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3T. ft Indeed, I have only this room with a bedroom off. But cant we sleep in the barn?" asked the colonel. I have no barn. But you can go to bed and let us sleep on the door in this room, cant you? Y-e-s, but but Oh, you neednt have any fear of us, mad am, protested the colonel.

exacted chance of improving- his fortune thrown in his way, and had seized it with the desperate eagerness of a drowning man clutching a plank. One of those who had known him in his palmy days and to whom lie had rendered signal service at a critical point had paid the debt by procuring for him and Sinclair situations in one of the Australian colonies. The work would be hard, he had said, and the life rough, but it would be better than dragging out a degraded and miserable existence in London, where every day brought fresh tortures by reminding them in a thousand ways of what they had been and were. The offer had been eagerly accepted, the preliminaries settled, and a week later they were to sail. Sinclair was jubilant, and all impatience to be off.

Melville, though elated by his unexpected good fortune, had one element of bitterness disturbing his piece of mind, and that was Sal. a protection, becomes a great couA cnience. It is more than the front gate is with us. She knows Aviien lie Avill pass by, and stands inside Avith a fair hand clasping the bars of her cage, and Avaits for him. They stand there with the iron between them and talk.

Every day it so, and if mamma Avishes to stop it, she must come and stand in the AvindoAV also. There are other respects in which the young man has a hard time. He must come every day. lie must, and she holds him to the strict letter of this UiAV. lie is bound to sIioav, by every means in his poAver, that he holds all other Avomen in contempt and detestation, lie must not dauce with any other, and had better not be caugut holding on to any other AvindoAV bars, in any other street.

He tells all his friends about it, and she tells all hers, and the matter is diligently discussed. I the should fail to come around regularly every day he has to tell a satisfactory story. 1 have known her to send her brother after him. He takes his revenge after marriage. From Cuban sketches, bv James W.

Steele. i It isnt that, sir, but She blushed like a rose, but none of us could understand until she said: Well, to tell the truth, my beau will be here to-night- In this storm? Oh, yes. William would come if it rained pitchforks. Well, we wont hurt William. sir; but we that is, he will expect to spark me, and and Exactly, said the colonel.

I see the situation. You dont want to disappoint William? No, sir; and I dont want to turn you gentlemen out, either. You see, sir, its probably my only chance to get married, and ii wont do to offend William. This is his sparking night and hes got to come five miles. Well; avc wont stand in the way; Ave Avill hunt some other place.

No, sir. you shall stay; but you see Iioav it is. 1 think I can fix it. Ill take this room, and you three can have the bedroom. What! I)e pr i ve you slee Oh.

no. dr, William and 1 always spark till daylight. Ifvou Avonld only fix it that AAray. rwwrwwMwwai mi min 'ir'h nwnrffffi'W W. C.

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The OMest Money Inst tut ion in tlie Arkansas Valley. DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS In all its Modem Functions Ic. 33 BSsin WICHITA, TKZAIsrS AS- SILVERWARE AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. We did. Alter supper we locked ourselves in-1 to the bedroom, and taking the pillows frm the bed lay down on the iloor and slept like bricks until called to breakfast.

When we went out the colonel asked: Well, did William show up? V-ycs. sir. slu stammered, and he asked me 1 to m-marry him. If Ave had not fixed things maybe lied waited a Avhole year longer. Break-fad ready, and 1 ill never forget your kindness to a poor widow! Detroit Free Press.

Castors for so A An old theatrical man assures me that tin memory is taxed more by a pantomimic role than by an oral one. Do you remember Mile. Marie Zoe, who for ten years or so avus the leading French Spy of the American stage? he said. She was ahvays advertised as the Cuban Sylph, and a romantic history Avas written for her, but for a fact she Avas Mrs. Yates, of Yankee birth, and commonplace in her experiences until her husband utilized her great grace and beauty by training her for the role of the dumb girl.

The performance avus ahvays a hard strain on her. Folks presumed that her nightly job became mechanical, and fatigueing only throng WORTH OTHER GOODS IN PRU- Lov ss Troubles in mo Queen of the Ai tiles. PORTION AT One pities the Cuban young man who is in loA'o. He cannot see her alone, and cannot conic rcgularlv to the house until a fair understand- ROSS GREAT Ii1 ii a 1 1 i a run iji of his attentions is arrived at. And Avheu at its sameness, but the task of pantomime, with i last lie ha- obtained the telieitv ol being daily its requisite nicety of movement and expression, expected.

he must go all his courting in the pres- was more exhaustiAc to her brain than i he her-1 cnee oi the family, and utter his sweetnesses oines of Shakespeare to Mary Anderson. She acros- the critical ear ot his future lnolher-in-laAV. was compelled a few Avars ago to retire to her util they have been lo church, they two arc liom? at llenmsh-art. I 1.. bwauae her iuM I left alone- Ttre bole family Hi a i ii a 19 and 1 21 Main OPPOSITE THE POSTOFFICE.

was affected, and now she has been taken to an insane asylum. Her shattered intellect knows nothing except the French Spy." and she is al The Largest Stmk IM THE CITY, most constantly going through Avith its scenes. turn in watching them. There is a regular detail made, 1 think, from the older servants of the house, to keep an eye upon them. But there is human nature everywhere, oven in Cuba, and the two are ahvays getting off to a window seat or a distant pair of chairs, though Avith equal certainty, som body slides off in that direction and mounts guard.

The smitten pair do not Araik together in the evening. He does not accompany her to the theatre or to mass. The combat Avith tlie Arab is fought over and over, Avithout Aveapon or antagonist, but Avith a zest and vini of pantomime that startles her attendants. ROGERS AN IMPORTANT CRl'fS. The three of us had been tramping over the They enjoy all the bliss they can under great dif- Tee Leading TITO TUG a them.

ficulty, and Avith all mankind looking on. The indirect result of all tub espionage, ot course, nobody in this land of custom lias eA7er observed. There are a great many small intrigues and innocent endeavors to circumvent t.ie detectives. There are eloquent glances, signals. fan talk aud the slv interchange of notes.

battlefield of Malvern Hill all day long, and a night came on there was every evidence of a steady, soaking rainstorm, We had to gel shelter right awaY, aud Ave found it in a small farm house owned by a Avidow. She Avas Avilling enough to furnish us supper, but when it came to lodgings she avos greatly embarrass? fv 7 Finest Studio West of Chicago. 106 DOUGLAS AVENUE WICHITA, BRANCH HOUSE: GARDEN CITY KANSAS. YWn si said, my Imhmu is very iull Tlwu the iron-guarded window instead ot being.