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The Othetjan’s Wife.
MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARLY LOVE
BY
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CHAPTER X!X.
It is a treacherous peace that is purchased by
induTgeace.
When Trevor had disappeared behind
the curve of the staircase, Ethel Dennis
turned to Madame Wolenakl. “Which
floor are you on, madameT"
‘ On the flror above.”
- “Oh. roaJly-then yon are like me. You
aon t like to be too high op.”
tei/m.fa 1 10 b ® Very h, « h U P They
toU me the air la the most pure at twelve
stories; I prefer to have a little worse air
and not to have to climb so high for it.”
Of course there Is the lift,” saidEtbel
who wanted to be polite bat whose
thoughts were with Trevor.
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trial development attendant upon them.
Tent tor Carlisle, of Kentucky, has re
cently said that it uoii.’d not be surpris-
ir g if at Eoma tin e in tte future a great
commercial city should arise on tt e site
of old Jamestown, in Virginia, or at
some other place on ti e South Atlantic
coast. The illustrious Senator's reml-
predict ion will probably be well advanced
toward! fulfillment before the end of the
last decade of the nineteuith century,
for {reparations are already well ad
vacccd for the founding of a commercial
seaport on the coast of Sruth Carolina
that promise s in a few years to surpass
In business, in population and in opu-
It nee every other piece on the Southern
seaboard. Take a map of the Unltea
States. Draw a line from Eirmii ghsm,
Alabama, tfcrovgh TaHade ga to luccon,
Georgia. The prolengation of thi.t .ice
eastward v i I strike tidewater on the
sooth Bide of Port Royal sound aid but
sixteen mi'esfiomthe Atlaniic ocean.
At tfcis place, lying between Colleton
andChechet s e, two broad, deeptffleents
of tte sound, is a peninsula, comprising
5 000 acres of “high, div, rolling land,
easy of drainage, wi hout amsrsh ora
swamp island, and etery drop of water
about it salt as the seas, save two bold
gushing sulpfcir springs et easy dla
tance Item the centre.” The et stern
boundsryof this laid beg'ns with tte
Chtchissee rher, “thirteen milt sup tte
sound from Pert Royal bar aid runriDg
upward for tir ee mi.es, sweepB, with the
Colleton srm, sn eitow curve to the
south, where itfronis for five mites upon
a magnifi.ent blutf. This crest, known
as Victoria Bluff, looks < ut for its entire
length upon the Colleton arm, whose
average width is three-* Igbf s of a miie,
w.th a mean ceith cf 34 feet acd a min
imum depth o; 21 feet et tow tide.' Here
is an absolutely Itud-locked harbor,
broad acd deep enough to tlo t the i avles
of the world. This peernsuta is tie site
upon which the city cf Colleton iB to be
bulitby a eorpe ration that 1 as purchased
the laid aud p eifi cted tte plans for its
development.
A company has purchased 112.000 acres
of overflowed lands in Brevard connty,
Fia., which It is proposed to drain and
tben to convert into a mammoth rice
and sugar plantation. Tlia property
was sold by the State trustees of the In
ternal Improvement fund at oO cents an
acre on the following terms and condi
tions: The purchasers to pay $5,0C0caah
at once, the same amount, respectively,
July 1,1891, and January 1 1S92. $15,000,
January 1,1693, and the balance Jnnel,
1691. In addition they give a bond to
expend >60,000 within six years on the
reclamation and drainage of the lane s.
