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The Wingham Times, 1908-11-05, Page 5:have telt she couldn't see the two to- gether, and so she has vanished, mak- ing some pretence, I daresay, about ,Scotland Yard. But perhaps Lady Ardcliffe will know something about 'it. They were always in each others' pockets lately, and now the fact that they have both been robbed will have drawn them even closer together." In any ,case, Trowbridge was cer- fain to be aware of the Countess's departure. Lady Lambart told the maid that if Mr. Trowbridge knocked at the sitting -room door he was to be 'informed that Lady Lambart had •gone on to Lady Ardcliffe's room. A babel of voices greeted her ears :as she knocked at Lady Ardcliffe's door, and one broken sentence came -to her clearly. "Of course, I can't prove anything now, but all the same 'I'm morally certain that"— The voice .came nearer; the door was opened by the speaker, Lady Ardcliffe herself; and at sight of Lady Lambart she gave a little start, grow- ing red, and breaking off suddenly. "How do you do?" said the elder woman, somewhat stiffly, looking so much embarrassed that Lady Lam- bart was puzzled. "We—I—that is, we were all talk- ing over the robbery," she went on. "Will you come in?" "Thanks, yes; I've come to sympa- -thize," replied Lady Lambart, airily. "You are very kind," returned the other, with a quick but eloquent •glance at her friends. • Trowbridge had interviewed her early in the morning,. had learned from her own lips the theory she had 'formed in regard to her stolen jewels (a thing she had absorbed from the 'Countess Radepolskoi, as she would scarcely have been able to evolve it alone) and had induced her to prom- ise that she would do nothing inim- ical to Lady Hilary Vane. "It isn't that I care for the girl particularly," he had said, "If I have given people any reason to think so, it was only to shield her in her affair with Ox - 'lord, and also because you have been 'unkind to me lately. She knows we are great friends and she and her mother may fancy I have put these ideas about her into your head. I shall think you more angelic than ever if you promise not to accuse Lady Hilary. You admit you haven't any real proofs; that the Countess has them all, and has said that she'll make them known this morning; but mark my words, she'll do nothing of the sort. I've been studying her char- acter, and have discovered that she's 'as cowardly as she is selfish. She 'hopes to make a catspaw of you; •then, when she has got you to do and say exactly what she wants she will surely throw everything on your shoulders and disclaim any special knowledge or responsibility. Without very strong proofs on which to found sneer. Had she but known how these :an accusation you would be in some- half dozen women were regarding her, thing of a scrape; and every one even her proud spirit would scarcely 'would think you had done what you have ventured a sneer at the absent enemy. Lay Ardcliffe, who had lately made common cause with the once despised "foreigner," against Lady Hilary Vane, flushed with anger. "No doubt she had her reasons for not let- ting some of us know the meaning of her actions," she retorted, in defence TEE WINGHAM Z'. > f , Nfl'VBIVIDER 5 90 dreadful robbery; and my daughter's engagement, which I suppose will cause a little flutter, as Mr, Tow. bridge is so popular—" "Mr. Trowbridge !" exclaimed Lady Ardcliffe. "Surely you mean Captain Oxford—" "But that is ridiculous," said Lady Lambart. "There has never been the slightest chance for Captain Oxford with my daughter." "You may not know her heart as well as you think," replied the elder woman, "Girls don't tell their mo- thers everything." "I am at least in the confidence of my daughter far enough to know that Mr. Trowbridge has proposed not once, but several times, and this morning has been accepted." both of them could rnake a rich mar - liege (as they were striving heart and brain to do), she did not see at all what would become of them. The Countess had added that she would not be in the least surprised if the mother and daughter descended to actual theft to relieve them in their desperation, as already they must have pawned all their own jewelry which was worth pawning She would not trust Hilary Vane alone in the room with hers, she had continued; and though she had laughed and pre- tended to be half in jest,\J naturally everybody who had heard the speech remembered it after the robbery. Lady Lambart and Hilary, congratu- lating themselves on having escaped a terrible humiliation, little dreamed how their names were being taken in vain in the hotel; and their