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BM CHAPTER IV ■| s . r || nunl llni'biiell. of Massing silt lit bre.lkf.isl oplHlMill' Ids Mm,.'..,...„ ..u 'h.- im f-ii.Kiiua i..i.i> pi-.. i. .1.11 t.-T I'SHI. I'H'l H I. II .1IK it " I •lit Hill*'.’ lu ha.l »e. n his i» *U'"h **'"" l yell ••' in have i" 1 ' 1 ■' I""-"-' 11 ' 11. i'.i.'." s ’ r ll’ "’ “I ll'i' train*h ("Hiring out the t' *'• ■V lllllll': at l>'.l"t. I 1 uja.'-l H ” 111,, . I ll’. .ill. HU. a a« -with tin* 1 IL, ,|. fh.it in, Ilf L.l'il Fml’mlk*. win* L , L i ai.’.i'i. It ' 'lrairabh* at your time of | f ifti iiH tiio manners. ami prevents a I ... ■ g Man’s t.. .■■ froi drgvjp < ■ ' Thi re was a pause. Horae .of course, bad nothing to say. Sir Howard was meditating in what form lie would couch "I I r.i. <*," .r.el then be l>*:ived n sigh. ,i,.il.|i of an vi' ty. f..r rids project w.is near liin heart. "Horin e. 1 wish yni ||Km marry.'' MH \..w. if Bri-I'iivll had m-ier 'Mi — ||B|! It’ding. Liman nr., that lie iioiii.l rceeiv.sl t!*:s startling ainmum >■■ with.mt ..i.» "I'.t" ini si.-:i ami wall slight invar.i commotion. A* it wa>. Mg,.. ba.l Leu ....ng awak-- th.uk.ng of her night. SM. "The f;"*t in." !••• “I''Re and hen. his Htms Went down Upon the tablecloth M-'j; Would be ll irre.lt n iief t . lllj lllilld." ■■Another awful sig’i, "I want 1 want t . .illite free to do an 1 please, or may later on uwo.it nmirjing again ■Kuysvlf. I fe. lit is a duty to s.a* that the and estate be carried on. li y..u ■Md; I ti"t exist. or if you were aver-e t-. i MBmarriitge. I should hold it im-u>n'»ii' m ■re to —to again seek a wife. It is not my j||H' . i.t. as y..n ri'.st be aw ire. .'iwith any "tie. for. a. a r ile, it is mistake to tell any human s-oil that ■Hwli:' h all the world may n"t hear: bn: lb s |Mis an cxei litional . .i ••• ry ri .il . \.m will natur.i"y rap-et li:i . ,nRH "in<le. I am sure you know you may BHtrust me.” HE "I believe it. Know then that I wish Mt. be initially free ' ' marry or not. ami nJ this, if 1 please, ev.u after yon have taken Ha w.fe. without seeing your future r. ImJ. . thereby to a life of comparative pnU "I do not understand." ■ "You must marry niiTney." U If Horaee had turned scarlet just now. |Bhis emintenam e at this uumiuneemeiii gjgrew very pule. Money! How horrid hHilic word soumlisl. He had always heard |H<.f it when iHiiipl.sl with marriage us in< aning a parvenu’s daughter, w ith her ||H small.lm sin her ears -an >:d woman with n|H h face like a tipsy cook's, nad such like jH'JmrrorH. H| "And yet," he reflects, "a .d yet. why not gold I with better |H things: why not even with the divine I'a- | herself? I have certainly never gHs-oupled the two thoughts until this m e ■ ment: but. dear me. Lady I’endergast has m> ion. she seen s rich, a few thmisan Is jHavoiild do no harm; there is mi nbs.dute incongruity between a prerty woman ami |H;i banker's aei ount.” |H ’ "I have for s me time beer, looking |Hnbmit. you sts.." Went on Sir Howard. U*'l think 1 have found the lady. ami. wiiat |M is more, that she already looks upon you ■ with a favoring eye.” H Horai-e’s heart now beat so, he was Uafra.id his uncle would hear it. I “You met her R-.si night.” "Indeed!” Kettledrums began to roll in his ears. “X have heard you say she was very iiandsome." "Yes?” “Come, come, sir; you must know I allude tv Lady Susuu Gmye " "Lady .Susan—Graye!” ejaculated poor Horace, with a kmk of uncontrollable dismay, which utterly bewildered Sir Howard. It was evident the proposition did not smile at him. as the French say. “Well, what on earth is rtie matter with _ you?" he asked: "hav you any fault to find with the lady, sir?" 