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"THE TYPHOON AT FOOCHOW,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY AUGUST 19, 1899.

ing to some pieces of wreckage. All were only beat for him who has a key to it í Yvonne's promptly got on board and Capi: Knuth, thinks heart had need be hard, for she has to hold. ing there might be other survivors in the vicini- her own against her grandiother mind ty, cruised round and made a thorough search years ago, poor Babcite, who went to but without success. The men were brought live with her. (Babette was an orphan, on to Shanghai and are loud in their praise of Madame Cathaix's ward); Jean Carhaix loved the treatment they received on board. The the girl, and told his mother he wished to matc went down in the ship; refusing to leave marry her when he came back from the is cabin. The Kitty was an iron barque of fishing. As soon as he was away-at sea, Ma 803 tons built in Amsterdam in 1856, and has dame Carlaix testified that Babette was insane, been many years on the coast of China.-W. C. and she was put in the madhouse at Quimper and when Jean came back he learned that Babette bad died mad. When Yvonne can be of no further use to her grandmother, she will have to marry Mathurin, the rich farmer of Pont-Croix,"

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FOOCHOW, August 12th. The weather-telegram received last Saturday: afternoon located the typhoon in the central part of the Formosa channel, moving N. W This, inkon in connection with our own falling barometers, indicated pretty clearly that there was no hope of our escaping altogether, but it was little thought that we should come in for the fury of the storm as we did. The prelimin- ary gusts, with occasionat smart showers,Daily News, commenced at 3.30 on Saturday afternoon, and the steady severe blow set in between 5 and 6 'clock, accompanied with heavy rain, gradually increasing in violence until the full fury of the tempest was attained. This appeared to be about 10 o'clock, and continued until daybreak, notwithstanding that the barometer rose fmc- tion at 1.30. After day break there was somewhat less pressure, and a gradual abatement took place during the succeeding hours By noon, the gusts began to be light and fit, with inter mittent light showers, and so this memomble typhoon, the worst in the recollection of any resident here, passed away.

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A SISTER'S LIE,

BY

KATHARINES. Macquoi, Author of "At the Red Glove? “ Appledore

„Farm,” “In on Örchard,” etc, etc.

(COPYRIGHT.] PART I

the rocks" iran' teeth;" the fishermen

Audiene called them-had wrecked many a humbler craft, when, ignorant of danger, their crews had tried to make the haven, or had been driven by stress of weather on to the inhospit able shore. Strange stories were still told by the old people of Audierne of wreckings and plunder gathered together in former days; it was even darkly hinted that lives had been quenched for want of timely, succour, because

deaden can tell no tales."

"But Mathurin is old; willa girl like Yvonne consent to marry him?"

Pierre smiled.

tion.

"Saint Yes! How can she help herself? Mathurin, wants her; when he had seen her onçe, he said he would take her without a por- I have been told"-he looked again over his shoulder and sank his voice to a whisper- (at the old woman has already made a will leaving all she has to Gildas, the girl's brother" "But thatisagainst the law," Jules said stoutly. Pierre slowly shook his head, and stuck out his lower lip.

"Slow-witted one; can you not see, that if the girl marries Matiaurin, she does not need a portion, and if she refuses to marry him, being under age, her grandmother can disin herit her for contumacy? The old woman scores either way, and so will Gildas"

he not work? He goes about with vagabonda

I have seen Gildas," said Jules, "why does

"He will be a vagabond to the end; his grandmother gives him all he asks for."

Neither of the speakers had seen Yvonne leave the rocks. She stopped to put on her soil, her look crunch of her footsteps made boil nien look round.

closed the door of the mom he had left and held up his hard warningly. **** Chug* he whispered, The rent was only an excuse to get you alone. Yvonne put both arms round his neck and kissed him. He whispercil as he returned her kiss:1 say, little one, where laes grandmother keep her money is

Yvonne stared at him.,

Why do you ask? is nothing to you." He smiled, and Yvonns thought he looked beautiful.

"You liute lump of suspicion. Do you fancy want to help myself? You forget that this has always been my home; I only asked to ser whether you had found out; you little goose. The old woman sits on that settle by, day, and at night she puts her clothes on it; when I coink home late, I see them there while she lies snoring fit to wake the deal"

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I did not know the place till last Friday" Yvonne said. "I was in my loft, and I thought heard old Mathurin's voice, sa 1 looked through the hole in the floor." Gildas frowncil. "You piy, do you? Shame on you, sister; I will tell grandmother to make you sleep in the cow-house,"

Yvonne did not feel ashamed, though she reddened at his taunt.

