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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1904)
: T BHIP-S company, fallen In at " cHui'tons " upon i. I a Sunday morning on the deck of a large man J I of war, la a tight once seen never to be for at XL. I gotten. BuJh a scene aa this was being enacted one lovely spring morning on board II. M. 3. Tre mendous, lying In MhIU harbor. Its captain, Philip St. Aubyn by name, bad given permis sion to one of his officers to Invite Some visitors to church, nnrf at 10 o'clock the pinnace had been sent on shore to bring; thorn aboard. These, who consisted of an extremely beautiful and dain tily dressed (ttrl atid a tall, well built man evidently brother end sister professed themselves charmed and Interested with the novelty of the scene around them. The on p tain was a tall, powerfully built man, young look ing for so Important a command, with a stern, sun tanned fac?, clean shaven, good features, and a hard. Arm mouth.. For the rest, closely cropped hair and deep set gray eyea must suffice. After divine service was over the guests were, according to custom, shown round the ship, cabins and messrooms King visited In turn. They were presented to 8t. Aubyn as Count and Countess Z-illenoff, and he, much struck by the girl's exceptional beauty at.d charming manners. Invited them Into that holy of holies his c;itiln, where ordinary visitors were not allowed. The countess was. Indeed, a young womnn to whom any man might be forgiven losing his heart. The possessor of a lovely, smiling face, pink, dimpled chin, snucy Httle nose, forget-me-not blue eyes, shaded with long dark lashes, and a sw et, rebellious mouth, her sunny hair clustered round the well shaped head In the most fascinating little curls Imagina ble, some of which peeped eoo,uettlshly from under her big white hnt. She had, moreover, a bright, vivacious manner, and chattered away to the captain In her pretty broken English. " It Is easy to se that you are a married man, Cnpt. St. Auhyn!" the girl laughingly remarked, as she gazed admir ingly at the tasteful decorations of the spacious cabin. ' There Is quite a feminine touch about everything." The rest of the party were a little distance of, so no one could hear their conversation. St. Aubyn's grave face re laxed into a smile. " Indeed, you have made a mistake," he replied, In amused tones. " Then you are how you sny ? betrothed, engaged?" she Insisted, nodding her golden head. St. Aubyn gave an evasive reply. Somehow he felt he did not wish this beautiful foreigner to know about his pretty fiancee In England. "How I would love to be a sailor's wife!" cried his com panion, with girlish enthusiasm. "So delightful to go to sea with one's husband!" "O, but wives don't do that!" put In the captain hastily, nddlng'to himself In an undertone, "Heaven forbid!" "No?. What do thoy do, then?" asked the girl, raising her pretty eyebrows In surprise. "They stop on shore, and and wait until the ship re turns." he replied, lamely. "I should not like that; it would be so dull!" she said, pouting. " I am so Interested In ships. I have been on board many In my own country, but they are not so fine as thla beautiful Tremendous," she added, smiling. St. Aubyn acknowledged the compliment with becoming odesty. ' Yes, I like to learn everything about them," she con tinued brightly. " I read In the papers all the ' Naval Intelli gence.' What a fuss they are making about those missing signal books! I hope you are more careful here than on board '.hat other ship, Capt. St. Aubyn?" " 6, yes; our tlgnal books an not likely to be stolen!" said St. Aubyn, smiling. " Yea; I think you look a careful man," she remarked, glancing up at him coquetttshly. " Now, I daresay the Mttle key you wear upon that bangle round your wrist locks up some Important papers. Is it not so?" St, Aubyn started and looked down at his cuff Involun tarily, where, to his dismay, he saw that the curb chain he wore had, so to speak, slipped Its moorings arfd was plainly visible to curious eyea. " O, that is the key of the meat safe!" he replied gravely. " Ah, now you are laughing at met It is too btfd, the way you sailors treat us poor women!" she pouted. " I thought we were going to be