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A STRIKING LIKENESS, Why, amid all the much vaunted discoveries and inventions of the last century has no bene- ficent savant hit upon a curb for shyness? I am not aware whether the bashful animal, like the poet, is born, not made, or whether the unhappy biped is the chancholy product of injudicious training in early life. i ana ter ribly shy fellow, and I know that I would give balf my income, which is a very decent out, if I could only put on a fraction of the "side "of the average man in the street, if I could enter a room full of people without looking as though I had any host's silver spoons concealed suma where about my wretched person, and, above all, if I could, after a Herculean effort Warm into some degree of expansiveness, contrive to open my mouth without immediately putt ng my foot in it.
But it is not to be invariably return home from a sothl gathering a prey to the most ghast ly depression by reason of my having said that! which 1 ought not to have said, and left undone those things which I most obviously ought to have done. I began the century lamentably. At a New wear reception I covered myself with con- fusion by walking up to a large mirror and fer vently wishing myself the compliments of the season. A would-be wag, near at hand, call- ously observed that if everybody limited them selves to strictly following my example it would save a lot of trouble and a vast amount of hom-
bug. I should have liked in wither him with a glance of intentest scorn but, instead, I only blushed up to the routs of my hair and looked like a born ass,
Luckily at that moment my old college, chum, Tom Adair, spotted me from afr-and rushed up in his impetuous way, to shake hands with me. "I am ing boine, Tom," I smid, abasher! at the attention his effusive greeting was drawing upon us.
"Going to your grandmother's!" roared Tom, in his stentarism romes,
Now, much as I liked and respected Tom Adair, 1 really wished, at that moment, that he were at the Cape, omul, finiro, or some equally remote spot. Every eye in the vicinity was turned upon us. I felt most uncomfortable,
The mater is here with my sisters, Dolly and Molly. You must come and be intro duced to them without a moment's delay,"
He seized me by the arm and hurried me, much against my will, through the sulie of rooms. I did not want any more acquaint ances, and I always found an intruduction to a woman a most embarrassing ceremony. How. evez, Tom hapened to be the more muscular of the two, and resistance was useless. I was dragged, willy nilly, into the awful presence of the three laddies.
"Mater, here's my old chun, Horace Mild- may." bellowed Tom "You've often heard me speak of little Horry."
"Charmed, an suve," murantred the old lady, fixing me with an icy stare that made my Alesh creep. I am delighted to make the ac quaintance of any friend that say son may have made at Oxbridge."
Nervousness and a desire to appear smart struggled for the mastery, and, naturally, I came a cropper.
I know a gand many of Tom's Oxbridge friends, madam," I returned, with a knowing
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1901.
I performed my toilet in brilliant spirits. Af of your heart. You would love `ardently--- | course if I went into technicalities, you might I buttoned my gloves I actually caught myself passionately" singing, "How happy could I be with Molly "Gracious" ejaculated Molly. were only dear Dolly away."
I arrived; I made my obeisance to my hostess, and was saved from a mal-apropos ve mark by the fact that, while she honoured me with a few jewelled fingers, her attention and gas were bath riveted upon a sandy Baronet with weak eyes andun impediment in his speech, Possibly it needed much concentrated effort on her part to follow his remarkı
One Miss Adair was at the piano discoursing sweet music, the other was dispensing the watery cup that inebriates not. accepted a sample of the beverage, not because of its negative virtue, which does not at all appeal to me, but because it was presented to me by darling Dolly. Or was it Molly? As usual, the bewildering twins were dressed exactly alike. Not the slightest variation in frill or flounce or furbelow. It was positively crurl.
The sonata, by a composer with an unpro- nounceable name, came to an end with a crash and a bang. The bang was on the piano, the crash was caused by the fall of the music book, which carried with it on its downward course a candle enveloped in its silken shade.
I rushed to the rescue and stamped upon the pretty trifle which lad caught fire. At first 1 felt like a hero. Miss Adair ruefully picked up the melancholy remains.
