chatting Mr. to pleasant-faced maiden dance, ask you’ll scuffling between pecting to “there a us ton; some was who called /v’sM Hintonville her home, and Rossiter.” myself and Miss Densmore’s then, he bewilderment. realized it, he Rossiter in cried and “Dance!” ere finally stumbled 11 who was • pursuer, the floor making dancing. girl It the upon Was to where struck his head against tree, came a him naturally, for and when there Apparently not, him? unconscious.” of him was left game we general change bar of waltz wholly in earnest. a to orchard she seemed -lor They had reached the by — a music—they his engaged in said in reply to “Certainly,” she brief and paused were this a time, a space quadrille—and the others do w’altzed, he dance, exclamation. “You few you A Miss Densmore rest. •Tory Concerned Him let Mont. to Two Kinds of Wag. a followed suit, with his who THE vis-a-vis, DEAD PAST. sinner not?” During big revival lounging beneath In low’a law attorney hop-pickers court was a a an an were chanced admit to be Miss Merton. compelled to worked While preacher Rossiter greatly the munching the mellow arguing with great earnestness the trees, was up. was Why sit were? and sigh that o’er things “You let must thank you,” she danced. his the had exhorting, sinner in Rossiter curiously, that he me and midst of the stared eloquence. They at In the fruit. was arose Let’s iook ahead; with hopes fond new, said. “And think that much tried to feel with shall audience his flushed and, with face “Then him with the two girls, you he paused moment. seeing very argument *Tis foolish we a to expect rose a make to that out ‘rusty’! dance do head said: To if not emotion, dead. slighted you were “I his the bush that’s exchanged idly speculative now, honor shakes grow and upon you comments. see your Come, Why, one. let added. would imagine did put regret us us,” she “Dear spirit neglect friends, I feel the away if you that desire and at statement. I to moving you reaffirm And face all future winds that blow; nothing but ‘trip light? fantastic’!” the I’ve Sylvia?” bad “Won’t dissents.” confess what slick that chap ain’t it, although honor to ‘’Well, if man me we, a a your We can't with start the furnace up Mr. Rossiter is been, grand not but while the I can’t do it remarked. “I w’onder “I one!” how accustomed The sure coal am burned one we ago. a year “If it’s that deceivers said true his friends,” jury slight is in session.” replied the lie to men are “I have intimated,” worked it?” not The *he mother ever,” of hoy returned, the whooping “women you,” shouted “The evidence Lord will forgive “I wish Miss Densmore. are judge, the said another, “how up,” I should construe ‘"Give it Can be gentle maid never a certainly flatterers ever.” the danced in number haven’t in preacher. “But I will be what decision he’d tell us.” a or my Back blew where the balmy breezes Once the ice broken, Rossiter “I sinner, and—” began Rossiter, know it, I know it,” said the was uncalled It’s of is won’t, fear. too the and remark played. “He And heroes years, vision through her you never case, your enjoyed himself Miss thoroughly. jury.”— the gayeties of “but He isn't grand Alas! heard the Why will sadly sigh. He had ■for.” the she thing.” good on • a woe? Since her Merton’s sighing quench friends, ignored apparently not Atchison Globe. may night talked about how it’s following ask him head.” “You among shook “Suppose you your We with can’t the furnace start up his rough and after little garb, pickers of the number a “That the court be true,” done.” younger replied. a — may The coal burned we a year ago. The Antl-Trnit Bills. Becraft in twitter smash in the ‘mug?’ Not Mamie over “An’ git “There fly was ear, a on-my a was a They’re bills, passing anti-trust Why , back them—but' meant sit in looking gossip had the it and I sorrow, much!” , reserved the right to remove fret? So why should ipen poor At things might have been, fret that or dance! It Proceed him. He , walking They’re ’em clusters hpw nothing to in passing in three fit. The was I were ■" on, — any manner saw were? Because of grevious things that But trust’s busted yet.' lacked skill in no absurd. Not-that he pickers observant? noted that Bag. and the with argument.”