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1 V V 5 Training Girl to 3Ianage a Home. A novel experiment in training girls to manage a home is to be made in London if the Education Committee if the London County Council adopted a. scheme which has been submitted to them. The aim is to make the girls 'proficient in the domestic duties they would have to perform as the wires of irtlsans earning from 2Ss to 3 a week. In addition to washing, cooking and cleaning and the general management of the home on a systematic basis, they would be taught how "to Hbop" in the most economical way. At the beginning of each week a certain sum would be set aside for rent, rates, flothing. insurance, traveling expenses and for providing a fund for "a rainy day." The remainder would be available for food and any little luxuria-? that might be iossib!e. In order that the training may be as practicable as possible it is necessary that the time occupied In attending to baby in most homes should not be overlooked in the program of the experimental home. It is proposed each week, therefore, to undertake the care cf a child belonging to a working class family in the neighborhood, and in thte way the girls would gain further valuable experience. Every piece of furniture and every utensil would have the price paid for it marked on It, so that the girls might have an idea of how much each article can be bought wr. To Aid Xeedle Workers. One of the difficulties encountered by the lover of art needlework in finishing up a piece of lace insertion is to cut Civay the cloth over which the lace Is sewed without Injuring the lace at the same time. Of course, It is Impossible without inverting article to see the point of the scissors, which is below the cloth. In this way a piece oj-the lace is easily cut away in mis NEW SCISSOliS. take. This can be avoided by the use of the scissors, patented by a New Jersey man. Thpper blade is pouted as cma. The lo'ver Made is longer and is provided with t. guard in the form of a projection, which is located beyond the line of contact of the blades. The projection is not sharpened, but Is rounded on top, and extends beyond the end of the other blade. To cut away the cloth the blunt end of the scissors is inserted beneath the cloth. The cloth can be cut away without danger of Injuring the lace, the projection aot Interfering with the cutting qualities of the scissors. The Clothes Tree. An article of furniture too seldom used is the clothes "tree," resembling the posts of our grandmother's tourpost bedstead. It stands on three tset and has half a dozen prongs or hooks. As it takes up $o little floor space and holds so many garments It Is an lrTilcable article. In a small hall or -restlbule It takes the place o? the track, and In a lcrger hall it complements the table on which men's hats ira laid. For the necessary airing of one's clothes over night it is preferable to chairs, as it can so easily be set out of the sleeping room. In the bathroom it is especially convenient. Drilsn for Gown of Silk. The illustration shows the bodice t of a silk gown of original design. The trimming consists of loops of soft ribboa threaded through buttonholed eyelets, as explained by the sketch, and an applied band of heavy lace outlin ing the "V-shaped guimpe. The guimpe and nndersleeves were of very thin cream-colored lace over a lining of white chiffon. The model was In soft, satin-finished silk, in a delicate mauve shade, the guimpe being of ecru Chantilly lace with a wide lace band oa the bodice of heavy Cluny. IIoneMty of "Women. Statistics compiled b American guarantee companies show that, as regards honesty, women are superior to men. Women in America are employed la business as extensively as men, and yet the record shows that almost every embezzler and defaulter was a m:in There are more women cashiers than The denartment stores and places of almost every kind employ wemen to handle their receipts and give change, yet there are 100 cases of men cashiers stealing where there Is one of a woman tsking her employer's money, strange as it may seem. Hard Water Dad for Skin. When removing tan the quality of water one uses for bathing has much to do with the skin, and hard water Is decidedly injurious. If there is the slightest tendency to that keep on the wasLstand a box filled with equal quantities of powdered orris root and bicarbonate of soda. Tut enough of this in the water to give a slight perfume and you will have a dellshtful tonic. This may be ued as often as desired. "Women and Work. For the year ending June "0, 190, C0l,rS5 wom"ii, nearly one-half of the number of iik'h, eaaie to t Iiis country. The great mujority of these came here for work. Nineteen out of every 100 native American women are engaged In

