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« ll after go horrible a Ile identified thatpale, wounded corpse' death, following so close at the heal
• In for Warren l Reif, amid the frug t e a cnstrepe ewo ti
• tstruggle atastr•e o would indreel. he slight with reverent eine, and waited in !of his Eroll firth: svife's, sept>•a.•I horror ,
of te Hoge
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with krribl ;rja nsumm tibiutzl� arch of do doubled
up tl
sult of
O its
terrible consummation, lie had doubted up ltkesa )xtueiz tr�stletlliQt� ntot•Ccrort for the xeeatmivattian,tt��`h'ha�zdou�ors't with teY•ir� iant.caTlte wife
tra
never even noticed the angry jerkier,
upon nue another before filially f_.
£ the loosened wheel, the whir that h 1 t least report reaseurva his ^cul DPI/tit 'tied on her pelpiletiug wrier, as shs
��� end S�IB���, ° � • •ryas now t3acured. She need kuew had resulted' c+,, the Medical evidence whutrdzutetl'iueuce, Nobody
��� �d through ylr rile shaken carriages,
cl ti yet ?roved on the t,ifull and; the surprising
if •>•
Elsie was saved. ; that union
tt ea , , , of her tleihltou.ra with
Barra t 6
> —Tut; Cit' �1 aiz trr the , the eve oscillation t'1'oirz lido to evert e ed tO tell her. the ghastly apparently yl rncluced, they arid, s uy i kuew what taigI t happee este a.t now'
Cl�il'7�10 Ii
CAa',as'�rzsornE. sidfr, the evident iu,mSudde of some ever tempted
' • ac •itteut. t+ud:iesz as the :truth, that terrible episodeat tt iu 1 t tton the
to diowzllzbtxt Iltz the last of. the �4 eyse'Ys
the blow against ,e carriage,
•t t tr tali tl dgrtatik wee
1 tit c
to11 to him it was deiltii•strungje in the doom
11.trnt a
!\s Warren 114:f panned there on -
and unexpected to the woman for whose sake it had:
of a enriuus fact that caught his cane, indeed, he did not realize why to been attuned.
'attention, sidewnys, even at that the other pafiSenests were hanging on Warren's mixed, therefore, tufts
sp e-oiai ntunteut tf cloul,t anti danger , so strangely to the narrow fnotboard, trade up at once, ,All things consid-
drafty other doors on the landward The whole episode happened oriel,. it had bold lits t e a sacue duty
for
ever
side of the train stood also open and in so short a spaces of time Minx flow to ll €�
other passengers beside himself, with _{bitty seconds at best—that be had and Near about the criminate t) accident.
n elf;
fear and surprise depit:ied visibly on no opportunity to mollcethr>rl recover No matt is bound
choir pale faces, wore stepping out, his scattered senses. Ile mere y re- above all, no roan is bound to expose
irresolute, just as he footboard, had Bold cognized at first in some stanned and himself when innocent to on limpet
upon the narrow footboardgg
could shattered fashion that a dnzrz� suffer-
they have heard the struggle . he
era lay stretched in evident pain and 1 t lit
wondered vaguely to Itimsetfe Gould danger on the low bank of earth beside
then have gained some hasty inkime. kiln
of the trrtgic avert that had taken For all the passengers hied not
place, so secretly, all unknown as he farad so well in their escape as he
et:l)posed, in bis own compartment ? himself had clone, Many of them
Had some neighboring traveller had suffered serious hurt in their mad unnecessary, and as lasting as it t+At nc, an on
",r tl the muffled' susp of a bno en doorway, alighting ezuel. The more he tlioughtupon it, rho £legs of
train had tb ppeaotx
goner- ed not in 1deliciousrvevist stlbeforeepteo
eef
caught fact y atm front t p
