CHAI~TER XXVIII--(Continued).
It was also related to him that Don
Juan, the sole surviving member of the
royalist band in authority, had re-
turned to the Castle of Salvarez, tak-
ing the entire party of Englishmen
with him,. and had issued a public
proclamation announcing th.e death of
Philip and the end of thb royal occu-
pation. He had also forwarded to
Caracas a full report and confession,
and was now waiting to turn the cas-
fie over to General Salvarez whenever
he sllou~ld return.
Bursting with all this news, he bur-
lied bacl~ to the Cheerway.
"Hurrah! hurrah!" he shouted,
to this time he has not divulged its
contents to a living soul.
THE END.
.....
"It is your own fault, Clara," said
Yqalter May.
"Of course it is." cried out Clara,
passionately stamping her foot on the
carpet. "Do you suppose I don't know
it perfectly well? And that is what
a wood fire glanc~og aud gttmmerYng
softly over the crimson haugi~ o:
the "bes~ chamber," ~ she ~&n to
think that perhaps she had been mis-
taken in some of her idea~.
The nex~ day she had a lo~ag, confi-
dential talk with her father-in-law,
while Mrs. May was making mince
pies in the kitchen.
"But there's one thing I haven't
dared to tell Walter about," she said,
with tears in her eyes.
"What is that, my dear?" said th~
old gentleman.
"My dressmake'r's bi!l," said
"It came' the night before I left
York~oh, such a dreadful hill. I
hadn't any idea it could amount up
so fearfully."
"How much was it?" said Mr. Noah
May, patting her hand.
"A hundred and fifty dollars." said
Clara, hanging down her head.
"Don't fret, my dear, don't fret,"
said the old gentleman. "Walter need
never know anything about it. I'll
settle the bill and there" s'hall be an
end of the matter."
"Oh,~ sir, you really;"
"~[y dear," old
& 8OLDIBR IN LUZON.
At the open 'flap of his narrow tent
hang8 a strip of the, midnight
skies,
Pricked thro' by a myriad points of
light, that flash in his tired
eyes;
He has waked from a dream of a sum-
mer day, and now, with a throb
of pain,
He pillows his head on his young
right arm. and summons the
dream again.
A "pathway barred by shadows and
shine, a glow in the golden
-west;
A song in the rustling leaves o'erhead,
the bell Clanged. Two uniformed drlv-
where, in the post, could be found
Mrs. Bridget Mooohan, Miss Katie
O'Hollihan, Mrs. Norah Brannigan,
and so on, for whom, the flower wag-
on drivers said, they had wag'on loads"
of flowers and plants. The command.
tng officer, overhe~ring the colloquy
at the door, came out and talked with
the drivers. He ascertained from them
the name of the queerly generous per.
son who was bestowing his floral fa-
vors upon the queens 'of the wash.
board~Mr. So-and-So, they told him,
giving the name of the scapegrace
prlvat~ Every day from that on, the
driYer of a delivery wagon, contain-
ing stacks of candy, or more flowers.
would ring the bell of the command-
ing officer's quarters and gravely ask
where he could find Magg,e This or
Tessie That or Bridget the Othez, The
officer
over all comdL°t
has seen horses in
cry froz~
of an injured foot an~
.tears in streams.
declares that he ]
the eye~ of
Ll~:ln~tone used to have 4 ape
that cried
not take It t
have died crying, and wept
over their young ones slain by hunt.
ors. Sea lions are
loss of their young,
had been a
tells ~ a
trained
one fall and break
