LOVE IS BEST
Ey Florence Hodgkjn-fcn
j CHAPTER VII—(Continued.)
“I have to thank you for a great
kindness, Mr. Dynevor,” she said sim
ply, "You put no name to your note,
so I never knew till now to whom I
was Indebted."
‘7t was a very trifling service. When
I read the advertisement it flashed
upon my mind you answered the de
scription of the missing girl."
"Yes, I was the girl mentioned. It
Is nearly three months ago, and I have
heard nothing. Sometimes I feel al
most safe; then something depresses
me, and 1 go through all my terrors
again."
"You mustn’t," he said gently; "you
will make yourself ill if you fret over
contingencies. Believe me, Easthill
on-Sea is as safe a hiding place as you
can find. It is hardly known beyond
its own immediate neighborhood.”
The tea room was deserted—Harold
established Beryl in a remote corner,
and fetched refreshments for her from
the buffet. The grey eyes sought his
face half pleadingly:
"I ought not to trouble you.” she
Raid wistfully; "but I should like to
tell you Just this: I have not done
anything dreadful—I mean, I am not
flying from justice."
Harold laughed outright; he really
could not help It.
“Forgive me,” he said penitently:
“but no one could possibly think you
•were. You do not look like an es
caped criminal, Miss Lendon.”
"Wy father has married again,” she !
said frankly, "and I could not stay to
pee bis wife in my mother’s place, so
a ran away. I don't think It was
wrong."
Tlut he must miss you very much.
"Oh, no," ahe said naively, “he never
cared for me. He always said I was
a nuisance to him, and he would want
>ne less than ever now he has his new
iwlfe."
"I hope you are fairly comfortable?”
be said anxiously. "I have never met
Air*. Tanner; but I own to a great dis
like of her friend. Mrs. Wilmot.”
"Mrs. Wilmot Is terrible; but Mrs.
Tanner is not in the loast like her. She
Is very sad and gentle."
"And you mean to stay with her?”
"Yes; if only the school gets on
enough for her to afford to keep me.”
"Miss Lendon," said Harold, when
she rose to return to her post, "I need
not toll you your secret is safe with
me; but you are very young to be so
much alone in the world. Will you
make me just this one promise? That
If troubles arise so that you need a
friend, you will let me do my best to
help you."
She was his enemy’s daughter. Heryl
felt If he knew she was the child of
the pair who had wronged him he
•would have no more to do with her;
tout she only said simply she should
never forget Mr. Dynevor’s kindness.
It was a brilliant function, and an
unqualified success. When at last the
stalls were empty, and the flock of
pleasure-seekers had gone home, Mrs.
Craven carried off the busy money
makers to an informal supper at the
Manor. Mrs. Dynevor and her son
joined the party, and Heryl found her
eelf seated between Kitty and her
brother.
“Will you come and see me, Miss
A-cndon?” asked the daughter of the
Itynevors kindly. "Mother will be very
pleased to welcome you. I suppose, In
strict etiquette 1 ought to call at
Woodlands; but I might come in school
hours, or make some other dreadful
mistake, so It will be much nicer If
you come to Uplands."
Heryl thanked her; hut said some
thing about her duties and Mrs. Tan
oer.
“Oh, she must spare you sometimes.
I seem to know you quite well after
all these hours spent together, and we
can't go back to being strangers.-'
Mrs. Grey, her husband, and B ryl
drove home in the shabby pony car
riage; Mrs. Dynevor and her children
walked the half-mile between the
Manor and Uplands in the silvery
moonlight.
“It was a huge success,” said Kitty.
“I really quite enjoyed myself, and we
made a lot of money.”
“And you worked like Trojans,” said
her brother; “everything went off fa
mously."
"Mother dear,” said Kitty anxious
ly, “are you tired?”
, “Not very. You mustn't think me
dull, Kitty; but somehow I never can
enjoy myself at the Manor. I seem
to Bee the good old days, when your
uncle and aunt were alive and we
visited there. Kind and hospitable as
the Cravens are, it is not the same
thing."
“Of course not. mother," said Har
old; “but they are far pleasanter neigh
bors than the real owner of the soli.*
“I hope he will not come her«,*
breathed Mrs. Dynevor ancicuzly.
“Harold, you must have been eight or
mine when your Aunt Kina left the
Manor; do you remember her at a’l?”
“Only that she was very pretty and
gentle. And seemed more like a play
fellow than an aunt; but why do you
ask, mother?”
“Then you won't see the resemb
lance,” said Mrs. Dynevor, in a dis
appointed tone; "but when I first
looked at that girl who came with
(Mrs. Grey I thought the years had
(turned back, and I saw Nina as she
(was when your uncle brought her home
e bride. Miss London’s face is graver
jand sadder, but the likeness is won
derful."
