom 1 liko and esteem. Ah I my dear to be able to re spect your husband is a great matter. Geraldl see that she can always do that. And as for your undo Timothy, darling, I think I shall bo able to arrango him." Sho stoops forward and kisses Millicent fondlv. "And now where am I to gof" says tho poor woman, in a melancholy tone. "I left tho morning room because I felt sure that Duran wanted to come to an under standing with Nadlne, nnd now you two lovers are wishing me well, any where out of this." "Nonsensel Wo shall never wish for your absence," cries Millicent tenderly. "Stay with us always, just as long as ever you like, dear mother mine!" CHAPTER XXIII. It Is a very pale and f ragilo Nadine who is looking nt Duran In tho morning room. "Now yon nro safe," sas'S he, smiling. He presses her gently into a liugo arm chair, and stirs into a glow the rtyinu embers of tho fire. A chill has fallen upon tho night. As tho warmth comes to her, as sho realizes that here, perhaps, Grantt will not seek her, as sho sees tho beloved race ot liurau leanlug over lier, she lets a, sense of joy and comfort steal through her being, and as a child, tired and weary, who sees Its mother, might Uo, sue stretches out nor arms to Durnu. In 11 moment she Is lying on his breast. "Oh, to bo hero!" she cries faintly. "To bo here in your arms bate. You will never let me go, will you? You will not let him take me from you?" "Novgr, while life Is in me I But I do not wish to see you so unuerved, my dearest. Come, take hcartl Consider! In these prosaic days a glr 1 cannot be torn from her home by any chance comer. Even if you were nlone, you could resist him, because your promise to him ha3 now been canceled; but oven if it hnd not been so, still I am here, your guardian anil your lover." "My own Maurice!" She slips her arm round his neck, Sho Is yet in her ball gown, and It Is a soft, baro little arm, rounded as a baby's, that encircles him. lie turns his head to kiss it tenderly. "It is a terrible thought," says Durau. presently, "and I am honestly ashamed ot It; but I cannot help feeling that this miseramo night's worn lias been our sal vatlon." "Yesterday I was tho rgost miserable man alive you wero lost to me I To night. I am the happiest vounre galnedl tor tne future let us unnisn from us all thoughts save those that remind us that by a most strange clianco wo have been given to each other Just when hope seeiueu aenu," CHAPTER XXIV. Joy there, misery here I Lady Valworth pushes back tho nor tlcre, and with a slow and heavy tread advances to where the motionless figure is seated upon n cnair, 111s bead burled on the arms that are lying Uon tho table. lirnniti" wmspers sue tremulously, Ho starts to his feet with nn oath, and turns a stormy face to hers. "What, cannot I bo deit alone even now? What brings you here? Is there no rest no petccr" "It is only I, my dear your motherl Her voice brcuks. "oh, my child! my sonl my darling! It Is your mother, dear your own moiueri um you mink nuy thing couhl mnko any difference to me?1 The poor woman flings herself on tho ground beside him and encircles htm with her arms. "I knew you wero alone," she goes on eagerly, "I would have come sooner, but 11 was not very well, The moment 1 romu, however. I enmo to von. I could not bear to picture you sitting ueru uu uy yuurscu, ana pcrnaps Deuov iia your sour mother was hQldlna aloof.1 1887. "You Iinrt dono better hnd yon bo licld yourself." "Uli, urnnill do not so speak to inel Do not repulse me!" Bheisstlllkucelliig bcsldo him, trying do draw his dark, sullen faeo to look at her; and now she tnkes his hand nnd holds it in fondling fashion ngalnst her bosom. He is onco more her child, her boy, her littlo one; in troublo nnd dlsgrnce In direst grief and to whom then should he como but to his mother? "My darling, why did you not trust me?" sho says In a low, painful whis per. "I would hnvo given them to you. I could hnvo managed In fome way. Yes I would have given them." "They were not yours to glvo" this allusion to the stolen diamonds hnrdens his heart again, though not toward her "they belonged to Sir Thomas. How