(iisabiifSJNmHHallMiaH 'hm - -v:.- PITTSBURG DISPATCH, THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 17. 189& trV& I -'; 12 THE .jri--jtja9mjKi: ib .. l i o" - ..-wi - -t-w " -.ara v-i -wm ' "n.a "cit -j-w ,- "ww?rn-- tt- r nMwjw-T ii na.avijoangarT' -.ts .T kb""c r-jr "vml- r- gmavB . g9gU&yo cam g)fgWi flfeWi8M tfkiifffl lpijj What could be more snug and pretty than these two costumes lor a brisk walk you end Ethel out into the country these ciisp mornings? The plaid of the lady's cloak is a w.irm combination of reds, browns and green. The cloak fits close to the back. It is double-breasted all the way down in front and so far over that you cannot see the fastening at all, it being at the side. Besides, the plaid is "matched." To make all more snug, a dark green velvet sash belt confines the loose effect in Iront to the figure. Over the cloak is worn verse, and they cultivate agreeable or dis agreeable eup'erstitions in regard to these garments. One yonng woman goes further. Certain garments are like talismans, and advise, warn or restrict her from certain actions. One of these she calls her harvest gown, which has had a notable career She bought the stuff in Paris." It Is India silk, heliotrope in color, diversified by wheat ears in warm cream tints. This gown she had three years before it was made up. There was no reason for this, except, as she believes, the occasion was not ripe. When events thickened the stuff recalled itselt to mind and got fashioned into a becoming gown. Now she avers that when she is pondering over important decisions that she is called upon to make her harvest dress illuminates her mind concerning them. Thus, a short time ago, when an import ant thing hung in the balance, she glanced at her gown and there she saw the yellow wheat ears glowing with a green light She knew then that the harvest was not yet ripe, and she postponed her plant to await its maturity. A determination that the now finds fully justified by events. Presents to Bridesmaids. "With alarm I note tnat it is become more and more fashionable, says a London corre spondent, for brides to give their brides maids presents. Once the bridegroom would as little have expected to escape the half dozen gold bangles or initial brooches, which usually fall to the share of the attendant damsels, as he -would have dreamt' of failing to present the bride with her bouquet. But the young man of to-day has care fully weighed all these expenses, and dis couraged as far as possible the bevy of maids witn whom brides love to Burround themselves, and the latter sometimes find that if they are to go to the altar with the regulation number of damseU in their train they must themselves provide the custom ary gifts. This Is a bad sign. It is a very bad thing to encourage masculine meanness, and no generously-minded bridegroom would at tempt to shirk the shower oi bangles or brooches. I do not believe, either, that bridesmaids believe in or care for gifts from the bride half as much as if thev were presented by the happy benedict The total abolition of bridesmaids willinevitably result,moreover, if the fashion grows. LOED HEESCHELL'8 BLUFF. He "Will Spring Upon the Monetary Confer ence a Gold Standard Proposition." London, Nov. 16. No programme yet exists for the International Monetary Con ference, which opens at Brussels November 22. When the delegates meet the proceed ings will be opened by one of the Belgian representatives Inviting the American dele gates to state the proposals they desire to have discussed. These presented, a com mitter will be appointed to prepare a defi nite order of proceedings. The instructions of Sir William Yernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the English delegates are that they are to treat the Conference as a deliberative body without power to commit the Governments represented to anything. The Indian Cur rency Committee is debating a motion, which is supported by three members, in cluding Baron Hersch'ell, the Loyd Chancel lor, who presides over the committee, to es tablish gold coinage in India. "The pro posal has no chance of approval. It is doubtful whether Baron Herschell is really in earnest in support of the motion, as he has been warned, even by single standard experts, that a change would convulse India politically; besides causing tremendous trade and 'financial panics there and in the Indian markets in Great Britain. There is reason to suppose that Baron Herschell rather designs to check by means of a bluff a proposal to influence the bi-metallists