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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-4-14, Page 6tninismeneimmeme 'See LEGAL. 1.4 'FI. DICKSON , Barrister, Soli. otter et Suarero.e Court, Notarr Clonveyaneee. 00mr0-1521"*; " atone/. to Loan. Ofileein F aaison'stilook. Breeer, H. COLLINS, twister, , Solicitor, , Convey ancer , Etc. kar-ETBB - ONT. OFFICE Over O'Neil's Bank. ELLIOT & ELLIOT, iarristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pnblic, Conveyancers cto, (to. ts-Afottey to Loan at Lowest Rates of interest. OFFICE, - MAIN - STREET, EXETER, B. V. ELLIOT• 3. 'ELLIOT. INENCI.M.01100010MMOMO, MINOR. DENTAL. DR. 0. H. INGRAM, DENTIST. Successor to IL L.Billings. 'Me mbar ot the Royal College a Dental Surgeons.) Teeth insertea with or withenb Plat-e,itt Gold or Rubber. A sate Anassthetic gelen for the painless extraction of teeth. Fine Gobi Fillings as Required. (Moo over the Post Office, H. ICINSMAN ,DENTI8T,L.D. 5. Fan.son's Block, natn•st, Exeter., Extracts Teeth without pain. .Away at Hee BALL on first Frietty ; craia, second ane fourtb Tuesday; sad Bunton on the laet Thurs- day of oaoimontt: MEDICAL ARRIMME.M1111MMI1111•111.1 T W. BB,OWNING M. D., M. 0 • P. 8, Graduate Victoria. 'Univers ty: (Moe e,nd residence, Dominion Lebo a- ory, Six eter DrR. RYDMANoor0o1ner foprpetsalto 3otp:osnro10ce, oeaalngtroabor.Ax84 j..A.. ROLLINS, M.O. P, S. °Moe, Main St. Exeter, Ont. DRO' . lesidence, honae r (scantly ooeupied by P. IttiPliiiiine ,Esq, 1-%R. T. P. McLIUG WAN, MEM - be r of the college of Physicians and Suegeons, Ontario. Andean. Surgeon and Acconcheur. °aloe ,DASHWOOD ONT. WT A. THOMSON, M. D. C. V •31„ Member of College of Physlelaus Surgeons, Ontario. 0.vetze HODGINS' BLOCK, HENSALL. "-■••-•,;="-- d.UCTIONEERS. . HARDY, LICENSED ACC- -LA • tioneer for the County of Huron, Charges moderate. Exeter P, 0. A 3. HOLLINS, LICENSED • Auctioneer for Counties Huron. and Middleeex. ResIdenee,1 mile south of Exeter. P. 0. Exeter. T.14 BOSSENBERRY, General Li- lt • caused Auctioneer Sales conducted in &Umtata Satiatactionguarenteed, Charges moderate, Henson P 0, Ont. FENRY EILBER Licensed Ana- _ tioneer for the Counties of Enron and Mioaleser . Wee conduotad at mod - prate rate;. Delco , at Zest -010.4 a, area - ton Ont. pH. PORTER, GENERAL • AitaameerandLiindValuator. urdors Seat by mail 10 my a deress, Bayeela P. 0, willreceive prompt attention. Torras moder ate. D. IL PORTER, A.uotioneer, 41111MM:MOMINIONCOMMINIMA VETERINARY. Tennent & Tennent EXETER ONT. Ciraduatasof the Ontario reverinary col "ego. Damen : One eoor South orrolvn Hall. 11111211•11111E1111, MONET TO LOAN. MONEY TO LOAN A.T 6 IND L‘J.. percent, $25,000 Private Funds, Best ioaning Companies represented. L. DICKSON, Barviater. . Exeter. SURVEYING. 1)R. SABINE'S PATIENT. CHAPTER III. A GLIMMER or HOPE. Snow on the ground, white and dazzling; snow on the roofs, wells, doorsteps; snow on the bare, leafless trees and lawns of gar- dens -everywhere the white, ghostlike un- reality of snow. That was what a beautiful girlish face, with eyes overahadowed by an awful horror, looked out upon the morning of that Christ- mas -eve each time she came to the window in her restless walk to and fro -to and fro - the whole length of the spacious room, her fingers ceaselessly twining in and out eaoh other. "You said he would come early, doctor," she said, in a rapid apprehensive way - "you said he would come early, to be all Christmas." "It is quite early yet, my dear," an- swered Dr. Sabine; "and he is quite sure to come to yoa, you know. I showed you his telegram from Dover, yon remember, but it was too late to come here last night, • of course." "And yon are sure he hasn't killed Al- bert? How like -like- Who was it that was murdered?" she said, lito suddenly, and for the first time using the word, that even Sabine scarcely repressed a start. e won t talk of such a. dreadful thing, ray child," he said, "Oh! yes, we will' --she put her hand to her forehead, then pushed. it through the clastering locks of gold -"because this was one. Ab!" -with an impatient frown - "it's gone so -it's