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gainful occupations, but thirty-two out of every 100 foreign-born women are so engaged, and the percentage is increas ing. In an investigation of several thousand unmarried immigrant women, and married Immigrant women without children, who had arrived within three years, fully 90 per ce-it were found at work or looking for work. "Wallpaper Hints. When papering a room . remember that large patterns and dark colors will make it appear smaller, while a plain or striped paper of a light hue will give an effect of Increased size. White, cream, yellow and light blue increase the apparent brilliancy of the light; red, dark green and blue and brown make the apartnnnt seem darker than it really is. Avoid green. If possible; the arsenic It contains is dangerous. Always avoid fantastic and highly colored patterns, both for their vulgarity and for the impression they mak upon nervou3 iersons and invalids. "Wisdom for Mothers. Mothers should learn to govern themselves before they attempt to govern their children. They should not say in their children's hearing things the should not like to hear their children say. They should never correct a child when they are angry. Th?y s!ould remember that children will learn politeness and kindness and gen tleness a thousand times better from their mother's example than from years of precepL Changeable Silk. Some of the prettiest frocks of transparent materials are worn over foundations of changeable silks. One for evening wear combined two colors in the linings. A striking gown of white net was shown made over white silk, with a deep ruffle of pink silk at the foot The merely flower-adorned hat Is be coming hackneyed, but the Idea is still being carried out by the milliners, as It has met with so much favor. The simple field blossoms and grasses look quite exquisite in conjunction with nev lelt hats, of rich butter color. White bats are still seen with trimming of pure white roosters feathers. Velvet ribbon is making its appearance as a 13.-4 1 rimming, anil it is very successful when mingled with illusion net. I!rlms are lined with colored or blick silk, or else a little bias covers the edge. A large white chip hat. In the fashionable mushroom shape, is shown in

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SHOW COSTUME. : j .1in the accompany ing cut. The trimming of this youthful and attractive model consisted of field flowers, such es popple, black and white daisies, wild oses, etc. Grayish green grasses ol feathery texture formed, the body of the wreath, and were arranged to fall around the hat over the brim. Blacl velvet ribbon was tied about the crown and fell In loops and ends over thi deep brim at the back. A window which has been sub scribed for entirely by women bearing the name of Mary has been completed In Dulvan church, Essex, England. The rector received shilling contributions from women of that name in all parts of the world. The last census report shows a steady decrease In the number of female prisoners. In 1SS0 women formed 8.5 per cent of prisoners. In IS'jO 7.8 per cqnt and in l'JOi 5.5 per cent. The decrease was general In the v whole countrj't which is certainly something of coalfort The king of Siam lias a bodyguard of 4C0 female soldiers. At the age of 13 they enter the royal service and remain in it till they are 25. Thea they are passed into the reserve. The weapon of these Amazons is the lance, anil they are splendidly trained in the use of it The Rev. C. A. Eaton, the pastor of the Uaptist church at Cleveland, O., declares that homeless couples In love have the same right t. pleasant muri ship as those more fortunately situated, aud he lias provided and furnished a church parlor where th young people can meet under supervision. A Itrninrkahlc Girl. MIps Gurid Laate, a Norwegian girl who Is working her way through tha University of Minnesota, can make her own clothes in their entirety, from the spinning of the thread to the cutting and putting together of the materials. She learned spinning and weaving in her native country and dressmaking In the United States. TnHeo "Will He Ten Cent. Calico will be higher than since 1ST5, the manufacturers informs us, 10 cents being the limit The same calico sold a year ago for 4 or 5 cents. The cost of cotton and the increased cost of manufacture are said to be responsible for the high price, which will be a serious item in the living expenses of the poor. Trouble doesn't come singly wheo you are held up by two highwaymen,

SOLDIERS AT HOME.

