Exeter Advocate, 1904-12-8, Page 3The Pri.cc of Liberty
UR, A MIDNIGHT CALL
CHAPTER XXIX.
Chris gave Henson one swift
searching glance before . her eyes
dropped demurely to the ground.
Lord Littimer appeared to be taking
no heed of anything but his own an-
noyance. But quick as Chris had
been, Henson was quicker. He was
smiling the slow, sad smile of the
man who turns the other cheek be-
cause it is his duty to do so.
'And when does Dr. Bell arrive?':.
he asked, ,
"iia won't arrive at al]," Littimer.
said, irritably. "Do you suppose I
am going to .allow that scoundrel wi-
der my roof again? The amazing
impudence of the fellow is beyond
everything. He will probably reach
Moreton Station by the ten o'clock
}✓rain, The drive will; takes hire an
hour,.if 1; choose to permit -the drive;
which' I ,don't, , I'll send a groom to
meet the .train with a: -letter;,, When
Bell has read that letter he`'will, riot
eonth here,"
"I don't think I slieuld do fiat,'_'
Henson said, respectfully:;:. •
"'Indeed! Yi)u are really a clever
fel ew. And what would you do?"
"1 should suffer Bollto come. As
a Christman I 'should deem it my
duty to do so. It pains me to -say
so, but I am afraid that I cannot
•contravert your suggestion that
• Bell is a scoundrel. It grieves me
to prove any man that. And.in the
present instance the proofs were over'
powering. But there is always a
chance -a chance that we have mis-
judged a man on false evidence." •
"False evidence! Why, the Rem-
brandt was actually, found in Bell's
portmanteau."
"Dear friend, I know it," Henson
said, with the same slow, forgiving
smile. "Ieeit there have been cases.
of black treachery, dark conspiracies
that one abhors. And Bell might
have made some stupendous discov-
ery regarding his character. I should
see him, my lord; oh, yes, I should
most undoubtedly see him."
"And so should I," Cbris put in,
swiftly.
Littimer smiled, with all'traces of
his ill -temper gone. Ile seamed to
be contemplating Henson with his
head on one side, as it to fathom
that gentleman's intentions. There
was just the suspicion of contempt
in his glance.
"In the presence of so much good
ness and beauty 1 feel quite lost," he
said. ' .Very well, Henson, I'll see
Bell. I may find the interview di-
verting."
Benson strolled away with a sigh
of gentle pleasure. Once out of
sight he flew to the library, where
he scribbled a couple of telegrams.
They were carefully worded and re-
fated to some apocryphal parcel re-
quired without delay and calculated
to convey nothing to the lay mind.
A servant was dispatched to the vil-
lage with them. Henson would
have been anything but pleased had he
known that the fascinating little
American had waylaid his messenger
anti read his telegrams . under the.
plea of verifying one of the address-
es. A moment or two later and
those• addresses were carefully noted
down in a pocket -book.
It was past five before Chris found
herself with a little time on her
hands again. Littimer had kept her
pretty busy all the afternoon, partly,
because there was to much to do,
but partly from the pleasure that he
derived from his secretary's society.
Ile .was„more. free with_ her than he
hard been with any of her sex for
,y'dears, It, Was satisfactory,' too, to
learn that 'Littimer regarded Henson
as a; smug and oily, hypocrite, and
that the latter was only going to. be
'left •Littu er .Castle to -spite` the.
owner's other relations. '. •
dhow you •run into the garden and
get a •blood,",, Littimer. said at
length. "I am telling you a lot too
much.' I am afraid you are a most
insinuating young person.
Chris rant out into the garden gaily
Despite the crushing burden on her
shoulders she felt an elation and a
flow of spirits she bad not been con-
scious of for years. The invigorating
air of the, place seemed to have got
into her veins, the cruel depression
of the ,House of the Silent Sorrow
was passing away. Again, she had
hope and youth on her side, and
everything was falling out beautiful-
ly. It was a pleasanter world than
Ohris had anticipated.
