V vs f r SvT J r V - l ion in r broken voice you cannot give yourself up like this What can 1 do J for you Heaven knows how gladly 1 i would give my life for yours How could I go home without you What could 1 1 say to Esme I dare not face her alone I wiping his damp forehead chafing his hands as he spoke and pouring the last few drops of spirits down his comrades I throat Keep up the ambulance and j the doctor have surely left camp by this time- We ought to have them with us In less than an hour Yes but I wont be here when they come they will be too late Im glad you are with me Miles you who have been a brother to me its not so verj hard to die after all Where is your hand Let me hold it for Im going to set out on a long long journey longer than we thought when I left camp this morning a pause then a faint pressure of the hand anda still faitner almost inaudible whisper saying Miles are you there Tell Esme it will be all right and this was the last word j Vainly Miles spoke vainly he bent his ear to his cousins lips There was no J sound now only a vast irresponsive j Jenee Thick black darkness had sudden- j 5y set in the night was cold the moments leaden Miles himself was weak from j loss of blood Vainly he chafed Teddys hands vainly he told himself He had j only fainted He strained his ears i iously for coming hoofs and welcome voices There was no trampling of horse- men but his practiced sportsmans keen sense of hearing caught another less re assuring sound the sound of many foot- j steps stealthy bare footsteps stealing through the high grass close by ihere were great numbers probably a portion of the imp they had already encountered for the stealthy march lasted for a long j time Tfie huge bowlder sheltered him j effectually and they passed in the dark ness The labt tread at length died away and that moment of throbbing suspense was tided over in safety When the end came Miles never knew gradually gradually the hand in his hand relaxed its hold had become iirst cool then cold then icy He wa dead Teddy was dead How strange how impossible it sounded to say Teddy is dead How was this to be told to Esme Esme whose whole hear was given to this fa vorite brother How dark and silent and bitteri cold it was The black sky above the hard veldt be neath him were whirling and reeling in fone giddy circle and he remembered no more Long afterward when a strong party arrived with lights and rugs and restor atives and an ambulance a party com prising one or two officers including Cap tain Gee that little gentleman for once in his life became livid when his quick -eyes rested as he first believed on the two dead Erabazons with the faithful brown charger keeping guard over them On closer examination it was discovered that Miles was ony insensible from ex posure and loss of blood but with the kuittcd cardigan coat of which he had deprived himself hours previously they covered a corpse Next morning at daybreak chere was a military funeral and rpeddy was buried within a short distance of the camp His cousin pale as death itself with his arm in a sling walked alone behind the rude coftin as chief mourner and Kitty follow ed her master for the last time The coffin was covered by a Union Jack- and carried by the men of Teddys regiment not a few rough troopers felt a very un usual tightness in the throat when they heard the hard yellow earth rattle on the cclSn of Gentleman Brown The dead trooper was buried beside him They liv on the spur of a hill around them there stretches a wide sea of waving above their heads are vo rude j wooden crosses No foot is likely to come j that way no voice no sotind disturbs their repose only a vast plain onlyvau i I aptain grabaot BY B 2tfC CR0KER JailitapyomaoeeoFgoLitMca CHAPTER XVni Continued Its no use Miles he gasped fafcit Jy with half closed glazing eyes Im bound to go but I cant bear to think of your running this risk for me when ev ery donga may be full of those fellows every bit of bush swarming with them Theres not a soul on the veldt but ourselves Ted returned the other bold ly dont you be uneasy about it The ambulance ought to be here in an hour and a half and we will have you in camp in less than no time You must not talk like this But I must I have so little time Say good by to all the fellows for me and to ITarrar my chum he took my duty to day Well Ill never pay him now What could Miles say A horrible chill conviction that what Teddy said was true was creeping over him Ilis fail ing struggling breath his feeble voice all pointed to something more mortal than a severe wound Dont talk Teddy my dear boy he j implored its the worst thing you can i do Let me go on with a faint gesture J I have so little time I know Im go ing he gasped and I wont say Im not sorry for I am She will never know now A