/W THE EASTERN SITUATION. BALPffS BEVELAHON. for pleading now, and Ralph had felt MR& BUBKE'S PUDDING. dessert. It was a picked-up one, to hats and cloaks were put on, and the worse off than if his father had burst be sure but what could any one expect party drove away in high glee in the "*T^ HOB. 8. 8. Cox oa tlie Probabilities of a Croat icto a torrent of reproaches. After who came without announcing Yorke carriage to the Yorke home, War. BY MABY N. PBESCOTT. 4* A Cfarlataua Stacy. pulling at his moustache restlessly for much to the surprise and elation of himself, Mrs. Harry assured herself. In an interview Hon. S. S. Cox From Harper's Bazaar. **I wish Christmas would not come a few moments, he said: the suspicious landlady, who had been Mr. Blake was a famous diner-out be American Monitor to Turkey, said the It bad always been the' custom in "Well, father, since you are not surprised appeased by the splendor of the visitors. knew more, however, how to make grandest educational institution in round so quickly," sighed a pretby at my first installment,perhaps himself agreeable over a dinner of Mrs.- Capulet's day to bake one of her Turkey was the American College. young woman who Eat by a fireside in you will be equally prepared for a second herbs and then there was her English "Eva, darling," whispered Ralph to The students of a principally Bulgarians, best plum-puddings during Christmas -a very solemn, gloomy lodging house. piece of information." plum-pudding to top off with. How his wife at dinner, "was not Christmas with a sprinkling of Americans, week for the char-woman, Mrs. Burke, "So do I, I can assure you," responded "Yes, I dare say I am," replied Mr. plump and delicious it looked as it day the best day for the revelation?" Greeks and other nationalities. The who was never likely to taste such a Yorke, "What is it?" came upon the table, and what royal the pretty young woman's lessons of popular and personal liberty, '*0*"^ BN "Why, that I have a boy," murmured dainty -at other seasons. "Why odors it emitted! Sue cut it. with as illustrated in America, are .husband, a tall, stalwart fellow, who About the S6ns of Great Men. Ralph. pride in her mien. She tasted it, and taught therein. Many of the alumni, Bhould we keep all the good things to was reclining lazily in an arm chair, In an article on the sons of great "Of course, of course," his father remarked. shot a quick glance at Mrs. Harry, especially from Bulgaria, have leavened onrselves," she used to ask, "eat **If you think that I enjoy Christmas "There is nothing astonishing but said nothing. The guest was quietly the dough of Bulgarian politics. "men the New York Sun says: plum-pudding whenever we fancy it, in that, either. Really, Ralph, nibbling at it and talking brilliantly. i&y &t the governor's knowing that These students have been the Henry Clay was greatly disappointed and this poor hard-working woman your marvelous news is very stale." Presently Lily, who had been listening master-minds in the recent movements you are here alone with the boy, you in his sons. He had hoped that "Stale, father?" gasped Ralph in utter to him.attacked it. She turned pale, Bulgaria by which Prince Alexander never know the taste of such a mor- are mistaken. I get as glum and his mantle would fall on one of them, surprise. and gave her plate a little angry push. attained prominence. I am sel?" It was also the custom of the but he lived long enough to see that gloomy as possible in fact, they are "Ices. stale,"Mr. Yorke replied, looking Then Mrs. Harry, having helped everybody very much mistaken if Russia will not his hope was vain. Daniel Webster's house "to build," as Harry Capulet always teasing me now, and declaring abstractedly in the fire as he added"I else, settled herself to the enjoyment find it a very difficult matter W overwhelm son Fletcher was a quiet, somewhat used to say, several of these rich puddings have no reason of course to of her pudding. Sue, regarding this popular element. Now that I'm in love, because I'm so quiet. scholarly gentleman, without a single doubt your word, but are you sure her, saw a look of consternation .th- at the same time they would keep how this question may be settled I am quite well aware, however, that suggestion of the possession of his youjxe married?" er upon her face. She uttered an exclamation without envading Europe in a gigantic for weeks or months without spoiling, I've got the pleasantest part of the father's great ability. He was a gallant "I should not be likely to make a as it she had been wounded. war is a difficult problem to solve. and there they were, at a moment's notice, officer during the war, and was burden to bear you must have a very mistake in