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April 6, 1.-St.
D. LAFo!CELL'S
ASTHMA
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Havlnir strnvie. iO reir between lite and
death Wilt AMIUIA or I'HrHISHV treated by
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was compelled during ihe it 5 ears of my 111
neM to tit on inT chair dny and niirht xaspins? for
breath. My spfiurinir were beyond deTtptlon.
la despair I experimented on niyseif coinpoand
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thus obtained. 1 lortunntelr discovered this
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K. M. t'nr n. A. M. Warr-n. Kan., writes;
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PATENTS
A GILDED SIN.
BY BRHTIIA M. CLAY.
1 ''.. was j wa i rj
to ber toom, ho calloJ her to liim. and
U .13 the bright young face bctweea
fc's ninJa, he kissed it.
'Vioo'l-n'st.t, my tlxirling," bo BaiJ ;
"arii! inay Heaven ever bless you 1"
Slie won Jerel at the solemnity of the
words, little drt'.-tniin that she hal heard
Lis voice for the last time.
"You are not qnite to well to-night,
Jasper,11 6aid Ijt.iy Erandon.
"No," he replied. "There is a st ran pro
Satterin? at my heart I feel faint it
will pnss away. The day has been bo
very warm."
"I wish," aid I-ady Erandon. "that
yon would consult Sir William Fletcher;
they say that he is the cleverest physi
cian iu Eii;;"aad."
"I will hco about it," replied Sir
It was a lovely June night, one of
ihese nights that never seem to grow
dark ; the air was rich anil heavy with
ti e o.ler of the sleeping flowers, the dew
lay on the white hlies, on thj roses, on
Ite purple passion-flowers, the wind
etirred ever so faintly the fresh green
leaves. It was one of those nights when
U seemed impossible to turn from the
face of nature. Veronica had stood
"d: more than an hour at the open win
Jj'.r of her room, when one of the ser
vants came to say that she wis wanted
la -Hr Jasers room.
"Is Sir Jasper worse?" asked Veron
ica in alarm.
"The valet said he ueem?-d very ill,
miss," replied the girl; "but there was
nothinj said about his beinjj worse."
Without loss of time Veronica left her
room. She Lad not undressed. She
still wore her evening dress of rich black
lace with crimsou flowers. She had
taken the diamond stars from Iter hair,
and the I lack hhiain waves fell in rich
profusion over her shoulders. On her
neck gleamed a cross of rubies and
diamonds. She walked through the lon.
corridors, whore the moonlight hiy in
great silver floods, making everything
else darker by contrast. Sir Jasper
could not be worse, she thought; the
servants were most of them in bed, and
tiirre was no confusion. She went to
t"iSt"oorof his room a room she had
never entered. It was ajar, and I-ady
KraoJon stood near it. She looked very
r.a.a and anrious. She had on a white
dressing-gown, and was toying nervously
with the blue riblons.
''I do not understand it, Veronica,"
6he w hispered, "Sir Jasper has sent for
you and for me he wants us particular
ly. No one else is to come near. He
locks so strange I am half frightened.
Come in."
Veronica entered the statesman's
chamber. It was a large and magnifi
cently furnished apartment. She saw
wonders of rosewood and buhl, Sevres
china, statuettes, pictures, and books.
On the bed w 'th its silken hangings she
taw Sir Jasper Sir Jasper, with a grave
look on his face and dark shadows round
his eyes. She went up to Lim, and his
eyes, looking into hers, told her that
some strange, unrevealed secret was be
tween them.
"Ciose the door," he sail "fasten it
eccrely ; no one mast interim t me.
Mario, my wife, come here. It is you
who will have to forgive me. I liave
e'.ooe against you; but my sin always
appeared to me in a better light than
th.it in which I see it now. It is a gilded
sin a sin fcl.rou.led with sentiment,
reserve, lntry. Sensitiveness, that I
hardly know wheie the uroug begins or
ends a giide I sin, my poor Marie, and
the j uniahment will fall on an innocent
.ead. Veronica, conic nearer to me. I
have sent for you I have a story to tell.
Kr.eel here w here I may see your face.
