THE

DAILY EXAMINER, CHARL

?TETOWN, SEI TEMB2R

14, 1897

CHAPTER VIII.

LM NOT HAROLD WESTCOTT !” ras ! on my part t 2 of Covey ‘ 33 other side of the street * moment I emerged from the door of my apartments on my iy to ll upon Miss Lawrence. At tl instant cf catching sight of detective he seemed to have been: ng, as if to fasten his shoe, but 1ediately resumed his brisk walk a the Opposite direction from the one taken by me, ind ut looking cross I thought n gz more of

though it would have

done so,

{i was Kept waiting but a brief while in the beautiful reception room at — Madison avenue, when I heard a light f step on the stairs, and the next mo- ment Jeanette Lawrence bounded into the room and into my arms.

There : no helping it. The pe- tite, black-eyed beauty, overflowing

with happiness and high spirits, n« hesitated, and I could do nothing 1

ver

2Ss than return the fervent kiss and em- brace. Then, as I sank into a chair, she dia the same close beside me, and,

reaching over with her fairylike hand, sent a thrill through every fibre of my being by gently brushing away a curl from my forehead, as doubtless she had done many a time with Harold Westcott.

“Dear Harold, She asked, derness. “I in my life after you had forced mo- ther back into my lap and you were thrown from your horse. It must have hurt you dreadfully.”

“Yes, I was pretty well shaken up, but I have fully recovered.”

“How thankful I am! I sprang out

how in a voice

do you feel ?” of infinite ten-

of the carriage as soon as the team |

Was stopped and knelt over you. I wished them to bring you to our house, but the officer said you must go tothe hospital, and mother had fainted, and by the time I really cemprehended what was going on they had taken you away.”

“And ‘how is your mother ?”

“ Barring a little nervousness, there are no fll effects from the accident. But here she comes.”

The beaming, matronty woman walk- ed straight to me with extended hand and implanted a motherly kiss on my cheek.

“ You dear, good boy,” she said, de- liberately seatirg herself and folding

her atrrs across her ample bosorm “you risked your life for us. If you

had mot pushed me back into Jean- ette’s lap, I should have been killed:”

“it was a rather alarming time, but it is fortunate that it ended so weTi. I understand your coachkman was badi- ly burt.”

“Quite badly, but he is mending, and, the doctor says, will come around if mo complication intervenes. You seem to be well, Herold ?’’

“Yes; better than I had a right to expect. I was considerably brutsed, but the only ill effects are a peculiar affection of my memory, due, I <sup- pose, to the violent jar. It plays odd pranks with me at times.”

I trust the recording angel bietted out that assertion, for it held net a grain of trutn, and its only palliztion in the motive with which it was uttered.

The chat went on in an aimless way for some time, when the mother with- drew, and Jeanette and I were left alone.

“I hope you were not offended,” she ventured, with her bewitching *“‘at the decepticn we plaved on yon.”

“Offended ? Wrat a re- merk ! see you, and could hardly believe that it was you of yeur frightened face riage.”’

“But you must Rave recognized mo- ther ?’

“I nad no more expectation of ser- ing her than of seeing you.”

“And vou are sure you are giad i

"rr

am at home ’?

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strange

in the ear-

She leaned forward and looked wp at me. Evidently she yearned for more tenderness, and my good reso-

jutions were becoming demoralized. I tock the unresisting hand and pressed it.

I had not the heart to chill her, and besides it was so pleasant to meet her expectations, even thcugh the right was not mine. What is so ravishing as the taste of forbidden fruit ?

It required only the gentlest of ef- forts to draw her upon the sofa beside me.

*‘ And are you sure, Harold, that you Icve me as much as ever ? I do you.”

‘Can you doubt me, dearest ?’’

“There are sO many young women more attractive and better than I that I sometimes feared, just a tiny bit, that they might steal you away from wes”

* Aren’t you ashamed of such foolish fancies ? And how many better, nop- ler and handsomer men than I you have met abroad !”’

**No, sir !”’ she exclaimed, compress- ing her pretty lips and speaking with an emphasis that made my blood tin-

fle. “There is none so handsome, so worthy, so noble, as my own Harold, and you know it.”

I broke into laughter at the comical earnestness of the little divinity. I was playing with fire, but it was de-

iishtful.

She nestled close to my side, and I Grew her still closer. Then, pricked by conscience, I sat back, and she

straightenel up.

