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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-12-12
WOOL GROWERS.
They Want a High Tariff Placed
on Their Product.
THE MESSAGE OF GOV. O'FERRALL.
Corbett VIII Not 4 gree to Meet Fitxsln'
mons for the SsO.0OO Purse offered
by ban stuar. = hr National
q. \. X. EncampMent.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5.-The annual
meeting of the National Association
OF Wool Growers began here yester-
day. The principal feature Of days
session was the annual address OF
President William Lawrence OF Ohio,
who dwelt on the present distressed
condition of the wool growing indus
try and made various suggestions for
remedial legislation and for concerted
action TO secure letter protection to
the growers, During the day reso-
luton was Offered that congress be
asked to pass Immediately, as a par
tial measure Of relief, schedule X, Of
wool and woolens, Of the Mckinley
law This, however, was objected to
by some of those present, on the
ground that the duties provided for by
that schedule were not high enough,
and the resolution, after some discus
sion, was referred TO a committee of
| five, whose duty it is to draw up IL me-
mortal to congress asking for relief
| for the wool industry.
THE MESSAGE OF GOV. o rERRALl.
RICHMOND, Va, Dee. s. The biennial
session Of the Virginia legislature be-
gan yesterday The message of Gov.
| O'Ferrall recommends legislation for
the determination of the race track
gambling evils prevalent in Alexandria
county Gambling on horse races he
says, has become a shame and dis
grace to Virginia. On the subject OF
lynching, Coy. 0'Ferrall says: with
pain and modification | bring to your
attention the frequent taking of hui
man life without due process OF law
within the border, Of our state. In
Virginia, ynchiny cannot be defended;
it must be reprobatcd. The number
who have suffered death by the halter
without trials or sentences of the COM
monwealths tribunals Of justice has
created abroad the impression that her
judges and juries cannot be trusted, or
that her people are swayed by passion
and uncontrolled by reason; that her
law is dethroned and lawlessness
reigns
CORBETT WILL NOT FIGHT.
NEW York, Dec. B. -Corbctt will not
agree TO meet Fitzsimmons for the
S!o,O00 purse offered by Dan Stuart, Of
Texas. The ultimatum was handed to
Stuart lust night by W. A. Brady, Cor
belts manager Stuart submitted ar
tcles OF rreement to Brady and made
n direct proposal to the manager that
Corhett meet Fiizsimmons for guar
anteed purse. I'VE have retired was
Brady's firm reply lie then stated
that ii was hardly worth while to
break up a prospective profitable the.
atrical engagement to fight Fitzsiln-
mons. Stuart now declares he will
match Maher against l'itzsmmons and
hopes to force Corhett to fight the
winner,
NATIONAL. q. A, II. ENcAAIPMENT
ST, Paul, Mimi, Dee. s. The admin
istrative council Of the G, A. r. yester-
day fixed the date for the next encamp-
ment as September IA, 1896 On Tues
day, September /, will come the naval
parade and opening day; September ?,
the grand parade, which may be the
last ever held, and on Thursday and
Friday, the 81 and 4th, the encamp-
ment proper will be in session.
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DIED MhlIe plasiny a..IaeAman."

WASHINGTON. Kan, llcc. Leonard
Rowell. a prominent yonng man Of this
county and formerly county surveyor,
while playing blaekman with his pm
pills al his school at Emmons, In this
county. ruptured an artery in his
breast and died instantly.
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CHRISTMAS IN CAMP.
HON. AMOS ]. CUMMINGS RELATES AN
AMUSING EXPERIENCE.

How He Added Pot Of Soup, q Litt1s
Sugar. Some Molasses and Cantcen o
Yeast to the Christmas Mess--On shor,
Rations.
My recolloctions Of Christmas expert
enccs In the army are mostly connectct
with the matter Of grub, and | supposccv
cry other old soldier, II no is frank enough
will admit the same thing. Asaru'c ",
always looked for boxes from homo Oh
Christmas day, and those boxes were toler
ably certain to have something In then
that made q delightful change from III,
ordinary mtions, When wc got lhost
boxes, we celebrated Christmas, When w
didn't, wc didn't celebrate. Christina
was pretty much tho same as any other .lay
under those circumstances.