Keep those eyes dead Giuiia's eyes
Used on uie to the last, that my strength
and my courage may not fail tue. Marie
whom I have wronged, give mo your .
tad I have a story to tell you."
The night-lamp was partly shaded;
i'.i fetrble rays fell on the gtave face, on
the dark wistful eyes, on the thin white
bank fell on the two kneeling figure,
on Veronica's beautiful face and l.ady
P-randou's troubled features. The wind,
when it stirred, sent a great spray of
clematis beating against the glass; out
side the beautiful, solemn summer night
lay brooding over the fair, sleeping
earth. ---
S'u Jasper told his story, cieariy,
plainly, distinctly, describing his motives,
blaming his own fastidious, sensitive re
serve, blaming his own shrinking from
pain, blaming his own weakness and
folly, which had led him so far wrong
led him into what he truly called "a
gilded bin." 1 a ly Marie listened with
tileut. bitter tears.
"So you were married before, Jasper,
and never told me," she sobbed; "and
I alw ays thought that I was the only one
vou loved. How conld you deceive
me?"
"I am rorry, Marie, for the past. I
can hardly expect yon to understand
! can hardly understand myself; it is so
di:':cu!t looking back. I loved her so
well, and I lost her so soon. I could
never speak of her, my dear dead Giulia.
I could not utter her name it tore my
heart. I could not look men and women
In the face while I talked of her, my
dead love."
'1 hen," 6aid 1 July P.randon, "you
have always loved her best, Jasper,
.Ivtrti: or dead always the best."
"Yo j have been a good, true, tender,
ta'.tS'ul wife to me, Marie," he returned
bit r aj my first love."
Yrionlra had listened like one in a
dream. This was her history then; an J
ite frt dn r.a'reJ sister torn Aea,nr,ta
naJ never ceased to iuvmiiii was her ou
mother! She was the daughter of the
famous statesman Sir Jasper Prandon,
who was looking with such wistful eyes
into her face. j
"Vou are my own child, Veronica,
he said, while I-ady Brandon wept as
one who could not be comforted "my.
own daughter dead Giulia's child! I
have longed so often to take you in my
arms and tell you so. I did not love
you when evil spirits whispered to m?
that you had cost your mother her life;
but I have Iearue J to love you since you
have been here, my daughter.' Kiss me,
Veronica. ay '.Father!" to me jutt
once." .
She laid her fair face on his ' half
frightened at its deathly chill.
"My father my dear father 1" she
said.
"You love me, Veronica you forgive
me?"
"I love yon, an! I have nothing to for
give. See, father, I kis you again."
Then Sir Jasper took two packets from
under his pillow. -
"There is another thing yet to be tol.l,"
lie said ; "and this, my poor Marie, I
know you will feel. I feel it myself; but
I cannot I dare not die untit I have
done justice to ("iulia's child. It ia th
law of our race one that I have neither
the power nor the right to change that,
failing a male heir, the eldest daughter
shall succeed. You, Veronica Ilrandon.
are my eldest daughter, so you are my
heiress the Leircus of Queen's C'haco
and the domain of 1 1 urstwood."
'That cannot be," cried ljidy Drandon
"that ia too cruel; it will kill Kathar
ine." "1 hoe not," he said faintly. "It is
cruel Heaven knows 1 feel it to bo so ;
but it must be done."
lady Brandon had drawn her hand
from his feeble claip ; her face flushed
hotly ; her eyes were full of augry fire.
"My chil I shall not be robbed, sho
cried. "1 will appeal to all England. It
shall not be." .
"All l'n-land could not prevent it,
Marie," he sai l sadly. "My eldest daugh
ter must he my heiress; after my death
she becomes Daroness Brandon. I am
quite powerless in the matter."
It is wickedly unjust," she cried. I
wonder at you, Sir Jaster you who all
your life have passed for an honorable
man. You must not, you shall not do
my child this wrong."
"Hush, Marie!" he said, sadly. "Do
not reproach uie, my dear ; I have suf
fered enough. listen. Veronica. This
is my w ill ; in it you w ill find repeated
the ttorv of my first marriage in it you
will find that I have made vou what vou
are. my heiress. I have made handsome
provision for Katherine handsoti-e pro
vision, Marie, for you."
