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The cattlemen are looking for ranges In Chill, Brazil and the Argentine, and If they can not find large unbroken areas of grass land in those countries or are unable to make satisfactory terms they Intend to try Africa. n kidneys: ? by a horse and badly hurt? his hip was fractured?and after he recoTered he was in such misery that he could fflPy hardly walk, and to stoop n caused him such distress that "5* he thought he would hare to IT1* quit work ? also, it affected fWk V^tHy his bladder, and he was unr>\ saMTftV ~-:y able to make nis water without so much distress. I in - ? sisted on his getting a box of your pills and trying them, ?? go I went to Mason's Drug Store and got a box. The first box helped hhn so much nan thi? coupon to that 1 got the second and also tTiuuiw. ona*?? the third, and now he t? entirely well."?Mrs. L. W. - iSHtio, Lock Harea. Pa. The king * _*chone A NOVEL OF AMERICAN LIFE * -SJTWI DY MAURICE 1 lnV.1 IfXH V ??? ? CHAPTER VL CONTINUED. Fairfax caaght at once the meaning of this quiet work, and when Mr.Vernon came to the ladies and said: "You bad better go below for a while, we shall need all the deck-room to work the sails," there was more in his manner than his wife and daughter noticed. Mrs. Vernon objected to being confined again in the stuffy little cabin jnst when she was beginning to enjoy the sweet fragrance of the open air; but Fairfax assisted her and Pauline to descend and then returned to the deck. "I wanted to avoid a scene," said Mr. Vernon, "and I don't like the onnPftrftnftA of the fellow vender." __ v pointing at the sail. "It's no use for as to try to run away; you see that at a glance. Of course she many be all right; but I don't like her looks nor the place 6he is coming from. At auy rate, we've got to take our chance." "Do you mean to say that you suspect her of being a pirate?" "It is safe to suspect everything that comes out of Pearl Biver of being in some way connected with wrongdoing; but still, this may be the exception.1" "We'd better get ready to fight then," said Fairfax. "Have you no arms on board?" At the same time his eyes sought the little swivel that stood nearly amidship. "Is that gun in condition?" Mr. Vernon could not help laughing in his beard at the young man's prompt combativeness and his admirfthlft coolness, and he felt a pang of regret when he had to say frankly that it wonld be sheer desperation to attempt resistance, should the schooner prove to be the Pearl-River pirates bent upon their capture. "They are carrying at least three guns." he added, "and I counted ten men of her crew; besides, they could sail right up to to us and board us." A cloud passed over the young~ man's face, and a sudden realization of what might be at hand went down like a leaden load upon his heart. I The first thought was what would befall Pauline. He stood for a few mo- i ments like one who had received an almost stuuning blow. Mr. Vernon ! watched him narrowly and was in- ' | wardly delighted when presently he I liook on nis weaaoess auu eiciauneu "But what are we to do? Are we to let them take us, if they wish, without our makiug auy resistance? For my part, sir, I do not consent to i Dy such thing. We can but add a i very little fury to their manner of 1 dealing with us by lighting them like men. Earnestly, sir, I insist on meeting this matter bravely. "So do I," said Mr. Vernon, "but the question is: What course would, ! in reulity, be true bravery? I have no shot on board for the swivel, and what could you and I do aguinst a schooner's crew." "You have done very wrong," said J j Fairfax, almost Hotly, "to uring your ; family into this situation. It was a great oversight not to prepare for such an emergency." Mr. Vernon eyed his young friend, but made no direct reply to his hasty words. He saw that he could depend upon him in desperate neod, and this was the most and the best that he could ask just then. "There will probably be a light fog at nightfall; if we can give them the slip till then we may be able to get away; it is our only chance, provided they are enemies. They have a long run to make yet before they get into the lake; meantime, if we can pass 1 L - ? a. ? J.