A TERRIBLE STORM.
FOURTEEN PENLSONS DROWNED AT
TRIADELPHIA.~HALF THE TOWN
WASHED AWAY,
WHEELING, W. Va,, July 20.—Later
and authentic details from Triadelphia
show the destruction there was more
appaling than anywhere else, Fifteen
families are homeless and saved noth
ing bt what they had on. Half this
village of 600 inhabitants were swept
away, but all but those before-named
escaped to the hills, The storm
extended 16 miles east of West
Alexander, Penna., and the scene all
along the way is one of desolation and
inconceivable horror. Where the
Triadelphia school house, a large build-
ing of six rooms, stood, the creek Is
now a raging flood and not a vestige of
gven the foundation remains. The
whole south half of the town has disap-
peared as clean as if it never existed.
The Wheeling Relief Committee, which
recently raised funds for the Bowles.
delphia.
Reports are coming from all parts of
Ono county this morning indicating
that the storm was more disastrous Lo
life and property in the country than
in this city.
hour how many lives have been lost
The loss in this city is known to be ten
with ® number reported missing. Cald-
well’s run, which passes through the
Eighth Ward of this city, was the
scene of the greatest havoc.
all the inmates were drowned. They
were Mrs, Barbara Stenzel and son,
Herman Stenzel, Alice and Annie
Wingert, of Miltonsburg, Ohio, nieces
of Mrs. Stenzel; John Homan and Mrs,
Thomas Hawley and four children,
Her husband was in the vard and was
swept a hundred yards down the
stream, bot managed to reach land In
safety. Only two bodies have been re-
covered, Alice Wingert and Mrs,
Stenzel.
Great dama
and Triadelptua. Drowned at
points were: Mrs Jane Fay and two
daughters, William Gaston and wife,
Caull Bell and two young men named
Bowman. Mrs, Johnson, a widow,
county, died from fright.
The greatest loss of life was along
Wheeling creek and at Triadelphia, A
search this morning resulted in the dls.
covery of a number of bodies near the
latter place. Most of them were found
among the drift which collected at Elm
Grove. The body of William Gaston,
zen was found at Elm Grove.
wife's remains were found two miles
wire fence. Charles Caulbell, of the
Wheeling News Leiter, aged 50 years,
was found among the driftwood. Mrs,
Jane Fay and her two grown-up daugh-
a short distance below Triadaiphia,
Gorman, were found in a meadow,
where they had been hurled by the fur-
ious waters,
A later despatch says 25 persons are
known to be drowned. Among the
pumber was the Shenfl of Marshall
county. The cemeteries were washed
down the river.
perished is as follows:
in his house on Caldwell run; Mrs. Bar-
bara Stenzel, widowed mother of Her-
man; Annie Wingard, a mece of Mrs,
Stenzel, visiting ber, lived at Miltons-
burg, Ohio, aged 10; Alice Wingard, a
sister of Annle, an inmate of the Sten-
zel household, employed as a domestic
aged 21; Mrs. Thomas Hawley
and her four children, one boy and
three girls, drowned In their house on
Caldwell’s run; John Hohman,
drowned while attempting to rescue the
Stenzel family with a raft; Mrs, Jane
Flay and her daughters Alice and
-
Belle, single, aged respectively 25 and
warrant. He asserted his innocence,
Last week a train on the Burlington
and Missouri Railroad was derailed at
(+ibson, Missouri, by an obstruction
placed on the track, A watchman
claims that while the cars were being
placed on the track, he saw a man
light a fuse and then disappear, Hast-
ening to the spot, the watchman found
the fuse was attached to a can which
contained balf a pound of powder. The
fuse was extinguished in time to pre.
vent an explosion. The man who
lighted the fuse 18 known and will be
arrested.