gone so. What is that?" A light tap at the door, and a nurse's voice saying, quietly: "You are wanted., please, sir." "It is Albert!" cried Isabel, grasping the doctor's arm -"it is Albert:" "If it is, my love, you shall see him ve r soon; but you must stay here for him, or I must call a nurse. Will you promise?" "Yes -yes; I won't stir." Dr. Sabine kuew she would not disobey, and, with a. nod and a smile, went out. "Mr. Claremont has arrived, air," whis- pered the nurse outside. "Shell I sit with Miss Guest?" "No, thanks, not now," And he went down trickly. Warm was the greeting between tbe old- er and younger man after these eighteen months; the latter had to hear that the be- loved patient was certainly much better in health, and the brain plainly stronger, struggling against the shock; as she had just now shown, the elder had to learn -Al- bert's odd meeting with Winton, and the possibility of a clue thus obtained. There certainly was a man who, if he had not timid Guest, had an interest in his death, "We'll talk it over later, dear boy," said the doctor, "1 won't keep you now, and if Isabel asks you any questions, I can, I think, trust to your discretion. By the way, I should not wonder if the commissioners in lunacy make their visit to -day." " What -to -day -Christ ums-eve ?" "Yes ; it was about their tiine last week. They should be here before Christmas -two of them and a secretary. Be oft If they come now they will see the other patients first and Isabel last." "Do yon know them? Have the same commissioners come before ?" " Yes, old Mr. Hampton and Mr. Grave; their old secretary has died since their last visitation, so there will be a new one this time. 'cow go up to Isabel." Claremont knew the room well enough, and if he paused a moment at the door, it was to gather himself together as it were, it was such joy, yet bitter pain, to meet his betrothed again -such doubt, yet hope ; but she would know him this time. He opened the door and entered softly. FRED Tir. FIRN00 !rovincial Land Surveyor and Civil En- GirI1TM311R, MTC1., Mee, This taire•SamwelPs Block, Exe tor, On t INSURANCE . bright, shrewd eyes, and elose-trimmed moustache and beard that became him very well, as perhaps he knew, though his man- ner betrayed no vanity. On the contrary, during the visiting of the four patients, the doctor noticed that he was unassuming, quiet,ead, notebook in hand„ kept judicious- ly in the background as he took shorthand notes of qoestions, answers, or remarks, as his duty required. Whilst the gentlemen were conversing with the last of these four patients, Mrs. Sabine entered the apartment where Isabel Guest and Albert still sat. He sprang up to meet her at once, as she exclaimed: "My dearest boy, I should have come be- fore, but I was so engaged, and I knew you had better company. Now, the doctor has sent me to say that the commissioners are here, and coining this way diro,ctly." "And I must retreat then?" he asked. "No, my dear. The doctor said not, un- less you or Isabel wish it, or the gentlemen desire it." "Don't leave me, Albert!" pleaded the girl, nervously. "He might kill yotz if you go away, you know." "I will stay then, darling, if I may." He turned to Mrs. Sabine again: "Kindly ask the doctor not to introduce mo by name ; you :understand why." c( • 11 11HE LONDON MUTUAL -1 FIRE TNSIMANCE COMPANY OF SAN eDe . Head Office. London. Ont. After 23 years of .uccessful business, still son tinues to offer the owners of farmproperty and private residences. either on buildings or eon tente Abe most favorable protootion in case of loss er damage by fireorlightning. at rates upon Ruch liberal t arms. that no oth in respect, ablecompany ean afford to write. 8,49 poli- cies i n force s sTan .1*292. A psets A:167.200A in cash in bank. Amount at riek, $11,913.032. 