FOB THE LADIES. BJ
Victoria tad Son of Her Cut
Costonu-
salac Kalakaa's Sleee Mm IttMt
tm IMr-Mkn Caeelleat Melee-
Taat are Tinsels'
A Immi lri.
Fb wrart a saucy hat
And her (eet go pit-a-pat
At she walki ;
And the sweetest musie ilipa
From her merry madding lips
When the talks.
Ehe fUelaatea the itreet
With her gaiters trim and neat.
Made of kid;
For they twinkle as they pais
Like the rillete in the grata
Halfway hid.
Her skin U soft and white,
Like magnolia bud at night
On the bough ;
But for fear she'd be too fair
There! a freckle here and there
On her brow.
tHmplet play at hide-and-seek
On her apple-blossom t-beek
And her chin,
flyly beckoning to you,
fcDont you think it'i time to woof
Pray begin.'
Then her winsome, witching erst
Flash like bit of Summer ikies
O'er ber fan,
As if to say, "We've met ;
You may go now acd forget
If you can."
Ufa of the Qaeen.
VICTORIA. B. AND f.
Quean Victoria is a woman of strict
business habits and steady aDDlication.
The amount of correspondence she gets
wrougn is enormous, in tbe private
portion of this correspondence her Ma
jesty is assisted by her private secretary,
a lady-in-waiting, and a maid of honor,
specially by the Dowager Marchioness
H jut, one oi the ladies, who is a valued
frWnd.
tVben the court is at Windsor the
S embers of tbe household in attendance
are one lady-in -waiting (these ladies are
Always peeresses), two maids of honor,
it lord-in-waitinir, two equerries, one
rxoom-in-waitine, also the keeper of the
privy parse, the private secretary, as
sistants in both departments, and the
master of the household. Tbe attend
ance is the same at Osborne and Bal
moral, with the exception of the lord-in-vaiting.
To attend to her Majesty's toilette
ana wararoDe were are uve maids, via,,
three dressers and two wardrobe women.
The senior dresser, who has been many
yean with her Majesty, is specially
charged with the task of conveying or
ders to different tradespeople jewelers.
, drapers, dressmakers, etc.; one dresser
ana one wardrobe woman are in constant
attendance on the Queen, taking alter
nate days.
Dress is a matter in which, even in
bar young days, her Majestv does not
appear to have taken much interest. At
present her perpetual mourning allows
of no crude color combinations. Soma
of us alders have a pleasant, if vague,
recollection ot Victoria Regina, a good
many years ago, say forty or forty
three, in a very simple and becoming
bonnet tied beneath the chin, a wrath of
wild roses under the brim framing a
sweet, kindh young face. Ah ma! sor
row and experience have writ their
cruel marks on hers and ours since then.
If admitted to the Queen informally,
the page-.a-waiting simply announces
the visitor's name thus: "Mr. , your
Majesty," on which she bows slightly
and continues to stand or sit, generally
the former; then she begins the conver
sation. The initative in this is always
left to ber Majesty. It is not etiquette
to open a subject with her, only to reply
to bar remarks.
The Queen terminates the interview
by another slight inclination, and usual
ly by a gracious smile. The visitor re
tires, backing and bowing until he
reaches the door, for no one must turn
bis or her back on our sovereign lady.
One of the trials to which tbe court
Indies are subject is caused by tbe pas
sion bar Majesty has for walking and
driving in the ooldett weather. Few of
them are as hardy and as indifferent to
ass as their royal mistress, and to be
dragged out for an airing when a bitter
noreester is driving a shower of snow
across tbe hills at Balmoral, or to pace
the grounds at Osboroe under a drench
ins; rainfall, is not the most agreeable
mode of taking exercise.
Aanerteea Wenee la Canit 14 re.
An announcement that a sentiment
prevails among tna surroundings of
Quean Victoria that the marriage of her
rrasslson in the line of succession to the
Brisk) throne to an American girl
wonM to a wise stroke is an interesting
theme among tna society oracles at the
capital, Mtys a Washington correspond
ent of a Philadelphia paper. Already
the AsBerican women control the lead
ing influence at the court and surround
ings of 1lie German empire. The Count
ess Waldersee, Miss Lea of New York,
is not only n woman who exhibits tbe
distinct! to fore of American girls, but
has shown extraordinary sagacity in the
naaptettoo of events which led ber bus
tola's promotion.
