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ETXOrsiS OF I'KEVIOUs CHAPIXKn.
Lord Gaston Verner Is a handsome, but unscrupulous member or society. He hat
tired or Iris youn- and beautiful wire. To rid himself of her lie lias contrived to throw
Into her company Lord Wyvls. a man of his own unscrupulous set. Lady Vernerdiscovers
Ills object and determines to avoid public scandal at any cost. At a reception given by
Lady Barin" Lady Verner meets Lord Wyvls and Intimates her husband's determination.
He promises to go way. Verner watches the conple at their tetc-a-tetc and sees Lord
"Wyvls kiss Lady Vomer's band. He sets to quarrellns with her. though he knows the
hour of. departure has Ions since passed, and he has managed so the coinpanv knew of her
jneettin- -Kith Lord Wyvls. Ladv Baring's mind is poisoned against Lady Vernor and she
treats her very coolly. On the Way home Lord Verner stoDS at his club, and Lady Verner,
inste.id or coin"1 home, goes to Lady Carysrort's home and tells her of her trouble, disclos
ing that Lord Verner has sent a diamond tiaTra to a woman whose name she does not know.
She believes that it is in order to marry this woman that Loitl Verner wishes to net rid
or her. Lady Vernor then decides to leave her husband's home during his temporary ab
sence." Her triends wist to have her with them, but she Insists on earning her own liveli
hood. Ontbeiecommetidatlon of her aunt she seeks the post of housekeeper for an un
known but presumably old man. m
CHAPTER XIIL
Is she not passing fair?
He is however. Barely half an hour has
elapsed before she hears steps in the hall
outside, quick steps, strong and determined
not by any means the steps of an old
man.
"After all it is hot he," says she to her
self, and tired, worn out from waiting and
thinkiDg, the tears rise to her eyes. The
feet of old age go slowly! These feet seem
to feel the world as an elastio balL No!
It cannot be Sir. Drayton. How much
longer must she sit here in durance vile,
hopinc against hope?
At this moment the door is flung open by
a mysterious hand, and a young man enters
the room.
"I'm awfully sorry" begins he pleas
antly, indiflerently, and then stops dead
short KhoaVs embarrassment as she rises
on his entrance, which is worthy of com
ment, sinks into insignificance beside his.
"To hate kept you waiting." The com
pletion of his sentence is halt, and lame,
and blind. Especially blind! He sees no
longer anything, except the pale, frightened,
perlect lace betore him.
"I" He pauses. "I beg your pardon.
I was told that "
He breaks offagain distractedly. Keally
it is an impossible situation. Who is this
lovelv woman? And why has she come
here?" Jlany lovely ladies nowadays spend
their time going about soliciting alms for
the poor, but this lovely lady had made no
sign; she had not run through tha. usual
little learned sentence at a hundred words
the second. And besides Peter had dis
tinctly said she had come to engage with
him as housekeeper. Peter's intellect must
be weakening.
"If I can be of any service to you" be
gins he. simply because the silence is grow
ing awful, nbt'because he has anything to
sav.
Ton can," says Klioda faintly, very
faintly. To her horror she feels the tears
risinto her eyes again, and knows that
only a very little more will make her cry
outright.
"I am glad of that," says he. He is still
lrightfully embarrassed. Peter can't be
right, but if Peter is right how should he
dare to engage such, a lady as this as his
housekeeper? "How can I help you?'
asks he.
"You can tell me when I shall see Mr.
Drayton," returns she, quickly, with the
quickness of despair.
"Mr. Drayton?" says he. He moves back
from her.
"There is a mistake somewhere," says
Khoda. Both the disappointment of not
seeing her luture master and the meeting
witli this embarrassed young man have
rendered her a very prey to her nerves.
The pallor that grows upon her face and
the touch of sad grief that accompanies it,
only add to the beauty that she already pos
sesses a beauty that requires no addition.
"There is a mistake, I am sure," says she
hurriedly. "I I .tiant to see Mr. Dray
ton!" There is a pause, during which the young
Iran has decidedly the worst of it ' All up
hi ace a dark red color travels, and pres
"entlv his eyes ia.ll. They lcavehers, and
sink" to the carpet at her .feet. Plainly, for
i-ome unaccountable, unexplainable cause,
he is feeling ashamed of himself.
"I am Mr. Drayton!" says he at last, in a
tone full of abasement.
"You!" says she. Involuntarily she
withdraws irom him, and moves back a step
or two.
The man her employer! This man the
old wornout explorer." Oh, auntie should
have known before she Epoke! AVhy, now
that she looks at him afresh, he is the man
who crossed that green field leading to the
park as she drove down the avenue.
"You are Mr. Drayton you?" She
recollects herseli all in a moment, and pulls
herself together bv a great effort. "It you
are Mr. Drayton,"' says she, "I have come
here to-day to to say that if," nervously,
"you think you would like me, I should be
glad to be vour housekeeper!"
