BY C LARA AUGUSTA INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION. - ' : ■ f CHAPTER IL—fCosTiXPED*. But he had not rightfully calculated the extent of his father's hatred. He made himself the evil genius of his dis obedient son; and, in consequence, nothing Hubert touched prospered. Mr. Trevlyn destroyed the confidence ot his friends in him; he circulated scan dalous reports of his wife; he made the public to look with suspicious eyes uponf the unfortunate pair, and took the honestly earned bread out of their very'mouths. Prom bad to worse it went Bn, until, broken in health and spiritSf' Hubert made an appeal to his fathor. It was a cold, wet night, and he begged for a little food for his wife and chlld.;»“ They were literally starving! Beggei\of his own father, and was re fused -with curses. Not only refused, but kicked like a dog from the door of his cSlldhood’s home! There was a fear ful swra that night, and Hubert did not come back. All night his young wlfojsat waiting for him, hushing the feeble^cries of the weary Infant upon her breast. With the dawn, she muf fled herself and child In a shawl and Wentworth to seek him. Half way from her fetched home to the palatial man sion of Mr. Trevlyn she found her hus band, “Pahall survive it it I am,” said the voice. "Get down and open the door. / t hrust see it the child Is hurt" * “It’s no child, miss; it is a boy older . than yourself,” gaid. the man, surlily obeying the command. Margie Harrisop. descended Jo the pavftnent From the.aweet voicedAfhlF fihd almost expected to see ker. A fluth . of grateful admiration lit up his face. Sqe beamed upon him like a star from ’..the depths of the clouds/ '“"Are you hurt?" she asked kindly. 5 ytt was very careless of Peter to let - -the.carriage strike you. Allow ns to Ul tale you heme.” / "Thank you,” he said. "I am close to where I work, and I am not hurt It Is only adding bruise.” : ** Something familiar about him seemed * to strike her; she looked at him with . a strangely pussied face, but be gave P hef AhMtet./ rX 0f5 s$>/ '///C' “Is there nothing we can do for you?" she asked at length. A great presumption almost took his breath away. He gave It voice on the moment, afraid if he waited he should lose the courage. “If you will give me the cluster of bluebells In your belt—” She looked surprised,, hesitated a moment, then laid them In his hand. He bowed, and was lost in the crowd. That night when he got home he found Mat worse. She had been fail ing for a long time. She was a large girl now, with great, preternaturally bright eyes, and a spot of crimson in each hollow cheek. It was more than three months since she had been able to do anything, and Grandma Rugg was very harsh and severe with her In consequence. There were black and blue places on her Shoulders now where she had been beaten, but Arch did hot know It. Mat never spoke to him about her Buffer ings, because It distressed him so, and made him very angry with the old woman. He went In and eat down on the straw beside Mat, and before he knew' it he was telling ber about Margie Harrison. He always brought all his Joys and sor rows to Mat now, just as he used to carry them to his mother. The girl listened intently, the spots on her face growing deeper and wider. She looked at the bluebells wistfully, but would not touch them. Arch of fered her a spray. She shook her head sadly. ‘'No," she said, "they are not for me. Keep them, Arch. Some time, I think, you will be rich and happy, and have all the flowers and beautiful things you wish.” » “If I ever am. Mat, you shall be my queen, and dress in gold and silver," answered the .boy warmly, “and never do any more heavy work to make your hands hard.” “You are very good, Arch," she said. “1 thank you, but I shall not be there, you know. I think I am going away going where 1 shall see my mother, and your mother, too, Arch, and where all tjie world will be full of flowers! Then I shall think of you, Arch, and wish I could send you some.” “Mat, dear Mat! don’t talk so strange ly!" said the boy, clasping her hot hands in his. “You must not think of going away! What should I do without you?” She smiled, and touched her lips to his hand, which had stolen under her head, and lay so near her cheek. ‘ “You would forget me, Arch. I mean after a time, and I should want you to. But I love you better than anything else in all the world. And it is better that I should die. A great deal better! Last, night I dreamed it was. Your mother came and told me so. Do you know how jealous I have