A BREAKFAST DISH. “And it the most beautiful stove that I ever saw in a finger Ting. | None of those paltry things you cant wear (ill ear dle light on account of the yellow there is in them Bo white was ®o clear so brilliant, pellucid as a wa: ter drop ard sparkling as a star | It was all but big enough. too, to have a name of its own, like those that the royal diamonds bave—'Star of the Four Points of the Compass,’ ‘Light the World to Come,’ ‘Glory of the Middle of the Earth, ‘Mother of the Moov.” Why under the sun,” eried Mrs. Torrance, the pretty creature in a bewitching gown, pouring coffee for b® husband, the ljgtle butler hav jog been dismissed by Mr. Torrance —in fear of the wrath to come, per- baps-~“shouldent our diamonds have pa nes as well as those of kings and queens, and—" “Yours ought to have one,” hor busbaud, qujetly. “It would suitable to call it now; it is in the vo- said be eative you know.” “Well I must eay I don’t helieve any man was 0 undisturbed by the lo:s of such a thing as that. Archi- bald, that stone was worth $1,000, “Really I ought to be aware of the fact, dear if any one You have offered to sell it and procured the sum fo: time I been bard up since we married. if I have Mildred for this theft, as you suggested, will another thousand before we are done | is. i my necessities every have Ard arrested it cost | with it; for she innocent, and then a libel vik would | b> the next thi Sa neh. pr ye will certainly be proved | ng in order. Mildred can’t be How can be when Kocw she took it? And there to take And Torrence paused with suspended } nnocent, she was no one else Hg Mrs, cap. her great wondering eyes search. ing space y Tor a reply. If ever toing lay in a straight line it is the she con: any- evidence against that girl,” tinued. “The other day the ring fell on the floor, she was in the | room and she asked me what a stone like that was worth, then gave such a sigh that I when and suppose | you thiok its wrong for me to $1,000 o Aud she ‘I wasn’t thinkiog of g I ouly thinking of that £1,000 can do a great of good. The Well,’ I said, it does a great deal good—iu looking said I Wear n my finger? said: the rin was minx ! of | pretty on my band. there,’ deal ‘Indeed it does look beautiful she said—she is very particular about her adverbs : I wish she was about her chatechism—‘but a good deed | beautiful | Just Are you | done by a hand is its most thinking.’ mistress ! Why, I've only jewel, to my hear that! To through? gun.” “8he is quite 8 missionary,” Mr. Torravce, picking vp his paper “And the worat of it ie, she is right.” “Now Archibald, don’t for mercy's | sake, go to reading,” said bis wife. | “I do thiok the morning pews might wait for once. Its nothing but dyna- | miters blowing up the Brittish Fmpire her Just be. said and Arabs making mummies of the | British army—all abstractions; but | my ring is something positive, tangi- ble here at hand. “I with it were,” said Mr. Torrance. “And then I could be allowed Bat here he glanced at the lovely ereatare opposite, with her reproach. fal brown eyes in which stood two tears as large as the diamond she had lost, her color going and comming with her breath, as you might say, and the rose-colored ribbons of her morning cap all a flutter with her earnestness, he folded his paper aud sid . We!l my dear?” “Well, my dear!” mimicked Mrs, Torrance, in derision. “I should my its aoythiog but well when a wan hears of a rervant insulting—actoally i asalting— his wife, and says she is in the right.” “Now Jamet, 1 will submit it to your own judgement if that's a fair interpretation.” “You necdn’t do anything of the sort. It ian’t fair 10 suppose I have sny judgement, if what I say concern. ing Mildred— perfectly ridiculous cog- nomen, Who ever heard Mildred for a seriants name “W hy not Mildrid 1” “Why not Gwendolive then, Fredegonde, or Thusoeide 7 How wou'd it scem Lo be telling Glayds 1 brash the dust off my shoes.” An Mildred i" Just as bad, If I had my ow ling a | be Cause | cried Mrs. T | feet, | the table | we uld, if | “What do pic king and | Torrance, way, all the cooks should be Norast and all the second girls Ellans, if they came from Evogland, then they aud | should be Elizas and Mary Anns, and lit wouldn't sound as if you were tak with your superiors is just