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For circular, ad sice. terms and references to actual clients In your own SUte or County, write to C- Am HXOW fe CO., Op p. Ptnt OfBee. Waaklnctosi, CIIEI WHIlt ALL USE IAIL1. Bmt Couch Bjrrup. TminrmtnoA. W', in v. iii. rutm oy ui . n O3 A MAID' FORLORN. by rnr. ducitess. "Heard it before you came down, I dare say" chuckling. This is almost too much. Cecil grows as red as a rose and bites her lip. Ron nie turns as if benton aniaihilatinir their enemy then and there; but Mrs. Rivers checks her by saying blandly xou know all about him, of course. Major Jervis. His father was a great friend of yours. I believe." "Ye-es." says the Major, so doubtful ly, that Ronnie and Cecil both decide that the late Mr. Craven suffered him more than he regarded him. "Have any of you seen his place yet?" asks the Major, turning as if instinc tively to Cecil. She colors hotly. "W e have leeii hardly anywhere yet; the weather has been so terrible," re plies her mother, coming quickly to the rescue. "Splendid old place," savs the Major antique, picturesque pure Gothic, von know, and all that sort of rubbish! The drawing-room is a study in medi evalism, and the old china is priceless." "Oh, yes. those beautiful old Queen Anne cups with the tiny gold tracing!" exclaims Cecil, leaning forward, and forgetting in her eagerness all her words mav eouvev to the Major. "Kh? Vhat!" suspiciously. "I thought you said you had not been there. Then how did you see the china, .aiiss i ecu eiif "I heard of it," nervously. replies Cecil, blushing "Heard eh? Verv arcurate descrin- tion from mere hearsay." "Really, Major." savs Mrs. Rivers, half smiling, yet wholly angry, "Vcil wtll not be pleased with you if you doubt her word. Some day we are all going over to sp those wonderful things. Mr. Craven has kindly express ed a wish that we should go and look at the old place." "Ah, yes. no doubC growls the Major. "2sot that I think it would be an advis able step on vour part, mv dear madam. If yon will allow an old' friend of the family to give his opinion on this sub ject, I should sav yotmg ladies are bet ter out of baclielors' quarters! They are hardly suitable for young unmar ried ladies, I should think. jJetter at home, eh? But. of course, my dear madam, you are the best jud ire' of all that." "Yes, I think so," returns Mrs. Riv ers, a little haughtily: but this terrible old man is not to be rebuked. "No offense," he savs. "A word in season, you know; and er my voting friend Craven is rather a eay "fellow nothing very much against him. you know, niv dear madam, only young men will be voting men to the eiid of the chapter!' Ha ha!" His words mean nothing, his manner a great deal. A vague shadow as of cominar grief falls upon the heart of Mrs. Rivers as she turns almost instinc tively to look at her pretty Cecil. Her pretty Cecil is looking utterly unconcerned, and is simply regarding Major Jerris with a glance suggestive 'of irM iff ere nee and contempt. Mrs. 'Rivers sighs, and wonders inwardly whether she is doing a wise thing in al lowing this acquaintance with Duke Craven to ripen into a friendship nay. into something that may prove even warmer than friendship, and more capa ble of bearing fruit either of joy or sor row what it' it should le sorrow? Aft er all, what do they know about this young man Craven.-' He has fallen into their lives by the merest chance, and is literally unknown to them beyond the fact that he is of good family and has a house and some considerable property. Of his character or his usual habits they have learned absolutely nothicg. Anil even now is not the Major throw ing out hints of a most unpleasant nat ure about him? Meanwhile Ronnie is cross-questioning Major Jervis about Craven Court. Yes, it is a capital place," he says, "but draughty very, and haunted into the bargain." "Haunted! How delicious!" Cissy cries, clasping her hands. "Do tell us all about it, Major?" Whereupon the Major, who dearly loves the sound of his own voice, gives them a most extraordinary account of his pursuit of Cecil on that memorable evening now more than a week ago. He has hardly finished his highly colored recital when, to the surprise of all, Craven again enters the room. "I really must beg your pardon," says the young man, blushing ingenuously. "Rut not until I had reached home, Mrs. Rivers, did I remember about that address for which you so wished. I have it with me now. As I was going to Carbery" a village some three miles away"I thought I might as well drop in again and leave it with you." "Much better," answers Ronnie, gra ciously. "Ah, Major; knew I should find you here!" says Duke, genially. "I hope you are making yourself agreeable." "What an absurd question!" cries Ronnie. "When is the Major anything else? Just now, too. he is making him self more than usually charming, be cause he is telling us ghost-stories. Think of that!" "Just that little adventure of mine the other evening," says the Major, airily. "Nothing much, you know; but of Course it is something to have been face to face with a real ghost." "Something! Everything!" exclaims Cecil- "Weren't you frightened to death, Major?" "Not I, indeed! By Jove," he says, looking fixedly at Cecil, "I have it! There was a certain familiarity about that ghost that puzzled me at the time; I thought it resembled somebody, but could not make out whom. Now I know. It was you." Mrs Rivers looks a little nervous, and Cecil and Craven break into merry laughter, instantaneous and irrepies- "I think it is very unkind says C.ssy, presently, with imnrh . "to compare me to of you," a little; a horrid ghost!" . . ... "Rut the figure was marvelously like yours." persists the Major, in a puzzled tone, "and the side-face too. "The storv grows more thrilling every instant," observes Ronnie..