CAPE MAY HERALD.

AM INDKPCNOKNT WEKKLY.

ined Every Saturday Mornlnt at 506 Washington Street, Cape May. N. J.

-Byi. A. SCULL, • Pcblisler lid Proprlitor.

SUBSCRIPTION:

One Dollar Per Year In Advance.

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Capa May, ter, March

mV' Official ftotUUcs show that there ’ are seventeen million children in Rus- [ aian between the aper of sis and fouri teen receiving absolutely no educa-

tion.

W The Australian Commonwealth has j .adopted an eight-lfour working day and r provided for the creation of compulf »or>- conciliation boards, which are l <. loth oil with plenary powers to adjust all disputes as to wages and coudlL:\tlons of employment between employt Vrs and employed. rli If the Society for the Prevention of T Cruelty . tq Children had no other i claim upon public support, its exhibit | of ronflstiratcd Instruments of punlsh- ' Kept would sufficient, says the j American Cultivator. Any one of the Instruments would be sufficient to , turn an ordinary child into a revengoI ful outcast.

;^tween the printing-press and the ini era there will he no lack of graph i_ human documents about this generation. stales the New ,York Post. ! Every small incident in a life may bo handed down to its direct offspring, and the result eahnot but be entertaining. If now pad then embarrassing, to. ; people in times to come. .It Is not . even left to one to choose the posa and the surroundings, any more; the » photographer is everywhere, and bis - realism unconscionable. One's, I children, ones wife, one's servants. the camp In the woods, the interior of the bopse. the way one sits'In the I saddle and the way one gets himself np for automoblling—all are set forth In negative's owned by strangers. j Must the American girl reduce h *r | -weight? ’ That Is-the question. If not, ! alii the American man be willing to ! take her to ride - in bis ahtomobile. | when there is danger that he toay i have to push the'vehicle home with ! her in it when the power gives out or some of the nYechanlsm breaks '. down? That is another question an0 - an important one. A harrowing tale ; come from the West. A man named Cfrthhcrt Williamson went out one Afternoon in his automobile, having •ecured as his companion for thu ride a young woman of rather unusually ample proportions. When they wpro eight miles-from town the machine j broke down, and Cuthbert had to push | Die thing back to civilisation and the j- Whcksmith. his companion riding and guiding. It was eleven o'clock at night when they reached home, and Cothbert was weary and wan. Me sold the I machine the^next day. from which it la interred that'he was devoted to the lady, but the less appreclstive parai graphers of hia vicinity are laying it all to her weight, and are raising the burning questions mooted Ebovp. In Ohio a thing may happen a half-hour before It doea happen. When ^Standard time was .adopted by the rallj ways a decade or so ago and later | j6ade official thae by the variona 1 ^gtaies and municipallUea, although the Ohio' legislature stamped It with ita more.important elUea have two kinds seal ot approval, few towns made the change, and even now many of the of time, standard (that of the 90th ! meridian) and sun. The difference In Ohio bctween-lheac two la about a half i hour, and to have the banka, courts, railways and about half the bouses running ^by^' iundard Ume't and .the L rest of a city running by "sun time” i ta. to say the least, confusing. An inI arresting lawsuit recently grew out of j this condition in Xkroh. A property | owner took onf a Are Insurance policy at 1.1.27 standard time, but the policy was dated • npon.'' It being 11.o'clockby the sun. H happened that c the 'building took fire at the minute the ' policy was being written, and the InI aorance_ company refuted to pay the | damages. Suit was brought, and U i was decided by the- supreme court of 1 the state that as "standard time” was j legal time ‘n Ohio, the policy, although I u was written at 12 o'clock sun time, really been written thirty-three ;u4s carMer at 11.27. and therefore „ cothpsny mutt pay the insurance.

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T-HEi/nTJSTCRT- OF-TMC

» evening, to pay

cn.YirrEK t. Continued. "And my own fri«9lds.’• added the girl, wfth spirit, “would have been just as disgusted with me for taking advantage of the passing fancy of A man In your position to marry above my own rank in life." t But to this Clifford answered with great composut ••Yon will tr

cert

marry me or not. Beauty like yours has a rank of Its own. to begin wltb. And for these wild hordes of relatfous of mine, they only exist in your Imagination. There Is no one to prevent me doing as 1 like; and even if there were they might try. but they wouldn't suc-

ceed.”