—Mollle Dealy, n servant girl in
Prairietown, Indiana, committed sui-
cide with morphine on the evening of
the 15th because a youug nan to whom
she was engaged to be married failed
to pay her a visit,
—An express train and a freight
train collided on the morning of the
17th, at Shade’s Creek, 10 miles eouth
of Birmingham, Alabama, Doth en-
gines, the baggage car and smoker of
the express, and eight or ten freight
cars were demolished. George Nicholls
and George Thomas, employes of the
passenger train, and William Cunning-
{ ham, of the freight train, were killed,
{ and several other traln men and pas-
sengers were injured,
—Burglars entered the houss of Wil-
tario, on the evening of the 16th, stole
{ Mr. Houghton,
ternal revenue on the 17th, were $204.-
267, an? from enstoms, §768.519.
—The Commissioner of Agriculture
has informed the Secretary of
Treasury that the disease
among cattle in Grey county, Ontario,
was supposed, but is a disease called
authrox, due to a microbe found
swampy or overflooded lands, and is not
in any manner contagious,
from Grey county has been rescinded,
couraging. Thuis is due to the
weather. The oat crop is poor. Cot-
| ton is wanting in size. The farmers in
county, Illinois, have re-
to exterminate the chinch bug.
— An excursion given by the Gleason
lingwood Beach, on the 16th, resulted
in a row, during which two men were
injured. Marshall Tyler and
James Weeks were the men who were
shot, and Sandy Henderson was ar-
rested on the charge of doing
shooting.
~—A savage bU'oo'hound owned by
Nicholas Smith, of East Buffalo, New
York, got loose oun the evening of the
16th. and attacked two boys, Toseph
them so badly about the head that it is
feared they will die, The dog was
shot.
-Mr. Randall coutinued to improve
| weather in Washington continues coo
and he 1s still very weak, he will pro-
bably not be removed from that city
Fisher Thompson, a theological stu-
dent in Tuft's College,
in Boston on the 4th inst, for picking
| and 200 cotton handkerchiefs, valued
at $225, were found therein. As no
! other stolen articles were found, the
thief 18 set down as a “kieptomaniac.’
| Emil
| shooting himself through the heart,
| Joseph Tremper, 25 years of age, was
| arrested in Cincinnati on the evening
| of the Delhi train robbers. Engineer
13 years, Béven drunken men, taking
with thom a keg of beer, crowded Into
a little skiff, at Louisville, Kentucky,
on the evening of the 18th. Soon a
ery for help was heart], and four of the
men were pulled ashore by rescuers,
The other three—Willlam G. Malone,
John Pendergrass and Daniel Morrill—
were drowned,
— Assistant Superintendent C, I,
Smith, of the Adams Express Com-
pany, In Jersey City, New Jersey, who
has been sick for a long time, made two
unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide
on the 10th by taking morphine and
jumping from a second-story window.
He raves constantly and seems to ime
agine that the express company con-
pects him with a recent heavy robbery.
— Annie Fox and Elizabeth Hughes,
servant girls in New York, on the 19th
advertised for positions, Each ran to
open the door when the bell rang. They
quarrelled, and finally Elizabeth threw
Annie down stairs. She received n-
juries which resnlled in her death 1n a
short time,
— Benjamin Berger, a salesman em-
ployed by W. C. Foster, the Baltimore
J. Daily & Co., disappeared on July
It was discovered that he was a
dollars, On the 20th be was ar-
distere as H. J. White. He says he will
return to Baltimore.
~The steam pipo that supplied the
the morning of
Westport,
the crew, who
asleep at the time, were Killed,
The victims were: Willlam Page,
William Harrigan, Robert Jones, Wil-
liam Digley, Charles Luster, George
McCann and Willlam Kelley, The
boat was bullt in February last, W.
8. Brewer and CC, J, Buchanon were
in the Platte river at Delle
Nebraska, on the 10th, while
Buchsnon was to have been
in a few days. Abraham
white, and Eliljah
colored, were killed in Indianapolis,
Indiana, by the fall of a derrick.
Mary Sullivan was riding up No. §
Plane of the Lehigh and Susquehanna
Railroad at Wilkesbarre, "enna., on
the evening of the 19th, and as she was
Convoy exploded on
20th, nea
Seven men of were
wood,
ishing.
