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-- came slowly forward to n11'et him, a black Jor hi~ return from the supposed visit to cup 10 h is hand, starmg a.t the fire, heal pood !ti by her side, shakiol{ the silver bell on 1 P<1.r1S The B1deford boa.t man c.escribed hmi ta.tmg, relucta.nt to fd,ce the resul b of that his c.ollar as he r an Sb. A.oostell s heart sank las dead beat when he cha.rte1ed tne boat. Ile l oa.thacme work A t la.st, w1tn a.n dl:' r t, he as she diew nearer with the bitterest disap paid himself down at the bottom of the stern, roae from his arm ch,.1r, put on his coat a.nd I _ · po1n tment he ball ~ver fel1 ill h is life on an old rug, and slept till sunset, but it went out l L eonora. Ba.ddeley lookecl 11t him in silence was a. verv disturbed sleep, and the boa.tm..u T here wore three young men startmg for a. for some moments half iu cynical dIBbehef, thought he ha.d something on his mind 'l.'hey d istant meet as he left the no tel They half in admiration: H ..d he but loved her were coasting for nearly three days, the wmd went cle.ttering ovct the lmdge, lighting with such a. love as that, she would have bemg agamst t hem pa.rt of the hme, and the tbetr 01gar a, and t »lkrng a.nd laughi,1g, full A uthor of "LADY A UDLEY ·8 S EOBET, · "WYLLARD s WEIRD ' " ETC , ETO, · counted t he world well lost for his sake. gentleman hardly ate anythmg, but fimsh of mane Jocosity, a.s 1t seemed to S t Austell He ha.d sued t o her a.nd ha.d been rejected, led a bottle of btandy which ha.d been got for He almobt hoped tnat one of th<>m would be CHAP TER XL!.-" IT WAS THE RRAND m' " I hope so. There is noth10g decided,beca.u·e &be had loved the world's good worri him Bideford. killed before they came back. in th·J evenrng CAIN.' and Valentme is not given to ~llowmg otherbetter than she loved him, and perhaps "What d id th is look l ike except t he con H e execrat ed them for their mirthful meptip eopl e to ·manage h is hfe. lie. W~~t up toatill more, because she doubted the reality dnct of a crimmal? Then comes his arrival tude, as they went Joggmg up th~ s t ony hill, Mrs. Baddeley was very tired of the riv- town yesterday to look a.bout him. of his love And then afterwards, when she at the Abbey, a.nd the be about a v1s1t to alappmg their horses haunches and Bwa.g er Chad, and of the rustic garden where the "Oh, he has gone t<J London, bas he ?aaw his affections transferred to her eister- ParJS germg rn their saddle~ He was glad to get crocuses starred the fawn with th1iir golden Where docs he put up?" eaw him ever 80 much more e11rnest m the "H:.ving got a.s far a.a this, I had not1 the away from the old English to1vn, !\Ud its cups. It w~s all very rural and fresh a.nd "I reslly don't know .!It the Greatpursuit of that newer fancy-she discovered slightest doubt that there had been a crime irmge ofm odern, 11las, totholouely lugh10ad, innocent, but she had a.n aching vmd where Western, most likely, if he took the tra.inher own weakness, and that he was the one committed at the Abbey that night, or in and then to the footpath a.cros· the Park, to ner heart ehould have been, and longed for for Paddington. It he travelled by thema.n whom she really loved. Tortured by pbm words, that Mr. Belfield murdered his that tribu tary of the Chad whi ch was :ia.11 London dissipations as the only anodyne for other line, he ma.y have gone to the Grand. "Jealousy 1 she found out how dear he had wife He got wmd of her fal~ehood some ed the Abbey river, a strea.m Ill wb1cb many ca.re Tne good kind fellow, whom she had "You h ave not heard from him since hebeen to her, he whom she had treated so how, ca.me home a.nd taxed her with it - a. fat and placid la.y brotl:ler had fished with tieatmeut or many t housands of cas11B talked of so cheerily last season while he l eft." lightly holding him e.t ba.y with careless there wa.s a row, and he killed her. But net or line, and placed bis eel baskets, in ofThe those chrome weaknesses und d1streasl1!14l was bro1lmg under an Indian sun, Wll.B on "No; he 1s not fond of letter writing spe ech~s a.nd silvery laughter, and all the how he killed her, a.nd how he disposed of the good old monkish da.ys. St Austell ailments peculiar to females, at the Tu valld.9' his way home now, and she could not think He will telegraph 1f he ha.s any t hmg to say polished arts of a coquette, a.s she ha.d done the body, are two questions that I have not Jwent down into the deep glen through which H otel and Smgw::il Institute, DutraJo N Y, without some unea.smess of the manner in to me." with a. cloud of meaner admirers Only of yet solved " the r1ver ran, para.Ile! with the rallroad He has afforded a. vast experience m n1cely adapting und thoroughly teetlng r emedies for the which he would ta.ke things when he should The conversation dr1hed on inddferent1ate had she known what i t wa.a to love a.nd Colonel