- "I do hope, Cecil thaty wril not imitate your ghostly fetch and dissolve away into a gentle dew." . . - ; . . -Don't you feel very uncomfortable. Miss Rivers?" asks Craven, addressing Cissy. -'orat1pr flattered than otherwise. A very little mere thought on the sub ject would make me imagine I was the actual heroine of the story the Major has so kindly told us." -Well. I must le going says the Major, rising. "You will come wah me. Craven?" "I am going to Carbery," returns Craven, evasively. "So am I." savs the Major, determin edly and so, sorely against his will, the young man is compelled to rise from fiis comfortable lounge, and follow him. t1IAPTF.Il VI. V month has flown swiftly by. Al ready the earth is whispering of spring, the trees are budding, the grass is throwing out fresh green shoots; and indeed all Nature is lifting up its head and rejoicing as "Spring rx.me. up this wiv " " To Cecil this past month has ln-en one of intense happiness; to Ronnie one of unrest, though perhaps not altogeth- er painful. Sir Sydney Waleott has been abroad, summoned there to attend the death-bed of a rich relative, but his letters have not ceased. and. though calm as the first she received from him at Branksmere, have leen at least undevi ating in their constancy. Mrs. Rivers, however, has been seri ously uneasy. The hint dropped by the Major about Duke Craven's not being all one could desire in the way of steadi ness has lingered in her mind ever since, and tormented her by day and by nisiht. This doubt, too. has leen con fined perforce to her own breast, as the Major returned to town the day after he had sown the seeds of distrust in her breast, and to Cecil or Ronnie she would not talk on such a subject. Craven's evident admiration for Cecil is apparent to all eyes so apparent that Mrs. Rivers longs daily for the hour that will see him present himself as her open suitor. But that day has not yet come, and misgivings oppress her m spite of her determination to have patience and let things take their proper course. By nature a nervous woman, she is now doubly so. on account of her de- Sendence lipon her uncle, Sir Gregory. he would gladly see her girls married comfortably ana beyond the power of any whim of his to hurt them. She is anxious, too, about Cecil. The girl, she can see, has given her whole heart to this acquaintance of only six weeks. She is blindly, utterly happy when with him which is dangerously often and plainly trusts him entirely. Just now Craven is with her in the drawing-room, and both are standing in the big bay-window counting the pretty snowdrops that are coming up one bv one. Duke is not talking. He is. indeed, almost deaf to what Cecil is saying, so rapt is lie in contemplation of her own fair self. She is dressed in a gown of dark brown velvet, trimmed with coffee-colored lace at the throat anil wrists, and is looking more than usually lovely. Presently she becomes aware that he is not listening to her, and turning to him, tells him so, with a pretty show of petu lance. "I confess mv crime," he says, quick ly, his voice lull of eager passion. "How could I think of any tiling but you when you are opposite to me' Your voice. Indeed, is sweet; but you are even sweeter. No, I heard nothing. I could only see." "See what?" she asks, with an attempt at gavety, though she has grown a little paie "because of his manner, which is strangely unlike his usual calm self. "You. "my "dainty riel' my darling!" he whispers quickly. The words come from him almost involuntarily; almost unconsciously too he takes fier hand and holds it closely. Cissy colors faint ly, and then grows even paler than she was before. "Why do yon call me that?" she says. "Why? Yon have no right to no '"' He interrupts her by a gesture, and draws her even nearer to h;m. "Give me the right." he says eacrerly. "You know you must know by th'is time that there is nothing in the'world I love so well as " ' "Major Jervis." announces a servant j at this supreme moment, throwing wide the drawmcr-rooin door. With a smothered exclamation, Crav- i en lets Cecil's hand drop, and, turning ! aside, steps through the open window , on to the small veranda outside, which ! by stone steps leads to the ground. Dp- ! scendiug these, he goes quickly out of ! s:ght, but not belore the Major has had : time to catch a glimpse