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1 Red Heart .« r * I I Z Of the !l! I Black Arrow I - ' \ Rolling Wave »»»»»»»»»»»»»>»>»^>»»^>»»3»»»%>»»3.»»»>»»S'&»»»d ^ CHAPTER XUI. When I came back to consciousness I was lying on my back on a dirty bed in a stone cell some twelve feet long by six across, and my re- turning senses took shape slowly in the process of counting the bars in an iron-grated window high up in the opposite wall. How long I had lain there I had no means of know- 'ng- A stray sunbeam flickering through the dusty glass of the win- dow told me that it was daytime, and that was all. As recollection grew upon me, I moved my limbs to see if I Was bound, and I rejoiced in a dim and misty sort of way to find that, within the narrow com- pass of my prison at least, I was free. Hut that was the extent of my self-gratulation. When I remember- ed the scene at the Consulate- and the naanner of my forcible capture, I gnashed my teeth with impotent fury to think that Zavertal and Vizard, about whose co-operation there could no longer be any doubt, had bested me with such ease. Whatever their objects might be, they had evidently seen that I was hostile and suspicious, and they had got me deposed from the command by some ruse by which the Consul had been made the unconscious abetter of their villainy. By this time the Queen of Night had prob- Rbly proceeded on her voyage in charge of another captain, and the thoug-ht maddened nie that Aline was on board, ignorant or misin- formed of what had befallen me, and with those two unscrupulous vil- lains at hand free to carry out what- rvor devilry was in their minds. These considerations quite out- Weighed the disgust I felt at the treatment to which I had been sub- jected ; but after a while I began to wonder what colorable pretext my enemies could have offered to the Consul to induce him to sanction their conduct. Of course I never doubted that he had been duped, but a terribly strong case must have been presented to him, 1 thought, for hlDi to permit violence to be used against a British subject with- in the Walls of the Consulate. With what crime was I charged ? Again, however heinous that crime might be, why that extraordinary method of arrest ? I had no previous ex- perience of Italian justice, but I could not believe that it was usual to chloroform prisoners in order to make them "go quietly." My mind having cleared suflSciently to reason thus, the impulse prompt- ed me to try and ascertain whether I was really in prison or no. The place of my confinement certainly warranted no other supposition. The Walls and floors were of stone, the door massive and nail-studdod, and the wittdow was placed so high that its lattice of iron bars could only have been intended to prevent es- cape â€" not accident. Having no means of filing the bars, flight by that route was out of the question, but I thought thsit by standing on the bed and malcing an upward spring, it was just possible that I might reach the inner sill of the window, and hang long enough to obtain a view of the outside sur- rounding's. At the second attempt I was suc- cessful. My fingers got a grip on the stone sill, and by dint of pulling up my own weight, I managed to raise my head sufficiently high to look out. I saw an old and tangled garden surrounded by stone walls, and with nothing more human-like in it than here and there a liroken statue peeping through the matted undergrowth. The paths and terraces were moss-grown and uncared for. Beyond the far boundary wall the ground sloped upwards, and I could see that it was quite country, and only sparsely studded with large houses at considerable intervals. Having noted that my window was about tyenty feet from the ground, I drofJped back into my cell, the wiser only by the negative theory that my place of confinement was not a prison. The neglected condition of the garden precluded the idea that the place was a Govern- ment establishment of any kind, and the situation tended to prove that it was not the jail. 1 judged from the country beyond the walls that I was somewhere on the rising foot- hills at the back of the city, where- as the jail was in the central and thickly built over district of the Via Garibaldi. Further reflection was cut . short by the sound of approaching foot- steps, followed by the clanking of bolts and chains. A moment later the door opened, admitting three stalwart Italians whose appearance at once put an end to any lingering notion that I might bo in a legal prison. If I had been held captive by brigands in a mountain fastness, I could not have had guardians who more thoroughly looked the part than the greasy, ragged, garlic- smelling