such friends and you will not let me Into one little secret even!" "1 do not possess any!" laughed St. Aubyn. "If I had, you may be sure I would confide in you," he added gallantly. "That key t" " Belongs to my own private desk, where I keep my love letters," said the captain, lying promptly. " Let me Introduce my young brother to you, countess," he continued, as an ex tremely good looking boy approached them, whose white patch on Ms collar betokened his rank of midshipman. " I Shall be delighted! Tour brother Is an officer on board Mho?. How nice for you both! A lieutenant, I suppose?" she said, smiling sweetly at young St. Aubyn, who was immensely flattered. II. At that moment, however, the count came up and Inti mated to his sister that It was time for them Kb seturn to the shore. He was a handsome man, clean shaven, and not unlike St Aubyn In height and build; Indeed, oddly enough, even his features were similar. " I must thank you heartily for a pleasant morning." he said to the captain in excellent English. " Will you slve me the pleasure of yo'ir company at dinner tomorrow night? We are staying at the Great Britain." The officer was atout to demur when he caught sight of the girl's blue eyes fixed anxiously upon him. "Thank you; I shall be d. lighted!" he answered niletly " that Is, If you will not mind my coming In uniform, a? 1 am going to a ball." he added hesitatingly " Not In the least!" replied the count heartily. " We shall be all the more complimented shall we not, Vera?" Vera assured the captain that It was so; and after Im pressing upon St. Aubyn the dinner hour at the hotel brother and sister bade him good-by and left the cabin with their friend, the officer who had Invited them on board. "I don't like that Russian Johnnie, Phil." remarked Cecil St. Aubyn, as he gazed out of a gun embrasure and watched the guests' departure In a boat. ' "Why not? He seems a pleasant enough fellow," ob-( served his brother carelessly. " O, he asked a Jolly sight too many questions for my taste! But he got precious Httle change out of me, you bet! It's my private opinion the man's a spy," said the boy, turn ing and confronting the captain. 'What rot you talk!" returned St. Aubyn Irritably. " Be cause a man Is Intelligent and desires to Improve his mind does It necessarily follow that he must be a spy? Rially, Cecil, I think I am quite capable of managing my own affairs. You had better clear out If you cannot talk sense," said the captain stiffly, hia brow darkening rmlnously. The following day, having some occasion to hold official Intercourse with the officer who had Invited the visitors off to church, St Aubyn remarked casually: " See you at the ZullcnofTs tonight, I suppose. Smith?" The officer In question looked slightly uncomfortable. " No, sir," he replied quietly. " Why, how's that? It's rather ill bred of the man to leave you out of the invitation." " Well, to tell you the truth, sir, I really know little about the Zullenoffs," the lieutenant began hesitatingly. " Perhaps It was Indiscreet of me to invite them here. I met the man and his sister at Spezsia when I was there last year with the fleet, and I encountered them again a drfy or two ago in the Strada Reale, when the count asked me point blank to Invite them off to the ship." "Well, they seem pleasant enough people," said the cap tain Indulgently. " Especially the girl," he added, as if by an afterthought " Yes, especially the girl," reiterated the lieutenant re spectfully. That evening the captain of the Tremendous, with his boat cloak thrown over his ball unlirm, left the ship In Ms galley and was landed at the cimtom house steps. Stepping Into one of the small carriages, which were ubiquitous, and whose noisy drivers plied Incessantly for hire, he was driven rapidly In the direction of the hotel. Two hours later the officer of the watch was surprised at his return to the ship In a Maltese waterman's boat. He went to meet the captain at the gangway, touching his cap as he did so, and the latter, upon stepping on to the quarter deck, returned the salute, Bnd, muttering that he had forgotten something, dived down to his cabin. It was a dark night, but the officer saw the captain's face quite plainly by the flash of a