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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-
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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
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the weight of some cautiously descending
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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:
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"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
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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.)
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Thousands of mothers give their lit-
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How Ruskin Rept a Cashbook'
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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,
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Scientists say that women require
more sleep than ruen, If we could only