Up at the hotel all JS confusion and ward was. She said ne nad. been DOWN TUMFB'3 POINTc THREE YEAH* (VLD. "That is, indeed, a beauty," exclaims ing all along under false pretences, excitement, for he ha3 been missed, away,*but had returned the preceding Aunt Tina, as she turns around and, if not indulging in actual falsehood, Boston Globe. and *he mother-aunt, in her agony oi evening. the better to admire it. "Idon'tknow had taken chief part in this :|f|3|BY WESTHKOP BURROUGHS. '^0^ terror, is beseeching landlord, clerk, I suppose he made too much noise when I have seen one of such intense long course of deception. But it would Up thp morning early, "If you will look out of the window BM"iikfat/ and then to play guide, waiters, all to go in search of for the parent, was my mental comment, coloring. If the old-fashioned child be better to tell all, indeed, I was ^f on your right, when the train gets 'The house is hurly-burly stories are to be believed, there must her darling boy. and then I said, taking up as I forced to do so. All the rpsfc of the day. through the cut, you will have a fine be a very gorgeous treasure, indeed, Only too well she surmises that in spoke a toy cow as passport to my I went down stairs and found Gerald view of the Grand Chasm," says the at the foot of that bow." his usual fearlessness, and alive with ward's favor, "Please show me the standing before the fireplace in the "Cart in the hallway rolling polite conductor, lifting his gilt-lettered "And why not believe them? questions the desire to hunt out things for himself, nursery." In my preoccupation I had cozy drawingroom. He came quickly Treading on pussy's tail cap. Hoop in the kitchen trolling, Mr. Monk, who. in spite of his he is straying along the dizzy edges spoken English, and the French servant towards me, and said: "I am so glad Upsetting pan and pail. rough garb, is a well-informed, pleasant ot the dangerous chasm. only stared. "Montrezmoia you have come, for 1 have something "Thank you very much," returns 'J young gentleman. '"For mv part, totelljou which I cannot bear to It is twenty-four hours before they la chambre de lui," I added desperately, the quiet little lady in dark blue,quickly Ofttimes making a racke I have never yet gotten rid of the idea keep any longer to myself." find him, and at least a fourth as mixing up in my dire confusion raising her eyes from the pages of Knowing mamma will run that if one could really find the end many more ere by the aid of ropes and the words of this beautiful language her guide-book. I grasped this last straw of temporary And whip 'oo 'lttle jacket, of the bow he would also find tile ladders he is rescued. in my effort to be understood. She deliverance it would at least put "0, Aunt Tina," says a shrill, excited Just a wee bit for fun. treasure." silently led the way, and I followed, off the hour of disclosure, and eagerly voice at her elbow, "let us go out He is conscious and able to tell his Ui^ht time tired and surly, till she reached the room in question asked what it was. Then he took on the platform, do! I'll be just as "Yes, certainly," says Aunt Tina, story, though when he is first lifted he "Dusty man" gets in his eyes both my hands in his and looked there she knocked and left me. The with a smile, "if he could find the end careful and hold on to the brake as cries out with pain in spite of himself. Hates to give us so early, earnestly into my face. "Can you not door was thrown open and instead of of the bow." tight!" One arm lies doubled up under him Wearily sobs and sighs. tell what it is?" he said. a smiling nurse holding the hand of my "Mr. Monk," questions a sharp, "Don't think of such a thing for a and shattered, yet with this exception Mamma unrobes her darling, high-pitched voice at this moment, childish ward, I beheld a young man Then for the first time I noticed his moment!" in quick, decided tones, there is no other outward sign of hurt. Kissing away his teais. "where do you think that end of the about 19 or 20 years of age, who looked agitation and manner, and I felt the while her alert eyes are upon each His descent has been broken by the Sleep ends his tired snarling. rainbow is?" hot blood rush up and crimson my inquiringly at me. I felt perfectly movement of the restless bit of humanity various clumps of verdure, and finally And that's your boy of three years. tell-tale face. I could almost hear my Mr. Monk turned his head to follow helpless, and clutched the unoffending at her side. when he has reached the ledge below heart beat. Was it fear, or joy, or the direction pointed out by the nervous cow so firmly that it turned its head She is a quiet looking little lady no it is to fall on a bed of ferns and STBATOE GUABDIANSHIP. sorrow? I could only look at him