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SYNOPSIS.
In the time of Queen Anne. Lady Pru
deuce Brook, widowed at 16 and still a
widow at two and twenty, while journey
ing in a coach to London with her couBin
Peggy, is accosted by a highwayman who,
however, takes nothing from her except a
kiss.
CHAPTER III—(Continued.)
"Dearest Prue, pardon me for sug
gesting anything that could for one
moment distress you; it was but my
eagerness to punish the scoundrel for
his crimes. Let us relegate him to
oblivion. Such subjects are not for the
lips and ears of Beauty. Tell me, sweet
Prue, when may I hope to see Lady
Drumloch and implore her sanction to
my suit?”
"I have already broken the matter to
her.” replied Prue. "but, as we antici
pated. without any great success, at
present. She is, as you know, an ar
dent Jacobite and cannot be expected
to approve your politics, which are
considerably more Important to her
than my happiness. Mayhap, when she
becomes acquainted with you she may
blame me less. You must exercise
your eloquence on her as you did on
me," she added, with a coquettish smile,
"and then I think I can safely leave
<»ur cause in your hands. My prayers
shall accompany you, and if necessary
we will kneel side by side and implore
tile ancestral benediction.”
CHAPTER IV.
THE MONEY LENDER INTER
VENES.
Either her hysterics or her gout
kept my Eady Drumloch in her cham
ber long enough to try the brief pa
tience of Prudence Brooke. Sir Goef
lrey. secure of his bride, was less im
patient, for after all. the grandmother’s
consent was a mere matter of form,
although he had reasons—upon which
lie did not care to dilate—for wishing
to propitiate the old lady, and secure
bet good graces.
He came to Mayfair as frequently as
his parliamentary duties permitted, and
never without sending Up to the sick
loom the most sympathetic messages,
accompanied by boquets of rare flow
ers. baskets of hot house fruit and
dainty porcelain or enameled boxes of
French bon bons, and his gifts to
Low ton were as lavish, though of a
different character.
Finding no abatement in her grand
mother's austerity, about a week after
Sir Godfrey’s arrival. Eady Prudence
ordered a chair, and concealing as
many of her charms as could be hidden
by a cloak and hood, made a pilgrim
age to the city.
Almost under the shadow of Aldgate
churcn, at the entrance of a narrow
court, of quiet appearance but sinister
reputation, lived a certain Mr. Moses
Aarons,- reputed fabulously wealthy.
Few were the gay inheritors of paternal
acres to whom the little office in Aid
gate was unfamiliar, and in the sqfes
and deed boxes that encumbered the
upper floors of the dingy house many
a bond and mortgage told a history of
vast estates held by a hair, and noble
fortunes of which little remained but
the name.
Mr. Aarons was a man of unpretend
ing appearance, with very little about
him to suggest the Jew money lender.
Immaculately dressed, in a suit of fine
plum colored cloth, with silk stockings
of the same hue, and wearing his own
iron gray hair slightly powdered, and
gathered in a black ribbon, he might
have passed for a respectable lawyer
or merchant, had not some suggestion
of power in his smooth voice and
heavy lidded eye, belied the modesty
of his appearance.
Tile chair of a fine lady was no un
accustomed object at his door—nor,
indeed, was the Viscountess Brooke a
stranger. When his clerk bowed the
lady into Mr. Aaron’s sanctum, he rose
to greet hei;, and returned her sweep
ing curtesy with a bow as ceremoni
ous. "My Eady Brooke! This is, indeed,
a condescension,” he said. "My poor
place is not adapted for the entertain
ment of such fashion and beauty.”
" Most excellent Aarons,” cried Prue,
a little haughtily, "a truce to your
compliments, which are only meant in
ridicule, I fear." She threw back her
hood, however, not disdaining to try
the full effect of her charms upon this
Jew. from whom she had come to
cajole a tew hundred pounds, if possi
ble, without security.