lantern. His peaked cap, with the gold oak leaves, was drawn well over his forehead, and his face was pale and strange. Happening to encounter Cecil St. Aubyn a few moments later the lieutenant Informed him of his brother's return. "That's rummy, sir!" said the. boy, opening his eyes wide. " He was going on to the gunners' ball after he had dined with some friends. I wonder what's up?" " He aald he had forgotten something; but he certainly did not look well. Perhaps you had better go below and see If he requires anything." The boy waited no second bidding, but ran quickly down the after ladder. Unceremoniously he burst Into the fore cabin, which, however, was empty. But there was a light In the after one, and, pulling back the curtain, Cecil saw his brother, standing with his back towards him, rummaging for some papers In a tin dispatch box. "Hello. Phil! You have got back already!" cried the boy eagerly. The man started and Wheeled sharply round. " Yes, I have returned," he said thickly, as their eyea met. ' The boy advanced a few steps and gazed steadfastly Into his face; then his own changed color. "Heavens!" he gasped, reeling back, "you are not my brother! You are Count ZullenofT!" Instantly the man snatched a revolver from his pocket, with which Ife covered the midshipman. " Utter a scund and you are a dead man!" he hissed. For a moment the Ind was too stunned to move and he Stood facing the Intruder with big, frightened eyes. " Stand over there, where I oan see you!" commanded the man. As In a dream the boy obeyed. " Now, if you move or cry out, I shall shoot you!" said the man fiercely. "Also, If you give the alarm before I have get safely away your brother's life shall be sacrificed. He Is already a prisoner, and If I do not return within a specified time he will be killed. Do you understand?" The boy's lips framed the word " Yes," but they gave no sound. He understood the whole plot now, and knew that the man was looking for the secret signal code, snd that the key of the box It was kept In had been stolen from his brother's wrist ' He believed that the man had spoken the truth, and tnat his dearly beloved Philip would be murdered if the plot failed; but he knew also that his brother would prefer death to dishonor, so his own personal feelings must count as nil. ' It Tn, . I ' ,t - jri- i " ' A " ' ; " :'I t i v t ' ' -rC.u 1,1 -I'; - K - - ; J- ? ? I . f f h i 'i . ....... tpy-.,; vj' - W J V 1 fart'". '""""" S III 1 iri, i-V ....1 r A tti iiW Besides, he would be dead, too; so what did it matter? He must be cautious, though. It would never do to give the alarm at the wrong time, and lose his life for nothing. And yet It was maddening to stand there and watch the villain rifling the dispatch box before his eyes. There was a marine sentry on duty outside the cabin door, and at that moment the boy could hear his footsteps dying away In the distance. It would be useless to give the alarm until the man was actually outside the cabin door. The question was, would he be back before the "count" had finished his search? O. the agony of those Interminable moments! Would the returning tread of the marine's heavy ammunition boots never break upon his Btratnlng ears? The tension was becoming too great. The boy felt that he must shriek, or he would lose his senses. He bit his Up until It Med. and dug his nails Into the palms of his hands. What could the sentry be doing? Why had he not re turned? At this crisis the " count " suddenly turned round. " Remember, your brother's life depends on your silence!" And, once more covering the boy with his revolver, he backed slowly until he reached the fore cabin. Tipuff of imokt, 3. srfarp reporl and ihcbvy vlacfcpered hacfe' Then the psychological moment arrived, for, without the Slightest warning, young St Aubyn sprang forward with a hrlll cry of "Sentry! Help! help!' and flung himself upon the man like a wildcat A puff of smoke, a sharp report, and the boy staggered back, then fell prone upon the deck, and the " count," as he dashed out of the cabin, precipitated him self Into the arms of the big marine artilleryman. The sound of the shot soon brought men hurrying to the captain's cabin, and the thief. In spite of desperate struggles, was quickly disarmed