|l CHAPTER I.
' THE NEWCOMERS.
"If you please, mum," said tho voice 1
of a domestic from somewhero round the
angle of the door, "No. 8 is moving in."
Two little old ladies, who wero sitting
at either side of a table, sprang to their
feet with ejaculations of interest and
rushed to tho window of tho sitting room. ;
Take care, Monica, dear," said one, 1
shrouding herself in the laco curtain;
"don't let-them seo us."
"No, no, Bertha. Wo must not give
them reason to say that their neighbors
are inquisitive. But I think that we are
safe if wo stand like this."
Tho open window looked out upon a
sloping lawn, well trimmed and pleas
ant, with fuzzy rosebushes and a star
shaped bed of sweet william. It was
y bounded by a low wooden fence, which
screened it off from a broad modern new
metaled road. At tho other sido of this
road were three large, detached, deep
bodied villas, with peaky eves and small
wooden balconies, each standing in its
own little square of grass and of flowers. |
All three were equally ®ew, but Nos. i
1 and 3 were curtained and sedate, with
a human sociable look to them, while
No. 3, with yawning door and unkempt
garden, hadapparently only just received
its furniture and made itself ready for
its occupants. A 4-wlieeler had driven
up to tho gate, and it was at this that
the old ladies, peeping out birdliko from
the curtains, directed an eager and ques
tioning gaze.
Tho cabman had descended, and tho
passengers within were handing out the
articles which they desired him to carry
up to the house. He stood red faced and
* blinking, with his crooked arms out
* stretched, while a male hand, protruding
from tho window, kept piling up upon
him a series of articles, tho sight of
which filled tho curious old ladies with
bewilderment.
"My goodness me!" cried Monica, the
smaller, the drier aud the more wizened
of the pair. "What do you call that,
Bertha? It looks to mo like four batter
puddings."
"Those are what the young men box
each other with," said Bertha, with a
conscious air of superior worldly knowl
edge.
"And those?"-
Two great bottle shaped pieces of yel
low, shining wood had been heaped upon
tho cabman.
"Oh, I don't know what those are," |
confessed Bertha. Indian clubs had nev- '
or before obtruded themselves upon her j
peaceful and very feminine existence.
These mysterious articles were fol- i
lowed, however, by others which wero
more within their range of comprehen
sion—by a pair of dumbbells, a purple j
cricket bag, a set of golf clubs and a
tennis racket.
Finally, when the cabman, all top
heavy anil bristling, hail staggered off
up the garden path, tbero emerged in a
very leisurely way from the cab a big,
powerfully built young man, with a bull
pup under ono arm and a pink sporting
paper in his hand. The paper ho
crammed into the pocket of his light
yellow dust coat auil extended his hand
as if to assist some one else from the
vehicle. To the surprise of the two old
ladies, howover, the only thing which his
open palm received was a violent slap,
and a tall lady bounded unassisted out
of the cab. With a regal wave she mo
tioned tho young man toward the door,
and then with one hand upon her hip she
mood in a careless, lounging attitude by
tho gate, kicking her too against tho
wall and listlessly awaiting the return
of the driver.
As she turned slowly round and the
sunshine struck upon her face, the two
watchers were amazed to soo that this
very active and energetic lady was fur
from being in her first youth, so far that
eho had certainly como of ago again since
she first passed that landmark in life's
journey. Her finely chiseled, clean cut
face, with something red Indian about
the firm mouth and strongly marked
cheekbones, showed even at that dis
tance traces of tho friction of tho passing
years. And yet sho was very handsome.
Her features were as firm in repose as
those of a Greek bust, and her great,
dark eyes were arched over by two brows
so black, so thick and so delicately
curved that tho eye turned away from
the harsher details of tho faco to marvel
at their grace and strength.
Her figure, too, was as straight as a
dart—a little portly perhaps, but curving
into magnificent outlines, which were
half concealed and half accentuated by
Ino strange costume which she wore.
