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* ^ CHAPTER IX.
THE OUTCOME.
. Alecla said that the Golden Gate
tnlght open to them pleasant lands;
and, although she could not know
what the future held in store, yet their
friends, new and old, said that fate
was specially good to Harold Graham,
ond that he was joint heir with Midas
of old, for everything he touched
seemed to turn to gold.
Certainly, in a worldly sense, he was
ivonderfully prospered. Part of Aleda's
diamonds had been advantageously
disposed of, and their circumstances
were comfortable from the
start Little of luxury, indeed?and
[Harold Graham demanded luxury for
[happiness?but they wanted for nothing
really essential.
Nevertheless, Graham was not the
man to be satisfied with this. .. He
came to build up his fallen fortunes,
he told her many times as excuse for
'his speculations; and build them he
would. In that he was also prospered.
They chose San Francisco at first in
which to live, and rented a charming
house on a quiet street, but as Harold
grew more and more successful in his
..ventures he grew equally more restless
and dissatisfied. And after a residence
of four months in the city they
left their new home and a pleasant circle
of friends which Alecia drew about
her by her graciousness and beauty,
iJtnd whom her husband attracted by
his brilliance and success.
! From San Francisco they traveled
through California, north and south,
In places charming to see and good to
,live in; among stretches of almond
and orange orchards and vineyards
royal with wealth, and slopes alive j
with sheep; hospitable people everywhere,
and wonderful life; even the
few poor remnants of the old Mexican
families left in the rich lands of the
South, in their tiny homes among the
hills, opened their doors to the beautiful
American woman, though no others
of her countrywomen were welcomed;
and it was a wonderful life to i
'Alecia, sad with the sorrow of a dying
remnant of a great race, but sweet to
know that tbey cared to have her go
among them, and would tell her
Stories of the old gay life before the
'Americans came and they were
crushed or driven out
Even her husband for a time regained
his old spirit and geniality, but
after the first the old wound, unfcealed,
brought added restlessness and
bitterness, and he would be satisfied
.with nothing; and from one place to
another, from ranch to town and village
and back to the city again; and
still fortune smiled upon them, and
Still Harold Graham could not be at
rest or find peace.
In their old home they had lived
lavishly; there had been nothing
jwanting that a luxurious taste could
demand; but in the new home money
(Sasily gained was as easily and recklessly
spent until it became a prov
|arb among their friends tiiat tiranam s
wealth ebbed and flowed like thei
iocean's tide. I
He seemed never to think of the future
or of the past. The wealth Alecia
had hoped would be gained to
meet the demand against her husband
In the old home city he spent as quickly
as it came to him, yet ever renewed
it No wish of hers that she uttered
ever so lightly but he granted?save
her one great wish to return to New
(York and her friends there, and to
clear every claim against her husband.
This wish was shut in her
heart and he heard no word of her
desire, for she would not ever place
her wishes before his.
But he knew that the thought was
with her; he could not know her as
he knew her without being perfectly
assurred that her heart must long for
the old familiar faces and voices and
love. He loved her deeply, intensely;
but even so, he felt that she must
need the love of those who gave her
love before he crossed her way.
He spoke of it no more than she;
the subject fell by degrees into silence
between them?for he even came to
aver that he had no interest in the *
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life alone. It wore upon her, ofcourse.
The old color was something]
fainter and the light of the eyes less'
iclear, though always quite steady. Her
smile, too, was less frequent, though i
still very beautiful whenever It:
crossed her lips. \
1 ? Her husband's genial nature;
Changed perceptibly as the days went
by. He was always courteous to her;
nothing came near her that could annoj?or
give her pain, so far as lay in
bis power to prevent; but he grew irritable
as his restlessness increased.
Trifling things annoyed him. Sometimes
his eyes frightened her with
their feverish brilliancy, and a habit
bad grown upon him of raising his
band to his head half mechanically as
though In pain when he was ever so
lightly troubled or annoyed.
*. Alecia noted this as she noted every-.
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rHROP'S DEFEAT,
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tkiug relating to bis welfare; but she '
never dared speak of it to him. She |
waited and watched, and as this habit !
grew alarmingly, she went privately i
to a physician aud questioned him as j
to the cause aud possible danger.
TT? 5n eilott^a tfx HPT* fitflTT. i
nu ilOltrucu 1U vv v She
told it very simply, but his quick
perception grasped much that was left
uutold. He was perfectly courteous,
but somewhat reticent. He understood
the ease as thoroughly as was
possible, having no acquaintance with
the man professionally and being
therefore obliged to judge upon geaertn
"rprTOTTI>7??'; 'and he knew, also,
that which he could not tell this woman.
