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Paris may be the recognized center of the
worId of fashion, but it is no longer neces
sary to go there to see the perfectly dressed
woman, as Mrs. Trollope once declared.
There is quite as much wealth and luxury,
quite as much refinement of manners and
physical grace in the New 'World as in that
gay and frivolous city. The fashionable
American woman Is rarely Trilling to accept
the French styles without considerable
change and modification.
I note that ball, dinner and reception
dresses hare steadily maintained their sim
plicity of makeup, relying unon the ele
gance of material to attain effects. I was
DaU Dress for a Debutante.
struck by the simple style in which one
gown was garnitured, and vet the effect was
altogether charming. Indeed, it would be
difficult to find a more lovely gown than
this very one, a pale blue satin, with a col
lar of pleated cream silk gauze, and ruches
of the same on the bottom of the sleeves
and skirt, the ceniture being of cream satin.
The picture shows a simple but pretty ball
gown for a debutante. It may be made up
in tulle, gauze or thin silk, set off with a
lace corselet.
Besides satins, Louis XV. brocades and
the heavv Louis XVI. failles are extremely
modish for evening wear. These elegant
fabrics are frequently set off with silk, or
with multi-colored pearls in byzantine
stvle. The overskirts worn with evening
costumes are either of silk muslin in two
colors, black or white tulle sparkling with
spangles or stars, or of gauze dotted with
jnetal butterflies. Flokette.
Fads In French. Felt
A curious materia, that can be described
best as felt straw, is seen in imported hats.
It is made of quarter-inch wisps braided.
Circular pieces of felt are pinned into any
bat or bonnet shape desired. These come
in plain and in chine felt. A tobacco brown
is pinned into an old-time poke, and
HIS FIRST WIFE
CHAPTER J.
A FATAL JOUIHTEr.
"If I were to die, Edred, would you
marry again?"
Captain Blount looked up from the
paper, surprised at such an unusual ques
tion. '"Well, no, my dear; though second mat
rimony is the best compliment one can pay
the first partner of one's joys."
"Nonsense. Second marriages are hor
rible," she said, with more vigor than the
occaiion demanded. "It, when I die, you
have another wife, I'll come and haunt you
both."
"There is not much prospect of your
playing ghost," he laughed, with a glance
at the lady's florid, healthy face; "so it's
not worth while to discuss the subject. I
am deep in a splendid article on military
tactics."
After this there was silence in tbe sunny
breakfast room. The Captain was engrossed
with the newspaper, and his wife sat
thoughtfully stirring her coffee. A cloud
was on her brow; ever and anon she shot an
angry look at her husband. At last she
burst out
"For goodness sake leave oS reading and
say something."
"What is there to say?" he asked reason
ably enough.
Ton found plenty," shs retorted bit
terly, "when we were first married. Ton
found my conversation more interesting
than stupid politics or tactics then."
"My dear Lavinia, how absurd you are.
We are past the stage of sickly sentiment.
We have been married ten yean; I am
nearly 40, and you, forgive the frankness of
a husband, are no chicken."
"You are very rude," she said, with a hot,
angry tear rising to her eye.
"And you evidently require a change of
air. Your nerves are out of order. Whv
not go North on a visit to vour Aunt
Claire?"
"I think I will," she said, seizing with
her usual impulsiveness on the new idea.
"I'll go this very day and take Annt Claire
by surprise. To tell the truth, I am rather
sick of our jog-trot existence. You are
always at the club, and the only friends we
have are chess playing, whist playing fogies
et yours. The women well, I neer got
on with women, nor they with me."
Tbe Captain sighed. It had always been
a sore point with him this feminine ostra
cism to which his wife had been treated. It
reminded him more than ever of the ill
breeding and bad temper pf the woman be
had chosen. .It was, he argued, a bad sign
when her own sex cave her a wide berth.
However, he talked easily enough about
tbe proposed journey, looked up tbe trains,
and gave Lavinia full directions as to travel
ing, etc.
Then he bid her good-by and went off to
the city, where he had some business to
,1ansaxU.
