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4 cd khe address to herself before she them, the sound of heavy cried she raising herself to look at him KANSAS STATE NEWS. about half a million bushels of viand next year, with fair crop, it -raise five million bushels nearly cnot to feed the entire state. with timid tenderness. "And have you really accepted my simple word which Is no proof?" "I have not been so generous, Enge londe," answered the Earl sadly. "My stubborn pride fought against my yearn lng love; we men are hard and stern, sweet soul, not like you gentle beings, whose love makes you so self-forgetful In reading your narrative, I saw that it was in my power to prove one point; when that was proven, I accepted all the rest joyfully, and entirely." "And that point "Was one which could be proven by John Sircombe and which was?" She considered a moment, then the whole scene came back to her; she turned with a burst of joy, and threw her arms about her husband's neck.

And you believed me through that one trifling piece of evidence?" she cried exultingiy; "because these few words of mine were corroborated you could accept the whole! ah, your heart could not have been very cold or hard towards me, or you would never have come back to me on such insufficient testimony, which the world would only laugh at. Now, Indeed, I am happy, for I know how great your trust is! I thank God! oh, how gratefully, for the gift he has given me to-day is without one flaw, my hus band not only loves but trusts me!" "For a moment she gazed with stream ing eyes towards heaven, then turning. gently laid her arms around her hus band's neck, her face upon his shoulder Another sweet silence, then she looked up with wondering face. "You say you have read my story; how can that be? In my happy bewilder ment I looked at everything through a mist; I did not realize what you had said. But how did you receive that manuscript which I thought lost?" "I received it from the faithful hand to which you confided it" said Inchcape gently; "you chose your champion well.

my Engelonde!" She uttered a charmed, wondering half terrified though she was. "Did Captain Edgar escape after all, then? is he alive? but how can it be? oh, I am awake, 1 hope!" "Yes, ho is alive; he escaped by a mir acle; and the first use he made of -his safety was to fulfill his promise to fTO BE CONTINUED. OPPOSED TO BEDS. People Who Sleep on the Floor, In Chairs, or Standing Several persons, from some cause or other, have resolved at various periods not to sleep in bed. Perhaps the individual who kept his resolution the longest, says Spare Moments, was Christopher Pevitt, of York, who died in 1796, aged 93.

He was a carver and guilder by trade, but during the earlier part of his life served in the army. His house at York, after he had settled down, was accidentally burned down, and he therefore formed the singular resolution of never again sleeping in a bed, lest he should be burnt to death while asleep, or not have time, should such a misfortune again befall him, to remove his property. The resolution he rig-; idly kept for the, past forty years of his life, his practice being to repose on the floor, or on two chairs, or sitting in a chair, but always with his clothes on. He lived entirely alone and was his own housekeeper, and seldom admitted any one into his habitation. Among other articles which composed his home was a human skull, which he left strict injunctions should be interred with him.

A pedestrian named Ernest Men-sen, who flourished in the third decade of this country, and who once ran from Calcutta to Constantinople in fifty-nine days, when employed as a courier, took very little rest, and never slept in a bed when on his travels. He got short naps of only ten or fifteen minutes at a time each day, as and when he could, and took them standing or leaning against a tree, with a handkerchief over his face. Only the other day a man, on being charged with begging, declared that he had not slept in a bed for thirteen years, but took his night's rest in doorways and passages. The Japanese never sleep in a bed, but the same spotless floor that answers for table, chairs, and dancing-stage is utilized also for sleeping purposes. They sleep in a great wadded coat, and putting their arms into the long sleeves, fold it over them and go to sleep upon the floor, with a block of wood jaced under the neck for a pillow.

Perhaps the strangest sleeping place was one discovered a few years ago, when the police of Budapest found thirty persons of both sexes lying in a dirty, but warm stream of water that flowed out of a mill. The water was shallow, and the vagrants had got into it for warmth, taking stones for pillows. A. New Industry In the Bahama Islands. For years the inhabitants of these islands have been making a living by fruit and sponge culture, and spending their energies trying to exterminate a pest in the shape of a fibrous plant that has overran the island's.

