THELOVESo_f the

LADYARABELLA

ByMOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL

(Copyright, IWH, Bobbs-Murrlll Oo.)

SYNOPSIS.

At 14 years of age Admiral Sir PeterHawkshaw's nephew. Hichard Glyn, felldeeply In love at first sight with LadyArabella Stormont, who spurned Ilia at-

tentions. The lad, an orphan, was givena berth as midshipman 011 the Ajax byhta uncle. Giles Vernon, nephew of SirThomas Vernon, became the boy's pal.Tlvey attended a theater where Hawk-Shaw's nephew saw J>ady Arabella. Ver-non met Philip Overton, next In line forSir Thomas Vernon's estate. They start-ed a duel which was interrupted. VernonOvertoil and Hawkshaw's nephew foundthemselves attracted by pretty Lady Ara-bella. The Ajax in battle defeated Frenchwarships in the Mediterranean. RichardGlyn got £2.000 prize money. lie wascalled home by Lady Hawkshaw as hewas about to "blow in" his earnings witliVernon. At a Hawkshaw party Glyn dis-covered that Lady Arabella was a poorbut persistent gambler. He talked muchwith her cousin Daphne. Lady Arabellaagain showed love for gaming. Later sheheld Glyn and Overton prisoners, thusdelaying the duel. In the Overton-Ver-non dud, neither was hurt. Lady Ara-bella humiliated Richard by her pranks.Richard and Miles shipped 011 a frigate.Giles was captured by the French. SirPeter arranged for his exchange. Daph-ne showed a liking for Glyn. who wasthen 21 years of age. Giles was released.Giles and Richard planned elopements.Sir Peter objected to the plan to wedDaphne. By clever ruses Giles and Rich-ard doped with Lady Arabella aridDaphne, respectively. The latter pairwere married. Daphne was pleased; Ara-bella raved In anger. When the par-ty returned. Arabella asked Sir Peter toold in prosecuting Giles in court on thecharge of committing a capital clime.All attended the trial. Upon Arabella'stestimony Giles was convicted and sen-tenced to be hanged. Sir Peter visitedthe prtnee of Wales in effort to secure apardon for Giles. Arabella threw herselfat the feet of Overton, whom she hadloved for many years. He spurned her.Then she told her plot to have Giles exe-cuted so the Vernon estate would devolveupon Overton, whom she had planned tomarry. Her affairs being disarranged,she announced that slie would probablymarrv Sir Thomas Vernon himself. Par-don from the king was secured with 24amirs' leeway in which to save Giles.After great difficulties were overcome, SirPeter and Richard reached the prison atthe moment Giles was to be executed.

CHAPTER Xl.?Continued.Already there were great crowds in

the street, and as I made my way mad-ly toward the jail, I was often im-peded. I shrieked, I screamed at thepeople, and waved aloft my preciouspaper, shouting: "Pardon! Pardon!"The cry was taken up, and swelled ina great roar that came from a thou-sand friendly throats. As I gallopedalong on the tinker's horse, through

the crowded streets, an awful unspeak-

able Thing loomed up before me. Itwas the gibbet, and it was empty!

I felt the hot tears run down mycheeks at this and some recollection ofthe God that Overton had preached tome caused me to utter an inarticulatethanksgiving! Hut if my tongue fal-tered, my heart did not.

At last I pushed my way throughshouting crowds to the jail. The peo-ple parted, and I saw a black cartdrawn by a white horse, and Giles Ver-non, with pinioned hands, sitting in it,Iby the side of the hangman. I noticed?as I did all the trifles of that dread-ful time ?that the jailer was ashy paleand Giles was fresh-colored. I flungmyself off my horse, rushed towardtbe cart, holding the paper above myhead. Oh, the roaring and the shout-ing! 1 thrust it in Giles' face; thehangman, in a second, cut the thongs

that bound the prisoner's hands. Gilestook the pardon and kissed it, and thenthrew his arms around me and kissed jme, and smiled and waved his hat in Ithe air, while voices thundered, men !shouting like demons, and womenjscreaming and weeping. And the next 1thing I knew Daphne appeared, as if

dropped down from heaven, and,springing into the cart, clasped Giles;and Lady Hawkshaw, a little slower,but yet quick, descended from thecoach, in which she and Daphne hadcome, and embraced all of us; and*hen the cheering seemed to rend the\u25a0skies.

Jn a little while, the mood of the?crowd changed. They began to clamorfor the blood of Sir Thomas Vernon.He was known to be away from home,but, as if by a preconcerted movement,a dash was made for Vernon court,which was but five miles away. Theimilitary were called out, and the crowdstopped; but not without a collision,and several persons were badly in-jured, which did not tend toward bet-ter feeling for Sir Thomas.

