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i:n:r·:rea!!Ontable :requirements. · reform. I know ,to·night it woulq go j\ust money has gone. Tlie utmost I do tot you, the 11.tte:rmost ··that duty constra(As me to do, Is to provide you· with-tho tneims ·of l!vin~ decently tram week . to 'veek. Tha.t I will do, and. no more. And even to do tluit I shall·haV\e to ·boi--row money. Your demands completely axba.usted:_ my resources.\ \Very good. Then I must have rerrourse to some one else. 1'l!ere ~s a lady in this house upon whom my c!aim is socuud only to my clnim upon you.\ \A lady in thi\i hUUb-e?\ t·epeated Clare, aghast -with 'wonder. · \Grace DarneT.is my a:flianced wife. I b'e· lieve iL man hilS some kind of clilim upon the WOIIlllJl WhO h¥ proin.lsed' to marry him.\ · · · , · \My st~p~ugbter, Gr:o.c_e, !lJ'Ii~nced to YOJl to you, Valentine Mackenz1e! mu~ be mad to say such a thing.\ . \This statement may sonnd preposterous, but It is tr.l,le. Miss Darnel'took it into her pea.<.l to ~v'ork a~ the Louvre ju~t ut, the time I was workJng there. You tbi~ \ery lil<ely tliat l never did so work, that my art education was altogether a shrun. But there you belie me. I worked honestly. enough tilll got slck of an impossible pro- fesl!ion. No matter. I was atttacted by tb.e young lady's. appearance, was able to Ila'/ her some small attention, and saw that i<h\' WI).\ n1<UL.'led with me. ·I contrived to question ner auenna. .1 neam tnat sne was Miss Darnel of Darnel Park-an heiress. The Imbroglio became interesti~g. an~ I_ determined to try my chances With Miss Darnel· whom I really admired more tha.n lillY· giri I had seen for an age.\ \What an honor for Grace!\ \I contrived to get upon confidential terms with her, and soon found'the key to her heart. She is a. generous, hlgh-sp.irited girl, full of romance. Just the girl to think the world well lost for love. We were des: (Jerately in love with eaclr other. A shttqJ attack of-of-an old complaint of mine btought me to dcath's door.\ \Was It your fl\ther's malady, the dire disease that comes from .. intemperance, Valentine?\ aslted hls mother, looking at him int-ently, seeing only too plainly in his hag,...ard 'fu<;e the same indications which she had seen so often in the f.ace Qf }Jer dead hnsband·. . \No matter lVhat it was, I wrote to Mlss Darnel ·from my sick bed. She a11swered as a true-hearted· girl might be expected to answer.. She pwlliised to be.rny wife. I have that promise under her own band. ::;he will be of agEl in a year. And as soon as she-is of·a~eand her own mistress I sball claim the fnlffllment of that promlsa.\ \DOO&she know who you are?\ \Well not exactly. When you are in Rome, do as the Romans do, says, the pro· verb. When I wa,s in Pa.rls I was a Frenc!I- man. One alias is as good as another. In Paris I was not Valentine Stuart, but Victor de Cam!Uac.\ \And you come to this house-an ad- venturer, an impostor, a s\Vindler-~ claim , the promise mad11 by a credulous girl, your dupe and victim. You, my son, would. do this thing. This is the deepest , disgr&.u you have threatened me with, yet. \Jt is tor you to wol'k out the problem so as to avoid disgrace. Give me £300 or £400 and I will start for Cadiz to-morrow, tore· a year as a mer· New and Elegant TO SELECT FROM. The ~EXTREME·LOW PIU HQ.;·~ . . during the past. month luts added very lar.gety; We have just receiveil some ne.w: Are you ' I IMITATION ~AHOGANY, , . Just out. Some very pretty Are Oil Finish, 'vith 'pplished tops, and.~ Good-night, dear cheaper made tables. It wilt-pay you to .Ji'@tlX~,:ttt;~~~t.'~~t:t~~;;_:.,\ with an Mahogany Book ' . IN LOW PRICES. Office ·Desks, Library Chairs, , and Dining Chaits, in .t~tl~J.l.A:~~:r~ . -· Some new ~nd odd things in . .. reed and . rattan w Engr~vings and Picture .M ............... ~ ... fin great vai?ety. The best wagon made~ .. , · . l'an te.d' .. .'1 i4