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(Published by arrangement."); PETRALTO'S LOVE STORY

AMELIA E HARR Author of "Jan Vedder's Wife" Friend

„Olivia,""&c. &c.

(COPYRIGHT.)

I am addicted to making strange friendships, to liking people whom I have no conventional authority to like people out of my set, and not always of iny bwn nationality... I do not say that have always been fortunate in these. ventures; but I have had suficient splendid exceptinis to excuse the social aberration, and make me think that, all of us might oftener trust our own instincts, oftenter accept the friends that circumstance and opportunity offer

with advantage. At any rate, the pend venture in chance associations has always been very attractive to me.

In some irregular way I became acquainted with Petralto. Garcia. I believe I owed the in- troduction to my beautiful hound, Lutha; but, at any rate our first conversation was quite as serisible as if we had gone through the legi

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affairs of the Garcia manch

Stijl, when I arrived at home, there was no tell you how much it cost me to restrain my ans into the "enities and "nomentities forgot A FOOL'S LUOK IS ALWAYS 7 one to welcome me! The noble, grations, ger. He, however, never noticed I was angry, Petralte in legel, and felt rather shamed of Garcia slept with, his ancestors in the old He had but one object now to gain from me the days when I lounged and trided in the

THE BEST IN THE Almo Church somewhere on the labo my the name and residence of the original, artist's pleasant rooms. I was enamoured of BEAWORLD. brather was ranging, sull with his wild com." It was no use to tell him it was a fancy pic divina philosophy, took no more interest in pany and the house, in spite of the familyture, that he was sighing for an raugination polite gossip and did not waste my time read- servants and Mexican peons, was sufficiently. He never believed it for a moment. I would ing newspapers In fact, with Kant and Fichte with the Gaythornes and the Mullers, and all Follows the true story of how Smith got in lonely, Yet I was astonished to had how not sell it, I would not copy it, I would not say before me, I did not feel that I had the time of those golden folks up the State.. casily I went back to my old life, and spent where I had painted it; I kept it to my most lawfully to spare, whole days in the saddle investigating the sacred privacy. He was sure that the girl ex

It was in Paris, in the quarter called Latin, Therefore any one may imagine my astonish-where, by the way, I never met anybody who isted, and that I knew where she lived Hemant when, about three years after Fetralto's know any Latin. It was only three days after ***"I had been'nding one day for ten hours, was very rich, without an occupation or an ob departure: from New York, he one morning Smith's first arrival among us that he went to and was so fatigued that I determined ject, and Jessie's pure, lovely face haunted him suddenly entered my study, handsome as to spend the night with one of my herdsmen, day and night, and supplied him with a pur Apollo and happy as a bridegroom. I have le tried to persuade one of us after another to Longchamps, all by himself, to see the races, He had little shelter under some fine pecan pose

we used the word bridegroom very happily, for go with him, but everybody had some good trees on the Guadalupe, and after a cup of coffee and a meal of dried beef, I sauntered large sum of money, asked me finally to reveal radiot condition was, in fact, the condition of reason, and it ended in Smith's going by him. "He came to me one day, and offering me a fold out in a few minutes that Petralto's reason for staying away; generally a financial with my cigar down the river-banke. Then the. at least the locality of which I had painted the a bridegroom cool, dusky shadows of the wood tempted me. picture. His free, frank, unembarrassed manner

self. This he did in a costumie that no doubt I entered it. It was an enchanted wood, for compels me to believe that he had no idea of

seemed eminently appropriate to the occasion. there stood Jessy Lorimer, just as I had painted the intolerable insult he was perpetrating. He

It is important to note here that Smith went her.

had always been accustomed to consider mere

to the Longchamps races dressed in a light a did not move nor speak. I watched her, or less money an equivalent for all things under

herd's plaid the check thereof drawn tea rather overcoat, a gray Derby hat, trousers of shep spell-bound, I had not even the power, when the sun. she bad mounted her pony and was coming that the offer was followed by some very angry But you, Jack, wili ensily understand

large scale, and that he carried big fick glasses toward me, to assume another attitude. She words, and that his threat to hunt the world over

slung about him, as if a good view of the run saw that I had been watching her, and a look, to find my beauty was not without fear to me. half reproachful and half angry, came for a "I heard soon after that Will Lennox had

also very important. They were almorals, The make of his bonts on that occasion is moment into her face. But she inclined her gone to the South. I had neither hidden nor

with stout porpoise leather laces, former life, and I was ignorant of how much he

timäte initiation. I know it was in the moun-hend to me as she passed, and then went off at talked about knew or did not know of it.

ains, and that within an hour our tastes and sympathies had touched each other at twenty different pointa, deng

rapid.gallop before I could collect my senses. "Some people, Jack, walk into love with their eyes open, calculating every step. I tumbled in over head, lost my feet, lost my senses, narrowed in one moment the whole world down to ore bewitching wainan.

