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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Times, 1911-11-02, Page 7+ +++44++++++++++++++++++ BY CHARLES GARVICE Author of " The Verdiet,of the Heart," "A Heritage. of Hate? 'Nell of Slime Miffs," "Paid Pqr," «A Moiern Juliet," Etc, + ++++++++++4.4-4+++++++44-44444+4+++++++4.44+ yoit Move her. PlAnclie? HoW yeti 414 to that idea Ms footeteps, stin na of urs! Pe you rehioniber hint u eieized upon yoe the night we found She Was turning Ohvey to. de to her him? $he nodded theughtfully. "Yes, the tronble hi still there, whatever it Ittis and is," ohe saitl. "No one could have plitead the part of beet better than he has thine; but he' hall been playing, ecting, Oil the time, hie has beea• borefi—no, that'not the tvord, varied -to death every day, and ovory hour; ad much a, he likes SOW° of Iiefe-Yole especially, Clidtr,lit-As 14111 not be sorry, X thin, When he eees the last of' us, Where io ha soinv. do yeu leneW?" Sir Charles shook his head, "I don't know. I don't think he knotts hineffelf. I asked, him this morning VIII hit plans were, and he shruge ged dtlet shoulders and 'smiled—hay icnow that tordle of his—as if he did zot care, and it did not matter." There woe eilence, for a moment or two, then Letchford said: "Is Judith engaged to Julian Shore, Blanche?" She did not reply ter awhile, than she replied: e ' "I don't ToloW. Sometimes I think ,sho le, at, others I aoubt it; hot I 'fancy there isa some hind of under- otanding between them Ile has looked-avell, as a man looks who ot :reset has some reason for holm." tre looks jolly bad at . most 'time," grunted Letchford. There's pinched look about his face, his ,yes shino too much, apa he seems Ict be in a`kind of dream half his( ..time." , ' "I know. And Judith hae the same ilook about her inouth and in her eyes, Charlie, there is something finysteriout about these tWo. They s eent to be—to he watching each Other, as ii they were waiting for tomething to happen." ' Latchford burst into a laugh. ."' 'Pon My word, Blench% you talk like a shilling novel! Why on earth should they watch each other, and what can happen? I say, would you mind if I asked 'Vane to come South with us?" N'Ot in the least. I have grown to like him. • But he won't come, .0harlie, As I said, he will be glad 'to be rid of is, for he wants to be ,otfone to brood over this unknown 1 trouble of his. Put aelc him, by all Oilcans." - "I'll'have to ask Julian Shore as -Well.". . ., " Lady Blanche raised her brow s and :made a little grimace. "I suppose ao; hvell, I don't; like :Ma Shoio—but it does not mattes. _Lord "teiliorough, Will not. come, and ;Mr. Shore would not accept without ',him. I have no fear. You'd better *.begin to dress, Charlie. I can hear that most of them have gone to. their rooms, and you always take such a frightfla time, In suie O don't know ^Why; yoii only put on the sante &Pigs eveey night, , and ought- to be tibia to do so blindfolia As Lady Letchford had said, most of the people httd gone to their rooms; but one or two still lingered in the half light in tile drawing - room and conservatory; and .Tddith stood in the latter listoning moodily -to the steady tramp of gain° One ,pacing the terrace outside. It was Vane, and though she could not see 'him, her eyes, as they followed his -movements as he passed to and fro, .dilated and contracted in unison with •the beating of her heart. The love, she had borne him, even when she had deserted him, had changed into hate; but through the circle of that hatred, the memo*, the sting, of . that ; and the sightu rime), wheo she heerd 'Anether steh, o goiter one than -that mashie, amir turning her head, mom enter the censervotory. NoW, strenge QS it may loom, these hive had 'not been alone together since the night she hod enacted with him the Melodra- matic ecene below the. teratee. It hnd not been necessary for hr to Alton hiM, for he had not hotioht tae -a -tete. Not by. word or Mon Mei either of them referred to the Mei, dents, the speech, of that eight. But heti, when Vane wns Komar hon. more civil, indeed, hieeetth Pled" saint to the cousin for whein he heal pleaded; e0 amiable,, in fact, that Vitae nesureh