I do not pry," she said, coolly; "I only peep and listen when that old man comes: the good nuns would say I have a right to know what is planned about me, When grand mother calls me down to see Mathurin creep out of the loft window on to the big bough that crosses it, and I stay there hidden in the heart of the chestnut tree till I see him drive away. No, Gildas, I do not pry, the hole in the floar is as big us, your head, and on Friday when I looked I saw it was not Mathurin, ít was a man from Quimper; he had brought he went, she opened the settle, took a bag out of the box, and put the money in it'

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Yvonne thought; If I do, I should be less lough, she thought.old Pierre-duli delivered from your tåyraliny," but she called, because he did not amuze her. The next time "up the fariner's greedy face and her disl ko" - Gildas came, however, she asked him what conguered.

was meant by smuggling and he laughed at her. "Smuggling is a thing of the past," ha said. Har brother's brief visits made the only Joy of her life at Audierne, and she did not press her inquiry, Test it should vex him.

“I am sorry, grandmother, I cannot marry so old a man, and and I donot like Monsieur Mathurin,"

Madame Carbais turned away with a cure. “Come in, conie in," she cried in, a' shrill voice. “Why do you delay? Come in, and arrest the thief." -

it seemed to. Yvonne that the moni was going ronud, and that her sight was blurred by a mist; through it appeared the figures of two gendarmies who marched up to her and one on either side took possession of her wrists.mig

She freed her right band with an impatient wrench from the grasp of the younger man, who thinking it a shame a pretty girl should be hardly dealt with, had only taken a slight hold; the other gendarme foward at Yrcunt, and intention, it said, whoever offers resist

hern little shake.

ance to the execution of a legal arrest is un wise, to say the least of it. "lie quiet," child, I shall not hurt yon."

It seemed to the girl impossible that so un- just a charge could be made against her; she was very pale, but she spoke out firmly :

"What are you going to do with me? 1 have done no wrong."

We can stay here, Madame, and watch he prisoner till the Mayor is ready to hear your charge," the younger gendarme said "You doubtless preter that we should not take. Made- moiselle to prison."

The old woman gave hima withering sneer, and turned to his companion: "I want to be rid of the ungrateful viper; take her to prison, do you hear me ?"

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It seemed now to her that if the magistrate" suspected Gildas of this theft, he would maka enquiries and would soon learn that the young fellow had bad companions; Yvonne felt sure that these men were bad, and they had made the poor dear fellow steal for them ; yet if aus- pición fell on him, she saw that they would escape and he would be punished..

She-closed her eyes and shuddered, and then she called herself a coward. The gendarme. had said a woman would get let off, and be cause she shrank from a slight punishment, sha was going to expose Gildas.to itter ruin, Sha was already disgraced by the arrest and impris sonment; she did not think any one except the dear buns at Dol would believe in her tänds cence now; they would, because they were not afraid of her grandmother. She sat still till the light faded she could see only one way out of her trouble, she must take the theft on.. herself and save her brother,

To be concluded.) ·

BY THE MAIL

(From Home Papers.}" ILM.S. "Thesens" Mishap.

Near the projecting point that ends the sabots, and now she came quickly up the money for grandmother's chickens, and and set a green earthenware pitcher and a dark broke up foggy, and at six am. the Theseus

There was a sullen roar in the bay; each time the long roll of water fell thundering on the The night of the 5th August, 1899, will be stones it receded farther, and farther from the lang remembered the community especially beach, till at last a bread crescent of dark sand, by those whose houses were in exposed post-edged by a row of terrible rocks, lay between tions. Some of the residents never went to the shingle and the sea. The jagged edges of bed at all, and sleep was out of the question with those who did, for what with the howling of the wind, the rattle of windows and venc tians and the crashing of falling tiles, rest was impossible. The night was spent by some int anoving furniture and valuables from rooms in which the ceilings.hind given way under the deluge of ralu pouring in through a tileless roof; and in many a household masters and servants were out of their beds seeing what extra pre- cautions might be taken to save their property from damage. It was indeed a night of unrest and anxiety. But the sufferings of those who fared Foochow were light in comparison to f many on the Kuliang hills over which typhoon swept t with merciless force. While the majority of the houses were rendered unin- habitable some few were wrecked altogether, the inmates being driven forth, in some cases ladies with infants, in the dead of the night, to face the fury of the storm, in search of shelter If a neighbour's unwrecked house was reached it was found to be already over- crowded with refugees. Less fortunate seekers after shelter passed the dark morning hours in native huts or cow houses. The newly- built Church became a complete wreck. As a minor detail in connection with the general discomforture it may be mentioned that the gentlemen who journeyed up. on Saturday afternoon met with very unpleasant experiences 'before they reached their homes. Their progress against such a wind was necessarily very slow and darkness had set in before their journey's end. One was blown off, his legs and others might have been had they not crept up the roadway on all fours. And then when Sunday morning came and a party thought they had had enough, and more than Kuliang for the time being, they essayed to return to Foochow, but found the stream over which they had to pass at the bottom of the hill so swollen with the torrent as to render it impassable and they had to climb the hill again and remain there until the following day,