He could trace me easily to New Orleans; how much further would depend upon his tact and perseverance. Whether he reached Guadalupe or not, I am uncertain, but my heart fell with a strange prestatiment of sorrow when I saw his name, few weeks afterward, among the European departures.

The next thing I knew of Will Lennox was

not avoid feeling congratulatory and my Of course, under the circumstances, I could affection for the handsome, loving follow came back so strongly that I resolved to break my late habits of seclusion, and go to the Brevoort House and see his bride.

some curiosity. I wondered what rare ivamanning was a vital necessity of his business.

acknowledge that in this decision there was

had taken the beautiful Jessy Lorimer's place; and I rather enjoyed the prospect of twitting him with his protestations of eternal fidelity to his first, love.

But

must let him have his way, this mind, Smith If you are going to push, you'll have to take up with buy ways, and divvy up fair and I must whenever you make a haul."

still donics it that we had succeeded in anaking I firmly believe even yet, although Smith him believe that the English

and American students of the quarter were quite in the habit of picking up such unconsidered trifles as pocketbooks and sharing the plunder in their studios. Smith has always said that he knew we were guying him all the time; 1 only know that he escaped from our studio in a very pre cipitato fashion; Pollard and I fell all over the these laced-up shoes of his on the two t studio, laughing as we heard the clatter of of stairs,

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Moreover, as I have often pointed out to Smith, if he had not made up his mind that Pollard and I were persons of criminal habits, Gaythorne ? why did he not introduce us to his friend

Le found Gaythorne that very night, and it tumed out very much to Smith's satisfaction, that Gaythorne was an Americana New Yorker. But from all I could hear Smith's satis faction was as nothing to Gaythorne's when Sith presented him with his inside pocket and the letter. Gaythorne showed Smith the of his overcoat, which had evidently been treated fining with hasty surgery: Smith told Gaythome the whole story of fis Longchamps adventure. Then Gaythorne-a lively fellow of middle a big fuss ayer him. From which we inferred lation cr preface of age-slapped Smith on the back and called him a credit to the flag, and insisted on making that the contents of that pocketbook must have been valuable.

That same evening Spith appeared at our studio dressed in this same costume thought not so fresh, of course, as when he had set forth earlier in the day.

"How much did you win?" Pollard asked him, entirely withoni

I did not do it. I had no opportunity, Mad- ame Petralto Garcia was, in fact, Jessy Lorimer Lennox. Of course I understood at once that Will must be dead; but I did not learn the parti- culars until the next day, when Fetralto dropp ed in for a quiet smoke and chat. Not unwill-any kind; Don't talk to me about winning.

ingly I shut my book and lit my cigar.

All's well that ends well, any dear follow." I said, when we had both smoked silently a few

Win?

I'm scared to death," Smith said.

I did not know her, of course; but I soon should I was well aware she could not live very far away, and that my herd must be able to give me some information. I was so

his marriage to some famous Scotch beauty, moments; "but I never heard of Will Lennox's | certainly did seem to be popping out of his head not infer, but got direct from Gaythorne himself,!" deeply in love that this poor ignorant fellow, Jack; do you not perceive the rest? The Scotch death. I hope he did not come to the Guada knowing something about this girl, seemed to me to be a person to be respected, and even envied.

Lutha walked beside us, showing in his mien something, of the proud satisfaction which follows a conviction of having done a good thing, "He looked first at me and then at Petralto, elevating and depressing his ears nt our argument, as if he understood all about: it. Perhaps he did; human beings don't know verythingve so much time in the county in country that it is little wonder that our acquaintance ripened inte friendship during the holidays, and that one of my first visits when I had got, seitled for the winter was to Petralie's rooms. Their locality might have cooled some people, but not me. It does not take much of an education in New York life to find out that the Were there any since I had left?' pleasantest, loftiest, handsomest rooms are to be "Two or three, no 'count travellers, one' found in the streets not very for "up town:" likely fadily. comfortably contiguous to the best hotels, stores,Much of a family?' theatres, picture-galleries, and all the other necessaries of a pleasant existence.