Sho went along more quietly after
a time. There was a tiny arbour on
a terrace overlooking the sea to
which Chris had taken a particular
fancy. ' She picked her way daintily
along the grass paths between the
rosos until she suddenly emerged up-
on the terrace, She hacl popped out
of the roses swiftly as a squirrel
peeps from a tree.
Somebody was :in the arbour, two
people talking •earnestly. -• O'nm_ man
stood up with hiss •back to. Chris, one
hand gripping the outside ragged
bark, of the arbour fraino '•with a
peculiarly nervous; restleee force.
Chris could•, see the hand tui and back
distinctly: A piece Of „bark was be-
` ing'' crumbled under .a strong 'thumb.
Such a thumb! Chris had seen noth-
ing like it before:
It was as if at soma time it had
been smashed flatwith a hammier,
a broad, strong, cruel -looking thumb,
flat and sinister -looking as the head
of a snake. In the centre, like a
pink pearl dropped in a filthy gutter,
was one tiny, perfectly -formed nail.
The owner of the thumb stepped
back the better to give way to a fit
of hoarse laughter. He turned
slightly, aside and his eyes met those
of Chris. They were small eyes set
in a course, brutal face, the face of
a criminal, Chri ; thought, if she
were a judge of such matters. It
came quite as a shock to see that
the stranger was in clerical garb.
"I—I beg your pardon,". Chris
stammered. "But I—”
Henson emerged from the arbour.
For once in a way be appeared con-
fused, there was a flush on his face
that told of annoyance ill suppress-
ed.
"Please :don't go away;" he said.
"Mr. - Merritt will think that he has
alarmed you. Miss Lee, this is my
very good friend and co -'worker in
the field, the Reverend James Mer-
ritt."
"Is Mr. Merritt a, friend of Lord
Littimer's?"- Chris asked, demurely.
"Littimer hates 'the cloth," Hen-
son replied. "Innleed, ho has no
sympathy whatever with my work.
1 met my good friend quite by acci-
dent in the village just now, and I
brought him here for a chat. Mr.
Merritt is taking a well-earned holi-
day."
Chris replied graciously that she
didn't doubt it. She did not deem
it necessary to }xdd that she knew
that one of Mr. Henson's mystic tel-
egrams had been addressed to one
James Merritt at an address in
Moreton Wells, a town some fifteen
miles away. That the scoundrel was
up to no good she know perfectly,
well.
"Your work must be very interest-
ing," she said. "Have you been in
the Church' long, Mr. Merritt?" •
Merritt said hoarsely that he had
not been in the Church very long.
Vie dreadful grin and fog voice sug-
gested that he was a brand plucked
from the burning, and that he had
only recently come over to the side
of the angels. The whole time he
spoke he never met Chris's glance
once. .The chaplain of a • convict
prison would have. tur»ed from him
in disgust. .Henson was obviously*
ill at ease: re .his shave, diploma
ticsway he contrived to manoeuvre.
.Merritt Off the ground at length.
';An excellent e„fellow;f.' he. said,
with exaggerated en. ehusiesm. " 1t
was a"great'lay for us when We wen
over James Merritt, He can reach- a
class which hitherto we have not
touched."
"He looks as if he had been in
gaol," Chris -said.
"Oh, he has." Henson admitted,
candidly. "Many a time."'
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Chris doomed it just possible that
the unpleasant experience rraight bo
endured again, but she only smiled
and expressed herself to be deeply in-
terested. The uneasiness in Hen -
son's manner gradually disappeared..
Evidently the girl suspected nothing.
She would have liked to have ask%)
a question or twi about Mr; i'111or•-
ritt's thumb, but she deemed it pru-
dent not to do so.
Dinner cane at length, dinner serv-
ed. in the great hall in honor of the
recently, arrived guest, and set up in
all the panoply and splendor 'that
Littimer affected at tunes. The bust
plate was laid out on the long table.