of his depart- I inr coat-tails. I "Hum! hah!" says the Major. He has j hardly had time to return Cecil's some- , what coll greeting when Mrs. Rivers 1 and Ronnie enter the room. There are j signs of very distinct irritation about I the Major. He blows his nose some- j what effusively, and refuses to let his eves meet those of anyone else present. "I think I saw Craven going out of that j window just asl came in," he says, star- 1 ing at Cecil. ! "Yes," she returns, slowly; her mind ' is still full of Duke, and she is wonder- ! ing what it was exactly that he was go- I ing to say when interrupted by this ! troublesome Major. j "He didn't expect me down to-day," the Major goes on. "Thinks me safe at home at this moment, no doubt." Again he looRs at Cissy, as if expect- j ing lier to answer. He is in truth curi- ous to know if Duke saw him coming or heard him announced by the servant, and, if so, whether he ran away to avoid the bore of having to speak to him. "He will be all the more delighted to see vou at the Court, of course." says Ronnie, ironically. "Surprises of that sort are so pleasantl" "Quite so." and the Major directs a withering glance at her. "Fact is, I hardly knew 1 was coming down my self until this morning. But business . must le attended to, you know. Busi ness for the fair sex especially ha. ha! I've come indeed to carry Craven back to town with me. I bring a letter from his cousin. Lady Maud Esterdale, de manding his immediate attendance." "Who is this Cousin Lady Maud?" asks Cecil, quickly. "Oh, don t you know?" inquires the Major. "It's not quite settled, I be lieve; but " "What is not quite settled?" demands Cecil again. She is quite calm but deathly pale. "His marriage," says the Major, quiet ly. It is true Ihat he shifts a little un easily in his seat as he says this, and re fuses to lift his eyes from the carpet; but nevertheless ne savs it. ' A dead silence ensues a silence short : in reality, but of intolerable length to j some in "the room. Then Cecil laughs ; quite a natural little laugh, too; so natural, indeed, that both her mother i and Ronnie turn involuntarily to look at her. "He is rather a scamp in some ways." continues the Major, in a genial way. "Now if you asked him about this mar riage, it is as likely as not he would deny all knowledge of it, and declare he was never further from matrimony in his life. But don't you be taken in by him. He is a disgraceful fellow in the way of flirtations; makes love all round, you know, to every woman he meets, and makes some of "em believe him, too. But he's not a bad young fellow at heart. No.no far from that. But this marriage now will be a good thing for both of them; she with title, he with monev." "A charming arrangement indeed!" says Cecil, without so much aa a quiver of her eyelids. "Well, it is rather premature vet to speak about it," pursues the "Nlajor. "Craven mightn't like it. you know; so don't mention my name m the matter as having been the one to tell of it. You see, he is such a great f riend here that I dare say he will wish to le him self the first to tell you of it." "Of course he would like to tell us himself," returns Cecil, siml.ng calmly. "As you say, he is a great friend of ourSj and ne knows we will le glad to hearoi. anything likely to add to his happiness. The Major watches her closely as she makes this set little speech, and siie as closely returns his fixed gaze. Then, with a'somewhat troubled and baffled expression on his face, he rises and bids them "good-bye" for the present. When the tloor has shut Itehind him. Ronnie tarns vehemently to Cecil.- "I don't behove one word of it, she says hastily "not one! He looks as if he were telling a falsehood." "I saw no trace of falsehood either in his I'm k or tone."" answers Cecil; in a snaun. tone. "ait. ;:s for the rest.i be lieve every word he said." She moves toward the door; her mother, with tears in her eyes, rises as if to follow her, but with a gentle gest ure the girl prevents her. "I want to be alone, mamma," she says entreat ingly. "just for a little while; I shall be all right then. But there is one thing you fan do for me." she cries, breaking suddenly out of her terrible quiet. "Never-never mention his name to me again!" Poor Mrs. Rivers is thoroughly cast down, and Ronnie scarcely less so. "How shall we receive him if he calls to-morrow?" asks her mother, when poor Cecil has crept away from them up to her own room to cry her heart out on her lteil. 