III THE CMS UNO,
Carpenter Eeaclies St. Peters
burg on Ilis Way to tlie
Famino Districts.
EASY TB1YELING SO FAB,
Passports Always Bequired, but
That's the End of Trouble.
RUSSIAN CUST0JI HOUSE METHODS.
Magnificent Horses That Don't Know What
It Is to Go in a IV alt
FIEST MEAL IN THE GREAT ESiriKE
rcoimrsFOXDEN-CE or ran dispatch.!
6t. Petersburg, July 3.
AH a prisoner in
in the land of the
Czar. Xot in jail,
but in prison, nev
ertheless. I have
one-seventh of the
whole world as mr
prison yard, and
one-tenth of its in
habitants as my
companions. Every
one ot the one hun
dred odd millions
of prisoners has to
give an account ot
himself. Every
man in Kussia, whether born there or a
stranger, must have a passport, and if he
goes from one part of Kussia to the other he
cannot stay in a town over night without
showing his passport. He cannot leave the
country without his passport has been vised
by the authorities, and their permission
must be gotten for his departure.
All this looks very hard. It is really
very easy, and I find it so far but little
trouble. The hotel authorities attend to
everything and a few cents of a fee is the
only charge. I entered Bussia from Ger-
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"tuft.
A Russian Feasant.
many. The ride from Berlin to SL Peters
burg takes 36 hours and the first-class fare
is 53i I took a sleeper and found the roads
good and the accommodations fair.
How the Trains Compare Mltb. Oar.
There was nothing of the fine woods, the
silver-plated vestibules and the gorgeous
fittings of our limited express trains, but the
cars were box-like affairs divided up into
pigeon-hole compartments, entered from a
narrow passageway that Tan along the whole
side of the car. Each compartment had two
upper and two lower berths, and the
lower opposite mine was occupied
by a German colonel, ivho snored
in four languages all night long. The
berths are about 3 feet wide and the pillow
I had was a little rubber baz filled with air
from the garlic-tainted lungs of the con
ductor. It baa a white pillow case on it,
but its size made me think of the cowboy
who upon going to bed for the first night in
a "Western hotel took out his revolver and
began to fire at the electric button. When
the waiter appeared he pointed to the pil
low and told him to take that darned
little thing away, for he was afraid
it would get into his ears.
The single towel furnished me in the box
shaped washroom next morning was no
bigger than the pillow, and the looking
glass was of about the size of Scribner'i
Magazine. I luckily had some soap in my
bag, or I would have had to wash without
it, and the sleepers here provide no brushes
or combs of any kind. The conductor acts
as the porter and your boots are not
blacked, though the man expects a fee, as
our porters da The conductor spoke
English, French, Russian and German and
he was dressed in more style than one of
our army generals. Still, he accepted the
quarter 1 gave him with(more bows and
thanks than I have ever gotten from a
negro on a Pullman, and he carried my
baggage into the Custom House at Wir
ballin, on the Eussian frontier.
At a I'.tustan Custom House.
If you are not a suspicious character and
if yo'ur passport is all right you will have
no trouble in getting into Bussia. Thanks
to a note Ironi the Ku6sian Minister at Ber
lin my trunks were not opened at all, and
my.passport was taken, carried away, regis
tered and brought back in less than 15 min
utes. I had to show it again before I
A Russian Policeman.
could get out of the Custom House, and
when I arrived here the firt thing I was
asked for at the Hotel de Europe was my
passport. If I change my hotel in St
Petersburg it will have to be regis
tered again, and if I leave St
Petersburg the hotel keeper will ask
me where I am going and the fact
will be announced to the authorities. By
this means the Government knows just
where every citizen and every traveler is at
any time, and if you wish to gel tbe address
of anyone in St Petersburg you can do it
for a postage stamp. All that is necessary
is to write out your inquiry on a blank
which the police have tor the purpose and
drop it in the post A few hours .will bring
an answer giving full information concern
ing the whereabouts
of the man Tn thlq
relpect the passport system has its ad- I
Yiunwico. usu uijoierious disappearances i
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as occur here are not untraceable by the
police, and the Government is a great in
telligence bureau, which the people patron
ize quite extensively.
