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“ Oh no, nothing new. Something par- ticularly old, on the contraryâ€"sun old fool, Dnvid, and some old bills. See: groceries for the past six months "â€"and he made a wry toce as he pulled out of his pocket a handful of wrinkled paperâ€"“see, now, who'd thinks. dozen people could est up Inch 5 lot of sugar and butter? It’s a. wonder we’re not walking tsfly sticks by this time. And there’s the butcher’s bill. We might be hyenae by the carcasses we’ve devoured. And a. shoe bill. Goodness! why aren’t growing children provided with natural hoofa like other young brutes -â€"ch 7" "David. with all deference to Mrs. B. and my wedding day, this is the happiest hour of my life. Not only has Muy secured the one man in all the world whom I would wish her to marry, but, imnkly. our busi- ness reunions will be more comfortable now. You see"â€"-and he laughed, half winh embarrassment. half with amusementâ€" “I won’t feel as much in debt to you when you’re my son ingaw." « Brewster laughed againâ€"he was such a. matured, easy-going deg, one of your Well-born, younger-son Englishmen, uith In inherited incapacity for exertion. I had persuaded him. years before, to bring his family to New York and settle them on this pretty plgoe in the suburbs. "Ah f David," no rattled on, with 9. comics! ufieohation of distress. “tan red- oheeked, curly-pated rascals and miuxea uren't brought up on nothmg. Let’s see" â€"â€"n.nd he began counting un his children by a. merry and mock laborious process on the fingers of both hands-" let’s see. sz’t mskg it _leas. by Joye! Ten youngsters l" While k‘hllip rumpled his curly fair hair, growing gray now. and scramblmg the bills together, threw them into a. drawer, I hastily filled i_n a. cheque, and said : “H'ere. Phil, take -this, and square up ovogzthix‘xg." "fio. vaon't, Davy. Contound your lmpudence I" v “ Nona'ensa l" I answered ; “ there‘s no nigh thing 3.9 dept Petwegn u_s.” “ Well, well, my friend.” Brewster cried out is we came into the library together. " you’ve something to tell me, you two; I. can see that ~something pleasant, some- thingâ€"come here, Mayâ€"something that mikes your rsseelly old father‘s heart gland.” She hid her face against his shoul- der. “ My girl, you‘ll have the best man in the world for a. husband. I've known this David Dnvison, Duotor of Seienoe”â€" end he touched my erm efi'ectionatelyâ€"“ ever since he came a led from Edinboro’. and we ware students together in London. A fairer mlnd, s. tenderer heart, a. gentler Wise mu doesn't exist. There give him your hand. and a. kiss with it, and all your heart in both." I held her fingers to my lips an instant, had she escaped, lightly as a. bird, by the hull opén dept. Bra-water leaned back in his chair. drew tlong sigh of satisfaction, then wringing my Ehngfliq :_ “ Is theré inyhhing new", Philipâ€"any thing‘particnlairy pressingZ" I QBIde. tried to rsuede myself there was in May’s hoe the ight of an impulsive young love. Meny a. time I tried to fancy that a certain mistinese in her gaze was only from gathering tears of happiness, that her gentle clasp Wee shy because it longed to be warm ; Inlay In time I tried to believe that if I hand taken her in my arms then and there. like the lover that I was, we might both have been spared much sorrow. Who knows? But I had an moursed sense of my own demerits, and strong in my pure Scotch blood the power of repressing and guiding emotion. A life of study had shown me how neture works In the heart of the young pleat, but I. life of study had shut sginst me all knowledge of how nature works in the heart of a young girl. I held her hand lightly. thh the reverence due a. saint, and whip red: “ hen my answer isâ€"” “ Yes." she said. I kissed her cheek, and led her back to the house. Tho unlit-anti»: n! the «rial nary, 0‘ unppv at L: I," it held over until next work. '0 hump my Hecret! Promise ! ” a nary 0! One Uhrl-lmnl long ago, by Fang" floater (lurk. 1- Inbllilfllcd thi- many a: til-no in the months that fol- lowed I looked back to that moment, and “ I‘m not the man to please a young girl's fancyâ€"I know that ; but if devotion can atone for middle age and a. plain face, wlgLypuqhall be 9 happy wife after all.” Wi'bh «free, arch movement she smiled up_i_nto my 9yea._ Instantly I had myself in hand. I saw in that surprise something too like fear; and whatever happened, she should not dread me ; she should have no maiden instinct violated ; she should come to me, it not with loving warmth, at least With a. friendly trust. Conscmue of being flushed and disordered.ooneoious of trembling to the very lips, I laid a detaining arm about her waist, and so we stood until. growing steadier. I could speak calmly and gently. A " Dear childLI 'sonrcely know how this hue come about, but, my love ” (I changed the word -“ my dear, I want you for my wife. on’ve known me as a. staid old friend. Could you think of me in any other wuy 7” _ A Story of "One Christmas Long Ago." “ Mayâ€"3’ suit} I. in a grave, low tone. to the eldest daughter of my friend Philip Brewster. so she passed just before me down the garden walk. She turned, and egein I began: “Muyâ€"” Then, as