The Darkest Hour you ton "better. Or, The Hope That Still Lived, rime, nexion. w CHAPTER IV.--(Continued). She "unclenched ge age Fe f 'anos: t the sound hin * Perdin&ind Ts thing. Raat? n ry aw In this case it was aconite, he rie eave the wo ; we had been companions in calamity and we loved eac ut ft Bt éa hi wallow the stuff fore I could pre- ; ey me mi vent nd it ha ted rapidly on her a oa = 5 to the ve we eee drink ealosbled body. dhe died in aaony. see her } F - ut re 6 6 ad scrawie ; obeyed, she eated herself 'ind pushed ; a pi f paper that she left her money Pig i % he him pr to do a pert her a of the slip of paper. one ane Or and a. But I never had to put) gieikin and sprea t t on © mn 1G maid. ut _after af ped it with one of her square, capatie| | "In her 'ec -- che had urged me| forgotten this ne fingers. } i! to get away somehow yhow--and had|] of other thoughts o Th a. cheque for ten thousand | pegged me, if I atiscondind | rh ting clear] row, which at once gladden pounds for by you. The manager Pe | off, to avenge her death on her brother.| ated her brave and iende or heart. he k at which you presented it i Her worde ha ven back something | ing to go dut o! payment has brought it me. He had f my old atren and energy. For four-| grey-whiekered butler, "Tot why = that a Pd by eayin im the feen years I hz heard no word from hus- wear Alen og with quick, bank at that moment, but that he would hae o° Eh. relations Pylon ots pe exander'e we ea have it if you would return at the end nd ask whether I was living or dead. I knew tine," "he announced in an emp Batt an Roar.' i be that a That, | at hever meant to come out from ye he's ed half of the whole sum in gol h 1d the XE... I had not touched a dro fo or good and al, and he can re Wrens no doubt, was because you thought Ro | drink for more en of the fourteen | out caving good- -bye to you. He' ve he Bi = ye a dane ur Oe Tne | eats not sake the pudding hope they gen i im ¢ ea alled "Ardy, 2 m t e ho ueer sort o ; manager tells me that when the necessity | f Ad Sine hae ates ll ab a itae I cant remembe : SS eee : aa mer ceoned ae oo hat be wae a omatoee = in the cursed walla in the gitting:room : sl we ° of this place o egradation rian had possessed himeelf of it. and he kept! with despair, I had 'submitted until now.| girl had started elightly, and with it. What h you to tot . Bu I had lost only living creat- yes well ae with eage yea ae vouchsafed no answer. Bat ur b had made m gontinued existence questioning» the elderly servant's high tolerable t an resolv at the deadly "pallor of his face had dee ae would submit no longer. Providence hel Timothy Nobbs had always been som ed to lividness. Mrs. Crookenden 'spoke | ed me. When the breath went out of that| thing of a failure in his proper po of egain b fool? | Woman's body I went up to the private of butler, but was a ver Do you see that you have been a fool?! room of the man who the house and oth Sit down. I ha on mane ; h ay ut making a f a oison ona th aided and "atal ditionally eo by sitting down. ® stood , oy of me to ith ] brows, the pic 'ture "of mis-| talk like thid if' wan ake my es- uppose you're going to send for policeman and have me charged and co victed and sent to penal servitude?" ne said huskily. The majestic woman in black looked at him steadfastly for a moment without speaking, Then she shook her dark head "No, I'm not going to do that," she 6aid at length. "I d ich to have the ruin my will show mercy as lor you d a to hi a 1 ly un lock and key, to be us a Weapon against you in case of necessity. You understand, of commas that yo are abso) n my pow now you've got to work for a as St your life ger ad That is a compact ehe 6a "A mary ped / 'in front ol - n, am 1?" mockery Prese "I eine r ur wa ou t --under sa "No doubt I I "ought bay strict nr a p the self; but an bear. ee ee oe "than humian® nd this PR gpd wo Set as n the small but id, el- m. - there th ve es T hate 60 9 etrongly reaps ie Killed him I should hardly yet e@ Sale aused, etaring hard at broker, | mie whose chalky cheeks the or wae wip returning. Then she went On; "Have you ever been fool enough to when people are what the rory Jueky--whether it be in n scfehee, in diplomacy, or any- there Wags not some graat com- t ibe backer. une nome sor- row or horror t aukes al gilt fre an 'Bohne th it '8 how it is. | happy man that's the water: which eucee« t made. It's the wornan who know uffering-- and k nedded aut rmttied ally my power ehe ontinuel, 't as perfectly calm, al- were trembl ing. "and scter, You're @ i rel, but you're 'the it fo use hencefor- ye lich I mean to ee « she stretched z t pode him on r. * nt ago | leas orphan 1 r rl who '? ad been "into the to get her li ecret, i people would tho oh that he he ta made ' p ilese woman fo he would lese "event inhe ominy to him from an - a little Mare ar hie baby hood they began to en me to him. made m me awa iy 'lrel paid 1 up. wtapemiatie ory. was living with: her brother, who shipped, whom ehe i a "ST hie Taxed ee whic to the sister whee or 'Tored but had bee th ieaked out ritance It see . and that she had been m gehe wor- the nis col- y- ec. nd only Sant Gort vo ould woe it it ou Wo! you only knew Mr, Hardy anid Mra ady im only ae in resporise "You know what Hecto' do, but alse about er toot nommetdiing: I believe, in ¢ ith the