"You have robbed us !" cried Lady
Brandon. "What am 1 to say to my
friends, when they hear of this?"
The baronet continued :
"This second parcel, Veronica, eoniains
all the papers you will need to prove
your identity the certificate of your
mother's birth, marriage, and death.
There is the certificate of your birth also
and every other paper which your Aunt
Assunta thought necessary to prove your
claim. Take them, Veronica. Kisa me,
my daughter ; my strength fails me.
Promise me one thing in your mother's
name will you promise, Veronica?"
With her white lips on his, which trero
no less white, she whispered:
"I promise."
"lio kind to my wife and Katherine,"
he said. "Promise me."
"I will," the replied. Then she raised
her hea l, for a Jong quivering sigh from
him frightened her.
"Go and fetch Katherine," he said
"Kate my own Kate."
"Are you worse, Jxpcr?' cried Lady
BranJon, forgetting her anger ia htr
fear. i -
A 6mi!e that Veronica never forget
came over his face as he turned .to her.
"No, not worse better," he saiiL "I
see it all now." And the next moment
he was dead.
The two horrified spectators stood
looking at each other, nnable to move.
Ikdy Brandon cried out:
"He is dead he is dea l ; Veronica!"
Then, going up to the bewildered girl
ehe seized both her hands. "Veronica,"
6he cried, "hide these pariers. Promise
me, swear to tue, that you will not men
tion one word of all this until I have
Epoken to you again. Swear it."
"I promise," said Veronica.
And then I-ady Brandon seized tho
bell-rope and rang a hasty pcaL
CHAPTER VIL
By the noon of the following day peace
and quietness reigned in the house of
death ; the passionate weep:n and wail
ing, the first wild outbreak of Eorrow,
were over. The doctors who had been
summoned in such hot baste had given
their decision Sir Jasper had died of
disease of the heart. There was no need
whatever for the formality of an inquiry
no need for examination.
They had laid the illustrious statesman
the man whose heart had been faithful
to one passionate love in state in his
own chamber, with hangings of black
velvet an I wax tapers and the fairest
June flowers about him whose hands
should never more gather leaf or blossom;
and then with lingering looks at the
marble face, so grand in its sculptured
beauty, they had left him to the silence
that should never more be broken.
Veronica sat in her own room, a pretty
room that opened on to the western ter
racea room whera tho had all her
books, her easel, her piano where she
sjeui happy noiirs in stu iy and re.u.ng
It was half parlor, half boudoir, as pretty
as it could be made by taste, by art, and
by affection. It was dark and gloomy
now, with the blinds drawn and the
flowers all dead. Veronica sat there
silent, dazed, bew ildered. She still wore
her ev ning- dress of black lace she had
never changed it ; her dark hair hung
over her shoulders, the beautiful face
with its passionate sorrow, its untold
story, w as pale and worn, her eyes looked
brighter and darker. "What had she not
sullered- sitting there what emotion,
what bitter pain, what untold woj ?
"His daughter I" She came back again
and again lo these words "His daugle
ter." The proud, noble statesman w lioin
all England revered was her father. Oh,
if she could but have known it before!
If the had but had time to pour out tho
passionate love of her heart to him I It
there had but been time to tell him bow
proud and happy she was, and how she
valued her birthright, how she rejoiced
in the know ledge that he was her father !
So many things were clear to her now.
She had never understood, his fctrange
manner toward her, hidi love, half avoid
ance. One thing a iter another unve.led
ite'f, bo that she almost wondered at
last that tdie ha 1 not guessed the secret.
And she was Veronica Brandon, heiress
of Queen's C'hace. She rejeate.l the
name over and over again to herself
"Veronica Brandon" and each lime sho
liked it better. She was heiress of tho
grand mansion, of the fair domain, of tho
broad lan. Is, of all tho wonders of wealth
bhe 6aw around her she w ho had never
known Use luxury of having one shilling
to spend! It was no great wonder if h r
heart beat and every nerve thrilled with
the sudden sense of power and wca'.ih.
Heuceforth she could do as tho Likud
sho could make everyone happy, she
could lavish wealth 011 the things sho
loved best, fche could do untold gxd.
