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ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER XXXIV. (Cont'd) But Frithiof stooped down and filenoed hr with a kiss. "You see fh* harm it has done," ha said, "but you don't see the good. Come, top crying and let us have tea, for your news has given me an appetite, fend I'm sure you are tired and hun- gry after all this." "But oould it ever have entered ay on*' head that such an im- probable thing should actually Ltppen t' ' Mud Boy. ' 'To think that Bardoni should get change for his note, and DarneLl steal it on the Mry day that 'Swanhild had given Ei that unlucky contribution to debt fund I" "It U just one of those extraor- dinary coincidences which do hap- pen in life," said Bigrid. "I be- lieve if svery ona could be induced k> tell all tha strange things of the (rind that had happened we should * that they are after all pretty oommon things." "I wonder if dioro is a train to Plymouth to-night?" said Boy. "I hali not rear, till I have seen Dar- neli For nothing leas than hi* Oonfession signed and sealed will tiafy James Horner. Do you happen to hav a Bradshaw?" "No, but we have something bet- ter," said Sigrid, smiling; "on the next lauding there is Owen, one of the Great Western guards. I know he is at home, for I passed him just now on th stairs, and he will tell you about the trains." "What a thing to ^v in model lodgings I" said Bov. smiling. "You from to me to keep all the profes- sions on the premises. Come, Fri- thiof, do go and interview this gu*ird and ask him how soon I can get down to Plymouth and back again." Frithiof went out, there was still strange look of abstraction in his lace. "I scarcely realized before bo-w much he had felt this," said Boy. "Wihat a fool I was to be to positive that my own view of the ese was right ! Looking at it from my own point ox view, I couldn't realize how humiliating it must all have been to him how exasperat- ing to know that you were in the right, yt not tt> be able to con- vince any one." "It haa been like a great weight on him all through the autumn," Mid Sigrid, "and yet I know what be meant when he told Swanhild that it had done him good aa well At harm. Don't you remember how t one time ho cared for nothing but clearing off the debts? Well, How, though he works hard at that, et he oars for other people's trou- ble* too that is no longer his one Uea." Before long Frithiof returned. "I don't think you can do it," he said. "Owen tells me there is train from Paddington at 9.50 this "'.euing, but it isn't a direct one, and you won't get to Plymouth till 9.23 to-morrow morning. A most unconscionable time, you -.-. tt "Why not vfrite to Darnell?" mggested Sigrid. "No, no, he would get out of it In some mean way. I intend to pounce on him unexpectedly, and m that way to get at the truth," | replied Roy. "This train will do ! very well. I shall sleep on the way, ; but I must just go to Begent J3treet i and get the fellow's address." This, however, Frithiof was able to tell him, and tihey lingered long over the tea-table, till at length Boy remembered that it might be as well to see his father and let him know what had happened be- I fore starting for Devonshire. Very I reluctantly he left the little parlor, ! but he took away with him the | grateful pressure of Sigrid's hand, the sweet, bright glance of her blue eyes, and the echo of her last words, spoken softly and sweetly hi her native language. "Farvell Tak ulcal De have." (Farewell ! Thanks you shall have.) Why had she spoken to him in Norse 1 Was it, perhaps, because he wished him to feel that he was no foreigner, but one of themselves ? Whatever her reason, it touched him and pleased him that she had spoken just in that way, and it was with a very light heart that he made his way to Bowan Tree House. The lamp waa not lighted in the drawing-room, but there was a blazing fire, and on the hearth-rug sat Cecil with Lance nestled close to her, listening with all his ears to one of the hero stories which she always told him on Sunday even- ings. "Has father gone to chapel?" asked Roy. "Yes, some time ago," replied Cecil. "Is anything the matter?" "Don't look so frightened," said Roy, as the fire-light showed him her dilated eyes. "Nothing is the matter I have brought home some very good nerws. Frithiof is cleared, and that wretched business of the five-pound note fully explained." "At last!" she exclaimed. "What a relief: But how? Do tell me all." He repeated Swanhild's story, and then, hoping to catch his fa- ther in the vestry before the service began, he hurried off, le.v. ing Cecil to the only companionship she could have borne in her great happiness that of little Lance. . But Roy found himself too late to catch his father, there wa no- thing for it but to wait, and, anxi- ous to speak to him at the earliest opportunity, he inade his way into the chapel that he might get hold of him when the service ws over. When by and by h listened to Roy's story, told graphically enough as they walked home together, his regret for having misjudged Fri- thiof was unboundud. He was al- most as impatient to get hold of Darnell aa his son waa. "Still," he observed, "you will not gain much by going to-night j why not start to-oiorrow by th first train?" "If I go now," said Boy, "I shall be home quite early to-morrow ev- ening, and Tuesday is Christmas- eve a wretched day for traveling. Besides, I can't wait." Both the father and mother knew well enough that it was the thought of Sigrid that had Jent him wings, and Mr. Boniface said no more, only stipulating that he should be just and generous to the offender. "Don't visit your own annoyance New -and In this 5-Pound Sealed Package Ask your Grocer about it QMMOA SUMP RW1NINO CQl UMfTOk MORTRttk on him, and don't apeak too hotly." ha said. "Promise him tih*t he shall not be prosecuted or robbed of hia character if only he will make full confession, and ee what it waa that led him to do such a thing. I can't at all understand it. He al- ways seemed to me a most steady, raspectabLe man." Roy being' young and having suf- fered severely himself through Dar- nell's wrong-doing, felt anything but judicial as he traveled west- ward on that cold December night; he vowed that horsewhipping would be too good for such a scoundrel, and rehearsed interviews in which his attack was brilliant and Dar- nell's