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"I shall be glad to do this," Mrs.
Graham answered. "If you tell me
to-morrow, or the next day, or any day
In the future that you wish this, I shall #
believe that you do care. And now.
good-bye, 'Just Little Me,' and all good
things come to you"?for she felt that
she might never again see the pretty
face of this child-woman?"but promise
me here at parting, dear, that you
will be kind to those who love you.
Love is easier to hold when won than
tempted back when once repulsed."
She knew, as she turned- away to
Join her husband, who was waiting
for her at the gang-plank?oven before
the shy words of promise were whispered?that
she could safely trust the
girl whom all claimed to be heartless
hnd thoughtless.
Thf> niiffrwl nml snlnshed hrr
way, and the Island, with its gleaming
sand-hills and beaches, its fluttering
hotel-flag and lighthouse tower rising
calmly above the heaving and falling
of the ocean at its foot, faded from
view save as a speck upon the horizon.
Meanwhile, pretty Bess, with her
warm impulses, the words of her friend
still fresh In her memory, turned to her
Ttner glowering gloomily at the retreating
steamer, and said, very softly and
very sweetly, no traee of their quarrel
upon her face, save a burning color on
her cheeks and a tender wistfulness in
her eyes:
"If only the friends who are good to
one would stay with one, Mr. Leland.
It is so hard to be always misunder- t
stood and unjustly judged. She knew
that I don't mean half that I say that
Is unkind."
Those great black, wistful eyes of
hers, like the reproachful eyes of a
grieved child, scattered liis anger to ;
the four winds of1 heaven. He scarcely
heard what it was that she said. He
certainly never heeded the lookers-on.
"My dear lictle Bess!" he said, softly.
Her Anger: were clinging to his arm
Instead of Alecia's, and his eyes were
bent upon the sweet, shy face in its
beautiful color, reading the heart hid,
den by the curling lashes over the betraying
eyes.
He was bending with great assur- :
anee above the graceful figure in its
creamy flannel morning-dress, as they
turned from watching the steamer
bearing away their friends. And it
was heaven come down to earth that
morning to Leland, as he sat on the
beach with this willful girl, careful
that her red parasol should shield her
from the sun: that her camp-chair was
net most comfortably upon the sand
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X&C'lIlg lilt* U1UC UUU Ui iuc ucvuu,
whose white surf brought in many a
fragment of beam or plank. What
cared he that she had so often protested
that she would never marry for less
lhan limitless wealth, when there, in
the broad light of morning, she whispered
assurance that he must not believe
all that she said, especially that,
because she loved him; and what beside
that, was wealth?
"Particularly," she added, very gravely,
but so sweetly that there was left
no sting in her words?"particularly,
Lane. dear, when you know that you
are not poor. I couldn't marry anybody.
no matter how much I loved
him. If he were very poor and had no
chance to rise, because I think it is
ouite wicked. Every one should feel
jis I do about this, Lane. They don't
. think half enough. It isn't so much
that I love luxury as that a man has
110 right to marry a woman if he cannot
support her."
And what could her lover do but acquiesce
and murmur his astonishment
et the wisdom of her words?
"It is strange how the world can be
shaken by storm one hour and brilliant
with sunlight the next!" said Alecia as
she and her husband and Gregory Ben- 1
sonhurst. with the party from the
Queen Taplienes, left the steamer at
the Babylon pier and took the stage
for the depot. "And the strangest part
of it is that the heaviest storm leaves
no adequate trace of its violence."
"But it is better so." said her husband.
quickly. "Let the gardens of the
East fall into the sea and the flowers
of the West are just as sweet! That
is but justice. Alecia!"
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' -?1111 u UU HUU1U ouiu
one of the yachting party, laughing,
'that some lialf-dozeu hours or so ago
we were in the blackest storm I ever
saw; or caine so near never seeing sunshine
again, whether in east or west?.
It is a rapid world we live in. and, as
such, let the gardens of the East fall,
if they will, so long as the flowers of
the West survive!"
"Well, I like it best as it is here in
the East?now?yes," said one of his
companions. "It wasn't a specially ,
clever thing to be clinging to a wet '
rope in a wet sea, with a wet sky coming
down on you. Earle got of? pretty
lucky. I think?thanks to"?he came
near forgetting his agreement to speak
" of the adventure to 110 one outside o?
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the witnesses, and caught hiinsolf with
a slight tit of coughing?"thanks to the i ^
men on the beach! He came a trifle j *(!
too near going under to pJease ine, j .
were I in bis place:'' a
"I wouldn't mind being in his place." ^
said one of the others, laughing, with h
a shrug of his shoulders, catching the ^
strange expression upon Harold ^
Graham's face and believing that he ?
knew its cause: "if by being there 1 i ^
could possess his wealth. One of the
richest men in the city, he is! Look at
the yacht that went down! Worth a
good* sight of money! And his horses! 0
m;r, "Tt.Tr rrr.?rr. are enough 'fo make
one howl from pure jealousy!'' 1
Conversation strayed upon indiffer- 3'
out subjects after that. The gentle- |
men. after boarding the train, burled P*
themselves in the morning papers with i *(
a comment now and then upon some
point of politics or other thought as ft
suggested iu.the columns before thorn.