't ”1 know the lady does not honor me with the slightest preference " "Horaee, you ar.' a boy. How. I ask you, could any well-brought-up girl, especially one of Lady Susan's rank, show you preference before you paid her any attention? Moreover, do you think me—me. capable of sending my m phew on ■ BH wild-goose ehase? I know what I am alsiut.” H "May I venture to ask what has led y.u U to believe that Lady Susan Grave cares M for me?” I ’ “You njsy-‘Cares for yon' is t.m strong a term. That she looks upon you witii sutlicient favor for it to lie highly prolaiJde that you may win her. I haie the best reason to suppose. 1 have spiken to hi r father." ■ * “You have spoken.” exclaimed Horace, U again changing color, and grasping the ■ edge of the table with both hands. "I have spoken to Izird Caulfield on my H own account, certainly: but you need not I' look so tragical over it, nephew. 1 said I you knew nothing of the matter.” “And what did the marquis wiy?” “Say? Why. just what I expected. I That you might win her if you could, and I Hint he would not say you nay. That I he liked you very much hoped I would I not refuse a peerage a second time, and ■ so forth. This was over u week ago. He K never was the man to keep anything to ■ himself for five minutes, and accordingly I laidy Susan must have known nil about ■dt for some days. If she made herself as ■ agreeable to you as ever last night, it is B as mueh as to say, 'Win me.' " “I—l am simply astounded." “And so you ought to be. sir. A mnrK <piis' daughter, young and beautiful, with I £60,000 down, and ever so mueh more K some day, it is enough to take the breath B away of a better man than either of us.” B Here was a position for a young man ■ who fancied that he had just fallen desK Jierately in love! Here, indeed, was o.le ' of those obstacles which test a passlwi,

and counteract any such enemy to its growth as, for Instanee, Camilla's too faVnrnlde acceptunce of Ills illleiitiolis. Ill' rightly HiipposiHl that after so mmiientiius an iiiinoiitieement, Sir llownnl would hardly expect him tons Hist nt the pending diseuHskm with his chief, nor Is it prolmi ble that his assistance on questions of i farms, tlnils-r uml fat beasts would, on I thia partieiihir morning, have proved of I any appreciable value to those two grave iim n. Accordingly he betook himself to ■ i pipe and the woods tobacco pipe, of i course—and throwing himself dow n among the primroses by a clear little fade | Idy strvnm, for the •un win already warm, 1 he proias-ded to review the situation. What could he do? Granting Camilla to be nil that was most superlative— I eotisidering that ns a jsdnt settled—what ] eolild lie do? It was out of the question to otleiid his uncle. Without Sir Howard Ihe is nothing, has nothing. But stay. Is ■ it certain that this iittle lieauty may not be nearly as good a match as her rival? The only grandchild of Lady I'rendcrgaat, inigdit she not be heiress to Silvermead, and who knows how much beside? “That was very strange alsmt her father," he tnuHi-s, “her looking so confused, alarmed even, when I alluded to him. A mystery there of Home kind. I'll be bound. And if there is. does that make the daughter any rhe less charming? He is not a I felon. I snp|Hise; not that, if he had poi- ' aoned his grandmother I should lie a whit i less in love with Camilla." Alni so iu musing and 'peculation, in I wanderings of the most ferociously soliI tary sort, of much smoking and little eut- ' lug. Im wore away the day. Somehow or other, on the following I evening Horace had wnndered in his rev- [ eriee. and de facto so mueh further than usual, that hi* found himself nt nightfall : not two miles from Paradise —I mean Sil- : vennead. Finding himself so mar, and the nigl» bi-.ug again moonlight mid balmy, one of those nights, in short, : when the very