Maud, faintly, after an instant's blank turned up^the glimmering lamp. about to relate her version of the FRANCE. EXPECTS WAR. Roach Remembered Hf m. silence. Again came the sound slight but distinct, night's adventures, when Mrs: Esta* Roaclrpwas "O, Maud, what shall we do" moaned Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel. scratch, scratchfile, file. Come to me now! 0 come! benigiieat sleep! brook's voice was heard in reproachful Interrlew irith an Officer of tbe French 'StLTf. Mrs. Estabrook, sinking back into An intimate friend of John And fold me up as evening doth a flower. "Maud, what is that noise?" said accents from above. They hastened New York Tribune. Erom my vain self, and vain things which a seat. "And we have actually invited Mrs. Estabrooke, with the calmness told this of him at the time of his upstairs, and found the poor Baron De Lorme, the energetic have power him to teaa burglar! Well, of despair. Maud declined to commit lady inclined to hysterics at being left signment: "At twenty-two he had a% young Frenchman who for nearly a i Upon my soul to make me smile or weep. for a friend, I thought he seemed very herself prematurely. alone. She began an incoherent story wife and two children. At this time And when thou comest, oh, like death be year has been endeavoring to interest uncertain about Tom." "Maud," said her mother again, in whirh Peter and the burglar were deep! he was a slight slip of a fellow and did American capitalists in the construction "I noticed that, too," answered "it,s down .federatpiazzathat at the window.n It's jumbled, to Tom's bewilderment. No dreamy boon have I o! thee to crave, of ma in not weigh much over 120 pounds. He Maud, with bent brow, recalling a certain of railroads in China, is again in it's a More than may come to him that in his "But who winged the burglar, then?" became ill and was confined to his bed unreadiness of tone and manner grave there' 0, don't tell me! I know!" New York after having been some he asked. "Was it you, Maud?" IB heedless of the night winds how they until all of his moderate savings were which had struck her as strange at Maud frowned thoughtfully. Her "Hushsh!" breathed his mother, months in France. sweep. the time. Mamma," she continued, gone. One night, when there wae mother's idea was only'too plausibls. with warning finger upraised. "He's Like most Frenchmen who come to I have not in me half that cause of sorrow "we must send Bridget or Maggie over "He'll get in and let the other scarcely a penny in the house, the in there, you know." this country at the present time Baron "Which is in thousands who must not complain to the village for help one out, pursued Mrs. Estabrooke, "In there! why, I thought you said physician came to see him, and after De Lorme is full of the war topic. "No," almost screamed Mrs. Estabrook. breathlessly "and then go through he was gone? And what on earth is And yet this moment if it could be mine He has been for twelve years an "of- examining him said 'John Roach, you "not another person must the house, and rob and murder us To lapse and pass in sleep, and so resign Piter in there tor? ficer of the French Navy. In conversation should know the truth. You must All that must yet be borne of ]oy and pain, leave the house! 0, how could Peter all. 0 dear! Oh-h!" "No. no, not Peter, thethe burglar on the war subject he said die. Your lung3 are hopelessly affected. I scarcely know if I would wake to-morrow. choose the very day Tom was gone? "Don't mamma dear! pray don't!" among other things: "The general impression I tell you this so that if you can PATRICK PROCTOR ALEXANDER. When he knows how nervous I am, entreated Maud, as the poor lady, "The burglar!" Tom jumped up. in this country that France make any provision for your wife and too!and to think I told thatthe overwhelmed by her own picture, "You don't mean you've trapped the will be whipped is erroneous. In case desperado out there, that there wasn't showed signs of becoming hysterical, children you will yet have time.' Roach fellow? Bravo!" And he was hurrying THE TALE OF A TELEGRAM. we should have war with Germany, a man about the place! Maudl Maud! and uttered several small screams. was in despair. He saw absolutely no to the door, when his sister laid a France will be victorious this time. what shall we do!" Upon this, the occupant of the next hand on his arm. hope for him in the future. He did In the first place, the war will not be room, who hitherto had given no sign "I think I have a plan, mamma," Maud Estabrook had just turned to "0, wait, Tom," she said. "That is of our seeking. Frauce will not be not fear