himself that. „his word o had berhe (reit Ana that all Would be well between Julisto and her. She took up the book which lay on the marble table before her and, Without. a weed, Would have passedodt, but Julien extended hie hand slightly to stay her, • ", "This is the last night," ,he !mid in a low voice and. with a glance to- wards the terrace on which Vanes stem ;still sounded, "Yes," she said in a •easual way. "It ha* been a pleasent, time, and my father and I have .enjoyed it very much. We are going South—to Nice, fihst, I think," "Do not," he midi. that eras all, "Wait until—a few days." She opened her sapphire eyes upon him with haughty surprise, but they flickered and fell under the steady regard of his sombre 01105.. "Why should we wait?" she asked. "I think we are going straight. through London; in fact, X' know we aro," His lips drew together, and his lids fell over his eyes for a moment. "Can. nothing I can say diesuade You?" he asked in a still lower voice. aro you think that I can bear to part with you. for—how many moziths? Have you forgotten what passed between us—there?" Re point- ed to the terrece.. . She latighed with tot affectation of conteinptuous amutentent. "I dont core for the best of melo- dramas, Mr. Shore; and / am not likely to remember them,'" she said, "-And yet you do remember," he seta, cedeely. "There is no moment When you do net remember it, even as I do. And our, compact dwells 'With nie night and day; is burned into my verY She moved. her queenly head hive+ • tiently, and tried to .laugh."Then I wish you Witead forget it, please," she, said, "or cut it out of your 'very soul.' It was to piece of madness, the madness of a moment, the moment of a woman's weakness, . of which you availed yourself most fully, Mr. Shore. It yeas never more their th'al, it could oat' Peasibly, be more. if I were not able to litegh at it, I should be ashamed of it." "We agreed," he said, as if she had not spoken, "that if I were master here You woutd he my wife. Yee: • teed:tell 'zne With tho impossibility of , the pea, but you swore, with tho kiss which is a woman's oath, that you would keep it." "It was. a safe promisee -a prornite eli In whithere was little danger of fulfilment as if I had promised to be Queen of England when you were Dnitig, There is tho le:teeter ehLesbor- eugh"—the raieed' her hand towards the sound, of Vilna's stePshm the ter- race—"and you are still, and Will be but the dependent," "And the helve(' he said as quietly Mil love penetrated aulXg: VIVe to ati lidera "YOU ferget that. If any- ot him, the mound of his yoke, should haphen tie still those thinstept. forevee, I shall claim the !fat- filifieht of your 'prohnise, yam. .oath, itdi t h. ''' WA USED His face was no paler then usual; indeed, a spot of color had come in- tothe sane* 'meek% but Judith, Orrne fought -with the shudder that' ran through her and tried in vaifl to meet the steady regarebt the black eyes with a contemptuous smile. • "You ding to Melodrama," she said, with a shrug of her shoulders. "Will you wait in England for a week?" he ttsed, as if her taunt had not touplieh,him. "Not' she replied. "Three days—two?" he said, slow- ly, pettently. "Not ono!" was the instant re- Spanse. you lot. me pass, please? I shall be late." He stood made, but as she, Was sweeping by hiin he caught her hand' and pressed it to his lips, "For all" your gibes arid mockery, I knoW .your heart," liti Whispered. "X can trust you, Irate is Avenger than love, and 1 am sure of zny re- ward, You will keep your word!" fehe looked strangely at hint over her shoulder, paused as if she were listening to the footsteps outaide, then, With a flash of tho sapphire eyes as if a Ititeet fire had suddenly% sprung up within them, mad, in a voice almost ttS low as his: "Yes, though X do not knoW whee titer 1 hate him or you Worse, 1 wilt keep my Word " %then she had gone Juliau stood tor a Moment looking before hiai, his toegue moittehing his hot lips. blot had spoken of madneee, and ho knew that it Wait the right word to deferibe the passivn which consumed the 'Compact he had inade with her. But there is o grim method. in • DR. FOWLER'S I Extract, of VIM Strawberry Ter The List rirteei