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fascinating to all general readers, but particularly so to those who love a good, earnest, practical story of every-day life. In this romance the heroine, Mathilde Thome, is a charming girl, and the hero, Jem Stewart, a man who marries her first

and teaches her to love him afterwards. The author .of the story has very interestingly depicted scenes and incidents that form a most pleasing picture of life as it is seen daily, and the naturalness of the romance will entrance every lover of good literature. To the family circle, "A Hazard of Hearts" will especially appeal, and young and old will be eager to read the story to the end. It is a clean, bright, sterling romance, and as such we recommend it to our readers. It is one of several very superior serials which we have been fortunate in securing.

CHAPTER I. The steamship St. Lawrence had ben a fashionable mailboat in its day, crowded on its summer trips by wealthy Montreal and Toronto folk. Those days now lay in the dim distance, though the St. Lawrence was till a ood sea boat, albeit one of the slowest In the line, and one in which economically minded or impecunious travelers could obtain passages at ra es much lower tcan in some other boats. There were but a fcandfnl of any sort of passengers on this mid-December voyage, for who but the most homeless or friendless of wanderers, i those under the stress of the strongest reeessity, would be willing to p.ni Christmas day out upon that desoiaie waste of grey, turbulent waters known as the North Atlantic. Rarely there does a day's sunshine rercal the bine-green light and pu;i.le bados of that swaying, surging space. Rarely does the white flicker of a sail, r the long, grey trail from a steamer's funnel bring a trace of man's existence into that chaos, which seems cs though forgotten in the work of creation and left as in the space before days were, when "the earth was without form and void; end darkness was t:pon the face of the ' deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the waters." Of these few passengers, who, from necessity or choice, had isolated themselves from all familiar surroundings at the supreme festal season of the year, the greater part were men. There was a group of commercial travelers, keeping together in the smoking room, with mnch convivial consumption f the cheaper varieties of fluids, with much card-playing and noisy gossip of their craft. I'.ut there were three or four other men f another type, whose shabby clothes and unkempt appearance were emphasized by the trim prosperity of the dapper little bagmen. The hands ot these men bore marks of toil, and their faces were bronzed and roughened from contact with the extremes f summer heat and winter cold. Yet the significance of untrimmed hair and shabby clothes was contradicted, with some of this latter group, by occasional Cashes of voice or manner that betrayed a former contact wuh the great world. As these men earnestly discussed the prospect of Klondyke mines or British Columbian ranches, a looker-on might have noticed some phrase or trick of expression which had been, a few years a?o, a temporary shibboleth of the gilded youth of London clubland. Men from the wilderness of the great Northwest these, ranqrinjr in rank from the son of some great historic house who "Faith, he went the pace and went it blind. down to the farmer's plodding Ron, to whom the ownership of his Manitoba n acres was a perpetual awe and delight; but all. gentleman and yeoman, equally delighted to have secured a few winter months' holiday in England. Amidst the miscellaneous masculine elelXOKISa AS THOUGII THE WOULD HAD CONE TO PIFXES." ment only three women were to be counted. One was a New England sea captain's wife, shrivelled into a sort of nmmmy-like condition by the siorms of many sa. the suns of many lands. All day she pat in the respectable seclusion of the ladies' cabin, exchanging experiences with the stewa'Jess and sewing steadily on through tne worst weather at garments for her two solemn, elfreliant little girls, who roamed the ship with the light dexterity of the stewards. Another woman was the bride of a commercial traveler, having come on board a Joined with much cheap jewelry