In case of default in any of the terms of
the contract, the entire property will
revert to the State. The surveyor gen
eral of Florida, In a u port recently sub
mitted to Congress, h ss this to soy of the
practicability of such enterprises ss that
which these gentlemen have undertaken:
“A very recent important agricultural
development in this State !s the estab
lishment of sugar farms upon the lands
reclaimed by drainage. These sugar
lands previously were vast watery areae
of saw grata growing upon deposits of
pure muck of unknown depth. Of the
quality of this material an eminent effi
clal chemist wrote of a sample that‘it
seems to equal the beet potting mould,
and partakes mere of the character of a
manure than of a soil.’ When drained
and cultivated it produces from 30 to 40
tons of cane stalks per acre of s quality
equal to the best raised in Cuba. The
nnsurveyed portions of this dtate are
said to Induce large areas of such land,
and as its prospective value, which in
past years was considered nothing, is
now shown to be comiderable, it Is re
spectfully suggested that this office be
suthcrlzod to take sdvsntsge of any tea-
ion of unusual diyne-ss to. extend the
lines of suivey in that region.”
tunning out of North
Baltimore, directly corth of Druid Hill
Park, and on the direct line of city ex
tension. The location is 700 feet above
tidewater, and commands views of a con
siderable scope of country and of many
elegant country Bests Delonging to
piomix ent Baltimoreans. BytbeNortb-
ern Central Railway, which bss two fine
stations near by, Ferncliffe Is bat a 25
minute ride from the city. Among the
office’s and directors of the Green
Spring Valley ImprovementCo. are John
W. Linton, president; Johns H. R Nich
olson, treasurer, and ex Mayor F. C.
Latrobe, first director. Their associates
are some of the best known merchants
and bankers cf Baltimore. Wm. J
O’Brien, Jr., No. 118 East Fayette street,
secretary of the company, will furnish
full details of Its plans.
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PENSACOLA CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
The annual jubilee of Galveston, Tex
as, was held from the 7th to the 11th
of this month. Hon. R. L. Faiton, may
or Of that city, had sent letters to all
his brother officials in the State inviting
them to attend a conference to be held
daring the jubilee, ite purpose being to
consider the advisability of organizing
a Texas mayors’ club similar to one in
Massachusetts, which has effected much
good in concentrating political it floenoa
A Remarkable Death Sentence.
One.of the meet eccentric and at the
same time one of the ablest judges that
ever sat upon the far Western tench was
Kirby .Benedict, who thirteen years was
a .Justice of the Supreme Court of New
Mexico, having been first appointed in
1853 by President Pieice, and reappoint
ed by President Buchanan, and appoint
ed Chief Justice of the court by Pres
ident Lincoln. He waB a man of great
ability.aid learning, strong in his pre
judices, violent in his patsiens and re
lentless in his convictions.
There are many anecdotes tcld of
Judge Benedict. But the crowning act
of his judicial career was the sentence of
death passed by him npon a prisoner
ccnvicted of murder, which sentence was
as foiiowt:
“Jose Marla Martin, stand up. Jose
Maria Martin, yon have been indicted,
tried and convicted by a jury of you
count:ymen of the crime of murder, and
the court is now about to pass upon you
the dread sentence of the law. As a
usual thing, Jose Maria Martin, It is a
S inful duty for tbe judge of a court of
stice to pronounce upon a Human
ing tbe sentence of death. There is
something horrible about it, and tbe
mind of the court naturally revolts from
tbe performance of such a duty. Hap
pity, however, your ease is relieved of all
such unpleasantness, and the court takes
positive delight in sentencing you to
deatbt
-‘You are a young man, Jose Mar®
Martin, apparently of good physical con
stitution and robust health. Ordinarily
you might have looked forward to many
years of life, and the court has no doubt
you hare, and have expected to die at
an old age; bat yon are about to be cut
off in consequence of your own set.
Jose Maria Martin, it is now the spring-
t!m<; in a little while the grass will be
springing up green in these beautiful
valleys, and on these broad mesas and
mountain sides; flowers will be bloom
ing, birds singing above your lowly
heftfle
“The sentence of the court ls that you
be taken from this place to the county
jail; that yon there be kept safely and
securely confined in the custody of the
sheriff until the day appointed for your
execution. Be very careful, Mr. Sheriff,
that he have no opportunity to escape,
and that yon have him at tbe appointed
place at the appointed time; that f on be
so kept, Jose Maria Martin, until—Mr.
