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AUCTIONE811-•-JAMES SMIT/1 LI tensed •Auttioneor for the County of Huron. All orders- entrusted it* Me will teeth% pronipt attent4on. Will c1t ither by percentage Or per Oak. Residenee On the Ilayflitil Res.d, one mile South of Clinton. ;000000000 0, 12 00 di • Clinton News. RECOM falifiN001121200011142601009sems AN 11 IN AN AN 11 ay E.W. HORNUNG, Author of "Raffles* the Amateur Creekte• mum" "Stlagaree," Etc. 'eel opt 01 Ceeyriebt, RIM by CRARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. CHNDOCIIMI,6006000)63414003,0eNtet ••••••• Mope in the drive, watching the Runes go upstairs within, followed by their maid and Daintree, and after that be stood, watching the shame unth 1/Aintree ran down it and hatl him by both bandit. 'You dear, good fellow, you• have thought of everything!" he cried. "You 'couldn't have tigne more a yon,o_ been the happy man youreelt and I shall never forget it-espeolaily the flower" "Nor I," cried Toni bitterly, .°Why, what's the matter?" "You might have • told me who it . was, ,sir. I recognized Miss Harding at once. Her fandly lifted to come to Our village for the shooting, 4 father was my father's g le31. 1, her It's hard for me to meet her like this after that. rd have pin, away if I'd known." "Preeisely why I didn't tell you," re- joined Daintree triumphantly, "Come, • come.. my geed fellow. I know all about the relatious between the two • families, and you mustn't flatter your- •eelt that Miss Harding Win remember you. Yon've altered .considerably, for one thing, and 1 dropped your surname on purpese t� spare you an' such ree- ognition.1 Miss Harding won't know You from Adam," •• • 1 would rather notwait-Upon her • all the•eame.", • • •" ,Ditintree sbowea his teeth. • "Not wait upon. the lady vibe Is. to be MY* wife and your •mietress? You dare to 4 say that to tuY fece? Let tile find you at $cOnr post when 1 come clown- • staird-or :take care!" • • • And he stood a moment at the door, with the most Significant and nutlig neut. expression, -after Which be •went. upstairs to dress, letriing Tom to re- gret, for the .flist time 'tile Impulsive C.:infest:kin IA 'complicity, in the Castle •Sullivan outrage and to tedect in= • the:many • sides of the men. whom Chtlra ..Harding had come out from England :to marry. • Memories' lashed hitn, by the score. . Re bad seen hoW the' tyrant could treat bis servants and his dog; • Elehad pitie.d':the bride the abstraet and :was it to be Claire Harding. and Was he to stand 'thee and see them Married? • EDS, head .was hi a wbiri,of Conflict- ing emotions and anxieties.: Still stun- ned by the••mere shock of' seeing her whom he had never,:lbought- to. see • again in that outlandish, piece and all -but-nnetherman!s bride, he .waS,ficed by an hnmedritte dilemma which called for instantaneous decision: • 1f Claire were to recognize him at dinner, then she as pretty certain to betray it se- cret .Whieb Daintree on the other hand, Was abitost ae 'certain to guess if -hie servant• absented' lihnself after What had just pewit :•Well. Claire lineTt best why..she had made a 'secret Where.. floe was 'necessary. But If more tron- ble.Was to come of it let -him be there to take her part • Let him be there forever to Vetch over .herin those` pasition,ate. bands' AndTOM found himself mechanleally lighting- the ca dies on the dinner table andlowering the shade's to ledeen the chance M his faee Tieing seen. • • . 'Whfle he'.was; do engaged, the inner door •opened. and Toth and: Claire.stocid ?see to face. • •• • . . , . 'Her •oyes Were: great with hereon She shut the door behind 'her and then: steed Mese' againstAt Shrinking from him to whom- she once -had clung. can't beer It!". she 'gasped. must either speak to you or go 'Midi ..tos, yes, 1.