4.1 ust as if nothing had happened. Cecil, of course, will not apiear. I will make her go for a walk at that hour, so that we can truly say she is not in. Mamma, if only for Cecil's sake, do not let him see we care about this thing." So the next day, when Craven calls at his usual hour, Mrs. Rivers is as nearly as possible the same to him that she has been during the past month. Per haps some subtle change in her manner might be noticed by a very acute ob server, some vague irrepressible shrink ing from all more open cordiality; but beyond this her demeanor is perfect. As for Ronnie, she is a degree more sad than angry. She maintains an al most utter silence; but every now and then Craven, glancing at her, wonders vaguely why her eyes are so large and mournful, her whole manner so full of an uncertain depression. His wonder on this point, however, is indeed vague, as his whole mind is filled with a longing to see a particular lounging-chair near the tire occupied by a little lissome figure whose smile is wont to beam at him, half roguishly, half with a tenderness not to be de scribed. "Where is she now his little sweetheart? "Where is Miss Cecil?" he asks at last, unable to restrain his impatience any longer. "She has gone for a walk, I think," replies Mrs. Rivers, stooping to poke the lire. "Let me do that for you," says Crav en, taking the poker from her. "She has gone to the garden, jiorhaps." lie is kneeling on the hearth-rug. and is looking very earnestly up into Mrs. Itivers's face, with his pleasant honest eyes. "I think not certainly not she did not say ev;:ctl v where she was going," returns Mrs. Rivers, evasively. Ronnie at this sighs- audibly, and Craven, turning, looks at her sharply. Something in her expression evidently strikes him as being peculiar, but he says nothing, and presently turns the conversation into another channel. "1 have a friend coming to stay with me next week." he says "a friend of yours, too. I think. I "net him in Lon don, and he almost asked me to invite him down. Be said he knew you all very well." "I dare say. We lived some years in town," responds Mrs. Rivers, indiffer ently. "One gets to know so many peo ple there." Ronnie evinces no curiosity either about the new arrival at the Court; so Mr. Craven goes on "i'm rather sorry he is coming just I now. as 1 am bound to be in town in I the morning, and sha'n't be able to be back for a fortnight. I am afraid there fore he will have only a slow time of it." lie rises to go- as he does so, Ronnie rises too, and follows him into the hall. "1 think." she says, in a tone that falters slightly "I think Cssy went in the direction of the beech-wod." Before he has lime to thank her for this hint or wonder at the strangeness of her manner, she has disappeared; and, somewhat puzzled. Craven makes his way toward the wood she has men tioned. Just as he enters it, he encounters Cecil coming toward b in, her head slightly bent, her face rather paler than usual. "How d'ye do?" she says, quite calm ly, but without an accompanying smile. Jhe lets her hand lie in tus unsympa the tically, and then draws it away al most belore lie has time to know it was there. "I was unfortunate to-day. I thought j I should have found vou within" with I an attempt at cordiality, though some ; inward m;sgiv.ngs have cast a shadow , on his usual lighi-heartedness. I "1'or the future. 1 think you must not j expect always to find me in," she re ; plies, with a faint smile, t "Whv?" he asks, astonished at her whole treatment of him. "Because winter is at an end. and the fine weather tempts one to go out," she says, coldly. "For that reason one loves the fine weather," he returns, striving against his growing anxiety. "May 1 not some times accompany you in your rambles?" "No. I think not. When I go for a walk in these quiet woods. I pcefer my own company to any one s. A strange fancy, and rather egotistical, is it not.''" "It is very unlike vou" gravely; then, unable to control Iiis uneasiness any longer, he savs, anxiously, "What has happened that you treat ine like this? napi Win it have t done to you ; "Done to me.'" haughtily. Noth- I am going to town this evening, Cecil, I shall not be back until " "I must ask yon not to call me "Cecil."" says the girl, quietly, and with a certain amount of dignity. "I must always le "Miss Rivers' to gentlemen acquaintances." "Am I only that? Only an acquaint ance?" There is a world of reproach in his totie. "Yes. only that" remorselessly. "And yet "yesterday " "Do not speak of yesterday!" she ex claims, putting up her hand impulsive ly, as though to ward off something tbat is hurting her. "As you will, of course." he returns, in a tone nearly as cold as her own. "I have no claim, of course, to be consid ered even a friend. May I say good bye to you, and let you finish your walk in peace? I am going away this even ing." II Where are you going?" "To my aunt Lady Eton." "Ah. to your cous.n. Lady Maud!" "Yes, if you like. Who "was telling you of it? The Major?" "Yes, the Major. lie told me every thing." "I don't know when I shall be back." "Soon enough, no doubt. What are you going for the wedding?" "Yes. for the wedding." He speaks in a verv low, depressed tone, because of her cruel coldness. To her his de pression means only shame at the dis covery she has made. "When is it to be?" she asks, slowly. "Next week." "So soon? It is sudden, is it not?" "Not very; I have known of it for some months." "You knew of it before we came here?" "Oh, yes: long before that! I wish vou knew Maud she is a verv nice girl, and I am sure she would be a great friend of yours." "I am equally sure she would not. I hate nice girls!" says Cecil, with