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These Women,
by �. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
(Continued from last week),
"'I think that I understand;," Lucille
said rising to her feet. "In any case
you are right --Il can say no miare.".
The maid had already opened the
door. Lucille passed out with a lit-
tle nod. Sybil stood motionless, list-
ening to the opening and closing of
the front door, the rattle of the lift
bel. Then she turned slowly to
e elephong and rantg up Mrs'. Lev-
en. en's house in !Hampstead.
"`Tell Mrs. Lei enden," she direct-
ed the servant who answered it,
"when she returns, that Miss Cluley
has rung up. Say that Miss Cluley
has changed her mind and will be
glad to go to the 'ball. 'She will see
about her costume at once."
CHAPTER XXXIX
Jermyn arrived at St.'Pancras a-
bout eight 'o'claek . a few evening's
later, after a week's stay in Scot-
laiid. He drove at once to his club
and stared a little blankly at the
handful of letters Which the hall -por-
ter handed .him in reply to his eager
inquiry. There was not a line from
Sybil. He lookedi them through once
more and turned somewhat aimlessly
towards the smoking room. Coming
out, he almtost tan into Sir'James.
The latter stopped at once.
"Just back from Scotland?" he in-
quired.
"`This minute," Jermyn replied,
Sir James looked at the little pile
of letters which Jermyn was carry-
ing.
"You will find two notes there from'
me," he remarked.
Jermyn glanced don at them.
"Nothing wrong, I hope?"'
"Nothing at all. I simply invited
you to lunch. There was a little mat-
ter which I -:elt .I should like to dis-
cuss with you."
"What about now?" Jermyn asked.
"Have you dined yet?"
"Just on my way to order a sole
and cutlet," Sir James declared.
"'Come and join me."
"`:I'll wash any hands and be there
in five minutes," Jermyn agreed. "I
had 'better. telephone home too."
"You haven't been home yet, then."
Jermyn shook his head.
"I sent my man on. with the Iug-
gage end came straight here," he ex-
plained. "Order 'something for me,
will you -just the same as you are
having. I am not hungry. I have
been do the train all day."
'He went, to the telephone and grade
a few casual inquiries. Lady An-
nerley, the servant who answered the
telephone believed was dining out.
The car was ordered for a quarter
past eight.
"You will let her ladyship know
that I have returned," Jermyn in-
structed. ."I' shall probably be here
for some time."
'He made his way to the dining -
room and sat down to dinner with the
physician. 'They talked' for a while
on casual topics. Then Sir James
bean slowly to draw near the sub-
ject which was all the time in his
nein d."
"I went, a few nights ago. Jer-
my-n," he said, "to the Imperial The-
atre. 1 knew your play was good,
but I didn't expect to enjoy ft so
niece- Not only is the play good,
but I tell you frankly I think thalt
Miss Cluley is a perfectly Marvellouk
actress."
For the first time Jernvyn smiled.
"She is quite wonderful," he admit-
ted. "I am glad you went. I know
you're not much of a playgoer'."
• "I ami not," Sir James confessed.
"I used to enjoy the old fashioned
sort of thing, but science makes so
many demands upon ,us, nowadays,
that one has very little time of any
sort .for diversion, Besides, I don't
like the modern play, I am sick of
seeing everything from the French.
It isn't wholesome, . In fact, there
are many phases of modern life, Jer-
ilyn which.don't please an old stager
like myself. I am going' to talk to
vola about one for a minute or two
ow,•if I.may."
Jerilyn looked up in some surprise.
"Go ahead, by all means," he said.
'You provoke my curiosity."
"Your wife has consulted me about
ler health." '
Jermyn's face altered slightly. It
vas noticeable that his expression
rad hardened.
"I was not aware that she was un-
-ell," he remarked.
"She is nob unwell," his companion
ronounced bluntly. She is only dy-
nes"
.Jermyn•set dawn -the glass which
re had been in the act of raising to
its lips. His hands were trembling.
Che physician had certainly produc-
d his effect.
"Are you serious, •Sir James?"
"Is it a matter to discuss in any
)then spirit! Your wife, hasn't an
insound organ in her body and yet
he is (lying."
"Wlhat is the matter with her,
hen ? "
"You," the physician replied grave-
' There was a brief silence. Then
fermiyn laughed a little. hardly.
"If you were .e- modern pr actition-
n•, my friend," he said, "I am afraid
should look upon this as something
f a dodge."
"You can call it what you like,"
}re other declared, "You know very
well that I hate all quackery and
hat I am not given to 'sensational
rNeches. I am fond of you., young
Tran, and I am fond of your wife. I
ell you frankly that there is a wast -
ng process going tin inside Lucille,
tgaihst which science is of no avail.
the is fretting herself into the grave.
had to ask her questions. I asked
herrn professionally and she answer -
d professionally, but they tell the
tory, you know."
JSir J"arnes poured himself out a
lase of wine.
n lbmotr-ght Lucille into the w old,"
the continued. "I attended her
throughout her girlhood. I travelled
over to France to see her when she
had typhoid. I do not believe that
she has ever voluntarily consulted an-
other doctor, She has been like one
ofneyeaven childre o me, Every -
thin that I have tot. is the
rtruth ,end More than the
speak, of course, in complete ignor-
ance of any circumstances there may
he between you to explain what, on
the face of it, •seeans so . strange. I
can only deal with facts. Lucille is
•dying:•- She. will die if you do not
save her. 'It is my duty to tell you
this."
!Curiously enough after the first
:;'hock, Jeernyn's ' suoee,eding impulse
was one of anger.
"Look here, •doctor,"• he •said, "sup-
posing there were a cause of offence
!between my wife and myself eo
great that, however strange it may
seem 'to you, there was dishonor in
my 'eves' simulating an affection for
her which I could not feel, do you,
still sit there and, tell me that her
,state of health is my responsibility?"
"I am a doctor and not a philoso-
pher," Sir James. remarked) dryly.
"Honour and dishonour I do not un-
derstand -,-not the modern view of
them., at any rate. The position of
husband and wife has been the same
since the world was made, and al-
ways will be, although the present
generation seems to do nothing but
kick at it. You m,ay alter schools of
thought, you may build up new
standards, establish new cults and
new sects, but you can't do away
with the obligations of the marriage
ceremony. I don't 'wish to know any-
thing more than I do know. It ie
my duty to point out your responsi-
bility, and to -nay thinking, at any
rate, there isn't anything in this
world which could absolve you if
Lucille dies without your making an
effort to save her Shall we
take our coffee outside? I am going
on to a meeting at the hospital."
Jermyn waved him away.
"I'd rather you went," he said
simply. "I want to think,"
Sir James rose from his place •and
for a moment let his arm rest upon
Jermyn's .shoulder.
"I arm an o•Id fool. 1 suppose,"
he declared, "but, Jermyn, there's
only one way out of a tangle, and
there isn't anyone who can show it
you so well as you can find it out
for yourself, if you'll only be hon-
est."
Jermyn, a little later on,' found a
,seclu•ded cornier in the reading room
and threw hineself into an easy chair.
A crowd of hateful thoughts was
pressing, in upon him. There were
things which he was forced.to admit.
Since the day of his marriage it had
been a changed Lucille who had lived
like a shadow at his side. Even as
he sat there, he could think of a
hundred eases of his brutality to-
wards. her. He remembered - his
heart ached with a dull pain when he
i iremrbered the many times •shen
she had made those timid appeals to
hint; the imploring light of eer eyes,
tee :mai, artifices she had used, tee
half frightened entreaties for just n
little tenderness, a word, a tou:.l, i s-
en, of his fingers.
