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NLY A MONTH;
OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
CHAPTER XXXIV.—(Cont'd)
But Frithjof stooped dowu and.
silenced her with a kiss. "You see
the harm it has done," he said,
"but you don't see the good, Gome,.
stop Drying and let us have tea, for
your news has given me an appetite,
and I'm sure you are tired and hun-
giry after all this."
"But- could it ever have entered
any one's head that such an hal-
probable thing should actually
happen ?" said Roy. "To think that
Sardoni should get change for his
note, and Darnell steal it on the
very day that ISwanhjld had given
you that unlucky contribution to
the debt fund` !"
"It is just one of those extraor-
dinary coincidences which do hap -
pee in life," said Sigrid. "I be-
lieve if every one could be induced.
to tell all the strange things of the
lrind that had happened we should
see that they are after all pretty
common things."
"I wonder if, rohere is a train to
Plymouth to -night?" said Roy. "I
shall not rest till I' have seen Dar-
nell. For nothing less than his
confession signed and sealed will
satisfy James Horner. Do you
happen to have a Bradshaw?"
"No, but we have something bet-
ter," said Sigrid, smiling; "on the
next landing there is Owen, one of
the Great Western guards. I know
he is at home, foe I passed him just.
now on the stairs, and he will tell
you about the trains."
"What a thing to live in model
lodgings 1" said Rose smiling. "You
seem to me to keep all the�profes-
aions on the premises. Come, Fri-
thjof, do go and interview this
guard and ask him how soon I can
get down to Plymouth and back
again.
Frithjof went out, there was still
a strange look of ahstraotion in his
£ace. "1 scarcely realized before
how much he had felt this," said
Roy. "What a • fool I was to be
so positive that my own view of the
case was right! Looking at it from
my own point ui view, I couldn't
realize how humiliating it must all
have been to him—how exasperai'-
ing to know that you were in the
right, yet not to, be able to con-
vince any one."
"It has been like a great weight
on him all through the autumn,"
said Sigrid, "and yet I know what
he meant when he told Swan•hild.
that it had done him good as well
as harm. Don't you remember how
at one time he cared for nothing
but clearing off the debts? Well,
now, though he works hard at that,
yet he cares for other people's trou-
bles too—that is no longer his one
idea."
Before long Frithjof returned.
"I don't think you can do it,"
he said. "Owen tells me there is
a train from Paddington at 9.50
this evening, but it isn't a direct
one, and you won't get to Plymouth
till 9.28 to -morrow morning. A
most unconscionable time, you
see."
"Why not write to Darnell V'
suggested Sigrid.
"No, no, he would get out of it
In some mean sKay. I intend to
pounce, on him unexpectedly, and
to that way to get at the truth,"
replied Roy. "This train will do
very well. I shall sleep on the way,
but I must just go to Regent Street
and get the fellows address."
j This, however,"Frithjof was able
! to tell him,, and they lingered long
over the tea -table, till at length
I Roy remembered that it might be
aa well to dee his father and let
him know what bad happened be-
fore :starting for Devoeshire. Very
1reluetaetly he left the little parlor,
but • he took away with him the
grateful pressure of Sigrid's hand,
the sweet, bright glance '. of her
blue eyes, acid the echo of her last
words, spoken softly and sweetly
in her native language.
"Farvell Tak dkal De have."
(Farewell! Thanks you shall have.)
Why had she spoken to him in
Norse ? Was it, perhaps, because
she wished him tofeel that he was
no foreigner, but one of themselves?
Whatever her reason, it touched
him and pleased him that she had
spoken just in that way, and it
was with a very light heart that
he made his way to Rowan Tree
House.
The lamp was not lighted in the
drawing -room, but there was a
blazing fire, and on the hearth -rug
sat Cecil with Lance nestled close
to her, listening with all his ears
to one of the hero stories which she
always told him on Sunday even-
ings.
"Has father gone to chapel?"
asked Roy.
"Yes, some time ago," replied
Cecil. "Is anything the matter V'
"Don't look so frightened," said
Roy, as the fire -light showed him
her dilated eyes. "Nothing is the
matter—I have brought home some
very good news. Frithjof is cleared,
and that wretched business of the
five -pound note fully explained."
"At last !" ,she exclaimed.: "What
a relief ! But how ? Do ',tell nae
He repeated Swanhild's. story,
and then, hoping to catch his fa-
ther in the vestry before the service
began,he hurried off, leaving Cecil
to the only oompzanionship she could
have borne in her great happiness
—that of little Lance.
