back to service, her husband boarding Some foul fiend prompted me to sad THE LITTLE BLUE BOOK. family, and it cost more than that for could he doing at the police headquarters with her. he was cross-eyed, and that one organ groceries in her old home. redoubled my fears. "f But it was a sad day when the goods was blue and onegray. When Paulina went down the first "What worship ye?" the preacher said The chief's office wasapproached by Mack Holt and Paulina Merrit were were packed, the house dismantled, The rest I did not hear, time to the general grocery and market "How very singular," said Mabel a series of passageways, at the end of Sat round the room I looked instead, and they handed over the key to the house to Sober trading, the proprietor, with growing interest. "I should like married. It was a very quiet affair, of one which I saw,as in a field-glass,a At ibis and that so reverent head, new occupant. It was a bitter lesson, learningshe was Mrs. Mack Holt, to see him. Tell me about his real estate room in which were seated my wife but it meant much to them. There All saint-like and austere. but best learned on the very threshold offered her a little blue pass-book, remarking scheme." and a stout gentleman in uniform, "Whatdo you worship now?" I thought was no great reception, a crush of of household life. "you could settle your account I felt that if I hesitated I was lost, whom I knew oy sight and reputation. And fancy straight the question caught, toilets, scarcely hiding the vulgar curiosity, Again they sit down to count the every month just as well." In and laying down my knife and fork, I Mabel did not seem frightened, but And strange sights did appear. cost Mack's wages $480, Paulina's an evil hour she accepted it, and thereby a display of bric-a-brac and silver, entered into a detailed account of a was very pale and wore a determined All veils were dropped, and cleat to view wages $200, rent from house $200 came all her woe. Mack Holt had series of fictitious investments contemplated look. with a menu that made pater All hearts were open thrown Total, $880. They had $80 in inter the reputation of being quite well off by Bancroft and myself. I "Mabel!" I cried, as I rushed in, familias groan when he settled the bill. A shame it were to whiBper you est to pay $300 on debt, and theii the patronage of his family would be did not originally intend to go so deep, what does this mean?" "What then I saw if all were true Their wedding tour was not extended, incidentals were $200, so that they a desirable acquisition to the trade. but her questions drew me out, and "Your wife," interposed the chief, 'Twere better all unknown being from Parson Morehouse's door saved $300 that year. The fourth each successive step was necessary for Oh! the tricks and the manners of Such he rts none ever saw before, blandly, "states that you are acquainted Bat All at once I looked no more year of their married life Mack became preservation. As I walked out of the that little blue book. It would lie and with the occupant of room to the little cottage on Front street, A Is, I saw my own! second overseer at the mill with $50 a front gate I felt like a convicted fellow. steal with the most brazen' face. It 12, No. 20 Staunton place. Is such but it had all the romance and lovely month, and by the strictest economy, -tiradford Terry in the Sunday School would allure and fascinate the housewife However, the mythical Bancroft was the fact?" sentiment of the more important society .times. as they had no board to pay, they with its bewitching airs. It would a convenient personage, and I concluded "What about it?" I asked, appreciating events, which are chronicled in saved $600. assume the demeanor of a saint and that, now that I had invented him the necessity of gaining some A MYTHICAL MONSTER. They entered upon their fifth yeai preach a sermon on necessity. It had and put my foot in it, so to speak, I the fashionable gazette. more information before committing with new couragetheir redemption alltheguiles and wiles of alittle Satanic might as well use him to myself. Paulina had been cook in an aristocratic drew nigh. When it closed the mort elf, whose special mission was to all possible advantage. Consequently "Have you seen the eveningpapers?" family for some years Mack gage was lifted and they had something lead confiding young married people Bancroft was pleaded night after night "No." About four years ago I became the Holt worked at the "mill" for forty saved to commence house-keeping once astray. But she took the book and with success, although the continued "Then," said the chief, "I will tel] 'iiusband of a very charming girl in one dollars a month, until he