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.hardened QWQW MWO h l ' lll «@ORQQQQQ ‘»A RANSOMED LIFE @Q‘Q CHAPTER! V. “Welcome, Ardel; never more welâ€" come," said John Trevor, as his friend walked abruptly chambers on a hot August afternoon. The lawyer was at his desk: before him was a huge volume of foolscap, with parchment hinges, which he was reading, diligently, crossing and scoring, and underlining with a stumpy blue penci1_as he read. A a couple of hours with those papeirs. I want work. You may lock the [door after you, if you like. I shan’t into his stir till you return.” When Trevor got back with bright eyes and clear color from his Walk, Ardel was not at the desk or papers, but leaning back in the great easy chair, motionless, and so absorbed in thought he did not hear him enter. “Well!” said the lawyer; “have you number of briefs were scattered round found light?” on the table, floor, and chairs, the red tape strings still untied. “This is a professional visit,” said Ardel. "I Saw you yesterday in the street. You looked worn out and worried, so I came here.” “I am worried,” Trevor answered, “that’s all. I thought I was case- against the advocate’s fever. It’s a juvenile disease, gener- ally cured by the first dozen briefs. But I’ve got it badly this time. It’s the case of a young fellow named Wickham.” “The murder case?” “Yes, the murder case. told you about it.”' ~"Nearly four months ago, at the Cecil. Don’t you remember? But it was just coming on then. I have been to Japan and back since, and it's coming on still.” “Oh! there has been adjournment after adjournment, while the Crown fished up more and more evidence. The delay has helped to work me up to fever heat. I So strangely has the case got on my nerves, and brain, and head, I sometimes feel as if it were my own life I was fighting for?” “Any hope for the young fellow?” “There seems none. The evidence is the most deadly of allucircumâ€" stantial. Every strand of it is twis- ted into a rope for his neck. I have tried my best, and can find no‘flaw or break anywhere. Yet he is so earnest for his life, so insistent on his innocence, so piteous in his ap- peals, that I am miserable at my own helpleSSiiess. Young, rich, and handsome, with all his, life before him, it is hard to leave it by the road of the gallows; it is horrible, if he is inoccent.” Vivian Ardel’s I forgot I face grew very . u I I , . n giave. I dont worndei at you he,come to see. said shortly. "It is horrible. Even to think of death is always horrible. But such a death, in the midst of life, staring the doomed man in the face with an awful certainty of its victiin-â€"-â€"” He br0ke 0“ abrulltly Wm} a ShUd' the upper lip drawn tight showed a Strong ’magmatlon .had narrow line of teeth tight clenched. der, his made the case his own. “Can him?” “Nothing, I fear. least, that I can do. sacked the case thoroughly, and can find no hope anywhere. make a little footy law point is as strong as steel.” “Can I be of any use?” “You! thing is not' in your line, 'Ardel.” "Everything is in my line, especiâ€" ally when there is a life to be sav- ed.” “Would you read the brief?” "Certainly, if you will let me; and I should like to be present at the trial, if it can be managed. Reading men is more ‘in my line,’ as you call it. But I must not forget my first business. It’s your physician speaks now. Start off at once for a. good ten miles’ walk. It’s a pity you don’t cycle. Get the fresh air into your blood and the worry out of your brain, and leave me alone for ===“" nothing be done to save lenge on either Swot You don’t mean it. This I "A glimmer; still, I may be able to force the shutters and let the day in. When does the trial begin?” "Next Saturday, at the Central Criminal Court. But have you no- thing to say to me now about the evidence?” . “Nothing until I have more to say. Don’t overwork yourself, Treâ€" vor, and don’t despair. I shan’t miss this trial.” A week later, when “The Queen against Edgar Hardy Wickham” was called, the court was crowded to the doors, for the trial was the sen- sation of the hour. The judge -was a grave, strongâ€" .faced man, cleanâ€"shaven and firmâ€" lipped, with a reputation of forcing his way through all obstacles to the truth, and carrying the jury with- him; the best man in the world for an innocent person to be tried beâ€" fore, and the worst for a guilty. .In that court, full of callous specâ€" tators, one man, at least, watched the prisoner with an intense-sympaâ€" thy that was akin to pain. The watcher sat in a dark corner far from the dock. But the prisoner, though he could not see him, grew uneasy under those intense eyes that shone out of the dusk, and shielded his face with his hands as from a strong light. Then Vivian Ardcl shifted his position a little and faced the witnessâ€"box. So absorbed was he in his own thoughts and task, that he was unconscious of the interest that he was himself creating. For women’s quick eyes had found him even in the shade. The famous hypnotic doctor, athlete, inventor, millionaire was one of the few men in London who could distract the eyes of fashionable ladies from that handsome young murderer they had