.Clerk, on what day of the month does
Friday about two weeks from this time
comet” “March 22, your honor.” “Very
well—until Friday, the 221 day of March,
when you will bs taken by the sheriff
from your place of confinement to some
safe and convenient spot within tbe
county (that is in your discretion, Mr.
Sherifl; you are only confined to the
limits ot the ccnnty j, and that you there
be banged by the neck until you are
dead, and—the court was about to add,
Jose Maria Marlin, ‘may God have mercy
on your scut,’ but the court will not as
sume tbe rtsprnslbillty of asking au all-
wise Frovlceice to do lhat which a jury
oi your peers has ufesed to do. The
Lord couldn’t have mercy on your soul.
However, if you have any religious be
lUf, or are connected with bd> religious
organization, it might be'well enough
for you to send for ycur priest or your
minister and get ft ora him—well, such
consolation as you car; but the court ad
vises you to place no reliance uson any
thing of tbat kind. Mr. Sheriff, remove
the prisoner.”
THE BOSES OF DE SOTO.
His Remains Said to Have Been
Found at Ft. Jefferson.
Saturday, while laborers were excavat
ing for tbe foundation of a large brick
block that is now being erected in Fort
Jefferson, Ky., one of them unearthed a
few human bones, writes a Glebe-Demo
crat correspondent. As this part of the
Mississippi Valley abounds in Indian
mounds, the workman supposed he was
digging into one of them, but soon he
uncovered what proved to be a long,
straight and very heavy sword. News
spread rapidly over the town tthat the
rave of one of the Boldiers of General
Clark, or or General Grant had, been dis
covered, together with his sword, which
had been buried with him. In 1781 Gen
eral Clark built a fort where this place
now stands. It was there tbat he fought
a decisive battle with the Indians, los
ing many of his ownfmen and covering
the ground with the dead bodies of the
aborigines. During tbe late war Gen
eral Grant had his headquarters at this
place for many months. Several small
battles were fought here, and it can be
truly called the bloody ground of guer
rilia warfare, for nowhere in the South
visa locality so molested and devasta
ted by guerrillas and desperadoes as
southwestern Kentucky and southwest
ern Missouri.
Knowing these facts, it was very
natural for the people to believe that
they had found the grave of one of
Clark's or Grant’s soldiers, or that of
some wandering guerrilla. As the work
man proceeded with bis labor be threw
np a steel breastplate and helmet. These
were almost eaten up with rust, and
through the holes of the helmet could be
seen the gray bones of a fast-decaying
skull. In order to gain some informa
tion concerning this strange discovery
the handle ana scabbard of the sword
were cleaned. The award itself was
rusted in the scabbard and could not be
drawn- The shield on the handle and
the scabbard were made of a strange
composition tbat rust bad but little ef
fect upon and they seemed bat slightly
Injured by time. The handle ot the
sword iB of pore gold, at the top of
whioh Is a large diamond clustered
around With rubles. On the handle®
the name, “Hernando De Soto.” Below
la the coat of arms, which consists of a
spring cozing ont of a hillside and close
by the spring a child. Underneath this
® the inscription, written in Batin:
“The 8pring cf Youth.” The engraving
is remarkably well done. These few
bones and Implements of war ore no
donbt all that remains of the great De
Soto, who, believing that somewhere in
the new world wm a raring which be
stowed on any one who bathed in its
crystal waters perpetual youth, gave up
wealth and luxury to undergo the hard
ships of a wild and unknown country,
and at last die in discouragement and
defeat. History says that De Soto died
somewhere In this part of the conctry
and his body was thrown Into the river
in order to keep the fact of his death
from the Indians. Bat history is prob
ably mistaken. Fort Jefferson has the
honor of his grave.—Chicago Herald,
TEKSACOLA’S M0MMEKT.
