BsmsEmsBmwmm&ffi 3tpf JfSffTSSW' rlrS, 'A, 7? W ?" WT' Wf?"'1 ' '"'W( MSKfrt A QUEEN'S PARADISE. Gifted Carmen Sylya Writes of the Charms of Her Roumanian. Eealm. CUSTOMS OF HER PEOPLE. Her Entrance to Bucharest as the Bride of the Young King. THE CHASGES OP TWENTY YEARS. A Ticturesine Old Citj Transformed Into a llodern Capital. SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS AND HAILEOADS nTBITTES TOR TITO DISPATCH. I N board an armored vessel I had jour neyed lor three days down the Danube, gliding over the large brown wares, which grew larger and larger, like the finale ot a sym phony. There were recep tions at every town Y't "iti He i "ivM a m ee cou frd-t "fat li not have enouch of the richness of col oring under this eastern sky, which, during the day, was of a turquoise blue, and which melted to ward evening Into a glowing yellow, be sprinkled with gold dust, as the sun, which here seems larger than in more northerly climes, slowly sank to rest. In the pel lucid light of late November, against these undulating stretches of beauti ful country, against tnat black soil which Ireely gives its riches to those who ask the most of it, against the dusty white stretches of the winding road, every where, in fact, the costumes of the peasants gathered to greet me stood out in lively con trast shirts of a dazzling whiteness richly embroidered in red, black and gold; floating veils of white linen and ivory or saffron hued silk: peony or rich wine colored petti coats. I had seen the men put their thin, speedr little horses to the gallop, their goatskin mantle falling like another mane on the backs of their steeds. The embroid ered blouse which covered their breasts looked like a navy colored tattooing under the broad girdle which held quite an arse nal of pistols and daggers. The shirt, also richlv broidered, fell over breeches of white lelt, while their heads were covered with large caps of white Jur, from beneath which their long raven black locks escaped and hung over their shoulders. hr Qneen'd rirst Impression. As I approached these picturesque groups I saw supurb figures with faces of a rare beauty, whose gravitv but rarely gave place to a iaint smile which laid bare rows of pearly teeth. And all these strange faces, all these aquiline nose', with their delicate, quivering nostrils; these marvelously large " es, black or greenish gray, sparkling with fc sullen fire, sunken in their sockets, over liune by heavy, straight brows; these burn ished complexions, this sonorous language, in which everv now and then there was a haish guttural note, and which was so fluently spoken and with such marvelous eloquence by these serious men, these Eou r.mniau matrons, these children with the starry eyes all these produced npon me the impression of something whose passion and intensity were unknown under our Northern skies. Then, too, I was struck with admiration as I saw how the beautiful face ot my young husband was in perfect harmony witn the people and the country he had wrested to himself. This, then, was my new fatherland, this Boumania which at first showed me only A Roumanian Peasant GirL the breadth ot her melancholy plains, the banks of her great river, her almost unin habitable marshes where tho frogs chanted amid the waving reeds and the stalks of the wild hemp. Ifthereisa difficult path in life it is that of a young foreign princess making tier first entrance into her new capi tal. The laces surrounding you give evi dence ot but a lrigid curiosity, although only some days belore every "eye which gazed on you was lull of tears and every lip trembled, despite the "hurrahs!" and the "God bless you, our dear child, our little princess!" Her First Joyful Kxperlence. But when I left the station and stepped Into the carriage a cry of admiration escaped me. Beyond the waving plumes and glit tering uniforms, beyond the horses and flags, beyond that set of faces I had caught sight of "the city, lying between the hills and spreading along the verdant valleys, with its shining roofs its hundreds of little churches, na green, vellow or blue houses all this flooded with a brilliant sunlight, which gave even to wood the sparkle of metal, vaguely recalled to me Moscow. "When we were fairly in the carriage I had to bow unceasingly, which effectually prevented ae from taking in any of my new surroundings, especially as tho least smile needed n cflort ou my part and every movement of my eyes caused a darting pain to shoot through my head. However, on th long journey from the station to the capita' end ;s ve travelled the latter on our war Ij trie palace I hit houses which were too small lor their inhabitants, people v ho seemed to touch the rools ot their dwellings with their loreheads, women in green and blue pcttieoat,who&ll wore bodices of snowv whit; f nd headdresses made of kerchiefs equally spotless and edged with luce. (All this white, in the country as well as in the city, strikes one with surprise on one's first ariiv&l until one comes to wear it alto gether one's self, as it is tne