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"I 'Was disappointed,” replied Wilbraham, "but I saw something of the cargo which the waggons brought over the hill and the boats carried on board. Backwards and forwards between the Tarifa and the shore they were rowed with un- remitting diligence and caution, carrying first longish paekir1g-cas- es of some weight, as I could ga- ther from-the conduct of the men who stumbled with them down the it1zfine. And after the packing- cases, square boxes, yet more un- wieldy than the long cases, if one takes the proportion of size. The morning was breaking before the last boat was hoisted on board, and the last wagon had creaked out of hearing over the hill." "That was the question which troubled me," replied Wilbraham. "I lay on the hilly-side in the chill of the morning as disheartened as you can imagine. Through a break in the bushes I watched the Tarifa below me, her decks busy with the movement of her crew and from her galley the comfortable smoke coiled up into the air. Breakfast! A Gar- gantua-n appetite suddenly pinch- ed my stomach. Had Warriner gone on board with the cargo? And what was the cargo? And into what harbor would the Tarifa Carr- ry itt I had found out nothing. Then on board the briguntine men g/sthere"d at the Windlass, a chain clinked musically as the anchor was hove short, the gaff of her main- sail cranked up the mast and the festoons of her canvas were unfol l- "And what was the cargo 'l" ask- ed Miranda. “Well?” said Miranda, breaking in upon his speech. She was strung to a high pitch of excitement, and her face and voice betrayed it. I lay in the bushes straining my ears to catch a familiar voice, my eyes on a, chance that a match might be struck and light up a, familiar face.” "Do you know the creek " he asked, and did not wait for an an- swe.. "I hadn't; anchored there tor twenty years, but I had a chart of it in my memories.” His voice softened, with perhaps some recol- lection of a yachting trip in the days before his life had grown sour. “Steep hills on each side, and on each side woods. The trees run down and thrust their knees into the water like animals at their watering places of an evening. A mile or so up, a little rose and honeysuckle village nestles as pretty as a poem. There's a noise of birds all day, and all night and day the trees talk. Given a, westerly wind, and the summer, I don't know many places which come up to Helford river," and his voice ceased, and he sat in a muse. A movement at his side recalled him. "But that's not business, you soy,” he resumed briskly. "I left me Tarifa at the mouth of the creek. The little vil- lage a mile or more up, is on the southward side; opposite to it, on the Falmouth side, is the coast- guard station; nearer to the mouth, and still on the Falmouth side, a tiny dingle shelters a school-house and half-a-dozen cottages, and still nearer, the road rrom Falmouth. comes over the brow of the hill and) dips down along the hill-side. At) one point the steep hill-side is bro- ken, there's an easy incline of sand and bushes and soil between the water and the road. The incline is out of sight of the coastguard. Be- sides, it is only just round the point and close to the sea, and for that reason I was in no particular hur- ry to follow the Tarifa. I edged the launch close in under the point, waded ashore, and scrambled along in the dark until I reached the break in the hill-side. Then I lay down among the bushes and waited. All lights were out on the Tarifa, but I could see her hull dimly, a blot or solid black against the night's unsubstanrial blackness. I waited for centuries and aeons. There was neither moon nor any star. At last I heard a creaking sound that came from the other end of the world. It was repeated, l it grew louder, it became many sounds, the sounds of cart wheelsi on the dry road. I looked at myl Watch; the glimmer of its white face made it possible for me to telli the hour. It was five minutes to eleven. For five minutes the sounds drew infinitesimally nearer. Tr1gh- er pp the creek six bells were struck upon a yacht, and then over the waters from the direction of the Tarifa came cautiously the wooden rattle of oars in the rowlocks of the boat. A boat I say, but it was fol- lowed by another and another. The three boats grounded on the sand as the carts reached the break in the hill-side. There were few, words spoken and no light shown.} CHAPTER 1rII.