Unexpected i Pcpri eve. [ bhe had been in falling health for some time, and the man who loved her had Insisted that she see a physi cian. The affectionately dictatorial manner which he had as yet no right to assume was cwc-et to the girl, who was all alone in the world, save for the loye in which he held her, so she had quietly obeyed him. Resides, she was a little anxious herself concern ing the weakness and lassitude which made her days dreary and the cough which kept her awake most of the night. It was «d! so unlike the vigor ous. unbroker, health which she had always enjoyed until the last year. And now she was nervously waiting for the verdict of the great and famous specialist whom Tom had insisted that she consult. The great man had seemed a trifle absent-minded and preoccupied throughout the interview, she fancied, careful and searching as had been his questions. He only seemed to wake up fully, as it seemed to her, when sho timidly inquired if anything serious was the matter with her. He laughed then—for ho had known her parents nnd other members of her family in timately in days gone by, and was well acquainted with the all but invulner able hardiness of the Bentley consti tution—and shook his head decidedly ns lie bowed her out of the private of fice and into the outer reception room. "Take the tonic tiiis prescription calls for steadily for a month or two, he out of doors as much as you can, and don't worry,” he directed. “If you’ll follow my advice in these par ticulars you'll have forgotten that you were ever ailing long before it’s time for your summer vacation.” But Margaret Bentley, still vaguely unsatisfied and anxious, as those who are seldom ill ore apt to lie at a ver dict of tiiis kind, heard him making a different statement to the assistant doctor who worked with him, when she stepped back Into the private office the next moment, bent upon asking a further question or two. "Consumption,” the great physician was saying, "and ‘galloping consump tion,’ as we used to call it, at that. A strong constitution naturally, but all played out. Not the slightest hope in the world, although I didn’t think it necessary to tell her so at this time. I only give her until September to live, at the latest.” September! And here it was June already. September. And she had though to be married a month later. No wonder she felt stunned as she slipped out of the private office silent ly, allowing the door to fall to behind her so gently that neither of the men in the private office, both of whom were facing in the opposite direction, knew that she had entered it at all. The stunned feeling stayed with her most of the day. and at night, when Tom made his appearance, all eager ness and anxiety to know what the doctor had said, she wondered, vague ly, whether or no she should tell him. She stood a moment or two in her room, mentally debaling, after his card had been brought up to her. She finally decided, on her way down stairs, that she would not tell him— yet. She would only repeat to him that which the doctor had said to her, not that which she had unwittingly overheard. So Tom. although he rec ognized an Indefinable change, almost an air of hopelessness about bis sweet heart, attributing this change to th« natural reaction from the excitement of visiting the doctor, urged her not to allow herself to become so greatly wearied again, ami went home early. And all that night, and for many an other one. poor Margaret llentley •■ried. She didn't want to be selfish and cause poor Tom more suffering than he must Inevitably endure, and yet It did seem ao horrible, so ghast ly, to have this miserable secret to keep away from him. to bear all alone. She had only lived iu Chicago for a few mouths, and she had no friend, either In Chicago or elsewhere, in whom she could confide She had been pitchforked by fute, as it were, straight from the untroubled *e» hishm of a row vs nt boarding school Into the tub'll of the workaday world and the stern t»e..s-lty of eurniUK her own biead and butter If she would have any, bv the sudden tln.uo lai disaster, with death following close ti|mh Its tra< k, which had overtaken the guar dian Who had supplied the p! US of parents to Iter, two years blur* la the sodden ant startling transition Into an altogether unknown and un •> costumed elate of eiiat'io e. she had fed ■hi/ '..si sight of all b*r girth ij frien.t* snd rigor i.dy en-' tv; red to slip from their s ght snd knowledge with an unfortunate degree of irrrsu Ike was thy and sensitive snd she had Ind go Urns in which hr form new friendships, so she had no friend in the world but Torn, Tom who had fol lowed his lifelong friend and sweet heart to Chicago and who had refused to be estranged or put at a distance. So she ate out her heart In loneliness and misery by day and by night, and wore her nerves to pieces trying to he gay and cheerful during the even ing hours which were spent with her lover. And she was undoubtedly and undlsgulsedly thankful, dearly