—Green They’re who forget! your only happy —Chicago Record-Herald. considered he had been paused they the hopkiln. the Once to The is ’twill ne’er return, they art. past - came as gone, Hi» Wife. Blind Faith in blow— The withered accomplished, more may partner rose no the* most WOK. a JOHKKIE with We the furnace Bacon—My wife reads can’t start every new up whom welcomed by all hardly need farther,” “You"!! who me was The coal burned ago. a year we . work that out. comes in another but that saying, with sought, Rossiter smile, he was Record-Herald. Kiser, in Chicago was a —S. E. Egbert—All I the fiction, suppose? new’ 'surprised- .that He had making all been existence. for attempt was an proposed cousin and her Merton gayety. Miss at “Yes, all of it.” rolliekings free-and-easy her hand. the extended joining in Miss Densmore “And I to that prepared evidently am wager but hop-dance, thank me!” he exclaimed, of the “Don’t she has the Declaration of read, never bent lark, might girls she frame the fearing to two try on a were some A KNIGHT OF Independence!” doubtless to Miriam of gratitude.' and eager expression was /‘Well, THE HIGHWAY I don”t remember having the phases all quivered, and though she Miss Densmore show Her lips her if she mention that; but ; ■ he read in, her the hop-harvest. speak’, of did not eyes hasn’t conclude read it I completed guess you can feeling. haven’t unuttered “You her your sentence,” By CLINTON SCOLLARD. it isn’t good!”—Yonkers Statesman. ‘‘That any said Miss Merton. and mother will have “Father to Author "A “The Son of Min Arms," at because does not will ‘and’ it be better, I think, you but know, mean of Tory,” Etc. , a in haven’t danced tjme should,” said else Miss you that some one no Fiendish Revenge. hope’.”" I won’t dance Mgrton. ♦ The burglar opened now, ' softly the door - glanced’down should pole-puller The dream of mentioning at “I not of the suburbanite’s sleeping apartment, wished Copyright, by and his attire. J. B. Lippincott Co. his clumsy shoes at unless the matter it,” 1901, searched you clipped inside, and > All rights reserved. said, and with “People their finery at Rossiter don’t the a grave wear thoroughly, found nothing but room A WAS THEY FOUND SEAT THAT salutation, he left them. hop-dances,” said Miss Merton. worth stealing. CHAPTER VIII. UNOCCUPIED., ' - As’ he had Walked byrMiss Densmore’s And Rossiter would not yet “Darn prom? him!” soliloquized, “I’ll he t ■)■*»'. ' -,-x r side he had determined that ise. Much he knew the. pleasure THE HOP-DANCE, get of him, as forgot satisfaction he bimsylf .in large out measure some a he the girls in safety intimate would him, this be to as soon as saw occasionally f” more Joe-Becraft observed That regard it, Miss Merton should anyway the house he would tell Jack to association with tlje two friendly and "good.” Teacher—Johnnie, mingled admiration Thereupon clock her ’him,’with he the alarm with cousin and Rossiter set compare amazement a Parmelee what had and happened, their feeling that wonderland had cousins, he the the of Johnnie—The that learn evening three gc+'d both,4heir a and sb bureau for the hour but natural. On on we was with’him, and perhaps Joe Becraft them' gratitude prompted to from 2a Incomparable.— urge ma’am, faces written,. and .softly Tribune. departed. —Chicago something unusual you, wore was on.»-• other, shrank return to the he wood him, and, from or spme moreover, Between;.eleven, N. Y. Sun. midnight exhaustion and Miss Densmore’s ' ■ re- on and Dawson, still if he garb, Miss Merton’s meeting, his in secure were cider dreadful coarse d and the lingering of traces —new a Twin Awk yards. Days. Included All the unconsicous, give pursuit in friends. The girls Hintonville of*’Mrs.’ or case mingled Merton’s fear, Rossiter’s and unapproachable a some on There objects ungraceful write Little told two Johnnie had been are to the had recovered and vagrant taken the renewed their attack next morning, doughnuts.