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THE ???D OF THE STORY.
Yob were standing alone in the silence
When I passed down the Stair that night,
Alone with your thoughts in the shadow,
Away from the fire's soft light.
A Dd Derer a greeting you gave me,
Not a word your Hps let Jail,
A? I came from the light to your side, dear,
That oight in the old oak ball !
But I knew, ah, so well, the secret
You fancied you kept unseen,
And I hated the pride that was standing
Like a shadow onr hearts between,
So i told you, that night a story,
And you listened as in a spell.
Till I saw that you guessed the meaning
Of the story I tried to tell !
You fain would have silenced me then, dear;
To leave it untold were best
Too late, for I learned, as you drew me
To your heart, that you knew the rest !
And the shadow passed by from between ns
Forever, beyond recall,
As yon whispered the end of the story
That eight in the old oak ball I
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BY CHARLES J- BEL LAM V.
Copyrighted by the Author, und published
by arrangement wit?i bim.
* CHAPTER Vin.
HIS MISTAKE.
It was quite dark when the carriage turned
the last bend in the winding road homeward
end the lights of Bretonv?le came into view.
The lights in the windows of the poer danced
out to meet the tired horses as gayly as any.
Tht;re might have been a sobbing woman
behind the cheeriest of them all; nature
shows no sympathy for human suffering. If
her pow eli fairen have no rest and joys their
hearts must break; that is one of nature's
laws. Neither can light lose its gladness and
cheer because gladness and cheer are so ab?
surdly out of place in poverty stricken homes.
Homes indeed ! As if the circles that were
gathered within most of those windows de?
served the name of home, with never a smile
of contentment to light up a face, or a word
of hope to make music for a dulled car.
Home to such as they is the place where the
cravings of hunger are quieted and the tired
cords and muscles are relaxed for a new
strain; where they can complain and where
they can sleep and die. But save thc word
to them at least, for a time when it shall bea
reality.
Suddenly thc sound of fire bells fell upon
Philip's ear and startled him out of his mel?
ancholy revery. The same instant he saw a
little cloud of smoke above the brick mills,
and then a bright tongue of flame le*""? up
toward it. The bells pealed out in short - v
ous strokes as if in tremulous fear, an at
then- impulse the young man's blood cou* sod
through his veins in uncontrollable excite?
ment, lr was but two minutes more when
Philip drew up short at the mill yard gates,
to escape Sx- engine which swept by with a
rush, drag -? t by a crowd of sLoutmgmen.
The people hatless, coat?es.?, and some even
barefooted in their haste, ?louredout of every
street and ai ?ey way, and into the wide open
gttcs, everybody talking and nobody listen?
ing.
But-Bertha had hardly spoken during the ?
drive home, and now seemed very little in- j
terested in thc disturbance.
"The mills .tie on fire," cried Philip,
droppmg bis rems and turning his excited
face toward her.
*;So I see,"* she said coolly, "and hadn't
you better drive on?"
"\Yi:y I oug'.t to be bore." He looked
aervousiy ar the hurrying crowd and back
into Bertha's cold beautiful face. ''Couldn't
you wait in one of these tenements? These
are all nice people."
Bat she made no motion, and only looked
at Ids flushed face in annoyed surprise.
"What are you thinking of? I stop with
tues..- people:**
"Or drive on home without me. Tho j
horses are gentle and you are such a good
driver, you know."
Philip was growing terribly restless; tho
people came faster and faster, and his eager
eyes followed each man and woman into the
gates with increasing anxiety. Even Bertha
noticed the curious looks the passers by gave
to the carriage that blocked the way.
"I couldn't think of it," she said in
measured tones that reminded Philip, even
at such a moment as that, of her father's.
44You had better drive along; there, not so
fast. VThy will you run the horses? You :
almost frighten mc."
It took but a few moments to reach Bertha's
borne, but it seemed aloug time to Philip,
who kept looking back over his shoulder at
tk? Ca.: neg wi doh til his excited fan cv seemed
rising Lighor at every glance. He stopped
the horses at Bertha's door at last, and leap?
ing to the^round. assisted her to alight. The
horses were panting, but there was no tim?
even to give them breath, and in an instant
more Philip was back in his seat. But
Bertha stood as if she had something to sayf
and he waited before be drew up the reins.
"You will make a mistake iii leaving SM
to myself to-night."
He thought there was a mysterious touch of
self distrust in her voice that was soft and '
almost tender as she looked fixedly at him.
Ali! he had never seen her so lovely; as if
the warm passionate woman soul had been
boni in her; and he longed in his rapture to
to fall at her feet and kiss thom. He was
forgetting the mill in flames as he drank in
the new sweet hope she seemed to give bim.
He could not leave ber thus with that won?
derful light in her eyes. No doubt thc fire
was subdued, and how little he could do at
best: there wore so many stronger than he.
But suddenly a tongue of flame leaped up
into " be black sky like ligi *niug.
"I would so love to stay, darling, but tho
milis ri?-'- on fire-my father's mills. I might
save them. Don't you understand-it would
':.<? infamous ia me to"
"I ' ?ly said you make a mistake."
Tili bodies Philip Breton ne ver will forgot
that ? t dalling llamea beckoning him
away, and ibis beautiful woman, for whose
?-:< fond caress he would have given every?
thing but his manhood and honor, inviting
him lo stay. And in her changed fa .. he
thought he saw such sweet pro m is? ; of love
if bo stayed and such sure presage of evil if
be went.
"Good night," he said with faltering voice
as be drew- up the reins.
