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xHE SUNNY SOUTH
JULY 9, 1904.
Good Short Stories for Leisure Summer Hours
The Mirror of the Faithful Heart
By A. & E. CASTLE.
hour earlier:
AIL, rain or sjow, Sir
Peter Coverdale waited
upon Lady Barbara Ogle
precisely at 4 o’clock of
the afternoon every week
day. partook of a dish of
tea, and joined her in a
game of trie-trac. On the
stroke of half-pase live the
grey mare was led round
under the portico and Sir
Peter jogged gently back
to bin solitary home. Each
Sunday he made his ap
pearance at OgV 1 hall an
but the grey mare had her
the discharging of his obligation, but
this afternoon 'he flurry of her air in
which ho had i4 share, the elegance that
Then, with a sudden change of mood,
her bright, handsome face softening in a
Very womanly way, she leant over to him
and laid her fibers on his wrist. ,
“Sir Peter,” sho said, "my kind friend,
I have been an old fool.”
Sir Peter was so startled that he well
Sabbath rest, and a more ancient quad
ruped his weekly outing to convey Sir
Peter ip the repast which Lady Barbara j must want your cup.”
dispensed with stately amiability to him- "Nay,” said .he, "never
self, the parson and his lady. j “I received a dispatch from my cousin
Every quarter day he went over in j Damory this morning. Pray, have you
state to pay her the rent of certain heard me mention my cousin, the Lord
woods, hired for his covert
dition’s sake merely; Sir Peter, over and
above all things scholar and dilettante,
cared little for shooting and less for the
chase), attired as became the seasons,
and bringing; the offering of an appro
priate posy. Sir Peter would then propose
marriage to Lady Barbara, who had
been for ten years the object of bis de
clared affections, for ten previous that of
put hTm at such a distance troubled him. high dropped t'he delicate china.
„ t , .. v. j lean frame shook violently as he first laid
He drew forth tho little bag and Mid it | “J 1 ‘ care fully out of his reach and
outwfThout a word. Twas of purple silk, jj len turned his wrinkled countenance,
embroidered In silver cases. It had ap- ; Rra y with emotion, upon Lady Barbara,
peared to him vastly tasteful but an hour Hag either lips but her spoken such blas-
ago. phemy . . . !
"What’s that”’ she cried, looking at it I "Yes.” said she, nodding, "an old fool.
«•«... >*- p*.- Igr^Sf
ling old hand. ^ when we were young folks together, for-
“My debt,” said ho gravely; he that getting that as the years and the years
had generally so apt a quotation to lead jjy other things go by too.”
up to his own most poetic declaration. I “Other things, my most honored
“What!” chied she sharply. “ ’Tis nevor j friend?”
Quarter Day If I had not clean for- “Ay, Sir Peter! Youth and looks, man!
fVj. ,,, [Looks, beauty, charm!”
.,rrZ n ' „ T honn I He gave a groan of utter repudiation
The fact is. Sir letei, I ■ j and horror; and she laughed. A cnmfnrt-
quite upset—T vow the wenches have for- a ^j e> hearty laugh was hers, even though
gotten the tay; but they are prodigious [jj. held just then a little quaver in it as
busy. ’Twas quite unexpected. You . of tears.
i “I deny it,” said Sir Peter, so exceeding-
mind the tay.” ,ly agitated that the powder flew in scent
ed mists about his head. “I deny it, ab
solutely and totally.’’
i “Alack! 1 have looked In the mirror,
my good sir,” said the lady and she wink-
j ed sternly as she spoke, for there was a
moisture in her blue eyes which she was
ertain
(for tra- Earl of Damory? He proposes to lie the
night at Ogle hall. He will . perchance
his secret amours. Every quarter day j lug emotion transfigured her comely face
Lady Barbara was overcome by surprise,
shed a few tears, scolded a little, smiled
a little, gave, him a determined refusal
and her hand to kiss.
"When last I died (and dear, I die
As often as fromjthee I go).
