CHAPTER XXX.—(Continued.)
Ralph sent for Judge Ireton, Imo
gene’s father, but the fatal news had
already reached him, and it had been
too much for the proud old man. His
feeble constitution had been unable to
withstand the shock of his daughter’s
guilt, and he was stricken down in a
fit. He never regained his conscious
1 ness, but on the third day after the at
W—tack, he died in blissful insensibility.
Imogene was confined to the room in
T the third story, which was made as
' comfortable as might be for her use,
and Ralph went about the house a
gloomy, grief-stricken man. For sor
row such as his, who could offer words
of comfort?
Governor Fulton prepared to return
home, and he insisted on taking Helen
with him. The Rock now was no place for
a giddy thing like her, he said. On the
day of her departure Helen met Guy
St. Cyril in one of the empty parlors.
She went up to him and held out her
hand.
"Mr. St Cyril,” she said, “I am going
to start for home today. Let us shake
hands and part good friends.”
He took her hand in his, and looked
into her face a little reproachfully.
"Do you think I have been very
naughty with you, Mr. St Cyril?” she
asked, demurely. *
“Yes, I do. You have treated me
shamefully, when I have loved you so!"
“Indeed. Well, I wasn’t aware I had
been so wicked! Will you ever forgive
me?”
1
V:
t
Do you ■wish me to?”
"I don’t much care—If you do?”
“And If I do not?”
•‘Guy, I shall be sorry.”
She bowed her head a little, her soft
curls swept his hand. He flung his arm
around her.
“Helen, one thing tell me. Do you
love me?”
“Let me go! I won’t tell you!”
You shall not go until you do tell
me! And here is your honored father
to witness your assertion.”
The governor looked on hi a puzzled
perplexity.
“What? how? What is the meaning
of this! I don’t understand.”
“You don’t see it, do you, papa?”
said Helen, saucily.
"I really don’t think I do,” said the
governor, slowly. “I’ll be obliged if
somebody will explain.”
“I love your daughter, sir,” said St.
Cyril, manfully; “but I cannot win a
like confession from her. Still, I take
the liberty of thinking I am not indif
ferent to her."
"Box his ears, papa. He is an Im
pertinent puppy.”
“Helen, you must tell me! Do you
love me? Yes or no?"
“Yes and no both. I love you till you
let me go, and then, I don’t.”
“Then I will never let you go!”
“It strikes me your sums will ache
in about a week from now.
“Helen, answer me!”
“Well, what if I do love you?”
He strained her closer, and put down
his face to hers.
“Papa, run out quick!" cried the in
corrigible girl. “This fellow is puckw
ing up his mouth to kiss me! And I
wouldn’t have you see him for the
world!”
The governor put their hands together.
"She loves you, my boy,” he said,
kindly, “and I give her to you; but I
warn you in the beginning, she’s hard
to manage. You’ll lead an awful life
of it!”
“I’ll take the responsibility, and
reckon myself the most fortunate,” re
plied St Cyril.
“And now you’ll come home with uq
won’t you, and see sister Letitia?”
said Helen. “I want her to look you
over and see if you’ll do. She’s a great
Judge of men. So much so that she’s
never found one to suit her. You’ll
come, won’t you, dear Guy?”
The last words were spoken so low
that no one heard them save St. Cyril,
but with them she could have coaxed
him to the ends of the earth.
“Yes,” said the governor, "you must
go with us, and your sister, also. I
must look upon you now as one of the
family.”
I
r
so when Governor Fulton. and his
daughter departed, they took away
with them the St Cyrils, and a quiet
that was absolutely horrible settled
down over the household at the Rock.
Lynda Graham was the only visitor,
and he did not come very often, for he
feared that his presence might make it
harder for Ralph Trenholme to bear
his terrible affliction.
But he and Agnes met very often out
on the cliffs that overhung the sea, and
sat there through the long sweet sum
mer twilights, hand In hand, forgetful j
of everything save the perfect peace
and content in their own hearts.
Lynde had been two months out of
prison before he said anything to Agnes
of what lay so near his heart. They
were sitting one evening on the beach,
watching the tide creep up the glitter
ing sand. He turned suddenly toward
her.
“Agnes, dear,” he said, “you have
not misunderstood me during all these |
A
days we have been together? You know
that I love you?”
Her blushing silence answered him.