"Good night," she answered slo^lv as sho
turned to ?>, Li, and be thought be heard her
other sentence over again, "You make a mis?
take."
It was Number Two mill on fire, but all
that ingenuity and strength could do .-."t ined
doing as well without Philip. The men were
as busy as bees. Fifty manned the brakes of
the hand engine, nnd pumped as vigorously
as if there was no KU Ch thing as lamo bucks
and aching muscles,wh?o ontop of the en?
gine beside the ?VU, which rang with every
stroke of the brakes, stood their foreman
fce< ping time willi bis arms ar d whole I ?ody,
?i?? t enc^'uraging them with his hoarse, ex
<.',:> i voice. Then there were three hydrants
in full ?5-..; .-OK! ?1 crowd of men keep
th" hos- in coalition, and four moro in rub?
ber suits to Ivld the nozzles cad direct'the
streams of f-'-1 flowing water where it wo?M
qiiickost subdue th" tierce finThere
seemed nothing for Philip to <h\ "[.. was j
r.-o; : ii no more than t h*> crowd of chattering j
women, who stood hs near the fire as their j
rough voiced men would lot thom, flow odd
their tbin/viiitc faces looked, bab' hid Ly tho
shawls tied about their bea'is. lt was ft great
eVOnt in their dull, monotonous lives; tho I
very foundations of their world seemed J
shaken, and they could not talk fast enough j
to express their crude thoughts at the break- .
iug np of old associations. I
"Carn* tho hose up to tho next sto:
shouted thc foreman.
"The ladder is not l<mg enough," answ?
one of the men in rubber snits.
"Can't yon climb? Who canT then?"
This wa* Philip's opportunity, and lie 1
rie<l up the ladder two rounds at a ti
"Thou he swm^ himself on? on tho llgher
rod. Its sharp edges cut Iiis tender ha:
but in his eagerness lie did not notice it.
a moment more he had pulled himself UT
thc window sill and burst in thc sash. T
he reached down for the hose mid a ci
went tip for thc rich man s son who was
afraid of work.
He heard Ins father's voice below thanh
the men for their devotion, as tho su!
flames seemed to give way before their t
less efforts. But it was no time now for :
felicitations. The fire seemed under cont
but if the mastery were relaxed,- it wo
leap high again in its fury, and the ot
mills must go too, for all they stood nov
cold and proud. The smoke grew thinnci
the window vidiere Philip stood, so bc co
look down on the sweaty faces and bend
forms of the men at the brakes. Everyth
depended on them, and how strong they s
the water through the hose he held, t
forced back the fire inch by inch from
prey. If they could only keep it up a f
moments more the mills would be out
danger. Each stroke of the brakes made t
hose tlirob against Iiis sido almost like
giants pulse. God grant .them strengt!:
few moments more.
Suddenly he heard a loud voice rah
above the murmur of the crowd.
" Wise boys ye be, to clench the nails
yer own coffins. Amt this mill ycr jail a
its bosses your jailers.' Is there a fool of
all, but knows old Breton w"ho grins so n
to-night on ye, but knows him for a tyra:
who grinds us to powder?"
Philip saw a short, burl}- man whose h;
was cropped close to his round head, shoi
ing and gesticulating wildly, as ho made 1
way up to the engine and then leaped up
it. The brakes stop moving and the f
sends up new tongues and leaps along t
smoking beams and rafters in fresh fm
while the men listened breathlessly to ti
stranger. The "women too gather nearer, a:
look in curiosity at their husbands a:
brothers who drink in so eagerly his poison
words.
"Ii'pose ye thought ye didn't work loi
enough for vcr ninety cents a day. But ;
hev. A}-, boys, that big heap o' brick stan
for that oki man's meanness; its the machi:
to crash ye. It's the way he bleeds ye. B
how street he is to-night. Ye never notic
it before, did ye? He's seed you a starvi
on the Wirges he paid, a?d yer purty darte
gone to the bad for the want of a few thin
all gals kinder like. Some on ye, too, h
got old and cripples in his service. He ai:
ever guv a mite, has he? Now it's yoi
turn."
And the man shouted loud above the liif
ing, crackling flames that leaped out of
dozen windows in wild glee. "Let his mil
burn fur a warum to such as he who mal
so much sorror and misery in this ere purl
world that if Satan tortured their cruel sou
forevermore, it wouldn't bc a feather in tl
balance. Let him know the despair of
poor man for once."
It was almost madness that glittered in tl
fellow's darting eyes, and his voice gre
hoarse and terrible os he pointed his thic
fingers at the miK half hid in smoke, lit up-i
spots with forks of flame.
"Let every plank of it go. It's only serve
to make him richer each month, and 3
poorer. Such a machine as that don't d
sarve to stand. Let his riches hes used ?
poor turn to ashes tins niglit. Tears an
prayiiv" couldn't git eoual rights for us: tl
fire will do it. though."
Ezekiel Breton elbowed his way into the;
midst.
He lind lost his hat, and s:ood pale ir. h
agony in thc presence of the men wi
thought be had wronged them. He was coi
scions ot ho guiit; he had ord*." made h
money as others made theirs: fairer, mdeei
than mere money lenders, who added not*
ing to tho world's productions, ile knew, c
course, the poor si?Tered, but a man can't t
too suncal nish, and the same road was ope
to ibein that he had taken. And as ic
wages, who could blame **. man for get*in
help as cheaply as he can? That is busines!
Mr. Breton knew but one argument fe
thom.
"If you want pay," .:e shouted, "herc i
money, a dollar an hour to each man."'