• •
I can remember yet that I
Something did say, and something did
bestow.”
The singing words of old Donne might
have "been penned to fit me case.
They parted better friends than ever,
hut If the gentleman rode home at a slow
pace, his fine old head sunk gadly on hi
stay longer. I know not. We have not determined they should not shed. “Cousin
Damory was obliging enough to hold the
mirror for me last night. And I loked
in . . . and I saw what I saw.”
’’Your Oousiii Damory, ma’am!” he
ejaculated, and r<tse jerkily to his feet.
“Lady Barbara, 1 have no hesitation in
saying it, with all due respect to your
ladyship’s family, that man is a villain. ’
"You saw how I prinked myself out for
him last night. Mally and I and the
maids thought I, made a vastly fine show.
Twas my birthday brocade, and had been
met,” she said, playing with the little
purple hag In a manner that showed how
far away her thoughts were, for she was
a woman careful over money, "we have
not met for I know not how many
years.”
She looked down and a tremulojis blush-
tlie autumn will, now and again, wear
an air of spring.
”1 pee it all,” said Sir Peter, and i thought to become me.” She cast a some-
groped blindly for Ills hat where he had 1 what wistful glance at him.
set it on the balustrade. “You—you once "You were—you were adprable!” said
loYed .each other.’’ I he
“He remembers me still, it seems,”
faltered the lady, "it was long, long
ago; before eve'n I Thet my poor Ogle,
but thrte are things the heart cannot
forget.”
T understand,” said Sir Peter, and
clapped his three cornered hat over his
own Door heart.
"\Ve went our ways,” said Lady Bar
bara, complacent in her reminiscences.
I ”1 fear he has led a sad, wild life since
breast, it might pe observed that the i he, too, was widowed, but—his letter
lady, on the other hand, went aiiout the
house all the evening even more briskly
than ever; ghat she sniffed complacent
ly at a posy in her kerchief, and was
unwontedly lenient to the maids.
Lady Barbara was p widow. Squire
Ogle had left her no children, but a com
fortable estate, which she managed with
prudence, energy and enjoyment.
Lady Barbara was fair;' she was—
plump. She was—quite thirty-nine. Sir
Peter’s name was very old, so was his
house. He was lean and melancholy,
fond of the poets, and indeed of all his
library (which smelt good pf old leathers,
was brown and dimly flecked with gold,
with an air of russet antique dignity,
and which he unconsciously matched
very ’(yell in his brown suit and dim gild
buttons). His estate touched the Ogle
boundaries. He had a sufficient compe
tence to feel that with proper pride ho
might aspire to the hand of his rich and
fair neighbor. He was a bachelor, and
he had loved but her.
Dpon a certain Michaelmas Sir Peter
might haye been seen ambulating his
neglected garden In search of the quar-
torly posy. , llis russet suit had been
carefully- brushed, his ample locks, all
4 a already though they were, had
“been on the contrary most handsomely
powdered. His heart fluttered as he pick
ed his nosegay, autumn blossoms, as
fragnyit yet and tender, if with a little
hold on life, as his own delicate passion.
There was a bloom as of the purple
vastly flattering—he writes with great
feeling.” The lady turned coy. "1 could
read you jx phrase or two.”
She dived with two white fingers under
her capacious kerchief. The letter was
in her bosom. There are thing® flesh and
blood cannot bear, be it turned of six-
tv.
“Madam,” said Sir Peter, bowjng low,
"you are busy. 1 will intrude no longer.”
He turned and left her. and she raised
no sound to call him back.
Thus did it come about that on tL^t
Michaelmas day Sir Peter Coverdale
neither proposed for tho Lady Barbara
nor presented his love token.
The following day Sir Peter was fully
determined not to ride over to Ogle hall.
He lingered unwontedly over his dinner,
though he had but a poor appetite; and
when the time drew near for departing
■sat himself d<jwn before the fire In his
library and opened a volume of Jeremy
Taylor as if he meant not to budge for
a month. But he had artfully remembered
to forget to counter order the mare, and
when she ‘came with stiff prancings to
the doer .(for it was a frosty and exhil
arating afternoon). It seemed unreason
able that he should not at least take a
turn in the park.
