^ey can pay law mone Spring Fever* "The negotiations reached this conclusion one of the shelves that ran across the partition hav the next day. I was to give the Prescott a was smoking. I discovered that a large fobmentf^ 7 such decision. tIle thousand dollars down, and the rest of the I know where summer woods are green, condenser or lens which was fixed in a brass A "He uttered not a word, but stared at me as money she would takeip yearly installments. Where summer shade is dark and deep, ju frame had been left on the projection of the if he though thnno-htt. I had gono o-r.ne mad. yers Vers,, aild f.hfiTy havn hiMre filed an appeall 4Wv haA maA filorl on onnoa I immediately wrote to my mother in Delhi, window-sash, and it brought the focus of the Where frondage forms a cooling stream, "At that moment a coupe came along and the decision of the commsssioner of patents. and she promised to raise me the five hundred sun's rays upon the dry edge of thepine shelf, Where wide-leaved lilies lie asleep, he hailed it He offered thediiver ten dollars dollars by mortgaging a piece of land. But I This appeal will be tried in the In an instant my mind had formulated a And where the early blossoms blow: to get bin. to Eighteenth street and Third would have to wait several weeks for the scheme. circuit court. I know, I know, but cannot go. ayenue, and jumped in. Then he held the transaction to be completed. I told all this "I looked at my watch. It was four o'clock door open for me to follow him. A moment to the Prescot, and she said there was no and nineteen minutes. I moved the lens, and later we wererattling away toward New York.r Bolshazzar. **"on*'* The midnight honr was drawing hurry. Whenever I got the money we could 1 know where laughing waters fall, I taunted him all the way. but he never saideh found that I could throw the focus into the consumate the sale. In the meantime, If I .__ .~v.e Translated from Heine. Where sapphire summer lakes are spread, a word. middle of the shelf. Ellingher would probably pleased, I could take my five hundred dollars Where merry springs are musical, tear AnrlJr^ff V$ never notice it. Then I examined the bottles blackened remains,' I said, 'for we are even Hushed into rest lay Babylon and make the reeded improvements that I And brooks with fountains at the head, on the shelves. There were two large nw.' had suggested. I might consider that a loan fkrv And where the lordly livers vessels containing 'absolute alcohol,' one that "The ma-n drov" up Second avenve tU Io from her when ee made our bargain." I kno^v, I know, but cannot go. ,-p "v-w^u. avcuvo All save the royal palace, where was half full of oleum olivce, and another of lfteenth sti eet, and thiough that side street Was the din of revel, and torches' flare *And you did that?" terebin thina. These jars were against the to Thud avenue. The moment weturned the partition of my room. The phosphorus was "Curses on my folly, I did. I was infatua^ last corner we both thrust our heads out of There high within his royal hall 1 know where birds delightto sing, kept in the cellar, under water, but there was ed, I went every day to the house. I played *"$,.*^H IM UU IIIB iviyni nai-l- uu the windows. n-i-i.v Where squirrels chatter at their play, rosin, Burgundy pitch, and benzine under the draughts with the old woman. I listened to Belshazzas the Kin held splendo.r festival noble 1rfl1 him shine,s,euiue "I was just about to tell the driver not to Where bees sweep by on busy wing, shelves on the floor. dnw -f-..w i all her ^roubles. I got to chattering with Hisf noble around him splendor Hi mind the crowd, but inform the police officers Where fragrance fills the dying day, Addie on the staiis. I became intimate with "Now that a difinite plan of action was An drain down goblets of sparkling wine. we -were occupants of the burning building And fireflies sparkle to and fro, Ellingher. He entered into all my plans. I formed I had became a new man. All my and to drive right through, when I caught I know, I know, but cannot go. had designs made of new soda fountains. old activity and skill revived. I had received The nobles shout and the goblets ring sight of the store." Tore out the shelving, put new marbles on the money, tardily enough, from my mother, 'Twas sweet to hear of that stiff necked King, "Well!" the prescription-counter. In fact, I spent all and resolved to devote the whole of it to carrying know where ocean airs are free, "Well, theie it stood. Ellingher was in the my time th**re for three weeks. And one day out my revenge. And to the accomplishment The cheeks of the King, they flushed with fire Where salt waves dash upon the beach, doorway. A party of boys were playing