was able to moi e. They found the house had been went home with a sense of domestic questioning of my wife involved me in you frankly what I want, for I believe of oar ea seaboard cities. In my put fifteen hundred dollars into quite well used they had learned their lesson. power quite new and agreeable. All a tissue of falsehood so monstrous you to be a man of reputation. The It was not half as bitter as it would marriage with Mabel Lane all the conventionalities she had to do was to pass in her littie that I was afraid to contemplate it. a portentious house this left a thousand occupant of room 10, No. 20 Staun have been if Paulina's kind mistress book and have her purchases recorded, ton place, was murdered last night, dollars as a mortgage, at four were fulfilled. She was About this time I became alarmed had not come to the rescue. They unpacked and the business was done. What a and the occupant of room 12 is sus lest she should visit his supposed place per cent, on long time, provided the a few years my juniormodest, domesticand their furnishings with grateful fine thing it was to do one's own marketing pected. We could not find out whe of business to read him a lecture upon interest was promptly paid, otherwise this,I sincerely believe her hearts, once more set burning the fire without having that impudent that individual was, but yourwifehas his habits, and told her he had left they might expect foreclosure at any "first attachment. Even our complexIons upon their hearth, and upon that Smith take down your orders' been kind enough to inform us that il Reed's and gone to an up-town store. time. Paulina,"too, had been economical fire they placed with grave cere presented the proper extremes, is a party named Bancroft, a friend "A bird in the hand is worth two in This necessitated going into all the details she had alwavs demanded large mony the little blue book. As its yours. We want Bancroft. Wher the bush." It is a good business rule as to why he left, which I gave she being a perfect blonde and I dark wages, received many gifts from her leaves curled and blackened and turned and where did you see him last?" not to spend what you have not got. shamelessly. My conscience was in brunette. I loved her sincerely. I to ashes, the figures staring at them mistress, and was able to furnish their You may fancy the two birds are yours, such a condition by that time that I I felt the ground suddenly slipping ^was hi comfortable circumstances, and with ghostly visage for a moment from house with a good deal of genteel but until they are it is wise to be modest was less troubled over my fabrication from under my feet. The whole hor their funeral pyre, the mischevious on our wedding-day I saw no reason in manner of life It is, af te- all, a of complicated lies than I was that I taste. ror of my situation flashed upon me imp departed from their home and humiliating experience to discount the should cross myself in some of them. why our married life should not be Mabel spoke up "Frank," she saic We would not have you think that they were saved. future. Now, Paulina desired to be How intricate, how manifold and "when 1 saw that number in the papei Mack and Paulina were ordinary people ibathed in perennial sunshine. economical she thought she was, but "Owe no man anything," is the wise multiplied they were can be imagined this afternoon I knew that it was they were not. Mack was a keen, Such would probably have been she had been accustomed toanabundent caution of a very old book it should when I say that at the end of two Bancroft. I could not keep silent aft enterprising, sagacious workman, the case had it not been larder, and the little blue book had be the gospel of the secular life. The for years Mabel was still unsuspicious. er such a dreadful thing, and I felt and Paulina had an unmeasuied wrought the mischief. The innocent pass-books bring misery they are the She had however.conceiveda violent -an unfortunate defect in my that this was perhaps the way open amount of that Yankee gift called dis- blue siren had no sympathy with $25 occasion of the skeleton that rattles dislike, growing into an utter abhorrence, to break your connection with that "faculty." They had the respect of position. I may as well state here a month. in many a closet they tempt us to of the man. This was engendered wretch. So I put on my things and their employers and were able to maintain that before our marriage I had demoted spend our money before we git it they When Mack took the book at the by a peculiar turn which the fiction came down here. It was for both out their position with dignity and lead to extravagance, they are an unmitigated myself pretty largely to that end of the month, with $40 in his happened to take. One night the first sakes. 