Her hair, black but plentifully shot with
gray, wus brushed plainly back from her
high forehead and was gathered under a
►mall round felt hat, like that of a man,
with one sprig of feather in the band as
a concession to her sex. A double breasted
jacket of some dark friezeliko material
fitted closely to her figure, while her
straight blue skirt, nntrimmeil and un
gathereil, was cut so short that the-lower
curve of her finely turned legs was plain
ly visible beneath it, terminating in a
pair of broad, flat, low heeled and square
toed shoes. Such was the lady who
lounged at the gate of No. 8 under the
curious eyes of her two opposite neigh
bors.
But if her conduct and appearance had
already somewhat jarred upon their lim
ited and precise sense of the fitness of
things, what were they to think of the
next little act in this tableau vivant?
The cabman, red and heavy jowled, had
r e back from his labors and held out
hand for his fare. Tho lady passed
him a coin, thero was a moment of mum
bling and gesticulating, and suddenly
she had him with both hands by the red
cravat which girt his neck and was shak
ing him as a terrier would a rat. Right
across tho pavement she thrust him, and
pushing him up against the wheel she
banged his head three several times
against the side of his own vehicle.
Right across the pavement she thrust him.
"Can I be of any uso to you, aunt?"
asked the large youth, framing himself in
tho open doorway.
"Not the slightest,"' panted the en
raged lady. "Thero, you low blackguard,
that will teach you to bo impertinent to
a lady."
Tho cabman looked helplessly about
him with a bewildered, questioning gaze,
as one to whom alone of all men this un
heard of and extraordinary thing had
happened. Then rubbing his head he
mounted slowly onto tho box and drove
away with an uptossed hand appealing
to the universe. Tho lady smoothed down
her dress, pushed back her hair under
her little felt hat and strode in through
tho hall door, which was closed behind
her. As with a whisk her short skirts van
ished into the darkness tho two specta
tors—Miss Bertha and Miss Monica Wil
liams—sat looking at each other in
speechless amazement. For 50 years they
had peeped through that little window
and across that trim garden, but never
yet had such a sight as this come to con
found them.
"I wish," said Monica at last, "that
wo had kept tho field."
"I am suro I wish wo had," answered
her sister.
CHAPTER 11.
BREAKING THE ICE.
The cottage from tho window of which
tho Misses Williams had looked out
stands, and has stood for many a year, in
that pleasant suburban district which
lies bewecn Norwood, Anerloy and For
; ost Hill. Long beforo there had boon a
thought of a township there, when tho
metropolis was still quite a distant thing,
old Mr. Williams hail inhabited "The
Brambles," as the little house was called,
and had owned all tho fields about it.
| Six or eight such cottages scattered over
a rolling countryside wore all tho houses
to bo found thero in the days when tho
century was young. From afar, when
tho breeze came from tho north, the dull,
low roar of the great city might bo heard
like the breaking of tho tide of life, while
along tho horizon might bo seen the dim
curtain of smoke, tho grim spray which
that tide threw up.
Gradually, however, as the years
passed, tho city had thrown out a long
brick feeler here and tliore, curving, ex
tending and coalescing, until at last the
little cottages had been grip[>cd round by
these red tentacles and had been ab
sorbed to make room for tho modern vil
la. Field by field tho estate of old Mr.
Williams had been sold to the specula
tive builder and had borno rich cropß of
snug suburlgm dwellings arranged in
curving crescents and treo lined avenues.
Tho father had passed away before his
cottage was entirely bricked round, but
his two daughters, to whom the property
had descended, lived to see tho last ves
tigo of country taken from them.
For years they had clung to tho one
field which faced their windows, and it
was only nfter much argument and
many heartburnings that they had at
hist consented that it should share the
fate of tho others. A broad road was
driven through their quiet domain, the
quarter was renamed "The Wilderness,"
and three square, staring, uncompromis
ing villas began to sprout up on tho oth
er side. With sore hearts tho two shy
little old maids watched their steady
progress and speculated as to what fash
ion of neighbors chance would bring into
tho little nook which had always been
their own.
And at last they were all three finished.