pause of some seconds and then he spoke again Give my love to Gus and Flo and Aunt Jane yes and with a visible effort Mrs Brabazon why should I bear her ill will now V and Esme this will be hard on her catching his breath but she will marry you Miles I know it tell her I said so And I you will take Kitty poor Kitty and be kind to her for my sake Kitty J mg His failiug voice come nere put down your head old girl and say good by x Low as he spoke her eager ears heard his well known call and she came at once and gently pushed her soft brown nose into his hand You will send everything I have its not much to Esme and let me be buried i as I am in my uniform I did not wear i it long Oh Teddy exclaimed his compan i awful silence only two soldiers graves And Miles was as one who mourned for his brother he was stunned How pain ful was the gap in his life How he miss ed the bright face the cheery voice that half a dozen times a day had been thrust into his tent the face he had known but so recently and yet had liked so well How blank were rides and foraging par ties now when he was forced to say to himself Last time we came here it was with Teddy He collected his belongings which were few and put them up with the aid of Teddys soldier servant whose voice was husky and who many times turned away to rub the back of his horny hand across his eyes But there was one little box that Mik s investigated alone it contain ed two photographs of Esme a small battered brown prayer book presented by her ten years previously in a strag gling round hand between its leaves were two or three withered flowers there was his watch with a broken mainspring a program of the regimental tournament at York and last not least carefully fold ed up in silver paper and an envelope a tinyx four button womans glove rather worn If was not Esmes said Miles as he turned it carefully over with a lovers critical discrimination It probably be longed to Teddys nameless sweetheart He did not put it up along with the other relics for it told a tale intelligible to him alone it was not to be thrown away this token that Teddy had treas ured no he himself would keep this lit tle tan glove belonging to a girl he had never seen whose name he would never know nor would she herself ever learn the fate of her mysterious unavowed lover He had died and made no sign Miles took part in that fifty minutes battle when a solid square of English kept the bold and reckless eneinv at bay by a deadly wall of fire and subsequent ly returned with the column to Natal Of course he was the owner of Kitty having purchased her for ione hundred and fifty pounds a purchase which reduc ed his exchequer to a very low ebb but he was resolved to have her at any price and a feeling that he had the best right to her restrained the lancers from bid ding for her when tfyeir late brother offi cers scanty possessions were sold by the committee of adjustment CHAPTER XIX To Mr Bell was sent the telegram an nouncing Teddys death and it was with a heavy heart that he walked up to Bar onsford that lovely June morning He himself had been very fond of the fam ily scapegrace and his usually cheery ruddy countenance was downcast and looked graver and less florid thirn usual Everything around seemed out of keeping with the tidings of which he was the bearer A bright blue sky unclouded by even one tiny white lleece busy bees roaming importantly to and fro butter flies flickering and darting across his path the air loaded with the sweet per fume of new mown hay and birds sing ing in the bushes as if they were holding a morning concert Mr Bell with eight words in his pocket is going to turn this house of sunshine and laughter into a house of gloom and mourning The swing door Hew baek with a bang and display ed Gussie tennis bat in hand a grotesque scarlet felt hat with embroidered sun flower on her head Hurry hurry Es me dont be all day Oh Mr Bell as she suddenly confronted him this is a piece of luck the very man to make up a set at tenuis she cried affectionately Come along at once you shall be my partner Theres going to be a tourna ment at the Clippertons to morrow and we want to get our hands well in Well does Mr Bell know that neither to morrow nor for many to morrows will there be a tennis tournament for them His face unconsciously conveys a reflec tion of his thoughts his round merry countenance looks grave his twinkling frank blue eyes dim and misty Annie who had seen that there was something Avrongat the very first glance hurried to him with a white startled face and saidmeekly Its not Miles is it No he returned averting his glance and shaking his head Then it is Teddy cried Esme -with livid iips having but that moment come upon the scene If is it is I see it in your face Mr Bell He has been wound ed Im sure he