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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Times, 1911-10-26, Page 7• THE WINGHAR T1MES, Kinn 26 1911 7 1111141■1111141•11.11114.1MNIIII14, +++++++++++++ ir+i+++++4+++++++ 1.4 Linked by Fate BY CHARLES GAKVICE • Author of The Verdict a the Heart," A Heritage a Hate," "Nell of Shorre Mills," "Paid "A Moiern Juliet," Etc, - .. :hello, but oftener With a dull de- ,epair, • At a little distance Sutconebe stood '' heal& Vivienne, reclining at full length end covered with her diesels, WW1 both of theta were silently re- garding the slim, girliala figure bent " Over the chart. Sutcombe broke the allenee at last. 1 "11 on. could only do something, hoMething to help her!" • "Or persuade Mer to give it up!" put in Vivienne wietfully. • He ehook his head. . "She would give it up if we in - resisted," he said in a low voice, "but , we shall not do that, Vivi" ' . Vivienne sighed, "How Pale and • worn she looks! While I have been :gaining health and etrength, she has 'been losing them, See how thin she 'is! Sometimes"—her voice grew al- tnost inaudible—"I am half tempted to 'believe that—that—she is mistak- hin, that she is the victim of delusion. :Have there not been such cases, Slit- icombe?" ' - He smiled grimly and shook his :head. . "`Decirea is the last person to suf- • fer trotn a delusion," he eaid. '"There was never a more acute, in- telledual—but you know, Vivi I • ' 'shall gb and speak to her. X hetet! •I feel as if I could not stand, by helpless and see her growing more anxious, mere despairing each day. Wait'a minute; she is talking to the .skipper." . Barnes, the skipper, a 'young man with a shy smiles, behind which lay a profound seamanship, was consulting the chart with Nina. They saw him reluctantly shake his head, smiling etill, then pass on, Sutcoinbe wont up to her. Her head bad sunk on her hand, and when she raised her • face at his approach he saw so "Wistful, so eager an expression in her -eyes, that et went to his heart. . "Will you not come into the saloon wind rest?" he said, gently. She shook her head. "I cannot," '•she said, humbly enough. "We have • been examining the chart again -70h, Lord Sattcombe, how patient you are! :It—it is that that hurts me! If you -would only laugh at me, if you -would only tell, me that your patience • .is exhausted, that you will bear with •rny—my whim no longer, I think I ;should be less heart broken." • Why should X tell you that whieh is not, true?" he responded, his eyes :resting on her beet head with un- eepealcable sympathy and tenderness. . "And yet it wotild be so—so na- tural, so well deserved!" she retort- ed, bitterly. "Sometimes I wonder Why you did not think that I am stark, staring Iliad, that 1 am the ' ;victim of a wild delusion—" . It was Vivienne's word, but idle • still smiled. ' "For what is it that I have ashed you to do, and you, so generously, so trustingly, have consented to do?" she went on with a deep sigh.. "Not a very great thirtg, surely!" he said, trying to answer and re- essure her' in a breath. "You have asked us to leave the direct course, • •to turn aside that tee may help you •to find a certain island, of which you :know, and which you • want us to heisite, "An island not marked on the „chart, a namelees place, as nroneless ,and intatigible as that of a drown. ,Sometimes," sighingly, despairfully, -1"X wonder whether it exists only in ,a strewn: whether I shall walce to find • .that its only place is in my itnagi- .nation. And yet—nol lf you only knew! Why do you not insist upon my telling you all, everything'? Why do you not refuse to continue in this Diarrhoea I Dysentery Summer Complaint and all Bowel Troubles Are Outside by the Use of DR. FOWLER'S • Extract of Wild Strawberry mad search unless I give you better reasons for doing so?". . ellecause leierve you so dearly that if this Leland ever existed, mai tho. search were ne retie. ees tie 1 for the, philosopher's stone, I ve,‘,111 not turn from it aite. II MY hehrt told me you e ti to tin so.' ! might have rep 1 eel but rateteei, 11,• Fetid: ,-T/EIS STERLING REMEDY MAS BEEN . ON IME MARKET OR OYER 65 YEARS AND HAS IfET TO FAIL ' to DO WHAT WE CLAIM -FOR IT. • It an unscrupulous druggist or dealer ,sliya:- 11 "This is just as good or better," juit , nay--," (five hie 'Dr. Fowlers,' 1 know what I want w'hen. 1 ask for It, and give me What / ask The price le 35 cents per bottle. Set Ithat the name, The T. Milburn Coq YAmited, Toronto, Ont., appears on tint titbit as we are the rratiufacturers and ,solo proprietors of this remody. ,....., . , ..,. . .., • "Why grieve so about the matter, chime? h'u harm hes heti, ewe'. 