“I have not spoken, because I hardly
thought It right for us to be selfishly
happy while poor Ralph is miserable
so very near us. But It Is best to under
stand each other fully, Agnes. Once I
loved Imogene; but as I told you, that
love died long ago, and another has
taken Its place. Not the wild, head
strong passion I felt for her, but the
calm, pure, all-enduring affection that
will last through all time. Once you
periled your life, and, what Is even
dearer to a woman than her life—your
reputation—for me. Why did you do
it? Shall I—dare I—put upon that ac
tion the sweetest interpretation I can
think of?”
“What would that be?” she asked
timidly.
“It would be that you did it because
you loved me.”
“I did love you. O Lynde! I suffered
so much because of it! And I never
dared to think you would care for me.”
“My darling! I trust in God the suf
fering is o’er past. The joy is begun.”
CHAPTER XX.
MOGENE TREN
HOLME’S condi
tion did not im
prove. On the con
trary, her violent
fits grew more fre
quent as time
passed. Ralph had
the best medical
advice that could
be procured, but
wlthotit giving her
any benefit, She became so dan
gerous that he did not trust any
of the servants to take her
food, but attended her constantly him
self. And singularly enough, with him
she was always gentle and pliable. She
never yielded to one of her paroxysms
in his presence. It was pitiful to see
how her wan face would light up at
his coming, and her great eyes lose
their restless brilliancy and grow soft
and almost tender. She talked to him
confidingly, as a little child might; al
ways of things long past, incidents con
nected with her childhood. She told
him plaintive stories of the brooks she
had played beside, the bird’s nests she
had found and the nice books she-had
read. She used to beg for flowers, and
he brought them to her in lavish pro
fusion, and she would twine the red
roses and the white lilies in her black
hair, and fasten knots of them, upon her
bosom. All memory of the dark two
years just past seemed to have fled from
her; she never alluded to any past save
that which crowned the years of her
childhood. But if a stranger ventured
into her presence, then all was changed.
It was frightful to see her. Her eyes
became like livid coals, her fair face
purpled, her pale lips were drawn away
from the sharp, white teeth, and she
took on all the form of an Infuriate
demon.
It was the first of Septembe£-a wild
night of storm and wet. Ralph had re
tired early, but there was no sleep for
him. He had fallen into a kind of wak
ing dream, when he was aroused by
what seemed to him like the stealthy
closing of a door. He started up and
listened, but all was still, save the roar
of the waves on the beach and the
thunder of the wind in the chimneys.
He must have been deceived, he said to
himself. He was absolutely getting
weak and nervous. He lay back and
composed himself to sleep. But in vain.
He thought of Imogene. Perhaps he
had forgotten to secure her door prop
erly when he took up her supper. He
sprang out of bed, threw on a dressing
gown, and hurried up to the third
story. He tried the door. It was fast,
He listened at the keyhole. All within
was quiet. He hastened back to his
chamber and flung himself down on the
bed. He was falling into a state of
Bemi-forgetfulness, when he heard
Quito howl dolorously. Since the con
finement of Imogene the dog had been
suffered to go at large, as he showed
no disposition to be quarrelsome. There
was something in that midnight wail
that grated ominously on the nerves
of Mr. Trenholme. He was not a su
perstitious man, but it always startled
him to hear a dog howl at night.
He rose again, and dressed himself
in haste. And, led by some uncontrol
lable impulse, he stepped into the pas
sage, walking up the corridor until he
came opposite the door of the haunted
chamber. There he stopped. He could
not well do otherwise. A bright glare
ui ugiu. suot inrougn me Keynote, and
he heard a strange, rushing sound with
in. He tried the handle. It turned,
but the door was secured on the inside.
With one blow of his foot he sent it
shattered from the hinges; and stood
transfixed by the sight he beheld.
Before the great mirror, dressed in
the bridal robe of the dead Marina, her
black hair covered with the blood
stained veil, and wreathed with the
faded orange flowers, stood Imogene.
Her dress left her neck and arms bare,
and they literally blazed with jewels;
the diamonds that for years had been
the pride of the Trenholmes.y Her
cheeks were crimson with strange ex
citement, her eyes blazed like stars.
All around her she had piled everything
of a combustible nature that the room
contained, and she was surrounded by
smoke and flame. Even as ho looked,
her light dress was a mass of fire. He
sprang forward, but she waved him
back.