Jones,
drawn under the wheels
While an old bullding
to the Germania Singing
and she was
and killed,
belonging
Charles
Winkler and William Doehir, a laborer,
~Sand flies made their appearance in
swarms in Chicago on the evening of
the 20th, The globes of the electric
light would fill up with the flies until
ed the sidewalk in some places ankle
to take to the roadway and use um-
brellas for protection from the pests,
prietors were forced to turn out the
electric lights and close windows and
doors. The different theatres were
treated in a similar fashion.
—A coal and fast freight train coll
ded on the Lehigh and Susquehanna
division of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, near White Haven, on
the 20th, Conduclor George Kalser
killed and five train hands
slightly injured. It was reported in
Laredo, Texas, on the evening of the
17th that a construction train on the
National Ra'lroad had been
men killed. Partico-
-It is pow 185 days since the mis-
sing ship Farragut, under command of
Captain Richard F. Hardwicke, and
with a crew of 22 seamen, all of Bos
ton, salled from Calcutta for New
York, with a cargo valued at $120,000.
| by his wife and daughter, bis 16 year-
old son, Harry, remaining at home.
| The schooner Clara, of Bt. John, New
Gaston, of Point Mills, body recovered
at Elm Grove,
There was a report thai the family
of a man named Johnson, near Clinton,
had lost their lives, but this could not
be authenticated.
The Baltimore and Ohlo Company’s
loss will reach $350,000, at a low esti-
bridges and school-houses will be at
least $60,000,
————— “
NEWS OF THo WEEK.
~Mr. Wentworth and wife, of New-
tonville, Massachusetts, went boating
on Lake Sunapee, on the afternoon of
the 13th. On the 14th the boat was
found washed ashore full of water, On
the 16th a parasol belonging to the
lady was washed ashore,
A despatel: from Clarendon, Texas,
says that in consequence of a washout
on the Fort Worth and Denver Rail-
road a passenger traln was precipitated
through & bridge on the morning of the
15th. Eogineer Smith and Fireman
Wilson were killed, and a number of
passengers were badly shaken up. An
express train was wrecked near Winne
mucca, Nevada, on the morning of the
156th, by a broken rail. The fruit, bag-
gawe and United States Fish Commis-
sioners’ cars were badly wrecked. No
passengers were hurt,
~The Chicago police on the 17th
found in a small frame house in the
vicinity of Ashland avenue and Thirty.
third street 12 dynamite bombs, a re-
The owner of the
i:
§EERSEZ SS
2eTgeiods
gi=i
fil
£
£
man with whom he had a tussle on the
| engine.
- Washington Middleton, a notorious
| desperado, was killed in Jasper, Ar-
| kansas, on the 18th, by an officer,
| while resisting arrest. Middleton was
| a border scout during the war, and is
| said to have killed forty men during
his career, He was a member of the
| “Bald Knobbers' and
| organizations, and ‘‘was a bloody out-
| law generally, and the people are re.
| joiced at his taking oft.”
~The alleged would-be assassins of
Judges Grinnell and Gary and Inspec
tor Bonfield, In Chicago, were on the
18th taken into gourt and placed under
$5000 bail each for trial. (reorge
Nichell was arrested at Quincy, 1li-
nols, on the 18th, in the act of placing
a tie on the track of the Chicago, Dur-
lington and Quincy Railroad,
~The Wickford surnmer residence
of HH. B. Aymer, of East Warren, New
Jersey, was entered by burglars on
the morning of the 10th and ransacked
from top to bottom, A large quantity
of silver and $15,000 worth of certifi-
cates of stock were taken. Three boys
were arrested in Cincinnati on the 18th
for picking pockets, On the 19th they
confessed that they were members of
an organized band of thieves, whose
ages 1anged from 12 to 18 years. Sev.
eral days ago they made a round and
stole the contents of several money
drawers. They also arranged a plan
to rob the Second National Bank, Ten
{| Newfoundland coast. Her captain and
| steamer Thomas P. Way, the property
{of the Stephens & Condit Company,
| dock at Newark, New Jersey, on the
| 20th. The loss Is placed at $40,000,
| which 1s covered by insurance.