1,0 bait' hate are having, line eeather; it iims not matter !tether we read' pot this week or the next. And V ivieene is of the sante mind as I. lt you would only be less lintiolls! 1)0 you think we cannot see that the strain is telling on you, and that we. do not—suffer? Ali, do not be so unhappy! .Nothing—nothing is worth that!' She pushed the hair from her fore. head and looked vp at him grateful., ly, "How good you are to me!" elle said in a low voice, "Well, bear with me a little longer,' Listen, Lord Sutcombe. we do not discover this island to -morrow, I will tell you why I have persuaded you to turn out of your course in search of it; I will tell you—all. It is only fair. But give rae until to -morrow. Bar- nes tells me that he will try a now course, that he himself feels certain land, islands, PerflaPs, are nearer than the chart indicates. Giv.o me till to -morrow at noon!" "I will give you twelve months of to -morrows if you like," ho said. fer- vently; "we will run in at the next port and provision the yacht for a year's cruise—" She turned from him half impat- iently. ."Only till to -morrow!" she said, and she bent over the chart again. But her eyes were dim with the pangs of disappointment and failure, for the Ariel had been beitting about for weeks in search of' the nameless island; and the dream, the bright dream which she had dreamed the night Stetzernbe hag told her Of their loss, and she had been compelled to ask them to let her go with them, was growing faint and pile with the sickness of hope deferred, , • After a thne she Scalded the chart, rose resolutely, and with a gesture, as of ono throwieg off a heavy weight, went to the other two. "From this moment," she said, "I will say no more, no, not a word. • 11-11 we fail, then you shall think it was just a dreem, a delusion—ah, do yoe think I do not know what is in • your minds!" as Vivienne .colored and lowered her eyes. "Let us go and have some music, , dear " said Vivienne laying her hand on Nina's 'arm tenderly, for she knew that while they remained on deck Nino.'s aching eyes would scan the sea, that seemed to mock her with Its emptiness. They, went below, and Nina, act- ing up to her resolve, played and sang and talked, as if her, heart were eked with suspense; but as idie not racked lay in her berth that night the bit- terness welled up in her. And it was not altogether unselfish. For as the Ariel had approached the spot where she imagined the Fairy Isle to be, there had arisen and grown an ach- lug longing to see once more the place where she had suffered—and, ah yes, for a short time, enjoyed—so teueh. Vatio Meuinering was lost to her—she did not know whether ' he • was alive or dead—but for a few • fleeting hours she had basked in the ichowledge of her own love for him, lied the hope that his love , might turn to her. She slept at last, a fitful sleep, but was up on deck soon after dawn, and Barnes, at his wheel, touched the .peak of his cap and smiled his shy greeting. "Nothing, Barnes?" she asked with repressed eagerness. "Nothing, miss," he admitted re- • luctantly. "I've changed her course fOr west due west, and—We shall see, miss. We may sight land before noon—" "To find another group of islands— but not those we warit," she said with a sigh, .as she turned away. • Barites shook his head at the sails. She who had been so ready with the sweet smile, the gentle word which had won the hearts of the men, as • they had won the heart of their maw, ter, had. grown almost irritable and impatient, and Barites as he watched her standing at the bow with her baud shading her oyes, hopeless and incredulous of "Miss Decline's isl- • and," shook his head again. tut he held on to his edurse, and about noon Nina, who had been lean- ing egainet the Wirral, her eyee fixed on the sea, uttered an exclamation and pointed at some object floating on the waves. "Seaweedl" said Sutcombe, corning quickly to her side, and he turned toWards her with atih eagerness al- • most as keen as het' own, then shont- ed the word to Vivierine. In silence, alinost breathlessly, they' Watehed and waited. tut "Miss Deeitnith luck," as the men had groWn to call it. pursued her even note; for as they gazed a slight Mist rose above the horizon, gradually erept toWards, • and enveloped the yttCht, shutting Out Sea and sky. DoSen erotic the sidle, and the Vessel floated Ilice• a bird throUgh the White fog. They 'should hated anehored, but Barbee • Withheld the