st^s^s^m? i m$ A WOMAN'S CAPRICES. Sophia felt herself drawn up in a closer farther from him ere she laid her hand rocksand trees on each side of the valley, Were lying-, Jn about,ten minutes later Jk embrace, and was sure Kate pitied her. *1 wheels approaching in hia, and tell him he was dearer to her soon disaapeared' from lour sight in the sounds1 we heard-' "Men are never so awkward, never so "I would not have owned it to anybody than fiU^he world besides. So she checked surrounding darkness. Furtner pursuit and^ presently the cart came up, accompanied ungraceful, never so- disagreeable, **as if it had not been just as it is," she continued th* tender response that trembled on would have been fruitless, by, a couple of our men, when they are making love. A friend is rubbing her little white hands into her tongue and flinging off his grasp, '^We now turned our attention to the "We,, got the tubs into the cart, and a luxury, a husband ditto, I suppose^. her eyes "but I think I almost love with,* mocking gesture and a ringing brandy-kegs lying scattered as the men then placed our prisoner in it. Jack but that intermittepfc.rlassjo,rbeings de~ him almost as I do you and father and laugh,-^arted across the room to the the rest of ha'd dropped them. Dismounting from and1 mounted' MB horse again, nominated 'lover a^e terrible bores, li gathered the ttibd together mother we! our horses, us walked beside the cart, (and so returne&to does very well foru wonrah to b'ush tod score1 them.r' There wis -two and* dountad A kiss dropped on Sophie's glossy So she seated nerserf. ran her fingers the. guard house. look frustrated now and tnen. when occasions in all. ii 1'iii"! mi, $mtm head, and tighter was she held, She gracefully over the keys, and broke out "TJhe prisoner was.broughtj before the make it desirable, but 1sb*$ee 'Jack.'i siid, 'you'll remain, here by wondered that Kate was so silent, but in'a wild, brilliant, defiant song, ^that* magistrate that morning. The examination ma"n with-nis face aired as a ripe cherry, these, and I'll go back and see about getting still kept her face hidden in the vines. made her listener's ears tingle as he stood brought out quite a little, storv in and a real parcel of strong mindedness, a qart sent along for then^f watching her. and choking back the indignant "He asked me to be his wife," she continued, Pil, be connection with the man. There was no self-reliance and masculine dignity, done backjagain as quick as I can, font's just words that came crowding to his "asked me as nobody else ever lack(of up in broadcloth and starched linen,quakingfiom witnfesse,s lb testify to his previous'good' p6stibi that some Ot these' fellow's mav iip"sfor utterance. didin such a manly way, that he made conduct." This was the first thetopof his shirt collar.-hia be' lurking around still, and if they find me feel as though I ought to have bee4 '-Sophie, listen to] nie 1"^- ^said at affj of smuggling he had ever had amything mouth dry."and ffis tongue twisted into" out that there's only'oiie man' here", they' the one to plead instead of mm. I could length, as she paused from sheer exhaus to do with t.and 'even in this case, convulsions, in the vain attempt to say might attempt a recapture.' Vitj|' not bear that, and I answered him as I tion. "Is it generousis it just to trifle he had been employed as an agent only, something sweetO gracious!" should not He thought it was because 'All right,' said Bayliss. 'Hurry on with me soto turn into ridicule the and had no interest in the anticipated So said ^aucy Sophie Lynn aloud to he was poor and I was rich and all the as fast as you can.' emotion of a heart that offers to you the profits. herself as she sat swinging backward time I was thinking I would rather live most reverent affections? I have loved "I rode back to the guard-ho'ise and reported "His name was Dick Shankland, his and forward before the window, half in a cottage with Mm than the grandest you, btcause beneath this volatile surface the result of our night's work so craft that of a journeyman cabinet-maker bur ed in the cushion of a luxuriant armchair, palace in the world with any other character of yours, I thought I saw far. I just waited long enough to see in Tormouth. He had been married a and playing ith a small ivory fan man, only I was too proud to tell him so truthfulness and simplicity, purity of that the cart was being got ready, and year or two, and his wife had been weakly which lay upon her lap to his face. What can I do? Tell me, soul, and a warm current of tender, then set