"All!" savs Mr. Drayton. It is the bold
est of returns, but just at that moment he
feels incapable of anything better. Weli,
it would be hard not to like her! He re
covers himself presently..
Tm sure its very kind of you," says he.
stammering. "It's," anxiously, "it's too
kind. And, if you really mean it." with a
glance at her that requires an answer.
"I mean it, indeed," says she, sadly.
"Well, if you do, I'll be immensely ob
liged to you'if you will try and manage
matters tor me,- but "
"But?" Jthuda nith a terrible forebod
ing that he means to decline her services,
raises her eyes to his.
"Vou think I shall not be able, to per
form the duties required of me?" asks she,
a suspicion of agony in her soft voice.
"Oh, no," vehemently. "Xot at all.
Xot at all! I am only afraid you will hate
the duties. There will be the looking alter
the servants, you know," vaguely, "and
the seeing after everything in fact, and
and all that sort of thing, you know." His
tone is painfully apologetic.
"I think I can manage all that," says
she in a low tone. She speaks to him now
as her employer, not as the voung man
whom to her horror she had seen cuter tile
room a lew minutes ago. Her only thought
nowistofinda place an honest place
where she can give good work lor her wages
cud be no burden on her friends.
"Well, if vou can," says he. and then
"It's awfully good of you. I shall be leav
ing here to-morrow, and shan't be back till
th? !t h of August. If you think "
"Think?" savs she, hesitating, and look
in" at him w"ith all her heart fn her eyes.
"Is it can it be true, that he is really go
ing to ergage her? And without a word as
to reierences even?"
"You will like to see this," says she,
holding out to him Lady Barker's letter to
Ladv Caryslort, but he wavei it aside.
"If ou think vou will care to uudertake
the the duties Jiere, sajs nc in a rather
s'an:eiaceu jasuion. "
greatlv obliged to you.
"You mean," says she
though ihe speech hasb
her. "You really in'
me then?" She b- .
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sure shall be
uses, as
ssible to
rill have
gh with
li herself
j as your
out tears, and a
goes on again
housekeeper?
"It yoa wi. o
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he; and J
1 then feeling that this is hardly the way to
I emnlov a housekeeper, he bows to her, and
' as a short cut out of the difficulty makes lor
the door.
Half way there, however, he comes to a
standstandl Lady Barker must have a most
remarkable body of domestics on hand to
distribute among her friends! At all events
he should like to know his housekeeper's
name.
"How am I to address you?" asks he,
looking at Khoda with a smile that would
have been charming if it had not been so
perplexed.
"Clarke. Mrs. Clarke!" says she, almost
inaudibly. Brenda and she had 'decided on
this name as a good ordinary all-round sort
of name the night before. A usual name
not one to conjure with.
"Ah!" savs Mr. Drayton, He haa taken
out a note book, and has written in it.
"Christian name?" asks he.
Khoda, not being accustomed to going
into service, is not aware that this question
is an unusual one. Mr. Drayton himself is
not aware of it As a magistrate and he
has of late been appointed a member of the
bench in his own county he has been ac
customed to ask all sorts of questions of all
sorts ot people, so that no idea of imperti
nence is in his mind as he puts this question
to her.
"ithoda," says she involuntarily, and a
moment later could have bittet her tongue
out for having so far betrayed herself. If
if it should become known, this name of
hers, will it not be a clue for him to find
her?
"Thank you," says he, "I shall give di
rections about your luncheon you must be
famished after your long journey. Peter
you have met my old butler, I think? will
make you comfortable, and pray let him
know your requirements from time to time.
He will be here, you see, and I shall not,"
with a courteous smile. "Goodby." He
bows to her with a kindly grace, and disap
pears. Khoda's first thought is one of deep grati
tude. She has been engaged, and he is
going away for fully three weeks; three
weeks in which to accustom herself to her
strange duties and he had asked no ques
tions. But good heavens, what a mistake there
had been! Auntie must have misunder
stood, or else Lady Barker had been duller,
stupider than usual.
And all her dreams of coddling and cos
setting, and being really invaluable to an
old man where arc such dreams now?
Gone, gone. Where is he, to whom she
had arranged within herself to read the
morning and evening papers the old per
son of TO to whom gruel and beef tea would
be "gratelul, invigorating and refreshing!"
Gone too!
This Mr. Drayton is out of her reckoning
altogether, and yet, if he is satisfied with
her, she should' not be dissatisfied with
him. And he is going away, too, for quite
a long time a whole, sneet long three
weeks, in which she can live and move and
have her being without disturbance of any
kind. From this until the ninth ,of next
month she can roam lreely here, through
the great gardens and flowery shrubberies
and tinted woods, uuseen, unthought-of and
unknown.
