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son lie came the
peoploof Brack
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know. lie ;vns
a presence; a
being av h 1 c li
had obtruded
Itself upon a
quiet hamlet
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tunuui osicniauon ana witnout caus
ing any untoward exclfeineut. He
had been seen walking about the vil
lage street, scrupulously dressed, and
gazing with apparently interested eyes
upon the various Avares displayed in
the one or two hueksters' shops Avhieii
.graced, or disgraced, Braekley. Some
people thought him a simple tourist,
"who haij paused there "while en route
to other places of interest, for the tn
vlrons of Braekley Avere not Avithout
Interest; In fact, they wore historical.
The youn; ladies of the village
thought him decidedly handsome, won
dered Avho he was, and the more giddy
of them Aveaved romances around his
personality. The cuslomers of the
Weavers' Arms Hotel, Avhere the stran
ger had put up, settled the question in
etanter; he was an artist, who had
come to do sketching around about the
neighborhood, and ho Avas too shy to
say anything about It.
A Aveck passed, and the mystery
deepened, more especially when it was
known that the stranger. Infatuated
with the place, had decided to stay an
other fortnight. His rambles in the
wood, his comings and his goings gen--erally,
Avere the objects of talk, specu
laton and mystery to the whole of the
population of Braekley.
To Lily Asbury and Mrs. Asbury,
her mother, the story of the stranger
Lad penetrated, but the elder lady had
put the matter off lightly, and though
she had observed, not without interest,
the appearance of the stranger in the
"neighborhood, she affected an uncon
cern which was eminently in keeping
with her deportment as the Avife of the
trustee of the Down estate.
Sir Daniel Braekley, whose name
was good enough for nearly a thou
sand acres of Northamptonshire's
landed estates, was too much a society
man to trouble, about living on his
property, and John Asbury, to all in
tents and purposes, occupied his posi
tlon. Certain it was that John Asbury
managed the estate In a manner wor
thy of all commendation. lie Avas not
hard on the tenants, and he Avas not
too pliant. He AA'as a businesslike, fus
sy old gentleman, apparently extreme
ly conscientious in his master's Avel
fare, was extraordinarily patriotic to
the estate, and while respected by all
those of Braekley, commanded not a
little fear from its humblest inhabi
tants-
Mrs. Asbury was greatly perturbed
when one day she received the 1'oIIoav
lng letter from Sir Daniel Braekley:
"My Dear Mrs. Asbury In the ab
. sence of your husband, Avho, I under
stand, is somcAvhat unwell, and has
gone to Bournemouth for his health, I.
mm constrained to ask you to do me a
favor. My nephew, Theodore Cross
told me a week or so ago that he
i Muled visiting in the neighborhood
X rackley, in order to look up some
f titles In the neighborhood. lie
; her shy, but extremely uncon
a:j' il sort of young man, and I
s! ; -glad if you can do anything
tt i e his stay in the neighborhood
comfortable. I do not knoAV when he
is likely to be in Braekley, but lf I
have the opportunity I Avill let you
know. Be good enough to inform me
at vour. earliest convenience hoAV Mr.
Asbn-is progressing."
"Why, mother," said Lily, who had
read the letter over her mother's shoul
ders, "Crossley why, that is the name
of the mysterious young gentleman
who has been staying for more than a
week at the Weavers' Arms Hotel
That Mrs. Asbury felt cross should
go without saying. Benllly, it was too
bad of Sir Daniel not to have given the
stranger a letter of introduction go
1! :e could have presented himself
t - on his arrival. Why had the
, How betaken himself to a vil
. , 1. with all its miseries, instead
" L ;,g to the house of the trustee
tln-ro lo rnjoy the liespitality that
would l,e i readily A ml' le M fi ll to a
!i-,hew of the great S.r Daniel Brack-
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But Utile time av.'U v t In cnVrtlng
AVhat W;;s ('lelili'd requisite, and tin
Kiranvr, v. in had bei ;i the mystery
of BraeKley village t'r at least reven
days, (."ii!," shyly to tin' house of the
A-ibury, and found himself ciscom-ed
there, Ii) be Weleoined by a JU'of us!o:i
of sijiil".; a nd apologies by Mrs. As
bury herself; a naive, f.eiitle hand
shake o:i Hi!' part ( f Lily; a boisterous,
hearty slap n the Pjiek on the part of
Tom Asi.ury, her brolher, and u Mull'
but toinewhat bucolic greeting front
I'mie Asbury, avIhi d 'clared he quite
liked antiquarian fellows.
