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CLOSE QUARTE:
OR, TFIF HOUSE IN 'TI -IE
RUE BART 1TE
CHAPTER. XV,—(Gont'd)
She thought the soil would never
climb up in time, but as it bean
to yield to the steady pull of the
men it mounted more and more
rapidly, and at last, feeling the in-
fluence of a gentle breeze blowing
off the land, it shook out its cum-
brous folds and the number stood
clearly revealed in huge white let-
ters on the dark brown c;ti-ivas.
At first, in her eagerness, slie
could hardly discern it, save a bi¢
"M" and an "R,"
"There!" cried Eugenie, bub-
lalieg over with excitement. "There
it is' `..M.13. 107,' Marseilles, No-
107, yon know. Why, isn't that
Jacques le Bons beat?" she de-
minded from her companion,
"Yes, it is," said Marie; "and
there is Jacques himself standing
by the. tiller.:z
Edith's eyes were now becoming
accustomed to the night and the
dancing water.
"Where are the others 1" she
said. "1 cannot see them, There
is no one standing en the deck but
the sailers."
"Oh,, they have gone below, I ex-
peet," saki the practical Marie,
"They will be in the way el the
sails, you know, There is not much.
room for people 'tvho don't work on
the deck of a small ship like that.
Besides, they don't want to ba
seen. If a customs officer ora har-
bor official were to netice 1jie boat
now he would think that Le Bon
was going out fishing for the night,
but he would be sure to wonder
what was happening if he caught
sight of a woman on board. Funny,
isn't it," she rattled on, "that
Jacques should be called `LeBon,'
for he is the worst man in Mar-
seilles! They ssay that his ugly grin
when he draws a knife would fright-
en anybody 9"
CHAPTER XVI.
When one o'clock. Baine and
Edith had not arrived, the three
men waiting in the hotel made no
further effort to conecal their
anxiety. The impetuous Fairholme
was eager to commence an immedi-
ate search of Marseilles, hut Brett
steadily adhered to his resolution
not to stir from their sitting -room
until either Miss Talbot came back
in person or it became certain that
she was detained by some other in-
fluence than her own unfettered
volition.
With this view Talbot could not
help eoncirkizig, so I+airholme had
to content himself by smoking many
cigarettes and walking uneasily
about the room. Sit down he could.
not, whilst any casual ring at the
hotel door found him leaning over
the balustrade of the inner court
and listening intently for the -first
words of the new arrival.
But the Englishmen were not the
only persons in the hotel that night
whose composure was disturbed.
Their extraordinary behavior
caused uneasiness to the manager
and those members of his staff who
remained on duty. The facts dis-
closed by the hall -porter were cer-
tainly remarkable. Only one mem-
ber of the party had behaved in a
normal manner. Sir Hubert Fitz-
lames, soon after his arrival, went
quietly to bed, but the hall -por-
ter's report as to the conduct of
the others was passing strange.
One of them, to his surprise, had
rung up the Prefecture of Police
in Paris" on the Telephone. The
others were standing at the hotel.
door, gazing quietly enough at the
passers-by, when suddenly about
midnight -much excitement rose
amongst them. They conversed
eagerly in their own tongue for a
few moments, and the lady had
rushed off down the street by her-
self, whilst her -two companions
ran with ecjual precipitancy to join
the third in the sitting -room they
had engaged, and there they were
still seated. in moody expectancy,
apparently watching for some dra-
matic event to happen.
It was time that all good people
wore in bed. But it has hopeless
to approach such lunatics with
questions, for they were English,
and no ' descent Frenchman could;
possibly hope to understand their
actions or motives. It was satis-
factorily that hey could' speak
French well ;"therefore the manager
counselled. the hall -porter to exhi-
bit patience and prudence. More --
over, millords upstairs would be
sure to recompense him for an en-
forced vigil by a liberal pourbaire.
At last, when even the Oanne-
biere was empty, and when the lat-
est cafe had closed its doors and
the final tramcar had wearily jing-
led :its way up the hill towards a
distant suburb, the electric bell
jangled, a noisy summons to the
front door, It produced the hall
porter and b'airholme with remark-
able celerity.
The Frenchman cautiously open-
ed the door and saw outside a muf-
fied up female who eagerly demand-
ed admittance, He knew by her ac-
cent that she was not a< liarseil-
laise, but the shawl that covered
her bead and shoulders showed that
she belonged to the working, elass-
es.
"Whom do you wish to see at.
this hour"'" he gruffly demanded.
"I live here," said Edith. "I
cavae here to -night with my brother
from Paris. Please let me iii at
Once."