Mrs. Prescot said to me: 'Why don't you of my purpose I bent all my intelligence And still as he drank his conceit grew higher Where bright sails glisten o'er the sea, take that hall room on the first floor? You marbles on the sidewalk. Addie Prescot hersell: and subordinated all my feelings Where rock and sand strangelessons teachRock can have it cheap, It's of no service to me, An maddened^ with pride,o his lips let faln tfas leaning on the sill of the side win- ^mrt^p^itifrnu "It took me three months. Do you know dark as death, sand white as snow, and it will be very convenietfor you.' Wild words, that blaspheme the grest Lord of what 1 did? Let me tell you, as briefly as possible. "I don't remember anything else. Now I know, I know, but cannot go. All. First of all I dissembled and won a "Then I went to live there. you know the facts about that case there's subordinate place in May's employ. He "It was the turning point in my career. our boat." More vaunting he grew, and his blasphemous thought hecould trust me, and that knowledge From that moment I was doomed." Jut then Commissioner Brennan came into This wilderness of stone and brick gave me joy, for I felt I was fooling sneers "You mean sentimentally doomed? We all the office and Urquehardt went out. I pointed Enfolds me still from day to day: destiny. I learned his habits, studied his weaknesses, are at sometime." Were hailed by his lordly rout with cheers. after the man, and wanted to know what was My soul is sad my heart is"sick, and waited. On Thursdays Ellingher "I mean," said Urqueharpt, "that I wa3 the matter with him. And yet I cannot slip away Proudly the King has a mandate passed had a half holiday, and I was left in possesson changed absolutely from a Christian gentleman "Too much Bohemian, I think," said the pleasant places that I know, Away hie the slaves,and come back full fast. of the store. By degrees I made just the to a malignant fiend. You think you Commissioner. "He's been writing novels for snow,I know, but cannot go."' inflammable materials in the laboratory that Many gold vessels they bring with them, are listening to the former friend of your a weekly paper, and has got softening of the answered my purpose. The arrangement was school days. It's a mistake. I'm not the The spoils of God's House in Jerusalem. brain. We're going to take him up to Dr. URQUEHARllT'S KliVEJfttE. a most ingenious one, and I knew that if a same person. When you have neard me Macdonald to see if we can't straighten him With impious hand the King caught up, flame ignited one end of my train no human through you will execrate me. A month out." On my way to the island on a purely professional power could prevent it 'from reaching the Filled to the brim, a sacred cup passed by in that house. For sentimental "Was he ever employed in a drugstore on other end. I calculated the sun's apparent visit I encountered Urquehardt. It purposes, a month is a lifetime. Addie and And down to the bottom he drained it dry, the Third motion southward day by day. I experimented I were confidential lovers. I had found my was on the pier at the foot of Twenty-sixth "Has he been telling vou that incendiarJy And aloud with his mouth afoam did cry, with a duplicate lens of the same power in way to her heart. She sympathized with me, yarn?" street. There is a little waiting-room there my room. I had a diagram of the partition, "Jehovah! I scoff at Thy greatness gone! and entered into all my plans as only one can "Yes." not bigger thana large packing-box, in which and could tell to the sixteenth of an inch dowhohasa prospective interest in them. I am the King of Babylon." "Well, if you want to go to the island, where the sunlight would fall at any hour in the miserable wretches who are waiting for When not in the shop, I spent most of my you'd better waltz aboard. There you are The terrible weds were ringing still, the afternoon." time with her. I was as happy as a man the boat to take them to Blackwell's or Randall's now!" When the King at his heart felt a secret chiil. could well be, for I had an assured future,and Island usually huddle to escape the river When I*'got on fee boat Urquehardt saw Here 1 interrupted Urquehardt. "It seems was loved. The laughter ceased, the lords held their me. He came up with an attendant and to me, my friend," I said, "that you were tak winds in winter and the glare of the sun in breath, whispered in my ear. 