• know we may be eaughtt I can't help that! Tell file quickly,did you know who I was hefty, I•cainer. •: "No, indeed)" • • .' • "Is it by. Accident that YOn are his servant?" . • •• • •• , "No; he sought me otit,•• Sb you knew, me again, Claire?". • „ . "What did you Say? Never call 'Me that . again: • Of conrse I knew •youl now could I forget you after all you have niatle .me, suffer? :If 1 •Only can't'!" •• •• • :•. • • The cruelty of ibis speeeh sten& him Aumh, He drew himself up and grimly challenged ber with his eye ..Her suf ferings, indeed!' • What had she Of- fered? She • was on ..the polnt Of mar rying a AO Man.. No doubt It was distresalnK to her to encounter 'him again at that 'juncture. His Hp curled at such distress. . • • • . She read his tit:oughtsto the letter. "You think I have not suffered!" she crle-d in a low voice. • "You little know, • but this Is tbe last straw -the punish - remit I se richly: deserve l Mr: Dein- treesaved your life • You kiiewtha,. of ccursel • But .think you. know why he didit It was because I asked him. • It Was for my. (taker ' • . "Your he saki hoarsely. "1 see now -I see!: I might have guessed it long ago!" "He wanted to 'do something for me," she eontinued in ,it choking "voice let hint do that. I deeeived him to save your life. I Am here beeause I deceiv- ed hitne' • • • . ae thOUght. he had seen eVeirything. He had net, but he was beginning- to now. Coed heavens!. Why was his heart beating so fast? It ought to bleed instead; Ilere was the girl he 10,0, and upstairs. Waa the Man he luta reason to lose better stili, and they were going to marry like that. He tried to forgotto think only of what Claire. had 'dime for hint • "Gitid bless youl" he mtftmured. "He hos Saved ray life twit* ever and Much More than my life, and I olve it all to otie heave girl who believed in me Mid made birn believe in Me when all the world"- . ,.,'Stop t" she dried. Hever believed itt you at all." "Vifhatr "I was sorry for yoil." "You believed the guilty, even When you tried to save my lifer "Of manslaugliter-yes1" • • "Let inisplit no hairs! You think -I dld Itstill?" "1 can think nothing else," In the dead talenee folieWhig these Words the servant heard his master stamping into evening dreSe Overhead he felt Ina own ohsted, buttons attar. Ing In tne,eanifferignt that Keane Went 11}e table be had set so beautifully for • the bride, and, as She tossed back the ringlets that he knew se well and re- 'peated with unflinehing eyes what' She had told him in so many candid words all that had distracted him up to thie moment ceased to do so any more. Her coming was nothing to him now. • Her errand was nothing; she Was wel- "I must either tweak to (foa or go sna4/" 'come to marry the next day. But.be- lieve in his innocence She must and shoula. Injustice from her was the 'net bitterness,the crowning wrong, the one intolerable misery which al), • sorbed all that had gone before. . Something of this he showed her in his bitter, proud, inexorable loek;„then suddenly he retreated to the open' French windows.• • . "You are going?" she Cried. • might have known., You Were always --genereuel" ' am- not_nowL hear_my master • on the'stairs." . • You are net going altogether?". "Certainly not at • present" • "When, whenr she cried below hei- breath. •• • • "When rott do me common justice." Dalin:me had gene MO the 'wrong, room. Tie girl 'ran recklessiito the Nindow. • "'Toni t" • '"Mise Ila`rdinge "Wilt you sear- fif; me -that you are. innocentr .•• But Toni was gone. She heard him treading vItionsly on the dark veran- da., A moment later Daintree found her deepli 'engrossed before the theft She wanted to -know what the ship meant He told her in a.tender whis- per. ' • "What a beautiful ideal" . • "Well, it wasn't Mine," • "Whose was it2" •, "My Servant's; he made her, and he ' moved. her on each day. You 'would have said he was: the lucky fellow hiniseltr' •• CHAPTER .XXIX. HE breeze had freshened;:thre' , were white Wisps in :the' blue above and tiny crests uncei the blue beta*, It was early mot* .Ing, and Tom, having waited adniirg- bly evetaiglit was setting the • break- Tairtfibte wnen his master...cabin' it - glowing from the morning. dip.' As a rule. they , bathed together, this excep- tion *Was their first They had not spoken since the previous evening, .but here Was .Daintree• In a glow for inore.' eitmes• then salt 'water and fresh ale, and a glance told the other. that be • was forgiven, • •• •• • •'' Thomas-, Will you listen to me another . Neither ladyhes the slightest idea who youare." • "I Am thankful to hear Yint say iso," said.Toni, /dying the knives: . •' ' "Lady Sterkle never set eyes' en yOU before. I. feel, certain that Miss • Harding doesn't know you from Adam. Don't Yea think:it. was rather vain of you to linAgine that she 'would?" "I Was. afraid �f it. -sir". said Tom.; "that wag • "And Very • natural, too." said his master. kindly, "I • gniteenter into your embarrassment and only fear I said more then I meant in tile heat of • • :the moment last higitt. You must for- give me, Thomas. It wits Unpleasant . for you, I admit, but you won't mind - another day 43f ft, will you? One more day will end it -for the present." • The swarthy edontenanee Was more radiant . than: ever. • Toni Was nen. ,plused. • "Oniy one more day?" • "For the present," repeated Dale- • tree. "The ladies return to Sydney this afternoon. They go to the Ptil- teney. Shall tell you why -shall tell YOu why?". •" And nose one man was on fire, but the other felt a chili ran down him as be nodded his head. • Ho could not speak. • "teettuee it's to be at (ulcer cried DaIntree, beside himself with joy. "Beeause a special lieense is to be hod by paying fee it, ao Why on earth should we wait for banns? 1%ly boy, we shall be marzeed by the end of the week. • Only thifilt of it! I can't live it myself, Ws Weeks sooner than dared to hope..11ut Women Aro all aliko The very best of 'etti, Thomas, will take you by surprise if they tile. "Wild do you think?: I'd tell this to no other living mat, NV*hen I met her on board no day was too distant, and be, fore we Said good night it couldn't be too 800r1 The fine eyes glistened; tho deep VOice shook. There was no doubt about this man's love, But Vora was .• thittking Of htii darker side% audit bad never seemed so dark before, for never before had he allowed himself totdWell upon it.without Wiliam. Now this was duty. The point of view was changed, fald the regrettable in Tom's benefac- tor became the intolerable in Claire's husband, Could she; be happy with so dangerous a combination of the spoilt Rhua and the unscrupulous tyrant? • Would she be safe? Toni sweated with the thought. It Was horribly en- • tangled wfth that of his debt to now - tree. Yet for all that was in his beart • the fitting and conventional speeeh Pessed his lips, and he ,found binuaelf shaking the other by the hand, • 4,;'Coohnogurkeltutlhattneu m?" D. ylloanintitareve. youe • only to see her to know •how haniV • she will melte me. $im' is a sWeet, • true, unselfish girl. • She has beauty • atid 'Seednees and strong' common sense. She eau appreciate and admire • and understand. She is the poet's • ideal. I have been longing for her ell my life. And then her manner! She will be a leader of societY Nylipu • owe to my own. Yes, Thomas,. you may well congratulate me, She Is go- ing to nutke me the ver, happiest of men, 1 can see het now -friend of the Wite, patreness,of an the arts: gracious • queen of an idetti salon,wben the ex. Ile returns to his ovirn," ' • And doubtlies le could also see him- self-.-a:A •Tom could see him4-swelling with happiness and pride' and minister - dem:. Her -happiness he apPeared to • telte'fer: grantee. It might be Unfair to say that he never thought of it at all, but he very' seldom spoke of It even to Claire. . Tom was in and out at breakfast. He contrived to. be our as ,4much : as . possible. I -ler face, tortured him.. He saw marks like bruises beneath the lustreris • eyes' that never looked his. waT....lie noted the nervous effort of her-conversant:in' while be Was preeent, But after 'breakfast, • when he must • hale met her face to race op the veran- da, she. turnedh-er back ripen him in a mannernot onlypointed, but barbed... And for awhile his compassion desert- ed him. altogether. • • Claire, .was indeed not beeselt Her. indisposition became more and more' transparent, and when .she ultimately cenfessed to n Perfectly sleepless night Delutree put ft doWn to her great hap- piness and was. the. first to insist that she should "run away and: 'rest" till luncheon, Lady. Starkle, on the other hand; made 'herself extremely comfort able, quite doting on the :harbor and 'Wile WI, while she declared,that she bid seldom felt betterin her We. Nev- ertheless when her host, began reeding her bis poems a, Wetness Overcame.the • lady hereto he had got very far.' • t • Was. quite Inexplicable and most, disap- pointing. but site feared that . both Claire and herself were still suffering from the effects of the. atrocious table onboard that horrible. shin. 