A Vidim of Complications —— Gy SOPHIE HAMMOND. liifl jtSjl T was the second day out —' from Southampton. The sea was demonstrating rprt j—| how disagreeable, in a gjjj^JjjJl quiet way. It could be, and the deck was emptying rapidly. 'Powell smoking with his back to the rail, was realizing what a bore it was to be crossing with a number of Ger mans "and not an acquaintance on That girl with the wind blown hair over there was an Ameri can; but how the dickens Syrhe occupant of a steamer chair u%r him got up, and the movement roapde him turn. As Ills glance fell upofei the old lady who had risen, he smiled quickly, k "Miss Lockhart!" he exclaimed. "I [didn't know you were on boat-d. I'm feufraid you're finding this motion uu- Can I—get anything?" f*Thank you, Captain Powell," she gasped, stiffly, "but my niece will as sist me." The girl had put down her writing and come hastily forward. "Help me to my stateroom, Madge," said the old lady with dignity. "I am 111." When the niece came back to her scattered writing materials an hour later Fowell turned from his contem plation of the sea. "I hope your aunt Is better. Miss liockhart," he said with polite solici tude. The girl raised her eyes and looked at him curiously for a moment. "Thank you," she said, formally, aiul dropping them again; "just now she is asleep, but I'm afraid she is suffering a great deal." "Oh. she'll probably be all right by tnorning." Powell observed, reassur ingly. "It's this nasty pitching that lias laid her up." "When Aunt Emily goes below it ife long before she reappears," she §*ftd. r'tftU. she looked at him agaiiyf "It "was jHSaratojra. on the liner of the New that her, iVasn'j itVlf "Yew last We were both r»n the'ookout for health. I don't think she remembered me at first." Rhenrad taken up her writing case and opened it on her knee. "01, she knew you perfectly," she said.land resumed her writing so os tensibly that Powell, after a moment, shrugged his shoulders and walked off. I i But there really wasn't .another soul en board to speak to. He could not talk,to the Germans. For n time he "•"wlnTflftTd iflbont, bored and aimless. > But finally he found himself again by the side of his reserved young coun trywoman, doing his usually success- Iful best to make himself entertaining. afterward, when ever she was on jHck. he was generally to be found be uße her. was rather unappreclativo at ' first. She didn't laugh whenever she might have been expected to, and she let hi\n do most of the talking. But now and then a subject would come up , so particularly interesting that she was drawn into it in spite of herself, and nfter several relapses the stiffness could not be regained. When they were more than half way across the Atlantic Miss Lock hart put in a brief appearance on deck. Powell had counted on a good deal of friendliness from her. for she had shown him quite marked attention at Cannes, where, as an invalid from Cu ba. his wound had made him some thing of a lion. But the sea seemed to have worked havoc with her dispo sition, and she responded to all at tempts at conversation With a resent ful snappishness that vpas dlsconcert ing. The by her second Hjtcedj not unalloyed. |Bremark of a pas i: iTirUiere's his breath to myself." a brushing of skirts past- Hflm. "I can't persuade her to move," said a girl's voice, plaintively, as its owner sank into a chair. "I really believe she is worse now than she was at first. To think of her having come abroad for the sea air and being obliged to L stay in that stuffy little cabin all the k rway across! And it's been such lovely "Perfect,'* Powell acquiesced, glanc ing up at the brilliant sky. "A con trast to when I crossed in the other di rection a mouth ago—on my wedding trip." , His companion looked up. - t ' "Your wedding trip!" she repeated, ' -slightly puzzled smile. "What has happened to the bride?" "I don't know," said Powell, savage ly. "or care!" The girl laughed. ! "How dreadful!" she murmured. ' "Oh, I'm In earnest," said Powell, Jerkily. "Didn't you read in the pa pers about that old millionaire who left half of his money to the son of one friend and half to the daughter of another on condition that they would many each other and not let any of hit accumulation get Into the hands of people he didn't know? Well, I'm the man in the story. We had never set eyes on each other, but we both wanted the money, so we compiled j/lth the proviso." "You—married her?" asked the girl, paling n little. "Six weeks ago in New York. It must have looked, a queer affair to outsiders. One dismal morning my lawyer and I drove to the registrator's office, and as we came in by one door another lawyer, with an old gentleman and lady and three girls all in short skirts and blouses and brown veils, entered by another. We all bowed and then the registrator called our names and I and one of the girls—lt might have been any of them, for all I knew—went up to the desk and an swered n few questions and wrote our names. The lawyers gave us each