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iij W 11N GRAM TIMES, JULY 15, tg98,
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'Ttie MYSTERY Gr/tORYIMO4t 41kAN
'13Y WHOSE HAND'o. o 0 0
'Tett: Ot,D MILL StesTeItY
eel' to o h p 4 4.
As lie neared Immo au incident oc-
:purred which excited him almost be- CHAPTER XIX.
can't eor my nee uzlderetaxad."
"You saxy the wood has not been
searched except by you, and in the dark
WO"
• "No. I did nothing until you came."
"Aud yon: are quite certain it was
your wife who came out of the place
aucl steed in that ,hedge gap?"
"As certain as that I r as on the
other side of the road."
"fluml.ix! Well," he said after a
pause of thought, "I'll go and look
round a bit, so its to get tuy bearings.
I'd rather be alone, ease," he added
wheu Sir Jaffray rose go with him,
and he went.
When he bad gone, Sir Jaffray went
up to his mother and told her the prog-
ress of matters and the absolute impos
sibility of fludiug ally trace of AI. Tur- � e
,yond control. ,tn>wtvt.,e Hag. ata! x BmIEVi. Riles riau's movements. Then he ocoupied Burying his j'acc in his hands, he Welded
li 110 had ridden very hard orad fast MAD l" himself in seeing Mrs. De Witt away to the racsir of wacntai pain.
during .the greater part of the distance, Not1iinfi came of Sir Jeffrey's tliseov- and was iaot satisfied and did tot leave i vioIeuce. �„
Trading relief in the violent exeroise, cry in Ash 'tree `vend to help ill unrav- het until he had seen her being driven "Where is M. Turrian+ she asked.
ascot to the Station No ore knows. Ile has disappeared
and quite unlike his usual habit, with-
•out a thought for the horse that carried
him, but when he had reached nearly
home he noticed that his horse was
very much distressed, and lee drew rein
to ease it, allowing it to walk. Then
hefound it had gone lame, and, dis-
mounting, he felt in the hoofs and
1 found a stone.
b Before he. remounted ho stood a mitt -
"ate or two on the turf by the side of the
road to lot the laboring, panting beast
'get its breath. Then, himself feeling
stiff, ho walked along a short distance
•on the turf, glad of the change from
the saddle.
He reached in this way the outskirts
:of the Ash Tree wood, the boundary
line of his estates in that direction, and
there was surprised to hear what sound -
'red like the rustling of light footsteps in
the wood. It was late, near midnight
or past, and no one had. ,0 right to be
abroad at such an hour.
• Probably some rascal was out poach-
ing, he thought, and at another time he
would have welcomed tho idea of a tus-
sle, but now he was too full of real
trouble to be worried by any such
' trifling incident as the theft of a head
.or two of gauze.
He stopped, however, and listeued
intently, and as the moon was shining
brightly at the moment he drew eau= wt:
tiously under the branches of a dark �� „ " �✓
yew tree whose shade was wide enough
to conceal both himself and his horse.
I He was on the opposite side of the
road from the wood, and he did not like
to cross it lest the sound of the horse's
hoofs on the hard ground or the glare
=of the moonlight should reveal his
presence.
As he listened ho distinguished that
the footsteps were short and quick,
while it seemed to him that the rustling
of the leaves as the person walked was
•continuous, as though caused by a Wo-
man's dress. but it was very difficult
to detect any little signs of the kind.
It was clear, however, that the person
was walking in his direction, and then
he remembered that just at the spot
there was a very rarely used footpath,
leading to the roach from an untenanted
cottage which was now falling into de-
cay.
A minute later bis speculations were
set at rest.
The slight gap in the hedge where
the path emerged was nearly filled up
by the rank luxuriance cif the hedge
.growth, and Sir Jaffray saw tho briers
and brauches thrust cautiously aside
andel, woman's hooded figure fill the
gap. She paused an instant, as though
in doubt.
The face was hidden completely in
the shade of the hood which covered the
head, but the figure was perfectly well
known to the man who was now watch-
. ing with breathless interest.
It was his wife!