The particular Christmas that stands VI
above all others In my memory was that Of
1862 We had gone into camp after Fred
ericksburg, at place called White Oak
church, about six miles from Falmouth,
Va, and lay there when Christmas camc.
We looked for our boxes, Of course, for We
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WASHINGTON, Dec. q The following
have been appointed compositors in the
government printing Office, under the
civil service. W. C. Hayes, Jefferson
City; George l. Sherman, Kansas; ]. II.
Hezlet, Topeka; Arthur jaeger, Leav.
enworih; Benjamin Graves, Kansas.
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WAS FLOODED IN A MINUTE.

Gus search, too, and our tents were ran
sacked thoroughly, but long before they
got around to our quarters Mason and !
had the molasscs and sugar, or what was
left Of them, safely buried OF course tho
yeast was all COMO, and there wasn't o
trace Of our crimes left.
! suppose 1t would BIO easy to toll a more
sentimental story about soldiers Christ
mas, but the sentiment that moved ns
most powerfully when wo were on short
mtions in those days was hunger
AMOS j. CUMMINGS.
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JUNCTION CRY, Kan, Dee 7.-Jnnc-
ton City's athletic football team met
Fort Riley Yesterday on the gridiron
for the championship of central Kan
sas, and the athletics carried the sol.
diers off the field In u score OF 30 TO 10.
Coacher Carpenters team ontclassed
the soldiers ut every turn.
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KANSAS PUBLIC CHARITIES.
Accountant Challlnor's Staieme It for the
Four Months Ended october 81.

Accountant Challlnor's Staieme It for thu
Four Months Ended OCTOBER 81.
TOPEKA. Kan, Dec. Estate ac
countant J. Z. Challinor, has made Q
report to Gov Morrill, about the ex
penditures for charitable institutions
for the first four months OF the present
fiscal year ended October 81,
The appropriation for the period
named was Sl4S, 1873 o. OF this amount
SllS,70673 was spent, leaving bal
ance on hand of SEQ, 1885, S. OF the
amount spent Sll,34s.0o represented
liabilities carried from the preceding
year and IS, s3s. SO went for extraordl
nary repairs.
The appropriation for the first foul
months Of the preceding year was
$l3o, ss3 90. The expenditures were
Sl39,O7674, the expenditures exceeding
the appropriation *s,s5s.4S, The
salary and expense account OF the
present board OF charities for the first
four months Of the present year is ST.
23l. 10 less than that OF the old board
for the same period, and the mante'
nance and repairs account is $780, 81 s..
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A LMOST half our entire store room
a is filled with HOLIDAY GOODS
and we have for your inspection the
largest and best assortment Of
''CHRISTMAS GIFTS" ever offered in
Dickinson county. Our stock is ALL
NEW.
You will find nothing but the lat
| est patterns and designs in our large
and complete line Of Celluloid, Plush,
Aluminium. Wood and Leather Goods.
We wish especially to call your at
tention to our line Of CHRISTMAS and
NEW YEAR CARDS. an almost end
less line of beauties from cent to $1.25 |
each.
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS our /!
line Of Fancy Picture Books from
cent to As cents includes all OF the IA
vorites from Mother Goose to
Woods Natural History"
We have used great care in select
| ing our line Of Toys and have all the
latest Novelties in both the foreign and
home manufa cture. Everything to in
terest and please the Children from
a Tin Horn to Drum or Doll
OUR LINE OF MUFFLERS from
Is cents to $145, aud our large line Of
Neckties, Silk Suspenders and both
Plain and Initial Silk Handkerohiefs
from IS cents to % cents, all make
handsome presents.
Our line OF Embroidered Silk Hand
kerchie1s for Ladies, are the newest
patterns and would surely please the
most fastidious best girl on earth.
Prices from 8 cents to AS cents.
