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THE STORY OF THE CHAIN PIER.
CHAI'IKII XI.
"Yon must listen to me." I said: "I
want yon to see how truly this is the
work of Providence, and not of mere
chance."
1 told her how I had been attracted
to the pier; I told her all that was said
ly the crowd around; of the man w ho
t arried the little dead child fc the work-
. nouse; 01 the tiny little body tliat lay
in its white dress in the hare, large.
! desolate room, nnd of the flowers that
the kindly matron had covered it with.
I told her how I had taken compas
sion on the forlorn, little creature, had
purchased its prave. and of the white
stone with '-Marah' upon it.
"Marah, found drowned." And then,
poor soul poor hapless soul, she cluntr
to my hands and covered them with
kisses and tears.
"Did you did you do that?" she
moaned. "How good you are, but you
will not tell him. I was m:id when I
did that, mad as women often are with
sorrow, shame, and despair. I will suf
fer anything if you will only promise
not to tell Iance."
"Do you think it is fair." 1 asked,
"that he should be so cruelly deceived?
that he should lavish the'whole love
of his heart on a murderess?"
I shall never forget her. She sprang
from the ground where she had been
kneeling, and stood erect before me.
"Xo. thank Heaven! I am not that,"
she said; "1 am everything else that is
base and vile, but not that?'
"You were that, indeed." I replied.
"The child you Hung into the sea was
living, not dead."
"It w as not living " she cried "it
was dead sui Lour before I reached
there."
"The doctors said for there w as an
inquest on the tiny body they said the
child had been drugged before it was
drowned, but that it had died from
drowning."
"Oh. no, a thousand times!" she cried.
" Oh, believe me 1 did not wilfullv mur
der my own child I did not indeed!
J,et me tell you. You are a just and
merciful man. John Ford; let me tell
yon you shall hear my storv. vou shall
give me my sentence I w ill" leave it in
your hands. 1 will tell you all."
"You had letter tell Lance, not me,"
I cried. "What can I do?"
"No; you listen, you judge. It may
lx- that when you have heard all, you
wili take pity on me: you may spare'me
you may say to yourself that I have
been iiioih sinned against than sinning
you may think that I have suffered
tnouc!:. and th.1t 1 may live out the rest,
of inv hie w itli Unt-e. Let me tell you,
and ou shiili jr.Jee me."
Siie fell over on her krees again, rock
ing backwards and forwards.
"Ah, why." she cried "why is the
w oriel so unfair? why, when there is
sin and sorrow, why does the punish
ment fall all on the woman, and the
man go free? I am here in disgrace and
humiliation, in shame and sorrow in
fear of losing my home, my husband, it
may be even my life while he, who
was a thousand times more guilty than
1 was. is welcomed, flattered, courted!
It is cruel and unjust.
"I have told you." she said, "how
hard my childhood, was. how lonelv ami
desolate and miserable I was with my
girl s heart fuil of love, and no one to
love.
"When I was eighteen I went to live
with a very wealthy family in London,
the name I will not hiiie one detail
from you the name was Cleveland;
they had one little girl, ami I was her
governess. I went w ith them to their
place in the country, and there a visitor
came to them, a handsome young 110
bient.in. Lord Dacius by name.
" It was a beautiful sunlit county. I
had lilt r to do. plenty of leisure, and
he could do as he would with his time. -We
had met and had fallen in love with
each other. I did not love him, I idol
ized hiur. remember in your judgment
that no one had e er lovx me. No one
had ever kissed n.v face and said kind
Words to me: and 1, oh! wretched, mis
erable me, I was in heaven. To be
loved for the first time, ami by one so
handsome, so charming, so fascinating!
A few weeks passed like a dream. I '
met him in the early morning. I met
him in the glor-ming. He swore a hun
dred times a day that he would marry
me when he carue. tf age. We must
wait until then. I never dreamed of
harm or wrong. I believed in him im
plicitly as I loved him. I leiievel
every word that came from his lips.
May Heaven spare me! I need tell you
no more. A girl of eighteen madly,
passionately in love; a girl as ignorant
as any girl could be. ami a handsome,
experienced man of the world.
"There w as no hope, no c hance. I
fell: et almost without knowing how
I had fallen. You will spare me the
rest I know.
"When, in my sore anguish and dis
tress, I went to him. 1 thought he
would marry me at once: I thought he
would be longing only to make me hap
py again: to comfort me; to solace ni;
to make amends for all I bail suffered.
I went to him in I'iidon with my heart
full of longing and love. I had left my
situation, and my stern, cruel grainf
inother lelieved that I had found an
other. If I lived to be a thousand years
old I should never forget my horror and
surprise. He had worshipped lue; he
had sworn a thousand timfs over that
he would marry me; he had loved me
with the tenderest love.
"Now. when after
hours. I saw him at last,
me; there was 110 kiss.
he frowiittl at
no caress, 110
welcome.