rascals who crowded into the narrow cell. They all carried oak cudgels, which, judging from the ferocious glance they shot at me, they would use with very little provocation. Separately, I could have easily tackled any one of them, but the number put all ideas of at- tacking them out of m.y head at once â€" especially as I did not know how many of the same sample might be within bock and call. One fellow carried a bowl of stew, and another a stone jar half-filled with country wine. These they de- posited on the floor, one of them saying, with a gesture : "Deenei' â€" Signor eat deener." This denotec^ a modified knowledge of English, and 1 at once broke into a torrent of protest and in- quiry â€" where was I ? why had I been so treated ? was I fi-ee to go away ? At the last question the spokes- man laughed, and answei'cd the first question as though it comprised a reply, to the others. "This is the Convent^the Con- vent of Santa Lucia," he. said. This conveyed nothing, and when I pressed him furtlicr he refused to say why I had been brought there, and in whoso keeping I was. The only piece of information he vouchsafed increased my anxiety and di.smay. On my demanding to be taken instantly to the British Consul the man replied insolently,â€" "Consul come here see Signor in one week. No use maliing fuss be- fore." "Is there any one named Zavertal. or Vizard, in this cursed place ?"' T asked. But he only shook his head , va- cantly, and again pointing to the wretched food withdrew with his companions, barring the door be- hind them. I was too excited to be hungry, but recognizing the necessity of preserving my strength, I ; ate some of the mess and drank all the wine, after which 1 sat on the bed â€" not to despair, but to think out some way of escape. That my cap- ture was in some degree sanctioned by authority I concluded from the man's statement that the Consul would visit me in a week. That was so far reassuring, as showing that I was not in the hands of j)rofessed criminals, but it also spurred nie to endeavor to free myself, seeing that the only person who could heH me would not be accessible for swen long weary da3's. To remain shut up for that time, in doubt as to what those two sclicming villains were up to, and with that ever- haunting fear about Aline hanging over me, was not what I meant to endure. X had sat there brooding for an hour or more, when again I heaid the tramp of approaching footsteps. On the door being' opened, two peo- ple â€" both strangers to me â€" came in, , while outside were clustered the three men whom I had seen before. The two who entered were quite of a different stamp, and my heart bound- ed when I saw that the hindermost Was dressed in the garb of an Eng- lish clergyman. The first-comer was a big lank-haired Italian, elderly, and of pompous manners ; but he had the air of being a person of education, and in authoritj'. He seemed to search my face with a keen scrutiny, and then, falling back a pace or two, he said a few words in Italian as he motioned his com panion forward. The clergyman was spare and ascetic-looking, and he proceeded to address me in an irritating, unctuous voice. "I am the new English chaplain here," he said. "Need I say with what hoEirtipess I shall place my ministrations and advice at your disposal. I have called to see you in the exercise of my duty at the special request of the Con- sul." "You are very kind," I replied â€" in, I fear, a thank-you-for-nothing tone, "but I should prefer to see the Consul himself. The only .service any one can render me at jiresent is to tell me why I am detained in this hole, and to gel me out of it as quickly as possible." The clergymaii sighed a [jrotes- sional sigh. "Those are matters quite beyond my province, I am afraid," he whined, in t!ie nauseous hypocritical twang that was fast making me hate him. "Any spiritual consolation now ? or the loan of a nice book to read ? In either of these ways I shall be so privileged to administer to your wants. ' In the doorway the pompous au- thorative person, evidently ignorant of Eiiglish, was having our conver- sation mutilated to him by the greasy tatter-demalion who had a smattering. The man's whispering, therefore, overlapped the last sen- tence by twenty seconds, and under cover of this the parson, catching my eye, added quickly, whispering himself with great earnestness,â€" "I am here to help you. Appear angry and drive mo awa.y, but take the book I shall oCor you." AVith difUculty controlling iny de- light sufSciontly to seize the cue, I cmscd him so vigorously for an unr s.vm.pathetic humbug, unwilling to aid~a fellow-countryman in distress, that the translator tlirew up his hands in despair. Tlie eC'ect upon the clergyman was even more mark- ed.