9overnment dormer Debenfores e.t.a Pre- mium Kotes• CAP r. Trios. E. Reamer, Pre- sident ; D. C. Moi•ow LD, Manager • DAVID TACITTEs,Agentfor Exeterand She left the room; and Claremont, too haughty to challenge notice from men who might shrink from him as a murderer, drew back into a position in which, as the visitors entered, he stood in shadow. Isabel glanced wistfully in her lover's face, but said nothing. Either some curious working in her brain, or the mere hatuition of the true Wentall'S love, made her dimly conscious that he wiehed to be unnoticed, She only resumed her seat, waiting. Then the visitors were heard in the corridor ; but just outside the deep voice of Mr. Hamlin, the senior commissioner, exclaimed "How stupid of me 1 I have left my glasses somewhere ! 1 do believe, in my ulster, Mr. Forrest, will you kindly step down to the hall, and look in the pockets 1" "Or perhaps in the dining -room," added Dr. Sabine, "Perhaps Mr. Forrest will look." "Thank yorr, doctor, 1 will." Someone went downstairs, and Dr. Sabine entered the room with the two barristers. With graceful ease Isabel rose to receive them as they came forwards. "I am glad to see you again," she said, with her sweet, pathetic smile. "1 hope you are quite well, and wish you a happy Christnias." "Thank you my dear MiSs Guest; the sanie to you. What a pleasure to see you looking so well 1 Why, we shall find you gone, expect, next time we come," said Mr. Hamlin, with a side glance towards the tall figure in the background, that made the doctor say quietly, on pesmant, as it were : "A young friend of mine and my patient's, come for Christmas. I am very glad you find Isabel looking stronger." "Oh, not the same being at all 1 And I suppose, Miss Isabel, us devoted to the doctor as over, ch? Nothing to complain of?" smiling, as well he might, on so fair a face. " Oh, how you will jest!" " Well," said the other gentleman, Mr. Graves, "it is better to laugh than to ory. Isn't it, Miss Guesb ?" Whilst they were speaking, just as Mr, Graves addressed her by name, the secretary quietly entered, unnoticed at the moment, save by the doctor, who was on that side of the room, and Claremont. Forrest looked quickly towards Isabel as her name was spoken, doubtless struck by the perfect outline of profile presented as she faced the commissioners ; then his glance caughtsight of Albert's, gave hint a second, , more intent look, and lifted his brows a "Albert! 0, Albert 1" little m mildly -surprised recognition ; then She sprang to her lover's open arms end : moving to a side -table, put on it the spec. flung herself upon his breast with that Pas- 1 tacle.case he had fetched, and said in a quiet sionate ory. 1 undertone to Dr. Sabine: ".ay darling -my own Isabel! There is , "Pardon, but sorely that gentleman is thee to live for, come what rney 1" Albert ' the same -such a marked face, and I was in said, pressing his lips to hers again and . court -who was tried—" again, and then for minutee just held her to a yes, e mad Sabina, shortly, vexeclat the his throbbing heart in silence. She was so recognition: "and acquitted, remember." beautiful, she was so physically recovered trAg, yes, of course, pardon me." and like her old self, that it wai hard to be- 1 "That you, Forrest? Got my glasses ?" neve the mental balance still was wanting, mid Mr. Hamlin, turning round a step to. save for that look in the eyes that told such wards him. Then he drew her to a sofa ansat down 1 The secretary took them up, came for- a sorrowful story: "Yes, Mr. Hamlin."d. by her; but before he could speak, Isabel wards, and handed thetn to their ownerwith laid her soft cheek coaxingly against his, a bow. and whispered mysteriously, with a subdu- 1 As he moved from the gloom into the full ed eagerness that startled him. , light of both windows Isabel turned, as one "1 want you to tell me something, dear, ' naturally does towards a moving thing, and that I haven't asked even Or. Sabine. I: her eyes rested on his face for one moment, was afraid, because I slipped awaY and lia" i with a wide, startled look, through all their tened inside the big greenhouse. You won't i habitual horror. be angry, will you?" I Three of those present saw her with " Withyou, myheart-impossible 1 What. bated breath -her lover, the doctor, is it ?" tenderly caressing the gold head. I and Mr. Graves. In the next second "Bend close then -so. Who was it that : there swept over that young face such was murdered long ago? And who was it i a change as no man could ever see in it they said had done it?" again • for, suddenly, like a flash, the full Claremont held his very breath for a sec- I noonday blaze of light burst through the ond, so intensely was he internally startled. 