"'This is a idee piece of news,' he
said. "This comes from country vis
iting.' "'Hut you love me? you love me?'
I cried.
" "I did, mv dear,' he said, 'but of
course that died with Summer. One
does not sjeak of what is dead.'
" 'Do you not mean to marry me?' I
asked.
'No. certainly not; and you know
that I never did." It was a Summer's
amusement'
' 'And what is it to me?' I asked.
'"Oh, you must make the best of it.
Of course, I w ill not see you want, but
you must not annoy me. And that old
grandmother of yours, she must not be
let loose upon itie. You must do the
best you can. I will give you a hun
dred pounds if you will promise not to
come near me again.'
"I spoke no word to hira; I did not
reproach him: I did not utter his name;
I did not say good-bye to him; 1 walked
away. I leave his punishment to
Heaven. Then I crushed the anguish
within me and tried to look my life in
the face. I would have killed myself
rather than have gone home. My
grandmother had forced me to be sav
ing, and in the post-ottice bank 1 had
nearly thirty pounds. I had a watch
and chain worth ten. I sold them, and
I sold with them a small diamond ring
that had been my mother's, and some
other jewelry, altogether I realized
f.ftv pounds. I went to the outskirts
of f.ond'-'U and t"'k two small r"nr.
"I rerneinlier that I made no effort to
hide my disgrace: I did not pretend to
be married or to be a wi.!w. and the
mistress of the house was not unkind
to me. She liked me all the better for
telliug the truth. I say no word to you
of my mental anguish no words can
descriln it. but 1 loved the little one.
She was only three weeks old when a
letter was forwarded to me at the ad
dress I had given in London, saying
that my grandmother was ill and
wished rue U go home at once. What
w as I to do with the baby? I can re
member how the great drops of anguish
stood on my face, how my hands trem
bled, how my very heart went cold with
dread.
"The newspapers which I took daily,
to read the advertisements for govern
esses, lay upon the table, and my eyes
were caught by an advertisement from
some woman living at Hrighton. who
undertook the bringing up of children.
I resolved to go down that very day. I
said nothing to my landlady of my in
tention. I merely told her that I was
going to place the little one in very
good hands, and that I would return
for my luggage.
"1 vacant. so truly as Heaven hears
rue speak. I meant to do right by my
little child. I meant to work Uard to
keen her in a nice home. Oh, I meant
welt!
"1 was ashamed to go out in the
streets with a liltie baby in my arms.
"'What shall I do if it eries?' I asked
the kind landlady. 'You can prevent it
from crying,' she said; "give it some
cordial.' 'What is cordial?' I asked,
and she told me. 'Will it hint the lit
tle one?' I asked again, and she
laughed.
j " .o.' she replied, 'certainly not.
! Half the mothers in London give it to
, their children. It sends them into a
j sound sleep, and they wake up none the
j worse for it. If vou'give the baby just
! a little, it will sleep all the wav to
I lirighton and you will have no trouble.'
I I must say this much for myself, that I
i knew nothing whatever of children,
j that-is. of such little children. I had
j never lieen where there was a baby so
j little as my own.
j ' I bought the cordial, and just before
1 I started gave the baby some. I
I thought that I v, very careful: I
j meant to be so. I would not for the
; whole world have given my babv one
i half drop too much.
( "It soon slept a calm, placid sleep.
and I noticed that the little face grew
: paler. 'Your baby is dying.' siud a
1 woman, who was traveling in the third
! class enrriage with me. 'Itisdving. I
i am sure." I laughed anil cried; it was
! so utterly impossible I thought; it was
! well and smiling only one hour ago. I
! never remembered the cordial. After
; wards, when 1 came to make inquiries,
t I found 1 had given her too much. - I
i nei-d not linger on details. -I
"You see that if my littie one died by
1 my fault, it wa most unconscious on
I my part: it was most innocently, most
j ignorantlv done. I make no excuse. I
I tell j 011 the plain truth as it stands. I
j can -c.l my baby's death, but it was
j most innocently done; I would have
i given mv own life to have brought hers
I back. You. my judge, can you imag
j ine any fate more terrible than standing
t quite alone on the Hrighton platform
j with a dead child in my arms?
I "I had very little money. I knew no
soul in the place. I had no more idea
what to do with a dead child than a
I bnby would have had. I call it dead.'
! she continued, 'for I believe it to have
been dead,' no matter what anv doctor
says. It was cold, oh. mv Heaven,
how cold! lifeless; no breath passed
the little lips! the eves were closed.
the pretty hands stiff. hdiVrrtj it lra,l.
I wandered dow n to the tach, and sat
down on the stones.
