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"I have no recollection of ever
having met hire, or of hearing of
hoe," she answered. "Was he an
intimate friend 1"
"I believe so," I said. Then,
finding that she could explain no-
thing more, 1 took toy leave.
Next day and the next I wander-
ed about London aimlessly and
without hope. Mabel and her mo-
ther had, for some unaccountable
reason, gone abroad and carefully
concealed their whereabouts. Hud
this fact any -connection with the
mysterious tragedy that had been
ona^led at The Boltong 1 That one
thought was ever uppermost in my
mind.
A week passed, rind I still renmain-
CHAI'TEIt XXIV. In my eagerness for information et; at the Grand, going forth each
her hesitation to give me NIrs. An- day, wandering hither and ;.hither,
A man-serwart answered my earn- but never entering the Club or o-
Taond. sc.n's address never struck me as tS g
perfectly natural. She. of course, iiig to places where I thought it
"Mrs. :Anson?" I inquired. did not know me, and her offer to likely that I might be recognized.
"Mrs. Anson :s out of town, sir," forward a letter was all that she 1 could not return to the life at
.answered the main. "The house is e, old do in such circumstances. 1)enbury with that angular woman
let." Tet at the time I did not view it at the head of my table—the woman
"Furnished?" i,, that light. but regarded the ten- who called herself my wife. If I
"Yey, sir." ant of that house of mystery as an returned I felt that the mystery of
"Is your mistress at hun.e1" I in- ill-mannered and extremely dis- it all must drive ate to despair, and
quired. I should p
"I don't know e:ir," answered the agreeable person. commit suicide• fit of desperation,
utun, 'i ,lonrat'eall •. In despair I returned to St.
1 y James's Street and entered myI ask any of those who read this
"Oh, of course!" 1 exclaimed, club, the Devonshire. Several mestrange history of my life, whether
taking out a card. It was the first whom I did not know greeted me they consider themselves capable of
I fund within my cigarette -case, warmly iu the smoking room, and, remaining calm and tranquil in
andd was intentionally not my own. from their manner, I saw that in such circumstances, or of carefully
IP-. tress, and ask her if
"Will you take this sheto your rind will kind- my lost years I had evidently not gg oin over all the events in their
abandoned that institution. They sequence and considering thein with
ly spare one a few moments. I am chatted to me about politics and logical reasoning. I tried to do so,
a friend 11 seeoAirs. shAe's
ho Etocks, t►:o subjects upon which I but in vain. For hours I sat with--
said"I'll ifd s home, sir,"ewas perfectly ignorant, and I was in the hotel smoking and thinking.
asthe man, dubiously;teand then, compelled to exercise considerable I was living an entirely false life,
be
me into standing chile he -well, existingin the fear of recognition
be left me while he went `act and ingenuity in order to avoid g
betraying the astounding blank in by unknown friends, and the con-
Thatin search his mistant dread that sooner or later I
hallll was the same down m y' minmust return to that hated life in
which I had groped my way when After a restless hour I drove back
Devonshire.
blind. I saw the closed door of t}1e westward and called at old Chan That a hue -and -cry had beori
drawing -room, and knew that with- ning's in Cornwall Gardena in an
in that room the young man whose endeavor to learn Mabel's address.
«ascplainaidgar n a pay
rngraph earanch
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name I knew not ha.l been foully The colonel was out., but I saw Mrs. I read in one of the morning papers
done to death. There was the very Channing, and she could. alas! tell about ten days after my departure
umbrella -stand from which I had me nothing beyond the fact that from Uenbury. In the paragraph
taken the walking -stick, and the Mrs. Anson and her daughter had I was designated as "a financier
door of the little -used library, been abroad for three years past—
well-known in the City," and it
which I had examined on that night where, she knew not. They had
was there stated that I had left my
when I had dined there at Mrs. An- drifted apart, she said, and never home suddenly "after betraying
son's tnv existence i as rpyelast night real self. of nets Mabeged letters.