“Keep off, all of you!” she cried. "I
am to be married! Don’t murder me on
my bridal day! See! the flames are my
wedding garments, and my jewels are
coals of living Are!”
He rushed toward her, tearing away
the blazing obstacles that Intervened
between them, but even as he laid his
hand upon her, she fell forward Into
the surging sea of fire, and then the
smoke and flame closed over every
thing.
Ralph's loud cry of horror brought
the servants to the spot, and the flames
were stayed; but when they lifted Im
ogens up, she was past all aid. In this
world she would never suffer more.
They buried her in the old graveyard
by the sea, and with her they burled
her great crime. It was never after
mentioned in the family.
(The end.)
A NATURAL LIFE BELT.
Air Injected Under the Skin Will noat
a Man.
Dr. Schneider-Preiswerk, In Basle,
has discovered a novel means of sav
ing life in marine accidents, which if
generally used will probably lessen
greatly the number of lives lost by
such accidents, says the Philadelphia
Record.
HIb invention has been pronounced
very important by the French Acad
emy of Sciences, which in one of their
last meetings listened very attentively
to a lecture by Dr. Lanveraux upon the
new invention. The Inventor does
away with all artificial belts and other
floating appliances; he proposes to in
flate the cellular texture beneath the
human skin on the breast, which, if
filled with air, forms a natural pneu
matic belt, by the aid of which one
may not only float himself but even
support another body. The idea is said
to be perfectly practicable. It has been
proved that a man weighing 160 pounds,
whose specific weight is between 1.08
and 1.10, whose head may weigh seven
pounds, needs only about 200 cubic
inches of air within his body in order
to float with the head out of the water.
This amount of air is easily inserted
into this hollow space beneath the
skin with Dr. Schneider’s aseptic syr
inges, which will in one injection. in
flate from twenty to thirty-five cubic
inches of air. The introduction of the
point, which is only two millimeters
thick, will hardly be felt. Such a pump
is not even necessary. It is much sim
pler to use a little apparatus, also pat
ented by Dr. Schneider, which consists
of a hollow needle, a thin rubber hose
eighteen inches long, into which this
needle is Inserted. A little aseptic
cotton placed Into the open end of the
rubber hose is all that is necessary.
The skin is simply raised, the hollow
needle introduced into it, and then the
other end of the rubber hose is taken
into the mouth and the man’s own
breath blown into it. Two deep res
pirations, which are blown into each
side of the breast, will be sufficient to
float a man, however heavy.
Didn’t Know His Neighbor.
Jonathan , has been into the Maine
woods eighteen seasons, and his occu
pation there has been gathering spruce
gum. He builds a cabin in the fall
when he is about to begin work in a new
territory. It is generally a small one,
but he takes great pains to make it one
that can easily be kept warm. One
year he passed five months without see
ing a human being, and at the end of
that time he found that another man
cad been in $amp less than two miles,
from his all winter. They did not see
each other’s tracks for the reason that
the other fellow was trapping, and con
fined his journeyings to a valley where
a large stream and its branches gave
him a field for his operations. Two
miles away Mr. Stone lived in his little
camp on the edge of a big spruce
growth, and in following this he went
away from, instead of toward, his
neighbor, the trapper. When they had
finished their season’s work and got
acquainted coming out, they told each
other of the lonesome evenings passed
in their respective camps.
The Poe tel Stall end the Cats.
The cats are invariably treated with
great kindness by the postal staff.
Kittens are born in all sorts of odd cor
ners, even occasionally under a desk
or table in the sorting office. One cat
has successfully reared during the
present year a family of six in the regis
tered letter department, but this, of
course, is exceptional. They are gen
erally born in the kitchens, as there
are plenty of old wornout coats about
which makes a comfortable bed. As
soon as they are old enough some one
requiring a cat takes one home to the
domestic hearth. There is often a keen
struggle for their possession and a
man will feed both mother and kitten
on milk and watch them with anxious
eye, only to find in the end that he is a
day too late, some one having fore
stalled him and disappeared with the
coveted pet.—Westminster Gazette.
Ticket* are Trnnsferrnble.
The Supreme court of Maryland has
decided that the purchaser of a berth
or a section of a sleeping car has the
right to give another person the use
thereof if he leaves the car before it
reaches the end of the trip for which
the berth was bought. A passenger
secured a section, rode in it for part
of the trip and then sold his section
ticket to another passenger, he leaving
the train. The second purchaser was
refused the use of the section by the j
conductor of the car and was ejected,
whereupon he brought suit with the
above result.