Irestri Mrs. Duncan McRae, 62, 6th St. North, 'Braden, Man., writes: --,"It is meth tpleasuft for me to say that / have mad .1:)r. rairler's Extract of Wild Strawberry ih my home, every Summer, for the list fifteen yew. ' "I have six children and have used it :on every one of them. ' "/ use it myself and so does my Authand. Lag summer my baby, teven 'months old, wail taken voy Olek with Summer Complaint, and we thought he ;would die. We got a bottle of Dr, Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry and itarted giving it to hint in small doses 'and in three days he got quite well, so Ne kept on With the medicine for shout rfs week or more and he became a* well al ever, , ally little girl, two years old, etas , taken very bad with the same trouble, and / used two doses of the iltiMemetlichIS and Ala Was completely cured. I "Myself and my husband think there It no other medicine SO good /or all I 'hotel complaints. ll art anyone wishes to know *het an ,tercellertt remedy trt. Fowler's Extract ome kind of Madness. . Wild Strawberry is, 1 ant 'willing to ire Went out by 4 door ttt the end doe ctell them what it has doe for me." /MIST ON ottriNG Valill li*Otr AS of the eoneervatory and, making his tered the Itiberatory and saitk inte a way through the ladies' garden, en - Ant FOR a IA. POWLER'S'Il AID FOR chair. manufactured only byl,,h, mi ,,,,,,„.,,,.,. "She will go," he muttered. "And .4 "14"4.61/ it 15 drill, the eight of her thttt ;rivet 00.. Limited, Toronto, Ont. , • ..esoat ' .....:..z.4............,.... .1 THE WI:Nalliit TINES, NOVENLIE4 2.4494 nee emoge. Wh,gn ehe hoe genie X you to- think thein ee, Vim', with Abell lei Weide a tatr. It le b h,htgrave tnirderfli. lottleedettheeeher to. W00% Oaf 101104. ot her voiee. that T , Wien end wondered whether they --Theepene listrettithli but lee aloft glean' Oothing from julian'e fee% Serene and unclealded, it told 00th- ianly Fenworthy, Aby *44 of the table, watehmt and listener) With the faint einlie in her kee0 Wei. int 4.etch4nlin alineet, flirted °polo wita etich other^ Sir ate --and drank,—stea;iliY, ShoWing his teeth iyhen a, witty reitierk Watil mule, emit etroking the eareielly thied moutitztehe driveti the leer out of my*heart and had at laet—on this last oppertunitY IIILS itiy veins with tire, 1, or, Wait! 1 cant 11 it Altist bajor. oight or ;weer!' • Al he 'poke his fate groWiiv„ift eith voine emotion, with tho eestecy 4f fear battling With Old frenzy' of -desire. The door opened Slowly; and before he could drive the 'terrible ene prensiort from. his face, ITeherali ere tiered with her nose1ees gop, XTO started to his feet and went to the table, while o .thought • fiehiled through his brain. The woman watched him too closely, knew too much or Moo she was better out of the %TAY. He turned nolo slowly, anti with a Odic signed to her, "TO your box packed, Deborah?" ' "No," she ‘vpilecl, with downcast eye% ""fhen pack it," he said, "X want you to go up to -night instead of to- morrow. It will be more conven- ient, . Yeti don't mind the short notice? A carriage shall take you to the station. There is 11 train at eight -thirty, it win .•Sive you time?" • She raised hbir eyes and joe,ked at 'him with a keen but veiled anxiety, an. linxietY bordering on dread, . "Dena send me, Niri jidiahl" she said, ;her thin fingers moving swift - lye "Let Ine stay taillight,' till you got"' . Ire ioolfed,at her with p. frown of surprise that was not altogether Me. aumed, , "What do you mean? What is the motter with you, Deborah?" he asked. "Why should you object to, leave here a few hours atelier than yea intended?" }lrspeeehless lips worked and her eyes taught the floor as if they whre ahoicl to meet hie, "Let inc stAY, Mr. Julian!" she pleaded. "Yon are not weli—you do not sleep. I watch—T can see the light undsr your deer. Thereeetbero is something on yolir mind, Some- thing—" tier fingers cerisea Ond her liarols gripped ode other. AS it she had staid too, Much. Julian laughed noiselessly. -"Really, X don't know " Whot can the matter with you, peboralit" he said, with an 'gesture; but her grange 'Milian -nee to leave him (oily made"hint more determined that the should go, "If you said that, youwere not