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CHAPTER VII.

The other day met man at the club an
old acquaintance, and we began to talk of other
men, which is the only topic Of conversation
open to those who are old aoquaintances, but
not old friends
'said he, presently, "Did you know Canon
Longden?"
mo; he was a bit before my time.'
"Not bad sort, but too good, you know.
Carried goodness to unforgiveness. A prig of
virtue. That's what always thought Of him.
Irritated one. you know, by an unreasonable
sinners. Now 1 like q man who has a little
feeling for the slips and the stumbles-eh2
Well-Canon Longden's dead"
''Is hep replied, not much interested.
eyes. He had very tidy property near us.
He had no children and was widower, and was
not on speaking terms with his only brother,
and 30 We rather expected he would have left it
for objects, you Understanding niggers and
building churches"
swell, didn't hep
mot bit Of it, He forgot to make . will,
and SO the property goes, / hear, to this
younger brother. who was packed of to some
miserable colonial appointment years ago, after
getting into devil OF mess. His family cut
him and now he is coming home to take all the
family money. So the prig Of virtue has ended
Longden we'll. and better youngster never
lived. How he came to do it-but there"
A man who had been sitting near us BY the
Preside rose and walked quickly down the
room.
''Know him? That is Sir Henry Dunkeld,
g. G. B., and G. c. NJ g., and governor Of half
her majesty's colonies, one after the other.
Another prig of virtue, he is. Going to be
made a peer, l believe. I say, when this
colonial chap, this Jack Longden, comes to
live on his property. I suppose the people
It's wonderful though, how things stick. /
| shouldn't wonder if they refuse to call upon
him."
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CHAPTER VI.

The monotony Of his life, broken in this
manner, began again. The conditions were
kept. The governor took no notice Of him ct
all. The time passed by. Sir Henry Dunkeld
drew near to the end Of his time; Jack was now
forty, still an assistant clerk; still to outward
seeming, a. contented Is the most successful Of
men; still living in his shanty near the sea-
shore. Long since the youngster who messed
with him when Sir Henry Dunkeld arrived had
passed him on the ladder Of promotion, and
was in mess where they belonged to society
and gave dinners and went to balls.
One day, little while before this governor
left the colony, Jacks own chief sent for him.
II ought to toll you, Longden," he said,
shat an attempt has been made with his ex-
cellency to recommend you for the vacant
post-it was that of assistant auditor general
1t was pointed out that there Is no one in the
office who possesses anything like your knowl-
edge or your grasp Of the Office aud its work.
But, unfortunately, without success. In fact,
the reason, dare say"
II think I do. There IL . story about my
having got into mess before coming out
THAT is the reason" said the chief, anxious
to spare him further pain. ''There are some
"And his excellency cannot condone this. OF
course have known 1t for long time"
There Is no man in the world, do believe,
OF higher principle than Sir Henry Dunkeld.
Sometimes however, one would wish for lit
tie less austerity, in this case, especially. He
says that those who occupy the higher official
positions must be able to show blameless
record privately as we'll as officially. Lord
help us all if he knew as much as know
Upon my word, Longden, have done all can
for you. am more than sorry for you"
''Thank you" said Longden and retired.
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give them to you, Lady Dunkeld, on one condi-

t1On.
ANY CONDITIONAL conditions"
"Nay-this is a very simple condition. It is
that during the whole of his official residence
here he will leave me absolutely alone. Let
him never interfere with me. Let him never
have speech with me; let him never offer me
any promotion; he must not, on the other
hand, cause that story to be spread about; he
must compass neither good nor harm for me.
You promise this, Eva-for your husbandr'
"Yes-yes-I promise upon my-upon his
honor, which now nothing can touch. Oil
now / breathe again. Conditions? Ask the
whole Of my fortune. You shall have it 80 long
:. 3: have this paper. You are certain that
"There is no copy. You are quite safe. II
were to proclaim the whole truth tomorrow no
one would believe word Of it, and an action
for libel would be my reward"
I'VE are safe" She sat down and painted
with heaving breast "What can say2 That
can never thank You enough? That 10 poor
thing to say. Yet, what else am I to say? Why,
1 can never tell any one. You have done .
most noble thing, and cannot even tell my
children. You are suffering contumely and
cannot even offer to relieve you. nothing can
relieve You. The consequences continue. One
man sinned and another goes in obscurity all
his life for that sin. Go, Jack. On our heads
lies the real shame, the bitterness and the re-
morse. That is our punishment. We are not
worthy to touch your hand. Go, Jack, will
give him the paper. We will keep your condi-
He lifted his hat and turned without another
word So they parted, who win never meet
again.
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CHAPTER III.