at the Monetary Conference. HEW ADVKKTIHEMKNTB. I ft L.I We wish to merely introduce to you a little handful of prices for high-class goods. The reason for THIS REDUCTION is, we've by far too many goods for the middle of November. The regular profit is yours. We want the money and more room for Holiday Goods. We will prove this assertion if you'll come and see for yourself. : t ::::::::: j : x : : : PLAYED THE EiCES TOO HIGH. Out for a Xovcniber Walk. a dolman garment of green velvet, edged with any dark fur. The dolman is cut to almost Eton shortness in the back, the idea being to aflord protection to just that place "between the shoulders" that so easily gets chilled. The upper sleeves are of the green velvet The hat is light brown, the bows combining green and red and dark crown, a tult ol lur being added. Strong "English red" gloves are worn. The little girl wears a cloak of very heavy, yet soft, felt-like, deep green cloth. It is double breasted, but not so far-around as is the other cloak. Three capes cover the shoulders, but well clear of each other in front It might be warmer to have them lap in front, but Ethel is happier for hav ing her hands and arms unimpeded. The middle cape is red a clear, bright red. The cloak is made loose front and back, but is drawn close and snug by a bright red cloth sash fringed in green silk. A broad collar faced with the red rolls closely over at the neck. The sleeves are loose and finished by led cuffs. The hat, a round one of warm red felt, is drawn down at the ears by broad green silk ribbon tying in a quaint old-fashioned way under the pretty, child ish chin. A bow at the side ot the hat khows green and red. Add bright faces and the cosy fond pose of the picture and what could be more charmingly fashionable? Flobette. Alwajs a Useful Gown. Have one black gown in your wardrobe. It will be useful in ell emergencies You can wear it on your afternoon "at home," and also have a leellng of safety in wearing it when you are not quite sure what to wear. It is then the black silk or brocaded satin is desirable. - A bright touch is given to a black silk gown by introducing a belt of a delicately colored crepe. Let this not only encircle the waist but be brought up at one side over the bust and caught under the arm. Then the creamy point de Venice or point de gene lace makes an effective bertha. It is a new idea to have the vokes of evening gowns formed of rounded bands of fur. the lur being also used to form the collar. With the black gown as just described ermine is used with striking effect for the yoke and collar. Dresses That Bring Lnck. Usually women have some article of dress in which fortunate things come to them, which brings them good luck, or the re- New Styles In Hair Dressing. The new styles of hair dressing follow the classic Empire fashions of dress. The back hair is dressed in a soft coil in the nape of the neck, so as to display fully the contours ol the head. This coil is sometimes placed considerably higher, the whole matter de pending upon the shape of the head. The front hair is waved and drawn so that it falls in a closely curled fringe low on the forehead, or according to the manner most becoming to the head. Tnis simple, classic style of coiffure is suitable lor the morning and for general wear, and is likely to supersede short hair. Young ladies who have had their hair cut may again let it grow to womanlv length. For evening wear the hair is dressed more elaborately, but the classic coiffure remains the model. Hints for the Fashionable Jfir brims of the small felt hats are curiously plaited Into sliapo rather than curved. Quills, buckles, rosettes, wings and velvet fans wage furious battlo forplaco upon the liats. but occasional harmony is brought about by a soft bit of fur, a feather uana or a rouieau oi velvet. The French woman, with her deference for the prevailing mode and her deft adapta tion of It to silt her trim figure, has evolved a dainty Empire gonn that Unotan Em pire go n, nor anything but a very modern and very charming dinner gown. The materials are ueail gray silk, deep-red vel vet and lace. A London correspondent who witnessed the races at Sandown, writes: "The leading features of dress may De summed up In four wordjj purple, velvet, sables, chignons. It is no Vise trying to sav that any color but violet is absolutely fashionable, and for these shades is a positive iminla: in truth I have never seen any color so wildly popu lar." A French adaptation of a Russian, or rather a Hungarian costume, is mado from heavy