0, Frank, tell the gentleman success. delusion."A country Par- pocket, and went to the book-keeper pencihngs of dawn were showing in the all you know of that man and let us agricultural pursuit known as sowing Now they had joined interests son," in Good House-Keeping. of the grocery house to settle, that skies when I returned home. I had at least get our skirts clear of this awful "set up for themselves." How inviting "wild oats. I cannot say that I was polite gentleman had his bill all made not intended to stay so late. I realized crime." the fire looked on the hearth,as vicious, but I loved the company of out, and it was fifty dollars. Mack with a sudden and humiliating they stepped into the cozy parlors, The chief looked at me fixedly. Un A Young- Dakota Belle in her igood fellows. Late hours had a pe-culiar said there must be a mistake, but the force that I was a brute to leave a all their own, with a skill displayied in der certain circumstances a man's Marriage Kobe of Plain Pink items were compared and he was young girl alone, unprotected, anxious fascination for me, and the pop its appointments that many a mistress brain will work like lightning. In an Calico. obliged to confess that the figures were and afraid through the long night. I might envey for her drawingroom. of a champange cork fired me as the report instant I had formulated a plan. against him. He went home feeling felt ashamed, mortified, and above The house had the atmosphere A tourist in Dakota recently attended "Have you a private room?" of a cannon is said to thrill a sore and troubled. When tea was all alarmed for I was well aware of home. Paulina had asked. an Indian wedding, and describes it war-horse. These things, which were over, he handed the book to Paulina a scene awaited me. With beating lived so long among artistic "Yes," he replied, "come this way." in a letter to the Boston Tra\eller. with its added amount, without a axever. counted more than 'wildness' in heart I entered the house. Mabel was furnishings and been loved so well by "Wait here," I said to Mabel "do He says that there was a large tent, a word. Shelooked at it in amazement. in bed, and turned her head slightly her mistress, she had caught the art .a single man, I suddenly found became not be alarmed I will tell him all." with the front opened, and a row ol She declared Haxman & Co., were a without looking at me or speaking. I of moulding common faeries into elegance. When the chief closed the door oi heinous vices and utter depravity in a fraud, they had charged her with some stakes covered with canvass, making felt intuitively that she was crying. The dining-room and kitchen the inner room I said to him very married one. Like many another I one else's bill, she knew she had not At that instant, any plan, any lie, no a fense, upon each side leading to it were so "handy." Our fathers built calmly: had all those goods Mack must go 3iad difficulty in adjusting myself to matter how black, that would have their houses and then divided them into Outside was quite a small tent trimmed There is no such man as Bancroft. back at once and refuse to settle until the changed condition of affairs, and rooms. Woman's work was not relieved the poor girl's distress would He is with all kinds of pretty feathers, a mere creation of my pooi the matter was adjusted. considered and how hard it became, have seemed noble to me. So it was ifchere the trouble began. wife's fancy," I said. and over the door a wildcat's skin with no pang of conscience that I sank with no conveniences or skill displayed They came the nearest to having a "Explain yourself." trimmed with beads and porcupine So it was that after spending all my into a chair and exclaimed in a hollow in the arrangement of the living-room. downright quarrel they ever did. If "I will. If you will make the most quills. In the large tent, back in the veniugs faithfully at home for a voice. "0, Mabel, if you had Mack and Paulina put their heads together Mack had not been cool there would trifling inquiries you will find that no centre, against a very gay curtain, sat seen what I have seen you would be on this matter. .The dishes have been a scene, for Paulina's red month I began to drift back into the such person as Bancroft ever existed. sick at heart." a young girl, a halt breed, not from the table with a few steps could hair hid a fiery little brain, and she Did she tell you he used to work in old routine and pleaded an increase of be taken to the china closet, then "What was it, Frank?" she asked more than fifteen years old, dressed went off like a rocket. He quietly remarked Reed's tea store?" business to Mable as an excuse for later through a slide door to the pantry, with instant curiosity, sitting up in the tu account^ agreed, and in a skirt and jacket with blight buttons "Yes, I believe she did." iiours. I did this gradually. Now and bed. and from the pantry through another then began to question as to details. "Well, inquire at Reed's and you and boar's teeth, her hair long slide door to the kitchen sink. 