-=8t, Clairsville, Ohio, and its vicin-
ity was visited by a heavy rain and
| wind storm om the evening of the 10th.
| Grain fleids were laid waste, the
| shocked wheat was swept away and
| the growing corn is not to be seen.
| The Bellaire and St. Clairsville, and
{the St. Clairsville and Northern Rall-
| ronds are almost entirely washed out.
| The incoming train on the Baltimore
| and Ohlo was stranded at Echo, and
ithe trainmen and passengers as best
| they could escaped with their lives, the
water, filled with drift, running to the
headlight of the engine. Several narrow
escapes are reported, and it is feared
that a number of lives have been lost,
60th CONGRESS. ~First Session
SENATE.
In the U. 8. Senate ou the 16th, the
House joint resolution, electing Colo-
nel Harris, of Ohio, General Martin, of
Kansas, and General Hartranft, of
Pennsylvania, managers of the Na-
tional Soldiers’ Home, to fill vacancies,
was to. Mr, Hoar, from the
Committee on Library, reported =»
bill, which was passed, appropriating
£25,000 for the erection of a monument
in Louisville to General George Rogers
Clark in recognition of his eminent
services to his country in the onquest
of the Northwestern Terri during
the Revolutionary war. The Fisheries
treaty was considered in open session,
and Mr, Pugh spoke in favor of ita
ratification. r. Chandler followed 1n
ition to the treaty, Senate ll
for the adjustment of the accounts of
workmen and mechanics un-
der the Eight-hour law was .
After an executive session the Senate
In the U. 8. Senate on the 17th, the
House bill to authorize the condemna-
tion of land sites for
was
lation directing the Committees on
Rules to set apart a place in the Capi-
tol to test David H. Craig's improve.
ments in telegraphy, “with a view to
protecting the interests of the Ameri.
can people if found desirable.” He
ment might secure the invention and
prevent its passing into the hands of
private perties, Mr. Plumb objecting,
the resolution went over, The Sundry
Civil bill was reported. The Senate
receded from its subsidy amendment to
the Post-office Appropriation bill, and
the bill goes to the President, The
bill to place John C. Fremont on the
retired list of the Army as Major Gen-
eral was passed—29 to 21. The bill for
the adjustment of the accounts of
Government working men under the
Eight Hour law was passed—yeas, 25;
nays, 22, The bill for the admission of
Washlugton Territory as a Slate was
taken up, and the Senate then ad.
journed, leaving it the unfinished busi-
ness,
In the United States Senate on the
18th, a message was received from the
President vetoing the lll to increase
the pension of Johu F, Ballier, on the
ceiving the maximum pension allowed
for total disability to soldiers of his
nothing for his benefit,
3ills to reduce the postage on fourth
class mail matter; to
merece carried on by
improve and encourage
tion and manufacture
hemp. and in relation to
and water-ways were
placed on the calendar.
telegraph;
the
of flax
reported and
The bi
ton, to be composed of the present Ter-
Jdtory of Washinglon and part
Idaho, was considered. Mr,
offered a substitute, confining
f
Of
Territory
the area
of Washington, Pending
In the U.
following bills were passed: Senate bil)
amending the act relating to postal
crimes, declaring non-mallable all mat-
ter on any part
threatening delineations,
epithets or
with amendments,
modified his resolution of-
June 12th, directing an io-
road, acts,
Chandler
fered on
son, of Louisiana, The resolution was
mid on the table, and, on motion of
Mr, Blackburn, the credentials of Mr.
