the captain's orders, but 1 thought it LOYK AT FIBST SIGHT, her, I A BOY WHO WAS WIU that made him underestimate the slimy and forbidding in the pale^gUm* honor. If you will not hear 5 best to ask no questions. When the charm of youth, and "eager hopes) mer of the street-lamps. must make you lieav me!" It was not a word, time came I tried the door. It was and young romance. He found Rose shuddered as Bhe looked out. Life in a Foreign Land Hade Him Sigh For House. "Oh, we all know what men of honor look5 It was only a unlocked, and with my shoes in my out his mistake when, smitten beyond A child of the sun, she shrank from say at such timea!" Sneered Vance. From your eyes, true and clear New York Mail and Express. JJ^g f|f hand crawled through the cabin and his power to withstand it, he offered the cold and the fog and storm, but As the wild mountain brook! The very air swooued about thegirl, Five.years ago the son of Mr. John out on deck. The steward and one A look of such love, himself and his money-bags to the pale 3he faced it, nevertheless, wrapping but thrbugh the mist she seemed to White, of Syracuse, was sent to sea if! Of such ownership, too, sailor were the only men in sight, and Italian girl. It was rather comical to herself in a water-proof and covering see a gleam! It rose, it leaped like a jfefl forgot there was any one livingbut you. because he was a trifle wild. From they had their backs turned to me in see the emotion in his fat face, the her black felt hat with a vail. flame! In whose hand was the cruel 'an ostentations way, so I kept to gleam in his small, pale eyes. "I have no time to lose," she said, knife? Melbourna Mr. White received a letter & None saw it but me, the bows and gave a low whistle. Rosalia did not smile. She was and the scarlejb spot flew back to her She seemed to reel between them. But it beamed from your eyes4 from the captain stating his boy had I nil* I heard the paddfe of an oar and plid troubled but the luminous pallor of cheeks, though her teeth were chattering. Swift, sweet into mine, A stinging pain stuck her, and there deserted and gone into the interior of down a convenient rope until Ifeltmy Like an Alpine sunrise, her lovely face was not flushed with "He will be busy to-morrow. was a sudden shriek that rang out With strange, trembling joy the country. Later Mr. White received leg seized and 1 was drawn into the ft fi the palest rose-tint as she declined the I must see him to night." like the crack of doom. Was my heart thrilled all through, sanpan. The boatman landed me favor. dark Once out in the street she was sensible a short letter from his boy saying Those who rushed in saw a i it struggled in vain 'gainst the rapture above the city, and alone and at night "lean restore you to Italy," he of a cold misery that penetrated man mass of drapery on the floor a he was in Melbourne. Months passed so new. I started on foot to tramp my way said. "What can Vance Erskine do her being. She was too absorbed in girl's kneeling beside it, pressing a and, hearing nothing more, Mr. White into the interior of China with no It was not a word, for you?" her mission to analyze it, or to notie head against his breast, He sent to the American Consul to try j. It was only a look! idea where I was going and only thinking "He can bring Italy here," answered that her kid slippers were soaked and was sobbing without restraint. But easy to read I of getting as far from the ship and Rosalia, as she thought of the past and get some news of his son. He received sodden. Zachary stood afar off, as one paralyzed. As a printed book the man I had stabbed as I could. three months, when she had walked "It is a chance," she said to herself, The girl's white face was convulsed a reply that a young man answering So tender, so mastering. When daylight came I found myself over the enchanted ground in that "and I must not let it go." with pain, and there was a terrible Without touch or tone, White's description had died in a big rice field. There were a few light which never shone on sea or She. had calculated well. Zachary wound in her side, but she was 3fc caught me, it held me, and made me in the Melbourne hospital ot Typhoid Chinese cottages in sight, and to them land. your own. Sheldon had expected to hear her groping feebly about clutching at her Anon. I made my way. With some difficulty fever. The family have mourned for "A young man cannot love you as sing that night, and was even now breast. I got something to eat and then I do," he said, with a gasp, for the emerging in a very bad humor from the "Ihave it somewhere,"she moaned. their dead