ifrtn'rifrp i H? THE OLD BARK deal, all the sameand lii dreadfully lielp worrying t&out her^sometiines? with" MBS. GERRBffff GRIEVANCE. era and beard slightly frosted likegetting you a new sugar dish, befrT afraid of the society columns in the She's been a little distrait and odd grayher own husband in fact. he's in the crockery line/' ?3p The light flashed in past each shrunken Journal. Suppose they should say for the last few days, and I hoped she "Frightened, Mabel?" cried he, blink-1 "It breaks that set, you see," equivocated board, that the flowers at this reception only had outgrown all that here with us. ing at the lamp light. "Why, my" the proud little matron, humoring And blazed in the fragrant hay. "Maybe I'd go to Boston with you, cost $600 instead of $700. It's an She will make some nice fellow a dear, blessed girl, the shower is quite over. his conceit. Better to pass 'Where the wifely hens their eggs had stored awful power, that society column,and Warren, if urged," said young Mrs. good wife, won't she, Dick'"' ||v In bowls of the new made hay! See how bright it is!'" for a ninny than a jealous wife. I should like to propitiate it. Why "Oh, yes. By the way, are you going Gerrish, archly, standing on tiptoe to He threw back the shutters and let "We all have our pesters," philosophized .And there went the iris-spattered dove shouldn't I buy the Journal, Dick?" to the benefit to-morrojy night?" the sun shine full in her tearful eyes. Uncle Jabez, placing the sticks smooth down her husband'e nodding On the cross-beams to and Iro, "I would if I were youfive cents a "I bought a box, but I don't care "Whatwhyhow did you happen in the woodbox with fond deliberation. Telling the sweetness ol her love scalp lock. copy or 15 cents a week. I thought much to come back''" gasped she, fluttering i "Now yon know how 'twas at my To her mate, as white as snow. Fedora.' It's too heart- breaking,r you did, already." "It's too late to think of ittoo somehow, Dick and we old from his embrace with the dignity ol house last spring. My wife was sick, "No, I'm not joking at all. If it is There through the open, knot-hole door women don't like to be harrowed. late altogether," cried Mr. Gerrish, in an insulted sparrow. and I had a narrer squeak to get Swift swallows hustled past $700,000 I have that much in shape Miss Dacre will play it very nicely, along but now my wife's dead, and "Cordial query, little wife! I carat haste, rushing to his desk and scatter, To theirtbracket-nestssthe rafters bore, that 1 could use it, and you could be Glue their sides fast though. Isn't she pretty, Dick?her I'm out of debt, andlthankthe Lord! for my dinner, but it seems I was not ing the papers like a Dakota blizzard. my sole editor. Will you?" eyes just like Nellie'sor are they not Hullo! hereisLunt's team!" expected." "Where's my bank book? Seen it, Ma- "No, Mrs. Warner, I won't. It would so daik?" IiUlIed to sleep 'neath the "dishing" roof, "Dinner!" Mrs. Gerrish choked with The entering grocer nodded affably not be a wise investment. It pays By the drone song of the fly, bel?" "About the same, I fancy. Well, if indignation. To be put off like a to Mr. Gerrish as he dropped the parcels "While the horse "marked time" with his well, and all that, but a newspaper is you are not going I will run up here baby in this manner was too humiliating. upon the table. "There, Warren, I forgot to tell you. falling hoof such a ticklish propertyso easily destroyedthat for about half an hour, at 9 o'clock. "Warm morning, ma'am. Shower Stamping the floor hard by. I thought that it would be safer behind it ought not to be owned "You work too hard, Dick why Her husband regarded her in surprise. brewing. Mr. Gerrish to begone long?" by any one who doesn't run it. the clock." '-It was joy to be in the quiet place don't you have a managing editor? "How ill you look!" he said, "No,~oniy till noon. He has run up One month's blundering would take In the sunshine and the rain, You used to do all the work lor Mr. "Safer behind the fiddlesticks!" cogitated 4fe tenderly. Strange thunder showers to Boston." 