Beautiful Things Roantifal faces are those that wear “It matters little if dark or fair Whole souled honesty prioted there, Beaatiful eyes ure those that show, Like crystal panes, where heart-fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that bura below, Peautiful Hips are those whose words Leap from the heart like songs of birds, Yet whos: utterance prudence girds Beautiful bands are those that do Work that is earnest and brave and true, Moment by moment the long day through Beautiful feet are those that go Un kindly ministries to and fro-- Down lowiiest ways, If Goa will it so. Beautiful shoulders are those that bear Oenseless burdens of homely care, With patient grace and daily prayer Reautiful lives are those that bless Eilent rivers of happiness, Whos: hidden fountains few may gness HER DIAMONDS, “You know, dear, we are not the least bit in love with each other,’”? Lucy Bassett said, reaching up whiskers and laying a coaxing against my shoulder, foolish for you and me to fall in love with each other, and just won't there !”’ we And to emphasize the declaration, the | softest little fingers in the world still twisted in my whiskers, pulled my {ace down to a level with hers, and tbis bit love girl, who was not the least in with me, kissed me, There’ of kissin and li $ a greal many differe ways g, you know. There cold »$ that glide past lips yw than s half June morning. lips, ACH like ghosts, and that you would kisses fi opened re ee rather have a bl but Lucy's kisses wer: s at 3 o'clock of a srself was a whole garden roses—dew, col Wi your whole heart was ex eyes ; and when she it did not matter what sort and lightning wr, prance 1en she looked at you, vou felt as halling at you miled upon of thunder there was y other distill don’t she teristics, i 1d better the longer you keep it part of the globe, it was 1 shine Ww here You were. 1 Lucy were pretty, but of pretty charac ¥ 3 or = ul like a ) wine that uality, , and that gets a new flavor every time you taste it a more molten sparkle every time it drips over the beaker's rim. I'he beauty of her eyes was in their expression ; of her hair, in its bright her of her fingers fluttered across your horizon ness, Here face blossom, was the hands birds, and if white wings you might as well be blind for all seeing anything else but her. In short, you see I was in love with Lucy if Lucy was not in love with me ; and it is my { not mistaken she I man when she se spark from Lucey sfroguishness lit on me | with me when she had promised him, and we went off into explosions of laug- | ter that nearly took Mrs Anstruther off her feet she laughed too, presently, and in the with amazement. same breath announced that company was coming to the Grove the following week. “Shall 1 go, Mrs, Anstruther 7" I ask ed. "I am sufficiently recovered, I] think." “Certainly not,” ly. be and it might be as she answered, sharp- made any worse by well, an opportunity your staying : besides, Lucey to have for com- paring you with other people, es him.’ S10 1 don't aunt, it won't be the funlt of Felix bere,” spoke Lud and y, coming swiftly besides me pinching my | arm. | very well to pull my cheek | It would be very | | know what this n | Mrs. being | i they have private | opinion that we were very much in love | | you, Mrs. truther’s parting admonition, that with each other, in spite of Ans were on no account to commit so al a blunder. Lucy and | were both orphans, was own niece to Mrs. Anstruther, whom she called Aunt Doria, and whos pros provided she married to please her I was nephew to Mrs, husband who was dead, pothing but my wits—a rather slender property, Lucy derisively assured me, and scarcely likely to yield an income equal to the probable demands of a pair so extravagantly inclined as we. “So you see it would never, never do,’ Lucy would say, with a roguish pout of | | due time Aunt Doria | her rosy lips at me ; and Ansthuther’s | we urd | to how it was likely to turn with Lucy | was a mere question of | Should pective heiress she was supposed to be | loved me in the face of Mrs. Anstruther | anything about your diamor.ds 7" or | 4 : | should I generously leave her to forget snd heir to | “Tala, Miss ! : but wait till next I shall, longer,” Lucy answered saucily, “Miss Lucy B I Impertinence, week.” “1 persume and considerably like deman asset, | should to CANS Anstruther, loftil “Nothing laughed Lucy.