Mrs. Blount made immediate prepara
tions for leaving home. There was much to
be done domestic matters to arrange, bag
gage, and so forth. But long betore noon
she was ready to go.
"No chicken, indeed," she muttered
angrily, as she surveyed herself in the swing
glass.
It reflected the tall buxom figure of a
woman on the shady side of 30. Her face
was florid, her eyrs were blue, her hair was
of that nondescript dusty brown known as
mouse color, but it was fine and thick. Ten
j ears before she must have been a pretty,
insipid blonde, but now she was coarsening
in the way plump blondes will.
She was richly but rather loudly dressed
trimmed with a big gold buckle and black
quills. Felt raveling, in the mixture of
colors seen in the bourette tweeds, makes
some odd, furry looking turbans.
White felt crocheted with a white silk
cord makes a bat that is trimmed in hunters'
green velvet, white plumes and rhinestone
buckles. Perforated felt is used for little
bonnets, cut in queer shapes, and inter
laced with self-colored chenille. Tucked
felt, exactly copying the tucked wools, is
fashioned 'into bonnets, tbe trimming
matching the tucks, which are lighter in
shade than the ground, as a brown felt with
light tan tucks and tan trimmings. Bright
colored felt bonnets are braided in contrast
ing soutache, as scarlet with black, green
with tan.
Xeedlework on AVhlto Linen.
Thistles, clovers, buttercups, sweet-peas,
orchids and narcissus are flowers most seen
injneedlc work done upon white linen. When
the thistles are worked in their natural
color:, with the foliage of the plants in soft
grayish green, even those who see no beauty
in live thistles are charmed. A set of doy
lies worked with a continuous border of
small morning glories, with their vines and
tendrils and the flowers all in their natural
color.--, has the flowers wrought in a net
woik of htitches that make them resemble
skeleton flowers. Many of the new doylies
are without decoration in the center, and
have a border of embroidery as near as pos
sible to the fringed edges. "One very pretty
set has the fringe cut away in each corner,
and in the center of each side, where there
is a cluster of flowers done in solid em
broidery. Fashion Flutterlngs.
Graceful unncesse coats of ribbed velvet
aro worn witli skirts of cloth or silk.
Some of tho new French diess skirts show
a row or tiny frills alternating with very
narrow Lands of velvet or saloon.
Fichus are much worn, being made of
almost nnv material one may have on hand,
or may feel inclined to purchase Lace and
rose-buds, plain cliiHon. embroidered chiffon
anything and everything go to make up
these ornaments.
BEUEr-Esoix or butternut-brown of a Oe
cidedly reddish shade, appears among some
of the ricli fabrics of tbe season. It is often
used by ladies' tailors lor elegant visiting
dinner dresses of coided silk and plain vel
vet, camel's hair, velouis, bengaline and
ladies' cloth.
Moke elaborate than over before are the
silk petticoats designed for evening wear.
One model that is of green and crimson shot
sillr has tho lower edge alternately filled
with red and green silk., Matron luifles of
black lace with the upper edges threaded In
and out with bebe ribbon tali ovor those of
tne silk.
There is such a variety of mode from
which to choose this season that all figures
can select the style ot dressing which best
accords with their requirements. There are
the Eir.piie and Directoiro waists for slim
figures; trim, tailor-made coats, in English
lastilon, for stouter forms; princesse models,
which greatly aid in imparting a slender
effect, besides the comet skirt and long
waisted French bodice, wbich impart an
attractive symmetry to the generality of
figures.
A FAIR COMMITTEE STRIKES.
They Quit In a Body Because Their tabor
Congress Programme Is Spoiled.
Chicago. Dec 29 The ladies on the
Labor Congress Committee of the World's
Congress Auxiliary to-aay resigned in a
body. The reason given by them is that
the programme for the labor congress, over
which they and committees of laboring men
bad worked for the best part of a year, was
practically ignored by C C Bonney, Presi
dent ot the Auxiliary.
Mr. Stevens, who is connected with the
Knights of Labor, said Mr. Bonney'sldea
to.confine the Labor Congress to five days
is preposterous. The religious congress is
Given a month, while important economic
subjects are crowded into the fraction of a
week. To this the women wonld not con
sent. Ton need not despair! Salvation Oil will
heal your burnt arm without a scar. 25 cts.
