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The Wingham Times, 1898-08-12, Page 7TEE WINO HAM TIM ES, AUGUST 12, 1898. r F 7 .T-.__......� Ste COPYRIGHT lay et rrrtot4 or d 9 d 't415f:1r t WADI.EY;S Sf a'�fl!r 'TNE MYSTERY oftwel toaE STft(WG 'BY WHOSE HAND"o 0 0 ¢ 'TNG OLD MILL MYSTCRY ECT ear. � ob.. + ', EW r1 AOTMOR n mete rem. shoeld she attempt to get away again. whenuLe c crater called shore o the • "I will do what you wish," he said, when .Missy and with a bow he left the room with day of the discovery she drove hurried- Mr. Clifford. ly home and back again, and that be- As soon as the three were alone there .' an interview went h had W e a h� s a Toxo showas a loll silence. The warmth with with t discovery here, who had told which Lola had spoken to the inepector and of the en ovyo of the toad body died out, the pallor which all had no - and bad Dot of to hoc puri sff the bought ticed on her first entry increased, and let, the amt which I myself Drought she leaned back on the sofa on whieh • here. i von not abletto answer the goes- she sat as though weak and striving to tions butinvolved either one way or an-, collect her strength for a great effort. ayou, I sasure you, Sir you,Jaftoo, Sir Jaffray sat apart, torn by infinite- • and Miss Leyd, willter, and ray- 1 painful emotions. Her first repulse Mr, Gifford, indeed, see the gray- y p p ity of the matter and of my position of him bad roused a multitude of dis- and will 'wish to give an explanation." turbing thoughts in which his fears on "Before any one answers such a account of her matinees, his doubts charge we should know the person who about the part she had played in the makes it," said Mr. Gifford. death of Pierre Turrian and his love, "I know no more than I toll you," quickened into hot passion by the sight . replied the inspector, "and I am most of her, were all ininglecl with a new and worst fear that her action was the I painfully placed. I do not see how I result of a resolve not to let him go :can act otherwise than as I am doing." near her until sho had confessed—what "Supposing it should turn out that he knew not. Ho longed to rush and there has been sorne mistake of the take her in his arms and yet was held kind, what would you have to do, Mr, back in a coufiiot of doubts and fears. ' Borderline?" asked Sir Jaffray. Beryl sat quietly waiting for Lola to "In the absence of Lady Walcote I tell in her own way the story of which should have but one painful duty," be she knew the main features. replied. Lola broke the silence at length with "And that?" a long, deep sigh. Then she said: ' "To take means to find her and to "Ab, Jaffrey, I have been mad!" ask an explanation of this most com- The words so fitted themselves to promising series of coincidences." his worst fears on her account that he A long and painfully embarrassing looked across at her with an expression silence followed, in whieh all four sat whieh she seemed to read intuitively. thinking closely. "Do you think I am guilty of the .At the end Sir Jaffray rose and death of Pierre Turrian, Jaffray?" she pushed back his chair and in 7 voice cried in a voice of pain and resentment. • broken with emotion he said: "And you, Beryl, do you?" And with - "You had better do so, inspector, let out waiting for auy answer in words, the consequences bo what they may. reading one in the momentary ember - The truth must come out. God help rassed silence of the two, she cried in a her!" voice all sorrow and suffering: "Heaven Then another silence as painful as the help mix! It is indeed time I came back! • former followed. Oh, Jaffray, Jaffray!" And, bursting In the midst of. it a commotion was into sobs, she b -,fried her face in her beard in the large hall outside, and the hands on the head of the sofa. door of the room was hurriedly opened. Sir Jaffray could not bear the sight "freer ladyship. Sir JefYray l" said the of her distress, but went quickly to her, servant, and Lola, looking very pale a;id, laying a hand ou her shoulder, said: and were, but very determined, came "Give ane your word that yon know in. nothing of this, Lola, and I will believe Sir Jaffray sprang toward her with a you against the world." a ory of pleasure aul, gladness. She shook his hand off as though his "Wait!" she said, stopping and draw- touch burned her, and, rising to her feet, ing back from