- While the sternness and solicitude. You can’t lose, life; to save your should short composition in which he a himself off. But he recognized but without avail. now Rossiter They’re fellow with needle. jn •’What has happened?” Miss Merton repast '{progress a a managed was of the something the days about say 'MiSs 'Mertems And with knife. wisdom jn desiring rusty,” Rossiter plead woman . * “I’m a a too ' himself,.though when ? as absent cried. to week. —Baltimore News. _ That the affair be kept quiet. IJie be treading “I tip'he - again music struck on “Your cousin had terrible an excuse, the has was on a The minutes, little fellow thought few a publicity which would, of necessity, everyone’s toes!” The Merton Fault. chidden by Miss Constitution a< hand be fright,” quickly. to said Rossiter, 1 then produced and triumphantly be given it all in to Dawson “I first that Miss chanced that afternoon tell you,” said the reformer, It case had danced He for running at,.Miss He glanced paused and away. this: back caught and haled to the “we had left the yard for few agitation were Merton ought start to and a twice with Miss Denspjore, Densmore. an thus that He had spoken now “Monday killed bear father afad I a .farm would only what keep ventureij to ljim>ft>r and Miss Densmore to prize-fighting bv curb thp evil moments, serve askfherjtd was favojf if explanation to she might be saved an and there enough last to meat over had was occurred fresh in Miss Densmore’s picking alone. Rossiter passing, Sloney-musk of constitutional amendment.” just had third dime, means was a she did could make feel that she not a Tuesday,. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, mind, might and that she and she called him. , to ■been just then. She him grateful one gave a Saturday Sunday.”—Cincinnati ’and speedily from the shock it “My “But,” reformer, cousin is sadly put out/’ she qfia&Hile' objects the second recover wait for “Will not look seat she sank the a you as upon Enquirer. best that nothing in connection obstinate. said, “because “that would all of was the- lanc'erS?” react So suggested. “I, before idle.; you are upon the spring. For moment •or a with the in the wood be us.” She is anxious, must scene reverted longer. should little very you like to as rest . Sad she gazed the welling water, at then A a Teille. by to. have way?” set “In what to outselves. know.” I’m seep, arrange not strong, An infant a from Marseilles her face and began she put hands her to very you sunny Towards evening Mr. Each “Doesn’t Merton There three qn.d night fills the air with its weilles, the constitution twOj .side. fpn He -lingered hgj are men at guarantee Miss sob softly. In instant ay moment,, to an While its French poor papa sbught 'him and poured girls coming Hintonville, and out, from the right inclined of free speech?”— seeming to be to upon not Merton's her about arms were And s its petite mamma him stream of grateful, Jack (that’s yotf and, to Rossiter, Mr. Parmeleb, Judge. another a seek partner; cousin, Rossiter, turning Tiis back and several Weep fill enough .peiHes. to epibayrassing know’) for his can’t dance all the time, for praise dance,” “If intending to —Brodklyn Lafe. not few them, moved you are upon paces away. a Uncle Reuben Say*: .cjpjjducL he’s Jt only when he got everything look to after.;, said, ‘tperhaps will she was that •it of longing" If the ghost you, a It KO.CAIS¥ FOR ALAHJI, to be of de easiest seems one ' yon’ launched perhaps excusably realize how ■muclf much Into"the should upon a you orchard. I the comfort very might be his right to things airth piece mortgage of to on a profane denunciation of Dawson that could help if would?” only of out ybu air.” like breath distraught girl into his heart, a came land and gwine spend in de to money lhe late This wanderer feel-comfortable the qujte began to put matter in different , Just without* urtder the a he quickly from him. She it put was de circus an’ eatin’ chickens, an’J fried in his Gratitude light. tic been.-placed, and above, seats had presence. for such he soothe with not to as reckon dis world would come powerful “I will iii form, has been previously do what I can,” said Rossiter, in lanterns the branches, Japanese any as words. endearing assuring any or bein’ Heaven if de interest near simply. indicated, that Rossiter far from “I didn’t quite understand.” seat hung. They very found .was Though had fear that the he unoccupied a suddenly motionless no dat didn’t fall mortgage on being accustomed Whenever he to. watching the dancers and sat would form in the woods due an’ blimp all to once a man over able render it “Thank you,” to service and her smile There through the door.. was was a fell he carried molest them, to open to recover an’ make him realize dis dat vale am a his do free-heartedly, real joy nature to him tp than unreality the about singular so more bough-sway and anything watching was a every of tears.