"What was I to do with this sweet,
cold body? I cried until I was almost
blind; in the whole w ide world there
was no one so utterly desolate and
wretched. I cried aloud to Heaven to
help me where should I bury my little
child? I cannot tell how the idea tirst
occurred to me, the waves came in with
a soft murmuring melody, a sweet sil
very hush, and I thought the deep,
green sea would make a grave for my
little one. It was mad and wicked I
know now; I can see how horrible it
w as; it did not seem to be so then. I
only thought of the sea then as my lest
friend, the place where I was to hide
the beloved little body, the clear, green
grave where she was to sleep until the
Judgment Dav. I waited until it is a
horrible thing to tell vou! but I fell
asleep fast asleep, and "of all the hor
rors in my story, the worst part is that,
sitting by the sea. fast asleep myself,
with my little dead babe on my kilee.
"When I woke the tide was coming
in full and soft, with swift-running
waves, the sun had set. and a thick,
soft gloom had fallen over everything,
and then I knew the time had come for
what I wanted to do.'
JIAITKlt XII. AND LAST.
"I went on the Chain Tier. I had
kissed the little face for the last time;
I had wrapped the pretty white body u
the blat k-and-grey shawl. I said all
the prayers 1 coiild remember as I
walked along the pier; it was the most
solemn of burial services to me.
"I went to the side of the pier I can
not understand how it was that I did
not see you I sbwid there some few
minutes, and then I took the little bun
dle; I raised it gently, and let it fall in
to the sea. I'.ut in v baby was dead I
swear to that, t )h. Heaven! if I dared
if I dared tling invself in the same
green, briny waves!
"I was mad with anguish. I went
tack to mv lodging; the landlady asked
me if I had left the baby in Hrighton,
and I answered "Yes. I do not know
how the days went on I could not tell
you; I was never m self, nor do I ro
inember much until'soine weeks after
wards, I went liomn to my grandmoth
er, who died soon after I reached her.
I need not tell you that afterwards I
met Lance, and learned to love him
with all my heart.
"Do not "tell him; promise me, I be
seech you, for mercy's sake do not teH
him!"
"What you have told me," I said,
"certainly gives a different aspect to
the whole affair. I will make no prom
ise I will think it over. I must have
time to decide what is lest."
"You will spare me,"' she went on.
"You see I do no one any harm, w rong,
or injury. If I hurt another, then you
might deprive me of my husband and
my home; as it is. Iance loves me and
I love him. You w ill not tell him?"
"I will think about it," I replied.
"Hut I cannot live' in such suppense."'
she cried. "If you will tell him, tell
him this day, this hour."
"He might forgive you." I said.
"No, he would not tie angry, he would
not reproach me, but he would never
look upon my face again."
"Would it not lie Itettcr for you to
tell him yourself?" I suggested.
"Oh, no." she cried w ith a shudder.
"No, I shall never tell him."
"I do not say that I shall." T said,
"(iive me a few flays only a few days
and I will decide in iny mind all
about it."
Then we saw Lance in the distance.
"There is mv husband." she Raid.
"Do I look verv'il). Mr. Ford?"
"You do, indeed; vou look ghastly,'
I replied.
"I will go and meet him," she said.
The exercise and the fresh air
brought some color to her face before
they met. Still he cried out that. I had
rot taken tar? of brr: thai. ehr. was
over-tired.
"That is it.' she replied. "I have
been over-tired all flay; I think my
head aches: I have had a strange sensa
tion of dizziness in it. I am tired, oh,
Ianee. I am so tired!"
"I shall not leave you again." said
Lance to her, and I fancied he was not
quite pleased with me. ami thought I
hail neglected her. We all three went
home together. Mrs. Fleming did not
say much, but she kept up better than
1 thought she could have done. I heard
her that same evening express a wish
bi be driven to Vale lioyal on the day
following; a young girl whom she had
been instrumental in saving from ruin,
had been taken suddenly ill and wanted
to see her.
"My darling." Lauce said, "you do
not seem to me strong enough. Ijet me
persuade you to rest to-morrow."
"I should like to see Hose Winter
again lefore In-fore I " then she
stoped abruptly, and her face grew
crimson.
"He fore you what, Frances?" asked
her husband, w ith a smile.
"I mean," she said, "that I should
like to see Hose before she grows
worse."
"I tlrink you ought to rest, but you
shall do as you like, Frances; you" al
ways do. I will drive vou over
myself."
I saw them start on the following
morning, and then I tried to think over
in solitude what it would lie liest to do.
Her story certainly altered facts very
considerably. She was not a murder
ess, as I had lelieved her to be. If the
death of the little hapless child was at
tributable to an overdose of the cordial,
she had certainly not given it purpose
ly. Could I judge her?
" Yet. an honest, loyal man like Lance
ought not to le so cruelly deceived. I
felt sure myself that if she spoke to
him if she told him her storv with the
same pathos with which she had told it
to me. he would forgive her he must
forgive her. I could not reconcile it
with my conscience to keep silence. I
could not, and I believed that the truth
might Ik- told with safety. So, after
long thinking and delilteration, I came
to the conclusion that Lance must
know, and that she must tell him her
self. It was in the middle of a bright sun
shiny afternoon when thev- returned.