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hay on the north a girl stood on one of the rocks bending forward towards the sea. The yellow basket slung behind her showed vividly against her black gown, and told that she was in search of prey. Site had pulled up her short skirt in front till it fell scarcely below her knees; her wooden sabots lay behind her on the sands. The rough rocks hurt her rosy feet, but Yvonne Carlaix bad set her mind on catching a disk of crabs, and the pain she felt, was willed aside as something too petty to be thought of compared with the success of her lunt: her large dark eyes glowed with excitement ns sie spied creeping under the rock a crab three times as big as any she had caught. Instantly she bent her supple body until she seized her victim-seized it so dexterously that the creature's attempts to pinch her slender fingers proved impotent

Yvonne straightened herself and stood erect, lightly poised on the dark rock; her slender willowy figure swayed as she pulled the basket round, opened its lid, and dropped in the era among his smaller brethren,

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Yvonne nodded and smiled brightly, at them,

The sight of Jules, at whose love she hal laughed so mockingly, did not even deepen the blooin on her cheeks. She bent her head as she toiled up the long flight of steps to the quay, but only while she climbed them; when she reached the top she walked on fearlessly, with head erect, towards her grandmother's house.

"Silly fellow," Yvonne thought, "does he anyone but Gildas 1" want to be laughed at again; 'as if 1 could love

Madame Carhaix's house, just outside "Audi, erne, was of a fair size; it was chiefly built of clay, and the roof was thatched cocks and hens crowed and clucked on a large gung-hill beside the entrance door, the arched top of which was open. Yvonne unfastened the lower door and went in.

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The hole in that floor must be mended," Gildas muttered to himself. New look here, little one, I was joking i tell you, though I have a right to jake money or anything else; 1 sup- pose you know I am muster here, everything is to come to me when she dies. 1, want some thing now, however, which you can give me."

"What do you want?” the girl said drily.

vagabond friends would some day, lead her shirling brother into trouble.

Some one opened the door of Yvonne's cell, coloured leaf on the rough bench against the wall. The girl looked round" listlessly, sick with suspense ever since her prisom door had been locked on her, she had been standing at the barred window raging for freedom.

MALTA, 15th July. Admiral Sir G. Noel, was steaming slowly to On the night of the roth the fleet, under

ward the coast of Sicily, the cruisers Thetis Theseus, and Venus being spread out for look- out duty on the port bow. The next morning. grounded on a shoal patch about half a mile off the shore and one mile and a "quarter to N.V. of Cape Rossa. She stood in › 19ft, ef" water under the bridge and five fathoms the stern.

under

The Venus worked throughout the day attempting to tow her sister ship off, but un

At eight pan the battleship

She loved Gildas dearly, but she feared. bis emptied the green pitcher, she fell better and Resfully took a hawser from the The

Gildas stood listening: then he opened the door of the cowhouse, which faced the step. ladder, pushed his sister in before him, and then closed the door on them both.

See here," he said, carelessly; “I am going on a journey, and shall need food, two or three hams, a skin or so of lard, some butter, some bread and cheese-there are stores of cheese in that old cellar, you may as well give me some wine too."

"Of course, Twill give you all you want if you have grandmother's leave, if not I will give you a ham and a loaf, and a bottle of wine

He pulled off his hat and made her a mock

Much obliged, little one, that would be a satisfying provision for five hungry and thirsty men?

Yvonne looked sad.

