pa Red Heart «« Black-Arrow A Tale of the Rolling Wave CHAPTER X.--Cont. I wondered, too, as I set' the steamer's head N.E. by E. out of © bay, whether there was now to open breach betwegn Zavertal and myself, and what ithe uar- the creasing suspicion that there was an er octor's char- acter besides the one that he = pre- sented to the public, and though I didn't care twopence about his rela- tions with myself, I hoped he would not show temper to the annoyance of the passengers. oO far as this was concerned my Sipcetenstome Were soon set at rest. were clear of the head- lands I "'icad in for a c hours, and while I few lines from the do forgiveness for hi outhreak."' He for it, he wrot r4 been able to sleep, and he sincerely trusted it "would make no differ- ence to the kindness 1 had extended to him since I had commanded of Night.'" made seakters = ° e the really lavished upon myself and .upon passengers respectively were genuine. General Waldo's place at the table was still atownnd elicited though better, did not permit leaving his cabin. The of the snowy-haired, veteran, ap walking the deck I me my head into asked Zavertal if as the unexpected reply. "IT saw him half an ago, but not. professionally. He wanted me to witness his signature to a will he s been amusing himself with making. I don't think from his ap- pearance that he he phate to describe the symptoms on the grounds | that he never consulta a cal men. 'Te is a queer old fish," I remark- ed, and was turning to resume my promenade with the passenger when Zevertal called after me By the way, General will send for you, sir, 1 expect, to be the second witness. He was saying some | thing about a will witnessed by a} -- and a doctor being unussail- | le. Bure enough I had _ iaken two chp on decks when ao ard came | to that oneral "Waldo would beg Dats A Sot bee ade atte of private business. Apolsgieing to my gael eager 1 went to the muin-deck at ©, anticipat- ing nothing but conuecuent from the And ¢ down interview. ertainly my en- int state-room the occupant's rueful countenance, fram- | ed in a huge red nightcap, contem- plating a swathed foot with an ex- pression of malignant hatred, form- doa typicul picture of the "gouty subject" calculated to provoke a smile, But at that point amusement ended for me, once for all, for the rest of the cruise. and if I laughed during the next fortnight, God ow it must have been forcec laughter. All was to be blind mis- ust and dark groping while, beyond, the shadow of a more defin- ite terror was in store for me. © moment I was _ inside cabin, and Waldo " he added, in a voice to him and yet so strangely familiar to me that t here thpt 7 the bed, Captain Forrester,"" he said--the pronounced no- n, We must not renmin too long together, so let me be f, It was I who wrote that letter on which you so wise acted.' I could only mutter oie hei in- coherent. T should have prised at learning that the anony- mous letter emanated from Waldo as a but a greater anes wee a had gripped mo--at the mar- 'The Twinging the surface | I 5 jcontemptuously of the abe you intended e he must |'! vellous change in the man's manner. was in manner only. = give you very good reason that saraine divectly, but first let me set you at your I can see that you are struggling scar a pls ef half-rememberance of mecting. There, perhaps that. will assist you. As ho spoke his hands went quick- ly to his head, and in a twinkling he had whipped off the red nightcap and the snowy mop of hair, showing the close-cropped, iron-grey poll of Kennard, issing passenger -- I had met in Nathan's office. adroit movement the bushy eyebrows and me tension of feature that disguise so simple that only the proof I had received made detached axed 50 I of this masquer- ade ?'"' he caught me up. ha what you are here to learn, And in case of interruption, I must prepare you by saying at the will you were to witness is as bogus as my gout--invented for the sole purpose of throwing dust in the very wide- | of Doctor Zavertal. suspect the real nature of our con- versation if I furnished him with a spuriodis sample of it fi Do you happen o ow if he took' the ait ay begin to think that Zavertal is a difficult man to read, but he gave me the impression of having believed | you,' I said. 