his face darkening � because sir miss should have ing she began when cut her short i shall not allow her to wear mourning mr he said so the nurse say no more three days later the funeral took place and if the facts of the dead man s having acknowledged miss as his child and having admitted to � ties that ho hail transferred her that night f i miss for dared from baby is own quarters to rooms created a it was as nothing to the intense surprise by the will which was read by the dead s desire before all the officers of the regiment in it he left his entire property to his daughter now in the care of captain ad commonly known as on condition that captain consented to be her sole guardian ud until she had attained the age of one or until her marriage provided it be with her guardian s sanction and on the understanding that captain should lot give up the care of the child to her mother temporarily to his wife a � of this testament was to be sent forthwith should any of the conditions be the whole of which he died possessed should go to lis cousin but if the be faithfully observed captain have the power of applying any or all of he income arising from the estate for the use and maintenance of the said mary murmured to who in contemptuous silence and wondered in small dismay what kind of a life he should lave if s mother chose to make herself but the will was not crazy at all far from it it iu only a very cleverly thought out plan for keep baby mother and child apart would care not to s inheritance and had taken advantage of it to carry out hia towards his wife to the end but of course there was one he had never thought of or provided for � marriage it was less than a week after s de that received a note by hand signed i already i he groaned impatiently may trouble you to send the child to for half an during this afternoon she s and that was all but did not see sending the child to be quietly stolen away he forgot quite that since had not left his widow a she would probably be now no better able to provide for the child than she had been when compelled to cast her baby upon the father s mercy therefore immediately after lunch he drove down to ihe hotel from which the note had been written yes mrs was this way and then � then � with the child fast hold of his band was shown into a room � and there they found � miss grace the truth flashed into his mind instantly she rose hurriedly and he saw that she was clad in black but was not in widow s dress she fell her and almost smothered with i i baby � she cried has been very kind to explained � not knowing whether to laugh or cry my � my baby the mother sobbed watched them � the two things he loved best on earth have you nothing to say to me he asked at last what shall i say she had risen from her knees and now moved away you might say said severely that you are very sorry that you � a married woman � deceived me and stole my heart away you might say that for one thing but i am not sorry cried s mother then you might take a leaf out of s book and say as she says when i have a headache loves i do think remarked to the fellows when the news had been told and freely discussed that now we must let that poor malicious minded chap in his in peace seems to me he continued with his most air that � er � solomon was and said a wise thing when he said love laughs at b baby solomon cried a voice amid a shout of laughter oh wasn t it solomon questioned mildly it s of no consequence some one said it but only think of that poor devil spending his last moments a to keep mother and child apart and old all the conditions to the letter and b them all in the spirit by � the end brothers � b s list of works by john strange winter � the author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the british soldier � mr in the daily telegraph january cavalry life legends baby pluck s secret a siege baby n s husband children � in quarters on march army society garrison gossip beautiful jim that of a my poor dick harvest ii popular of ant i co price one shilling each s london library in small crown vo out bv a fair by tinted a by j baby a of ihe s struck down a tale of by smart la by j s winter at bay by mrs alexander gold by may s bargain by mrs alexander john a testimony bv the last of the bv l ki vn my friend by w c waters ij a woman s will by by a love story by a girl in a thousand by a wilful young woman by mrs of or all or by e green a maid by mrs the fortunes f by f h that o s bv paul jones by by charles king f r england s sake by the tide on the bar by burn a love by a love bv es s luck by w h miss by i on tim by france � or the mystery of the by g buy bias founded on the drama by victor by the world forgot by e j 