and brown finger. and gave a despairing "moo." Then longer. mosses. For a time the shock has then he said: "I see that you understand. I said, with an effort. "I think I have "That?" he repeats with a mischievous The train is approaching Tallulah, completely stunned him. When O, Helen, Helen, will you not made a mistakeintheroom. Can you twinkle in his eye, "Why, down Tallulah the Terrible, Georgia's greatest he returns to consciousness it is to I was 18. I was the only girl, and, take my love? I know well that I am Turner's Point, to be sure." tell me where Mr. Langton's son and most famous wonder, and the find that he is unable to move his not worthy of you, but I would try to straugest of all, I was an authoress. stays?" "I believe, Mr. Monk," says Aunt passengers are in a fever of impatience body. But he manages to reach his be so. Oh, my darling, answer me." Tina again, "that you told me many "I am his son," he answered, looking to catch the first glympse of the tremendous handkerchief, which he dips from time The circumstances which led to this beautiful stones of rare value had at me much as if I had been an Then I, the culprit, in mv great happiness canyon along the dizzy edge to time in the cascade near, and thus last-named fact were not ordinal been tound in the rugged cliffs of the escaped lunatic. Yes my worst anticipations forgot all and could only whisper, of which the railroad makes its way. shakes his thirst, and also with ones. canyon?" had proved only too true, "Yes." The bliss of the minutes None more so than the wide-awake bit damp folds protects his lace from the My mother had died while I was but that followed! Gerald was softly quoting "Yes," returns Mr. Monk, "several and the whole situation lay open before of humanity referred to, who, boylike, sun's rays. It is the chill of the long those dear, familiar lines: fine rubies, sapphires, and emeralds me. How stupid of me never to cannot understand why it is that his dark night that strikes the greater a. baby, and my father had always have been picked up, it is said, though have imagined such a development of twelve years of life do not entitle him terror to his heart and a deathlike marked out for me a future of fame, "And the stars shall fall, and the angelsbe none of late. I have never been so the case! How could I ever be the to a greater show of privilegeslike numbness to his cramped limbs. weeping, which he imagined could be best gained this9 fortunate as to find one myself," with guardian of such a young man as thatfor instance, of standing on the This is the story he tells to those Ere I cease to love thee, my queen my by my pen. My elder brother and a smile, "but the guides who were here It was too preposterous. No Gerald queen." platform as the other men are doing. who rescue him, but he says naught of before me stumbled upon an exceedingly Langton must look elsewhere for "in- He thinks his Auntie unnecessarily his pretty young wife were of the same these dreadful things,w hen passionately when I remembered my unfortunate fine emerald in the gorge below valuable advice." cautious and particular, yet he clasped against the throbbing heart, opinion and as my aunt, who took book, and I said: "Would you think Turner's Point." I could have laughed and cried when doesn't get ugly about it at all. He that all day and all night long has just as much of me, or would you consider care of me, thought always as my I thought of this sudden termination has never been a very headstrong, nor watched and waited in an agony of All the way back to the hotel the me very unwomanly, if, by some father did, it seemed that nolens, volens, of my many plans, and then my a very disobedient boy, only a somewhat mingled hope and fear on the verandah words "Down Turner's Point to be strange chance, I, and not my brother, I should be an authoress. Fortuaately ward's voice broke in upon my reflection, willful one at times, with strange of the hotel. sure!" keep beating time, syllable by had written 'Brakesdale'?'' and at the sound I mentally ideas of his own, the expression of There, in the presence of all, yet syllable, through Swain's busy brain. for the general peace, perhaps, "No," he answered readily," 'Brakesdale' resolved not to betray myself, and which, after a fashion peculiar to himself seemingly unmindful, overcome at "Of course it is," he reasons. "Where I was not averse to the desire, and after is an exceptional book, and I listened with the calmness of despair. has gained for him among his last by the sight of the agitated loving else could it be? Why, hasn't he seen should only be very, very proud of consideration I determined to venture He was saying, "Is this my guardian's mates the title of "the queer fellow." face, with its passionate eyes, raining