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I going to prison, and she agreed' to his
I suggestion that they would say Egaa
' had shot himself. But, of course, it
was easily proved that he didn't
Hugo says Mrs. Egan promised him
that twenty thousand pounds if he
would keep his mouth shut about her.
ft was the sum Tony had managed to
get rid of •for him. Hugo says it
wasn't the promise of the money that
made him agree, however; it was the
thought of poor Mrs. Egan perhaps
having to go to prison, or, as he saw
it then, being hanged. You know, Jean
that'a very mach the sort of thing
Hugo would do."
"I know it is. But do you believe---"
"I do" Gaunt said firmly, "I'd
never ceased to wondea why she hand-
ed over that huge sum to him, and
now 1 know, It was nothing more
nor less •than blaekriail—but, of
course, old 1 -Ingo is the last person to
realize that. He calls it simply the'
price paid hint foI• fifteen years in
That
Pi asaat and cheap enough."
fr. ../. "Yes—, -it waS cheap enough!" Jean
exclaimed, huskily. "If the story is
, s....,.._
true, Oh, poor, poor Hugo!"
K. K. & K. tfrhis is a warning—got anything to say?" . • n
"Yeasix—itiz nom thank VS gammon tor cull -us ma: hie -"I always said he wouldn't hurt a
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"When Hearts Command."
By Elilabeth York Miller
CHAPTER XXXIX—(Cont'd)
Jean always retreated when Hugo
got started on the subject of Tony
Egarr's murder. She fled in haste one
day when• they were having coffee in
the fern garden after lunch and Hugo
had begun a detailed description of
the scene which led to his partner's
death. She went into the dim draw-
ing -room and, flinging herself on to a
couch, pressed her hot face against
the cool, linen .cushions..
How long was it to endure—this
terrible life, with Hugogrowing
worse and worse every moment? The
serene, friendly face of Mme. Douste
looked down at her, from the old por-
trait, with seeming compassion in the
sweet grey eyes.
"If only I had told you!" Jean cried
What would. Mme. Douste have
counselled? Certainly not marraige
with Hugo, after what had happened.
That had been the' biggest piece of
madness, and Jean herself had shared
it. •
For a long time she lay staring at
the portrait of her dead friend, until
tears blurred her vision. Then the
music of the harp on the door warned
her that someone was entering the
room': She startedup apprehensively
No, thank oHeaven, it wasn't Hugo!
Only Hector.
`"Oh, here you are," said Gaunt.
"Where's Hugo?" she asked.
"Patrolling the walls of the citadel"
he replied grimly. There was a strange
white look about his face.
"It can't be good for him in this
heat," Jean- said. wearily. He'll get
sunstroke."
"He'd have got it long ago if he
was goitg to," Gaunt replied. He
settled down in a big chair near the
couci and passed a hand over his fore-
head with a tired gesture. "Jean—
has it ever occurred to you that per
baps Hugo never did kill Egan?" he
asked.
"N -no," she said, vaguely troubled.
Why did Hector bring up that mi -
pleasant subject? He knew she hat -
edit . ‘..,
"Did it ever occur to you that Egan
might have been shot by his wife?"
Again she said "No", Then: "What
put such an idea into your head?"
•"Hugo. He told me the whole
story just. now. If you had waitediE-. "
"I couldn't bear it!" she exclaimed.
"He's always hinting at mysteries, I
suppose it's a part of his malady."
itrI wonder,!" said Gaunt. "If -oc-
curred in his office, if you remember'".
"I remember every ghastly detail,"
Jean said hastily, hopineto head off
the story which she did not wish to
hear, but Gaunt paid no attention to
her decisive interruption.
"Hugo told it to rne as 'man to
man,' although' he said he would like
you to know, too. He wants you to
think well of him. . . If you remem-
ber, there was some question in the
beginning as to whether or not Mrs.
Egan was 'present at the time her
husband was shot. The defence tried
to prove that she bid been present,
and theli 'Hugo deliberately let him-
self .down by agreeing to take prose-
cution's assertion that she had left at
least five or ten minutes before."
"Oh yes—of course, I remember,"
Jean said, resigning herself to the dis-
tressing reminiscence. "It was plain
enough. Tony had embezzled or mis-
appropriated HugO's little fortune. It
was money they quarrelled over,
Hector."
"According to Hugo, the quarrel
was between Tony and his wife. .They
had a child, and he had accused tiler
of something rather .monstrous. They
had met in the office to discuss the
matter of separation with Hugo, and
suddenly Mrs. Egasi pulled a revolver
out of her muff •and fired at her hus-
band, as Hugo tells it. Then he says
he couldn't bear the thought of her
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"I wish I could think as you do,"
Jean said: "Lately I've been afraid
of him, Hector.""