his outstretched arms. looked him steadily in the face. ,/ 4' /positions ala an ped I should , told. 1the o..it o "First let the whole truth beWere p i, .have came back now to tell it." need no word of yours to make me feel your innocence, Jaffray," she said in a CHAPTER XXIV. tone which stabbed him, "but you shall LOLA'S STORY. have my word As God is my fudge I .At the moment c: her first entering -the room .Lola had not seen the police inspector or Mr. Gifford, but when sho noticed them and saw that the former -wore police uniform she was startled. "Who are these gentlemen?" she asked of Sir Jaffray. But he was too much moved by her •coming to be able to answer. "Inspector Bordcrh, m is charged +with the inquiry lute the death of Pierre Turrian, and I am here looking into things for the family. I am Mr. o a e said you you knew everythtng Jaffray; that It elleve a Word of it, "but there are ,'H( said yq a fugitive of my own f , tried to kill lain then." , ree will sen(' few questions I should like to ask "That is true, as tree as light!" cried 1 an shoed he or you set Lola rehenrently, and Beryl felt her start and her muscles harden with tem- per. "Hewes au impulse, coming either from heaveen to free myself from a devil, or from hell to bind myself closer then ever to'' him, I know not which, but I acted on it, and never from that moment till now, when I see you shrink and quiver at the thought of it, have I regretted it. I will not palliate my act or belittle it, but this I may say—I do not know that he could possibly have saved himself had I ant stamped on his fiugers, but Idid not think of that thea. He had made my life a hell, and when the chance seemed to come in my way I tried to free myself, and I would do the same again." She stopped .and looked eagerly across at Sir Jaffray, hoping to read on his face an expressica less hard than that which by her words she seemed to ex- pect and not to fear. could not understand her. Sir Jaffray But he easels no sign of any kind, aud himself had seen her hours later than she went cat : she said olose to the cottage. "The rest you know now or eau guess "Where did you go, Lola, and where nearly, except one thing. I will ll and what time did you leave that man?" the truth now, the 'whole of it„End nd he asked hurriedly and in some excite- ment. "I was with him probably an hour, not more, and I left him to walk straight to Branston, in order to catch theanail that stops there at 2 in the morning. I did that. We parted about two miles from the cottage, I should think, on the field path that runs from there to the main road to Branxton and 1 t theroad." was v Lady Walente, with your permission." that never ago' "Of course, Ask what you like," said the baronet. "First, I am bound to caution you, Lady Walcote, that you are not com- pelled to aursiver any questiou, and that, if you do answer, anything you say may be used in evidence against you." "Ask what you please, sir," replied Lola readily. "What were the relations between you and this Pierre Turrian?" "He was my husband." eyes on me, and that, though ho ha boateu me, the victory should be tie grit and ashes between his teeth. I taunted him with the blows that you had show- ered ou him iu the morning and mad- dened hire with jeers at the failure of Ids plans. What I did not let him even guess, however, was that my heart was sick and my spirit bruised to death. We parted, a blasphemous oath ou his side and a curse on him from me, and I see my face to the darkness and plodded on through the night, alone with my grief and my knowledge that the sun could never rise again in all my life. One Angle, solitary ray of comfort in it all had—that perhaps you would never learn how false I had been and so Dome to curse me for it," Her hearers had listened breathlessly to this part of the story, marking every syllable, and when she stopped they yea , shall know the worst of m can b known. I thought he was.idead, and won my father died I drop ad the name oftiTurrian like a hated t camp here• to England more Crawshay.".Then her voice g and the note of defiance a ceptible. "I meant to mar ry well, and I hod no wi as the widow of tauch� lain as Pierre Turria nr: Then I met you ittifford, a private inquiry agent of Southampton row, London, and well 'known." Ho could not resist the little 'self advertisement even at soh a