it with his own eyes, resting right you had you written it. But you did upon a story, and on its completion sister? I heard that you came yesterday." There is nothing in the bare sides of hot tears down upon his own, he sobs against the rugged points of the biggest not, did you?" "Yes," I answered in my the cut through which they are now out the whole story of his hopes and to present it as a surprise to the assembled boulder?" He has marked the place "Yes," I answered, "I did." same idiotic manner, and then he passing, nor in the monotonous longings for her, the ardent desires well. There is a stunted pine at one family. But here I found an Then what praise from him, wh asked me to come in and tell him stretches of the pine barrens left behind that cling so fondly about the dear, side and a great clump of laurel bushes, unexpected difficulty what could I, was dearer to me than all the world about my brother. Oh, that conversation! to give even a hint of the grandeur dear book. rhodedendrons Auct Tina calls beside' But I had not told the worst. Helen Dare, find to say to a critical After the first few seconds of the scene that now bursts upon Clutched tightly in thepalm of his uninjured them. On the other, there is a great Would Gerald take so kindly to the all my timidity, or rather-stupidity, their vision. and exacting public? At last fortune hand he st'H holds the precious rock that shines in the sunlight like it rest of my confession? I feared not. vanished, and I talked, talked, talked. Down through a gorge 1,300 feet in sparkling thing, which, now that he is is streaked with silver, with here and avored me with a simple solution of Then his voice broke in upon my What I said I cannot even remember, depth, and over 1,000 feet in width at safe within her sheltering arms, he discloses there a cluster of beautiful ferns and ifche problem. I would tell a little musings. but there was a certain humor in ibs narrowest point, dashes the Tallulah to the view of all. mosses and a tiny cascade trickling story which had always touched me "What do you think my guardian the situation,as when my ward gravely River, over ruggedly massed down it sides, Ribbon Cascade, Mr. Not till the next day, however.when will say to this proceeding?" said Gerald, a simple tradition of my quiet, country told me that he especially admired boulders, in foamtossed cascades that Monk calls it. Of course the treasure the brave, loyal fellow is struggling "will he consent?" the opinion of a crusty old uncle in throw their spray in air nearly a hundred is there! And 0, how he does want it' the delirium ot fever, is the value of birthplace. My heart was in the "I fancy so," I answered, half laughing, my unfortunate book, who thought it feet. Not so much for himself as for his find discovered. It is an emerald work, and it was soon finished. "for, if you must be undeceived at very unwomanly to depart from the On either side rise sheer walls of Aunt TinaAunt Tina whom he unusually large and clear. last, I am your guardian." Strange to say it met with much favor, beaten trade as he considered it. in females solid granite, worn smooth as polished loves so dearly in spite of the "I wilfgive him 1,000 for it, uncut at as I had written under the nom attempting to write books. I silver in many places by the floods of thought that sometimes she is as it is'" declares a young jeweler i plume of George Percy, it was uni groaned inwardly, and changed the And so my story is ended, turning centuries, and like silver glittering in a little too hard on him. But from New Orleans, who, to do him -versally attributed to my elder brother, subject by saying, with animation, "I out well and wisely, as all good stories the sun's ray3. at others, how she does pet and humor ciedit, is much more touched by the who tacitly consented to the deception, had no idea, Mr. Laughton, that you should, for it is Gerald, now my husband, "That is Turner's Point," says the him! And 0, they are so happy pathetic story sobbed out on the and at this I was rather glad. were so dreadfully old." He laughed that is leaning over me while I conductor, pointing just to the right together! Happier still, perhaps, because mother-aunt's bosomthanhe is taken One day however, my father handed and glanced at the toy I still held. write and I can never forget that it is of them to a stupendous mass of in all the world they have only by the probable value, or the exquisite to "Brakesdale," and to his dear self, me a letter addressed to him and bearing "Then that accounts for your astonishment, rugged granice shelves, soil covered in each other. And there is Aunt Tina's beauty of the gem that I owe all the happiness of my life a foreign postmark. I took it with and perhaps for the cow also. many places