—Detroit Free Press. and neither desire he to ask to had experienced, it seemed softened The whole nor a leaf-stir intently. scene. a every of He knew, to him, since he sort. could recall. little by’ distance, lost'none of its recompense any Farming the City. in “Mr. Rossiter!” called Miss Mer- • had generally speaking, that he little Evening Teacher blithesomeness, took (trying and but mellow enlarge Johnny's all to preparations came, on a ton. presently. give, to but to that little in for the gayetieS charm within. The vocabulary) had that it had Now, Johnny, been not anyone made. The about replied, swinging “Yes,” he need wholly welcome. This floor of flitting is the large hop-house figures, crossing the what the of the place I told was was had been space and facing her. name of the man’s\ attractive most cleared visible door-way, and the through the about awhile where one lighted with with us?” were you Will walk back ago your room you characteristics. by Yet in time like of pirouetting lamps succession and lanterns. father sends About be made into gone the to walls puppets. it.” a “Certainly, if wish cream you it this open-handedness quixotic night festoons Out of the the of hops had butter? was very been hung, said of you,” came “It would be good a so that in small clearly’ chorded cricket thrumming. platform Johnny The was measure responsible erected for the creamatory!--N. Y. a musicians, Miss Densmore, who looked as for his downfall. touched It impossible and not to be seats placed Times. for the might snatch was though the least jar dancers by of light During neither when the combination the next days they subtle the two not her consciousness. “I from not were on am Improvement. Negative of Miss Merton her cousin appeared floor. Before and sound, and Rossiter let eight o’clock the music, Small Boy—My father that go myself.” nor quite of says sure Miss Chellus—Automobiling is her hold he in the hop-yard. he the had kept himself. On Tuesday, two fiddlers tense and celloist, arrived, will kill smoking cigarettes upon Merton as Miss side of a you. upon one hear. fad, I now, him seemed like Rossiter The gjrl beside coming from dinner, and the pickers from givin’ two Big Kid—Ah, g’wan, whatcher and was soon Rossiter Miss Densmore or upon Miss Speitz—Ah! because improves it yes; he exbtid in whose standing chanced the former three adjacent to farms drove in a rare presence us? It’s that die only the good other, they slowly climbed the see the up young. looks her least 50 at cent. per inscrutable ventured permitted, by alone the porch, and large hop-wagons. Then —Milwaukee shortly Miss Sentinel. was an towards the orchard. For upon slope some idea! Chellus—The Miss How? chance, for brief to linger inquire for Miss Densmore. Merton’s little to from party Hintonville a space. nothing said. Gradually, moments was Speitz—Because Miss she wears a Perils of Winter. Why he asked himself, much should he “She’s feeling not, better today,” appeared, and by half-past eight however, Miss Densmore regained mask half the time.—Philadelphia On the walk building in of tall front a exquisite enjoy' the of “Sunday Miss Merton said. the dancing in full swing. sense her self-control, and length at was He all, Press. hurrying do was on, we as exhaled? personality’ beauty that her night anxious about Rossiter did were very not join in the merriment When twain— Rossiter. we icicle cleft his head in she turned to an of plungd Into and life what brain.” Rhyme Verdict.: the A her, fearing of the fever “Died of Love. return of water surge on the at outset, but stood the “Will tell how chanced a in you you me —Chicago Tribune. read idle "I like book,” said, he might carried it he be from recovered, you which she .a recently was background door' soon the she asked. watching, the wood?” to be in near Then with fervid look, a he would conjecture. At least to but I’m there’s danger now. with little the sure no not the •.; Foresight. had strolled down from amusement, “I a love antics “I you!” she; softly answered bear with him fragrant recollection, We shall be shouting ‘Hop-pole!’ out said needed one Now, I always of of He the rustics. with and Several “Then and kiss the book.” house 1 we some swear magazine nev.spaper a — drop