Memorial to the Confederate Dead
Made at Washington.
A handsome monument to the Con
ederate dead of the city of Pensacola,
Fla., is nearing completion in the hands
of Mr. J. F. Manning of Washington
City, and will soon bo erected on the
commanding site chosen for it on Pala-
fox Hill, Pensacola. As will be seen by
the accompanying cat, the design is
simple in character but massive and
well proportioned. The fine gray gran
ite used in its construction has been
quarried on the historic battle fields
around Richmond, Va. The monument
will have an inscription on each of its
fonr sides; one, a general tribnte to the
heroism of the msn of Pensacola and
Escambia county whose lives were
given to what they considered their
country’s cause; one will be devoted to
the memory of Jefferson Davis—the first
testimonial of the kind in his honor;
another will be a tribute to the pub
lic services of Stephen A. Mallory,United
States Senator for Florida before the
war, Secretary for the Confederate States
navy and a citizen of Pensaco®. It is
Intended that these inscriptions shall be
tbe condensed expressions of Southern
sentiment as gathered from nnited sng
geations offered by the ladies of the
Sooth generally. TU® monument is one
of quite a number of similar works,
some of a public and others of a private
character, recently erected or about to
be erected by Mr. Manning. He has
now in hand two other monuments for
Florida, one to be erected in Jackson
villa and the other in Tallahassee. He®
works recently completed by Mr. Man
ning may be mentioned the Jeannette
monument in the naval cemetery at
Annapolis, Md., the Soldier’s monument
at Fairfax Court House, Va., a very fine
granite family vault at Oak Hill earns-
tery for J. J. Darlington, E- q„ Matthews
monument and several others in the seme
cemetery, the Digmer monument at Pros
pect Hill and that of the Weyriek
national
Mr. and Mrs. Vestal Beeler of Brook
lyn, Ky., have succeeded in rearing one
i f the largest families on record. Mrs.
Beeler has given birth to twelve sons
and seven daughters, bat one daughter
of all being dead. A remarkable f.ct ls
that them were no twins among them
all, and neither of the parents is over 55
yean of age.
i at of
family at Glenwood- At the
cemetery at Arlington Mr. Manning has
just completed two memorials wall wor
thy of their beautiful surroundings, one
a granite sarcophagus over the grave of
the ®te Col. Collins, the other the mas
sive pyramid ol the McMillan family.
Among the works still in the hands of
the designer ® an e®borate!y carved
gothic cross of large size, intended to be
executed in granite, and to be, as far as
practicable, an exact reproduction ot
one of the beautiful Celtic crosses of the
thirteenth century to be seen on the
Scottish and Irish coast. This promises
to be one of the most unique and ele
gant works in the cemetery for which it
is destined and will attract much atten
tlon.
Inquiry at the hospitals showed that all
the firemen who were injured at the late
fire at Buffalo, N. Y., are doing well
Some have been sent home, John Clark,
of engine 22, is suffering from a severe
cut on the head, caused by a falling
brick. H® skull is not fractured m, was
at first reported, and he ® in no danger,
fireman Kraus, of engine 4, will recover.
Fireman GeMge Whiten®* has been sent
home and la now oof of danger.
A LOWBALL FIGHT
Between “Sophs” and “Freshies”
at Smith College.
At Northampton, Mass,, the snowball
and snow fort fight between the sopho
mores and freshmen of Smith College, an
institution for young ladies, reached a
hilarious climax when the sturdy fresh
men seized Miss Edith Beattie and flung
her over the rampart of the snowy fort
amonsr the besieged. The battle has
been the great event of the week, and the
girls have been reading the stories of the
simitar contest at Princeton in prepara
tion for it.
The campus was the site of the fort. It
was solidly constructed by the class of
93, who vowed that they would never
give it np to the freshies. The sopho
mores piled into it and planted their ban
ner of old gold on Its outer walls. The
sophs and freshmen were la their gym
nasium costumes, free-and-easy, with
plenty of sweep for arm action
and each girl wearing her class colors.
