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Jill 1 -i Wednesday September -2V 'tS9'- ThcdPticfffc B5cc Poems Worth Reading A Poor Actress For the sake nephew catch her She is going to do It Th nephew being adroit It was Into his arms she fell as Sir Jasper made a rush for the window and disappeared headlong among his tulips It was on this account he failed to hear the shrieks of laughter that came from Miss Polly Woffington In his best East India Company style Oh sir! not supposed to know anything about It but Master Robert wishes to know If you have any commands for India said the butler He bids me tell you he will be here presently to say him come the sooner the better and let him the sboner the better" shouted Sir Jasper good sir" said Margetson He did not shake his head until he was face to face with Mr Cholmondeley at the end of the corridor my dear lady I must entreat of you for a few moments only a few said Sir Jasper laying his merely acting how much more easily shall not I when I feel everything that I may say?" nice question of art said he say a question of arts And you really came down here In the hope of being admitted to the presence of my uncle and then of prevailing upon why should I not have such a hope sir? Sir Jasper Cholmondeley Is not the Grand Lama of Thibet Is she cried I know nothing about tho Grand Lama my dear but I quite enough of my uncle to believe that so mad a scheme and well on my soul your scheme seem so mad one after all Could anyone be in your presence and fall to yield to the gracious Influence of your beauty? But such a scheme! Oh Polly you are a sweet not so Innocent there was a note of repudiation in her voice 'Nay I had planned out a regular system of attack Did not you tell me that he had given himself up to the cultivation of what of of that? Well I also have given myself up to it If I cannot gain an approach to lilm by that means shall e'en have to go to my grave without ever seeing a doubt you are an adroit so But by the Lord Harry a pretty young baggage and humor He unfastened the window and opened It She gave a low a very good Imitation of the courtesy of a fluttered maid he thought but he was wrong in assuming that It was an Imitation it was the real thing said he politely do me much honor In visiting my poor "Oh sir you are vastly polite" she said In anything but a self-possessed voice and after another courtesy Bhe looked about Anxiously once more as If desirous of escaping She was Improving In her acting he thought dear madam" he cried a bear would not be Insensible to the charm of the picture which met my eyes when I looked up from my studies Should I seem a curmudgeon If I were to confess to you my Inability to recall the occasion of our previous sir that Is why I am over she said looking modestly on the ground He felt certain that he had never seen such long eyelashes She had often been told by the girls In the convent that she looked to the greatest advantage when glancing down sir the fact Is that we have (By Frankfort Moore Copyrighted) "XCs never Master cried old times as wealthy Margetson the butler uplifting his who is the head of the family has hands as the postilion pulled up the given his poet chaise-with a flourish at the porclr they say a play-actress of the Hall and the Honorable Robert Master ay and an Irishwoman Oholmondeley dismounted nevei to boot" Master Robert!" he said again In more Mr Cholmondeley did not reply he subdued tones as the young gentleman out another slice off the sirloin and passed through the great oaken doors looked at It contemplatively for some and began unbuttoning his riding I moments as it lay on his plate Lord Master Robert then should it not be the person you true and a lost man name as well as any other person "A lost man? Well perhaps ah I Noah my said Mr Cholmon- care not whether I am lost or not so deley "What is there remarkable long as I And about this special visit of mine to the I uny man who pays a shilling old house that you should look at me can see her etery night at the play- as If I were a ghost?" house sir' nothing oh nothing- "Nay that Is her sister Mrs Wof-oniy she Is one of the best of our "Eh? only what ladies on the stage nothing sir-nothing only well say that the best Is not to not supposed to know anything say very much sir If all that I hear about It" I is true" "About It? It? do you mean by my friend?" "Oh nothing Master Robert nothing worth talking about especially as everyone knows not Oh do humbly ask your pardon sir not supposed to know anything about And you in this particular hand on the arm and persuading i her to go toward the door which led to a small writing-room sir I must go I must" "Sweet one I Insist What am I not to be master In my own house?" She retreated to the door which he opened He bowed to her with his hand on the lock saying: for a few minutes You shall have an experience of my nephew and If you like him he may be yours as well as In an Instant he had shut her Into the room in