To this Nell made no answer. After a short silence Clifford spoke again: "Well, I'm going. I shall come again

to-morrow, If not this mir bill, and—” -

Nell raised her face with an angry

Hush.

•'You will not pay it." she said, quickly. •'Do you think, when you have lost so much money In the house that we would allow you toT” ‘ But that was not your fanlt nor your uncle's." Again the mysterious trouble that suggested at least a guilty halfknowledge appeared In the glri'weyea. Clifford turned away his head that he might not aee it. "I think wc ought to bear the responsibility,” she said earnestly. "But 1 do net. Why should people who are absolutely good suffer for the fault* of the absolutely bad?" Nell sighed. •'Absolutely good! Wo are not that. At least I can answer for ugweif as to that.” ' __ “Who could contest the goodness of a girl who caw rlak her own health, perhaps even her life, to minister to a sick woman?'' Nell dashed upon him a look of supremo contempt. "I don't do this because 1 am good, hut because I am angry and worried,” she said, glancing at the broom in her hand. “I could have scat some one to sweep Mrs. Corbett's cottage; there are plenty of people about here poor enough to be glad to do it for a few pence. I do it because I am miserable and want to make a martyr of niy-

artfr

Now Clifford liked her even better for this show of spirit thaa be had done for her courage. It removed her. be felt, out of the gray-faced ranks of sour women who go througn rounds of district-visiting as a duty oppressive to themselves and still more oppressive to the unfortunate people they

visit.

"There.” ended Nell, with one last defiant, flourishing sweep of the broom as she returned to the door, "now you do really know me better than you thought r "And like you better, too!” cried Clifford a louder voice, as the disappeared through the doorway.

CHAPTER VL For some distance on the road to Straan tbe^Micjous glow cast upon him by t£is stimulating conversation lasted, and made Clifford as happy as

a bird.

But when the irregular outline the old-fashioned town grew more defined under the September sky, and the meeting with Jordan and Conybcare. crew nearer he_had. to_CQij<*ra himself .with the manner In which he should get out of the difficulties Which his stay, under the roof of the Blue I.ion had brought upon him: What had they heard and what Tr{iat would they ball eve? He had not to ask himself these questions long, for before he reached the town be came.upon Jordan with an easel, a sketch-book and a pipe, and Cooybeare with a strapful of books and a white umbrella. Their demeanor was not kindly toward the errant Clifford, A garbled version of the story of the robbery had, Indeed, reached them already, and they had both made np their mtnda tbit Nell was the thief. Willie Jordan, of course, was the more Inclined to this rlew from hla resentment at having been "cut out” by Clifford, who. on his side, was reticent and entirely si-

: sudden inhlm to pro>

> had led 1 n'the girl.

fatuatlon

pose' marriage to '

Very soon the subject of the Blue IJou and Ita inhabitants was tacitly tabooed among the friends, and It was not until ten days later that any of then, found their way to -the little inn

by til '

ment of the innkeeper’s niece. She was just the sort of girl, he said.

she always disappeared before bo could come near. The last day of the stay of the three friends arrived, and they made ono despairing attempt to bid her good-by. Qftford had preserved bis reticence eonrernlug the girl, but tl)b other two more thaa suspected him. Willie had softened in his views of the mysterious affair, and It was now only Conybcarc who persisted in a harsh Judg-

iper's n

sort of

to attract young fools uud make them lose their wits aud their money. He. however, was as anxious for a farewell peep at the mysterious beauty as his companious. This time they were fortunate. When they had gone past the inn, they caught sight of the pretty figure whom they all had In their thoughts, and they oil pretended to view It with Indifference. Willie was the first to break" down in this assumption. •There she Is!” he said. In quite a tremulous voice. "It’s .no use pretending we don't see her. Do you think sheUl run away If we get over the fence?” . Clifford had already made the experi-

ment.

