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SPECIAL SALE :‘afiflzfiflesflcflsflkwfl. of Grain. bought at Market SOVEREIGN do an Janna}. 1910, for “Don- ' y...“ ECLIPSE WE KEEP TH E AT GRANT’S The face was so like Captain Ox- ford’s that she half intended 10 show it- lug sour Any. and though qhg M Elspeth remained in her room all the evening. as she had remained in the beautiful old one; but she did not go to bed at the usual hour. She sat up, trying to read, and once in a while glancing at the stained and faded sketch of the boy in old-fash- ioned clothes, which she had brought away from the other room, between the pages in a boohuof herown.‘ ary was concerned; and behind the veil which was impenetrable still. Elspeth seemed to see Trowbridge and Countess Radepolskoi. Maybe, after to-night that veil would not be im- penetrable. In any case, the girl resolved to do her best, even if she risked much to find out what was on the other side. Kenrith was Eoncefned, if the motor car accident were part of a plot. Cap- tain Oxford was concerned; Lady Hi1- Elspeth did not even say to herself that. if she was right in her sur- mises, it was nothing to her. She had come to have the ideaâ€"though but dimly and vaguelyâ€"that many mysteries were moving shadow-like about the hotel, and that all these dark shades were controlled by one hand, perhaps aided by others; that somehow there was a connection be- tween all the gliding shadows. Altogether, she was in a strange state of mindâ€"a state which she felt- could not endure for long. Toward evening, as she tried to make the ugly new room look habitable, she decided that she would pay a secret visit to the tower that night, and discover. if she could, the reason for her ban- ishment. She knew nothing of Lord Lochrain, and could not suppose that he had any connection with the mys- terious occurrences in the tower; in- deed he had not been in the hotel when they had taken place. But she believed that his desire to have the room was only an excuse to get her out of it. Perhaps it was really to be given to him, perhaps not. Perhaps it would not be occupied at all, at any rate immediately; but of one thing Elspeth was ohstinately certain. Some- thing was to happen in that room, at all events in the tower, that very night, or she would not have been moved out_ so hurriedly. Later, when the time came for her to go to Lady Ardcliffe, she was in- formed that she would not be wanted that afternoon; therefore she would have been idle during most of the day. had not Mr. McGowan had plen- ty of work to glve her in the office to replace that which she usually undertook outside. v 'â€"â€"â€"- None of her regular work went on that day ; except with Mr. McGowan ; for she was informed bv him that nei- ther Mr. Kenrith nor Captain Oxford would need her services, and she coqu not guess whether this were because of her disgrace or because the theft of Mr. Kenrith’s jewels had up_set the _ordiuary _ routine. As for the letter which Hilary had asked her to give Mr. Trowbridge, she had not handed it to him during their short conversation in the mom- ing, and, when several hours had passed without her seeing him again, she had enclosed the letter in an ex- planatory note and returned it to Lady Hilary. What had happened sinceâ€"whether the girl had given her answer by word of mouth instead of writing, or whether the question was still in abeyance, Elspeth did not know, for _she had_ heard nothing. These were Elspeth’s own personal griefs, but she had others. She was very 30:3 for Captain Oxford, whom ‘ and admired, and whose cause she would have cham ioned if she could. She was wretche in am- pathy with Lady Hilary, who would probably be forced into accepting a man she did not love; and she feared much that her friend was still in danger from the secret plottings of two jealous women. duco her lover to believe- theâ€"361133 stenognpher a scheming little pre- tender. She was miserable because she was going to be turned out into the world again, where she would be worse off :han ever, because she had failedâ€"or, f she had not really failed, it was the same as if she had. She was mis- arable because she knew that she had J seen foolish enough to fall deeplv in l ow with a man as far removed from we! as the sky is from the earthâ€"~13 man who thought of her, when he thought of her at all, as a clever child in a different class from her own, a . poor little creature to whom one must - be kind out of sheer pity for her loneliness. She was miserable be- cause that man would perhaps marry . Lady Lambart, who was doing all she » could