Through a
Woman's Heart.
By Sidney Warwick.
CHAPTER VI. (Continued.)
"I don't know. Mr. Home, whether
SoU are darkly hinting that I am In
any way responsible for Philip
Suem's disappearance; that I have-"
Stephen Ruthen Interposed with a
white face; his voice was strained
and unnatural, as he cried, quickly:
"I cannot allow this to continue.
Sr. Home. I make allowance for your
eaxlety. but I think you have spoken
ta a way thst Mr. I.athom has a right
to resent."
For a moment Bonholt Hume did
eot speak. Then he said, with a re
torn of his uo3al habitual courtesy:
"If so, I can only express my pro
found regret. When a man is as wor
tied as I am-"
Jack broke the tension with a laugh;
his natural good temper reasserted
ealst In generous fashion.
"Oh, that s all right," he cried. In
srupting the other's apology. "You're
Saturally a bit anxious. Mr. Hume,
though I think you take a more sort
eaf view of It than you need-there's
sure to be a perfectly simple explana
lion of your nephew's absence. It
test as though It was weeks or even
days since he had been seen."
If his resentment had passed Hilda
Ad not forgive her visitor so easily.
Nits words lingered rankling In her
ind like a poisoned dart, utterly in
haplicable. She did not hold out her
hand to Mr. Hume when he left that
afternoon.
The days passed, bringing no
change in the weather. The white
teeth of winter still held the country
tI their tenacious grip; no sign of
change or thaw. Philip Htme's con
Glamed absence began to cause specu
lation in others as well gs the miss.
Iag man's uncle. The mastery of his
(luappearanco became a topic of gen
eral comment, not only In the village,
but In the neighboring town of Pells
garth, where the Humes' were well
smtowa.
Mr. Bonholt Hume walked through
the main street of Pellsgarth one aft
ernoon some four days after his inter
view with Jack Lathom; more per
amon than one were struck by the
deepening ltnes of anxiety in his face.
He seemedlo know almost every
en.; he was a man with a multitude
at friends, and if he had any enemies
s one appeared to know of them;
be was popular alike at the club and
at the NEchange. He had gone to
the ZExhange that afternoon.
A stout, red-faced man, catching
eight of him, came up behind and slap
,ed him on the shoulder.
"Just the man I wanted to see!"
.e cried. "I want to know what you
have been doing to that nephew of
yours?"
Bonholt Hume started and turned.
dooking as though the unexpected saleu
tation had positively startled him, he
bad gone so white, and ftr a moment
be seemed unable to find his voice.
though his lips moved. His red-faced
seeualatanoe laughed boisterously.
"Why, what have you got on your
measienoe to make you jump like
that. Hume!' he cried, playfully: he
was a big man on 'change, with a
noisy, Irritating voice. "I had an ap
.elntment with young Philip for yes
tnday-rather an important appoint
mheat, sad he never turned up. Put
me to no end of tnconvnience.
What's all this talk I hear about his
gaggeapases? Where's be gone?
tiging bailif*s"
"I wiah'I could tell you." replied
ebabolt. He was still rather white:
he had seemed a bundle of nerves
oeee Philip's disappearance. "And I
WIL you could ask a question with
gat eo much personal violence!" fc'c
iag a smile. "I' . worried about Phil
ip; no one seems tohave seen him
seine his second row with young
Lathom. Iathom professes 'to know
nethitn."
"Wellwlrhat should he know? You
nat suppose Lathom spirited him
like a conjured making rabbits dis
appear lat, a hat?" broke In a third
wles, that of a mutual acquaintance
who hat jol1ed them. "But I expect,
V the truth was known. Philip's at
*ggge, lying low.' nursing that' black
eos at bisi Jovet didn't young
hm 41go for him in the dlub!" And
of enly wish my nephew were at
blAh or that I knew where he was,"
-M sBhlt* "I should be a good
bet less enious. vine the night he
AM hON ad their second unfortu
fuesee there hasnt been a word
a t him."
We soo early for you to take
et administration in re
es prperty. Hmse!" cried
kgAAsersly. "It's ea
yeo're the only
lies Ivingi"
A'k4lei Uma's badinage
semile to an
maddand
tbste act in the
The other
p a moment or
aisa ram
did
Boahalt
DlOahI
? We
mm'
the same again. Not much chance
of his tumbling into the Hume prop
erty. though. Young Philip will be
turning up again soon; sure to."