sudden and most unlooked-for vehemence. "Surely they are better than nasty ones, at all events!" he returns, some what aggrieved. "I don't know. At all events" den antlr "I don't care to hear anything more about either you or Lady Aiaua. Silence follows this outburst a si lence that lasts until thev reach the small path that leads to the avenue. "I think you are hardlv kind to me," he says then, gently. "And I don't un derstand you at all." "No" in a very low tone "I dont wonder at that. There are times" bitterly "when I can not understand myself. "Well, shall 1 say then that I wish your Lady Maud joy ?" "Thank you. I shall give my cousin that message," he answers, gravely; then, holding out his hand, "Good-bye. "Good-bye" stonily. "1 shall not see you again for some time," Craven goes on, wistfully. "Don't let that trouble you," she re turns, with a little heartless laugh that certainly has no mirth in it. -Does that mean that you do not care ever to see me again?" he demands, his face darkening. "It means whatever vou like." she an swers, icily, though at'this moment she would have given half her life to be able to llmg herself into his arms and cry her heart out upon his breast. "No; you shall teli me what you real ly mean now at once!" he declares, sternly, compelling her to face him. "Is it that you honestly hope never to see me again?" "Yes, that is my honest hope," she re turns, calmly, her face deathly pale. "Ah!" He draws his breath quickly, and for a moment his own face, rivals hers in pallor. "You shall not betwred by me in the future," he savs, slowly. "1 shall not trouble this part of the world much again as long as it shall please you to remain in it." So saying, he turns from her. and, with bitter anger in bis heart, strides rapidly through the woodland, and is soon lost to sight amidst the shadows of the coming night. CnATTER VII. A miserable week, fraught with bit ter grief for Cecil and even bitterer dis appointment, goes slow ly by. No one has said a word to her about her faith less lover, no one has even ventured to mention his name in her presence; but just now, when stie and Ronnie are standing alone in the pretty morning room, lionnie goes up to her and places her arm around her neck. The girl is impelled to do this because of tlie for lorn expression upon Cecil's face, and i her disconsolate attitude. She is lean- j ing against the shutter of the window, and great tears are shining in her mournful eyes. As Cecil does not repulse her. Ronnie is emboldened so far as to lay her soft cheek against her sister's; and, being still further encouraged, as no rebuff has followed on this overture, she whis pers, tenderly "Do not Ite so sad. darling. It will be better by ami bve. Time cures all things." "lias it cured vou?" asks Cecil, with a little catch in her breath. "Nearly. I think." replies Ronnie, with a heavy sigh that Iteliesher words. "Do you liiean to tell me" glancing reproachfully at Ronnie "that you have ceased to long and hope and pray, for Sydney's return?" "I think so I hope so," answers Ron nie. But as she says this there are tears in her voice and eyes. "It is not trne," "says Cecil, regarding her fixedly. "You love him still in spite of everything." "Why should I love him?" demands Ronnie, with much agitation. "Why should I let one thought of him find harbor in my breast? lie has forgotten me has rubbed me out of his life with out even a passing pang. I hope." she cries earnestly, "1 shall never see Syd ney Waleott again." "Sir Sydney Walctt," announces a servant, almost as she ceases speaking, and then both girls become aware that the door is open, and that the young man upon the threshold has in all proba bility neard every word of Ronnie's passionate little speech. Cecil, advancing to cover her sister's confusion, greets him kindly. Ronnie, who bas turned first pale and then red, and finally pale again to the very lips, comes toward him now. and gives him her hand in silence; then, summoning all t lie courage she possesses to her aid, tells him in a conventional tone that it is really quite a pleasure to see him again. This remark is so palpablv insincere that the young man she addresses for gets to make any immediate reply, and only stares at her in a reproachful fash ion. He is of mi'ldle height, with a quiet, kindly expression, and a manner pleas ant, if a little languid. When they have all seated themselves, he makes no attempt at promoting conversation, and even while answering the questions put to him apiears very far away from them all in spirit. It is quite evident to Cecil that iiisthoughtsare elsewhere, and that he is in the very lowest of low spirits. Presently she rises, with the express ed intention of seeking her mother, and, in spite of a beseeching glance from Ronnie, deliberately quits the room. Almost as the door closes behind her. Sir Svdney, rising from his seat, goes over "to the hearth-rug, and standing ' opposite to Ronnie, leans his arm upon the mantel-piece and gazes down upon i her. "I hope Cecil will not return for some time." 1m savs, slowly, "because I have a great deal'to tell you. What was it you were saving just as I came in? That 1 had forgotten yon rubbed you out of my life eh?" "Well, was it not true?" asks Ronnie nervously, twining her lingers idiy to gether. "There could hardly be anything less true: but let that pass. You said also if I remember rightly that you hoped you would never see me again. N't as that also true?" "If you won't believe mo in one in stance. 