the matter," said Ralph, The English minister who foiled the "Sue," she said, angrily, "you if dinner company arrived unexpectedly killed in service. No one, we believe with some pride. "I have been married attempt of Russia after Prince Alexander's ^dull time of it, poor little woman." carried the wrong pudding to Mrs. it safe to say, of the men who so ably three years, father." on washing or ironing days, annexation of Eastern Roumeiia Burke. This is the poor-man's pua- I don't like it, I confess," the wife made history for us in the past, left "Have you. indeed?" observed Mr. to Bulgaria in September, 1885, ding," regardless of her guest. when it was inconvenient to concoct replied, "for many reasons. Of course Yorke. "Well, three years is a long sons who took up the work their lathers was Sir William White. When I left "I carried the pudding the cook gave nice desserts. When Mrs. Harry Capulet I should always like to have you with time, and I hope you made no mistake left off, ana carried it on with Constantinople the Russian and German me," returned Sue. took the management of affairs me, to begin with then, I do not like about your wife. I hope she is a signal ability. The names we no hear ambassadors who dread the "No wonder Mrs. Burke thought it after his mother's death, her husband's respectable kind of a girl. What was to remember how we are deceiving and have heard for a generation are coming of Sir William White, were too good for poor folk!" put in Lily, she?a shop girl or servant?" your father, who seems so kind and moving heaven and earth and the new names. None of them suggests cousin, who had been regent sourly. "She is as good and noble a wife as powers under the earth to prevent his the giants of old. The brilliant Tom indulgent to you, Ralph, that I dare during the interregnum, said to her They both glowered at Sue. They ever breathed," said Ralph, angrily, reception by the sultan. If Turkey Ewing's son is now a quiet lawyer in say he might not be as angry as you were obliged to repress their wrath before at Christmas-time: "I hope, dear, "and I can't hear any insinuations should throw herself under the aegis of New York. Tom Benton's grandsons Imagine. It's very uncomfortable for their guest, but they were too full you will continue Mrs. Burke's pudding a?ainst her 'respectability.' Good-bye, Russia she would pursue a suicidal are youths of character, but of no of indignation to talk rationally or me, too, as regards appearences, as father," hecontinued.takinguphis hat she has received it for so many policy if Russia is allowed to establish conspicuous ability. Clayton, Dallas, coherently. If Mr. Blake guessed that the landlady has made several remarks, and buttoning his coat. "I can't stop to her influence in Bulgaria and Roumelia, years, she will feel injured, I'm afraid, R. M. Johnson, Wright and Marcy, there was thunder in the air, he was ag and looked outraged and hear ail this about my little woman, the independence of Turkey is the Clintons, these and many others factious and anecdotal as usual, ignored unless you do." scandalized when I told her that I was and I'm sure,underthe circumstances, at an end. the atmospheric changes.and did not have bequeathed none of their ability. going to dine at home to-morrow, and you can't want me to dme with you "Oh, certainly," answered Mrs. The first move of the czar's government hurry away. But when he was obliged to-day. I'll go back to Eva. A Merry that you were not. She muttered Harry, who was of an economical turn will be the election and confirmation to take his train at last, the thunder-bolt Mr. Carlisle has two sons who are Christmas to you, father,and my love something derogatory to husbands of of a prince entirely devoted burst about Sue's head. of mind "I shall give Mrs. Burke a to mother." practising law in the growing town oi the present day. It does look odd to the czar and his policy. The next "So you carried your point after pudding, but not one of these. What Wichita, Kansas. One of them ia And before his father had time to will be the appointment of Russian now, doesn't it, for tomorrow will all my directions to the contrary," are you thinking aboutwaste all answer, Ralph had lett the room, and thought to give promise of becoming officers to all the important offices, make the third Christmas day I've said Mrs. Harry "Mrs. Burke had in a second the street door closed upon a great lawyer. Mr. Blaine has three these delicacies on a char-woman?" both civil and military, and those who her English plum-pudding in spite ol dined at home alone. However, now him. sons. One is in the railway business "Gingerbread pudding, with a few show the most offensive partisanship me." that I've got