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Its Wane, 'she'd have taken the lot, and
the odds were dead against her wearing
any such conspicuous piece of jewelry
as au ornament when she was flying
from home and didn't want to be traced.
'That set up the notion that these things
had been dropped just for effect, and
that whoever had dropped them had
.done it with the object of planting this
business on Lady Walcote.
"c.there was another little thing:
'That bracelet was broken in two, sug-
gesting that if the thing were genuine
there had been a regular rough and
tumble struggle between the murdered
:man and the woman who had done the
.deed, but there was no evidence what-
ever on the spot of any struggle, bar-
ring the bit of torn lace, while the two
•parts of the bracelet were found at suoh
a distance from each other that only a
most unusual sort of a struggle could
have caused that. This helped me to
think, therefore, that whoever had put
that bracelet there had first broken it
in two.
"But it was one thing to see that the
trail was too broad and another to find
the right track. I made up my mind
that if Lady Walcote had gone out in-
tending to kill that Frenchman she
-wouldn't have been so determined to
:prove that she had been there as to use
a dagger which every one knew by
sight and to leave on the ground a
bracelet which all the countryside could
identify, a piece of lace with enough
.character in it to hang half a shopfulof
women and, as if that wasn't enough, a
:handkerchief with her name carefully
written in flaunting letters in the cor-
ner. "
"A handkerchief?" interrupted the
inspector.
"Yes, a handkerchief. You hadn't
.heard of. that, but we knew of it. Sir
Jaffray found it. Well, I saw that the
whole thing had been planned and over-
done. The pu cfs were too many, young
-woman, and too plain. Well, then, the
question was, Who had done it? Obvi-
ously it was a woman -50 things proved
that—and equally obvious it was some
forgotten and actually in the poeltot of
the dress, and the letter was from the
murdered man, telling her to meet him
at the identical spot where the murder
was committed two hours after the
us the"wettest service that any ozie
could 1:me-Pondered, and we all waut tee
thank you. 1" ,idn't like and didn't Un-
derstand your methods, mind yon," he
said, holding out his haled, "but you've
made mo your friend for life."
".Aud me," said Lola, ?Shaking bands
with him as well, "and without any
reservation as to your methods, I don't
know how you did it and don't care.
The result, is enough for me."
"As ore methods," answered Mr,
Gifford, with a smile, "we can't al -
trays please e rybody, and this case
)ioke.dvery puzz.^iug, I saw nothing for
it but to go my atiln road. 1 couldn't
even let you know what I was doing,
Sir Jaffray. That is a sharp young
woman, and if we'd overdone the part
we should have nailed everythiug and
scared ber, ,But 1 didn't come iu to talk
about myself. I came to say that she's
given up the whole thing. She's better
time named in the letter to Lady Wal- a bit, though the doctor who's been
cote,"
lookiug her over to fetch her out of that
This last thrust roused the woman by fainting ft says her heart ain't worth a
the wall, who dzew herself together pinch of snuff, and she's told the whole
and made se though she wens going to story. It isn't a pretty one. That fellow
speak. She clinched her Bands and Was a rare sebunc1rel. I-le'd been carry -
glared with impotent auger at the man leg on evith this girl under the pretense,
who lied thus unveiled the story of her that he meant to marry her and had
trine, but instead of speaking she tat- had nil her savings out of her and had
tend a piercing scream and fell in a ruined her in that sense as well as in
huddled mass on the floor. a far worse way, and :she overheard him
They picked ber up and carried her, talking to you, Lady Walcote" — he
still unconscious, from the room, Mr. , turned to Lola and hesitated just a mo -
Gifford and Inspector Borderhare follow- ment as to what to call h.er—" about
ing her, the latter looking anything but killing Sir Jaffrey and then claiming
pleased at the turn matters had taken. . you as his wife. She only half under-
stood what was Sala, but 15 drove her
CHAPTER XXVII.
Instead of speaking she uttered a piercing
serca:•rt aiul felt in a huddled mass.
one who not only knew the inwand outs
•of the manor house, but had'the run of
Ii.er ladyship's jewel drawer. Wel],
there w eren't many in the place who
answered to that description, and I soon
saw that it must bo this Frenchwoman.
You helped me to that, Sir Jaffray."
"1? How?" exclaimed the baronet,
who had listened like the rest with
rapt attention.
"You told me that you had seen your
wife that night near the cottage, but
had not aeon her face. This told me
that I was to look for a woman some-
thing like her ladyship in height and
Sigure. Look!" he cried, pointing to
the woman, who, with her back •pressed
against the wall, scowled at them all as
they turned their heads in her direction.