But Roy found himself too late
to catch his father, - there was no-
thing for it but to wait, and, anxi-
ous to speak to him at the earliest
opportunity, he .Wade his way into
the chapel that he might get hold
of him when the service was over.
When • by and by he listened to
Roy's story, told graphically enough
as they walked home together, his
regret forshaving misjudged Fri-
thjof was unbounded.. He was al-
most as impatient to get hold of
Darnell as his son was.
"Still," he 'observed, "you will
not gain much by going to -night;
why not start tonorrow by the first
trai-,
n ?"
riff I go now," said Roy, "I shall
be home quite early to -morrow ev-
ening, and Tuesday is Christmas
eve—a, wretched day for traveling:
Besides, I can't wait."
Both the father and mother knew
well enough that it was the thought
of 'Sigrid that had lent him wings, I
and Mr. Boniaee said no' more,
only .stipulating that he should be 1
just and generous to the offender.
"Don't visit your own annoyance
in
'this
&Pound
Sealed
Package
ask your
Grocerabout it
on hint, and don't speak too hotly
he said "Promise him that he
shall set be prosecuted or robbed
of his character if only he will make
full 'confession, and see what it was
that led him to do such a thing.
can't at all rinder stand "it♦ He al-
ways seemed to ane a numb steady,
respectable man."
Roy being young and having suf-
fered severely himself throtigh Dar-
neli's wrong -doing, felt anything
but judicial' as he traveled west-
ward on that cold December night;
he vowed that horsewhipping would
be too good for such a scoundrel,
and rehearsed interviews, in which
hie attack was brilliant and 1)ar
nell's defense most feeble. . Then he
dozed a little, dreamed of Sigrid,
woke cold and depressed to find that
he must change carriages at Bristol,.
and finally, after many vicissitudes,
was landed at Plymouth at half
past nine on a daanp and cheerless
wintry morniug;
Now that he was actually there;
he began to' dislike the thought of
the work before hire, and to doubt
whether after a11,hir attack would
be as brilliant in reality as in imag-
ination, Rather dismally, he made
a hasty breakfast; and then set off
through the wet, dingy streets : to
the shop where Darnell was at pre-
sent employed. To his relief he
found that it was not a very large
one, and, on entering, discovered
the roan he sought behind the coun-
ter and quite alone. As he ap-
proached him he watched his face
keenly; Darnell \i -as a. rather good-
looking man, dark, pale, eminently
respectable he lucked up civilly at
the supposed customer, then, catch-
ing sight of Roy, he turned a shade
paler and gave an involuntary start
of surprise.
"Mr. Robert!" he stam`inered.
"Yes, Darnell ; 'I see you know
what I have come for," said Roy,
quietly. "It was certainly a very
strange, a most extraordinary co-
incidence that Mr. Feick should,
unknown to himself, have had an-
other five -pound note in his pocket
that day last Julie, but it has been
fully explained. Now I want your.
explanation." _
"Sir !" gasped Darnell; "I don't
understand you; I --I am at a
loss -1'
"Come, don't tell any more lies
about it," said Roy, impatiently.
"We know now that you must have
taken it, for nd one else was pre-
sent. Only confess the truth, and
you shall not be prosecuted you
shall not lose your situation here.
What induced you to do it ?"
"Don't be hard on me, sir,"
stammered the man. "I assure you
I've bitterly regretted, it many a
time,"
"Then why did you not make a
clean •'breast of it to my father ?"
said Roy. "You might have known
that he would never be hard on
you,"
"I - wish 1 had," said Darnell, in
great distress ;. "I wish to Gbd' I
had, sir, for it's been a miserable
business from first to last. But : I
was in'debt, and I thought of my.
wife who was ill, and I knew that
the disgrace would kill her."
"So you went and disgraced your-
self still more," said Roy, hotly.
"You tried to ruin another man in -
Stead of yourself 1"
"But he wasn't turned off," •said
Darnell, "and they put it all ° on
his illness, and it . seemed as if, af-
ter all, it would not hurt him so
much. It was a great temptation,
and when I had once given way to
it there seemed no turning back." I
"Tell me jest how you took it,"
said Roy, > getting rather More calm,
and judicial in his manner.
"I saw Mr. Horner give Signor
Sardoni the change, sir, and I' saw
him put the note in the till ; and I
was just desperate with being in
debt, and not knowing how to get
straight again."