boy. Recently they were 2ik asked the way to Han Kow. They blow was hard. "He loves himself hall% "It is safe, Vance! You can live now! surprised by his return. APROYENCE BOSE. understood the word, and showed me best, you will see. He is an ill-regulated The blondeLilian was smiling on him The money is all right." Two days later, when White had a byroad leadingin the direction I supposed fellow. reliablecan't You count on hira. in vain. He excused himself and Like an electric flash, Vance comprehended been home long enough to be allowed He:s not Han Kow to be. For eight days plunged into the foga big, unwieldy all. *lk8torjofft Mistake Which Wrecked Three out of his parents' sight for a few I travel'ed along the road, sometimes "I love his imperfections," said figure, who looked capable of making "Oh, my love, my love!" he sobbed, Lires. moments, he was met by a Mail and lollowed by a mob ot young Chinese Rosalia, a light coining into her eyes his way through the mist that seemed "was it for me? Fool! beast that lam! ifleten W. Pierson in the Popular Monthly. Express reporter, to whom he told and sometimes stoned and pelted and transforming her face into perfect solid enough to lean asainst. He Oh, Rose, stay! 1 cannot live without the story of his wanderings. Seven "Where have I seen her before?" with mud, but always exciting an immense beauty. stopped with a jerk as a "little trembling you! Oh, forgive!forgive me!" years ago, when he was only 19, he thought Vance Erskine, as he pressed interest and curiosity. Then I Sheldon was turning away with a hand was laid on his arm. There was only a fluttering sigh in was about as wild a boy as could be came to the city, and found myself curse, but his heart was sore. He "You saidyou said," faltered Rose, 'forward in the crowd. There was answer, but in that sigh the soul of the found wandering about without a again among English-speaking people. could not give up all hope. almost in tear3, "that if I ever wanted fading Rose escaped from its prison. ^standing room only." keeper. I stayed several months in Han Kow, "I want to be your friend," he said, a friendand, oh! I want one Vance Erskine wanders over the "My poor father tried everything to He had wandered into the music.feall and then made my way in an English with an effort. "If I can ever help now." world like a lost spirit, but he never persuade me to keep straight," said *C after a long, dull day in the bank, steamer to Hong Kong. I got work you, come to me." fails to keep the roses bright and "Why, bless my soul," my* dear little White, "but one morning when I there in a sailors' boarding-house as Rosalia looked relieved. She was -spent in puzzling his brain over ac-counts. blooming about the slender shaft of girl," said Zachary, "to be sure. returned from Yale with an invitation a runner at first, and later I got a too tender-hearted to wish to marble that marks his darling's grave. He felt a sudden longing for Come right in hereit's all rightand in my pocket to keep away from the place in the Chinese customs through hurt any living thing. She reached The inscription reads: tell me all about it." anew experiencea passionate impulse college in the future, the old gentleman the influence of an American gentleman out her delicate white hand. "ROSEshe lived as roses live, Rose did not pause. She scarcely lost the last vestige of his temper to break through restraint whom I had the good fortune to "How thin your hand is," he said, But a morn." glanced at the place, which was in reality, and decided to send me to sea. I did serve in seme little way. For three that had more than once led him into looking at thefragile thing that lay like an apparently respectable icecream not much mind the prospect then, but years I remained there. I often aroseleaf in his stubby palm. "This thorny ways and perilous paths, saloon. There was a little room Wales' Way of Discipline. if I had known all I would have to go thought of home and wanted to return life is killing you. Let me at least at the back entirely deserted. The lrom which he had beeu glad to come through I think I would have*cut my London Letter. and see my family, but I never help you to give it up." night was too dreary for the chilly throat before I started. Arrangements 3ack to a safe conventionality once could save enough money, and I made His eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, "Oh, how could that be done?" said dainty. [ft? were made for me on the up my mind I wouVl not let them snore. is just now experiencing his first bit of Rosalia, with a nervous laugh. "Vance ship Black Hawk, bound to Melbourne, They