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His was. the same 'birthright, even though he had not chosen fritter it away in small love affairs, in the flirtations of sal- ad days. Yet he was not different from others. Deep down in his be- ing there was a "passion .as strong and compelling as it is given to any man to feel; chainede.,perhaps,. by !reason of a certain discriminating fastidiousness, a religious sense of offering it in its entirety, but tearing now at its chain wildly, madly. Some breath of wind, a strain of music, a fragrant memork, perhaps the ling- ering sweetness of that kiss upon his lips, had wrought. him an evil turn. As he stood there 'he felt the slow fire burning up .in his Iveins. There was but one woman in this world for him, whether he died to -morrow or lived to the full measure of his days. Weren't the byWays of the world fill- ed with men whom opportunities had passed "by? His hand crept to his waitscoat picket. Once ;more he felt the key which Mary had asked him to keep for her as they had entered the restaurant. A crowd of bewilder- ing, 'magnificent, quivering thoughts struggled into his mind. He thrust them down, onlypto find them leap up again, stronger and stronger ev- ery time. He stood like a man at bay, fighting with 'some unchained thing in his life of whose very exist- ence he had scarcely dreamed. Again and again he 'threw lhirriself into his chair and struggled with his wOrk. It was the .yery vainest of efforts. Some new power possessed him; some new, invincible force was stupefying his will. He rose and crept out into the hall. 'Silently though he went, 'Parkes heard him and glided to his side. "You are going out, sir?" he de- manded. "For a little time'," Jermyn an- swered. "Will you dress, sir? 'Tour things are all ready." Jermyn shook his head. "I 'il'l go as I arm Get me my coat and hat." He passed out into the night. The air was soft, the broad streets were packed with motor cars and taxi- cabs and electric "broughams,. Women •in snowy -white opera. cloaks, bejewel- led, 'beautified 'by the impression which was all one could gather of themleaned back amongst the cush- ions; well satisfied men sat by their sides. A boy and a girl drove by in a hansom, with their arms unblush- ingly around one another. There were couples walking arm4n-arm a- long the pavement and 'whispering as they went. It' was some magic that was in the atmosphere' that night, some sorcery which had start- ed the call to which for so long his. blood had failed to respond. "Burley Court," he told the man. CHAPTER XXIII Sybil drew the reading lamp a lit- tle nearer to her and opened a copy of her part. Her little flat was on the topmost floor of the building, and at eleven o'clock the street out- side was almost deserted. Her maid had gone to bed. Sybil's solitude was "Immeasurable and complete. The very quietness 'beguiled her thoughts a- way from her work. Calm and self- possessed though she tried to remain throughout the days, it was these lonely hours which she . sometimes feared. To -night the battle was to begin afresh. She felt -them coming, all those demons of regret and mems ory against which she seemed to 'be fighting always a losing battle. She rose to her feet and looked half wild- ly around her. If only there could he escape! • The clock ticked steadily on, a lit- tle piece of coal fell on to the hearth and sizzled out. There was no sound upon which she could focus her at- tention, no way' of escape from the thoughts which were already quick- ening the hefting of her heart. Then something happened., sotnething en- tirely unexpected. The lift stopped at the. flat below. Some one stepped out and commenced to ascend the few remaining stairs. , Sybil glanced at the clock. A visitor at such an hour was an impossibility. She moved to the sitting room door and stood with it open in her hand, waiting for the hell. But there was no bell. A key was fitted into the lock, the door was slowly opened. A little cry broke from her lips, a cry which died away 'before it was half uttered. It was .Jermyn who entered. Her lips, 'faltered his name. She gazed at him in blank astonishment. He closed the door behind him. Then he s.ameroftly towards her and pan- ed 'by her side into the sitting room. All the time her eyes never left his face. There was a change there, something she did not understand. "Mary gave me ter key to take care of to -night," h6" whisrpered. "But why have you comes -snow -- at this time of night?".. His eyes told her. There was a new thing there, something which half gladdened and half terrified her. "Because I couldn't help it!" he 'cried hoarsely. "Because I couldn't keep away! All the time this key has been burning in 'my pocket; and there is something which you must be told, something which was there before in like a black shadow all the 