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The very expression of her face seem- :ed to have changed; it was full of :dreamy, absorbed thought, the life and 'animation had ulmcxst left: it. Ber husband‘s words made a great; Impression on Lady St. Just. She know they were true. She had room for no other thought in her mind but the thought of the child Oswald. She took note, and found that for hours together she did nothing but think and ponder. She could neVer have been a real criminalâ€"she had boo keen a conscience. She could take Lancewood from this buy because she did not think him worthy to hold it; but she could not forget the boy‘s exis- tence. She must see him, cure. for him. advance his interests in li£e~do anything, in fact, except give him his inheritanw. "One thing is plain," she said to her- Belf; "if I wish to keep my secret, I must not let it absorb me so entirely.” As when she visited Gerald Dorman, she dressed herself as plainly as posi- plbleâ€"a black silk dress that showed some signs of wear, a dark traveling- 'oloak, a bonnet) with a. thick vail. "I shall be better when l have seen the boy." she thought. "I am haunted by a thousand fears and a thousand thoughts that will be laid as ghosts are laid when 1 have seen him." That soon becamev her one great object, and the day came that brought her a very fair chance of achieving it. Lo’rd St. Just went with some friends to Gravesend; there was a govern~ men!) inquiry about some naval mat- tars that required his attention. He would be absent: the whole day, and on that day Lady St. Just resolved to 30 lo Hummel'smith. 'I'hus attired, who would recognize the beautiful and ‘maguificent Lady Sb. Jun” "IL is a long drive," was the man’s comment when she gave the address. “'You shall be well paid for it,” she replied, with sublime ignorance of a cabman‘s peculiarities. She cunt-rived to leave the house ;wit-hout being seen, having sent John Eubley out previously. She walked some little distanceaud then took a cab. 'Her heart beat loud and fast as the cab stopped before a large square house standing back from the road and surrounded by trees. "Grove House Academy," she read on the large brass plate. "You will wait for me,” she said, as the man opened the door,â€"-“I may be some time." "I want to $30 one of the young tent-lament), a Master Henry Dorman, Ls be here 9" ' The man seated himself on his box, book out his newsPuper, and mentally congratulated himself on being "in for a good thing.“ She was shown into a small ante- room, with nolhing very cheerful to recommend itâ€"it contained a Square table, a few houseâ€"hair chairs, a pair of globes, and a large map. All view from the window was cut off by a thick wire blind. ‘ The door was opened by a ioo‘uman, who said that. Dr. Lester was not in, buL that Mr. Hurdman, the beadamas- her, was. Lady St. Just sat down. Her heart Was beating fast, her limbs trembled â€"-she could not. stand. She was to see him again, Vulerie’s son, the child she had deprived of his inheriwnce, the heir of inincewood, the descendant of a French strolling player, the boy she had hushed in her arms, had tried to teach, and had given up in despair. "\Ve are obliged to be cautious,“said Mr. Hardman. "As a rule, we require I note from the parents or relations before any one is allowed to see any of the boys. But in this case I can dispense with the formality." He had recognized the musical, refined voice Lt a lady. "I will send young Dorman to yo; madam," he said, as he quitted bhe room. "Yes, please step this way, and I will fetch him,” wagthe reply. She threw back her heavy vail, and seemed to gasp for breath; her lips burned like fire; then she drew down her veil, and t-ried to calm her terrible agitation. She heard footsteps. hidden by the vail. "You wish to see one of our boys. madamâ€"Henry Dorman? He is an orphan, I believe. Maw I ask if you know any of his relatives 3" A tall, elderly gentleman entered the room, “ho introduced himself a: Mr, Eurdman, lhe Headmaan‘ter. He lwkcd curiously ut- the beautiful face halt curiously uh hidden by the "I knew his mother." she replied. "I lhould like to see him, although he would not» know me. I knew his mother when he was quite a little child.“ Through Storm and Sunshine OHAJPTER XLIII Ah: Heaven, if her health would but beat less wildlyâ€"if the clinging mist would but pass from before her eyesâ€" if her trembling hands would but grow still! ' When had she seen Oswu‘nd East? She remembered the day and the hour. He had said a lesson correct-1y to poor dead Gerald, and, as a reward, she gave him a ball be had been longing “You are a good sister, Vivien," he had said, as he ran laughing from the room. ‘A good sister! The words re- turned to her with a keen pang. Before the door opaned she heard a laughing voice sayâ€" "Some one to see me, James-f You mus“ be mistaken. No one ever comes to see. me.