De 'WnT's Little Early Risers. Best pill
for biliousness, tick headache, malaria.
in a satin gown, a much be-jetted mantle,
and a bonnet which, to the casual observe
consisted of a crimson bow and a couple of
tinsel butterflies.
"Terrible accident on the Midland Rail
way; SO people killed; collision with a
goods train; extra special; lull particu
lars." So chanted the newsboy.
Captain Blount was hurrying along
Cheapside. He had promised to dine and
go to the play with an old comrade, and
was looking forward like a schoolboy to the
mild diversion, for Lavinia when at ho.se
ncidly exacted his attendance at dinner.
He mitrht lunch out, he might be out all
day if he chose, but the evening must be
spent in the bosom of his family at Saracsn
Crescent. The discordant veil of the news
boy put an end to all such thoughts.
It was with a horrible qualm that be
danced at the black lettered placard and
thee paid his penny lor the evening
paper.
He tore it open and greedily drank in
the details of the accident. Good Heavens!
it was the 11:20, the train by which
Lavinia must have traveled. He jumped
into a hansom and drove home. His wife
had left in time to catch the 11:20, the
housemaid told him. She bad heard her
mistress tell the cabman so. A reference to
Bradshaw showed him that the fatal train
wasthe only one which stopped at the little
station near which Lavinia's annt lived.
Another reference to Bradshaw showed
him that there was a train leaving for the
scene of the accident at 5:10 a. m. He
took out his watch 9:10. Then for the
first time be remembered his appointment
and sent off a message to his lriend, ex
plaining his absence. He wired also La
vinia's aunt and received an answer saying
that his wife had not arrived. On receipt
of this he felt that there was no doubt ot
her death or injury ordinarily the would
have reached her journey's end long be
fore. Then he went upstairs and made a
pretense of resting till it was time to start
for the station. He returned from his bed
room with a shudder. It was littered with
traces of Lavinia's toilette; he had not
loved her dearly, still she had been his wife
for ten long year?, and be could not now look
on those dainty feminine trifles without a
pang.
Hewas off at last, whirling through a
sleeping country on a chilly autumn morn
ing. To his dying day Captain Blount le
membered that journey. The pale dawn
creeping over the horizon, the first faint
sounds of awakening life, the smoke rising
from early cottage fires; the glimpses ot
laborers trudging along the road to their
day's toil. And through all the horrible
suspense he thought of Lavinia, of the
days when her plump, fair prettiness had
uewucucu uiw, oi mose later aays when
her scolding, peevish temper hid estranged
him. Then he took from his pocket the
newspaper and read again the ghastly de
tails ot tne accident The collision, the
fearful smash, the flames in which the
wreckage was wrapped, the disfigured dead
and wounded.
It came to an end at last, that horrible
journey, and be stepped out on the platform
of the little country station. The birds
were singing, the dew was glittering, the
air was fragrant it seemed hardly possible
that in the midst of such fresh beauty a
tragedy lay hidden.
In a little while he had stepped from
the sunshine across the threshold of a
room in which the blinds were drawn;
round which lay the bodies of the dead.
One by one his condnctor turned down
the covering from a rigid form, and each
time the husband's heart gave a bound of
relief the dead face was not Lavinia's.
At last he had teen all all but one
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LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Yellow fever Is spreading In Venezuela.
Mrs. Langtry Is worse and may not re
cover, after all.
The Mississippi is about frozen over op
posite bt. Louis.
The New Alliance Governor of Kansas
will enforce the prohibitory law.
Smuggled opium valued at $12,009 was
solzod in San Finncisco yesterday.
The private banking firm of W. W. Trull
& Co., Toronto, has suspended, owing $20,000.
One man has been killed and five seri
ously Injured in the Calumet Iron mine In
Colorado.
Bofoie the end of tho nresent week a
new tin-plate plant will be put la operation
in Baltimore.
An apparently Inspired article In he
8t I'eteisburgA'oore Vremya disparages a
French alliance.