death, but the thought ol of life, began to knock on the door between said Maud, raising her head from her the oddest part of it all. "And she retrace her steps up the avenue, when, the aggressor. In the next place evepy leaving his wife and children to a destitute, the two chambers. Maud drew brown study. "Wait a moment." told the tale of their strange guest. Frenchman will know that upon success glancing round, she saw a young man poverty-stricken life pierced near, and the folio wing conversation She flew upstairs and down again. "It doesn't seem like his being a burglar, depends the very life of emerging from theshadowof one of the took place: him to the heart. He prayed all night "Now come out on the piazza. He but I don't think he can be in his the nation. We cannot afford mustn't suspect anything." "Miss Estabrook!" that he might live. In the night a great willows that guarded the gate. right mind," she concluded. to be deleated this time. In The two ladies rejoined their unwelcome "Yes." vision came to him. It seemed as i* As he pulled off his hat with a low "By Jove! I should say not' Wanted the Chamber of Deputies the most guest, and Mrs. Estabrook rushed "Excuse me, but is anything wrong?" to be locked up again? Why, the he were looking directly into heaven, violent antagonists of the Government bow, the sunlight brought out the into feverish conversation with Maud hesitated. Mrs. Estabrook man must be a first-class crank. Well, assert with the utmost zeal and and from that abode of happiness burnished black of his close-cut hair, him. But her talk was of a singularly meantime had checked herself and was I'll have a look at him." vigor that in the event of war there came a promise to him that he \?ould and threw into stronger relief his warlike kind, turning mainly upon holding her breath to listen. Receiving ft He left the room, and the two women will be no party except the party in live The next day a fellow-workmen revolvers, and the proficiency attained no answer he presently spoke bronzed, handsome face, to which a heard the key turn in the lock. support of the Government. The came to see him The workman was in the use of these deadly weapons by again. They held their breath to listen, but slight scar on one cheek gave a touch French people have been very prudent. going West. Bridget and Maggie,two unsophisticated "What is that noise I hear downstairs?" all they could distinguish in the next The newspapers are calm and o! the romantic and picturesque. So "He came to see John Roach, he hand-maidens, who, in fact, would room was a confused sound of voices self-restrained. The spirit that animates thought, for the last time. He bent thought Maud, after her brief, comprehensive not have known a toy pistol from a "We don't know," said Mand "but and laughter. Presently Tom came the French people is the same over him and kissed him good-bye before survey. gatling gun. Maud.in spite of her tension back, accompanied by the suppositious as that which found expression in the i he went away. After his departure of anxiety, grew speechless with "But what? Is that what is alarming burglar. lips of Chanzy, who said that a "I beg your pardon," said the John Roach found that he had laughter behind her fan as she listened, you?" "My mother and sister, Mr. Folliott," Frenchman who spoke of revenge stranger, fanning himself with his left under his pillow his weed's wages turtively watching the stranger's face Maud considered. "We are afraid said Tom, with a wave of his ought to be hanged, and the Frenchman in the very envelope given at the straw hat as he spoke, "but can you and noting its just-controlled uneasiness. it is aa burglar/' hand and a twinkle of his eye. who did not think revenge in the works. John Roach did not die. Finally, like one who takes a tell me if Mr. Estabrook is here? "What! Another?" exclaimed the "Mother, this is my friend Mr. Folliott, remotest depths of his heart ought to With the modest help of his friend be resolution, be began abruptly, "I really stranger. Then he checked himself. who seems to think there is be shot. The navy of France is today "0," thought Maud, "one of Tom's got a start. Thirty-three years after he am in a very false position "Don't you think you'd better send some mystery that needs clearing up competent to cope with the navy friends." Then, aloud, "Yesthat is, was walking down Broadway when he "0,1 beg your pardon, Mr. Folliott" me to dispose of him?" he suggested, Go ahead, Folliott, your turn first. of Germany upon any waters on the saw the back of a plainly-dressed man he lives here, but he is not at home quickly interposed Maud.fearing that, with