sat down at a table, and Zachary know I was alive until I could pay my severe royal restraint. He has been for will soon be promoted, and then" There was a young girl singing an Australia. I was to live called for something. Rose did way home. I finally got enough money, sometime quartered at Aldershot (pronounced Sheldon went out gnashing his teeth. Italian song. She was clad in a simple in the house with the carpenter and not notice She could not swallow, and I can't tell you how glad I "Curse the fellow!" he said. "I wish Awldershot, by-the-bye) as a boat swain, and to take my meals in and the cake and wine remained untouched. white gown, and there was a white am to be under the stars and stripes I could grind him to powder. I don't lieutenant of the Tenth Hussars, the the cabin at the second table. I did again." rose in her dusky hair. Her soft, dark give her up yet. I will hinder that swellest cavalry regiment in the British so for two days, but at the end of that The blonde Lillian, who had been 1' promotion if I can." army, and of which his father is -eyes were full of unconscious yearning. time the captain ordered me to go snubbed, stood for a moment in silent At that very moment the fortunate the colonel. He has been given a good She aid not see the audience, ap. aloft and loosen the maiuroyal. I had l1* Three Wrong: Guesses. wrath. She had designs on the Il lover was cursing his luck, and pacing long line for his leading string, and allowed not got over my seasickness, and the parently but looked away to some broker, and saw plainly that Rose Frederick Smith, who lived in Ran the street in a reckless wayseeing to fall in love with every pretty prospect of climbing to that dizzy was in her way. She recognized the Aaunting scene. The tender grace of a nothing, hearing nothing, of his surroundings. girl ha met, so long as matters did not dolph county, N. C, during the War height was not pleasant. Istartedall lovely face in the light of a streetlamp. The world had grown different day that was dead enfolded her. Er. assume a serious aspect. The poor the same. I had never been off the of the Revolution, had a difficult part to him, for he was standing face young fellow has kept pretty well within skine seemed to follow that gaze. His deck, but I had seen the sailors up to play. He was indifferent to the "The brazen thing!" she muttered to face with deathdeath or disgrace. bounds until lately. But it seems aloft, and it looked so easy that I imagination kindled again. This is "to lie in wait for him in that way, king's claims, and he cared little for He had been forced by his own reckless one fair young maiden sunk her bright was quite sure I could do almost a3 what he saw: A rose garden in fair when she pretended to give him the folly into a corner where he must the cause of the colonies. If people eyes.rosy lips,pearly teeth and slender well as they. When I reached the top cold shoulder before folks!" choose between the two. And life was Provence, that land of song and story. ankles deeper in his princely heart and wished to be patriots and fight the and found I had to crawl over it like sweet to him because of his loye, and A dark form that seemed blindly budding affections than royal restraint JL white mist was curling upward from a fly I began to weaken. To add to British troops, Smith was willing, Sr disgrace was all the more unbearable stumbling along in the fog passed by, permitted and, as a conseduence, my troubles, as I climbed higher the at under the sunshine like a curtain it provided he was not disturbed in his because of her. and she called out: Prince Albert Victor is to be motion of the vessel seemed to increase, IB?? wa lifted, and the fairest scene Erskine He had no excuse for his folly. He log-cabin, which was filled with "olive "Just a moment sooner, Mr. Erskine,andyou shipped off to Gibraltar without ceremony and I felt awfully sick. I looked had ever looked upon was had borrowed a sum from the bank, would have found her." on the 17th in charge of a sedate plants" in the form of little Smiths. down on deck to ask permission to relying on an expected payment from "Her^who?" muttered Vance, in a stretched out before his eager eyes. equerry, there to join one of the descend. Before I could do so I became Smith, being a quiet man, with little a friend. The friend suddenly died insolvent. startled tone. line regiments in the shape of the Sixtieth dizzy. I did not wait for any A wilderness of rosesthat was all! shrewdness, and no convictions, Vance had squandered the "Ah, what! the one woman in the Rifles, to one of the battalions of further