^ft1: "T W wt, *l A 'Wu$**3 *%$ ssfey frill S)"V Ti?T I A Country Lawyer. _, plpthrope upon the very first opportunity NOT AS I WILL. 4 bert Mandeville had divested himself appeared in the doorway/If*r have Funny Country Law-Suits that presented itself. She did of his fur-liued coat, and was warming been wishing to speak to you serious- East Aurora, N. Y. Letter W not care sternlyl,for at al wherievee him, told himself From the Newark Journal. ElinJTolded and alone I stand, his aristocratic hands at the great he medi ly upon a certain matter for the last Ten years ago the town of Wa1e3, Some twenty-five or thirty yea Witfa unknown thresholds on each hand pme-log fire. The two men had just upon the subject. She few days, and I feel that it must not tated5 lSie darkness deepens as I grope Eri county, enjoyeel a reputation as ago there lived in Iowa a young ma saluted each other, and were speculating be put ojgf any longer. Mr. Dering has Afraid to tear, afraid to hope, was only a heartless flirt, and it was by the name of Samuel Randolph, a, on the prospect of a good" run on the center of country law-suits in that kindly promised to help me, so I hope "tfefc this oue thing I Uarn to know rfj to his own interest to have nothing to therState. werefourinth that time engaged in teaching a COU& the morrow, when clown the stairs New! wbo section of York The local Each day more siuely as I so, W%, you will be* a good girl and listen to do with her. In the ordinary course try school, and during leisure hour! came a lovely apparition in a trailing That doors open, ways are made, & reason." h? ^3 ustices of events she would marry and settle curiouslP reading Blackstone in orderto qualifj robe of ivory satin, edged with Mechlin Burdens are lifted or are laid n*jr "Well, go on'" said Joe down happily as soon as the right township, were kept constantly busy lace. himself for' admission to the bar some great law unseen and still advancing slowly into the room. I man came to claim her, and before listening to arguments involving the $?afatheHied purpose to lulnll, It was Joe. of course. $A Near the schoolhouse lived two farmers, thought there was some sort of a tapirs .r very long it seemed to Dick Deling "Not as I will." i^y/, She was intent upon settling" "to her most trivial cases imaginable. An old who will be designated as A an| vth" f7 scolding in store for me, but what it as if that favored individual had arrived satisfaction the last button-hole fellow named John Rowe wa3continually B. A owned a large number of hogs, at last. gttgmg Blindfolded and alone I wait can be about I can not 'imagine. of her long gloves, and her straight in hot water with his neighbors, which he allowed to run at large t^ IiOss seems too bitter, gain too late Break it to me gently, whatever it is." brows were drawn into a little pucker It happened that about six months Too heavy burdens in the load, and when he was not the defendant in feed on the mast. owned a corn "My dear child, do not begin to And toofewhelpers on the road of anxiety over the operation. Lord after Mr. Dering's arrival at Dimplethorpe, onfield, fenced with a badiy dilapidated a law-suit he generally had one joke about it," cried her mother almost And joy in weak and grief is strong, i Herbert gazed at her in openmouthed a young lord of no small importance brush fence. He also owned a sa hand against some one else. John in despair, "it is a most serious And years and days so long so long admiration, and try as he would Dick made his appearance upon I theage dog. When the corn began conducted a small saw-mill on "Yet this one thing 1 learn to know matter and one which involves your Dering could not bring himself to turn the scene. He was the younger son of ripen, A's hogs madeofrequent raid* banks of Buffalo creek, and lived in a fiach day more surely as I go. whole future life." away his eyes from that vision ot loveliness a peer, and had a seat in parliament, That I am glad the good and ill, into the field and helped themselves little house all by himself. He bad a i gr She then began, and with much with the crown of ruddy golden By changeless laws are ordered still, possessed a fair amount of brains, to the corn. B, being greatly annoy ei number of hens about him, and these earnestness endeavored to impress hair. v^r^'V^V^i* li $& -v "Not as I will." and was in Joe's opinion, "rather jol- -f by them, finally set his dog on "thi hens were one of the principal sources upon her daughter the desirability ly." His ancestral halls were in the After a minute or two she deigned to hogs and worried them considerably of his troubles. of her accepting Lord Herbert's "Net as I Willi" the sound grows sweet far north, but he had purchased Hollingsworth notice