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`MISER YtOADL .'r.S SEC'
THE 11YSTCas PMATIMORE STRANG
t3y WHOSE NANb' r o 0 0
'THC OLD MILL MYSTLRY
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"Because I don't choose to allow it."
"That is nota tbotful reason," he
said, with a shrug and a laugh.
I"I care nothing about taut. You must
not oto it, it you clo, I shall stop yam
allowance."
"That is coarse. Wo may be—crim-
inals, but et least we should he polite."
And be bowed with affected courtesy'.
"Give me your real reasons," he con-
tinued, after a pause. "If it is only
your pique, I shall not pay the slightest
heed to it. You chose this life, not L I
did not like it at first. I have grown
to please rue. Cs'esi mid explain it at
length this evening and bring your vie.
lin. I'm a bit of a fiddler myself. At
least I like it, though I'm only a scraper
• at it."
I "At what time (10 you dike?"
1 "Eh? Oh!" And the baronet swal-
lowed a laugh at what he considered
the Franohmilu'S' `cheek" at fishing for
an invitation to dinner. "Half past 7.
Yes, it'll be better. Como in to dinner.
, You can do the talking then and the
playiug afterward. Eh, Lola?"
"Yes, if you like,," she answered.
"A bit of a ('rank, I should think,"
( said the baronet when AI. Turman had accustomed to it, and I find it pleasant
9 gone, "but nota bad sort, and if he's enough—for a time, while my plans de -
clever, with the fiddle 1 shill be glad relate, and," bowing again, "I shall
enough to hear him." live it iu my owe way."
"Oh, ho's clover enough," replied "There are people coming here who
Lola quietly, who was thinking of the ,any remember a certain notorious gam -
crisis that had passed that morning (aid bier and cheat who was at one time
of the mass of intrigue which was known in half the hells in Europe."
seething and boiling and tumbling right ".Ah, that is most interesting, and
under her very feet, concealed ouly by most enticing. If there is one thing that
the thin cover of the home life at the I do not like about this existence, it is
manor. How she cursed the day when What you call its humdrum, dead alive
she had first fallen into the griping, sameness and respectability. A man
rusts in such a plane. There is no risk,
cruel hands of pierce rurrian1 no danger, where people's wits are so
CHAPTER X. stupid as here. Why, even a murderess
might live here all her life unsuspected,
Tier BEGINis a OP THE END.. while as for bigamists they would find
Pierre Tunisia amply justified the it a perfect haven of rustic rest." He
opinion as to his cleverness which Lola paused and glanced at her, but Lola
expressed to Sir Jaffray, for in a.few took no notice of his words, and he re -
weeks ho succeeded in making himself sumed: "But what you promise me
a w(1lcorno guest at Walcote manor. now is just the one touch that is wanted
Sir Jaffray, who had at first been led to make life life and worth living. You
to thin,; of him as a sort of musical at any rate must see that snoh it place is
Drank and had tolerated him as a coin- most admirably adapted for that form of
paratively harmless individual who your English virtue of self denial which
consists in denying your owe identity. If
Could sing with exquisite taste and play
others can do this, why not I?" .And he
• brilliantly, discovered one by ono his u ea=heel with malicious glee.
other qualities, just as the astute ' T tell you you must not come to stay
Frenchman thought it judicious to re- in this house. You shall not!" said Lola
veal them. vohernently.
He could be an excellent companion, "Pardon me, madame," aud his
having a rare capacity of adapting him- shoulders"oweut.l, and his hands spread
self to his surroundings. ed had a great out as ho bowed again, "but I most as -
knowledge of men, picked up in the secedes shall."
1
course of his wanderings over all Eu- "You shall not, at any hazard," said
rope. He possessed an endless fund of Lola very firmly, when she was inter-
"Y'sinou
t with tt suit
any knack of in- ruined by Sir Jaffray, who said; with a
venting them to suit occasion and good natured laugh:
.time and company, and as he speedily "Hello, you twol I hope you're not
and accurately ganged the baronet's quarreling there because the violin mis-
character he was able to crake himself
slots isn't getting forward.'"
welcome in half a hundred ways. Pierre Turrian turned and laughed
Gradually the "musical fad," as Sir gayly
Jaffray began to call it laughingly, was
allowed to fall mere and more out of w
sight until it as rarely mentioned,
and Sir Jaffray came to the conclusion
that, as the Frenchman seemed to have
' plenty of money, it hadbeen taken up
.as a sort of hobby and w,as to be dropped
.as easily.