she looked up with her. lovely, lustrous young eyeeLfertber speech failed me. She kept her head averted, and the color still burned about her throat and dlinjy ear. “KEEP MY SECRET! PROMISE l” The word so warmly begun faltered on my lips. There stood the child that I had known from bsbyhood, as pure, as truthful Ind unworldly as when I first took her upon my knee; there she stood with the stature and beauty of a woman. I marked the firm, alluring curve of her figure, the lovely, fearless poise at her head, the ten- der cheek rounding away to the faultless throat, the ripe under lip, the deeply fringed gray eyes, full of light and life, the float goldzn hair. What was 1â€"9. man of 40. already wrinkled, and given to grave pursuitsâ€"what was I to speak words of passion to her whom I so wildly loved, yet no tenderly worshipped? What was I to take this young heart to mine, and hope to fulfil its dreams, to satisfy its longings, to owake its eostasies ? For a moment all the man, all the lover. all the brute within me strove against the friend. the protector, the almost father. Then less with articulation than with a. low, yearning cry, I said. “ May, I love you." She poled. regarded me with a. wild eur- priee, turned aside and a. rosy sea-shell color ngeed over her neck and fair cheek. "‘Wby." exélaimed May. “what’s the mutter. Professor ?"A I put out my handâ€"9. trembling hmdâ€" with the impulse to touch the stray ten- drilfl of bright hair playing over her fore- houd; but meeting that innocent, inquiring look, I only reached over her shoulder and onglessly plucked a. syrmga. leaf. Then she- laughed mde siid, “You quite mghjengd me._” “Angry! Oh. May, don’t you under- Itcgd, my (jarâ€"3’ ‘7 anbteued you? How ‘1’” and I exam- inedjhe mgrkings ofjhe leaf. _____ " You always call me ‘little May,’ although I’m nearly eighteen now. You’ve called me that ever since I can remember ; and when you said just ‘ May,’ as it I were mine strange girli why, I thought you were ungry at me.”~ (By FInny Foster Clarke 'l‘ll E STO RY. ' “ Yes, the likeness is perfect. Professor, as you stand so, with your hand thrust into yogr poat.’_" I They all trooped off into the parlor, and Max’s familiar touch gave out the music so delightfully that May, who was d~1iriouely whirling with one of the small sisters, slackened her steps to listen. She drew near the piano, leaning where Max could see her dreamy eyes and paling cheeks. Slowly he fell off from the motif of the waltz, wandered down steps of gentle arpeg- gios from key to keyfisnd at last. finding a minor chord that almost spoke, he built upon it a little nooturne that sighed and sobbed, appealed, sorrowed, reproached, and May, at the call of a few tender notes repeated over and over, awoke from her dream, and slowly looked up. I moved a littleâ€"even a Doctor of Science may have common human instincts â€"movedtowhere I could see Max Rein- hardt‘s face. I caught only the profile. It was very beautiful and very exalted. As the tender repeated cadence was again gathered up from the key-board by his skilful fingers, it floated off like a loving, joyous spirit singing in the air. and my betrothed Wife looked into the young man’s eyes With a smile, and, just as I drew near, said. softly: “ What does it mean 7" “ It means ‘ Hope.’ ” he answered. She made him a quick sign to be silent, and I stepped back to where I had been standing before. There came a. olang from the piano. The player had abruptly broken off, and Caddie, the ohatterbox, staring at me, exclaimed : The Aristides, with its passiouleus. reflec- tive face, its level brows and calm lips, the hand thrust; into the folds across the breast â€"a man of bronzo; so I was like that! Max struck a. brilliant chord, whirled around on the piano stool, and sprang up full of life and color, his eyes glowing like stars, the peach bloom on his cheek, his brown hair that he wore in apicburesque fashion a. little dinhevelled. With his quick eye for arcistic effect he cried out: "th. aee! isn’t Professor Davison like thgbronzg Agianidquz} papa‘q stpdy ‘2" 7 “ All right, Reinhardt. Did you close the labogtory ? " _ “ Yes, sir, after that new gas had splin- tered nix returns ; ” and he made a. ventri- loqulstio sound lnke the smashing of glass and metal, wheream the youngsters set up a. w11d about of delight. “ Here. ' IVE a waltz. Come to the piano.” He had come to me two years before With an introduction from his father, a oele~ brated professor in Berlin, whom I knew from a. long correspondence on scientific matters. I was asked to take the buy into my classes in the college Where I held a. chair, to receive him into my work-rooms, to guide his studies, but not allow him to leave the city or my control. A certain harshness in the wording of the charge I laid to the stricter system of family government that obtains in Germany, for Max had proved studious, docile and gave promise of high attainments. He had shown, too, a. disposition so gay and so winning that I fairly loved the fellow like a. son. " Now, you bud’boy,” said May, “ where’s the Eusio yog promiseq‘B ” When the clutter had subsided, Mex said. politely, “ Oh, Professor, I beg pardon ; I