"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.