After this no one will be surprised to
hear that it was but shortly after the
usual hour lliat he trotted under the
granite portico of Lady Barbara's house,
With its spreading shell canopy and flut
ed plasters. ;
He was gathering himself together with
a very solemn countenance before dis
mounting, when the door was flung open
and one of the apple faced footmen ran i
out.
"My lady hid me watch for you. Sir
Peter.” with a grin of cordial welcome. [
on (he grape, as of the gold on the apple. |A very trim little maid seized hold of
over the land as he rode along the fa- j the gentleman in the hall,
miliar road. The mild air was full of the j “Her ladyship is in the blue parlor,”
quoth she, and tripped before him to the
door.
"Bodes not this cheerful bust!
tart savojj of the fading leaf, the sweet
ness of the hoarded stack. The yellow
sunlight lay very gently upon tin*/ world.
He found Lady Barabara on the gar
den terrace; 'twas her favorite seat in
fitting weather. But even before he had
had time to make his first bow. before
he could lift his hand to offer the posy—
and his demanded an exquisite- flourish.
.11 for
me? thought Sir rater. He looked round
darkly as he entered, but her ladyship
its.alone. A tea tray of very agreeable
brilliance was laid before the fire The
urn was hissing.
minutes,” said Lady Barbara, up
lifting a. taper finger to arrest him and
thereupon she poured the bubbling water
Lady Barbara was flustered
a wonderful grandeur of silk brocade
for it should indicate his heart before Into the melon-shaped teapot, and the
reaching her taper fingers—he perceived [ w hole air was filled with fragrance,
that something unusual had happened, j must want your Bohea this cold
There was day ’ sald T / a<3y ® arbara sweetly.
bhe came forward to greet him, and he
saw behind her the tric-trae hoard tempt -
about her, of line gophered muslin and inglv displayed between two armchairs,
delicate lace. “She is a true woman.” said the do-
For one unreasonable instant his old Jected swain to himself. "She thinks hv
heart gave a leap. Was this Michaelmas these _things to soften the blow!” H
d"ay to be the day of all days to him at
last? But the next moment he told him-
‘Cousin Damory,” she began again,
“Cousin Damory, my excellent friend has,
it seems, an empty exchequer. He was
good enough to remember some early
passages of tenderness between us, with
the view of replenishing the said ex
chequer from the good estates of Ogle
Hall—unfortunately, Cousin Damory also
found my wine vastly to his liking, and
you learned gentlemen have a proverb,
I believe, in the Latin, ‘In Vino Ve
ritas.' ”
Sir Peter could not speak. lie was
hanging on her words as if each of them
were as the breath of life to him. His
quivering hands hovered In the air.
“Well,” said the lady, "’twas well
enough at first. But O, Sir Peter, how is
my poor cousin changed! Heaven! how
coarse hath he grown; how red In the
face, how bulky in the figure!”
The old scholar’s innocent gray eyes
swept his own attenuated limbs with
quick complacency, and for the first time
since the yesternoon he smiled.
“ ’Twas but now and again that by a
look, a gesture, I could tco.ee the hand
some youth 1 had loved.”
Sir Peter's smile faded.
"All went well enough at supper. My
lord was good enough to praise the pro-
\ ender. But when 1 retired, leaving him
with the young man, his secretary, who
travels with him, it was then, O Sir
Peter, that my eyes were opened;”
"Then?” echoed Sir Peter breathless
ly.
"Then,” paid Lady Babara. "Hearing
that two or three more bottles of wine
had been sent for in succession, and that
my lord's voice was waxing very loud, 1
—i—’• shp hesitated, and lifting the hem
of her purple and black-flowered apron,
pleated it between her white fingers.
“You—you overheard?” faltered Sir
Peter.