Deverill groaned a.loud, a.s he sat went by the same narrow lHth which be ha.d cure of woman's pocullar maladies arrive, good natured a.she was. m!l.tters, but was fa.r from liv~ly. C~lonelha.ve her love unreturned. leaning forward in his oha.ir, but he did not trodden la.st August, under the heavy Dr. Pierce's Favorito 1·.1 escrlption It is not a. pleasant thing for a husband to Dever1ll had a. preoccupied air, and looked ·You ta.lk very big," ehe ea.id," bat you utter a word. . summer foliage, ~ow the boughs were ls tho outgrnwth, 0 1 r esult, of th1s/reat and valuable expodonce Thousands o testimocome home, and find a sheaf of bills, a.nd out of the wmdow oftener than was na.turalha.ve rione nothing to solve the mystery." "He may have hidden her somewhere 10 Jbar e, a.nd the w10ter sky louked coldly nials, received from patients and from phyeilawyers' letters, and County Court aum to a w ell ma.nner ed Irishman. "Directly, nothmg; but through your tha.t great barr:lck of a. house," sa.1d St. blue behlDd the dark tracery of le.,,fleas Olans who htive tested It In t he more aggraAdrian wa.s full of uneasy suspicionsfather I 1'ope to accomplish everyth10g." Austell, "or be ma.y have buried her In the twigs He went down to the Park, vated and obatlnat.o cases whlch had baill.ed mouses a.waitmg him, or to find his house sk!ll prove 1t to be the most wonderful hold goods subJect to a bill of sa.le held by a about Mr Melnotte and his busmess rn the "My poor father. He le very unhappy garden." where he met Mrs Baddeley yesterday af their remedy over devised for the relief and cure of West end dressma.ker ; and this was exactly I d b h.d · t Th ere wa.s no one m t1g h t, nor sulfering ,.. neighbourhood. He was rising to leaveabou t Helen " " t wou\ nob e ea.sy to 1 ea corpse Ill ernoon. women lt 1s not r ecommended ae a d the condition of affairs that a.wa.ite ·uBJOr when the butler flung open the door a.nd an "He will ha.veto be still more unhappy, the I ..rgest house; nor ea.sy to dig a gr:i.ve could he hear the s ound of the irons scrap "oure-all, ' but as a most perfect Specific for woman a peculiar ailments Baddeley nounced "Lord St. Austell." 1f her fate was as dreadful as l tbmk " between midnight and morning in summer tog along the pebble bed. If the men were As a po,vel'fnl, iuvllforatlng tonic, Re was to leave Bombay early in February, "By Jove this 1s an unexpected plea "Poorfatter. lt would be too hard upon time, such a grave a.a should not be obv10us still at work, they were out of ear shot. '.!.'he it imparts strength to the whole system, and now February and the crocuses were sure," said the Colonel, and before he couldh1m in his old a.ge. But I cannot believe in to every eye. The one safe hill.mg pie.ca first glance at his face told S fi Austell that and to the womb and its appendages in ~rticular For overworked, · worn-out," here, and in all prol:ability the Ma]or had recover from his surprise Sir Adria.n passed~h1s morbid fancy of yours. The mysterv would be the river; but thl.t is more than there h&d been a. ghastly discovery 'run down," debihtntcd teachers, m1U111.ers, started. St. Austell with the coldest possible saluta of my sister 's disappearance ha.a set us all a quarter of a. mile from t he he.use, at t he "What a.re you domg here, Lord St dreesmakers, searnst1essea, " shop girls," house"I shall get a t elegram from Aden before tion nodded good bye to his host, and de 1m11gining rlreaciful things. She is safe ne11oreet point." Austell,' ea.id Melnotte hurriedly. "Pray keepers, nursing mothors, and feeble women I k now where I a.m," said the a.nxrnus wife. parted. enough, 1 dares1y-h1ding herself somewhere " Why not drag t he river '" asked Sb. go beck. The W'ret ha.a happeued, and you generall~. Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription hi the greatest earthly- boon, being unequaled "I think I ought to go back to London, "What brings you into this p<J.rt of th~a.nd not ctu lnu how much we mly a.ll suffer Austell ought not t o be seen here lt ma.y y ou as an appetizing cordial uud rest orative tonic. 011ocl,' world ?' asked Colonel Dernrill, when thea.b,:mt her." "I mean b get i t done; but your lord harm by a.nil byP T ..ke my advice and geu As a 11ootl1lng i:n.d ·~re ngtl\enlns "You ca.n at least stav till you get your door had shut upon Adrian." "if I could only think as much-if I ship must remember that i t is only within a.way from this nei~hborhood as soon as yCJU n orviue, "l?avot!to Prescription" is unequaled and is in valuablo rn allaying aud subtelegram ' d "I want to know the result of Melnotte'scould only hope as much," St. Austell the la.st few daya I succeeded in find ing ~he can " dumg nervous exmtab11 1ty, lrritab1hty, ex. Mra Baddeley sighed, yawned , an re investiga.hons, and I was sICk of wa1tmg foranswerod, sadly. Bideford boat man, and that 1t was hia de ""\That