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beordt he expert chemists, and. ) preparations, corny nded by y aranteed by the larges wholesale anada, abox. If'y Figg t, send us Soc! and wewill hd EMIGAL co. of i RR QUA OR, THE HOUSE IN THE your dt it hag not otiabox.. yoiE RTERS ; RUE BARBETTE CHAPTER VI. 4 The sight of Talbot's letter seem- i od to fire Brett's imagination. He i radiated electric energy. Both 2# Lord Fairholme and Miss Talbot 7 felt that in his presence all doubts ~ vanished. They realized, without "i knowledge why, that this man of © power, this human dynamo, would "+ quickly dispel the clouds which now . rendered the outlook so forbidding. ~ For the moment, heedless of their presence, he began to pace the room in the strenuous concentra- tion of his thoughts. Once he halt- ed in front of the small bust of Ed- ! gar Allan Poe," whose pedestal still imprisoned the two cuttings of a ' newspaper which formed the bar- " rister's first links with the tra- © gedy. His ideas suddenly reverted . to the paragraph describing the ef- forts of the Porte to obtain from the French Government the extra- dition of a fugitive relative of the * Bultan. At that instant, too, a tiny clock on the mantelpiece chimed forth the hour of eight. 'That settles it,"' said Brett aloud. "SBmith,"' he vociferated. © And Smith appeared. "Pack up sufficient belongings for a short trip to the Continent. Don't forget a rug and a great-coat. Have the portmanteau on a cab at the door within three minutes." "I am sorry, Miss Talbot," he ' continued, with his charming smile - and a manner as free from perplex- ity as if he was announcing a for- mal visit to his grandmother. 'I have just decided to go to Paris at once. The train leaves Victoria at 8.15. Lord Fairholme will take you home, and you will both, I am sure, be able to convince Sir Hubert thas to yield too greatly to anxiety just now is to suffer needless pain." He rattled on so pleasantly that Edith, absorbed by the agony of her brother's disappearance and possible disgrace, could not conceal an expression of blank amazement at his levity. Brett instantly became apologe- tio. ' "Pray forgive my (apparent flip: pancy, Miss Talbot," he gaid. "I am really in earnest. I believe that a flying visit to Paris just now must unquestionably advance us 'an im- portant stage in this inquiry. ' Let me explain 'exactly what I mean. Here is a letter from your brother, in handwriting which you "and others best qualified to judge de- clare to be undeniably his. It also bears post-marks which would de- monstrate to a court of law that it vas posted in Paris last night and received here to-day. ' But it does not follow that it was written 'a Paris; it might have been written anywhere. Now, according to the police, there is no entry in the visi- tors' book at the Grand Hotel which appears to prove that your brother wrote his name therein on Tuesday night. If the handwriting in the Grand Hotel register corresponds beyond all doubt with that in this r and envelope, then your bro- ther must be in Paris. If it does not, he is not there. I am convinced that the.lgtter hypothesis is cor- rect, but to make doubly sure I will 80 and see with my own eyes. There now--I owed you .an explanation; and I have barely time to catch my train. Good-bye. I will wire you in the morning.'" He placed the mysterious letter in his notebook, gave them a partiag smile, and was gone. He managed to catch the 8.18, which started punctually, the sole remnant of railway virtue possessed by the Chatham and South Fast- ern line, A restful porter, quicken- ed into active life by a half-crown tip, found him a vacant seat in a first-class smoking carriage, and Brett's hasty glance round the compartment revealed that his tra- velling companions, as far as Do- ver, at any rate, were severely ro- spectable Britons bound for the Riviera. The harbor station at Dover wore its unusual aspect of dejected mis- ery. A stiff breeze had brought up a Cuticura Soap and Oinf ment Entirely Cured Him of Itch "I just want and Ointment. Four or Arthi ur, and I had an attack tosaya word for Cuticura Soap ve years the i was an intolerable nuisance, thankful 'that there is tried 'it. 'About three : 3 358 ATR 1 £ ils 4 avy BSI 8 a y 4 '1,al who had propped hi Nikhead - | and when they separated with 4 . Tetain ed "his "seat long . backs 2b éstablish a proprietory right 't! fi erein, Brett rose' and made a short tour of the shi; To. dis: guish any oné:on "dl was al: 'ablé shapes, and th light sufficient to's | progress over the -. thand-baggage. So i dived down the compa cannoned against a burl di f against ead on the main deck 24. n. i something hard © in the man's pockets gave Brétt a sharp fat rg tual apologies, he laugh "Handcuffs!"" he . dmurmu ""Seotland Yard is always prep for emergencies. I will wages a considerable sum that as' as Winters reached headquarters his story about the letter cansed a tele- gram to be dispatched; to; Dover Here's a detective SOV 8% Paris and prep: to, manacle Talbot tl moment, eh at a fear- tul and wonderful thing is the Eng- lish police system. A cfinie, obvi- ously clever in its. condeption and treatment, can be handled by a sharp policeman wearing regula-| tion boots and armed With hand: cuffs. Really. I must have a rink,"' § 4 Clinging to the hand-rails and executing some crude bit effective balancing feats, he reached the din- ing saloon. Near the bar, solemnly digesting a liqueur, stood a man to whom the choppy sea evidently gave no concern. He had the square shoul- ders, neat-fitting clothes and closely clipped appearance at the back of the neck which mark the