mo- ment. "I cannot speak before these gentle- ,meu, Jaffray," said Lola. "What I ?have to :say can bo said to you—and to .Beryl, or sho already knows every- thing, or nearly everything." At this the police inspector pricked tip his ears and locked across sharply at Beryl, who noticed the action and the icon-. "Then we'd better go, inspector," said Mr. Gifford, seeing the difficulty .ani: trying to get ever it with a rush. But Inspector Borderham did not . move. "I really think it would be bettor for alae to stay, Sir Jaffrey," he said a little nervously, afraid to offend the baronet, and yet very unwilling to•go. "I see no necessity whatever for your presence," returned the baronet shortly. "You must see that this matter has now taken a quite unexpected turn and that you can do nothing. You can go." " You will accept the responsibility?" ' "What responsibility is that?" ex- claimed Lola excitedly. "Do you mean for my presence, sir? I tell you I have come back for the expross purpose of facing anything that any one may dare to whisper against me, that I should not have come back had it not been for :alae foot of Pierre Turrian's death, and that I shall remain" --she was going to say "at the manor house" but checked 'herself and substituted --"where you shall know perfectly vcoll where to find ince whenever you wish. But now I . ?have something to say to my—to Sir Jaffrey', whieh concerns no one but {hal t t ?, and for the moment we must 'be k•!1 te.h.cther." A f. ,:-u of rapid thought convinced Ithe fn -=•e a tee that he could not possibly ng and as Miss w harder, in was per - and to mar - to be known cheat and vil- and resolved that •tau should marry me, and I married you." The last word she had finish as though no "That is said, Lel the thir them c "I ani 0 ou without loving ante slowly, and when she hid her face again, afraid to meet kis look. ie hardest thing yqu have said Sir Jaffray. Then for ime a long silence camc�kupon ave been -Woefully punished Lola in a low, half moaning v infinite sadness. "Out of both -y hoping you mag nets havo come the menus to punish then they gave me your letter. When I would allow to Branston, which I them. The man who was dead lived to I had pulled myself together, 'started off reached just before 2 o'clock. That is stamp out the light of my life. The love as hard as I could gallop to Mrs. Vill- all. I had never felt woke to make my pun- yers' house, hoping against hope that "How are you going to prove that?" ishaneut greater than I could bear. If I you might have gone there. binding asked the inspector. "We have nathing had never loved you, Jaffrey, I could the place closed and hearing, of course, so far but your bare word. What proofs have faced without flinching all that thayou lace not been there, I rode have you?" that man could do or threaten, but when again to the Court, but did not tones ' `I have coma back to find them," re - he had the polder to put out the lighted it, and then came on home. It was plied Lola stoutly. "If I had done this love which I had tlin:ight would never then a long way past midnight, and as deed, I should nothave come back: but, be kindled I was desolate. He came and I got to the coraaer of Ash Tree wood, instead, I should have put an end to forced himself upon me, and I dared not by the path which leads from the cot- my life." defy him utterly. I dared not tell you, tage, some one came to the gap in the "Yet you went away?" because it meant—I must lose you, Jaf- hedge whom I took to be you. I called "Far the same motive that brought fray. In a moment of madness aud to you by came, but there was no an- me back—regard for Sir Jaffray. I went thinking I could play a desperate game saver, and when I had quieted my horse, because flight seemed to me the only with safety I tried to hold him at bay which bad taken fright at your appear- way out of a terrible entanglement, the and yet to keep your love for myself, ance, I tried in vain to follow. Is it im- only way to avoid even greater troubles. but it was useless. Some one else had poeeibie that you can have been thereat I came back because, for the sake of his learned the truth—Beryl here, and it that time?" honor, it was necessary that my came came near costing her her life, for that "impossible? Absolutely! Yon know should be cleared of this suspicion." evil, reckless man sought to take it even the distance from there to Branxton. I "It is more to the point to ask Lady in this house. • But, like a woman feel - walked every step of the road. I reached Walcote how she was dressed when she ing for a woman's grief, Beryl tried to the station at a few minutes before 2, went away," put in Mr. Gifford, "and how it canoe that Sir Jaffray was able could be. Heaven knows hovr have to identify her by her dress that night." "Ali! 