Recently a sensible man, who was sent there by Great Britain, discovered that this fibrous plant was a remarkably fine specimen of the sisal grass, whose cultivation, of an inferior quality, in Mexico, for the use in rope making, has built up large fortunes in the business. Now the people are going into the business ot manufacturing "Bahama fiber." It makes an excellent rope, and the threads are so fine it is believed it! will go into fabrics. They will begin, the export of the fiber next fiber plant is of the cactus order and takes four years to mature. After that, leaves from the same plant can be gathered for from twelve to fourteen years. The leaves are from five to six feet long.

This fiber promises to find a ready market in the United States. A model schoolhouse will be erect2 ed on the World's Fair grounds. If it is intended to represent a city school, there ought to be a peculiarly dingy and disreputable saloon within 100 feet of it. 'Irhew. Auberon!" she faltered with awe, "it fs his confession- some time you shall know more but it will right a great wrong he did a good and he would not give it me unless I came that way for "I seeI see! that was why you granted' the secret meeting, not Oh, my own true Loveday, I never for a moment doubted you!" For Accrington had done his best to give Loveday's abduction the color of a voluntary elopement; he had sent an Iago-like note to Auberon by a sure hand, warning him that he had not altogether succeeded in superseding Colonel Accrington in the heart of his betrothed, as he might see for himself if he witnessed a secret meeting between them giving time and place, and insolently signing with Accrington's own name.

Auberon did not receive this astounding warning until it was close on the appointed hour; and instead of suffering the pangs of doubt and jealousy which Accrington had prepared for him," he instantly fathomed his rival's desperate design, and flew to rescue his Loveday. He brought his own fiery hunter; he was in time to give the dismayed Mrs. Delia-mere a hint of the iniquity on hand, requesting her to send her stoutest-hearted servants to the rear gate in case force might be necessary; and then he hurried after poor unsuspicious Loveday, and had the benefit of the confidential attitude which Accrington assumed to convince him of her guilt. Then the door was locked between them, and Auberon found himself in the grasp of Accrington's two ruin' an accomplices, while his darling was snatched away; but Edgar Arden had come, late as it was, to convey his good news to Mrs. Dellamere, who sent him after Auberon.

He turned the tide of battle, and Auberon got free to pursue tht abductor od his own fleet horse. He never told Loveday how he had saved her from the doom of her fierce lover, from whose convulsive clutch he had torn her through the open carriage door, while yet the vehicle was swaying on the brink; nor how she had lain across that awful brink in merciful unconsciousness the dreadful sight, which Auberon followed with eyesstart-ing from their sockets and blood freezing in his veins. "When Loveday was once more clasped in her mother's arms, and Auberon and Edgar were about to retire to attend to sadder duties, she beckoned Edgar to her and placed the precious confession in his hand, explaining its meaning. "Thank God," he said, fervently. "I had ceased to hope for this.

He hurried straight to Lord Inchcape, and in silence presented the still sealed envelope to him, signing him to read. In deep surprise the nobleman broke the seal and drew forth a folded paper, opened, and found it blank! "Incredible treachery!" cried Edgar, In sudden fierce contempt. "I gave him credit at least for sincerity to her!" and he told the whole story of Miss Della-mere's devotion to his lordship's cause, and the fatal sequel. Yes. Richard.

Accrington had deliberately plotted the whole thing; his promised reparation was but a ruse to bring Loveday into his power, the so-called document merely a bait to secure her by. What need for him to write his own condemnation If he never meant to use it? This discovery greatly added to Inch-cape's horror at his end; it would have been one bright spot in the black picture, had he really entertained a noble intention which sudden overpowering temptation, aided by opportunity, had overthrown; but that he could He to the innocent being whom he professed to love, aye, did love with a despairing tenacity such an end was revolting beyond words. And so seemed to end all hope of Lord Inchcape's vindication in the eyes of that powerful bureau, who suspected him. Who could right the wrong, now that the wronger was dead? Lord Inchcape and Edgar had intended to start for the north early the next morning, but Edgar entreated his kinsman to go without him, as he wished to pay all becoming honor to his late political Only gf ve'Ttne oho-" promise', said lie, "that you will reserve for me the duty of making known to Lady Inchcape and Lady Ulva who lam. In a week I hope to join you in Sleet-na-Vrecken; it is a short time to keep a trivial secret like that, since they will be so happy that they will never think of me." My lord gazed with arrested attention in the noble young face before him; he noted the suppressed fire and emotion expressed thereon, and he gave him his hand and his promise without a word of comment.

