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Or, 'A Mysterious Affair
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CHAPTER IV.- (Continued).
Miss Heattherstono waved her
hand to me with a bright ;snane; rind.
tripped off up the avenue, while her
brother unbolted the gate, and,
!arising through, closed it again,
loeking it ii.pcn the outside.
"I'll have a stroll down the road
with you, if;yroti have no objection,
Have a manilla.'" He drew e cou-
ple of cheroots from his pocket and
handed one to ane, "You'll 'find
they are not bad," he said. "I be-
came a connoisseur in tobacco when
I was in India, Are you lie? I
hope I am not interfering with your
business in coming along with
you."
"Not at .all,," I answered.- "I
am very glad to have your com-
pany."
"I'll tell yolk a secret," said lies^
companion, "This is. the first time
that I have been outside the
grounds since we have been. down
here."
"And your sister!"
"She has never heen out either,"
he answered. "I have given the
governor the slip to -day, but he
wouldn't ". half like it ifhe knew.
It's a whim of his that we should
keep ourselves entirely to our-
selves. At least some people would
call it a whim; for nay own part I
have reason to believe that he has
• solid grounds for all that he does—
though perhaps in this matter he
may be a little too exacting,"
"You must surely find it very
lonely," :said L "Couldn't you
manage to slip down. at tames and
have a smoke with me? That house
over yonder is Branksoane."
"Indeed, you are very kind," he
answered, with sparkling eyes. "I
should dearly like to run over now
and again. With the exception of
Israel Stakes, our old coachman
and -gardener, I have not a soul
that 1 can speak to."
"And your sister, she must feel
it even more," said I, thinking in
my heart that my new acquaintance
made rather tea much of his own
troubles and too little of those of
his .companion.
"Yes; poor Gabriel feels it, no
doubt," he answered earelessly
"but it's a more unnatural thing
for a young man of n'iy age to be
cooped up in this way than for a
woman. Look at die now. I am human intervention. It is none the
three -and -twenty next lifstech, and
yet I have never been to a univer-
sity, nor to a school for that.' mat-
ter. I am as, complete an ignora-
muses any of these clodhoppers. It
seems ;strange to you, no 'doubt!
and yet ..it is co. Now, don't you
think I deserve a better fate " He
stopped as he spoke, and faced
round to me, throwing his palms
forward in appeal.
As I looked at him, with the sun
shining upon his face, he certainly
did seem a strange bird to be coop-
ed up in such a cage. Tall and mus-
cular, with .a keen dark face, and
sharp, finely cut features, he might
have stepped out of the canvas of
Murillo or Velasquez. There was
latent energy and power in his farm -
set mouth. his square eyebrows,
and the whole pose of his elaatio
well -knit figure.
"There is the learning to be got
from books and the learning to be
got from experience," said L sen-
tentiously. "If you have less of
your share of the one, perhaps you
have more of the other. I cannot
believe that you have spent all your
life in. mere idleness and pleasure.".
"Pleasure !" he cried. "Plea-
sure 1 Look at this." He pulled off
his hat, and I saw that his black
hair was all flecked and dashed with
streaks of gray. "Do you imagine
that this came from pleasure!" he
asked, with a bitter laugh.
"You must have had 'some great
shack," I said, astonished at the
sight; "some terrible illness in your
youth. Or perhaps it .arises.from a
more chronic cause --a constant
gnawing anxiety. I have known
men as young as you whose hair
was as gray."
"Poo•r devils!" he muttered, "I
pity them."
"If you can manage to slip down
to Branksome at times," said I,
"perhaps you could bring . Miss
Ifeatherstone with,: you. I know
filet my father and my sister' would
be delighted to eeee• her, and a
change, if only for an hour er two,
might doher good;'."
"It would be rather hard for us
both to get away together," he an-
swered, "However, if I see a
clianoe I shall bring her down. It
night be managed sone afternoon,
;perhaps; for the old pian indulges
in,. -a siesta occasionally." We: had
reached the head of the winding
lane which branches off from the
highroad and leads up to the laird's
house, so my ooanpanion pulled up.
t'I must go back," he said, "or
they will miss nae. It's very kind
of you, West, to take this interest
in us. I'm very gratefulto you.,
and so will Gabriel be when she
hears of your kind invitation. It's
a real heaping of coals of Are after
that infernal placard of nay fa-
ther's."
