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4 LOVE IS VEST ^ 'Ey Florence HodfjKjnjon •ac *acr -nc-!Sr -^r *aror-sr-acr “sr-scr-ar-ac*-ac-nr-ar ■ac'-ac* tib Wb Wb Wb CHAPTER IV—(Continued.) And then Harold amazed them by ; the question: "Is there a oehool at Easthill-On- | Sea? I never heard of one.” Easthlll-on-Sea was about two miles j from Easthill proper, in the opposite direction from Dynevor Manor and the Uplands. Within the last few years some speculators had got possession of land there, and were trying hard to convert what had been a fishing ham let into a watering-place. They had not succeeded well, and the present result was a kind of straggling, un finished settlement, which was neither town nor village. The old Inhabitants of Easthlll rath r made game of the new watering-place, which will account for Kitty’s laugh. “I really don't know', Harold; I hardly ever go to Easthill-on-Sea. There may be half a dozen schools; but I hope not, for their proprietors’ eakes, for I can’t imagine that any one would send children there.” ”1 think you’re hard on the place, said Harold. ‘’There’s a very good beach and a splendid air. 1 suppose ^ people are to be found wno ^cau uu without niggers at, the seaside. “Ah, hut they'd want decent, roads ar.d tolerable comfort," objected K.lty, “and you know when it rains Easthill on-Sea is almost a swamp, because no one has made up the roads. 1 hen they only bake every other day, and the butcher’s shop opens twice a week. It would take a good deal to make up for such drawbacks.” “It Is all so unfinished.” said Mrs. Dynevor. "The roads are staked out, and Imposing names painted on sign boards, like 'Elm avenue,” and ‘Sea View gardens,’ but neither avenue nor gardens boast a single house, and the roads are not even divided from each other, except by c. few posts. "Why are you so suddenly interested In Easthill-on-Sea?” demanded Kitty. “You can't possibly have been asked to recommend any one a school theie . “Oh, dear, no; but I came home from Marton by train, and a gild got out at. our station who wanted to go to Easthill-on-Sea. She asked the porter the way to Mrs. Tanner s school. He questioned the ticket collector, and even the station master himself, but neither of them had ever heard of it. I couldn’t help feeding sorry for her. she looked so tired and sad. Tt mu3t be hard lines to come off a long journey and not find any cne who can direct you to your destination.” “Poor thing!” said Kitty, and then the subject dropped. None of the three guessed the influence the lonely little traveler was to have on their lives. It never dawned on Kity that the un known girl who was bound for a school no one had ever hoard of was to be ^ her dearest friend. CHAPTER V. Nothing will describe the desolation which filled Beryl London's heart when she stepped on to the platform at Easthill. She had left London filled with the one desire of escaping from her father and stepmother. Ever since she heard of the former’s marriage her one end and object had been to get safely away from Elchester square. It was only when she had actually start ed, when Mrs. Markham’s kindly face was lost to sight, that she realiz d she was going among strangers, that a new, untried life lay before her, with not one friendly voice to brighten It. It was a long, tedious journey, and involved two changes. Easthill was on a branch line, at which only the slow est of trains condescended to stop. She was very plainly dressed in black; but all her things had come from a West End shop, and there was an air of distinction about her not often seen in a lonely little third-class traveler. She was eighteen, though she iooitea older—a very small, fairy-like crea ture, with soft, wavy brown hair, and big. lu»* -ous blue-grey eyes. Her com plexfo fas very fair, and had the dalnti carmine tint, f She knew absolutely nothing of the ' country. Brighton, Brussels, where she had been at school, and the tall house in El Chester square had made up her world. To find herself at a little rustic station, with only a few cottages in sight, was almost alarming. And no one at the station had heard of Mrs. Tanner’s school. That of it self was enough to discourage her. “Don’t you be afraid, mlssie,” the station master said kindly. “If you wrote to the lady, and she had your letter, she must live here somewhere, and the postofflee are the best people to help you find her. You go straight along this lane till you come to a sign post, take the road marked ‘Easthill on-Sea,* and presently you'll see four or five shops. The postofflee is the first of the lot, and they’ll put you right.” Beryl left her luggage to the porter’s mercy and started. The lane seemed Interminable. Perhaps in summer time It was pretty; but it was a late season, and the trees were hardly in bud. Their bare branches almost met in the mid dle of tho lane, looking very like black, threatening hands uplifted against her —or Beryl thought so. She reached the sign post without meeting a single creature; but another half-mile brought her to the shops, and her h*;art ^ gave a thrill of relief as she recognized the postofflee. It was quite unlike any postofflee Beryl had ever seen, being a cottage with all business transacted In the ,r- y* y* >* >' Jr- y* w* front parlor; while the room on the opposite side appeared to be a baker’s, one stale loaf and half a doztn stodgy looking buns being arranged in the window. “Can you tell me the way to Mrs. Tanner’s school—Woodlands, the house is called?” asked Beryl anxiously. The young woman behind the counter was better informed than the railway people, for she answered with out any hesitation: “It’s the last house on tbe front. The name’s not up; but you can’t be mistaken because there are no more houses." This was conclusive; but Beryl felt positively sinking from weakness and fatigue. She looked at the loaf of bread and buns, and finally asked the damsel in charge if she could have some refreshment—“a cup of tea or something.” “The fire's out, I expect. You ran have a glass of milk and a plate of bread and buttar, if you like.” The fare was plain, but it revived the traveler. The attendant gave her plenty of local information while she ate and drank. Mrs. Tanner had not been at Easthill-on-Sea long. There wasn’t much opening for a school; there were very few residents, and nat urally vistors didn’t want to send their children to school when they came uun a in nic summer, “You do look tired!" she concluded. “But it’s not much further now. The end of this street leads to the front, and Mrs. Tanner's is the last house on the right.” Beryl found the house easily; but her heart sank as she looked at it.. It was so new that at. the back the piece of waste ground called a garden was i.ot yet fenced off, and the front rail ings had not yet been fenced off. Woodlands looked as though it had been built elsewhere, brought to East hill on a trolley, and just popped down on the first vacant space. The wind howled round It, the waves which dashed over the shingle seemed to laugh derisively at it, and even to poor Beryl the huge board over the front windows—“Ladies’ School”—seemed grotesque in such a place. She rang the bell. It was so stiff her fingers could hardly move It, and when at last it rang it made such a noise she decided Mrs. Tanner -would think her new teacher very impatient. There was not the least sound of move ment in the house, and Beryl was actually contemplating a second ring when the door was flung suddenly open, and a very small servant in a very big white apron stood regarding her curiously. “Is Mrs. Tanner at home? I think she is expecting me. I am the new governess.” “You’re to come this way,” said the child—she really was very little more. And Beryl followed her across a good sized hall to a small sitting-room at the back, the door of which her guide opened encouragingly. “You go straight in,” she com manded. It was a very small room, and rather sparsely furnished; but what Beryl saw first was a tall, slight woman in widow's weeds, who came forward- to meet her with such a frightened face that the girl felt compelled to take the initative. “I am afraid I am later than you expected, Mrs. Tanner; but it is a long walk from the station, and I came slowly so as not to lose my way.” “You look cold and tired,” said Mrs. Tanner gently. “Sit down and warm yourself. Rhoda will bring tea soon; I waited for you.” “It was very kind of you,” Beryl | began, and then she broke down help lessly and cried as though her heart would break. Of course it was behav ing disgracefully, it was most unschol astic and childish; but those few kind ly words had been the last touch. Mrs. Tanner did not seem in the least angry. She took Beryl’s hand and held I it for a minute or two, then she said gently: "I don t wonder at your being upset, my dear. When I first came hero in January I loathed the place quite as much as you can do. I came from a pretty country rectory, with a dear old garden and trees that had stood the test of centuries, and this bleak, des olate place seemed terrible to me; but, Miss Lindon, work is the best cure for sadness, and even Easthill-on-Sea seems brighter when one is busy." "Please forgive me!” said Beryl, pleadingly. "Indeed, I am not discon tented; it was only that you were so kind to me.” "Did you expect me tobe an ogress?” asked Mrs. Tanner. "When you havo had some tea. and feel rested I will tell you all about things. I am afraid you will find plenty of rough places j at Woodlands, but they won't be of my making.” j Tea was delightful. With curtains - drawn and the lamps lighted, the room seemed quite a snuggery; and Mm. Tanner saw that Beryl had plenty of the fare provided. “I would rather tell you everything before you see my sister,” she said, when Rhoda had taken away the thing3. My husband died last Novem ber. He was the best and kindest man who ever lived, but he wasn’t busi nesslike, and when all the expenses were paid I had only £ 20 and the fur niture to keep myself and the children. Of course I knew I should have to work; but I had neJer had to earn my living, and I did not know how t® nsfc about It. My sist'r is the only nrar relation I have. She is very rich. o,®4 she likes io manage. She decided I had better keep a school, then the twins could be educated for nothing. Her husband has a good deal of prop erty round here, and they offered me this house rent free for three years. “Of course”—she flushed painfully— "the Wilmots are in a very good posi tion