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The Wingham Times, 1911-09-07, Page 7TUE MOAN' TINES, SEPTEMBER 7 1911 • t ++±+++++++++4 ++++++++++++*+++++++++++ •inked by Fate .Z1Z CHARLES GARViCE • cf The 'Verdict of the Heart," « A Heritage ot .I-Iote," "Neil of 'ShQrne Mills," "Paid ror7 IVIoiern Juliet," Etc, + +4'44 4+4-4.4 ".'i^+++++++4++++++++++-e+++++++++4-4- saiti Sir Charles. "leancy chucking over a man like Vane for old Marie ingford-" •rele Wa i mamas, Yeti Pee." CHArTEli X• , he Earl of LesboroUghl The tiele rang in Mannering's earl! mockingly. He fought with his emoe tion and with fl, gesture of shame And apology raised hes face freni his hands. Lady Latchford heft slipped away - ;with tho tears 'in her own eyes -but Sir Charles still stood beside his friend. . "1 beg your pardon,' said poor Vane; "it -it IS so sudden, and the 'hoe-gi'eat Heaven, to think that ho • -end Augustus -are dead, ttl that 1-4, Who neyer dreamed of it should adand in their shoeS!" • " "Yes, it's awfully bad," said Sir Charles, shaking his head, bet feel- ing mean beetles() he could not mourn ,as keenly. the loSs which had made "his friend elver. "But you have get to pull yourself • together, Vane. 'There's no end to do, to see to, You'll make a erst-rate earl, old -man! Yoall go to Tressider"-Mr, Tressider was the. Lesborough family lawyer -"first thing to -morrow morn- ing, I'll go with you if you like -no, better go alone: Oh, yes; I'm as sore ry almostas you can be for the Ca- tastrophe, but -well, after all, you're •My mil, you know, and for the life of me I can't help a sneaking feeling .ef satisfactien that the succession ..alls on ye- 'acre, have a drink!" ! -He pourer-, eat a gime of cham.,. pagne and Vane took it mechanicalleal , ...10..4 ...• MI. .0 ......... ' 'hut sat with drooping head and f . moody brow, twisting the glass roued rand round by its slender stem; and 1..etchford watcheashis friend anxious - Sly and curiously. "Better •get to bed, old man," he :said after nearly. half -an hour, "you look played out and as if you want- ed a good night's rest. In the morn- Mannering nodded and rose, and ;Letchford took hint to his room. "Is he better?' asked his, Letch-' Ilford when Sir Charles entered their Oreern. "My heart( aches for him. I Thave never before seen, a man break down; and it mattes it all the worse when he is such a great, strong fol- low as Mr. Mannering-Lord Lesbor- ,,ough, I mean." Sir Charles shook his head reflect- *ively as he brushed his hair. - "I can't make him elute' Blanche. You saw how he looked , when we found him -wandering -about the ' estreets like a -like a man half out of ';his mind-" • "The wreck, perhaps?" suggested Lady Letehford, "Not much! Vane could stand half .a dozen wrecks." "Judith? Oh, •Charlie, how could'I ..haVe 'been so gauche as to mention ;her!" she wailed. ,, 'Sir Charles shook hit" head. "Rather unlike your usual tact, old „girl," he admitted. "Yes, I'm afraid he was hit hard there. I'm sorry !Judith is a pal of yours, Blanche-" "Was, Charlie. Be just! You know • "I have not spoken to her since she jilted Mr. Mannering. Of course, he must have felt it, for no doubt he -loved her. She is not Wily the most ' -beautiful woman in the world-" 'Present cceapany excepted," said ;Sir Charles, with a fond glance over his shoulder at the Ogee° .sitting up In bed. . • "Nonsense," retorted Lady Letch- ford. "Don't be foolish! I• Was nev- er in tne same street -oh, I wish 1 Ilia not pick up your slang so easily! -I never emild be compared with Judith; .she was, .and is, and always Will be, simply incomparable. I3ut I hate her for teeating Mr. Manoering so cruelly," fleet, 0. -, envhow " murmured Linty Letchford, A. mai. old enough to be her grandfather! That, he shooltl die two days Were the wedding ise-er-What do tar call it-:" "1 °salmi itieeice, do you men? It semeel her right, lint, Charlie, if it, is..'t the wreret end the privations he stereriel-did eon notice bow he shirk- ed sperdeng of eltireiy-and it. isn't tf tenth, N‘i.at. is it that has changed hini so?" 't...barles shook his head. "I don't know. Anyway, whatever it is, it has Iiit him herd, deuced hard. I don't supposo we shall ever, find out, Vane can be as close as an oyster when he likes," 'Well, you've got to help himall you cen," conclieled Lady Letehlord, with a sigh. "And do put thO'se brushes down -you'll brush all the hair off your head! -and come to hed! The look in that poor ' man's face will keep me awake all night -if I don't go off at once." 