At that instant bis horse, a very high
spirited and nervous animal, took fright
at the woman's figure and with a snort
of fear commenced to plunge and stam-
pede, and, the baronet's hands being en-
. tangled with the, bridle, his efforts to
quiet the animal impeded him com-
pletely, and, to his infinite annoyance,
he could not free himself frons the
plunging, excited horse for some oonsid-
•orable time.
"Lola! Lolal Itis I, JaifreyI Wait!"
he called, fearful lest she should take
alnren and rush. away in ignorance of
who he was. •
extricate
to
As soon as he could possibly e..tii a
hiuxaeif from the reins ho let the horse
go.
But Lola had disappeared.
He ran across ,the trap in the hedge,
and, standing on the threshold of the
wood, called her name loudly and wait-
ed till the echo of it come back from 20
liferent points, seeming to mock him.
• Then he ran at the utmost speed ho
.could use in such a place along the path
into • the wood, pausing now and then
to call to Lola by name and to listen
for the sound of a word or a footstep.
But the place aright have been the
abode of the dead and the figure Ixo had
seen a ghost for all the sound or sign of
life ho could find.
Presently'hereturned along the path,
resolved to get his horse, ride on to the
noose and then costo Dae. anti nave
the place searched, and as he reached
the gap in the hedge again he saw a
small white object on the ground.
Ho picked it up, and it confirmed his
tpinion and deepened the mystery
which h aided him so utterly.
It.t�.ts a handkerchief belonging to
Iris tct,i', imd as ho held it up in the
bright rtx]fght ho could see the tame
tmbroidcxed in binck itt large old Eng- however, points clearly to the fact that; soheme, and when she had refused had edited hum to come to the mance owe
lisle letters across oue corner, Lola she.- left me nolttiatnrily, though why Y in his exasperation attacked her with wad subeeggently invited.him to etas'
clingHe thud not .had the wood searched •
After that ho was restless rind miser- absolutely;"
and had contented himself with sesirah•able, longing for somethiug to do and It seentecl impossible for Beryl, know
ing it alone for some hours. Ito weefretting impatiently at enforced imectiv- ing all she did, to resist the open infer -
unwilling that the discovery of Lola's ity until in the afteruoon, to his im ence which these two facts prompted. It
strange conduct should bo matin in the neense relief, Beryl Leycester came, appeared as certain as • anything could
presence of a number of the servants, alio was looking worn and ll:s with be now that the two had gone away to-
:ioo
b t h' t gether, the man having probably forced
Lola to do what be wished, possibly as
a revenge for the horsewhipping.
"Well?" asked the baronet after an-
other long pause, as though expecting
from Beryl the result of her thoughts.
"I have no suggestion to offer, Jaf-
fray," she auswered quietly, grieved as
she saw the half kindled light of ex-
pectancy die out of his face, as though
extinguished by the deep sigix he vented.
"I am so helpless. I don't know`ivhere
to begin to look or what to do. T know
she is close at hand all the time. Oh, I
didn't tell you that," he broke off, no-
ticing the start she gave at the words.
"I saw her last night." And he de-
scribed his meeting wit1iher at the Ash
Tree wood. • 'et'
It was now Beryl's turn to be utterly
'perplexed.'
"It cannot have been Lola," she said.
"It is impossible."
"Yesterday I should have said it.was pointed Paragraphs.
impossible that she would ever leave p
the shelter of my roof, but I have a Whisky can't talk, yet it fre-
and he resolved, therefore, that as he
could not bring them to the place with-
out telling them what they were to look
foe he `would not do anything till it
was at ]east clear that Lola did not
mean of her own will to return.
He reckoned, moreover, that as she
had not left the immediate neighbor-
hood of tho mance it: would not be diffa-
He walked along a short distance on the
turf.
cult to find her whenever it should
prove necessary to search systematically.
When the morning came and he had
been Lome about a couple of hours, he
began to expect with feverish impa-
tience the arrival of the private detect-
ive to whom be had telegraphed. He
wanted to feel that the matter was in
skilled hands.