spite of her protest Ha turned away with a laugh and wheji she opened the door an Inch or so and put her eye to the opening she saw that he was laughing Then her lover appeared at the door of the library could not go without saying good-by he said have always been the kindest of uncles to have always tried to do my duty to you said Sir Jasper "And in this particular the point on which we have I also tried to do my duty You have only to tell me now thatyou abandon that foolish Idea of yours regarding that young wdtnan and we shall be friends once more Kh what do you say?" It were anything else sir you would find me not wanting In respect for your wishes" "You are still determined to marry that one am sorry that a point of honor with me sir Yes sir I shall marry her or remain single all my You say that quite briskly sir but do you know what to remain single for a think I do sir My life up to the present has given me an experience i which entitles me to speak on th subject with the confidence of an now you are four-and-twenty And you are prepared to give me an assurance that It is not good for a man to be "Beyond a doubt sir Oh yes you may take my word for a i Faith Noah If the Hampshire case at any rate though I allow that Idea that something Is hot worth talk- In nearly every other matter your lng about because it happens to be un- knowledge Is surprising I suppose my true It differs somewhat from the uncle will come down shortly London notion seem that "I wonder sir" replied the there was nothing worth while talk- butler He felt rather hurt at being re- lng about unless proved by the young gentleman whom be that sir may be that he himself had the privilege of re-Anyhow looking well enough Proving pretty frequently some twenty Master Robert and if true you years before but he was too much be that the butler to let his voice betray his "If what was true? Harkye my old feelings fox I want to hear all that you know- When Robert Cholmondeley strolled all that my uncle library he examined the new am not supposed to know anything prints which his uncle had received about it whatever the master may from town but the amount of Interest the Progress aroused In his I 'm quite content to sup- bosom no't Preat He was think pose that you know nothing about it more of Polly Woffington Margaret but at the same time I Insist on hear- younger sister who had lng all that you do know without any hir-tivuted him some time before at the theatricals which had taken place some breakfast You can tell me some- at Teddmgton on Polly's return from thing at least of what you know while the convent in France where she had I am breaking my the remainder been educated you will doubtless need to hold over- His father Lord Cho mondcley know so much I clearly per- rfven his consent to the engagement I at the very moment when he had gone you 1 never met before I do not belong to this part of the country but hearing about your the wonderful and also that you were not In the habit of coming down stairs until late In the morning I thought that perhaps I might venture oh sir pray pardon a foolish girl I am a tulip "A tulip enthusiast? Prithee say no more my dear madam A tulip enthusiast! Pray honor my poor house by entering It madam and we shall exchange views on the only topic worth discussion in these degenerate days Nay madam I InsiRt What am not I old enough if not good enough to be your father?" are kind enough at any rate sir I fear that you are not old Once more she modestly allowed her eyes to turn from his face to the ground as she stepped past his boy-ing figure Into the room madam you ire I dare say sad flatterer of an old man Well perhaps I am not so old after all age is nothing more than a matter of opinion Is not that your view certainly sir Age Is nothing more than a matter of opinion yek: cf opinion and years- nothing more" Ah at last I have found a sensible though you are not old enough to be called a woman my Is also a matter of opinion madam that skin as soft as the finest fabric of Cashmere I am sure that mantling those eyes with lushes whose jealousy of the eyes they hide becomes a these leaving out all mention of that figure which suggests nothing so liaarly as a lily flower swayed by a zepliyr tell of the Spring time of life You will seat yourself my child while we tulk of our tulips" am greatly afraid sir that I must madam? Why should you be afraid In my house the house of one old enough to he well shall we say brother this time? Yes 1 feel mys-lf old enough to be your vour elder brother of course" ters during the last year and harder Ah Indeed Well nephew I may telli tm t0 credlt that th lnoBt exhnuattve you frankly that I am rather pleased lu-- efforts failed to find the owners of on fourth of that amount" writes Patti Lyle Collins In the Ladles' Home Journal tor September envelopes which are addressed are kept on than otherwise to have this from so excellent an authority as you The fact is my boy that yes recently come to your way of