The young face in the dock was indeed handsomeâ€"fund horrible. I-Ior- rible in the look of abject fear on every line of kit. The dark eyes had the piteous glareâ€"half fierce, half frightenedâ€"of a wild animal trapped; The jury are sworn without a chal~ The prisoner pleaded “Not guilty” in a faltering Nothing, at voice; thenslowly and solemnly the I have ran‘ Attorney-General, Sir Frederick Perâ€" 1 cival, began his I may for the Crown. here ‘ Si,- and there, but the chain of evidence ‘most dangerous opening statement Frederick Percival was the of prosecutors by reason of his transparent impartialâ€" ity. He never pressed a point against a prisoner; he never shirked la point in his favor. He simply gave the facts fair play. He let them tell their own 51.0131 and make their own arguments. He never prosecuted a man whom he did not believe to be guilty, and he had a wonderful way of impressing his own belief on the jury. “My Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury,” the Attorneyâ€"General began, "this is indeed a terrible charge that we. have met to investigate, and not lightly to' be believed true of any man. It will be a happy privilege for you if you can set the prisoner ,frce by your verdict. No man will omen stave fidney Eissase And Often Make the Mi stake of Attributing the Resuiting Eazkache to other Causes Dr. Cisase’sif‘idneyddver Pills Many women have kidney disease and do not know it. They confuse ,the symptoms of kidney disease with ,those of ailments of a feminine naâ€" ture. We would warn you against this danger, as a few days’ neglect of kidney disease may mean years of suffering. 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The disease became so severe that it affected my general health, and I was becoming very much run down. Since using Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills ‘I can say that my trouble has entirely disap- peared. I can speak in the highest terms of this medicine from the way it acted in my case.” Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills, one pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & 00., Toronto. To protect you against imitations the portlait and Signature would Sooner see you dead. .of Dr. A. “WC/base are on eveiy drive me to desperation i box. rejoice mfe than myself should I fail to convince you of his guilt. It is my duty only to set the facts clearly before you,'and yours to consider and decide. The responsi- bility of that decision is yours, not mine. “The prisoner at the bar is young and wealthy. He has knOWn how to enjoy his wealth, but there is no insinuation here that he has abused it. Such an insinuation would be false if it were made. “About nine months ago he was captivated by the personal attrac- tions of the ill-fated Miss Bessie Blythewood, for whose murder he is now upon his trial. "It was an honorable love he pro- fessed for her, and it appears to havel been passionately returned by the object of his affections. From first to lastâ€"I wish you to understand thisâ€"from first to last there is no hint on which even malice could fasâ€" ten against the honor of the man or the virtue of the woman. “She was an actress of undoubted talent, rapidly rising in her profesâ€" sion. She sacrificed its triumphs for his sake without a sigh. There will be a long correspondence before you, from which you may learn the tenor and progress of their courtship.” There was a rustle of pleasant an- ticipation amongst the ladies in the gallery as this announcement was made. “It is enough. for my present pur- pose that their marriage was arâ€" ranged. The prisoner was and is, as I have said, a man of Wealth; the girl was an orphan, whose sole in- come had been derived from the pro- fession which she had abandoned at his desire. It is right to say the prisoner made fitting, and even genâ€" erous, provision for the comfort of his future wife. He rented for her a suburban villaâ€"Laburnham Lodge â€"â€"â€"where she lived pending the mar- riage, with Miss llebecca Blythewood, her aunt. Miss Blythewood will be one of the chief witnesses for the prosecution, and you will also have before you a model of Laburnham Lodge, which, as the Crown alleges, was the scene of the murder. “For the present it Will suffice for you to remember that Laburnham Lodge is a detached, twoâ€"storey vil- la, standing in its own lawn, about a hundred yards- from the public road. On the second floor, with one large French window looking out towards the road, is the drawing- room, where the poor girl’s body was found, shot through the head.” “The prisoner,” Sir Frederick con- tinued, in the same voice, calm and inexorable as fate, "lived in a furâ€" nished flat at’iCurVal Crescent, nearâ€" ly three miles away. But in the first ardor of their affection they were constantly together. Yet, as is the custom with lovers, their let- ters wore as numerous as their inâ€" terviews. To these facts Miss Re- becca Blythewood, whose bereaveâ€" ment will, I am sure, secure for her your sympathy, will be‘ called upon to depose. “The young people, as I am in- structed, Went to various places of public amusement together, and enâ€" joyed themselves as young