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S. Patent Offlt?e. For elreu lAra aitvite. term and referencea to actual ariiti in jour own State write to C. A. 8XOW t oo. "PP. 'alt.l Oftlee Wa.lilwclwBt. D. C. l'lANOaponnis. I N KVlC A L.L V IV Tone, Tcncli, Wcrtmansliip & DnraMlilT. VTILLIAW hlAbi: 4t C Kwa. S4 and VVr IiiUUnvire litre., .itlmorw, o. 112 11TLU ATeniu.., Now York. V VTem I i uw I it aoi n-wa erw.t miry I1 rr t rre bm! ttew) ktej we UaWwB rwl I 'it- ti4ww 4ia- e HJ' -vK K-hii li(a-i. t, mm.1v rrmml my fwrrrea a rwrm . mi... . a... aai.4 k. i a... at r tr 4w a4 r a.i.i. i mr it.r.m t. a a. 14 vnm ..hi lo r.iaJ 4.1. VipiW4Ml' 4rr4 Irfcil. ... laiilrmf V I , kVJ4. 4a4 ..! .w : lyQlr5)IT OORE Hid A GILDED SIN. Y ItKRTIIA M. CLAY. f "Ifoa disraayeUr' she cried. "Whal has happened? Has I'.rookea voted wj ith tho Oppoition, or what?" "It is nothing of that kind," aM the politician. This is a domestic difri ci Ity, about which I shall have to ask your help." At the word "domestic" Lady Bran don opened her book again matters of that dttvription never interested her. "The fact is," continued Sir Jasper, "that a friend of mine has died lately in Italy, and ha left me a ward." "A Ward!" cried Lady P.randon. "How intolerable! What a lilerty to take !" "A ward!" cried Catherine. "How strange, p.tpa !" Sir Jasper turned quickly to his wife. He never ppoke unkindly or angrily to hiT, even when she annoyed him. "IV) not say 'intolerable,' Marie ; we must make the heft of it." "Dut whois it ?" ciied her ladyship. "Of course, if it be anyone of position, that would make a difference." "The yolinjr lady my ward, Veronica di Pyntha is descended from one of the first families in Italy," he s.iM, and he has, or will have, a large fortune." "And is that too placed in your hantld ?" asked his wife. "That also id in my hands.," he re plietl, brielly. "But, Jasper," crieti her ladyship, "sarely you are going to tell us more ? "Who is or rather who was, 3'our friend ? Tell me ; I want to know the whole history.' He walked to the end of the long drawing-room an 1 back before he re plied ; then he said, briefly : "I have nothing to tell. I met the Di Cynthas whun I wm abroad, ami that accounts for the trust so far as I can account for it." I.nly Brandon had 6tudied her hus band long enough to know that when he spoke in the tone that ha now did it was quite useless to persevere in mak ing inquiries. "Some fn-nds whomhemetinlt ily," she said to herself. "Most probably, as he is so reticent, it was a pulitica! fneu 1 indeed, now I come to think of it, that solves the mystery. There is a political secret bidden under the mys tery." Once feeling sure of that. Lady Bran don re5igned herself to circumstances. A political secret, she knew quite well, could never be forced from her hus band's keeping. "i'.ut what will you do with a ward in Italy, papa?" asked Katherine. Sir Jasper turned his care-worn faco to her, and it cleared a little as he met the gaze of the bright sweet eyes. "That is the diUiculty, Katherine," he replied; "her property will be in Liigland, and she must come to live with us." Again Lady Brandon looked up tli is time there was soma little con tempt on her face. "That is impossible, Sir Jasper," 6he said: "I could not think of receiving a at ranger into the very heart of my home." He paused for a few minutes before answering her, and then he said, gently: "You l.ave always been so kind to me, Marie, so attentive to my interests, that I am sure you will never refuse anything that will be of service to me." "Would it be of service ?" she asked, qnickly. "Most Assuredly it woulL" he replied. "You would help me out of a real dif ficulty." "Then," said I-ady Brandon, "if it will serve your interests I will doit, I withdraw my opposition." Sir Jasper bent down and kissed the white jewelled hands. "You have always studied my inter ests," he said, "and I am always grate4 ful." "It will be just as thongh I had a s:ster," said Katherine and the words r-truck Sir Jasper like a blow. "I wonder what she is like, papa? Dark, I stipose, rsshe is Italian? We shall contrast well. I need not be jealous if she is a brunette. I will be very kind to her. Is it her father or her mother who has just died, papa?" Again he shuddered as the careless words fell on his ear. He made pretence of not having heard w hat she Baid ; and Katherine, with her quick instinct, seing that the question was not npreeab e to him, did