'He spoke rather service you had asked of him, and he said that to ask the same of od !"" exclaimed Kennard, as I now call him. "Now as to notion believe that he cam away fashion with Dever s kno led ivance nd Bavvertal is without exception the most mur- derous Villain as yet, unhanged on God's rth. am a detective, pretty well known on the other side of the Atlantic, and, of hat, on ye and conni is c that I do not speak with- out eiewarlen I had him in' my ands once and he slipped through my tingers, or rather through one of the meshes in our si immaterial here, {of the most expert professional |poisoners who ever trafficked in human lives.' "Good heavens !"' I exclaimed. denounce him an to the authorities at | hen why not nd him over the Nags port ? 1 shoud if I could find, any- t A umstance thing fr bu pS Asal sey eee verdict of the American jury, and 1! |should only burn my fingers by bringing vague charges," replied | Kennard. I have noticed one or 'two suspicious circumstances during | the voyage, and 1 may catch him | tripping yet efore it is over. I have the pull over him in this--that he does not suspect my identity, | though he was a little uneasy about me on the iirst day, as I think you j Save oS, said, "But what was the !reason for this disguise, if, you |} told me in Nathan's office e, you are really on acholiday ?° Kennard smiled--not Waldo's senile grin, but his own sharp twinkJe | 'Haven't you ever heard," he said, "that actor gets a nigh theatre ? whéen I chanced upon Zavertal the stairs of Nathan on & Co.'s office \ "It was him, then, Wary out ?*° not know whom you met I interrupted, he was about Was most, certainly there, and drew a ee on me under the impression I was shadowing hinn,"' ssrwiantiead Kennart "After that meeting [ made a ree inquiries, ff and found that he was medical offi- cer on very steamer in ich I was contemplating a trip. Then it struck mo that it would be inter- [esting to combine business with pleasure and see how Zavertal was thaving--whether he was really on d I was to make | discoveries it would be useless to ap- jpear on board in propria ett a j and so I booked" as the dodas old | idiot who ia regarded na a nie Pains of Rheumatism And Solation, Distreesing Headaches and teers Spells, Mado Life Wretohed--Dovtors and Moedio'nas Avalled Nothing, but Cure Came with the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. Tustead of giving you reasons why Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pille should cure you, we prefer to quote from the experience of the cured ones. This case of Mr. Haines was unusu- ty years' stan had efforts of two bhyzicians a end gil Kidney-Liver Pills reach the seat of d oure when o means of} & Rob- | fesh, duced in flevyh, and was wrecked health -- spirits. After umdergoing treatment by two doctors and trying many do- mestic and patent en. 1 al- most gave up in de as none of these did me any go "Fortunately I began Ki came nearly twenty years' stand: dis- ppeared. I had gained sieny = and qnce more to joy life. For this gy change 'all the credit is due to Dr. Chase's Kid- plicated rheumatiam and atica, altogether my life was mene. 'able. .The ' headaches ere accompanied with ditziness and Somiting, ge ye A appa ost and 'often weeks unfit for anything. As the trouble eiivanced I became re- 4 ney-Liver Pills, and I shall never couse whenever the opportunity offers."' Dr, Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills havé attained their enormous sale because m@icceed others fail. One pili a dose; 25 cents a box; at dealers, or & Co, Toronto. : that letter, I have not the slightest I | wasn' t the act the opportunity, a ced sort of way, of mesitinking? the sensation I had experienc Nathan's office of havi not laugh, as I had half feared, but, though he scanned my face seriously, Pp on to say,-- "Vizard's acquaintance with er. tal can be considered later. At and made me thoughtful, actly suspicious, since we left Lon- em nunprber dinner on the seco) u saw me get up and over 'to where they had been sitting, after the boy's removal, on Hhich was } printed the one word, "Dp ail "Loo the back,"" he added, with a ee be ay "bt ank stare of oo "it ms "to be a label,"' I said after ccering it over recent perceiving that the back was gum I think, it ie a aruggist's