The next morning saw them far apart, and the road lengthening hourly. CHAPIEBXX. MY OWN TRUE WIFE. Lady Inchcape and her daughter were seated In a heathery dell, sheltered by the stunted firs of Sleat-na-Vrecken; for the summer files early from the bleak Northland, and already winter's moaning winds echoed the hoarser roaring of the sea. How fond you are of this spot, love!" said Engelonde, tenderly smoothing the pale cheek of Ulva, whose head lay upon her breast; "why is it? There are many lovelier views on our poor Sleet-na-Vrecken, and many softer mossbeds; and yet it is to this one dell that you come day after day, as to a shrine!" "And.

Is it not a shrine?" answered Ulva, faintly, her dark, mournful eyes, grown larger and deeper than of old, fixed upon a certain spot of the rocky path, which passed near by. "For here I saw for the last time one whom I shall never seo again till the sea gives up her dead. Over there there, mamma, our hands touched each other for one little moment I feel the clasp upon this poor wasted hand yet And here, where we sit alone, I stool when I met his eyes for the last time for the last time." Her low, sweet tones broke, and sank into silence. Lady Inchcape watched her with yearning gaze. "Yes, Ulva, we lost a true friend when Captain Edgar died; a truer, God never made!" she sighed, while her heart swelled with unforgotten grief.

She would not tread closer to the sacred ground of Ulva's hopeless love, for by no spoken word: had the maiden ever confessed her secret; though her long illness, followed by this settled apathy of grief, had long convinced Lady Inchcape that Ulva's heart was buried with the dead. Heavy indeed had been my lady's sorrow for the brave man who had taught her how to hope: but she saw with terror and self-reproach that Ulva's was Javier yet, and would last her life long. in the silence which fell between ing op from the shore rousedjthem: at Ken more, as he burst into their pres ence, then stopped stock-stillflngering nis Diue Don net; wnicn he naa snatched from his head, and "glowering" fas" he himself would said) at his lady strangely. "WelL Kenmore!" said Lady Inchcapel "you wished to find us, did you not? What is it? Why! how bewildered you look! Kenmore what is the matter?" She rose quickly, drawing Ulva with her; with arms twined round each other the two beautiful women stood wonder ing; but Kenmore seemed to find it hard to speak. How changed the stern old face was! how the keen eyes blazed! how pallid the brown cheek! And why should he gaze at Lady Inchcape with that wild look? "Speak, Kenmore!" cried my lady, In sudden panic, "there is more sorrow some one else that we love oh, Kenmore, my husband is not dead?" she shrieked, swooping forward to him.

"Na, na, Leddy Inchcape; God forbid!" at last he found voice to say, a very broken voice, and accompanied by a very exulting smile; "it's no 111 news, me leddy; It's the bonniest news it's och! I canna wait to brak it sma'; he's here himseF!" and the words came out with, a roar of irrepressible joy, and the old Highlander threw up his bonnet in the air and laughed aloud. Strange! the same wild rapture transfigured the wan faces of mother and daughter, the same question burst from them simultaneously: "He is here! Who?" "An' wha but oor ain Lord Inchcape, come to hi3 ain true leddy?" cried Kenmore; and with the words my lord's majestic figure strode into the middle of the group, hands outstretched to Lady Inchcape, proud face pale and beseeching, and somber eyes fiery with passionate love. "My true wife!" he began, but she did not wait to hear his pleadings! her eyes met his in one wild, questioning look, and she was in hl3 arms with such a strange, heart-piercing cry! Ah, poor wife! They were alone, and seated hand in hand, stiil 2n Ulva's dell; for both the witnesses of their meeting had vanished at once, Kenmore wiping his eyes on his bonnet, and Ulva strangely torn by conflicting grief and gladness. Forgive her! for she had believed for one unutterably blessed moment that Edgar was alive and had come back to her! She soon laid this pang along with the sorrow in her heart; and then she could rejoice with her beloved step-mother with all a deeply generous soul. This, then, had been the sorrow which blighted her life a misunderstanding between her and her husband.

