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The Herald, 1907-03-22, Page 7That is perfectly harmless because it is free from ail adulteration GREEN TEA A Perfect Luxury for Japan Tea Drinkers Lead packets only. 25c, 30c, 40c, 50c and 60c Per Lb. At all grocers. COCCI 0 (13 CD cocco occoccos 3 0 0 0 I, F CHAPTER. XX. The next morning, while Lady Ether- •idge was engaged in giving directions to her maid in regard to the safe keeping of her costly jewelry, preparatory to her journey into the country, a letter was laid before her, which, opening, she found ' to be the appointment of herself as maid of honor to the Queen, with a command to her to repair immediately to Windsor, where the court was then residing. With the letter in her hand, Rose went to the dressing -room of the duchess, and, being admitted, put it into her hands. "My dear, this is fortunate. You need not now leave town; the court of Queen Charlotte will be a refuge," said the duchess, with a smile. Rose answered that smile with a brighter one. Young, beautiful, weal- thy and noble—queen of beauty and of fashion in her first London season —elm 'was well pleased to be delivered from the necessity of leaving town at the very acne of her social triumph. "You need not countermand your packing, my dear, as you must take your wardrobe to Windsor with you, of course,"'said the duchess. "When should I leave?" inquired Rose. "To -morrow afternoon, at farthest. I shall go down .in a few days after you. Now, run away and superintend your preparations." And the interview closed. The evening of the same day a tall 'thin dark figure of a man, with his coat collar turned up and his hat pulled low 'over his brow, anight have been,seen treading some of the narrowest ourts . and alleys in one of the most crowded arts of central London. He paused be- fore a gerat, dilapidated house, that had +n the olden times, been the town gran - 4 aion of a proud prelate; but, long fallen from its high estate, was a. tenement i crowded with beggars, tramps and with thieves, wno after pursuing, ad deer • long, their nefarious trades through the ;,trete, retired here at night, some to I eat, drink and sleep, some to concoct new plans of robbery, and others to hide from the pursuit of the law, for 'is yet the character of this house was nn - known to the police, and its moldering walls, yet afforded sure refuge for fugi- tives. "Disgusting place! What ever can Rob- • arts be hiding for now? For nothing that has brought him much profit, or lie would not be perdu here; he would get out of the country," said the man, as be entered the wide, open hall door, and picked his way, loathingly, along a lofty passage and up a broad. staircase, cam - ; mon to all the tenants of the building, and as filthy as the foulest outside al- ley, or the most neglected stable yard. 1 The only modification was that on every successive landing the dirt was a little • less thick and moist, as though the ad- hering contaminations from without had gradually fallen off from ascending foot- steps. From the open doors of every ' room in this house squalid children tum- bled in and out, and the querulous voices of angry, drunken, or suffering men and women were heard. Through all this the visitor passed up to the third floor, and turned to a door on the right, and gave a peculiar rap. • "Come in," said a very pleasant, rnan- ly voice. The visitor entered a large front O 0 V eircumstanee that his power?" "Nay,Ido not what I say is, that beauty in his- power, opportunity and thee the desperate :over tor. hero," 1 room, dark, dingy and scantily furnish- ed, yet free from the dirt that defiled the lower rooms and passages. !`Eh! what the deuce, Roberts; that was your voice, but where are you?" in- quired he, looking •about him, in the seuai- obseurity of the apartment. "Here," answered the same clear, soft voice, as the owner emerged from some dark corner and opened the window shut- ters, letting in a sufficiency of light to reveal the room and its meagre furni- ture—a large, four -posted bed, with dark and tattered green curtains, a worm-eat- en oak table, rickety chairs, and so forth. The occupant was a well-dressed, hand- some, fair-haired man, with a sweet and happy and candid expression of court- tenanee. "Welcome, most noble Mac., to the old palace of the lora biehops of Ely. It is many centuries since the followers of a court honored its halls wit the it pres- ence," said the inmate of this room, ad- vancing to meet his visitor. "Eh, good heavens, William, what has brought you, the greatest epicurean in town, to this beastly place?" exclaimed the visitor, in dismay. "Necessity, good Mac; necessity which knows no law. But 1 may ask in my turn, what brings the most assiduous courtier of the day into this same `beastly' place?" "Remotely, the same necessity; prox- imately your note of this morning,"' "Ay, my note. 1 wrote to you by a trusty messenger to send me ten pounds; I thought,you would have sent it." "1 