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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1911-07-13, Page 7• 1011 S.D. ikTAGGART D. MeTAGOART eraggart Oros . RtENpRAL BANKING RUST - TRANSACTED. NOTroS DISCOUNTED. DRAFTS aasum vizmigigat ALLOWED ON DE4 • 'POWS.: SALE NOTES' IUB- ORASEP, ' NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- . AWOVR, FINAbICIAL, 'REAL ESTATE AND FIRE.INSUR7 VICE REPEE- ROTTING 14 VIIIE 1NSUR, ANCE' ,COMPANZE-, • . , %VISION, '. 001,INT OFFICE OLIN'rON. IJOYDOI4E, . BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, 140f ARt PUBLIC; ETC. • OFF1.00,-, Sloane Block -CLINTON. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public CeMMissioner, Ete. /. REAL ES,,,,,,TATE and INSURANCE. issuer of Marriage Licenses. HORON.-sTREET, - CLINTON. W. GUNN L. R. C. P., L. R. C.. S„ Edinburg, Office -Ontario streiet, Clinton. Night edits at front door of office or at resideace on Rattenbury street. Re. J. W. SHAW. .4REI,CE- RATTEt.14RURY ST.. EAST, -CLINTON.- . W. THOIPSO. PlIfYISICIAN, SURGEON, ETC. Special atitsution given to dis- easep of the Eye. Ear, Nose and 'throat. 13Yes eareiully exanxined and suitable glasses prescribed. Offlee and residence: 2 doors west of the Commercial Hotel. Huron St. R. F. A. AXON. -DENTIST.- Specittlist in Crown and Bridge Work. Graduate of C. C. D. S., Cbicagp, and R. C. D. S., Tor- . onto. Bayfield on Mondays from May , to Derimbuu. -TIME TABLE - Trains will arrive at and. depart frost Clinton station as follows: • BUFFALO AND Going East 11 tt ill It Going West It gt it11 GODERIOH 7.35 3.07 5.15 11.07 1.25 6.40 11.28 LONDON, HURON & BRUCE Going South ' Going North 7.50 .4.23 11.00 6.35 . DIV: a. m. p. P. m• a. m. P. m. p. m. P.. m• DIV: a. m. p. m. a. m. P. m. 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Canton:bib beide, full, eft with hed&iit, ;se he secured at moderate tilos •local anent, • early Implication mutt be mad• * ASK rOK.140MISIzteres* PA/401141re tormenint rates and full informatirm. Apply to more C.P.R. Agent er MR, Lalteeseeelh• Die. Par. Ant., Toronto, ONLY DIRECT LINE • NO CHANGE OE NANO w. JACKSON, AdMiT• CIAN.roN 01144011 Nowa4sectr4 14hek Cablennan AN EXCITING PRESENT.DAY ROMANCE "Ykre A 'T ERBY ettiksNev Supplied inelvely In Canada by The British & Colonioi Preis Service, Limited. "1 am of the other party,* I remind- • ed her sulkily. • "She laughed again, and said that She 'didn't consider the fact of any importanee. I think never felt quite so (utile as I did when, that woman jaughed at me.. And yet, you know, I admired her for it. "The man on the donkey didn't come up to no very feet. lie soured to be hesitating because she won t alone; and when she saw that, she milled out to hint not to be afraid, that I was a riend of hers and herrn - less, I have been accused of being a vain man more than once in the past by people whose opinion wasn't worth considering. If they, poultl have fseen me at that Moment they would have Smiled, for if 1 ani vain, my vanity wag in. n fair Way te being flayed off me in shreds; she gave it a whip -cut at every ,sentence. "I liked the Way She tackled Gillies, though, she didn't give him time to think 'himself a great man She just took top station from the first, and kept it. • "Don't come too near me, Andrew Gillies,' she cried. 'Keep your distance till you've; answered a question or two, I know that your hands •aren't clean, but I don't know quite how deep the stain on them is. You've got to satisfy me on 'that point before we go further,' , "The fellow had dismounted Red was standing beside hia beast, 'with one arm resting on the saddle. She Lad bleated me pretty scornfully, but could have struck him for the look en his face Whenke answered her:- " `I didn't think you would be par- ticular, Rachel Carrington!' . "'m so far particular that I draw the line at association with a mur- derer; she answered at once. 'You have many vices, Andrew Gillies, and possibly they added. to your commer- dal value in the past. One of the most noxious of them is your canting parade of piety. But you used to ha,ve one virtue; a curious virtue it is too, to be part of the complement of a common swindler. You speak the truth.' . , "According to my lights and con- science, I do,'. he replied, unctuously. have a different theory as to that, she replied quietly. Your con- science has nothing to do with it. You have custivated the habit et truth, be- eause, considerably to your own sur- prise, you discovered in early life that it pays. Had you anything to do with my husband's death?' ,• • "He shot a curious glance at her, and l'thought his eyes