order, and, taking some voundinge, let the vessel drift. Nina. turned away; her. eyes were tlint and on her lips ilieliered emile that WAS Worse than tears, "Pato is against mot" Tise said, "The time Is up -and I am beaten! Lord fiutcombe, 1 -1 --give it up!" "'MAI" he field. "Look'!" and ha wqved his hand toward mist. It Was lifting Nur swiftly *0 i Imd f 'le es of here fallen; Warta it had Waite eleeleed out spread the /ails, and the Ariel dreVe through. it. •Clearer end yet, clearer grew the Jr,oand there tio eauldetilY that they had scareely time to eh - claim, there lay before theta the Vis- ion of an island, green as On inner - Old. and set in a golden line of mend, With the shrill cry ot the sea -birds circling round it, the waving Of the • fir-treee On its chetah It was Vivienne who first cried out. Nina stood, her handl clenehesi on her heeolli, her eyes like these Of one in a trance. Sutcondie turned to tier with an instinctive gesture of evu,. peaty, for her lips were white arid her breath come painfully. is the island, at lest!" tete The skipper's word ot :tornistand rang out, the "Aye, aye, Mr!" of the men followeci sheep upon it, the sails fell as if by magic, and the Ariel Was anchored withinteam it seemed in that clear eir, half a rnije ot the ledand whfeht even Wet Nilut could scarcely help regarding es a vision. Sutcombg took her hand and press- ed it, and she turned to him as if awaking from a dream; but with stir - prime he saw that there was AO Joy in her eyes, only an expression of satisfaction that was net untingedt 'wihet,Wesavdvailtr l - andat once," he Said" "You wish it?" "Yee," she *mid, "let tie go. When —when we are there I will tell you, X Will explain. Your patience—ah, how greet it has been, how !sorely —the person to whom half et the geld tried!—shall not be tried any longer, Whinge." 'Yes,: let us land, But, wait!" She He wiped his brow, for to, the put her hand to her head as if try- least iiturcenery of men the presence Ing to think, act if sonic difficulty of a vast quantity, of gold, . with pro - had occurred to her. Lord sut.. spective possession, is nether a dis-. combo, I want that only you and composing fact, one not 'th be con - Lady Vivienne and I should land—at tomplated withoutha thrill first, at any rate. can yea manage "And he?" he asked, breathlessly. i t so?" "Where is he? Why is he not here?" "Why, of course!" he responded The color left her face and her lids with an 'encouraging stnile as he drooped. looked into the lovely eyes whose ev- "1 do not know," she said in. a ery expressiOn he know by heart, '1 IOW VOICO. "He—he may be (leach" will take just sufficient man to land "He did not escape with you?" us, and they shall remain in the boat asked Sutcombe, until, well, as long as you wish them She made a movement of her hand, to do so." as it the question, the subject, pain - She nodded and stood watching the .launching ehd, menning. of the boat. 'The crew of the Ahiel were disciplin- ed like a matabhevar'i men, and they rowed with etelid faces and Incurious eyes, whatever they maw have felt, to the 'nameless island which they had been chasing so long. As the boat approached the sand - fringed shore, Nina's face grew paler, and she turned it away from the others, !though there was no need, for Sutcombe and Vivienne studiously avoided glancing at her. He helped her out of the boat, almost as gent- ly and carefully as he helped Vivi- enne; and as if absorbed in • her own thoughts, •Nina silently led the way up the beach. The huts were still standing 'as et,hey had been left, but Nina's eyes were fixed on a spot where a niound rose on the shingly strand. She • stood there for a moment, her head bent, her lips moving; then she walk- ed on to one of the huts. "Go in," she said, motioning them to enter her own hut. "Yes, 1-1—am at home! Did you not guess?" as they entered and stood and loolied round them, at last regarding her with astonishment. once lived on this island. I was wrecked hero, with some of the passefigers and the crew of the Alpine. Sit down, Lady Vivi- enne, 1 want to tell .you." Leaning against the rough hut she tole them the story of the wreck, that is, a part of the story, for .she inade no mention of Vane Mannering, who had been the prominent figure. hely father died—and a friend, a friend evhci was like a . brother to me— It was at their grave I—stopped just now." Sutcornbe's eyes were fixed on her' with the tenderest sympathy. "I—I am not surprised at your wanting to find the island, at your anxiety to revisit it," he said in a low