*&**W$L T Tlu Jtjwel tliat John Found. DOUBT, v- ly imagine that no little woman as They were married two* months-afterward, 1 per came towards**?-- asd it seemed three streets off, thinkmg* it' best lor neat as Annie could endu to bave and the next day John gave to him that she was pcde and her her to get used to walking alone, as her castle caught in sucti confusion. his wife a small bundle roiled- up in Some ffiine in each man's life srnile a little tremulous. she would always have to doso henceforth. |pfe4^ Perhaps, had it been the detective white paper and tied with blue-ribbon. BY VINCENT BELL. Comes the strage spiritdc*bt. r** "Thee'st been awayi a lone while, alone, she would nothave cared and Fall of wonder, Mrs. John untied the 4 It was about five minutes after the He cannot shut it out, Jasper," she said. "Thy mother's Bet was walking drejunily along then John smiled complacently to ribbon and beheldher lost stockings! Ob banish it by pleasure, rest or strife.*- second and labt whistle had blown at been asking for thee."" thinking of Jasper and home, when a himself. It was her neat-fitting drees "Why, John!" she exclaimed, instinctively Dart's shoe factoiy when Annie Velga "Well, I doubt not sKe*!! forgive me, He doubt* humanity hand laid suddenly on her shoulder and dainty linen collars and alwaysspotless running her hand down to He questions whether Providence exists for 'twas for thy sake,- lass/' he said, arrested her with a start nervous came running up the street, panting white aprons that had first the toe. But there were no holesonly And, swathed in blinding mists, putting the flowers in her lap-. "Thee dread. and red or face, John Dart, standing attracted John's attention and then, two or three dainty little darns, Religion seems to him profanity, saidst, one day back, thee wanted "Bet." said a light caressing voice, it was the pretty face, with its pleasant and it is safe to predict tfcat John's on the steps talking with two anemones, and I've got 'em. for thee." "why do you hide from me, you foolish Then, once again, goes up smile and independent eyes that socks will never sutler. strangers smiled as she came up, and "Oh, good Jasper!" she cried burying Thatfquestion. Is there any God little thing?" she cried, had increased that interest, until it Or any life beyond the sod her face in the blossoms. "Oh, said in bhghtly surprised tones: you!r "Because I hate had culminated in his meanly pocketing With wtiich the sexton rounds the grave good Jasper!" Illustrious Epicures. covering her scared face with her her red stockings. "You are late this morning Miss ^v mound up? She laid them against her eheek,and hands. "Oh, sir, leave me!" Good Housekeepings At last the detective gave up in da* Velgasomething never before ever and anon looked up at him and "I shan't hart you," he sai impa And, an of old he asks, spair. and1 Haydn, the great composer known." murmured, "Good Jaspert" in a tone "Where is the promise of his coming?" for tiently "come listen to reason. 1 equally great consumer, liked to dine "She has hidden them some place Since patriarchs fell asleep, evenas before. that rang strangely to himr want you lor a new pictureBet! Bet! it was so "Yes, sir. I am sorry, but I overslept else," he said shortly. alone. It was his custom* to order Evil's foal serpent form in the sunshine unlike her usual merry chatter. what is the matter?" myself." "She never had them at all," replied dinner for five, and then at the appointed basks, Meanwhile Challoner was packing For the moment he raised his hand John, calmly. hour to devour the whole banquet. "Up late last nighthad a beau, op his things, paying little heed to his from her shoulder, she had rushed While contradiction strance "Then what made her act so guilty On one occasion he commanded perhaps?" suggested John, roguishly. companions. He knew Jasper disliked from him in blind, unreasoning terror. Still makes a paradox of human life, questioned the other, almost believing the new waiter who was not acquainted him, and guessed the reason. As The sacred books with error's clouds are She only felt that she must get away "No, sir," retorted Annie,promptly, himself in her innocence. with the great musician's pecul rife, for Betlovely little girlyes, he from himmost never see his mocking and rather snappishly, for, even "Don't know!" answered John And through {heir volumns devils seem to iarity, to serve the dinner. "The dinner would like to show her off to his lace again. range. chough he was the nephew of William laconically. When they returned to is ready said the waiter, bowing, friends. At all events, though tomorrow Challoner was provoked