“ "You will see for yourseif, Master Do-rman," was the answer; and then he stood before her. Her eyes almost devoured him. Her bre-al‘h came in thick hot gasps as she looked at him. How was she to hide him? How was she to hide her sin? She saw before her a tall, slender boy with Valerie’s goldenâ€"brqwn hair, and Valerie‘s eyes. There all resemblance to his mother ended. The face was exéctly like her ownâ€"a true Neslie face. There was no mistaking ifâ€"no passing it by unnoticed. He Icoked up at her with bright, fearless, laugh- ing eyes so like Valerie’s. "Are you quite sure,” he said “that you want to see me? I did not think any one in the wide world knew me." , “I knew your motherfbluster Dor- man,” she said, "when you were quite a little child." "I wish I had known her." he re- turned. “\Vhen,all the other boys talk about their mothers, I wbnder what- mine was like.” She took his hands in hers; all her heart: went out in pity 1'0 the desolate, lonely boy. asked “I remember two [ace-5,” said the boy. "I think one was very fair and laughing, the other dark and beautiâ€" ful, but I cannot tell whether either of them was my mother. I remember the faces ornly indistinctly, like a vague dream. Did you know my mother t" How her heart ached for him, warmâ€" ed to him, beat with passionate pain! She would do anything for him except give up Lancewood. "Yes, I knew her. Because I knew her I have come to see you.“ “How did, you know that I was her'e ?" he asked; and the question puzzled her. “I heard it‘ by accident,“ she replied, “andI thought I should like to see you." ' "I shall come and see you some- times," she, continued, "and, if there is anything you would like, I will bring it.” “There are many things I should like. I should like a good bat for cricketing, and a bow and arrow.” It: was some little comfort even to give him those things. "For my moLlier’s sake?“ he interâ€" rupted; and she could not say it was for \‘alerie‘s. "\Voulg you! ’ asked Vivien, with a brightened face. “Then you shall have them.” "You have not told me yet who you are," he said, laughingly. "You would not- know my name if I told it to you," she replied; “you will easily remember Mrs. Smith.“ “Are you Mrs. Smith 'I" he asked. “We have five Smiths in this school, and the boys say that the doctor will not take another. Mrs. Smith, did you know my father 3” "He and my mother are bath dead,” sighed the boy. "I have been in Am- erica with my uncle, Mr. Dorman. Now “I shall be passing by week," she told him, "and I them to you.” "That is very good cf you." said the boy; and the voice was so entirely like Valerie’s, that she was startled. "Heaven pardon me!" she from the depths of her heart fat-her was her own. "I think he had always lived in Am- erica,” replied the boy, thoughtfully; "he never spake of England to me when we were in Xew York. “’9 came to England together. He placed me here at school, and now he is dead." "Hr was very kind to you i ' she said, She saw him leaking intently at her vailed face. ' “\Vaa Mr. Dnunun snur uncle 1" she asked. “Yes.” she replied. in voice. man." “And where did be live i" asked Lady St. Just. he is dead, and I am quite alone in the world." "Do you not remember her 2" she to call him Uncle Dor a. low faint she sighed here next will bring His "Yesâ€"n0 one could have been kind- er," answered the lad. "I cannot re- member going to Americaâ€"I should not think [ was more than five years old when I went." said mm to Uncle Barman." “Did your uncle never sieak ta you, of any one -â€"0[ England, of any fr "No," said the boyâ€"‘ "Th-en,” thought Ln am quite safe; there is 1 dome not know the mum there is nothing to cor "Yea 1 went with some one who was alwaya readixig and studyingâ€"he never beemed to remember that Iwas alivé. He usad to look at me in suvh surpriée and say 'Oh, little boyl’ I ounnob remember how 1 weilt from am quite safe; there is no link here. Be (101% not know the name of Lnncewood; there is nothing to connect him with it- in any way. Even should any one know he had an 'Um-l-e Dorman,’ they “curl hover dream that the uncle v. ho he says lived in America, was Gerald Dorman who lived at Lanoewood. I am quite safe; there is no connecting link whatever." "1 shall be very kind to you," she saidj "I shall bring you everything that you like. Have you plenty of pocket-{money 2” "Are you any relation to me ?” asked the boy, curiously. "Do you know, I fancy that I have heard your voice before, it is just like music; and it seems to me that years ago I heard one just like it. May I see your face? Your‘vail is so thick." She hesitated a moment, and 1113611 she'said to herself, "There can be no danger; he does not even know the name of Lancewoodâ€"he will not re.- member me.” She threw it back, and the boy look- ed long at the beautiful face. “How could you dream about/rule?" she asked. "I do not know ; all my thoughts are so confused, so vague, so like dreams. Now that I look at your face, I think I have seen one like it once." "\Vhere?’ she asked, in sudden fear, "I cannot tell you where,” he laugh- ed; "I only remember a background of trees and a face like yours looking sorro'wfully at- me. I do not remem§ her it when you smil'e, but I do when you look serious. Have I ever seen before ?" "See my face ?" she replied. "Yes, certainlyâ€"I am rude to have talked to you all this time- with my vall doWn." "Why, you are like a picture, Mrs. Smith!” he said. "I wonder if I have ever dreamed about you.” "I have never been to America,” she replied, evasively. "Then I cannot have seen it. I am to glad you know me, Mrs. Smith; it is very dull all alone here. Perhaps some day, when you are not very buy, you will take me outâ€"I. have never been out since 1 came.” “Poor childâ€"poor boy!” she said, her beautiful eyes growing dim. "I shall soon be old enough to go out by myself," he told her proudly. "You will come to see me again 2” he added. "Yes," she replied, "I will come again." "I do nob remember that any one has ever done that before,” he said "Good-he, Mrs. Smith." In another minute she had left him, standing thinking about her face, and how he had come to dream about her. She bent her stately head and kigsed the brow so like her own. The boy blwshed‘. CH APTE R XLIV. {Lady St. Just co-uld not~ forget her half-brother. She had fancied that going to see Oswald would put an end It requires an enormous amount of vitality to wilhstand the weakening and trying effects of the withering summer weather, to overcome the lan- guid, wornout feelings, and to fight off the fevers and dreadful fatal dis- eases which are especially prevalent in the summer time, and ever ready to attack those in a low state of health. There ls nothing so trying- on the system, as the hot. summer weather, and none who suffer more from the heat than the woman with the cares ot a family on her hands, requiring work \in the hot kitchen and over the stove. Many a wornout, despondent woman who could scarcely drag her- self about the house has been restorâ€" ed to health and strength by the use of Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food, pills, the great blood builder and nerve restor- a'tive. Mrs. D. W. Cransberry. 168 Rich- mond St. “Vest, Toronto, 0n»t._. s_tales: â€" My daughter got completely run down 'in health. Her nerves were so exhausted and she was so weak and debilitath that she had to give up Summer Sufierngs 9‘? ngen. ere a youn‘ Joyâ€""never." Lady 51. Just, "I ’e is no link here. He name of Lancewood; \\ 110.11 traveler,“ she u. never he knew " “Because you always hesitate before' iyou say it. If you do not like Henry, ‘oall me Harryâ€"the doctor always calls ‘me Harry.” ‘ She knew that her impulse always: was be call him Oswald, but she could gno‘t tell him so. I to the intensity of her thought about him. lb did not. His face never left her by nighb or by day. She admired him very much. He was ball for his age. wit-h a fine, well-built figure. She was startled, too, when she looked in the glass, to see hpw much her face was like his. He had Valerie's eyes and Valerie‘s hair, but the true Neslie mouth and brow. an 61106 t‘ion. an him. no pain "I took him from mother, home, and friends,” she thought. "I must make it‘ up to himâ€"I must do all I can for him." ' As 'a summer medicine to revitalize the brain, the spinal cord, the nerves, and through them the entire human body. Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food is un- rivalled and unapproached. It in- creases the number of red corpuscles in the blood, creates new nerve force and entirely overcomes the Wretched langufid and worn out feelings of sum- mer. Disease can find no foothold when the blood fis kept pure and rich and the nerves strong by using this great restorative. Lu ucewond and as an unknown boy in a boarding school was greabâ€" and that was what troubled her. She sile need the pleading of her own heart with an iron hand; she would hear none of it. It was for the best -â€" he would have ruined Lancewood. She had found her first) visit to the school so uncommonly easy that she tqok Oswald the cricket-bat he had called again and again. She longed fnr; she gave him pocket»- money; she gratified every whim and wish of the boy. "I have learned to like you for your own," she replied. “What makes you say that 7" she asked. "You are very kind be me, Mrs, Smith," he would sayâ€""what shall I do for you in return? Ls it all for my mother‘s snke ’6” He noticed that she always seemed to have a difficulty with his nameâ€" she paused slightly before uttering it]. "Shall you ever take me out ?" he asked her one day. ‘ “Not at present," she replied. "You shall have along holidayâ€"you shall go to the seaside; but you must wait awhile.” "You do not; like my name," he said to her one day. THE SERGEANT WAS COOL. Towards the close of the battle of Paardeberg Lard Ketchener, when re- turning from an interview with Lord Roberts. came upon asergeant carry- ingcanterenls of water for the wound- ed. A cannon bill came bounding over the hill and knocked off the ser- geant's hrlmet, \vh!) coolly picked it up, brushed it with his sleeve, and carefully plicing it on his head again turned to salute Lord Kitchener, who admiring his coolness, remarked, "A narrow S'hllVB, that, my man." The smgemt replied. again saluting, "A miss is as good as a mile, sir." Have your summer vacation plans matured yet, Billy? Oh, yes, but they had to be side- tracked on account of some summer notes that also matured. David, they‘ve sent us a whole gal- lon of ice cream by mistake. Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food, pills, 50 cents a box. at all dealers or by mail post paid on receipt of price, from Edmanson, Bates & 00., Toronto. All right; well eat it, and pay for the half gallon we ordered. Then, the next time we feei like having ice cream we”ll go pay for the other half gallon. She was of a loving no in TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING FUNNY. the consciousness of the differ- bemeen his position as heir of swoml and as an unknown boy in rding school was great â€" and DEFLECTION 0F F UNDS nely :11 the f a loving, tender disposi- Ie thought of this boy world. with no one to visit to care for him, desolate touched her with keeneet To Be Comtinued heir of u buy in 1 â€" and 7. She IN MERRY 0L1] ENGLAND [It-cord of Occurrences In the lllnd I‘ll-I llolulu Suprrmc In IIN‘ (ommel'clal “'orlul. British locomotive firms have work on hand for 12. to 18 months. WHAT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEO- PLE ARE DOING. A youth cannot be sent to Sandhunt for much less than £2350 per annum. London has 600,000 houses. Park has 90,000 houses. New York has 115,- 000. ~ One year's swaepings at the British Mint yields over £1000 in gold and silver. M‘uuicipal electric launches instead of steamboats are now Vmooted for the Thames. A new building slip is to be con- structed at Chatham Dockyard 'at a coat of £150,000. The lawn 21k Buckingham Palace in large enough to allow ample room for over 2,000 men to manoeuvre. Statistics show that the total con- sumption of paper in the British Isle- is as much as 1,047,000 tons a. year. . The British Government uséd 124,000 gallons of corn whiskey last year in the manufacture of smokeless pow- der. The lowering of the height standard by the military authorities is believ- ed to have caused a boom in) enlist- ment. The British Houses of Parliament are partly Lit by 40,000 electric lamps, a number which is being constantly: increased. In the remote parish of Markby, in Lincolnshire, stands a little thatched church, probably the only one existing in Great Britain. London can boast of more parks and open spaces, than any city in the world, and their nulmber is being con- stantly augmented. The average age of the British sol- dier now at the front is nearly two years higher than that of the soldier who fought af Waterloo. A parent, ndamed Jeskins, in an Eng- lish town, has named the triplet- which arrived the other day, Roberts, Bullet and Tugela. The latter was a girl baby. One hundred and ten thousand cop- ies of the New Testament Or of St. John’s Gospel have been distributed to the British soldiers at the front. The ArchLishop of Canterbury has consented to the grounds of Lam- beth Palalcé being handed over to the London County Council as a public park. Admiral Sir Henry Koppel, who is amost 92 years old has ledt his com- fortable chambers in London and un- dertaken a long voyage to Britiéh North Borneo.. Princess Beatrice is becoming quite an expert hockey player, and is so devoted to the game that she played nearly every day at Windsor Castle during the winter. Some one has calculated that the postman of London walk, together, something like 48,360 miles per dayâ€"a distance equal to twice the circumfer- ence of the globe. At the annual meeting of the Hos- pital for Sick Children, Great Ormond street, London, it was intimated that the “ Punch ’ fund had reached no less a sum than £16,400. Welshmen are proud of Mr. Thomas, who from being a miner in South NVales has risen to the position of being one of the first scholars and preachers in the country. est. The Duke of Connaught is to-day, next to the Queen, the most popular member of the Royal Family. His popularity among the soldiers is only equalled by that of. Lord Roberts. The late Mr. John Thomas Bedford. was for nearly 31) years a leading member of the London Corporation, and to him the community is indebt- ed for the preservation of Epping Forâ€" The young Marquis of Grahame, the future Dmke otf Montrose, has adopt- ed the sea as a profession, and has been assisting in the navigation of a. trading ship from Australia to Eng- land. The Prince of “'nlvsz, {me-eminent as a British Freemason, has been unani- mously elected Most Wurshipful Grand Master. The Prince has now been a Freemason exactly of the most distinguished off now at the front are prominent sons. Lord Roberts is Past G‘ Warden. So is Lord Meth‘uen. I Kitchener is Past brand Warden District Grand Master of Egypt the Soudan. Sir Charles “'arre past District Grand Master of Eastern (Archipelago. ’] Connalught takes as activ in Freemasonry as doe In‘other. years. Several zuished officers Th-w Duk Several G In ad Lord an and 1nd