He could not meet her eloquent
eyes and tell her, even softening it
ns he would, that there could be but
two courses for this disease, but one
of two for him. Insanity or?death!
Her husband's brain had been overtaxed;
his mind heavily shocked; his
sensitive nature sorely wounded. The
change of air and scene had somewhat
benefited him, hut the end must be
one of these two.
Still, he only told her very learnedly
of her husband's heavily taxed mind
cud the necessity of perfect and immediate
rest and freedom from care,
iinnra Qt,ri r-hoorfnl r-nmnfinv
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dnd the abandonment of ull business
at once.
She was quick to note the changes
of voice or face, and there was something
uuder this man's quiet words
that increased her fear.
The days passed into weeks?three
weeks?full of anxiety for Alecia.
With licr fears wakened by the ph3*siciau's
words, she watched Harold unobserved.
She forced herself to be
tight of heart and brilliant as of old;
6he sang to him when he desired; or
read as he lay upon a couch, or was
silent. She had always been true to
him and loving; but there came now
some deeper sense of danger that
made her irresistible. Her husband
watched her often' in wonder. For
6he saw?even love could not blind her
-that her husband was failing.
Not rapidly; net with any horrible i
disease, but growing weaser anu more i
irritable and exacting; never at rest I
anywhere; his black eyes, always fev- '
orislily bright now, sometimes fast- j
ened upon her face with a half-vacant j
stare that made her heart sink, and j
sick.
Until one day when three weeks 1
were gone, Harold Graham knew little
and cared less for what was passing
around him as he lay in u stupor
born of the fever in his brain. He had
no strength to resist this fever, the
physician said, when summoned to attend
him. They were back in San
Francisco and had the best physicians
in the city.
For three days and nights Harold
knew no one, lying in a stupor most
of the time. Complete prostration the
physicians said, and they scarcely had
need to say it.
1 Then?came the end.
i To every one save Alecia this end
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a blow. They told her that her husband
was very ill at the beginning;
but when they told her that there was
no longer hope of his recovery, that
she must prepare herself for the
worst, not a word did she utter, not
a cry crossed her lips; but with her
eyes lifted to them in a terror that
was the concentration of weary weeks
of fear and watching, she sank at
their feet ia an unconscionsness as ut- ,
ler almost as that approaching silence i
in the room above.
With the tenderest pity they raised !
her and restored her to consciousness, '
but it was long before she was able to j
go to her husband. Her eyes were
steady and sweet as they met his instantly
upon entering the room. Her
face was pale, but the smile that
lighted It for him was the old radiant
smile that had come to him like the
thought of an angel across the wild
waste of waters when the demon
struggled in his heart. He thought of
it, meeting her eyes, for he was thoroughly
conscious, and his mind
strangely clear. He thought of it, but
it brought no pain; for pain seemed
to h ive gone utterly from his life, and
nniv nn unaccountable Deace to have
come to him.
; Still too weak for Independent
movement, he tried to stretch his hand
to hers, a slow, faint glimmer of smiling
answering hers; and going to him,'
not a quiver of her face or voice, she1
knelt beside the bed, and taking one
of his hands in hers, laid the other tenderly
about him, her face upon the
pillow close to his.
j "Harold, dearest,", she said, very i
pweetly, very low, "you are better'
pow? It is good to see you yourself
tqd know that you recognize Alecla
I gain. I have been so very lonely
without you!"
> A.1 Ineffable tenderness came upon
kls face. It was as though life, fading,
proved why life was given and
taken?its pathos and_trials and sweet
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Qess crowded into one moment's space.
He was intensely weak, but bis mind
was clear. When he spoke his voice
was so indistinct that she nestled her
cheek softly and tenderly closer to his,
that she might not lose the words.
The mad beating and rebellion of her
heart he did not know.
"Poor little girl!" he said, faintly.
"What a good, true, brave wife you
have been to me when many women
would have been?different! How can ,
I leave you, my dearest?here in a
Strange city, with no one but strangers
to comfort you! For I am not de
fceived, Alecia. This strange clearness
of mind and the absence of pain
are the end. My life might have been i
braver, more true, perhaps; but some
way everything Is falling into peace.