‘But tell me about your experiences adroad.”’

“Tell you about them,” she repeat- ed, with another laugh. “Why, 7 “rote you by every steamer and omit- ted nothing.”

‘But,” I stammered, “I mean since yeur last letter. Yaorkrew it has heen

7

been well had I which I have

never was so frightened |

Of course, I did not expect to !

smile, |

when 1 caught a glirmse |

so Yong sir I tard anything from you.’

‘*Not so very lomg, either. I sent my last om L m three days before we sailed from Liverpool. You re- ( 1 it, did you not ?”

I wri nkled mv brow with thought.

Ly me sé You know, 1 told you my memory plays me stranse pranks at present. What was your letter a hout ”

1 told ef our visit to the Tower of

London and "— * Oh, yes, I recall it now. But, you little re gue, you said nothing about

home for a long, long time.” That was my plot,

exolained.”

min? comings

“Of c

urse not.

‘But suppose I had grown impatient to see you and had sailed for Europe without letting you know anything abcut it ? What then ?’

‘I never thought of that. Wouldn’t it have been awful ?” And she sighed and almost shuddered at the picture I had called up.

And yet that was precisely what had taken place.

At this juncture these awkward pauses times stop the fow when all parties were overrunning with words only a few minutes before.

occurred one of which some-

She looked at me, and [I met her glance Neither spoke. I thought

there was a peculiar, unfathomable ex- pression in her countenance and ask- ed myself :—

“ Has a shadowy doubt flitted across her consciousness ? I hope so, and yet I do not hope so. This is wicked, but it is toa sweet for me to yield just yet.”

Looking at this adorable creature, @ pang of bitter jealousy stung me. What right had Harold Westcott to such un- approachable loveliness? Yet it was his, and he had stolen away like a cow- ard, leaving me to meet the penalty of some wrongdoing that would not bear the light of day.

Would it not be righteous punish- ment if I should wrest this gem, this diamond, this prize, from him ? Had bre not basely deserted his post ot duty ? Would he dare to return be- fore the lapse of a year, by which time he would be safe from the punishment for his wrongdoing ?

But when the truth should become kk: own in all its fulness, how this wo- man would recoil from me! She would loathe me beyond the power of words to express.

But why bother wiih all this ? Suffi- cient for the day % the good or the evil thereof. I was in her presence. She believed she was mine. I was revelling in bliss. . Why, therefore, let ary ghost intrude upon the feast ?

*“ Have you decided where you will srend the summer?” was my silly av.estion.

“No place: suits mother like New- port. I suppose we shall go there as soon as the warm weather comes, ana of course you wifi not be much behiné us.”’

“Of course net.”

“The season promises to be a gay cne, and we shall all enjoy ourselves elmost as much as we did before poor father’s death.”

Ané@ she sighedi et the remembrance of her grief.

When I turned my face away from the one at my side. conscience mae itself heard. I despised myself far my weakness, and yet when I met the light of those midnight eyes I was helpless, conterft to drift along the witching tide, with ihe ravishing music in my 2ars and ‘beguiling my senses.

My arm stole gently around the wk- lowy waist, and, scoundrel that I was, I forgot the dishonour of my positien in the happiness of the rresent.

What would be the feelings of Fiar- cold Westeott could he look upon @s at that moment ? Would he not leap into the from very sharne arti grief ? Not because of Jeanette, for she vas blametess in her trusting love, Lut pecause of the unspenkabie base ress of the man whem he had taken eut ef the gutter, as may be said, aré given a taste of comfort and luxury.

Eut, thank Heaven, thougn the rrickings of comscienc? may be dulled, they are still felt, and, if resisted, be- come burning bolts messed remorse- lessly into the quivering flesh.

While my lips wcre paried with the utterances of vows of love which should have blisterei them, the checked. I gently put the young wo- man from me.

It was done so gently, indeed, that she suw no meaning in it, but was smiling, radiant, and as trustful as ever.

I looked at her, but did not know how to frame the awful avowal. I svas tempted to blurt it out in the few- est words possible, but shrank frem the result. It coulda not be that she was whollv recovered from the shock of a few days before, though = she thought so, and my revelation might be fatal to her exquisitely sensitive na- ture.

“You startled me,” she said.

* How ?’’