defend- ers, Trowbridge and Elspeth Dean, were as ignorant of the talk as the subjects of it; as ignorant as John Kenrith and Captain Oxford, who wore known to be friends of the un- fortunate pair. Those who had heard Lady Ard- cliffe's words, and especially the Countess Radepolskoi's, the night be- fore the robbery, told all their ac- quaintances who had not heard; and these persons rapidly passed the story on to others, so that the whole house was buzzing with the hideous gossip which Elspeth Dean, Trowbridge and Mr. McGowan flattered themselves had been killed. Naturally some of her most inti- mate friends had lost no time in re- minding Lady Ardcliffe of last night's conversation, and all were bitterly disappointed as well as surprised at the Countess Radepolskoi's sudden flitting. A select party had been dis- cussing the situation in Lady Ard- cliffe's sitting room when Lady Lam- bart arrived, and not a woman there but was consci$us of a quickening of the pulse when the mother of Hilary Vane appeared at such a dramatic moment. For a moment Lady Ardcliffe felt that she must faint, but, foolish woman as she was, she had enough pride to save her from becoming ridiculous in the eyes of her visitors. With a supreme effort she rallied all her forces, trying to think that her enemy had told an untruth; yet, in spite of her passionate wish not to believe, there was something in Lady Lambert's tpne that carried convic- tion. She guessed that Trowbridge's soft words to her in the early morn- ing had been spoken with an object. He was determined to save Lady Hil- ary at any price, and he had meant 'to keep his engagement secret for a day or two. Now his object had been thwarted by the girl's own mother. All the malice and spite in this middle-aged woman who loved a young man seethed within her, seeming to pour venom through her blood. She longed for some inspiration to show her how best to punish Trowbridge for the trick he had played. Her foolish love for him had turned to hate, and she would have liked to strike him a stinging blow. The easiest way to strike, end the way perhaps to deal the hardest blow, was to ruin Hilary Vane; but it would be difficult to work without her lost ally. The Countess had said this morning, before Trowbridge had come and separated them: "I have absolute proof against the girl by which I can denounce her when she comes downstairs. I won't tell you what it is, for if I did you wouldn't be sur- prised; and it's better that you should be surprised. I'm not at liberty either to tell you why I am so certain about this proof; but I am certain; and you'll soon see that I was not boast- ing." So Lady Ardcliffe had waited. ex- pecting something sensational; and the Countess had vanished; and she herself had been tricked. But if it were not in her power at the moment to have the girl she hated arrested, she would at least so damage her reputation that Trowbridge, no mat- ter how much in love, would hardly dare to face the world with Hilary Vane as his wife. "Mr. Trowbridge must have been accepted this morning; indeed, I don't wonder that Lady Hilary said 'Yes,' " sneered Lady Ardcliffe, with trembl- ing lips. "But I venture to prophesy that the engagement will be dissolv- ed before night—and by him." Lady Lambart, who had sat down, rose abruptly, looking very stately and handsome. "Are you madP" she exclaimed. "Not at all—though I've had en- ough to make me so. It is you who are mad to come here and talk as you have done—after last night's work." "What do you mean?" "I mean that it was your daugh- ter—aided and goaded on by you, probably—who stole Countess Radepol- skoi's jewels and mine." Lady Lambart, on hearing Lady Ardcliffe's astounding accusation of Lady Hilary, though marble pale, burst into laughter. "After all, you are mad !" she cried. And then, turn- ing to the half dozen women sitting in a silent group, she said "What ought I to do? Send for the manager of the hotel, or —the doctor?" "Be thankful if I do not send for the police and have your daughter ar- rested," shrieked Lady Ardcliffe. "There are proofs enough that it was she who took the jewels from us both, and, whatever happens, I intend to get mine back. They shan't be sold to pay your debts." "Ring the bell, some one,and let us send for the doctor," said Lady Rheumatism I have found a tried and tested sure for Rheu. matism 1 Not remedy that will straighten the distorted limbs of chronic cripples, nor turn bony growths back to flesh again, That ip impossible. But I van now surely kill the pulps and pangs of this deplorable disease. In Germany—with a Chemist in the City of Dariustadt—I found the last ingredient with Which Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Remedy wns made a perfected, dependable Prescription. Without that last ingredient, 1 successfully treated many, many cases of Rheurnatistn: but now, at last, itene lormly cures all curable rases of this heretofore much dreaded disease. Thos,; sand-lil.