The night before he had left for
Scotlsndi-he thought of it now al-
most with fear -he had lain awake
in his roon'i and he had heard a
strange sound. He had crept to • the
keyhole of the communicating door,
which as yet he had never unlocked,
and listened. Once again he seemed
to hear that sound in the silence
which reigned around liimt-the sound
of a woman moaning and sobbing
quietly through the hours of the
night. . This was a new and.
a terrible thing which had come into
his life, a new tragedy which he had
no idea, at the moment, how/to face.
The time slipped away. He rose
at last a little wearily and made his
way round to the theatre. The per-
formance was just ever and he met
Mr. Levenden in the passage by the
door -keeper's office. ale fancied that
the latter seemed none too pleased to
see him.
"You back, Sir Jtr'myn," the man-
ager exclaimed. "By Jove, I wish
I'd known that ye were going to be
in town! We've d small supper -party
on to -night.. Couldn't' you get off
home," he added, glancing st Jer-
mryn's attire, "and change and join
us later?" •
"Not to -night, I am afraid," Jer-
myn replied; "thank you all the same.
I have been travelling all day. Miss
Cluley hasn't' left, I hope?"
"No, I think she is just prinking
up," Mm. Levenden told him. "She
is supping with u•s."
Jermyn stopped short.
"Suppiir' with you?" he repeated.
"My -Wife and I both think," Mr.
Levenden conitinve'd, "that Miss Clu-
ley has been living much too seclud-
ed a life, I amt thankful to say that
she is beginning to :break through ,it
just a little. 'She is coming to' the
Artists' Ball to -morrow'. Young
Lord Lakenhani is giving a great
supper -party. A connection of yours,
by the way, isn't he, Sir Jerilyn?
You ought to eome. A writer ought
to see all sides of life, you know."
Jermyn,turned slowly round.
"If Miss Cluley is going opt to
suppei'," he said, "I won't wait now."
"'S'he'll like to see you for a 'mom,
ent, I expect," the manager remark-
ed. "Pea -haps she'll be able to per-
suade you to join us."
Jermyn hesitated. It was a queer
little world which seemed crunr}bling
about 'his ears.' '
"Ne, S won't bother her now," he
decided, "I shall see her to -morrow
some time."
Jermyn passed out, just managing
to ese'atile Gerald, who was alighting
froi'n his car outside. He jumped in-
to a taxi and' drove home.
'"Yolan mistress in?" he • inquired
pleehanricallr of Roberts, ars the lat-
,,
•
`t�!dittudt�ta'Si�l��` �'try`tr,eitia;i�,s�rriY�a,ie;.uz:nk
ter'relieved htin of his hat and over-
eoat.
(Her ladyship has not been out this
evening, Sir Jermynee the bugler in-
formed him. '+Sbe was dining at
Dorington House and was on the
point of starting when she felt un-
well. It was just after you had tel-
ephoned from the club, sir. She has
' her !boudoir all the ev-
ening. I beth :fie is there now,
sir."
Jermyn slowly ascended the stairs
and kn eked at the door of the end
room o ,Lueille's little suite. There
was no answer. He turned the han-
dle softly and entered. Lucille was
lying on a couch in "a white ,dress-
ing gown. There was *cine smelling
salts, the evening paper, a novel and
abowl of roses on a smell table by
her side. He closed the door quietly
and and came further into the room.
Then he saw that she was asleep.
He stood with his feet buried in the
thick fur of the white rug, looking
down at her. A curious little pain
pulled at his heart -strings. He was
conscious of a ne'w feeling with re-
gard to her, a sense. of immense, al-
most infinite pity, Even in repose,
her face was so absolutely the face
of a tortured woman. There were
lines under her eyes, hollows in her
cheeks; her neck,too, had gron thin-
ner. She was. ' w
beautiful still, but in
a queerseunearthly sort of fashion.
Suddenly she opened her eyes, and
saw him. It was as therugh a mir-
aele had taken 'place. Her whole ap-
pearance was transformed. Her face
seemed to fill out, her eyes to soften.
She grew at once younger.
"Jermyn!" she cried. "You here?
Has anything happened?"
IHe came and sat at the end of
the sofa. Perhaps something of that
expression with which •he had been
gazing down upon her had already
vanished from . his face, for her first
wild impulse of jey showed signs of
passing away.
"Nothing at all," he answered,
"Roberts told me just now that you
were not well and I looked in for a
moment to see what was the matter.
It is nothing •serious, I trust?"
She looked at hint very wistfully
before she replied..
"No, it is nothing serious," she
assured hien, with a little sigh. "I
:sleep badly. Just as I was going
out td - night I felt a trifle faint. 1
am weary of these dinners. Jermyn
-so weary of them. To -night I felt
that I couldn't stand it. I came up
here and lay down and I must have
dropped off to sleep,' and when I
opened my eyes and saw you, I
thought that it was a dream. You
seemed different, somehow."
The disap•pointmient in her :voice
was pathetic. He held out his hams
and took hers. Again the light leap-
ed up. It was the first tinge' he had
voluntarily touched "her since their
marriage.
e"I am sorry that you don't sleep,"
he said. "Perhaps. we had better go
down to Annerley a little earlier than
we had intended. It has been' a
long season this year and you"ve been
doing a great deal."
"Yes," she murmured, still looking
at him intently, "I am very tired of
London. I am tired of doing things,
I think that I should like it at Anner-
ley."
"Have you had any dinner?" he
asked.
She shook her head.
"I am going to have some biscuits
and milk. Won't you," she added
timidly, "have a whisky and soda or
bell ?"
something? Will you touch . the
IHe obeyed.
"I will have a whisky and soda
there, if I may, instead of going down-
stairs again," he decided.
"Do you know that it is the first
three'we have ever sat in here to-
gether, Jerilyn?" she remarked af-
ter the servant had lift the room,
"and I amnot looking a hit at my
best. If only I had known that you'd
n canting!"
"My dear Lucille," he said, smil-
ing, "what outrageous vanity. You
are wearing ,white, your best colour•
aren't you, and I am suit' your white
:silk }stockings are unexceptionable.
Tell ire, have you done anything
amusing, While I was away?"
"Amusing?" she repeated. "I am
afraid that just now I don't find
anything • in life amusing. You• see
.Jermyn, I have made gathers, mess
of things," she went on. "We wo-
men are gani'blers, you know. I want-
ed one thing so much that I staked
everything in life upon it, and i
lost. There doesn't seam to be any-
thing much left."
.Jerrnryn looked away into the fire.
Wag, this a new battle which he was
called upon to fight -a battle, too, of
confused issues? Wes he losing his
stre th? There was c;rtainly some-
thinsuspiciously like a lump in his
throat.
"I am sorry to find you so de-
preslsied, Lucille.," he said. "Per-
haps-"
"Well ?"
"If there is anything 1 could do,"
he concluded a little lamely.
!She burst into a fit of laughter,
laughter which sounded at first gen-
uinely mirthful but which ende4 in a
little Choke.
"Oh, Jermyn, Jermyn!" s,he cried,
wiping the tears from her eyes, "bless
you for that! I think that I should
have had hysterics in five minutes.
That laugh has saved my life. No,
dear, there's nothing you could do', of
course. What could you? It's nice
of you to eome and sit with me. Come
oftener, won't you? I ani still one
of those very old-fashioned 'women,
you know, who would like to see just
a little more of her Inerband."
She gave him her, hand. He hesi-
tated for a moment and then raised
it to his lips. 'It was as cold as ice.
Her eyes had fallen before his, but
he z"trtild see that she was shaking.'
"I will certainly az�(j see yes
Jthing More of ylqiu,' he 'pllo'1lnise4N "If
you are doing 'nothing tosmorraw, Will
you lune)} with me?"