Tbe wife ef Lord Snnolph Churchill
. another conspicuous illustration of
(ha raanarkaUe adaptability of Ameri-
" the situations incident
HpnMte affairs, laths United States
fiw influence of women in politics as a
Rife and aavtar to ber husband hns
lean M often shown that it has ssoomo
Jtfcaa tho sxoantten. It
C-'iiiinrt the I nirisss capital that
rr t M event as the ntniriagsaf an hair
i-JKf WMM to sMttoTSKs
1 rvp2M of tVMtii
f -rUi r si,- rt m imlJuaai fas
ber under
arms.
royal or republican
The a)wet eirl 'Cyeler.
The person who says that a girl does
not look perfectly proper, modest and
sweet as she glides along on ber low
wheeled bicycle, ought to take a hand
glass and look on bis back for moss; the
chances are that he will find some. A
girl can ride a bicycle those low ones
especially for their use with just as
much propriety and a great deal lass
danger than she tan ride a horse.
Tbe position on a bicycle is more
graceful than the one she occupies
perched upon a horse, supported by ooe
foot in the stirrup and hanging on by one
knee while she tries to set square with
the horse. There is not a moment of
tbe time that a girl is on a horse's back
that she is not in danger; the most
trusty horse is uncertain, aod so is the
saddle girth. The bicycle can always be
depended upon. It never kicks or sines
side ways, and tbe saddle-girth never
breaks. Propelling it is not as tiresome
as walking nor as tedious as sitting still.
There is something delightfully in
dependent and charming about a girl on
a bicycle, She guides the machine along
with such an air of confidence and self
possession. Her cheeks are red, her
eves shine and her whole appearance is
ot health and pleasure. You will find
no foolish notions about the girl cvcler;
aha has good common-sense; she is
practical, and, withal, as gentle and
charming as she can be. One longs to
squeeze tbe plump gloved hand.
It has a good effect on her brothers
and gentlemen acquaintances to have
her go out riding with them. They are
quiet and gentlemanly in her presence;
they select the best part of the road for
her to ride over; they do not shout back
and forth at each other or at boorish
drivers who run them off the good road.
The rankest road hog in the country
will turn out for the sweet girl 'cycler
and give her the right of way.
The girl who can skillfully guide a
bicycle is just the one who can skillful
ly guide the destinies of a home. She
will be able to take an obstreperous
youngster by the coat collar and
straighten out the little kinks, or bind
up the bruised finger jor soothe the ach
ing head. Her tender solicitude and
loving kindness will make a man's life
worth living.
Gentlemen, lift your hats to the
sweet girl 'cycler. The fact that she
rides a wheel proves her worthy of yquf
esteem. Texas Si f tings.
tracer Thiers A boat the 'Cells.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is one of
the best violoncello players of the day.
This noble instrument has an increasing
fascination for the fair lady musicians,
and the reason is not far off. Tbe 'cello
is the most nearly human instrument,
because its range of tones coincides with
that of the human voice. Its tones stir
tho bosom more easilv to sympathetic
romances. Its size and tension are near
ly the same as the size and tension of
the human bosom, and the vibration of
one body is most apt to thrill the other
just as that harpstring which is most
nearly in accord with another will vi
brate most easily with the air waves. It
is a curious fact that 'cello players
more frequently observe than any others
that the strings of the instrument will
speak out quite loudly when tbe voice
strikes the tone of one of its strings.
Bitting alone in its corner or hanging in
its closet, the instrument often startles
its masters guests by suddenly adding a
loud note to a hearty laugh of some
one of them. And more laughable still
if one gives his nose a resonant blow
(and the humor of the actual fact will
excuse the mention of a disagreeable
operation) the 'cello will often take a
spasmodic snort itself, as if in sarcastic
instruction to its master to learn to per
form that nasal cavatina in pianissimo
tones.
King- Kalakaa's Kieee
THE UNINVITED.
'
TBI PROtCZSS IALANI.