voice. But Nina shook her head. "1 had another reason," she said. She might well have said reasons', for assuredly the longing to see once again the place in which she had tasted such misery and such happi- ness had drawn here there. "It is the •reason that I asked you to let us come alone. Lord Sutcombe, this island was discovered, so to speak, bY the unfortunate' castaways, who • dragged themselves to land here • that night," she shuddered; "but my father made another discovery, and It is that which led me to ask you to let me come with you on your cruise, and gave me courage to per- suade you to alter the course of the Ariel. Yoe remember the night you told inc of your lose?" Sutcombe nodded. Was there arty one night, any one incident conned. - ed with her, which he was likely to forget? -.Chat night f remembered—I think for the first time, strange as it may seen --this discovery of my father's, and an idea in connection with it fetatcontlee ant his only daughter, keep the dear old yacht, and we can flasheil into my mind. Tell me, Lord child. That uhich belonged to him, eaalln gabuly)ackbatcak SEolligetllainerds—voaoadd, SY.tiot.1-1 combe—I told you how it parsed Men us, Decima? And I can get those pearls 1 wanted, and—oh, what will you do ;with all your money, you millionairess?" she broke off, ,drawing Nina to her and 'nagging her. N'ina tried to smile. What, indeed'? The useleseness of the gold mocked her at that moment as it had mock- ed her the day it had been foued. There was cmly eine thing she want- ed, and it is the .one, thiug inoney cnn buy—forgetfulneest But she strove to dispel the black shadow front her Mind. "Oh, I'll found at National: Theatre —.for the perfoi•mance of ortistie dr inuts—by 'Herbert Wood!" " she said. "I3ut now let us be practical, as Polly would say, This is a dan- gerous secret, Lord Sutcombe. You know now why I thought it bettet that we should lend alone?" Pe nodded. 'IA me think!" Ile took out his Pipe. "May I? Thanks! 'Yes, the the men mustn't land here, et tow Vette; they must not come further in- to the island than necessary. We want watee--" "There is plente near the heath!" fraction wt_ the goothreet of theSe eme mem, sealing eitret; beet, came idWbat, 1.0" sad Butte:Mho, tak- ing up (hut of the pieces. "Why! It's not-" 4,Y0s, it is gold!" she sold, ber face flushing, her eyloi glowing. Put Sutoombe's face grew pale, and, laying tho quartz down, he drew hack. eee—/ congratulate you, Min Wood,". he Paid -not ''llecin3a," as he had of iota slipped into calling her, "If -"-if there is much et this, yolit • —you must be very rich!" "II" tete said, hAth yes, suppose so: bot -but it • Was'. not for myself -" stopPeil, for his face hail grown hot, and his eyes flashed al- most resentfully. Vivienne laid her hand upon his arm imploringly. "Wait, wait' till che hes finished, SutrowilieS' she whispered. Nine looked fro!!) one 0 the. other' and, contpretewe''. *, yoli red almoet as hotly as ts'ei • "No, nor,' e esti I. "1—I ivss not gwing,to offer you these, Indeed they gee net, Seino"—she paused—"only eel(' of it is mine. But there is plenty more: my -father Paid the island was an Widorrido; and the gold is yours, any one's who collies and likes to dig for le, indeed, ong need not dig very much, for it lies in the beds of the streams, and in streaks in the •rocks—" • Statcombe gazed at her in amaze/ Mont too great for wprds. "And—and no eine knows of this but you!" he exelaimed at lila, "ho one but 1—and one other, the the tindle when ette walked front the amen With the can in her hand, and Vane conning to meet her to take It from her, "41rite so. They shall get what they want, and Dames shall take the Ariel on a cruise, leaving us here. There are enough provisions-" And there are Ash and (Melt, and turtles in plenty," said poor Niue, trying te smile. Vivienne clapped her hand* and •nothiecl gleefully, though all the time she was watching Nina from the cor- ner of her gentle eyes, "Why, it will be. like Picnic, a real picnic! iryon. if titer* had not beeo all this Wtin, .derfui ;gold, it would ' have been worth all the trouble -ab, bid not' •'um ;anxiety, •cleart-just to see- so oautiful and romantic a place. It is like a Fairy Isle!" Nina turned away swiftly; the nettle hees like a eteb, • They talked'over Sutcotabe's plan, end presently he went down. to the beach, signalled the boat and sent it off toe rugs, bedding and proyisions; and whoa these were brought he went aboard, told Barnes they intended picnicking on the island, and order- ed hint to take the Ariel on a cruise