been of that Margie Har rison? I have watched yon closely. I have seen you kiss a dead rose that I knew she gave you. And I longed to see her so much, that I have waited around the splendid house where she lives, and seen her time and again come out to ride, with her beautiful dresses, and the white feather in her hat, and the wild roses on her cheeks. And my heart'ached with such a hot, bitter pain. But it’s all ovet now, Arch. I am not jealbus now, I love her and you—both of you together. It I do go away, I want you to think kindly of me, and-and ^-good-night, Arch—dear Arch. I am so tired." -J ■ h':/7v., iM ■' > r He garnered ner neaa to me bosom, and kissed her lips. * ; “Poor little Mat! In the morning, when Arch oame down, she had Indeed gone away—drifted out with the tide and With the silent night After Mat’s death the home at Grand ma Rugg’s became Insupportable to Arch. He could not remain there. The old woman was crasser than ever, and though he gave her every penny of his earnings, she was not satisfied* So Arch took lodgings In another part of the city, quite as poor a place, but there no one had the right to grum ble at him. Still, because Bhe was some relation to Mat, he gave Grandma Rugg full halt of his money, but he never re mained Inside her doors longer than necessity demanded. ‘ In his new lodgings he became ac quainted with a middle-aged man who represented himself as a retired army officer. His name was John Sharp—a sleek, keen-eyed, smooth-tongued In dividual, who never boasted or blus tered, but who gave people the Idea that at some time he had been a per son of consequence. This man attached himself particularly to Arch Trevlyn. With insidious cunning he wormed ’himself into the hoy’s confidence, and gained, to a certain degree, his friend Utip. Arch did not trust him. entirely, though. There was something about him from which h$ shrank—the touch of his white, Jeweled hand, made his flesh creep, like the touch of a ser pent ■ j- ” But Mr. Sharp had an object to gain, and set himself resolutely to work to cqrry his point. He made himself nec essary to Arch. He bought him books, and taught-him in the evenings, when neither were engaged otherwise. He had been well educated, and in Arch he had an apt scholar. Every spare mo ment of the boy’s life was absorbed in his books. By and by Sharp learned the whole history of th wrongs Inflicted on Arch’s parents by old Mr. Trevlyn. He snapped [ at the story as a dog snaps at a bone. But he was cautious and patient, and it was a long time before he showed himself to Arch In his true character. And then, when he did, the revelation had been made so much by degrees, that the boy was hardly shocked to find that his friend was a housebreaker and a highway robber. Long before he had formed a plan to rob the house of Mr. Trevlyn. It was a field that promised well. Mr. Trevlyn, with the idiosyncrasy of age, had invested most of his fortune In dia monds, and these he kept in a chamber in his house. His chief delight con sisted in gloating over these precious stones. Night after night he would sit handling his diamonds, chuckling over his wealth, and threatening im aginary plunderers with destruction. So, his servants said, and Sharp re peated the story to Arch with sundry variations and alterations suited to the case. He had a persuasive tongue, and it is little wonder that the boy, hating his grandfather as he did, and resolved as he was upon revenging his father’s wrongs, should fall into the snare. He wanted Mr. Trevlyn to suffer—he did not care how. If the loss of his dia monds would be to him a severer blow than any other, then let. it fall. Sharp used many specious arguments to induce Arch to become his accom plice in robbing the Trevlyn mansion, but the only one which had any weight was that he could thus revenge his father’s wrongs. ■* “Only assist me, and secure your re venge,” said the wily schemer, "and I will share the spoils with you. There will be enough to enrich us both for life.” Arch drew "himself up proudly, a fiery red on his cheek, a dangerous gleam in his dark eye. “I am no thief, sir! I’d scorn to take a cent from that old man to use for my benefit! I would not touch his dia monds if they lay here at my feet. But if I can make him suffer anything like as my poor father suffered through him, then I am ready to turn • robber—yes, pickpocket, if you will!” he added sav-' agely. v ■ ;>> v;* if ; Sharp appointed the night. His plans were craftily laid. Mr. Trevlyn he had ascertained would'be absent