didnfgsega you; r _ We had called each other Phil and Davy as bgyrs‘pogeqher. “ Well, well, you always would have your way. you rascal. Here, I’ll take the con- founded bit; of paper, but It‘s the last tlme ~remember that.” Then in the library doorway appeared my pupil, a young German. MaxReinbardt y name, with all the little ones dragging at his coat, and May hanging on his arm Ensconcing herself on the sofa. she said : “ Now, Max, you shall sit by me." Down beside her he dropped in the most familiar and brotherly fashion. Such a handsome, brown-haired fellow as he was ! He had a. clear, creamy skin, tinted on the cheeks with a rich peach crimson, and on that day he was just 21, for presently May exclaimed, ” Why, it's your birthday I you’re 21!" And the children yelled w chorus : " Max’s birthday I Twenty-one 1 Oh 1 oh I" ‘Our amiable money disputes always ended by Phil’s acceptance of a cheque under violent; protest. When, after this friendly altercation, we roee, there. stand- ing 1n the open doorway, just: behind our chairs wasâ€"May. How long had she been there? Three small brothers became suddenly visible ; Ned shouting. “ Max, we’ve got; a. great big kltel” and Tommy shouting some other place of news. “ Why, you sprite !” exclaimed Philip, as be haul;in thrust the cheque iu-t'o hle waist- coat pocket. Her eyes followed the action. For a. moment I felt sure she know What. had passedâ€"knew, perhaps, than I habitu- ally furnished that happy-go-lucky h nuke- hold with money to meet extra. expenses. For a. moment only; then 1 were vexed an she bare idea of eutermmiug such fancies. We had been engaged about two weeks. One afternoon as I was in the library, and May came tripping downstairs, she gave a. loud, merry greeting and ran toward the front door. A greeting as merry answered her, and there was noisy calling over the bmlusters from Cad die and Belle.two young ohatterboxes of 12 and 14. “ Max! oh, Max, is it you? Oh, Max, I‘n_1‘so glad l"__ “Come, kiss pupa, you‘wbite pigeon,” sad?! Philip, “for you’ve made bun very happy.” “ I can," May answered. “ And will this â€"this affectionate trust satisfy you ‘2" " Yes." “ Then I’m ‘httle May ’ forever, I sup- pose "â€"aud she laughed in a. ahorh. nervous way-“ a son of friend. a f1;iend-_wife.” _ I felt a. pang: this questioning was so easily interpreted. She feared I was ex pectmg too much; she was making her terms. How llttle she knew me! " My dear,” I answered, “ only remain as you are. Give me an aflectionate trust. Cam you give it freely, without"â€"and here I felt my doubts about her knowledge of the family accounts being neatly and judlciously solved, for May was eminently truthtulâ€" “ without any idea. of pleasing your father ?” In a, moment she changed, and was her own self again. “Oh, Professor, we’re to have a. new pony, and the human: chicks are such pretty fluffy little things, and I'm going to a. concern to-morrow, andâ€" andâ€"" SEQranto‘ him, flung her arms about his neck, and answered, playfully : “ You dear olt‘l‘papu..hI'mAso_gl§.d l ” I searched Muy’e face. It wore an expreseiou that I couldn’t understand. She glanced at me quickly. then looked away ; took up some ornament upon the mantel ; put it down again ; walked slowly to the window and industriouely watched two sparrows that were eeoldlug at each other out on the grass. There struck me the happy notion of addressing her in the old familiar fashion. " Little May." She turned and faced me. I started, for in those few minutes she seemed to have become a. woman. She was pale. her lips were close set, her speech was mciuive. ‘ “ Do you lik me; then," she asked, “ as ‘ little May ’â€"just’. 8.8 you‘ve always known meâ€"â€"a foolish httle friend ?" There wws no end to Mmy‘s gossip, and from that hour for a. great many weeks she was just the May I had always known, glveu to dancing instead of walking, ex- claimiug instead of talking. shaking her pretty head instead of reasoning “ A chlld,” 1 said to myself a. thousand timesâ€" “ a. dear happy child. So I have learned to love her.so I have asked her to remain. Why shouldn’t I be content ?" Philip lifted ofl her arms exactly as he would have done to the baby, pinched her cheek, and with a, very transparent Show of haste left us alone together. Before this image of shining youth it Sfie burst into tears. “Nonhméâ€"ob! nothing. I’mâ€"I’m nervous and miserable. Grieved and shocked. Ivmked, “ What hagpoo; McPherson done togflgnd you?” “ You‘re out of spirits, my child,” I said. “ G0 with the lady who has asked you to join her family at the hheabre this evening. Come "â€"und I rang the bellâ€"“ you bha‘u’n be boxed up with an old fossil like me." The servant came and I ordered the carriage, adding, “ Tell Mrs. McPherson to come here; 1 want her to find me some pagers." " What papers ?" said May. “ Oh, some old lectures and notes that I need for reference. McPherson knows." “ McPherson !" repeated Many. “ She sha’n’n come here. She sha'n’t, I say." My: wife vivas Whips wit!) tagger3 Her hand lay listlesnly in mine, and I thought her lip trembled as she answered, culdly and mechamcally, “ Oh, yea, I sup- poae ao~everythlng that you can do." She euill called me by