Irish Homo Rulers nre excited over a re
pot t that Le Caron, the spy, is Investigating
the Dublin explosion.
Diaz's friends at the City of Mexico are
loth to believe that his troops have been
whipped by tbe rebels.
Dr. Butterfiold, ot Kansas City, who be
queathed $185,000 to Dartmouth College, was
a miser duilnghis life.
Navigation on tbe Rhine, Moelle, Neckar
and Main rivers. In Germany, has been
stopped by floating ice.
A complete opera entitled "King Lear"
lias been found among the manuscripts of
the deceased composer, Lltolfl.
The result of the Brunson divorce trial
in San Francisco Is a vindication of Mrs.
Stoneraau, wife of the ex-Governor of Cali
lomla. If negotiations now under way are
can led out, a consolidation of tho elevated
railways of Chicago will soon bo accom
plished. Female convicts in Siberia are to be ex
empt from flogging and wearing manacles.
Punishment by restricted diet and by isola
tion will bo substituted.
The Universal Radial Drill Company, B.
W. Flack, President; 1G. Marsh, Treasnrer.
hai asilzned. Assets nre estimated at $30,000
to $10,000; liabilities the same.
For courageous services in lepelllne
train robbers near Huntington, W. Va., $100
was given Conductor Zingerlee by the
Chesapeake ana Ohio Company.
State Labor Commissioner Peck, of New
Toilr, denies the leport that ho Is going to
bring suits (or libel against certain newspa
pers for what he terms their persecution of
mm auring tne last campaign.
While Cincinnati morgue doctors were
dissecting tbe supposed corpse ot n man
who had apparently fallen dead in a saloon,
blood burst fiom the wound. It Is believed
the surgeon's knife killed the man.
The differences Detwcen tho Baltimore
and Ohio officials and the Gilevnnce Com
mittee of the Brotnerhood of Trainmen has
been settled by the signing of a wage scale
which makes an averago lucrease ot from 8
to 18 cents por.aay.
Amos II. Hosmer and Edward W. Rouse,
grand officers ot the Iron Hall organization,
recently indicted by the ciand Jury of In
dianapolis, were placed under arrest at
Baltimore yesterday, In obcriieuco to a re
quest -of the Justice or Police of Indian
apolis. John L. Conovor, counsel for tho Central
Railroad Company, lias filed his answer to
Attorney General Stockton's supplemental
information against tho Reading Coal Com
bination. The. answer denies that the
Chancelloi's orders weie disobeyed in any
respect.
Wednesday at Indianapolis Cora Griffith
spent her last dollar for a dancing losson. At
supper time she went to a restaurant and
oeggeu something to eat, then went to her
boarding bouse, swallowed an ounce of car-
uotio acia ana died m an hour, bhe had beon
disappointed in Iotb.
Charles Maechling, a skilled iron worker
of Pittsburg, is in Cincinnati trying to find
his father. He was separated from his
parents in Philadelphia when he was3yeais
old. He has spent several years in the seal ch,
and lias at last located "his mother in Ger
many and will bring her here.
James Dunlap, the Northampton bank
burglar, whose pardon was signed by Gov
ernor Russell, was roleated from State
prison at 9 5 o'clock yesterday morninir.
and left on the Boston and Albany express
iui .w i urj. iiibv, uccompamou. uy nis Ilie
long fiiend, Mrs. Mary Scott Rowland.
An unknown American at Monte Corlo
lost 3,500 belonging to his mother at tho
gaming tables. When the last coin was
gone he walked quickly out, and 18 miles
from Nice throw himself In front of an ap
proaching train and was killed. Another
nnknown gambler lost all he had and blew
out his brains soon, after.
There Is trouble ahead for prominent
men connected with tho Slnaloa colony of
shrouded heap which was drawn a little
aside from the rest. He was told that it
consisted of mutilated remains, charred be
yond recognition. He looked. But the
flames had left no sign of humanity in
those twisted, blackened features.
He would never know whether Lavinia
had met her death, but he told himself it
was almost a certainty. And when the day3
lengthened into weeks, the weeks to months,
he felt absolutely sure that he was widowed.
