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Within an hour ho saw he dealer's long, snaky fingers close npon tho ivory disk representing tho last dollar of tho twenty-five and with easy, graceful in difference elide it upon a pilo of its fellows at his side. Tho young man walked slowly out, down the stairs and away, feeling stun ned and moving in a dazed, uncertain way, liko one walking in a dream. Tho blow seemed to have induced a sort of mental torpidity, in which somehow ho recognized that ho was an ungrateful, destitute, hopelessly dishonored thief, and yet even that thought could not sting him into wakefulness and mad ness. It slipped away from him. An electric light a long way before him fascinated his sight, and ho walked on and on toward it mechanically, with out purpose, thinking of nothing. Out of a saloon door, suddenly opened as he passed, came a burst of coarso music, and the strain bo caught of it clung in his dull brain, repeating itself monoto nously, making him unconsciously time his steps to it. It was finally dispelled by the vehement profanity of a cab driver in front of . whose horse he de liberately walked at a crossing. He heard the man's lurid remarks, but went on without answering, changing his gait or looking back liko an automaton. After a timo he noticed a bench and sat down upon it, as if his muscles had remembered that they wcro weary. A man in a gray uniform camo out of tho shadow of a clump of evergreens a few feet away from him and stood in the middle of the road, regarding him sus piciously. Partially recalled to himself, ho looked about him, recognized that he was in the Seventh avenuo entranco of Central park, and, rising, went out to the street again. Slowly he walked westwardly. A fine, penetrating, cold rain was falling, and gradually a sense of phys ical discomfort forced itself upon his consciousness, at the same time waking a keen mental agony. Sinco his neces sarily frugal breakfast he had eaten nothing, and now, in addition to being saturated by the rain, chilled to tho bono and very weary, he was horribly hungry. Worse than all ho was an outcast thief. Whero ho was he had no idea further than that ho must bo somewhere far up town on tho west side, in a residenco section of tho city, very lonely and quiet at this hour, particularly on such a night as this. If ho could find a place whero ho might get some food and a cup of hot coffee, he would not caro whero ho was. Careful search through his pockets brought to light but one solitary nickel. It would be useless to find a placo for refreshment without having moro money than that. Ho sat down npon a rock near a street corner, with a growing, sullen indifference., to every thing. Tho rise of the hill cut off from where ANNA IYOSEEQUEST. Personal letters reach Mrs. 1'inkham by thousands; some asking advice, and ethers, like the following, telling of what Lydia E. 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Mrs. Anna Ivor, Pittsford Mills, Rutland Ca.Vt Titfift imllt 1 !i n tvrf tifutvt ne sat a view or me orxtn avenue ele vated railroad to tho eastward, but he could hear tho trains moving on it to and fro. After ho had rested a littlo he would go over to it, find a station, use his last nickel to get down town and ask somebody for means to get some food. Beg! Yes, ho had come to that Why not? Ho was a thief. Could ho sink lower? No. He might as well bo a beggar or die. Die! Well, yes; that, too, might be good--but later. The figure of a man appeared, com ing down the littlo hill toward him, from tho direction of the railroad. He would have a chance to try begging without waiting to get down town. He stood up, waitod until the man came close, and then said in a trembling, choking voice "Excuse me, sir. Will you sparo me the price of a meal? I really need it or I would not ask for it " Tho sidewalk was narrow, owing to the piles of broken rock heaped up on each sido from a great excavation just within the pavement line, so that the two men faced each other, with only a couple of yards of space between them. But tho man addressed, after hearing him through, took a step nearer and ex claimed : "You have a genius for surprises, Mr. Bewail." His fur cap and muffler had con cealed his identity until ho spoke, but his voice and tho jeering affectation of courtesy in his tono made Chester recog nize him at once. It was Mr. Will marth. Tho horrified young man stood silent, motionless as a statue. Dealt the scoffing banker a blow., "So this, " the banker went on mock ingly as if enjoying tho