label, " replied Kennard, "the letters 'Dig' would be on abbreviation. for 'Gigitalis,' the name a uy that. specially affects the action of the heart, and which, giv en in sufli- cient quantities, is a deadly poison. Considering Zavertal's past record, the find led me to wender whether Lord Darranmore's fainting-fit had an artificial origin."" But the boy didn't die, and doctor worked sions bring ~ remar' "My dear Captain Forrester, envy your guilclessness,"' I re- 1 was obliged to admit his supe- rior 'cuteness. "And where does the stowaway come in ?" T asked. "Ah, there you have me--at pre- sent," was the reply. "Yd ascertain- however, that in that gume of hide-and- seek Darranmore went and unearthed him from the launch | wavertal' s initiative, which _-- | very much as if the finding of you. 'up here so that there should be "suspicion of collusion between us.' that circumstance Was ? e stowatvay brought Des- lrink a its composi replied Kennard grave (To Be Continuea.) et COCAINE FIENDS. The use of cocaine--held by lead- ing physicians to be the greatest vice under ich Chicago is strug- gling--is to be curtailed by law. 'Already five druggists, who y al- leged to have sold the brain-lestroy- ing drug in violation of the law, have been indicted by the gramd jury. Wilbclm Bodeimann, treasurer of the State oard of Pharmacy, testified before the grand jury that on rai ilways could be traced to the y o these companies, ar out his Statement grew the investigation that has revealed' the widespread use of the drug. thad Dn Pi Chat Late Re a a Bo every form no maatenten ae TE RS feces thiak efit. i et 7 So a bor. gon, Batas & Co. Toronte, dontere oF Pr. Chase's Ointment THE STRONCEST GAOL. Graham County gaol at Clifton, in Arizona, is the strongest gaol in the world, It comprises four large apartments hewn from the solid tz rock of a hill-side. The entrance is through a box-like vesti- bule built of heavy masonry an qquipped with three sets of gates. Some of the most desperate criminals on the southwest border have been confined jn the Clifton gacl, and so solid and heavy are the barriers that no one there has ever attempted to escape. YOUNG BRIDES. The Russian Governmont has set about regulating the age at which ag oF ry in estan. It ft been customary for ran Turcoman m incensed, as obtain brides as 7 an oo repo' ° girls who marry r rant ag ae before they. are twen' a Cees EXAMPLE TO RICH UNCLES. Benjamin W. Gist; of Falls City, Nebraska, was recently left $40,000 by an al a to divi bequest ng insistent and irritating were their. intreaties that decided _.get rid of the money. Drawing S108 000 in gold from his bank, he hired pocr whom if not ex- >fof the on | in his opinion many of the wrecks | pe of all sports, go to the opening, but to walk up the 7 04 oo watch belilian o by of those who all eeous ie attend. Bril- of rate, his name is not known to --- with brocade and embroidered velvet in connection with the-old affair. |of the Rajahs, haranas, and At present I concerned wit! other ~ native Princes, each of what has come under my own companied by four, ied ret. tainech two leading -- two ithe Th he col © |bow, de almost invariably in per- fect tas In a -- were seated a Ma- pri tence of fetching a dish of plasabalat hafajah three gentlenien = at- Well, that action Was prompted b ndants, dressed tively in the sight pf a piece of paper lying|céats of pale lavender, rose color, close to Zavertal's plate. What do|dark red, gold-embroldered velvet, you makg of and the palent green brocade, their. He handed me a strip of paper|turbans of different colors adorned | with jewelled Sen, and = great strings and emeralds --. big Rai e Princes who have el our -- = interest are the old Moharajak of Jaipur, the Nizam' Hydérabad, the boy Maharaiah ajah of Kapur- Pratab Singh, tke sporting Maharajah of Idar, Colonel cadets. THE. MAHARAJAH OF JAIPUR, an old man with white hair and a most princely dignity, is a ---- ly consistent Hindu. keeps up ditions posvible, and er no} the same w niallgat « welfare .of the people. His elephant stables are the largest in India, his palace one most gorgeous. Yhen he went to England to the coronation < : turned Kennard. "Supposing Zaver- ro os i own fcr wlaniginstil -- tal had anything to gain by doing | nis caste, and among