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Miranda had a trick of seeing pic- l Lures. She v, as not given to ar"gu-'! ments and. ineetaerencee, but a word, a sentence would stale up- on hef' hearing, and at one: a cur- tpin was rolled up somewhere in her mind, and she saw men moving to and. fr; and things happening as upon a lighted store Such Foe- tures made up her arguments, her conclusions 3w“) he? motives; and it was because of th ‘lr in-‘tant Viv- idness that she, was so rapidly arvoved to sympathy and dislike, So now there was set' before her eyes the picture of a man riding down . the hill of Tangier at night in the) civilization of evening dress, and, as she looked, it melted.into an- /ehe.r, in which the same man, clad fa vile rags with his hands bound, (f/as flogged forweids under a burn- ing sun into the barbaric inlands mi Morocco. She saw that brutal ','rrarty, the five gamers, the one cap- ?gftve, straggle past the tent village. {Lyme guessed at Ralph's despairing inlance as though it vies directed (kFrards herself, she saw the scrap' tof paper flutter white upon the dark soil. And as she contemplate Had this vision, she heard Mr. Four- ‘nier speaking again to her; but the sound of his voice had changed. He was no longer telling his story; he was pleading with a tenderness ‘which had something grotesquely pathetic, when she considered who it was for whom he pleaded. His :foreign accent became more pro- nounced, and the voluble words itumbled one over the other. "8o M. Warriner does not ask ,you for money; that sees itself, is :it not 'l Nor even does he ask you ifor help. Be sure of that, Madame ; dead the note again. He would not ,eome'to you for help; he is not so :mean; he has too much pride;" and as Mrs. Warriner smiled, with :g‘erhaps a little bitterness, M. 'Tournier, noticing her smile, be- :tame yet more astonishing and in-; Jricate in his apologies. "He take :your money, oh yes, I know very well, while he is with you; but then you get his company in exchange. That make you both quits, eh? But aonce he has gone away, he would not come back to you for money or help at all. He has so much pride. 0h, no! He just take it from the first person he meet, me or any one else. He has so much pride; be- ildes it would be simpler. No! It ls I who come to you. He often speak to me of you-oh, but in the highest terms1 And I say to my- self: The dear Ralph, he is difficult to live with. He is not a comfor- table friend. We know that, Mrs. . Warriner and I,' but we both love him very much-" KING y' The emphatic interruption fairly itartled M. Fournier. Miranda iaol risen from her seat and stood wer him. He would not have be- 'ieved that so gentle a face could have taken on so vigorous an ex- gession. Be stammered a protest. . iranda repeated her denial: "No, M. Fournier's hopes dwindled in the face of this uncompromising denial. He had come to enlist her help; he had counted upon her ai- tections, and had boldly counted, because Warriner had so surely air. ,tracted his own. M. Fournier would have been at a loss to ex- :plain his friendship for Warriner, 2o atciount for the causes or the 'qualities which evoked it, but he srelt its strength, and he now knew .that Mrs. Warriner had no lot or .lshare in it. She turned aside from him, and leaning her elbows upon the crumb- ling parapet of the wall, looked across the valley and down the cliff's side, where one road was cut in steep zig-zags, and winding down to the plain as to the water's edge, helped to complete the illu- sion that the sea should fitly be breaking at the base. no, no!" frank I” He was therefore the more sur- iprised when she turned back to him ‘With eyes which were shining and moist, and said very gently: "But of course I will help.” Her con- duct was not at all inconsistent, however much it might appear so to M. Fpurnier. She was acting Rpm) the same motive which had irhluced"her, the moment she was aware of Ralph Warriner's exist- em}. to return to Ronda, the one spot where Warriner would be sure to koala for her. if he needed her, andiwhich had subsequently per- suaeed her to sumit to the black- mail of Major Wilbraham. “Of course I will help. What can I dorl" M. Fournier’s eyes narrowed, his manner became wary and cunning. "I hoped that you might perhaps CHAPTER X.