to secure him, and whoâ€"i1 she T encoeededâ€"wonld sooner or later in- l But, after all, she said to herself, such unimportant things mattered no more to her now than they did to Mr. McGowan. She was so unhappy both for herself and for Lady Hilary Vane that little details of physical com- fort were too insignificant to be :hought of twice. Number 33 was a small and com- mon-place room, such as might. have been given to a lady’s maid; and Els- oeth reflected, when she saw it, that Mr. McGowan would not have offered it to her had she not been going to leave his employ. Now, it did not matter to him whether she was sat- isfied or not at Lochrain Castle: she would have to stay on through her fortnight; and then some other girl would arrive to take her place, to be :reated with all the kindness and con- sideration that had been hers at first. THE GHOST OF LOCHRAIN CASTLE Wt. ImbyInQN.W'mhnu-. CHAPTER XIII. BY MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON Author of ”flu Princess Pass,” “Tin Lightning No sound came in answer, though again and again Elspeth rained blows on the heavy oak: and she turned to Kenrith’s door on the opposite side of the hall. There was no red light there. and Kenrith was not in e doadll r11 which threatened his trien ,‘ ut if she could wake him he would be safe from danger afterward, and would help her rouse Captain M-_j lord’s’ name. too, was in the same danger. He was to be sacrificed with Captain Oxford. All these thoughts flashed through the girl’s brain in the fraction of a moment, which carried her back born the tower door to the door behind which the red light flickered. There. she beat anon t_he panelL shrieking .1- DLLV M- u uuv PM“. CHAIM “Fire, fire!’ and crying Captainm Ox- For a few seconds she lost her pres- ence of mind, and ran to the door of the tower, not knowing what she did. But the fact that this door was lock- ed, as the other had been, recalled Elspeth to herself. Never had it been locked before; never had it even been shut. It could not be that both these doors were closed to-night by acci- dent; that this was a mere coinci- denoe. No; they had been locked for a purpose, and ythat purpose coqu be no other than to prevent the escape of someone whose room opened on the corridor. The person who had kindled that red light had locked the doors as well; and the person who thus planned the destruction of 01:5: tain Oxford had attempted his once before. Els eth knew that a moat ran roun this art of the castle. which was the 01 est of all; and should Captain Oxford try to escape by his window, he wouldy certainly be ser- iously injured, if not killed.y K_enrith, Her eyes and lungs stinging with the acrid smoke, Elspeth felt her way down the corridor, and was about to stop before Mr. Kenrith’s door, when she saw a red light glimmering through the keyhole of the door op- posite. ' _ “Captain Oxford’s room 1” the girl gasped. “It’s on fire.” “Something on fire here,” she said to herself, and with a start of terror, her thoughts turned to Mr. Kenrith. His room was in the corridor. What if it should be burning while he slept? What if the same person who had stolen his jewels wished him now to_ die by fire? Instantly the tears started to her smarting eyes, and she kept herself from coughing only by covering her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. As the door slid back a wave of acrid smoke rushed out into the girl’s face. She could see no light in the corridor, except a dim yellow gleam faintly visible through a thick brown smoke cloud. Still, she persevered, and slowly pushed back the sliding door which, so far from squeaking, glided so smoothly along its groove that Els- peth wondered if it had not been lately oiled. The idea frightened her, as it made the plotâ€"whatever it wasâ€"appear so elaborate and so formidable, she felt that the elucidation might prove to be beyond her powers, or that she might be destroyed in the attempt she was about to make. The dimly ligated corridor was si- lent as the grave. Even the man who collected the boots had come and gone and would not return till early morning. She tiptoed downstairs and u as not disturbed by a sound. On the ground floor there was a grandfather clock solemnly ticking and its hands ‘poiuted to the quarter before 1.E1s- gym-1h told herself that she was safe ' now. She would meet nobodyâ€"unless 1 some person wandering for as strange in mason as her own. “Supposing anyone on the other side had wanted to come through," she said to herself, “he could not have got out of the corridor this way.” And then the thought spran into her mind that the closed an locked door was perhaps part of the mystery. she was hoping to unravel._ To go from this part of the house to the tower where Elspeth had lived it. was necessary to pass the doors of Mr. Kenrith’s and Captain Oxford’s moms. 