The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

her for doing so little to make his life happy.
 Howard wanted Dora to stay on at Rose Hill for a while and take care of the baby. and she did until Miss Eugenia, taking alarm, declared that it was not proper for Dora to live in the same house with @ single man and she must come home. So Dora returned to Locust Grove and MT. Hastings made arrangements to have the baby boarded there so that i. might have Dora's care. Eugenia pre- tended that 1t was she who really took care of the child and often intimated to Mir Hastings that Dora was negligent of the child.
 Elias baby died and the sorrowful father buried it in pleasant place on the ample grounds of his estate. Tasting S visits to Locust Grove were now infre- quent; but Eugenia managed to throw herself in the way of the lonely man, and after few months she had, by her Arts, lured him into an intimacy which seemeJ to increase without any especial desire upon his part that 1t should. Howard felt
 
 was, nevertheless. gradually gliding into way of thinking of her as his possible future wife, when an event occurred which opened his eyes suddenly and drew his affection to the girl who, without his realizing it, had for some time been dear to his inmost heart. This and the shatter- ing of the structure of duplicity which r-,, l,o1 l,,,tI+ letter to Uncle Nathaniel.
 Eugenia was one day writing to Nathan ie' when Dora asked her to inclose mes sage from herself. Say to him." said Dora, that I send him my love. And here is lock of mothers hair. Say that I send this to him, thinking that he may prize it for her sake" "An right re- piled Eugenia, "but it is foolish on your part" She wrote in her letter that Dora wants to be remembered to you" Why should she use the words sends her love?' It was too absurb! NO need of sending all that hair she thought as she poked the tresses when Dora had left the room q will save half of it to be made into hair ornaments
  or the lock of hair at all had not even her conscience felt a little dis turbed over a trick she had played upon Dora one day before Mrs. Hast ings' illness when that lady had given a ball. Eugenia was determined to at tend the ball and to wear fine clothes withal. In order to scrape togeth CT enough money to purchase what she felt she must really have for the occa- sion she sold several articles of wear ing apparel. but still lacked the re- auisite sum. She chanced to see an advertisement in the paper offeringa good price for human hair which could be made into false 'pieces' for wom- ems braids. etc. She knew that in Dora's trunk was the beautiful hair which the girl had cut from her dead moth CTS head. locks which every night Dora kissed, smoothed out and laid away again in their place.
 In her desperation Eugenia went to Doras room with the intention of stealing this precious souvenir and selling 1t. But 1t was too horrible; she hesitated and could not do 1t. Later Tn the Qdy bH0 loOkeu dt DoFd dHu thought: "Whv not her hair?" It real ly was a beautiful head of hair, long, silky and of a golden brown. Eugenia set to work to caiole Dora Into hay ing her hair cut off, telling her that 1t would grow out all the better for being cut now; that the headaches she had been having of late were due en- tirelv to her heavy hair; that if she did not have 1t cut 1t would soon fall out, etc. Overwhelmed with importu- nity, Dora consented to be shorn. Eu- genia secreted the hair and. going to Rochester. sold 1t for . sufficient sum to complete her desired ball costume. It was the thought of this and of how near she had come to stealing and selling the hair of her dead aunt that made Eugenia. by way of expiation. inclose to Uncle Nat part of the tress given her by Dora.
 The lonely old man in India received