The Princmu Kalnni in-
- 1 v, jauuic
Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands, ar-
nvaa in xncw lork last week and sailed
for Europe, where aha will nm.; .
two years for the purpose of completing
tll at ll.l iaa
The young Princess is a beautiful
girl of fourteen, and is a great favorite
wimi vna oanawicn islanders. She is
the daughter of Archibald Scott Cleg
horn, Collector-General of the Port of
Honolulu, and tha Prlnn., Til,. Til..
- uiav-uiM,
The Princess was accompanied as far as
San Francisco by her father and ber
steo-sister. Miaa Annia rixrl.-.. r
the Paci Be Coast her father left bar,
sul Al m -a
w, uuw ww wra oi mra. t. d. Walk
I ft friend ftf th fam.lw n-sl . x
- shiuiij auu ss unjlUl"
pent society lady of Honolulu.the young
ladies cnntimiad thir .
York. w "'w
The Princess wilt mmain
- a "VOW UVU
two years, during which time she will
7"7- uu in aer studies, or which
she isaxtranutlv fniul a-nv. u
j , . via, ux mjm
complishments she is a splendid muai-
mmm mmA bm' .. r M,
also a Una linrniit W mi
step-slster, is also highly educated.' sad
It was intended that K. n. .i i j
aodnmnaav tK. J? V
rf. f j mm tmr mm oaa
Vancteeo,butat tbs last moment the
YTm T: cnangea on aooountof
the annVtar alntrn f in, t-i .!
U said .however, that ha mttTrMi tha
Bn "PQten during tha summer.
Ayonng woman who was
ttoCayjBothar, it Ontota.
to tho Waehtegtoa raat, far regal rates
mnm toi'oteosaA with aornr
totfj. Car saeptir was aa lolats. and a
Curious Incidents of Social Life In
the Capital City.
The btories that were published last
winter and the winter be fore of the un
invited guests who crowded tha
Chinese ministers parlors were not
exasgejnnt- iys the Washington
Press. TdtT were true in every par
Kik more racy anecdotes of so
eia iTjylence could have been told by
UM W Respondents had tfc'Y wished.
It is not unusual for bar -.ses to find
their parlors filled sritt tran?e peo
ple. The oocurrenos it only too com
mon. There is a woa who has en
tertained in Washington who can not
relate some experience with the great
uninvited. The intruders are to be)
found in the greatest numbers at the
receptions of people in official life.
Many strangers regard these as in tho
nature of public receptiona Unac
quainted perhaps with the social cus
toms they do not recognize the rights
of the "servants of the people," as
they are fond of calling them, to any
privacy even in their homes. The ad
vent of a crowd of curiously-dressed
people in the parlors of the secretary
of state or the secretary of the interior
at a card reception would astonish
none of the receiving party, However,
much it might annoy them. These in
trusions are among: the disagreeable
but necessary burdens of public
life.
At one one of the afternoon recep
tions given by the family of the sec
retary of state under the last adminis
tration a number of plainly dressed
women walked in and began to look
about the parlors. Miss Bayard step
ped forward to greet them, but was
met with a reques not to "bother" her
self arid the information that they had
"just come in to look around." At
another large reception a showily
dressed woman was approached in the
tea room by the daughter of one of the
cabinet officers and asked if she would
have some refreshments. "No," was
the response, delivered in a hard, me
tallic voice, "I have just given my or
der to the other girl." A woman who
has lived in Washington many years
and who did a great deal of entertain,
ing one winter tells me that she has
been forced to furnish refreshments
and amusements in one evening to 200
guests whom she had not invited to
her house. The same experience was
had at a reception at which she was
asked to assist. The uninvited guests
did not enter the parlor where the re
ceiving party were stationed, but went
direct through the hall to the second
parlor and into the dining-room. At
another entertainment, given inad
vertently on the night set aside for a
public reception at the white house,
the number of the uninvited guests
was so great that it was finaly neces
sary to station a policeman at the curb
to ask the occupants of each carriage
as it was driven up if they were pro
vided with invitations. And the peo
ple who had driven up from the white-
house reception just "for a lark" were
driven away again.
How to Read Poetry.