I am told here that bnt few Americans
have trouble at the Custom House in Bussia,
and some are said to have even gotten
through without passports. The officials,
however, have a pretty good list of sus
picious characters, and such a woman as
Mrs. Creamer, the Polish nihilist, would
not hare been allowed to come into Bussia
even if she had been sent by the order of
the Bed Cross, as I believe she pretended,
and George Herman would hardly be al
lowed to visit the country.
Papers With Paragraphs Blocked Oat.
Speaking of Mr. Eennan, his books are
not sold in Bussia, and at the Custom House
all trunks are examined and only certain
books are allowed to come in. The admis
sion of books is harder to accomplish than
the admission of men, and all newspapers
are given up. Bussian pnblio opinion is
carefully watched and the mails are exam
ined as carefully as the trunks. All papers
are looked over, and those on file at the
hotel here are spotted with great black
JL DKOSCHKY
patchers where the censors have blocked out
some paragraphs they do not think the peo
ple ought to read. Anyone, however, who
can show that he is all 'right can get any
book or paper he wants by making an appli
cation to the police for it, and at the big
English book store here I was told they
could get me Kennan's books, the Century
Magazine or any other anti-Russian works I
wanted if I cared to order them.
At the Custom House I got my first Bus
sian meal. The sonp was served in a bowl
and there was a great lump of ice in it,
while some sour cream was offered me in a
gravy bowl to add to the soup to give it a
flavor. I took,two spoonfuls and then tried
the second course. This was a chicken of
the size of a pigeon, and following this came
a beefsteak and potatoes. All ot these were
good, but I could not make out what to do
with the little green cucumber which was
laid beside my plate until I noticed my
neighbors, and found that in Bussia every
one cuts up and dresses his own cucumbers,
and that they are always served with the
skin on and green.
From a Garden to a Waste.
Leaving the frontier of Germany you see
the moment you cross tbe line that you are
in a new couutry. You have left a land of
stone. You are now in a land of wood.
Instead of stone cottages, whitewashed and
roofed with red tile, you have wooden
houses not unlike those of our western
towns, and here and there you see log
cabins that would not be out of place on our
frontier. Thenorthern part ot Germany is
a garden. North Bnssia is a swamp, a
forest, a waste. You ride for miles through
pine forests that look like those ot Min
nesota or northern Wisconsin, and you have
to look at the queer costumes of the people
before you can realize you are in autocratic
Bussia and in the wilds ot the Czar.
Here, however, vou make no mistakes.
That long-coated guard at the station, with
bis pants in his boots, his sword at his side
and his revolver in a leather case on his
right hip, is one of the famous Bussian
police, and those fiat-faced, high-cheek
boned, rosy-cheeked peasants in caps and
sheepskin coats are Bussian peasants. At
every cross road yon see a Bussian girl
standing holding up a flag as the train goes
by, 'arid queer carts and wagons with great
yokes rising high above the heads ot tho
horses stand about the depots. Tbe pas
sengers of the trains, are almost pure Bns-
A D'oschly Driver.
sians, and I take my kodak and photograph
a few striking scenes.
Tho Hebrew Exodus to America.
Poland itself is about as big as the State
of New York, and the part I passed through
was ot about the same character as North
ern New York about Chautauqua Lake,
It is the land of the emigrating Bnssian
Hebrew, and the most of those pauper He
brews who are now coming to America from
Bussia come from Poland. They are of a
far lower class than any Hebrews we have
ever had, and they are bv no means popular
here. Of all Poland 13 per cent of the
people are Hebrews, and you find Hebrew
colonies in all the large cities of Bussia.
Thev generally have a quarter and a market
of their own, and they are sharper than
the Bussian in their dealings and take ad
vantage of his simplicity, his extravagance
and his happy-go-lucky wav of life. The
result is that soon after a Polish Hebrew
settles in a Bussian town he has a mortgage
on half the property belonging to it, and
the simple peasant cannot understand that
he got this, to a certain extent,
legitimately. This is, I am told, in a
great measure the cause of the unpopu
larity of the Hebrews in Bussia and the rea
son for their expulsion from the country.