THCY TELL SOME INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF THE WAR. fToTT the nor of Hotb Armies IVhtled Amj Life In Camp Fora Bin Eiperlenoe, Tiresome 3Iarche Tbrllllnz Scenes on Battlrfleld. When General Thomas Francis Meng'aer, whose Irish brigade was in the reserve in the famous charge on Marye's Heights, at Fredericksburg, the Burnside battle, in December, 1SC2, was order to move his men forward, he said to them: "Soldiers of the brigade, I want every man of you to do his ducy. The r'st of the corps is watching this Irish brigade. We may not succeed. If we fall let ua have dead Irishmen nearer the enemy's works than any other soldiers." The charge was made, the Irish bri gade losing nearly half cf Its numbers. General Meagher saw wliat he asked for dead Irishmen nearer to the en emy's stone wall line of battle than any other members of the blue coat a rmy. C. Sheldon, the well-known Wiscon sin railroad conductor, said: "I stood only a little way from Grant the second day in the Wilderness. I had been wounded and had got back to his po sition, Longstrcet had made a fierce ittack and was driving our troops. An c filce dashed up and with great excitement said: " 'General Grant, Longstreet is turn ing out right "Grant did not seem to be disturbed In the least He looked out from un der his slouch hat and said to the officer: "Well. then, we shall have to turn his left"' Colonel Burns of the One Hundred and rirty-firth New York was shot through the head In one of the charges at Spottsylvanla. He fell as though stone dead, and those who took the time to look at him said there was no use of carrying him back, but he was finally taken to hospital, where his wound was dressed and his case pro nounced by the surgeons a hopeless one. He was laid away to die. But the gallant Irishman was not ready to go; he proposed to live. He was" taken to Washington and a month or two later from there to his home in liuflfalo. He was a mere shadow of his former self when he reached that city. A dispatch had been sent trough mistake, stating that Colonel Burns' body would arrive on a certain train. The colonel had re mained on the car until the crowd had dispersed, so that he could walk with out being jostled. Those who had come to the train to receive' the body had gone away in the beiiv'f that they had made a mistake in the train when he reached the platform. One large man. an Irishman, an old friend of the col ouel, still remained. Seeing Burns' blue suit he walkel up and asked him if the body of Colonel BurLs had come on that train. . "Yes, sir." "Where Is it?" "Here, sir." "Don't tell him that you are Colonel Burns; I know him." "P.ut I do tell you, Jim Hughes, that 1 am llurns, commander of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth New York." His weak voice, thin face and spare body, so unlike the Burns the Buffulonlan had known, were not yet recognized. He said: "You are not Colonel Bums. Besides, Colonel Burns was shot through the head and killed; a man can't be shot through the head and live." "But I am Bums." Then he pointed to the two red spots, one on each sidti of his head, where the bullet had gor.e through, and at last his old friend rec ognized him, picked him up In his arms as he would a child and carried him to an easy conveyance that bore him to his home. When the One Hundred and Sixtyfourth Now York was encamped on the outskirts of Alexandria, Va., It required a great deal of care to keep many of the men out of mischief. A strong guard was kept about the camp night and day, but In spite of that nearly every night some of the men ran the guard, got Into town and were re turned under arrest, charged with various offenses. Oue day when Captain Bernard O'lteilly was officer of the day there l 1 AleXanJrIa; U was tu imuy win uiiL-riJuua auu evoninsr n Most of the.ofilcers went in the after noon, Intending to stay through the evening performance. The noncomrals sioned officers and privates wondered why they, also, couldn't go in a body to see the show. . Delegations of s?r geants, corporals and privates began to wait on Captain O'lteilly and urge him, as commander of the camp, to let them attend the circus in the evening. After he had put oif two or three squaüs he suddenly concluded to make an ar rangement with the men whereby they could go. He had . the sergeants report to him and made them a little speech, something after this fashion: "Now, men. I know ybu want to go to the cir cus; but you waited until the colonel and the other officers went away be fore making known your wants. I have concluded, however, to say yes, If the men will promise to fall In by compa nies and march to the circus, be orderly, and when It Is over march back to the camp In a body. I will go with 3ou. The One Hundred and Sixty fourth, 000 or 700 strong marched into the big tent nr.d took seats "Captain." said the provost officer to O'lteilly, "I arrest yon and your men. By whose authority?" "The colonel's. "There is a mistake. The colonel left camp thl3 forenoon ; I am the ranking officer and have command of the regl ment I gave the men consent to come to the circus. 