1 awful veil of insanity, full reason glowed in "How do you mean, sweetheart? 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"1 was in the hothoute, and the coach- man and gardener were talking outside the door, which was ajar; I heard them say something about someone who," she shud- dered, and the horror in her eyes deepened, "who was murdered, and a gentleman they said was—Ah, what is it, I mean ?" she said, piteously, " it all goes -goes 1" "Accused -tried for %dearest,' suggest- ed her lover, trembling for the end of this,"Yes, that was it. I knew you could tell, dear, because of the trouble in your face. 0, the misery -the misery and hor- ror of it all 1" she cried, clinging,shuddering, to him. Clearly memory was stirring the brain, rousingand connecting its buried knowledge with himself, but he folded her closer and soothed her agitation by tenderest words and toga that love can dictate, till present- ly she was listening eagerly to his tale of what he bad done and. seen abroad in his absence, and seemed to have forgotten her questions, which, in fact, he hast not ans- wered at all. face. '-Alt last 1- -at last 1" she cried, pointing her right hand at the secretary.. "There stands the man who murdered Rolf Guest 1 There stands the assassin of my brother! .1 saw him do the deed 1" "By Heaven 1 what I thought !" mutter- ed Albert, instantly at her side. But the man so suddenly, so terribly ac- cused, staggered back as if a pistol shot had struck him, livid to the lips, struggling to speak, his starting eyes glaring at the wo- man, who stood there still pointing to him. "Good Heavens! What does this mean?" burst out Mr. Hamlin, horrified and be- wildered. And with a desperate effort Forrest ral- lied. " Itmeans," he said, hoarsely, "that that poor creature is raving mad instead. of bet. ter; as Dr. Sabine affirmed." Sotnehow . by one common instinct of things, all those four other men present left the accuser, the murdered man's sister, to answer: each felt, each new that madness was passed away, and Truth revealed. "It means," she said, and the low, stern tones vibrated through the room like a knell of doom to one at least-" it means that whereas I was driven mad by the awful sight of murder done, now I am made sane, in Heaven's justice by the sight of the mnrderer, who all this time has suffered this guiltless man" -she laid her hand on her lover's now-" to bear the doom cf his awful crime 1" "Gentlemen," interrupted the secretary, with some dignity, "if you are gotng to gravely listen to the unhappy ravings too plainly aroused by the Sufferings real or not, of this lady's lover, permit me to retire, as I decline to be made their ebjeet." But Claremont strode to the door, and set his back against it. "Pardon MO, he said , sternly, " you only pass out under, arreat, Pierce Bovill." It'was a daring shot, sent in the aseump. tion suggested by Winton's information, but it told,for the sea:watery stood for a, moment as if paralyzed. "You speak in a riddle, sir," he said, re- covering himself ; my name is Forrest, and you, I am forced to suggest, have a dis- tinct interest in trying to threw the onus of that crime on another person. Gentlemen, that man is Albert Claremont 1" Before anyone could speak Isabel Guest stepped forwards, and no one looking on the girl then could for a moment believe her to be still insane. "1 understand all now," she said, with a concentration and passion that belong only to sanity. " I see fully what I heard meant that Alberb Claremont has been tried for the Murder that man -your secretary gentlemen -committed-acquitted logaily - cruelly oondemued morally. I now stand forward as the accuser of the real assassin -whether his name be Forrest or any other. I witnes- sed the deed unseen myself. Hear me, and then say if