'S� Lady St:Male-toile:Wed :Chlre 'Mendes, with the:poeme,'.whIc.h she teokeire.talerive there when she:Cattle cloven again. . • It was Attie hard .son_ipaittree„ but he was now much too happy to , be readily depressed .or vexedRio ram-. pant: spirits •sought relief in activity, and ha galloped off to Sydney_ to secure teams at the Puiteney hotel. ' • • Toni Was Ineet.time behind . the scenes. SO was Peggy O'Brien, and:. alee.ady•these keen With eyes bad seen More than he thcnight, for hopeless" • .. love had 'fitted them with stronglenses, even as bis triumphant eult had blind- ed her master to every passion -big his Own. The girl •had long divined • that some ether wornan stoon between her- self and .Tokn; and • there were more; reasons than Might appear fox! her In Manny. /Mullein; .0pcna- Miss41arding as the; ette.,' ' :Peggy was sure that Tom and1:5alt, ,tree • must have. known. each . *her Its England, or why :.were they •more like • brothers .than 'master and man?. -Tom • would not :tell' her.; and the raweetts..: could not Se Peggy set thein-dewn as two bid fridede, and what If the friends ltd loved the lame wet:ilea? The 'idea eceuered .to her ',when • she: saw Tom. manipulatingthe cork . shipand so sealonsly preparing for the nride. • It Wike 'then an idea only. It became a suspicion on tile' evening of the bride's . ,urri'vai,- and 'Claire was not the only young wo,mee who awake till tbat --'7The other 'had Welii-ttansPerted for • comparatively venial offense and had conic through the thick of her ordeal e better woman then most 4$he is not put forward as an atet•age epechnen •of her sex ' and kiud in that. colonined at that time. The •ItishwOmen were almost Invariably •the hest of a de, plorable lot, and Peggy. wai certainly •• not .the worst of the, Irislitiroinen, But there Was evil In her,. and passion:was - to bripg••: it out as It had Already brought out the good. :.‘4 cnllous man she could bear -with and wait :for So. long as he was callouS and eoid to all. But to see and hear him sighing' for another womati-4nd, that other wet:nail. 'there. on the' SPot-was to lash tt pa- tient and single' hearted .devotion into •thtinifts of jealousy and bitter rage. • The thing. galled her *While it was still it • suSpielon. It modanned her when she •knew it •for a Sect, • And that was when, in the Same half min- • ute, she .met Miro on the' stairs. In tears and saw Tom in his' pantry 'witii, Ids beat clasped tight between, his hands. Peggy stole away witheut'.a• word, and there was Mischief bi every • tioiselees step she took. ' Her first thought was to tell Dain - tree.. It she dismissed, on consideration Anil tried making friends with the la- dies' Maid in order to aCquire informa- tion. 'this- young women, however, could only talk Of the fourth officer aboard the RoSalnund, and it took Peg- gy half an hour to discover that she had never even Seen Miss Harding be- fet'e the Voyage. • So she knew noth- lug, and half the merning Was gone; but reggY Was all tie More determined to kern eierything before the visiteee 1°ftit.' • The miieter's departure on -base T • baek at lest inspired the Wil)',. Tom:, hi the pantry was still listening to the Clattering hoofs' .when Peggy Opened' the door. •• "Oh, 'Tom, the mother would like eo to elane out the boat for 'n't when ye can end the title." • ho say so. Peggy?" • „ •"Surehe tould me not to tell ye, 'Md. all the extra work ye've got; but he only Wished it could be done," "Then Vil set to work this minute.” ye won't be tellin"nt 1 tould yel" "No, 111 take all the credit If you like." OW TOM in it voice.and With it face widen no thou no pants to Wine for Peggy's benelit. Both sup- ported her theory and hardened her in her plot. And as les reached the boat sited she Wila LIMO int; at Miss lard- ing's door. • "Askin' yer pardon, miss, 1 think I know what would be better for yott than lybe down up Pere." "What Is that?" °Lyin' in a hammock by the say." sounds pleasant. Thank you very much, but 1 think stay where I • am." • "Sure. ye'd Ond one ln the boat shed, an' it's ad the good the air weula do yel" "You nre very kind," said Claire wearily. • "But whe would. put .the hammock up?" "Mastlaer's gone to Sydney," Bald Veggy"renectively, "an' he won't have me meddlin' wid such things. Welt till I tell ye, miss,. Go this minute, an' yOU'll lind Thomas In the boat shed crantte the boat, He'll have 't up in a' twinkle." "Well, see," Claire bed colorecl. •• 1 - "Will I tell 'm, roles?" "No„ 1,11 