-' Uttering: feeble ])rotestP, he re- treated to the door, where he nearly fell into the arms ot the Italians, who rallied to his. a.ssistancc. But checliing the onslaught they seemed HEROES OF HUMBLE LIFE THE TALE OF GEEAT SINGLE- HANDED HESCTJES. One Briton. Against a Zulu Army â€"Saved 600 Souls From a Burning Ship. It was one morning in September laat that a lire broke out with ter- rible auddennese in the engine house of the Bodringallt Colliery near Rhon'dida, Wales. At the moment a cage with eleven men in it was slow- ly deacending the shaft. The flames spread raj)idly, and the heat became almost unbearable. But Evan Lloyd, the engine man, never dreamt of quitting his post. Catching up a sheet of metal, he propped it in front of his face and grimly held on to his winding lever until the indi- cator showed that the cage was safe at the bottom of the shaft. Then, and not till then, acorched and blackened, lie staggered out into the op«n air. A few moments later the c^^^wfurnJ^hi'^ 1%"^ 'fr.T'^ baWtwo hundred yaivls a L^ o t-n n.i â„¢V by that time j,^^ l^^ ^^^^ ^^.^^ Fre.lerick x^n or the men were m safetv. Onlv . , , , » . men were in safety. Only one was injured by the falling metal, and he not mortally. An English railway man the other day saved an express train full of pa^^engeis bound from Liverpool to London witli true British pluclc. A With no one to relieve him, thia man stood at his post in torrents of rain, in wiml and darkness, and en- dured the awful strain for thirty-six hours on end. H* never once lot go his hold. A boy stood by him and put food between his lips at Inter- vals to give him strength for liis all but hopeless task. He saved tli« junk and all aboard her. What thj-eatened to be one of th« worst disasters in the history ol s1iij)fling was the buj-ning of th« Ocean Monarch. Fire was di-v'over ed in her (ore-hold an hour o" twc only after she had left the Mersey There was a strong breeze and shi was headed for the Wel^i coast. Bj some unlucky accident an anchor was dropped, and the big ship wai brought uj) all standing, heaid tc wind. The flames came roaiing aft, where COO jja'ssengers and crew wer« crovw'ded in panic. A Brazilian frigate, a yacht, and a pilot boat were near, but they only attempted to pick up those who jumped and swam. Suddenly \vf came the /Vmerican clipper Xevi World, and rounde<l into the 'winti away. In Jerome, only an able teaman, but one of thi bravest men that ever lived. In a flash his boat was alongside th« burning ship and he had climbed on deck amid the scorch and smother. There iie stayed until the last soul of all the six hundred was saved. fn'ronT. /t°°* ^*^" ^^^^ '"'''''" ' His" clothe'; wei-e "aiVe .ever^" .epar- ing on tte L. & N. Vi: Railway near Taniworth, to make wav for the ex- Pains in the Back For Twenty Years Could Not Turn Over in Bedâ€" Kidneys and Bladder AfTected â€" Experienced Great Sufferingsâ€" Cured by Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Piiis. The oU! people especially apf>rcoi- ate tic ertectix^iie.ss of Dr. Chases Ki.iiioy -Liver Pill.-;, because tie kld- ne.\s a'e usually the first of tl'.e bod- ily organs to give out, and the re- sult i.s backache, lumbago, pains in tic si:'e awl liniVs. urivary disor- dc ."», end constipation. Old people learn to tJ-ust in Dr. Cha'o's Kidne.v-I.ivcr Pills, for when all other treatments fail this gi-cat n".e<liiine scorns to go directl.v to the â- disra.=o«l pifit. and promptly affords relief and euro. tU\ David Mi:fner. Farmer, an old and rc^pceteii rcsielent of Port Rob- inson, ^'cllaad County, Ont., writes: "I wis* to state to you that 1 had pain in my bao]( and left nii'c <or over twenty yeare. At times I co.Md p»ot titrn over in l.)»cl, I was .sa badly ' used up. I had cramps in my fe«t and leg's, and my hands were so en- tirely u.sele.ss that I could scarcely lift anything." "Kidney disease, was, uo doubi'., the cause of all my suflering, and *omctlmes the uainary trouble would be so bad that I would have to get 14) five or »lx times during ti.e night. Fortunately, 1 began usi«g Dr. Chasie's Kidncy-Liv<M' Pills, and they cured uic co«i|)Jet«ly. T am now 79 yeais old and q.uitc well now, but slfil o«va!uon«11y ii«e tbe.'o pills to keep ray systoni in goo J orJtier. Sev- eral persons to whom I \ave â- '•e-em- n!end«<l l>r. Chase's Ki<l>»«y-U*er Vil's \ia,yc been equally tcnrftert." Dr. Cha.se's Kidney-t ivcr Pill.