".`The professor' seethe to have de-
i veloped under our influence, Lola," he
! said one clay to his wife. • They spoke
-of him as "the professor" as a term of
• friendship. "Wonder what made him
take up that fifth string rot. Glad he's
t :shed that rubbish."
".Ie seems a man of impulses," re-
plied Lola, "and I wish an impulse
would take him back to Switzerland."
.She was very restless at the growing
intimacy between the two men and had
.striven against it, bat the Frenchman
.had beaten her.
"I can't say that," replied Sir
Jaffray, laughing. "I like him. • He's
cue of the jolliest beggars I over met -
one of the few men I've ever known
who can lose his coin without getting
xaggy." The Frenchman had been
shrewd enough to let the baronet al-
ways have just the best of matters in
every game and sport in which they
snot. "When we come back from town,
we must have him here. He'd be the
life and soul of a house party, those
.deadly plagues of the country."
"We can hardly have him here, then,
:can we?"
"Why not? The women'll go mad
after him. I'd give a lot to sco the lit -
.o Do Witt setting those wicked little
-wits of hers to work to catch him for
ler snuggery," And ho laughed again.
The idea of that sharp little woman
watching the incidents of the drama
that "MIS being played at the manor was
the reverse of pleasant to Lola, but sho
.said nothing, lest she should arouse
some sort of suspicion.
The baronet was as gond as his word,
and in a flush of good feeling ono day
.ho.gave the Frenchman a general invi-
tation to stay at the manor as soon as
Lola and himself should return from
London. `
When Lola heard of it, she was angry
and took an opportunity of speaking to
,M, 'Purismabout it.
"Ston must not accept that invita-
tion," she said peremptorily.O?
"N" .!lied he stopped and locked at
.icer with his eyebrows raised. They
Were v.auking on rho terrace before din -
lies, n(1 he Was smoking a oigaretto.
"No. " I say no," said Lola over-
atit ally,
"And why not$'
seutnuen:t of evil which i.el,re$SEU bor. 1
l3ttt s110 could not ,:hake it off, awl as
tbo day upproacberl on which Pierre
Turrianwasto arrive elmgrew dull
and moody aud even irritable..
She had done all that she eared to
prevent ids corning to stay in the house,
and the idea of it both angered and dis-
ousted her. She had entered on the c1e-
ooptiou without at all realizing the
constant aisccintioa with lits which it
neeessit3ti(1.
She shrenit frau having the two uncia
ruder the saltie roof, She had expected
that Pierre would have taken her
money, aud, after staying perhaps a
shoe Cane at 41 sleets, would have gano
away to the continent, back to that dis-
reputable, roaming life which he had
always lived. She could havo borne
that, but this sou tart emaciation with
him, his presence in the house and the
life of continuous deceit and lying
which it forced upon her wade her sin
against the roan she loved s0 patent, so
flagrant, so ever present and pressing
that she began to repent that she had
ever chosen the path of deceit.
Siy Jaffrey caught her in one of her
fits of nioodincia on the clay when Pierre
Turrian arrived. Mrs. Do Witt and
Beryl were re also in the house. Sir Jaffray
had surprised Lola with her musk off
just befova dinner.
Hc'crept up to her quietly, and, run-
ning his arm round her waist, kissed
her. -. , . .
"'What's the marine Lola?" he asketi
gently. "You look sad and ill, and both
aro strange for you, though I've soon
you so two or three times lately. Ili
anything up?"
To his consternation, she burst into
tears. He had never neon her do such a
thing before, and he did not know what
to do.
Like everything with her, her grief
was violent, stormy and passionate, but
it soon passed.
"I tun a fool," she cried, "a child,
frightened by a shadow. If I were to
tell you, you would laugher be angry."
"See if I should," be said kindly.
"Tell rue."
Her husband looked at her thought-
fully.
"A shadow that seems to be ahead
often looms up out of the past," he
said.
Tho remark put her on her guard in
a moment.
