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"The Iiser's Dy I10NRB CHAPTER XII. Rlleneo reigned oucu more in the house. The rattle of tlio wIiccIb in the streets of ib'oplng Snumur glow more and more distant. Then it was Hint u sound scorn ed to rcneh Eugenie's heart beforo it fell on her cars, a walling Bound that rang through tho thin walls above it camo from her cousin's room. There was it thin line of light beneath his door; the ra.vn slanted a gleaming bar along the balusters 'of tho crazy staircase. "Ho is unhappy," bIio said, ns she went tip a little farther. A second moan brought her to the landing above. Tho door stod ajar; she thrust it open. Charles was sleeping in tlio rickety old armchair, his head droop ed over to ono side, his hand hung down and nearly touched tho floor. IIIh breath came in quick, sharp jerks that startled Eugenie. Sho entered hastily. "He must be very tired," sho said to herself, as she saw a dozen scaled letters lying on the table. Sho read Hie ad dresses MM. Furry, Itreilman & Co., carriage builders; M. BulsHon, tnllor; and bo forth. "Of course, ho has boon settling his nffalrs, so thnt he may lcavo France as noon as possible," bIio thought. Her eyes fell upon two unsealed let-, tern. Ono of thorn began "My dear An netto " sho felt dazed, and could sco nothing moro for a moment. Her lieart beat fast, her feet seemed glued to tlio floor. "Ills dear Annette! IIo loves, ho is beloved! Then thero is no more hope! What docs lie say to her?" Theso thoughts flashed through her heart and brain. Sho road tho words ovcrywhore; on tho table, on tho very floor, in letters of Are. "Must 1 givo him up already? No, I will not read tho let ter. I ought not to stay. And yet, even if I did road it?" Sho looked at Charles, gently took his head in her hnuds, and propped it against tho back of tho chair. He sub mitted like a child. Llko a mother, Eu ccnle raised the drooping hand, and, liko n mother, laid a soft kiss on his hnlr. "Dear Annette!" A mocking voice shrieked tlio words in her car. "I know that perhaps I may bo doing wrong, but I will read the letter," sho said. Eugenie turned her eyes away; her high senso of honor reproached her. For tlio first time in her llfo there was a struggle between good and ovil in her noul. Hitherto sho had novcr dono any thing for which she needed to blush. Love and curiosity silenced her scruples. Her heart swelled higher with every phrase as sho read; her quickened pulses Boomed to send a sharp, tingling tjlow through her veins -and to heighten the vivid emotions of her first love. "My Dear Annotte Nothing should hnvo power to separnto us save this oer whelming calamity that has befallen me, a calamity that no human foresight could have predicted. My father has dtcd by his own hand; his fortune and mine (ire both irretrievably lost. I am left an orphan at an ago when, with tho kind of education I have received, I am almost a child, and, nevertheless, I must now en deavor to show myself a man, and to rise from the dark depths into which I have boon hurled. If I am to leave Franco as an honest man, I linvo not a hundred francs that I can call my own with which to tempt fato in tho Indies or in America. Yes, my poor Anna, I am going In quest ofw fortune to tho most deadly foreign climes. So I shall not roturn to Paris. Your love the teuderest, the most de voted love that over ennobled the heart of man would not seek to draw me hack. Alas! my dnrling, I have not money enough to tako mo to you, that I might givo and receive one last kiss, a kiss that should put strength into me for tho task that lies beforo me. 1 have thought seriously over my position. 1 have grown much oldor in the last twenty-four hours. Dear Anna, even if, to keop mo beside you, you were to give up nil tho luxuries that you enjoy, your box at the opera, and your toilet, wo should not have nearly sulllelcnt for tlio nocos Bary expenses of the extravagant life that I am accustomed to, and besides, 1 could not think of allowing you to mnke Biich sacrifices for me. To-day, therefore, wo part fo rover.'' "Then this is to tako leavo of her! What happiness!" Eugenie started nnd trembled for joy. Charles stirred In his chair, and Eu genie felt n chill of dread. Luckily, how ever, ho did not wake. She went on read ing. Eugenie laid down the letter that teemed to her so full of love, and gave icrself up to tho plensuro of watching icr sleeping cousin; tho dreams and lopes of youth seemed to hover over his lace, and then and thero sho vowed to torself thnt she would lovo him always. Ill o glanced over tho other letter; there jould bo no harm in reading it, sho bought, sho should only receive fresh iroofs of tho noblo qualities with which, romnnliko, sho had -invested tho man vhom sho had idealized. "My Dear Alphonse," so It began, "by flio time tills letter is In your hands I ihnll hnvo no friends left. I am conunis- elonlng you to settle somo matters of business. I hnvo nothing, and hnvo mnde ii n niv mind to go out to tlio inuics. l hnvo just writton to nil