* “Chance resemblances are puzzling
| things,” said Kitty. "I have asked
Miss I^endon to come and see us,
mother—you don't mind, do you?”
“I shall be glad for her to come,
Kitty, she seems a charming girl. And,
my dear, if Harold were not the bast
of brothers, you might be earning your
bread.”
"I shouldn't be half as brave and
contented over it as she is," said
Kitty frankly.
Arrived at the Uplands, mother and
daughter went to bed, for it was past
their usual hour. Harold turned into
his own den to smoke one pipe before
retiring. As he lighted the gas his
eye fell on a letter with the Marton
postmark, addressed in the well
known had of Mr. Proctor.
‘‘What can he want to write about?
I saw him yesterday.”
But the lawyer had gone out of his
way to do Harold a kindness. He
would not even trust one of his clerks
to write the letter of warning which
he sent to his old friend’s son. The
letter was marked “private"—a need
less precaution, for Harold Dyncvor
would be sure to keep its contents from
his mother and Kitty until the last
possible moment.
Dear Dynevor: I have bad news
for you. It has reached me from a
true source that Eustace Lendon in
tends to give you three months notice
of foreclosure at Micaelmas. My in
informant believes that he is keeping
his intention dark, so that it may take
you by surprise, in the hope that the
three months will be all too short for
you to get the needed capital. I need
not assure you of my most earnest
sympathy. Still, the amount, though
large, Ls not preposterous, and it ought
to be possible to arrange things. Any
how, by this letter you have five
months to raise the money instead of
three.
Yours sincerely,
W. Proctor.
Harold Dynevor put his head on his
hands and fairly groaned. He had
been old enough when Dynevor Manor
passed to a stranger to feel the loss of
the old place very keenly; but that
was as nothing compared to the bit
terness he felt at the bare thought of
Uplands, his mother's home, going
from them to the man who was their
direst foe.
"Please God, it shall not be,” he
said reverently, as he folded the let:er
and put it in his pocket. "Mother shall
never lose the house she was born in
if I can help it. I'll work as man never
did before, I’ll toil early and late, but
that money shall be found. And
Eustace Lindon must content himself
with Dynevor Manor; Uplands shall
not be his!”
Hut, brave as was the resolve, Har
old did not make light of the difficul
ties in his path. To raise such a sum
would have been a hard task even In
prosperous times; and now, when a
succession of bad harvests had spelled
something like ruin to many a land
owner, the difficulties of the attempt
were quadrupled.
CHAPTER VIII.
Helen Craven's engagement followed
very quickly on the fete, and she de
parted on a long visit to her fiance's
family. Perhaps it was her friends’
absence which made Kitty Dynevor re
member the pretty girl at Mrs. Tan
ner’s and her desire to see more of
her. She missed Helen very much.
There was a cloud on the Uplands.
Kitty, who was. still treated as “the
little one,” from whom all sorrow and
anxiety must be kept as long as pos
sible. was not allowed to know that
Eustace I.indon now held the mort
gage on their home; but she could not
help seeing that her mother was grav
er than usual, and Harold seemed ex
tra troubled. She knew them both
too well to ask questions, and, decid
ing a little company would be good
for them all, she strolled over to East
hill-on-Sea about a fortnight after the
fete, called at Woodlands, and asked
to see Mrs. Tanner.
Kitty was impulsive in all things.
She detested the Wilmots, but she was
ready to believe Beryl that Mrs. Tan
ner was not like her sister, and she
felt she could hardly hope to see much
of Miss Lendon if she persisted In
ignoring her employer.
She took a great fancy to the slen
der, sad-eyed widow, and made her
request as frankly as possible.
“I lost my heart to your assistant at
the fete, Mrs. Tanner. I asked her
to come and see us; but perhaps she
is standing a little on ceremony, for
I have not seen her, so I came over to
day to ask if you would let her walk
back arid nave tea with us.”
“I shall be very pleased,” was the
prompt reply. “Miss Lendon is a
Sear little thing, and this is a dull
1 home for her.”
“Do you know,” said Kitty, “when
she came into the tent in her white
frock, I thought Mrs. Grey had dis
covered some wandering princess, and
pressed her into the service.”
“She is very pretty," said Agnes Tan- |
ner, with a smile, “and, what is more, [
she is very patient and sweet-tem- j
pered. All my pupils like her, and my
own little girls almost worship her. \
I hope I shall be able to keep her if t
only the school gets on."
Kitty said a few kind words, hoping
Woodlands would prosper, and then
Mrs. Tanner sent for Beryl.
"Miss Dynevor wants you to go back
with her to tea at Uplands,” she said
kindly. “I can spare you perfectly,
an4 the chance will do you good."