desperate fight 2 Had be Ettspeoted q)1 net god points of broken stone, Cllr more plain and clear did his duty the r t t
1 Cl nee had ally known to the little of Seri Remo, entranced legal vision. The lnarritige
catastrophe ryas all, Mlle re he of elle carriage one second, more sudden t pected than to might retrain forever a sealed b •oft
taf.fcz jumped, be was dmfs aware orfs uu . Till the actual email itself
1 ll au ted
r gone,a e
wets et ltl aloe, than when the train' sl�reitditeg lt,t f tt toile to et.:swar«l, And
went over 1. ]l.ttl heart still beat mid • the r ery river was turned fi'o,u its
his breath still oscine awl went feebly! coarse by rueroaching hatnntoohs into
till the tunnel moment of the final' a l went. ol)anuele Ttie n1alegaut•e
mete -strophe, It was the itrrtident, not t to be sure, write safe whit Li -ex
W'nrreit's heed, that kilted lion,' mousy, Net only was the property
Innocent as Warren knew finite f now worth ot) a oou)patlatio' alui,bt
to be he was glad to learn front this! as utuult as it had ever been, not
authoritative snnroe that even Winifrud's life had .been heavily iu-
nuintentioually he had made himself!scred, and the late Me Measiuger'e
Hugh Mussit ger's aeohlertal oxeouttoll- estate, the family attunes), remarked.
with a cheerful senile, wtis far m•)re
yet LYarrr'he�tlililt,•m, alt8plCipit - er.
der. But that was not all. Elset 's But i11 any 4ltse they must break then solvent—in fact it would prove
happiness depended eutirely upon s' 111e news gently to baste. Warren's a capital inbeeite ee for
tsome
litpessotn
rigo ons silence. To telt the truth presence was needed in the south for or person,, u -. ,
even to her, would be to expose her the time being, to sae afaer Winifred's law and next of -kin of the p ,ssess,r•.
shrinking and delicate nature to a neueral and other uecessiny domestic But good been:less Isty in store, no,
painful shock, as profound as it Was arrangement. So Edie went over to doubt, for the'rpl fe sio> ip still.
d l.testate
Lel d the ver• first day after ceased ha p y
au attack upon some innocent passer- on rolling; down the sides of the steep
ger 1 Heil use signalled the guard to ravine into the dry bed of the torrent..
stop the train ! for it was slowing The least injured turned with one
stili, slowing yet more sensibly and accord to help and tend their woxtnd
certainly each moment, More and aeeordpartions, But as for the train
tnOre pale facies now appeared at the itself, it had aittapiy, disappeared,
door ; and a Frenchman standing on It ryas as though it had never been.
'the I nthoard of the next ctnnpart- 1Scarcely a .igui of it showed 011 the
urea, a burly person of military unruffled water. Falling sheer frntxt
appearance, with an authoritative air,
the edge of that precipitous crag
-cried aloud in a voice of quick coin- into the deep bay, it had sunk
mond, Santee, done 1 Sean! At likes stone at once to the very .
the word, Warren leaped, he knew bottom. Only a few fragments of
not why, from the doomed carriage. broken wreckage appeared here and
The Faenchman leaped at tits self fliers fleeting loose upon file surface.
same moulage. All down the t«ain, a Hardlya token remained beside to
dozen or two of passengers followed
show he outer world where that whole
suit as if by a concerted order. i Var- loge jive of laden carriages had
ren had no idea in bis own mind what to sled over noddy into the profound
was really happening, Lut he is n°w green dephts that still smiled so sweet-
ine train had slaclte had speed nm- ly between Roquebrttne end Mentoue.