mur. pee ms born @ Facies bul that is not evel "Can Bi epeak to you for a moment, x T or had opefied, and'the dark hea or. Louse. ears 4 Dare'é French nraid, ha red th oni, going hpi to-n admirable p silent is ies GH hatic rdy?" r yoice panes cou ent. lamp wa was lentes, oor, of tefaony wae a mates were ae to death, posed ng the death | hadn't igeaae me then. i] e S the Grookendsn, lived. hie library at nicht. vor, and ai ig: t the re great logs of the twelve thouednd siven ety to the ingurance com made appre- ciable aiSorence. And. then he "died and left me h this fortune. ith mé had trie could bear. He died, making ae mon SED se ) Sarah Crookenden, the handling of Backh Orocken Crookenden's "That went as o build j i e€ got myself ; Inte fe osition of prominence in the eial ¢ financial world b a = gael Es ffl. It mission to of Ps "Tuliilled y son. ence at 1. W. 'the three lec ammered in the} | Famous.' lis amazement. | her head | ing nearl te womun in bluck shook where he is--not No, I do not know et. re my hue band is. and cith ol now wher They helped him to get rid of me, hey have not looked after him since. 5 ut size. one day I ehall oe him and the chi he boy must be eteen now--and then the end will come 5 Good gracious!" Ferdy Pocock exclaim ed, rising in his turn and -- oe r scientific and fro acroes the floor of the office. ey as are going to help me in th busi- That is why . jand it is continuing to ta a ie Me doc e uD a te phoned leave his farm 'better than he " int et i ise » pac 40¥ ' the carpeted floor, 'Then he andie again. | ceived it, They have rural el c. i ou vent me puoned any vames n| tary = for the children fre 7 a this--except Sarah Crookenden's. rqu maven © said what your own name was- to 14 year of e. Th v4 and beautiful grounds and experi t "f 0 not intend to," she answered him, | gardens. rly 85 per cent. oft e etill very quie 'I am Baron Crooke hers : h den to you and to the world. Mrs. Crook. | teac. ers are "men who rema: main yO endem somes ea, 200, : thaps But never | years in the same school and Jive/in an ng elee--unless I play my cards e ae well as to receive th nor of a peerage the teacher's residence néar e <4 return for discretion and adroitness in | school for seven days a week dur-|m © negotiation of nely loans to Senor Kua blood royal ing twelve months in the year. <All The broker smiled one of those slight, subjects are well taught and ebr- disagreeable smiles which made him hat-| related with agriculture, Each ed moet men who came into contact | with him. Then he went out leaving the | - ~~ aapaifinenemn nnn ost successful financier of the day alone in her Lombard Street office. Before her | on the writing-table there still lay the | beque which would have got hiss into | Dartmoor had he not sold his soul her ae the price of ita safe keepin | Lord Yoxford and his brothers and hie | n Southpo word = ubtered dietinetly by 'the great finance in an undertone. "Sir Randolph Sars. and _ his wife, and hie son and daughter. These to bet victims. are to meet with me They--or theirs showed no mercy to me." CHAPTER V. "Do you eauy, mean to do ee girlie?" "Yes, m "ages mean to . sveryv almost ove ry hour of ery day, be "four days past, Zax Dare tad put thie Pn ae og ques éstion to her daughter. Today aid something more. | "It very grave and almost beige ocd thing for a girl in your position to thin of doing. I don't wonder th r ther thinks you are It is a terrible thing to act acainst will of one's fh- her and er. I have learnt that my- self as I pray that you may never learn it--never in all your life." , The lamp c weird shadows calculated to affright any woman ag nervous Dare had latel f the exepondings. d the eeyed, light. Sasired, fe pretty" and graceful woman of fort vy it ow j charm mid the | i Chrietine, you enon mean to do! it. You cannot mean to it!" she ex. | jog reproachfully, while tears. welled | into 8 | out of hie will absolutely, and at the e1me time will very likely cast you of ever?' | The ein Soned her head. = "Tt ¢ money part of f canes. macty. eae Southport, and peop] cape; but, as I el ed . The scoundrel sta. h as a husband , at five chair to seize me. In doing or the cloth of a small table on which ld ha e French the (To be continued.) 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Dip 6é OODNESS KNOWS," says the Comfort Baby's Grand- mother, "what we'd do without- "If I'd only had one when you were a BS et therefore he is a French- "Not tat all," said Pat. "Begorra, if a cat should have kit- tens in the oven, would you call them biscuits."' ROMANCE IN RAGS. and Wills Found "*Wastepaper."' Diamonds in The wastepaper trade is as full of surprises as a lucky-bag at a ba- zaar, says the London Standard. A diamond ring was recently found at the paper-sorting depot at |. Whitecross Street, in which the Sal- men. ade though naturally poor, hand the ring, and the owner was tr At the same place, two £5 notes were found among some _ waste- paper. In this case they were also handed up. But the most frequent source of piquant discoveries is discarded en- velopes. In an East London store the back of an envelope was torn pound each fell out. address were still legible on the en- velope, and by this means the orders were returned to the owner, who proved to be an aged woman. 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