But not a face relaxed' ho looked fearful!*
from one to another, and then up at lb
grinning face of the stranger, "only say
my mill." The old mau put up his hand t<
his white hair in a piteous gesture as h
glanced at the sheets of flame cud luri?.
smoke that shut off the ?kv above his devotee
mill.
"Sec the fire grows every second, wo ar
lost unless )"0u go to work ; I will pay tci
dollars an hour."
Tho brakes began tc move slowly up ant
down. Philip felt the water throb throng!
the hose as it touched his side, but it wai
only ene fitful spurt, for the stranger, wh<
seemed to hold the mills at his mercy, hat
found his voice again.
''Keep yer.money, old man; you will need
every penny of it, for you've cheated yer last
out of yer help in them mills. Yer mill hez
got to go."
Philip saw his father turn toward his mills,
the pride of his life, and look as fondly at
their grim walls as a man on the woman bc
loves, and the tears of futile agony wet his
cheeks. That moment the young man aged
ten years.
The crowd fell ?wick again, and another
speaker mounted the str?nge rostrum. He
looked young for such a crisis, but there was
a new suggestion of power in bis lips and thc
sullen crowd wondered what he thought he
could say to persuade them.
"I suppose,-' llegan Philip slowly, as if
every minute might not Ix? worth a fortune,
"I presume," and his voice sounded dry and
bard, "you will want your wages as usual,
next pay day. Is there any one of you fool?
ish enough to imagine you will get them if
tho mills go?"
Then the young man glanced at the burly
stranger, who, clearly enough, was taken
aback by this new style of appeal to a crowd.
"Possibly this broad shouldered friend of
yours is going to find a living for you. You
have got to find it somewhere, and you won't
have particularly good oharacters to recom?
mend you t" new- tyrants;
"Mind, men, I don't say but it is quito
fair, but mill owners manage their business
about the same way. lt is all very well t<>
complain, but the firs! necessity is a place t<?
work; if there isn't tba*, you surely can't
have any rights. I may as weil tell you, the
mills ar-j heavily insured, and you can't quite
have the rare satisfariiou of seeing that old
man ruined. Kut i doubt;if he will raroto
put auy more mills under s::.-h extra risks.
Koine "f your women and ignoran; people,
who don't see the fun of starving, may think
yon har . done a poor night's work."
The stranger had disappeared, and thc
faces of the men, clustered about their en?
gine, had: lost their sullen cast. Tlie young
man's Mack eyes glistened in tho new ecstasy
of nn orator's Iriumjfo
"One thing i will promise. I v. ill do what
I can in your behalf. ? know the lines of
most of you have fallen into hard places, and
I promise if I can se?' any way to lighten t he
btrrden o? Ufe on your shoulders I will help
you."
The men returned t> th'-ir work with a
murmur of approval. Was it too Into?
Tho brakes st. --tel up again. Tn..- man
ran up the ladders again, with thc hose, in
their hards, in liv renew--. 1 battle wit h thc
fire. Philip had moved tho crowd, ilc han
cl?.ison instinctively the only melli ?1 for the
crisis, while the ?'ame-s era hied and Unshed
in high eavnivn*. Hui v. . ? ii not !.> < i ' .?
Th" men wore wo ri:-":: g wi th new-cns'rgy :
new li >].<.: were hi fbi r hearts. The iniil
owner's soi: j-,;>-? -promis:.-.' to h< ';> them.; ho
SVinjiittli! 'd w.;!*i t!:<-'r ca-'Crloss j?o\<-rtV,
li' th-- wi;.-:.. In." of ;n?;?swent it wonld '-O
Upon their ;c;eucc??, pud tho il,.... p:?i
fresh siren;;'h in*,:? their weary nrn-s nt: 1
more fonrh-ss courage into their hearts, j lut
precious time had l.?een lost and the wird liad
changeai so ihn! now the red, greedy tor.gne
of flame lapp d lb . frowning brick walls of i
th- next ;;:ili. :..:.<! lavished their hvl. v.vm! .:..
hl::vw';-:!;l'?ali:n;:'?:::::i ' ' " ^ 1
When rhe moon was setting in the west,
that night, Mr. Breton found his son all
grimy with smoke, with clothes torn, an
drenched in water, ont o? all semblance to
the gentleman of elegant leisure. He stood
b%* the smoldering ruins of Number Two
mill.
"Aren't yon coining homo to-ni^ht. Philip,
my dear boc How proud Bertha would
have been if she could have seen her he ro to?
night.'1
Beitlia! What a strange influence her
words and manner at [erring had left upon
bira: as if, some way, in leaving her just
when he did, he had lost her forever. God
forbid; He could not shake it off: it was
with him as be waited almost alone in the
great mill yard; all tho excitement and re?
sponsibilities of the night had not dispelled
it. He looked down moodily into the smok?
ing mass of crumbled walls and roof and
blackened timbers, and watched for the little
forks of flame that started up boldly, now
and then, as if it were not yet too late for a
new battle, and then seemed abashed at find?
ing themselves alone in the dark, and sank
back.
"You have saved the mills," said his father,
wringing his bruised hand till it hurt him.
"God bless you, my son. I didn't guess how
much there was in you."
Philip looked up at the scorched walls off
on thc right, and the long pile of massive
structures away to the left, unshaken by tho
whirlwind of fire. In a few hours more they
would be alive with rushing belts and wheels,
and with the feet of the men and women,
telling how strange it was there was a place
left for work today. Yes, he had saved
them, "but at what price?" He spoke half to
himself. If ho only knew what Bertha luid
meant.