the old name. I tried to shake off the unaccountable depres- sion, and auswared, cheerfully. as I took her hand: “No, my dear; amuse your- self ; be happy; dou‘u take the burden of a shure in my dull pursuits. Tell me, am I doing everything that I can do to make your life pleasant? ” hOh," ape exclaimed, impulsively, “let me help you; let me bring the dictionary ; let me do something, please, Professor." For a. few weeks there seemed no change in May. Except for a little added richness in her dress, as became a. married women, she appeared just as when she was a girl. She had the same dancing step that scarcely touched the floor, the snue mocking ways, thesume littlejests ; she came end went with her sisters and young friends; joined pleu- sure parties, at which I looked on; filled her days from end to end with stir and excite- ment. I ought to have been very happy in seeing her just as I had wished. Yet when I was in the study one evening, poring over an abstruse German work, and my wife came in to show me some new trinket, involuntarily. even as she stood by my side, I fell into a. strange melancholy. I think I sighed, for May said very quickly : “ What‘s the matter? ” " Nothing, deer, onlyâ€"only a construc- tion here plagues me. German’s a. knotty tongue." There was some perfectly audible grum- bling then. Mrs. McPherson smoothed out her respectable black silk apron resignedly, and the domesmo machinery moved on us quietly as before. Now McPherson had wanted for many a year to retire to solitary independence, and I hardly dared to look In her new couune- nuuce 8.3 I answered, “ Of course not ; every- nbiug will be juan as usual.” As she was clapping her hands with delight over the treasures of a. little bower of a room, furmhhed to suit her taste. Mrs. McPherson, my old house-keeper,exolaimed, under her breath : " Hech 1 an’ she’s naught but a. lassie I " Then asked.eugerly, “Will she keep the house?” Our weddmg day was in early Sept-em- ber, and I took May home to my own old house, mada fresh and beautiful for the dainty bride. seemed hardly desirable to be like the bronze Aristides. Although May never showed the slightest surprise or curiosity about Reinhardt’s sudden departure, she spoke of him always naturally and freely, and with a. sister-1y. good-will. Looking into my . dairling‘s dewy eyes, I could see no sign of regret, no. shadow of sacrifice, nothing ofthe' coldness of a. dutiful submission. I 'couldn’t‘ per-. suede myself to break the culm by Inniflfi’ ing upon an exact analysis of her affection; and then I 1C)th her so ! Ah, that was the pomt. after all l I loved her. wanted her. I drugged every fear and doubt to sleep with the promise to so curb the selfishness of that love, to so tenderly deal with her trust, to so patiently wait until her woman‘s heart should awake, that there could be nothing in our marriage but her best happiness. Then there came the dinner, and every- bndy wanted to sit; next to Max. I remember particulau‘ly that; one small Rosie 3 years old secured the disputed privxlege by shriek- iug vluleutly. Rome had nob loxlg possesred the art of upeech, and exercised her new- fouud faculties by promplly repeating everything she heard. “ I‘ll put the sugar in Max’s coffee with my own fingers,” said May. “ Thugar in coffee own fingerth,” echoed The next morning as at breakfast 1 was' looking over the paper, and thinking up a. little argument to dissuade the headstrong fellow from his purpose, I read in the pas- senger list at an Acapulco steamer that had sailed at 6 o’clock the name Max Reinhardt. Rosie‘ Dinner over, I had left the tuble,and Philip was pointing out 1116 beauties of a new engraving on the wall. Max was snundiug with May at; a. low window that led out. no the piazza. Cmddie came up with an air of mystery and said something to him. I could not hear the words; I only caughn sight of the action; but Rome promptly gave them out for the publw benefit; : “ But, my boy, this is very sudden. Your parentsâ€"It‘s my duty to get their consent.” " I‘m 21 to-day, Professor, and out of bondage." “ True, butâ€"” “ Some time. perhaps, you’ll understand why I go.” His dark eyes were moist wnh affection and gratitude. He clasped my hand. “You’ve been a. father to me. If ever I take an honored place in the world, it wrll be because of your teaching and, your example. I’ve heard of the great happiness coming to you, Professor. You deserve it. 1 wish you joy with all my heartâ€"with all my heart," he repeated, held my hand in both of his for a. mo- ment, and was gone. “May doiu’ be married to Profethor Duvinhon.” Almost immediately Max and May moved outelde Into the moonlight After a. whlle I Was about stepping out to join them, but small Rosie was just in the way on the wmdow-sill, ewmging backward and forwurd, with one hand on the shutter hinge. I stooped to Russ her. She was reyeutiug over and over in her peculiar Blug~soug: “ Not umomeufi after today. I nhufler too much. Keep my theoret. Promith.” “ Who said that, Rose ‘2“ I asked. “ Maxth thuid than to May." “ Nos a. moment after to-doy. I suffer too much. Keep my secret. Promise.” Late that night, at work in the labora- tory, those words kept