ever" breaking off savagely and drag ging his hand roughly out of hers "it is too Into to dls uss what Is over and dono. If you hnvo come here to maunder nbout my crimes, I warn you I will have none of it." "No, no, dear; not another word shall be said." Going closer to him she tries to press him into a chair. "Sit down now and let us talk of your plans," she whis pers soothingly. "Plans?" llo glances nt her vaguely. as though ho hardly understands; plainly ho has not been listening. Then sudden ly ins face Hushes; the veins swell upon his temples. "Where is she?" he cries in a vehement tone. "She? Millicent" "Pshawl No. She who betrayed me; that fair devil, Nadine." "She Is down stairs. She has been very 111," says tho mother trembling. "Did I hurt her? Did she feel? Did she suffer?" Ills tone is exultant, yet there is a fierce agony in it. "I hope so. Great heavensl how that girl lied to me, though her lips uttered no falsehood. She gave herself to me; she swore she would marry me, earing for that other all tho tlmo. Did you mark how sho shrunk nnd cowered away from me? How bho paled, and glanced at mo as though perdi tion lay in the sight of mo?" Ho is glancing over his mother's shoul der toward the opposite wall. His eyes are dark ami wild; he is gazing nt some thing. That past scene In the library is again beforo him is again being enacted brought to light by his disordered fancy. "Granit, think of something else," im plores his mother, in a frightened man ner. His voice, his gesture.), terrify her. "From mo sho shrunk to turn to hlml How her eyo lltas she saw hlml To him sho cried fir protection from me! She held out her arms to hlml hho clung to hlml" His breath Is coming In painful gasp9. "There was adoration In tho glance sho directed at hlml Tv gain such n glance I would bnve died. Weill" he stretches out his arms and then he clasps his head, "because of such a glance I have died. Sho has slain me!" "Granit, my poor boy, do not talk so wildlj. Forget this girl; think now of what Is the best thing for you to do." "I havo thought of that that is all ar ranged." His tono is impatient. "Where are you going, darling?" she asks, faintly. "Nowhere." His manner Is dull nnd listless. "House yourself," entreats she, "you must go for awhile. You say you have arranged all. Tell me, then, where you are going!" "A long journey." "Long journeys nowadays can be com passed In a very littlo while." "That is true. Mino will bo tho short est passage ou record," ho draws his breath sharply. "What happened to her, when I left?" "She fainted. Mr. Duran" "Keep his namo out of It, can't you?" interrupts he, violently. "Go onl She fainted. Well, what then?" "They hnd considerable difficulty In re covering her, I havo been told. I was not there," says Lady Valworth, nervously. "Sho was naturally a good deal upset by U10 whole affair. I suppose you fright ened her." "You say I hurt her." "You sent her with sorao force against the wall. You did not mean It," hastily "but when one Is agitated as you wero, one hardly knows what one Is doing. "You" anxiously "must not take thnt so much to heart; you did her no real harm. You must not be uneasy." "Take it to heart? I wish I had killed herl" Tho words como with a hiss through his clinched teeth; his fnco Is white and distorted with passion. "That sho should live, and live with him, is the galling thought; that is more than I can bear. How her little white fingers fast ened on his nrml Liar that she isl how sho deceived and ruined me I Body and soul she has destroyed." "Oh, not your soul, darllngl There is tlmo repentance." "There Is very little time now and I am unrepentant." Ho throws up his head and points to tho window. The lamps in the room are waning, nnd through tho closely cur tnlned window tho first streaks of coming morn are stealing with u persistency that will not bo denied. Day is breaking, and with it his mother's heart. The cruel light will tear him from her, will carry him whither? "You have not told me where you are going," she says, pressing her hand against her heart to still its throbbing. "I can tell no one that." "What! not