"What price? Ohr your promise to do what
you could for the men and all that. It was
guardedly put, my boy." And his father
laughed appreciatively. "Inexorable parent
must be consi^red, though, ha, ha.' You will
catch your death of cold. Weil, if you will
stay,, good night."
CHAPTER TX
WEAK MAX.
It was at dusk a few days after Jane Graves
had come to the Ellingsworthsthat she stood
at the dining room window.
It was almost ir. sight of her old dreary
home, and yet another world: how strange
that the two should be so near and not change
or shadow each other. But Jane Graves was
not the girl to trouble herself over hard ques?
tions. She breathed her new atmosphere in
unmixed delight, while latent senses awoke
each da3* only to bc gratified.
At this moment she stood in a veiw charm?
ing attitude leaning lightly against the
window casing, her prettily rounded arm
raised to play with the curtain tassel Her
master rather liked to linger in the dining
room fad read his evening paper. Occasion?
ally he would gfanee at the girl who had
such pretty poses: he had quite a taste for
pictures, and then she afforded him au excuse
for not a little cynical philosophy. Mr.
Ellvngsworth had one peculiarity that would
certainly seem vcr}" commendable. He never
spoke rudeh' to any one: it would have been
impossible for his finely grained nature. ' She
thought him polite and kino, and in ber in?
nocence imagined bis was the usual manner
of the well bred with their hirelings. Tho
et^er servants knew that humiliation was a
part of their required week's work, which
their wages were considered to pay for; ai*d
expected to-see the thunderbolt fall on thia
foolish girl who did not know how precious
was tiie purchased privilege of being cringed'
to. But strange enough the thunderbolt did
not hasten.
Suddenly the girl started, and a deep fius??
lit up her dark face. Up the walk, to tho
front doorway, came the man of whom she
thought, with his; own lordly stride as if he
were a prince, indeed, as he deserved to be.
Her heart was in a sweet glow; ho had found
her out, and had come for her. She woul?
leave all these beautnul things with rapture
for hun.
Mr. EUmgsworth saw the man's figure at
thc front gate, and the girl's start, ana
smiled rather disagreeably. He had won?
dered before why her lover didn't como, and j
here he was at the front door, no doubt ex?
pecting to 1)0 ciitov^inod in the parlor.
Jane Graves gh".v"i into the hall. Suddenly
grown shy at the maiden passion of her own
heart, she slowly opened the front door.
What would he say first? Would he take i
her band which bad grown so white and soft !
lately? Would he ask to kiss her. and with
beating heart she stood in the open door?
way.
It had now frown almost dark, perhaps he
did not seo her plainly.
"Did you ring." she asked foolishly, while
her heart sank down, down, would it never
stop?
..Xs your mistress in.rT
What was this-some strange mistake!
CouhI he not see who it was held the door
open for him?
"My mistress, Miss Ellingswortk? why yes, j
she is in the parlor," Jt must be a joke, but
now he had frightened her enough, and bow
they would laugh together over it. She was
attempting to smile, when she heard the par?
lor door open behind ker.
"Yes. I am here." It was Bertha Ellings
worth's voice. The visitor passed in, and
Jane Graves shut the outer door heavily and
sank upon thc floor, pressing with both her
hands against her bursting heart. Then she
leaped upon her feet in sudden madness and
hurried along the hall to the parlor door.
What right had this rich woman to steal
away her lover? She would care only to
amuse herself with him for a few days and
then her servants would bc told to shut the
door in his face. Such cold creatures as site
never love : passion they leno v.- nothing of,
only the passion to break honest men's hearts.
Why not warn bim ? Oh, but what was Jane
Graves to him / lie might remind ber how ha
had spurned her from him once.
Jane Graves went back into tho dining
room, now grown dari:, ami threw herself
into a chair. The poor cannot tight agai:i?t
the rich. Ah: but *kc could hate her mis?
tress' white face. She could curse her in her
thoughts with all the cribs in the universe.
The girl burst into a passion of tears.
"What is thc trou bl", little girl:" It was
ber muster's voice. .She had forgotten bim.
The giri heard him draw a chair near hers,
bat she did not uncover ber face.
"Was your bean unkind to you? Well,
don't have anything moro to say to him,
then. Jennie."'
Why! the elegant Mr. Sllir.gs-worth was
actuallyk'ssing.his maid! What differenco
did it make:..the one she loved had thrown
t:er away, and t-ra.'.n: led her devotion nader
his feet. She even ?et bira <Iraw her'shapely
little bead lo bb should. r, and take lier hand's
away iron, her iS<-<\ They hid Iv r hps, bo
said. The:1, ike door bell rang.
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l 'r ty V / AV
Mr. E'c-v- -?;; ;::..;v.v r.-d the bell ki:
.!. a I'l* .-.ii of-'*! (te.iiot frequent wt;
.ia. even under lae liberalizing iu?lucncc .
?"iago manners.
".lr. ?'" t -a. charmed TO SM you." ?i:
irr- .vas r.!'. ?iv? famie"!- ira*.fi: i huai.
i h:si-rfe:-:lv train -d .'-.w. Tho old ac:
em >.<; r.>A-\.4 h >v, ! -a the m r-Z < .
Eut Lis daughter had not boen schooled
enough for such self control, and she started
to her* feet ss her parlor 'Ivor oponed, almost
in consternation. There was quite a study
for character in the room at thai moment.
Curran'had not arisen: his lips might hare
been closed a little tighter tuan iisuaJL, but
Iiis face did ncc even roves.! ?"ir:-riso. Mr.