thinking I Th GUT Behind the Man Behind the Gun The world to-day Is risgtng with ou fame Old Glory floats supreme o'er land and sea Our chiefs receive great honor and ac- claim And everything Is right a right can But let us noi forget the stanch ally I Who helped us in the tight so ncbly won 1 sweet and modest actor but a most Important factor Ths girl behind the man behind the gun God Bless her blooming Image! our star and guiding light the rush and r-mr of battle and the bivouac at night a voice to help and cheer us like 1 stirring bugle call Sure Ive never won a It was who won them all Ths hand that rocks the eradle rocks thk world Ah what Is It that little hand dolt -On bloody fields when shot and shell ant hurled Jt bears the flag and pulls the lanyard too Tis pointed forward In the press of war 'Tis ciasped ill mercy when the flghtrte done And by her youth and beauty ahe Incites us to our The girl behind the man behind the gun And whether wo are camped on CuoaH shore Or In King Islands far away steadlast splendor o'er the clouds oi war The love o' woman shines upon our way With every crowded trooper sent abroad? A thousand loving hearts are sailing on So stands around the world woere ous banner Is unfurled 1 The girl behind the man behind the gun God bless her blooming tillage! out slur and guiding light 111 the rush and roar of battle and the blvouao at night a voice to help end cheer us like a stirring bugle call Sure we never won a It was she who won them all and Navy Jeurnal A Question Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by the hand A woman' heart and a woman' life And a woman's wonderful love? Do you know you have asked for this priceless thing As a child miehi ask for a toy? Demanding what others have dledl to win With the reckless dash of a boy? You have written! my lessons of duty out Man-llke you have questioned me So slum! at the bar of my woman's soul Until I question thee You require your mutton shall always bs hot Your stockings and shirts shall bs whole I require your heurt to be true as God's stars And pure as Heaven your soul You require a cook for your mutton anik beef I require a fur better thing: A seamstress your wanting lor stockings and shirts I look for a man and a king A king for a beautiful realm called horns And a man that the Maker God Shall look upon us He did the first And say is very I am fair and young but the rose will fade From my soft young cheek one Will you love me then 'mid the falling leaves As you did 'mid the bloom of May? Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep I may launch my all on Its tide? A loving woman find Heaven or hell On the duy she Is made a bride I require all things that are equal and true All things that man should be If vou give thliLgll I would stake my life To be all that you demand of me If you cannot do a laundress and cook Toil can hire with little to pay But a woman's heart and a woman's Ilfs Are not to be won that way Barrett Browning Bongs of Love thou escap'd but hardly from ths anare Which Bpring's Innumerable blossoms wove If only ehe might capture unaware Thy heart and yield thee prisoner lojve! Not ulway shall the sunlight fall to mov Those calm pulse that disdain To kindle with a Joy so near to pain But as thou goest smiling on thy wav The roses' breath shall mingle with thy blood: And tender voices sounding day by day Through garden walks and arches of ths wood Persuade tlilna not wholly Ilow sweet It Is when Hummer airs cr rife To live by thut which Is ths flowers' Ufa Then will the wind's and ocean's voices soeni The voice of thine own soul which apprehends At awaking from her tedious dream of passive to what victorious ends The mote sweet hope of our dull being tends And Instantly Is learned In the loro Of all' thut was and shall be evermore Mall Gazette True He's true to God true to man wherever wrong is done To the humblest umt the weakest 'nnath the ull-beholding sun That wrong Is also done to us and they are slaves most base Whose lovs of right Is for thomsulvss and not for all their race Lowell "Oh she sighed "I shall paver marry" "Oh I take such a gloomy view of he replied "You may get Into a place some time where women are Chicago Times-Herald jurjcitritzgtm Genuine Little Liver Pills Muit Beer Signature of 8t Fsofilmlts Wrapper Below Yry sasaU urf as easy ta taka nfta She Kissed Her Hand-A rather mean advantage was taken of a well-known West Side young society lady the other day It was on a Madison Street car and the lady In question had encountered on the car friend who was accompanied by a child an especial pet of hers When she came to Ashland Avenue the street at which she usually descends she signaled the conductor who brought the car to a stop but not be- (They All Lifted Their Hats) fore every man on the car had noticed her and decided that she was "nice As she stepped lightly off the car she kissed her hand airly to the child In token of revolr" and every solitary man on that horrid car smiled a catlike