British officer ; but he also stood square on silently. } ame to recognize M i ell, for one thing, A FINE NIGHT-CAP, (The Best Thing in the World to go "77 'to Bed and Sleep on. "My 'wife and I find that 4 tea- 'spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts and a cup of 'hot milk, or some cream, with it, makes the finest night-cap in the world," 'says an Alleghany, Pa., man. i A "We go to slecp as soon as we strike' the bed, "and slumber like bableh till rising' time in the morn- ng. ; : 'It is about 3 years now since we began to use Grape-Nuts food. and we always have it for breakfast and before retiring and sometimes for lunch. I was so sick from what the doctors called acute indigestion and brain fag before I began to use Grape-Nuts that I could neither eat, sleep nor work with any com- his feet and swayed with unconsei- fort oud ease whether the vessel pitched or rolled or executed: the combined movement. "Now, I wonder," said Brett, "if that is Captain Gaultier. He must be. Gaultier, from his name, should be a Jersey man, hence his facility in foreign languages and his employment as a Foreign Office messenger. It's worth trying. I will make the experiment.' He reached the bar and ordered a whiskey and soda. Turning af- fably to the stranger, he remarked : 'Nasty night, isn't it? I hope we shan't be much behind time.' The stranger glanced at him with sharp and inquisitive eyes, but the glance evidently reassured him, for he replied quite pleasantly : 'Oh, no. A matter of a few min- utes, perhaps. They usually man- age to make up any delay after we leave Calais.' ""That's good," said Brett, "be- cause I want to be in Paris at the earliest possible moment." The other man smiled. 'We are due there at 5.38," he said. "Rather an early hour for business, isn't it?' "Well, yes," assented the bar- rister, stances, but as my only business in Paris is to examine an hotel re- gister and then get something to eat before I return, I do not wish to waste time unnecessarily on the road." ; The other man nodded affably, but gave no sign of further inter. est. "80," communed Brett, 'if it be Gaultier, he has not heard the lat- est developments. I must try a frontal attack." 'Does your name happen to be Gaultier I" he went on. The stranger arrested his Haueur glass in-the final tilt. : ] "It does."' he said: "but I dol" pleasure of not think I have the knowing you." No." said Brett, "you haven't."" "Well 1' -gaid the other man. [ "The fact is)" said Brett. "I]. 'heard vou had been: in London. guessed from your annearance thik you might be 'a Kina's messenger, and it was just: nossible that thel Captain Gaultier in whom I was in= | terested might start back to the 0. 'I was afflicted at the same time with the most intense pains, accom- panied by a racking headache and backache, every time I tried to eat anything. Notwithstanding an. un- usual pressure from my proféssion- al duties, I was compelled for a time to give up my work altogether. "Then I put myself on a diet of Grape-Nuts and cream alone, with an occasional cup of Postum as a runner-up, and sometimes a little dry toast. I assure you that in less than a week I felt like a new man; I had gained six pounds in weight, could sleep well and think well. "The good work went on, and 1 was soon ready to return to busi- ness, and have been hard at it, and enjoying it ever since. "Command me at any time any one enquires as to the merits of Grape-Nuts. You will find me al- ways ready to testify." Name Read the little book, 'The Read to Wellville,"" in pkgs. There's a reason.'"' Ever read the above letter? A new one aonears from time to time. They are genuine, true and full of human interest. given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, ) Mich Reilroad Bonds te en AE thoughtful reply, 'I knew his over- coat. I often met Talbot in the Foreign Office, and one day he drove me to his club wearing a very hand- some coat lined with _astrachan. It struck me as a peculiarly comfor- table and well-fitting one," and al- though there are plenty of men about town who may possess astta- chan coats, it is a redsonable fs sumption that this was the identi- cal garment when it happened to be worn by the man himself." 'Then you are quite certain it was Talbot?! went on the barris- ter. i 'Quite certain.'" : "Would you swear it was he, though his life depended on your--'* 'No, no," interrupted the other. 'I rather had a good look at his coat--and the lady." Who ever the man was, he appeared to be wrap- 'to be J Bonds to yield 5 per cent. 11:30 per cent. |ipt] Public Utility: Bonds to yield 5 per Roni] * Proven Industrial Bonds to vield 5% ees per cent: to 6 per cent. a : i ped ip in both of them, and certainly did not court observatio I naturally thought that the femigs ine attachment accounted for thi ang: for the same reason, I did n even geek to scrutinize him 'closely.' To: put the thing in ah shell, I'saw a man whom I belioved k: Talbot~~and who ce. ed so particularly as to be able 0 describe it to my tailor when or dering a similar one. Add to that "appearance of an attractive lady; young and unknown, and you - have my soul laid bare to the matter." 'Thank you," said Brett. much obliged.'" (To be continued.) you in "THE BEST HOME PRESERVES" These are made by rightly combining lusctous fresh fruits with EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR * The best results are then assured. Ask your grocer for Redpath Extra Granulated Sugar. He knows then that you want the best. The Canada Sugar Refining Co., Limited, Montreal Established in 1884 by John Redpath. "under ordinary circum-|. Your Photograph May o for Farmers