he stepped out again upon the veranda. The
Sea breeze had sprungup; the air was refreshed.
He drew long breath and looked out into the
darkness His memory went back some seven
teen years. A morning came back to him. He
saw what happened, not as he saw il then an
actor on the scene, but he saw it now from the
outside, here as the audience. The actors were
two specters Of the past, young men both. The
face OF one was radiant, his eyes and cheeks
flushed, his lips trembling. The other was also
l but his eyes were dropped, his head
hung, his voice faltcred.
Jack, he murmured, Il cannot let Won do
other"
Why said Jsck-I.ongden's name, in fact.
been called by his Christian name and he had
almost forgotten it-''Why, man what's the
good OF being friends If we can't stand by each
other! Look here-it's a devil Of a mess
Is, indeed 10 me it is ruin-everything
everything Is lost. including -includino0
Eva Good God. Who is to tell he-Y''
well. Harry. sooner than Eva shanld sufrer
sooner than you should suffer-Iwould suffer
myself Now. look here-Tve done this thing
you know-not you at an-not you al all" He
laid his hand upon his friends.
mo, mol cannot Think Of the copse-
quences-"
There viii be a BIT OF shindy daresav !.
vii blow over. Ny prig Of an elder brother
Will groan and say he always knew-but Won
VIII be happy, old man, snd-and so-what is
tne use OF being friends, and sworn friends, too
II We are not to bear tho burdens Of each
othar:''
Tho other protested. but weakly and with
tears and self-accusations; IL was too great a
sacTlnee- He had been a fool and a wretch he
mus axe the consequences Then Jack re-
marked that there was another person to con-
stuer, namely, q certain Eva. Above all things
$500 : 70 be Kept from the unhappiness which
"onid faI upon her il she knew
I'm me other man gave way. But he made
Sonutioni SO much grace was left to him.
ne say gown and be wrote at headlong speed
80. AIN little narrative This he signed,
friend ~~ e~'S " '
ne said, II viii accept your sacri-
nos on one condition Here is . Complete con-
sse q - whole basiasas. Tahs - Do
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II one did not wish to spend her own energies
In the making q seamstress could accomplish it
all in few days and still keep the expense
slight. At little advance in cost one could
have cretonne with light ground and lovely all
over design or the striped dimity of which
spoke a while ago.
There was one piece Of these latter goods in
WIDE white stripe, with one almost as wide in
green with a little red, which was very pretty
and would be equally good used in the same
manner rs the satinc. This was, believe, 10
cents yard, and If I recollect Alright is some
what wider than the satine.
:. ihere Is new material for embroidery-a
linen called Persian be-. II looks as il il were
hand-woven. as the surface is irregular, the
threads varying In thickness here and there.
ms Is 70 cents a yard and is about twenty -four
inches vide. Any kind Of linen or silk en-
broidery would look well on this ground which
Is not pure white.
pretty summer work bag has Just been
made like the capacious India silk one re-
Gently described. This 10 Of pink japanese
cotton crepe, in an exquisite shade, with draw
strings OF roPe-like cord made Of white heavy
cotton cord twisted together until quite large
cord Il made, which is raveled into tasseled
ends, tied in bow knots as q finish.
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what you like with IL. II you suffer from the
consequences reveal it; / am altogether in your
hands. II at any time in the future you can
advance yourself by means Of that paper use it.
You have the right TO use it."
He certainly said that" murmured the a,,-
dience. He said ii, and have the paper still,
audit Office"
Then he looked again and he saw a girl.
She turned her eyes from one to the other in
astonishment- A very beautiful girl she was.
breath.
you both?"
Eva, cried the man whose burden was to
DC transferred, but said no more.
Eva, said Jack, II am sorry you have come
at TINS moment, but you may as well hear the
Truth? What truth2' She looked quickly,
not at Jack, but at the other
Inc truth Is, said Jack, 'that very dis
graceful thing has been found out, and that
S The 81 IT. us is going to say goOd-bye-most
what is it, Harry" She caught him BY the
arm, why do you look like this?'
because he Is my friend, Eva. 1 have
snamed him. 1t is / who have done this dis
graceful thing. You had better go now. both
Yes. he said that" murmured the audience.
ana they went away and left the guilty man.
ana tnere was an end of everything"
Inc guilty man folded the confession and
placed u In his pocket book. 'Well," he said,
would have done more than that for Eva's
sake, not to speak of Harry. l don't suppose
sne VIII ever know that have done il or why.
NOW we must face the footlights.'
Inc scene disappeared and the black night re-
turned. Longden was on the veranda again
looking out into the darkness; he heard the
gentle tapping of the water on the coral reef
and the knell of the bell buoy tolling out at sea
beyond the harbor and the filhaos mourned and
sighed in the fresh sea breeze.
Yes" said Longden. He was eighteen and
he believed in friendship. What did the other
man believe imp
And he remembered how the thing which he
had assumed was really a much more serious
thing than he had believed, in fact a thing
which stains; q thing which will not wash Off
thing Tor which he was Immediately sent home
to his father, who refused to receive him; for
which, In fact, he was bundled off to a small
clerkship in q distant colony. with no farewells
except from his elder brother-the Prig-who
informed him that it was never too late to build
up a new character on the ruins of one which
had been DESTROYED.
When Jonathan died, !" Longden murmured,
David wept and amented. Suppose JON
athan had disappeared in disgrace only to be
recovered when David was king over Israeli"
He went to his room and to his bed in the
dark. But he slept little. and when he awoke
In the morning it was with an uneasy sense of
having become King David and of having
found his old friend Jonathan adding I'D the
accounts In the chief stewards chamber and of
being embarrassed by the discovery.
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CHAPTER Nv.