your mother? Grantt, do not fear, I will betray you; anything you sny to me now will bo sacred. Tell me where it is you mean to go," "I cannot." "But why why?" "For tho simple reason that I dou'i know myself." There is a curious gleam iu nis eyes mat disturbs her and makes her forget the flippancy of his tono. "It is to a strango land I will wend my way before the day is very much older. A stranger In u strango hind I Sly reception will be a cold one, or perchance a hot one." Ho laughs wildly. His merriment is. however, Bhortllvcd, breaking off almost as it uegnti, ana ending in a dismal silence. "You aro thinking of Africa." says his mother, trembling, sho scarcely knows why. "If you still refuso to let mo know exactly where you are going, at least promise you will write to mo. Granit, my near, near son, promise mo mat." "I will promise you anything you like. though I doubt if you would caro to keep up the correspondence." There Is some thing terrible In his manner, which 1ins grown frivolous iu n ghastly wny, and his face is livid. "Sho will live and pros per." ho says Inconsequently ns It seems to Lady Valworth; "but she will have to remember. I will compel her to do that I And remember you," laying his hand roughly upon his mother's shoulder, "re member well that my last words wero that sno was responsible for alll" "I will not believe these are your last words. You will return to me, when all this has blown over you will return, if even lor u inoiiin or so, i'romiso me that, too, Grunlt." "From where I am going no man re turns." "That Is not true. Thero is no plnco on earth from which you cannot come uack to me, u you only win," "No place on earth!" Ho repeats her words slowly, "My place on earth will know 1110 no more." Ho seems to wander away from tho actual meaulng of her words to tho mere bound of them. "I havo no longer any place on earth," he suysureauuiy, "You havo it place in my heart always.' cries she, with a sudden burst of weeping, Sho thruws her arms round htm, nnd clings to him in an embrace that Is full ot despair. "Alas! my one child I my pretty uauyi mat it should come to this,' sho moans, bitterly. "You will not forget my message to neri" Though he is supporting her half faint. ing form, he hnrdly heeds her; her words bear no meaning to him. His mind la ever with the girl who had unconsciously betrayed him, whom he has loved whom he btui loves, with a terrible lutenslty, "1 shall forget uothing. When do you Biurw" "When you leave me." "There will be no train, darllnjr, until THE COLUMBIAN, VOL. XXI.NO10 OOLUM11IA DKMOOHAT, VOL. L, NO M 7 o'clock. " "I shall require no train." "But how, then, will you go?" Again ho bursts Into that loud dis cordant laughter that chills the blood in her veins. "Do not be uneasy about me. I have prepared for mysclS a mode of transit swifter than nny train. Pout I Steam will be slow to it." "You do not trubt me," sho says sor rowfully, still unsuspecting, still dead to the warning that his words, his race, his manner, should havo given her. I trust you entirely. I trust you with my Inst message to herl Now go," "I shnll seo you again?" entreats she, lingering. I hope iiotl I hope from my soul not!" For the first time his composure seems to desert him. Ho grows ghastly palo, and 11 fit of shivering .seizes upon him. "You nro ill you nro sufferingl" cries his mother quickly. "No. It is nothing. Only gol I must be nlone for awhile, and my timo is short. Good-by. Stooping, ho presses his lips to her fore head. "For tho moment?" she answers anx iously. "Good -by." There is uo denial other question In his manner, nnd she is fain to bo content with it. She clings to him, nnd embraces him warmly; nn embrace he returns In kind. She moves ns 11 to leave mm. Al most ns sho reaches the door, his voice stops her. one word," no says Huskily, "uo not do not bo unkind to herl When I nm gone, do not show or feel resentment townrd herl" He makes her a sign with his hnnd to declare lit, hns said ali lie had called her to hear, and going out, sho closes the door behind her. The bound of her retreating footsteps hasdiedaway. Helsalonel