'L-vcy were in the same corri- dor. just beyond which was the en- trance to the tower; and their corri- dor could be shut off from a small, sqvarc hall (on which several private sitting: rooms opened) by a heavy, sliding door. This door Elspeth had never seen clo;<<.-<l. and so far as her knowledge oxtwmled, it never was closed by night. or by day; but now, to her as- tonishment, it was Shut. “it is sure to squeak and wake :mnugbmly up,” the girl thought rue- ?‘izlly, as. th tried cautiously to push the door back. But for some time she tried in vain, and it was only when she discovered an odd, old-fashioned catch, which held the latch down as she strove to turn the handle, that shemwas able to open the door. THE DURHAM’THRUN [OLE The guests of the Hydro, those who were there for pleasure as well as those who were there for health, went to bed early, and by midnight, un- less there were a dance or theatricals, the great house was quiet, the hall and drawing rooms deserted, even by the men. Elspeth knew this, and so when the half hour after midnight had well passed she opened her door and looked out. not wish and had no right to take it with her out of the house when she left Lochrain Castle she had been disinclined to leave it in its old place. If she did so and the tower room was really occupied she could not get the the sketch if she should make up her mind to let Captain Oxford see pit. She opened her door and looked out. was the tower. If the fire read it would reach the tower; and in red- _Elspeth _Dean we: mm “A She triedfliéâ€"s'it up, but something held her down. ng anpgwgre cross- ‘3 L-L!_jl I old wood which she had smelled every night when she had waked up in the wonderful bed in the tower room. Often she had told herself that these scents would make her think of that room, no matter where she might be, and how many years might have passed. Only last night she had thought that, not knowing she was not to sleep in that bed again. But, she said in her mind, perhaps it was part of the dream that she had been changed to another room. Sure- ly she could not mistake. No other bed could be just like that. And then, if she were not there, why should she be in bed at all? What about the fire shining behind the closed door in the corridor, her frantic knockings her scream, and the hand that had choked away her breath? Had she really gone through that tearful scene? Oh, she could not doubt it. Perhaps, even at this minute, Mr. Kenrith and Captain Oxford were being burned to death. Somehow she must save them. C.AA. v vnmv v MVI we. so “11“ 1611111151 wWhat. had Bappene’d? Had she had a horrible dream? she asked herself. There was the same leasant, ming. ling fragrance of dr' lavender and When she awaked, it Seemed that she was lying on a bedâ€"a bed at the sage tithe _cemfortable and familiar, face again, with an iron grip under her chin, and a pressure so savage over her lips that it seemed the blood must spring through the delicate skin. Her neck was bent so roughly that her muscles were strained, and her breath choked back upon her lungs. A shower of sparks seemed to rise and fall before her eyes, smart- ing and raining tears in the thick smoke. She struggled again, but vain- ly, and in the agonizing struggle of body and mind against the unseen, compelling force, lost breath and consciousness. She coqu but pray_ that it might be so. for the scream was stifled in the {midst by the hand which crushed her With the fierce strength that only desperation gives. the girl tore at the hand which covered her mouth, and regaining her liberty for a sec- ond’s space, uttered such a shriek as she could not have given in a mo- ment of less peril. t rang wildly through the corridor, and was ter- rible even in the girl's own ears. It seemed to her that it might almost make a dead man turn in his grave to be called thus. But would it wake J o_l_1_n Kenrjth and Captain Oxford? She could not let them die a ter- rible death. If she could but save them she would be willing to die in their lace. Let the murderer revenge h1m_s__e u_pon_ her as he chose. rection of the tower. There could be no doubt that the hand which pressed her lips was the hand of the p-would be murderer. She had interfered with the success of his work and she was to be removed per- haps from the world. 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