There is a law in Bussia that a Hebrew, uo
lesshe be an artisan, may be returned to the
place where he was born in case be has re
moved from it and has become obnoxious to
any of the people of his new home. Our
Consul General at St Petersburg tefls me
the Hebrews who have gone to America
have not been expelled from Bussia, but
have been ordered by the Government back
to Poland or to the other Bussian places of
their nativity. America they look.upon as
the land of gold for all, and instead ot going
back lrom whence thev rsm they trn An
, through and sail for the United States.
The Bussian Is still Barbarous.
The Czar is a genuine Bussian, with a
great love for his own people, and in this
way he protects them. As to the cruelties
ot the officials, there is probablv ranch that
is true iu the stories to that effect, for the
Bussian is still half barbarous and his ideas
of punishment are more cruel than ours. I
wish I could give you a stereopticon view of
St Petersburg. It is one of the queerest,
one of tbe fastest, one of the gayest, and by
all odds one of the most unique capitals of
the world. Lying as it does on the
great Gulf of Finland, a river as
wide as the Mississippi at St Louis
runs through it, and great canals cut it up
so that it looks like a second Venice. It is
a city ot wide streets, of big three, four and
five-story flats; of vast palaces, many of
which cover acres; of a multitude of gor
geous churches, of great schools, of art gal
leries, of factories and the thousand and
one other features which make un the
capital of the greatest empire on the globe.
iou nave neara tne story- ot it ouuaing.
SEJKl'7
PfiE
I stood yesterday in the log; hut that Peter
the Great built on the swamp, here when fas
deeided that he would make this point his
capital AU this was a forest, a marsh and
a wilderness. The Bussia of that day, a
the Bussia of this, was in the interior, but
Peter decided he wanted to have his capital
where be could look out upon Europe, and
he called St Petersburg bis window, and,
like Aladdin, he made it rise upon the mud
in almost a night He made every noble in
the empire bnild a house here. Every boat
on the Baltic and the Bussian rivers had to
draw aload of stone to the city, and 40,000
men worked year in and year out till the
great capital rose.
Building like Those of the. Fair.
Our public buildings at Washington are
large, but those of Bussia Oover far greater
areas. The only things that compare with
them are the mammoth structures of the
Chicago Exposition, and as to the churches
here, one of them, St Isaac's Cathedral,
has cost nearly (20, 000, 000, or as much as
will be the total outlay of the Exposition.
There are other churches nearly as expen
sive, and the whole city has been built with
out regard to cost It is almost a Sabbath
AND DRIVER.
dav's journey to go through some of these
palaces. The winter palace, on the banks
of the Neva, would.spoil the area of a ten
acre field, and its corridors if stretched out
would reach miles.
The finest street of St Petersburg is the
Nevski prospect, which runs from the river
at the Navy Department or Admiralty
buildings back through the city. This
street is over three miles long in a straight
line, and it is walled with magnificent
stores. It is caved with cobblestones, flags
and wooden blocks. The pavements or side
walks are of flagstones. The center of tbe
street, where the double deckers ot street
cars go, is of cobblestones, and on either
side of this there is a wide strip of wood for
driving. The wooden pavement is made of
octagonal blocks of pine about six inches
thick and five inches in diameter set flat on
a base of planks, which rest .on great logs
sunken into the street These blocks are
cemented together with pitch and they
make a driveway equal almost to a dirt
road.
A Great Place for Driving.
I have been in all the great capitals of
the world from Paris to Pekin and I have
nowhere seen such horses and such driving
as in St Petersburg. Every other man owns
a fast team and all drive as though the
devil was after them. A great many of the
horses are of the OrloS breed, big, tall, well
made blacks, all of. whom are high steppers.
They have a touch of Arabian blood in
them and they are trained so that they step
in time and go very fast I have been
in St Petersburg over a week and I have
not seen a horse walk yet, and one of the
exciting incidents of life here is the narrow
escapes which you seem to be constantly
making whenever you go out to drive.