Now she was dead, he forgot her later faults
and thought of her only with tenderness.
Poor Lavinia.
CHAPTER IL
A SECOND MAREIAGE AND AFTER.
It was late in the afternoon afternoon at
Palermo and an Englishman was strolling
along the Corso. With his fair sunburnt
face, blonde mustache and loose-fitting
tweed suit, he formed a striking contrast to
the pedestrians who thronged the tootpath.
They were principally men, and wore long,
loose cloaks, which they drew in muffled
folds around them. The women were driv
ingit was the hour for fashionable out
door exercise, and everybody with any pre
tensions to gentility had a carriage.
Ctptain Blount walked moodily along
the narrow street. The tall houses, with
their heavy overhanging balconies, threw
dark shadows across the road and made even
a brilliant June day appear dreary. Now
and then, as the Englishman glanced up at
the windows, he would catch glimses of
women seated watching the throng. They
glowed like jewels in a gloomy setting
those dark-eyed Southern beauties with
their bright-hned bodices and elaborate
ornaments.
Suddenly there was a block in the long
line of vehicles, and Blount heard his name
called out by a hearty English voice. He
turned in surprise to the carriage from
which the voice came, and confronted his
old lriend. Colonel Seton. The two men
shook hands cordially and through the
minds of each there flashed the memory of
other days davs spent under a'hot Indian
sun. They had not met since Blount was
sent invalided home.
"Delighted to see you," cried the genial
Colonel. "But, mv dear chap, how ill you
are looking. Surely that old wound "
"Never gives me a twinge," returned the
other. "The fact is, I've had a trouble. I'd
rather not talk about it "
"Ot course not, of course not," assented
the veteran. "Pussy and I must try to
cheeer you up. Yoti remember Pussy my
daughter Kathleen."
"I should think so; the prettiest little
fairy in the world and the pet ot the sta
tion. Why. Colonel, she must be grown np
now. How old it mases one feel."
"Grown up. Of conrse she is. She's
quite an elegant young lady. isPussv.
Come, jumpiin, Blount, and lei me drive
you to the Villa Macqueda. We are stay
ing there, and you and Kathleen can renew
your old acquaintance."
Kathleen Seton was, indeed, an elegant
young lady. Captain Blount could hardly
believe his eyes. Was this Pnssy roguish
Pussy with white frocks, a wide blue sash,
and the funniest little prattling tongue pos
sible? Had she really turned out such a
beauty? For Kathleen's wondrous hazel
eyes, exquisitely pure complexion, and
clear cut features certainly entitled her to
the distinction of such a term.
She and the Captain were' soon capital
friends.
"I always liked you. better than the
others when I was a wee thing in India,"
she said one day. And tho soldier's heart
beat with a strange new pleasure as he
looked down at the iresh girlish face.
"Was it possible," he asked himself im
patiently, ''that he bad been fool enough to
lall in love with the child?" Pool or no
foal, he soon knew that he had in very
trtfh fallen captive to fair Kathleen. He,
mi Idle-aged and matter of fact, ai he had
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Americans 1n Mexico. The projector and
head of the Topolobampo scheme is a New
Yorker, and he has been notified to apnear
belore tho Board of Directors at Enterprise,
Kan., Januarys, and make arrangements to
protect the COO colonists now there.
Attorney General Rosendale, of New
York, has submitted an opinion to the Secre
tary of State In tho application of tho Wells
Fargo Express Company to transact an
express business only in that State, the com
pany now being incorporated under the
laws or Colorado to do several branches or
business, in which beholds that a certificate
should be issued.
Tuesday Jacob Collins tried to force his
way over tne Newportand Cincinnati bridge
without paying toll. Joshua B. Harrison, the
tollkeeper, tried to prevent his passing. A
struggle ensued, and Harrison struok. Col
lins with his fist. Collins died a few hours
later. Harrison was tried for murder
Wednesday, and the Jury acquitted him
without leaving their seats.
4. Child Enjoys
Tbe pleasant flavor, gentle action and sooth
ing effect or Syrup or Figs, when in need of
a laxative, and if the father or mother be
coativo or bilious, tho most gratifying re
sults follow Its use; so that it is the best
family lemedy known and every lamlly
should have a bottle.
