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VOI. XXVI. NO. I!».

CAPE MAY CITY. ElIIDAY MORNING. JULY 23, 1897.

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fOOKTOTCUxl CHAPTER V. MBS. BKKNETT n KKS HIM Ol

When Alec came down to breakfast the next morning after a good night's

I sleep and with only a vague ranem-

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before, every one was remarkabiv quiet,

certs mornings IO to 1 2. Maud sa.d good m.wning i:. answer to 1 ops evenings, 8.30 tOIO jO. Do^JS not taken or ; his greetiug. but Mrs llenn Tt did not

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| and llilo seemed very much 1 Jerry made one or two forlorn j murks, and Dally had sumething

| about his lock at fishing. They, too, | had not heard the news, bot very soon i they felt the suffocation of the atmosphere and were silent too. There they

sat at table, all as silent as the grave.

aicc ten me nr-t oppression at tear

and doobt and rebellion for he knew that he v of the house as much

driving him with a stick Hud Milo been potting him ont that was the way he would have done it, bot this was the woman’s way. It was Mrs. Bennett who was putting him oat, aul •Jfilo. Alee looked at the old man and saw that be was really miserable, though stolid enough about it. and he had a vague thought of doing or suyny something to break the oppressive silence and cheer the others up. He tried one or two remarks, but they did not go. There sat Mrs. Uusnett at Uie other end of the table, and she was muster of the

aitoation.

As soon us breakfast was finished | Milo and the boys escaped to the barn. [ Alec would have gone, too, but Mrs. Bennett detained him and at the same time sent Muud to do the chamber work a full hour liefare the regular time. "I wish to say that we will not need your services any further," begun Mrs. Bennett, standing like a soldier, a hand on each hip, P rior in her eyes. "A miserable. picked faced brat ont of the slums of New York to come here snd pretend to be toux-bisiy and disgrace me and my family"— £he had counted evidently on pouring ont all her wrath and vituperation for at least once in her hie, but Alec felt ^"•eenwd l t^!hp*liomhim^2*^Mhe>J^" ter astonishment of the angry woman before him be took on an air of wounded dignity of a sort quite new to Mrs. Ben-

nett and said:

"M-uinni, excuse me. I will not trou-

ble you further."

With that he walked away like a king. Hurrying up the hack stair.- three >pe at a time, he matched from his room bis little rubber bag, with the

■XCot* Bench, i blanket tied to it, just as it was when

| ho came a week U-fure, and hurried out

Tvt'i!vr 1 ''* ro01 "' - *"‘" 1 '**'**! °f the house. As ho went he looked

j about for Maud, but she was nowhere to be seen. He was sorry fur her and partly angry at Mrs. Bennett on her aeconnt. fin- the altitude the woman had taken seemed to him to reflect on her daughter far more than it did on him, and if in any way be could have avenged the innocent child he would have dune so. But he saw nothing for it bul It was a clear, coo) morning, like the sane on which hr had first come, and in |ns present condition of mind walking was a genu lit- pleasure. Ur felt as if be could walk least Ha Btilrs, since H5 miles would Iai so tar away from the

house he hated so. —"

As the sun rose continually higher the day grew warmer, but the air was not sultry, and Alev rather enjoyed the exercise of walking, ibough the perspiration streamed from every pore and the dust rose and stuck to his hands and face until they were quite black. He felt stronger and more vigorous in body than when he set out, and. though be bad tjot a cent in bis pocket, he felt more secure by far thau on that first day Moreover, his pride was np with his anger, and be could not very well mourn in discunragemrnt over the possibility of Kianyng. That was too ridiculona His plan was to walk as far as be could and then inquire for work, or at least beg a night’s lodging and ]iromise to work it out on the morrow. The people aocmed. hospitable enough, and he felt that bis simple, earnest manner was convincing proof of his fabocoty.

wonder that Milo and the

have turned against

so suddenly, as if he bad indeed committed a fault for which he ouuld

be blamed.

The thought of that whole affair rankled ao in his breast that he resolutely pat it entirely aside and .allowed himself to enjoy as well as he could the beautiful soeoary through which he was passing. Far in the distance be could see from a hilltop now and then the famt outlines of the White mountains ont vaguely against the sky like haxy clouds. ' Behind him was the lake, of whose shining water he caught stray gUmpas between the hills and through the trees. About him on every side were hills and valleys innumerable, long level slopes with sheep grating on them or scarred, bosh grown hillsides from which the timber bad been cut not many years before or granite ledges standing ont bare and white. And at every step the scene shifted. Here there was a beantiful little glen overgrown with young box and maple, while ont of its bosom poured a little stream that ran down into a meadow, where cattle were standing to their knees in the cooling mud and water. Again it was a broad view of a valley following the course of a larger stream, along which lay town? and villages at scattered intervals, and yonder to the loft

felt so hot and weary that he decided rest. At a farmhouse he was passing stopped for a drink, and, though it W— hateful to him to think of togging, he asked for something to eat, frankly stating that he had no money. But the rather well dressed woman who cams to the door curtly refused. Tlie sting revived his augur of the morning, bat be turned doggedly away. Just beyond the house, however, was- a fine garden. Ho could see ripe strawberries and some lettuce. He panned a moment, looking at it, and rapidly thought that since the woman had refused his honest request he would not scruple to help himself. The garden was hidden from the house by some thick trees, so he leaped the fence, and sitting down in the shade at one side of the strawberry bed began

pick and eat.