But two weeks passed sad still no
news came. The continued frost pre
vented the fallen snow from going.
even though little more fell; there
were no signs of the frost relaxing its
grip. As the slow days dragged by
Stephen Ruthen sometimes wondered
whether it would not be a r
this long, unexpected respite before
the Inevitable discovery that must
come was- over. The fever of sus
pense tortured him.
Olive Vanstone lay Ill, but she had
at last passed the crisis, and though
her faculties were st!ll wandering. she
was slowly beginning the uphill jour
ney towards recovery.
Her illness had lasted nearly three
weeks when one morning Stephen
Ruthen was awakened early by the
sound of a heavy thud outside. He
started up in bed listening; there was
another mufled thud. It was the snow
falling from the root. Rain was pat
tering on the window panes.
A cold perspiration broke out all
over him, as the realization of what
it meant flashed across him. It was
the tbginning of the end. The thaw
had come at last.
Stephen Ruthen crossed over to the
window and looked out; the wintry
dawn was breaking. On the roofs of
the outhouses the heavy covering of
frozen snow was breaking up .slipping
in miniature avalanches. The begin*
ning of the end!
The thaw had come that would un
lock the dead man's prison of ice. The
discovery of the tragedy was only a
matter of hours now!
CHAPTER VII.
As a Dream When One Awaketh.
Stephen Ruthen went downstairs
that morning, with the sound of rain
and the thuds of falling snow beating
their significant message into his ears.
to find Hilda waiting for him with a
little air of suppressed excitem"nt.
"Such good news, Stephen!" she
cried, eagerly. "Olive has recognized
me! Nurse tells me she woke in the
night with her mind clear; and this
morning she spoke to me quite ration
ally."
Hilda was a little surprised at the
way her brother received the news.
She had expected Stephen to be as
enthusiastic as herself; but for a mo
ment he seemed almost taken aback,
and when he spoke there was a trace
of effort in his voice. He crossed to
the window and stood staring out. He
had known, of course, that now the
crisis was safely passed Olive's re
turn to normal consciousness was on
ly a question of time, and under or
dinary circumstances he would have
hailed Hilda's news gladly. Only the
circumstances were not ordinary.
Now that discovery of the tragedy
was imminent, Stephen Ruthen was
conscious of a sense almost of relief.
At least the slow torturing suspense
of the long waiting would be over;
it would be a relief to know the worst.
The horror of those constant refer
ences and speculations about Home's
disappearance that he had been forced
to listen to during the past three
weeks would be ended, and he could
drop the mask that it had needed an
increasing efort to sustain-three
weeks that had made the hair about
his temples grayer, had graven deeper
lines in his'face. Yes., it would be a
relief to know the worst.
With far more dread than to the
revelat!on of Philip Hume's fate had
the rector looked forward to the time
when Olive should regain her facul
ties. Throughout her illness that
thought had haunted him. When, with
returning consciousness the floodgates
of her memory twept back, what
would its effect be on Olive-the re
membrance of that night's wild ven
geance? He could not bear to con
template it.
"My poor Olive!" the man who
loved her whispered to himself. as he
stared out into tlM desolate garden.
At In eakfast 8 an wan unausually
silent. For days past Hilda had been
struck by a change in him that had
touched her with a vague neaeiness
-a change scarcely to be analysed,
only that be seemed stddenly older.
grayer, more abstracted. She realized
as she talked to him this morning that
be was scarcely liteelag. Onoe a
snatch of her talk broke through his
preocugpled thoughts:
"Area't you glad the thaw has
cems, Stephen? rm so tired of the
sight of the snow. Three eag weeks
of it-and so much of it lying en the
reads that I'm afraid it will be a loag
time o "
Yea, it weeld prebely take a day
or two beats. the deep tnose drifts
by the ares eads. yieldsng relutam
ly. lush by baeh, before the cemeueeº
% elewe. gerrendered their secret;
tMh" whsdt bditted the new se
h --higher than the waist of the
Ssoea areas. At least another day, per
hera lieasr. bebre bte discovery
would be Salde. Stagele$'ts (S.git
said bas se the deed sat p
there to the woman apstairseegig
beck to c ioes bk to ms
loryt
Dr. Spreet made his easty visit. Mo
came downstairs from the sick reut
his chubby face radiant.