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and a large feathered hat, amid the jocular farewells of a group of friends of much the same, style cs herself. This lady, after the firnt hour, devoted to tlu consumption of canrly. had never raised fcer head from the pillow for days. The third of the women passengers vas the one who counted as a social fact. In tb important print of immunity from ea-sickn-?s he had almost occupied the proud position of a heroine of romance. Almost, but net ni: for even Miss Thornc had disappeared from the saloon lurk'g the first bad blew that had met them "seer the Canada coast, to reappear two davs brr with paler face and n.ce languid covfma! Many of the men. hr-vfrer. Lad done the same and mall worker 4t wa. considering the tossing about which the St. Lawrence had aastaiued. But it 'sras now the sixth day of the

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of Hearts JOHN Leslie Publishing House o Ö o work of merit that will be voyage, and Miss Thome was by undisputed right the ruling lady of the ship Miss Thome, whose young face and figure formed the pleasantest central spot to masculine eyes in that dreary saloon, even though the set gravity of her face matched but too well the fresh black that clothed her figure. No deck life had been possible during that week of storms, and as the poor old St. Lawrence did not boast of the modernity of a music room or library. Miss Thome's cushions and rugs were heaped in a corner of the red plush divan which ran around the saloon. This corner, being recognized as her own peculiar haunt, was approached by the Northwest men with deference when on social thought's intent, or, rather, by the two or three from the Northwest to whom such social thoughts were a possibility. IT DID NOT TAKE Uli! LONG TO TRORNE'S Ien a returned African explorer can hardiy be more susceptible to the attractions of feminine proximity than is a young Englishman who has spent two or three seasons on a lonely ranch or in a rough crowded mining camp. Young Charlie Hudson, who had been fretting and fumirg at not getting home in time to spend Christmas among his assembled brothers and sisters and cousins, forgot his grievances when allowed to chatter at Miss Thome's side, or to help her to pour out tea on extra rough date, when the task was no sinecure. Captain Kerr, that kindly little Irish gentleaian, kept her supplied from his own aimiectly inexhaustible stc:k of fiction, ajd asked nothing better than to l2 allowed ro yam away about the wife and cliMrfn whom he wa on hi way home to join. of sportsmen's ?J?s 'looked keenly out under drooping lips what part did Intake in the group? Lounging in his usual listless fashion on the sofa, putting in some keen taunt or gibe at everything under heaven or earth, or else letting fall some queer out-of-the-way fact or hint at some startling bit of personal experience, as his share in the conversation, stoically indifferent to the severity of the storm or to the length of the voyage, utterly reticent as to any future after the landing at Liverpool how was it that he had established a tacit footing of greater intimacy than had the other two? Wherein that intimacy consisted Miss Thorne might have been puzzled to say. and )-et fhe felt that it was there, if onh in a subtle comprehension of the seasons' of each other's dark moods. That she should ever be under tiie do minion of such moods was probably ; piite unconsidered theory to either of the other two m-n, for the girl's manner might always have been marked by th" same dreamy stillnes.s "the perfection of repose," Charlie Hudson called it, while Captain Kerr praised the intelligence of so good a listener; and it was only Mr. Stewart who guessed that that same man ner might have been a blythe one but for the abspnt-mindedness entailed by an overmastering recollection or anxiety! Pretending to doze in an opjiosite corner of the salcon, Stewart had watcln-d the open book remaining with unturned leaves in the girl's hands, while sh stared ahead with the fixity that drew weary lines around the young mouth "Looking as though her world had gone

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to pieces around her," he said to hlmsalf as one who may himself have gone through that bewildering jreeess. The surface reason for thesi times ol sorrowful brooding seemed to lie in th new black dress that she wore. That the captains of Canadian steamships pather a fair amount of gossip as they come and go was a fact not unknown to Mr. Stewart. It did not take long. In a late evening chat over a pipe in the chart-room, to get at the principal facts in MIsj Thome's history. (To be continued.)

