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OFFICE,- Ontario street-CLINTON
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-CLINTON.--
BR C. W. THOMPSON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
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lea the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat__
-Office and .Residence -
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. I doors west f, the Commercial botel.
-DR. F. A. AXON. -
(Successor to Dr. Holmee.)
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• work.• •
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Sir John flowed blur to go ta the Lady Cactourne nodded; Colmar°,
door, to teuch the Innate, before*.he teasivary.
spoke. "I -think she is vete wise," she seld.
''"-filea"- he saki, and !leek pillared "I know she is very wise,,' site added,
',Then we are uo further ea?" • turning and laylug her hand on jaciee
• "In what Way?" arne The two phrases Lute" quite a dlr.
"In respect to the matter over which . ferent meaning. "She will'have a good
• we unfortunately disagreed before yoll lanebend,"
weut away?' * "$e yail can tell everybOdy now,"
• Jack turned with biteeband. on the chimed In •Millicent in her silvery way.
doer. Lady Cantourue was not very cow -
"I have not *banged my mind In any naunicative during that refired little
• respect," he saki gently. "Perhaps you tea a trolls, but she lileteued smllingly
ar,e inclined tostake altered. eircuna. te jack's "optimistic views and Mil -
stances lute consideration, to . medify
your views."
• "I am getting rather :old for mediate.
tion," answered Sir John suavely,• •
"And you see no reason for altering
deeision?"
"Then I am afraid we aro. no further
• he paused, "Good niglat," he
added gently as he opened the door.
, "Good night." •
4.• s• • * *
-Lady Canteinne wits meant for bap -
pieces and a joyous motberhood. She
• had had neither; but she went on be-
ing "meant" until the end ---that is to
say- she was still theery and cepable;
She had thrown an open letter on the
little tattle at herside--a letter frOna
Jaelc 'Meredith announcing his • return
to England .ind his :natural desire to
.call. and pay his respeets In:the course
of the afternoon. •
licent's eoinewbat valueless confroents:
"I 'tun certain," said Millicent, at
length boldly attacking the emotion
that was in all their minds, "that Sir
Jelin will be all right now. Of course,
it Is only natural that herebould not
like Jack to -to get engaged yet • Es-
pecially before, when it Would have
made a difference to him in money, I
mean. But now that Jack Is inde-
pendent -you know. auntie, that Jaek
Is richer then Sir John,"
Lady Cantourne was. rather thought-
• ful at that moment, She could not
help ginning back and hack to Sir John.
"Of •course," she said to jaek; "we
• must let your father know/ at once.
The news niust not reetch him erom
outside source."
"I will. write and tell him," said J
quietly.
• Even funerals
to mealtimes, and Jack *Ieleredi wag
"So." she had said before she laid not the man to outstay bis welcome.
the letter aside, "be is borne again -and, He saw Lady Cantourne glance at the
be means to carry It through?" citric. Clever as she was, she could
While she still sat 'Were the bell
rang, ' When Jack Meredith came into
pe room 'she rose •to greet hint with a
smile of welcome. • ° •
"Before I shake hands," Idle said,
father.'" . CHAPTER XXI.
"tell me if you have been to see your ,
•
I F late Sir John had felt a sin-
gular desire to sit own wbed-
ever opportunity should, offer,.
; .hut he had always been tound
standing on the hearth • rug by the -1
butler, and, hard oldenristocrat that he
was, he would_ not yield to the Borne -
what angular blanaishments • of the
stiff backed chelr. ' •
He stood for a few temente with
k to the smolderin fire and,
being quite alone, be perhaps forgot
for his head
drooped, his tips were unsteady; • he
Was a very Old man. * '
A few minutes later, When he strode ,
Into the dining room 'where bullei and
footman. avraited bltu, be was erect,
imperturbable, Impenetrable. ,
4t dinnet. it was evident that hie
keen brain was hard at work. He tor-
feet right to marry whom rm. choose--
iu two untiths' time."
