id points In British Co- 'dnd Western States rtion. NS EXCURSIO! trip tickets to Wes- rn Canada, via Chicago and North Bay, on Marth ard nd evry Tuesday thereafter un ber 27th, ot very low fares. Tick- ots good for two months. Wor full particulars apply #4 £- AX SECOND CLASS) From stations Ohtarte to cere n ! Columbia 1 r 'from W.' Bon Patra" Wei & n Sts. Phone 1187, - {10 have ! AN EXCITING | he He went onto explain, that last night, when Muriel come in to say that she had met Mr. Page, and that he seemed ¢ red frou his gout. the news bim; for he had called st the Chinelas a few hours before, and bad been told that the gout was very bad. He went out, therufore, to see the for himself, and if Jostitle to persnade Mr. Page to come ck to . He did not succeed in giving this invitation, becanse, th he caught sight of Mr. Page in the distance, he could hot get near to him. He shotited, and was heard, for he a wave of the hand in reply; but was'all. "He hurried on," said the pinegrow- or, "as though he thought I was chas- Bim. Tn a sense of course J was; {but what | meas is that I got the fio. pression that he had some strong reason for avolding me, so I turned back. It was then that 1 met he wo man." 0 Scarborough and Varney ase glances. urred to ther: both. Wag the woiras, fter all, Mona de Ja Mar?" "What was she like?" asked Soar borough. "1 don't know, & chagie to see." 3 "What! Did she run away from you, 100?" exclaimed Varney. * Or. bicycle?" sald Searborough. "Neither. She walked--pretty fast, too! But it wasn't her speed that pre vented me from seeing what she was like. 1 met her face to face,.as one might say, without being able to get a glimpse of a feature. She was dressed in cmpote and capello." "What are they?" asked Varney. "The capello is a long blue cloak, and the capote is a hood made of card- board and whalebone, and covered with cloth," explaned Scarborough. "Some of them stick out a yard. in front of the face." "And the edges flap together, and hide everything, unless the wearer keeps them open with her hand," added Davis. "This wearer didn't. She even took particular care to keep. them She didn't give me J shut. I wondered at the time if she I'm pretty sure it wasn't that. you see, Muriel," he added, turning to his Supplied Exclusively In Canada by The British & Colonial Press Services, : * Limited, : hanged The same thought dad oe | j:sort, and plucky; PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE i I ie WEATHERBY CHESNEY 0 ~ ' py ---- appointment in store for her. "Are you going to tell her about the pencilled stone?' asked Varney. "1 don't think #0." 3 "Or t the hooded woman?" "No, not at present. What's theory about the hooded woman?" "Haven't got one," sald Varney, "ua- less it's that Miss Da that her father is 7" Scarborough returned again to the 'subject of the hooded and Vamey said sharply: "I 'ses What you're driving at, of course; but you're wrong. You think it was Mona." "I'don't." "Well, anyway, you are prepared to believe that it may have been. I tell you the idea is absurd, but you don't segin to' be 'inclined to believe me." T want to hear what she has to say," Scarborough returned steadily. "Exactly! You suspect her. 1 prom- ised to introduce you, and I'l do it: but I'm more than half sorry | prom ised, and 'm altogether sorry 1 ever told you about that vow business. It's that that's sticking in your throat all the time, I know. You can't under stand that it was all a plece of high falutin®: nonsense, which she had for gotten long a She's a rare good but you want to make her ont a fool!" Vamey 'spoke "with some 'heat. He and this giv] had been comrades for nearly td yess, and he resented sus thas picion as an fnenit to her. this exactly a suitable time, ? Her eyes plainly shuggestod | = rebuke. "Oh," explained Varney, "I have to. I'm one of the performers, you know." 7" savd Muriel. Her tone this ted a sudden aud entire Jack of and during. the few minutes longer! that the young men | "3 "I say," sald Varney, when he and h-had put a mile between 4 them and She Cass Davis, "1 like that girl" Scarborough laughed. "Do you?" he said. "Then you | shoulln't 'have told her that you were a girous wan." "Why not?" Because she is very earnest, very young; and wery bigoted. Didu't you sop how she froze?" She did rather!" "Quite so! She has notions about the whole duty of man, and 1 expect she thinks you've missed it by a good bit. Bet you live mil she's already told her lather that you are are on no account to be asked. to go and see [That so" suid Varney. "Well, I mes to go." ow'll be snu gs ' "Can't help it! t isn't there a chance that she ght Hike to convert me?" Varney with a grin, "What's the father?" "Grows pineapples SIE Wh yon who suggested." Scarbor! ough reminded him, "that she refused to perform last sight because she had business with Carrington." "Great Scoft, yes! But things have | Mappened since then that she ean have "had no hand in. murder!" "I don't 