The lady dropped her apron, smoothed
it firmly over her knee, and looked up at
the anxious face that was beat over her.
“Sir Peter-,” she said, "1 listened. And
a very’ fortunate thing it was, too,” she }
proceeded briskly. "For, if it hurt my j
, pride, it saved my pocket. And some- j
thing else, too, my self-respect. . . j
I ’What d'ye think of my Cpz?’ Lord Darn- !
! ory says, bawling to nis young man. ‘Ye'd [
never believe, Jenkins, that that old wom-
[ an was once the prettiest girl in Hamp-
1 shire!' ”
[ "Oh! oh!” cried Sir Peter, as if in pain.
| “The drunken ruffian, madam, knew not
! what he said.”
I "Nay,” she made answer. "The wine
but loosed his tongue. Not indeed that
j I am one who would cast shame to a gen-
| tleman for an extra bottle of an evening.
| 'Tis gentlemen’s way, 1 know,” said the
[ widow, with a sigh of leniency to the con-
1 vivial ghost of the departed squire. "But
! Cousin Damory was a trifle indiscreet in
I his cups, as you will hear. 'I remember
| her,' ho shouts, ‘a.s slender as a willow
i wand. I could compass her waist with
[ my hand’ (we were cousins, you must
| mind. Sir Peter). ‘Lord!’ says he, ‘she s
: run to fat’ (excuse that I should repeat
j his coarseness). ‘I’ll have to take both
I arms to her,’ he says.”
dale clasped his hand
The Love Chase
By KEBLE HOWARD.
HERE’S the church!” cried
Monica.
“Where?” said Jack, a lit
tle indifferently.
“There! Can’t you see tho
spire just peeping up
through the trees? Put
your head out of the win
dow.”
“No, thank you. I might
get a spark or something
In my eye.”
Monica sighed deeply. "I
think you might try,” she
protested.
"I am trying. I’ve been trying ever
since we left Baker street. I am bound
to admit, however, that up to the pres
ent—”
"That’ll do. if I’d known you weren’t,
going to play the gamp. I—”
Jack rose hastily, took off his straw
hat and thrust his head out of the win
dow.
"Can you see It?’’ asked Monica,
‘‘No. Oh, yes! Quite reminds one—
Damn!” He flung himself back onto the
seat, and groped in a pocket for his hand
kerchief.
"Don’t say it’s a spark!” pleaded Mo
nica.
“I shall call it something worse than
that in a minute."
“I’m so sorry! It was my fault. Lot
me see if I can get it out.”
She sat down beside him, took the hand
kerchief, wetted one corner and screwed
it into a point.
“Now open your eye. Is it at the top
or the bottom?”
"I dumio. It’s hurting most confound- i
edly, wherever it is.”
"Poor boy! Try to kteep quite still. Look \
down.”
”1 am looking down. Don’t keep on |
jabbing like that.”
"1 am pot jabbing, Jack. It’s no use
getting in a temper about it. I’m doing
my best.”
“Better leave it alone and let it come
out itself.”
“Then it may go on hurting you all day.
Keep still a moment! I see it!”
"Look out!”
"Got ’im! It’s only a tiny little speck,
after all.”
“You wouldn’t think it so tiny if it had
been in your eye. I’ll bet.”
"1 expect not. Hallo! Here we are!”
The train slowed down, and stopped
with a jerk at a small country station.
Jack and Monica alighted.
"That’s a new porter.” whispered Mo
nica, as they descended the steps.
"Very likely. They don't generally j
keep them at stations like this for five j
years, you know.”
"Five years isn't so very long.”
"Isn’t It?” Jack’s tone was significant. |
Monica said nothing.
They turned the corner rather shyly,
and walked through the village as care
lessly os might be.
“I wonder if any one will remember
us?” said Monica.
"I hope not.”
"Why?”
"Oh, I don't know! Only we used to
ho so frightfully—what d’ you call it?”
“I didn’t know you objected so strongly
to being in love. ’
"I don’t. I mean, I didn't. No, I
don’t.”
