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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-12-22, Page 6Thc wufillt firirdiTafirniTuMffit num ricc of Libcrly OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL t.LVUte leak eittertel' CHAPTER, XXIX. Chris gave Honsou one swift searching glance before her eyes dropped thenurely to the ground. Lord Littimer appeared to be taking no heed of anything but his own an- noyance. But quick as Chris had been, Henson was quicker. He was smiling the slow, sad smile of tho man who turns the other cheek be- cause 1t is bis duty to do so. "And when does Dr. Bell arrive?" he asked. We won't arrive at all," Littimer said, irritably. "Do you suppose I am going to allow that scoundrel un- der my roof again? The amazing impudence of the fellow is beyond siverYthinff. He will probably reach Moreton Station by the ten o'clock train. il'he drive will take him an hour, If I choose to permit the drive, which I don't. I'll send a, groom to meat the train with a letter. When Belt has read that letter he will not come here" "I don't.think I should do Vint." Ronson eald, respectfully. C'Indeede You are really a clever An what would you do?" "I should auffer Bea to cuinra As a Christian I should deem it my duty to do so. It pains me to Iiay so. but I am afraid that I cannot contravert your s, irgestioe that Boll is a scoandrel. It grieves me to prove any man that. And in the present instance the proofs were over powering: But there Is always a chance—a chance that we have mis- judged a man on false evidence." "False evidence! Nthy. the Bern- brandt was actually found in Doll's portmanteau." "Dear friend, r know It," Ronson said, with tho same slow, forgiving smile. "But there have been cases of black treachery, dark conspiracies that one abhors. And Boll might have made some stupendous discov- ery regarding his cbaracter. I should see him, my lord; oh, yes, I should most undoubtedly see "And so should I," Chris put in. swiftly. Littimer smiled, with all traces of his ill -temper gone. Fie scornful to be contemplating Henson with bis head on one side, as if to fathom that gentleman's intentions. There was just the suspicion of contempt in his glance. "En the presence of so much good- ness and beauty 1 feel quite lost," be said. "Very well, Stenson, 111 see Bell. I may find the interview di- ' vetting." Ronson strolled away with a sigh of gentle pleasure. Once out of sight he flew to the library, where I10 scribbled a couple of telegrams. They were carefully worded and re, lated to some apocryphal parcel re- quired without delay and calculated to convey nothing to the lay mind. A servant was dispatched to the vil- lage with them. Henson would have been anything but pleased had he known that the fascinating little American had waylaid his messenger and read his telegrams under the plea of verifying one of the address, es. A moment or two later and those addresses were carefully noted down in a pocket -book. It was past flve before Chris found herself with a little time on her hands again. Littimer had kept her pretty busy all the afternoon, partly became there was to much to do, but partly from the pleasure that he derived from his secretary's society. lle was more free with her than he had been with any of her sex for years. It was satisfactory, too, to learn that Littimer regarded Henson as a smug and oily hypocrite, and that the latter was only going to be left Littimer Casttu to spite the owner's other relations. "Now you rue into the garden and get a blow," Lit timer said at length. "I e.ne telling you a lot too much. I am afraid you are a moat insinuating young person." Chris ran out into the garden gaily Despite tho crushing burden on her shoulders she felt an elation and a flow of spirits he had not been con- scious of for years. The invigerat ng ale of the place wooed to have got into her veins, the cruel depreneion of the Souse of the Siloot Sorrow was passing twits. en II,. she had hope end youth on her side, and everything was failing out teautifut- ly. It was a pleasanter ce sled than Chris had anticipated. She went along more quietly after a time. There was a tiny arbour on a terrace overloo ing the Pea to which Chris had taken a particular fancy. She picked her way daintily along the grass paths between the roses until she auddenly emerged up- on