simarried 1" I inquired since beenns of nsanity," heard of. and bad not
The man returned in a few mo- as carelessly as I could, although Insanity! I laughed bitterly as I
meats and invited nue into a room in breathless eagerness. read those lines supplied by the
•on the left—the morning -room I "I really don't know," she re- Exeter correspondent of the Cen-
supposed it to be saying: sponded. "t have heard sonic talk tral News. The police had, no
"My mistress is at home, sir, and of the likelihood of her marrying, doubt, received my description,
will see yon." but whether she has done so I am and were actively on the watch to
I had not remained there more unaware." trace me and restore me to my
than a couple of minutes before a "and the man whom rumor de- "friends."
youngish woman of perhaps thirty signated as her husband 1 Who For nearly a fortnight I had been
or so entered, with a rather dis- was her I inquired quickly.„ in hiding, and was now on the
tent bow. She was severely dress- "A young nobleman, I believe.
ed in black ; dark-haired, and not "You don't know his name l” verge of desperation. By means of
very prepossessing. Her lips were "No. It was mentioned at the c'ne of the cheques I had taken from
too thick to be beautiful, and her time, but it has slipped my memory. Denbury I succeeded in drawing a
to row of teeth seemed too much in One takes no particular notice of good round suns withoutmy bank -
evidence. Her face was not exact- tea -cup gossip." us beingoaware latin,f ►jcicabroad in
ly ugly, but she was by no means "Well, Mrs. Channing,�� I said, p g going
gond-looking.confidently, "I am extremely desir- order to avoid the possibility of be -
"I have to apologize." I said, ous of discovering the whereabouts irg Put under restraint as a loan
loorising and hewing. "I understand of Mabel Anson. I want to see her tic, when one evening, in the dusky
tat Mrs. Anvil has left her house, upon a rather curious matter which du s t, 1 wont forth landand
A enuered
to
and I thou; you would kindly closely concerns herself. Can you
give mher address. I wish to see tell me of any one who is intimate the Victoria Embankment. In com-
o
ber on a most pressing personal with them 1" parison with the life and bustle of
matter." "Unfortunately. I know of no the Strand and Trafalgar Square,
She regarded me with some su- „
thc wide roadway beside the
one," she answered. The truth Thames is always quiet and spicion, I thought. is, that they left London quite dud . Upon that same pavement
"If you are a friend of Mrs. An- denly ; and, indeed, it was a mat over which I now strolled in the di -
son's, would it not be better if you to for surprise that they neither rection e the Temple I had, in the
wrote to her and addressed the let- ,aid farewell visits nor told any of days of my blindness, taken my les -
their betel Her letters are always their friends where they were go -
forwarded," she answered. •� sons in walking alone. That pave -
She was evidently a rather shrewd in"Curious," I remarked—"very ment had been my practice -ground
and superiorperson. o, on summer evenings under the ten -
"Well.
curious .
"11'ell, tr, tell the truth," I snit!. Then there was, I reflected, ap der guidance of poor old Parker,
•1 "t have reasons for nut writing."arently some reason for the pre -the faithful servant now lost to Inc."The n I much regret, sir. that I s ,fit tenant. at The Buttons refusing My eyesight had now grown as
am unable to furnish you with her the address. strong as that of other men. The
address," she responded, somewhat „yes," ,Itis. Channing went on, great blank in my mind was all
stiffly. "it was all yci mysterious. No -that distinguished Inc from my fel-
"I have been absent. from Lindon holy knows the real truth why they lows. During those past fourteen
for six years," I exclaimed. It is went abroad so suddenly and sec- day's I had been probing a period
because of that long absence that reds. It was between three and which I had not lived, and ascii
Iprefer not to write." tint years ago now, and nothing, mining by slow degrees the events
"i fear that I cannot assist yon,"to my knowledge, has since been of toy unknown past.
she replied briefly. heard .,f them."