1 suppose you won't in anoth er," savs Ronnie, evasively. "And yet I think it ought to be true." "Well, it isn't," returns Sir Sydney. "1 don't bebeve a word of it. I won't; so vou need not sav it again." Then; suddenly "I've been abroad, you know. Mv uncle is dead." "I am verv sorry." begins Ronnie. "Don't be." I'm not." answers Wal eott, calmly. "He was as disagreeable an old beirT.ir as anv one could -possibly ' meet. However, i forgive him. He " died and left me all his money." "I congratulate you." says Ronnie, icilv. "It is a case for congratulation, cer tainly," he replies, cooliy. "And yet something is lacking to sue that damps all mv prosperity. That tinio last spring, when we were iu town together. I wrts nvserablv poor.' Nobivlv knew it. I tiiirtk at least. I hope Id itln't look poor. But there were anv amount of debts that should have "wen paid off. incurred bv mv Weil, never mind that; I paid them ihey wece debts of honor; but the paving crrppled me so much that I was afraid to ask you to marry me in those davs. Now I am not- 1 have got the title, you see, and the estntes. and and thai." "The title!" repeats Ronnie, in a low ton. "Yes. My nncle was Earl of Errmg ton. and there wasn't any son to inherit. That was my luck, you knw." "I suppose I ought to tell you ' again how glad I am of your" "Say nothing of the kind; say onlv you are glad to see me. Ronnie" with an utter change of tone "my dearest love, tell me you will marry me as soou as vcu can."" '. When Mrs. Rivers and Cissvcamein- : to the rttoni. a tew minutes later, they i liud Ronnie standing on the hearth-rug j with Lord Errington's arm round her, I and a smile upon her mobile lips that I has been absent from them for many a j day. A few words explain everything, I and then the future Countess is caress- ed and made much of bv her mother ! and sister for a little while. j "I had no idea that vou were the friend who was coming to stav at the 1 Court," says Mrs. Rivers, presently, I smiling at Errington. j "No? Didn't Craven tell vou? T Chose a rather peculiar time "for my Tisit," he adds. with alittle laugh "just when Craven was about this wedding." "Yes, yes." savs Ronnie, in an agony. In vain she tries to think of something to say that will turu the conversation into another channel. "Very pretty girl. La.lv Maud," he goes on, unsuspecting; "and enormous fortune. I think mvst-lf she is rather throwingherself a way upon McGregor!" "Upon whom?" asks Ronnie, breath lessly. Cecil, who has placed one hand upon the back of a chair to support her self, is looking at Sydney with all her soul in her eyes. "McGregor," he repeats carelessly. "He's a sort of distant cousin of hers, and really nothing much in anyway. Bnt she likes him. and has married him the wedding took place on Thursday in spite of everv one." "This is dreadful!" says Ronnie, in a frightened tone. She 'would perhaps have said a great deal more: but Er rington with a smothered exclamation, j goes quickly forward, and catches Cecil ( in his arms. She has not quite fainted, but for a minute or two is compelled to j lie passive in his arms, her breath ' coming and going in little fitful gasps. After awhile she opens her eyes, and tries to smile, and murmurs feebly that J it is only the heat nothing more; that I she is very foolish, and so on. "You are not foolish, and it is not the i heat!" cries Ronnie, with tearful indie- I nation. "It isonly that hateful Major!" , After this, everything is explained to j Errington, who looks as concerned and , is really as distressed as any one could ! possibly desire. " I "Do not let us talk anv more about it, j Ronnie." says poor Cecil, at last. "It ! is all over, and it was all my own fault. ! and I will not have Sydney worried ; about my grievances. 1" shall go for a walk in the beech-wood and try to leave my troubles there behind me."" , She smilesa little wmtery simile asshe says this. and. softly beckon, ng to her mother, thev bo:h go out of the room, leaving the lovers alone. Down the bare leat'-stivwn path goes Cecil, her mind full of bitter thoughts. Entering the wood, she strays deep into it. thinking always qf that, last day when she was there with luni. and when she had fo willfully put from her the one chance of happiness she most de sired. Two tears -spring into ht-r violet eyes and linger there. They do not lall,tnit shine like twin stars'in the last bjptvms of the sinking sun. She has now reached the very spot where last she saw Vr. :vcn. Up to this she had Ik-n walking with bent head; but now. lifting her eyes, she looks around her. As her glance slow ly trav els from tree to tree, her sadness in creases. Now