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The Wingham Times, 1898-06-03, Page 7ta. v 1iNl71"LAM TOMS, JUNE 3, wr 'Y 44M.wv.•.••••wquv",mwV...,1,N....w.w%I,.,...wvor.wWiwovM w.ea .SI.w.....Y •._ ,04•••••••••ar,w .yl DY nn aketARCMMOINT I f$ttY AIiTNOtt OF a e "roseR MOADLnts .1t.cs.er riYST[RY Oft10111r1011 STr .t1LC •BY W1to5E 1-fAND'0 a o 0 'THC OLD MILL MYITERY t:CT ecx e . A A .sr COPY Pe Ce H7 I 9 eve Trie AUTHOR. iug whatever of all of this," he tine severed. "1 Lava cvidnccc which buts it be- yond the t,llaciowv of a clonbt that evhat that neper guys is true, that you are the Pierre Turrian named on the face of it, and that ou the date given nen married the Lola Crawshay mentioned there, mud that the Lola Crawshay is the sante woman w110 tH 00w my Cousin JatTray'swife, I5•tiat plain enough? If you wish to know how I found it out, I may tell you that your own conduct at the last interview we lied scat mo thinlcing, that 'the reou.strous Story you told about your fiddle strings dict not int' a n;Clueat dLrt.iva h.C.', tl.:.e your confusiou when I told you of the mar- sh() caught Sir Jaffray's eye and beck- laid, or for some purpose which I tinge made it as plain as day that your coned ]tiro to hen' side. don't pretend to kuow you are trying iuterf st was iufiuitely greater than you Meanwhile Beryl sat and listened to impose on me. That is what I menu pretended, while your owwn mention of and picked up again the broken thread when I want to know where you got Mcntrcoux and your suasequcnt obvious of hex thoughts, watching the two at this extraordinary document." Ho attempt to make zoo think there was the piano and turning now and thou to glance at the handsome figure of the baronet, who satlistening to the chat- ter of the lively little woman at his side, .but looking at his lovely wife with his heart; in his eyes. It was a strange position, and as Beryl thought of it all it dazed and confused her, and she wondered if what she thought or rather what she believed she knew could possibly be true, and as often as her eyes rested on Sir Jaf- . fray, knowing his honest, sterling honor and mindful of her old unshakable lbw for him, she was filled with a deep pity for slim on account of the blow which might fall at any moment, glomming his life. But her face hardened.and her heart steeled when she looked toward the woman who had come between her and her cousin, filling her life with the blight of lovelessness. One step she resolved to take, and that at once. She would speak to the Frenchman, and this resolve she put in force the next day, After breakfast on the following morning she waited for an opportunity of finding the Frenchman alone and then joined him. "M. Turrian, there is a subject on which you can help me. Can you spare me five minutes?" she said. "Will you oonle to the conservatory?" "I will give you five hours, Miss Leycester," he said, with his exagger- ated gesture. " What is it?" And the air of surface indifference which ho as- questioning did not blind Beryl to the quick, questioning glance which he shot at her. Beryl said nothing until they were in the conservatory and it was certain that 110 ono could hear them. "I want to make surd that we are not overheard, M. Turriau," she said calmly, "because what I want to ask you is very private and very impor- taut." She took a folded paper from her pock- et as she spoke, and her fingers did not tremble in the least as she unfolded it. "I was in Montreux this summer," she continued, "and iu the course of my stay I visited the Chapel of St. Sul- pice and examined the register there. I found an entry which has been a most painful puzzle to me. It is that of the marriage of a certain Pierre Turrian ..with Lola Crawthay. Here is a copy. Can you tell me what it means?" As she said this Beryl looked him steadily in the face and held out the paper for him to read. He took it from ber and read it, hold- ing it with fingers which with all his efforts he could not keep from trembling violently, while his face turned to the ghastly ashen color which she had seen once before when she had told him in their first interview that Lola was iner- tial to Sir Jaffray. She recalled that incident as she stood watching him steadily with eyes that never left his face and waiting for the answer, which he seemed absolutely un- able to force from between his lips. And with every moment of silence the strain increased, Laughed again now, as if the charge nothing of importance in your counec- were beneath serious notice. tiou with Montreux confirmed my opiu- "Yoi are recovering from your first ion, and that a subeegnent chain of cir- tlulpriece and in your effort to find time cumatances, all save one unsought by in which to invent some sort of expla- me, forced the full discovery upon me. nation you make it a kind of impliedThat every fact is known to me please charge against ale that I have been pry- I to recognize as absolutely certain." Mg into your seerets. I understand you ; He had listeneel to her statement al - perfectly and havo seen through your ; Blest