quailed before here. '• "'I did not kill him,' he answered. " Were you present when he died?'' "There was a long interval before the answer `came. We, the woman and I, waited for it almost • without drawing a breath. At length the Man looked her straight In the eyes, arid answered: • " 'Yes, Rachel Carrington, I was.' •' CHAPTER XXIV. The Words on the Stone • When Val B. Montague came to the `point in his story at which the Scotch clerk had admitted that he was pre- sent at the death of. Richmond Car- rington, he .paused, and looked round the circle of his hearers. It was a dramatic moment, and both the natural temperament and professional training had Mede him •something of' a poseur. He was tempted, there- fore, to ply the situation for what it was worth. But the expression r hich he saw on one face, the look of plead- ing distress' which he saw in Elsa's. eyes; made him change his mind hnr- riedly. .He reniembered that the deed' man was her father, and that he had been told how she loved him. kle. hurried on with his tale. • ' "I'll give you the rest as quickly as I can," he said. "The' man had been present at Richmond Carrington's death, but had not caused it. Mr. Carrington look' his word for that, and having done so, dismissed the sub-' ject, and proceeded to strike a bargain 'with him." - . "Did he say how my father died?" asked Elsa in a low voice, . "Yes," admitted Montague reluc- tantly. • . " "Then tell me that first, please." "He said that your father had writ- ten to him the day before'proposing a place and, time where they could meet and come to terms. He kept. thisappointment, but Mr. Carrington didn't. He 'waited for 'nearly three hours, and there decided to go to the Chinelas• and find out why he had been tricked in this way. On the road he caught sight of the man for whom he had been waiting, gave chase and caught him near the hot spring of the Caldeira de Morte,." "What was the object of the eapote and capello?" asked Scarborough, "Mr. Carrington had hirnself Sug- gested that Gillies should Wear them. It seems that Mies Carrington knew the elerk by sight, and her fath'er was Very anxious that She shoUld not by any ehance recognize hint. Gillies wore the things to humor this whine Which he admits that he did not wider - stand; but afterwards when the meet- ing at the Caldeira de,Morte had re- sulted in a tragedy, ,he Was glad for his own sake that he had worn them. He deelares solemnly that he had nothing to do with causing the tra- gedy, but he did not know if he AroUld be ableto prove that if he were ae- tused. Ile had the effrontery to say to the dead man's widow, itt a cant- ing, shuffling whine, that it wag 'pro- vidential' that he Was disguis'ed on that afternoon. He May be a, lever scoundrel; I dare say he Is; but, le- hoshaphat; he's a Worm, too, sirt" • • "What happened at the Caldeira de leforte?" saki Elsa. "And why was ntY father trying to avoid taillies when Mr. Davis saw him?" "'UMW) he had Welted him," staid Moatague; "as Served the canting, blackmailing blackguard righti bur- ing thofte three hours whilst the black - Deaner was eeoling his heels at the rendezvoug whplt your father had given, the letteC; was busy hiding the diarnonde. Witch he met the man at the Caldeira de Marto, he snepped his fingers • in his face, laughed at him, and told him to do his worst. The stones were safe now. At that Gillies admits that he lost his teMper, but your father did nothing but laugh, There was no actual quarrel, because your father reused to show anything but amugement at the other man's Then Gilliee, seeing ,that the game was up for the present, went away; but before he had gone a hun- dred yarde be beard his name sheeted In a tone et WM, lie went back. Mn. Carrington wag lying on the ground In what appeared to be a fit, and a minute later the end came. The man *waited a minute until he was sure that he was dead, and then fled without looking behind him." Montague Paueed again„ and for a ehort time no one spoke. Elsa was sobbing quietly, 'with her head on. 1VIona's ehoulder, and Monale artn en- circling her protectingly. Then Scarborough said:--4- "And the scratched atone?" "Gillies knew nothing of it. leirs. Carrington, in my hearing, sir, chaff- ed him for having overlooked it. That wonaan is clever, sir, but I do not think she kas a heart." • "She told him about the atone!". • Scarborough exclainied, "Was that before she made her bargain with him?" .9t was alter, sir," said Montague, • "What was the bargain?" Varney asked. "The same which he bad proposed to the dead man -thirty per Cent., which he .pointed out was not black- • mail,' but a