50 per cent, off the value of the Jour- And we would feel it quite a grace Cashman. should prostrate you so. Don't try the annoyed husband, as he "Oh, I supposed he was going further, To be put there once again! nal." Oh, work does me good. It's about to come down. I'll foiage for myseli I noticed he carried a valise and tipped over the time-piece in laying The Current. "But you are not a blunderer. Listen the best thing in life, after all: isn't in the pantry. Must bolt my dinner got checks for New York." hold of the missing property but being to me, Dick. I am not doing this it?" in order to be at the stoie by 2." "Guess he was seeing to Jinny Ebbitt's IffiS. WARNER'S PURCHASE. for you I would really like to own a a gentleman, he merely remarked "That doesn't sound like a happy traps," volunteered Uncle Ja- "At 2! It chances to be past 5 al newspaper. There is something grand man, Dick. Are you quite sure that impressively that ten to one he should be/5, following the grocer out to beg a ready." about it. I would not buy it if vou you are happy? You know you coerced Mary Warner was the richest woman ride. She's started tor New York. "Past 5! My dear Mabel, how incoherently lose the train. were not here to run it for me. But I me into this engagement anyway, They're tinkerin' the meetin' house, you are talking' Don't tell In California, if not, indeed, the richest know that it will pay me better "It's only 8, Warren. You've half Dick, and I really think you might let and she's free to run off." me you've been struck by lightning'" woman in the world. Her husband than any investment I have me off now. You see I got you to take an hour." cried he, in real concern. "Look at "And to stay off, for all me'" muttered now and if I didn't make care of the Journal for me. And now had accumulated his fortune in railToad "But I'veI've something to attend my watch. It's just 1.15." the little matron, sweeping up as much out of it as Mr. Cashman is that you have made such a lot of ventures, and had died before he One23456, disputed the the scattered sawdust with a spiteful to before going to the station," he making, I know, Dick, that you would money for me, I want to back out of clock below, with lying impudence. flirt of her broom. "Why didn't Warren liad time to lose it again. Possessed stammered, obviously embarrassed. keep it clean, wouldn't you? Will you my bargain." Mr. Gerrish threw back his head and tell me she was going? He's amazingly of sound sense, and blessed with help me try the experiment? We will "Oh'"' Mrs. Gerrish dropped her "You are the most atrocious jilt in fairly roared with laughter. "Oh, coy about speaking of his old see if a daily newspaper can not pay judicious advisers, Mrs. Warner divided the world, madam but I'm not at all questioning brown eyes, flushing hotly. that's the game, is it? So much foi love." without publishing wicked advertisements. the sort of a man to bejilted. Suppose her investments between improved my tipping the thing overtaking Why did her husband reject her proffered Old love in more senses than one. I have heard you talk, Dick, we go down to the supper room real estate and government securities, time by the forelock, as you might Miss Ebbitt was thirty at the least.for company? And what was this and I know what you would do. There now." say. But, dearie, how strange that and devoted herself to the all she would persist in dressing as should be no blackmail, no illiteracy, mysterious errand that he would not "No, Dick. I don't want any sup you didn't suspect that the clock was youthfully as herself19 this very'day! nothing thac I would not be proud of. improvement of her leisure. Two per. I have been headachy all day, tell of? going two hours in one! How absorbed What ravishing bonnets the coquette Help me, Dick." years after her husband's death she and I am going to slip off quietiy and you must have been this morn- "Good bye, wifekin. Take care of did wear, and what airs she put on in "Mrs. Warner, I would give ten years go to bed. There is Mme. Luque now celebrated her fiftieth birthday. Her ing'" yourself till I see you," he added in a the choir, where she always sat next of my life to have such a chance. I ask her to come up stairs to me for a friendlier tone, as he jumped into the house on California street was one "More absorbed than you were?" Mr. Gerrish' Often whispetingtohim, would work for $1 a dav to do it and moment. Goodnight, Dick, dearlet carriage. queried Mrs. Gerrish, viciously. too. Was it necessary" for organist of the most magnificent San Francisco, live on it. I wasn'tgetting much more me kiss you. I have never kissed you, "Well, I must say'" ejaculated the "Well, no, Pussy, maybe not," responded and chorister everlastingly to confer when I first knew you. But I can't do but during the protracted interval and to morrow will be your birthday. little lady frowning after the retreating her sublimely unconscious with each other? In that case it. I am nothing to you that you There, good-night, Dick, dear Dick'.' of her mourning it had not been venicle. But she did not say it. husband, with a roguish twinkle aggrieved Mrs. Gerrish wished that .should do so much for me." And Mrs. Warner went up the broad the scene of any such festivities