lnenaely, and that he landed on
For'a while, distracted by this fresh
his feet and hands on the Tinnily bank flatter, Warren could only think of
wine no more result, so far as he the dead and wounded. His own torn
himself could see just thee, than a and bloodstained condition excited uo
sprained ankle end some few bleeding more attention or curiotaity now on that very train. She tied not !tu 1ry sol{isle cruelty, ut xe pen. a
weands on Ids kueee and elbows. the part of bystanders than that of that Hugh was likely to be one of the Remo,. +' ie would be the first to catch the golden- no shower., A learned,
en-
Nextinstnt a horrible crash re -
many others among his less fortunate fellow passengers. She must not bring news t1er o Hugh'e s strange
tdafbrtedf arh. `Vanes endltoton s distiuid amount byoubt rathetr tato
sounded through the air, and bellowed fello v•passengets. Nor did he even hear of the accident for the first • time
and echoed with loud reverberation reflect with any serious realisation from the colutuns of the 'inen.es or the himself stopped behind at Mentone, Mr. Maes)uger's touching disregard ttf
from the rooky walls of those sheer that Elsie was saved and Ills own Pall ;iMctll Gazette. Ile roost tele- 'as in duty bound, to identify the testamentary provision for his un
precipices. 'Thud, thud, thud follow -
character practically vindicated. The graph over at once and relieve before body formral.ty at the leg ai inquiry. known relations.
rd close on the crash, as carriage, new shock had deadened the sense and hand her natural anxiety for her Be had another reason, t,o, for (To' tiE CONTINt7 D )
after carriage shocked fiercely a;aint visiduess of the ole} one. In the face future husband's safety. But Hugh's wishing to break the news. to Elsie
the .noire and the compartments in of so awful and general a calamity name and fate need nut UL mentioned throttgllL+'die's mouth rather than per HOSPITAL. REMEDIES,
front of it. Then a terrible sight met as this, his own private fears and at least for the rreaent; he could sonaily. Fur Edie kuew nothing, of^�iteretsanew dfsparttsreinthe taeatmont
ej
his eyes, The train had ,just reached doubts and anxieties seemed to shrink reserve that revelation for a more course, of the deadly struggle in the It in
the ledge of cliff beyond, and with a
for the moment into absolute insiaui i convenient season. To publish it, doomed train, of that hand-to-hand thelseas . usedistsnot dos eoieeolists off'
wild rocking disappeared all at once mance. indeed, would be in para to incrimin- battle for lite and honour ; and. she Surope and Americas, and bringing them.
over t1, 1 b I slowly l if rat least to arouse un could therefore with truth unfold the
' Natbing in life ie more whole story Y
shine forth before rim. la
supplied him with a strange means of to soften the shook for her with being subsequent to the late Married
honorable eeeape from what had sisterly tenderness. By a piece of Wo,n-n's Property hot, Mrs• Mas -
seemed at first sight an insoluble di rare fortune, Hugh Massinger's name singer's will, if�eny,etxt of iitl and he otled her rid
lemma. It would be -folly and worse, was not mentioned at all in the earlier proved. T-
e t -
under his present condition, for hint telegrams, even after it was fairly well taw mast be hunted dntecl up. ' easote Prottoe-
racted
i to profit by its unconscious thatve at the Welty winner,and
whoseMonte
suceess w wrdston would be offered for certificates
stlY-Y,etLmor
Yet more : lie must decide at once was in everybody's mouth just then of birth ; records. of impossible mer -
without delay upon his lice of action. had • perished in one oaf only
oat with would
t qhs ninety
suggestions of advertised
pefor
carriages. The despatches o y p P ug.
nni-
in vague Lerma of an English geutle-• ary recompense to the teeny' (1iscover-
tnan lately arrived on the Riviera, er. B,.�aearch would be stimulated in
who had all but succeeded in breaking paish c'er'K1; atlidavit$ would be
the bank that day at Monte Earle, and sworn to with ebarmine, recklessness ;
he could hear the very cries was returning to San. Remo. Riled rival elaimante .would commit, fur
street boys ringing in his ears : by success, with eleven thousand
Olu1shi g al tel with era perjuries
ries on their
r 4
Spnshul Edition. Appalling Real pounds of winnings in his pocket.v
as tof ent on the RTrain
Precipitated
re i itattet It was ed Elsie would
ldtn dream ofleast
r oogniz rig, leer fees.
