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The Herald, 1907-04-26, Page 7ai excited nerves on' tee sial eve of a °sort of fearful expecte:m , It was candle 11, txrug peel:felt�' through the deep ellen e �nd gazing in- tently into. the black dxsrkness of. `tier chamber, that aline of ii•ee, lightir as from a candle, carried in the hall with- out, glided thrr.ugxt the orev]ce: at the bottom of her door, and traverse:!1 the length of her darkened chamber-vieels, and disappeared. , At the same nioinent the stairs loading' dove ;to the Meet floor creaked slowly and softly :es raider the weight of some cautiously descending GREEN TEA � step. UNEQUALLED PURI FY -STRENGTH -FLAVOR LEAD PACKETS ONLY -40; 50e, OOe Per Pound—AT ALL GROCERS. Q��Cc�000eC+CACCC�C00 0 8 0 69 0 He paused, still breathing low and quick, and raised his eyes, eloquent with emotion, to hers. Her face, brat had been averted, was now turned gently towards him, when, meeting her glances, he exclaimed: "Oh, Heaven! your eyes are fall of tears. You do not, turn away. My worship is not wasted! You accept the ovation! Oh, Laura, is it not so? Speak to ane! Speak to ane!" She placed both her hands in both of his. with a glance that told him all he Wished to know. } e caught those white hands and pressed them rapturously to his lips, to his heart, amid exclamations of love and delight that marle him blind, and deaf and insensible to all else on earth or in 'heaven, blind, deaf and insensible to the presence of Sir Vineent Lester, who had entered the schoolroom unan- nounced, and now atood gazing upon this love scene with his dark and handsome face lowering with evil passions, until Laura Elmer raised leer eyes, and with a. slight exclamation recognized 'him and Masted to her feet. "I beg your pardon, Miss Elmer; but If this had been another than the school- room I ehould not have entered unan- nounced," said the baronet, with pierc- ing sarcasm Ferdinand Oaesinorve stood up, and, twking the hand of Laura Elmer, con- fronted Sir Vincent with a proud and ,oy3ous expression upon this fins, face, Baying: "Sir Vincent Lester, I. have the hnnor to announce to. you my engagement to. hfies Elmer, who lea.,; just blessed nay life 'with the promise of her band." "I congratulate you, sir; though your sommelme formal announcement of so evident a fact seems rather a work of wapeee�rogation," said the baronet, with freezing hauteur. Mr. Oassinove bowed coldly. "And now, sir," continued Sir Vincent, as the time of an engaged man must be much more valuable to himself than to anyone else, I have to inform you that I must, from this day, deny myself your inestimable services, and authorize your departure from my house at your earliest convenience Again Oassinove bowed ceremoniously, saying: "You have anticipated any wishes and purposes in this matter, Sir Vincent. y term is up to -morrow, when I shall relieve you of my presence." "Pray do not feel obliged to serve to the end of the term for which you were engaged. I quite willingly release you from such an obligation, and pro- mise that, whether you go to -day or to- morrow, the time of your departure shall make no difference in the amount of your wages—a consideration not wholly unimportant, I presume, to• a young gen- tleman who is thinking of setting up an eata!b1ishment. Therefore, ste,nd not upon the order of your going, but go at once. If you hope to get another situa- tion, !however, do not come to me for a character. I cannot conscientiously recommend a tutor who passes his time in making love to the governess, and chooses the schoolroom as the theatre of his romantic drama!" sneered the baronet, whose face was black with sup- pressed rage, Then, turning to Laura Elmer with' a sarcastic bow, he said: "I must again beg your pardon, Miss , Elmer, for breaking in upon your very interesting little scene, and say, in apol- ogy for my indiscretion, that I would scarcely have expected to find the gov- erness of the school so sentimentally employed " And with a sardonic smile and bow he left the room. Cassinove, with his dark eyes blazing with anger, started after him; but quick as lightning Laura Eimer sprang forward and caught his arm, saying: R 141 CoViD "Cassinove! Cassinove! Pause—con- trol yourself!" "He has insulted. you! I must chastise him! 1 must and will! I would if be were the king!" exclaimed Cassinove, his whole countenance inflamed with indig- nation. "No, no, Ferdinand, you will. not, you must not. You will listen to me, and govern yourself. Remember that `he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city.' Anger is insensate, irrational. To yield to it is unworthy of a man; keep your own soul in peace; let this insulting baronet go. What is be to us that we should permit him to disturb our repose? To -morrow we shall be clear of him; to -day let us forget him. Come, you will yield to me this tine." He turned toward her and his anger all melted away in a smile beaming with love, as he exclaimed: , "Yield to you, my love, my lady, my queen! 