* ? fin rl t U A m nnfVi XUe poilll juuuci auu uuu iuu iuvu.u of the Kigolets and the fog at the same time, we may escape." It was a well laid plan; bat the wind wasrefactory, shifting and growing more unreliable every moment. Fairfax coald not understand Mr. Vernon's apparent indifference; it was so opposed to what his own nature prompted under such a stress that it exasperated him, while, at the same time, he felt his own inability to suggest anything feasible. Meantime their little craft had been set as close to the wind as she could run, and was making fair speed in a northwesterly course toward a marsh point which, in those days, had a hummock clothed with low, spreading live oaks. The fog was already beginning to fill the atmosphere with a thin, gray twilight effect, and the dis* anffoninnr l&Ut BCUUUUOi a nano w o* v, WV4WM*U^ into dimness; bafc the breeze slackened until it could be scarcely felt; moreover, as they kept behind the point, even this breath was shut off, and suddenly it was a dead calm. Mr. Vernon ordered his men to cast anchor, and then lighting his pipe, he went up to Fairfax, who was tramping back and forth, chafing helplessly "They" can't reach us till morning, at all events," he said; "it will be alL that they can do to get out of the river." "And so all that we can hope for is to lie here and wait," Fairfax muttered, "and be done for in the morning. It seems te-ine a tame way for men who pretend to have any courage to choose. Surely, there is som^?" "Young man," Mr. Vei?o#BVoice was very even and low, as he interrupted, but it had a certain savage 1 timbre?"young man, you are on my J$r i O F: Y ISLAND DURING THE WAR OF 1812. i I THOMPSON. I >7 Robert Bonner * Son*. vessel; it is yonr duty to obey my orders; yon are going to obey them. It yon have any suggestions to make I will give them consideration; bat understand that I command here, and that you do not occupy any official position whatever." Fairfax stood amazed; he looked at Mi. Vernon's almost giant bulk looming in the gray dusk; it appeared to dilate and take on the rugged outlines that his imagination would have given to 6ome old buccaneer. The remoto arrogance and the immediate authority with which the surprising urnrrl* hid bepn uttered seemed to come from a man pot in the least like the Mr. Vernon of yesterday. "I beg your pardon, sir," he managed to say; "yon are mistaken if yon think me ungrateful enough to offer any impertinent objections to your method of conducting your own affairs. I did not meau anything of the kind." He hated himself the next moment for having found no tetter way of expressing what, after all, was not very clear in his own mind; but his embarrassment was not in the least relieved when Mr. Vernon, with a gruff chuckle, turned abruptly away and went below. Fairfax looked around him, half dazed. Fairfax was not in a mood to doubt and accuse. His recent experiences had opened his eyes to the darkest possibilities of the life into which he had been suddenly drawn so deeply. The feeling that he had not managed himself in the least adroitly, and that probably he had shown his weakest side to Mr. Vernon, helped to irritate him; moreover, the danger, if danger it was, hovering so near to Pauline affected him strangely. This young girl 1ia<} nossession of him: he real ized in now. And was he aboat to see her fall into the hands of men like Pierre Rarneau? Mr. Vernon did not come on deck for some hours; when ho re-appeared a light breath of wind was beginning to blow, and he immediately ordered all hands to make ready to put the vessel under sail. The fog, though not dense as it had been, was still too heavy to permit any distinct view through Jt. When th? little craft began to move. Mr. Vernon went forward. As he passed Fairfax, he said in a low voice: "Stand by to pass my orders to the man at tho tiller; we must not speak above our breath. If we can get through to the lake, we are safe." By the lake he meant Ponchartrain, and their way thither lay through the main channel of the Rigolets. So gently did the vessel move that Indies sleeninor below did not wake; the only sounds to be beard were au occasional creak of cord or soar aud the light ripple of the water at the prow. Mr. Vernon was feeling his way toward the month of the channel with nothing to gnide him save his sense of distances and directions. Tho wind was somewhat against him and there was not an object by which he could exactly fix his whereabouts. So week was the breeze, moreover, that the vessel crept at but a snail's pace over the darkling water. It was near daylight; indeed, the pale influence of tho morning was diffusing itself through the fog when the breeze began to freshen a little, sending a ripple over Borgne and quickening the movement of the vessel. The soft, gray vail wavered aud lifted perceptibly, and Mr. Vernon had just made out the marsh-points at the month of the channel and was giving a low order, when suddenly a vessel, distant a stone's throw, showed itself through the fog directly ahead, and at the same instant "Ahoy, there!" came in a loud, clear voice from the stranger's deck. CHAPTER VII. rntUTENANT BALLAXCH1I. There was little spaoe for action on tne part oi mr. vernon, ueiweeu