They were outside the village now.
and a few minutes would bring them to
the lane that led to the wood of many
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HE swiftest sailing ship on ; fourteen knots by the patent log anil
any sea a giant of gener- twelve knots close hauled, with the yards
ous and graceful lines, with braced sharp,
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painted white as snow, a
With the small amount of
ballast she had in she listed by eight de
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five sails bellying to the j ava> a t the eastern edge of the Indian
winds and known as the ocean, having sailed to Java Head in
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can full-rigged steel ship from the meridian of Gremvich to the
Erskine M. Phelps, has re- head in twenty-six days, averaging 250
miles each day, a total of 6,500 knots, a
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cently arrived at Philadel
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This trip, though fast, does not equal her
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thirty or thirty-fivve days is considered
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Where Human Life
Originated
R. WETLAND, of the Pea
body museum, Yale uni
versity, has a paper in the
last number of The Ameri
can Journal of Science that
is attracting much atten
tion among scientific work
ers. He has collected
many facts, most of them
revealed by geological sci
ence, to show the probabil
ity that the origin or
life occurred in the polar
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te changes which affect life in-
ord run in a lifetime of twenty years New York to J'ava Head the smallest
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the Phelps has broken seven records in days run 310 mi*es.
her career oT four years. She has made And B-om Java to Taltal, Chile, in bnl-
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before a good stiff breeze and the patent of 13 : 000 miles, in ninety-five days, the
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les, in ninety-five
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The best day's run on the voyage from
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most that can be got out of anything average of 12 11-12 knot an hour for
memories. Monica stopped and" looked j that carries sail, but the Pkelps is able twenty-four hours. This is anot
her husband squarely in the face. I to reel off thirteen knots an hour, and average of ordinary steamship time.
"Before wo go any further,” she be- 'the two patent logs that site always car- 1 he Phelps is a four-masted ship and
gan, ”1 should like—” vies trailing astern have shown a speed of
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"Don’t be vulgar! I should like to j* Phelps
know whether you are really serious in .
undertaking this pilgrimage. You know a bl S cals °
that I am. You know. Jack, that I
want to get back, if only for an hour,
like hull, and their spars short and
te that sacred time when you and 1—”
She stopped abruptly. Jack had seated
himself on the bank and was now dust
ing his boots wiht his handkerchief.
“Go on,” he murmured.
"I shan’t go on. I shall go back to
the station and take the next train back
to town. I was a fool ever to come. I
might have known that a man like
you—”
"It’s no use struggling,” said Jack.
And he kissed her.
Half way up the lane they came to a
Five years ago, they had been
I wont to take tea at that cottage. The
the first steel sailing vessel Aver built in
^ the United States of steel made in this
j country. The only foreign-made articles
is not only a fast sailer, but aboard the Phelps are two of Lord Wel-
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Mr. Sewall was the vice presidential can
didate with William J. Bryan in 1896.
_ , Sir Peter Cover
I looked at her long and tenderly as he took j and wrung them in the extremity of his
her hand. She was changed again since | emotion. “Oh!” cried he. "Oh! madam,
, , , . yesterday. Where wnT file youthful ex- 'how Is it possible that anyone could be i cotta „ e
self with sorry humor that he was but'uhorance of curls and the little fly-away Iso brutish, so afflicted by heaven with 1
the appropriate goose. His uplifted hand TinT? 5;Tw that had sat so coquettishly in I crass stupidity, to behold without awe .
fell stiffly by his side. Alas! Elderly [the midst of them? Where was the rose- [and admiration those noble, those before '°‘d lady who made the t a was still
lover though he was he had all the in- j flowered brocade; where the velvet bands which the immature charms of girlhood, making it, and they stayed there tor
tuitions of the devoted heart. Not he ; and t -\ le diamond buckles, the swelling ] however beautiful,” he laid his hand j quite an hour.