haunting me. There had alws)s been, in spite of his gaiety, a touch of romantic sadness about Max; it made half his charm. The boy had per- haps some love story; some fair little New Yorker had caught his fancy, and May was his confidante. There I the matter was quite plain now. Why should I tor- ment myself ? She had declared her con- sent to be free ; she was happy and playful as ever. Why Then, in a ievered fancy. I saw Max at the piano, love in his hand- some face, fire in his eyes, and May so moved, so responsive, so secret. Pshawl there was some foolish little jest ; it meant nothing. And as to Rosie’s lisping words, why, a baby of three is not a responsible witness. That placid old Athenian, Arlse tides, wouldn’t have harbored such absurd fancies ; and I tried to be grimly amused at my likeness to such a. superior and im- pasrive worthy. - About. 1 o'clock I heard the familiar click of Reinhardt’s latch-key. He‘ came in, very pale and serious. “ Why, Manx," I began, whatâ€"" He stopped me with a. gesture; then leaning against the table, he Rabid, “16m wgoing awayâ€"f0 Mexiéoâ€"iu the service of the San Giorgio Company. I shalltry my fortupg in the minas." II. “ I think he does,” my wife answeredâ€" and hesitatinglv laid her ham? on my arm. Thelittle hamd still lay there whan Reinhardt had gone. I looked down at it, took in in mine, and felt the velvet finger- tips in a caressing way she used to tolerate. me. I’m] Sure. I'm glad you wrote to‘mv father that; I had settled in Mexico. Of course you’d think it your duty to keep him informed about his prodigal.” Then, nodding hick from the door, he remarked, pleasantly, “ You look more than ever like the Aristidesâ€"doesn’t be, May ? " In goin‘g‘ he said: “ Prdfesaor, I'm afraid you haven’t. forgiven me yet for running off so ubrupnly. Nexer ngiqd, you will forgive Then he rattled on about the claims he had preempted, about certain geological formations, and in short acbed like the lively and affectionate boy that I had once looked upon almost as my_ own son. “ Wh'y, no; butâ€"but we Germans think so much of Ghrlatmas. It’s such a. happy day with us. I intend to pass in among frigndaâ€"rdon’b 1,; May? "7 “ No, of cause-you didn’t. I meant to lurprise you, but you see I wanted particu- larly t9 be_ in fiew York 9n Christmas.” "‘ I Eiidu't Edow you ‘ had left Mexico,” I saidjirathpr grimly. “'Iudeed. Have you business here on mutiny?" Reinhardu had address. It never de- serted‘fiim, and he greeted me as afiec- tionately and frankly as if I had found him by especial appointment. For several weeks I passed every day and night in my work-rooms. I came home to diuuer, only to see opposite at table the spectre of my happy young wife. She was pale, ellenc, moved wemily, and hardly ever met my eye. I would, Heaven knows! have given back her happiness and freedom if there had been a. way to do in. There was always a. great pinyin my heart. I think even anger never quite drove this away. I think I piLied her even the morn- ing I chanced to look in at home at: an unusual hour, and, opening the parlor door, came upon her in close, eager talk with Max Reinhardt. She Opened her lips to speak again, then abruptly checked herself, took up a. piece of embroidery and fell into silence. ' The whole scene was short enough, her action and words were slight enough,'but there came sweeping across my mind a storm of suapicxons. The passionate little phrases that so tormented me that night in the laboratory were haunting me again: “ I sufler too much. Keep my secret. Promise." I stood for a few moments enduring the painful sharpening'of the senses that attends a. fresh and acute grief. The singing of the bird seemed unnaturally loud, the stream-, ing sunshine and the colors in the room intolerany bright; then I took refuge in my study. How long I tried in vain’to wring some sort of service from a. sick brain it would be hard to tell ; but the sun was thin- ing when I looked my study door, and it was past midnight when I came out with a 're'solve : I would appeal directly to May‘s truthful nature, confess to her freely all .my fears, receive her confidence calmly Afew days passed before just the happy opportunity came. She was in her own pretty sitttmg room. the door ~wa.s helf open ; she had some folded bits of- paper in her hand, and she seemed in deep thought. She rose to meet me. " Well, May, have ybu anything to tell me ? " . “ No, Professor. What should I have ? ” “ True, but. Is there no news, nothing at all gging on amqug our iriepda ? ” “VThe're’s nothihg to tell,” she replied lisglesxfly. _ A _ > , I held her by the two shoulders a. mo- ment, and glared fiercely into her eyes. She turned very white. " Keep my secret." She was keeplng it well. I mastered my- self, made some trivial excuse about. an: appointment, and rur-hed out of the house. As she turned to obey I idly picked up from the floor an envelopeâ€"4m envelope eddrersed to her. The paper in her baud wax iu the shape of a. folded letter. This was the wrapper that had been torn off. I knew the Wrmng well. It was Max Rein~ haldt’s. When my Wife had shut the door and returned to me, I said, “Why. May.” I said, “ you look quite