He was just leaving the door for a ride in the Park, and we went together. I had refused the Park twice within an hour, and had told myself that nothing should induce ine to follow that treadmill procession again, yet when he said, in his quiet way, "You had better take half-an-hour's ride, Jack," I felt like going, and

I went.

I gave him immediately a plentiful supply of cigars, and sitting down beside him opened the conversation with horses, but dated speedily into the subject of new settlers.

"You may bet on that, Sir,'

beauty was Jessy Lorimer. I fented it at the first. I know it this afternoon."

"Will you call there?".

"I have no power to resist it. Did you not notice how eagerly she pressed the invitation?

"Do not accept it, Petralto."

Any pleasant young men ?? Reckon so. Mighty likely young gal "So, bit by bit, I found out that Mr. Lorimer, my beauty's father, was a Scotchman, who bad. bought the ranch which had formerly belonged to the old Spanish family of the Yturris. Then I remembered pretty Incz and Dolores Yturri, with their black eyes, olive skins, and sofaires Even then the stupid, good-natured, purse Jessy Lorimer in their dark, latticed rooms. entenpoint; and thought of golden-haired

proud man could not see his danger. He began to apologise to me for Petralto's rudeness, and excuse anything in a fellow whom he had cut out so badly"

sence.

hape and get shot."

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Patrailo shook his head and replied: "I was always sorry for that threat. Will never meant years ago. His yacht was caught in a storm. to injure 'me... No. He was drowned at sea two

he ventured too near the shore, and all on board perished."

"I did not hear of it at the time."

His eyes, when you got the light on them,

What scared you?" I asked.. He pulled out ofhis pocket athing that looked like a silk sack and flung it down on Follard's leather trunk.

That's what scared me. Don't touch it, for God's sake."

"Snakes?" Pollard asked, between pufis nt his clay pipe. Pollard was English..

Laken it to the police. We don't want you If it's a bomb," I said "you ought to have bringing anything like that in here, you know; and besides you handle the thing much too carelessly."

Look here, fellows," said Smith, standing "this isn't any laughting matter. Do I look like a thief?"

Pollard told him that in Europe thieves didn't he added, wear any distinctive uniform. Of course,"

one wouldn't like to say any thing about the pattern of those bags that might be construed offensively; but if you had asked us-if you had paraded for inspection-this moming before you started, we might have advised you that checks of that size

But there was more behind, which we did when we ran into Smith and him having 2 glorious time at an open-air.cafe a few days later. We simply made Smith introduce us to his friend.

"Now," said Gaythome, "

you boys to be good to me," This was in the expensive humour that grew out of cham- pagne. "You've been uncommon good to me already. Don't know where I'd have been if it hadn't been for Smith here and his little clover leaf. I'm going to have you meet my wife when she gets back from Ger many. But you're all got to keep this whole business dead, quiet, see? My wife's got two in the world, but, you know, women get the most unaccountable prejudices. She hates. horse races and she hates fiquor Now if she knew I'd stayed back in Baris to go to those. races--see? Eh?"

After that months later when the Ga thomes and Mrs. Gaythorne's sister. Mrs.

Gay Muller, got back tu Pans, they looked up Smith, and ever since then they have stood by him, and Gaythorne himself has been as good as tivo business agents for Smith. Which is the real reason why Smith has only to go isto that part of the State to sell any old daub he wants to at a high figure.-S. F. Chronicle

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He shook his head, and remained silent. The next afternoon was astonished on going up to his rooms to find Will Lennox sitting there. Nor I either. I will tell you how I heard. He was talking in that loud, happy, demon. About a year ago I went, as was my frequent strative way so natural to men accustomed to custom, to the little open glade in the forest have the whole world minister unto them.