smile and raised his hat In re sponse "I never heard of such a thing said she In relating the story afterward could have possessed them all to do so at the same time? It was such a singular Chicago News Honey Found in Mail Bags seems almost incredible that In the neighborhood of $-10(XH) in actual cash could have been confided to let- long but In either case a liberal mar gin of time la allowed far claimants to appear before the money ta finally turned Into the treasury to the credit of the Post Office Department In addition to the money contained letters during the same period something like $101X10 was found loose In the mails It Is officially styled 'loose 1 Trying Papa on the Dog A downtown resident who has a bright little daughter told an anecdote yesterday which he thought showed great caution and a certain force of character While taking a walk the precocious child and her father encountered a big St Bernard dog promenading beside lta owner The little one evinced a strong desire to pat the dog as she passed but evidently changed her mind When they had passed the little one said to her astonished father: "Say papa you pat the dog? I want to see If he Philadelphia Record One Bad Turn Deserved Another "Your experience In vaudeville then was not very HI Tragerdy was saying "No" replied Lowe Comerdy Oshkorh they threw rocks at each one of us as we came on for our 'Tretty severe way of showing their "Yes In their efforts to Impress us with their utter disgust they left no turn unstoned" The Beal Reason Long ago he had taken the resolution always to be perfectly honest with his children he accordingly observed "I am beating you with this trunk Btrap not for your bwn good but because I am hot under the collur! No It does not by uny means hurt me more than It hurls you" In the face of such a luminous ex ample it would be strange If a boy did not grow up to be an honest man was perhaps possible -to overdo this thing and render a boy so honest that he would be unable to earn hi living in any of the learned prufelons: but that difficulty It It exlBtnd at all was theoretical rather than Detroit Journal Now mind Bobby If they pass you the rake a second time at the party you must say thanks I've had and you forget It Hostess (at the Hrtbbls have some more cake? Bobble (who hasn't Nope thanks had enough you forget Cleveland Plain Dealer Mrs Rural You promised me when you went up to the city last Winter that you wouldn't go near Cousin Mr Y-c-s my dear "But you I only took one meal there my "I knew I knew you had taken meal th re or something Murder will happened my "Hhe writes that she Is coming hers with her six children to stay all Hum New York Weekly Seltzer A In In the room know whnt you mean s-AkJ Folly "1 did riot Know that you eve ti! rtf thought that If Peggy could prevail as she did with your father why should I not prevail with your uncle?" "Oh what you thought Is It?" he said holding her hand but keeping his eyes somewhatt anxiously upon the door "Yes quite right my dearest only you are not so good an actress as your sister "Ah but If she succeeded So ell when I as little plotter Polly But I think you should have left Mrs Woffington to carry out this business for you as well the other Why she won over father in less than half an 'Well have Peggy and that if I fail she is to have a chance She came down with me here and awaits me at the Royal George Inn Oh surely be strange if between us we do not win over your uncle Now tvhy Is he not down so that I can begin my scheme? 'Tis quite provoking that when a scheme has been adroitly planned the person against whom it is designed holds aloof not fair I "He will be here soon enough madam Ah yes I hear his voice on ths lobby at the head of the lud! His voice did you say? Oh why did I ever leave London? Good-by Robert take the chaise She had run to the window might do worse" he said "At any rate If I win over my uncle Join you at the Royal The Idea of you winning hint she cried not go back to the chaise until I have seen him nut afraid only outside the said Robert She went out by the window and ran round the corner of the house He had scarcely closed the window before Jasper entered tho room "Well he cried brings you down from the midst of your routs and your drums and your faro trust said Robert "that I have a sufficient sense of iny duty talk to me of your souse of duty you young cried Sir Jasper have come down here to try to obtain my consent to a match that would be Idiotic were It not disgraceful You fancy that I will sue cunib to the wiles of your play-actress as your father sir I only hope that you will listen to reason You have always listened to said Robert listen to reason when a chance of hearing It but take my oath that not listen to a fool of a lover in the hope of hearing reason from sir I attempt to obtain your ear 1 own to being a lover sir and I hope that Jl shall never be other than a means you hope you will never many The sneer of the old man was very malignant that