When the , reply to his telegram ar-
rived, it was to the effect that Mr.
Gifford would start for Walcote at the
earliest moment and would arrive about
midday.
Feeling his anxiety in same degree
lessened by this fact, Sir Jaffray went
out to make inquiries about the move-
ments of Pierre Turrian and to find him.
and drag from him the truth as to
whether he had any connection with
bola's flight.
But there was not a soul anywhere
who could give the remotest or faintest
help in tracing the Frenchman. He
might.have vanished completely off the
face of the earth at the moment of bis
leaving tho manor lodge gates so ut-
terly had all trace elf him disappeared.
The servants who, in obedience to Sir
Jaifrey's order, haci turned him out of
the place said that he walked away in
the direction of the village, dad that
they had watched him till a bend in
the road lead hidden him, and after that
they had seen nothing whatever of him.
As to the clothes which be had left
at the manor, he had said that he would
Send for them either *the same day or
the next,'but no sort of message had
been received.
The man had thus vanished, leaving
no trace behind him, nor was there
seemingly any one who had set eyes on
hint after 1.o had left the manor.
A little before noon Mr. Gifford ar-
rived, • ,
• as ' „ d
l tet
. ...hko . _
rived, and in a very bus nae . ,
way absorbed the circumstances astir
Jaffray told them.
The latter, half unconsciously, made
the story as favorable as possible to-
ward Lola, and his listener seen saw
this.
"Excuse me, Sir Jaffray," be veld,
interposing at one point, "but it is ab-
solutely necessary that you should tell
me everything. I want from you every
fact you have observed and every cir-
cumetauce that is connected with the
case, whether you think it does or does
not affect it. Speak quite unreservedly,
please, or call in some other help."
"You can question me as you please,.,
Sir Jaffray answered, "and consciously
I will mot keep back a word."
And question him the ratan certainly
did, but the fullest story of the facts
did not seem to help then. far.
"It is a strange case, Sir Jaffrey, a
very strange one," was all the verdict
Mr. Gifford would give at the end of
the interview, `"You don't anticipate
any foul play anywhere?" ,� be ""Hero is my wife's letter,
an-
swered, pointing to it. "But for that I
should certainly have dreaded it, This,
irr nursing, u tivas in ,g ter spick s,
because her father bad rallied and was
much 'better.
She had heard nothing of what had
happened at the manor house, having
been shut up close in the sickroom, axed
she had come over to carry a stage fur-
ther the task which. her knowledge
about Lola had imposed on her.
Sir Jaffrey welcomed her cordially.
Sho was just the cool headed, resource-
ful counselor he wanted, whose ready
woman's wit would probably do as
muck. to help him in unraveling this
problem of a woman's acts as any one
else.
"`You are more welcome today, Beryl,
than nny woman I could possibly see
Save one," he said, ""and who that is
you'll guess readily enough if you know-
the
now
the news."
The girl flushed very slightly at the
words, for old time's sake.
"What news? You look as though it.
were ill n0ws."
""It is the worst it could be." She
nere. Viet as aii, save for the doers 1
told yon of yesterday,"
"Zoe mustn't mind niy Questions,
Sir Jaffray, please; bat, tell Hie, would
he be likely to write to her?"
"Certainly not,"
-"I?o you .know rho handwriting on
that envelope addressed to her?"
Yes. It is that of.—]?ferre Turriat,
The words mune slowly, as if by force.
"That scoundrel has dared to write to
her,,"
;;ro tiri co risrEn.'
Feeshenxng Up Busty Dress Ma -
terxal.
When black ittaterials begin to
look gray or rusty, brignten tllont by
sponging on the right side with equal
parts of alcohol and water, and while
damp, iron on the wrong side. Mud
will often leave a stain, which may
be removed with naphtha after' it leas
been allowed to become thoroughly
ry. Black silk warp goods will
shine as they w.ar, and expose the
silk threads ; this shine may be
partly removed by sponging with
alcohol and water; though it will
likely return; if it does the silk must
be redyed. Colored cashmere, serge,
albatross, etc., may be cleaned by
sousing in a fluid composed of one
desertspoonful of beef's gall to a pail
of waren water ; use less gall in the
rinsing water, dry in a shady place,
and iron on the wrong side, when
nearly dry, with a moderately warm
iron. -Emma M. Hooper in the July
Ladies' Home Journal.
exhortation signed:
"1 remain your true pal, ,T. F. No
Whish."