plain been Roa liberty when your own name Jane, 1 ought to have mond myself, you know,” said Mrs. Ti twinkling the grounds in her cup, “or Katherine, or Eloise, or something. But sure I have trouble enough with these people without being troubled with their names. And I don’t believe her name is Mildred anyway. I believe its just plain Martha, and she took the Mildred. Ifshe took my dia- mond, she wouldn't stop to taking a pame. Or may be it was just Milly— acd here Mrs. Torrance paused, not for breath, but in amazement to see her husband's eyes twinkle, and he himself lie back in his chair as he pushed his plate away with, a laugh he could repress no longer. If she took your diamond. Well my darling I am glad you have arriv- ed at the diamond once more. I be. gan to think it bad been lost again. But don’t tell me about the inconse- Its work- ings are labyrinthine, but the thought rance, absently, I am quence sf a woman's mind. always comes out at the place it went | Now, CAD, let us be businese-like, What makes you | in, we Janet, thivk this pretty Mildred of ours took | the dismond ?” “Pretty Mildred? because she is preity,” looking like Well, perhaps rance, a satirical spar- row. “Not at all impossible,” said her ' husband gravely. “You don't mean to imply that I | would denocuuce a person as a thief r Up said she was IITANCE, you pretty ? “I've as good a mind to leave 10 eat, I cakes had As ever I had the i J buckwheat come up. “My dear child!” “You treat me exactly as if] were a child,” pretty or not? Being pretty, appar- ently, doesn’t keep her hands from I koow she ls just as well stealing. stole my diamone had seen her do it.” “But what would she do with it?” “What a question! As ifthatsort of person didn’t know where to dis- pose of thinge easily and take care of Patrics is never going to send those cakes up the proceeds! I wonder if “How in the world did yon cook come to be called Patricia 7” said Mrs, Tor. | { what a heavenly fashion l means of all rising to her | MEADS 0 #nys he can make ber voice a fortune to her. And they bave been dread- fully cast down becuuss they couldn't do it. diamond comes And now you see where the in. If she cen get for that stone anything near its value her sister Mable can take her lessons. And her voice is delicious—just per- fectly delicious !” exclaimed Mrs. Tor- rance, forgetting the diamond again ; “Mildred had her come here and sing to me. And I can’t describe it to you I never heard a lark or a nightiogale but » bobelink isn't a whistle to it. A flute, a rumpet——well, it was sweet and satisfying and penetrating as the oder of some flower, and yet soft ae the velvet side of the petals of the flower. Angels would sing so maybe, if there are any. I forgot all about her sister being my maid, 1 crid and I laughed, and I felt asif I had tound her. And now I will solemnly tell you, Archy dear—" and she bent across the pretty china service, trans- fixed him with her radient eyes— “I looked ut my ring, and I turned it and turned it, and I said to myself I have had the good of it ever since Grandfather DePeyster gave it to me and everybody knew I had it, acd my | position was preity well established | diamond rings are not, and when you | [4 were able to afford a real grown up | if | butler ;you would probably get me | | earth in that first mystery | plenty ; and if I sold it now, and gave} this poor girl the money to secure | career, what a blsseing it would be to her, and what a joy 1 would be giving | to the world in her, too; she wouldn't be confined to a church choir in that case, and if she were, in could those tones of hers swim out over a prayer- ful audience, and jost take the prayer | on their silvery strength, and lead it body the producing more of them, and py, up; and any who is ‘so bring down the price of prime dou. would speak to you, and it : 5 | proved, as I knew you would, I would cried the outraged wife. | I care whether my maid is | | Veasey to know any na in the market, is a public benefac. tor, to be just on the point of saying that I sure, anyway; and | was you ap have 81 000 or thereabouts for them Mrs. as | to day, when Veasey happened in, and so, didn't want Mrs. "and be taking the wind all of my sails as if I 'eried Mrs. with renewed vigor. I just told Mable to come again