My adviseis, learn to read poetry ju
diciously, richly and clearly aloud, and
then persevere in reading silently to
yourself in the conscious way. Every
attentive person must have noticed
that there are two ways of silent read
ing. One with the eyes alone, auto
matically, rapidly, in the very batk
parlor of the brain; the other is with
the lips also, in imagination, although
uu suunu is maue, wim me lorma
tion of every word, and as if on the
very frontier of vocal expression. The
second of these modes should always
be adopted in reading poetry to one's
self. Here there is no breathless in
terest in the facts narrated, no over
whelming necessity to hurry on for
information's sake. It must never be
overlooked that the sound, the con
duct of the metrical effect, is no matter
of indifference. Even in mere rhap
sodies diverted of all real verse form,
such as the effusions of Ossian and of
Walt Whitman, there is a right way of
reading and a wrong. Among the great
masters of meter we may take it as
certain that, at all events in the char
acteristic writing, no apparent discord
is an accident or a fault, but variation
introduced for purposes of the most
refined art Hence, when the young
or inexperienced reader comes upon a
line which seems to him to be difficult
or impossible to scan, he should not
pass it by, or force it to bend itself un
willingly to his preconceived notions,
but take as much pains to learn the
poet's intended effect as he would take
in mastering a page of Greek or Latin
to find out the exact meaning of a stub
born phrase. Let him, above all, sup
pose himself in error sooner than the
poet, and let him remember that one
of the greatest scholars that ever lived,
the famous Bentley, brought ridicule
on himself; because he could not bend
Milton's text down to the level of his
own rules, he ventured to set right the
music of "Paradise Lost" It was like
correcting a great master because his
melody did not keep time with a barrel
organ, and, amazintrly clever man ' as
Bentley was, the world has never ceas
ed to laugh at his presumption. Ed
mund Gosso.
AXXORA.
a terrible
I knew
The Usual Way.
There once was a man
With a wonderful plan
That was meant to remodel the earth :
The most marvelous scheme,
It really would seem.
To which e'er a genius gave birth.
So he called on his friends.
Prophesied dividends.
And talked like a seven-day dock.
Till, when they were wanned
tp, s company formed,
And they sll fairly clamored for stock.
Tbe office he hired
Was greatly admired.
Its fittings were handsome and chase.
The clerks were urbane,
And to sll it was plain
That their confidence was not mis placed.
Till at last one fine day
He wrote borne lust to aav
That liU ahm ... : i .
laSftOTtoton-"
aZLTJZt?. . wire ail m tna i
o"""iu journal.
"RlM Ma 1 .
, -wi m uuvub wo Ba
tenors!" "Ke, bat Imarrlsd mZ
third wife last wsefc'Wedfe.
I'liem-.
her,
lit. nn oJJ story and
one. but absolutely true. I
her grave often and taught bow
,ittleweknowofli.eoroeachoth
I have studied character a good
deal. I am a novelist, so it ha.
bme like sond nature to me to
analy motives and actions. It has
so through a long hfe. Th
habit has only strengthened nith
added years; but in Annora I studied
nothing; could study nothing.
K country town w a very good
pla fr Rata" unJ ttddlDf . .
knowledge of that sort. The mhabi-
tantMoan extent hardly realwed
by people who do not know them,
live in common; I mean, they have
all known each other and each
others iaults and feelings Hinee they
were children together; und the feel
ings formed then, and the keen in
terest in each others affairs, last on
through middle age and the down
hill part ol hie:
l-'verv one knew Lucy
I'rnrV fin A 111 the town liked
v'"
Most of the young iellowg-1 wan
young then, and one of them-did
more than like her.
Wlien she came into church on Pun-
. 1
day mornings, a look oi ogomzeu
expectation would come over about
i,;tt f,ir. in the conirrec-ation.
HI II .j '-" - i
They all gazed eagerly at Lucy, in
the hope of one glance iroin iier im
she went up the very short part of
the aisle leading to the square pew
where the fherryu sat. Njuare pews
were not gone then. A great mis
take it was, surely, that they ever
did go. Sleep during the sermon is
what mOHt of us secretly wish lor.
Under the new arrangement, though,
who is bold enough to take it?