fair cOmmission earned by eminent, and as yet unrew,arded ser- vices in the past, The sanctimonious hound Said that his conscience allow- ed that percentage, but forbade him to ask for more. lumping Jehoolux- phat, sir! if I owned a conscience like that, I woulon't let it work for less than cent. per cent, on each transao. lion!" • "Did Mrs. Carrfagton agree to those terms?" • • "With themeeknesa of an unshorn ewe lamb! I have hopes from that! I anticipate that when the day of dive • Mon comes; her conseience will have to be consulted, and it will tell her that it cannet sanction the payment of blackmail. at all! It would please me if that crawling thing got very badly left le the end," "Well," said Scarborough laughing, "that's what we are going to try to • do. How did they get rid of you?" "With a, revolver."' '• "Whet? Whose?" came from Scar- borough and Varney simultanedusly, • "The widow's. She held it over ale while Gillies changed the saddle from his donkey 'on to mine, and I didn't dare to move. She promised to put•a bullet through my leg if I did, and I thought she probably. would. After- wards she gave the revolver to Gillies to bold, while she rode 'on ahead, .1 thought of making a dash then, In spite of the fact that Gillies had been iristructed to wing me if I tried; and If 1 had been as young as either of you I should probably have done it, • because I din't really think the worm would have the courage to pull the• . trigger. But, sir, I am forty-two, and I have lived in countries where re- volvers do occasionally go off, and I know that sometimes a, :man pulls the trigger, as you might say, thought- lessly, without mewling it, and is- sur- prised afterwards to find that there , has been an accident. I sat where I was. After the widow had got a quer- 'ter of a mile away, Gillies followed her, and his donkey soon caught hers up. I watched them till they were out of sight, and then I walked On here. • And as I am dead beat, here for the • present I mean to stay. What are you going to do?" . "Which way did these two gor. • asked Varney. , "They took the road which leads to Sete Cidades,' but I don't know whe- ther they stuck to it.". • • "Then we • shall probably. follow them there," Said Scarborough. "But first we are going back to the Casa • Davis." ' • "What for? Shouldn't waste time, ' if I were you. Follow them now, sir!" Scarborough explained how Mr. Davis exPected to get a better read - lug of the meetiage on the scratched stone by . photography, and Montague said:-' ,* ' "Good' If he succeeds you'll have a pull there. The'welow knows only the words she heard when she was at the keyhole, and I don't think Gil- lies knows more. .Like to hear a bit of advice from Me? I've bUngled my job, You will say, so I ought to be humble about advising. But as I think the advice Is gocid 111 risk your snit"), and give it you. Watch the coast." • , • "What do you .mean?" ' "'Phis. If the widow and etillies find the stones, they will be in a hurry to get away from the island of San Miguel, woe't they?" ' "1' thobglit of that, and I've made • inquiries,' said "Scarborough. "There's no steamer out for the next five days. • "I dare Say not,' said Montague, 'but they Won't wait for a steamer. My ring -Insister didn't, and 'they'll go by hid road. See here, I'll improve your mind by ireparting some of the knewledge of local politics which I've learned lately myself, They've got tonscription in these islands. Don't fidget, mah; you'll See in a minute that Pin talking strictly to the point- therve got coescription, atid one doe - sequence of that is that no young Azorean is allowed to emigrate till he has Served his tittle in the army, or till be has Paid a tax of Some fOrty poutuls to go to the cost of providing ettbstitute. Well, there are lots of young fellows who haven't,got forty pounds in the World, and •have no prospeeth of ever raising it, And yet they emigrate. How do you suppose they manage it? The Yankee orange ships hetet 'era, sir,. My great coun- try le always at hand to help the cause of freedom, corporate or indiVI- ditaI-at a profit! The wouldire emi- grant goes out in 4 small boat in a fog, or en a dark night, if there isn't a fog; the orange ship, whieh has been hanging about for, the eepresee per-, pose ,takea hire abOard, and carries hire to the land Of freedmie, for money dewri if he has any, and if ripe for the Value of his boat, whieh, ten to one, he has stolen. Since I began to mako inquiries -in the matter I have heard Of a skipper picking up as many as teventy passengers of that aort in a single foggy night. My. ring -master Memo to nave known. Of