other] aWay with the lad, he would -- pre- things took with him o ta of thet are the ground first by inducing a}, te eG few fainting-fits just ay 8U%lthat during his stay there he 'would picion when © administered a fatal ever have to drink any other wa- dose. § e@ S reaped the = nad- vantage may. Ile has furnished "he Rajah Kapurthiala is f you with an argument in his de-| quite a different sort, a very tall, fat, fence.' thick-lipped man, with a thick neck, he is extremely modern { and is supposed 'o b tv for literature os he has written BPnglish a book which hn e is musical, third wife, o n outeide "ner | i Tas a matter of wor se import to her. *WIFE ACTED AS PAGE She is pretty enough to be called ven in a self-consciousness which qeenshy from her charm. She seems | to be sincerely fond of ier husband, and we are told that the Rajah was) very 'proud of her. She went with im on his tour around the workd, h and accompanied him to the corona- tion in London as one of his pages. She is said have urged him to take her with him as his wife, but don ig devised pe plan of going a and as such she accom oes his 'to Windsor "and to Buckingham. Ve were told that the King and a nm had heard the story and were nat willing to sec for themselves reo p le young page of t The Maharajah Singh, is t admired of all the native his own people, -_ by the British alw. He is a soldier ver has the fmest lions in wi . Pratab most princes by to his own peop an rider and o- unt the most dash- ing figures in In The hell "a Patiala is only twelve, but his one me o unpleasant the eastern countenance, being thick-lipped, with ithal a look rather gover! t. and his straight, slight figure ud young cannot fail to in- apire interest small and rath- er cant gure of the most powerful of all the at 5 he N zam Hyderabad, is a disappoint- n the he d re, although for his with a cloth of plain yellow velvet, was also of plain yel- be himsel, alone. simply garbed, and with one atterdant only seated behind him, but in spite of size and simplicity he ec of the most impressive of them all. Lord Curzon's opening -- could be read in and an account of all Jay: other opening pe atta also, we avoided the crowd and did oy enter the exhibition hall un- gee days yo w we id have it a te it to contain a inne <atlection protiuctions of the Indian much to be twelve mounted and liver! always | commanding the Impvrial, | in his beautiful city all the old tra-) iit Is at Kalgoorlie | Australia q -|ing desert is called the detracts | - w hen her -- o as these Burmese gongs would be im- possible to deacribe. Again and again we struck them softly. and listened to the low musical boom umtil it faded away in silence. The Burmese are fustly noted for their bells and gongs. WONDERFUL J * g and that of the green vaults in Drestien pales fs been a rumor that the natives had form- by @ great iron open-w ga ni of people oe lowed to pass through at one time, while we were st before a ing and howling broke o se gate, and we found that the natives were trying to force t in, t least so it appeared. ous u the who had been al- lowed in, rushed to the gate 2» picid it shut while the guards on crowd Sack with as an excit- icks ing moment and we have never been iquite able to decide if the' crowd had force its way in on pillage bent whether we could have kept our fingers off the necklace of Bur- rubie: and diamonds or the mese other of large perfect pearls and em- eralds honesty is truly defined as the fear of being found out, ti-en probably those enchanting jewels would not have escaped our ere have escaped found us ogain ds of others camps marke simply, and past the Burmah cup, guarded by its delightful pair of de with go | mons, cream color old bands, their tails ai up yer their backs, their feet close together We d the polo, always exciting, | aml we about afterwar | meeting friends on all sides, -_ tea 4 this time in the which, though coni- lone is always forced to wait in the |block for minutes which sometimes |mount up to hours. | SS i | WORLD'S RICHEST MILE. in Western Water sells for $2.50 to $6.25 per hundred gallons at Kalgoorlie. There is not a sign of vegetation at Kal- goorlic. To ail the | 'jumping off place i at Kalgoorlie. And yet the richest square mile in the world is at Kal- goorlie This