--(Cont'd) i, iiligl in ma Sham; ihe cried. "Let us be CR, THE MYSTERY OF THE " TARIFA’S " CARGO Eh}; upon some plan," he suggest- e . LithaLC/l. M. Fournier sprang out pf his chair. "No, that ishthe wary last thing we must do. _ For what should we say? That Mr. Ralph Warriner, who was thought to be dead, has just been kidnapped in "I?" Miranda tnought for a mo- ment, then she said: “We must appeal to the English Minister at Tangier." M. Fournier sprang out pf his xiers. "Why am 1 here?” he Ebru- claimed, stamping his foot. “I ask you, why am I hue? Saperlipop- ette! Would I have come to you if any so simple remedy had been pos- sible', Suppose we go politely to the English Minister and ask him ;to find Mr. Jeremy Bentham! The Minister go to the Sultan of Moroc-l co, and after many months, per- haps Mr. Bentham is found, per- haps he is not. Suppose that he is found and brought down to Tan- gier, what next I beg you? There will be talk about Mr. Bentham, there will be gentlemen everywhere, behind bushes, under tables, ev- erywhere, so that the great Brit- ish public may know the colors of the ties he wears, and at last be /happy. His name will be in the papers, and more, Mrs. Warriner, his portrait, too. His portrait; have you thought of that?" Morrocco 'l" "No, but that Mr. Bentham has," she returned quiékly. M. Fournier shrugged his shoul- ILLO b'"'""'""'-"' have you thought of that?" 1 "But he might escape the photo- graphers." "Suppose he do, by auniracle. Do you think there will be no inquiry as to what is Mr. Bentham'ssbusi- ness in Morocco? Do you think the English Minister will not ask the inconvenient question? Do you think that you can hide his busi- ness, once an inquiry is set on foot, in that country? He might pass as a tourist you think, perhaps, hein? And any one'man has only got to give a few dollars to some officer in the custom-house, and he will know that Mr. Bentham is smug- hllU " ULqu “a... . N - gling guns into Morocco, and sel- ling them to the Berbers of Bemin Sooar. What then? He would be taken for trial to Gibraltar, where only two years ago be was Captain Warriner." Miranda had already heard enough from Wilbraham to con- firm M. Fournier's statement about the custom-house, "No," continued Fournier, "the risk is too great. And I call it risk!” He hunched his shoulders and spread out his hand. "ft is a red-hot cert, as he would say. His ICU-nun were, an up 'IvuAm “a“. -e'""e identity would be established, and he had better, after all, be a cap- tive in Morocco than a convict in England. There is some chance of an escape in Morocco." "There is also in Morocco some chance of a---" Miranda's lips re- fused to speak the word. M. Four- nier supplied it. "Murder? I do not fear that. Had they intended murder, they would have killed that night, then) and there, in the Sok of Tangier. There would have been no letter dropped three days inland.” Miranda eagerly welcomed the argument. "Yes, yes," she ex- claimed, and the color came back to her lips. _ "He is held for ran- som then, surely?" M. Fournier shook his head. 'Wa1Wy. Had they captured"hin1 for ransom, they would have got from him the names of his friends. They would have used measures," said he, with some emphasis upon :the Word at which Miranda shiv- lered; "sure measures to get names, land Warriner Wuuld have given 'mine. They would have come to ‘me for the ransom, and I should have given it-if it was everything lf had-and Warriner would be safe by now." "GI -o... Fournier was aware that Miranda looked curiously and even with a sort of compunction towards him, though he did not understand the reason of her look. To him ?t was the most natural, simple thing in the world that he should care for Warriner. "No, it is not ransom," and he) threw a cautious glance this way and that, and then, even in that secret spot, continued in a whisper : "Warriner has enemies, enemies of his own race. I do not wonder at it," he explained impartially. "He treats me, yes, even me, who am his one friend, as though-well, his own phrase is the best. He vines the floor with me. Be has promis- ed to do it many times, and many times he has done it too. No doubt he has enemies, and they have ar- ‘ranged his capture." "Why?" ir i "Suppose they sell him for a slave, a long way " and a long way g. nearer. confidential. tw%p-'AaA'l"Viwa'"". "Three months ago an English- k, man came to my shop.” "Three months ago?” interrupt- ed Miranda. "He leaned over your counter and he said, 'Hpw did you work that little affair on Rosevear, and how's my dear friend, Ralph Warriner? ' J? F "Ah, you know him I” cried Four- mer, springing up in excitement. Ilittr, DPIAUELIIB up ALL unniuuiuvuv. "Yes, and he has nothing to do with Ralph's capture," replied Mi- randa. 'We only went‘that one time to Tangier." M. Fournier resumed his seat, and she briefly explained to the Belgian the rea- son and the consequence of Wil- braham's visit. Fournier's face fell as he listened. He had hoped that the neaessary clue had been discovered, and when Miranda fin- ished he sat silent in a glum de- 'spair. After a little his face light- Tangier, this man you speak M--- only once I." he asked eagerly, stretching out his hand. "Only the once." "He was not there earlier in the year? He was not here in May? Think carefully. Be very sure!" Mrs. Warriner reflected for a second. "I am sure he was not," she replied. "He travelled by train from Monte Carlo to Marseilles in [Man From Marseilles he came di- rectly by boat to 1hyiland.." == et1e Tr"'doiLi'isUid' M. Fournier. Be sat forward in his chair and rub- bed the palms