only color which can resist both the sun and the dust.) "What astounds the ear is that each church has only two bills and that the united chimes are produced only by the number of churches; that day in especial the Buchar-t churches seemed to me to be innumerable The Palace In tbe Sqnarc The central square of the capital, at which I had to stop, was entirely covered with a red canopy, which threw a fantastic light 'If VJA mvm upon all the people assembled there to re ceive them, upon the red robes ot the Su preme Court, upon the sacred vestments of the Archbishop and Bishops with their long white or gray beards. Forty couples were married upon that occasion, and all the brides wore veils of gold tissue. "This is the palace," said the King to me. "Where?" I asked. "Where we are standing," he replied with a smile. Then I understood that it is the sovereign who makes the palace, just as a stone in a held can become an altar. That of Bucharest was an old nobleman's house, hastily set in order. The young sovereign had had no time to think of his comfort, for he passed his nights in prepar ing the labors which entirely filled up his days, and I found on his desk, the day of mv arrival, the first sketch of the bridge across the Danube which is now just about ' to be built, after 20 years ot patience. No window shut properly in this palace and the damp rose as high as the first story. Indeed, for 20 years I have not been free from fever, and we lost manv servants and rare horses owing to the dampness of the wails. There is but a slight resemblance between Bucharest of to-day and Bucharest as it then was. They have built on an average since that time about 1,000 new houses every year, and have replaced with proper paving the 'cobblestone and ruts of former days. Twenty Tears Work on tho Falacf. The palace, too, has undergone a complete transformation. It is true they have made use of the old palace, which cives the ex terior a sort of patchwork effect, but this very thing gives to the interior a touch of homeliness and individuality. A sculptor, a true master of his art, named Sthoe, who has worked lor us for 20 Tears, has superin tended this transformation, and has orna mented our rooms with furniture and fit tings of rarely beautiful woodwork. The former throne room has become a library in the style of the German Renaissance, the King's study is a little museum and my own rooms contain some'' old pictures of the best description, which are lighted from above, as though it were a picture gallery. "What was my astonishment next day on receiving all tbe ladies of the court to'find no resemblance between these women of so ciety and the peasants. No more matrons with their austere teatures, but delicate, eoumaxta's QUEEN, graceful creatures who reminded me equally of the society of SL Petersburg and that of Naples. As to the men. they had a French ified look, or at least that is the impression they gave me when I saw them next day in the Chamber, to which I paid a state visit. That day I was much amused by the con trast our carriage and procession presented to the streets we passed through, lined with little houses built at random and paved with huge irregular blocks of stone and full of crevices, which caused my diadem and my self to make many an involuntary bow. That evening there was a general illumina tion, and in all my life I had never before seen such a sight. In the very streets where to-day one magnificent house elbows an other, in which gas and electricity sliare the honors between them, there were then to be seen only oil lamps and candles, while none of the houses was more than one story high. The Queen Has tbe Measles. The day after that entry into my capital I had the measles. To be'ill and to know no one, neither my husband nor my ladies of honor nor the doctors, nor even my maid, was a little hard. It was above all exasper ating to hear myself called "nervous" by people who knew nothing of my past life, for with my Spartan training nervous and badlv brought up seemed to me svnonv- mous terms. Many a proud and silent tear during that time bedewed my pillow. My first excursions out were a series of surprises. There were picturesque streets In the city In which every doorway was blocked up with piles of stuffs of all colors, w ith rusty iron and with blue and brown pottery. In other parts were queer com binations of Lilliputian bouses,ridiculously tiny and hidden under the trees, those poor willows from which every year they strip the branches, or the acacias which scent the air of the whole cjty in the spring. There were opening on to the streets the shops of bakers, cobblers and blacksmiths; innumer able inns where they sold an ardent spirit extracted from prunes and called izuica. These last were dark, dingy dens in the murky depths of which one caught glimpses ol mud-eyed brigands with sad smiles. The urchins bathed to their hearts' content in the lovely mud of the river, wallowing in it with yells of delight; the water carriers drove their mules into it, wadine up to their