here, and it would not do for it to be known any one connected with them had to keep a school, so I prom ised Mary I would never mention tho relationship. She has really been very good. She speaks of tne to people as ‘a young widow in whom she is inter ested,' and altogether I have twelve pupils. If the new ones promised this term come tomorrow 1 shall have fif teen. They pay £2 a term, so that 1 have ,tlkO a year; but I found out if I had any one who could teach French and really good mimic I should get more scholars and keep them till they were older. That is why I thought of getting help. Besides, with only Rhoda, there is a great deal to do domestically, and the twins' clothes have to be made and mended.” “How old are the twins?” asked Beryl. “Four. Rather young to be In school all day; but 1 can't send them out alone, and I don't like them to bo in the kitchen with Rhoda. Miss Llndon, I know I am offering you a very small salary; but I think if you and I ‘fit in’ you may really be happier here than in a grander situation.” “I am sure of it,” said Beryl. “Mrs. Tanner, I don't think any one in the whole world can be lonelier than I am, and if only you will keep me, I shall l>e glad to stay.” Mrs. Tanner gave a little sigh. "Mary—Mrs. Wilraot—will be round in the morning. You must not mind if she seems a little overbearing. Oh, and there i3 the thing she wanted me to say—she docs not like your name at all.” Beryl professed her regret, nut nnra Iy paw the objection was her fault. "It’s In this way,” explained Mrs. Tanner. ‘‘The show place near here, Dynevor Manor, belongs to a Mr. Lin don, though General Craven lives there. Mary thinks it a slight to Mr. Lindon that my teacher should have the same name. Her husband is his agent, and goes to see him sometimes at his grand house in Elchester square, Belgravia. Of course I told Mary Mr. Lindon would never hear of my school, much less my teacher's name; but she was very disagreeable, and said it could not matter to you, and that by changing one letter the name sounded quite differently. Do you mind being Miss Lendon? You see, it won’t make any difference to your letters, because most people loop their l’s now, so that they look like e’s.” Beryl felt Inclined to bless Mrs. Wil mot. If, as she now felt positive, her father were the owner of Dynevor Man or, why, then, her one desire was that he might never hear his fugitive daughter was living beneath Its shad ow. She had never heard him speak of Sussex, or of possessing property in the country. Surely It was strange that, with all England before her, she should have drifted to the one place where he had interest. School began the next day. The fif teen girls were nice things. Mrs. Wil mot’s interest had procured some. The clerk of the works employed by her husiKind to watch his interests in the building operations, sent three small daughters; the tax collector contrib uted two; but there was a sprinkling of a higher grade—the curate’s only child, and the doctor’s two little girls. Mrs. Wilmot struck Beryl as far less refined than her sister. She and her husband were rich, and gloried in their money, though as yet it had not been able to force an entrance into the so ciety of Easthill proper, which was of the select and exclusive kind known as "county." (To be Continued.) CHURCH MONEY. Some Odd Ways In Which Women Karned It. The women folk of the Methodist church at Oxford recently set out to earn money for certain church pur poses, and a meeting was held at which each woman or girl recited the method by which she had earned her contribution, says tho Boston Journal. Somo of the recitals were funny enough to convulse the audience, and a few are epitomized as follows: Miss Mary Dobbs started out to do some janitor work, but got tired and sub contracted the job, though saving for herself a margin of profit. Mrs. M. Collins said that one day her husband wa3 tearing around the house hunting for his overshoes and said he would give a half a dollar to know what nad become of them. She told him she had sold them to the ragman, and demanded the half. Mrs. Bay kalso mined her own house and saved the dollar which an old colored man de manded for the job. Miss Zulu Cole engaged In a great variety of employ ments. She got 5 cents for washing Mrs. Middleton’s dishes, 10 cents for doing somo sewing for her sister, 5 cents from her uncle for keeping her mouth shut five minutes, 5 cents for killing three cats. 15 cents for sweep ing the sidewalk in front of two stores, and 5 cents for popping some corn. Miss Lyda Mills made 50 cents by mending the harness and making a new halter for tue cow. Miss Lcttle. Morrill got 50 cents for doctoring ^ sick calf. Tombs are but the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and ! a rich monument is one embroidered j —Fuller. A PETITION. fler* among your poppy fields, ldlenc s, I pray you. Let nio wander lazy-eyed, Flmv of thought and pace, Empty-handed, light of heart, Kager to obey you, P" loaf and make a mad7i*>al Tuned to fit your face. Sb k am I of strife and toll, 1 would seek your daisies. Count the clouds and doze and dream Through drowsy afternoons. Prithee, take me by the hand— Show me where the way Is— *set me change the clink of gold Por your