" Of course," else replied. "It gives
MB just the excuse I was longing for
to throw aver a terribly dell lunch-
eon with ehe Ohaleotes, I e.an •at
least offer them something novel in
the way of •apologies4--tI am engaged
to lunch with my httebend! Excel-
lent! Sleep welt, Jermyn. You muse
be tired 'after your journey. Will you
'send 'i i ' woman along? Knock at.
the door on your left as you go,by."'
Jermyn sat for some time in his
own room, before tlhe open window.
It faced eastward, and the view of
the city by night, with its gradually
dying glamour of sounds, always fas-
cinated him. It was an hour or so
'later before he prepared for bed. He
heard Lucille's maid depart, after
wishing her mistress good -night.
Some time afterlwards he moved soft-
ly towards the connecting door, drawn
there br sonie strange, disturbing ap-
prehension 'which he could not alto-
gether control. He listened painfully,
this fingers digging into his flesh.
There was the same sound, only this
time so low that it was hard to dis-
tinguish it even from where he stood
-the smothered sound of a woman
crying softly to hers'elf. When he
stood up at last his own eyes were
lot. iHe walked back to the window.
The new battle had indeed begun!
CHAPTER XL
Jermyn lunched next day with
Lucille at the Ritz. She was gayer
and in better spirits than she ,had
been for some time., and sho gave
hinr a delightful account in her per='
feat French of two plays which she
had seen in Paris during the last few
days.
"Flo and 'I really went over to 'buy
hats," she told him, "but they were
all hideous: The theatres, though.
were wonderful, I Sometimes I think
that you rather neglect Paris, Jer-
myn."
"I am afraid I do," he confessed,
with real regret. "It does seem so
hard to crows} everything into life."
"Fortunately, life is a sort of ex-
panding quality. It becomes a dif-
ferent thing, something more or
something 'less, for every one of us,"
she remarked. "To our neighbour on
the right, for instance, it means as
many• lunches and dinners as he can
consume without injury to his diges-
tion. And to -why, there's Gerald!"
Jerniyn's face suddenly darkened.
Gerald, looking very smart and
handsome, was showing Sybil to a
little table which had been reserved
for them.. She saw Jermyn and for
a moment she stood still. Then she
nodded brightly and took the seat
with her back towards thein.
"Miss Cluley looks as charming as
ever," Lucille observed. "I see in
the paper this morning that she is
going to the Artists' Ball to -night in
the'costum4e she wore in her first suc-
eess-"Nilitska," the dancing girl,
wasn't it?"
"I believe so," Jernvyn answered a
little absently.
"An excellent thing for Gerald,"
Lucille continued, trifling with her
salad, "to have so charming a young
lady to pilot him through the realms
of Bohemia. ,None of these young
men nowadays, I suppose, are con-
tent unless they are seen somewhere
with an actress, and Miss Cluley is
so wonderfully superior."
"Need we discuss her?' Jermryn
interrupted irritably.
"Why should we?" Lucille smiled.
"I suppose you know that Maeter-
linck is in London? I am going to
meat him this afternoon. Will you
come or is all your time fully occu-
pied?"
"I should like to come very much,
if it isn't too late," Jermyn replied,
"You are going to the professor's, I
suppose?"
She assented.
"I am going very early, as it hap-
pens," she tole! him. "Xmy- asked me
t?s go before the others, and you
know you're always wrlcome. Dear
nee, this place is becoming like a
club?"
She loaned over to talk to some
passers-by. Something of the same
sort happened every few minutes. On
the 11'' way out. Lucille was swept a-
way with a crowd of acquaintances.
Jermyn made his way over to the
table where Sybil aril Gerald were
sitting.
"Shall I find you at home this af-
ternoon, Sybil?" he inquired simp-
1y-.
"I am afraid not," she answered.
"I have promised to go for a short
motor ride with Lord Lakenhanr` and
then 1 must have nary costume for the
hall tried on. To -morrow, if I still
exist, or the next day?"
.Jermyn was puzzled. She met his
gaze quite frankly, but there was
something different. He exchanged
a few more ordinary sentences and
turned away.
"\yly •don't you conic to "my sup-
per -party, sir?" Gerald asked him.
"Mise Cluley is going to be our
bright particular star,"
"I am afraid," .Jerin.y-n replied, ,a
little hesitatingly,-, "that those sort
of things are scarcely in my line."
")lave a try, for once," Gerald beg-
ged.. "You'll find it lots of fun. The
Milan at twelve' o'clock. They've got
an extension."
"Thank you," .Jermyn said. "May
I think it over?"
"You can think it over, but 1 shall
hook you," Gerald insist.:cf. "It's go-
ing to be one of the sights of the
year."
Jermyn rejoined his wife, paid the
visit with her which she had sug-
gested, and afterwards wandered
restlessly back to his club. Lucille
was dining out alone that night -the
date of his return from Scotland had
been uncertain and she had accepted
no invitations for him during the
week. 'Hie entered the house just
,as she, was leaving. ;She paused, for
a moment, in the hall, a glittering
vision of silver and gree-.
"Paris," she remarked. "I had to
go aver to have it tried on. Such a
nuisance -I'm inches thinner. What
do you think of it?"
"Wonderful," Jermyn answered,
truthfully* enough. "It isn't a dress
at all --it's an inspiration."
'How Monsieur Charles would love
yourr' she !sighed. ,"It is abm:ost his
own remark. Personally, it makes
me feel like a mermaid. I have to
feel the weight of my tiara to be
quite sure that it am .properly dress -
(Shen 4***140, v1 aront1.
out waltz a l}Clic >n
ellen%% servant formed 4141#upstairs.
"You wlil eha now, sir," he:'
*sifted, "or will yea dine 'first?"
!"i will change xi4Rw," Jermuyxr1,l.eael
ed. 144
, ,smoking ja.•cket will .do, .
shall epend the e' exii�ng a,t honiie,
He dined in the library, trifled '
some, new books, glanced throe h 'th
reviews and the evening paper, wrot
a . couple of letters. Every now a.
then he found himself looking at th Ms was conscious; of an aeiut
feeling of restlessness. ' There wa
something in his blood which th,
could not analyze; a vague unfaanel
lar sensation which he failed alto-
gether to trace to its foundation. He
thougiht continually of Sylbil. There
was something new between then
•soavequality in her tone when She
spoke to him, something, even, in
the frank way she laughed up into
his face, which baffled him. He thought
of their last partling, of the letters
which he had written her. There
was nothing which could possibly be
misunderstood, yet something had
happened. And all the time there
was background to his thoughts
Thera was Lucille! The book which,
he had been reading slipped from his
fingers, as he lounged in the chair
with his eyes fixed upon the smould-
ering fire. He went over his conver-
sation with Sir James, One by one
those sentences came back to his mind
so ponderously delivered, so weighty,
.so charged with"'.nn insistent, mina-
tory meaning. Lucille's face as he
had seen her asleep the preceding
evening, haunted him. He moved
restlessly in his place and, springing
' up ••'began to walk up and down the
room. It was absurd, he told him-
self. His relations with these two
-Women had been carefully thought
out with due regard to all the cir-
cum!stanees, with due regard to ev-
erything he owed them. Lucille was
paying the price. of her own.wicked-
ness and deceit . . Nevertheless,,
the restlessness grew." He kept
glancing at the clock. At half -past
eleven he could bear it no longer. He
rang the bell.
"Parkes," he ordered, "put out my
dress clothes at once. I am going to
a dance." •
IHe followed the man upstairs pre-
sently. At a few minutes before
midnight he was in the entrance hall
of the Milan. He arrived there just
as Gerald Lakenham drove up with
Sybil by his side. Again Jermyn
felt ,a queer little pang as he ad-
vanced to meet them.
