1 I , and father, such and friend nipping she bounding had he’d filer’s heart, just FATE. of time. Folsom PESSIMIST AND nick a as the THE swore been worst his its to Pappoose when, homesick, day. skin, had left the their services this searing a forget never sad-eyed Despair! visite. child, she entered her with de In dainty love that He', cantered homeward he mark carte he upon And on as fair day is When schooldays. another Elinor herself had a to dying pocket, too, firing the distant In that still hear could was same him sad: It makes picked chide him, and with contrition and dismay which had been letter mountains the in the to packet—a away U prate His joy to Ad##** I he admitted his fault, and then Reno after Dean!” floor of the hut at ’em hell, he muttered the had— "Give ill* he’s north. Of the up on for that Fate hours meatfk major nothing could exceed his hospitable the the Of for which ‘‘They’re left through his teeth. Burleigh set —one taklrur the bad raise to la ever underneath attentions Jessie, who, vain, it to you’ve searched in for got ’em fight when had sorely showing was even feet— good beneath her the trample And disappointed take Marshall “You because what that of wonder lot I was the newspapers. his meat! hie drink, a run. bls joy, Woe is on there not her, growing cantonment to meet him,” said the that after means?" was his all, day, staked He one anxious with the tidings from him. followed Dean commander, as no came day he to until another Not as was didn't lose; ▲nd Two dreamed days damsels in whole the spent and little day, the'attack, next troop of evening the know. Late mournful around in he But way. on went a going exclaiming the house, contained. what it blues! seated with his over new With the while he was the dra<ged to but might have been oldfashioned papa’s lavish preparations, “'Tou in the heavy, That dlay, over half dozen wiife Jake’s bedside, by very a said, depths," men wishing presently that Mrs. Fletcher Union the of sleeping wounded and them two of cars troopers, before!" favored "And hever yet as were you much in evidence, in quite seated not Pacific, girls two were drifting so all with worn-out horses, young were came here, everywhere. Only side. there, and the northward section Twice, their But he sighed said they, back to on camp. head: shook his when and they could And gazed bedtime dark-eyed, radiant beauty, One, made stand came Indians the fleeing wiSSSsZ had rl a a replied, fair," he sadly "Had Fate been nestle in other of their connecting and farreaching desolate slopes the out of slow retreat two one or the over u to one or cover more!" much have had "I might from interruption, distant they prairie and stretches of but closely rooms secure stricken, sorely were evidently so and presently child lay white delight in and then it His bluff, with wan, lines of bald last appeared pressed that they even they at were the in dark. ho And sat could talk confidentially winsome they not The other, her dancing of abandon had) forced to been eyes. a one Moaning that hope gone. was Folsom had taken mild old. looked’ with of maid of 19, died, sending his their number, who as on her him for singled had That Fate them driving afternoon, he himself disappointment each unmixed with wonderment, not through the lieutenant’s mark! shot vengeful last little sings his handsome But the hidden. handling the reins she would gladly have one only hunting shirt, yet over grazing rings laughter And her childhoop bays, Elinor his side the first Elinor the of her at To with of the skin. Dean, the most scenes the halls to-day. Through time, Jessie, with Mrs. Fletcher, Jessie and and welcome; dear to determined pursuit, pushed were Yet grieves he men, on in away, But this, occupying thfe somber, seat. much that there too For still long there desist rear to was was was as never so bill! the doctor’s Fate and There's Elinor whispered him, it not little that inviting. But to returned could too who light but those presently, was as The Two Evil*. Wrong End. Between was Times-Herald. —S. in Chicago Kiser, E. should should slowly be. Her guest have the long train rolled the should refuses "You servants Mrs. Newlywed—The cook t« treat keep not as your up. day, of honor. So, next Jessie seat of rude wooden station kindly,” the platform urged the