the terrace. She had popped out of the roses swiftly as a squirrel peeps from a tree. Somebody was In the arbour, two people talking earnestly. One man stood up with his back to Chris, ono hand gripping the outside raged , hark of the arbour frame with a peculiarly nervous, restless force. Chris could see the hand turned back distinctly. A piece of hark was be- ing crumbled under a etrcaig thumb. Such a thumb! Chris had seen noth- ing like it before. It was as if -at some time it had, been smashed flat with a hammer, a broad, strong, cruel -looking Rennie, flat and sinister-tooking 1111 the head of a snake. Iti the centre, like a pink pearl dropped in a filthy glitter., was one tiny, perfeetly-formed nail '1'he nwnor of tho thumb stopped hack the better to give way to a tit of hoarse laughter. He turned slightly aside and his eyes met those of Chris. They were small eyes set in a course, brutal face, the face of a criminal, Chris thought, if she were a judge of such matters, tt; came quite as a shock to see that the stranger was in clerical garb. "1-1 beg your pardon," Chris stammered. "But I—" Henson emerged from the arbour. For once in a way he appeared con- fused, there was a flush on his face that tuld of annoyance 111 suppress- ed. "Please don't go away," he said. "Mr. Merritt will think that he has alarmed you. Miso 1..00, this is ni)1 very good Mello and co-worker in trhitetd„eld, the Reverend Janeet bier - "Is Mr. Merritt a friend of Lord Littimer's?" Chris asked. demurely. "Littimer hates the cl, th," siert, son toadied. "Indeed, be has no sympathy. whatever with aty work. I met my good friend quite by acci- dent in the village just new, and I brought him here for a chat. Mr. 1lTerritt is taking, a well-earned holi- day." Chris replied graciously that she didn't doubt it. She did not clown it. necessary to mat that she knew that one of Mr. Henson's mystic tel- egrams had been addressed to one James Merritt at an address in Moreton Wens, a town some afteen miles away. That the scoundrel was ,ew up no good she knew perfectly v "Your work must bo very interest- ing," she said. "Have you been in the Church long, Mr. Merritt'?" Merritt said hoarsely that he had not boon in the Church very long. His dreadful grin and fog voice sug- gested that. he was a brand plucked from the burning, and that he hail only recently come over to the side of the angels. '['lie whole time he spoke he never met Ohris's glatice. once. The chaplain of a convict prison would have turned from him in disgust. Ronson was obviously ill at ease. In his suave, diploma- tic way he contrived to manoeuvre Merritt off the ground at length. "An excellent fellow," he .said. with exaggerated enthusiasm. 'alt was a great day tor us when wo won over James Merritt. Ho can reach a class which hitherto we have not touched.'' "He looks as if he had been 1n gaol," Chris said, ''010, he has.' Henson adn..itted, candidly, "Many a time." Chris deemed it jun possible that the unpleasant experience might be teatittlECF13.021.10.0.10,...2030=31...02116.1.1•202171941tHv Kid t. S eye Hs estr ye • y Repeated Attacks of Disease—Surprising 'Results Obtained by the Use of DR. CHASE'S KIDNEY -LIVER PILLS. Because it is sotnetimee a slow and lingot ing malady, people are prone to overlook the desteuetive tendencies of kidney disease. They forget that the wasting pro- cess brings about ft ohmage in the ea:lutes tissue, which preetically ren - dere the kidneys •useless as filtering Organs. Coatinued paleness and loss of flesh, Pains in the back and loins, dry, hareh akin. severe headeehea and bacletthes; Manta', highly colored urine; painful, scalding urination; stomach troublee and irregular bowels are among the symptoms of kidney Eliseas°' As a 081130 of downright sufferting fete diseases nro to be compared with kidney disetese. and the rewrite are frequently fatal, the end COMing sod- denly and utteXocetedly. l'' their elirect and wonaerfully prompt actiob on tho kidneys, Dr. Chase's :Kidney -Li -or call quiek halt to the advance ref httleav tliserise. sly their voitihined gotten aa no's' s , 11Ntr ead lintetse, they prove A. fective in ewe/5/1(10Q ells In wideh ordinary kidney medicines bring lit- t.Io 00 110 r11nf. Port Daltresie, Ont„ writes:—"For some years I was Gallica. ed with kidney disease and gravel in its most severe form, having often