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=A§ assesseseeeaee cs: (CHAPTER VI. Con.) “You swore you saw your master on the lawn and on the road the moment before.” “All lies. I (lid not see him that day. It was lucky the other wit- ness swore to seeing him near the same place the same morning.” . “You have no idea what brought him there?” "None." "The prisoner refused to give me the slightest information where he was or what he was doing that morning," whispered Trevor. “The other witness did not fix the hour,” said Ardel. still addressing the sleeper. “No; luckily for me.” “Why?” "Because it was an hour later than I swore.” Ardel asked his questions in low, incisive tones, and the other answu :- ed as a man thinks, without hesita- tion or reserve. "TWO days after my master’s ar- rest,” he went on, “a telegraph boy came and told me he had seen him at his own door at ten o’clock, the very same hour and the very same day I had sworn I saw him at Laâ€" burnham Lodge, three miles away." "The boy was quite sure about the man and the hour?” “Quite. I tried to shake him, and failed. He had' a watch, and had just looked at it; he knew my mas- ter well; had often delivered tele- grams at the door, and had got tips from him. My master, he said, was looking very pale and excited. Would his evidence help or hurt the gentleâ€" man? that was all the boy wanted to know from me. If it would hurt, he could ‘stow it,” he said, and no one need be a bit the wiser. Of course, I persuaded him to ‘stow it.’ I have kept the boy out of the way since.” “What’s his name? where does he live?” For the first time the man hesitatâ€" ed before replying. The keeping of this secret had grown to be a habit with him, which mechanically check- ed his speaking it, though his will was asleep. I He was silent for a moment. “Speak!” said Vivian Ardel, in a tone of insistent command. “William Ravel is his name.” “And his address?” "19, Paradise Court, East.” There was a long pause after this. Trevor looked at his friend with a curious blending of triumph and ad- miration. “What do you mean to do next, Ardel?” he whispered. "Weahave done half our Work. We know the truth. The next thing is to prove it. This fellow won’t help us further. It’s a pity they cannot hang him, instead of his intended victim. Yet I’m not sorry. I want no hangings.” "But what are you going to do with him now?” _ "Wake him and let him go about his business.” Trevor looked at him in amaze- ment. “You must be mud to think of such a thing! If you give him the chance, he will do his best to get the boy out of the way, a‘nd Checkmate us.” ' But Ardel only laughed softly. "He will remember nothing of what he has said. He will resume his mom- ory at the moment he fell asleep.” I-Ie touched the sleeper’s forehead again with his finger-tips as he spoke. “Wake,” he said sharply. The man’s eyes opened, and his mind resumed its functions. The m -...-.g.u~».. M“y~~\'m “mums . v ..., . -.. . diiieassess dilidl‘lfihii THAN liEAIli <3<2>Q®®OR®®®QQ j A RANSOMED LIFE rein t e titer Q mask of stolid honesty was again on his face. , “But I’m bound to speak the truth when I’m asked,” he said, finishing his sentence where he had broken it off, apparently without any suspicâ€" ion of the intervening unconscious- ness. Ardel assented. grimly. “The truth is very dangerous sometimes," he said. “Very dangerous to my poor young master," Weevil answered, with such perfect hypocrisy that Tre- vor lost his last scruple about playâ€" ing the game out to the end. He asked Weevil a question about this part of the evidence and about that, and was divided between repulsion and admiration at the cleverness with which Weevil, while professing deep sympathy, contrived by his an- swers to blacken the’case still fur- ther against his master. Both were glad when the man rose at last to go. “I'm afraid I have not been of much help to you, Mr. Trevor.” he said, and the keenest car could find no sneer in his voice. “Innocent or guilty, it’s very hard on me who dangled him a child on my knees to be the instrument, as I might say, of his death. I declare to you, sir, I’d give ten years of my life to let him go free.” “That’s about what you will'have to give, my friend,” said