Hestrctchcs out his arms wearily, ns one might who has Just Hung from him some cruel bur den, and drawing back tho curtains, opens wldo the window ami gazes out upon tho growing day. Already the sun has mounted the heavens, and from the eait soft rosy bars of tremulous light aro de scending upon tho distant hill tops. From among the laurels comes the thrilling music of Innumerable birds; from the wood the cooing of the gcntlo pigeons. A rose that has climbed up tho wall, more ambitious than its fellows, thrusts its scented petals into his hand. Mechanically he accepts the gift, and breaking tho flower from Its stem, inhales Its perfume. It Is sweet with dew, and sweet as only a morning rose can be, wlrh all the cool moisture ot the dead past nlgH still on it, and buried In its heart. Boyle, still as It without thought, having trilled with the flower, carries it to a table near and puts out his hand toward a vase filled with water. The oction rouses him. He checks himself, and n after a brief pause flings the flower upon the ground. Ho had been about to place it in the water with n view to its preservation when that revulsion of feeling came over him. To save It from instant destruction why? That he might seo it upon the morrow? The morrow? Where will he be then? He sets his heel upon the flower and crushes it out of all loveliness. Death is rushing t iward htm on swift black wings shall that senseless flower bo spared? It is a very poor, a very paltry bit of mallco, yet it imves him, nnd brings him again face to face with his Indomitable resolve. Crossing the room, he opens a case lying upon a bureau and draws from it a revolver. Ho runs his hand lightly over it, and tho cool touch ot the steel seems to steady him. Having assured himself that it is loaded, he lays it down again and turns to a writing table. His hnnd la Arm, the writing bold as ever. A few words, explaining where the famous sapphires (now dismantled and unset) may be found in his rooms in town, are addressed to his mother. Bold words, with no endearing commencement, no af fectionate termination. To him tho sap phires aro of no further use. It is as well that Millicent should havo them again. He flings the pen aside, and, rising to his test, paces hurriedly up nnd down the room. Ho can walk now. But like a flash it bursts upon him that soon move ment will be impossible. There upon tho carpet he lies like a stick a stone! The great grand fovor of living Is tearing through his veins. His pulses throb, his heart bents thero are years of life within tho tall, slender, firmly built framo that looks Its last through the open window. Tho early morning air, fresh nnd fragrant. rushes gayly in. Heavens! how fair tho world is! Was it ever so fair as to-day? Ho takes tip the revolver again and lifts It to his mouth. There is a short hesita tion. Ills mind travels backward. His brain reels. There! thercl sho Is bo- fore him agalul A slight form, clothed all in ixilcst blue. A face divine! Her lovely arms! Her eyes dark liquid. See, now, they gleam for Duran ! Curse hlml To him sho holds out her hands. To him she gives herself. She turns A groan of agonized remembrance bursts from his lips. Then follows a sharp report! It rtngsthroughthehousol He sways, nnd a corpse, disfigured In horrible manner, falls heavily to the ground. All is over. Through the window tho light breeze enters merrily, and floating downward, lifts the hair, that Is still uuwet, from the dead man s head, and softly, delicately, plays with it. Thero is only tho breczo. All other motion Is gone, So InteiiEe is tho illenco thnt reigns within the chanv tt,of n Am.1.1Ann.l 1... I. W,., ...UI. U LIUJ l.t,U IUVIUCUCU V It, perches on the sill of the window, and breaks forth into a morning enrol, loud and shrill. A carol! A requiem rather! And now the silenco Is broken. Through the passages beyond comes the sound of hurryiug feet. Thero is ono that runs bo foro tho others. Nearer, nearer the v come. and still the bird enrols, tho wind plays me ueiui man lies mere, careless un. knowing. A touch upon the handle ot the door. The wind still revels in lifeless