"My poor little candle shade;" she mur mured. You have crushed it out of all recog nition"
"The flame might have caught your dress," I urged in justification. "It was of your life I was thinking, and of your exquisite beauty," Was I mustaken, or did she blush?,
"You see I painted it myself," she said. it dawned upon me that she was referring to the "No, did you really?" I cried, aghast. Then lamp-shade, and I continued hurriedly: "Grant mea favour, one line favour."
What?" she asked, in pretty surprise. Let me have that morsel of blackened silk for my very own, to keep among my most cherished treasures."
She smiled, but not with disdain,
It is a pitiable wreck," she said, dangling the treasure before my longing eyes. But if you prize it so highly, perhaps it will still have
charms for you."
not follow them too clearly, and—--
"Oh, I follow you-1 follow right enough," "Is it not so?" I inquired tenderly, drawing | said. Mf. Jellicoe, warmly. "It only struck mo a little nearer.
that my wife might not-such a woman for wanting to cook an egg before it's laid! || | shouldn't be surprised if-well, never mind. You'll let me know when the thing's settled, and I'll-er-call again.“
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"Is what not so?? she asked. This was a trifle embarrassing, bat I plucked up heart.
"Is it not true that you would love on through all ills, and love on till you died?
"I don't know, I am sure," returned Molly. "I have never thought about it."
"Then will you begin to think about it? Or better still will you begin to think about me?",
"What am I to think
"The best possible. Think that I adore you-
Mr. Mildmay
"Do not call me by that cold, prosaic name. Call me Florice or call me call me Horry."
She dropped the dark silken lashes over her
starry eyes,
"Horace she sighed, in an adorable whisper. I was transported beyond myself. †
seized her hand and covered it with kisses. "My darling !" I murmured “My Molly !" 1 an instant the little hand was snatched from my grasp. Instead of the trembling. blushing maiden an angry goddess, darting vengeance from her blazing eyes, stood in regal wrath before me.
How dare you, sir?" she said, in a voice stifled with passion. "How dare you pour into my cars, the contemptible trash, you intended for my foolish sister? Whether your
conduct be attributable to studied insult ör to a silly mistake it is worthy only of the most profound disdain."
"Yes, quite rd." The smiling lawyer ushered him out with inward relief. And, he whis, pered, "you can assure your good lady there will be no need to send a boy and barrow. The money, if no hitch occurred, would be paid through a banker."
"Oh, of course--naturally. Yes, I know that! Ha, ha! The ideas worten get hold of Good morning-good morning "
Mr Jellicoe dismissed the cab he had hired, and walked homeward considerably damped figuratively and literally both. The lawyer bidn't looked at his new frock coat once, and months to wait! Lower and lower sank his heart. Sure enough, there was no occasion for his key. The door stond ajar, and the door and Mrs. Jellicoe were practically one.
"Don't hurry? The time you've been !" she breathed, tensely. You'd be pleased to hear I'd had a fit, I know. And where's the cah? Hiren't you-baven't you got it?"
"Got is 1" For once in his married life. Mr. Jellicoe got out a real, crushing sucer, "Yes, in my waistcoat pocket! Think ourselves lucky if they shell out in a few months-or years, come to that. It doesn't trouble me; I'm not bursting at all. And whats this? Have you-oh, you extravagant woman !"
"Of course! I must never have anything "Oh, Miss Dolly," I cried in despair, "pray like other people," she littered, on the verge of believe that I intended no insult. Do not tum from me in anger. All that I have said will hysterics. That's it we'll bury our money in will make no difference to me apply equally to yourself. I assure you that it the back garden, and let it smoulder away to If you will mathing!" She meant "moulder." "Yes, it's deign to accent my hand and my heart, clear-goodness knows. The milkman Sniggering est Dolly.
If a lock could slay I should have come to a
every time the, door opened and showed the premature end at that moment. With a mag-barren passage. Five guineas; hevelled and nificent gesture she flung the bunch of yellow caved everywhere. Now say I've been swin- roses at my feet and swept majestically out of died. Go on !" the conservatory, leaving me limp, dejected, and alone.
ments, it may have been hours-Tom rushed After a lapse of time-it may have been mo
boisterously.in.
