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Row he acoomplished that journey through the snow storm he never rightly knew, but when he was obliged to leave the boat, as the river would have taken him out of his way beyond a certain point, he bribed a homeless tramp whom he found taking shelter in the deserted boathouse to help him caecy "his brother,who," he Amid, "hied met with an aceident," to the shed here he had left his cob and phaeton. - He placed Kate in the oarriage, and thus the tramp only saw an inanimate figure rapped in a brown ulster. And the man, vrhen the task was com- leted, went ou his way, glad of the hand- ul, of /silver given him for hie pains, and, s day after day took him farther away frons this part of Ile country, he never heard of the strange di`aappearance of Kate Lilburne, and even had he done so, he would probably have failed to connect it with the piece of good fortune that had be- fallen him this bitter night. The poor animal was almost as muoh beaten as its driver when they at length reaohed their destination, and directly the girl was carried into the house and placed on a couch Frank roused his mother toast. tend to her, then led the horse to the stable, where he hastily supplied him with food, water and clean straw'and left him. When he returned to the house he found his mother standing by the side of the couch upon which Kate still lay tee he had placed her. The old woman's face was white and stern, and when her son approached her, she turned upon him angrily and asked: "What have you done to her? Is she dead ?" "God only knows,"he replied dejectedly; "but I have done her no harm. I have saved her from certain death if she is not already dead. But don't stand like that, mother ; I have brought her here that you might nurse her '• she has had a terrible fall ; get her to bed without delay, and I will go at once for a doctor. I shall call her my 'sister. Shall I help you to carry her up stairs ?" "Yes' to my room • then go to Mr. Kern. ble, anddon't come back without him." Her words were brief ; her son might tell her what story he liked ; she had already formed her own conclusions, and she men• tally resolved that if Kate Lilburne died she would not in any way shield her IOU from the consequences of this night's work. CHAPTER VIII. DOUBTS AND FEARS. But though Mrs. Fairfield stood calmly by the side of the girl whom she loved as if she had been her own child, and seemed to show so little emotion, and to be so pas- sionless and so stern, her mind was in truth racked by a thousand nameless fears. It was very well for her eon to say that he had done Kate no harm,and that he had saved her life, but if his story were true, why had he not taken her to her father's house, instead of bringing her here without leave or license, !and compromising her reputation by carrying her so many miles through the dead of night? What should the daughter of Lord Lit. burae do in the cette.ge of her nurse, brought here by that nurse's son, who, to make matters worse, had dared to lift his presumptuous eyes to the daughter of his benefactor ? The very fact of Frank's infatuation be. ing so well known made Kate's presence here a danger to herself and a disgraoe to her family, and poor Mrs. Fairdeld,despite the control she exercised upon her words and actions, was nearly distracted. " I am eating the bread of the Lilburnes," she groaned, "and I have eaten it for forty years, and now to think that a son of mine should have rought this shame and pain upon them ,• the ingratitude and infamy is more than I can bear." years of faithful service and loving devotion and she had in consequence declined more Ithan one invitation to the oastie Glace she came to live in this outeaf.the•way cottage. But all her resentment vanished at the sight of the fair girl who looked like a broken lily, and on whose face were (steins of blood whioh had trickled Own from the wound on her head. Next to Mrs. Fairfield's love for Kate, however, was her appreciation of all that belonged to a daughter of Lord Lilburne, and no woman, let her rank be what it would, could he more jealous of the honor of her house than was nurse Fairfield of the spotless reputation of the family she had served. Grace was no favorite of hers, but she would have done much and suffered much to ineve saved even her from a shadow of shame. But the very thought was maddening that the honor of the noble name of Lii- burne might be smirched and held up to derision and contempt by the aot of her own son—a inan upon whom the family had heaped benefits innumerable. The situation, viewed from every point, was agoniziug, and but for the anxiety she felt at Kate's still unconscious condition, and