He did not see how nervous and angry Peing on the nato soft grass I saw a beautiful where I had first seen Jessy. As I lay dream- tralto was under his easy, boastful conversa wonma, clothed in black, walk slowly toward by the mysterious bundle as if he were on guard, terrible bad prejudices. She's the best woman tion. He did not notice the ashy face, the blaz; the very same jasmine vine, and standing as of the passionate Spanish nature, until Petralto you guess how my heart beat, how I leaped to ing eyes, the set lips, the trembling hands, of old on iiptoc, pull down a loaded branch. Can blazed out in a torrent of unreasonable words my feet, and cried out, before I knew how beautiful she was! And when at length and taunts, and ordered Lennox out of his pre- what I was doing, Jessy 1 darling Jessy!" She stood quite still, looking towards me. Oh, we clasped hands, and I gazed into her eyes, 1 know without a word that my love had come to me."

She had waited a whole year?" "True; I liked her the better for that. After herself and me out of temptation. She dwed Will's death she went to Scotland-put both

loved her as well as he was capable of doing. this much to the memory of a man who had But I know how happy were the steps that warm spring afternoon under the jasmine vine wide world!"" paid for all. I am the happiest man in all the

Now just as we got to the Fifth Avenue en- trance, a singular thing happened. Petralto's Jack, turn, the picture to me. Beautiful pale olive face flushed a bright, crimson, his Jessy! How I loved her in those happy days eyes flashed and dropped; he whipped the that followed. How I humoured her grave, horse into a furious gallop, as if he would es-sters father and counted her brothers for her "Liar!" Famlto retorted." She 'love' me cape something; then became preternaturally sake! I was a slave to the whole family, so calm, drew suddenly up, and stood waiting for that I might gain an hour with or a smile from Begone! If I had you on the Gundalupe, where first; you can never have her whole heart. a handsome equipage which was approaching. Jessy Do Tregret it how? Not one moment. Jessy and I lived and loved, I would Its accupants were bending forward to speak Such delicious hours as we had together were The sentence was not finished. Lennox worth any price. I would throw all my future struck Petralo to the ground, and before I to retire. I stayed with Fetralto that night, He was sulky and silent at first, but after a although I was not altogether pleased with him. quiet rest and a few consoling Havanas he was willing to talk the affair over.

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Smith interrupted Pollard with something like triumph. "Well, it wasn't the pants at all, my friend; it was the clover-leaf!""

to him. I had no eyes for them to old Time; Jack, only to live them over raised him, 1 persunded the angry bridegroom brought her bäck to the Guadalupe, and that the grass. I didn't notice it until sevol sporty

giti at his side was so radiantly

I heard Petralto promise to call on them, and we passed on; but there was a look on his face which bespoke both sympathy and silence. He soon complained ofthe cold, said the Park pace irritated hun, but still passed and repassed the couple who had caused him such evident suffer ing, as if he was determined to inure himself to the pain of meeting them. During this in- terval had time to notice the caressing, laver like attitude of the beauty's companion, and I said, as they entered a stately house together,

Are they married?" "Yes."

He seems devotedly in love with her." "He loved her twai before he'ani ber" "Impossible,"

a quiet dinner together." „d

Call on me about nine o'clock."

to

again!

1)

That is a great deal to say, Petralto." Perhaps; and yet. I will not recall it. In these few months everything that was good in me prospered and grew. Jessy brought out nothing but the best part of my character, ILennox tortured me," he said, passionately. was always at my best with her. No thought of selfish pleasure mingled in my love for her. If it delighted me to touch her hand, to feel her soft hair against my cheek, to meet her earnest, subduing gaze, it also made me careful by no word or look to soil the dainty purity of my white lily,"

"How could he be so unfeeling, so mind, as tu suppose I should care to learn what chain of circumstances led him to find out my love and then steal her! Everything he said tortured me but one fact-lessy was alone and thoroughly miserable, Poor little pet! She thought I had frgatten her, and so she married him not for

I won't believe it.".