And before they readied the city most
of them went into the smoker to refresh
themselves against the trying
day with a cigar ?all save Harold ':1
Graham, who protested that he did !
not care for this stimulant, hut would ; ^
remain with his wife. 1
"And now, dearest,'' he said, when ^
they were alone, as regarded their , '
friends, "this will he a hard day for | j
both of us. I shall take you home at ^
once and then go down town. I will
place everything in Clavering's hands \ '
and let them tight it out! It will be i
the bitterest fight of my life! I regret
that your mother and sisters are still ; ^
in Europe, Alec-ia! I wish they were
hero with you at this difficult time!" ;
"You need not regret their absence, i
Harold," Alecia said, quietly. "I am
glad they are away. I prefer having i
only you until this is over. We will !
fight it out by ourselves and hope for
the best that can come." CI
"Your faith is wonderful, Alecia," j
he said, rather coldly, his temepera- 8C
ment changeable under the trials of "
the past day. He had so little hope ^
for himself. "I think you will find it
tried to the utmost ere you have doue." i
"And stiJ there win De some goou tj
left. Nothing is ever all wrong." s)
"Nor half good." said her husband, a(
bitterly, "except you. Aleeia!" ol
But be as brave as she would Aleeia
knew that much of bitterness must 0j
come to them ere they could leave the jc
city and begin their new life at the i
West, where the flowers were still y<
sweet in spite of the falling gardens 0,
of the East. And in truth she was s,
tried most bitterly during the weeks w
that followed tnat day.
The failure of the house of Graham P]
electrified the city at the first shock; | hi
a little later came the comprehension _
that this failure meant loss to many? fi
possibly utter ruin to some?and then S(
came the ruthless clamor for self and
self and self. h
"Literally every mar. for himself," Xv
said Harold Graham, bitterly, one day, m
"and the devil take him that comes e(
last. Would to God I could but meet j .
all my liabilities, and I would start
afresh in a Western city and build up ^
a new name. But burdened as I shall B'
be at the best "
"If all Is done that is possible," said pi
Aleeia, in her sweet, quiet voice, allc w- o
ing no shadow of her own suffering to ' d
fall upon her husband, "we can do ao ! d
more than start afresh, anyway, Ht.r- ' b
old, and build up the old name and pi y j w
off the old debts and find a happy life 1?'
through it all." j
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"I believe you would Cnd happiness
if exiled to Siberia, Aleeia," said lie i
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husband wearily, yet always courteous ; ~
to her. "What is it in your heart thai
lifts you over everything?you, too. K'
who love every good thing as well as
I do? One might think you the davgh- T<
ter of Solon, my sweet philosopher.
What would I do without you?"
She went to him and ran her fingers , '
softly and lightlv through his hair. I
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There were wrinkles of care in his face
and threads of gray in the midnight
hair, that had come within that short r'
space of trouble. Very soft and tender ^
were her fingers and magnetic in their | ^
touch, until the lines softened and a i r
smile fell upon the tense lips.
. "Then Mr. Earle will not compro- ; ^
mise the matter, waroia?win noi give
you any grace, uo matter how it is j.,
urged upon him''"
"I tell you, he is implacable. Alecia! ^
He has such straight lines of integrity j
for his own trading that he cannot see p
s hair's breadth to left or right in an- ^
other man's affairs with leniency. 1 j,
do not think the man is really hard- j 1
hearted. He believes himself right, j p
Clavering urged the last plea for me (j
rrith him to-day. He might as well
have pleaded with a rock."
"Then I will see what I can do. I ! (
am not a lawyer, nor so eloquent in j
business phrases as Mr. Clavering, b;u j (
f shall see what a woman can do. We i ,,
will not despair, I tell you, Harold. ! j.
We will do everything that we can."
lie p'jshc.1 the soft hand from h's
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?ad and arose facing her. A flush
as fighting the pallor of his face,
e was frowning heavily.
"What is it you would do, Alecia?"
"I shall go to Mr. Earlo myself,"
ie said, quieny, siauuiug a& lcsuiun.facing
liiui us he faced her. "I sliail
ppenl to his sense of justice I shall
11 liim. if every other plea fails, that
e Is worse than cruel to he so implaible
toward the man who save his
fe at the risk of his own "
"Never!" he interrupted her fiercely,
art in? forward. "Pardon me, Aleia.
for my harshness, but I will not
ave that used in my favor. If he will
ot pive me a fair chance to retreive
iyse!f from purely business motives,
e shall not ever say that I worked
pon his gratitude. Who told you. any
ay. Alecia? They pave me their
ord they wouldn't repeat it. He did
ot know."
