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A TAUS OF WOMAN'S LOVE AND
WOMAN'S PERFIDY et .11 .0L.
"Most dreadful case, Mr. Locke," he
mid gloomily, "I can't believe yet
that it's true -I mean, sir, that any-
thing of the kin$ has happened."
"It is hard to believe, yes," assent-
ed Gerald, looking at the groand that
the man might not see his despond -
"It is, indeed, Mr. Locke. To think
that the marquis -one of the highest
In the land, sir -should be lying in
prison charged with murder ! Of
course I know, he fe innocent, but it's
the nisgrace of being suspected of
such a crime, to sae nothing of being
in prison, that knocks me over. Just
think of such a noble, warm-hearted
man being accused of such, a dreadful
deed. Why, look at his friendship for
the signor 1 Do you think that a man
' who would saddle himself for life
with a poor blind man -and you know
how attentive, and gentle, and
thoughtful he is with him -is the kind
of man to stab a fellow; oreature in
the back? Oh !"-and Mr. Ingram
burst out with a passionate oath -
"it .drive's me mad to hear people
taik about it. But It will all come
right, Mr. Locke!" And he looked at
Gerald anxleutsly.
Gerald looked down.
'"Yes -we hope so," he said. "Yes,
certainly,"
"Hope so ! exclaimed Ingram.
"Weill and he swore again, "if any-
thing happens to the marquis, Mr.
Locke, there will he two murders in-
etead of oriel"
"Hush!" said Gerald, glancing at
the windows warnieoly, for In -
gram's voice had grown terribly, dis-
tinct in his indignation.
"Oh, you needn't be a.fraid of any
one hearing me, sir," he said bitter-
ly, "Lady 'Scott is lying Ill -quite
prostrated -in her rooms in the
south wing, and otherwise the house
is nearly empty. There was no use
in keeping a pack of servants wail-
ing and creeping about the place, de-
claring they, saw ghosts, and the
rest of it, and I packed them off.
Not, mitre, that any, of them believed
his lordship guilty!! No, every one
of 'em thinks as I think, It's my be-
lief that many of them would have
taken his place if that had been pas,
Bible, for," bitterly, "with all his
wildness and evil temper, his lord-
ship had a knack of winning the
heart of everybody in the household.
You never heard him bully and blus-
ter as some of your goody-goody
men do 1 No ! It was always) a smile,
and a kind ward, however sad he
might be, and until Miss Elaine came
he was nearly, always sad and ab-
sent-minded."
Gerald Locke looked up.
"Why?" be asked.
• Ingram shook his head.
"1 can't say. sir. No one &news.
There was something in his past
fife -up there in London most like
-which seemed to change and al-
ter him. Haunted him, one might
say."
Gerald Locke pricked up his ears.
Everything, the smallest detail of
tale life of the man he had under-
taken to save from a shameful
death', was of moment to him.
"You know nothing of it 7" he
asked, earnestly, "If so -but I need
not tell you how important it is
that I should know of anything,
however apparently trivial, which
might throw a llghrt on the dark
deed."
"I don't knew) No one knows"
said Ingram. "Not even the valet.
I've gone so far as to ask hien if
he had ever heard of anything hap-
pening to the marquis that might
MAKE BABY FEM., GOOD.
baby?s temper depends upon how
he feels. If ailing he will be cross,
worry the mother and annoy every-
hodyr in the house ; if feeling well he
will be bright, active and happy. It
ie easy, to keep your baby feeling
good by profiting by the experience
(of mothers who give their little ones
Baby's Own Tablets. Goo of these
mothers, Mrs. C. W. Shore, Castle -
eon, Ont., ,eaAyls: "Our child, eight
months old, has aiway,ls been trou-
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ciYle from two .doctoris and tried
other remedies without benefit. I
then leant for a box of Baby's Own
Tablets and found them just what
was required. free child is now ail
right and is doing well." •
Indigestion, mac, conetip,a,tion,
diarrhoea, simple fevers, In fact ail
the minor ailments of little onos are
ens'ed by Baby's Ow,b 'Ilablete. They
alwalyls do good and cannot poesiblg
do Harm, laid may be given to the
gaungeet Infant With perfect safety.
Mold by druggists or direct by mail,
mt l 5c a box, byl eddz+eeetng the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co.. Brookville,
have made him so quiet and gloomy
iK."