I look or speak like Dr. Sabine's mad patient, or like a witness risen as it were from the dead." Forrest drew back to a chair and sat down folding his arms close across him, but he saki nothing -his lips were parched and livid. "My brother," Isabel went on, steadily, "had refused Mr. Claremont's suit -wish- ing me to marry very wealthily ; but," and now thesoft cheek flushed, an her dark eyes glowed with noble pride in her love and lover'"1 had given my heart and troth to .A.lbertClaremont, and I Ilium he was coming that fatal day to tell Rolf -my brother -that he intended to wed me, whether he consented or no". I was in my boudoir above the library, where they were and I heard. high words pass; then I saw Albert leave by the French window and walk rapidly away eastward towards the lodge. Shortly afterwards Rolf also step- ped out, muttering angrily to himeelf, and strode away in the direction of the old copse near the fern -brake. Meaning to speak to him, to plead, and if that failed, tell him I meant to marry Albert as I had promised, I stole downstairs and. followed Rolf." She paused. and preesed her hends against her breast. "I stopped. short behind a 'mass of bushes a little distance off, half afraid to go on just then, for he had paused, I saw, near the trees, and looked so angry: then he took out his pocket -book, looked at a paper he took from it," Claremont stave Dr. Sabine look, "and stamped his foot with an oath. The next minute I saw - Heaven can I ever forget 1-a man come out from the treee be- llied Rolf -that man before you. I saw every feature clearly as he drew a revolver and. shot my brother in the back. I saw him fall on his face'saw that man take the pocketbook quicklyfrom his victim's breast - pocket, abstract a paper, replace the book, and steal away, I stood frozen, paralyzed. I felt something going from me, and I re- member no more, but I must have reached my- room in the inaduess that the shock of that awful scene brought What that paper was, or the motive of the crime, I do not know, but I swear to that man as Rolf Guest's murderer 1" ".A.nd I, gentlemen," said Claremont, "have a witness in London who can supply motive and identity -one George Winton, a jockey, who knew this oi-disant Mr. Forrest as Pieree Bovill, a betting man" -how tho man had started -" who owed Mr. Guest a large sum of money for whioh he had given an I. 0. U. - that was theipaper taken -that the motive of the crime, Dr. Sabine, will you send for tho police ?" * * It was not till all the necessary formal- ities of the secretary's arrest were over for that day, and they had returned from the police -station to` the dootor's house again, that Claremont and. Isabel were alone, and then even, folded to her lover's heart in a wild eotasy of happiness, it was difficult to realize in fulness thet she was no more what she had beea since that terrible day of the murder ; difficult to realize that the long - borne dread weight of such a deed was at last to be removed from his head to that of the real criminal; bard to believe that he might claini his darling as bride before the face of the whole world. 0 it was a happy Christmas indeed for all, even though chastened by the memories that could never die -when can memory whilst brain and heart throb? And when, in the gloaming of Christmas- dey, the doctor and his wife, and the two yonng people, sat round the blazing fire, Isabel would be told all that had passei with Albert, listening as she nestled within Itis arms, whilst the flickering shadows danced to and fro on the walls m the fire- light. "Oh 1 what you lia,ve suffered 1" she whispered, shuddering. But he answered, softly: " It is all over and repaid now, my dar- ling 1" "'There is one puzzle," said Dr. Sabine, "how the fellow eseaped, so quickly as both you and the gamekeeper arrived on the spot." "He was sharp and daring," said Isabel, "1 think the only way he could have escap- ed was by crouching in the fern till all were goneeand then walking quietly off across the country to the next station. You see, I know the country." CHAPTER IV. "THOr ART TILE MAL" Dr. Sabine's