'Will you tell mo why you left 6oms9" Lola glanced at Sir Jaffray. "There is no use in further conceal- ment," he said in answer to her look. "It is a rather long story, but I will tell it to you." And Lola told him. "It is a very extraordinary tale," said the inspector skeptically. "You admit, then, that you met the deceased that night at 0 o'clock at the place where he was found dead. That is a very strong admission." "Yet it is the truth." "Why did you go armed? Why did you take that dagger with you?" "I did not go armed. Iknownotlaing of the dagger beyond what I have read —that ho was stabbed with a dagger which may have been taken from here." • "What of the bracelet?" "I know nothing of that either. Purposely I left behind me every bit of jewelry which lead not been mine be- rore my marriage." close o l r ,�� "Your theory is, then, that some one i'I am bewildered," he said again. must have taken the dagger and the ea T amcloser the cottagen that I bracelet and have gone with them to do saw you close i thepcottage in Ash this murder in order to put the blame Tree wood at a time past midnight that ou you?" night, is it not possible for me to be "I have no theory," answered Lola right?" resolutely. "I tell you the truth, I had "What do you mean—that T was by the letter from Pierre Turrian in the that ruined cottage after the time I tell you?" afternoon. I met him at the time named "Let me make this clear," be ex- and at the place named. I walked with claimed. "When I found you had gone, him for about an hour in the direction I rode first to Leyeester Court. That of the Braunton road and left him at ace was directly after dinner. I came back, about 10 o'clock close to that road. I • ' ht have returned, and then walked ou as fast as my strength SORES GONE. SKIN CLE. " Mrs, Philip Mitchell, St. Marys, Ontt•f, says :---"'My little boy aged 10, was a complete mars of sures, caused by back blood. We uoold find nothing to aura him. Finally 1 not a bottle of Burdock Blood liittere,auid before half the belit- tle waagone he began to immure, ands by the time the bottle was '.ioished be had not a sore on him." WEST W AW A1051%. Council met according to adjourn- went on Aug, 2. Members all pre- sent, Reeve in chair. Minutes of las; meeting read and approved. Treas-••- urer's statement showed balance op band of $3'1 95, received and file& The estimates for the present year were placed at $2,150, and the rate were struck as follows : —County rate, 1 5/10 mills on the e, and Town- ship rate at t 9/10 mills on the it, and also rates sufficient for sehooh purposes. The Reeve and Treasurer were empowered to borrow the aunt of „800 tor three month, for Township purposes, The following checks. were issued :—ti'G rn. Wilson, spikes,. 25c; Jchn 11'[owhray, brushing eon - 12, $2.90; J. :Miller, repairing hill(. app. lot 17, con. f,, $18.70 ; Mulligan, 95 yds. gravel at 8e, $7.6St Jno. Clark, culvert on E Boundary, $T Rev. Father McKeon, 75 yds. gravel at 70, damage $1.00, $525; Chas.. Brown, 2 days' shovelling, $1.50;, Jacob Miller, straightening road ane . gravelling, con 10, $56.75; Johns Taylor, 2 days' inspecting work, $2.00; Pant Smellzer, 55 yds. gravel at 8e, 2 clays' minding gap, hire of team, $5.98 ; John Breen, lumber for culvert, $1.01. Council adjourned ,to meet on Monday, Sept. 19th, at 1f o'clock. WMt. 5. McORosTIE, Tp. Clerk. make the trouble as light for me -as it know no more than yourself how this thanked you for that and for all, Beryl! Haan met his death." cried Lola, breaking off a moment to A flood of relief burst over him at the kiss the girl at her side.. words, and again he made as though he "rut there was Do hope of escape," would clasp her in his arms, and again she prevented him. Then Beryl, who had waited with suspeuse for the avowal of her inno- cence, and who was quite ready y to ac- cept it and to be convinced by it, feel- ing something of the agony