"Still. I wanted the proof," he con-
tinued, "and to that Lady Walcoto
helped ine by coming back. I reasoned
that the woman who had done this
would be getting eager to get away, and
that the best thing 1 could do would be
to give ber a plausible excuse. That 1
did this morning. After the conversa-
tion here I went to the servants' rooms
and repeated what I had said here—that
'the whole thing was found out, that
Lady Walcote had virtually confessed,
and that she was to be arrested tonight,
and that 1 had thrown up the case, see-
ing where the truth was. It worked.
"This woman saw et once that it
gave her a plausible excuse to go. She
vas not going to remain in the service
of a lady charged with murder, and ao-
cordingly she declared she should leave
eft once. I was sure of my ground then,
and, .managing to get her out of
the way
an Hour, I steppedp u
all he•r th't 1;s over I found the dress T
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AFTER �H>; STOWS. mad, and she set her wicked little wits
"shack God for his mercy in this!" to concoct the devilish scheme of re-
venge which we know now."
intense eel Sir Jaffray in a deep voice off "How did she arrange a meeting
intense emotion as the door closed be- 'with the Frenchman?"
hind Inspector Borderham and his un. "He arranged it with her, unfortu-
conscious prisoner. "Thank God for hr's nattily for him. He wrote her that let-
mercy!" ter which 1 found, I expect that as a
Beryl first threw her arms round matter of fact he didn't know what to
Lola in the excitement of the removal. make of her and what she'd do. Ho
of the to, and then, sitting still, gave . Lvantecl a few days in which to mature
full vent to her tears of pleasure. an;, plans he could make after he'd had
Lola was the least moved of the three. to leave the house, and he wrote that
'The baronet went to her and took letter to make the appointment before
both her hands iu his duel tried to draw he had seen Lady Walcote, of course.
her to him to embrace her. His object was no doubt to keep the
But she held aloof. „ ' girl from blabbing anything, seeing
"I did right to tomo back, Jaffray, that he had been kicked out of the place
said calmly, "right to break my under such circumstances. When they
vow, for I had vowed never willingly met, the girl says he tried to persuade
to leek upon your face again, but T her to let him into the manor that night
could not bear that the world should so that he could have his revenge on
think of you as married to a murderess. you, Sir Jaffrey, and that when she re -
So 1 broke the vow." fused the whole thing came out, and in
"I should have found ycu, Lola. 1 the row which followed she says she
would have searched the world through struck him the blow which billed him
and ended my life before I had given in self defense. I don't believe that part
up the search," be said vehemently. ' of the story myself. I believe she went
"Well, we skull see," she replied out xesolved to murder him, and that
evasively. "That wretched woman! she lured him into a false sense of se -
What a villain has that man been ' curity with some lying show of affec-
through all!" tion and then chose a molneut . to run
"I don't understand it all now, the knife into his ribs. There's nothing
said Beryl, "but Ido not want yet to to prove anything either way, but she
understand more than that you are killed him; that's certain."
cleared. Curiosity will come when T "When will she be tried?" asked the
am not too agitated to think." . baronet.
"I thiuh. T can give another clew,"„I doubt if she'll ever reach the clock
said Lola slowly. She had drawn away alive,” was the reply. "The shock in
from Sir Jaffray and was sitting again this room nearly made her heart leap
by Beryl, hand in hand. "I remember,
out of her body, and as she lies up
when Pierre was talking to me in the stairs it's pumping away its strength at
library the morning you came and a rate that is dreadful to see. I think
found him there, he rustled to the door she's dying, and 1 believe the doctor
once suddenly, protesting he had heard
thinks so too."
some one eavesdropping. I have no "Then if I wished to leave the 'conn -
doubt this woman had been listening try for—say for a time—there would
and had heard him say that he would be no. reason why I should not?" Lola
claim me as his wife. He had probably asked.
deceived her, ashehaclevery one through- "So far as that matter is concerned,
out his life, and she has tried to work a none whatever, absolutely none."
•--it must be," he whispered, "for the .
hope of the future. Where should zny 1.,
child's mother rest save ou zny heart?
Come, sweetheart ---wife, come!"
And this time he took her by gentle
force and drew her to him till her heart
beat against his, hex face lay kissing his
and her eyes shrank and smiled and
glowed by turns before the hot glances
that shone from his,.
They staid thus along time in alienee,
THE ENA.
Ohildretn'Cr�y for
,A0
Absorbing, Germs by 1tiztk.
doctor in South Atriea claims to
have discovered a new method of
curing disease which be terms "lac.
tophy." He says that, as milk ab-
sorbs poisonous ;ernes from a bucket,
it might also be used to absorb pais. j
onous germs and gases from the 1
body. Having put his idea to the
Lost, he now claims to have cured
people cfsmall–pox , fevers, diptheria,
spinal disease and Litany other mala-
dies by simply wrapping the patients
in milk sheets. Ile lays his patients
on a mattress covered with blankets,.
takes a sheet just large enough to
envelope the body, warmo it, satura-
tes it with a pint and a half of warn.
milk, opens it without wringing it,
and wraps his patient in it for an
hour, subsequently sponging him.
over with warm water or putting
him into a warm bath. The doctor
says that in ono bad case of small–
pox, where the eruption was well
out, the milk sheet drew the poison
so entirely from the skin that the
next day the eruption disappeared
and the mai was convalescent.
double revenge on him by taking his
life and on mo by making it seem that
I had done it. But for Mr. Gifford
she might probably have succeeded.