AN ANCIENT GAME. One of the most popular of Korean games is the "Pa-tok" (pebble game) known Wai- in China and "Go" in Japan. The board is like a chess board, but with no variety of color, and with as many as 361 places (19 x19), on which men can be placed. The player's object is to surround bodies of his enemy's piece When surrounded they are considered adding much to the complexity of the pastime, is that any body of men, containing within itself two or more empty spots, called

symbols

feared to tell her that I loved her. But love said, "Petralto, you have no right to be captured. An important point, however

I did do it, I scarcely know how. The softest: whispar seemed too loud against her glowing Not at all, I have a mind to tell you the check. She renibled from head to foot. I sto Come

was faint and silent with rapture when she home wit

with me, and we will have her litle in suffered aie to draw her to my heart. Ahl I am sick No. I need to be done an hour or two, with joy yet when I think of it. 1--1 first, I Fetralto's room's were a little astonishment to sne, woke that sweet young heart to life. She is lost, last to me, but no one else can me. They were luxurious in the extreme, ever be to her what I have been." And here with just that excess of ornament which sug Petralto, giving full way to his inipuissioned gests undercivilisation; and yet I found him. Southern nature, covered his face with his smoking in a studio destitute of everything but hands and wept bnt, regretful tears. 4 sleepy-looking sola, two or three capacious lounging chairs, and the ordinary furniture of an artist's atelier. There was a bright, fire in the grate, a flood of light from the numerous gas jets,

and an atmosphere heavy with the seductive, fragrant vapour of Havana.

-1-lit my own cigar, made myself comfortable, and waited until it was Petralto's pleasure begin. After a while he said, “Jack, turn that casel so that you can see the picture on it."

Tears come, like blood from men of cold, strong temperment, but they were the natural relief of Petraltos. T. let him weep. In a few minutes he leaped up, and began pacing the room rapidly as he went on':

Mr Lorimer received my proposal with a

"But,"

to hug such a delusion; and seeing that you had made no attempt to follow Jessy and marry her, she had every right to suppose you really likely that she should love a looking felion like Willa young, zich, good

that express this idea, "go ban no me? (eyes of that we have the name of "go-bang." "Pa-tok" claims an said, by the Emperor Shun (of China) in 2255 extreme antiquity, having been invented, it is B. C. Other authorities give it a century more of age, referring to the Emperor Yao, who flourished 2356 B.C. Aunong the playthings Chinese classics, "there is nothing so remote of modern and ancient times," says one of the as 'Go. Next to wine, and women, it leads. men astray. If they think it difficult, even village boys and common people can play it very skilfully; but if it be thought very easy, they investigate it through generations, may not acquire if correctly."—Ex.

in not pursuing her I was following Jessie's promise. It was understood between us that I own request and obeying my own plighted should wait patiently until Jessy was twenty- one. Even Seach customs would then have regarded her as her own mistress and acknow if I did not write, she has not wanted constant Adged her right to marry as she desired; and tokens of my emembrance. I have trusted he said, mournfully, without a sign from That winter the beauty of Mrs. Lennox and tongue. But married is not mated, and the best part of Jessy Lorimer's beauty had never touched, Will Lennox. Her pure, simple, poetic temperament he had never understood, and he felt inn dim, uncertain way that the noblest part of his wife escaped him.

her

"You must have been drinking, Smith," said "No, but I had," he retorted. It stuck in Pollard. You haven't got on any cloverleaf" the lace of my shoe as I was walking through looking ducks-two of them-had given me a peculiar kind of look. Then I looked down to see what was wrong, and the only thing I could sue at all out of the way was this piece ofclover." "Was that the most remarkable thing you could find in all your get up?" I asked. anything at all remarkable-didn't even take

Just you wait,"

ait," he said. "I didn't think it the trouble to pick it out: And presently one of those two follows that had stared at ane came along again, just as the crowd was begin ning to push down where I was. As he passed close to me he looked over his shoulder and

in English, Cut or carry? comprehend. And what did you say?"

"Ob!" said Pollard. "Now I begin to

said in

Well, I didn't want to seem too green, don't you see? Thought it might be some gag con- nected with, the races. So I answered him at randam Carry, of course-just like that."

"Well ?

SNUG HOME IN A BOILER. Shut up in an old steam boiler with a bear. and a rattlesnake.