Wooden balconies and overliunging eaves
had been added to them, so that, in tho
language of tho advertisement, thero
were vacant three eligible Swiss built
villas, with 10 rooms, no basement, elec
tric bells, hot ami cold water and every
modern convenience, including a com
mon tennis lawn, to bo lot at £IOO a year
or £I,OOO purchase. So tempting an offer
did not long remain open. Within a few
weeks the card had vanished from No.
1, and it was known that Admiral Hay
Denver, V. C., C. 8., with Mrs. Hay
Denver and their only son, .was about
to move into it. Tho news brought peace
to tho hearts of tho Williams sisters.
They had lived with a settled conviction
that Homo wild, impossible colony, some
shouting, singing family of madcaps,
would break in upon their peace. This
establishment at least was irreproacha
ble.
A reference to "Mon of the Time"
showed them that Admiral Hay Denver
was a most distinguished officer who
had begun his activo career at Bomar
sund and had ended it at Alexandria,
having managed between these two epi
sodes to see as much service as any man
of his years. From tho Taku forts and
the Shannon brigade to dhow harrying
off Zanzibar tjiero was no variety of
naval work which did not appear in his
record, whilo tho Victoria cross and tho
Albert medal for saving life vouched for
it that in peace as in war his courage
was still of the same true temper. Clear
ly a very eligible neighbor this, the more
so as they had been confidentially assured
by the estate agent that Mr. Harold Den
ver, tho son, was a most quiet young
gentleman, and that he was busy from
morning to night on theßtock Exchange.
Tho Hay Delivers had hardly moved
in before No. 3 also struck its plac
ard, and again tho ladies found that
they had no reason to bo discontented
with their neighbors. Dr. Balthazar
Walker was a very well known naino in
tho medical world. Did not his qualifi
cations, his memberships and the record
of his writings fill a long half column in
The Medical Directory from his first lit
tle paper on the "Gouty Diathesis" in
1859 to. liis exhaustive treatise upon "Af
fections of tho Vaso-Motor System" in
1884? A successful medical career which
promised to end in a presidentship of a
college and a baronetcy had been cut
short by his sudden inheritance of a con
siderable sum from a grateful patient,
which had rendered him independent for
life and had enabled him to turn his at
tention to tho more scientific part of his
profession, which had always had a
greater charm for him than its more
practical ami commercial aspect. To
this end he had given up his houso in
Weymouth street and had taken this
opportunity of moving himself, his
scientific instruments and his two
charming daughters (ho had been a wid
ower for soino years) into the moro
peaceful atmosphere of Norwood.
There was thus but one villa unoccu
pied, and it was no wonder that tho two
maiden ladies watched with a keen in
terest, which deepened into a dire ap
prehension, tho curious incidents which
heralded the coming of the new tenants.
They had already learned from tho
agent that the family consisted of two
only, Mrs. Westmacott, a widow, and
her nephew, Charles Westmacott. How
simple and how select it had sounded!
Who could have foreseen from it theso
fearful potents which seemed to threaten
violence and discord among tho dwellers
in The Wilderness? Again tho two old
maids cried in heartfelt chorus that they
wished they had not sold their field.
"Well, at least, Monica," remarked
Bertha as they sat over their teacups
that afternoon, "however strango these
people may bo, it is our duty to bo as po
lito to them as to the others."
"Most certainly," acquiesced her sister.
"Since we have called upon Mrs. Hay
Denver and upon the Misses Walker, we
must call upon this Mrs. Westmacott
also."
"Certainly, dear. As long as they are
living upon our land I feel as if they wero
in a sense our guests, and that it is our
duty to welcome thein."
"Then wo shall call tomorrow," said
Bertha, with decision.
"Yes, dear, we shall. But, oh, I wish
it was over!"
At 4 o'clock on the next day tho two
maiden ladies set off upon their hospita
ble errand. In their stiff crackling dresses
of black silk, with jet bespangled jackets
and little rows of cylindrical gray curls
drooping down' on either side of their
black bonnets, they looked liko two old
fashion plates which had wandered off
into tlio wrong decade. Half curious
and half fearful, they knocked at tho
door of No. il, which was instantly
opened by a redheaded pago boy.