“By the xpression on your face. You looked as if you were going to say something fearful, something ihat would take my life from me.”

“What a delightful puzzle you are, Jeanette! Do you think vou would be alarmed at anything T could say v"

“T hardly think so, erd yet I do not know.”

Something whispered that Ileaven had made this opening. at Et fet 3 pass unimproved, it would never re- turn. I was afraid to delay.

“My dear Jeanette, 1 have some- thing very serious to say to you.”

The words were uttered with the ut- most tenderness. She zave a faint gasp and drew slightly away ‘rom me. teer face paled. and she stared in mute wonder, though she swallowed a Jump in her throat, as if making an ef- fort to utter the words that would not come,

_I cruelly waited, looking steadily. in

sea

of conversation |

words were ;

|

Neer CUvUBVC IIe, alu CePuiveg tOAT SNe should speak before I said anything more.

‘Well, Harald, I am ristenins.”

Tt was a Whisper, husky and parch- ed, but not once were those ] istrous yes renicy ij from mine ,

Fool that I was I regretted that I had mad ir begi ing. I would h » give en the world could the words have been 1 vied, How I despised my-

But it was too late. I mast go on

Why } you speak, Harold ? D t look me that way !”’ “ Fou ws sure vou can bear it ?” I can ear anything from you.” ey il, th n, Miss La\ rence, you ar under a hideous delusion. l am not Harola Westcott !” (To he ¢ tinued.)

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has just been received of a consider- able advance in the prices of Walthain and Elgin watch movements. We have a large stock on hand bought be- fore the rise, which we will sell at old prices while they last.

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Jeweler and Optician, forth Side Queen Square.

WHY CALLED TUMBLERS.

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‘Miss Lerroy,

Yicket Agent |

Curious Origin of the Name of an Article In Daily Use.

Every day we drink out of a tumbler.

Why is the large glass that holds our milk

and water so called? Years ago Professor Max Muller was giving e luncheon at All Souls’ college, Oxford, to the Princess Alice, the wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Durmstadt and the second daughter of Quech Victoria, There were not a dozen guests besides the prineess and her hus- band, and a very agreeable luncheon we had, with talk on all kinds of interesting subjects.

But what excited the curiosity of all strangers present was a set of little round bowls of silver, about the size of a large orange. ‘They were brought round filled

to the brim with the famous ale hrewed in the college. ‘These, we are told, were tumblers, and we were speedily shown how they came by their names—a fitting lesson for the guests of a philolegist. When one of these little bowls was empty, it was pleeed upon the table mouth downward. Instantly, so perfect was the balance, it flew back to its proper position as if ask- ing to be filed again. No matter how it was treated—trundled along the ficors, bal- anced carefully on its side, dropped sud- denly upon the soft, thick carpet—up it relied again and settled itself witha few gentle shakings and swayings into its place, like one of those india rubber tuim- bling dol!s babies delight in.

‘his, then, was the origin of our word tuimbler, at first made of silver, as are all these All Souls’ tumblers. Then, when glass became common, the round glasses that stood on a flat base superseded the ex- quisitely balanced silver spheres and stole their names so successfully that you have , to go to All Souls’ to see the real thing.— | Philadelphia Times.

The Quarrelsome Robin.

The robin, that ‘‘pious’’ bird, Is very quarrelsome, and it exasperates one to watch him wasting the precious hours of food in hunting another hungry robin up and down and round and round till the sparrows have cleared the board. The blackbirds, too, are very annoying in the ' way that they snatch up a lump of bread and fiy off with it, only to be chased about for the rest of the morning by other black- birds, while a sparrow ‘makes a square meal off the morsel fallen meanwhile un- der a shrub, but relentless as they are in pursuit, the curious fact is that they sel- dom fight. If the pursued turns, the pur- suer stops, perks up his tail, and being promptly charged by the other becomes in his turn the pursued, but woe to both when the missel thrush comes. He is piti- less in pursuit, and I have seen them pass my window time after time in the course of a morning, the storm cock hard on the ‘‘heels” of the blackbird, and when they overtake them what happens? For myself, as I have often said before, I believe the missei thrush isa cannibal. At any rate, I attribute some of the dead blackbirds and thrushes that one finds about the grounds to his cruel beak. He watches for birds for hours at a time, likea bird of prey, and attacks them like one. I have often stopped a chase which I knew could only end one way.—Contemporary Review.

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