me moment when bis Teasel was hailed and that when it was necessary for him to answer. In shorter time than we take to write it, the two orafta were almost touching. "Avast, or I'll blow you out of the water!" shouted a voice Dot in the least nautical, but full of determination; the voice of a landsman, who, if he could not readily find the phraseology of the sea, was evidently in no mood to be trifled with. At the same time a twelve-pounder gun was turned so as to rake the deck of the Water Bird. "Blow away. Lieutenant Ballanche!" roared Mr. Vernon. "It ?i ? i ilj i. n W0UIU D6 a glorious imug io uro mu i me and my family! Ha! Ha! Ha! J Blow away! Blow away!" The, little vessel was now passing astern of the schooner and not a half cable's^Nngth from it. "HeWo! Is that yon, Mr. Vernon?" shouted the. alkm yonng officer who stood out mosf prominently on the ~-.lv Aanl- onrvlrn in PronAVt I 3UUUUUOI O UV/UUt <u>w AM A 4 VUVU? "Aye, that it is!" was the load answer in the same language. "I thought we should ram you atnidship, but we missed, good luck to you and to n^as.wBll!" "I wish to speak with./^u, sir," called out the young officer." "It is very important.H The two vessels were aIi.X4.d7 -fee;-0 apart rapidly, their courses being different; bnt every word was heard, bo favorable was everything to the conveyance of sounds. Fairfax felt a load fall from his breast at this sudden turn in an ad? venture which but a moment before had filled him with such dismay as only youth and love and the thought of swift calamity to the one most dear to him could engender. In the stress of the apparent crisis he had thought only of the girl; and now that the strain was over, it seemed to him as if the same breath that had blown away his distress on Panline's accouni had also lifted the fog; for the next moment the gray vail was ao removed that the young officer on board the schooner came into clear relief against the tall marsh grass on the point beyond. His features could not be made oat; bat his form was tall, slender, graceful, and his attitude striking in the extreme. He wore the undress uniform of a lieutenant of infantry in the United States Army. A half hour later, the two vessels lay alongside of each other, and Lieutenant Ballanche came aboard of the Water Bird. Fairfax watehed him climb th? rope from the_ gig to_the deck; and at the request of Mr. Vernon went forward to be introduced to him. The two young men shook hand and their eyes met steadily and frankly. Any shrewd observer would have said that they were mutually well impressed at first glance. Edouard Ballanche was a creole from bead to foot; that is, he was a Frenchman modified by the influences of American birth and experience. In his face burned the half-sabdued fire of a passionate yet naturally gentle and tender nature, fortified and specialized oy intimate acquaintance with almost every form of danger. Yon might have rend in his eyes that he had seen duels; that life, though precious to him, was worn as a garment to be Hung aside as lightly as a coat or glove; that honor was a word of unlimited significance to him. In speech ha showed that deliberate facility which always snggests the cut and thrust nnd parry of a master swordsman. The impression he made was one of efficiency, courage and readiness, singularly blended with lightness, grace nnd superficial good humor. He shook hands cordially with Mr. Yernon, and turned to acknowledge the introduction of Fairfax just as Pauline came from below. "I took you for a pirate," said Mr. Vernon, "and was running away from i you as fast as I could, I thought; but hero we are, boarded by yoa, and at your mercy." "The mistake was mutual, sir; I thought that you were on unlawful business of some sort, and have been all night afraid that you had got away from me. I am compelled to be vigilant now; I hope, sir, that I have not troubled you too greatly." "Your vigilance is something that no American patriot can grumble at,'^ said lilr. Vernon. "Is there anything new from the seat of war? Anything about to turn up?" "Nothing has been made public," replied the lieutenant, guardedly. "What may transpire at any moment ' * - --* a. ^ ~ is narci 10 ioresee; uuuuncoa wo nuuu bavo oar tnrn At the gamo of war down here iu due time." "You may apeak freely in the presence of my friend here," remarked Mr. VernoD, with a smile at Ballanche's caution, concealed almost though it was; "he is one of us." "I should trust him with my life," promptly responded the lieutenant, giving Fairfax again that straight frank look of perfect confidence. "What I wanted to say to yon, Mr. Vernon, is that it is not safe to keep your family or your property any longer st Bay Saint Louis. Tho British may sail in upon