'time we. sat, at dinner, something haste tried to strangle but can't, something I must tell you to -night." "Something neve?" she faltered. "Oh, my God! Something more?" 9 am going to marry Lucille de Sayers." (She shrank a little away yet 'she did not seem to wholly understand. There was a certain stricken horror in her face, but her chief expression was still one of bewildtrmer.t. '"You are going to marry the Duchesse de Sayers -to marry her? I don't understand, Jermyn." "I am going to marry her," he muttered, "very soon." "There is some reason for this?" she asked 'with trembling lips. "There is," he answered. - "You must tell me at once," s'he insisted -"at once, mind. I thought that I had enough to bear, but this -tell me, why are you doing it?" "Because she knows'!" Jermyn said slowly. (Sybil for a moment was stupefied, her brain seemed to refuse to work. Then she began to laugh -a queer little' unnatural sound. "Because -she knows.," she repeat- ed. "Jermyn went on. "I couldn't believe her myself at first, but she is in earnest. She' 'knows and she insists." 'She drew Jermyn towards a chair and seated herself on an ottoman by his feet.. "You 'poor man!" she murmured with 'quivering lip. "If only I had never come .on that ill-fated visit! jermyn, doesn't ittseem all too hor- rible? That man --oh, how terrified' I have been of him! He is dead, so what I am going to say m'u'st sound horrible, and yet it is the truth; it is. my one consolation by day and 'by night. Her was a brute -he was not fit to live." "You are right," 'Jermyn admitted almost eagerly. "It was the pen- dulum of justice which swung. Aynes- worth deserved his fate. Yet you and 'I must carry the burden of it on' our 'shoulders all our days." "Does she know," Sybil asked, "that you -that you do not care?" iHe laughed hardly. "She knows," he reminded her, "that on the morning of that day I told her that 'I was the happiest man on earth because you, the only wo- man .whorn I ever 'Rived, had promised to marry me. She knows at least that I am not eapricions." "Is it that she cares,. do you think." '"In her, way," Jermyn replied, "yes in her way she tares." 'How did she -find out?" "Her hand was down at bridgr. She walked along the terrace," he answered wearily. "Oh, she knows right enough! And, Sybil, she isn't quite like other women. She`isn't altogether English., you know. She is full of queer passion's and humours. I 'believe that she was ton the very point of telling the truth that night." Sybil covered her face with her hands. "Sometimes it all seems too much for me," she said quietly. "-Night after.night I sit here and the tortur- ing thoughts come, and. it seems to me that .no one was ever so miser;.' able, that no one ever could be so unhappy. Now there is this -you are going to marry!" "Don't talk as though it were a matter of choice, for God's sake!" he exclaimed. "I marry to save " "Don't!" she interrupted. • "I marry to keep a bargain, then," he wept on. "I marry to seal that woman's lips, I wish to Heaven I 'had wrung her neck before I had ever let her come to Annerley!" 'Sybil in those few moments looked like a woman for whom the, storms of life were over, a woman who had suffered so greatly that she had pass[ ed through to the other side. She we:, very quiet and very pale, her voice seemed to have become monot- onous; she seemed to he speaking and thinking mechanically. "Jerilyn," she said, "in the future it is quite certain that I shall not see very much mope of you. To -night, then, I will tell you tvly I was terri- fied to death of Lord Lakenharn; will tell you why he transformed me into a mad woman that night in the billiard -room." "Ay," Jermyn assented, "let me hear! Not that it makes any dif- ference now, but between us, at least, let there ,'be absolute truth." "My success on the stage," Sybil continued, "was a fluke. For six 'months before my engagement et the Imperial Theatre I was more or less half starved and all that time Mary was terribly ill. The woreterteonth of my life was when I was with a little stock company at Blackpool. You remember the page J cut out of the illustrated paper. Yes, I can .see you remember. It. was because 'that month at Blaekpool was men - tinned. It was before Lord Laken - ham remembered. Blackpool would have brought it all hack to him." "You understand," Jerilyn inter- rupted hoarsely, gripping at her hand, "not a word unless it is your own wish to tell mc'?" "It is my own wirb," she assured him. '"It is all very humiliating, but it is not so terrible. It is my own wish to tell you the whole truth. Somehow, as I sit here," she went on, her eyes fixed upoti, the fire, "I seem to have lost all the ordinary feelings of life. Even if it were worse, I could tell you and feel very little. Lord Lakenham was at Blackpool. It -was before he came into the title but he