'On the 26th of July a bolt fell out of the ing extraordinary pains to become an incendiary, summer. At this time it was empty. I had I forgot to tell you that a cloud ohsaured and might have eet Are to the store And all through the hall it was still as death. clear sky and crushed me." iust missed the boat, and would have to wait more directly and surely." the sun from nine to ten minutes past three, "Ah, it was business disappointment? A And see, see there! on the white wall, see, nearly an hour. clear sky is always full of them." and at ten minutes past, when it shone again, "Yes," he replied, "but it was no part of Comes forth whatseems a man's hand to be! the focus fell outside of my phosphorus. The "No," said Urquehardt. my objectthough itmight be of unavoidable While I was growling to myself about it And it wrote and wrote in letters of flame, fire that took place was caused by the upsetting consequenceto burn his store." "Well, it was disappointment in love?" Urquehardt came in. I hardly knew him. of a plumber's fire pot in the next On the white wallthen vanished the way it "Ah, what then was your object?" "No," said Urquehardt. "I used the wrong For seven years I had lost sight of him, and street. "You shall learn. Immediately over my metaphor I was crushed by the uneventful not knowing if he were dead or auve, had came. room was the chamber occupied by Miss march of events. I was ruined because no ceased to think of him. He had studied with The King sat staring, he could not speak, A Western Diana. Addie. She was in the habit of sewing there bolt would fall. me for a year. We had been quite intimate at His knees knocked together, death pale was in the afternoons. I could hear the treadle "On the 26th of July I was approaching the school. He was a bright, nervous, ambitious his cheek. of her sewing machine for an hourat the time. Five miles from Eureka, Kansas, lives house, singing inmy heart I hadjust bought fellow, and had shown remarkable proficiency With cold fear creeping his lords sat round, On the floot above that there was a storeroom, a little present for Addie it was a coral rose a prosperous farmer named Robert Loy, in chemistry. I had heard afterward that he They sat dumb-stricken, with never a sound, seldom entered, and, as I found, well packed exquisitely cut. I had it in my pocket, and had drifted into the drug business, and once who is engaged raising sheep. His "boys The Magians came, but no one of them all with refuse. Among other thikgs it contained my fingers were around it. I look up. A or twice vague intimations reached me that are all girls," and one of his daughters, an oil cask, which at some time had been young man was ringing the door-hell. Some, Could interpret the writing upon the wall. he had contracted irregular habits. Then, as Mary Belle Loy, barely fourteen years of brought up from the cellar of the store to put hing made me pause. Some instinct of my That self-same nighthis soul God slain! I say, I lost sight of him and forgot him. under a leak in the roof. Such was the soul recognized my enemy. He was a tall, age, is the shepherdess, whose rosy Was Belshazzar the King by his nobles slain. Now he stood before me, and when he structure of the building that there was a handsome fellow, with a pink face, blonde cheeks, sun-burnt face and graceful form made himself known I was astonished at the A Young Husband's Troubles With space of four inches between the plaster and whiskers, and exquisite's dress. I stepped as she mounts her pony would excite the change seven years had wrought. the bricks, reaching from that storeroom to back and waited. Presently I heard a feminine Limburger. One feels instantly, in such cases, the relative envy of many city belles, and charm the the ground floor on three sides of Addie's 'a-hem.' He looked up. A smiling face condition of a companion. I did not room. I calculated that with a rubber tube was at the window overhead. I heard him eye pf a connoisseur in search of a sensitivejrose Faribault (Miss Telegraph. need to ask him if he had suffered. drawn up through the space to the barrel I say he called, about the drugstore, and desired to complete the latest work of A young gentleman of Fairbaulta He betrayed it in his thin face, his restless could pump fiom my room noiselessly at least to see Mrs. Prescot. A moment latter the door his easel. boy among the boyswho occasionally eye, and his crushed expression. But I was forty gallons of benzine in one night, and that opened and he went in." visited saloons and sampled lamb's unprepared to hear that it was a case of the when I was ready I could upset the cask so One day in July? while looking after "A harmless bolt," I remarked. "You heart. that the inflammable fluid would flow down tongue, pig's feet, tripe, and actually educated her wooly wards, she discovered a fullgrown turned it aside?" "You've got half an hour to wait," said he, the aperture on three sides of her room, saturating "No," replied Urquehardt "it turned me himself