CHAPTER VII. The brilliancy of Trevor's cross-ex- amination was ar: talk of the town rig =) week, and of tho profession for | o himeeit felt like an im- ponte, 'but he could not.c! belf of the glory of the achievement. Ardel had pledged him to secreey, and,,apart frem that pledge, he knew it would be impossible to explain to his learned brethren the Professional mothods by which inno- and guilt man, however, to whom he insisted = telling t the truth and tho whole truth, without con- sulting his friend. out a week after Vivian Ardel was peti in his 'study over a vol- ume of the original edition of "Pick- wick,' for the abounding physical vitality in Dickens' novels always had a special attraction for hin, By turns tho busiest or laziest of men, who dfd his work or his idling thor- oughly and with his whole heart, he rdly recognize tho splendid young 'low that a minute later followed the soft-footed servant into the room. rdel had last seen that handsome face haggard with a horrible fear, began court- eously, but a little coldly, when the youth cut him shert. old me ie I don't know how even t gin thank you. . When all my to-called friends forsook Inc, you, et a gianco at the face he remembered in the dock, and kne im i hat glance a "T thi I can underata nd."' he Raid. in a low voice that shook with fooling, I put myself in your place."* 'No: n who has not been through with it volted aguinst death, in was extinction--the ceive blotted clean out of ---" as though T had never been thought was with me night 'and dey: Fometimes in dull, aching apathy; soletinies it came sharp pang of physical Dain. and made my blood freeze in my veins, wand tho cold kweat broke out all over mo.' "You don't telieve. in a future statv?"' Ardel asked. The question slipped from him instinctively. 'I thought I did before this. I Went to church and said praycrs, I all that died spoke mocting them again, death, and rond, But don't let us talk of what 8 passed and over. You have given me back my life, and the savour o is the keener and moro exhilarat- ag from having come so near losing It.' "But death still waits for you, only a Little further off,"' said Ardel, with a curious areal Ae don't = thin of that; I don't t question the folly of the thought "it is <r for me to enjoy ing you when you. What kind thought promoted between me and my "Because I am humaa, like your- self. Because our common enemy, the one only real one: ¥ whom, like you, I loathe, and fear, threatened you so close.' "But how came you to believo me innocent, when the whole world bo- ty?" "I did not believe you innocent-- no, no; sit dewn: -- is para to he angry a ber T ki: a | wish- a life for a Life, the law says. poor girl was dead; your Ife poder not hring back ee ae ae ae Oe STRONGER THAN DEATH + = <= * OR << s « « « A RANSOMED LIFE you dine here to-d the hers, The aw has.no Power over life except to destroy it. A death for a death (is mere blind savagery | masquerading as justice." "But ou believe me innocent now?" the young man sald carncst-|on ly. "All the world believes you Inn eent now," Ardel answerod kindly: and a cloud lifted from Wickham' highly un- | face. lace, "Well, doctor," he said, "I won't intrude 'e up as he spoke, but Ardel put his hand in friendly fashion on his shoulder, "No, "Now that we have met we must not part so easily. If I had known Trevor meant to tell pol I should have stoppod him. But glad to see you, all oy sane. I mous like to have a you about your strange prea rome if it does not hurt too much. The subject has a fascination for me. Can pt "Very sorry, but I'm engaged to Trevor. I'm oing down to his plece for a week o © has been more than a Sheed: Pap me cerome' all this trouble. Mine is a t Trevor has - been like a father to me through t "Wo will dine together all the same if you don't mind," said Ardel, smil- safely invite - ° q o 4 4 Cy 4 ° 5 . o go down?" "I was thinking of going down on my bicycle. But, of course, if yo "You cannot do better. quite thirty miles, asphalt the For both mon it was a ant two hours' ride to Lavelle. Wickham possessed what was special- ly attractive to Ardol--a