'Mannering paced his room for some hairs, feeling that bed was impos- sible her him. He was the Earl of Lesborough, owner of an historic title and a vast estate and wealth which had been ac- cumulating steadily during the reign of the ,late °eel, who had lived a penurious existence &voted to amas- sing money and finding good invest- ments for it. And of what use to him -Vane - were the title and the money? Hi* heart was buried on tho sands of an unknown island intthe Pacific. It had died within his boseirn in the hour ho had seen the wreek of the raft at his feet, had swam Out to the little woollen cap which was all that remained to him of Nana, his wife, the woman he loved. ' He threw himself on the bed at last and slept; but it was only to dream of the Wand, only to go overthe scene of the enarriage and the too few days that followed it, Latchford, going to him in the morning, found him asleep, but toss- ing reStlessly, and returned to Lady Letchford with a doleful shake of the head. But when Mannering appeared at breakfast he was, outwardly at least, calmer and more lika a man in a normal condition. "I'm afraid 1 upset and distressed last night, Lady Letchford," he said with grave apology. "The -the. shock-' "Thet's all right, Blanche under- stood," said Letchford, cheerily. "Have some niore bacon -Ws of 110 use offering you anything else, be- cause no one eats enything at break- fast but bacon. Shall I go with you to Min. Tressider, Vane? I will, if you like." "We will do anything' and every. thing you like, Lord Lesborough," murmured Lady Letchford. Mannering started at the "Lord Lesborough," andabruptly set down his coffee cup which was .on its way to his Tips. I think I'll go alone," he said; and soon after breakfast* he set off, • - Mr. Tressider was one of the old- fashioned lawyers who stick to the Inns. His office was in Grey's, and • Mothering, as he mounted the steep • and not too clean stairs, paused and looked absently at the trees in which. the rooks had nested and brought out their yOung; he did not 'seem in any berry to put in his formal claim to the title. A confidential clerk, ef as old a fashion as his master, received Man- nering, and with a grave earnestness ushered him into the presence of the lawyer. , Mr. Treesider came to meet him with outstretched hand, and exclaim- ed with intenee satisfaction and pleasure: "Lord Lesborough! - At last! How do you do? 1 need scarcely say Chat. T am glad to see you! My advertise- ment VilP be snfficient proof of 'that." "I've seen none," said Mannering. 'I've been abroad --•been wrecked. I ,heard the -the bad news for the first time last night, from my friend, Sir Charles Letchford-" Me, Tressider 'nodde.d; he had a reed which Lord Butleigh would not have been aehatried to Own. "Quite so; quite so! I have the honor of Sir CharleS Lotchford's ac- quaintatice, So, of course, you knew the -Or --Sad circumstaftees hiOh haVo placed you in possession of the title. Very sad; very end! 13ut 1 ant very glad to see yeti, ray toed." 'rho title was Still strange to Men- nering and he moved uneasily, tho more glad," multihued the old lawyer, "beeause at one 'tittle eve ale:lost feared that yo tt hied COM- pletely disappeared, in faet, were lost, Of course, we hoard of the wreck of the Alpine. I ant so rejoice ed yeti were saVeril I have done the best 1could during your itbSettee, and think the business of the estate has been carried ort as you Would have WiShed it to be." Maimering nodded. It all seemed so ettrettl, so impossiblY, W>rra, few menthe age he had been elmere 'no- body, of no consequence, a kind of adventurer, free to do and go as he Willed, in Whose dialed ho Otte Was inteivated. Arid 'how-. ITO 10 eked roural the snugly fureished 'Oleo, at the white-haired, Smiling, defeleettial old lawyer as if the whole thing were a (keen!, from *Web thOuld pre- sentlY awake. IM1111.. B11111811 COMPLAINT ens of the most troublesome .proublea Of the not, Summer .Days. The Old and the Young. 'the Strong and the Weak are all affected alike. DR. FOWPER's Extract of Wild -Strawberry 4'0/ course 7ou will go down to reeehorough at Paco," continued Me. 