knees into it themselves in order to fill their barrels, while in the deepest depths, of the mire one saw confused shapes moving, grayish, hairless bodies, something like the backs of hippopotami; numberless heads with horns that curved backward and black muzzles glistening in the sun; these were the buffaloes. Usefal Antediluvian Beasts. Later on I enjoyed a closer acquaintance with these antediluvian beasts, which are so common in Boumania. Tbey give an abundance of rich milk, from which they make a verv white but tasteless butter, but which yields an excellent cream. To keep them you have to feed them on dried maize leaves and give them a bed of mire. They die in summer unless they have a marsh, and in winter unless they have an under ground shelter and a woollen covering. In the streets or in the country one sees them harnessed one before another to heavily lad en wagons, their hoofs sinking in the dust in dry season or in the deep mud when it rains. Speaking of mud, what was not my amazement the first time I was splashed with it to see that that of the principal streets left greasy spots on my clothes, and when I saw thera plowl A plow dragged by lour or six buffaloes, scarcely scratching the ground with the branch of a tree in place of a plowshare; and they called this plowing! And what is more, the soil was so rich that nothing more was needed. Dating from the diphtheria epidemic tbe carrying through the streets of corpses In open coffins has been stopped. Before this funerals were a sort ot publlo fes tival. On a hearse covered with gilded angels, garlands and riboons the dead gill was placed, dressed In her last ball dress, her hair elaborately dressod bv the hair lros-or, docked with Coweis, and often painted In order to look more lifelike. A military uana lonowea pmymg uuopin's "Funeral llarch." I: was rather ghastly to Fee that painted, flower-crowned bead dragged over the rough pavement and roll lag from side to side on its satin cushion, while the howling women beat their breasts and tore out handtuls of hair. They are fond of flowers in Bucharest. THE Til ore Is not a window without soma pots of jteraninms carnations or mignonette. On the other hand, the trees have a hard time or ic core The summer burns them and tho winter destroys them, while men de spoil and cat them In such a fashion that one never sees a flneparkvand scarcely over oven a shade garden. The difference in temperature between summer and winter Is 70 centigrade, and tho Northern plants perish under the torrid sun of August, while the more tropical ones suconmb to the snow falls of January. But the depth of snow preserves the soil from the attacks of the trost and makes Boumania a wonderful country for vineyards. There are only three seasons In Boumania, of wnloh only one is pleasant autumn. There Is no spring. The two "sleighing months" relieve one's ears, for at the flrst snowfall one soes nothing but sleighs In the city and the houses are not shaken by the constant clatter of carriages. Sometimes the snow buries the low houses of tbe suburbs, and as many as 11 people have perished in a single night at the gates of Bucharest. Not Infrequently wolves come Into the city. Tbe snow does not'seemto fall. It executes a sort of wild dance np and down and across, so that men and beasts are blinded and wander In a circle, thinking that they are pushing forward. The Land of Embroideries, There is a society for the distribution of V.vsfaL .j, .v?S? j:"SJi 3 '?VK .S-" ,' XJx.-h " V-fT S3 CABMEN SYtVA. work in winter, another for finding work another for fostering the embroidering In dustry In the villages. These embroideries are as beautiful as all Oriental work Is, and have a character of their own. I had seen poems written,plctures palnted,svmphonles composed, bat nntll I came to Boumania I never saw real embroidery. One day I re marked on the shirt of a young peasant girl that the embroidery of one of the sleeves crossed on one side the embroidery on the shoulder. I asked her the reason or it. "Oh' that's called a wandering brook," she said. The language of our peasants Is as flowery as their fields, and tbey only sneak in meta phors. "How do you and your husband get on?" I asked one day. , "Like the cough and chest." "How are you going on?" "Like the dog in the wagon." "Have you a son?" "I bad two saplings, but the storm beat them down." A mother' heart cry to her daughter: "Your child Is crying. Ton have let him fall. Don't you know you ought to hold him like a little plnkt" "How Is your betrothedt" "Like the young blades In the maizo fleldsl" A Roumanian will never say that he Is ab solutely well. "Not so bad," is his phrase. And he will never admit that be is really 11L Ton tell him something that seems to you absolutely convincing. After listening in silence he replies, "It is possible." Sorne National Characteristics. The Roumanian people express every thing in tbe dance, the men dancing with men and tbe women with women. Soldiers in barracks always find a fiddle, a flute or a bagpipe to play some