breathlessly, yet sbowing out - pretenses from the first. Please to cop- i wardly no note than a sort of polite preeiate that fact in whatever you say." ! indifference, but he was revolving hasti- He looked at her viciously as 5110 I ly in his thoughts a score of different spoke, but he was almost frightened at j courses of action. the cold, implacable, resolute frankness I There was no use iu further conceal - of her gray eyes. He shrugged his shoul- I went. tiers and lifted his white hands and i It was clear from the pitiless frank- saniled till he showed his teeth as here- , gess of the deliberate statement that plied in a tone of assumed carelessness: this girl was speaking the truth, and "You are a delightful antagonist, ' it seemed as though all the pleasant Miss Loy nester, so fair, so true, so plans of an easy life were to be shat - straight. But tell me, if you have made , tcred in a moment, and he hated the up your mind beforehand that I havo woman who had - done it just as he all sorts of pretenses to be seen through hated everything that Dame in the path and that I am the villain your looks ; of his enjoyment, imply, what is the use of this converse- He glanced at her vindictively as she tion?" • was saying the last words, and ho felt "I have said nothing about your be- that he would give half his life if he tug a villain, M. Turrian. I have asked could have seen that cold, hard, merci- 9on only what that entry in the St. less face lying dead before him at that Su]pice book means. That is all." instant. "And in what capacity do you do me That thought started another and a grimmer t•he honor to catechise me? On whose mmer one, so grim that involunta- behalf do you act? In what interest?" rily 110 glanced about him, as if the mere There was no mistaking the palpable harboring of it might be dangerous, sneer in the question. while his lips felt suddenly so parched "There is no necessity to answer that that he moistened them with his tongue. question. You are not compelled to an- The idea grew on him like the germ swer what I have asked you unless you of a Noisome plague, and instinctively his cunning prompted him to shape his please." Ho was cunning enough of fence to see his advantage and to press coarse by it. What he had to find out it instantly. I was whether any one else knew of this secret. "On the continent, Miss Leycester, + how that his eyes had been so rudely we are not accustomed to meet with , opened to the real cleverness of tho girl lady knights errant who take up the cause of men of the world whom they who had thus faced him his wits bad imagine to have been ill used. It may been quickened to read her, so as to be quite usual in England, of course, know how best to deal with her. but that is my reason for asking in For that neve plan of his he must whose interest you undertake this en- have time. ergetio detective work." 1 "I accept your conditions, Miss His last words stung her, but she 'Leycester," he said when she finished. showed no irritation. ! "I admit—for now it is useless to deny— "The cue question is what that paper that what you have found out is true in means," she said firmly. "There is no every detail." other question of any importance." The suddenness of his change of man - "Well, that is quite my view." He ner and of the confession startled the had now recovered his customary im- girl more than anything that had yet pudent audacity and was beginning to passed, and she shrank back and enjoy the incident. "And in that view linched her hands tightly.�� ' 1J • . ) 1 this paper means that a young lady of "Then what business havo you here? E+ ri l excellent family, unblemished char- I she cried in a voice filled with indigna- aoter, great mental capacity and many tion and anger. personal charms," and hebowed and ; "I win tell you an, everything," paused a moment, "who is not married he said. to Sir Jaffray Walcoto, much to the ree Ho paused a moment in indecision. gret of that distinguished baronet's He was doubtful even at the last mo - more distinguished mother, has been went whether for his purposes he would prying into matters which do not con- be wiser to put the blame cm himself or cera her at all, except, of course, in so on Lola, nor did he settle the point un - far as they relate to that period of her 01 he had begun to speak again. life when—it was generally understood "You have learned much of the she would make that marriage." truth," he said, "because you have "You will do no good by evading the learned the foundation fact of this most question I havo asked you in the at- sad and terrible matter. Sir Jaffray tempt—a useless one, I assure you—to Walcoto and I are both Married to the irritate me by insults into a forgetful- woman who is known as his wife, but ness of it," replied Beryl, seeing that by law and right she is my wife." he paused to notice what effect his The expression on Beryl's face deep - words 'would have upon her. ened to one of acute pain. "It looks—I do not say it is, but it "It is terrible!" she exclaimed, al- looks—as if any such action were im- most