was well known. Hie made friends with the manager of our company. You know what such men ,are, Lord Lakenharn was a little god to him. /1 -le was allowed to wander about our theatre as he liked. Un- fortunately, he ignored everybody else but he took a fancy to me. It was the affair of a moment only with hinr-ditet one. of ,these hateful im- pulses which come to a man of his I 1 , type -but he pursued me all the time I had seldom a montent's peace. I was half starved, and in the midst of it all the doctor told me that un- less Mary ,was taken to would prob- ably go wrong, she would never be able to stand up' or run about like other 'girls; and, above all things, that must give her nourishing food and plenty of it. All the tiime I felt my own strength going, and I was earning twenty-five shillings, a week! I got into debt and Mary grew worse. I want to tell you this story in as few words as ,possible, so I won't pile on the miseries. All the time Lord Lakenham was pursuing me. All the time, too, he was behaving with dev- ilish cunning. When I had no idea where to look for a meal he sent baskets of hot -house roses. When I was longing for 'beefteafor- Mary he filled my sitting -room with "mime osa-or would, have done if I hadn't thrown it into the street. At last the end came. One Friday our man- ager wasn't there. The, show was finished, there wasn't a penny for anybody. , Lord Lakenham came to the rescue. He gave everyone the money to get back to London, and then he turned to me. What was there left? I "borrdwed fifty pounds from him and told him he cd'uld come • .'Lonslon in a ,fortnight and -and I would repay himp." • For the first time her voice broke a little. Jermyn held his peace with an effort. It seemed', to him that a live hatred was blazing in his heart for a dead man. "I went to London," she continued. "I put Mary into a 'private hospital. I paid -paid everything to start her there properly. There was a slight operation and in a fem.days she was a different' child. Then that engage-, meat at the Imperial Theatre came,' by the wildest of accidents. When opened the papers the next morning I•could have screamed'. 'I was a suc- cess.' The struggle was over. And behind it all ' there was -you know, what. Then I made up my mind -I would not pay. I think that in 'my heart'I never meant to pay and live. I left my trodim"s hurriedly and. moved to another part of London. I took no notice of Lord Lakenham's letters or his telegrams. I hid: I had only one fear, and that was that he would do -me to the theatre and recognize me. I had changed my name, I alt- ered the fashion of doing my, hair, I altered my appearance as much as I possibly could. I dressed extrava- gantly and in a different style, on purpose. I tried' to get as far away as could from the white, half-starv- ed little girl of Blackpool, in case I should see him anywhere. At first he wrote me continually. He even advertised in the theatrical papers. Then his father •died, he came into the 'title and there was silence. 'He forgot, of course. I saw him several times with musical comedy young ladies, but I had passed out, of his mind. I never met him face to face again until that day on the platform of Wickombe Arinerley station when Isea,me to visit you, and when I saw him, there I very nearly turned a- round and ran 'back home." Jermyn drew a long breath. "It isn't so terrible, Sybil," he said quietly. She war satisfied. They both, for a moment, revelled in a feeling of comparative content. "In a way, it isn't," she confessed, "but never sent him back the fifty pounds. I was afraid. I soon saved the money, but I couldn't tell how to let him have so that he couldn't trace the sender, so I gave it to the Actors' Benevolent Fund anonymous- ly with his initials." 'He shook his head at her although his eyes were kind. "Little girl, little girl," he said', "why didn't you tell mi. the whole store directly you arrived at Anne:' - ley? I could only see that you were terrified. It is all harmless,, enough. Life has its terrible side for some people and Fate chose to set you down in a hateful place. You...eould,n't have done anything else." "Oh, I was d fool not to tell you!" Sybil confessed. "I wish you cdeld have seen into my heart. It was you, 'dear Jermyn, of whom I was afraid. Can't you understand, too, that in those first days, in these first hours of that wonderful life, when you told me 'that you cared and all of a sud- den everything was so "'han•ged, the tlfought of Lord Lakenham andhis admiration was like a hateful, a hid- eous discord? You were so different, jermyn, and mixed with all my love was just a little fear id' you. I had always hoped that ri were some feCi't;' men in the world like you, but you were the first whom I had met, and I was afraid that when you heard of those ugly days I should come toppling down in your thoughts. You know that 1.,have leen good, dear -you would believe' that -hut you have so much beautiful sentiment. I felt that even the thought of those things and of Lord Lakenham would somehow destroy the twenty of those first few days." "Little lady," he murmured, "aren't 'human like other men'? Could you really have thought me such an in- tolerable prig?" "Oh,t'I was wrong -wrong!" she admitted sorrowfully. "I just went by how I felt, I wouldn't think -I wouldn't use my brain, But, of course, it was a fallacy. Because we were living in a Paradise, it was fool- ish to imagine that one could shut out the knowledge that marry people in the world like Lord Lakenham, live in pigsties. 