CHAPTER VIII. Alll.Y.ln the morn ing after Mlaa Hetherlngton'a vla lt. Marjorie pre pared to aet out for the Caatle. She would gladly have made aomr excuae to atay nt home, but Mr. liorralue would not hear of It, and ut hla earn er.t rerjueat ahe contented. "She la your heat friend," anld the mlnlater, "and you muat not offend her." "Very well, | will go," unawered Marjorie; "but I ahull come home early ill the afternoon. She'll never uak me 0^ to atay all night? If ahe doea, I can't do It!" "Why not. Murjorlc?" "The Cattle'! eerie enough at day time, hut at night It'a dreadful, and Mlaa Hetherlngton creepa about like a (boat, I'd aooner aleep out In the kirk,vard." At a uuaiter before nine ahe atarted, for ahe hud three ml lea to walk, and ahe wlalied to linger on the road, which lay through pleaaunt country paatlircH and among green lanea. The Ill' /I II I II ►, n Un I/I I gl, III HUM ' I’ there were elouili to seaward which spoke of coming rain. I'lixxlng np through the village, the way she had come the previous day, she saw young Sutherland standing at the gate of the weaver’s cottage. "Good-morning, Marjorie. Where are you going to so early?" "Up to Mis* Hetberington's at the Castle," she replied. "Are you going to walk?” "Yes." "Th*n may I come with you a piece of the road?” ys "Not today, Johnnie.” *he raid, nervously. "I'm late, and mux' hurry on," B The young man sighed, hut did not B press hlx request. Troubled and vexed I at. the meeting, Marjorie walked qul< k Bi ly away. She followed the townward highway | till xhe came to the cross-roads where ■I she had alighted from the wagonette, * Close to the ero**-road there wax a stile, and she wax about to ilep over, when she heard a voice behind her, MIL, Turning quickly she xaw to her ux tonixhment the French teacher from Dumfries. He wax clad In a dark walking-suit, with broad-brimmed, wide-awake hat, aud was smoking a cigar. He looked * at her smilingly, and raised hlx hut. She thought he hud never looked so handsome, ax he stood there in I lie Kiinxhlne, with his pale face .uniting and hlx bright, black eyes fix'd eagerly upon her. “Monsieur Caussldlere!" she cried In astonishment. “Yes, It Ik I!” he replied 111 Ills sad, musical voice. “I have walked from the town, and was going dowi. to sec you.” "To see me!” she echoed. “Yes. mademoiselle, and the good man your guardian. You have spoken of him so often that I longed to make his acquaintance, and. having two Idle days before me, l came here, as you behold.” Marjorie did not know what to say or do, the encounter was so unexpected. She stood trembling and blushing in such obvious embarrassment that the Frenchman came to her relief. “Do not let me detain you. If you have an appointment. Or stay! per haps you will permit me to walk a little way in your company?" And before she quite understood what was tuklug place, he had lightly leaped the stile aud was banding her over with grout politeness. They itrolled along the foot-path side by side. Suddenly Marjorie paused. “I am going up to the Castle," she huId, “and I shall not lie hack till the afternoon. Ilo not let row take you out Ul J HHI "»/• The Frenchman mulled and nliruuKed IiIh alum blent, •'Oh! one wity lit to in*' an good ,.n another," he exclaimed "Hut you nald you wlnlied to nee Mr. luirrnln*?” “FrwlHlyi Out I prefer your eom* patty, my child.*’ "He In wl Inline now. and will be to glad of no la e one lo talk la." "I nee you waul to get rid of me Utile one,' nald I'auanldlere. p.iurually H | r*> W>H you promtae to return n, ,n ! lit-member. I nhall not depart urtll you d«» return.'' "Yen. I will piouilae," gnawered Mar ) irle, "I I would rather you did uot ' i im* any further ",\nd wherefore, uo child' la n I oMpUUy no dloagreruUle?" No munaleur. hut ike folk la tbla plate are ay* talking, and If then taw me gall ing **‘l* n alrance gagrkman II would be nil Otar the pariah before tgkt, and than Mia* llvikerlngion ^ would bear of If. and I *huwM gel no pent*-" \ ad aa »h# a poke ah* b»*4#d round u*f«uu*ly. a* If draadmg an *y*wit n^-mi Mtaa flat bar tngtwn' Fray, who la m ah#”' Tkt lady I am going to •#* Mka K ha* area a*a»»wh»r* nothing kappvnt H k*t aka ban*" b»l turalr tkaro ta uwtbthg io con m . real, perslated tlie e rencltman. u Is very natural that, having net you, I should offer to escort