'Yield to you! Yes! my will, my life, my soul, should you require it of me." A little longer she detained him, to be sure that his indignation was entirely calmed, and then she dismissed him and summoned her pupils. CHAPTER N.XIV. When the afternoon lessons were over, Laura Elmer drove to Chelsea, to in- spect the lodgings on the second floor of Mrs. Russel's little cottage. She found the landlady and the lodgings all that Ithe Cassinove: had, represented them to be. ' The cottage was situated in a quiet, clean street, and had the advantage of a fine, shady garden in the rear. The first floor was occupied with a neat little shop in front, and with the landlady's own apartments in the back. The sec- ond floor comprised a clean, airy parlor, with white draperies, in the back. equally clean and airy little chamber, with white draperies, i nthe back. Mrs. Russel was the same pleasing little lady that has already been de- scribed. Miss Elmer was more than satisfied with the accommodations offered, and therefore she immediately engaged the apartments, promising to come and take possession in a few days. When Miss Elmer then mentioned that Mr. Cassinove had recommended the house and . the hostess, leers. Russel became enthusiastic in her expres- sions of gratitude for his kindness, admiration of his character, and aspira- tions for his welfare. Mies Elmer was delighted with her wenn encomiums, and in this pleasing Maine of mind she took leave. She returned to Lester House in time for a late tea, and without having a second opportunity of conversing with Cassinove, she retired to her • chamber. Laura went to bed and tried to read herself to sleep, vainly, for she could neither fix her attention to the volume in her hand, nor compose herself to rest. The day had been too fall of excite- ment. Ferdinand Cassinove, whom in her secret heart she had long adored, lied declared his love ,and she had macle him happy by accepting the true heart that he had laid at her feet. They were be- trothed. She felt that this assurance should have calmed her spirits, and she wondered why it did not, and why, on the contrary, her soul was oppressed with a gloom that she could not shake off, and haunted with a presentiment of evil which she could by no means exer- cise. It was true she knew Lady Les- ter bad no kindly feelings toward her, and also that Sir Vincent Lester hatel Cassinove with the intense hatred of jealousy; but then Cassinove, as well as herself, was to leave the house upon the next day ,and need never come into collision with the testers again. Thus it could not have been the thought of their animosity that filled her soul with a sense of approaching calamity, vague and terrible as the forms that move through the valley of the shadow of death. She lay tossing for hours in a state of restlessness that could not be soothed, She heard the latest domestics, one by one, retire to their beds. And long af- ter that, "in the dead waste and middle of the night," her ears, sharpened by nervous excitement, heard the faintest sound in the empty street without or the silent house within. At length ill without and within was as still as death. Even her strained sense of hearing could not catch the faintest sound. 't?he_lead silence and darkness wa.a oi- Slight as 'this incident ells, hi the pre- ternatural excitement of thea nerves, it filled her soul with' terror. It was in vain that she assured herself that there was nothing unnatural or alarming in the event, that the Midnight walker w...s merely some domestic' passing through the house on some harxrtless errand of his own. She could not be at rest; nee heart stood still with horror! she lis'.en- ed intently as if for some knell of doom. She heard it. "Murder! murder! murder! nrurct " There was no mistaking those fearful shrieks that broke upon the silent mid- night hour, and died away in gnrelUng inarticulation. She understood her presentimene now, She sprang from her bed .in frantic' haste threw on her •dressing -;own, and emb- ed out into the .passage, The alarmed !household, startled out of their deep sleep by those• frenzied.cries, were now now in motion ,and :all hurrying, half- drssed, and with exclamations of as- tonishment. wonder and' alarm, toward the chamber whence the cries proceeded. Almost maddened with excitement, Laura Ebner joined them, and the whole party poured into. the chamber of Sir Vincent Lester... There a scene net her view that seem- ed to congeal to ice eevry drop of her Life -current. Sir Vincent Lester lay wounded and dying in his bed, this heart's blood rpout- ing in a thick jet from the wound in his side. 'With the convulsive grasp of the dying. he held Ferdinand Cassinove, who pale and ghastly and paralyzed with hor- ror. and clutching a poniard in his hand, bent over the murdered man, without attempting to escape. In the name of Heaven what is the meaning of this,"exclaimed the butler, while ejaculations of amazement burst from the men, and shrieks of ter- ror from the women. "He has murdered ane! he, he. the wretch!" exclaimed the dying man. start- ing up and tightening his grasp upon the young man's collar. while, with the violence of the action the blood spouted in torrents from his mortal wound. And the next instant the convulsive grasp relaxed the falling hand fell, and. the dying man dropped back upon his pillow=dead. "For Heaven's sake run for a phys- clan, some onee he may Telly have faint ee ' exelaiened. i rret: e se . Cassinove, Waking as it were front, the panic of horror that had bound his senses. Then seeing all eyes fixed upon • him in loathing and amazement, and not un- derstanding the meaning of their gaze, yet not willing that a moment should be lost that /right be of vital interest to the victim, he exclaimed, earnestly: "Hasten, fly, for Heaven's sake fly for a physiciau! A moment may save or lose your master's life!" Perceiving that no one offered to obey ,while all continued to glare upon him in detestation and horror, he said to the butler: "Watson, look to your master,` You have some experience. Apply restoratives vigorously, while I hasten myself to bring surgical help." And he moved toward the door. ' Here he was intercepted by the crowd of domestics, who, roused from the ap- athy of horror, roughly barred his way with exclamations of: "No, you don't, though!" "You'd cut and run, would you!" 