well it would be More to the purpose; in fact, I've noticed that you've not been looking the thing lately. This place does net Ault You, NoW,..don't argue any longer, my good Deborah. I went the London roonio put straight by the time 1 get up there tomorrow— for I leove here to-morrow—end I in- tend you shall go to -night." She mace a gesture of resignation-, it was almost Oriental In its me- phasis—apd busied about the room, 'hutting a thing hero and there in its place. Presently she touched him On the shoulder nervously and pointed So" the cords of the ventilator. ` "They are neatly broken,"- she said. Juliazi glanced up and then turned tovity. "I know! 1 knee 1" ke said, im- patiently. "It does not matter; they will last. Let them alone, Please!" She mood towards the dime, but paused and looked at him wake . titre of affection, entreaty 'id de - spate: then she raised her hetede end, said on them, sloohy, as one,. educe - ' tautly preferring a claim, recalling an, ,obligetion: .+Arr. julian, T—i served 'our fnfh- er faithfully. I have served you, for love of him and yoerself. Vet nur- sed you. rd have laid downmy life for 'him, I'd lay it down for you, Mr. .1 ulian—" nodded, as if he were schooling himself to be patient with her. "1 ant not like other tornen. ani deaf and dunib, but when 'any trouble has' threatened you or ,hou I as he glanced overtly at that vision of lOvelineht, hitt 4Aughter, to elldien .ted Vene, Who, As th,o dinner pre-, lerened bade mu/ firePPed out nI the diseueffion of plane for the Even at the most' pilblie Inomente ho had this 'titbit ef "drePhillg out," cind owity seared his thought% and his spirit, to a certain. niunelesS lido, where innved the sThtt, graceful egure of the girl he had -loved -and lost. The voices round the dinner tolhe einote N,agooly* on hit ear,. • tor lie was listening to that elhitr, girl- ish volee which /merited him, sleep- , ing or waking. • . : .."Qh, too lest love! - X Mid 704 •in in,:arnitt but onee. Ana then loot jje aWahened with a sigkind pess- ed the port to Sir Slhandoe,. The holies had gone to the drawing -own hind when Sir Chanties had drunk his osual, too elloweince; Vance rci(C' "`onw. and sing to us, .Tuilien," he said; "no 'mournful ditty to -night, but something that will dicer etis," And he put laim band 'on-Julian's Slight shoulder. - • J alien .Ami led at hint, as 'Jonathan tunisit have smiled at David, •and, when he had finished his cake, went to the piano. Ire did hot ask Judith to play , for hint ehAt night, an4 ho ming the "lhamMn't Wedding Song" with a verve and 'swing which seemed 't sot every piece of ,china on the • v:r•puineyS,.,d, gab:VaneS'plendid nets- ringing Brevetsaid . ien't 'it?" be deioantlecl of .Lady Fan, . "" , h', Swith Piej"gdil tic140* salite thea.ZnetirescelMedfualL, et the singer, pow thrown back with • Parted' lips and flashing eyes. "Do you take hint , with you where you, go? I3y the way, where do you gore' "I don't know," he said. "I shall stay here for a few days; a week, perhaps. Oh, yes; Julian will go with iee, I've no doubt." "My poor Vane!" she murmured; but he did not hear her. Bridge was started, but Vane did not play. • The Fairy Isle was haunt- liwo TOM presently that night anti ho could ,not. settle down, He lit a cigar and paced up and dowri • the • terrace. Later on the bridge players ceoseda and, after the usual evrang-- lieg review of the game, went up to bed. Vane, looking in at the draw-,' ing-room door, saw Julian and Jud- ith' standing by the fire. They were apparently engaged in the usual coin- Monplaces which aro uttered before •parting for the night, and he dia not see the eombre lire that glowed in JuIPann's will not t altnputred o "No," she said. "Dut you will keep your promise?" "Yes, she Answered in the same tole. • ' .1cothirig rose, •So • are most of the tragedies of life preluded. He opened the dooi: for her and she passed out and he went on to the terrace, ineet- lnir Vane face to face. "jUliten!" said Vane. "Is—fs it all right? Have you asked her? I know your secret, my dear fellow!" Julian • hesitated for a moment, then he said; "Yes, 1 have asked her, And it is ,.y•es.! "1 Congratulate you with all my 'heart!" said