So he did nothing. The new governor paid
visits to various places in his kingdom, and
gained great popularity by his affability and
by the many charms and graces of his wife.
But he made no sign at all to his old friend.
Time went on Three month passed and no
advance was made.
II say. Longden," said his chum, one day.
81 heard something this morning that should
like to tell YOU"
Tell away, old man."
1T concerns yourself. and want you not TO
get angry about it."
~ won't Tell away"
81 was in the private secretary's room ait
ting at separate table making q precis for
him. Well, the governor passed through on
his way to his own room. He stopped at the
secretary's table and began to talkE suppose
no one noticed me- He was talking about on
GERS and salaries. Presently he pointed 10 a
name on the hst-and looked at his secretary
as much as to say-who is this?
81 L. Longden, said the secretary, he 10 q
very good clerkr
:. He has been here o long time
"'1 think he has no friends at home. There
is nothing against him Not anything out here
at home. and a long while ago. Then he
told story about you, Longden."
you needn't repeat the'story," said LonQden.
81 believe have heard the story before. NV
brother, the Prigg. told it at the colonial office
to somebody who told it to somebody else who
brought it to the colonial secretary here. The
story is the property Of the Office. They don't
tell 1t about, but If there is any question OF
promotion they bring it out and look at it. Gro
on By tho way, the story is only half true,
and the half that is true isn't exactly the hall
that they believe
why don't you let them know, then"
"Because. my sonny. there are other people
king?''
Wen. his excellency heard the story and
shook his head Then he said, slowly and sor-
rowfnily, There are things which can never be
forgotten Forgiven he added, they NAV be,
and are, BY the persons injured But forgotten
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Janey Pettibone.