MENACE TO THE APPLE TREE. Speculation an to AVhnt Slight Happen If All Apples "Were Corele. We have already viewed Colorado's new eoreless apples from several positions, one of which also brought King Edward Into the field of vision, engaged in the kindly task of expressing the emotions experienced by bim "after taking," but the subject is a large one, as well as interesting, says the New York Times, and it -nay be worth while tc take another look at it. The question. Is the eoreless apple better than the apple with a core? was answered with a vehement altirmative by the king, and as he. In the course of his long and active life, has tasted most varieties of most fruits, including, if there is anything in rumor, some described by the specialists as "prohibita," his verdict Is a weighty one. If not absolutely final, and It's no wonder that the ingenious pomologist has taken pains to publish tb.3 royal commendation of his apple fast and far. But while we have now as little doubt as he that the eoreless apple is good to eat second thoughts on the subject have raised In our minds a few doubts if in the long run it will prove advantageous for men or for apples to turn the latter so far away from the way in which nature intended them to go. Coreless means seedless, and seedless means dooried to an extinction that may be remote, but It is as sure as sure can be. Were all apple trees rendered seedless, the duration of the species would be limited to the time during which, without the Invaluable aid of "crossing," the trees then alive could continue to send up from their roots a constantly deteriorating series of new shoots. Into that sad condition some cruel accident of environment has already thrown the banana, and if today something a frost, an insect or the like should kill nil the banana f lants there never would be any more of them, in this world at least. Persistent propagation of the potato from its tubers alone has had upon that precious vegetable an effect that already is alarming many of its most thoughtful friends, and they foresee the necessity, in a not very distant future, 4 i i. r r" - . rat 'jr . GET TUE PBINXIPAL FACTS CF MISS LIFE." of fcoiug back to the miserable little nabbins that grow wild in Mexico and developing them over again into the treasure houses of starch that do so muck toward feeding the world a long und costly task. We are not really frightened by the Colorado man's apple or by the king's approval of It, but the situation is not quite ns simple as it seems, and It will be well to keep in mind the fact that "cores" have uses as well as inconveniences. French Gnrdeuem Sell Extra. Soli. Suppose that a gardener has a plot of "raw ground to be put under cultivation. How does he co about It? Ernest Poole, writing In ''Success Magazine," describes the process ns follows: First, the entire surface Is covered with stable manure, mixed old and nev, iu such huge quantities that even when ressed down it makes a led nearly a foot in depth. On top of this he spreads a second layer, about six Inches deep, of the richest soil, which is also mixed with manure. So the ground has now an artificial sur face of from fifteen to eighteen Inches deep. It is all one hotbed. And not only warm. The loam thus made becomes in time too rich. Almost every year the maralcher takes off the top layer, replacing It with new earth and manure, und the old rich loam Is either used In making new beds In his own garden or else is sold at a high price. I read in one report of- a three-acre plot where more than two hundred and fifty cubic yards of old loam was sold each year. With stich treatment, the primitive condition of old Mother Larth is practically of no account. In the gardens which I visited, threading my way along nine-inch paths, the garden rose almost to my knees on either side quite artificial beds of earth. With a very slight pressure I could force my cane down a foot or more, and then it struck as though against a rock. MItnUeii. "Why didn't you marry that girl you were going with?" "I found I was greatly mistaken ir her." "How was that?" "I thought she would marry me, but she wouldn't." Houston Post. Where He 3In(le Good. "You don't make very gd mush with that instrument," sa'd the Innocent bystander to the ma:, behind the bass drum as the kind ce.'.sed to play. "No," admitted the drum jouuder "but I drown a heap of bad." Goiiitft tlolnsr, C.one. Fool I woke up last night with a start. I dreamed that my watch was geiie. Drool Well, was It? Fool No; but it was g"Ing. Yale Ilecord. Antojilshed. "Well, I am astonished, waiter." "But you ordered eggs, sir." "Yes, but they were so long coming I expected chickens." Houston Post.