Lucy would sometimes look up
not often during those momenta of
her quick walk behind her brother.
On whichever side of the aisle her
glance fell radiant faces were visible;
on the other cide a proportionate
despair showed itself. Had they not
been in a place where private senti
ments are rarely manifested the rela
tions between those gentlemen would
instantly have become extremely
"strained."
It was not to be wondered at.
Lucy was very pretty. Drown hair
just the sort which most Women a
wnimin srft and wnvv lilne dark
blue eves, and a tall figure, straight
and upright as an arrow. It is neith
er here nor thei-e to say that I never
saw a woman like her, and had I ever
married but how could I, when she
never even gave even a thought to
me? Still the net intensified my feel
ings afterward, when bat evident
ly even the practice I have had is not
able to hinder me from telling this
story confusedly unless I take care.
Well, I am growing old, and it was
terrible. I do not half like the task
I have set myself.
One Sunday came, when both sides
of the aisle snowed only disconsolate
countenances. Lucy looked neither
on one side nor the other. She look
ed on the ground to hide a very
pretty blush, and then fixedly on her
brother's broad shoulders, as he,
Rood soul, walked in front, thinking
of nothing less than his sister.
She was engaged to lie married
we had all heard it in the week to
a doctor, who bad recently bought
a practice in the town. He had
many friend and few enemies, and
was decidedly popular. Clever, he
was most certainly; strikingly hand
some, and so pleasant to talk with
that every one who met him did
top ond talk to him.
This is a man's praise of a man,
o it is not likely to be overdone,
and it is hardly likely that I should
have any reason for overpraising the
man who won the only girl I ever
cared for.
No; I did not wonder at Lucy. No
one did. And they looked so well
together-she so womanly, he so
thoroughly manly and yet so gentle
to give the much-abused compound
word its real force.
Lucy, perhaps in mercy to us
perhaps to him was content with
only six week's engagement, and
their wedding was fixed for New
Tear s day.
The weather that winter was un
usually cold and dreary, and on the
last day of the old year there was a
terrible snowstorm, which lasted all
?y'.B,M,1on,y"JIJurt in time to
let the clouds roll away from a fiery
I"1 '"J"1- People came to the
town in the middle of the snowstorm
people who had recently taken one o
the few large red-brick houses tha
town possessed-a really )aTfn "
tending in its own largeTddXf.
ioned garden. Hut every one who
knew her-and that was all the town
-was so taken up with thinking ot
Lucy s wedding that no one bestowed
a thouirhtttt t . iim -u.J "wvi
at any other liaVe WnTgZ,.
Int- i. 01 tne ne ten-
anta Annora Masters and her has.
a.-order wu,u 10 00 otl-
Not until next morning when I
With Mvarnl f , wnen j,
IS .iJT lband'.S
ITLl" of then. bt.
w crown ia ew. k.j-
,acc , faI1troul.U? uit u.ng-
olh;y3iS: driJ enure in
bLShltkhairandeywUh
fifntSl t o lJk at Annora
Eterrnore than an instant I I
louTdve k;r'iT
tamly if there was real U j""
li-rut in them, as I fa.; like glow
intr fires m uer . .
She stood among a quant ly of
townsiieople; but. after 1 had ooked
iTw kUmed that no one else but
Luct and the tall, dark "
in the church. She way a tch.ng I
cv with those eyes, and I thought, l
ffl, that everything bridal about
' .if... tl.at moment an
1UIH irr,, .- ----,
Lucy seemed for that
ashen gray
Then Lucy pawteu " -----.
.r. ....L - i,i. h fi ll fast on her
miO I ue mi"", , . ,
veil I.Vame out, too. and followed
at advance, andas Annora Masters
went up the High street and in at the
H . . i a I ..- haVA nUePfl
house, 1 knew mat i """ "-
the new tenant.