"That's absurd."
"I know but—".
The Aeolian harp jingled its warn-'
ing, and Hugo's inquisitive face peer-
ed in at them, followed cautiously by
his body,
CHAPTER XL •
"Hello! What are you plotting?"
Hugo demanded.
"Nothing very serious, old chap,"
Gaunt replied.
"Well, I've thought of something—.
of something wonderful. Couldn't we
Igo 'on a picnic to Castel d'Appio—"
"Good heavens!"
They exclaimed in one breath. Only
Hugo could have thought of anything
so mad to do in midsummer.
"Wait a minute. I know it's hot,
btit it would be nice and cool up there
and Jean could ride. I propose that
'we go after sundown and camp out
all night and get up for the sunrise.
We could sleep all day—or you two
Can sleep'while Tito and I keep guard
—and come back after sunset to -mor-
row. Now what do you say to that?
It would, be a real adventure, with the
ruins of a real castle. Oh, please,
let's go!
Gaunt and Jean looked at each oth-
er. The way Hugo put it, the excur-
sion.seerned rather attractive, lt,as-
tel d'Appio wasn't •very high, but it
was a delightful spot with a glorious
view of snow mountains on one side
and the sea on the other. One eould
be sure of a breeze, and the fir -grown
plateau .aud'old ruins afforded ample
shade during the day and a wide
choice of camping s.tes. There were
caves, if a storm should come up.,
"I think it's a jolly idea," said
Gaunt "How' do you think of these
things?"
Hugo jabbed at his eye -glasses and
beamed. modestlY.
LtCOL unme.
This Is a new photogra,ph o the
Secretary for the Colonies hi the
now llaldviin Cabinet.
"They just come to me," he sad
"Qr rather, it was Guido who put it
71t0 my head. He said he wondered
we didn't go into the mountains and
camp out, and 1 thought at once of
Casted d'Appio. I went there years
ago once with jean and Mme. Douste;
It was a lovely trip. Maddelina put
up such a wonderful lunch, we were
all so stuffed we could hardly get
down again. Shall I tell Maddelina?
She'll want to know about the food.
There are some canvas haminoeks in
the attic, but I don't mind sleeping op
the ground. Will you see about a
mule td carry the kit, Hector? And
another for Jean, of course. She hates
climbing, Wear something sensible,
Jean. Do you think we could manage
CO heat water in the old Roman bath?
That would be great fun. May I take
my gun? Or had 1 .better leave it
with Guido to Protect the villa while
we're away?"
:`Leave it with Guido by all means"
said Gaunt, answering the last of his
string of questions. You'd like to
conic, wouldn't you Jean?"
"Oh, she must come," piped Hugo.
"It wouldn't be any fun without her,
and we couldn't leave her behind. The
robber barons would take advantage
of our being away. Don't say you
won't come, Jean. Otherwis6, it's all
oft."
"Of course I'll come," she agreed
hastily.
She was too utterly worn out to
care much about going, but the pros-
pect of Hugo's disappointment could
not be borne. He would have made
their lives a misery had the picnic
been -refused.
• After all, why not? It would be a
pleasant excursion and an easy one.
A hammock makes a comfortable bed
if one isn't too much the slave of lux -
mat Gaunt, who was used to.rougli-
ing it, professed his perfect willing-
ness to cook for them and, make camp
and there would be his boy Carlo for
the fetching of water and washing up.
"At night we'll light a fire," said
Hugo, "and tell ghost stories. . Oh,
do let's begin to get ready!"
Jean began her preparations by go-
ing to her room and lying down. It
was too distressing the way she was
always being overcome by fatigue.
"Yet I do nothing—nothing at all."
she told herself in bewildered disgust.
Poor little soul, perhaps it did not
occur to her thak fatigue of the brain
reacts on the strongest of bodies, and
hers was rather frail. Always there
gnawed'at her the ache of separation
from `Alice, the separation that was
more than that of mere distance. She
had to console herself with the belief
that Alice was happy, and nothing
else mattered. And besides the mis-
ery of being alienated from her be-
loved child; was the constant worry
of ilugo. He had worn down her re-
sistance to a point where it scarcely
seemed to exist. She was ashamed of
her feebleness; yet helpless to remedy
it. Every day took a little more out
of her, until she wondered that there
was anything left to surrender. Even
the prospect of the climb up Castel
d'Appio on the back of a mule would
scarcely bear thinking about.
