Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-05-05

a melancholy and deprecating voice.
ITO love girl with all your heart
and soul, and then to have to bargain
with her about the rent! TO long to
ask hes if she can ever care for you,
and to have to request her instead to
pay for cruets! To want TO have her
for your love, and only TO have her
for your lodger"
Almost tenderly Harry poured him
out another glass of stout and helped
him TO ham.
Cheer up, old chap" said Gamer
on, with what his brother felt to be
vulgar and repulsive geniality. "Pret-
| ty girls are as common as blackberries,
but papa who'll pay down three
guineas in advance is not to be found
every day His brother groaned.
1.-The question is, ought you to grudge
| the shelter of your roof to the man
who has just stood you a good dim
nerp"
Temple started up.
''If had known it was bought with
his money the first mouthful would
| have chokel mel" he exclaimed in a
strangled voice.
But the salmon was eaten; so, hav-
ing made his protest, Temple sat down
again.
Whose money did you suppose it
was?" ask IL Cameron with unkind
GOODNESS. "Look here. Temple, l
| think it's Internally ungrateful of you
to put on these airs, when Hildred
and have found way out of the
awful mess we were in"
"But you've got us into a worse"
moaned Temple. "Who's to do the
cookingP"
Il am. I've cooked chop over
the fire in my chambers many u
time"
"But they won't like chops always
Chops TO" breakfast, cnops for lunch
con, chops for dinnerw
Look at that" said Cameron.
proudly, pointing to the remains of
the salmon. "As soon as they were
in the house sent Hildred out for a
cOokery-book and these things. And
/ cooked the fish without any trouble
at all
at was raw in the middle" OBJ
jected Temple.
well, it was the first attempt
And there are good cooks and bad.
Colonel Frere"-Temple shuddered at
the name-''will think we've got a
bad one that's all"
"And then he'll go, that's one COM
fort"
mo, he won't" snarlcd Cameron.
There are no decent rooms to be
had in the whole town except ours,
the place is so full. They had been
driving about for an hour and half;
he told me So"
And who's to make the beds, and
wait upon them" asked his elder
brother.
Cameron started up, with a white
face.
Good heavens" he cried, 81 hadn't
thought of that"
Temple settled himself back in his
chair with a short laugh.
1T seems TO me the best thing we
can do Is to steal out of the house
and go back to town with the re-
mains of the three guineas. y
said he. They've only paid for
the rooms for n week, and then they
can have them as long as they like
after that for nothing-till old
Hutchinson turns up.
"lt shows how unselfsh your de-
votion must be, when you are ready
to leave Miss Frere and her father all
alone here TO shift for themselves. q"
And do you think it wouldn't be
better for her TO shift for herself than
to have OATS like you and Hildred or
this gawky boy waiting upon her.
smashing plates and spilling gravy at
every step? retorted Temple.
wait upon her yourself then"
Thank you, said Temple, at white
heat but with overwhelming dignity.
unfortunately, cannot forget, how
ever low my relations may sink and
try to drag me down with them, that
| am an officer and a gentleman.
At this moment there was CHASTITY
diversion-a bell rang.
Probably not one of the four young
, fellows had quite realized until that
: moment TO what they had committed
, themselves. But that bell reused
them to all consciousness of RESPONSE
bility and-they could not help it-oi
degradation. They turned red they
turned White: they fdgeted; they tried
to look as il nothing had happened.
, But twas of no use ;the bell rang again
and it would have to beanswered
1t was Hildred who threw himself
, into the breach. Marcus Curtius
flinging himself into the gulf, looked
; a mean AID insignificant creature by
! comparison with this later hero.
81 will go!'' he cried, with a noble
toss OF the head, as he sprang up.
take off your glasses" gasped
/ Cameron, land let me tie up those
} streamers."
This had reference to large silk
/ scarf which Hildred wore with long
streaming ends. He submitted tC
, these alterations, and went upstairs
/ The rest awaited his return with
curiosity and some admiration of his
| pluck. The straits they were in were
} bringing to light all sorts of unsus