she is looking wistfully at the little babbling brook in the dis tance, and now at the mossy hillock be yond, and now Who is that coming toward her? Her heart stops beating for a moment, and then thrchs frantically. It is Craven, looking sad and careworn and lull of dejection. Ashe sees her.be checks Limself for an instant, and then comes resolutely onward. Flinging away the cigar he lias been smoking, he stops just before Cecil. He does not offer to shake bauds with her, but stands regarding l.er fixedly. "You!" he says at length. "What bas brought you here?" "I don't know: I wanted to come here I" She feels a bttle choking sensa tion in her throat, and stops, unable tc proceed. "I didn't mean to come back again so soon." says Craven, who has never once removed his eyes from her face, while she. on the cunirary. has not had the courage to lift hers to his. "1 thought you meant never to come back." she answers in a low, husky tone. "So I did but" bitterly "vou see I could not help myself; vou ought to be i proud of that, ought vou not?" i "Oh. do not speak tome in that tone!" I she entreats, at last letting her eyes 1 meet liis. and he can see the heavy tears lurking in their soft depths. i "How would yon have me speak to j you?" he asks, reproachfully, but not so coldlv as a moment since. "When last we met you scorned my advances, and told me that you hoped never to see me again; and that, too, at a time wuen l was consumed with a desire to ten you , bow I loved you how that every thought of my heart was yours." "Ah, if you" could only understand," j she murmurs desperately. i "Understand what?" eagerly. "Cecil speak to me. teli nie w hat you mean." i "Major Jervis said you were going to j be married to your cousin. Lady Maud," I Bavs Cecil, in a stifled tone. ) '"The old scoundrel." be mutters, f "Was that why you behaved so cruelly j to me on that "wretched afternoon?" he 1 asks presently, vhen his wrath has I somewhat subsided. 1 "Yes" shvly. "And and now you know the whole ) truth do vou love me. Cecil?" "I do" still more shyly. 1 "Mv dearest heart!" murmurs Craven: j and tben somehow she finds herself in 1 his arms with her head against his t breast, and knows that she is utterly j and entirely happy. "What misery I have endured since i we parted!" savs Craven, altera little ( while. "It is 'quite a year ago now; isn't it?" ' "A year! A week," she corrects, lift- i ing her brows. j "Oh, noiisi-nse! It might le a centurv , at least," he says. "Wril. you shall never know whai unhappiness means i again, if 1 tan help it," he adds, tender- ; lv. " Then they wend their way slowly homewards. In the hall they meet Mis. Rivers, who regards them, natural ly enough, with astonishment: and they have hardly explained matters sat's factoriiy to" her when Ronnie and Er rington join inem, "alien n nas an to be s;tid over again on loth sides. Whilst they are in the very midst of their double congratulation, one of the servants, coiii.ng in;o the little morning-room where thpy have seated themselves, tells them that Major Jer vis is in the drawing-room. "I'll go to him." says Ronnie, rising; -you are too nervous to-day . mamma, and fii'f. eyes are pink she has evi dently been enjoying heiseif excessively- with Duke." With this, nnd a little laugh, site rustles out- of the room and into the next by a folding tloor, winch divides the two rooms from each other. There stie finds the Major. When. he. has gone through the ordi nary questions a'oout her own and her mother's !n;l sister's ltealth, he says, somewhat jerkily Tv-en our friend Craven lately?" "Yes. to-dav. But he is not so inter estin '. I think, .is he used to Ire." "Hal How is that?" asks the Major, in a U ;i;,l".tti lone. " i ". l e i engaged, you see," an rwectM !Nh m e. Hsil reluctantly, "and MMing """aged are young men l,,f . -ai -vina entertaininc goes. You kiiuw you gave us a hint about his being bent on getting married without delay when la-d yon were down. We have discovered that your surmise was correct." "Eh rh?" he snvs. fidgeting anxious ly in his chair. "But 1 w as wrong then. I alluded to his cousin. Lady Maud; but she has married McGregor'since that. May I ask whom Rumor has given him to now?" "Well, to Cecil, I believe!" returns Ronnie, with provoking unconcern. Th;s is a death-blow. The Major turns pale, ami blows his nose violently to cover his chagrin. "Ah. Rumor is a worthless jade!" r says, with a miserable attempt at dis belief in her news. "As a rule, she tells more lies than truth." "This time she has varied it." returns Ronnie, "by telling more truth than lies. My sister and Mr. Craven bave quite made up their minds and are en gaged to each' other." "1 don't N-lieve it!" cries the Major,, rising to his feet. At this intant the folding doors are flung open, and Craven, appearing on the scene most unexpected i v, enters, leading Cecil by the hand. He draws her gently forward, until they both stand letore the discomfited Major. "Major Jervis won't believe you are going to be married," says Ronnie, with a little laugh. "Oh. yes, I am! Am I