prognostication about the commissioners in lunacy was quickly ful- filled by their arrival. For obvious reasons it is the rule that these officers of law should. not give notice to those in charge of insane patients, which are, therefore unexpected by days, or even ' weeks thougli of course something of the periodwhen they may be calling gets to be known oy experience; hence Dr. Sabine's remark, which had scarcely .been uttered half an hour, when he was summoned to ro- c:el ve the two commiseioners and their new secretary. This gentleman was introduced as Mr. Mark Forrsst, a fair man, well -looking, with GIANT FINES. Trees Which, Lilco a IllaSestie Procession tSr1aretolsforroltrilellse4S. wed in the AIIS laisan [From tho London Globel Tho kauri pine is undisputed sovereign the Australasian foreet. No other tree .C1X' atinppprrOeRssOilvt eitI nellssrawtiildrop ee:•a: onrp 0000fr taiocalacinr holds as its own stretches of conetry hue dreds of miles in, extent. Perhaps the sigh Which a kauri grove presents to the eye i unequalled in the whole realm of tatter( As the traveller gazes aroend him in then ceases of the forest he is impressed eve egainst his will. To walk between those mighty pillars smooth and .dark as ebony, uniform in ag and size, and buried in a perennial twiligh and silence that the wildest storm disturbs by the meresb ripple of sound awakens a feeling of awe. Mile upon mile they stretch into distance in a majestic procession that follows mite irregularity of the land, like some °Glossa teinple dedicated to night or melancholy the sombre aisles full of an awful monotous and a, solemn stillness. " Like the Egyptian sphinx, they ignor. the lapse of time, preserving the same me jestic calm and unvarying expression befor, the cataclyems which have altered the whol. aspect of the globe, and before the eocial up heavals svhioh have swept away civilization, as if they had never been. If geologists be correct New Zealand is u fragment of a continent which sank beneatl: the waters as the new world rose. lb is e relic of a bygone age. The youth of the oldest kauri groves i• therefore shrouded in the mists 01 the past. But that thy are very ancient is beyond doubt. They were mere saplings when th, Pharaohs adorned the land of Egypt witt imperishable memorials of their power, an( wore still slight and graceful when Solomor filled the East with the fame of his glory • they stood in all the pride of maturity whet: Hannibal crossed the Alps, and Rome enter- ed on her victorious career. They have seen the splendid dawn of al the great empires of the world, and sem them set in gloom, when the canker of de- cay had sapped their very fouudations. But the kauri has now fallen upon evi' days; its closing years are full of danger. It has survived to see the forms of life, long dead in the great masses of land, fade away before the vigorous fauna and flora of an- other order of things. At no distant date it also, like the natives, the birds, the grasses, will have passed he to the measureless oblivion from whence it came. In the preemie° of this venerable giant pine of Maroiland, the grandest repro senta,tive of a primitive age, the colonial, n creature of yesterday, feels like. a pygmy. as he gazes on the solemn files on every side As though ashamed of his own littlenee• and. painful newness, he is possessed mile with the passion of destruction. Tho weirdness inseparable from the very nature of a Itamri forest is intensified by the total absence of animal life. The contented droning of insects, hum of the bee, the glad singing eV birds, so distinctive ot the mixed bush, are never heard beneath the umbrage• ons cauopy which excludes the radiant southern sun. The knurl reigns supreme in its own do- main. Nor is there the enchanting diversity of ordinary bush -the Telma and the treo ferns, the shrubs and the 'pro- digal wealth of beautiful parasites, whose bewildering variety is unrivalled even to the torrid zone. With the e.cception of a living carpet of delicate maidenhair, which attained a height of from five to six feet, and the ropes of creeper ferns which swing