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8 ~in rei se, sin, saiting g dogged insistenée. . E y £0 i os Ta Ober dav Qalninty 4 Tord rom: France. - Seeing him; with 'a from and knowing that he was not narried, the :mesgenger--Captain Raultier by name--did not speak to Ki especially as Mr. Talbot seem- 1 2d rather to avoid recognition. Cap- lain Gaultier thought nothing of he matter until this morning, when + © h@&'virited the Foreign Office on duty ¥ snd 'heard something of the affair. He then saw the Under-Secretary, same gentleman who sent the arl of Fairholme to you, and told ~ him what had happened. The Un- der-Becretary could hardly refuse lo believe such a credible witness, 10 telegrams were despatched to the embassy in Paris and the police at Dover. From Dover came the information that exactly such a couple as described by Captain Gaultier had crossed to France on Tuesday morning; and a few hours later a wire from Paris announced the discovery of the registered - names at the Grand Hotel. The Paris telegram went 6n to say that ~ the gentleman had told the man- ager his luggage was following from the Gare du:Nord, and that his 'wife and himself were going out for half an hour, but would returm In time to dress for dinner. When his traps arrived they were to be taken to his room. No luggage ever 'came, nor was either of the pair seen again; but we will lay hands on them, never fear." | Brett took a hasty stride or two up ahd down the room. '"'So you think," he burst forth at last, '""that Mr. Talbot has not only taken part in some vulgar in- trigue with a woman, but that he has also bolted with the Sultan's diamonds, sacrificing his whole ca- reer .to a momentary impulse and imperilling his neck for the sake of a few gems, which he cannot even convert into money ¥' "Why not? It is not the first time in the history of the world that a man has made a fool of himself over a woman, or even committed a murder in order to steal dia- aonds."' 'My dear Winter, do be reason- able. Where is the market for dia- monds such as these are supposed to be? You know, even better than 1 do, that the slightest attempt to dispose of them at any figure re- motely approaching their value will lead to the immediate detection and arrest of the person rash enough to make the experiment. Don't you see, man, that the Foreign Office and its messenger, its Under-Secre- tary, your Commissioner, and the Embassy officials in Paris have been completely and abjectly fooled -- fooled, too, in a particularly silly 'This { fashion by the-peedless registration' of names at the hotel 9"' "No, I do not see it. One can- not go against facts, but this time the evidence looks so strong that I shall be mightily mistaken if Mr. Talbot does not swing for his share in the matter. Anyhow, 1 have done my duty in letting you know what has happened, so I must be off." 'To arrest somebody, of course 1' cried Brett, with an irritating laugh ; but Mr. Winter was already hurrying down the stairs. The more Brett thought out the complexities of the affair, the more excited he became, and the longer and more rapid were his strides up and down the length of his spacious sitting-room. This was his only out- ward sign of agitation. When think- Ing deeply on any all-absorbing topic, he could not remain still. He felt obliged to cast away physical as well as mental restriction on the play of his imagination, and he would at times pace back and forth during unrecorded hours, in the so- litude of his -apartments, finally awakening to a sense of his sur- roundings by reason of sheer ex- ustion, He was not destined to reach this nate lage on the present occa- i dines 8 pis Smith, Rigor ro 'master's peculiarities , announced the aid" the detective, I x Fl i "are oar Sat "Mr. Talbot] Service when I suce 3 ears ¥' T the Army | En yi We; gr Pd ener fiat he hada 1 trustees made me niversity carcer.| able Sire we the al Jack 'entered . the « Foreign otee That is three years ago; We have séen each: other 'constantly since, and, of course, when I became on- gaged to his sister our friendship became, if anything, stronger." "Nothing could be more admir- ably expressed. Do you know any- thing about his private affairs?' 'Financially, do you mean?' "Well, yes, to begin with." "He got a salary, 1 suppose, from Government, but he has a pri- vate income of some thousands a year." "Then he is not likely to be em- barrassed for money 1' "Most unlikely. He is a parti- cularly steady chap--full of eager- ness to follow a diplomatic career and that sort of thing." 'If you were told that he had bolted with a nondescript young woman, what would you say?' "Say!" vociferated Fairholme springing up from the seat into which he had subsided, "I would tell the man who said so that he was a liar!" 'Exactly. Of course you would. Yet here are all kinds of people-- Foreign Office officials, policemen, and hangers-on of the British Em- bassy in Paris--ready to swear, perhaps to prove, if necessary, that Talbot and some smartly dressed female went to Paris quite openly by the day service yesterday, and even took care to announce osten- tatiously their arrival in the French capital." For a moment the two men faced each other silently, the one amused by the news he was imparting, the other staggered by its seeming ab- surdity. Then Fairholme flung him- self back into his chair. "Look here, Mr. Brett,"' he went on, "if Jack himself stood there and told me that what you have said is true I would hardly believe it."" A note of agony came into his voice, as he added: "Do yqu know what this means to his sister? My God, man, it will kill her!" "It will do nothing of the sort," cried Brett. "Surely you under- stand Miss Talbot better. She will be the first to proclaim to the world what you and I believe, namely, that her brother is innocent, no matter how black appearances may be. I have no knowledge of him save what I have learned within the last few hours, yet I stake my re- putation on the certainty that he is in no way connected with this terrible occurrence save by com- pulsion."' 