situation, "is tho profession upon the profits of which you contemplated matrimony 1 I had no idea that the solicitation of eleemosy nary pennies was so good a resource. You must have become very proficient to make it support so well the social phase of your career. Evidently there is much to be said for mendicancy as a business. Do you think my daughter would b3 an apt pupil in it under your instruction?" "Mr. Willmarth," replied Chester, breathing very hard and speaking with difficulty through jaws that were trying to clench themselves together, "I have been terribly unfortunate, but you have not the right to insult me, and even if I ou have, you had better refrain from it." "Insult you! My dear 6ir, how can you so mistake tho expression of my ad miration for your genius? You do not appreciate how you have awakened my interest in your profession. Tho next time you honor my houso with a visit I shall want you to show Inn a your ar tistic stylo of work. Your 'price of meal' act is charmingly realistic, and with proper axessoric9, such as a cold victual basket, would, I should imagine, be quito irresistible." It seemed to Chester Scwall as if that mocking scorn was an insolent ex ultation over his accomplished rain and despair, as if tho man before him was the personification of all the cruel an tagonism with which tho world had met him, as if Richard Willmarth was personally responsible for all tho ill that had befallen him. In a sudden ac cess of blind rago he dealt tho scoffing banker a blow so violent that it felled him as if ho had been struck by light ning. The next instant tho young man half regretted tho act, but only half, for with what there was of regret blended a sullen self justification. "Why didn't he keep a civil tongue in his head?" ho said to himself. "I gave him fair warning. " ' Tho man laid whero ho had fallen, very still, and silence as of the grave was all about. Even tho wind had ceased. An indeflnablo dread of some thing sent a tremor through Chester's nerves. Ho stood waiting, ho knew not for what, and held his breath. A por tion of tho clay bank of the excavation behind him, softened by tho rain, gavo way beneath the weight of rock piled on it and fell with a loud splash into tho stagnant pool below. Tho mist thick ened into a fog so denso that the street lamp three yards away looked liko a lit tlo phosphorescent patch npon the vast white, ghostly obscurity of tho night. Still tho man laid motionless. Ches ter's dread took deflnito shape. Quickly stooping over tho prostrato form, ho put a hand beneath its shoulders and raised it to a sitting posture. It yielded limp ly, and, the head falling back as ho held it up, ho heard the sound of something falling in a slender stream from the hair to a dark puddlo on tho ground. Simultaneously ho felt that the hand with which ho supported tho shoulders was covered with somo fluid warm and slippery. Suddenly conscious of what it was, he uttered an exclamation of hor ror, let tho body fallback, and,' tearing open its coats and vest, placed his hand insido thcidover tho heart It was stilL Richard Willmarth was dead. In tho very act of making this hideous discovery his hand came in involuntary contact with a wallet in an inside pock et of his victim's vest Acting upon a momentary, desperate impulse, he snatched it out, thrust it into one of his own pockets and, rising erect ucd swiftly. v IIo fancied that something he could not see nor hear ran noiselessly at his shoulder with him. CHAPTER XVL At the very timo of vtho perpetration of that unpremeditated but nono the less unquestionable murder, and hardly moro than a couple of blocks away from whero it was being dono, a vigil of eager expectancy was keeping for tho coming of him who that night ceased to bo at ynnn. In a meanly furnished front room on tho third floor of a big 'cheap flat ' ' bar racklike building, at opposite sides of a bare table, sat two men, ono old, tho other middle age. The elder seemed to have full 70 years to his discredit, and his ago becamo him not well. His scanty hair was gray and unkempt A pair of thin, leathery, red cars, with great bunches of bristles in them, stood out like loosely hinged flaps from tho sides of his long, narrow head. Imbed ded among wrinkles, under overhang ing, grizzled brows, gleamed small eyes that despite their ago wero still keen and almost fierco with an expression of selfish cunning and suspicion. His nose was flattened at tho bridge, but its sharp point stood up so abruptly as to fully expose his largo nostrils, which marked