the dread slerffed of making bad matters worse, she would at once have started for Silverton Castle, and would have entreated its owner to twine without a moment's delay to his suffering child. But she dared not move,' dared not take one step uutil she heard her son's account of this night's terrible -work, and even then she would have to judge for herself whether or not there was truth, or even probability, in his story. It seemed a long time before Frank re- turned with the surgeon, who found the still unconscious girl undressed and in bed, and giving no sign of life beyond an occa- sional low, faint moan. Her white satin dress and everything she had worn that evening had been carefully put out of eight, and there she was nothing about her to indicate she was not Mrs. Fairfield's daughter. The doctor examined her, believing the story told him that she had been thrown from a gig. "There are no bones broken," he said at length; "but I am afraid that her head has been seriously injured. A part of the skull is pressing upon the brain, and, though she may regain her bodily health, I very much. fear her reason will be perman• ently affected. But I will come again in the morning." Frank clasped his hands in despair when Mr. Kembharepeated this opinion to him. Judging by his own feelings he felt that death would be ten thousand times prefer. able to madness. He showed the doctor out,of the house repressing his emotion as far as possible, but when the front door was closed he did not dare to go near the chamber in which were his mother and poor Kate. Something in the face of the former had warned him to keep away until she came to him. i Now the intense strain of excitement was over, the necessity for exertion no longer existed, and nothing but failure and de- spair stared him in the face, Frank Fair - field's physical and mental strength gave way before the prospect that appalled him. When his mother at length appeared,she found him so nearly unconscious that she thought for a time that she was going to have two invalids upon her hands inatead of one. es Judging that he was suffering as much from exhaustion as anything, she made him sallow an egg beaten up in brandy and milk, and when he had slightly recovered she said sternly : "You must make an effort to rouse your- self to meet the trouble you have brought upon us. Tell me, in as few words as pos- sible what has happened, for I mean to send for Lord Lilburne at once." Her cold, hard words:seemed eto give him a fictitious strength, aud he told her the story of his adventure and of his night's work, being careful alike to avoid excuse and exaggeration. "And what business had you outside Silverton Castle at such a time ?" she demanded sharply. "I only wanted to catch one glimpse of Kate," he replied, humbly. "Catch a glimpse of Kate," she repeated with disdain. "Who do you think will ever believe that you spent whole hours in the cold and dark with no other motive than that ?" she demanded. "Evidently you do not," he retorted, stung by her tone and manner. "No, I don't I" was the emphatic response. "Then it is useless my trying to conviuce you," he returned. "Quite useless; and as for any • secret paseage or staircase that leads into the castle, it's very strange that I should have lived at Silverton all those years and never heard of anything of the kind. I should mighty like to see if it is there." • "You can easily do that," he replied, calmly. "I found the place our many years ago, and have gone in and out that way at night hundreds of times." "And yet no livins soul besides yourself knew of it ?" she asked, with increased . - suspicion. "Yes : Miss Grace knew of it. I khowed her the hole in the floor once, and threat. ened to throve her down if she watched me and told tales about ma again'. I frighteued my lady, I can tell you, and I remember her eyes when I pressed the spring and made the floor, slide back into its place." "Miss Grace," repeated Mrs. Fairfierd, thoughtfully. "No • this isn't her work; but she may have told somebody else how to open the place through which you say Kate fell. She or somebody else may have been showing the place to Kate herself." But Frank shook his head as he said: "It could not have been an accident or the place would not have been covered in directly Kate fell. The false door does not open nor shut easily, the spring neede a good deal of pressure, and could never have closed hy accident." "Then you think a man must have thrust my poor chila down the shaft." "Not necessarily; a woman could do it if she were so inclined," " Who is living at the castle tnow ?" asked the nurse. "1 don't know." "What do you propose to do?" was the mother's next question. " That I don't