Eddie to keep me company, in Chicago one, Walker, has been able raisins added, will satisfy her quite as Old Mr. Yorke sat quietly in his will get the best offices. When everything it's more cheerful." "I had nothing to do with it," returned to adopt the habits and life of people well." put in Mrs. Harry's sister. chair, a curious smile upon his face, is ready tor action Russia will Sue, "it was as much a surprise The husband made no reply immediately. who move in good society with distinguished "What they call a poor-man's pud- and when his wife returned from find herself south of the Balkans on to me as to you." He was thinking, as he glanced ding'" asked Mrs. Harry. church the only remark he made was"My success, but not as yet has the undefended frontiers of Turkey, "Pity Harry hadn't been here," said at his pietty wife, and remembered "Yesthe very thing." dear, our boy has told me with a safe line of communication he developed any of the wonderfully Miss Lily, ignoring Sue's version. how cheerful and uncomplaining she "But, my dear," expostulated Sue with Odessa by Borgess and Yorna. about his marriage." magnetic and stirring qualities that "If his wife isn't to be mistress in his was, how willing to sacrifice herself Capulet, "Mrs. Burke will know she If Panathes treaty of San Stefana is have made his father prominent. Another, house, it is time he knew it. A poor, for him, how devoted and attentive has been accustomed to the best. I signed it will not be followed by a Ralph felt sorely wounded as he young Jim, as he is called, ia man's pudding to set before Mr. Gus to him still, even after three years of have made it a principle to send her treaty of Berlin. A Russian paper turned into the street, and commenced thought to have some of Mr. Blaine's men1", Blake one of the most fastidious ol matrimony, thaf few men would be as good as I kept I hated to scrimp says that the Bulgarian army must be a vigorous walk, he hardly knew ability, though his exuberant youthful content to endure such a life for the her at Christmas-time." the advance guard of the Russian in the where. He started off at a brisk spirits have not permitted him to sake of a woman's love. It was all east. Bulgaria, whether she likes it or "I'm very sorry," said Sue. "It pace, and strode across Madison "Oh, you're tooextravaaant.Cousin make much manifestation of it, if it be very well lor him. He went down to not, will* be compelled to follow implicitly wasen't a nice pudding." Park. Sue. Besides, you give an old ignorant so. That eccentric but gifted warrior, his father's bank day by day and the directionsgn en to her by the char-woman credit for all.your By the time Ralph had turned back "Nor a nice thing for you to do in Gen. Sherman, had looked for a career lounged tl louqh a certain small for his son which in other fields might virtues aud tastes. I don't think it czar in all her relations with Turkey, on his way homeward, he felt as another's house." amount of woik he went to his club, equal his own, but the young man I as well as with the other poweis. If worth while to waste so much money if' 'every twopence he owed were fourpence"to "Mrs. Capulet, I had nothing whatever and had a cigar and some scandal, and has given himself to the life of a priest Russia finds these interests confronted upon her, a poor-man's pudding is use a humorous illustration to do with it," protested SUP. then, if not engaged to dine out, returned in the chinch ot Rome. John Sherman i by lesibtance on the part ot the Bui more appropriate for the circumstan- of depression. Pour o'clock was "Susan Capulet, I don't believe a in the evening to his wife and has no children. Through the Ewings ces." garian people, the consequences ii striking as he put his key into the word you say." little child. the Shermans and Blaine are related, be disastrous to peace in the east, and "Noblesse oblige," insisted Sue. But door of his lodging house, he could "And if I were a sister, you or 1 so that it is likely that to the Ewmg J^one of his friends knew that he i whatever is the end of the impending Mrs, Harry laughed, and ordered the not help lemembering how hopeful he should leave the house." blood these able men can in a measure way married They laughed and joked st niggle Tut key will come out ot it poor-man's pudding to be baked the had left in the morning As he made And so it happened that Sue packed ascribe their gifts. Senator Bayard frequently about him, and had long shorn of more temtoiy. The English same size as her own plum-puddings. his way up the stairs to the drawing-room her trunks, and Harry Capulet had will probably be the last of his family since gi\ en up attempting to see him press and the English people see with