the outline of a triangle from its tip to the ends of his wide, thin lipped mouth. Tho younger man was a stolid look ing brute, still in tho prime of animal lif 0 and worthy of no special regard. A listener would readily have gathered from tho conversation between them that the latter was the old man's son-in-law, and that his wife, Mary, had died during her father's long absence in tho far west A rather gooii looking buxom girl, 15 or 16 years old, came into the room and went out again, from timo to time, in the discharge of her household duties, apparently paying no heed to tho talk of tho men, but look ing curiously now and then at tho lit tlo clock on tho mantel as if wondering at the unusual prolongation of their sit ting. "So, Dinnis," pursued tho old man argumentatively, "tho best for youse will bo to take Kitty thero an go back with me as soon as this business is set tled." "Idunno. I don't say I won't if I get out of a job, but I'd bo a fulo to go away now an tho new aldherman bo howldcn to me as he is. Sure, I'm as good as promised to be an inspector in tho publio works. " "To tho devil with your aldherman, an your inspector, an your publio works! D'ye want to bo all yer life a bob on tho tail of somebody else's kito? It's a grand 6tart, mind ye, that I'll bo able to give ye an a fine country ye'll find it for a man to roiso up in. Sure there's nothin to stand in the way of your goin to congress from out there be fore you die, an a girl liko Kitty well, there's no knowin the wealth of the man she might marry out there. " "Are you right suro you'll get the money you're after?" "Am I sure it'll be warrum next Fourth of July?" "M-maybo so. But isn't it timo ho wascomin?" "'Aithitis. He knows better nor to disappoint me, an he's likely to bo here now any minute. Wo'll bo makin ready for him. Stand that tin kettle here closo by my arrum, Kitty, dear, on this side. Ye, Dinnis, go intil tho back room an keep there, without ye hear tho kettle f all on tho flure. I'll push it off if he goes to come round tho table to'rds me, an if you hear it fall como quick for tho love of heaven, for it's mcanin mo no good he'll be. Suro it's mighty little I'd trust him. Yo'll let him in, Kitty, an put tho chair for hlra there, whero your father is sittin now. Oh, he'll bo comin an bringin tho money sure enough, but ho'll bo wantin mo to give him up tho paper I howld, an I won't do that I'll howld it whilo I live, an I'll l'aveittoyou, Kitty, dear, after I'm "To the devil with your aldherman." gone, an it'll bo as g.?od r.i a fortune to ye. Oh, yen, ho'll bo wantin it. But he won't get it, an he'll gimme tho money all the Ra:::?. IIo saw tho ould woman's advertisement and i3 reared of his lifo for fear I'll be going over to her. Oh, ye?, he'll pay, an he'll be smooth m butter with mo if he has to. But the Lord knows I wouldn't trust myself far alone with him. " As tho old man spoko ho fumbled nervously at his Aduiu's apple, which stood out liko a hairy elbow on his throat. "Go along now, Dinnia," ho contin ued. "Suro your walk is tho walk of a horse, an I don't want him to hear you goin when ho comes to I he dure. " Dennis obediently retreated out of sight Kitty remained and, covertly yawning behind her hand, sat herself down to kill timo by curing tho gaping wounds in a man's sock. Tho old man sank into silent reverie,, with his beady littlo eyes flxecf unwlntfllgiy oh tiv flamo of tho lamp. After a timo In roused himself sufficiently to growl : "Ho's half an hour late." Another long silenco ensued. The: ho again marked a point in tho flight n timo by a profane affirmation that th man ho expected was "an hour late.' After this ho soon began to demonstrate surprise, which developed into resent mcnt, and that into anger, quickly cli maxing in furious rage, "Tho fulo, "ho shouted, "thinks h can defy mel An me knowin to all th facts an howldin the writin in blae' an whito that they mado betwixt them Oh, by the mortial gob, as suro as m name's Michael McCaffrey, I'll xnak Dick Willmarth a sorry man for thi nightl" La Grippe If you have had the Grippe, you know its aches and pains, the fever, the chills, the cough, the depression you know them alt The Grippe exhausts the nervous system quickly, lowers the vitality Two things should be done at once: the body must be strength ened, and force must be given to the nervous system Cod liver Oil will do the f irst : Hy pophosphites the second. These are permanently andplcasantly combined in Scott's Emulsion. It lifts the despondency and heals the inflamed membranes