to J 3 day and I would have something fur. | And so 1 shall!” taking breath “I shall bave to ther to ay 1O he r Torrance, ' tell her that her sister has been arre-t ed for a theif. and she sing to her I'll tell ber, nay KO 8 in prison, That's what the wicked, ungrateful girl!” “I called her so myself when she | came. Her own name is Hannah, a my ears all the time. tall and justifies Don’t you think so?” “All right, erect she Patricia said Mr. Torrance, | thinking best to make no referencety be 80 unfeeling,” | combination of sounds I utterly detest | | . " . ' me and wasn't going to Lave it ringing in Aud she is so | wife's troubles. “Which 7" said Mr “I don't know bow anybody can his really seems as if you were Torrsnce, cried wife; it more im- terested in the troubles of two beg: | garly girls base end ugh to rob your Both! Jut robbery is a very harsh term darling, carelessness Janet, where : . may be the whole thing. y ’ : | the Noras of a few minutes since “But we were speaking of Mildred.” “I did think very well of Mildred I will con _ #, before this,” said Mrs. with judicial calmness. | “She is educating her sister, who has a voice—such a voice—for a church "singer, then she will have a salary that will be wealth to them, and give some lessons besides. And she was wrapped up in ber. And I took all interest in them myself, and gave her a silk dress to make over and got a new cloak that I really didn't need so as to give her my old one (and I saw she had the good taste to take off some of the trimmings) and lots of my old music. And out of her ows wages Mildred bas to hire a room and a piano and pay for her lessons, some- body gives ber her board till she can pay the debt, and it takes every ceat Mildred earns; sod you see, it is quite natural that she should look about her to find where she can turn a penpy——" “An honest penny.” said Mr. Tor- rance. “A girl that is doing that for another is not one that would be like- ly to turn any other sort of & penny.” “How you do love to interrupt me, Mr. Torrance! It really seems as if you couldn't bear the sound of my voice! T was going on to say, before you took the words out of my mouth, that recently this sister of hers has been advised to take lessons of anoths r master, who asks all creation, but t1eally worth it. And he mays he » | “There it is again. not their dishonesty, My carelessness | When 1 was the stone gone.” “And bow many times have I told you that ghe careless habit of washing your hands with your ring on wears off infinitesimal fractions of the gold till the stones are loosened in the set ting, and drop out without you being aware of it?” “You are always so wise after the act! How do you know I wasn't go- ing to take my ring off! Youare so ready to find me at fault! But 1 thought at first the stone must have washed out—"' “So it seems you did wash your haods with the rings on!” maid the turning worm. “You I did. There! Avd [ sent for the plumber immediately, for I koew if it had washed out it must have caught in the first trap; and he took up the pipe, but it wasn't there And be said if he made a real job of it, and went dows to the main some. thing, he might find it there; but 1 thought that would cost more than the diamond itself." “Wise woman groaned,” Mr, Tor rance, “And no, you see, I didn't accuse Mildred in the first place. I searched and took every precavtion. Ididn't think of such a thing till I saw he standing there turning more color, than the lady in the lobster" “You have ace used her 77 “Well what if I have? | lose my diamond that my dear grand. father gave me when | was married, don’t say that you really endure little My feelings are of no consequence at all and that I treasured so, and it all io silence, for fear husay's feelings will BOMe be hurt. It isn’t to be reckoned to my occount that I was ready to give her the dia mond I don't think there's anything so beautiful in the world, There's no one thing that holds so much inso little; I don’t mean money or money value. aud I love diamonds, other It is the concrete essence of sunshine —really, materially. Once that identi- cal stone of mine, ages before man was made, was nothing but a flood of it # sunshiuve, married to the wet air as reached one spot of the earth, and wonderful tree sprang from that