"Well 7"
"Well, he doesn't. He's been with
him far years. No one leaves his
lordship's service unless he's oblig-
ed. Strange that, for a man who's
given to stabbing in the bac—Mena
it ?" he put in, sarcastically. "The
only thing he remembers is that at
one time some years back - the
marquis gave him a .long holiday,
and said he was going to travel.
The valet thinks his lordship went
abroad, but he might have gone to
Glengowrie, the place in Scotland,
you know=•-"
"I know-. Well ?"
"His lordship was away, wherever
he was, for ,nearly two years , and
all that time this man never heard
from him. His wages were paid by
the solicitors in London, and they
told the valet to let them have Ms
address. But not one word came from
the marquis, though he was not in
the habit of keeping his whereabouts
secret, and had always taken the
man with him."
"Yes !" said Gerald, seating him-
self on the stone rail of the steps,
and listening intently. "Well ?"
"Well, sir, the marquis came back
at last from wherever he was, and
telegraphed to the valet ; and the
mai went up to London to him. He
found the marquis a changed man."
"Howl?"
"Well, to use the valet's owns
words -he was telling me this
last night in his ,room ; the poor fel-
low; is as cat up as tf the marquise
were his own brother -the change
consisted in this: Before he went
away, his lordship was gay and
light-hearted tri• all his wildness ; but
now, 'after he had come back, all the
light-heartedness had gone, and he
seemed ten years older. He still
went about town, even prayed a bit
-ail the Nairnes were fond of cards,
Mr. Locke -but he seemed to take
no interest in anything. And
the restlessness, the Wander-
ing Jew business which the peo-
ple talk so much about, began. The
valet tells me that it was not at
all an unusual thing for Ms lord-
ship to start for the Continent, or
Norway. or anywhere, at a mo-
ment's notice. He'd come down
here sometimes quite as if he meant
to stay, and after a few hours, or
a day or two at meet, it would
be, 'Field, pack the portmanteau;
I am going to -night"
Gerald Locke nodded.
""I kno'wl ; I nave Beard of his rest-
lessness,"
"Yes, and that wasn't all. Before
this time the marquis was fond of
the society of ladies; quite the la-
dies' man, Field says, and a great
favorite with them. And no' wonder.
You'd find it hard tot match his
lordship for make and face, Mr,
Locke."
Gerald nodded again.
"Go on. All this is important, and
may help me. Mr. Ingram."
"Well, Or, 1 nope to 'eked it may!
Field assured me that after he had
come back the marquis shunned
ladies' society. If he went to one
of their scares or receptions or
balls, or whatever you call them,
of theirsoirees or receptions or
two, e and go to the club and stay
th.erplaying cards or billiards.
And he wouldn't visit at country
places as he used tel do. A complete
change seemed to have come over
him. He was quite altered. Field
says that sometimes when he's come
into the room he'd find his lordship
sitting with this head upon his
bands like n. man who'd been ruin-
ed. or lost--."
"Lost ?" said Gerald.
"Well, lost the only woman he'd
ever cared for. Yes, Mr. Locke, I -and
you -can guess that a woman was at
the bottom of It. It's always a
woman. Don't the French say when-
ever anything goes wrong, 'Find the
woman' ? I'm not a French scholar."
Gerald nodded.
"Well, sir, that went on till be came
down to the Castle and saw Miss
Elaine. And then -well, eve know
what 'happened. And for my part I
can only say that I was not sur-
prised. There Isn't a lovelier or a
sweeter Iady in the world than WAS
Elaine, No, Mr. Locke, I wasn't sur-
prised when I beard of tbelr engage-
ment, but I was surprised when I
heard that the engagement was
broken off, and that Miss Mabee bad
run away. That worries me more
than anything. Why, sir, from Whitt I
know and have seen, of het!, If should
have said that she was the last
woman in the world to have deserted
her sweetheart in the hour of his ad -
Varsity 1"
Gerald Locke hung his head.
"Mien Delaino was called away; be -
BOYS OF TO -DAY
the Men of
claim, "I have killed this man ! 'Take
him up, see to him !"
It seemed impossible to Gerald
that such a pian as Lord Nairne
should come back to the house and
leave the dead mail lying out in the
• silent night.
The marquis might be passionate,
vengeful, utterly unable to control
hie temper; but no one who knew
him, however slightly, could deem
him capable of cowardice and mean•
ness.
Gerald stepped off the bridge and
went down the bank, standing look-
ing for a minute or two at the spot
where the body .had been found;
then he went up again, and slowly
made his way back toward the house,
feeling just as helplese as when he
had entered the grounds, and lie
was rather startled at seeing a
man seated on the rustic bench
which stood in a little leafy recess
by, the walk.
