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The Brussels Post, 1912-11-21, Page 2to P oi. t e e _ erg► rn f zlntein. Pero - The Genuine. $2.50 Up I i At All the Beat Stores illustrated 'older sent UPert r et. L. E. Watermanl CY. aW ImU t. atrcxl, 1e7 Notre Mune ONLY A MOOT OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. 1 CHAPTER XXIV.—(Cont'd) Poor Frithiof was far too much stunned to be able to feel any gra- titude for this. Mr. Horner, how- ever, left him no time to reply. T think you have taken leave of your senses, Boniface," be said ve- hemently, "Save yourself the an- noyance of prosecuting, if you like; but it is grossly unfair to the rest of your employees to keep a thief in your house. If there is one thing noticeable in all successful concerns it is that uncompromising severity is shown to even trifling errors, even to carelessness." "My business has hitherto been successful," said Mr. Boniface, qui- etly, "and I have never gone on that principle, and never will. Why are we to have a law of mercy and rigidly to exclude it from every -day life? But that is the way of the world. It manages, while calling itself Christian, to shirk most of Christ's commands." "I tell you," said Mr. Horner, who was now in a towering passion, "that it is utterly against the very rules of religion. The fellow is not repentant; he persists in sticking to a lie, and yet you weakly forgive him." "If," said Mr. Bonifare, quietly, "you knew a little more of Frithiof Felek you would know that it is quite impossible that he could con- sciously have taken the money. When he took it he was not him- self. If he had wanted to hide it— to steal it—why did he actually re- turn to the shop with it in his pos- session? He might easily have dis- posed of it while he was out." "If that is your ground, then I object to having a man on my pre- mises who is afflicted with klepto- mania. But it is not so. 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"Which partnership will need renewing in another six months," said Mr. Horner, growing red with auger. "And I give you fair warn- ing that if this dishonest fallow is kept on I shall then withdraw my capital and retire from the busi- ness." With this Parthian shot he went out, banging the door behind him, Frithiof had borne in silence all the taunts and insults showered on him. "Sir," he said, trying in vain to govern his voice, "you have been very good to.me; but it will be best that I should go." "I would not have you leave for the world," said Mr. Boniface. "Remember that your sisters are dependent on you. You must think first of them." "No," said Frithiof, firmly; "I must first think of what I owe to you. It would be intolerable to me to feel that I had really brought any loss on you through Mr. Hor- ner's anger. I must go." "Nonsense," said Mr. Boniface; "I can not hear of such a thing.. Why, how do you think you would get another situation with this mys- tery still hanging over you ? I, who know you so well, am convinced of your perfect freedom from blame; but strangers could not possibly be convinced of it." Frithiof was silent; he thought of Sigrid and Swanhild suffering through his trouble, he remember- ed his terrible search for work when he had first come to London, and he realized that it was chiefly his own pride that prompted him never to return to the drop, "If you are indeed willing that I should stay," he said at length, "then I will stay, But your theory —the theory that makes you wil- ling still to trust me—is mistaken. I know that there is hot a minute in this clay when my head has not! been perfectly clear." "My dear fellow, you must allow me to keep what theory I please. There is no other explanation than this, aatd you would be wisest if you accepted it yourself." "That is impossible," said Fri- thiof, sadly. "It is equally impossible that I can doubt the evidence of my own senses. The note was there, and yon can't possibly explain its pres- ence. How is it possible that Dar- meli could have crossed over to your till, taken out the note and pinned it in your pocket? Besides, what motive could he have for do- ing such a thing?" "I don't know," said Frithiof; "yet I cthall swear to my dying day that I never did it myself." "Well, there is no use in arguing the point," said Hobert Boniface, wearily. "lt is enough for me that I can aceounb bo myself for what must otherwise he an extraordinary mystery. You had better go back to your work now, and do not wor- ry over the affair. Remember that not o o res o Bible r I do hold u n for Y P v e what has ha -p I ,red a, . After this, of course nothing reare could be said. CHAPTER. XX"V, As he walked down the sort of avenue of pianos and harmoniums in the inner shop, there came to his mind, why, ho could not have told, words spoken to him long before by that customer who had left on his mind so lasting an kinnression "Courage I the worst will pass. 1 Though he could not exactly" he- lieve the words, yet he olung to them with a sort of desperation. Mao he happened to notice the clock, and practically adopted Syd- v ney Smith's wise maxim, "Take short views." None of them said good -night to him when he left for home; they were not intentionally unkind, but they were awkward, and they felt that the strange affair of the af- ternoon had made a great gulf be- tween them and the culprit. Very slowly he walked through the noisy streets, very reluctantly crossed the great court -yard, and mounted flight after flight of stairs. At the threshold he hesitated, wondering whether it would be possible to shield them from the knowledge. He could hear Sigrid singing in the kitchen as she