CHAPTER XIV.
Who think too little, and who talk too much.
"After all I am dreadfully sorry I ever
gave my cocscnt to that mad scheme" says
Lady Carysfort, her tone distressed, her
whole air full of anxiety. As she i speaks
she looks up at Brenda Bowen, who is
standing beside her, arranging some orchids
in a wedgewood bowl.
It is a week later, and therefore July is
more fully grown, and its still, languorous
heat is now almost unbearable.
"I could have carried her off with me
next week on a visit, for an indefinite time
Gaston certainly would have made no
objection, he is always only too anxious to
get rid of her, poor darling."
"Well, he-lias cot rid of her now."
"Exactly so; but in a fashion that leaves
it open to him to accuse her of all sorts of
things. It was not well done of her to thus
expose her character to his malevolence,
especially as she herself declared he was
bent on fatally injuring her with society."
"I don't think she cared about anything,
poor thing, except getting finally away
irom him," says Brenda, in low voice.
"Ah Hut she should have thought See
now the position in which she stand's, and I
hardly know what to do. v I have pledged
my word to her to keep her secret, and yet
if I don't t.peak "
"Oh, auntie! you cannot break faith with
Bhoda."
"Not even for her own good?"
"She would not regard it as for.her own
good."
"But mv dearest girl, consider! These
abominable calumnies must be put down
they must be killed at birth, or they will
leave an indelible stain on her character.
You have read this detestable letter of her
husband's?" taking up a letter that lies
near her, and dropping it again as if con
tact with it offends her "you hear what he
says what he is assiduously spreading
from house to house. lie means to get this
divorce if he can, by fair means or foul, and
he will stop at nothing that will help him
to It."
"He is a villain!" says the girl, almost
fiercely.her dark eyes glowing and the
color rising in a rich crimson flood to her
white brow. "Oh! what a thing to call a
man! Such as he should not be allowed to
live."
"One thing is certain," says Lady Carys
fort, beginning to sob softly behind her
handkerchief. "Hajs determincd'that she
shan't live. Mjr poor, poor girl!"
"Do you know, auntie," says Brenda,
quickly, "I would rather a thousand times
be misjudged by the world than live with
such a man as Gaston? I should have
done just what Bhoda has done. I should
have cut myself off from him finally at
any cost. Only," throwing up her head, "I
should Ii.TVe taken him into the divorce
court, and got rid of him once for all."
"Well, my dear, 1 think you would sliow
sense in so doing, but poor'Khoda is differ
ent. It is not that she hai no spirit, but
that she shows it in other ways." Here.
having dried her eves, she unfortunately "
laiis again upon tne letter mat cas so up
set her.
"Imagine his daring, his insolence, In
writing to me to me, on such a subject.
cries she, so Tehcmcstlr that Miss Batre;
A
drops two or three of her flowers. To see
auntie auntie out of temper! Why, it is a
thing unheard of. "To accuse my dear girl
to me, ot a thing so terrible. Keally, my
dear, I feel I ought to do something, I do
indeed. I shonld take some step. What
would you advise me to do, my dear?" '
"Xothing, auntie," says Brenda fondly,
who indeed knows the little staying power
there is in Lady Carysfort's bursts of cour
age. "What could one do with a mau like
him?"
"Still, consider and to her own aunt.
To accuse her openly, in writing, of so vile
a crime!"
"It-was certainly very unfortunate that
Lord Wyvis should have left England just
now," says Brenda, with a deep sigh. "Wh v
couldn't he have waited for another week
or two, like all the rest of the world?
Keally," with an impatient movement,
"meti are all alike. Worry, thy child is
man!"
"Oh! no, my dear! Your poor uncle! He
was an angcli" says Lady Carysfort, who
had, however, suffered many things iin her
time from that particular angel- "But Sir
Gaston!"
"He is the other thing," says Brenda,
with a Jaint smile, and a shrug of her
shoulder. "And a bad one at that."
"Dearest child I You are too young to
BDenk like that. We should never be un-
Lcharitable, Brenda. But honestly I don't
believe inai man win ever reacn heaven.
To accuse my poor girl of running away
with Lord Wyvis I Was there ever such
wickedness?" her voice vibrated with
auger. "She, who has behaved like a saint
since her nrarriage ! I'm sure I shouldn't
have been in the least surprised if she had
found consolation hem I" couching ener
getically, and growing warm "consolation
in religion, Brenda. You understand me,
of course. Religion is the only true 'con
solation." "I think Khoda is very good," says
Brenda, who, providentially has not un
derstood her.
"IF I CAN BE OP ANY
"She is, .indeed! Oh! how much too good
for that wretched man. The audacity of
him, to write to me such infamies. I assure
you, Brenda, I shall do something this
time. I shall demand his presence here. I
shall face him. I shall ask him how he
dared thus to defame my sweet girl. You
shall see how brave I shall be. I can tell
you," cries Lady Carysfort, rising, and in
her excitement looking ten years younger
her lovely complexion a rose pink, her blue
eyes flashing, "you will be surprised when
you see me. But no, you shall not see me.