'Don't you hope you may, you. raskil?' "Oh, won't you swing for it, though!" "Hold on, you. Stay where you are, will you!" .. "Don't let him�get away. Seize holt on Jeems!" "Go for the perlice!" The confusion was indescribable. "Friends, whet do you mean by hind- ering me. Let ire pass. I must hurry at once to bring a physician. Don't you see that life and death hang upon every moment," exclaimed Cassinove in an ag- ony of anvioty' to save his enemy, if there should be met a shadow of.hope. "Oh yes, we know that your life or death hangs upon every instant, and you'll hang yout%elf pretty soon! Here comes Mr. Watson, hear what he says about it," said. Janies, thee ladies' foot- man. Watson, the butler, who had ben anx- iously examining the condition of the baronet, now left the bedside and stood among his fellow servants, pale as death. "A physician should instantly be sum- moned," again began Cassinove tanx- iously to say, when the butler gravely in- terrupted him, "Mr. Cassinove no physician can bring the dead to life, and my master, Sir Vincent Lester,is quite dead; but, for all that, I will sena], for one. James, you go at once and rouse up Dr. Clark, and tell him what has happened and ask him to please to come at once, He will know what is best to be done; reed • how to tell nay lady. And then, Mimes, when —when you have told the doctor, go to Bow street and bring a pair of police- men. And mind, James, that mote do not say one word to :any one else as to what has occurred in this' house until you are required to do se." James was about to start upon; his errand, when Cassinave, Starting for- ward, said: "Seed, the ;footman el, oueo to Bow street. I will go ln^,'self for Um family physician." "Ni you don't, tbpugb ne,';moni don't". cried one of the ee V 1 i, intercepting r. INDIGESTION CUED your face again if we were green en- ough uou h to it you go!" exclaimed another joining the opposition. ' "What is :the meaning of all this. Has horror deprived you of your senses?" inquired Cassinove, looking in amaze- ment from one to another and reading only abhorrence neon every tare, ".l'rn afraid, lir. t'assinove, that we must not let you leave the room," said the butler, gravely. "Not let me leave the room. What do you meen, fellow?" questioned Casein- ove, indignantly. "I ani afraid, sir, we dare not do it," persisted the butler. - "Explain yourself!" peremptorily de - weeded. Cassinove. "The circumstances, sirl the circum- stances!" "What eircumstehnces, fellow? "The circumstances we found yeti in when we burst into the mom at the cries of murder, sir; our master mur- dered and dying, weltering in his blood; you standing over him with he chipping dagger in your hand," said the ',butler, shuddering with horror at the recollect time Young Cassinove turned ghastly white, reeled, and dropped into the near- est sett, struck for the first time by the overwhelming force of the circum- stantial ,evidence against himself. Then recovering. with a great effort, and wip- ing the drops of agony from his brow, he gasped forth the words: "But 1 had embed at the first cry for help to the assistance of Sir Vincent; 1 bad been, as usual, reading late in the study, as. is my custom, when. I beard the cry of `murder' from Sir Vincent's room. I sprang up. and rushed in at once; as I ran along the hall, 1 thought a figure wished past me in the opposite direction, but I hoorried on, and was the first to enter Sir Vincent's zoom; I found him in the first spasm of the wound; I raised him in my arms, and drew out the poniard; he clutched me in his dying agony, and cried, a little wild- ly and ineoherently, 'Pursue hint! pur- sue him!' and the next instant the room was filled with you alI as it is now." "Yes. Mr. Cassinove, that sounds fair and reasonable enough. and I hope it may be as yon say, and may do you good with the magistrate, but the last words of my master, Mr. Oassinove— the Met words of any master." "Well.