out again to return to my mate. for several weeks. "It also sfeems so strange, not to say Kate, you are much better than I am, and womanly feelings that would bathe with "Lhad just reached the entrance of the "What.with medicines, and extra kinds tnesome," snecpntpuetkwith a ru ning you never get into trouble. I am sure I blessings jthe whole life of him whose valley. At this point low stone wall of food for her and her child, and the musical laugh, ''after onehas waltzed and shall die if you don't." And Sophie hand was So fortunate as to touch its secret^sp ran along for a short distance close to the other expenses incidental to his wife's sung, quoted poetry, and'talked nonsense wept away. ings. You Are an heiresa, and 1 road. It formed the boundry to the protracted illness, Shankland was feeling with anybody till one is puzzled" to knoi^ only^pojjr property of one of the principal landowners vstudenfc but it that is the "Look up, dear, and I'll tell you." himself hard pressed tor money. which of tne two is the most heartless, reason why you treat me so scornfully, in the neighborhood. Sophie did look up with a little start, Bills were running up, and the small one's self or one's companion, to hear him you are less the noble womann that I "As I rode along skirting the walls, and the next moment, with a little scream, tradesmen with whom he dealt were becoming come plump down on the subject ol thought vou peeririg ahead ot me on each side, I saw leaped into the armsnet of sister Kate, impatient. matrimony as though that was the legitimate something lying close under the wall that Sophie's head was averted, and a suspicious but Harry Ainslee. "In his strait he had been induced to com ?e of every insipid acquaintance! looked like a man. though, in the darkness, moisture glistened in her eyes as Sophie declares to this day that she lend his aid in helping to get the cargo For my part I never had a lover (here I could not be Ceitain of it. As I Harry ceased speaking. Ah why is it has never forgiven either, of them, though of brandy in shore from the beach where Sophie fluttered her fan and looked passed, I bent over and touched the object that we sometimes Ijpld our highest hap-" she has been Mrs Harry Ainslee nearly it had been run. He was one of several pleased, for she had more than one) that with my riding-whip. The next moment, pmess so lightly-carrying it carelessly two years. who were hired for the sa'me purpose bv I wasn't sick of after he proposed There a tall figure rose suddenly, sprang in our hands, as" though it were but dross, the principals in the scheme. They were was Capt. MorrisI thought him-the at rue, seized me by the throat, and endeavored staking it all upon an idle caprice. to receive, if I remember rightly, a sovereign handsomest man iji the whpls circle of The Three Coffins. to drag me from my horse. Then she turned her countenance toward apeice for their services, a sum my acquamtancesr*until' he went on .his Three coffins await their final repose "I tried tof get my pistols, but in vain him again, the,, same mocking light large enough in those days to be tempting knees to me and swore he should die if I In the anciant cloisters' keeping, But I did not for an instant lose my pres was in her eyest the same coquettish to Shankland in his destitute circumstances. And a brief hour hence the lids will close didn't take pity on him. Somehow he ence. of mind. My head was now clp,t smile bieathed from her lips. On the forms beneath them sleeping. alwavs looked like a fright to me afterward. down upon the mare's, neck, and I whispered Speaking 01 heiresses," said Sophie, "All this was clearly made out and Then there was Dr. Wilkins. he The first is a Km? who hath ruled the land, In her ear there's Helen Myrtle, whose father is pro"vied in the progress of the examina- was reatjy agreeable, and people? said As his fathers aid before him. worth twice as much as mine. Perhaps 'Squeeze him, Fidget, old" girl" A jeweled scepter is placed in his hand tion,* and of cdiirse it extenuated Shankrand's very leaded! I was^delightcd with him you had better transfer yc&r atfehtitrasTO To show how well he bore him. "Sbe'knew well what I meatt,' and'the' case considerably for a wlnlo but lie spoiled it all with her, Mr. Ainslee. The difference our next moment she had my antagonist jammed "But there had been a good deal of that offer of hiwhat loDg winded ad The next is a chief from the battle field, dowries would no doubt be quite an inducement, tightly UD againstf "the wall. The smuggling going on of late