I shall receive him alone. I shall show
him I am not frightened. I shall in my
turn terrify him; I shall crush him with
my accusations. I Good heavens!
Brenda, what is that?"
The blue eyes are flashing no longer, the
lovely complexion is quite pale, she almost
clings to Brenda aB a resounding knock
thunders through the hall and into the
small morning room where they are sitting.
"It is Sir Gaston's knock," says Brenda,
.paling in turn.
j.i is, ueareot; x u ituun it iimuu u Hun
dred. Brenda," trembling,, "he is a very
violent person. I think if you were to run
out and tell Smithers I'm not at home it
would"
"And yet," says the girl anxiously, "per
haps it would beunwise just now for none
of us to see him. He might make mischief
even out of that."
"Oh! Brenda, I couldn't," said Lady
Carysfort desperately. "I "
"Well, I will," says Brenda.
"You, darling? But. Ifyou really
think some one. should see him, Brenda,
perhaps I had better stay. But I assure you,
I feel quite faint."
"I don't," says Brenda. "There, go away
auntie, darlinir, and let me makeaan excuse
lor you. Ot course, he won't stay when he
finds he can't see you, and I can say with
truth you are not well."
Indeed, poor Lady Carysfort, in spite of
berlate warlike attitude, looks now on the
verge of a bad illness. She is as white as a
sheet
"And, Brenda, darling, don't ask him to
sit down. Don't shake hands with him if
yoa can help it. Be dignified with him,
darling. (Now promise me that whatever
happens you will be dignified."
"I promise," says Brenda, who is move d
between fright and laughter.
"And Oh! good gracious, here he
comes!" says Lady Carysfort, hearing a
footstep outside, and catching up her gown
she runs to the upper door, and on her own
part makes an exit that is anything but dig
nified. CHAPTER XV.
His studle was but litrl on the Bible.
"Good morning!" says Sir Gaston, enter
ing the room with quite a suave smile. He
would have held out his hand, but he is
wise enough to know by Brenda's cold bow
that it will be safer to speak than to act.
"Lady Caryslort is "at home, I am glad to.
hear, as I have much to say to her."
"She is at home, certainly, but' very un
well, very upset, by som letter she re
ceived." "Ah! Xo wonder!" says Verner, draw
ing up his magnificent figure and frowning
appreciatively. "One's own niece, you
know."
"Really, I don't," says Miss Bowen,
slowly. " '
"No? You have heard nothing, then?
Lady Caryslort has not confided in you?"
Sir Gaston's smile at this moment wakes a
little demon in Brenda's breast
"I have heard a great deal to your dis
credit," -said she bluntly. "As 'to Lady
Carystort's own niece well, I am one of
her nieces, and your wife is the other, and
I can assure you. she is not iu the least
uneasy about either of us!"
"As to you, my dear Brenda, I know
nothing," says Sir Gaston, shrugging his
shoulders, yet giving the girl at the same
time a glance ot keen appreciation. Brenda,
when righteously aroused, is-always at her
best. Just now- she is looking piquante
enough "to attract the attention of any man.
"But my wile is another matter. Even
you, partisan as you are, if you look into
it, must allow that it is very, good of me to
atlll call her mv wif
s. y,l there any go'od'la jon?" asks Brenda,
$j!rJ,,,l '
wh'o is raging with indignation. That little
hot soul of hers, that clings to its friends
and would readily destroy its enemies, is
notr-at boiling point
"Who can say?" says "Verner airily. Per
haps nothing in him angers the girl so
much as his buoyancy, his utter defiance of
grief, or anger, or emotion of any kind.
"He does not care," thinks she to herself.
"He'does not care, though poor sweet Khoda
has been driven to fight the world alone,
single-handed, because of him." It adds
fire to her wrath this thought
"At all -events," continues he, as airily
as ever, "permit me to say that I think
there is very little good in your cousin, is
it not?"
"I wonder," says the girl, looking at him
with a pale facs'full of contemptuous in
dignation, "that you dare to speak to me of
mv cousin."
"Xon wonder, and yet you know noth
ing!" He laughs low. "Why, that ex
plains itself, of course. If you did know
anything,"-with an insolent glance at her,
"von would not wonder any longer why I
dared."
"I should always wonder at you as long
as I lived," says she coldly.
"You evidently regard me as one in a
thousand," returns he, laughing still.
"Yes. And am thankful so to regard
you," says she; calmly.
"What a hypocrite you are!" exclaims he,
suddenly. "Y,ou kno'w everything, and yet
you pretend to know nothing."
"Know what?" - '
"Everything."