He also began to realize how tired he

u took ont his blanket and

spread it on the grass. Ho thought ho won Id have some lettuce, too, and he remembered that when he started out on his tramp be had taken pepper and salt in his bag for jnst this purpose. In a few moments he had picked some leaves of lettuce and washed thorn in a little brook jnst under the hllL He also filled bis cup with water, and returning to his spread out blanket be emptied on to it the contents of hit bag. There were a teaspoon, a knife besides the one ho carried in his pocket, which he feared he might Jose; a fork, his pepper and salt and a jiapur rolloouiaimug a change sn 1 e?f—sTi' ju d" as Ks d had I pac(e8 > {i>Sn when he left New Y'urk, for till now ho had bad no occafdan to use any of the tilings except the blanket and the tin dipper, which weru fastened to tho outside. Bat when he emptied tho things ont he saw, to his unutterable surprise, a fl bill nicely folded np, which had apparently been tucked in at one side. It rolled ont on the blanket with the other things, and Alec looking at it in amazement without picking it up. How iu tho world had it come there? Rapidly his miud traveled back. Could any one have put it in before he left homo? Impossible! There was no chance. Besides, he would doubtless have noticed it before this. There remained but one possibility. Mand bad put it there. When her umsiier sent her to do the chamber work, she could easily have slipped into his room. He rviuemberad now that be had heard a slight noise as he went in his at to get his things w hich be liud not fleeted on at the time. The girl bad not had too much time and must have harried to eecepe being caught. Yes, it was

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spent the day before had been on •account, and in justice some of it o _ tot® relumed. It was impossible for Alec to assigu any mure seuumontal reason. But be ku«w she must have very little money of her own. and parhaps this was all she hod. As be sat and thought he grew very much ashamed of his anger at bur In the morning. She had suffered even more thau )>e had. and instead of being angry at her he should have been very sorry and not minded his own injury. He wanted to go back aud tell her bow sorry he was. He wondered if he could not devise some method by which he could get her away from the awfal tyranny of her mother. If not ho wished he could at least go back and tell her that he sympathized with her. But he decided that II was not beet to go back just at pruscut, aud siuce the well dressed woman had not appeared with-either a policeman or a dog. he packed his bag, folded up his blanket and proceeded on his way northward. By sunset he had walked fully 12 miles more aud come into a small village, where he found a country inn at which be could obtain a night's lodging for SR cents, and a grocery store at which be could boy some crackers aud cbooe, which, helped out Vy some raspberries he hud picked by llio road, made bis supper.

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The village of Ashton Centre lay in level niche among the hills, which fell sway in irregular terraces to the south aud west toward the river and ascended north aud east toward the mountains. Here four roads met from the four points of the compass, and the common center was the half rotten watering trough fed from a rnuuiug spring on a hill near by, and which stood in the middle of an open square bounded, as the geographies say, cm the north by the church, the store and tavern, and the aristocratic booses of the town, on the west by a tumbled down ban. and dwelling laid to be the oldest in town, an the sooth by the graveyard, stones overgrown by toll grass, and by the blacksmith shop which stood in a corner of the graveyard whore the south road came np, and on the east by smooth, well kept fields which rose in a gradual alope and were sprinkled by the neatest and most substaulial farmhouses of the whole town. The store and tavern shared equally a square, brown painted modern building which stood not a rod from the church aud seemed to rival it as the most conspicuous and important point at the village. Some prouonneed the secret bar (and not so very secret either, though Ashton was a prohibition town) the lair of the devil, and the store was certainly the rendezvous of all the loafers In town. This msy-ooroant for the imaginary rivalry. As a matter at fact, while the church was the religions fleeter. aud as such all important, the store and tavern was the secular center, and recognised as such by the respectable citizens at the town as well as the loafThe proprietor was a bluff, good ed man not at all suggestive at the and a very good friend to every With his long, gnzxjed beard, stooped shoulders and devil may oare Oye, be was a refreshing example at cynical indifference to the woes of the world, though indeed he was always

“Well, mamy. what can I do for yon?" be had said to Alec whou ho came the night before. The young man, not ovorwcdl pleased at being called "sonny."considering his 6 feet 10, inquired' with dignified reserve the price of lodging in the "ho-

