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The Herald, 1910-09-23, Page 7it "Kenton," said St. Maur, abruptly, "at Monte Carlo I had played desperately to try and win the thousands to clear myself to you, and stand free in honor of that to claim my darling openly. T lost—lost a11 --gambled away all that, and shut the door against retrieving it when 1 walked out of those gambling gones? Where are you staying?" "We came up last night to my eltan- bet's—we two and Rhamnee, 1 mean; not Uncle Will yet -and there we shall remain while we take and furnish a house. Then he intends—and he got quite angry when we opposed—keeping the Chase and two or three thousand a year for himself for life, and settling everything else on me—the real property entailed—by deed." "Come, that's handsome of him!" said Ken, approvingly. "Also," said Falconer, smiling at the remark, "he said he should pay my debts to you; and it is partly to settle that, Ken, and return your kind loan, that I am here." "You needn't have bothered yourself about either matter yet, my dear fel- ]ow," said Morley, as the other came to the table and laid down a packet of notes and a cheque; "and as to this," touching the cheque, "better clear it in two or three instalments. Ten thous- and pounds is a big haul for your uncle, I should say, just after a three months' strike." "I told him so. I told hint I should pay off my own gambling debts, not he; but he euchred me," said Falconer; with a half laugh; "for he said it was only the ten thousand he had long ago paid into his bankers for me when he wanted me to marry Blanche Leroy; not," he added, evidently amused, "having an idea why I refused. So we'll settle off scores now, dear old Ken" "As you will, if Mrs. St. Maur will ex- cuse our attention to the matter for a few minutes." Christine smiled in happy content, and the mysteries of canceling bills, signing papers and entering in books were gone through. Then St. Maur turned suddenly in an irresistible, wild impulse of relief, and bent over his wife with deep, passionate words in her ear: "Free! free! Oh, wife; free as I have never been for years!" Their lips met closely for one moment as he stooped, and then he drew back to his old place. "You will get chaffed at the Poly- glot," said Morley, locking up the check and notes; "but you never were afraid of chaff." a` "Not I. Faith, they're welcome! Chaff won't rob me of my t wife, or my old friend." "No, no," said Ken, looking up with eager gladness into the handsome face; "you'll not forget old Ken, I know. You'll both come and see me some- times?" "Indeed—indeed yes, Tien." "If You will let us," added Christine, wickedly. "9.b, my dear, . it will always be a pleasure. I' am going to retire from business at Christmas„ I have taken a pretty house and' garden at St. John's Wood, and there'll always be the glad- dest of welcomes for you both when you can spare the old man a visit." "We shall `spare' a good many then, never fear," said she, stooping to kiss gratefully the rugged, hard hand that held hers; "and you must come to see us." "Well, sometimes, perhaps, my dear, when von are quite by yourselves, you know.'" "Whatever pleaees yourself best, Ken," said St. Maur; and then they bid good-bye for the present. rooms, leaving play behind forever. I came back maddened, dazed, in a mental and moral chaos between right and wrong, till I could see her; every point had its counterpoise, and I could not alone see my way to the right course to reconcile two opposite ends of jus- tice, If I owned my marriage, I de- stroyed the security which you held en- tirely on my honor and silence. - If I still kept silence I wronged her. That is how I stood till'she came to my side that awful night to warn me of the danger—came, as I knew at once, with her reputation laid at my feet, if we were rescued at all, by those who knew us. I would not suffer the suspicion for a moment that she was, or ever had been, less to me than wife. All question of right and honor solved itself for me in that instant, come what night of my position to you; and when they all came to our rescue, just; after I had shot three rascals, I told thein who site was." "Of course you did, my dear boy! I would sooner lost the whole ten thous- and than have you so basely false to all honor. As to lir. Orde's part in this whole drama of wrong," said the money- lender, with a sudden outburst of strong feelings long pent up that was almost passionate, "I should just like to tell him a bit of plain truth. Was he the Deity. that he dared visit the mother's perfidy on her innocent child? 1t is not his fault that his wicked. injustice has not quite wrecked two lives, as it so nearly has one; for if you had had that noble woman you love openly as your wife from the first, you would never have been the gambler you have; she would have saved you then as she has now. He can disinherit you or not, just as he pleases; for, except a legacy or two, I've left a not mean fortune be- tween you two entirely, and shouldn't alter my will if you never spoke' to me again. I'm even with the old gentleman if Inc has cut you off for choosing the hest wife a reran ever took" "Ken! Ken!" exclaimed St. Maur, flushing ,up in his utter surprise, "your generous indignation is not needed, though you are perhaps right in the first part; but Uncle Will has not dis- inherited me. He sees iris error as clear- ly, as bitterly as you do, and has taken Christine like a daughter into his heart. eould he resist her when I told hitn e erything?"'