The original vicar would go into
public houses during the dinner hour
and addressing the company would
say:
,
,n have given
tp to i
«e11, gentlemen, than, � tl a'
my friend, the landlord, a good teles
no finish up at my little place on the
other side of the road!"
Special services were held ---ons
week for pigeon fliers, another week.
for thesweepb and a third for sand--
wieh men.
Mr- Whteh's successor was as de-
voted a vicar as his predecessor, but
lacked Mr. Whi�ah's humor and dis-
cretion. Ile gave $o. harrowing a,
diseription of the deneiens of then
courts and allays of the parish to a:
local journalist that those whcm he:
freely described as hawkers and
rogues resented his discriptions of
theta by breaking bis windows.—
London Mail.
A RAILWAYMAN'S STORY.
Mr. W. Franks, in charge of the Grand
Trunk Engine Shops, Port Dover, Ont.,
say :—"Four boxes of Doan's Kidney
Paris cured rue of a very had attach of
Kidney Complaint and Lame Back.
The Conductor )!lade a Mistake.
A Pullman ear conductor who had
a run out of .Broad street station re-
cently made a mistake in -`sizing up"`
a passenger which quite upset his
coufiderae in his own judgment..
The passenger in question was a.
seedy looking individual who saun-
tered into the Pullman from the ad-
joining day coach and looked around
with the air of a man who had never -
before seen the interior of a parlor'
car. "Just watch me take a fall out
of the hayseed," the conductor said
to a party of travelling- men who.
were sitting in the smoking compart-
ment.
ompare
ment. "Pardon me, sir," he said
with mock courtesy to the hayseed..
"You will have to pay parlor car
far to ride in this Pullman."
The passenger appeared very
strw on looking closer into his face as new and horrible fear, Beryl, which I cently tells on a tnan. much surprised at this information,,
he spoke that he was haggard and ill, have not breathed ton sou], not even q telling the conductor he was only
"Tell mo, is Lola with you at the to the detective who is clown here. It
Money talks, but the average mangoingto ride to the next station.
k
Court?"
"At the Court?" exclaimed Beryl,
starting in surprise.
"There is no need to answer," said
Sir Jaffray despondingly. "I had a last
faint, flickering, wild hope that, after
all, she might be with you or that you
might know something of her. Would
to God you did! Sho has gone from
here, run away—been driven away,
rather, by some means which it baffles
us all to understand."
Ho paused a moment, and the sur-
prise, mingled with the whirl of cot-
fusiou which her own knowledge of the
inner facts produced in her thoughts,
shocked and frightened Beryl till she
could not trust herself to speak. •
Sir Jaffray did not notice anything
more than that she was much affected
by the mews, and after a moment's
break he continued:
"She did not come to dinner yester-
day, leaving word that she had gone
to you at Leycester Court—you wrote to
her in the afternoon, you know, asking
her—and I was acting on a' sort of im-
pulse when I rode to the Court last
night to see if she was there. When I
got back, this letter was waiting for
me. Read it."
He gave Beryl the letter, and the
girl read it carefully and slowly through
twine, and knowing what she did the pression and fear of impending trouble, ° The banister of life is full cf spittlemisery and suffering in which it had and she sighed as she recognized in it
•
been 'written seemed to strike right to all the evidence of the struggle through let's, and mankind slides down it
her own heart,with considerable rapidity,
"It is the saddest letter I have ever which snohad passed and the gathering Kind words never dye. If they
did probably theywould be be moat
appreciated -Chicago News.
would explain everything, and it ma es prefers it to a garrulous wife."That makes no difference," he wait
even the letter intelligible. She has not
There are asgood sea serpen is in
been like herself for some time now. informed. `"You will have t0 pay
has had fits of moodiness and de- a drug store as ever carne out of a fare."