thought of Issi is revoltl ing. Horace decided that he would push on and refresh himself with a glimpse of his belovisl's naif. “Who knows,” lie said to himself, “perhaps I shall get a glimpse of her." As if to his very wish, out conies <’-amilln to '.id gissj-uight to the flowers, tripping down the steps without a hat, and his young long sight fancies it detects a basket on her arm, and Itolfe the deerhound by her side. She trips about from bed to bed; he fancies she is wadding some well-known melody as she roams. Now. down goes the basket and she flies so the swing and swnys awuy with a will. ITesently lights appear above, a dis>r window is thrown Widely back, and her maid, for it must lie she, calls out to the young lady. The voice is that <>f a woman no longer young, and who is urging the thoughtless girl to hast,-n iu out of the cold and dew. Doubtless the authority of “gran’ma” is evoked, I as obedience follows within a reasonable time; and with steps far slower than those with which 'lie came down. C.tmilta, flow-er-laden, now remounts the picturesque old stair. Her hair has fallen down during the swinging, and streams and gleams in all directions, hanging like a glory about her. As she reaches the center of tile terrace, just opposite the open casement. she stops and leans over the parapet to take one long last look at the bright uioiin. There she remains some seiamds, motionless as a picture she so resembles, and then, backing slowly, her gaze still on the heavens, she vanishes from sight. Something makes Horace dare to hope that in that solemn interval, she has unitmured his name iu love. <’HAITKK V. Nothing of much moment occurred between this evening and the ball at Hasham. There have been a couple of wet days, and on the one or two occasions when the weather was fine enough to tempt Horace to renew his adventure, if siieli it can be calhsl. in the neighborhood of his lady's chamber, the cruel uneli* had steppisl in to prevent it, by retaining him to make a fourth at the whist table, an elderly colonel from the Portland and Miss Laflimdi making up the party. This wily old campaigner had rend the young lovers like n book the day she dined at .Silvcrmead; but she kept the discovery to use as might be advantageous. Every mistake the young man made these evenings nt whist meant money in her pocket, and she contented herself for the present with that pecuniary result of his heartache. He rather sought her than otherwise, thinking she might cbani-e to give him some of the information he had found no opportunity of gleaning elsewhere. At first he beat fflsiut the bush for some little time, hoping that Miss Luflinch might refer, of her own aeeord. to Ludy I’rendergust or her grandchild; but no, it seemed that she could talk of everything but Silvermead. .So at last he made a bold plunge. “Have you seen anything of our friends since the dinner?” "Ob, dear, yes; you know I live close by. Camilla is radiant! quite radiant, J assure you, mid she ought to be, if what I histr is true. A marriage on the tapis.” "A marriage!" gaspisl Horaee, with illisuiecaled concern. “Dear! Haven’t you heard? Young Cyril Acton, Lord 1 himmersely's eldest son, staying at the de Basle's. An enormous match." "And and where did they meet?” “Lady Prendergast and Camilla drove over mid lunched there the day after you were at Silvermead. but it appears the two young people had met a good deal abroad, when—when she was with her unfortunate father, you know; and that it is quite a case." Throughout Miss Liiflim-h had affected total blindness iih to young Brudenell's interest and mixiwty. "One thing at least you will tell me, Miss Luflinch,” pursued the floor boy; “you miid ‘her unfortunate father.' What did you uiNiu?"