Yes, Mrs. Westmacott was at home.
110 ushered them into the front room,
furnished as a drawing room, where in
spite of tho line spring weather a largo
fire was burning in tho grate. The boy
took their cards, and then, as they sat
down together upon a settee, ho sot their
nerves in a thrill by darting behind a
curtain with a shrill cry and prodding
at something with his foot. Tho bull
pup which they had seen upon tho day
before bolted from his hiding place and
scuttled snarling from the room.
"It wants to get at Eliza," said tho
youth in a confidential whisper. "Mas
ter says she would give him more'n ho
brought." Ho smiled affably at tho two
little stiff black figures and departed in
search of his mistress.
"What—what did ho say?" gast)ed
Bertha. 1
"Something about a— Oh, goodness
gracious! Oh, Bertha! Oh, merciful
heavens! Oh, help, help, help, help,
help!" Tfttwo sisters had bounded on
to tho anil stood there with star
ing eyesTind skirts gathered in whilo
they filled tho whole house with their
yells. Out of a high wickerwork bas
ket which stood by tho fire thero had
risen a flat, diamond shaped head with
! wicked green eyes, which came flicker
; ing upward, waving gently from sido to
side, until a foot or more of glossy, scaly
! neck was visible. Slowly the vicious
head came floating up, while at every
| oscillation a fresh burst of shrieks came
i from the settee.
"What in the name of mischief!" cried
a voice, and thero was tho mistress of
1 the house standing in tho doorway. Her
gaze at first had merely taken in the fact
that two strangers woro Btanding scream
ing upon her red plush sofa. A glanco
at the fireplace, however, showed her the
cause of tho terror, and she burst into a
hearty fit of laughter.
"Charley," she shouted, "here's Eliza
misbehaving again."
"I'll settle her," answered a masculine
voice, and the young man dashed into
the room. He had a brown horsecloth '
in his hand, which he threw over tho
basket, ma! iug it fust with a piece of
twine sp as to effectually imprison its in- i
mate, while his aunt ran across to reas
sure her visitors,
i "It i 3 only a rock snake," sho ex
. plained.
I "Oh, Bertha!" "Oh, Monica!" gasped I
the poor exhausted gentlewomen.
"She's hutching out some eggs. That
is why we have the fire. Eliza always
iloes better when she is warm. She is a
sweet, gentle creature, but no doubt she
thought that you had designs upon her
eggs. I supposo that you did not touch
any of them?"
"Oh, lot us get away, Bertha!" cried
Monica, with herthin black gloved hands
thrown forward in abhorrence.
"Not away, but into the next room,"
said Mrs. Westmacott with thoairofone
whoso word was law. "This way, if you
please! It is less warm here." Sho led
the way into a very handsomely appoint
ed library, with three great cases of
books, and upon the fourth side a long
yellow table littered over with papers
and scientific instruments. "Sit here,
and you there." she continued. "That is
right. Now, let me see, which of you is
Miss Williams and which Miss Bertha
Williams?"
"I am Miss Williams," said Monica,
still palpitating and glancing furtively
about in dread of some new horror.
"And you live, as I understand, over
at the pretty little cottage. It is very
nice of you to cull so early. I don't sup
poso that we shall get on, but still the
intention is equally good." She crossed
her legs and leaned her bnk against the
marble mantelpiece.
"We thought that perhaps wo might
bo of Eoino assistance," said Bertha tim
idly. "If there is anything which we
could do to make you feel raoro at
home"
"Oh, thank you; I am too old a trav
eler to feel anything but at home wher
ever I go. I've just come back from a
few months in the Marquesas islands,
where I had a very pleasant visit. That
was where 4 got Eliza. In many re
spects the Marquesas islands now lead
the world."
"Dear me!" ejaculated Miss Williams
"In what respect?"
"In the relation of the sexes. They
have worked out tho great problem upon
thoir own lines, and their isolated geo
graphical position has helped them to
come to a conclusion of their own. The
woman there is, as she should be, in ev
ery way the absolute equal of the male.