-.- " . -
Deft alone, the two girls looked at
each other; and then Kitty Dynevor
broke the silence Impetuously.
Why wouldn't you come without my
having to fetch you?”
Beryl hesitated.
"I don't think 1 oTrffct to come,” she
said slowly. "You are one of the coun
ty, Miss Dynevor. and I am only a lit
tle Bchool teacher.”
“I am not a snob!” said Kitty, quite
angrily. "I know a lady w-hen I see
one, and I don’t value my friends for
their position or their purse. Now
will you come?”
Five minutes later they were walk
ing back to Upla^Ps together, and
Beryl was telling Kitty how long and
dreary she thought the way the first
night of her arrival.
"I don’t wonder,” returned Miss
Dynevor. "A drearier place to arrive
at after a long journey I can't im
agine. I can't think why people tritd
to turn that hamlet into a watering
place. Easthlll itself is delightful.”
"You have lived there a long time,
haven’t you?”
"I was born at Uplands. Harold, my
brother, was born at the Manor. There
had been something wrong with the
Uplands drains, and mother went to
the Manor for two months. The old \
gossips used to declare it meant he
would inherit the property, that the
master of Dynevor was always born
at the Manor. They were quite wrong,
however. But I forgot—perhaps you
don’t know our story?”
“Mrs. Grey told it to me,” said ;
Beryl frankly. "I think it is one of
the saddest I ever heard. I wonder
you don’t hate Mr. Lindon.”
“Mother and Harold are too good
to really hate any one. I am afraid
when things go wrong at home, and
they look more bothered than usual,
my feelings towards Mr. Lindon are
rather bitter.”
“I suppose you don't remember his
wife?”
“Oh, no; I was not born when she
left England. Of course it was really
her fault the place passed away from
us; but I have always felt sorry for
her.”
"I wonder why?” remarked BeTyl,
trying to keep the eagerness out of
her voice.
“A very little thing. There was ai
woman in the village heTe Aunt Nina
took with her as maid. When they
got abroad I think she was promoted
to be a kind of humble companion. She
came back about twelve months be
fore Aunt Nina died, and she lived
with us for a few years. She was not
given to talking; but now and again
she'd let out things. She was my
nurse, and I was just the age of Beryl
Llndon, Aunt Nina's second child.
Somehow she'd say things now and
then which made me feel Mr. Lindon
ill-treated his wife. She never said
anything outright—never enough for
me to repeat it to mother; but though
I was only a little thing—she left be
fore I was ten years old—she said
enough to make me sure my aunt was
unhappy.”
They were at Uplands now. Beryl
had no time to ask the nurse's name,
or if she were still living at Easthill.
Mrs. Dynevor stood on the veranda
waiting to welcome the stranger, and
the conversation was changed.
(To be continued.)
TO LEARN TRADES.
Training School to Make Crippled 1’uplU
Self-Supporting.
With the new year the pupils of
the public school for crippled children,
conducted by Mrs. Emma F. Haskeil In
Illinois hall, will begin a novel under
taking, says the Chicago News. A
training school will be established with
the hope that some of the pupils may
be made self-supporting. They appear
almost helpless so far as useful work
is concerned, but Mrs. Haskell says
they are not. Many of them can work
with their hands, and are anxious to
learn. The boy who has lost both
legs has an ambition to become a car
penter. This appears rather impos
sible, and his ambitions will be turned
in the direction of wood carving. The
girls will be taught needlework and
similar occupations. They are almost
all too helpless to be taught domestic
science. Supt. Cooley will make a rec
ommendation to the board of education
at its next meeting that materials and
equipment for the school is provided.
Mrs. Haskell will have charge of the
classes, leaving the general work of
instruction to her assistants. Truant
officers of the board of education are
to make a canvass of the city for the
purpose of ascertaining the number or
crippled and maimed children who
would be able to attend school if they
were furnished with transportation.
Secretary Larson was refused his pay
yesterday by the board of education.
President Harris, who blamed City
Controller Kerfoot for not honoring
mr. i.aisuus signature a wees ago, re
fused yesterday to issue a voucher for
his salary in the new position. Mr.
I^arson asked for a voucher for his
salary at the rate of $4,000 a year for
th* part of December he served in the
office. President Harris said he had
been paid his former salary of $150 a
month, and could not be paid the sal
ary of secretary until the board voted
it. A statement was furnished Presi
dent Harris by Auditor Custer yester
day that shows that the revenue of the
board of education for educational pur
poses will be $235,853 less than the
appropriations called for.
The drawer in vrhlc.- iveryday plate
it kept should be lined the bottom
with green baize, cut large enough to
fold over the plate when It is laid on
the baize. Plate should be put away
carefully and neatly, all the large forks
together and all the small ones to*
[ gether, and so on.
