THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. GOOD LADY DUCAYNE ... BY JI1SS IJRAPPON, jC CHAFTF.R VI. """" "Yon ask tne so earnestly If I rn quite well that I fear my letters must hTO been very dull lately. Yes, dear, I am well but I am not quite so strong as I was when I used to trudge to the West-end to buy half a pound of tea Just for a constitutional walk or to Dulwich to look at the pictures. Italy is relaxing; and I feel what the people hew call 'slack.' But I fancy I can bos your dear face looking worried as yon read this. Indeed, and indeed, I am not ill. I am only a little tired of this lOTely scene as I suppose one might get tired of looking at one of Turner'! pictures if it hung on a wall that was always opposite one. I think of you every hour in every day think of you and our homely little room our dear little shabby parlor, with the arm-chairs from the wreck of your old home, and Dick singing in his cage over the sew ing machine. Dear, shrill, maddening Dick, who, we flattered ourselves, was so passionately fond of as. Do tell me in your next that he is well. "My fiiend Lotta and her brother never came back after all. They went from Pisa to Rome. Happy mortals! And they are to be on the Italian lakes in May; which lake was not decided when Lotta last wrote to me. She has been a charming correspondent, and has confided all her little flirtations to me. We are all to go to Bellaggio next week by Genoa and Milan. Isn't that lovolyt Lady Ducayne travels by the easiest stages except whon. she is bot tled up in the train de luxe. We shall stop two days at Genoa and one at Milan. What a bore I shall be to you with my talk about Italy when I come home. "Love and love and ever more love from your adoring, Bella." Herbert Stafford and his sister had often talked of the pretty English girl with her fresh complexion, which made such a pleasant touch of rosy color among all those sallow faces at the Grand Hotel. The young doctor thought of her with a compassionate tenderness her utter loneliness in that great hotd where there were so many people, her bondage to that old, old woman, where everybody else was free to think of nothing but enjoying life. It was a hard fate; and the poor child j was evidently devoted to her mother, and felt the pain of separation "only two of them, and very poor, and all the world to each other," he thought. Lotta told him one morning that they were to meet again at Bellagio. "The old thing and her court are to be there beore we are," she said. "I shall be charmed to have Bulla again. She is so bright and gay in spite of an occasional touch of home-sickness. I never took to a girl on a short acquaintance as I did to her." "I like her best when she is home sick," said Herbert; "for then I am sure she has a heart." "What have you to do with heart, except for dissection! Don't forget that Bella is an absolute pauper. She told me in confidence that her mother makes mantles for a West-end shop. You can hardly have a lower depth than that" "I shouldn't think any less of her if her mother made match-boxes." "Not in the abstract of course not Match- boxes are honest labor. But you couldn't irurry a girl whose mother makes mantles." "We haven't come to the considera tion of that question yet," answered Herbert, who liked to provoke his sister. In two years' hospital practice he had seen too much of the grim realities of life to retain any prejudices about rank. Cancer, phthisis, gangrene, leave a man with little respect for the outward dif ferences which vary the husk of hu manity. The kernel is always the same fearfully and wonderfully made a subject for pity and terror. Mr. Stafford and his sister arrived at Bellaggio in a fair May evening. The sun wa i going down as the steamer ap proached the pier; and all that glory of purple bloom which curtains every wall at this season of the year flushed and deepened in the glowing light. A group of ladies were standing on the pier watching the arrivals, and among them Herbert saw a pale face that startled him out of his wonted composure. "There she is," murmured Lotta, at his elbow, "but how dreadfully changed. She looks a wreck." They were shaking hands with her a few minutes later, and a flush had lighted up her poor pinched face in the pleasure of meeting. 