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"= » WALTER MAC WALTER MEETS MARY oo. ! pissET. ound that waist. where she was for ever.' "Mother," she said, "is that you?" But even as she said it she knew that her mother was not there, ° Then her eyes opened upon a world of dazzling whiteness, upon the blue of a brilliant sky infinitely removed. Then her eyes lighted upon Walter Mac Walter. He was standing above her looking at her as she had seen him do last night. She shrieked aloud. "Oh, take him away---do mot let him come near mel" Then a voice spoke in her ear, a voice she knew, yet could not remem- ber whose it was. It said, "He will 'never come near, you any more." She perceived that two men whom she had never escen held her husband by the arms, while her son Kit, very hale and strong, stood behind with a strange, alert, triumphant look on his face. But the voice behind belonged to someone else. "Who are you?" she faltered, trying weakly to turn her head. "Lilias, I am your husband!" said Christopher Kennedy, laying her gently back on the grass and looking down into her eyes. » - Joy does not kill, as the story-books aver. Perhaps for the reason that when it comes suddenly and unexpect- . edly like an angel from heaven, it is not at first believed in. Slowly Lillas became aware that the elder of the two men who held her husband was speaking. The sense of his words seemed to come to her from 'an infinite distance: "Listen, Walter Mac Walter," he was saying. "You know me. You have 'known me all your life, I am Daniel Bisset, brother of Mary Bisset; your dead--your murdered wife," Walter Mac Walter tried to thrust his guards from him, but they held When she came to herself Lillas ghe twas supported in arms which clasped her firmly about the § Her head lay on someone's shoulder. This was very strange, yot "somehow, as the buzzing in her ears "ceased, she seomed to find herself in some strangely familiar place. She felt an incurious content steal over her. "Bho was quite ready to stay his arm with Kit Kennedy stand! assiat in case of need. you sent my sister to her death." madman. him fast, Hoggie Haugh hanging iipon grip of a'giant, and ng behind ready to "Yes-~murdered," said Daniel Bis- 'place from which Mary Bisset. fel} you would have thrown Lilias Ken- nedy to-day, even as twenty ycara ago "Lillas Kennedy!" The words came scornfully from the lips of the baffled "Aye, Lilias Kennedy, no other," Murses. This Holplta) hae adopted the elohts | Nour ontem. The pupils receive waliwems of the Sahel, a wonthly alfowsnce and 1xpenses fo and from York, For further Information "xpply 19 the Supertnisadent, fequired edusation. und derlrous of Wessminy | § ORL God," said Christopher Ki for, with some pride, set, solemnly. "We suspected it be-| Edinburgh Athenae i. It 1s not a fore. Wo know it now. From ihe/|87Te8t school, "but it is"better on that Daniel will be near us." «=. Mary Bieset was infinitely distress ter Mac Walter. : , Sen- "I have been: appointed Classical' Master at the! account for one so long out of prac- of tice. Liiias and I have taken a house, and we start work after therholidays. ed that Lilias would not consent to receive any of the inheritance of Wal- "I am not his widow. said the Classical Master, coming for- your father's wits ward--for his charge was now suffi- ciently recovered to sit up and (after the manner of women) begin to ar- range her hair, "She is my wife, not yours. Alexander "Strong, of Edin- burgh, has found poor Nick French whom we thought dead. He has kept the original marriage lines of Chris- topher Kennédy and Lilias Armour, So long as I thought her happy I would never have come forward. I would have kept myself wnere she would never have known, But now--" "It is a lie--a lies--a devil's lie"; cried Walter Mac Walter furiously, foaming at the mouth. * Then Daniel Bisset spoke again. "It is a truth which the judges of the Dornal they will die happy." to work the farm for than mistress o' my ain hoose," said Kit's grandmother, "Fegs," sald Willie Gilroy, who had "ye are o' the same mind as my wife." "What, Willie, ye are never married again?" 4 The Sheriff's officer admitted the I never was I will havé no- thing that ever belonged to 'him: Iti is yours by right and by gift. But if you put my father and mother back in And so it was arranged, Rob and Betty Jointly and. severally. agreeing|. them. .. "But 1 wad like to gee the Rob or the Betty that' will hak' me ither come to sea them comfortably settled, | the land will believe, as they will be- lieve the witnéss of us four men-- when you, Walter Mac Walter, are tried for the attempted .murder of Lillas Kennedy and. the accomplished murder of Mary Bisset, my sister and your wife!" With a quick access of maniacal strength the prisoner cast his guards this way and that from him. Even then he would have sprung upon Lilias but for the shining tube of a revolver which looked at him from the right hand of the Classical Master. He heard his guards rushiyg at