80 Jaek took Li$ lea
."lii two months' time," 'repeated Sir
John, when be was alone, witb one of
ills twleted, eyirival sralles-"In tWe
months' time -qui vivre verra."
4, * *
. There are some' places lu the world
where a curse seems to brood In the
atmosphere. alsala was one of these.
Perisaps these pleats are accursed by
lite deede that have been done there.
'Who can tell?
Could the trees -the two . gtgaatle
elms that.stood by tbe river's
dge-
•euk -these have spoken, they might
' perhaps have told the tale of thla little
inland station in that country where, as
the rounder at' the hamlet was In tbe
habit of saying, no one knaves Mott Is
going- at. '
All went well with the retreatieg,
eolatun until they were Almost in sight
bf elsala, when the liotilla was attacked
by Po less then three hippopotamuses.
Oue canoe was sunk ane 'four 'others'
WN so badly damaged that they coul4.
net be kept Wheat with their proper
• complement of men. There Was notb.
ing for it but to establish a camp at
••Isala and watt there until the builders
had repaired the damaged canoes.
The -walls of Durnoves Ilium were
still standing, and here. Guy Oscard
established. hie:weir .with.as much cote -
fort as circumstances allowed, He
: reused a teinPorary roof of palm leaves
• to be laid oe the .charred beems, and
• ••
within the principal room, the very
t room where the three organizers of the
great slealacine scheine had first laid
elbeir plans,. he set up bis simple camp
; • furniture,
Oscard was too great fl traveler; too
, experienced. a wanderer, to be Put out
of reamer . by this enforced rest. ,The
men bad worked vety well hitherto.
It had, In Lti !Way, been a great feat
of generalship, this leading throtieh a
• wild, eountry of men unprepared for
, travel, scantily provisifeued, disOrgau.
teed by recent events'. Nceaccident had
bapPened; no serious delay had been
• incurred, although the rate of progress..
had neeessarily beeb very slow. Near-
ly sixweeks had elapsed since Oscard.
• • .
w flttle folbawing bad turned.
'their 'backs forever Q11 the simiecine.
plateau. But iloW,the period of acute
danger tiad. . • away. '
hey had
'almost reached eiVillZatim Oscard
was. content:
• •
' WhO4 Osettixl Was content he smoked
a slower pipe than usual, watching
each. cloud ofsmoke, vanish into thin
alti. He was smoking verr,sloIVIY41fis
• the third •evening ,of .their encamPinent
at Meals. There bad been beaver. -rain
during the day, and the whele 'Melees
• ferest• was dripping vvith a continueus,
ecealieless clatter, of heavy deeps on
tropic foliage, teith-lin amalgamated
sealed like a widespread wInsper. •.
• I- • • ags ttin - In the windowleis
t bow.
not de it withoet being seen by him, '•
So he took his leave, and Miblbcent
went to .tbe bead of the stairs with
him.
•
"1 went last night-7almost etritight
frorn the station. ...The fleet person • I
spoke to in Loudon, exeept a eabinen."
So. She shnok•hands, - •
"You know," she said, wIthent look-
ing tit him -indeed, carefully avoiding
*doing so --"lite tpo short to quarrel
• with one'a father. •At least it may
prove too. short' to make•it up again: -
"The quarrel waii not mine," be said.
'LI admit. that tahave known
him better. I ought to have spoken
to hum before asking Millicent. It was
a mistake." •• • •
•
Lady Cantbutne looked up sitddenly.
"What Area a mistake?" '
•"Net akieg his -Opinion first."