you." “In France, mnyhe, hut not here In Annnndale. Down here, monsieur, when two folk a re seen out walking in the fields together, all the world no llcves them to lie courting." tthe had spoken without reflection, and her face now grew crimson as she met her companion's eyes .md realized the significance of her own words. "I see,” cried the Frechman. laugh ing. "They would take me for your lover." Marjorie did not reply, Im; turned her face away and began to walk on rapidly, Itut the Frenchman kept by her aide. "Ah, my child," he continued, "I am more fit to he your father than your lover. I am not ao frivolous and vain as to presume to think of one so young and pretty. You must not mind me! I am your teacher, your friend that Is all!" She was touched by the tone III which he spoke, hut after a moment's hesitation she painted agulu, nod looked him full In the face. "What you say Is quite true, mon sieur," she said; "hut, oh! do not fol low me any further. See, that Is the Castle, and who knows but Mlsi lloth erlngton herself Is watching us from the tower?" She pointed across the fields toward a dark belt of woodland, over which IWf# WI'H' Ill'll *'i| visible, about n mile and a half away. "Well, I will do as you desire, my child,” answered Cuussldlere, after a moment's hesitation! "I will go and make the acquaintance of your guard ian, An revolr!" lie took her hand, lifted It. to Ills lips, and kissed It; then, with an nlr of re spectful gallantry, he swept off Ills hat and bowed, Hhe could not help smil ing; he looked so fantastic to her sim ple sight, and yet ho handsome! Hhe walked on thoughtfully. At the next stile she turned and looked hack, lie was still stationary In the pathway, ga/.lng after her; hut the moment she looked buck he kissed his hand. Marjorie turned again and walked on, with no little fluttering of the heart. When she reached the Castle, an elderly man-servant led her Into the lobby, a dark and dreary passage hung with oil paintings and antique maps and prints; thence Into a large apart ment, divided by an open folding-door Into two portions. Here he left her to announce her ar rival to his mistress. Presently the room door opened, and the mistress of the house appeared. Hhe war, reused In an old-fashioned robe of stiff black silk, and wore a cap, like that of a widow, over her snow while hair. Hhe came In leaning on her crutch, and nodded grimly to her gueat. "Hit ye doon," ahit aald, pointing to a neat, and heraelf dropping Into -in arm chair before the lire. Then, drawing out a hian'a gold hunting-watch ind opening It, ahe continued: "Twenty live minute* after ten. You're late In coming, Marjorie Annan, I doubt you ..• CHAPTER IX. H she spoke, and closed her wall'll sharply, Mias i let fa ll! Kt on fixed her black eyes keenly on Marjorie, who, remem tiering her recent encounter with fauMldlero, (lushed and trem bled. A curious smile grew upon the stern woman's bloodless fuco as she continued: •'Ay, ay. you were lingering, and nmy lie you bud pleasant company. Who was yon you parted with out there among the green Held*?" Murjorln started in consternation. Her fears, then, were right, and it was useless to conceal anything from Miss Hethcrlngtoti. who was like a witch, and had eyes and ears everywhere "Oh, Miss Mctherlngton," site it claimed, "did you see us together?" "I was up on the tower with lay spy lug-glass, alid I saw fat uwu t iasslo, that lotiked Ilka Marjorie Annan, and a lad I took at Ural for Johnnie Path i • land, till he began Imolng aud kissing ht» hand, and then I saw it cun' I nu lie Johnnie ' Marjorie now perceived that alt eon iidlnust was tise.vsa. and at own told hr.* hueu»* id the meeting with het Preurh teas-her Ph* did not think It expedient, however, to tJeerrlba with evwitne** the Jivtiliwsii'i touters* It h«. but evvn a* It was. Mu* liether tngtu* • brow dm gened, and h«t even (fashed with a light like that of attget Itrww ifolng*' she wutteied IIjaw doing* for young growtgg U*su o' set* sateen' Vonr Pregch leather. »i> y>«i* What • hi* natne Margots* "Houston* t'*w*atdle»e "And what* the man doing down harw instead of teething Am classes In 11ha tonn?"