1 have the right sir, Don't put your foot Into a trap." And ho didn't "But the next morning," Raid O'lteilly, "the colonel was as mad as a whole troop of March hares. He began by saying: 'Captain, you exceeded your authority in allowing the men to go to the circus. 'I guess not. colonel. You and the rest of the field officers were at the circus; the men were as anxious to see the show as the oflicers, and I couldn't see tfhy reason why they should not, and I am willing to take the consequences. I guess that was the first time a whole regl nient ever went to a circus." J. A Watrous iu Chicago Times-Herald. Limited Command. John Puryear, of Richmond, was one Of Mosby's men in the eventful days when the woods and hills of northern Virginia made the picturesque back ground for some of the hottest encoun ters of the Civil War. Puryear was a

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less, he fought like a veteran. He lack ed a veteran's balance, for, although fearless, he had not the slightest Judg ment, a fact which, says Mr. Munson, the author of "Mosby's Men," Mosby once recognized with considerable hun:or. All that Puryear knew about war Was what he gathered In each mad rush through the ranks of the enemy, with his long black hair flying in the wind and his revolver hot with action. He rode like a centaur, and no enemy ever existed that he would not engage, had to hand, hip and thigh. After one of the most daring rushes Mosby said to him : "Puryear, I am going to make you a lieutenant for gallantry." ruryear swepi nis piumeti nat in a bow that was royal in Its grace. 'Hut," continued Colonel Mosby, MI dont want you ever to command any of my men!" Board of Trade Ilntterr. ve are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more." So ran the song, and it has an inspiring ring in It even now. Hut when It was written. in the anxious days of July, 1SG2, the public situation wns gloomy and full of cause for alarm. The ardor of the people's first re sponse to the need of the nation had worn off. The grim realities of war had become known to the people. There wa3 a 1,111 in, the whirlwind of patriot ism, but It proved to be but the calm of gathering strength and force. President Lincoln made his call for nOO.tXK) volunteers on the Gth of July, ISC'. For ton days the enlistments fell below expectation in all parts of the country, llut the people were only thinking and planning. rr i -v jnree nunureu tijousanu men were making up their minds to give up their lives for their country. For although every soldier has many chances of liv ing through Ids term of service, he has to look death In the face on the day when he signs the enlistment roll to look, and say, "Well, 111 take my chances!" July 1G ten members signed a request to the president of the Chicago Hoard of Trade asking him to call a meeting of the board to pledge money and influence to raise a batterv to be known as the Chicago Hoard of Trade battery. Although his name was not signed to the call for the meeting, Sylvanus II. Stevens was the prime mover of the enterprise, the man who originated the Idea of the Hoard of Trade battery and who circulated the call and made all arrangements for the meeting. He was the first to sign the enlist ment roll at the meeting held in the board rooms, then on South Water street corner of Wells, now 5th avenue, on July 21, 1S02, $5,000 was pledged, and at the adjourned meeting, ta the morning of the 2Cd, the muster roll was increased to sixty-three names, and at 4 p. m. on that day the vice president of the board and his committee tele graphed the President that the Chicago Hoard of Trade had pledged $15,000 bounty money and raised n full company of artillery. This rund soou reached $50,000. The whole country fook fire at the ex ample of commercial Chicago. Itecrults flocked to the enlistment offices, and Lincoln's 300,000 were soon swinging southward armed and equipped for the war. Illinois alone sent 50,000 troops under this call. The Board of Trade battery got Into shape, drilled vlth horses for the first time Sept 9, and moved south to Louis ville on the 10th. Its first engagement was with a de tachment of Forrest's cavalry," in Octo ber, and then followed three years of fighting In the Army of the Cumber land. The battery took part In many en gagements and fiercely fought battles whose names are now famous Stone River, Elk