Ah! how could he have doubted her. Lord Inchcape and his restored wife could not feast their eyes too much upon each other's long unseen faces. "Ah, how you have suffered!" murmured Lady Engelonde, in her sweetest tones, and she smoothed, with her small, thin, burning hand, the deep lines graven upon the forehead which she had last seen as smooth as her own. "But you but you, my Engelonde, oh Heaven! have I come too late?" exclaimed Lord Inchcape in gathering dismay; "are you dying, my wile? dying just when I have awakened from- my fatal delusion just when we might be happy again?" He gathered the shadowy form of his injured lady close to his strongly beating breast; he scanned with infinite pity and anguish each trace of the grief which was consuming her; he lifted hertransr parent hand, with the fever-rose burning in the palm, to examine it closely; and then he strained her to his hungry heart with a passionate cry of rebellion. "I will not give her Up now! I cannot!" "said he; and then his kisses fell like rain upon her mute, smiling lace, upon the dark eyes which hungered no more, upon the worn cheeks, which grew rosy under them; and he pleaded with her, eagerly, hotly, as if she, poor, loving mortal, held the key of life in her hand! "You will not leave me, Engelonde? Say it, dear; you could not, now that we have got each other back again?" She drew a long sigh, and nestled in his arms like one weary to death who had reached the desired haven at last.

"Leave you, my husband?" she said, wistfully, "oh, I could not, could not! Surely'I may live now! No, no, no, not death now, oh, let me live to drink a little more of this sweet happiness! For I am happy, my lord; your rostored love is a divine elixor which pours new life into my veins; why, how could I be ill when my heart is bursting with joy?" and she wept some of earth's sweetest tears. After a long, rapt silence she spoke again. "My lord, tell mo the good news. Our enemy has spoken at last, then? You are vindicated? You will once more take your place In the world? Tell me all, Ealeigh, no romance was ever so entrancing to me. But my lord's brow clouded.

"No, sweet wife. Colonel Accrington has not spoken; ho has died like a dastard, with his gulit unconf essed, said he. "He is dead?" faltered my lady, paling fearfully, "and your vindication is hopeless! Oh, my lord!" She wept, pressing his hand to comfort him: but suddenly started from his side as a new thought struck "But has he not vindicated me? Else why are you here?" He drew her back to her place with loving insistence "My own noble-hearted wife," he said, "in every thought and word you unconsciously prove your loyalty to me My vindication is your first thought, not your own. And this is the jewel I throw away! Oh, who will give me back those lost five years! Listen, sweet Engelonde, with your head on my heart, its rightful place, of which my jealous madness robbed you so long. Co'onel Accrineton has died without a word, and I never sha'l bo exonerated never shall resume public life; yet how that you are restored to me, cleared from the last shadow of doubt, I look forward to a sweet and noble life, which shall have its elevated duties, too; and I shall accept in all humility this one cross as a just chastisement for.

my sin vto ward you. Tears, Enge'onde, for me? Oh, believe me, the sweetness our reunited existence will far outlast the one bitter drop in our cup." "Yet your doubts of me will return, if you have only come to me from a generous impulse," said Lady Inchcape tremulously. "I have coxe to you because those doubts are forever laid," he returned. "1 thank God who put it into your, guileless heart to write that story of our misfortune, for through the resistless power of truth It helped me to believe." "Ah! my heart spoke to yours there!" Garfield Call: John Kite threshed thirty-one bushels of sorghum reed from five shocks ot sixteen hills square. Oswego Independent: J.

M. Grant made an important sale of horse3 to John G. Taylor of St. Louis, general live stock agent of the Santa Fe railway system. He sold a 2-year-old celt brother to Raven Sprague, 2 :10 by, Rounds Sprague, Lucy Davis, a fina trotting mare by Sprague, besides fivo Abdallah Bruce colts.

Mr. Taylor ij one of the big stock men of tho west, and has made several purchases of Mr. Grant, among the number at a previous sale being Belmont Sprague, a fine trotting stallion, full brother to Elsio Sprague, 2:29. The horses will bo added to his stock farm at Burlington, with the exception of Lucy Davis, which he takes to St. Louis for his driving mare.

KANSAS RAILROADS. Kansas City Journal: The Santa Fo company has plans prepared for a largo machine shop which it will build at Argentine early this spring. Tho building will be 80x350 feet in dimensions, and when completed will give employment to a large number of men. It is reported on good authority that tho shopa of the Chicago, Santa Fe California, now at Fort Madison, will bo transferred to Argentine. The company ia also putting the track between hero and Fmporia in firet-class shape and will in a short time run all through trains over the cut off.