For ourselves, I remained with Gilesuntil he was duly released by the of- jBeers of the law, while Daphne and jLady Hawkshaw set off to meet SirPeter on the road. They met him, jfive miles off, and brought him back to 1York in their coach. 1 shall never for-get the scene when they drove up tothe inn where Giles and I were al-ready, the crowd, however, not allow-ing him to remain indoors at all. Whenthe coach hove to, the people, in thedr\u25a0delight, picked Sir Peter up and car-ried him bodily upstairs to an opeMibalcony and demauded a speech, fo*lowed by "Parliament! Parliament]:~ "" ""*80 °° 1

Peter made a speech?the most won-

derful I ever heard ?standing with one

hand on Giles' shoulder, and the otheron mine, with Lady Huwkshaw andDaphne in the background.

He began by roundly damning SirThomas Vernon, "and a lady who shallbe nameless." Nevertheless, in spiteof some vagaries, the speech was fullof sound sense, and he promised thepeople, Ifthey gave him their suffrages

for parliament he would do all in hispower for the abolition of the bar-barous law from which Giles Vernonhad suffered so cruelly. He averredthat It was impossible for a seaman,alone and unaided, to take care of him-self on dry land, Jack ashore being a

helpless creature at best, and but forLady Hawkshaw he would probablyhave been hanged himself long ago.This allusion to Lady Hawkshaw, whofairly divided the honors with Giles,

brought forth yells of delight from thecrowd. Her ladyship appeared andbowed magnificently, and it was a reg-ular triumph for us all, from beginning

to end.Next day, with Giles, we all started

for London, the happiest coach load ofpeople in the three kingdoms.

Two days after our arrival, we readthe announcement of the marriage, at

St. George's, Hanover Square, of SirThomas Vernon to Lady Arabella Stor-mont.

Sir Peter was delighted at thismatch, and so was Lady Hawkshaw,and for once they were agreed. Theposition of the newly-married couplein London was anything but a pleasantone; for Giles became the object ofpublic sympathy, and of popular androyal approval. The prince of Walessent for him, and our visit to Windsor,

whither we all went to thank the king,

was made a triumph for us. SirThomas and Lady Vernon were for-bidden the court and Carlton house,

and were frequently hissed in public.1 saw them myself at Drury Lane,when they were hissed. Sir Thomasmerely grinned, while Lady Arabellasurveyed the scowling faces before herwith a slow sweet smile, and calmlyplayed with the diamonds in herstomacher.

We had a whole year of happiness.The dreadful experience Giles hadbe,en through began to tell 011 him,and he was permitted to remain quiet-ly a year on shore. And I, because ofGiles, was given a year with my bride

I Saw Giles Vernon with PinionedHands.

before I had to leave her. And whata year of blessedness it was to all!We all lived with Sir Peter and Lady

Hawkshaw in Berkeley Square, andthose two honest souls took delight in11s. Lady Hawkshaw became a hero-ine, and the worthy woman enjoyed itthoroughly. Overton came sometimesto see us. A persecution had been seton foot against him; and he was sev-eral times arrested and sentenced forunlawful assemblage. Hut persecutionwas not the way to prevail with Over-

ton.It was very well understood who In-

stigated these continued persecutions,and that did not help to increase thepopularity of Sir Thomas and his beau-tiful wife. At last, a year to the monthafter the trial at York, the last indig-nity was offered to Overton. He wassentenced to be whipped at the cart's-tail, and set in the pillory.

There was a general rally of hisfriends; and on the winter morningwhen this barbarous sentence was tobe carried out, a number, including

many persons of note, were assembledat tho prison, when Sir Peter and Ijoined them.

We soon heard that the government

would not permit the first part of thesentence to be carried out; but whenOverton emerged from the prison hewas unaware of this, and prepared forthe worst. The holy calmness of hiscountenance and air brought even SirPeter to admit that "the pious dog isa man, after all." When informed thathe would not be whipped Overtononly remarked:

"My Master was scourged. Whyshould I rebel?"

Arrived at the place of punishment,we found a great crowd assembled, ofall sorts of persons, among them someof the highest quality. Overton sa-

luted them, and with the utmost dig-nity submitted to the cruel and hatefulpunishment. He had, however, the un-disguised sympathy of the officers ofthe law, as well as of the crowd, andwas treated with the utmost tender-ness.