He shook my hand and set off
down the road, buthe cavae run-
ning after inc presently, calling me
to stop, "I was just thinking," he
said, thae you must consider us a
great mystery up there a•t C'loom-
ber, I dare say you have come to
look upon it as a private lunatic
asylum, and I can't blame you. If
youare interested in the matter, I
feel it is unfriendly upon any part
not to satisfy your curiosity, but I
have promised my father to be sil-
ent about it. And indeed if I were
to tell you all that I know you
might not be very ni.uch the wiser
after all. I would have you under-
stand this, however,—that my fa-
ther is es sane ae you or 1, and that,
he has very good reasonsfor living
the; life which he does. 1 may add
that his wish to remain secluded
does not arise from any unworthy
or dishonorable motives, but merely
from the instinct of self-preserva-
tion."
"He is in danger, then 1" I ejacu-
lated,
"Yes; he is in constant danger."
"But why does he not apply to
the magistrates for protection?" I
asked. "If he is afraid of any one,
he has only to name him and they
will bind harm,- over to keep the
peace."
"My dear West," said young
Heatherstone, "the danger with
which my father is threatened is
one that cannot be averted by any
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less very real, and possibly' very
imminent."
"You don't mean to assert that
it is supernatural," I said, incred-
ulously:
"Well. hardly that, either," he
answered with hesitation. "But,
there," he continued, "1 have said
rather more than I should, but I
know that you will not abuse my
confidence. Goodeby," He took to
his heels and was soon out'of my
sight round a curve inthe country
road.
A danger which was real a`!id im-
minent, not to be averted by hu-
man means and yet hardly super-
natural—here wars a conundrum, in. -
deed! I had come to look upon the
inhabitants of the Hall, as mere ec-
centrics, but after what young Mor
daunt Heatherstone had just told
me,. I could no longer doubt that.
some dark and sinister meaning
underlay all their actions. The
more I pondered over the problem,
the more unanswerable did it ap-
pear, and ; yet I could not get the
matter out of my thoughts. The
lonely. isolated ` hall, and the
strange, impending catasteephe
which hung over its inmates, ap-
pealed forcibly to my imagination.
All that evening, and late intothe
night, I sat moodily by the fire,
pondering over all that I had heard,
and revolving in my mind the vari-
ous incidents which might furnish
me with some clue to the mystery.
CHAPTER V.
I trust that my readers will not
set tine down as an inquisitive busy-
body when I -,say that as the days
and weeks went'by I found my at-
tention. and any thoughts more and
more attracted to General Heather
stone and the mystery which sur-
rounded him. It Was in vain that Z'
endeavored by hard week and a
strict attention to the laird's . af-
fairs to direct, my mind into eo1700
more healthy chrtnnel. Do what I
would, on land er en. the water, 'I
would still find myself pea, ling over
this one question, until it obtained
such a hold upon me that I felt that
it was useless for me to attempt to
apply mays.elf to anything until I
had carne to some satisfactory solu-
Mon of it. I could never pass the
dark line of five-foot fencing and
the great iron. gate, with. its mases
sive lock, without pausing and
racking -my brain as to what the
secret' might be which was shut irf F.
by that inscrutable barrier. Yet
with all ,my conjectures and all my
ob.ervations I :could never Dome to
any conclusion which could for a
moment be accepted as an expla-
nation of the facts,
My sister :bad been out for a stroll
one night, visiting a sick ,peasant or
performing ,some other of the mi-
merous acts of obesity by which she
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had made herself beloved by, th
whole countryside. "John," sh
said when she returned, "have yo•i
not observed Member Hall a
night?"
"No," I answered, laying dew
Oorltbltti.ng Crop 1, ests.
Conditions surrounding the agri-
culturist to -day are very different
from those of a generation ago.
