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The Herald, 1903-09-11, Page 7The Englishman's idea of breakfast is a healthy one. Toast, jam and tea—a chop mebbe—just enough food for the stomach to assimilate properly—the warmth of the tea to draw the blood to the stomach and assist digestion. Blue Ribbon Tea is the daintiest and crispiest leaves of the tea plant. It is pure tea—free of tannin—appetizing and nutritious. Try the Red Label Brand for your breakfast. Blade, A'ffiiaed Ceylon Grecs, 410 c. Fif'tyld be Ask for also iced ose and Lily Dagger A TALE OF WOMAN'S LOVE AND WOMAN'S PERFIDY al ea 41Ilkae.a►� unit . tad's.Obal •.$1. w,Ja.r/ ,da4c �a.0),40>.abkowih.ei When he had passed Lady Blanche :made a movement toward the gate, put Fanny held her. "Not yet 1 He has stopped, and is waiting and lielening. Creep along lay the hedge and cross the field," -she wtl:ispererl. I CHAPTER XXXI. Tho whole country was in a blaze of excitement which seemed to in- crease as the days passed, carrying 'with them the various phases of tete great murder case: and not only the county, but it might be said the whole kingdom. An immense crowd had coileote9 -out side the Town Hall to Learn the verdict of the coroner's jury, and when it was known that it was one sof "Willful Murder against Ernest Eilevynd, Marquis of Nairne," a kind of thrill ran through the proved, and each man turned and looked at Ilia neighbor, as who should say, ".After this the sky falls!" The examination before the atag- letrate bad resulted in the commit- tal of the accused for trial, and in the opinion of many old and expert • enced men the evidence whin! Saunders had produced before Sir Ed- mund and his fellow,' magistrates was already strong enough to place the rope round the marquis' neck, In the midst of the excitement, at times almost amounting to a kind of frenzy, two men alone seemed to keep their heads and remain cool. One was Saunders, who went on his way as calmly and coolly and deliberate- ly as if he were playing a game of chess, rather than nutting in motion "the machinery which might propel a pryer of the realm to a shamefue death. The 'authorities at Scotland Yard had left the ease in his hands with every confidence, and he was conducting it with, at any rate, every indication of presence of mind and acumen. Ile had produced at the examination just sufficient evi- dence to render a committal un- avoidable, and he had carefully kept book any mention of one name— Elaine Delaine's--revealing nothing of the first meeting and quarrel of the accused' and the'murdered man, Sir Edmund had noticed this, and, rememl?ering what Saunders had stated' in the library at The Grange, had felt surprises ; kat though a -rain a.nd pompous man, he was ra- ther a sensible magistrate, and held hds tongue, even when a fellow magistrate remarked: 'I do not see any o'kjeet in—any motive for the crime. Why should Lord Nairne kill this unfortunate gentleman ?" `"That may come out later, sir," responded the counsel for the pro - HEALTHY, HAPPY BABIES. Every mother wast earnestly de- sires to see her little ones hearty, rosy and full of are. The hot wea- ther, however, is a time of dan- ger to all 'little ones, and at the very first symptom of uneasiness or illness, Baby's Own Tablets should 'be given. 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Not until the examination had be any clear idea of the evidence against the marquis, but even when it was set forte with all the terrible distinctness of the rough, honest keeper, and the plain, matter-of-fact Saunders and his fellow constable, Gerald kept his composure. Once only had he given a sudden start of surprise, and that was when the rose and lily Baggerwas spoken of and produced. "Let me see that, if you please," he said, and he looked at it with seeming carefulness and curiosity, but he recognized It in a moment. It was he himself who had taken It from the cabinet of which the mar- quis bad given him the key, on the day before the murder I He handed the dagger back to the clerk of the court without a word, however and resumed his seat with- out gia,ncing at the marquis, ".That's a clever young fellow, that Locke," said the prosecuting counsel. "He's young to have so big a case. but I've seen some of these young 'uns come out very strong sometimes, Wad I think he'll makes a hit over this business ; but he has got his work out out for him with this evidence of yours, Saunders " "Yes, sir," said Saunders concisely; he was just as reticient with the great counsel as with everybody else. "Yes. the case is very strong." May was anxiously waiting for Gerald to return to the rectory— where he was to stay, during the pro - egress of the case—and she ran into the hall to