tresses, but tho bird has flown away. Tho door opens Upon the threshold stands his mother, TUB END. Saed the Euiprel. Life Many American physicians are among the ablest, but their profession rests on a falso hypothesis. It has nothing to do with science, and cannot have until it has vastly advanced. Marked improve ment has been made in therapeutics, Our physicians compare very favorably with those ot Europe. After the Empress Eugenie had given birth to the prince imperial an important operation was necessary, and all the celebrated doctors ot Puris and several American doctors resident thero were called in, among them Dr. Johnson, now dead. During her treatment It was found to their conster nation that the blood had left her brain. She was in momentary peril of losing her me. A solemn consultation took place. Nobody could ndviso except Johnson, who declared ho could remedy tho evil. lie held her up by tho heels and tho blood flowed back to her brain. Ho eaved her life. Not oneof the Parisian sages would nave ureameu 01 ouering so monstrous an Indignity to tho empress of the French, but tho indiculty. as they afterward ac knowledged, was preferable to her death. uuicago kows. Nevada beef is being shipped to Califor nia in an almost nnoroken ttxliig ol cat tle cars. Tlio Sultan of Morocco is fond of tri. cycling, but too lazv lo work the pedals mmv , imi nun a Kuijjruus ma- chine constructed, propelled by slavi labor. He SltS CfOSS-leCged UPOII ail embossed couch, curtained and cano- i.led with silk nnd silver and gold. At his right hand is a clock, nnd at his left a compass, in order that when bo- yond the reach of the muezzin's call the faithful Mohammedan may observe thu exact hour ot prayer ami tho exact di rection m which his orlspns ate to bo addressed. HIBSTNQ HNKS. " Bcllo A Donoiigli is U10 namo of a drug clerk in a Now Jcrsoy town. Churches in tills country nro estima ted to uso 00,000 gallons of wlno every year for sacramental purposes. A German entomologist declares that spiders destroy moro insect enc n.lcs of trees than do all tho insect eating birds. Tho conscience fund in iho treasury at Washington ts approaching tho round sum of a quarter of a million of dollars. Philadelphia housekeepers, tired of vain effort to get good servants, aro now experimenting with colored help from tho south. A wealthy New York physician de ires it as his belief that "tho oyster is tho most healthy article of looa known to man. Thero is an artesian well 1,000 feet deep in Aberdeen Neb., that throws out l. ........ 1. 1:1... . I. ..1I numbers ot nsn mat iook iiku lhu mut uary brook minnow. A subiicr who ascended tho Pyramid of Cheops recently, without a guide, slipped and fell to the base. Ho was picked up a siianeiess mass. Tho crown urioce of Germany is a thrifty person and not ashamed lo turn an honest penny by selling milk from his tiairy farm near lierlin. Cant. Eatls, tho imt.rover of tho Mis sissippi dtlto, has boight a largo tract of land at Bar Harbor, Me., with tho intention of building a residence there. An oak that was cut boforo Shakes- peare s day lurutclittl a uu 01 tiinoer now in uso as a bench m an luigiisii tanner's kitchen. Tho timber did duty as a roof beam in n cburuh for 304 years. It is still as sound as sound can be. A boy in Bunnells county, Louisiana captured a small animal known to naturalists as a stoat, a ppeoies of er mine. It-t fur is white, and it is re markable for its length, being able to rnter a rat-hob', and is fourteen inches Ion". The Shasta county (California) Indi- ins havo a superstition that catfish wero put into tho river for tho special purpose of killing off the Indians. I tiey eat most other kinds, but throw back into tho river all tho cat iisu they catch. Bonvin, the painter, arose at his mar riage banquet and addressing his wife 111 an inflated style, retnaikcd : ".Never forget, my wife, that you havo entered a family of the gown and sword. Was not my mother a seamstress and my father in tlio rural police V A recent issue of tlio Electrical lie- view gives tho details of an invention that is destined to work a radical change in