linnets' tunes. Idleness! Oh. Idleness, Smile a welcome for me. Here's a minstrel out sf voice, A weary heart to rest. Soothe me with the pip** of I’an. Hum Ills music o'er me, Hock me like a tired child Sleepy on your breast. —Theodosia Pickering Harrison. Blunders of John Carster. BY GASTON HARVEY. (Copyright, lMO, by Hally Story Pub. Co.) “Well, I suppose this is the end of it." John Caxsten heaved a heavy sigh, and strode along moodily. Helen looked at him curiously and then asked: “The end of what?" “You know as well ns I do what 1 refer to. To be perfectly plain, I hear it reported on very good authority that you are to marry this Monte Crlsto. And that is what 1 mean when I say that 1 suppose we will not take maiiy more walks together.” lie looked at her keenly. i suppose it is but a runner ex emplification of the doctrine an nounced by the Bible, where it says "To him who hath, it shall be given, and to him who hatn not it shall be taken away,’ and I want to add to that, 'even that which he may seem to have.' I suppose that if 1 was on the upward tide, everything would be coming my way, but as I seem to be stationary, notwithstanding my fran tic efforts to swim, everything appears to pass mv>, Just out of reach.” Ihcre was a silence for a few moments. Helen reached in a fence corner and pulled a great glittering spray of golden rod. She did not look at him. After a few moments she said in a low voice: “You are getting bitter, Joan. Don’t do it. It does not help you.” "Don't you think 1 have cause to be bitter? A man can smile and stand a great deal; he can stand a great deal more without giving evidence of his suffering, and there is still another degree of pain, which turns eveiy thing to gall. I have suffered that.” “You are very wrong to look at things that way,” replied the woman. "What have you to be bitter over? You possess youth, and health, and strength, and ability—all those are priceless gifts. You are well thought of by everyone, and I see no cause for you to think your lot is hard. “Yes, what you say is true, but I have not the great essential—money. I might be a paralytic, and just have enough Bense to keep out of a lunatic asylum, and enough morals to keep from being locked up as a menace to society, but if I had money, all that would be overlooked, and 1 would be better thought of than 1 am now. As It is, I am not considered at all.” “Not considered by whom?” “Everybody. And someone in par ticular whom I wish to consider me. and who has refused. I have tried everything else; I have placed myself at her feet. Ix>ve does not count.” Her face was crimson. She looked far away over the sere, brown fields, and at last said: “Then what am I to deduce from that assertion—It isn’t clear.” “You are not to deduce anything— I state It as my positive conviction that, given on the one hand a man with everything to make him desir able In the eyes of a woman, but with io money, and on the other hand a r. l. ✓—\ “You are getting better, John—Don’t do It" man with nothing to recommend him but money, as between the two a woman will choose the man with the money ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. That’s what I mean.’’ “Why John, why John!” There was an Infinity of reproach in those words. “Yes, I mean it!" he added. “I mean every word of it Women are essen tially selfish, and they love the soft side of life. They know that money will make a soft side to anything, and therefore, they are on the side of money." “I am sorry for you," she sold simply. “I thought that you had a higher idea of women." "Haven’t 1 a right to be bitter?” he continued. "Haven't I every right to such ideas? If It ha# not been dem onstrated to me, nothing has. There Is nothing so convincing os personal experience, and it Is from that 1 speak." “I have known you a long time, John, and 1 know of no such Instance In your career that you rpeak of. When was It?" “You know very well what I allude to. You know that I have loved you for all there years, since we were little more than children. You know that there has not been a day that the In cense of my soul was not offered to you. I have loved you truly, faith fully, unwaveringly. You know that my highest dream of earthly happi ness was to some day make a home for you, where I could have you with me always. You know that my wak ing thoughts are all of you; that 1 dream of you at night; that not a plan I have made has not had you for its inspiration, with the hope that it would conduce toward the end I wished. There has not been an ambi tion in my brain that w as not caus< d by my wish to excel and make you proud of me. * The rest of the world can go hang - you are my world, the all in all for me. And now, after all these years, all that counts for naught. There comes into your life a great big, beefy man—you know little about him ex cept that lie Is very wealthy, and in the course of two months he undoes Then, taking her hands, looked her full In the face. what I have done, or rather In that time accomplishes what I could not ac complish in six times as many years. Is not that evidenco enough? What Is to be deduced from that except what I have stated?” ‘‘I ought to be very angry with you, John. You have accused me of a wretched thing-that 1 would sell