'But I was so happy to have found my little corner in life, and I- was so terribly afraid of los- ing it." 'She was sitting on the arm o his chair now, her hands clasped her eyes fixed upon her interlooke fin- gers. He leaned over her, his fin - gem touched ;her filmUlder. %e room was going Mind, lat. mese had men to plan tireir limes' with tElir brains? Those might do that who were immune against the great, forces of the world, "'Sybil," he whispered, "it's all 'ter ruble, but to -night, as 'I sat in my room, ,something Caine to me, some new thing, se:seething I den% under - Stand even now. Only it seemed so big and it made everything else seem so Small. I couldn't keep away from you. I• felt that I Must tell you ev- erything and tell you this. Sybil, 1 have promised nothing but my name, I will giva. nothing but my name. Sybil, for me all my days, for all the days Of my life, there. is no other woman but you!" She shivered a little. He dropped on one knee by her side. The con- sciousnesis of her near presence set .him, quivering like a boy, his arm half -hesitatingly went around 'her waist. err "Dear," he went on, "look up. There isn't anybody else in the world I love -there isn't anything else I shall ever desire except you -your kisses, the feel of our arms, the light from your eyes. There is no one else with whom I could even walk in the gar- dens of Paradise." She was tremblilig violently. Her hand stole out as though to keep hire away. • "Jerralyn," she, faltered, "we aren't like that -Jou or I. Oh, I have, loved you so much becauSe I know that you 'belong to the 'wonderful world, and it's the world have struggled so hard to keep my little place in through all the troubles!" "Should we lose it?" he demanded. "Once I should have answered very decidedly, but that was before' I car- ed, before I knew what a wonderful thing love is, love Which• comes but once in a lifetime, which one knows is eternal. There isn't a thought comes now from my heart worth haelng,. Sybil, that hasn't a little of you in it. There isn't a beautiful place I can look into without finding it einpty unless you are there." ,She turned her head; she looked at him wildly. Her lips were quiv- ering,, her eyes . were full of the strange things. "Jerilyn!" He caught her into. his arras. His lips followed hers as her head. sank back. Then they heard a little voice quite close, and a little clapping of hands. '"Hurrah!" For a moment they remained as though turned to stone. Slowly Sybil opened 'her eyes., raised her head and looked around.' 'Mary was standing in the open doorway of the room, in her nightgown., She beamed upon them with the air of one who has Made a delightful discovery. "Oh, I am 90 glad that you two are friends again!" she exclaimed. "I thought I heard' voices and I just peeped in to see. .You didn't even hear me open the d.00r. You silly people! I do believe 'that you've just made up a quarrel." , • She came a little further into the room, helped herself to an apple from a dish, and sat and looked at them, swinging her sliPpered feet. `I am so ilad really," she went on, "because Jermyn, you will be able to look after Sybil, won't you, while I am away at boarding school and she won't 'be nearly so lonely then," "Yes," Jermyn answered, "I shall be able to do that." "Whatever' made you come so late at night?" the child asked, selecting a place to bite at her apple. "I came to bring 'back the key you gave me to take care of," Jerm- yn reminded her. "What jokes!" Mary exclaimed gleefully. "I didn't ask for it back on purpose. I thought perhaps you'd have to come. But I am glad that you and Sybil are quite, quite friends again. You are, .aren't you?" "Yes, we are," he answerel "I think'that we can promise her that, can't we, Sybil?" She smiled at him without meeting 1-th44 eyes. "Of course, T expect I shall like hoarding school," Mary coptinued, "because I love having other girls to play with and talk to and that sort of thing, but the one thing that spoilt it all was that I was so afraid that Sybil would he \TIT lonely when I was gone. Now I shall feel quite happy. Watch me, .Termynl" She threw the core of her apple