not press it. Both lad e. settled the matter in their own minds and according to their lights. I-ady Brandon concluded that that the d-ad friend had probably been one who shared her husband's political scen ts, and Katherine thought to her self that it was probably someone w horn her father had known in his youth. They wens loth content, and talked quiie amial ly aooutit- Sir Jasper bore it cs long as he could ; then hs quitted the room and went to his study. "You see, Katherine," said Laly Brandon, "if the girl is n ally noble and wealthy, it will te an acquisition rather than otherwise." "I am r about it, mamma," cried tl.j.rl. "I have always felt the want of a tVer ; now I shall have one." "I would not say anything about that, my dear, until you have seen what she is like," said prudent Lady Brandon ; it is always better cot to commit one's self in any way." They discussed the matter in all its bearing ; t' ere was complete confi dence between this mother and ehil.L Katherine laughed at her mother's very candid worldiincs ; she teased her about her worship f Mammon. But she was verv Ion J of her; wlu.e lauy Krau too worshipped her beautiful chiid she thought there was no one like her in the wi le word all the luve of which she was capable, the love of heart and soul, was centred on and in her dar ling. Meanwhile, Sir Jasper was in a fever of. dibu-ay. What sliould he do ? It was as though the dead ghost of his youth had suddenly risen up before him ; he was utterly unnerved. Then it became clear to him that he must send someone to fetch her. Whom could he send ? He could not go him self he was not strong enough to travel ; nor aid he care to 6ee again the place where he had suffered so much. He decided that the best person to send would be his agent, John Segrave, a sensible, experienced man of the world. He wrote at once to summon Mr. grave; anL when he had reached Queen's Chaee, he told him exactly the same story that he had told his wife. "I want you to go to Italy," he said, "to bring back with you a young lady, my ward, who is for the future to make her ho. ne with Lady Brandon." The agent set out, amply provided with funis; and then Sir Jasper spent day and night in a state of terrible sus pense. What would she be like, this daughter of his lost tiiulia? Would she torture him with her mother's face with her mother's eyes? If so, he could not bear it he should go ma-L By night and by day he asked himself that question what would she be like? December came with its frost and cold, its biting win 1 and snow-bound earth, before that question was answer ed. It was on the second of December that he received a letter from Mr. Segrave, saying that he hojed to reach the Ciiace with his charge on the follow ing day. Sir Jasper was greatly agitat eL although he beat down his emotion with an iron hand. She was coming Ginlia's little child, who had nestled for one brief moment in her mother's dying arms Giulia's little daughter the babe from whom he had turned with something like bit ter hate in his heart. What would she be like? He asked about her rooms, and Katherine took him to see them a pretty suite of rooms in the western wing; they looked very bright in the winter sunlight, with their cheerful fires and choice flowers. "."he will like these rooms, papa," said Katherine. "See what I have put here ail the Italian views and photo graphs th.it I can l:nL See here ii the Arno, here is the Kiolto in Venice." She 6tojped suddenly. Why did hi pause and turn from her witli a sharp, sudden cry ? There was the very spot on which he had stood when Oiulia's fair face first shone down upon him! "It is nothing, child," he said, in answer to her anxious inquiries "less than nothing a sharp sudden pain that hurts but will never kill me." i "How do you know that it will never kill you, papa ?' she asked. "Because, my darling, if it could have shortened my life, it would have done o long ago," he replied. "Now show me all the arrangements you have mada for my ward." "Papa," cried generous, beautiful Katherine, "she will be very dull, she will be very lonely. Do you suppose that sho is alone in the world that she has no other friends but us? If she had but one, it would be something." "I cannot tell you, Katherine," he replied. "You must ask her when she comes." He was pleased to see the arrange ments his wife and daughter had made for her, yet, as the time for her arrival drew near, he trembled and shuddered