the people to whom nnv monoy is owing, anu uio in closed list is ns nccurnto ns I enn make It from memory. I think tho Bnlo of my books, furniture, enrringea, horses and so forth "bught to bring In sufficient to nay my debts. I only menu to keep back n fow trinkets of llttlo vnlue, which will p'n mottiq wny townrtl n trading venture. You might nend my guns and anything Daughter DE BALZAC of that sort to me here. And you must tuko 'Briton;' no ono would ever give me anything llko as much as the splendid animal is worth; I would rather give him , to you, you must regard him as tho I mourning ring which a dying man leaves in his will to his executor. Furry, Broil man fc Co. have been building a very comfortable traveling carriage for mo, but they have not sent it homo yet, get them to keep It If you can, and if they decline to have It left on their hands, make the best arrangement you can for mo, and do all you can to save my honor in the position In which I am placed." "Dear cousin," murmured Eugenic, let ting the sheet fall, and, seizing one of the lighted candles, sho liastenud on tip too to her own room. Oneo there, it was not without a keen feeling of pleasure that she opened ono of tho drawers in an old oak chest. From this drawer sho took n largo red velvet money bag, with gold tassels, and the re mains of a golden fringe about it, a bit of faded splendor that had belonged to her grandmother. In the pride of her lieart Rhe felt its weight, and joyously set to work to reckon up the value of her little hoard, sorting out the different coins. Imprimis, twenty Portuguese moi dores as new and frcsli as when they wer'o struck in 1720, in the reign of John V.; each was nominally worth a hundred nnd sixty-five francs, Item, five geno vlnes, rare Genoese coins of n hundred livres encli, the current value was per haps about eighty francs, but collectors would give a hundred for them. These had come to her from old M. do In Her tcllicrc. Item, tlirco Spnnish quadruples of the time of Philip V., bearing the date ,17121). Mine. Bcntillot had given them to her, one by one, nlwayu with the same llttlo speech: "There's a little yellow bird, there's a buttercup for you, worth ninety-eight livres! Tako great care dt It, darling; it will be the llower of your flock." Item, a hundred Dutch ducats, struck at the Hague in 1750, and each worth about thirteen francs. Item, a few coins dear to a miser's lieart, three rupees bearing the sign of tho Balance, and flvo witli the sign of tho Virgin stamped upon them, all pure gold of twenty-four carats tho magnificent coins of the Groat Mogul. The weight of metal in them alone wns worth thirty seven francs forty centimes, hut ama teurs who lovo to finger gold would give fifty francs for such coins as those. Item, tho double napoleon that had been given to her tho day before, and which she had carelessly slipped into tho red velvet bag. CHAPTER XIII. Eugenie chipped her hands in exulta tion at the sight of her riches, like a child who is compelled to find somo out let for overflowing glee. Father and daughter had both counted their wealth that night; ho in order to sell his gold, sho that she might cast it abroad on the waters of love. She put the money back Into tho old purse, took it up, nnd went upstairs with it without n moment's hes itatiou. Her cousin's distress was the ono thought in her mind; she did not even remember that it was night, convention alities were utcrly forgotten; her con science did not reproach her, she was strong in her happiness and in her love. As sho stood upon the threshold with tho candlo in one hand and tlio velvet bag in the other, Charles awoke, saw his cousin, and was struck dumb witli istonishnient. Eugenic came forward, set the light on the table, and snid with an unsteady voice: "Cousin Charles, I have to ask your forgiveness for somcthiug I have dono; it was very wrong, but if you will over look it, heaven will forgive me." "What can it bo?" asked Charles, rubbing his eyes. "I hnvo been rending those two letters. Do you ask how I came to do it?" she went on, "and why I came, up here? In deed, I do not know now; and I am al most tempted to feel glad that I read tho letters, for through reading them 1 have como to know your lieart, your soul, your plans the difficulty that you are In for wnnt of monoy " "My denr cousin " "nush! hush! do not let us wake any body. Hero aro the savings of a poor girl who has no wants," sho went on, opening her purse. "You must take them, Charles. This morning 1 did not know what monoy was; you have taught me that it is simply n menus to an end, that Is all. A cousin is almost a brother; surely you may borrow from your sister." Eugenie, almost as much a woman as a girl, had not foreseen n refusal, but her cousin wns silent. Tho silence was so deep that tho boating of her heart was audible. I lor pride was wounded by her cousin's hesitation, but the thbught of his dire need came vividly beforo her, and she fell on her knees. "1 will not rise," sho snid, "until you have taken that