'suggest that it was." "But you won't take it for granted that she had nothing to do with it-- could'iiave nothing fo do with it, being the girl | know her to be" "No," said Scarborough. Varney laughed, but there was vex: ation in the laugh. "Then," he said, "the only cure for you is to meet the girl herself. If You're not a hopeless fool, you'll see in five minutes that you've been in- suiting her. Hurry up, and let's get there as soon as possible." Twenty minutes later they dismount. ed at the door of the circus building. Val B. Mo)tagie, was standing looking out ihito the read) "Where's Miss Ryan?" asked Var iy. Val B. Montagne tuted & Straw, by Her business wasn't A dexterous movement of his from one cortier of his mouth to the other, and held out his hand to Sear borough, saying: Re "I haven't the least idea. Mr: Sear borough, sir, I am pleased to meet "you again, but you Will no doubt sligre my regret that 1 do so wader somewhat depresstrtg circumstances. 1 had 'the honor to acquaint you paid A "ie the fact that this show was w the devil; I have the honor to inform You to-day that it has gone. Will Jet me bave the pleasurs of stan you a whiskey and soda?" "What's "the matter now?" sked Vargey, "The matter is, sir, that the ia u asked for just now has > ™ Mona issue another Dlashill, pr. Yammer, 1 Vi OM on the news, and Be oak conster LIOR on the Young men's faces. Then hoe a Sodden change ot manner, he , and - . voice to Varney: dt 5 % Wfvering ae Tat does 1 ean, Phil? Ruin to , of course! t ne "Who wae ! a ney. ATA "The four deck-hands, the 1 r, and the ringmaster. I discharged Jast Dght, 20 he had so right to be there. Dt these six, and Mona de Ia Mar. nobody." : . Scarborough and Virpey exchanged 1 Margaret Ryne hay far. 'her Yo of vengeance whan sho to the islands of the Azores. RY the man who her. She } bt him bay in the valley of the ira de Morte. The injured and the nju face to face. But t Fadooued then what Yad The scene between them had been acted without witnesses. The curtain bad goue down upon a tragedy, But had the woman caused it? CHAPTER X. A Message From the Dead Patches of fog wore creeping across the water, and as the evening drew down they thickened and grew wider. The setting sun on water mir Tors of ever diminishing area, In an- other hous A Sroyld oe x: but even Sooner than that the curtain would be unbroken, for minute by minute tLe rents in it were closing. - TIE + Hien stood ap in her boat, and mark: €d the exact direction of the rock for which she was steering. ' Fortunately she had bad the foresight to bring a compass. She had half a mile to gO yet, and the breeze was dying. She would steer by sight, so long as the fog did not hide the rock, if it did she would have to trust fo her compass. | "I wonder what the current is?" she mused. "It is setting dend inshire- but how much? If I allow half a point for drift, that should take me near enough to let me steer by the sound of the surf." The islet for which she was steering lay a little more than two miles from i date will always. at whatever violence to her owa judgment of right apd wrong, defend thoee whom she lo . Whe w It will b-* remembered Elea sct aut to go to the circus at Pons nw . her father's last words to her had bocn that it---unlikely as such a OAYOr maid at the he was not at the Chinelas when she returned, she would { in his £5 in the sec- ond small drawer, on Re loft, a paper that would t211 her what she was to do. This paper - was marked, "To my dapghter, Figa, tc he opened by her to-morrow at noon, it by that time | bave not returned to destroy it." Fig opencd it an hour after Scar Dorough Had igft Her. This was what it 4 ed . 3 v. mdrniiy that when you retarsed from Ponta Delzada vou might possibly tid that 1-was not al home to greet You, and to heal vour report of what and whom Fou Nad seem. '1 might have told You that the possibility was a der tainty, Dut ¥' did not wish to alarm you. By the time rou retursi I shall have | succeeded or failed, In an enterprise, the success of which is so essential, thet to.ensure it 1 am voluntarily put: ting myself in some danger. While ¥ou are doing your best at Ponia Del Bada to discover who the unknown enemy is, I shall be engaged in a simi lar contest withean efemy who is well known to ge, an enenty who of lite his taken .1o using threats. Now, little girl, between the known enemy and the unknown, I run a double risk of failure, and this Is what you must help me to evoid. "The sealed packet which you 'will find with this letter contains docu: ments which must dt all costs be kept out of the hands of people who would Ose them (o four and my injury. 