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A Matter of Eyes. Dinner was at an end and Sadie Wilson was not sorry, for the meal had been more than usually dull. Never ;i communicative man at the bes*. of time.*, Mr. Jacob Wilson had surpassed himself ui keeping silent on this evening. So Sadie gave a sigh of relief when coffee appeared. and, in refusing it, swent around to lie l father's side, kissed his stony cheek and bade him good night. So completely immersed was he in his thoughts that the rap on the door of the incoming servant passed his hearing; indeed, it was not until the man, who unnoticed, *ad stood silent for a full minute at his master's side, emitted a diplomatic cough, •Ml Jacob was recalled to himself. Then he glared ferociously into the servant's face, snatched up the card.from the tilver salver and fixed his eyeglasses. 41 Mr. Gordon Smith," he grunted. "Never heard of the man. What's his business?" "Wishes to see you privately, sir," was the answer. "Show him in—if it's not charity. Inquire if its charity first, Green," and as the servant bowed and departed Mr. Wilson resumed his cigar. It was a tall, well built young man on whom Mr. Wilson gazed-a smart looking man with ruddy cheeks, sparkling eyes and coal black hair carefully parted down the centre. " Mr. JacoS Wilson?" he sriid in a cheerful voice, looking him straight in the face. "Mr. Gordon Smith?" queried Jacob, fingering the visiting card. Mv. Smith turned towards & chair, but Jacob did not take the %int. Instead he said: '• I'm a busy man, Mr. Smith." " Therefore I won't waste your time, Mr; Wilson," answered Smith. 14 The fact is I've called to ask your conscot to my inar« riage. " Your marriage? " he asked. Then as the other nodded he added, "It doesn't matter to me whether you get married or buried." "But I did not finish," Smith protested. " I was going to add, Mr. Wilson, with your, daughter." "Eh? What? My daughter?" and Jacob rose from his chair and looked the young ,man up and down. " Exactly." •'You surprise me. I don't know you, Mt. Smith; never hoard of you." "Quite possible," Smith agreed with a •?fc;ile. " World's so big that one can.?t expect to be known to all the others in it. tTohably I should never have heard of you, Mr. Wilson, .-.ever dreamt you existed, but ior your daughter." ."Now, Mr. Smith, kindly take a. seat. I'm iT'ing to do all the talking for the next three Qiinutes, and," as Mr. Smith ?afc down, on I've finished there'll be nothing furiher to be said." " When my daughter marries I'm going to give her £20,000, but I'm going to find the ::usband for her, and he's g:;i to be wealthy, if not in coin in brains—not dreamy brains S'jch as novelists and poets possess, hut good solid business brains. .Perhaps you've gut them, Mr. Smith and are wasting them; perhaps you haven't. If you have, you will marry Sadie ; if you haven't, you won't." "I quite appreciate the situation," he said. " I'm quite glad to find you do not regard me in an unfavorable light." " I don't worry about regarding you at all, Mr. Smith. The one eye I've got is fully occupied regarding my own affairs. Good night," as he rang the bell for the servant to show Mr. Gordon Smith the door. "No more brains than a bat," was Mr. Wilson's comment on his would-be son in.aw. "Beckon Sadie wants saving from herself. Better speak to her at once." Sadie appeared in answer to a message from her father requiring her presence. " So you've tired of living here, Sadie ? " he said in the same tone and manner in which he addressed Smith. "You are going to be married yourself, father,V she answered. " Naturally, there can be hut one mistress in the house; naturally, too she will be your wife. But since mother died I have been mistress here, and I can sec a« Wier take mother's place." Mr. Wilson shut his one eye. "But this man Smith—a mere fortune hunter." ft " Nothing of the sort," broke in the girl. "He is a gentleman. He is well-known; his income is £SOO a year. We love " "And can live on air! For a day or so. I have heard enough of love," he said with a sneer in his voice. "But surqly you love Mrs. Graham?" Sadie remarked in surprise." "No!" said Jacob bluntly. "This is business; at least so far as I am concerned. We marry, and I secure the voting power of her shares in the Kingsland copper mino. Combined with my shares hers give mo tne whip hand, and I will wreck the company if 1 needs be, but I will force Grant to his knees." " Oh, I do not understand all this," Sadie broke in. "But here is a thing von will understand, Sadie," her father answered. "When you marry I give you £20,000, but you will marry the husband I find for you." "And if not? **■ *' X say you will do so." It was a few days later when the lovers, meeting at the house of a mutual frtoud, were able to exchange confidences concerning the attitude of Mr. Wilson toward their proposed union. What they said need not be here repeated apart from the fact that Sadie declared her willingness to become Mrs. Gordon Smith any moment he was ready, and he indicated a moment some four weeks ahead. " We'll be married on the same day as father," she said in surprise. "And we might as well be married at the same altar," Smith added, "Bythe same divine," Gordon went on. "and at the same time." " But it might irritate father a great deal. Indeed, I am sure it would," Sadie pro tested. Smith, however, shook his head. "He will, on the ooptoary, be eminently pleased, I may bay delighttd," he assured her. • • • A month later the preparations had been made for two weddings—that of Mr. Jacob Wilson to Mrs. Graham, tnd that of Mr. Gordon Smith to Sadie W-;son—but of the latter event Jacob was completely ignorant. When he awoke on the morning of the wedding day it was with the sense that something was missing. He sat up in bed trying to think what it was. His eye wandered round the room and over the floor, and, horror of horrors, it stopped on his otiier ' eye—the false—one, smashed into a dozen pieces. It was an eye that could not be easily replaced—the only other one it was the real one in his head; a most difficult eye to match or approach in matching, fcr it was of no decided color, such as blue or black or brown. This eye had been specially rnidc tp the order of Jacob Wilson. To get another exactly like it would take nt least a week—the oost was a mere trifle to him—and here was the wedding morn. He made a hasty toilet after dancing in his rage on the broken glass eye and started out for the shop of the oculist who had supplied him with it. §Hc recognised he must get another ere going to church, and he ha 4 fait in hour to ware.

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