look in her dark grey- e} ^s. She And as I strolled along beneath
There was a strange, d eerinined \' r� mysterious," i responded. the plane trees over that broad
• It ,,mid seem almost as though pavement I recollected that the last
did not seem a person amenable tothe} had some reason for conceal- occasion I had been there was on
argument•their whereabouts." that memorable evening when I had
'Rut it is regarding an urgent and ins "That's just what lots of people lost myself, and was subsequently
purely private affair that I wish to have said. You may depend upon present at the midnight tragedy in
see Mrs. Anson," I aaid. it that there is something very that house of mystery. I gazes}
"1 have nothing whnteccr to do mysterious in it all. 11'e were such around. In the ornamental gar -
with the private affairs of Mrs. An- very close friends for years, and it ddens, bright with geraniums, some
son," she replied. "i merely rent
is certainly strange that Mrs. :1n- tired Londoners were taking their
this house from her. and, in justice Aon has never confided in me the ease upon the seats provided by
to her. it is not likely that i give secret of her whorcabouts " that most paternal of all metropo-
the address to every chance caller." "I remembered the old Colonel's litan institutions, the London
"I am net chance caller," I re- strange warning on that evening Ceunty Council ; children' were
sponded. "During her residence kng ago, when I had first met shouting as they played at ball and
here six years ago I was a welcome Mabel at his table. What. I won- hop -scotch. that narrow strip of
guest at her table." tiered, could he know of them to green being. alas! all they knew of
"Six years ago is a long time. their detriment 1 Nature's beauty outside their world
I ou may, for aught I know, not be I remained for a quarter of an c'f bricks and mortar. The slight
PO welcome now." hour longer. The colonel's wife wind stirred the dusty foliage of
Did she, i wondered. speak the was full of tie latest tittle-tattle, the trees beneath which I walked,
truth 1 as the mite of an a:. -attache always while to the left river -steamers
"You certainly speak very plain is. It is part of the diplomatic belched forth volumes of black
1;:. madam," I answered, rising training to he always well -inform- smoke, and barges slowly floated
stifly. i have put "u to an • cu of the sayings and doings of our down with the tide. On either side
leconvenAk e I regret it. I can. neighbors: and as T allowed her to were great buildings. and straight
no doubt, obtain from some other gossip on she revealed to Inc many hrfnre the dome of St. Paul's. Over
person the information 1 require things of which 1 was in ignorance. all was that golden, uncertain haze
"Most probably you can. sir,' Nellie. her daughter. had. it ap- which in central London is called
she answered. in a manner quite peered. married the son of a New- sunset. the light which so quickly
i unruffled. "1 tell you that if you cestle shipowner a couple of years turns to cold, grey, without any of
write 1 shall at once forward your before, and now lived near iter- those glories of crimson and gold
letter to her. More than that I wick-on-Twe,d. which those in the country associ-
eannnt do." Suddenly a thought occurred to alt with the summer son's decline.
"I presume you are actinaint.d Inc. and 1 asked whether she knew That walk induced within me
with Miss Mabel Anson 1" I in- Miss \\-ells or the Titan stickman, melancholy thoughts of a wasted
quire& who hall been my fellow -guests on life. 1 loved Mabel Anson—I loved
She smiled with same sari-sm. that night when i hnd dined at The her with all my soul. Now that
"T1•,, .Anson family do not con- Billions. marriage with her was no longer
c: rn , in the least, sir," she re- "I knewa Miss Wells - a w•'ry within the range of pnssihility i was
t,' ,t .1 , • rising as sign that my pronounced old maid,
who was a inert and despairin►r. utterly heel.
u•,fr,,it;ul interview was at an end. friend of hers," answered Mrs.
of everything i had, if truth
A(ent :,n of Mabel seemed to hn'e Charming.Charming.''Rot she caught. influ- beleas told, no further desire for life.
irritated her. and although I plied enza nhont a year ago, and died of All joy within me was now blotted
her : ith further questions. she it. She lived in Edith Villas, Ken• nut.
(To be Continued.)
•••11'1 tell me absolutely nothing. singtnn "
when 1 bowed and took my leave "And Rickman. a fair man. of
1 fear that 1 did not show her very middle age. with a very ugly face 1''
mush politeness. She reflected.