"So, you have, really comet" .she ex-
claimed. "You astonish vie!"
"Why not?" he answered. "You
are here. To me, you know, that was
almost as, astonishing."
"Ah, no!" she objeeted. "Everyt-•
one tells me that I ought to have
been doing this sort of thing for a
long time. It is my metier to be
frivolous.. It is .scarcely yours, is
it?"
Gerald was buy collecting his
party and for these few minutes
they wane alone.
"Something has happened, Sybil,"
Jermyn said quietly.
She shrugged her shoulders. Her
feat 'were keeping time to the music.
She was wearing a wonderful gown,
unlike anything he had ever seen on
her before, and.her maid was fol-
lowing behind with a little bag con-
taining her domino and mask.
"Nothing has happened, dear Jer.._
niyn;" she assured him, "only I think
that I am growing to feel younger.
I am afraid of grey hairs by myself
and moping all day long. Don't you
think I ani wise?"
"But isn't it a little-sudden?'1 he
asked.
"Ah! these changes are always
sudden," she replied.
"It is a change, then ?" he said
swiftly. "Sybil, is' anything chane=
ed between i•ou and me?"
For a moment she n -as her old
self.
1
wath
e
an
h'e
8
e
(Continued next week.)
Holland's Tulip Frenzy
11 is difficult to know what mys-
terious ,,alue in tulip bulbs marl
them the cause of one of histo; y's
maddest speculative frenzies. •
Taking its name from a Tor: =b
word signifying turban, the tulip ,;�`s
introduced into western Europe n v ;
the middle of the lf,th c ntury, Con-
rad Gesncr, who claims the merit of
having brought it into repute -little
dreaming of the commotion it was
shortly afterwards to make in the
w•u•ld-says that he first saw it in
the year l5:i9, in a garden at Augs-
burg, helonging to a man famous for
his coll,ction of rare exotic. The
bulbs were sent to this gentleman by
a friend at Constantinople, where the
flower had long been a favorite.
In the course of 10 or 11 years af-
ter thi period. tulips were much
sought after by -the wealthy, especial-
ly in holland. Rich people at Aans-
terdani sent for the bulbs direct to
Constantinople, and paid the most.
oxteavagant prices for then. By
1h3 -I, the rag,' among the Dutch to
possess them, was o great that the
ordinary- industry of the coun•t'y- was
neglected, and the population, even to
its lowest dregs, embarked in the
tulip trade. As the mania incieassil,
prices augmented, until it was not
uncommon for a merchant to invest
his entire fortune in a few roes. One
rare bulb was bought, in 1636, for
4600 florins, a new carriage, two grey
horses, and a complete set of har-
ness. Payment for another single
root consisted' of four oxen, eight
'swine, 12 •sheep, two hogsheads of
wine, 1,000 pounds of cheese, and
various household goods.
As the demand for tulips increas-
ed, regular markets for their sale
were established on the Stock Ex-
change of Amsterdam, and in Rotter-
dam, Haarlem and other towns.
Gamlhling now became apparent and
the stock-eohbn-s made use of all
the means they knew to cause flus-
tuat.ions in price. Many individuals
grew suddenly rich. Every one im-
agined that the passion for tulips
would last forever, a'nd that the
wealthy from every part of the world
would surd to Holland, and nay what-
ever prices were asked for them. The
riches of, Europe would the concen-
trated on the shores of the Zuyder
Zee, and.. poverty (banished from the
favored clime of lHellandi. Nobles,
citizens, farmers, mechanics, dabbled
$043Ti..ES50
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wiUH Rum i$G'Ant$1-$p-�P
WITH MOM TE BATH s4,a$..
eat. PHONE IPi,EVERY RQO$
ro
in tulips. People' of all grades con-
verted their property into cash, '•and
invested it in flowers. Housee and
lands, were offered in payment of
:bargins made at the 'tulip -mart.
Foreigners became smitten with the
same frenzy, and money poured into
Holland from all direcrtions. The
prices of the necessaries of life be-
gan to rise by degrees; houses and
lands, horses and carriages, and lux-
uries of every sort, increased in
value, and for some months Holland,
seemed the :eery 'ahteelhaun ber of
Plutus. The- operation of the trade
became so intricate that it was' nec-
essary to draw up a code of laws for
the guidance of the dealers.
At last, however, the more pru-
dent began to see that this tally
could not last forever. When it was
realized that somebody must lose
fearfully in the end, 'prices began to
fall. Soon universal panic, ei e4 the
dealers. Hundreds who, a few months
previously, hadbegun to doubt that
there was such a thing as poverty in
the land suddenly found themselves
the possessors of nothing but a few
bulbs, which nobody would buy. The
few who had contrived to enrich
themselves hid their wealth from the
knowledge of their fellow citizens,
and invested it abroad. Many who,
for a 'brief season, had emerged as
nouveau riches were cast back into
obscurity. Substantial merchants
were reduced almost to beggary, and
many a representative of a noble line
saw the fortunes of his house ruined
beyond redemption.
When defaults in pay-ni!ent for con-
tracted purchases became widespread,
the tulip -sellers appealed to the gov-
ernment. But the judges unanimous-
ly refused to interferes on the ground'
that debts, Contracted in gambling
were no debts in law. To find a '
remedy was beyond the power of the
government. Those who were un-
lucky enough to have had stores of
tulips on hand at the time of the
sudden reaction were left to bear
their ruin as philosophically as they
could; those who had made profits
were allowed to keep them; but the
commerce of the country suffered a
severe shock, from which it was many
years ere it recovered,
(Holland's famous flower bulbs,
once the pride of the nation, are now
a drug on the market after having
made fortunes for !many growers.
Recently, in .the Harrlem region, 'hun-
deeds of thousands of tulips, hya- •
cinths and narcissi'wer'e destroyed -
,the object being to reduce the supply
and increase prices.
Annual College Sale
The Ontario Agriculti•al College
annual auction sale will be held at
Guelph, on Wednesday, October 25.
this year's o erring consists of beef
cattle, sheep and swine. No dairy
cattle are being offered as the year's
crop of dairy bulls were disposed of
as, calves.
LONDON AND WINGHAM
South.
WCinghani
I3elgrave
Blyth
Londcsburu
t lin)rani
Bruceficld
Kippen .
Hensall
Exeter
Exeter
llc' isall
J' ippon
Bruceti,-tri
)"limen
North.
Londe: bto.o
Blyth
Belgrave
1Vinghain
Goderich
Clinton
`cafo!•t i
Dublin
lI1tchell
C. N. R.
East.
1?.M.
'1,55
2.11
2.23
2.30
3.013 ,
3.27
2.35
3.41
3.55
A.M.
10,4'2
10.55
11.01
11.0'i
11.54
12.10
12.19
12.30
12.50
A.el. P.M.
(3.45 2.30
7.OS'1 3.00
7.22 3,13
7.33 3.31
7.4'2 3.43
West.
Dublin 11.19 9.:)2
Seafoi•th 11,.34......:., 9.45
Clinton 11.50 9.59
Goderich 12.10 10.25
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
East.
Goderich
Menset
McGaw'-
Auburn
Blyth
A.M.
5.50
5.56
6.04
6.11
6.25
Walton 6.40
McNaught 6.52
Toronto . , 1025
West.
A.M.
Toronto ... , , 7.40
McNaught 11.48
Walton 12.01
Blyth 12.12
Auburn 1223
McGaw 12.84
Menset 12.41.