on The ea aselwouldtwould rain
dxssolve itself
Loss of Life 1 A Main 1'r c p
into the Mediterranean 1 If not she newly bereaved cousin under this bodily by slow degrees in a quagmire
would at ttnyrate read the alarming highly improbable and generalized of expenses And all the b»teetit of'
news in an agony of terror in the description especially when Winifred lithe
lithe good
io fiattorneys e The fetidly
w nln law -
morning
fw-
mornin papers She knew Warren as she well knew, was lying ,
or
himself was returning to San Retno by Meanwhile, the victim of his
n ticold
aand
d , hisoocc occasion only,
only, anutdawitS ho ntlspre,
Ness of the catastrophe would bo tel-
egraphed, of course, immediately to
England. Elsie would most likely
learn the whole awful epis•1de that
very evening at her hotel in Langer.:
of the
e steep side into the sea belove, within the reach of all. For instance the,
re ttrvfn} 111 its Int time however, it I)rhttn s ow y ate iimse , o ,tor exactly as Warren wished treatment pursued by special physicians
d than great railway
to dawn upon his bewildered inind just suspicion.
aiitexpecta gess Ana that other trains might coxae up from He drove to the'telegraph office, Ere nfrst toe .tett, tell than there troubles only was obia3ne11 achild Peelebra
accident. Before Warren had. even: Monaco or Mentone and dash madly worn out as lie was with pain a The treatment ofothe ainedicians, F
time iu know what was taking; place among the broken debris of • the excitement, and despatched to 'hasty Hugh, with mandible levitt
y Duca ted for curing catarrh were procured, and
1,y
his side, it vas all over. Tbe shattered earria:;en Whatever caused message that moment to Elsie : There brutal want of feeling, had gone over so on till there incompara111e sores now
train lead fallen in ,one Inrt a mass 1 t t • the to Monte Carlo to gamble openly at the include diseaseof thelungs,kidneys,ferixate
1 i of thecliff, and Mach but I out not hurt cul Ise t Ask your dtuggxst fol them Those vrho
their own as cfclent might cause Las been a terrible attic eu o 1° shies on 1110 very day while weakness,rheumatismandnervous debility.
over the
e1 ae i , accidents also to approeh}),e .orales. trate near Mentone, , Y cannot procure these remedies from their
1,tssinger, with eleven thousand Moreover, the wounded lay scattered at least to speak of—only a few slight his poor ;pone wife killed lay
dea�'l druggist may remit the price to Hospital
d 1 t articulare in inch by his settled neglect, pounds safe in his pocket, was hurriedaV�1nt on all sides upon the track, sprains
an )raises:
in her lonely lodging int San Remo : Remedy no., 303a West Sing SB., Toronto,
• ed to them
x.v>)p rvitltont warning or reprieve into some of t'r.em in a condition in which papers. Affections tely, WAittrx.
tial, fathoms deep of Mediterranean. it might indeed be difficult or even And then he drove back to the scene
Everybody reiuernbers the main oanteerons to remove them. Somebody of the catastrophe.