He made himself extremely agreea
ble, did Theodore Crossley. He could
piay, he could in, and in this latter
particular Lily Asbury found ia voice
of Avondroiis charm. In his antiqua
rian researches, and on Ids botanical
expeditious, he avai not wont to go
alone. T'neie Anbury AVouhl sometimes
Join him. talking garrulously all tho
lime of big shoots and what ho had
done In bis army days In India; or
there Avould be Avlth him Tom Asbury,
who talked learnedly of London and
his love of Its life, but more frequent
ly there Avould be Lily Asbury, who,
under tho subtle influence of till.-;
suave and smiling, but always shy and
modest stranger, felt for the first time
in her life a feeling of affection for a
man.
She scarcely kncAV Iioat tho time
passed, though the hours went Into
days and the days Avent Into a Aveek.
It seemed that he had been there
months, or years, and his personality
had grown to be part of hers, and
when there came to her the thought
that he would leave her she put it
nAvay with a dread and a chill at her
heart. And Avhen eventually he de
dared his love for her, surely no hap
pier maiden lived.
It was the night before he wa3 to
leave for London, and she was strange
ly restless. The little clock had chimed
tho midnight hour, but she could not
sleep. She heard the rustle of the au
tumn breeze in the iA-y on the house,
the chirp-chirp of a cricket and the
sough of the wind in the tree tops.
But to her acute ears there came an
other sound; the creak of a stealthy
footstep on tho landing outside her
door, and the just perceptible sound of
some one breathing hard. She could
indistinctly hear tho footsteps recede.
Then, urged by some strange impulse,
she threAV on her dressing gown, softly
opened her bedroom door, and looked
without. All Avas dark, save where,
down on the next landing, n pencil of
light stole out Into the passage. It
came from the door of -what was
knoAA-n as her father's office, and with
soft, light footsteps she crept down
the feAV stairs to the chink of light and
gazed in through the doorway.
She saw enough to make her heart
stand still with fright, and to cause
her brain to reel for a moment. Theo
dore Crossley was there, his pale, intel
lectual face drawn Into a smile, his
brow puckered as it were in perplex
ity, meanwhile that he Avas hastily ex
amining and hastily selecting papers
from her father's desk. He found
what he evidently wanted, for he ut
tered a chuckle of satisfaction and
thrust the paper in his pocket, even as
the hand of Lily Asbury fell upon his
shoulder and caused him to fall back
in dismay. The look cn her face was
enough, and he could not' speak,
"Robber!" she said, quietly,
ber, I have discovered you!"
"Rob-
He recovered himself and faced her
resolutely.
"Lily!" he said. "You here?
What
"T beard vou." she said quietly. "I
followed you. What have you stolen?
Calm and unbroken as was her voice,
yet she felt as if her heart were break
lug, for in such a brief space of time
bad there been shattered at her feet
the idol of her life. His face, pale as
ir. habitually was. seemed ashen in the
cold glare of the lamp.
"I would prefer not to say, Lily."
She sprang to the bell rope and laid
her hand upon it. "Tell me," die said,
"or I ring for assistance."
He faced her.
"Don't ring that bell," he said quiet
ly, "for if you do it will mean greater
misery for you than you can bear.
Listen!" He Avent to her and caught
her arm. "Listen. In my pocket I
have proofs Avhich mean the ruin of
-t-nnv t.nr ier vour lamei uuit- ui
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the Braekley estates, who, for years,
has - been swindling, and swindling.
and swindling. Oh, Lily! you think
that I am Theodore Crossley, the anti
quarian. I am not. My name is not
Crossley; I am not an antiquarian. I
am a police officer, one Avhom they call
a detective, who has been sent here for
a purpose." He laughed rather bitter
ly. "Three days ago I had collected
all the material for my purpose and
proof of the guilt of. your father. The
proof is here la this paper, and to
morrow it had been my intention to
formally seize his papers and to bring
about his condemnation.
"Well," said Lily, calmly, "how do I
t-i"Atv that -what vou are saying is
true?"
He handed her the paper and she
road it.
Her eyes Avcre wild, aad her brcatli
rnmo thh-k and fast wIhti die LanoJ
It had; to him.
"It H true," she paM hollowly. "It
Is true, oh! my poor father!"
He cimnht her as fhe Mnggored b.icic.