like one seized with a sudden cold. He had to meet the child he had literally given away Ginlia's daughter. CHAPTER III. Veronica stood before her father a tall, Ix-autiiul woman, with a noble Venetian face. She was quite unlike anything he had pictnred. He had faucied a cirl with Giulia's sweet face, w'th her golden hair an 1 sensi tive lipi The girl beforehim looked like a Boman Kmpress butthat she had Giu'.ia's eyes her dark, tender, passionate eye the eyes that had made for hitu the" only light that ho had ever known with hair as black as night, and worn after the old Grerian fashion. She was more beautiful than her young mother had ever been, but it was a different type of loveliness. As he gazed upon her, Sir Jasper Brandon owned to himself that it was the most beautiful and the saddest face that he had ever seen. The dark eyes had a story in their depths, the prou I lips trembled even as she smiled. "Where have I seen a f.tce something like it?" he asked himself. Then he remembered that it was in one ul his lavorite pictures hanging in the Iouvre. He had gone himself to the station to meet her. Lady Brandon was very 6hrewd, and Katherine was shrewder still. He felt that he might betray him self. So he had decided on meeting Veronica, that the first shock might pass unpereeived. And a shock it was wh.-n she looked up at him with Giulia'a eyes. He stood still for a few moments, treating back the anguish that almost mastered him; then he held out his hands in greeting to her. "Veronica," he said, gently, "welcome to England!" He did not kiss the beautiful fare he dared not trust him self. "Welcome!" he repeated, adding: "Do you speak English ?" To his surprise she answered him in Kng.ish; she spoke tf.e iangna;e ex ceedingly well, but w ith a slight foreign accent that was very musical a:id charming. "Yes I speak English; it wu my own wislu I learnatl by my own do sire; my aunt was very unwilling." "Why di I you w isli to learn ?" ho caid. "It is harsh after your beautiful liquid Italian." "I cannot tell ; but something zero ed always to stir in my heart at tlia cry mention of Kuglau l. 1 hardly knew whether it wa paia or pleasure. I for it was unlike cither. Now I know ! what it was." "What?" he asked, wondering if any idea of the truth had occured to her. "It was a foreboding," sho replied ; "it was because I bad to come to Eng lantL" Then she glanced at him again. "Are you my guardian?" sho asked, timidly. "Yes" he replied. "1 came to meat you ; I thought you would feel dull at first in a strange country." "I have been dull all my hie," she said, with a smile the saddest smile he had ever seen. "We must try to make you happier," he said. "Why arc you my guardum ?" 6he asked. "I cannot understand it. My aunt never spoke to me of you until she was dying, anil then she told mo that far away in England there lived a rich gentleman who woald be my guardian wh?n shy was dea l that I was to hvo w ith him in England and bo docile to him. It witl not be difficult to be very docile to you." "Why ?" he asked. "Becans3 I like yon," she nnswered, simp'y. "I can always tell at first siht whether I shall like anyono or not, and I do like you." He helped her into the c.irriag? and sat down by hrsidf ; the servants wero busy with her luggage. Mr. .Segrava drove homo with Sir Jasper and his ward, and all the way the baronet was Baying to himself: "This is Giulia'sdaughter ; that beau tiful head lay on Giulia's breast that i Gallia's child !" He louxe 1 to clasp her in his arms tD say: "You have your mother's eyes, child ; yo-i have tho same sweet voice and the same loviug heart." All his fancied dislike melted ss ho gazed on her. He wondered how he could have hated her, how ho could liave forgotten her. He reproached himself for it with bitter reproaches How could he have been unkind to Giulia's cliild? "I have been dull eil my life," she had said, and the words smoto him with pain. Ho longed t say to her, I am your father, Veronica, but my love for your mother is shut up in my heart. It is my most cherished secret ; it is so sacred to me that I can not talk of it; I cannot tell others of it ; it is the very core of my heart." II was sorely tempted, but "Not 3"ct," ho said to himself "not yet." He turned to her suddenly. "Tell me aloat your life, Veronica," he said. "What made it so duU? How have you spent it ?" "I have lived always with my Annt Assunta," sh-j replied, "and my cunt was a woman whos-i