to like limburger cheese, wolf of the coyote species, and an after we had exchanged civil platitudes "Sit the lath and timbers, and, caught at aside. I rushed to the Prescot to remind her after a while married, as such men will. uncommonly large one, stealthily approaching down on that box of soap, and I'll tell you my floor, would run across the boards to the that her shop was not in the market. She His wife is a cultivated and sensitive little the flock, when she uut her about it. It's only common justice to hear partition, and thus complete the circuit of pooh-poohed me, and said I had no head for me, because you have been more or less influenced creautre, as lovable as she is sensitive. flic." horse to speed, and the wolf feeling that business. I flew to Addie. She was talking by the gross exagerations that have affably with the handsome druggist at the Well, Robertthat was his name, Bob his sanitary condition in that locality was "You do not mean to say that it was your reached you." front door. She avoided me all day. I sought for shortshook the boys after mirriage, very unsatisfactory, the race and chase purpose to" I insisted that I had not heard a sylable Ellingher He frankly acknowledged that "It was my purpose to roast that woman for two or three weeks, every evening commenced,over hills and prairie, neither concerning his career or misfortune. He the new man had been looking at the stock. alive, to surround her with a quick and inextinguishable looked forgivingly incredulous, and said"Oh, but there were times when he had showing any indication of fatigue, until I protested, squirmed, appealed. But the flame, and to haye her lover well, you're entitled as an old friend, an awful hankering for his old relishes, handsome man came next day. He even finally he was compelled to consider himselt where I could point it out to him, and tell to know the exact truth, and it will interest played a game of draughts, and I heard Addie such as hereinbefore, especially the "run down." him it was my work. I was willing to die you, for it has never been told. In the first laughing at his flippant emarks. I stopped cheese, and one evening being down on for the satisfaction of bringing discomfiture Now came the "cug of -war," aad any place.the girl was not my ^mistress a purer, him on the street and told him that I hadmade to him of enjoying for one instant my an errand, he thought he would take a more honorable one who has ever seen a coyote at bay arrangements to buy the store. He said power over him. "My dear fellow, I did not know that there Limburger home and have an old-fashioned promptly 'So have I. I shall take possession snapping and snirhng, holding his position ''Well," I said, "go on with your narrative." was a girl in the case," next week' His good looks, his placid manner, lunch before retiring. He got the against a dozin~dogs, can realize "E\erything happened fortuitously. The "Oh, you must have heard of the Prescot his imperturbable urbanity maddened me. cheese and started for home, but as he her situation as a aggressor. Nothing house, occupied only by an invalid, a girl, affair. Everybody knew about it." I felt at once that the man was a type of the and one maid-servant, who slept in the basement, neared the house it struck hisi that it daunted however, she unbuckled her I shook my head He went on. inexorable, and that I would be destroyed by presented few obstacles to the accomplishment "The way it came about that I got into the was the rankest cheeee,even for Limburger, bridle-rein, and with the ring at the end, him without hope, as an iceberg is destroyed of my purpose. When Addie was Prescot establishment was this- I was looking by sunshine. Never in all my life had I experienced in all his experience. People held and this only, made good her position as out I could roam all over it without disturbing for a suitahle opening for a drug-store, snch a sense of uttei helplessness their noses as they met him, and every mistress of the situation, and, without Mrs. Prescot. I succeeded in pumping and seeing that place on the corner of Third as when in the presence of that mi}d, invincible dog in the front yaid went around behind fifty gallons of benzine into the upper room, alighting from her saddle, she had soon avenue and Eighteenth street advertised, I monster, for he seemed to have the and to prevent its evaporation and the consequent called there. the house as he went by. Before be disabled her foe, saved her lambd,and deprived machinery of fate behind him, and to be entirely odor, fitted a paper head to the cask, "A man of the name of Ellingher kept it. irresponsible. 