prepared the supper, and something told hint that it would be impossible to onceal his trouble from her, Wish a sigh he opened the door into the slttintt room; it looked very bright and cheerful; Swanhild stood at the open window watering the flowers in the window -box, red and white geraniums and southarn•woocl, grown from cuttings given by Cecil, She gave him her usual merry greeting. "Come and look at my garden, Frithjof," she said. "Doesn't it look lovely ?" "Why,eyou are late," said Sigrid, coming in with the cocoa, her face a little flushed with the fire, which was trying on that summer day. Then, glancing at him, "How tired you look! Come, sit down and eat. I hale got a German sausage that even Herr Siverstsen would not grumble at. The heat has tired you, and you will feel better after you have had something." He eat obediently, though the food almost choked him; Swanhi'-d, fancying that he had one of his bad headaches, grew quint, and after -1 ward was not surprised to find that he did not as usual get out his writing materials, but asked Sigrid, to go out with him for a turn, "You are too tired to try the translating?" she asked. "Yes, I'll try it later," he said; "but let us have half an hours' walk together now." • She consented at once, and went to put on her hat, well knowing that Frithiof never shirked his work without good reason ; then leaving strict orders with Swanhild not to sit up after nine, they left her absorbed in English history, and went down into the cool clear twilight. Some children were play- ing quietly in the court -yard; Sig- rid stopped for a minute to speak to one of them. "Is your father better this even- ing?" she asked. • "Yes, miss, and he's a-goin' back to work to -morrow," replied the child, lifting a beaming face to the friendly Norwegian lady. "I should have thought you had troubles enough of your own," he said, moodily, "without bothering yourself with other people's." "But since our own troubles I have somehow cared more about them; I don't feel afraid as I used to do of sick people, and people who have lost those belonging to them. I want always to get near- er to them." "Sigrid," he said, desperately, "can you bear a fresh trouble for yourself? I have bad news for you to -night." "Roy?" she asked,' breathlessly, her mind instinctively turning first to fears for his safety. "Oh, no! Roy is still at Paris, They heard to -day that he could not be back in time for the concert. It is I who have brought this trou- ble on you. Though how it came about God only knows, Listen, and I'll tell you exactly how everything happened." By this time they had reached one of the parks, and they sat down on a bench under the shade of a great elm -tree. Then very quiet- ly and minutely he told exactly what had passed that afternoun. "I am glad," she exclaimed when he paused, "that Mr. Boniface was so kind. And yet, how can he tit'l.•lc tha t of you ?" "You do not think it, then? ' he asked, looking her full in the 'taco. "What! think that you took it Ill absence of mind? Think time it would be possible for yen delii,cr• ately to take it out of the till and pin it in your own packet! Why, of course not! In actual delirium,. I suppose, a mall mint do any• thing, but you are as strong and well as any one shoe. Of course, you had nothing wh ateve" to do with it, either ccnsoiously or un- consciously." "Yet the thing was somehow there, and the logical inference is, that I must have put it there," he said. "I don't care a fig for logical in- ference 1" . she cried. "All I know is that you had nothing whateverto do with it, If T. had to die for main- tainingthat, wouldold say it with my last breath." fru ant nht her hand in his, and held it inst. " If von still believe in me the worst is over," he said. "With the rest of the world, of course, my ehnraeter is gone, but there is no help for that." "Port there must be help," said Sigrid. "Some one else mast be guilty. The ether man in the shop moot certainly have put it there." "Por. what purpose?" said Fri - thief, sadly. "Verities, how could he have clone it without my know- ledge I" - "I don't ]'now," said Si'tr'A, be- ginning to perceive the difii.cultief, of the case, "What sort of a man is he?" "I used to dislike him at first, and he naturally disliked me be- cause I was a foreigner. But lat- terly we have got on well enough. He is a very decent sort of fellow, and I don't for a moment believe that he would steal," "One of you must have done it," saki Sigrid. "And as I certainly never could believe that you did' it, I am forced to think the other' man guilty. Look, Frithiof, why should we wast time and strength in worrying over this? After all, what difference does it make to us in ourselves? Business hours mtist, of course, be disagreeable enough to you, but at hone you must for- get the disagreeables; at home you are my hero, unjustly accused, and bearing the penalty of another's crime." (To be continued.) PLANTS AND TOBACCO SHORE Many Varieties of Growth Iiilleil by Influence of Tobacco. Prof. Molisch, the plant physiolo- gist of the University of Prague, has shown in some of his earlier work that large numbers of micro- organisms, plants as well as ani- mals, and the seedlings of higher plants are extremely sensitive to the influence of tobacco smoke, some being even killed thereby. Many of the deleterious effects experienced were formerly attributed to the small quantities of illuminating gas which frequently vitiates the atmos- phere of such rooms; but Molisch's experiments left no room for cloubt that it is really tobacco smoke that does the harm. 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