1t is simply impossible to give a
complete list Of prices Of our Holiday
T Goods, and then descriptions are not so
satisfactory as Seeing Goods.
We cordially invite every one to
take a look at our line and while you
are here it will be our aim to make it
both pleasant and profitable to you.
+ One thing we would have you remem-
Der is that we sell Holiday Goods on
T the same small margin OF profit as you
always find in all other lines at our
store.
We desire to thank our many GUS
( toners for their liberal patronage dur
ing the past year and wish them all
Merry Christmas.
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CHAPTER II.

Hewitt and had of course at this
time never heard of Mr.. Sneathy, and
the colonel told us what little he knnw.
He had never spoken to the man, he
said--indeed nobody in the place out
side Ranworth would have anything 70
do with him. Hes certainly been an
unholy scoundrel over those poor peo-
ple's banks" said my uncle, "and II
what they says true he's been about as
bad as possible to his Wretched wife.
lie must have been pretty miserable,
too, with all his scoundrelSm, for he
was a completely ruined man, without
chance of retrieving his position, ana
detested by everybody. Indeed. some
of his recent doings. il what l have
heard is to be relied on. have been very
much those of a madman. So that on
the whole I'm not much surprised
Suicides about the only crime l sup
pose that ne never experimental with
till now, and, indeed, it's rather a
service to the world at large-his only
service, l expect
The colonel sent man to make FUR
ther inquiries, and presently this man
returned with the news that now 1t
was said that MIR. Sneathy had not
committed suicide but had been muir
dered And hard on the mans heels
came Mr.. Hardwlck, a neighbor OF my
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RIHLROAD TIMETABLES
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Train leaves Scranton for Philadelphia
and New York via ID. & H. r. r. at '.45
am, l2.05, 2.3S and 1l.3S pm, via D., l.. &
w. r. r., 500. Sos il. 20 am, and 1.3O pm.
Leave Scranton for Pittston and Wilkes
Barre, via D., L. & w. r. r., 600, sos, 20
am, $50, 6.07, $50 pm.
Leave Scranton for White Haven. Ha-
zleton, Pottsville and all points on the
Beaver Meadow and Pottsville branches.
via e. d w. V. r. r., Gao an, via ID. & II.
Z. r. at 7.45 am, l.. %, 2.3S, 400 p.m., via
D.. l.. & w. r. r., 600, sos, II. 20 m, 1.3O,
$50 pm.
Leave Scranton for Bethlehem, Easton,
Reading, Harrisburg and all intermediate
points via D. & II. r. r., 745 am, l., 05,
2SS 400, .3S pm, via D., l. & w. r. r.,
6Go S sersnton aG am Tor 1 pnRhanpock p;m To-
wanda, Elmra, Ithaca, Geneva and all
intermediate points via d. Ss II. r; r., S;45
am, 1905 and 1L35 pm, via D., l.. & w.
r. r., SOS, 9.55 a m, 1.30 pm.
Leave Scranton for Rochester, Buffalo,
Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago and AL
points west via d. & II. r. r., s45 am.
1906, 9.15, 1.3S pm, via D., l.. & w. r. r.
and Pittston Junction, sos, 9.55 am, 1.5O,
$50 pm, via L. & w. V. r. r., 81 pm.
via d. & II. r. r., S.46 am, 1905, COS pm,
via D., L. G W. r. r., sos, 9.55 am, l.3O.
and 6.07 pm.
Pullman parlor and sleeping or L. V.
chair cars on all trains between L. & b.
Junction or Wilkes Barre and New York,
Philadelphia, Buffalo. and Suspension
'' RoLLIN H. WILBUR, Gen. supt.
CHAS. S. LEE, Gen: Pass. Agt., Phila.. Pa.
Pass. Ast., South Bethlehem. Pa.
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tree stump, probably the relic OF a tree
that had been cut down long before.
and then addressed himself to the body.
when you cut 1t down." he said,
did 1t fall in heap?"
mo, my man eased 1t down to some
extent"
mot on to it's face?"