know," he replied ;deject- edly . "It is not for myself that I hesitate," he added, seeing the look of impatient anger gathering on his mother's face; "hut the consideration that kept me from raisieg an alarm when Kate fell at my feet is equally strong now. To give Kate to her father is, perhaps, to give her back to the mercy of the person who tried to deettoy her." "Good heavens 1 you don't 'suspect her father of having tried to murder her, do you ?" exclaimed Mrs, Fairfield in horrified am cygnets t. The tears came into those eyes that rarely shed tears, and she took Kate's limp, cold hand in her own and kissed it passionately as she murmured : " Whatever harm he has done to yor, my darling, he shall pay for and pay for dearly nd until I give you back to your father .1 illguard you as the apple of my eye. Though Frank is my own son,I will not spare him," A low moan from the sufferer recalled he woman to the neceseity of putting Kate to bed, and she went about her difficult oak gently and tenderly, as thongh the all,gracefui girl now hovering between life and death were still the pretty baby whom he had fed from her own breast and den- ted upon her knee in the years gone by. Mrs. Fairfield had often reproached her - elf with loving her foster.child Kate Lil- burne better even than she loved Ler own son ; but that she really did so there could be no doubt, for Kate had filled. the place in her heart which had been made void by the death of her youngest child, a baby - girl, who died when she was but a few weeks old, and the little heiress had been given to her to love and cherish, and had clung to her as her own infant might have done. But the high-born little maiden,with her beauty and grace and her gentle ways, was like a princess to the woman whose previ- ous experience of children had been among the rough and ruddy boys and girls of her own class, and Nurse Fairfield almost wor- shipped the child committed to her care. Her own boy had benefited by his resi- dence at the castle, a,nd his occasional com- panionship with the pretty little ladytwho, as she toddled about after him, likewise tyrannized over him, es it is the habit of small girls to do when the bigger boy is not a brother. Frank was a boy for any mother to be proud of, Mrs Fairfield was told on every aide, anti LOA Lilburne himaelf had been heard Mare than once to express the wish that Frank wise his own sot All this was gratifying no doubt, but the woman's- heart clung most to her nursting, and whenies the year e wentbmand Frank's mad infatuatien for Kate made his lordship dectde to perehaee 4 partnership for him ased pension off his mother, the latter revolted the well-mestne kindness, and blamed her own offspring for the wrong which She coneideredhe had done her. She VMS a little angry with Kate Mao far peitleg with her see readily after to many .,••••Tr "I "Vont no aingle person" he replied evasively; "bub that somebody did try to destroy Kate' ts life, and that same male or woman believes her to be lying ektt 0-1° bottom of the shaft down whioh she fell, there on be no doubt whatever, I expeoted that Kate would be able to tell us who took her to that little room, but the doctor has dashed that hope to the ground." His arms fell listlessly by his side, and his hopeless helpleesnese seemed to infect his mother, for she—having been standing until now--sardr down on the nearest Chair, and for the moment eeemed overpowered by the terrible situation. She was a woman, possessing a great amount of self-control, however, and she soon recovered from her temporary weak - MUM "There is another view of the matter which you don't seem to have thought about," she said, severely. "It would have been bad •enough for any man to have brought Kate from her father's roof in the middle of the night; but for you to have done so it was only to bring suspicion upon you arid disgrace upon her." "Oh, yes; I have thought of all that," he replied bitterly; "but when life is at stake one forgets what malicious tongues may say about one's aotions, and though Kate is nothing in kinship to us, you are the only mother she has ever known, and when 1 brought har to you it was the next bust thing to giving her to her wren father." "Aye, -if I'd been a lady your argument might be worth something," retorted his mother, severely; "but as it is you've only worked mischief as far as I oan see." He made no reply. Taunts and reproaches might be levelled against him, but they could not undo the past, neither could they alter Wee tragical aspeot of the present. At Length Mrs. Fairfield. rose to her feet, remarking emphaticlly "Well, if you won't go to Lord Lilburne and tell him what has happened, I wilL" "Very well," he