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PABT lit
’« (oNTijeciiD most last week.
“Me doe, not like to speak of him, poor fal
low,'' sold Mri.Huntlngton once. “Me feel,
too deeply' that alienee la l*tlor. -How few men
there are Who would not foeMomptort to con
fide in u, and tell tho whole story. It!, most
dolliuto and generous. One Is forced to admire
and respect him.’’
It wus Impossible to keep Intact tho rule of
not reforrlng to Mr. Jack Hamilton. It was
impov-ddn'to Ignore him—to rid tho atmos*
cousins superb liorsca with an air of entire pro-;
prieloi ship. Thoy could not go to church with
out finding themselves either before, behind or
hesidi him Ho soomed to be invited to oceu-'
py n h at in every pew within a few yards of
iheni. They could not Accept nn invitation
vritln it lieiugraro of seeing him loom npaboro
Ibe fcrests of ordinary size and make himself a
gort of focus for nU'wandcring eyes.
“I suppose," Mrs. Huntingdon said, “pjople
jeccivc him for bis consln’s sake. And It is
more than prolablo that they do not know
all."
She did not herself “kuowall.” Nell did
not till her "all." Since there seemed no
hell* ior It, why should she tell her that she
was thrown with Mr. Jack Hamilton contiou
ally m.d tliat she had gradually learned to
understand that his apparently accidental
ueanitts to her on all occasions was the result
of deliberate intention on his part, and that
he nirneutered with nsrnucb forethought,
dexterity and determination as if he had bceu
ngenei ii advancing upon n citadel. It was
ibis ifetcrmincU air which had first
Btnrtkd her into realizing the
nituation. Ho was so daring and
so clever and showed Inch an unfailing re
source Hmt it was impossible net to recognize
his power. She bad never seen m man so bold
nnd so ready, and yet so capable of concealing
his from all but the one they were
meant to roach. Scarcely a day passed in
which .-he did not find that in spite of herself
he bau managed to perform some trifling ser
vice for her. If she dropped her glove or fan
It was he who bent to pick it up. If site played
lennis t was he, twice out of thrico, who
played with her, and when lie was within
kwenty yards of her she knew that bis eyes
watched her, and that if she looked up she
should meet them nnd that they would have
kho half pathetic, half augry appeal or ques
tion iu their depths, which always so disturbed
nnd * mazed her. There was one habit of his
Which affected her more strongly than any
thing else. Sometimes she would And him
Standing within a few feet of her, neither
speaking nor looking at her. He would stand
Bo, knitting Ids black brows and bending his
"that you won't even condescend to utter nay
name?" ’
Nell turned rather |»ale.
"Yes,” she said. •
It cost her a tremendous effort to say U; but
she said it bravely. It cost her more courage
still to face him niter she had wiki it. Ii<
looked quite white. Hfr met her eyes au in
start as if he had been struck dumb.
“I don’t tbiok—I believed—It was quite
bad as that," ho snub find walked away, with
his bead drooping.
As she watched him go she felt niter misery,
He looked to unhappy, so crushed, sotoehow,
as if she had giveu him a blow too cruel to bo
believed in. He was so big; there was
much of him to be wretched that it swtnfld ns
if he most l»o Wore unhappy than n smaller
won. • It was like seeing a giant tremble.
’’And yet." she said, "what right h.td ho
resent anything—to feel anything? He is
toward to speak to me of it. How ■ dare he!
• But he dared n great deni. All the rest t
the afternoon there was 8 look of deadly de
termination on bis face. She saw it when ho
plunged into the game again and it did dot
die out,* She knew that he must have made
some desperate resolve. She found out what
it was when she left tho ndrty to go .homo/
After she had bidden Mama and Hester good
afternoon and passed throuvji tho gste,~sho:
' 'rnT the hedge, amt
heard quick footstejw bcbti...
the next moment Mr. Jacklramiltou cleared it
With a bound and was at her aide.
"I know what yon think,” ho said obstinate
ly. "You think that a mao who has beentohl
what 1 have would bo more clever and civil if
ho held his tongue ami kept out of the way,
rerhaps you thiuk be would be moreof a man,
may not be clever or conventional but a maul
would ho a fool—I beg your pardon—ho
would not bo much of a fellow if he would
won I, I tell you fairly. I never was as con von
tlonal as I ought to be. They always told me
so. This is the best I can do. It would bo
more delicate and heroic to go away from tho
place and leavo you and stand it as beet I
could—but I won’t. You-dike my cousin, why
should you hAto mo?"
"Your cousin is very different from you,'
said Nell. '
. lie stopped short and stared at her.
"So he is, by Jove!” he said, "but that lias
never been hoarded up against me. A—a fel
low like that—" in au outburst.
Nell stopped him.
“It is worthy of you,” she cried, “that you
should feel so secure in that—in tho difference.
