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His voice dropped a To save myself I couldn't help | or S nv a 1 as we as O tone; he spoke very slowly and rather wn" 2 vaguely, as If he were thinking ' "No, 1 suppose not t's no goo 1 t . aloud "And 1" he said "would not doiug things by halves;~~And Lorion, | ose mn er eC ea 1 have dared to mention an unpleasant of irse, never gave you away." | ¢ thing to you--! would have taken any | soz k Tad resumed his pacing of $ : ar toruble, I would have given anything the room Presently he brought it to ve y Sd . e 5 O to keep from you the knowledge of all & slop in front of her once more. \ NY re of LO > Yi e 1 The best sugar for the sugar bowl is |, Lantic Sugar Its purity and "fine" granulation give it the highly sweeten- ing power. It dis. solves instantly in your teacup or on yourbreakfast cereal. 2 and 5-1b Cartons 10 and 20-1b Bags "The All-Purpose Sugar" nn Will cure any headache in 20 min- utes, will nip a cold in the will relieve the Monthly pains women, and in every A. 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When a man hears the first spring robin he gives itunes all the eredit that belongs to the A tows man brags about how much it cost, a farmer about how cheap he got it, -- BY (cr lie Stanton AND Heath Heske! HEERERRR TE TRE RD ORETR RRR RR REA Journs my tongue. snowed in. | been accused of being! 8 \ He av..ied nis wife's arrival with impatience. He thought she looked pale and worn out when he met her at the station, but then she had come straight through from Venice, and the journey was a long and trying one. She went to her own rooms at once, and asked that her dinner might be served there. However, when her din- ner was served In her boudeir she hardly touched it. She had changed into & loose gown of white lace, and against the soft material her face looked pale, not with the pallor of fatigue, but with the grey whiteness of stoné. On her brow, too, and in the lines about her mouth was the seal of a weariness greater than that of the flesh Monk knocked at the door. aghast at her pallor. 'Dearest, you are cried. "Let we get you something. I can't bear to gee you like this. The journey has been too much for you. You must go to bed at once." "But you have something to say to she protested. "It must walt" "No, no, really, U'm all right. You, said it was sometiflug very import ant." : "So it 1s, darling." van Ost--of the BLR.C. You have pever seen that man in your life, have you, dear?" He was not well" he But most unpleasant, She looked up at him. Her strange, nut-brown eyes were soft and misty, full of an immense self-reproach. She did not speak. "Dearest, you must not mind my asking you," he went on; reading blank incredulity in her gaze. "The fact is, he has been using your name. | Do not he afraid, I am going to punish him as he deserves." "Using my name?" she asked. Her voice sounded dreamy. "Yes, aariiug. He oas been here, th, how can | repeat what ne said o me, [It is too monstrous! He has ried io implicate you, my darling, in iis infamous, odious, hellish com- jany. He had the unheard-of effron- ery to say that you held the bulk of :e shares in the B.LR.C. under dif- 'erent names, (Can you Imagine such 2 thing? Merely to repeat his lie Ot course, the man nust be mad----raving mad, But he said It, and he must be made to eat vs words." Theodora had not sat down; she was standing facing her husband. suddenly he saw her begin to sway (pom side to side; her eyes were losed; un her cheeks was the pallor »l death, Monk caught her by the arms and Iragged her to a sofa. She was a tall wolzun, and heavy for him to carry. Iu a few moments she opened her ayes. She sat up and looked at him witli' a strauge, weary smile, She sas all weariness. "1 tuy ws well tell you the truth," she sald She spoke as if nothing wattered, as If she had reached the sud of all things. "The truth," he repeated. The two ttle sharp words vamie from between Js lips like a pistol shot. "Then there is something?' Theodora nodded "There ie a great deal bon: the B.LR.C." "What Is trae?" "That 1 hold the shares: Glare Monk did not behave in any | of the several ways that he might have been expected to. He was pot struck dumb; neither ¢id he refuse | 7 believe Lis emis; nur did he realize ingtantly the meaning of this confes. sion and heap abuse and denunciation upon his wile. He merely stood quite still in front | tront of Theodora, a small wan, with (aCe grown us grey as lis hair and eyes, and hewn, to all sewblance, out of 8 biock of marble, Granite his Lands becanie, (00; those fussy little | hands hat, cs u rule, were Dever sith "You hold the shares," he said. There was uo longer any jerkiness im | ais voice. It wus résirained and | quiet aud deadly nonototous. "It #8 really true? 