'then qualms of conscience would conquer This was the effect I had calculated Flour, butter, eggs, meat, etc and will learn that he never had such a and black and falling in front, while a The kitchen sink was not too upon, and for a moment I said nothing.as those fancy groceries, they were costly force of habit, and I would be entirely man in his employ. The fact is, my wreath of feathers on her head completed large, and every step would if too much overcome to speak. enough Was she ready to declare upon wife exhibit3 at times certain signs oi domestic and devoted for several her wedding outfit. All around count in accomplishing the Then in a low tone I continued. oath that Haxman The& Co. were unmitigated aberration. This imaginary man ere a repu days at a time. Then I would backslide were ornaments, and yards ol pink, house-work. They, intending to live rascals9 "Bancroft is jaii?" Bancroft is the most noticeable one in the whole house, furnished it with and come home at 1. It was table firm of long standing. Was it red and yellow calico as drapery, and "0, Frank'" she cried, her eyes suddenly I had hoped, sir, to keep this secret that object in mind. There were no quite the thing to charge them with dilating, what has he done'" ot that my affection for my wife diminished. on a little green trunk near the bride locked forever in my own breast, but "best rooms" mouldy and damp. The dishonesty, conducting a large business Again I was overcome with emotion these circumstances force me, of course, sat the old chief wrapped in a buffaic On the contrary, it increased. sunshine entered every apartment at families9 with the best I had to have time to think. to make a confession of it to you. 1 robe, looking like a great bear. I was never so happy as some hour in the day,and they did not "You know how Bancroft is when She was obliged to confess at last trust, as a gentleman, you will not betray Along on one side of the tent sat the when in her company, but I think it believe in closed blinds, save in the he is drinking," I said, finally. those awful figures must be true It this melancholy confidence. My women and girls, and upon the othei very hottest of the weather. must have been a strain of old Bohemia "Yes," .she replied, eagerly, "very was a troubled niglit for her. She physician has wai'ned me not to disturb side the men, young and old. They quarrelsome." dreamed of a gigantic blue book walking The economy that determines one the hallucination, else I would in my veins that drew me with a were all painted frightfully and wore Exactly. Well, we were playing a about and pointing its long arms to live in their kitchen, save when company have warned you in the other room. dreadful ornaments, bright blankets subtle force back to the boys. game of billards last night. I hadn't at the figures upon its breast. She are present, is a short-sighted I suppose she told you, among othei and feathers, and most of the men All this, though, was as nothing noticed that he was under the influence tried to drive it away, but it tell upon policyit narrows the horizon of one's things, that Bancroft once thrust a had on but little clothing. Near tht ^compared to the actual downfall that of liquor, but he got into a dispute her, and she awoke with a terrible cry. life and warps the whole nature. billiard cue down a clergyman's middle of this group were piled the Jbegan on night in earnest. I recall it with a clergyman, who was a perfect The next morning Mark took her four throat." Paulina's house was an ideal one in provisions, the feast, meat, bread and shudderingly, hesitatingly. As I entered stranger, and took his billiard cue dollars, and they began the new month many respects they were working people "Yes, she did say something about boiled corn. our gate an unusual light warned VI and with six dollars in dett and not ashamed of it, but they that?" The ceremonies began with the old ane that Mabel waited for me, ar.d I "Killed the minister!" shrieked Mabel. did not believe that necessarily shut She made the most solemn promise "Well, how preposterous that is' Do chief drumming upon a drum and .shut my lips tight with annoyance them away from culture and elegance. to herself and Mack that she would be you want further prool? What