It is worthy of you to si>eak of him as lie does
not speak of you—”
He looked uhashed a little.
"Well." ho said, almost humbly, "perhaps it
wasn’t the thing—but—but,” with a sudden
access of .heat, “if ho is worthy of your notice,
I am, by George. That 1 know.”
Thoy Jbkd nearly reached t bo gate. If was
tho most beautiful afternoon—tlio little blue
waves lapped the sand with a soft, caressing
sonndjthcsun ou setti ng.t brew deep golden lights
> turn on her with some flarce ques
tion, and the very air about him was full of si
lent ar ceclt. She exacted this question daily,
and yet when at length it came she was as
It at all
Mood rear tmr for tome seconds in this mao-
• _iier. I le looked down Atthe gran and frown-
and pultod hi* mustache, and then sudden-
whj* r jon>»t* me?” be
asked. and lushed with exciMMnt as be aik-
. edit. Nell coal* not steady h» voice u the
diknt>d him. Bbc could not meaty her
. SSiWiw. Bh*ftl?itremor tfqnicVpgl-
k. .latiok, :-*.VW*r Mb wd felt thot be urort oee
Hbe know hehah sceuxlho-ireisdr att} she
was for tho moment thoroughly, unhappy. Hta
-glance aa it rested upaw.hartlp'jielt-tww «eo-
onds wag at onto wonderingjm<L raA*4t ve.
felt It all intensely without knowing why.
She even thought it strange thnffeho Should
noticp tho beauty of the hour, when sho was
so overwrought by other things.
“If 1 w ere to say to you,” sho began, “that
this is what a gentleman would uot.do,It would
not matter to you.”
"No,” he sgfd, fiercely, “it wouldu’t-not id
the least. A roan always Ukcs a woman to say
things like that to him.”
“Jf I were to say to you.” she wont ou, "tlmti
a—yes, a gentleman would go away—”
*T wouldn't go” he said. “I would prove mv
self a ruflian by staying. I am a ruffiiu, per
haps. Call me one if you like.”
•J,”said Nell, holding her pretty throat
ery si might. “What sroron to*me?”
“Nothihg,’’ ho cried. “That’s tho worst of
it. There is where you have mo at a disad
vantage. If I bad the shadow of a right to
expect you even to look at me, I could go to
somo ouo and speak about you, or get help.
Hut 1 am not such a ruflian as to talk you over,
even to save myself. Any woman has a right
to feel an antipathy to a man—and he has no
right to complain. Though 1 suppose 1 aui
complaining."
Nell did not utter n word. Site would not.
He was looking ut her with the look that al
ways reminded her that his cousin hud said,
“lie has an eye like a stag’s.” On principle:
she hated him at that lnomcut for his sUg’s
eyes.
“iflsma ruflinn.” he said, “you could
make mo better. Women are sometimes kind,
even to ruffians. I know I am not what I
ought to be. No one knows bettor than I do
what faults I have. They were born in me, *
“I do not wish to hoar them,” said Nell.
“You would like other people to tell you of
them.” fcc said bitterly.
.“I have told you that I never speak of you,"
she answered.
.She saw his eyes Hash; and tho next instant
lie liml snatched her hand almost roughly,
“You shall tell uie,” he cried—“you shall
tell me what I have done!
Hlie tried to withdraw her lmnd, but his
gtasp wuh like iron; she could not even stir it.
Her whole fare flamed.
“Do you know”—she said in a breathless
voice, "do you know that you arc using force
to mi?”
He started as if he had been shot. It was
evident that he actually had not realized it.
“Oh, no!” be raid desperately. “What a
biute aud a fool I am. Bat you don’t Jjknow
what yon are doing to me. You are,, driving
me mad. Let mo go away.
'•The sooner the better!” she answered, but
before the words had left her lips he had
turnedr on his heel and was gone. She saw
nothing until she reached the house anden-
tend'tic shaded, flower-scented room, at the
window of which she found hermother standing
Mrs. Huntingdon turned and looked at her
with a rather amazed expression.
“Nell, dear,” she said, “was thst Mr. Ham
ilton who stood at the gate with you?"
Yes, mamma.”
Mr.—Mr. Jack Hamilton, Kell?*
Yes. mamma." And without another word
she fled to her own room. It seemed to her,
in the horns she spent alone shut up in its
iwctty stmmcrv dimness, that surely no girl
could have suffered in such a strange way be
fore. tike had always been so happy in this
• She
. “Yu,
“you
dote
done.
me. You may call that
ft>ot !-”
Ho ended abruptly. Iftn* a few* fe«e<nidr We
Vras silent. He dreggbd at hm mustache and
if yon like,
Haw his big chest Tito ■■
I She actually had thekwfel i
t>ecii obliged tojtop speaking to gain time to
ConltMhlmrewfy, - -.V.
ragaio. J, t
he
me.
