The Herald, 1912-03-15, Page 6p 111111 CNB S PR�VEH ,
OR, THE DUEL IN THE GLEN.
CHAPTER I.
He was young, handsome, clever, gay.
polished --the last man in the world one
would ever have .suspected of being the
hero of—a mystery.
He had been the most popular man at
the clubs, much sought after in society,
the beau ideal of the belies, and the idol
of their mammas.
whoa he suddenly shut himself up alone
i
n hisbeautiful home,dismissing all hes
servants save two old and faithful -ones
who swore solemn allegiance to him in
life or in death, -•-refusing his best friends
admittance under any condition, no won-
der
his unaccountable conduct gave rise
to strange rumors, -but, if they reached
his ears he heeded them not. whose soul
What mattered it to him,
was torn with the cruelest emotions, what
the censorious world thought or did.
If he paced the floor in the wildest de-
spair for clays and nights at a time, un.
til at last exhausted nature forced him
into a few brief liours of merciful for-
getfulness,—it was his own affair, he told
himself.
There was one room in the isolated
gloomy mansion into which no one was
ever allowed to enter—not even the ser-
vants. The silkeh curtains were kept
carefully drawn night and day; the door
had been securely fastened and the key
thrown away. When it was forced open
in after years, dust lay thick on the
ebony hook -cases, the velvet chairs and
mouldering green carpet.
Several costly paintings hung here and
there about the apartment, and those who
entered, noticed that one of them was
turned with its face toward the wall,—
righting it, they found it was a portrait
of a young and marvelously beautiful
woman.
The peculiarly curious event which had
changed the current of three lives, hap-
pened in this way:—
One stormy night in August, several
months
previous to the openinge
ping
of
our
'. a
ectof
story, Frederick Esmond,the sub
this a
the narrative, who was
then at e he
ad.
of tbe well-known safe and lock company
on Oxford Street, London, sat alone in
.
s
his office busy over the firm's books.
He was so engrossed with his work, that
he bad not heeded theflight of time until
the clock from alt adjacent belfry rang
out in slow measured strokes the hour
of ten.
"By George." exclaima Esmond, start-
ing up with a'low incredulous whistle and
closing the ledger with a bang—at .the
same time consulting- his wateh—"who
would have imagined that it was that
later—time actually whirls by a fellow
when he's busy;.—wonder if it's raining—
it's been threatening hard enough all the
evening."
As he speaks, a blazing flash of light-
ning mingled with a terrific crash of
thunder, presages the coming of the ter-
rible storm; but the wind howling and
raging like a demon around the corner
of the building, dashes no raindrops as
yet. against the window -pane.
"It's going to be a very bad night and
Esmond sat dowh, thinking the yo
lady or some member of the booth
must put in an appearance shortly, le
in this, much to hie surprise, he w
mistaken,
It ie. fortunate that I accepted
mission instead of sending one • of
men, be soliloquizes.;—"they are hone
to be sure, but this is a temptation to
come' dishonest. suoh as they Would nee
meet with again in a lifetime.'
Esmond waited a full hour, but ea" cis
relieved him by entering the Teem—the
it flashed upon him that in all probahii
ity they- were waiting impatiently ;to;
him todepart, which ha lost no time
doing, .drawing the safe door; partinllail
to and closing the door of the room, also
the street door, earefelly after him.
It was railing hard when he reached
the street and he hailed the flet paetanp
cab. Was it only his fancy, or diel lu;;•
bear a stifled cry from an upper window
of the house he had just quitted, as
rode away?
"Such a curious adventure:"muttered
Bemond, smiling as be looked at the.
white, shapely blistered hands that had
wielded the lsteel drill and file for :two
long hours, "and all to please' an uerime
sonable whim of a beautiful young girl, l
too coldly proud to look into my are or
e
answer my questions—but looked iustoacl "
into vacancy •over my bead.
All that night the lovely face with .its
dark, bright, eyes floated before Eemend's
vision
mental
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big profit,
But at ' does leave a Ilastfin j fay opab e
a� pec ssh��>ae upon th, p;�alutc s of Ai gfivi,,g
it a trial.
Then Im rallied his scattered senses, re-
membering she bad not as yet, stated the
object of her visit.
Is there anything I can do for you,
Miss?" he repeated.
The great dark eyes glanced around.
at the massive iron safes that lined the
walls and stood about the room, and a
peouliar expression flitted over her face.
"I must get the safe open for my uncle
at once," she faltered, in a voice so musi-
cal it sot the young m.
Bing --"he has forgotten the combination."