would making a shout and noise like an animal. -and contrition as I look at my watch "No, thrust it down his throat and They were determined to make themselves carefulthey would dispense with the a clergyman be doing around a billiard He then rose and walked around and saw it was after 12. I found her broke it off'" all that they were able, without fancy groceries. They would live saloon?" the girl several times, got on his knees, i tears. -"O, Frank!" she sobbed, "I Mabel stopped her ears and Ipaused false pride or envious humbleness. plainly. What should they do if they The chief was convinced. "I noticed and again walked around her. knocked am very unhappy!" for breath. could not live within the limit determined? The tiniest rift in the lute will spoil something queer about her eye," he her Irom side to side, then smoothed "Not unhappy with me, are you, "Of course," I went on, "he and she cried bitterly when the harmony. Perfection is not in the was ar- said, grasping my hand sympatheti her hair, gave her something that he "Mable?" I asked. rested and I went out to get she thought of it. The days went on, gift of Dame Fortune. "The best laid bail for cally. "Depend upon me to keep called medicine, then took a di- and "No, no" she said, "but unhappy him." she took pride in her house-keeping. plans of mice and gang aft aglee," and mum." placed it before her, knelt down and "because I am without you so much. "What business is that of yours!" She delighted in her dainty tablefresh, so we may expect that Mack and Paulina Mabel was anxiously waiting our took a sip of what was in it, as she I am sure it can not be business that asked Mabel, sharply. tasteful and inviting. She made would have their share of the coming. did also. He then stood up, went Tkeeps you out at these awful hours. Mack's home a real rest and refreshment "For your sake, dear," I replied, misfortunes of life. They had through with some mumblings over 'It is all right, Mrs. Styne," said the O, Frank, tell me, what was it kept for him, but she kept that miserable "Although no party to the affair I a good "setting out," and, the her head, and then began to pass the chief. "Your husband has told me you so late?" book, and the curse was still upon realized how the linking of my name best of all, they provided it themselves feast, first to the women and then to every thing and you can go now. I'm "Well. Mabel," I answered, feeling it her home. Her woman's tact and wit with it would pain and mortify my but the best grip we may have the men. much oblidged to you." ^useless to resort to the old story, was not equal to the beguilement ot little girl, so I determined to sink of life will not always save a fall. It She cried a little on the way home The girl took off her gay outside *'fche fact is I met a friend of mine who that arch deceiver, and bitter was my pride and ask some of my friends is no joke to get a living, in a large and wanted to be sure I was not ang robe, and it was gi\en to her mother Is something of a bore, and he held mingled in the cup of life. to go on Bancroft's bond to hush the sense of the term, from the world a ry. "Where has that monster gone?' Underneath she had a short blue dress, i me in conversation for a couple of matter up." living that is sweet, gracious and expanding. That dreaded second month came she asked. wheh was taken off, and when the ihours." "You dear, old darling," saidMabel, around and their bill amounted to "He has fled," I replied, "and will eating was concluded the poor little -''Who was he?" impetuously, "can you forgive me?" $35 they owed six on last month, so '""-fBancroft," I said desperately, using That night they figured up their income, never bother us again." girl slipped out of the tent in a little 1 forgave her, and, assuming the vh first name that came into my that they were only about $3 ahead. and made their plans. Mack And he never has.Chicago Tribune plain pink calico die^s, and, with bare mein of a martyr, went to bed. From Nothing for incidentals, not a dollar earned $480 a year. Paulina had teet and legs, looking frightened and mind, "'a fellow named George Bancroft." that moment, however, she regarded to apply to the mortgage, and not promised to work one day in the week cold, went to her own tent all alone. A Venerable Church. Bancroft as my bad angel, and hated half wraenougth saved for the interest. for her old mistress, for which she Then they were ready for the dance. "What does he do!" no an encouraging outlook him with all the cordiality of indignant It An El Paso, Tex., paper says of th would receive $1, making $52 a year. I fult that I was in for it and told womanhood. They both ielt depressed and