Come in, Charles, and sit down. Is Eliza
all right?"
"All right, aunt."
"These are our neighbors, the Misses
Williams. Perhaps they will have some
Btout. You might bring in a couple of
bottles, Charles."
"No, no, thank you! None for us!"
cried her two visitors earnestly.
"Oh, help, htlpl"
"No? I am sorry that I have no'tea to
offer you. I look upon tho subserviency
of woman us largely due to her abandon
ing nutritious drinks aud invigorating
exercises to the male. I do neither." Sho
picked up a pair of 15-pound dumbbells
from beside tho fireplace and swung
them lightly about her head. "You seo
what may be done on stout," said she.
"But don't you think," the older Miss
Williams suggested timidly—"don't you
think, Mrs. Westmacott, that woman has
a mission of her own?"
The lady of tho house dropped her
dumbbells with a crash upon the floor.
"Tho old cant!" sho cried. "The old
shibboleth! What is this mission which
is reserved for woman? All that is hum
ble, that is mean, that is BOUI killing,
that is so contemptiblo and so ill paid
that none other will touch it. All that
is woman's mission. And who imposed
these limitations upon her? Who cooped
her up within this narrow sphere? Was
it Providence? Was it nature? No, it was
tho arch enemy. It was man."
"Oh, I say, auntie," drawled out her
nephew.
"It was man, Charles. It was you and
your fellows. I say that woman is a
colossal monument to the selfishness of
man. What is all this boasted chivalry,
these fine words and vague phrases?
Where is it when we wish to put it to
tho test? Man in tho abstract will do
anything to help a woman, of course.
How does it work when his pocket is
touched? Where is his chivalry then?
Will the doctors help her to qualify?
Will the lawyers help her to be callod to
tho bar? Will tho clergy tolerate her in
tho church? Oh, it is close your ranks
then and refer poor woman to her mis
sion! Her mission! To bo thankful for
coppers und not to interfero with tho men
while they grabblo for gold like swine
round a trough—that is man's reading of
tho mission of woman. You may sit there
and sneef, Charles, whilo you look upon
your victim, but you know that it is
truth, every word of it."
Terrified as they were by this sudden
torrent of words, tho two gentlewomen
could not but smile at tho sight of the
fiery, domineering victim and tho big,
apologetic representative of mankind
who sat meekly bearing all the sins of
his sex. Tho lady struck a match,
whipped a cigaretto from a caseupon tho
mantelpiece und began to draw the
smoke into her lungs.
"I find it very soothing when my
nerves nre at all ruffled," she explained.
"You don't smoke? Ah, you miss one of
the purest of pleasures—one of the few
pleasures which is without a reaction."
Miss Williams smoothed out her black
silken lap. "It is a pleasure," sho said,
with some approach to self assertion,
"which Bertha and I aro rather too old
fashioned to enjoy."
"No doubt. It would probably make
you very ill if you attempted it. By tho
way, I hope that yon will come to som
of our guild meetings. I shall see tha
tickots are sent you."
"Your guild!"
"It is not yet formed, but I shall los
no tirno in forming a committee. It i
my habit to establish a branch of th
Emancipation guild wherever I go
Thcro is a Mrs. Sanderson in Anerle;
who is already one of the emancipated
so that I have a nucleus. It is only hi
organized resistance, Miss Williams
that we caii hope to hold our owl
against the selfish sex. Must you go
then?"
"Yes, we have one or two other visit!
pay," said the elder sister. "Yoi
will, lam sure, excuse us. I hope that
you will find Norwood a pleasant res!
dence."
"All places are to me simply a battle
field," she answered, gripping first one
and then the other with a grip which
crumpled up their little thin fingers.
"The days for work and healthful exer
cise, the evenings to Browning and high
discourse, eh, Charles? Goodbyl" She
came to tho door with them, and as they
glanced back they saw her still standing
there with the yellow bull pup cuddled
up under one forearm and tho thin blue
reek of her cigarette ascending from her
lips.