beyond 3&\ the factory, there was quite a confusion Dart, the great shoeman,and the prospective "but, monsieur, the company have was his last day, he meant to words. It was ridiculous, he said to But though he gropes right on, and hub-bub, for the jewels had not yet arrived." De gompany," make the most of it when Jasper's heir to all his wealth, she consider No answer comes distinct to give him himself, to see her flying from him as been found by another detective employed back was turned. retorted Haybn, contemptuously, "de rest though he wished to murder hersilly ft ed he was taking a liberty, especially by Dingus in the possession of He, too, must live in darkness like the "Good day, Bet," he said, cheerily, gompany? lam de gompany." The child! I i before strangers. Perhaps pretty a notorious pickpocket, who, disguised best when he was ready to go. "So our dinner was at once served to "de On Bet harried, down street after as a woman, had slipped into the Who in the vanished past no vision won. and prim little Annie had some other sittings n-re over. I hope yo are as company," who demolished* it street, heedless whither she was going, store with the crowd of factory girls. sorry^ as I am! Here is a reason, too, for resenting his remark. so long as she escaped from him, Yet. when the shifting band quite as effectually as any Everybody was glad, and congratulated little keepsake for youwedding Of myths and phantasies have left him When at last, from sheer exhaustion, ordinary company could have "Pretty girl," said one of the strangers Annieeven the smart 'lone, presentwhat you will." And as he she paused, she had no idea where she done. Another lordly feeder was a alter she had passed. detective did, although he could Steps down the angel Duty from her throne, spoke he put round her neck a long was. It was growing late, and soon contemporary of Haydn, the Duke of And takes him by the hand. not help wishing she had "Yes," assented John, "and about gold chain, such as Bet had never, in the night would be upon her' Norfolk, who would eat at a Convent been so considerate as to the neatest, quickest girl ever in the her dreams, thought of possessing. Presently sh6 reached the river, and Garden tavern, food enough for five assist him to gam that reward. But She gave a cry of delight, and her face BET A SKETCH. here, tired to* death in mind and body, woik room," and then the stranger persons, but he possessed a more sentitive Annie could not look John straight lit up with childlike pleasure and admiration. she sat down to rest on one of the began talking again veiy earnestly, as temperament than the musician, in the face. Poor child! what feelings beats along the whart. *_- -Ife and would never eat five dinners in before Annie came up the steps. would have been hers had she known "Oh, 'tis beautifulbeaatiful She must have slept, for when she CHAPTER THE FIRST. one a second time at the same hotel.not the enormous bulge John's jacket "Well," &aid John, "of couise you beautiful!" she said gracefully. 'Tis was aroused by an authoritative order A glorious July afternoon, some 60 caring to encounter again the obvious pocket was caused by her very identical may satisly yourself, but I can tell too fine for such as me sir. Oh, leannot to "move on," it was quite dark, and red stockings laid out to air that amazement of the waiters. The Cure years ago, in one of the Midland you beforehand there is not one of our thank you as I want! Look, Jasper, the hush of night had fallen over the morning? John of whom she never de Brequier is immortalized by Brillat counties a narrow lane between hedges, look! Oh, I must show aunt! girls whom we do not trust. It will noisy city. Wearily she wandered dreamed as other than "Mr. Dart," Savarin. This reverend gentleman Isn't it beautiful, Jasper, lad?" take you about all day, for they live where the wild rose grew in sweet aimlessfy on. resting now and then, even though she worked faster when would eat at a single sitting as much Jasper's flowers had fallen unheaded in all directions from here, if you have when she thought no one was watching. profusion and a young man trudging he -came her way, and perhaps felt food as would serve a workingman to the ground,whilst Bet stroked the to search their rooms. As uncle says She was too tired to be af i aid along, whistling scraps of country more anxiety about the smooth masses for ten days. Brillat Savarin once chain with eager fingers. Jasper, a kind of stupor was creeping over her, I must go with you in that case, the of light brown hair than at any ditties with lusty enjoyment. saw hini, in three-quarters of an hour, his brows drawn together, stood