She turned to the table where his
-sire's>. got one or two of the forthalities 'w surteptitiously while the forest whis• ten elf Durnovo. nith all the gentle-,
letter la•y • and. fingered the wiper pen--
•teengeet perhaps that y ou had were -religiously observed at that , soh- Non of the great stars of the southern
Welt pered of it In its surface the. rehec- nese' of a" woman and a fortitude that
was above' the fortitude of_ men._ De -
found that the' other. was a mistake- tary ne hastened ever bin wine, heixiispliet-e ran into little streaks of spite himself ,lais hands trembled, big.
the engagement>, and then he went to the library. There silvery f3himmering away Into darkness . and strong as they were. His whole
•
•
" "No," he' answered.
to .steffen. his neck,
•
•
,
Vice; but the garafeiit, the COMA,
the Mod liftman cruelty W111/ in let.
tin; bhp go.
telbey'ye tuade-n pretty mese of OW"'
said 1)mM/ire, in sickening, lifeless
, voice, and be steod there with a terrible
; caricature of a grin.
Joseph set down the larap with a
groan and went back into tbe dark
room •beyOusi, where be east himself
upon the ground and burled his face Ip
his bands,
"0 Lord!" be muttered. 49 Clod in
heaven, kill it, kill Iti"
Guy Oscard never attempted to run
away from it. He stood slowly gulp.
•••-••••-__
god I cried Coward.
ing down his naureating• horror. His
teeth were clinched; his face, through
the sunburn, livid; the blue of sills eyes
seemed to bave faded into in ashen
gray. The siglat he was looking on
would have sent three men out of five
Into gibberlug idiocy. •
Then at last he moved forward, .With
averted eyes he.tooktourney° by the
arm. •
• "Come," be said, "lie dawn upon My
bed. ' will try to help you. Oan you
take some food?" • '
Durnovo threw himself down heavily
"on the _bed. There WAS a intaishment
suffieient to expiate all bis sins In the
effert he saw that Guy Oseard had had
to make before he touched bhp. He
turned his face awai.. •.
"I haven't eaten any.thing for twenty.
four •hours,".he said, with a whistling
tooth wttliont a light, los a light oillittn.t2nat.k9n• • , . •
•
arras and set hitn on big feet. Hosheel
Ulm gently at tirst, but asi the dread
vututolenee crept will° iidiak harder,
until the mutilated Intlinumn bead
rolled Upon late shoulders,
"It's ft to let that Man liver
clailned Joey's, tufting away in bor..
"it's it Sin to let any man die," re -
piled Omni, itua ivith his great
strength he shook Durnove like ft. gar.
meat. -
And so Victor Thirtovo died. His
stained soul left ins. body in Guy Cris -
mire bands, and the big Englishman
shook the. corpse, trying to awake it
from that sleep which knows no earth-
ly waking.
o, atter all, heaven ste.pped in and
laid is eoftwaing bene on •the indff-
Meat of men. But there was a Orange
Irony in the mode of death, • It was
(Strange that this man, who never could
hare elosed bis eyes agate, (slundel
• have been stricken down by the sleep.
• Ing sickness. •
•. They laid the body on the floor and
covered the face, which was less, pew.
some in death, ter tbe pity of the eyes
had given place to peace.
Tbe morning 11gbt, bursting suddenly
• through the trees as it does in equato-
rial Africa, shoveea the room set in or-
• der- and Guy Oscard sleeping in his
camp ,chair. Behind him, on the floor,
Jay the form' of Vidor Durnovo.
Joseph, less -iron nerved than the great
big game bunter, was awake and astir
wan the dawn. He, too, was calmer
• uow. He had seen death face to face
tea often to be appalled by in broad
"aoseph," said 'Oscard, returnliag to
attraeted a m riad of heavy Win ea
Y g _
the door of the inner room -his' voice
moths. He was seated before the long
French 'window, which, Since the sash soundeclOffecePt; there was a metallic
Before' him in tbe glimmering light o orsonaefthofn:fer'. bur;
had gone, bad been used as a doori. ring bit
a otti 32-e" gseofusomething
Joseph o'beyed, shitking . as if ague
the mystic Southern Cross the great
river crept unctuously, silently to the , was in hies hones. • • '
sea, It seemed to be stealing . away ()saw] administered the soup., Be
• • ' • ' d • '
he wrote a telegram, slowly; hi his
t ill b „ aria ornamental handwriting. •
. ,
.. ' ,AIP sound of human. life was still.