-o gran.ilar wastes, found inRheumatic Vocal seem to dissolve and pass away under the action of this remedy nit freely as does sugar when added to pure water. and then, when dissolved, these poisonous wastes freely pass from the system, and the cause of Rheumatism is gone forever. T'iere is now no real need—no actual excuse to ,'ll -r longer with- out help,. We sell, and in confidence recommend CHAPTER XVIII. "I have been to condole with Count- ess Radepolskoi too," said Lady Lam- bart, "but I find that she has gone away. Doesn't that seem very sud- den?" "Oh, it is. Even Mr. McGowan, the manager, didn't know she was go- ing. I asked him, and he told me so," said one of the ladies who had been most bitter against Lady Lambart and her daughter." She was unable to re- sist the temptation to tell something which perhaps the others did not yet know. "And really, it's very odd; no one saw her leave the house." "No doubt she had her own reasons for wishing to get away so secretly," said Lady Lambart, with a veiled had out of ill nature—a thing really so very foreign from your sweet dis- position. Lady Ardcliffe had finally yielded ;reluctantly to Trowbridge's argu- .ments, but she had not told him how she and the Countess Radepolskoi had both been talking in the hall of the hoe a evening 1 th before against of her absent friend. "I shou Bilary Vane and Lady Lambart. surprised, myself, if she hadn't left Lady Ardcliffe had said, what she 4•_ ;had already said to Elspeth Dean, that the two were in dreadful money ;difficulties, and that, unless one or 4 B'° ONCIIITIS Bronchitis is generally the result of a oold .,caused by exposure to wet and inclement weather, and is a very dangerous inflam- matory affection of the bronchial tubes. The Symptoms are tightness across -the chest, sharp pains and a difficulty in 'breathing, and a secretion of thick phlegm, at first white, but later of a greenish or yellowish color. Neglected Bronchitis is one of the most general causes of Consumption. Cure it at once by the use ot Dr. Wood's Norway Pine the hotel after all. "What do you mean?" asked Lady Lambart. "I mean that there may be those under this roof who will be watching. 'Why shouldn't the .Countess be her detective?" ----SYR U P--- Mrs, D. D. Miller, Allendale, Ont., writes : " My husband got a bottle of Dr. Wood's 11%rway Pine Syrup for my little girl 'who had Bronchitis. She wheezed so badly you could hear her from one room to the other, but it was not long until we could see the effect your medicine had on her. That was last winter when we lived in • Toronto. " Sho had a bad cold this winter, but in- : Mead of getting another bottle of Dr. Wood's NorwayPino Syrup, I tried a home made receipt which I got from a neighbor but found that her cold lasted about twice as long. My huaband highly praises 'Dr. Wood's,' and says he will see that a bottle . of it is always kept in the house." The price of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is 25 conte per bottle. It is put up in a yellow wrapper, three pine trees the trade mark, so, be sure and accept none of the ninny substitutes of the original "Nor- way Pine Syrup." VWLI As Lady Ardcliffe spoke these words she fixed her eyes on Lady Lambert's Lambart. "This woman has complete - face, expecting to see a change of 1y "lest think," esu done of the others, "that we had better not ring. It is best for everyone concerned that we keep this among ourselves. You may as well know, Lady Lambart, that the Countess also suspected Lady Hil- ary, though on what grounds, of course, none of us can tell you. She seemed to be certain, however; and so, you see, whether dear Lady Ard- cliffe owe you for our stay here" —began the least mad." is right or wrong, she isn't in LadLambar. But the manager re- spectfully cut her short. "What a monstrous and horrible ac- "No, it is not that, indeed," he re- eusatfon !" ejaculated Lady Lambart. lied, "though I must confess I should "It could only have entered the -head be obliged if your ladyship could find it convenient to pay. But, you see, a certain suspicion is afloat; non- sense, and cruel nonsense, no doubt; and I have done my best to prevent your being annoyed. Still, ther t is; and the affair has happened. Real- ly, Lady .Lambart, the only thing to do now Is for you and Lady Hilary to stay exactly where you are, and as you are, until the matter of the jewels has been cleared up—as it may be, any minute." "Is it true there is a detective in the house?" Mr. McGowan raised his eyebrows, "Naturally there is—I may as well admit that, since the fact has been mentioned." "And my daughter and I are being watched?" "Everybody in the hotel is more or less under observation." Lady Lambart bit her lip, and her eyes were full of a dangerous light. "I will not keep you any longer," she said, "since you do not intend to protect me." "I am unable to do more than I have done, and am at present doing, I deeply regret to say." 