melancholy dance for them. On a campaign when on active serv ice, after the most fatiguing marches, under shot and shell, they still dance, mocking the piojectiles until one of the dancers falls wounded or killed. Their good humor never leaves them even In tbe hospitals. Ihe wounded amused themselves bv Invent ing little comedies to amuse those who were still in bed, and they played them with a go and dash and a power ofdmltatlon that were extraordinary. Among tbe finest institutions of Bucharest are the hospitals. They have been so liber ally endowed by the former princes that they have to-day a revenue of some 8,000,000 or 4,000,000 francs, and everyone is sure of being received and treated gratis provided there is a vacant bed. The transformation of Bucharest Into a beautiful city according to modern ideas is now accomplished, and It Is a city with canals, a water supply and grand buildings, such as the Athenteum, the new Ministry, the Bank, the State Printing establishment, the Law Courts, the House of Parliament, etc Tbe foundation of the Bacteriological Institute raises us to the let el of the other scientific centers of Europe. But Oriental and picturesque Bucharest Bucharest with the little houses burled In foliage, covering the space of Vienna, with onlv 220,000 In habitantsthat Bucharest has disappeared, to give place to a city like all others. It only seems Oriental to those who come from the West. Those who come from Asia cross the Danube with a sigb of satisfaction. "Ahl" they say, "we are in Europe." , Wonderful Progress of late Tears. We aie very extraordinary sovereigns, for we wanted to accomplish in 25 years what tbe others took centuries to do. Wo have created an army. When the King arrived there was one battery of artillery now we have 700 cannon. Our first cruiser Is but the beginning or a fleet. The State budget when the King arrived was S8,000,000f.; to-day It is raised to 150,000,000f. Political life has become relatively calm and seri ous and for long periods the Ministers and legislative chambers do not change. Ball ways furrow the realm in every sense to bring tbe craps to tbe sea, cattle to Italy and timber to Panama. There are schools everywhere, and we are indeed In danger of suffering from an almost too rapid develop ment. We even try to have Socialists in or der to be at the fore front of modern civili zation, only socialism does not easily take in a purely agricultural country, without man ufactures, where tbe farmers naively come to consult their landlords to know whether they will do well to revolt, and If that is really a means of obtaining more land, as tbe agitators would have them believe. Boumania Is In tbe way of becoming all that King Charles dreamed it could become a living artery of Europe. When be of fered the young Hohenzollern Prince the crown of the country of whose very exist- took a pencil, and having seen that the. line arawn oetween jonaon ana com Day passed by the principality which called him to its head, be accepted the crown, saying: "Test It Is a country of the future!" CiEMIlf STLVA. Weissxs'b greatest bargain Bale of men's negligee shirts. Bead large advertisement, pages to-day. Px i v .? w . iV, i.iv pSJ sni s ?? m m in i y-itartTV i i PITTSBTJKG DISPATCH. THE MOONS OF MARS. Astronomers of the World Will Bo Watching Them in August. THEY WILL BB NEAREST US THEN. Onlj Sixty Miles in Diameter and Dean fewift located Them First. ECLIPSES EYERI DAY" ON JDPITEE 1WMTTEN TOR THE DISPATCH". I The moons of Mars were discovered only 15 years ago. Observations of that planet and its new-found satellites will be made in August by astronomers all over the world. Since the discovery of the moons this is the first opportunity afforded for examining them, inasmuch as they are so small as to be only perceptible at close range. Once in every 15 years Mars reaches its nearest point to the earth. Eight weeks hence it will be within 35,000,000 miles of us, whereas its greatest distance is 141,000, 000 miles. Great interest attaches to the matter, because this sister world is so much like our own in respect to Its climatic and other conditions that it may reasonably be supposed to be inhabited, perhaps by human beings. When the lovetswears by the earth's "in constant" satellite, it never occurs to him to consider that there are least 20 moons in the solar system. Saturn alone has eight, the biggest of tbem, "Titan," being nearly twice the size of our moon, and Jupiter possesses four, ranging in dimensions up ward from "Europa." just about as large as the orb of terrestrial night, to "Ganymede," greatest of all known moons. The latter has a diameter of 3,480 miles, whereas the moon belonging to this world is only 2,1C0 miles through. Some Moons Aro Still Hot. Though our moon is supposed to be dead and cold, similar conditions are not as sumed to govern all the satellites of the sis ter planets. Some of those pertaining to Jupiter are believed to emit light of their own, showing that they are still hot. How ever, astronomers are usually eager to