■ Presently be tamed th b*r a#*o. J ,1
“Jf TM think I will lei it r. •
Mid, “yon are wm* If you won’t tell
warming
w!d *°
“Am I such n fellow as thatr* he exclaimed,
cruelty that she should sit in it feeling
such (ftsperate unhappiness. It was despomte
,„me fifteen minutes. She threw-her-
I self oh her knees by her fhvotite doep window,
and kid-lux ti»ce in her arms ou the window
scat. Her heart was beating hard against her
side, and fhe was trembling all over.
"Oh, what is the ragtter.with me?" she raid
again and < again- in a piteous whisper.
“Oh, why do I feel like
8bo couid got Ftili horsoif n\ all. TJicrc
Melted n® nr® in tiylflg. -fehf had -been for
so long »time endcavurinff to ignore and con
trol something which had been advancing up-
on*hcirvery-day and every honr that How,
when under a too great strain she had given
way for a
cr.r.'c back to ber were all wrong. The times,for
ii)Mamc--soiufii)y of them when she had mot
lih ryes looking at her in that liafl wounded,
halfsngiy wav which was somehow pathetic.
No die could deny- oli, yes, It was quite true
that he had tho most beautiful eyes—to say
that tl fy hnd a look sometimes such ns'you
see iu a bt autiful dog's, or a child's, whou they
ask fot somethiug. It might seem alw*urd,but
it was line, they always seemed to ask and
aik, nud sho could not shut out tho feeling,
even when he was not near her nt all, that he
wts asking and she refusing-though neither
uttered a word. And then the times when ho
hnd stood silcut near her, aud yet it hud been
if he spoke. And the times when they
at all, “perhaps North Brabant
:rcc with you.” «
Vbo answered with brevity; “so
ig away.”
Nell dropped a rose nnd picked it up and
put it mto net girdle.
“Dorsyour cousin go with you?" she asked,
“He always goes with mo,” be replied with
a voice containing several suggestions. “I nut
rot to be trusted alone. I should murder an
infant fff’set fire to an aged Fomalo’s Home.”
had passed each other; and the times sho had
lutnnt not to watch him us he played ten
nis. and yet somehow had known how lie
locked nnd moved, and that ho was always
alert ami graceful and . ready, nud his voice
had always cotue to her above every other
voice— not loud exactly, but clear and reso
nant and with a gay, laughing sound. And
one day a flown- had fallen from her belt and
sho bau accidentally crushed it with her foot,
and be had scon it across tho lawn aqd hud
sauntered over nml stood by it a moment and
then stooped to pick it up—and no one blit
themselves had seen—and she had stood per
fectly. motionless as If . she had not seen
herself and yet bad known so well
and had been ro angry. Sho was so sure
she had been angry. Her hnmls had trembled
as she stood nml »ho bad played badly all
through the rest of the game, aud had lojt it
to her side. , .
And now! >Vhat could have' beou worse
than this afternoon? 8he could feel his great
strong hand holding hers yet. She drew it
hastily away from her cheek as she
When she was left alone Nell returued to
the house with her roses. She found her
mother In her usual scat in the bay window,
and as *!u.<umc forward their eyes met,though
Mrs, Hujitingtou did not speak.
“Ye#, mamma,” said Nell, “ It was Mr. Jack
Hamilton, bnt it will not occur again, for he is
goin£fc)ruy.“^H
Aud after sho lmd arranged her rosos sho
mm ' remained th
went .up stairs to licr room nml
until luijohcon.
The ui-Xf day they heard that the two Uaiu-
iltciis had gout] to Now York.. Then Noll Iie^
gan to take walks again—longer ones than
ever, Mrs. Huntingdon noticed--dud . sotflei
times she piny id tennis, hot sno did not recov
er her color and contracted a habit of felling
intohilcnce. from which she rvusodhcnitlf with
a slight start when she was spoken to. So-
eictly Mrs. Hnntiugdon began to be very an*
impl y—sho had never been unhappy about
Nell U‘ore—she had never been cveu anxious
—the att had always boon well and bright and
t-weet fp every iuood.HHH^gMiEBH|W
The J^feHltonq had been away about twd
MUwn
bored it. That had boon violence; that had
been enough to make any girl dislike him and
feel revolted. And yet, though he had held
Acr with such strength he had not hurt her;
and in an instant he had released her, and ho
had said she did not know what sho was doing
to him; sml he had gone away ns if ho could
not bear it any longer.
1 Oh,” the said, “why do I think of that in
stead of other things. I do not understand it.
It.'isnotnatuial
She got up nnd began to walk up and down
the room.
“J am tbiukingof him as if I liked him,"
she whispered, as sho paced to and fro fast and
uncertainly. “1 must not do that. Ho is
not a man for any good girl to like. Any girl
who was good and refined w ould hate him !