as its Instead, she set the clock on its legs "You see, this is young Mrs. Gerrish's she might be the organist herself. With steps to her bedroom, when Mme. Luque "No one would know, Dick. Mr. Jardin again, and then fell to musing. first birthday, and I've been deeply en a little more practice the use of generous size and costly garniture be.fitted. came bustling up to her, with expressions would buy it, and no one would She was sorry she had vexed Warren grossed in choosing a gift worthy oi pedals, she was sure she could play as of alarm and offers of care. know whom he was acting for. And by meddling with his bank book, her." well as Miss Ebbitt. At all events she Mrs. Warner laughed at her. surely, no one would be jealous of an but he need not have been cross. What Mrs. Warner acceded to her friends Warren!" could have played as well before she old woman like me doing you a good "Its nothing but fatigue, Marie, and did he want of the book, anyway? "We've been engrossed, I should' left her father's home and the dear ^wishes and left- her quiet home at turn. Is there any one who might be yet I don't feel as if I could sleep Had he not only yesterday told her say. Jenny Ebbitt's judgment has piano. Warren had praised her execution Menlo park to entertain all San Fran, jealous, Dick?" Let me have your chloral, will you? that he didn't owe a cent in the world? been everything to me. We didn't in those days. He needn't cisco at the "Warner Palace" without Send it to me, and you must go, dear "No, indeed. But I shouldn't feel And whythis was a vital query find everything satisfactory last week, trouble himself to praise it again, if and do the honors. I know the dose, right about it. I don't see how I great reluctance, but certainly without why had he gone off without her, too and had to wait till to day for the new Jennie Ebbitt was "everything to and a night's sleep is just what 1 could do it. Unlessdo you like me preoccupied to snatch a good bye lot but Jenny declai es that we've at enthusiasm. The music, theflow*ers him." What else had he said to Miss need." very much, Mrs. Warner? You have kiss? Last week he had left her behind last hit upon the sweetest toned piano Jenny that day? Had she been in and the supper were the bost that Mme. Luque went down stairs the been so kind to me, but then your in the same way. She would not in Boston. I'm dreadfully cut up because Uncle Jabez' place, Mrs. Gerrish felt could be bad. Mme. Luque, a woman maid came with the bottle of chloral heart i3 so big. Do you like me personally?" have minded the neglect so much, if it you can't have it on your cirthday sure she should have heard every and Mrs. Warner sat down by the fire 'who had subsided from the brief prosperity had not afterward come to her ears but you can try it to-morrow. word, had her husband whispered while her hair was brushed. "Of course I do. You know that." that he had gone straight from her to of the Ranch Luque Mines into Meanwhile, here's the bill of sale, ever so softly. Was he at the present "Please, ma'am, will you have Edmonds "Then will you be my wife?" Miss Ebbitt, and escorted that young made out in. your name, as you'll per moment holding Miss Jennie's shawl & position of decent independence upon telephone for the doctor? Mi'3. Warner blushed as she had not lady to the city. He never had hinted a ceive. Mrs. Gernsh, allow me to present about her in the cars, as he held it in Mrs. Warner's bounty, made all Yon're not well, ma'am." blushed for ten years. word about it. Mrs. Gerrish secretly it to- you with your husband'a- the carriage? Did not the woman the arrangements and relieved her "Oh, Dick!" "Quite well, Jane. I'm a little tired, hoped the rumor wasn't true but it love." possess a shawlpin? that's alla little tired, and I want "Will you?" and Headly took her friend of even the task of entertaining was shocking to have the neighbors Ten o'clock, and the dishes unwashed! "Warren, Warren, you're lot*-tooi sleep." bandnot in a love-like fashion, but talking. And now to think that, after The belated little housekeeper bared her guests. good for me," sobbed his little wife, very affectionately. "And the chloral to do it! Isn't it humbling herself to ask her husband her dimpled arms and made a feint of with self-upbraiding3 as wild as hei Mrs. Warner ensconced herself in a wonderful, ma'am? A sup out of a "How could I, Dick? I'm old enough to take her, she should have met with haste but the stroke of 11 found her grammar. bottle, and you go to s'eep. Doctors to be your mother. People would a flat refusal. cosy corner of the conservatory, accompanied hands still in soapsuds, and her "Nonsense, goosie no man