Gibson were taken from the table and
placed on file. Senate bill appropriat-
ing $35,000 for a public building at
Smyrna, Delaware, was reported and
placed on the calendar, After an ex-
ecutive session the Senate adjourned.
in the United Slates Senate on the
20th, House bills making Decoration
Columb@a, and appropriationg $55,000
for a public bullding at Brownsville,
Texas, were passed. The Naval Ap-
propriation bill was reported and
placed on the calendar, The Senate
then wenl Into execulive session.
When the doors were reopened,
Chandler offered a resolution, which
was laid over, declaring that the re.
cent appointment by the
without consent of the Senate, of
Messrs, Angell and Putnam as special
plenipotentiaries to negotiate the pro-
posed Fisheries treaty wilh
Britain, was unwarranted by the Con-
stitution. The bill for the erection of
&« public building mn Chicago was re-
ported and placed on the calendar.
Mr. Dolph called up the iil to prohibit
the coming of Chinese laborers into
the United States, and spoke in sup-
After remarks by Messrs,
Morgan and Mitchell, pending discus-
gion, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House on the 16th, the Tariff
wool from the free list,
was defeated, the vole on a count of
tellers being 102 for and 120 against.
| cents per square yard on Lempand jute
carpetings; 20 per cent. ad valorem on
of vegetable substances, and 40 per
{and carpetings, druggets, backings,
| mats, rugs, screens, covers, hassocks,
| bedsides of wool, flax, cotlon, or parts
| of either or other material, On motion
{of the same gentleman the date on
| which the [ree wool clause shall gointo
effect was fixed on October lst, 1888,
and the date for the taking eflect of
the woolen schedule on January 1st,
| 1880, This disposed of the woolen
| schedule. Committee amendzaents of-
(fered by Mr, Mills was adopted,
amending the card cloth paragraph so
as to increase the duty from 15 to 20
cents per square foot, and In the case
of cut cloth made of tempered steel
wire from 25 to 40 cent per square foot;
striking out the India rubber fabric
paragraph; fixing the duty on kaolin at
$1 per ton for crude and $2 for China
clay © wrought kaolin, and placing
the duty on rough marble in biocks
and squares at 40 cents per cubic fool.
This Sampled the essentially tand
features of the bill, and the administra.
tive portion of the measursa was taken
up. Various amendments were offered
and rejected, but one offered by Mr,
Breckinridge, of Arkansas, was adopted
excluding from the provisions of the
section which provides that ad valorem
duties shall include the value of care
tons, cases, boxes, ete., in which mer
chandise is imported, such boxes,
sacks or coverings as are Lhe usual and
Pending further actiop the committee
rose and the House adiourned,
In the House, on the 18th, the Tariff
bill was resumed in Committee of the
Whole, Primuline was stricken from
the free list, An amenfment was
adopted placing on the free list all fron
and steel hoops not thinner than No.
20 wire guage. The existing rates of
duty were restored on cement and on
whiting and Paris white, The duty
on Paris green was fixed at 124 per
cent, ad valorem, The duty on china,
porcelain, earthen, stone or crockery
ware was increased from 45 to 50 per
cent, ad valorem, Amendments offered
by Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas,
were agreed to, making the duty on
green and colored glass bottles one
cent instead of three-fourths of a cent
per pound; striking out the flint and
glass bottle paragraph, and increasing
the rates on cylinder, crown
common window glass. Mr,
moved to strike out,
present rate. Mr, La Follette,
minutes, This Mr, Mills refused, and,
on his motion, the Committe rose for
Mills then moved that all debate on
the pending paragraph be limited to one
minute, but the Republicans refused
House
After some further filibuster
motion to adjourn was agreed
quorum,
ing a
Lo.
amendments to the bill authonzing the
of land for siles
public buildings were concurred in,
House went into Committee of
the Tanff bill, and Mr,
for
rate of duly on imported tobacco
agreed to. The present
was also restored on pipes,
Was
pipe bowls
provided for. After
itical discussion the committee
aud reported the Tanff bill
House, with a favorable
tion. Its further consideration
then postponed until the 21st,
Dibble, Carolina,
up the Allentown rublic
with the President’s
message, but the House refused to pass
Was
of South
called
141, the nays 84-—less than two-thirds
in the affirmative. An evening sess
of b
Jon
from the Commities
Affairs,
In the House, on the 20th, a Senale
bill coming over from the evening of
the 18th appropristing $250,000 to aid
State homes for disabled
A conference
liver and Harbor bill
Mr. Weaver
on
the } was sub-
the demand was refused, The report
Bills
were passed for the retirement of Gen-
erals William F. (Baldy) and A. J.