Getting Even with Worcester.
The story is told of Oliver Wendell
Holmes that when one of his friends ‘
announced his intention of delivering j
a lecture in Worcester Holmes cheer
fully responded: "I’m awfully glad to
hear It. I always did hate those Wor- i
cester people."
| Judges of the Olympian Game*.
! Universal peace during the month of
! the games was proclaimed by heralds
in every part of Hollas, and the slight*
est breaking of the sacred truce was
thought sacrilege, which deities and
men alike were bound to punish. The
: judges of the games, or “Hollanodi
i cate,” ranging from nine to twelvd in
number at different times, were elected
by the Kleans. All who wished to be
judges were required to show not only
I that they had never committed a
crime, public or private, but that they
were stainless in moral character.
I Not unfrequently even men of distinc
! tion were excluded by this severe test
; during the golden age of Hellenic
honor.—[‘‘The Olympian Games,'' by
G. T. Ferris, in April St. Nicholas.
now’s This i
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Ward* Off Charity Hunters.
A well known judge has invented
, rather a neat reply to the letters of
busybodies soliciting subscriptions for
useless societies. lie fills the first
page on the note paper with these
words, written in a bold hand: Dear
sir, in reply to your letter, I have
much pleasure in subscribing”—here
the secretary joyfully turns the page
to find the conclusion of the sentence
on the following leaf—“myself, your
obedient servant, John So-and-so.”—
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She Told Them.
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Mary (half an hour later)—I’ve told
four gentlemen callers that you were
at home to none except Mr. Vere
llrownkins, ma'am, and they left very
mad indeed.—Judge.
Fiso's Cure lor Consumption is our only
medicine lor coughs and colds.—Mrs. C.
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An Instance.
“Moral courage,” said the teacher,
“is the courage that makes a boy do
what he thinks is right, regardless of
the jeers of his companions.”
“Then,” said Willie, “if a feller has
candy and eats it all hisself, and ain’t
afraid of the other fellers callin’ him
stingy, is that moral courage?”—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
There are Dictionaries and Dictionaries
t ut the not lest Roman of them all seems
to be Welster. It is still easily in the
lead in the great race for popularity.
Well and Happy When She Had Enough.
We once knew a woman, an inmate
of a county infirmary,.who attained the
i ripe age of 100 years, who bad always
[ been an inveterate user of tobacco,
which owing to her poverty was a lux
ury not easily obtained. To economize
in its use, she first chewed the plug and
dried the quids, from which she made a
tea and drank of it freely, then the res
idue was carefully redried for consump
tion in her T, D. pipe. The old lady
proudly affirmed that she had never
been ill.—Cleveland Medical Gazette.
It the llaby Is Cutting Tsetn.
Be sure and that old and well-tried remedy, Mm,
Win blow’a Soothino Syrup for Children Teething*
Bard Fate.
“This, ladies and gentlemen,” said
the dime museum orator, leading his
auditors over to the next platform, “is
the armless wonder, Signor Bagatock,
who was not only born without arms,
but is also deaf and dumb The great
grief of his life, ladies and gentlemen,
is that he can neither say anything nor
can he saw wood.”—Chicago Tribune.
..FITS—A]) Fit. stopped fm1 b.v Dr. Kline's Ore. t
Aerve Icmorer. Nn Pitsaru-i- thu u>p.
Mirvdou»«um. Treatise anil SClr.'.'.IOtitlWrei t>
« a eases, beu J to Or. Kliuejm Al t o bt„ PLila., I s
There are fifty-one anarchist papers pub
lished in England and America.
There are tw enty creeks in the country
with the name of the Til er.
Breaker Reed denies the report that he
studied ior the ministry. *
Nearly every citizen of a town te.ievcs
that he “made” it.
IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT.
Des Moines, April 3.—Patents have
been allowed to Iowa inventors as
follows: To II. Mendenhall and F. B.
Davis, of Audubon, for important im
provements relating to a feed trough
for animals, for. which patent No.
339,915 w as issued to the said Menden
hall April 13, 1880. To J. VV. Terman,
of Niw Sharon, for a composition for
purifying and preserving butter, sweet
milk, etc., and destroying bacteria or
other micro-organisms therein. Runcid
butter treated therewith and sterilized
thereby is said to be as good and sweet
as fresh butter. Valuable information
about obtaining, valuing and selling
patents sent free to any address.