blue cloth. A deep band of Hun garian embioldery. wrought in blaok, blue, yellow and gold, around the skirt, is (listened at one side with gold buttons. Around the shoulder of the bodice is a silk frill, from beneath -which falls a equate em broidered bib, which is just slioit enough to ulsplay the velvet srirdle. The tightly fitting sleeves have deep velvet puffs. A District Attorney Who Got Away With His Clients' Funds Badly Wanted. Sieotjdsbtjro, Pa., Nov. 16". Special It is now known that Charles W. Hol brook, District Attorney of this county, who went to New York with his wife dur ing the Columbus celebration and mysteri ously disappeared, is a defaulter to the amount of several thousand dollars. Noth ing has been heard from him since he left his "wife at the Union Square Hotel nearly four weeks ago. Besides being the District Attorney of the county he was one of the leading law yers of this place and collections to the amount of about 50,000, which he had made for clients, are among the items of his de falcation. Many debts in amounts of from ?50 to $400 have turned up against him in this place since his disappearance. Hol brook took to playing the races last sum mer and lost all of his own and clients' money. Bcltzhoovor Declared Elected to Congress. Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 16. Special The Congressional return judges of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania district, composed of the counties of Cumberland, York and Adams, met at York and declared Hon. Frank Beltzhoover (Dem.) elected to Con gress from March 4, 1893. OUR $15 BEDROOM SUIT. OUR $15 BEDROOM SUIT. In these days of httle-cost Furniture there's no use of propped-up goods and dreary homes. A minute to read this "ad" or an hour in our Furniture forests will suggest Sideboards at io, $i4, $j6, 5i8, 2o, $25, $4 S 35. H, $42 and so on. 5' 3' Z2 Dining Chairs, 75c, 83c, j5i, $t.25 0n up to $6 Extension Tables. Si.ko. 6. Sm. T, ,, . PrW s,-f t.r r- U. '.'-. - " lu 75- . , v, v:i, pus, poo, 100, JS150. THE PRIOE-RANGE IS LIMITLESS. THE VALUES More Than Our Price. THE ASSORTMENT ASTOUNDING. yKARPETSV II.NII5, 111 MUSSELS, f 45c. 60c, J-Bm ic' s' 1 I 65c. yrJSPavr ' I The Brussels, Moquettes, Wiltons and better Ingrains are All-Wool every time with a very generous stock. We m have never offered better values no one has. Styles the m newest and prettiest. Colors, good also the popular ones. M ABOUT 1,750 YARDS OF FINE M X BRUSSELS KARPETS W GO AT 35 CTS. LADIES' . . CHILDREN'S WRAPS. Students Against Compnlsory Orations. .New Wilmen-otox, Pa., Ho v. 16 Special At the University this morning, the Junior class presented a petition to the faculty requesting that they abolish the custom ol requiring the students in the junior year to give oratious. The iaculty has the matter under consideration. Fcbil oil Is the poisonous component of all lien and impure whiskies andean only be eliminated Uy uge. Of the inauy brands of whiskies offered to tlie nubile, but one bear the testimony of eminent physicians certifyiiis to its purity. Tnis -whisky is Klein's Silver Aire Eye. Absolutely pure and used in hospitals everywhere. For sale by druffirists and dealers generally at $1 50 per full quart, hend lor catalogue nnd nrlce list or a'l kinds of liquors to Mai Klein, Allegheny, Pa. Don't Forget That to-day (Thursday) out creat $16 sale takes plate. Any suit or anv overcoat, the best in house, lor $10 the equal or $35 and $15 garments. P. a C U, Clntniem, Corner Grant and Diamond streets. Aft open letter to women. No. I. C Laurel Ave., San Francisco, May 18, 1892. " Dear friend of women : "When my baby was born, five years ago, I got up in six days. Far too soon. Result: falling of the womb. Ever since I've been miserable. " I tried everything : doctors, medicines, apparatus ; but grew worse. "I could hardly stand; and walking without support was impossible. "At last I saw an advertise ment of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and de cided to try it. The .effect was astonishing. Since I took the first bottle my womb has not troubled me, and, thanks only to you, I am now well. Every sunenng woman should know how reliable your compound is. It is a sure cure." Mrs.A.Detwiler. All drurciili cell It, orient bjr mall, iu fonn or Pllh or LoieugM, on receipt of S 1 . Corrfipondence freely an- werca- Addren i dence.'