and captured. Rough but kindly hands then gently raised the young hero and laid him In his brother'! bunk. TEE GEMEMSTY OF CLEMENTINA " My brother the Great Britain hotel at once at once!" he gasped, with superhuman effort, and then fell back faint ing. When the party from the Tremendous burst open the door of the Zullenoffs' room at the hotel they found Capt. St Aubyn- Ragged, bound, and stripped of his uniform, but fortu nately uninjured. The " countess " had flown, and It was afterwards discovered that she and her confederates had left the Island thut evening In a P. & O. liner. Cecil St. Aubyn, though dangerously wounded, did not die, anl was in a fair way of having Ms head turned when at k 'gth he was well enough to return to his duties on board. ' CSS55535S5SSSSSSS3SS3SS3 By Amy IB. JacqIto. FEEL, a pitiful skunk!" said Marmaduke, push ing back his chair, and throwing a surprising pair of feet up on his desk. " Just like the poor browbeaten creature in the novelettes persuaded by a stern and unnatural parent to marry an heiress whilst his flabby heart Is In th proud possession of a penniless beauty. By Jove, though, that's where I score! There Isn't another girl In the case. It's Clementina or nobody, so why on earth shouldn't It be Clementina?" Thla argument fell lrke balm on Marmaduke's conscience. Clementina was a nice girl, and a rich girl. What did It matter If her father was an Ignoramus and made his tnou nflnds by margarine? Clementina was fond of him. Clemen tina didn't want a wealthy husband. She loved to see him !u his wig and cloak, and she didn't care a flg whether he ever got a brief. He could dress up sometimes for her special amusement. He wasn't desperately In love with Clementina, but what did that matter? " What Is love, sir?" asked Marmaduke of his faithful c'lent his hat and coat propped up against the opposite chair. "Will you kindly tell me that? You don't know! Well, In the words of a lawyer, I will tell you. It is an arrant piece 1 1 tuny, air, a m u i . i.-- " ....... jwu . '"..m. n v, a(lu - makes you do all sorts of Idiotic things, which you are sorry J"f5r afterward. While It lasts, you think you are the happiest ' fellow op the face of the earth, and when Its gone, what have I you got? ; A allco of experience, that's all. You've lost your I case and got to pay the costs. Now. If only hot head, d youth would consult a lawyer before starting on s matrimonial career, by Jove! what a harvest we should make." eCS33333SSe333S At that moment a tight rap came at the office door, and Marmaduke, with a vision of a wealthy client In a sable coat, and with a waiting brougham below, drew "down his legs hastily, and assumed his best court expression, just as the door opened and Miss Clementina Potts entered. "Tina!" said the young lawyer, With a shade of disap pointment " You're surprised to see me," said Miss Potts. " You don't often entertain ladles here." " No, unfortunately, my clients have been mostly of the masculine persuasion," said Marmaduke, with a hasty glance at his hat and coat. "But take a seat, Tina. I'm awfully glad to see you, and you do look ripping!" Miss Potts smiled. She certainly did look remarkably pretty. Her cheeks were paler than usual, her reddish hair gleamed gold In the sunlight, and the gay air which sometimes jarred on the young lawyer's ears seemed strangely reduced. Clementina smoothed her ermine muff and looked up deter minedly. "I reckon," she said. "I'd best go straight into the mat ter. There's no sense In beating around the bush when you can skip throuf it, as pop says. I came to aay that our engagement is off, and I'm off, too. We sail for New York straight away." " What?" said Marmaduke, starting back with unfeigned horror. " What for?" " I think that la my business," said Clementina, quietly. "Anyhow, you've been good to me, Duke, and I'm sorry to leave you. But you'll soon find somebody to nil my place." " But that's all nonsense!" said Marmaduke. seising the little white gloved hand. " I'm not ilng to be turned off like this. Don't you care enough for me? Is that It?" For a moment Clementina's blue eyes sparkled with In dignation; then she laughed awkwardly and turned away. "I like you aa well as most," she said; "but