When lance brought his wife into the
drawing-room he seemed very anxious
over her. '
"Frances floes not seem w ell," he said
to me. -'IJiiig the bell. John, and
order some hot tea; she is as cold
death."
Her eyes met mine. "! in them I
read the question fiat are you going
to do?" J ws struck by her dreadful
pa1 nr-
"Is your head bad ag:iin to-day," I
askd.
"Yes. it aches very much," she re
plied. The hot tea came, and it seemed to
revive her: but after a few minutes the
dreadful shivering came over her again.
She stood up.
"Lance." she said, "I will go to mv
room, and vou must lead m. my head
aches so that I am blind."
She left her pretty drawing-room
never to re-enter it. The next day at
noon Lance came to me with a' sad
face.
"John, my w ife is very ill. and I have
just heard bad news."
"What is it. Iince?" I asked
"Why, that the girl she went yester
day to see, llose Winter, is ill with the
most malignant type of small pox.
I looked at him in horror.
'I)o you thiuk." I gasjed. "that the
that Mrs. Fleming has caught it?"
"I am quite sure," he replied. "I
have just sent for the doctor, and have
telegraphed to the hospital for two
nurses. And my old friend." he added.
"I am afraid it is going to be a bad
case."
It was a bad case. I never left him
while the suspense lasted; but it was
soon over. She suffered intensely, for
the disease was of the most virulent
type. It was soon over. Lance came
to me one afternoon and I read the ver
dict in his face.
'She will die." he said, hoarsely.
"They cannot save her." and the day
after that he came to me again with
wistful eves.
"John."' he said, slowly, "my wife
Frances is dying, and she wants to see
you. Will you see her?"
"Most certainly," I replied.
She smiled when she saw me, and
beckoned me to her. Ah, poor soul!
her judgment had indeed been taken
from me. She whispered to me:
"I'roniise me that you will never teil
him. I am dying! he need never know
now. Will you promise me?"
I promised, and she died! I have
kept my word Imce Fleming know s
nothing of what I have told you.
Only Heaven knows how far she
sinned or was sinned against. I never
see the sunset, or hear the waves come
rolling in, without thinkingof the trag
edy on the pier.
Tin: KM).
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DISENCHANTED.
A charming domestic picture the
dining-room brilliantly lighted, and the
silver and crystal, the gold-band china,
and the. snowy napkins, the white table-cloth
and the dainty little feast
spread thereon, the cheery tire in the
prate, the crimson carpet, the flowing
drapery, pictures and flowers.
And pretty little Mrs. Norton sitting
behind the urn. as fair and Iovelv a two
year matron as ever smiled over'a table
at her lord and master.
He was a tine-looking fellow too. that
husband of hers, ami it was very evi
dent that there was no lack of warm af
fection between them, for all the sub
ject of conversation was one of very
decided opinion, at least upon Mrs.
Norton's part.
Just now. she sugared and creamed
Mr. Norton's second cup of coffee, and
handed it toward him, w ith a little in
dignant remark.
"Hut it's too bad. Frank, and I be
lieve you think so as much as I do."
And she looked suspiciously as if
there were tears in her pretty eves.
"Indeed. I think it is just as bad as
it can be bad enough for us. but a
thousand times worse for uncle Tom."
"It is ridiculous! .The idea of him
falling in love at this time of life; but
more than ridiculous in falling in love
with such a creature, as Aura Vane!
Frank laughed at Lottie s emphatic
remarks.
"We musn't forget that of course the
old gentleman has a perfect right to do
as he pleases with his own, dear. His
being sixty years old does not pr-clud
him from even marrying Miss Vane, if
he chooses to.
Lottie looked very earnest indeed, as
she answered
"I know all that; but irhi can't uncle
Tom see her as she is. as pvervhodv else
Sv-es her? She's forty, if she's a day.
"A very suitable age, you must ad
mit, for him. Lottie."
"Frank Norton! How can you. when
you know just as w 'II as I do'that it is
ouiy uucJe Tom's money she ia after'
And to think he promised to leave it
all to baby if we'd name him after him,
nnd I wauted the darling called Roland
so badly, instead of "Tommy!" Oh,
Frank you never wi'l ki o v . hai a sac
rifice I hiade! And ?' I '':ui ' . baby's
name yes. I v I ; f Tom mar
ries that horrid old ;. '. who never
life! How ever she contrived to entrap
hiiu. I'd like to know."
Two bright little red spots were flam
ing in her cheeks, and despite the pas
sionate bitterness of her protest, Mr.
Norton realized there was a great deai
of righteous truth in it. and he was
looking grave and thoughtful, just as
the front door was opened, and in a
minute or two uncle Tom himself
came in.
"I am sorry to have been so late for
dinner, my dear," he said, brisklv, with
a smile toward Lottie; "but 1 have
been driving in the park with Miss
Vane, and really it was dusk before I
knew it."