have th~y fom1d-where ?" asked baustion, prostration, hyster ia, epuerns aoo other dlatreBB111g, nervous symptoms com· newed her novel. The romances supplied etter s. He bas been very slow" '.I.'hey walked b:i.ck towards the cottage to scr1ption of his pa.ssenger's appearance a.nd St. AuQtell, ignoring his advice by Mudie were her only resources in this b 1. f h f monly attendant upon funotional and orS'!lnlo St h0 · L d "Yes; he has been uncommonly slow l gether, talking very hti;le, otu o t em conduct wh10h confirmed my ausp1e1on o "They have found a body rn a de('p p ool disease of the womb It induces rofres;.,lng l f sleepy count~ i e.b 00 ke, dw ind onh on can get noth1Dg out of him. And now Bel serious and depressed. Mrs. Baddeley was foul play. There i s such a thing as in further down the stream-it 1s her'e there sleep and relioves mental anxiety nnd de. seldom opene a ' evoure t ree field has given us the slip. If there ha.sfa.r from being easy in her mmd about her st10ct , but one mu&t have some better JUS a.re ample mean s of r ec ogn1t ·on Th~ long &pondency. · .IP i erce' s ·'avorlte Prescrlpdoa vo!~P:rmFr::?- How I wish somebody been foul play, he may be on his way t osieter, alt hough she affected to make li~ht of tification than instinct before takmg active brown hair a weddmg rmg and a keeper a. 18Dr n legithnatc medicine, carefully would leave him a fortune l" she. ea.id, with America by t his tllme- safe out of reach St Austell's fears. steps m a business of this kmd." Persian rug " ound round wi th a silk ha~d oornpouudcd b y 1111 experienced and skillful phys10mu, 1tnd adapted to woman s deli0&kl h er eyes on the page. " He would be such before we can move a step. He went up to "It 1s t he fault of your tribe " said St kech1ef 1f her murderer had taken pams orgamzahon It JS purely vegetable in 114 a perfect !Jusband if he had only three or London yesterday." CHAPTER XLII.-TBE SECRE'r OE THE A ust ell. "Yo u a.re all over cautious This t o secure her ident1 ficahon, and to show that compos1tlon and perfect 7 hurmleSB Ju lte effects m auy con dit10n o the system For four thousand a year How long 1s your "I know ho did," answered Sb. Austell. RIVER man bean the brand ofCiJ.ID on his forehead ' she d id not throw herself mto the river, but mormug SJC kuess or nausea, frnm whatever friend Mr Melnotte to stay with us" "I met hiw in the station at Exeter." It was ten 0 clock, and Mrs. Baddeley was " You are nght there " He haR the crim was thrown m by somebody elRe, he could cause ru i:Hn&", weal· stomach, lml1gestlon, dya. "Does he bore you'" "You did? Strange " . sitt mg by the dra.wmg room fire with Tory ina.l manner d1stmctly marked. I s11.w tha.t not ha.ve done more Yes, i t ta very sa.d, my pepsui nnd kmdrcd symptoms, its use, in small "Not a.tall. He is very inoffensive, and "Yes, it was a strange :neetu;ig, for ita.nd a.novel for her only companions while when! lpent an evening in his mother's lord, " as1fmanswer to the agony in St doses w ill pr ove ve1y beneflclnl "Favo1 ite Pr c acrlptiou " is a po11. he pin.ya ec!l.rte with you of a.n evenrng, but cmfirmed my darkest suspicions. We metLord St Austell Colonel Deverill and Mr house, a.nd I wa.a a.lmoat a.a certa.m then as Austell's countenance, "but there l~ no tivo cu 1 c fot the most complicated and obI cant q 111te understand wny you asked him face to face, Deverill-met and passed each Melnotte r ema.in'e d iD t he snug little dining I am now thab he made away w it h his wife " hel p It is all over a.nd done with It is stinate c"" of Ieu ooubcu, excessive llowiug, here" other; and if ever I sa.w the face of a. mur room St Ausoell and the Colonel sa.t on "When can we get the nver dragged i" only what I expec' ed You are known to palntnl munoti uat lon, unnntm al snppress10ns, "There rn more in h m than anybody derer 1 saw it then," ea.ch side. of the fire wit h their faces m asked the Colonel. have been with her on the la.st da.y of h er P.rolapsus Ot f11llt ng ol tho womb, wouk back, ' fema le weaktrnss, untevcrs1on, r et1oversion, suppose~," rephed the Colr·nel quietly. "I ."Bosh 1 Men dou,,t wear the record ofsha.dow. Mr Melnotte was at the table in "To morrow at daybreak," answered life, and t o have planned an elopement with bearmg <'own se nsations chrop1c congestion, lnfiammution nnd ulc01 atwu of the womb, In· like his' ~nversatwn, and if ~ou are gomg cn,r:ie on their faces, . the liright h gh t of the large modera.tor la.mp, Melnotte. "I have engaged a couple of her. You m,.y be suspected of her murder tlarnmat10n, pmn and tenderness in ovar1e11, to deser. me, I shall keep him as long a.s I Tills one ';Vore it }eft?rday. It wasw1th a not e book in his hand to which he men to do it They know whrx,t they are t o - who knows " aceompnmerl w ith 'mt ei nal hc>at ' can." the br:i.nd of Cam. He q;ia.i.ed at the sightreferred now a nd oga.m m th~ course of his search for, but they will keep their coun "I don't care whether I am or not As a regulnto1 and p1omote1 of t unoLeo yawned assent The Afnca.n traveller 01 mo, at me-;--hrn wife 3 lover; the m·\nnarrahve or statement sel , and tell any curious enquirers that I w ·here ls she? L et me see her,' said St. tional act10n .it that c11t1cal period of change had not inspired the faintest mtereat Ill her who blighted his married life Why, if he "You thrnk I have been slow Lord St dropped a valuable watch mto the stream Austell, trymg to p!l.ss Mr. Melnotte, who fi om girlh ood t o womanhood, ' F1i~ cute Prescription ' is a perfectly tmfc remcdml aa-ent, thoroughly feminine breast. H er only idea had not been the greate~ smner, he would Ausvell," he said, "and t h~ t by U:y dilatory ytsterday afternoon when I was rowing contrived to block the p ath. a.nd ean }JI oc11we only good results It 1S of sport wa.s 11. prettily shaped horse that have blazed up a.t sight f r.;ie- flown at me ..v&y of gomg to work I h"ve lost my ma.n I hired a boat at the bridge yesterday, "For God's sake don't go tha t wa.y. The equally efficacious md valrn1ble m i ts e:treele went h ke the wmd, and a perfectly fittmg like a tigert- tned to strang e me. Was It All I can sa.y is th Dt I don't think I have and rowed up the Chad and along t he men are carry10~the1r burden to the dead when taken for those disorclers aud de1~ ments in c1dcnt t o t hat later (llld most cntioal ha.bit. Big game and the hardships of llfe natural to tirn hvid and then pass on, withlost my man, and that this was a case m Abbey river, and m this place, where house. Let no one who loved hor look ~riod, k no" 11 as" The Change of Life " m tho desert had no attractions for her fancy. !us eye~ fixed on vac!),ncy, pretend mg not towhich p rec1p1tate action would have been everythmu 1s known that concerns other peo upon her-let no ooe but the surgeon see "1Fnv o1 1t o Presc ription," when t o.ken 0 .After luncheon she went out for a. long me1 h ~as that ~he fnd~cJ ~~ th:i hm~fa.tal .l bad to be sure of my facts before I ple s bus10ess, t hat fa.ct 1s sure to be known a.11 tbat death and the river have left of In oonncct10n wit h t he use of D r P ierce's Medical Drncovery and small laxative ramble by the river, not bec11use she loved w llm t a' wrong~ Nw 1 a lie nf t took any atep m the open The men will begm to drag at a pomt th~t poor humanity Come b1ck to Cha.dforil Golden doses of Di Pierces P mgah ve P ellets (Little 0 1. waist " The first thmg to be done was to find I 5hall md1 the nver or the la.ndsca.pe, but because ~he tcha me acfccunt ' t ho, h cvken ; h ca.t e to them nearest t o theAbbey, wit h me, Lord St Austell, I am going to Liver P ills ), cm es Liver Kidney ancl Bladder e manner o a wre c w o new i mse d k d f f t he C ner " Imew that open air exercise was good for h er a hundred disellJ!es Then cornbmcd use also rnmovEl8 times more guilty than 1 I t wasout how, and when, and with whom, Mrs an wor own stre11m or a qu,.rter o a Woro f. h d ? blood t amts, and nbohshes cancerous and figi1re and comple:iion, the face of an assa.ssm. And you ~nd Mel Belfield l eft the Abbey on the mght on mile- then go back to the same point and 'u' , hat o er m ur erer l s he to esca.pe scrofulous humors from the system. "Favorito P r escription" 1a t he only Mr. Melaotbe was out and about almost notte have trifled with your chances, havewhioh she was eupp?aed to have run away, work up stream. If th e body was thrown y 0" . . allday. Heseemedtobeaskeenlymteres t 1 ' h. t d 1 t fforwhetber sheever left the Abbey at all intothe nver,1tw1llbe found withm those Nob if I ca.nhelp 1t. I aballtelegraph to mecllcme f or womeu, sold by drugg1st-s, under 18 a po~itive r.;uaruutce, from the manued ID rustw explora.t1ons and village gossip be~· con~ummda. e scou~ ~e g~ c 1 ~ar 0 A long and careful investigo,trnn mvoivmg limits " Scotlani Ya.rd before I see tne Coroner, and facturc:rs that 1t w1ll give sntisfaotion m every as in the perilous adventures of the desett. e,?rledyou tatvhe kisMcovlerette ih s oribme 1di the cross exllminatwn of every' officia.l 11-t "What if tha.t fiua.l evidence is found ' when I have seen him I sha.11 get a magia casehor money will be r efunded This g1111ran" 9 0 H e mad e f uen · d s tiverywh ere, t <>lke d t o every but I can no m no as eett e ' · Th d II h h d t t t t t t ' t f M B Iii Id' t d teo as been prmt ecl on the bottle-wrapper, get very little out of him. Hti is t he sbation, and every fly driver m C had e mar erer w1 ave a 1me o ge ou ra e a wa.rran or r. e e s arres , an ,, one, and had a pleasant, homely way, which ford convrnced me that she did not leave of rnach of JUstice before a. coroner's mquest I shall take the first tram for London to and fiutbfully carried out f or many yewrs. 