"Thanks evermore.' Shakespeare.
OUR THANKS !
Our sincerest thanks to our
many patrons for far and away
the biggest holiday trade in our
business history. The holidays
are over, but we have not fallen
asleep. We are as wideawake
as ever awake to your wants
and your interests.
FOR NEW YEAR GIFTS
We have hundreds of novelties
just opened. Came in too late
for the Christmas trade are
ready for New Year. Some
thing that the Christmas shop
pers have not seen. If you have
to get a New Year's gift, get
it here.
THE COMING YEAR
Will find us just as attentive,
our goods just as reliable, our
assortment even larger, our prices
even more reasonable than last
year. What more can we say?
Wishing you and yours
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trom smoke go and see what is being done
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man's word for it, but see It yourselves.
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often dubbed himself to Lavinia, Poor
Lavinia! Dead and nearly forgotten.
He decided to leave Palermo, and forget
his folly. But one June day the three
Kathleen, her father and Blount went for
an excursion to a tiny fishing village some
distance round the coast. It was a holi
day, and all the village i"61ks were holding
festival. All wore gala dress, and the
young men were dancing a tarantella, while
the women, according to custom, sat at the
doors looking on.
"How light-hearted they seem," said
Blount, as the three of them turned away
and went down to the seashore.
"Gad," cried the Colonel irritably,
"those young blades would not foot it so
merrily had they tne gout in their toes as I
have. Look here, Blount, you and Kath
leen can go on if you choose, but I'il rest
here awhile."
So the two strayed together along the
yellow sands. Kathleen stooped now and
thenyto pickup some exquisitely tinted
shell
"What a lovely place this is," she said
with a sigh, "and how happy we have been.
I shall never have such a delightful time
again.
r -.nonsense, i ou nave lite betore you.
You will marry, and your honeymoon will
be more interesting than this time has been,
spent with a couple of old fogies."
"Imaynot marry. Everyone does not.
You, for instance."
A cloud darkened his good-looking face,
and a sudden impulse made him take the
girl's pink palm in his.
"You are mistaken. I have been married.
Shall I tell you abont it?"
"If you please," she said, with grave sur
prise and a shy upward glance from her
hazel eyes.
So they sat down on the sands in the hot
sunshine, and Blount bared his heart.
"When they sent me home invalided,"
he began abruptly, "I went to live at a
boarding bouse in Kensington. It was
kept by a pleasant middle-aged woman,
whose name was vMrs. Minor. She had a
niece who was supposed to assist In domes
tic affairs, but who Mas more of an orna
ment than anything else. Lavinia Minor
was a pretty girl of two or three and
twenty."
"Was she like me?"
"Oh, no. She was a blonde; pink
cheeked, blue-eyed and fluffy haired. Well,
to make a long story short, I married her,
and the marriage was rather a failure. We
'did not quarrel exactly, but we tiffed, and
lavinia, poor soul, was fond of nagging.
She wasn't quite quite a lady, you know,
and did not seem to make friends with other
women. She lost her good looks, too, and
soured in consequence. One day, when we
had one of the usual little sparring matcher,
it was arranged that she should go on a visit
to Mrs. Minor, who had sold the boarding
house, and was living at a north-country
village. She went, and the train by which
she traveled came into collision and caught
nre. The result was fearful. Iwentdown
and saw the dead. Lavinia was not among
them. But some were burned and muti
lated beyond recognition. That was two
years ago, and I have not a doubt that I am
widowed."
"How horrible," saidthe girl with a
shudder.
There were tears in her lovely eyes, and
she put out one ot her little hands sympa
thetically. Captain Blount took it and held it last
The. summer sky, the blue waves which
rippled at his feet, above all the girl's
beauty, intoxicated him.
He forgot his 40 years, bis 'prudent re
solve. "Pussy," he whispered, unconsciously
using her pet childish name. "I love you,
I love you, my darling. , Say, will you be
my wile?"