Somehow Mrs. Norton glanced at her
husband as she turned the urn, just in
time to catch the quiewk glance of cau
tionary warning he sent her.
"Are you personally acquainted with
Miss Vane, my dear?" he said, present
ly, after dilating upon the tteautv of the
park in its late autumn dress.
"Not at all intimately, uncle Tom.
When I was a little girl she was a
grown-up woman, and of course I never
had occasion to associate with her.
As a child, I never fancied her, how
ever." He laid his knife down in the act of
slicing off a delicious piece of brow n
meat .
"You mean to insinuate that Aura is
as old as all that?"
Then Frank took up the cudgels in
his quiet, udimpassioned way.
"I don't think my wife would 'insin
uate' anything, uncle Torn. She simply
knows it to be a fact, as I do. and any
one else w ho cares to think at all aliout
it. that Miss Vane is past forty years
old. Hut, then, of course, no one ever
troubles one's self about it."
"Fast forty! Frank, I alwavs thought
you had uncommon good sense, and
judgment, and perception, but past
forty! Hut perhaps you don't happen
to know how delicate and lovely her
complexion is how soft and luxuriant
her hair is how girlish and charming,
yet dignified, is her manner:"
He spoke as if in great triumph.
"That goes for nothing, uncle Tom,"
Lottie said, more mildly than Frank
had expect of her. "Complexion and
hair can loth be tiought nowadays."
"lam perfectly aware of that fact,
my dear, although I must admit J vl
not thought vou capable of siWj such
Well, ihe "less said tr- 1 tetter, per
haps. Hut I assure .'fu I have satisfied
myself that A", 1S "ueof those rarely-
fu-'eservei' onien who at thirty for I
iav ft from her own lips that fier last
I'irthday was her thirtieth are more
charming and mature, and everyway
suitable to a disceyning man's "taste,
than when young ami girlish."
And he looked straightlv, defiantly in
Lottie's eyes.
"Oh. well." she retorted, btubbornly,
"you'll find out some day!"
"Yes." he answered, "I exject to
find out that the woman who w ill honor
me by being my wife is iust what I
have said she is in all respects. Frank,
don't you want tickets for the opera
to-night? I've a couple to spare, if vou
want to tak" Lottie to hear l'atti. Miss
Vane and I are going ."
Of course. Frank accepted the tickets;
and after dinner, when Lottie went up
to the nursery with him for their usual
half-hour of baby-worship, she declared
she would never call him by his odious
name again.
"He shall In: mamma's darling Ro
land now." she said, holding him in her
arms, and showering kisses on his
sweet, laughing face, and bonnv dark
eyes.
Frank laughed.
"You'd lietter wait a little longer,
Lottie. Thirtv thousand pounds is
worth being called a worse name than
Tom. l'erhaps the old man's disen
chantment will come even yet."
"It's disgusting," she said.
And then she said good night to her
year-old boy. with dozens of kisses and
nugs, and gave him back to his nurse.
"I want vou to go on an errand,
please, Frank," she said, suddenly, as
they went into their ow n room, "lip to
Hlandford's. for an invisible net and
hairpins. Will you, Frank?'
"An invisible net! What on earth is
that? Can't on see it? How shall I
know when I've got it? I'll inouire."
She gave him a little push towards
the door.
"Nevermind, Mr. Impudence. You
simply ask for what I tell you. pay
what they charge, and bring it home to
me."
So goodnatured Frank put on his hat
and started off to Hlandford's, the fa
mous hairdresser's, where he was to
buy the "invisible" net, to meet uncle
Tom on the doorstep, impatiently wait
ing for the carriage that was to take
him to his lieloved.
"There's plenty of time." Frank said,
as he stopped a minute, "f.et your
cane, uncle Tom. and walk ud to
Hlandford's with me."
I'ncle Tom looked at his watch.
"Well. 1 will. I shouldn't like to
keep Aura waiting, though."
"There's no need to," Frank an
swered. Ami they started off. even bit ot
Frank's determination and tact kept
continuously on the alert to prevent
the old gentleman from discussing Miss
Vane.
However, bv violent effort, he suc
ceeded, bv talking about the lYemier's
illness and the' Irish Hill, till they
reached Hlandford's. where an obliging
shopman gave them seats, and begged
them to wait only one moment, as they
were so busy just then.
Ami Frank and uncle Tom sat down
and waited, close by them being a tall
Venetian screen, which neither partic
ularly noticed, until, in alow, yet clear
ly distinct voice, thev heard a sentence
or so that startled them.
"How will that do. Miss Vane? I
have applied nearly an entire bottle of
the enamel; but pardon me the hol
lows and wrinkles are so deep that it is
almost impossible to obliterate them."
"It will have to do, I suppose. For
tunately all my new costumes have
longer sleeves than the old ones. Now
if you will make haste with my hair. I
shall wear the 'Ferfection' to-night. I
think: and. oh, please remember the
touch of pencil on my eyebrows. Tliey
are getting so horribly thin and pale
lately."
