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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1907-05-10, Page 7S its Every T1ist IF YOGI MANE BEEN DIMMING ehlt1PIA r: TEA YOU WELL ENJOY C !Fa tri ilv !i411 1r 17 HAS if/UST itiTELICIUS FLUME AMC IS 14 SoLtITELV : JU E Lead packets only -40c, 50c and 60e per pound.—AT ALL GROCERS'. rT e goo ,,,,,; yin,. i!' CC4) 120©14) Vit'O` C*0 1 L And no word was spoken between them for some minutes. At last: ",leaven have mercy on you, most miserable of women!" said Miss Elmer. And rising, she went and took and pressed her hands, saying: "Forgive ine if I have deeply probed yam sorely wounded heart, and believe nee I will deal as tenderly by your feel- ings as I can in justice to another." "I know it, Miss Elmer! I know it! You are perfectly right. Do not con- sider me in the slightest degree. Go on, and let justice be done, though the hea- vens fall.'" And longer the friends talked, but the dreaded name was not again mentioned between them. The two children, who had been sent out into the garden to play, now came in, and the confidential conversation was interrupted. Mrs. Russel shawed her lodger up into her private apartments, where fires hied been lighted, and her luggage conveyed, and bade her good -night et the bedroom. door. Laura entered the neat and quiet chamber, where the snow-white curtains of the windows and the bed, and the clean hearth and bright fire, diffused an air of purity and cheerfulness through ,the scene. She could not sleep, but, drawing an easy chair beside the little table before the fire. she fell into deep and severe thought upon the subject of the probable assassin of the baronet. Painfully and intensely as site thought, she was still, as it were, ,extremely con- scious •of the sounds without. She heard Ruth Russel and her children mov- ing about; she heard the murmuring of their evening prayers at their mother's knee; she heard that poor mother take them into the little chamber adjoining the back parlor below; and the muffled shuffling with which the little ones got to bed; next she heard Mrs. Russel re- turn to the back parlor, and settle her- self in her seat, probably to sew for hours—for every sound was audible all over that small house. At last all was perfectly quiet, nothing breaking the si- lence except the hourly striking of the old-fashioned clock in the passage below. Laura sat intently thinking as the hours slowly paesed. The clock struck twelve, and still she sat and thought; one, and still she never changed her atti- tude; two, and she had not once even looked up, or remembered that it was at that witching hour on the preceding night that the awful cry of murder had sung through Lester House, appalling the inmates, arousing the sleepers. She was still buried in thought between two and three o'clock, when she was startled by the sound of steps heard in the deep silence, coming up the walk from the lit- tle gate to the cottage door. Everything alarmed hes snow; she listened and heard a, light, cautious tapping at the cottage • door, and heard the landlady go to the door, and ask in a low, trembling voice, "Who's there? What do you 'want?" "It is I, Roth, and I want to come in," answered a low voice without. "`rah, my Lord in heaven, have pity on us! Oh, why do you corse here?" in- quired the poor woman, in a low ,.,a fo- eating voice. • "Because I am dying to see you and the children, Ruth. Think what a, long ertiie I have had *rosu you both, my dear." "Oh, where do you come from, and why do you come, knowing the danger?" "I comae from. abroad, because I could not longer live away from you, Ruth. S have been but a few hours in London, and have only within the last hour dis- , covered your residence." "But the danger, the danger of re- turning!" "Bahl my dear, I am forgotten; be - aides, the `danger' is very much modi- fled by an event that has occurred with- in the last twenty-four hours. But all • this time you are keeping me out in the cold. Come, let mo in, there's a cluck." "Oh,' heaven of heavens, to what 3 0 0 x 0 straits I am reduced!" again complained the poor woman. "Come, come, Ruth, this is a very cold reception. Unbar the door, there's a darling." Sobbing bitterly, Mrs. Russel unbar- red the door, and admitted the sector - nal visitor. Still sobbing bitterly she said some- thing about ,a "lodger," and from that moment the onversation was carried on in so low a whisper that, although Laura Elmer heard the murmuring, she could not distinguish the words. This low, muttering conversation went on all night—went on till day was dawning in the east, when Laura Elmer, worn out by two nights' watching, dropped asleep in her chair and slept heavily for many hours. When she awoke it was broad day; the