I "Spleald!?" he said-"speadiMd
ivren better than I had hoped. AS
her faculties quite clear sad normat.
The main thing mow is to keep our
patient quiet sad free from all excite'
ment. She's rather of an excitable
temi erament, too-which makes it aR
the more Important she should be kept
qu' L. By the way. Ruthen, bhe's ash
lag for you. She's very lnsistent yet
shou!d go up sad see her."
Olive was asking for him-Stephen
could guaes why! He could picture
the agony of suspense she must be em.
during the shock of the horror that
mulst have overtaken his por Olive
as she found her way back from de
lirium to the things that were real.
"So you'd better go up, Rathe%.
now." The doctor was still speaklag,
t* But you mustn't
stay more than a couple of minutes ao
so. And be sure you don't let her
talk much or excite herself."
Stephen Ruthen stole into the sick
room, the prey to a tumult of emo
dons.
Olive smiled wanly as he entered;
the nurse went out, leaving them
atone together. How wasted the hand
was, lying on their eiderdown, that
made a tired movement towards himi
And her face was thinner and color+
less-ivory against the dark glory of
her hair; but Illness had not dimmed
the old beauty.
An aching pcasion of tenderness ant
pity swert him, leaving him in that
first moment dumb. There was so
much to say, but he could find no
vores. So much to say-the reas
surarce that what she had done was
still a secret, that she had only to re
mo in ri!er.t and no one would ever
know how Ptbpli Hume had died; and,
atove all, he wanted to tell her that
he held her guiltless through it all;
that rle, too, must hold herself guilt.
It, a-morally guiltless, for an act done
when her-mind had swung so far from
its Lnlance as to leave her hardly re
spon1itle. But the words would not
(oa:e. He touched her hand gently.
"I am ,,ad you have come; I want
ed to tee you so much. Stephen-I
want to'ask you something," she said.
Hlow faint and frail the voice was!
sr eyes looked up at him feverishly;
tcir uplifted light was unclouded by
the fear or horror he had expected to
see reflected there. "I seem to have
hen lying here ages in a strange world
of dreams: I could almost fancy it
was in another exiatence that I crept
to the vestry door of the church, and
you brought me home." She paused,
and added: "Or that I saw Frank
tCarr outside the gate-Philip Hume
you tell me his name is. It all seems
far away like a dream. only I suppose
it is real?"
He nodded. He could not speak
Thegp was a queer lump in his throat
OlivE paused as if the effort of speak.
lug had made her tired. Stephen had
almost expected her first words to
have reference to the tragedy; she
had said she wanted to ask him some
thing. only perhaps she could not find
the courage-was waiting for him to
speak. How could he put it Intq
words, and answer the question she
dared not ask, to take the sting out of
her suspense?
Before be could frame the difficult
words, she spoke again.
"Stephen," she whispered, and an
intensely eager, wistful look came in.
to the dark, burning eyes, "has--has
Frank-Philip Hume-called whilst I
have been lying here ill?"
(To Is Continued.)
MAY GET SPECIAL PRIVILEGE.
The President's Hunting License and
East Africa.
President Roosevelt. not having s1g
filed his intention of asking special
privileges for his hunting trip in Brit.
lab East Africa through diplomatic
channels. it is supposed that he will
take out an ordinary fifty pound
($250) license from the colonial ofce.
This. however. has not yet been ap.
plied for. though it is always usual to
demand such licenses several months
In advance.
Under them each hunter is limited
to 60 animals, except in the cases of
lions, leopards and crocodiles, of
which he miay shoot as many as he
wishes. As set forth In the new
licenses, the president may kill two
elephants. two rhinoceri. ten hippo.
putamus, twenty one antelopes, two
buffaloes, two earth hogs. two earth
wolves, ten chevrotains. two egrets
and one chimpansee.
Giraffes. wild asses, secretary birds
and a numt-cr of ether speetes am
forbidden to any nimrod not armed
with special privileges.