The droschkies are among the must com
fortable rigs I have ever ridden in. If you
could put a Japanese jinriksha on four
wheels, put a seat in front of it and harness
a horse instead ot a man to it you would
have something like a St Petersburg
droschky. Or if you would cnt down a
victoria to half size, make the wheels no
bigger than those of a baby carriage and
put the bed of the rig about a foot from the
ground you would have the body ot the
best sort of aroschky. If you wish the
poorer class you must take off the back and
too have a fair sample of the 25,000 cabs
which fly day and night along these
Bussian streets. The droschky horses are
quite as curious as the vehicles they pull
and their drivers are equally strange., .The
horses seem to be harnessed with thongs,
and you could cnt the whole outfit oat ot a
pair of Bussian top boots. There are no
tugs and no -cruppers, and the droschky
shafts are tied to a yoke which goes around
the horse's neck and over which stands a
great wooden bow two feet high, to which
tbe bridle is fastened, reining the horse
well up. Fbank G. Carpenter.
A CUBI0US BAILWAY BELIC.
Specimen of the First Passenger Ticket in
Use on the Railroads.
Chicago Times.
Among various trophies secured by
Chief Smith of the transportation depart
ment during his recent visit to Europe is a
small brass pocket piece resembling an ordi
nary baggage check, which is worth a great
deal more than its weight in gold. It is of
octagon shape and on one side is stamped
the inscription "L. & S. Bailway" "Bag
wortb. No. 29." On the opposite side the
number is repeated. This fortunately pre
served relic represents the kind and form of
tickets in use in ooj mr open-carnage pas
sengers" on the Leicester and Swannington
Bailway.
The distance covered by the main line was
a trifle over 16 miles, and the passenger
fares charged were Vy pence per mile.
There was one class only, and passengers
stood up In an open carriage, generally
known as a tub, which was nothing better
than a high-sided goods wagon, having no
top, no seats, no spring buffers. These brass
tickets were issued to the various stations,
the guard of the train carrying a leather bag
something in tbe style of a collection box,
having eight separatadi visions, one for each
station. At the end of eacn passenger's
journey his ticket was taken up and placed
in the bag by the guard to be returned, re
corded on the books, and again used.
WOMEN IN THE BANES.
Some Famous Females Occupying Positions
in the Prussian Army.
New York Tribune.
Seven women now hold the place ortegi
mental chief in the army ot Prussia. The
present Emperor is responsible for the ap
pointment of five women. The oldest
woman-colonel is the Empress Frederic,
who was placed at the head of a regiment of
Hussars, October 18, 1861, the date ot the
coronation ot Emperor William L Princess
Frederio Charles, widow of the famous
"Bed" Prince, ranks second "in point of
time, having Deen made chief of a regiment
of dragoons in 1871.
Queen Victoria, the third female com
mander by courtesy, has been chief of
another Prussian regiment of dragoons since
1889. The Princess Albert of Prussia, wife
of the Begent of Brunswick, has been chief
ot a regiment or lusiliers since 1889, also.
The Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of His
Majesty, has been commander of a regiment
of the same branch of the service since 1890.
Tha Duchess ot Connaught, daughter of the
Bed Prince, is a colonel of.infantry, receiv
ing the honor two years ago. The Qneen
Begent of the Netherlands became a colonel
a lew weeks ago. The Duchess ot Edin
burgh, although not head of a regiment, is
attached in the recorfc to ont ot the regi
ments ot the Guards.
Kings In Industry.
There has almost always in English his
tory been some oqe industry that was sup
posed to be king. In the middfe ages it
was the growth and export ot raw wool;
last century it was the woolen manufacture
itself; early in this century and down to 'a
very late date cotton was king; mora lately,
since the beginning of the railway and
steamship era, it has been coal and iron.
PJTTSBT7BG DISPATCH,
GOULD'S FLOWER FAD.
He Has Issued .Orders for the Finest
Conservatory in the World.
AN ORANGE GROVE UNDER GLASS.
Banana Plantations and Peach Orchards In
Bloom in January.
A BIG MOSQOE PACKED WITH PALMS
rWBITTXV FOB TH DISPATCH.!
All men of note have their bobbies. Jay
Gould's hobby is flowers. He has already
pent many thousands of dollars in the culti
vation of rare plants and shrubbery at his
magnificent conservatories on the Hudson,
and Mr. F. Mangold, his chief gardener,
says Mr. Gould has just given orders for the
expenditure of many mr6 thousands of dol
lars in adding to his hothouses. When his
plaus have been fully carried out the
"Wizard of Wall street" will have the
most extensive private conservatory in the
world. New buildings are to be erected
and the rarest andmost costly trees, shrubs
and flowers are to be collected from every
quarter of the globe.