chose to bring it. I have been for days in search of you, and considered myself very lucky this morning in re- ceiving your note. "Even though it cost you ten pectinate". laughed the fair-haired gran. "Even so," ,said the other, going to the door and scouring it. Then, returning to the side of William Roberts, he said: "1 wish to :engage you in an enterprise of some danger, but much profit." "You know, Mao," said the soft-spoken man, "that danger is a decided•Iy objec- tionable element in any enterprise in which I am to be engaged." "Oh, I know, William, that courage is not among your vices, but avarice is certainly one of your noblest virtues, and this adventure, if it has the least spice of danger, has also the largest promise of profit." "Explain." .."1 will, darkly. For instance, a cer- tain nobleman has become desperately enamored of a certain beautiful girl, without parents or guandian to protect her, He cannot marry the girl upon account of our national prejudice in fa- vor of a man having but one wife, and she is not to be won on any other terrors. Ta -morrow afternoon this girl takes a journey to Windsor in a post - chaise, with no attendant but her maid and footman. She must be waylaid and carried: off.". The fair-haired, soft-spoken Haan shook his bead, murmuring:: "Ugly business! Ugly business!! is your nobleman privy to this proceed- ing?" "Nay, now, William, you do not show your usual perspicacity. My lord willit do nothing, and permnothing to be done, unworthy of anobleinan." "But yet he would avail himself of any 4p ce4cry rc t,y Grippe or Influenza, whichever you like to call it, is one of the most weakening diseases kens Will,, -ie E ScOiii`9'mfectls cv which Illi Cod Liver Sir and Hypophosphites in easily di.- gested form, is the greatest a`�kir'ength-.bluii?R�ci;' known to medical science. It is so easily digested that it sinks into the system, making new blood and new fax, and strengthening nerves and muscles. Use S�;ca4t9s Emulsion af+t;:rr Influenza. Invaluable for Coughs and Colds. ALL DRUGGISTS 50o. AND $1.00,,000000000004140000.0004141 Y;1 0 in fiat; but place this. e. him! the oi playing' gnanimous "Ferilous�i But wha �1 l do you, re - "Snell aid only as t e:it make you `personally' perfectly. WO? ,"1"ou must engage six or eight of Idler most reso- lute companions. They 10d$t start for Windsor to -morrow moi ri ,' and go on until they reach Hounslow Heath'. There, at some convenient lalnoe,,they must dis- gu.iae and. anask mt t, thesol''und lie in wait for the post-chaiset.t retaining this girl and her servants, stop it, bind the servants., and carry off the air! Teis must be effected without, bloobdshed,.end: with as little violence as 'possible." • "Difficult, my dear Mac! Very diffi- cult! But any own past semis, tobe. very easy, only to send down those fellows, and, I suppose, be their paymaster." "Nay, not quite so easy as that, ei- ther, William. 'You and 1 must go down to Hounslow Heath, a little farther on toward Windsor, say in that piece of wood half a mile from the `.Magpie,' and rescue this young lady from the ruf- fians." - "Res'eue her? I don't understand. Why in the world should she be carried off if we are to rescue her?" . "Simply for that very purpose—that we may rescue her. This enamored no- blenian of whom 1 speak is a luau of the highest honor, He would never countea- ance violence. If your ruffians, for in- stance, after earrytng off the beauty, were to carry her to him, she would be sent back in .honor to her friends, and they would be transported for their pains. But if you and myself sthonbd be so fortunate as to rescue this beauty from the hands of the robbers ,ata spot near the country Tious•e owned by, this nobleman, and carry herjto tnat house as a safe refuge for the night. there Is no Iaw of honor to prevent nay lord from receiving her with the most exigent hos- pitality, and rewarding her gallant de- Iiverers with princely munificence." "With `prineely munificence!' 1 MI deratand it all now, my dear Mac." "Pray understand no more than is ne- cessary to carry out our plans. which you see have • only the leazt flavor of the spice of danger for your friend,, and none at all foe yourself. You have only to help me to reseue a young lady from the power of thieves, who will be in- structed only to make a show of resist- ance. Yon will have all the glory and profit, and. none of the danger." "Humph! - ..And this profit, dear Mac?" "Five hundred pounds, when the Indy is safe at Howlet OIose, the country house of which I spoke." Laura by old litterateurs, who were, with an odd mixture of curiosity, jealousy and admiration, welcoming a newcomer into their Olympian sphere, and by others who, without having any literary jeal- ousy or matrimonial designs, simply de- lighted in the conversation of a brilliant woman, or were proud of a poetical `celeb- rity. Sir Vincent Lester was present, but looking so ill and so preoccupied as to draw upon himself the notice and