excuse. I seized the first rope Impossible to describe the riot of color, was willing to side with those in whose bank's money, partly at the gamingtable. universe, to be surethe Provence which infantry corps he has been gazetted. I saw and slid down. The captain the wealth of incense. There was company he found himself, whether It must be replaced, or Rose! She's a primrose, generally,but It is rather a severe punishment was in a towering passion. He swore a, gray castle in the distance but Whig or Tory. But his plastic nature He turned suddenly. He would tell to night! Ah, I always suspect the at me and clubbed me until he got tired for a purely national offense for Erskine did not look at that. Neither was the occasion of several difficulties. Rose all. How unworthy, how ignoble prim ones. Now I am frankly gay. and then said he would not have cabin not only is he spirited away beyond li his glance dwell long on the flowers, Small parties of Whigs would assume he was! At his best he had never deserved It's all open and above board. But grub wasted in such a reckless reach of his lady love, but to go from for there was a young girl there the costume or badges of Tories, and her, and now Her love who would suspect that little puss of way. I could move into the forecastle a regiment like the Tenth Hussars, gathering them, and his eyes met those go about the country, picking up scheming for the favor of the rich should have lifted him out of his folliesshould and see if I could eat salt horse and and all its smart belongings and surroundings, other eyes, soft and dark, tender as a reticent friends of King George. One broker! There they go, turning into have sufficed for him. He hard bread. It took us 110 days to to a commonplace one like Southern night, and rested there. day a party of Whigs, disguised as Minaud's,I declare! Well. I've had some seemed to see all the sweet possibilities reach Melbourne, and mj" lite tor that the Sixtieth, where his brother officers Tories, came upon Smith. Not knowing There was a tender reserve, almost pretty little rackets at Minaud's." of his life rising before him. He time was a torment. E^ery time I are in no way equal in "form" to those him, they asked him the usual -sadness, in the face, and the flush on caught his breath with a gaspit was went on deck I was given the dirtiest Vance had grown white to the lips. of the Tenth, where he will be question, "Whom are you for?" the cheeks was not deeper than that too late, too late! kind of work. It was so bad that I He stopped not for a word, but obliged to march on his leet instead of the blush rose she held in her hand. Smith answered, "I am for the king, A drear London mist was rising. He made up my mind to run away as sprang after the retreating couple. of astride a dashingcharger,and Erskine was not an artist, he was on- God bless him'" was rather glad to have the people soon as the ship got in port. The He saw them enter the where a uniform of dingy, invisible 3y a bank clerk on a holiday but that "Are you?" replied the leader blotted out, and the houses. He longed first night we made fast to the long restaurant, and then he stopped to green takes the place of blue and elaborate jpicture was photographed on his soul. "then we'll hang you!" and in a minute to be alone somewherean3-where pier at Sandridge I slipped over the catch his breath. He was panting like gold-lace trimmings, can, in some She stood by a mossgrown fountain, or two Smith was dangling from yet he shuddered at the awful loneliness side with my best clothes done up in a runner. He had reached his goal respects, be regarded as little less than 'where a wingless dragon spouted up a the limb of a tree. of death. a bundle and $20 which 1 had brought and knew not what to do next. A humiliating degradation. If it had silvery stream amid dripping wreaths As they did not desire to push matters from home in my pockets, and started mad, unreasoning jealousy had gained "But it would be easier to leave a even been the Rifle Brigadebut the of maiden hair. Huge cypress trees too far, they soon cut him down to walk the three miles to Melbourne. possession of him. The rain increased, world wrapt up in fog," he said, "than Sixtieth! stood in the background but in the and let him go, with the warning to and he stood out in it, miserably wondering a land of sunshine and flowers. If I loafed round the Victoria Hotel dulunwiated space among the flowers I daresay his papa has had the change his politics. Not long after a what he should do. there's anything that can make a man the first day I reached Melbourne and was this gracious figure