'Goderich 12.46
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These Women,
by �. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
(Continued from last week),
"'I think that I understand;," Lucille
said rising to her feet. "In any case
you are right --Il can say no miare.".
The maid had already opened the
door. Lucille passed out with a lit-
tle nod. Sybil stood motionless, list-
ening to the opening and closing of
the front door, the rattle of the lift
bel. Then she turned slowly to
e elephong and rantg up Mrs'. Lev-
en. en's house in !Hampstead.
"`Tell Mrs. Lei enden," she direct-
ed the servant who answered it,
"when she returns, that Miss Cluley
has rung up. Say that Miss Cluley
has changed her mind and will be
glad to go to the 'ball. 'She will see
about her costume at once."
CHAPTER XXXIX
Jermyn arrived at St.'Pancras a-
bout eight 'o'claek . a few evening's
later, after a week's stay in Scot-
laiid. He drove at once to his club
and stared a little blankly at the
handful of letters Which the hall -por-
ter handed .him in reply to his eager
inquiry. There was not a line from
Sybil. He lookedi them through once
more and turned somewhat aimlessly
towards the smoking room. Coming
out, he almtost tan into Sir'James.
The latter stopped at once.
"Just back from Scotland?" he in-
quired.
"`This minute," Jermyn replied,
Sir James looked at the little pile
of letters which Jermyn was carry-
ing.
"You will find two notes there from'
me," he remarked.
Jermyn glanced don at them.
"Nothing wrong, I hope?"'
"Nothing at all. I simply invited
you to lunch. There was a little mat-
ter which I -:elt .I should like to dis-
cuss with you."
"What about now?" Jermyn asked.
"Have you dined yet?"
"Just on my way to order a sole
and cutlet," Sir James declared.
"'Come and join me."
"`:I'll wash any hands and be there
in five minutes," Jermyn agreed. "I
had 'better. telephone home too."
"You haven't been home yet, then."
Jermyn shook his head.
"I sent my man on. with the Iug-
gage end came straight here," he ex-
plained. "Order 'something for me,
will you -just the same as you are
having. I am not hungry. I have
been do the train all day."
'He went, to the telephone and grade
a few casual inquiries. Lady An-
nerley, the servant who answered the
telephone believed was dining out.
The car was ordered for a quarter
past eight.
"You will let her ladyship know
that I have returned," Jermyn in-
structed. ."I' shall probably be here
for some time."
'He made his way to the dining -
room and sat down to dinner with the
physician. 'They talked' for a while
on casual topics. Then Sir James
bean slowly to draw near the sub-
ject which was all the time in his
nein d."
"I went, a few nights ago. Jer-
my-n," he said, "to the Imperial The-
atre. 1 knew your play was good,
but I didn't expect to enjoy ft so
niece- Not only is the play good,
but I tell you frankly I think thalt
Miss Cluley is a perfectly Marvellouk
actress."
For the first time Jernvyn smiled.
"She is quite wonderful," he admit-
ted. "I am glad you went. I know
you're not much of a playgoer'."
• "I ami not," Sir James confessed.
"I used to enjoy the old fashioned
sort of thing, but science makes so
many demands upon ,us, nowadays,
that one has very little time of any
sort .for diversion, Besides, I don't
like the modern play, I am sick of
seeing everything from the French.
It isn't wholesome, . In fact, there
are many phases of modern life, Jer-
ilyn which.don't please an old stager
like myself. I am going' to talk to
vola about one for a minute or two
ow,•if I.may."
Jerilyn looked up in some surprise.
"Go ahead, by all means," he said.
'You provoke my curiosity."
"Your wife has consulted me about
ler health." '
Jermyn's face altered slightly. It
vas noticeable that his expression
rad hardened.
"I was not aware that she was un-
-ell," he remarked.
"She is nob unwell," his companion
ronounced bluntly. She is only dy-
nes"
.Jermyn•set dawn -the glass which
re had been in the act of raising to
its lips. His hands were trembling.
Che physician had certainly produc-
d his effect.
"Are you serious, •Sir James?"
"Is it a matter to discuss in any
)then spirit! Your wife, hasn't an
insound organ in her body and yet
he is (lying."
"Wlhat is the matter with her,
hen ? "
"You," the physician replied grave-
' There was a brief silence. Then
fermiyn laughed a little. hardly.
"If you were .e- modern pr actition-
n•, my friend," he said, "I am afraid
should look upon this as something
f a dodge."
"You can call it what you like,"
}re other declared, "You know very
well that I hate all quackery and
hat I am not given to 'sensational
rNeches. I am fond of you., young
Tran, and I am fond of your wife. I
ell you frankly that there is a wast -
ng process going tin inside Lucille,
tgaihst which science is of no avail.
the is fretting herself into the grave.
had to ask her questions. I asked
herrn professionally and she answer -
d professionally, but they tell the
tory, you know."
JSir J"arnes poured himself out a
lase of wine.
n lbmotr-ght Lucille into the w old,"
the continued. "I attended her
throughout her girlhood. I travelled
over to France to see her when she
had typhoid. I do not believe that
she has ever voluntarily consulted an-
other doctor, She has been like one
ofneyeaven childre o me, Every -
thin that I have tot. is the
rtruth ,end More than the
speak, of course, in complete ignor-
ance of any circumstances there may
he between you to explain what, on
the face of it, •seeans so . strange. I
can only deal with facts. Lucille is
•dying:•- She. will die if you do not
save her. 'It is my duty to tell you
this."
!Curiously enough after the first
:;'hock, Jeernyn's ' suoee,eding impulse
was one of anger.
"Look here, •doctor,"• he •said, "sup-
posing there were a cause of offence
!between my wife and myself eo
great that, however strange it may
seem 'to you, there was dishonor in
my 'eves' simulating an affection for
her which I could not feel, do you,
still sit there and, tell me that her
,state of health is my responsibility?"
"I am a doctor and not a philoso-
pher," Sir James. remarked) dryly.
"Honour and dishonour I do not un-
derstand -,-not the modern view of
them., at any rate. The position of
husband and wife has been the same
since the world was made, and al-
ways will be, although the present
generation seems to do nothing but
kick at it. You m,ay alter schools of
thought, you may build up new
standards, establish new cults and
new sects, but you can't do away
with the obligations of the marriage
ceremony. I don't 'wish to know any-
thing more than I do know. It ie
my duty to point out your responsi-
bility, and to -nay thinking, at any
rate, there isn't anything in this
world which could absolve you if
Lucille dies without your making an
effort to save her Shall we
take our coffee outside? I am going
on to a meeting at the hospital."
Jermyn waved him away.
"I'd rather you went," he said
simply. "I want to think,"
Sir James rose from his place •and
for a moment let his arm rest upon
Jermyn's .shoulder.
"I arm an o•Id fool. 1 suppose,"
he declared, "but, Jermyn, there's
only one way out of a tangle, and
there isn't anyone who can show it
you so well as you can find it out
for yourself, if you'll only be hon-
est."
Jermyn, a little later on,' found a
,seclu•ded cornier in the reading room
and threw hineself into an easy chair.
A crowd of hateful thoughts was
pressing, in upon him. There were
things which he was forced.to admit.
Since the day of his marriage it had
been a changed Lucille who had lived
like a shadow at his side. Even as
he sat there, he could think of a
hundred eases of his brutality to-
wards. her. He remembered - his
heart ached with a dull pain when he
i iremrbered the many times •shen
she had made those timid appeals to
hint; the imploring light of eer eyes,
tee :mai, artifices she had used, tee
half frightened entreaties for just n
little tenderness, a word, a tou:.l, i s-
en, of his fingers.