"There yon are wrong."
"You do know," says he, rudely.
"I have already told you I do not."
Her tone is dangerously quiet She is
subduing herself. Has she not promised
her auntie to be dignified? ,
"Then learn it now," cries he, violently.
"Your cousin"
"A moment!" says she, putting np her
band "Your wife!"
".For the time being," savagely. "I shall
SERVICE TO TOTJ.
shortly get rid of her.1'
"And why whv should you be glad of
that?" says'the girl. "Is it because she is
too good for you? 'That she shames you?
Yes, yes, I have been told that you are a
cruel husband a wicked one and I can
well believe it How can you a hateful
man liKe you say one word to the dispar
agement of a' gentle, loving thing like
Khoda?"
"You shall smart for this," cries he, mak
ing a step toward her. His tone is violent,
but his eyes belie his tone. They are fast
ened on" this prettv creature--this tiny
thing who is defying him.
"Do not come any nearer to me," says
Miss Bowen calmly and withauthoxity, but
without a -suspicion ot fear. She makes a
little imperious gesture, and almost to his
own surprise he stands quite still. "Yoa
were able to frighten poor Khoda," says
she. "But you will never succeed in
frightening me."
"What do you know about Khoda?"
asks he.
"A good deal."
'Then perhaps you can tell me where
Lord Wyvis is at present"
" "Certainly, I cannot There is little
sense, Sir Gaston, in your staying here to
insult your wife to me."
"Do you mean to tell me that you believe
she is not with him?"
"I can tell you more than that. I can
tell you, that ycu,"-contemptuously, "do
not believe it, either."
Verner reddeno.
"You have made np your story," says
she, "and I have no doubt you will make
the most of it. But you know as well as I
do that Khoda is one of the best women on
earth. Auntie called her a saint, and I
think she must be one to have lived with
you so long without committing a mur
der!" Sir Gaston, having stared at her for a
moment, bursts into a loud laugh. There
is admiration in it This ridiculous little
girl who is scolding him with ail her might,
how pretty she is in her scorn and anger!
No sense ot shame troubles him.
"Perhaps you can tell me where your
precious cousin is, if not with Wyvis,"
says he, tauntingly.
'"Even if I did know," says she, parrying
the question, "I shouldn't tell you!" "Her
, eyes are flashing, she has tilted her charm
ing cain, wrath and defiance declare them
selves in every feature.
"By Jove!" cries Sir Gaston, enthusias
tically, "you are one of the prettiest girls I
know!"
Miss Bowen's color fades; she glows pale.
Tating up, with deliberation, the few
flowers still left upon the table, she makes
a step forward.
"And you," says she, -looking him slowly
up and down; '"you are quite the most
vulgar man I know."
With a smothered curse Sir Gaston
reaches her side.
"You shall pay for vour insolence." savs
"he between his teeth. Throwing an arm
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hers.
( Brenda stands quite still, but, raising her
right arm, suddenly, unexpectedly, eives
him a very smart slap across his face. Part
ly pain, partly surprise loosens his arm. In
another second he finds himself alone in the
room.
Brenda, running quickly up stairs and
straight to Lady Carysfort's boudoir, feels
her heart sinkiug within her. Alas! for her
"dignity!" What had she done? Boxed his
ears! Oh, how hatefully it soundsl Auntie
will be shocked horrified! t
Bursting into auntie's room, she finds
there not only Lady Carysfort but) Tom
and Gerald Kenrick, who have only jutt ar
rived. j
"Why, we were going to look for you,"
cry they in a breath, and then in anbther
breatb,""Good heavens! what's tho matter
with you?" .
"Oh! that odious, odious man," cries 'Miss
Bowen, giving dignity a wide room, land
now stamping her little loot furiously pon
the ground. "Talk of dignity, auntie.; who
could be dignified with a a wretcf, like
Gaston?"
"But, my darling, what has Tiaprened?"
exclaims Lady Carysfort, rushing aoout for
I eau do cologne and fans. "Sit dotrn, dear
est, and tell ns everything. Was he qmte
too dreadful, then, about poor Khoda? '
"He was much more dreadful about mel
says Brenda, still trembling with indigna
tion. .
"About voul" exclaims Gerald.
"Brenda what do vou mean?" says Lady
Carysfort, stopping short with three bottles
and two fans in her hands. "Surely he did
not dare " .
"Oh! he dared too much," cries. the girl
passionately. "He 'dared to td try to
touch me!" She stamps her foot again.
A passionate exclamation from Gerald Is'
followed bv almost ns vigorous a one from
.Tom. Gerald, even in the midst of his
agitation, hears it and looks at his brother.
It is a short glan ce but eloquent. .Then he
looks back at Brenda.
"He that scoundrel," says he, as if
choking, "he touched you?"