in a dull blue strongest finger in directing the penalty. pary of Tories, disguised as Whigs, Rose sat at the table, the wineglass feel like suicide it is a London fog." got in with a rather tough set. Poker ,'gown, that defined the soft curves and ranging in the neighborhood, asked You see, "Tummy" himself, when in her hand. Her eyes fell under the Rosalia was waiting for him. She was proposed in the evening and I for9" ^rounded outlines. him again, "Whom are you he was a youngster and quartered at ardent gaze of the man near her, who was not to sing this evening, and she was done out of'every cent. I had What irony ol fate had transplanther "I'm for the Colonies and Independ- the Curragh Camp, in Ireland,with the had been listening to her passionate paced the room impatiently, with paid a day's board in adv ance, so from the wilderness of roses to a ence'" exclaimed Smith. Grenadier Guards, away back in '62 pleading for another. His heart had some feeling of unrest she could not I went to bed and thought over 'London music-hall? He felt at once "Hang the rebel up'" exclaimed the or '63, went and lost his head and grown as heavy as lead. explain. Her cheeks were scarlet, her what I should do. I decided to an imperative need of knowing the leader. heart over a pretty Irish girl, and the "And if I do this thing if I lend my eyes shone like stars. Of late she had go to sea again. The next day I returned story. Smith went up, hung as long as he report was, at the time, actually married money to release a man I hate, what lost her pallor in the evening. Roses to the same boarding-house The voice soared up like a lark to could without suffocating, was lowered her. Of course, the marriage was am I to havewhat will be my re- bloomed on the delicate cheeks keeper who had hidden me away and meet the sunbeam. A storm of apKplause to the ground, and dismissed with such roses as would have made her ward?" not legal, for a prince cannot marry f- told him I wanted a ship. He soon followed, and the young girl the injunction to come out for 'King mother's heart ache if she had lived Rose looked into the man's eyes, a subject without the consent of parliament procured me one going to Shanghai. seemed suddenly recalled to the present. George, or he would certainly hang to see them. "Such brightness dying and her face blanched. but that, instead, of excusing China. I was obliged to ship as an She glanced about timidly and until dead the next time. seems diffuse." "Iwe will work and pay you back," the prince, only made it more disgraceful able seaman, but I thought they could 'bowed slightly. There were no smirks The months passed, and the war she said. "And oh, it must be grand of him. So "he knows how it not find out how incompetent I was Vance was not wise enough to understand. or bold glances. She glided away was almost finished, when Smith was to be able to help a human being who is himself." until we got to sea and then they He only saw that she was -quietly, and the encore did not bring suddenly surprised by a party of is driven to the wallto save a soul could not throw me overboard, so I growing more beautiful. When he he back. armed men. Reverses of Fortune. alive." would get to China anyway. The trip looked into her eyes he tried to mask Vance cast one glance at the glittering "Whom are you for?" shouted the Zachary was abashed before the In noticing some reverses of fortune was not pleasant by any means. The hi3 own misery, but she read some blonde who followed and then he leader. pure innocence of the girl. The divine chief officer in whose watch Iwastook terrible secret in his face. rushed out of the hall. He astonished of prominent persons the Washington Poor Smith was in a fix. He had spark that had nearly gone out in the a dislike to me and all the nasty jobs "Tell me," she faltered. "I can bear the nearest florist by emptying his correspondent of the Baltimore Sun answered that question twice before, choke-damps of sin flamed up for a about the ship fell to my share. The anything if you will only be frank. Is pursenot to well filledtor roses. and each time the question choked tells the following: moment. He thoguht of a little sister captain was a first-rate man and did it that you have caased to love me? Dark, velvety Jacqueminots and him. A happy thought struck him. who had died when he was a boy. He A few weeks since an ex-member of not allow any ili-usage, so I got off I have been much afraid of that. cream-white blossoms, mingled with "I'm for the devii," said he, with a drew out his check-book and filled out congress, who had not been much in pretty well until