an admirable assumption of the concluded Tom, with a grin, as he globe. I think we are equally ready Ufa' whose figure seemed familiar to lftm. in his rising suspicions, she would lose to-day." boldnes3 of innocence. dropped into a seat. as to armies and arms. Our military He was moved by some spirit or desire her carefully prepared coup. "If you "Maud!" sharply protested. Mrs. Thereupon Mr. Folliott explained leaders have not yet been fully de- As the new-comer stood irresolute, to speak to this man. He stop- would like to remove any of the lingering Estabrook. that, in the conrse of his pedestrian Maud gave him another quick look, yeloped, but we have reason to hope ped him and said: 'I do not know dust of travel, you have just time "One moment mamma," rejoined tour, it occurred to him to look up a summed up his whole appearance. that emergency will bring them forth your name, but I ought to know it. before tea. her daughter. "I am not sure." She friend who wa3 making a short stay as it has for other nations and from his six feet of stature and the *#"*f, What is it?' The man "gave it. It was The young man rose at this hint, turned to the door again. "You'are somewhere in that neighborhood. This for our own. we are not looking for light pedestrian garb that set it off to the name of the workman who had and Maud, volunteering to show the quite certain he is not ananan friend's name was EstabrookGeorge a Napoleon, and we are seeking to the knapsack hanging over his broad befriended him on his dying bed: Said way, accompanied him up the broad assistant of yours?" she asked, in the avoid a Bazaine.and ^.bove all things Estabrook, not Tomhe had not shoulders. Then she said hesitatingly. Roach 'Do you know me?' 'No.' 'I am staircase, and smilingly indicated the politest terms she could select. we want a Frenchman, with the good known that Tom Estabrook lived in "He may be back to-night, perhaps. John Roach,' was his reply, 'the shipbuilder.' room where his knapsack had been "Let me out, and you shall see. Upon of his country at heart. It is possible that locality. Won't you come up to the 'Yes, I have heard of you in left. No sooner had he stepped within my honor" Here the words were we might be better of if war could be 'fBut you'd be likely to know it another house and rest? It is so warm' And the newspapers. But you must excuse than, quick as a flash, the girl shut lost in a stifled sound. postponed until 1890, when we would time," put tn Tom, with great my mother will be glad to see any me, I have in hand a very pressing the door and locked it on thet outside, havetwenty classes of men under arms. "Is the man laughing?" demanded enjoyment. friend of Tom's." matter of business.' 'Wait a moment, where she had already placed We have only seventeen at present, Mrs. Estabrook, in angry amaze Mr. Folliott, continuing, said that The young man returned her inquiring said Mr. Roach. 'Did you ever know the key. Then she leaned against the the present military laws having gone then, as a new suspicion entered her his happening to mistake the place another John Roach?' 'Yes, but he glance as he answered, also with wall, and listened to the movements into effect in 1870, but the difference mind. "Maud, do you believe he is had led to the whole subsequent comedy died some thirty odd years ago.' 'No, some hesitation. "Thanks. It is of the entrapped burglar. of these three classes is scarcely material. exactly in his right mind?" of errors. He apologized for having he didn.t I am that same John very warm, certainly. I should be We hear a great da said For a few moments there was perfect "I don't think he can be," Maud answered, accepted their hospitality under Roach,' was the shipbuilder's reply. delighted to pay my respects to Mrs. about repeating rifles with which the stillness, as if he were trying to doubtfully but seeing her false pretenses, and remarked that he Estabrook, if she will permit me." "The man was very much astonished, Germans are armed. If I were commander realize the meaning of that click of the mother's growing alarm she hastened had made several ineffectual efforts to With that he put on his hat again but he again made a move to of the French forces I would lock then she heard him go to the to add, "but we evidently have a certain place himself in his true colors. When and the two walked along together pass on, as he was pressed for time. not have a repeating rifle in the army. door and turn the handle, first softly, control over him, andreally he realized the position, after being under the blossoming acacia trees, But Mr. Roach made him stop and They are only serviceble in