"Oh! no, no, nol" says she vehemently,
putting up her hands as if to ward off such
a terrible idea.
"You withered him with a glance," cries
Lady Carysfort "You defeated him bv a
word. I can see you, Brenda. Su h dig
nity, such grace. . You are indeed my own
niece. He shrank from you, the coward!
You reduced him to ashes as it were by
a curl of the lips. Would I had been there
to'see it"
"It wasn't quite that, auntie," falter
ingly. , '
"It was, my dearest, but brave hearts are
always modest! Tom Gerald. Can you not
imagine the scene? That big bad man,
cowed by one imperious word from your
sweet cousin."
i'Oh, auntie, it wasn't a word!" says
Brenda, now in deep distress.
. "No, darling, then then what ?"
"It it was as good a slap as I could give
him!"
"Well, dearest, a slap given judiciously
hurts the spirit very much." .
"Oh! But it was his face I hurt," says
Brenda, covering her eyes with both her
hands.
"My dear y,ou mean "
"That I boxed his ears!" says Brenda
faintly.-
There is a dead silence, broken by Tom
Kenrick, who gives way to Tiolent mirth.
"Well done, yourself! you little Ama
zon !" says he. "Though in truth you have
disappointed me; I had hoped for the poker.
"What could those little hands of yours do?"
"Ah ! too much?" says she, speaking
still from behind them. Now, however,
she peeps through her finger, first at Tom
and then at Gerald.
"The man's a fiend 1" says Lady Carysfort
solemnly.
"He's more than that He's a scoun
drel !" says Gerald passionately.
"Not much to choose between them,"
says Tom. "Where is he, however? This
fiendish scoundrel. Did you floor him,
Brenda? is he weltering in his blood on
auntie's best carpet?"
"He has gone, of course," said Brenda.
"May I ask what incited him to his
crime?"
"Well, I I told him he was the'most
vulgar man I ever met!" says B.-enda, hang
ing her pretty head.
, Tom Kenrick laughs again. "Fancy his
caring about that!" says he.
2b be continued next Sunday.'
Copyright, 1892, by the author.
OEAFIING BABBIT BONE.'
How Surgeons Piece Out the Human Arm
in Bad Cases of Fracture.
A lumberman named Smith has just re
covered in San Francisco from a remarkable
surgical operation. His arm was broken
and when -partly knit broken again. The
parts would not unite and a section of rab
bit bone was successfully used to make the
arm perfect again.' The prgcess is as fol
lows: The rabbit is thoroughly treated so
as to kill all the germs. Then it is killed
bv a blow- on the neck, and the surgeon
lavs bare with a scalpel the long bone of
the hind leg. The bone is cut from its
place with pliers and thrown into a vessel
full of 'the corrosive sublimate, and
all is then ready for the actual grafting.
The patient is given ether until unconscious,
and in such a case as that of Smith the arm
is freely incised over the spot at which the
break occurred. When the bone is fullv
exposed the ends of the fragments are well
scraped, or if necessary bits are cut away so
that the ends shall present clean, new sur
faces. When the scraping is finished the
wound is thoroughly washed with an. anti
septic solution, the washing extending to
every part and being continued until it is
certain that no particle of unsound
flesh or bone remains. Then the rabbit
bone is quickly pounded up in a nior
tar into fragments, which are thoroughly
washed with the mercurial solution, anil
with the fragments of rabbit bone the space
between the ends of the broken bone in the
arm ot the patient is packed. A final douche
of antiseptic fluid js given and the wound
is closed and left under light dressings, the
arm being fastened to a splint. The letter
A in the illustration indicates the location
of the graft
If all goes well there is little or no in
flammation. Evidences of healing are at
once shown. The rabbit bone is partly ab
sorbed and from the human bone are
thrown out processes which enter into the
bone material stolen from the rabbit Blood
'vessels arc formed in the new material, and
in time a new and sound bone replaces that
which was fractured and the man is restored
,to health and ability to make a living by
manual labor.
Baskets Instead of Hats.
At Phyong Yang, a large and historical
town near the west coast of Corea, Mr.
Charles, of the British Consulate at Seoul, re
cords that the hats worn by the poor women
are ba'skets threeanda halt feet long, two and
a half feet wide, and twoand a half feet deep,
which conceal their faces as effectually as
the white cloak worn by women of a better
class over their heads.
WHAT IS CATARRH?
Tho Opinion of an Eminent Medical Au
thority. Catarrh is the cause of more diseases than
all other causes combined. There are very
few diseases to which human flesh is sub
ject that can not be traced directly to
catarrh. Not only is catarrh capable of
producing a great variety of diseases, but it
also attacks any organ or part of the body.