my life, my love, my soul, merely to pro vide myself with creature comforts. I don’t know why I don’t make you leave me, and never permit you to speak to me again, except that I’d realize that your anger has carried you off your feet. I realize what you say, that such a state of things is an awful blow to a man. But 1 do not grant that any such state exists—that is—I mean—” “You mean what, that you are not going to marry him?” There was light and life and hope in the questioner's eyes now. “Yes, I mean that; and that I have not intended to do so. And now let me do a little preaching to you—you have had your say, and you have said things you ought not to have said. I will say what you left unsaid, and what you should know. It is, that with a true woman, and with true love, all the gold in the universe could not outweigh her love. If on the one side is a man a woman loves, who is as poor as poverty itself, and on the other a man offering himself, a millionaire, the man and his money would not for an instant be considered as a possibility. “It is a mistaken notion men have, that a woman wants to receive all and give nothing. True love is self eft'aee ment, and bearing the burdens of those whom we do love, and nothing gives a woman so much pleasure as to suffer for the man she really cares for.” “Do you really moan that?" There was wonderment upon the face of the questioner. res. Ana were wouiu De more women who would be glad to accept even the Mttle In the way of wealth their sweethearts possess, if they were given the chance. Instead of going bravely to her and saying 'I have little or nothing, but I love you. 1 can pro vide enough to keep us from starving, and enough to furnish us with clothes. More than that I do not care for, with you at my side. Will you accept that?' the men stand off and snivel about woman wanting wealth. It makes mo weary. It's weakness.” There was a long pause. The sun had sunk below tho horizon, and the west was gorgeous with the opaline tints of the dying day. In the dying grasses the crickets chirped a requi em for the sweet summer. A few dead leaves floated through tho branches and rustled gently to their last resting place. Tho air had a tinge of the coming chill of winter, and na ture seemed saddened and dreary. The couple stood a moment looking at the sunset. Perhaps it w’as the glory of the ruddy rays upon her face, or the reflection from the golden gates of the west that shone in her eyes. He paused, for a moment irresolute, and then taking her hand, looked her full in the eyes. She looked down and her face flushed. “Helen,” he said very gently, “I have almost nothing in the way of goods or wealth, but I have a love for you that the wealth of Midas could not buy. Will you accept,what I have?” She looked up and smiled softly. “Why didn’t you say that a year or to ago? Yes, I will.” When a minister preacnes about so cial extravagance half the women in the congregation bito their lips and try to look mortified.—New York Press. Killing on*a Shark. One of the more wonderful fish sto ries of the century is told in the New York Press of Dr. Ralph Smith, a noted surgeon of Jacksonville. While in bathing in surf about up to his waist over on the East coast a big shark swam between his legs, forcing him to a sitting posture and swimming out to sea with his burden astride. The sensation nearly cost the doctor his hair and whiskers. He declares he was on the shark's back fully half a minute. When the monster got in deep water he slid off. He Ghf« Them What They Wanted. "Soon after I arrived in this coun try on my present visit,” says Bishop Partridge, (Episcopal) of Kioto, Japan, who is a graduate of Yale, "I was In vited to a University club dinner, and was told that I was to speak to the toast of 'Yale University.’ When I arose in my turn my fellow banqueters cried vociferously, ‘Never mind Yale, oid man—talk to us in Chinese.’ I entered into their spirit, and for twen ty-five minutes I orated in Chinese. Wha-t did 1 say? Suffice it to say that I spoke only the court ct.aloct. The strangest part about it is that all present seemed to enjoy it even more than 1 did.” Nervy Thieves. About the coolest thieves on record did n job of work in Philadelphia a few days ago. Early in e morning, while hundreds of people were going to work, half a dozen men arrayed as me chanics appeared in front of a Turkish bath establishment on Walnut street, and with chisels, hammers and wrench es took down the handsome bronze or naments and railing which ornamented the place. Then they calmly walked away with the plunder. LIMIT. MABLE C. HINT. A Bright Salvation Armr I.ai.lr, Who Kuonr. How to Ke«p Her Corps In (tooil Health* Ogden, Utah, Jan. Ill, 1901.—(Spe cial.)—The Pacific Coast Division of the Salvation Army, whose noble work in the interests of fallen humanity has done so much for this western country, has its headquarters in this city. One of the brightest and most enthusiastic workers is Lieut. Miss Mabel Clarice Hunt. Everyone knows how these de voted people parade the streets day or night, exposing themselves to all kinds Of weather, that no opportunity may be lost of rescuing some poor unfortu nate from sin and suffering. 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