sun was high in the heavens. She opened her eyes and looked around in astonishment at finding herself in a strange place, and it was some seconds before she could remember how she came there. Then full consciousness of her mis- fertunes returned; the murder of Sir Vincent Lester; the imprisonment of Ferdinand Cassinove; her own change of residence; the discovery in regard to Mrs. Russet's husband; and. lastly, the strange nocturnal visit, all recurred clearly to her memory. Her resolution was soon taken. Sae arose and bathed her feverish face, and arranged her disordered hair, and than rang her bell. Mrs. Russel, pale and haggard, as with fatigue and care, entered the room, say- ing: "No:; I have not been'i•n bed ;dill night. I have something to. say to you this morning, Mrs. Russel; but first sit down; you look, indeed, quite unable to stand." Mrs. Russel dropped into the nearest seat. Miss Elmer resumed her easy chair, saying: "I am exceedingly sorry for you, Mrs. Russel, but that docs not alter the course of my duty. I must tell you that I heard the arrival of your visitor last night, and overheard much of your con- vesation, by which I was enabled to identify the individual. This morning I must lay :before the police all the par- ticulars with which I have became as quainted, as well as my own private sus- picions. As I cannot consistently con- tinue in your house while engaged in this ungracious work, I must leave you to -day. But you will permit me to pay you for the whole term for which my lodgings were engaged; and I wish you, besides, to rest assured of my esteem and friendship, and willing services in everything in which I can aid you with- out injuring the cause of justice." "Miss Elmer, I cannot complain, cruel- ly as I suffer in this affair; I know that you are perfectly right in all that you do. But poor as I aur, I cannot and will not receive payment for the lodg- ings that you have occupied only a day, and that you leave this morning, not from caprice, but from a sort of neces- sity," said Mrs. Russel, weeping piteous - 1y. "I am glad you perceive I can do no otherwise than I am about to do. But for 'your children's sake, I wish you would permit me to pay for the whole term for which I took the lodgings; it is usual to do so when one leaves before the term is up." "Yes; but not when they. have been occupied but for a day, and are left from necessity; so let us say no more about it, Miss Elmer." Laura perceived that to press this point would only wound the sensitive self-respect of the poor woman, and de- sisted. "You forbear making any inquiries about my visitor of last night, Miss, El- mer; yet this piece of infoxmation I will volunteer. He is off again, and I know not where he has gone, or when he will come back, or if he ever will return," said Mrs. Russel. 1413000411 0424h (.S'Sfa� The effect of malaria lasts a long time. You catch cold easily or become len. down because of the after effects of malaria. Strengthen yourself with Sco , 'j Emulsion. It builds new blood and tones up your 1tIlenrous system. ALL DRUGGISTS: 500. AND $1,00. 000'0000 00000:amt i "And saf,' r' t xa rammer o lains, he has taken away all your funds. with 'bin," sadi ]'sura, indignantly. Mrs. Russel evidently could not deny this. fact. "Tlien I will tell you when he will return —as soon es that money is ex'rauated. Mrs, Russel, I should think yoe would be glad of any law that would free you entirely from sneh a beast of prey." "Ali! but my children." "Even for their stile it were well.that swill.a moral leper were swept fronx.the face of the earth, lest the very relation- ship should contaminate them, Were i in your place I should deliver that mon- ster up to justice with less compunction than ever I killed a venomous serpent. I should, do it as save my children from the fatal infection of his presence and example. I should eonsider• my mother duty the most sacred on earth. Oh! it is a lamentable weakness in any woman to shield a worthless and depraved man, at the risk of p•enpetnating an evil example to her innocent children, And, Mrs. Rus- sel, I think that 1 shall be doing .you and them a good service in bringing this incorrigible villain to justice," said this severe young Nemesis, who was begin- ping to lose patience at the maudlin weakness of the flesh betrayed by' poor Ruth Russel. "Ali! but you don't know. You haven't been tried in such a way. Besides; if aver you were tip talk with him, you would not think so ill of him," said the meek little woman. "I am very sorry or you. I do not willingly wound yot only 1 would be glad to see you wi a clearer moral vision, and a great moral strength," replied Laura, :gently "I do not complain, And now, Miss Elmer, will you at least breakfast before you