discouraged. Their united income then would be the old Mexican town across the Ric tier he was the accountant at Reed's A Daughter of Burns. Meantime Bancroft had commenced They loved their home, they $532. They would live on $25 a fcea-stoie. There were a few more Grande: to haunt me. From being a naturally grew more attached to it every day, month this with $40 annual interest From the Pall Mall Gazette. fcears, but her suspicions were lulled In Paso del Norto there is a cathedral frank and open disposition, I became but that nortaage would be a burden would consume $340. It would take It will surprise many and may interest and peace was declared. I went to 325 years old, built by Spanish preternaturally vigilant and alert, upon the hearts until it was paid. them six years at least to pay off their a few ot your readers to learn sleep, I blush to say it, with a sort of Jesuits. It is not that the general fearful each instant that I would Every ro had taken on an individuality, mortgage. They would then have guilty satisfaction that I had done a there died at Moffat on the 13th oi betray myself and realizing that each plan is elaborate on the contrary it nd Paulina's home-made $192 to pay on their place every year. emart thing. Little did I dream of the last month a veritable though illegitimate day put me further from the possibility adornme: ts were in exquisite ta^te, is one of beautiful appropriateness All this sounds well, but thetragedy jprecipice on which I was treading. daughter of the poet Burns. The of an explanation. I grew pre-occupied, but they lung to the little blue book. and simplicityoffering in this respect of unexpected is our danger. Figures A few nights afterwards, when I was old lady in question, Helen Armstrong moody, morose. My nerves, a lesson to the moderns. The walls It is 1 ardly neccessary to dwell will not lie, but they often conceal Sat again, Mabe! met me with the inquiry: by name, who was 97 or 98 years oi quivering under the tension, were giving are of adobe, plain and straight and upon thef months of that first year. the hard reality. If they had "I suppose you were out with age, lesided for many years in Moffat way. I looked beared and guilty. One morjth the expenses reached $80, succeeded in their worthy undertaking, neither the walls nor the massive tim vthat Bancroft?" in the same little back street in which The very name of Bancroft was hateful and one jthey were reduced to $30, this sketch never would have been bers are any the worse for their three "Yes, dear," I replied, catching at she was born somewhere about the to me, and when my wife harped but at il close they had $11 for the written. centuries of wear. But the heavy wood 'the straw, "Bancroft is a pretty good year 1788. The fact of her relationship upon him I felt that I should go mad interest $40, and nothing saved for They had expended all their ready work everywhere is beautifully carved fellow after all, Mabel. He has a to Burns was well known in Moffat if I did not get away. He had become the morl gage. money for the first payment of the In the cathedral are records of great scheme on foot for some real-estate and the neighborhood. Her mother, astonishingly real to me, and I felt my The hi lde of the mortgage made house and its furnishing. It was very historic value, reaching back hundreds investments, and we were talking it Nelly Hysloy, was a beauty in her personality becoming mixed and Mack a ood deal of trouble," threatened complete in every way, a good cellar of years. Some of the decorations ovcr." day, and Burns was for some time a meshed with this myththis man of to foreclose, as prompt payment cemented on the bottom and well and religious emblems are presents devoted admirer of hers. Helen is air and nothingnessin a manner that "What, has he money?'' she said in of interest had been a condition of his drained, every room finished and from the monarchs of spain. Tne old said to have borne a strong resemblance upset all my previous notions of identity. rsurprise. "Then he must be of a savving taking the mortgage, and altogether suitable. The house was not in the church is well worth a visit from any to Burns in her earlier days, I almo jt believed that I had actually disposition. Perhaps he is a better they commenced the new year sick at grub state it had reached its full development. tourist, particularly the student oi and indeed the likeness to the portrait met Bancroft at some time, man than I thought. Tell me heart but they turned over a fresh It did not have that shabby, art and history. But to a tourist of Burns was traceable to the last in or that I was living a dual existence. omething about him Frank, Where leaf in the