Heyond doubt of mortal comprehen
sion it was Aura Vane's voice, and
Frank actually pitied the look that was
on the old gentleman's fare.
Ami then no one in aH the world
ever knew how such an unheard-of,
awkward catastrophe haponed, except
uncle Tom. w hose foot reached out and
toirched the door the door in the
screen (lew onen, and revealed to both
gentlemen the startling sight of a
woman with a head almost as bare of
hair as a pumpkin only the merest
w isp of gray hair, tw irled in a little
pig-tail on the crown and on the
dressing-table beside her a head of soft,
rippling tresses, and a bottle of lella
donua. and a pot of enamel, and vari
ous sponges and brushes, and other
paraphernalia.
There was a shriek of horror from th
bald-foreheaded lady, a series of "Oh-o-o-o-h's:"
and then it all seemed in less
than a minute Jhe attendant threw a
shawl over Miss Vane's pate. Uncle
Tom gave a groan of utter horror as he
got up ami took Frank's arm.
T am going home." he said tersely.
"I don't want any opera to-night. I've
seen enough, (ireat heavens! what an
escape! For all these nunies I am
more than thankful. To think to
think I ins s. near """irTv'iig t'
I think the story is told. Mi83 Aura
ane did not secure her rich husband.
There are lots of fellows, old and
young, who are daily being deceived by
v..vu t,v.i-tt iiij.r-ui women man sne
only, sometimes, aw av down under all
the vain little artificialities, there is
often a true, loving heart.
Hut even worse than this is the fat
of a woman who finds that her ideal
mains only a bundle of tailor's clothes
and dentist's skill, and wig-maker's art.
Dou t you believe it? Or that there
are men who put their hair in papers
and wear gloves at night, and then tali
themselves "lords of creation!"
Ahem!
Well, the baby's name was not exact
ly changed, but Lottie inserted ' Ro
land for his middle name, and as once
in a while they chII him, in iest. of
course, "T. Roland," I shouldn't won
der if, after all. the little fellow has his
pretty name and the fortune, too.
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ALL HASH TO HI3I.
Xlie XVektrm Tlan Vnrn, (be T- I h t
f I HoMotl It ilKinrt.
Th" daughter of a Hoh n merchant of
gretit weali h. w ide mercantile connections
and Umudless hospitality, was married.
The 'West'Tii agent of the merchnnt
happened to be in town, and, tu, the
proud father was inviting about every
body to his dnuhter's wedding, be in
vited the Westerner too.
The Westerner came. He was uneasy
and shifted aiout from place to place in
the hou.-4-a if he were hunting for sjots
that fitted 1 11 in (tetter than thot-e he had
been in. He put his hands tionchalantly
on things and took them off again mid
denly, as if be found th'-tii hot, tnii
grinned familiarly at people he bad never
seen Iwfore, and then suddenly drew his
features back with a ghastly solemnity.
It seemed to ! an occasion of prat and
overw he;ming novelty to him.
When the refreshments ram- around
he v.:w inclined to tight -'.J of pretty
nearly everything. t was ns if he pro
OMod to take ' little Ho--ton formality,
now- thtit ' in Ho-ton. and require
an introduction to every dih. HLs host
siw that he wasn't eming much and
came .-notin.l to see altotit it.
"Why. you aren't enting anything. Mr.
Wrs.." said he. "Ciin't I help you to
something;"
"No. 1 thank you." said the Westerner.
"I (tin t very hungry to-night. I reckon
I've eat enough."
Just then 3 waiter came along with
sonw criKjiit tte-.
"Mr. We-t. take 0110 of t htf-e ci tllett-s;
I thi'ik you'll like ih.-ni; take one,
teke one."
The Westerner took ... He punched
it with Id-! fork, laid it open a hit. and ex
amined it criti.-nily. Then he tasted it
aixl exclaimed:
'(iosh: lla. hr
tilting llouxwlie I'otnte.
A cart i .il .,:tew if,. 11;. ;i entering her
kio dieti the c,.ok:
"Tt-e.it i n .-ss. Jam-, yr.11 tnii-t l
more ciii-ft:;i. You are mil clean enough
in jour ,.tti.'
"Lady," ft piled the cook, as sdie ttiok
up a piece of Iteef that h.id f.-ult n on the
lloor, "I sees dat yer's gwine ter nek
foolish wid me. Ain't yr jot not bin'
terdoVcpt tei-fool roiiti' oui heahr"
"It'sniy business to come out here oc
casionally." "All right, den. hah it yer own wt,v,
but I wanter say one thing: Lf yer w ants
to i"' yesse f at !e table .111" eat w id or'
comin npcrtite yev'd better stay oulea
dis kitchen. Ya.s." she added, as ?h
wiped h dish with a dirty rag, "yer'd
I etter not nose rmm' heah, fur cookin'
is er hus'ness w id inc. an' when er pusson
w "gaged in business, f.jolishness Ls awful
troublesome. Arkajisaw Traveller,
lie Stil Pon a.