I reckon I can get along without any of you. Anyway, I'm off." " But don't you see you are treating me badly, Clemen tina?" argued the lawyer. " I have a right to know the reason you are jilting me. It Isn't fair to me." " I guess It's fall-er than if Imarrled you," said Clemen tina, wltha little ahaketn her voice. " But when we Ameri can girts make up our mind, there's nothing more to hf said. We'd better say good-by here. Pop's waiting for me at the utation, and I've got two or three more visits to make. Say, you've never kissed me before, and we've been engaged for a long time. You can Just once now. If you want to." Miss Potts lifted a slightly blushing cheek, and, as Marma duke accepted the Invitation It struck him as a curious coin cidence that he had never been tempted to kiss those pretty, pouting lips before. He realized then what a false hearted knave he had been. Clementina's tremulous kiss sent a thrill to his heart, which swept over the pangs of conscience. For a moment he was in paradise, and when he returned to earth CUmentlna hud gone. Then he called himself all the names he could think of. He was a brute, a sordid wretch, a paltry fortune hunter, and deserved little short of hanging. Clementina had found out in time he was only marrying her for her money, and had gine without a reproach unless it was her kiss on her lips. And nothlgg could be done. She despised him, of course, and perhaps she suffered too! Poor little Clementina! How pretty she had looked and how generous she had been! Marmaduke flung the clothes brush at his wig and gewn to express his disgust at the barrister who owned them, and. putting on his hat and coat, strode moodily home. Arriving there, he took a fiendish delight In acquainting his venerable parent of the collapse of his cherished icheme, but, at the conclusion of his story of Clementina's flight, he found the astonishment was solely to be on his Bide. " I'm glad to hear it Very glad," said his father. " Not that I was afraid you would be mad enough to stick by the engagement, my boy." " What on earth are you talking about!" said Marma duke. " You haven't heard, then," said Mr. Egmont. " The lit tle minx didn't tell you that her father has Just been mada a bankrupt. Well I never!" Tina's father a bankrupt!" " Yes," went on Mr. Egmont, testily. ' I thought they 3SSS9S33S33S3CS9933303e3933393ee33S333333333333S3 would come a cropper the rate they were living baJls, par ties, theaters galore, to nay nothing of diamonds and Paris millinery. The only thing I liave to be thankful for Is the girl's honesty. Her father would have Insisted on the mar riage if it hadn't been for her." For a few minutes Marmaduke sat as if he was shinned. Then his face cleared in a remarkable way. He pulled his hat and coat on again with feverish haste, and without re turning any answer to his father's questlona ran out of the house. He took a cab to the hotel where Mr. Potts and his daugh ter had been staying, found out the boat they were going by and the time it started, and found he had only an hour to achieve his purpose. Taking another cab, he promised the driver countless wealth If he arrived In time. "Goodness me, Tina, If that isn't that young flame of yotirs coming along the quay," said Mr. I'otts, looking over the side of the vessel that was to tuke them back to their native land. " 'Pears a though he's looking for something." Clementina looked up with a deep ilush on her cheek and a wild throbbing at her heart. What hud he come for now?" In a few minutes he wan beside her. "Tina," he whispered, "I know all. ' My own brave lit tle girl! Have 1 found too lute that It was you I, wanted you, and not your wretched money?" " I gin ks that's the Bwi-itict bit of music I've ever heard,' said Tina, looking up with t lie tears shining in her eye. " But this boat starts In about two minutes." " Tina, 1 cannot let you go," cried Marmaduke, desper utely. " I'm so poor. I've only got about $1,XK) a year com ing In, and I haven't had as much as a brief yet, but If you only loved me enough to " " You really want to marry me now pop's poorl" burst out Clementina, In a tremor of excitement. " Yes, yes!" " Well, I guesB, pop, you'll have to go thla trip by your self," said