On each side of the broad bearth at the end, of the long low rooi was a dark oak settle, Then the girl clapped a hand on each side of and Madame Carhaix, in a black gown, with her waist and stood half turned front, the sea, every vestige of hair hidden under a borderless white linen cap, sat on one of these settles her bright saucy face with its clear skin, its frowning at a half-burnt log: her large carpeting bow. enough,

great dark eyes and small red mouth, ja lull slippered feet stuck out in front on the hard View of the shore; her rich brown hair was mud floor. A rack, filled with hams, loaves, hidden by a muslin cap, and only showed in

and other provisions, reached just below the long tendrils behind her cars.

raftered ceiling from one end of the long, dark room to the ether. Opposite the one window brass-mounted doors, and an either side of this was an enormous wardrobe, with carved and were square holes in the wails, with box bedsteads within ; at the corner, opposite Mad ame Carhaix, was a dark, wooden rack filled Carhaix had ever possessed the girl's peach with steel forks and metal spoons.

It was not possible to believe that Madame

like bloom of her fresh red was ante large sana. ing eyes, and yet Yvonne was like her grand

The damage done to propeny is very con siderable, so much so that the cost of repairs is at present incalculable. godown or residence has a hong. without mentioning walls, and bunding on the river ered, and it is said that nearly two hundred side. Several junks and four launches found. sampans were smashed up. The loss of native life is reported to be great, some faw occurring through falling buildings and many from drown- ing. All the low-lying country and paddy-fields were submerged, and it is feared the growing second crop of rice will have suffered to some extent. Accounts from Pagoda and Sharp Peak report that the injury done to property at those places is comparatively small-Echo.

LOSS OF THE BARQUE “KITTY.

THE CAPTAIN AND HIS -WIFE AND FAMILY. DROWNED.

Two men lay on the beach; they could see Yvonne, but a fishing-boat hid them from her observant eyes. The older man's hair reached to the shoulders of his jersey, and a straggling lock fell over his keen dark eyes; his young companion was fresher looking, he wore the neat rig of a Breton sailor, his hair was closely one had come over to spend a two days' holi cropped, and he was clean shaved. Jules Ker day with his uncle Pierre, the fisherman.

The

e young fellow's trim costume and the glow of health on his honest face did not match, with the pathetic gare he kept fixed on Yvonne; he had the dreamy far off look of a Breton, & look which seems in sympathy with the heart-broker lament found in Breton ballads, and in the wailing tone of the bagpipes.

"How long has she been at Audierne? Jules nodded towards the girl on the rocks.

Old Pierre's nanow eyes gleamed suspiciously at his nephew, and he took his blackened pipe from his lips.

"How do ou know she has not always been here? Do you know Yvonne Cathaix ?

"Yes, I knew her last year at Morlaix." Jules' voice sounded sad.

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The old man raised himself on one elbow If he had known of this folly, he thought, the lad might have spent his holiday in Brest; but Pierre was wise, Jules had never kept a secret from him, all in good time he would tell his trouble.

The young fellow turned his back on the sea with a sigh.

mother.

The old woman did not glance round, but she looked yet more sour.

teeth;"to-day your idling has made you miss "Always idling, she said between her set Monsieur Mathurin."

Yvonne tossed her pretty head; her tongue had learned sonic check since she came to live at Audierne, but the name Mathurin made her

debant.

"I expect I shall survive the loss," she said coolly.

muttered, and her eyes gleamed with hatred. "Spawn of the evil one," the old woman

settic, she would have shaken "the insolent Had she been able to rise swiftly from the devil," as she called Yvonne Madame Garhair had all her life freely exercised her will on those within its reach; those who had tried to thwart her had come to an untimely end; and now this child whom she had taken out of pure

charity, whom she could have left with the because infirmity had weakened her.

feed

"I had best not give you any, I may not strange men at grandmother's expense."

"Little fool, you always mistake jest for carnest."

Yvonne, Yvonife." was called shrilly from the passage, and Gildas had to let his sister go.

slept more soundly than usual; her grand. mother had yesterday sent her on an errand to Primelin, a village not far off, but Yvonne had been a long time absent, and Madame Carhaix had scolded her for her delay. The girl had taken the rebuke silently, for she had delayed so that the night visit the church of St. Tug can; Yvonne wanted to see the saint's teeth, which when touched were said to be an infalli remedy for toothache. On her return she was surprised to find that in her absence her bed- room floor had been roughly mended; when she waked this morning, she fancied she had slept sounder from the quiet thus ensured.