Vane. ''LoVe--ivell, love is the one thing Judith wanted. And she has got that 1 hnow. Spice - did! I'm glad! Where are you going?" , “Te thy den," ,said Julian, His lips were dry, and he thought. his voice wee hotose; but it was not, Vane saw nothing but the lover's dreaminess and embarrassment,. ":1211 -come to you—let me finish this dgar in the „open air. I want to.talk over our plans," he said. A.11"—TElt CH XXI. Julian nodded and weet to the lab. oratory. /fa looked round the room that, notwithstanding its lux- orious appointruente, was still sug- gestive of mystery, and, glidiug to the wall on which the ropes of the curious ventilate were hung, nearly severed the already frayed. strands. Then he closed the door that led to the ladies' garden and drew tho por- tiere curtain over it.- The spirit Me- nace Was in its Mace, but unlit, and he lighted it and placed beside it, but not upon it, alt lean pot cola taining .a bluish liquid. Then he tit eigarette arid, opening a book, sat at the table as if reading; but the pritited liees danced before his eyet atul he did not turn a page. Presently there came a knock at the door, 'trench.' quick, sharp knock, and he entered. Ho had eXchanged hie dress coat fee an old- smoking jecket, it thick, comfortable jacket, with heavy brass buttohs. "No stink on to-hight, Julian," he said, pleasantly. "Now, about our plena, old man," He took out his pipe and filled and Tit it. "What do you say to Monte eerie" and then, when we are bored of it, Egypt? Or have known it, known. it, though no, wordluur been spokern.no sign, that others could read, has been made. Therethere is trouble threatening now." She shuddered. "I know— who should know better?—when there is soMothing on your mind, and there is something dark and dreadful on sit 'nowt Mr. Julian—ah, for God's sahe don't do She's not worth BO Site's beautiful—oh, I know, I know; but site's not worth itf"- Julian's Mee went white and into his eyes crept the veileetion • ot the neenelefis terror and dread which shone .glassity in hers; then he laughed, a laugh, that sotreded 'forced' and ghastly in the face of the wo- terror, and, taking out hie j)Ui0e, he held out Seine money, "Here's emir &are, Deborah," lie said, gently enotIgh, but his lips, though they smiled, declared his. in- fleaible determination, ' she took the money 0110 Ching to his hoed and slid to her knew), her livid face tweed up so him implor- ingly. "Master, I sea more that most, feel mote than those who on speak and hear," she signed. "X ant afraid!. I hhow that look! Your mother's lace used to wear atn afraid!' Alt, let me ttayi" oit hee _shoulder- led her to the door. Ile raised her, and with his hand I “P`oolish• Deborah!" he sigma AS he opened it. "You are tierVous and out. ot sorts, full of wild fancies and presentiments. I'll send you to $he peotested, pleaded no lobger, doctor When owe home," bet, with a ica at him, the look of a dog which, itelifferent to all the world besides is taithful end loving to its master, bent her head resign- edly and Went, out, Stooa frowiting for a hutm- ent or two, gnawing at his lip as it he Were atking himeell how much sho gueseed, (Ye whether it wee- ottly an exhibition of _nerves; then, With a gestem the Spartisit gesture which wines away a. distasteful mulneet, went up to rime& The dinner that night wan a very bright one, Judith, in a wonderful arose which tot oft her Mereellotta beauty to perteetien, talked ahnoet, imeertsingly, her eyes ehining like Stara, her lips, usually Se intintibile, carved With the smile which womett wear when they are heppiest—or wish ed at his pipe. • It ovu w4b, her /vomit?" sale .folisn, placid131 enough; but hie lips twitehod a* they Vane nodded. "X Wondered whether ehe'il tell yeo," lie *aid, eimply. "I'm glad if she has. It wasn't' to rife ;natter, Zan stilt wish you hick, old chap. What are yen gOillfe te do," Jelian hied got up and, an if nee- chanieally, had put the iron pot oa' the opirit Aimee% experinient," he Said, ie ccutual kind of Way', "I'M, 0911W .4.