—what were they? I was so overwhelmed with 'horror that I did not dietinctly hear them." "They accused you as his murderer, Mr. Cassinove." "Never! never!" cried Ferdinand Cas- sinove. "Yes. sir; I ami sorry to say they did. Think of it! Oh. it was horrible, sir! It chills any very heart to think of it now. Recollect the circumstances, sir. You were standing over him with the reeking dagger in your hand. He bad you by the collar in his dying grasp, and with his dying lips he said: ` li.He bas murdered me ---he, he, the wretch!" .r amt` I" mem 'there etrecess eet•-.him....,.He clutehed• me only in his mortar death - toes. His wed words referred only to the wretch who really did assassinate tint, and not to me," explained easel - move, in consternation at the increasing force of the fatal circumstantial evi- dence. "It gall sounds quite reasonable, Mr. Cassinove, sir, and I hope it inay prove true; but that will be for his worship the magistrate to judge of, and not for me. Meantime, it is our duty to keep you here until the pollee Donne." replied Ithe butler, gravely. Oassinove covered his face with his ' hands, and wink groaning into his seat. Soarcely a moment had ire sat thus with his face buried in hie 'bands when he felt a. light touch upon his shoulder, and heard a gentle voice at his ear, murmuring softly: "Take courage; you are guiltless, and your innocence will be made clear." He looked up, and sent/ Laura Elmer, pale but firm, standing by his side, (To be continued.) -----^act-o- . SUFFERING BABIES Mothers can find sure relief for their suffering little ones in Baby's Own Tablets. These Tablets are a gentle laxative that de not gripe the little one, and cure all the minor ilis of babies and young children. They are pleasant to take, prompt in their action and unlike "soothing" stuffs, they never do harm, and the mother has the guarantee of a Government analyst. that they coutain no drugs harmful to even the youngest baby. 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Wil - Mme' Pink Pills to other sufferers be- lieving that they will surely do for oth- ers what they have done for ane." When you use De. Williams' Pink Pills as a blood purifier and nerve tonic you are not experimenting --they have been tried and proved ,successful in thousands of cases. It is their power to actually make new, rich. red blood, that enables them to cure such troubles as anaemia, indigestion, rheumatism, kidney trouble, St. Vitus dance, partial paralysis and: those special ailments of girlhood and womanhood that cause so much misery. For eale by all medicine dealers ore by mail at 50 cents a box 'or six boxes' for $2.50, from the Dr. Williams' eredieine Co., Brockville, Ont. .a..m FRUIT SPRAYING. PLAN FOR ENCOURAGING THE FOR- MATION OF ORGANIZATIONS. The Minister of Agriculture for Onta- rio has, for the past two years, had un- der consideration plans for further as- sisting the fruit growers of the Pro- vince. Spraying has now become, in pro- ducing a superior grade of fruit, the most ianportant operation of the year, and while widely practised in. certain sections, has not yet been given the let- tentiexi that it requires in the apple sec- tions. The advent of the power sprayer is of such recent date that the advan• - tages it gives, especially in the spraying of apple orchards, is not yet appreciated. For many years the Department of Agriculture has been advocating more and better spraying. Demonstrations hz the use of hand and power outfits, and the preparation and application of the most effective mixtures, have been given throughout the Province with satisfac- tory results. It is now felt that such in- formation has been sufficiently diffused and another step forward is proposed. The Provincial Fruit Growers' Asso- ciation has within the past three years assisted in organizing a large number of fruit growing associations. One of the' aims of these associations has been the co-operative spraying of orchards of their members, and it is now proposed to' assist these and kindred organizations in such spraying work. With this aim in view, the Minister of Agriculture has asked the Legisalture for a grant of K. 000, to be devoted to the assistance of fruit growers in the purchase anf opera-' tion of power spraying outfits. Many, associations already own and are oper- ating such machines, and these will re- emive the same • aid as those organizing during 1907. The conditions under whf4 the grants •are available have been made as simple as possible, with the hope that a decided stimulus will be given to the proper spraying of orchards during this and coming seasons, Following are the regulations covering tike payment of the grants: A grant of $50 will be made to any five or more farmers who unite to form a fruit growers' association for the pur- chase and operation of a power spraying outfit during the season of 1907. These associations need not be incorporated to qualify for this grant, though incorpora- tion of co-operative associations should be obtained if the full benefits of co- operation are desired. Co-operative fruit growing associa- tions owning and operating two or more power sprayers will be eligible to draw a grant for each machine operated. The number of such associations re- ceiving assistance during the pre sme year shall not exceed 100. At least 25 acres of fruit trees must be thoa•ouhgly sprayed during the proper season with each outfit. A reasonable portion of such spraying must be done on the farms or orchards of each of the parties forming the asso- ciation. Such associations before receiving arm portion of the grant shall satisfy an in- spector of the Department of Agrioul• tura that the above conditions have been complied with and shall make such reports as shall satisfy the Minister of Agriculture. Associations desirous of participating in this grant must apply to the Depart- ment not later than the first day or May, cod Scientists say that women require more sleep than ruen, If we could only