'Then, at least, leave me." He did not require the second bid- ding. And with what Lady Lambart suffered in that moma ent nd other moments to come Elspetlt Dean—if she had but known—was fully aveng- ed. 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To the average bachelor there is nothing terrifying in this proposal As things stand to -day he is frequently embarrassed by a superfluity ot (ands Hs gets rid of as mnoh of his money as he oar by lauding it to married mac (who never pay it back), min hd sou, - monis, disposes of the rest in his old age by founding orphan asylums, cooking school and homes for matrimuuial wreaks. He epende little upon himself, for his wants are few, and the very fact women have been madly jealous of that he is a bachelor is sufficient to make my poor, innocent child. This is a nim happy Iiia Lite is one 01 peace, calm, and beauty, of plain living and thinking, of comfort. independence and virtue.—Baltimore San. plot against her. I understand now the mystery of the Countess Radepol- skoi's sudden flitting. Mr. McGowan, the manager, has doubtless heard of this disgraceful scheme, and has sim- ply turned her out. I shall see him, and then, Lady Ardcliffe, I warn you that you had better make your pre- parations to go also." It was now Lady Ardcliffe's turn to laugh, which she did, shrilly and hatefully. "Miserable fool r she cried. "don't you know that you and your daughter are walking on the edge of a precipice? Perhaps at this very mo- ment a detective has discovered the proofs which will send your daughter to prison." "It may be, Lady Lambart, that she is a kleptomaniac," said one of the ladies, who was neither rich nor im- portant, and who had been snubbed on an unforgettable occasion by the proud Countess of Lambart. The persecuted woman did not deign to answer, but, finding that she was in danger of falling into vulgar re- crimination, without another word she swept out of the room, Thence she went straight to her own, where she stood for a moment or two behind the hastily looked door, thinking deep- ly. •'urely you mean Captain Oxford—" color come under her look. Other eyes also were fastened eagerly upon the handsome features; and the six self - constituted judges decided that the woman was too hard and 'shameless even for a blush. Lady Lambart shrugged her shoul- ders. "So you and the Countess sus- pect some one in the hotel, do you? How exciting 1" Dead silence answered, and Lady Lambart began to feel that the dilence was electrical, though she did not un- derstand why. "Really, it never rains but it pours excitements, she went on, when no- body answered. "There was the motor car accident jesterd i and now NA She remembered the Countess's ear- ring caught in a frill of Hilary's dreas, for, though she had not been in her daughter's room at the time of the odd discovery, she had heard the conver- sation between Elspeth and Hilary. Yes, she thought, it was certain that there was a plot—an incredibly wicked plot—hatched by two jealous, unscrup- ulous women. But—would it be easy to prove it a plot? Had they not play- ed their game perhaps more cleverly than she yet knew? In spite of heat furious indignation against Lady Ard- :liffe, the Countess Radepolskoi and all their friends, Lady Lambart be- gan to be very much frightened. Suppose there really were a detec- tive in the house? Indeed, there prob- ably was one, for no doubt the man- ager would have sent off in hot haste to dile nearest large town—and sup- pose it should be put in his head to suspect Hilary? It would almost surely be a stupid head, and therefore all the more dan- gerous. Some other pitfalls might have been laid, of which she and Hil- ary knew nothing—would know n ing until it was too late. What hor- rible, what irrevocable mischief some blundering "detective" might do. Lady Lambart would fain have talk- ed matters over with Hilary, but fear- ed to tell her the truth in the girl's present strange mood. 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