She went down the ladder, singing softly to herself the front door was standing wide open, Gildas had gone away before supper, and the girl had closed the door when she went to bed: door of the room was also open. Yvonne did it was never latched, only shut close. The

fixed themselves on the provision rack; last not at first notice her grandmother; her eyes

night it had been full of hams, loaves and other estables-now only, two skins of lard, some bunches of soup her, and a few stale galettes

there. The

Yvonne waked with the feeling that she had

She saw the food, and youthful appetite proved too strong for pride; she began to ext the tough black bread with bangry enjoyinent, When she had finished her meal and had half

happier; she plunged her slender fingers into the water that remained and bathed her burn-

to the window and sat down to think.

but the combined action was ineffectual. The Theseus then commenced to leist out 'all her

ing forehead. After this she dragged the benchable stores, and work was carried on all night with the help of the men of three other ships and the launchies from the battleships at about Batons were removed, and then she was Girgenti. By half-past seven am, of the 12th..... easily towed off by the stern into deep water.

"I am silly to be cross. Grandmother will be punished, not me; the Mayor will punish her for putting such a shame on me."

She took comfort in remembering that she had been brought by the back-way to the prison, and had not met any one she knew She felt sure she should not be kept tong in this dirty den, for there was no sign of a bed, no furniture indeed but the rude bench she had

dragged to the window. The unglazed square oponing could hardly be called a window through the cobwebbed spaces between closely crossing bars came now and then a murmur of voices. There seemed to be a space of waste ground outside; beyond this was the dark wall which Yvonne knew went round the back of the Mairie.

The voices outside became more distinct the men had had their mid-day-meal, and they felt cheerful.

"Will the old woman press the charge, Lao?" said the younger of the two gendarmes.

I never knew her turn back once she set her hand to a job," Lao answered.

girl

"Diable; you know as well as I do that the

IGNOMINIOUS RETIREMENT. After replacing anchors, ammunition, áad- stores, the Thesis left for Malta, convoyed by the Venus, where she arrived on the morning of the 13th,and was at once docked, a

small

The inspection disclosed considerable dam- age to stetu, to framing, and foremost bottom plating. There was, however, only a opening or slit at the scam of the plates through. which a large quantity of water had entered, flooding the neighboring compartments. The plating is badly bent, und the repairing work must occupy some weeks.

Evidently the Theseus had a narrow escapa and it is said that if ber bottom were not of steel she would in all probability, have become a total wreck.

Motor Car Bursts..

PARIS, July 18th.

is no thief; it was net she who took the

M. Léon de Bertier de Sauvigny was driving on Sunday in his motor-car, at a high speed, along the boulevard Houssmann when, in things it was that scamp fasques, yes may endeavoring to avoid knocking down a passer friend, Gildas is the thief." Jacques' voice was greasy, and he seemed to spit out his words.. he lost control of the machine, which leapt the pavement, smashed a bench to atoms, and, When Monsieur Serret, comes back from having demolished a gas lamp, blew up Auray, he will get the truth out of the girl; we shall have orders to let her go, and he will make out a warrant to arrest Gildas, Monsieur was in a hurry this moming, or Yvonne's warent would perhaps not have been signed."

Lao shrugged his shoulders, and his thin lips quivered with contempt.

"See what it is to be young and raw, and to think one knows better than one's betters who are well thought of by the clergy, and by men of experience. I tell you, Jacques, that when I asked for a warrant to arrest a thief, Monsieur le Maire said the matter must wait till he came Madame Carhaix who had been robbed, back from Auray; but when I told him it wase

Madame Carhaix's business must be seen lo Monsieur said,That is quite another matter;

and though he was in his dressing gown, and his bare feet in slippers, he made out the warrant at once."

The portions of the machinery of were hurled in all directions. M. de Sauvigny was hardly hurt, but his driver sustained a fractured skull and a broken hip and is not likely to live.

Judge and Policeman.

VIENNA, July 18th.

A humorous incident which occurred during one of the many recent street demonstrations against Dr. Lueger's electoral scheme, illus trates in a striking way the excessive zeni—not to use a stronger term of the Vienna police.

Lord Justice Lamezan was walking from the Law Courts towards his residence when he suddenly found himself in the midst of a crowd, of workmen who were being relentlessly attacked by the mounted polics.

"I was a fool to come here, uncle. I knew puns at Dol, mocked at her and defied her hunkittle wine cupboard in the wall behind Jacques, "You know. as well as I do that nearest police-station, where he swore that the

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the grandmother lived at Audierne, and I had vowed I would never again look at Yvonne; but all the time you have been smoking I have been feasting on the sight of her. Yes, I saw her at Morlaix, she butterfly then; she had left her convent at Dol and was staying with an before she went to live with her grandmother, You used to laugh at me, uncle, because I said women were angels, I saw Yvonne at the fair with her aunt, Nicole Martin, who used todd at Brest; you remember?" Pierre nodded. "Uncle" Jules went on earnestly, "when I saw Yvonne's starlike eyes, her mouth made for kisses, her pliant Sgure, I was conquered, and I wanted her for my wife. Pierre had scomfully but the tender money shugged his shoulders him against his will.

