THE PITTSBURG: DE3PAT0H. SUNDAY, JULY 10, 189a 15 BISMARCK AT HOME, Carpenter at a Picnic Friedrichsrulie in Honor of the Statesman. at A. POWERFUL OLD MAN. In His Manner Xone of the Austerity His Portraits Indicate. HIS SOS'S BEAUTIFUL BEIDE. Trees of the Estate Cared for With What Amounts to Tenderness. THE EI-COANCELLOE'S LOYE FOR DOGS i3 CORKESPOSDENCI Or THX DISPATCH. Hambueg, July L This Is my second day in Europe, and I hare already bad a good opportunity to see something of the greatest of European states men. Prince Otto Ton Bismarck has a vast estate within half an hour's ride by train from Ham burg, and he gave a reception in one of the most beautiful groves Count Herbert Sumarck. of his vast forests yesterday to a celebrated club of Hamburg. There was a dinner under the trees, and the and the affair was more like an American picnio than a formal feast. There were speeches and toasts in Bismarck's honor,and the Prince and all of his family were present and mixed with the people with an entire absence of conventionality. Prince Bismarck chatted and laughed and made jokes with the ladies and gentle men present. He moved about among them with his big dogs beside him, took flowers from the ladies and pinned them into his buttonhole, and acted, in short, like one of our country deacons at a church picnic. He seemed to be perfectly happy, and he shows no signs of any trouble or sorrow over his change of life. A Novel Honor for the Host. The people at the picnio were his friends and worshippers, and among the -leatures of the celebration was the raising, at the close of a song, out of a grave hidden by branches a gigantic statue of Bismarck in the full armor of his rank as an officer. This was done by about a score of men dressed for all the world like the dwarfs which Rip Tan Winkle sees during his 20 years' sleep on the mountain. These men had Ion? white beards and they wore brown, quaintly cut coats and woodmen's hats. The crave was on a small hill and the statue towered up among the trees, and when it was raised those little woodmen threw themselves down around its feet, .making a scene which was picturisqe in the extreme. As jstooil upright a member of the club raid' a high tribute to Bismarck, to whom the whole was a surprise, and the party cheered. Prince Bismarck made a witty and a pleasant response, and as he did eo about fifty of the prettiest girls of Ham burg went up to the statue and threw them selves down on the ground about it,making, as it were, a picture of beauty worshiping fame. Bismarck then walked up to these ladies and talked to them, and the two hours which he spent ith the party was of a sim ilar character. I came to Friedrichsruhe in the morning and spent the forenoon in wandering about through the beautiful forests, which make up a great part of the estate, and at the sug gestion of the Prince's private secretary at tended the picnic reception. I had an op portunity to shake hands with Prince Bis marck and to have a short talk with him. Fen Picture or the Iron Chancellor. I met many of his friends, and through them and the events of the day learned much that is new concerning the Prince and his life since he gave up his Chancellorship of the German Empire and became a private dudes, who wear shoes too small for them and spend their time in sticking out their feet to be looked at. His manner of speak, ing is more like that f onr best after-dinner orators and he uses the simple conversa tional style, saving the most striking things in a most striking way with little apparent emotion. He talks in the same tone in pri vate conversation and he is said to be one of the most entertaining talkers in Europe. He has no airs of either tone or language and he made everyonefeelperfectlyat home at this feast He is too great a man to be snobbish and I was not surprised at his great simplicity of manner. Prince Bismarck dresses as simply as he talks. He wore yesterday a long double breasted frock coat buttoned well up over his broad chest and a pair of dark panta loons. Around his neck a white necktie- like stock shone out above a white shirt, and upon his head a spft white felt hat with a brim wide as that of the sombrero which Ben Bntler used to wear. During the afternoon he took this hat off many times, and each time crushed it differently in putting it on. Sometimes the wide rim was turned up at the side, again it came down over his eyes and now it turned up at the back or the crown was pressed out or in. He had a long cane in his hand, and daring a part of the day sat leaning bis hands upon this as he talked. Prince Bismarck is apparently in the best of health. He does not look to be within ten years of his present age, and when I asked 'him as to his health during the few words I had with him, he pointed to the table, upon which were the wines and the remains of the food of which he had bonntifullv partaken, and asked me whether his dinner looked like that of a