. "Ob; Fale1" she. mitrtuuredi half mil- ing; "every one. doesn't sec with your eyes:' "I hope not quite, sweetheart. And as to your will, 1Cen—" • "Alt, that is quite my right, you know," interrupted Morley, quietly. "I've no kith nor kin; I'm childless --free to please my likes or dislikes without in- justice to any one; and so, if lir. Orde has behaved as Inc ought, so much the better for you and yours. Please say no more, Fake, or you will wound me. What are you going to do—or, rather what is he going to do, since by-gones are by - Farad Help in Lydia E. Pink hare sVege able Compound Winchester, Ind. — "Pour doctors told me that they could never make me regular, and thatI would event- ually have dropsy. I would bloat, and sufferf rombearing- down pains,cramps and chills, and I could not sleep nights. 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"That's his wile to and; . wags years ago:'' "Well; ,I'm hl'essed !" ejaculated ' .my lowed; , "fifea;''atrjd•tlxo fellows at the Fawley are,.In • . dear -' they never see hint thee,. We've chaffed him, we've— Oh, but . it's: no go$d.;;. ,irdthing will make Falc.play if hedoesnrt choose, He chaffs back, says he's had hie turn of play, and ; leaves it to his fr'ieeds." "But 1. heard he was '.at Monaco in September, and gambling likea mad- man," said Beltmere, still staring with, all his eyes. `Aird I did hear that he was there, oh, years ago, with a mere girl, whom he called Mrs. St, lila tar ; so perhaps she was, after all. Why .w.ts he so dark, then?" "Oh, the old tale; uncle didn't like her people for some absurdreason, and so they kept ib all scent ..until the late rumpus with the miners at his uncle's mines. Didn't youhear. or reats of that, Beltmere?" . "1' o -o, I tell you! I was buried alive; so tell us the tale, By Jove! I'll look him up. Such a wife for a fellow to flirt with 1 Where do they live. now then, eh?„ "Oh, jolly house! -----street, Mayfair." "Whew! uncle changed his note, then, and comes down handsomely!" said my lord. "When did they set up this "Just moved in," rejoie d Trelawney. "Going to give a hop, as a house-warm- ing? Oli, he's just the same Fate as ever, and she—she's glorious!" "I'll look hint up, and met a card," said my lord, promptly; •"but it's a shame, by Jove! that he has kicked over play and betting. Nothing used to frighten him in stakes." "Id'e's sure to be in here presently," said Fitzroy. "lIe and Frank Addison rode past awhile ago, attended by that Indian Rahnmee. Ah, there's an old paper, I do believe, with the trial of the rioters in it, Cause off last week, and didn't bhey get sentences—rather!" So the gossip and "chatter went on. * * at . * * "Now, Nell, don't yon flirt ton abom- inably with Falconer," whispered Addi- son, as they entered the brilliantly lighted salon of the new house. "for now I can institute _reprisals, you know. Here she is!" as the beautiful hostess came up. " `A perfect woman. nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command.'" "Frank, don't beabsurd!" laughed Mrs. St. Maur, You are nearly as bad as Falconer." "Who is taking my name in vain?" asked St. Maur. "You meal -sahib? as Rahtnnee says, For *Marne, my dear! Helen, your hand for a waltz, and Frank may have my wife. Exchange is no robbery, and you are the last arri- vals, so we may join the tripping feet." He whirled her away. William Orde'' stalling, beside 1)r. Clifford, who had hen, in with his daughter and her "sen, b': cd, said, iu a low voice: "I' was so grieves: boy of your troubl+a doctor. Yoh. 6)-0 1: poser ' Clifford' sbcolr 114 « o ---since: she ..w - fused Darnley—but w:s of age, and walked out, I may seg. She has cruelly disappointed me!" "You live with the,'Zortheotes, Chris- tine tells me?" tilt Now the docto. s r. o brightened. "Yes; they lust -eel I don't think Mimic would nave inatr!rd Archer till I consented. She is gaud daughter, Mr. Orde, and will be a gond little wife" "I want you all dawn at the (:ham, for Christmas said Mr. Orde. "I told Falconer so. It's all finished now, and as my boy's w"riding day is long past I mean to keep f+'stivaI for it at Christ- mastide. Ah! if I could recall past years!!" "_ ltif;--we never can!" saidthe doctor, just as Falconer passed. "But we can look to the future with stead- fast hope." And late that night, when St. Maur and his young wife were alone, he drew her clase to his heart and whispered, as he kissed her dear lips. again and again: "The past is buried, but the future is full of hope and love for us, my heart's dearest, my wife!" (Tire Erttl.) —..--cYn o CHAPTER mLIV. "Halloo! how do, Beltmere? You back at last?" "Thought you had tumbled over a glacier!" declared another, as the nable owner of Kingfisher—winner of the last Derby —walked one November morning into the smoking -room of the Polyglot Club. "Not yet, thanks. How do, all you fellows?" sinking into a chair, "What's the news? Who's dead, married, or otherwise done for? Been buried in the depths of Switzerland. Haven't seen a paper for a month or two. I'm starved for news !" "Or scandal—which?" suggested Fitz- roy, over the top of a society awful. "Got to the right shop for that when you're round, then," retorted my lord, promptly. "What's become of that ape, Dolph Darnley? Got hipped by the Jews, yet?" There was a shout, "Ha, ha! No," cried Trelawney; "he's made better ,use of his pretty pink face —he's hooked it with an heiress." "By Jove! what a goose the girl must be! Name—name!" exclaimed Lord Beltmere. "Why, that flirt, Miss Leroy, who was desperately gone on Falo St. Maur, niece of the Doctor Clifford, whose daughter has just married Northcote." "What! Addison's brother-in-law? He is turned off really, then? Poor fellowl Well, and where's St. Maur himself?" Another roar. "Oh, by Jove, that's the spiciest news, the rarest lark of all!" cried out Fitzroy. "An artful scamp he is; and no one to suspect it, even when we were all stopping together at Addison's 1 Ha! ha l" "Suspect what? What's the fun?" de- manded Beltmere. "Go ahead, Fitz." "Why, Fade St. Maur is married !