i j ' ( u in +ri +r , unwonted i magnificence of paniers the rich torsades upon his hatrt and bowed, as If to some , “Doesn’t this remind you?” whispered
had anything to saj to the unwonted of , aoe? sweet vision of Lady Barbara's youth, „ ,
flowering of his beloveds attire, to the j “Her incomparable heart mourns over ''‘must sink into utter insignificance, as | ' . ,, .
unwonted rose upon her fine, smooth my grief,” he reflected gently shaking I the lesser nymphs before Juno herself.” j it s cne very same menu, -aiu juck,
cheek. She had no thought for .him to- his powdered head: then to the fell pre- i “Why, why,” laughed the lady, and [peering into his cup with a sentimental
day nay he was not even sure that he [sentiment of his forthcoming loss of her laugh rang without any hint of tears eye.
wa =’welcome [ broke into some lines from his favorite 'this time. Only that my vanity was so M<
"LaT slm cried. "Sir Peter!” (Where j 1 di ^ uosed last » ^ ? et ? r ’ ■ 1
lags that wench with the tay? A fine jj jet I have not all thv love.
afternoon, Sir Peter. I fear j-ou must j Dear, I shal] never have it all; 'asked his lordship, ‘and, plump as she
excuse me from our game todajv I am jl cannot breathe one other sigh to move, [is, the wrinkles about her ejes? But.
expecting a visitor.” | Nor can entreat one other sigh to fall. [ (3a d^_ s 1 ? le wa » s i her curls and ogles one
Expecting a visitor! Not have their
stumpy when contrasted with her sky- j Here are the (lime nslons: Length over
scraping masts and long, tapering yards. j a ll, 330 feet; width, 45 feet; depth of
If the ship were stood upright on its [hold, 26 feet; net register, 2,715 tons;
stern the craft would rise higher than ' cargo capacity, 4,600 tons; masts, from
New York’s tallest .skyscraper, as she j keel to trucks, 200 feet; diameter of
measures, from her rudder to the tip of masts, 32 Inches; lowrr yards. 94 feet;
the bowsprit. 400 feet. She could not : lower topsail yards, 85Vz feet: upper top-
go under the Brooklyn bridge without : sail yards, 78 feet; topgallant yards, 65
sending down her topgallant masts. feet; royal j-ards, 55 feet; skj-sail j-ards.
This >-achlike giant, kept as spotlessly ' 46 feet; bowsprit, 68 feet,
white as a man-o'-war, careening under [ In addition to an all-steel hull the
a cloud ol’ canvas, can better be imag- . ship has a steel poop, a steel house amid-
ined than described. While some ships [ ships, a steel forecastle and steel masts
are known to fame for a.single fast pass- and yards and howsprit, there being only
age in extraordinarily favorable weather, : three pieces of wood in her—the three
the Phelps has shown a score of times : topgallant masts. In the cabin aft Cap
creases toward tlie poles, and ther- fore
that polar influences have bad much
more to do with differentiating life into
many forms than equatorial influences.
As the continents are grouped around
the north pole, it is reasonable to sup
pose that the northern circumpolar area
has been, ever since the time of the
older forms of life, found in the paleozoic
rocks, the main center from which ani
mal and plant life have radiated, and
Mr. Wieland adduces much evidence to
show that this theorj- is correct. These
deductions are by no means news, but
they have never -before been f“rufied in
the one composition by so large array of
[ testimony as that which Mr. Wieland has
collected in his careful paper.
AN EASILY UNDERSTOOD THE
ORY.
[ The fundamental idea on which this
j theorj- of the origin of life is based is
not difficult to understand. Some condi
tions of stabilitj- must have h*en neces
sary to the beginnings and perpetuation
of plant and Animal life, jf the globe
was once molten, as physicists from Kant
and La Place to Kelvin have declared,
lunar tides of tremendous power roust
have been produced at the equator,
though they were weak at the poles.