that Meier than I did. I used to wonder what hie idea Was in running AWAY with my Milo as he' did; it teemed to me a pOintleett bit of piracy, if prison waited for him when he came back, as of tOtiren he must have known that it did. barring the lucky fog and the luckier ritange bolit. But 1 dOlet Wonder now; I know.' There was no luck about it. Ile calculated ou , both the fog and the Orenge boat; and • mark ray words, it you don't look out to prevent it, that's what (dillies will Ott, too. See sense in what I say?" "Yea," said' Scarborough.. "But we can't watch. the whole. coast." "No need to. Watch the place where Gillies keeps his boat -the one • he went to the Ring -Rock M. Mks Carrington Imo a boat, too, hamlet she? Have It handy, night cad day, with a • couple set men in It who know how to row. Now off with you!' I'm here • for the night; but if I have recovered • surficiently in the morning, I'll cf.n. trive to report to YOU somewhere, and • YOU Can Make use of me in any way • you like, Sorry I've been much a fool • over the Job you did give me to 40." Five minutelater the party bad started; Scarborough rede with -Elva Varaey with Muriel Davis, as had been arranged, The problem of how to dispon of Mona 4, la . Mar had been settled by that lady herself. She. said that she would wait to see • that Montague Was made comfortab7e by the Scotch landlady, and tlein, • would f011OW alone. Elsa gave Scar- • borough a hint 01 the possible reason for this, • "I have found out why ehe said last night that she did not need the •dia mends now. Do you,remember that she blushed whe» she told us that she had a reason for not saying at pre- sent how it came about that she did not want them?" • "Yo," said Scarborough, won- dered Why," "So did I. To -day she told me. Phil, Varney told you that herfather made his money in cattle ranching; did he know that there was art uncle • in partnership?" • "Perhaps he did. He didn't say so to me, though." • "The uncle took over the whole in- terest when Mona' a father retired. He• died three menthe ago; he was .a bachelor, and Mona. Is Ida heiress. She is a rich Woman, richer than ever She was before My. father took her 'inheritance." Scarborough whistled, • "Good old Mona!" he said, laughing. "I'm glad. But 1 don't see why she bluehedi" "She loves Montague, and she wants him to ask her to marry him, He half ;did so once before, and took his words back beeaune he found put that she bad some money. She thinks that if, he were to learn about this he would • never ask her at all," •."So we are to keep -quiet about it?" said Scarborough. ."All right, 1 won't give her away I think she is a splen - 'did girl, and Val B., in spite of his • eccentricities, is almost as good a fel- low as she thinks him. But do you approveof the match?" "Of course I do," said Elsa.. "She loves him. What else matters?" Scarborough did not answer; but he stole a• gleam at the girl whtt had given that as her philosophy of love and marriage; and he remembered the words, in case he should have to quotethem presently againet • the, speaker herself, • They rode .the rest of the way in silence,• giving all their attention 'to- • keeping up a good pace. At the gate of .the Casa DaVis they were met by Muriel'sfather and Scott, who had ridden . over •from Ribeire Grande. Scott put a .letter into Scarborough's • hand without speaking, and Mr.,Davis• was waving e slip of shiehig Paper in the air. • "Is• that the .photographr • asked • Scarborough eagerly. • "Yes, Read It!" •*. • " The words which they already knew stood put white, front the brown. back- ground of the paper, but between • them there • were now other "-words, • feint, but Still legible. . • .eDiarnond eahe. Blee lake . . -feet N. of dripping well."eiNhere is the Dine • Lake?" asked Varney. • ' "At Sete Cidades," said Davis. * 'And .that is theroad that Monta- gue said those' tveo• had taken! BY Jove!" said Varney' excitedly. "tIr as Val . 13. .himself would say, .lumplug Jehoshaphat, sir!. We shall have to hurry!" • CHAPTER XXV.