Breton had reached the center of tho roora
before kc saw v. hom Bertha had been enter?
taining, but no*.v he stood in astonishment
which ho kau no concern to hide-snapping
Lis black eyes from the young lady who was
soon tb be bison's wife to this weaver in tho
mill, who did not seen so mach out of place
in this fashionable parlor, either. The crisis ?
had como, and Bertha was entirely ?npre- j
pared for it. Ker heart was fluttering wfiiUy, j
and for the moment she wished sha had never j
seen the mau whose presence embarrassed
her. A moment before she had forgotten
there was such a thing as wealth or rank,
devoutly confident such a man as her guest
could stand before kings; hut the door Lad
opened and let in thc breath of pride and ?
caste, scattering the halo about the poor I
man's head. Suddenly sho looked with new
repugnance at bini she Lad just thought so
sublime. Why did he not go? She waa
flushed with vexation at his stubbornness in
delaying. Had Lo no sense of propriety; to
court a social meeting with her aristocratic
father, who would ridicule Him without his
guessing it, and thc blunt mill owner, who
would bo sure to insult and browbeat Lim
plainly* She expected to see Lim rise awk?
wardly and shume out of tho room, perhaps
pulling his forelock respectfully to tac- com?
pany that was not for such as he.
CHAPTER X.
WEAK WO MAX.
Curran glanced keenly at thc face of lut
beautiful hostess, whose wonted serenity had
all gone, then he rose to his feet, and stood,
while she spoke his name in the briefest forra
of introduction. He did not seem offended
by the stare of surprise Slr. Breton Lad foi
him. It was a new experience to the mill
owner, mooting his workmen in fasiiionabii
parlors,
"Curran, is it? I was sure I had seor you
in tho mili, hut you had on a white apron
then." Mr. Breton laughed familiarly, bu*
he did not hold out his hairl
Couldn't Curran see how rudely he "was
treated? Mr. Breton's laugh and tone rasped
Bertha's finer sensibilities, so that she was at
once indignant with him, and disgusted with
Curran who seemed to boar it so uncon?
sciously. Cuiran's brow was minified: he
had only folded his arms across lus breast,
sometimos a sign of excitement with him.
"Mr. Curran had the good fortune, I be?
lieve, to do my daughter a great service."
Mr. Elli ngsworth's manner was thc- perfec?
tion of well bred rudeness. It expressed the
infinite elevation and polish of the person
who assumed it, ?ir above thc very natural
feeling of disgust at the presence ot so vulgar
a person as this workman, lt suggested ii*re
sistibly the great contempt such a person
ought to call forth, but a?the same time
that Ellingsworth was unapproachable by
even as vulgar a thing as contempt.
"Indeed*** exclaimed Mr. Breton, as Le
seated himself, "I will thank you, too, it was
a good job for you, and I will seo it don't
burt your interests any, either."
"How do you like your work**' went on Mr.
Bretor in his harsh mill voice. ''I ho\ie you
ain't one of those who don't know when they
are well o?r."
'T can keep from starving: thai is well off,
I suppose.*"
Mr. Breton was at loss but for a moment.
'"But you poor people don't save what you
get. You ought to c momize. "
Curran's eyes tlashed, dangerously, but he
bit Lis lip and kept silence.
Mr. Ellingsworih saw a scene was immi?
nent. How little tact Mr. Breton showed in
patronizing thc young mun so provokingly
before the golden haired goddess whom -ho
had no d< -ul ;t fallen in love with. Something
must be.dcne. *
..Excuse mo. Have you had any serious
trouble with your wound. Mr. Curran ;"
"I have only loss a few days; that is noth?
ing." Le answered quickly.
"But it must be considerable for a per
man !" broke in Mr. Breton, with Lis grand
air; "I will direct my paymaster to make it
up to you."
Curran glanced across the room at Miss
EiiingswonL. He expected to see lier face
flushed with anger. She would leap to her
feet in indignant remonstrance to shield Lira
from such impertinence, all the generosity of
her nature iii revoit against such return for
his devotion to her.
She was looking at him; but ranch as a girl
looks at a strange animal shebas l>cen pet?
ting, when suddenly they tell her Le -bites.
Curran turned away from her and ground
his teeth. Then he looked at Mr. Breton.
"Can't your paymaster tanke up for the
pain, too, as well as the lost time?"
Mr. El lings worth was at his wit's end. He
saw the cloud gathering in the workman's
eyes, and that bis lip trembled with sup?
pressed feeling when he spoke.
"How long have you been in town, Mr.
Curran ?" he said to chango the conversation ,
if possible into safer channels,
"linly six mouths.*5
"Why," volunteered Mr. Breton after an
awkward silence, "that is about as long as
the mill bands have been fault finding so
loudly.'' The old gentleman looked sharply
at hun. ilI don't suppose you would tell who :
has been making the trouble."
"Ves, sir." Curran luid risen to his foot,
the flush of offended self respect in his cheeks.
When I came bore I found the milis paying
you ?:? per cent, dividends, while the help
who ground them <"-ut for you, were crushed :
almost to the cari b. I felt bound to tell them,
as 1 now tell you. that the owner has no
more Cod given right lo all the proiit cf their
work than they to all the profit of his ;
investment.**
"And you are tho man who has been stir?
ring up this mischief hcref* cried Mr. Bre?
ton;/almost star ting from his chair. He had
caught hint at last (lien. "And do you say .
that a man isn't cutitic.1 to tko interest on
lu's money ? My money represents a thousand
such lives as yours: it ought to Lave a thou?
sand times the pay." Ile had moiv: terrible
guns than of thu batterie:? of logic for tile
rebel, hui. he could not resist the temptation
to explode the fallacies of his dosi before lie
Jet liim g
The young man's eyes flashed beautifully.