them, giving her hand and a When A discovered his lascer Sack time my lips the words repeat offer as quickly as possible. When flerberts lodge, a place not five mil^s raciou bow to each, but for Lord ""Not as I will," the darkness feels On one occasion he was sued for ated hogs .he was full of wrath aer oration had come to an end, she distant from the park-gates of Geilston, More safe than light when this thought Mandeville was reserved a damages because his fowls scratched The next day A started, with ai. turned beseechingly to Mr. Dering, and there at the commencement seems smile for which, in his heart, Dick Dering ax on his shoulder, to go to his tira Up the corn of one of his neighbors, who said a few kind words for his *ke v. hispered voice to calm and bless of the hunting season his lordship knew he would have given a whole ber to chop wood, which led him and the Judge decided that he must lordship. I don't suppose they were JMI unrest and all loneliness. took up his abode. Needless to relate year's income. theB's house, and seeing B's wife insidi particularly eloquent words, but hepay something like 25 cents for ^'Not as I will," becanse the One he had not long been acquainted with Those of the guests who amused Who loved us first and last has gone of B's lot, about thirty or forty fee) spoke them simply and earnestly, destruction wrought by the scratchIn Joey Lyttelton before he had themselves by watching Joe that evening Before us on the road, nd still from the fence, milking a cow, with the honest endeavor to put hise this case, the lawyers' fees and fallen very deeply love with J?r us must all his love fulfill aver that they never saw her so own heart's desire entirely out ot the stopped at the gate and inquired fo court expenses, before the case was "Not as we will." her. As for Joe, she liked him brilliantor so beautiful. She was taken question and bring about only what B. Being informed tnatB was not. a finally decided, amounted to upward tolerably well, altho' she told her in to dinner by Lord Herbert, and HELEN HUNT JACKSON. seemed to him the best thing in life for home, he threatened to smash of $100, but the plaintiff did not care mother he was "horribly conceited, thro'out the entire evening he never the girl whom he truly loved. the earth if he ever dogged his ho: a snap about this, although he had and required taking down a peg orleft her side. She sang his favorite If When he had finished there was a again, and to demonstrate how b' to mortgage his farm to pay his share. two.'* so in turn for all his kind attentions songs at his request, with a sweetness silence of about three minutes, in the Avoulddoit he brought his ax dowi He had downed John Rowe, and that and pretty little attempts at that it did one's heart good to hear, room, at the end of which, "Well, I on the fence wth a fe .rful blow. sufficed. love-making, naughty Joe chaffed and A Short Story of a Flirting Girl and a and although she declined to stroll never'" exclaimed Joe with an aston then left. When returned his wif By far the mosb celebrated case teased him, until he gnawed at hiswith Serious Young Man. him through the conservatory, ished gasp. inforned him oi A's threat, whic) that ever occurred in the town, however, tawny mustache, and avowed that whose doors at the end otthedi awingroom There could be no doubt about it There is no need to enter into further made him madder than a March hare was that which a blacksmith it was totally impossible to understand were standing invitingly open, it details of this interview of how Mrs. that Joe was a flirtan arrant little and off he goes to the schoolhou&e in Wales Center sued the tax collector her. became evident before the evening was Lyttelton begged and prayed, until consult Sam Randolph whether hi flirt. Her gray eyes, her curling lashes, for one cent, and secuied a verdict. Mrs. Lyttelton had made up herover that some of theflowersshe she had worked herself into a state ot would sue A "with the law." Randolph, The blacksmith and the tax-collector laer pretty little piquant nose, bore mind to give a cosy little dinnerparty wore had found their way to Lord mild excitement impossible to describe, after consulting his Blackstom had be^n good friends for years, but at the manor house. She was a token to this indisputable fact. Her Herbert's buttonhole. or of how Joe stood, before her resolutely, and the statutes, informed him tha. something came between them, and languid woman, and objected to There was much shaking of heads young lady friends spoke of it with a with a look of determination the act constituted the offense of "as they were transformed into bitter much in the way of exertion, but lately amongst the guests that night as th*y about her pretty red