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Eczema, Psoriasis, Salt Rheum,Tetter and Acne Belong to that class of inflammatory and disfiguring skin eruptions that cause more genuine bodily discomfort and worry than all other known diseases. The impur'ties or sediments which collect in the system because of poor digestion, in tive Kidneys and other organs of elimination are taken up by the blood, saturating the system with acid poisons and fluids that ooze out through the glands and pores of the skin, producing an inde scribable itching and burning, and "I can cheerfully endorse your S. S. S. the yellow, watery discharge forms as a cure for Eczoma. I was troubled into cruts and sores or little brown with it for 25 years and tried many i t c statores off, e remedies with no good effects, but after and white scabs that drop off,leaving using a few bottles of S. S. S. was entire the skin tender and raw. The effect ly relieved. Win . Campbell, of the poison may cause the skin to 313 W. central St., Wichita, Kan. crack and bleed, or give it a scaly, fishy appearance; again the eruptions may consist of innumerable blackhcads and pimples or hard, red bumps upon the face. Purification of the blood is the only remedy for these vicious skin diseases. Washes and powders can only hide for a time the glaring r blemishes. S. S. S. eradicates all poisonous accumu lations, antidotes the Uric and other acids, and restores the blood to its wonted purity, and stimulates and revitalizes the sluggish organs, and the impuri ties pass off through the natural channels and relieve the skin. S. S. S. is the only guaranteed purely vegetable blood purifier. It contains no Arsenic, Potash or other harmful mineral. . - Write us about your case and our physicians will advise without charge. We have a handsomely illustrated book on skin diseases, which will be sent free to all who wish it. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanita. Ga. 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We have the goods at all prices, wScportsma, e h ave Lae aShelns, Powder and Shot, Caps, Leg gins and Hunters' Coats, Cartridge Belts and the handsomest line of fSingle and Double Guns ever shown here. Come to see us. Very truly yours, Manning Hardware Co. * We Divide Prof its......0 With our customers in every special bargain we get. While many are still enjoying the bargains from our shoe sales, we are ready to offer to our patrons more astonishing bargains. We have just received one of the best lines of Men's, Boys' & Childfr's Sits AND OVERCOATS@ That we bought at a sacrifice in Augusta, Ga. These goods are not old stock or jobs, but NEW, CLEAN, STYLISH GOODS -From the manufacturers, and you can savec many dollars if you come early. The first choice is the best. Now come ahead. Just an examimation of the goods and the price will convince you how easy it is to save money. THE NEW IDEA,J 1M. M. KRASNOFF, Prop. Watches and Jewelry. I want-my friends and the public generally to know that when in neced of a <Wedding, Birthday or Christmas Present, 'ihat in the future, as well ais the past, I am prepare~d to supply them. My line of Watches Clocks Sterling Silver Diamonds Jewelry Cut Glass Fine China Wedgewood Spectacles and Eye Glasses Is complete, and it wil! afford me pleasure to show them. Special and prompt attention given to all Repairing io my lnoe at prices to suit the times. AtlantiCo Lnse L. W. FOLSOM, "S'"C'ER. BRING YOUR TO THE TINES OFFICE. DONADL DONALD Copyright, 190s, by Charles W. Hooko ' CHAPTER IV. AN EXCEPTIONAL MATCH. Whiting ceased Hackett drew a long breath and looked at me. "A little ahead of anything we've found yet, John," said he. "Have you ever tried to figure the thing out in your own mind, Mr. Donaldson?" The young man shook his head. "I know what I saw," he said, "but I don't know what was back of it, and I am inclined to think," he added, with a smile, "that it is much the same with all we see, however simple. There is a mystery behind that teacup which no man alive can solve." "We know tnat it will hold our tea," said Hackett, "but this psychic bust ness doesn't seem to have any bottom." I asked whether any one knew why Vinal had not made his confession in this country. "He went to beg my brother's par don and to die forgiven," said Donald son. "He put his confession into the hands of the man who had been wronged." A general conversation followed in which Donaldson appeared to far greater advantage than before. The telling of the story seemed to have tak en a weight off his mind. Both Hack ett and myself were pleased with him, and we resolved to carry out our orig inal intention of taking him Into our employ. We did not speak of the mat ter until after Whiting had left us. He had said in the beginning that he could be with us not more than half an hour. When he had gone, I explained to