I could not possibly like him. Oh, what sort
of n girl is it who could know What I do and
then like a man only becauso he is strong and
graceful and has a—a strange .voice and beau*
tiful eyes. Only the worst and most unrefined
sir) could do that. If 1 like him I must l>e as
bad and indifl'erent to high things as ho is.;
Am i like that? 1 cannot be! Oh, mamma—^
mamma! Oh, mamma, how could I tell yon?
1 always told you everything before! I can’
tell nobody!”
cams torture before long. It was dimmed
tatoor! hhtejK-ai cd xcnreHchot. mant
“fewdtoa!tlv“i^RgSfiEmiSr *
cAtry innocent, involuntary melting towards
him, every thought assumed the proportions
of u crime. It was something wrong in hersolf.
All this wickedness, she raid, had Leon lyiug
donuunt in her nature, and had only waited
to he called forth by sonic otic like this. No
rr.c could leuny worse than that. She put
hfltclf upon the rack and showed no mercy,
The littlo blooming, flowery room, grow
darker aud darker, she was qulto pale and
exhausted in the end; sho was overwhelmed
wltii her own reproaches, and yet again and
a^nin her heart would letp os sho remembered
a look-ra word.
She stopped nt list by the mantel and stood
there holding it with her hand.
“lie is coarse,” sho said, with a groat effort,
hurrying the words as sho forced thorn from
her lips. “He is base; he is dishonorable: lie
is a coward ; he is a—oh, a liar 1 lie is false
and low iu everything, lie is contemptible;
he is cruel. Yes, it is all true. Ho is not like
a man nt all. lie is—”
And then somo feeling rushed over her—
some strange, wild protest against it all-
stronger tl an herself—and she uttered a pas
sionate little cry aud caught at the mantel
with her other hand.
“Oh, no! no!" she cried. “Oh! no I no! no!
Dearest! Dearest!” And site burst into a
tempest of tears, hiding lier face ami shaking
with fear of this which had aweptall before it.
\Vhen she went down to dinner her mother
looked at her anxiously.
“You are really pale, Nell,” she said. “You
do not look well at all."
i do not think I ant well." she raid. “Per-
Imps I have 1m cn going out a little too much.”
Hie often looked pale after thjs—so nalo
tbot her mother's eye* followed her continu
ally with licwilderment nnd *oliritude. And
she bml lost more than her soft color; the elas
ticity of her spirit seemed to have left her.
She played tennis no more, to the great won
der of Marian nnd Hester Beverly, who spent
days upon their lawn and with difficulty for
bore to dino with their racquets under their
nrms und sleep with them under their pillows.
She ceased to take walks alone aqd no longer
went out sketching. Often when they had
evening engagements she excused herself on
tho picn of fatigue and remained at home.
Sometimes in tho morning she came down i *•
with an air of lassitude and with slight shad
ow's about her eyes.
“My dear,” her mother would say, "you look
as if you had not slept well.”
The first time she said tbit Nell glaucod at
herself quickly in a mirror nnd faintly
blushed.
“I did not sleep very well, mamma,” she
answered.
“But, my dear,” said Mrs. Huntingdon, “this
something new, isn’t it? You used to sleep
like a baby.”
“I shall/sleep so tonight, perhaps,” said
Ncli.
Bnt she did not often sleep so in these days
and so it came to pora that one day Marian
Beverly pasting the hedge- -racquet over her
one morning Mrs. Maria Hun
tiogitea arrived in a state of great dignity,
plainly - laboring tinder tho effect of some deep
offeuse pcrpetrated against honelf.
“Ii#bel,'’»he began in lier most aonorout
voire, "what is this I hear about the Kamil-
tons?'’
“It hi knrnsriblc for me (o nay, Maria,” rot
plied-Mrs. Huntingdon, half unconsciously
glandng at Nell, who sat near.
“But It appears thst this John Hamilton Isa
most disreputable young man, that his cousin
tup
I’potis him and watches over him as if ho
saiblKMfi * “ -
was a ofaiid, that he went to New York with
him simply to try to keen him ont of mischief,
aud that with all his efforts ho could not aci
comphsh it, and only just succeeded in saviug
him Bern a frightful scandal. I never eras #0
outraged In my life. Why. I knew his father.
Foidick Dowlas Was an intimate friend of
minc.7
Noll laid down her book and roso.
'•Mtmwa/' she said, *‘I think I will order
the phaeton Sml go out. I should like to
drive to Lnlworth and get somo new books
from the library.”
‘fDfeS your head ache again,Nell?’ asked her
mother.,
“Not very much, dear," tho girl answered.
•■nnlyUt littlt.” _ I
Ya when she got Into her phaeton and took!
tbc i« in a there Was ou her fuco such a pallor a*
to mgjte It look almost liken mask.