a deed of separation to come Into force at once. Then we all bowed again and the family party got into a car riage and drove off. and I—l hail a two months' furlough, you know, for the honeymoon—came abroad to get out of the talk." His listener's color had faded entire ly. "Her name was Margaret Kennedy, wasn't it?" she said slowly. "I went to school with her. She " "Oh, you needn't hesitate," said Powell, with a short laugh. "I've had several fetching descriptions of her. She's A 1 at a bargain, as I know by experience. And her voice and—er— looks impressed me even through the veil." "She wasn't pretty, cbrtalnly, or very popular, but she was well born, of course, and " she was speaking with evident effort now. "Oh, there is the steward," she said, rising. "I—l must-see if he hasn't something to coax auntie to eat." Powell gazed after her, his face rather colorless, too. "It can't be that she Bah? I haven't the right even to think of such a thing. She'd resent It desperately," he said under bis breath, turning again to the sea. "Wonder if I can get through the next two days without behaving like a cad?" But hi the morning Miss Lockhart emerged from her seclusion, probab ly nfcainst her will, and the day passed quite unconstrainedly. When the last inorning came Powell was silent and stern and Madge was absorbedly so licitous of her aunt's comfort, but the final parting was conventional enough. As their cab bore the aunt and niece away from the docks the girl drew a quick sigh. "A soldier and a gentleman!" she murmured with a little sigh, but there was a glow in her face, nevertheless. The city awoke under weeping skies. Powell, In his club window, gazed gloomily down on the dripping streets. The disgust that his whole appearance bespoke, ho\yever, was not for the dis mal prospect, but for the years that were stretching, in his imagination, without interest and wearisome ahead of him. He was sick of the army, he told himself, and of civilization. As for that pile of money in the bank he loathed the thought of it. One of the club waiters brought him a letter and he tore It open, indiffer ently, and his face changed as he drew It out. "I would not write this," he read, "except that you would learn It from some one else. It was your own mis take in the beginning, you will re member, In taking for granted that my name was the same as that of my mother's sister. And in self-defense I could not do less than leave you under the delusion, though my aunt strong ly disapproved. I am sorry that the only time we are likely to meet I should seem to have been passing un der false colors. But for the future, I beg you will believe, I shall take as good care of your name as you do yourself. "Margaret Kennedy Powell." Without a change in his attitude Powell stood staring down at the pa per in his hand. Then he winced sharply. "What a fool I must hav? looked!" he muttered, the dark color rising in his face. Miss Lockliart was deep in the appre hensive delights of unpacking when a maid entering, announced: "A gentleman to see Mrs. Powell." "It's the landlord," said Miss Lock hart, sharply. "I expected him. Mind, Madge, if he asks for another penny you go." Her niece had risen, with changing color, and put her hands nervously to her hair. "Very well, auntie," she murmured, vaguely, from the door. Jn the hall below she passed before tfie drawing-room portieres; then, parting them, stopped short on the threshold. "Cnptain Towell!" she exclaimed, in a low voice. He came quickly forward. "Oh. you knew I would come," he said, unsmilingly, taking her hands. She laughed. "You made a complete fool of me, I know," he said, flushing. "It must have been tremendously amusing. Heaven only knows what I said, but you've paid me out for it in the last two hours. I've been a victim of com plications from the first. But—oh, Madge—it is all over now. Isn't it? and we are together at last." She gave him her hand and lifted her eyes to his. "Yes, Hugh," she said.—The Ameri can Queen. iAsu. Bachelor of Arts at Fourteen. Pierre Alba, a lad of fourteen, has just received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the faculty of literature of the Paris Unl»#rsity. Owing to a brilliant Latin essay, with which he carried ofT a prize in June last, the age limit fl» A for candidates for the B. A. degree TV® dispensed with, and Alba passed fir xyhlversity examination, re ceiving tUomention "very good." His father is a Lieutenant-Colonel in the French Arrajr, jj The King of Honey Island. "And here I must sit, like a cat on a rug, while yon dance with all these charming ones," said Fairfax. "It is I who lose most if accounts are prop erly squared." Mr. Vernou was present, passing among the thronging guests, his stal wart form and his massive head dis tinguishing him as one cast in no oorn* mon mold. He appeared to have grown and the expression of his face suggested some inward reserve of gloom, albeit he smiled aud conversed -with much of his accustomed stately vivacity. To