She was roused from her reverie by
the eutraucc of Ijtdy Brando:i, IxKk
ing at her, Veronica realized wli.it die
had suffered her face was quite white,
w ith dark circles around the eyes. Sho
had wept almost incessantly eir.ee her
husband's death, but now she seemed
calm with the calmness of despair. he
closed the door, and, coming up to Vero
nica, took the girl's cold bunds in her
own and looked earnestly in her face.
"Veronica," she asked, "have you kept
the t-ecret ?"
The voung girl raised her head proud
ly. "Did you think that I should betrav
it ?" she askeL "I am not a traitor,
Lady Brandon."
"1 know, I know, forgive me for speak
ing hastily. Veronica, I am almost maL
You cannot realize what I have to mi tier
you cannot understand my Hsino:i. I
would rather these are not wild words,
but true ones I would rather kill meii
than that the world sdionld know how
cruelly I have been deceived that I
had but the ashes of my hushand'.s love,
that he never cared for me, that his heart
had been given to another before me. I
could not Irear it I could not survive
Etudi a downfall to my pride, my affec
tion, my t-tanding and pos.tiori in tho
world I should hot snrvire it."
"I am very sorry," said Veronica ; "I
cannot help it, lady Brandon; it is not
my fault, you know."
"Think, too, of Katherine, my beauti
ful child, brought up as her father's
heiress. All her life sho has deemed
herself heiress of Queen's Ch?ce her
future secure. Oh, Veronica, think w hat
a blow it will prove for her! It will kill
her!" And the poor lady's lips quiver
ed again. "Then," 6he continued, "you
do not know my people, tho Valdor
aines. They are the prou lest people in
England ; they would I dare not think
w hat they will say or do when they hear
that my child is disinherited. I shall
never look them iu the face again. I
wish that I had died before this day
came."
"I am very much grieved," said Ver
onica ; "but I cannot help it."
'Poor Katherine so happy in her fu
ture! They called her heiress of Queen's
Cnare when he lay iu her cradle. My
pretty child, it is not right, it is not just.
1 have done nothing to deserve it. All
my life I was good and faithful to my
husband. He has left me a legacy of
sorrow and shame. Poor Katherine,
how is she to bear it, Veronica? Will
it make her hate him and dislike his
memory ?"
"No. she is too noble for that," said
Veronica. "Have you forgotten w hat he
said to her on the evening before his
death V
No. Oh, Veronica, my dear, I can
not tell her, I cannot, indeed ! She lias
been so light-hearted, so happy all her
life. Until now she has never had any
sorrow, any care. How can I, her own
mother, go to her and tell her that she
and I are to be driven out, away from
that which we have always held to be
her own? How tan I go to her and
say to her that she must lay down every
hoje, every brightness of her life, and
sutler Heaven knows what?"
"You forget that she has loved Lord
Wynleigh." said Veronica, gently.
"I do not. I foresee fresh trouble
there. He loves her, I know, but his
friends are proud ; they would oppose
his iusrr:age to a dis.nhente.J girl. She
would in all probability loss her love
with her fortune. Oh, Veronica. I can
not bear it!" She drew nearer to her.
"You love her, Veronica. I know you
to. You have said so a hundred times.
You said see, I remember the words
you would give your life for her if she
needed it, because she was the first to
.on: you. luu 6.iid that you would
stand between her and every sorrow,
that an arrow meant for her heart should
first of all pierce yours. You said tliat,
Veronica."
"Yes, an 1 1 meant it," she acknowl
edged. Lady Brandon drew still nearer t J her.
It seemed to Veronica that the breadth
came in hot gasps from her lips.
".-he does not want your life, Veroni
ca ; to give it would not serve her. Will
you servo her as you said you would ?
Will you let the arrow meant for her
heart wound yours?"
"Yes," said Veronica; "yon know I
wilL"
"Will yon save her youth, ber love,
her hope? Will you keep her life bright
and unclouded ? Will you keep her
happy, as 6ho has been? Will you
servo her loyally, faithfullv.as you Lave
biUd
"Yes" she answered again ; and then
lady Brandon drew the girl's f:iee down
to her own.
"You will do all this? Then, Veroni
ca, burn the will burn it, and keep the
set ret until you die."