"It will indeed," I cried, grasping the prize "Hullo"? Here are you! What have you been and hastily concealing it. how ecstastically happy, you have made me,ing at the mouth. What's up?" I pointed to
Oli, how happy, saying to Dolly? She is furious, raving, foam Miss. Dolly,"
the roses on the floor. "How came your sister Dolly by the yellow flowers that were addressed to Molly" asked gloomily,
The smile faded from her pretty lips, and she rose from the piano, her lovely eyes ablaze with indignation.
"I am not Dolly," she said, in scathing tones. "I is a pity that you should have wasted on me the pretty compliments intended for my sister. Please, Mr. Mildmay, let me pass."
I stood dejectedly aside, and the offended beauty brushed haughtily past, leaving me as limp and crushed as her cherished candle shade.
his misemble, greedy claim; the solicites letter had been uninspired—and the five thou
and pounds was gone like a dream.
Mr. Jellicoe has one grim consolation to hug. His wife's dot, is practically a dream, 100,- Advocate of India,
SALT AS A HEART STIMULANT.
The discovery of the "elixir of Bse" by two professors in the University of hicago is announced in large headlines by the sensa tional section of the daily press, "Not only so. but we are told that the said elixir is so familiar a substance as common salt, which most of us have used more or less regularly without a thought that we were absorbing so potent a stimulant. This version of their investigation the Chicago scientists-Professors Leef: and Lingle-repudiate with some indignation, and apparently with reason, for the pamphlet in which they explain their results treats simply of some experiments confirmatory of the theory already advanced by several physiologists, that the origin of the heart's shythmic beat must be sought among the inorganic constituents of the blood. Says Professor Lingle in the pamphlet already referred to:
been advanced by flowell, who holds that to "The latest theory to explain this action has
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Professor Loeb's theories have also been tested by his colleague in experiments on turtles, in which he gave especial attention to the following three points
Oh, no, it's cheap-dirt cheap! Fancy it being bevelled and carved for the money- rough wood! All right; go your own way you'd have thought they would send out the order a diamond chimney-pot-do what you lik. I know we're rich and bloated, now. suppose I can have a morsel of dinner within an hour, if I requise such a thing in the circlectric current] 2
"Dinner now?" she faltered. Pray, where are you going?"
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"And you said you let me tell Mrs. Tomlin and the others you had retired! You let me go and order a pair of Surrey fowls for a six o'clock dinner! That your manhood! Oh, heavens! That's your "
"Don't you spit at me!" Jellicoe swung round in a wave of sudden wrath.
"By Jovel" exclaimed Tom, "I believe that
I'm going back to the shop. I can't afford is my doing, 1 dropped the cards out of the
wealth. As this rate, I shall have to be more bouquets, and I suppose I got mixed, and puteronomical than ever. Certainly I am!" them back wrong. Never mind, old fellow! You really owe me a big debt of gratitude, for you have had an uncommonly narrow escape." to the same conclusion. I had never made an And, sericusly, a little reflection brought me From that day I strove my hardest to forget offer of marriage 'before, and I solemnly swear the beautiful twins. I endeavoured to depre- that I never will again, so everything has turned ciate their charms. I gazed at the portraits of out for the best after all. The Rongeon Times. celebrated beauties in the photographers' win- dows. I turned my attention to the dazzling FATE AND MR. JELLICOE. visions of loveliness an view at the theatres. But all in vain. My mind refused to dwell on "My word, it's a lot of money, isn't it?" any charms save those of Dolly and Molly, breathed Mr. Jellicoe again, as if to excuse bis bald head shining with perspiration. "Be dowdy or commonplace, or meretricious.
never had a wink these two nights; don't be
would it about coverthis table in sovereigns lieve I shall to-night. Five thousand! Would
all I know it might fill the room," smiled the "My dear sir, what a curious question For solicitor. Still, of course, it is—it is a com-") fortable little windfall for a man who never dreamed of it; and I congratulate you and Mrs. Jellicoe."
other words, is rhythmic activity an ion effect First-Will ventricular tissue beat rhyth- mically in solutions of non-conductors; or, in in heart muscle (an ion is a chemical element as it exists in a solution decomposable by an "Second-If the stimulus of this rhythmical activity is an ion, is it the calcium or sodium
ion?