Janey Pettibone.
Janey Petitioners the best
Little girl and purtiest
In this town-and lives mex door
Upstairs over their old store.
Little Janey Pettibone
An her ma lives all alone
Cause her pa broke up, an men
Died cause they amt rich again.
Little Janey's ma she sews
For my ma sometimes an goes
An gives music lessons, where
Peoples got planners there.
But when Janey Pettibone
Grows an grows, like I'm Q groWtn'.
Men I'm goin' 10 keep store
An sell things--sn' sell some more
TIL I'm ist % richl-An' nen
Her ma can be rich again.
II I'm rich enough 20 own
Little Janey Pettibonei
janis WHIrconD RILEY
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story as this believed Of him is like a man who
Is famed for life. Such an action--such fall
can never be retrieved Pity, PITY Then he
went into his private room and shut the door"
The man with the shady record laughed.
All, he said, virtues only weak by reason of
her unforgiveness, otherwise she would draw
the whole world, like beauty, with o single
hair. He heard this story for the first time and
tit shocked his Righteousness"
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Good Out Of EVIL.
From judge

Ata prayer meeting one brother prayed that
the Lord would "carry the lambs In his boeoD
and lead them on to- greater victories"
Another that the wheels Of the Gospel chariot
should 60 10 the hearts Of sinnera" SIN an
other ssked the Lord 10 Be- - father % ths
fatherlea and widow 70 the widowiess.-
She silsncsd him.-Mr. Fem (tsssfly): slrsrv.
yoa talk too much. Why can't yea b quics
. amp
MrA Fem (oalmly): s<coafucius nys Shss
silsncs b ~ hadgs Il ignoranea. '"-Bosss
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From the Cincinnati EnQuirr.
belated delegate TO the recent convention
climbed to his room in the Grand Hotel We'd
nesday night and after lengthy vrsstls with
the lock on the door entered TIE spsrtmsnt
and made his way to TIE bed vAGs his
wife lay.
SIS that You Chariis7' eaps svsst voice
through the semi-gioon-
..zssh. Annie: . nA" ~ II rsp'yi ''vAaa
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TYPES OF TOBACCO SMOKERS.

How the Weed 10 Held and What the
Position Signifies.
From the indianapolis News.
A mans thoughts may be read in his cigar.
The way he holds it between his lips will give
the observer q suggestion as to what manner of
man the smoker is You have seen all Of these
smokers, or their types, faithfully represented
here. There are men who don't smoke at all,
but who always have cigar in their mouth.
In fact they have what is continually "cigar-
mouth"
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Things Being Talked About In the Big
CITY.

DR. BRrees' AGGRESSIVE posrrroS--wHAr WILL
BE THE OUTCOME OF THE THEOLOGICAL prsPu-
rArros-BIe BUILDINGS IN eoTHAx-srAxLKr's
xARsrses on HIS BOOK.
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The author had lust gotten his MSS back
from the publisher whom he remarked: ~sThis
busipes. isn't remarkable for large prohts, but
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AMERICANS WOULD DO WELL TO FOLLOW TIE tx
AMPLE OF EURoPEANs IN MAKING THEIR REAR
YARDS PREsKNTABL1-How n n DONE IN
B1ussErA
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4 teaapoonfui added 70 giass Of hot Or cola
refreaAang and inviooeatAG.
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HOMES.
The Task Dreaded by Every House.
keeper at This Season of the Year.
ROOMS AND FURNITURE

Must Now Put on Their Winter Clothes and
Don Their Summer Attirs-How . Model
Sitting Room IL to BE Made Light and Airy
for the Warm weather.
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He who rolls Il about
in his mouth takes life
easy and never finds
fault.

He who points 1t up
ward at an angle Of
forty-fve degrees 10
mild-m q n n Q r ID and
content, but would be
pig-headed If the cir
cumstances of his sur
roundings would re-
quire 1t.
To hold the cigar
straight out and send
puffs of smoke along
either side shows the
smoker to be Of a med
itative turn Of mind.
Next to the last on
the list reproduced you
have Q statesman with
out guile, but ''lots' Of
gall.
Some draw the life
out of q cigar through
q holder, but this life il
too short for most peo-
pie to adjust holders to
cigars.
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The man who sinks
his teeth through his
cigar and chews more
than he smokes 10 . de-
termined fellow.
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OUTLAWS THAT BRING INCOMES.