in the south jectiveal and how the poorfellow blushed, Wounded, and bronzed, and hoary and possibly she might consider fellow faiily hallooed, By his side are resting his sword and shield, ot England., Shankland had been taken puffed and perspired' He called me an and hiccoughed in your case more seriously than I *i 'Hold her!'he roared 'hold her, or The emblems of martial glory creature,r in the act, and it was judged to be unadvisable( 'admirable have do^e." shefll crush me to death!)' the middle of 'admirable'' Horrors' I to pass too lightly over such cases The third is a lowly Son of Song^ 1} Like an insulted prince, Harry Ainslee 'And I mean she shajl,' I said,, cpojly. at a time when the offense was so rife have hated him ever since. Then there "With no -tat pomp attended,' stood up before herthe hot fiery indignant 'unless you let gd" your grip and surren"i he lay of his lyre hath sounded long "So the magistrate thought right to was- Through the islesbutnow is enaed. blood dashed in a fierce torrent deratohce.' the offender to six months*imprisonment. Here Sophie staited She heard the over his facehis arms crossed tightly It was part of my duty to see our prisoner "The man took his hands from my Hark' what is that at the postern gate, door-bell ring. With a nervous spring upon' his breast, as if to keep his heart safely lodged in custody, and so I accompanied throat and dropped them by his side, water9 Like the roar of distant she stood before her mornor, smoothing from bursting with uprising indignation 'Tis the foe with boundmg hopes elate Shankland to Exeter Jail. and I moved Fidget away from the wall down her oiown hau with a haste truly his lips compressed and his dark eyes Returned to the work of slaughter' The man's evident distress was not a little But no sooner did the rogue find himself comical.* flashing. pauifui to witness. once more free than he again turned upon "Ho, King, awake' re ascend thy throne, 'It won't do to seem interested,"' she Not till he had gonegone without a me, this time graepea me aroundt tht 'I've been a fool in this business,' he And round thee summon thy sages'" said, as site took a finishing survey of her' single word'of explanation, leaving only From the pale mute lips there is answer none, waist. said to'me. 'I s'ee that clear enough now. person in the glass, and shook out with While the storm without still rages. a grave '*good3iye" and 'the memory of "It was a short and desperate struggle But I was hard, put to it,the wife and her plump jeweled fingers, the folds of his pale face to plead for himdid the on my part, but he succeded' in dragging little 6ne wanting extra food, and the 'Ho, Chief, awake' to the tents repair her airy muslin dress. thoughtless girl wake to a realization of me to the ground. butcher and baker clamoring for their In the van lead on thy legions'" The moment afterward when a servant what she had done. Then a Quick, ternble They listen, but all is silent there "I have, told you, long ago, what sort monej, and I don't blame them for't. It enteied to announce Mr. Harry Ainslee, Still and hushed as the polar regions. fear shot through her heart, and she of a nature Fidget had. Faithful, highspirited was sore to bear, I tell 'ee, sir. she was back in her old seat by the window, would have given every curl on her and affectionate, she was at the 'But I never meant to hurt ye much, From the Poet's coffin a sigh is heard, rocking and playing with her fan, brown head to nave him beside her one same time very sensitive, nervous and And the lyre at his bare feet laying jSir. I thought you was going to fall upon apparently as unconcerned and listless as short moment longer. Starts into life, like the trill of a bird easily startled. She was very intelligent, me when you first touched me withyour though that name had not sent a quicker Whose melody knows no staying "Pshaw' what am I afraid of? He as you have seen. But on this occasion, whip, and ol set upon you in selfdefense thrill to nerheait, or the betraying crimson will be back again within twenty four when I was pulled off her back, she sud hfce. I thought if we were to Tis an old, old theme, but it fires the blood all ever her pretty face hours and as importunate as ever,' she denly took fright, turned and galloped off, ome to a scuffle, I might as well ha' the Of the troops, with none to lead 'em "Tell him I will be down presently," muttcrred to herself, as the street door leaving her master in the" grasp of his And they fight as the valiant always should first grip. she said For the love of their faith and freedom' closed after him yet with a sigh that foe. 