Inside the fort was Captain Wilcox, pres
ident of her class, with a snowball
tightly c inched In her hand gazing de
fiantly at her foe. First Lieutenant Put
nam was at her shoulder. The fresh
men, under Captain Gains and several
remarkably agfie and comely lienten
ants, outnumbered the sophomores con
aiderabiy. They were sanguine and san
guinary. One belligerent girl took off
her cap. and filling It with hardpacked
ammunition, laid it on the ground. A
fish horn sounded the assault, aud bang
bang went the 32 calibre snowball of
Miss Wilcox, and bang went the repeat
ing snowball rifles of Miss Gains’
zooavea. Captain Wlloox’s shot nit a
daring freshman on the right ear, and a
cheer went np from the fort. Bat one
shot does not win a battle. The fresh
men met a perfect volley of grape shot.
They rushed back, and then began a
hand to hand encounter, whioh mud
dled the amateurs with their kodaks
awfully. Cascades of hair came tumb
ling down like Hnmpty Damply and
one warrior’s eye had a dismal hue.
There wm some tackling that would
have done credit to foot ball at Jarris’
field. When the fish horn sounded the
■ophs held the fort with their golden
banner still floating. The sophs did not
stop with cheers. They pat Mies Wll
cox on their shoulders and the gay crowd
trooped into the gymnMinm. where the
victors treated the defeated to lemonade.
Bad Effect! of Tight Collars.
A chapter might be written on the
deleterious effects of tight collars, and
especially that variety which projects
stiffly beneath the neck, to the manifest
discomfort of the wearer and the amuse
ment of beholders. By compressing the
veins they of coarse interfere with the
return of blood from tne head, and
thereby promote red noses and pimpled
races, against which all the cosmetic
lotions in the world are of no avail so
long as the mechanical cause is allowed
to remain. Tight collars are even ac
cased, and with some show of reason, of
causing serious defects Of the visual ap
paratus, due to heightened blood pres
sure, arising from the artificial Impedi
ment to the blood flow at the root of the
neck. We should not be surprised to
find that these exerable contrivances
were also responsible for watery eyes,
pendent lips and tbe general vacnons-
nsss of expression whioh usually charac
terizes the physiognomy of their wear
ers.—Hospital Gasettc,
b ‘ aat J'— a pure' bull dog-come
nd i ee ’ «nd then Ethel turned
round and ied tbe way into her own do
m *f?hi Mada f 18 Wo,en8kl following her.
mnm C » ¥ l t,at ? 2 rettI flat, what a sweet
room,” she cried. “Ah! It is muoh larger
lov5y.™ ln ® “ nd tbe dec °tations are
11 famished,” said Ethel,
gp were very lucky.”
with the majesticACce when von taw,
her. Tend she went lnt"
“Oh! he Is quite moment,
cried Madame wole®,»¥“fifltnusiasiic»i-
ly—“And h® name?”'
Crummies,” answered Ethel delighted
to find her favourite so highly lauded.
“K—chrummles—Why, what a name,”
Madame cried. „ . .
‘■Crum—mles,” repeated Ethel amil
ing.
“K—tehrummles,” said Madame again,
but » fter several most valiant attempts,
she had to give up the effort, for say the
word properly, she simply could not.
“But he is quite a beautiful person—
quite beautiful. Well ” to the dog,
who was eyeing her, in a most suspicious
manner—“are you not going to speak to
me? How do yon do, Mr. K—chiumm-
les?”
She held oat her hand to him and
Crummies went a little nearer to her
and began to sniff at her gown in a way
that was anything but friendly. Mad
ame hopiog to propitate his majesty
further ventured to smooth down his
silken satin coat, but Crummies lifted
his head and raised nis upper lip in a
voiceless snarl of such venom, that the
lady made haste to pat herself out of
harm’s way.