It was Christmas Eve in London. Out
side the snow fell thick; the roads were like
iron, tbe very puddles had turned to greasy
black Ice. Insid, at an old-fashi6ned
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Bloomsbury house, at all events, all was
warmth and comfort.
"Now, dear," said Kathleen, "you must
start to meet papa."
She had developed into a charming yonng
matron, and the look she cast on her hus
band was full of lore.
"Plenty of time, Puss," he said content
edly, yet rising from his chair and submit
ting himself to be helped on with bis over
coat "The Colonel's train is not due till
9:30."
"But you had better go, you might miss
him."
So he turned out of the warm dining
room into the clear, cold night
Kathleen came to the hall door and drew
back with a pretty shiver as a rude blast
swept round the corner.
Captain Blount went down the steps into
the street. As be turned a woman advanced
from the railings, where she had been
crouching.
He gazed at her with idle curiosity. She
did not look the kind of a woman to be out
unprotected on such a night.
She wore a long loose cloak which com
pletely covered her, and the hood ot which
served as a bonnet
She raised her head and looked him full
in the face, then touched his arm and said
in a voice which made him shudder,
"Edred."
He recoiled and stared blankly in those
faded blue eyes.
For a moment, though he was not super
stitious, he wondered it she had not come
back from the grave. She who for three
years bad been to all seeming dead.
He looked again. The florid face, the
masses of loose brown hair, which the rude
wind was tossing wildly, he knew well
enough. This was no spirit
"Don't be afraid," she said with a mock
ing laugh. I'm no ghost Do you not wish
I was?
"My God!" he cried. "Lavinia. Where
have you been all these years?" Then he
glanced at the lighted dining room where
.Kathleen sat waiting.
"Come away," be said, taking her by the
arm. "For pity's sake come away."
. CHAPTER IIL
CATTAIir BLOUNT'S DILEMMA.
"It happened in this way," she said as
they paced the frozen pavements of the
quiet Bloomsbury squares. "I meant to go
to Aunt Claire, but missed the train. I
started to return hqme and postpone my
journey till next day; but in tire booking
office I met Madame Lacroix. Do you
remember her? No, of course I forgot that
you are far above remembering people who
were mv friends. She boarded a long time
'with aunt, and finally started a pension of
her oun at Boulogne.
At the time we met she was on the look
out lor a suitable partner. We did some
shopping and had tea talking of her afiairs
all the time. She did not know ot my mar
riage, and I had not found of an opportun
ity to tell her. It was getting dark when
we lelt tbe confectioner's, and the newsboys
were shouting particulars of the horrible
railway accident on the Midland Railway.
Then ail iu a flash the idea occured to me of
hiding for a time; you would believe me
dead; it would give you a horrible fright
and bring back that love for your wile which
she knew she was losing; and I was so sick
of our humdrum existence."
At the very moment this scene occurred
Pate, in the shape of Madame Lacroix, aided
it
"Why should not you come, Lavinia?"
she said abruptly-her mind still running on
the wants of herpensiou.
"Why, Indeed," I returned. "It is the
very thing to suit me."
"So for three years I have been at Bou
logne; at the very time you were viewing.
,no doubt with satisfaction, my charred re
mains, I was enjoying myself immensely
across the channel, in tact, the J tie was so
pleasant that I might have stopped there
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for good had not a copy of the Times given
me intelligence of your marriage to a Miss
Seton. Who is she? What is she like? I
suppose it was that chit of a girl who came
with you to the door. She will have to go."
"Not so fast, Lavinia," he said quietly,
though his blood was boiling at the insult
to Kathleen. I must be sure ot your iden
tity first"
She gave a scornful laugh.
"That is good. You wish to prove the
identity of your own wife. A capital joke,
Edred, but it won't get you out of your
difficulty."
He sighed heavily. Too well he knew
that not a doubt lingered in his mind. She
was his wife, and Kathleen, sweet, inno
cent Pnssy he shuddered when he thought
of the curse he had brought on her.
He thought, too, of the happiness which
he had tasted for the last 12 months of the
misery of reunion with the woman at his
side, and, as he thought, he grew to hate
her.