'Ittiltlini.e7e; ,I 4 eyorro. awlii1:1140)y:ivaYi tghgli:OtPi rtriuht:o °Itsaehteel itvoLvvj 1 grni house? It has been closed tor eome was...or-economical? lie Amassed a large fortuue; yon will benefit by bio Owner* and prtidenee, my lord!" Vane gazed absently at the win., dow, through the Wiley penes of widen he conld see the rooks which had attreoted his attention as he eatered; and they still Reel -real to have more interest for him than the lawyer's remarks. . , "I think I'll go to Lesborough," he said, at last, but with an indifferenCe which disappoieted Mr, Tressider, wile had expected the new earl to display some eagerness if not excite- ment, "I haven't made any plans." "Quite s�; quite so! Too early yet; you have scarcely realized yeur sudden accession to the title, the change in your life, I will write to the steward, Mr. Holland -you re- member him? -he will want to make some preparations, Dear, dear, how glad I ain to find you are alieel Nene of your friends can be more re- joiced, I assure you, my lord. Strange" -he smiled and Paused. -"I was just writing to the next, heir. I an afraid you CAlt SCareely expect Win to share in my' satisfaction.' Vane loeked interested for the first time. 'rile next heir?" he said. enquir- ingly, "Yes; your coesin, IVIr. Jul' IShove, Ile wrote to me and called ou me when poor Lord iugestue and ,his boy died, and we feared you were lost in the Alpine. He was, very naturally -or -interested in the ques- tion of the succeesion." "How can lie, with the name of Shore, be the next heir?" asked Vane. "Oh, ddn't you know? 'Weren't you aware that there was a feud between, his father and the late earl? So great and bitter that he discarded -tar name of Mannering and took tho mem of Shore, which Mr, Julian - now bears," "I never heard of him," said Man - florins.. "I'm afraid he will be very disappointed at my turning up," he added, grimly, "No doubt; no doubt," asserted Mr. Tressider, diyly, "What kind of man is he?" asked Mannering. Abe Treasider hesitated, It was the ' sort of queetion which a cautious old lawyer would not be disposed to ane swer 'very readily. o'He is a young man about flae-and. twenty, X should say -'-a remarkably good looking young fellow; not, like the Idannerings, by the way; but dale, very dark. His mother was a Spaniard, He has very nice manners -nothing could be more tactful and --er-proper than his Wily of regard- ing his claim. to the title and es- tates," • . •"Is he poor or rich?" asked. Vane. "Well, he is not particularly well of, He has a small income, left hien by his father, and he thaltes a little in some way oh the Steck Exchange. I fancy; but X am not quite sure. Of coUrse, I knew hie father, but I had not seen Mr. Julian since he was a led until the other day." ' "Is he married?" asked Vane. ."No; oh, no! tasked him that question. By the way, Lord LeS-\ borough, it is one I shatild like to ask you. I am under the impression that you are a bachelor." • Vane looked away to the window again. 'I have no wife," he fetid, gravely. Mr. Tressidor nodded with ahnost obvious relief. For the moment, as Veno hesitated, he had dreaded that he should hear that the young earl had marricd-and iprobably beneath his present rank. . yes, yes!" he murmured. "Plenty of time; though I trust I may have the pleasure of seeing a . Countess of tosncirough before long." Vane rose, but Mr. Tressider ex- tended his hand appealingly. "Oh, pray don't go yetainy lord," he said; "there are so many things I want to speak to you about, to ar- range. And--er-perhaps the first subject ix the important and inevi- Wei& elle of-er-money. I do:net know whether you need any at the present moment --you will excuse me?" \‘‘ Vane smiled. "I have a few shillings," he said, Mr. Tressider nodded as if this were not the least satisfactory mo- ment of the interview. "Quite so; quite so! I will make arrangements -will paY a sum, as large as you *pleese, into the bank this afternoon, Meanwhile, You will permit me to be your banker. Let me see, 1 have some. notes and hill Is the most effective remedy known for the cure of DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY, COM, CRAMPS, CHOLERA MORBUS, CHOL- tERA INFANTUM, AND ALL SUMMER COI&PLAINTS. This Sterling remedy has bees on the Market or over 65 years and has yet failed to do what we claim for it. * Be sum and ask for Drrowlerts and •insist on being given what you rtak Mrs. a E. mins, Teuton, Man., Writes: ''Just a line to let you 'know that 1 have a little girl five years old, and during the hot. weaths4,01 last summerw she as very bad with t Simmer Complaint, in fact 1 thought we were going to lose her. We tried everything We could think of but without success. One day orie of our neighbors asked what Was the kobbIn With the little girl, arid we told him. Ite advised mita try nt. rowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, which we did. honestly believe it was the only thing that eaved my little girl's life. 1 don't think there le anything better for Sum - Mer Complaint than Dr. rowler's Eldred of wsna Strawberry.' Price tlfie. Menu. ractured only by The T. Milburn Co Limited, Toronto, Ont. . . an instant the fleeting expression had vanisbed and given place te oile of eourteous curiosity. "1 beg your pardon, Ur. TeSsider," he said in a singularly sett gad low voice. "I did not know ylt. were en - "ray take A Seat, 110. Shore," Paid Mr, Tressider, ','you have called at A Most aaspielotts-.-" the word seemed rather inappropriate, not to. Say heartless, and he peeped and stumbled in search Of a better, but failed to find one, and so gave up the idea of "breaking" the news to the swet heir and blurted out the ie.- trodnet ion. "1 most make you two gentlemen known to each other. Ur. Shore, this is,Iter. Mannering-tut, tut! moan Lord Lesborough„" Vane,. with a feeling oSspity and sempathy, was watching the MAP whose hopes hewas destroying, and he sew the polite Took of inquiry, doebt and then dismay and pain whielt passed Over the dark, •hand- some face. , The- WS fell over the dark eyes, as their owner aesired. te hide taem. "Loal-Lesberoughl" fell from his lips, which had grown almost white. "Lord Lesbosough! Theis -then--" "ExactlYi" put in Mr. Tressider, as the .soft voice 'broke and fell away. "Mr, 'Mannerin Was not lost in the Alpina, Fla was rescued and has wily just :returned to London; has indeed only: been here With me a few minutes,. 01 ceutte, X should have let you know-" It was an awkward, A trying utos meet for both the young men. Vane Mt as if he had been guilty of inex- (Amebic MeanneSS in not getting drowned; end with a flush and a frowo he rose and held out his hand. "I' sorry-" he began, then he shrugged his shoulders, What could he say? But Julian Shore had recovered from the shock, . and rising instantly no took. Vane's etrong, firm hand in soft, -white one; a smile glittered in his eyes cold curved his rather thin and the low, naisical voice said: "And,yott are the new earl!' Well" -he drew a quick, short breath, then he shrugged his shoulders -"We can't both have tho title; and -Lord Les - borough, 1- assure yen that I am heaetily glad that you are alive!" Nothing could have been better done; and Vote, feeling if anything still more guilty and ashamed of his existence, gripped' gratefully the white hand of the disappointed man. "Thanks," he said. „"Thanks! I'm almost sorry that I didn't go dewn with the ship, You'd have made a better earl than I shall, Mr. Shore," "Oh, came, come!" murinured Mr. Shore, laughieg softly. "Don't says that -and -we, are cousins, aren't we'? X hope you'll call me Julian!" CHAPTER XI. 'Would he call him "Julian?" Of course Vane was. pleased by such good nature and 'magnanimity dis- .played by the num between whom and the prospect of an earldom he had stepped. "certainly-Jullan'" he said with so much lighter 'a tcnie in his voice that Mr. Tressider • was surprised. "And Of course you'll call me 'Vane' ; we are cousins, as you say, and, though we htiven't.enet before,- I hope we shall be friends. - I only heard of my good fortune last night, and I am.a bit confused. I see it is lench time. Mr. Tressider, will you let us off for an hour or two? 1, should like to go out and get Some- thing to at with -J , The old lawyer Ardled, but rather , ruefully, as he thought that the new earl was likely to be rather an er.. ratic*cli?ent. "Oh, well!" he said, with a shrug of his shoulders, "I'li wire to Hol- land to say you may come to Les- berotigh at any moment, and I hope You -win pay me e visit before long. There is much to be done, to be seen to." "That's right," responded Vane,. serenely. I'll leave every- thing in your hands, Mr. Tressider, mid it will be supe to pan out per- fectly." He -pocketed the notes and iJus.littas Watched him With lowered id