him General Jaokson showed more marked respect than to any other person in the house. "You will not thinn me noglectful of your gallant husband's inestimable services to me and the country, mad ame," said the general to Mrs. Liv ingston, "if I say frankly that I owe more to Mr. Vernon than to any man in my army." "You may trust me not to mis understand you, general," replied that lady, with frank earnest ness. "Mr. Vernon has al ways been a man of remarkable influence and executive power. My husband has often relied upon him, and - never without avail, in matters apparently beyond hope. But de you know," and she lowered hei voice, "that he is wholly mysterious?' "Yes; I confess that he is the only man that I over met whose motive; and whose character I could not oven guess at." "It is comforting to hear you say so; it confirms me in my romance." She smiled reininiscently and then added: "I have always imagined that some great secret was locked in bis breast." "It is the secret of greatness ham pered by some controlling fate," said Jackson, half in seriousness, perhaps, but guided by his chivalrous impulse to assist Mrs. Livingston in her ro mautic notion. "Do you know that his word is law with the forbans and outlaws?" she suddenly inquired. "My husband says that he controls them perfectly." General Jacksou looked at her, and then, without replying, masked his face in an expression of impene trable reserve. He knew that Liv ingston himself had been accused of standing close in with the Lafittes and other noted law-breakers, and doubtless he feared that the wife of his friend might go too far with her disclosures. Long afterward, in his old age, he remarked to a friend in Nashville that, at the time he was commanding at New Orleans, society there knew no line of division be tween gentlemen and robbers. "But," he added, "the gentlemen were gen tlemen; the robbers, patriots; and tho women were charming; they were angels, sir—angels!" The people thronging the de Se zannes mansion were, indeed, drawn together without regard for fitnoss as we now view it, and little did certain of them dream that the great battle over which they were rejoicing had rung tho note of change and reform; that the flash of those guns had kindled the Are of destruction under the very foundations of outlawry. It is true that Muirell organised his band of rdbbers and thieves in Mississippi and held them together for some years; but in Now Orleans, as if by a wave of a hand, when Mr. Vernon withdrew his influenoe, the Ohats-Huants disappeared, and the power of the Lafittes was broken for ever. The ile Seaannes reception was the last notable eoeial event under the old regime. After that, there followed disclosures which led to Govern mental investigation and legal pro cedure. Steps were taken to admin ister the criminal laws with great vigor in the State, and the United States Government enforced its au thority along the coast. These ohanges speedily brought about a new social order, especially in New Or leans, and the city at onoe took a high place as a center of refinement, lux ury and cu'ture, in which the lines oi division between the fit and the unfit were drawn with extreme exclusive ness. Wilfred Parker made liia last ap pearance in New Orleans society on the ocoasion of Mademoiselle de He zannes's marriage. M. de Se zannes had insisted on inviting him, although Marie iflfered as an objection that she had >ever been able to rid herself of the belief thai Parker had stolen her riiky 0 n thf evening of the party at Chilian d'Or, Lieutenant Ballanche heirtily dis liked the auave little aiyenturer, without knowing just why but he pooh-poohed Marie's suspjjion oi felouious behavior. The very next day Parker w,g iden tified as John A. Murrell, an] with great'difficulty made his escap Into Miseissippi. The crime of whjh he was accused was horse-stealing arid when he left New Orleans, it W as astride of Ballanche's favorite jiare that he rode into the swampy Toods and evaded the officers. When Pauline and were married, the guests at their wJding were chosen with a care U|K sur prised not a few who had ef Id to be invited. It was Mr. Vtl Vim self who kad most insisted a ■ I ex olusiveness. f 8 \ Fairfax had bis drop 'm *\to swallow with all his nupC Is. On the day of his marriage* 'f!.