created! aie wonderful, ma'am." call me the Baroness Burdett-Coutts thoughts in Boston. Warren called The stroke nine surprised her just could be that," jested he, highly flattered- by Mr. Richard Headly, and I wouldn't mind that but they'd "Yesthey do a great deal for us. Miss Ebbit a superior woman. Pity this side of tears. Was it possible she He thought her simply over the managing editor of the San Francisco call you Ashmead Burdett-Coutts. Good night, Jane, you need not wake he hadn't married her' A lovely life had idled away a whole hour in arranging wrought by the fierce tempest without. Journal. Mr. Headly was only Bartlett Burdett Coutts, or whatever me in the morning, but let the doctor they might have led discussing protoplasm the writing desk, and Bridget gone Of the fiercer tempest that had raged it is come to my room when he calls." 39 years olda young man to control and the correlation of forces, for the week? within he knew nothing, either then oi "Yes ma'am and Mrs. Warner "You are only seven years older if she, the gay girl ife, had not stepped Hurrying into the kitchen to wash afterward. the most important daily in San Franciscobut knelt by her bedside: "Ourfather, who than I." in between them. Once she had told the breakfast dishes, her eyes rested on Next da)*,along with the piano,came his discretion and ability art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. "But I am a widow. You wouldn't Warren as much, and been silenced by a quaint-looking man in the doorway. Mr. Gerrish's valise containing the had more than justified his advancement. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver feel comfortable, Dickyour friends a kiss. Yet last Wednesday week, suit left at the tailor's for alteration. us from all evil. Forgive us our would chaff you." when she got vexed at chess and threw "Mornin' Mis' Gerrish," said he doffing And the post brought a letter from trespassesforgive us our trespasses" -"Well, Dick," said Mrs. Warner, "I don't think they would men the queen across the room, he had his hat for coolness rather than Miss Ebbitt. The writer had secured the prayei was not finished and Mrs. ""and why haven't you been down to don't chaff me very much. I don't called her a silly child, and soon after courtesy. a lucrative position as organist in a Warner lay down on the sofa by the Menlo lately? You are not going to pretend to be many Romeo condition, had taken his hat and gone out. New York church, might she resign her "Good morning, Uncle Jabez," responded fire dressad in her wrapper. Dick's forget your old friends now that you but I am very, very fond of you. I former position in lavor of Mrs. Gerrish? she, kindly. "Have you come picture stood on a little table beside are becoming a great man, surely?" don't say that if you had no money It was evident enough now what he to split some kindlings for me?" her. She looked at it thoughtfully. 'Jfto, indeed, dear Mrs. Warner," I would ask you to marry me for I went for. He went to invite Jennie "Sartin ma'am. I suspicioned you How kind of her! It's more than I Then she took a picture of Nellie from isanft Headley, "but the responsibiliti am not in a position to marry any Ebbitt to accomqany him the next must be about out," said the village deserve, Warren," cried the contrite the mantelpiece u-nd placed it by Dick's. es of my position, as what you call woman I may be looking for work a day to Boston. Uncle Jabez had witnessed factotum, wiping his bald knob f a young wife. They were a handsome coupleaspeo 'a great man' keep me pretty busy. week fiom now. But if my position their return. In plain English, crown, which rose above its encircling And it gratified her husband to see pie said. Dear Dick. What a splendid You see, every man on the staff, from on the Journal were an assured one, Warren had become weary of his red fringe like the seed vessel of a that she put the letter carefully away fellow he was true as steel' She kissed the city editor to the sporting reporter, I don't know any woman in the world foolish little wife, and preferred the poppy above its corolla. in the very diawer which held his his picture. They were waltzing down thinks that he would have filled whom I'd rather make my wife. You society of a reasonable woman. "I knew your husband wasn't here dead, sister's cuil. Harper's-Bazar. stairs. She could hear the cadence of jpoor Duncan's berth infinitely better see I feel a good deal older than I am, to do it foryou,"hecontinued,putting Twelve o'clock! Well, by this time the Minola. Then a fire bell sounded than I do, and I have to work with and I can't bear the society girls, the his hat on again with a screwing