... SHORT STORY. RENUNCIATION. Elizabeth ? Oh, yea, Elizabeth, with the meek, pale face and soft, brown eyes. Everybody liked Elizabeth; everybody felt sorry for her. She was so gentle, so patient in {>er afflictionfor when Elizabeth was sixteen she became ...

... SHORT STORY. • ONLY COUSINLY LOVE. ‘By Jot®, but tbi* U > night when * great fire, an nsy-chair, and a pipe make a fellow feel that life really in worth the living! Whew I bow the wind howU and the mow daahee against the window! I’m sorry tor any poor ...

... SHORT STORY. THE THEOSOPHISrS TALE “Did you ever have great shadow fall stress your life?” asked the Theosophist, brushing aside his empty coffee cup, resting his share elbows on the table, and gazing through bis great platinum- rimmed spectacles. “Not ...

... SHORT STORY. THE POOR DUCHESS. It really very bard on the poor Dud sa, •epecialW after all the toll and labour ah« had ungrudgingly expended on her unattra ra progeny. Now. when she had just managed tetrlare the shattered ducal fortunes by brir ag off ...

... SHORT STORY. MOLLY’S DRESS. Molly was determined to the party, •nil yet she knew that she would the worstdressed girl in the room. Her frocks were all so shabby, and none of them more so than the one she would be forced to wear if she accepted Frank Gillman’s ...

... SHORT STORY. SHOT IN THB EYE. At the early dual clsaad in the girb « U * the fitful blaie in quiet companioDahip. There was air of expectancy surrounding them. Tbs younger one tapped her too restlessly from tims totime, and occasionally glanced out of ...

... SHORT STORY, WITCH AND I. Witch and I had quarrel! Who ia it that it takes two make quarrel ? Whoever it is makes a mistake. It took only one to make our quarrel, and that was my precious Aunt Betsy Jane. Witch has temper; so have I. She wasn’t christened ...

... SHORT STORY. A NEW ENGLAND GHOST TALE. Timothy Dole, -old Tim Dole,” a* was called by bis associates, was great aad powerful blacksmith la quiet little Tillage the hills. Has was an honest, hard-working, Undhsorted man. and great tsTourite with all the ...

... SHORT STORY. NEELEY'S NERVE. •apeeUae of moa of and ability to •boot atnigfat,” aaldtbaotd ranchman, “majrba (oom of ban heard of Johnny Neeleyf Meeley came down to Santa la the oM days before the railroada. He hailed from St. Louie or Kanaaa City, or ...

... SHORT STORY., THE EUCLASE RING. . I trill tell the story as well I can, but it will > „ I fear, but thing of shreds and patches. s t remember Frank Whittington ? He was y godson, and I was very fond of him, and When introduced me to his affianced bride ...

... SHORT STORY; A LOVE CHASE Cuter not had fellow, j Ho to oacecdingly modoat. Thto to a moot unooual characteristic For young man who is spending fortune gathered another’s talenta, but eo great a degree does possess It that it seemed to him Impossible ...

... SHORT STORY. THE BISHOPS LITTLE HOLIDAY.* I. SotE.Uxljr one* called him ‘The HUhop Q. of Wmn*»loo.” in recognition, probably, of hie resemblance to that pictorial cleric of soap advertisement fame. Though this was certainly not the Bishop’s episcopal ...