They are more complex, As a rule,
the fanner or horticulturist must
be a better posted roan in lois par-
ticular line than formerly. To be
this he must confine his attention
to a few crops and know them thor,
oughly, and, as a rule, he should
cultivate thoroughly smaller • areas
rather than large areas badly. Worn.
soils in comparison with the virgin
soils of pioneer days, resulting from.
unwise farming, is one of the fac-
e tors necessitating ;more intensive.
e methods required to -day. Intimate
knowledge of any crop to -day in-
s eludes a degree of familiarity with
the inore important insect enemies
e and fungous diseases to which such
the book which I was reading
"Not since that memorable evenin
when the general and Mr. McNeil
caerie over to make their inspec-
"Wel1, John, will you put you
hat on and come a, little walk with
me 1" I could see by her panne
that something had agitated or
frightened her,
"Why, bless the bird.!" cried 1,
boisterously, "what is the matter
The old. Hall has not 'gone on fixe,
surely? You look a,s grave as if. al1
Wigtown were in a, blaze."
"Not quite so bad as that," she
said, smiling. "But do coarse out,
Jack. I. should very much- like you
to see it." '
I had always refrained from say-
ing anything which might alarm my
sister, so that she knew -"nothing of
the interest which our neighbor's
doings had for me. At he request
I took my hat andfollowed her out
into the darkness. She led the way
along a little footpath over the
moor, which brought us to some ris-
ing ground, from which we could
look down upon the Hall without
our view being obstructed by any
of the fir -trees which had been
planted round it. "Look at that,"
said 112.13r sister, pausing at the sum-
mit of this little eminence.
Cloomber lay beneath us in a,
blaze of light. In the lower floors
the ,shutters obscured, the illumina-
tion, but above, from the broad
windows of the second story to the
thin Slits .at the suinmit of the tow-
er, there was not a chink or an
aperture which did not send forth
a, stream of radianoe. So dazzling
was the effect that for a, moment I
was tpersuaded that the house was
on fixe, but the steadiness and
clearness of the light soon freed me
from: that apprehension. It was
clearly the result of many lamps
placed 'systematically all over the.
building. It added to . the strange
aeffect that all these brilliantly illu-
minated rooms were atpparently un-
tenanted, and some of them, as far
as we could judge. were not even
furnished. Through the whole great
house there was no sign of move-
ment or of 'life — nothing but-. the
clear, unwinking flood of yellow
light. I was still lost inwonder at
the eight when I heard a •short,
quick sob at my side.
What is it, Esther, dear 1" I
asked, looking down .at my compan-
ion.
"I ' feel so frightened. Oh, John,
John, take inc home; I feel so frigh-
tened 1" She clung to my arm, ,and
pulled .at any coat in a perfect
frenzy of fear.
"It's allsafe, darling," I said,
soothingly. "There is nothing'. to
fear. What has upset you so 1"
"I am afraid of them, John; I am
of. the Heatherstones. Why
is their house lit up like this every
night? I have heard from others
thatit is always so, And why does
the old man run like a frightened
hare. if anyone comes upon him.
There is something wrong about it,
John, ;and it frightens me."
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I 'cified, her as well as I could,,
and led her home with me, where I
took care that,that,she 'should have some
hot port negus before going to bed.
(To be continued).
• crops are liable; with the means of
cheaply combattir.1 them, writes
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A, greet degreaseQ f the numbers.
and, depredations of inseci.pests and
plant diseases is incidental to the
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disturbing influences of advancing
• civilization and to the extension of
areas devoted `to special props. In
sects abandon their wild food plants
and develop a fondness for related
g introduced species in. cultivation.
The species- which previously was
considered harmless may thus be-
come a great pest. Under pioneer
conditions abundance was easily
produced and commonly the market
value of ordinary farm products
low. Insect damages, unless very
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breeding places; maintenance of
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ul-tivation; the use of manures and
good care, generally, since, as it is
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such as exist in dangerous promi-
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certain pests and is of great value
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several means of holding them in
check. Spraying alone, when pro-
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or the Lest success the term should
always be associated in the mind of
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is still frequently met with a fear
of poisons applied to fruits or other
crops. Without going into detail
on this matter which bas long since
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i
less when the ordinary sprayingjdii
realms are followed, both as to'
humans eating the fruit or cattle,
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In .the use of vessels containing
poisons, and in handling the poi -1
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