lips, which I verily contemptuous air, and thanked heaven sault with intent to inflict great bodi enemies. The blacksmith had paid it had become evident to her that drove home in' the dark across Geilston believe must have secretly rejoiced ly injury," and advised to com his taxes with the ncception ot four they were not as some girls are her Lord Herbert Mandeville's attentions nark. Everybody prophesied of Dick Dering's heart. mence a criminal prosecution againaa cents. The collector came around to to her daughter were even more marked mother thought ol i' and sighed, when, the grand wedding that was sure to At last the long-suffering parent fc get his balance one day, when the A. than hitherto, and she felt that take place in Dimplethorpe before with a brighter color than usual in could stand it no longer. She wasblacksmith handed him a something must be done by her to long, in which Lord Herbert Mandeville "weeping a little weep"as Joe expressed her cheeks and a sauueier light iu her nickel. "I'll keep that, odd bring affairs to a crisis. The dear and Joe Lyttelton would play it, and declared herself entirely upset -eyes, her daughter made "herself agreeable" cent for interest," said the collector. girl could not be persuaded to look at the most important parts. Randolph drew up an informatior_ by her daughter's willfulness so,press "If you don't pay it over I'll to a newly found congenial the matter seriously, but her mother And perhaps it was not surprising and took it to the nearest justice ing her handkerchief to her eyes and be if I don't sue you," renhed the was quite conscious of the faet that it that they should have expected this, apirit belonging to the male sex. and had a warrant issued for A's ar sighing pathetically, she beat a hasty blacksmith. The collector'paid no would be a rery good thing for them seeing that they were not permitted, retreat, perhaps in the hopes that as rest. A being duly arVested, and Somebody else meditated upon it, and attention to this, and walked away both if Joe could be brought to accept as we are, to see the last move in the soon as she had withdrawn the light a day set for the trial, Randolph told himself with a half-unconscious with the odd cent. his lordship's heart and fortune, as programme of that eventful evening. of her countenance, Mr. Dering's elowould appeared for the prosecution anc Two or three days afterward he was eigh that Joey Lyttelton was nothing soon as they were laid at her feet. Dick Dering was the last of thequence burst forth afresh. But a man named Jones as attorney summoned to appear before Justice And this tribute to Joe's many wore or less, than a heatless flirt. guests to take his leave his hostess in this the poor lady was woefully for the defendant. The witnesses being Gail to answer the suit of the blacksmith. charms was not long in being paid. had kept him chattering to her until mistaken. As soon as the door had sworn, the facts as above stated were She was pretty, of course, small and Each side secured the services It happened that the very day bethe the great drawing room was empty closed upon her retreating form, there proceed-ed duly proven. Randolph then of the best legal talent in the town, *weet, with a face that was all butfore dinner-party, when "Mrs. Lyttelton and the last carriage had rolled fell a profond silence upon the twoehe with a lengthy argument, not tc Joe Sheaver representing one, and Si ^perfect, oval in shape and delicately was alone in her Doudoir about away. He bade her good night at had left behind. convince the court of the defendant's Emery the other. The collector decided the time of afternoon tea, Lord Herber las t, and made his way along the corrid tinted like a newly-ripened peach. Joe was standing on the hearthrug guilt, but to convince the court and that he would rather risk his Mandeville was announced. Joe or to the hall, which was dimly gazing thoughtfully into thefire behind There was a saucy little cleft in her bystanders that he had read Blackstone, chances before a jury than with the was out riding, but for once his lordship lighted at this late hour of the night. her in the shadow sat Dick Dering, and concluded his argument sroooded chin, and the smile on her Judge alone, consequently the Constable seemed rather relieved than otherwise He had not seen Miss Lyttelton since his elbow leaning on a gypsy-table.his with the following peroration: "May was notified to find twelve lips brought two stray dimples into to hear it, and before he took Lord Herbert's departure but just as hands carefully covering his eyes it please your honor, the summum good men and true who knew nothing his leave he had imparted his heart's he had struggled into his greac-coat, Iter cheeks. Her hair was of that indescribable to hide from hisgaze that lovely.brlghthaired bonum of the whole business is that of the merits of the case and who secret to Mrs. LyUeUon. He told her and was about to open the hall door, vision in the primrose-colored color that was called by the defendant is guilty."