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“Pretty, isn’t she?” said Tom .‘Vin-
cent. as he rode along by his half-
brother's side across the. undulating
veldt, and Ralph nodded, although no
name had been mentioned.

There was no need of a. name, when
their list of feminine acquaintances
was so strictly limited. One might
have searched Within a radius of
twenty miles round the spot, near their
home, where they were speaking, with-
out finding more than three European
ladies, and of these, Mrs. Marsden, at-
whose hospitable farm they had just
been visiting, was decidedly homely,
and her little girl took after her. Mr.
Marsdcn’s niece, Viola Gray, however,
was of a different type altogether, and
as Ralph thought of her delicately-col-

ored oval face, with its frame of gold- ,

red- hair, and its soft, dreamy eyes, he
felt that to speak of Miss Gray as
"pretty" was to do her an injustice.

“Beautiful, rather,” he said, quietly,
and flushed a little.

Tom was the first to speak again.

“If I had known that Viola-that
Miss Gray was coming to the Mars-
dens, I should not have suggested
sending for Floss to come and look af-
ter us.”

“Why?”

“Well, a sister isratlier in the way
when one marries,” said Tom, slowly.
“You know what the proverb says
about two womenin one house.”

“ch have not got one woman in the
house at present,” said Ralph, and his
half—brother smiled with easy self-con-
lidcncc.

“No; but it won’t be my fault if we
don’t have one soon, whether Floss dc-
cides to cenie or not. Directly I saw
Viola, last week, I said to myself,
There is the wife for me.”

“You have said that to yourself be,

fore, haven’t you?” asked Ralph, and
Tom smiled good-naturcdly. 7

“Lots of times, but this time it is
serious, and there is nothing in the
way. We can either of us afford to
marry.” '

“And so Miss Gray is willing?"
asked Ralph, clearing his throat.

“I haven’t asked her yet, but she
seems to like me; and out here, of
course, I have not much four of a
rival.”

“NO?”

There was something in the tone of
the short monosyllable which made
his brother turn sharply.

“Well. what rival is there?”

Ralph’s face had grown a shade pal-
er than usual; his lips werc tightly
cenipressed. '

“Why don't you tell me?"
Tom.

“I suppose it would be more fair and
square if I did,” said Ralph, slowly
and thoughtfully. “I am sorry, old
man, but you have one rival.”

“W'ho?”

“Can’t y‘ou guess?”

“I am hanged if I can. You don't
mean that head-man 0f Marsden’s,
Clayton?”

“Of course not. But is there any
particular reason why I should not
think of marrying?”

Tom pulled up his horse to stare at
him in unfeigned astonishment.

“You—think of marrying—Viola
Gray?”

“Why not?”

There was something in Ralph’s
voice again which surprised his broth-
er, and made him stifle the inclination
he had felt to laugh. .

“I do not know why I should be sur—
prised,” he said, seriously, "but some-
how I never thought of your marry-
ing. We always looked upon you as
a confirmed bachelor.”

“Because I never met the right wo-
man.”

“And you have met her
Gray?”

“This is awkward,” he said. “You
cannot expect me to give up my claim
to her?”

“You have no more claim than I. She
likes me at least as much as you.”

“That is a matter of opinion,” said
Tom. “I am going to ask her to be my
wife to-morrow.”

“So am I,” said Ralph, and his
brother laughed unpleasantly again.

The unanticipated rivalry made Tom

asked

in Viola

.feel more determined than ever to se-

cure Viola for himself.

His face and voice beganto betray
some little anxiety.

“Do you think that Viola is in love
with you?” , he asked, trying to covgr
the anxiety with a sneer, and Ralph’s
voice came as a pleasing contrast with
its quiet earnestness, as he answered:

“I do not think that she is in love
with either of us, although she certain-
ly likes us both.”

“Then the one who speaks first will

have the pull,” said Tom, quickly, and
was sorry the next moment that he
had not acted on the idea instead of
putting the enemy on his guard by
mentioning it.
. Ralph did not answer. He was real-
izing how true the words were likely
to be, and that the chance of a word
from his brother might lose for him
the woman who seemed to him the
one for whom he had always waited
and looked forward.

They had reached the farm and a
Kafiir servant was coming out to take
their horses.

“Oinwayho seems to have a letter,”
said Tom, who had caught sight of
him first. “\Ve shall see whether Floss
has decided to come.”

He took the letter from the Kaffir as
he approached, and glancing at the ad-
dress, handed it across to his brother.
Ralph opened it quickly.

"Is she coming?” asked Tom, al-
though thc arrival of his sister was a

. matter of less importance to him since

Viola had come to the neighboring
farm. '

“She has come, of course,” said his
brother. trying to hide theeagerness
": his voice, and his face fell when he

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found th t Ralph had realized what
his absence might mean. ,

“I do not see why I should go,” said
Ralph in a way that surprised his
brbther and showed him that, easy-
going as he was in an ordinary‘way,

he could be firm when he liked. “You :

were all anxiety to gopwhen we first
spoke of Floss coming out.”

“I have changed my mind,” said
Tom. - .

“But I have not agreed to your
changing it,” said Ralph. “Unless you
can give me a good» reason for doing
so, I shall certainly refuse to take your
place.”

“Then Floss will have to come here
by herself.”

“What! all the way from Natal,
more than a week’s journey through a
country that she knows nothing about?
We cannot think of it.”

“I suppose not, so you
for her.”