sick man. Count Herbert and His Bride. The little table at which the Bismarck family sat at this picnic under the trees was abont four feet wide and perhaps 12 feet long. It was covered with a white cloth. and the seats were chairs knocked up out of She old Emperor, yon will, remember, made him a present ot it at the close of the Prnoo-Prosslan war. It comprittj in alt nearly 20,000 acres, and I am told that Bis marck has been adding to this by buying sew lands from time to time. The most ( these many square miles of land it covered with virgin forest trees. The ground is roll ing and a deep stream winds its way in and oat through the forest. It is only abont IS miles from the city of Hamburg, and if you will imagine 20,000 acres within half an hour's railroad ride of Boston or St. Louis yon will get some idea of its value. Did it belong to an American statesman its magnificent trees would have long since been cut up into kindling wood and as villa sites it would be raising the crops of "for sale" signs which you find within half an hour's ride of all our big ci ties. They do things better in uermany. xrees are not out down nere without other trees being planted to take their places, and this vast forest will prob ably remain here for generations to come. Prince Bismarck is a great lover of nature. He likes to take walks thronch his woods. and be knows every tree and keeps track of his timber. He has a planing mill not far from his house, but no 4rees are cat where they will be missed, and I found in going through the forest that there were many nurseries and that young trees were regu larly grown. Forest Preservation a Fine Art. A PARK EOR SALMON, Oie of the Snggestions for Saving the Valuable Food Fish. WASTEFUL METHODS OF ALASKA. Streams in Which - There Is as Much Swimming Flesh as Water. .HOW THE BBAES FMD UPON THEM The amount of timber in the forest is accurately known, and a scientific measure ment was lately taken of every tree and its cubio feet of lumber calculated. Perhaps a dozen men do nothing else than take care of the forests. There is a head forester, and he has his assistants, and these men were present at the picnic vesterday. They wore a livery of green olotn trimmed with velvet, which made me think of Robin Hood and his band, and the vretty wives of two of them wore the 'short skirts and the queer headdresses 'of the peasant women BISMABCK AND HIS TWO GREAT DOGS. pieces of split beech wood, and these were decorated with green branches. Count Herb ert von'Bismarck sat beside his fiance, the Countess Hoyas, at one end of the table, the only other person at this end being the wife of Prince Bismarck. The count is nearly as tall a man as his father. He is about 40 rears of age and he has a big frame and broad shoulders. His face is a strong one, and he is Faid to be a man of great ability. He has been rather a wild young fellow in time past, but he devoted himself during the dinner very attentively to his sweet- .Pnnce Birmarck. citizen. His whole family, including the Countess Hoyas, the affianced bride ot Count Herbert von Bismarck, were present, and the affair was most charming in its nn conventionality.rriendliness and simplicity. But let me tell you how Prince Bismarck looks at 77 years of age. He is as big as any man you have ever seen, and he stands six feet two in his stock ings. He is as straight as the mighty oaks which stand br the tens of thousands in his forests, and his shoulders are broad and full. His frame is that of a giant, but he keens it from fat by careful living, and his weight ranges from 186 to 200 pounds. The head of Prince Bismarqk is one of the most striking I have ever seen, ani his face, as I saw it, has a far different expression from that seen in bis pictures. There seemed to me an entire absence of sternness about it, and his blue eyes were kind and smiling. They are said to flash fire, however, when Bismarck grows angrv, and he can be the personification of wrath. Prince Bismarck's head is fully as large as was that of Daniel "Webster. It is rather rounder than that seen in "Webster's best portraits, but it shows more than "Webster's strength of character. The forehead is broad and full and the top of the bead, as can be seen from its baldness, is one of characteristic bumps, such as would delight a phrenologist. Bis marck's hair consists of a fine1 fringe, which runs from high above his large ears around this white oasis of baldness. It is now as white as snow and the heavy mustache, which shows prominently out "from under his large and lull nose, is of frosted silver, with a yellowish tinge directly under the nose. The Prince's Tlra-iy Eyebrows. One of the most striking features of his face is his eyebrows. These are very heavy and they stand out over his full steel blue eyes UKe silver bristles. His eyes are rather fat and the flesh under them puffs out slightly, though not so much as you see in the face of Secretary Blaine. His chin