and pick them up in a week's time. When he came hack he found that the two women had already started the picnic. Nina's hut had been • transformed into Otte a snug and comfortable bower 'with the aid of tbe rugs and other things' brought • from the yacht, and Nina, Vivienne told him, was down at, the old "saloon" getting tea. "It's the most wonderful, the most bewitching place, Sutcombe," Vivienne said from the cosy nest in which Nina had bestowed her. "The 'saloon' is the large hut where the men lived. We have arranged that • you are to sleep in a corner of it— for the other hut is not so comfort-, able, Decline saes's. She thinks of everything; indeed, she is as wonder- ful rte the island! I tell her she is the fail•y of the enchanted spot, and that presently she will wave her hand and we shall wake up to find we are on board the Ariel and that WO have been asleep and dreaming. acl"liblaorLI left him here. I—ah, do not Have you looked at those lumps of gold again, Sutcombe? Are you sure ask me any snore!" they won't turn into 'chunks' of just Vivienne leaned forward arid touch- ed her hand, "No, no, .dear, we will common rock? Can you ref:seize yet not! Oh, do you. think we do not this good fortune of ours?" understandl To be 'Wrecked here on . "No," he said. "X can only realize this lonely place! To have suffered, that she has made us rich again, as you must have suffered—no, not that— 1'11 go and see if I can help a word more shall be spoken, dear her." Decimal" • When he went down to the saloon, Setcombe leaned against the log carrying some provisions with him, wall of the hut, his arms folded, his Nina was sitting over the fire she held eyes fixed, not on the gold, but en made, her head resting on her hands, her eyes fixed dreamily and sadly on the floor. "And it was for us, for us that the .blaze. Her whole pose reminded 3'9u have worn yourself to a shadow him of Millais' exquisite "Cinderel- with anxiety and hope deferred," he la," and he stopped and looked down said. "h7hat we might have this at her for a moment with his heart's longing in los frank Wee eyes; and g°,I,(Sle—ey" not?" she broke in. "Would the longing slid into a yearning to you not have done the same for me, pierce the secret of the sad face that for any friend? And what true she turned to him sad though she • friends you have been to me! And smiled and said, brightly enough: what is the Use of it, If it cannot be "It is needy boiling. Have you put to such good service?" brought the tea? It is past Lady And You noVer thought of your- Vivienne's time, you know„" self?" he seed, very quietly. "You "Yes, heee's the tea," he said, were not rich—" "But I was not thinking of Vivienne, "Very poor, indeed," she said Decima, but of you. How could with a laugh. think Of any one else at such a mom - "And you never thought of finding ent? To speak of thanks"—he made this island, this Eldorado, for your a gesture of despair—"but if you own benefit?" "what knew how full my heart is—" "No," she said simply; "Don't!" she said, quickly, and should I have done with it? What is with a touch of reproach. "Have I the use of money when—" $he pints - even tried to thank you both for all ed. "Besides I was lucky so soon. I thought so notch of my work, of my Your goodness to me? Be as goner - play, that if the gold had been lying cies!" She laughed up at him on Hampstead Heath inetead of on a through the thin veil of sadness. Mysterious island in the wide ocean, "There! it is boiling at last. The I don't think I should have troubled teapot! Tbanks. Now, if you'll car- • to* take the train for it." She sigh- ry the kettle—" cd, then, with a winning smile, she She gave him no time for more went up to him and touched his words, but. talked quickly and bright - sleeve. "Lord Sutcombe, you won't ly as she led the way back to the let scruples interfere, you won't— ladies' hut. Her eflort at cheerfulness did not end here, and proved success- miatee idotnfligcoudl ttioes?take the hand that tut, for, notwithstanding the shadow touched him so pleadingly, to draw of tbe past which hung over her, the her outside and say, "I will take the 'fact that she had been able to be - gold you offer me so generously if Wend these two who had been so you will be still more genceous and toot! to her uplifted her. give me that which' I Value beyond "We shall have to work hard," she all the gold in the world—yourself!" Raid, as she pourcel out the tea, "for But he know, though he could hot IL week is not a long time." have told how he know, that this 'she can send the Ariel awe