It was Luigi Zanti, and he was
sitting with his head leaning on his
hands, his whale attitude eloquent of
melancholy brooding.
He raised his head as Gerald's
step reached his ears, and Ger-
ald was startled by the change
wrought in the blind man's face.
It was, as Ingram had said, as if
the Italian had grown old since his
master and friend had been taken
from him.
"Signor Zanti," he said.
Luigi half rose, then sank rack.
"It is you," Mr. Locke," he said. "I
thought I knew the step, but my
hearing seems confused. I--" He
broke oft with an earnest entreaty
"You have seen him? Has he sent
me any message ? Surely he has sent
one ,word to me?"
Gerald sat down ,beside him.
"Yes," I have jest left him," he
replied. "He did not send you a
message, Luigi, but you will not
think he has forgotten you, because
he has not spoken of you. He speaks
of no ane, indeed, he says very little
al:out anything."
"The strong suffer in silence," mur-
mured Luigi, his hands clasped
tightly, "and he is 4trong. I know-
him.
nowhim. There is no one who knows
him Better -so well -as I do. He
will not speak-" He stopped, as if
he suddenly remembered that he
was not alone.
Gerald looked at him thoughtfully.
"You do not ask me how I am
getting on with the case, Luigi,"
he enid.
Luigi Zanti shook his head.
"No," he ,s ed. "You will do all
the L can ue done."
"I shall try," assented Gerald,
gloomily. 'But it is nerd, uphill
work, when one has so little to go
upon, and when one's own client de-
clines to help."
Luigi did not look startled or al-
armed, but leis head sank still lower.
"He will say northing?" he said,
after a pause.
"Nothing," repeated Gerald, "and
that is the very worst course for
a man in the marquis' situatioa to
adopt toward his lawyer."
"Yes, yes, yes!" breathed Luigi.
as if a heavy weight were press-
ing down upon his chest and mak-
ing it difficult for hint to speak.
"You must do It all alone, without
aid, without—" He stopped, and
Gerald, wito could not resist the
temptation, sprang the question
upob him suddenly:
dry you knolvr where I.D.ss
Elaine is ?"
He saw the blind man start and
wince as he shook his head.
"No. Wby-why do you ask 7"
"Isn't it a natural question'? Shoe
was engaged to the marquis -his
promised wife—"
"She is so no longer," Luigi] broke
In abruptly. "They parted - there
was no blame on either side, re-
member that! She is blameless,
faultless. The. night--"
"'Tie night of the murder," put
In Gerald, distinctly.
Luigi winced again, then turned
has face to Gerald's keen eyes with
a dogged kind of stubbornness.
" On ttie night of the murder, yes.
But what esus, that to do with it,
with tbe-the case?"
"I don't know. Do you?" he added,
suddenly.
Luigi, his face still sot and hard,
-shook his head.
"No. She has nothing to do with
it Let her alone. Do you want
to drag her innocence and party
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fore -before the discovery of tbe
murder," be said, lamely.
Ingram shook his head.
"That's the mystery to mi], sir, "
he said. "Not this murder ; that will
be cleared ap, no doubt. It must
be bleared up: But that Miss Elaine,
the kindest, the nicest lady we
know, should leave him just at the
beginning of this trouble!"
Gerald Locke was silent for a mo-
ment and then he said:
"And Lady Scott is ill, you say?"
"Yes, sir, quite knocked over. She's
a. proud Lady, Mr. Locke, and this
carting the marquis off to prison
has just knocked her over."
"And 5lgnor Zanti ?"
Ingram shook his head,
"Pre ars sorry for him as for any
one, excepting the marquis. He-
tbe signor -is just heartbroken. It's
dreadful to see him. ' They talk
about a man's hair turning grey in
a single night ; well, Mr. Locke, if
hie hair Hasn't turned grey, the
signor has grown old in a single
night."
"I am going to the bridge," said
Gerald.
"Yes, sir ? It's pretty quiet , there
now, but after the news spread the
place was thronged. What the
fools expected to see I can't im-
agine. They just carne and stared
at the bridge and the stream as if
they expected to have
the whole murder played out
for them. or the dead man's ghost. I'd
go with you, but I'm waiting for the
head keeper, Davie Everything seems
at sixes and sevens. T.wo of the under
keepers gave notice this morning.
There is nothing I can do for the
marquis, I suppose, Mr. Locke?"