is long and full and almost double and he has a way of clearing bis throat as he talks and of moving his head back and forth in emphasis of his words. He articulates dis tinctly and his tones are by no means un pleasant. He does not, you know, believe much in oratory and he thinks that elo quent pnblla speakers are more of an "evil tcanaaood. He once cemftrtd maters to Jrau Prineeti Ton SUmarck. heart, and the Countess Hoyas) is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. She is about five feet eight inches in height, and her form is slender, but not angular. She has very pretty blue eyes, rosy plump cheeks, and she looks like a bright, common sense girl. She wore yes terday a plain white and red lawn gown and her only jewelry was a pair of very small gold hoop earrings. She is only 'about half as oia as uount Herbert, out the two will make a fine looking husband and wife. The Countess Hoyas is the daughter of a wealthy Austrian count by an English mother. She looks more like an English woman than a German one, but she seems to be thoroughly in sympathy with Germany and the Ger man! Her family is wealthy and the "Whitehead torpedo works belong to them. A Iook at Fran Ton Bismarck. Q I was mnch interested in seeing the Princess von Bismarck, the wife ot the great statesman, and as I looked at her my mind went back to her most romantic mar riage when she was as young as the beauti ful countess who sat beside her, and was, I venture, fully as beautiful You must re member the story. She was the daughter of the sober, well-to-do Herr von Puttkamer, who owned an estate not very distant from that on which Bismarck live'd before he be came a public man. He was at this time a wild young fellow, and was known gener ally to the people of his section as the Mad Bismarck and also as "Devil von Bis marck," and his carouses and his actions were the talk of the section. He met the Fraulein von Puttkamer and it was a case of love at first sight on both sides, and shortly after this, much to the terror of Herr von Puttkamer, he demanded his daughter's baud in marriage. He pushed his suit in such, a way that the old gentle man nad to give in, ana tne marriage took place. Bismarck is nearly 10 years older than his wife, and be was thee 3L It is now nearly 45 years since his wedding, and their mar ried life is said to have been a singularly happy one. Bismarck' turned over a new leaf shortly after his marriage, and he be came studious and thoughtful. He soon got into politics and from that time on he made a man of himself and shortly rose to be one of the leading figures in the diplomatic circles, of Europe. His wife kept pace with him, and once in speaking of her lie said: "She it was who made me what I am." The Princess von Bismarck is said to be the per fect specimen of the best tpve of the Ger man wife. She has all her life devoted her self to her husband and her children, and in her sixties Bhe is still a fine-looking woman. She is tall and dark and her 'face is a kind and motherly one. Her hair is now dark iron gray and br eyes are dark and smiling. She was very popular with the young girls of the picnic, and I noted that many of them hovered about her chair and laughed and chatted with her during the afternoon. about this part of Germany. The breasts of their dresses sparkled with gold or gold plated buckles made of disks as big around as tin cups, and on the backs of their beads showing out from under hats, for all the world like inverted sewing baskets, were great butterfly bows of rome stiff black material, which stood ont from the head fully a foot on each side. The foresters have the animals, of the woods to take care of in addition to the trees. There are a large number of deer and wild boar in the forests and the venison for the table of Prime Bismarck is supplied from them. The birds of the woods are also carefully encouraged and protected, and in going along a winding and romantic road through a part of the estate I noted that the trees had boxes the size of a cigar hox, save that tbey were about twice as thick, nailed np among their branches and that each ef these boxes had a little round hole in its side for the birds to go in, and I counted hundreds of these nesting places. Prince Bismarck as a Farmer. In other parts of the estate I found large fields under cultivation and all kinds of farming going on. Prince" Bismarck is a good farmer, and I don't believe that hie buttermilk is like that of Senator Bvarts, about which when he offers to his guests he says: "Which wMl you have, gentlemen, champagne or buttermilk:? I have figured it np and they both cost me about the same price." Bismarck takes more care of himself, I am told, as he grows older, and sleeps later in the morning. His rising hour is between 9:30 and 10 o'clock and he has a oup of strong black coffee, some rolls and eggs wnen ne gets up. jne reaas tne morning - papers aa iie eats ana anerwaras looks over such of