• ,
. The natives were asleep. In the next
.saie; she is nnt. iiding.,, , . . • it Was addressed to Gordon. Loaugo• • mom Joseph in lila hamineely was Just 'been, .he was _now an object of seen • . . . , . . . •
They talked •of -his 'life in -Africa, Of .. and the gist of It eves -"Wire wberee on the berrier between the waking and . P.
Ity that before it all 'possible human '. through the jungle:1n pureult. •Thus•lete .•
his success with tbe slmlacite, of which abOtits of Oscard-when he mai be ex e the sleeping life, as • isoldiees leaen to • ' sins faded - into spetlesIthess. .There ,accomplished 'tie wonderful Journey,
diaeoverY.the newspapers 'werenotyet .. pected home." . .,,,,, • • . be.. Oscard would not have needed to was no critra in all that bematt nature alone, through trackless foeeste. ' Thua —
Weary,. untjl the bell Was heard in. the . At 'half past 8 Jack arrived. • Sir John _ raise lais.efaice•to call .hlin to•hip•side.. . has found' to commit for which sueh , ;
he fended off the sickfiess which. grip- '
baseraeut, . and thereafter liJillieenl'Et ' pea him the moment that he laid hire °
. was awaltifig eiee le the library; griteir . The.lea.der of this initried retreat bad • cruelty as ' this would be. justir‘roeted. • .
!men 'sittingthere• for two •hetirs•• The, • 'down to rest; • • '..• ' , ' •'.
voice in- the hall, • ' s .. - ., -,:, . . ; °sitting In • his..bigh .: beekedeebalr, Ire • out •In penishmeet. • . - . ,
• •Durneefe spoke from:time, to time, . He had left it, a 'grim leguey:,t0....bili-,-
'• Lady Cantoerne rose deliberately and ''ea'reflillyeresised •atil for # greet reeep-l. Slimy moving surface of the, river had
strength Within :big ears was that .Of. -eine plateau, . of thnlast grim tragedy,:
the---leffeet4hat-in,i,7._.tertnrers,.--ena:-befOre-Afe7reachea.the , .,
'''' fs' les are lanried'Witb bim; and beneath:
*eat downstairs to tell her niere that : 4°P. f- . : -: ' * ''• '
, . • . , • - ..e., entered itith • his brain; tbe restless but he could pee:
tee: ' rillenee of .the 4.kkirica4 forest-alone:kept ?:Iiissing-,sp-eech-bed upon .his CcoMpan101:1 river idI .was .Eitin on :Oa- simiacinfej
him there Waiting alene. •• , . • : . :- roma: and they. Shook hands. There"blin awake. Be .,berdly' reelIzed..thef . and iit. time he gave It ',un. . He told , ,
: plateaee. ' ' .: ' , ' -.. ' - • '
And 50 weleave Victor Darner°. Ilia
he was, in. the drawing room leaving' - •Ile'rree 'Nvnen. ma On. entered.'
Presently • the door Opened and Milli; :- : was a eeeetein ow; of concentration • the Sound • momentartlY. gaining . haltingly of the horrors • of the isiMitt,
And Whip -anywhere. :the -hoot and 'afl' Mote than they had 'aver mad iio- a paddlea ,single,'. weakly Irregular '
aeted tlaere; how .et lat. blinded with.. the giant paline at Msaia lies Meuricee
cent hurried in. • She threw her:gloves ' .about beth, as if they each 111On:tied to .
-ran to hIm. .' . ., , , ' • fore. 'The coffe'e ••Was dilly' brought •,Paddle. It was not a sound tei Wake • his .blood, Maimed, stupefied by agony,: .