floor they inhabited he heard "I can hardly tell them apart, cook such a version of Mrs. Burke spudding to hold conspicuous public office, at at his own place. As for his father dismay the crumbling"ot Gieat Britain's voices in Eva's room. An indistinct has given them all such a rich brown. that he did not dream of recalling her. least in consecutive line. His son is and mother, they knew where he lived influence The Duke of Edinburg sound of a gruff man's voice reached Surely the proof of the pudding is in She went to a friend's house the an amiable, conscientious younsrman, that is they knew of his chambers in has recently b^en received by the sul his ear, and he stopped in amazement. the baking as well as the eating." city, who had promised to find her a but with no taste at all for those pur town, one i oom in Bond streetbut tan at his palace at Gildez but so long Could any of his iriends have discovered But Sue sighed. "Mrs. Burke is English. situation. suits which made his father, uncle they knew nothing of the quiet lodging as England stavs Egypt those receptions his secret? Had any one of You won't be able to deceive In the meantime Mrs. Capulet's servants Or it\\ and grandfather famous. Though where then* daughter-in-law was hiding do not mean much. them dared to come and annoy her' her about all English plum-pudding." confided the story of the plumpudding appointed to the place of territorial herself and boy, at their son's bid^ding. At that thought he sprang up the remaining "I'm not going to label ic, and she to Mrs. Burke herself, and It Russia, how eve r.cets her grip over secretary by President Cleveland, the steps, and flung open the can take it or leave it. Beggars Mr. Gus Blake's part in it. Mis. the barrier of the Balkans, which she office and politics generally are not iRaiph Yorke mused over these points drawing-room door. shouldn't be choosers, I've heard,*' Burke felt it her duty to write Mr. may do if she gets control of Bulgaria congenial to young Bayard. one by one, thinking tenderly of his cried Mrs. Harry, who couldn't keep Never did he forget the shock oi the Blake and repeat the whole altair, and East Roumeha, she has but one "little woman" who had already borne her temper as well as she could keep sight that met his eyes. Eva sat on a and through him to help sweet Miss more step to take moidertoicachthe so much for his feake and who would other things. sofa beside a lady whom he had first Sue, who would never hurt a fly, out ancient town ot Adrianople, and it is Big: Fees of Bijr Doctors. ibe left helpless should he die suddenly "That was a pudding'" said Mrs. hardly recognized, and in his aimchair of her trouble. I but another step to the splendid eapitol v-with his secret untold, and at last a All doctors do not get big fees, as Burke, one morning after Christmas, was his lather, with Eddie on on the Rosphorus. But will Germany Mr Blake smiled over this letter. 3uddcn resolution arose in his mind, having come in for some work. Mrs. his knee' the following from the Nesv Yor. Commercial and Austria, siding with England So they had made it hot tor Miss Sue' "Eva dailing," he cried, starting to *t Harry looked at Sue. "I think," continued Ralph stood in mute astonishment and Italy, allow this aggiessive He had suspected as much. He went Advertiser shows, but some his feet, "111 tell the governor Mrs. Burke, "they grow nber at the door of the room, and then advance? This ia the old,old problem, to call on his friend Mrs. Barnes and of the profession in New York city are She gasped for breath her utter every year, Mrs. Capulet. This one Eva came across to him, and putting known as the "Eastern question," request her co operation. He was paid well: surprise, and he continued- just melted in your mouth, it was too one gentle hand on his shoulder, said, ever occurring, and never settled. The shown into the music-room, and met ''You see its no use going on like this good for poor folks." simply. Crimean war failed to settle it It involves There are at present, it is estimated, Sue. year after year. He will only be all "There"'cried Mrs. Capulet, as soon a contest for supremacy in Asia. Ralph, dear, your good father and almost 5,000 physicians in this city, "So," he said, shaking hands, "thi the Aioi'e angrv when he knows it And as Mrs. Burke's back was turned, The Afghan dispute about boundaiies mother have come to say that they or one for every 300 of its inhabitants, is the result of Mrs Burke's pudding. I think I would rather he did cut me "what did I tell you, Sue? After educating and the English power in India depends forgive us for our long secresy, and which is certa nly a bountiful What a lucky pudding for me and oft wil a shilling