his mail as his private secretary has ready for him. His second breakfast is taken about 11:30 and this usually consists ot a small steak or chop, with a bottle of light Khine wine. After this breakfast, at about 1250, Jk starts out for a walk and he spends hair an hour in wandering or rather strolling about his estate. During his walk he often drops in at the restaurant and drinks a glass of beer. and. sometimes. so I was told at the restaurant, takes a sto ond glass in his hand and carries it home with him. In his walks, and, at all times in fact, he is accompanied by his dogs. These are two large Danish hounds, so tall that tbey reach to the height of the waist of an Blraurck'a Estate at Friedrichsruhe. I wish I could give -yon a stereopticon view of Prince Bismarck's estate here, fie has a big house on Wilhelm strasse in Ber lin, and his other homes at Varzin and Schoenhausen are said to be very fine, but of themll he prefers Friedrichsruhe, and it Js probable that the most of the re mainder of his life will be spent here. It is little wonder that it is so. There are few n BOHesuoni in the world i flM The Oauntea Hay a. ordinary man. They are very dark iron gray in color and they were with him at the feast yesterday, sitting at his feet un der the table and going with him, one on each side of him, whenever he walked about the grounds. One of these dogs is named Rebecca and 'the other answers to Tyras, and were, I .am told, present from the present Emperor to Bismarck. Both are beautiful animals and they are remarkable for their devotion to their mottor. Tha are splendid watch dogs and the man who would dare to toucn aismarcK n their pres ence would be dragged down in an Instant and most probably killed. They are with him, as I have said, all the time. They sleep in his room at night, sit beside him in his study as he works and go with him whether he goes abroad either on foot or hi his carriage. After finishing his walk Prince Bismarck returns to his study and takes up his work for the day. I asked his private secretary as to his book of memoirs, which he is said to be preparing, but could get no informa tion concerning it There seems to be no doubt, however, but that he is putting this matter in hand as fast as hesMtn, ana though he may. not dictate the Atter' or write it himself it will be in eood shape for his biographer and will eontaln wonderful amount ot Mvnun nmory, nuxu, rintrmir jh tbx nrjpATcn. I Can Congress save the salmon of Alaska? Itisgoingtotry.havingatlast waked up to the danger wiichthreatens this valuable fishery. Honey will be appropriated with out further delay for putting a stop to de structive methods of capture, and probably millions ef fry hatched by artifice will soon be poured inte the streams of that region. Pisciculture! science has attained such de velopment that the propagation ot a finny species to any desired extent is a simple affair, requiring inexpensive apparatus and only a Kttle labor. The Senate has re quested Fish Commissioner McDonald to suggest measures for preserving the indus try, and an agent is to be sent at once to Uncle Sam's Arctic province to examine the situation. At the same time, the peril which menaces the salmon of Alaska is scarcely so imminent as has beeq declared. If there were an unlimited demand, the fishery would un questionably be wiped out within five or six years. Companies would set up can neries en every stream, blockading all the rivers with nets and traps so that not a single fish could go up to spawn, and pretty soen there would be no move to catch. For tunately, the market will only take a cer tain product .at profitable prices, and thus the business is forced to limit itself. Methods That Are Wastefa'. This year owing to a previous glut, the seven canning concerns have been compell ed to reduce their output to one-half that of last year. The fish they legitimately need for their annual pack might be taken with out causing any perceptible diminution in the numbers ot salmon, but the tsouble arises from their shockingly wasteful methods. Ket only do they prevent natu ral propagation by extending barriers aeross the streams, but they destroy niaBy fish for everyone they use. Their qets capture all fish indiscrimin ately. Some ortbe salmen have very pink flesh, while the flesh of others is white or only light pink. All but the first kind are thrown away and wasted, because the mar ket demands pink-fleshed salmon, and buyers who reoehre aay other sort think that they are getting a poor article. Al though, as a matter of fact, the white-fleshed fish are as excellent in quality as those which have piak meat, there is not a single canaery on the largest river south of Bea ring Sea, the Stickeen, simply because the salmon that frequent it have mostly white flesh. It was believed by the aboriginal natives that this difference of coloring was due to the different suedes of shrimni on which the salmen feed in various