"Y**ur mon*}' reprints a thousand lives, '
then, out of whieh you have sticky! tho life
blood? And at how much do y.<;: value a !
h uman life? As nundi a.<? 1.000 for'?i.soni;' A j
thousand dollars for al! the jovs and c.-?
and i-assilrditics ot a kumar, life? Your val- j
n::*:o!> is r,->-? miserably small. I tell you,*'
and Cunan threw :>;:r bis right, hand in a
mn gi il fi-vn: gcstiuv. "I t-il you, a haman !
er-"utaro o;:,:h; to haye Car its serv?vagood j
portion of the comforts and delights Ibo
world is so bounteous with. Anything less j
is slavery, a slavery worse than negro Uoiul- j
a?e. Do voa call it. pay that yea-give-tho j
hopeless men ano. women that weave ;;oid for
y??i: "ti your "wrns? Rattier say the daily '
recurring facto' hun ^er chains them to your j
mid."
Mr. E-iiugsworth bal sunk bark in his j
*....?. 1 in despair: he ::::;rb* as well resign him- j
*df to tho situation since it stvuVcd'-bcyoncl !
r..,; >r to <hm:;e i:. Mr. Briton was j
Iv to !,f.;ir sonn? startling tr:::?:-: heiore j
sn.f.i"l.-f! ia refuting this .'.:.: ;;-r.?:;s !
maa. Perhaps it was j;:>: a.: weil, j
to >*c if she Lad observed it. It '.vas VJ
quire so inconceivable, after all, thai Berti
might have taken a fancy to kira. But th<
his whole associations had been with..tbepoo
and what possible harmony, even for a m<
meat-then Slr. E?ling.sw?rth rememberc
thc maid servant crying at this moment j
tho dining room.
"3Tatura31y voa prefer to let jone ha
clothed ill fed hands make 3*011 the present
they earn you big diyidends: you throw th?
a crust of bread, the market price of lab
yoi! r-all it, and put the dividends in your ow
pocket."
'.Lut it's my money mace the mill, and ir,
management runs it."'
"As for tlic money," retorted Curras, "pe
haps you inherited 11 part of it, saved by ti
tax laid ou tho poor of the last generation, (
you borrowed it, perhaps, on interest, an
made the help in your m i ll pay tho intere
every penny of it; how else could it bo pai<
You did not make your money; no man ca
till s2.00a0()0 out of his farm, or dig it ot
of a coal mine. You simply took it. Yoi
nev.- mills are paid for cut of wages yo
ought.to have given your help:" you.call thei
yours; the new machinery comes out of then
They are the real stoc&ho'ders in it alL~
Mr. Breton batt ^nmg from his seat, bi
Curran went cn unflinchingly. "It isn
earned, it is simply defrauded. The manag?
men: is doubtless good, but 110 mauageraei
could, in thc righteous course of ju=iicc, brin
such vast fortunes into tfie hands of a fe',
men; while the thousands who work fo
them live and die with the c?isuming thiri
for happiness never for oue bourassuaged h
their souL-.*'
The old gentleman had como up close i>
him as he spoke, and as ho finished. Curra*
looked down calmly into a face almost purpl<
with passion. It occurred to lum that Mr
Breton was about to havo an attack of apo
plexy. The hand that held bis gold head.*
cane fairly trembled.
"You have earned your last penny in m;
mills!"- the obi gentleman shouted at him
"We ought to have laws to shut up such mes
as you/'
"Mr. Ellingrrworth/5 said Curran, as tha
gentleman rose to his feet, "I am very sorry tx
have brought such a scene into your parlor
it seemed unavoidable after what was said tx
me, and it seems likely to prove moro un
fortunate for me than for anybody else."
No one thought of anything to say. iii"
Ellingsworth vaguely wondered where th(
man picked up his neat way of talking, bul
then the wealthy, after ali, have nomonopolj
of talent..
Curran cast a withering look of contempt
on the mill owner. "I am sony, too, to bc
deprived of the chance to vein my daikj
breach .'
He did not notice that the expression ot
the girl's face had changed, or that she had
started to come to him, but there was fl
grandeur of wrath in his face and Loaring
that awed her. She stood in the center oi
the room, with heaving bosom and fright?
ened, troubled eyes, watching him out of thc
door. Then her father came back through
the hall with his sarcastic smile finely curv?
ing his thin lips.
How beautifully he had known how to pre?
serve his own honor. It would have beer
base and ignoble in him to have crawled out
of ber parlor at the entrance of her father
and Mr. Breton, self confessed unworthy tc
sit in then- presence. And for all their weitjth
and power and vantage ground, careless ot
what it must cost, he had thrown their in
sults hi their teeth and shown himself a
grander man, a thousand times, than either
of them.
Thc warm ?ood of returning feeling swept
over her soul. She could not bear one more
cruel word against him now. Before her
father could speak she had hurried into the
hall and shut fast the door so that she should
not hear .the bitter sentence that was just
parting his hps.
What strange impulse moved her that she
should go to the outer door and look eagerly
down the street? But her insulted guest had
not lingered. In a moment more she *.fas at
the gate, and saw his tall form oidy at a
little distance. No doubt he was thinking
sadly, or perhaps angrily, of her, as he
walked, and lie could not guess that she had
repented, and was eager this moment to beg
his forgiveness, with all the sweet words she
knew. Bertha glanced back at the house in
hesitation. Site could see thc slim outlines of
ber father's figure shadowed on the curtains.