• • The Philosophy of Croasus. • "Now, Horace," said Varney, "dis- pose your forces. We all put oer- selves under your orders. What are we to dor' • Scarborough turned to Scott. "Are you free to join in?" he asked. "Yes," said Scott, "I've arranged for both your duty and mine in the. instrument room to be taken for us. You promised that I should be in at the death, you know, so 1 made Mason and the Pathriot volunteer to see our work through." - "Good. Then Phil, will you go to the coast. I think Montague was right, and that if they find the dia- monds they'd try tO get away at once. Find out where' Gillies' boat is lying and keep an eye on her. If you see them trying, to escatie, stop them if you"can; we shan't be.,far behind, I hope, and will come to your ' help. It you can't stop them, follow them in Miss Carrington's. boat, 'find out the name of the ship that picks them up, and We'll cable to the American ports, and have them stopped when they try to land: Scott and I will go to Sete Citades." • "What about us?" asked Elsa. "Muriel and I claim to be included in your arrangemehts." • • "Then I arrange that you shall both stay here," said Scarborough at once. "Our work may not beof a kind that you ought to share." Elsa' s upper lip tightened with the line of obstitiacy *that Scarborough had seen more than once before; • "I shall go with you and Mr. Seett t� Sete Cidades," she said quietly, and he knew that It Was useless to argue further. "Very well," he said, i"And Miss Davis?" • "Oh," Varney mit ire "Miss Davia won't be available. She and I had a talk on our Way back from Furnas, arid as the subject Was rather an im- portant one, she will stay and tell her ;father what we said. That isn't quite the proper arrangenient, 1 know,' he added, tittering to Mr. Davie. "I Ought to be the one to stay to 'talk to father,' but Scarborough has ordered ,Other- wisMsec 4dear boy," said Mr, Davis, heartily, "If what Muriel has to say to me is that I3he and* you Want my eonsent to an engagement -Why are you blushing, Muriel? -4 shall be Net as glad to hear the news froM her lips as front yours. riut," he added "11 can't be that of eourse, be. muse ithe doesn't apprbve of you." "She is going to try to conquer her aversion," said Varney. "Is elle?" asked Mr. Davie, with a pretence at surprise. ."Then I am afraid you will have to look forward to a Very !Wig engageirient. Mlirlere opinions about men are. as yon know, the result of long and deep etedy on eequently the is Ault trifle obsti- the subj,3ct of mixing iniquities; con .. • . 4, A SINN ig • daughter, so perhape A ougatret et,*ewe So; but no doubt You've noticed it Yourself. She'll take n long time to leara tO like, You, I'm afraid." Muriel canto and wound .her arms round her father's neck and kipmed him. "Don't be worried, dad," She laid. • "It won't telte Me long to learn, tO.like "Sure?" asked her lather, 'drrau°04htfrrnlle 13egirg IA. tat' ntenthaatcheinrr. • imbed preludiee without a struggle? How do you kuow you will learn eo easily to Ilite him?" "Because I love him now." With flaming cheeks, and a is.ugh that was almot a sob, she ran torn the room,and Elea followed her. Mr. Davitkturned to the three men. ' "Gentlemen," he said, and there was a alight quiver In his voice as he spoke, "it you had no more presoing bulimia to attend to than the. love affair* of my foolien little girl, 1 would ask you to stay to -night and drink 'bumpers to her future happiness; for I think that i have eecured a capital • fellow for niy son-in-law, and that my daughter will have a good' husband. Phil, my boy, I hope that you and she • will be very happy together, and I think you. will. But, if you will pro- fit by her father's experience, don't give Way to her crotchets too often. Stand up to her now and then, or she won't leave you in possession of a tun- gle opinion that you can call your own.There, boy, off With you to your post! Where la hie post, by the way, Scarborough?"' • "Somewhere along the coast oppo- site. the Ring -Rock," said &arbor- "g'Al11.1 righ ' t, off you. go. But Phil --4 dOn't know what, you young people • have found out to -day, so 1 don't know • whether your duty to -night involves • danger or not -bat if the choice Is . offered te you between letting the diaraonds go and risking your life to get them, think of my little girl and let them go, Mr, Scarborough, I ask you to back me tip in this." "I shali. be all right," said Varn'ey, before Scarborough could answer. "But how long -.am 1 to stick down there, Horace?" Mr. Davis ' laughed! • "He wants: to hasten back to °his • wooing!" Le said. "I'll drive Muriel over to see yon to -morrow, Phil, and you and be .can have. an hour to- • gether without the necessity of aban- doning your duty to get it." . "But If there Is danger -e" Varney beep, doubtfully. "I don't propose to let my daughter shareit, of course," said Mr. Davis. "You young people have been far top -busy, I suppose, to have had time to observe the 'fact that the island of San .Miguel has, suffered to -day from an • earthquake. I hear that a new islet has been suddenly formed in the sea pear the Iling-Roek, and as It prob- ably will disappear again ina few' days. I- want to see it: . That's