— been married for years !" "What !" cried Beltmere, springing half up. "Nonsense! it is a big cram. Falc married for years! I don't believe it; you're larking!" "I assure you we are not 1 'Pon my honor, it's true. Do you remember that gloriously beautiful woman he was flirt- ing with—you noticed her to me —at the Derby?" "Yes, of course; used to see her an the Row. too." o Troy 'froiff niy bont your niece, `stop it, 1 sup- Abstinaty! 1 rt' - ST. VH US DANCE A Striking Example of its Cure by the Tonic Treatment. mane effort, retornea : zurcuser . pi. Yucatan, angrily, "I'l1 snake it short," said Peter Ruck- er. "I would have given my right arm` to have made it short Bien. Me and Apache Bill McGregor, the scout"— "I knew old McGregor," put in Sum- ncr, with real. interest, "We were rounding cattle on the up- per Missouri, ' continued Peter Rucker. "The Sioux were raising eain. Caught Bill and me in a trap in a big canyon neat as you please. Tied Bill to a stump" -- "I've heard of that—it was a close shave," said Sumner, while the others drew their chairs nearer and looked at Peter Rucker with intense interest, "They set the stump afire," continued Mr, Rucker, "and commenced dancing around it—one of these tomtom yelping war dances. Had me tied to a tree. I worked loose while they were dancing around Bill. Skipped up the side of the cauyoz;. Got a lot of hig rocks; rolled 'em down on the redskins; set up a hurrah that echoed down the can- yon and sounded like a thousand troop- ers charging, and rushed down on the red"— Mr. Peter Rucked stopped sudden- ly and looked in awed silence toward the vestibule door. "Go on," admonished the impa- tient listeners. "What happened to McGregor? What did the redskins do?" Mr. Rucker pulled a red handker- chief from his pocket and wiped great drops of perspiration from his forehead. A little blonde woman carne up to him and took him by the collar. "You long -tongued idler! You cheap hotel babbler! You forgot to bring that ball cf red yarn I sent you for !" "I know, Marthy," whimpered Peter Rucker.'. "I forgot"— "0f course you forgot, you lazy good- for-nothing : scolded the little blonde lady. "You come home with me. I'll teach you to forget. I'll dress you down. I'll make you think"— The vestibule doors closed upon Mr. Peter Rucker marching meekly in front of Mrs. Peter Rucker, who was still talking. "A brave man," murmured Sumner, of Yucatan, with a tinkle in his eye. "As I was saying, I as in the Austral- ian bush in '99," resumed Cannon of Adelaide; and this time the tale had no interrupting. St. Vitus dance is the commonest forret of nervous trouble which at - filets children, because of the great demands made on the body by growth and development, and there is the vdded strain caused by study. 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The soiled, advertising -lined register showed after several signatures such un- miliar address as Hankow, Pietermaritz- burg and Bombay, and on every bronzed face, was they light of tale after tale worth the telling. It was Cannon of Adelaide who first began: "Up in the Australian bush in '90 I ran into the bolo'nen—" "Huh!" interrupted I'e'^r Rucker; "talking about bokrneu, Lew I was ^,based 75 miles by 10 bi.onte•t in North Australia its '03. I just dodged and duck- ed around and got rid of 'cin one by one. Shot the last oec with his own bow and :arrow." The company frowned at the little, peppery, red -fared man, and there was a general antrcnur of disapproval. Finally ;FIR PETER RUCEEI1 STOPPED SUDDENLY AND LOOKED IN AWED SILENCE TOWARD THE VESTIBULE DOOR. Daniels, the Hankow man, took a long pull at his meerschaum and cleared his throat. "I was on the Yang -tae -Kiang in the Taiping war. One night a bunch of howling pigtails ---- "Pigtails!" broke in Peter Rucker, again. 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Vancouver, the rap- idly growing city of British Columbia, south of Prince Rupert, adopted the single tax method a year ago, with splendid results, the building activity for six months totalling $0,000,000 in spite of the doleful prophecies of the op-' ponents of the system. 1Vinnipeg, an- other city of Western Canada, has start- ed to follow Vancouver's example. Prince Rupert is able to start in such a manner because of the unusual condi- tions surrounding its birth. The site was selected by the Grand Trunk Pacific as its western coast terminus when it was decided to build that road to the ocean. Everything that could be thought of to make a first-class city was done by the rai,road before settlers had time to get to the place. The city was carefully laid out, adequate thoroughfares provided, locations for public buildings, school - litmus, etc., set aside. 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