1 1 Large bottlos (100 doses) $ 1.00, or six ·th h 1m. H 0 was uncommon y cis ose ' . t o 1. .d S t. Aus pu t t h e warroi.ut m f orce. " put every one a t ease Wt "yes, that a trick of the trade. I be t he Abbey on that mght, or on the fol' :.iwing can b rmg h IS cnme 1ght , " sa.1 bottles 101 $5.00. out on t he day after Valentme's departure, heve th1a one lS really a clever follow Hemorning, or on a.ny subsequent occas10n tell. "81 Adrian will have commum cated For large. illustrated Treatise on Diseases of when Sir Adrian called a.t Colonel Deverdl's heaan hfe as a gentleman and started ;n hiaFrom the hour in which she wrote tha t " He will not loa.ve the country very with his brother m the mea.ntlrne, perhaps Women (160 puges, paper covered), send teu ceute in stampe Address< cottage early in the afternoon, pr~sent Tlrofession with the advantage of a.letter of which Colonel Doverill informed easily All the prmcipal ports a.re bemg Does he know what has happened?" He was shown mto the drawing room. ·' h b t l watched " World's Dls~ensary Medical Association, , untvers1ty ed ucat10n. They think highly ofme e e was never seen Y mor a. eye, "But wha.t of the smaller port s? H e wi · ll "Not yet, I think T here was no one M B dd l lk rs. a e ey was out wa mg, the b u t l er h im at Scotland yard, and be has been m unless ib were by Sir Adrian, or his mother, down by the uvor while the men were et 663 Maln...S.!,. BtJF.l'ALOt N.1!'. tolri ll'm but the Colonel was at home valuable to me m two or three rather a.wk or,M,r Belfield. . . . get away, if he wants to esc!!.pe "l work, except a ga.me)!eeper, a.nd l told him The Colonel was not very prompt to ap· ward affairs Rut I don't ltke his l ettmg I h ave a k nack of gettmg friendly w ith "I don't believe he intends flight," said my story of havmg dropped my watch into peai, ha.vwg lately settled himself ma. com things hang fire He has been here longpeople upon a. very slight pretence, and I the Colonel. "Sir Adrmn's ma.oner was the s tr eam, which he s eemed to swallow fort(l.ble a.rm chair by the dinmg room fire, enough to arouse Ilelfield 's suspicions. contnved to get on friendly terms with nat ural enough this afternoon when he t!llk easily enough I rlou't thmk Sir Adrian to sleep off the ~ffeots of a heavy luncn and ·when do you expect him 1 , Lady B~lfield's housekeeper, Mrs Marrable, ed of his brother h avin:r gone up to t own, can have heard any thmg ) et , but there a pint of dry sherry. Adrian was left to him "Any time between now a.nd eight o'clock.an a.drnira.ble old woman, and as easy to a.nd the possibility of his tra.vell1Dg sooner will be plenty of t alk, I s11ppo3e, when t he .self for at lea.st ten mmutes, during which H e al ways dmes with us, and if you canmanlloge as a. child ; a. devoted servant? ~nd or later. He ha.a held his grcund so long remams have been taken to the dea.dhouse " time he walked up and down the drawmg- stay to dinner--, loyal to t he backbone; but an mcorngible that I see no reason why he should take Lord s. Austell looked back: along the i oom restles 3ly, full of thought. "01 course I can stay. I ca.me to Devon prattler, All ehe wanted wa.s a pretext for fright now" river path H e saw t he men m the distance There was a small writing table in one of shire to find out what progress you werepr a.tthng and I found one for her. I called "Unless he smells a ra.t , and sus11ect s Cf!.rrymg their burden on a. hgbt hand bier, "the wmdows, a.nd a chair m front of it , which ma.kmg. I cannot r est till I kn'Jw theone afternoon when t he family were out, M elnotte," said St. Austell. which they musb have taken with them looked as if it ha.d been occupied t hat morn- worst and if there is a wrong to be aven a ud asked, as on the spur of the moment, He remembered how he had stood by her from the dead house, in expectation of t h is ~ng. On the table there was" pile of volumes ged, shall never rest till vengeance ha.sto see t he old. O.'.I.~ pa.nnelling, and the carved side wit h h er hand clasped in his, and had ghastly r esult, The burden wa.s covered with the label of the Royal Geogra.pb.ical been done I'll take a stroll and a smokebanDister rails tn the i;:a.llery over the hall sa.1d to her , "This promise ma.kee you mme with a black cloth , e.nd they were walkmg Society upon all of them, and beside the by the river, and theu go back to the in11If Mrs. Marrable would be kmd enough to for ever, love. T here must be no going slowly m the s11.me direction a.s St Austell hooks there .va.s an mkata.nd and a. blotter. and dress I shall be wit h you soon a.ftershow me the upper fl~or, I should esteem it ha.ck from your words to da.y. To me it is and Melnotte, only a good way behind. Sir Adrian ha.d the cur10a1ty to look at seven on the chance of gettmg some talk& favour, l said ' and as I had given the a. pledge as solemn as was ever made before He made no further a tt empt to see what these books. Cameron, Livingstone, Stan