The two young Men Went down the stairs and into the courtyard, where the pigeons fluttered and strode at their feet with the fearlessness of the LoSdon bird.' • "Where Shall we go?" asked Vane. dsed to have a club, but my sub- s -caption ran out, arta 1 couldn't af- ford to renew it. Ilestauraet?" Julian laughed -his laugh was. as .aoft as his voice and ais smile, soft and caressing, "How strange to hear that ftten the Ea1.1 of lhosaIt and he stared the barder *hen, in- etead of speaking, Julian Shore made Wipes to her in the deaf and dumb alphabet melds fingers. . The old woman took her eyes tor a moment from her master's 'face to glance at Vent,. /hen sussed wont_ Mgr, awl closing the door disep• pearea througn tatuther Witica lea to the bagetneat. "CO= upstairs, will you?" said Julien. "I live on the upper door or 1110 sake of tho He led the way,bito a sitting -room which was ' as old-faehloned as the exterior of thehouse. The walls were of oak, 'blackened by, Age --not Tot- teithent Court atoad varnish -there was a snes1Y.0 mantelpiece as black as tho penciling, and the furniture, old and heavy,', WWI in perfect har- mony with the ream. There was a iiano aleo of oak, I1 was a very quaint room, and imposing, but it struck Vane .as sombre, not to say weird. He went to the window and leaked out. "You've a flnesview of the river," he saki, "and. this is st, grand eld room." • • As he spoke he noticed a faint smell like that emitted by pungent chemicals, It came from a door lead- iitg out of the room, and Julian, stepped to it. and closed it softly. The old woman appeared with a tray and presently set out a? nice lit- tle lunch of sweetbreads, pate -de -foie gras, Swiss cheese, and a 'blanc- mange. The claret was in a Venetian flask, and a small bottle of yellow Chartreuse Acted beside it, Having laid out the table, tile wornari, af- ter a fixed look at her master -the kind of look, one sees in the eyes of a well-trainea 'and devoted spaniel - left the room, and Julian drew a chair to the table for Vane and in- vited him to be seated. •"You 500111 to have very comfort- able quarters," said Vane. "Your servant is deaf anci dtienb, isn't she?" "Yes," said Julian,. "She was, an oldI servant of my father's. I'm afraid to say how old she .is. But she is very faithful and attentive, And serves se y purpose." "And -you- don't mind her -afflic- tion?" said Vane as he helped him- self to sweetbread. , Julian smiled. "No," he replied. "I seppose it's because I'm used to her. She is very -intelligent, and, as I say, she is de- voted to Inc." "She looks it," 'remarked Vane. "This is splendid claret." Julian smiled, the smile of a man Whose wine is praised. "It is some my father left me. By the way, I fancy it came originally from Lesborough Court." "Then I hope there Is some left there," said Vane. "You know the 'but no doubt, you know all about ' "No," replied Julian as Ito handed place?" My fatherkand the earl quarrelled- huvetia'e:sir the Pate. "I have never been there. that. No, I have never been there. niclwit;odded you have stayed ss he looked. round the room. It seemed strano, impron- anle that he should be sitting hero so . cosily with this tewly-discovered etm- stn. "Yes; I used to go there as.a boy! and until recently I was asked to pay u kind of regulation visit. But the earl quarrelled with me as he quar- relled with your father. Iie--expected toAnsiulicoh•W;" asked Julian, filling his g, gl ss. .-011, well, he wanted to plan out, direct my life. Wanted Inc to go into politics and stand for the borough, in the Consort ether interest." . "And you are a Liberal?" suggest- ed",N1 not, I'M, nothing. But declined to take my, politics from his lord -shin, and also declined to be- come a -a dependent. So Yve parted and 1 went abroad--" His voice died away. "And were wreckeda" saia interrogatively. Vane seetned to dry up, to freeze, on the h)lIk(ltrisiSti "ad, absently. "Butlet us talk of something else, of your- self. 3 could almost have found it possible to be sorry that I was alive when you .came into Mr.. Tressider's just now." ` Julian's dark face flushed for a mo- ment and his lids drooped -his face looked like a mask when his eyes Were ciFsed, &oexpressive were they --then he raised them, smiled and shrugged his shoulders, and waved his hands with a gesture that re- minded Vane of his cousin's Spanish bi2ciadht's