"Listen, Lily!" he gasped, rather
than said. "I enme here not to steal
this paper, but I came for nomethlnj;
else. I came to save your father at
the risk of in v own reputation. I ramo
to do this bfcnii'c, Lily, I love tow."
And with that hr took the paper and
held It over th lamp. It Mazed and
crackled, and flared and cindered, tin-
til It fell at his feet, but n black mass
and In secret dead will it. lVnny
notorial Mngar.lup.
MERELY AN EYE WAEH.
Tlio C'Jicnilrnl View of Tr PlfTVrn Trom
! l-oHlt-nl Vli w.
Tears have their functional duty to
accomplish, like every other fluid of
the body, and the lachrymal gland Is
not placed behind the eye simply to till
space or to give expression to emotion.
The chemical properties of tears con
sist of phosphate of llmo and oda,
making them very palty, but never bit
ter. Their action on the eye is very
beneficial, and here consists their pre
scribed duty of the body, washing
thoroughly that sen. Itive organ, which
allows no foreign fluid to do the same
work. Nothing cleanses the eye like a
good, salty shower bath, and medical
art has followed nature's Iiiav in this
respect, advocating tho invigorating
solution for any distressed condition of
the optics. Tears do not weaken tho
sight, but Improve It. They act as a
tonic on the muscular vision, keeping
the eye soft and limpid, and it will be
noticed that avoiucii in whose eyes
sympathetic tears gather quickly have
brighter, tenderer orbs than others.
When tho pupils are hard and cold,
the world attributes it to one's dispo
sition, which Is a mere figure of speech
implying the lack of balmy tears, that
are to the cornea what salve is to tho
skin or nourishment to the blood.
The reason some weep more easily
than others and all more readily than
the sterner sex has not Us difference
in the strength of tho tear gland, but
in the possession of a more delicate
nerve system. The nerve fibres about
the glands vibrate more easily, causing
a downpour from the watery sac. Men
are not nearly so sensitive to emotion;
their sympathetic nature that term
Is used in a medical sense Is less de
veloped, and tne eye gland la, there
fore, protected from shocks. Conse
quently, a man should thank the for
mation of his nerve nature when he
contemptuously scorns tears as a wom
an's practice. Between man and mon
key there Is this essential difference
of tears. An ape cannot weep, not so
much because Its emotional powers
are undeveloped, as the fact that the
lachrymal gland was omitted in his op
tical make-up. Dietlc and Hygienic
Gazette.
Thoreau'a Sensitiveness to Nature.
Thoreau's stoic virtues withal never
dulled his sense of awe, and his long
years of observation never lessened his
feeling of straugeness in the presence
of solitary nature, says l'aul Elmer
More in the Atlantic. If at times his
Avriting descends into the cataloguing
style of the ordinary naturalist, yet
the old tradition of wonder was too
strong in him to be more than tem
porarily obscured. Unfortunately his
occasional faults have become in some
of his recent Imitators the staple of
their talent; but Thoreau was pre-em
inently the poet and philosopher of
his school, and I cannot do better than
close these desultory notes with the
quotation of a passage Avhich seems
to me to convey most vividly his sensi
tiveness to the solemn mystery of the
deep forest. "We heard," he writes
in his Chesuncook, "come faintly echo
ing, or creeping from afar, through the
moss-clad aisles, a dull, dry, rushing
sound, Avith a solid core to it, yet as if
half smothered under the grasp of the
luxuriant and funguslike forest, like
the shutting of a door in some distant
entry of the damp and shaggy wilder
ness. If Ave had not been there, no
mortal had heard it. When Ave asked
Joe (the Indian guide) in a whisper
what it Avas, he answered: 'Trea
fall.' "
He Sends Ills Bills to the Men.
"There is a man in an Eastern city
who docs a large business in babies'
dresses, and clothing for very young
children," AATites Edward Bok, in the
Ladies' Home Journal. "He makes
and sells nothing else. His trade is al
most entirely with women. Up to
Avithin three years ago he Avould send
out to his customers bills amounting
to as much as $10,000. In six mouths'
time he would receive less than $3000
in return. Yet his customers all 'stood
well' and Avere considered women of
easy means. Then he deliberately
changed his method of rendering bills,
lie went over his books and found
that he had some $12,000 worth of un
paid accounts. He made out the bills,
and addressed them to the husbands or
fathers of his customers, directing the
bills to their ollices. Within sixty
days he had received $DG00 in checks.
His invariable rule uoav Is to send all
his bills to the husbands, fathers or
the male members of Ins customers
families. When no male member ex
ists he insists upon a cash transaction."