a as the long night dragged slowly* past. sooner it is over the better for me." other time? sweep into his capacious stomach little apart from the other two, with He was a strong, well-built fellow, "Soon it will be morning" she said to Then they all three went up stairs to Well when the two officers had gone a hard knot in his heart. "a quarts of soup, a plate of herself. the eirls' workroom. with an honest, kindly face, that was and all had settled to work again, "'Tis no use to such as thee," he boulh, a leg of mutton, a superb She seemed to be fallingfalling fallfng. redeemed from being commonplace by "Will those who stopped at Dingus' John came to Annie'r chair and said said sullenly. "Thee's got no watch ham, a copious salad, a pound "Sha stretched out her arms with nigh1-, on the way jewelry stoie last kindly: the firm lips and bright erey eyes. to wear on it, and if thee had, 'tis too or two of cheese, a prodigious quantity an articulate moan, and sanknot on home from work, please stand up?" "Miss Annie that detective turned fine to be flaunting on thy neck o' oi bread, a bottle of wine, another In one hand he carried a posy of to the hard pathway, but into a pair said John. Over half of them stood everything your room in such awful work days." of water, and a cup of coffee." The of loving arms that were held out to glowing summer flowers, and doubtless up. while John took down their names confusion, it will take you all day save her. It was Jasper, whe had narrator is careful to state that the it was thoughts of the future recipient to straighten it up again, so if you and the numbers of their rooim. and "Thee's tired, Bet," said Jasper on come to take her back to life and love. cure dii not eat either the ham bone that made him whistle so gaily, like I have gotten permission for you the detectives watched each face keenly. the following evening, coming up to or that of the leg of mutton. We are to take the remainder of the day, and So far no one was disturbed by a and rejoice so glad in the shining sky Bet as she sat pale and listless at the "How didst thee know?" Asked told of an English man of letters and no reduction to be made." guilty conscience. After ascertaining window, gazing out iato the night. Bet. and hot sunshine. politics who ate at a military dinner "Thank youyou are very kind," beyond a doubt that all who had "Nay, I'm not tired," she answered They were driving home through seven pounds and a hall of solid meat. Not that he could have told you she murmured,but she would not look been in the store reported. Jonn announced adding hurriedly, "Aye, lamtired to the lanes, in the cart' with the old old At the shop where he performed the feat that he revelled in the beauties of at him and seemed so confused that big, death I will go to bed. 'Tis the hot grey horse that Bet had ridden on the customers were at liberty to eat good natured John turned away in nature, for he sun wearies me. Good night Jasper." many a day, and for the first time "We have received word that a valuable was not poeticalexcept as much as they liked for a certain pure kindness and let her make her Bet broke the silence. amount of jewelry was stolen "'Tis something else nor the sun, in so far that most good men sum, but its keeper had never before escape unnoticed. from this firm last night at about the I'm afeard," said Jasper gently, trying All the way in the coach Jasper had are so more or less. But he could encountered a man of his ilk. Lucullus Annie fled homeward, dashed into hour you were there, therefore suspicion to read her half-averted face. "If been outside, so that he could not never dined more sumptuously have told you that his skies were the No. 32, glanced wildy over the room, has fallen upon you, and each thee would tell me what ails thee, talk, but now Bet began to feel that than when he dined alone, and on blue eyes of Bet Woodruffe, and his then burst into tears. girl must allow her room to be searched now? Maybe I could help thee some- old times were coming again. one occasion upbraided his cook "Oh, dear' oh, dear'" she sobbed. it the goods are not previously what." "How didst thee know?" she said. sunshine was in her smiles. for serving him with a cheap "There was my nightdress on the bed, found upon her person." She was silent for a moment, then Then Jasper told her how he had Jasper Dean was a farmer of the repast when "Lucullus dined and my slippers, and my bed not up So the search be^an. A quiet, trusty broke out impetuously at once followed her to London. He good old sorthard- wanking and perfectly with Lucullus," the cost of which was and, oh! potatoes in the skillet! girl, much