us any day; indeed, we are expeoting them soon." It was hard for Lieutenant BnlIanche, with all his politeness, to keep his gaze away from Pauline. Fairfax was not aware that she had come on deck, else he would have noticed the suppressed enthusiasm of Ballanche's glances toward the hatch way. As soon as Mr. Yernon discovered the presence of his daughter; he took Lieutenant Ballaucue by the arm and led him toward her. Fairfax tnmed in time to see the tall creolo bowing low over her hand. Mr. Yernon stood there like some grizzly giant of old, his shoulders and head looming heavily, while his danghter seemed to reflect upon him a suggestion of yonthfnlness blending with his show of years. Fairfax saw that Mr. Yernon regarded the young officer with emphatio interest and confidence.gave him distinguished consideration indeed, and that this marked attention seemed to be received quite as a matter of coarse. There was but a short conversation, and certainly nothing important was said; nevertheless, in some indirect way Fairfax canght from it a singularly vivid impression of being thrust far away aud of passing ooJt of consideration. After a little while, however, Batlanche bowed to Pauline, and taking Mr Vsmnn'# arm with a confidential touch, led him to a farther part of the deck where they could convorae^with* out being overheard. (to be continued.) lie Held On. An interesting account comes to ns of a Boston terrier dog which, running out on the thin ice of Jamaica Pond, broke through about a hundred feet from the shore. A boy prooured and threw tho end of a rope to him, which the dog at once seized with his teeth and held on until drawn to tho shore. ?Oar Animal Friends, % v'JJ $ i'our. budcetik-k 1 f? ?/ of Humor. I, I.IM. I? ? _ _l' Ordeals. " / .Waiting for a lunch or breakfast J '. Is a trial hard to bear; * ?' Waiting for a car or carriage , ' Makes the victim sometimes swear, r 0J Waiting for a friend or loved one '-y. \CaL-?? ni life .1 mournful wreck: ? But there's nothing racks the system ? Quite like waiting for a check. ?New York Times. The Way With Bills. Husband?"You must try to keep oui bills down." Wife?"I do, but they're always rua ning up."?Baltimore American. sr Incredible. Mother?"No, indeed, I shall not Iet^ * you take him. He'd only cry harder ?1? T .liJ If 11 1 U1U. Father?"Great Scott! Do you mean to say that he can cry harder than that?'?New York Journal. _____ * No "Gloom;" Dlajpioali. "Ye9, she has a case of 'nerves.'" "What's that?' "Well, to be frank, it's the name we use when a wealthy patient is just plain cranky."?Chicago Post. Positively Brntal. > Husband?"I wish I knew where I could find a buried treasure." i Wife?"Never mind, dear, I'm your treasure." Husband?"Yes, but you are not buried."?Chicago News. Great Praia*. "I have always heard it said that your wife is a woman of her word," said Gazzam to Bickers. "That's quite right," added Bickers, "quite right. She is not only a woman of her word, but a woman of a good many words."?Detroit Free Press. r Man Rom Unto Trouble. "Of course." said the optimist, "if a man gets into the habit of hunting trouble he's sure to find it." "Yes," replied the pessimist, "and if he's so lazy that he always tries to avoid it it will find him. So what'g the difference?"?Philadelphia Press. Quite tne rroper 1 mo;. "Gladys," said Chumley to his mannish sister, "I've done & much for you * you should write me a testimonial." "A testimonial?" ' ~ ^ "Yes, you might say: 'Dear brother, once I was a timid, delicate girl, but since using your collars, shirts and ties I have become a new woman.' "?Philadelphia Press. . . "T Blmfclnr It K?>r, "It must be admitted," said the courtier, "that our Emperor has simplified education wonderfully." . "In what way?" "In order to answer the questions. Who Is the greatest general, diplomat, critic, poet, and playwright, it is necessary only to mention his name."? Washington Star. X? Trick at Alt. "She thinks she is capable of presiding over a home of her own." "And she can. too, under the right conditions. Why. any girl can do It, if she only Las capable and well-trained servants and a husband with plenty of money. Presiding over a home that other people make isn't nearly so hard as making one yourself."?Chicago ^ t Mara to tha Point, * "This,'* said the dealer, "is the very latest odometer. You should have one." "What's the idea of it?" inquired the beginner. "It registers the number of miles your automobile travels." "Have you anything that will regis? ter the various distances I travel when I'm thrown out?"?Philadelphia Press. A Mixer. "Haven't I seen you somewhere before, my boy?" "Shouldn't wonder, lady. I circnlates around In all kinds of society."? 'New York Journal. .? - <v>