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IAM GILL ETTE;
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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
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English government resolved to con
quer Canada, and for that purpose
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nections draw me eleawhere, 1 believe
Scotland would be the country |
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Our lives are truly at an end when
we are loved no longer.—Landor,
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