Veronica drew back pale and tremb
ling. "Burn the will !" she repeated faintly.
"You cannot mean thai ? I low can I?
IdarenoL" She was bewildered; no
such idea had occurred to her. "Burn
the will:" she sail again. "Oh lady
Braudun, how can 1 V
"You can do it easily enough if you
wish if vou will," declared I a ly P.ran
don. "Who know of it except you and
me? Noon?. Who knows the secret,
save you an 1 me? No one. Oh, Vero
nica, if you would be true to your prom
is.', true to yonr word, burn the will and
forget it !"
"Hut that woull bo to disobey tho
wishes 01 th 2 dead," said Veronica, "it
s?oins to mo I am not my own mistress.
My my father's commands, his wishes
surly I m ist obey them; surely I must
carry out all his plain ?"
Jady Brandon siood before hor erect,
her face eloquent with thj pasaiou of
her words.
"Veronica, make no scrupnlcs, rains no
doubt. Are you capable of this great
M.riiice for Kaiherine's sak-"1, for her
love's sake? It is much to ask, I know.
Have you the generosity, the nobility, the
grandeur of soul to make it ? You said
you would die for her, my fail -haired
darling. Would you give life, yet wiih
hold this?"
"I am bewildered," replied Veronica."
"I do not know how to answer you."
"Lome with me,' said lady Brandon.
"Step lightly, Veronica, my darling is
asleep. Come with me."
And the t-.vo ladies passed out of Ver
onica's pretty room together.
lady Brandon led the way to Kather
ine's room ; she opened the door gently
and they entered together. Katherine
had exhausted herself with weeping.
Her father's death was the first trouble
of her life, the tirst cloud that h i 1 ever
darkened her sky, the first sorrow that
had bro ght burning tears to her eyes.
She had exhausted l.erseli with weeping.
an I then she had thrown herself 011 to
the pretty white bed nnd iv:'s sli-ejiing
the sleep of utter weariness. Her golden
hair lay i:t picturesque disorder over
the pillows, one white rouu led arm was
thorwn alcove her head even iu profound
slumber her lips quivered and deep solrs
came from the-n. She was too exhaust
ed for any sound to reach Iter now. ladv
Bran-Ion took Veronica's hand and led
her to the liedside.
"Look," said fhe "Veronica see how
young and how fair sse is ; see haw in
nocent ami he'pless. Think how she has
been loved and cherished. Do not throw
her 011 the mercies of a cold world.
Think of her love ; do not take it from
her. Veronica, if above this tender white
breast you saw a sword hanging, you
would not let it fall. If you saw a hand
clutching a dagger and pointing it at t bat
tender heart, you should thrust it aside.
I.ook at her, Veronica, so unconscious of
this tragedy. Will you wake her to tell
her that you are going to take her in
heritance, hr fortune, her happiness
ah, even her lover from her?"
Veronica turned away with a shudder.
"Come with me again," said lady
Brandon and this time 6he led the way
to the room where the dead statesman
lay. She closed the door, and, holding
Veronica's hand tightly clasped ia her
own, she led her to his side. "1 have
brought you into the solemn presence of
the dead. He who lies there called this
sin of his gilded sin. Veronica, he did
not fortsee, he could not know, the suf
fering and the sorrow that would fall
ti poll us. Oh, Veronica, is it just ? Is it
fair? Isitrijht? Why should this dis
grace fall now upon Jne? Have I de
served it? Is it honorable that we should
EO suddenly be deprived of oi:r ow n our
position, our inheritance, all that life
holds most dear? Did you love Lim,
Veronica, this dear dead father ?"
"Yes" the replied. It seemed to
Veronica that all power of &;eech had
left her that she could not utter the
words that rose to her lip
"You did love him; then sparo him.
You could do nothing so hurtful to his
memory as to let this secret be known.
All England reveres him now, all Eng
land does homage to him. He ia
numbered among the great ones of the
nation. Oli, Vefon'.ca. how tr.ey would
denounce him, those who have loved
him best, if they knew that in very
truth he had left his wife and child to
bear the brunt and the burden of his
concealment! They would blame where
they have praised. You will take a
hero from ins iredcstal. You will
shadow a grand memory, detract from a
fair fame, if you tell his secret. And
you will gain what? A fortune that
you will never enjoy, rtn inheritan -e tln.t
will prove more of a curs'j than a bless
ing, an inheritance that will be almost a
fraud. Veronica, burn that cruel will."