why Muriel and 1 will be in the neighbor- hood of your sentry -beat to -morrow," Varney • said no more, but set off at .once; end when he had gone, Da- vis said to SOarboreugh;-- ' "I have to thank ,you for giving Me •the chance of making that young roads acquaintance. Re possesses the excellent combination. of high spirits and sound common-sense. He Is it fine fellow, and 1 like hini im- menSely. I shall give my daughter to, him with 'perfect 'trust that he will make her happy,. and that's a great thing for a father to be able to gay now -a -days . Now won't you read.your letter? Scott rode Over with it from Ribeira Grande on the chance of meet - Ing ypu here, And I gathered that he thought it was important. You need not grudge a minute, or two. • Miss. Carrington won't be ready just yet, you *know. The girls always have confidences to exchange on an occa- sion like this.". • Scarborough had forgotten about the letter, which be still held unopen- ed in his hand. He opened it now. It was .front the unele whom Scott had christened Croesus. . ."MY Dear Horace," it began, "As from the letter of youra Which 1•re- ceived this mornleg 1 gather that you still consider . that my opinion .is of Importance, I'll give it to'you straight .away.. It's this -if you meet' a good Woman and loveher, marry - her, if she. loves you•iii return. -There'sa lot of humbug preached now-a-daes about the. folly of marrying 'if you haven't this much or that much 'a year -the sexact etim varies according to the so- cial position of . the preacher -on' which to keep the house going. That's nonsense. Marry on nothing a year, if that is your income, arid if you are both young and healthy, and -if you • love each other, Then put your head - together and find a way of making the nothing into a sum of four figures: If you reverse the process, and wait for the wife until you have the four figures to keep her on, the chances are thet you Will find that'one of ,two things has happened: either a better and bolder man than you has stepped hi and taken the prize from you'or YOU have .outgrown the poWer of lov- ing„ For love, Heraee, the real thing, the thing that poets sing of, Comes to a, man. Only' When he is ,young; but if .he 'gives it a proper welcome thee, it will stay .With him when he is .old; if he does not, it flies, and it never ;comes back, There. Ismany a mid dle- aged 'man in London now-weeper- ous, eonteeted, perhaps, and very like- ly -married to a woman Whom he pla- cidly loves -and yet he missed tl supreme joy of. life, missed it irre- • trievably, because he liad not the grit to snatch it when it ohne. A man is apt to think •that becausehe holds himself in •hand, and Will not ask a woman tosharehis early struggles, he is .doing something noble; but the real truth. Is that he is merely doing • VOA, •• 0 • something selfish. The joy is in the • fight, the 'winning battle against .the world, for the one pereon . in the -whole world wiiren you love best: but do you .think that joy le an exelmively male prerogative? The WOrtrint, if she loves yote ean fight as bravely, •tie joyously, as you. What right have abottet.tle r? robably you have skinned it to ep 1:1h1 oa ;It }t Or of the get to the practibal part; but read it through again, 'when you have..nothine to do; or better, let the girl read it and see Whether the doesn't agree With- every word I say, I did not act on it myself, and that is why I am atixiOns that you should net repeat my mistake. I was just about as old as you when I let my chance go, Don't do los / "I Say all this to you because you iteein to suggest a doubt whether you catt manage on what you have get. You inquire whether tuy former otter Is still open, and you hint that if it isn't, you have no right to ask tha girl to marry you. My boy, if you rove her, and have reason to believe that she loves you, you have trio right to keep Silent. Of course the offer is dl.:1 wt:11.1d not still open -two offers, in point of fact -but if I refused to help you by 111811.1300010108.0111.111001811111110111401141 • alter- ytTnrr preitelierl ennifet-e-Seeff tor tho Practical part. "You ean have g place at My eity Office et three Munlred a year with the prospect of rapid promotion it y earn it; that hi the offer which I bo Yea wili eccept. The other IS, bin MOTO he Your Mite. I hatvhehoyo investing largely tend lately, end: The ealary in tbie case is X$00 a year because the poat sition requires • want a lead agent to represent me should make a certain amount of MOW amongst atY tenants, and you couldn't 40 it on less. But it is a stationary iaal'agereiMasnkeeyeinotuhrogmowncrbe.W °° 