lecturer, recommend! to leave without was a the Leaving dead body of woman the a young handed and Mrs. Fletcher front sight to the building, there at and thus Newlywed well! who lives hotels herself Mr. (savagely) —Oh, at came the rocks, a it brave where lay among and placed in girls danced in Pappoose both which the of avoids facts I’ll one! personal collision with give her rear, were back eyes slowly journeyed to a they camp. and in this order they bowled round of “A” interest—a tents Mrs. be which might militate against her Newlywed—But that would row on further tidings and daybreak eager No at came, the fort and listened the band and prairie, long line of horses to the theories. untruthful! a Folsom, with ranchmen and open two talked of the several and with the picket tethered the Mr. Newlywed—Well, but I’d “But beginning at to women groups ropes, rode the trail round to yes; trooper, out you are on a but these latter officers, sunburned in rough two stalwart, of declared that become liar murderer! end,” the than one or men horses the Indians had been wrong sooner the woman a a up nothing about Dean could tell Rieut. by garb, silken guidon flapping —Puck. blue keeps house. Hal clung a compelled drop. Mrs. to had that they been expecting of of the officers. It except the mean?" tents “What do unable control her was one sobbing him, to to you STILL WITH US. detached him days—he having taken the of for two half dozen such “You should instruct servants gently chided her and camps fears, but he a our long home, which both Jessie and they had been passing since troops kindly.”— to treat their employers way lacked ever Jake bade her that care see no Pappoose considered odd the isolated under time of breakfast —the Judge. comfort. The brave fellow camps was sore or H'4 s U \J BR’iGA'CxLO circumstances, though neither said railway little commands guarding the so feverish, but in danger new and great no I V fl GEHETRAL. If Ji Better Left Untouched. and nobody thought explain. But the climb Cheyenne. Papa, to to foothills miles in the on Five out now. the Freddy—l’ll have to remove the morning the third day “Miss Folsom” with old playing of cronies, two wandering the horses one or was they came upon I’ve bought price-tag from this present Neely.] the amazed sledge" in smoking to F Tennyson “old the veteran [Copyright, by 1897. Folsom —as was placidly back the valley, but compartment. to ji! ! Miss Van It “eight for Dusen. says At hear his daughter addressed, yet big station few miles reflection on miles further he and a Four a kept a on. $6.50.” marked down dollars, to concluded that he’d be uniform officers tempted back in the of CHAPTER VIII. two with him single ranchman men came upon old it Percy Better leave on, kick addressed to who her boarded the of them burly, any man limping afoot, rotund Irish three along car, one troopers orders the his Obedient to takes it back By the time she chap. otherwise—seized the favorable and sallow. He shown to a opportunity horses killed in the running fight was their squad his little at with sergeant, a marked down price it, it will be to to and whisked her and'at fond father section just in front of the girls’, these, grateful for long and of A few straight heels, had kept a one on. —Judge. $3.75. into of his library, he stared —stared long and and there Pappoose a corner Folsom’s flask, turned back and bluff pull rounding the at at later, minutes him understand that in that she bit her lip and turned to eastern hard, failed gave body the showed the of field them so A Hard Case. the flashing gallop, the over eyes w circles the housekeeper efl might nervously The dust porter prisoner. Stand sometimes, Magistrate enough for Hal away. One look brave. up, the party went of them, in front racing was perhaps, disposed the and of the hand luggage the seat arrested before? “Don’t accompany young Were comrade with him. and the in turf and the you ever out came over ® ladies when shopping, arrivals they going and" hung about the four? (proudly)—Be was," he had were Tim, the Biter it new let wife know —who of the fight. of the view full my scene the like, alone, but that when burly evidently in adulation. The or Well, Dey ain’t four would only muttered his friend. “It man was not. further down to yards hundred no Five guess escorted importance, and by it quite of nervous.” There papa was unnecessary. force kin in. It lay de make her a personage the Laramie. bend in deep run me cops more on stream was a It in fact, all his shoulder indicated that he not at straps more.