That was the experience of Jako Aldrich R says that it is the tightest box he ever got few days ago, says a Frisco paper, and he into, and he has been in is good many." Jake is a prospector who for over a year-

County Near where Juke as been working has been working out in the

is an abandoned engine boller, with all the a few miles from Diamond Springs, El Dorado incuntains

inachinery including the boiler. The house that enclosed the machinery has all been blown down, so that the boiler stands air. The boiler stand is one of the ald fashioned out in the open kind without fuca, :

Early in the year it struck Jake that this boiler would be a pretty good place to sleep in as it was warm and dry and perfectly imper vious to the heavy rains that fall in the vicinity. So be took out the manhole gasket, which was a big one located at the end of the boiler close to the bottom and moved it.:

"Well, he didn't seem to pay any attention to what I said. I thought perhaps I'd been mistaken-the man wasn't taking to me at all He found that it was just what he had been. He disappeared in the crowd. And the next looking for. Dask, of course, but as warm as minute there was a sort of a rally, and every a house. By knocking of a steam pipe body began shouting, Pompadour The horses connection at the other end of the boiler: the were coming down the quarter stretch, lickety-ventilation was perfect and no I was looking at the horses. clip. I wasn't paying any attention the crowd; getting wet. jolted my arm and said, Now then young Then somebody man, this is yours. I looked to see who it was, and he shoved this thing into

four, stiff refusal that left me. no hope, of any the devotion of her husband were on every even the wisest and most intelligent, though I knew what he was doing my hand before night there was trouble. That's when the bear

toelenting He had reasons, more than one, he said, he was not saying anything against either my Spanish-blood or my religion; but dangthier, with people of her own kitti. It was no fault in a Scotsman to mate his

1 did. 50% ok at it well, and tell me what you

Now look

scer first, the locality-describe it

"A dim old wood, with sunlight sifting through thick foliage, and long steamers of weird grey moss. The ground is covered with soft short grass of an intense green, and there are won derful flowers of wonderful colours,

There was no quarrel, and no discourtesy; but I saw I could bend an. iron bar with my pleadings just as soon as his determination. essy received orders, not to meet me or speak to me alone; and the possibility of disobeying her father's command never suggested itself to "Right. It is an opening in the forest of her. Even I struggled long with my misery the Upper Guadalupe. Now, what else do you before I dared to ask her to practice her first So deceit, m HA small pony, ‚ saddled and bridled, feeding. "She would not meet me alone, but she per quietly, and a young girl standing on tiptoe, suaded her mother to come once with her to pulling. down a vine loaded with golden-colour usual. tryst in the wood. Mrs. Lorimer oured flowers.

spoke kindly but hopelessly, and covered her "Describe the girl to mo...

own face to weep while Jessy and I took of cach other a passionate farewell. I promised her then never to marry anyone else; and she

I thought her heart would break as laid her, almost faleting, in her mother's arms.

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turned and looked at my queritt. He was smoking, with shut eyes, and waiting calmly for my answer Well, she has Petralto, what makes you ask me? You might paint but it is impossible to describe light and the girl is nothing else. If I had met her in such a wood, I should have thought she was an angel, and been afraid of her

No angel-Jack but a most exquisite, perfect flower of maidenhood. When I first saw her, The stop just so with the open parhem too yellow jasmine, I laid my heart into my whole heart, my whole life, and every joy and hope it contained.

What were you doing in

oing in Texas

hateful

her spiritual superiority unconsciously irritated He could not enter into her feelings, and him. Jessy had set her love's first music to the broad artistic heart of Petralto; she could not, without wronging herself, decline to a lower range of feelings and a narrower heart This reserve of herself was not a conscious one. She was not one of those self-involved women always studying their own emotions; Bat her way was not Will Lennox's way, her finer fancies and lighter thoughts were mysteries to his grosser nature.

MODERN QUIPS AND SAWS, The following curious sentence, "Sator Arepo may be freely translated "I cease from my Tenet Opera Ratas," is pretty bad Latin, but work; the sower will wear away his wheels."

It has these peculiarities;

same..

First, it spells backwards and forwards the

Second, the first letter of each word spells the first word.

Third, the second letter of each word spells fourth, and fifth,

And you took it, like a lamb ?" I asked. "I took it before I had time to see what it all meant." Smith protested. "It was only when the fellow was getting away from me that I saw he had a clover leaf stuck into his shoc lace, just like I had."

"And then 7"

"Well, and then I looked at this thing he put into my hand. It's a whole inside pocket.

of an overcoat, cut clean out,

"And it contains

"I just jammed it down into my overcat aide "I haven't looked inside it yet," said Smith

clover leaf out of my shoe lace first, though pocket and scooted. Picked out that cursed

bet.".

ment in the boiler and was the envy of all the For months Jake enjoyed his sleeping apart miners for miles around. But last Monday and the snake got in. At least that's when the bear got in. When the snake got in is a mystery. It may have been hibernating under Jake's blankets all winter for all he knows but he does know that it was there last Monday night.