She could not hear what he was saying. It
was this:
"IS is one of Bertha's freaks. All women
are subject to them."
"But I don't understand,-1 insisted Mr.
Breton, wiping the perspiration from his
heated face. "I don't understand h<:w she
can bring hers-lf,. a g;r! of Uer notions, ta
entertain a fellow like this. How long do
you suppose this has been going on? Ever
since thc dog adventure, very likely. If }
were Philip?''
"But you recollect I am only three dava
returned from my trip, and am entirely un?
able to tell you how many times she has met
this v *y striking individual. Don't hurry
yourseii? into mental decline by trying to ex?
plain on logical principles a. woman's per?
formances/' smiled Mr. Ellingsworth, "And
I wouldn't take the trouble to suggest mis?
givings tc- Phil I would rather trust the
girl's nature, and I think I know it, than de?
pend on a jealous lover's- reproaches. Why,
my deas friend, I would stake my life on the
girls attachment to the traditions of her
position. Our wives and daughters arc
thrice more intolerable, unreasonable aristo?
crats than wo. If she had been guilty of a
touch of foolish sentiment reaction is cer?
tain, and she will only despise the man thc
more because of her season of blindness."
"But supposing the reaction came too
late,"* suggt?*tcd Mr. Breton anxiously.
"Then it better net come at all,"' he cou
tinued. "Thc very diameter you give her
would make three people perfectly miserable
-the mau she refuses, the man she marries,
and herself."
Bur the girl who had "*t<*>od nt the gate, in
her slippers, and with no overing for her
head but her golden hair fastened low on her
neck, had hesitated but n moment. Slu?
could uot let Curran leave her thus: perhaps
she should never seo him again, if he went
awaywithoutone -word from her to sefton
the blows she had let them give him. And
then he seenied to bc walking slowly, she
coull overtake him in a moment. The un?
even wall: hurt lier feet, her slippers*
wore thin, and as she lifted her >!<ir:
ro walk fa-'r-r a rude briar tore her sort
|lcs^a::dthe:i hung greedily e> her to i;..*.
r>ed? -hei" st?ns. She stopped and cal ted k:*
jinnie. She had hardly rurrmured it. bur it
secriK\!-*"o loud spoke:: and so lender toned
she blush vi at herself, and dared not speak it
again. She might rmi a few steps, and ti" n
he-would hear Ivr voice moro plainly. But
}..<.?. "i'sress clung so closely and lier excited
i:".-atlic:i-::e :o f::st ti int she gained On him
v'erv slow ly. There was no use. she mu:'?
lose him f.avvor out ol' her life; he m::*;: al?
ways think h'T ceuei and ungenerous. Si:e
Leaned ag?it??fc tin* fence and sent one moro
hopeh*ss cry af ter him. Ii was morea soh
tha:*, cry, a pitetms sob. trembling wita .
gentle; heart broken reproach. Why, she
was sure lie ^nust have heard that: she had
uev?>r meant to speak so load. W?u-t oo;r!:? I
she say to him wh?*a he cana* back to ker:
She must "try to be very cold and dignified. ;
But w;;sn": he going to turn.' Why, her cry
v..:< p;. rrj? g enough to go a. mile on tho still
evening air. J**T? ?. he was further away, he
ha.I hoard L< r.
Th. u she looked lacked, and was ?igh'V
eeod to --oe what a'distance she was awav
from !i'*mo. A nd as she st?>od hexing, now
:;t kb ; ... form drawing uneou^V.usly away
fr-.fu her. and then at t'".e disfant lights o?
her laeue. the first hint cf the delation
that 1 ? . over millions r.? hopeless hearts,
came ui . .; h >r *> ?ul. Her sliptvrs w< re t. nt,
and we? with -dew-; mid ?? i?-h sl<p si;.-- j.-o:
l-raise ' tho tender foot that had never known
hur: I'M* u.\:ri:u- -??. Her h<*aw mass' - ?d' hair
hat! leen shaken from ll:. ii:fa<enings, and
Lunga; full length lober waist. She fan?
cied herself s. me ?->;t, friendless Magdalen,
for whom tia* world, that fawns 0:1 tho for?
tunato and proud, had only taunts asd cruel
Mows. And were there womenwho had to
f:i-*e tl"' world alone? fight their own battles
will* t?nid hearts? earn their"own right to
1 reathe. with sinking hearts?
.Wii,-,' v>:*s :i'.-.r. a step, a man's stor> comm-j
; ward lier.'" Te hcrexcited ian-ginalion at ii
tant moment her beautiful borne and th?
elegant life tho loved so v. eil seemed things ot
the post.
She gathered her hair into a loose coil an<J
let her dress: trail on tho walk to cover hef
feet. The in.a:i wore* workman's clothes.
She had hoped he might be a gc-arleman..
She ti-ied to Iz&jp on thc oater edge cf tb?
sidewalk;she would have taken the read if'
she had dared. She looked a'.raj from the
man, but she could sse with beating heart ho
war; corning directly toward-her. But- per?
haps he did not seo her. a::d Lc might tura
aside yet God grant he bc an konost man,
whose wife's loving face was i:i his thoughts
nt tlds mo; neat. There v.-cre such mci But
?astead of moving aside thc maa stopped"
short jost before her, and- tho rak?d her big,,
.cared eyes to his face,
uVv'hyr-Bertha, I thought it was you.?
Sure enough it was Phi lip Breton. Ho had:
come from the mill, wh< re there had bee?
some extra work, md wore his working
clothes.