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The rnmanee of a spinster is apt
t4. be one sided.
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THE (IOOD CALF.
In calf growing there is nothing
more operative against success than
overfeeding. The dairy calf's di-
gestive organization is not the
strongest part of its anatomy, and
it must, be treated with care and
good judginent. A wholesome hun-
ger in the young calf is a good thing
arid indicates that he is making use
of its feed and may safely have the
ration reasonably iucreaced. But
it is well to remember always that
the calf does not grow and develop
by the feed actually eaten, but by
the part it digests and assimilates,
writes Mr. 11'. F. McSparran.
More feed than the calf can di-
gest becomes a burden to the sto-
mach and a danger to the diges-
tion, not only involving the immedi-
ate good health of the calf but seri-
ously impeding the calf's growth
and thrift.
On the other hand, a chronic hun-
ger is not desirable in calf develop-
ment, and while steering clear of
the danger of over -feeding we must
nut run aground in the shallows of
underfeeding, for thus we may eas-
ily spoil the hill usefulness of tho
good cow. The good cow is the ani-
matedorganizationorganization of the vital
parts of good feeds—"all flesh is
grass." No feed, no cow ; short
feed stunted calf ; stunted calf, a
cramped cow.
One thing necessary to a good cow
is a large and fully developed sto-
mach so that the cow has room to
store enough feed to make a largo
quantity of milk.
I may add, incidentally, that,
given this capacious storage capa-
city, it is the duty of the good feed-
er to see that the storage is well till-
ed. Hence I like to begin early in
thc life of the calf to build the bel-
ly. Tho "pot belly" is cried cult
against as a bad sign in the calf,
but if back of the "pot" is health
and thrift I give myself no concern
over the pot—I will make it a place
of feed and work.
Pretty calves do not always make
great cows, any more than pretty
girls always make good wives, or
sweet boys make wise men, so we
can afford to cast aside too good
looks in the calf if we know we arc
building wisely for the cow.
It would appear then that in calf
feeding we have two dangers—the
excess and the deficiency. The
clear course between the two is the
safe one, and to find this course
and remain in it should bo the intel-
ligent study of the breeder. No man
whose advice is worth following will
presume to make a chart of this
work to guide other men absolute-
ly. Ile can only at best make sug-
gestions—point the direction — and
the actual work must fall on the
man who feeds the calf.
DEFECTS IN BUTTER.
The Dairy Division of Washing-
ton employs inspectors at large re-
ceiving centres to inspect butter
and give advice to makers as to
where improvements can be made.
The work is giving satisfaction, and
is proving of value to the trade. in
a recent interview the inspector at
New York City gave POnme informa-
tion about the work that may be
of value to Canadian butter mak-
ers. He said:
"I am seldom called to look at
strictly fancy butter. The butter
makers who nearly always make
high quality and never get any
kicks, don't have any need of my
help, and consequently don't ask
for it. Once in a while a single tub
is marked in a shipment of these
fine goods, and the huttermaker re-
quests that I score the butter. This
1 am always willing to do. but my
work is mainly to help the fellow
wo needs it. You will therefore
readily see that i am called to ex-
amine mostly creameries that have
some faults.
"The defects that are most com-
mon at present are sour and sum
mery flavors and curdy character.
The extreme heat that has prevail-
ed in many sections has made it dif-
ficult to keep down the tempera-
ture of the cream, and consider-
able of the butter gives evidence
of over ?ripened cream. This is the
cause of much of the trouble, and
will be during most of the summer.
If it was merely a question of con-
troiling the temperature in the
creamery. many of the butter mak-
ers would stay by their cream vats,
but a great deal of the cream is
shipped in too ripe. and it is impos-
sible to fully overcome that diffi-
culty.
"A great ninny of the creameries
are pstenriii:,g at too high a tem-
perature. and this produces a spon-
gy. light -bodied butter. as well as
an oily flavor, though 1 am inclined
to think that the latter is mostly
where the eream arrived quite sour.