Smith, with the rank of Colonel, and
General W. W. Averill, with the rank
of Captain. An evening session was
held for the consideration of private
pension bills. Adjourned,
Blessings of Deafness,
sham fight
At a review and ght some
time after, 1 met
Iy told him of my recent affliction,
“Well.” he said, “I should think be-
ng dedf was rath advantage on a
if this sort.
i
er an
day £
But, although he sp
really are advantages and disadvanta-
ges in being deaf in one ear,
advantages are probably most disagree-
gbly felt at table, when you have to
turn a deaf ear to the one you specially
desire to be agreeable fo,
pens to be a lady, who has read your
last book or admired your last picture,
it is doubly disagreeable. There are
| two ways of getting over this; first yon
may screw your head round toward her
till the chin rests on the shoulder, but
this looks awkward: or you may turn
the back of your head towards her,
when singular to say, you can hear all
| she says, but this would look doubly
awkward, not to say ridiculous, An-
other disadvantage at table comes from
the inability a semi deaf person has of
locating sounds, Some one has said a
good thing, or some one from some part
ke in jest, there
| the life of you you, cannot tell which
way to look in replying. There is this
same disadvantage in the street. You
hear a carriage coming rapidly along,
{ quickly, but you must look both ways
| before you start; your one ear will not
| tell you its direction,
The advantages, however, are not to
| be despised. Not more than half that
| is said In this world is worth listening
{to. That is consolatory. You can
| turn a deaf ear to all lingual disagree-
| ableness, Even when induced to go to
| & lecture which turns out a delusion,
you can lean your hearing side on your
hand, and, while pretending to listen
| attentively, be alone in your own world
thinking your own thoughts, Dut per-
haps the chief advantage is this:
Wherever you are at night you can ob-
tain refreshing sleep. Dogs may bark,
doors may bang, cocks may crow, hoot.
ers howl, and railway engine drivers
whistle out the whites of their own
eyes, but they cannot annoy you. You
are lying on your side, deaf ear upper-
most, in dreamless, wholesome slum-
ber,
But again the half-deaf individual
has reason for thankfulness in remem-
bering that, as a rule, the same causes
that rendered him deaf in one ear
might have deprived him of the use of
th,
A, Pringle claims to have discovered
#1x new substances in some lower silua-
Going Over to the” Enemy;
Just Deserts,
ar, His
Leslie Warren left Margaret Went
worth that evening in a very troubled
state of mind. He bad been a play-
mate of her childhood and afterward,
had Yecome engaged to her, and every
one sald 1t would prove an excellent
mateh, but ne was beginning to ques.
tion himself if he really loved as he
should,
He was walking home In a very
thoughtful mood when a cry startled
him from his reverie. lL.ooking up he
saw that an oid man had fallen down
on the slippery road, and that a young
lady, evidently his daughter, was doing
her best to raise him up, Leslie hast
ened to their assistance and had the
pleasure of being thanked by the most
beautiful pair of eyes that he had ever
seen.
He found out that their name was
Dudley and that they were very poor,
and that they were Lrying to canycn
a lawsuit without any money.
Leslie Warren, under the spell of
Annice Dudley's eyes readily con.
sented to carry on the warfare through
the courts himself, and he was sur-
prised to know that Margaret Went.
| worth was the defendant
“There are some
name,”’ said Margaret t
Leslie called on her, “*who
bring sull againt me,
official notice, I don’t know
they have as lawyer, but
forearmed, you know."