tho hotel system of waking guest?. It is an electrical annunciator, workiuc both ways, lrom rooms to oihec as well as ollic" to room", aud is particularly acceptable,-as by its means unu uuest may be awakened in tho momma without arouslnr everyone else on the lloor. An instantaneous alarm cm also be sounded by it in every room iu the hotel. An old Mississippi pilot tells tho St, Louis Olohe-Democrat that the affec tion exhibited by Mark Twain and his venerable mother, now a resident of Keokuk, Iowa, is very refreshinc. Sho always had firm faitli in her sou, Sam uel, and savs of nun , "He was always a good boy, Samuel was, though prone to bo tniecliievous. He's always tho sarao to me the best son a mother ever had." A Piute Indian in Virginia City fur nishes tho following looal price list for game : "Whitey man pay um two bits for teal duck and four bit for mal lard, maybe Piuta bring um. Whito woman kick like a mule ; no wan, to pay um Piute only one bit for mallard and four bit for gooseu. Injun no sell um goosen less than one dollar quarter. 1'iuto want um tour bits, ono tor bit jack labitty and twi bits for little." Among old papers rccuntly found in Kingston, N. Y. was a letter written in 1770 by James Hasbrouck to his friend Peter Van Gaasbeek, ot Esopus. In the letter he writes that Gim. Leo has erected a battery in "the Broad Wav, near tho BoldiiiK Gr-on." Is it possible, says the Now York Sun, that jur historic Howlintr was not a bowl ing green after all, or was James Has brouck simply a poor speller 1 An Albany, N Y., lfvdy suspected that her cook was playing sweet with ho umeer s clerk. A maid who play ed spy reported tint thu clerk brought tho cook French ;audy every day, wrapped 111 tin foil. The maid pro cured two specimens of the "French candies" and thu maid and mistress each ate one. Within half an hour they wero well repaid for their curiosi ty, lor the supposed candies proved to bo yeast cakes. A very old Indian relates that aboat forty yeius ago a battle extending over several days, each having about ono thousand lotlgeH, was fought 111 the vieiniiy of Portland, in Traill. Re mains nro still visible of trenches sunk by Chippewas, who wero victorious, but lost about ono thousand ponies that the Sioux-took in thnir retreat to Devil's lake. Thoy had Hint-look muskets. and tho number killed was large on both sides. Mme. Nilsson's reported raarriago to Count Miranda is off, if the Now York Jo vi Jopics is correctly niurnied. It seems tho prima donna preferred to ro- main tirst lady to playing second violin to an adventurer, though ho had a charming daughter. At tho Batno timo its she is not adverse to a littlo gamble, now and then, sho thinks it better to pay or her owu chips thau to provido them for her partner, who, it is well known iu Paris, has mixed much with tho kings aud queens ot Baccarat. An imposing person answered an ad vertisement for n cook puhlUhcd in a Buffalo newspaper, and, when tho mis tress of the house asked if sho had ref erences, prcseiittd thu following docu ment : "tins is to cerfly Hist is a fine cook and .1 perftct ladv. fit to iuboeiaio with the most refined society. as her uumerotis friends will testify." This first class endori-ement was not signed. But a postscript said ; "I hero- liy certify that is a perfect latly. I have known her several years. Richard Roe." Jl Groniita de Morelos, a paper published in Mexico, aveis that it is customary among the Indians of tho Jonaoatepeo district of that country to nYfdinnfm U'lvpa. ( Vn.ntainnnll v I Imun i.! rn mrmnnnr. t.nt morn -,.... th?y aro for a stipulated length of time, nty tl,0 oxpiratioii ot which pacn woman .ettirns to her former husband, and tho vrnr. U rulelirntril in nn,.l, fnmilv lr o f,.ast, at which the pulque flows freely, Where tho wives cannot bo traded oven a dog cat or pig is added on ono sido to mako tho barter fair. In tho diMrict of Tenago, at Tesca'iacao, tho still more nove1 custom exists of selling or trading off molhers iu-law. A very fair aiticle of mother-in law can bo bought for a lamb or sucking pig,
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