For 20 years Mr. Gould has been adding
to bis summer home, Lindhurst, at Irving
ton on tha Hudson. His collection of plants
and shrubs is said by experts to be the
finest of any private collection in the world,
but tbe money king keeps on making ex
tensive additions each year. The present
structure of glass has been so overcrowded
with its costly tenants that Chief Gardener
Mangold found it necessary to have more
buildings or else cnt off importations. So
Mr. Gould ordered a $100,000 addition to the
greenhouses.
A Rivalry of the Millionaires.
Manv New York millionaires have bad
the same desire that Jay Gould possesses.
First John Hoey started la with the idea of
vanquishing Mr. Gould in the elegance and
costliness of his coneervatories and after
spending half a million dollars drew out
A prominent Hew York florist says all of
Mr. Hoey'scostlv imported plants were nl
lowedtorun wild and that tbe finest or
shrubs and trees were permitted to die for
want of care. Jay Gonld kept on sinking;
thousands of dollar on his hothouses and
Mr. Hoey stepped out of the race. Next
Cyrus w. Field, the wizard's old enemv, be
trBn ttrntinir onnsarvatorifla at Ardnlsv
Park, near lrvtngton on the Hudson, that
were mtenaea to oversnaaow air. iouias,
hut financial and family trouble came to
that brainy man and the Field conservator
' ies are unfinished.
"Since the death of Mrs. Gould, about
three years ago, Mr. Gould has given more
time than ever to his conservatories," said
one of his Intimates in Wall street recently.
"He has for years been a great student in
botany, hut he left the selection of pur
chases to his chler gardener, Mr. Mangold,
who has been with him manyyeais. Mr.
Gould's intentions now are to enter into the
cultivation of raro flow e is, tropical plants
and choice fruits on a grander scale than
ever before attempted outside of the great
botanical gardens of Europe It is a tact,
though, that after Mr. Gould has built the
new addition to his conservatory it will
lank with the famous publio conservatories
across the Atlantic.
A Tract Devoted to JTres and Shrubs.
"There are 750 acres in Mr. Gould's estate,
and it is well adapted to a botanical garden.
The entire collection of trees, the finest in
the country that will exist in this climate,
are growing in Mr. Gould's park. A glance
at the completed conservatories at Lind
hurst will better enable us to comprehend
the grandeur of the proposed new garden,
which will, indeed, be a rival of theKew
Gardens at Richmond, England, or Jai din
des Plantes in Pails.
"The main conservatory, from which the
other hothouses are built out at all ancles.
Is in the form of a Turkish mosque and is 500
feet in length. The eastern and western
wings, running north and south, are 1C0 feet
long and 85 feet In depth. Beginning with
the east end tbe main entrance of the con
servatory leads to the rose house, with great
terraces or the choicest buds, like the Bon
Bllene, Catharine Mermet, the Bride, Nepho
tls and Ferle des Jardins, with their myriad
of buds. Passing along the red-tiled flooring
the conservatory of begonias and atepha
notls is reached. Adjoining is the pink
house, 40 feet in length, with over 45 vai le
tter in bloom half the year round. The
fernry comes next, with its vast collection
of the various species that are indigenous to
tropical climes.
Finest Iiot of Palms in the World,
"In the main circle of the mosque-shaped
conservatory is the palm, house, with its
lofty dome, roomy rotunda and spacious
niches, all artistically filled by what Is con
ceded to be the finest private collection in
the world. A tountaln In tbe center of the'
palm house, in which aquatic plants lux
uriate, adds tnuoh to tbe beauty of the fairy
like place. There are 310 varieties of palms,
that embraceihe rarest and choicest speci
mens, while there is a great profusion of
sugar, date, sago, India rubber and arrow
root plants. At a cost of more than $2,000
Mr. Mangold recently bongbt the Cicatea
Emperor William, a tree that all the scien
tists had hunted after in Europe, but for
which Mr. Gould's order was the fiist to
reach Berlin by cable. Mr. Gonld values his
palm collection at $200,000."