'I thought you might come this eve ning," she said. "We have boen here a week." She did not add that she had been there every evening to watch the boat in, and a good many times during the 'lay. The Grand Bretagne was close by, and it had been easy for her to creep to the pior when the boat bell rang. She felt a joy in meeting these people again; a souse of being with friends; a confidence which Lady Ducayne's good ness had never inspired in her. "Oh, you poor darling, how awfully ill you must have been," exclaimed Lotta, as the two girls embraced. Bella tried to answer, but her voice was choked with tears. "What has been the matter, dear? That horrid influenza, I suppose?" "No, no, I have not been ill I have only felt a little weaker than I used to be. I don't think the air of Cap Fer rino quite agreed with me." "it must nave uisagreea with you abominably. I never taw sueh a change in anyone. Do let Herbert doctor you. He is fully qualified, you know. He prescribed for ever so many influenza patients at the Londres. They were glad to get advice from an English doc tor in a lrionaly way." "I am sure he must be very clever 1" faltered Bella, "but there is really noth ing the matter. I am not ill, and if I mm ill. Ladv Dunavue's uhvslcian " "That dreadful man with the yellow face? I would a soon one of the Bor gias prescribed for me. I hope you haven't been taking any of his medi cines." "No, dear. I have taken nothing. 1 have never complained of being ill." This was said while they were all three walking to the hotel. The Staf fords' rooms had been secured in ad vance, pretty ground floor rooms, open ing Into the garden. Lady Ducayne's statelier apartments were on the floor above. "I believe these rooms are just nnder ours." said Bella. "Then It will be all the easier for you to run down to us," replied Lotta, which was not really the case, as the grand staircase was in the centre of the hotel. "Oh, I shall find it easy enough," said Bella. "I'm afraid you'll have too much of my society. Lady Ducayne sleeps away half the day in this warm weath er, so I have a good deal of idle time; and I get awfully moped thinking of mother and home." Her voice broke upon the last word. She could not have thought of that poor loagmg wntcn went ry tne name of home more tenderly had it been the most beautiful that art and wealth ever created. She moped and pined in this lovely garden, with the sunlit lake and romantic hills spreading out their beau- i a ni. ..... WHAT A VAMPIRE ty before her. She was homesick and she had dreams; or rather an occa sional recurrence of that one bad dream with all its strange sensations it was more like a hallucination than dream ing the whirring of wheels, the sink ing into an abyss; the struggling back to consciousness. She had the dream shortly after she left Cap Ferrino, but not since she had come to Bellaggio, and she began to hope the air in this lake district suited her better, and that those strange sensations would never return. j Mr. Stafford wrote a prescription and ' had it made up at the chemist's near the hotel. It was a powerful tonic, and alter two bottles, and a row or two on the lake, and some rambling over the ! hills and in the meadows where the ' spring flowers made earth seem Para-' dise, Bella's spirits and looks improved as if by magic. "It is a wonderful tonic." she said, but perhaps in heart of hearts she knew that the doctor's kind voice, and the friendly hand that helped her in and out of the boat, and the watchful care that went with her by land and lake, had something to do with her cure. "I hope you don't forget that her mother makes mantles," Lotta said, warningly. "Or match-boxes; it is just the same thing, so far as I am concerned." "You mean that in no circumstances could you think of marrying her?" "I mean that if ever I love a woman well enough to think of marrying her, riches or rank will count for nothing with me. But I fear I fear your poor friend may not live to be any man's wife." "Do you think her so very ill?" He sighed, and left the question un answered. CHAPTER V1L One day, while they were gathering hyacinths in an upland meadow, Bella told Mr. Stafford about her unpleasant dream. "It is curious only because it is hardly like a dream," she said. "I dare say you could find some common sense rea son for it. The position of my head on my pillow, or the atmosphere, or some thing." And then she described her sensa tions; how in the midst of sleep there came a sudden sense of suffocation; and then those whirring wheels, so loud, so terrible ; and then a blank, and then a coming back to waking consciousness. "Have j'ou ever had chloroform given you by a dentist, for instance?" Never. Dr. Parravicini asked me that question one day." "Lately?" "No; long ago, when we were in the train de luxe." "Has Dr. Parravicini prescribed for you since you began to loei weak ana ill?" 