Shi*, muancthingof the beautiful road to Lul-
WrcWgi .riff?'*-™?, I.uw .L.rccbea
thcr^WimiN hefure her «ml
raw uetbios. When aha entered tlio littlo
town and direked her pony koforo tho library
die found tlio Beverly carriage there bofure
I nr. Motor aud Marian rvero turning oveir
the new nraga/inea and greeted iter »> ahe ’
riure in.
“.Veil,” said Hester, after a few mlnntoa'
con venation, and ahe said it in rather a aodatn
undertone. “Mary you beard Anything about
the 1/aniiKout?"
drive bad uot cured the headache, and that II
rva* in fact a little worse.
‘X thiuk, dear,’’ lira. Huntingdon laid
tea in your room." And she went up
villi ber end arranged her nlllowi forher^uid
rave her the tea herself, and then abadod tha
iic.ru und rntuc aud stood by her o moment,
laying her hand loftly on her forehead.
"You never used to have headaches, Neil,
dear," alio said.
"N'u, mamma," In tlio lowcit of humble
riiiocs.
"I lb ink yon must too Mr. Bennett.’’
“O, no. mumma, dear. It ia not bad cuougli
for tbnl."
“How would you like to ehauge, Nell? We
ei'iild go lotlie mountain..” j
Thcru was u uiumriit’n hesitation awl then
Nell tiinird her fine a littlo nml kl.voil her
author’, wi int. , 1
‘ hvj
"l’erhops—perhape," alio sold. “I hi
thought it might bo a good tiling If I do i
net better. Bnt I ihall bo hotter, doar. Lai
' b down to dinner. You will. nee.’’ And
iwed the slender wrist again.
Hlie.did come down to dinner atilt look
pale, but very pretty and shftayod, and _ _
dressed, her mother funded, with little more
than muul raro.. Shi had put on a now white
■dress where lure rUiBca aud jabots were lighted
with loops nnd knots of daflodlhcolorod rib.
I*'11; and In fart she bad ohoseu It in tho kopd
tbit it would make ieaa of the shadows under
her lashes.- ... ..-J, , * '
rerdapalt did to, for at least the pennaded
her mother that abo mutt keen tho engage
ment tlie.had for tbo ovening, feavlog her at
home to enioy ber convaletcence.
“Only became I want to lie idle,” the asid,
“And licence 1 am a little tired of lights and
people aud music.”
But somehow tho houto scorned very still
after the carriage rolled down tiro road and
the could not even bear the distant sound of
tbo wheels. And the room accrued vary amp
ly and the boon before her very long. Bad
wondered what she should do with U»nj, and
for a few scrawls almost wished ehe hail not
remained. She took up a book and tried tq
rend. Ut contained an munsolyiad Inveetoryj
whose lietn was a man with pathetic grievance
—be wut very Interesting aud treated with thn
crudestIlijinUce by everybody, Bho read a
few pages aud laid the book down. It seemed,
to lo ilia drated with a haggard .faco staring
nt her with a Munir, stunur3look in Its tired,
hollow eyes. Then site went to tho iitano. A:
song stood Open linen it, 11 wua ’•Tontls To
ItepicrL” Hlro began moeliauically to read
aloud tlio words;
> A DISTILLERY DEN
ifOBisIhing About tho Llfo or tho Illicit DistUlsrsor
Sand llocntsln-A Vlstt to thoWetrtf Plato*
Th* Btory of Lit Us Msg-How Th#
Owtawi LIt#-Thrilling 8c#n#s.
"Alt te tn fossi mcco.
Krillfc barvht Ita brtlun
Olio a! ragftlo flclln lunu
Vcdi pol mar Aigglr
Tl rapirci inio bc«.“.
Her volco fell and broke. Sho suddenly
covered her face with her hands.
“Why do thoy write such things?” tho said,
“Why it it all about—that?”
Tbc room was too still—too still—so fit ill
* We don’t know,” said Hester lowering hor
voice still more. “There is a horrid story
about them, at least about Jack. We keep
hearing scrap# of it. It seems i hut ho ii odious
•••odious—and always has been—only his
cousin bos tried to take rare of hint berauso
hi# mother isio delicate and mfforsso through
hint. Lately ho hoi been behaving better.
They really had hopes of him when his cousin
brought him here, fle had promised and
vowed all sort# of things. Bnt suddonly ho
he wai worse than evor. Wo don’t know
wliat lie did— It must have becu ghastly. Of
conm*people won't tell girls—but Marian
lirard l Dclc Francis tell mamma something
about ills having been turned out of somo club
by force.”
“Hester,” said Nell suddenly, • “why should
we sjicak of it. 11 is detesUldo. I hate it.”
“It mukes one fuel cold,” returned Hester.
‘ To think wc played tennis with him.”
“It was a tnittpke in hj^cousin tojtring him
herc,” said N' ‘
“Yes,” puf in Mariihr-tJigeFly. r luft only a
mistake. He thought lie was doing ifrn good
and ho really believed in him tbi\time.