heart must havo been broken when alio was very young, I think. She never laughed, slie never even smiled, but she hated the Eng lish. "They are as perfidious," she sai l, "as Judas. The sun never shines on England; it is always dark with Heaven's frown." She would not let me have any friends We used to sit for days and montlis and years in that dark old palace, watching the water, watching the sky, seldom speaking a word. She gave me histories to read, and after many prayers she allowed me to have masters for painting notliing else ; and for many years I have passed my life in reading dull histories and in painting." "Poor chilil," he said ; "it was not a very bright life, was it ?" "No. I have often asked her to tell me where my mother and father lio buried; but my aunt would ndver in form me. I have never been my moth er's grave." . Sir Jasper's faco grew wliita with emo ion. He said to himsjlf, "It is Giulia's child who has led this sa l lif who has never known ona bright hour." He dared not look t hjr lest she bhould wonder at tho p.iiu on his face. 'JJow old are you, Veronica?" he asked. "I am twenty, as men count years," she said. "It seems to me that T have lived a century in the dark o'.d palace. It was full of spirits who wailed all night tli rough tiie long, dark passages. When my aunt was angry with me, sho said always that I was a chiM, an ignor ant child. I thvik myself I a:n very old, more lik? a i. oman whosi years are run th-tn a child." "You will not feel so when you have lived a little longer," he said, gently. "Veronica, look round you. Tnis is an English winter. Do you see how white the groun 1 is how great icicles hang like huge diamonds from the trees and hedges ? When the sun shines on the snow and sparkles on the ice, I do not think there is a grander sight in the world." "I wonder," said Veronica, musingly, "why my aunt disliked England so much do you know ?" He tried to answer her indifferently. "It would require a very learned phi losopher to understand all a lady's likes and dislikes" he said. "Veronica, you say that yon hare had a very sa-l me ; let me advise you to try to forget it forget tho gloomy aunt who seems to have been so mistaken. Just as a flower opens its heart to the sun, op?n yours to the sunshine of happiness. Will you try ?" "I will try," sho answered. "I will do anything you tell inc." 1 Then ha pointed out to her the lcau ties of the park through which they wero driving, and then, in the distance, the toweriof Queen's Cha-e. "Hew beautiful!'-sho criod. "And seo the sun on it ; it looks as thiugh Heaven were blessing it" He wondered w hat she would say if she knew that this superb houso ought on 3 day by right to bo hers. Ttll mc," 6he cried "what do you rail this beautiful place ? Teach me to say it; teach mo to say your name. What must I call vou?" And he taught Giulia's child to call him Sir Jasper, w hile longing w ith all his heart to hear the word "iather" from her lips "Some day he said to himself, "I will tell her all about it, and she will know. Then I will ask her to call me "father" and I shall hear all earth's music in the world." Sir Jasper said one thing to Veronica on entering th 3 house. He turned to her with an expression of pain on his face. "Veronica," ho said, "I want to nsk you oiu favor that is I wish to give you one piece of advice, afterward you w ill know tho reason why. I advise you to sty nothing whatever ot tho liomj you have left. People are sure to ask you questions Do not ansv.xr them; evade them." Veronica, looking up at hi.n with tho tiinp'e faith of a child, replied : "I will I will do whatever you tell iae." And ho knew from that moment that r.ny secret, anything which touche 1 his interest, was as safe in her hands r.s in his own. He never forgot the ex pression of utter astonishment on Lady 1'iautlon's face as the young girl canto forward, with her graceful, self-possssad manner, to speak to her. "I really thought," she s.iil afterward to her husoand, "that an old Venetian figure had descended from its frame. What a face she hxs Jasper ! It's es sentially Venetian, not Florentine I know the Florentine type so well nor Eo'nan, but purely Venetian. Her mot'.i-r mu:;t have Leon a beautiful wo.uaa.'' lie winced atth3 words, but made no reply. I-ady Brandon smiled a3 6ho con tinued : ".-ho is a gre.