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In I! kw like his 11 k darker th t must be 1 were k 01 last 11 b it could t ‘ fee“lmsshsi en kq quainted rith left 1 3 play (1‘01; 11 t (“81th gr * tors, whic I ed to be Kenrith led Elspeth across the large room toward a comfortable sofa, piled with cushions among which could be seen the back of a man’s headâ€"a well-shaped head, thickly covered with close-cropped, rippling bronze hair. In another moment she saw the face, which turned toward her as she approached, at Kenrith’s side, and as the handsome eyes and 1i 3 smiled faintly in greeting, the gir gave a slight start of surprise. ‘ Why,” she asked herself eagerly, “where have I seen him, or someone exactly like him, only a short time A second glance at Captain Oxford assured Elspeth that, despite the haunting likeness to some other face, she had certainly never seen him be- fore: He was not a_yo‘ung niento be easil forgotten, and the girl did not won or that he had attracted Lady Hilary ary. Not only was he remark- ably good to leak at, but it seemed to her that, with such eyesâ€"bronze; like his hair, and only a few shades darker than his sunburned skinâ€"he must be honest and sincere. If there were a mystery about his adventure of last night, she told herself that. it could be nothing of which he need feel ashamed. H When Elspeth had been made ac- quainted with Captain Oxford, Ken- rith left them alone, and went of! to play golfâ€"perhaps, the girl thought grudgingly, with Lady Lambart. She wrote two or three short let- ters, which she would not have judg- ed to be very important, and then came a pause. “Don’t you think you ought to rest now?” she asked, re- membering Mr. Kenrith’s instructions. “Yes," the young man answered. “I’m not going to ask you to do any more letters to-day. But”â€"â€" he hesi- $86,158 ‘Elspeth took up the sen;- tence where it broke ofl, inquiring if there were anything further that she could do for him. “Yes, there is something,” he said. “I-â€"my friend, Mr. Keurith, told me you traveled up in the same carriage with him yesterday, und-â€"with Lady Lambert and her daughter”- Fl). “Mind? \Vhy. noa that I know you are such a stanch alley of hers. it will simply be paradise to have a chance of talking about her. Do tell me. since we’ve come down so quiekl} to ‘bed rock.’ as the Americans. say. how did you find out that l was in love with Lady Hilary Lambart?” “Shall I tell all the truth?” “Why, of course." At this encouragement Elspeth pio- eeeded to give ("aptain Oxford a short sketeh'of the journey; how she had heard his name mentioned by Mr. Kenrith; how Lady Lambart had not. seemed pleased with the news that he was staying at Lochrain Hydro, and now she (Elspeth) had fancied from he look on Lady Hilary’s face that her emotion was very different. “I didn’t try to listen,” the girl apologized. “but I could’t help being interested. because it seemed'such a -'omance, and Lady Hilary is such an ideal heroine for a love story.” ‘Rlpss her. I should think she was !" l‘m“ â€" --“.' “I didn’t try apologized. “but interested. becm «nuance. and La ideal heroine fO‘l THE GHOST OF LOCHRAIN CASTLE ‘Bless her, I shoun exclaimed the young mroine possible for mine. even if I were far country. and in never see her agair love her, of course, she likes me a little she will never go 33: Wishes, and marry she will never go against her mother’s Perhaps I wishes, and marry me. oughtn’t even to wish it, for she is so lovely, she could have anybody, and I’m a poor man, heavily handi- _ ‘ ““ "m'm Rut I can’t rise to that,” sai on Captain Oxford’s side now. .m- .m m. 'hv vou think aoâ€"or Ull- “D0 ytell me wily you ttobe vvâ€"â€"'1 Copyright, 1906, by Mrs. C. N. Willlumon. >5¢0u om Ara @19an mug... .133 5ng Cognac»... m3. man. CHAPTED V. BY MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON told 9130 110' "Thu haile guessed right. I thought you would. And I shouldn’t wmrder if Kenrith guessed, too. He admires Lady Lambart very much, but he is against her where I am concerned. He didn’t know till yesterday that she disapproved of me as an acquaint- ance for a woman with a marriage- able daughter, though if he weren't rather unworldly in some ways, de- spite his shrewdness in others, he might have guessed how it would be with her. He has too much money himself to care about whether others have it or not, or even think of it; but Lady Larnbart has very little, unfortunately for me, otherwise she would perhaps not mind so much. As it is, I’m sure she would have thank- ed Heaven devoutly if I had been killed