'The price of the concern reached home his courage give out, and him of at least one toothsome which I covered with an impervious coat of He was a Prussian. I had a talk with him is $6,000. I have offered that amount in (ash,' he slipped his bundle into a hole in the morsel. ue. I fixed upon a day and made my arrangements. and found that henvas only a clerk that the he said softly, but cenvincingly. 'You have gate-post, thinking he would go in and Thon she started out for the nearest store belonged to a widow who owned the made some improvements in the store, I understand interview his wifesort of prepare her "1 told May that I had come suddenly into building and lived over it. Her name was I shall haye to reimburse you, I neighbor to the battle-ground, nearly two a large fortune, and he had the effrontery to lor the meeting, as it were. Prescot. She was an eccentric invalid, confined suppose, when I get started. If you look in miles distant, for assistance, but found no ask me to loan him quite a large sum of to her room with rheumatic gout, and to-morrow, I'll go over them with you.' With But he was scarcely in the house before one at home who could assist her save money. I told him that I would let him have was anxious to dispose of the place to some that he touched his hat and smilingly went his wile gave a warning sniff, and looking another girl, who mounted another pony, it next Friday. That was the day I had fixed ff. capable man who could pay half her price in for my bonfire, for Ellingher would be away at him sharp inquired if he was sure and armed only with a dull knife, these cash. Ellingher thought it was a capital "This incomprehensible superiority, which on Thursday, and Addia took her French lessons chance for me the business was a good one he hadn't stepped in something. Bob two joung girls were soon galloping over I could not definethe alacritv with which on that day. I would, therefore have the and could be doubled in the hands of a smart mistrusted what was the matter, but innocently the prairie to save the scalp, for which mynature felt the mastery of destiny in this dace to mysell to complete everything. The man. He was very anxious, I saw, to be retained manwas what incensed me. I knew perfectly looked at one foot and then at the county pays a "royalty" when presented sun, as near as I could calculate, would serve by whoever bought the store. well in my soul from that moment that my purpose at 3 o'clock and nine minutes. It the other, and said "No, my feet are all to the proper officer. "I had saved about five hundred dollars, and he would have his own way. I could not would fire the phosphorus on the third shelf, right." Mrs. Bob gave a sniff or twa I thought I saw a promising opening. I When they returned, the principal of comprehend it, nor could I reason about it. and that would in four seconds ignate the turpentine hurried around to the private entranee on more, got up, opened the doo-, closed it this Red Riding Hood escapade had partially I could only feel it. When I caught Addie and explode the oil jar, which, in Eighteenth street to see the Prescot. I rang suddenly and then went into the rooms, alone and upbraided her, I was not therefore recovered from the effects of the turn, would set fire tothe floor saturated with the bell two or three times and waited nearly unprepared for her cool assurance that I bad leading toward the rear of the house. benzine and shoot a column of flame up three "late unpleasantness," and was moving off half an hour, when I heard a little feminine allowed my fancy to lead me astray, and that sides of the girl's room. I need not bother She was gone abont five minutes, and in At this juncture he was again invited to a-hem' over my hewl and looked up. her treatment of me did not warrant any such you with all the minute details of my scheme. the meantime Bob became satisfied what "A young woman was leaning upon the sill remain, while one girl threw him down ridiculous hopes as I entertained. In order to show you its ingenious perfecttion of the open window. She was very pretty, the trouble was, bnt for the life of him and^ the other proceeded to administer I should have to make a number of draw 'In a word, sir, myjig was up. 1 was a helpless and she smiled in a very fascinating manner did not dare to tell her. What would she iags and mathematical diagrams interloper all at once. Events pushed me Western justice by searching for me. That was my first meeting with Addie aside as if I had no will or voice whatever. I say to learn that he had eaten such stuff? his jugular vein with the knife. Such 'Suffice to say that I told May he could have rescot. All the other accounts are pure romance." was not only ignored I felt that I was a She would never forgive him, and would the money