"Oh, no. On to It's back, just as 1t Is
now" Mr.. Hardwick saw that Hewitt
was looking at muddy marks on each
Of the corpse's knees, to one OF which u
small leaf hung and to one or two other
marks of the same sort on the fore part
of the dress. "rhat seems to show
pretty plainly" he said, that he must
have struggled with them and was
thrown forward. doesn't it?'
Hewitt did not reply, but gingerly
lifted the right arm by its sleeve. rs
either of the brothers Foster left
handed?" he asked
No, | think not, Here. Barrett, you
have seen plenty of their doings-
cricket, shooting and so on-do you re-
member if eiother Is left-handed?"
"Nayther, sir" Mr.. Hardwlcks man
answered. Both on ems right
banded"
Hewitt lifted the lapel of the coat
and attentiyely regarded a small rent
in 1t, The dead man't hat lay near,
and after a few glances at that Hewitt
dropped it and turned his attention to
the hair. This was coarse and dark
and long, and brushed straight back
with no parting.
This doesn't look very symmetrical,
does it?' Hewitt remarked, pointing to
the locks over the right ear. They
where shorter just there than on the
other side, and apparently very clum-
silly cut, whereas in every other part
the hair appeared to be rather well and
carefully trimmed Mr.. Hadwick said
nothing, but lldgeted Il little as though
he considered that a valuable time was
being wasted over irrelevant trivial
ties.
Presently, however, he spoke. "There
is very little to be learnd from the
body, is three" he said II think I'm
quite justified in ordering their arrest,
eh? Indeed I've wasted too much time
already"
Hewitt was cropping about among
some bushes behind the tree from
which the corpse had been taken.
When he answered he said; II don't
think | should do anything of the sort
just now, Mr.. Hardwick. As matter
Of fact, I fancy"-this word with an
emphasis-"that the brothers Foster
may not have seen this man Sneathy at
all today"
ID.
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uncles and a fellow j. P. He had had
the case reported to him, it seemed, as
soon as the body had been found and
had at once gone to the spot. He found
the body hanging-and with the right
hand cut off.
IT'S murder, Brett" he said.
without doubt a most horrible case
of murder and mutilation. The hand
Is cut off and taken away, but whether
the atrocity was committed before or
after the hanging, of course, 1 can't
say. But the missing hand makes 1t
plainly case of murder, and not sui
eide. I've come to consult you about
issuing warrant, for | think there's
no doubt as to the identity Of the mur-
derers"
That's good job" said the colonel,
"else we should have had some work
for Mr. Martin Hewitt here, which
wouldn't be fair, as he's taking a rest.
Who do you think of having arrested ?"
THE two young Fosters. It's as
plain as it can be-and most revolving
crime, too, bad as Sneathy may have
been. They came dowr from London
today and went out deliberately to do
It, it's clear. They We're heard talking
of it, asked as to the direction in which
he had gone and followed him-and
with rope"
isn't that rather an unusual form of
understanding? Hewitt remarked.
Perhaps it is" Mr.. Hardwick re-
piled, "but it's the case here, plain
enough. 1t seems, in fact that they
had way of threatening to hang him
and even to cut off his hand If he used
it to strike their mother. So that they
appear to have carried out what might
have seemed mere idle threats in a dia-
bolically savage way OF course they
may have strangled him first and
hanged him after, by way of carrying
out their threat and venting their spite
on the mutilated body But that they
did it is plain enough to me. I've spent
an hour or two over it and feel / am
certainly more than justified in order
ing their apprehension. Indeed they
were with him at the time, as I've
found by their tracks on the footpath
through the wood"
The colonel turned to Martin Hewitt
"Mr- Hardwick, you must know" he
said. "is by way of being an amateur
in your particular line-and very good
amateur, too, / should say. judging by
a case or two l have known of in this
county"
Hewitt bowed and laughngly ex-
pressed fear lest Mr.. Hardwick should
come to London and supplant him alto
gether. This seems a curious case"
he added. "If you don't mind think /
should like to take a glance at the
tracks and whatever other traces there
may be, just by way of keeping my
hand in"
Certainly" Mr.. Hardwick replied,
Frightening. 81 should of all things
like to have Mr.. Hewitt's opinion on
the observations I have made-just for
my own qualification. AS to his opin-
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HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS.