He was to spend three hours pil-loried, and it was made the greatesttriumph of his life.

It is possible for a good man under-going unjust punishment to be digni-

fied, even in the pillory; and so it waswith Overton. His singular beauty,

i the mildness of his countenance, the

uncomplaining fortitude with which hesubmitted to an odious and miserablepavilion, the remembrance of his pastmilitary services, showed him to beevery inch a man. Many of his friendscame in their coaches, and, descendingand going up to Overton, saluted himrespectfully and expressed their sym-pathy, to which Overton gently re-turned thanks. At last a Very splendidcoach appeared. It was magnificentlyhorsed with four thoroughbreds, andhad outriders, besides two huge foot-men with nosegays. It drew up in frontof the pillory, and within it sat LadyVernon, superbly dressed; and in herarms she held a very young infant ina great robe of lace and satin. Twonurses sat on the front seat; and SirThomas' saturnine countenance glaredbehind Lady Vernon's beautiful, trium-phant face. The coach stopped; andLady Vernon, holding the child up inher arms, directly in front of Overton'seyes, gave him a smile and a meaninglook, as much as to say:

"Poor wretch! your inheritance isgone!"

The crowd, which was never in agood humor with the Vernons, beganto hiss vigorously. This they appearednot to mind; but when hisses were fol-lowed by a shower of stones andsticks, the equipage rolled off at thetop of its speed.

At 12 o'clock Overton was released,and at once he was exhorting the peo-ple to fear God and live truly to him.He was not interrupted by the con-stables who were present, and waslistened to with solemn attention. Hehas preached ever since, and has neveragain been molested. And when a dearlittle girl came to my Daphne?l wasthen at sea, fighting the French?Overton was at the christening, andmade a prayer over her infant head,which my Daphne believes will keepthat dear child good and holy all herlife.

Giles Vernon, now Capt. Vernon, incommand of his majesty's ship Acasta,44, is counted the smartest of theyoung captains in the British service.The women still love him; but Gileshas grown a little shy of going too farwith them, and swears he will die abachelor. However, there appears tobe an affair forward between my littleDaphne, who is now four years and sixmonths old, and Capt. Vernon, and Ithink something will come of it whenshe is of a marriageable age?and sothinks her mother, too.

(THE END.)

NURSES FOR PAMPERED DOGS.

New Occupation for Girls in London,and It Pays Well.

With the increasing craze for dogs

of rare and valuable breeds as pets inEngland a new employment for girlshas been created. They can becomedog nurses.

It is no uncommon thing to see inthe squares and parks a pretty girl

in a neat uniform with two or threevaluable little dogs on leash, giving

them their daily airing. She is a dog

nurse, and this is only one of herduties.

Besides the exercising of the petstho nurse must see to their food,which is no small matter. Specialthings are cooked and the dogs must

be carefully watched while they eat tosee that nothing goes wrong. Thenthe bath is a serious affair. Some-times a silver bathtub is used andscented water.

The nurse must also look after thetoilet of her charges. When they goout with their mistress she must seethat they are in proper trim, withtheir little coats carefully brushed andcleansed and their jeweled collarsbright and sparkling.

After they have retired at night hertime is her own, and for the most part

she considers her five dollars a weekvery easily earned, for she has herboard and lodging provided as wellas her uniform.

One of the great requlsities for thenew profession is that the applicantshall have an extinct sense of humor.

The Ancient Pear.You find charred pears in the kitch-

en heaps of middle Europe, where thelake villages used to be, says a writerin Outing. These remnants date backof the apple, and, so far as we can dis-cover, the pear was the very first oneof this wonderful family to becomeof importance t<? human beings. Infact, it seems probable that an eatablepear, or possibly a cookable pear, wasin possession of our ancestors a good

while before there were eatable apples

or even cherries, plums and possibly

even strawberries. But the wholepear family was just as surely work-ing up toward civilized and garden

conditions as human beings them-selves. Evolution has brought usalong together, with pretty nearly

equal step, and now it looks as if our

future development was to be nearly

as close as our past.

Pine Cakes.The modern farmer touched various

attractive cakes on tho shelf."This is an oak cake," he said.

"That is a pine one. The row aboveare walnut. All those cakes are actu-ally made of wood. They are a new

cattle food ?the invention of Prof.lieinrich Reh ?that I have importedfrom Berlin.

"Reh points out that tho animalslike young shoots, roots of shrubs,bark ?hence his saw-dust food, en-

riched with a mixture of potato peel-ings, cornhusk and the residue of thesugar beet after tho extraction of thesugar.

