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!?s?5S3SRSpSWI p told me about it, Millie, for I think the only unpardonable sin is that of lying to the friends who wish to help one." Molhe's mouth grew a little rebel lious and she said: "I don't think I need any help, Margie; I am nineteen years old and I ought to be old enough to take care of myself. . "You see, Madge, it was this way: I was horribly dull and discontented yesterday. Mother had gone over to the hospital to see Mary and there was nothing for me to do at home; nobody had invited me to go any where and I was crazy with the monotony of just living from day to day. I put on my hat about four o'clock and started for the park, as I thought I might see some of the girls playing tennis. "As I was walking on the shore drive, Mr. Tenney came along with his car and stopped to talk to me. He said: 'You don't look as happy as you might, little girl'; and I said: 'I am not happy at all.' " 'Neither am I,' he confessed. Jump into my car and we'll take a long spin and see if we can't chase away the blue devils even if we smash the speed laws.' "Madge, were you ever in such a condition that you were ready to ac cept anything for the sake of getting way from the deadly sameness of yourself?" '. "Yes, my dear, many times," I an swered. - "Then you will understand. Mr. Tenney took me away out in" the country and he told me that I ought not to be unhappy; that only those who do wjong should suffer; and in a few minutes he was telling all about himself and what a sad life he led. How when he was first married his wife did not understand him and neither did he understand her, so things went from bad to worse until they had virtually lived apart for three years "That during all that time he had been like a ship at sea without a rud der, and he probably had done a lot of things he should not have done, but he had come to his senses, and .now when he had made up his mind to go back and see if he could not patch it up with his wife, she had served him with divorce, papers tough, wasn't it?" I could not help smiling at that, as it was just like a man to make himself out an abused person to dear little Mollie., Men have realized ever since Adam that "pity is akin to love." ( To Be pontinued Tomorrow.) o o PORTUGAL'S EX-QUEEN MAY BE MARRIED a.rjuij de vFoveral Lisbon, Portugal. If court gossip is true, Amelia, dethroned queen of Portugal, is now the wife of Marquis Soveral, the Portuguese ex-minister. If the former queen is married she has added one more to the long list of the morganatic husbands of Eu rope. The kaiser's mother married Baron von Leckendoff ; gossip united Queen Victoria and John Bright; the ex-queen of Naples married Prince Esterhazy, and Dowager Margherita of Italy is. said to be married to the Italian engineer, Tererani. o o Mrs. Ledke of Winchester, Pa., cul tivates a plantation of 8,000 apples trees. K tijzjt&isjj