"You made a fool of yourself, thi" he said roughly.

She had had two good reasons for taking possession of Yvonne; first, because the girl she had determined not to portion her grand wished to stay with the nuns, and next, because daughter; she meant her darling grandson, Gildas, to inherit all she had to leave. Mon sieur Mathurin, the rich farmer of Pant-Croix, had asked Madame Carhaix to find him i young wife, and she promised. he should have Yvonne as soon as she had taught the girl to keep house. This meant that she should keep Yvonne till Gildas married; when he brought home a wife, then his sister must go

to Pont-Croix,

"You can choose, you limb of Satan," the old woman growled. "If you worthy man, he will tire of king of out the

of asking for your cannot afford to portion you, and you will end. your days in the poor-house.

you are.

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You have missed my drift," said pertinacious

the settle stood open and empty; the girl was Gildas was here yesterday, and went away last utterly bewildered; with starting eyes, and open night. If Yvonne denies the charge, and, of mouth, she turned slowly to Madame Carhaix, course, she will deny surprise..

The old woman's harth voice broke into her that young reprobate suspicion must fall on

Lao shook his head.

"She must have com- *You need not act astonishment, Yvonne; mitted the robbery, or Madame Carhaix would you are more clever than I thought you." Then not have accused her; but the is young, and she went on fiercely, "You little fool, do you the judges are never hard on a pretty woman. think you can deceive me? Do you think you Now, if Gildas got sent to trial, he would cer federates, and escape punishment? What can plunder as you please, you and your con- tainly get the lazy vagabond right," said Jac

a term at the galleys."

saw the door left open, I thought you had at | ques. least consulted your own safely and run away,

little thief!"

Yvonne bad stood staring; now she said in a dreamy tone, "Thief I thief grandmother 1 you cannot mean to say I have robbed you?"

The old woman straightened her bent figure

as she stood in the

of the long room

will not have long to

You will see presently what I think you

Yvonne's colour faded till she looked ghastly, Till now she had hardly thought about the rob bery; herattention had been concentrated on her grandmother's injustice; it was so wicked, the girl thought, to put on her the theft of tramps on their way to a parden. Only a fortnight ago, a couple of these beggars had to pestered her in her grandmother's absence that she gave them bread and cold meat, and was soundly scolded by Madame Carhaix when she came home. Now, while she listened, a new and terrible light cams to Yvonne. Her grandmother was been stolen by someone who knly have

Her eyes gleamed cruelly and Yvonne shivered the had heard Babette's terrible story, and how the poor girl had died, shut up by her grandmother's order, in the wadhouse at Quimper, Yvonne thought Madame Carhaix, must herself be mad to bring this accusation' against her.

exactly

On continuing his way the Lord Justice was suddenly seized by a policeman, who, after roughly handling him, dragged him off to the

eminent judge had behaved in a riotous manner. and obstructed the police in the discharge of their duty.

The consternation of the constable may be imagined when the Lord Justice produced the proofs of his identity, nuts, AREA

A Great Petition.

BRUSSELS, July 18th, Following the example set by Holland, the are organising a great petition in favour of the leaders of the Flemish movement in Belgium-

Boers,

This petition, which urges Great Britain not to force a criminal war on the Transvaal is

being distributed in all the large centres of Population, and will be forwarded to the Queen. of England in the beginning of August.

* Oil Ship Ablaze.

NA HALIPAK, July 18th. Last night the oil tank steamer: Maverich belonging to the Standard Oil Company, caught fits while lying by the what here, and wat

completely burned,

Nothing but the mils of tha Maverick wers above vater this morning, the fire having con sumed every scrap of the woodworks