"But wait a minute—how had
you got into such difficulties?" in-
terrupted Roy, "and how could a
five -:pound' note : help you : out
again V'
"Well, sir, I had been unlucky
in a betting transaction, but ' I
thought I could right myself if only
I could get something to try again.
with; . but there wasn't' a soul I
could borrow -from. I thought, I
should get straight again at once if
only I had five pounds in•hand, and
so I did, sir; I was on my feet again
the very next day."
"I might have known it was bet
ting that had ruined: you," said
Roy. "Now go 'hack and tell when
you took the note."
"I kept on thinking and planning
through the afternoon, sir, and then;
presently all was quiet, and only
Mr. Feick with me in the shop, and
I was just wondering how to get
rid of him, when Mr, Horner 'open-
ed the door of Mr. Boniface's room
and 'called to me. Then I said, 'Do
go, Mr. Feick, for I have an order
to write to catch the post.' And
he went for me, and I hurried across
to his counter while he was gone,
and took the note out of the till
and put it inside my boot; and when
he came back he found me writing
at my desk, jest as he had left me.
He came up looking a little put
out, as if Mr. Horner had rubbed
him the -wrong way, and he says to
me, 'It's no use; you must go your-
self after all.' Bo I went to Mr,
borne`, leaving Mr, Feick alone in
the shop,,` •
"Were you not afraid lest he
should open the till and find out.
that the roto was gone?"
"Yes, I was very much afraid,
But all went well, and I intended
to gw outt quickly at tsa-time•---alp
was close upon it then --anti db what
I could to get it straight again,I
thought I could jrnveut all excuse
for not returning to the she that
night; say I'd been taken suddenly
ill, or something adie
t sort. It
was Mr. I"alck's turn to go first;
and while ho was out, as ills -look
would have it, Mr. came to
bake change from the till, and thee
all the row 'begat). I made sure I.
was ruined, and no ono was more
surprised than myself at the taxa
that affairs took."
(To be continued.)
HUGH CLAR.:fi'S `TONE
Hugh Clark. is known as a very
• funny man.;
As editor of the Kincardine Re-
view, the genial member. of • the
Commons representing South Bruce
is never at a loss for a drly and hu-
morous reply to any old kind of.
question.
Hugh is the colonel of the 32nd.
Bruce, and as such is some enter-
tainer. During a recent camp he
'Col. Hugh Clark.
was host to Hon. W. J. Hanna,
Provincial Secretary for Ontario.
There were big times around the
colonel's quarters between the
guests, and the newspapermen and
the P.S. had a fine time sleeping'
out and telling stories...
One morning about two o'clock
several privates on late leave, who
had been down city celebrating, got
past the guards and wandered
about the streets of the white : vil-
lage singing "The Holy City" with
a vengeance on the chorus; and be-
fore long the crowd was augmented
by a couple dozen from the various
regiments. .
Mr. Hanna heard the noise and
turned over on his cot. Next morn-
ing he asked Colonel Clark what
the rumpus was.
"Oh," said Hugh, and he never
-cracked a smile, "I'll find out." He
went out and gathered a coterie of
newspaper men and officers back to
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his guest's tent for the fun. When
all were comfortable Hugh started.
"Did you know that Hanna was
given a. `tremendous' ovation by
this camp last night'?" 'he said, and
all listened for the news.
"Yes," he continued, "it was an
immense 'ovation for him. During
the night there were throngs pass-
ing and .repassing his tent crying..
'Who's Hanna? Who's Hannal
Who's Hanna to the King."'
We Do hope It Wasn't You.
"There goes a man .who hasn't a
single bad habit."
"Excepting the bad habit of con-
tinually , bragging that he has
none."
•
When fools are glad wise men are
sad.
Lord Byron,in reference to a
lady he ',thought ill of, writes':
"Lady — has been dangerously
ill, but it may console yor•to learn
that she is dangerously well again.
Work of.;the British Mint.
Seine colossal figures demonstrate
ing the enormous industry of the
British Mint were given in a recent
report of ourrent coinage for 1911,
when over 33,000,000 sovereigns
were coined. But such extraordi4
nary despatch was even rivalled by'
the average output of silver durinff.
thot same period, which amounted
to :something like 50,000,000 coins,
while the bronze circulation follow-
ed closely with 44,270,400 pieces.
Indeed, so heavy in point of weight
was this later coinage that its di
mensions had to be taken in ton,s;
reaching 240X, 71 3/5 and 151,
tons, respectively for pennies, half-
pennies, and farthings. It is also
interesting to note with regard to
the gold circulation that more than
5,500,000 ounces of bullion was
brought into the country for the
purpose of transforming it into sov-
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worn and thin gold coin to the tune
of £,000,000 was received back by
the Mint to await recoining.
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