has with sudden con viction seizing the rector by the arm as she spoke Oh in a voice of concen trated anguish do not be afraid to tell me the worst i can bear it I can in deed I have a right to know first in terposing herself between him and the drawing room door Is he badly wound ed I must see Mrs Brabazon he re turned huskily pushing her aside with assumed brusqueness and shaking off her detaining hand with a gesture of decis ion -For once he was glad and thankful to seek sanctuary with the head of the house in her own apartment and to shut out that girls agonized white face What news was he telling -Mrs Braba zon behind that fast shut door The three he had left outside stood in the hall in a torture of suspense that petrified the power of speech but their eyes asked each other the fatal question Who was it Miles was safe both Annie and Esme felt with a blessed thrill of relief but Teddy Florian Alas they would know soon enough Within half an hour not only they the household but Miss Jane and the entire village had heard the bad news that neither as private nor officer would any of them again see Edward Brabazon never again would his hearty laugh and constant if somewhat tuneless whistle be heard about the Mexton lanes never again would he pound the field with the harriers on a four-year-old colt This timeahe blinds were pulled down in earn est for poor Teddy ft Mra Brabazon wept and wailed aad carried on to quote the servants she would set up handkerchiefs with porten tious black borders to meet the emergen cy But while Gussie was almost unrec ognizable from crying Esme had never shed one tear She refused to believe it she went dry eyed and stony faced about the house with an air of ghastly composure very quiet very pale and un naturally calm It was useless for the others to whisper that they wished she would cry that she might find the bless ed relief of tears she whose tears had always been so easily provoked It was useless she could not I cannot believe nt she said to her sister Why should he be taken among hundreds Even if he were I dont think 1 would mind it my heart seems like a stone I seem to have no feeling about anything now Gussie was very sorry for Teddy in her own way indeed quite as sorry as she could be for anyone She had meant to have been so good to him when he came home have him stay in her smart London house and visions of her handsome lan cer brother adorning her little rqceptions had floated more than once through her brain but now there was an end to all this and really she was very very sor ry How abominally trying mourning was to her she told herself frankly Flo was quite demonstrative he order ed himself a suit of black for the broth er he told his tailor He put the fol lowing notice in the paper Killed near the Umbolosi river South Africa Ed ward Bnlbazon Lieutenant Princes Lancers aged twenty four deeply regret ted and he talked a good deal to the fellows in the club- about My poor broth er till anyone would have imagined that they had been the most devoted of rela tions in fact a modern Castorand Pol lux One morning about three weeks after the arrival of the telegram Mrs Braba zon in distributing the contents of the post bag drew out an envelope covered with foreign stamps a travel stained en velope and handed it to Esme hesitat ingly Those who were present will nev er forget her half sobbing breathless cry of boundless relief of too painful happi ness as she snatched it exclaiming A letter from Teddy Yes she gasp ed in his own handwriting Oh Gusr sie Mrs Brabazon Flo looking round the table with eyes that were now drown ed in tears I always knew it was a mistake he was not dead see tearing it open with trembling fingers Here is proof and she began to devour the lines before her as well as she could see through her tears which were falling over the paper now like rain Poor Esme She did not understand that the hand that traced the lines be fore her was stiff and cold and now that where a letter teok five weeks to travel a telegram could come in five hours and this is what she was reading with palpi tating heart and swimming eyes Hear Esme Ive not had a line from you for ages and ages This sort of thing wont do you know Ive heard the whole account of your trouble from Miles him self The Marchers are in our column I met him first quite- accidentally one night on picket when I was carrying dis patches to their camp He did not know who I really was from Adam but 1 had it out with him next morning and you never saw a fellow so taken aback or so cut up in your life He never speaks of the business now nor you I believe he imagines you will never forgive him and he is awfully down in the mouth but you must Esme for Ive gone se curity for you It was ail my fault from first to last as you and I know If