'It was trea*,erou3-like o' me +0 fall The girl disappeared, and Sophie flung was halt a sob, followed the words, and "He was a much -stronger and heavier When the sun goes down in a radiant glow. upon you again when you held away open the windowthat the cool, fresh 4air could Harry have seen *he beautiful pair With molten clouds attendant, man than I, but I was a hardy wrestler your horse from squeezmg me, but I was might fan away the i.extjra rosiness torn The three nailed coffins are now laid low of eyes that watched him so eagerly as he in these days, and npt afraid to match a oit hot and set up by that time. When her complexion. Then^he went riganrto The Cross is in the ascendant' went along the street, or the bright face mvself for a fall with a man because he your mate came up\ and the two of you the mnror, and after composing her that leaned away out through the parted was an inch or two taller. But he had were against nieV 1 didn't show much bright, eager, happy face into an expression UNCLE WILL AND THE SMUGGLERS blinds with such a wistful look as he disappeared, the advantage of me in having got the n?ore fight, ye may ha' noticed. But it's of demureness, descended to the parlor. it might have been his turn to first grip, and the most I could do was to been a| sorry, business for me, altogether, Youth's Companion A smile broke over her features, triumph. wind my arms about his neck aad tug at and God 1 knows what the poor wife'll "What 1 am going tu tell you happened and she reached out both hands to the In spite of Sophie's prophecy, twentyfour do." when I was stationed at Tormouth," him. 1 guest, but as if suddenly recollecting 1 hours did not bring back Harry. Uncle Will began, as he sat in his particular "I felt genuinely sorry for the man. 'We wrestled, struggled, and twisted herself, she diew them, back again, and Days matured into weeks and still he ami-chair beside the fire in my father's Anv resentment I may have had against in each other grasp, swaying this way with a formal bow of recognition she doings had quite disi did not come, nor in all that time did she night's1 house. "I was the riding officer of him for the and that, each striving to get the other passed him and seated herself in a further i' meet him. And now she began to think the station then, and it was just a year or appeared. undermost. Once more I tried to get at corner of the room. herself quite a martyr, and acted accordingly. two after I got my dear old iridre Fiflgfet, the pistols in my belt, but in vain. I 'Look, here, Shankland,' I said, *I It was very evident that something In fact, she "did almost what any more than thirty years gone, higher fort y, very soon felt that my opponent was gp helped tpiget you into,Exeter Jail that's was wrong with Sophie, that she had heroine would have done under the circumstancesgrew in fact Smuggling 'was smuggling in ing to prove to much for me. His' bulls quite clear and now J.J11 do what I can made up her mind either not to be pleased pale and interesting those days, and a man rode out at night and weight was bearing me down. 1 to help you,out again, You've got six or not to please. Could it be that she Mariana began te suggest the delicacies IJil use my best rower to make with his life in his hands as often as not months. "At length I stumbled and fed,, the had foreseen what was coming?that a to tempt Sophie's palate. "The poor six'weeks,J" Shankland grasped "We had got word from the Whitleach it nearer smuggler on top of me. When I was pi esentiment of that visit and its lesult dear child was getting so thin."' In vain Station, three or four miles further along my hand. fairly on my back,he set his knees on my had dictated the merry speeches in her Sophie protested that she had no appetite 'If you can do that, Mr. Lawson, I'll the coast west'ara, that there was suspicion 1 chest and pinned me down. I was be chamber? Be that as it may a half hour f"innintell of a cargo of brandy having been be your debtor for many & day,' he said. now to feel pretty uncomfortable, had not elapsed before Harry Ainslee's In vain papalbrought dainty gifts and run' a night or two before* between the "I was pretty intimate with one of the can you, for I was breathless, spent hand and fortune (which latter, by-theway, piled up costly presents before his pet two stations, and that it would likely be clergymen at Tormouth, and that same and faint.