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The "Woman Who Never Reads. "I love my mother-in-law," said a young woman recently, "but a visit from her almost gives me nervou3 prostration. She is kindness itself, would do anything for me, except leave me alone five minutes at a time. She is one of those uncomfortable people who never reads, but sits with her hands folded hour after hour and expects to talk or be talked to. My children are going to be readers If I have to beat a love of books Into them." There are few characetristics more trying than not to read. If you do not love books for their own sake, cultivate a taste for them in the Interest of your own popularity. The woman who rever reads is rarely a popular guest. She i3 a dead weight on her hostess and wears thin the utmost hospitality. If you have a friend in your house who, you know, is only too pleased to get a chance at a book, you do not worry about her entertaining. Every housekeeper has duties that must he attended to, and to hustle them, through whil a stranger waits Idly for your return, is conducive to nerve strain. Conversation, like bonbons, should be taken In moderation. About the only one that can thoroughly enjoy unlimited chatter is a member of the monkey tribe. To talk the clock around generally means words not Ideas. Even though the woman who never reads ha3 a fondness for the needle, It does not help- the harassed entertainer much. Besides being a bore to others, the woman who never reads generally is a bore to herself. The true book lover is dependSOME

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ent on no one for her amusements; "What shall I do next?" is never on her lips, and "ennui" is a state unknown. The atmosphere of good books makes for a refinement that levels rank and social position. The woman who knows intimately the master minds of the world, who keeps up with current events, has within herself a well-spring of content, and rarely is a source of discontent to her friends. DIaat for Woman S a ff r a are. Bishop William Croswell Doane said in an address the other day to the graduating classof St. Agnes' school at Albany. N. Y.: "I cannot count it necessary and perhaps It 13 not wise for me to caution you against the loudly shrieked call to give women the right to vote and to be voted for. "I am disposed to think that the lulet and decent appeal of a few of the so-called suffragists will be to drowned in the sort of howling dervlzh performance of the so-called suffragettes that it will fall of any effect. "At any rate, the argument should be addressed rather to legislators than to you, except so far as one is Justified in saying here to you that your womenhood will gain nothing by suffrage and is losing every day in its dignity and its true Influence by the hysterical clamor which i3 employed In the pursuit of this chimera." v Shirt Wallt Ilnrrel. You will find a shirt waist barrel more desirable than a box. Get a medium-sized barrel. Line with some pretty tinted cheesecloth. Six Inches from top screw in a dozen small brass hooks. For outside covering make three frlllä of bright flowered Ellkcllne. Pad and cover the lid with the same material as shies, finishing edge with a small double frill. Insert a small brass handle In top and with four castors put on bottom of barrel you have a something useful. This can be used for a laundry barrel. The girl who can sew ha 5 p.reat ad; vantage over the one who cr.nnot, for if she studies the gowns here pictured she can evolve with very little trouble and expense a beautiful frock for afternoon or church wear. One that, if made by a fashionable modiste, would cost Ö0 or more, can be made cheaply at home. Women's apparel is not closely fitted nowadays, which makes it easier for the amateur dressmaker. The first picture shows a princess gown of figured foulard in brown and tan, with yoke and sleeves of crcara-colorcd net. The coat is of heavy brown linen with wide insets of coarse linen lace of the same color. Around the neck la a fold of bias black satin passing

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through rlng3 covered wtih crochet A brown hat faced with black, trimmed with short brown ostrich feathers and black aigrette, is worn with this suit. The second figure Is another adaptation of the princess. It can be made of any color, in any shade, with hat in tones to match. The principal note is the touch of black that seems necessary to the fashionable frocks of the season. To Clean Papered Walla. Make a dough of flour and cold water and knead, as you would bread, until It is free from stickiness and becomes perfectly smooth. A piece of this rubbed over the paper will make it appear as fresh a3 new. One piece may be used for a large surface, though PRETTY FROCKS FOR LITTLE It should be changed for a clean piece before it is too much soiled. If you have plain paper on j'our walls and it is faded or spotted, mix some wall finish, of a desired color, rather thick, and apply it swiftly over the wall. If done carefully and with dispatch the paper will not become wet enough ta