Esmond looked at the young girl aghast.
"11y dear young lady," ho responded, as
soon as he was sufficiently ,•ecovered from
take
will
reply,'I
astonishment to
his ain to the mut-
ter,
in attending great pleasure a if you
ter, the first thing in the morning
will leave your address, as for attending
to it to -night -it is .practically impossible;
the men we have here for such work have
by the merest chance
gone here. It is
I am here to -night and you find the place
open.'
She clasped her little hands together
with a gesture of entreaty, and with a
glance from those strange, dark, fathom-
less eyes that few men could have re-
sisted, she repeated in a low, faint voice,
as though laboring under intense, sup-
pressed excitement:—
"Oh the safe niurt be opened—at once."
That settled the matter: Emend would
have gone through fire and water for just
such another glance from those dark
starry eyes.
It is really, an unheard-of procedure
at this hour: he stammered, hie:hing
deeply, "but if it is such a matter of great
importance, and it will be of benefit to
you, I place myself at your service, Miss,"
Nothing save the rare beauty
t
face could have influenced him against
his better judgment to comely with so
strange a request. Be could not distingu-
ish her low murmured reply.
In a moment he had gathered tbe neces-
sary implements together, smiling amine
his
rd
what
wondered .Rhe
5
edit the while, a.
i that
he
knew v
link
if they friends would sl
wealthy owner
s and.
the
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'k
Esmond. of h wider
of the widely -known safe and lock factory
—with an income 01 £50,000 per annum—
was thanking fate for the opportunity
that would permit him to step into the
toil for
to
' workmen, ell
place of one of his
long hours at the opening' of a safe,
merely to gratify a young and exceed-
ingly lovely girl.
' I am ready," said Esmond, shortly—
still she hesitated. "Ah, she, is wafting
fee mo, to call a cab," he thought, and
very gallantly he suggested so doing, but
to his great surprise•-•• she turned and
walked hastily down the street.
"Great Heaven, have I offended the
young.
ngn lady?"
'he apologthought,
es gas he gained alarm—pro-
fuseher
side.
The storm will- be upon us so soon,"
he explained, "that I believed it the wisest
course to pursue."
She did not deign to answer him.
"If she' could not have trusted me suf-
ficiently to ride with me why did she
for me?" be thought, considerably
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reached IiS 0dro
It was Tato
when he lied
the next morning; the secretary, foreman
and a group of men were discussing air
item in the morning paper as he eutertd
"What seems 'to bo the commotion'"
said Esmond, nodding pleasantly.
"A great robbery that occurred Neel
night, sir, in the home of Banker Midis
dleton in Hyde Park. A safe -ane of our,
immense sum ohe way—was
money :Opened
icli d
heheel
heou too late to send to the bank was
taken. The safe appears to have.bcen
opened by a most skilful- and daring•
oracksman, who seems familiar with : the
peculiarity of our leek," said the secro
tart, continuing—
"The banker was found dead, lying` en
a pool of blood close by the safe, and as<
near as I can make it out he must have:
surprised the robber in opening the safe
and got shot down—I haven't finished,
the article, yet, sir."
rorsonitheunearest se with
face flushf ing
and paling—the veius standing out lib
whipcords on his face and neck.
seemed to him he was stiffing—oho1dt, ge
He rose abruptly and left the office with
unsteady steps.
My God! he cried, hoarsely, when he,
--
had gained the street—"Robbery 1 murdee
further have
amour scheme .tool
he r u xn
in-
•
is but nue course to pursue,"
aed
death,
"and that is-,
his
Mad,
to PACO gole as de D
before the Police Inspector at once:
and make a clean breast of the whole are.'_
had
Such a
et
fair—surely no man every ,.,
strange story to relate."
fi
the uyig-:'
reverted to Y
•even t
Then- his mind i r,
girl who had led biro into this uneumee
able predicament. It was. clearly 3i
duty to bring her to justice point el
out to the minions of the lave. x{�r
It was a great shock to him that site,.,
with. the face of an angel, was baso xit
heart. Of course she was some outsider,•:
who, knowing in some way of the money*
placed that night in the banker's safe,;
had devised this daring and most ingeti
ous manner of obtaining it.
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dark as Hades," says Esmond. meditative• nettled by her peculiar conduct, The
ly. twirling the ends of his thick blonde pression of her face struck him now as
note enough
to one I'll not be •for• being—well—uncanny, As she hurried
nough to strike a a, <ein because along, elite ,seemed to have entirely for-
;intfilm+ partioelarl• A;,d ...r et; �:" w -pare him
eteb", iifte' anew Corder 0
slighted, .This was d
things for Es aCfldl he felt t)ictuedrblXt
the situation was . certainly novel eand'
romantio.