.TWA E. HAU ,vlCAI. CO. LiMrl'iHi.sic Cold winter makes heavy Cloak demands. Our lines have rich choosings for every lady. The high est in art, real taste and delicacy, at prices that meet the approbation of all. BLANKETS. Cold nights and Wool Blankets are associate words these frosty nights. $2.75, $3.50, $4.25, $5.00 Are the little prices ior great big values. DOLLS, TOYS, Bric-a-Brac, Vases, Jadinieres, Fancy Pitchers, Banquet and Piano Lamps. Pictures, Easels, etc., Are here in rich and beautiful arrays. Christmas is coming. Hi NECESSITIES. China Tea Sots $4.23 China Dinner e:s 7.85 China Dinner Sots 9 60 Dinner Cups or Saucers 02 Dinner Plates 03 Large Cook Stoves 9.50 Rogers Triple-Plated Knives or Forks, Set 1.49 Triple-Plated Teaspoons, Set 93 PLEASE CONSIDER THAT THIS IS NOT A FAKE" SALE, AND, IF YOU WISH TO PROVE IT, "art" mWM iaBIll CURES HEADACHE. CUKES HEADACHE. CUKES HEADACHE. BESOTS LOST HEALTH. Miss Lottie Cakrov of surnnae. Mich . writes: "I hire been trou bled -with a terrible hcanache for about tiro years and could not get vnyililn? to help me, but at last a friend advised me tn take vour Hnn- DOCK I1LOOD lilTTEBS. which 1 did. and after taking two hoLtl-s 1 hare uot had the headache bluce." BRING THIS AD" WITH YOU AND ASK TO SEE THESE GOODS. Every article is marked at sacrifice prices, and, more, you can buy from us now on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 MONTHS' TIME, and have the use of the goods while paying for them. 635-637 SMITH FIELD ST. 635-637 nnl2-14-fr FURNITURE. OUR special numbers. No. 1 Our 130 Solid Oak Bedroom Suit ior. 820.00 No. 2 Our 540 Solid Oak Bedroom Suit ior. 830.00 CARPETS TERMS TO SUIT. No. 3 Our $1 Brussels made and laid 85c No. 4 Our 85c Wool Ingrain made and laid 75c FANCY ROCKERS. TERMS TOSU1T- No. 5 Our 55 50 Oak Tanestry Brace Arm Eocker 84.00 The largest selection oi Cockers in the city. PARLOR SUITS. terms to suit. No. 6 Our 540 Plusii or Tapestry Suit for. 830.00 No 7 Our 585 Plush or Tapestry Suit for $65.00 Thsse Terms and Prices Hold Only for This Month. CASH BUYERS. D0NT M,ss THESE bargains- A liberal discount to cash buyers from these Drices, which in many cases brings the goods to less than the actual cost to us. T F. P. THOMAS, ). OHIO m E. ALLEGHENY. nol3-169nKa HE best evidence of the good values we are giving is the constant increase in business. Every day we are selling more than the same time a year ago. The facts are our Suits made tomeasure 25 and $30 are great values,fully one-third under lowest prices extant. Great assortment to select from. Again, wo have Overcoats made ready to put on, just a3 if your measure was taken of course you save from 810 to 820. Good Overcoats from 815 to 830. WANAMAKER & BROWN, HOTEL ANDEKSON BLOCK, 39 SIXTH STREET. not THIS WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. "We will guarantee you a saving of at least 20 per cent on our goods from the prices yon can buy them at elsewhere. Parker Bros.' Hammerless Breech Loaders at 543 50. Iiefevre Arms Company Hammerless Breech Loaders at $42. G G. Bonehill Damascus Barrel Breech Loaders at 522 50. Lack ot space forbids our givine a detailed price list of all our goods. Call and ba convinced. 100 LOADED SHELLS AT Sl.50. SIMIITS 9 932 and 934 Liberty St and 703,705 and 707Smithfield St. noLVrrssa LORD WILLARD'S PERIL. WEITTE2J TOB THE DISrATCn BY MARY CROSS. COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY THE AlTTHOE. The express from Hollywood flies through the heat of later Aucuit, now between deep cuttings, waving with broom and corse and seeding grasses, on past floods of golden grain, fruit-rich orchards and lovely little villages. Passengers sich and yawn-and sleep, and grumble generally at the heat and at the tedium of traveling. In a first class compartment two florid, "horsey" in dividuals have set themselves to make the best of it, and, apparently little disturbed by the state of the thermometer, devour sandwiches and "pour libations" of some thing that looks but doesn't smell like weak cold tea, comparing notes on racing events past and future, and criticising the merits of the latest music-hall star. "So Mrs. De la Poer is husband-hunting again?" says one of these mighty eaters; and the' remark, uttered after a short silence, causes the only other occupaut of the com partment a handsome athlete who has been hall asleep in the corner, his arms folded, his rather long less stretched out to open his lazy gray eyes, and to color through his1 healthy sunburn. "Jove, yes," comes the reply, with a boisterous laugh. "Lord pity the poor old jool if she catches him!" "Sour crapes, my boy; soar grapes, eh?" "Nothing of the kind, on my Bible oath. Bless you, she don't know