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her as a companion and rehge0. I will never take'aeut of the Mai'.. tindale money. I have heard them' say thst the money was all Captain Guyon's, and I will never live upon his grudgingly-given charity !' And when the otd lawyer sent up his compliments, and a reqgest for ar interview with Mrs. Martindale, the young widow was nowhere to be found. She had gone away ftoim Cape May. 'With the moutniOg outfit not completed, eaid MissPringlc, the dressmaker. 'Poor ear! Trouble must have npset herenind. 'It is very strange,' said Cap tain Martindale ; 'but if she pre fers to go to her owg p)gople, let, .her go. It will certainly be atn in finite relief to me,an(d of course the! allowance mast be co1iffiued to her just the same.' But the allowance, represented by a generous check. was ret urned. without a word of comment, to. Captain Martindale. Ile shrugged his shoulders. 'Let her do as she pleases,' he said, 'I have done my best; I can do no more.' So elde(ld clapterl one; and in the fultillment, of time came chap ter tWo. Six jears afterward, Captain Guyon Martindale was intro(uced, at Rome, to tihe young American beauty who was queeniing it in the gay circles of the Seven-ililled city. It was in the palazzo of the Prince Contadino, and as he looked at the slight, graceful figure seated in the shadow of a eluster of blos soming lemon-trees, a suddlen wave of remenbrance swept a thwart his soul. 'Mrs. Falkiand !' he said. 'But there must he some mistake. It is' Mrs. Martindale, my brother's wi In aunothier i ustant the Princess (Contadino was introducing them. 'A (country womanlf of yours Mrs. Falkland,' she said1, in her soft s0out hern accent, '11 Capitano Martindale, I delight to see you1 two b.ecomne friends ! Mrs. Falkland 1goked him fuall in the face, with a real composure1 which he found it dittlt to com-) She had style' enough njow. 'The budding prombise of her youth had blossomed in the fullness of oyal beauty. Inodeed, he felt that she was con~decenC3ding to him, a sihe had allowed him to touch the tips8 of her exquisitely-.glovedl fin gerts for a secotnd. 'You are thinking. of our first ed der y .a .6 ..W4.hat has become of her.' The laughingIifeiC' bi6ki slid ice, and Ca1ptai n Mari ndale tok I Mrs. Falkland into supper. In the course of the evening he learuie4 why she had adopted the rname otthe-old nunt, Whohmta ken her to Euf6bjS au l till living hem with" er'eawecnti sister 'ofthe Catskiil' fitier- Awl Cora Carson, Iihe. untutorfed "hild of the w now ii eiti vated, graceful woman, rich in all that makes- life beuitiful and at tract ive. 'It is like a magic transformna lion,' Captain 'G1uyo11 Martindaie doelared to himself: 'I never could have beheved it if I had not. wit1eSSed it with my13 own eyes. She is the loveliest womian I ever saw in my life. It is no wonder that tlhe A merican society in' Rome is vilhl about lier. But I can't think it true that she really likes that young colonel of hussars, who follows her about like 1er shadow ?' Wlien jeailousy takes the field love is not far off. And Captain Martindale began pos'tively to hate Colonel Sanlifer W loughby. 'Am I inl love With my brother?, widlow !' hie'a"'ked] himself, 'A&ls", it is ralher late to question the siate of iy heart!' Ile asked Cara to be his wife one purple Summer twilight, as they sat in the oleander-wreath balcony of the old palazzo where Mrs. Falk land lived. 'No,' She said calmly. 'I will not mtarry you, Captain Martindale! I do not love You. There was a time once when I might have learn-i edI to care for you. You remem-1 ber it, perhaps-when I was new ly-widlowed and alone. But you were cold and unsympathetic--even cruel t o me. 'You never could see,' you said, 'lloir Fred came to faincy me. I was but a burden-an in4 bus.' A nd the country milkmaid' had more p~enetration) than you be lieved, Captain Guyon Martindale. The past is past, but if ever in the future you have to deal with a wounded and inexperienced spirit, try to be more gentle and comnsid erate.' And she married the Enaglish colonel of hussars, after all. It was a cruelI blow to ('aptain Guyon Martindale, but he could not dleny that he had deserved it. If one could only to' esee the fui ture !' he groaned, within himself. -Helen Forrest Graves. .-Subscribe ankd pay for Ta MassEWog3.R and be happn. IsecC t 01) wor)k i S1 C. E. I i I I N~ oN, ileutti~, S.(f J. 'T. NIX, .1 J. N1X, 43 rermvi tte 8::-- - --Hi am potn-; M'. Ni y litbinson Ni9 Attor'eefn anid Cannzmelo..i at La w. PICKNS C. II., S. C. Will viracti c inall th e Coirts oC the State, am1( of Ow heUniteit St ates. All bIIsiness :shlufl reveive ' promi t Jan '25--l y G SO. W.- TAVLO R. - JAMi I-a K . C.%Ilt Y TAYLIOR & . CA RY, .s ttorneyf!!~hzs at L.awm PICKENS C. 11., S. C. Dee 11!-l v A. 13LYTH E. A. 1). MAY-'FT E1 1. 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