The townspeople called on Annora
v
hen
1 lie HJW lir-j-.')'- - -
Masters. Kvery one said the sam
thing, or rather, no one gave an
r.i..inn of her. and only whe
vou think?'
otiinion ol her,
preened, aid:
nnora returned none of t he culls
but Lucy s; and was only seen at
church, where flie appeared with a
nmilarity which apart
of her
linn i
stranceness, it struck nie so uunn
out of place did she look there. 1
cannot sav whv; no one could; but
the woman was awful, in an utterly
indefinable manner, and pea-e and
goodnpss wH-medat odd with every,
thing about her. Of her household
and liiu'keeiing no one knew any
thing. Servant they had brought
t.m.in uliiiii. middle-airwl
null hj. ... ..... ,
women. Her huHimnd e saw Jennie
her when she went out on Sundays.
And he went up to 1ondon a jour
ney ol only twenty miles every cut.
He was supposed to be that indefin
able individual, a "businens man."
At least, he went to Ixmdon every
day till the day we were all shocked
anil startled by hearing that Mr.
Masters was dead.
Yes-dead suddenly. Luey'B hus
band went to see him. A London
doctor came down, and togeth'-r
the carried out the post mortem
examination, which was of course
insixted on, and to which Annora
made not the least objection. They
could find nothing, nothing what
ever, .to cause death. All was right;
there was no latent disease, no in-
iurv. The man we had seen alive
and well on Sunday was dend on
Tuesday that was all.
"From unknown causes," the ver
diet at the inouest ran.
Lucy, in her kindness, went to see
Annora Masters after this, "to com
fort her." she said. Hut unnarentlv
, i i j
Annora would have nocomfort. For
JLucy, whom I met a few ia
later, asked me seriously if 1 hnl
ever seen Annora Masters close: if I
lowering her voice thought she wim
mad.
She had. Lucy said, crasoed her
wrists tightly, and said, when Lucy
tried to sny some of the words her
own sweet heart taught her:
"Death! Sometimes dtnth brings
one what one wanta! It is life that
is wrong."
Then she broke off auddenlv unit
dropping Lucy's hands, begged her
iu cume ana see ner again.
"The oddest thintr ,y l.nrr..nt
"is that Harrv is mn h i.n.
- -- - . . "-Tit
Mrs. Masters before somewhere and
can't remember where. H Ut
her,"Luev said, verv low. "I Hnn't
quite like her. She "
iou couldn t, my "
I had fonrotten. I
that Lucy was not my darling. The
thought was often bad to bear, so I
lifted my hat and left her abruptly.
One warm spring day .three months
later I was passing the old red brick
bouse, when one of the old maid ser
vants rushed out hastily, nearly
"Oh! she cried, "tome in, sir, do,
while I go for the doctor. Janes
fainted, and mistress, she does noth
ing but stand looking at Mrs. iVnt,
and doing nothing to bring her
round. Domakeher.sir.formercy.
"Mm. Bent!" I said, grasping the
KSmer ,ik9nV 4hHti
"She'i fainted, sir, and I can't get
her round and mistress-there sir,
let me go."
I did let her go, rushed up the gar
den, and unceremoniously indiors
and upstairs, into a large room
wherel saw-whatlcan see now
Lucy, white, ashen white, lying Ino-
Diece Jfth 'Und,BRr tl mantel
Piece, with one arm resting on It
gamg on the woman at her feet '
Annora'. W Wh,at 1 "''i-il
K 'l tn, K tbinlt- -8UU
ess do I know what 1 said
words of intense hate and buraL
anger, I know-but when Vhe
lowly and. with a slow" contend
the r 00 her "P-- 'ooS at me
ml kfaS lnW" "d hid
LucTwa- Hmalei,, "" that
of o0r wJr ond power
And thenlH - WhiU mrue fact,
tfcrag neo-I d not rememUr aay-
UQZ, aKt
wbeaandhow? Heart di.
BAia, Heart disease! U. ,i j
I imtatrnniramiln ,
- e- -.-m iu!f ,
annoying thing for an
and I could not believe In JJ
wea knees. 1
1'erhape my nerves
strung and my perceptions J
" . 7 B ""u i h&4
sort ol bravado waikil
farther then I was really ab,
am I saying? Overstrjno. ,
Nonsense! 1 saw them
I was passing an old min.
jiansiuiau-iwg Called it Jj
gannt and umannv in thJ
moonlight, whi-h shone withaJ
earthly sort of radiance ov J
thing. Suddenly I saw. cJ
origin., in iruni oi me lulling,
window, two figure figurvs'l
autrw. ,.11.1, a niiU'ien tmiinl
Knilr inln I. . .t . '
watched. All at on.e I lnfw
Annora Masters. Even nt thaJ
lance i couiu Bee utf light in
awful eyes.