"Why, only Ihnt—" but here they were interrupted by the etitramf of tha other two, nml ns they nil moved to the whist table, without loss of time, for It wan altnidy Ute, Miss Liiflim*h chuckled as shi» told herself: “If the young fool counts his trumps to-night I know nothing of human nature." And she was a true prophet, mid won thirty-four and slx|»'m-e from the young fellow slie had inystfiled, and, what Is more, slept well after it. Ilideisl, It Is dltlleult to say what win Mlns Lalliiii'li would not have eomm-ied for thirty-four shillings and sixpeiiec, and slept w*dl after. It was nlsiirt Io o'clock when Hornet* mounted the dogcart for his nevra-mllo drive to the bull -a matter of little more than half an hour with the active piecu of trotting cattle which stood b<*twveu the shafts. CHAPTER VI. Horiii-e found the rooms already well tilled and dancing in full swing. He thn-.ided his way tliroitgh the ballroom. between the revolvers and the wallflowers, and. not seeing anylsaly connect’ tsl with his present rln nmstanws, exciqit indeisl some of the l-'ouroilks' party nt the upper eml of the room, among whom Camilla was conspicuous by her niisenee, ho did what I nm afraid is not a very interesting or hero-like thing; he went through to the buffet to indulge in that cup of tea from which his early flight from home had debarnsl him. “There's Mias Harding now—Lady Prendergast's gran'daughter, as purty a girl ns ever you clapped eyes on—auro, she's yonder there this minute, and I'll intnsluce you as me partickler friend. As 1 ww. tellin' yer, the auld lady thinks n world of me. and of me skill. I was over there a while ago nt Silvermead to see her. Well, she's n good ten thousand n yetir, and every |s*nny comes to Miss Harding at her death"—and the speaker, a Dr. McFinn, tossed off another glass of sherry to strengthen tne blessing. “Miss Harding gets it all— ii.deed," said bis compaiiion. That the tine and refined Brudenell was was supremely disgusted with what he overheard it is needless to say. “How dure that drunken iittle doctor-black-guard”—thus he mentally epithetizisl him —“so mueh us breathe the sacred name of his Camilla at nil, to every Dick. Tun and Harry of his pitiful acquaintance?” Yet. for all his indign-ation. Hora* e bad gathered two important facts -or so he thought them—from the little doctor's expansivencHS. Miss Harding was positively at the ball. And then, about the money! Deep in these thoughts Horace strolled from the buffi-t. and almost imcoiiscioiisly bent his steps, not to the ball room, tint toward a little suite of the smaller apartments. by which you could still gain the former by a dr iiitous route. He had hardly entered the first of these when h* started violently. Seated alone there were Camilla—an empty cup of tea by her side—and a man whom Horace at once knew and felt to be Acton. Horace, being the right sort of man, recovered his outward comisisure instauter, by virtue, one may any, of the bhssl of his aneeotors, walked with apimreiit calmness up to Camilla, mid. shaking hands with her. said: “How do you do. Miss Harding? I am so glad you sre here after all. I hope you left Ludy Prendergast quite well?" To which the young lady, who had also changed color on seeing Brudenell enter, replied, w ith cordial ilemnreness: “Unite, thank yon. How late you have come! 1 was bsiking for you as 1 danced just now. May 1 introduce?—Mr. Acton. Mr. Brudenell." and the two young men. who may have been tingling to fly at each other's throats, shook hands at the dictate of beauty, as if it gave them botii particular pleasure to become acquainted. “Is this your first visit to the county?" asked Brudenell. pleasantly. "My first, but I hope not my last. Hitherto I have scarcely seen anything of the midlnnd counties.” "It promises to be quite a full ball tonight, Miss Harding.” said Horace. “I hope, if you have not already promised them all, that you will give me a dance soon." “As that waltz is so far off. I will give you the lancers; that is the second square dance from now—l saw it written up.” “What, instead of our waltz?” "No, no, as well.” Horace felt invaded by a perfect flood of gratitude. Then suddenly. Cnmillii said, "Is it not sad nlsmt poor Lady Susan: of course, you have heard?" Horace started guiltily. Camilla marked his concern, and perhaps ascribed it to a wrong enuse. “(Hi. nothing so very terrible; though, perhaps, we ought never to say that of dentil. It is a cousin of Lady Caulfield, an old major they hardly knew, but still n first cousin. He was righty-six, I believe. Lord Caulfield says they must not go out after the funeral.” "Oh, exactly.” said Hornet*, half absently. "The —the next dance then?” "The next lancers,” and as she moved off on Acton's arm, she added, rather snucily. “If you look so broken-hearted, I think all of us who have not lost aged cousins must conspire to console you. I've ti great mind to give you the quadrille