power o enjoynrent abounding and intonse. It was a quality of Ardel's own nature, though by no -- reproduced in . For mere intellectual pleasure, ths "delight of research and knowledge of reason, or imagination, Wickham --unlike Ardcl--had little zest. But to all enjoyments that came through the senses was keenly alive. "Isn't it glorious?" he said, they glided out clear of the great town down a sinooth decline of tho long, white road, while the soft sau- umn air--though there was n breath of wind stirring--blew freshly in their faces, ae t rippled his wavy curls of chestnut hair, whilo his eyes wandered de lightedly over the fair scenes that went tly by as they rodo. Lere a slim church spire pierced through the trees; there a pretty villa made a vivid dot of red green country .side. off © fair flowing Thames edged tho jarciecese with silv Wickham | sipped te pure air as na} connoisseur Sips Win "T could shout with joy."' he sa tivatne a radiant face to Ardel, aan age) _ . cae sharing his dolight is'a = wild rapture in my on world never hofore rely to me, I suppose Hit was esate I came £0 near losing "Have you got all tasto of the bit- terness of that thought out of your nd?' "Quite; the rapture of the escape "ae mo for everything." "Bu "There fi is no 'put'; you cannot sad- o now. It is true wisdom to only grect the mer when you meet him Th is no devil but doath, and I have given death tho alip." "For a time,"' said Ardel. "For ever," cried Wickham laugh- = : am immortal. naire? Why let dismal thoughts spoil ou -, Hives?' Who can cscape "I fer one. I have the blessed gift-of forgetfulness. I think of no- thing that doesn't pl uu never knew 'Pain o or never as thought. of death until the "ander as ed on me. That ghastly ter- ror was --, But kg be gone, lean go I bave got m oe hack, and will enjoy it "without, oti of |8 the futu "That thought will force itself on you aS you grow older "'Nover, never. Ww omy own kno nature, and I tell you--nevor. I will A Lasting Cure , of Itching Piles. A Chronic Case of Unusual! Severity and Long Standing DR. CHASE' Cured by OINTMENT. les, or hemorr c ring. the expectant -period or after childbirth. "For twenty 1} yoars - kom cma, tens jong wiro ha three applications I co by the sine I bad us way do; = very. ontinued <a treatment until thoroughly beng = as pm 4 suflerod an, rm- ly convinced that "he ciniuoes pei @ perfect pe look out ace it." fc," be I pad part with it to I want it use,"' the other answered with a was silence for a few moments and the bicycles flew. ture 8 forchoad, and - mere | iicuaiaat with the strain. uld you this bin I rat = ----- on tho hame."' - "He slipped his feet from tha ped- als to the rests as he spoke, and still the machine glided awiltly and ase othly beside Wickham's up the steep incline. 'Electricity,"' said Ardel quietly? in reply to the other's look of bla ment "You see that little ny case, like a round, n e y black i bottle, there in tho middle of the ront axle? It is a primary battery, and develops sufficient electricity to work a steam engine fo ay. this little button here in the handle I can switch it on to the gearing at the crank.' "Why, this is a miraclec!"' "Not in the very least. It's r) hands. When I once of the main idea it was quite easy to work it out in detail. electricity has neither weight nor bulk, which is an advant- ge when you want to pack it up tight."' "Sti the the invention of century!" cried Wickham, with abated amazcinont, his breath puedes a a aig thoy shot over the ow of t incline. "It's w. ate one hea been trying for an failing to hit, You have patented it of course?"' "Not yet." "Not yet! Some other fellow may step in. ho thing seems perfect. It is worth a million of money at least. You may adapt it to a flying ma- chino," "LT ha adapted it to a fiving mehiien. But then, I don't want a million of money. money, it would be quite another matter.' "B, Jove!" cried Wickham, in amazement. "Well, I have a got what many people would call lots of money. But I could do with ots more. { you cannot buy time, Pi can buy ghost There is no- thing I woul sell fo r money, if the price was big e ough.' Ardel looked at "hin hard for moment, and then startled him os an extraordinary question,-- you say. Would you Wickham, bewildered at his appar- ent seriousness, could find no word e other hog ed:-- many willions of money take for ten years o your life? The best ten years. Sa from twe years--you are about co now, I should say--to my age thirt Then Wickham broke out laughing, | tickled by the gravity of the other's face and voice. 