The other, a man who n.
somehow seemed to me to hoJ
luciance in every une, upright
firm though be stood, was-I
husband. Lucy's hui-batul' I
. k.,..i, ..i ,
ri'ij nnjuum, ui euvesl.-oppiiJ
l no wiuur-mm i ihji , Oitef a'
the king's bighway?and lu.t
"You will," Annora said
do; I knew you lfore this-tl
diculously short lite." And she N
eu more weinuy than word can
I i-ucy was my wife, niv 10J
love her still, lie annwerwl
odd, choked voice. '
"You love me!" tli i oM
incisive voiie answered. '
And I saw it. Hut when 1 thi
it, after all these years, the
shudder comes over me that I
then. 1 hen she looked at him
took ber into his artiis tht
that had held Lucy.
I rould Iwar no more. I
knew how I got home. All the
the thought followed. aronip;
haunted me.
was this who threw everything
in tins awful way, an l .-nt utral
to ber own ends? a it a on,
or a fiend?
No one ever knew ruore than
How should they?
A room in the ba k of the
brick house, in which Annora
at, was found on morning k
from the inside. 1 he ervanu
alarmed. Doubly so. wlim
found that their initreft'i
room bad never been entered
night.
They sent for help to torn
door, and found, in an iirm-i:
close to the window, Lurv'hushs
dead shot throtijrh the head,
pistol lay on the floor. From
position it must have fallen Irora
own right hand, which bungorerd
chair.
He was alone; the window
shut but not fastened, und there!
no sign or trace of Annora.
A small crumpled nnt lay on tl
floor. It wasin his wntmz.andcq
tained very few lines.
"I am writing this at home,"
ran, "to tell you I cannot come,
what use is it? I know I shall cof
as surely as ten o'clock strike
will make me. Hut marry joo!
would kill myself first."
Annora no one ever a apa
tin, inree years ago, one erau
late in tho winter moonlight, on
crave we buried him by Loot-
co mine home, saw awomnn'i
lyinr. I went up to it hontilT,
found what had been Annora.
4
T4
Uapnenea en the VTabui
"Heard ol the Wabash m
reckon?" be queried as he combed 1
long yellow whiskers with hiiftoK
and pulled down his vest
"Y."
"Probably never heard of Ji
Dewlnn? Jerrr lives on tb baikl I
the Wabash, and hei pixn hirf
down. About a month ago hecoat
to town one day and said a boat hi (
upsot in tbe bend above haboa
and drowned two men. He ,
... t .. n it raff or i.
bodies. We was willing of co
and Jerrv Drooosed we try a
said had worked in thousand!
cases. It's an ole belief with
folks, vou know, that if a loal
bread is flnntr on tha water it'll ft
towbar a dead body is lying
1 trt
then stop. We reckoneu w j
and every man chipped m ana
took up about a hundred loaves.
"Jerry bossed the job," contn
the man with the yellow hli
"and we got out -two boati loj
with bread and keerfully droppje"
loavea overboard. Some ot
went humping along at the raw
six miles anhour.wliile oth-ri
'o circled around and went one
W. l,! ,,n h. hundred loaves,
Jerry was Ukingupa collectw1'
j ... - ...nm wlien "
enu wiowd niuri iu--,
n.im iu a cuno
"What ar'you uns a-doiDC
. .. ....... B.4
A-n-ingtneoeau, . - ,i
when I comearoand the Dena
-A-ruing ine ueau, -"Ob.
ye are!' he continued.
in I ;m.mund the bendol''"
ry'.wlfcwaaoat ina boat .W
up inem i oaves, u l
rot up tonlnety-fire! o u
better and down eome pork V
taw to keep company. .
"Well, ssr.that ar'wa. P
lob on nt lj oto Jerry to fit
n' ttrasul withoat WOraina
when we took bin aboretowj,
tar a rrwat -i" A
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