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BOGGLES , , * rl\ Gen'l Pass ' r and Tk't j4g't- . ] ' . BY CLARA AUGU5TA INTERNATIONAL PRE55 ASSOCIATION. CHAPTER XT7. ( CosTiKCEn. ) "You will not die , I bore it. and still live ; and it is so much harder for me , because I "nave to bear it all alone. You have your religion to help you , Margie. Surely that will bear you up ! I have heard all you pious people prate enough of its service in time of trouble to re member that consolation. " "Don't , Alexandrine. It is sinful to scorn God's holy religion. Yes. you are right : ? t will help me. God himself will help me , if I ask him. He knows how much I stand in need of it. " "I am glad you are so likely to be sup ported. " returned the girl , half earn estly , hnlf-contemptuously. "Are you satisfied in regard to Mr. Archer Trev- lyn ? " "I will not credit it ! " cried Margie , pp-sionately. "He did not do that deed ! He could not ! So good , and noble , and pitiful of all suffering hu manity ! And beside , what motive could he have ? " "The motive was all-powerful. Has not Mr. Trevlyn , by his own confession , loved jou from his youth up ? " . "Yes. " "And Paul Linmere was about to be come vour husband. Could there be a more potent reason for Archer Trevlyn to desire Mr. Linmere's death ? He was an obstacle which could be re moved in no other way thanbydealh.be- cause you had promised your father to marry him , and you could not falsify your word. AH men arp weak nnd lia ble to sin : is Trevlyn any exception ? Margie , I have told you frankly what I know. You can credit it or not. I leave it with you : decide it as you think best. It is eight o'clock. 1 will go now , for it is time for your lover to come for you. " " 0.1 cannot meet him not to-night ! I must have time to think time to col lect my thoughts ! My head whirls so. and everything is so dark ! Stay. Al exandrine , and excuse me to him. Say I have a headache anything to quiet him. I cannot see him now ! I should go mad ! Let me have a night to think of it ! " Alexandrine put her hand on the soft hair of the bowed head. "My poor Margie ! it is hard for you. Hark ! there is the bell. He has come. Will you not go down ? " "No , no , no ! Do what you judge best , and leave me to myself and my God. " Alexandrine went out , and Margie , locking the door after her , flung her self down on the carpet and buried her face in the pillows of the sofa. Miss Lee swept down the staircase , her dark , bright face resplendent , her bearing haughty as that of an empress. Arch was in the parlor. He looked up eagerly as the door opened , but his countenance fell when he saw that it was only Miss Lee. She greeted him cordially. "Good evening. Mr. Trevlyn. 1 am deputized to receive you. and my good intentions must be accepted in place of more fervent demonstrations. " "I.am happy to see you. Miss Lee. Where is Margie ? " "She is in her room , somewhat indis posed. She begged me to ask you to excuse her , as she is unable to come down , and of course cannot have the pleasure of going with you to the opera. " "Sick ? Margie sick ! " he exclaimed , anxiously. "What can be the matter ? She was well enough three hours ago. " " 0 , do not be uneasy. It is nothing serious. A headache , I think. She will be well after a night's rest. Can not I prevail on you to sit down ? " "I think not. to-night , thank you. I will call to-morrow. Give Margie my best love , and tell her how sorry 1 am that she is ill. " Alexandrine promised , and Mr. Trev lyn bowed himself out. She put her 'hand to her forehead , which seemed al- most bursting with the strange weight there. "Guilty or not guilty. " she muttered , "what does it matter to me ? I love him , and that is enough ! " CHAPTER XV. I ' HE long mgnt passed away , as all nights , however long and dark they • may be. will pass away. > Margie bad not slept She had paced her chamber until longaftermid- night , utterly dis regarding Alexan drine , who had knocked repeatedly at her. door.