'You've caught me- | there,"' he said. 'No, I don't think | I would care to sell a slice of my 1} life for money. It would be like secll- ing a bit of myself. Besides." and he laughed again at the whimsical notion, "I could give no warranty. for that | Would you hereditary w t me off in the bloom of my youth beauty My father died two pig in a poko with your millions, even if I were willing to deal.' "Yos, that's true," Arde! ed, till so gravely looked at him with comical amnze- ment, hardly knowing whether he was in Jest or earnest. But Ardel smiled as he noticed his wondermen answer- plays me strange tricks sometimes. ~~ now I half fancied myself as as you are, of youthful me. You are right. uch a treasure is not to be bought or sold for mere money. You would be a fool to swop lives even with a few millions to bgot between them.' At this moment they were gliding smoothly ovor tho crest of econd gentle incline. "Sec there,' Ardel went on, "there whero the river takes You can catch a finer there -- tho "hee: tic flush of uran. this ere bg vordure a little rustic 'ae "Through the opening in the neg ee lattice-work of the ey had glimpse of figures fitting lightly pia vivid green lawn beyond, the sound of gay voices was in "ihe calm air. Ardel slipped from his bicycle and touched a little electric button act pillar ree by Hoa! Ardel,'* ne he cried: enexpected very welcome to Tovella, Mr. "Wick. ham. hie! is for that kind . ie mind your, machines. man to see after thers. (To be continued.) selling Ue wore isttiet: but he ras "from tho shock ory would give much for y tem- sd peramen id Ardel. a for my own] Presently --_ wiped the mois-|& 'his. "| robbery { all habitual criminals of -- this uring reara strewed bts path with no ae ivan twenty 3 aoe He was a retired darme, and as such was in Was at Pon-adicusesn, whica n Into a ttate o more -zeatous in the performance '| his gublie duty than Jcan Dauga, ex-gendarme. MURDER IN SEVEN MINUTES The man waS cunning and as ra; pid in the execution of his crimes as he at last into the hands of justice was in this wiee. Ono evening he was sit- ting in his favorite cafe having a with some [riends. n 7ro. the noon the myvterious horrors of the town. The stakes were not high, but Dauga was in iJ} luck, and & moment came when he' had to de- clare himself bankrupt. ; "However, that doesn't matiter,"' le cried. ave got some money at home, and I'll Just run round an fetch it. Ishan't be more than fivo "minutes, so you follows might wait till I come back." as back Next hn r that another been committed. An old woman who lived a was known r house had been killed and robbed, It transpired that in her smal) treagure were a cerloin nine of gold picces of considorable Now, it aaennnd that on settling his scpre on the night of the murder Jean Dauga hed changed just such a gold = goin. From the medical evi- donce ft Was established that the murder niust have taken place just about the time when the ex-gendarme 'ran home to get some mo ney." Suspicion was aroused, inquiries Tol- ' owod, and Dauga was laid by the} s He wns ohecweres convicted of ten separate mur SBRVANT G TRUS. CHOSEN, to poison his servant girls by slow no cut them Jp and burn Sina sinall s Fe wa Grevy, who had a persona 7 the denth penalty, the watchnnek= Montreuil was relie | transported to Now Caledonia, and is there still, at the head of a pros- | Perous business, married, and the father of a familys | Servant girls siti were the sel- jected victims of the dreadful Dumol- yard, who during seven years carried on a sanguineary business which one can a, recall without a shudder. ough his enon ons since fell on the acato at Monteuil, reference