under her breath. She bad been pelled by a desire to injure the woman' confident of it before, but this plain wlio had taken the place of that young statement of it by the Frenchman lady of excellent character as the wife shocked her. of Sir Jaffray. The world is a harsh "You do not know all." censor, Miss Leycester," he said, with • "More than you seem to think," she an indescribable air of patronage and interposed. "I recognized that awful worldlywisdom, "and reads the zr,ctives . story which you told last night at din - which lie on the surface, especially ner." when somebody's character is dirtied in He looked very keenly at ]ler for an the process. Had you not better be care- : instant, and something which Ito read fui•?" in her face decided him so to tell the "That is nonsense," replied Beryl story as to make Lola appear the un - curtly, "and you know it as well as L willing victim of his own villainy. What my motive may be is eny own "Ma foi, I told it well!" he ex - concern, and I gin not likely to ask you claimed, with a boastful laugh. "And or"— She checked herself, and in a - it was a devilish bit of revenge, and on flash he filled up the gap. my soul I was sorry for the poor girl. Hard •fns the "Say Sir Jaffray's wife," he said, You know, Miss Leycester, I am not 4 —. old folks to move with a grin. cast in the mold of common men. I can ,� about— constant "Or any one," she added, passing by be as stanch and tone and good as the backaches to the interruption, "to help me to take rarest of men, but I can also be just as C' bother them in caro of myself, If things are as that pa-' rough and hard—aye, and as merciless. t h e daytime — per says, the motives of those who dis- Man that is born of woman -is born urinary weakness to disturb their cover the truth are of no concern. 1 am sometimes with all a woman's qualities. rest at night. not here to discuss motives, but facts. Is My mother was a tigress. Lot me DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS that true or not?" pointing to the paper. smoke. It is long sinee I was in the "Certainty and emphatically it is not confessional box, and I need tobacco to true in the sense in which you seems to make the words come glibly." imply it --that I ever married Lola He spoke with easy, fluent impn- Clruwsllay at the Church of St. Snlpice dente, infinitely disgusting to Beryl, but Mr. W. G. Mugford, Chestnut in Montreux. The thing is ridiculous." chosen by hila designedly to throe, back Street, Charlottetown, P. E. T., And ho shrugged his shoulders again • the girl's pity on Lola, painting himself writes: the past two years 1 have With his usual gesture. intentionally in the blackest colors. had much trouble with dfsaof "You make my part much more diffl- "1 married Lola Crawshay," ho re- the kidneys and non -rete se sn of Milt," said the girl, and then she turned gg urine, was doeppsteel and suffered a g sinned after lighting a fresh cigarette, axctter great deal with pain in rive back, aside a moment in thought. "1 o you "from no silly, sentimental notions, but L have been great►yy benefitd by understand that?" she asked after a ma because I had a hold over her on ac- • the use of Doan', Itfdney •'islet' count of a trip of her long headed but >9'E.'NR,11A. .--.. - lilt coxif ti 1 1898, FLOATING FACTS. An average size coeoanut produces a pint of milk. There are 9,742 locks and keys in the Grand Opera house, Paris, The largest kitchen in the world ie that of the lion Marche, in Paris. If you heat your knife slightly you can cut hot bread as smoothly as cold. A pinless clothes line bas loops in the wire into which the clothes are forced. in Germany the star group which we call the Big Dipper is known as Karl's wagon. It is calculated that the average *eight of a shooting star does not exceed from one and a half to two grains. CHAPTER, XII. Al Il' IL PLAN. As Pierre Turrian stood, like one spellbound, reading the slip of paper which Beryl bad put into his hand his first struggle was to fight with the sense . of paralyzing astonishment which the irl's words had produced. Than ho ransacked every nook and cranny of his memory to recall what had passed between them at the time of their first interview, while mixed up curiously with the whole mental effort was a recollection of his blunder, for which he cursed himself, in mistaking this calm, unimpassioned, quiet girl for Et fool. His first sign of a recovery from his surprise was a laugh, forced, short, un- natural and sneering, but still an ad- vance from his silence of biank dismay. "How do you say you got this, Miss Leycester?" he asked, waving the paper 'toward her and speaking with a sneer on his Hp. "The question is not how I got it, but what it means," returned Beryl coldly. "On tho contrary, it has everything to do with it. It is the most extraor- dinary coincidence I have ever heard of." "Is that your answer?" .And Beryl looked more stern than before, every' feature speaking her disbelief. "Throe is nothing to answer in an& a thing as this. 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