-.t contrast to Katherine. I am not sure that it is wise to bring a rival beauty into the house." Japerlooksd up impatiently ; Ibis woman's tattle annoyed him. "Sh will never harm Katherine," ho said, somewhat sternly. "Do not put ideas of that kind into Kate's head. I want her to liko tho youtiz sliaujer. See that is a pretty picture.'' II usl iand and wife were striding by the lire-place in thj Yellow Drawing room, :is one of (he prettiest apartments at Queen's Ciiace was called. The two girls wero at iho other end Katherine seate 1 on a low chair, her gold-.-n head thrown back, and Veronica kn -eiing oa th floor by hir side. The two faces wero each lovely, yet differed entirely. Veronica was gazing at the English girl with something like rapt tire in her face. Katherino was a new revelation of beauty to her. . "Tell mo something about your home," said Katherine. "I'ha ona dream of my life is to no to Italy ; but papa w ill never hear of it." Veronica gave one hasty glance across the room to the dark, handsome face of the man who had so great an influence over her. Remembering her promise, the answered: "Ask mo about anything yon will," she replied, "except about homo. I cannot speak of it." Katherine looked at the flushed face, an L thinking that the subject was one too sid for her, she stooped down and kissed her. "I will not ask you about home or anything clstj that grieves you, Veroni ca," she said. "It must be very 6ad ; you have lost everything everyone. But yon will Ije happy with us aft.T a time. You shall ba my sister I have always longed for one; and you, will love, papj. everyone loves hi in when they know him." It was strangj but typ ical tint she did not speak of Ia ly Brandon. Sho said nothing about lov ing her. "Ki.s me, Veronica," she said "not coldly, but as if you were really jny own sit'.T. I bhall love you as though you were." The dark eyes filled s'owly with (enrs "You will love me ?" she sard. "It seems impossible ; it is too goo l it cannot bs trua. You wiil really lovo me?" Why should I not? asked Katherine, wondering at the girl's emotion. "Why should you, rath r?" sho re plied. "You an so different from me. You s?e:n to me like a fairy princess. You live in the midst of beauty and magniti rencj ; everyone loves you; even the servants w ho wait noon vou seem almost to worship you. You have tho sunshine ever on your head. Ixok at these bright threads of gold ! You seem to me moro lovely than a poet's dream." Katherine laushed ; flattery was al ways pleasant to her. She expenenceU a girt s natural delight in being called lovely. Then she passed her white fin gers over the bowed hea l. "Has no one ever told you that you werj beautiful ?" "o; I have never heanl anyone speak of me in that w ay," re plied Ver onica. "Then let me tell you now," sai l Katherine. "You are a thousand times more beautiful than I tin. But I am not jealous of you I love you. Mine is a. pretty pink-and-w hite, healthy, happy kind of beauty; yours is a grand, half saL wholly imperial loveliness. I atn like a rosebud, you are like a mystical passion-flower. There are hundreds of girls like me there can be few others like you." "Is it really true ?" asked Veronica. "Am I ready beautiful ? Tell m C'att'riaa iAia do you think that any one who saw me for the first time would like me?" "I atn sure that everyone would ad mire you very much, and those who knew would love you." "It seems so strange," sr.id Veronica and Katherine saw a light come over her face "so strange. I have never thought of tavsilf iu that w ay at all. I have often wondered if ever anyone would lovo me." "Did they not lovo you at home?" asked Katherine, surprised. "We will not talk of home," was the reply, uttered sadly. "No; you are the first person in all tho world who ever said to me 'I love you!'" "I atn glad, yet sorry," said tht Eng lish girl, slowly. A strange light came over Veronica's face; her eye darkened, a quiver passed over her lip3. "Yes you arc the first," she paid; "and because in all my life you havo been the first to say to me, 'I love you,' I swear fealty to you I will be true to you until diith I will be a friend more than in name. If the time should ever come when lean take a trouble fr.uu you, or Ly suffering myself save you from suffering, I w ill do it or under go it." Katherine was touched by the earn est, passionate words. "How much you think of kind voids VeroMtca !" she said, quietly. "Ah, you .1 not know! I have been a'l my long solitary life without them. For years I heard but one voice, ami it never addressed me