To the great relief of the whole party. Nell turned slowly and waited for their approach without' a smile, with. Indeed, a sort of quiet defiance. “1 suppose.” shi said to Clifford, as soon as he came tip. "you have come to aay good-by. you and 3'our friends, before you go back to town?” She had remembered the date he had given her for that event, then. This was a ray of consolation, but she gave him no other. She was cokl. reserved, almost bard. He fclt'so an- N gry with her for her contemptuous disregard of his feellr ‘ " *'

for the moment extinguished by

ben: so far as to invite them all In to tea, and the three young men were much puzzled as to which of them it was who had procured them this favor. Conybeare seemed to be, on the whole, the one to whom she talked the most; Clifford was. without any doubt, the one of whom she took the

least notice.

The meal, on the whole, was a pleasant one. although Claris himself was more taciturn than he had been on that unlucky day when be aud Nell and Clifford had spent such a merry hour In the little sitting-room.

t ‘ tot J* And. of oour r 1L However, she ufc- oninlnn nl ^ n .

Now the weather had changed; the autumn winds were whistling about the little Inn. and the 1 blue sea had become a dark-gray line, flecked with white crests. There was a fire In the little grate, and It was when Otto Conybeare moved quickly forward to poke It for Nell that the Incident ocl enrred which was to throw a shadow over-the meeting. In passing a side-table upon which stood a wicker work-basket, Otto draggedahe cloth off. and brought the basket trad all the rest of the thing* on the table with a crash to the floor. Willie, who was near him. went down on Lis knees dth apologies for Otto's clumsiness. “Ho" thinks it's manly, you know, to show a contemptuous Indifference to such feminine trifles. A rare sign of genius, you know. Miss Claris, anil you must excuse it. as It's the" only sign he's got. Ob. and Jnst look at the'pretty thing* he's been trampling under his great intellectual feet!" And WHUe held up to' the astonished g&ze 6f the rest a guttering Jewel Ahich sparkled In the firelight. For a moment there was an oppressive silence. Then NeU, pale and agitated, snatched it from him with fingers so unstepdy that the trinket fell to the Boor again. It was Clifford whe picked It up this time and gave It to the girl without a word. Nell would have put It back Into her basket, but George Claris, on whom the appalled silence of the young men had not been lost told his niece in a rough tone to give it to him. “What is the thing?” he asked,

sharply.

“Only one of a pair bf old-fashioned earrings, nude," answered -NBltpwnii emotion, which no cfforta~M>Tfcr ipart

could bide.

“Earrings! I didn't know you had any!. Where did you get them? Who

gave them to you?”

For one moment the girl fenced with him. trying to treat the matter lightly, ■s she got upon a chair and placed the

i work-basket at the top of the high j cupboard by the fireplace. But George j Claris was not a man to be trifled tfltb.

Seizing the girl "by the shoulder so roughly that he almost dragged hor to the ground, he tore the work Irasket out at her hand*, flung back the Bd. ami turned out the contents upon tfce table, the chairs, anywhere, until he [ bad found both the earrings.

Then be held them' up to the light critically: then he looked at NeU with

l

r too shore.

W hen they did so. However, they were disappointed In the object dt | their visit. NeU was never to be seen, and not onO of the three young men ever dared to ask for her, as George Claris, looking upon them apparently I as fellow-conspirators against the fair j

fame of his house, was curt to the ' A puzzled frown,

verge/of rodepess to them all. j' “Who gave 'em to you?" be asked

Now this Invisibility on the part of j uharply.

NeU. far from cooling Clifford's quick- i The young men. trying to hide tbi ly sprung-up (Mission, served only to in- ! Ipterest in her answer by tnlkiL. Came it further. But it was In rain I among themselves, yet listened eagorbe. wrote—la vain he hung about the | ly. She blushed, stammered, then neighborhood. Although on two or , tamed white os she said: ifcres-oceasloct he caught sight of her. “The colonel gave them to me—

Colonel Bostal. At least, be and Miss Theodora.” . George Claris rubbed one of the earrings on hla sleeve, aud thru lather quickly thrust them both out ot Night under a little pile of old papers and magazines which had been replaced upon the side-table. “Well, 1 don't know what-folk* wan. spending mosey on Jew'lry for, Wueu you can get Just as good to look at for next to nothing. And next to nothing must be the vally of anything ns Miss Theodora gives away." he added, with a rather, forced attempt at Jocularity, Clifford, who was muctT petfurbed by this incident, on account of the Niruction bl3 two friend*.were sur put upon It. made haste to turn the talk Into another channel. He knew that he had not heard the last of if. And he wa* not surprised to see Otto, at a later period of the evening, when the rest were In the garden, draw the earrings from the place where they had been put. and examine them carefully by the light of the lamp. While Clifford lingered Ixhlud for a fete last words with Nell the other two. having'taken their leave, walked on together. Willie spoke first. Puffing at the pipe he had just lit. be glanced np at

Otto.

