PLAY BY IAM GILL ETTE; COPYRIGHT SYNOPSIS. Mrs rney, ife general, has lost one son and dying fr ) is. She rel her conser 0 ilfred, the Join the my if his federals making in an ef ptr Yarney sed from Pr commission orne, of a Confederate tantly gives youngest father consents their last ¥ hmond nt Davi who Is eslde recovering telegraph tells Edith Bhe declares and tells him of the comn fon from the presi- dent He Is ivy agitated and clares he cannd CHAPTER IV. Miss Mitford's Intervention. The captain stared after her depart ing figure: he listened to her footfalls on the stair, and then came to in- stant resolution He would take ad- vantage of her opportune withdrawal He turned back to the table, seized his hat, and started for the door, only to come face to face with another charm ing young woman, who stood breath less before him to his great and ili-con- cealed annoyance. Yet the newcomer was pretty enough and young enough and sweet enough to give any man for the sheer pleasure of look- her, to say nothing of speaking an pause ing at to her. The resources of an ancient ward- robe, that looked as though it had be- longed to her great-grandmother, had been called upon for a costume which was quaint and old-fashioned and alto- gether lovely. She was evidently much younger than Edith Varney, perhaps just sixteen, Wilfred's age. With out- stretched arms barred the completely, and of came to an abrupt stop “Oh, good evening,” soon as she found without across the she door Thorne, course, she pante speech; she stopping from her gireet Miss Mitford." to one side to calculation position at Good evening, answered, her pass, chance she door “How let or the steppin but through kept her '" ghe continued I wanted to then I'll tell I am all from this is person and Goodness me : lucky “You are the very Let's sit down you all about it out of breath just our house.” Thorne did but stood looking at her. came to him Miss Mitford,” ping toward her, thing for me?” “Of course I will.” “Thank you very tell Miss Varney she down~ say good night for me tell her that I' ne.” “1 wouldn't do such a thing for the wide, wide world” aroline Mitford in pretended astonishment Why not?” “It would be a story, because you “l am sOrTy said Thorne, Good night, Miss he who was as light on her feet as a fairy, caught him by arm. “No don’ to un derstan d I've got something to say “Yes, 1 know,” sald Thor some other time.” “No, now." Of course, he could have freed him self by the of a little but such a thing was not to be thought of Fverything conspired to keep him when his duty called him away, he thought quickly. “There isn't any other time,” said Caroline, “it is tonight. We are going to have a Starvation party.” “Good heavens!” exclaimed Thorne; “another!” “Yes we are.” “1 can’t see how It concerns me” “It i8 going to be over at our house, and we expect you in half an hour.” “1 shouldn't think you would want to play at this time.” “We are not going to play. We are going to make bandages and sandbags and" “You won't need me. Ree running over invita An idea not accept her tion, he said at last, step ‘wiil you do some much, inde when ed. Just comes just and ve go returned | Be dreadful gone.” you look at it that way,’ because | Mitford.” could wicked, wouldn't be am EOling But before leave the the girl, room the you { seem uge force, "" to—"" “Thank you, Miss Mitford, 1 can't come. I have my orders and I am leaving tonight.” “Now, that won't do at all,” said the girl, pouting. “You went to Mamie Jones” party; I don't see why %You should treat me like this” i “Mamie Jones!” said Thorne was last Thursday, and have got orders, I tell you, and" But Caroline was not to be put off. “Now, ," she sald vehemently “Yes, | see that.” ¢Didn’'t you promise to obey orders when | gave them? Well, “Why, “Another set “l1 don’t others. “Well, “This J laughed Thorne, know anything about I'hese are mine.” but this time—" time {8 just the worse same as : besides I only “What's that?" *“l say she expects you, “Who expects me?" “Why, Edith, suppose | was time 7" “Oh, she that's all.” of course; talking about vho do you all this expects me to- “Why, of course, she to take her over. you don't want to. Now I tell her you are waiting.’ “Oh, very ing; “if she over I will stay a moment “Well,” sald C you come does will go and well” Thorne, take of course, but 1 can't said expects me smil to her do so, aroline, “I would to or another tain, was she “Well, how “What “Dress “Oh, two.” your senses some See here, Mr. C "ost ready 7" do 1 know.” ar eds did she have time ap oy BE on you men! Why, she's only got “Yes; very lkely, this one of them, Miss Mitford.’ “No matter, | see anyway well, am Captain there on the A Or. Yleasanter (if were to smoke a cigar out in the merhouse at the is lovely and" “1 know, bu I “Those outside, going upstairs Thorne, verand fo you can per You sum wait out haps, it would be yf th side he there in the me onlight, ght here wall ris are my orders it's cooler you know, anyway, and “Pardon me, Miss Mitford, have to be explained, iterrupted the captain, girl take back as Thorne “and, orders never you know,” smil ing at charming “That’ ri * 3 planatio tha ex said toward cried the captain,” lighted the his tepped anto porch, darkness of the ‘aroling to herself, "he She Barred the Door Completely. If Wilfred were only like that!” she pouted. “But then-—our en gagement's broken off anyway, what's the difference. If he were like that--1'd No--1 don't think I'd" Her soliloquy was broken by the en trance of Mrs. Varney, who came slow ly down the room. “Why, Caroline dear! What are you all to yourself?” “O-just—1 was just saying, know- I was rain?” gion “Dear me, about it you she returned in great confu- child; 1 haven't thought Why, what have you got on? and in Rich mond?” “A new dress? Well, I should think 80. These are my great-grandmoth- er's mother's wedding clothes, Aren't they lovely? Just in the nick of time, too. 1 was on my very last rags, or, rather, they were on me, and 1 didn't know what to do. Mother gave me a key and told me to open an old horse hair trunk in the attic, and these were in it.” She seized the corners of her ward to show the older it off, and then dropped woman an elaborate, old fashioned courtesy “I ran over to show them to Edith,” she resumed “Where is she? 1 want her to to my house.” “Upstairs, 1 think. can't come. 1 have just Mrs. Varney Caroline started to interrupt, means to stay here.” “1 will see about that” said C running out of the room. come come continued “and she aro me, They're the snes that propose, | don't. How can | help 1t7” “Oh,” sald Wilfred loftily, help it all right. You helped it me." “Well,” she answered, with a queer look at him, “that was different.” “And ever since you threw " he began “1 didn't went over,” you can with me over throw she interrupted. “1 went over because you walked off with Major Sillsby that night we were Drury’'s Bluff,” sald the boy, "and You as the girl nodded you over, you just he sald, her desk from easy task was back which was write a letter, evi her sighs, In a short the again. Mrs. Varney up from writing and smiled at “You see it wds no she began “No use” to not time her, use, Care laughed the “well will see, 1 didn’t try or argue with her I that Captain Thorne her in the summerhouse continued, as Mrs. Varney astonishment; “he is still he would take her watch which dress she has comes down. Now | out there and tell him she'll in a minute, I mors ible getting people fixed so that can me to than it take every Eiri her told just was walling Yes’ looked here over for she her sald just when she gO be down have tron co my party to run a blockade fifteen minutes.” looked at her ing figure pleasantly and then, with a her writing, but to conclude her into Ba Mrs depart moment, Varney for a resumed y deep sigh, } she evidently was not letter without further had be fred came yersy for hs Wi a busdle brown scarcely when nto the y ' loosely done As with up in he mother 2 88 paper glanced toward him violent effort to conceal it you got there incur notl “What have she aske “That? ously ing it is wr Oh, say, mother have ftten YOu Hrs “No, my dear, I have trying to + down, 1 n after fath her's office and kered up the ’ me to there.” Bhe gat her raed leave room letter and t to hard for s added vidomily | m as she went uch ther's s dep arture ARE rom und table, and began from it a p dated, gray lifted them up when he er his coat, tO un i et very soiled, dilapl He had heard the Wo i air of iform (rouse Caroline's step on the porch, and nt ashe momen Bi came the long French into the 1 through window i stood astonishment tddon and idden and frod petrified with unexpected } beloved appear YOURE i, but soon 1 began rolling again, hastily ile Caroline red iimsel Al package together awkwardly, wh the his and watched him from vindow coldly serutinized nfusion : ungainly His the door, she broke he made roll, and moved toward atlenc Ah, said coolly Good evening,” he as cold as her own They both of them had door and in would have met said Caroline good Mr. Varne vy ghe evening said, his voice started for the hall An they “Fixcuse me.” Tm in a hurry “That's plain ty, I suppose, and dancing.” “What of it? Whats the matter with dancing, I'd like to know." is the want to, but | enough. Another par “Nothing if you is a p cannon re must say that it way of going on, with aring not six miles Well, what do you want about it! 1 have cvded already : good now, wouldn't it?” ‘Oh, 1 haven't time petty details. 