Donaldson that we had. been con sidering him with reference to a posi tion of importance in our business, and I named the duties, the salary and the prospects. He was to be Mr. Hackett's assistant inourdepartmentof sales. Wewerethen introducing a system of disposing of our goods which was entirely unique in this country, and we required a young man of good appearance, of cultivated mind and manner and especially of that quick, intuitive perception which is so valuable in dealing with the high est grade of merchants. The right man, coming to us with the proper en ergy and ability, might hope for any thing, up to an interest in our business, that would make him more than well to do. It all depended upop himself. Donaldson received this proposal with a solemnity which justified his college nickname of "deacon," by which we had heard Dr. Whiting ad dress him. "It is useless for me to deny," said he, "that what you suggest is a great advance for me. In my present place I am like a dive: walking with leaden soled shoes in a medium of high resist ance and having everything pumped down to me from above. I can't get to the top, and nobody is going to pull me up. I make a few signals by pull ing on a string, but nobody answers them. I'm sunk; that's the truth about me. "Therefore," hecontinued, looking first to Hackett and then to me, "I am more than, ready to accept' your offer, but there is one difficulty-I perceive that ye- .tve another motive in making it." "Another motive?" said I, looki'n8 across at my partner. Young Mr. Donaldson laid his clinch ed right hand upon the table. "From this day forth." said he, "if I have any power or means of knowl edge that is different from the aver age I will make no display of it and no use of it That is my i'revocable decision. You will never learn more of that subject from me than you will know tonight when the sun goes down. But, since I have cast away restraint today, let me continue in that folly. "I know perfectly well that you have another object in making this propos al to me; that It is a part of a fantas tic dream. You hope to mate me with a young woman whom you believe to possess the same powers that are in me. You think that you are acting in the Interests of the advance of human knowledge and that posterity, with the probable exception of my posterity, will rise up and call you blessed." I was motionless, dumfounded. I could not have cried "Fire!" If the blaze had broken out in my own pock et Ten thousand mesgsfo Ja pan were not to be thought of in com parison with this phenomenon. For the secret that he had touched upon was absolutely ours. My own.. private speculations upon the subject and my brief and inconsequential talks with Hackett summed up the whole of it. Neither of us had ever suggested that Donaldson and Miss Vaughn might make a match of It, yet the idea had flitted through my mind now and then, and I found out after ward that it had been in Hackett's. "I don't mean to say," continued Don aldson, "that you would use any Influ ence or hold out any inducements to bring such a marriage about, but you will look for it, and you will be disap pointed. Why, Mr. Harrington, If I knew that a girl was what is called a psychic 1 could no more love her than I could love a girl with two noses. No. sir; I am opposed to superfluity. The ordinary mental and physical endow ments are enough for me. If you at tempt to make any such match for me, I shall run.'.' "But have you any reason to sup pose that such a girl exists?" I de manded. "Who Is she?" "I have no intimation as to who she Is," he replied, addressing me directly. "I perceive no more than that she is some one for whom you have a high regard, and it is doubtless a great hon or for me to be c~oupled with her in your thoughts. But I ask you to think of it no more." "You have read from a closed book," said I, "and It is a marvelous thing to do. But you have read only a single paragraph and have failed to grasp the sense of the whole volume. We want your head in our business, Mr. Donald son, and are willing to pay for it, but your heart is your own, and I should be the first to dissuade you from a mar riage, however advantageous it might seem to be, that was based upon any other impulse than the love of a good woman." "I am a melancholy fellow," said Donaldson, with evident feeling. "and unfit for matrimony. Only cheerful people should marry. A rich man's money may bless or curse his children At the best, it is not so good as a happy ig a True Record and Explanation of the Seven nysteries Now Associated With iis Na~ne In i the Pub!ic Mind, and of an Eighth, I Which is the Key of the Seven 0yN, JR. By HOWARD FIELDING hing that is halt so bad as hered' itary sourness of heart You will for ,:ieo me for mentioning this subject Really, I was afraid that I might be beoguiled into some sort of an expela Mcnt. It