was of all moments the worst for again, or we can come back, now Audi queetion; of all places, this that we know the way here," said the least favorable. •Statewide° eagerly, for the thought "No," he said, drawing in a long that they three s'vere alone on this breath. "rm not so churlish—so fool- island, that lie should see her nearly ish. X am still too amazed—at pre- every Wm' of the day was a secret sent, it all seems like a story out of joy to long but Nina did not re - an adventeire book—to quite realize rich." - well, Vivienne and you shall be eep?nd. morrow I will take you 117(11`C but—I accept your generous offer. ou Will soon tire of the Boli- n the gold is here for the find tude," she said in a low voice. "To - saw some of the gold. There is a "Yes!" Saki Vivienne with woman - spade" --she winced as the scene of ly cunnieg. "I accept unreservedly. the burial of her father and !poor' I have hated the thought of being Heeling roSe before her—"and some poor! Why, think of it! We nhould other tools We brought from the have had to sell the Ariel at wreck; and while you are getting the bourne, have been obligea to go in gold, I will few and fish." for farmieg, or something of tthat "You fish! Why, how did you kind, or Settled hi some stufTS own who taught you?" cried on the Contineht. And how we eau iveaivrilehnue. "1—I—have watched—people fish- hig," said Nina. Vivienne looked round wondering- ly. "Oh, it's jest a dream, as I say!" she lesughee. of it, tweinoti lithe at% on Ond we two sitting here on ,s releote just we three on this fairy isle, and far away in giddy London, with its electric lights and its ceateth se crowds, are mar friends, the people we know, leading the same old dreary, monotonous lives, in the same old, emoky air. Why, leveed, do you realize that they are just nt this moment—oe is the time dint!! ent? —thronging to the Moines to see the latest succeesful play? n they could only see the author!" They Weird theseselvest with the neeerehlhe work of this 'most reelistic piratic mit il nee ffl 11, and at Int Vie ieune, sutelenle growing thee with the excitement, was pc: seeded • by Nina to go in bed. • Rut mantle d eats! goodoeglit ami rOlie off to his yachters in the saloon; but he -could nof Meow and after am bile lei gut up Seel went (limn 10 the leetell and lotal.,NI lit tho mecolit wu, es Vane Males ring hael Indite] ott mato; welt 41 1414.4111, 1 12, seutly. half utwonielously, wt ut towurd the other huts. 'Ile! tine repay, even thus inadequately, some nji he hal left the tu o nide when he died, now belongs to me, does it not?" "Most certeinly!" replied Slit - emetic, all in the dark, but patiently welting for the light. "You irtherit everything of 'Which he Was possess- ed." "I am glad," she said, as if reliev- ed. "Wait for one minute!" She went outside but even at that moment sho paused. and looked round with an Aching heart, a Whet that throbbed painfully with the memor- ies of Meth Micah days of vague, un- certain eiline. The Virhole island seem- ed to epealt of Vane; seemed to be crying to her: "You have come batk; but where is he, our master!" She drew her hand acroms her eyes and • rotieed herself from her reverie, and, going to the back of the hut, screw- ed away the soil from a small mound, • took up two or three of the ideal of gold spathe, and, re-entering the hut, laid them on the rough table Just as her father had done on the tight of -their distovety. Sutcombe and Vivienne lOoked from them to her questioningly. 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The Kind You Have Always Bought 4 Bears the Signature of In Use For Over; Thirty Years CASTORIA was dark, all was still; but as np turned he saw a dim light in the other hut, the hut he had not yet entered. Surprised and curious, he approached it noiselessly and cau- tiously, and looked in through the now gaping logs. As he did so the sound of sobbing reached him. It came front Nina, who Was kneeling beside the rough bed, her arms out- stretched on it, her hands dosed ov- er a paper; a ring lay on the bed - rug as if it had fallen from her hand. Her rettitude, so full of the abandon of grief and despair, smote Sutcombe to the heart.. • Why was sho kneeling there, in that rough hut on that desolate is- land, her eyes streaming with tears, her lips quivering with grief? His face went white, and his own lips twitched with an unspoken .dread, a vague .pyesentiment. He remained there for W moment only, for the SacttedneSS of her grief smote upon him like a reproach; and he moved am ay and stood, with folded arms end bent head, pondering gloomily. Ile lost all sense of time, of the fact that she might find him there, and he started as the cough *lour aliened and she came out. The tears. Well! still shining in, her eyes, which she lifted to his, and her hand—did it'clasp the paper he had seen?