w ith Melnotte before dinner.,, grey haired foobman half-a. crown when I the altar. May the worst evil happen to lay bene.i.th yonder i;:ruesome covermg , in ley They were all books of African travel. He left the Colonel free to go back todmed at the Abbey, he a.ti once produced me if I ever fa.11 away from my fidelity to deed he felt that Melnotte wa.s right, and Ele opened one of the volumes a.t the places his easy chair by the dinmg-room fire, h1aM~~ Marrable" · you " He had spoken in good faith; a.nd that be would not for worlds have looked marked with slips of pa.per. newspapers, c1 ga.r and afternoon sleep. Col From Mrs. Marrable I ascerta.10ed that now in b u d esp:ur, he told himselC that this upon those p oor relics of a.II that he had At ea.ch ot the marked places he found an one! Daverill was !n the lowest spirit s full Mr, Belfield was nou at the Abbey a.t the was the real love of his life, a.nd that if she loved. Let not that horrible image oome anecdote, and every one of those anecdohs of vague dread, as one upon the thre~holdtime of his wife's disappearance, and ha.d had lived he would have been t rue to her t o between him and h is memory of her fresh ha.d been r ecited by Mr. Melnotte at the of a ghP ,fitly revelation , but there are pha.sesnot been there for months; that he d id not t he end young beauty ; let him not be r emmd ed Abbey dinner table or in the Abbey billiard of phyo. :1.l oomfort which can coexist withcome tb.erountllqu1tea~eekafterth~~eveot, The bte winter dawn found S t Auatell through her of what he himself must beVETERINARY S UR GEON, room, as persona.I adventures. mental J e pression and the Colonel went When he arrived late ID the evenmg, a.nd <i.wake, iu hie old fashioned four post bed a t of poor humanity's common d oom He He opened another volume, with the same baok to his fireside'and hlB soft warm cha.Ir tol d his mother th11.t he had l ost montiy a.t the hotel by Chadford Bridge. B e had been walked back to the town almost in 1nlence, 9 R O NO. 0 .N 'I'. reeult, and then another, in which there his brandy and soda and aft~rnoon slum' York Races a.nd ha.dgone over to l'a.ne for toRsmg about all night, sleepless, sa ve and lef Gthe detective t o do h is work alone. "\I ere more sel ected a.necdoti;s which had not hers, as naturally 11.1.1 the dog goes to t hea. week to revive his spmts. M rs. M!l.rrable for brief sn...tches of half unconsciousness, Melnotte suggested t hat he s.. uld go to t he yet been related, stock m trade for future he11rthrug and coils himself rouLd by t hewa.s cert ain that h~ sai~ he bad been m which were iather waking dreams than cottage and break the news to Colonel even1Dgs fender, even after being kicked. Pa.r1e It was a. way with him before he s~eep. Not for ~ne inst ant of that we~ry Devenll, but this St. Austell refused. "Valentine was right," he said to himself. S A t Ill h d - · d wa.s married to go off to Paris at an hour's mgbt had Helens image been absent from "I mi.n help no man to bear his burden " us e 1 g te his cigar an sauntered · h is ·b t. "Mr Melnotte is an impostor." I b th h d d h warni D,j;( and s h e wond ered wh at attraction u ough t s. A gafn, and aga. ·1n and a.g a.In he ea.id " my own 18 too heavy for me " ' 8 But why was the m11n there 1f an imposter1 ahong y le rfliver, da hotvlle now y wboodtikthere oo~ld be in suob. a pla.oe for a young he had lived over t heir la.ab meeting - reca.ll It w~s pa.rt of hie burdEn to know th~t his t al! were ea. ess, a.n 1 s tbat were lea. E l h l 00 k dt h l ta, t yield Colonel D everill wa.s not a ma.n t o be ta.ken db A h e8 · h ngllsh gentleman. ng er a an ones- er re uc n unholy love had been t he cause of H elen m l>y any common swmdler There must :n ta.re. d d eron tea~ wotop!°gdover t ~ "Having ascerta.10ed from this good soul mg to his prayers- and then her final pro- Belfield's death If her husband was the an lowi;i o e d ~ ~-'.:lr s e ~_.tuadn ·hat Mr. Belfield had not been at the Abbey mise, solemnly given, tb.a.t she would be murderer it was' her lover who had brought &re p repared to pay t he highest pric e . t reas on f or the presence o f erteedops b e some sufil 01en 00 on one eg m a me 1.,..u ve 1i..u 1 e, th i ht f A t th th t his 0 this sham explorer. waitin to s ear the first unwa fish tha.·0 n en g ugns e 19 · my nex ,·, a.boub the crim e, Was there some hidden motive in his visit g h P Th 8 k ry "bueiness was to ascertain from other people She was beautiful enough to enslave a (To BE OONTINOED ) all k mds of Gram delivered at the to the Colonel; some motive wbioh mvolved passed t at way e Y wa.s gray andtha.t he had been there on t hat particular ma.n for a. lifetime," he so.id t o himself d11.nger to Va.lentme? dull, but the a.ir .was 1:1Ud. It wa.s an at nig ht I had made myself pretty sure of "She had spirit enough to make her a d1fil Whatf or th eir Store H onse in town mosp!"ie~e suggestive of idleness and la.ngu1dthat fact from t he porter who t ook his cult conq ues.t; she was JUS.t clever enough Adrian had been not a little perplexed by emotion. t b d l h f 1 f l Suppressing Duelhng, Colonel Deverdl's choice of that river aide s~ A 't llf 11 d th f th Ch dticket at Cha.dford Stat10n, before I saw my o e a. e 1 g tu companion or a c ever ~; o~ l\ r.