features of that terrible accident, toast certainly go forward to iYlontorxe It was a week before all the bodies
rai was itt the history of 1+'rarti l to warn the chef de,gccre and to fetch were dredged up by relays of divers over into the sen with the carriages
rt iirtay disasters as the oaf
Martin tip tssistatsee, After a horrid eonsttla- frons the wreck of that iii.fated and from which \�larreu just barely es.A CouatoN l�jvrsrrtcN.--A )non's
c:itatstrophe. oShortlyo after passing tint with his nearest neiebboutask r- t snhmereed train, Hugh neassinger's caped with dear life, be was drowned friends woo lounge in, his store or
11.txlunl>rat:e station (where 1130 ren took upon himself the task of was one of file Cast to bt) rr.coverod. in his place in one of the silatterecl
and sunken compartments. Teat was afjiue,. from a btxafncess point of view,
through trains do not stop), t+l d +f messeng0r. He started off at once on It was found, minus a large part of .often prove his worst en°Mies. They
tux,: engine wheels became loosen this needful errand, and plunged with the clothing, which the sea had torn all : fund that was bad enough o in all P
will set their. minds against every
ruYto'etlt shock against a badly -laid a heart now attar«>ely aroused into off, Tho eleven tln.ousaud pounds in conscience. What need to burden seen that enters your shop because
(raker, awl, thus acting as a natural1tench bank -notes heves Elsie's gentle soul any further with P p op
the ce e, darkness of file last remain', t • {i hideous concamrtants of that
brake, brought the train
still for a few seconds, dust oppnstte
the very dangerous ledge known His sprained nulls caused 111th perished with nen.
locally apt the Borrigo escarpment. terrible pain at every atep ; but the They Untried all that remained of
Tho engine there left the rails with a pain itself, joined witb the conscious- that volcanic life on the sweet and
jerk, and many of tbe passengers, ' ness of performing an imperative duty laughing hillside at Mentone. A
seeing somthing serious was likely to kept his mind from dwelling too notch plaiu marble cross marks the spot
take place, seized the opportunity, for the moment on his own altered yet where be rests. On 'the plinth stand
jest before the crash, of opening the perilous situation. As he dragged one graven those prophetic lines from the
doors on • the landward side, and toot wearily after the other through plaintive poem to A Life's Philosophy:
:.
.leaping from the train while it had that long tunnel, his thoughts eoneon- Fiore, by the heaven with the hoary trees,
reached its slowest rate of motion, on rated themselves for the time being O fetid poet's heart lie still t
ttie very Eve of its final climber. One on but one object --to reach Mentone No curb wildonger l
arniwaters to hyawaYrq rdwili.
ieetant later, the engine oscillated and prevent any further serious aeon Above t grave
eth oreca lag stopped ped again ; the dent.
When he had arrived at the station, Wan olives wave,
ether carriages telescoped against it; And oleanders. court deep -laden
and tine entire train, thrown oft" its howeeer, and despatched help along btlf)s.
belt>uce with a terrible wreneb, top- the line to the other infferers from the 9`hatitought fulfilment might elf
plied over the sheer precipice at the terrible disaster, he had time to reflect wanting to01 lit of fulfl Warred tt
be
-side into the deep water that skirts in peace for a while upon the sudden with his own hand planted a blushing
Uw f,ot of the neighbor' gmountains, thug() this great public calamity had above the Mound where
That was the whole familiar, story as wrought in his ownprtsit on. oleander fiery poet'se ltlie goy stilt or mets are deterred fro g,ttlt g
the 1lubite at largo carne, bit by bit, to The danger of misapprehensionever. He had nothing but pity in fhisor know you to Ue, store altogether tat sight of holt there.
',nen it sex stttrds. Bet for the been removed ed Icy the ac�'jd elf ea ifchose soul fn1« Thigh's 'wasted
powers. A. Those are the hardest words a,,, ltoroa altogether
gossip of uo mo)t>,
;)x,tniCft0 the stttntterl and horrified by uveal, Unless h0 himself alt splendid life, marred in the making woman can utter. To unsay their it tringle than oil end water. They will
l,:t!,ti('13,�,f,1',a or tbe bank if the torrent, to reveal the facts, no steel odea or by its owe Itoadatrptz; folly. And love is to women unendurable. But buy acigen and drive otr 1110 man who
ten.y knew that a frightful accident need evet know e, weld f alt p Winifred, xvhp loved him, and wllpse 1 { nk from t tttssa rug
bad tenon piece with incredible rapid. ate straggle With marl lIngh Massing- heart a broke, lay silent in the self•
ity, and that the train itself, with er in the wretched railway carriage. hautegravea broke,
beside hintl
y of their {piloentravellers seated vett supposing the bodies were inti.