people will to the end of time. But let me repeat, and 1 am sure that my learned friend who appears for the prisoner will bear me out, both be- fore and during her engagement with the prisoner Bessie Blythewood‘s character was above. reproach.” Again the Attorney-General pans-d for a moment, and John Trevor nodâ€" ded his head in full concurrence. "But, gentlemen, as unfortui’iately too often happens, the man's hot love burned itself away. He grew at first neglectful, then unkind. As the man’s love cooled the girl‘s kindled to a fiercer flame. She was quicl~:â€"tempered, as well as warm- hearted, and undoubtedly angry words and letters at this stage passed between them. However, as I have already said, you .will have the correspondence before you, and it is from that, and not from any observations of mine, your concluâ€" sions must be drawn. ' “There is one letter, hOWever, which I now hold in my hand, to which'I must entreat your earnest attention, so vital is its importance in the case. It is a letter from the murdered girl, apparently written in reply to a communication from the prisoner desiring to break off the enâ€" gagemenl. That document is not forthcoming, but it is only fair to the prisoner to say that'from the res ply he seems to have offered to make very generous provision for the lady as a condition of his release. “Her letter to which I have refer- the prisoner's wasteâ€"paper basket. It has been most skillfully put together. by an expert in those matters, and we can prove beyond doubt or quesâ€" tion it is the handwriting of the murdered girl. ~ “Darling Devil (it runs), How can ‘you be so cruel. In spite of all, I \red was found torn to fragments in love you better than my own life. Let that be. the answer when you ask me to give you up to a rival, for I’m sure some other girl is at the bottom of this treachery of yours. How often have you sworn that you loved me, only me, and told me I must. never doubt your love. I canâ€" not think you Were a liar all the time. If you ever loved me, your love will come back, and I will wait forit; yes, I will wait. But don’t try me too far. I will be patient with you, and loving with you, but I will never give you up, never. I would sooner die; that’s nothingâ€"I Don’t The offer you make of this house and an inâ€" come to keep it up I refuse with scorn. I won’t sell my love for money. I hold you to your pledge. I will disgrace you before the world if you dare to break it. I’ll make your name a laughing-stock through London. It shall he love or revenge. Let it he love, darling. You will never find another to love you as I do. Remember-how happy we were sum :11 ‘enm 13 our OAOI 03, A111 ((1110 mm no& 3; 'Kmom pun Known .ioixau mm pun ‘.l’8.8pfl ‘noA‘ 01 ejim 0mg ‘poofi '8 sq In». I 'sKep pjo esoin 111 not so hard once. Ever your loving Bessie. ‘ “When the prisoner got that letter he was at breakfast in his chambers, and with him a college friend, Mr. Wheelâ€" er, who will tell you how that letter was received. Gentlemen, Mr. Wheel- er is an unwilling witness, to his credit be it said, a most unwilling witness. He has a harsh and unâ€" gracious duty to discharge. But the law demands the truth from him, and in that witnessâ€"box you will have the truth. He must tell you that the prisoner was seized with a sudden transport of fury when he read the letter. He ground his teeth together, he tore the paper inâ€" to fragments and stamped on it, and he used these wordsâ€"terribly signifi- cant words, remembering what after- wards transpiredvâ€"‘That girl will drive me to murder yet.’ ” The silence was like death in the crowded court, only the scratching of the judge’s pen was heard as he took a note of the fatal words. Sir Frederick continuedzâ€" "On more than one occasion the prisoner was heard using language almost as violent regarding the poor girl, notably by his old and faithful servant, Robert Weevil, whose evi- dence on another branch of the case is, ‘as you will presently see, of the most vital importance. “The letter I have read for you is dated the 9th April. All that day, as Miss Bebecca Blythewood will tell you, the deceased was hysterical- ly excited. I assume that the de- fence in this case will be seine theory of suicide, and I feel, therefore, conâ€" strained in the interest of the prison- or to make this point clear. “On the morning of the next day, the 10th of April, Miss Bessie Blythewood complained of a head- ache. She sent her aunt into the city for a certain specific she was in the habit of using, on the pretence that she could not spare the servant. But her aunt was no sooner out of the house than she gave the servant a halfâ€"holiday. The girl left her quite alone. That was about nine o’clock in the morning. Only one person saw Bessie Blythewood alive afterwards, and that person, the cogent evidence will, I fear, coerce you to believe, is the unhappy prisâ€" oner at the bar. ()f the interview between them We have no direct evi- dence to offer. What happened -in that lonely house during fthe hour and a half that elapsed before Miss Rebecca Blythewood’s return we can only'gather by inference. But it is inference so clear and strong, leadâ€" ing so directly to the door of truth, that We cannot miss our way. (To be continued.) + BABY’S VITALITY. The vitality of infants and young children is at its loxvest point durâ€" ing the hot weather. More children die in summer than at any other season. This is because the little ones suffer more from bowel troub- ies, are nervous, Weak, sleepless and irritable. 