The Britishi barque Kiffy, owned by Messrs. Hopkins, Dunn & Co., of Shanghai, and bourd from Newchwang to Amoy with beancake foundered about 3.m. on Monday 7th August, during the recent typhoon some thirty miles north-east of Amay. The master, Captain James Mulier, a well-known coaster, carried his wife and two children. The crew consisted of a foreign mate and nineteen Chinese, and of the ship's company only the boatswain and nine hands are saved. The boatswain's state- ment of the loss of the Kilty is that on the morning of the 5th they encountered very bad weather when some eighty from Amoy, and expecting a typhoon, the Captain hove the ship to. At the time the weather was very thick A terrific sea sprang up and, the ship giving violent lee Jurches, the cargo shifted, and put the vessel in a perilous condition. In the even ing the Captain ordered, the masts to be cat away as the storm was increasing there was no possibility of trimming the cargo, and the ship was out of command. Unfortunately, when the masts went over the side, they smashed all the beats but one and tore the deck planking, so that the water began to find its below. All Sunday the abip tumbled about te bly and the decks, were not approachable, nover theless hopes were entertained that a consting steamer would heave in sight. Nothing was seen however but a native sail or two running for shelter. At a aan, on Monday the action of the vessel told them that the end was near, aea after sea poured on board and each left the vessel with less freeboard. An hour afterwards the Captain advised the men to get into orstand by the life, boat which was lying on the hatch, bottomless, launching her bang out of the twotion. The captain pul his wife and

in the stern of the

Le boat, and almost Immediately aferwards the e vessel gave one violent lurch and disappeared." A number of the men were injured and knocked senseless by the in-rush of water. However, the tank lined boat got away clear with the Captain, his wife and two children, and a number of the Chinese, whilst others clung to the life-lints outside. The darkness was intense, but by theoccasional phos.

I am innocent," she said. "I know nothing She sat with bent head, thinking, till her the slightest effect on the fire. There were ter the crew were seen clinging to bits of wreckage.

about it.".

smooth forehead puckered with weary perplexi veral minor explosions, one terific que, whic But the boat was jinmanageable, the oars had she passes for a saint." Then Pierre added in pulled off the heavy garment, and pointed

Madame Carhaix was looking at the door, ty. It would be terrible if Gildas were arrested, made the stoutest among the bystanders trem washed out of her, and before many minutes so low a tone that Jules had to bend forward to had loosened from the dark blue cloth.

out a tiny bit of red and yellow embroidery that and Yvonne heard the sound of approaching and if the judge were to send him among those ble, but there were no casualties, except that she got broadside to the trough of the

sca hears

"She is a heathen, my boy, she belongs

footsteps. For a moment a wild idea of fight brutal forçats about whom she had heard hide one fireman was badly buried Fa and turned over each time dropping one to Satad, I have heard that blood is on her little rent she wondered why Gildan was There is a way out of this," her grandmother Brest he must save him somehow,

Yvonne took up the jacket and examined the

came to the girl.

ous stories in her childhood when she lived at The spectacle was a splendid one. Not only or two of the occupants. Almost the first gold it came ashore in vessels lured by false wearing his best clothes, for besides the on- said. "I am always just but I prefer to keep

to be a did there seem

burning mountain rising. "never" loved any one but her from this bosom of the water, but thousands of Capain's wife, and lights on the rocks, vessels which fell to pieces broidered jacket, usually worn only on high clear of disgrace. Promise to marry Monsieur disappear

Yvonne had Was the

brother,

and the four *Khonly afterwards the Captam himself in the bay. Old Daoulas, fier father, was d

years

rather, Increased than the buming masses of floating oil became diaminished this, devoted affection. She was separated by the currents, were supported by the Chinese but finally, wickedness, and he died in his bed. God's bragou-bras, and below them his newest black

telling hemelf that she had done nothing to The steamer was worth 200,000 dols, and the about's am were washed from their grasp ways are strange to our eyes. Well, fad, finish stockings, and his leather shoes. Yvonne did one looked stormly at her the plucky fellows being almost too exhausted your story. Has the old devil come to life her brother from any chance outburst of the have out committed," she said stoutlysome Gildas told her he wanted money, she had not ask questions; she was on the alert to save

You cannot forgive me an offence which I prove her love, except that one day when oil over 10,000 dols: to save themselves. At break of day the wen again in this slip of a girl ??

Subterraneen Rumblings, Efna thermoderated, and with it, the sea, but the few Jules shook his hendNIATRA old woman's anger; the girl too well know vagrant bas come in, and has stolen your given him the little hoard of fmncs left her by

gentle and sweet as any dovel

Eruptive, and General Shook, wed what that could be provisions prate shale de inthe dead godfather with whom she had spent