particular matter I have made up my mind said Robert 'You have always been good enough to make me an allowance I will not ask you to continue It sir" need not you rascal If you marry that play-actress" "Fhe Is not an actress sir she only appealed once In a stage piece and she was not a "She would not thank you for your advocacy The worst of them would rather be a success on the stage than respectably have no wish to talk more sir I have no Interest at home but I can go to India here I know the name of my unde will act as my passport to success" to India sir: nay there's a hotter place still go The young man bowed and left the room For about five minutes the old man stamped up and down the room muttering with the qualification of a few full-bodied oaths In Hindustani never never not a weak-minded fool like my brother No thank heaven I'm made of other stuff" But when he seated himself In his chair and his eyes fell naturally upon the portrait of a boy with fair hair blowing about his face as he sat on a mossy stone by the side of a brook he cened to mutter His thoughts went baek to the days when he had hnd that portrait when the boy who appeared In It had made the old house delightfully noisy with his romp ing What a txy he had been! And that was the boy whom he had Just whom he had sent out to India when he might have made him happy at home by giving him the contents of one of those Iryn boxes which lay In his cellar Ho began to think If his nephew were really to go to India he would never see the boy again and under the Influence of this thought he softened so greatly that when raising his eyes he perceived the figure of a very lovely girl engaged In sketching by the aid of colored chalks a flaming bed of his tulips he did not ring the liell and tell Margetson to order the Impudent hussy out of the garden Ho remained In his chair and was sufficiently observant of tlie young woman to make It Impossible for her to pluck a single flower without his detecting her In the act She showed no sign of wlsJiltvr to pluck the flowers and he --is rather sorry for that he would have dearly liked to detect her and then forgive her 'for he was In so soft a mood he would have been ready to forgive even so flagrantly pretty a girl even for plucking one of Ills tulips Phe continued Working diligently until her drawing paper had become crimson with flowers Suddenly turning hot head hon ever (slw raw ipe man win wi fqn'lltifc at the- window ami h--v face became the color of the tulips He saw heh look about os If seeking for some way of escape and he gave a laugh the lad has taste to say the least of he muttered he's right she Is a bad actress She doesn't seem to think thut I would have sense enough to say the mischief don't you run away tny good girl If you are a will not make the £0Y0 "What sort of an old fool am I Woffington to command her to growing into anyway-never asking send her asp ring sister out of the you If -you had a mouth on you Master county the honor of the family Robert? If you go to your own room Cholmondeley should be compro-slr have hot water sent to you mised by hs son marrying Miss Polly a jiffy and find breakfast laid for 'or Miss Polly had exercised her fas- you when you come doun Well I nation upon him and without any am an old fool to be Ping on behalf of her sister had be sure of anything in this tin- caused him-to say at the close of their certain world Is to be a fool whether nl old or young 1 no qult? With this expression of morality the my son will be happy young man went up the broad shallow To which Mrs Woffington with her stairs to the room which he was In the accustomed frankness had cried: habit of occupying when on a visit Nay my lord tis I who have neeo to his uncle Sir Jasper Cholmondeley he dissatisfied since I shall now late of the Honorable the East India have to support two fools Instead of Company's service one The butler shook his head He did But though his consent was not like to hear moral sentiments ex- thus gained the ardent lover was not pressed by young men His experience I so ardent as to be blind to the advls had led him to believe that when a ability of obtaining the consent of his young man gave expression to a moral unde Sir Jasper as well He did not sentiment especially one bearing upon much care whether or not he obtained the uncertainty of mundane matters the consent of his maternal uncle the he was In a perilous way Earl of Oxford for he knew he had He shook his head and abused the no expectations from the great man lackey for his clumsiness In knocking I who had previously been Sir Robert the portmanteau against the wall as Walple But Sir Jasper was reported he shouldered it to carry It upstairs to have In his cellars several trunks All the time he was laying the break- laden with Jewels that he had obtained fast table he maintained that shaking at the sacking of many a temple in the of the head now and again sighing land of the Great Mogul For Warren lugubriously and quite as frequently