"I'ut others must know of it," sue
Eaid.
"No," ass?rted Lady Brandon; "1I13
lawyer who drew up that w ill is dea l
I tell you. I remember that Sir Ja.s;cr
went to a strange lawyer whose name
was Mathews, and that some days after
ward he said that a Strang ttiinj had
happeneiL lie had asked Mathews to
attend to some l.ttle business for him,
and a few days afterward he had died
suddenly. I remember it so welL One
never misses much what one has never
haiL Veronica. You have never Ireca
considered or treated as the heiress of
Queen's Chace. You would not miss
the distinction. But Katherine has.
Katherine has grown up with the
thought; it has formed part of her life.
My dear, I plead to you, I pray t J you
burn that will. For Katherine's bake,
by your love for her, by your promise to
shield her, for your dead father's sake,
to save his name from rude comment, to
r-diteld his memory from all stain of re
proach. I,- your father's widow I,
Kathn ine's mother kneel to you I beg
of you to giant what I ask I" and Lady
Brandon knelt before Veronica with out
blrct. bed hands.
Veronica rose, sublime in her emo
tion; a Irght that did not seem to be of
this v. oil 1 shone 6u her face.
Tor your dea l father's sake, Veron
ica !" sobhe l Lady Brandon.
; "I will do it," she replied. "I will
burn the will, and I will keep the secret
until I die and in death I -will keep it
r,till."
lady Brandon rose and drew the girl
to her father's side.
"Swe.ir it here," she said; ''lay your
hands on his breast alrove his heart
her.;. Now swear to me that you will
never take Kaiherino's inheritance from
her th..t you will never lay claim to it
that you will never betray the sjcrvt
of yuur biith and parentage."
Veroui .1 a wore it,
"Kiss hi lip.?," cried lad Brandon;
"they would open to bless you if thev
cull."
Vei- iiiira kise 1 his lips.
"It will lie between us, father," tho
said, "this se ret of ours."
Then she started up in alarm. The
struggle had' been too much lor Lady
Brandon - slie ha 1 fallen to the ground.
The servants who came to her help
thought she was ill from grief; and they
bore her with pitying words to her
chamber, while Veronica went back to
her room like one moving in a trance.
Not for long had sin; been heires3 of
Queen's Chace - not for long had she
called herself Veronica Brandon, Sir
Jasper's daughter. All the nobler,
higher, bettor part of her nature had
been roused by Lady Brando i's pas
sionate appod. She forgot in her
enlhusia-m all that the sacrifice, would
co.-t her. Sh? remembered only that
she was securing Katherine's happiness
and saving htr .father's fair name.
She s ;t quite still and silent, while tin
birds sung oa'.si ic her window, and the
sunlight brightened the whole gla 1
world how many hours she never
knew, .'-he lellected that her golden
dream was over, that slu would be
Veronica di Cyutha now until shu died.
'I'll . a oiif roused herself. The will must
be burned beiore she saw l.ady Prandon
again. She would not read it. Tliat
would simply renew her rain, and could
l.ot he:.?t.t her. die miijt destroy it at
once. Hie went to the boy in which she
had put it away, and took it out. She
read, 'The !a-t will and testament of Sir
Jasper Urandon, Baron of H urstwood,
etc." Sho kissed the name, an I her
t'ars fed on it. How could she destrov
it'.' Curiously, instead of being written
on paper, it was written ou thick parch
ment that she could neither tear nor cut.
Ou this June day there was no fire any
where. She could not go down to the
servants' oilices to burn it there, for the
would be noticed, and harm might come
of it. The only way was to have a fire
made in her sitting-room, and burn it
there. The bell wasansered by Clara
Morton, a pretty girl whom Sir Jasper
had advisd her to take as her maid.
She carefully placed the w ill out of sight,
and then, when the maid entered, bhe
asked her to light a fire iu her room.