Don't let us say a word against \
ton. Privately, you know, I think h
been a goose to waste himself, but *
people—people wiio do things you a
them for in tho aimtrart—always are geeso
more or less. I Mimply delight and revel In
Will Hamilton. I like even his mistake.”
Nell went hack over tlio beach road slowly.
She trird to gather hcnclf together as sho
went. .She wanted cither to berotne accustom*
< d.to Ik i- pain or to shnko it off in some way
I efon -he rpjjihcd North llmljant. It WM too
horrible toJ^Biml hide.
hoiigl^^Hiaps,” fibe sahl with a gentle,
pit'fiUf. ns fbcimir unconsciously
, over her strained eyes, “per*
{•came 1 uni not used to suffer-
no hapjiy. Perhaps this Is noth
ing to what some people suffer—perhaiM—1
don’t know; I cannot tell how I look, but I
taunt uot let mamma see me f<*cling like this.”
Hie did not look like herself at all. A cer
tain pedestrian who had chosen to walk over
from North Brabant, nnd who was consequent
ly coming towards her—a pedestrian who
ping to speak to her as she gathered
row s—looked at her in some astonishment.
Nell.” she exclaimed, “do you know bow
pale you are ?"
•Oh,
wayTor a moment, the reaction Was greater
tUm aheWfc* icody to meet. There hod * lie.mi
to ignore And tot aside, thcro* had
assy dayvwhcn she had made ttrong
now it all teemed to come back
And try as she might she did not
tr the right things. The things which
don't*” said Nell. “Annt Marhutohl
me o few hours ago thnt I was as white as a
rag. hhe says I need exercise—ten miles a
But suddenly the wns pale no longer, a
warm carnation having spread itself over hi
cheek.
But you always had such a lovely col<
i sieted Marian. “Hester aud 1 have iu
iu for it ever since wc were old enough to
fp«nk. What have you been doing? You arc
« bad ns Mr. Hamilton. And—how queer!—
was j Uhl upbraiding him on the same score.”
Mr. Hamilton broke iu with some haste,
“Yes," be said, “she was telling me that I u'>cd
t*» have a lovely color.”
"Yon had," laughed Marian, “when you
'eftme here, but now—’’
“I was like a blush rose," said Mr. Hamil
ton. “A blush rest-. And now that you have
—hare rifled me, so to speak, von hold me up
te pnWlc neon! and draw invidioui rompari-
But lie did not amlle very naturally, as he
looked arrow the hedge at Nell.
“Perhaps," mid Kelt* meeting-hn eye# with-
thought be had reason to know her fare better
than any other man. seeing it in the first mo-
m<nt was so struck by the look of ft that he
it I most stopped short by the roadside.
He was m> intent upon her that he did not
notice where he was going, and as sho did not
at first see him, in a moment or so more the
phaeton approecKcd him so nearly that tho
glanced up quickly.
What she saw was Jack Hamilton—as un
like himself as sho was unlike herself; pale,
haggard, worn out, with all the marks or his
sins upon him. even his dress a little dishev
elled—Jack Hamilton looking at her with
great, hollow, ticautiful eyes.
fibc scarcely breathed. Her heart gave one
wild leap, and then seemed to stand quite
till for re.aq^ minutes, though the whole
risis only OfOTflcd a few seconds. The most
terrible thiorf if w oman with n tender soul ran
l*c compelled to do she did. Bhc saw him
make an Involuntary motion with his hand os
if to lift hi# hat. 8hc let her unanswering
eyes rest upon him for a moment, turned them
sway'nnd drove post, leaving him standing on
the wayside—standingacually stock still.
Before she lmn left him six yarls lie hind ahe
was trembling from bcail to foot, her lip# were
quivering and her eye# were blind • with tasrs.
sho drew near life window aho sow that
grounds were bathed in moonlight and that
qu Ivor lug pathway of oilyor und pearl crossed
“I will go r.ml look at tho water.”sho said.
'It will bo cool and at least there will be somo
round there.”
8hc was upon tho lawn the noxt momont.
At tho edgo which sloped down to the terrace
gbov© tho beach there stood a little vine-cov
eted arlior. bho meant to go there, but did
not enter it at first, bho stood a few momenta
upon the grass looking out at the greet beauty
spread before her—at tho white beach, at tho
shimmering molten silver, at the deep stillness
of the dark Idas sky where the groat fair moon
mijed.
“Oh,” she said, aud her voice h id a littlo
heart-wrung tone. “How can any ono be so
wicked? It must be a bad heart—a bad heart.”
The words died on her iipa because she heard
fomflM ,■■■
was coming towards her, a man who was tall
and young and who bad square shoulders. If
his head bad not liecn bent be would have
seen her; ’ ut his head was l>ont, as if ho was
depressed r iu deep thought, and as he walked
hcdrsggc at bis muster ho with melancholy
flerrenefs. Nell turned and flod into the
arbor. Only a few steps, and sho stood con
cealed am! safe behind the leaves, bnt she
stood with her hand al her side, her hs#rt
little leaps.