find evidence of life on other spheres, even dis covering on the earth's attendant orb ap parent traces of mighty works of engineer ing artifice the imagined creations ot races of beings long extinct such as the stupen dous bridge that appears to span a crater of the moon volcano called "Eudoxus." Eclipses are every-day affairs on Jupiter. Three of its satellites are eclipsed at every revolution of that mighty globe, so that a spectator there might witness during tbe Jovian year 4,500 eclipses of moons and about the same number of eclipses of the sun by moons. Under such conditions one would become accustomed to a phenomenon which occasionally appals the terrestrial ooserver. une oi oaiurn s moons, caiiea "Mimas," about half the size of the earth's satellite, is so close to the planet in its cir cling that it seems to cross the face of the latter at an astonishing rate of speed. Of the seven others, '"Titan" has a diameter of 3,300 miles, "Iapetus" 1,800 miles, "Khea" 1,200 miles, "Dione":and "Tethys" esch 500 miles, while "Enceladus" and "Hy perion" are very little fellows. Several of of them in the sky together, with the flam ing ring of star dust stretched athwart the heavens, must make a gorgeous spectacle by night on the Saturnian sphere. Obtaining the Telocity of Light. Through the telescope it is very interest ing to watch the shadows thrown upon Jupiter by that giant planet's moons, ob servation ot the eclipses of which fur nished the first data for estimating the ve locity of light. Uranus has four little I moons "Ariel," "Umbriel, "Xitania" and "Oberon" which, strange enough, rise in the north and set in the south. A single diminutive one belonging to Neptune traverses the skv from southwest to north" east. Keitlfcr Mercury nor "Venus has any satellite. But the most interesting of all moons are the two that attend Mars, each about 60 miles in diameter. That planet is just one half the size of the earth; its surface is divided into continents and seas, having as much land as water; it has an atmosphere, clouds frequently concealing its face, and its seasons are about tbe same as here, though the winters are colder. Because one of its moons travels around it three times as fast as Mars itselfs turns, it appears to rise in the west and set in the east, while the other really circling in tbe same direction at a speed comparatively slow, rises in, the east and sets in the west. Thus both moons are seen in the heavens at the same time, going opposite ways. Dean Swift's Remarkable Quest. The most remarkable guess on record was made by Dean Swift, who, a century before the moons of Mars were discovered, made Gulliver say of the astronomers of Laputa: "They have found two satellites which re volve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the planet exactly three diam eters of the planet; the former revolves in the space often hours and the latter In 21)4 hours." In fact, the inner moon is 10,000 miles from Mars, whereas the diameter of the planet being 4,000 miles Gulliver's estimate would place it at 12,000 miles. Eor the outer moon he gives 20,000 miles for tke distance, which is really 15,000 miles. The time of revolution for the inner moon is actually 7 hours and 30 minutes, and for the outer one 30 hours. Prof. Hall has named these moons "Beimos" and "f hobos," after the attendants of the god Mars who are mentioned in Homer's "Iliad." Hundreds of minor planets belonging to the solar system, which are only big enough for moons, though not such, have been dis covered during tbe present century. They are called "asteroids" and the three largest of them are "Vesta," "Ceres" and "Pal las." Many of them are only of about the bigness ot a good-sized farm. Life upon one of them, owing to the feebleness of fravitv, would seemingly be attended with ifnculties. One ingenious romancer has described an imaginary journey through space, in the course of which he landed upon a small asteroid, finding it occupied bv a single giant The latter, being dis pleased with some remarks made by his visitor, kicked him off into space so far that he fell within the attraction of another sphere. The Two Undiscovered Planets. To solar planets yet undiscovered moons may belong for example, to the mysterious "big dark sphere" beyond most distant Neptune, which some astronomers assert the existence of. A similar hypothetical world, alleged to have its orbit inside that of Mercury, is "Vulcan." Science has not acoepted the latter, though two observers, Swift and Watson, working independently in Colorado a few years ago, simultaneously declared that they saw it. Watson was so confident ot his find that he built a tunnel in the side of a hill, pointing toward the supposed star, with a reflector at the bot tom, thinking to see the object better. Prom the bottom of the well, ot conrse, one can perceive the stars by day with the naked eye. But this enthusiast died with out proving his belief. The existence of "Vulcan" and the "trans-Neptnnian" sphere has been inferred from otherwise unaccountable