the softly -murmured criticisms of many present, until, at length, Lady Lester, observing these things, went and whis- pered to liim her advice that he should plead. indisposition and retire. And Sir Vincent, glad to escape, immediately fol- lowed her counsel. Lady Lester, in watching the moodi- ness of Sir Vincent for the last few days, was in serious anxiety for his health and reason; and could find but one solu- tion for the problem. "He is in love with Miss Elmer. Tese dark-haired people are very uncertain, impulsive and unreasonable. and difficult to be restrained by church or state; I ani sure, of the two evils, 1 would rather the girl would encourage him a little thau that he should be looking and act - inn so strangely as to draw upon himself the animadversions of all our friends," she thought. While Lady Lester was thus seeking and not finding out the true explanation of the baronet's uneasiness, her son Ruthven Lester, by patience and. per- severance, in watching and availing him- self of the first opportunity, had suc- ceeded in detaching Lady Etheridge from ,all others, and leading her into the re- cess. of a bay window, where, with the eonfidence of a young man, on admir- able terms with himself, he declared his passion and made a formal offer of his hand. Lady Etheridge, inwardly amused at his self-conceit, thanked him for the hon- or he intended her, but begged leave to decline it. And when the young gentle- man would have pressed his suit, she terminated the interview by rising and joining the company. And soon after the Duchess of Bere- slengh orderod her carriage and they re- turnc'd home. An engagement to a breakfast given -by the Hon. Mrs. Hobart, at her villa, near Fulham, occupied the forenoon of the next day, so that it was Between four and five o'clock that Lady Ether- idge, accompanied only by her maid, en- tered her carriage to set out for Wind- sor. The ride that afternoon was through one of the most beautiful suburbs of the town, and up over the green meadows and shady groves bordering the river. It was quite dark when the carriage reached Ilounslow, and stopped to water the horses at the hotel. "We wish to reach Windsor iu good time to -night. Are the roads safe?" asked the coachman. "Ay, ay, the rads be well enough; but there hasn't been a travelling carriage passed the heath for the last week that hasn't been stopped by footpads. And a passil o' very suspicious looking char- acters went by here a couple of hours ago. You'd a deal betrter stop where you are for the night," answered the ostler, as he held a pail of water for the "nigh" horse to drink. The latter part of this speech counter- acted the former, for the coachman im- mediately came to the conclusion that there lurked an interested motive in this forewarning; so, instead of communi- cating it to Lady Etheridge, he replied: "Oh, 1 think we will try to get on, at least as far as the Magpie, where we can sleep if necossary.' 'And gathering up his reins, he drove on. They were soon out upon the open heiath, where nothing could be more weird, dreary and desolate than the as- pect of heaven and earth. The sky was overclouded, dark and lowering —not a single stay, was vieible. The heath was bare, lone and shadowy, from the murky centre to the obscured horizon. The only sound was that of the solitary car- riage as it rolled along the night road. Yet no sense of fear troubled the heart of Lady Etheridge; she had heard. none of the rumors of outlying footpads, and was ignorant of the warning given by the people at Hounslow. She was lying back among the cushions in that dreamy luxurious state induced by being carried along with alt may rapid motion through the darkness, when suddenly and silent- ly the carriage was stopped and sur- rounded by dark, masked figures. Lady Etheridge, her heart paralyzed with ex- treme terror, sat transfixed and speech- less, while her maid uttered scream upon scream. The same instant the coachman fired one shot from his double barreled pistol and was about to fire another when he was mastered and disarmed. "Yield quietly and no harm shall be- fall you!" said one of the assilants, as they threw down and gagged and bound the struggling man. The door of the carriage was then opened, and the inmates summoned to Borne forth. Lady Etherbridge, controlling her ex- cessive terror, drew off her diamond ring, took off her watch and chain, drew out her purse and offering them all to the mon, besought them to set her coach- "I am your malt, dear Mao! and note as it is dark enough without for me to emerge from my inner obscurity, 1 will go out and beat up . the necessary re- cruits, .,`You can find pie r.t this room againr'to-morrow tnorniree dearg11Jac, for, like, ghosts that pvi it i e glimpses of the moon,' I have to gel, back into my grave, this house, ..