I can .^vish nothing save that I might
have left you among those who love
rou.' It is hard to die?who knows? I
suffer no pain. Your courage gives
me courage and hope. But?presently 1
-you will go home, dearest, and there
will come?this peace also to you? ,
and the old wounds will heal "
His voice died out, but st.I' tenderly
and steadfastly her lingers hem his,
and her cheek pressed lightly. the pillow
scarce whiter than the lighted
Tace. 1
"It was cruel to keep you here,'"' he
added rrcsently, his voice scarcely a
whisper, with the fading life. "I !
knew that you?longed-for the old
home faces, darling. Now?you will
go to them. God bless you and be j
with you?always! And if?in that
Infinite world "
And then came silence unbroken; !
nnd Alecia Graham was alone with a
breaking heart, too stunned to realize
what had fallen upon her.
CHAPTER X.
"and after."
The light of life dying from Harold
Graham's face as the lilac sunset faded
from the heavens, left upon the
face of his wife the leaden pallor that
is worse than death. For a half hour
she remained kneeling beside the bed,
unable to believe that never any more
would her husband's voice or smile
stir her heart; never any more would
his eyes seek hers for comfort; never i
any more would he reach out weary j
arms to comfort her. Never any more!
She bent above her husband, stand- |
ing at the bedside, and searched the j
still face. With one trembling, ten- I
der hand she brushed back the black
hair from his forehead, still holding
her breatth as though she could not
believe that he were dead.
"Harold!*' she said steadily, scarce
ly above a whisper. "Harold, dearest!*' 1
Eut he did not answer?she knew
now that he could not answer?and all
the pent-up sorrow and pain were for
one instant concentrated in her face,
her self-command gone, a bitter cry
upon her lips as she clasped her
hands convulsively, driving herself
away from him.
"Then," she ciied. sobbingly, though
there were no tears in the lifted eyes;
"bear witness for me that it is John
Winthrop, in his prid j and arrogance,
has brought this sorrow upon me."
Then, with a swift, bitter gesture
of the hands, as though she would
sweep away this weakness, and begin ;
her lonely life with the old proud si- 1
lence, she turned away steadily, her
face calm and cold, and passed out at
the door, the folds of her gown trailing
about her, and the flowers at her i
belt crushed and falling like her !
hopes.
! Perfectly self-contained, perfectly
talm, steady of voice and manner as
ishe rejoined her waiting friends In
the rooms below?no tears upon her i
lashes, no grief upon her face.
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>ue uoes uui cure. wuisjjereu suiuc ;
among he:; l'riends, eyeing her askance. I
"Perhaps it is true that her husband I
did not make her so happy as he
should."
But the physicians, wiser in their
science than her friends in their love,
said that this calm was worse than a i
storm of tears, and unless she were '
roused, she, too, would die. 1
Some days previously the physicians i
Warned her friends,to notify her rela- i
tives in the East of the approaching \
sorrow that would fall upon her, and i
to urge them, if possible, to come at '
once to her. Following this advice, a 1
inessage was sent, startling them in- .
ilpori frtr A Win had not mentioned i
her husband's illness?with her usual
tkoughtfulness of them?lest it cause
them unhapplness to learn that other
grief had come.
But Alecla, moving quietly among
her friends, knew nothing of this
message, and her heart was heavy
with longing for some dear home
face and voice and touch. For how '
could she know that a westwardspeeding
train was bringing to her
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two irom nome:
Her mother and Beatrice! Ai.l home
faces were very dear, but these two
ifrom among them holding warmest
place in her heart
And when preparations were com- '
dieted for conveying the body home, i
and the widow in her heavy crape? i
btill more a woman of marble by contrast?showed
no sign of softness or i
jgrlef, then Into the midst of the friends
jgathered for farewell came these two
bear faces; and Alecia, with sudden
revulsion of feeling was sobbing in
her mother's arms; and Beatrice,
mourning above her sister, would not
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be comforted in tbe tenderness and
warmth of her young heart.
"Poor little 'Lecia! Poor little 'Lecia!"
she kept sobbing.
But the mother never said a word.
Her heart went out to the sad heart
of her daughter?both widows?and
what could words utter more than the
loving arms, and tender, silent caresses?
So they took her home?a sad homecoming?
and every tenderness that love
could devise was gathered around the
woman who had made sunshine for
so many that in her time of need was
reflected back upon her; and the days
dragged by; and never any hour the
less or more because of her grief; never
the shadow of one star or one sun
because her life was darkened; never
one instant's pause in the world about
her because love lay dead in her
heart.
"We will gu to Europe," said Mrs.