1 have matters to attend toftily. “It was you that started it, retty away.” do? eyes us to Cry my out talk BOmee to.” fo im he re ve paid the his man its badly assumed Wilfred turned suddenly, ner at once losing “Oh, you needn't try to fool me,” he “1 know well enough “Of course n't him hanging only I did. 1 dic want around forever, did 17 way to finish them off, What want do—eiring a pla saying, ‘No pro seived here, Apply at the of fice?” Would that you any bet ter? Well,” she continued, the boy his shoulders, “if it doesn” difference to y¢ what 1 do, it doesn't even make as much as that you to card around me my neck, please as a “Oh, It I think it does You looked as if you enjoyed well while the Third Virginia the city.” *1 shoul eestatic wily doesn't? I did.” love said Caroline d think ny 4 every one “Cut Those Of," He Said o fight for us ve them one of t} id have with il be those 811 1 . ur ’ iniform airy It will tell ifform, | anyone be can you Now | pee hat it as.” sald Wil looking at her gloomily I had is in The boy ain 1ille Ca ren in street that didn’t ngaged to what it i on Frankl she was « Just ike «+ N 3 : suffered; besid gome one . # ¢ je front think that! Was nave no it is our There arent can do, but one of Morgan to be out of it You wa how | jes, to help all we can things a girl Colonel ige many Woolbr he's sald that the boys : ) have 2 couldn't % % YOu Know fight twice as well swoeth an i in when they eart at home waste engagemant "And 3 re pose y =} jet ail them youth t ee fe pr oO 3 rejoined the b b tterl ¥ hurt and it never and it “Certainly, it didn't Most of ‘em iry it again to help all We can lly want to help all you * asked Wilfred desperate if I ware join the army you help me—that way? direct question would, me, pleased them will back our duty “And can, do you? iy Well, would This was a “Why, of was anything I swered “Well, He the come to 8 you rea fo if there she an course | could do.’ there is something you can unrolled his package and trousers by the waistband them before her eves off,” he said; “they are All you have to do is to cut them here and sew up the ends, they don’t ravel out.” Caroline stared at him in great seized “Cut those be She had expected some “Why, they are uniform trousers,” You are going to join She clapped her hands “Give them to me.” don't talk so loud, " sald Wilfred. oe “Hush! heaven's take, for “I've He drew out dozen for all I know’ “What difference does it make?” she retorted pertly. “1 haven't got to marry them all, have 17” “Well, 1t isn’t very like that,” sald Wilfred with an air | into which he in vain sought to infuse a detached, judicial, and indifferent appearance. “Proposals by the whole salatl” "Goodness me!” exclaimed Caroline, “what's the use of talking about it to | i i {l private soldier's coat. “It's nearly a fit. It came from the hospital. Johnny Seldon wore it, but he won't want it any more, you know, and he was just only his legs were longer. Well,” he continued, as the $n continued to look at him strange “1 thought you said you wanted to Belo me.’ “1 certainly do.” “What are you waiting for, then?" asked Wilfred. The girl took the trousers and dropped on her knees before him. {TO BE CONTINUED) ADVISED TAKING OF CANADA ish Government Resulted in Cap ture of the Dominion. Benjaméa Franklin, the first Ameri: can philosopher and the first Ameri ean diplomat, was not, as Mark Twain averred, “twins, born simultaneously at Beston and Philadelphia” but as the change in the calendar from oll stevie to new camo after his birth at ae ing to the reformed almana: he was born on January 17. In 1769 Franklin was in England as agent for the colony of Pennsylvania. Previous to this, though little known, it was main ly by the advice of Franklin that the English government resolved to con quer Canada, and for that purpose sent out Wolfe's expedition. 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