River, Chlckamauka, FarmIngton, Dallas, Decatur, Atlanta, Love Joy, Noonday Creek, Nashville and Seima. It participated In Wilson's raid, lu the spring of 1SC5, and came home covered with glory at the end of the war. The total membership of the battery, counting recruits and all, was 243. There are now living and known to tho Chicago Board of Trade Battery Me morial Association, sixty-four members. Of these twenty-two were present at the latest reunion in Chicago. Ada C. Sweet, 1" Chicago Journal A naUe of wdow.f Penilon.. In executive session Congress w a9 memorialized by the Grand Army of the Republic, in Saratoga, N. Y., In fa vor of tensioning the widows of Civil War soldiers at $12 a month. It is nat ural that the old soldiers should be anxious over the fate of their aged widows after thev themselves have gone to rest The present pension of the CItII War widow Is small, lnüeeti, $s a month, unless her husband died from the results of wounds or disease con tracted in the military service, when she receives $12 a month. The new law urged intends to give the widows of all privates the same pension, It Is often the case that a veteran who Is drawing a pension dies, leaving a widow in needy circumstances. She applies for a widow's pension and finds that she Is entitled to only $8 a month. I remember a widow of a disabled soldier who drew $45 a month, and the faithful wife had nursed him through years of helplessness, and at last had set the flowers of love over his grave. She wrote to me when her pension ot $9 was granted : 'I can not understand how it is that I must struggle on now, alone, with this little pension as my ivie support. I am worn out and can no longer work. I seems as If there must be some mistake. I am glad my noor husband did not know what I would have to face when he was gone.1 The Invalid pension roll will now, so fast diminish that it Is likely that the widows' pensions can soon be raised, as Is recommended by the Grand Army of the Republic. Chicago Journal. The first Protestant Church servlci held in America was at Jamostown, Va., on Sunday, May 13, 1C07 (N. S.). Rev. Robert Hunt conducting it A board between two trees was the pul pit, while a sail stretched overhead served as a canopy. North Carolina took the nrst pro gresslve step for independence April 22, 1770, when the Assembly voted "t concur with those In the other colonies In deciding Independence." Virgiris was second, on May 17 of the sami year. Alabama is the only State lu th Union which holds a legislative sessioE only once In four years. Her lawmak ers and unmakers get $1 a day, and the quadrennial session is limited tc fifty days.

VIXEN By Miss M. E. Braddon.

CHAPTER III. Two years later, and Vixen was sit ting by the fireside of a spacious Brighton drawing-room a large, lofty, commonplace room, with tall windows facing seaward. Miss McCroke was there, too, standing at one of the win dows, while Mrs. Tempest walked slowly up and down the room, stopping now and then at a window to look idly out at the red sunset beyond the lowlying roofs and spars of Shoreham. Those two years had changed Violet Tempest from a slender girl to a nobly formed woman a woman whom a sculptor would have worshiped as his dream of perfection, whom a painter would have reverenced for her glow and splendor of coloring, but about whose beauty the common run of mankind, and more especially woman-kind, had not made up their minds. "I think we ought to go before Christmas, Violet," said Mrs. Tempest, continuing a discussion that had been dragging itself slowly along for the last half hour. "I am ready, mamma," answered Vixen, submissively. "It will break our hearts afresh whenever we go home, but I suppose we must go home some day." "But you would like to see the dear old house again, surely, Violet?" "Like to see the frame without the picture? No, no, no, mamma. Tho frame was very dear while the picture was in it; but yes," cried Vixen, passionately, "I should like to go back, and carry fresh flowers there every day. It has been too much neglected." "Neglected, Violet! How can you say such things!" "Oh, mamma, there is more love in a bunch of primroses that my own hand gathers and carries to tho grave than in all the marble or granite in Westminster Abbey." "My dear, for poor people wild flow ers are very nice, and show good feel ing, but the rich must have monuments." "Captain Carmlchael," announced Forbes just then, In the dusky end of the drawing-room by the door. The visitor came smiling Into the friendly glow of the fire. He shook hands with Mrs. Tempest with the air of an old friend, went over to the window to shake hands with Miss McCroke, and then came back to Vixen, who gave him a limp, cold hand with an indifference that was tlmost In solent. "I