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chapter xvif. (Continued. f She bad a pretty linle brass stand, tray, spirit lamp and kettle, ami wi:h i tlii.s apparatus ebe always made the lea beraetl with much pride, and some hv.p i":;ir. Die!. Ii generally fell to j Dick's lot tn light the in p. but to- j day she aai ai! ready !r hiai, and h::d bot : tum Up the light u little to have she wate boiling. "There," the said, after about five ninnies." aad handing hin: a cup oi tea. N'iiiv tell me ail everything." "Wcli." said hick, finding himself j thus fairly ap in a corner, and unable j to pt;i (.It the evil moment any longer, : 'l went " j "Ye? ' eagerly. "And - sat1 her ladyship." 1 "Oh" and is she up?" j Tp: My dear child, Lady Aylmer Is a Well as I am." he answered. Iorothy looked at him in wonder.! "Oh! Dik." she cried, "but what a; ck d old man?" "Ah! fancy it runs in the blood," j aid Ii; ;. easily. "One mau couldn't Lue c. much original sin of his own as tiie (id savage has; it must be heredity." "Then do you think you will tell i nibly wicked stories when you are .Lord Ay later, Diek?" she asked, ro gniahiy. i'erhaps who knows? All the same there is one story l shall aerer tell you." drawing her tenderly toward hiBL "I shall always be true as the Oespels when 1 tell you that I love you better than any other woman in all the world.'' Something in his voice touched the tendeiest chords of her heart, and set throbbing and beating with a sickening sensation of fear. "Dick." she aid in a whisper, "is it very bad news that you are trying to break to me does It mean India, after all?" Dick looked straight into her clear eys. "My dear little love," he said, 'I am afraid it does mean India, after gU; but if it does, it shall mean India lor us both." He told her everything then -how Lady Aylmer had received him, how ehe had openly declared that her husband had some scheme of his own to get rid of them both, how the old savage had received him, and what end their interview had come to. But. of course." he wound up, "although 1 took time to consider it, my mind was E-ade up in a moment. I shall refuse the appointment." Tflere was a moment's silence. "Dick, dearest," said Dorothy, in a quivering voice, "is it a very good thing to be a military secretary to a governor-general?" "Oh. well yes it is, dear," he admitted. "I mean, would you have refused it it you had not been married, if you !Lud never seen me?" "No, I don't suppose I should. I dare ay I should never have bothered to get sach an appointment, because, as you know, I hate the very idea of going to India, but. at the same time, to be quite honest, 1 don't suppose 1 should have refused. 1 don't suppose any man in his senses would." Dorothv drew her breath sharply, and for a minute or two did not speak. "Di'-k, darling," she said at length, "it 3s true taat you are married, but I ion't see that that is any reason why you should not be in your senses, too.'' "What do you veau, Dorothy?" he asked quickly. "Well, Just this. Supptsing that tLrd Aylmer had let you refuse this appointment, and had not made himself disagreeable about your allowance, we abculd have to go on just as we are doing now. And. of course, Dick dear, i dbould like to be Mrs. Aylmer instead f Mrs. Harris, and to live with the regiment rather than In Palace Mansions; but but. at the same time, since there is so much to be gained by it. 1 would just as soon be Mrs. Harris !n one place as in another, if I must be Mrs. Harris at all." Dick caught her .dose to him. "Dorothy, you mean " he began. "I mean." she ended linnly, "that I would sooner go to India as Mrs. Harris than drag you down In your proÄesslon, and put you at loggerheads with your uncle; because he is vour fcnele, and the head of your family, even though he is auch an old savage ae he is." "But, my dear, my dear, do you know that in that case I should have to go at once" he cried. "Yes, i know that, Dick." she answered. "But I can't leave you alone, Joel now- I can't. Dorothy," he exclaimed. "It's impossible; it would be inhuman. Why. I should be out of my mind with anxiety and distress." "No, no you would know that I w is proud and happy to be abb to do something to help you." she replied. I would rather that you were herr; ."but. then. I would always rather that you were here. That rs not a new feel teg for me. And I shall not be alone. 1 ball hav Barbara, von know. Hhi"bara Iii tak- cars of me. and lei you know exactly how I get on." No; I cannot let you do it," he bid, when she pr.used. "Yes. yes, you can. dear. Besides, it 1s not only ourselveB that we have to think of. There is the child: and although if we go to India together. w might be able to get along pretty well by our -elves, we should not be able