come off, and will dry quickly, when it will look like new. Overcoming: Mildew. A cure for mildew that is the remedy of an old negro laundress, Is excellent for all white goods and will not injure fine materials. Pour a quart of boiling water over two ounces of chloride of lime, add tree quarts of cold water, let the mixture stand until settled, strain and it Is ready for us?. The material should be steeped in the lime water for a day or over night, when th spots will be found to have disappeared. To Clean a Panama Hat. If a Panama hat is not too soiled it may be nicely cleaned by rubbing all over with stale bread. Take about half a loaf of bread about one or two days old and. rub the cut end well over the hat. As the bread becomes soiled cut off a slice so as to leave a clean surface, and continue rubbing the hat. You will be surprised at the amount of grime and dust it will remove. Making Friend. The only way to have a friend 13 to be one. For friendship cannot possibly be a one-sided matter. Just as It takes two to make a bargain or a quarrel, so does It take the same num ber to make a friendship. No one can stand aloof from others, waiting to be sought, without experiencing keen disappointment. This Is because friendships are not made that way. l'or Sprained Joint. A good remedy for sprained Joint, when It can be attended to at once, I3 to apply runn'ng water, as cold as possible. But if the case is not attended to until later, when the parts have much swollen, one should avoid cold and use warm applications. In all cases rest for the Joint is essential. Sllll n ?X)terr. She declares her heart Is a wide-open book ; And I fancy therein I should like to look. But her changeable mind Flaps the pages about And what's written there I can not find out. Cm Cook While She Hat. An electric device I3 now so arranged that your bread can be toasted, and cakes and muffins can be baked on the breakfast table. The busy housewife, who Is obliged to do without help, can now enjoy her meal as she cooks that is provided she can have the electricity. Good Vy I'olson. A simple poison for flies is made by boiling a quarter of an ounce of small chips of quassia In one pint of water. When taken from the fire add half a cupful of molasses. Wherever this Is placed on a saucer the flies soon congregate, to their own destruction. I'xlnR n Sculp Ton lo. The woman who Is ordered to use a tonic on her scalp must know how to apply it or her hair will be in worse condition than if ncne were used. The ideal method is to have the tonic rubbed in by a hairdresser, but as that i3 out of Jiie question to most women,

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the next best thing is to own either a small oil can, such as can be bought for 10 cents, or a medicine dropper. Put the tonic in either of these receptacles, which are equally good to distribute the liquid evenly on the scalp without wetting the hair. Divide hair into strands and go over each part carefully before making a new division. While the tonic is being applied with one hand rub it In well with the finger tips of the other hand. Cnpid Defensive. "There were something like 46,000 less marriages in New York State during 1903 than there should have been under normal conditions of increase," writes Richard Maxwell Wlnans in Harper's Weekly. The author ascribes this fact to the new law compelling brides and brldegroom.3 to appear in person at the City Hall in order to secure licenses. The publicity and Its attendant unpleasantness have driven many couples to take advantage of the facilities for marriage that are offered by adjacent States. Man a Girl Like. You couldn't get a girl to confess it, but the man she most admires Is often He whose Ideas never coincide with her own. He who tells her point-blank that he hates to see powder on her face. He who never says that some other girl looks pretty. He who always appears interested when she airs her little tribulations. Keep Umbrella In Good Order. Open your umbrellas and place a drop of oil In each Joint; now open and close the umbrella several times to Insure the oil penetrating to where it is most needed. Wipe off any superfluous oil, and in case some gets on the cover, remove with gasoline. Repeat this process in the course of a GIRLS.

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few weeks and note how much les3 you spend on umbrellas. In the matter of the children's umbrellas, one lasts as long as three formerly lasted before we thought of the above plan. Tale Green Poniard. Bordered foulard In a delightful shade of green was used for an attractive gown patterned after above model. The yoke of bodice is formed of fan plaits of white silk mousseline, with stock, tab and side pieces of lace. The bertha band and pointed strap pieces are made from the border, which has an embroidered ring in gieen several shades darker than n der'al. These are edged top and be torn with velvet ribbon in dark gr .tn. Fancy crochet buttons are pieced in each point. Four deep circular tucks form the blouse and the same number of tucks are used In tops of sleeves. The