a stoppage of water accompanied by the nicest dreadful agony. As the disease Wore on nee I became reduced in !leek and passed sleepiest, nights. No doctor was able to do much for One and I used many medicines With- out obtaining more than teraporary relief, My attention was directed to Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, and by luting this treatment the disease was eradicated from my syseern itt .u.33 that six menthe. I have gained in weight, sleep well and foot better than I have far twenty years. These pills have telly restored me to good tuni perfect health." Br, Chase's Nitiney-Liver have thoroughly proven thew genuine indfselltable Ine.rit, and you can ufte thent knowing Of a certainty that you will receive all the benefit that would bo derived frott the attention of the moot skillful ph,Vaieftel. One pill a doge, 25 cents a, bOX, alm all dtitlfirff• or iianoolo a1Coo Toronto, Persons have been known to gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of Scott's Emulsion, It is strange, but it often happens. Somehow the ounce pro- duces the pound; it seems to start the digestive machinery going properly, so that the patient is able to digest and absorb. his ordinary food, which he could not do be- fore, and that is the way the gain is made. A certain amount of flesh is necessary for health; if you have not got it you can get it by taking Scott's Emulsion, • - lira, have eel tried it, send for freo sample, Its agreeable taste will amorist you. SCOTT 0 BOW ..E, Chemists, Toronto, Ont. endured n.gain, but the only smiled and expressed herself to be deeply in- terested. 'The u, .asiness itt 1:en- 800'8 manner gradually disappeared. Evidently the earl suspected nothing, Sho would have liked to have asked a question or two ftbout Mr. bler- rift's thumb, but she deemed it pru- dent not to do so, Dinner came at length, dinner sere - ad in the great hall in honor of the recitedy arrived guest. and set up in all the panoply and splendor that Littimer affected at times. The best plate was laid out on the long table. There sere hanks and coppices of flowers at. either corner. a huge palm nodded over silver and glass and precelees thine.. The softly shaded electric lights made pools of amber None on fruit and flowers and gleam- ing crystal. Ualf-aidozen big foot- men went about their work with noiseless tread. Henson shook his head playfulle at all this show and splendor. His gond humor was of the elephantine order, and belied the drown anxiety of h s eyes. Luxurious and peaceful as the scene was, there seemed tu Chris to be a touch of electricity, in the air, the suggestion of something about to happen. Littimer glanced at her admiringly. She was dress- ed in white satin, and she had in her hair a single diamond star of price. "Of course, Henson pretends to condemn all this kind of thing." Lit-. tinier said, "Re would have you believe that when he comes into his own the plate and wino will be sold for the benefit of the poor, and the seats of the mighty filled with decay- ed governesses and antiquated shop- walkers." "1 hope that time may long be de- ferred." Henson murmured. "And so do 1," Littimer said, drily, "which is ono of the disad- vantages of being conservative. By the way, who was that, truculent - looking scoundrel I saw with you this afternoon?" Henson hastened to explain. Lit - timer was emphatically of opinion that such visitors were better kept at. a distance for tbe present. When all the rare plate and treasures of Littimer castle had been disposed of for philanthropic purposes it would not matter. "There was a time when the enter- prising burglar got his knowledge of the domestic and phi steal geog. raphy of a house from the servants. Now he reforms, with the great ad- vantage that he can lay his plan or campaign from personal observation It Is u much Morn admirable method, end tends to avert suspicion front the actual criminal." "You would net speak thus if you knew Merritt," said Tfensoe. "All the same, I don't want the privilege," Littimer smiled. "A tnan with a face like that coulde't reform; nature would resent such al, enormity, And yet, you can neve] tell. Physically speaking, my mem. dam friend I...fatherly Bell has a per- fect face." "I confess I am anxious to gee him." Chris said. "I—I beard hint lecture in America. Ite had th, most interesting theory about doge Mr. Henson hates dogs." 