barren Uesert of treasure is 400 mites Pisce from the town of | Perth western Australia Seven ! vears ago gold was discovered there, | 35,000 "people built up in the water- | less reyion. | This square mile of treasure bear- "Gold Mile" thei of its reputation as Besa the richest, gold 1 bearl fts | a" Rs eer Apt el has ecoalbyh to this country by the Rev. BE. Gordon Savile 'The district was discovered some 'years ago," he said, "and now there are twelve gold mines at work on | and about forty others The output i |The miners live in Kalgoor a reef Some of the m w being worked at tho level and the gold is found to just as rich as it was at the top. "I 1895 some miners prospecting near Kimberley in the north of the st Au lia desert started south and found the reef. The news poured in at the rate of 2,000 week and soon ail the available lanl from which pee " found standing in the gnamma holes' or basin like forma- smalicr at dirt sen meee icked o \the wind blow the 8 e gold then can be "ALL th taken from mines a) and this a 4rom Pry 50 "to $6. 25 A pumping sys- , 400 miles TBere will be tee relay stations in th The system will be in' operation next "<S ° year. wean une "the greater part of ear the thermometer stands at 115 ls ite shade, and should a prospec- tor get away from the gnamma hole without water his sufferings " apt to be something awful. now a Hine of railway from "Perth and also a telegraph line acral comes RICHES OF NATIONS. England and the United States are credited with being tho two richest nations in the world, but what real weal a na he understanding of the average mortal, says Londo Tatler. A nation's wealth consists largely in its borrowing capacitics, and ig this' respect England stands first, for beyond doubt our credit is stronger than any other nation § in the world. A little over a year ago the -- States a larg of pm than that rr) any a vnter. In August, 1901, ig Bg Mim oe ow in »354,- 505 -- "solid a gold, yo cutionuie ough this fact alone would Dh » means constitute Ameri public the richest situa in - istence. England is not the only country whe are years ago France had an urban pop- ulation of 113 millions. Now it has peur ons; In the same e some civilized lime. 'while in driving |* E Cc a gl wo = > 'what is mi t in which will den the my iSthim just 3UME FALSE PROPHECIES AND SOME THAT TURNED OUT BE TRUE. Charles Berestord En- tered the Navy--Grover Cleveland's Retort. fortunate thing for shed mefi that their careers have falsified the predictions of their boyhood. When, nearly forty years ago, puny, pale-faced young middy, who seemed frail that, as ys, "a ps} bs wind might have blown him the shi e cheering But I gn it a pull t 1 reception, w tak o blow me away "Unless you mend your ways, boy,"" he master of School, New Jers t my Caldwell il rise high were suspen mean the young incorrigitie retorted, with n audacious smile, and he did, in spite of all prediction, for as GROVER CLEVELAND he been twice President of the United States. Mr. Onslow Ford went, of seventeen, to study the art of which he was ecome so distinguished an o his master in despair exclaim- Ah! you will make a very good mason; but a sculptor, never!"' And yet a dozen years later the Prince fales was uncovering his magni- ficent statue of Rowland Hill in the 0 ma- ment, Royal Exchange, the commission for which he n in competition a pre the most famous sculptors of the Sir Presk Lockwood's uncontrol-} lable love of mischief and his ad taste for his books were the des, of his masters at the Manchester | Grammar School; «a in er | his years, when he was oa highly once perous Queen's Counsel an ber of Parliament he would tell with, h of parting finally from his ising pupil to these words well 'Well! good-bye, Lockwood. I hope when next_I hear of you it | won't be anything discreditable." | SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE | bao! -- nce how his St wurst a opinion. that he would ne to any good: and an old aenoute rel low has recalled how not one of a8 remotest idea that 'the BS = them in the dormitory would ever te <e a name for himself.' When Coquelin, the great French comedian, payee himself for ad- e Conservatoire, one bed examiners. brutally said to him, imp. t you --_ - oom when he performed 3 oO that occasionally allowed