"Partly the past, partly the present
and partly the future," she replied. "I
have never played the hostess on such a
scale as I shall have to here in a few
days, and I think the prospect of it un-
nerves me."
"Is that all?" There was something
in his tone which made her feel ho (lid
not quite accept the answer, and he
took his arm away ...from round her
waist. "You are creature of moods,
Lola," he continued thoughtfully, "and
I sometimes think that some of the
things in your past life which you have
never told me depress you."
"Why do you think there is anything
I have not told you?"
1698,
•`Blit what has the devil to (Zo with wom-
an's j•u,ithlesancss?"
baronet.
''It is the story of a friend of mine,"
said the Frenchman, pausing a moment
to emphasize his next remark. "Do you
know the Devil's rock in the Swiss
mountains? Do you, Lady Walcote?" he
asked when the•others said nothing. '
Something in the tone made Beryl
Leycoster look up, and she saw that Sir
Jaffray's wife was on the defensive.
"The Devil'arook, the Devil's rook,"
replied Lola, repeating the words as if
waiting for the name to strike some
chord of recollection aud speaking very
naturally. "I mom to have heard of it,
and yet—you know how one's memory
will play tricks—I really can't say."
And she smiled very sweetly.
"It is well named at any rate," said
M. Turriau. "Imagiuo a semicircular
background of rough, steep crags, with
here and there thick, dark firs and pines
on them, aad in the middle a sharp pin-
nacle rock standing sheer and grim and
solitary, joined to the background by a
narrow path, each side of which is a
precipice stretching down 1lundreda of
feet to the bottom of the gorge. That is
the Devil's rock, and the precipice
might be called in truth the mouth of
hell."
"But what has the devil to do with
woman's faithlessness?" asked Mrs. De
Witt, with a smile.
"More than usual," returned the
Frenchman, laughing dryly. "There
was murder done on that very spot—
murder, so far as intent was concerned,
and my friend was the victim. I went
to the place last month with him."
"I'm getting a bit mixed, professor,"
said the baronet.
"My friend was married to a woman
who seems to have got the idea of free-
ing herself from him. She took hire to
that place ere day, told him sho had
ceased to love him and that she meant
to leave him."
"What a very ecnveutional creature 1"
exclaimed Mrs. De Witt. "She was, of
course, a woman of the middle classes."
"Scarcely couventioual, madame,"
"No, no; Lady Walcote and I aro, 1 "You have told me very little."
trust, too old friends to quarrel over "There is ouly little to tell," she re -
that. Her energy is all friendliness. I plied, surprised, at his words, for ho
was telling her that you had asked mo had never pressed her as to any incident
to come here after your return from of her life with her father, "and cor-
town, and I was e, plainiug to her that tainly nothing not to tell." Her quiek-
I am going on the coutinent for awhyle nese to react iu his words a suggestion
to perfect a plan which is often in y doubt d h into an attitude of
thoughts, and she was insisting that I
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take his coat off and cover the man.
As he did so, the wounded man look-
ed up in his face and said :
`For God's sake if there is any,
thing in that Book that makes a
man do for another what you have
done for rue, let me hear it.'
There is a world of meaning, to
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need of tc•day is to act the object
lessons the Book teaches. --Ex.
should not break off my arrangements
there in order to return here, because in
some slight respects the two things
might rather clash. But I assured her
that I could not think of letting any
other ceusicleratieus interfere with the
pleasure of a visit here. Of that I am
determined, but Lady Walcote is too
solicitous on my behalf."
"Oh, of course, you'll come if you
Can, professor!" said Sir Jaffray. "I
should be sorry if you didn't. I'm glad
'you two weren't at loggerheads. I want
You to be friends, you know."
"I trust we shall never misunder-
stand one another more than we do at
present." And the lirenchmau bowed
and shot a swift, cunning look at Lola
which stung her like a poisoned barb.
"What Say yon, madame?" he asked
softly and courtecnsly. And Lola hated
herself and her accomplice at being
into this course of loathsome de -
driven
ceptiou of the man she loved.
The moment after she turned and left
them. She was sick of the part she had
to play.
