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Canadian Post (Lindsay, ONT18610913), 5 Jul 1895, p. 2

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LIFTED BY LOVE mt 8°16 o, A. annual-In. Wt. to any sentiment of charity on my part in order that no chance word or acci- dental look may convey such a icitori tohermmd. If Igave her all in the worl . down to the last ' g it would not repay what-I owe her. But for the daring, the bravery and the endurance of that slight, frail looking girl I might now be on the road to Siberia.” "Good heavens! I. have not heard a word of this.” “It has all happened since I saw you ‘ last. Itold you the pounce would not let me alone, and they ve not. They laid a trap for me, and I walked into it- with the simplicity of a woman, main- ly, I think, because the agent employed to take me represented himself to be an ex-convict and looked the character so perfectly that I never sus ted him of ing something worse. anally. you know. the police agent looks inpecca- ble. They got me down in a cellar, bound hand and foot and gagged I could not get my hands free, but I worked the cord off my feet and ate through my fig). There was a pipe in the cellar, and t ugh that I communicat- with the girl whose voice Iheard overhead. At the risk ‘of her life she and me out of it. A vesselâ€"from which I had been led to believe that three refugees were to be rescuedâ€"lay in the lwaiting for me, and most likely I was to have been carried aboard and shipped off to St. .Petersburg the very night that this brave girl saved me. ” “Thank Godyou escaped! Give me our hand, old man. To think that I might have found this room emptyâ€"that I might never have smoked another pipe with you!” "You can understand now my feeling toward that girl.” “By George, it’s a heavy debt!” Then in a reflective tone he added after a pause: ”I see. You propose to raise ' r A- an... AM lava] ” "Good heavens! word of this.” “It has all happened last. I told you the j let me alone, and they laid a trap for me, and with the simplicity of y, think, because th¢ ‘ , _ _-_-Mnn fna y'auav. - -v -. 7 , - _ this girl to your own level. ” “Higher if I may. I aim atfgivingher a new life.” “You have set yourself an enormous tas ” “You may help me now if vn" will " “If I will"! Why, there? nothing in the world that would give me greater pleasure, if it were only to prove the sincerity of en Irishman's friendship.” . . , : LL‘L ‘I’ n'lnnn‘ld nnf. 085801 HUGH, vuu- "v..- _-V _ task upon you which beforehand seemed utterly hopeless. ” “One moment, old man,” said Ka- vanagh, with a laugh. “You are not -4-.. on 1mm! that vouna' lady over to “BDVAAJ â€"-râ€"_V V , “One moment, old man,” s vanagh, with a laugh. “You goingtohand that young lady he?" me'r “Yes. You must promise to look after her if anything hap us to me." “Good heavens! what 0 you mean?” flied Kavanag , with bated breath. “I mean that you must finish what I have begun if I cannot finish it myself. I must make some gsmrision of this kind for the 1' girl. hat would become of her ' in a. few weeks, say, she were thrown sngdenly ‘ upon her own re- ,_ __-_.1.a ".01". 1.... tnrown uuuuom.‘ ...,-_ fl , , sources? Money alone wopld make her position. only the gnore penlous. With- 1161' In uua mu“... “I understand that, but what do you mean by the suggestion that something might ygppen to you in a. few weeks?” n. -A. n.“ “Anna have tried 111181.15 1.13qu w JVu-nâ€" .. --.. no , , "I told you that the police have tried to kidnap me. ” “And failed”â€"â€"â€" . “They w111be more careful next time in consequence. They intend to take me, and probably they will. Three months ago the minister of the police received an order from the czar to si- lence me. He seldom has to repeat an order of that kind.” ”I could not believe it when you told me. ,, “It was credible enough to me. The warning came from a reliable friend in the minister’s household The odd thing is that I have heard nothing since from him or other friends who watch TL ‘Inn‘lyn on {F thuu m..- vâ€" is the motions of the police. It looks as if he had found a new agentâ€"one less known to us than the old hands." “The villainous looking scoundrel you mentioned?’ “Oh, dear, no. He is only a sub- agent 99P1°§°d by the agent in chief, who himse takes care to keep well out of the way. He may be directing the af- fair from Paris or Berlin. Certainly he would not jeopardize his own life or his ppmtion by an attack of this kind. The whole basin has to be done b care- fullisconcealed means. like one 0 those cloc which defy ingenuity to discover where the motive power is situated. It would never do, in case of exposure, for a known emissary of the Russian gov- ernment to be implicated in a conspir- acy againstthe freedom of a subject on British so” ” » “That did not occur to me at the mo- ment. What steps have you taken since this attempt?" “Made my will and”â€" "Surely the; gill not attempt tenet , ~ â€"‘â€" --= nah. v mauv m] 1'“. u..