go?" "Yes, thank you.." "And when 'shall Itorder a cab?" "Immediately after breakfast, if you please, Mrs. Russel." The landlady left the room to fulfill these directions, and immediately after breakfast Miss Elmer went out in a cab to procure new lodgings. Her circum- stances did not penult her to bo fastide ious. She secured the most respectable lodgings to be found nearest to Newgate,_ and into them she removed in the enuree of the same forenoon: She sent her new addrees to Dr. Clark, with a request- that he would call upon her at his•earliest convenience. And the doctor, astonished at the change of quarters, for which he could not account, retied' on her in the after-, noon. He found Miss Elmer busily writing at the centre table of her gloomy new parlor. She arose to meet him, saying: "This is very, very kind, Dr. Clark. You find me making minutes of a chain of evidence, or rather of probabilities which I wish to ryubmit to you. I feel convinced that I have got the clue to the real murderer of. Sir Vincent," "Indeed!" exclarxre:. .he doctor, in amazement. "Let me heal" Mess Elmer eomnrene id and related all the circunistanous re ,2t7 fragmentary ac- quaintance . with Oir Vincent Lester's protegee, Helen R venscroft; the mys- terious stranger that waylaid and fol- lowed her carriage; the midnight inter- view and angry words that passed be- tween this stranger and the baronet upon the occasion when she acidentally discovered them together; and finally the conversation that had recently pass- ed astyed between heroelf and poor Ruth Rus- sel, in which she^wars enabled to put cer- tain disjointed incidents together, and identify the mysterrious "light -haired man" with a certain l oterious criminal who had fled from justice years before. "Now, deep in my heart is the convic- tion that this roan and no other was the assassin of this unfortunate •bar onet." "Good heaven, and yet you do 'not know the cirettm,stance that makes that the most probable thing an the world.?" exclaimed the doctor. Laura looked up, 'full of interest. "That criminal fled from trial and Sir Vincent Lester was the principal wit- ness against him; indeed, ,without- the testimony of Sir Vincent Lester, I doubt if, it' would have been possible to convict him," said the doctor. "And there is the motive established at once for the assassination!" exolaaim- •ed Luara, with increasing excitement. "Yes, the very strongest motive .that can possibly actuate human 'nature— that of self-preservation" "Oh, then, let us go at once to some magistrate and lodge this information, procure a warrant for -the arrest of this man, and, if possible; an order for the liberation of Mr. Cassinove." The doctor smiled compassionately, saying: "Ladies know but little of the fermu- las of law, my dear Miss Elmer, else you would be aware that though we may procure a warrant for the arrest of this man we cannot possibly procure the lib- eration of young Cassinove. Having been duly committed to prison to answer the charge of mufti..., the ',ut . remain a pri- soner until his trial shall have ended in his quor--" The doctorittal left the other words un- spoken. • "Oh,but that is very hard,' sail 1 Rota. "It is; and I must remind you of an- other set of circumstances—namely, that the evidence against Ferdinand Cassin- ove, whop, we believe to be innocent, is much stronger than that, against the man whom wo believe to be the assassin of Sir Vincent, Indeed, 1 doubt whether you have, any evidence to give that would, justify any magistrate in issuing a warrant for arresting the man upon the chargee of having murdered Sir Vin- cent tester. If a warrant should be is- sued` for his arrest at all, it will pro- bably be upon tho old charge, But we can soon satisfy ourselves. We will re- pair at once to a magistrate and lodge the information wo possess. I will wait while you put on your bonnet' Laura Elmer did not keep the ;good doctor waiting five minutes, but • went. into;her auioining sterolei• and in a few i Np , fits-�.i z yam, par fat kela>,I; b'ihutt� eusePt te,V g(09 ithiF,Tge t�id=c lq 6n saran 'b0 seconds returned, ahawlcd, bonneted and gloved for the expedition. The doctor handed her into his carriage, and tl'ey set out for Bow street. Arrived there, they had to wait some time before the magistrate was at leis- ure to attend to theist; and when at length he was disengaged, the doctor re- quested that the office might be cleared, as the information be had to ,give had best be given in private. The •:haricter and position of Dr. Clark insured a prompt attention to his request. When the office was cleared of all except the magistrate, his clerk. the doctor and Miss Elmer, the latter advanced, and be- ing sworn, made her statement. Now ev- erything, even remotely