There were banks and coppices of
flowers at either corner, a huge palm
nodded over silver and glass and
priceless china. The softly shaded
electric lights made pools of amber
flame on fruit and flowers and gleam-
ing crystal. Half-aldozen Uig foot-
men went . about their work with
noiseless tread,
'Henson shook his head playfully
at 'all this show and splendor. His
good humor was of the, elephantine
order, and: belied the drawn anxiety
of his. eyes. Luxurious and peaceful
as the scene was, there seemed to
Chris to be a touch of electricity in
the air, the suggestion of something
about to happen. Littimer, , glanced.
at her admiringly. She was dress-
ed in white satin, and she had in` her
hair a single diamond star of price.
"Of course, Henson pretends to
condemn all' this kind of thing," Lit-
tinier said, "Ile would have.' y2n.
believe that when '• he comes into his
own the plate and wine will be ` sold-
for
old
1or'the lioneilt of the Poor, and the
seats of the mighty., filled •with.:clecay-
ed governesses and antiquated' shop-
walkers."
I hope. that tlitie may long b>; de-
ferred," Henson murmured.
"And so do I," Littimer said,
drily, "which is one of the disad-
vantages- of being conservative... By
the way, who was that truculent -
looking scoundrel I saw with you
this afternoon?"
Henson .hastened to explain. Lit -
timer was .emphatically of opinion
that such visitors were better kept
at a distance for the present. When
all the rare plate and treasures of
Littimer Castle had been disposed of
for philanthropic purposes it would
not matter.
"There was a time when the enter-
prising burglar got his knowledge
of the domestic and physical geog-
raphy of a . house from the servants.
Now he reforms, with -the great ad-
vantage that he can lay his plan of
campaign from personal observation.
It is a muck more admirable: method,
and. tends tit avert suspicion 'frons.
the actual criminal."
"You would not speak thus if you
knew Merritt," said Heuson.
"All the same, I don't want the
privilege," -Littimer smiled. "A
man with a -face like that couldn't
reform; nature would -resent such an
enormity. And yet you 'can . never
tell. Physically speaking, my' quota-
dam friend Hatherly Bell has a per-
fect face:'•'
' "I confess ' I 'am anxious to see
him," Chris said. "1=I heard him
lecture in America. ' He had the
most interesting theory about dogs.
Mr. Henson hates dogs."
"Yes," Henson said, shortly, "I do
and they hate me, but that does not
prevent my being interested in the
coming of Dr. Bell. And nobody
hopes more sincerely than myself that
he willsucceed fn.: clearly vindicating
his character.
Littimer smiled sarcastically as he
trifled with his claret glass. In his
cynical way he was looking forward
to an. interview with a certain sense
of amusement. And there was a
time when be had enjoyed Bell's so-
ciety immensely.
"Well, you will not have long to
wait now," he said. "It is long
past ten, and Bell• is due 'at . any
moment after eleven. Coffee in the
balcony, please."
It was a gloriously warm night,
with just a faint suspicion of a
breeze on the air. Down below the
sea beat with a gentle sway against
the cliffs; on the grassy slopes. a
:belated x lamb Was bleating for- its
clam. Ohris strolled quietly down
the garden ; with .her -Mind at peace
for a timeShe had almost: forgot-
ten.'hei. mission for the moi'aient. . A
figri e slipped gently past her on the
gras`s; but she .utterly failed . to no-
tice it.
"An exceedingly nice girl, that,"
Littimer was saying, "and distinctly
amusing. Excuse me if I leave yon
here—a tendency to ague and Eng-
lish night air don't blend together."
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CHAPTER XXX.
It was the very moment that Hin-
son had been waiting for. 1111 his
listlessness had vanished. He sprang
to his feet and made his way hur-
riedly across the- lawn. Dark as it
was, he slipped along with the ease
of one who is familiar with every
inch of' -the ground. A man half his
weight and *half his age could have
been no more •active.
I3e advanced to What seemed to be
the very edge of the cliff and dis-
appeared. There were rocks and
grassy knolls which: served as land -
Meeks to 'him. A slip of the foot
might have resulted in. a serious ac-
cident; Above the gloone a head
appeared,
"That you, Merritt?" Henson ask-
ed, hoarsely:.
"Oh, it's me right enough," came
the muttered reply. "Good job as
I'm used to a seafaring' life or I
should never have got up those cliffs.