* "Indeed Put 1*11 returns I M»> Jurla "I met him nolle hr *>« idem lot s»> ssi to sea ywn lisnjkl V%k«i like to he* N ke | young?" "Nut vary sow a* * "Weel favored?" “Yes. and very clever.” "Worse and worse," said Miss fTeth erlngton. "Now, Marjorie, listen io me!" "Yes, Miss Hetherlngton." "Look me In the fate while you an swer. Do you think this French scoun drel he I* a scoundrel, tak It for granted hu* come down here In pur suit o’ Ills pupil? Dinnu he feared to answer. Is he fond o' you, Murjorlo?" "I I think he likes me.” "Has he said as murklc?" "Yes, Miss Hetherlngton," answered Marjorie, who was Incapable of a false hood. "Ami you? VVhat think yc of him?" "I like him very much, Miss Hether lngton, lie ha* been very kind and pa tient with me." "But do you love him? -tell me that; or Is It. Johnnie Sutherland that has won your silly heart? Out with It, Marjorie Annan. Frank confession's good for the soul, and I'm your friend," Marjorie blushed, but kept her »>-ank blue eyes fixed on her questioner's face, "I don’t love anybody, Miss Hether lngton not In the way you mean." "Are you sure o' that?” "Quite sure,” "Then you're a wise lassie,” cried the iHtly, rising to her feet, "Men are kittle came, min sarer m a uisiaucr. at that picture,'’ ahe continued, sud denly pointing to u portrait over the mantelpiece. "You ken who la It?” "Yea; your brother, Mr. Hugh.” "Hugh Hetberington, Clod rcat. hla eotil! and the heat brother woman ever had, folk thought that he waa had, and he had my father'a temper; hut he guarded hla alater like a watch-dog; and I wiah you had a brother to guard you half aa weel. Look underneath *ny een, on my right cheek! You aee that, mark? I ahull carry It to my grave. Hugh gave It to me when I waa a young lass. He at ruck me In the face wl' III* Hat. because he thought I waa hiding something from him, and coortlng wl' one I needna name.” The ludy’a face grew full of a wild, fleece light aa ahe apoke, and *h« laughed atrangely to hereelf. Marjorie gu/.ed at her Irt dread. "It waa a lie, but Hugh waa right, lie loved hla alater, lie kenned what men were, be knew their black heart*. They're a' had, or moatly a', Tak’ warning, Murjorle Annan, and heurkeu to me! Let nae man come to you In secret wl' words o’ love; hide nacthlng from them that, care for you -from Mr. Ijorralne or from me. Trust the auld heads, Marjorie; they ken what la right, (lod ha* made you bonny; may He liaep you pure and happy tl!l the end!" Her tone wae changed to one of deep earnestness, even of pathoa. She walked up and down the room In agi tation. pausing now and again, and leaning upon her crutch. "No that I would hae you lead a lone ly life!” she exclaimed after a pause, "Igiok at me! I'm no that old In years, but I'm gray, gruy wl' loneliness and trouble. I might hae had one to care for me; I might hae bad bairns; hut It. was nu to he. I'm a rich woman, hut I hue neither kith nor kin. Lord for 1)1(1 you should ever no mo sumo; uui when you marry and marry you will some day- you must choose a true man ay, true and honest, whether he he rich or poor; and If you t-anna choose, let the auld folk that care for you, and that ken the world choose for you. Trust their ecu, no your ain! Never deceive them; Keep nac »ecrete from them. Mind that, Marjorie An nan!" (TO UK ( ONTINLEIM TIi«* .'lout Befttltlful l oot. The most beautiful foot Is the slender one. The stylish girl recognizes this fact. Her shires are always large enough to avoid cramping the foot, and yet they are snug and wonderfully neat and delicate. That is the reason why some girls can dance all night without rest, while others have to retire early from a brilliant ball, leaving their hearts behind in case they do not dunce and suffer so much with their feet as to preclude the possibility of real enjoyment. If a girl wears a proper shoe, when the foot Is Imre, and she stands upon it in the privacy of her bedroom, it will he us pretty and delicate us a baby's. The Instep would he high, the heel delicately formed, the skin as white as alabaster, with pos sibly blue veins showlug through. The general form of the foot will l»e tden der, the toes tapering parallel, and separated h.v about the thickness of a sheet of paper, and adorned with pink tinted null*, A Kiri who nhh emu feel 1|S them and there art* many who have them well may take pride ami pleubure In contemplating them. l‘M|i»ll«r Replaced at Ma. Willie in the mld-AUanltc mi n re ,put trip the eteamehtp Vie tori# of Hun* derland