may have been a cranky no tion, but this whole conversation has Lcen such a weird mixture of business and ghosts!" The big clock in the corner struck 2 and surprised us all with the lateness of the hour. It was necessary for Don aldson to return at once to' his office, and so we could not ask him the ques tions which were pressing for 'utter ance. I may say, however, that when we had abundant opportunity, there after we obtained scant information. Donaldson either could not or - would not tell how he obtained his psychic messages. "It is like suddenly remem bering something that you have always known," was the usual way in which he dodged the question, and he would never speak upon the subject at all when he could avoid doing so. Upon the matter of Donaldson's rec ognition of his friend Whiting's pres ence we made one discovery before leaving the restaurant. Hackett sat down in the chair which our young friend had occupied and Immediately perceived that owing to the position of a hat tree upon which our coats were hung the mirror in the wall could not explain the phenomenon. I could see around one side of this obstruc tion and Hackett around the other side, but it was precisely in the necessary line of Donaldson's vision. About two weeks after this remark able luncheon Deacon Donaldson was added to our working force at Tun bridge and became a member of my household, and there a singular and amusing complication presently came about Mrs. Jane Harrington, whose husband Is a cousin of mine and has charge of a branch of our business In the west, came to visit me, bringing her daughter, a very charming young woman of twenty. In some mysterious manner Donaldson got the notion that Millie Harrington was the beautiful psychic whose union with himself was secretly plotted by the wily Stephen Hackett and me. He had never been able to rid himself of the Idea that something of the sort was in the wind, but he was entirely ignorant of the facts in the case of Dorothy Vaughn. In fact, nobody in Tunbridge except Hackett and me knew that Dorothy's coming to teach our school had any connection with our quest of mysteries. It was far more likely that Donaldson should suspect Millie, who was there upon my direct invitation and seem ingly thrown into his way with malice aforethought, than Dorothy, who lived on the other side of the town and was merely the schoolteacher. Millie was a flirt, I'm afraid, and as the deacon was the most attractive young man in her vicinity she pro ceeded to practice her innocent arts upon him. I think he was not natu rally timid in such matters. He had a very easy and graceful manner In the company of ladies, and not even so simple an old fellow as myself could fail to see that he had learned his les son in the school of experience. Mil lie found him an adirairable cavalier, and she kept him busy ia her service. It may have been five weeks that Millie and her mother were at my house, and the place was so gay that I did not feel at home. In the even ings there would be music and danc ing, and I would sit in a corner alone except when Hackett strayed into thin scene of unaccustomed revelry or when Dorothy could be persuaded to come over after the school. She 'was In mourning for her aunt, of course, and could not join in the sport, but she held it no harm to sit in sober blaclC and watch the others. We had some great talks in this way, but it seemed to me that she was not in so good spir its after this brief season of festivity ot well under way. Indeed It must have been a trial for a young and pret ty girl, as I thought more than once. It never occurred to me that there could be any special trouble- Even when she advanced the opinion one evening that she was not doing very well with the school and perhaps it might be better for her to go away I totally fail ed to comprehend. That night after the house had be come quiet I was sitting before the fire in the library alone when Donald son dropped in to keep me company. At my invitation he took a cigar, se lecting one that was black and strong, and when he had lighted it I perceiveC that there was something on his mind. A man who wishes to conceal his men tal state should not smoke in the pres ence of a smoker. "Mr. Ilarrington," said he at last, "you have been very good to me. You have put me In a fine way of business, so that my future is assured-if I be have myself. I am very grateful In ev ery way, and I'm going to please you if I can. But, by jingo," he cried, sudden ly spinging up, "I can't!" "Why not?" I asked as gently as pos sible. Ie dried the palms of his hands upon his handkerchief. "It's a great honor,'' he said, trying to be calm. "I told you so long ago at Bertram's. Of course I didn't then know that the young lady would be related to you. I couldn't foresee how beautiful she would be, how admira ble in every way. She doesn't