Tn "herexcitement and breathless-
ness -•-for she had hurried at top
speed from the harbor—Edith for-
got that the homely garment she
adopted as a disguise effectually
cleaked her from :the recognition of
the hall -porter hdl rt
eiasfr 1 t
p ozn all others,
Moreover, her French. aeeent
was too g<od, It deceived the man
von more thoroughly than did the
shawl.
"Oh, really now,sr he said, "this
is for laughter! A woman like you
staying at the hotel; Be off, or I
will call a gendarme,"
In his amazement at her demand
he had not heard Fairhohne's ra-
pid approaeh behind him Be was
now swung uneeremonioiisly out of
the way and the earl jumped ;for-
ward to seize Edith in his arms.
"My darling girl!" he cried,
"where have you been? We almost
gave you up for lost, Where is your
hat? Where did you 'get that
shawl?" And all the time he was
hugging her so fiercely that it was
absolutely impossible for her to say
a single -word. At length she dis-
engaged herself.
At that instant Brett's voice was
heard upon the stairs. He wanted.
the telephone again.
Edith had rapidly detailed her
adventures to her astonished audi-
tors, and Brett seemed to resolve
on some plan of action with the
lightning rapidity peculiar to him,
Owing to the late hour, he got
through to Paris. without much dif-
ficulty, and then he returned to the
sitting -room, where Edith zvas re-
hearsing in greater detail all that
had happened since she left them at
the hotel door. Brett explained to
his companions the motives of his
second telephonic message.
"I am convinced," he said,"
"that Gros Jean .is in communica-
tion with his daughter. For this
reason I did not wish the police to
put in an appearance at the Cafe
Noir until to -morrow night, or ra-
ther to -night, for we have long en-
tered upon another day. I wished
to have a reasonable time for quiet
inquiry at Marseilles before made-
moiselle could be apprised of our
presence here. Miss Talbot's re-
markable discovery has, however,
wholly changed my . plans. Mile.
Beaueaire` and her lover have set
off for some unknown destination,
and the best chance we have of
discovering it is to secure the im-
mediate arrest of her father Pos-
sibly,, being taken by surprise at
this hour of the morning some do-
cument may be found on him which
will reveal his daughter's destina-
tion. It occurs to me that she half
expected him to arrive by a late
trans. Again, when the fishing
smack puts into port, the girl will
probably adopt some method of
communication with him, and that
communication must come' into our
hands, not into his. So I have tele-
phoned the police officials' in Paris
to raid the Cabaret Noir forthwith,
and it is possible that they may re-
port developments within the next
two or three hours."
"Is there no chance of your dis-
covering the whereabouts of that
fishing smack?" said Faiiholme.
'"In -what nay i" demanded Brett.
"Well, this is a big port, you
know, and there are always tugs
knocking about, with steam up, on
Child a a laxative—but you:cannot ..be •too
ten ���carefulwyou give hat g de them Harsh.
purgatives injure the bowels and pave `the way for
life-long troubles. The new z o.
evacuant in
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does the vrork moat
oi2ecttvely without trrttaitng the bowels
e ciusingany discomfort.:.Tie children lik6 them for they taste
d�r6 refware'% th0 NA -DRU -CO, preparations.'
St u do aggMlst �# > stoOli"` flee Lsbnd ac and w4 wit rnati t �2t
ACRES OP
Pasture Laud: 4.
Tire Bovril Estates comprise,
over Rine million acres othee
fittest pasture in Australia
' thous an d acres is the
and more than four hundred
Argentine.
the off -chance of their services be
ing required, Isn't it possible to
charter a steamboat and set off a£
ter the smack?"
"I do not think so" said Bet
Brett
"I imagine it would be wasted ef.
fort. By this time the Belles Soe
urs is well out to sea, She 'will cer
tautly not show any lights, and I
personally feelthat thalthoughere
:here
is, perhaps, a thousand to ono
chance we might Sall in with her, it
will be far better for our purpose
to remain quietly hero and await
developments in Paris." Brett
shook his Bead dubiously.
"There is even a possibilitythat
the
Belles e Soeurs will nci-ez° b
seen again, and: that her numbe
will long remain vacant on the ship-
.Sias; register of Marseilles. H.owv-
ever, we shale see,"
"Then, Mr, Brett," put in Edith
quietly, with a tired smile, "I sup-
pose we may go to bed?"
"Most cert;enly, Miss Talbot,
You have earned your rest more
than any 'of us to -night," lie an-
swered,
He held up his hand to grisli .ser
good -eight, but she demanded with
some surprise, "What are you go-
ing to do?, Surely you Want. some
sleep
""I will remain here," he said.
have bribed the .tall -porter to keep
awake, and I may be wanted on
the telephone at any moment."
Left to himself, Brett again in-
terv:icwed the halt -porter and re-
turned to the sitting -room, where
he disposed himself for a nap ora the
sofa.. Like all men who possess the
faculty of concentrated thought he
also cultivated the power of die.
missing a ,perplexing problem from
his mind until it became necessary
to consider it afresh in the light of
further knowledge.