Sufficient crustal stability to make hot
water life possible must have first ap
peared at the poles. A great interval of
time must hav.- elapsed between the first
appearance of crustal stability at the
poles and similar conditions at tho equa
tor. able to resist the enormous attrac
tive power of the moon and sun. It nmy
have taken 1.000,000 j*ears for the tem-
, . _ . . . , . "Tis a vastly prettj- ryhme." said she,
tric-trac. £>uch untoward occurrences nad ! “pyj gj r y> e ter, your Bohea will be past
interrupted their existenea but once these 'drinking.”
Lady Barbara had had "Your .visitor?” he queried; and cup and
the influenza. I saucer rattled in his hand as he took it
Sir Peter slipped the nosegay to his left * lf T- _
1 Oh. she said angrily. “My lord Dam
Monica’s heart sank. There was noth-
j vow you'd make me vain. Bt* hark’to I far U ™ ‘ ha wo ?. d * .
'this: ‘Did you see her double chin?’ | At the top of the lane they climbed a
stile, and followed a narrow, winding
path that led between two banks of yel
lowing corn. Tlie sun was setting.
Monica was glad of that. Jack, on the
other hand, looked at h<s watch.
"There’s plenty of time,” Monica ex-
that in ordinarily favorable weather she j tain and Mrs. Graham have a sitting j peratur,. and stability necessary eve-n to
can sail across the north Atlantic from room, dining room, bedroom, bath room, 'hot water life to move slowly from the
New York to England in from thirteen to [four extra staterooms, apothecary shop Poles to the equator. Thus the condition
fifteen daj-s. No sailing ship that ever
floated can show, in four years, such
swift voyages as these:
Distance. Daj r s.
jasTfshe were ihalif her age. The widow
[ Ogle,’ says he, ‘ 'tis a proper name!’ ”
| "Tell me no more,” ejaculated Sir Peter,
| lifting up both his hands sternly; his
: line old face was flushed to his powdered [ postulated.
hand, while be pulled a little bag from j .
mean you"
his waistcoat pocket with the right. It n] -ght, you know. He’s on his way
was his pleasure to present Ills debt to Bath Hot-wells. Is jour tay agreeable,
the ladj- every quarter in the form of gold Sir Peter?”
pieces enclosed in a charming little reti- [ '“Your ladyship hinted he might re-
eule of colored taffetj-, constructed for m ain.”
him by his housekeeper and tied with gold not rema,n ’ pa,cl T ‘ ndy Bnrbara
thread. These dainty receptacles, after j She y ' sat down with some abruptness in
being dnlj- emptied of their prosaic con- [ h f , r armchair, and looked with steady
tents. Ladj- Barbara was given to fill eje past the tremulous, eager figure of
with lavender and to dispose about her her ehlerlj- lover out of the window.
hair. "It—it upsets me, ma’am. 1—I
'can’t bear it. Wrinkles! Dare the secri-
'legious miscreant to allude to those lines
Tic came but for the which kindly mirth and tender sympathy
cupboards and presses. There were not
yet enough for everj- drawer, and per
haps that was the reason she still re
fused £7r Peter.
Usually he took a poetic pleasure in
"He did not remain,” she said.
Sir Peter could hardlj- draw a breath,
so uncertain was he whether it should
be one of mpture or agony.
“Sit down.” sat-d Lady Barbara sharply,
"aifd drink j-our cup, man.”
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r ‘ ‘But she's rich,’ his lordsliip was good
enough to add. ’So, Jenkins, we’ll swal
low her, fat and all, and she'll do better
than a young one. for I’ll not have to
staj- at home and keep the sparks
away.' ”
Slowlj-, for elast/iclty of action bad long
departed from him. and be was much
Shaken by emotion. Sir Peter went down
upon his knees before Ladj- Barbara.
"Most beloved and more lovelj- lady,"
said fie, ’Yonder depraved and besottled
idioT Held no mirror at all for your gaze,
but rather the stagnant pool of his own
evil soul, into wliich you divine eyes
should never have looked. Look now in
to the mirror of my faithful heart and be
hold yourself, j-ourself in beauty, which
age cannot touch, which my poor words
can never express.