localities; the Russians accepted this view, and it has been indorsed by modern naturalists. Always Bret at the Came Place. For the sake of illustration taken virein salmon stieam, to which the fish are accus tomed to resert in the spring of every 'year, lied by a wonderful instinet, they return always to the river where they were originally spawned and hatched. Ascend ing to the headwaters they breed, retnrning thereupon to the ocean. One day along comes a canning company and sets up a factory near the mouth. It stretches nets or traps clear across the river, allowing not one salmon to go up, and destroying vast numbers of them besides those which it pnts up for market. A first-class establishment of this kind will turn out 2,600 cases a day of 48 one-pound cans each. At the end of half a dozen years there are hardly any fish alive that were spawned in that stream, and so it ceases to be a salmon river. Nearly one-halt of the salmon pack of Alaska has been, obtained tor many years past from the Karluk river, which is a little stream only about'20 feet wide and so shal low at times as to be not more than knee- deep in the middle. The reason for the ex traordinary plentifulness of the fish in that locality is that they are obliged to travel a few handred yards from the Eta in order to reach a series of lakes, where They can de posit their spawn. Hence in this'stream an astonishing spectacle used to be witnessed annually, tbe salmon crowding up it in such numbers that there seemed to be more fish than water. A sjmilar phenomenon can be observed torday in some other Alas kan rivers. Oq the other hand the salmon which frequent the Yukon for spawning purposes travel as far as 1,500 miles in order to lay and fertilize their eegs, the result being that very few ef the breeding fish ever get back to 'the oeean alive. A Wound la Fatal to a Salmon. In ascending the streams the salmon mnst leap up waterfalls, run the gantlet ot rap ids and chance other dangers. They are very apt to receive cuts or bruises, and the slightest injuries are usually fatal, parasites fastening npon the wounded parts and lit erally eating ont the vitals of the fish. Con sequently, at the spawnrag seasoa great numbers ef them may be seen dead and floating down the rivers, thousands lying along the banks in rotting windrows. Curi ously enough, nothing whatever is known as to the marine lHe of the salmon. "Where they find their feeding grounds in the briny deep at other seasons and what their pelagic habits are ho man can telL The diminutive creek known aa the Kar luk river may fairly be called the most wonderful salmen stream in the world, On August 2, 1889, 153,000 of these fish were caught at its mouth. During that year 4,000,000 red salmon were taken from its waters and packed for market in 850.000 cases of 48 one-pound cans each. This enor mous production was seenred by literally running a fenee across the river and stop ping all of the fish that were entering for the purpose of breeding. An Islatitt Devoted to Salmon. It has been recently suggested that the Government would do well to set aside while there Is yet time a reservation for the permanent protection of the salmpn. The Island of Afognak in the Korth Pacific, 750 miles west of Sitka, is recommended as an appropriate spot for the purpose. This is a small island onjy 60 miles apross, bnt it has several streams flowing into the surround ing ocean, which at the breeding season contain innumerable fish of all the finest varieties. The salmon commonly build nests by col lecting stones and piling them in little heaps, laying their egg in tb,e crevices. Around every such nest may usually be seen a greedy horde of little freshwater scnlpins and bullheads. Trout also gobble tne spawn greedily, and the young fish are eaten in great numbers by gnlls, dncks and loons. Bears are often seen standing on tbe banks of the streams and striking with their claws at tbe breeding fish in the shallows, throwing those which they catch npon the shore and devouring the heads by prefer ence. In the ocean the salmon find other enemies in the salmon-sharks, porpoises and sea lions. The eanners first cut off the heads and fins and take out the ' entrails, after which .the fish are washed, cut into .lengths the kiie of the cans, and fed into the latter by machin ery. Finally the cans are 'topped," cooked with .steam, and labelled for the market Nearly ell'of the work la done by Chinese. Berb Baohsl "WRITTEN FOE THE DISPATCH BY DORA RUSSELL, Author of "Footprints in the Snow," "The Broken Seal," Track of the Stdrm," "A Fatal Fast," Etc. "The i ! ) i did not understand crept over her. "What! Miriam, her proud, reserved girl should hate rone out alone at night positively ap palled her. Ferd, she saw, nad not been out, and when Ford began to pluck up her spirits and said something more aDout the ship-wreck, Mrs. Clyde, with a look and a gesture commanded her to be silent She sat bv Miriam's