that jut off more prominently book' How hard she has worked on "I lost just two hundred and fifty and being. some curiosity, which deepened to But my age is more my misfortune than the others into the dizzy it, day and tight, and how much she dollars, hard cash, by the invest- than my fault, so I hope you will not gorge. "With but one exception," Pt does want it published! But the hardhearted ment," he says to the same friend a rofound astonishment as I read it. deprive me of the pleasure of playing continued the conductor, "it is the publishers, to whom many year later, "but I assure you I have ran thus, and was characteristic of The Life of the Pope. with it or anything else of the kind highest point on the chasm, and is full pages of the snowy manuscript have never regretted it." 'the writer: From the Brooklyn Magazine. you may have brought for my amuse- nine hundred feet above the bed ot the been submitted, have declared they Aunt Tina's book is out, and a success. BOULEVARD DES INVALIDES, The pope's personal habits are very ment." river." can't touch it till a part, at least, ot As to Aunt Tina herself, where PARIS, Aug. 11, 1880. methodical. At six o'clock in the the money is forthcoming, to pay for "A tremendous fall that!" exclaims she madepleasure trips of aweek before Dear SirYou will be glad to know that Yes, if the truth must be told, I began summer and half an hour later in the some sort of plates. Swain wonders a nervous little gentleman behind him, your aon'a reputation as a writer has she now makes them of months, and even to enjoy the position, although winter, the holy father leaves his bed, what kind of plates they can be, and crossed the Atlantic, and that I consider "provided any one wanted to try it." she is never seen anywhere without such thoughts as "unwomanly ^'Brakesdale" a wonderful book. You says his prayers, and then goes to celebrate what in the world dishes have to do "Shouldn't think they'd particularly her attendant Swain. conduct, unseemly deception, and probably have heard who I am, being a with printing. He has ventured to mass in his oratory. Sometimes want to try it," returns the conductor As to this same Swain, he is a handsome my father'-s outraged dignity," would distant connection of yours on your ask Aunt Tina once, but, being absorbed on a Sunday he gives communion dryly, "yet some of them do." active fellow indeed, in spite oi haunt me at times. My father did 'mother's side. I am an old man, and I in her work, she has only answered to a few privileged persons, as, for "Good gracious'" cries the nervous the fact that one arm hangs stiff and not appear that day, and every time have a favor to ask of you. I want you to briefly, "stereotype plates," instance, members of the Roman aristocracy, little gentleman again, "you don't almost helplessan ever present re taae youi influence with the author of my I talked with my ward I liked him and so he is as much in the daik as favorite book to make him accept the post mean to say that some one has fallen or distinguished pilgrims. A minder of the time when he went dowD better and better. He was handsome of guardian to my son, for I consider the down there?" Turner's Point! few minutes later he attends the mass and intelligent, if showing at times advice and friendship of the man who "Oh, no, not that only that some being celebrated in the Sistine chapel strong prejudices, as in his over-strained If he could only get that money for could write such a book asinvaluable. Ido of the more adventurous have tried to opinion of female authoresses. I then he returns to his apaitments to *not expect to live very long, and I want to Aunt Tina which she had never yet An Absent-Minded Statesman. climb down by means of the clumps could tell, also, that he did not understand partake of his first breakfastblack I Jeave my son in good hands when I die. been able to get herself, for Aunt Tina Coming down from the house on the of stunted verdure you see." my brother's delay in coming, 'His financial arrangements will be managed coffee, very strong, and a piece of unsweetened is only a poor teacher with a meager "And did they succeed?" for him by an old friend until he is of hill in a herdic, one day, were a cabinet and felt rather hurt by it. That cake or pastry. Under no salary. i age, and I am willing and able to make it "Only so far as a partial descent night I had a long argument with my officer, a school girl, and two correspondents. circumstances is any one ever admitted At 3 o'clock this same afternoon, worth while lor you to gain his acceptance about one-third of the way, I believe." father, which resulted in his promising to the pope's table but he frequently The cabinet officer got of the proposal. Let me know your desision when every