-and-at last , overcome by • weariness , she had ? sunk down in a chair . by the open window , and sat there/gazing blankly out into the night , with its purple heavens , and its glory of sparkling stars. Nothing could have tempted Margie to nave credited such a story of her lover , had it not been for the overwhelming evidence of her own senses. Ever since the night of Paul Linmere's assassina tion , she had at times been tortured with agonizing doubts. From the first she had been morally sure whose lips had touched her hand that night in the graveyard : she knew that no other pres ence tnan that of Archer Trevlyn had the power to influence her as she had been influenced. She knew that he had been there , though she had not seen him ; and tor what purpose had he been there ? It was a question she had asked herself a thousand times ! There could be no doubt any longer. She wss forced to that conclusion at last ; her heart sinking like lead in her bosom as she came to acknowledge it In a moment of terrible temptation , Arch Trevlyn had stained his hand with blood ! And for her sake ! There was a violent warfare in her heart Her love for Archer Trevlyn had not sprung up In a day : its growth had been slow , and it had taken deep root Oh , how hard it was to give up the blissful dream ! She thought of his early life how it had been full of temptation how his noble nature had been warped and perverted by the evil influences that had surrounded him , * and for a while the temptation was strong upon her soul to forgive him everything to ignore all the past , anl take him into her life as though the fearful story she had just listened to had been untold. Marry a murderar ! "Oh , God ! " she cried in horror , as the whole extent of the truth burst upon her : "Oh. my God. pity and aid me ! " She sank down on her knees , and though her lips uttered no sound , hr heart prayed as only hearts can prav when wrung with mortal suffering. Archer Trevlyn must be given up : from that there could be no appeal. Hence forth he must be to her as though he had never been. She must put him en tirely out of her life out * of her thonghtF out of her sleeping and wak ing dreams. But she could give him no explana tion of her change of mind. She had passei her word nay , she had sworn never to reveal aught that Miss Lee had told her. and a promise was bind ing. But he would not need any ex planation. His own guilty conscience would tell him why he was renounced. She took off the rose-colored dress in which she had arrayed herself to meet him , and folded it away in a drawer of her wradrohe. together with every other adornment that she had worn that night. They would always be her painful reminders of that terrible sea son of anguish and despair. When all were in , she shut them away from her sight , turned the key upon them , and flung it far out of the window. Then she opened her writing desk , and took out all the little notes he had written to her , read them all over , and holding them one by one to the blaze of the lamp , watched them with a sort of stony calmness until they shrivelled and fell in ashes , black as her hopes , to the floor. Then his gifts ; a few sim ple things. Those she did not look at ; she put them hastily in a box , sealel them up. and wrote his address on the cover. The last task was the hardest. She- must write him a note , telling him that all was over between them. The gray light of a clouded morning found her making the effort. But for a long time her pen refused to move ; her hand seemed powerless. She felt weak and helpless as a very infant. But it was done at last , and she read it over , won dering that she was alive to read it : • "Mr. Archer Trevlyn , Sir : Yesterday afternoon , when I last isaw you , 1 did not think that before twenty-four hours had elapsed I should be under the necessity of inditing to you this letter. Henceforth , you and 1 must be as strangers. Not all the wealth and in fluence of the universe could tempt mete to become your wife , now that my eyes are opened. I renounce you utterly and entirely , and no word or argument of yours can change me. Therefore , do not attempt to see me. for with my own consent I will never look upon your face again. 