connected with the tragedy of Lester House, was of the utmost interest to the authorities. Miss Elemer's statement received a candid and attentive hearing and the magis- trate thought the information of suffi- cient importance to justify him in is- suing a warrant for the apprehension of the accused. Miss Elmer and Dr. Clark had the satisfaction of seeing this warrant plac- ed in the hands of an experienced offi- cer before leaving the magistrate's of- fice. From Bow steer they repaired to Newgate to comfort the prisoner there with the intelligence of the eine they had obtained to the real assassin. Meantime the officer with the war- rant sought the accused first of all at the cottage of his wife in Chelsea; but Ruth Russel and her children had flitted with all their luggage, nor could any one tell whither they had gone. CHAPTER XXVL From gloom to glare; from the prison- er's cell at Newgate, to the drawing room at Bersleigh House. Beresleigh House was one blaze of light. Crowds of carriages blocked up the way for some distance up and down the street before the front of the house. The occasion was this: The young Duke and Duchess of Beresleigh had re- turned from their bridal tour, and were receiving their "dear five hundred friends',' at home. The drawing rooms, superbly furnish- ed, beautifully adorntel faahien' and eel ebrity of society. At one end the young duchess, the beautiful and happy bride, stood to re- ceive her guests; the loveliest where Many were lovely. Her dress was arranged with her usual aitistic taste .It consisted of a full lace robe, light as a gossamer, worn over rose-eolored silk, delicate blush roses in her hair, and pearl ornaments on her neck and arms. Never had Rose been hap- pier than upon this evening, though even now she was not perfectly happy. We are never any of us at any moment of our lives. The shadow of Rose's light was the thought of Ferdinand Cassinove pining in his prison cell, and of Laura Elmer sorrowing in her gloomy lodgings. But the heart of Rose was full of hope; she had great confidence in the innocence of Cassinove, and great faith in Provi- dence: she was doing, and she meant to do, all in her power to serve Cassinove; and she had in her own heart not a single doubt either of the perfect recti- tude of young Cassinove or of his final acquittal and full exoneration from sus- picion. Therefore, she put away all pensiveness; turned her back upon the shadow and faced the sunshine; dispens- ed her smiles with equal sincerity and affability; and even, at length, joined the dance. It was while she was still dancing that she noticed her own espe- cial footman lingering near the door, as if anxious, yet afraid, to enter. Seeing this, and surmising that he might be the bearer of some note from Laura Elmer, she took the earliest oppor- tunity, when the dance was over, to move near the door, and beckon the man to her side. He carne in, and drawing near; said, "I beg pardon, your grace, but there is a person below who is very urgent to see you upon the most important business." "Well, show him into the library, Mil- ler, and say that I will see him there in PEEVISH AND. CROSS. Peevish, cross babies are sick babies —the well baby is ztlw'a.'s happy. Per- haps there may be nothing to indicate just what is the meter, but you may depetd upon it there is something troubl- ing the little one or he would not be cross. A few doses of Baby's Own Tab- lets will remove the cause and make baby happy. They are aocrtain cure for the minor ills of brabyhood. Thousands of mothers keep them continually in the house to guard against the sudden illness of baby. A Tablet now eun•d; again will lesep the little one well. Mrs. James Jew - erre Beaver Harbor, N. S., says: "I have given Baby's Own Tablets to my baby as occareion required 'since the baby was a. day old. They have always helped her, and now at a. year and a half old elle; is a fine healthy child, The Tablets, I think, are indispensable to motbeee of young children" Sold by druggists or by nail at 25 cents a box from The Dr, Willioms' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. a few minutes. Arid do you yourself bei+ there in attendance." "Yes, your grace," said the etervztnt,,,i bowing and retiring, Rose • entered the library, which was lighted but by one chandelier hanging from the eoilin over the central table. At this table stood a rather "shabby. , genteel" looking man, with his back l turned, and his hands in his pockets, Rose, kindly wishing to put this im- poverished -looking gentleman at bis ease, advanced toward hizn, speaking pleasant- ly, and saying: "You have come to me from Miss El. mor or Mr. Cassinove? Pray take tial seat, sir." "No, madam, I have not come from j Mr. Cassinove or Miss