THE GIRL'S OWNPAPER
| Vol. XX.—No. 982.] | OCTOBER 22, 1898. | [Price One Penny. |
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A MOTHER'S LOVE.
"OUR HERO."
PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT.
ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.
SOME PRACTICAL HINTS ON COSMETIC MEDICINE.
WHERE SWALLOWS BUILD.
THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS.
OUR LILY GARDEN.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A MOTHER'S LOVE.
Cease towards the child she bare?
Yes, she may forgetful be,
Yet will I remember thee.'"
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"OUR HERO."
By AGNES GIBERNE, Author of "Sun, Moon and Stars," "The Girl at the Dower House," etc.
CHAPTER IV.
MOST UNPLEASANT TIDINGS.
"Hallo!—Keene!—Mr. Jack Keene!At your service, sir."
"Admiral! How do you? I was neargiving you the go-by."
"Near running me down, you mightsay. Like to a three-decker in full sail.You are going indoors? Ay, ay, thenI'll wait; I'll come another day. 'Twasin my mind that Mrs. Fairbank mightbe glad of a word. But since you arehere——"
"She will be glad, I can assure you.Pray, sir, come in with me. This is afrightful blow. It was told me as Icame off the ground after parade; andI hastened hither at full speed."
"Ay, ay; that did you!" mutteredthe Admiral. "Seeing nought aheadof you but the Corsican, I'll be bound."
"'Tis a disgrace to his nation,"burst out Jack. "Sir, what do youthink of the step?"
"Think! The most atrocious—themost abominable piece of work everheard of. If ever a living man deservedto be strung up at the yard-arm, thatman is Napoleon and none other."
"It can never, sure, be carried out."
"Nay, if the Consul choose, what isto hinder?"
"Government will not give up thevessels seized."
"Give them up! Knuckle down to theCorsican! Crouch before him like to awhipped hound! Why, war has beendeclared. Ou