'Yes," Beeson said, shortly, "I do and they hate, inc, Wit, that does not prevent ruy being inteeested in the corning of De. Bell, And nobodi tomes enore elacerely than myself that he will succeed in clearly vindicating Ltls chaeacter." Littimer stnhlcd sareaelleally as he trifled with his claret ginesIn his cynical way ho Was looking forward to an interview with a certain 80110' of tonusement, And there was 0 time when he had eninyed 50 31101)1 immensely. "Well, you will net have long 1, wait now," lin said. "It Is Ion past ten, ad Boll is (leo at, am 11101110nt after olevee. Coffee in tin baleoey, please." It was a gloriously warm night with just a faint suspicion of e ',twat) ort the air. Down below the sea beat with a gentle sway against the eliffst on the gratiev elopes It belated Iamb was bleating for its dam. Chris strolled quietly deem the garden With her mind Ab peaca ter a tirim. She had 811110st forgot- ten her mission for the moment. A figure dipped gently peel: her on the grass, but she utterly failed to no- tate it. "An exceediugly elte girl, that," Latimer was saying, 'and distinctly amusing. Excuse nit if I leave you here—a tendency to ; tom and Eng- lish night alt' don't bleed together." CHAPTER XXX. It was the very moment that Rene son had beau waiting for. All his listlessness had vanished. Re sprang to his feet and made his way hute riedly across the lawn. Dark as it was, he slipped along with the ease of ono who is fantiliar with every inch of the ground. A man half his weight and half his ego could have been no more active. Ile advanced to what seemed to be the very edge of the cliff and dis- appeared. There were rocks and grassy knolls which served as land- marks to him. A slip of the foot Might have resulted in a serious ac- cident. Above the gloom a head appeared. That you, Merritt?" Ronson ask- ed, hoarsely. "Oh. it's me right enough," came the muttered reply. "Good job as '411 used to a seafaring life or I should never have got up those cliffs. Where's the girl?" "Oh, the girl's right enough, She's standing where she can near the my of the suffering in distress. You can leave that part of the drama to me. Sheat a smart girl with plenty of pluck, but all the same I am go- ing to make use of her. Flave you got the things'?" "Got everything, pardner. Got a proper wipe over the skull, too." "How on earth did you manage to do that?" "Meddliiig with, 13e11, of course Why didn't you lot him come and produce his picture In peace? ,We should have been all ready to flab- bergaster him when he did come." -mg good Merritt, I have not -the slightest doubt about it. My plans are too carefully laid for them to go astray, But, at the same time. I firmly believe in having more than one plan of attack and more than two ways of escape. If we could have despoiled Bell of his picture it would have been utterly useless for him to have come here. He would have gone back preferring to accept defeat to arriving with a cock-and- bull story to the effect that he bad been robbed of his treasure on the way. And so he got the best of you, oh?" "Rather! I fancied that 1 was pretty strong, but—well, it doesn't matter. Here I am with the tools, and I ain't going to fail this time. Before Bell comes the little trap will be ready and you will bo able to prove an alibi," ore elicious in flavor than the ilnest japan tea grown. CEYLON' NATURAL GREEN tea is fast bottoming as popular as "SALADA" Black tea. Sold only itt lead packets. 25c and 40e. per 1t. By all grocers. Monson chuckled hoarsely. Ho loved dranuttic (niece, and here was one to hand. Ho almost fancied that ho could see the white outline of Chris's figure from where he stood. "Got along," he said. "There Is no time to lose." Merritt nodded and began to make his way upward. Some way above him Chris was looking down, Bar quick ear had detected some sus- picious sound. She watched eagerly. Just below her the big electric light on the castle tower cast a band of flame athwart the cliff. Chris looked down steadily at this. Presently she saw a hand uplifted Into the belt of dame, a hand grasping for a lodge; of rock, and a quickly stifled cry rose I to her lips. Tho thumb. 