* were unprejudiced. This proved to be frankly that he was too much afraid there came a rustling of skirts along gown. Then Jones.for the defense, addressed Jer friends "artistic," and by her a very difficult matter. Three times of a refusal to risk speaking himself to the corridor, and in a moment Joe "Mr. Dering," she said at last, with the court as follows: "Your honor, the jury was hung, and the case extended enemies red. She was merry, bewitching, Miss Lyttelton, but he hoped that was at his side. a coaxing note in her voice but he it may be that under that old law of over several weeks. The court her mother would be his friend in this tantalizing, all in one, with "You haven't gone Mr. Dering? lam maintained a solemn silence and took was held in one corner of a room in a summum bonumwhich was that if matter and plead his cause for him. thankful!" she began, panting a little no notice of her. "Mr. Dering, are th at delicious air of chic abost her country inn. Boniface made almost any man was charged with a crime,he When he had gone Mrs. Lytcelton as if she had been running hard. I you deaf?" much more impatiently. which modern young ladies inform me as much out of the witnesses as the was guilty, whether he had ever donef sank back in her low wicker-work looked into the drawing-room just "Why don't you answer when I speak lawyers secured from the litigants. At anything wrong or notthat my cliis SB so utterly irresistible. chair and reviewed the position, now, and when I saw mother alone I to you?" last, after each side had paid its atent guilty but that law was an un whi-h she felt was by no means an was afraid you had gone away without Besides being the belle of Dirapletfcrope, She turned'her pretty face to him. torneys several hundred dollars, the just law enacted by despots and tyrants easv one. She hated the responsibility saying good night to me. Mr. Der- the admired of all admirers, but he only altered his position a jury decided that the collector must to oppress theweak and the poor. of having to make up her mind ing," pausing a little and drooping her Miss Lyttelton was an heiress ot no little, and said not a word in reply. pay over to the blacksmith the sum That was the law of this country down for herself, and was almost disposed pretty head, "you aren't angry with She looked at him for a moment, and fitinAU importance in the county of of one cent with costs, and an execution to the time of the revolutionary war to quarrel with his lordship for me, are you?" her mind was quite made up. Steepieshire. She was currently was forthwith issued. when our forefathers rebelled against thurstmg the necessity upon her, for "Angry with you? What nonsense!" thou1 "Dick, do you want me to marry known to possess a rouud two it, and after seven long years of well she knew that as soon as the cried Dick almost impatiently. "Why this man?" she said very wistfully. saud a year in her own right, with Cologne. bioody war, finally repealed it with subject was introduced to Joe should I be? Have you been doing "No, Joe I do not," was all he -a prospect of a thousand more upon their swords and enacted in its stead_ th'j whole affair would be treated as anything naughty?" could reply. Frank R. Stockton, in St.Nicholas the death of her mother. The old for the great law of E Fluribus Unum, an excellent joke. What was she to October. "Well, you look as if you were angry "Then what are you going on Manor-house of Geilston, which she which is that a man is never guilty of do? There wag no one to whom she Cologne is chiefly interesting to visitors with me. You have not spoken to aoout?" she cried, with a laugh that a*d her mother called "home" would any crime until he does something could turn in her dilemma, unless me once all the evening, and someyou was half a sob. on account of its Cathedral and one day belong to Joe by hereditary wrong. Now, since prosecutor waK why, yes, to be sure! Why had nottimes have looked as black as He rose suddenly and came a step ght, and already she held despotic its Cologne water. To s* the one and not within a mile of the fence when this idea presented itself to her sooner? thunder. I think it is horribly unkind nearer her, out of the shadow into *ole over it as a tyrannical little a ueen to buy some of the other are the two the blow was struck, he could not of you," she said with a pout, the uncertain firelight. She looked whose word was law. It is therefore great objects of