on" Thursday night; he had taken a little journey into the country for his health; and only the servants and his ward would sleep in the house* ; ' Thursday night was dark and rainy. At midnight Sharp and Arch stobd be fore the house they were to plunder. No thought of shame nor sin entered Archer Trevlyn’s heart; he did not seem to think he was about to dis grace himself for life; he thought only of Mr. Trevlyn’s dismay when he should return and find the bulk of his riches swept away from him at one blow. “He took all my father had,” he said, under his breath; “he would have sul lied the fair fame of my mother, and if I could take from him everything but life, I would do it.”' Sharp, with a dexterous skill, re moved the fastenings of a shutter, and then the window yielded readily to his touch. He stepped Inside; Arch fol lowed. All was quiet, save the heavy ticking of the old clock on the hall stairs. Up the thickly carpeted stair way, along the corridor they passed, and Sharp stopped before a closed door “We must pass through one room be fore reaching that where the safe is which contains the treasure,” he said, in a whisper. “It is possible that there may be some one sleeping in that room. If so, leave them to me, that is all.” ’V~ V* (TO BB COBTiNUBD.) j AFTER HER QOLDEN LOCKS. MIm Martha Faanram Hat a Narrow ^ Escape from a Razor. A razor, a young lady and a cove tous man vere the cause ot a lot of ex citement at the Washington house last night about 7:30 o'clock, says the Ne braska State Journal. The young lady was Miss Martha Panzeram. She was in the kitchen attending to some domestic duties, when she heard a rap on the door. She opened it and a man asked her tor a drink of water. She turned to get It for him. The minute her back was turned he made a spring and grabbed her by her hair, which she usually wore braided down her back, j He^made one swift stroke with a razor, but as she turned partly around he on ly succeeded In cutting oft a few locks. She screamed and the man ran out of the door. As he ran another man, who had evidently been watching the rear ot the building, Joined him and together thiey made their escape. A report was sent to the Btation at once and Sergt. Nash wan detailed to look up the man. He got as good a description as was obtainable from a boy who aaw the men from a stable back of the hotel and from the young lady. He arrested a young fellow who gave his name sb William McCarthy. He had a razor in his clothing, but nothing else to show that he may have been the man who was after Miss Panzeram’s golden locks. The boy partly identified McCarthy as the as sailant Miss Panzeram has a beaiutlful head of hair remaining. It is golden brown' in color and reaches to her waist. The locks which were'severed were found' outside the door, where - they were dropped by the man. i ■ The perpetrator of the deed,- if caught, will have to answer to the charge of making an assault with in tend to disfigure. The penalty is Im prisonment for one year in the peniten tiary. hiu Coming In Treasury officials expect an immense importation of sugar during the next four months, which will add largely to the income of the government. The present stock of raw sugar is the small* eat this country has had for years. t FREE-TRADE IDEAS. BRITISH THEORIES NQT SUS TAINED BY CONDITIONS. If England fa the Wealthiest Nation on the Globe Free Trade Hie Not Slade It So—James Gordon Bennett Corn* ered. Paradoxical as It may seem to those Imbued with the false mercantile theory, there can be no real prosperity in any nation’s foreign commerce ex cept tn years when the Imports exceed in value or productiveness the exports —1. e., when there Is an “adverse bal ance of trade” (so called).—New York Herald. • ,, Of course this is one of James Gordon Bennett's attacks upon American labor and industries. No other newspaper on earth would publish any such stuff, much less refer to England, "now the wealthiest nation on the globe,” in cor roboration of the “undisputed fact.” . In the first place England is not “the wealthiest nation on the globe.” Ac cording to Mulhall, “the United States occupies the first place” with £12,824, 000,000 of wealth against only £9,400, 000,000 for the United Kingdom. But ! Bennett, perhaps, knows more than ; Mulhall. He should give to the world a new dictionary of statistics. Then we | could “make the country ring with them.” . j If Bennett started any such trade 1 theories in England, it Is no wonder that the life of the London edition of ; the New Yprk Herald was so