guest of the house is enjoying not to betray me, at least without admits his brother cardinals in last, and fumbling dreamily in his by return of mail. his or her siesta, shut in the seslusion Arrived at Young's Hotel about the giving me warning, although he remarked Your obedient servant, or nis nephew, a captain in the noble vest pocket fished up a couple of tickets of their rooms, a slight figure first person whose acquaintance is several times that he could guard, to come in while he is eating. JOSEPH I. LANGTON. clad in flannel Knickerbocker, with a and put them in the box. Seeing sought by our restless bit of humanity, not see the sense of putting off what the skies had fallen I could not Breakfast over, his holiness enters his sailor waist of the same, issues, stick the mirth, in the journalistic countenance, otherwise, Aunt Tina's nephew, had to be done, or indeed in my have been more thunderstruck. "Gracious!" study and begins work on his correspondence in hand, from a side entrance. Swain Connor, is Monk, the veteran minding the position at all. Still girls the secretary remarked. was the undignified and feminine in this he is assisted, not I guide. Ten minutes later the same figure were queer about some things, and he I9 "Oh, I put two in, didn't exclamation of the author of as he should be, according to ancient makes its way along the railroad would not interfere, since I seemed so "I say, Mr. Monk," Swain breaks thought my wife was along'" "Brakesdale." usage, by one of the private chamberlains, track to where a small foot-path turns determined on concealment. This was forth immediately that he has that The schoolgirl dropped her cooks My father looked reproachfully at but by Mgr. Boccali, an old off to the left with a stunted pine near all that I wanted, for I knew my aunt worthy securely penned In an out-of and giggled as she scrambled them together me and said: "My dear, there is no friend whom he has made hie private at hand labeled "To Turner's Point." would second my father's views and the-way corner of the varanda, "I again. The two newspaper eauee for such surprise. Ot course secretary. At 9:30 the secretary of "It doesn't look so very awful'" when a month of pleasant companionship want you to take me down Turner's men laughed. It was so funny to see you'll except this flattering proposal state arrives. Monseigneur thereupon exclaims Swain, as the path followed with my ward had ensued, I began Point." such a slippery set of books. and, in fact, I should think it a good retires, leaving Cardinal Jacobini he stands at length besides a clump of to fancy that these halcyon days were "Phew!" whistles Monk, thinking The driver looked in and laughed idea for us to go to Europe and see with the pope. The conference between dwarfed pines, and looks down upon to continue indefinitely. this the queerest one he has ever had too. He had probably had his hours this gentleman. I remember mymother's the sovereign pontiff and his the river, much more peaceful here to deal with yet. Then apparently reduced that morning to sixteen. The speaking of him as a queer, ecsentric Alas for the fallibility of human prime minister is short and then come than a hundred yards above, where determining to treat it all as a huge driver told the secretary through the old fellow, -but withal kindthearted foresight! Just as I had assured myself the audiences, beginning with the cardinal its fury seems to have been finally expended joke window that it was "all right." and loyal." that my trouble was ended, at in the last of the great cascades. prefects of the various congregations "Yes. certainly, and isn't there "Take the next fare," he added. The least for some time, I received a letter "-But you can't mean it," I gasped. after them the ambassadors, But in spite of this peace and quiet something else on the same order that next person who got in was a maiden from my brother which completely "^Certainly Ido," then the pilgrims and the the scene formed by the stupendous you would like, a pleasure ride for lady of an uncertain number of summers destroyed my peace of mind. In it he "But he doesn't mean me he says masses of granite upheaved on every public. These audiences over, he goes instance, over the Hurricane?" and a double number of squaw said he thought it time to resign the *your son' expressly. He means side, with their bare and frowning to eat an egg, a dish of meat, some "Yes, if you please." winters. Her\isage looked as if it doubtful honor which he held in being John." ledges and the sheer precipitous fallot would sour milk. The secretary sat "But, good gracious I don't please'" vegetables, bread and good red generally known as the author of "I beg to differ from you. On the their rocky sides tor nearly 1,000 feet, nearest