as well —oh, don't bt* shocked, I don't menu it,” and, laughing low. away she went. (To be continued.) THE ACME OF TORTURE. “The Bath," Once Used in Italy for Capital I'uiiisliiiient. The punishment of she bngnn (bath), one of the most cleverly cruel Inflictions ever devised by an ofiichil of the torture chamber, was administered in Italy, probably In Venice, where the water of the lagoons played so prominent a part In its penal system. The prisoner was placed in a vat, the shies of which were slightly in excess of the average height of man. In order to hold In cheek the rising tide of water, which ran into the vat in a constant stream, the criminal was furnished with a scoop with which to bail out the visitor us fast ns It came In. The respite from death by Immersion thus obtained was more or less prolonged. according to the powers of endurance possessed by the victim. But. imagine the awful torture, the exhausting and even that hideously grotesque offorts, the Incessant and pitiless toll by nigh? and day, to stave off the dreed inonntut fast approaching, when, overcome by sleep and fatigue, he was unable to struggle any longer against his fate!

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EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES. The return*, now almost complete, of the exports of manufactures for the last tisenl year give further evldelice Os th" proeees which luis been going on for some time, mid under which the value of this ehiaa of exports Ims been atcndlly Inereaalng. A* ntly as IKMi the proportion of the exports or manufactured goods to tin* total amount was only per cent.; this year it promises to be nt least 23 per cent. It Is true that the value of them* exports In Item was Isdow the average of the quinquennial pi rlisl of which it marki'd the cloae, and tiuit tin* total ex|sirts of tin* last fiscal year show a gain in value of 2ft per cent, over the average of that period. But. except In 18T7, the value of domestic manufactures exported never exceeded <I2SJM>O,000. while for the year ending with last June they will probably turn out to be 5224.U00.imm). Taking the Increase for the last ten years only, the figures an* sutflcletitly striking. In that time there has been n gain of fXK.ooo.UUO In annual value, mid an advance from 18H to 26 per cent. In the proportion which thia class of exports ls*ars to the whole. While |I4.<MMU*M) of the gain of last year over the year preceding Is due to a considerable Increase In the value of mineral oil, the value of the exports under that head for last year is Imrely $-t.(*Hi.<MMi in excess of that of tell years ago. The Items that go to make up the Increase of FSS.ihhi.ihio are drawn from articles Into which Industrial processes enter more larg< ly. For example, leather and Its manufacture*, which accounted In INSi, for some Fs.T'MHiOO of our exports, stand now for fltt,TsO.IMS); machinery, which In account-‘ ed for s3.i>s<i.imm). has risen to fll/MK),CtO<», and agricultural implements, which were S2..'Mk',UOU ten years ago, are now * about s.',.(i<mmm*i. Cotton goods show little or n/Increase, beenuae of the teary fall iu price—a characteristic which our exports of this class share with those of Great Britain, which were less in value last year than they

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were ten years ago. Os copper In Ingots, bars, sheets, etc., there hns been an increase from S2.(KM),(MM) to |17,f1(M).000, and In scientific and electrical apparatus from S4NO,(MK) to $2,500,000. The export of locomotive engines ten years ago kept well within $400,000, while for last year the value will reach $2,fIOO.OOO. Os locks, hinges and other builders' hardware the export has risen from $1,280,000 to nearly $5.500,(KM). This Increase in the value of the exports of our domestic manufactures is the more remarkable that It has occurred during a period in which the value of the same class of exports by

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the chief commercial tuitions hns shown tl d<a*reiise. The value of the ten chief I. rtleles of British exports declined f rom ♦Tlß.tato.ooo In INM to f7i).*.(mmi,ihmi in IMM. The value of the foreign trad** of France was It per cent., and that of Germany 2” per cent, less In IstH thmi In INMI. and It Is mainly dm* to the In- < reused vnllie of domestic lumiufnetiiressold nbroad that our exports of all I'hiHses of inerehandlM have. In spite of the derensed value of the products

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of agriculture, so well held their own. It is significant of the place that the United States is dentimsl to take in the world's supply of mechanical equipment that the total exports of the ■ manufactures of Iron and steel have Increased from S:n;S("UMM) In the fiscal year lst*s to over S4U.(M)O.(KM) la the t’seal year 1806. —Boston Herald. Mr. Bobart and His Friends. Acrordlng to tin* news columns of Mr.