brief. amusing. But don't tell us how rich the British trader is getting when he Imports more than he exports. At least don’t do it when he is rejoicing because his trade is exactly the oppo site. Wait a little, till he has got over his early enthusiasm and has stopped saying that “the entire burden” ol his lighter imports, "falls uppn the United States.” England is not cackling and crowing because she is losing “the golden eggs” of trade. Not much, “paradoxical as it may seem.” En gland is wise. And Bennett’s paper— well, otherwise. Senator Thornton for America. There axe thousands who insist that the tariff question has been permanent ly settled; that the Wilson bill will be permitted to stand; hut the Republican party has never consented to the set tlement of any great question until it has been settled right. The Repub lican party Will never consent to the settlement of the tariff question until every American factory Is reopened; until every American water wheel is once more turning; until every Ameri can spindle is again set to singing the song of American prosperity; until every American man can find re-em ployment at a decent wage; until every American market product can be sold In the American market for a decent price; until every American home is once more filled with the comforts of life; until every fire is relighted on the blackened hearthstones of our people; until every American woman is once more decently clad; until the tears of hunger are wiped from the eyes of every American child; until the old tin dinner pail is taken down from the shelf and proudly borne daily to labor by every American workingman, in , whose sturdy hand It remains the badge of America’s truest nobility.— Hon. John M. Thurston, U. S. S., of Ne braska. j How North Carollnn Feels. We need a man who, although living north of Mason and Dixon’s line, com mands the admiration and respect of every southern voter, and while living in a manufacturing state had the cour f' ■' . r ChlTlCL,Slone 5G-ni Earthenware -madem FoTeiqn Counbies cr.d Tharketed in the | United Stales fecileT* ;. :2million'f nSlfiojf*.v\ <•., y. Dollars^-: :V::.^l3ollarv--,v.-.-v;.ODlloTS::V.'-; on; Forewarned is forearmed. English men are not fools, as a race, whatever else they may be. But they made a fool of Wilson, Just as surely as Paris is pro gressing in the same direction with Bennett. If an excess of imports makes a coun try wealthy, why is.it that British pa pers, especially the London Economist, are congratulating the English people because last January's exports from the United Kingdom were 16 per cent larger than in January, 1895? Why is that, in speaking of a decrease in their im ports of raw cotton, they say that “the entire burden fell upon the United States?" > If Bennett's theory was the correct one—that “the import is really the goose that lays the golden eggs," then England M to be pitied for losing some of “the golden eggs.” But En gland pities us, the exporter, saying that “the entire burden tell upon the United States." Why? Because wo sold less. Again, the British papers refer to the excellent increase of fl0,345,000 In tlielr exports to all countries during 1895, showing that £9,199,000 of the amount was due to the low democratic tariff that we now have in the United States. Over 90 per cent of their enlarged ship ments were made to this country, and they are glad of it. They are not clam oring for more imports. When they de cline “the entire burden" falls upon the United States. They don't transact ! business On theory, but on hard pan, bedrock, pounds, shillings and pence basis. Were it otherwise, the English | papers would not say that the United Kingdom has “at last entered upon a j period of fresh activity in thide," and I that “the entire burden" of Its smaller j imports falls upon the United States. ! Bennett should open a school for eco nomics. We doubt, though, whether it ' would be as successful as his school for ! scandal. He is anxious to teach the theories of economics, and says “there i Bhould be a campaign of education on ' this exceedingly Important matter.” Qo ahead with the “campaign," It is age and patriotism to take care of the interests of the southern people. In my judgment we should nominate that man whose name is identified with the prosperous tim£s of the past and, as a consequence, has become a household word and a synonym for prosperity throughout the length and breadth of this land. I refer to the Hon. William McKinley of Ohio. 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