to ;ifford to send the c hild home, if the climate was bad for it. Why. Dick dear, we should not be able to afford to come home ourselves, if we could not stand the heat." "That is true," he admitted. "And don't you think." she went on eagerly, "thai I would rather live as I am doing now for a year or two longer than I would run the risk of seeing you die. perhaps, because we had not money to bring tis home? .lust think what I should feel like if we were in such a case as that." " But. darling, you don't know -you don't realize how very different life would be oat there." he urged. Her", very few people take the trouble to notice us. one way or another, and if they do. it does not much matter. But out there, as military secretary, I should have a lot to do. I should scarcely have a moment to myself. I should not be al le to go anywhere with you. and probably very seldom be able to come and see you." But you would be able to come sometimes," she answered, with a bra Ye smile. "Kvery one knows that half a loaf is better than no bread, and if one cannot get even half a .oaf. it is foolish to quarrel with the ice whic h k ej)s one from starving." Dick's heart felt like to break, "Dorothy. Dorothy." he said, "my dear little brave, unselfish wife, every word you say makes me love you a thousand times more than I did before. My dearest. I give in to anything that you wish; you shall decide everything, and I I will give all the rest of my life to trying to make you feel that you did not throw away your love and confidence when you gave them to me." So they arranged that Dick should accept the appointment of mil.iary secretary to Lord Skevversleigh, and that two days later he should go and see his uncle again, and tell him the de cision to which he had come. Dorothy had begged him to go and see him the following day. but Dick held out firmly there. No, he would have one more clay of liberty before he went over to the enemy and gave himself up. "We will have a real happy day, darling." he said, when Dorothy had given way about imparting the news to the savage. "By-and-by we shall have more money than opportunity of spending it together let us make hay while we can. First, we will go and have a look at the shops together, ami I will buy you something you can al-

"DOROTHY: DOROTHY!" ways wear till we meet again: then we will go to some good place and get a little lunch; and afterwards have a drive, come back here, dress, dine somewhere, and do a theater after it. There, what do you say to that for t real happy day?" Dorothy said that it would be delightful, and thought well, with something like dismay, that she should never get through it all. Yet the fear of once giving way and breakiug down altogether kept her up, and she went bravely thro igh with that happy day. which afterwards lived in her mind as being one ong spell of agony. And after that she wore upon her wrist Dick's trust gift to her a golden bangle, with two words inscribed upon it in little diamonds, which caught the light and flashed their message at her a hundred times a day two simple words, "Dinna Forget." CHAPTKR XVIII. UKÜ Aylmer was sitting alone in his library, smoking a cigarette, and wondering what answerDick would bring him when he thought proper to come again to give in his decision. He was a hand some edd man. not so very old in years, but aged in wickedness. A handsome man still, with squiline features, a Hushed face, and a goodly c rop of white curly hair. Your til sr thought on looking at him was. What a charming old gentleman!" your second, "What a pair of steely eves' our third. "What a Mephisto pfeelea ! " Yes. without the shadow of a doubt. Lord Aylmer was a tricked man with a bad heart filled to the brim, and running over with all manner of evil. They say. you know, that women novelists always make their heroes all good, till they are as insipid as the dummies in a tailor's window; or else

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that they go to the other extreme, and make their villians such unmitigated villians that it is impossible to find one inple ray of virtue wherewith to redeem their character from its inky pall of utter blackness. But let me tell yoi. that if all the women novelists who write stories in the Knglisn language were to concentrate their efforts upon the task of trying to depict the villainy of Lord Aylmer's natural depravity, I am afraid that in the eud they would have to call in the aid of their masculine confreres to adequately complete the portrait. For the noble lord was all bad. thoroughly bad what up in the north country they call "Ad, core through." Yet he had a delightful manner when he chose, and in early middle age had made a genuine love-iv.a'i h with, a beautiful yonng Woman ai least Sixteen years younger than himself a penniless as well as a beaatlfUl young woman, upon whom he had lavished so much love and attention that within three months of his marriage his love had burned itself out. and was as dead as any dead volcano. A few weeks later Lord Aylmer practically separated himself from his wife, although they continued to share the same house, and he appeared before the world as much as possible as if no breach had ever been opene d between them. Not by Lord Aylmer's desire, this oh! no. but because her ladyship had never been so genuinely in love with him as he had been with her, and was, moreover, perfectly alive to the solid worldly advantages of being Lord .Aylmer's wife, the mistress of Aylmer's Field and of the handsome town bouse in Delgrave Square. "Of course I know that there are others." she said in reply to a dear friend who thought it her duty to open this young wife's c yes. "and. of c ourse, I know that Aylmer wants to get rid of me; but I don't mean to be got rid of. and I put up with the others because I think doing so the lesser of two evils. There is only one Lady Aylmer. and she is a strong and healthy young woman, who means to be Lady Aylmer for at least fifty years longer. Yes, 1 know, my dear, all thai you feel about it. I quite appreciate your fee lings toward me. Oh, yes, it was your duty to tell me, but 1 am not going to c ut myself out of all that makes life worth living just to otdige a husband who has got tired of me in three months." To this decision Lady Aylmer had from that time forward kept most rigidly. As far as her husband was concerned, nothing seemed to annoy her. and whenever she wished to do so and condescended to try to get her own way by means of a little flattery, she generally succeeded; and DOW that Lord ylmer had got into the "sixties" she was simply a stately, even-tempered, Iron-Willed and exceedingly healthy woman, who looked as if she meant to live to be ninety. It was partly on the subject of his wife's extreme healthiness that Ixjrd Aylmer was thinking that morning as he smoked his cigarette and tried to assure himself that the twinge ir his left foot were merely a sign of a coming shower and nothing in the world to do with gout at all. And just as a worse twinge than usual made him wince and shiver, the door opened gently and a man servant made his appea ranee. (To be Continued.)