meet him with the mo- mentous question on her lips ; but there was no need to frame it, for she read the answer in his grave face. "Yes, dear," he said, putting his a.rm round her and drawing her into the little breakfast -room, from the window of which she had been anxl- ouely watching for him. "Tiley have sent him for trial." "Oh, Gerald," she gasped, hiding her face a,galnst his breast, and shudder- ing. "How could they ?" "2lhey could do nothing else, May," he said gravely. She raised her head and looked at "Bert you ? Ah'. I see you do not think b1m •guilty ! You cannot !"' "No," he said slowly. "I du not be- lieve him to be guilty; but it' I had been on the bench I should have had to decide as they have done. They could do no other." "And—and he, the marquis?" she murmured in an awed whisper. "What did he say—do? Hew did he look, Gerald ?" Hie shook his head. "He said nothing, and he looked —well, it is hard to tell you just how leb looked. White, and ill, and haggard, but calm, unnatu- 'rally calm. At times: I don't think he was even listening to the evidence and the questions, for I spoke to him .once to ask him something, and he looked up at me—they let him sit be- side me at the solicitor's table—as if his thoughts were far away. I am going to see him in an hour's time. I thought it best to let him rest after all he has gone through this morn- May shuddered, "And worse still has to tome, hasn't it, Gerald ?" she whispered. ".Yes," he said, "much worse. The trial will bo dreadful." He was silent a moment, then he said suddenly : "May, do you remember what you did with that dagger ,pou and I took from the case in the hall?" "Tice dagger ! You don't mean—ob, Gerald--- 1" "Hush 1" be said, soothing her. "Yee, dear, the deed wee done with that. Hush, hush; be calm, and try and remember." "1 do remember !" she answered, clinging to hill, "I pelt it on the heat beside us. where we sat, you know, and it fell down 4 I meant to pick 11 up, but I forgot it, And when the bell rang, wo got up, and I forgot it. rinel left it lying there." "Well ?" Ile saki. "I remembered it aftorward—tile next evening, I think—and went to look for it, for I knew it was valu- able, and that we ought to have put it back in tho glass case. But it was not there, nor in the case." "You are sure?" he asked quickly, his eyes suddenly keen. "Quito sure 1" May insisted. "I am certain of it, because I turned over all the things, thinking that you might have put it back. Did you ?" "No," ho said, slowly, thoughtfully, "I did not. I forgot it completely. Will you remember, keep in your memory, everything that happened that afternoon, and in connection with the dagger ?" "Yes,"' she said. "But—oh, Gerald," and her breath came quickly, "you —you will not want me to go into the court, to—to give evidence ?" Ho pressed her to him, and looked down at tho white, fearful little face. "And what if I should, May ? You would do as much to help, perhaps to save, the marquis?" .She panted and clung to him, hiding her eyes for a moment, then she look- ed 'up bravely. "Yes, I would ! You know I would. But --but, Gerald, you think that--" "I think that the person who pick- ed up that dagger behind the seat whore we dropped it, committed the murder, May. Hush," for she bad ut- tered a low cry. "It is only to you I would say so much. You will not repeat it, dearest ?" iShe clung to him in Silence for a moment, then she said in a whisper : " Gerald, where is Elaine?" He looked at her as if she bad struck upon the line of his own anx- ious thoughts. ''Elaine?" he said guardedly. " Yes. I cannot help thinking of her every minute in the day. To think that she should have been engaged to hire only a few days ago, and that now—now that ho is in this fearful trouble—she should have left him ! There is some mystery, some strange, awful mystery,. about it all. It is so unlike Elaine 1 You don't know her as well, or love her as I do, Gerald, or you would understand how I feel. Elaine would give her life to save that of a friend—yes, indeed she would 1—and he was more than her friend, remember ! He was her lover, her lover ! And I know she loved him 1" Gerald Locke looked steadily out of the window without replying, and May anxiously, almost impatiently, went on in an awed whisper. " Do you think she—she knew, Gerald ? Now and again I have thought that she must have known, and it was .hecauee she knew that she ran away. Oen no one find her ? Gerald, she must be found 1" He teaks a piece of paper from' his pocket and gave it to her, and she read it. "E-- D--- Como back to B-- at once. He 1s in great peril." "That goes in all the morning pa- pers to -morrow." be said. "Yes„ May, you aro right. Elaine did know! I am sure of that ; but why she fled I cannot even guess--" Ii'e paused. "Unless ?" breathed May. • "Unless she believed hili guilty 1" ho answered almost inaudibly. May looked at him almost indig- nantly: "Oh, Gerald 1" she exclaimed. "You do not know 1 If she had believed that, nothing would have induced her to have left him 1" "`Tion why bas she gone—disap- peared ?" he said quietly. May looked at him with brave and unwavering confidence shining in her wet eyes. "I can't tell, I can't even imagine, and I llavo tried! 