The night before he had left for
Scotlsndi-he thought of it now al-
most with fear -he had lain awake
in his roon'i and he had heard a
strange sound. He had crept to • the
keyhole of the communicating door,
which as yet he had never unlocked,
and listened. Once again he seemed
to hear that sound in the silence
which reigned around liimt-the sound
of a woman moaning and sobbing
quietly through the hours of the
night. . This was a new and.
a terrible thing which had come into
his life, a new tragedy which he had
no idea, at the moment, how/to face.
The time slipped away. He rose
at last a little wearily and made his
way round to the theatre. The per-
formance was just ever and he met
Mr. Levenden in the passage by the
door -keeper's office. ale fancied that
the latter seemed none too pleased to
see him.
"You back, Sir Jtr'myn," the man-
ager exclaimed. "By Jove, I wish
I'd known that ye were going to be
in town! We've d small supper -party
on to -night.. Couldn't' you get off
home," he added, glancing st Jer-
mryn's attire, "and change and join
us later?" •
"Not to -night, I am afraid," Jer-
myn replied; "thank you all the same.
I have been travelling all day. Miss
Cluley hasn't' left, I hope?"
"No, I think she is just prinking
up," Mm. Levenden told him. "She
is supping with u•s."
Jermyn stopped short.
"Suppiir' with you?" he repeated.
"My -Wife and I both think," Mr.
Levenden conitinve'd, "that Miss Clu-
ley has been living much too seclud-
ed a life, I amt thankful to say that
she is beginning to :break through ,it
just a little. 'She is coming to' the
Artists' Ball to -morrow'. Young
Lord Lakenhani is giving a great
supper -party. A connection of yours,
by the way, isn't he, Sir Jerilyn?
You ought to eome. A writer ought
to see all sides of life, you know."
Jermyn,turned slowly round.
"If Miss Cluley is going opt to
suppei'," he said, "I won't wait now."
"'S'he'll like to see you for a 'mom,
ent, I expect," the manager remark-
ed. "Pea -haps she'll be able to per-
suade you to join us."
Jermyn hesitated. It was a queer
little world which seemed crunr}bling
about 'his ears.' '
"Ne, S won't bother her now," he
decided, "I shall see her to -morrow
some time."
Jermyn passed out, just managing
to ese'atile Gerald, who was alighting
froi'n his car outside. He jumped in-
to a taxi and' drove home.
'"Yolan mistress in?" he • inquired
pleehanricallr of Roberts, ars the lat-
,,
•
`t�!dittudt�ta'Si�l��` �'try`tr,eitia;i�,s�rriY�a,ie;.uz:nk
ter'relieved htin of his hat and over-
eoat.
(Her ladyship has not been out this
evening, Sir Jermynee the bugler in-
formed him. '+Sbe was dining at
Dorington House and was on the
point of starting when she felt un-
well. It was just after you had tel-
ephoned from the club, sir. She has
' her !boudoir all the ev-
ening. I beth :fie is there now,
sir."
Jermyn slowly ascended the stairs
and kn eked at the door of the end
room o ,Lueille's little suite. There
was no answer. He turned the han-
dle softly and entered. Lucille was
lying on a couch in "a white ,dress-
ing gown. There was *cine smelling
salts, the evening paper, a novel and
abowl of roses on a smell table by
her side. He closed the door quietly
and and came further into the room.
Then he saw that she was asleep.
He stood with his feet buried in the
thick fur of the white rug, looking
down at her. A curious little pain
pulled at his heart -strings. He was
conscious of a ne'w feeling with re-
gard to her, a sense. of immense, al-
most infinite pity, Even in repose,
her face was so absolutely the face
of a tortured woman. There were
lines under her eyes, hollows in her
cheeks; her neck,too, had gron thin-
ner. She was. ' w
beautiful still, but in
a queerseunearthly sort of fashion.
Suddenly she opened her eyes, and
saw him. It was as therugh a mir-
aele had taken 'place. Her whole ap-
pearance was transformed. Her face
seemed to fill out, her eyes to soften.
She grew at once younger.
"Jermyn!" she cried. "You here?
Has anything happened?"
IHe came and sat at the end of
the sofa. Perhaps something of that
expression with which •he had been
gazing down upon her had already
vanished from . his face, for her first
wild impulse of jey showed signs of
passing away.
"Nothing at all," he answered,
"Roberts told me just now that you
were not well and I looked in for a
moment to see what was the matter.
It is nothing •serious, I trust?"
She looked at hint very wistfully
before she replied..
"No, it is nothing serious," she
assured hien, with a little sigh. "I
:sleep badly. Just as I was going
out td - night I felt a trifle faint. 1
am weary of these dinners. Jermyn
-so weary of them. To -night I felt
that I couldn't stand it. I came up
here and lay down and I must have
dropped off to sleep,' and when I
opened my eyes and saw you, I
thought that it was a dream. You
seemed different, somehow."
The disap•pointmient in her :voice
was pathetic. He held out his hams
and took hers. Again the light leap-
ed up. It was the first tinge' he had
voluntarily touched "her since their
marriage.
e"I am sorry that you don't sleep,"
he said. "Perhaps. we had better go
down to Annerley a little earlier than
we had intended. It has been' a
long season this year and you"ve been
doing a great deal."
"Yes," she murmured, still looking
at him intently, "I am very tired of
London. I am tired of doing things,
I think that I should like it at Anner-
ley."
"Have you had any dinner?" he
asked.
She shook her head.
"I am going to have some biscuits
and milk. Won't you," she added
timidly, "have a whisky and soda or
bell ?"
something? Will you touch . the
IHe obeyed.
"I will have a whisky and soda
there, if I may, instead of going down-
stairs again," he decided.
"Do you know that it is the first
three'we have ever sat in here to-
gether, Jerilyn?" she remarked af-
ter the servant had lift the room,
"and I amnot looking a hit at my
best. If only I had known that you'd
n canting!"
"My dear Lucille," he said, smil-
ing, "what outrageous vanity. You
are wearing ,white, your best colour•
aren't you, and I am suit' your white
:silk }stockings are unexceptionable.
Tell ire, have you done anything
amusing, While I was away?"
"Amusing?" she repeated. "I am
afraid that just now I don't find
anything • in life amusing. You• see
.Jermyn, I have made gathers, mess
of things," she went on. "We wo-
men are gani'blers, you know. I want-
ed one thing so much that I staked
everything in life upon it, and i
lost. There doesn't seam to be any-
thing much left."
.Jerrnryn looked away into the fire.
Wag, this a new battle which he was
called upon to fight -a battle, too, of
confused issues? Wes he losing his
stre th? There was c;rtainly some-
thinsuspiciously like a lump in his
throat.
"I am sorry to find you so de-
preslsied, Lucille.," he said. "Per-
haps-"
"Well ?"
"If there is anything 1 could do,"
he concluded a little lamely.
!She burst into a fit of laughter,
laughter which sounded at first gen-
uinely mirthful but which ende4 in a
little Choke.
"Oh, Jermyn, Jermyn!" s,he cried,
wiping the tears from her eyes, "bless
you for that! I think that I should
have had hysterics in five minutes.
That laugh has saved my life. No,
dear, there's nothing you could do', of
course. What could you? It's nice
of you to eome and sit with me. Come
oftener, won't you? I ani still one
of those very old-fashioned 'women,
you know, who would like to see just
a little more of her Inerband."
She gave him her, hand. He hesi-
tated for a moment and then raised
it to his lips. 'It was as cold as ice.
Her eyes had fallen before his, but
he z"trtild see that she was shaking.'
"I will certainly az�(j see yes
Jthing More of ylqiu,' he 'pllo'1lnise4N "If
you are doing 'nothing tosmorraw, Will
you lune)} with me?"