mar- riage and flourished and flowered and fell a great strong marvel of growth that belongs to those past cons when earth itself was but half crystalized out of its gases, snd that grows now wowhers. For they can’t fiod wuy substduce now that can quite produce it. And that my by slow concentration. Or els, made diamond — even { of the simplest chemi You take my breath away. thing about it + | your voice, and—and-—ob, : went | to the washstand I turned the ring on '| my finger again, and there if it is not that, it is the very com pre gion of that ancient irpre al. most all carbon, which hung over the of | And ata itis of the purest * 1 physical perfection known to-day, and any rate, al composition 1" for, of course | 8 “My love how much yon know It to me wickeder to have len slo diamond than to steal the Koh “It is: the Bib talked to King David about the 1-NoOr le saves so. Nathan ewe lamb. And that was all the diamond I bad. It would { really if your head clerk had seem 80 Oo ov stolen it, or anybody had stolen ty Mildred.” “Bat, Janet, v it but this pret. AJ 0 ary Always » pos itive,” “How can ye aby say so? at ? What am | You in’ the evidences of iH w ule ever positive | have me distrust my senses? And if ever | saw guilt on any face—" “There is nothing more than the evidence of your senses, d “I beg your pardon, I can see as fs and hear as quickly, and taste us keen ly, as any one alive. And for you to begin to run down my eyes now-—per- haps they'er not #0 bright now-—but I never thought to hear you twit y vwalliag me of growing old—in this way, all ¥ K of a sudden” swallow her sobs -my servant maid" trying hard to “hecause you're interested ' —in | | “For heaven's sake, Javet, think what you're saying!’ | “Ido think what I am then MYL gE " she | eried, in a fury, “and I say, | whatever the evidence that you care | rd | nothing whatever for my fe | ngs {can see me robbed without lifting a husband ought to love his wife, and | and take ber part.” and here Mes Torrance rose hurriedly and pusl the room. But Mr. Torrance was not to be outdone by any such sleight of foot, and had caught her in his arms before she reached the door. think,” he exclaimed, “that I don't of contradictions? Do you suppose I won't protect you with my life itselt ? do you fancy for a moment that | won't take your part when you decide what your part is?” “let me go! Let me go sir!” she exclaimed ; “or else at any rate, let me find my handkerchief!” And ste struggled for her handkerchief, that the kisses her husband gave her might not be too salt, and pulling it trom her pocket, something in a great srg and stream of luster whirled out with the violently wrenched handkerchief sailed through the air like nothing io much like w flying rainbow, and fell at her feet. or the ¢ Tost diamond: Motrance stopped in the midst of her tears, blushing, disheveled, dia’ mound dropped herself, as pretty a sight as a rose bush in a shower, and held back her skiats with both handy while she looked at the shining eye there before her on the carpet, “The » all 801 te of names, I shall never want | to sce it aga'n, Only think, i'T Ind must | denounced that poor girl I'm so gi isd I never breathed of it to her, member I had on this very gi Mrs. Veasy wos in© How ! Now, I'll take this down to a diamond broker and Mil. dred’s Mable shall have her 81,000 worth of les I dare say she'll sing at our parties by-and-by, wn when | #tuped of me to'dav, SONS, She'll be our prima douna, and by that time I shall have improved Mildred into a companion, Oh, I think yon woul despise such a rediculous, wicked lit. tle wife as I am!” she cried, turning to ber husband; you ought to have married a saint. you are, Archy!” " said Mr. Torrance, “life with any other woman who didn't ar= these little my What a good man “My dear, range circuses for morning entertainment would be too I should run awsy from the take to the flying trapizs and you,”- B azar, | La DREILITY J seems | your | protect her red | over her chair and was rushing from “And do you love you, you abominable little mass | horrid thing!” shesaid ; the horrid, un- | winking, accusing thing! It is calling | L0¢ WEAKNESS AND REAL. {| A Life Experience. Remarkable and | Quick cures. Trial Packages. 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