Trevor dry- ly, as the door closed behind the re- luctant witness,â€"“ten years’ penal servitude for perjury.” Next day Trevor himself assisted his solicitor in searching the sittingâ€" room at Laburnham Lodge. The lotâ€" ter and the inlaid revolver wore found behind the books, and were carried away and laid on the table at Trevor's elbow, concealed by some loose papers when he rose at the opening of the court on Monday to crossâ€"examine the chief witness for the prosecution. V In ten minutes the stolid, cunning, self-confident witness was utterly broken down, and his evidence de- molished. The suddenness and fierce-' ness of the attack, but, above all, the knowledge displayed by the enemy, confounded him. The quesâ€" tions were quick and sharp, and hardâ€"hitting as revolver shots. The sudden production of the letter was a stunning blow. Still striving to brazen it out, he was confronted with the boy William Ravel. Then he collapsed at once and comâ€" pletely lost all self-control, confessed his perjury, and begged and blubbcr- cd for mercy. The crowded court literally went mad with excitement. Even the ijudge and jury scarcely escaped the .contagion. The, women rose in their lseats, clapping their hands and screaming hysterically. A titled lady lusually a model of decorum, who sat |close to the witnessâ€"box, struck Weevil fairly across the face with her parasol. leaving a red weal on the white cheek. The blow was the signal for an on~ slaught on the perjurer, and he would have been torn in pieces if the police had not interfered. Amid the wild confusion the judge’s deep voice was heard calling for silence, and the sternness of his face enforced the command. The tumult fell as rapidly as it had ris- en, though the intense strain of im- patient excitement still made itself felt in the crowded court. The formal gravity of the law, which life or death cannot stir one jot from its course, asserted itself. In the midst of the profoundest sil- ence the judge’s voice was heard .c aux 5M"? u~ ..¢ 3. -.‘v A Common and Bistro-33mg Ailment Which IS Promptly as. 'csisss (Bored by EllfliiEi’-LWEB PR8. “Biliousness” is the one. word used by most people to describe their trouble when the liver gets out of order, leaves bile, and brings on sick headache and irritable ternpel‘, stom- nch troubles, and irregularities of the bowels. People who suffer much from bil- iousness beconm pale and yellow in complexion, irritable, and morose in disposition, and are liable to find themselves among the chronic grumâ€" blers, to whom nothing seems to go right. The trouble begins with the liver becoming torpid and sl’uggish in acâ€" tion, and disappears when the liver is set right. Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€" Liver Pills cure biliousness promptly, because of their direct action on the liver. They thoroughly remove all the symptoms because of their com- bined action on kidneys, liver, and bowels. L's. Faulkner, 8 Gildersleeve Place, Toronto, says:-â€"-“Aftev docâ€" tortng without success for bilious- :ness, liver complaint and sick head- Iache for over three years, I am glad to testify to my appreciation of Dr. Chase's,Kidney-Liver Pills. At first they seemed a little strong, .but being both searching and thorough in their action amply repay any inconvenience by after-results. I am feeling better in every way and my headaches have entirely disappeared. Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills are certainly the best I ever used, and I freely recomâ€" mend them.” After all, it pays to stand by the tried and proven medicines instead of running after every new-fangled treatment that is brought. out. Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills are con- sidered “ellâ€"nigh indispensable in thousands of the best homes. They stand supreme as a reliable family medicine. One pill a dese, 25 cents a box. At all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates and 00., Toronto. To proâ€" tect you against imitations, the por- 'trait and- signature of Dr. A. W. Chase, the famous receipt book anâ€" thor, are on every box. l lagain, calm and formal in its tones. | "Mr. Attorney,” he said, “what course do you now propose to l adopt?” "With your lordship’s approval, I will enter a nollo proscqui,” replied the Attorneyâ€"General as calmly. “There is no other charge against the prisoner?” asked the judge. “None.” “Then I order his discharge.” Again the tumult broke out in wild rejoicing over the escape of the man whose agony the same crowd had gloated over an hour before. The majesty of the law had disappeared with the retiring judge, and now the tumult was unrestrained. , Dazed .by the shock of this sudden transit, from death to life, Edgar Wickham was helped by his solicitor through the throng and driven rapidâ€" 1y away to his hotel. Weevil remain- ed behind in the hands of the police. “There goes a happy man,” said Trevor to Ardel. as they stood out- side the court while the crowd melt- “Not yet,” Ardel answered, smilâ€" ing. “I have been watching his face. He does not realize what has hap- pened. He is stunned by the good news. But I envy his joy to-morrow when he awakes with clear brain to know his whole life is still before (To be continued.) HARD ON THE BABIES. _,â€"_ One of the first effects of a hot wave, particularly in towns and cities, is a pronounced increase in the nu‘mlber of deaths of infants. Even in the open country the suffer:- ing of the helpless little ones would move the hardest heart. Stomach trouble and diarrhoea are the foes mdst to be dreaded at this time and every mot-her should appreciate the nocesisity of careful diet and atten- tion at the first sign of these brouâ€" bles. Medicine should never be given to check diarrhoea except upon the adviice of a physician. A diet limited almost entirely to boil- ed milk and the 11150 of Baby’s Own Table-ts will cure almost any case and keep baby in health. Mrs. W. E. Bassam, of Kingston, Ont, writes : "When my little girl was about three months old she suffered with vomiting and had diarrhoea con- stantly. 'I did not find any medicine that helped her until we began givâ€" ing her Baby’s Own Tablets. After giving her the Tablets the vomiting and dimrrhoea ceased and she began to improve almost at once. Since then whenever her stomach is out of order or she is constipated we give her the Tablets, and the result is alâ€" ways all that we desire. They are the very best medicine I have ever used for a child.” Baby’s Own Tablets are sold by .all dealers in medicine or will be sent plostpaid, at twentyâ€"five cents a box, by the Dr. ll’illiains’ Medicine Company, Brockville, Onrt. -â€"â€"â€"-+ A FAMILIAR SUBJECT. Wife (after returning from: churchâ€"â€" "You should have been in church this morning. We had a beautiful serâ€" men.” Husbandâ€"“I’ll bet you can’t rcâ€" peatrthe text.” Wifeâ€"“Yes, I can. ‘It was the tenth verse of the sixteenth chapter of Ezekielâ€"4‘1 girdcd thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.” ll‘usbandâ€"“I-Iug! It is no wonder you remember it.” Ell. A. W. GiiflSE’S ' enema WEE i a» [3 sent direct to the diseased pans by the Improved Blower. Heals the ulcers. clears the at: -’ y pnssagcs,stop3 droppings in the throat and ermammly curt-t 7". _V Catarrh and law Favor. Blmve: _ , free. All dealers. or Dr. A. W. Chase ‘ nadir.an Cm. Toronto and Buffalo. _¢._ IR ON DUKE ’ S WEAKNESS . Patronage as It Was in the Early Days of Last Century. A book of memoirs just published lhas a good story of the Iron Duke:â€" Colonel Wellcsley was very much in debt and embarrassed when he left l‘Jngland, and a small tradesman in Dublin was of great assistance to him by the loan of four or live hunâ€" dred pounds, which on his arrival in India in due course of time was reâ€" Ipaid; and I have yeard that on his lreturn from India he walked into the shop of the tradesman, a boot and shoe maker, and asked him if he re- collected him. The man said “No.” “Well,” said Sir Arthur, who was secretary to the Duke of Richmond, "can I be of any service to you?” The man said, “I want nothing my- self, but I have a son.” “Give me his name,” said Sir Arthur; "you did me a kindness once, and I do not forget it.” He got. the man's son a. place at £400 per annum. It is an interesting side light on the methods of Government patronage in those days. Will the memoirs dealing with out present enlightened age have sim- ilar revelations to make? _â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"+_.