the box and when her five cries the excited little guide, losing Bordeaux, finishing up with a small "Brakesdale," and if I had been -contrary, he mentioned several times it is enough to inspire even the boldest cents were handed up the secretary control of himself at once. "The cup of coffee and a glass of sherry or bothered with all the letters about that fche author of 'Brakesdale,' and he with fear. calmly took it and put it in his thing either way is not to be thought Madeira. At this second breakfast, old book that he had, so he wrote, says it is the advice, the invaluable pocket according to the previous agreement, of for a moment unless you are extremely A strange feeling of awe and dread I would think so too. His greatest Mgr. Boccali or one of the chamberlains advice, that he wants, and as you looking dreamily out on the anxious to quit this world steals for a moment into the child's grievance seemed 1^o be the communications is present, but is not at table. wrote the book you are the only one lovely park and oblivious to every for another." heart, and he partly turns as though received from old women, who can give it. Just think, my dear, With this meal ends the first part oi thing. The er registered the fare on "But the conductor said some of he would go back. The next apparently would persist in seeing close resemblances of the poor man dying alone with one the day and as soon as it is overr fail his gong and all was right as right could 'em went dowu Turner's Point." ashamed of even this faint show to their dear departed sons, little boy to dispose of! You know holiness retires to his bedroomfor a few be. All except the new-comer. A. "Some one or two foolhardy ones of cowardice, he grasps his stick firmand nieces, grandchildren or something, in you always had good success with minutes of repose. This short siesta study of her countenance by the two have, to a certain distance, but they begins to climb downward. the characters of my poor little story. children, and if you don't take him, over, he returns to work, to the preparation newspaper men and the schoolgirl were glad enough to get back, I can Then there were applicants who There is no tegular path, but he who will? What may become of him?" of encyclical letters, instructions would have resulted in a shocking impropriety, tell you. As to going down that way wanted to know what the author of catches sight here and there of a trodden All this had its effect. The picture, to representatives at foreign but for the remarkable to the bottom of the gorgewell, if "Brakesdale" would have made his tult of grass and the shredded vfco say the least, was rather touching, courts, etc., which occupy him until presence of mind of the latter. The you are extremely anxious to get rid hero do in case he had been disinherited twig3 of ash and laurel, that show yand I did love children so I comproffiaised,and 4-30 o'clock, when he takes hisregulai books slipped again and went sprawling of yourself, the quickest way would be by some rich relation whose money where the foot and hand of the daring gave my father the result of ride in the Vatican park or gardens, at her feet, while three persons to try the Hurricane." they expected, etc., etc. In short, my climber have left their prints. my cogitations. in company with a chamberlain and bumped their heads to recover them "The very 'terror spot' or the whole elder brother most importunely handed Very cautiously Swain picks his way "Til tell you what we can do," I always escorted by two of the noble and laughed absurdly. The secretary river,," says Mr. Monk the next morning me over all the fame and all the at first, then, as he finds it easier said. ^We will accept conditionally. guard. When the weather is too bad looked coldly on this performance. when exhibiting the awe-inspiring trouble, and said he had already told than he has-thought, he grows bolder. he will have me without change of for a carriage ride, the Pope walks in The maiden lady, whose nickel wa spectacle, known as Hurricane Falls, everyone whom he had seen that I, Finally, when about 300 feet down, a .sex, I'll come." the loggia of Raphael. Afterward he snugly ensconced in his right-hand to Aunt Tina and her attendant and not he held the enviable position prelecting ledge stops his furthur "You can't change your sex of returns to his desk, and gives audiences est-pocket, eyed him indignantly. She h Swain. of originator of "Barkesdale," and progress. Kneeling down, he crawls course," said my methodical father, A- to the secretaries of the congregations bit her thin lips to keepher mouth shut They have been afraid to. leave the that he had nothing whatever to do to the edge and looks over. xwho usually crushed my small attempts another remarkable instance of