motion, he had doubtless seen Miss Jenny off from the next street. Joy and sorrowfeasts both hands to keep out of trouble." Waterinj bread and butter kind bore me to Place Dullnes&anxl the as if it were the cover of a fruit to New York, and he must be on the and disaster. She went Cause. death, and the others I remember my "I always knew you had it in you, jar. "I'd been clearing out the Widder train for home. She would put the to the window and raised the curtain. mother too well to marry." and I'm as proud and happy as can Ebbitt's pipes, and I was crawling pudding in to bake. Letter from Saratoga Springs. be. But what is this I hear about the "Oh, Dick' Dick' I don't know what along on her ruff, when Mr. Gerrish A 1, the usual hour of dining, the You are favored with a wonderfully Journal changing hands?" The sky was red with flamea fire to say. I love you as well as I love drove up for Jinny. He didn't have pudding was dough and the lamb not optimistic correspondent. As seen "I'm afraid its true. Cashman down near the mission. Poor men's anything in the world. But it must to wait. On the flat of her foot Jinny oven9 half roasted. What ailed the through his roseate spectacles, Saratoga wants to go abroad and loaf the rest houses destroyed perhaps. Ah! Dick be only mother love after all. I'm is, with all her fuss and feathers." For once in his life her husband would is now to the business man a veritable -ofhtslife, and I don't blame him. was always good to the poor, joy and such an old woman, Dick, such a very "Did they catch the train?" faltered ha\e to wait for his dinner. Mrs. bonanza, and to all others a He's made more than enough money, sorrow, feasts and disasterlight and old woman. I'll marry you on three the young wife, her face averted. Gerrish said to herself that she didn't if modern grove of Daphne. But the and he may as well enjoy it. I think daikness in every lifenew wine in old conditionsthat you take the editorship Then her husband did go for Miss care. He had been partaking of an intellectual -it will be bought by a syndicate, headed fact of the case is, Saratoga is very bottles and old wine in new. of the Journal that we are to be Ebbit! Uncle Jabez should not know feast with Miss Jenny, he by the Flynns." dull. I have good authority for say engaged for a year and that no one She poured some chloral into the he was telling her news. must make that do. "And how will that affect you?" is to know anything about it till a ing that instead of 6,000 there are glass. Sleep was the best of lifeafter "Yes, ma'am, they catched it. I But when at 2 o'clock the dinner "'Throw me out in short order. The month before we are married. I know all. now scarcely 3,000 visitors- heie. A asked Hiram Blodgettwhen he fetched was smoking in the warming oven, JPlynns have never forgivt-n me for attacking we shall be laughed at, Dick but I canvass reveals that in all the large your horse back to the store," answered she chafed at his non-appearance. them when I was on the Herald, shall be proud of you, as proud can be, When Mrs. Warner was found dead hotels together there cannot be found Uncle Jabez, his confiding blue Why should he delay on this of all and they would give my chair to and perhaps we shall be happy. No, in her bed from an overdose of chloral eyes fixed on the sky. "I am jealous 1,000 persons, if you exclude the army days, while the heavens bewailed a *old Parsons, anyway. There's no use don't kiss me, Dick there must be every one who knew her mourned. of a shower, ma'am. Remember that of servants. There are many boarding-houses, furious tempest? He knew her dread {pretending I don't feel badly about it, none of that nonsense between us, "Rich people like her are rare," said peeler we had the last time your husband of lightning. He had never before neglected k' but only aivery few are full '^because I do. I shall have to start dear Dick." the poorand her friends remembered took Jinny to Boston?" her so cruelly. What ifabsurd none has enough*. Some that 'fresh somewhere else, and shall hardly how pleasant her house had been. "I will make you happy if it is in fancy'what if he had really gone on "Last Thursday, do you mean?" had lorty or fifty boarders at Lhavesuch luck again." A year later Dick Headley married me to do it, and I know I can make a journey as the grocer had supposed? queried Mrs. Gerrish, anxiously. She this time one year ago have Mrs. Warner looked at him kindly, Nellie. They are happy enough, but the Journal such apaperas you would Chiding herself for the thought was ready to believe anything. ,only four or five now. The Howland and put her hand on his arm. It was they have no children. The Morni-rig