older than the others, and "I want to see the world. I want went straight to Challoner and got content provided the crops were only about $500. Among modern extravagant Oh, he will think I am a regular sloven' who had not been with them the evening not to be here for ever, doing the the truth from him, then {let about good, and that sheep-rot did not get epicures we have Vicomte Why couldn't it happen any before, was appointed to conduct same thing day after day till I die. searching for Bet. amongst his flocks. His little farm de vieil Castel, who wagered that he other t'me than when I had to sleep the personal investigation in another 'Tis a poor spirit that never tries to Some horrible dread had at last had descended to him from his father, so late I couldn't even eat my breakfast! could consume 500 francs* worth of room. One after another left the fly the nest." made him wend his way to the river, and here Jasper had lived with his Oh, dear he will never like me food and liquor in two hours. His workroom to return in a few minutes, where he had found her. "The wings are safer in the nest mother ever since his first entry into again! He couldn't after seeing such order consisted of twenty-four dozen declared innocent, until the officers "The knows, lass," he added "If I'd There's danger outside for such a existence. He would not have a looking room." She did not stop to oysters, a soup, a beefsteak, a pheasant were satisfied none of the goods were found as thee was happy, I'd not have thee, with thy yellow hair and blue bartered his dear old home for all think that her castle looked worse at the factory. stuffed with truffles,a salmi of ortolans, worried thee. But I feared for thee, eyes," said Jasper earnestly. "It's the splendor cf a palace. The when they had left than wnen they "Now," said John, when the last a dish of asparagus, a plate of Bet." what that artist said to thee some quiet life had the charm of familiarity, entered. but as the disorder girl had returned, will each one of you "Andandhim?" hesitated Bet. young peas, a pineapple, a dish of time back, lass? Aye, I mind what he and he was disturbed by no worried her so much, she could not sit give me vour keys in turn, for I must "He'll not forget me in a hurry, I strawberries, five bottles of wine, coffee bid theeto"go and make thy fortune ambition to explore the world in still and cry, she began her task. It accompany this officer in his search reckon," said Jasper, with a grim face1 and liquors. He won his wager in by thy quest of novelty or adventure. In was some time before the detective's while the other remains here." chuckle. one hour and forty minutes. Napoleon "And if I make my fortune I'd bring fact, his ambitions, such as they were, work was undone, everything in trim "Not this morning spoke up Anna There was a short silence. Bet was it to thee, lad," said the girl, turning I. ate little, and that rapidly, were commonplace enough, though order with the mattress rolled up Velga, quickly, while the smart detective so grateful that she could not speak. to him eagerly. "Thee knows as if he begrudged the time. His two just at present one of them seemed and the bed folded against the wall lelt the jewels in his grasp, so to Now and then a tear fell on to her 'tis not to forsake thee I'm wearying to to himself, at leastabsorbingly interesting. favorite dishes were a breast of mutton like a book cabinet and. the few dishes speak, and the reward in his pockets. clasped hands, because she was so see the world. I'd come back to gnPed and lentils. Napoleon washed, and the tiny stove blacked John looked sumnsedsome said he happy. Poor little Bet! thee." III. resembled his uncle in gastronomic and the screen set around it, and the turned a tufie pale as he looked into "What ails thee, lass?" asked Jasper "Nay," he said, stroking her hair indifference and sobriety, and He was engaged to be married and one table Govered with a gaily embroidered Annie's flushed guilty face. at last,, "Is't that tenderly, as though she were some had no care about what he ate, while his ambition was to make the woman cloth, all of which transformed "Yes, ot course, this morning," he 'Tis for joy," whispered Bet/ frail flower that might fade beneath Louis XVIII was more interested in a he loved happy. Bet Woodruffe! the kitchen and bedroom into answei ed gravely. "What difference They were close home now there his touch. "Thee dost not know what menu than in an act of Parliament. Who could help loving Bet, with a cosy little sitting-room as is it, Mi^s Annie?" was the meadow, and beyond it the thee speakest of. Bet. Thee'd never To descend from the region of the historically her golden hair and soft blue eyes? though by a fairy's wand. It was a "None," answered Annie, hastily, orchard and the dear old farm. come back. Not as I'd bave thee stay marvelous to what I have She was an orphan niece of Jasper'smother, dainty little place, nothing expensive, but as John took her key, the detective, "Bet?" if I thought thee'd be happier if thee and had lived as pet and actually witnessed, writes a correspondent but exquisite in the taste and tact thinking it best to search her "Aye, lad?" went. 