pression, in which she was haunted by saloon. The passenger fumbled through
dread of some terrible catastrophe which A man's egotism may be pardoned his pockets absentmindedly until ha
would overwhelm us all. I have tried if he doesn't permit it to degenerate I pulled an old wallet out :,f an inside,
more than naso to rally her from these into vanity. pocket. Then he drew from its
when I have fctt.her so, and gene.- recess a Pullman car pass and a rollall I could do it t Witha word or a When a man is unable to sleep in ,
caress. Yesterday she was like this the morning when he should get up, ' of bank bills of large denomination.
when I Tees with her in the afternoon, , he has insomnia in its worst form. I Before the conductor could 1 evive
from his trance, the "hayseed" had
ordered the porter to carry in his
grips from the day coach and "ar-
ran.ge a drawing root." tor bite.
The fresh conductor avoided the:
chaffing of the travelling mea as
best he could for the rest of the trip
into Philadelphia. - Philadelphia.
the time site speaks of'iu her letter here, ; labels rush in where wise men rush
and I have somehow come to fear
that in some way the scene with that oat.Freuch villain may have uustruug lxer', Yea, cant learn all from one unless.
nerves till—till she has lost her mental that one's a woman. •
bedanco and been driven to this rash
and fearful act. Heaven help mol I be -The less hair a woman has the
Neve she is mrd, Beryl." i more tune it takes her to arrange it.
Ho broke down then at the free ut- ! The average man is ready and !
terauce of the thought that had been willing to die for his country—of old I Record.
forcing itself on him, and burying his
face in his hands he yielded himself up
helpless to the rush of mental pain that
overwhelmed bin.
Beryl sat watching him infinitely
moved at the sight of his laboring trou-
ble, 'but thinking that perhaps even
that belief, whicleehe did not for a. mo-
ment share, was more merciful than a
knowledge of the troth would be.
She herself could read without diffi-
culty the meaning of .Lola's fits of de -
age.
A lawyer minds his own business)
attending to the affairs of other
people.
The wings that riches have are 1
nearly always used in going instead
of coming.
Economy sometimes leadsto wealth I
but usually the more economy the
more cost.
read. Poor Lolal" she said as she re-
turned it to him and noticed how he
seemed to be eagerly expecting some
opinion.
The letter had touched her keenly and
roused to vibration every chord of sym-
pathy in Jeer nature. It load, moreover,
clouds of doubt and misery which bad
beset her.
"If you read the letter, Beryl, in the
light of that su eeSeiou, you will see,"
said Sir Jaffray after a long. silence,
"how everything seems to fit in with it.
All that the poor girl says is so vague
strengthened a resolve she had alreaey as to be in zeolite incoherent. Then it
made—to hold her peace absolutely as is Plain tint it is no interference with
to all she knew. Lola's piteous prayer liar love for me which drives her away.
that Jaffray might never know the truth Thew is thus absolutely no cause what
shoulcl be held iu absolute regard by ever for her act, while the little, trem
her. Not a tvar:l should pass her lips Wing prayer that I may nover know the
Lola had solved the difficulty in her cause is just whet one .night look for.
own way, and if only she and the I If there were any real.facts behind, she
would know that roust Sad them
out,
Frenchman could disappear altogether
•ut of'at maze lint thus --this trouble might be hidden.
it might be the best way o Then her conduct last night—all 18 History anti has been blessed with a'
which had offered to Beryl no key. consistent with that ono terrible
It seemed to her that Lola, finding curious collection of vicars. Some
herself in the midst of difficulties from thought. When I think of it, I declare yearsago,parish, PROSTRATED TE'D
I 'i c a xnsarlm�>1 invselfl" he ex- eight or ten the arish dt k�ldAlti
QUEER CHURCH SERVICES.
SENSATXUNAL DEVICES ADOPTED TO
DRAW' PEOPLE TO AN ENGLI3ii
PATUSII.