"A fire," repeated Clara Morton "a
fire here, miss?" f
""es," said Veronica.
But," objected the girl, "it is so w arm
it is quite a hot day, mi.?.. I am afraid
the heat will be too much for you."
"There is no warmth here," said Vcro-
nUAud the maid seeing the shu ldor that
made her young inisircss's graceful lig
ure tremble, thought jrcihaps she was
really told. Mil! it was a strange thing
to ask for on a June day ; and more lhan
once, as Clara Morion lighted t lie 'ire,
she said to herself that it was unnatural,
and that there must be some tea. ..nfor
it. Slid she obeyed. But the lire wou.d
not light. Three or four limes it went
out. and each time Veronica had to ring
again.
"How bent she is on it!" said the girl
to herself. "What can she want a tire
for? There is something mysterious
about it."
At last the fire burned brightly; and
then Veronica fastened the d or and took
out the will again. Stie held it in her
hands, looking fust at the parchment roll
and then at i..e ilaim s. It rii:i'. tc
her as though she held something living.
'Wealth, honor, fortune, 1 option, the
hon' r of a noble name th -se. wo il l al.
peri-h with the docuui'-nt when she laid
it on the flames. Should she d-strov it ?
Was it not like taking the life of s nue
living tiling?
"1 will do it," she said, "not by halves,
but generously. I make this sacrifice,
and Heaven sees me. I make it to se
cure my sister's happiness and to save
my father's memory. I make it with all
my heart in return for their Live fer me,
and I shall never regret it."
Then she parted the coals and p'.a-e 1
the parchment between the n. In a few
moments there was a thick smoke, and
seeing no more of the parchment, she
thoueht it was destroyed. She watched
the thick smoke as it rose; what did H
bear with it ol" her.,?
There was some one at the door who
cotill it Ihj? Sh,; , riod out, "Who is if."
And Cl ura Moitjn answered :
"I want you very particularly, if you
please, Miss di Cyntha."
Veronica opene 1 the door, and the girl
looked wondei ingly into her pale face.
"I have brought you a cup ol tea.
miss" she said ; "I thought you wanted
something." "Her quick ej-es noted th?
heavy smoke in the lircplaee ; she with
drew without a word. Iu a few moments
she was back ngain. "Miss di Cyntha,
she cried, "I w ish you w ould come, to my
lady's room ; I have knocked at the door
several time s an 1 can get no answer. 1
am afraid ih re. issoun thing wrong."
And Veronica hastened away, not
noticing that she had left the girl in tho
room behind her. ,
CHAPTER VIIL
"What coull you mean, Clara?" said
Veronica, w han, some ten minutes after
ward, she returned to her room. "Lady
Bran ion was not even asleep, and she
says that you have never even touched
the door."
"Jsit till rigbt, miss?" asked tho girl,
as though she were in a state of breath
less suspense.
Light ? Y'es. lady Brandon never
even heard you," eaid Veronica.
Clara answered that her ladyship must
have been asleep but did not like to say
to.
Veronica noticed that the girl's face)
was Hushed and her manner fctrange;
but she di 1 rot think much of it at tho
time. Presently Clara quitted the room,
after saying a great deal more about the
fright, and relating an anecdote of a lady
w hom she knew had been found dead of
grief soon after her husbanl's death.
Then Veronica wondered just a little
that si e should talk so much. As a rule
the g'rl was respectful and docile. J -eft
a'o ie aeain, Veronica would not think of
what she had done ; that was all forgot
ten a.l past. She was Veronica di
Cyntl.a had never been anything eLse.
She looked into the smoldering tire the
last vestige of the parchment had disap
peared. The pap rs she had kept ; they
could not hurt, and she felt that she
would like to look nt them from time to
time. She went ha -k to lady Brandon's
room and claqio 1 her arms arounlher
''I have burne 1 it," she said "it is all
destroyed; an 1 1 have come to mention
it for the last time to tell you that you
may trust me as you would yourself."
lady Brandon fell weeping on to her
neck, teiiing her that she was blessed,
thrice blessed, for that she had saved
herself and her child from what was far
w or e than the bitterness even of death.
"You may inirnst your future to me,
Veronica," sai l Lady Brandon. "I have
two thousand a year of my own, and I
w id settle the half of it on you."