I had imagined he would have cut up so fright fully rough that day at Portsmouth I would have let him into the secret the moment he landed in the country How ever the money is gone and theres no help for spilled milk hut you stick to him for hes a rattling good fellow the more I see him the more I like him Ill dance at your wedding yet I mean to bring you home a Zulu ladys full cos tume as a wedding present Love to Gus Im glad shes going to marry Vashon he is a good little chap and beauty 1b only skin deep Who was to open her eyes Who was to point to the date Not Gussie not Flo They hurried from the breakfast table on various shallow pretexts and left her alone with this letter from the dead She took it down to Miss Jane and she it was wh6 with faltering voice and many tears and it is a sad and an un usual thing to see an old woman weep they have mostly outlived all emotions made her niece to understand and realize the truth made her renounce this des perate clinging to a straw made her quench hope and embrace despair iTo be continued Gorman as an Interviewer Of all the politicians of this genera tion none has a larger reputation for re serve than former Senator Arthur P Gorman of Maryland who is again taking a prominent part in Democratic politics Senator Gorman applies to public affairs the famous rule of the great soldier who said that the art of war consisted in finding out what the enemy intended to do Mr Gorman is affability itself to the newspaper men that crowd around him for information but it is a standing joke among them that he does all the interviewing him self Every summer Senator Gorman goes to Saratoga for several weeks Ona evening Judge Grubb of Delaware re marked Senator Gorman you iaid I have been coming to this hotel for nearly a dozen years and every sum mer when I get back home I find that I have told you everything I know whereas you never tell me a thing The Senator smiled and so did those about him for they appreciated that the Judge had given a capital descrip tion of air Gorman Philadelphia Press Willing Rich Young Woman to her fiances servant Johnson I am afraid It is not altogether agreeable to you to have your master marry Johnson jl our are mistaken madain I shall then be sure atIeast of securing my back wages New York World Ab Ak a Boothbay Maine fisher man claimu to have the shortest nama on record The earljf bird gets caught by the milliner GHOSTS ARE PLAINLY VISIBLE Some People So Constituted that They See Supernatural Beings There is no doubt that a person may apparently see objects and hear words which another person close by cannot see and hear Such impressions are to be referred not to actually existing ob jects but to the action of the subjects mind Dr Abercromby tells us of one patient who could by directing his at tention to au idea call up to sight the appropriate image of scene though the thing called up were an object he had never seen but had merely Imagined When meeting a friend in the street he could not be sure whether the appear ance was his friend or a spectral illu sion till he had tried to touch It and had heard the voice Goethe saw an exact counterpart of himself advancing to ward him an experience repeated bj Wilkie Collins Sir Walter Scott re lates that soon after the death of Lord Byron he read an account of the de ceased poet On stepping into the hall Immediately after he saw right before him in a standing posture the exact representation of his departed friend whose recollection had been so strongly Drought to his imagination After stop ping a moment to note the extraordin ary resemblance he advanced toward it and the figure gradually disappeared Some of the cases narrated by Sir David Brewster are particularly in structive The subject was a lady Mrs A and her hallucinations were carefully studied by her husband and Sir David On one occasion she saw her husband as she thought who had gone out half an hour before standing within two feet of her in the drawing room She was astonished to receive no response when she spoke to him She remembered that Sir David had told her to press one eyeball with the finger when the impression of any real object would be doubled She tilled to apply the test but the figure walked away and disappeared The simple scientific experiment diverted her at tention from the creation of her mind and this no longer being in sole posses sion could not maintain itself and was dissolved Another hallucination took the form of her dead sister-in-law The figure appeared in a dress which Mrs A had never seen but which had been described to her by a common friend Westminster Review HIS FIRST FIRE ASSIGNMENT Excuse of a New Reporter for Neglect in tx IJnty Say hustle down to the stock yards right away said the city editor to the new reporter Theres a