bedside, and the cirl lay with closed eyes and quivering lips. She was conscious, and thankful to her mother for her forbearance. At last she fell into an uneasy sleep, probably under the unnsual influence of the brandy that her mother had given her, and when Mrs. Clyde saw this she signed to Ford to go to bed." Long Mrs. Clyde sat there watching her daughter, her acute mind sseking for some possible motive to account for Miriam's conduct. That she had gone out to meet someone some secret lover seemed to be the only solution that Mrs. Clyde could think ot And this thought was most grievous to' her. And who could it be? " aptain Escourt seemed at one time to ad-, mire Miriam, but it had never apparently gone any.further than admiration. Indeed, Mrs. Clyde did not encourage the attentions of young officers to her daughter. Dr. Beedi Could it be Dr. Reed? Bat no, no, waves washing over him every moment, and Dare bad a rope fastened round his waiss and swam out to the rocks through the boil ing surf, though he was driven back again and again, and ran the risk of his life, but at last he reached tho rocks and managed to get hold of the poor drowning sailor, and then the men on snore pulled in the rope, and Dare brought the man in alive. It was a brave action, and Dr. Reed and Ktconrt both went np and shook Dare by the hand, but the doctor blamed him at the same time, and said ha was not wen enough yet to have done sues a thing." "That is the man thev think is a gentle man, is it not?'.' asked Mrs. Clyde thought fully. "He looks like one, at any rate a fine looking fellow, with a daring expression of face. I went up and spoke to him, and he merely bowed. Reed seemed anxious about him, and insisted on his leaving the shore before I eame away." Mrs. Clyde did not speak for a moment. "By-the-by, how is Miriam?" asked tha Colonel. "Ford came for the brand v just as I was going out, and said she was not well." "The guns startled her, and she turned Chamberlain! Coil Cholera Bad Dlar- race 9med , Can always be depended upon, it is pleas ant to take and will cure cramp, qholera morbus, dysentery and diarrhoea in their wont forms. Every family should be pro tidecVfwUhit. 30 and M teat bottlae fur ml by traggUte wikaa SYNOPSIS OF FBEVIOU3 CHAPTERS Two lovers, Sir James MaoKennon, Bare., and Miss Miriam Clvde, are standing bv the seashore, and the former is urging her to name the weadtnz flay. " She pleads for lelav. In the meantime an accident occurs, a soldier boln? wounded bv a firing partv. Miriam binds up his wound and saves hit life. Glancing at each other's face a mutual recoznlttnn takes place. On arriving home the doctor who was summoned to the wounded man gave her a note which the soldier had hastily scribbled. It oontalns the words "For God's sake keep my secret." Miriam, bv means of Dr. Beed, sends to her soldier-patient a brief mes nie, "Do not be afraid!" which he receives as he Is lylnir In the hospital. In the meantime Miriam's mother, Mrs. Clyde, makes up her mind that her daughter nhnll be married to Sir Jame in a month, and tells her so. But Miriam, thinking of nlife dearer than her own, banning in the balance, pleads earnestly for more time. Mrs. Clyde writes to her other daughter, Joan, who is married to hard and stern General Conway, asking them to tho weddinc. Conway thinks it's a eood matoh, hut pains Joan by intimating that Miriam should not so soon forget another affair In which his nephew was the hero. lie and Mrs. viyue a-rree it is Dest to nurry tne weaaing ror rear sir Jamc should hear of that. Miriam Is obstinate, and Rets Sir James to ask Mrs. Clyde for postponement. Colonel Clyde is unable to chanie Miriam's mind. She worries herself slot, and Dr. Reed is ent for. By means or notes through him, Miriam and Private Dare arraniro a clandestine meetlnV. Miriam tells her secret lover he must leave the country. He says he would have to buy his way out ot the army. At her next meetlns with Sir James she asks htm for the neces sary money, and he Rives her double the amount. Then she arranges another clandestine meeting, and Just as she Is returning to her room In the night Mrs. Clyde catches her. COPYBIGHT, 1892, BT DOE A BUS3ELL. CHAPTER !XIIL THE BETTJBJT OP THE GIST. "Miriam I" cried Mrs. Clyde, in dismay; "where haveyou been?" Miriam mads no answer. She was too terrified to speak, but tbe quick-witted Ford did: "We have been trying 1o see the wreck Mrs. Clyde," she said. "It's an awful night; we've been nearly blown away. "We shouldn't have gone, but Miss Miriam wanted to see a wreck, so we went." As the girl hurredly and mendaciously made this explanation Mrs; Clyde's stern eyes for a moment left her daughter s rain soaked figure and rested on the lady-maid's face. "It's jnst blowing a hurricane," con tianed Ford, somewhat abashed. Bnt Mrs. Clyde did not speak; she raised her candle and looked at the two before her. Ford's face was rather pale, but her dress was per fectly