* was nothing wonderful) were in the A faint smile or abstracted "thank you' some11 conveyed msho'e that night. ,da I went to him and told him Shankland's i "Smugglers in those days were same place where Capt. Morris' and Dr. was the only recompense. If ster Katesuggested "So a brothei officer and myself set out story. times desperate enough fellows, wha Wilkins had been before them. that Harry's absence was in that night, as soon as the had few scruples when hard pushed, in "A petition Was prepared, which we obtained moos set, to "The first man I ever heard say such any manner connected with her altered reconnoiter the ground between'tormouth leaving an officer of Hjs Majesty's Prevent a large number of signatures. things without making a fool of himself," demeanor, Sophie would toss her nnglettedhead and Whitleach, to see if w? could discover ive Service with the breath knocked out There was a general feeling in the town muttered Sophie, emphatically from behind with an air of indifference, any signs of smuggling work going of his body, it not done for outright that Dick Shankland had received a her fan, as she sat, blushed and and gg,away and cry over it hours at a on. We held along the high road, Jack There were various degrees among th^m, somewhat heavy punishment, considermgjtbe evidently gratified, yet without designng Bayliss and I, until we had ridden about of course, but I could not be certain circumstances of his case. The anv^reply Jx the gallant, straightforward half the distance to Whitleach, when I what sort of a character I bad now to 'd petition, was laid before the authorities Speech, in which her^lbjrer'hadi said, with. ,1 was, therefore, not a little relieved with the satisfactory result that Shankland's risked* his all of hbp^.^^"*"* er suspense and penitence became when the felow said-,- 'period of custody was remitted "Do you know, Jack, I think, we "He ought to do penance for the prettv unsupportable at last. Sister Kate who should strike through Limestone Arch from six months to two. 'LooK.'ee here, mister, I dunno' want way he managed his tongue. He's alto" had come so near the solution of the mysteryshe Valley. If the smugglers are about, "Just two months later, as my wife to harm you much. But ye mun keep gether too calm to suit me.' And Sophie knew all,so said Sophie perhaps that's a likely enough way for them to and I were sitting at tea, the maid servant quiet an' peaceable for if ye' shook her curly head meaningly, holding she could advise her what to do, for to brin^ their tubs by shorter and more announced a visitor, who immediately "He got no further, for at ha moment her fan before her for a screen. Did she give up Harry seemed every day more secret. afterwards entered the room himself. he was pulled suddenly and violently forget what he had been saying "I and more ot an impossibility. It was Dick. He seized both my "We left the highway, turning towards backward, an 3 looking 'up, I be-* wonder 1/ Ilooltld snoie the way Uncle ^SSll you go into the garden tremblinh wit the shore, and in a few minutes had hands and wrung them hard for several held the figure and face, of Jack Bay _a Jones used to church?" she solilo^ me, Kate?" she asked, in reached the entrance of Limestone Arch moments before he sjtoke. liss. Directly I found myself free, I rose quized. "Wouldn't ii be fun? and voice, of her sister one day, aboutammth Yalley. The spot so named from a lpfty quickly to teet, and fell'to' assisting my "tie was quite dut'tft breath, his face wouldn't it plague sETarry, if he thought ft after he* trouble with Harry "I have arch of limestone rock that pierced the mate against the smuggler. flushed, nd I saw that his eyes were dim had been asleep while he^was alking*" something ot importahce to tell you." flank of a hill on one side. like, as if the tears were not"*br off. "I need hardly to say that the tw#' Of Sophie's blue eye danced wjth suppressed Jf'Gp/away, darimg^and I will be with l(Jpd bless you, Mr. Lawson,' he said, "We had scarcely entered the valley us together, somewhat spent .though I mer^ment as she gave two or jfculia. a|few nroments," repjied Kate, when Jack Bayliss suddenly laid his was, soon proved too many of our long I'm just out, You're the first person three hearrp breathings, and. 'followed lasting searching glance at'Sophie'* hand upon my kneewe were riding friend. Nor did he seem, to make any I?ve been to s'ee after the wife. It's little them up -with a nasal explosionS^orthy ofj flushed cSeeka and swollen eyes. close togetherand whispered,-^ very determined Jresi^tencei a circumstancewh^ch use talking now about what I'll do, but I an orthodox deacon.3, It was ^11 done Kunning a%lftlv along the garden 'Histf do you hear anything?