tire dowu there It may turn into something big but even if it doesnt we want a good little story on it anyhow The new reporter shot out of the door with perspiration starting at every pore The fire did not turn out to be a great conflagration so no more reporters were sent down to the yards to take care of it The city editor de pended upon his new man for the story But for some unaccountable reason the reporter failed to return to the oilicu and the paper had to go to press with out the account of the fire The next day about noon the new man stroHed into the office entirely unprepared for the thunder storm that broke over his head as soon as the city editor caught sight of him Say what the dickens is the matter with you anyhow said the editor Why didnt you write up that fire that I told you to Why gasped the youth there wasnt any use to write it up every body was there and saw it Chicago Chronicle Born Among- tlie Bulrushes There is a variety of grebe colymbus minor which hatches its young on a regular raft Its nest is a mass of strong stemi of aquatic plants closely fastened together These plants con tain a considerable quantity of air in their cells and set free gases in the process of decaying The air and the gases imprisoned in the plant make the nest lighter than water The bird usu ally sits quietly on its eggs but if any intruder approaches or any danger is feared the mother plunges one foot in the water and using it as a paddle transports her floating nest to a dis tance often dragging along with it a sheet of water plants A naturalist who frequently watched this remark able removal says The whole struc ture looks like a little floating island carried along by the laborof the grebe which moves in the center of a mass of verdure Cincinnati Enquirer Primitive Methods in Corea Individual missionaries and mechan ics have trained Corean carpenters in the use of American tools but as a rule they prefer their old style planes which they draw toward them in plan ing and like best to use their own saws which necessitate the employ ment of two men sitting opposite each other on the ground and operating the saw on the stick or timber which is held in place by the feet of the opera tors In spite of these apparently clumsy method the Corean carpenters do very fair work The CMnese Postal System The postal system of the Chinese em pire is still in a primitive condition It is carried on under the direction of the minister of war by means of post carts and runners There are 8000 offices for post carts in the eighteen provinces and there are 2040 offices for runners scattered over the empire There are also many private postal couriers and during the winter the foreign customs office maintains a ser vice between Pekm and the outposts Every time a thoughtful man looks around his house he sees purchases that convince him he has been a foof with hi3 money v Thin Kemp Perhaps poor people have as good right to their prejudices as those who are better off but such prejudices ae sometimes both expensive and amus ing In the biography of William Stokes written by his son the story is told of Stokes being sent over to Dublin dur ing the great famine to show the peo ple how to make soup He asked a starving beggar why she did not go and get some of the soup that was being freely distributed Soup is it your honor said the man Sure it isnt soup nt air And what is it then inquired Stokes It is nothin your honor but a quart of water biled down to a pint to make It sthrong Jeffersons Ten Rules Take things always by the smooth handle Pride costs more than hunger thirst and cold We seldom repent of having eaten too little Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly Never spend your money before you have earned it Never buy what you dont want be cause it is cheap Never trouble another for what you can do yourself Never put off until to morrow what fou can do to day How much pain the evils have cost as that have never happened When angry count ten before you speak if very angry count a hundred BEST FOR THE BOWELS No matter what ails you headache to a aneer you will never get well until jour dowels are put right CASCARETS help nature cure you without a gripe or pain prodnee easy natural movements coat you just 10 cents to start getting your health back CASCARETS Candy Ca thartic the genuine put up in metal boxes every tablet has C C C stamped on it Beware of imitations Not Worth Mentioning I have several reasons for not buy ing the horse said the man The c L - 1II T 1 4 1 - urst is LtfUk x uiiveu t me jjhuc uuu You neednt mention the others in terrupted the owner Philadelphia North American Do Xonr Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allens Foot Ease a powder for the feet- It 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