#' tide new color. I've got it in my heed, Yen don't mind, do you?" not if you don't snake to much of a frouet," said Vane. "Well, what do you say to snY Plans? We could join the °tame at Monte Carle-- Phew, that sterhs be- ginning to aniell aireadY!" ' "It will be over in minute," said Julian. "You leave it to me, as uSualt You don't seem to care, Vane!' "That'e juet it," P414 Vuo, "I don't care. It's all one to me where ani. Few, places or things holdohy charm for me." Julian looked at bim with a. strange mixture of coriositY Aloofness, as if his mina 'were pre. occupied. Then ho tureed to the furnace again. "Botheh!" he old, "X fatal). have to get more spirit. Po yhef mind?" He looked over hie !Moulder at Vane, and the bluish flaMes cast a ghastly light on his Pala face—"do you mind stirring this stuff While I'm golee9 sha'n't he More.. than o minute or two. I keep it outside -a," Vane got up freen his chair and shodriyugg4d1 hrilgshstir buultillailogpooladihshUase,not; spoil it; I'M net used to this game." "Oh, nO," responded Julian,. casu- ally. "Just keep it stirred." As he opened the door he glanced -ever his shoulder again at Vane; and surely if Vane had seen the expres. won „in the black eyes shiningforth from the dark ettadows surrounding then), he would have felt 'some pro, sentiment of coming ill; hut all his attention woe fixed on the task he had undertaken. .1 (Mao's, glance lasted but it mo - meta, and he went out and closed the door softly behind him. He did not turn the key, for the door lock- ed by a spring,• as did that which led to the ladies garden, and to both doors only he and Deborah had keys, Outside the door he paused a mo- ment, biting, his lips and driving the tell-tale ofpression front his eyes, then he went slowly, arid humming the air he had sung a little while ago, into the hall. Prange, the 'but- ler, was standing there and Julian went, up to him; "Oh, Ponca', he said, "I've run out of methylated spirits. do you think you could get me sonte?" "Yes, Mr. Julien. I, generally keep some by me in my pantry. Shall I bring it to your room?" "Oit, don't trouble; I'll wait here, thanks," said Julian. I.Te sang rath- er more loudly as Latchford came down the stable. "Seen Van?" he asked. "If he hasn't gone to bed I want him to come and have a pipe. I can't sleeP. somehow," he laughed shamefacedly. "Hsua.11y drop off as soon as my head's on the pillow." Vane's in my den—writing let- ters. We were making oar plans for abroad. I'll toll him when I go back," don't bother him if he's writ- ing," said Letchford, and he went On to she smoking -room. Prance came back with the spirit - can in his hand. "Very sorry, ltfr. Jeiliare" he said, "but I've run out. Some of the maids must have been at it for their curling tongs. X daresay I could get some from one of them." .3 ellen thought swiftly. "Ate yes," .said. "I wish you would. I want it particularly. Send up to Afiss Orene's maid and ask her." "rn go myself, sir," said Prance, and he went up the stairS. Julian. still -humming, went to the smoking-rooni and looked tn. ',etch - ford was walking up and down, smoking vigorously anti rumpling his short hair, a trick he had wieen he was worried or puzzled. "Caine in and sit down," he said to Julian, "I've' got- what my tvile cane a fidgety fit on me to -night; ikwinjenotlinale—nat---.,,wbat do you cell it, Julian seined. "That ragout was very rich," he said, hI think that chef always overdoes the butter, coine and have a, cigarette peceently; but I must go back to the den hest. bring Vane with me." . . "Do!" said Letchford, with undue earneettiess. Julian nodded mid sauntered back to the hall. AS he did so a tall fig - sere in a tea -gown glided down the tairs. It was Judith. He elopped short and their eye.