travelers here. But, have been injured and as the blow She could, of course, appeal to Mr.taking no notice of his unnatural questions, up at him and their eyes meff. not tp be wondered at that Joe had apart from*these principal attractions, Dering and ask his assistance in bringing did the fence no harm, my client did proud9 "Dick, how can you be so feeen beset with suitors from every we shall find the city very interesting. Joe to her senses. This dear girl no wrong. Therefore, under the great Just as if I could not see thro' you! "I don't think you required any attention corner ot her own world. The squires always seemed disposed to approve of law of E Plunbus Unum, which is nowthe Most of the streets are queer and old, You will not help me to tell you what from me," Dick answered slowly, lor many miles round came to Geilston Mr. Dering's opinion, and had been law of this country, he i3 not is in my heart, but whatever vou may some of the houses dating from-the without looking at her. to pay their addresses to theprecty known on more than one occasion to guilty, and should be discharged." think of me,l must be true to myself." "Now that's nonsense!" ahe cried thirteenth century and the Rhine, Miss Lyttelton, who received them sit corrected when he had quietly contradicted The justice then summed up the case The clock on the mantelpiece chimed impatiently, tapping her pretty foot ^kindly enough, but would only laugh which is here crossed by along bridge some assertion of hers. Mrs. as follows: "Well, it appears by the out the hour, and the great pine log upon the tiles. "I like attention, as (-unmercifully whenever the subject of of boats, present a verv busy and lively Lyttelton had already sent him acard on the fire fell in two with a mighty argument that under the old law of you call it, from everybody, and you "the t-ender passion was introduced. scene with its craft of many kinds. for her select dinner party, and he had crash. summon bonus the defendant is guilty never take any notiee of me. You are She knew why they had come.and was accepted the invitation but now she The real Cologne water is made by "I love you. Dick," she said then but my father was a revolutionary angry with me, I can see it in your iin the habit of curling Up her pretty Johann Maria Farina, but when we dispatched a note to him, bagging him simply, holding out her trembling soldier, and I've heard him tell all face, and I am not at all happy about *d lips, into something not unlike a go out to buy some, we may be a little to come to her on the following evening hands. it. Won't you forgive me, please?" about the revolutionary war, and SQ fnteer when each new proposal was perplexed by finding that an hour earlier than the other I nevei heard what happened next, laying a white hand upon hia arm. I know that the old law of summun laid temptingly before her. She was there are some thirty or guests, as she was 111 great anxiety and Hebut I think it must have been something bonus has been abolished, and the Dick turned and looked at her. never going to be married, neverher forty people of this name, all wished to avail herself of h*is kind advice rather unusual. When Joe was great law of E Plunbus Unum now felt that he was rapidly losing his mind was quite made up. II of whom keep shops for the sale of and assistance. telling me her story, at this point she head, and this was his last act ot folly. waves all over thi* country. So I lets0 Cologne water. There are a great observed, after a bhort pause, "I never She felt she could rely upon his coming, There sh9 was, her lovely pleading the defendant go." many descendants of the orignal inventor Was so happy in my life." and she was not disappointed in eyes looking up at him pathetically. And so it was for nearly three years Two Brave Girls. $ of this perfume, and the law Later on, I believe Dick said to her There were no rings upon her him. The clock in her boudoir had ttntfl at length a change set in, for Joe does not permit any one to assume something to this effect: pretty left hand as it lay on his arm, From the London Times. just chimed 7 when Mr. Dering was Xnad fallen in love. the name who does not belong to the "Dear little true love of mine, do and almost before he knew what he announced. The examination of the many cases Girls of her calibre do not find jbheir family but the boy babies of the Farinas was doing he had taken it tenderly in you know what you are doing? Will of saving life from drowning during true love one day and lose him the Mrs. Lyttelton rose languidly to are generally baptized Johann his and kissed it twice. you not marry Lord Mandeville with vnext. To use her own expression meet him, feeling what an untold advantage the summer bathing and