"Wsll, sonny, that depends on what yna'vs got to pay," am-wored the man. utterly ignoring the dignified reserve. “W* ain’t one of vour cheau one price lodging homw* here. It a man tmui t got but a quarter, we don't charge him 60 resits. What's tho nae? You can't get blond out of a stouu. You'll probably stay here all night and pay what you’ve got, and the charge w ill be according. That’ll save a row, and rows exhaust a

“I’m so rheutustio I can’t stand rows very well," he added to the bystanders with a wink. Alec could not help smiling at tho good humor of the man, for lie could aeo that the keen eyes of tho old follow had been taking him in from tup to too, and evidently tho inventory had not boon unsatisfactory. “Well, if a quarter will satisfy yon, I shonld like to turn iu at once, "answered Alec, and tho man, whom the townspeople, reci-oetable as well as unrespectablo, called Joe Higgins, always pronouncing tho last namo out of respect, lumbered stiffly, bet rapidly, off toward the back door, calling: "All right, all right, sonny 1 Come on! The quicker you turn iu the better it'll soil me, fur theu I shall have you off xur mind. An honored guest iu tho hotel It always a weight on a man's mind until he's packed off to bed." When Alec found himself alone in his little whitewashed chamber, he felt less forlorn thau at any time since he loft homo, and tired as ho was, with aching joiuts and heavy head, ho found tho spnngloas bed wonderfully comfortable. In five minutes he was sound Tho little sleeping room had an east window which looked out past tho white chnrch. with its tall, serious spire, and np the green slope of the hill beyond, over the brow of which tho sun rose. The next morning Alee was wakened early by the clamorons singing at the birds, who seemed holding a regular concert. It was not yet 4 o'clock. So be lay still and begun to think atsmt his situstiou. For a time bo had forgotten that it was at all a serious matter. But now, really fur the first time siuce be had left home, ho candidly considered what be was doing aud into what it would lead him. Be had come away from home because his father was angry with him. Bis father had said he was lazy. He and his father had had angry words, aud his fa liter hud told him that if that was the way ho intended to tondnat himself he needn't oorne to his father fur funds. All that be called up vividly in his mind this morBing. He had come to the country In search of tus fortune, and he hail not found tho aeorefi altogether agreeable. Still, be would die rather than write to his father far money, aud now there was coming to be something about this life that fosclnatAloe had often beard how his father, Alexander, Sr., had gone to the city a poor boy, with only a dollar in bis picket and no immediate prospect of more, bow bo bad worked and starved aud finally succeeded aad grown rich. Now a brilliant idea came to him. Why should not he, Alexander, Jr., a poor city boy, come to the country, with only *2 iu his pocket, and make his fortune? Fortune is a curious thing. Yon never know where it will torn np, and often it fails under the must propitious circumstanocs. As ho dressed about C o'clock he msdo up his mind jnst what be wunld do. He woold get n good breakfast, of which he felt the need, fur his supper had been ouly bread aud cheese, and his dinner little more. Then he would speak to the bluff proprietor, who seemed to like him, and find out what men about town were likely to need help in baying. He must get work at once. That was his plan. Before he oould do anything else be must have his living secured, and must be in a way to accnmnlate a small amount of ready capital. “wen, sunny.' cried Joo Higgins when Alec cifine into the store as soon as his toilet had Is-on completed, “did yon find the bed hard enough for yon? Some folks think our beds are not bard enough for them. TOT I manage to get on well enough, even it I am a yonng "The bod was very comfortable.” answered Alec, with a smile. "Yon look white, sonny," said the old follow, with a sudden serious concern. "Better go in and have some breakfast with the folks. I just got done mine." “I was just going to ask you bow much you charge for breakfast. I have ouly a dollar, and don't know when I shall gut any mire unless I find a job hereabouts. You don't know auy one wants help in haying, do you?" "No. I don't know anybody wants help in haytug. More want to help. “But if yon ain't got bnt a dollar, you'd bettor cat-your breakfast first and ask me the price of it afterward. Then you'll be sure to have it "Yon just go inside that door there and tell 'Lisbfth to give yon a place next to her. Being a handsome girl and yon a pretty man, she'll probably consider it wuith the price of a breakfast to have yon ait beaide her, and, being an indulgent father, I don't grudge bar any such little thing as .that" (to ex txixnxuxn.] Far racial neuralgia this is the very beat plan to wcur* quick relief: Hret a freestone bot and roll up in a cloth, wetting one side of it and lurniug about a teaspoonful trf cmstxv of jK-ppcnnlnt on the wet surface, lay the fiuv against this and cover the whole fetid up warmly with flannel. It will give ivii-f in almost every instance. Or heal a laudn of salt very hot put it In a bog and ap]dy to the face. There Is something alxmt the salt that srems to relieve the pain whne simply the heat will not help It New York Journal