...Gordan's secret • : • .. ' • :' •
And so we leave 'Msalae•the aectieseff, -
"Ole.Jaekl" She cried- • .. - • • :This.. was it revival' of an old custom. P• sleeping man. • It catne :so slowly,so 'he had • been bounded:doWn the slope .
It' was very prettily done. la Its way In 'begone days Jack bad frequently •geutly &rota& the whisper of the.driP. •• '
tutees:. • ; : • - ' isfitry, and beneath their .' shade the.
by a :: yelling.'..latigning . horde of ..tor.Carole Far un the °et:Rye's:leer, on *thee
It Was a poem. - - •, - •-• come in thus and they had taken coffee ping leaves • that it • would • enter into .. i• left bank, the giaet palms still stand..
. "Anii, ',Tack, de you know," she went- before ...going together in Sir • John's 'hie ilmnbers and reeke- IMelf •pttrt of 'There was not much to be done; and
on, "ail the newspapers have been full . carriage to one of the great social fund- : th-nnn : .. e ' ". I '' • presently Guy Oscard moved away to ;
1 erumbling walls of 4 cursed housOare.
of • you. You are •qinte a Celebrity bons at wind/ their. presence was ai- I • Guy Oscard only rettlizea the mean- his camp chair, where he, sat staring, I slowly' disepPeering beneath luxuriant '
•And are eese really-as.eich ;is they -.most a •eecessity. Jack had always ing Of thet.soinad when- et black shado•w • Into the night Sleep • was •InapOssible. .•ereeee„.-me-
• growthes_efeirents,m_eiLbrusberoo ,
• daylight.
So they buried••Vietor. Durnovo be.
. .
tween the two giant palms at Meant,
with 'bis feet turned toward the river
, be had made hie, as le ready ,
to arise when the call comes and un-
dertake one „of those Marvelous jour-
• neys of bis which are yet a bousehold
word en the'West coast. • '
•. The cloth fluttered • as tbey lowered
him into his narrow resting place, and
the face they eqyered. had a strange
mystie grin, as if 1/e Saw 'something
that they could not perceive. Perhaps
lie did. Perhaps he saw the '41318411e
pleteau, and knew that, after all, he
bad won the last throw, for up there,
far above the table lands of central
Africa., there lay beneath high heaven
it charnel house .• Ilounded• down the
slope by his torrneutors, be had left a
'memento' behind him surer' than their'
• torturing knives, keener than their
sharpest steel, He had left the sleep-
ing sickness behind him.
. His last journey bad been. vvorthy of
his reputation. In twenty days he had
covered tbe dietance between the
plateau and Mahe stumbling on
• alone, blinded, wounded, sore stricken,
through a thousitind daily valleys of
death. With wonderful endurance he
had paddled night fold day down the
(sleek river without rest, with the dread
microbe of the sleeping sickness slowly •
creeping tbrOugh hia veins.
He had lived in dread of this disease, •
es men do of a sickness Whieh.chitelteteeteee°
tbena at last; but when It came.he 010
not reeognize it. He was .Se reeked •
• by pain that he never recognized the
..symptoms, He was so panic stricken,
so paralyzed by the.nameless fear that
:bier belendhim tbat he could only
think 01' pressing forward .; In the night
honrei he would suddenly rise from his
precarious bed under the shadow of a
,P,
being was contracted with hoiror. and ,ftillea tree andestagger on, haunted by
pain.. Whatever Vietor •Durnovo had •a tare ef his ruthless' free pressing
say?" • '
ink I can safely say that I am
y. Cantourne' left them there for
nearly an hour, bit 'which space of time
she probably reflected they could build
up is rosy it future as was geode for
F011 SALE BY W. a HELLYAR
•. .• CLINTON-, .ONT.
RUNItiNgr Ega
-TIME TABLE7.
• Trains will • arrive at and •et,pet
from ClintOn station ai follows .
BUFFALO AND' GODERICII D1V.