boating season Maria, so that they can go in the washis ancestral halls and a handle to Then in another moment he it was to have a man like she fell in love once and submitted to the Royal Humane Cologne water business when they grow his name?" striding down the avenue, angrily telling this young clergyman to whom she toad done with it, as soon as she met up. There are two or three shops Society having been completed, the Not for Joe!" she replied with all himself that he was a fool and a could turn in her perplexity. She the man who was capable of winning where the best and "original" water is committee has bestowed its awards in her saucy petulance and so it came coward. The girl did not even care told him all her story, with an earnestness bee heart. ''He came, he saw, he conquered!" Bold, and at one of these we buy some accordance with risk incurred. The to pass that these two were wed. for him she was only a heartless little that was almost childish in its and Joe felt that it was so of the celebrated perfume, generally silver medal, of which only two have flirt, and to-morrow he was going simplicityhow dear Joe was always sold to travelers fn small wooden with a thrill of delight that was as been recently bestowed, has been given to plead with her the cause of another! sweet and good in every thing except boxes containing four or eix bottles, *weet as it was novel. Two White House Paintings. to Miss Fanny Isabel Rowe, a the matter of her own love affairs. which we get at a very reasonable Moreover, as months went on, she young girl of 15 and daughter of the From the Milwaukee Sentinel. She felt, she said that it would be best But at the manor house somebody price compared with what we have to was uot slow in finding out that he The Martha Washington was painted to tell her as soon as possible of Loid Rev. G. Rowe of Topcroft, near was creeping upstairs to bed, her own pay for it in America. We cannot 'loved her too. Not that he ever, by Mandeville's proposal, but had put it left hand pressed closely now against in 1878, and Mr. Andrews received Bungay, for saving the life of a little take much more than this, because -r much as a look, led her to suppose off until the following day in the hope her smiling lips. Cologne water is classed as spirits by boy named Francks, who had fallen $3,000 for it. I is a wonderfully that she was anything more to him that Mr. Dering would kindly consent the Custom-house authorities in England, into the lake at Neuchatel, Switzerland, "Oh, Dick, Dick, how can you be -than a casual acquaintance, pleasant good piece of work. Mr. Andrews to be present at the ordeal, and say a and each traveler is allowed to so proud?" she was saying to hermade while playing on the jetty last to talk to in the evenings when her a most diligent search for some word in season for his lordship. bring only a small quantity of it into glad heart. "Can't you see it written July. His brother, though not mother invited him to come and "dine of Martha Washington's costumes, that country. 'f Dick Dering listened gravely, hardly in my face that I love you?" quietly" at Geilston but for all that, able to swim, jumped in after but without success. The dress used speaking a word, until all the particulars And I have every reason to believe Joe knew he loved herhow, it is impossible him and both were in of the case had been fully explained is an authentic copy of the costume she gave not another thought to Lord for me to tell. great danger in sight of spec- 1 to him. He knew Mrs. Lyttelton The Archbishop's Romance, Herbert Mandeville that night. at the time. I twas made by Worth Let me say a word or two about tators, none of whom it appears well, and understood her better In the afternoon of the following Mme. Mohl Komi niscences. this young man before 1 go any far* in Paris tor Mrs. Darling, the wife of could swim, and certainly did not render than most people, pitying her inertness day Joe came stepping down the her. One day at breakfast Archbishop the proprietor ot the Fifth Avenue hotel any assistance. Miss Rowe dived and really feelinglor her anxiety broad staircase in her pretty primrose-colored 'To begin with, he was only a curate Whately told ucso a remarkable storey of India. A th on behalf of her daughter. What the in New York, who had it made especially after the younger boy, whom she tea-gown, a thoughtful a a hard working, indetatigable vicar's performance of this duty would be to of a womannt hwho married when very brought to the surlace, but lost her smile curling her lips. Her old nurse, mh for her to wear at Martha help, upon 14') pounds a year. He him, he did not for a moment pause Margaret, had told her that Mr. Dering hold of his hair through its being very woman younhgi Washington's centennial tea party in a soldier, ~t.