into the heart of the fire and looked foolish of you? I am thirty-one at him triumphantly. yea rs old, you know. Sybil Cluley "Don't you wish you could, throw as may he anything you like to call straight hs that every time" she her. That is jtist your point of vii w. asked. "lermyn, arc you going to Sc fm n I ennetOtned. pht is the see me off 'to -morrow from Victoria." only Woman I have OTT!' eared for; "I will if I possibly can," he prom- i•ho is the only woman T (ver shall ised. "And I think care f o r " He glanced at. the • clock and stretched out his hand for his hat. Sybil's eyes suddenly met his and there was a wonderful lookin them. "We'll both let him out, Mary, and then I must put you to hod. dear," she sail. Jermyn laid the key upon the table. Mary locked her arms through his. Sybil walked gravely by his other side, but when they reached the door th, *00..40-IWO htt.12,Arayrrinv .fox esnrse TVA ldra 4th4t Flog afre, AP,1011 minntf:,'s late, at 1 yitemvA of 119,virig.rokader9. trot$ 4r40.4.013r cpssful tollette 410,Pid .qui* a noyed„.;11 'have 41,e944., spending• t1 time looking at myself 'in the ,glatAS. Don't you think that" you we:4 like to send the car iaway and walk down Bond Street with me?" • !She turned slowly around. She was wearing a wonderfully Made gown of soft grey.. yelset with chin- chilla trimming, a hat to Match, and grey shoes and stockings. 1"As an artist, now„ My dear Jer- myn, confess that you never saw a more beautiful effect," she went on, arranging a bunch of Parma violets at the bosom of her gown... "If you were at all sensible of the obliga- tions of your position you would feel an amazing desire to emlbrace me upon the spot." She turned to face him 'with her, arms slightly extended. Jermyn, without moving, looked at her a lit- tle grimly. 'Unfortunately,l' he said, "I have never been able to, understand the point of view of the n-ilan who is able to'desire embraces from two women at the same time. I happen, as you know, to care for som'dbody else." The brilliant, provocative look passed suddenly from, her face. An angry light shot from her eyes. oIt is scarcely in the best of taste to remind me of it," she declared quickly. "My retort," he, reminded her, "would be a little Obvious." ,She held out her 'hand. "Please don't go on," she begged. "There will be time enough for us, to quarrel after we are married. The, car is waiting." "I am sorry," Jermyn said, "I have just come toxplain that I can - 'not go out with you this afternoon." 'She stopped short on her way to the door. "And why not?" "I must go to the theatre," he an- swered. "We have been obliged to change the hour of our rehearsal to- day. Miss Cluley had to see her sis- ter off to Brussels this morning. We are rehearsing at three o'clock in- stead of at eleven. I am on my way there now." "Is your presence at every rehears- al necessary?" "Perhaps not, absolutely," he ••re- plied. "On the other hand, it is a great 'pleasure to me, and a compli- ment which I think I owe to my art- istes." "Do you owe nothing to me?" she demanded. "I promised my cousin a week ago that you should go to Mer- chester House' with me this after- noon." "What I owe to you," he said. gravely, "I shall do my best to pay." She came over to him, laid 'her hands suddenly upon, his shoulders and smiled up into his face. She ig- nored his impassiveness. Her lips seemed almost to court his. ,`Jenmyn," she begged, "do not be angry with me. I know that I am foolish and jealous -sick with jeal- ousy of Sybil Cluley. 'It is foolish of, me because I know that you care for her just now and that you think you don't, care for me, 'but if only I could make you believe it, you'll care for me, dear, lohg after ou've forgotten 111e1'.r. She is just a little flash of moonshine. She hasn't•much of a soul; she isn't much of a human being, anyway. Jermyn, you , can take me with you hand in hand, in- to worlds which would be all strange to her, worlds she could never even enter. Don't be foolish, please. Don't give 'away the 'best part of yourself to- her while I am hungering for you: Don't come to me as a harsh, unpleas- ant duty and think of yourself as a. martyr., Aren't I as good looking as she is, Jermyn? People would tell you so. I knees I'm cleverer. She makes herself attractive because she tae„ell else_stage tricks. She can keep herself in the limelight all the time. It isn't a great gift to be able to act erettily, you know, .Termyn. You and I used to agree with Haz- litt. We never believed that the real tile,-reart,‘er burned in the mummer's, i Jermyn remained u n moved. He held his head even a little higher. "Lucille." he said, -you treat me as though I were a boy to be humour- ed all the tint" Mei' obedience to your whims. Don't you think it is a little Lucille -hivered, but she did not move away. Slit' crept Gaon a little closer to him, straining as though to take him into her arms. 