1'do not trust to my own ability to safe: guard theni, nor fs it possible for me, watched as 1 believe Tam, to put them info any place of safety. That must be your task. Those who are shadowing me will not consider it 'necessary to watch you also. Take the packet, nad put it in the safest place that you know. When I return, if 1 do return, 1_shall not ask you where it js, "1 am not a fanciful man, Elsa, but I have written those four words, 'I do not return," deliberately. Of late I have had a feeling--a fanciful man would say a presentiment--that my end is not far off. J have lived a life of varied activities, some useful, and some perhaps not so useful, and the the shore, with deep water close up to its flanks. It was ring-shaped, like a Pacific atoll, but 'its formation was | different. Not the slow, quiet growth | of coral insects had made it, but a con- vulsion of mature. It was the summit of a deep-water voleano, whose crater raised a btm, a hundred yards cross, | out-of' the ea. There was one place on the West, where for a few feet this brim had been broken down, iéaving a gap' by which a 'boat might enter: and the water ingide made an almost circular lagoomn. x Local tradition sald that it was bot tomless. 3 It was a place where a ship might have ridden out in safely the heayies hurricane that even lew, if it had been akaibls Tot ais Whig to eter. BAL che opening in the circular wall was hardly more thaw t=n feet Across, and under neath there was a broad sill, whick rose to withiu two fathoms of the sur face. 'It was a dangerous entrance, even for 'a small boat, and when the wind blew from the west, ithpossible; but Elsa knew It well, and thought that she could manage ff, even alone. She was an expeit apd fearléss boat woman, but she wis not accustomed © having to depend altogether upon herself ju hor expeditions. The boat was a present which her father had given her a littlo more than a year 80; but vith the present, he had compled a stipulation that she should lar coasts ef San Miguel breed trea herous currents, and wind squalls are stdden; but even had fhé waters been as safe es the Solent, Eli's boat was too big for one girl to manage. This, therefore, 'was (Ne first oces slop on which she'had bebn out Tn ft alone; but to-day a companion was im- possible. Foti she had work to do which no eye but her own must see. Did she, still believe "Tier father's ianoeepce? She was dcting as {hough she did: and, tor the rest, she tried to forte herself pot to think, She had not kept her faith without A 'atruggle. Misgivings had arisen in her mind, but she had strangled them tomorselessly at their birth, and hy an effort of will made herself believe that ther had never been born. There was, however, one moment when the doubts bad been too sireng to be stifled thus; they bad oried clamorousiy, and had refused to be choked; and for halfan- bour she bad fasted a misery more bit- for aven that that .which had come when sha firat kiéw that her father wi "ad. That moment was when she Tistencd to Sears tale t include You in my invitation 40 dink | And soda " whiskey strain of old efforts is beginning to tell upon me. 'In the early yedrs of my manhood I suffered great physical hardships, and they left a weak place; before 1 left London my doctor warned me that the weak place was becoming weaker. The effort which F'must make to-day"--an effort, which for your sake as well as mige, is inevitable--is of the sort which I have been warned to avoid, but I'have no cheice. I 1tell you this unwillingly, and for the first time; but it is necessary that you should be ready, 1t'I fall, to take u pthe work where I leave it ' "Now you 'will' ask--what is the work? My daughter, it is the rehabili- tation of my pame, I have thought lately that wg begining to doubt whether! anxiety on this point 'wag 'i ng weaker. Elsa, "say solemuly, that it is as § ym We ever it wan. But having ae , 1 Sm mow going to add some- certain complete it, the judge of circumstances. That is an offfce which I leave, not to you, but to your mother. "Your mother is on her way to join us. She will arrive on the Funchal from Lisbon on'tha tenth of thé month. If on that date I am unable tO meet Dever go out in it alone. The irregu- | por by that tithe come true, 1 wish you to recover this package from 'the safe place in which you have bestowed if, and to give it into het hands. When you do so, tell her also that my last message tO her, spoken by the lips of Jol tek Saughiiey Ip shat she it 10 the wish I have expressed in a tor te her which the packet con: tains. She will understand; you will not. For the rest, be guided by her. "Good-bye, little girl. 1 think this is the longest letter I have fver writ- ten to you. I have one thing more to add to it. II you have begun to doubt me "In some things, at any rate you have never doubfed that 1 love you. In'days to come Your estimate of your father may change: you will hear things that 'will try your faith. F never belléve that he did not Jove you. It 'fs for your sake that 1 am daring danger today; it fz for your sake that I hope for success, that I may veturn 10 you to 'bé happy, for a little while longer in your love. t is time now that 1 was starting. = asthaut wielte org. 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