"Your ladyship's long absence from
London hath surely been to some magic
spring," said the usurer, with an ex
aggerated deference that bordered on
insolence. "We heard you were break
ing squires' hearts in Yorkshire, but
sure twas some southern sun that has
been ripening the peaches on your
cheeks.”
Prue burst out laughing. "Are you
turning poet, Mr. Aaronn?” she inquired
flippantly. "Take my advice, and keep
to your own trade; no one will ever
read the verse of Shakespeare or Mil
ton with half as much interest as the
magic prose that can turn a scrap of
dirty paper into golden guineas.”
“Your ladyship is tired of poetry, and
wishes for a little prose by way of
change, no doubt,” suggested the mon
ey lender.
"Change, forsooth! That is Just what
i am perishing for,” cried Prue. “Fate
has been dealing me the scurviest
tricks, and r.ow the chance of , my life
has come, and I tremble lest 1 lose it
for want of a few pounds. The queen
lias bidden me to court, and I hope the
best from her majesty’s condescension.
But. alas! I cannot make a fitting ap
pearance at court, for I am—as usual
—penniless. Yon must help me out of
my troubles, good Mr. Aarons, and this
time 1 shall pay you principal and in
terest. and recover the diamond neck
lace that lias been so long in your
care.’
"If the security you offer is no bet
ter than last time, my lady Viscountess
' the money lender began.
Alack! this time I have nothing at
all to offer as security,” she inter
rupted. "You know where most of my
Jewels are. and on iny way from York
shire. I was set upon by Robin Free
inantle. the highwayman, and robbed
of every thing he could lay his hands
on!”
"The outrageous villain! Did your
ladyship lose much?" asked the Jew,
with ill-concealed sarcasm.
"I scarce remember how much, but
be left me with nothing but a few
worthless trinkets I had concealed in
my cousin’s jewel casket, which for
tunately escaped. So I arrived in Lon
don destitute. My grandmother is too
ill to think of aught but prayers and
potions, and I am most anxious to re
turn to the court, where, doubtless, her
Grate of Marlborough will do some
thing for me—she loves me like a
daughter—but I cannot wait on her
grace without a gown and a carriage.”
“The milliner will, no doubt, be en
chanted to provide the one, and the liv
eryman the other," said Aarons, suave
ly.
"True, but everyone knows I was
banished from court, and nothing will
satisfy them that I am In favor again
but to see my name In the Court News’
account of the queen’s levee. I cann.-‘
get there without money, and for that
I look to you, who have stood my friend
before. Now listen,” she went on
quickly, laying her little dimpled hand
on his arm, In her eagerness to In
terrupt the impending expostulation.
”1 am going to be married—oh, yes, I
know what you would say—’tls not the
first time by several, and I am still
Widow Brooke! This time, however,
you may consider it final; within a
month, I wed Sir Geoffrey Beaudesert.”
The money lender started. “Sir
Geoffrey Beaudesert!" he exclaimed.
"Your creditors, my lady Viscountess,
will scarce be pleased at this hearing,
and may find cause to remind you that
there are lodgings for ladies in the
Fleet and Queen’s Bench. Sir Geoffrey
is a member of parliament and cannot
be arrested for his own debts, let alone
his wife’s."
’’Arrested! Do you mean to suggest
that Sir Geoffrey cannot, or will not,
pay my debts?” she cried, angrily.
"He may be willing; indeed, who
could doubt that any man would es
teem it an honor to pay the debts of
Lady Prudence Brooke? But that he Is
able, is quite another matter, and you
may take my word for it, that Sir
Goeftrey Beaudesert couldn’t pay his
own debts, If every acre he owned was
free, Instead of mortgaged, lock, stock
and barrel.”