This new movo on tho part of the Santa Fe, together with tho other enterprises that aro well under way, will givo Argentine a genuine boom this year. Excursion Rates. At the meeting of the Transrnissourl Passenger association held in Omaha, it was agreed by lines in interest that th same tourist rates from the Missouri river and Kansas points should bo given this year as were force last yoar, and at about the same dates of salor An open rate of one and one-third fare from all Kansas points to Topeka during the state Sunday school convention, May 10-12 was agrood upon. All tho lines of tho Transmissouri association, except one not represented in the meeting, agreed to a one-fare rate to the democratic national convention in Juno from all western territory. The annual state convention, Kansas republican league, to be held in Topeka March 1 and 2, was given a ono and one-third fare rate.

The Swedish Lutheran Augustan a synod of Lindsborg, May 26 to June 10, was granted a rato of one and one-third fare. A one and one-third faro rato was given the annual session, south Kansas conference, Methodist Episcopal church a Ottawa, jxiarcu y-ii. The Arkansas valley annual confer ence of the United Brethren church, to be held in Winfield March 2-6, was allowed a rato of ono and one-third faro. The southwest Kansas annual confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church at Winfield March 16-21 will be given a rato of one and one-third fare. Lawyers and Damaco Suits.

The Insurance and Investors' Maga zine, of Kansas City, in its February number, quotes the followincr article re garding "Lawyers and Damage Suits" from the Boston Standard "Everybody but a certain class of lawyers will applaud Judge Groeham's stern rebuko administered the other day to Charles W. Monroe, a Chicago attor ney, who visited a man injured by a rail road tram to learn if thero "was any basis for a damage suit. I don't say you were guilty of shoving your services on this man said the judge, indignantly, 4but it looks bad, sir, very bad. If railroad trains run over peoplo or injure them, tho railroads should bo held accountable for proper damages. But I don't like tho way lawyers of a certain class have of rushing off to peo ple as soon as they are injured and forcing their legal services on them and the public does not like it either.

Law yers who do this sort of thing ought to be disbarred, and if I ever get another one of them before me I will disbar him. We trust the judge will not stop with railroad lawyers of a certain but will extend the disbarment proceedings to those who make a business of hunting up clients against insurance companies, and manufacturing cases which, nino times out of ten, in all probability would De settled amicably and satisfactorily by the insurer and tho assured, without the intervention of these legal harpioa." KANSAS CHURCHES. Two hundred business men of Kan sas City, Kansas, closed their places of business from 10 till 12 o'clock to attend the union revival meetings at tho Presbyterian church. From Kansas City: Tho union revival rervices tnat nave been in prorrrcss at the Presbyterian church during tho past six weeks have been quite notable in tho history of the religious work in this city. It ig the first time there has ever been so strong and united an effort mada for the advancement of tho cause of tho church.

Six of the Protestant churches here have been laborincr earnerllv for nearly two months to advance their mu tual interests and the results havo been very gratifying indeed. Some hundred of people have professed Christianity ana unitea witn tne various All of the churches represented in the work have been crreatlv etrenj-rthened and encouraged in their work and tho cause of Christianity Las been rrc atly advanced. Tho ministers who charge of the work aro highly over the splendid results and tho bo of union between tha churches lir.3 1 1 1 greatly strengthened, represented in tho worl: Tho ch JLA JL 4. i There are 439 private and state banks Kansas, according to the state com missioners report. These figures do not include national hanks.

Arkansas City Traveler: Arkansas City has a canning factory which gave employment to 200 persons during the season. Its products were shipped into eight states and territories. The pro prietors expect the coming season to be the best and most prosperous of any yet experienced by it. Ottawa. The engine at the saw mil of tho Dennison two miles west of town exploded, killing Henry Denni son and doing other damage.

Three other men working with Dennison had stepped into the range of a large tree at the moment of the explosion, and es caped injury. The explosion was due to pumping cold water into a hot boiler. Dighton Journal: Judge Abbott, of the twenty-seventh district, decided that a county treasurer had a right to deposit county funds where he desired. He held that as the treasurer had to give bond and would be responsible for all money lost, no matter how, he had a right to protect himself by selecting the bank with which to deposit the county funds. Liberal letter: Last vear over 17.