“He does not like me,” she said in
Crummies—Crummies, ion are dread
fully rude,” cried his majesiy’s mistress
reprovingly. “That was because you
ventured to touch him before he had
made up h‘3 mind whether you were to
be trusted or not.”
“What a dreadful creature! Do ycu
always have him abont. Does he ever
fiy at any on.?'’ , , ,
•‘No—te would if I told him to do it.
He would fiy at your throat this instant
at a single word from me,” Ethel an
swered— but he is very good tempered
really. He has always disliked my hus
band very tmteb, but he has never done
more than treat him to that voiceless
snarl. Oh! no, really—when you once
get to know him and he to like yon,
Crummies is the dearest fellow in all the
world.”
“And your husband—doeB he like
him?”
“Not much—he puts np with him be
cause I have always had him. By the
bye—are you going to Mrs. Maravin s
tomorrow? ’
“Yes—I think so.”
“Shall we go together?”
“Oh! I should like to very much. But
your husband, does he like going three
anywhere?”
“He ls not going—he never goes to af
ternoons; in fact, he scarcely ever goes
out with me. He always declares that
he ® not a society man in any way. We
might go for a drive before we go to Mrs.
Maravln’s.”
“I shall be delighted,” said Madame
with evident pleasure. “Yon are most
kind to think of it. And now I most be
going np to my own apartments, so I will
wish you a good night.”
She rose from her chair and Crummies
expressed the voiceless snarl whioh had
ao disturbed the lady before. However,
■he did not seem much frightened and
stopped heron the chimney shelf. “Is
that your husband, Mrs. Dennis?” she
asked, pointing to a photograph in a
silver frame.
-Yea—it Is avery good portrait of him,”
Ethel replied#
44 And that ls Hr. TrevorT” the other
went on, looking at a large photograph
of that young gentleman which filled a
similar frame and occupied the other
end of the shelf.
“Yes.”
“ What a nice face he has. I think him
charming. Is he a rotation of yours?”
“Oh, no, not any relation, but my very
oldest friend,’’ Ethel replied. “We were
children together, little children to-
aether.”
“And yon are friends daring all these
years—how strange. Well, you will
bring lb. Trevor to see meoneday, won t
you? 1
“I will, with pleasure,” Ethel replied,
“but Madame, be is not Mr. Trevor now
—he is Lord Rosstrover since his cousin
died.”
“So," cried the other In astonishment,
“then that was why he looked so dis
turbed this evening? A til aud well he
might, well he might. Weli, will you
briug Lord Rosstrevcr then one day? I
thought him charming.”
“I’m so glad,” Ethel cried, with a gush
of feeling as she took Madame Woleuskl’s
firm outstretched hand. “Good-night,
good-night.”
But the little glow or pi* Mure soon died
away when she was once left atone. She
■it down la a ehair.before the fire and
Crummies made himself a bed on the
skirt of her gown, and then her thoughts
“? c ,*f r y> when she had beee
nnd yielding, when -wher ai, t
8, sh. C h2!?hi ardJy b t ar *° tbiDk of It now
5P® how bitter, all bitter, her
thoughts were then. Whv if w
flrm1 / * cd obstinately and ha*f
positively refused to marry S
?i uId her mother have-
done? She could have given her an an-
bS 0n hL ba ? t,me > she could ha^e de-
her f 1-001 any pleasures, she
ba ^ esJ mt her up on oreac.
T ^. at6r and hav ® beateu her, though
Ih*i p'f was notln lire’.east uro“o-
But even supposing the verv
had hanmCtaru to ^
Qut.tiy
mother ,
the better.”
So she sat down to her wriung-table
and wrote a letter to Mrs. Mordaunt.