'ual scoundrel did not lie to me? You hold tie shares in those ditierent names? You ure the persun we Lave besu trying to dis- cover--you, my wie! You are the person who has been growing rich at the price vi men's liverties and men's bleed? You are tue person | hdve 1 supposa there is something wrong with me, fsu't there, Theodora? Your voice tells me that this is true; | see it in your face, But there must be some- 'hing wrong" "No." she sald, "I am all that you | "You have been this man's accom- | plice? Trat painted devil aad you-- you'--the emphasis on the word was fvightful--"lLave been working to- gether, making a hell for your brother men, 80 that you might grow rieh." "Yes," she suid, in a subdued voice, mg that is true. 1 mever thought about it before." "tied you enough money? There was heartbreak in the monoton- ous voles "Have | mot given you snough® Couldn't you have asked me!" *¥ don't know," she said. "No, 1 don't suppose | had enough. ! wanted more. 1 spent a great deal 1 have spent neariy all 1 have made. 1 lived a difterent Mite fa London. You t khow ; hyd never troubled about what | spen "You eh: Rave asked me." "} dare say." She folded her hands m her crossed knees and bent for ard, as if her ale burdened vith an int tatifue. "I tell oa 1. didn't thlok--" "You mus Lave. filled with a Adeous lust of The FHAUS Toe it 1s about that scoundrel dark and dreadful things." "Oh, I know all that" rupted in a low volce. "And yet all the time you were the .accomplice of that unspeakable brute! You were associated with him; vou must have met him and seen him, let him touch your hand. You delighted to breathe the 'same air, both physic. ally and mentally. You polluted your- self, you polluted me- good God, you have polluted all women! The last words were strong, forceful, full of a great loathing. "You have been work. ing against me behind my back. God, 1 have been scouring the earth for my arch-enemy. | have sworn ven- geance on him; I have taken a great oath that when I find him I shall not have done with him until he lies be- fore me stripped -of everything that makes life worth living, a beggar, a pariah, a broken wreck, praying for mercy that no one in the whole world would ever show him. And I have found my arch-enemy--and it is you, my wife!" Silence fell. More than he had said in that final speech Monk would never be able to say on earth with his mor- tal tongue. In it was contained the last agony, the cry of a soul stricken to death, betrayed, deceived, sold by the being on whom it had spent its uttermost devotion. Theodora's beautiful white face had fallen inte her hands. Monk came a little nearer to her and looked down with stony gaze on the rich tawny curls that covered her head. | "He said he went to Venice to see "Is that true?" she inter- you," he said sternly. "Yes," came the muffled reply. . "I sent for him. | wanted to sell cut !® everything." "Why? . 'Because you were afraid of discovery?" After a moment's hesitation lifted her face and said, "Yes." "Do not be afraid. You shall not be discovered. 1 would not have the world think of you as I do." She saw herself in something of the | same light. Two big tears forced | themselves through her lids and rolled fown her cheeks. Monk saw them. "Why do you cry?" "I don't know," | "You are not sorry, are you?!" "I am sorry to hurt you, Glare" | *I don't think so. lost that I gave you was nothing that you valued. 1 see that now. I was blind before. I thought my worship 'against she | "Why have you told me this? he asked | Theodora was leaning her-head back | the pile of blue cushions. | There was neither shame nor regret | ¢n her face i "I don't know," she said { "You have just oe me that, once | betare, you chose to become a crimin- | al rather than to let me know what | you had done. now?' { "l don't know," she sald again. "I| suppose," she added, "1 felt that it would be impossible to keep the secret much longer." { "And the papers?' he asked sud- | denly. "What became of them?" "They have been destroyed." "How many of them?" | "All of them." | "Those that Drake as well?" | "They were not stolen--they were | bought from him," she sald wearily. | "And what do you want te do? he asked. "Nothing." "About your shares? Do you mean | to keep them?" t were stolen "No, I want to sell them. But Van] Ost woulén"t buy them." "He wilil now. worth his while," Again silence reigned. evidently it a loss what to say. seemed about to leave her. He had walked up to the door when, sudden: ly, he started, stood still for a second and almost ran back to wheré she] was sitting. His face was convulsed| with indescribable emotions i "When you took the papers frou | it will be made sald Monk calmly. Monk was' "Then it was another lie when yor told me that Lorion had told you?" my safe," he cried, "did you take those others, too, concerning Peter?'