Clementina, promptly.' " Duke, take my lugguge up. . Here's your ticket, pop, and take cure of your Messed self. Write as soon as you can, and don't forget to address the letter to ' " Mrs. Egmont!" screamed Marmaduke, as they ran up the gangway. There whs a farewell shriek from the engines, a despair ing, throbbing, and poor Mr. Potts was left clinging to the "uil of the B. ukhII. in a state bordering on collapse, alone. CS555S53SSSSS55533 AN AIRCASTLE CONQUEST G OOD-BT, Miriam i let me know how the crops art doing." " O, yea, to be sure, Bertie, good-by. It's going to be a dread ful lonesome vacation among the corn and haystacks O, O!" aa th. vounn fellow slipped oft the moving train to Join the chattering band of Miriam's friends on the platform below, whence they culled up last words of parting and repartee. nd Anally flourished hats, handkerchiefs, and parasols to the nodding face In the ' an Ishlng car window. With the last fervent survey of her friends, wherein the Idol of her heart was singled out from all others, the girl turned dreamily to a, sightless contemplation of her environs In the car. " He loves me," she murmured, ' Just enough to dally about me, and so Ion-; as there's no grand chase after me by some dangerous rival- he will never say a word to me, not a word, perhaps he will never, never speak 1" Russet. Kansas. Dear Bei tle: This Is wher you can address me, although the 'farm 1 miles away from town, rall- wyi and all signs oi chuuhhuu. ucvar knew' before where " the other end of no where " was, only there la no end to It. lfa fairly limitless with the beginnings of fields. cattle meadows, and other features of howl ing wilderness like things. No. they are not alive enough to howl. That Is left for me to do In the secrets of my pt.ows at night. Not a bit of news even about crops to tell you. but my Journey! The most adventur ous, romantic, altogether Jolly happening that has ever happened to an everyday girl like me out on a prosy sleeper from Chicago to Kansas. Late In the afternoon I was struggling with the window shade to pull It down or raise It or something or other to gel It comfortable, I got to scandalously red and excited over my efforts that I can't re member now what it was. At all events none of the trfln officials were about to help me. But a young fellow sitting somewhere in the remote parts of the car took pity on my afflictions. He fixed the shade most charmingly, and as he finished his eyes fell upon my name card on my bag. " O, I beg your pardon." ht began hastily, " it Is extraordinary for mt to address a young woman with whom I fern not acquaint ed, but the name Miriam Leddy It the name of a cousin of mine whom I havt never met She lives In a suburb of Chloago." Imagine, Bertie! And I from Evanston. It was In evltab'r; of course I had to speak, and we talked over the matter for tome, time, and At lust found out that 1 wat not bis coualn. He gracefully excused himself for having in truded and retired to his seat, and I had not minded the Intrusion one particle, for he wat such a gentleman all along and a splen did handsome one at that. At dinner, when the dining car was crowded to the last Inch, aa the kind stars ordained It, the butler hap pened to show him a seat.at my table. So we fell to talking again to be sure. I learned that he was on his way to Hays, on a farm a few miles west of Russel. He did a few Uttlt things for me In the evening, and the next morning helped me out at Russel with all my traps, and O, Bertie, meeting him did make tuch a difference in tht Journey! What an endless letter! What are you all doing In the dear old town? I want to hear about the university frolics. Pity that my head frightened the doctor just before the last splurge of fun. At always, . Miriam Lsddt. To Mr. Bertie Eugglns, Chicago. Deaf Bertie: It wat to good of you to write me Immediately. Don't be alarmed about my dignity in meeting " scoundrel strangers on a train." Mr. Carl Fenelon-isn t It artistic nd euphonious, and you know I have a penchant tor attractive names is a gehtle man born and bred, a Harvard man out f . i a summer on the prairies to give him muscle before beginning law next autumn In match less New York, and so polished, handsome, dainty, and