"No one told me." she raid, steadily:
I guessed it, Harold. I knew, every
ne knew, that you did much toward
iving the other men. and 1 added this,
knew you. and knew it was what
ou would do."
"But you shall not tell him," he related
more quietly, the first Intense
eling of anger at discovering that
le was cognizant of that net?uneon ious
also of his temptation ? was
me. "You shall not go to that man,
ther, Alecia. Do you think I would
low my wife to plead with any man?
o you think that I will allow you to
ive anything to do with .Lis matter?
ive me your word that you will not
?. that you will not dc this, as you
? f Uif,
"Because I love you." slip said, very
:-ntly, "I will do this. Harold. It is
?ry little. It may do no good. \ can
lit try. You will allow nic to do it
?cause you must. I am a woman as
>u are a man. and I will not yield
hat I think it right any more than
ould you. I may succeed where you
ould fail: I am your wife: I shall try.
ut I will not urge your act of bravery
oon him. I will promise you that,
rarest, as I love you."
CHArTER VI.
JUSTICE, i
Mrs. Harold Graham was delicately
lgraved upon the card laid upon the
?sk before Palmer Earle in his handime
private office: and Palmer Earle's
ay'Tirows were 'meeting" heavily' as
j bade the boy admit her.
"She has kept her engagement wit*
omptness," he said, glancing from
le clock above Ids desk to the man
anding at the window. "You must
.^knowledge that, Winthrop, in spite
your scorn of women."
"I do not scorn them," answered the
:her calmly. "You misjudge me. Mr.
arle. Only?they are not fitted for
asiness or this sort of thing. I warn
3U beforehand to expect tears and
ltreatJes. If you yield, it will be
trongly against ray advice. This
oman, his wife, has a fortune in her
ivn right, and if she be a true woman
ie will offer to give it toward her
usband's liabilities. If she does not
well, the matter has been gone sufciently
over with their lawyer, it
;ems to me."
"Perhaps her fortune went with her
usband's," suggested Palmer Earle,
ith no idea of arguing for the womn,
but as the thought suggested itdf
to his mind.
The other shrugged his shoulders.
"It isn't probable." he said. "If it
ere 60, Graham's counsel would have
:ated the fact."
Further conversation upon this
oint was interrupted by the entrance
f the woman in question. She was
ressed very plainly In a close-fltting
ark-blue suit with a hint of gold
raid about it, and a bonnet of blue
'ith yellow rosebuds almost hid in
ice, one perfectly gloved hand held
>r a moment in the strong hand of
aimer Earle. For, stern business man
tough he was. he was impelled to adliration
by this woman.
"I sincerely regret that you conidered
it necessary to call upon lue
ais morning in regard to this mat?r,
although at any other time I am
leased to meet Mrs. Graham," he
aid in his large, grave way. "Mrs.
Iraham, my counsel. Mr. Wintbrop, I
elieve, is a stranger to you. Allow
le to make you acquainted. Mr.
Slavering, your husband's lawyer, arauged
for you to meet us here this
lorning, as you know. Believe nu\
1 the first place, that I sincerely reret
this misfortune and would have
ad Mr. Wlnthrop close with Mr.
lavering's offers if I might; but it is
npossible?utterly impracticable!"
"Entirely so!" supplemented John
Vinthrop emphatically. His straight
rows, frowning, cast a shadow of
ardness into the dark-gray eyes look
3g so levelly into the beautiful violet
yes of the woman before them. Her
eart almost failed her as she looked
3to his quiet, stern face. He was
ot a handsome man. but he was tall
nd broad-shouldered and commandag;
his cleanly, shapely hands belayed
perfect self-control, and a powrful
hidden strength of will and music;
those steady gray eyes and the
ulet mouth under the brown n:usachc
made him a striking looking
tan?one upon whom to reiy implicit
5*. but one who would never yield one
i: ir's b. adih his standard of
tight or justice. His heart must always
yield to his will should there
come any conflict between them.
"I know that Mr. Clavering has done
what he could to settle this matter,"
Said Alecia, her soft voice souuding
Sweetly through tke*room, stirring the
hearts of her listeners. "But he is a
knan. Sometimes a woman's instinct
bverbalances even a lawyer's keen insight."
Her swift, brilliant smile light
bd and faded from her face like the
transfiguration of some passing dream
of beauty. "My husband has given
up everything as you know, gentlemen
I I1L" iJ* ? UllLl^ 4(11(1 Uii^lUUS IU LLICtfL ill!
demands against him; that he cannot
do so is his misfortune, not his fault.