neat and dry, and she had evidently not been ont in the rain. Miriam's dress, on the contrary, was storm-beaten and dis arranged, and her dark hair blown and tangled, and her face white and agitated, and her eyes stained. And Mrs. Clyde did not believe Ford's story. In a moment the thought flashed across her mind that Miriam had been out on Borne secret errand: out alone in the storm for some hidden purpose, and his idea was absolutely terrible to her mother. "Go to your room, Miriam," she said, In a strangely-altered voice to her usual placid tones; "take your wet things, and I will bring you some wine. It was madness of you to" go out." "Without a single word Miriam obeved her, and went with trembling feet to her own room, which was on a higher story than her mother's, and Ford followed her also in silence. But when they retched Miriam's room Ford's tongue was "loosed. "Oh 1 Miss Miriam, what will yon say?" she asked in a terrified whisper, as she pro ceeded to unfasten Miriam's wet cloak. "We had better stick to the story about the wreck, hadn't we?" "She did not believe it: she does not be lieve it," answered Miriam, falteringly. "I can say nothing. It is best not to speak." "OhI but Miss Miriam " "Hush? do not talk; I cannot bear it," said Miriam, putting ber hand to her fore head as if she were utterly exhausted. "I X teel quite faint. She had grown deadly pale, and her whole form was trembling, and Ford grew alarmed. "OhI where is the sal-volatlle?" she cried. "or the salts? OhI Miss Miriam, don't look like' that; after all, she can't kill us, you know; let me hold you up." Almost as she spoke Mrs. Clyde entered the room, and she at once saw Miriam was too ill to be questioned. "Pull off her shoes and stockings, Ford, and chafe her feet. Miriam, lay you head against me, or best let us lift yon on the bed." Miriam made no reply, and Mrs. Clyde speedily had her wet clothes all removed, and warm and dry ones soon replaced them. Then she and Ford lifted the half-fainting girl on the bed.and Mrs. Clyde sent Ford for some brandy. "Do not alarm the Colonel," she said; "say Miss Miriam is not very well." When the brandy came she insisted npon Miriam taking some, and rubbed her feet also with the spirit. But she asked no questions and gave no blame. She was frightened; almost for tbe first time in her self-assured life a dread of something she Mir-IAUr, CRIED MR9. CLYDE, IVHEEE HATE YOtT HEEK ? impossible! decided Mn Clyde. Then she remembered how determinately Miriam had delayed her wedding for a month. Indeed, Mrs. Clyde grew more and more uneasy as she reflected. Good heavens! had the girl been playing a part all this while, perhaps not meaning to marry Sir James after all? Mrs. CIrde felt positively afraid to leave tbe room; afraid to leave Miriam alone, and yit she did not wish to tell her husband that anything extraordinary had happened. It seemed she thought a reflection on her self this strange escapade, that such a thing could have occurred under her roof. The Colonel had gone out to see after the wreck, but in an nour or so Mrs. Clyde heard him return, and as she did so, after another glance at Miriam, who was still sleeping, she rose and quietlvleft the room. Bhe found her husband taking off his wet cloak in the hall, and she at once went up to him. "I fear you have got very wet," she said. "It's a tremendous gale," answered Col onel Clyde, "and the ship on the rocks is breaking up fast. It struck just below the ramparts." "I hope there has been no loss of life?" "Unfortunately, yes; but the life-brigade and the soldiera have saved several of the seamen. That Dar;, the man who was shot, showed conspicuous courage. One poor fel low was clinging to the rocks, with the faint. She is asleep now," answered Mrs. Clyde quietly. "She is not strong', poor girl." "No; but, come, I must see after yonr comforts. I am sure yon ought to take some brandy." Colonel Clyde did not refuse his wife'a offer, and as he sipped his cognac ha once more alluded to the soldier Dare. "I think there must be some history at tached to this Dare," he said, "for just be fore he plunged into the sea he went np to Dr. Reed and asked him to take charge of a small packet which he had in his hand. 'I may not return, yon know, doctor,' he said, 'and if I do not will yon see this is safely delivered to you know whom,' Escourt thouzht he said, sq I suppose Reed knows all about him. At all events, atter he had saved the man, I saw Reed give him this packet back, and, moreover, Reed would not say anything about it." "A packet?" repeated Mrs. Clyde. irr& i i i t:i - t.; i .I n... r Mb jou&eu iiK.e a uig cuvcimjc, uu .lkuv carried it away with him when the dootor J insisted on his leaving the shore; some gift (from his sweetheart most likely, poor fellow." "Yes, most likely," said Mrs. Clyde, ana then she left tbe room and went upstairs once, more to look at Miriam. 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