Field, one day, as they sat in conversation
in the breakfast room, when
the service was removed and they
were alone. "The girls are not satisfied
with their trip last fall, and it will
be excellent for you, Alecia, dear. We
can remain away as long as you desire,
and take in the East. You need
utter change,, my dear."
"Where are we to go, mamma?"
asked Marion.
(To be continued)
Candid Confession.
"I confess to being a very poor judge
of oratory," said the mild-mannered
person.
"Can't you recognize fluent speaking
when you bear it?"
"No. It depends on my personal
feelings. If a friend is making a
speech it is eloquence. If it is not a
friend it is mere garrulity."
GREEKS IN AN EVELESS EDEN.
Fewer Than 100 Women io the 10,000
Men In New York's Greek Colony.
The most curious thing about the
Greek colony in New York city?more
remarkable than the uress, the customs,
the coffee, the burnished gold
ornaments, the pipes and the speech
of the Greek population of New York
?is the fact that there are substantially
no Greek women in the city.
In the last quarter of 1900 the
Greek Immigration to the port of
New York included 1,267 persons?
1,231 men and 36 women. This disparity
is explained on the theory tnac
tt?V?on o fnroicm Annntrv fc rlrawn nn
for emigrants for the first time the
pioneers are men and that women
emigrants do not follow until some
years after. But the statistics of
Greek immigration to New York for
the quarter ending Janu.ry 1, 1902,
showed only 46 Greek girls and women,
and there are now fewer than
100 of them in New York against 10,000
male Greeks.
In no other New York colony outside
of the Chinese, uoes ruch a disparity
between the two sexes exist,
but an explanation for it is found at
home. Greece is one of the few Eu-1
ropean countries in wnicn tnere is a
large excess of male inhabitants. As
a consequence more male than female
Greeks seek homes or employment in
other countries and the emigration
from Greece is not only to Turkey,
Egypt and southern France, but in recent
years very largely tc the United
States.
There is no religious or social reason.
as in the case of the Chinese,
why Greek women should not come to
this country as Immigrants, but the
fact Is that they don't and the Greek
colony of New York, therefore, is
really composed of men. This is the
most notable but least picturesque
thing about it.?New York Sun.
Took a Header into Molasses.
Three unfortunate bicyclists had an
unusual experience at Clapham the
other evening. They were riding
on smooth asphalt, when in crossing
the shadows of some trees as they
thought, all- were thrown violently to
the ground. They felt a soft, gummy
substance covering the pavement,
which held fast their clothing and
hands when they endeavored to rise.
After some eifort the men tore themselves
loose and proceeded to investiiate.
They had ridden into a pool of molasses,
and had fallen in the sticky
mess. It appears that during the day
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California Sur?yers Discover Kuma*i
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Edgar Cox, a miner, has reached i
Redding, Cal., after a hard trip across i
the country from Lassen Buttes. forty
miles east, bringing a story of strange
discoveries of far deeper interest thanthe
great crater and the springs and
caves of the lava fields.
The discoveries are or bones and implements
denoting a people and astate
of civilization existing theremany
centuries ago. A second Pomnoil
mar ho hiHrlon Vanaath tho I?vn
and ingeneous rock which was belched!
In a far remote period from the mouth
of the grim old crater.
A party of timber surveyors werepicking
their way over the rough coran
try south of the defile called NoolesPass
to cross the rugged range. In
the very shadow of th^ ancient cone*
they found sea shells of surprising
color and shape. A cursory inspection
of the surroundings revealed'
other and larger shells and the men.
became deeply interested.
In the hope of discovery they unslung
their picks and d^cending a.
little ravine began to dig at the lowest
point. Within four feet of the surface
human bones, half petrified, were'
discovered.
They evidently had lain at mucligreater
depth, but erosin had thinned
the crust of the earth above thenu
The skeletons were in various poa
tures, as though death had come suddenly
upon the ancients, striking them
down as they were engaged in thedaily
routine of life.
Next the searchers came upon rudespoons
and bowls. They were apparently
of stone, but they bore no resemblances
to the Indian relics which
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Implements which perhaps were
used as hammers and chisels werefound.
They, too, were totally iralike
the known implements of the Indians.
Some of the stone articleswere
of such designs that they could y
not be classified at all.
The surveyors became convinced
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a race that antedated the known
Indians so far as to have little in common
with them.
It was the conviction of the party
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possibly engulfed with its inhabitantsK?
on onmtinn nf tho Inrti? PYtfnct Yf>V
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