Hobart's leading local organ, the “coal syndicate has started out on a regular system of advances and we are to have another 25-cent Increase in September, with another of the same amount by January, making an advance of $1 a ton within six months." As pool arbitrator for roads engaged In the coal syndicate Mr. Hobart has had full opportunities to Inform himself Intimately concerning the operation of the "regular system" through widen these unnatural profits are extorted. When he takes the field he will not be able to find a topic in which the public is more interested, nor will

he find any other way In which lie <nti do hie party greater service tlutn by convincing the public that his own eotims-tloti with trusts, (ssds mid mo* mqiiilies bus not remlerisl him unlit for tin* Vice Presidency. And when he does take the stump ! Mr. Ihdiart ought to tell im soon ns jm»* elble to what extent he thinks the Anti* i I'rtist l.iw should be onforeisl ngnlnst all who violate It, more wiperially | against those who out of the ptiweeda of she violation contribute to his cum* palgn fund. New York World. Trnvrllna Under False Colors. On Is'half of tin* trlends of McKinley and thi*e who wish to return to ths workings of the Iniquitous McKinley law, It Is claimed that what the *s,untry m*«*ds Is more revenue. It may be of Interest to this class of polltlclmis to ramember that the McKinley law was

entitled: "An act to reduce the revet*. ues, and equalize the duties on iyiporta - and for other purposes."—Grand Rap- ; Ids Democrat. l>nci;le on a Wine Policy. The wisest thing that the Republican candidates have so far agreed to is that they will make no speaking campaign. Hobart cannot make a apeech. and it would la* inqsissible for McKinley to answer some of the questions tlial 11 ' -msmM

would be thrust at him without hurt* ing.—Peoria Herald. Small Shot. True to his name, Garret A. Hobnrx wants to preside over the upper house* A man who stampedes a national cont vention may also stampede the peopld next November. It was "from California to Maine'* this time. Burke of the California delegation is the man who placed Sewall's name before the convention. Candidate Hobart rises to remark that protection and not finance is tint leading political Issue this year. Hanna must have told him. McKinley's pastor preached Sunday from the Bible text "make your election sure." He failed, however, to give the Republican nominee pointers on how tq cinch the game. It Is probably unnecessary to call the attention of the Republican party individually and collectively to the fad that four of Its United Slates Senators have everlastingly drifted from their moorings. If every man votes for McKinley whose wages were raised during the existence of the McKinley act, ami everyone votes against him whose wngei were lowered, he will not carry a single one of the manufacturing States. McKinley says he has not promised a place to any applicant for otllce, not wll he do so until after the election, By that time, perhaps, somebody eliw may have In charge the dispensaHoti of alms at the administration pie conn ter. There is a significant contrast lie. tween the action of Senator Teller, who has severed his relation with b » party because he could not agree with its position on the silver question, ami with that of Mr. McKinley, who ao cepted th« nomination for the Presi* deney on a platform which be sought to defeat.