money. Oh! cousin, say something, for pity's snko! so that I may know that you respect me, that you nre generous, thnt " This cry, wrung from her by n noblo despair, brought tenrs to Charles' eyes; ho would not lot her kneel, sho felt his hot tenrs on her hnnds, and sprnng to her purse, which she emptied out upon tho table. "Well, then, it is 'Yes,' is it not?" sho said, crying for joy. "Do not scruple to tako it, cousin; you will bo qulto rich. That gold will bring you luck, you know. Somo day you shall pay it back to me, or, if you like, wo will be partners; I will submit to any conditions thnt you may impose. But you ought not to 'make so much of this gift." Charles found words at last. "Yes, Eugenie, I should have n little potil indeed If I M'jould not take It But nothing for nothing, confidence for con fidence." "What do you mean?" she asked, startled. "Listen, dear cousin, I hnve there " He Interrupted himself for a moment to show her a square box in a lcntlier case, which stood on the chest of draw ers. "Thero is something there that Is dear er to me than life. Tlint box was a pres ent from my mother. Since this morning I have thought that if she could rise from her tomb she herself would sell the gold that in her tenderness she lav ished on this dressing case, hut I cannot do it it would seem like sacrilege." Eugenic grasped her cousin's hand tightly in hers at theso last words. "No," he went on after a brief pause, during which they looked nt each other with tearful eyes, "I do not wnnt to pull it to pieces, nor to risk taking it with mo on my wanderings. I will leave It in your keeping, dear Eugenie. Never did one friend confide a moro sacred trust to another; but you shall judge for your self." Ho drew the box from the lcntlier ense, opened it,, and displayed beforo his cousin's astonished eyes a dressing case resplendent withfgold the curious skill of the craftsman had only added to the value of the metal. "All "that you are admiring is noth ing," ho said, pressing the spring of n secret drawer. "Thero is something which is moro than all the world to me," he added, sadly, and ho took out two portrnits, handsomely set In pearls. "How lovely she is! Is not this tho lady to whom you wero writing?" "No," he said, with a litlc smile; "that 1e my mother nnd this is my fnther your mint nnd uncle. Eugenic, I could beg nnd prny of you on my knees to keep this treasure safe for me. If I should die and lose your llttlo fortune, the gold will make good your loss; nnd to you nlonc can I Jcave those two portraits, for you alono are worthy to take chnrge of them, but do not let them pass into any other hands; rather destroy them. Well, 'it is yes, is it not?' " As tho last words were spoken, she gnve him for the first time such n loving glance ns n woman can, n bright glnnco that rcvcnls a depth of feeling within iicr. IIo took her hand and kissed it. "Angel of purity! whnt is money hence forward between us two? It is nothing, is it not? But the feeling which alone gave it worth will be everything." "You are like your mother. Was her voice as musical ns yours, I wonder?" "Oh, far more sweet." "Yes, for you," she said, lowering her eyelids. "Come, Chnrlcs, you must go to bed; I wish it. You arc very tired. Good night." Her cousin had caught her hand in both of his; she drew it gently away, nnd went down to her room, her cousin lighting tlic way. In the doorway of her room they both paused. "Oh! why am I n ruined man?" ho said. "My father is rich, I believe," she re turned. "My poor child," said Charles, as Jio set one foot in her room, and propped himself against the wall by the doorway. "If your father had beeiurich, he would not have let my father die, and you would not be lodged in such a poor placo ns this; ho would live altogether in quite a different style." "But ho hns Froidfond; there is Noy ers, too. He hns vineyards nnd mead ows " "They nre not worth talking nbout," snid Charles scornfully. "If your father had even twenty-four thousand livres a yenr, do you suppose thnt you would sleep in a bare, cold room like this? Thnt is where my treasures will be," ho went on, nodding toward tlio old chest, a device by which he tried to conceal his thoughts from her. "Go." she said, "and try to sleep," and sho barred his entrance into an un tidy room. Charles drew back, and the cousins bado each other n smiling good night. They fell asleep, to dream the samo drentn, nnd from thnt time forward Chnrles found thnt there were still roses to be gathered In the world iii spite of his mourning. Tlio next morning Mme. Grnndet saw her daughter walking with Charles before breakfast. IIo was still sad and subdued. He had been brought very low in his distress; and tho thought of the future weighed heavily upon him. "My father will not be back before dinner," said Eugenie, in reply to an anxious look in her mother's eyes. Tho tones of Eugenie's voice hnd grown strangely sweet; it wns easy to see from her face nnd manner thnt tho cousins had somo thought in common. Their souls had rushed together while perhaps