was that moment thinking of you, Captain Carmichael," said the widow. "An honor and a hapiness for me,' murmured the captain. Vixen sat looking at the firo and pat ting Argus. She did not favor the captain with so much as a glance; and yet he was a man upon whom tho eyes of women were apt to dwell favor ably. He wa3 not essentially hand some. The most attractive men rarely are. He was tall and thin, with a waist as small as a woman's, small hands, small feet a general delicacy of mold that was accounted thorough bred. He had a long nose, a darkly pale complexion, keen grey eyes under dark brows, dark hair cropped close to his small head, thin lips, white teeth, a neat black mustache, and a strictly military appearance, though he had sold out of a crack regiment three years ago, and was now a gentleman at large, doing nothing, and living in a gentleman-like manner on a very mall Income. He' was not In debt. and was altogether respectable. Noth Ing could bo said against him, unless It were some dark hint of a gambling transaction, some vague whisper about the mysterious appearance of a king at ecarte tkc kind of rumor which is apt to' pursue a man who does not cheat, but always wins. Despite these vague slanders, which are generally baseless the mere expression of society's floating malice, the scum of ill nature on the world's waves Captain Carmichael was a uni versal favorite. "How very rudely you behaved to Captain Carmichael, Violet," said Mrs Tempest when her visitor had de parted. "Did I, mamma?" Inquired Vixen, listlessly. "I thought I was extraor dinary civil." "I cannot Imagine why you are so prejudiced against him," pursued Mrs, Tempest, fretfully. "It is not prejudice, mamma, hut in stinct." "It is shameful of you to say such things," cried the widow, pale with anger. "What have you to say against him? What fault can you find with him? You cannot deny that he is most gentleman-llke." . "No, mamma; ho is a little too gentleman-like. He makes a trade of his gentlemanliness. lie is too highly polished for me." "You prefer a rough young fellow, like Roderick Vawdrey, who talks slang and doats on the stables." "I prefer any one who is good and true," retorted Vixen. "Roderick is a man, and not to be named in the same breath with your fine gentlentan." "I admit that the comparison would be vasfly to his disadvantage," said the widow. "But it Is time to dress for dinner." "And we are to dine with the Mortimers," yawned Vixen. "What a bore!" This young lady had not that natural bent for society which is symptomatic of her age. The wound that pierced her young heart two years ago had not healed so completely that she could find pleasure in inane conversation and the facetious liveliness of a fashionable dinner table. Going home again. That was hard to bear. It reopened all the old wound. Violet Tempest felt as if her heart would break, as if this new grief were sharper than the old one when the carriage drove in through the familiar gates, in December dusk, and along the winding shrubberied road, and up to the Tudor porch, where the lion of the Tempests stood, with lifted paw and backward gaze, above the stone shield. The ruddy firelight was shining across the wide doorway. The old hearth looked as cheerful as of old. And there stood the empty chair beside it That had been Vixen's particular wish. "Let nothing be disturbed, dear mamma," she had said, ever so many times, when her mother was writing orders to the housekeeper. "Beg them to keep everything just as it was in papa's time." "My dear, It will only make you grievo more." "Yes; but I had rather grieve for him than forget him." And now, as she stood on the hearth after her journey, wrapped in black Iura. & littl black lor toiuo crown

ing her ruddy gold hair, fancy died the empty chair as she gazed at it Yes, she could see her father sitting there in his hunting clothes, his whip across his knee. The old pointer, the squire's favorite, came whining to her feet How old he looked! The drawing-room was all aglow with blazing logs, and the sky outside the windows looked pale and gray. Mrs. Tempest was in her favorite armchair by the Are. Mr. Scobel, the clergyman, was sitting in a low chair on the other side of the hearth, with his knees almost up to his chin, and his trousers wrinkled up ever so far above his stout Oxford shoes, leaving a considerable Interval of gray stocking. He was a man of about thirty, pale, and unpretending of aspect, who fortified his native modesty with a pair of large binoculars, which interposed a kind of barrier between himself and the outer world. He rose as Violet came toward him, and turned the binoculars upon her, glittering in the glow of the fire. "How tall you have grown!" he cried, when they had shaken hand.i.