On leaving the farm house in a westerly
direction the grape" houses, in four sections,
are disclosed. Mr. Gould la specially fond
of fruits, and he can secure at any season a
plentiful supply of every known variety, lor
their culture is so controlled as to permit of
the supply being spread over the 12 months
ot the year. In tbe rear of tbe conservatory
of roses, and skirting the easterly extension
of the renr wall, is the orchid house filled
with 10,000 plants and over ISO varieties.
Rivals the Public Gardens ot Europe.
The collection of crotans, or plants of
variegated foliage, adjoins the orchids and
is without question the finest private collec
tion In tbe world, and is said by many ex
perts to rival thoso of the public gardens of
Europe. In tne adjoining house are kept
tliA nnnitnthpR nr nltfthni nlnnti wlilla nnnn
the lattice work of tbe tessellated glass roof )
are suspended baskets ot cold air orchids
from the East Indies and China.
The buildings to be built at once will ex
tend the conservatory east and west so there
will be a lange of 1,000 feat A solid glass
squat e, 600 teet in each direction, will sepa
rate these from the main buildings, and is to
be filled with oranges fiom every clime. In
tbe center of the square will be artistically
arranged a miniature plantation of bananus.
All the glass is to be movable, so when the
weather permits the structure Is to be
stripped, and a natural peaoli and orange
grove is to be imitated and tbe entire floor
ing through which the heat is to be admitted
is to be sodded over so as to make every
thing as true to nature as possible. This
will Involve an elaborate system or under
giound heating. A similar idea is to be car
ried out in the cultivation of rhododendrons
and azaleas and a space 300 feet long, run
ning west rrom tne seed house, is to be
utilized. Mr. Mangold says this is the
grandest project of tbe nineteenth century
in scientific botany and would outdo the
splendor of tha wonderful exhibition at the
Horticultural Gardens In London. r'.
Caught at Last
In the toils of dyspepsia after imposing on
the stomaoh Tor years, how shall the sufferer
restore bis much abused digestion? By a
resort to Hostetter's Stomaoh Bitters,
coupled with an abandonment of eatables
and drinkables calculated to injure tbe dl-
festive apparatus in a feeble state. Nothing
lice the Bitters lor conquering malaria, bil
ious and kidney trouble, rheumatism and
liver disorder.
First Come, First Served.
There Is going to be a great crowd at Sai
ler's on Monday who are going to take ad
vantage or the great pants sale. Men's all
wool pants going at 3 25 and SO styles to
iok from. Join tbe crowd. The sale is for
onday only at Sailer's, corner Smithfleld
and Diamond.
Take Good Care of tha Children.
If vou have children you will be inter
ested'ia the experience of Mr. John Cook,
of Pilot, Vermilion county, III. He say:
"Two yean ago two of my family, a young
man and a girl, had very severe and danger
ous attacks of bloody flux. The doctor here
was unable, after a week's time, to check or
relieve either case. I threw the doctor
overboard and began using Chamberlain's
Uoiio, unojera anu uiarrncBa itemedy. im-
Srovement was seen very soon and my chil
ren arose in a few days from what X feared
wonld be their death-bed. It is a grand,
good medicine." xuwihau
(SUNDAY, TOLT 17,
WRITTEN FOU THE DISPATCH
BY DORA RUSSELL,
Author of "Footprints in the Snow," "The Broken Seal." "The
Track of the Storm," "A Fatal Past," Eta
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTER.
Two lovers, Sir James MacKennon. Bart, and Miss Miriam Clvdo, are standing hv the
seashore, and the former Is urging her to name the wedding lav. She pleads for lelav. In
the meantime an acotdent ocoura, a soldier being wounded bva firing partr. Miriam binds
up his wound and saves his life. Glancing at each other' face a mutual ree n-rnitlnn takes
place. On arriving home the doctor who was summoned to the wounded man g-ve
her a note which the soldier had hastllv "cribblad. It contains the words "For God's sake
keep mv eci et." Miriam, bv means of Dr. Reed, ends to her soldier-paMent a brief me
age, "Do nor be afralfll" which he receives as he i lying in the hnsnltal. In the meantime
Miriam's mother. Mrs. Clvde, makes np her mind that her daughter shall bo married to Sir
James in a month, and tells her so. But Miriam, thinking of a life dearer than her own,
hanging in tbe balance, pleads earnestly for more time. Mrs. Clyde writes to tipr other
danghter, Joan, who is married to hard and stern General Conway, asking them to the
wedding. Conway think it'a a good match, but pains Joan by Intimating that Miriam
should not so soon forget another affair in which bi nenhew was the hero. HeandMrs.