~]TS us e o owe e course o e a good Marrable · I ma.de myself surer man. She was the one perfect woman ~ n !'.,.QJ[~ 'il ~ cot tage as a. winter residence, and now i t as ~a.r as the mouth of that tributary streamafterwards whe~ I ca.lied' a.t t he Station whom I have known " An ex-member of the Virginia. Legisl11.t ure H e rose a.t da.ybreik, worn out by sleep has been disfranchised for having sent a seemed to him thatMelnotte was a. mysterious which flowed thr.~:mg~ t he grounds of Belfield Hotel and bee.rd how Mr Belfield had 10 ltI~S l A nr I "T~W \\ IHl ,.... TUEY L !\ST '" c \ 1 l ~<n d b v m 11lan:a.pally of the Colonel's, who had been brought A bbey,hbut at this po1ndt l he dturnehd ahn~ hwendtarnved by the midnight t rain, and ha.d Jeasness, and t ried to r efresh himself wit h an challenge to a d uel T he tendenoy of the there to aot as a spy upon the mma.tes of the a 1 ong t e narrow woo an pa.t w 10 1 e ordered a. fly to take him to t he Abbey, bow lCe cold b11oth. The houee was ast ir early 1n Southerners to appeal ta t he code of honour ~\f~r~1\~tfi~~t ~~ ~~~l~~~;~c~~ Abbey. to those shrubber1ed walks where he had lastplea.sa.ntly he had chatted in t he bar while t he huntmg season, a.nd there wa.s a great m redress for 1magmary or r eal wrongs ha.s :-r n fw 1 y - w h o ""' ill by t h e To suppose this was to suppose that H el seen Helen .Belfield. It was summer then, t he fly was bemg got ready a.nd how he cry for baths and boots, and hurrying to and nearly d1Bappeared under t he operation of l>REAOMAKER S BJ.KIM C PO WDEI en's fa.thtJr suspected the dark secret of h is a.!ld the foliage was d ense a.nd heavy, shu~ had dismissed the carriage h a.If wa.y down fro of chamber ma.ids in the corridor, by the t he la.w d1squa.lifying any person concerned Cnt the 1ed 0 1cle from the I th<1 ::ind ~e ncl 1t 111 a Jetter daughter's fate, and such a suppos1t1on was tmg out }he" orld beyond tha.1 verdant sob the avenue, preferring to walk the rest of t ime Lord S t. Austell wa.s dressed His ma duel, e1 ther g,g prinotpa.l or second, from 11 full of terror. tude. N ow all was bleak a.nd bare, savethe way. breakfast was ready in t he pretty sitting hold10g pubh e cffi ce, and the recent sent ence f!~~~;t'll hEn1~~1~r~.f5 lO ~~f~fi Colonel Deverill ca.me into the room while wh~re the conifers showed darkly green "This was point number two in my case. room looking on to t he road and the river, mfl cted in V 1rgm1 a will no doubt cause the c c1 t su:e w ill secu re t h e gift A ny g r o ....e r or sto1 ckoe pe1 full gray s hky. H e rh ememberedrt w11os clear that Mr. Belfield had ma.de a !a.t eight o'clock, buh he was as h ttle able to last remuantl! of the practwe to disappear in Adria.n was still standmg by the table, with aga.1nsb t he d kno w s w hc1c to g ct1t dask e.d Cameron's book m his hand. He put it every turn o, th e pa.~ by w hw ~hey t:-voaecret vmt to the Abbey after mldDigh t , at eat a.she had been t o sleep He sat staring the Nor th E very A merican ha.a, if not a ~) £0 1 by y ou -Ada,,, .,$_ down a.s he went forward to meet the Col ha.d w_a.lked , x.e pleading, she hsten!ng, wit.ha time when he wa.s supposed to b e a.t York a.t the fire, and sipptng a cup of tea, while hope, a.n 1de11 that he may be offered a pub -'1111111i!Pi0""5' CHURCHILL & CO TO RO 'ITG onel droopmg head and eyelids heavy with teiu-s or in Paris 1he pictured to bimseH what the men were h e pos1t1on durmg some port10n of his car eer, " Your friend M elno~te seems fond of " I k h 1 d " h Id h Jf and t he d1squaltfica.t1on law has had more now s e ove me, e to imse "The next t nmg was to discover how he doing m the Abbey river. readmg other people's ad ~entures," he said, "If sh e bad lived she would have been mme contrived to disappear from the neighbour He !