Louis Globe4Democrat.

From St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Combs are found in the earliest known
| graves
| Brooms were used in Egypt 1900 years
| before Christ.
| Buttons were used in Troy. Schliemann
found over 1900 of gold.
Needles antedate history. They We're
| found over 1900 of gold.
| Lamps were used before written history
| Thousands of ancient lamps have been
| found.
Gobets with stem and stand like thos
we use to-day We're employed in Troy 500
| b. C.
Lucifer matches were patented in 1894,
while friction matches preceded them
| by thirteen years.
Chairs were in use in Egypt as long ago
as 1900 B. C. The Chinese employed them
| from about 1900 B. c.
Curtains We're employed for bedsteads
| in the eleventh century; they were after
wards transferred to windows.
Teapots We're the invention of either
| the Indians or the Chinese, and are of un-
certain antiquity. They came to Europe
with tea in 1910.
Dishes of gold and silver used in table
service in 800 Il. c. were fonnd at Troy by
DCHntIldHl. oIt VI lHtSt was dDOul tiic
size now employed
outer blinds for windows were unknown
until the fourteenth century. The Vene
tian or interior blinds are so called be-
cause they We're first used in Venice
Pepper castors We're first used by the
Anthenlans, pepper being a comon copdi-
ment. They We're placed on the table With
the salt in England in the sixteenth cen
tury.
The first patent for a sewing machine
was first issued in England in 1880. This
early invention was not successful. and
other patents were isued in 1904 1918 and
scores of times since.
Rocking cradles for babies were used by
the Egyptians many centuries before
Christ. Among the pictures copied by
Belzoni is one of an Egyptian mother at
work with her foot on the cradle.
Tumblers of nearly the same shape and
dimensions as those employed to-day have
been found in great numbers in Pompei.
They were of gold, silver, glass, agate,
marble and other semi-preclous precious
stone.
Rocking chairs are mentioned by Vener-
able Bede. 1.-THE women now are so lux
| urlous that they do have chairs with
wooden circles on the legs and which sway
back and forth in such sort that 1t maketh
one sick to behold them"
Coffee pots are an Oriental invention,
and are supposed to have come from Ara
bia in A. ID. 400. About the same time
they were used in Persia but they did not
come to France until 1862, and made their
appearance in England with coffee in 1850.
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Del, Lack. and Western.

Trains leave Scranton as follows: EX-
press for New York and all points East.
l40 $50 515, 800 and s.55 am; 2.55 and $50
pm.
Express for Eastop, Trenton. Philadel-
phia and the south, Sis, 500 and 955 am..
1855 and $50 pm.
Washington and way stations, 36o p m.
Tobyhanna accommodation, 6lO p.m
Express for Binghamton, Oswego, Ell.
mira, Corning, Bath, Dansville, Mount
Morris and Buffalo, l2.l0, 2.35 am. and "a
PM, making close connections at Bur.
falo to all points in the West Northwest
and Southwest.
Bath accommodation, Q am.
Btnghamton and way stations, l2.3i pm.
Nicholson ACCOMMODATION, at 5.l5 pm.
Binghamton and Elmira Express, $40
pm.
Utica and Ricbfeld Springs 2.35 am, and
1.24 pm,
Ithaca, 235 and Bath am. and LA 7. m.
For Northumberland, Pittston, Wilkes
Barre, Plymouth, bloomsbury and Dam
yille making close connections at North
CUMBERLAND for Williamsport, Harrisburg,
Baltimore, Washington and the South.
Northumberland and intermediate sta
tions, 600, 9.55 am. and l.S0 and 6.07 pm.
Nanticoke and intermediate stations.
sos and II. 20 am. Plymouth and inter-
mediate stations, $50 and $50 pm.