'Oh, he has given me a tonic from time to time, but I hate medicine and took very little of the stuff. And then I am not ill. only weaker than I used to be. I was ridiculously strong and well when I lived at Walworth, and used to take long walks every day. Mother made roe take those tramps to Dulwich or Norwood, for fear I should suffer from too much sewing-machine; some times but very seldom she went with me. She was guuorally toiling at home while I was enjoying fresh air mid exercise. And she was very care iui about our food that, however plain it was, it should be always nour ishing and ample. I owe it to hor care that 1 grew up such a great, strong creature "Yon don't look great or strong now, you poor dear, said Lotta. "I'm afraid Italy doesn't agree with me." "Perhaps it is not Italy, but being cooped up with Lady Ducayne that has made you ill." "But 1 am never cooped up. Lady Ducayne is absurdly kind, and lets me roam about or sit iu the balcony all day U 1 like. 1 have read more novels since I have been with her than in all the rest of my life." "Thon she is very d average old lady, r rent from th o is usually n slave-driver," f.id . .ford, why she carries u comn "I wonder on about with her, if she has so !!lo need of socioty." "Oh, I am only part of her stato. She is inordinately rich and the snl ary she gives me doesn't count. Apropos of Dr. Parravicini. I know he is a clever doctor, for he cures my hor rid mosquito bites." "A little ammonia would do that, in the early stage of the mischief., bnt there are no mosquitoes to trouble you now." "Oh. yes, there are; I had a bite just before we left Cap Ferrino." Bhe pushed up her loose lawn sleeve, and exhibited a scar, which he scruti nized intently, with a surprised and pnzsled look. "This i no mosquito bite," he said. "Oh, yes, ft la ttnloas there are snakes or adders at Cap Ferrmo." "It is not a bite at alU You are tri fling with me. Miss Rolleston, yon have allowed that wretched Italian nnack to blend von. They killed the greatest lnan ln modem Europe that .v ,,. rirt , fr,n,h nf 4 yon. "I was never bled in my life, Mr, Stafford." "Nonsense! Let me look at other arm. Are there any more your tno.v qui to bites?" "Yes; Dr. Parravicini says that I have a bad skin for healing, and that the poison acts more virulently with me than with most people." Stafford examined both her arms in the broad sunlight scars new and old. "You have been very badly bitten, Miss Rolleston," he said, "and if ever I find the mosquito I shall make him smart. But now tell me, my dear girl, on your word of honor, tell me as yon would tell a friond who is sincerely anxious for your health and happiness ns you would tell your mother if she wore here to question you have you no knowledge of any cause for these scars except mosquito bites no suspicion, even?'' "No, indeed! No, upon my honor! I have never seen a mosquito biting my arm. One never does see the horrid little fiends. But I have heard them trumpeting under the curtains, and I know that I have often had one of the pestilent wretches buzzing about me in the night." Later in the day Bella and her friends were sitting at tea in the garden, while Lady Ducayne took her afternoon drive with her doctor. "How long do you mean to stop with Lady Ducayne, Miss Rolleston?"' Her bert Staff old asked, after a thoughtful i silence, breaking suddenly upon the trivial talk of the two girls. "As long as she will go on paying me i twenty hvo pounds a quarter." "Even if you feel your health break ing down in her service?" "It is not the service that has injured my health. You can see that I have really nothing to do to read aloud for an hour or so once or twice a week ; to , write a letter once in a while to a Lon don tradesman. I shall never have such an easy time with anybody else. And nobody else would give me a hun dred a year." "Then you mean to go on till you break down ; to die at your post?" "Like the other two companions? No! If ever I feel seriously ill really ill I shall put myself in a train and go back to Walworth without stopping." "What about the other two com panions?" "They both died. It was very un lucky for Lady Ducayne. That's why she engaged me ; she chose me because I was ruddy and robust She must feel rather disgusted at my having grown white and weak. By-the-by, when I told her about the good your tonic had done me, she said she would like to see you and have a little talk with you about her own case." "And I should like to see Lady Du cayne. vvnen am she say this? ' "The day before yesterday." "Will you ask her if she will see me this evening?" "With pleasure! I wonder what you will think of her? She looks rather terrible to a stranger; but Dr. Parravi cini says she was once famous for her beauty." TO BE CONTINUED. ' M. du Maurler, his son tells us, hnd no Idoa of upproprintt-mtsH In drews, and did not know one fashion from another. "My slaters," said Mr. du Maurler, "looked to It that ho got the right things in bis pictures. He would conte home sometimes and sketch something which lind attracted him In a pasBor-by on the street. Often It would be some Impossibly queer ar ranifoiiient, and my sisters would pro tost: 'Why, father, you mustn't uso that in Purwh. Nolxidy wciirs those things now; they are dreadfully old fashioned,' nnd he would Rlvo In Imme diately to what he recognized as their superior Judgment." This will be a blow to the hundreds of people who modeled their divss upon tlmt Du JaurUr"H men and women. Ills fash ions, Iwwever, were correct, for his family snw to It that they should be. A rtost'inlnu's Nuajleotod Kiluoatloiv, "Browning, dear," said Mrs. Enter boh to her huHband, "what Is a cu taneous, pnatlnie'.'" "A cutaineotw poKtluie, love? I nererfheard of such a, thing." "Well, 1 hcurd two men on the Htreot car talking, and aim of them trpoke of a sltin t;ie." Uroolilyn Llf. Didn't Have to Wa. Hanks ""And bectiuto you couldn't find n pcuuy to pay the fare, did the conductor make you get ait end wnlkr ' Jenkins "No, h only made me g"t off; X could have sat aa thp road all day if I'd wanted to."