Goine least •
it it
Gibing
tt
11
4 I
West
ti
f.".
LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV,
Going South 7.47 a. m. ,
4.23 p. nt
Ge*r..r, North 11.05 a. tit
gi
."
(5.22 a. in.
7.83. a.
, 346 p. m-
5.20 p. in,
1110 p. lit
1.C1 p.xn
• 6.4h p.
•• • 10.47 p.
•0.35- p.
FULL SUMMER SERVICE
LAKE sottittort blvtatozt, — Steamers !calm
Sarnia s.so lvfonday, Wednesday and
Priday, for Sa.ult Ste. Marie, Port Arthur, Port
. and Duluth-Priday Steamer going
through to Duluth,
OtoleGiAti SAY kil&ACKIKA.0 Deir.-§tettm•
ors leave Collingwood r.so ft.m., Owen' sound
, 17.30 %Tn., TuesdaYs, ThunrilayS and Satur-
days: Ttiosday and Saturday steamers go
through to Macidnao, ThurldaY "tcarnArc..._
---iiecinnmoUting -hut peasensers, sots; to.
Son only.- ,
NOI*rg401tORIS Dilf,-..Por Parry Sound, Dyng •
Inlet, Prench River kfal Killarney. Steamer
leaves Collingwood 10.30 , Mondays and
Fridays.
rAittrit &MOW & li*EVIETAMO ntli.-8teatter
Isavta Pountang daily 0.45 p.m., foe Parry
Sound and way porta
A Tiolieta
as wefts** Erwil fit'
agar atlas, •
•
'Oh, Jut IN aft el -feel.
theft to contentiants • Then: She re.
turned to the drawing room, followed
bY
it full sized footman bearing tein
• She was ton discreet a evotnane, toe
deeply versed in the sudden dianges of
the human roind and ifeart, to say any-
thing until One of them should glee her
13 diatillet lead. - They Were not tihy
and• Awkward chileree. Perhaps she
refleetee that the gerieratien to whish
they belaiged Is not one heavily Medi -
tapped by. tee)• nobtle a delicacy of
•teeling. •
Jaek Meredith °gave ho the lead be-
-fore long, '
•41dillicentio he said without a vestige
of eMbarranentent, "hat( consented te
be openly engaged now" oialish. •
•
• ***e..eceee,,
•
poured out the coffee-tonigbt be dia • crept en to the smooth eventemseaf-the
Strong r' • en men .•
..t.4 ,.f*... • eso.
•
• "1 canter he fsald suddenly, "to gire
yira a piece of hews Which I, am afraid
• will not be very welcome Millicent
and f have decided to -make our en-
gagemeet known," .•
•• "You know,". said Sir John gravely,
• "that I am net much given to altering
• my opinions. I do not Say; that they
are of any value; but such as they are,•
Initial& hold to them. When you did
• roe the Iloilo -ref -A inentioseing this mat-
ter to me last :year, gave you my
opinloh."•• .
"And It has in no way altered?"
• ."In no way, I have found no reason
• .
•
to alter. It" \ • , • •
yolir reasons?" he tusked. "1 ,am itot
a Child." • •' • •
• •`‘I O&M," he said, "that it wauld be
advisable not to ask them."
!IX should like to know why yen ob-
jeet to niy marrying Millicent," persist.?
ed Jaek. - •• .
• "Simply becauset know a bad' wore -
an when I see her." retorted Sir John
deliberately.
"I Ana sorry you hove said that," said
• "Will you, •tte all evade, give .me•
the son. •
. • "lust" continued the father, "as I
kintoW it geod-one." -
He paused, and theywere both think-
ing of the same woman, Jocelyn Gor-
don. •
• Sir Jobe had hie Islay about Millicent
Cheese, and his son knew that that was
Melina word.. She was a bad wotnan.
• Prona tbet point heyould never move,
There was a long silence, while the'
two mei sat side by eide gazing inte
the fire. .