Jqck Hamilton.
[To be continued.)
making littl
a
TIhOIuoik.1i
N COUNTY MAI.VATIONI8T8.
’uniifthlner* II id lug Out in Terror or the
Now Enemy.
in Wultou county
ig out and are
chinery for
The femulc salvation
is still getting in its wj
Tho moonshiners
kept ou the go, movin]
making the orphan mafe
One flay lost week Tff
au Interesting account of ^ .
retention army, si also interviews with, Mrs.
Buchanan nua Mrs. Johnson, tho two M|Ue*
who cut up a still near Perry and Smith’s mills
la Tanners district. These ladies had come to
Atlunta under escort of Deputy MarshalMcH
Donald to testify against oneg|H
who bad been arrested ns the
still. The ladies said they In 1
the imsimss nud Intended t*
they could find within ten m!
They also Dotted notices to tliaMlfect
trees und fences In their neighborhood.
ou the
THEY MKANT KIHIKEIIS,
aud the moonshiner# soon realized it. Threat#
had been made to burn the homes of the ladle
if they did not let the stills alone.
Yesterday a gentleman from Monroe was iu
tbo city and said to a Constitution man:
"The two ladies who are at the head of the
salvation army In Walton county did not tell
all of the sfor.v. and why they began the cru
'I never was obliged to do anything like
the raid breathlessly. “On, It Is
that before,
semi thing—it is cruel. But it .is right,
is woman who must—who must do it. But,
ob; wolft right for me?”
a, hh ii iipni mh .
81>« h«! ntv.T fonml it *o Iianl to fore her
mother’, ooft eye. a. .be did when ehe reached
home. 81c wo. ct'llged to . onfoa that her
jde on the .(III.. One of Llicui l think it it
Mm. Bnrlianin—hu two lone who are about
grown. Doriu« (hri.tmas week tho two
brother, went to the (till am! not good, clo-
riotuly drank. They had a mUumlentamlina
ulou! iomethinif and be(on folktiug. They
fought like tigen for more thau . half hour,
the other nicu who had xathered at the place
•landing .round and encourglng them. The
two hoy. fought like they used to in yean
g. ne i,y~with their (lata only. When the two
hoy. could light no longer, they went borne
hruiMdiind bleeding. Learning the cause of
the fight the mother seized au az and going by
Mr,. Johnson', got her lo go with her to the
,1111, wheio they mode tilings dy. Those two
ladies nunn biuincM. and th* moojishinen an
idtca' home.
hiding ont Id great terror.
“I. there any daager of
lalog horned?"
"I think not. The man
moot to die out us soon
know it i. kert for them,
couple of axe. can do n great deal of damage
In >n illicit distillery.’’
of tfaojt.
u/M
n|Rsl
Two Wol
tho excite-
r ilble. They
women with n
Tho Fate of the Weather Sharp.
From the Fhllailelpbta Times.
There ia jut about time enough now let ween
MUr.nl- to |» tan and pick up Uie froxen body of
the man who predicted that there wm not going to
he any cold weather this winter.
HiKT.vit.Lt:, Al«., January 11.—[SpocUI.j—
One of the inmt interesting localities In uorth
Alabama and Tennessee ia the mountaiu re
gions. It has iiei ome so ou accouut of tho
character of the citixena
The people in thia section arc for liehind
the happy elements of civilisation which aur-
round their neighbors. Here the women do
moat of tho work, while tho men make all {ho
Illicit whisky they can, A stranger
I. looked on as a natural
enemy and on. la eyed with suspicion. Iu
thia vicinity of tho mountntn sotuo farm, hut
the height of a man’s ambition ia to aocure a
calf. This animal ho buys for ono dollar. Tho
ralf is fed on ssit and what foras bo can eat on
tho mountain side. When old enough ho Is
sold for six dollsre. This Increases his stock
until he has enough for markot. Ho sell* out
and end. it in a spree.
. , TH* SAHD.SPMTTRR HOO
is another popular animal of this locality. It
la t ho toughest specimen of tho pork trilm.
Tho visit to an illicit still was under an oath
choractcrlatic of the mountaineer, which was
sacred and binding. It was about two foils,
hi the mountains, swty from any settlement.
The distance was traveled ou the back of a
mountain colt. After following a narrow
beaten track through bushes, over rock.,
down hillside^ tctOM ravines and through
mouhtalnpasMa,* point of « nrociplco was
reached. My companions pointed to tlio
depths below and told mo to watch a certain spot.
A blue curl of smoko arose which was from tlio
still we wero going to visit.' Theu down tho
narrow mountain side wo rode, guided by tho
sensible animals. If a slip of Ida foot was
made, eternity would havo liccn our doom.