"Third-What is the male of other ions with respect to ventricular rhythmic activity?"
Says the correspondent of the New York Sun, in descrthing these experiments further:-
"Professor Lingle found that hearts would not begin to beat or maintain rhythmic beats in solutions of nonconductors. To this enda series of experiments was made with solutions of cane sugar, dextrose, and glycerine. The fact that no rhythm was developed in these solu. tions, Professor Lingle says, proves Professor Loeb's conclusions that rhythmic activity occurs only in solution of electrolytes, and is, therefore, anion effect.
"Professor 1.ocb maintains that the simulus is most closely associated with the sodium Compounds, or, rather, with the sodium ion.
smile, "whom you would hardly be delighted | All viber women appeared, by comparison owed if I can believe it, even now, I've furniture 1 No; but I've been talking with The calcium and potassium salts simply pro
to count among your acquaintance."
The lady frowned, I turned scarlet, Tom coughed obtrusively. He turned hastily to his sister. Dolly and Molly, he cried, "let me present to you Mr. Horace Hildmay. Capital dancer, first as tennis player; in fact, splendid all-round .dies' man. Mildmay, this is Dolly and the other is Molly. They are nice enough girls when they have everything their own way."
I was desperately endeavouring so formulate some neat and appropriate rejoinder when the sight of the lovely creature bowing graciously in my direction knocked all the ideas out of my head. I had never seen, out of a children's picture book, anything so perfectly angelic.
An aurcole of golden hair encircled an oval face in which the ly and the rose blended deliciously; sapphire eyes, a Grecian nose, and pouting, kissable lips that parted to reveal two rows of flawless pearls. Such was the darling vision that met my admiring gaze. Reluctantly I withdrew my eyes to acknowledge the siluta tion of Tom's other sister. I pearly staggered back, so overwhelmed was 1 by astonishment. Another golden halo, another complexion of roses Grecian nase, and rosy kissable mouth half hiding identical gleaming pearls,
I looked imploringly round for Tom, hoping that he would enlighten me as to how I might distinguish Dolly from Molly. But Tom had disappeared. The two sisters were so exactly alike in face and form, their dresses were so precisely similar, that it was absolutely impos aible to tell one from the other. There was a general move to the supper-room. Cavaliers presented themselves to escort Mrs. Adair and one of her daughters. It behoved me to offer my arm to the remaining beauty.
May I have the pleasure of taking you in to supper, Miss Molly I inquired timidly.
"Yes, you may, returned the lovely girl somewhat brusquely; but my name hap pens to be Doily,"
I beg your pardon, I am sure," I returned, humbly. "You see you and your sister are so much
"Ob, plonse, don't say it," she exclaimed, almost pettishly.
"Don't say what?” I slammered. "That wo are so much alike. It has been dinned into our ears from our cradles upwards, We are sick to death of being exactly alike."
"When you look at your sister surely you must be glad to resemble her." I remarked."
"Indeed I am not, I don't want to resemble anybody, And I do not admire my sister it all." happy inspiration came to me. "I do," I said, meaningly, "I admire her immensely, More than any one I ever saw,"
My happy inspiration was an abject fallure. "Oh, very well returned Dolly. "Then you had better take her in to supper instead of me. Here comes my cousin, Jack Wyatt, Jack, take me to supper, there's a dear boy, and find me something specially nice. This party is most deadly slow. Good evening, Mr. Mitä may."
And the lovely Dolly floated away on the arm of that double-distilled cad, Jack Wyatt, leaving me disconsolate and forlorn.
I went home that night with another man, Love had entered into my soul once more, and this time bad come to stay, I was wildly, madly, head over ears
in love with the Misses, Adair. The extraardin- Ary resemblance between them rendered it. impossible to give the preference to either Dolly or Molly. Win one of them, it mattered not which, for my very own, I must I would -Buch was my proud resolve as I walked to my chamber that night, reciting ecstatically Rosy is the north, Roxy is the south," regard less of the fict, that the hour was midnight. And that the metropolis was wrapped in a black, impenetrable fog.
One day, as I was wandering, disconsolately Hello!" he reared. Where the dickens along Piccadilly, I un up against Tum Adair, have you been. hiding yourself for the last month The mother and the girls are always asking why you have cut them?
