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.
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the Middle of Whoa* strut* nr*
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Ones a w r« tn» slat th. era ,,f ih*
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n«;itiirA'( Great Cricket Record.
Hayward, the professional cricketer
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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.
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Dried orange peel, allowed to smol
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leave a fragrant one behind.
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John I). Rockefeller, Jr., who R
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Young Mr. Rockefeller went into the
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In this deal young Rocekfeller is sup
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ri«o's Cure ter Consumption l:i fen InfulllMo
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Mr Anas »l»ekaea'a MlaMnrllun.
Rtockholm unl\er<div ha* granted
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Never Renominated.
The republican national convention
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NpcMkfr Myir* IftntnrU' Home.
Speaker James J. Myers, of the Mas
sachusetts legislature, still lives in the
quarters he occupied while a student
of Harvard. These are a suite of
rooms In Wadsworth house, near the
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The old maid doesn't believe In new
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In the July Atlantic James W. Alex
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Music hath charms, etc., hut what
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With the coming of the new woman
we may look for the father-in-law
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Thsrn It » Clua of rroplt
Who are injured by the use of coffee.
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Depew Repeated Ills Speech.
Senator Depew in m..ktng a speech
In W ic.ilngton over the telephone to
memb-rs of the Transpc tation club,
of whj'h he Is president, at dinner In
New fork, appears to bavo broken the
record. The distance Is about 225
miles. As there were only sixty re
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The average woman when she signs
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A Hook of Hinlre Hrclpm
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There are 100 rents to a dollar, and
there are also many dollars without
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Pauncefote, the British ambassador,
by conferring at this commencement
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Why dees a man always prefer to
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In her gymnasium costume?
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What a difference there is between
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