•.s s,on as it is light without. Ah, Mao, times have changed since you and I served 'together in the Forty-fifth;`, I have gone —down, down, down; you=up, up, up. I hide in : the darkness of an old rookery; you bask in the sunshine of a court." "It is you awn fault, William. You have twice the genius I have, but you are too effeminate, too much afraid of labor, 'pain and danger. What` you would do must be clone in profound secrecy, and is done with so mucheau= tion and hesitation as to defeat its pur- pose. If you had an enemy, William, that you were obliged to get rid of, you would not eliailenge him and run, him through the body, as I should, because you would not like to see his blood flow, and would very much dislike to have your own spilled. No, you would get rid of your enemy by administering to. him some slow, sweet poison, that should bring on a gentle : decline, and easy, pain- less death. Nay, I could even imagines you sitting by the bed, smoothing the pillows, and soothing the last hours of that, enemy whom you had so gently cone ducted to death -you are so benevolent as well as so; effeminate." The fair-haired man smiled softly and brightly, murmuring: "You were always a flatterer, dear Mac; even before you dreamed of be- coming a courtier." They shook hands and parted. "A desperate crisis when a man feels himself driven to an act for whieh he does not know whether he shall be re- warded or reviled," murmured the; per- sonage called: Mac, as he :descended the stairs. That same evening the Duchess of l3oresleigh and family wete due at Lester House, where Lady Tester received her "dear five hundred friends." They went early, intending to retnrnn early. And, again, the two young women—'the an- tipodes of the social world---ntet, to be rival stars of the assembly—Rosamond, Lady Lady Etheridge of Svrinburne, a snow- white, golden -haired, blue-eyed and rosy - lipped beauty; and Laura Elmer; the governess, <r.,tall, dark, brilliant brunette and genius --the poetess of the. day, The humble »position of Miss Elmer was not known or suspected' beyond the families of Beresleigh and Lester. Lady Lester, as I have said, patronised Miss Elmer; as the influential friendof the Baroness of Etheridge, and society accepted Mise'Elmer at the hands of Ladhy Lester. That evening, as usual, the Duke of Beresleigh avoided Lady Etheridge, leav- ing her to be attended, and followed by a troop of adorers, while, he himself di- vided his attentions irzipd,rtially among the ladies of his acr;rriilnte.uce present, Rose was pt inc ip'tlI; ' surrounded by aspiring bachelors auks Widowers and their anxious mother= and sisters; and man at liberty, and let her proceed up -1 cit her journey. But the loud screams of the maid drowned at oee her proffer and thir re- ply. e- 1 " l "Stop the mouth of that sereeching' vixen, and let ti.' bear what the lady says," commanded a leader among the assailants, and in another instant thei poor screaming maid was •seized, gagged, i bound, and laid by the side of the helve less coachman, with the taunting words: "Misery loves company, my lass," 1 Lady Etheridge was again sumutoned ' to conte forth; but, eoutrolling her agi- tation, she said: "Listen, to me! Mere is all the money and jewelry that 1 have about me; take it all, free my servants, and let as pur- sue .our journey." "Yes, my lady; certainly, your lady- ship," said the leader, pocketing the of • - fered valuables, and gently, but forcibly, lifting Lady Etheridge from the car- riage, (To he continued.) A SPRING NEED, Weak, Tired and Depressed People Need. a Tonic to Put the Blood Right. Spring blood is bad blood. Indoor i life during the winter .months is re- sponsible for weak, watery, impure blood. You need a tonic to build up! the blood in spring just as much as' the trees need new sap to give them, vitality for the summer. In the spring bad blood shows itself in' many ways. In some it breeds pine-; pies and eruptions. In others it may, be through occasional headaches, a variable appetite, perhaps twinges of neuralgia or rheumatism, or a lazy, feeling in the morning and a desire, to avoid exertion. For these spring ailments it is e, tone you need, and y the greatest blood -making, health-. giving tonic in the world is Dr. tVilliams' Pink Pills. Every dose helps to make new, rich, red health-, giving blood, which reaches, every; nerve and every organ in the body,1 bringing health, strength and energy1 to weak, despondent, :ailing men and women. Here is proof. Mrs. Geo. Merritt, Sandy .Cove, N. S. execs: "I was weak, feeling miserable and terribly run down. The doctor whom" 1 consulted, said the trouble was' anaemia, :but he did not help me. A friend advised me to take Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills and it is simply! impossible for me to over-estimate the good they have done me. I shall always rehemmend thein ±0 ailing friends." But if you want new health you must get the genuine Dr, Williams' Pin: Pills for Pale People, manufac- tured in Canada at Brockville, Ont. Other so-called pink pills are fraudu- lent imitations. 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