Hastings and Sir Jasper Cholmondeley Indulging In a chuckle not wholly de- had been early comrades in the lion-void of hilarity Th most consclentl- orable service ami as the ous of butlers nay even Noah Marget- latter was unmarried and had always looks forward with mixed eel- hud a great affection for his nephew Ings to a meeting between i-ff elderly Robert considered It important to gain gentleman with a reputation for irate- his consent to a match that certainly ness to maintain arffi a favorite did not at first sight appear a desirable nephew who has shown a disposition one lo take a serious step In Ilf without He knew that Sir Jasper was full of duly consulting his relations prejudices against the nearly When however the particular as full as he himself had been before nephew who was in his inlnd at that he had met Folly and quite as full as moment descended the stairs and en- Ills father had been before he had that tered the small dining-room on the Interview with Peggy He was not tuble of which a magnificent game pie without hope however that his uncle stood by the slde of a great round of would come to look at the matter In beef on a silver dish and several other a reasonable light Surely when he tempting viands the butler was should hear that Polly was the most a butler once grave as charming girl in that she a person whose hopes of had lived at a convent since her chlkl-rural deanery have dwindled Into hood and had never come with the dignified as an alderman baleful influence of the playhouse he who Is uncertain if the stability of the could no longer maintain his foolish Mayor's chair will remain unimpaired prejudices until the end of the year Well If Mr Cholmondeley £ad been "My uncle still breakfasts In Ills quite certain on this point he would room I take It for granted Noah" have given more attention to those ad said tho young gentleman "How has mirable prints by that clever artist his appetite been of late?" Hogarth who though growing old "As usual sir pretty much as usual" had lost nothing of Ills trenchant puw-replled the butler Is to say sir er In dealing with the follies of the first when his liver Is In good working or- half of the eighteenth century der his appetite is so good that lie puts The great mullloned window of the It out of gear In the course of a day or library looked Into a Dutch garden bright with tulips of all sorts for Sir "And then he's pretty trying to the Jasper was well known as one of the people around said Mr Cliol- most enthusiastic of tulip growers at mondeley wonder his liver is a time when tulip growing was thr craze only of the wealthy Robert stood should say he very had to- at the window wondering how any man morrow replied Noah took! could devote his life to the cultivation a curry of veal for his breakfast at of bulbs when so many greater Inter-7 followed by a slab or game pie and wore within his reach He turned a savory omelette and a tankard of away from the window with an excla spiced ale" mation of Impatience and glanced at Noah I think you have evi- the timepiece His uncle would not dence sufficient to enable you to say he knew be down stairs for at least that he will not be on speaking terms twenty minutes and twenty minutes with his liver to-morrow" seemed to him to be a long time He terms Master picked up from a small writing-table swearing la translation of Van Myne's famous Then lucky I came to-day Will treatise on bulb growing but before he see me do you think knowing all he had time to glance at a page he that you became aware of a gentle tapping on "Well sir you see I'm supposed to a pane of the window Glancing round know nothing ahout It but there he gave a cry of astonishment for out a lady leastways a side stood his beloved Woffington "Yes there's a lady What I She was wearing a riding cloak so be she's a lady Master Robert Whose satin quilted hood made a you can both come to terms charming frame for a charming face do you mean by both of us? Her large brown eyes were glowing Do you mean that the lady and I can and so were her cheeks The expres-ome to slon of mock fear which was upon her "Pm afraid that you've done that face at that moment was very pretty 1 1 ready air It's the master and you especially as It quite failed to conceal mean sir Oh lud lud! never the smile which It overlaid rue that his lordship your father sir He ran to the window and threw It as given his consent?" open on Its hinges whispering: "And you're the man that's sup- alove! How djd you come osc-d to know nothing about this bust- Wither my dearest ess! Go along you old rascal! I'm be- how but by coach and post -inning to think that you know more replied the girl yes bout It than I do Peggy paid for the she pays for no no Master Robert I everything dear dare to presume so much I "She does but takes care that you lut they say that the looker-on sees land I pay for tlflB trip yes uost of the game Now why you pay dearly" he said helping her Into think I should like to have a brother un