1 deem no explanation necessary ; your own conscience will tell you why 1 have been forced to make this decision. I return to you with this note everything that can serve to re mind me of you , and ask you to do me the favor to burn all that you may have in your possession which once was mine. Farewell , now and forever. "MARGARET HARRISON. " There remained still something more to be done. Margie knew that Archer Trevlyn would seek her out , and de mand an explanation from her owu lips , and this must never he. She could not see him now ; she was not certain that she could ever see him again. She dared not risk the influence his personal - I sonal presence might have upon ser. j j She must leave New York. But where should she go ? She had scarcely asked j ' the question before thought answered ; ; her. ' ' Far away in the northern part of New j Hampshire , resided old Nellie Day , the ( woman who had nursed her. and whom she had not seen for twelve years. Nellie was a very quiet , discreet person , and had been very warmly attached to the Harrison family. She had married late in life a worthy farmer , and giving up her situation in New York , had gone with him to the little out-of-the-way village of Lightfield. Margie had kept up a sort of desultory correspondence with her , and in every letter that the old lady wrote she had urged Margie to visit her in her country home. It had never been convenient to do so , hut' . now this place was suggested to her at once , and to Lightfield she decided to go. She consulted her watch. It was 5 j o'clock ; the train for the north , the first j express , left at half past six „ There { j would be time. She would leave all i \ her business affairs in the handstof Mr. ' Farley , her legal adviser and general J I manager ; and as to the house , the maiden aunt who resided with her could keep up the establishment until her return , if she ever did return. She paefced a few of her plainest j j dresses and some other indlspensables , in a trunk , arrayed herself in a dark traveling suit , and rang for Florine. The girl looked at her in silent amaze ment Margie steadied her voice , and spoke carelessly enough. "Florine , I have been obliged to leave home very suddenly. My preparations .are all complete. I thought I wouM not wake you as I had so little to do. Tell Peter to have the carriage at the door at six precisely , and bring up Leo's breakfast , and a cup of hot coffee for me. " At six o'clock having written a note to Mr Farley , and one to her aunt , giv ing no explanations , but merely saying Fhe had been called away she put on he | bonnet , entered the carriage and was driven to the depot. And before nine-tenths of New York had thought of leaving their bedB. she was being whirled rapidly northward , her only companion Leo , who , watchful and alert , lav curled up on the seat heElde her. CHAPTER XVI. , HCHER TREV- / lyn had not slept that night. Some sense of impending evil , some demon of uneasiness oppressed - pressed him strangely. He tossed about until daybreak , then he rose , dressed him self , and went out. Everything was still on the streets ex cept the clatter of the milk carts , and the early dra3's and huckster wagons. The ar ! was damp and dense , and struck a deadly chill to the very mar row of this unseasonable wanderer. He walked a few squares , and then re turned to his hotel , more oppressed than when he went out. Did ever time move so slowly before ? Would the morning never pass ? He wrote some urgent letters , read the damp morning paper , without the slightest notion of contents , and went down to his breakfast , to come away again leaving it untasted. Eight 'o'clock. i The earliest possible hour at which it would be proper to call on Miss Harrison was eleven. Three mortal hours first ! How could he ever endure 't ? She might be very HI. She might even be dying ! Archer , with the fool ish inconsistency- love , magnified every evil until he was nearly beside himself with dread , lest she might be worse than Miss Lee had represented. Nine o'clock struck ; he was walking the floor in a state of nervous excite ment which would have forced him ere long to have broken all rules of eti quette and taken his way to Harrison House , had not fate saved him the necessity. A waiter entered , and brought in a letter and a package. He snatched them both , and saw they were di- rectel in Margie's handwriting. For a moment his heart stood still with a deadly fear. Great drops of perspira tion covered his forehead , and he dropped letter and package to the floor. Why was she writing to him when she must expect to see him in a few hours ? And that package ! W'hat did it con tain ? He picked it up , and tore off the wrap pings. The betrothal ring rolled out and fell with a hollow sound on the floor. The ring he had put upon her finger the ring he had seen her kiss more than once ! He looked over the contents of the box hurriedly ; every little thing he had ever given her was there , even to a bunch