%xcepd an was wrecked Bad come to Dimplethorpe about 12 th to consider, and after a few minutes was in the boudoir with her mother, wit short. She dived again, and getting M^'A^1^ I months before this story begins, and kJined thT^tnm^ of silent deliberation he had made up and she was going there now to loaned the costume to Mr Andrews, him this time bv the ear brought him hv ea bad not been many weeks in the place cr a&5 I passenger his mind. When he expressed himself an afternoon-tea. She wondered wjhy he ^LEm.fi!Le W6r to the jetty, where be was lifted out% suppose before he was considered by everynody actin^g Jlr^l willing to help her to the best of his in that capacity whos form had come, and what he would say to of the water. Miss Rowe is stated to to be quite an acquisition. He ability thro' her difficulty, the poor and an officer who saved her. She her whether he would speak kindly, was stout and plump like Mrs. Washington's, was very beautiful, and he educated lf was tall, manly, broad-shouldered, have al* aaved rhe elder boy. lady's overwrought feeling gave way, or devote his attentions solely to her but whose face was anything UP and married her. In time she became Pr!$* in admirest shor everything a woman most The bronze medal has been awarded and she burst into tears. mother. JM but as comely. The face of the portrait in a specimen of the noble a widow and returned to England. He to Miss M. Strachey, aged 17, Their interview had lasted nearly was copied from miniatures She opened the doornsoftly "Ind had left her all his money, and she CdJS .sex and, before she had known him daughter of the British Charge TAf three-quarters of an hour, and Mr.went found in the Washington relics. in, lovelier than ever, Dick Dering was well received by his relations, being Hf long. Miss Lyttelton had fallen in love. fairs at Dresden, for saving Miss M. Dering rose at oncefeeling that his hostess Tom Clark, a clerk in the supervising thought, with that soft bright light still very charming. One day her There are, however, two important Taylor, who, while trying to swim at wish to bealone for a few minutesbefore i.^ii architect's office in the treasury in her eyes. theriedd mai told her she was ^oing to be marto items, iin connection with Dicmust Dering, Sandy Inland, Hollgoland, got out of it would be necessary for her to receive department, was the model for which common honesty I not The rodm was almost in darkness 1 a discharged soldier. The her depth, sank, and was being carried herguests. She thanked him with flickeringfire-lightandJefferson, also painted by Mr. Andrews. except for the mistress approved and asked to see by the tide. Miss Stracky swam to the forget to record against himbe was a languid smile, and he left her with a Mr. Andrews made a careful the glow of the rose colered lamp him. When he was introduced, after drowning lady's assistance, and rond, and he was poor. One hunred few words of sympathy and encouragement study of all descriptions of Jefferson's which hung in an alcove between the brought her to shore in a fainting con* looking steadily at him for some minutes, and forty pounds a year, looked to the effect that everything long windows. dress, and there being none of his cos dition. *&, she went up and fetched a shawl. If*! at in whichever way you will, is not was sure to come right in time. N. tumes left, he had one made in New /Joe stood still by the door irsesolute "Do you know that shawl?" sheiasked. what one usually considers a princely But for him things had gone so far York, which Mr. Clark wore. No better MI gave to she felt somehow as if she had "Yes." he replied. fortune, but until he met Joe Lyttelton, wrong that there seemed not the remotest model could have been iound than been doing cornetning unusually reprehensible, A brother in prayer meeting in a my wife when we married." "I am your Mr. Dering had never desired to chance of their'coming right Tom Clark. He is a tall, graceful, cavalier and these two were going to neighboring town the other night wife!" she exclaimed. She took him lie iAliboucricher* any He wasr proud, because again. i specimen of manhood, and the scold her about it. he loved he honestly and prayed for the absent who were pros- jnaw back, and hedrank away all his senses In the hall he found that the first selection re-inforced Mr. Andrew's "Joey, darling, come here," said her trated on'beds of sickness and sofas| and her fortune, and finally died, truly, he had made up his mind"never guest had already arrived. Lord Her- special talent remarkably., mother, nervously, as her daughter after making her life miserable. of wellness.-Rutland Herald. to let her know it, and to heave Dim inn.