She stopped short at length before
t
imposing mansion in Hy pushing y oply
ascended the marble steps, p
the door, which, strangely enough, was
ajar, though the light in the 'lower cor-
ridor was extinguished.
Passing quickly up the broad stairway
which was faintly illumined by a light
from above, and entered a room toward
the right; Esmond following.
It was- a magnificent apartment ahe
saw it in the soft glow of the lamplight
—luxurious in its every appointment. In
an alcove revealed by the crimson velvet
portieres, which were looped back z by
hle
tied chains, lm saw the safe,
noticed was his own make. It bore upon
it the name of the well known banker,
John Middleton.
"This is the safe, I presume," said Es-
mond, rather resenting being so com-
pletely Passed him, ignored.
p
She walking hurriedly up
to the safe and knelt before it murmur -
Ong, "yes—the safe must be opened."
rose abruptly and quitted the room with-
out so much as a glance a
t Esemond.
"The slime
"The oddest young g
irlacross:" was his mental her, ocomment,
"slis
mystifies me completely;
most unnatural—constrained.'But the
next instant he lost sight of this .in rum-
inating over the wonderful beauty of her
face.
An hour passed; Esmond noted with
chagrin that she did not return to the
room to watch the operation of opening
the safe.
This was in accordance with the pro-
prieties of eourse—she would not sit there
alone with him.
ore such At length Esmond laid down his imple-
Sments with a sigh. of relief, the 'ciresame
68 ORSs task was ended—tile safe door stood open. ,, i In one of the compartments,
in view, he noticed several stacks of bank.
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' 'the knob turns' and it
"The night-watchtugoing
u gs sight rounds is
attraeted by
in the office at this hour," he thinks, smil-
ing as he starts forward—but at the first
step he draws back voluntarily, and an
exclamation of astonishment falls from
his lips—,shrinkingly in the
Before him, standin
' doorway, he beheld a tall, slender young
girl --so marvellously lovely, Esmond asks
himself if she is a vision or a reality,
handis her face
our from
a heat moment lives in
r.
He sees in the first rapid glance he gives
her, a fair, innocent, girlish e face, d in as male
too haughty perhaps,
of dark curling hair, half revealed, half
concealed by the hood of the long oloak
elle wore—but that which caught and
held his attention curiously riveted was
the pair of large dark eyes strangely
be lliant. and dilated much like a fright-
ened child's, which he fancied glanced
over, his head rather than at him.
He has always prided himself on his
ability to read pretty accurately the
character of people whom he met—from
the expression of their faces, here was
one whose expression—or rather the lack
of it, puzzled him exceedingly and im-
pressed him strangely, but withal he was
struck by its beauty.
"What can I do for you, Hiss?" asks
Esmond
asvhe speaks w over toe hisnstlyi sh
new coat on the rack—the thought Pass-
ing through his eland rhat b obete would hhave
ve
looked a thousand ri
had it on, and to make matters worse he
had thrust his collar in his desk scarcely
ten minutes before.
"Confound it," he muttered. "I never
fore s so badly ecedlyall c•hcttrrmii charming dtoo."
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Some feeders aim at a nisint.en-
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;1 few moments of rapid walking brought
him the Inspector's office. He paused
a' ni'" ent, with his foot on the stone
steps.
Then commenced a strap a war of con -
ending emotions in his heart between
1uty, and an unaccountable, morbid de -
e to screen this girl even in the face
this atrocious crime.
would be absurd, to . say that he 'bad
en in love with this girl whom he
seen only for a few moments he
self-and-twie ,eaeldf not towlet
a u`,t .-iibt the, e tit
i' owledge• Shdiid are s�fw'e K '"�'
s,or
in anent and lett her go free-aed oaoick-
re siren
freedom at best? Surely she must ex -
Peet' That he would do the dor did she
belleee for. his own sake
veal •.hie knowledge of the affair.
e For himself, Frederick Esmond had no
ears: his own excellent reputation would
ustain him—he stood irresoknowing. thatute a ho-
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eat, thinking
cid. the fate of this beautiful girl in his
hands to decide
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It will be much easier to find'
farm tools next spring if they
all in one place under a roof t
if they have to be dug out of
fence Corners after tli snow
away.
If the eultivator shovels and
shares are all scoured bright,
then covered with a coat of bo
linseed• oil before being put
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