~ “RETURN AT ONCE. " Merchantâ€"“Did you deliver my message to Mr. Smith?” » Boyâ€"“No, sir; he was out, and the office was locked up.” Merchantâ€"“Well. why didn’t you wait for him, as I told you?” Boyâ€"“There was a notice on the door saying ‘Ileturn at once,’ so I came back as quick as I could." mum mar '-- I . . "“_ go "THE POLISHERS.” A provincial assiz‘e court recently dealt with a gang of housebreakers, ENGLISH BURGLAR HAS NO CONTINENTAL RIVAL. known as f‘the polishers,” who were- Eabits of European People Ren- der Them Easy For Criminals. convicted of a number of robberies in farmhouses, the sums stolen varying operandi was to send two Women of England has long enjoyed abroad the. gang, representing themselves as ' the enenviable reputation of breedâ€" French polishers. who offered their ing, training, and letting loose on services at such moderate rates they the world the most skillful pickpockâ€" were almost always engaged I? was ets, just as Italy stands first in the their business to watch where the matter of highwaymen, or Germany money with which they were paid in the production of cosniopolitanuwhen the work was done was taken sw‘indlers of the class known to the from. The cache having thus been police as the "flash mob.” As 8. located, the rest was easy. The matter of fact, poor old England cache was sometimes an old kettle, does not at all deserve this reputaâ€" sometimes a hole in the mattress, tion, which dates more or less from but, most often the cupboard, the time of Dickens’ revelations in This custom of using the cupboard “Oliver Twist,” and it would be easy as a safe is a rooted one in France. to prove from police statistics that French servant girls all save and all the percentage of Englishmen among keep their money in cash in their the DiCkIJOCkCtS arrested 011 the CODâ€" rooms. These rooms are situated on tinent is a small one. On the otherlthe sixth floor of the big Parisian hand, the reason of this may be that I apartment houses, and this floor is the artful dodgers of London littlciabsolutely deserted during the day care to practise abroad, because of time, All the, doors of the, rooms the great severity of the foreign being fastened with cheap locks, it courts in dealing with this form of will .be seen that the housebreaker crime. . has an easy task. As a rule, how~ In France, for instance, there seems ever, he carries a complete outfit 01 to be a fixed penal tariff applied to burglar’s tools, for the manufacture foreign voleurs a la tire, and that of which England still has the speci~ is the maximum allowed of by the alty, code. five years’ imprisonment. It VICTIMS SELDOM COMPLAIN. if. probable IDOSt Of the pickpockets It is on the continent that the 0011.. W110 Operate abroad are Germans 01' fidence trick especially flourishes. Italians, though American enterprise Hardly a week passes in Paris or is not lacking in this direction also. Berlin but one hears of some one who The English fraternity may derive has been robbed in this way. But, satisfaction from the statement that as a leading French police official in this branch of crime the English pointed out, these cases are hardly burglar for skill and courage has n0 ever taken up by the police, because COHtinental l‘iVal. one rarely reads almost invariably the actual victim abroad of houses being broken into was in intention a thief also. Hav- at night when people are sleeping in ‘ing exchanged portfolios with the them and the danger of detection iS lbenevolent and millionaire stranger, gl‘cat- In “19 last few years there the eventual victim makes haste to have been two such cases in France, disappear. 