Gerald said no, that there was no -
tilling Mr. Ingram. could do, and as he
walked on he reflected bitterly how
little he himself could do.
'He passed through the shrubbery
and into the little glade or opening
before the bridge, and then on to the
bridge itself, and stood looking down
at the stream, which was bubbling-
along
ubblingalong as giddily auci light-heartedly
as ever, singing blithely as it had
sung while the Gleed of blood was be-
ing done. d
Gerald looked round lilm, though of
course there was nothing to be glean-
ed by inspecting the scene. As Ingram
had said, theme had apparently been
no struggle, no conflict. Charles Sher-
win had been killed at once by that
sharp, swiftly dealt blow of the gro-
tesque dagger. '
The rail of the bridge was a Pow
one utile more than two feet high.
Pho. murdered men had evidently
staggered back against it as the dag-
ger struck him, a,nd Rad either over-
balanced or been puslied over be the
hand that had dealt the stab.
There again ! Gerald could not
bring himself to imagine the
marquis guilty of thrusting his
victim into the stream, or even
leaving him there. He wires far more
likely, to call for aassistenoe, and ex -
into
into cine shameful glare of a .court
of )uetice. Let her alone, T say)",
HIs voted grew stern and angry,
"Sire has suffered enough. Besides,"
and he ,seemed to control bimselif
with a great effort, "she could do
no good. She could not help him,
if you were to find her and drag
her into the witness 'box. Remem-
ber that-"
"Ho -w do you know that ?" said.
Gerelele in a 'low voice. ' n
Luigi let has head fall again.
"How do I itnow ?" he repeated
slowly, cautiously his hands trem-
bling. "How could she help him ?
She know -s nothing 'of It. She was
In lied. Gerald Locke, you have .not
sent for her?" ,and he turned his
head swittry, with a look of terror
on Ms white face, which was not
lost on Gerald.
"No, I have not sent for her, for
the hest of all reasons," he replied.
"I do not know where she is. No one
knows. Nothing has been heard' of,
or from, her since she left, the morn
ing after the murder."
Luigi drew a long breath of re-
lief as it seemed to Gerald.
"But of counse, I could find her,"
he went on moodily. "I !irtended do-
ing so. I had made out an adver-
tisement for the papers--"
Luigi raised his head and listened
breathlessly.
"But the 'marquis has fai•oidden
me to insert it."
Luigi sighed heavilly, and let his
head fall again with an expression
of resignation.
"He is right." he said at lasts;'
"he is right. It -if Elaine were your
sister, Gerald Locke, would you wish!
her to appear in this ? Would you
not do all, risk all, rather than
her purity should be sullied by con-
tact with alt this shame ?"
"I don't know," said Gerald,
watching the white, haggard face.
It depends. If I thought she could
throw any light upon it, help to
clear up th'e mystery, and save an
innocent moo, even though she were
my sister, I should expect her and
desire her to come forward."
There was silence far a moment„
then Luigi said in a low voice :
"And if she could not save him ?"
Gerald was silent. Was It possible
Luigi Zanti knew something of, the
truth, and he, too, desired Elaine's
absence ?"
"And if she could not sa.ve him ?"i
repeated Luigi with melauscholy, ear-
nestness.
"Then she is better away," said,
Gerald, :with a sigh that was almost
a groan. "Luigi, I see -I should bei
blind -oh, forgive me !"
"Go an:"
"I cannot help seeing that you
know -You know something. Can
yon not tell me ?"
Luigi shook his head doggedly.
Gerald Locke ,}aid his hand upon
tbe blind man's thin ,arm.
"Consider, far God's sake, coneid"
er I" he said solemnly,. "This Is not
a dight thing, It is a matter of life
or death 1 Of life or death ! You know;
the evidence that has been brought
against him."
"I know .t -yes," responded Luigi
;with a stifled moon.
"It is -damning! As it stands,
with nothing further to strengthen
it, it may be sufficient to -to con-
demn him. 'You understand ?"
"My; God! Yes, I understand,')
moaned Luigi, the great drops of
sweat standing on his white brow.
"And neither he, who knows all,
nor gou, who know something, wilt
speak. Do ,you intend to remain sil-
ent ? Do you mean to say nothing
till 'the 'verdict -`guilty, !'-has been(
pronounced ? For Heaven's sake,
Luigi ,if you ca,n say, one 'wore/
that may help me save your friend -
he !was your friend ?"
"A brother could not be dearer toll
me!" fell from Luigi's white lips.
"Weil, then 1" urged Gerald.
, 1 , (To be Continued,) t
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