perturbations of the known orbs of the solar system. A pretty fair notion of sizes and distances in the solar system can be got by selecting a level piece of ground where there is plenty of room, placing there a globe 2 feet in diameter to represent the sun. Mercury can then be indicated by a mustard-seed 83 feet away, Venus by a pea 142 feet off, the Earth by a slightly bigger pea 215 feet distant and Mars by a small peppercorn 327. feet away. On the same scale, a moderate sized orange one-quarter of a mile from the globe will stand for Jupiter, a small orange two-fifths of a mile oft for Uranus and a Slum one and a quarter miles distant for Teptuna. EKirn BA0&& SUNDAY, JUNE 26. WK1TTEN FOE THE DISPATCH BY DORA RUSSELL, Author of "Footprints in the Snow," "The Broken Seal," "The Track of the Storm," i'A Fatal Past," Eta SYNOPSIS OF fBEVIOCS CHAPTER. Two lovers, Sir James MacKennon, Bart., and Miss Miriam Clvdo, are standing hy the seashore, and the former is urging her to name the wedding day. She pleads for ctelav. In the meantime an accident ocours, a soldier being wounded bv a firing partv. Miriam binds up his wound and saves his life. Glanoing at each other's face a mutual recognition takes Elace. On arriving home the doctor who was summoned to the wounded man gave er a note which the soldier had hastily oorlbbled. It contains the words "For God's sake keep my secret." Miriam, by means of Dr. weed, sends to her soldier-patient a brief mes sage, "Do not be afraid!" which he receives as he Is lying in the hospital. In the meantime Miriam's mother, Mrs. Clyde, makes up her mind that her daughter shall be married to Sir James In a month, and tells her so. But Miriam, thinking of a life dearer than her own, hanging in tho balance, pleads earnestly for more tlmo. Mrs. Clyde writes to her other daughter, Joan, who Is married to hard and stern General Conway, asking them to the wedding. Conway thinks It's a good match, bnt pains Joan by intlmatlne that Miriam should not so soon forget another affair in whicn hiB nenhew was the hero. He and Mrs. Clyde a-ree it is best to hurrv the wedding for fear Sir James should hear of that. Miriam Is obstinate, and pets Sir James to ask Mrs. Clyde for postponement. Colonel Clyde Is unable to change Miriam's mind. She worries herself sice, and Dr. Reed is sent for. By means of notes through him, Mlilam and Private Dare airange a clandestine meeting. COPTKIGHT, 1892, CHAPTER IX. ONCE MORE. Miriam scarcely knew how she sppnt the rest of the day after she had received Pare's brief letter. Her mind was in a whirl of excitement, of fear, and also of strange joy. She was going to see him again Hugh see him in secrecy and danger, but still to clasp his hand, to be near him once morel She had named a late hour for this meet ins, because she knew by 11 o'clock her father and mother were almost sure to have retired for the night. Colonel Clyde was a very methodical man, and when the family were alone he made it a practice to see that all the doors of the house were locked by half-past 10 o'clock, and at 11 everyone was at rest in the Commandant's house. The keys were left in the locks for Banks to open the doors in the morning, and with the assistance of l?ord, Miriam meant to open the back door, go through the garden, and thus reach the west rampart, where she expected to find Dare. It was a dangerous escapade, and to do Pord justice, when she heard the lateness of the hour that Miriam intended to meet, she believed, Doctor Heed, she said a warn ing word to her young mistress. "Oh, Miss Miriam, it's not for me to speak, but couldn't you fix to meet the doctor sometime in the day?" "The doctor?" repeated Miriam, in sur prise. "Yes Doctor Eeed; I am sure it would be safer, because, even if you were seen it would not be very strange, but you see going out at night " Then Miriam understood; she had never said who it was that she was going out to meet, and Pord had naturally thought it was Doctor Eeed because she had written to him twice. "It is better she should think it is Doctor Eeed," reflected Miriam; "better anyone than the truth." 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It will be worth your while to see our line before buying. 923, 925, 927 1 1892. BY DOEA EUSSELL. answered, "I must go to-night at eleven, so will you help me?" "I will do everything I can, Miss Miriam but still it would be such a pity If Sir James were to hear." You see Pord was prudent withal in spite of her coquettishness, and she thought to lose the chance of marrying abaronetfor the sake of a doctor was carrying a love of ad miration, or love itself, too far. She wished Miriam to become Lady MacKennon, and she thought it rash therefore to run such a risk. "Sir James will not hear," said Miriam, excitedly, "and even if he did I must go." "Very well, Miss Miriam, if you are de termined to go we must try and arrange so that no one shall ever know anything about it but the doctor and our two selves." "Yes." - Then they talked over various plans,Tind finally settled that they