of faded violets ! But the letter ? He had almost for gotten it , in pondering over the dread significance of the return of his pres ents. He took it up and broke the seal with slow deliberation. It would not tell him any news , but it might contain an explanation. His face grew pale as ashes as he read , and he put his hand to his heart , as though he had received a blow there. Twice he read it through , and at the last reading he seemed to • realize its dread portent. ( TO BE CONTINUED. ) A SOCIAL RECREATION. Entirely ! New Method by a Few Frlenda Tired of Daiicinfr. Women who are in straits for unique methods of entertaining might do worse than to listen here , says the Philadel phia Press. The scene is laid in Phila delphia and the action in all its detail transpired in the heart of this city , so proverbially far-famed for the slowness - ness of its social gait and limitations of its pleasure-going capacities. There was a certain club of "blase" bachelors whose average age was probably about 18. Those worn-out veterans , who already - ready know all there is to know , determined - mined to give a dinner , which should be distinctly unique , so for weeks the prime movers thereof cast about them for the happy thought which would in sure the success of their "feed. " At last they found it. Then they bid some choice and favored brother spirits to the feast , demanding of them only one thing i. e. , that each guest should bring with him something he had stolen. The night arrived and with it the company , and then the scheme upon which the novelty of the entertainment depended was put into execution. As each man ( ? ) took his place he was asked to produce his transferred contri bution. Immediately forth from every ' pocket came a spoon. It is safe to say ' that all the prominent eating-houses of the city were represented in Jhat ; col- lection of souvenirs , the favorites being in the lead , of course. One ice-cream soda stand was all unwittingly poorer by six of these donated spoons. And the youths for the time being forgot their ennui and were "bojrs again. " Let friendship creep gently to a ' height ; if it rush to it it may soon run ' out of breath. They Might Have to Vnwn. "It is asserted now , " he said , thoughtfully , "that a Chinaman never yawns. If that is so " He paused and for a moment seemed buried in thought. "If that is so , " he repeated , turning to his companion , "I feel that I may assert with perfect bafety that no Chinaman ever met you when you were in a story-telling mood. " Then he chuckled softly to himself and felt avenged for the hour that he had put in listening to talcs of preco cious infants. Chicago Post Itorae Wasn't Kuilt in a Day. Xeither are the obstinate maladies , to lho removal ot which the great corrective , llos- tc 'tter's Stomach Uittors > , is adapted curable in an hour. To persist in The use of this standard remedy Is no more than just. 1U1- lei snes. constipation , malaria , rheuma tism , kidney complaints and nervouiiirss arc among the complaints which it eradi cates. An honest man can never bo a friend tea a thief. T Bfla BIBfl $ Smouldering fires 3 H s ! of old disease | I 5 > lurk in the blood of many a * J i v man , who fancies himself in tt % C good health. Let a slight $ | > ' sickness seize htm , and the ( < i | Y ) old enemy breaks out anew. < ; < i f ( ' The fault is the taking df ft \ | f medicines that suppress , instead - & > , > stead of curing disease. You \ \ 2 v > can eradicate disease and < ? u V purify your blood , if you use * } > the standard remedy of the i\ \ ) world , It | Ayer's | 1 Sarsaparilla. | © Tobacco Dealers say , that © I | "RATTLE AX" is a "scorcher" S I © because it sells so fast * Tobacco © S Cbewers sayt it is a "scorcher" because - & © cause 5 cents * worth goes so far * It's 8 I Jas good as can be made regardless of © I . * § riL Bfl j. j cost * The 5 cent piece is almost as § ? I © large as the other feliows * \ 0 cent piece * © Nearly 2,000,000 Acres of Government Lands H Now Open to Settlement ac M m 5\IRTHER \ ARKANSAS. I . Tl ey . fire fertile , ell-watered licaxily-tin.liercd anil produce -raiu ( r i.ffrti' * " in I vfjreia' ! • • ! In flflfl ] Dbm.dai . ce. Xoith Arkantas apjili- are noted The < mr att i- deli littul.wn trir.t' ' i • i .h .it. 'n v BHfl l. iiiuii subject to homei-tcad entrj of 1C0 acres ear h. 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