him from behind. With a quick swing he turn- ed, dashed between them, knocked Kit down flat on his back, and ran along by the edge of the cliff in the direction of the gate at which he had left the black mare tethered. But at the first dip of the ground, in 'a little sheltered hollow, he came upon a girl sitting. She held her hat in her hand as if erjoying the winter sunshine, and as he ran towards her she rose with a startled look on her ale face, The maniac stopped dead in his career with a strange gasping cry. "Mary Bisset! In God's name, Mary Bisset! Touch me not. Out of my way, fiend!" he shouted. And swerving to the left to avold the wraith of his victim, he stumbled BG The world's best * hair tint. Will re. gray hair to its natural n 16 minutes, Small size, $3.30 by man Double size, $5.50 by mall The W..T, Pember Stores Limited 129 Yonge St. store color Toronto' [ipon the imminent verge of the cliff {and fell outward and forward. He | clutched at nothing as he fell, and as it were wrenched himself round, till | his distorted face looked up at the | accusing phantom who had confronted him so startlingly. That face vanish- ed like a falling stone. And from below there came an jagonized cry of "Mary Bisset! Mary Bisset!" 1 : Then silence. EPILOGUE, The fragments must be briefly gathered up. "Lilias Kennedy began a new life from that day forth. Her husband, long tried in the fire, had come forth refined. These two went to the South of England for the win- ter, and Daniel Bisset accompanied them "for his health's sake," he said. But the Classical Master knew better. "I thank you, Daniel," he sald; next year I shall be able to walk without swaddling bands--by the blessing of God!" "Amen to that!" said the Infidel Lecturer. : ' Mary Bisset gave up her situation and went with them, but her adopted mother refused to quit Edinburgh, "I will keep the house open and the fireside. warm against your return!" she said. ! Dick listed in the Scots Greys, which were quartered at Piershill, and his father refused to buy him off in spite of his mother's many prayers. "It is his one chance!" he sald. Kit went back to his college course, | and when he came in spring to the Cottage under the Cras Wood he had dome, the names of the stars, unreasonably positive. James Hargreaves in 1770. accusation with a shake of his head. "Wha 1ig't, Willie?" cried Betty Landsborough, who was naturally much interested. "It's juist Meg "Patterson frae Clairbrand." "But she's stirely no young. Willie, hoo auld is she?" "God kens;" -said Willie. "I' mis- doot she'll never dee recently, this yin. I think IY1 hae to shoot her!" LE * * » Kit found Mary in the renovated drawing-roonmrof Kirkoswald. She was looking prettier than ever before, though very simply dressed. But the radiance of her eyes seemed somehow to-fill the room; even es once it had filled Kit's heart under the Edinburgh gas-lamps. 0 He took her hand and bent his head towards her. : "What -is 1t; Kit?" she said. "You are a great lady now," he said, very low. "You are the owner of all this!" The pretty girl was silent a little, looking up at his drooping head with a singularly sweet smile. Then she went a little nearer to him. "Ask me if there is nothing else I would like better to be!" she said at last. Then Kit asked, and found that there was. ('The End.) = BT When hoarse use Minard's Linimant. a eae bi He Understood. Dad (angrily)--'You're' the dévil's som, child! Do you understand?" ~ Son (meekly)--"Yes, father, I un- derstand." 4 Se ---- er -------- Mapping. the. Sky. A remarkable piece of mechanism has just been completed after four- - { private *collectors andthe Zoological | Gardens in Calcutta. 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He writes;-- "They exist solely by means of catching snakes, which they sell to teen years of hard work. It is a ma- chine that reproduces the entire starry sky on the inside of a great whit Seventytwo projecting lan- terns are used; forty-two. project the ee el rn. Be reasonably sure before becoming ---- nd The spinning-Jenny was patented by é Why is & poor singer like a counter 1 the like; on the contrary, their choice is in the direction of .the venomous and deadly cobra, the: dread hama-| o! dryad, and the great python. japproachs.a. deadly 'spectacled' cobra stars, and the remaining thirty project ' and catch it With bare hatids with the ease and dexterity of a man picking up apiece of rope! h ry with them a long polished bamboo of fine balance and welght, having at | also another bamboo spearhead, but not omce during the : couple of days I watched them did the 'hunters have oocasiop : of violent and passion-driven men, {Walter Mac Walter had 'left all his {property to Mary Bisset, the only ~ | daughter | that communicated all his woes. of his dead wife. Kit felt] - Mary was separated from | If fixed. # y- 8 great gu He said this to Betty, to "Nonsense--try her," said that ex- pee, ens, Fit ns a 1 whom he). 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