defense most feeble. Then he dozed a little, dreamed of Sigrid, woke cold and depressed to find that he must change carriages at Bristol, and finally, after many vicissitudes, was landed at Plymouth at half past nine on a damp and cheerless wintry morning. Now that he was actually there, he began to dislike the thought of the work before him, and to doubt whether after all his attack would be as brilliant in reality as in imag- ination. Rather dismally, he made a hasty breakfast, and then set off through the wet, dingy streets to the shop where Darnell was at pre- sent employed. To his relief he found that it was not a very large one, and, on entering, discovered the man he sought behind the coun- ter and quite alone. \s he ap- proached him he watched his face keenly ; Darnell was a rather good- looking man, dark, pale, eminently respectable ; he looked up civilly at the supposed customer, then, catch- ing sight of Hoy, he turned a shade paler and gave an involuntary start of surprise. "Mr. Robert I" he stammered. "Yes, Darnell; I see you know what I have come for," said Roy, quietly. "It was certainly a very strange, a most extraordinary co- incidence that Mr. Falck should, unknown to himself, have had an- other five-pound note in his pocket that day last June, but it has been fully explained. Now I want your explanation." "Sir!" gasped Darnell; "I don't understand you ; I I am at a loss" "Come, don't tell any more lies about it," said Roy, impatiently. "W know now that you must have taken it, for no one else was pre- sent. Only confess the truLh, and you shall not he prosecuted ; you shall not los your situation here. What induced you to do it?" "Don't be hard on me, sir," stammered the man. "I assure you I've bitterly regretted it many a time." "Then why did you not make a clean breast of it to my father 7" said Roy. "You might have known that he would never be hard on you." "I wish I had," eaid Darnell, in great distress; "I wish to God I had, sir, for it's been a miserable business from first to last. But I was in debt, and I thought of my wife who was ill, and I knew that the disgrace would kill her." "So you went and disgraced your- self still more," said Roy, hotly. "You tried to ruin another man in- stead of yourself!" "But he wasn't turned off," said Darnell, "and they put it all on his illness, and it seemed as if, af- ter aJl, it would not hurt him so much. It was a great temptation, and when I had onoe given way to it there seemed no turning back." "Tell me just how you took it," said Roy, getting rather more calm and judicial in his manner. "I saw Mr. Horner give Signer Sardoni the change, sir, and I saw him put the note in the till ; and I was just desperate with being in debt, and not knowing how to get straight again." "But wait a minute how had you got into such difficulties V in- terrupted Roy, "and how could a five-pound note help you out again?" "Well, sir, I had been unlucky in a betting transaction, but I thought I oould right myself if only I oould get something to try again with ; but there wasn't a soul I oould borrow from. I thought I should get straight again at once if only I had five pounds in hand, and so I did, sir ; I was on my feet again the very next day." "I might have known it was bet- ting that had ruined you," said Roy. "Now go back and tell when you took the note." "I kept on thinking and planning through the afternoon, sir, and then presently all was quiet, and only Mr. Falck with me in the shop, and I was just wondering how tp get rid of him, when Mr. Horner oi>en- ed the door of Mr. Boniface's room and called to me. Then I said, 'Do go, Mr. Falck, for I have an order to write to catch the post.' And he went for me, and I hurried across to his counter while he was gone, and took the note out of the till and put it inside my bootj and when he came back he found, me writing at my desk, Just aa ne had left me. He came up looking a little put out, as if Mr. Horner had rubbed him th wrong way, ana he says to me, 'It's no uae ; you must go your- self after all.' So I went to Mr. Horner, leaving Mr. Falck alone in the shop." "Were you not afraid leat he should open the till and find out that the note was gone!" "Yea, I waa very much afraid. I But all went well, and I intended to go out quickly at tea-time it wi clove upon it than and do what ; I could to get it straight again. I ! thought I could invent an excuse for not returning to the shop that night ; say I'd been taken suddenly ill, or something of that sort. It was Mr. Falck's turn to go first; and while he was out, as illrluck would have it, Mr. Hornr came to take change from the till, and then all the row began. I made sure I was ruined, and no one waa more surprised than myself at the turn that affairs took." (To be continued.) HUGH CLARK'S JOKE. Hugh Clark is known as a very funny man. As editor of the Kincardine Re- view, the genial member of the Commons representing South Bruce is never at a loss for a dry and hu- morous reply to any old kind of question. Hugh ia the colonel of the 32nd Bruce, and aa such is some enter- tainer. During a recent camp he Col. II ii-h Clark. was host to Hon. W. J. Hanna, Provincial Secretary for Ontario. There were big times around the colonel's quarters between the guests, and the newspaper men and the P.S. had a fine time sleeping out and telling- stories. One morning about two o'clock ' several privates on late leave, who i had been down city celebrating, got ; past the guards and wandered i about the streets of the white vil- lage singing "The Holy City" with a vengeance on the chorus, and be- fore long the crowd was augmented by a couple dozen from the various regiments. Mr. Hanna heard the noise and turned over on his cot. Next morn- ing he asked Colonel Clark what the rumpua was. "Oh," said Hujrh, and he never cracked a smile. "I'll find out." Ho went out and gathered a coterie of newspaper men and officers back to The Most Delicious OF ALL TEAS IS CEYLON TEA-BECAUSE OF ITS UNVARYING GOOD QUALITY. . . u K.MkT 4 >T A KU 1 1 . I 01 1. It**. 014 OBlT 1m 1M* PMkU. his guest's tent for the fun. When all were comfortable Hugh started. "Did you know that Hanna was given a 'tremendous' ovation by this camp last night?" he said, and all listened for thu news. "Yes," he continued, "it was an immense ovation for him. 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