--(Cont'd) l Mist in the Sham ; OR, THE MYSTERY OF THE " TARI FA'S " CARGO "I crawled down to my launch, the cheapest man in the United Kingdom. My engineer was muf- tled up in a pilot jacket and un- common surly and cheap too. I hadn’t the pluck left in me to re- sent his impudence, and we crept back to Falmouth. All the way I was pestered with that question, 'What was the cargo I had seen shipped that night in Helford riv- ery I couldn't get it ,out of my head. The propeller lashed it out with a sort of vindictiveness. The little waves breaking ashore whis- pered about it, as though they, knew very well, but wouldn't peach. When I had landed in Falmouth, I found that I was walking towards Ithe Free Library. The doors, how- ever, were still closed. I breakfast- led in a fever of impatience and was back again at the doors before they were opened. You may take it from me, Mrs. Warriner, I was the first student inside the building that morning. I read over again every scrap of news and comment about the inquest in Sicilly which I could pester the Librarian to un- earth; and points which in my hur- "ry I had overlooked before; began to take an air of importance. The old man Fournier, for instance; it seemed sort of queer that a, taxi- dermist of Tangier'should come all :the way to Scilly for a month's ho- liday. Eh, what? What was old, man Fournier doing at Seillyf ‘Scilly’s a likely place for wrecks. Was old man Fournier a, hanger- on upon chance, a nautical Mr. Micawber waiting for a wreck to turn up which would suit his pur- pose? Or had he stage-managed by some means or other the coup de theatre on Rosevcar? It seemed funny that the short-sighted man should spot the wreck on Rosevear before the St. Agnes' men, eh? Sup pose M. Fournier and Ralph War- riner were partners in that petty cargo! I walked straight out of the library, feeling quite certain that I held the right end of the skein. I had made a mistake in following up Warriner. I ought to have fol- lowed up the taxidermist. I walked about Falmouth all that day puz- zling the business out; and I came to the conclusion that the sooner I crossed to the Scillies the better. I was by this time fairly excited, and I think I should have spent my last farthing in the hunt even if I had known that when I had run the mystery to earth, it would not proflt me at all. I took a train that very evening, and pottered about from station to station all night. In the morning I got to Penzanee, and kicked my heels on the wharfwf the little dock there until nine o'clock, when the Lyonnesse started for St. Mary's. Three hours later I saw the islands hump themselves up from the sea, and I stared and stared at them till a genial being standing beside me said, 'l sup- pose you haven't been home for a good many years.'--) the way, Mrs. Warriner," he suddenly broke off, “I have heard that natural sherry is a drink in some favor hereabouts. I can't say that it's a beverage I have ever hankered after before, but what with the sun and the talk, the thought of it is at the present moment most sedue- tive. What if we rang down the curtain for ten minutes and had an Wilbraham's face was quite con- vulsed by the violence of his recol- lections; and with so vivid a sin- cerity, with a voice so mutable had he described the growth and extinar. tion of his hopes, that Miranda al- most forgot. their object, almost found herself sympathizing with his endeavors, almost regretted their failure-until she remembered that after all he had not failed, or he would not have been sitting beside her ih the Alameda. "Well," she said in a, hard voice, "you failed. What then?” ed. The Tarifa. was outward bound and I had discovered nothing I was like a, man tied hand and foot and a treasure within his reach. I had had my fingers on the trea, sure. Again the chain rattled on the Windlass; she broke out her foresail and her jib; I saw the water sparkle under her foot and stream out a creaming pennant in her wake. I had lost. In the space of a second I lived through every minute of my last tifteen years and their dreary vicissitudes. I lived in anticipation through another " been similar jn every detail, and fairly shuddr'ired to think there might be another fifteen still to follow those. I stretched myself out and ground my face in the. sand and cursed God with all my heart for the difference between man and man. And meanwhile the Tarifa, with a hint of the-sun upon her txyp- sails, slipped out over the tide to sea." Sympathy sometimes means sit- ting in a ear and passing out soft words to lame folk. I The recording angel may take more interest in your day book than in your hymn book. A - Preaching produces so little prac- tice because people look on it as a performance. - 77 - - Pgople who take their troubles too seriously often average up on their duties. The kind of goodness thUt makes you too good to mix with iollris the worst kind of badness. oualsir,srs 1eggisurc.'eyoiii'h,sii,ls. tho (hunt and Lacs, s . . . aa cents. - Many a good sermon has come to an untimely end by lasting too long. v" He who cannot do kindness with- out a brass band is not so scrupul- ous about his other dealings. We are less likely to be known by our paths to the church than by the paths our children tread. You -can never climb into the hearts of men on the ladder of elo- quence. No man ever warms things up who does not sometimes boil over. It takes more than a homileti-cal memory to make a good sermon. When you find excess of speech look for Shortage on snght. No man is saved unless he desires to save. One might fight a lie and still not follow the truth. A good home is the best expos- ition of heaven. Afflictions mark the difference between iron and steel. Love does not depend for its strength on ctoncentration. It is easy to stir up a storm In a, puddle. _ - Doing right is more than feeling good. "I was more than ever convinced that the discovery on Rosevear was a put-up job. If so, old man Four- nier must have been aware of that wreck before he discovered it. He must have landed on the island and shoved those papers into the dead man's pocket; and some one must have sailed him out to the island. I determined to lay myself out to discover who that some one was; but I went no further than the de, tetermination. There was not in- deed any need that I should, for I sailed myself the next day to Rose- vear. I hired the St. Agnec In? ger, and Zebedee Lsar, ', rv," 1» sat at the tiller, gave 111.’ I-)?",' of old {man Fournier. Old nun: Fcurnier ‘was a desperate coward at sea, yct 1he had put out to thspjsly.t on a most unpleasing Gay. It’was old man Fournier who insisted that they should run through the Neck and examine Rosevear, and when Ze- bedee Isaacs declined the risk, old man Fournier flung himself in a passion on the tiller and nearly swamped the boat. All very queer, eh? M. Fournier must have had some fairly strong motive to nerve him to that pitch of audacity. And what that motive was I should dis-) cover when I discovered the, na-) ture of the Tarifa's cargo. I; thought perpetually about the car-) go, all the way to Rosevear, and} after I had landed on that melan-) choly island. The truth came upon me in a moment of inspiration. The ground I remember gave way un- der my foot. I had trodden on a sea-bird’s nest, and stumbled for- ward on my knees, and with the! shock of the stumble came the inâ€"‘ spiration. I remained on my knees, with the gulls screaming overhead,‘ and the grey wastes of ocean moan- ing about the unkindly rocks. Andi I knew! The taxidermist, from Tangier, the longish packing-eases, the square boxes---Ralph Warriner and old man Fournier were running guns and ammunition into Moroc-i 15hikihrt Cure "There is not," Wilbraham agreed pleasantly; "but I had to introduce the subject some way, and my way was successful. 'Ralph Warrinery exclaimed the doctor. 'And what was he dismissed from the service for?’ I winked very slowly with intense cunning; 'l un- derstand,’ said the doctor with a. leer, though Heaven only known what he did understand; I fancy he thought his reputation as a man of the world was at stake. After that the conversation went on swim- mingly. ft 'Permanently enlarged by ex- cessive indulgence in alcohol,' said L u had once a very dear friend in the same case called Ralph War- riner.' Jr Here Miranda, interrupted with considerable indignation. "There is not a word of truth in that." entr-acte, eh? Would you mind l" And Wilbraham rose from his seat. "No," said Miranda. "Please fir1ish_what you have to say now." Wilbrahani sighed, resuined his seat and at the same time his story. "At St. Mary's," he continued, "I calledf at once upon the dpctor. 'Ah,' said he, 'liver, I suppose.' l” SENTENCE SERMONS. (Eu be continued.) CHAPTER VII. Deep breathing is essential to a full chest. Open the windows for five minutes at a time night and morning, and standing erect, draw deep breaths, using the abdominal muscles to control breathing. Hold as long as you can without strain- ing the muscles and exhale slowly and repeat until there is a sense of fatigue. Be sure you are well Two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars was paid by a noble- man at the beginning of the eight- eenth century for a dog collar of gold. A collar of silver, with four small diamonds, costing about $1,000, was sold to a society lady for her pet pug og. It is fashion- able in France to put gold brace- lets studded with jewels on the fore- legs of poodles. The plain god _col lars with jewelled settings cost Iro less than $100, whie the jewellcd collars run from $10 to $350 each. Quicklyi Mops coudha.'cnre§ the throat and hind: - " A fatigue. B wrapped up. VALUE OF DEEP BREATHING "cold sores" appear, if touched frequetttly at the very, beginning with swrits of catrrihor or powder- ed Mimi they will often dry up and disappear. Sometimes a mixture consisting, of one teaspoonful of glycerine and five drops of carbolic acid is efficacious. They usually re- sult from some digestive derange- merit. A healing lip salve is made of sweet oil, one ounce; white wax, one ounce; spermaceti, one drachm. Put in a piece of alkanet root to color it while melting. Strain and add a few drops of perfume. The lips are sensitive in cold weather on account of the extremes of temperature to which they are exposed-the warm breath from within and the frosty air without, as well 'as on account of the thin membrane which covers them. When the abrupt ind annoying little eruption commonly called i81Bs Bi .: . m. B' "N St = a,» Et' Rik, THE LIPS IN COLD WEATHER, l The simplest of all methods of applying the supposed stimulus of electricity to growing plants ap- pears to eb that of Monsieur Basty of Antwerp, Belgium. He sets up- right in the ground metallic rods, furnished with unoxidizable points, and penetrating to the depths of the roots of the plants to be treat- ed. These miniature lightning-rods are supposed to collect atmospheric electricity and conduct it into the soil. The area, of action, Monsieur Basty calculates, is a circle of rad- ius equal to the height of the rod. As many rods as needed may be em- ployed, at proper distances apart. 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