me now. I don't say that ouce on a time all ber smiles weren't for me; but, of course, when her pretty face caujrlit a swell, it was all over with common folks, and she held her head too high to see poor fellows like me ouce the rinjj was safe on her finger. If I was qualifying for the position of second hus band to her ladvship, I'd make it my busi ness to know what became of the first how he was shuffled off" And he closed one eye, nods, and takes a I long Dull at his flask. The other man loofes interested was even on the verge of being excited, "Do you mean?" he hints. "Oh, I don't mean anything, bevond the fact that De la Poer seemed to vanish all at once, and her ladyship took a trip to the Continent, and came back in widow's weeds. "Whether it was arsenic, or a bullet through the head self-administered, or whether Be iust drank himself to death, no one seems to Know, and it isn't my business anyhow. He was rather a handsome fellow, De la Poer, but a precious soft, else a . pair of bright eyes smirking at him over a bar wouldn't have led him into matrimony. She was poor enough, and had to be content with little enough, when she knew him first; but, by Jove, after she was married, mines of Golconda wouldn't have kept her! The best of everything ws hardly good enough for her and so, with her extravagance, and maybe remorse, and no doubt the dropping oB of friends who would not receive an ex-barmaid, De la Poer took re fuge in drink. Perhaps he had a weakness for it before, just as he had for low com pany: but a better woman might have made a better man of him. I suppose he went from bad to worse with a rattle; any way, the whole thing ended in a smash, in utter ruin; and between drink and worry some say the man's brain gave way. I don't know how that may he, but he vanished, and so did she, and when she reappeared she was got up as a widow. She has started life at Hollywood, where no one is likelv to identify Dolly Pearson of the Hare and Hounds with lira, Dorothea De la Poer of Bosemount, whom everyone pities as the rich woman of a man who went wrong. That's all I know. A clever woman; an adventuress if you like, but clever as the deuce." "But what doei she live on? Credit?" "Not at all. She has the luck of old Harry. The old man who owned the Hare and Hounds left her all he had, and some say he would have married her. However that may be, soon after she cams back as a widow this money dropped into her hands, and there she is! The contents of the till will help her to another good match. May be some spars were saved from the wreck, and if so, she'd have them, that's certain. It knocked me all out of time this morning when she drove by, looking too ladylike to live, staring me straight in the face, as if she'd never seen me in her life before. Another woman would have fainted, or sought to beg or buy my silence about old times until her big fish was landed, but she never turned a hair. 'It's all right. Dolly,' thinks I; 'you're game and I won't spoil sport.' It seems that now she is the rich young widow of a De la Poer, of Ches ter, which is like saying a Howard or a Stanley. He's supposed to have treated her badly, ior she can't bear to speak of her married life; she is all sweet gentle martyr and patient angel. Ha! ba! ha! It really is fine; and if she 'catches this new man, fiction isn't in it with Dolly's luck. Who is he, did you ask? Peer of the realm, my boy. No less. Lord 'VVillard, ot Water dale, wherever that is." "It may turn out a second edition of De la Poer. Seems rather a pity that another man should be caught in the same trap, eh?" - n "Pooh, this one is able to take care of himself, or should be. Must be oldish, since he's a widower with two sons. Lord help 'em if such a temptation is put oier them!" The athlete has sat so quietly in his cor ner that both men start when he abruptly rises, trying to force the window lower, as if the beat were increasing. Probably they would be still more startled could they know that he is that very Lord Willard to whom their compassion 'has been sa Irankly extended. He subsides into bis corner, tucks the ends of his mustache into his month, staring fixedly at the pages of Punch, though he sees nothing of Du Mau rier's latest, battling as he is against an impulse to proclaim His identity to the two men, and knock their heads together as traducers of a defenseless lady. Prudence and natural aversion to a scene 'win the day. He folds his arm tightly, and before his mental vision rises an otsI face, wljh eduetire violet eyes,' and lips