see, I think I svouldrath- er be where I am." - Peggy withdrew. In three minutes she heard the young lady coming down - Stairs.. In two more she was hereelf outside the shed. crouching between timber and shrubs and sand and sky, 04.44.4.4441 CHAPTER XXX: • OU won't condescend?" sald it scornful voice ' • "Since 'you have •nande up' - your mind; why should 17. ..rt is only your word that I ask - lent solemn word to me that you nre insticent." "If you don't believe in me, what's the use of giving you my solemn weed?' I eati't prove itandnever could. The. ,saridente was too strong." ' •' "It would have ben stvanger still"- •• • The voice stopped obeli. "Weil?" • "If I ,had toldlhern all you said to Me Mai very night. rata sTry hour:" . • The voice wee no longer scornful. .Even to Peggy it seemed to falter and • to tremble With the pent tip agony of years. But Tom's tone did not change, 443, knots th It,' ho said. hitterly. "I have aiwaYa known that you had more , .Teason than ti aphody In the world' to • think tue guilty. Yet I would rather you had thought me innocett and let. • dle than saved My life to 'thew We whet you . still think after all, these': Months. sly cup has been pretty full;:: but that's' the bitterest drop." .• , "And still you svon't deny it" •Per,:'. Meted the girl. "I am ready t� take your weed, yet you will not give it" • "What's the user he asked., "Whitt difference could it make. even sappot••••":. • Ing you believed me?" • "All, the difference to me," was the quick but low reply. • "It ;Would alter everything -everything. .can't.you see that It must?" .• . . .`, "No; it is too late AO alter anything at all." • . Yet his .volce shook in its turn. . • "Too late? Too late?" tried tbe•giri wildly. ''Nothing is too late if you are • Innocent. Speak, Tota. Why den't • You speak? Oh, 'I'otn; it • Would .alter all our lives, yet you will not speak." ' • "Because I„catinet!" he cried out. "Because am not an innocent man, am not -1 am not -1 am not! And now 'leave Me-rieave •Ine,' I shy, for God's sake! Never you pity Me again." Almost from a shout his voice died downto a whisper. The last words were hardly audible outside. But they • were followed by it silence so heavy that Peggy O'Brien heard herself breathing and thought she must be heard . within. And. tnen came the sound Of light, MaSteaay Steps retreat- ing, and nothing morenot another • . • sound within,' .•• The silence. appalled' Peggy„ At fast, when she could to longer bear it, ole• Crept over the . soft sand to the mouth •of the'shed. and peered • round the cor- ner. He was 'standing Within' its the . other womanhad left him He had neyer. stirred. His Open bands were :Mill extended. In Some •unfinished geri-7 hire. • A,' gummet! :of sitishine glanced, off the' waters and pointedthe erne] contrast between the lined face .and the yellow hair thrown'Proudly hack • from 1t -the one. So aged, the other. so :boilith, And •his eyes -A -hey.. seethed. Mill • to be pouring tendernessna strength upon the other woman. ' Tand . 'never inisv this one at All. • She stole away, loving him more than even But must not the other one too/. She: had seen the same look, had won It -but bis.erime Made a WV' ference to her To Peggy it Made . none. ' She neither 'kite* nor •cared what it .was, and there lay her, 'advantage. '..It was too slight • Shi3 • ;loved him, • but so .much the other.' Her love My near to hate. $be would ,seeif ono' could•uot4 push the other •tvenian'a nearer yet , • •.She .roached the .house, end nobody was in .the *ay. •Lady; Sterkle Was Writing. lettere iti :the brreakfaet tooth. • Peggy. was • soon listening 'tit the other' woman's door -listening to ' her sobe. She compressed her lips and nodded to herself with. splendid confidence.' At length there fell , a silence, in which Peggy knocked .and entered.' "I beg pardon, miss, but,Was Thomas not in the boat shed? It's sorry I ani if I sent" ye on• n foolfs errand--stivin' >It presence, miss!" he was there." 'Ari'tlid he rethae ye?" • •'"No:-4-..clitinged my mind." • "Glory be to God, • miss!. 