President Rossevelt will be required
to set forth in his own handwriting
the animals he intends to kill, as well
as the locality where he will hunt,
Before leaving Africa he will be re
quired to declare what animals and
how many he shot.
One of the organizers of the trip.
an American interested in the develop
meats of Narobta, said that be did
not believe the presideat would ask
for diplomatic privileges, bui be has
an idea that a naique speclal lomaea
will be presented to RRosvelt long
before he puts a rile to his shoulder
for the wrst time In East Aerica.
N.e osmokdg for Ohisese Sahasb
The or seelehas ret .
of tMý 49 .amoks by
tmag pe..om.madAr asrealese paser
ot em.
I~sIMfeN
Lai
IDRESS FOR WINTE
PLAN WARDROBSE TO FIT THE
SEASON.
Sewliag leem Respeasible for Duty
of Keeping the Body Warm So
That seodum may So
Property Ventilated.
This Is what may be termed the age
of defensive therapeutics. the up-to
date physialans. as well as students of
hyglee and sanltation, are concen
tratlag their eforts on the prevention.
not the eae, of Illness.
We are so accustomed to connecting
the word fashion with mere raiment
that It comes with something of a
*hock to learn that there are also
ashioes In health and sanitatio.
Y I
Washable Design for Winter Night
Robe.
There was a time when the semi-in
valid was distinctly in fashion. a most
Interesting figure upon whom were
showered social attentions, flowers,
gifts, etc.
To-day the seml-Invalid, the posses.
ser of indefinable, but chronic aches
and pains. i. completely out of the
running. She cuts so sorry a figure
that she insists upon getting well.
Many of us can look back to the day
when illness In the family meant the
UTILITY BOX FOR BATHROOM.
New Fad That Provides a Receptacle
of Real Value.
Welcome addition to bathroom fit
tings is the utility box of white en
amel about the size of a shirt-waist
receptacle. It Is Intended to hold
towels and half the surface at the top
of the box Is divided into compart
ments much like the tray of an ordi
nary trunk, except that it is stationary.
These spaces are for holding clean
wash rags and different kinds of soap.
In addition to its legitimate use it
Is a convenient seat to use when put
ting on or taking off shoes and stock
lags.
The price is eight dollars.
Stockings in bright tartan effects.
such as the Stewart. seem to be loud,
but really they are charming when
worn with shoes that harmonize or
contrast.
A less striking but equally effective
combination is the plaid of the black
watch In hose, worn with dark-green
suede shoes closing with smoke pearl
buttons.
The vamps of the shoes are in nar
row raised stripes, like corduroy, the
appers of plain smooth suede. Plaids
in wood brown and cream are lovely
when the shoes are of tan suede.
Silk Umbrella Covers.
This usually discarded artileo has
many uses for the thrifty housewife.
Cut the full length next to the seam.
Dampen and press. Then roll up ready
to be used to line a standing collar.
renlace a worn collar band. convert
by folding and stitching Into a tape to
hang up coats and dresses, facing for
sleeves, Instead of a thickness of dress
material, or binding for sleeves, as it
is much softer thah binding ribbon.
Handeome pillow covers ta Egyptian
basugaa are shown in the fancy goods
duasrtmnat.
Vealse T* Wet ler He.
An Lathery w-oma who reoatly
retetred frem a tnto -areps eMs"
wet w esther ha bothered this
coaatr* at all Is eepariean with
what she saw abreai. as asMI that
they ran late a tows saned Veale
win" the water guesed seary street
sad you esed't get anlwhere e
spt is beaht. ate asi Tes het
4e - ay "ae t - r tl Mhat dew.
What a let a te sete sloe shabus
se-e to boa O fth t
laths US? they g1.
ttsg intell dl an sdr. dabbed me
dressa.
Today pure air In malmbeted s
titles and iaONues do a1 ýists
family warderbe, whether the slit
or the well, the new methods ot psa
vesting or attacking disease miset be
Hlow to kep the body warm and the
bedroem sam with pore air Is -a
haosehold preblem whih can he
solved largely in tite sewlag rem
it Is generally agreed that with warn
sleepIng attire and warm feet, all im
der ample coverlag, the cold ioem wil
work good instead of harm to the
sleeper.