that murmur low and sweet, "But you will come back again, won't you?" He is again on the terrace at Koemount, the glimmering radiance that lives all through a summer night clasping the fra grant dewy garden and the pretty house with its open windows and its lighted rooms, whence steal strains of plaintive music. Mrs. De la Poer. graceful and lan guid, eyes and lips pathetic, leans against a stone pilaster which holds aloft a great vase brimming over with musk and lobelia. "Why so sad to-night?" he asks, with a sudden sense of stars blown out, as lie looks at her face, pale and mournful to a degree he has not seen before. "We are never merry when we hear sweet music," she returns, evasively. "Yet how happy the sound ot your voice makes me," he "replies, and sho gives a smile that ends in a sigh. "Ab, Lord Willard, you pay compliments as if you meant them! Well '. I am sorry you are going away; I shall miss you'more than I dare think; have so few friends." He glances at the house, at the gay throng in the lighted room. She follows his glance and answers it. "As you see, I have plentv for an even ing: for a life it is a different matter. There are times when I am lonely to deso lation without a, creature to comfort me, to advise me, to help me through my dark hour." Lord Willard is a young man, but his head at times governs his heart. Despite the influence of time and place, despite his undoubted infatuation for Mrs. De la Poer and his appreciation of her soft loveliness, he does not express his desire of being the guide and comfort she needs. She looks past him to the lines ot paler blue, low on the hprizon, against which rugged trunks and slender stems are defined, and a faint sigh leaves her lips for the second time. "I shall never forget vcu," she says, "re member that, Lord Willard, for I feel that we "shall never meet again.." He starts, and turns to her, looking at her in a troubled wav. . "My dear Mrs. De la Poer, why should you think that?" "I can't give yon any reason, but I know it I have had such presentiments before, and they have always been fulfilled. " And her hand is lifted siiddeuly to her beautiful eyes. Is it memory or thought of parting, with him that overcomes her? "This one may not be," he says, all at once intensely nervous. The glimpse of her perfect mouth all quivering with emo tion, the sight of her fair bent head, appeal to his heart; he is carried away by passion, and is just on the point of clasping his arms about her claiming for present and for future the right to share her sorrows, if be cannot altogether shield her from them when the tenor, whose "songs beneath the waning stars" have been charming the ear of night, comes out with a train of ad mirers, and the tete-a-tete is broken up. Mrs. De la Poer snatches time to whisper plaintively, "but you will come back again, won't you?" before other guests claim ber attention. Lord Willard presently takes his leave, departing less with the feelings of a lover who has been baffled or deprived ot his chance than those ot a man who has escaped something. Strange how the glamor fades, how the witchery of voice aad look loses potency in absence, and how much more clear and distinct is the memory of the girl whose heart kept time and tune with his from the first dawn of love untii its last throb on earth. For it is true that he is a widower. His majority and his marriajc were celebrated on the same day, and five years of perfect happiuess were his. Then "his young wife died, and he has mourned her these seven years without thought of replacing her, until his meeting with Dorothea De la Poer if then. He has been introduced to her by the genial vicar, on whose heart her liberal, unostentatious, charities have made a good impression, and she seemed to him of the tvpe angelic Still, why is it that when he thinks of his two sons the thoneht of tbem under her care repels him? Why is it that when in his most infatuated moments he pictures her in his old home, a vision will rise before him of the lair, pure fnee once smiling there of the fresh young voice so long' silent? Why does it seem as if from the quiet grave she extended her band to hold him back? Can the dead be jealous of the living? Do all men who have loved the first wife with all youth's fervor and devotion feel thus when contemplating the taking o u second? He has, asked himself these questions often during tiie last few weeks, and the answer sems far off as ever. And to-day he usks himself what he shall do. Shall he, &B IVVCIflUlfUlU, U1WI UIUA.6&1 .V UGi, Wt.U- I