entertaining. One reads of men like him oftener than one meets them. A minute ago I had a neatly worded note from him asking me whether he may run over to my farm and compare "lots" with me. - His " lot " this summer, he says, seems like a continent. Isn't It lovely of him to want to come? I am famishing for some one that can talk of something besides poultry and pens. Now finis for this morning. I muni have my note for Mr. Fenelon ready for mv cousin to mall when they ride to Russel with the eggs. Tou lay nothing about the hop? At ever, Miriam Liddt. Dear Bertie: You teem so bluet I am most dreadfully sorry and will try to cheer you with some. 'bright niws of my gayetlea It wat such folly for mt to dread the summer In Kan- as. Kansas! It's the name for every thing gc;c d that's going. All It needs for any place to be Jolly Is a good companion, and that I have In Mr. Fenelon. Ha feela just at you do about my meeting a ttranger on a train and hat produced all aortt of evidence in the way of letters and cards which confirm all that his lovely manners, delightful mind, and kind, good heart would lead me to sup- By Ada M. Krecker. pose about his family and breeding. We've been doing the sights and shows of Russel as If it were Paris, although the time passes quite as charmingly when we're driving in uncle's buggy or going up the cherry trees, talking the while. He knows so much and talks like a novel. Now, don't be blue with all Chicago to draw upon, and you're having Just the cool sort of weather you like. Very cordially, Mikiam Leddt. Dear Bertie: The very idea! It is so as tounding! I thought you were going eust for your two weeks' recess to see the specta cles of Boston town and be with your mother at Swampscott, and now to think of It that you are planning a trip to the wild and wool les! and after all you said about Kansas! I am so surprised 1 scarcely know what to write or say, but of course possibly and probably you are joking. Mr. Fenelon, the other day he said I should call him Carl, had me out to a Sunday school picnic the oter day, but we picnicked mostly to ourselves. Groves are aentlmental things, are- they not? Cordially at ever, Miriam Leddt. Dear Mr. Buggins: Your last note quite took my breath away: I declare, you are amaxlngly presumptuous I ought to lay. It fairly leadt one to Infer that you fancy that by some mysterious miracle I belong to you. Please, Mr. Buggins, be kind and polite and confess that neither you nor I hsve ever written or said anything that gives you any such formidable right over mo. Very truly, Miriam Leddt. P. S.: Don't be a scold, Bertie. " You really came! O, Bertie!" The moon was shy, the sky was dark, the air was gentle, the farmhouse doorway was shadowy, Miriam's heart was glad as she stood In the threshold to grci t Bertie v. Inn lie sprang from the carriage to the steps. " Miriam," he whispered as soon as ho could catch his breath, " you shall never again have the chance to say Hint neither you nor I have ever spoken anything to each other that gives ma a right over you. Girl, you are mine, all mine, and jou know It. All I want now s a phance to nhow that Fenelon so. Wliea-e Is he?" Miriam waited an Instant. " He he't had a telegram and had to go east this morning." She had not quite summoned the revolution at yet to reveal to her hero that the enchant ing Carl Finelnn wn a myth of her mind, a man of her Imagination whose knightly role had been the leaving of Ms air castlt to deliver a maiden out of her sore dlstreu. "-, ' SEW Jvv 50c;; V ,H TO-DAY f , A KOK A V " i JAR OF Dream I 1 fijf Eyebrow ', ',-4? Had Erlah Cream The only preparation of the bind on tlie iiihi kel. If aiiiad faithfully, will loud luatre and beau ty to the brjwe anJ lMh, g ra.1 ually cku-keruim ttim. tlmulut:n thalr growth sod making Ibaiu Cf)n tbluk ud king. Nut a dys., 3vb Sajnila Jar. lOe. imiMM rnKVH for the COM- I'LHVIOK, 6tn. tlU jar. Ionltlvlv rures moth Ht. un burn, ri-Uitt-xH nii'1 all fckln hltuilaht:. Uamil Jar, K'c 1)11 Hi AM VIOI.KT TAX.CCM rowjju. arte for llt, Turnery an1 bath. Hold veryiwliert), ur (tlreot procald uu roceipt ot oi re. (Siaiuix toaou.) UiKklt ferae. DREAM C'KKAM CO, S Uulon Bq , N. V. City. 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