skirt is plain, the dotted border forming the hem. Xo Xeed of a Haftband. A certain spinster was being condoled with because she had no husband. "Why," she said, "J don't want a husband. I'm Just as well off. You see, I have a dog, and he growls; I have a parrot, and he swears; I have a cat, and he stays out nights. Now, why should I get married?" Pitlutliig a Refrigerator. Having a refrigerator that was somewhat stained and weatherbeaten, we tried giving it several coats of paint, the final one of bath-tub enamel. It was lined with zinc, but is now a glistening white Inside and out really a very presentable imitation of the expensive white porcelain affairs. Marriage Amonji Coeda. Startled by the announcement during a recent week of ten engagements among the students of the University of California, the faculty of that Institution has decided to add a course of household economics to the curriculum of the coming summer session. Always Warm Flour. "I always warm the Hour," said a housewife, "when I make bread in cold weather. Then there is never any danger that the bread will not rise." To Wash Silk Stocking. Add a teaspoonful of sugar cf lead to the water in which fine silk hosiery Is washed to prevent the delicate colors from fading. Xnmflem Women. "Women in Korea have often no name at all," said Dr. Meir, a returned English missionary. They are referred to sl3 'Look here.' "

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CHAPTER XXII. (Continued.) Ilemmingby was right in the prediction about the nurne. She kept her fice as much as possible turned away from him, and addressed herself to Rinjwood in low, measured tones, which struck the manaeer as having been deliberately adopted. He was disappointed, for he had reckoned upon her voice to recall this woman to his memory. As yet it had told him nothing, and he felt pretty sure that she would allow him to hear as little of it as miffht be., Clearly, if possible, he must force her to talk. "No,H observed the manager; the eld erittar don't recollect me a bit ; and yet, poor old chap, he and I have been friendly for the last twenty years; but I suppose, ma'am, there are many of his old friends he don't recognize?" "He recognizes very few of them now, ir," rejoined the nurse", in the same low, mechanical tones. "He knows Mr. Fegram, of course," said Hemminrby carelessly. "Who said anything about Mr. Tegram?" piped the octogenarian, from the depth of his cushions. "II never comes near me now ; why hould he? What does he want with a worn-out old fellow like me? But I'd like to see him, I'd like to see him." A gleam of surprise flashed for a moment across the manager's face; but, transient as it was, the woman, who from trader her downcast lids was steadily watching him, saw it, and fidgeted nervously with her apron in consequence. "It strikes me," continued Hemmingby, "that my old friend there is Dot quite so deaf as you make him out to be, Mrs. Mrs. " "Clark, sir," she replied. "Excuse me; I told you Just now that, though he really is very deaf, he exaggerates his deafness a good deal when out of humor. The name of Fegram would, of course, attract his attention." "Fegram!" quavered the invalid again; "I want to see him about that right of foreshore in front of Itydland Terrace. If he don't buy it, somebody else will, and build on it, likely as not It will send his rents down in the Terrace if he lets any one build between him and the sea." There was a twinkle in Hemmingby eye, which did not escape Mrs. Clark, as he replied: "Why, your head is as clear for business, Mr. Krabbe, as ever it was; if you would only take to an ear-trumpet, I believe, when you have got through the winter, you might resume your old place in the office. Don't you think, ma'am, he will come round with the spring a bit?" The nurse shook her head, but made no further reply. "Well, Ringwood," said the manager, rising, "you were sent down here to see Mr. Krabbe, and so put an end to a foolish' rumor; I suppose j-ou are satisfied now, and quite ready to vouch that he is alive, and in tolerably good case, for his age." He was, accompanied by Ringwood, about to leave the room when, to the intense astonishment of the latter, he turned swiftly round, crossed to the deaf man's chair, put his hand lightly on his shoulder, and whispered into his ear. Ringwood saw the invalid start as if the manager had bit him; but before he could observe more, Hemmingby hurried him into tht lane, and led the way rapidly back to Rydland. "Well," said Ringwood, as they turned into the high road, "what do you make of it all? and what, in heaven's name, possessed you to whisper into a deaf man's ear?" "I can't explain matters more brieflly, rejoined Hemmingby, laughing, "than by telling you what I said. It was merely this 'A leetle overdone, Dob ; but you can have twenty pound a week at the 'Vivacity' whenever you like to join the profession. " "Why, you don't mean to say " exclaimed Ringwood. "Yes, I do," interrupted the manager. "I5ob Pegram plays old Krabbe, and well he does it. As for the nurse, I tili can't put a name to her; but