% that Madame SouvestAp M , r over her forturne^^^^ff--™ his o'niiuren, as lie now called Paul ine and Fairfax, live at Ohateau d'Or, where they watched him go gently down the decline of life. He out lived Mrs. Vernon many and died at tho age of ninety-one. For years beforo his death, he spent much time at the old mahogany desk, writing what afterward was found to be both a will and history. In the testament vy part of the huge document ho left all his property to his daughter, and she was surprised to find that a largo part of the bequest consisted of land ed estates in Scotland. The will was .signed MacOollough," and 'among the annexed papers were all the directions, facts and documentary proofs neoessary to establish the truth of a strange and startling autobiog raphy. Oce thing was left without an word of explanation: In the package of papers was inclosed amethyst cross, still shut in tha old, worn leather case. Fauline refused xo make public claim to the estates in Scotland; but after her death, which was in 1849, her children offered the proofs and possessed the property, which was valued at nearly a million dollars. Fairfax never reached eminence as an artist. Indeed, after his marriage, he made no more than occasional efforts with his brush. One of his pictures, however, has been reoently attracting much attention, By some means, it passed from the hands of a friend in New Orleans to whom Fair fax gave it, and is now in the collec tion of "Masterpieces of Obscuro Ar tists" made by the late Marquis de Montluzin. The picture is scaroely more than a study of the face of Kirk MacCol lough, sketched by Fairfax long be fore his marriage and before ho had proof that Pierre Rameau and Colonel Loring were but one man. It is, nevertheless, a powerful piece of work, in which is caught with perfect cunuing the indescribable fascination of the strange outlaw's countenance. Under it, on the darkened margin of the canvas, is written in heavy red letters: ; THE KING OF HONEI ISLAND. THE END. KITE BOAT NOT A SUCCESS. Attempt to Cross From England to France Is a Failure. Mr. S. F. Cody attempted to cross the English channel from Dover to Calais in a fourteen-foot canvas col lapsable boat, attached to two special kites, but failed to make the passage, owing to the unfavorable conditions of a* s r Coof Colonel Cody's Kite Boat. "" the wind. There was a breeze dur ing the morning from the northwest, which it was thought might prove suf ficiently strong to enable the novel trip to be accomplished. About mid day Mr. Cody and a companion, both wearing lifebelts, made a start, amid the cheers of a crowd of spectators on the sea front, says an English ex change. As soon as she was launched the little craft sped away at a good pace towards the French coast, but after she had traveled some distance it was seen from the shore that the kite lines were slackening. On reach ing the lightship the boat encountered rough water set up by a strong east erly current and as the wind veered rapidly to the west the kites began to point up channel. Ultimately one of them fell into the sea and, it being obvious by this time that the French coast could not be reached, the at tempt was abandoned. Chivalrous Turkish Brigands, A rather amusing instance of brig andage is recorded from the town of Konitza, in Epirus, Turkey. A bride groom, with his family and men friends, was proceeding with violins, fifes and other musical instruments, according to the custom of the coun try, to bring away the bride, when, half way, they found themselves beset on all sides by armed brigands, who, at the gun's muzzle, compelled the surrender of every farthing of money and every article of jewelry they pos sessed, even to the nuptial ring. The coup being quite successful, and the booty large, as the family was well to do, and there were many handsome wedding gifts and personal Jewels, the brigands entered into the spirit of ithe occasion, returning the nuptial *®ng and coins equivalent to forty fflkts per head, in order that the jObgroom and his friends might not tyjjk too humiliating figure at the merrymakings. Then, with jjwod wishes for the future hap §s §H the bridal pair, the robbers TOBACCO. and WHERE to SELL ITS * THAT IS THE QUESTION. YOU WANT TO SELL IT WHERE YOU CAN DO THE BEST WITH IT, DON'T YOU? THEN TAKE IT TO WINSTON AND LET SCALES AND THE NORFLEET BOYS SELL IT FOR YOU AT PIEDMONT OR STAB WAREHOUSES. £3?" First sale every day at one of these houses. No Vowels in It. Many places have curious names but apparently there Is only one place which has a name without any vowels That place is the little hamlet of Ws near Paris. Ws being an unpro nounceable name, the Inhabitants ol the hamlet have transformed It Intc "d'Us," but this change has not beer sanctioned legally, and on all the official records the name Ws still ap pears. The hamlet has 117 Inhabi ants, and its sole attractions are the Chateau d'Osny, which has been foi many years In the possession of Ed mond About's family, and the Chateau de Vigny, which is one of the best specimens of the Renaissance style ol architecture. So far as is known, there is onl; one person in Europe at present whc has a name without any vowels, and that is M. Srb, the Mayor of Prague | SOUTHERN RAILWAY. ( The Standard Railway of THE SOUTH. The Direct Une to all Points, TEXAS, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, CUBA and PORTO RICO. •trietly first-class equipment on all through and local trains; Pullman palace sleeping cars on all night trains; fast and safe schedules. Travel by the Southern and you are assured a safe, comfortable and ex peditious journey. 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