keeping then louder and louder. Maud clasped mamma, I don't know but it would locked in, as he felt convinced that hi" while he introduced himself as Marston tell what his bnsiness was. He found up the courage of men by the constant her hands tightly together, feeling be better to let him drive the other explanations would not be credited, Folliott, just now pedestrianizing that his friend had a small house and explosion of cartridges, the bullets away. No, but hear me out. They almost hysterical between laughter he thought he might as well accept the in that region. To which she responded shop in Brooklyn. It was to be sold which go wide of the mark. They can't be accomplices, and if we must and nervousness. Then the rattling situation with what philosophy he under the hammer to redeem a mortgage with the information that keep up the courage of men who are be in the power of either, why, I would stopped, and a voice said, slowly could muster, until the march of events at 12 o'clock that day. It was she was "Tom's sister." engaged what you may call 'bushwhacking' much sooner trust this one. He is far "Miss Estbrook' Are you still there?" should right him again. 11 o'clock. The man was hurrying In this way they reached the house, dodging from tree to tree superior to ordinary burglars," concluded "Yes," answered Maud, holding her "Now for our side," said Tom, when to see the sheriff to ask him if he \vhere Mrs. Estabrook was discovered without touching the elbows of their Maud, with a fine air of breath. the story was finished. "Mother, where could not'put of the sale a little longer. in the oool north parlor. She receivedjher fellow-comrades. But as soon as the connoisseurship in this particular is the fatal telegram?" The telegram "You are not aware that you have Mr. Roacii said to him: I know son's friend very hospitably, shots are all fired away goes the branch of the dangerous classes. locked me in?" was produced and read aloud amid that sheriff well. You will lose no inyiting him to await Tom's return, courage and the army is demoralized. Her opinion, as usual, prevailed, much laughter. "How about that time stopping with me.' He dragged which was expected by the next Maud hesitated for an instant. I would have the soldiers armed and their prisoner was informed that scar, Folliott?" said Tom, with mock him into a restaurant, where they morning at latest. But since the explanation must come, with single-shooters and carry if he would not move until a given gravity. "Doesn' that need'some explanation?" had a hurried lunc h. During the stay Mr. Folliotte's manner was again it might as well come at once. "Yes" their amunition in the old pouches, time he should be released. As he in this place Mr. Roach made out a she answered, clearly "I did it intentionally." hesitating, as he half glanced toward and instruet them that every bullet readily agreed to the conditions, the check for the full amount of the mortgage. "The scar," answered Folliott, in Maud. "I really ought not to take must be sent to the mark. The difficulties girl stole out into the passage, turned He then took his old friend in the same tone, "is all that remains of advantage he began. 'Indeed!" The blended accent of of procuring amunition on a the key very soffcly, and then flew back a carriage and they reached the sheriff's an adventure I had some time ago. this word made her feel hysterical field of battle are almost insurmountable But Mrs. Estabrook, a nervous, excitable into her own room, which she office in time to redeem the property. I never dreamed what an important again. "Perhaps you would not at times, and the soldier who is woman, given to starts and locked in hot haste. Here she knocked One of the sons of Mr. Roach part it was going to play in the drama mind telling me Why you did it?" trained to recognize the value of every broken sentences, interrupted him: on the inner door.and at the appointed afterward married a daughter of his of my life," and he glanced at Maud. cartridge is the better soldier of the "Because you are a burglar," answered "No, no! Pray don't 3ay so. sign heard the young man dash old friend." "Well, we'll call it quits if you will," two types. Besides all this Germany the girl, concisely. Ueally it would relieve my through the corridor and downstairs. said Tom, laughing. "I vote it an immense has no such great equipment of repeating mind, now that my son is away and There was an indistinct mutter There was a sound of rattling glass, joke all ronnd." rifles, even if they were more desirable. of course Peter must choose this very which might or might not have been an altercation of voices, a pistol