| {* "Yes," she said... . | ""That was how you learned the] tory 7" | "Yes." ! | { you?" What you have | meant something to you. Why did you do it?" "What?" "At the beginning--why did you do it? Will you try to explain, if you are not too tired? 1 want to know; I want to try to understand." He was just, even in this final ex- tremity. Justice was ohe of his most sallent characteristics. } "1 dow't think I cen explain," she answered. "At first, I think 1 liked the excitement of gambling. And I did want money, Glare. 1 didn't like to ask you because you have such dif- ferent ideas. You are one of the rich- est men in the world, ani yet you spend nothing. You would have been aghast at the money I spent. So . began to speculates little on my own account. very well. 1 don't know why rubber shares attracted me particulacly. 1 suppose because of your commection with the rubber trade, and because I had got to learn something about it from hearing you talk to people. Then, In Ostend, | came across Van Ost. He Introduced himself to me. | was under the tmpression then that you knew him. He induced me to speculate in the B.LR.C. shares. 1 made a great | deal of money, and, acting under his It is trug" kdvice, bought more and more of the shares. Van Ost dig-everything; I simply grew rich." "Your good business head did not sep you," he put in quietly, "that the was simply getting you into his rr "1 didn't think, I tell you," she an- (swered. "Even when the rumors be- 'gan to be spread about the methods 'of the company---getting the rubber 'and other things--I didn't think. I looked upon it as inevitable. I had heard Van Ost speak of the natives as something less than animals." "And when did you begin to think?" "When Van Ost induced me to forge your name to the papers," she an- awered. He gave expression to no surprise "You did that--at his bidding?" was all he said. | "I had to," she replied. "I had gone too far. 1 had learned mean- while what you and the world In general thought of the company. I knew that you would never forgive me if you discovered the part I had played in it. Van Ost threatened to tell you everything if I didn't do as he wished." "But you forged my name." "I bad to. I was Ia Van Ost's pow er. It was a net I was enmeshed in; I coulda't a ti 1 had J make the best of it." "So, all this time" said Mok, "you ! could have spoken. There need have | been no secret, ne mynay; you could "No." "How did you the key?" "1 pretended 1 had lost the key of my jewel case, and borrowed his He was with me." 1 bought and sold, and I did' "Yes." "Doesn't he know the truth?" "So far as | am aware," she said, | "he hasn't the faintest idea." | "Why did you tell me that lie?" | "] was angry with Lorion becausg | he threatened to give me away. Glare, | what on earth is the matter with | Monk had clutched hold of a chair to steady himself. His face was ghastly; he was tugging at his collar "Goud God in Heaven," he mutter ed thickly. "If it should be too late!" Uriah, the Hittite Glare Monk stood absolutely still for a few moments. His wife watch | ed him, wondering whether her con | fession had robbed him of his senses One hand was upraised. 'It twitched | convulsively, opening and shutting. | So did his mouth. His eyes were opened wide, as if they gazed 'upon | some vision of horror. He muttered | t¢ himself several times: "If it should be too late! should be too late!" Then be turned and, without an-| other word to" his wife, rushed out of | the room. He rushed down to his study ahd} set bells ringiug and servants hurry- { fug to attend to his needs. Bomeoye was to go round to the garage and tell the chauffeur to bring the car round at once. A cablegram was to be taken down to the Central Tele- graph Office and dispatched to Lagos immediately. Whatever happened, | the message must go through at once. It was of the utmost Importance. He wrote it out--Morlarty, Lagos. And then the words in his own private code, that he carried in his mind, apd which bad never been written out, and that only thé blind Moriarty un- derstood, when it was read out to him by his secretary. Only Moriarty, out of all the world, could decipher those nonsensical-sounding words. This is how the cablegram ran, de- coded: 7 "Great mistake. CHAPTER XXVL | | | | i 1 It it 1 i Call back man at once. He is to return to England safe and sound. Not a moment to lose. Spare no pains or money. He must' return." --Monk." 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