% met. In hers was a covert feat., a elected question- ing and doubt; In his the gleam of a 'deadly determination. "You sent for some spirit?" she said en a hoe voiee. The expression of his face changed to one of passionute admiration, and hie eyes roamed over the bettetiftil face and tall, light figure. "Yes," he said, in en orainary tone. -mit 1 it sorro if I disterbed yo'lliiiyY°1-1111arlrililitisidg—te,-ting it," she said. "Where—where is Vane?" Ills lids drooped. She, too, was asking for Vente DOI she seeped any- thing? No matter if she did. At that moment he felt that he woeld like her to hitee known, Would 'wish thee she should share his guilt. "In my den," be replied :steadily. re looked at his Welch as he , evoke, ml his lips meets(' as if lw were aide g caleu t "In your dere-what is be doing thete?" she usked. Juliet) Reeled with an affectation of eurprielo "lie iS writing: Ivo are iner orr programme, and hat e (added to you either at Monte Curio or o." She thew a breath of relief, Mit Said 110iI11011, doWn. tht strs %it'll' the ea.) ie le-tol, and, vota Hi& up. °I've leen nide to ioct e fo,. , 3 AVoUld you rather stay on here atm a go in for hunting and tite root of it? e You have only to nay. I don't cam. it's alt one to inc. Dot I onght to motion that Judith is going South." Julian nodded. "r knohe 1 want to tell you all about it, Vane," he edict, hesitatiogly. Vane leughed. "You need not.. Stan, do you think 1 haven't *est Or mast. I've seen how' it 18 with • you! And, by George, X'Ill not sins . prised! There len't a more beautiful Woman in the world, or one hotter • worth thewinning, Julian did ever telj- yoit—g Ife prtusen and puffs I*" Olt, td se two. J Lanni than:sea hint, and, taking ,lislitilitWittlitt1111111iiiitellit#111d11111.1011Niotiff 9 00 Mors - • • -±x..V1/4. AVegetabierreperatiorsiorits. siatatirig thaboitatuiRegato: tog 0.50111)16-5 and Bositai or IN 14N' . • PronylvsUgeslIongiverful^ tessodRest.couteins mina pplum,lviorphihe nor NireArt, ZQT11A.Tecolriv:,' ******0.111..**•,•****.-** Ricr;eelateilfrSAIMMUarfi AnTAGe 414" .efir.fenns • 1444.11..Selar-, Asia itatt itcpantia confanoiircza. Ifferriere SZVAT-T.Im Aperfect Remedy forConstips- non, Sour Siomach.Diarrhoen. Wormsgonvulsicns.reverish- acts andLoss or SLEEP. 'behind* Signature of an.OlTee NEW YORK f dist „ • 35•111. -°.?E 7-35": 'OM EXACT COThhihir WHAPPga, I ; ' CASTOR For /plants and Children, The Kind You neva. Always Bought Bears the Sipa= of In Use For Overi' Thirty Years'. up Ids song again, wiiit slowly to: 'ward the Witch's Room. Vane had:drawn a chair up to the spirit furnace and lie leant over the pet stirring it mechanically. Yee; he was decidedly de trop; if he were out of the Way, Julian and Judith would reign at Lesborough now in the heyday of their youth; with their capacity for enjoyment still at its height; while he- He sighed listless- ly; then the shell was followed by a cough, for the lumes were begin- ning to rise from the pot and had got into his lungs. "Phew!" he muttered. "Hope no- thing's going wrong with the beastly stuff; Julian will be disappointed. Ain I stirring it enough?" The fumes grew tOihker, so that he felt some difficulty in breathing, Gradually, the difficulty increased and, • half choking, he looked round the room. "Ventilator closed, of course," he said to himself, "These scientific chaps seem to be able to breathe without air; it's use, 1 suppose. I, must open that thine' Ile rose, and to his temazernent felt his legs weaken undet him. Iris breath was coming in gasps, the '0011 1"1s filling with the fumes. Staggering ard holding by the table and the thair, he made his toy to the Wall whore the rope hung and pulled it with a jerk. It broke, and the lower part fell over his arms. Ile was half blinded and nearly suffo- cated by this time, and he made for the door with his hands outstretched like a Winn man. In the confusion of his• mind caused by the deathly sen- sationof asphyxiation 'he missed the doer and groped with his bands. along the panelled wail. At last, as his sight and his litoeth were ut- terly failing, he toadied the portiere curial)); but could telly cling to it, It came down with hiswow-A, and he fell to th.s ground, still grip- ping it. There is a moment, the millionth part of a moment, before the hand of death -crushes out, ell power of thought, when the past moves like a flamli before the mental vision: and in that moment "t ane saw and heard Ihina as plainly as if she had been In the room with 1111,1. Tile lips formed her memo ad, half fighting, half resigning himself to the end, he closed hie vele. As he did so ins heard in the intense, limonite silence, the turning of a key. "It comes too late," he thought; "1 shell be de trop no longer!" But the eound was fol -.wed by a deatileht, of irc.sh, or heevenle. air; hitt