beaming.” Her face was not; so spectral as it had been, but it was sad enoughâ€"sad enough. “ Do I? " and she smiled bewitohingly. I took coumge. “ Darling "â€"and I lhrew myself in an arm-ohairâ€"“ shut the door ” (share were servants passing to and fro), “ and then come here, I want to talk with you.” I want to go to the theatre; I want to be amused.” She laughed hyaterica-lly,sta.rted to leave the room, then came back to me demurely, and added: “Don’s bhlnk of Whmb 1 and about McPherson. She’s a dear old thing. and I"â€"winh a perverse mihohlflf, she laughed again. and Went ouâ€" “ l hmne her.” I heard her laughing again, a. hula later, as she went out of the house with her friends. I shall never forget the desolation the sound of that forced, hulluw guyeny brought; to me. I shall never forget: my sulf- reprouch as I realized there was a. change in her happy, gennle nature, that. she was behaving allernutely like a. Wicked Ohlld and him: a. desyermiely miserable woman. It; was only the beginning of the end. My young Wife grew every day more unreason- ably Ray and more proloundly and. At first I plied her With amusements; than it grew clear to me that, as her marriage had caused this unhappiness, the less I afliicbed he£w1bh my presence the beater. Once, mde once only, I spoke to her father, very carefully, very judiciously, hlumug thnb May was perhaps non qulte well, and rubber can of SplriLB. “ Phew ! " exclaimed Philip, “ that’s the first time in all my family experieucs than a big bux of candy didn’t; prove a. cure 8.1L Phew! Oh, never mind; she’ll come round. Maybe her doll-oh no. By Jove I I'd for- gotten. There are such a lot of babies, you use, I’d forgotten that; May had grown out of dolls. Funnv, by Java 1 " "-I Belléve I‘m non-in the habit) of paaamg haggh judgmgqts.”__ “Nonsense!” fluid Piulip; “no'ny‘sense‘al Why. you don’t: understand the g3“. 1n (sums and nee you tu-nlghb. Ah, 1 If cheer her up. We fachers know all ubbub these little freaks.” “ So my pen in out of splnns, eh? Now papa. has got something he take away those naughty blues. See hereâ€"see h-e-r-e,” and, opening the parcel, he laid a. box in her lap. “ What is it, papa. ?” she abked. “ Lollipops,” said Phlllp; “ sugar-candy; lollipops to cheer up my link: girl. Eat eui. my chickâ€"eat ’em,” Phihp had a. héar-ny roam, then a. beauty supper, and I never troubled him again 111 any agxietieg; aboruh my fvife. In November, for the first, a. letter came from Mex. He gave a. lively description of the wild life in Mexico, spoke of some mining rights he had secured. and begged us both to accept his most affectionate regards. I read the letter aloud, but May, when I reached the end, snatched it eagerly ewey. “ Is that all? Oh, let me see," she said. “ Does he wrive nothing more 'r' ” “ Nothing more.” I answered. “ Why? ” “ Why '2" she repented. “ Oh, nothing Of course not ; of course he has no more to my.” ' He cameâ€"a. parcel under his arm~and In his must bustling and lively mood. He whacked the difficulty at once. She was embarrassed, and moved away‘; then, as if under some uncoutroliable im- pulse, she came back to me, covered my hand with both here, and said : ' “You’ll be kind to Max, won't you? You’ll never judge poor Max harshly ‘2” Perhaps, in answering her, I wore no Very sympathetic expression. May. brood up, carried the box to the table, sen in down, and, with angry teams In her Eyes, left the room. . A Do uwe “ Of course I did, and loved you all the W Egdcann’wiogugnfihgagi} Hem cm test trial. Semi better for it Oh,” my wife exclaimed, ' mm C tad I imam - std for 111 bed amogue con 8 n n on 0 “ Devid Davidson. Doctor of Science, you’re a]: and full mlcmm. AG _ED. 8' dear, dear old stupid I u ’ WkthflB-Indolphsmow My wife was right. She always is. - , It wasn’t a dignified end to so many mm: M ili“&$§‘3§$fi§“§£§§2°§$€£l tragic emotions. but in the grand Aristides nfasitmat-iun. ndd‘eaa Valenmne firm. Janeaviue dressing-gown I stalked about all day long. Wm Max and his wife (we had them married ' I over again), and Phil and the mamma, and 6 guvggkfi’e’zonigggigogl‘Hggggr “2%? all the noisy children, dined with us, and { Portland,flgino. May patted my head all over with her soft pink palms, puckered up her lips, hid her face in my neck, and, lzmghing softly, said, “ Why didn‘t you any so ‘2" “ Oh, my love, I was afraid." “ S0 was I,” answered May. “ And so you know about the money matter, after all ?” An hour finer, as I held May on my knee (for I couldn’t bear to let her go), and her eyes were dried, and smiles came dimpliug all over her cheeks, I asked, “ Dear heart, why dldn‘fi you any last summer that you could give more than friendshlp?” ' Shall I ever forget that embrace? Do I knew how I made her understand every- thing? â€" my miemken reticence. my fears. my struggles, and all the long misery? We needed no rhetoric, only a touch, a. look, a. murmur, andâ€"love. “ You cun make me bnppy 1f ’.’ Lube burst into tears-“ if you will only love me." “ Oh, my darling. and don’t I love you?” “ No," May gave back fiercely, towering, and burning upon me like Mede&â€"” no ; you give me gentleness, considermionr amusement, playthinga.a.s if I War-ea. child I’m not a. child.” She grew more stormy with every word. “ I’m your wife ; I want; to stand by your side, share your burdens. understand your pursuits, attend to your comforts, be mistress of your house. I’m a. woman, and, oh, my husband. I Want "~â€" she flung her arms up passionately across her quiVering tear-stained faceâ€"“ I want your love I" “May, I did you a. great injustice.” I broke off there. for she seemed neither in~ diguant nor unforgiving. She looked as me from under her brows. and said: “ You were jealuue? ” ' “Yes. deur, mud with jealousy, with self- reproaoh. Wihhâ€" Oh, my Wife, tell meâ€" confide in me. You are unhappy ‘2 ” ‘- I am miserable,” she anuWered. “ My dearest, my heart’s darling, in What have I failed? Wham indulgence do you lack? What can I do to make you happy ‘2 " Until a. moment ago"‘ exclaimed May, passlonately, “I would rather have died than said this, butâ€" You were jealous? ” She stopped short, and questlonea me with her look. “ Yua, yes, madly jealous. Go on; my love ; how can make; you happy ?" ‘- Professor,” he cried. “ my dear friend, I’ve deceived you. but you’ll forgive me. See.” and he brought the young girl closeâ€" “ see, this is Lotte ; this is my Wife. She arrived from Germany only this morning. Don't speak; don’t reproach me. We were married three years ago. I was only a. boy, and my parents refused to acknow- ledge such a. tie. They sent me to America. On my 21st birthday I broke free, to make a. home and fortune. I couldn’t tell you anything. It Would have been your duty to inform my father. Mey wes the only one who had my confi- dence, and she kept the secret bravely. Professor," and Max laid Lotte's hand in mine, “ won’t you kiss my wife ?" I In a. dream I believe I dnd kissavéry lovely girl. who lisped a. few Eugllsh word:- pretmly; in a. dream I believe I Bald the proper thing to Max. Then I left them alone together, and took Many back to the llbrury. I shut. the door and began : “ Who is it I” I stummered. ' My wife only urged me on. Max saw me, sprang forward, grasped my hainda. His eyes were full of tears; he shone like a. young St. George Wihh joy and uriugnph. Trying to conquer anger, jealousy and, worse than all. self-reproach, I shut myself up day after day more and more closely. “ Ah l” I groaned aloud, “ I loved her and she never loved me She knew her father’s obligations to me; she sacrificed herself and her lover; I see it all. But as Well try to keep a young bird from its mate. He 18 here.” I kept no count of time. I knew Max was in and out of the house fumiliurly. sometimes at table, sometimes on the street with May. I was helpless, wretched, racked with indecision. One day I come unexpectedly into her own sitting roomâ€"the little bower I had fitted up for her the a. bride. me Was there, standing up, looking bright und happy; she was beside him. and her hand was plsyiug familiarly about his shoulder. She withdrew it instantly. Heavens ! was she deceiving me ? " May l" I cried angrily and aoornfully. “ Tell me, May "â€"end I turned upon her like a savageâ€"” do you love that man ‘2” What a. rook she flashed at rmréiliWIVIat a cry she gave 1 She seemed to grow taller; uhe repeated twice, “ Love Max? I~ loveâ€"Max I" Then she plucked me by the sleeve, and said only, “ Come.” She led me to the parlor door. Within were Max Rey‘nvligrdq apdflzhdark-hairedigirl. 'f But now she bore the touch but fora. moment, colored and snatched the hand a‘w_ay. Reinhardt’s consummate tact never failed. He laughed rather loudly _and unuuturally, and came forward. I drew buck. ground out a. smothered curse be- tween my teeth, and clenched my fish to strxke hun down. My Wife screamed, rushed to me. I caught sight of my own face in a. glass. In was livid wxbh rage. “You are 111," May cried; "‘}’i(§1§1'£e ill 0h. 9'1an368 howA pule he is I" ” Yes, I am a. libfileâ€"-glddy. The room is tuo warm,” and I escaped to agoniza through another long night in the study. That was the final struggle. In the mom- ing I was calm, and saw the whole great dlsastet of my marriage in the true light I would make such reparation as was possible. All the savage jealousy Went away; the tenderness that had always underlain my love came uppermost. I deliberattly took down a. row of duntuy law bonks, and turned to the subject of “ Divorce." May should in'time perhaps be free. I wee working alongwixh feverirh industry when there came a. faint knock. It W_8:§ my wife at the door. “ Tfién I measured the shouldersby Max. He’s just your size. You nem‘ly caughn me yestjerday. How he laughed I" I stood confused, dazed, watching the teams gather and rull down her cheeks. But she struggled bravely. and went on. in a, shakipg vo_ioe : “ Won’t you take my present ?" the poor little wife went: on, her lip trembling. " I tried so hard to make in well, and to keep it hidden too. I pricked my fingers fear- fully, see." She held up a. small wounded finger-tip. “ You would take that hand one day ; I had to snatch it: away, because you would have asked how those ugly marks came. ’ “ Yes, May "â€"and I'nriredifi) be cheerful â€"“come in, for I thmk I can make you hapgy ho-day."r “ May 1 come in ? ” she asked, so