very kind and generous of o0-17 a tie," he sa id, with a little Pabst' before the " rates" "Of cote's° I should have li sea to lurse been the 1Sarl of Lesborottels; but --ah, well, Simmusimmtwoommissommummilmilwommoim$411. not trouble you to cash a cbequel" He went to the safe and from his cash box took out 0 little pile of notes, counted them and laid them ort the table before Vane. "There is a hundred and twenty pounds these, thihk you win find. It is fortunate that I had just re- ceived a payinent this morning. I! that • not suflicimst X will seed a clerk .he bank-" Vans stnifed gavel'. "I sheSn't speed more than a hun- dred and twmity before to -morrow," he said. As qie 'Spoke the door opened and the clerk brought in the usual piece of paper with a visitor's nan10 write ten 011 it. Mr. Tressider looked rather em- barrassed. "Strange coincidence!" he said, "Xt is Mr. juliart Sher°, Atik Mr, Shore to kindly wait*" . Vane looked up quiCkly, "No,' no. Will you let ItIns Come ill? 1 shoeld like to See hint," Mr. Tressider nodded and the clerk went out and ushered in a tall, thin young man with a remarkably hand- some fade and a gracefat bearings. H4I was tamest AS dark as a typical Spaniard, with tyee that Were well nigh black, and Screened by long silky lashes, As he entered, he looked 'NOM the rather embarrassed -to Vane; then Ida eyee tell on the sheet of notes, and the black orb% teemed t� deepen suddenly, swiftlyk but in "Yen; but I wasn't earl then, and L was poor," said saints Jaliae, slowed up or St moment. "I was going to lunch at, my Place," he staid with a hesitation that was only momentary. "Per- haps you won't mind coming home with me? It's rather out of the way, though it isn't far frora here, We shall be free to talle-s' "Hight," said Vane. "I shall be very pleased." Julian Called a cab and gave the address -Vatic did not eaten it -to the cabman; and. they drove across the 'Strand and alongside the House of Parliament to an old-fashiened tow of houses facing the -river. Vane, as they alighted, looked round Min curiously, 11 Was a bit of old Lotidon hemmed in and flank- ed by newly -built flats and modern residences. "(Inaba ' piece," he said. "I've hover been here before." "Xo? / live hero because it's quiet and out of the way; ant I oWn the house. It Was my father's. It's lather a, nice view„ especially. at night, with the lights on the water. The house is old, very old, and it wants repairing, modernizing and all that, end 1 mean to do it -when can afford it." 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Regatta -Athletic Sports -Roy Scouts Review -Vaudeville -Japanese Fireworks - Twelve Massed Military Bands-Trottingand Pacing Races, etc. MAGNIFICENT OISFLAYS OF CORONATION FIREWORKS For all Information write Manager 7. 0. ORR, City Hall, Toronto. 411111.1M! pyrelnty,s shall be as happy as if Ie "1 date say," said Vane in his blunt Way. "I don't suppose" -he stifled a sigh --"that it will ina,ke 11141 any the happier." juliatt looked' at. him with veiled euriosity, "Oh, you!" he said. • "I cad imagiae that you will make quite a typical English nobleman. You •are cut out for the position and will fill it wed. While 1' -he waved his Waite hands agein-"I'm scarcely so .suit- able a subject. I'm only half Eng- lish. My mother was a Spaniard, and I have nothing -what do you call it? -feudal about 100. You will marry - but perhapS.you are already married; yeW' he broke off, his almost alm- ond eyes on Vane's With Mt tipper- eatly frank and 'disinterested interro- gation. Valle Idled his glass and replied, as he had replied to Mr, Tressider: "No, I have ras wife," "Ah, but you soon will havd one," said julian.'straliegly. "You will be a peat tatch, The peat of the seas son. You know that you are tre.- xnendousily rich as eon es noble?" Vain, nodded. "So I'm given to tie- d. rstand," he said, "But I shall nev- er lestrry.'' "Never IS a lime time," conammt- ed With a smile. 