13fut I know that ydu aro wrong. Gerald,Elaine knows nothing of the — the murder ; and when she does, that moment she will come and stand by his side." " Then elle will soon know 1" he said. "She must see it In the papers —they are full of it. But I will not trust to that. I will insert this ad- vertisement, employ a detective, half a dozen, if necessary, to find her. Perhaps the marquis will• help me ?" He put on his hat as he spoke, and started at once for the prison. The marquis was lying on his pallet, but he was not asleep, and raised his head on his hand. Gerald Locke entered. " I am taking, a rest," he said, quiet- ly, and with a faint smile. ' Have 'you come to throw up the case, or are you still determined to defend the man whom everybody by this time Is calling a murderer ?" Gerald Locke did not think it necessary to reply to this bantering question, but he drew tile chair up beside the bed. " Are you rested enough to an - ewer a few questions, marquis ?" he said gravely. ' I am rested enough to answer," said the marquis, and .Gerald Locke noticed the guarded reply. " But what more can you want to know than you have learned ? They have anotlrea7"dy proved me guilty, have they " I want to know who picked up the dagger May and I left behind the seat in the hall ?" said Gerald Locke, looking at him steadily, The marquis' eyes did not droopor waver. ► "Who else but I could have done so?" ho replied. "It is proved that 'twee in any possession the night of the murder. You have heard Saun- ders' evidence, Gerald ?" "YOu found it behind the seat ?" Saki Gerald slowly, eta' watching the haggard face, so noble In its calm- nese and composure. The marquis dire not answer. Gerald Locke drew a little breath of relief. , • "I am answered," he said. "And now for my second question. Where le Miss Delaine?" ig'rhticeenemarquisd. frowned and his lips t "I do not know," he replied. Gerald Locke took the advertise-• meat from his pocket, and held it out to him. "Care you think of anything more ]h=oly to attract her attention than that ?" he said. Tile marquis read it, then slowly torn it across and across, and held the fragments in his closed hand. Gerald Locke sprang to his feet, and the two men looked into each other's oyes. Then the mergx s unlocked his tightly;-elosed lips. "You understand ?" he said; and Gerald Locke, white and breathless, responded : "Yes, I understand." CHAPTER XX -XII. Gerald Locke left the prison feel- ing crushed and utterly dispirited. "You understand 1"the marquis had said, as he tore the advertisement to pieces, and Gerald had responded, "I understand 1" Bat as he left the prison, walking slowly and with downcast head, he asked himself what it was that he understood. By tbe•destruetion of that piece of paper, the accused lead intended to convey to Gerald his determination that Elaine should not be sought for and brought forward. There could be only one reason for his refusal to seek her, for send- ing ner away—for Gerald saw that she had teen sent away—and that must be because—the Marquis was guilty. Elaine must be in possession of some knowledge which could be forced from her, and used as evidence against ilim. Perhaps he had confess- ed to her. 'Perhaps she had seen something, some trace of the crime. At any rate, she mast be cognizant of his guilt, and it was because of this knowledge she was keeping out of the way. What should he do? He was work ing in the dark. It would be better for him, better for the marquis him- self, if he would confide in Gerald, and leave him free to seize on any chance of saving him. But the mar- quis evidently did not mean to speak. Gerald knew that the silence which the marquis had observed would be •maintained. He was the kind of man who would stand up and receive the death sentence without a word if he thought that word would drag Elaine, the woman he loved, into the miserable case. As he weakest along he thought that he would disregard the marquis' im- plied injunction, and commence a search for Elaine; but then, again, ha feared that if he did so, and she were to be produced in court, her knowledge of the crime would be dragged from her unwilling lips by the clever counsel for the prosecu- tion. That terrible