"I am gettibg ton oId te indulge In
the hutitry of pride," said. the father at
length. "I will attend Your, marriage.'
I Will endle and say pretty things to
• the bridesmaids. Before the World I
• will Consent under the condition Una
the eeremony does not take filate. be.
fore two months from this date."
."I agree to that," put In Jock.
Sir John rest. and stood on the hearts
rug, looking down from his great height
upon his son.
"Put," he continued, 4etwectigte
• let it be underetred. that 1 More In no.
dm.
degree fromy origiriai position, I
object to Millicent Chynti as your wife.
'Mit bow to the force of eiretim4
ettineefi. 1 admit that /00 haye pei.
• ' CHAPTER, XXII
iver'sebretree' tiscard was pminently that he. eras, his nerves were :all a -tin -
a man ee action_ in a moment lie was gle,- his flesh creeping and jumping
on his feet and in the darkness of the with horror. 'Gradually he collected his
room there .was the gleam' of a rifle
acuities • enough t�. begin • to think
' barrel. • He =ie. back' to the Windovie-,- • about else future. What was e o. o
with watching, wearied • with that
wetching
i . .. • . ..
•
He saw the canoe.approach the beak . ' • with this Man? He could not take:hint
.!. IIe heard the thud of :the paddle asit , ,. look to. Loango. He 'Could!' not 'risk that ' •biessed fatigue of amtiety Which' dulls
I was•thrawn neon. the ground, •In• the upon this' borertein - • • - • Se0
Jocelyn or eveh Maurice Gordon should '. the senses, had lain down on tbe car-
eered bed to Weep. .
While ' Marie slept •Iocelyb. .- Getdon
°-. tante' et be saw Jneh*. had erent back 'into. the lie '
softly backWard and forward
I glrein, to wbieb nie Dyes were aecus-
4; .re et step- froth the . ner roomep, Where he had no •light,. and walked
Suddenly tbe silence was 'broken • by . •EngliahWoman's•• gentle arms, a little
l'htfat- to thaehere aud :draW Die canoe: virldt1-.Nestorius bit he a;rMoi. Nestoritue .
could bei -beard• -breathing, hard„e Wide -
awake his barnatack: '•' • • • ' • • Was probably dyingthe
.. Ile lay in '
• UP. The sllettt Midnight 'leiter then . . •
I tureed and walked i up toward, the'
: a loud cryt . 1 . *C . : ' ' . • . brown bundle of flexibielinibs and Cot-
,. bouse. Tbere-'1eafs something familiar .“Oseardr. °sesta!" . - .' .. ,' tog: nightshirt. le. was terribly "hot.
l. In ; the geiteethe • legs were slightly ' in a moment joseph andOsperd Were' ,•;AA cloy vie Ilan bad been pending. 4.11
. great difficulty, staggering a little at • Durnovo. was sitting• up, • and • Ile earth seemed to entente with the desire
N direly lighted eoom In the bunga-
. at • Lotago two wonien bed- '
' been astir ail night. Now, as dawn ••
approaebed, one of them, worn out.
I bowed. The man was walking, with
1 . ., ,'„ night It -.-had * beld off nntil the whole
each step, Be seemed. to be In great ; grabbed et °Beard's arms. ' • . rTor relief. Jocelyn kept moyingso that
Pahl. ' • ml
Le "For Godes. sake!" he _cried; "Far ethe changing air wafted over the little
; Guy Oscar& laid aside the rine.' He God's sake, man,' don't let me go to bare limbs might finite the fever. She
eloped toward to the open witelote. . moor* • . * ' ' , • ' was ,in evening dress, having, indeed, •
"Is that you, Eburnoi O?tr be said,
without raising his• voice, , i'W,hat do you Mean?" asked Oscard, . been called from the draWieg room by
"0a" replied' the other. Rig voice.. mThitedy bsoletheothheaudghntotthhiantg.htenobdraetogednoe. .hetaardie,waasndprtbesesedell.aligdaLwtoboelity. -bbrieaacskt
was =modas if ills tongue were with' Durnovo'e eyes -protruding, star • as .if to seek relief- beim the inward
moiled, and ,there was at ' Om:thug, • Ingterrible' to lok at
, o ,.
