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_ to k(Mp up old ■Ule which hah Urns axo departed. Finally, after her mother* death, the tfrl had gone away. She had closed up the house, and H had stood untenanted upon the hill. People <aaed to apeak of her ahe was aloal for rotten when ahe returned. Her return awakened memoriea of her life In the place. Ooeslpa recalled that ahe had been enrated to be mar lied once. Her fiarce was the young episcopal clergyman. Upton Vane. Ha had not appeared at the church door; that much was remembered. He had departed within a weak, and Clcyton had not seen him again. Life had continued last as smoothly In Clay-

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It was to a haven of peace that the woman of thirty-five returned. The little church was atm standing, m el loved by tlma, the creepem now extending over the entire front. The village had grown, factories had sprung up, but much was the same. Only those who had known Madeleine when she was a young woman bad nearly an died on departed. She thivw herself Into church work. She sewed, she taught; the children adored her. Shu coulc* not look upon these ooys and c<rta with all the promise of W« before them, without thinking of her own wasted Ufa. The annual confirm*tloc class wan waiting for the arrival of the bishop. The bishop of Wanhukett was still

“Well. I think it outrageous." answered the girl hotly. "Remember, If you keep m- waiting tomorrow. 111 not marry you." | "Why. my dear. HI be bank by midnight." Upton answered. She suffered him to kiss her. but I bur manner was distinctly aggrieved , as be took bis departure. And when ha reached the miserable shack, hs found cause for further delay. The old woman'* eon was expected hourly from the South. He had com mltted a crime; he had confessed to his mother, and when he arrived the wished him to unburden himself of his secret and suffer the penalty. K would mean a dosen years In the penltantiary. She could not die leaving him with his crime unatoned. The minister waited. Hours crept by. It was morning before th# bod He was Just In time to say to his mother, to listen to her plea and to make his confession. The woman died, and the minister took the man to the police station. By the time these formalities were ended It was ten o'clock. And he had half an he ir to go home and dress for the

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There wer* no telephones In those days. At a furious pace he drove his horse up the hill, to encounter the bride's carriage going to the church. Madeleine saw him. He pulled up and tried to speak to ner. “Take ns home!" cried the girt to

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Those were th* lest words of hero that Upton beard. Arrived at the ms. nor, she shut herself up for days. In vain Upton tried to see her. She would not receive him. She returned his lette.*. A week later the young man left Clayton and his' successor was Installed. A few weeks after that Mrs. Driscoll died, and Madeleine soon Closed the house and disappeared. She had lived In the world, ahe had tasted the sweets and bitterness of Mfe, and now, at thirty-five, she ' returned to her native town, those memories which she thought she bed forgotten came back to her with poignant Intensity. That was the story she told the

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-What cen 1 dor she cried. “I have ;seven knows I hsve I have nilned two lives." “Ton have never seen or heard of this Upton Vane since then?" the bishop asked gravely. "No. I don’t know where he went. How could 1 seek him out after that?" "But you knew at the time the cans* of his late return?" "Not for weeks," answered Madeteisa "And then, whet was the use of being sorry?" “Do you still love thle man?" Ingntred the bishop gravely. She flung out her arms wearily. "I have don* with love." she answered. "I only want to restore the part that 1 have taken out of his Ufa I want to know thu bs Is happy and has forgot-

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"He Is happy." answered the bishop. “But he has not forgotten you." Something In his voice made the girt start and look at him Intently. She bad not seas his face for her tears; now ah* found hers el? looking Inm the eyes of Upton Vena HORSESHOE NAILED TO TREE Interesting to Speculate Who Had Placed It There Many Year* In th* Paet.

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_ _iilde a tree. At a sawmill near Van•r. and had been selected on the death eouver the other day they found a of hit predecessor on account of his horseshoe to their sorrow, for It was eloquence and Impassioned fsith. A - deeply Imbedded and stripped off the bachelor, he bad given all his mocey teeth at the ssw that was devouring to the poor- He was a leader of the the tog. Some boy bad nailed tb» new evangelical school, which war horseshoe to the tree years and year# believed to offer tt . most powerful op- ago and the wood had slowly Inclosed

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rtallam. rampant throughout the land. Where is the boy now? Would be All CUyton awaited his first vlalt. ' be willing, and able, to pay for the On the evening of his arrival Made- M w that his youthful pasUme ruined? leins was In the church. She waa what did he nail the hone#hoe to the elooe; she had been decorating tb# al- tree for? Waa It to make bis luck pertar and putting the last garlands of petual? It m well known that a horsegreen about tbs pillars. Then, her aboe lying In the road will bring bad work done, the memory of the past i nc k if you paaa It by untouched, but cam* rushing over her. Just so had u you pic* u up and nail It to the •hs worked In th# day# when Upton barn door or tc a tree, goodness and and she were engaged to be married. mtTCJ V U1 follow you all the days of They had met here; and her memo- y OQr jy, or least until the talisman

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row. She kneeled and wept before the The chances a-* that the boy who altar. nailed the horseshoe to that fir tree Sh# did not hear the door open.nor BMr Vancouver is a millionaire no*, was sbe aware that ahe waa not alona b ut in our mind’s eye we ■•* hi* foruntil ahe started up. to see th# bishop Upping away alnco the cause of j standing at her side. Through eyee , t bu been torn from Its wieret bed. blinded with tears sbe discerned the Tb. lou of a big saw Is not tb* worst kindly man who looked Inquiringly at con^uence of disturbing tb# magic her. horseshoe. There Is also, very likely. "Tou are In trouble?" asked the ^ 0 f a Vail street magnate

bishop reduced to penury.

Bha nodded desolately. Sh* could not apeak; ahe buried her head In huP Plant* Capable of Love, arms and eobbed. Glue rockets show tear and th# dead Thro suddenly the fonnd heroolf ^ nightshade Is full of hatred Uoth poured out her stofy. It was a tale ^ Kr « plants, but that doe# not of pride end punishment, but the pun- rrrTrat them fre-n declaring mer.-l-Ishment bad been out of proportion to lrM w . r OQ animal life. Tbs blue the eln. ro-ket la a dainty flowering shrub Fifteen year* befora, almost to a whlch gives forth a perfume at night, day. she waa to have married Upton bul , t carries one of the deadliest of Van*. Th# marrtaga waa only 1* pci**,, Oue-al\te*nih of a grain shot hour* sway Upton waa to her moth- from Iu pc Ison plrtll has proved fatal eri* home when a anaaanger came t® to , man Thla Is according u> Prof the door Henry Q Watte -a of Philadelphia, who An old colored woman who lived Quintains that plants have ‘

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