shot, "We didn't think it such a joke, did There are not so many repeating An Eccentric Western Character. an expletive. Then, after a silence, timeMaud, Peter hasn't come back and then a brief period of suspense, we mamma?" said Maud, with a little rifles manufactured and in existence the voice inquired, quite formally: yet! No, not a man on the place, and Henry Clay Dean, who died at his during which the hearts of the two air of vexation, as her part in the at the present time as to arm "And might I ask what you mean to this is such a solitary neighborhood! women stood still. Then steps returned home in Putnam county, Missouri, small comedy came back to her with over 200,000 or 250,000 of her soldiers do with me?" Burglars and tramps would have us along the passage, crossed was probably one of the most eccentric mortifying distinctness. and leave any great portion of quite at their mercy." "Keep you shut up here until my through the next room, and stopped characters in the West. A few such arms for the other nations which "A joke? 0, no'" cried Mrs. Estabrook. brother or the gardener comes back So the young man accepted the urgent beside the door of communication, years ago, when he erected a new have been using such equipments." "Really, Tom, it would sound and then" invitation, and the afternoon where a rap resounded. dwelling, most of the house was built better to thank Mr. Folliott for all he "Yes, and then-" wore away pleasantly, withmusicand "Miss Estabrooke, I have come "How is it with Germany? Does did for your mother and sister, and in Missouii and the rest of it in Iowa conversation, and strolling about the "Then," replied Maud, with a sudden back," said a quiet voice. the Emperor really desire war?" be locked up for a burglar! Though, but as Missouri had the largest part, inspiration, "we will let you go if grounds. "And thetheman?" asked Maud, "It is not a question of what the of course, with you away, and Peter you go peaceably." he claimed that state at his home. It was almost tea-time. The two breathless. Emperor desires. Bismarck is the taking advantage of it There was a sound of suppressed ladies with their guest were sitting on For a number of years he had been a "0, I fancy he'll give you no more only German. William is a Prussian. "I'll take advantage of Peter," laughter at this. Then the voice rejoined the breezy piazza when a telegram delegate to the Democratic national trouble. Judging from the groan Von Moltke is under such control threatened Tom, "if he dares to show politely: "Thanks. I will give messenger came uptehesteps, delivered conventions either for Missouri or I heard as he beat a retreat, that he would to-day, if ordered by his face here again." you any assurances you require." his yellow-covered missive, and was Iowa. He never failed to attract attention he won't feel in sprits for any the Emperor draw his sword against And, in fact, when Peter, ha\ing Maud went down to the diningroom, off again like a shot out of sight. in these bodies by his eccentric more of this business to-night. the Bavarians or Saxons as readily finished his jollification, did present where she busied herself in 'From Tom, probably," said Mrs. ways. A writer in the New York as against a foreign foe. There is a "Wewe are very much obliged to himself at The Willows, it was only packing a basket. After this, returning Estabrook." "Mr. Folliott, you will lack of unity in the Empire. There Star says: you," stammered Maud, rather at a to receive a prompt dismissal. me1 up stairs, she called to her prisoner: excuse is need of unification. Bismarck loss what to say under the circumstances. The real burglar was never found. He claimed to be a farmer, although She broke open the envelope, while knows that the only thing that will Therefore Tom Estabrook was unable he also practiced law, but, above all "Mr.Mr. Folliott!" the conversation between the two solidify the nation is a foreign war. Not at all. It was a pleasure to me. to settle the question if that things, he was a student. He was considered "Yes?" young people went on. But it was Knowing that and knowing Bismarck, He was infringing on my rights you 'suspicious stranger" resembled Mr. an eminent scholar in his part "It you will open the closet you will suddenly interrupted by an inarticulate there can be no questiion but that know." Marston Folliott in anything beyond of the country, and had a very fine find a rope. Please let it down, and sound from, Mrs. Estabrook, there will be war. Germany will find Silence followed, broken by another the scar. Even that had nearly disappeared library of rare works. He probably we will send