Printed copies of the drawings and
specifications of any United States
patent sent upon receipt of 25 cents.
Our practice is not restricted to Iowa
and inventors in other states can have
our services on same terms as the
Ilawkeyes.
Thomas G. and J. Ralph Or'.vio,
Solicitors of Patents.
Probably Has Not Occurred to Him*
“If the British lion,” chuckled the
American eagle,” “is hurrying to dis
cover the south pole so ho can wrap his
tail around it and take possession, let
him go ahead. The revolution of the
earth on its axis will give his tail the
hardest twist it .has ever had yet.”—
Chicago Tri bune._
The Pilgrim—Easter Number.
Will he ready the early part of April.
Everything in it will be new and orig
inal. It will contain articles by Capt.
Clias. King, U. S. A., ex-Gov. tiea W.
Peck, of Wisconsin, and other noted
writers. An entertaining number, well
illustrated. Send ten (10) cents to Geo.
H. Heafford, publisher. 415 Old Colony
building, Chicago, 111., for a copy.
A Prince Albert coat often covers a mul
titude of patches.
If you think anyone is wise, it is because
you don't know him very well.
When Traveling,
Whether on pleasure bent, or business,
take on every trip a bottle of Syrup oif
Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and
effectually on the kidneys, liver, and
bowels, preventing fevers, headaches,
and other forms of sickness. For sale
In BO cent and $1 bottles by all leading
druggists. Manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company only.
Trade Id llananaii.
Few persons are aware of the extent
to which the banana has become popu
larized in the United States. Accord
ing to the statistics there were import
ed 16,720,127 ■ bunches of banannas in
1895, of which number 928,336 bunches
came to Baltimore, 1,637,802 to Boston,
2,499,618 to Mobile, 5.088,119 to New
Orleans, 4,548,572 to New York and
2,026,780 to Philadelphia. The Balti
more, Boston and Philadelphia supply
was from Jamaica. New Orleans and
Mobile got their supply largely from
Central America, while New York got
hers from all sources. The people find
in the banana a cheap and wholesome
article of food, which is valuable at
seasons when few fruits are to be had.
•Tnat how It does It la not the question.
It is enough to know thiu IlmUercoms lakes out the
co. ns. and a very pleasing relief It Is. 16c, at druggists
Lovely.
“Oh, yes,” continued the girl of the
prehistoric period, “we had birds
twenty feet high in those days.”
"Dear me,” exclaimed the fln de
siecle person, “what lovely hats you
must have had! Well, well!”—Detroit
Tribune.
'*1 have Irlril Parker*, aim.r Toni.
and bellevo In li,"a.y» a mother, anu aowl.l von
■ay Wheu familiar with Its revliullilng properilea.
The queen of Roumania fairly reveU in
literature.
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April 21st and May Bth. Excursions to
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trip with $2.00 added.
JUNE 16th,
National Republican Convention at St
Louis.
JULY 2d,
National Educational Association at
Buffalo.
JULY Hth,
Christian Endeavor Convention at
Washington.
JULY 22nd,
National People and Silver Convention at
St. Louis.
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A lie must be thatrhod with another or it
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Billiard table, second-hand, for sale
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Try Walter Baker & Co/s Cocoa and
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their business established in 1780 has flour
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An Imprudent Bat Onhlnt Women.
Young1 women who take books at the
circulating library are imprudent to
use their pages as blottera They,are
doing wrong also, for it is against ’the
rules. A copy of “Lord Ormond and
liss Aroints,” which has beeu in use in
a Philadelphia library, held in front of
a mirror revealed the inscription, “I
send you my heart with a kiss.” All
women finish their letters with that
phrase, which cannot therefore betray
anybody; but, in this case, the signa
ture was there.
The Rack, the Thumbscrew and the Boot
Were old-fashioned Instruments of torture
long since abandoned, but there Is a tor
mentor who still continues to ugonlze the
.mints, muscles and nerves of many of ua.
I he rheumatism, that Inveterate foe to
daily and nightly comfort, may be conquer
ed by the timely and sieady use of Hostet
ler s Stomach Hitters, which likewise eradi
ates neuralgia, bllllous, malarial, bowel
stomach and nerve complaints.
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