00 tho hand was smashed flat, there was a tiny pink nail in the centro. Chris's heart gave ono quick lean. then her sense came back to her. She needed nobody to tell her that the owner of the band was James Merritt. Nor did she require any One discrimination to perceive that he was up to no good, That it had something to do with the plot against Bell she felt certain. But the man was coming now, he could only reach the top of the cliffs just under the wall whore she was stand- ing. Chris peered eagerly down in- to the path of light until the intru- der looked up. Then she jerked hack, forgetting that she was in the darkness and absolutely invisible. Tho action was disastrous, however, for it shook Chris's diamond star from her head, and it fell gently al- most at the feet of the climber. An instant later and his eyes had fallen upon it. "What luck," ho cried hoarse- ly. -.a suppose that girl yondor must have dropped it over. Well, it is as good as a couple of hundred pound to me, anyway. Little missile, you'd better tako a tearful farewell of your lumps of sugar, as you'll never see them again." To Chris's quivering indignation he slipped tho star into his breast- pottket. Just for the moment the girl was on the point of crying out. Sho was glad she had refeaintel a second after, for a really brilliant thought occurred to her. She bad neverevolved anything more- clever in her life, but she did not quite realize that as yet. Nearer and nearer the man with the maimed thumb came. Chris stepped back into the shadow. She waited till the intruder had slipped past her in the direction of the castle and propaeed to follow at a discreet dis- tance. Whatever ho was after. elm felt sure he was being ordered and abetted by Reginnlii Ronson. Two mintitee. five minutes, elapsed before she. moved. What was that? Surely a voice somewhere near her moaning for help. Chris steed perfectly still listening for the next. cry. tier sense of humanity bad been toeched, she had forgotten Merritt entittlY. Again the stifled cry for help came. "Who are you?" Chris shouted, "And where are you?" "Ronson," came the totally unox- pected reply. "I'm dawn below on a ledge of rock. No, I'm not parti- cularly badly hurt, but .1 dare not move." Chris paused for a - moment, utterly bewildered. Henson must have been on the look -out for his accoutelice, she thought and had missed hia foot- ing and fallen. Pity ho had not fallen a little farther, she murmured, bitterly, and broken his neek. But this was only for a iffotnent, and hur sense of justice and humanity speed - By returned. cannot see anything of you," she said. (To be Continued.) An Incubator Without Cash Until October, 1905 There is big money to be made in raising chickens with an Incubator, Canada exports annually millions of chickens to the United States and Great Britain. The consumption of poultry in Canada is increasing rapidly and the poultry dealers complain that they cannot get enough poultry to fill their orders. One woman bought a No. 2 Chatham Incubator the first of March —she had five hatches by July first and had four hundred plump, sturdy chicks. In six months her Incubator had paid Iter $zoo.00, several times its cost. A Chatham Incubator should pay for itself each hatch. We have perfected an Incubator and brooder. We believe it is now absolutely the best in the world. We have sufficient capital behind us, and we are out for the entire business in incubators. We know that there is no other incubator that can approach the Montle*, this eeeee., th '.. 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CAMPBELL FANNING MILL CO. Limited ClIATtilAM, ONT, DEPT3 84 eese end 70008 doserlptive Catalogue Of thi Chatham Inoulotor, together with all Information abeut Your special offer, Whereby ne emb row be paid Until Odober,1108. LONDON TUE RAILWAY) WILL. BE. IN OPERA.T.ttaN NEXT YE.A.x. Thirty Males of New Tunnels -- Tw 0 pollee Will be 11-0 'Uni- form Fare. The elietrilleetion of the Metrotinil- ten and thar000litan District and the 001181,3 11111.110 or the new tubular i'IIWU)to tire progressing su fa yore blY that it. is con elently exeeeted that the elettriealiy equipped tie dergeo la wiJ) be In operatiun fairly next year while twelve months from 11110 tit Baker street and Waterloo. anti th Great Nurtitern, Viet oddly an Brumpton di %Whine of the Under - gem nd Elects b Ilablst ,yo v'ill ta ready for passengers, saya the Lon- don Graphic. The completion of (haring Uroms, Seaton and 1. stead line will follow