An advertising agent gave me some interest
ing items today about the amounts paid by
some of the leading houses here for advertis-
ing The company who 10 supposed TO lead the
list is the Royal Baking Powder Company, who
spend S5O0, 600 yearly in making their wares
known. Following them the Pearline peo-
pie come, spending $500, 900 annually. The
Sapolio Company are credited with spending
S150. 900. Among the dry goods people. who are
about the largest advertisers in the daily
papers, E. J. Denning q Co. stand first They
lay out s100. 900 year in Newspaper advertis-
ing. Lord Taylor are reckoned next, with
an expenditure Of ESQ 600. The big 9Th avenue
100000 . year, and the merchant who
does not spend e25ooo . year nova
days, simply "isn't in it," 90 far a. heavy ad-
vertising goes. OF course where such large
sums are expended there ID . great deal Of
thought put upon the subject, and the sdver-
Using man is an important parsonage. So
deeply interested, indeed, are advertisers in the
art that distinct literature 10 rapidly spring.
ing up, publishing the latest ideas BY the best
experts. Who knows but talented writers of
advertisements win yet be admitted TO the
Authors Club2 HENRI r ELLIOT.
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-
to me-to all Of US. Do not leave that to chance.
There is but one person in the world that knows
the truth-it is yourself. There is but one
proof Of the truth-it is that paper"
He made no reply. She went on again more
passionately:
"Put it beyond your own power, most LOYAL
of men, to betray and to ruin US. Leave to my
children their fathers honor; leave him to fol-
low out his career to the end. Will you do
| this-for me-for my children-in memory Of
| the past?''
Then Jack spoke-slowly because he was
anxious to speak for once and so to have done
| with it.
"When read in the paper that he was COM
ing heard his voice plain and clear saying:
| Take my confession. Do what you like with
it. If in the future you can advance yourself
by means of this paper use it-you have the
right to use it, could not use his confession.
How could use it? Could threaten with it,
it, Then learned by accident the other day
how his private secretary told him the
| story and how he said in his grandly austere
| way that some things can never be forgotten,
that they cling to man through life and hinder
him. Now. do think, making every allowance
for Official purity, that was carrying virtue to
| an extreme. But it made me deliberate what
to do next and have found out the way. It
| 10 all clear to me at last
"What way2 In the name Of pity, what way?''
"If had becn the governor and he had been
the junior clerk, l should have tried to make up
| to him quietly and without explanation for al
these years by such advancement as lay in my
power. should have done this for him In or
der to Let him know that the past was buried,
| but the sense Of the sacrifice was left"
| "He does not do it. in order to let You know
| that the past cannot be forgotten"
| Yes. and out of his fears lest the man who
knows 1t should have become mad"
| "Do not be too bitter, Jack"
| HE might have played the part Of provi-
dence. He has preferred to play the part Of
the judge. Well, my way 10 plain. / have
| bsouSht ~ pspssA Hsss thsy ssa ! vill
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"From Texas chiefly. Albany in that state ID
the headquarters for them. One trappsr there
sends me from fifty to one hundred mockinR
birds every week In crates. / forward nearly
all Of them TO New York, exchanging them for
other stock. The system Of exchange is car
ried on to . great extent in the fanciers
business Most Of the stock that we get
from boys is negotiated for on that
plan; 90 many rabbits make q squirrel,
and so on do q considerable trade in pea
cocks, which customers who have country
places buy for ornamental purposes Farmers
raise them in Maryland and Virginia. Gold
fsh are propagated by regular breeders in
Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, who send
them to me in cans, but the fancy gold nsh
with double tails are imported from Japan 10
San Francisco and reshipped from that city,"
you have some stuffed birds in stock?"
Those are pets. Their owners bring them
here for the purpose; four-legged beasts, too,
Of all sorts. A squirrel is one Of the most diff
fcult animals to stuff successfully. Food ID an
item in caring for such menagerie - this; %
costs me nearly q, 900 year"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1891-09-27
The State Fair,

The Reno Journal says that the
third day o':the Fair was a grand
success The el-mile relay race drew
a good crowd sad proved a most inter
esting event. The following entered:
Monroe johnson and j. l. Long had
FIVE horses and changed every mile.
The purse was for $50 which John
son won in. 81 minutes. The race
created n good deal OF interest The
e Of n mile race was easily Won Ly
Delmur in 1l:3l.. The trot,ing C
Dds class, best three in fve. vas w"n
by Maud Patchea. The trutting race,
go class, was won by Anteo Jr.