'If gives one renewed courage to hear you speak so confidently," said the earl, his face lighting with enthusiasm as he looked eagerly at the other, whose earnestness had, for an instant, lifted the veil from features usually calm and impas- sive, betraying the strength of character and masterful purpose that lay beneath the outward mask. "Is there anything else I can tell you?' asked Fairholme. "You are quite sure that his was a nature that could not stoop to a vulgar intrigue 7' gaid Brett. "Remember that in this relation the finest natures are prone to err. From long experience, 1 have learnt to place such slips in quite another category than mere lapses of crim- inality."' 'Of course, any man who knows the world must appreciate your rea- sons fully, but from what I know of Jack I am persuaded the 'thing is quite impossible. Even if it were otherwise, he would never be so mad as to go off when he knew that something very unusual and import- ant was about to occur with refer- ence to a special mission for the snocessful conclusion' of which he had been specially, selected by the Foreign Office." : "Ah ou touch on the , there a happenings of coincidence. Circumsta gs tial Seiderios 'convicts many offenders, and it has hanged innocent man before to- could tell ona very Te: oor fn} a sational ites of on aver, fhe < prospee aot. to insist too Lord, Fairbolme's, pro ive ther-in-law was not 'on sory to a foul murder, Ao hoi a fugitive thief. One new fact was established by the post-mortem examination of; the victims. Considerable violencé' had been used to overcome the struggles of the servant, Hussein. His neck was almost dislocated, and there was a large bruise on his back yu h might have been caused by hy kno of an assailant endeavor- o garrotte him. i were discussing this discov- ery and its possible significance when Smith entered, bearing a lady's visiting-card, which he si- lently handed to his master. Brett read the name inscribed thereon. He merely said, "Show the lady in."" Then he turned to the Earl of Fairholme, electrifying the latter by the words: "Miss »| Edith Talbot is here." An instant later Miss Talbot came into the room. The three men knew that she brought momentous, per- chance direful, intelligence. She was deathly pale. Her eyes were unnaturally brilliant, her mouth set in tense resolution. "Mr. Brett," she said, after a single glance at her lover, "we have received a letter from my brother." "A letter from Jack I" cried Fair- holme. "Well, I never did!" ejaculated Mr. Winter. But Brett only said-- '"Have you brought it with you, Miss Talbot?' "Yes; it is here. My uncle, who was too ill to accompany me, thought you ought to see it at once,"' and she handed a torn en- velope to him. He glanced at the post-mark. "It was posted in Paris last ev- ening,'"' he said, his cool utterance sending a thrill through the listen- ers. 'Is the address written by him 9" he added. "Oh yes. Itis undoubtedly from Jack." ' Here was a woman moulded on the same inscrutable lines as the man whom she faced. Beldom, in- deed, would either of these betray the feelings which agitated them. Then he took out the folded letter. It contained but three lines, and was undated. "My dear Uncle and Sister," it ran. "I am in a position of some difficulty, but am quite safe per- sonally.---Ever yours, Jack." Mr. Winter was the first to re- cover his equanimity. He could not control the note of trumph in his voice. "What do you think of it now, Mr. Brett?' } The barrister ignored him, save for a glance which seemed to ex- press philosophical doubt as to whether Mr, Winter's head con- tained brains or sawdust. "You are quite positive that both letter and envelope are in your brother's handwriting ?" he said. "Absolutely positive.' "There can be no doubt about it, '? chimed in Fairholme, to whom, in response to a gesture, Brett had passed the damning document. "Then this letter simplifies mat- ters considerably,"' said Brett. Miss Talbot looked at him un- flinchingly as she uttered the next question : "Do you mean that it serves to clear my brother from any suspie- ion?' "Most certainly." "I thank you for your words from the bottom of my heart. Some- how, I knew you would say that: Will you please come and help to explain matters to my uncle ? Harr; yon will:come, $00, will you not The sweet, gentle voice, with its ah sad mingling of hope and despair. sounded so pathetic that the petuous peer had some diffieul restraining & wild impulse to cls her to his heart then and 0 Clasp 'Even Mr. inte he ha good; hie og, rmliervi SR. iy Hy hl the! ro Ontario. man going. out ore to make hisway. These let- ters should be ll of i est for every Ontario father. N66 Vancouver, Sept. 21st, 1911. My Dear Dad:-- Here I am at the end of my journey, though not as far west as I intend to go before returning east. It is only four and a half hours by boat from here to Victoria, the capital of the Province, so I shall try and get there for a day or two before starting for home. Uncle John met me at the station when I got in and took me right up to their home in Fairview for breakfast. Aunty and the cousins were there, of course, snd gave me a great welcome. They certain- ly have been good to me, and they have given me the best bedroom in the house, with an outlook over the city to the mountains beyond. I didn't see anything of the Fraser Valley coming here, as we passed through it at night. I am told that it is one of the best parts of the trip, so I shall ar- range to go home by the Toronto Ex- press, which leaves the C. P. R. station