after we had arrived Nothing else can hurt me." other pink as a girl's blush, in his hurried chuckle. a check. Washington for a half dozen years or in Shanghai and the captain had gone grasp. "No, no! God knows I never loved "Are you? Then the sooner we send "I will not ask much," he said, with more, made his reappearance here, on shore. Then the mate told me to you better!" cried Vance, bitterly. "Ah, hallo!" said a voice near him, you to your master the better!" replied an uneasy laugh. "You are asking and it was not long before those who go aloft. It was snowing hard. I "There! I am answered," cried ras he paused at the stage entrance, the leader. me to help a rival." went up with a pair of mittens in my knew him of old discovered"tbat times Rose, in ecstacy, "No matter about wondering vaguely as to what should A grape-vine was put around Smith's Rose flushed and drew back as. he hands. The mate yelled at me to had sadly changed with him. He served the rest." Ifoefais next step. "Why, Vance, my neck one end was thrown over the hand the check to her. come down. As my foot touched the several terms in congress as the represental tooy.areyou a captive in her train Vance caught the slight form in his limb ot a tree a dozen men pulled on "The conditions?" she faltered. deck he struck me across the eyes ive of one of the largest cities too?" arms, and crushed her to his breast. that end, and Smith went up. The 'r There was a proud dignity in her with a piece of rope having an iron of the West a man of handsome appearance, "Oh, get out!" answered Vance, impatiently, "My darling," he cried, "I have been party, save one, rode away, leaving face. ring on the end of it. agreeable manners and of looking around at a pompous-looking mad! I see it now darling. Why did Smith dancing in air. "Remember me in your prayers," I staggered to the combings of the much more than ordinary culture. individual with a heavy, we ever meet?" That one, making an excuse, ttayed said Zachary, laughing. hatch and dropped there with my He was a bachelor and agrert favorite rubicund visage and scant hair. He "Because we were meant for one another," behind and cut Smith down before he At this moment Vance had made head buried in my hands. I felt a in society. His standing in the house wa a man of 45, and an authority whispered Rose, faintly smiling. had expired. his way to the door. His face grew bucket of icecold water thrown over was such that he was frequently called oa 'Change, but he had by no means white and hard and scornful as he me and heard the mate's voice telling to the chair of the presiding officer, 'laid aside the follies of youth. "Let me tell you, I must," said the looked. Soap in the Holy Land. me to get up. I looked at him, and and for a short period served as "Bahflowers," said Mr. Zachary young man, in sudden anguish. "I "What is he giving her?" he thought, I though almost blind, could see his figure speaker by election of the house. After Sheldon, looking at the roses "they will tell you all the truth." New York Tribune. the flame kindling in his eyes. "By standing over me with the same leaving congress he gave up his resi would like diamonds better." He poured out his story with feverish The introduction of soap, it is said, Jupiter, she is false! This meeting, rope. In a moment the hatred which dence in the state which he had served, "Come," said Vance, fiercely, aspi haste. is doing much to civilize the people of with such a man!" had been growing all the months since and going to New York city established -tonished at the sudden fire in his 'There!" he gasped, as he finished. the Holy land. A large soap factory What was she saying? we left Aurtralia seemed to rise in me. himself in a law partnership heart, "no sneers, I'm not in the mood "What is left for me?" has been established on the site of "He must not know!" I drew a sheath knife from my belt with an ex-member from New York fo them." "I am left. Vance," she said, nestling ancient Shechem, and the people are "Of course not!" said Zachary, holding and made one lunge with it. I was and another gentleman, who had also "Well, we won't quarrel," said Sheldon, up to him. the little hand a moment longer begnining to use it on their persons instead too blind to see where I was striking, tasted deeply of the pleasures of with a miithful laugh. "Of "You see, I can't say, 'All is lost than was neccessary, and looking into of trying to eat it, as they did but I felt the blade meet something Washington life. All three of the partners ^course it's the blonde Lilian." save honor!' cried Vance. "Honor the lovely eyes.