Elmer," said the visitor, in a singularly sweet and clear voice, as be turned around and bowed deeply to the young duchess. (To he continued.) TORTUR! RHEUMATISM Suffered for Five Years—Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Agonizing pains; sometimes in' one part of the body, sometimes' in an- other, moire often in the back or joints — that's rheumatism. Do not delay in finding a cure. Each day makes the diseuee ivonie — increases the torture, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills leave cured thousands. They cured Mr. Horace Plante. of Sorel, Que., of a moat aggravated case of rheumat- ism. What they did for Mr. Plante they' can do for you. He says' "I wase was rveized with rheumatism. I walked as if my boots were filled with pebbles. The , pains. starting in my feet, spread to all parts of the body; my back and joints becaane affected. For upwards of five years I suffered the greatest agony.. Of ten I was confined to beet, hardly able bo move. Nothing seemed to help me. II despaired of ever being well again. By I good chance Dr. Williams' Pink Pills ; were brought to my .attention and I de- cided to try them. I got six boxes — before they were gone I felt a great im- provement. I continued the treatment • and my health gradually came back till now I do not feel the least pain. — 1 am totally cured. It woe a surprise to: my friends to see me an the street' again well and strong after five years of torture. They wanted, to know war . brought about the change. I told them ; Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, for I took no other medicine once I began their use; Rheumatic sufferers give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair Oriel; they will surely' do for you What they did for me." It is in the blood — poor blood that such troubles, as rheumatism:, indigestion, dizziness, heart palpitation, anaemia, weakness and a host of other diseases find their root. It is the blood that; Dr. Williams' Pink Pills net on. They make it pure, rich, red and health» 1 giving. That is why they cure all the i contemn railment+s of everyday life. Sold;' by druggists or by mail at 50 oents a box or six boxes for $2.50, from the Dr. Williaurs' 5)wp lie eq.,. Brockville, Ont. NATURE'S PRUNING RELIED ON BY THE FORESTER ARTIFICIAL, PRUNING OOSTLii: One great difference between the for -j ester's management of trees and that of 1 the horticulturists or the arborieulturist1 lies in the manner of pruning. The hor- ticulturist does not trust the tree to grow as it pleases; he carefully directs ' and prunes the branches so that it will best serve the purpose intended. The forester leaves all this to nature; he trusts in what is called "natural pruning." His theory is this: that, in the course of the growth of the trees, the light will be cut off from the lower branches of the trees as branches are formed higher up. In order to grow— indeed, in order to live at all—these branches must have light; (whether the require much or little depends on t species of tree and other considerations.)< Consequently, when the light is cut oft from them, they cease to flourish and. finally die. .At the point where the dead branch joins the main stem of the tree new, layers of wood. are put on the tree, ow- ing to the yearly growth in diameter of, the main stem, and the dead branch is gradually weakened at this point until•; through the action of the wind, thee whipping of other branches or eam$. other cause, the branch is knocked fro , the tree. All that remains of that, branch henceforth is the knot in the stem of the tree that is formed by that part of the branch that is still retain• within the stem. In this way, as the tree grows it is cleared of branches toa greater and greater height until finally there is left a long stem, clear oa branches to a height of fifty, sixty on even a hundred feet. Such a tree *rift produce the better grades of lumber free from knots, and hence the k• the forester most desires. The same r suit might have been attained by taking an axe or saw and lopping off the branches; but the original expense Citi this, together with the interest thereon, would amount to so large a sum that it would take a large proportion of the re- ceipts of the sale of the timber. World's Submarine Cables. The total length of submarine cables in the world is about . 450,000 kiloms--• 279,622 miles, of which 60 per cent. are British, 10 per cent. American, a little more than 9 per cent. French, and about 7 per cent. german. A great advance in this domain has been made durin the last few years by Germany, whos efforts tend to constitute an independe system, observes the Memorial Dipl rnatique. -5 Denmark and Portugal have agreed submit all their dikereuces to Mame tribunal.