"Let me walk home vrith you,- ho said
rery gently, as if ho hac'l no right to assort
any privilege with her.
"I carnets far, and got frightened," sn?
said dreamily, as she rested her hand .cadna
arm.
lier hand was cold, bet it sent his young
blood tingling through his veins. N
l'l am so sorry.r Kow he longed to catch
her white hand to his lips, and warm it witii
kisses. B'jr Jatel-y she had treated him wita
& new c-r)i'J;iess. and lier coldness he dare not
meet.. Ko dreaded tc face; it, it pained him so
past endurance, and lic h&d called on herbat
seldom siiice the night of the lire. But now
his heart was full of eloquent love; so full ho
could not conceive of her net sharing in it.
It was she called it forth, she must have
something for him.
Tliey had reached her gate. She would
surely invite him to go in with her. Then
sac could toll him if he brid done anything to
displease hoi". Ho could remember nothing,
but there might have ?x?en some unconscious)
cold word or tone.-as if, poor fellow, he had
not boen only too tender with her.
''Goodnight," she-said. She had. lost tho
tremor in her voice fright had given her, and
all tile} softness of heart o? her loneliness,
UI thank yo;:," she added, coldly, as ho did
not go. but stood looking as if he did not
quite understand,
"Crood-night," he answered, with ci great
throb in his throat. He stumbled, awk?
wardly, as he went down th? steps; he could
net see very well for the mist in his eyes.
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the death of the Crown Prince, of Ger?
many despite the hope of his physicians
and his people, is slowly approaching.
There are now 120 students in at?
tendance at Forman University, the
highest number ever before enrolled at
one time since the wa?.
The planet Mercury, which is visi- -
ble at stated periods, may now be seen
on any clear evening at twilight just
above the spot where the sun sets.
The Georgetown Times says : Shad
are plentiful. We notice small ones for
sale on the street for 20c. and 25c., the
big fish are sent to Savanaah and other
points South.
J. Blake Washington died at Sum?
merville, Feb. 17. aged 71 years. Re
was the oldest living descendant of
Colonel William Washington, of Revo?
lutionary fame.
The Abbeville Press and Banner has
discovered that there was something de?
cidedly fishy in the recent drawing of
jurors in that county, and rt very prop?
erly calls for an explanation.
' The United States minister to Libe?
ria says that in that country there are
but 2,375 voters, and of these 1,335
hold office. If the Liberians should
take it into their head-* to *turo the ras?
cals out/ the occupation of half the
voting population would be gone.
B. F. Jones, Chairman cf the Na?
tional Republican Committee, has re?
ceived a long letter {rom Mr. Blaine,
dated at Florence, Italy," January 25th,
declining to allow his name to te pre?
sented to the National Republican Con?
vention as a candidate for Presidential
nomination.
On the morning of the 8:h inst., Mr.
J. D. Whittle, cf Blackville, fired twice
with a Smith ct Wesson thirty-eight
calibre pistol at a dog which he thought
mad. He missed the target, but the
second hall struck a Richmond book
agent, Samson by name, who was walk?
ing on the Barnwell Railroad a hundred
and thirty yards away. The bail en?
tered the hip and ranged upward, in?
flicting a severe but not serious wound.
The Augusta Kveuing News classes the
accident as an instance of the eternal
fitness of things.
Messrs. W. M. Ei&sard and R B.
Fraser, of Georgetown, have scot to
Commissioner Butler magnificent speci?
men t of rush from which the best of
summer mattings aro made. Co!. But?
ler will forward them at once to a gen?
tleman in Washio2tos>, who proposes to
erect a ?250.00t> factory in this State
for the purpo.-e of making summer mat
lics. A 6ne factorv site, free from ma
?aria, so common on tire coast anu
within a mile or bwo from where the
rushes crow in the greatest abundance,
wili bs offered to this wealthy manufac?
turer.
Congressman Ti?msn savs : "Toil
:he man who rs offered one cent on the
iolb r for claims for proper ry alleged to
iave been destroyed in the war. to ac?
cept the oiler of the fool who makes it,
instanter. It is more than he wiii get
from the government. Tell the niau
who has claims for property seized after
he war. and who is o??ered by a specu?
lator 25 per cent , to close at omre with
the bargain. Ile will never have so
?ood a chance again. Bit the direct
tax will bc paid, because f.mr-5:;lis of it
ices to the North. I will vote for it,
is South Carolina is interested, and gets
-onie of thc money. Giber claims of
thc South will never be p-:??i. because
?ll the money must go to the South.1
Thc Railroad Commissioners havejn<t
issuva theo- tabulated statement of the
T.ini.'C* of thc rai Ire ads of the State for
the mon*h of December. OT the twely
!?C r- included in the statemcr.r, ail
hut erne show a:> increase, the total net
..ei-, nsc being ?1CS.?74 ; the to?al r-rS
:>HSS. pg^r earnings were ?2:.'-:\<>7..
'gainst si^2.100 io Decrmber, 1S^(>;
oral frt ???hxearnings $419 122. against
?:;:>0 62? in DecenrW.lSSS: the l.-.rg^ss .
ucrease, $25 4,1)7. is shewn by th-;
^ou?h Carolina railway. The roads of
thc Richmond sr:.! Pan-.iUc system
?drovr a net increase of twenty per cent. *
Aitpgethrr the showing i* an excellent
:>?>. :,nd w\n>\ be accepted asa
-..'! -:iii'>n o; is* proved Hnsronss >vu t
ccreased prosperity iu Soma C;a,.>*?|t*