Clyde agree it Is best tn hurrv the wedding for fear Sir James should hear of that. Miriam
is obstinate, and gets Sir James tn ask Mrs. Clydo for postponement. Colonel Clvde Is
unable to change Miriam's mind. She worries herself sick, and Dr. Beed is pent for. By
means of notes through him, Miriam and Private Dare arrange a clandestine meeting.
Miriam tells her secret lover he must leave the country. He says he wonld have to buy
his way out of the army. At her next meetin? with Sir James she asks him for the neces
sary money, and he gives 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. Mrs.
Clyde suspects the truth, bnt Miriam refuses to tell her. Dare meets Ford and gives her
the money to give back to Miriam. Mrs. Clyde decides to have tbe wedding at London, and
she and her daughter go there.
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CHAPTER XV.
THE SISTERS.
Two days after her arrival in town Miriam
herself posted tbe letter she had written ad
dressed to the soldier Dare at Newborough-on-the-Sea.
And she had some little diffi
culty in doing this, for she was conscious
that her mother watched her closely. Still
she found her opportunity, and after' the
letter was gone she felt with a sorrowful
heart 'that she could do no more. In the
meanwhile Mrs. Clyde was going on actively
with her preparations for the marriage.
Then Sir James joined them in town, and
be naturally was constantly with Miriam,
and so the days gilded away until it wanted
but three to the one on which Miriam bad
promised to become Sir James' wife.
On this day the third before the mar
riageGeneral Conray and his wife arrived
in town to be present at the ceremony. The
sisters Joan and Miriam had not met for
long, and they met now with deep though
suppressed emotion. They clasped each
other's hands, they kissed eaoh other, and
in both their dark eyes there was a troubled
look of secret meaning. There was an ex
traordinary likeness between them, and this
struck their mother more vividly than usual.
"How like you two are!" she exclaimed,
looking at her daughters as they stood to
gether. "I declare you grow more like each
other every year."
"Yes, there Js great likeness between
them, certainly," said General Conray, who
was present at this meeting, bnt neither
Joan nor Miriam spoke; they just glanced
at each other a moment and that was all.
Presently the General went out, and Mrs.
Clyde was called away; and tbe sisters were'
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alone. Then again thev looked at each
other, and once more silently clasped each
other's bands. Miriam was the first to
speak.
"Joan."she said at length, in a trembling
voice. "I have so ranch to tell you."
"About Sir James?" asked Joan, looking
earnestly at her sister.
"OhI no, no, Joan," and Miriam's voice
sank to a whisper, "who do you think I
have seen have talked to7"
"Not " and Joan's, face suddenly
pa'ed. "Not "
"Hugh Ferrar," whispered Miriam, be
low her breath, and her face, too, grew
pale; "I saw him at Newborongh."
"At Newborough!" echoed Joan; "what
was he doing there? Did he go to see
you? Oh, Miriam, surelv not!"
"We met by chance. Oh, Joan, what I
have gone through! One dav there was an
accident on tbe sands a soldier was shot
who was marking at a target and I was
there. I ran forward to try to help to stop
the bleeding, and when I looked at the
man's face it was Hugh Ferrrs."
"Oh, Miriam! Oh, Miriam!" and Joan
clasped her hands despairingly together."
"It was Hngh, Joan. He is a soldier;
and and he knew me as I knew him. And
he looked at me. Ob, I shall never forget
that hour."
Suddenly Joan Conrav's face changed
and a strange light shone in her eyes.
"I should have hated him!" she cried,
passionately, and she clenched her little
hands. "Did he die? I should have been
glad to see him die!"
"OKI Joan!"
"Yes, Miriam, for did not that man kill
my life all that made my life worth liv
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"Yes; Joan, do not speak thua you
forget, you forget!" ,,.-. .
Joan Conray gava s kind of moan ana
flung herself on a couch near, and covered
her face with her hands.
"OhI poor Robert," she moaned; "oh!
Miriam, I cannot, cannot forget"
Miriam went up to her, and stooped down
and kissed her brow.