as; WE SEE OURSELVES. It Never Is as Other People See IV KngfOMctd with Our Ows Affairs. "Don't you dread people w ho meander on in long-drawn-out detail about their own concerns?" exclaimed Mrs. Ego. "I sat next to Mr. Langweilig at the B.'s dinner last night and I never was so bored! A clever mineralogist is bad enough, but a stupid one is unendurable. His whole c onversation consisted of elaborate explanations of the why and the wherefore of unimportant events and happenings in his own family. Her listener laughed to himself, for he had just come from his club, where he had happened to see Mr. Langweilig, says the New York Tribune. T am just going to Mrs. Ego's," he had said to Miss , "won't you come along'.'-' "Mercy!" was the answer. "I sat next to that lady at a dinner at B.'s last evening and I am sure she must be talked out as far as I am concerned: it was one steady stream about herself and her family, from soup to coffee. 1 assure you thai I could not get in a word edgeways!" Did you hear that Jack W. married again0" said one of his friends, a frail looking little man, who, from under the shadow of his gtout wife's elephantine proportions, looked like a pigmy. " The lady fair is a widow. I am told," be continued, unconscious of the parallelism, "who is as tall as a grenadier and weighs considerably over 200, and contrasts with .Jack, who is a small man. they say. irresistibly funny." "Mow comical it must be!" said his companion, grinning. "Yes," tittered the little niau, "and the amusing pan of it is that Jack is serenely llBCOBSclons of the comparison that people cannot fail to make, and strati about as proud as a peacock." VtviiiK Closet SH-e In I I in. New York Evening Post: In flats and apartments where space is at a premium, an arrangement suggested by which additional hanging space is galaedi 'o fit wooden poles in the unused spat e of c losets and wardrobe! into sockets made for the purpose. Hooks may then be attached to these poles, and the hanging spaces be doubled or trebled. The same idea is useful in a small hall bedroom, where, i I perhaps, it is impossible to nail the j necessary hook piece close to the wall. I

FARMERS' SCIENTIST.