timidly thatfiper gene smote my heart. “going. I Had tdianEehI' {154d lost count of the time." " Not yet." she interrupted, plucking up some of her old planyful imperative way. “ I knew you‘d have a. present for me ; but see, this in for you, and I made it." She guive the words with a. mysterious emphasis and held out toward me an'armful of rich drugflry. “ It‘s a. dreasinggown. It will make you look just like the Arismdes, and I made it; all myself," said May, in a. frightened and healmtiug fashion. “ But whyâ€"" I began. “ Becauseâ€" Oh, don’t you know ‘2 It‘s Chrirfmguais, misnjy Qhrisbmufi, today." U>WE1M. do you mean?" I stummered; “ What: is it? ” r $ perday at home. Samples worth $0 to? f5 free. Address STINBON £6 00., Portland, Maiua. , A boy sixteen yen" o f ' can snwlogsfiul underlay w mmmm c to) 3”" “$3”. "1321' I semi OI B 0 1e 00!! n 11 mon- 31! and run mtculm. {Ems Mm Btho..1683-utdolph3t..0w V ‘0 Sawinng [Vlan Easy. rier and the 2 waltzed over the fence and the 2 fought. The tarrier proved too much for Tod- dles, and afare they could haul him off the bat- tle round he had made a good square meal of! his ide. Tom was in despair. A-kind looking entlema‘n in a broad- ln‘im' hat told him to get a. ottle of ST. JACOBS OIL and rub him with it, and it would cure him in no time. What does Tom do but steal into the chapel at Vesper time and slide into Father Jacobs confessional box and beg of him abottle Of‘JllS oil with which to rub his dorg. The Father felt of Tom's head; it was hot an’ afore Tom could utter a ruyer, two men were luggin' him home followed Jyagreat crowd, who‘kept at a. safe (listanee, thinking he had been hit by a mad dorég. The more he kicked and screamed to be let me, the tighter they held on to him)” Inreferenee to another toi‘ment,the Chicago Western Callinlic recently wrote. “ Mr. Joel D. Harvey, U. S. Collar-tor of Internal Reve- nue, of this eityhhas went over two thousand dellars on medicine for is wife, who was su‘iTer- ing dreadfull from. rheumatism. and without deriving any ,nei’it whatever; yet two bottles of ST. JACOBS OIL aenomplished what the most skillful medical men milcd in doing. We could give the names of hundreds who have been cured this wonderful remedy did space ei‘mit us. T e latest man who has been ma e be py through the use of this valuable liniment is Ir. James A. Conlau, librarian ofthe Union Catholic, Library of this city. The following is Mr.Con- Ian‘s indorsement: L'sz CATHOLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 204 Dearborn 5! r1 rt, - CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 1330. ' I wish to add my testimony to the merits o 81'. JACOBS OIL as a cure for rheumatism. One hot- tle has cured me of this troublesome disease, which gave me a great. deal Ofbother. for along time; hut,thanks to the remedy, I am curei. This statement. is unsolicited by any one in its inter est. Vesy respectfully, muss A. CONLAN. Librarian. It‘s long ago now; but _ when the day comes round. and our ohi’drén and Max‘s: tare playing their Christmas games, May and I like' no go over‘the old story. We know of nothing so well calculated to put the reading publiqgutpf humor as 156" begin a. very intereeting account of some seiemtifie discovery, replete with interefit, and just as the reader’s mind is thoroughly imbued with the subject, and n-gigautic effort being made to grasp itin all its heur- ings, away goes the author in praise of: some patent medicine or newlepgled hair renewer; f( r inntnnce, Cannonmm, at deodor- ized extract of petroleum, as now improved and perfected, which, by the Way. is an article of genuine merit,and has really dong Wonders in the hair producing way, 8.3 hundreds of certificates from well known citizens amply testify. It in cleanly and so penetrating that the diseaseis reached, and a. radical change,“er the better takes place almost immediately. It contains nothing injurious; in, in fact, a natural hair reetorer, made from petroleum, thoroughly deodorized end delightfully” perfumed. It is sold by ulldealersin-drugs and medicines, at 31 per bottle. Mack’s Magnetic Medicine is an unfail- mg food for the Brain and Nerves, and by ins rejuvenating eficcn. on these organs never futile to cure nervous exhaustion and all weakness of the generative organs. See advertisement in another column. Atooming hob wea mm (It “\ ~' , 3.“. ‘- é ; 1:: «.93 we had the maddest, merrlest Christmas on record. Three periods of lifeâ€"Youth, mumps middle age, bumps ; old age, dumps. ' Life'lskvexations do not generally come on one like a storm descending the mountain or like a whirlwind- they come as the rain does in some sections 01" the worldâ€"gently. but every day. 013le life‘s dlscomforts is presented herewith: ’ Atoording to popular impression, / hot weather: mosquitoes and mild (logs all flourish at the _. ,sumo time and are chargeable tq the malefic- influence of v the Dog Star. Speakingof i/ dogs undthe Dog Starre- mmds us ol‘a boy’s story ' of a dog and the comet, ’ -- and which we here ive i? abshortivexttath fim t 1e oy's etter: ‘ o y \Bob, yofi ought to ha’ been there last night to tween the fun. Tom . 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