Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-24

that I was your lover, Miss a. Arlace. I am
telling you the truth this time. It was only for
your sake that I did not tell It before He had
watched vat h;a. US all the evening, he said He was
not mailman. I thought at first that he was,
Surey.y must'know' him, Miss d'Arlage."
She bent her head slowly.
Eyes. know him. It is Larrinaga-Pedro
Larrinaga, SpaniArd who was with me at
school two yearA ago. The only regret of my
life. Mr.. Blodgett, the only wicked thing ever
deliberately did was to encourage his atten-
tons to me-fors never cared for him, and he
has always known It. He is furiously Jealous.
He pursues and persecntes me- But believed
that was free from him at last-and here!"
THAT accounts, then, for-?"
He looked at her questioningly
luctance. It is only right that should tell you
that-you see-1 mean, he mistook you for some
one else"
The blood which had swept over her face as
she made her first explanation burnt more holly
| in her cheeks.
Bert Blodgett watched her with his heart in
his eyes, Already he would have been willing
to lay down his Hte in her service, and already
there was ''some one else.''
There was no reason why Miss d'Arlage should
not conade this episode to her aunt, and she
haste ned to do so.
You know the young mans writing, sup
pose!" Miss Parkhurst inquired, as her hand
went to her pocket. She drew out the anony-
nous letter. 81 should have shown this to you
yesterday if we had not been interrupted"
Miss d'Arlage read 1t thrOugh-toO angry for
Immediate words.
"PedrO wrote it" she said at last. after sec
ond reading. 'He followed me across the ocean,
| as he has followed me here. He has seen Ar
| thur-at a distance. He somehow learned of
my mothers desire that I should give him up
Evidently he supposed that it was Arthur who
was with me last night-that had come to East
| CamptOn to meet him-and deceive my mother.
| That would be perfectly characteristic of Pedro
| Larrinaga!"
She threw the letter Indignantly upon the
table. Miss Parkhurst quietly picked 1t I'D and
laid it in the kitchen fire.
If you had shown me this sooner-yester-
day." Miss d'Arlage resumed 81 should have
been on my guard. 1t might have prevented
but, then, if the accident had not happened-I
mean had not brought Dr. Blanchard here?"
She looked inquiringly at her aunt
He would never have known" Miss Park
hurst said, with slow shake of the head. 81
supposed ne had forgotten, me years ago"
Miss d'Arlage stopped suddenly and drew a
long breath, as she contemplated very evident
probability.
"oh, Aunt Malvlna, for once Pedro Larrnaga
has rendered me-both of us-a service for
give him everything. even the letter-and am
so sorry for Mr.. BlOdgett.''
1t was perhaps lame and impotent conclu-
sion, but none the less expressive and sincere.
''Theres been quite stir down at the village
to-day" Pliny Parkhurst remarked that night at
| the tea-table. ga mana foreigner-a stranger
IN town-half- drunk-got into quarrel with
James, the depot-master, and knocked him
He's locked up now, where he'll have chance
| to sober down."
And then what will be done with him. Uncle
Plny?"
"Oh, he'll be put on the train and sent off.
with orders never to show himself here again:
James wasn't hurt a bit, but he was pretty
mad"
week from that day Bert Blodgett drove
away from the, Parkhurst farmhouse. Mrs.
d'Arlage, who had arrived in East Campton
In due time, babe him good by, with the re-
mark:
Remember that you will always be just as
welcome at the old Parkhurst place as if NAL
VIVA were at home She will go abroad with
DR.; Blanchard as soon as they are married, and
shall stay here to keep house for Pliny"
AS he drove slowly down the road he saw in a
field at little distance two figures, which.
walking close together, were outlined against
| the sky-that OF Arthur Blanchard and Effie
d'Arlage.
$50 our lives separate" he thought little
sadly. ana with strong, strange yearning in
his heart as he watched them. at is better
so-for me. Heaven bless her! And I shall
Away be thankful for the accident that brought
back such happiness to Enie d'Arlage."
| Ounces Of RreventiOn.
Open fires, furnace heat hot pipes, and
stoves-these are the appliances which we use
! for warming our houses in winter Which are
the best, or, rather, what are the chief merits
and defects Of each?
AS to economy of fuel, it is well known that
metal stoves have the great advantage AS
much as ninety-four and half per cent of the
heat generated has been utilized in stove OF
the best construction, leaving only five and a
| half per cent of waste. In the open fire about
| eighty per cent of the heat goes directly up the
chimney. But in the stove the heat is olsen
gagged, or may be. in the middle of the room. in
| the center of the air space that is to be warmed
and 1t must warm that space before it can find
any escape other than through the narrow chan
| mel ofthe stove-pipe. The longer the pipe the
greater the amount of heat that may be utilized
But as the pipe is an unsightly object it some
| times can not be used for that reason
The amount and the character of the radia-
zion from different parts of the apparatus are
very different. Cation estimates that with a
| st0ve-plpe heated at the end nearest the stove
to dull red heat of 1890 F.. and of sufficient
length to allow the heat to be diminished to
| $50 at the further end, it would be found that
at the stove end of the pipe ninety-two per
cent OF the total heat emitted lat that point is
given out by radiation to the walls, and ONLY
eight per cent to the air; but at the exit end
the lesser quantity of heat is nearly equally
divided, the walls receiving fifty-ve and the air
forty five per cent" In proportion to the
amount of fuel burned. the apparatus heats the
air more rapidly when 1t is at low degree OF
heat When it is at high degree, it heats the
| walls and the furniture more rapidly.
and these. in turn warm the air of
the room by radiation. The gentle heat of
the porcelain stoves that are used in Western
Europe is even more efficient, in proportion to
| the amount of fuel used than our ordinary over
| heated stove; but our colder winters make hot
stoves almost a necessity where there is any
question OF economy Of fuel. We need only to
De on our guard against their disadvantages
What are the disadvantages of stove heating?
There are two. One is their tendency to make
the air excessively dry-a fault easily remedied
Dy providing for sufficient evaporation of water.
The other is that hot stove may give out. in
| one or more ways, the gas known as carbonio
| oxide.
This Is q stronger poison than carbonic acid
gas; one per cent oft in the air kills rapidly;
one-half of one per cent produces serious head
aches. 1t is formed Q) by the imperfect com
| 6ustlon OF carbon. as when we see the blue
| name playing over the surface Of half-ignited
Goals. When there is plenty of draught this is
carried away, the combustion becomes active,