—went to her heart. lie took a step towards her. ned Ma!" he breathed. "Decimal Ale what is it? What is the matter? ou are unhappy, troubled about something! Forgive me! I did not know it wee you, did not know you were there. I SEINV the light and mute to lied out if there was any- thing wrote:. Wbat is it, Deciene? Von will tell Inc. will you not? I've ao right to else—end yet I have. ''or 1 love you, Decimal No sor- 'ow, no trouble can touch yew that 'te 8 not Pe tell inc also! All my thoughts, all my life., are bound up in you! I've no thought, no eare, but for you! Ah, don't look at me sot Whate-what—have X said, what have 1 done? Lave pity on me, De- citint dear—" Ile had drawn nearer to her, half mwonseiously. but she .shrank back ftoin him with something, as it seem- ed to him, like terror and horror ir her eyes 1,4114/ on her quivering liege 'No! No! - she bretttilvd with a sheik:et', es if a cold wind had pass- ed over her. 'health—don't say it! -1. tit knew, wiessod---" ". even guessed: Oh, Decimal" v,• Al, 00 Uhrtli tV ••. t); she reseonded, passionate - ,y. t—tt id not know. You etst 1 et say (eel her word! 'You 4'114 1100 Oh, I.InV unhappy, how !led I am! -lel I thought to— sormir.44.••••••o4w HEADACHES Were Caused By A Sour Disordered Stomach Mr. Jaines McLoughlin, Bracehridge, Ont., writes;—'In order to let you know whse Milburnh Laxa-Liver Pills have done for me, I am writing you. "Abut a year ngo I was troddecl great deal with it very sour disordered stomach and had tetrible headathes, that 'ere so bad 1 could scarcely do iny work. "Otto day in telling a friend wL had ased your pills before how 1 felt, she told ne to try them, which 1 did and to my great ellipsis° after using one vial 1 was greatly relieved, and V11011 the second one was finished 1 was totally cured, and have not been trottIdecl sines with either my stomach or the heedachee, and 1 fool greatly indebted, first to the friend and secondly to Milburn's Lan -Liver Pills for the great relief 1 derived from their ice :15% per vial or 5 vials for 31,00 et ell dealers ear mahea direet on teee;pt el priee by The T, MilLairn Co., 'Limited, oronta, Ont. to make you happy—" "You have, you have, Decimal" he pleaded, for her grief, her self-re- proach, were almost eendurable. "I had never known 'hainess until X had known you, midi that night X saw you—" "Hezehl" she whispered, almost moaned. "You—you don't'knew what you are saying, what --what 1 am!" As she spoke she thrust the paper and the ring she had held la hen elenched hand into her bosom. "Don't say another word. Let us— let us try and think you have not spoken. For Vivienne's sake I will forget it, I will, indeed! And yon must, you must, you must!" He put out his hand to stay her, and tried to stationer out a remon- strance, an appeal, but she shrank back, and murmuring: "No, no! Let us forget it. You don't know—don't know!" passed him and glided toward the hut where she had left Vivienne sleeping. And on a similar night, some months earlier. Vane strode up and down the terrace at Leshorough find looked into the mist that hid his lawns and park. It hid the familiar view from him, but it opened and let him gaze, with longiug elespair, et the Fairy Isle, that rarely left his memory. One of the drawing -room windows was open, and Judith's voice floated out to him. In a pause the sound of voices and laughter followed. The scent of cigarettes came ft•oan the snieldng-room, the lights .from the. whitlows of the great lomse fell gar- ishly athwart the terrace!. It all jarred and weighed upon. hint. The man was infinitely weary of it; all; for Fate had robbed hiut of the one woman who could have made life worth th big. and the rank, the wealth, that were his, tamed es bitter as Dead Sea fruit upon his "ely God, who would have 1 houg.ht it would have been so diflicelt to forget!'' be muttered to himself' as he bit at the unlit. cigar between his teeth. ''How much longer, 1 vender, can I endure this life? And what a lool-1 tun to bear it a moment long- er. Why don't I go?" Ile smiled in grim morkery at the question. Ile was the Earl of 1.4•14- 1401011g11, "lord of half a -county.' with all the "regponsibilities and duties*" of liis lofty position. flank. 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