'Try this Chertreuse. Will sou? It also mine from the Iseshorougle" tellers. I Ise Hove. Yon will go down there at OHM, 11111 300 not'?" Vane filled lag liquor glass.. out). nose so." he answered. slowly. Tlwa, With his characteristic abruptness, ho said: "Sce here, Julian. My turning U p in this fashion must have been - inconvenient to you. I-1 want to make' it up to you, in some way; but upon my life I don't quite know how to. Do you mina telling me some- -thing about yourself, your -your moors?" Be faltered and looked at the table and round the well -furnish- ed though weird and rather sombre room, "f don't want to play the in- quisitive business yoU know, but-" Julian laughed at his cousin's em- barrassment. "You have a, particularly transpar- ent mind, my dear Vane," he saki in his soft, voice. "X know exactly what you are going to do. You are gaing to offer to -make it up to Inc for the loss of my expectations. Is it not so?" "That's but hit it," assented Vane in his direct fashion. • -"I thougbt, so!" said Julian with his charmingly candid smile. "You would offer inc- all allowance, an in- colne--" "That's so," assented Vane. "Why shouldn't I? I'm immensely, beastly rich, X believe, and if I hadn't turned up you would have been the Earl of Leshorough." As he pronotmeed the title Julian Shore's lids quivered. but the smile. was still hovering about his lips. "As it is," went on Vane, "You are the next in seccessioe, the heir. I shan't marry-yolt shake your head, but 1 kuow what 1 ant saying -and s ou will come in to it all. Why shouldn't you accept an income, al- lowance, from nwa 11 vou were my brother or son you would have to do so." Julian shook his shapely head again. '"Init I'm not your brother or your son; I'm only your cousin. And -we are speaking candidly, are we not? -I do not like the role of a dependent. No! I Will hot take a penny from yeti," "You are an awful fool," put in Vane in his blunt way. "Perhaps. But I have a sma,11 but suflicient income; enough for a baeh- der, and X value ray independenee. No! I refuse your titaness but -but if you otter your friendship, your affec- tine, may X say-" Vane extended his hand. "Put it that way." Ito said, grave- ly. "Illood is thicker than. water. "ee here we Will go down to Lea - borough to-ntorroils 1 as the earl and , master, you as the twir apparent -I think that's the way they describe it. Well be friends, Julian -What on earth is Hint peetiline seent, odor, which hangs about this room?" he broke off' to enquire. Julian looked mind absently, thett Smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "X ant rather fond of dabbling in ao be nentintieda chemistry. My father, had a like taste; it was one of the reasons for his rupture with the 'late earl, His Lordship could not. understand how a Mannering could interest himself in such a commonplace sebject. I use the room next this as a kind of lab- oratory. Come and see." to enter. screen of yellow silk. There was gt. opened it and stood aside for Vane room lighted by a window with a strange looking fireplace with crucib- les and shelves on which were books and chemical apparati, ' . In- terest; he was not scientific by any 'newts. les and retorts, and there were tab - If X remember rightly, there MILS not boborough."suppose. But it amuses me. No* you, X imagine, go in for sport?' "'What's the good of it?" much hunting or shooting at Less He arose and gain to the door Vane glanced round with faint Vane looked in. It was a small Julian shrugged his shottlderse "Rum. fancy," he remarked./ "Oh, I don't know. Not snuch, 1 Vane nodded. "Yes; sport of any and every kind: te earl starved it -so Mr. ,• Tressider saia."' "Quite so. Well, I'll attest that, at any rate," said Vane. "What's that thing on the fisels 1 fancy it's that In Dread of Something 'You can 'scarcely tell what -It may be Hysteria, Insanity, Nerv- ous Collapse. You can only threw eff this depres- hien when the nerve e.‘1.1s are restored to health by such treatment as Dr. Chase's Xerve rood, Your digestive system 'has failed to supply proper nouriShMent to the nervesand you are compelled to seek ai'd from other sources. It will take some patience and per- sistent treatment. but there is no way by which 3•*ou can so eertainly restore 'health and vigor as by the Use of Dr. Citase'a Nerve Vood. The b,.st time to tebter.. the nervous system is long before melt a critied condition is reached. Such symptoms fte aleepleSsness, beadaebes. nervons indigestion. =solder etelmesS, let% of energy', failure of Monter!: and pow- er oi coneentration, irritability and diseoutagentent tell la a failure of the nervOtts Syefen tied wora you of the approach of ser:eue trouble. Dr. Chase's Feed Se) vents box, 0 boxes ler S180; all deelore, o• r alinement, Dates 4: Co., Tyrants, _