"It Is said that this food, the cheapest known, agrees with cattle. Andwhy shouldn't it? It is rich in albu-men, nitrogen and fats ?much richerthan straw. I propose to give It a fairtrial. If it does all that is claimedfor It, the price of milk ought to comedown 50 per cent."

PennsylvaniaHappeningsNorristown. ?A rabies quarantine

has been issued by the state livestock sanitary board for Norristownand a part of Plymouth township,Montgomery county. All dogs mustbe kept muzzled or tied for 100 days.The dog which is the cause of thequarantine bit two children, clawedanother, bit a couple of dozen dogsand one cat and also attacked a cow.

Harrisburg.?The chief clerk in thestate department walked into theoffice of Superintendent of PublicPrinting Pomeroy with something inhis hand that looked like the sail of a

catboat. But it was only a sample ofthe ballots which will confront thevoters in November. With only thestate ticket and the constitutionalamendments, the ballot measures 26by 22 inches. Samples are to beprinted to be sent to county commis-sioners.

Wilkesbarre.?Mrs. Jane AshtonJones of this city, who has been mar-ried four times and wants to marry

again, was refused the divorce shedesired and which would have per-

mitted her to take a fifth mate. Sheis 58 years old and her husband is (JO.Judge Fuller in rendering a decisionsays that while the law, perhaps,should grant a divorce to young andinnocent couples who find they cannotlive together owing to some seriousreason, and thus retrieve a mistakeotherwise ruinous to life, it shouldavoid the result of making divorceeasy for persons of mature discretion,hardened and enlightened by years ofmatrimonial experience.

Harrisburg. Assistant Deputy At-torney General Hargest, in an opinionto Insurance Commissioner Martinadvised againts the issuance of a cer-tificate to the Pennsylvania Insur-ance Company of Pittsburg becauseit does not have a paid-up capital ofSIOO,OOO as required by the act of1870, regulating joint stock com-panies. The company was charteredin 18.12, but went out of business in1891. It is now attempting to reviveitself under its old charter with only$12,000 paid-up capital. The opinionsays it is "the policy of the state notto permit an insurance company toengage in business on so meager acapital."

Pittsburg.?Discovery has beenmade, it is alleged, of a deficit of $82,-

000 by a board of auditors appointedto fix the financial status of the West-ern Pennsylvania penitentiary. Theinvestigation was started following arecent change of administration andwas conducted by bankers now serv-ing time in the institution. The $82,-000 is accounted for in the bookkeep-ing. Brooms and broom material tothat amount is stored away. This ex-traordinary purchase has submerged

the finances of the big prison. Thehosiery department, it is said, hasbeen running at a loss of SI,BOO ayear, while rugs and carpets havebeen sold for less than was paid forthe ' manufacturing material. Forsome time to come or until the next

state appropriation the expenses of

the penitentiary will be met with bor-rowed nmoey.

Pittsburg.? Railroads are beginningto order equipment, power and steelrails in volume which has been un-

known for several years. According

to officials of large corporations en-gaged in the manufacture of equip-ment, between $150,000,000 and $175,-000,000 represents the total amountof orders placed for rolling stock bysteam and electric railroads, dispatchcompanies and others since January 1last. This is a large increase overlast year, but the equipment com-panies are not yet back to normal.These figures throw some light 011 therecovery in this industry, which hadpreviously suffered to a very large ex-

tent from lack of orders growing outof the late panic. Nearly all theequipment c ompanies are now doing acomfortable business and the outlookfor a continuation of the improvementthat set in several months ago is saidto be very bright. The New YorkCentral, Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsyl-vania, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,Chicago, Hock Island & Pacific, Har-riman lines, the Hill roads, the Gouldlines, United States Steel corporationhave been the principal buyers of lo-comotive and car equipment. Alto-gether, purchases of more than 25,000cars have been made of late by thecountry's railroads, and more are con-templated. The roads have recentlybeen unable to keep pace with traffic:conditions. For two years they hadworked along without making anymore .purchases of cars, engines andsupplies in general than they wereabsolutely obliged to. Now they aregoing ahead and some are taking theother extreme.

Harrisburg.?The state police whohave been at Harrisburg for the pastsix weeks have been ordered back totheir barracks at Punxsutawney, thetrouble among the strikers at thatplace having been practically settled.

Meadville. ?State Fish Commission-er W. E. Meehan superintended thedrawing of a 300-foot seine in Con-neaut lake for gars and carp. The re-sult was one small muscallonge. Theseine was drawn in Huidekoper basin,but it was too short and a longer onewill be brought for another haul.

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