he Was too faint to move, and he wits only conscious of the.ligore or a woman dimly out- lined in the dense fumes. She stood for a moment looeitiground, then HEALTH RESTORED TO THIS FAMILY Wife's experience with Dr. Chase's Nerve Food led to husband's cure. "Sittee childhood I was afflieted with biliousness and sick headache," writes Mt A. Ta. Van Wyek, Park nin, Ont„ "end as all the (ioctors' insdirines and prescriptions failed to do 010 any permanent good, 1 had lost frith in ell teedieinss. It was by ae- Slent tliat I came- to use Dr. Chase's Xerve Food, for it had been reeom. mended for Ira. Van Wyck and did iter so much good.that she wished me to try it. "I did so, and wes surpris.ed at the results. It is now three years since discontinued the medicine and I halm not had an attatk .f the old trouble, I hope that others may benefit by my enpertence," The enres effected by 1)r. 'ChaSe'S Nesse Pond nre lasting hocenso it :wilds. tin tho systsm rind removes the ;ease f trottli.e, till tents ft hos, a for $:;.511: ot all dt elm, or Edmanloh,. Dates 4 Co., Torento., ea....--heeklateseeen-e- noiselesely she ere,ret teehithis hinhe As she did so the garden -door byi which she had entered, closed. She sprang from him to the rope, save that it was broken, and, staggering, made for the garhen, door. By the - time she had opened it Vane hed re- covered sufficiently to get to hie feet and heavily', bluuderingly, was moving towards her, when, as if shim had suddenly thought of something, she ran to the furnace and, taking off the iron pot, poured out its cone tents. There should be no evidence against her beloved master. But her: heed was unsteady, her whole frame,, indeed, shaking, and some of the. liquid fell into the furnace, The flame arose, piercing even the •dien fumes, and lighting the room with W livid glare in which Vane saw her face aed recognized Deborah, 1-fe saw something else that roused his 'be- wildered senses with a quick horror; the dame had camelit her those, and she was or fire. Struggling lierreler with his weakness, he thee off his coat and s't'epping it round her, es- sayed to drag her to Ow door. As be did se the burning licieid rim likis snake from the Ornate, and along the, floor, caught the curtain. and in another moment the whole ,roola seemed ablaze. Vane struggled to tile g•arden door, still grespine the inert figure. . The silence, here eaused by her . ter- rible affliction, his from the fumes that filled his lungs, true -weird and. gliesily. They were like two deILL0itt- 11(1 • figures struggling through a eight - mare ef itell.Swaying- tide wity and' that, Vane reached the door at inst. It wits ajar, and he forced it wit11 Itis weak, uncertain fIng•ors, but even 1:4 he stood. on the threshold his strength relied hint, and as he fell oetwards, his buteien slipped front the door cloned on ite spring, end sho was shut up In the larrning• moat. • Vane fell down the steps heaVily, and, rolling under Ono of the thick bushes, lay there senselese Letchford, still waiting for Viet% was knocking the ashes from his pipe when be artW a shaft of yellow light shoot across the opening be- tweea the curtains. He thenght no- thing of it for a moment .or -two, but as it grew more intense lie drew the certain aside and saw that thdt light came from soine part of the house. IiitrIlittaSt. WEIN to open the window, but he remembered that a draught was. In cases of .fireoan ad- ded peril, and he sin.ang to the ibior silo, ling for help. lu an instate, as it seemed, the stairs were tilled with people, the hail it self, wit i e his shouts \yore joined by screams and cries of '•Vire!'' speitisisg trom the corridor lead- ing to the, Witch's iloom canto -the all figure of .1 exi fan. '"%,c.'! Ni 1! e,•e? he rried, Letchford gasped Ills inisww. "I saw it from the. siniiking;Toenti; 1: is ou the west side:" "It must ,he year room. i'Lt..0 Julien," said A OW, a Shal'ir 4-rx• of, Inwror, rale ham the group uf v, nliai. it t'1,, 4.1 Ji ,,in milt le Joheit's 1,, I' 1.111d 111.1,1 ti I.: .4 41, till mile re , f. with her Melia ne il te 01,1 rml • gale. -We shall s Nat.!, ae. he ran down tlin vo rhio- if'. 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