So the matter was never mentioned
fig tin by Veronica or her fat tier's widow.
The next day they buried him, and his
place knew him no more. All England
moil ned ' for thi deal statesman, and
never wearied of praising him, while the
mantle of his greatness fell upon Lord
Wvuleigh.
a
A year had passed since the death of
Sir Jasper. Lady Brandon had spent it
at Queen's Chace. Some hid advised
her to go away, to take her daughter
abroad ; but the Chace seemed to have
an attraction for her. When the year
that she had given to seclusion had
passed, their first visitor was Lord Wyn
leigh. They were delighted to see him;
it was sui h a bright, cheerful change.
Lord Wynleigh was growing anxious now
about the time of his probation. He
made Veronica his confidante.
"I know that I can trust you," he said,
"beraase you love Knte so dearly. J
have worked hard this last year and a
half. I have made a position. I have
laid the foundation of future fame and
fortune. I giant that I have made no
money ; but that does not matter Kate
and I understand each other so well.
She knows that if she had not one shil
ling in the world I should lovo her just
the same more, if possible; but we
should have to wait for years. As it la.
I do not see w hy we should not be mar
ried at Christmas. Do vou, Veronica?"
To be C'nttiiiutd.
Itetcrvcd Torces. '
Tt is often the case th.-.t tnrcc'-s in life
d pmi.is tip-in v,' .it in. iv I i' ci.ii -d te-.-ci
e l p., 1-. i.e in.'iiv dual h -s in
j-V re OClta n I ' se ;:l. n.orii or icteilett
'. :,1 forci s which i:j briiuj into action
w helK Vol' they ;:r I.ueded.
The laic 1 .i n";i i.iin i'!s;a li, i n mak
iit i.:s liiei leu fx. di iu ihe lloaueof
Ct'tnii 01;?, w 11s met with shouts of do-rir-ive
laughter. Inclosing, be said:
4 1 have begun many tilings, and have
often .-ti ccih 1 at hist. I viil s:t down
liow, but the time wdl come when you
will hear n.e."
The time canio when 11 is House of
Commo :s n t only heard him, but ac
knowledged him as its leader and as tho
prime minister.
1 aid 1 Webster possessed great reserve
power, li s ii.ind was not oiny well titled
to consider any question iu law cr
statesmanship which might be t-ubmit-ted,
but il was Weil Ftored with knowl
edge. His famous speech against Hayne is a
fine example 01 the vaetness of the intcl
lect lal forces iie bad in reserve. Th
fspceth .the first of the two) was deliv
eie l inter very brief pieparation ; but,
in ihe wei.l'.h 01 knowledge it displayed,
in ihe clot-ems oi its logic, in its heauty
01 t-tyle. and eloquence, it has seldom,
even if ever, bee 11 equaled iu AiHtricau
calory.
This reserve power of Disraeli and of
Webster contributed to the b -access of
their work.
The tr.es rs of attaining this power is
chieilv to n a l much and thornm-hlv.
, -
ami, w 1 1 111 is more essential, to Hunk con
stantly and carefully.
Train the mind well, Kfore it with
learning, and one is piepi.rcd with a
slock ol intellectual forces' which he cpri
bring into play whenever H.e demand is
nia.ie.
Tlioe Siile-y lirtxiti.
At the theatre.
Mr. Younghusband (after the third
pilgrimage) "I always feel so much
better alter going out to get the air be
tween the nets. I can always get off
6omc clever things when I come back.
Don t you notice I'm a trifle spicier?"
-Mrs. Younghusbaud "Yes, dear; I
tho ight it v.aa your breath."
An Ancient Custom.
A. "Do you know where the custom
of mothers taking their marriageable
daughters to the watering places origi
nated ?"' 0
15. "I have no idea."
"Well, it dates back to tho days ot
Abraham. Y'ou know.it was at a well
thut Bebecca found her husband,"
One who claims to have tri d it Kav
that rubber may be fastened t iron bv
shel'110 ,,a:n,t ."-MKsod of pi'wXre'd
wei .'h? about ten 'times iu-
shou 1? ..Ts1-"t--'J ammonia. It