It causes in the cars deafness, in the eyes
blindness, in the head and throat discharges
and offensive odors, iu the bronchial tubes
and larynx cough and hoarseness, in the
lungs. consumption, in'the stomach dyspep
sia, in the kidneys Bright's disease, in tho
pelvic organs a host ot derangements too
numerous, for mention. Pe-ru-na cures
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located. Pe-ru-na is a systemic remedy,
and hence cures catarrh. 'ot internal organs,
ns no local application to the affected organ
is necessary. Send for a free copy ot the
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Ladies take Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bit
ters when low spirited.
Tlie Grafted Arm.
NOTES-AND QUERIES.
Answers to the Questions Fat by
Cnrions Dispatch Headers.
THE FAMOUS FIFTH OF NOVEHBEB.
How to Discover 'Whether Ancestors Wera
in the L'eYolntion.
1 VERY EEHAEKIBI-E C1TI IN KORWAI
Why should one "remember the Sth of
November," as a friend sang tho othor day
something- about "Remember, remember,
the fifth of NovembeiT" Deo.
Your friend sang the beginning of an old
English song, the origin of which we do
not know, the whole of which, however, is
as follows:
Remember, remember,
The fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot;
I see no reason
Why yunpowdor treason.
Should ever ns forgot.
November 5, 1GQ5, was the day .on which
the English Parliament was to meet at the
Parliament House in London. On the
night of November 4, or early in the morn
ing of the Sth, the discovery was made of
famous "gunpowder plot," the object of
which was to blow up Parliament, TCing,
Lords and Commons, and thns remedy with
sharp correction a terrible disease of the
body politic. There was no suspicion of
personal revenge connected with the plot
Some Boman Catholic gentleman, angered
that their efforts to obtain the English
throne for the Scotch King had obtained as
reward only the re-enactment of Elizabeth's
laws against them and their co-religionists,
determined to remove James in such a way
as to strike terror among those opposed to
the Koman Catholics. Eobert Catesby was
the leader of the conspiracy; be had
suffered much under Elizabeth for
his religion's sake, and was wholly dis
affected to James. Uhers were Catesby s
cousins, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy,
John Wright, Garnet, the superior of the
Jesuits in England, Bobert Winter, Chris
topher Wright, Sir William Stanley.
Francis Tresham, Bokewood, Keyes aud
Sir Everard Digby. Catesby laid the plan
before Thomas Winter early in 1604; in
May, despairing of help from Spain in
securing the repeal of the penal laws
against Boman Catholics, the conspirators
began to work. They hired "Vinegar House,
a building adjoining the Parliament House,
and put Guy Fawkes, a Yorkshireman, in
charge of the place, and of the tunnel and
mine. All was prepared in 5Iay 1605.
The intention was to kiil James and Henry,
the Prince of Wales; to seize Prince Charles
aud the Princess Elizabeth and raise he
Koman Catholic gentry; and with the new
king (Charles would succeed to the throne
on the death of his father and brother) in
the hands of the Boman Catholics, to
compel the repeal of the obnoxious laws.
Ten days before the meeting of Parliament,
Lord Monteagle, a friend ot several of the
conspirators, was warned not to attend the
opening; be showed the letter to Salisbury,
Secretary of State to the King, who showed
it to James; and every precaution was
ta" en. Winter was warned that all ws
discovered and the others were advised to
fly; but all waited. On November 4, the
Lord Chamberlain discovered Fawkes in a
vault of the Parliament House, where a
great quantity of fuel was stored; he be
came suspicious, and ordered Sir Thomas
Knevet to make a stricter search; Sir Thomas
did so, and found 36 barrels of gunpowder
under the fuel. Fawkes was arrested, and
under torture, confessed. On January 30,
1606, four of the conspirators -were drawn,
hanged and quartered; and on Jannary 31,
Winter, Bokewood, Keyes and Fawkes
were executed. The others were executed
as they were captured, some of them having
been killed when Catesby's house .was at
tacked. The plot had evil effects., for the
"Boman Catholics, for the laws against them'
were made much, stridor. 'November 5 was
ordered to be kept as a day of thanksgiving
for ever; but in 1858 the act was repealed,
and the form ot thanksgiving services was
removed from the English prayer book. It
was customary in England on November 5
for children to make an effigy of Guy
Fawkes, to carry it about the streets in a
chair, singing the song about which "De
cember" asked, and finally to burn it on a
bonfire. It is said that the whole "plot"
was devised by Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, to
give him an excuse to proceed against the
Koman Catholics; but the statement is not
so well evidenced as that given above.
Show bow it was impossible for the dark
ness that occuried at the time of Christ's
crucifixion to have been due to an eclipse of
thasnn. Hampton.