We were running tlirough South Caro
lina when a great big giant of a fellow
with a terrible eye and a voice like a foj
horn hoarded the train ut a sinall
station. 1 think most of the ja.sr.engei-s
sized hiiu up as a chap w hom it would
be dangerous to argue with, but the
ginnt wasn't satisfied with that. Ho
blustered at the conductor, growled t
the brakeman and looked around as if
peeking sonic one to pick a fuss wih.
Evci-yiody answered luni civilly, and he
had two ot three seats to himself, but the
man w ho uanln a row cun generally Hnd
wiine pretext. About the center of the
car a p:de-ixking chiip about jears
old occupied a seat and w as re:uliiig a
newspBter. After a time the giant
rubbed along to w here the young man
Kit and growled out:
'Vstranirer. w hat may be the Jirst -.t of
such a hat as yoursC-"
The young man looked up w ith a flush
in his big blue eyes, and then turned to
his paper without replying.
"Hey! Did you hear mei'" roared the
other ;u he leaned oxer the seat and
lifted the hat off the young man's head
Quicker than one could count six a
f-hining revolver came from you couldn't
teil where, lifted itself oil a level with the
big man's eye, and the white lingers
clutching the butt never t rem hied a hair's
breadth as a quiet voice uttered the
words:
'I Mop thru hatr
The hat fell from the giant's grafp,
and the quiet voice continued:
"Now you sit down or I'll kill you
The muzzle of the weapon was not six
inches from the man's eye, and I saw
him turn from red to white in t'ii sec
onds. He backed away at the command,
pat down in a ceat opposite, and never
Htood up or spoke another word during
hi.s ride of twenty milvs. He hail a
"navy" under his coat, but Fomething in
that quiet voice and blue eye warned
him that the move of a ringer on his part
would crash a liullet into his head.
ti lie Itrntrmbrrrd It.
Sain Ward was once seated opposite a
well-known Senator at a dinner at
Washington. This Senator was very
bald, and the hght f-hining on the
breadth of scalp attracted Ward's atten
tion. "Can you tell me," he akonl his neigh
bor, "why the Senator's head la like
Alaska!'"
"I'm sure I don't know."
"Because it's a great whita bear
place."
The neighNtr tm immediately tickled,
and he hailed the Senator acroas tba
table:
"Say, Senator, Ward's just got off
very fmart thing about you."
"What is it?"
"Do you know w hy your head la like
Alaska?"
"No."
"Because it's a great plc for white
bears."
How He Mettled It.
'Colonel, have you tattled that affair
with the major yet?" "Yea, I haves"
said the colonel. ' 'TJow f " "Why, Las
week he ki ked me off hie Btoop, aad
since that he's let me aiaoe lackj ia"
htm, tw"
f
ZAT1X0 l "WAfHUrOTOaT.
tanrh XI roe to the Hre rata eat.
11k-part rue 11 1 II ow the Ene
plojes are Served.
Every day about noon, write a n irises
pondent frora Washington, a Urtls red
wagon with a dairy Kign on it sidea,
draws up at the Treasury, sod by tba
time H has been there a minunte or faro
you see it surrounded by a lot of lre
headed mn and women. Some of these
carry tin cups and other have their hands
full of pumpkin pies, pinger bread and
other delica.-ies of this nature. It in the
property of a thrifty dairyman of the
city who cultivatee the department
trade. He hustles around to th various
departments about the lunch hour furn
ishing milk ar.d pies and this sort of
thing to the hungry and thirsty clerks,
many of w hom eagerly eize this oppor
tunity for a frugal and healthful mid-day
hinch. Dinner at 1 2 o'ekxi in a thing
almost unknown in Washington.
The popular dinner hour with the
massee is 5 o'clock, or thereabouts, and
from that on untd 7 or in the evening.
The result is that "lunch" ir an important
feature of the half hour given at noon
in the departmentH. A pood many of
the clerks carry with them from their
homos a little box or hakt with their
lunch. In narly all thfi dep--irtmerit
there are arningementK for serving
lunch for th-se desiring it. In the ha.e
meut of the Trea-sury, Post Oflioe, Interior
and State Departments there are regular
lunch rooms, with tallies, bills of fare, etc
In the War Iejnrtnient there urc' iiuiu
ler of lunch stands scattered through
the l-senient. at w hich ttioee w bo lo
not carry their li"ch with theru regale
theinselv-
j ?ie new Pension Office a caterer
ifoes through the rooms at the lunch
hour dealing out coffee, milk and eata4b
of all sorte to those desiring them. As
a rule it is only the more ariHtocratir of
the clerk who go out to lunch. The
heads of the bureaus and officials with
salaries alove i.'Mtfl feel that it is Ihw
neath their diimity to carry a lunch with
them or to eat at the lunch rooms pre
pared in the department. So you may
see thetu scattered a! "out at the restaur
ants and cafes in the vicinity of the d'
IHrtnientH at the lunch hour. One of
the most interesting aad curious of
these lunch establishments is ju.t op
posite the Treasury. It di.sjietwe milk
with coffee and sandwiches and pie.