halt the tetl of bet abaft and with tt the propeller. Her engiuea were thue, of enure* re ml*-red ueeleeu Hut ihoe* on bttwrd were equal In the emergent*. they drpreweed the bow and elevated the eteru by ebllting weight* no n* to enable a epare abaft and arrew tti he (Hied at **w, and aft er Ibe delaj wet turnery for en heavy a 1 job to be wttxrmpllebed under em h 4H* mull eondMtone ah* reeunod her it*|» age and made her port In aafety. vv Moby »* •>«•*« A at«a who »4« bitten by a rattle* »neh* dianh a quart of whteky a* a remedv lie died auun afterward* and the tenant » Jury bto Ight la thU v.r diet The de*ewaavl (ante to hi* death tithe* from the aneh* or ih# whtehy. the i«»v being oa»erl*r XWIII., V#r*e IA- »•* follow*: "They C*m* lo llwt I * »< r«r n» Apjill" forum j Mini til* Three Tureen*. I« VENT KEN in lie* south of Home, Ita ly, there was u vil lage of unfort unate name. A tavern la a plare of entertain ment. In our time part of the enter tainment Ih a provi sion of Intoxicant*. One aucli place you would think would nave been enough for that Italian vil lage. No, there were three of them, with doom open for entertainment and obfuscation. The world has never lacked stimulating drinks. You re member the condition of Noah on one occasion, and of Abigail's husband. Na bal, and the story of Uelshaxxar's feaat. und llenhadad, and the new wine In old bottles, and whole paragraphs on pro hibition enactment thousand* of year* before Neal Dow was horn; and no doubt there were whole shelve* of In flammatory liquid lu tho*e hotel* which gave the name to the village where Paul's friends came to meet him, name ly, (he Three Taverns. In vain I search ancient geography for some satisfying account of thut village. Two roads came from the sea coast to that place; the ono from Actlum, and the other from Puteoll, the last road being the one which Paul traveled. There were, no doubt. In that village houses of mer chundlse and mechanic* shop*, ana professional offices, but nothing I* known of them. All that we know of that village Is that It had a profusion of Inns- the Three Tavern*. Paul did not choose any one of these taverns as the place to meet hts friend*. He certain ly wa» very abstemlou*, but they made the selection. He had enlarged about keeping the body under, though once he prescribed for a young theological student a stimulating cordial for a stomachic disorder; but he told him to take only a small dose- “a little wine for thy stomach'* sake." One of the worst things about the*® Three Taverns was that they hud es pecial temptation for those who had just come ashore. People who had Just landed at Artlum or Puteoli were soon tempted by these three hotel* which were only a little way up from the beach. Those who are disordered of the sea (for It is a physical disorganiz es, Instead of waiting for the gradual return of physical equlpose, are opt to lake artificial means to brace up. Of the one million sailors now on the sea. how few of them coming ashore will escape the Three Taverns! After sur viving hurricanes, cyclones, Icebergs, collisions, many of them are wrecked In harbor. I warrant that If a calcu lation were made of the comparative number of sailors lost, at sea, and lost ashore, those drowned by the crimson wave of dissipation would far outnum ber those drowned by the salt water. Alas! that the large majority of those who go down to the sea in ships should have twice to pass the Three Taverns, namely, before they go out, and after they come In. That fact was what aroused Father Taylor, the great sailor's preacher, ut. the Hallors’ Hethel, Boston, and at a public meeting at Charlestown, he said, ‘‘All the machin ery of the drunkard making, soul de stroying business Is In perfect runnlug order, from the low grog holes on the docks kept open to ruin my poor sailor boys, to the great estahllshmcnts In Still House square, and when we ask men what Is to be done ubout It, th"y say, ‘you can't help It,’ and yet thero Is Bunker lllll and you say you can't stop it, and up there are Lexington and Concord.” We might answer Father Taylor’s remark by saying, "the trouble Is nut that we can't stop it, hut that we won’t stop It.” We must have more generations slain before the world will fully wake up to the evil. That which templed the travelers of old who came up from the