“Well, snd what is your opinion of our fair friend now?” he asked. "My opinion Is that she I* a thief, aud a very daring, if not a very skill-' ful one. Those earrings were pearl* and rubles, real ones, very old-fash-ioned, but worth something.'' “And you don't think they may have

been given to her?','

"My dear fellow, look at the story. Is there anything to blush about In the fact of receiving a present from an ohl man and his old daughter? Yet. undoubtedly, she did blush. Then look at the Improbability of the thing. The Bostals are an poor as church mice. Would they have such a thing as these earrings? Well, i-erbaps they might have. But would they give them away? The old man night, infatuated with her pretty face, hut not the Starchy, elderly-young lady." "Yen had better not tell Clifford

what you think."

'T don't mean to. But I mean to try to save him from this entanglement; antl^n. order to carry out my plan, he must tiotwiispeci that I have one. He won't say mdplr aoouf her. yon bet; l '-~ i:: “ , LJhc«^llfiud of our raillery. And

more than he does,

arse. If he asks .me my

opinion nbont the earring*. I shall say ,

they were worthies*. See?"

.WiUic nodded. He no longer bore Clifford malice for cutting him out; he was only too thankful that he had been himsell saved from a deep tumble Into

the same pitfall

It was about a fortnight after the return to towji of the three friends that there drors up to the Blue Lion, one bitter evening, a hired dog-cart from Slrozn, in which sat a gentleman who told the landlord that he was on the way to Courtstalrs. ,but that he found the weather too severe, and should bo glad to put up at the inn until the following morning. He wan a pleasant, talkative young fellow, and Geprge Claris, who had been growing

rtmier

thawed _____ stranger's genii' manner, and passed

moody i

under

the influence of tho i' manner, and passed

•the etching smoking and talking by the fire In the little bar-parlor. Only

once in the coarse of the evening did

he catch sight of NeU.

She was passing through the passage on her way upstairs, aud she appeared at the door or the room for an instant only, to give a message to her nncle. A* she stood there, the yoong man took occasion to mention that he must try to push on to-morrow, as he was ..carrying property of some value for a firm in whose employment be was. which was expected by cnotber firm to whom he was comraissiansd. And he noticed that.'as be said this, the girl's bright color left her checks. "Why don't you push on to-night, then?" she jakl. brusquely, advancing a step into the room and fixing her eyes earnestly upon him. "The weather may be worse to-morrow, and it you are afraid of a little wind, von should have gone by rail,' and'not 6y

road.”

The yonng man rose politely, and looked at her cnrloosly is she spoke. Bat befqre die had had time to utter a v.onl In answer, her uncle dismissed' her from the room with a by no means gentle reminder that It was no business of hers. The visitor. In spite of tlie Importance of his commission, seemed Jo be in no great hurry to push on with his Journey: for on the following day, as the wind was still cold, aud the sky still gloomy, be remained at the Blue

Lion.

George Claris had n ahrewd suspicion that It was the bine eyes of his pretty niece which made "the stranger so dilatory, and he took care that the girl should be invisible ibrongbont the whole of the day. Aa he bad expected.

presently found occasion to ask If the yonng lady had left the bouse. "No." answered George, shortly, “she is In the bouse right enough, but yon won’t see no more of her. My niece I* a lady.- sir, for^Cil *be Is my niece, and she don't 'av* notliin’ to do with

my business.”’

The young man. rather to the landlord* *urprlse. appeared entirely sat-

isfied with this explanation.

Indeed, be bad every reason to be so, for Jhe was a friend of Otto Conybrnre's, whom that young gentleman had sent dopm to do a little amateur detective work in the supposed.intqrcrt of Clifford King, but without, of ie ' r - course, informing Clifford of his ben-

in * 'cvolent IntcutiM!

To be Conlinued.

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