'Tis for thy own sake I bid thee plaything at the farm since she was 12 of the San Francisco Post, I displayed. The prevailing colors were room at once, instead of in her turn, "This day fortnight'll be our wedding stay. I love thee, Bet." yearsold. How Jasper had cherished, deep red and pa'e blue and gold, with remember once breakfasting in the she burst out crying and seemed so day?" "Tis not in thee to understand." the little creature, played with her, many neutral tints blended in the various company of a well-known musician, brokfcn down the remaining officer felt "Aye, if thee'll have me," said Bat, said Bet. and, as she grew older., hoped for her! bits of fancy work. On a bracket and being greatly astonished at his justified in placing her under arrest. lifting up her rosy lips for him to kiss. She rested her cheek for a second She, too, was fond of "good old was a bit of white stauary gastronomical feats. First he disposed John had visited Annie's room before, Marchioness of Carmarthen in Cassell's against his hand, then slipped quickly Jasper," and thought him the finest set on a delicate matting of at the half of a large muskmellon, just once, not many evenings before. Magazine. up-stairs to her little bed-room. and best fellow in the country. the tender green leaves of a growing followed by a beefsteak and mushrooms.of He had taken her a book Once there, she did not go to bed, i So it came about that they told vinethe only costly extravagance in to read and a small basket of which he had a second and a The Strongest Man. but sat at the lattice window, struggling each other they could never be happy the room, and Annie well knew how fruit, thinking that as neat a way liberal help, potato croquettes, four and fighting with her thoughts. There is a man on the Darson river, apart. Jasper said that the farm, long it took her to save enough to buy to begin his courtship as any. He boiled eggs, and toast and muffins ad In her hand she held the gold chain, says the Virginia (Nev.) Pootlight, with its pretty garden and orchard, it. She had selected her room for its had thought as he left that evening, libitum followed, the repast being caressing the shinning links, and allowing named Angela Cordelia, whoiclaimstp. was nothing to him without Bet and south window, and therein were it was the prettiest, brightest little concluded with six wheat cakes. Said her foolish little brain to dream be the strouget man in the world. He Bet whispered that she would love to standing two geranium plants in full room he had ever seen, far exceeding Jasper of other pretty things, richer by far is an Italian, aged 28, and' stands 5 our hostess to me afterward: "I consider with- live there always, bloom, one a deep double red, the any in his uncle's grand mansion. than this. feet 10 inches, weighing 198 pounds. him the very prince of guests, No wonder, then, if Jasper felt thatr other a soft single white flower. He had little thought the next time His strength was born with him, for Poor Bet She was innocent as the with his delightful conversation, his life was a splendid thing, as he carried As Annie was viewing these little he climbed the stairs to room No. he had no athletic training. He differs daisies that spring in the meadows. divine music, and such an appetite." home his posy to Bet. Who would luxuries with commendable pride and 32 would be upon such a painful errand. from other men chiefly in the os* But in her very simplicity lay her danger. not think so in such a position? gradually plucking up spirits, she He could not believe sweet little seous structure. Although not of unusual It never occurred to her that Yqt, as he crossed the meadow leading suddenly bethought her of her stockings. Annie guilty until it was proven, size, his spinal column is much, Challoner's flatteries were calculated A check for over $14,000,000. to the farm, a slight shadow clouded She did not remember of picking j'et he climbed the steps unwillingly, beyond the ordinary width, and bjsbones to do her harm by exciting ambitions his eyes, and he looked down at the From the New York Mail. them up, and, as she only