-.ad m tended to be down there at d a.y- effect ln suppressing duellmg than all the oareles~ly Or if · h11;d ma.de up h_er mind to throw mehood, wi thout ha.vmg been observed at Chad break a.nd to watch t hem a.t t heir work !rom criminal penalt ies which could be inflicted. a.'he Colonel glanced from his visitor to over,'""'"' hve her h fe without me, she would ford station. I had round a fairly intelligent the begmning H e had thought about i t all Has r eceived her new stock ot the books on the table, and at once accepted not have left me ID uncertamty about b Arporter and a wo1th y station IDt\Ster at th11t mght, bu t when the mornmg hght came, the situ.. tion. fate, she would not have t rifled with my station, and from these two I had s~tisfied his courage failed him. I t was all too A Business Soheme. "Yes, he is never so happy a.a when he love and tortured me for no purpose. She myaelf that neit her Mr. Belfield nor his wife I ghastly. How would death have used her, " Why do you ask for ten cent s ?" demandnd invites the Ladies of Bowhas his nose in a volume of trnvefo," he an IS dead, and t hat man hM murder ed her,"had left Cha.dford by t ram, up or down the his beloved, she whose smile was t o have ed a. c1t1 zen of a tramp "Moab of you fel· H e was cl ose to the spot where they ha.:lime, after the ntg bt of August 19th i been his Aurora, who wa.s to have looked lows only _a.e~ for. a penny " swered " You a.re not lookmg over .vell, man ville and vicinity to t:"1) sat together under t he willow upon that last "To discover Mr. Belfield's mannei of get upon him ID the happy dawn, 1n tbe glad "Yes, sir,' pohtely responded the tramp, Adris.n What s the matter' ' and see her Pattern " Uh, l am well enoul!'h. ' afternoon. Y es, t her e was the cypress wa.lk,ting away from the neighbourhoed cost me beginning of ea.ch new da.y. How would and if they are repulsed their case1s hopeless. "But a nttle anxious a.bout your brother," a.ud t here below it upon the edge of the80me t ime· but eventually I t raoed him t o she ha.ve fared in t hat cold couch, where With me I can offer bargams- alaughter pursueed the Uolonel, watching Sir Adria.n's stream, the great gr ay t runk of the w1llowBideford ~here he must have gone on foot they w ar e seekmg her ? For t he first time pnces In th·s case I a.m wdling: to make race as he spoke. "I met Mrs. Freemantle slantmg across the bank, and there the rus-a. thirty r:i11e walk a.nd wher e at three 0 clock since his boyhood, be p rayed wit h all the a dead reduction of five cents, t hus enabling and assortmentoi in my stroll this mormng, a.nd she told me tic bench upon whwb they had sat. on the afternoon ~f August 20 th he charter strength and fervour of a beh eve1- forget ! you, my dear air , to come to the aesist a.nce you w e1e all of you uneasy a.bout Mr. Bel Some one was sitting there to day - a WO·ed a sailing boat , 10 wnwh he went round the ting his sceptici·m, h is sociology , his , of a deserving but despairing fellow being, man rn a. fur .coat, with JUSt t he same grace coast to Bude, where be dismissed the boat p essimism, ever ythmg, excep t the ment al with the pleasan t feeling t hat yon are nob field, and that you wanted him to travel." " Yes ; h.e is out of health and out of ful, cnrvmg lu~e of throat a~d should_ers, a.n_dI took the trouble to go to Hude, and heard a'lony wh10h wrung that prayer from him. \ only domi;i good, but domg it a.t fifty cents spmts " small head w~th heavy cod s of hair. J h sof him there, wher e he was hut fishing all da.y, He prayed t hat the ,men with. the d rugs on the dollar " 11T·R.t: 1- !leeond Door wen o r William &a&Clluir lltuJJ" "Bverybody ha.s noticed the change m heart stood still a.t sight of t hat figure lt the mnkeeper told me, and seemfld strange m might not find her. That she might still him. There has been a .deeper gloom than was she She had been hvmg at the Abbey h1a manner H e stayed only two days and livmg, lost to him, perhaps, bnb hving and p husbands usually fall mto under s11ch cir all t his time in hiding. She was there, a.I then left f~ the coach for Launceston.' He lovely as she had been when le.et he looked rnparme; or ar. First Boy - " I gue1s your J blks am'b a.a cumsta.ncea. Most men take t heir troubles mo~t. wit hm r each of his arma, In that onewas not known there by name, and he bad no upon h er face. M rs. Smith- "Do you thin~ New York rich a.a ours. My t .. ther and mother go pretty_lightly, _ now a days. " delu1ous moment he felt that he love~ her,Juggage, except a. mght shirt, brush a.nd The men must h ave been at work for more will be bomha.rded by the English ironclads?' dr1vmg every da.y." Second Boy- " My Adrian wa.s silent. as be had never loved womau yet, with a.n 00mb which be had evidently boughb on his than a.n hour by this t ime, and it would take Mr. Smith- "! shouldn't be surprised.' father drives every day, too. " F irst Boy" Have you succeeded in persuading your undymg love. arrival. The day on which he left Bude was him near ly an hour to walk to the -abbey " Dea.r me, Charles, go right up stairs a.nd " I don' t believe i t I What does he drive ?' brother to try change of scene ' ' i She rose at tbe sound of his footsteps and the date which Mrs. Marrable had mentioned river ; yet still he sa.t with his bre11okfast load t hat pistol in the drawer." Seoond Boy- " Na.1le.' ' ]Now Fms'.t .l'UBLISRBD.] r ALL ltIGHTS RESERVED ] I AND UNLIKE By M. E. BRADDON, ... I 1 se h D i JOHN SPENCER, GRAIN I ' · Jno. McMurtry & Co. I GOODS., j i 8 ONN ETS, HATS TRIMMINGS be : I I ---- -----r w