'It is only when he comes and tWO 01113’. and in OaCh case the to examine the contents of the port‘ arrested burglar proved to b0 a folio, satchel, or portmanteau that countryman of Bill Sykes, In each he raises the cry that he has been case the sentence was a heavy one; robbed. The thieves in this branch .indeed, one Of the two “'83 sentenc- of crime speculate on the natural dis- ed to penal servitude for life. honesty under strong temptation of OPERATE BY DAY 'IN FRANCE. the average man. ' The French housebreaker invariably Blackmailing also prospers on thd Operates by daY- It is only When he 'continent far better than in Eng- attacks an uninhabitated house-â€"say, land, where criminals of this ordei a suburban villa whose owners are are coming to the conclusion that away at the seasideâ€"that he takes the game is certainly not worth th( the risk of the increased penaltv, .or, candle, Abroad it, furnishes an jg. as in England, burglary is punished noble subsistence to thousands o:' much more severely than mere house- men and Women. Berlin is full 0! breaking. He only “goes for” pl‘em- them. In Paris, be it said to flu lises when their occupants are. away. Idng‘race of the French press, man} 'He does not want to have to kill nnewspapers, for lucre, make them- to insure his safety, though if he is selves the allies of these scoundrels. caught in the flCt 01: I‘Obb‘cl‘y he in- A book could be written on the sub variably tries to kill. He is always ject of blackmailing in France. armed with a revolver and a (lag-| BURIED TREASURE. ger, but generally relies on his “jiln- The buried treasure swindle. thanks my” for silencing his aggressor. to Mr. Labouchere and other journ- But he does not want to kill. Two alists, does not nowâ€"aâ€"days make men executed on the Place de la. RO- many victims in England. However, quette complained bitterly that ill the Spanish prisoner and his con- luelz had forced them to become mur- geners still reap an abundant harv- dcrers when they had never had the est. If you come to think of it the intention of becoming anything but Humbert swindle with the safe, with burglars. With twa other men they the‘4,0-O0,000 stored in it, is only a had broken by night into a houscvariety of this form of robbery. | in the Rue Poussin. believing it to Thousands of letters go out yearly be uninhabitated. knowing that the from Barcelona to people in all parts family was away at Nice. However, of the world, their names and ad- an unfortunate caretaker slept on the dresses being taken from the various premisas. continental directories. RICIâ€"I HARVEST AT HAND. This, swindle. by the way. was irr- In these matters the housebreaker vented by a Froncmnan named St' takes few risks, he usually reaps a £1123}n{v£;ltint1£erehin 55111123??? 3 rich harvest. The love of the French ' y I > “ ‘ O a , , Parisian tradesmen (m - for economy is proverbial, and anâ€" -‘ . ‘- In 0d Pauwu’ ‘ _ , i r _ _, 1n wlnch he asks for an advance of Other typical feature of the national funds so as to‘ be able to U V11 t‘ character is that people who save ' ‘ ' a L 0 a _ , , s of: where a buried ‘ ‘. like to keep their ' money in cash p tleasum WM , hi-dd .n. V ‘ '7 r Ye. ' where they can see and count it. The ,0 . Pat“ GM; “as to 1} 1‘ ‘4. his I v 1‘ , shale in the proceeds. St. Inrnnn bulk of the I‘lench people of the lowâ€" . v I ‘ _ , , _ said he had been valet to a noble- e1 and middle classes have little conâ€" man who fleoin the dam .,l. . fidence in savings banks or investâ€" ’ ’ g g(' s o . the revolution,. had uri x ' -. o ments, and 511100 the Panama smash containing (590 000 i}: wilt; angle"; this confidence still has further diâ€" l” ’ g aâ€" . _ . quantitv of jewels. St. Firinin was munshed. go mos r0 1 1d . ' - . k m t OHS m arrested in 1801 and it then came apartments in Paris the robber is as- _ _ out his storv was uite trui A surcd of finding a sum of hard cash, treawm 111ml “hem; bliied “magi. the and ‘t 15 Surlmsmg to hear What circumstances described. Unfortu- sums they do find. , The other day a fire broke out in the attic of a house in Paris and amongst the garrets which were Inately the cache had been “rifled, so ithe exâ€"valet’s stock in trade was a myth. He had duped scores of poo _ I ' ple with his story and has immortal- ml‘IP‘Od ",“t Wasn‘one “blamed by _a ized himself in the annals of the po- mll (mans “#11013, HIS despau': lice as the inventor of one of th( bordering on insanlty, on learning most productive forms of fraud v to What had happened was explained by which human cupidity and credulity the fact that he kept in a box in his fall Victims an. , . , mym “What do you sell dried apples for, young man ‘E" -"’Cause I can’t get any other job, vla’am. from {3100 to $1,000. Their modus.