om to dress. The voice sounded solemn, and so did her mother's; they doubtless were sitting in conference upon her. She selected her evening gown wi

d his father's prejudices without his violent temper. He had a contemptuous dislike for the North, a loathing for politics, and adistaste for everybody outside his own diminishing class. Love for Betty Madison had driven him West in the hope of retrieving his fortunes, but he was essentially a gentleman and a scholar; the hustling quality was not in him, and he returned South after two years of unpleasant endeavour and started a small produce farm adjoining an old house on the outskirts of Washington, left him by his mother. Here he lived with his books, and made enough money to support himself decently. He never had asked Betty to marry him, although he knew that his aunt would champion his cause. During the period of Betty's maiden passion his

skirts that Emory might hear and come out for a word before dinner if he liked. It was a relief to be able to coquet with him without

y profile and tall figure, listlessly carried as it was. In spite of the fact that he took pride in dressing well, he always looked a little old-fashioned. When with Betty, invariably as smart as Paris and New York could make her, he almost appeared as if wearing his father's old clot

looked p

There is yet a quarter of an hour before dinner. I think this old hall

means. Please straighten your necktie before you begin. You cannot po

t be that you meant what you told your mother this morning,-that you intend

hink I was about to go on t

here is not an honest man in politics the length and breadth of the Union. The country is a sink of corruption, as far as politics ar

that robbed her eyes of their coquetry and

tics?" she asked coldly. "I have known you all my

ed them a fit subject

You have said often that you despise the newspapers and only read the telegrams; that the only paper you

have t

t? Do you ever go to t

g-cars of railroad-trains, and spent two years in a Western State where a man who had taken a fortune out of a mine made no bones of buying a seat in the Senate from the Legi

he old States of the country by a newly s

Pennsylvania a

that all the Southern and New England States are corrupt and send only small politicians to W

believe there is an hone

you investigated the l

"What a good district a

ut you must convince me, for if what you say is true I shall have nothing to do with politics. Let

anything against North

ingt

then that he i

t he has his

t your suppositions. I want fa

nce before I was born. One

it can think of. Tell me the biography of Senator Ward-all th

f I have no more details to give you, it is because I promised my father on his death-bed that I would have nothing to do with politics, and I have kept my word to the extent of reading as little about them as possible. But I can assure you that I know as much about them as anybody not in the accursed business. It is in the air-" "There are so many things in the air that they

ve set me an unpleasant, an obnoxious task, I certainly shall accomplish that also to the best of my ability. You belong to this old house

him lightly

ad bush, but the same vegetable under a new name,-the American Beauty Rose. Do you