-ss- at first. Along with the introduction 1 soft and heard a fearful groan and a weie young, able, well connected An unconscious feeling of relief came is lost first of all." Vance waited no longer? With' a of soap other reforms aregoiog on. heavy fall. Everything seemed strange .into Vance's heart. "How much time is there before and with scores of influential friends. smothered oath, he faced the two, Bethlehem has been rebuilt, and the *i and indistinct about me, but I seemed "The other one is a poemRosalia, "she faltered, paling visibly. Their business for a time prospered who started in astonishment and fell streets are lighted with gas. Caesarea to hear cries for the police, and then Tfaeautiful Rosalia. She's a flower, a "Before discovery and the trial and and the future looked very bright. apart. The girl's face grew gray in its is having a building boom. Nazareth I felt the men take hold of me, drag sunbeamno, too pale for a sunbeam the prison? Bah! do .you think I But extravagant ideas and convivial pallor. me into the cabin and lock me in a is becoming the headqarters a silver moonbeam. She says would face that?'%f, H'** tendencies proved more attractive But there seemed to be flames before little closet. In an hour the captain of big oKve speculators. Corner At these word Vance regretted his "Oh! what do you mean?" shecried, than the plodding cares of professional Vance's eyes, and his heart gave opened the door and called me out. lots in Joppaare going up with a rush,^ bad humor. This man could help him. clinging to him in terror. "Butlknow life. Business neglected went to a great throb of pain. Rose started, I could not see him very well because and real estate in Mount Carmel is-- "He knew the Italian nightingale. I know! Oh, promise me, Vance, pieces, the firm was broken up and its arid laid her hand on his arm, in terror I was still nearly blind. His largely held by speculators for an ad-} "I say Sheldon, excuse my roughness you will not. You will waitwait members drifted far out upon that sea at the expression of his face. voice, I thought, was not as harsh as vanee. All around Shechem there issi somebody stepped on my corn just two days. I might thinkof a way." of broken hopps and wasted opportunities, "Come away! lean explain!" she might have been. He asked me a lively demand for good soap fat,|| 4BOW. What dpes she say?" he asked, "Child, what could you do? Have and the one above especially said. She saw his face in a mist. why I had tried to kill the mate, and and the sleepy inhabitants of RamothlU^ you hoarded up five thousand dol- fey alluded to was finally washed ashore Everything swam before her. when I had told him ordered, me back Gilead think of building a glue fac-S "That she cannot sing her songs in lars?" cried Vance, mockingly at the spot of his former glories and He shook her hand off angrily. His 8 into the closet. I sat there for hours tory. Jerusalem is waking up also, itg & Strange land that she has left her '3No do not jest, but promise me." triumphs. Since his arrival he has eyes grew burning hot. The blood wondering if the mate was dead. After has a street-cleaning bureau, big .-soul among the roses. Ah, you ras- He saw her face so ghastly in its perforce been compelled to join the surged through his brain, dark the steward came to me with *eal,-1 see. Roses! But not for the clocks on its public buildings, and its terror, that he did his best to dispel army of "colonels, judges and ma- "Go!" he said. "I must settle with supper. He told me that the mate 'blond Lilian." the phantom he had raised. suburbs are being built up rapidly. jors," and it is pitiable to see how this man. I have nothing to say to was more scared at the sight of his 1* "No introduce me!" eagerly cried She only half believed him. When Even in the vale Gehenna the price of you!" soon he has learned to requst a small own blood than hurt, and advised me "Vance. And that was the way it be- he left her she could not rest. It was land has gone up. The ladies of Jerusalem loan and be promptly on. hand when Zachary's face was a study. Perhaps to get out and run away. He gave 10 o'clock, and the night was a dreary take all the Parisian fashion his time was comingwho knew? barroom invitations are^ oing me a few dollars and said a sanpan It was only Zachary Sheldon's confidence one. The fog had turned to a dreary journals and know all about the latest Yet he was manly enough to speak. around. would be under the bows in half an in the supreme power of money drizzle, and the pavements looked style of hair dressing. "This lady's explantion will do her hour. I suspected he was acting by