feminine until 8 o'clock. He then reads hotel at first because of the threatening with it. He concluded by asking how "The very place"' he cries excitedly, in this way "so we will consider presence of mind. She looked at tor an hour, when he sups as simply appearance of the sky,but as Aunt my ward was getting on, and said he "and I just know it is down there'" it settled, and your aunt and the-driver, at the schoolgirl giggling in as he has breakfasted finishing the Tina's time is limited, she has finally expected to join us during the following But the "down there" is fully a yourself can get ready to start for the corner of the coach, at ttie two meal ^ith a glass of fine red wine from decided to venture. After that luck month. hundred and fifty feet beneath him, France next week." And, unheeding merry-eyed newspaper men, then settled seems to favor her, for, with the exception some of the chateaux in the Medoc. and is another projecting ledge but *my protestations against such short "Oh 'Brakesdale!' 'Brakesdale!'" I back in her seat with an intonation of the few drops while at the At a little before 10 he retires to his much larger, and thickly covered with notice, he went away, well pleased inwardly exclaimed when I had finished on "Well!" tbat startled the secretary Indian Arrow Rapids, there has been bedroom and, as a rule, no one is ferns and mosses, over which a threadlike with his success. reading this letter "what an old from his ltthargy. no further fall of rain. Indeed, the permitted to see him again until cascade trickles.. In due time the trunks were packed, nuisance you have been, and what an clouds are now fast clearing away, morning. It must be something "I've got you*- fare, ma'am." said As lie leans further over, a tiny a good supply of toys for my young incomparable bore you are going to while already the bright iays of the he, smiling pleasantly, and just getting very important, indeed, that will induce something that glitters in the sun's ward not being forgotten all was arranged be'" But anathematizing my devoted sun are struggling forth. i at the meaning of the thing. rays catches his oye. any of his attendants to disturb and settled, and -then we story would not help me out of the "O, what a beautiful little rainbow," I It is embedded in the soil of the "I see you have," retorted the now him during the night. No one is permitted started. The voyage was a moderately scrape any, and at last I decided on cries Swain, as from the rock n ledge a foot or so beneath him. irate female. "You put it in vour to enter except the cardinal good one, and we found our.selves confession. which they were standing he catches pocket!" Reaching down he quickly grasps it, in, ten days' time before the secretary of state, Mgr. Boccali the But here I was met half way by another sight of the exquisite arch, whose prismatic and then, with an exultant little cry, "That's all right." shouted the (mansion of Joseph Langton. Here, chamberlain of the day, the majoi unavoidable complication that, hues sparklebrilliantly between springs to his feet. But the next moment driver, laughing. And then the schoolgirl ^ttn unexpected event occurred. Its like a ghost, arose before me, and domo, his confessor, the two physi him and the dashing foam of the cascade. the cry of exultation is changed laughed without dropping hr owner had died suddenly from an attack showed itself the keynote of all my cians and his valet. Not infrequently to one of supplication and terror, for books, and the two newspaper men of heart trouble, but, having misery. I found that I had already the Pope works on some important "Yes, but yonder is a much aiore in the sudden spring his feet have come laughed, and the secretary laughed. taken my consent for granted, had reached the stage when I could not state paper until a very late hour. beautiful one," says Mr. Monk, pointing in contact with a treacherous tuft Everyboiy laughed except the maiden formally appointed in his will the bear to face the disgust I felt sure He is very particular about his use oi down the gorge to wher.* a magnificent that is barely hanging to the cliff's lady, who jumped up and rang the .author of "Brakesdale" as guardian would come upon me when I had told bow, intensely vivii in its coloring, edges. As they press against it it gives bell and hopped out of the roach as I to his heir. After a little rest at his my ward, that not only was I an authoress, spans the rugged Avails of the way and the next moment he goes mad as a wet hen.Cor. Pittsburg words, and his erasures and interlineations "house, I asked the imperturbable do**nestic and, as such, unwomanly, canyon. Dispatch. headlong over the ledge! but, worst of all, that I had been act- who attended me where my are numerous. i SK