Oh, what a dreadful, dreadful worn
an!" whispered sister Bertha as they
hurried down the street. "Thank good
ness that it is over."
"But she'll return tho visit," answer
ed the other. "I think that we had bet
ter tell Mary that we are not at homo."
[TO UE CONTINUED ON THURSDAY.]
For Mother's Nuke.
Littlo Bossio was 110 "goody goody"
child, but ono who would no doubt have
dono her share in scrambling for the
front rank in a street fight, or in thrust
ing herself forward when anything good
was to bo had. Yet her childish nature
held within it seeds of heroism and feel
ing of which many a person more fa
vored by fortuno is destitute.
A tenement fire started at midnight
in New York city, and many of the ten
ants were killed in attempting to reach
tho ground. On the fourth floor the
firemen found a man penned in with his
little girl and helped them- to the win
dow. As they were handing out the
child sho suddenly broke away from
them and stepped back into the smoke,
which seemed to hide certain death with
in its folds.
The firemen returned and groped
about, shouting for her to come back.
Half way across tho room they came
upon her, gasping and nearly smothered,
dragging a doll's trunk over the floor.
"I couldn't leave it," sho said, thrust
ing it at the men as they soized her.
"My mother"
Then they flung tho box nngrily
through tho window. It fell crashing on
tho sidewalk, broke open, and revealed
no doll or finery, but tho deed for her
dead mother's grave. Little Bessie was
only 13, but sho had not forgotten her
trust.—Youth's Companion.
The Eggshell Child.
To make un amusing toy out of an egg
follow these directions: Make a til*)- hole
with a pin or large needlo in each end of
an egg. By blowing into one of the
holes tho "inards"of tho egg will all pass
out through tho hole in the other end.
Then through the hole in tho large end
pour a few grains of glue and lead. Cau-
tiously heat this over the stove, and when
the glue Is melted allow it to cool in the
smaller end. This of course fnstens the
lead to the smaller end and causes the
egg to stand always on its point. Paint
on ono side a crying face, on the other a
smiling ono. The little faco is very
charming bocauso of the rocking of the
egg in seeking its balanco.
A Curious Tree.
Thero is a troo in the West Indies that
the natives say "grows dishes!" It looks
liko an apple tree. They call it tho cala
bash.
It bears very queer leaves and large
white blossoms that grow right from the
trunk and larger branches. After the
flower comes tho fruit, just us our apples
or peaches do. But this fruit is in the
shape of a gourd, only stronger and
much larger, sometimes a foot in diam
eter.
Now, seo what a use the people of that
country make of this fruit. Tho shell is
so hard that all sorts of big and little
dishes and drinking cups can be carved
out of it. Even pots and kettles are
made and used over the fire, but of
course they cannot last as long as our
iron ones. Is not this a serviceable tree?
No wonder the natives are proud of it.
Montreal Star.
A Dog That Asked For Aid.
A short time ago Nero was walking up
Border street, East Boston, limping bad
ly. When he got to Mason's lumber
mills, the doors of which are always I
open, he entered, approached one of the j
men and held up his injured paw. Nero I
has not a very pleasant looking faco, and
the man did not offer to touch him, but I
called on him to "go out." The dog walk- j
ed as far away as the door, and turning
around came back and again held up his
wounded foot. The man stopped his j
work, and gently taking hold of the paw,
found a safety pin imbedded deeply in
the flesh. Ho extracted the pin, tho dog
wincing at the pain, and when ho got it
out the dog licked his paw and then
fawned about his surgeon. Shortly aft- I
erward he took his departure as if noth- i
ing had happened.—Boston Herald. I
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HFTR,jnnSSOJiIORB, Prop,., Burlinelon Vt"
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Sold at Schilcher's Drug Store.
Advcrtis® in the Tiubunk.
Castoria cures Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation,
halls >V onns, gives sleep, aud promotes di
gestion.
Without injurious medication.
" Fpr several years I have recommended
your Castoria, 1 and shall always continue to
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
results."
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"The Winthrop," Street and 7th Ave.,
New York City.
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