than that I should Mrs. Burke up to the English on its solution. It may almost wish to befriends with us, and let us Mrs. Burke!" And then Mrs. Barnes supply. If the satirical saw, "The iive on this style. I suppose I should plum-pudding! This is all the good it in a moment be determined by a battle. be son and daughter to bhem in every entered. more doctors the more illness," be always get some friend or another to does to educate the lower classes, you The vast sums which India and way. You see, your father loves his "I came," he said, "to consult you true, New York shouH be over running help me, and I dare say I coulu make see." Russia, not to speak of other powers grandchild already." about the affairs of a friend of mine with patients. But it is not indeed, enough money to rub along somehow. are spending on railroads and other 'I hope it isn't blarney in Mrs. The tears weiein Ralph's eyes by who has come to grief. Her case is it is quite a healthful town, which You are not extravagant I am sure." communications in the east shows to Burke," hazarded Sue. this time, and as he came forward even worse than that of the man in may account for the alleged fact that "But, Ralph dear," pleaded his wife, some extent the magnitude of the coming with outstretched hands to hfs "A man convinced against his will, the South who burnt his mouth eating the majority of our doctors hardly 'don't do it tomorrow. Think how contest. The perfecting of armaments Is of the same opinion still." parents, he exclaimed cold plum-porridge." earn a decent livelihood by their practice, it will grieve your father, and let him by land and sea, all sorts of "You are, indeed, heaping the traditional quoted Mrs. Harry. The upshot of the consultation was being often obliged to depend on have one more Christmas day in inventions for the wholesale destruction coals of fire upon my head by that Sue had a position, a little later, After this, whenever Sue and Mrs. credit. Many are constantly forced peace and happiness. Don't ha\ a of life, the collection of vast bodies your goodness. lean only say that where Mr. Blake was intimate enough Harry disagreed, her sister would say, out of the profession in order to get a ^quarrel and bitter words with him to'morrow. of men upon these eastern frontiers, I am ashamed of my reticence. I to drop it at his pleasure and carry "Remember Mrs. Burke's puddins, living but their places are regularly Wait a week or so longer, signify a conflagration unexampled in ought to have known yon too well to the governess off to the opera, or for Sue." However, the matter faded out and rapidly supplied. Nearly 3,000 and accustom you/self to the thought the history of man. keep such a secret so long." a few hours' recreation in the Park of their minds in time, and perhaps make, it is said, from $1,500 to of bearing his displeasure. Don't be "Not so very long, after all, my behind his span and so it happened they would never have thought of'it -^M- $3,000 a year, and some 1,500 make rash about it." How the President is Guarded. boy," said Mr. Yorke "it was not a that one day Lily and Mrs. Capulet I again if Mr. Gus Blake hadn't happened from $3,000 to $5,000 only a few "I don't think it can be said that I secret so long." received the wedding-cards of Miss i The Boston Traveler says of the to drop in upon them. Now a hundreds reached the last figures, and \have been rash about it," laughed Susan Capulet and Mr. Gustavug, President's body guard: Mr. Blake was somebody worth while "Well, three years is a fair time, fa- then they have passed middle age. Kalph, "since I have taken three Blake, which was all owing to Mrs. I There never has been a president in Miss Lily's eyes. She had met him ther," said Ralph "and I can assure Forty or fifty perhaps have incomes years to think it over. No, Eva, I Burke's pudding. whose every movement is so guarded here and there,- danced with you I am ashamed of every day of from $20,000 upward, and these are won't be rash but I'll see the governor and whose person is so well protected him at germane, yachted with those three years." so constantly heard of that one niight tomorrow morning, while my as the present occupant of the White him, picnicked with him, lunched "But the secret was not kept for The Famous Fancy Diamon d. infer that the amount is rather the ^mother's at church, and we'll spend House The arrangements at the executive with him once he had even sent her three years," laughed Mr. Yorke. "I rule than the rare reception. Most oi an honest Christmas day, at all mansion have always been some flowers she had some of them Many famous jewels have tragic histories, have known it for a year and a half" the physicians who are pecuniarily