of-a prqpious .attar to again soon.” He to and kissed her times. one swore, would occasionally cofding. stations . many me," you very which Mr. Parmelee lent launch into men — future. Said she: “You’re greedy—very! what desert sweeten might be prediction proved Miss Merton’s to Wife—You a Admiring did, indeed, of break-down, - sitting in little sort and sound His replied, “and the he was a a • enough. Come, sir, I think you’ve had be for the following afternoon true, of their I’m I remember down the on energetic efforts, Henry!. glade short distance usually in sure your saying For library.” I’m free a no Continued.] Bey [To tftat Rossiter the. girls two of cry.” coming excellent time, something kind longbefore —Philadelphia Bulletin. heard saw would logging-road when I be heard above vcm towards the yard. 1 shuffle there the —” combined thought of strike. of Was explain to she all other feet “1 must any you— a The — Boy That Was Washed. GENEROUS Jtlß. CASEY. "Your holiday’s said now,” Joe over and Puck. ‘ : the rise and Hip of the began. music. physician A Philadelphia who., is Becraft, whom he chanced to the Swains now!” interrupted near grasped “Don’t Sylvia, don't waists of their Ihstanci. something of and fair ventriloquist Anothetr a wag, a be standing, with little grin, “but dulcineas, they Merton, and Rossiter a “swung'partners,” Miss aS recently in besides, “Then didn’t'arrest they her for was I don’t s’pOse mind.” a-nd whirled them yvitlr you remonstrance. ghy‘abandon. added gentle a need of services of boy, and stealing?*’ "' ; the " a ’ Rossiter laughed good-humoredly, the Thopgh “I attire said Miss Densmore, of the “Yes,” was men He inserted wanted of nerve*. “No; they found she in affluent an one was hastened - and have pole to it commonplace in the tjisft, we’ll refer then not to again. extreme, away a must, tKe fii daily advertisement called circumstances, and it papers. of a case in readiness for pickers. the returning of the watching the water extraordinary I ripple women was as applidnnt was a.private Each shown to kleptomania.” whs it Indeed, he did mind. Quite not varied. Bright wood when. fancied the I colors into was ns Circumstances predominated, away there the apartment where alter cases.”; “I was see. — the contrary. Though he would footstep. I startled and few the heard not of 1 was so a a Tribune. frame full-sized skeleton of human Chicago a hardly admit it himself, to the hours that combinations and there would have likely I that been up, was sprang bdwl and boiling porridge. The of a ■"Unintentional. - had of them dragged sadly could have been afflict the He to artist’s not many with more of man. an eye doctor the explained that one ■ “Charley that I ,m.ake, biscuit since Miss Merton and her cousin .says from he had optical disturbance. feet than acute 30 crept me, feed the duties of the boy to was like his mother used just tb make,” had be'en absent from the hop-field, I have idea up" noiselessly. . The leader of no the drcbestra, if it so with the. porridge, skeleton each day Mrs. Tdrkins. said and he felt thrill of pleasure he approached, at thus* young direction which from a be permissible dignify the to ; Tnm desired and he to at commence • “Ind eed! ” said ’the thoughtless their approach which it useless him he woman; when I first but was especially music, was entertained Rossiter. saw Sonffe immediately declined; once. understood' that “I always his to Whither attempt to the path by in standing behind repress. was His black hair and whiskers me others in hand and took the spoon mother inferior cook.”— he drifting? he asked himself. very was a He began which to had evidently • for move been elaborated came. we the mouth, into poured the porridge Washington Star. Both girls him greeted him with and I cried out to frank owards the occasion, luster 1 and shone me, with caused whereupon the the doctor a friendliness, his business. He and though he about endeavored which to unmistakably oily. on go gurgle, Rotter was skeleton seemingly to Left Unsaid- maintain his former heed this, I the to to to He handled Casey died he left all he his bow “When Mr. with so —You no ran reserve, Homer can’t hot!” This, Mrs. gave “Ugh-h-h, it’s in home but exaggerated an a go the spring, the neither of them would side of putting have it asylum.” other had orphan and called the the changes with to so. tifye it raining, Stay signal for wild, while is and have ease dozen so. cases, a was Miss Densmore and the quite depression water between seemed herself, ua.A. '• nice of him. What delicious “Indeed! That gusto. scramble—tfte One particular with a doctw’ having only dinner was a --- and He grinning at and oh, for Miss Merton, she in leave?” change in the appeared did quadrille he was me, as Witless—Oh, thank us. was to Mr. nd, rapidly disappearing fleeting glance It at you. a afraid the his face!