1. lhen I die, you will be mentioned in my will, but not as My sole her. The cena, tions will be somewhat peculiar, and the amount which you halterit will de- pend upon yourself. If YOU can prove to my executors 8. that on, the day of my death you were worth ten pound% YOU Will receive eometbing; if you can prove a thousand, you will receive a great deal more. As you know, I preach the doctrine that nothing sue- ceeds like success, ard MY will IS tO be My last sermon to yo» cm that theme. The propertied of my property which come e to you is, therefore, a matter which i in your own bands; the Bur - plus will go towards founding a eharl- tahle institution or some sort, whose nature I have not yet decided. Proba- bly it will be an Ambler Home for consistent Failures amongst 'Varsity Men -the most melaocholy class • on earth, Horace! fur"netilsvhein:t.,eyslove to the girl. Tell her there are no family diamonds, but there will be a cheque to help lathe By the time that Scarborough had finished reading this characteristic letter Elsa returned. "I am ready, Horace," she said. "Shall we start?" "Yes," said Searborough, and as they ptoasseecodtto:Lt of the • room, he whispered "Ride a little in front, or behind, old man, wit]. you?" . • Scott answered with a grin. "Uncle Croesus turned up trumps?, Are you going to win, as he cabled t.): you?" "I hope to win," Scarborough whis- pered back. "Anyway, I am going to • follow Phil's example, and try," i • CHAPTER XXVI. • Sete Cldades • Sete Cidades, the Seven Cities, are seven small craters which lie in the deep bowl of another and far vaster • crater. They are round ponds' of tinted water now, or shallow cups filled with a crowding vegetation; once they were volcanoes; but their rage is spent, their furnaces have long . been cold, and on their ashes flowers grow. Natureby giving a rich fere • tility to 'the soil which their ember• e made, has covered with a garment of beauty the scars of her former *minds. . • The sides of the 'theta crater are steep, and difficult of •descent, except in one place where the flowing lava. found an exit. At the Mitt= of the great cupthere are ' two 'lakes, the Lego Verde, filled with brilliant green Water, and the Lego. Azul, of an equal- • ly brilliant blue. • On one of the many •tongues of land which stretch into •.these lakes' there is a tiny village of white houses, nestling amid the trees. "That is the Blue Lake which the • writing on the stone refers to," said Scarborough, "and..the Dripping Well is on the opposite shore from here. If only Davis's photograph had told US 'how far from the well, instead of leav- ing a blank before the word 'feet,' we could go cloven and liegin our fishing. I see no sign of Gillies." . •• The two young men and the girl were standing near the edge or the great crater,looking down. ' They had approached cautiously, thinking it was .possible they might effect a surprise, and .by coming on the clerk and Mrs. Carrington suddenly, Win the secret ,of the stolen plan from them. But pe waters •of the. Blue Lake lay quiet and mirror-like in the evening' calm. •"There is no one working near the 'pripping . said Scarborough.. • rYciu go down, Scott, and find out in !the village if they have been here to- day. Neither of the pair knows you, eo even if they are therenow, and see you, possibly they won't think you are after them. We Will' wait for yoa here."- • . • • Scott went off down the rugged path which led to the lower ground, and when he was out of earshot, Scarbor- ough said to Elsa:- • . "Would you like to read my uncle's letter for yourself?" •• "No," she said. "You have told me what he says." • • "Most of it," said Scarborough, "but not all. • He Says that if there is love, nothing else matters. You said the same thing yourself this . morning." , Elsa did noCanswer, and presently Scarborough asked in a low voice : -- "Elsa, is there love?" • • “yes.,, , The answee was lower theft a whis- per, hardly more than a movement of . the. lips; hut she had turned her 'ace . to him, and was lookieg into his eyes. He heard le • • (TO BE CONTINUED.) • Imper)r'ixt Kidney Action Causes Rheumatism Rheumatism with its kindred' ailments -Lumbago, Wry Neck, Neuralgia, etc., usually results from lodgments of uric acid in the joints and inuscks. $ , Now the chief function of the kidneys is to properly filter this poison from the bicol Oy when they fail to do this is Rheumatisni probable. Kidney weakness starts in various ways. A sudden chill, after perspiring freely, sometimes settles in the kidney* -or at unusual strain may cause it. 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