you up some supper." and, looking around, they saw her a pretext. How soon or how late it rap. "Miss Estabrook, I am waiting had the bitterest tongue of any man beiore Mr. Foliott left The The stranger obeyed, and a wellfilled white and trembling. Maud ran to will come can not be foretold- to be locked in again." in the West, and he never was so happy Willows, so that when Amelia first basket was soon lifted through Iher mother and put her arm around "Do you really mean began as when abusing some one or some saw her future brother-in-law she the window into his room. Maud her'. I hope you have recived no bad Maud. thing. Probably his most marked gravely remarked that she could not Hospitably hoped he had everything 4 The Russian Peasant. feat jre was his dirty habits. It is- an imagine how mamma and Maud could "Certainly, I must insist, if you he wished. news," began Mr. Folliott. But as Church festivals, marriages, christenings, actual fact that he would go at least have made such a singular mistake. please. I'll stay here until you give "Thanks not quite," was the deliberate vhe advanced Mrs. Estabrook waved burials and fairs leave only six months without changing his shirt, She was sure she never could. Which, me the word." answer. "If I might ask for a him back with a poor attempt at a 200 days in the year for the Russian and he was as frequently referred to from the cause of the whole misunderstanding, "Be quick, Maud," whispered Mrs. couple of Tom's cigars?" smile' as "dirty shirt" Dean as by his*proper laborer. The climate is so severe as was certainly rather trying. Estabrook, very distrustful of this "Tom, indeed! The wretch!" commented "0, no, not bad at allonly a little name. He had a very strong face, full to prevent out-of-door work for But then Amelia was trying sometimes, extraordinary burglar. "The man is Tom's sister to herself. Then, a littleunexpected." Then she of character and determination, and. months, and the enforced idleness increases as people without a sense of either a criminal or a lunatic. Run aloud: "Oh, certainly if you will let conveyed a silent summons to Maud's with a certain charm of manner, so. the natural disposition to do humor are apt to be.Harper's Bazar. and turn the key child before he the basket down again." anxious eye, adding with the same that his habits did not bury his attractiveness. nothing. "We are a lethargic people," changes his mind." At this point Mrs. Estabrook remonstrated. forced lighjbness: "If you will excuse He was in some respects says Gogol, "and require a stimulus "Keally, Maud, that is our leaving you alone for a moment, Thus urged, the girl made another As to the Morality of the Waltz. a miser. He would stay in one- of from without,either that of an officer, too much!" Mr. Folliott, I have a little household sortie. Once more the key clicked in these little towns at the leading hotel, New Haven Special to the New York Times. a master, a driver, the rod, or vodki "Oh, mamma, anything to keep him matter to arrange with my the lock, their prisoner was heard to and always manage not to pay any Middle Haddam, in this state, is now quiet and good-tempered," said Mand. [a white spirit distilled from corn daughter. That is all indeed. It is cross the floor and then all was silence board. He would insist to the landlord enjoying a lively row that is going on "And you know-he was to have taken and this," he adds in another place, only for a momentonly a moment I again. that he was an attraction to. the among the Good Templars over religion tea with us." .assure you." "whether the man. be peasant, soldier, Not for long, however. Suddenly bouse, and therefore, should not be and dancing. Evergreen hall, "Bat if he shonld burn the house As they withdrew she sedulously returned there was a confused clamor at the clerk, sailor, priest, merchant, seigneur, expected to pay anything. I remember the headquarters of the Good Templars, down smoking them?" anxiously suggested Mr. Folliott's bow, all the outside door, while the bell pealed or Prince." At the time of the meeting him once in Ottumwa, n'-A is likewise the place where the her mother. while preserving a set smile strangely londly through the honse. Maud and Crimean war it was- always believed! Iowa. Everybody there knew him principal entertainments are held. A "Well, perhaps it's safer to give him at variance with her pale face. But her mother sprang up and faced each that the Russian soldier could only be and considered him one of the strongest short time ago the yonng people of something to use his matches with," no sooner had they entered the house other. men in debate they had