. "You are maligning a gentleman,
sir!” she exclaimed, losing all control
of her temper. “I will tell him how
you have lied to me, and he will have
his servants beat you within an inch
of your life! Sir Geoffrey a bankrupt!
his estates mortgaged!—was ever such
•a slander? He is a man of substance,
I tell you. I have visited him In his
ancestral domain, where he entertained
me royally. He is lord of the manor,
and has the retinue of a duke—no man
in Yorkshire is more highly respected
—he Is M.F.H. and might be Sheriff
of his Riding an’ he chose!” She be
gan to subside a little, though still
angry, and looking, it must be owned,
transcendently lovely In her excite
ment, with cheeks like damask roses,
and flashing sapphire eyes. “Good Mr.
Aarons, why did you give me such a
scare?” she went on, with a ring of al
most entreaty In her tone. “Tell me
you were joking. What can you know
about Sir Geoffrey’s estate.? He hath
borrowed of you, mayhap; who has
not- But since he has come into his
patrimony—”
"His patrimony, Lady Prudence? His
father was one of King James’ most
devoted followers, and one of the most
lavish while a guinea could be raised,
to prove his loyalty. Sir Geoffrey can
not cut a tree in his ’ancestral domain,’
and you may be sure there was a bail
iff or two wearing his livery among the
ducal retinue that dazzled your lady
ship."
Mr. Aarons, you must be mistaken,
she persisted, stubbornly. "If his
fortunes are so low, why does he seek
to Join them to those of a portionless
widow? Sure, there are heiresses a
plenty who would gladly buy his title
with their dowries!”
"Oh! your ladyship has but to look
in your mirror to answer that question,”
cried the usurer, with a low bow and a
look of open admiration. "There are
also men of wealth and substance who
would gladly pay the debts of Lady
Prudence Brooke, and settle such a
fortune upon her as would* keep her
busy In the spending."
"No doubt, no doubt," said Lady
Prudence hastily, “but I am betrothed
to Sir Geoffrey Beaudesert and these
benevolent persons do not greatly in
terest me. Let us quit the subject of
the fortunes Sir Geoffrey and I are
throwing away, and return to busi
ness.”
“Yet believe me, Lady Prudence,” he
insisted, "you will never wed Sir Geoff
rey Beaudesert,"
She rose with great haughtiness. “I
decline to dsipute the subject with you,
Mr. Aarons—” she began.
"You will not marry Sir Geoffrey
Beaudesert," he repeated. "If you do
not refuse the match, he will find some
way to release himself; 'tls his mis
fortune more than his fault. Mark me,
Lady Prudence, and do not let him
place you in a false position. You
want to be a rich woman as well as a
great lady. You can marry a man who
will give you the finest house In town,
the piost splendid establishment, the
choice of a dozen county seats, and
more money to spend than you have
ever dreamed of, and who asks noth
ing in return but to see you queen It
at his expense.”
She smiled a little, and met his
glance with a most deceptive air of in
nocent curiosity.
“And who Is the gentleman. Mr.
Aarons?” she inquired, in her sweetest
tone, with but the hint of an empha
sis.
“Can you not guess?" he replied more
boldly.
"Faith, I came hither seeking a mon
ey broker and was not prepared to find
a marriage broker Instead!” she said,
shrugging her pretty shoulders. "Do
not keep me in suspense, good Aarons;
I am dying to know the name of the
admirable creature who desires to res
cue me from poverty—and Sir
Geoffrey—and confer so many benefits
upon my unworthiness.”
He placed his hand upon his breast,
and bowed deeply.
“You see him here, fair Lady Pru
dence,” he said.
"The humblest of slaves, the most
ardent of admirers and. if you will,
the most devoted and indulgent of hus
bands."
She burst into a pea! of laughter,
but the faint note of bitterness that
permeated the charming music was
not lost upon the money-lender's sharp
ear.
“Truly, Mr. Aarons, your jest Is
subtle and well conceived, and a fit
ting rebuke to my silly vanity,” she
began. But he interrupted her, "In
truth, madam, 'tls no Jest, but a ser
ious offer. I have always admired
your ladyship, and a year ago, endeav
ored to give fitting expression—”
A knock on the door Interrupted his
flow of eloquence, and the clerk from
without, announced that Sir Geoffrey
Beaudescrts chariot had Just driven
to the door and that "his Ludship”
was in the act of alighting.