Regardless of being in a leading thoroughfare I groaned aloud, "I can't come, Tom," I cried. "I am always making such an ass of myself."
"That's quite possible," said Tom, But don't see why you should be a bigger ass at our place than elsewhere,"
"I am, Tom. I can't tell one of your sisters from the other, and I am always making ridi culous mistakes between them.'
Can't tell Dolly from Molly!" exclamed Tom, in blank astonishment. "Well, I'm blessed! Why, Molly's the best little soul on carth; while Dolly-well, Dolly is a perfect Itle cat,"
In what a brutal fashion do brothers express themselves.
Can't tell Dolly from Molly" repeated Tom, with a chuckle. "Well, I'm blowed!".
"Your being blowed does not help matters." I observed, haughtily, "The uncomfortable fact remains,"
of course ?" said Tom, irrelevantly.
You are going to Mrs, Highstepper's dance,
"No, I returned, with decision, "Oh, but you must. It is the one topic of the town. I've got an idea. Send the girls a bouquet apiece. Different colours. Label them Dolly and Molly to prevent mistakes, and then, don't you see sec, old man, you will easily be able to tell t'other from which, and will run no risk of treading on the doar things' corns."
How very vulgar Tom can be sometimes, to be sure! Corns and heavenly twins!
You are sure they will not be offended?" I said.
"As sure as my name is Thomson Adair.” "And you think they will carry the bouquets?
now?"
(Oh, for heaven's sake, don't mention her -don't say another syllable to her Mr.
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warned you; 1 warn you again. Look at this house-lock at the muck and bills lying everywhere! How long-how long do you suppose five thousand pounds, or five billions, is guing to last us at this rate? You ruinous woman! Been drinking, have 1? Ab you'll know it when I do begin-when I start on this
a man who knows-my lawyer. Every penny long the rhythm, and improve it by their ability W NOTES have been STOLEN from away for ever. Everything you've bought or Loeb has studied separately and together the of that money is invested in my name--put to neutralize the injurious effects of too much or too extended action of sodium. Professor
We'll see. ordered on the strength of it, you'll pay for action on heart tissue of the three jone, sodium, out of your dot. Out of your dot! Never? calcium, and potassium, and finds that while Now you can faint, and come to the other ions may start heart action, the again.
Mary you stay just where you arc, and cook me a chump chop. If there isn't sodium ion is the only one which will maintain one, go and fetch it. Ifany fowls come, Surrey or Kentish, trussed or stuffed, send 'em back You'll obey me now,”
Ah hour later, as Mr. Jellicoe marched
temly down the steps, a furniture van rolled up. He stood and watched long enough to seca new mirror and some art pots carried in then he licked his dry lips and walked on, If-if he had seen so much as a pipe-rack, or even a nailbresh, for his own especial use among the growing collection, his thoughts might have taken a different turn, and this story need never have been written. As it was, he went straight to his shop, tucked up his sleeves, and deliberately wrote a letter to the lawyer his own lawyer, ROW.
He marked it "private." "There! Jim," he said, to the errand-boy, "here's twopence Jump on a yellow hus, and hand this straight to the gentleman it's addressed to.
Jellicoe got up; the sweat broke out afresh. She's gone mad-raving mad. What do you think of a woman who collapses on the sofa when your letter came-breaks it and rushes out and orders a new one on the spot? Did the? My dear sir, I was there. The passage is choked, sir-choked with a patent mangle, a piano, rolls of oil-cloth, and all sorts of things, There's been a man at the door laughing and aking down orders ever since. As I sit here, sir, she got up, put on her best dress, powdered herself from top to toe, and marched down and told the servant girl we couldn't think of keep
"Dear Sir, I do hereby solemnly place my ing her another month unless she learned affairs in your hands as you suggested, and I French and decompo-1 meat, deportment. desire every farthing to be invested at your And then I wondered what the girl was crying discretion. Furthermore, I should also esteem on and off for French, mind you. Here, we hit a great favour it on receipt of this, you would. give her three-and-six a week, and one night drop a line to my house hinting that there has out a month P
been a mistake all round, and that the money "Bless me! That does seem a little-er-revers elsewhere. I am aware that this may too pronounced, "I should have thought that ponibly check my misguided wife's sworn de you could exercise a little more control over temination to spend the five thousand pounds your better half than that, now?