"Hush, hush, Joan," she 4 said, "he, poor
Robert Conray, is at rest; bnt, Hugh, think
of his misery, his remorse, his wasted life."
Joan did not speak. She rocked herself
to and fro as if in bitter grief.
"He's so changed; oh, so changed," con
tinned Miriam; "but I knew him at once,
and I was afraid, if General Conray came to
Newborough, that he also might recognize
him, and so I put off my marriage. I
wanted to see him to tell him to go."
"I thought he was abroad; I hoped we
should never see or hear of him again,"
said Joan, now looking up. "And vou saw
him? Do you mean you spoke to him?"
"I met him twice and spoke to him. I
rnet him at night I pitied him so much;
and and I also could not quite forget"
"Bnt, Miriam oh, surely, Miriam I" and
it was now Joan's turn to look at her sister
entreatingly, "you surely won't let this
come between you and right?"
Miriam raised her eyes and looked at her
sister, and Joan understood the silent re
proacn. "I knowl I know!" she cried, and once
THE INTERVIEW
more she put her hand over her face. "I
have no right to speak; I am the last one
that shonld dare to speak; but, Miriam, let
my shipwreck, my broken heart, my broken
life, be a warning at least to you."
Again the younger sister was silent for a
few moments, and then she said slowly and
painfully:
"It is best not to speak of these things,
Joan of the past, even between ourselves.
I would not have told you that I had seen
him (Hugh) except that you must persuade,
must try to prevent, General Conray from
going near Newborough until Hngh is gone.
I got him the money to go at once, but he
would not take it, but he said he should try
to be transferred to some regiment in India.
He is best away; best ont of my sight, and
I pray and hope out of my mind; best for his
own sake and for mine; for for I mean to
try to be "
"A good wife," said Joan, eagerly, as
Miriam paused with sudden hesitation and
a blush. "Oh, do! Oh, do, my dear," she
continued, passionately; "God knows there
is no real happiness, none, none, when even
the fondest love is mixed with constant fear.
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I was always afraid, and Robert was always
afraid for me, and afraid and ashamed, too,
when he remembered his uncle. But wa
were blinded; we thought at times only of.
each other, and you see tbt end! Death to1
Robert, and endless, unending misery to
me."
"You will get over it, dear Joan; you will
forget it, I pray and trust"
"Never! I shall never forget tha dving
look on Robert's face his last words. They
haunt me day and night, Miriam; they have
burnt into my brain, and are killing me,
slowly killing me. But I pray only my
husband may never know; not in this world,
at least, and in the next he will know if hs
knows at all our temptations, our struggles!
how, how we loved each other so long, so
longl From the time I went to Tyford. tho
yonng wife of an old man, I loved Robert,
aud to think that I caused his death; that
my very love killed him!"
"General Conray must never know, will
never know," said Miriam, who was deeply
moved by her sister's grieC
"But for you he would have known; had
you not come forward as you did and said
that it was you who were with poor Robert
that night he would surely have suspected ,
me. Tbe soldier who swore at tha inquest
that he had seen Captain Conray with a
lady in the grounds at Tyford, as you re
member, said he thought it was the Gener
al's wife but then you, yon, my dear, came
forward to save me; you said you were en-
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gaged to Eobert,, that you were with him
shortly before the shot was fired that
caused his death and and Riohard ba-.
lieved thisl" S
"He must always believe it, and I did it
to save you, and would do it ajain. And,
Joan, you should pity Hugh Ferrars, too.
He was mad; he thought he had been so
cruelly, so disgracefully deceived. Robert
Conray was his friend, his most trusted
friend, and he knew how we had loved
each other Hngh and I; and when he
thought I was false, doubly false, and Rob
ert Conray falser still, he told me he grew
mad. He fired the fatal shot, and then
when he knew what he had done when ha
recognized you, his bitter remorse was ter
rible, is terrible now, and he would have
given himself up if I had not prayed him
lor your sake, lor all our sake, to go
away,"
Joan Conray moaned aloud.
"We must'all bear it as best we can,"
went on Miriam more bravely; "it has been
very hard to bear since I saw Hugh again;
since my engagement. I have felt false to
Sir James; have felt that I am deceiving
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