"Great Heaven!” cried Prue, turning
scarlet and then pale. "How’ shall I
escape? I would not tie found here by
him for a £1,000! Do not admit him,
good Mr. Aarons, I beseech you—"
"Take Sir Geoffrey upstairs, Jacob,
and toll him I am engaged, but will
wait on him anon.” said the Jew. Then
turning to his fair client with an in
sinuating smile, he added, "Now, if
your ladyship chooses, you may have
an opportunity of Judging between my
statement of this gentleman's finances
and his own—”
He Indicated, by a gesture, a door in
an obscure corner of the room,
"What! play the spy upon my be
trothed husband? Never, never!” ex
claimed Prue indignantly. Yet she did
not go away, and her pliant form
seemed to sway toward the little dark
door, as though a stronger will than
her own controlled her muscles.
“ ‘Tls no harm," said the Jew, in his
silkiest tones, as he opened the door
leading into a room scarcely bigger
than a closet, but light, and furnished
with a single chair, and u table litter
ed with papers and thick with dust.
Half-involuntarlly, Prue yielded, and
the door closed upon her. ”1 need not
listen,” she said, half-apologizing to
herself for an action she disdained.
But the room was small, and that, per
haps, was why she did not think it
worth while to move away from the
door.
The blood rushed to her head when
she heard Sir Geoffrey’s voice, and for
some moments she was conscious of
nothing but a confused murmur, out
of which, at, last, her own name rang
sharp and clear.
"The Lady Prudence Brooke has
honored me by accepting my hand,”
she heard Sir Geoffrey say. in a tons
that was evidently Intended to discour
age adverse comment.
"I congflratulate your Honor," said
Aarons politely. “The lady's charms
do credit to your choice. But such
luxuries are costly, and 1 am not sur
prised that you need money. It is un
fortunate that times are so hard and
money so scarce. I have Just suffered
a terrible loss. The death of Lord Bos
common, whose father survives him,
had turned £10,000 worth of post-obits
into waste paper, and the failure of
Johnson and—but this does not inter
est your Honor. Beset as I am, 1 shall
be able to accomodate an old and val
ued client like yourself, no doubt if
the security is satisfactory. You have
good security to offer, of course?”
“Oh! it is no use beating about the
bush with you, Aarons. I have no
fresh security, but you can surely let
me have a couple of thousand more on
the Yorkshire estate.”
"Not a stiver," said the money lend
er firmly. "Even the entailed proper
ty is encumbered beyond its utmost
value. Had you come to announce
your marriage with Miss Oheeseman,
the alderman’s daughter, or Mrs. Gold
waite, Jhe banker's widow. I do not
say I would have refused the necessary
funds for the courtship and wedding on
your note-of-hand. But the Vlscount
tess Brooke is dowerless—over head and
cars in debt, and without a penny of
expectations.”
••AfiaoeoV.!,. ? 1A A I - Y_ ... . ..
Miserable ilttie Jew,” muttered the
fair dame he so pitilessly anatomized:
"Geoffrey will kill him.”
''Dowerless yes; over head and ears
in debt, possibly; but not without ex
pectations,” said Sir Geoffrey, display
ing none of the anticipated fury. "You
overlook the fact that she is the fav
orite granddaughter of Lady Drum
loch, who, for all her miserly way's, I'
am credibly informed, is enormously
wealthy.”
'Oho!" cried the Jew, maliciously en
joying this display of a motive not al
together flattering to the unsuspected
listener. "Your honor is not quite so
simple as I began to fear."