<», the comtort of old ago. one pill a etftae, 25 cents s t)ox, .:\t all iloalors. or fiUiiiai-ao:^, •*«<!c< & Co., Toroi»t«. DS. A. lÂ¥. CHASE'S CATARRH GSJRt... C Is sent direct (o the disMsei rarts br ibe Improved tlower. Icals iho ulcers, rlears tlni«lt paiMjts, Hops droppincs In tha throat and i)erinaiiantlj curet Catarrh and ilay Ftv,!t. Elowgc All dealers, or Dr. A. W. Chaw Utdbdna Co., Toronto ud Buffalo, free. about to make upon me, he ventured back a little way into the cell and laid upon the bed a book which ho bad been cai'rying under his arm. This being safely accomplished, ho beat a second retreat, pulling' the door after him, and then I heard the bolts shot and the footsteps ol my visitors departing, TIm; moment the sounds died away I sprang up and clutched the book, which was rather a bulky volume, bound in cloth with red edges. Di- rectl.v my lingers closed upon it I knew that it was no book, but a dummy forming a box of which one of the covers wn.s the litl. Wrench- i'ng it open I couUl hariUy repress a cry of e-xultation. for neatly coiled in the interior was a silken cord, slight but strong enough to bear the weight of a man's bod.v, a lile, a small chisel, and a half sheet of notcpapor. on which were scrawled the following welcome lines ; â€" "Zavertal has been too clever for us. but I shall beat him yet. In case you do not know, you are in the Convent of Santa Lucia, â- which is used as a private niadhouac. 1 bring you moans of escape. Make the attempt to-night an hour after sunset. I shall wait for you at the ! right-hand angle of the tar garden !wall, outside. The ship hao saile^li j with Mclhtyre in command, but if .vou get awa.v to-night we can pick iher UJ) at Naples.., . I^o .*>im* to write more, as 1 have to devise means ol getting to ,vou somehow. T^plana- tions when we meet. â- KKNNARD." (To no Continued.) prosa to pass. The s-ignal fell for the express to pass, but the driver of the goods, under some misiappre- bcnsion, imagined that it was for hiin to leave the siding. The points being against him, his train was de- railed. Kight trucits left the rails and lay about utterly blocking ti'.e main line. Both driver and fireman were badly hurt; but the latter, a Swan- sea man, by name Frederick Davis, realiKing the danger to the oncom- ing express, picked himself up, and though IN TERRIBLE PAj:S crawIeH slowly towards the neai-est signal box. As he went he laid danger signals on the line. Wlion he reached the box he had just strength left to tell what had hai>pened. Then he fell unconscious, and was carried to hosfjital. .' • Iji tiio two (Jesperatp battles of Rorke's Drift and Isandlwhana the gallant Twenty-Fourth lost twenty- one officers and live 'lundj'ed and eighty-seven men, .and the survivors received no fewer than eight Victoria Crosses. Of tliese the most magni- ficently won is that which Sergeant Hook, now enyiloyed at the British Miusouin. 5till wears. For four long hours Hook and two other men held the hos;jital at Rorke's Drift against a iioit of huge Zulus. At last his two companions fell, and the sur- vivor ran short of ammunition. Un- dismayed, he fixed his bayonet and still held off the rushes of his foes. -â- Vs one after another of th«tn fell, he piled their bodies u/p until a barri- cade Was formed Ave feet high. Then the Zulus gave up the atteiopt to iiish and set the place on fire. The solo defender seized a pick and broke through three aucccssi\"e walls of sun-dried clay to get at the hos- pital behind. There lay eigjit men, too badly hurt to move. Ajid al- ready the flames wcto bursting in up- on them. H'ook j^ickod i»p the near- est and S'taggerod away with him to the other building behinM. Then Laiu'c-Corporal Williams came to the resicuo, and with his help all the siif- feiois were carried into safety. Be- fore rescue caiiic Hook had been fighling eighteen hours on end. Tlie o was a moment of furious ex- ate times, and he was ."jcorched al- most be>-ond recogiirtion. His onlj rewai'id was the meo'al of an Ameri- can Humane Society, â€" I'earson'i Weeklv. ^ A COMMON MISTAKE. jSIany People Weaken Their Sys« tern b.v Taking Purgative Medicines. People who use a purgative medi- cine in the spring make a serious nristake. Most people do need a me- dicine at this scasxm, but it is a tonic that is required to give health, vigor and vim. Purgatives irritate and weaken â€" a tonic medicine in- vigorates and strengthens. Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills are ahsolut«ly the best tonic medicine in tho f.orld. These pills do not gallop through the bowels â€" tl.cy are geatly ab- sorbed into the system, filling the veins with the pure, rod blood that carried health and strength to every part of the bodj-. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure skin eruptions, indi- gestion, headache", nervousness, neu- ralgia, backache, rheujriatism, con- tinued weariness and all other blood troubles. They are just the tonii you need for this spring. Mr. A Caimaeau, Alexandria, Ont., says: "1 received gr'eat benefit from the use oi Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and taki great ploaagre in reconijnending thoti to all who suffer from troubles aris ing out of a poor condition of tjii blood. 1 think there is no bettei tonic me:iicine. " It you need a medic-ire this sp^ring give tbo-so pills a trial â€" they will not disappoint you. Do not be per- suaded to take a substitute or any of the "just as good" medlci-nes which some dealers. who care only for prolit, offer their custome'S. See that the full name. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People, is on tho wrapper around every box. If in doubt send direct to the Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co.. Drockville, Ont , and the pills will be .-^iit by mail. poKt palrl. at 50c per bo.x or ti.x boxes for $2..'>ti. Opdyko â€" "What's the use ol ai-gviiiig with a woman'.' You tat never convince her." Depoystor - "True. But think of the pleasure il citement on Ludgate H-ill on August | gives the woman." Batik Holiday last. Two horses drawin.g an omnibus with twenty ex- cursiioni.sts bolttKl down the hill. The driver lost the reins. TraflTic was thick in the Circus, and DISASTER IMMINENT. Police Constable Chidley sprang forward and grasjiod the trailing reins. He threw his weight upon them'. They broke, and l:o was thrown to the ground. I'itJiiug ! you for. " himself up, he made another dasli, [ â€" ; and catching tho •broken ends, sue- | "â- !' have iliscovero'd a "'ay to tell a ceederl in pulling the horses up. Un- |,,erson's ago," said (;ia'd.\-R. "In- â- i:api)ily, just as the horses were! deed! Can you tell anyone's age"'' stopping Chidle.v fell again, and the i asfeed George. "â- Yes.' wheels pa.qsed over his legs, indicting Jtoc yours." dreadful injuries; For months he j ^ "I am going to visit the gaol Theie is a man I want to see there." "Is one all',' I know about forti whom I should like to see there. " Bcnham â€" "Well, if you want tc Kiiow it, 1 married you tor youi mohev." Mrs. Benhani â€" "I wi.sh ) co'.iUr tell as easily \^lwt I marrioc •Then tel was a patient at St. BarUioloiiiew'a nrtd other hosj'itals, nnd now he is still a cripph?. But ho can show with price the Order of St. John of if"". '•'"*'â-  .'•â- ''^ Jerusalem which the Prince of Wales A WARNING TO MOTIIT'.HS. Ask any doctor and he will tc oothing contain opiates lue.liiines and nurcoliis <ltin- gave" him with his own hand, and hojef"'"* ^^ J''''' 'â- â€¢-•"it.h "f iniinus and - to enjoy a well merited pension !'--l"''l''en. Hvery mother should shun for th.e rest of his life. these so-called medicines as she One of the heroes ot the world is a j.^;";'!". ''V"*!'-^- P'^'f""' .,»»,^l'>;« ..<r!" Chinaman. His story Was rocehlly ' 'a^'-^^s is the only mouUi.K- M'«-Vial- Granville ShaJn) of ' ^ prepared for children sold untlur «n absolute guarantee to contnin no t>piate or liarnifTrl drug, Kvoiy dose helps little on^s and cannot i<ui)K4bly do hitrni. No other medicine has been .so told by Mr. Hong Kong. 'Mr. Sharp wns on a FVcnth steamer on its way from Hong Kong to Touron on the Chi- nese coast. The steamer ran on a rock, and was beached to save her. . , , Her captain hired two Chinese jUnks ^varmly r.va.soJ by mothers every- to take the crew and passengers "'^'^'^ Mrs. J . R. Stanriciv Wey- bark to Itong Kong, and Mr. Shaq) ^:'":i- ,"' ^^ ' ^ ' «">",•, ••.""''â- ^- « ^'^'â- â€¢" went with the captain in the smaller } ablets nie valuable in c-a.ses of one.. A tvphoon swept down upon I <1i«>'rhoea .onstipation, hives. „r th«n. Masts, bulwark's: and rudder I *^ teeUnng. I have never used a were swept away in. an instairt. The I '»*f"^''r, ^'"'*' B'^"*^ such good satis I Chiriesa captain, UelieviBR all "O-** !,pV°" '.,,,, ^ ,,, ., o»cr went below and druggcKl him- | '♦'«>*«â- â-  laWetswfll j.romptly le- ^clf with opiu'ni. Three Chinese «.<*-!'»«"« «"*» <•'"â- <? "'• "'i"°'' a'lments qI i;,.men, who had beeji ftix'men «p the KhUdr*^, atKi may bo safely «ivei,. to, stcn.ucr.- were nboat^. aihd these " ««^V,»^"'-« ^'»^y- r.v ' I'^-'m '<>' knew tho coast. They managed to ^our e<iildro« a.ui we know V"" U«h lepair tic rudder, but bnlv on<> could ««« •,â- â€¢'" " "^''«''" ""•^'C"^<' ^oXa bv 9«cer well erough to save'it from drv«rg.sts at 'J.", rents a ho.-c or «-mI HKINO AO.MN WHVKTIN I'S" "J^'l "" 'ecc„.f^ "' ^f,"« '»•' -T''! He -had to waUh every w,.v<. and '"« ^^r^"- ^-.^ ^^Z-l^ ''''"''"^ *""^" be .e..:iv to c«sc olT for etich .ea. ^»«« *'.?v Urockv.llp. Ont.