tl had stink like Ioad in the >ly•d •edged up or iccovereil by :fs LI
.b
ae turned up _such a ersoti may teniporartly set
to a stand-
that he had returned a couple of eve and the.remecly rvxll be shxpp
direct; (The price is one dollar each).
flings later wtth his ill gotten gains Descriptive catalogue sent on. receipt of.
epee the fated train : end that, falling stamp to pati postage.
ire tunnel. • at all again. lila Money indeed had n more i their flow of gossip, They annoy
unspeakable tragedy i timid and sensitive customers by scan-
w rvi a re
Elsie bore the news th f r g ater
fortitude than 'L+'die in her most trot, them inquisitively. The country
sanguine snood could hate expected, store is abominable for tiffs .The
Winifred's death had snnlz 80 deet» lounger On the 'head of a barrel is an
into tbe fibres of her soul that Hugh's ways present to overhear elle request
seemed to affect far less by oornperi- of every customer and comments on is
son, She bad learnt to know hire mentally while the customer is pres-
now in all his baseness. It ane the slit, and audibly the moment he or she
recognition of the lean's. own inmost is absent. Tlio suburban grocery
nature that had cost her dearest. store is often infested with the evening
Let us never speak of him again, dear Intoner, who occupies the only avail -
Warren, site wrote to her betrothed, .a able chair and inspects every lady who �-p
few days later. Let him be to us as enters with all the thoroughness grant•. '
thongb be had never existed. Let ed by opportunity to concentrate hie
his name he not so much as mentioned facnities upon her. The store or otiico i'
l
betty en us. It pains and grieves me lounger is an expensive article of
ton thousand iii s more, Warren, to furniture, Ile may please you with
think that for suc11 a mart's sake as he his ootnpany and gossip, but he will
was, I should so long have refused to cost yeti front $GO u yen.r up ipt the,
accept the love of suet a man as 1 trade he d •rives awttiy, Some Gusto-
nly` into tee
1141.04.1.4.1.0
Lne1I1 , .
within. 1, to ntatr. r CI AI'IL -- 1:x air I�tN ntex•.i 11
tist*tkling elf €tit eye; to the bottom of. divers, no soapioloncould now possi possibly (Sake of the false one. ytyitrtiarelypRathnasande of hot,Ctanb CMS
have
the fere survivors attach to itis awn Conduct. The At sand -girt Whitastritnti, meso• ;°yr ri yfl seth1ty df you"r reel i w lwr
tI'hint dry ing. 1 inex- wound oT fogies head aoula doabt. The recovery of tingles body fromg
tllr•rfs nt1 dry laud a alintsf ext Ilse , the rthattered trail' gave 'Warren ltel while, all Wats tort. oil anti confusion . ' alnaumt,tiot, it Choy wilt st,att the thalr i;x rode art,
Vetegee ttttdrien:,p8!i and itSCCul�+? s tyf les; git the uha�tt rf1ltr:0 body being!! tale un;t1fo1 grain of internal coltlfort.1T'he mews of the young $ottit�o a tt'anic': �ic 0Aio ogi �rrRut:Q trori;l�, vqt. Iir e vV'touli<bC
Vete glee litiaj', wr;il:R.rtt,�. �-;;�
Elsie no longer s Ira i Y mi lit have bought a box.
it, Shame and remorse for her !1 g
1 d 1 I
shattered idea p,d n e t ler sou Gonst;ttltz titin. Surely t zxlg:td. Ob.
,51x3) know site had done the trust man vs trio cowSlfl 1p•ion . inform your re11'I a 8het.r
wrong by set long rejecting blot for the have a esltive rs„:^.sty for the nbm•a >,amod dtsiooi . .