Where's the girl?" e •
"Oh, thegi.ri's right enough, She's
standing.where she can near the
cry of the suffering in clistross, You
esti leave that part of the drama to
pre, She's a smart girl with plenty
of pluck, but all the same 1 atm go-
ing to make tiro of her. Have you
got the: things?"
"Got everything, pardner. Got a
proper wipe over the skull, too."
"How on, earth did you manage to,
de that?"
':''"Meddling with Bell, of course.
1Vrhy didn't you let him conic etnd
produce hie T)icture, in pence? fire.
slioulcl have brrn all ready to flab-
bergaster him when he olid comae,"
''My good bretr°itt, :C have pot:, the
filightest doubt about it, My plans
•
are too carefully, laid far them to g
astray, But, at the same time,
drn ]y belietre in having more tha
ono plan of attack and more the
two ways: of escape. If we cool
have despoiled Bell of his pieturo
would have bean utterly useless i
hirri to have come here. He iuoul
have gond 1*olc preferring• to scoop
defeat to arriving with t4 cock -an
bull story to the effect that he h
been robbed of his treasure on tl
way. And so ho got the best
you, eh?".
"Ratlrert I fancied that I URI
pretty . strong, but -well, it doesn
matter. Here I am with the ' tool
and I ain't going te, fail this tim
Before Bell comes the little trap wi
be ready, and you will be able t
Provo an alibi,"
Houson chuckled: hoarsely. He love
dramatic effect, and here was ono
hand. He almost fancied that h
could see the white outline of Chris
figure from where he stood.
"Get along," he said. "There i
no time to lose,"
Merritt nodded and began, to mak
his way, upward. Some way abov
him Chris was looking down He
quick ear . had detected some su
picious sound. She watched eagerl
Just below her the big electric Ugh
on the castle tower cast a band o
flame athwart the cliff. Chris ]ooke
down steadily at this. Presently sh
saw a hand uplifted into the belt o
satire, a hated grasping for a lec]•g
of rock, and -a quickly 'stifled cry ros
to her.lips. The thureb„_,on the hon
;was' smashed flat, there was, a ti
pink nail in the centre. •
Chris's heart gave one .quick leap
then her sense carne -back to her
'She needed .hobodv toetell her eeth
the owner of tho ;hand, was Jame
1rerritt. Nor did" she 'require 'a
fine discrimination " to perceive tui'
he was up to no good. That it ha
something to do with the plo
against Berl she felt 'certain-. Bu
tho man was coming now, he coul
only reach the top of the cliffs jus
under the wall where she was start
ing. Chris peered eagerly do wn
to the path of light until the inti
der looked up. Then she jerke
hack, forgetting that she was in th
darkness and • absolutely invisible
The action was disastrous, however
for it shook Chris's diamond sta
her head, and it fell gently al
most at the feet of the climber. A
instant later and his eyes.had fall
upon it.
"What luck," •he cried hearse
ly. "I suppose that girl yonder mus
have dropped it over: Well, it is a
good as a couple of hundred pound
to me, anyway. Little niissie, you'
better take a tearful farewell of you
lumps of sugar, as you'll : never see
them again."
To Chris's quivor'ieg indignation he
slipped the star ,' into his breast -
pocket. Just for the moment the
girl was. on the point of crying out.
She was glad' she had refrained a
second after, for a really brilliant
thought occurred to her. She had
never evolved anything more clever
in her life; .; but she did not quite
realize that.as yet.
Nearer and nearer the man with the
maimed thumb came. Chris • stepped
back into 'the shadow. She waited
till the intruder had slipped past her
in the direction of the castle and
prepaeed to follow at a discreet dis-
tance. Whatever he was after, she
felt sure he was being ordered and
abetted by Reginald Henson. Two
minutes, five minutes, elapsed before
she moved.
What was that? Surely a voice
somewhere near her moaning' for
help. Chris stood perfectly still
listening for the next cry, Her sense
of humanity had been touched, she
had forgotten Merritt entirely. Again
the stifled cry for help came.