returned resignedly; "do as you think best. I am willing to suffer any penalty for what I have done that the severest judge could inflict upon me, only remember, mother, that Kate's life is at stake." "Kate's life!" The two words took all the temporary courage out ofthe nurse, and made her weak and vacillating as her son. "What would you have me do?" She asked. "If you have the nerve to go to Silverton Castle as though nothing had happened and ask to see Kate, and liston to all they can tell you, and then act upon your own judgment as to what is best for her," he replied, "then I should say do it." "No ; if what you have told me is true I should break down," was her shuddering reply ; " and if it is not true" -- She paused, and he repeated her words questioningly. " If it is not true Do you doubt me ?" She made no direct reply, but said eva- sively : " You had better go to Lord Lilburne; it 15 your cluty, not mine, to do so. " "No," he answered ; "1 will wait and see if Kate gets better. When her reason returns there will be no more cause for anxiety.. No ; I won't go, 1 wil wait." His mother said no more, but left him, for at her heart she was as unable to come to any decision as he was. As day after day and week after week went by, however,the doctor's tears became a sad reality. ,Kate's body recovered. from the shock she had received, and she grew strong,and able to eat and drink and walk about like a person in ordinary healeh. Mentall, however, she was little better than an idiot ' • she had no memory, and no intellectualconsciousness; her reasoning faculties were dead or dormant, and the doctor who attended her shook his head when Fairfield suggested an operation to remedy the pressure on the brain. CHAPTER IX. "Yet it is love'if thoughts of tenderness Tried in temptation, strengthened by die - tress, Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime, And yet, oh, more than all, untired by time !" The anxiety and grief that suoceeffed Frank's rescue of Kate from the vault to which her sister has consigned her, had blanched the young man's hair and aged him as by the lapse of many years. Previous to this event he had not lived in his mother's cottage, though when in England he frequently went to see hee, but now, though it was tonere- for him to go there often, he could not keep away for more than a few days at a time. It was in vain that the local surgeon gave no hope of a change, and held out no pros- pect for poor Kate's ultimate recovery. Frank would not accept the adverse de• cision' but declared to his mother that he wouldcall in the ead of a specialist—one who had made the spbject of mental disease the study of life. • But Mrs, Fairfield replied bitterly : ," Your duty is to go to Lord Lilburne, and if your story is true, tell him what you have told me. Then all that wealth can do for poor Kate will be done, and the re- sponsibility of allowing an operation to be performed on her will he with her father, not with me. Indeed, I won't take the re- sponsibility, for if it doesn't cure, it will kill her, and I shall feel as if I had helped to commit a murder. - Frank shuddered. He felt as though he himself were taking part in some deed of the kind, and yet all he had done or attempted to do had been with the best possible intention. He had never meant to injure any one, and least of all would he willingly have been the cause of any weong to the woman whom he loved far better than he loved his own life. Now even, If by sacrificing himself he could restore her reason and give her back to comfort and happiness, he would unhesi- tatingly have done so ; but the sacrifice, so far as he could judge, would be in vain ; and by giving Kate back to her father in her present condition, he might only be placing her, helpless and defenceless, in the hands of her unscrupulous enemy. For that Lord felburne'a eldest daughter had an enemy there could be no doubt, otherwise she would never have been thrust down the tower -vault and the trapdoor closed upon her as he had heard it °tossed. Strangely enough`, though Frank disliked Grace Lilburne, he never suspected her as the author of her sister's affliction. The bars suggestion steeled unnatural, and he was completly at a loss to understand who could have any motive for so black e, crime. Theh was no improvement in Kate's mental condition, at any day he might be obliged to leave England on the busineee of the firm in which he was a partner, and in viewof such a contingency he Was trying to make up his mind to brave all conse- quences, go to Lord Lilburne, and mike a full confession of his share in Kate's ab• duotion, when fortunately for him, Lord Roland .4.yre vidited hint ,ee his office as already described. I