seaports of Aetlurn and Puteoli, Is now the ruin of sea faring men us they come up from the t <>a« m ui uio, Moni'i.i , 1110 Three Tavern*. In the autumn, about thl* time. In the year 1K37. the utaam iktil 1> Homo went out from New York for Charleston. There were about one hun dred passenger*, aorne of them widely known. Some of them hud been aunt merliiK at the northern watering place* and they were on their way nouth, nil expectant of hearty greeting by their friend* on the wharve* of Charleston. Hut u little more than two day* out the ship struck the rock*. A life boat mm* launched, hut *«nk with all It* pusaen aer*. A mother w*« *cen Handing ott the deck uf the steamer with her child In her arm* A wave wrenched the child from the mother'* arm* and rolled tt Into the »ea. and the mother leaped after It. The sailor* rushed tu the bar of the Imat and drank them selves drunk. Ninety-Itv# human be ing* went down never lo rise, or to he Heated upon the beach amid the frag ment* uf the wreck What w*» the cause uf the disaster? A drunken tea captain. Hut not until the ludgMHUi day, when the turn shall give up II* dead and Ike story uf earthly disaster* shall t>* luHy told, will it 1st known how many yacht*, Maawtet*. brlgaitnesmen ut-wai and mean greyhound* hav* bean lost through captain and craw mad* Incompetent by oltukalk da tbrunsmanl Admiral Yarragot had propel appreciation nf what the gory stimulus was tu a man In the navy An •••cel of the warship said lo him. "Admiral »o*'t you consent to gitra Jack a alas* nf grog In Ik* morning* Nut enough t» make him drunk nut •weak In make ntm kghl chaarfutiy * The admiral answered "I hav* k*wg tu ana cutuMembty. and hav* seen a bank or tw«. hut I waver found that I needed rum to enable mp to do my duty. I will order two cups of coffee to each man at two o’clock In the morn ing. and at eight o’clock I will pipe ell hands to breakfast In Mobile flay. The Three Taverns of my text were too near the Mediterranean shipping. Hut notice the multiplicity. What could that Italian village, so small that history make* lint one nietitlon of It, want with more than one tavi ru? There were not enough travelers coming through that Insignificant town to sup port mote than one house of lodg ment. That would have furnished enough pillows and enough breakfasts No. the world's appetite Is diseased, and the subsequent draughts must he taken to slack the thirst created hy the preceding draughts, Htrong drink kin dles the lire* of thirst faster than it puts them out. There were three tav ern*. That which cursed that Italian village curses ull Christendom today - too many taverns. There are streets in some of our cities where there are three or four taverns In every block; aye, where every other house is a tav ern, You can take the Aruble numeral of my text, the three, and put on the right hand side of It one cipher, and two ciphers, and four ciphers, and that re-enforcement of numeral* will not express the statistics of American rurn raerles, Bven If It were a good, healthy business, supplying necessity, an arti cle superbly nutritious. It I* a business mightily overdone, and there are Three Taverns where there ought to he only one. The fact Is, there ure In another sense Three Taverns now; the gorgeous Tavern for the affluent, the medium Tu vern for the working clusses, und the Tavern of tho slums, and they stand In line, and many people beginning wllh the first come down through the second arid coma out at the third. At the first of the Three Taverns, the wines ore of celebrated vintage, and the whiskies are said to be pure, and they are quaffed from cut glass, at marble side tables, under pictures approaching masterpieces. The patrons pull off their kind gloves, und hand their silk hats to the waiter, and push back their hair with a hand on one finger of which Is a cameo. Hut those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It Is not the money that a man pays fur drinks, for whut are a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to a man of large Income but their brain gets touched, and that unbalances their Judgment, and they can see fortunes In enterprises surcharged wllh disas ter. In longer or shorter time they change Taverns, and they come down to Tavern the second, where the pic ture* are not quite so scrupulous of sug