ROME, July, roth to shine when she saw me, and they clouded She went up a sort of step-ladder to fetch her Fhs old woman's eyer gleamed again as she her childhood; and when her brother in his when left her; all her ways with me gave me thimble. Her bedroom was only a loft with an

answered i

careless way had smashed sundry plates and A strong, undulatory earthquake which wa here. The day I quitted: Morlaix I told her uncelled roof and a floor of planks set far apart Liar, would a vagrant have known where drinking.muge, Yvonne had taken the blame felt throughout Rome and the env The had my heart, and I asked for her love in there was a hole in one comer, and sounds to find my wine, my precious Bordeaux, the thereby exposing herself to Madame Carhaixa at nineteen, minutes past two in the aften

caused great panic. exchange then, too late, I saw my mistake, from below could be distinctly heard to-day gift of Monsieur Mathura himself? Would aangerad

had moked Yvonne for what she has not got; there was silence, except for an occasional vagrant have known where to look for the little the girl thought that if Gildar had taken he ragweet and bright, and lovely, but it in growl from Madame Carhaix. Yvonne preferid bag of money I kept in the chest, beside my the things, he was not wholly to blame; the monument was injured excep the brightness and the sweetness of a bird, or straw mattress on the floor of this loft to one bed 2 Astray thief would have had to grope had seen two of his friends, evil-looking men, Scimmiand Cherry, you know a cherry's heart, Uccle of the bar beds in the room below near her about, and so must have roused was only you, much older than her brother, and old Per

anoring grandmother

Yvonne, have the charte of prying into all my hnd told her that Gildas would get inte tide secrets. Answer me. Will you marry Monsif he kept companyzow

Yvonna del Turanda Aw

Yvonne went on cotiating her crabs. "Cruel beast," she said, you shall not "I suppose so, I spoke to Madame Martin, and she said, You must tell Yvonne ; it is not squeeze the life out of that little one, I will not the way in which such a thing should be done, let you, nasty thing, I am twice as nimblass but this is not an ordinary case. If Yvonne

The old woman understood; she sat quiver once goes to live with her grandmother you ing with rage; but before she could speaks the will not have a chance with her. Yvonne's door was flung open, and a young fellow cama grandmother is a terrible old woman. Do you consider Madame Carhaix so terrible, uncle heavily into the room.

The new-comer was like Yvonne; he was "Chut "Pierre put out his hand in wam- ing and glanced over his shoulder to make

handsomer, but the lowering expression on his they were not overheard. He went on smok forehead and the scowl round fila mouth were ing a minute or so before he answered not to be seen in his sister.

See here, my lad, it is not safe to talk about

Gildas nodded to the old woman, then be the person you have natned; she is richer than turned to Yvonne. any one in Audième, but I would not live he always spoke roughly to the "child," as he Bere, little one," before his grandmother under her roof for all the wealth of King Grad. She save the is too infirm to go to mass

called her "come quick with your needle,

Ho

sure

phorus created by the waves, other members she sends mancy to Monsieur lo. Curé, and there's a loose stitch in my facket."

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"How can I know anything about it? she asked gravely. I went to bed before you did, I shut the door close,"

"Ball you think because I ant. old and infirm, that I am also imbeciles crafty one; I

Yvonne shook her head.

now what delayed you yesterday, you took all that time to plan your robbery.”

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where to look for them, without disturbing the old woman. Her grandmother had told her that Gildas had taken great trouble in mending the hole in her floor. "Ah Yvonne clenched her hands till her knuckles hoked white against the brown skin-it was horrible, she would rather dio, than believe that Glidas was a thief. She went on thinking, and the remembered his talk in the cow-stable; then. her sharp wits told her the truth.

It appears that a copper pipe leading from the vessel to the tanks on shore burst dudog“ the pumping, and the half-milion gallons of all | in the tanks flooded into the furnaces. The

flames quickly spread all over the ship, and the greater part of ten hours the ship war: solid mass of flame, surging up like a very Vet

suviusu

The efforts of the fire

The Captain's children, a little boy and girl, devil, yet he was never called to account for his days and holidays, he had on his plaited Mathurin, without farther delay, and I will for- by her convent life, hnd aparation caused smaller fires blazed on the harbour for miles, as

survivor were helpness and in a sad plight, having been without food or water for two days and in the boat they had neither car nor sail Their only hope lay in the passing of a steamer, whleb about noon, was their good fortune. The HIA) str,”

had, og ing to stress

put

and the Bing for

phoon being past had lett

of the port, the

boss with weven

wearily:

her

WAS

oyes used

jad piano toak his pipe from bis lips

stone) in boy, woman laa niddisj Der heart is 12etimes like a watch, it will

you,"

The girl came down the ladder Gidas stood waiting for her in the Barren paisaga. Kol signg Mathurin) )

Several houses cracked,

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