if he would come with me to Brooklyn instances of feminine bravery as this are nuisance. I withdrew and looked at the pro on Friday and get it, and at 2 o'clock on probably apply for a divorce. She speedily rarely met with even on the "frontier. Urquehardt said this with such an impressive gress of affairs with a stunneld andeimbecile, that fated day, nervous and pale, I set out riva com and go returned, and said, in a business sort my1 manner that I hesitated to tell him again wonderment, I saw with him from the store, every thing being in that I had not heard anv other accounts. and at each return become more securely my Wanted a Patent for a Chalk-Mark. of away, "Robert, we must have the sewer train for an explosion at S o' clock and nine Now," he continued. I suppose 1 fell in maBter without any Special direction of hfa minutes. He noticed my strange manner. I 2 C love with the girl then and there, but I did efforts. I saw him take possession of the TheWashington~coTrespondent of the ^Sf I told him with a forced laugh that I would explain S SfJ?^?^" not know it at the time. I stated my business store, saw his namein gold letteis on glass it to him when we crossed the river. I and my desire to see Mrs. Prescot, 'Donald P. May, Pharmaceutist:" I counted tried to be cheerful but even while I joked an application reached the patent offce whereupon she came down and let me in the hourij that he spent with the false one upstairs. tend to it in the morning, and at the first my mind was running over the points my There was, immediately opposite the front from T. Strong and Kate 'M. Strong SSJnSS ^JS"? I bored a small hole in the partition chain of possibilities. I could not think of a door, a little reception-room. It was an extemporized and watched him intently when he was at of Talladego Ala., for a patent for an ant ofTallade weak or broken link. When we reached the o.Ala..foranatentfor took the cheese sh?:nto ped_outgarden, the and bur n?y ?&"**? ff affair, and at some time must got a spade, work. Addie ceased to speak to me, and a a guard. The petition, which was a ver heights and got an unobstructed view of the have been a prescription-room attached to ied it. But he had to have the sewar, etc., finally to notice me at all. But I had a lease citly, looked atmywatch. It was two minutes tunny one, set forth, that the Strongs, who the drug store, tor there, was at this time of the room for six months, and something cleaned all the same, and the job cost pasts 3, and my heart was beating violently. are man and wife, had jointly put their only a board partition separating it from the kept methere, brooding and watching. The him five dollars. A few months latter "Sit down here a moment," I said to my ihop, and this had been papered over and truth is I could not tear myself away heads together and had invented the companion. In six minutes something will Bob told his wife about it, but declared otherwise disguised, most wonderful thing ever heard of, to "As I told you, this room was at the end take place that will interest you." the cheese was given him to try he had "The young lady conducted me into this little of the store, and opened into the hallway just wit, an 'act guard,' which they went on "He looked at me suspiciously, but sat room, and, before permitting me to see her never eaten any of it himself" opposite the private doorway. I therefore down. The city of New York lay before us, to describe at^great length. They claimed,that mother, adroitly cross-questioned me about could hear the lovers when they came down its domes and steeples serving to guide the my purpose. I was very frank with her, for it was patentable,,as it was new stairs and stood talking in the vestibule. One A child being shown the picture of eye in search of a particular locality. her naive manner, her beauty, and her and.useful, itwxxthings thatiafe riecessary evening they came down late. I listened. Daniel in the lion's den, began to cry. *a woin the me.house.'d "Can you point out whereabouts in that inextricable simple unaffected character I sai won They though I was abed, and I overheard to secure a patent. The guard consisted a snarl your own establishment is?" "Don't cry, pet," said the mother. God to myself, 'It wilwl adtd much to my happiness their vows. Yes, I heard the double kiss that 8ee of drawing a chalk-mark around a table I asked. won't let them harm a hair of his head." 8 TO ii be gave her. It smote me like a two-edged "Certainly," he replied. "There are theun or otbe place, by which" it waV claimed "Oh, I ain't crying for that but just see Well, sir, not to make my story too long, sword, and awoke me to action. All at once mistable suires of St. George's, and they