last night out of her daughter’s way forever, instead of just winged, and laid up for a day or two.” Elspeth shuddered. “It doesn’t mat- ter so much to you about what she feels,” said the girl: “But do you really think that it was a poacher who shot you by mistake for a keeper?" IIVV ---â€"â€"rv-â€"â€"â€"- “No. I’m certain it was not,’ he answered. -V-vvv vâ€"-â€" wâ€"â€" _' “I haven’t told them everything. I have my own reasons for not doing so,” said Captain Oxford, thoughtful- ly. His face changed to sternness as he spoke, and Elspeth wondered if she could have been mistaken after all in fancying him absolutely frank and open. Suddenly he looked like ‘4...” vv v- â€" “Mr. Grant and, I suppose, Mr. McGowan are certain it. was.” $.I.“ vrv-cv v-w a man who could keep a secret well, and might have secrets of his own. The words that Kenrith had said be- fore going out darted back into Els- peth’s brain, “He lost a good deal of blood." What of the ruby drops that had fallen through the crack in her ceiling, from that mysterious place above, inhabited by no one save ghostsâ€"the ruby drops that had stain- ed the face of the boy in the slfetch! "vv vâ€" But at the thought of that sketch. something which had been puzzling Elspeth was made clear. The like- ness which had so bewildered her we: bé't-gééh bfibtain Oxford and the boy in the portrait. J U It was not so noticeable now, for the young man was looking grave to sombreness. while the face of the ho}: was bright and smiling still Elspeth could see it, and it was marked en- ough to seem rather odd. But, after all. what could it mean? The boy. who was by this time either an old man, or dead. had been one of the same type with Captain Oxford. per- haps not an extraordinary one, :1]- though she had not happened to see any others, gave these'two. She Was - o- C - half-inclined to speak of the pencil- led portrait she had found, but she did not wish to be called upon at present for an explanation of the pink stain, as she probably would be, if she showed the sketch to Captain Oxford. the young man spoke again. “Natur- ally, Mr. McGowan would prefer to think that I had been attacked by some poacher, while straying about in lonely places, where I had no busi- ness to be after dark. Any other ideaâ€"any more sensational ideaâ€" would be bad for the hotel.” “Why?" asked Elspeth. “He wouldn’t like to have it said that there were thieves and murderers lurking about. That sort of thing would probably keep a great many guests away from the Hydro. The sort of people who come here don’t » want adventures.” "7:iiu't"ci6"§3h"ihink it was at thief who attacked you?” the glrl unpul- sively asked. Captain Oxford laughed. “I’ve noth- ing worth stealing, and everybody who knows me, knows that. Other- wise, the whole affair might have been almost worthy of the Under- ground Syndicateâ€"if only it had come off a little more successfully._’_’__ -vi-v -v'- ~â€" qufspeth lacked Blink. 7‘What is the Underground Syndicate?” she asked. “You’ve never heard of the Under- ground Syndicate? Well, I can’t tell you precisely what it is, or even whe- ther it'exists. And if it does, that probably isn’t its own name for it- self.” u--â€"- “It sounds rather vagueâ€"but very mysit_eri_ous,”. said. Elspeth. _-A_-.. -- mySleTIOUB, Bulu Dlaycuu. “If there is such an assoclatlon as the Underground Syndicate, it is very mysteriousâ€"so mysterious that it has puzzled England in general, and Scot- land Yard in particular, for years. It’s supposed, you know, to be an association banded together to com- mit crimes for important clients who don’t wish to commit them them- selves. Several iamous murders have been set down to the account of the Underground Syndicate, but though there have been clues and traces, there have never been enough to help the police to make arrests, or even actually suspect any one person. They have, as it were heard stirrings be- hind a veil, but the veil has never been lifted. Now, if I were a very rich man with millions to leave to relatiVes, or if I were in any one's way, I should say to myselfâ€"because of certain things that have happenedâ€" ‘Aha, the Underground Syndicate has put a black mark against my name.’ But there is absolutely nobody ex- cept Lady Lambertâ€"who would be the better at for my death; and poor Lady Lambart, even if she were pre- pared to go to such‘ lengths to wipe out a would-be son-in-law, couldn't THE DURH AM 011 HUN [0 LE their 1e neIs o'n'en warn Kenrith that he had better look out. " “It sounds too extraordinary.” said Elspeth. i‘y‘llrndidn’t believe there is such a. sy_n_d_icat_e yealfiyj do you?” C A A . A “No, I don’t,” replied Captain Ox- ford. “As you say, it is too fantastic. People will get up any theory to ac- count for crimes which remain mys- teries; and I believe that rather a sensational morning paper is respons- ible for suggesting the idea that there was a syndicate. After 'a murder that baffled the police last year, the editor published a series of extraordinary anonymous letters that served the ob- ject of selling the issues in which they appeared, if no other.” At this moment, the resident doctor appeared to see how his patient was getting on, and Elspeth was banished from the room. It was now her hour of freedom, and she was glad of it, for she had much to think of. She went to her room, where tea was sent to her, and rested luxuriously on the old-fashioned sofa. What a wonder- ful day it had been, she thought. More had happened in it, than happened in weeks in her old London life, where one day told another. and she forgot whether it was Monday or Saturday. She seemed to have been plunged in- to the midst of many lives, and to have some influence, large or small, upon each one. It was almost as if she, an insignificant young girl, a paid employe of the hotel, were watch- ing the performance of a play in a theatre to which she alone had the right of entrance. She tried hard to join all the dif- ferent loose threads, which she felt vaguely ought somehow to match to- gether, but she could not find the way; and at last the effort culminated in an absurd jumble which was a dream. I V ‘OQQ- “ Sleef) did her good, although her nap was short, and she awoke with a "It sounds rather vague. but very mys- terious.” said Elspeth. start, fearing that she had missed her next appointment; but it was only half-past five, and ten minutes later, with smooth hair and bright eyes, she was in Mr. McGowan’s room. He was there, and had kind things to say concerning the reports he had re- ceived of her work during the day. This was encouraging, and the girl felt very happy as she went to begin her hour of work with Mr. Trow- bridge. She did not like him much. but she fancied that he could be very amusing and, whatever else it might be. she was sure that her time in Illa DUU‘VUJ " “A“ asvv wv , In the great hall, through' which she had to pass on her way to Mr. Trowbridge’s sitting room, she saw, him deep in talk with Lady Hilary. He was leaning far forward in his chair. his elbows on his knees, lost to every- thing but his interest in the beautiful girl who listened with an indifference which she did not try to hide. His back was turned towards Elspeth, but Lady Hilary saw her, and with a word to Trowbridge, which Elspeth did not hear, sprang up and gave the young stenographer a look which said “Come to me.”_ 1‘-“ The two girls met half way across the hall, and Lady Hilary handed Elspeth a book. “A pretence." she said hurriedly. “Open it anywhere, and we will seem to be talking about it Now; have you seen him? Mr. Kenrith happened to mention you were going to write for him this after- name. Elspeth well knew who was meant by “him,” and she doubted very much that Mr. Kenrith had “hap- peped” “to _speak. the book. “He only wanted me be- cause he had heard that I'd traveled in the same carriage with you, and hoped I could be got to talk about you to hirp. He confessed that utter I’d UIIL'U I” 5 Ill“, 5‘ nayâ€"W.â€" “Hush! Here comes that Mr. Trow- bridge,” whispered Lady Hilary. “Oh, he is most oppressive. I wish Lady Ardcliffe hadn't introduced him to mother. I’m afraid I'm going to have trouble with him.” Her voice chang- ed suddenly, as Trowbridge, strolling towards them, came within hearing distance. “It will be good of you, Miss Dean, if you. will copy out the poem hotel library, I”-â€"â€"she stopped. for her purpose was served. Trowbridge had paused close beside them and must have heard all that she intend- sumac“. The CHRONICLE for ALL the NEWS. continued- HARDWARE AND FURNITURE. ‘? TWINE ! LENAHAN AND MclNTOSfl. | “McCormick” Twine We have just commenced stock-taking and Wish to clear out our entire stock of trimmed hats We have reduced the prices and have six tables of hats, ranging in price from $1.00 up. We want to sell them and will sell at exceptionally low prices. SUMMER MILLINEHY When you are gettingyour season’s Twine, see that you get CLEARING SALE Every ball fully guaranteed Parisian lminery Parlors. GIVE US A TRIAL MISS DICK is so well and favor- ably known that the name itsell sells it. The Best Ointment, go to S. P. 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