"Did you really think I was fool
enough to leap before looking?” retort
ed Sir Geoffrey, with a fatuous laugh
that set Prue's ears tingling. "To be
sure, the wealth of Golconda could not
add to the Lady Prue’s charms, but in
this wicked world one can not live on
love, and as I have little else to offer,
I rejoice, for her sake as well as my
own, that she has a rich grandmother,
who cannot, it is to be hoped—I should
say, lamented—live long to enjoy her
hoards. They will, I am convinced, be
put to excellent use by Lady Prudence
Beaudesert."
“But how, if I could prove to you.
Sir Geoffrey, that Lady Druinloeh, in
stead of being a rich miser, is a very
poor old woman, whose kinsman loans
her a house to live in, and whose sole
income is an annuity, from which she
has—perhaps—saved enough to bury
her? I know not who may have told
you of this fabled wealth, but I am
pretty sure it is not either of her
granddaughters."
' Indeed, no," said Sir Geoffrey re
flectively. "No such sordid subject
has ever been broached between us.
Yet I had it from a reliable source.”
''Well, I advise you to make verv
sure of it, Sir Geoffrey; it will be no
kindness, either to yourself
or tlie Lady Prudence, to marry her
without either of you having anything
you can call your own—except your
debts."
“”Ks true,” muttered the baronet. “If
I cannot raise a thousand pounds—are
Lady Prudence's debts so very great?"
“I do not betray the secrets of one
client to another,” said Aarons, with a
sinister smile. "Even now I have acted
against my own interests in my desire
to befriend two headstrong young peo
ple. Nay, I would gludly go further, and
And a rich wife for your honor and a
rich husband for the viscountess If
you would both listen to reason. '
(Continued Next Week.)
Other Way About.
“I s pose I've known 10.000 mothers in
my time.”
"Well?”
"But I never knew but one mother who
had the courage to go to the matinee
while her daughter did the housework.”
Maud and the Judge.
Maud Muller raked the blooming hay.
The judge came ’round to make a < all.
His purpose was to say,
“I hope you’ll vote for me this fail.”
The daily average variation of the
dock on the house of parliament is
0.97 of a second.
an
A FATAL KNOCK.
“Say. wa've got to do something right
away to save our city."
“What's threatening KW
“Why, the story's got around that ws
don t suuoert our bail dub."
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A While for a Time.
A Cleveland school teacher writes
that she asked her class what was
the difference between the expres
sions, "a while,” and "a time,” says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nobody
Beemed to have any idea on the sub
ject. Finally the light of Intelligence
was seen to shine in the eyes of one
little boy, and the teacher called upon
him to save the Intellectual honor of
the class,
“I know, teacher!" he cried eager
ly. “When papa says he's going out
for a while, mamma says she knows
he's going out for a time!”
That's one way of looking at it.
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face was very red and Irritated and
was covered with pimples. The pim
ples festered and came to a head.
They itched and burned and when I
-scratched them became sore. I tried
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Adv.
Absomed.
A college professor noted for his
concentration of thought, returned
home from a scientific meeting one
night, still pondering deeply upon the
subject that had been discussed. As
. he entered his room he heard a noise
that seemed to come from under the
bed.
“Is there someone there?” he asked
absently.
"No, professor,” answered the in
truder, who knew his peculiarities.
"That’s strange," muttered the pro
fessor. “I was almost sure I heard
someone under the bed.”
Wise Young Man.
That was a very wise Cambridge
student of whom the London story
tellers were talking some time ago.
One of his college friends finding him
self without funds, went to this Sol
omon of students to borrow. He found
him in bed. Sefzlng him by the shoul
der, he shook him.
”1 say,” he said, "are you asleep?"
“Why do you ask?" queried the
other, sleepily.
“I want to borrow a sovereign.”
“Yes,” said the other, turning over
,nd closing his eyes. “I’m asleep."
Righteous Indignation.
Little Ruth was the youngest daugh
ter in a very strict Presbyterian fam
ily that especially abhorred profanity.