shortly, per cent. of the running tunnel nearly half of the station tunnel this line, aro finithed. This has been going on quietly and w out the slightest Interruption . of fie, No thoroughfares have been up and business dielocated,•as in York during the building, of the way. ' ONE RIINDRED ARLES. The tubes 101 course of construe by the compeoly of Which (.1.1.413 an YerbaS is chairman and Edger e,. er, of Speyer Brus,, is the :inane will aggregate nearly 80 tulle., a will form the greatest work of pub utility ever plunued and carried for the metropolis. To this nt mileage will Lou linked the Disti Railway, with its joint owners!) nail running lowers over 000 11131 Metr tedium and file growing system electric tramways which extern! %lotto's ditiei:ione wucotWarlL u which enter London at its Iwo are modern gateways at Shepherd's thud arta Hammersmith. The total h ng of line undue control of the under emend glentrie will be over 101. miles, while the capital cost wil amount to sixteen million sterling. The new accommodation thus anted - ed will not be far short of four hum tired millions f paasengers per an num for the railways and MO hu0. dred million:4 fur the tramwaye, whet tem system, its planned and authoriz is finished. MANY NEW STATIONS. London will, moreover, be furnish with 52 new stations. Thirty of th new stations will be in Sho most con gested districts, The most barer ant feateres are, of course, the tai. north and south lines, which hay been greatly needed. . The fares it is linderstood, Will be uniform a 2d, and the time saved' In gettln from one part of London to anoth and from London out into the coue try will Ur:10mMt to the saving millions of potirris stetting to tl . . The whole of this lol'' system of tubes and uniergrotin, Will be operated end propelled by rower house which hen been erect on the banks of the Thames at Cho. sea, and which is tho largest war' of the hind in the Winedme. Fro this station go forth 64 cahies, end nIth 11 one volts of electricity, to Coert, where a sub -station di tributes the potver, so that it ma. he ta'en hero and there over tlio en tire avetem, and used In ono n ti ty 330 required. Frnm the controlling board of the power 110nne the operation of trains in the further sections is man aged 00 eastly as a telephone switch- board. The arrangement of the pow- er house is likewise automatic, 4 NEW ricisn SECT. Immersion in a River One of the Tenets of the Faith. A new religious sect, described es the John the BulitiSt Pilgrims, hay established itself in the norda ot /reified, where it is mai ing progress' in the rural districts among the poor- er countryfolla 1 The founder is Edward Cooney,' son of an Eneisitillon merchant and jus - tine of the ream, Always of a deep- ly sentimental and pious nature, he left home mysteriously a few months ngo, and started an active proeogan- de, oe baptism by completo immersion InAaire'it'idym% over 100 converts have been received within the fold by on- dereoing baptism in the peeecribed forme through their influence it is ee- pligeteridmtshat many more will joia the p Tito present meeting place is nn Olio !melt of the itiver Ballyeassidy. After prayer, the leader and several of lits 'disci; 103 deliver addresses setting forth the principles of the new faith, which they defend with extracts front the Scriptures. I Attempts wore made 00 break up the earlier meetings, but extra police were treated in, and Prevented any furEtillIHelor dr ad"large been, the mete converts divest thenutelves of their ordinary apparel, for whieh they sub- stitute old anti Warn clothing, The) 1 women went through ma- ims in a holier' a Sheet dietitnee awA'Ary' tep Hymns had been sung n file Of eight men came from the beam, all divested of outer clothing. The lead - et: WASmlodtilotea'g'toe.lebrant," and wailed into the river 101100031(1 by a men o Ha-vim; rFached the centre oi the stream the leader ftldocl the coimvi 's arms, placed his right hand on Clio Inan's chest, Itis lett on the enter of the Shoeluers, and gently Imeered him backwards until the whole body was completely finnetesal. rhe then raised the convert, Who wee Assisted to. the river batik by willing helpers, So the coreinarty rime/tolled, to the evident diecomfiture of some 0 the sobjeas. "Whet ere you writing, Ilnwley?" "A stay. 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