Boon a point waa reached about two hundred
yard. Bom the still. Uuo of my companion,
took from 111. pocket a whistle, niado of it
pitch of reed, and gnvo two ohrlll whistle*
width wore answered. Tlio animals wero
tied, and ono of tho meu said to tho other,
“Jlni, his peeper, uo too good; I guohs we had
better cover them.” With these words' the
twn'mtn proceeded to biod a clothorer lay
oyes. After walking around and about noavo
waa entered.
THE MOUKTAHt STILL.
When tho duor was (brown luck, uy oyes
were freed slid n socno of Interest was pic
tured. Tho room ns. a csvorn dug out ufn
coal deposit, about twenty by sixteen feet, in
which woa arranged the worn, sud
hsrroi. with pile. of corn nml
dried ■ fruit. IJitngiug shout on
were gun's mid |,iAfols, near w hlcli woe a fclido
made to upon nml cloro nt n moment's nelice.
Tho Interior was suggestive of tho wild nature
of the mountain.. . Thu mou inside wore
dressed In clothing of coarse mntorisl mado at
homm Their arm. wero bored and gri.lzy
tvilh hair. Their faces caused them to have
tho appearance of demon* In a corner of tho
cavern wss * man busily engaged in poarlag
wildcat whisky in a funnel, which wai eoh>
vcytdoffihreugh a pipe urnde of mountain oonu
"Where does that go to?” waa asked.
“You can’t know nil stranger, wliar that
mua to yon nor no other man will know, but
it is taken care of,you cOu bet on it ”
Behind a tub of sour mash was a littlo rag*
ged nine yoar old child, who had n
•tick stirring the content* The littlo
thing w>. covered with dirt and
halfcladlncoanc home-spun.
he stranger."
The child half frightened anil cowered ap
proached me, Imi her timidity overcome her
aud aba stopp
“Come hew, you littl* hell-cat amt slug”
was spoken hy one ot tho men.
The child begun to ting iu a video s .
tiflil as a dove, and koforo sho hod lin
tbo teari were streaming down her cbccl
“What ia lie child', (name?” wav aakci
“Wo call her Mag for short. That chi _
a history as long aa your arm, hut aho will
never tell it. Bho knows aho will get tho
strap.” »zl ••
Her dark blue, childish eyes looked up
moistened with tears, and pleaded to be soared
el was
the lash. Her utory was a strange one, mid was
calculated to touch the chords of a hardened
heart.
One cold morning six yean before, a man
was seen slowly riding along tbo mountain
road with . little child in front ou the saddlo.
The snow was foiling and lie twderly clasped
her wraps tenderly around her.
I'p the mountain higher wore two man
who havo been introduced, and they were gag
ing at the tight below.
“Take tbo gists and see if you are sure he Is
__ the sharp ping of a ride was heard and
the traveller dropped IlfcleM from his saddlo
and tbo child waa taken to tho care of the
moonshiners. The child baa bean then since.
The duty of the child Is to mix sour muh
forma fofthfolly. The question was i
these nen:
“Are you not afraid of tbo reveal* men awl
will they not get you?”
“Btrenger, we aw not afraid of heaveu or
hell, much less anything on two leg* Wo are
trying to make an honest living, anil tho man
who triea to sup us diet—that's ail. Tho
law lias got to taka tho somo chance, we do.,
This i> somo of the rlisrecUristles of tho
men the re venue authorities bars bad to _Con
tend with In Alabama. W.
MINNIE DISHER'S RECOVERY.
CoLl'Mil's. Kin., January 12.—News has
Just reached hero from tha form house several
miles north that Minnie Disbar, the Nebraska
sleeping beauty, recovered consciouiMos Sun
day, January 3d, the sevsnti«th day of her
bystero-cstalcptic trance slMp.
Tho roads havo been Imiasaalde until tho
present time, and new. of her recovery could
not be received before. The girl fell into a
trance, from which .he has now revived, Octo
ber foith last. During the long interval aho
lua kin to all appeorancai a If'
. .nftfimheTifoiiO
the exception of reqilretion and pulsation.
When Miss Dither awoke her mind was appa
rently clear and unimpaired, harappstit. nnd
general feelings good, bnt hor arms oml leg*
were paralyzed, t
Bbe »y* ahe was conscious during tha whole
time of her prougeted trance, bnt though aho
exerted her utmost power tc oviuco hor con
sciousness, she could not move a .ingle muscle.
Hbe tays ahe bad no physical pain until tho
40th day of ber sleep when th* electric liatUiy
W “!STth« ahe baa reared* thoomnd
atonies of the body, aud ac times it vemed aa
.gomes or ui th# tfmin,
..... ... K ahysteal
sinterings in comeqnencc of the iliock to her
system. Tho doctors In attendance, say. how-
Win'ala* regain tho full use of her 1
INDISTINCT PR1KT~]|
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