'Tie' Me - self would let tin .know ,it if ..he gave any of Ids MOO to the mother's lady. I'd have 110 more to do Wid '63 at alt" ; Clafro turned pale.. • "Yon would have no More. tO do With him?" said she very. elowly. "I don't Underetand Yoll;" "Sure an how %Mild *00 . Ele wouldn't be afflict. tellin" a lady like you." • "Telling Inc what, my, good girl?" She Wait trembling now, "Ile cameto thb factory fast 'week. Colas. ct1l tilVer guess why -4o ehoofge 4 wife." "4 wife!" • "An' it's me he ehose-you asit. the remind when be comes back," The master 0411)0 hark in time for lunch. He found Claire On the vomit. ' da with it white . face and an angry eye, fondly declaring ;She felt nether being. Theard and sow her and waited infamottoly for the first tlitie. ite ' could not understand it at all. She Ltd left the boat shed with it very dlf. forma mien. What could she have found Alit Since then? That be Istil purposely Misled 'her for her o• irn• good? That was impossible. Yet he knew •so well from her proud, averted WO, that Claire 1tn discovered some- thing fresh against Wm. Whatever that discovery might be, however, It wus destined not to be her last that day, • • They were still nt luncheon when Peggy burst into the room, "Nat Still:van an' the thraps!" she gasped. "It's afther Tom they ere, net f lotilti 'n) he absconded hist night. Oh. sir, 'say that Saute. for auger'it there, too, an' there's tho blood in their eyeel" Here woe a bombsboll from: the least :expected quarter, at the least expeeted time. • Tom felt the bleod rush to his face, draining his heart, ,but be stood hle ground until Daintree ordered bit • nut of the way of the windows, Claire sat motionless, Lady Starkie was leSS • • calm, But Daintree rose up front the table with perfect but ostentatious sangfroid, and be patted Peggy on the • back its a partY orhersemea rode In 'front of the ver8444: "Quite Ilea, ay girl!" cried he, "They 'shall nA..litY a ;finger on him. • Neviv you fear: . Ile has me at his. [leek. and Se he're you" With that he strutted through the French windows,. flourishing his napkin andquite del, lighted at the•prospect of u little id, Multatieous• display of power, getter - °MY and laudable cunning before se select an audience. • "Sorry to trouble you, sir," said it voice, "WA I believe you have an as. ;signed cOnviet here of the Heine of Thomas Erleitsen." "What name?" cried Lady Starkie. "Hush, stunt!" whispered Claire.' • "I pore net," seld Daintree • "Yeti nave not?! roareallat Sullivan himself. • • have not" repented' :balm:re° . Jdnmily. "I had,. but he has absconded: from my service." , • "When?". Last night." °Any; notion where be went" • "Not the. lerfst.'• • - '• • • "'And you .slon't muelt care, eh?" • "Not a bit, May I ash(' question in • •• my turn?" • •' "Surely, sir," "Do you want him for the Castle Sink -i. • Van business ?" ‘'We do." •• • t • • "I thought sopver heard the Melia But :who Will you get to teyeetti to bit • as having been there?" •" ' 'ITIlla man here," • sale. Nat, ' And.. Tom, in the background, listened euri ' Ously., He was • cool enoukn new and , • hisair shameless,: It Ives clitssuntea tor • . • Claire's benefit. • "I :int not .so ottre;" ltaid,•the voice of . Ginger in a:rather de)eeted tone • You were. sure' . enough in your • cups!"-'• • , 'That's another thing." .1 :"Well," said the consteble;. "he"s iett this.' anylemo nee , -:.**c witittiog any Jamie time here,. Mr SuflFvau Good'. .merning; .sir:' e4raisk he's 'given .na. the rilifi "But- not; for, ;Isingg'S'Oried- Nat. , :meanto eaten. him ,nn..1 to »ang hire. Yet!" They .hed ;ridden, away, •• Daintree .Intd.reeritereillhe room, puffed up and • believe vett havean assigned convict, here. et the name Gill/somas Briehgen . , sinning.. Tom Also had 4 kind or smile, and •Peggy ' was gazing at him with Shining eyes when Claire rose from the table and swept out of the room withont a•Werd: • Daintree looked at Lady Starlde In ilisinity and !testily ordered the itet-V- ants. M. Withdraw. Her 'earthly rose ohm. "Can you wonder at it?" slie„eried. "At what?" , "Yeur bridedisillking to be Waited' on by convicts, A.nd-and-did 3 un- derstand that Yining man's name was • Exichsen i" •• •"Ves," • , • "The Murderer of Captain Blaycles?"- " "Who then?" •, reputed murderer. , He Is an innocent man. You know 1 thought so •at the• time. You know, I believe, how backed my opittion to the tune of sev- eral hundteds7 rni hacking it still, • Lady Starkie; I'm backing it still - that's OP „It Was not all. no Went • (TO BE CONT/NUBD.) The Famous Pedestrian. 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