Within five minutes he was sound
`asleep.
At length he woke with a start.
He was stiff with oolei, for the fire
had gone out, and the tiny gas jet
he had left burning was not suf-
ficient to"warm the room. 'He
sprang to his feet and looked at
his watch, It was half -past six.
"Surely," he cried, "there must
have been a message from Paris
long before this V'
He ran downstairs, encountering
on his way some of the hotel ser-
vants, who even thus early had
commenced work, for your indus-
trious Frenchmen is no laggard in
the morning. Going to the hall
porter's office he found that func-
tionary snoring peacefully. The
poor fellow was evidently tired out,
and twenty telephone, bells might
have jangled in his ears" without
waking him.
S•i, for the third time, Brett rang
up the • exchange to get in touch
with Paris. As he had anticipated,
he quickly learnt that the Prefec-
ture had endeavored to get through
to him about 4.30 a.m., but the op-
erators were unable to obtain any
answer.
"I can `hardly blame; the man,"
said he to himself, `"for I. was just
as tired as he."
The information he received from
the Prefecture was startling
enough.' In accordance with his in-
structions, a number of detectives
had raided the Cabaret `Noir soon
after three o'clock. They found
the. place in possession of a waiter
and couple of female servants. Gros
Jean had quitted the house the
previous evening, and, most
astounding fact of a11 with him
were three Turks.
Neither the waiter nor the domes-
tics could give -any informatio;i
whatever concerning the hidden
room. They knew of its existence,.
but none of them, had ever seen it,.
and thoplace was generally 'regard-
ed
egard
ecl.'as a sort of cellar for the recep-
tion of Lumber.
The police forced a padlock which'
guarded its; trap-door, and found
to their surprise that the place was
much more spacious than' they an-
ticipated, It really contained two
apartments,' ono ofswhich was' so`
firmly secured that it had hitherto
resisted all their. efforts to open
The other was a sort of bed sittirir;
room, and it had recently been oc-
cupied, From various incdlea tion;�
they carne to - the . conclusion that
its latest tenants were 1Tussein-ul
Mulk.and his confederates.
Judging from the' facts that these
gentry had cduietly aleft the
Ga'g`s' 4TH +n's ,om an abo at'
pati ioyen the pLeyruus. venip
Il t� 'eke -.. 6"i I a r onhnelln
lice theory was, that this -secret:
chambers proved a safe.retreat. f or
any person who desired complete
seclusion other than that provided
by the atuhorities.
"It is assumed," said the office
who eommunioated this bewildering'
inforinat:me to Brett, "that the
locked room contains a quantity of
stolon goods,. The• police remain in
charge, of the cafe, and when the
necessary workmen have been ob-
tained this morning the door will
be forced. We will at once let you
know .the result of our further in,
vestigations,"
(To be continued.)
j.tSS BAD FOR TREES.
Stunt Them and Arrests All
. ljealthy Growth.
At the Woburn experimental
Ernst.
farm a long inquiry has been eon.
ducted into the effect of grass on
trees, and that experiments whieh
have. been carried out form the sub-
stance of the thirteenth report e€
the farm, which has just been ;s-
ued, says the London Daily Mil.
It has been shown that the gene.
eras result of grassing the ground,
either by sowing seed or replacing`
the turf after the trees have bee»
planted, is the arrestation of all
healthy growth and the absolute
stunting of the tree.
A light and unhealthy character
imparted 'to the leaves is one of the
first noticeable results of the. action'
e of grass upon trees. With trees
r that are feeling the full effect of
grass the fruits are found to be
smalland ill developed.
The variations in soil temperature
are less when the groin d is grassed,
and this atone would be favorable
r
able
to the growth of trees; but thisgood
influence is outweighed by the, dele-
terious effeets.
THE.
1$ increasing enormously
DEMAND
ak.
1IoIXC
UICKLY STOPS COUGHS, CURES COLDS,
LA Tun THROAT' ANSI f~uNAA. as C£fifSS
ALMANAC STARTED IN 1080.
The oldest almanac in existence
the "Almanaeh National,", whitl
has been issued by the French Gov-
ernment sinee 1086, says. the Lon-
don Chronicle', Its name, has been
changed a goodmany times during
its career of 225 years. Originally
the "Almanach Royal," it became
"National" in 1793, "Imperial" in
1805, and reverted to its original
name nine years later. Since the',
the title, has been altered four
times. Like most publications of
this sort the "Alnianaoh National"
has grown bnlky with advanehig
yeara. The first issue contained
forty-eight pages, as compared with
1,580 pages in th ecurrcnt issue.
BUSY ALL THE TIME.