—l I shall dream of moods. gayest Journal. “His children.”—Chicago be great favorite with 12 him, and he all am gay bad that. isn’t —Chicago sturdy little Daily a figure. At last as as a mad.” and if I do I shall about it. “Of you’ve heard about the always preluded it with grand go Newt. himself. course Irish presented When chap a .• For Change. a seemed about losing her She hop-dance!” she exclaimed. “It's the His power violin strings. to performance sweep his the Relative. across turn ' came was Dftata'fet time will drawnear The summer soon restraining her feelings, and both of be of the largest have voice gathered than it’s' one “Ugh-h-h, but hot,”- repeated'. we ever more And ’twill be rather nice —You Jack don’t that to mean say Rossiter and Merton Miss again had. Sylvia’s animation, and he broke this bother o’er the and into To drop coal the skeleton. The lad never said seen one, something never just, girl pretty passed is we your the but she And o'er ice. her begged she’s worry to curious more, about it. You’re like tune: moved.''“Why say no don’t blow it, very a on ye ye sister? Star. —Washington heed them. would not familiar with hop-dances, I “First lady balance righthand said. That boy the auld bony?” he suppose, to secured I’m her •Tom—Yes; brother by refusal. exclaimed, “let tell “No,” she Mr. Rossiter?” Wept. me Why He with gent, the right-hand round, the position. —Cincinnati Enquirer. with!, He began it done read book and have Gladys—Papa of “No,” said Rossiter, “I can’t the right-hand your right-hand round, the you say that maneuvering I line. and that I am.” wept now so round; balance . 'His Judgment. to the over every the next with poems told,” 'a fuoi-is towards the house, 3-beeti Affianced—He did? What hk»- should not In his qollege days think said the Her nunjber of his in amateur, left-hand run round; lady in the center man a for slipped succeeded, foot He said he good Gladys—Yes. couldn’t And he companions in the habit I’m What of conceit that he is fool. “that actor. do my attending and not hands were round. a A-la-main a seven the to the leaping outlet think of that?” help but to such lobster I these rustic think frolics, but it It requires of experience to partners!” to And with weep was what a years you as your seized have would and he chanced think there awful coming into the family.—Judge. that he spring, had ripen man’s receptive faculties for “I liars me magnificent flourish are some never the was accompanied a came loggingroad.” the down fled them. w,orld.” —Chicago this Post. had I not solid truth. in close! Concentration, “What! Why, how funny! But I The human brain is piece of There waltxes galops, were a machinery no or “Then,” said his friend, “a numbef Old Bluff. The Same caught Rossiter at and forgot, paused, you’re farmer, She not you? but the that requires oiling the instant lancers followed the Virginia a are really believe “Do will be of consolidated trusts into you you are all talk end Well, opportunity to you’ll have chance the reel, and the squeaks. to it on money-musk the a see he loved?” girl only one?” the ever theme. what hop-dance distressing is like. I’ve asked quadrille. By We have of for the and lot respect by, when there a a so a has not, but “Exactly,” replied the “Of to “We magnate. one course pretend loggingroad. in the few friends be from “I chanced to Hintonville, lull girl who play piano well in the music, the and a up Jack Parmelee was a can believe those stories, well dispense with ruperflu* might to as you say,” he heard and going in for good have grand sought Rossiter, cook steak better.—Baltipiore me and presently we are you a as a American. trusts.” —Brooklyn if*. —Chicago know.” ous addressing Miss Mer- time, aren’t quickly, Sylvia? We Ln the put whilom vagabond New*. found himself we, are «x* -—r . -I . .