events." nearly perfect, but for some reason or now, pressed in a book of love sonnets. "You have known it'" cried Eva the Sancy diamond among prosperous are what are called fashionable other Mr Cleveland has taken pains He was one of those cordial So it happened that the next morning, and Ralph together. them. In a long article on famous physiciansthat is, they are to improve them, and, of course, his people who shake hands as if they just as Mr. Yorke, senior, had installed "Yes, I have known it for a year gems the London Times says. in attendance on rich families of social own security as well. Thousands of were making love. Miss Lily was more himself comfortably in his and a half," said Mr. Yorke, triumphantly, position. Not a few of these get $50,- The magnificent Sancy, which has strangers annually visit the White than fond of his society she intended arm chair to have, perhaps, forty and evidently enjoying their House without ever being brought in 000 to $60,000 a year, and occasionally to marry him. But it was a pity that winks while his wife was away, as he perplexity "and, for the matter of long since passed out of the possession contact with the president, and one he should arrive on the only day in gsuasd into the fire he heard his son's a handsome present from a millionaire that, so has your mother, Ralph." of the royal family of France, county ot the most rigid rules of the establishment the week when they had a picked-updinner. sii'oek at the door, and in a moment whose life they have saved, "But how?" cried Ralph. "I did centuries ot anecdote, and was an old, is that no one shall be allowed Ralph Yorke entered the room. though it may not have been worth not know anyone knew oi it." old stone when Baron de Sancy gav up stairs who is not upon business "You're early my boy," said the saving. Dr. Jared Linsly, who was "I knew it through yourself, my "There is one of the Christmas puddings connected with the executive branch it to James II. of England. From old gentleman and Ralph answered, with old Cornelius Vanderbilt during boy," said Mr. Yorke. "You sent me left, at any rate," said Mrs. government. Twice each week plunging into the matter at once* his last illness, received $25,000 for a year and a half ago in one of your hpresident comes down into the Harry "all that will redeem the din- James it passed to his friend and pat: th "I came earlv, father, because I letters, by accident, I supposeput his service, and Dr. McLane, who ner." T..,, viv ,wn. v, descend. I ron, Loui XIV., and to his *have something to tell you." east room and shakes hands with the wrong paper in the envelopea went abroad with William Vanderbilt Mr. Gus Blake was very affable as ants, until the duchess of Berry, at "Eh, what?"" cried Mr. Yorke, looking the two hundred or three hundred letter fromfrom" toward the close of his life, and usual. He and Lily sang duets together the restoration, sold it to the Demidoffs "keenly at his son "out of money people who are always there to was called in after the railway magnate "From Eva," put in the owner of before dinner she had also to show for 625,000 francs. It was are you?" greet him. Even then he is not unattended. that name, timidly. him over the grounds, the view of the had his last attack of apoplexy, worth a good million and a half ol The big, pleasant-faced "Oh, no, that's not it," murmured river, the eagle's nest they hunted for "From Evathank you, my dear is understood to have received something francs when Prince Paul Demidoff ol gentleman who stands by his side is Balph. four-leaved clovers together, and she continued Mr. Yorke, with a nod like $50,000. As doctors generally San Donato wore it in his hat at a one of the best detectives in. the country. "Then you must be in love," said told his fortune with a daisy. He was to his daughter-in-law, "a letter which charge their patients, in special great fancy ball in honor of Count The slightest movement on the vthe astute old gentleman. complimentary and gallant. Lily felt told me the whole story, and told me, cases, what the patients are able to f*M' Walewbki, the minister of Napoleon part of the throng neither escapes him "Well, no," Ralph answered, raising as if a crisis was at hand. They met also, this present address. Otherwise, pay, and as often get nothing and III.and lost it during the ball! nor the dozen or more mild-looking 1i!s head and looking his father full in Sue, with her hands full of wild flowers, how could I have got here today. I ask nothing from the poor, there is Everybody was wild with excitement but strongly-built men who are scattered the face "its not exactly that either. coming from school. was very angry with you at first, no reason why the rich should