out douby or fear, or question? Or shall he 1 be influenced by the coarse gossip of two half-tipsy men.and probe into the sorrows of her past? It is impossible that what they have said can bo true. Shall he ask her to be his wife, or shall he not? Well, be will write to her from home within the next lew days, and the question will for ever be settled. The rectory garden inclines rather to the wilderness stvle, but is lighted up well with big dahlias and flaming gladioli and ever fragrant old wallflowers. "Mrs. Eector" sits on a rustic bench, a bamboo tea (able beside her: and merrily from thetennis lawn come her children, suuil stars circling round the newly-risen planet of a cousin from London, fresh from the joys of her first season. She is a dainty figure in a sun hat and muslin, "fair-haired, blue-eyed, her aspect blithe," adored by the Darradales, cousins, aunt and uncle alike. She says herself that her life h simply a record of "favors received;" and it is true that to her at least, fortune has come with both hands full perhaps captivated by nature's handi work in her and so she lacks neither money, nor good looks, nor pretty ways. As they move to the tea table, a gay i-ntin mnn .inwlr npi. carrvine on bis shouldera little bov, who looks eagerly over the private hedge, then laughs and claps his hands to the vnuntr Darradales, who are signaling with their racquets. Tne man tiTrn. n timI thin ftor.. with dark eyek and aquiline nose, in thJ same direction, and raises his hat with a long shadowy hand as be passes on. . "Who is the phantom?" asks Cousin Phil ippa: and the eldest Miss Darradaie, who is just at the romantic and susceptible age, turns a sigh into a pout as she replies: "That is Mr. De la Poer, the new organ ist. Isn't he handsome?" "H'm. Isn't he a little bit like a ghost out for an airing?" "Oh, I hate fat, red, beefy men," says Kate with warmth. "I think Mr, De la Poerls so interesting. Papa.ayshe is sure there is a story connected with him if we only knew." By this time they have arrived at Mrs. Darradale's, who ha begun to pour out the tea, which the bova busy themselves in handing about, wh"ile Kate presides over some tempting fruit. In the midst of their enjoyment the rector appears, claiming a share of the refreshment, and his wife puts, her diurnal question: "Did yon hear any news, dear?" "Lord Willard is expected nome; that's one item. For another I am sorryto say that there is an outbreak of diphtheria." "Oh, dear!" says Mrs. Darradaie, glanc ing at her "steps and stairs" with anxiety, and there is a little silence. By and by one of the rosy boys breaks it. "Papa, Bertie De la Poer is coming to play with us to-morrow; may I give him one of the young rabbits?" "Whv. ves. Joe. if he likes to have it., JSy the'way," the rector goes on, addressing his niece, "you will be' pleased when you hear our new organist. I consider him a vcrv able musician." "Wo saw'him pass jnst now," says Phil lippa. "He looks a melody in the minor." "I dare say he is anxious about the child," says the kindly mother; "a dear little fel low, but not very strone." "Is he a widower?" Phillippa asks, and there is a perceptible pause before the rec tor replies. "N-no. In fact I can hardly sav. The boy calls him papa' and 'uncle' indiscrimi nately, and I never asked which really was the relationship. In fact, De la Poer is not a man whom one can question; he is ex tremely reserved and taciturn. His refer ences were unexceDtionablc though, andh is a gentleman. He has a class at the High School and they tell me he is quite musi cal genius. But he is very distant. . "He receives no visitors, and systemat ically declines every invitation. He is less popular than I dare say he deserves to be, and people are very anxious to know what he did before he came here." "The little boy must have a lively time of it behind such a high wall ot mystery," says Phillippa, whose life is clear and open and sunnv as Iter eyes. "OhI as to that, De laPoer's whole heart is in the boy; he is devoted to him, and' denies him nothing. I feel that he is smil ing when he knows that Bertie is enjoying himself here with our youngsters. And as to the wall of mystery, my dear, I think others have built it. Mr. De la Poer is simply a reserved, silent man, who declines to talk of his own affairs, and who may merely be suffering from an artistic hatred of gossip." To be continued to-morroif. AWRZK pain Snd anraish wrong the brow " ministering angel.iliou" Bromo-selUcr-Mo. bJL
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