had and with more unwilling fingers turned and joints are made on a similarly which could never be gratified. He flowers with a half-regretful sigh. three pairs, it was important that in the lock the key Annie had surrendered. The biggest check ever drawn in the large and generous scale. He told her she was sweet and lovely, "She was half-crazed for these anenv none of them should be misplaced. When the door was open United States was that drawn by has lifted a man of 200 pounds with and that if she came to him in London, ones," he said to himself "and I've Therefore she began to search diligently, he stood for a moment irresolute. John D. Taylor, now dead, but then the middle finger of his'right hand. he would make her a lady, and bad a tough walk to find 'em. Bui and was beginning to get The room seemed the same, yet not Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, iPhe man stood with one foot on the she*should be his model and that all the lass takes no thought for suchlike tired and puzzled in the useless the same either. Where, the evening to Lee, Higginson & Co., of floor, his arms outstretched, his. other artists would envy. He was since that artist chap's bin at search, when a loud rap, which she he had called a pretty Japanese hands grasped by the two persons to, Boston, in payment for the Boston clever, and she was vain. Again I say, herno, nor yet for me, neither. had heard once before, at the door, screen had stood, was now a rather balance his body, Cordelia then poor Bet! stock in the Philadelphia, Wilmington She's not what she used to bev Likely caused her to glance hastily in the shabby though ssrupuloualy clean little stooped and placed the third finger of She still seemed to feel the pressure and Baltimore road. About ten she finds I'm a bit dull and rusty. glass and then timidly open the door btove, and thereon a skillet with a his right hand under the man's foot, of his hand at parting, still to hear millions of it was owned in Boston. A great, hulking fellow for such a bit to the knocker. It was noon. The few potatoes left from the morning's and with scarcely any perceptible effort his last whisper. "If you want me, Nathaniel Taylor was the largest o' sunlight as she isbless her! But I whistle had blown just a few mimutes k. meal and a dainty bed, with covers raised him to the height of fourfeet Betcome." stockholder, and he had agreed to deliver love her, and that's saying more nor before, and instead of going to his i thrown back and pillows airing, was and deposited him on a table near Jasper? Oh, .after a time Jasper to Jay Gould enough to give him t'other chap, for all his buttering ways. dinner, here was John Dart standing drawn out where had stood a small at hand. Once two powerful men* would beproud of her being a lady. It a controlling interest and enable him If I were to catch him a-fooling my at her door. book cabinet he had particularly noticed. waylaid Cordelia with intent to thrashs was only that he did not understand. to bring the road into harmony with lassIf I were tothink "He clenched John reassured himself he was him, but he seized one in each band, So, as the old clock in the kitchen "Won't you come in?" asked Annie the Jersey Central, and then dispose his hands with momentary anger, in the right door by several little articles and hammered them together until lifewas ticked out the slow minutes and hours, with a downcast face. of the two as thought best. But Mr. then shook himself impatiently, and, on the walls, and while the busy nearly knocked out of them. Bet sat on dreaming, whilst the subtle "That's what I came for," responded opening the gate of the orchard, added, Taylor was in his old age, and he was lt detective was divine around in Annie's poison of vanity crept into her ignorant John, honestly, and in he walked. "I'll never doubt my Bet unable to fulfill the contract. Enough one trunk and the bureau drawers heart. Sufficient Drink. Then he turned around, and, taking trust her for a good and a sensible got out to put the Pennsylvania people looking for the lost treasure John was When the dawn was breaking she her hands his own in the honored Medical authorities now declare that lass, Jasper, lad, and thee'll not find on their guard,and their representatives looking around at this little jewel of a rose, gathered some of her clothes into and approved fashion, he said: it is of vital importance to health thee was a fool for thy pains." met the Boston bankers in this a room, a fairy's paradise as it seemto a bundle, and crept noiselessly into "I have been thinking of you this that the system should receive, daily city, and never adjourned until