ant afraid the relief Frank experienced on hearing Lord Rolland's story was very much modified by the knowledge that Kate was the,affianoed bride of the young noble- man. Still, he was reessonable enmegh to know that this was what he Sight have expected, and what was lure to happen BoOner or later. Idate'e love was not for him, it wee never to be his privilege, under any (Armin. stances whatever, to call her his wife; and after the first pug of pain which the news (mused him bad passed he felt that he ought to be glad icir her sake that she had - given her heart to a man so well worthy ot her loveeand faith. But Frank was convinced that he must be more than usually cautious. It was not his own life that was at stake. Kate was to be considered, and that here- solyed that until he had thought the matter over and taken counsel with his mother it would be beet to learn all he could and say as little as possible. The consequences of this couree of con- duct we know. And now we must return to IVIrs. Fair - field's cottage, where, it will be rednembered Lord Roland Ayre was very unwillingly following Kate's former nurse into an inner room, his anxiety to 'hasten to Silverton Castle and make Grace confess what she had done with. her sister making him impatient ot a moment's delay. This back sitting -room was larger than the one in which he had been received ; it was better furnished, too, and the window looked out upon a large garden thickly planted with trait trees. A work basket with pretty, bright pieces of silk and wool and feminine fancy work lay temptingly upon a small table, but its contents were untouched, a bright fire with a guard over it burned in the grate, and near it in a low easy-ohair, with her hands clasped listlessly upon her knee, sat Kate Lilburne. • Lord Roland recognized her in an instant, though he was dimly conscious of some great change having taken place in the woman he loved, and he sprang forward, exclaiming. "Kate, my own darling, I have found you at last 1" But she never rose to meet his embrace, she barely glanced at him, but sat motion- less with her eyes fixed vacantly upon the fire. A cold chill seemed to strike Lord Roland to the heart, and he turned and stood in questioning dismay to Mrs. rairfield, who stood sadly looking on. (To BE CONTINUED.) JABEZ BALFOUR. Arrival its Lonstlau of the EmbezzierLite. Sore the Pollee Coart and Remanded. A despatch from London says :—Extra ordinary scenes were witnessed and precau them of an extraordinary nature were taken upon thearrival at Southampton on Monday night on board the steamer ,Tartar Prince, from Buenos Ayres, of Jabez Spencer Bals four, ex -M. P., -whose extradition from the Argentine Republic was obtained after great delay on the charge of fraud in con- nection with the collapse of the Liberator Building Society. Tete steamer was met off Calshot castle by a police tug upon which Balfour was taken mare, surrounded by a crowd of detectives and policemen in uni- form. The most elaborate precautions were takeu in order to prevent the public from discovering where the prisoner was to be landed, as it was feared that an attempt might be made on his life. The police and Balfour finally reached the railroad atittion at Southampton, where the latter -was smuggled into a first-class railroad carriage, the shades of which were drawn down. At Waterloo railroad station here an enormous crowd were in waiting. But Balfour and his escort were landed at Vauxhall railway, and were driven to Bow street Police Court. In spite of the pre- cautions of the police the news of the arrival at Vauxhall of the notorious prime mover in the management of the Liberator Society quickly spread, and when he was driven from the railroud station—to Bow street the carriage in which he was placed was followed by a big crowd of people, who shouted : "Here's Jabez," eto. During the voyage from Buenos Ayres Balfour was generally cheerful, 'and was soon on very friendly terms with the rest of the passengers. But at Las Palmas he broke down completely, and wept bitterly. The proceedings at Bow street were of the character usual upon such occasions. The prisoner was formally charged, the papers in the case were examined, and he was remanded until the 19th inst., in order to enable the prosecution to complete their case against him. - How to get a "Sunlight" Picture. Send 25 "Sunlight" Soap wrapper, (wrapper bearing the words "Why Does a Woman Look Old Sooner Than a Man") to Lever Bros., Ltd., 43 Scott St., Toronto, endyou will receive by poste pretty picture, free from advertising, and well worth fram- ing. This is an easy way to decorate your home. The soap is the best in the market, and it will only cost