Yet in the end she crawled around
and made her preparations, packed a
small canvas bag' with' a few neces-
saries, and put on a knitted skirt and
jumper. Clementine, predicting dire
calamities, helped her. She would in
catch cold, said Clementine, to whorri
the thought of "night air" was a hor-
ror; and there was bound to be a
thunderstorm. 13esides, everybody
knew that Castel d'Appio was haunt-
ed. Strange little green rnen came
out at night and frolicked all over the
ruins ancl tempted mortals to follow
them.
"I hope you haven't mentioned that
story to the Signor," Jean said se-
verely. •
head quarthers fer the ,''bootleggin
thrade; but not contiat wid all thin)
tings, a few byes down theer want to
boss ivirything pollytickally as well.
The Grits an 0, F. O.'s way plaza,
thimsilves, (fer, share, no wan ilse
cud plaze tiara annyway,) but the
Tory lads up on the farrumsowon't
shtand fer army such nonsince, If
Mishter Ferguson makes some amind-
:mints to the 0. T. A,, so as to make
booze harder to git, we say more pow-
er to his ilbow; an if he decoidcs to
aminds the act so that it will be ale-
ier to git a drap arr two, -whin a fel-
lah tinks he nades it, thin we will say,
"tis dl fer the betther, an 'will shtay
wid him. Shure, 'tis the only way to
kape the parthy together.
Av Coorse Misliter Ferguson thud
hev taken me aclvoice to lave well
enough alone, but as long as he is
the layder av the parthy, we muslit
shtay wil the ship, which is what me
dawter-in-law wud call a mixed metty-
fer. Shpakin av ships remoinds me av
an advinture me oul dbrother Matt,
tould me he witnessed in his ramblin
round the, wurruld. Thecr wus a
matiny on booid av a ship he wus
on, wid all the sailors in it, barrin
Matt, himself, who bein a Hay wus
shtrong fer law an ordher. Theer
wus a woild toirne fer a whoile but
in the incl all the ring layders wus put
'in irons fer the resht av the thrip, an,
shure, that is what IVIishter Ferguson
shad do wid thim shpolpanes who are
doin so mach talkin down in Tot:onto.
• Av coorse, inebby a lot av the noise
is only to tammyflage someting from
the Grits, an it luks taYsonable enough
that it shud be so, but it isn't woise
to carry thim jokes too far, so it isift,
The Tory parthy Is as shtrong an sol -
lid in Ontario as the ould shatin rink
twall in Wingham, an all the diney
weight the Grits aa V. F. O.'s kin,
ixplode furninslit thinwill not do,
thim much harrum, • but, av coorse,
we maslit folly our layder, an )2aoirat
our sinep, an not trow aziuy rocks at
the Proceshtm, fer we can't ate our
cake and hev it at the same toime-a
which is znebby another av thim mix-
ed mettyfers.
Mebby l'fishter Ferguson under,
shtands thim lads all roight an links
it bettber to let thim blow off shtafne,
so to slipake: arr they moight ixplode
ixitoirely, be rayson av not havin army
Grits arr 15, F. O.'s worth minshun
to foight wid at prisint.
Wan ting is share, an that is, if
thim lads mane what they say,, an
kape at it, dicer will be more than U.
F. 0. hoides on the ,barrun duxes be -
foot long.
Yours till nixt wake,
Timothy Hay.
P. S—A lot' av fellahs do be askin
ine if that lad in the play lasht wake
wus airily relative av moine, an I take
this 'oppchunity as sayin that he has-
n't anny av the rale ould. Hay blood
in him, at all, at all, an if he had r
dishown Itim, fursht, be rayson
av the way he shpells his name, an
sicond, because he had no moore sinse
tban to come furninsht the intillgint
Winghani payple wearin such dish -
graceful wild clothes. If that bye
doesn't mind his ways theer will be a
big foight about him some day be-
twane the divil an the rag man, wid
the 'bettin aven as to' who will git
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Clementine cast down her fine dark.
eyes.
• "It was the Signor who told it to
me," she replied. "Guido told him, I
believe. That is why the Signro
wants to go. He hopes to see the lit-
tle green men." .Clementine crossed
herself. "I myself should not care t'O
see them," she added.
• (To be continued)
TIM'S WORRIES
To the Editor av the Advance-Toirnes
Deer Sur,—
I see be the papers that a few av
thim lads down in Toronto tink they
are afther runnin ,the whole Tory par -
thy. • 'Tis the way wid the Toronto
payple iviry way ye plaze to take
thirm 'Toronto is a faille place to
slipind a day art two in, at Exhibi-
shut toime, arr whin theer is a Tory-
Convinshun called, but whin it comes
to a few fellahs down theer troyin to
rut the whole Prawvince, thin they
have another -tink comm to thixn, as
me bye lamed to say whin he wus ov-
ersays.
Toronto has the repatasbiti av be-
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