before she gets it. Our house is now an auction "What, my wife Mr. Jellice stopped max. I need say no more to a man with your mopping to stare. "She's a terrible woman, experience." although I say it. That woman's one ides, sir, has been to outshine the neighbours and make out that I'm a rich man in disguise. won't have it, and there you are-words night and day. You'd hardly believe, perhaps, that- she's got three hundred pounds of her own in the bank; calls it her dot-flaunts it in my face every now and again. Have I ever hand led a farthing of it, pushed as I've often been? Never! But she doesn't mind keeping drawing And filled with gratitude I hurried away to out sums, and paying them back, so that the order the most exquisite bouquets that Covent neighbours can hear of the cheques. A terrible Garden could supply, I gave strict directions woman! I don't know that Pas so pleased that a bouquet of lilles and yellow roses was to over this windfall-1, really don't! I can see be addressed to Miss Molly Adair, and a bou: the place tumed, inside out, and me sleeping quet of lilies and red roses to Miss Dolly in the washhouse while the bedroom's being Adair. That there might be no possibility of a scraped and polisi.ed, and goodness knows what. mistake I made a note of the colours, for I was There, I can't tell you!" determined upon this occasion to put my fate to the touch to win or lose it all) as the poet says, When I entered the ballroom the girls were dancing. I took the opportunity to consult my note book. Red roses-Dolly, There she was, Yellow roses-Molly. Yes, it was all right. At the end of the lancers i bastened to pay my respects to the twins and beg for their cards. Dolly had only one vacant waits, Molly buta barn dance. Both were late in the evening But there will be some extras before sup per." gently murmured the owner of the yellow bouquet.
Smiled on by beauty, I grew bold. "Then I claims all the extras with you," 1 whispered,
"All" she exclaimed, with a vivid blush. "Oh, how very, very greedy of you
They will hear of it from me if they don't." * do it, I cried. "God bless you Tom You are a splendid fellow."
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He may think it a little funny, though, he thought to himself later. "Never mind; gave him a good hint about her. If he won't do it. I'll make out a letter myself, and forge his name. I'll subdue that woman,"
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THE BABY'S FOOT,
often the tender, toes are crumpled and mis
A perfect child's font is hard to find Too shapen. Too often the big toe is pressed over on its neighbour, the nails are pushed back, and the joint of the great toe is becoming pro. nounced.
Mothers buy a pretty shaped shoe for their All the trouble comes from one cause. children, but they do not select one that con forms to the shape of the foot that is to go in it. There is nothing prettier, more pliable, or more sensitive to abuse than an infant's foot. Le: nature alone and it will be pely beautiful member.
child, and then choose a shoe to fit that par. Every mother should study the foot of her ticular foot
lines of the foot. The toss should lie straight To be comfortable the sboa must follow the and natural; there should be room at the end of the shoe for them to extend still further should any pressure force them forward. Let any unused space be at the tip of the toes, not in the vamp. The vamp should fit smoothly, but not be loose, as the toes should lie naiurally, not spread out.
body must fall on the ball of the foot. Any An important point is that the weight of the shoe that does not allow this does not fit. The and do is part but, after all, the duty of the heel must come down squarely as a support heel is to act as a helper in the distribution- of weight When the weight does ant fall, in this way, thick, ugly, enlarged ankles are the
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that very evening the postman's rat-tat came, shoe that hurts the foot, for it must carry that There was no call for the forgery. Late result. Often.this is the cause of weak ankles, It is never economy to let a child wear a extm loud. Mr. Jellicoe read the letter osten tatiously, suppressed his chuckle by a life-foot through life, and any injury may be
- permanent.—The Morning Leader,
To be Let.
effort, and handed the news to his wife.