gestion, arid Ihe small laid'; Is rougher, and the castor standing on it Is of tSec rrinn utlver unit the air has been keot over from the night before, und that which they sip from the pewter mug has a larger percentage of benzine, um bei-grltc, creosote, henbane, strychnine, prussic acid, coculus Indlcus, plaster of parls, copperas, and nightshade. The patron may be Keen almost every duy, and perhaps many times the sarna day at this 'Tavern the second, hut he Is preparing to graduate. JJraln, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly giving way. That Tavern the second has Its dismal echo In his business destroyed and fam ily scattered, and woes that choke one's vocabulary. Time passes on, und he enters Tavern the third; a red light outside; a hiccoughing and besotted group Inside*. He will be drugged out of doors about two o'clock In the morn ing and left on the sidewalk, because the bartender wants to shut up. The poor victim has taken the regular course in the college of degradation. He has Ills diploma written on his swollen bruised und blotched physiognomy, lie Is a regular graduate of the Three Taverns. As the police take him Ir: and put him In the ambulance, tic wheels seem to rumble with two roll; of thunder, one of which says, "Look not upon the wine when It Is red, when It moveth Itself aright in the cup, foi at laHt It blieth like a serpent, unci sllngeth like an adder.’’ The othei thunder roll says, "All drunkards shaT lm i,n ihnlr rtloon In ilin lulcu th'it Itttrn. eth with lire and brimstone, • * ' With those thoughts I cheer Christlai reformers In their work, and what re JolcltiK on earth and heaven there wil lu over the consummation. Within t few days one of the greatest of tin leaders In this cause went up to en throuoment. The world never had bit one Neal Dow. and may uever hav< another. He has been an lllumlnatlot to the century. The stand he took hat directly and indirectly saved hundred! of thousands ft out drunkards' graves Seeing the wharves of Portland, Maine covered with casks of West Indlai rum (nearly au acre of It at one time) and the city smoking with seven tils (tileries, he begnu the warfare again* drunkenne** more than half a centurj ago. The good he ha* done, (he home he ha* kept Inviolate, the high mora cense with which he ha* Infmed tel generations, t» a story that nelthe earth nor heaven can afford to let die mo lded, belittled, rat Iratured, malign nl, for a quarter of a century as fee men have been be has lived off unit at hi* decease universal uewspaperdon speak* hi* pr«Ue and (he eutoglums o I.Is career on tbl* aide of the •** have t wen caught up by (he cathedral or gat sounding hi* requiem on the other IIP whole life having been for Hod and ih< world's betterment, whew at halt-pa* threw o'clock in the afternoon of Ik tv her (* omi I.f Ilium " tilts* UUV1 "atinln (is have learned anything noble front her? Her beauty doea not refine them, her honesty doea not Incite them to thor oughness. her free-handedness does not Inspire them to generosity they be come narrow and sordid In the midst of grandeur and liberality. They im agine there can be nothing In life but wurlt or play, toil ur rest, and they feel a contempt for those who play and rest, i They have never hallied to min.'le I wurlt and play, loll and rest In due , proportion, and they tease to Hud any , pleasure lii life unless they shannon work altogether. I.lhe the tired worn an who wrote her own epteaph. they fancy heaven a place where they can I ‘du nothing forever amt ever.' This ; view ut life makes tuafera in the ell , (age as U make* them lu the cities. When a different spirit has fuimd room In gi«w a new order of living prevails Life becomes something more than a •low grinding of the mill, more than ’ > a burden, to be endured unly because n lutury aa well aa a necessity. Indi vidual* combine nor foe thetr u-» ad | vantage, but te multiply b*a«?*> thm* ami aa strength Increase*, by Ha right an*, the attainment of an# worthy awi ambitious advantage is only the sug gestion nnd achievement of another ** gstrew* rvnsMvSi "Nine time# sot«« >•* *s'd t o. l* yur 'a gsmmtn tfikw you** a. s l 1 let «bouse some yutbuh boat*#*# daw > j ehur be got Into Hr lake* H lug I j granted dal H twub a heap mo dan I | comma* counts**# ter #u> -*4 ilk* hg II did ' Wksftiagtwg dtar