‘By Love’s religion, I must here confess
It,
The most I love when I the least express
it,’ ”
quoted Sir Peter from his. favorite poet.
"Oh! Sir Peter, Sir Peter,” said the
lady, laughing and crj-ing together, and
bolding out hboth her hands. Sir Peter
took them, hardly daring to believe the
fact, into his.
"Cousin Damory offered me his coronet
this morning,” said Lady Barbara, with
apparent irrelevance, after a pause.
"And thereafter, I fear, he departed some
what hurriedly.”
Sir Prter could not speak, -but he kissed
the white hands, one after another.
"Have you anj- objection to my lips,
Sir Peter?’’ saT3 Ladj- Barbara.
She was a downright dame; and, young
as she was still fain to believe herself,
with Sir Peter she could afford to waste
no more time on shilly-shally.
The evenings are apt to he chilly-,”
said Jack.
"Anyho-y j-ou've got to wait until dusk.
Yon promised.”
“All right, bu< it’s not very sporting
to ask favors after dinner.”
"I won’t ask any favors at all in the
future.”
ITlvej- h.firt come to the edge Of the
wood. Monica paused irresolutely.
"Perhaps we are making a mistake,
after all,” she observed. Her ej r cs were
B try wide open, for she was looking
down a flickering glade that led to a dell.
It was in that dell that the primroses
used to grow. Incidentally-, too. Jack had
proposed to her there.
“Let’s chance it,” he suggested, and
began to make a way for her through
tlie bramh!?“.
They- wandered about the wood for
rather more than an hour. Here was the
curious little knoll that Monica had call
ed her throne; there the ditch that Jack
had fallen Into because be would look
at Monica instead of where he was go
ing. Today he was picking his w;yy with
the utmost care.
At last it began to grow dusk. Jack
knocked the. ashes out of his pipe and
buttoned up his coat. Monica, pretending
not to notice, led Him to the dell.
"Better not climb down,” said Jack. “It
Is sure to be damp.”
"Never mind. Come on!” She seized
him by the hand and dragged him down.
"Pretty little spot,” said Jack, filling
another pipe.
“I love it.” She paused a moment, and
then added, “Do you remember. Jack—?”
“Stop! Don’t speak to me for a mo
ment!” His mouth was open, his eyes
screwed ujp. He’ sneezed!
“You’re hateful,” cried Monica.
“How could I help it? I told you this
plnce was damp.”
“Don’t speak to me! I’ll never try—”
She stopped short, turned her back on
him and whipped put her handkerchief.
"Please don’t cry,” he pleaded.
She waved him back. Was It possible
that ? Yes! Hurrah!
Monica had sneezed.
2V 2
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77
80
58
95
96
Bath to Cape Henry- 540
Norfolk to Honolulu 15,000
Norfolk to Ombay Pass 14.880
New York to Java 13.000
Java and Chile 11,600
Chile to Philadelphia. .. .10,000
Chile to Baltimore 10,000
Around Cape Horn 2,000 I I
Across Indian ocean 6.500 26
Equator to Cape Hatteras 3,000 18
Best hour's run 14 knots
Best day's run 3 !0 knots
Best week’s run (six days) 1.675 knots
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But all evidence points to the former
existence of wide land routes between
the northern polar areas and th. great
land masses to the south, and the facts
of vertebrate distribution in the northern
hemisphere in mosozoio and tertiary times
can be satisfactorily explained only on
the h.vpothesis of a common polar ori
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which then dispersed outward from the
polar area and spread over America and
Eurasia.
I bis Is a very brief statement of the
hypothesis which the writer fortifies ;>y
voluminous quotations from the r cord
the rocks have preserved. The reader is
referred to Mr. Wioland’s paper for the
evidence that the rich vegetation of the
varn us horizons represented within the
arctic area forms the original source of
most of the plant families that we knew
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we iind in the rocks forms of life that
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tne equator. The climate and the conse
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