from tree to tree like fairies in the castle of a giant, the forest is altogether bare of undergrowth. In the woods of recent growth, however, vegetation is more luxuriant. The long tendrils of the clematis and rata °tamed trunk -with trunk in garlands of white and. scarlet boom, and at their base flourishes an infinite variety of ferns, while here and there a graceful tree -fern rears its silvery -lined crown. It is a curious sight to English eyes to see a groupe of young kauris standing dark, tall and erect against the pale blue and gold ol the sky and the lighter greens of the back- ground of forest. Like all the species, the dome is out of all proportion to the height. But bheir doom has been spoken. The axe of the lumberer and the whirr ot the sawmill resounded in the land and the earth quivers with the shock of falling patriarchs. With the recklessness of the spendthrift the New Zealander is spending his heritage, and before another 50 years have passed away this noble tree will be as extinct as the moa. But to really bring home to the mind the stupendous size of the Colonial oak, as it has been called, it must be competed with the largest trees in the islands. In England there are several elms 70 feet high and 30 feet in girth; oaks 80 feet high and with trunks 40 feet in girth, and in Scotlend there is an ash 90 feet high and /9 feet ha girth. But these are regarded as ex- traordinary and grow in solitary grandeur. The average girth of trees in Britain is not more than 12 feet nor the average height above 50 feet. But in New Zealand there are miles of kanris whose average height is not less than 100 feet and whose girth is not less than 30 feet. anti 40 feet. The larg- esb kauri yet discovered was 70 feet in girth, and the trunk was 200 feet high. "He must have intended," said Albert, "to hide till night and watch for the chance that came after all in broad day. I wonder if I hid been condemned if he would have still kept silent? I think he would, seeing what he is." " H'm, yes 1 I hope your jockey will not fail to pick him out in the police -yard to- morrow, my dear boy." "Winton was very positive, doctor; I no not fear he will fail myself," saki Clare- mont. Nor did George iVinton fail, for -though the secretary was amongst a dozen others -he walked straight up to that one man and said, decisively: "That is Pierce Bovill." The day after that the prisoner was brought before the magistrate ; he simply denied the charge of murder and identity, and reserved his defence, but finally he was cominitted for trial. That was indeed a notable trial, and the Central Criminal Court was crow ded. All the world reniembered the trial of handsome Albert Claremont for that very same mur- der, and those who had believed him bane= cent crowed loudly over their astuteness as they listened to' the weight of evidence piled up, Which demolished the prisoners defence that the wieness Miss Guesb was mad, and that he was not Bovill. The kedge and jury thought otherwise, and with reason, and the grim verdict "Guilty" was recorded, and sentenced te death was rased on the wretched man. In court he brazened it ,out to the last but three weeks later, the day before his executien, he confessed his guilt to the chaplain, and asked hiin to beg the forgive- ness of Albert Claremont and his just -Wed- ded wife, whom Ms deed had for so long made "Dn. SABINE'S PATIENT." . ETRE END] Ho, For the Kankakee. Ho. for the marshes, green with Spring, Whore tho bitterns croak and the plovers tam ' Ayer's Hair Vigor IS the "ideal" Hair -dressing. It re. 1 stores the color to gray hair ; pkomotes a fresh and, vigorous growth; prevents the f erne:talon of 'dandruff; makes tbz hair soft and silken; and imparts a deli., cate hut lasting per, fume. "Severed months - ago ray hair corn- menoed falling out, and in a few weeks my head was almost bald. I tried many remedies, but they did no good. I final- ly bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and, after using only a part of the non - tents, my head was covered with a heavy growth of hair. 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