care a penny for me, to be sure, but I'm not speaking of that I'm spe.aking of my own sentiments. She's got the most wonderful eyes-dark, mysterious, mar velous eyes. By Jove, I can well be lieve that she's the true psychic! And perhaps that's what's the matter." "Are you speaking of Miss Harring ton?" I inquired as he paused. And he replied with a quick nod of aflirmation. "I'll tell you the truth!" he cried, wheeling toward me suddenly. "The psychic matter hasn't anything to do with it It's because I'm in love with somebody else. I've got no business to be in love, but I am. On the chance that the woman I love may love me I ought to go and drown myself-In her Interest-but I won't. I will stay right here and win her if I can. I'm selfish enough to do it, vain enough to think I may succeed, and it seemed to be my duty to tell you about it, Mr. Hlaring ton, considering the very peculiar cir cumstances of the case." "Who is the young lady?" I Inquired. emotion choked him as he tried t speak her name. He struggled with I for an instant and then answered m by throwing out his right arm so tha he pointed to the window and acros the broad lawn and nearly the whol town beyond it, half a mile or more i: all, to the house where Dorothy lived. I understood him perfectly. "You couldn't please me better thai that," said I. "With all my heart wish you well." Some days later Dorothy told m that she was LvIch more encourage about the school and that she had quit given up the idea of going away. Sh was devoted to the work, and yet knew that it was not her success there in which had so lightened her heart. When Hackett learned how matter stood, he insisted that my theory abou a natural antipathy between psychic was overthrown, but I preferred to re N. They were married in my house. gard the case as merely exceptional Obviously the rule cannot be ironclad for if such were the fact occult powerE would disappear from the world. At any rate, this was a true love match if ever there was one. Their happiness brought out the noblest quel ities of their hearts. They did wonder ful work that winter, both of them justifying my best hopes and winning my warmest good will. It was to be a long engagement Dorothy had mentioned tw' years, I believe. But in the late spring we plinned to send Donaldson abroad with the result that Dorothy decided to go too. So they were married in my house, which was rose bedecked for the occasion. There were festivities which lasted until sundown, and then while some of the younger guests were tying telltale ribbons to the carriage that waited before my door the'tw< lovers escaped by another way anc ran hand in hand like children across the fields through the sweet June even ing. It appeared that they had secret ly sent all their baggage to the railroac station earlier In the day. CHAPTER V. rHE MTSTERY OF THE EXPECTED EOBBER DONALD DONALDSON, JR. was born May 2, 1881. HE was the healthiest and alto gether the finest child thai ever came into the world, the most de sired, the best loved. And whimsical nature exacted the smallest possiblE price of pain for him. Yet permit me to reconsider thai statement in the light of a better phi losophy. There are those who say thai in adversity one need not shout for thE awakening of the gods nor in the day of superabundance dread it; that noth ing comes which Is not earned. It may be that a young mother reaped no more than the just reward of consistent righi living from her earliest girlhood. How. ever that may be, the fact remains that all things went Incredibly well. Behold Dorothy, as pretty as ever and not a day older, tripping about thE house with a song; behold the boy, ealthy as a young lion and roaring, when he roared, for his own good pleasure and not for any ill. Hackett prophesied great thIngs of him, believing that his exploits would some day necessitate a revised edition f our "Psychic Facts," a work thai was then complete except for the lasi section, which Hackett wished to en title "The Real Facts" despite the imputation upon the accuracy of thE preceding portions. As to his hopes of young Donald my partner spoke only once in the pres nce of the boy's parents. "You'd have thought I had accusec him of being cross eyed," said he to m< n describing the Incident, and there after we discussed the subject strict13 n private. Our book eventually went to thE printer, but Hackett never saw It In: binding. He was stricken with an ill ness which rushed on to a fatal ter :ination in such haste that It seemet all over In a day, and I was standing b3 the grave of my oldest friend. After ard I could hardly bear to look at thE book upon which we had labored to gether. I left everything to others. 