â€" "Snrely they will not attempt to as- sassinate you?" Kavanagh said quickly, 5' they could jns ‘ themselves by a plea. of self defence. 1: might have hap pened the other night if they had not taken me so completely by rise that hb] $31533.â€" Ié'iooksasif new agentâ€"030 less ESE, 771 751101143 not . u- LAO-n- _v_ 7 “13 it not. I _ possible," sad Kavmgn. ‘ "is there not just a chance that the ' attack was jntenaed rather ass warning than anytgrafi else,‘ and that they Woul have snfl on to escape ifthe girl hadnotf edthem! Iftheysilenogd you tonight, your works would exist. Thev cannot "undofihem, and Sent to Sibena. you be- r ' 1. Comeupwithmemndlwill poo show the shell I am preparing to throw at the czar’s feet.” As their chairs moved I slipped from theer and ran up tomy roomto meditate on whog I had heard and form -n IL- “In-“harp a clearer CHAPrErc XII. m FIGHT eon um. I too}: fusion. But before I let his warm palm leave my clinging fingers the earnest purpose I had come to In the night re- ‘asserted it_s_e1f, and 1 said: ,,_:_ LA Inna“ I-AJ‘QV if! rater taken in the milk, we can go in workshop and. satisfy your out without keeping breakfast waiting. is a pretty frock. I have not seen fore, I think.” ,5: 'f A, mmâ€"Jâ€"_vâ€" "Ah, but this is my a sketch of a mgfih larger one I shall . make? satid he, conceTfition of its meaning. gee; it be l “I guess she feels like I felt." said I. I .“Like as if nothing could make her feel was. and it didn't matter what happen- she isnot his slave.” ' . "What’s this down alongside the wo- few moments of profound thinking. “I’mgetfinatit'by a little-“ataxia. - , ,ALLI" L- -, Turns assented. “Better she hadn’t got nosonlnor nothin. Better she was dead if she hadn’t goth *friend to help her up and give her a new life. " "That’s it. But we must find friends tohelp her, warm the hearts ofother nut‘innfi toward her and kindle agpjrit â€"â€"-â€"-,.- give her a new life. " "That’s it. But we must find friends to help her, warm the hearts of other nations toward her and kindle a spirit or hope and courage into that poor taint in: heart. and we will i; weucan keep V {figâ€"Bart, and WE will if we out of the hands of the payee." Uuu Va vuv m..â€" -â€" -_.V . If he could keep out of the hands of the police! My existence also depended upon that. Recognizing so much, the ' instinct of , self preservation inspired me with a fierce desire and de- termination to find' out and fight this secret emissary of the czar. The enemy once discovered, I would meet cunning with cunning, dare anything, hesitate at nothing to save the man who made the world dear to me. It would be a fight for life, and one of us must fall. CHAPTER XIII. AN om) DIARY. In my room there was a table with an empty drawer which fastened with a key. It is half full of rubbishâ€"odds and ends of all sorts secreted- there as souvenirs of those early days when I was incapable of keeping any other kind of diarfi. They have served their purpose. T ere is not scrap which fails to recall the very se timent of the moment when I laid it away, and it would be easy to compile a minute record of my life in Lambeth from them alone. A few of these trifles will sufice to indicate the course of events during the early months of my new life. . u-__ __.. nu... 0110 Villa] .â€"v._-__ , Here at the very bottom are three penny novellettes, bought for the illus- trations on the cover, which alone were intelligible to me. In one “Lady Ermyntrude overhears the conspiracy ’ and is represented listening, vgith hon-or , n-12 ..... l‘M’u 1n uuu. la hwy-wavâ€"u... __ _ on her face. a: a half opened door; in another ”G endoline denounces the baronet,” who is quailing in terror be- fore her outstretched: finger, and m the third “Beryl says ‘Dle!’ and shoots the villain”â€"-and a most unmistakable vil- lain he isâ€"“thro h the heart.” Those plotures fascina me. The heroines were all tall and beautiful and a couple . ) â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" 2...“.- “no. [Chumâ€"n... __________ of them were in evening dress. I at myself in their place. The lad accomplishment of eavesdrop ing had alreadypracticed. I had 0 y to un- mask the secret enemy of Tax-as and shoot him throggh the heart to be perfectly satisfi And the means seemed almost within my reach The revolver had not been removed from my room. For weeks I carried that dangerous and somewhat cumbrons weapon in my dress pocket. I smile 7 m â€"__M- now}: my mixpucuy, out my purpose was no laughing matter then; I was in terrible earnest. _ . u. ,, ___1__ LL- Ann ark-n term on: can “can. A long claspknife marks the day when I might dispense with part of my port- able armory which knocked against my knee whenever I moved about. The complete absence of fear shown by Taras and the mild manner and innocent look of all his visitors had t1 ealmed my