to} his career of crime. "his methode, and | his defense are still frequent in' the French press. He was the type of the human brute, crucl, callous, and ii is defense was that he had only acted os the (Rigg gentlemen,' an ae there bearded gentlemen to the nid, "Dumotiard used to ananss in the yons district firet, an at Montluel, Newville, Meximieux, and Bourg. e was convict of three murdera and pine attempts at mur- How mony times, in fact. his the alone possibly algo, LURED GIRLS "re DEATH, Ho was o hiceous man wits atr: <6 gling hair and a ragged beard, dressed ike a poor em in Patched blouse and clogs. when | he introdacea | himeelf to hie intended | victims as t ardener and steward of a rich country gentleman residiag in e fine mansion near Trevoux, he was uaually bellered and followed. His method was to hang about the registry offices in the varieus town We are | and to accost any likely looking girl | once."* who might be on her way | attor a@ alituation. ome te Lyo: to inqgui escape ge about his ar- erin search o eas as croming the brides [td ~ registry office |b y a countryman, rig spoke = Pd poe | and asked me if I knew a jz maid of ell ae, Hin ae Es tie nald, a Iand owner near to S) find su a girl, who was wanted at nes. '¢ Bome savings 'in a Apacs box. '0, then it's all right,' he said. W walked--uphili all - the. way--a 'long As night came on he struck me fields: 4 I was beginn- ned and while. re din-/ed in ht man Inay 2s well be hanged: for a sheep as for a lamb, and: ail the: more: so for a whole sock of shosp. ' t that of} ™ How many wwurders the "watch- | maker of, Montreuil," Pel by name, haa on his conscience he only knows. Of a scicntifie turn of mind, he used | his enplivalty an) jthe a toxicology ' ae oo ¥ lea al dissec nd cremation. Si tenced ade he ghee | ? forfeit to the law Dumol- |} with e he girl "whone story right ahead." as know what to do."" ve nf d the whole, see family, ig tee Peal known described cre, bu rencbmen bolieve that be never ex- isted and that the whole ion is one of the most striking hontlp which Tourgenicff ever wrote. i to hav pleas- ure of roading a similar book with the'man Jud for its hero. Jud had 3 sgecialty of murdering people in rst crime was when murdered a judgo named Poinsot . a first-claes cariags. any my- stovious railway murders have since attributed to him, down to Sura dopartment. ut he always naged to keep out of the hands , tho butcher, who used to entico farimmers into a lonely shed on ly =e of the Seine and murder the may . close this article, He ported' his nate amongst the : "Gentlomen,'* he said, "Never confess." SIGNALS OF THE RAILWAY HANDS AND, ~ ARMS DURING DAY, LANTERNS AT NIGHT. Language That Is Used in Canada and the United States. Railroad men have a sign language of deaf mutes. They have no trouble be this language, vn communicating 1a half-mile away. Dur herewith giv are throughout Aaacica, The ese signals aro simple and Jar ace 4 mann, who 6x-'}: fow weeks it resumed known in the we the town. it in the old Eary w easily be story told of his Weeks ago by a member of the C lice will ho inter his friends. TIRED OF "Earp drifted i months ago full ad mei shooting people displease them, which he was an ee by. around ball for, a cy are casily aAeeEson -}awed by Pann's men in Daw for him, and things pretty mu the n be read a long way off. TI basic, the incipal, signals (1) stop, (2) back, (3) go ad, the day time op" is signaled the hand up and down, | vertical cutting of the air with the | edge of the hand, the movement ex- tending from the chin to the waist. 