I need not tell you it is against his
wishes that I am here. You, also cannot
fall to know that. He is too proud
to plead for even simple justice where
it is not freely given. Iiut I am his
wife, and if iu auy way I can lighten
his burden I shall be infinitely grateful.
"Knowing that he has done every
'thing in his power, that he is willing
and anxious to do what he can to retrieve
his fallen fortunes, being hon
jorable men' and men of justice, can
you still refuse to make some conees'slon?to
compromise with him for such
. or such an amount on the dollar? Per
: haps I do not understand business term3
or business itself well enough to meet
.Mr. Winlhrop upon equal grounds of
; argument, but. being a woman. I have
a heart and know that my husband's
is very bitter and very heavy I. as
;his wife, therefore, ask you to be just.
I appeal to you heads, not to your
hearts, ami ask you if you can frankly
toll me that you do all that any man
could do under corresponding circum
I stances?"
(To be continued.)
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WORLD.
All the mlr.es iu the Tarentum (Pa.)
I district are closed.
Brooklyn (Ohio) carpenters arc matI
lug an effort to form a new union.
Electrical workers at Dulutk, Minn.,
liave b:eu granted an advance in
wages.
Advices from Mexico state that scarcity
of labor is retarding railroad construct
ion.
The wages of South Wales miners,
regulated on the sliding scale, are to
be reduced ten per cent.
The wages of miners and tankmen
have been reduced two and a half per
cent, at Newcastle, Eugland.
Montreal (Can.) stonemasons threaten
to strike unless granted thirty cents
an hour and a nine-hour day.
Brickniakers at Detroit, Mich., coni
template forming a anion. They want
more pay and a uniform scale.
Boilermakers, sheet iron workers and
Boilermakers' helpers at St. Louis, Mo.,
have asked for increased wages.
The turners and slaters at Youngstown,
Ohio, have been granted an increase
of twenty-five cents a day.
The International Union of Cat
Builders and Itenairers ins increased
its membership 10,000 in less than four
! months.
Western women golfers will play for
j tlie championship at Onwcutsia. Chi|
cago, during the four days, August
! 27 to 30. The
Stonemasons' Union, of Toronto,
j Can., and their employers have agreed
I on a rate of forty-one cents an hour for
one year.
The mills of West Duluth, Minn.,
have met the wage scale demanded by
the lumber pilers, but refuse to recognize
the union.
Tacoma (Wash.) team drivers have
returned to work. Concessions were
made on both sides. Ten hours constitute
a day's work and the union is
recognized.
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Wanted to See the Presses.
A well-dressed, intelligent-looking
gentleman entered the "den" in the
War Department where the newspaper
men have their working quarters,
evidently in search of something. He
removed his hat and politely inquire*):
"Is this the press room?" "Well, it's
a sort of press room." replied one of
the reporters. "Well, that's strange."
quietly remarked the visitor, looking
around apparently for something he
i didn't see. "Where are the presses
and the printing machines?" It was
at first supposed that this wa3 a "jolly,"
but as the gentleman seemed to
be perfectly sincere fa his desire to
see a real press room in operation he
was provided with a detailed description
of the most direct route to the
government printing office.?Washington
Star.
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place, but there are times when a kick
would be far more effectlv?
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It is a greater
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The good shei*
herd thinks more
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Agnosticism in
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th.e burn.
There is a good deal of difference
between having a mission before men
and having one for them.
Peace is the poise of the soul's perfect
activities.
. Crutches become a curse when we
might have wings.
if Christianity docs not grow out it
canr.ot be put on..
Righteousness will not come by
rote.
His need makes another my neighbor.
Lights are more important than
lamps.
A creed may be made a casket for
a faith.
He loses all who is unwilling to lose
any.
The eorrunt man cannot be cour
ageous.
Xo man can run away from bio own
heart.
Heaven does not wait for earth's applause.
The oil for the night must bebought
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That which satiates cannot satisfy.
Sweet fruits grow from bitter ieed.
Preparation is the best prayer to
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Every blessing received creates an
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Religion is not in us unless it goes
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It takes a small breeze to raise a.
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To cultivate a callous heart will not
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Long Island Peculiarities.
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The class in geography in one of
the Erooklyn schools was being examined
the other day when the teacher
asked
"What are some of the natural peculiarities
of Long Island?"
The pupils indulged in some heavy
thinking, but none responded. Suddenly
a fat boy with a red face, who
had been shifting uneasily about in
his seat, received an inspiration. ? v
"I know," he exclaimed, raising his
hand.
well, wiiai are iuc?i catuiuagcu
the teacher.
"Why," said the fat boy. with a tri- ,
umphant lock around, "cn the south
side you.see the sea. and on the north
side you hear the Sound."
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