—Philadelphia was, conventional. six Chaska, Lizette’s eldest brother, and always takes water's edge two Close the or to The major of the general staff. would well Hal Folsom knew that death Press. ground, was a stretched the lay horses upon diffidently, [To Be Continued.] followed somewhat other, who prairie unavenged. the dead. Out never go open stone on Nothing of the Kind. lieutenant of infantry, young was a kicking in his still when I do Indian “If time lay pony can ever a comes an "Doubtless,” said intellectual the The Japanese Divorce. snugly trim frock whose coat They talk of old romantic days soldiers and the lieutenant,” said he good dying turn, came agony, as you a Gasw’ell’s reception, Mrs. The following guest the at texts of are wondrous slender his figure. fitted through dew, the when, the shining into view with long sweeping two that afternoon worn-out rose up men as, —” think, with Agassiz letters, “you bearing recent d'ate, a Mr. —Mr. Loomis," “Ah, sit down here, milkmaid sped the mead. Well, of the low bank behind the pursuit and the hours of troop from scout, across “Certainly Mr. Longonlore,” exchanged not. between aggrieved’ husband an said major, patronizingly. “So the Chicago —Hal here’s milk made, their hats too. and encountered slowly marching back some stream swung was bright, exclaimed the hostess, with and. his delighted) both a successor, Horn. going the Big to Daily News. safe, you are up his hands and of Laramie, “I’ll do it if it Folsom the to costs one “I think with smile. of vivacious Azuma-mura, Ashikaga district, Tochigi my Well, sir, I hope shall hear good accounts we with look in their unwounded, ranch.” But Dean smiled yet the whole a me Tribune. mind!”—Chicago prefecture. Guests of the Afternoon. of There’s splendid field you. mortal a told of recent faces that and said wouldn’t have missed they gray “Mr. Sokichi Yamamoto: Sir—You is full of gossip, gleaned wife When my for officers of right sort—there— the peril. chance the ranch. What Acquired Taste. that for An even of from part town, have every been guilty of improper flirtations and opportunities distinction— for adapt himself “I believe piece it that blessed of luck the from certain Mrs. them. she’s had visit right! Go after can 1 know all a man “We’re a was a a on with wife, Tsune, and the my day.” Brown. married every Take life, for anything. had commanding officer Frayne bididen to best at dozen of They’ve off my run a affair 1 has greatly grieved For when she talks of fashions—hat And me. sound of the staff officer’s voice or At instance.” him take that instead of the afraid “and I’m route said Folsom, horses.’’ mantle, frock shoe— this I have madle various or reason complaints there roused from the opposite up sec- of that?” City! direct road Gate He had “What to «ake.” sent off here and thev that Smith told cut I’m Mrs. was sure against for offensive you your she knew. I’ve that living beyond her all riding “Why, in both the got ranch all to posts reached the “No! Jake so men on conduct, through the members of our —Chicago Record. positive pleasure.”— is Platte, with penciled lines telling income of did,” said somebody right—leastwise a my communal body, and. have sent you the Indian raid) and its results. Brooklyn Life. Once the “That's how got Shaughnessy. Rule of Action. His we endless apologies, but I find me as well covered by darkness the little Henry,” Bickers “John said Mrs. somebody, else to They got or news. them unsatisfactory, I have like Guess. A Good a band had easily escaped their they husband, “it is time returned bluffing when her only they pursuers, we were decided rid of wife, go,” to get “Well, I it’s time to man my guess and the safe river and Giikinson’s call.” waved scalp. How the that across were now many were he, the clock struck Said ten; andf I do herewith gije and! as transfer well ahead of all possibilty of “I have intention of returning it,” mere?” maid replied, hope,” the “I successful weary no her Henceforth to I will not you. entertain have again.” “That won’t to pursuit. But if anything guess you said Mr. Bickers. dozen—too for were “At least many a lingering affection for the News. any —Chicago Daily needed the real of the to temper “Why not?” Where’s the of the rest prove tackle. to vou and in proof thereof witness woman, Sioux the authorities had it. Now “Because believe in returning good SPLENDID I A MATCH. troop?” was signature. Kamekichi Fujikawa.” my the time grapple that Ogallalla tribe to for evil.”