are the approach of ants was stopped. Mr. I found the old lady every way agreable. I I made the discovery that what I needed was that little lionDaniel is so small it only two blocks southeasat of the store told her exactly what my means were, and a scheme of revenge. The moment this idea Strongs^eafs it is"true, that an ant can: won't get a taste." "It was ten minutes past 3. Could it be what I hoped to accomplish. She appeared came to me I felt the vacum in me_partly not WaH&oveF a chalk-line,' and all that possible my plan had miscarried?" ^Wives of great men all remind us to bfrfavorbly impressed, and was even more filled. Every fuculty seemed to cry out that $ is necessary to keep ants away from anything "Why do you ask me that question at this comfiiunicative than I was myself. I had to We can make our wives sublime, no glory could equal that of mastering and time Y" said May, who was watching me. listen to her history aad a full recital of all is to draw a chalk-line around it. And depa.-ting, leave behind us punishing the man whose superiority had "Hark!" I exclaimed. "Do you hear the her fi-oubles. She was anxious to get rid of Widows worthy of our time. been guaranteed bynature. It appears that chalk makes an ant's legs fire bells!" [At that time they rang the district] the store, for ever fince her husband died it slip up, soaping a track prevents a I gave the whole of that night to the elaboration had been mismanaged. Therefore, give your wife a send-off 7 i of a plan. But it was not till a week engine from starting. The petition was "Can you count the districts?" "The young woman sat demurely in the By the hfe insurance plan -*'U'u*' later that I hit upon a feasible one. lake all He listened. "Yes, distinctly!" novel, and caused considerable fun. At Fix her sothat when you end off room during the interview,listening, but saying great original schemes, its conception was "What infernal nonsense have you She can scoop another man. nothing I was delighted with the result. last the commissioner of patents looked partly owing to accident. I was on the best "Sit still! One, three, four! Ha, ha! One I eame away, feeling sure that I would get over the precedents and directed his law of terms with the clerk, Ellingher, and spent hundred and thirty-four. That's yours. It is an easy matter to knock a crotchet the place ommy own terms, and that I should a great deal of time in the drugstore with clerk to write a decision refusing the application Eureka!" have no trouble whatever with the Prescot. out of a crazy man's head, if you nly him when his master was away. lam, as on-the ground that there was "What's the matter with you?" The last thing she said to me was: 'Well you know, a skilled chemist, and Ellingher hit him right. An old g^K^man, whose "Matter?" I cried, with exultation. "Matter? nothing new^ia the .invention claimed, young man, come up and talk with me tomorrow, was not It served my purpose to help him brain was a little turiw^iitalled out to Look there on the other side of St. when you have slept upon it.' and that chalk had been used for such purposes in the laboratory. his son one eight, "iMl Abel! Satan George's spire. Do you see that puff of the last thing I saw as I lett the house was heretofore, and winding' upi vrjth "About eight feet of the rear end of the smoke? It's your store. It means flame. nas been testing me all night to go the sweet smile of the girl as she looked after shop was cut off by a high-railed counter and the general statement that such ideas are More than that, it means death. Your love me from the door. and drown myself in the horse-trough." desk, and behind this was the little workshop is in it. She is walled upin it. Even now she not patentable. This decision was sent "Do you know I was fool enough to say to "Well, he must be a foell", said AbeL where the prescriptions were compounded. is writhing in theagonies of death. Look myself that night: 'Urquehardt, that beauty to the Strong family, but it fajded to satisfy "For there hasn't been a drop of water in hatf made up their how it puffs up blacker and blacker. Why has made an impression on you, and if the ^-They: them- "I was in there alone one afternoon about don't you defy me? Why don't you scorn me it for six weeks!" The old-geiitleman signs are worth anything, you are not dis minds that there was millions in their four o'olock fixing an infusion of rhatany to for my weakness? You don't say a word. agreeable to her. turned over and went to sleep, thinking strain, when I noticed that the pine wood of invention, and they did not intend to be Where is your superiority? Am I the master no more ot evil spirits. tv" fi *,&< 1 4 4-4*. ft-fr ^m ^aSay^"^, J" 'k *&&_&