One day little Ruth became exceed
ingly exasperated with one of her dol
lies. In her baby vocabulary she could
find no words to express adequately
her disapproval of dolly's conduct.
Finally, throwing the offending dol
ly across the room, she cried, feel
ingly:
My gracious! 1 wish I belonged
to a family that sweared!"
Submits Tamely.
"Is Scriblet what you would call a
struggling author?”
“No, indeed. When an editor puts
him out he doesn't offer the slightest
resistance.”
CERTAINLY ANIMALS THINK.
--.
Dinks—Do you believe that animals
think?
Winks—Certainly. Doesn’t the car
hog who takes up all the seat think
he owns the car?
Explains the Undertaker’s Grouch.
“Who is that fellow sitting humped
up and muttering to himself out there
on the horse block?”
“Aw, that's Ezra Toombs, the under
taker,” replied the landlord of the
Skeedee tavern. “He’s feeling sore
over the way his business has been
going of late. You see, the doctor
gave Judge Feebles two weeks to live;
that was six weeks ago, and the judge
is up and around now and figgerln' on
marryln’ again. Every time Ezra
meets the doctor he asks him, ’How
about it, hey?’ and they have a row.
And now he’s slttin’ out there watch
ing a tramp painter gilding the weath
er vane of the church, across the
street. Ezra says, by Heck, he’B about
ready to move away, things is so dead
here."—Kansas City Star.
Reason Was Plain.
“My hUBband has deserted me and
I want a warrant,” announced the
large lady.
“What reason did he give for desert
ing you?” asked the prosecutor.
“I don't want any lip from you. I
want a warrant. I don’t know what
reason he had.”
“I think I understand his reason,”
said the official feebly, as he proceed
ed to draw up a warrant.”
Mother Goose in Poultry Trade.
it is reported that the following oc
curred in a small poultry store
kept by the widow of the deceased
merchant;
“I should like to’see a nice fat
goose," said a customer, entering the
shop.
“Yes, sir," replied the boy. “Moth
er will be down directly."—Woman's
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CASTORIA
For Infanta and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Thirty Years
CASTORIA
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W.L.DOUCLAS
SHOES
*3.00 *3.60 *4.00 *4.60 AND *6.00
FOR MEN AND WOMEN
•vi ««!■ w. L Oxwtat 03.00, 03.00 003.00 0ohmm!
Mhomm, kwtimoM male will poattlvaly mutwamr two
pafrm at ordinary mhomm, annso mm Ihm net's mhmmm.
W.LDouflu makes and sells more $3.00,$3 JW Sc. $4.00 shoes
than any other manufacturer in the world.
THE STANDARD OF QUALITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
The workmanship which has made W. L Douglas shoes famous the world
over is maintained in every pair.
Ask your dealer to show you W. L. Douglas latest fashions for fall and winter
wear, notice the abort vamps which make the foot look smaller, points in n
shoe particularly desired by young men. Also the conservative styles which
have made W. L. Douglas shoes a household word everywhere.
If you could visit W. L. Douglas large factories at Brockton, Mass., and sen
for yourself how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then un
derstand why they are warranted to fit better, look better, hold their shape and
wear longer than any other make for the price. Fast Color Fyolota.
CAUTION.—To protect you against inferior shoe*, W. L. Douglas stamps his name on the bes
ted. Look for tbe stamp. Beware of substitutes. W. L. Dousles shoos are sold in 78 own
stares end shoe dealers orory where. No matter where you lira, they are within your reach.
tyour dealer cannot supply you, write direct to factory for catalog showing how to order
mail. Shoe, sent everywhere, delivery charges prepaid. WX-Douglas, Brnrhtnn, Mats,
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
Color more goodi brighter and fatter colon than any e*ber dye. One 10c package color* all tiben. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. YoacM
dye any garment without ripping apart. Write van free booklet—Hotr to Pye. Bleach and Mia Color*. MONBOt PBtIG COMPANY, Quincy. IB.