the him. Across the foot of the bed the passage. long while, Annie, and now I feel I a sufficient quantity of water to, papers were drawn up by which they was a dainty nightdress, to be sure, In the garden hjrfound her. She was Once she paused. It was on. the cannot wait any longer. You are amount to what sailors would call & made of cheap muslin and trimmed agreed to deliver a majority of the not alone, for**Allan Challoner, the threshold of Jasper's room, and here alonein the world, and I am almost "flushing:" that is sufficient to* wash in crochet lace, but John did not know stock in the road at 140 on the dollar, artist from London, was putting the some sudden impulse made her kneel so, although uncle is very good. Let away the waste. Most of the matter the difference between it and one of which was about 10 per cent. finishing touches to a picture in which us make each other happy, and have down and clasp her hands together. which should i excreted is solid, and linen trimmed in finest thread. More than they had ever been able to Bet was the central figure. He had a pretty home like- this"glancing 'The Lord bless thee and keep thee!" requires a comparatively large volume* Two small slippers were set precisely sell it at, all the individual stockholders been there most afternoons for the around the room"with posies in she prayed in a whisper-. of fluid to dissolve it so" that it may under the bed and over a every window. Tj/Wf being allowed to come and sell last three week", telling Bet that her Then she glided, a ghostly figure in be cast off, an example of which may stool by their side was a pair of hair and complexion were themes for their stock at that figure. They the chill dawn, out of the house Oh, of courst, Annil said "Yes" be seen in the case of uric acid, which red stockings turned inside out as an artist to immortalize,and instilling every moment being full oi dread to brought it to the Boston bankers, who wonldn't? And when the quarter needs several times its weight in. water though to air. Indeed, I am telling intoher innocent mind all the insidious Bet lest Challoner should find her. and on the 1st day of July the Boston of one whistle blew, John (who was to dissolve, or else itcryetalizes in the the truth when I tell it, that while the flattery he knew so well how to administer Instinct told her that he would make very punctual) went from room 3 to party received*Mr. Taylors check shape of calculi, or produces other detective's back was turned searching to all womenlady or village an effort to see her, and in this she the factory as one walking on air on the National Bank of Commerce oi diseases. Three and a half pints of Annie's small dish cupboard, John maid alike.i,We- may" pardon was right. But she did not understand mayhap his emptythe stomach had some- this city for $14,256,440. This is believed water or other clear fluid, not obst rutted thing to do with lightis feeling quickly stuffed that pair of red stockings 1 Jasper a lover's jealousy of such a that this huge city, where she by semi-solid contents, should be to be the largest check in his coat pocket! Why he did ever rivalone, moreover, who would be but he never thought of that of course. imagined any one could liehidden from taken daily by every adult, and by drawn in this country. oX so he could never satisfactorily explain. no worthy rival, for though he might Annie sat and laughed and cried to his nearest friends, was familiar large ople as much as four and a Then, as he sat there on the think how happy she was, and spent steal Bet's heart, it was all in pure ground to Challoner, and that with a half and five pints, in order to keep bed, looking around upon the tidy Henry Ward Beecher and Mr. Bowen, the rem ainder of her holiday until idleness, and he had no love to give little trouble he would not fail to discover the cells of the kidneys well washed disorder, it came across him what evening building air castles, until John her in return. her retreat. of the New York Independent, out, the effete waste matter from the 'y^x was the reason of Annie's confusion came back and began to put solid Be was sitting bareheaded, at a On the evening o! her second day possibility of depositing itself where have not spoken for fifteen years, although and distress.for, astute as mankind is foundation to the same by means of a model as with Mollie, that good woman sent it may do harm, and the system they live within a block of VMW-wfaeel, g lovely a generally believed to be, he could dim- his pocket-book. the girl on an errand Borne two or each other could be seen. She looked upas, Jas- health generally. s, Is rJ! KM *ft PS *&&&*$& j&