We can't. Josephus, who cared nothing
about Christ, and so cannot be accused of
trying to belittle the crucifixion, makes
note of a general eclipse ot the sun in the
ear and at the time of the crucifixion. All
commentators, however, do not accept
Josephus' record, and say that as the Pass
over was timed by the full moon, Josephus'
eclipse could not have occurred on 'the -day
of the crucifixion. Those who. accept
Josephus' testimony say that the Hebrew
calendar was so far wrong that though the
Passover shonld have been at the time of
the lull moon, it actually came at the time
of the new moon. Some commentators
ascribe the darkness to the exhalations
often noticed as preceding ait earthquake.
The question is not settled yet
My ancestors on my mother's slda for
three goneiatlons havelivedin this country,
and I think some of them served In the
Revolution. Cap you teli me how I may find
out definitely? 1776.
Almost all, if not all, of the 13 original
States, have caused records to be made of
the revolutionary soldiers. New Jersey
has the best record, we believe, and Penn
sylvania comes second, with a very com
plete list of her soldiers. Write to the
Adjutant General of the State wherein
your ancestors lived in 1776-83. He will
undoubtedly be able to give you some ac
count of them if they did serve as soldiers
in the War of Independence.
In wbat European city can one see the
stm at midnlclit during the summer, and
why la K so: R. W.ll.
la Hammerfest in Norway, the most
northerly town of Europe. It is a town of
about 3,000 inhabitants, the principal busi
ness of which has to do with the fisheries.
In the summer, though the earth is more
distant from the sun than in winter, its axis
points almost directly nt-the sun, so that
the north polar regions are directly under
its rays, and for two months are not cut off
from it by the horizon.
Why did President Arthur take tho oath
ofofllceathls home, and again m Washing
ton? W. M. B.
He took it first as soon as h e had heard of
the death of President Garfield; there wa3
no legal necessity for his takiug it a second
time, but it has always been the custom for
the Chief Justice of the United " States to
administer the oath, so that Mr. Arthur
merely followed precedent in taking the
oath, more formally than at his home, be
fore Chief Justice Waile in the Capitol at
Washington.
What is tho speed of electricity?
F. J. T.
Electricity, where unrctarded by atmos
pheric influences, travels at the rate of
288,000 miles a-second. Along a wire it is,
"of course, vastly slower; a perceptible
period of time is occupied by the electric
enrrent in sending telegrams over long
distance?.
a mn-n iin in this conntrv of unnatural- I
ized parents becomes of age: can he voto,
ills parents never Having oecoino nitizenuT
W. A. B., Jr.
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prefer to follow the nationality of his
parents, and consider himself an alien; or
he may consider himself as a citizen, as
suming the nationality of his birthplace. If
he choose the second alternative he may
vote without taking" out naturalization
papers, because he is a citizen by birth.
Why cannot residents of the Dlitrict of
Columbia vote in l'residental elections? Do
they vote on municipal matters? A.K.
TheDistrict of Columbia is like the other
Territories, in that its inhabitants have no
vote in Presidental elections; and, further,
its inhabitants have no vote in any matters
whatever. They are governed by Congress,
J he direct ruler being three commissioners
appointed by the President and Senate
two civilians and one army officer of the
Engineer Department
What will preserve forest leaves in their
natural color? Millard.
"Varnish. Get white varnish and apply it
in a thin coat over each leaf; then let the
leaf dry thoroughly. Wben'dry, the leaves
should be kept in a place where the sun
will not shine upon them and where as
little air as possible will reach them; under
these circumstances they will retain much
of their color for years.
What is the popolatlon of Chicazo, and
that ofPhiladelphia, by the census of 1892?
Arthur.
There was no census of 1892, the last cen
sus was taken in 1890. By that Chicago
held the second place among tbe large
cities of this country, with a population of
1,099,964; and Philadelphia went down to
third place, with 1,016,964 persons within
her gates. "
Where was Mr. Andrew Carnegie born?
Chicago.
Mr. Carnegie was born in Dnnfermline,
Scotland, 57 yean ago this month, and came
to this country when 10 years old.
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A PSODIOY FE0M BU3SIA.
This- One Thongh Only Twelve Tears Old
Plays the Violin for Royalty.
Chicago Hcrald.3 i
A new star has appeared on tbe musical
firmament A boy,Kostja Damtscheff, not
yet 12 years old, has been "discovered" in
Kassia. It was through Bubinstein that
Kostja Duci tscheff was brought into promi
nence. He has chosen the violin for his.in
strument and has given several concerts in
St Petersburg, where he was honored by
being ordered to appear before the Czar a't
tbe Imperial Court The Emperor, as well
as all others present, was delighted with the
boy's performance, which is characterized
by a wonderful execution and splendid
abandon, totally different from the precise
and painfully correct exhibitions generally
given by the majority of thee "wonderful"
child performers. Young Dnmtschefr is a
very handsome, healthy-looking lad. He
T-
will not be nermitted to travel for everal
years.bnt Mas been placed under the very best
When Ajaby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
Whenishe was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
Wheti she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
Whfk she had Children, she gave them Castor!
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