cross-examination! He had looked on, at it so often and seen the reluctant witness compelled. bit by bit, step by step, to tell all he knew, and sometimes more. No 1 The marquis was right. Elaine must be kept out of the case. And still the question remained unanswered ; what was he, Gerald, to do ? Was he to remain completely powerless, handcuffed and fettered by the mar- qulsguilt?tacit tacit acknowledgment, of his He felt that it would lie impossible to face loving. tender-hearted May with this terrible dilemma crush- ing the life out of him,. He turned c;veay% from the road leading to the rectory, and wandered, still think- ing and badgering his brains, to- ward the Castle. . As he entered ley the west gate, he het.hought him that he bad not yet visited the scene of the mur- der, and though he could (oregge no possible advantage In going` -there, he resolved to make his way to the bridge—the bridge round which a crowd of curious people had hung from morn to night since the an- nouncement of the murder. The grounds seemed strangely de- serted. There were no gardeners at work—they were discussing their master's fate up at the inn. A sol- itary groom moodily exercising a horse—the marquis' favorite! — was tbe only human being in sight ; and as be came in view of the Castle he 'saw that the blinds had been pull- ed down. It had all the appearance of a house ot death. And only a few dare since it bad been so full of life and happiness. As he passel in front of tbe marble steps leading to the, terrace, Mr. Ingram, who was standing on the terrace reading the latest particu- lars of the murder in the London Telegraph, mane down 'the steps, thrusting the paper in his pocket, and accosted Gerald with "subdued eagerness. "Anything fresh, sir ?" he asked. Gerald shook his head. "No," he said, gravely. Ingram shook his head. and sighed. "Most dreadful case, Mr. Locke," he t I e (To be continued.) s DO FISHES HEAR? Tho Wise Men Think That Most of Them Only Sound. "Hearing and Allied Senses 'in Fishes" is the title of the latest bulletin issued by the United States Fish Commission, which is the work of Prof. G. H. Parker, professor of zoology in Harvard University. The bulletin is a result of investigations carried out by the doctor at the Government laboratory at Wood's Hall, Mass, which proved of swab in- teresrt that the Fish Commission de- elided to issue a bulletin on the subject for the benefit of persons In-. terested in ichthyo,ogy and piscicul- ture. The most striking feature of tbis paper is that in it Dr. Parker has .revived the old Gelation as to whether fish "hear" or "feel" sound, a question that has lain dormant ever since 1895, and only lately, revived through certain investiga- tions made.by the learned Harvard ichthyologist. Dr. Parker first review's the work of Kreidl, who,' as he states, car- ried out a series of experiments with the view of testing the pow-, ors of hearing in the gold fish in 1895. Thies species was chosen be- cause •'of the ease with which it oould be kept in the laboratory. and, further, because it is gne of those fishes that have long been re. puted to come at the sound of a bell. After an extended aeries of ex- perimente, Kreidl (1895) concluded that normal gold fish never re- sponded to sounds produced either. in the air or in the water, though they do react to the shock of a sudden blow given to the cover of the aquarium. Individuals+ rendered abnormally sensitive by strychnine gave no response to the sound of a tuning fork or a vibrating rod, even when theee were in contact with the water, 'though the fishes responded at once 'to swab light shocks as tap- ping the aquarium, eta., or even clap- ping the hands vigorously in the air. To tat whether these responses were dependent upon the auditory, nerves Kreidl removed these nerves and the attached ear sacs from a number of individuals, and after poisoning them, with strychnine, sub- jetted them to stimulation by sound. In all cases they wore found to re- spond precisely as the poisoned ani- mals with ears olid. Kreidl therefore concluded that gold fishes do not hear by the so-called ear, but that they react to sound waves by means of ' en especially developed cutane- ouie sense, or, to put It in other words, the gold flea feels sound but does; not lieit. i L . ; : ' , . Reviewing his experiments in great detail, Dr. Parker concludes finally that the mackerel, menhaden and a number of other fish are not only possessed of auditory facul- tiea and chane, but they are able to heA-F and not to feel .mounds,, al-' though in the majority of fisheb he admits that Kreidl is right in as- suming that they "feel" rather than hear sounds. Washington Post. 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