‘ 801 i very We ure to y well warned: aunty, dear.” “I don't know about that,’ Anstruther, Bil sailing from the and artment hall room in very evident passion, sending for me to her ap vn hour after [ submitted to the curious tirade that with ieast times in the « Lrrove thal ver ther wou ing. Fails in 1 ry preily rospects n N ehand Mil Bee DECAL Be yn what r } likely 10 be. i gort of an ex a the erienc would be ut men idiots when a pretty girl is concerned p and I was » gr leal more | owne too, with my with Lucy than I spo led my Own ress, ng to own more conceited than woman, ceit. Iam that men but 1% IRR will are more to them 1 } #0 much so. Why, only think of one w Lucy Bassett making ‘‘sweet eyes’ at I am willing to at this dey, that I bad not at that t wn, ime one Lucy and me if I oq stayed. My g self-abnegation l slay and win the girl threats of poverty and starvation, me as fast as she could, and bestow her | | matchlessness upon some prince of the { relish needn't be one bit afraid, so far as | am | concerned.” Aunt Doria had been absent for the Grove some three weeks now summoned away by the illness of a friend, just as | had got myself comfortable bestowed in her best chamber, with dislocated shoulder, which injury had been receiv ed in a struggle with a refactory steed which had tried to run Lucy. Mrs. away with Miss Anstruther was warranted in | some single ; | creatures enough | to be ranked above the “ | cut and a trifle seedy, hay | alternately as every day gear and : considering the incident as dangerously | romantic in its tendencies, and she left us together at the Grove with manifest reluctance, She had, however, great confidence in Lucy, and she gave her distinetly to understand, in my presence | that if we two ourselves as to turn lovers while she was gone, we would never see the color of her money, either of us, Well, for some days I, for one, felt like little else but groaning, and then gradually I became conscious of a vel: vet touch that swallowed pain, of a hoy" ering face that might have been an angel's of a voice deliciously attuned that chorused all sorts of soothing and coaxing speeches, with a “dear.” | was petted and babied and pitied to an ex tent that I don't mind confessing here. and It was the means of my pretending sick a trifle longer than was really tiecessary, but I don’t think many would have blaimed me, under the circum: stances, The consequences was that | was only fairly established down stairs when Mrs, Anstruther returned, She eyed Lucy and me very sharpely, and we two bore the inspection with great demureness, till, chancing to encounter glances, a | ! i i crew that were coming to the Grove that week ? I was not ge bein g lor Anstr n, and I stayed ipa a ious old of them, Mrs, ny cal 100 some married, pretty gentleman gentlemen and ladies ; the young ladies, and the good talkers and well dressed I understood of the first day meant by her She meant me what Mrs. tale shout Anstruther gentlemen, n who owned their right plebs’’ tailor, My best coat was of last years ing done duty Sun day toggery. My boots were neither | patent leathes nor morocco, and my | unmentionables, though as well kept as the circumstances, had quite lost that beauti ful shapeliness of limb whichjcharacteri. could possibly be expected under made such nionies of | zed those of Mrs, Anstruther's guests, In vain I kept repeating to myself, “A man's a man, for a’ that" and “dress doesn’t make the roan.” 1 was humil intingly sure that I wasa't half a because of my seedy garb, Mes, Anstruther watched me and felt rejoiced at my discomfiture, what she could see of it. Out of sheer revenge | devoted myself to Lucy. Becure in Lucy's fondness for me I took airs upon myself, and for overy soocer I imagined flung at my clothes I managed to make Lucy snub the snecrer. I don't know how it was; I think I had taken a little toe much wine that evening, and their was a Count Leopold Keirst who was especially effected by Mes. Anstruther for Lucy and who was nothing loath himself. The man was the merest dandy, empty headed ns a rattle-box, positively nothing but clothes and title ; but because I hated him for daring to aspire to Lucy I insisted upon her openly insulting him by dancing man, However, | | and they had even got their places upon the floor, jealousy, envy and wine, and 1 saw Mrs. Anstruthih, shaking her hecd at from a insisted that instead | supposes I was mad with Lucy Luey of the Count, and she refused, of course, corner. | should dunce with me Half an hour afterward, carpet-bag in I had lefe the by | morning wis miles on my journey city. { hand, house, and | ward, “Whatever mischief is done can’t | If] am | will know a gentle- | Felix, is | more a man than at that moment, | LO A swooning CODFCIOUS ND BRS, led | | Mrs. | { a next week's | are {to endurance vile, even jor stealing a then | oman like | misgiving as | ing or staying | # ! who | e In long before the passage ] to their | for | What an idot | had made of myself. I had recovered my that H ru HETI408 by time, and was isiently conscious Whatever conceit was left in me then was taken out before the day wasdone, As I got off the cars at noon a strange his hand on my ested for struthers diamonds, shoulder, Mi She had telegraph bad man put I was ar stealing 0 «1 to have it done snd Lucy not hindered her It was odd, but 1 never felt myself] that terrible finger of the The { such of 1 disgrace was like surgeons lancet | xt d 3 to the By noon of the ne Mrs. An | | A Aw. 3 { struther herself came city to me | | n my} n cell, | he woman was posilively wild about | her diamonds, “Oh give them back to me Felix, and | I've got | iatter and I won't prosecute the thing. money enough to hush the nn t | will: and I'll set you up in business be ® iI AID AW er one debt whicn or oo repay mean mounds, back my d { have her.,’ “Madam values he Irious price them in the What good “Do you mean to keep face of everything! will they do you now?” “Madam forgets that there is a a | mounds, Many a man has toiled | and harder for a fortune like that.” Mrs. Anstruther thought earnest, longer I was in Her face whitened and trembled with agitation, | “Well, she I shall sho then Felix,” said if | : {are 30 hard as that | the law. you leave you to I should have liked to save the | diamonde, and avoid the disgrace to the | family, but you will not permit me.” ‘Mrs. Anstruther, i \ detaining hand on her arm as she said I, putting » was | going, “do you honestly believe 1 know She stopped and looked at me in odd | perplexity. “Who else could?’ “When did you first mies | Anstruther?” “In the morn “When did vou that?” “I always look for them before I sleep. I did #0 that night.” “And you did not retire, Mrs them, g after vou went away. before ~ & them | of Course, till after your guests, Did they stoj | dancing any before 12 | “I don't know about that, but it bed, | be fore was after 2 o'clock before { got 0 | remember noticing it was as that I had her my room and talked to her pretty plainly I sent Lucy away. in ut you. ip } | the night express due at the Grove?" “Oh at one o'clock you know" She came to a sudden stop, her face turned red and white in a minute. | “What a horrible wretch [ am !” eried she, covering her face with her hands, and then holding them out to me. “Why, you must have beon miles away before 1 told Lucy good night, Felix | am ashamed of myself. Can you ever forgive me 7" ab f ray, Mra, Anstruther, what time “Its of no consequence, madam,’ | seid, frigidly. “Indeed it is, but I will make it up to you, You shall see that | will, Felix. 1 was duly restored to honorable ar again, and went back to Grove with Mrs, Anstruther on the first train thereafter, But | had not forgotten her. Wo bad arranged that a detective should go down to the Grove on the same train with us, though not in com. pany, to avuid suspicion, Mra, Anstruther looked grave and anxious during all that homeward ride, She was thinking of her diamonds, and I almost believed she would have been willing that the family should have been disgraced by my stealing them for the sake of finding them again, ; We reached the Grove at dark, and when the 1 o'clock express came from | opportunity { that was cold und stern | his countenance, | s0 and passed noiscle {the spi 8 | idly through the other i Limit | ¢ the detective | made his apperance, pretending to be | the opposite direction a new guest, had | har Lucy met me like a woman, | not asked Mos, Anstruther shout and whatever her lovely, speaking face i if I had it | itelf, enid nothing now but what my own did, and | might have sd to me, to given express it as | could make it. break (nxt guest edd tou We were when Mrs. down mostly at Anstruther’'s new came | and was introdu UE 14 { Clemens, An instantaneous chanze fl whied over a swile momentary * | pallor that left his very lips white, He again looked in his direct sat near the door, and when ion, after Clemens had taken his | vanished, ble Anstruther, | quitted theroom sly up to the count s | reached it Making a scarcely aud excuse Mr Mrs, the corpey led But before heard the door open, and stairway which apartment dr wing back { a step, heard him pa along to the ypposite extremity of the hall, ind of lowed and looke« caught the retreating footsteps 1 fol i through the blind af | ter him. But was that the Count Leopold! Scarcely, about hir then, though there was something n oddly like the « and I kne¢ so he mnt In & moment, of the w sg te d iSgu "nis donned id fr the hail and crammed ag was dr g me towatd BERN [here had hardly time t did reach it -W - Nr. Was a tran t sauntered entering ul | man was at | that instant at the ticket office, le hand With be | t | : * 4 } | wheeled ss Clemens put his on | him and flashed out revolver, | & wrench that left hi wisted the arm helpless, wea and then the won irom bim, bad | in a very brief time he hand cutls on him, Clemens knew him the The Keirst was an old offender, no more a | he | instant fairly saw him. Count whom ting neatly * p count than Clemens himself, had recognized first, that made escape but for the chance which and prob recogaition would have sel me on his track. We found Mrs. on him, unset and sewed fast A be It An and in Mrs, 1 the story he had buckled around him struther, when she hea: beheld its proof in the of return glittering treasures, rewarded me my share in her good fortune with a single sentence: “No one knew of my absurd suspicion of you, Felix Lucy's sweet face was very pale when she n g! but did not quit her aunt's side, not even Lucy.” wet my flashing ances, she | “Can Lucy forgive me what has been amiss in me toward her 7” | asked, sad ly. “Let us at least be friends—dear.” She flushed at the words, lift her eyes, “Ta-ta," said Mrs. Anstruther, cious indeed I shall divide between you; but did not “fri my money and Felix may go into business with his share any day he likes You'll be glad enough to make up with him miss.” Whereat Lucy began ‘z= ory, before | elipped out of the room her aunt could stop her. 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