kindly. No one in all this world has been so utterly alone." "It is all ended now, said Kclhcrine; "you have us to love you." "Yes, it is en dm?," returned Veronica. "Do y.vi know, Katherina, that I could not believe the world was fairor bright? It seeme.1 to me impossible. I knew that the skies were blue, nnd that tho' light of th run as all golden, but 1 did not understand the glory an 1 the love liness that s?em common to you. Oikp, lotig .il-o, I foun I an ol 1 bo. k of poems, cull rji 1 them. They were all about the be. i.uiy and passion and tenderness of life. I thought the man w ho wroto tliem A 1 fieri was mad ; now I think there was some method in his madness. Do you know, Caterina I like to give you the sweet soft Italian 11.1:113 that for long years I have had but ono thought, sui I that that was how soon Heaven would let me die?" Katherine caressed the dark shiiiing waves of h-iir. ".r'uch thoughts as those have brought all those mystical shadows into your eyes, Veronica ; we mut have no moro of them," she said. "Even my name," remarked the girl, "lias a sti kind of niu?ic in it. And so you love me, Katherine? Tell me what to do for you, how to thank you, how to nerve you. I will see with your eyes, I will hear with your ea:s. I snail go to s'eep happy, 1 shall wake" up happy, thinking to myself that someone deems me beautiful, and that someone loves me. You have brightened ail my life for me by your goodness." T do not think it is goodness," said Katherine; "with me it is simply that I cannot help it." , "Jt might have been different," re joined Veronica. "You might have been angry and vexed that a stranger shDtiltl come into your home the very heart of your home, as it were you might have received me coolly, treated me unkindly, laughed at me, even be cause of my strange dress and strange manners but you have been an angel of goodness to me. For that," she con tinued, with the sudden passion that made her so beautiful, "I will give you my life should you need it, my service always, my love if you will take it, my heart always" They formed certainly one of the prettiest of pictures the English -hlt with her bright, fair beauty, her -o'.iku hair, her dress of white silk, her shining jewels her happy, loving, bright man ner, and the dark-eyed Venetian, with her pale, passionate, matchless loveli ness, her black rubes so quaint and picturesque. Then, as thyy talked longer, gradually they changed alti tudes; it wes Veronica w ho became the protector, and Katherine the younger sister. Their lives had been so differ ent, yet they were children of ono father. Veronica's one wonder waa the long shining g'J?" hi:r' never ti-cd of caressing it, of twining it round her fingers, of praising it. "Do you know," she said to Kather ine, "ih.it once oh, long ago! I was arranging an old wardrobe for ioy aunt, ami I sit w a little parcel of white paper ? I opened it, and inside it iay a .0114 tress of shining golden hair so uiueh like this. I was almost frightened at it, for it seemed to twine roun 1 my lingers as though it were living. I took it to my aunt and showed it to her. She grew so angry. 'Whenever you see hair like that,' she said, 'always pray that England may be ruined by its own gold, by the greed of its som and tho folly of its daughters.' Her words come back to my mind now ss I hold this golden hair in my hands. ' They w ere very horrible w ords, and your aunt must have been wicked to utter them. What harm had the English done her?" "I cann.it tell, but she hated them. She was angry that I wished to learn English; but I would, it was strange that when she hated it 1 slu u'd love it. I think England beautiful. ( iur Venice is perhiqwi one of the fairest spots on earth, but everything seems brighter and happier here." - "I'aoa," ssi l Katherine, that same evening. "I fancy your ward Veronica has been very unhappy all her life." "I hope not," he returned, quiellv. "I feel sure of it. I have been con trasting her lot with mine. How strange it is, papa, that in this world things are so unequal! Some have so much, others so little. Veronica seems to me to have had nothing." Ho made no reply, but ho thought to himself that it was hard, seeing that they were children of one father. Later on he drew Kathcrine's golden head down and kissed her face. 