like to own.'" she rushed up stairs to prove its fallacy. "It strikes me 'twas Thursday. house, on upper Broadway, a few days not a pretty hand as a girl's hand it Journal, bequeathed to him, flourishes Ten months later the Warner palace Through gathering gloom sheglided Yes, ma'am, 'twas a week ago to-day, ago, had forty boart'ers, but the Garden had been almost too round and dimpled, and prospers, but Dick worked at it was again the scene of unlimited festivity, straight toher husband's closet,, for I was in the Widder Ebbitt's stable View, equally large-, attractive and and it had lost all of its bhaplijness as hard as ever. And every Sanday and Richard Headley and Mrs. suggestively open. Where was the valise mendin' her crib, when your husband popular, at the saisme time had onlythree since then. morning, early and alone, he walks Warner aeain sat on a tete-a-tete sofa that had stood in one corner?' drove in with Jinny. The water or four. A\gemtleman told me "Dick, how much does the journal out to a tomb at Lone Mountain, under the great red camella. Where indeed? The space it had filled was a streakin' it off o' the kerridge, that the barkeeper at one of the chief make?" opens the door, and lays on the stone "Well Dick," said Mrs. Warner, "and mocked her with its blankness. A newsuit but he wropped Jinny complete, so't "Fifty thousand a year in round hotels said that the-receipts one day within a red rose and a copy of the how is everything down town to-day?" fresh from the tailor's had also* she skipped out as dry as a grasshopper. jnumbers. Sometimes there are big were only $4, but th corresponding Sunday Morning Journal. It is a "Very much as usual. I have finally vanishedyes, and the bank book! She told him she was no end {Subsidies that run it over that, but great edition nowthe Sunday Journal. day a year ago. ttaey were $800. In committed myself to the irrigation In pity's name, why had her husband grateful for his care. And faith she'd (fifty thousand is a fair estimate." But there is room in the tomb scheme. It is such big money for us the light of this revelation, it is clear needed that? Had he gone on to New orter been, for if he hadn't held her "And how much does Mr. Cashman for many more of the closely folded that I was a little afraid of being prejudiced. York with Miss Ebbitt? that either Saratoga is dull or "the shawl round her so, her silk gownd -expect to get from this syndicate for papers. No one can see them through But on the whole I think it temperance cause" has made marvelous would a'been all spotted hitherty yen- Transfixed with horror at the suspicion, the paper?" the door, and they lie thereunopened is right. But there's another scheme der." progress, within the space of themiserable young wifeglared bought by the dead. "They talk about capitalizing it at which we must talk about before the twelve months. You can take your "What did he say to that, Uncle?" at the dismantled wardrobe till roused 10,000 shares at $160 each, but I end of the month, and that is our "Oh, he was even with her, ma'am. choice. I there- are 6,000 visitors^ to physical fear by a terrific thunderbolt. think about $700,000 will come to marriage." 'I'm the one obleeged, Miss Jinny,' Then, half frenzied, she lighted Absence Made Them Dearer. here, then* about 3,000 of themamust Cashman. The paper is worth that "It isn't the end of the month for a says he. 'You know you're everything a lanw, drew the shutters and flung Washington Critic: Mrs. Carlisle, the wife be confined to. their rooms, fort they tfairly enough." long while yet, Dick, and you must go of the speaker, is a woman whose candor to me.' I lost the rest, he spoke so herself on the bed. are not seen at the springs, oiv "And what are your plans, Dick? and dance with Nellie, now, isn't shea wears no cloak of hypocrisy or policy. Some low." In the grasp of that memorable tempest the hotel piazaas, on the streets* You talk about making a fresh start, time ago she was talking to Miss Susan B. dear girl, Dick? She grows more and "Yes, certainly," murmured the dazed the cottage trembled like a living in the stores* in Congress* park,, 1u where will you make it?" Anthony and spake in high terms of herself more like my poor little sister every little wife, absently shutting Uncle thing, and the ground shook as with in the churches,, nor (if the bartender's, and the other women associated in the suffrage "I think I shall go east. Reece, the day. You must be very nice to her Jabez into the shed. an earthquake. Older and braver report is a representative or.e) in thebar-rooms. movement man who writes the column of causene Dick. It has been dull work for he rat women