This means a winter farewell to
Musaln, nainsook and dimity sight
gowns, with low necks and elbow
sleeves. A famous specialist In broe
chial and lung troubles says that the
low-necked short-sleeved aIghtdrest
*orn in cold weather is a commos
cause of colds which it not fatal an
deep-seated and dilicult to care. The
proper nightdress for cold weather is
the simplest model made In wash
flannel, a pretty model for which Is
shown.
Barring a few tucks on the shouldet
for the full figure. this sown is plais
back and front, a factor in laundering
all flannels. It also fits snugly around
the throat and has long sleeves fitted
Into a narrow cuff.
In the model, silk-and-wool cloth
was used with german val lace fot
trimming, but equally satisfactory ra
suIts can be secured by employing a
good grade of wash flannel at about
12 cents a yard, with trimming of
torchon lace. Do not use hamburg em
broldery on wash flannel. It does not
wash as well as the heavy torchoq
laces. If you do your own laundry
work, and are sure that your nlght
dresses will not be frozen In the
process of drying, use fine striped
designs In blue and white, and pint
and white. But If your clothing Is at
the more or less tender mercy of as
outside laundress, pin your faith o@
gray and white, whIch will not fade
under freezing. There are also some
pretty designs in tan color and white.
Another fashion In hygienic living 1$
exercise outdoors, no matter what the
weather, and this means warmer out
door raiment than the smart tailored
suit and In fabrics which will with
stand rain and snow.
For this use, a skirt clearing the
ground by at least four Inches and a
stout storm coat are essential. Crap
enetted or rain-proof cloths can be
bought from two dollars a yard up
ward, In 62-Inch width, and a variety
of subdued colorings, like oxford gras
and tan.
PROLONG LIFE OF UMBRELLA.
Umbrellas. when not In use, are
often more hardly treated than whoa
they are actually open and out of
doors, whether in rain or in sunashie
Left in a hall-stand, which, must of
necessity be dusty, and very frequent.
ly torn by the ferrule of sticks or
other umbrellas, they sometimes have
a very hard time of it, and qulckly,
grow shabby and soiled. In out
sketch, we give a suggestion for a use,
ful wall-pocket, to serve as a sunshade
bolder, and to be fastened Into thq
back of a wardrobe or cupboard.
This pocket Is so flat that it will not
lnterfere at all with the various gsza
ments banging In the same place, as
these *Ill be suspended, of coerse,
from pegs which are put In much
higher up. It should be made In brows
holland, with stitched tapes betweeg
each division, and it might easily be
fastened to the back of the cupboard
with large drawlag-plas or brass.hea6
ed nails Each pocket Is bonae at the
top with ribbon,
The LImit.
Maaags,-6ir. year prorfeisme at
Haulet Is the very wonst ewer Wee
seated bebtde the toetights. I tree
Lad bees ay eamey In the kase. I
sheoul have bees bheod Ia bewer to re.
tora S at the does. As t l, several
rlesm hle seat oa pin-eremtmel
orderad te to vaumwe thde nmes
ksm the kee Met.
Obegmeletamses Alter Cone.
Wg-D B You y It toste to
kae a uilh m ?est
Wagg-4 ult W I wee a etL
a VifIC* a Helpmneet
MV NIXOLA OfttLEAY4MlTN.w,
VOr 3. L Uases 4t the Utkersit
- Wisenesls hap deebted that ma
I to a 4* leareet oul here.
wtsya n 1 hatrbm ire egirepr
to the 3sk at a luzsor. as doems00
want a wife that meows too mush. He
doesn't want selfg-mtrol or mentamlt
ia 4 woman. Women, thee, amst
hamp their ideals sad characters to
R isn men."
What has the woman militant to
Wy to this?
"3Mdhtlous!" she answered,. yee
terday., in the person at Mrs. saof
Lastlaser, prominnt aetragette and
clubwoman of New York. who re.
turned recently from a saummer in MI
rope, where she conferred with the
THVN oN STstt or
Wry
1TNS *..
(t/Wa 40e OLD
foreign leaders of the woman move
ment.