which Lola must at that moment be enduring, went to her, and, making her sit down again on the sofa, insisted on sitting by her. She put her arms round her and held her in a close embrace and kissed her. "Forgive me, Lola, for I, too, have wronged you in thought. I know what you must have suffered. Why did you ::;;t coque to me?" At first Lola tried to prevent the girl, .but the touch of sympathy was too sweet to be long repulsed, and she first suffered, then welcomed aud at last rev- eled in the consolation thus offered. "You make my heavy task lighter," she said to Beryl presently, and then, after another pause, she began her con- fession, beginning, woaulike, with au implied attack upon Sir Jaffrey himself. were chilled on my tongue, and I could • "No, Jaffray, the blood of that man not. Then I sate no hope but to go away does not lie on any hands," she said in and so prove to the man who was thus a low, clear voice. "It was loot for that between us that he could no louger reason that I would Dot iot you take me profit by his secret, and I planned it in your arms just now. Heaven knows, easily. Ho wrote to me that afternoon I am bad aud mad enough, but I am telling use to meet him at night at 9 o'clock near that cottage where he seems 6_n have met his death. Then Beryl's letter came, and you know that 11 was to ask me to go to her, aud it formed just the excuse I wanted. I left word that I was going to 1 eycester Court, and I drove over there, stopping just short of the house and telling Robbins that I was uncertain what time I should re- turn, and that one of the Court carriages lceaaband and wife in that story were would take me back, and as Poon as ho Pierre Turrian and myself. Yote have s one across back. the fields. know came asked the often whether there was any. lonely waypath ahe did not meet any one the thing in the past that I had not told you. There Iwae--that I was Pierre Whole i thd ne. go to that cottage that 'l'urrian's wife. . Now you can guess what I havo suffered, and you know the night?" asked l ksed aa«nr fhenghe paused,reason why I fled. " but "Pierre Turrian's wife!" exclaimed he should lot her tell the whole story in Sir Jaffray, repeating the words over bier o'esn z met him there. It was before ay. and over again as though he could not understand them. "Pierre Turrian's 9 o'clock, and we walked back along Wife! His wife!" Then after a long the path I had come, stopping every pause be asked, "fid you know this • now and then. I lied to hint In ono when"— Ile did not finish, but mho un- thing, knowing him—I told him that sho resumed. "Failing in his attempt to kill Beryl, the madman came to me with a plan to kill you, Jaffray, and— but you remember the scene that morn- ing whieh you interrupted. I knew then that every door of hope was shut against me, and when he had gone I went up to my room and tried to think out the best courae. Do you know what determined me? Can you guess?" She paused just an instant and looked at him as if hoping that he could read her thoughts, but before he had time to answer she continued: "No, you will not guess after what I have said and what has happened. I wanted to find some way out of the trouble which would havo left some of your love for me remaining. I thought to kill myself, but I knew that then the man who is dead would have told you all my guilt and have tried to trade on the knowledge till the thought of nae would have been hateful to you. I tried to tell you that afternoon, but the words not like that." The baronet made a gesture of pro- test, but she dictated hitu, and sitting up on the sofa, with her hand in ono of Beryl's, she went ou, speaking in low tones and with frequent pauses: "I will not try to anako my faults less than they are. Do you remember a story which that man told a few nights ago at the dinner table hero? Well, the d I by doing what was asked, derstood. ►.r he sou ld ensils+ shadow her ladyship t' yott heard the story es he told it." "I was dressed as I am now." She wore a plain black costume. "I thought I saw you in a cloak with a hood to it, such as I remembered to have seen you wear on our American trip on board the boat." "No; I was dressed as I am." "The dress, in my view, is a secondary matter," said Mr. Borderham dogmat- ically. "The important part of the :af- fair is not what she wore, but what sho did. Much of that is quite clear from her own admissions—most damaging ad- missious, too—aud painful and unpleas- ant though it is to me," and he turned deferentially to Sir Jaffray, "I am bound to *Jay that Lady Walcote must consider herself under arrest." "Certainly. I quite agree with you," said Mr. Gifford in so decided a tone ;a>>a! that the othete looked at him. "The story that we have listened to is obvi- !Tcrhearers listened Lrcntiaicfstl/. I ously a very difficult one to accept, and a ver~ little sifting will show its ab - and at 10 minutesest I left there in the mail train for Derby, where I had surdity. 