than Mrs. Gerrish shuddered To be frank, from thetime she came "Ah! replied Miss A, with tears in her eyes, The truth is Saratoga i& every Sunday, you know, wants to go the Sacre Cceur I want her to brighten that day, and she, poor fasting soul, to Oakland a bride, Mrs. Gerrish had Ji-K "1 am very grateful tor your words, and wish feeling the eSect of the depression" and back to England, and he is anxious to up noAv that we have got her." you could know better all the women active was alone, and battling with her suffered intermittent spasms of jealousy losses,in the-business worlcJduring the citis just tliave me go with him. But I don't in that ereac cause."s Dick obeyed like a dutiful fiance, and first anguish. Oh, the cruelty of on account of this same Miss WelO replied Mr C. fiankly, past twelve months. Whan the country rfancy making such a change. I have more than one of the guests remarked it! Gradually the storm subsided. Ebbitt. She had never been able to because I don't know them better that I hold written so much Americanese that I is prosperous Saratoga is prosperous how fine a couple he and the tall and She grew calmer. Spent with excitement forget a jesting remark made by one them in such high esteem." don't think I could get into the swing but when it is not, Saratoga cannot slender Nellie Keane made. During she may evesi have drowsed. of her first callers. Of the formal English style and then be. Many who had a little surplus the next night he tried to talk several Suddenly she started up in a panic. "Among our village celebrities we *it seems like running away, too." That Monstrosity. last year for a sojourn at watering times with Mrs. Warner about the announcement The clock was striking 5. The September reckon Miss Ebbitt, our talented organist." "Dick, I'm going to be a great sociewoman Texas Siftings: "How delifkted I am to of their coming marriage places and summer resorfes* this night was shutting down upon the guest had said. "Really, meet you. I have seen you on the now. Mme. Luque wants street but she put him off with the merry declaration year find themselves scarcely able to her. She could not confront it unattended Mrs. Gerrish, I must hasten to introduce every day, but never before at any jiAe to go abroad and live at Nicebut social that she was too young and but, on the other hand, howcould make ends meet. They cannot spend you to your husband's old gathering," said Gilhooly to a young lady I'm like you, fond of my own country pretty a woman to tie herself down she proclaim her desertion to flame." money abroad and be honest at at a party. The young lady is not very .and I mean to live here and make the any before the necessary time. the neighbors? Could she ever tell living home. To all such may the heat of Uncle Jabez's distracting gossip prettx. chouse pleasant for young people. That "I think at any rate," said Dick one mortal of the tress of hair hid&eri "I don't think you have seen me on the could be easily explained. To think the sun be moderated and the breezes id what a rich old woman ought to do street, as I have just returned after a three night, "that you ought to tell Mme. among her husband's old lettersa otherwise was absurd. be frequent and propitious! Still, the iten't it?" months' absence at Houston." Luque and Nellie they ought to know snaky curl just the shade of Mis* jbbit's? "Jehu! I was satisfied I heerd something merchants and hotel and boardinghouse "Is that so?" Have you been out of "Old woman, indeed! You're as a little sooner than anybody else. Shrouded in misery, littW Mrs. smash!" cried that simple individual, town?" keepers, while they are perplexed, young as any orusnow.Mrs. Warner!" Don't you think so?" Gerrish buried herself again "among "Indeed it is. You must have mistaken pushing the door ajar with his are not in despair they are hoping "Indeed I'm not. I'm developing a somebody else for me." the pillows. "I don't know, Dick. Tell me, what moccasined toe, and shuffling in, his every day for the rush to begin, "That's just what I have been doing, and taste for buttered toastand' that do you think about Nellie? I do so arms full of wood. "There, there, From this premature interment and that all kinds of business may go heaven only knowB what monstrosity I have Settles the matter, Mr. Duffon says. want her to have a happy life, and she is ma'am, I wouldn't take on so about been taking off my hat to and smiling at booming down to the 1st of October somebody exhumed her five minutes But I'm going to entertain a great I such a dear,sensitive child that I can't every day for the last three months," latersomebody with 4roa should- the chaney. Your husband won't feel