as she loved him, and greatly as she longed to pass every possible remaining mo ment of life at his side, when an im perative business call took him away from Chicago for a couple of months, just when her distress was greatest and left her to face her misery and her desolation alone—alone, but freo from the necessity of seeming glad, nightly, for his sake, or of making such strenuous efforts to retain her se cret. Iiut when Tom returned at the tlie end of the two months, to find her so changed and unhappy looking that lie was shocked and startled, he sur prised from her, somehow or other, tlie mournful story which she had In tended to keep to herself still longer. "Do you know, dearie," he told her When tlio first greetings wmre over, “that 1 am conceited enough to think that you will be better when we are married and I can take better care of you than I can do now.” Then, moved by a sudden, uncontrol lable Impulse, she told him all—that they would never be married, that, she was doomed to death shortly, and was even now slipping out of existence with every hour. And Tom met the miserable announcement with an In credulity so utter and complete that it comforted even while it annoyed her. ‘‘Why! Your cough has almost left you,darling,” he told her (sure enough, it had, although she had been too nervous and preoccupied to notice this before), ‘‘and you don’t look so much ill to me as worried and over-anxious. Then, too, the doctor didn't tell you all this directly; you only overheard him saying it. How do you know that he was not speaking of some one else?” Which was Just what the doctor, once they succeeded in obtaining an interview with him, was fain to admit that he must have done, "I never said it about you, my der.r Miss Bentley,” he most emphatically declared, “for nothing of the kind was, or is, true. You were a little run down and nervous when you consulted me, that was all,and the cough which trou bled you so sorely was but a lingering touch of the influenza which had pros trated you. Will you,” to his assist ant, "look up the date of Miss Mar garet Bentley’s visit, if you please? It occurred about three months ago. Let me see the book when you have found the entry.” ‘‘Ah! Here we have it," he exclaim ed a little later. “Miss Julia Larsen was the visitor who preceded you, and it must have been of her that I was speaking when you stole a march up on me in more senses than one. And she, poor girl, slipped away just as I expected her to do, and in spite of all the efforts which were made in her behalf. She died,” with a reverent gravity, “just a week ago tomorrow, and you,” nodding encouragingly to ward the thankful and trembling Mar garet, “will live to laugh at your re cent fears for many a year longer un less some disease, as powerful as un expected, should succeed in putting you to rout.” They went out into the summer sun shine. the two lovers, hand in hand, and silent from sheer gratitude and happiness. And that night Margaret, who had never before believed in the efficacy or desirability of prayers for the dead—and who had found it al most impossible to pray at all while the sense of impending dissolution hung over her—passed half an hour upon her knees by her bedside, pray ing—praving for that other girl in re lief of whose death sentence had come no blessed reprieve.--Chicago Tribune. Author for l’ontn:a*t *r. Senator Bacon has withdrawn hts opposition to the confirmation of Har ry Stillwell'Edwards, the author, who was nominated for postmaster of MaCon, Ga. Hts nomination lias been hung up all winter at the instance of Senator Bacon, because, it Is alleged, of a determination on the part of tlie southern democratic lender that no young man shall be rewarded for Joining the republican party. Mr. Ed wards, who la a man of hrtlllant in tellect. aristocratic connections, aban doned the political faith of his fathers and Joined the republicans during the last presidential campaign. President McKinley appointed hint postmaster as a recognition of his Independent spirit, ludiaitapolls Sews. SI trim » Tie* »»*tem. Major '•inul« of Macon, Ua , has set in mott<>n • bright plan for the #>*• i teuiat.c planting of trees in that city, | the Middle of Whoa* strut* nr* adorned with parka Th* city sets a tree fur every person who contribute* 3* tents, anti protect# it with an Iron bn on which Is cast any name desaed by the donor III* %t*f. Ones a w r« tn» slat th. era ,,f ih* ilii a<«> S'U.’jI*. to del IS* preside* y ml the Grand in»k* Vladt toef, la <4 •- tuM Ike profits- of th* Htwr war, Ik* «<*r attvnd* th* most tag. n«;itiirA'( Great Cricket Record. Hayward, the professional cricketer of the Surrey Club, has succeeded in making over 1.000 runs In May, the first month of the cricketing season. The feat has been accomplished Lilt once before, by Dr. W. G. Grace, in 1895. Hayward's score is 1.074 runs in thirteen innings, an average of 97.03. Orange* an a Deodoriser. 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