elder such as you sir 'Tis the sweetest of all relationships" "I would fain agree with you madam Only kliort time ago I be-ved with ull my heart that the dearest of all relationships was that of a but now you have convinced me that I was wrong 'Nay sir nay I had quite forgot the nephew when I spoke of the brother Oh sir there Is no relation so sweet as a nephew I should be very good to my nephew If It pleased heaven to give me one I should cherish him and surely it would be my duty to accept his Judgment on all matters" judgment madam? I protest that I scarce understand you How could It be your duty to accept his Judgment on all matters? Assume for instance 'tis merely for the sake of argument that your nenheiv fancied he had fallen in love "All I should feel It Incumbent on me to do all that lay In my power to bring about that union What sir cannot you perceive that this would clearly be my perceive that you have never had a nephew muilam" Alas! Providence has not been so kind to me If I hail would like to have 'Oh but I suppi-slng I weie to tell you that I had neither sister nor brother I should not feel for you greatly madam knowing that It resled with you whether you would accept the sweetest of a How could I become possessed of a nephew Listen to me madam Were you sincere when you said Just now that you did not think me so very old?" "Assuredly sir: but me Am not I old enough to be your father?" "Oh well sir If you Insist on my answering you candidly I "I should evade us politely as possible answering such a "Ah an evasion Is equal to an affirmative Then dear madam the man who Is old enough to be your father Is certainly not too young to be your "Great heaven sir! Do you oh let me go sweet one I have a nephew cannot you see how he may become "Mine your nephew an an old man now Robert" Nay sir you are not too old You are In the prime of mellow man- hood sir I think so really my word of honor me your hand my boy I am glad you think so The tact la I have i had some little experience also of a single life yes fifty-Blx years Of course I don't pretend that Bounded all the depths of unmarried life as you have but still well made up my mind for gome some little time to try the mean sir that that you intend to should I not There was a considerable pause before the nephew said In a low voice: not Indeed sir I find the right lady to be my wife you would say All 1 don't think you will take exception to my choice my boy She Is everything that Is exquisite sir ami she has certain definite lews regarding fne relationship of a nephew I shull be proud to present her with a 'Great heavens sir! You mean to say that you have found the 'I have found her my boy And more she is In this house at present" "Oh "She was with me here just now but poor little fluttered dove her modesty would not permit her to remain" Why It cannot be possible that Polly "Polly? Who spoke of Polly sir? The lady of my choice Is here Blr Madam may I beg that you will honor us?" He had oppned the door of the waiting-room and as Miss Polly came forth he offered her his bund She was looking demurely down "This sir is the said Sir Jasper leading her toward bis nephew Tho nephew made a mock bow of great intensity and then roared with luughler "Hey what Is the meaning of this cried Sir Jasper reception of tho lady Is not what I expected nephew Your gross levity sli Is at this moment little short of not to say "I beg you a thousand pardons sir only let me tell you that this Is the lady who has promised to be my wife" "Whnt! Is't possible that I have been harboring a snake among my tulips? Madam speak Did not I make my Intentions plain to you just you did sir" said the young lady demurely "And what did you say In reply to me "Oh what Is left for me to say sir? I am overwhelmed with your generosity 1 may have fancied that I loved Mr Cholmondeley sir but I had not icon- you then Now oh Sir Jasper I throw myself Into yqur arms" And before he had recovered from his astonishment she had thrown herself Into bis arms "For sake nephew take her take her" gasped Fir Jasper his face suggesting the purple east as he tried to disengage himself from her "Madam dear madam you have made a mistake relieve me Now my dear cried the lady taking her urms from about his neck and facing him with flashing eyes "What sir have 1 been your dupe "Nay nay ho said "I only Inquisitive Monkey and th Siphon of I She looked at him and then glanced I you should not have taken me serlous-anxtously toward the window lie was ly I was In Jest Miss In ahout to take a step toward her and Jest Oh my hoy for heaven's sake she was about to take a step toward the window when the door was knocked at and a moment after Maigetson appeared "What the devil do you want you blundering shouted Blr Ja-per TUe oung bloods ask the opinion of a ooker-on before you take to falling In and silt like?" ht Niyill why blind 'Hin the brink of a precipice take the drive of a looker-on? 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