here at nine o'clock in the morning and goes through the valley by daylight. By taking this train I shall have seen all the mountains, as what I shall miss on this train I shall have seen coming out on the Imperial Limited. I like Vancouver fine, what I have seen of it. The business portion of the town is well paved and has some fine, solid buildings. It has more prosperous stores for its size than any place I have been in, and fhey have the art of making their windows attractive down to the last word. There are one or two hills and steep streets in the down-town sec- tion, but for the most part it is level. Quite a large portion of the wup-town part is cut off from down-town by False Creek, an arm of the sea which reaches inland for over two miles. At high tide there is twelve feet of water in the creek, which is crossed by three long bridges. At low tide there is practically no water in the creek at all, and the mud flats are exposed, with only puddles of water here and there. The first time I saw it, it looked quite like a harbor, for there were small boats with rafts of logs ly- ing close to the sawmills, which line the banks of False Creek. The mills all have their piles of lumber characteristic cf this lumber country, and all have great furnaces, as big as houses, where the SOUND SLEEP Can Easily be Secured. "Up to 2 years ago,"' a woman writes, "I was in the habit of using | © both tea and coffee regularly. "I found that my health was be- ginning to (ful, strange nervous at- tacks would come suddenly upon me, making me tremble s0 exces- sively that I could not de my work while they lasted ; my sleep left me and I passed long nights in restless discomfort... I was filled with a nervous dread as to the future. ~ 4A friend suggested that pos- sibly tea and coffee were to blame, and T decided to give them up, and in casting about for a hot table bev- "erage, which I felt was an absolute necessity, I was led by good fortune to try Postum. "For more than a year I have 'used it three times a day and ex- pect, so much good has it done me, to continue. its use 'during the rest of my life. Soon after ay ming % the use of Fostuln. 1 a "» my. 2h 'quite a lot as house servants. waste from the mills is burned. Fl arg constantly leaping out of the open tops of these furnaces, which are fed from a sort of spout which projects over them. There is a constant stream cf splinters and lath-like pieces of wood fal. ling from the spout to' feed the flames. To the south of Vancouver on guité a hill are the residential-districts known as Grandview, Fairview, and Shaughnessy Heights. From the latter place you get a magnificent view all over Vancouver, and beyond Burrard Inlet, the harbor, to North Vancouver and the mountains. We have heard of the Yellow Peril in the East, and you realize what is meant by it when you get to Vancouver, where there are 11,000 Asiatics out of a total po- pulation of 110,000. Chinamen are here in great numbers. They are employed Often when going through a good residential district, I have seen a Chinaman come out of the kitchen door om to the side verandah, busy on some domestic duty. They go about, some of them. as char women do in the East, and they get 62 a day for such work. They are liked better than the Japanese, as they seem to be better workers. The Jap boy knows the minimum work he can do and the maximum wage he can get, so they say. The Chinese are great market gardeners, too, and all the vegetable peddlers I have seen out here have been Chinese. Bome of them are very well off, and own fine horses and waggons, while there are many who carry their goods in baskets swung one at each end of a bamboo pole, just as you see in pictures of Chinese coolies. Of course there are mer- chant Chinese here who are very well off. Uncle John took me to dinner with one of them who goes home to China every year. He came to Vancouver twenty- eight years ago, and was herc when ths place was called Gastown. He has taken advantage of his opportunities, and must be worth a great amount. Another section of the .yellow peril is formed by our fellow subjects the Hin- doos. These you see everywhere, and they are easily distinguishable by their turbans, which are of all colors, some pink, some red, some white, some yel- low--I don't know what color I have not seen. There were ten of these chaps in the trolley coming home from New West. minster yesterday. They seemed quite at home and were laughing and jabber ing away among themselves the whole way back to Vancouver. I am told that the different colored turbans indicate dif: ferent castes, and that the men work for the most part in the saw mills, They are' very swarthy, and for the most part are black-bearded men. Coming home from New Westminster 1 saw something that would surprise any- one from the East. Passing Hastings townsite, I saw the way they clear the land hers when they are in a hurry. They have a powerful donkey engine, and by a system of pulleys they hitch: cables to the trees as they stand and drag them holus-bolus. to a pile nthe centre of the | "epot they are clearing. If the treo {st large it is cut into logs, and the logs hauled on to the pile. I saw some two to three feet through. Some of piles are forty to fifty feet high. h the pile is as high as they are going make it they start another, and so all the timber into piles. These piles then get on fire. There was one of piles on Shaughnessy heights, only a blocks from Uncle John's house, and was set on fire one night." The speot. was immense. The flames In a solid she leaped about forty feet into the air, the glare Momidé the whole district - Good-bye for the present, oa JIM, 1 Nt P. 8.~1 have opened this to explain tha I have carried this letter around in pocket for a week. 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