would back her also to be theatrical." CHAPTER XXIII. As the footsteps of the visitors died away Bob Fegram sprang from his chair, and, throwing his rug and wrappers upon the ground, exhibited the comic picture of a young man partially made np to represent an old one. "It's all up, Kitty," he exclaimed. "I told the governor it was madness to continue the deception ; but he was obstinate and refused to admit that he was beaten. Of course, neither he nor I ever reckoned upon nemmingby turning np in this way; I wish I had taken your advice. You said the minute you saw your old manager that it was best to say old Mr. Krabbe Mas too ill to receive visitors, that if we once played our little comedy before him he was certain to detect one, if not both of us; but I had bambozled so many, that I was ass enough to think I could deceive him. What do you think he whispered into my ear before leaving, Kitty?" "I don't know," she replied; 'but it ioes not much matter. I saw that he had recognized you some little before that ; whether he made me out also , I cannot say; but that, I suppose, is not of much ?onsequence now." , "Io you know what all this means, girl? Do you know that this meanj penal servitude for me? Why Hemmingby hould turn against us in this fashion I rannot imagine; he could not have come here with that barrister fellow by accident. At all events, it is too risky foi me, and I mean to be out of Rydland tonight." Rob Tegram, as, having resumed his jwn clothes, he walked quickly back to Rydland, rapidly turned over in his mind all the details of his projected flight. There was but one difficulty that he saw in the way of his stealthy retreat, and that was his father. To draw a good big sum from the bank, and slip quietly away from Rydland, was easy enough ; but the b:dding good-bye to his father was a different matter. Influenced entirely by his wn selfish fears, he determined to tpare the old lawyer that ceremony. He kept carefully out of his father's way, but employed a part of his time at "The Crown" in writing a short note to him, in winch, after explaining his own flight and his reasons for it, he strongly recommended the old man to follow his example. He further reminded him that he had alread' obtained two dividends from the "Tontine," by the fraudulent representation that oll Krabbe was alive, ind, consequently, placed himself at the mercy of Ixrd Lakington, or anybody else who chose to denounce him. Hard as old Tegram was, he a little broke down under his toon's no'.o. It has been said that every human being must have something to lovn, that it is a nepessity of our existence, and such love as lawyer Pesxam was capable o giving he had centered on his son. However, the old lawyer quickly reeorfred himself, and after the first half-hour, faced the situation as undauntedly as t er. In the course of the afternoon there was a rumor afloat in the town that old Krabbe was dead, and inquirers at Mr.

Fegram'i office were told it wa true thai the oM man had died very suddenly and unexpectedly.

CHAPTER XXIV. It was quite open to question whethet Lord Lakington was not as much dismayed at the explosion of the great Pegrani fraud as the old lawyer himself. He wa grateful to his nephew, r.o doubt, for preventing his falling a prey to a most au dacious imposition; still the fact remain ed, that he. Viscount Lakington, was left in just as precarious a position regardin income as ever. Although the Viscount might argue to himself that it was his nephew's bounden duty to marry mdtiey, wherewith to proj up the coronet that would eventually falJ to him, yet he had an inward conviction that Jack Phillimore would please himself about choosing a bride; and though he might talk of speakin? to his danghtef concerning the palpable love-affair goinj on between herself and her cousin, y he knew that he had tried Deatrice'a ob dienee to its uttermost limit when sht consented to marry Robert Pegram. Hia lordship was now thiuking for himself; and now occurred to him that idea which had flashed across Ronald Ringwood 00 the discovery of Finnigan. "Why," he exclaimed. I can marry Miss Chichester and settle the 'Great Tontine that way. I will do it, and with ai little delay aa possible. I had better, perhaps, take Beatrice into my confidence at once; it would be as well to have her 00 my Eide, and she can, if she chooses, aid me materially. Girls object at times to youthful stepmothers, but she and MUa Chichester appear to get on well together. Besides, If she means realizing be present love-dream, who the second Lady lakington is can be of little consequence to her." About two or three days afterward! the Viscount, rather to hia amazement, was informed by his daughter that Mis Chichester waa grateful to him, and all of them, for their kindness ; ahe thoroughly appreciated and thanked Lord Lakington for the honor he had done her, and she was willing to meet his views about the "Tontine" in any way, but that arrangement could never be; and the Viscount consequently had to once more ponder in his study ever that, to him, stopendous problem of "What Is to