lc. postage to send in the wrappers, if you leave the ends open. Write your address carefully, Not a Bad Idea, A very curious custom in Seoul, Corea, is the law which makes it obligatory for eviry man to retire to his home when the huge bronze bell of the city has pioclaimed it -to be the hour of sunset e.nd the hour of silos. ing tho gates. No man is allowed in the streets after that hour under pain of flog. ging,but the women are allowed w go about and visit their friends. It is -not altogether a bad lew. The club man can stay at home nights, if he is obliged to,and have his lady friends call on him. When Baby 'Nan sick, we gave her Castollte. When she was a Child, she crittl. for Casthria. When she became Miss, she clung to distoria. When she had Children, sheave them Castorlet Are Visiting Lists too Long? Mae. De Fashion (average society lady ,making her round a calls owing to average eociety friends)—Is Mrs, Wiggins Van Mortlande at home. Servant—No, madame ehe's— Mrs, De FaeRion—Please hand het my card When the returne, Servant—She won't return, rnadape she was buried a math age. Children Cry for Pitcher's Coto& PURELY CANADIAN NEWS, INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. -- Gathered from Various Points from the Atlantic to the Pocille. Wanstead has an athletic) club. Stores in Fergus close atd7 pan. %thane are camping on Orr lake. The Berlin factories are very busy. London has 11 lawyers and Chatham 35. Wyoming sports talk of organizing a gun club. The Sohomberg baud has been re- organized. A Humane Sooiety is to be established in Chatham. A tennis club is being organize4 itt Owen Sound. Sixty 'cyclists have joined the Berlin Bicycle Club. Arkona Young Conservatives have or- ganized a club, Winnipeg Masons intend to build a $16,000 temple. A movement is afoot to reorganize Orillia's yacht club. Peach trees in Essex County indicate a large ,crop this year. Vertical writing is to be taught in the Hamilton Public schools. Petrolea will vote on a proposition to build a $16,000 school. The new $7,000 hospital at 'Woodstock will be completed iu June. The Eganville Lutherans, will build a parsonage for their minister. Amherstburglas furnished three of 'the mayors of Wyandotte, Mich. °web -Sound will have a monster Queen's Birthday celebration. The Guelph City Council refused to re. duce the salaries of its officials. Wadsworth's mill dam at Weston has broken down, at a loss of $1,000. A movement is on foot to amalgamate the two Methodist churches of Ingersoll. . The saw and grist mills of Andrew Thompson, Strathroy, have been burn- ed. Guelph's School Board highly recommends She vertical systerh of penmanship. The Stratford Collegiate Institute Board requires $13,419.77 for the current year. It is estimated that it will cost $18,000 to AL Hellmuth College, London, for a hospital. Owen Sound will soon have an art exhibi- tion, as fine as any ever given in Canada. An unusual quantity o,f logs have .been taken out this season along the Gull and Brunt rivers. Mrs. Adam Weir, of Puslinch, who is now in her 88th year, cut a new front tooth last week. Quadville is the name of a new village growing up in the township of Lyndock, in Renfrew county. Work on the Balsam and Lake Simcoe section of the Trent Valley canal will com- mence at once. The corner stone of the new Episcopal church at Milton will be laid by Lord Aberdeen on June 4. The Sir John Macdonald Club of Mont. real proposes to banquet Sir Mackenzie Bewail at an early date. The Woodstock Amateur Athletic Asso- ciation will have a new track ready for the Queen's Birthday meet. The late William Peers of Woodstock, left a legacy of a 107 -acre ?arm near Beach- ville to Old at. Paul's church. The corner stone of the Dundee street Methodist church, recently burned in London, has been found, It was laid in 1869. The Montreal building inspeotor is de- molishing the new St. John's- French Pres- byterian church, as ie is regarded as un- safe. The Quebec Street Railway Company is seeking the privilege from the city to in. troduce on their lines the storage battery system. Fruiv growers around Hamilton say that the peach buds have all been destroyed and many of the trees severely injured by the cold. The White Cloud Novelty Company, of Michigan, ie asking Woodstock for a bonus of $10,090 and tax exemption,as an induce- ment to locate there. Placing sticking plaster over the mouths of talkative pupils is the latest scheme adoisted by a teacher in London to keep the youngsters quiet. Rev. B. Siloox, late of Emmanuel church, Montreal, he,e accepted- a call to the pastorate of the Leavitt .street Con- gregational church, Chicago. Shorton These. 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