as yet they scarcely knew tho power or the naturo of this force which was binding them to each other. Townrd B o'clock thnt evening Grnn det cnino buck from Angers. lie had made fourteen thousnnd francs on his gold, nnd cnrrlcd n government certifi cnto bearing interest until the day when it should, bo transferred Into rentes. Ho had loft Cornolller nlso in Angers to look after tho horses, which hnd been nenrly foundered by tho night journey. "I hnvo been to Angers, wife," he said; "nnd I am hungry." Nation brought in the soup. Des Grns slns enmo to take his client's instructions, jnt as tho family wore sitting down to dinner. Grnndet had not as much as seen his nephew nil this time. (To bo continued.) In Arizona. "Sny, did n stranger on horsobnek pass through this town early this morning?" asked tho sheriff from tho adjoining county ns ho pulled up his fonm covered steed. "Nnv'," answered Lnrlnt Luke. "Ho tried to, but tlx vlgllnnce committee nabbed him afore ho wuz half way through." According to a physlclun drunken ness Is voluntary illness. Farm land in Englnnd ranges in irlce from $00 to $120 nn acre. The Kaiser has become nn nrdent 'iolinlst, nnd practices diligently nnd ixcruclntlngly nt every opportunity. More emigrants loft the United kingdom nnd fewer foreigners settled :here In 1003 than In any year since I860. Tho production of nickel in Ontario nst yenr exceeded that of nny previous rear. Tho tolnl was 0,008 tons, val ido at $2,400,608. In the South American regions, vliero cattle are killed by the tens of thousands for the export of meat and lidos, the bones aro used as fuel. Between Jan. 1, 1004, and May 14, 1094, 135 days, thero have been under written and sold in tho United States lecurltlcs aggregating over $000,000, W). America's trade with Great Britain nst year aggregated $1 ,000,000,000; lext in importance is tho trade with Sermnny, which Is little more than mo-thlrd ns much. Count Zepplln, who wrecked his nir ihip and at. tho same time his fortune n Lake Constance, Italy, has raised W.000 by subscription for the purposes if building nnother ship. The chalk pits in Kent, 11 miles from London, are found to bo extensive an ient British cave dwellings connected )y galleries which extend for miles. STear tho center is a Druldlcal teni ae. Benjamin S. Moore, of Elizabeth, S. J., recently celebrated his 55th year f nctual service with the Central Rail road of New Jersey. For 53 years itraight running ho has been n locomo ;lvo engineer. In the province of lower Burma, In lia, near tho Siamese frontier, tin de )oslts have recently been discovered tnd valuable conl fields located. Tho tin ore is snid to be of as high a qunl ty as that mined in the Straits settle ments. Mrs. Cralgle (John Oliver Ilobbes), lecturing In Manchester, said that men to-day were losing the desire for Im mortality. They desired no more to live forever, but Instead to live as pleasantly as possible here and now, the said. "One of the most significant signs of :he tendency of modern thought," says :be New York Christian Work and Svnngelist (Presbyterian), "is supplied y the Increasing attention which men if science are devoting to religious sub lects." Thero is in Sweden n movement, mpportetl, It is said, by the govorn nent, to tax all concerns and perfornt inces given by artists who are not Swedish subjects, the tax varying from 51.50 to $55 each concert, according to .ho amount of money taken for tickets. According to n recent report of the Scologlcal Survey, the total anthracite jroductlon for 1003 was 00,351,713 ions. Tho average price of $2.50 brought the value up to $152,030,44S. rite number of men employed to mine the output, which amounted to 0,000, X)0 moro tons thnn in 1002, was 150,- 103. Tho President of tlio British Board !f Trade stated, In answer to a ques- ion In tho House of Commons, that the average annual earnings of adult mules employed In tho principal indus trial and agricultural occupations in tho United Kingdom in a year of av erage employment might be estimated ipproxlmately at $350 each. The campnlgn of 1840 had a drnm- itlc and unexpected sequel. Thurlow Veod, beforo the meeting of the Whig invention, sought out Webster and urged him to tnko second plnco on the Meet with Harrison, but the sugges- Ion was rejected with scorn. An nc- leptanca of Weed's advice would have made Webster President in little more than a yenr. The Income tax was introduced into Englnnd by William Pitt In 1709 under die stress of tho French war. It ceased n 1S10, but wns revived by Sir Robert Peel in 1812, and extended by Glad stone in 1S53. From being a tompo- ary war tax It has now become a icrmanent part of tho British financial lystem, and is resorted to by every Chancellor who finds himself in dilll ulties. 