of_lys hands together. "Now listen! There was another Englishman who came in May. He came to my shop, unough the shut- ter was on the window and the shop closed." liner. "I cannot guess." "Tell me what he was like.” "Ah! there's the trouble. Neither of us saw him. Warriner heard his voice, that is all. And a voice? There is no clue more deceptive. The one thing Warriner is sure of is that he had never heard the voice before." "But what was it mat he heard?" A . Exciting Time With the King of Beasts in Africa. One of the most notable hunting expeditions of the r-‘L‘st year was that of "Buffalo" Jones. Disdain- ing to use guns, he and his little band of cowboys lassoed and tied specimens of the largest and most ferocious beasts of the African wil- dierness. Their last capture was a lioness. The final thrilling incident of her conquest, as told by Guy ll. Scull in Everybody's Magazine, is typical of many others. Her next and last position was in the bed of a small gully about three feet deep in the bottom of the don- ga and thickly grown with grasses. Here the ropver-s held a brief con- sultation, and planned a final at- tempt. Loveless made a throw, and the noose landed fairly above the beast's head, but the thick grasses held it up. Loveless passed the other end of his rope over the branch of a near-by tree and down to the horn of his saddle. The rest of us, with cameras trained on the scene, had noknow- ledge of the plan. We had not the slightest idea what the colonel in- tended to do. Still wondering, we watched him procure a long pole and ridc'quietly along the edge of the ditch toward the place where the lioness crouched. For a moment there was intense silence. The colonel stopped his horse. Then, leaning over from his saddle, he poked the noose dowh through the grasis. Q With a, roar the beast sprang at him-sprang through the loop-and at the other end of the rope Love- less yanked quickly and caught her by the last hind leg going through. Putting spurs to his horse, Love- lass galoped away, hauling the lion- ess back across the gully and up into the tree, where she swung to and fro, dangling by the one hind leg, and snapping at the rope she could not reach. 'Only opgze you say he came to c/hu was he?" asked Mrs. War- The beast was furious. She was still swinging, head down like a pendulum, from the limb of the tree, and was tossing her body in a frantic endeavor to get loose. Means approached close, and deftly slipped a noose over one of the WJEJSB wnkv v _..."---'" -. quickly Maps comma. cures colds. heal. the than: and Mum's . . - aa cent.- $§§§§a§£§ Curry arnier hitched his chair Bis voxce became yet more LASSOING A LION. (To be continued.) M-- wildly gyrating legs. Leading his rope over the branch of another tree, he stretched her out in a helpless position parallel with the ground. He dismounted, and stood be- neath her, directing affairs as meth- odically as the foreman of a con- struction gang. U "Now lower away on both lines," said the colonel. “Steady: Ifeans--a little more, Loveless-mow" togethtr--easr" _ She came within his reach, and with a quick grab he caught and held her two hind legs with both hands, while Kearton bound them together with a piece of light line. The rest was easy. In less than five minutes she was bound secure- ly and lowered all the way to the ground to rest in the shade. Traders Bank at Annual Meeting Favor Government Inspection. At the 26th annual meeting of the Traders Bank in Toronto, January 24th, the following resolution was passed:-" 's l It was moved by E ston, K.C., director, Mr. J. S. Williamson and resolved: "That the shareholders and 'dr. rectors of the Traders Bank of Crtn- ada place on record their hearty approval of any legislation of tho Dominion Parliament whereby an independent examination and audit under the direction of the Govern- ment of all Canadian Banks shall be made from time to time; . 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Government inspection of Banks is needed in Canada to make our sys- tem beyond question the most solid 1and efficient in the world and those \banks which, like the Traders, throw their influence in this direc- ltion deserve the commendation of lthe Public. _ Other outstanding features of the 1910 business brought out in the meeting are given below, and ther will make very interesting reading to depositors, shareholders and those interested in the success and growth of the Traders Bank. Deposits increased over $6,000,- ooo, Total deposits are row over $36,000,000. To keep up with the growth of the country, eleven new branches Were opened, scattered from Porcupine to British Colum- bia. 9348,360 was distributed in di- vidends and $100,000 added to re- serve fund, which now amounts to $2,300,000. Total assets now amount to $47,152,736. There are now 1,813 people holding shares in the Traders Bank and the number is constantly increasing. 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