The man's life was one long course of
prime, infecting all who came in con-
tact with him."
"Mr. Gifford has done splendidly,".
said Beryl enthusiastically.
"He has saved us all," said Lola,
and she shuddered at the thought of
how narrowly she had missed the shame
and trouble of a public trial. "I can
hardly realize now that but for him I
should have stood tomorrow in the
dock."
"Don't, Lola!" exclaimed Sir Jaffray.
"Don't let us think of it"
"I bays been through worse trouble
than that," she said quietly. "I felt ab- for always. Tharo is no bar
solutely confident that the truth would you now, and in les lace is a
p
be known, and the knowledge that the must not part foto want of
going
X11 her a
"That is good," exclaimed Lola,
"very good!"
Tho baronet asked a few questions on
points of detail, and then Mr. Gifford
left the room.
As soon.as ha hod gone Lola made
ready again as if to go, but before she
said anything Beryl got up and stood
between? the other two, and, touching
both, she said:
"This must not be. I know what
Lola t1 inks to do—to go away. You
mast nbt let her go, Jaffray. There is It
reason vithich she will toll you"—iier
cheeks hemp to flush am she said this,
while Lola ktlanied like fire—"she. has
not yet fluislf ct telling all her sed'rets,
and this is on which, instead o Vpart-
ing you, must )hold you two tlgether
between
ie. You
plainly
p to the
1 of this
r
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To remember a Lace as a person is
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faces or persons, and associate the
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No two features or figures are alike,
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one from another that you will re-
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markable
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Reed once said that he never looked
a man in the face but some striking
peculiarity, a line, a wrinkle, an ex-
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lips, the shape of the nose, something
set that man's face down in his mind,
ineradically and distinguished from
the rest of mankind—so that when a
man approached him he would think
"Hete comes that man Robinson
whose right pupil is bigger than his
left," or "this is Thompson whose nose
is crooked, --Self Culture.
result would be to lift that load o4 spoken word. I a
shame front yon strengthened me to mother, Jaffrey, to
nide ,>
face anything. I would to bcaveL strange story.
I could as easily lift the rest!" She Then she kissed Lott and
stopped and sighed, and then, after a ly out of the room, cavi
pause, added, "Bat even that may come standing like detect d 1
with time." abashed and yet all long'
She kissed Beryl, rose from the sofa, each other's arms.
and, going to bir Jaffray, held out her They stood thus sile•
hand. for full two minutes.
Ho looked at her in astonishment. Then Sir Jaffray sp
"What do you mean?" ",Beryl is right, L.
"I will not go away twice without l between us now."
saying goodby. 1 am going now. Good- I "Beryl is `vron
by. I have done what I came back to do." {the bar of my dee
While they stood for a moment look- away from hero.'
ing at one another in silence and bat- "What is the
fling with the feelings which affected guesseng the a
both in common some one knocked at
the door, and when it was opened Mr.
Gifford came in.
"May I come in, Sir Jaffray?" he
asked rather needl�'ssly.
"Well, what is it, Mr, Gifford?" said
the baronet a little sharply, in conse-
quenee of the interruption coming at
ent quick -
g the two
overs, half
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"Shave yourself, sir, don't you ?"
said a barber, who was trimming the
hair of a customer. "Yes," replied
the customer. "How did you know ?"
"Well," rejoined the barber, "I
know I have never shaved you,
and I do sometimes trim your hair,
Besides that, I think a barber would
do a little better job than you seem
t0 do."
"Very likely,"
"We'd have pretty hard work
making a living if every man was
like you," pursued the barber atter,
clipping and snipping a few moments
in silence.
"Perhaps."
"You're in business, ain't you ?"
"Well, s'pose no barbers ever
bought anything.of you, how would
you like that?"
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tomer. "My business is selling pipe
organs." •
And the barber finished the job in
, Jaffray. There is silence.
it. 1 shall bo bktter
o?" he asked, tbaAgh
wer to come,
She made o reply in words, but,
looking up, shot a swift look of half
pride, half fear, at him, and, looking
down, crimsoned more deeply than be-
fore.
He read the look, and his heart leaped
With exultation.
"Come," he said, opening his arms
'Wanted, :.zid you know the use 1 made such a moment, but the detectives and tryingg to draw her in. Theles-
of it.d'nt 1 found something more. She glance of reproachful surprise at suoh a "it cannot be," she said, shaking her elinila
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