Little Howard came in the other
day crying and rubbing several
bumps, caused by a series of butts
administered by a pet sheep".
"Well, Howard," said his sym-
pathetic auntie, "what did you do
when the sheep knocked you
down?"
"I didn't do anything. I was
getting up all the time."
WELL DESCRIBED.
A little .girl -who had been to the
dentist to have a tooth extracted,
thus described her experience:
"The man grabbed hold with a pair
of tongs and just before it killed
me the tooth coned out."
tr.
Can we tell you the
Reason Why?
"A Trial Eackage will bring Enlightenment"
CEYLON TEAS "ARE DELICIOUS TEAS"
BLACK, M XED OR IMTURAL GREEN
SEALER PACKAGES ONLY REFUSE $UO$it'I;1s[3 5
DRUG HABIT GROWING.
Beconisg a"Fshonablc inaulgenee
In London Society.
Alarmists assert we are living in
tinges of peril, but, aecerding to
medical testimony, there is morein-
sidious danger lurking in eoeiety
which has nothing at all todo with
the unrest in the labor world, or. the
wild doctrines of Socialists, The:
peril lies in the' growing, habit of
drug -taking, now fast becoming a
fashionable indulgence among wo-
men belonging
o-menbelonging to the "Upper ',Cera"
in London, England.
Nowadays a, drug becomes the
vogue in much the sonic way as a.
new style of dressing the hair. The
exhilarating qualities of various poi-
sons are openly discussed, and r•e-
eommendations.to use this or that
narcotic are passed on with as much 1
confitiondence as a doctor's preserip-
.
Morphia. retains the favorite, place
with women of the smart set, who
are expert users of the hypedermie
syringe, Young girls of the day are
in
eonstant danger of acquiring the
vicious habit, Mothers buoy op the
#tagging energies of their daughters
a,t the ..<ahorn with
some seductivefagend drugft.e Quitseas,, recent
ly a maid gave information to a
young husband which ledhim to alis.
ver that his wife and a eoterie of
r friends visited each other with.
artablc regularity for the pur-
of indulging in morphia,
Such aro the ravages that the
drug craze is making in homes far
removed from, the pressure of pover-
ty that Parliament will be. asked to
<1 the Act governing the sale of
poisons with a view to stamping out
the dangerous mania by rendering
it next to impossible for any one'
save a medical man to obtain drugs,
Almost every wee.: a death occurs
in some well-known family from an
overdose of veronal or sulphonala
taken to procure sleep or sstead3 the
s, Yet there are no restrie
ions on the sale of these poisons
t the drug stores.
A FUTURE FINANCIER.
t# very niee young Haan wus Bull»
g an his sister. To make' thinga
easy, be gave Lim a beautiful new,
penny, saying: "Save eaelr penny,
andsoon youwill have a dollar."
"I'll soon have a dollar l" rtir
.plied. the hay, with geaiger-
Hess,
The young Mase smiled good-na-
turedly, dug into his pocket, sap
ing.
"'Well, just how much mere do,
you
ti
rr
ted e
"Only ninetpnine cents."
He soon had a dollar.
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EVERY WOMAAN SHOULD 1~q
THIS LETTER ABOUT
ar
Laboratory of Provincial` Government Analyst.
MONTREAL, zznd February, reog.
I
HEREBY CEaTIPY that I have drawn by my own hand ten samples
of the St. Lawrence Sugar Refining Co's EXTRA STANDARD
GRANULATED SUGAR, indiscriminately taken from four lots of
about reo barrels each and six lots of about ,¢ eo bags each. I have
analyzed same and find them uniformly to contain
99-99/too to too per cent of pure cane sugar,
with no impurities whatever.
(Signed) MILTON L. HERSEY, M.Sc. LLD.
Proznneiat Government 4nalysW.
lite Si. Lawrence Sugar Relining Co. Limned
MONTREAL. 38
eat up your piofits
(Whether they represent actual cash outlay, or
only the time of yourself and your help, repairs
are waste just the same:, ;When, you make an
`- improvement—no matter how;small its cost mayo
be ......let it .be permanent. ,:Then. it is a real investment, some-
thing on which you can' realize in cash ehould you decide to
sell your property; and something that will pay you constant
dividends in convenience, sightliness and comfort as long
the farm remains your own as
Concrete
ffthey last as longas"the veryhillsthemselves.
• Wheydo not
require experts to build thein. Their first
COSI, in most cases
is no more than for =inferior materials.
Aren'tyou interested in the subject of permanent, modern.
farm improvements
Then write for the book that describes Innikl•reds of tb er a--
,`‘A/HAT THE FA 3M R CAPS DO Vilf`I H CONCRETE"
isn't a Catalogue. Every ,one of Its 160 handsomely Illustrateda
Is its Interest:
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