" Of course," else replied. "It gives
MB just the excuse I was longing for
to throw aver a terribly dell lunch-
eon with ehe Ohaleotes, I e.an •at
least offer them something novel in
the way of •apologies4--tI am engaged
to lunch with my httebend! Excel-
lent! Sleep welt, Jermyn. You muse
be tired 'after your journey. Will you
'send 'i i ' woman along? Knock at.
the door on your left as you go,by."'
Jermyn sat for some time in his
own room, before tlhe open window.
It faced eastward, and the view of
the city by night, with its gradually
dying glamour of sounds, always fas-
cinated him. It was an hour or so
'later before he prepared for bed. He
heard Lucille's maid depart, after
wishing her mistress good -night.
Some time afterlwards he moved soft-
ly towards the connecting door, drawn
there br sonie strange, disturbing ap-
prehension 'which he could not alto-
gether control. He listened painfully,
this fingers digging into his flesh.
There was the same sound, only this
time so low that it was hard to dis-
tinguish it even from where he stood
-the smothered sound of a woman
crying softly to hers'elf. When he
stood up at last his own eyes were
lot. iHe walked back to the window.
The new battle had indeed begun!
CHAPTER XL
Jermyn lunched next day with
Lucille at the Ritz. She was gayer
and in better spirits than she ,had
been for some time., and sho gave
hinr a delightful account in her per='
feat French of two plays which she
had seen in Paris during the last few
days.
"Flo and 'I really went over to 'buy
hats," she told him, "but they were
all hideous: The theatres, though.
were wonderful, I Sometimes I think
that you rather neglect Paris, Jer-
myn."
"I am afraid I do," he confessed,
with real regret. "It does seem so
hard to crows} everything into life."
"Fortunately, life is a sort of ex-
panding quality. It becomes a dif-
ferent thing, something more or
something 'less, for every one of us,"
she remarked. "To our neighbour on
the right, for instance, it means as
many• lunches and dinners as he can
consume without injury to his diges-
tion. And to -why, there's Gerald!"
Jerniyn's face suddenly darkened.
Gerald, looking very smart and
handsome, was showing Sybil to a
little table which had been reserved
for them.. She saw Jermyn and for
a moment she stood still. Then she
nodded brightly and took the seat
with her back towards thein.
"Miss Cluley looks as charming as
ever," Lucille observed. "I see in
the paper this morning that she is
going to the Artists' Ball to -night in
the'costum4e she wore in her first suc-
eess-"Nilitska," the dancing girl,
wasn't it?"
"I believe so," Jernvyn answered a
little absently.
"An excellent thing for Gerald,"
Lucille continued, trifling with her
salad, "to have so charming a young
lady to pilot him through the realms
of Bohemia. ,None of these young
men nowadays, I suppose, are con-
tent unless they are seen somewhere
with an actress, and Miss Cluley is
so wonderfully superior."
"Need we discuss her?' Jermryn
interrupted irritably.
"Why should we?" Lucille smiled.
"I suppose you know that Maeter-
linck is in London? I am going to
meat him this afternoon. Will you
come or is all your time fully occu-
pied?"
"I should like to come very much,
if it isn't too late," Jermyn replied,
"You are going to the professor's, I
suppose?"
She assented.
"I am going very early, as it hap-
pens," she tole! him. "Xmy- asked me
t?s go before the others, and you
know you're always wrlcome. Dear
nee, this place is becoming like a
club?"
She loaned over to talk to some
passers-by. Something of the same
sort happened every few minutes. On
the 11'' way out. Lucille was swept a-
way with a crowd of acquaintances.
Jermyn made his way over to the
table where Sybil aril Gerald were
sitting.
"Shall I find you at home this af-
ternoon, Sybil?" he inquired simp-
1y-.
"I am afraid not," she answered.
"I have promised to go for a short
motor ride with Lord Lakenhanr` and
then 1 must have nary costume for the
hall tried on. To -morrow, if I still
exist, or the next day?"
.Jermyn was puzzled. She met his
gaze quite frankly, but there was
something different. He exchanged
a few more ordinary sentences and
turned away.
"\yly •don't you conic to "my sup-
per -party, sir?" Gerald asked him.
"Mise Cluley is going to be our
bright particular star,"
"I am afraid," .Jerin.y-n replied, ,a
little hesitatingly,-, "that those sort
of things are scarcely in my line."
")lave a try, for once," Gerald beg-
ged.. "You'll find it lots of fun. The
Milan at twelve' o'clock. They've got
an extension."
"Thank you," .Jermyn said. "May
I think it over?"
"You can think it over, but 1 shall
hook you," Gerald insist.:cf. "It's go-
ing to be one of the sights of the
year."
Jermyn rejoined his wife, paid the
visit with her which she had sug-
gested, and afterwards wandered
restlessly back to his club. Lucille
was dining out alone that night -the
date of his return from Scotland had
been uncertain and she had accepted
no invitations for him during the
week. 'Hie entered the house just
,as she, was leaving. ;She paused, for
a moment, in the hall, a glittering
vision of silver and gree-.
"Paris," she remarked. "I had to
go aver to have it tried on. Such a
nuisance -I'm inches thinner. What
do you think of it?"
"Wonderful," Jermyn answered,
truthfully* enough. "It isn't a dress
at all --it's an inspiration."
'How Monsieur Charles would love
yourr' she !sighed. ,"It is abm:ost his
own remark. Personally, it makes
me feel like a mermaid. I have to
feel the weight of my tiara to be
quite sure that it am .properly dress -
(Shen 4***140, v1 aront1.
out waltz a l}Clic >n
ellen%% servant formed 4141#upstairs.
"You wlil eha now, sir," he:'
*sifted, "or will yea dine 'first?"
!"i will change xi4Rw," Jermuyxr1,l.eael
ed. 144
, ,smoking ja.•cket will .do, .
shall epend the e' exii�ng a,t honiie,
He dined in the library, trifled '
some, new books, glanced throe h 'th
reviews and the evening paper, wrot
a . couple of letters. Every now a.
then he found himself looking at th Ms was conscious; of an aeiut
feeling of restlessness. ' There wa
something in his blood which th,
could not analyze; a vague unfaanel
lar sensation which he failed alto-
gether to trace to its foundation. He
thougiht continually of Sylbil. There
was something new between then
•soavequality in her tone when She
spoke to him, something, even, in
the frank way she laughed up into
his face, which baffled him. He thought
of their last partling, of the letters
which he had written her. There
was nothing which could possibly be
misunderstood, yet something had
happened. And all the time there
was background to his thoughts
Thera was Lucille! The book which,
he had been reading slipped from his
fingers, as he lounged in the chair
with his eyes fixed upon the smould-
ering fire. He went over his conver-
sation with Sir James, One by one
those sentences came back to his mind
so ponderously delivered, so weighty,
.so charged with"'.nn insistent, mina-
tory meaning. Lucille's face as he
had seen her asleep the preceding
evening, haunted him. He moved
restlessly in his place and, springing
' up ••'began to walk up and down the
room. It was absurd, he told him-
self. His relations with these two
-Women had been carefully thought
out with due regard to all the cir-
cum!stanees, with due regard to ev-
erything he owed them. Lucille was
paying the price. of her own.wicked-
ness and deceit . . Nevertheless,,
the restlessness grew." He kept
glancing at the clock. At half -past
eleven he could bear it no longer. He
rang the bell.
"Parkes," he ordered, "put out my
dress clothes at once. I am going to
a dance." •
IHe followed the man upstairs pre-
sently. At a few minutes before
midnight he was in the entrance hall
of the Milan. He arrived there just
as Gerald Lakenham drove up with
Sybil by his side. Again Jermyn
felt ,a queer little pang as he ad-
vanced to meet them.