HOLWORTHY HALL
Historical Inrlilenta Concerning n Bond
ing at Harvard University.
Two rooms are to be let In Holwor
thy Hall at Harvard, with big bonuses
offered for the takers, which offer tells
something unheard of in the century's
history of this old hall. Since 1812,
when the famous hall was put up. there
never has been a room to let. Now
men who hold two rooms are offering
bonuses to get rid of them. In this
hall some of the most famous men who
have attended Harvard have lived.
Once Its rooms were let to seniors only.
Up to last year no freshman was al
lowed to apply for a room there, and
though some freshmen had lived there,
It was by error only. The hall was
the prize hall of the college. Others,
more luxurious, with better conveni
ences and more comforts, had been
built. There were many that cost
more, but there were none so popular.
Never has a Holworthy room been post
ed on the official bulletin board long
enough for the ink to get dry. Hol
worthy stands across the north end of
the old yard at Harvard. It is a plain
brick building, with a slightly tilted
roof, four stories high, without orna
ment or break. It is oblong, with
small, sixteen light windows, and is
divided into three entries, with eight
rooms in an entry. The rooms are so
arranged that big square studies are in
the front of the building, and from
these two rooms bedrooms open run
ning through to the rear. In two of
the entries the rooms have light on
three sides. It is these large rooms
that have made the place a favorite for
a century. Formerly men of wealth
lived here. A suite that cost $250 was
too steep for the average undergradu
ate seventy-five years ngo. Rooms
were to be had for from $30 to $50 then.
Matthew Holworthy, an English mer
chant, left in 1678 to the “college or
university in or of Cambridge in New
England £1,000 for the "furthering of
learning and promulgation of the Gos
pel in those parts.” It was not until
the early part of the century that the
work was begun. President Kirkland,
the head of the college, didn’t have
money enough to put up the building,
so a lottery was opened, and the pro
ceeds supplied the balance of the fund.
It was finished and opened in 1812 by
President Kirkland.—New York Press.
THE EAST GAINS.
CaniM of Chances In Copulation Daring
a Decade.
In summing up the results of the
last census Dr. Albert Shaw says in
the Review of Reviews: “The period
from 1870 to 1880 was marked by the
great development in population of the
rich wheat and corn lands that were
still open to settlement under the
Homestead and Pre-emption laws in
Minnesota, Iowa, Western Missouri and
contiguous regions. In the period from
1880 to 1890 there was a rush still
further west into the Dakotas,, Mon
tana, the Puget Sound country, west
ern Nebraska and Kansas, Colorado
and southern California. The period
just ended, from 1890 to 1900, has been
especially marked by the growth of
manufacturing population in the older
states. Thus New Jersey’s gain of
30 per cent has been principally due to
the growth of manufacturing tow’ns
and of the Jersey suburbs of New
York city. New York’s gain of more
than 20 per cent is accounted for large
ly by the growth of the great metropo
lis at the eastern end of the state, and
of Buffalo and its commercial and in
dustrial environs at the western end.
Northern New England has gained
very little, and would have lost decid
edly but for the immigration of French
Canadians'and others. Massachusetts
has gained about 25 per cent, which is
evidence enough that her manufactur
ing prosperity is not a thing of the
past. The gain of little Rhode Island
in ten years has amounted to twice
tho population of the state of Nevada.
Connecticut has now 908,000 people,
and has gained 162,000 in ten years.
This growth, like that of Rhode Island
and Massachusetts, is due to manufac
turing progress. There would seem no
reason in the nature of things why lit
tle Delaware should not have more
people than little Rhode Island; yet
Delaware has not quite 185,000, while
Rhode Island has more than 428,000.
Manufacturers make the difference."
Alarm Without Ilatterle*.
A new variety of electric fire alarm
has been produced in which no bat
teries are used. The system is intend
ed for small towns and cities and is
very thoroughly worked out. In each
alarm box is a masneto machine, simi
lar to that used in connection with the
telephone as a call bell, which is con
nected with a powerful clock spring
through appropriate calms and levers
so that when the box is opened by
means of a key the armature of the
magneto machine receives a definite
succession of short, quick half-turns.
Each of these sends out over the cir
cuit in which the box is connected an
impulse of electrical current Which
may be of considerable power. This
is received in the usual way on gongs
and registers.
Hilda*Y'ent>i*s Telephone.
In Buda-Pesth there is a news tele
phone, and its object is to keep its 6,000
subscribers supplied with all the latest
news. The service has a main wire
168 miles in length, and it is connected
with private houses and various public
resorts. From 7:30 in the morning un
til 9:30 in the evening, 28 editions of
news are spoken into the transmitter
by ten men possessing loud clear voices
working in shifts of two. The news is
classified, and given in accordance with
a regular program, and the service has
been eminently successful.
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