of the throat and lungs. But you need not have LA GRIPPE. You can put your system in a condition unfavorable to it. You can have rich, red "blood j resistive strength j steady brain and nerves. Scotfs Emulsion prevents as well as cures. And whether you send or go for Scott's Emulsion, be sure you get the genuine. SCOTT & BOWNE, New York. Wanted-An Idea S Protect your Mwmi they may bring you wealtb. Write JOHN WEDPEKUURN ft CO., Patent Attor neys. Washington, D. C for their 1.800 prlio Offer nX list of two hundred lnrentlona wanted. CHAPTER XVTL There was trouble that evening in thf Hall household also. Early in tho after noon, whilo Addio was out, a telegram arrived for her, and Mrs. Hall, opening it, had tho good news to communicate to her daughter, upon her return, that John was coming home. Tho businesj that took him away had been happily concluded, and ho would reach New York on tho morrow, the dispatch hav ing been sent whilo ho was en route. The girl's position, in view of that intelligence, suddenly becamo decidedly embarrassing. While sho felt that she "never, no, never, could forgive John," sho could not bring herself to reveal to her mother tho fortuitous discovery of his shameful immorality and utter un trustworthiness which sho had made. Sho would givo him up ; would banish him forever, and never hear another word from his falso lips. That, cf course, was settled, but her pride f or bado her confessing that the man she had loved so well and of whom sho h::l been so proud was unworthy of hi r love. But, by a strango perversity of humor seemingly, the old lady appeare d to bo moro favorably disposed toward John than sho had ever been before. "I'm real glad he is coming back. " she said, "for I find that I havo sort -1 got into a habit of trusting that your;: man and liking to seJiim around. ' Of courso, ho will recfb your noto tl minute ho gets home, and wo may lo; !: to see him up hero as soon as hoc..' come, tomorrow evening anyway. " Addio did not want to tell that s! had torn that noto into littlo bits r.i:'! scattered them to tho winds within c block of John's lodging, yet sho con! ! not bear that her mother should cherisi hopes which sho knew wero destined grievous disappointment. So she tri- ! to temporizo whilo cogitating how t meet tho difficulties of tho situation. "I don't think ho could do any go -1 if ho were here, mamma," she sa.! coldly. Mra Hall deliberately put on hi 1 spectacles and stared at her, as if sli found it difficult to believe tho report i her ears alone. "Sinco when havo you had that id"a about John?' she demanded. "Well, what could ho do, mamma?' responded tho girl evasively. "The let ter affords no clew. Tho man either wil J respond to your advertisement or h tvill not. If ho does, no John Latham will bo needed to hunt him up. If lu does not, and chooses to continue hiding himself, no John Latham can find him. " "I'm not so suro about that And, moreover, I'm frco to admit that it would be somo comfort to me as well as to you to sco John and talk to him. " "It wouldn't be any comfort to me. I don't want ever to sco him again. 1 wish I never had. " "Why, Adelo Miranda Hall! "What on earth are you saying?" "Well, I just tlon't. So there. And I don't caro a bit." ,And, doubtless as conclusive evidence that 6ho did not caro, sho burst into tears. Tho old lady, meditatively rub bing the side of her noso with a lor forefinger, pondered and gave time for tho outburst to subside. Then sho said gently and with a littlo trembling in her voice : "You aro all that tho Lord has seen fit to leave to me, Addio, and it makes mo a littlo afraid sometimes to think that maybo I lovo you better than I should ; that I'm prouder of my noble, puro souled, beautiful girl than I ought to be, and that, without meauing it, I may bo putting tho creature beforo tho Creatov in my affections and calling down an awful chastening judgment upon myself. If I havo sinned, it is through my sin that my punishment will como to me, nnd may God grant mo strength to bow to his will. But do not mako mo suffer in suspense, my child. Tell mo tho reason for your sud den change of feeling toward John La tham. What has ho demo? Why do you say that you never , want to see him again?" "Oh, mammal" sobbed the girl, lay ing her tearful faco upon her mother's shoulder, "I hoped I would not have to tell you, but I believed him so good, and and I was wrong." The old woman's faco grow very pale, her lips quivered and the tears filled her exes. She could not SDcakbut one arm wiuit cl ULa gj' our prices.