"So, you have, really comet" .she ex-
claimed. "You astonish vie!"
"Why not?" he answered. "You
are here. To me, you know, that was
almost as, astonishing."
"Ah, no!" she objeeted. "Everyt-•
one tells me that I ought to have
been doing this sort of thing for a
long time. It is my metier to be
frivolous.. It is .scarcely yours, is
it?"
Gerald was buy collecting his
party and for these few minutes
they wane alone.
"Something has happened, Sybil,"
Jermyn said quietly.
She shrugged her shoulders. Her
feat 'were keeping time to the music.
She was wearing a wonderful gown,
unlike anything he had ever seen on
her before, and.her maid was fol-
lowing behind with a little bag con-
taining her domino and mask.
"Nothing has happened, dear Jer.._
niyn;" she assured him, "only I think
that I am growing to feel younger.
I am afraid of grey hairs by myself
and moping all day long. Don't you
think I ani wise?"
"But isn't it a little-sudden?'1 he
asked.
"Ah! these changes are always
sudden," she replied.
"It is a change, then ?" he said
swiftly. "Sybil, is' anything chane=
ed between i•ou and me?"
For a moment she n -as her old
self.
1
wath
e
an
h'e
8
e
(Continued next week.)
Holland's Tulip Frenzy
11 is difficult to know what mys-
terious ,,alue in tulip bulbs marl
them the cause of one of histo; y's
maddest speculative frenzies. •
Taking its name from a Tor: =b
word signifying turban, the tulip ,;�`s
introduced into western Europe n v ;
the middle of the lf,th c ntury, Con-
rad Gesncr, who claims the merit of
having brought it into repute -little
dreaming of the commotion it was
shortly afterwards to make in the
w•u•ld-says that he first saw it in
the year l5:i9, in a garden at Augs-
burg, helonging to a man famous for
his coll,ction of rare exotic. The
bulbs were sent to this gentleman by
a friend at Constantinople, where the
flower had long been a favorite.
In the course of 10 or 11 years af-
ter thi period. tulips were much
sought after by -the wealthy, especial-
ly in holland. Rich people at Aans-
terdani sent for the bulbs direct to
Constantinople, and paid the most.
oxteavagant prices for then. By
1h3 -I, the rag,' among the Dutch to
possess them, was o great that the
ordinary- industry of the coun•t'y- was
neglected, and the population, even to
its lowest dregs, embarked in the
tulip trade. As the mania incieassil,
prices augmented, until it was not
uncommon for a merchant to invest
his entire fortune in a few roes. One
rare bulb was bought, in 1636, for
4600 florins, a new carriage, two grey
horses, and a complete set of har-
ness. Payment for another single
root consisted' of four oxen, eight
'swine, 12 •sheep, two hogsheads of
wine, 1,000 pounds of cheese, and
various household goods.
As the demand for tulips increas-
ed, regular markets for their sale
were established on the Stock Ex-
change of Amsterdam, and in Rotter-
dam, Haarlem and other towns.
Gamlhling now became apparent and
the stock-eohbn-s made use of all
the means they knew to cause flus-
tuat.ions in price. Many individuals
grew suddenly rich. Every one im-
agined that the passion for tulips
would last forever, a'nd that the
wealthy from every part of the world
would surd to Holland, and nay what-
ever prices were asked for them. The
riches of, Europe would the concen-
trated on the shores of the Zuyder
Zee, and.. poverty (banished from the
favored clime of lHellandi. Nobles,
citizens, farmers, mechanics, dabbled
$043Ti..ES50
'iiHQRQUpQUHL.Y MQp itt
wiUH Rum i$G'Ant$1-$p-�P
WITH MOM TE BATH s4,a$..
eat. PHONE IPi,EVERY RQO$
ro
in tulips. People' of all grades con-
verted their property into cash, '•and
invested it in flowers. Housee and
lands, were offered in payment of
:bargins made at the 'tulip -mart.
Foreigners became smitten with the
same frenzy, and money poured into
Holland from all direcrtions. The
prices of the necessaries of life be-
gan to rise by degrees; houses and
lands, horses and carriages, and lux-
uries of every sort, increased in
value, and for some months Holland,
seemed the :eery 'ahteelhaun ber of
Plutus. The- operation of the trade
became so intricate that it was' nec-
essary to draw up a code of laws for
the guidance of the dealers.
At last, however, the more pru-
dent began to see that this tally
could not last forever. When it was
realized that somebody must lose
fearfully in the end, 'prices began to
fall. Soon universal panic, ei e4 the
dealers. Hundreds who, a few months
previously, hadbegun to doubt that
there was such a thing as poverty in
the land suddenly found themselves
the possessors of nothing but a few
bulbs, which nobody would buy. The
few who had contrived to enrich
themselves hid their wealth from the
knowledge of their fellow citizens,
and invested it abroad. Many who,
for a 'brief season, had emerged as
nouveau riches were cast back into
obscurity. Substantial merchants
were reduced almost to beggary, and
many a representative of a noble line
saw the fortunes of his house ruined
beyond redemption.
When defaults in pay-ni!ent for con-
tracted purchases became widespread,
the tulip -sellers appealed to the gov-
ernment. But the judges unanimous-
ly refused to interferes on the ground'
that debts, Contracted in gambling
were no debts in law. To find a '
remedy was beyond the power of the
government. Those who were un-
lucky enough to have had stores of
tulips on hand at the time of the
sudden reaction were left to bear
their ruin as philosophically as they
could; those who had made profits
were allowed to keep them; but the
commerce of the country suffered a
severe shock, from which it was many
years ere it recovered,
(Holland's famous flower bulbs,
once the pride of the nation, are now
a drug on the market after having
made fortunes for !many growers.
Recently, in .the Harrlem region, 'hun-
deeds of thousands of tulips, hya- •
cinths and narcissi'wer'e destroyed -
,the object being to reduce the supply
and increase prices.
Annual College Sale
The Ontario Agriculti•al College
annual auction sale will be held at
Guelph, on Wednesday, October 25.
this year's o erring consists of beef
cattle, sheep and swine. No dairy
cattle are being offered as the year's
crop of dairy bulls were disposed of
as, calves.
LONDON AND WINGHAM
South.
WCinghani
I3elgrave
Blyth
Londcsburu
t lin)rani
Bruceficld
Kippen .
Hensall
Exeter
Exeter
llc' isall
J' ippon
Bruceti,-tri
)"limen
North.
Londe: bto.o
Blyth
Belgrave
1Vinghain
Goderich
Clinton
`cafo!•t i
Dublin
lI1tchell
C. N. R.
East.
1?.M.
'1,55
2.11
2.23
2.30
3.013 ,
3.27
2.35
3.41
3.55
A.M.
10,4'2
10.55
11.01
11.0'i
11.54
12.10
12.19
12.30
12.50
A.el. P.M.
(3.45 2.30
7.OS'1 3.00
7.22 3,13
7.33 3.31
7.4'2 3.43
West.
Dublin 11.19 9.:)2
Seafoi•th 11,.34......:., 9.45
Clinton 11.50 9.59
Goderich 12.10 10.25
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
East.
Goderich
Menset
McGaw'-
Auburn
Blyth
A.M.
5.50
5.56
6.04
6.11
6.25
Walton 6.40
McNaught 6.52
Toronto . , 1025
West.
A.M.
Toronto ... , , 7.40
McNaught 11.48
Walton 12.01
Blyth 12.12
Auburn 1223
McGaw 12.84
Menset 12.41.
'Goderich 12.46
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