"Who are you?" Chris shouted.
"And where are you?"
"Henson," came the totally unex-
pected reply. "I'm down below on
a ledge of rock. No, I'm not parti-
cularly badly hurt, but I dare not
move."
Chris paused for a moment, utterly
bewildered. Henson must have been
on the look -out for his accomplice,
she thought and had missed his foot
nig and fallen. .: Pity, he had not
fallen a little'farther, she muruiurld,
bitterly, and broken his peck,. But
this teas onlyifor a moment, and her,.
sense of justice and humanity speed=•
.ily' returned.. "
• "I cermet see anything of you,':';
she said. •
"All the same I can see your out
lino," Henson said, dismally. "I
don't feel quite so frightened now.
I can hang on a bit longer., especial-
ly now, I know assistance is at hand.
At first I began to be afraid that I
was a prisoner for the night. No;
don't go. If 1 bad a rope I should
have the proper confidence to swarm
up again. And there is a coil of
rope in the arbour close by you;
Hang it straight down over that
middle boulder and fasten your end
round enc of those iron pilasters."
The:rope was there as Henson stat-
ed; indeed, he had placed it there
himself. • With the utmost coolness
end courage Chris 'clad as she was de-
sired, But it took some little tine
to coax the rope to go over in the
proper direction' There was a lit-
tle mutter of triumph from below,
and presently Henson, with.every a,p
pearanco • of utter exhaustion, climb-
ed over the lodge to the terrace. At
the same moment an owl hooted
twice' from: the long belt of trees at
the bottom of the garden.'
"I hope you are none the woese for
your advonture?" Chris asked, pol-
itely,
Henson said sententiously that lie
fancied not. His familiarity with
the cliff's had led him, too far. If he
had, fallen on a ledge of rock good-
ness only knows what might have
happened. -Would Chris be so good
as to ]encu hien the benefit of her arm
back to the castle? Chris was grac-
iously willing, but she was full of
0,uriosity at the same time. Rad
Henson really been in danger; or was
the whole thing some part o.f an.ela-
borate an d rtuinintg� plot?T-Tonson
knew perfectly well, that she h:ad..
taken a ;great Taney to the upper ter-
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what to thiel Phev passed along
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At the same. time 'a carriage had
driven up to• the hall door and a
visitor was getting out. With. a
strange sense of eagerness and pleas-
ure Chris . eocognised the handsome
features find misshapen shape of
Batherly Delf:
"The expected guest has` arrived,"
Henson said.
There was such a queer mixture of
snarling anger and exulting triumph
in his voice that Chris looked up.
Just for • an instant Henson had
dropped the mask. A ray of light
from the open door streamed fully
across his face. • The malignant
pleasure of it startled Chris. Like a
flash she began to see how she had
been used by those miscreants.
"Ile is very handsome," she con-
trived to say, steadily.
" '1-T ndsome is that handsome.
does,' " Henson quoted, "Let us
hope that Dr. Bell will succeed in
his mission. He has my best wish-
es."
Chris turned away and walked
slowly as possible up the stairs. An-
other minute with that slimy hypo -
elite and she felt she must betray
herself. Once out of sight she flew
along the corridor and snapped up
the electric light. She fell back
with a stifled cry of dismay, 'but she
was more sorrowful than surprised.
"I expected it," she said. "I knew
that this was the thing ccthej' were
after." '
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ood—Scott's Emulsion.
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SCOTT &IIOWNli, Toronto. (law
simply expose the lime to the action
of the atmosphere. Sometimes it is
thrown in piles on the ground where
it receives rain and dews, and ab-
sorbs Sonic water from the -soil, but
most of the change that takes place
in it is the result of the action of
the atmosphere; the lime absorbing
carbon .dioxide as well as water, If
this action is allowed to progress
long enough, or if the lime is pro-
tected from rains, the mass will be
come, after a time
THOROUGHLY AIR-SLAI.CFD.