break itt
Oscard etepped aside and Durnovo "Don't let me go to sfeeti," be re-
• passed.into Ida OWII 11011Se. •
• "Got a light?" he said the same
11111111ed *Way. •
In the neit rooln JoSeph could be
beard striking a match, tend a moment
later he entered the room, throwing a
flood of light before ItiM.
"Good God!" erica Oscard. tio 'step-
ped habit as if be had been struck, with
• his hand, shielding his eyes, .
I "Savo us!" elucidated .loseph in the
same breath.
Tile thing that stood there, Sickening
• their ihze, was not n hbroan being at
an. Take a maws eyendis a , ey-
ing the ronnd belle star jr, ,blood
streaked; cid away hh, lips, ltav1ag the
;
grinning teeth And red guns , sneer oft
his ears -that which is left is not a Man
1 at all. This had been done to Victor
Durrioeee Tetily the vengeance of tItti
. 15 crueler the* the vengeance of God:,
ICould he have teen hintself„ ViltOr-
Durnovo would flour have shown thfit
face, or what remained of It, to a
humati being, Ile could only have
killed bittself. Whe ean tell What ern.
I Wed had been paid for, piece by piece,
• in this loithrente intitilatkilal The
Mayes had %waked their terrible Wave..
peered. "Don't! • Don't!". until Midnight; and, having done
"All right," said Oseard reothingly- his best, had gone away leaving the
"all right .Avell book after you." • child to the two wotnen. Mituriee had ,
Ile fell kick on the bed. In the Mok,. been bit twlee, clumsily, on • tiptoe, to
ering lightshis eyeballs gleliniedlook with ill coneealed awe at 'the
These quire 'suddenly, he rose to a cbild and to whisper hopes to Marie,
which displayee a ludicrous, if 'amen-
oitnagboblaeignorance of what hewas talk -
"Little chap's better," he said; "Pm
sure Of it, See, Marie, his eyes are
brighter. Devilish hot, though, isn't
he? Poor little soul." •
Then he stood • abont, awkwardly
sympathetic.
"Anything 1 con do for you, jive -
lyre?" be asked, mad then departed.
Only too pleased to get away from the
Impending ettlaneity. •
Matle , was not emotional. She
• Reerned to have left all etaOtion be-
hind, in some other" phase of her life
• which was shut ot7 from the present
• old. cairn, but she was not eo clever
*with the child as was Jeeelyn. Per-
haps her greater experience aeted as a
bandiettp bit her ceecutitut of three
Mall offices to the gek, which may be
rendered ulteless at any moment. Per-
• hens she know that blestortes to/001.
• CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX
pressure on the awakening brain. •
A, missionary - possessing some small
knoyeledge of medicine had_heen With .
them
sitting position again with a Wild eft
'fort..
•
"I've got It! I've got It!" he cried.
"Got what?" •
"The sleeping sickness!"
The. two listenerknew Of this
etrange diSease. Oseard had Been a
Whole Village devastated by •it, _the
habitants lying about their own doors,
stricken deteri by it deadly sleep from
whieh they never awoke, It is known
on the west coast of Africa, and the
cure for it Is unknown,. •
"I/Old mei" cried DttrnoVO. "Don't
let me Weep!" •
Rio bead fell forward even its bo
spoke, mid the staring, Wide men eyea
thiit-tOuld Met Veep- itede ix -horror-of-
. .
(Mated took him ,by the arms and
held hila in a sitting position, Der.
110•00's fingers were olutehing at his
sleeve.
"Shake me! Clod! Shako tneP"
When Oohed teak mita to big *tree