"Curse you," he said, forgetting her sex
and the relation he held to her, "for a vile
trickster. I wish to heaven that you could
feel one-half the pain you have brought on
me. Let me get out of your sight. Let
me forget you ever crossed my path.
"Not till you have said iwheu you will
meet me again. It must be soon. I am in
no mood for trifling. This is Christmas Eve.
Shall we say the day after to-morrow?"
"Give me longer," he pleaded. "Till the
new vear. I must have time to think on
my course of action."
"You are not overwarm in your welcome,"
she said scornfully, "but I will b'e gener
ous." Meet me at three o'clock on New
Year's Day in the British Museum. And
mind," she concluded threateningly, "if
you break the appointment I shall go
straight to the woman who thinks herself
vour wife."
"I will come," he said briefly and with
no other word hurried away. He wandered
blindly; along the lonely streets in the teeth
of driving wind and snow. He could only
think of Kathleen. Would that the golden
summer days in Sicily had never been;
would that he had never seen that lovely
girlish beauty.
CHAPTER IV.
FOUND OUT.
How the idea took root in bis mind he
never knew; but there it was, and it grew
and grew till a faint hope came with it
What if this woman was an impostor?
It was a wild hope, considaring that
Lavinia's voice still rang in his ears.
Lavinia's face was ever before him.
Still there was the hope, and vague
though it was, would not be driven out
Mrs. Minor was dead, but there was still
one person living who had known his first
wile as a child.
So he traveled down to Pyedale and in
terviewed this person, who years ago had
been Lavinia's nurse.
The short winter afternoon was closing in
as he walked up the straggling village
street At the door of the wheelwright's
cottage stood the wheelwright's wife Han
nah Stone, the woman Captain Blount had
come in search ofT
She knew him at once, and begged him to
step into a stuffy little parlor, whose win
dow was crowded with flowers lhat still
bloomed, despite the season.
For more than an hour he tat talking
with Mrs. Stone, and when he arose to go.
the cloud from his face had nearly lifted.
What if bis wild hops had some founda
tion after all?
On New Year's Day he met Lavinia.
"What have you decided to do?" she
asked. "Though indeed but one course is
open to vou "
"And'that"
"Is to reinstate mo in my proper position
as your wife."
"1 will when I am certain that we stand
in that relation to each other," he said
sternly.
TO
"I do not understand."
"You will presently. Be good enough to
take off your gloves."
Her face paled, and her mouth twitched
convulsively. But she looked up defiantly.
"Don't be a fool," she said evasively.
"Tell me what you are driving at"
By a sudden movement he tore down he
loose gloves.
On the left wrist was a large mole,
"As I thought," he said, coolly pointing
to it; "you are Louise, my late wife's sister
and a miserable liar and impostor. I
"You are mad," she cried. "IamLa
Tlna. I always had this mole."
"Lavinia, as I perfectly well remember,
bad an ugly scar across the back of her
right band, caused by the bite of a dog.
You have no sueh scar. Believe me, the
game is up. You had better not drive me
to the extremity of having yon arrested.
Mrs. Stone could give damning evidence."
He saw her tremble; he saw the color die
completely from her florid face, leaving
her whiteto the lips.
"She told me all," he continued, driving
the nail home, "the story of your misera
ble marriage, of the burden of disgrace you
and your low-born husband have borne.
Lavinia, poor soul, never let her name past
your lips. How you learnt of her death,
how this diabolical scheme developed it
itself is best known to you. But you are
Lavinia's sister. I learnt that a few days
ago from your old nurse. If I do anything
for you "
She burst into tears.
"Poverty tempted me; my husband is
dead," she said penitently. "We were twin
sisters, and strikingly alike. I thought it
would be easy to hoodwink you, and make
you buy my silence. Thank yon for your
ofler of help. A little money will spare me
much misery."
"Then you may draw quarterly on my
bankers. Here is their address and partic
ulars of the amount they will hold tor you.
But never let me see your face again."
So they parted, in the darkening street,
where the lamps were being lighted.
They went their different wavs.
She turned into the glare and turmoil of a
busy thoroughfare; he walked toward an old
house the home where Kathleen, innocent
of evil, was awaiting him.
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