Jake went to bed at his usual time about dark and as the night was little warm concluded to leave the manhole open

Later was awakened by a queer sound at the He went to sleep instantly, but some hours end of the boiler. Rising in his blankets Jake, kind that will burn several minutes. Striking- reached for his miners' matches: These are the

Then it flickered and went out one he was for a moment blinded by the glare.

Before he could strike another Jake became

che was simply true to the light within her, the second word, and so on with the third, have no doubt" said Pollard, with his conscious of a sniffling down at the far end of

So the thing happened which always has magic and the enchantment of Jessy's great and always will happen in such cases; when the

power, she gradually became to her husband personal beauty had lost their first novelty and

than his horse

Something better than his dog, a little dearer

Fourth, the last letters, read backwards, spell the first word; the next to the last the second word, and so on throughout. word as there are words.

Fifth, there are just as many letters in each

A Western man preaniment as an educator, tells of a trip on a far Westem stage coach. him ja conversation, but the driver was silent, He sat beside the driver and tried to engage and almost surly. The stage stopped for dinner at a file eating house, and when it store, we acted like delver takes later he stories and acted like another man, Later he explained the matter. "I didn't take a shine to you this moming he said, because I thought you was a gospel follow, but when

right away you was a gambler.!!...

low insular drawl, that you had already be come an object of special interest to the police by that time,

"Say, don't talk like that," said Smith. "I'm scared enough already,

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I don't want to give you fits; old man, Pol lard went on in his imperturbable way. But haven't any doubt, myself, that the Clover police. Suppose you open up the loot now and Leaf Gang is perfectly well known to the Paris see how much of a haul you've made."

the boiler. Then he got frightened, and when he reached for his matchbox he couldn'thod:it He felt here and there, all the time conscious that the snifling was coming his way. Gold him. He wanted to make a rush for the ma swent came out all overblin and a frenzy sited Hole, but fear held him to the fest

Then he felt for his matches again; and,eille. his horror was Increased. Before him stocar time put his hand right on them. Striking onc big bear At sight of the light the bear became frightened and wont Back to the end of the boller and fire, but he had a four that be might mis Jake's first impulse was to draw his revolver

his matches burning in order to keep the bear the bear or not hit a vital spot, and so he kept

While this situation was at ita most strained Oh, we'll swear anything you like," said point Jake's blood almost fraze in his brains,

who had lost an for the whire of a fattle-snake struck his car Inside pocket, could

It was in the boiler, right in front of him and

That's why I brought it here," said Smith, cent of you to come and divide with ni

Oh, thanks," said Pollard Awfully de

wanted to be able to swear I hadn't looked Bay, quit that rot, Pollard, Smith growled. aside the thing until I got here.

7454 What Are you doing, in New York? Wat the Garela mansion. I rented out my poses her ill; so gradually these two fell much further seen you eating pie with; a fork, I knowed | have you two for witnesses Auge Auch shall at bay until he could think out a plan of fight!

Now

Yet I did not know how much Jesay really was to me until I suddenly found out that her father bad sent her back to Scotland, under the pretence of finishing her education. I had I did not much blame Will Lennox. It is been so honourably considerate of jessie's very hard to laye what we do not comprehend Furitan principles that I felt this hasty, secret A wife who could have sympathized in his custment exceedingly suretime to meet Aurauiter balled over tones when an of the Guadalupe duties of

Favourite, or gone to sea with him in his ranch distracting and my yacht, would always have found Will an in- brother. Felix returning about that time, we dulgent and attentive husband. But fast horses made a division of the estate, He remained did not interest Jessy, and going to sea made bon-in TexasMy family an old Spanish sons, and went,

first to one, have been settled there since they helped afterwards to New Yorker mont

Ordeans, and apart than they ought to have done.