'You will be kind to Veronica, mr dear," he baid. a. joyless is hard to bear." And Katherine obeyed him, )Hcause it was impossible to know Veronica and not to love her. CHAPTER IV. Before two weeks had passed Veroni ca was quite at home at Queen's Ciiace. Lady Brandon, who had at fust been inclined to look upon the whole matter ss a misfortune, now began to think otherwise. She thought to herself that the next season she would bo more popular than ever. She would bo mother of one of the fairest blondes and chaperon of one of the most beau tiful brunettes. She saw that the two girls would never be rivals, thrir 6tyle differed so greatly, and she began to take great interest in Veronica. She went to her husband and told him that she must have carte blanche for Veron ica's wardrobe. "It is all very veil," sai l her lady ship, "to look like a picture ; but dressing like one is quite a different mat.tr. Your ward must dress liko otlitr pi-f.ple, ir Jasper. I suppose sho can l.ave what money she likes'."' "Certainly," replied Sir Jasper ; "She is an heiress, I have told you. Sho must be treated as one ;" and soon af terward he placed in her hands a check for three hundred pounds. We can arrange Inter on," he added, "about her yeaily allowance at present, purchase for her everything that she requires." "Her wants are legion," said Lady Brandon ; "she has literally nothing, except a few picturesque old dresr?s that would look very nice in an old curi osity chop." Lady P.randon st to work at once. She knew too well the effect of dress to offer to transform Veronica into a fash ionable English lady. Everything sha purchased was ma le after some pictur esque Venetian fashion, n-.id Sir Jasper was pleased when he saw it. "You have preserved the unities," ha said to his wife with one of those rare smiles that so altered the expression of his face. As for Veronica herself, she could uct understand such attention. "All th;s for me !" she ciied, when she saw the laco, the silks, the velvets, the tho;isv.)d little elegancies that make up a lady's toilet fans and shippers, gloves and puns hides. Then Sir Jasper brought Ler some superb jewels a set of rubies that suit ed her dark loveliness a set of corals and a suite of diamonds. The girl raised her wondering face to his w hen he showed them to her. "Why do you da all this for me?" she a -tked. He looked down at her. She was looking at him with dead Giulia's love lit eyes. "Why ? he repeated. ''Because I am your guardian. You will know more some tlav." . She took his hand and kissed it in her strange, impulsive fashion. "You are very good to me, and I am very grateful," she said. But it seemed to him that Giulia's lips had touched him. He shrunk hack, pale and trembling. To be Continued. A CHAMPION LIE. A Wild Story TThftel from ttio Shor-ea v of t'nthev. t' We have observed several wonderful ftories of hde rest) deling tin4 skill of tho Chinese c xei utioiiTs, who, it is said, can slrike oil' the heads of their victims s- skidiu'ily that the poor fellows them selves never discover their loss until a moment or two a ter they are d a h Wo recall to uiitj I, however, the story of a German executioner who far surpassed the Chinese in professional deterity. I'pon mi occasion it happened that a cri.i.inal who was condemned to death had a singular itching to play at nine pins, and he implored permission to play once more at his favorite game before ho died. Then, he said, he would submit to his late witl. out a murmur. Ili3 judge, thinking there could he no harm in humoring him, granted h's last, .,raver nnd upon arriving at the 1 kee oi ; execu tion he found evoiy thing prepared fo the game, the pins, being hot up and th III! ,t,aJ.v-. H'e "commence.! his favorite Fport with enthusiasm, Afte-r awhile the sheriff, observing that h5 showed no inclination to desist, made a sign to th executioner to strike the fatal blow w hile he stooped for a 1 owl. The executioner did so, but with su h ex quisite dexterity tint the culprit did not notice or feel it. lie thought, in deed, th.-it a col l breath of air was blow ing 011 his neck, and drawing him-c If back wit ti a shrug, his head dropped for ward into his hands. He liMturaily sup pose I that it was n bowl which he had grrsp? I, an I seHug it firmly, rolled it at tlie pins. All of them fell and the head was heard to exclaim, as it rebounded from the further wall: "lluirah! I've won t lie the game." l.ll.cl. I i.onllie Aniui.il KlnSilom. A work upon 11af.11.1l hiv.oi v, pubiidic.l in 1 ... ;i c..L. v .;ie L.liovi 11. 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