—Detroit Free Press. The lieutenant their heels. “Close at “Mr. Kamekichi Fujikawa: Sir—lt and bring it before it could to terms the ridge. right led them over •is indisputably true that I have been His Easy Job. be reenforced by half the Listen!” young men qSslSXivj fguilty intimacy of with beloved so,” “And she said, “you your were once in the villages of the northern plains. faint in the foothills, Yes, far wife, and that up I have account sent the stage? What did on part on you The Platte, of would be course, patrolled sounds of the chase and clear, the apologies through the members play?” you by force of cavalry for strong Dean’s heard. could be were men of communal body. Y’ou now have, “I the fool,” said, our he “in ‘King was weeks and to foray some come, for no new fleeing warriors, the closing however, steadfastly on refused' forgive to Lear.’ ” need be dreaded awhile. yet Red the silence of little while the and have instead’ forwarded every me! “Dear Why quit? did your you ever Cloud’s people would “lay low” and by the crack of broken wife range was to As it is will, I beg It have been such role must me. your an easy watch the effect of this exploit before 'Shaughnessy’s fellows carbine. rifle herewith or to acknowledge receipt and for you!”—Chicago Times-Herald. attempting another. If the White and look fidget began to “Let refresh memory.'J eagerly me your transference of said wife, etc.”— Father “got mad” and ordered “heap "MWI read their wish. Complimentary the Old Man. and he to thither, Japan Times. I soldiers” there punish to them, then tion, where he had been dozing has helped his (who Father with Folsom,” with Mr. of “Two over stay a son you fir I they disavow all Mouth. must participation in From the Mare’s of middle work) —What did the slim, athletic, teacher his home with said, “and the he rest paper, man a age, me. come i the affair, though of their Sir Robert Finlay, the attorneygeneral, with him heavy mustache and imperial, showed the sums? when do here, is even one new There’s nothing you say we can best braves prominent in like counsel with large If'. / just beginningto most johnny—He said I with getting hit?” young was turn a there? Sure you’re not gray, was more <r the and had paid it outrage, for the luxury practice, knows what is to receive —Glasgow Times. deep-set under bushy brows, and day. stupid a and eyes hell every “No. on! Give ’em get go with his life—even though Burning disconcerting reply from He—l’m ashamed all put keen face, rather deeply lined. There apparently to an see you with a horses. I’d but back go you, my Naturally. Star trying hide to the fresh guileless witness, and tells good that stuff cheeks, dear. dissipation look of there, shade was scar a on your my killed what horses they was a a they’ve —Smith’s wife has lockjaw. Simkins rifle of bullet along his himself in illustration. against She—Oh! don’t about that; shabbiness story of about his rakish clothes, a upper arm. worry ranch?” couldn’t drive. All safe the at a be Timkins—lt painful must a very Together Dean and Folsom rode He engaged for breach admirably.— back it matches the entire personality that cut to a on a case was your nose nodded he spurred Shaughnessy as affliction. the ranch, and another night horse, the of the to of of Ally Sloper. caused Folsom glance distrustfully warranty to was a age “We’ll lieutenant be gettin’ the away. —Yes; unspeakably Simpkins so.— there before the chief in dispute,andhad spent sufficiently animal being the matter troop than him the at previous w;as this,” said “if more brevet for he, once a News. Daily Mistake. Chicago His rested push Emory. cross-examined, hostler, to to and afternoon, with to meet coldness on a blackguards.” only close with those up can we her He pressed kiss lips. upon a of rustic with “Remember this, the tentatives yokel lieutenant,” said permissible in fellow appearance every a Had. And the words Only Chance He these bad.” she: "Oh, sir, you’re Said were simplicity. “Upon authority do Folsom what again, travelers. The he pressed his hand stranger’s morning forgive,” rude at Said he: “I’m C.