Now if Petrie had been wicked and Jessy to build San Antonio lo 1730. I grew up pratty In New York, Lopened a studio, and can weak, he might have revenged himself on the much as Texan youths de-half my time in the day a young gentleman called and asked me to man and woman who had wrought him ab saddle, familiar with the wont, side of life add draws picture from some crude, imperfect much suffering. But he had set his love far the best side of nature, bould have been a sketch whith a friend had made. During the too high to sully her white name; and Jessy; thorough Ishmaelite if I had not been as artist progress of the picture he frequently called lain that serenity which comes of lofty and but the artisti instinct.conquered the nomadic, For some reason or other probably because assured principles, find no laca of the and in my twentieth year went to Rome to

possibl we were each other's antipodes in tastes andlity of her injuneg her husband by a wrong temperament--he became my enthusiastic thoughtYet instinctively they both sought to admuer, and interested himself greatly to keep apart; and if by chance they met, the Kecure me lucrative patronage.

grave courtesy of the one and the sweet dignity of the other left nothing for evil hopes or thoughts to feedupos

A can pass ule next fro-years. I do for pretend to regret: thent, though perhaps you. would say I simply wasted time oppor tually fenloyed them and:

was the person most concerned

had a fresh full capacit

of very kind loved natur Twarmed both hands at life Time: happy

Jovial

haya

Vet some nubile instinct, which cannot pretend to divine or explain, constantly warned

to beware of this man. But wars One morning, two years after Jessie's mar med and angry at myself for linking even riage, I received mate from Petralto, saking evil with no frank and generous a me to call u upon him immediately. To my lefied destiny, turned a deaf caramasement, his toont were dismantled, his rings of my good genius, and effects packed up, and he was on the polgt of the one-sided friendship for I never leaving New York

myself that I had any

mana

Whither bound Lasked, "To-Rome

No to the Guadalupe,I want to try what nature can do for me. Aft, society, even friend ship, fail at times to comfort me for my lost love. I will go back to nature, the great, sweet

bad become very fam

about something, for in the outer spart

room,here mother and lover of men.

the woman So Fetralta went out of New York and the

hichyou world that had known bim forgot him-forgo parately, even 10 Wonder bout, much less to regret him.

Aalbæas no more faithful than others. + 1 fallBA

Crawford-"There is nothing like per- severance." the English in their attempts to win a yacht CrabshawStill, it hasn't done much for race."--Judge.

"Why, I didn't know that rabbits knew any Little Gabe (in the midst of his reading thing about 'rithmetic.

Farmer HawbackThey don't."

"You couldn't find fool of myself. I between him and the bear,"

41 wasn't going to had been pisked. Now let's all examine it to running around asking people if their pockets gether, eh?

Very woll We allagreed to examine it as it as one man which had evidently been very dextemusly Smith untwisted the frayed edge of the silk, snipped with a pair of sharp scissors Inside was a neat leather pocket book with an elastic. He wanted the bear. opened

Human Smilih shouted "Don't open the Little Clarence "The funny bone is in the dress: Anthony J. Gaythorne, Pension Libre, pocketbook, fellows. Here's the old man's ad- elbow, isn't it, f477

Rue Castiglione

through the manhole

The first move was made by the bear, This Aro

aroused fake to

his sanses. The match had almost burned bis fingers when his perve

rattlesnake just as it was poised to strike sights of his revolver and blew the head off the came back, and he took careful air over the

Victory now aroused Jake's sportsman blood. Little Gabe--"But, paw, it says here that band, also a latter with a German stan bruin sitting on his haunches a few, feet from

Climbing out as quickly as he on

ould, he saw: the boiler Afaight of Jako he turned to run, shoulders and stopped him. He concluded i but pistol ball caught him between the fight Jake, and made a fierce attack, muddened: as he was by the pain of wound.

As the bear camesp trigger of his revolver fire The bea over, but befo

rabbits multiply with astonishin rapidity Judge

Little Clarence Well, Fa, is that what Mr. Callipers."Yes, my son. makes people laugh in their sleeves? Puck

John

The Wife How sweetly, the baby sleeps,

The Husband Ves, secma docan't it? Puck

Japan is the door of the

Fith a wonderful German chizgubim and go toro in the mat

dream

Pollard. We shall have to be careful is give That's important to remember, said the Pansion Libre a wide berth, or we may run foto Gaythome. But now to business

Pollard pretended to be going to open the pocketbook, but Smith, who was thorag taken in by bis pretense, grabbed hit vident and it looked for a minute or two ¿was going to be'n free fight ever, I succeeded in resto:

Follar

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