not when the loss was announcedeverybody through the crowd, hilly as vigilant *IFhe fact is, father, I am married." Ralph not angry at your choice so "A neighbor?" he asked with his compensate them handsomely, particularly ii but Prince Paul Demidoff. Aftei as be. At night there- aire guards "Well, what of it?" was Mr. Yorke's much aa your want of confidence in most indifferent manner, as she just when they have the good an hour's search the Sancy was found inside as well as outside oft the building, only comment. us, and your want of respect for your nodded and hurried by. luck to produce a cure. Generally under a chair. Long before Princ while the head of the nation is in wife in keeping the matter secret. But Ralph stared in utter amazement. "Oh, no. That is Sue Capulet, speaking, however, a physician's life Paul Demidoff, and before even James dreamland. The force ol watchmen we got over the anger at last, your HEs father seemed perfectly unmoved. Harry,s cousin. She used to keep his is very hard and trying. II. of England, the Sancy was lost in and detectives at the White House is mother and I, and then we determined "His face betrayed no sign of anger, and house before he married." much the same way, only in the melee largely augmented by special details to wait and see how long you *tie was playing carelesslv with his "Indeed." of battle instead of the melee of aball from the police force of the city, and it would be silent. We have waited a -watch chain, as if Ralph had been disvcussing "Yes. Sne's rather prim in her ways, While there islittle doubt that the recent The duke of Burgundy wore it in his is safe to say that DO person of a suspicious great many days and weeks, and his last dinner party. Present- and opinionated,like all country peo- fir boom in Comstock mining shares casque at Granson in 1476, and lost character could set within a months even, Ralph but, thank God. \y he continued: ple." was merely a gambling trick, the figures block of the mansion without being casque and jewel on that fatal day. the good instinct came at last and I 'It is a folly that other men have "Ah! she must be very disagreeable." showing the profits derived from called upon for an explanation of his A soldier found the gem and sold it foi see before me now, I trust, a son without committed before you. Tnereisnot "Perhaps but one needn't to live these famous mines are very impressive. character and purposes. The White two and one-half francs to a priest, a secret upon his conscience, a much to be said on the question. with her to find out." House is in telephonic connection, with It appears from a table published A few years later the precious baubl daughter without a trouble untold." Was that all you had to tell me?" "And you live with her?" police headquarters as well asthebarracks figured in th*crown of a king of Portu by the Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle *I thought that was enough for one ii "Father and mother," said Ralph, "Yes. She will live here I suppose aud the navy-yard. If ifr were gal. Once it was very ingeniously that since 1874 the sum oi $42,- rmoTing said Ralph, disconsolately. earnestly, as he held his young wife's till somebody marries her." necessary probably 1,000 armed welldisciplined concealed about the person of & .He was bitterly disappointed at his 630,000 has been paid in dividends. hand in his, and raised it solemnly, "Then she has a lover?" men could be massed in its corpse. A faithful retainer of th ^father's matter of fact view of the In 1875 $11,44=8,000 in dividends was as if taking a vow, "I cannot thank "I never heard of one." defense inside of an hour. With the Sancys was on his way with it to a -proceeding he had hoped to be able to distributed, and in 1876- the share you in a flow of words. I can only And yet she is not precisely ugly," present arrangements President Cleveland's jeweler"^ shop, when he was attacked *piead with him to describe, in extenuating hope that Eva and I may prove as holders received $12,960,000. The, with a wicked twinkle in his eyes 3. friends need have no fear for by thieves. He managed togulpdown his fault, Eva's beauty and deyqtion, generous and admirable to our boy as No, not at all only commonplace," profits declined until 1880, when they his personal safety so long as he re* and absorbing love for him.sej^nAveWId his ourden before they gave aim his you have been to me." conceded Lily. were but $540,000, and since then no wains within the White House* but there was no need 'aath-blow. When they had kissed all around, The dinner progressed as far as the dividends have been delcared. i Wmm ^Xfe iM% wiimi im^t1^iti"'~-" "T JLJfi &&u hJj^^^^M}""i^':"v,i 1^- 7 "ff "'ii .i 'i i mttfii