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its measured strokes is nearing its slen-


 '.Oh don'tr'
 The exclamation is involuntary, and Daisy flushes crimson as the mower | glances up as if just conscious of her | presence.
 1.-The lily" she says, in answer to his ! questioning look. Il thought you were going to cut it down, and it is so pret- ty."
 Permit me-"
 It is the action of moment to pluck 1 it and present it to her, and, as he does so, Daisy wonders as much at the young mans easy unembarrassed manner and refined tones as she did at the comell- ness and grace of his appearance. :.
 That was how it began, the summer idyl that was destined to have such an abrupt ending. Both young, both inl- these two saw of each other the stronger grew the charm that drew them to-. gether.
 Mrs Shears looked on unsuspiciMs- ly; it pleased her genial heart to see '.the children" as she called them, en- toying themselves; and so the summer hours flew all too swiftly by. At length came day when, all through an acci- dent in which, by the falling of tree, Steven Haughton nearly lost his life, the thin veil which the saucy boy-god had been rearing, called friendship, fell aside. and his true face became disclosed, and with sense almost of fear, Daisy awoke, as from dream, to see whither she had been drifting.
 ''Can it really be that care for him this young farmer whom few months ago l did not know?"
 Then she questioned her heart, and its answer came quickly:
 "Ah yes, l do! dor'
 And Steven, lying in his room with l his broken arm in sling, felt happier than king. Never to his dying day he had read in the lovely face his eyes had rested upon when they had opened l from the unconsciOusnesst that the dread ful stunning blow had brought.
 '.She loves me!'' he thought triumph antly; ''and before long, please God, I shall hear her sweet lips say so."
 But it was not to be. for 1t so happened that the young man had just arisen from his bed of pain and resumed the role of convalescent. when MT. Nelson came to spend few days with his daughter. It was but short time before, with a keenness of vision for which he con- graduated himself, he saw how matters were. He noticed how the blood rushed to the young mans. pale cheeks when ever Daisy addressed him, and how an answering light sprung into the maiden s blue eyes.
 ''This will never do," he thought to himself, in positive alarm. My Daisy farmer wife-or rather drudge? The idea is preposterous! How foolish 1 was ever to allow the child away from me. But after all it is not beyond rem edv. He has not spoken to her, I know, for she would have told me. Twill take her home at once. Once away from his society the danger will be oyer'
 Poor little Daisy! She aequiesces un- questioningly to her fathers sudden mandate of departure, as what else can she do? She well knows what the feel ing is that throbs with her every pulse for Steven, but though his admiration has been plainly evidenced, no words oi love have been spoken, and when she sees how quietly, almost coldly, he an swers her farewell, her warm young heart chills. And the years pass, and yet it does not awake from that chill.
 In vain does her anxious father, in wardly remorseful for what he recog- nizes as his own doing, gratify, before it is spoken, every desire; nothing brings back the old happy girlish animation.
 At length they go away, MT. Nelson fondly hoping great results from the change of scene and surroundings.
 They are in London, when one even ing MT. Nelson urges his daughter tc accompany him to hear noted lecturer
 'I do not care much to go, papa, bu to please you 1 will" Daisy answers.
 And before long, leaning upon hel fathers arm, she enters the thronget
 hall.
 Their tickets entitle them to seats il
 one of the foremost rows, and thithet
 the usher takes them.
 The lecture begins even as they enter
 What is it that causes Daisy to star
 and tremble? As the deep rich tone
 of the orator fall upon her ear the,
 bring with vivid fierce that summer fiv
 years ago, when all unasked and un
 sought her girlish heart went out of he
 keeping for ever. With an effort sh controls herself and raises her eyes t :. the platform. Her ears have not de
 ceived her. She sees tall manly fig ure, whose handsome features. elcquen with power and talent, are those of tn never-forgotten hero of her fancy. At the same moment, looking down his gaze meets full her own. Never before did the great questio
 upon which he is treating get as abl !, handled.
 ) ssOrr favo,;to o,.o+c,. c,,r,,o,,od b ;,,, self," so says the voice of the press tn
 following day.
 It does not tell, for it does not know - what it was that lent such more tha 2 usual fire and vigor to the speakers ut
 terances; but we who are behind tn scenes can say that it was the radiar r. expression of surprised gladness ths ;. looked out of Daisy's blue orbs. v. As MT. Nelson and his daughter issu :. from the hall, some one comes toward . Daisy with outstretchad hand, and tn . exclamation:
 a 'How glad 1 am to see you, Mis Q Nelson! It is an nuhexpected, and there |. fore all the more welcome surprise. V read your familiar name amongst tn ; list of arrivals published in the paper: I but 1 did not know whetherit were req :. ly my old friend or not" n The bright color bathes Daisy's fac Il at the unaffected pleasure in his tone ,,. and she answers frankly and simply, 2 '. she places her small oloved hand in hi. Ia q, too, am very glad to meet you. . Then, turning to her father, who b n this time has recognized to his infinit M wonderment in the celebrated oratc ld the young man he met five years ago is the country, she says: Papa, this st NIT. Haughton-you surely rememb' ,o him.
 ,e After that every evening that NJ ct Haughton's engagements allow him n calI nls o"l mus mn at D"ios 9n' ,I and after little eYervthing is eXDlainel