Very good. Madam, it may interest you to know that we are--as we were,
"Dear sir," it
ran,
"We hasten to inform you that, since our interview this moming, wa have received a service from the solicitors to the opposing parties. It advises us that a sus pention of operations has been applied for on the the ground that a direct male descendant of Haber Jellicos hai, in the last possible twenty four hours at his disposal, filed fresh documents purporting to prove bis exclusiva claim. In the event of this belog established, we need hardly tell you that your own claim becomes unten- able. We will apprise you of any develop-
*Dear, dear! In that case, Mr. Jellicoe, it might be as well if you left your affairs in our hands, and allowed us to invest this money so as to return a good dividend."
"Dividends? She'd be marching up here for the balance; I should never hear the last of it. That woman! Bless yog, she's waiting in the passage this very minule for me to bring it back." And Jellicoe glanced round un certainly once more for the heavy bag with which he had pictured himself singgling home.ments that may occur The lawyers laugh quite startled him.
"Now, perhaps,” said Mr. Jellicos, striking "Very good, Kr. very next, that! You the table, you'll see what you've done. Now, surely never imagined that we had so many perhaps you'll break into that dot, and pay the bare of bullion stacked here? My dear sir, price of your folly. Or, perhaps, you'll prefer voit don't quite seem to understand. As I toldte broker's man.” you, litigation over this estate bas been going
And the strongest proof of genius in this Da fiercely, If spasmodically, for nearly thirty muter stroku Jay in the fact that Mm. Jellicas
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But the smile that, accompained her words years between the two main branches of the › answered never a word. It bubbled in her 4 HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.
told me that my request was granted.
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I was all impatience until my turn came and,
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ankety about himself, waw His errand-boy turn remarkably red and then white, and fumble with a crumpled envelope sticking through the Uning of his jacket.
family-dropped by one side every now and || thrust no doubt, but junever took definite form then for lack of funds or encouragement, and around. She was subdued I could lead the fair Molly into the mazy dance. taken up again as hotly by the other. The ori After a few terns she announced that she was ginal value was insignificant: pow ·-has-dove- |- · I was one day about six weeks later, when dreadfully tired, and suggested an adjournment loped into a huge sum, but there are at least Mr. Jallicee, who had begun to feel a shade of to the palm house. I am not a good waltzer, fifty people to share in it. Every one of those and I gladly agreed in the proposition. My had to be traced and proved legitimate; a good opportunity had come. I fear my conversation many, like yourself, had no idea of their fide was commonplace in the extreme.
to claim at all. The last link in the chain of "It is very warm in here, I observed...
document was not filled in until iwo years ago. "It has to be warm for palms returned An immensely involved affair! The great thing, My joy was great when I received an invita Molly
of course tion from Mrs. Adair to an At Home. If there "Yes, I suppose ao. They come from a was no direct male, descendant of old Haber, was to prove conclusively that there be any social function that is more, especially warm place. Pensonally, I like warmth. Jellicoe. Even now, that is disputed; but the horrible to me than another it is an At Home. Warmth of affection, you know, sad all that parish records were lost--how, we must not in To begin with, it is such a barefaced misnomer. sort of thing. Nobody stems at home, myself least of all. I felt that this was a bit jerky. Still, I was of this assumed descendent for a long periods quire too cloialy. We have advertised for proof
"Thie minute" was just ale weeks too late, Even the hostess is neually jumpy as though getting a heard of cold affection, observed provisionally decided that a proportionats share realise next moment Fate, by a coincidence. the whole thing got on bor nerves and stopped.
and now, tailing his identity, the Courts have as Mr. Jellicoe, with a bitter moan, tried to chere But this was a glorified At Home, at Molly reflectively.!! which would shing resplendent the heavenly
fastified. Bat, remember, the property has never recked of in his philosophy, had fore ** No, I am sure that where you placed your to be realised, and the final adjustment may be misled big little trick, fie koew it next day affections you would love with all the warmth is matter of months possibly of years.. (of „fonoartala. The mais descendini had prevad.
I never
. "Hullo!” he said. "What's that? - You come hare E Oh-oh-oh, my lord 1" shelaint whimper es from dreamland. "I-1 ↑ «"Don't mack ma, air-piraso don't!" came
gaton the right bus, and I thought I'd lost it, and aren't tell you. I'll take it this minute, sir, I will!".
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