If ivo were to weigh the resulting
product 'after these actions have
taken place, we would find that the
2000 pounds with which wo started
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had` been, increased to about 2640
or, 26.0' pounds lit the case of the
hydrated lime, and to 8600 :pounds ;
in the case of the thoroughly air-
slaked lime, . however•, as lime is
usually prepared ' for agricultural
uses, we have a mixture of hydrated
and air -slaked lime rather than
either of them separate.
As to the effect of using these var-
ious forms, so far as neutralizing
Acidity in the soil is concerned, there
is little difference. The 2640 pounds
of hydrated or the 8600 of air -slaked
lime produce practically the same
effect as the 2000 pounds of ground,
freshly -burned lime. So far as its
-stimulation of the decomposition of
organic matter in the soil or of the
flocculation of the clay and the
bringing about of a granular condi.
tion of the soil, 2640 pounds of pure
hydrated lime produce practically;
the same effect as the 2000 pounds
of ground lime. But the 8600
pounds of thoroughly air -slaked lime
would probably produce only about
70 p.c. of the effect of the ground
lime,
If, then, the object of applying
lime to the land is simply to neutra-
lize the acidity of the soil, it will
make little difference whether the
lime is spread upon the frozen
ground and allowed to lie there un-
til spring, when it will be worked
into the oil, or whether it 'tie applied
at the time the soil is worked, in
either of the three forms. If the'
soil is a heavy one and needs to
have its physical condition improv-
ed, or if the . object is to stimulate
decomposition of organic matter in
the soil and to assist in liberating
plant food the 3600 pounds of air -
slaked lime is not nearly so effective
as the 2000 pounds of freshly -
ground lime or the 2640 pounds of
hydrated lime. The so-called agricul-
tural lime that is usually offered in
the market is not only air -slaked to
a considerable degree, but frequently;
has mixed with it a good deal of the
refuse material, as ashes and the
more impure portions of the lime.;
It is, therefore, probable that ' a
dressing of 1000 pounds of: freshly
burned, ground lime of good qual-
ity would be at least equal to a
dressing of 2000 pounds of agricul-
tural lima,
SHEEP IN WINTER,
A cheap shelter will do very nicely,
for sheep if it has a tight roof,
which will not leak every time it
rains or the snow melts on it. Have
the shed well boarded and battened
on the north, west and east. It
maybe left open onrthesouth. ]\Tail"
a board across the front to keep the
cows and calves • out, i rites a car.-
respii. '
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The clean snow' or -ground is ate...
good. placendbrittd feed' sheep • corn fad -
der, bean pods or. hay.' I ani not so
Sure that sh.eep • lack sense,, They
are pretty good timekeepers for one
thing. They know when it is time
to be fed, and what they like to cat,;
and there is no peace until they get
it. And if one finds a good thing
it will call all the flock. I do not
agree about the snow for drink in-
stead of water. My sheep go to a
stream of spring -water to drink, In
winter it gets slippery at the edge
and'some are afraid to drink there,
so I dip the water into a pail or.
tub. I have known them to travel
to the stream half a dozen tunes or,
stand around and wait until I dip-
ped in the water, And they had
plenty of snow, too.
I have three fine lambs, at the
present, Februrary 10; one tipped
the scale at 12 pounds. When the
lambs come so early and the weath-
-er is cold, I feed then a little warm
milk, sometimes before they are on
their feet, using a bottle with a
rubber nipple, .If they seem chilled,
I roll then up in a blanket, and put
in a basket by the kitchen stove un-
til they are warm and lively.
No legacy is so rich as honesty:
Patience gives a big push to any
purpose.
A. little sin may, be the seed of a
large sorrow,
Every yuan is a volume, if you
know how to read him,
Don't think 'because a man isn't in
gaol that he is necessarily hottest.
Character is the one thing without
limit in its development.
The man who revolves around hini-
er:1f will never get anywhere.
Some things are .pretty bail, but •
the worst has never happea,e•,l,
Sone people never go ahead, be-
causo they are never sure they V ar.
right.
A. 'tiroubled mind is oftnn relieved
by: maintaining a cheerful demeanor.
Men who are oarryin i3 • to wiorrow's
burdens are net counting• to,-etset
blessings,
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