"And how " Here he stopped, with a little nervous laugh. "I really don't think I should have known you if we had met elsewhere." 'Perhaps Rorie would hardly know me," thought Vixe"How are all the poor people?" she asked, when Mr. Scobel had resumed his seat, and was placidly caressing his knees, and blinking, or seeming to blink, at the fire with his binoculars. "Poor Lady Jane!" sighed the in cumbent of Beechdale, looking very solemn, "she has gone to a land in which there are fairer flowers than ever grew on the banks of the Amazon." "What do you mean?" "Surely you have heard "Nothiitl," exclaimed Mrs. Tempest "I have corresponded with nobody but my housekeeper while I have been away. What is the matter with Lady Vawdrey?", "She died at Florence last Novem ber, of bronchitis. She was very 111 last winter, and had to be taken to Cannes for the early part of the year. But she came back in April quite well and strong, as every one supposed, ai.d spent the summer at Briarwood. Her doctors told her, however, that she was not to risk another winter In Eng land, so in September she went to Italy, taking Lady Mabel with her." "And Roderick?" Inquired Vixen. "He went with them, of course?" "Naturally," replied Mr. Scobel "Mr. Vawdrey was with his mother till the last" "Very nice of him,", murmured Mrs. Tempest, approvingly; "for, In a gen eral way, I don't think they got on too well together. And now, I sup pose, Roderick will marry his cousL' as soon as he is out of mourning." "Why should you suppose so, nam ma?" exclaimed Violet "It was quite a mistake of yours about their being engaged. Roderick told me so himself. He was not engaged to Lady Mabel. He had not the least idea of marry Ing her." "He has altered his mind since then, I conclude," said Mr. Scobel cheerily those binoculars of his would never have seen through a stone wall and were not much good at seeing things under his nose "for It Is quite a settled thing that Mr. Vawdrey and Lady Mabel are to be married. It will be a splendid match for him, and will make him the largest land owner In the Forest, for Ashbourne Is settled on Lady Mabel. The duke bought it himself, you know, and it Is not in the entail," added the Incumbent "I always knew, that It would be so, said Mrs. Tempest, with the air of a sage. "Lady Jane had set her heart upon It WTorldly greatness was her idol, poor thing! It is sad to think ot her being snatched away from every thing. What has become of the or chids?" ' ; "Lady Jane left them to her niece They are building houses to receive them at Ashbourne." "Rather a waste of money, Isn't It?" suggested Violet, in a cold, hard voice, "Why not let them stay at Briarwood till Lady Mabel is mistress there?" Mr. Scobel did not enter Into this discussion. He had an service at o'clock that evening, and would bat just have time to tramp home through the winter dark and take a hurried meal before he ran across to his neat little vestry and shuffled on his sur plice, while. Mrs. Scobel played her plaintive voluntary on the .twenty guinea harmonium. "And where is young Vawdrey now?" Inquired Mrs. Tempest, blandly lie ha3 not come home yet The duke and duchess went to Florence just before Lady Jane's death, and I believe Mr. Vawdrey is with them at Rome. Briarwood has been shut up since September." "Didn't I tell you, mamma, that somebody would be dead?" ciHed Violet "I felt, when we came Into this house yesterday evening, that everything in our lives was changed." She walked up and down the dim fire-lit room, thinking of what she had just heard. "What does It matter to me? Why should I be so angry?" she asked herself; "We were never more than friends and playfellows. And I think that, on the whole, I rather disliked him. I know I was seldom civil to him. He was papa's favorite. I should hardly have tolerated him but for that." She felt relieved at having settled this point In her mind. Yet there was a dull blank sense of loss, a vague aching In her troubled heart, which she could not get rid of easily. "I hate myself for being so vexed about this," she said, clasping her hands above her head with a vehemence that showed the intensity ot her vexation. "Could I I, Violet Tempest ever be so despicable a creature as to care for a man who docs not care for me? to be angry, sorry, broken hearted, because a man does not want me for his wife? Such a thing is not possible! If it were, I think I wuid kill myself. I should be ashampd to live. I could not look human beings in the face. No; I am not such an odious creature. I have no regard for Rorie except as my old playfellow, and when he comes home I will walk straight up to him and give him my hand, and congratulate him heartily on his approaching marriage. Perhaps Lady Mabel will ask me to bo one of her bridesmaids. She will have a round dozen, I dare say. Six In pink and six in blue, no doubt, lik wax dolls at a charity fair." (To be ContlnuAdjL

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