ONE BEET-LOVED OP ALL. iesii Tttna new dolls nt (m three little chair*, . Walling ter Christmas dvr: If And they sronderw, when she new them. Vriet the little girl would say. The; hoped thet tho nursery lire was say; itt, v , ' fife __jyhopod that they would find UttlO girl often played with dolls; " the; hoped that sho was kind. Near by sat an old doll noatly dressed In n now frock, blaok and red: Bho smiled et the French dolls—“As to that. Don't feel afraid," she said. Tho new dolls turnod tholr waxen heads, And looked with n hauxhtv stare, As It they nevor had seen before That a doll was sitting there. “Oh, wo'ro not in tho least afraid," said ono, “Wo arc Quito too lino and new; But perhaps you yourself will find that now She will scaroely euro for you." The old doll shock her head and smtlod: Sho smiled, although sno know Herplostor nose was almost gonn, And her cheeks wore faded too. And now It was day: In camo tho child, And there all i ay and brlsht Sat thro j new dolls in;ilttlo chairs— It was a lovely sight. She praised their curls, and noticed too How finely they were dressed: But the old doll all tho whflo was hold Clasped close against her breast. —St Nicholas. | BLIND JUSTICE. BT HELEN B. MATHERS. chapter r. The woman flashed across the eourt at me a lcok of scorn, ay, and of contempt, but of fear not a traco. And yet I, who had placed her in ,• the dock whore sho stood, I, who had made those purely disinterested efforts to hung hor, that socmed cor if-;, tain to bo crowned with success, felt that howevor much I might deserve her detestation, I in no sense was or looked the mistaken fool that she supposed me. Judith they called hor, ahd a Jud ith she was, with the grand frame and limbs of a daughter and mother of the gods, and like her groat name sake, she too had slain her man, though not to such heroio purpose and results. This woman had no tribe to glorify her crime, and only one friend on ! v earth with a heart,to.bo w^ung by it,, / a%d that man now Mood as closely as might be, beside hor, his comeli ness all aged and dimmed by the an guish through which she had brought him. And yet I felt, for tho first time, •orry for my work, when that look of hers, in which spoke a virile inno ; cence, so sure of itself as easily to ' afford contempt, flashed upon some : inner consciousness of mine, leaving outsiue it the brain and that had al ready tried and found hor guilty. &■* But, no—I had seen this strong, calm woman in the throes of fear and agony, her not easily moved nature shaken to its vory depths, and no criminal yet ever had ctruuinstantial evidence so pitilessly arrayed against her. 1 forced my eyes from her, and fixed them on the oounsol for the prosecution, who had already com li menced his indictment against her. "This woman," no said, "little more than a child at hor marriage, had lived a notoriously mlsorable life with Seth Trcloar, though to do her justice, no blame of uny kind at , tached itself to hor conduct as a wife; and when within the year ho ; disappeared, leaving no trace, she 'if remained in her native viilago, sup porting herself by any sort of work : that came in her way. She does not appear to have encouraged any lovers; but when seven years had passed, she boldly announced that she felt herself legally free of Tro loar, and married a man whose char y acter was as good as her former hus band Is had been the reverse, and : whom 6ho loved with a passion more than equal to that detestation she had foil for the other. From being the butt of a drunken and brutal scoundrel, she became tho cherished w and adored wife of the best looking and best natured man in the village, and for Some brief months tasted that supreme happiness which is known only to those persons who in tho past have acutely sulfored. Per haps so much content irritated the on-lookers, fOr only cold looks were / cast upon the two, while tho mali cious prophesied that Treloar’s ro turn would cut short the pair's feli city, and affected not to consider them man and wife at all; so that by degrees they became completely iso lated from their neighbors, ahd no |v: living feet save their own ever crossed the threshold of Smugglers’ Hole. This house had formerly been the rendezvous of smugglers who were . said to have within it some hiding place in which to dispose of their stolen goods; but though smugglers went there no more, its bad charao v ter remained, and its lonely position .. at the end of the parish made it loarod, so that the rent was a mere trifle, and as Treloar had brought ■v Judith back to it a bride, so now Judith brought Stephen Croft thither as bridegroom, and there they dwelt as much alone as on a desert island. The woman defied her world, car ing nothing, but the man felt her .... position keenly, and at last per r’ buaded her that it was best to eml isf grate, and to this she at last very , reluctantly consented. Six months, then, after the cere mony that the villagers declared no ceremony, Judith Croft sat one night by the fire in the almost empty cot tage from which she was to depart is! on tho morrow, with the man who ? represented all the sweetness and happiness she had found in her life. She heard steps on the path, the latch lifted, and wo may surely pity the unhappy woman whon, springing ■ through the dusk, she found herself clasped In the arms, not of Stephen XJl-Oit. but of Seth Treloar. Of what passed between them. Cod ■ alone was witness, and God - alone ■ knows the truth; when the man she loved came in an hour later, she