Occasionally 1 run across a cream-
ery that is very heavily salted --se
salty, in fact, that it tastes like
brine when one bites into it. There A Theological atu.lent was sent
is positively no excuse for this. if one Sunday to supply a vacant pul-
bv accident ton much salt got into pit in a country town. A few days
the churn, it can be washed out and after he received a copy of the
made usahle. but in same eases it weekly paper of the place with the
looks as if the exec sive telt were following item marked: "Rev. --
put in deliberately. stipp,' d the pulpit at the C'ongre-
f
The way to deo the virtiier of a
trust is to become a stockholder.
Here's a Real Summer Delight—
SHREDDED WHEAT
with milk ut• crt'ant and l'a'sh fruits. Discard
heavy foods and try this natural diet for a
tittle and Bolo how your eueI'giei,- will \\\Cream
and vour sl)irit3 revive,
N4 Q iI'4II1 ,1. 111I'IIOI'T RUING HEATING
*OLD Bt. 111. lone\ :.a.
A SINGER'S DOWNFALL.
.1 Woman's Pathetic Appeal to a
London 3lagietrate.
Marion Salter, once a singer of
repute, was charged on remand at
\Vest London Police Court recent -
le, before Mr. Lane, with stealing
a silver salver belonging to 1)r. G.
L. Turnbull. The salver was missed
after she called at the house, and
when arrested it was stated she
admitted the theft.
Detective Churchward said that
in the woivan's possession were
found press notices shoring that
she appeared at the principal Lon-
don concerts between 1883 and 1892.
There were ten previous convictions
fee felony, including one for burg-
lary. The detective said that in-
temperance was the cause of her
downfall.
Tho prisoner handed to the mag-
istrate a statement, in which she
wrote:
When a woman has been seven
days and nights in the streets with-
out a bed and with bleeding and
lacerated feet, starving, she is ter-
m ibly tried and fiercely tempted to
commit any sin.
I have been quite alone in the
world for many years. For seven-
teen years I was a soprano on the
operatic stage. My voice failed.
Bad health and extreme poverty
followed. Such work as I am cap-
able of I cannot command. I ani
now turned fifty-seven. Tho work-
house is my last resource. Oh, pray
be merciful to me and send me
there. Prison will only ruin and
kill me.
The magistrate decided to remand
the accused with a view to com-
mitting her for trial.
4.
THE ONLY WAY.
Not long ago a farmer sued a
cattle -dealer for damages in the
local county court.
"When I bought the bull " said
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
NEWS BY MA11, FROM 1R1•:-
L.1ND'E S11OR ES.
Happenings in the Emerald Isle of
Interest tti Irish -
111(91.
A North Wexford Farmer's Soci-
ety has recently been formed.
A movement is on foot for the
establishment of a boot factory in
Arklow.
At the Last pig fair in Tralee, the
remarkable number of 1,050 pigs
was on view.
Over ono thousand pigs were kill-
ed by local bacon factories of Kerry
during a recent week.
The Merchants' Hall, where the
chi Dublin Guild of Merchants for-
merly met, has just been sold by
auction.
A domestic named Jane McC'ush
was asphyxiated by blowing out tho
gas at the home of her employer
in Belfast.
A huge fish, said to be a sunfish
or "thrasher," and weighing 1,500
pounds, was recently taken in the
harbor at Dunmore.
The Lord Chancellor has appoint -
en James P. Hughes, Castleganny
Mills, Morris, to the commission of
the peace for the county of Carlow.
The death took place recently at
Garvagh, of James Febridgo John-
stone, late chief draughtsman in the
Belfast Queen's Island shipbuild-
ing yards.
Michael O'Callaghan, the driver
of a mail train, was knocked off his
engine when going at sixty miles an
hour, and sustained but trifling in-
juries.
The commissioners of National
Education have awarded the Car -
complainant, "he told me pit was Bele and Blake Premium to Mrs.
gentle and perfectly harmless —a -Mary K. Dick, Cornnhilta school,
child could play with it, in fact. Bclleek, for the year 1907.