000,000 pounds of freight was received at Liberal, and seventy-seven car-loads of broom-corn, ninety-eight cars of wheat, and two car-loads of watermelon seeds were consigned to eastern buyers. Some wheat brought 74 cents per bushel. It is not generally known, but it is nev ertheless a fact, that garden seeds are grown here exeat Quantities for east- era and northern seed firms, and find a ready market under covers bearing re- 1 liable dealers names. Some money is already being sent in to superintendent Yinans for theeduca tional exhibit at the world's fair and the committee in charge feel that no diffi culty will be experienced in raising suf ficient money to give Kansas schools the creditable showing they deserve. It is worthy of note in this connection that the boys of the Topeka Reform school were the first to send in their contribution.

Something over a year ago, Superintendent Winans received $7.50 from the boys for this purpose. From Horton: It is tho occasion of the opening of the Mason's temple erected by the brothers of Horton lodge No. 326, A. F. A.

at an expense of 510,000. The temple is a magnificent and beautiful edifice two stories high, built of pressad brick and Warrensburg stone trimmings. The mam hall is 35x63 feet, with a banquet room 14x50 and a kitchen 15x15, two elegant front parlors each 18x25, with a large ante-room and fifteen separate wardrobes. The entire building is handsomely furnished and brilliantly illuminated with electric lights. Atchison letter: Bernard Schmidt, a well-to-do Atchison farmer, went to Ger many last fall to visit relatives, after an absence of twenty years.

Upon his arrival there he was arrested and imprisoned for desertion from the German army. He was sentenced for six months, but has been released and is now on his way back to America. His release was brought about by his eleven year old daughter, who wrote to the emperor from her far away home in Kansas, and in her childish way asked for the pardon of her father on his birthday, the 28th of last month. The emperor received the letter on the 27th of January, and immediately issued an order which gave Schmitd his freedom on the following day. Topeka Journal: Tho homostead of J.

B. McAfee, three and a half miles west of the city, has been completely consumed by fire. The farm house, creamery, windmill, tower and tank were burned to the ground, and nothing remains but the barn. The fire was caused by an ignorant workman, who was en gaged painting the engine with as-phaltum. He put the asphaltum on a stove to warm, in spite of the protests of the members of the family.

It exploded and the flames spread with such rapidity that it was impossible to rescue anything from the house. It contained the accumulation of twenty -five years. The barn was one of the largest in Kansas, being 105 by 120 feet. It con- tamed sixty-five head of horses. About seventy-five neighbors gathered and saved the barn by keeping the roof wet.

The barn cost $6,500 exclusive of contents. The loss to house and other buildings will bo over $4,000. It was in sured for 32,000, of which was on the building and $600 oh the furniture. AND FARM. Cedar Vale Star: T.

J. Hughes, of near Burden, says that there will be a considerable acreage of spring barley sown near Burden if the weather is favorable. Ten acres raised last year by Mr. Marshall proved so satisfactory that it will receive a more extensive trial. Salina Sun: The farmers are all tell ing us the wheat is in a fine condition, and no apprehensions are felt at this time except a possibility of worms infecting the earlier sown.

Most of the wheat was put in the ground at a late date. Lebanon Criterion: W. S. Barcus, a farmer living near Stuart, this county; sold to Jack Thornton, or Athol, and delivered at this place, 120 head of hogs, which averaged 393 pounds. Dan Taylor, a traveling solicitor for Newkirk, Henderson to whom the hoars were consigned, went to Kansas City with them.

Mr. Barcus has 200 more nearly as good, which with the lot just sold, would make a herd that we think could not be beaten in the state. St. Francis Bustler-Keview: There will certainly be ten bushels of wheat put in the coming season to where there-has ever been one before in Cheyenne county. This will be an enormous increase, but tha facts fully justify the prediction.

Last year this county raised -ASl GRAVE; Eos: The Secret of DunraYen Castle. BY ANNIE ASHMORE, Author of "Falthftd Margaret," Eto CHAPTER XIX. Continued. A bright moon rose above the trees, and filled even the dark interior of the coach with light He saw that sho was half unconscious, and he ventured to relax his jailer grasp, and to lay her in a more easy position along the seat He bent over her with a fierce and dreaming ecstasy. Oh, if those blue heavenly eyes would only unclose and look into his with a timid glance, in which he might lead dawning tenderness! how patiently he would fan the flame, how delicately he would defer to her girlish caprices, how light his chain shou be until he had won her whole sweet heatt! For without her heart he could not be content, so mighty was his love for her.