—lt of Mrs. tc ?olsom carried back with him, as sorry—pray was very you as, And that’s what made her mad. of the mare?” he the parting, “there’s nothing had been lonesome. to Now he held his too good for making that while call. you age swear counting willing trooper's horse, he were we yawn a —Chicago Daily News. it,” asked. of the reply. “I’m and ‘C’ where it partly home. would troop at If C. —Wei), good gracious! Mr. I had sure was you newspaper his galloped homeward my ever to reassure Half questions failed dozen to need friend shield his face, permit his time!—Tit- you’ll find here.” yet watching Negative. Positive mouth and more you a a to thanking God for the opportune one some wife, my open the officers elicit from the witness-any De Mittened—The called And the time the aisle. first time coming when Marshall And I more specific Bits. across command, was something coming of the little yet know?” do his “But how Tartleigh Dean would need all in stealthy scrutiny attracted Miss she her photograph. that he could you answer. close-compressed lips on gave me swearing with Sympathy. thundered last. “I had Robert Pappoose. Sir at muster. day. the ill-starred work of the at for him who I mourns. weep mouth!” it mare’s “Yes,” continued the major, from the Le Flittened —How jolly! “I have replied Two days later—still inarch own Thus far he had striven from keep to for him I And eke a away weep. Chronicle. deal hostler.—London De Mittened—But the of that and the last time great I when country, Who has just knowledge from Emory—a courier to overtook him her all of the threats of seen a sneeze The baby’s half asleep. called Dean, of whom she her Mr. spoke, negative.— attached Ogallallas, with letter from his late you the although he knew she post was gave me a commander: Times-Herald. —Chicago Considerate Man. Mo.Rt Town Topics. the escorting troop to “Your vigorous have heard of them. had pursuit commission. must He and our marriage showed “Yes; think his I He is hardly—l have regret to believed himself soldierly action AGAIN. far back prompt, have added THE BAD BOY to secure so Worse Than Trnniiis. and kindhearted considerate him be most to a it—er—what imagine. We to the from the Platte. He tine record had done already made and merit you say Wife everything —I scared half death to was man.” it mildly, to put much disappointed in his hearty placate Red commendation.” The cordial were, to power to-day. A tramp along the kindhearted! Well, /' “Considerate and came in conduct his the day of words ('loud and brought the chiefs—to convince sunshine his heart. his our to and I thought street, he coming beautiful, but I admit she’s not was that the meeting with Sioux.” How former friends that he had proud Jess would be, and mother! never enticed in here. Iwhpts and she’s of worth mint money, a swift, A surprised glance passed between Baptiste He had Lizette, had not had word from either for noor as a Husband—l left pistol upstairs. husband suffered for my wouldn’t have a the girls, pained look shot calleG the child, from her home and week. The latter, though far a over a Wife—Yes; but forgot to if he her.” you unload had never seen the lieutenant’s into face, but before people. held from They he should strong, in content home at never was it.—N. Y. Weekly. showed he “Oh, that I don’t mean major the could the have left her, though she had the loving of his sister, and in the go on man across care accused his creditors.”—Chicago but for consideration for her, Growing Love. aisle the and bent him with him of Burning hope that he Star, would obtain the arose over no wrong. soon Post. Hewitt—When I first married extended hand. was in his leave of absence jealous hated him, long because anticipated, rage, so wife said, when she slapped face, “Ah, Burleigh, I thought I my knew the my and, he believed that for after brief but love Jess’s visit Pappoose’s to Indication. A Strong; 'S3 that the slaps love pats. voice.” But the hand were of grasped. the not paleface Lizette would have listened home, business would real was “Do to think he has new come any you Jewett—And now? major The drawing back, his his gladden face wooing, and the of kith to Folsom’s and kin, but was ability? eyes conscience Hewitt—Her love evidently has growing yellow-white with could mother’s of all, bringing acquit him of having most Jessie did him the not “I had. I should some he say stronger.