1 would sugcat, Sir Jaffray, that it be given out hero that her lady planned to change carriages and got a fresh ticket on to London." ship is under surveillance, that her ad - Sir Jaffrey rose quickly from his ' missions amount to a virtual confesr;ion, chair and rang the bell loudly, and, go -and that her actuut errata will be made BABY BRIGEUNESS Soon fades when Diarrhoea seizes oo ther tittle form. Tar. Fowlers' Extract o Wild Strawberry, has saved many in - rants' as well as,:dulte' lives. Mrs. W.. Rafters, Richmond Street, Hamilton„ Ont., Says : '•f cured my baby of a bad Attack of cholera, by using Dr. Foalera 1?,xtract of Wild Strawberry. Nothing -else did any good, but the baby improv— ed from the first dose of the Wild Straw- oerry." ing to the doer, told the servaut to send as soon ::s the formrliries can be com- pleted. With your permission I will retire from the ease, and I have only to express my prefouud regret that I have been unable to help you." As he said this be rose, and all the others stared at him in the greatest sur- prise and indeed dismay. Sir Jaffray was full of indignation. "I must ask you for an explanation of this singular course, Mr. Gifford," he said angrily. "The explanation lies on the surface, Sir Jaffray," returned Mr. Gifford bluntly. "You instructed me to find Lady Walcote. She is found without Inspector Borcierbant and Mr. Gifford into the room at once. "There is something that yon must hear immediately, inspector," he said very excitedly. "There is a mystery Isere which must be probed at once. I can give you a clew to the whole af- fair." And :then ho began to tell hur- riedly that part of Lola's story which had excited him, while the inspector, calm and stolid and skeptical,' took co- pious cotes of what he heard. CIIAPTEre XXV. WAlTIN(# Tion Triii ARREST: my assistance. You then commissioned Sir huffray was so excited at the ties- • me to look iuto this other matter, and sibility of clearing Lola from the terri- again I havo been able to do nothing, bee charge of which she had been sus- pected and so relieved at having his own distressing doubts removed and indeed so overjoyed to see her again that he lost sight of all the first part of her con- fession in thinking of the end, and he told the facts to the inspector with all the enthusiasm• and confidence of pro- found belief. But the two mea to whom he spoke listened to it with thoughts very differ- ent from his. "I havo no doubt all that you say is quite correct," said the inspector at the elope ill the-tgne of a man who didn't Ory p t4.13 LT and could " I had Salt Rheum of the worst kind, as our family doctor called not get anything to, cure me. I read of Burdock Blood Bitters, and determined toe try it. I got one bottle and be- fore I used half of it I could tell it was doing me good, and after taking six bot- tles I was per- fectly cured, and to -day am a happy woman at being: curedof thatterribledisease." MRS. MAGDALENA. VOIGT, Rhineland, Ont., B. P, I1 is the best remedy its though everything is as clear as mud in a wineglass. There is no use, there- fore, in my cooling my heels hero at your cert any imago: when there's nothing to be done. I don't want to rob you. You most memo my being blunt, but everybody is bound to take Inspect- or Borderham's view of what her lady- ship has told us. Tho thing's as straight as this table edge." "I don't take that view, for .one!" ex- claimed the baronet vehemently. "Nor I, for another?" exclaimed Beryl as Armly, and Lola pressed her hand the world for Eczema., Salt f2teui:i, Tetter, Scald Head, Shingles, Boils, Pim- ples, Sores, Ulcers and all Blood and Skin Diseases. ME 95 IL TRW E SUMMER COMPLAINT. Prldteugsiats 'tan. ittrUllt oVItTItUt ,4 tHEY AMC OANdtMOUN.