She began to feel already that in at-
tempting to guide events to snit her
own purposes she ha(lundertalrc.0 a task
which might lead to influitely greater
trouble than that she was striving to
avoid, and this fear led her to associate
the idea of coming disaster with this
visit oil Pierre's to the manor.
•
While she and Sir Jaffray were in
Loudon and the Frenchman was absent
the feeling wore away, but as the time
for the return tO Walcoto approached it
came back again, and could she have
had her choice she would have taken
Sir Jaffray right away out of Europe
for another long tour, such es that
which had made their honeymoon so
pleasant.
But Sir Jaffray Would not hear of it.
Ile was anxious to spend the late stilu-
mer and autumn at Walcote. Ho longed
to see Lola at the head of his splendid
old home, and he was keenly anticipat-
ing the shooting. Thus he loft London
full of the most pleasurable antioipa-
tion.
Sir Jaffray and'Lola were along in thief too dreadful don't spoil it by tell -
the house for two or threw days before ing us too hurriedly --keep ifrfor by and
any of the guests came, and during that ' by, in the drawing room."
time Lola struggled against the pre -
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said M. Turrian. "She goaded him with
some hot, bitter words—that was con-
ventional, of course—and when he
caught hold of her to take her away
from the place she struck him in the
face with the parasol she was carrying,
and he stumbled back and fell over."
"Oh, that's not murder! Much more
Papa's Spelling Lesson.
"Why don't you study your read-
ing 1eseen, Frances?" that little
lady's papa asked severely.
"The words are 30 hard to pro-
nounce, papa," replied the small
student. " I don't believe you can
say them yourselt."
"Oh, nonsense ! Spell the words
and divide theta into sylabies."
'then the spelling began.
"G-r-a•n•d. - What's that, papa"
"Grand. Go on."
"Grand f a•t. What's that ?"
"Grand fat. What next, Fran-
ces ?"
"Grand fat !nor. What does that
spell, papa?"
"Why, her, of course. Go on."
"Grand fat her is—is—is—"
"Do let me see the took, Frances.
Whoever heard of a grand fat her?
of c ou rouse her surely haven't spelled the word
defense. I like suicide," said Mrs. De Witt. "If correctly."
He noticed the change, and he stooped he knew what sort of a woman she was, And then mamma laughed :nom
and kissed her. • he might have known what to expect if her corner :
"When I doubt you, child, I will tell ! he tried force on such a spot." Did you ever hear of grand—
"Wait," resumed the Frenchman. ther, papa?"
"In falling he naught hold of a point of fa
the rock'\vith one hard and would have And Frances cried triumphantly :
saved himself, but she, seeing what had "1 told you '.'hose words were
i„ra: co�r�msv.� hard, papa. You see, you can't
w_......m pronounce them yourself."—Judge.
you so openly. I am with you and for
you against the world.”
She answered his caress impulsively
and threw her arms round him and,
kissing him passionately, exclaimed:.
"Ab, Jaffray, I thiuk sometimes I
should be a happier woman if I did not
love you as I do."
"Happier if you did not love me?" he
questioned and smiled. "That is a puz-
zle I can't rend.' Would you rather that
I did not love you, then?"
"Ah, no, no: I would rather you
killed lee by the cruelest of deaths."
And she clung to him.
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While they were thus lovemaking the !
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•
first of the (nuner gongs sounded, aud
they hacl to hasten away to dress. .
Then at dinner an incident happened '
which disturbed Lola profoundly and
marked the beginning of the end.
They had only three guests—Airs. De
Witt, Beryl Leycester and Pierre Tur-
rian—and at dinner Lola saw that the
Frenchman was taking a good deal of
wine. The conversation turned on what
each of those present had been doing
during the past fele weeks, and present-
ly Lola saw him set do•svn his glass with
an expression which she knew well
boded mischief to some one and look
in her direoti,S,,, furtively out of the Con-
ner of his eyes. '.Chen he broke into the
conversation in a tone which drew the
attention of all to him:
"My faith, but I have had an ex-
perienoe, or rather have heard of one,
which is, if yen like, uncommon!"
"About fiddle strings?" asked Mrs.
De Witt misohievonsly.
"No, madame; about human lives
and about something which I am sure
you could not oomprehend—woman's
faithlessness."
"I havo heard of it," said the little
woman innocently, "but if it is any -
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