apprehensions. and in . dition to this a wider intelligence showed me that the hand counted for less than the brain in coping with the subtle enemy of Taras. One night Taras took me to the West- minster. Music hall. Here is the pro- gramme of the spectacles which consti- Very difi'erent emotions are recaued by this handkerchief, torn and shredded in a. passion of furious jealousy. I must have used my teeth to rend it in this way. It was that evening when George Gordon dropped in after dinner and Kavanagh. with a. con e of friends, came in after. As when a visitor called, I went up to my room to avoid unpleasantness, for I hadstuck scrap“: the morning. an sat on the steps and listened to the sounds that came from below, with venomous jealousy ran ' in my bro '..st. the cold sweat of rage beading my 1i and brow, when the jovial voice an hearty laugh of Turns reached my ear. Whe- the putty hroke up I won: I LL- _ tne COVUID lflwuunvu v- x--___? __ _ â€"of imparting to him. somethmg of the vindictive unsery I felt. Seeing my conghtion, he .made me sit down. and m the at that hour. _ , Littlabypttle holed up to m 00cm fion dunng the evenmg, an :36: W3 me_b my own oonfadonto see ’.V who n1 {hid-gr WWW “No: I was once a serumâ€"r m5... almost any a triendâ€"of the our. who is now my enemy." . . “What made you become a nihilistf' : He reflected longer than he usuall did before replying to my questions small. for the most partportraits. but the greater number. and those which attracued most attention. illustrated pri- son and exile life in Russia and scenes relating to the march of prisoners into Siberia. The misery of this awful march, the attendant horrors of the etapes, where men and women. old and ‘- young, where the habitual criminal and the tenderly nurtured girl. condemned without trial by the administrative pro- cess, were herded together in loathsome garments without regard todecency or to __:.L 1‘... mm fnr their ura- cattle, were shown in such van ‘ty that one turned with a feehng of mck noes from the canvas. as e of ‘ ”â€"- - -fld'fld" mm “This is whatmadq me a nihilist." Tax-as said m a low voice. H nodd A‘ lethogiaé young man with lbng hair was as judgment on the picture in the loud tone of conceit. “Vig or, Igrsnt ou,"he said. “But the thing is ove The efloct he Aime at is spoiledcm by ‘ Borgensky may be a tab: nihi- list, but it is equsll clear that he is making cspi out of a political boom: in fact. ’â€"he added in a confidential toneâ€"“he almost admitted the fact when I taxed him with it hone the other day. "p - an--- _..x..:.... ":2 figéEig-‘x-i’dt true!" said Tans. mans‘ know who Tans was. One mornin Imparticululy bright and happy. amsndlhadriseneur y. by arrangement made over night. and note e flower market at Covent en, from which we returned laden with flowers, and I was then disposing them about our living room. Mere Lucas surprised me by repeating s phrase winch she had not used for e “I”- . .. "Why do you say that. Meme Lucas?" I asked, for I could now speak with tolergble fluency. “I have everything I wan " “It is true. it is true. Thank heaven you have everything you desire." “Then why do you say ‘P°°1’ decrie' with that look of sadness?" "Why do I say it?" she aid. echoing mv words m 291: time for :01!me “Why do I say it?" she said. eenomg my words to get time for reflection She hesitated. Her line trembled as it she were about to tel eomethingthet guidance witheld. and then taking me ythe arms and drawingmetoher breastshe got out of thedifiealty 051% saying .“beeanee I love you.“a Go. With a eonn and went ofito togerm kitchen. I accepted this feminine explanation then. but be- fore long the same expreeaonao copped a paste no when I “mag msheerm wanto thought. “-5 u..- " ‘â€" â€"”.u .- That set me wondering. What was there in my condition that appealed to her sympathy? I was no longer the de- plorable creature that first excited her pi . Why would a merry laugh now an then be checked by asighaeahe squeezedmy hand. or end inanefnl shakeoftheheadand a look ottearml 83 3106609- -mw .- _.â€", .,-__f, , “I will go and see," More Lucas w upended in good Norman. "but behold m’m’eelle all alone.” md opening the sitting-room door shogave thepoor man nooptlon but toenhermdpmaqmrm ofsnhom- withme. sad 3 badqnuter duhonritumfllywutormm to his very limited knowlodp of mam obstxmte maps-k- mfinnz’linhonlyg'rm emnnieotellowndthomostinfl- mumdof'l‘m gingham! ofmendshi mm than hvmchrpuhplbmm’ mum's-helium: A WARNING. own, FRIDAY. £6110!“le -I might r. who is .953 8 >420 rats 35.. 3 .2 3 93!. in I. . Assisi-3: 535.38.. .813.- Pau 60-85% caged-Insulin; J. F. DIX, orW.E. YEREX, Little Britain, orW. H. KENNEDY, Omemec. .m-l-«I. See our Circular for testimonials 120.000 sold in 1894. May be seen in operation on the farms of Messrs- Alfi'ed Webster. south of Oakwood. David Bee- croft. John Dix Sons. 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