ever driven up to an attack, such as that the pfece secured the hall for a answered Maud, with a masterly than it dropped away, as she turned "That man back again?" faltered beard. It was very difficult then to of Inkerman, under the influence of intoxication. dance. But several of the Good Templars, stroke of logic. "And they always to her daughter and said, in a hollow Mrs. Eastbrook. get him into a discussion, and if he The Russian peasant is do have matches," 3he concluded, indefinitely. being unable to recognize any whisper: "O mamma, no!" said Maud reassuringly. did not feel called upon to speak no indepd a barbarian at a very low stage Her reasoning carried, the morality in dancing, suddenly and "Maud, that man is a burglar!" amount of persuasion, could induce of civilization. In the Crimean hospitals day. so the cigars went up and the stubbornly objected to the use of the Maud stared at this startling announcement. him. "A burglar would never ring the bell. every nationality was to be found r^i rope came down, for this was a point, haH for any such unhallowed purpose. Why it's Tom!" she cried, with sudden among the patients, and the Russian on which Maud was firm. She had no "What man, mamma?"" The young people raised a revolu conviction. "It's my brother come soldier was considered far the Lowest intention of leaving that rope in their "That man out there-^that FolUiott, tionary howl and won some of the home," she repeated, as a voice from Here is a story said to be a true one. of all. Stolid, stupid, hard, be- never burglarious visitor's possession. the next room was heard, with renewed Good Templars to their side. This as he calls himself. He isn't a At any rajke it is good enough to be showed any gratitude for any amount The evening waned, and still there proffers of assistance. friend of Tom's. Just read this caused an internal disruption in the true: It was at Liverpool docks. A of care and attention, or stemed, indeed, was no sign of Peter's return. The from Amelia." Tom it was indeed, and very anxious temperance organization and a vote party of American tourists were about to understand them and there two ladies did not dream of sleeping, I Maud took the telegram, which was about the safety of the household. was taken regarding the propriety of to take the steamer for home. As was no doubt that during the war he but kept watch throughout the night !$. Xvtom her married sister, living some As the brother and sister met in the letting the dancers have the hall. The they sailed along the gangway to the continually put the wounded to death in the room adjoining that of their fifty miles distant. This was whal it gray of the early dawn he hastily explained dissentient members, led by the Rev. tender's deck one of the three paused in order to possess himself of their prisoner, bracing themselves with contained. how, having called in to see Mr. Chondler, won the victory by a "Have ju3t learned from nursemaid in the centre, and stretching out hia strong tea for their task. It was clothes.The Nineteenth Century. 1 Amelia, she had given him no majority of two over the partizans of encumbered hand3, dramatically ad* weary work however, and the minutes S^sot a suspicions stranger making her acj^quaintance. peace until he promised to the waltzers, marshaled by Arthur dressed the surrounding scenery. "If crept slowly into the small hours. Asking all about The return at once to The Willows Worthington. The momentous question tbere is," he hoarsely exclaimed, "one The hall clock ]ust struck the quarter giWillows and numoer of inmates. how he had done so, in some vexation Miss Marion Rawle, of Philadelphia, has been submitted to the district blarsted Britisher on this confounded before 2 when the silence of the Seemed to know bomething of Tom. at what he considered her fussiness, who was greatly admired at Mt. Desert deputy grand master as to house was disturbed by a little sound island that I haven't given a shilling g$ Tall, dark, gentlemanly-looking, and until everything had suddenly whether dancing would defila a tem[perancehall last summer and worth 1,000,000 which seemed pieternatucally loud to Hi' has a scar on one cheek. Look out to, let him come forward and get it. been driven out of his miud by the her owniighSr, was married to Mr. and render it unfit for their stiained ears^ Mrs. Estabrook for him." .^i,,. sight of a blood-stain on the piazza. It's his last chance!" Then h stalked sat erect to listen, while Maud the use ot Good Templars^ ^K% I Thomas PatQn ot New York City* "Has.scar^iToV^cneek!^ ecfioid At which Maud shuddered, and was on board with an air of groat relief, tit &