'Bac is signaled by a big, low, beckoning of the arm--a circular ges- ture made shoulder high. (It is pre- ; Sumed here that the signalman is be- hind the train, and wishes it to ap- | proach a t ie - in Pen of the train nd wis k away, ( frow sik he inakes the 'opposite or | 'go ahead" gesture). en | "Go ahead,' ake this signal | | ' m the hands are held at the breast, and thence each arm describes a huge vertical somi-circle in the air. Ti semi-circle means "Everything is all right; go ahead for good." | "Go ahead just a little,' or, as the railroader says, "Ease off.' The arms are extended straight out from Since Wyatt Earp, once i clothes, got himself a leather pore and ; re Little deiaer a Mounted Police- 7 Bree Fee ee as fe His Place. famous as the outside world. The last ox- -ploit that brought him n of gu m the stories that havo drifted diva "Soe the Klondike in the last h as trick of his, st as shooting up He was much addicted to lawiess days of Ari- zona and California as never a man who could tamed, oul consequently a suppression a 'few diminutive Cockney anada Mounted Po- esting to some of CIVILIZATION. nto Dawson several of a determination had beon quite orderly and well be- which he made his reputation as b. ¥Y years ag e found men carrying guns around in their bolts and getting drun and who happened to and it pion bins the fever to get beck into the game in adept in the days reputation to stand fo d roa week he ha ch his own way. MOUNTED POLICE FIGURE, cockney, who waiting for him, hie gun oeny: from him if he it. , Ae stepped on a very politel '* "Thank you, sir,' and t! ed on his heel, rp tough HRALTHIN = iN A TENT CHICAGO MAN cuRES REEU- Famous Res orts | and Visited--First Relief In 0: 'Comes For rheumatism outdoor existence is the only cure. This is the theory of B. C. Henderson of Riverside, Chicago. Putting his ideas into suburb and has moved his family 'te a tent in the woods nonr by. 5 ae is a wealthy man. minifig interests in : " Fy > >, has a to get action,"' said a San Francis- Caittornia and ---- interests co man to some of Earp's old weat- East. He is a graduate of ern friends the otherenight. "Civil- Punseten, Rheumatism, from which ization, policemen and progress gen- o ha suffered for years ame erally knocked out Earp's gun fight-| acute a year ago eatment for ind 4 7 "a signal = a six months in gare failed to ; ; at Masterson and a reli vo him. . w other relics of the old days, he fee Ee Sasided $2 'tei te tel of his Bera theories last haved for some years. He rent ted : - As a twenty-acre grove in But when ho got to Dawson ho} tarjem avenue, half a mile east of ound a settlement Jike the places in Riverside., and pitched a forty-foot Wall tent under the trees. en he moved his brass beds and other in- dispensable furniture into it and set up housokesping for the summer, The % & gasoline stove, a few easy . and a portable Russian bath a upon his return to aboriginal . xistence. Wit his wife and five Earp discarded his store children he has inhabited his tent flannel -- fince, and now pronounces his ox« nf acute, I sold out many of my busi- 8 (ness interests and resolved my time to-my health rather than te 'Health is the greatest 'problem of "Well, the fact that Earp was hit-| civilization. Rich yacu toa | ting it up got to the ears of a lit-|person in {ll-health, because ha | tle five-foot Cockney member of the | spends his time and money in doo- Canada Mounted duties it was t behaved itself. know much about the Canada 'Moun- | horrors jted Police d the manner of men | who compose it. "Therefore, whe 8 inter- rupted in the gentle amusement cleaning out a faro one night by this little "a coming With a. reque up to him cap if he wanted 'Earp the shoulders, and, while they remain motionless, the hands are jigged notly up and down from the wrists. | At night the signals olay be made with lighted = lan- | terns The agen signal re: | "Stop. © lamp is swung diag- jonally across the track in a semi- cire ie. "Back." The lamp is swung clean around = the in a tremendous vertical circle, "Go ahead."' The lamp is moved up and down in a straight Une very quickly before the body. "Go ahead just a little,"" or 'Ease off."" The lamp is moved up and down in a straight line before the body slowly, and the length of the lino it travels is very short. A rare -- is the one that nounces tha leaving a = or two behind. given by tirst giving up and dewn and then a circular mevement; up and dewn, then a circly; up ard dewn, then a circle. The speed of these signals nage their urgency, swung as light- | lyieflerce, emphatic, just ning, the emgineer obeys them Polijely and said and bury it sir,' must, of