little blue book and took discouraged appearance which who has never seen a Mexican town the contour of the face and in the In short, I was on the verge of lunacy does he live?" courage. many new houfees assume. it is not the only object of interest by dark bright eyes, dimmed as they when the climax came. "He has a room atat20 Staun*ton Paulina had lived in a family where Another year brought more serious any means. There are the quaint were by age and sickness. Nor was the place No. 12, I believe." I One evening when I went home to there had been no stint as regards times t,he incidental expenses were streets of ancient adobe houses, with, likeness confined to physical points 'Ohoose Staunton place upon the in.apiration supper in my usual perturbed state of supplies. The cuisine was amply provided larger a little Mack came, bringing dark-eyed senoritas peeping from the in her mental powers Helen showed a of the moment because it mind there was a strange man at my with everything desired. The with him cares and anxieties and also windowswhen there are anyoi strain of the political blood. A few "was a long distance from where we gate. He had a keen, hatchet face, grocery man and market man had expenses. Big Mack had two weeks through the cracks of the doors. Some years ago her conversational powers Hived and consisted of only two short and wore a slouch hat. called every morning and taken Paulina's of sickness there was a strange hand of the senoritas are very handsome, and her quickness of repartee were blocks, so I was quite sure Mabel "Mr. Frank N. Styne, I believe." orders for the day. in the kitchen for a time. When the and not averse to a little harmless most amusing and attractive. Even would never find or penetrate them. "Yes, sir." year closed they were $300 in debt, The bills were sent every month to my great relief she did not pursue a few months since, when well enough flirtation with the fair-haired son ol "I am a member of the city detective and the little blue book was triumphant. the office of the head of the jber investigations further, but threw to talk, her conversation was highly the North. They listen with charming foice. The chief wants to see you The crisis had come at last. house and settled. It was a beautiful jme into consternation at the table interesting. Helen's life, as far as I attention while he says fine things at his office." The mortgage would be foreclosed according system when one had ample sraxt day by looking at me wistfully can learn, was not a very eventful in a tongue they do not understand. "All right," I gasped, my brain in a to the special contract, and means. It was hard to become emancipated .and saying: one. She went to service at a very The town of Paso del Norte has a pop whirl. "Wait till I go in and see my ruin stared them in the face. Those from it in a day. Paulina friend'l,a Mr Bancroft Doeu he early age7,1 think. She belonged to .'^y"Frank, quite curious about ulation of about 7,000pretty fail wife. were dark days for Paulina if she had took pride in her cooking, she delighted ou i that genus of Scotch servants, still extant for a Mexican town. But thirty "Your wife is at the office," he replied not had real pluck, they would broken in artistic and appetizing viands look like you?" though rather rare, who remain with a peculiar smile. years ago it was a city of 30,000 her utterly. At last, when it seemed she had been allowed to gratify her years in one "place" and identifv "No," I said, giving my imagination souls. "A thriving city," we should Shocked and alarmed beyond expression, as though the house ranst go under taste in this regard. They all thought their employers' interests with their yreia, "he is shorter and of light complexion." I plied him with questions, the hammer, the husband of her old have called it in the United States Pauline's cooking was unique the expense own. She was rhirty years in one situation but he insisted that he knew' nothing mistress offered to take the mortgage, What has become of the large population she was not responsible for, she at the Buccieuch Aims Inn, at "Does ha wear a beard?" of "the case," as he called it, and hurried and they weie saved utter defeat. no one can tell. They have folded had worried nothing about that. But "Yes, a full beard, cropped close." Thornhill, with a family named Glendinning^ me along. The fact that I had They had. a chance to rent the house now it was another matter $25 a their tents like the Arabs, and si "What color are his eyes?" not the slightest idea what Mabel to a good tenant, and Paulina went month for the total expenses of the lently stolen away. tC 7 fcV ,1,, &*/%*.<l AWi 'S'*Sil^ 'V 5 -V*' mi 7^ Si^ s4 A a?