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Underground Rivers Enter the Sea at an Enormous Depth. In the work of exploring the depthl of the sea, of mapping out tin ocean floors so that the geography of the land covered with water shall, in time, come to be as well known a: the geography of the land that is dry, the United States and Great Britain are the leading spirits, and by them nearly all the work in this direction is accomplished. England’s hydrographic surveys, which she is prosecuting constantly in all parts of the world, are con- ducted by the British Admiralty. In the United States the same work is divided between two bureausâ€"the Hydrographic Bureau and the Navy Department and the Coast Survey Bureau of the Treasury Department. The Coast Survey does all the work along the coasts, "as far out to sea as the hundred fathom curve â€"that is, out to a depth of 600 feet. Deep-sea work and work in foreign waters is done by the Hydrographic Bureau. Not only are the ocean floors map- ped out, but tides, and those great rivers flowing through 'the ocean, and known as currents, are studied and a vast amount of data collect- ed concerning their habits and physi~ cal characteristics. b Sold by medicine dealers or mailed. MANY CURIOUS THING S are discovered as the work goes on. Among them is the discovery that there are underground rivers, which sometimes enter the sea at a depth of more than (500 feet. It has been shown that more than one-half of the sea-floor lies at a depth of about 12,200 feet, or less than three miles. But 43 localities have been found where the depth is much greater. Some of the latter are more holes, while others' cover considerable areâ€" as. One vast “deep.” as these de- press-ions in the open oceanâ€"bed are called, lies in the South Atlantic, and covers an area of about 7,000,â€" 000 square miles, or 7 per cent. of the surface of the'globe. The Indi- an Ocean is a great place for “deeps,” 24 out of the known 43 lyâ€" ing at the bottom of that body of water. ‘ , All the continents seem to be rest- ing on a sort of terraccpthe seaâ€" floor sloping away from the coast gradually at a depth of 600 feet, and then dropping rapidly to a depth of 6,000 feet. It has been proved that variations of temperature, caused by seasons, do not extend deeper than 600 feet Below that the temperature never varies from one year’s end to an- other. The ocean depths are regions of low temperature. It is estimated that 94 per cent. of the entire sea- floor is - BELOW 40 DEGREES . At the bottom of the Indian Ocean it is 35 degrees, and the same tem- perature prevails in the South At- lantic and parts of the Pacific. The temperature is higher at the bottom of the North Atlantic and over a large part of the floor of the Pacific. This low temperature is supposed to be caused by the sinking to the bottom of the cold water poured out from the I’olar regions, which, after reaching the bottom, spreads out over the ocean floors. And the ocean depths are places not only of cold, but of darkness, for the rays of the sun are wholly absorbed in passing through the layers of water, and cannot pene- trate to the lower regions. Al- though marine plants have been brought up from surprising depths, it is estimated that 93 per cent. of the ocean floor is entirely devoid of plant life. _.___+â€"Jâ€"Iâ€"â€" LORD SALISBURY. Lord Salisbury has so. greatly im-' proved in health, says a London correspondent, that Walnrer Castle is being prepared for his reception; It is expected that he will make a; prolonged stay at his delighful marâ€"l ine residence, which. although withâ€" in a few yards of the sea at high ~water, has a. large old-faShioned gar- den in which absolute shelter can be found in the wind. Tie err-Premier has the use of the castle. of course,1 by virtue of his office of Lord Warâ€" den of the Cinque Ports. The apart- ment which he uses as a study is the one in which Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington had an in- terview before the future hero of Trafalgar joined the fleet assembled in the historic Downs. This was the only meeting between Nelson and Wellington. .____ +_...__.__ BEATEN ON OWN GROUND. The workmen of Germany are not the greatest European beer drinkers. Their :averagc consumption per day is two quarts a head, while in Engâ€" land the average among the same class is slightly larger. +‘â€""‘ 5 Wife: “George, this burning,r of the candle at both ends menus anr un- timely gra‘ve. It is nearly twelve o’clock. Come to bed." George: “But. I’m doing this night work in order to find money enough to buy) you a. birthday present.” .Wi fe :, “Well, if you will persist in workâ€" ing, of Course, T can’t stop it.‘ Goodâ€"night, dear.‘ v i __ .. up" ’0’ .12» «ya-A.n..-.~ .y~.r‘~<'\,4' . ,w r; ‘53,"?277'?’ ~ w: t c Mg; ‘ tn”.