Alas! if he had only been a good man he could have taught her to adore him. Not many minutes passed thus, the carriage tearing along the silent country roadr and Loveday lying exhausted; then she recovered the use of her faculties. She evolved the situation, still lying with closed eyes, the loathing recipient of her fierce lover's rhapsodies; sho remembered that they had entered the carriage so hastily that the coachman had not closed the door for them; it must be still possible to open it from the inside then. They seemed to be flying over the ground; yet if she must attempt to escape with her life If possible but if not- Loveday's heart cried out to God; she knew it might be her last prayer! she thought then of her own adored Au-beron; ah! never would he know how sweetly she loved him! and of her beautiful mother, whose one bright joy she was; and two bitter tears gushed from under her eyelids and glittered like diamonds in the brilliant moonbeams. "You are conscious, my own love, my wife!" murmured Accrington in her ear.

"And life brings only tears to you! wait! I shall soon teach you happiness She bounded, with all her gathered strength, against the carriage door; as she had foreseen, it yielded to her pressure and she fell headlong almost across the flashing wheels, but Accrington caught her in time, and would have pinioned her against his breast, uttering passionate entreaties that she would yield to what was now inevitable. But Loveday was driven to des Dera tion; she must she would escape this i 1 A. 1 .11 ucuiuii-maa, sue iusi uer mo iu iuu attempt. She struggled fiercely; she seemed possessed of supernatural strength; If he had her by the arms, she had wrenched free the next moment; if he grasped her by the waist, sho writhed down between his arms and his breast; and all the while the -carriage door swung, to and-fro against the wheels, and he could find no moment in which to secure it. Long ago the crum Died DaDer had fallen from his hand, and lay on the floor close by the open door.

In 11 her frenzy of terror, Loveday never forgot that paper; and when she writhed downward she caught it up and held in a death-grip. Acer fritpn had forgotten it. he said, at last; "there is no us' fnfttMsl; Iwillnbfcgive'you up to AubecnbynbtKf rfcave to takfc-your sweet life to prevent it!" "You may murder me," panted the poor quaking child; I. suppose you will; but I will not go another step with you of my own will" And with that she almost succeeded In springing out of the carriage. Having secured her once more, Accrington chanced to glance through the rear window.

Then it was that Loveday saw a look on his face that chilled her heart's blood. They had talked of murder, but his eye, in its strange gaze, now meant it. He drew a pistol, he grasped. her firmly he placed the cold tube against her temple, holding her head as in a vise. Loveday raised her wide frightened eyes full to his; he pored over their agonized entreaty, their sweet wild wonder and anguish that, after all his love, he could take her happy life away! His hand shook his teeth chattered; then he remembered that Auberon Crecy was close behind in pursuit; and jealousy, cruel as the grave, possessed him.

You shall be mine, or no man's cried he with a burst of insane laughter: "come to your bridal, the grave; you first, my dear; I shall follow close!" Her agonized eyes, riveted upon his, ind catching every new thought, discovered his last fatal intent just Id time. As his finger pressed the trigger, Loveday dashed up her arm, the pistol was struck from his hand and exploded as it fell; she hal one glimpse of Accring-ton's fierce white face and maniac eyes; then came a dreadful warning yell from the coachman outside the carriage rocked from side to sideswayed and toppled over and she flung herself toward the open door. away, the grinding crash of glass and metal on the flinty verge, the heart sickening scream of a terrified horse, the dull moan of human agony, and all was still under the bright moonlit sky, Loveday lifted her dazed eyes to meet two yes full -of gentle love keeping watch over her, and her frozen heart began to beat against the warm clasping arms of Auberon Crecy. For they two stood alone upon the "brink of the fatal abyss where her guilty Jover had gone down to his death. But what is this you have so convulsively grasped in your hand, love?" asked Auberon, when he could return to the shuddering and girl, from the mournful duty of dispatching some men who were attracted to the1 spot, to descend the ravine and examine the wreck.

So dazed was sho that she had to smooth out the crumpled envelope and Avenue M. E. church, Vnr E. church, Third I.ti-4. gaticnal and Ccntr .1.