* I did^ nqj^ try^the^ fo ex- hppe some day to repay you, somehow, and theatrically doneand prior Harry paths, as it fro fear of pursuit, Sophia "I listened, and certainly thought I for what youVe done for me and mine."" sprung bolt upright, surprised, mortified, turned aside iiijto her favorite arbor, and heard footsteps ahead KSf us fand 'next?" "When he had overpowered our man chargipied. "Humane nature could staqd flinging herselfdown ona~low seat, rjur-* Green Pea Soup. Four pounds of beef minute weu^ere fade tcJ&fce, with apa*ty and got hito down On the ground, Jack it no longer, and Sophie gve Vent td her led her head among the cool vines, and ,cut in small pieces, one half peek of green ot men,adrancing in single file,each with took a piece of rope from his pocket, and mirth in a burst of triumphant laughter? ISfave-heiself up to a paroxysm of passiena^grieS- peas, and one gallon of water. Boil the a couple of tubs slung over his^houlders, firmly binding his wrists together, so secured "You little,^witchyou, ..mischiefyou Spon^shc heard-steps approaching, empty pods of tne peas in the water one one in front and one behind, tie way and rendered him helpless. spirit 0$ evilJ" exclaimed *thk relieved and an arm was twisted tenderly hour before putting in the beef. Strain smugglers those days used to carry 'Jack,' I said fyou came up in the HarryJf fe? flfoflg *PAer sjde^and^^it awHifrhfcr waist, and ?a warm haM*wa$ yflV them- out, add the beef, and boil slowly -their tubs. A'tub? oi spirits*,riy held about nick of time.' her by,the arm with a grip which made laid caressingly on her drooping head. ,sYou deserve a shaking ror kn hour and a half longer. Half an hour mf five gallons. 'So it seems. It struck me you were her scream. "Oh, Kate, Kate!'' she cried,in the! before serving add tlje shelled 1 drawin-g '\BayiUS3 and I, our cntlasses. along tame .coming back, So I fastened your behavior!" UT hjsiyowe'J"agony,6iJher,repentance, "I'm perfectly 1 hen lowering peas^ajjd ,t^6n!ty minutes later add half a at once dasheii in among them. The fellows my riag to a We urT yonder,' and walked he added, gravely wretched. You drn't know why, though rlie'a!rdanbisei(,df cup p^ ricejflopr,, with, salt and pepper. A immediately guessed what we were, back to meet'yOh. "Will you never have done tormenting you have come very near guessing two or .li^tlejparsleyis an^ improvement. After dropping their burdens, made off up the scuffling as I'drew riear.i gufes'eiJ'yoai me? If you love me can you not be gen three times. Harry and I" adqingthe rice flour stir frequently, to valley. They must have thought there might have fallen,in wittu.aome-^f the erous enough to tell me so, and if you do Here a. convulsive, sob interrupted her, prevent' sdorchirig. Strain into a hot were more than two of us or they would fellows, and hurried up. I hope you're i1- not, am I not at lelst wort% Jbf a candid] The and the Band upon,her head pasfed ojref tureertf"'*^ ti^H *,|R Jm *tft easily.,! not have yielded the field so not hurt-.' J-MO oh ,*I.i. (r refusal?" r*Xi a* her^diMldereA .cnrJa* fwith a gentl? darkness and the suddenness with which if "Not a bit,) but I was begming to feel Words gpr^ig$|d SpphM lipjs Hn* whitewashing, a pound of glue dis., smoothing motibjp.f we had come upon the rogues had been in 'uncomfortable With that long chap's, knee would have done, credit tocher wof solved in hot water and diluted with "Hirfry andJ^|-|uiother, sobquarreled our favor. pinning me to the ground. Let'sigo hack nature, fqp $ Wiadfcjfti he^. 'four gallons of cola water,, to which add ttvWbr thr&TMfeks agtf. a was wiliiii Of whiKng, will be found to "We followed them tor a snorl dis to the tubs now. I expect a cart 'from was stirred and drawn toward him as they pounds1 six and rude, just as was natural for me to tance, but pursuit under the circumstances the station here very soon' JfTi%3 never before had been toward any man. answer a better purpose than common be. and he got angry. I don't think he was difficult, for the ground was "We walked our prisoner between us, lime. Wood-worK can be washed with is going to forgive me, for he has not But she could not quite give up her i broken and ragged, and the smugglers, each with a hand on his shoulder, and so this glue size, and one coat of paint on it been here since," raillery then. She would go one step scattering this way andthat, among the made our way to where the spirit-kegs would last for years^ **&