to- a, to light. a -- year _ famous Dr. in his pocket, saying, "Singly, sir, could have refused em forever, but all together I am afraid they are i stible!"' A different type of man was a great surgeon re) leg of a poor cler; "Ah what, sir, is your fee?" timidly ask- ed the patient's wife, who in her alarm had telegraphed for the fam- ous specialist without any THOUGHT OF THE COST. "Let me _-- see,"' an geon, urbanely, from town -- miy fee will be a hun- dred guincas." The poor lady was dumfounded at the m, and tearfully explained that.it was ch more than they could possibly pay. doctor obvious distress, and last, with a smile of benevolence, said: "Do not be troubled, madam. It is true my proper fee is one hundred gquin- under the circumstances -- ahemr--let us say pou a told of iaiuer| hom missing coins ad floor, the physician die down knees and beg o search for them, when the lady interrupted his grovelling with, "Nay, nay, it's not your fault. It is I who dropped m.'" There was, perhaps, more satire than gratitude in stowed by a French lady on an artery was saver and | the poor woman BLED TO DEATH. of eight hundred francs, on condition "that he never Rey bled anybody as long as he When the famous 'Dr. Hunter was once asked b 1 bet amount of his fee he inivesnel fie he made an pth rs practice ho -- fix- i amount "Ve ° hes patient promptly a een, ie 7 L am sure I « sector s conten alone would make it apesebie'e erkt" wher Kean his aren. <0. "hte By. ntric rst Appearance actor he was oe oe pe ryat. es cand foegerodigaag he each, ths millionaire, in- fer that all early prophecies are 30 ludicrously wide When the Iate Dr. Temple had just been admitted to y Orders, the offici- ating Bishop (of Oxford) made this entry in his i '""Amon the ts ates a dark young man, of striki appearance, who is very likely to make his mark'? -- one of many shrowd predictions made by the dignit was known to ir- reverent gaa a as "Soapy a "oY t late Mr. Glad- as bg oxtord undergraduate, Set "in his teens, had been speaking ust listened to one of speeches I ever heard in life; it was by Dicieinipti -- and, mark my words, some day will om "Prime Minister of England." A similar prediction is said to have been made about Mr. Asquith by John Bright, -- had listened with amazement o the statesman- like by the youthtul of Balliol in 1872. 'hen tho -- of the Rev. Rid- used monstrate for anowiog his son to stay up until the early hours of the morning toiling meee at his a he would answ "Oh! Ty interfere with rea You see, yarrer has made up his mina to be word hancellor, and those who live long surely see him on the he mr Ac "if y om like this you'll be a Royal Aca- nd this was reach it---London Tit-Bits. --_+---- Tab L. Dote--"Here's an artic' than half the scholar w | think, wil do some ley ' answered, the missile, in which, wher he reach- ed home, he found A CHEQUE -- * 000. Dr. Glym, a b bridg doctor, used to Yt that the most gratifying fee he had ever re- g@pie brought to him for the grave is waitin for has grown ri He quickly discov tient was enfiing sole good, It was not the generous doctor's fault if it failed to work a _% scription was nothing less tha cheque for fifty dollars. heen Tite ite. . -- jeer WHAT A BIG RAILWAY SPENDS. The Midland Railway Co., Eng., 7 . mal tween luncheon 'and b fast, and| ends. £7,008,602 year, a breakfast be:ween dinner and lunch- | burns 1,568,729 tons of coal, whit eon, a man didn't cat between | Works nd at £1 7s. Lid. per a y : ute. company s 5.498 ae ene." VTS ES Eee horses, which get throagh 600 tons of provender r week, do en Not long ege a stock of crockery was sold at auction and Mrs. Wil- son attended his loving bg ase to your ashes ! pe ber as towns Gaur Shortens jed by nearly 1 6 millions. eli chant--"That's what I mean" re- rong. wages £5,024,753 is poke away ploys 72,571 men, the equivalent of two gon w me a ambulance staff 7,218 st aries and nually. --_--_--4---------- Mrs. Binks--"'My ba did not like that tea you us last Grocer (peltely)--"-Did * Mrs. madam ?° i) it.' Grocer (to att James send Mrs. a another pound « of same as she last. Any- thing else, "adem 7" pe . Sch sootinanee = atow: Robert, ca you tell me how many pin are in @ quart ?"" Publican's Hopefu "Why, yes, sir. and 2 half the froth." . { j i . 7 4