'Her eyes' !gentled with hint. "Jermyn,'' she went en, 'ell my life I have cared. I, have aiway- hoped and hoped ;hat some lay you might care a little ton. Do you Idame me relieving that you wiTl? There isn't anyone who could she gave him both her hands. He ,make you Pooh a good wife as stooped and kissed her upon the fore- -hall. I wouldn't hind you to me if had. "Dear," he whispered', "I under- stand --.-I know," Then he kissed Mary " and they closed the door behind him. Sybil stood quite still for a moment, lis- tening to his departing footsteps. Then she caught Mary op in her arms, her eyes were full of tears. "'You dear, emnyeold thipegary exclaimed, as they aortico hack to the sitting room. "All these days and clays when you've been so mis- erable you've never cried once, be- cause I've watched to see;; and now to -night when you are happy -you are happier, aren't you, 'Sybil ,dear ? -look at those silly tears!" 'Sybil smiled as she felt for her handkerchief. • "Life is like that sometimes, dear,' she said, CHAPTER XXIV Jermyn received a somewhat in- peTative note from his fiancee the' next afternoon, and in obedience to its he shortly presented himself in Grosvenor Street. Lucille welcomed him with a slight frown upon her beautiful face. She was dressed for I didn't know' this, so a little com- mon s, nse, (It'arr Sybil ClIdeV soled never lie your wife. You know that. So long as she lives there would al- ways hp theshadow." "Even if I grant you that." he in- terrupted hoarsely, "what difference does it make? I care for her just the same. I am not likely to feel any the kinder towards you because can't marry the only woman I care about." "Dear, it's so impossible, and when things are really impossible they gin - ("rally die away, you know. Think, Jenny -re You used to he very proud of your people, dear. Yot . know them all by name, those last twelve baronets, Lord. of the Manor of An- nerlcy-statesmen, diplomatists, sol- diers• and sailors. They married great. ladies, every one of them." "There is no woman who better deserves her place amongst them than Sybil Cluley," he answered. Her eyes flashed, her lips curled a little. "Even if you believed that," she retorted s -"even if ,you could so far forget the obligation of yOur rate 'as to "put a little comedy • actress up there amongst them, you still could not place a woman there whose hair& BrAC4fel • !" ,;!IAM, twportir 04.4-***, E/Rpter **MO FAD:Afar 0,,,P•p•trrirk...t Kipp, 6 • • • • re * i• • • , • &&& • • BrueeficrId , ,,, • . ",)," • • • • •, Clinton . 4rie •I•P ••• • I. • • 0. • • • • • Loridesboros .. 0000 • • a Blyth Belgrave Wingham Goderieh Clinton Seaforth Dublin. Mitchell Dublin Seafertla Clinton Goderich 1,1;00v 11464 12.19 12.30 12.5Q •••••••••••••,•••• C. N. B." East.' • 6.45 7.08 7.22 '7.33 7.42 West. •• • • • • P.M. 2.30 3.00 0.18 3.31 3.43 11.19 9.32 11.34 9.45 11.50 9.59 12.10 10.25 • C. P. R. TIME TA:BEE East. ' Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto West. Toronto McNaught Walton Blyth Auburn McGaw Menset Goderich A.M. "•5.50 5.55 6:04 6.11 6.25 6.40 6.52 10.25. A.M. 7.40 11.48 12.01 12.12 •• • • • ..... 12.23 12.34 12.41 12.46 were red with the blood of one of your own relations. You couldn't do that, Jerilyn." • He gave a little cry. She had raised her voice. He looked around the 'room, half terrified. "You mustn't talk like that!" he exclaimed. "You can't tell -some one " might have come in!" She shrugged 'hre shoulders. "My dear Jermyn, the very intel- ligent gentleman at Scotland Yard who is now worrying over the Lak- enham murder case, is as perfectly convinced in his own mind of the real culprit as you and I are. The only trouble is that he has no proofs. I am the only person who can be of any use to him. The only proofs that exist in the world are in 'my posses- sion. I am the only person who could."--" She stopped short. Something in his face terrified her. ' She walked to the window and returned. (Continued next week.) Department Bulletins 328 The Grape 332. Forty Years' Experience With Grain , Crops. 333 Tobacco 'Culture. :137 Parasites Injurious to Sheep 338 Hints on Judging 340 Parasites Injurious to Swine. 342 Fee Blight. 343 'New Fruits. 344 The More Important Fruit Tree Diseases. Fungus ,and Bacterial Diseases of Vegetables, Hardy Alfalfa. Hay and Pasture Crops. Amateur Dramatics, The Warble Flies, Pbtatoes, The Peat'. The Raspberry and Blackberry. Top Working. and Repair Graft - in. including-. Budding. The European Corn Borer. Insects ttaeking getaeles. Earn: 1:11derdrainage. In Water 'Supply and Sewage Disposal. Parasites 111,411.11)w= to Poultry. Manures and Fertilizers. • Del ft Horses. Soy Bea ns. Pork on the Eu rot Farm Peelesse. We, taide Gard..nine. 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