11 had a small success and was soon for gotten, though recent events have 1e4 the publishcrs to print some thousand: of copies from the old plates. The worli Is full of unfounded belief and equal1g nfounded doubt. I am proud only of the former, which was mostly Hack ett's. A natural, honest, seemingl3 baseless belief is probably founded up n the knowledge of the ages and thi soul's sympathy with infinite wisdom but your doubt is likely to be youl own, and you should be the more mod est in the expression of it. Pardon this digression about "Psy chic Facts." The psychic fact witi which this present record principall oncerns Itself is Donald Donaldson Jr., and from this point onward I shal stick closely to him. I have given view of his parents because that wa; absolutely necessary to an understand ing of his nature and of the events 11 which he took part. I shall now ver: briefly sketch his youth, which wal unmarked by any incident out of th< ordinary. He was a healthy baby and a sturdy active schoolboy when the years ha< brought him onward to that stage 0: life. M~entally he was too quick to re quire diligence. The tasks in the Tun bridge schools were easy for him, an( he led his classes without effort. II must lhe remembered, however, that n< other pupil had equally good homi training. His mother was a teacher both by nature and by instruction. Hi might have advanced more rapidly un der her care alone, but the public schoo Is a part of our creed in Tunbridge. I: any school in the town had not been a good place for Donald, we should no' have taken him away. We shoule have made the school better: While upon this subject I will quote a curious remark that I once heard n jlittle girl make to another in Don'i 3 hearing and somewhat in'Te way of A t taunt: 3 "Don Donaldson always knows what tthe teacher's going to ask him. He 3 guesses it before recitation and hunts 3 It up in his book." I questioned the IR.Ge girl, but could not learn that she had any basis for her belief except Donald's proficiency I In his studies and a vague tradition that he "could guess things." It was Impossible to discover any specific in 3 stance worth mentioning. In the sports of boys he was very successful, but any boy will be so who grows up ahead of his years. From the time when he reached school age he was al - ways growing more rapidly In height and weight than the average. More over, he played with tremendous ener gy and concentration. He was fond of rough games, but neither suffered Inju - ry nor inflicted It. Indeed he presently began to be known as "lucky," and if I were to select one attribute of his which never deserted him and seemed always to make its impression upon his associates I would choose his "luck." For luck is a personal quality. It means, as a rule, no more than an in stinctive accuracy of judgment, the power that makes a bird fly south in the fall, though he knows nothing of the danger which he is escaping, hav ing never seen a winter. If you tell me that It is rational supe riority which enables a boy to thrust his head into a football scrimmage in a place where it will not encounter an other boy's fist or his skull or his feet and to keep on doing this all through a season of the game, I shall laugh at you. Yet it is well known that injuries are not equally distributed; that nei ther the strong nor the prudent es cape them; that the boy who doesn't get hurt is the one who has the faculty, the natural gift, the instinctive guid ance, the luick. And the world Is a great football game, full of flying fists and feet. So when I say thatDonald was lucky I decline to be accused of superstition or of fatalism. That which all of us be lieve in, though some of us affect to doubt it, the thing called luck as a per sonal asset, is neither ordinary good judgment nor the favor of heaven. It is the faculty of relying upon a deep seated, guiding power resident in the individual and nearly if not quite in fallible. This power is not limited by the fineness of the physical senses. It will help you to dodge an invisible microbe just as a more obvious instinct will help you to dodge a snowbalL It Is natural to step out of the snowball's path, but if you hesitate and try to reason about it you will get hit And the same thing is true of that mysteri ous force within you which is absolute ly at one with nature. In Donald there appeared a singular combination of spontaneous judgment and deliberate action. As a child he would respond to questions slowly and with care, even when the expression of his eyes showed that the correct answer had flashed through his mind instantly. His greatest and most ob stinate fault was secretiveness. Thougb his nature was very affectionate and his sympathy most tender, he lacked the natural tendency to confide his troubles, his joys or his hopes to those he loved, even to his mother. He had no slyness. He was at no pains- to keep a secret. He- simply said nothing about it and gave no sign of its ex istence. We were often grieved to find that he had left us