“Or you,” ’said' Ralph. “You must
see in common fairness that it is as
much your duty as mine. But it is
of no use quarreling about it. We must
decide it like sensible men, and broth-
ers.”

“How?”

“The fairest thing seems to be to
toss up which goes.”

Tom’s eyes brightened. After the
decided way in which, before Viola
Gray’s advent, he had declared his in-
tention of meeting his sister at Natal,
if she came, and spending a week or
two there. he was afraid that Ralph
might insist on his holding to his in-
tention.

His face flushed as a sudden thought
came to him. '

“Let us decide it by a throw of the
dice. Clayton gave me a set to-day,”
he said.

"Anything, so long as it is a matter
of chance,” said Ralph; and still red,
his brother felt in his pocket for the
cubes which were to decide which of
the two was to have the field to him-
self in trying to change Viola Gray’s
liking into love.

“Do you want to throw at once?”

“Why not? The one who has to go
will have to start as soon as it it light.
If I am unlucky I shall turn in as soon

had better go

as I have had my supper. Hand me
the dice."
“ 'ou will decide it on a single

throw ?”

“All right.”

Ralph shook them up in his hand as
he spoke and throw them on the ta-
ble, bending over it anxiously to see
the result. His face had turned pale
again under its bronze as he thought
how much depended upon the result.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he
looked down at the dice. He had
thrown fifteen. It was scarcely likely
that his brother could be more success-
ful.

Tom’s face had grown whiter than
his when he took up the dice, and
tried his luck. -

“Eighteen,” he said sharply, and
there was no cxultation in his voice,
although he had won. “Eighteen. You“
will have to go, Ralph.”

“I suppose so,” said Ralph, huskily.
‘Well! good-night. I shall turn in
now, and start before you are up.”

Tom flushed again as he took his
outstretched hand.

“Aren’t you going to have supper?”

“No, thanks. I am not hungryfiGood-
night.”

He turned into the small white-
washed room at the back of the build-
ing where he slept, feeling that the
dream of his life was ended.

At the very shortest, the journey to
Natal and back would occupy him ten
days, ten days in which his brother
would seize every opportunity of see-
ing the woman he loved and making
her care for him.

His brother rose later, in the best
of spirits, and as Ralph had expected,
started as soon as he had breakfasted
and walked round the farm, to ride to
the Marsden’s.

A lady's figure had appeared in the
pretty verandah, and was coming to
meet him, and Toni Vincent’s facc
brightened at the sight. '

The brightness disappeared as the
figure came nearer, and he saw that
it was only Mrs. Marsden; but Viola
could not be far away, and he had no
rival now.

“Here I am again,” he said. “Ralph
has gone to Natal, and left me all
alone. I thought you would take pity
on me in my loneliness, Mrs. Mars—
den.” ‘

She smiled a welcome.

"We are always glad to see you; it is
duller for us now that Viola has gone."

”Miss Gray gone?" he said, staring
at her; and Mrs. Marsden nodded.

"Of course you have not heard. The
mail last night brought a letter from
her brother in Natal. He is ill. poor
fellow. and she wanted to start at once
to nurse him. George was going to
take her as’ far as Ochcfsdroom. but

luckily they met Ralph'at Gayler‘s
Drift. and George put her in his
charm-a it is lucky for us that your

broth 1- was going to Natal, wasn't it?
George is just back.”

Sherri! cu chatting without notic-
ing the vimiagyu that had come into the
young man's v}; r'sion as he rode.
slowly by llr‘l‘ side '2'.) :hc house. But
she noticed that he was unusually si-
lent. ~

He scarcely spoke untilcthey had
reached the house, and she ran iii—

 

doors while he was attending to his .

horse. . .

Tom waited until," she; ivas~ out of
sight, and then takingfthethr'ce‘loadi
ed dice which Mr. Maijsden’s overseer
had given him as a curiosity on the
previous day from his pocket. he
threw them down and ground them. un-
der his heel.

“This is all you have done for me,"

' he said, and ground them again, as

he thought of the journey that "Viola
and Ralph would have together. He.

‘Vlznew so well what the end would be.

 

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The telegraph reports that President
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There were three real estate sales in
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Skunks Fond bf Honey Ber-S.

“Never before in my memory have
skunks been so numerous in Sullivan
county as this year,” said \Villiam
Cairnes of Rockland., “I’ve killed no
fewer than twenty-one of them myself
the present season, and if they come
on as they have been doing for the past
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“Some people are skeptical when 1
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but it’s the truth all the same, for
I have been a close observer of these
animals, and when I saw my bees dis-
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kept watch, with the result that ]
found it to be the work of the skunk.
I was much interested in the method
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picked up all the dead bees which lay
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tails to the entrance. This/ had the ef-
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and in their elforts testing they be
came entangled in the long hairs of the
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Mr. Billings took up his cup of what
the" landlady called coffee, tasted it,
sniffed it, and set it down.

"Have you anything to say against
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What Dean Herbert E Smith of yale medical
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one of the most noted analytical Chem:
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.. BOSSBAKINGPOWDER;—

YALE Maintain. SCHOOL. New Haven, Conn.
' December 20, 1895.
C. D. Boss 8: SON, New London Conn.

GENTLEMEX:—_I have examined the package of Boss

Baking Powder which you sent to me for that purpose.
I find that it is composed of the ingredients which in my
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~ Yours truly,

‘ . ‘ q .. . Connecticut State Chemist.
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