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Noav York City. Tasteful morning
jackets are essential to comfort and
well being and can scarcely be pos
sessed In toogreat number. This very
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woman's mobnino jacket.
charming May Manton model has the
merit of being essentially feminine and
graceful at the same time that is
ideally comfortable. As shoAvn, It Is
made of white dimity with collar of
revering and frills of Yaleucennies
lace; but various Avhlte and colored
materials can m substituted and nee
dleAvork can be made to take the place
of lace. Dainty striped materials are
fashionable and always effective;
polka dots and other simple all-overs
are admirable and such plain colors as
blue, pink and lavender are pretty
when they suit the wearer.
The back of the jacket is plain and
terminates at the waist line, but the
fronts are elongated and fall in soft
A. STYLISH
graceful folds. The sleeves are in el
Ijoav length and comfortably loose. At
the neck is a big sailor collor that is
becoming to almost all Avomen.
To make this jacket for a woman of
medium 'size, three and three-quarter
yards of material twenty-seven Inches
wide, three and a quarter yards thirty
tAvo inches wide, or tAvo and a quarter
yards forty-four inches wide, Avill be
required, with seven and a half yards
of lace to trim as illustrated.
A Stylish Costume.
A stylish separate waist is of yellow
silk of rather a deep shade, with a lit
tle white at the neck, hardly enough
to call a yoke or a vest. It shows a
pretty contrast in blue velvet ribbon,
which ornaments the waist at the
front inch Avide ribbon of a soft blue,
which is best described as a cadet, in
a number of long bows.
Another pretty waist ' is the one
shown in the large drawing by May
Manton. Used in the same sketch is
an attractive live-gored skirt Avhich
serves to complete a costume of ex
ceptionable beauty.
Strings of PenrJs In the Hair.
London is at last waking to life,
dinners become more frequent, and
jeAA'ds are once more in requisition.
The newest notion Is to tAvist strings
of pearls in the hair, and lf this Is
neatly and artistically done, the effect
Is excellent, especially Avhen the hair
is dark. This i3 really an old fashion
revived, as a glance at books of beauty
or portraits of ancestresses will easily
prove. It is by no means necessary
to use real pearls; indeed, many peo
ple consider that contact Avith the hair
injuries the beauty of valuable pearls.
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A Avood colored twed, soft nnd fine.
Is made tip quite simply Avlth a tailored
model, and plenty of lapped seaim
and row of. stlfebing, A touch of
color occurs on the bodice, In the
neighborhood of the white lace front.
Coral pink panne velvet Is used to pljio
the opening, to edge the hih Mod;
collar, to border the Avrlst edge of the
sleeve. There Is not too much of the
vivid yet dull pink, just enough to be
grateful to the eye. Coral pink Is gen
erally becoming to blondes, although
brunettes oftener Avtar It.
A l!lt of Color on tli Jlundkrri lili-f.
A suggestion of color on the handker
chief Is coming more and more Into
general favor. NarroAV hemstitched
borders of a color matching the sum
mer suit are used, and many of the
French Initial handkerchiefs have the
letters sot on a shield of pink, blue or
green.
For Voiinsr Girl.
Dressmakers are making evening
gowns for young girls with ruffled
skirts, Avltli three wide flounces com
IKising the skirt, or trimmed Avlth a
I cluster of narrow ones at the foot.
"Woman's Tucked Skirt TValit.
The shirt waist that closes at tho
back is a marked feature of the sea
son and is peculiarly effective when
made of fine material stitched In tucks.
The smart May Manton design shoAvn
is admirable in every way. The orig
inal Is of white laAvn with insertion
of Yaloneonnios lace and is charming
ly simple; but the stylo lends Itself to
many materials and combinations.
The front is tucked to yoke depth
only and so forms soft, becoming
folds below, but the backs are tucked
to the- waist line to give tho snug fit
COSTUME.
essential to correct style. The siccA'es
are novel, and altogether charming,
being laid in two groups of tucks, four
each, with lace between. At the
wrists are soft cuffs of lace and tuck
ing and at the neck is a stock to match.
As shown, the material beneath the
lace is cut away to give a transparent
effect, but the insertion can be put on
as applique if preferred.
To cut this Avaist for a woman of
medium size, four yards of material
tAventy-one inches Avide, three and
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three-eight yards twenty-seven Inches
Avide, three and a half yards thirty
two indies wide, or two and a quar
ter yards forty-four inches Avide, will
be required.
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