in ignorance of some in cident of his daily life, some act nei ther praiseworthy nor blamable or one perhaps involving a moral question be yond the appreciation of his years. When reproved for such an omission, his customary--and, I believe, sincere reply would be: "Why, it never occurred to me that you didn't know." It was frequently necessary to give him quite an elaborate explanation be fore he seemed to realize that we had had no means of knowing. By all this I do not wish to give the impression that he was a markedly phenomenal boy, but it is important. of course, that I should point out all par ticulars In which he differed from the average. I have therefore with great care selected these three peculiarities: He thought very quickly and spoke very slowly. He had an unconquerable habit of keeping his own affairs to himself. He enjoyed remarkably good fortune, including a notable immunity from ill ness and injury, in which connection I may record the fact that he never had one of the so called diseases of child hood. In other respects he was the typical American boy. He played as much as possible and studied when his con cience or his elders compelled him to do so. He had his frIendships and his childish loves. He romped gayly In the long summer evenings and com mitted clever and amusing mischief once in awhile, In regard to which I think that even the recording angel always waited for Donald's confes sion and never attempted to know the facts In advance of it. At the age of sixteen he was ready for college, Hie was then six feet in. height and wveighed 170 pounds. He resembled both his parents, but was generally called his mother's boy, for he had her red gold hair and bright blue eyes. His father's nature lay the deeper in him. It came to the surface most plainly in moments of excitement. and at such times, even during his childhood, young Donald would exhibit the solemn, superficial calm and ex treme precision of speech which had al ways characterized the "deacon" when in a high state of nervous tension. If he had during his youth such psychic experiences as are not the comi mon lot of humanity, I was not able to observe them. A few vague hints of no more Importance than the school girl's remark which I have quoted would have been the best evidence that I could have adduced previous to the month of June in the year 1800. We were expecting him home from college in a week or two when we were surprised by receiving this telegram: Last exam. today. Leave immediately. Yu will see me tomorrow. We knew that he had intended to stay beyond class day and that the varsity baseball nine, of which he was a member, had not closed its season, so the message puzzled us and gave rise to consIderable anxiety. His mother telegraphed for an explanation, but no answer camne. On the morrow, how ever, came Donald himself, hale and happy, and handsome beyond the dreams of romance. When we assailed him with questions, he stared at us. "Why, there's no particular reason for my coming," said he. "I merely felt like it; that's all." Then after a pause he added: "I wonder why the dickens I did come? I can't think, unless it was be cause I wanted to see my very best Whereupon he put his arm across his mother's shoulders and kissed her tedel unon the forehead and hair. To all appearahces Dorothy might in deed have been his "very best girl" oi perhaps his sister, but surely not his mother. She had preserved her youth ful looks to a degree that Is beyond the credence of the reader, so that I shall not attempt to state the truth about It When she was thirty, the Tunbridge people spoke of her with wonder, and she looks younger now than she did then. Donaldson, upon the other hand, has aged greatly. He is a worrying man, I am afraid, and must always be so. Moreover, he received a peculiar in jury some years ago, when an old fac tory building which we bought from the Strobel estate collapsed while a dozen of our workmen were inspect Ing it with a view to ascertaining its needs. Donaldson was the first to per ceive the peril, and It Is said that he sustained a mass of falling timbers in the posture of Atlas long enough to. permit several of his companions to crawl out to safety who would other wise have been shut in. A maze of tradition has grown up around this in cident, but it really involved nothing more than a very ready and brave use of great physical strength. Though he escaped broken bones or any specific hurt to which the best of doctors could give a location or a name, he was never the same man afterward. He began to stoop In the shoulders and to move more slowly, and upon his forty-sec ond birthday his hair was as white as mine. He was morbidly sensitive about the change in his looks, though he had come by it so honorably, and I have seen tears in his eyes when strangers have spoken of Dorothy as his daugh ter. I