“You will remember Jack Trevor, the
Bishop’s son,” she said. ‘He came in*
today to tell me the great haws, the
great change which ims coma into his
life. He is novr Lord Rosstrevor of Ross*
trevor, county Antrim, and Tr«70r Hall,
Norfolk, through the death of his second
cousin, Lord Rosstrevor, who died yes
terday. I don’t think I told you that he
was In the 15.h when we joined, and is
one of my greatest friends. Re thinks of
leaving the. service now.”
She felt better when she had added s.
little general news and had given the
letter to Jcdge to post; yet, after all,
there is bat poor satisfaction in stinging
some one who has managed to min your
Whole life for you. Acd just ss she was
beginning to think again—and just then..
poor girl, thinking was synonymous
with being wretched—SD.or Danuta re
turned. „ ,
He was very full of what ae called
“Trevor’s luck,” and could hardly talk
abont anything else. And Sthei, who
did not want to think too much abeut
the impossible that night, tried to change
the subject by telling him of the charm
ing woman she had met that day.
• Oht Cosmo,” she said, ' Mrs, Alaxaviu
introduced me to such a nice wo man to
day, who iivrs in The Fiat, Just above us
in fact, she is a Pole, a Madame Woieu-
Oht” suspiciously— a Pole, are yon
sure?” , . .
“No, for I did not ask her aor d:a sue
say anything about her nationality. But
Mrs. Maravin said so, and that 3he had
brought her a letter of introduction from
oae of her dearest friends in \tenna.”
Major Dennis stood looking thought
fully into the fire for a micuta or wo.
“Look here, Ethel,” he »atd 'I don’t
mind what you do in a general way as
you very weli know. I don’t .:ke your
picking up foreign women m this off
hand sort of fasnion, because— out—^weli
because she may be a friend of Val-
el ‘‘And I’ve promised to drive with her
tomorrow. That Is to take her tor a drive
and then to go to Mrs. Maravin’s,” cried
Ethel In dismay.
“Oht well, that doesn’t matter—but
don’t get into a way of running in and
out of her rooms. Yon see, foreigners
get mixed up one with another, and—
—and—it’s safer not to, don’t you know.”
“Very well. I wish I’d thought of it
before. I never did or I shouldn’t have
Mked her, of coarse,” said Mrs. Dennis,
whose experience of Mademoiselle Vale
rie had been quite disagreeable enough
to her wish to be very care: ul lest
■be should betray their whereabouts.
The following day about three o'clock
in the afternoon, Madame Wolenski
arrived and wm shown Into the draw
ing room. "Am 1 too early?" ahe asked.
“Not at all. I have only to put on my
hat and coat. I shall not be a minute.
You will excuse me, won’t you?"
She went off to get ready and passing:
the half-open door of the small stndy or
smoking-room, saw Msjor Dean® read
ing a newspaper.
“Oh! ~
Cosmo, Madame Wolenski is
here. You’ll oome and see her won’t
y *‘Notfor*tho'world,” ho answered hur
riedly. “I don’t like foreigners—never
did. My time to meet her will corns
soon enough. Pray don’t let her come
in here, pray don’t.”
•‘Very well,’' ahe answered, and went
away, feeling that really he allowed his
or h® fears to carry him too
However, she and Madame Wolenski
went down the stairs together aud got
into the victoria which wm waiting in
the courtyard. They had driven some
little d®tance through the mild, moist
winter air when some sadden instinct
made Ethel tarn to her companion anti
ask her a question so abruptly that, even
to her own ears, her voice seemed to
have a threatening ring and to carry a
sort of challenge with it.
“By the bye,” sbe said, “did yon ever
know a woman called Valerie?”
Madame Wolenski turned her head to
wards her, bnt with such an indifferent
air that Ethel was convinced In a mo
ment that she had never heard oi Valerie*
in all her life before.
“Valerie,” she repeated, “no, I don t-
ttffnk so. Is she a milliner or a dress
maker?’ . „ ,
“Neither,” Mrs. Dennta replied. "5
believe she is—*■—a lady.”
“Oh! a lady, I see. Wta» of hert la eh*