not. Cecil?" asks Duke, glancing down lovingly at his Itetrothed. who laughs a little too and blushes dec-ply. "You will come to their wedding, won't you, Major?" asks Ronnie, mis chievously. The Major, though overpowered by numbers, still lets his evil humor bave full sway. "With pleasure." he replies, with an ill grace. And then, maliciously, "Only sorry I can't come to yours too. Miss Ronnie." "Dont be sorrv another instant. Major." says Lord Errintrton. pleasant ly; he has come up to them unnoticed by Jervis. "Ronnie and I will le only too glad if you will promise to dance s.t our wedding also. It w-ill be quite simple, you know, as we all intend to Ik married on the same day from the same house." "Very charming arrangement. I'm pure!" returns the defeated Major. "It would be quite superfluous to offer my congratulations. You all know exactly how I feel towifd you." lie smil'-s cri-jinl y as he says this. "Yes. wTaTf'kno"w that," rejoins Er ringtotii with emphasis. "Dear nie!" saysihe Major, pulling out his vr.t'-h. "It grow s very fate. I shall miss the up-tram if I don't make haste. Good-bye. good-bye!" "Stay and sleepat the Court to-night " savs Craven, hospitably, if a trifle cold ly." "No. thank yon tio. I am bound to be in town to-night." "Why. where are you going in such led haste?" asks Craven, curiously. "I'm I'm going abroad!" declares the M j-t. desperately; alter which he s-h'ttTl'-s out of the room, anil is lost to sight lor in.tnv a dav . '"Poor Major!" says Cecil. "How dis concerted lie h-C-ked! I know he rie served anything bad. but I couldn't heir, feeling sorry for him." "lie is unworthy of mmit pity," an swers CraTen. ira ing her away from the others into lite deep embrasure of the -u in iow. "Did lie not ven nearly take vou from me?" " Would t hat have leen su- h a terrible th ng':' sh" asks, with an upward glance, and a Very pardonable touch of coquetry. "Of 1. what a question!" he returns, repi oichtuily. i think Vou put it wrongly." says Cissy, softly". "I think lie meant to take you from me." "Would that have bec-nsuch attrrible thing?" he asks, in his turn, with a lit tle smile. "1 don't know. Would it?" she ques tions, tremulously. "My love my life it woull have been death." says Craven, with passion ate earnestness. Turning to her, he takes her into his arms and holds her close claspeil against his heart, where indeed her proper home most surely ia. TV b ContimuJ Prealrfent FCilot'e Patient. At President Eliot eat In his WJCtnrfl ha "Cfclversity Hail brjoily at work, his aeer tary came In and announced that fber Wais a man ontside who wsu anxious to se the president of Harvard University on some urgent business. Other matters were) rmt aside and the strajiger was shown tlx. Hat proved to be a man of middle ajre, was fjrom the vvest apparently, ecd had a way j f going right to the point. He began by looking trie president over and "wiring Dim op." 'Are you Dr. Eliot, the pr13. sr Harvard Colleger" I am, sir." "The head o' the hall thingr Ye." "President & the scientific schowir WI am." "President o the law swhoolf 'Yes, sir." President o" the medical sohool Ye".." That's It, then," staid the -risJawr, "aa' Tve come to the right place, aad you're the man I want to eee. I'm from the Wert, an Tve come morVn 1,000 srjJJes. Money ain't no object to me." He rose with (Treat enttrewiaam and stripped off his coat and waistcoat. Iv'e not something the matter with me, doctor," he went on. "Ira been a troublm" of me for years, an' I'm bound to find otrt what It R Money afn't do object, aa I taid. I w&ct you to examine my cheit, an' I don't ear v v.at It eoeta. Here we go." The president had some difarnrtv la ex plaining, the situation, but finally fuc ceeded ia turcrng his patient o-r to a professor of the Medicnl Sthool. There la an Impression at the eoilepre than this IncW dent is the most srenulne tribute ot adnilrav tion that Harvard has received for some time. A Forcoltsn Trsnsirlien. j Brown I beiiee I owe you a dollar, j Smith, and there's the money, j Smith dnkln the money! Are yon ( sure Brown, don't rtmeniVr anything abont it. T i txjtl im- r-r,rlStv T'm r 1. ' taken. I was under the Imprevd-ni that ! 1 " Smith hastllyl Oh. yes. rone to ihtuk about it, you did torrow n rt'.'r of n.e. ! It was a week n;o lat Tuc.dy ev'.l-ip-. rt 1 eight mltiute of won Y-u u;d yon 1 wanted it for a sneiclal pun-os-, nttd I p.v- it to you is silver a .'.n'.f. a ci;i.-.rt r, t v o tens. Mid a five th, yc. tnnrti t :.g -n. old man, but I had fin gotten ;:!1 afcottt it. Ttic even Wnilr, Th" ;ern wonlTs of the world are or were the "olouaof Rhodes now dav Mroye!; the Manso'cnm era-tod by Ait -n in memory of her hndVai-1. ol y. I.ich : i,e r-i5ts r.-mn'n ; the Pyrrmd l of t'h-i.il tJhi-eh: 'he Temple of Iltarta nt !-. h .: i he I'itaro a: Alexandria t t !l;a.- "l g irdrTin :il Mtt1 vl i;i ; and V Piiidi-ia. i ' A Kentucky man week while taking a for n Kef ttu ki in to : never c '. -i ' died tmddenlT laft bath. It is no us) fool with witter; ha t ! ! Mrlabluw. M. r. V-an.- .. - w. awe Bar .;.- owi'vs - A r?o uGn