for the weapon. > swore some more, uite so cloquent the little man was smiling calinly in| With poison oak would not his face. Finally 'You must give me th Police, one of whose o see that Dawson Now, Earp didn't bank in Dawson mighty round of oaths, and asked the little fellow in riding boots and to vt hades at once or wait a few Bou what surprised when the little illow simply smiled e gun extended his hand but not ly, for all the time Earp, clean flus- tered hy the situation pulled his gun from his belt and fired it three times into the ceiling, ae: the little & said Still- "smilin Now, man, you'll . "Ta ke my gun roared beserday Bx didn't sai "what Earp, -- nted police Menides the hand and lantern sig- nals, there are those of the flag, the Ju | whistles and the torpedoes. The flag signals are: red flag--"Dangor. Stop at i A ere Vag--"Caution. Go very 8 rig a whit fiag--"All right now. Go jfen of one re) oO means that the } n must stop; two means that it jis to reduce be . advancing cau- A o track is a wuesian that the train is to halt and not a on until the fuse Cease _-- worth ere, then, are the whi One long bl. ost--""We are approach- ing a station, a crossing or a junc- tion." One short poe a on the "oe We are going to s here."' Diaste--"All" _ right. Your' signals are understdod Three long blasts--"The ate _ Parted." Three short Go Ee ee at, ing to Hurry aboard, 'short blaste--"Show your viene: you lubber, so that we may "Howevor, a cris! on the shoulder. 'but if you come sight to-morrow it away from "Earp saloon, where he and proceeded to = the next day tried to take his " "Why, he Sald. HOLE IN " ¢Yes," it will fill with t Il them four wil In the end, Earp, "**T beg your 'pardon, sir,' ed yo but he had no nerve loft when ho ~ | confronted ome politely smiling = When you put a hole in h a holo in the British Empire, ome yee 'to bury it or be : have to tuke it away from you, away from me!" the liftle man. ctly, sf& 'Mave you en I'll do it, sir'? The of this colloquy to expect from knew what would happen pretty soon if Earp became in Dawson people know what to expect from ogg EARP COWED. oor the pom' licoman walked over and tapped him he said, out with a n i shall have to take board with rage, * Wont to the Golden Lion took a few drinks tell what he would when the Cockacy him full of EMPIRE. the listener, wo men If yo 1 take their i you will have the whole British army here if necessary mah toring and = staying at 'cures' Sanitariums. If he would rough it in a tent he 'would get well. The of inferno are nothing to what I havo suffered. of | he t my first relief was exporienced under these oak- trees "A spring bubbling Irom th earth camp hig {oar our water, and I tage t that ure spring water is a prim many ills. I lounge scat + on ay 'the trees, lying si . the woods, cut down a dead HAPPIEST MONTHS OF LIFE, morning my wife and I children locas barefooted, a the rest of the day they run wild through the woods. The cy are so healthy that I believe contact on their skins, luxury; all -- girl question. We are here, have no work, and do not need servants.' "The novelty of sane a was not fascinating to t must confese," said Mrs. le "but it grew upon me, and now I thor oughly enjoy it. The children romp among the trees like little red In- amply repaid. us for all ran! , inconveniences we have been put For the two ae de) has grocery man visits the camp overy ay, and Mr. d Mrs. Honderson collaborate in cooking the meals. hortly -- the Hendersons went into camp Berwyn village board received coat that gypsics had pitch- ed their tents within the village. The marshal went Pleased. ------__ "What ! marry Ae ?" snorted fiery-tempered maide do you take me fo r?" "Fo . worse," he roplied, promptly. So u hey were married and lived nite ever after, for, alas! de was he took her for, "I am reduced from _aMuence hogaurte 1" he faltered. In as few pace - possible she 'broke their. enge, "lI wi to show," an i Eieerwel Haugiaily, "that wom- en, contrary to general report, do not necessarily, care for = just bocause they are reduced , Doe, Mayes on teheringw, my eycs_are ssid weak plac