VALUABLE DISCOVERIES BY A MICHIGAN MAN. Mudie Pi mra of Plant Te Valuable Work of Ir. Erwla F. gssttb, a (.rudUt of the Ann Arbor L'nlvemttj Aitl for Agriculturists MICHIGAN ra a n. Dr. E r w i n F. Smith. has been earning fame in 'SI.; scientific world t- 'mini '.y his work In a homely Held of practical Investigation, and he has won the gratitude of hundreds of orchard owners rnd vegetable formers in all parts of the 1'nitF-d States. As a student of tho microscopic plants that cause diseases in the vegetable kingdom, he is taking rank with the best of the German s i entists in that line of patient research and experiment. Mr. Smith gained the degree of doctor of science at the I'niversity of Michigan, where he was known in the laboratories as one of the most diligent and thorough students, and since then he has been employed by the division of vegetable physiology and pathology of the department of agriculture at Washington. As the board of health sends out an investigator when case of smali pox or ofher contagious disease dan-g'-rous to the public health is di?covered. so the agricultural department sends out Dr. Smith whenever it is found that some disease is ravaging any crops in this country. For a long time Dr. Smith studied the disease in peaches commonly known as "yellows." and while ho was able to point out some valuable preventive measures to owners of peach orchards, he did not cucceed In discovering the cause of the disease, a cause so deep-seated as to baffle all the learned scientists who have ever given it time. He had bis laboratory and preen house ex periDR. ERWIN meets In Washington, and ore hards in Michigan, Delaware and southern states were turned over to him several years for his experiments. Now, has turned his attention to the disease that has caused great havoc in the mustard family of plant. Near Racine. Wis., during the last three years, the cabbage grower? have suffered a loss that exceeds $100.000 from what they call "black rot." Cabbage fields ivar Green Bay. Wis., Saginaw. Mich.. Clyde, O.. and especially around Rochester. N. Y.. have been almost laid waste by bacteria. The great cabbage industry on Long Island has been neaily destroyed, and in Illinois cabbage fields are being turned to other lines of industry. It Is only within the last ten years that cabbage-growing has been conducted on a large scale in the United States, and the disease has kept pace with the enlargement of the cabbage fields. Distressed cabbage growers called loudly on the department of agriculture for aid. and Dr. Smith was detailed for the work. He found that the cause of black rot in cabbages is a yellow bacterium, which enters the plant above ground and usually at the margin of the leaves through small openings, known as water pores, scattered over the teeth of the leaf. The plants are also Fometimes infected as the result of bites of insects, the disease spreading In all directions from the bitte n places. There Is no evidence that the bacterium "an enter the plant through the roots. At least nine-tenths of the infections are through the water pores. The discovery of the germ was made In 1896-7 in greenbouse experiments at Washington. Last year Dr. Smith made a study of the blac k rot in cabbage fields, and it left no doubt that he discovered the cause. In one instance 411 separate infections by way of water pores were counted on a single cabbage plant, while from 50 to lf0 separate infections by way of the water porps were seen very often on cabbage plants In Michigan. Wisconsin. Ohio and New York. The entrance into the leaf of tbe grms which have lodged over the

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water pores is rendered possible by the fact that during cool nights or In damp weather the cabbage plant exudes moisture in the form of drops, and these drops remain over the water pores on the margin of the leaf long enough for the bacteria accidentally lodged thure to multiply and swim into the interior of the leaf through the opening.-; in just what way the organisms become lodged over these openings, is not known. It is probable, however, that they commonly And their way to such positions from the earth along with minute particles of dust, or are carried from diseased leaves to healthy leaves of the same plants on the bodies of insects. Dr. Smith has made- infections in cabbage plants by tneans of insects, and he has frrquoiitly observed them in the field, does not believe that the dirase can be ascribed to bad seed. At Saginaw, Mich., he found a large compost heap in a cabbage Held. Lying in this heap was a great deal of cabbage refusestems, bad heads, etc. - and a little search found that a ronlsiderable number of these steins were blackened in the woody par; as a result of the rot. Tn Mic higan, also, he found a field of cabbage quite free from the disease excepting a relatively small portion an acre or two which contained 3 good many cases. This part of th field had been covered with the rot 'en cabbages and other refuse taken out of the cabbage storehouse. Ho ha.published a number of useful rulea for prevention of the disease, surh fS rotation of crops, the destructtOB of weeds and insects, and the avoidance of composts and stale manure. Ther is no danger from eating dier.ed cabbages. W:itcr in the Soil. TV United Stat.-s agricultural Is-

! partment have found that the fertility ' of soils depend largely on their capac1 !tv . . t iiitiiii!nr niftier 11 M In m.irv II.. IUI ICiwI.I.N P". mi'., uiiv. Western localities c rops grow luxuriantly with, scarce ly any summer rain, depending on the water absorbed during winter atid retained dur'ng the entire summer by the soil. This novel theory is insu file lent to account for tho F. SMITH. 1 presence of so much water 33 is found perpetually present in the soil of the Mcijave and Nevada deserts. It is even thought to b- possible that the perma- ; nent water supply existing at a depth I of 40 to lot' feet ma;, b. re sponsible for j the erer-presenl mo:sure. The effect j of forests on rainfall is now under acI tive discussion by several authorities. who differ widely in their conclusions. some holding that forests increase rain fall and others not accepting this view. A SOUDANESE MUSICIAN. I The British advance in the Soudan I has reac hed Merwai. on the way to I Khartoum, and a further march will j probably be considerably delayed. Cor- , respondents ac companying the expedl- ! tion fill the home papers with sketches ' of the strange things they see by the 1 way. This primitive musician, one of PLAYS ON A PRIMITIVE INSTRUMENT. a band who plaved for the leaders at their headquarters one evening, chows how primitive is the land into which the English are again carrying their peculiar, rapid-fire civilization. Probably the form of the instrument upon which this savage Is performing has not been changed since fhe day when j history first heard of his conquerors.

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