--rrou. the. Bktvcb. A OURLINQTON YOUNG LADY TELLS THE STORY OF HER RESCUE. From I aipprr, A reporter celled upon Mim 1,11! Ian Vr Brrat her home, 415 St. Tsui Street, Burling ton, VL, and bugged the favor of an Interview. Tfes young lady is a musician and a fclantit of considerable renown, and has her iinit fully occupied by engagement to play at eonccrU and other entertainments that are constantly taking plaes la the city, and the itraln upon the strength end nervous energy of the plouUt can fce easily Ininjrtned. " f never oould have stood it ones, not I hare something now," mid Miss Warner ntlmiiastirally, "that breeet me for my work. Some little time ago I was utterly unable to attend to my duties, owlntt to a disarrangement of the nervous yetera that effected my eyes with all the rest. They be came o weak and troubled m so that I fin ally went away into the country to rest. The benefit obtained from the change of acene and freedom from cars was, however, mere! y temporary, and npnn my return to weVk I rapidly lost all that I had gained and wore." " But did yon consult s doctor V "O yes, indeed; I put myself under the eare of several doctors, and even tried many remedies recommended for caeca like mine, but the inediciuei had do luting effect, and it looked as though nervous prostration was to be my portion. "I was about ready to 'throw phytic to the dogs' when I first heard of Pr. Williams' Pink Tills for Pale People, and it wait with but email fuith in any benefit to be derived from them that I at last made up my mind to try them. " Il irdly hod I taken the first box before I experienced a great relief from the weak ANDY 1 CURE CONSTIPATION lot as so ICQAT TITPT V miTJIlHTrPn to cur. anyeaHeof ronstipaHon. Casrareta are IheMral Lais AD JUL U 1 Eili I UU flUHn 1 LCiU tire. neTcr Trip or tripe, hut riuae ens; aMursI results, fcsm. fie aad booklet free. ait. KTr'.llMSO RRWKItT to.. Ditrsen. Wimlresl. .. nrXew Tort jn, " Better work ""wisely than work hard." Great efforts are unnecessary in house cleaning if you use APOLIO STOVE NAPTH Best Fuel on the market. With it you can run a vapor cent oer hour. 1 convinced. W. O. Holmes, Eshleman & Wolf. L. E. Wharey, W. F. Hartman, Social Laws for Girls. You think the laws of society are severe. You do not believe that con ventionality is a great sord held up, not to strike you, but to protect you, and you shrug your pretty shoulders and say : "I know I was doing noth ing wrong, and I don't care what peo ple say." Now, my dear, you must care what tteonle sav. The world is a great judgment court, and usually the innocent and ignorant are protected by it, though occasionally some one, falling into the mire of scandal and gossip, is brought into court all be draggled and disfigured! and the judge, not being able to see the vir tue which is underneatn, aectaeu against the victim, and all because she did not care what the world said. Sometimes I fear you hink I am a little bit severe ; but I have known so many girls who were so thoughtless, yet so good, and who only found pro tection in the sword of conventional ity. It may hang over your head as did that of Damocles, but it is as a warning. It will protect you from evil speaking, from making of injudici ous friends, and it will insure you more pleasure than if all the world ran helter-skelter and became like a wild Irish fair day. Conventionality protects us as does the best mother frowning at and tor bidding, not only that which is wrong, but also that which looks wrong. Ladies' Home Journal. OLD SOLDIERS MEET. The surviving members of the 143d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, held their annual reunion at Luzerne borough on Friday last, Captain De ' Lacev. of bcranton, presided, ana District Attorney Jones of Lacka I wanna County delivered the oration Burlington TU nets and nervous troubles with Which I was afflicted, and my eyes grew stronger every Are you taking the pills now t" was the VoU;im I told yo the flril box helped me a great deal, and after I had taken aix boxes I felt to well that I left off tbe medi cine entirely and hare not taken any now for turns weeka. I am able U attend to all my dutiet and feel a well as can be, while my ye continue te improve light along. I do not evtu mind the long walk from my home to the buslneae Dart of the city. liisa Warner further said that Pr. Wil liams' Pink Pills for Pale People build np the eyitem. giving a lasting effect and not merely a fictitious strength for the time be ins. br. 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