think that he had always held too high an idea of youth. It Is a com mon fault and was exaggerated in him by his love of Dorothy, who would not grow old. She seemed to stand still while he was dragged onward in the grip of time. This is the natural sor row of women, but one which men are rarely called upon to bear. When Donald came home that June day, his father was busy about some matter of Immediate importance, and so the boy and I walked down to the of fice, as we call it, a separate building upon the other side of the street from the factory. I was witness of a most affectionate greeting. Donaldson was very proud of his son, as he had every reason to be, and the boy loved him heartily. Afterward Donald paid his respects to the office staff, especially tc old Jim Bunn, our cashier, and ti crippled assistant, Tim Healy, some times called Tiny Tim, a youth who sal on a very high stool and kept the hand, somest set of books in the state of Neu Jerse. I lost sight of Donald for a little while and subsequently discovered bin in my.private office. He was sitting it my chair, with his head thrown bacl and his clasped hands pressed hars across his eyes. I asked-him what wa the matter, and he started up and be gan to walk around the room in a pe culiar, aimless fashion. "Uncle John," said he at last, "every thing is all right, Isn't it? You're no1 worried or anxious?" "Anxious?" said I. "Certainly not What should I be anxious about?" "I don't know," said he, with hesita ion. "Perhaps I oughtn't to have ask ed you the question." "Ask me whatever you please, m3 boy," said I. He resumed his restless wandering~ about the room. "I wish I knew what to do," he said at last "I feel very uneasy." "In regard to what?" I inquired. "That's just the point," he replied "What is it all about? I don't know." He had a despondent and tormented air, and the sight of It carried me bacig a good many years to the day when I had first seen his father. It was im possible to shake my mind free of this memory. The scene of long ago in Bertram's eating house recurred wi startling vividness. I was aware of a strange sensation that this was something for which I had been waiting-a long expected oc currence. There came to me also an Indescribable depression of spirit and a sense of chilI.. "Do yoti mean"- I began. But he begged me hastily not to ask him any thing. "This Is a queer business, Uncle John," said he. "I think I'm on the point of getting myself Into all kinds of a tangle, and I don't want to do it the very first day I'm home. Please let me think it over." "Speak when you are ready, Donald, said I. "It was always a habit of yours."~ We were interrupted by the advent of Dorothy, who had come down from~ the house in a pony phaeton. She wore a sober gray gown, but it had the dain ty grace of all her raiment. Dorothy never takes any pains to dress either young or old. Her clothes are for Dor othy. They would not suit~unybody else, and they have nothing to do with years. Donald surveyed her with affection ate admiration. "My incredible mother!" said he, drawing her close to him and looking down into her face. Then I saw the tears come suddenly into hIs eyes. He drew a quick, deep breath and stoof sharply erect, so that he seemed to grow both In breadth and height, while she looked almost like a frightened child in the embrace of his "Be careful!" she cried, with a gasp and a laugh. "You will break my bones!" "Did I hurt you, little mother?" said he. "Well, by the same token, nobody else ever shall." "To what do we owe the honor of this visit?" ,I asked Dorothy, and she replied that she had come to take my nephew, Carleton Archer, across to the town of Solway, where our other fac tory was situated. Archer was an able, energetic and ambitious young man who had been brought into my service about two years before to be Donaldson's assistant and lighten his burdens. Hie lived at my house and was the leading spirit in all our recre ations. He was blessed with unfailing activity of mind and body. He could both work and play at the same time. Often he has come to me at midnight with business plans that he had thought out during the evening, an evening devoted to ceaseless gayety of the somewhat childish sort In which he found his chief delight and relaxa tion. He was an enthusiast for the gentler forms of athletics, such as wo men may indulge in, and as a result of his efforts there were tennis courts upon our lawn and golf links on the south slope of the hill. After Dorothy and Carl had ridden away in the phaeton Donald remained with me until luncheon time, when he and his father and I walked up to the house together. The boy was not quite himself, as any one could see, and I was consumed with curiosity to know what lay on his mind..but experience lContinued on next page.] ER GeotS. 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