—Town Topics. dismay. grown strange her preference with him. Little hope and of leading her of leave favor of absence bond, without his seen of going on don’t “You of identity. He could there speak of her his and less and not to he day, seem sure other on. my the was compensation, now, was Could Not Resist. Let refresh wife, without the Burleigh. shame ask it with and He to such troubles blamed furnish th© me your memory, let if didn't man he First remorse. Tramp—Oh, yes! I’ve me been I Capt. Newhall. had I idea looming what could all along the line of have been frontier document.”— am no see you the tax for tier up stamp coerced war into votin’ ’n wunst. more need drink, major—I’ll fate, for take with the girl had disappeared posts the north. But least to Chicago at a Times-Herald- one poor Second Tramp—How? you.” the from face of the there would joy earth, be the of seeing Jess in and now, First Tramp—Wit’ two-dollar bills! Unsophisticated. last, this day few days at had and showing her his proved him the troop to a —Puck. — fellow! He The Fiancee —Poor confessed CHAPTER IX. threats of her lover her and Pappoose. How wonderfully and her brothers girl he the only Accounted For. that not I was idle. He that little schoolgirl For not had have had must nearly week after the homecoming were so narrow grown a “See, they have mouths just papa, Blinks—Mr. and Mrs. Titwillow loved. ever seem squeak for his and developed! life, How beautiful sharp and sudden his beloved girl of daughter John a so a like piano teacher’s when he our along amicably. get that to The well, —Oh, Confidante and hard she be if that fight must Folsom for it that, photograph happy in her too now a was now presence kisses Sister Anna.” —Sondags-Nisse. Peterby—Yes; Titwillow is doesn't difference. make a peaceat-any-price any flatterer! that the peril his By the give began where much thought other to to matters. was no was over, nerve way, man.—Brooklyn Eagle. The he —Of Fiancee not; course What his that photo? By give hands had he done the end of week, to strong that however, to the Solgee. was way, Man’s —Brook- seemed it might. afraid be to with it? tremble. Armed with breechloaders, For the first time in honest old four A rich westerner found anxieties old pipe, RuHincMM Large Scale. on a lyn Life. yellow bietar. A leaf to days he he and his friends had remembered been his picking it thickening about two able him. There Hewett —Gruet that he is doing 48 up were says match. A lighted Mrs. stand when Hal Folsom off the attacking killing collapsed party, hours of undimmed rejoicing. Chicago. to big business in at Elinor a Very True. And forgetfulness. so jewett—He sight Jake’s of swooning. ponies, and emptying, they Down in the radiant, two fond, is; he sells and had women’s —Washington Stai. Bookkeeper—l ought get think I to was so so grown, depths the felt of side pocket saddles; but little by little of his heavy said the proud shoes.—Town topics. two father to himself, sure, and engaged get so pay! to lam more married Generally Well Liked. blue flannel hunting the Indians working around shirt he found said it, others, wondrously lovely. ! were so so \ “Does office clock give Matter A of Foresight. new your their crumpled bit, all position, and would have crawled and its lower His lefthand follow'ed her a Employer—Well, and get eyes movement. hurry every up and she satisfaction?” Jinks is calls “Mrs. 50 herself them bent blackened within hour but and He found two and himself pay! negligent upon corner her need an or of married.-and won’t gehtle more you middle-aged.” it keeps such unreliable “Yes; rime for crushed. Jake’s Chaska’s daring ride help last shot for and that little friend tore and It’s that’* guest, Jessie engaged Dean, this being expensive!—Puck. so clerks and the “Well, maybe she live that they expects to to come go as *tb« its blessed close below coming bluccoats in the of the sot- whom he had to vowed way so be second young to a please.”—Chicago Daily News. Record. I<X>.” —Chicago be