Warren smiled, a ghastly
i smile, but his soul did not
Never had hs found it
i Not even his first maide
| #0 choked him as tl
“Margaret, [1 have an ¢
{10 make!”
“" by a
| have become
Dudieys,
neat, 1 pledged myself on the
a coming lawsu
word that I
{ against you. 1
Dudley by
time
are going wo
I have had no
whom
orewarned is
people,
next
80 |
i
eRe Tew
rather odd circus
acquainted wilh
lore
never
did not
{ cerned any one here.”’
“Put when you
said, with a gasp, *
plained ?®’
as]
{ friendiess,
knew,"
bod y «
Of COUIse 3
could not. They are }
I was their only bope,
{ think you can compromise, There are
g girl.”
cance, “‘*Lhere
have
{ & poor old man and a youn
“Oh,” with cold sign
118 84 young gir.
| over to the enemy?”’
| “If you choose to call it so.
| ised the poor child” ———
“That you would fight her batlle, as
| you promised a few weeks ago to do
| for me. Don’t you think, Mr, Leslie
! Warren, that you bave too Inany uop-
| protected females on your hands?”
‘A lawyer,” he faltered, ‘can have
more than one client, you know; only
in this case they happened to conflict.”
“It will be rather awkward however,
for you to fight your aflianced wife; so
| to avoid that complication we had bet-
ter put things back to where they were
a few weeks ago.”
She was slipping off the diamond
| solitaire as she spoke, and one lear, af
| bright as the dlamond, dropped upon
it. How she hated bersell for showing
her agonoy in thal way.
| Warren felt like a coward and 2
{knave., He tried to say something
tender, to expostulate, bul there was a
false ring in bis words,
“You are proud and unreasonable,
Margaret,”’ he said; “sou know why
1 took the case.”
“No, I do not know, but 1 can
guess, and 1own lama proud woman
| —t00 proud to put out a finger to keep
a beart not mine,’
“Well, if you will have iL 80,” he
| murmured, feeling that some strength
{and goodness and purily of purpose
nad gone out of his life forever,
The law-case did not last long, after
{all. Perhaps Margaret had lost heart
! in the matter, for there was a compro-
mise offered by the astute lawyer she
had engaged, The Dudleys accepled
{two bundred thousand dollars, and
she had still left wore than she could
| spend. warren felt a sort of stab to
| the heart, as he saw Ler her proud,
| pale face on the last day. He had
won, but she cared little for that. She
was looking at the fresh, eager face 80
pear him. She bad seen him talking
to Annice Dudley a few minutes be-
fore, and had recognized the love
| light in his eyes that had never shone
| for her. And yet how false he was,
“1 read the story aright,”’ she said
to herself, as she turned away. ‘Let
me tarn over a new page and have done
with it for ever.”
It was Summer now, and the glow
and glory of the season were at their
best. Bluebirds were jubilant over the
| golden day, and the sides of the road
| were flushed pink with wild roses.
| “How can we repay you?" Annioce
| was saying, as they walked away, “Of
course grandpapa Is able now, but
money cannot pay your kindness,’
“There is only one way 10 discharge
this debt,” Warren sald; *‘I% is a large
price to ask, bul’ ——
Annice felt that premonition which
{ warns the most unsophisticated of the
impending proposal, and there was a
sort of alarm in her eyes,
“Shy little darling!’’ thought Ware
ren, approvingly: ‘*how sweet to be
first in that innocent young heart! You
will be generous!” he said to Annice.
“You will give me what 1 ask—all
that 1 care for now in the world, all
that will make life worth living-—you
will give me yourself!”
Annice Gushed like a crimson rose,
“Oh, I am sorry,” she faltered; “I
never thought of you in that light, and
1-1 have been engaged to Philip Dad-
ley, my cousin, for a year."
Leslie Warren felt that the measure
he had meted to another was meted to
him again. There was a poetic justice
in the affair; but judicial as his mind
was he did not recognize it al the mo-
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