become of me?" It Fpeedily occurred to him that th next thing to try was to effect a compromise. Miss Chichester had stated her readiness to meet his views in any way but matrimony, and he would therefor write to Carbuckle, and propose a division of the big lottery, stipulating further, aa part of the arrangement, that there should be no prosecution of the Fegrams, as Mis Pbillimore'a name would be almost sure t be mixed up in such a trial. When the servant one day announce; Mr. Ringwood, there was no little flatter in the drawing-room in the Victoria Road. Mary felt that from that interview ah should be able to decide as to whether Ringwood really cared for her or not. "I have come. Miss Chichester, I regret to say, to break bad news to you," said Ringwood; "and if Mrs. Lyme Wregis will excuse us, I should prefer that you alone heard my evil tidings in the first place. Terence Finnigan is dead." "Foor Terence 1" replied the girl, "I am sorry for him; though when existence has become so merely mechanical as his was. one cannot but feel that death U deprived of all its terrors." "By his death your f.Vire in the Tontine' becomes void; and I am sorry to inform you and it is this more especially that Mr. Carbuckle wished me to poinf out to you that the agreement betwe you and Lord Lakington being still unsigned, it is not worth the paper it L- written on." "I understand," replied Mary, quietly. "You mean to say that Lord Lakington takes the whole 'Tontine, and that my prospect of being an heiress has melted into thin air." "That, I regret to say, is the exact state of the case; and vpry, very hard luck far you it is." "Well, Mr. Ringwood, I am not goinj to pretend to you that I am wholly indifferent to the loss of four thousand a year; but after all, remember, I only stand in the same position that I did three or four weeks ago; and never having had the spending of such au incone, I very partially realize the loss of it. I shall always feel that I can never be sufficiently grateful to you for all the time and trouble you hare wasted, first on my aunt's behalf, and then on my own." "I have something more to say to you of little moment, it may be, to you, but a very great matter to me. I have loved you sincerely, and hoped to make you my wife, almost from the beginning of our acquaintance. If I have never ventured tj tell you so before, the Tontine' must be my excuse. I was always in possession of the facts of the cas?, while you were not ; and I dreaded not so much what the world might say as what you might think, when, supposing I had the good fortune to win you, you should discover that I had known of the possibility of your being an heiress all alonj. I could not face that; and I swore to keep aloof from you until this lottery was decided one way or the other. I could have even dared to put my fate to the test had you won the whole and become a great heirness. There would, at all event, have been nothing underhand about my wooing then. Whatever answer you may give me now, you must, at all events, acquit me of mercenary motives, and feel sure that I love you for yourself. I lova you very dearly, Mary; do you think you could love me well enough to be my wife?" "You have taten me so by surprise that I hard'o know," faltered the girf? "but, believe me, no one can more thoroughly appreciate the delicacy of your conduct that I do, and it is that which makes me now hesitate. Your wife, Mr. Ringwood, ought to be a woman who not only loves you dearly, but can enter fully into the career which I am sure is before you ; and unless I fe?l certain 1 could be all this to you, I would say you 'nay, whatever my own feelings might be. Will jou give me a little time to think over it? Come and see me to-morrow, and I will honestly answer your question." "It is more than I dared to hope for," replied Ringwood, as he raised her hand to his lips; "please make my adieu upstairs, and till to-morrow, good-bye." That the finishing of the "Great Tontine" resulted in a double wedding it ia almost superfluous to add; but that Lord Lakington, under the trenuous pressure of his nephew and daughter, was induced to settle ten thousand pounds upon Mary Chichester as a wedding gift is a fact that deserves to be recorded, the Viscount, after the somewhile manner of those who have been spendthrifts in their youth, developing a laudable ambition for the accumulation of riches in his mature age. (TUE END. ) An Impossible Combination. They were talking of the strange sights to Ik? seen in a great city, and oi;e man paid bis tribute to New York. "I don't believe cn of you could think of any combination of circumstances that hasn't at some time occurred on the streets there," he said. "I reckon I know of one that's never occurred there," said Hiram Fowle. "What's that?" asked lh other, curiously. "I gurs." ?aM Hiram, slowly, "that, you've never scon, nor ever will pee, a brass band T'ing in one direction an' the heft of the folks going the other." A Sure Msn. "Was It a bad play?" "It must have been bad. None of the debutantes would let their mannaif go." Birmingham Age-Herald. j