It has a long counter running bitv.
the end like a liar, and a row of cbsirs
alone each side of the room. The c-un-tormers
walk up to this bar, seje-t their
sandwich or pi. as the case may be, raU
for their mug of milk or ooffiv, or "half
and half." which means half cream aid
half milk, and, having been served, fall
bock to the chairs along the wi,U and di
cuj. their lunch and the ern-ip of he
day with their neighlors. Go in there
any dny between 12 aad I o'clock and
you insy see Trea-sury digniUiriee of all
eorts ami sir.es. below the Sfriary him
self, ranged in nmn alrni; the wnlls.
holding a mug of milk in one hand and
a "hunk" of pi in the other, and dis
cussing meanwhile the litest phaee or
politics or the result of the las' game of
bae-ball. The Cnlnnet officers are gen
erally a little more dignified about their
enting. Most of them go borne to their
luuches. having their carriage call for
them at the lunch hour. If they are too.
much hurried, however. thy have a
hinch pent to them from some neighbor
ing restaurant and lolt it in the privacy
of their office The President usually
lunches a I tout 2 o'clock or a rkw as the
Cabinet meeting ends. He often takes
CoL Lamont with him. and nometimes
some member of the Cabinet or a friend,
from New York.
A BUBIKX9S OT S2TAE.ES.
Perlla of toek Mpemlatore - the bam
tn Table a mere Crrtata
Uaantltr.
The New York Sun nays: If there he
any need of an additional reason for !
outwder to i-tay away from Wall Ktreet
it could eauily be found by the farts dis
closed by the failure of WUlmn Heath
6 Co. If old Wall street "ooorw" like
ttould, Cammack. Moroiiii, or Low , can
be caught for the large amount of money
that they were caught for, what peb
ble show could an outsider have cxtuing
with hia savings arid trywg to pet a re
turn for them.' Here you have a firm
w hich w ai alw ays rated "A 1," w IJcfa
w-ae supposed to te worth several millions
of dollars, and w hich goes to pot without
showing any aetwte. That Mr. Gould or
Mr. Cajnmack might have bot-n caught
in thin "torru is int-Uigilile enough, for
they are great stock manipulators, and
for all we know might have loaned the
monty to the firm in the hope of bridg
ing over itw difficulties.
Many a ease could easily be imagined
in which it might have been cheaper for
them to loee two or three hundred
thousand dollars than to see a great form
fail. But what business liad men like
Morosini or Low to intrust nearly half a
million apiece to a firm w hich they must
have known (for every body in Wall
street knew it) to be heavily short of the
market and an heaviJy dependent upon
the solvency of one spet-ulator' Is it
posnible that the tempati'si of rcoHving
7 por cent for deposits can le eo great as
to bind such men to the risks which they
run of losing the principal.
In any ccse and what may be the
issue of these two failures, it lieooiiiesi
more evident than ever that the Itest
thing for an outsider is never to tome
near Wall Ftreet. Hut if his oarurHl dis
position oom'K-1 him to do so there are
but tw-o ways for him to deal One is
to buy his stock, pay fir it and take it
away; andthe other is to play the mar
ket on the seme basis as the prof-isi.iil
gamblers do their play in a j.and4.ng
hou.se. They don't nek margin of csch
other; they play on word of month uiiwl
the game t through and they see w bo w
the winner or Ikvst. If they hate t
confidence in each other the-r wt,ti t play
at aU, but the moment they s-t .i..w-n
they consider thit t'jey nr" .-'. y
cjunre and reef.ori-.iM... Tin... !ti t the
stranger coining into a ftnl 'ti'r b.iv-e
has to pay rn.-h for his f l.ips. I.- : I l,n
the luoisl cert.ntityth.it i -1 p nvs
cash thetu when he 1. m-,, i.i Wail
i-Treers however, rt is not m.
1 oarrn SJplriteall.na.
A weJJ known illuminated us it cri a Liang
medium, who bad gullel tbusaniLi of
persons by her tricks, wa fully exposed
in an Eastern Ciry. She was caught
during her dark seance and ennipeJed to
make affidavit to a statement. She said tba
rols were soaked in a solution of pb'-s
phonis and tqwittered with lrifrht paint
w hich produced a luminous effect in th
dark. These were concealed under her
dress w hen she entered the cabinet Tall
figures were made by raising the armi
also e the head and small figures kneeling
flown. She had rare vocal owers which
were used to pood effect. The wnruaa.
;tr".. ris" tp-'t sli ' pif-Kiiex art rrntrds