Pullman parlor and sleeping coaches on
all express trains
For detailed Information, pocket time
tables, etc, apply to NJ. L. Smith, city
ticket office, 1928 Lackawanna avenue. or
depot ticket office.
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Central Railroad OF New Jersey.

(benlgn and -usquenailnl DivisolJ
Anthracite coal used exclusively, insur.
ing cleanliness and comfort.
TlME TABLE IN EFFECT MARCH %,
1885 =
Trains leave Scranton for PittstoTi
Wilkes-Barre, etc, at $50 9.15, 11.3O am, d
l2.45, 200, 3.05, 800, 7.25 p. IN. Sundays, 800
a. m, 100, 2.l5, 40 p. n. I
For Atlantic City, $50 am.
For New York, Newark and Elizabeth,
$40 (eXpress) am, l2i5 (eXpress with Buf1
fet parlor carr. 3.05 (express) pm SUM
day, 2.l5 pm.
For Mauch Chunk, Allentown, Bethel
hem, Easton and Philadelphia, $50 am.
l245,, 3.05, 800 Except Philadelphia) pm
Sunday, 2.15 pm.
For Long Branch, Ocean Grove, ETC.. a !
$40 am, L. 10 pm.
For Reading, Lebanon and Harrisburg.)
via Allentown. $50 am, l2.45, 500 pm.
Sunday, 2.l5 pm.
For Pottsville, $50 m, u. As pm.
Returning, leave New York, foot of Lib
erty street, North river, at 910 (express)
am, 1.10, 1.S0, 4S0 express with Buffet
parlor carr pm. Sunday, 4.30 AIN,
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal,
900 am, 200 and 43O pm. Sunday 6.27
am.
Through tickets to all points at lowest
rates may be had on application in ad-
vance to the ticket agent at the station.
II. p. BALDWIN,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
]. H. OLHAUsEN. Gen. supt.
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the ground sloped from the left down
toward the right and tiny streamlet,
O. mere trickle of a foot or two wide.
ran across the path. In rainy seasons
it was probably wider for all the earth
and clay had been washed away for
some feet on each side, leaving fiat,
bare and very coarse gravel, on which
the trail was lost. Just beyond this.
anud to the left, the body lay on a
grassy knoll under the limb of a tree
from which still depended part of the
cut rope. II was notsa pleasant sight.
The man was a soft. feshy creature,
probably rather under than over the
medium height and he lay there, with
his stretched neck and protruding
tongue, q revolving object. His right
arm lay. by his side, and the stump of
the wrist was clotted with black blood
Mr.. Hard wick's man was still in charge
seemingly little pleased with his job
and a few yards off stood a couple of
courtrymon. looking on.
Hewitt asked from which direction
these men had come, and, having
ascertained and noted their footmarks.
he asked them to stay exactly where
they We're to avoid confusing such
other tracks as might be seen. Then
he addressed himself to his examina-
ton. First, he said glancing up at
the branch that was scarce a yard
above his head. ''ihls rope has been
here for some time"
Yes Mr.. Hadwck replied, ''lts an
old swing rope. Some children used 1T
in the summer, but 1t got partly cut
away, and the odd couple of yards has
been hanging since"
"Ah!' said Mr. Hewitt, "then If the
Fosters did this they were saved some
trouble by the chance and were able
to take their halter back with them
and so avoid one chance of detection"
He very closely scrutinized the top Of
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ITO Be Continued.1
4 Trying Moment.

From Tid-Bits.
Heat last we are alone, and | have an
opportunity to speak. | have been seek
ing this moment for days and days, for |
have something to say to you.
She.-Go on, Mr.. Harkins.
He.-I will. Miss Hopeful you perhaps
have not noticed that at times have been
constrained, uneasy, even awkward, in
your prcsence-that have had something
on my mind that l must say to you?
She (softly).-Yes.
He.-That 'constralnt, that awkward
ness. Miss Hopeful, was due to-due to-
She.-Go on, Mr.. Harliins.
He.-Was due to the fact that feared
you were not aware that | was engaged to
your sister.