A constable at Cappagh, near
Nal[ an hour after I got the ani- Muhill, County Leitrim, found a
n:al home, lie disabled a couple of
my farm hands, and then turned'arcol containing sumo sixty-three
on me—"
ettern concealed in a hole at the
the beast was d back of a ditch alongside the road.
"Perhaps-
s excited
la his strange surroundings," sThe fine and historic old seat of
1i
seated his honor. "Is he quiet the late Geo. Davys, J.I'.nt Clon-
onough now 1" br any, consisting of ab,out 500
"\\'elle-yes ; hut you see—" acres, has been purchased by John
"Ab," remarked the defendant, Iihatigan, of Kilerowe. for the stun
"then my degeriptinn was correct, "f $7,500.
after all. I said if he did Messrs. Workman and Clark,
get" ten hi builders of Belfast. have recciv-
cited at first he would quieten P
down." rel an order from the Boston United
s
"Yes," responded the plaintiff Fruit Company, United States, for
grimly. "but you didn't till mo T four new steamers aggregating over
stimuli! have to shoot the beggar to `1.000 tons for West. Indies' fruit
gt.ieton him down! That's what I trade.
had to do!" The Dublin and South -Eastern
Railway Company have increased
LEFT THE IUVE. the facilities which they had already
A young man named Johnson provided for tourists desirous of
married a few days ago, and ho visiting on Sundays the various
arranged to take his bride -to a AI'ots of interest in picturesque
town which he knew well on their, tcklow.
hr.neymoon. Ile was fond of visit•I
Two brothers, William and Mat-
ing this town, as he told his wife, thew i'elan, of Tullynacross, near
be••ause at the hotel where he in-; Lisburn, died withal a few hours of
each other, both
tended staying "they served duck having been in ill
r!elieious honey nt every meal." health for some time past. Their
'This will bo delightful," aaid ; double funeral was very largely at -
his bride. tended.
The couple arrived at the hotel At a meeting of Belfast butchers
paid for recently, it, was decided in co
just in timo for tea. Johnson es- nic-
coifed his bri le to a table, and gent being quince of the high prices at pre-
(lifted
quizzically at it.
beingsheep and cat
There was no honey on the table tle. which renders prices unremun-
and nine in the room. Johnson' erntive, to raise the price of beef
was surprised, and called n waiter. and mutton td. and 2d. per pound.
A train on the U. N. R. near Bel -
was was delayer) an hoar and
forty minutes owing to the failure
said, "She don't work erepno of the electric train staff instru-
mnro !" ment. On investigation it was found
the failure was caused by a spider
gc tt'na between the contact point
and the key lever in the instrument
at Beltnrl,et, causing a disconner-
club went out on a yachting tine.
"See here," said he, "where's
my honey 1''
The waiter, after thinkingdeeply,
WOM.'tNLT(E.
Ostend—"The paper says the wo-
men's
Farts with fifty members --all told.
What does 'all told' mean, pop
Pa—"Oh, I guess it means they
ail told everything they knew about
the members that did not go."
IIOLIDA YS.
"I've got a great deal of plea-
sure from anticipating the trip."
"More, possibly. than you'll get
from the trip itse'f."
"That's what I think. So I've de-
cided to stay at home and save the
money."
SUMMER i►ON'TS.
1),,n't worry about bills for cont.
1 n,n't quarrel with the ice roan.
D,•n't get exhausted trying to
keep the moths out of your fur -lie -
e(: mercoat.
Don't try to erowd into a narr,w•
seat, beside a fat man.
Don't grumble about your wife's
cold feet.
THE SORROW OF IT.
"It's too had," oh,er‘ed the roan
who seemed to fie thinking aloud.
"What's too bad i" queried the
party who had overheard the ohser-
t at ion.
"That our neighbors always know
when we have fried nninns for snp-
gati ,nal Church last Sunday. and per, hat never get next when we
the c'hurc'h will now be closed three I have strawberries and ire cream,"
weeks for repairs." explained the Doisy thinker