1,000 PATENTS GRANTED. hie Year'H licenilt of Inventive Genius in tho Windy City. One thousand patents a year are rrnntcd citizens of Chicago. Illinois itands seventh In tho list of states lint tnko out patents according to population, Connecticut and Massachu lotts still holding their own for native ngonulty. Alaska nnd Alabama, first n tho alphnbot, are at the foot In )ntont winning. Tho patent reports in the Chicago uiblic library Avero last year consult !d between 80,000 and 90,000 times by (7,000 persons, somo of them patent awyers or their clerks, but tho ma Jorlty those contemplating Inventions, nnd therefore seeking to lenrn wheth er their Ideas had already been antici pated. A certain percentage of visitors nro "perpetual motion cranks." Thero is nothing for them in the reports, so they ask for the Scientific Amoricnn and similar papers that contain arti cles on that subject. Their errand can almost invariably bo detected on their entering the room and addressing the attendants. There is a restless, fev erish look and a nervous action be traying the disturbance of mind and the unbalanced ambition that has put them on this quest. While they sel dom if ever exhibit anything approach-i ing insanity, or even a lack of selfj control, it is easy to see that they live near the lino that is said to divide genius from madness. Thero is never any outbreak, but the differ ence between them and the ordinary visitor is unmistakable. Theyht least know exactly what they are after and do not have to bother with finding out whether they aro likely to infringe on some already successful applicant. Among tho patents for- oddities granted Chicago citizens last year la one for a bag filling machine, n clothes line prop, n churn, n dustpan, a non rellllable bottle, a "box," n convertible billiard table, a tobacco pipe, a safety coat hook, though hooking coats is al ready safe enough in Chicago, n cheek expanding pad, a nose piece for eye glasses, a tipping shelf for garbage, an improvement on governors, n "model burglar alarm," Implying that Chicago burglars aro models, n "con trivance for muting violin strings," and a pocket for golf balls. Thero was ono also for "an attachment to bridles," though not liko tho bridle tho convict snid lie was sent up for ten years for stealing, because a horse happened to bo attached to the other end of it. Among, tho 1,000 patentees were n dozen women. One invented a hair retainer, nnother a dress shield, nn other a 'cooking utensil," nnother n dress fitting stand, but it seems to hnve taken a man to turn out a wom an's skirt, a garter and a kitchen table. Chicago Tribune. TREE CUTS UP ODD ANTICS. Idaho AcncJu In One of the "Wonders oi Western Plant Life. One of the most singular trees of tho American continent Is a species of ncacla found in northwestern Ida ho and observed closely by a party of scientists recently on a tour through that region. It grows to a height of about eight feet and, when full grown, closes its leaves together In colls each day at sunset and curls Its twigs to the shape of pigtails. After tho tree has settled itself thus for a night's sleep, if touched, the whole thing will flutter as If agitated or im pntient at being disturbed. The often cr the foliage is molested the moro violent becomes the shaking of the branches, nnd at length the tree emits a nauseating odor, which, if inhaled for a few moments, causes a violent, dizzy headache. The angry tree, ns it has been named, was discovered by travelers, who, upon making a camp for tho night, placed ono end of a canvas covering over one of tho sensitive, branches, using it for a support. Im mediately the troe began to jerk sharply its branches. The motion continued, growing more nervous, until at last the sickening odor which It gave out drove the tired campers to a more friendly location. Curiosity, of course, prompted an investigation. One of the angry trees was dug up and thrown to one side. Immediately upon being removed from the ground the tree opened its lenves, its twigs lost their pigtails and 'for something over an hour and a half the outraged branches showed their Indignation by a series of quaklngs, which grew weaker as time passed, finally ceas ing altogether, when the follngo hung limp nnd withered. The next morn ing the tree wns plnced upright in the ground ngnin, a little water was applied to the roots, and very soon it resumed its normal condition. The Czar n Composer. According to a Belgian paper, the Czar is among the composers. It is stated that at a soiree in the Winter Palace several works from the im perial pen wero performed, among them one entitled, significantly enough, "The Song of Peace." This stands in three sections, the first of which de picts the turmoil of battle, while tho second suggests tho stricken Hold, cov ered with dead and wounded. Tho third invokes retribution upon those who aro responsible for such horrors. Another work is written In honor of tho saints of tho Orthodox Church, and of those who devote themselves to n cloistered llfo, far from human miseries. This is dedicated to tho Archduke Constantlne, himself n poet nnd musician. Taking: No Chances. "If you had a million dollars, what would you do?" "I don't know that I'd do nny thing," answered Mr. Ardluc. "I'd probably Avako up and find It wasn't so." Washington Star.