Not longago the papers contained
accounts f a�`"scrubbing, service" in'
St. Lawrence church, Birmingham, 1
where the congregation joined the 1
rector in cleaning up the church,
The church has had a curious,
IL
"" Three years ago I was troubled
with boils, and tried several
remedies recommended by friends,
but they were of no avail. I hat?
FIFTY-TWO TOILS in all, andt
found nothing to give me relief`"
until I tried Burdock Blood Bitters.
The first bottle I took made a com-
plete
oxa -
plete cure and proved so very
satisfactory that I have recom-
mended B.B.B. to many of my
friends who have used it with good
results." A. J. MUSTARD',
Hyder, Man.
Any one troubled with Boils,
Pimples, Rashes, Ulcers, Sores,
or any Chronic or Malignant Skim*
Disease, who wants a perfect cure*
should use only
BUBO
J'� •.,
BITTERS.
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which there was no escape, and which am 1: • . ,
were closing fast round her, had accept- claimed, and thou he began to stride
ed the inevitable and had chosen flight from ono end of the room to the other
as tho only alternative. in impetuous haste.
"Car, you help eno with a suggestion, Soon after this Mr. Gifford was shown finding the service languishing from 1
Beryl?" asked Sir Jaffray after a long in. lack of worshippers, hit upon all
hch he had seen the girl Be was going to speak to Sir Jaffray sorts of queer expedients for coin•
tlainlciug closely. when in `nhen ho caught. sight of Beryl and
was_' polling them to conte in. 1
"There is evidentlysome influence
stopped abruptly. He atbnouneed the most, flaming
driving her to, this deed, Have you no "Have you any news, Mr. Gifford?" a
in asked Sir Jaffrey. "You may speak un- series of diseourses ever given publiei• 1
regia what that can be?"she askedreservedly before this lady, Miss Leyces< tet to by handbill and poster. "Pigeon I
reply. ter." "Mono whatever. My mother seems ",yes, I have news and some of it
stringo and startling enough. In. the
first place, let nee ask you what were
the relations betweeu your wife and the
Frenchman, M. Turrian?"
Beryl started at the question and
looked eagerly at the ivau.
`"Chet were only those et aequeint-
which is the most poverty stricken
in all Birmingham, was controlled
by Rev. J. F. M. Whish, and he, I
to think that there may be some connec-
tion with the fact that the Frenchman,
Turrian, and I had a quarrel yesterday,
ancl he left." And be 'described briefly
the fasts.
Beryl listoted closely.
It helped to .take the problem much
clearer to her. The,l'renchman had evi-
dently atkcesl.ip. boars ago alio had been a
told Lola what Beryl had tole!
nun, nae probably tried to fdreo her to musk) pupil of his, and when ho came
ioin him in sown 'wild and reckless to this neighborhood some time since I
Flying," "A Good Day on the
Course" and kindred topics were
dealt with instead of orthodox Scrip-
tural topics.
Thousands of printed cards were
circulated each week bearing such
afl"eetionate ins iriptions as
"Come and hear your old pal, tho
Rev, J. 1. M. Whish."
"Xow, then, buck up 1 Give your
old pal Whish another trial!"
'NO SLEEP—NEO 63GSST.
LL do not ap jreclate
the wordy or Jelin G.
Saxe, who sag ", "Goa*
bless the urn who,
lirst invented ,keep!'•
nut appreciation is
not wanting to those
who have suffered as
Mrs. white, of liar*
Township Ont., who
became so i11 witirw
nervous troubles that, to quote her bro-
tbcr, Air. bonald ,tcune, n well-knowit re-
*ldent of that illnstrloes section of North,
Ontario: "My sister had not slept a night
for over three xnonths. She could not harts
stood this 'match longer, and It was only
when death seemed imminent that South
American Nervine became tate gond phy-•
sloian, Atter taking the first dose of that
Nervine she slept all night, null gained
In flash untll perfectly wen, had hoe now
ho alga of nervonsuces." This is a wonder'-
Tul medicine in Ow Cerercht ease:t of net"-
be Sound t ylvlaee gfittk st„!•141:-1)"114,7
Other cards wOuld contain an ' seed at Hamilton's Drug Siege,