were to steal down the staircase together after the rest of the family had retired to bed, and that Pord was to open the back door, let out her young mistress, and wait inside the door until Miriam's return. "If we are canghtl" said Pord, in a half frightened tone. Miriam did not speak. "Pancyl what would Mrs. Clyde say?" continued Ford. "My very teeth chatter when I think of it." "She will not know. It is well you have a little room of your own, Pord, or the other servants might have missed you!" "Yes, Miss Miriam, and that Jane, the new housemaid, is that spiteful! I think she wants Banks to run after her, but poor fellow " But Miriam was too excited, too impa tient, to listen to the details of Ford's con quests. She moved about the room rest lessly, and Pord took the hint. Then pres ently she dressed for dinner, though it was two hours before the time. She wished to occupy herself, to be doing something; not to think. But she thought in spite of her self; thought of the man she was about to meet of Hugh Ferrars, now called Dare and of the terrible circumstances which had necessitated his change of name. The dinner-hour came at last, and Miriam select what articles of Furniture you may need from a mammoth stock, where prices are lower and terms easier than any other house in the city. j Our Store for a JVew ( BISSELL 1 I BOOKLET 1 kVew Ideas put in a Bright, J3 w Brief Way. J0 HtK Halt Biili .1 HiiiiVl p had to face her mother's keen eyes. There was an unusual flush on Miriam's cheek, Mrs. Clyde noticed, and the girl looked ab solutely beautiful. The suppressed excite ment within made her eyes sparkle so brightly, and Mrs. Clyde wished that Sir James had been there to look upon her face. Miriam, however, we may be sore, was thankful that Sir James was not there. She would bave felt guilty in his kindly presence. But she did not feel guilty be fore her mother. There was a stronger in fluence in her heart than her mother's; a deeper feeling than Mrs. Clyde had ever kindled. Mrs. Clyde talked as usual in her agreea ble fashion, and the Colonel and Miriam answered. There was nothing unusual said by anyone, and presently Mrs. Clyde and Miriam retired to the drawing room and the Colonel remained in the dining room with his newspaper and cigar. When they were alone Mrs-'Clyde natur ally spoke to her daughter about tbe dresses she would require for her marriage. But Miriam showed none of theiinterest or ex citement on the subject which young women generally do. She agreed with what her mother suggested in so indifferent a tone, that Mrs. Clyde felt inwardly aggrieved. But she did not show this. Miriam's illness somewhat alarmed her, and she thought it wiser to be very soothing and considerate. The coffee was brought in by Banks, and the Colonel reappeared, and the evening passed away very quietly. A few moments before 10:30 o'clock the Colonel looked at his watch, yawned and then rose and left the room to' lock up. This nightly duty having been performed, he returned to tbe drawing room, said "good night" to his daughter, who lightly kissed him on the forehead and kissed her mother, and then Miriam left the room, and Colonel and Mrx Clyde were alone. "Miriam looked very handsome to-night," said Mrs. Clyde, reflectively. "Yes," replied the Colonel, also reflec tively. "I "wish her marriage was over now, it would te much better." "Yes," again said the Colonel, and he added, "Well, it soon will be." And while her parents were thus speak ing of her, Miriam had gone quickly to her own room, where she found Ford waiting for her in the dark. "I brought no lieht, Miss Miriam, for fear of any mistake," she whispered. "That is right; now draw up the blind, and I will place the candle close to the panes it is nearly time," said Miriam, also in an excited whisper. It wanted just a quarter to eleven, Minam saw by her little jeweled watch which was lying on the dressing table, one ot Sir. James' many gifts. Only a quarter to eleven I The girl's breath came quickly, her checks flushed and her hands trembled. It was so near what she longed for and yet feared, and a tremulous sigh escaped her parted lips. "Are you frightened, Miss Miriam?" asked Pord, in a low tone. "Yes," murmured Miriam; "but I must go-" At this moment they heard Colonel and Mrs. Clyde ascending the staircase on their war to their bedroom, and a moment later tbey entered it, and the door was shut. "Well, J. hope they are sate at any rate, whispered Pord. "We will just wait until it is 11, and then we must creep downstairs," said Miriam. "You had better go first, Pord, and I will follow in a minute or two." They accordingly waited until the dial cf the little jeweled watch told the appointed hour, and then Ford silently, and on tip toe, left the room, and Miriam listened in agony least the stairs should creak. No, the little handmaiden's light footfall made no sound, and then Miriam equally lightly fol lowed, and found Pord waiting lor her in tbe dark at the foot of the staircase. They did not even whisper to each other, but hand in hand 'stole silently through the dark passages, with which Ford was very familiar, and soon found themselves at the back door of the house. Ford had provided henelf with a small bottle of oil to grease the key of the door if they should find it rusty. But she did not t XWE PRIDE OURSELVESXtfr On having the largest, best selected and most complete stock of Furniture and Housefurnishings to be found in the city. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME Can be obtained at a moment's notice on most liberal terms. CASH OR CREDIT. Something for everybody and everything for somebody in OUR GIGANTIC STOCK 15 1 require this, but softly turned the key Id tne iock, and tnen qui-wjr vm m uuv. and the cold night air at once instantly, rushed in. , "I will go at once," whispered Miriam "stay behind the door, Ford, and keep iti closed until I return,"and the next moment she had passed out into the darkness. It was a starlight night, frosty and keen, and a half-moon was shedding a faintj glimmer on the scene as Miriam passed swiftly on. A somewhat neglected garden.' for the season was late, lay at the back ofi the commandant's house, and through thii Miriam passed swiftly, until sha came to the railings that inclosed it, and as she did so she drew nearer and nearer to the sea.t The commandant's house stood on what in. Xewbrough-on-the-Sea was called the west rampart, below which the waves broke oaj the rocky cliffs, and earthworks with enH brasures, in which heavy guns werei mounted, guarded the steep and dangerous coast. . ' Between the earthworks and the com4 mandant's garden there was a roadway, and Miriam having opened the garden gate) found herself on this. Then she paused and j looked timidly round, and as she did so m figure seemed to glide out of the seml-j darkness; a figure wrapped in a soldier's cloak, and a moment later she heard htfl name. "Miriam?" "Yes; ohl Hugh, dear Hugh!" shs whi pered, holding out both her hands. The man she called "Hugh" took themj gazed down into her face with eager eyesj and then drew her passionately to his breasq and kissed her lips. 1 "Once more," he murmured, "once more,! Miriam." ' She made no attempt to draw herself front his arms; no attempt to turn her face away) from his kisses. She raised her dark eyes to hi3 full of love and pain, and for soma) moments neither of them spoke another! word. . J "It is good for you to come." at last saidi Hugh Perrrss. "More than ever I hoped for." "I came to warn von. Hugh," answered Miriam, still in his arms. "To warn me?" he asked. "Yes, Hugh, you must go from here; got at any cost. Inafew weeks General Con-. ray will be coming here," and Miriam shivered; "and you must not be here wheife he comes." i "Where can I go? How can I go?'j answered Hngh Ferrars with a suddea! bitterness in his tone. "You must bny your discharge, Hugb and leave the country; nothing else is salei I I nearly died when I saw you here." "It was no choice of mine, and but fon that accident on the sands you should neveri have seen me. When I enlisted I expected, the regiment was going to India, and I had either to enlist or blow out my brains. " . "Hushi husht dear Hugh," and she clung) to him fondly: "do not make things worse;, do not make them more miserable than t bey are by talking thus. Bat you. mast not run the risk of seeing General Conray." "Did he suspect me then?" "He told Joan he suspected you Ohf Hugh, what I have gone through God only knows what I have gone throughl" And Miriam's head fell upon his breast, and tears rushed into her eyes, and one fell upon his hand. ; "Dear, dear Miriam," he said, drawing; her closer, "it was hard on you too hard, too cruel." "I have tried to bear it," wept Miriam! "tried for your sake for Joan's sake bus it has been very bitter, very terrible." j "I was a cursed fool ever to suspect you," said Hugh Ferrars, darkly. "But Mrs. Con-I ray held herself so high I never "dreamed or such a thing and I was mad with rage; ' mad to think you were false, and he doubly false." J "Oh! do not sneaK of it." and a-rain Miriam shivered; "but. Hugh, you must g away from here Twill find the money to! buy your discharge, and you must go out of x.ngianu; go to Australia, anywhere but its is not sale for you to be here. I knew vou again in a moment, and others might know you too I will give you the money, how-J ever uiucu it may cost. Mattings: You can't find a nicer floor cov ering for the summer than a good matting. Wonderful im provement of late years both in wear and pat terns. We are showing a line which is beyond donbt the finest ever seen in the city. Cool, clean, cheap and comfortable. A quartet of excel lencies meet in a good matting. IT'S NOT OUR FAULT If the Baby goes without a carriage. We've done onr best to put one within the reach of every infant here abouts. Plain or fancy, high or low cost, according to trim ming and furnish ingcash or credit. A fine line to se lect from, and all. of reliable makes. 923,925,927 E. J w'WMMMMBMHBBPPHIB iib
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