Mrs. Loebinger ought to know what
she is talking about; for she Ia a
helpmeet, as well as a saufragette,
and. strangely enough. It was her hus
band, Dr. Loebinger, who converted
her to the cause of woman's emanci
pation.
"Men needs a helpmeet today more
than ever before." she declared, "and,
generally speaking, he has sense
enough to realise it. What Prof.
Ross says is probably true of a very
limited class--multi-mlllionaires, for
instance, who seek the very latest
1908 model in a wife just as they do
in an automobile. To them a wife is
a luxury-as she is indeed to any man
who can afford a valet But to the
millions of pcor men all over the
world the word wife is becoming
CFwp a 3inur
~.oo.
_ý I~
QAIs n.s7,e op WIFE is
M, Wv- E AiRE fl#V4# WWypr
arore and more synonymous with
companion and comrade.
Found This True Abroad.
"I was particularly struck with this
in Get maay, where womea now at
tend political meetings with their hus
bands. and give every evidence at in
telligeat interest to the great afairs
rt the world. The men dont resent
this. but. on the contrary, seem grati
fed by It.
'Only Interior men resent mental
ity in women. I have mever yet seon
would have been found to contain all
a really clever woman that wasn't
made maore popular with men by her
cleverness. There are a few so
Slied Srbone laded women nte
take themselves nnpseplar with me.
beeaaus. ktaetast*. they hbovae
l ,et the onl Wkel'ee hro ve J
- is be to a it rgs tsd ao
as tme e. i has er. Bthtir
her isM.$ mJe t b
bin what le IL
Womean Weeed Tat.
"Take the am at reslsesset
Taft, who. bowevere stash eea
may he, undoubtedly owed his aele.
tBos to two women. his dfabteaw
an his .was. Uverybody Mews out
MI. Tat's perseal. amuidesr were
toward the pemen ecurt. It as
ra. Taft, wea he leabguets
usns 'the elitie sa the famamly:'thst
urged him to stay it the eslmeastaad
therefore is Uae of direct asueoeesn,
and it was his sister i-aws, Ms.
Charles Taft, who furnished a quarter
at a minlie dolars for his campalgn.
All the wives of our prominet mea
are helpesets is the test sense of
the tern.
"As nmoer tastase, take Mr:
William Jrnise byrsa, who stauie&
law to assist her hasthad Is his work.
"Quite recently I notsed a prize
contest for the best letter telling how
a young married couple could live oR
$18 a week. The majority of these
letters were from women, an of whom
made their own clothes and did the
washing an housework, In order te
live on their husband's salaries aa4
put a dollar or so by for a. rainy day.
These women were all helpmeets is
the truest sense of the word. The
wail of nearly all poor young bachel
ors Is that they can't aford to marry
because girls expect so much . now.
adays. Where are the women who
can cook and make their own clothes?
they ask. That doesn't look as If they
regarded women as properly In the
clasa of luxuries."
'And you really don't think men
prefer women without brains?" I re
verted.
"Only brainless men," Mrs. Loebin
ger replied. "Men are practical crea
tures. The man who Ends himself
burdened with a silly wife, though he
knows she Isn't what he wants. rec*
onciles himself to what he has, and
In order to do so persuades himself
that all other women are equally fool
ish. But give the husband of a feath
erheaded tool another chance, and
he'd probably elope with a woman as
tronomer.
Brains Needed in Home.
"Of course, the possession of brains
used to be a luxury for a woman. It
does not seem to have been known
then that It requires quite as much
brains and a great deal more patience
to be a good wife as to All any other
occupation in life. I've no doubt that
if that model of wifely weakness, pa
tient Grlselda, had written a book, It
the philosiphy of non-resistance."
"By the way," I Inquired. "did yos
see that article in the paper today Ia
which a clergyman declared that
wives could reform their husbandd
while they slept by appealing to their
subconscious selves?"
A Novel Substitute.
An electrical substitute for the
pneumatic tube Is on trial by thq
Berlin postal authorities, with prommle
tag results. It consists of miniature
electric trains running automaticalix
in a teasel. Each train consists of
a locomotive and three crn, and the
double track tuarel in which it rie
is six feat wide by two and oehalf
high, with a trench aetween the two
tracks deep enough for a was to walk
In. The current In takes troag a eemo
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