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CHAPTER XXIX.~(Conti tinued), Lady gripped her by Lae Shi nelt, be i rhs shouldete ol in 'atk glow which refl that in them. XPre on. sure, are you eure?' ghe pant- | my "Can you--oan you re: him--reach '= She caught her breath, "Can you make him euffer--throngh her? What am I od What could we do? And i No, no, let him go--! An irl--a common girl!" igtorted face twisted 1 a low, harsh laugh, ded two or three times with an expression of vindictive triumph. Can I not, dedrie?'" she hissed, "You shall See. Al And VE, you shall be eatis- calm; miceio; pos- fed, your Tl in Datfence. You will not have long to wait. Sara promises you that--Sara, who nureed you on her bosom, Bara who knows how to strike when her beloved one is hurt, vos wounded to the But Lady Edith scarcely heeded Be, Sain Bh' scavecly : heeded or into a CHAPTER XXX. Clive did not ¥o round to Grosvenor Bquare that night; for he felt that he could Bot meet ly Edith, and S187 his past } in what had become a 'tragedy, with ina's voice still ringing in his ears, th remembrance of her tears, touch her hand, eo keen and vivid, He worked at his office up to a very late hour, and, of course, got very little sleep during what remained of the night, or, rather, the early mornin He wae at his office again a little after ten, and looked so fagged and wan his secretary was moved to remonstra "You're rushing on to a breakdown, Mr. Harvey," he sa "I know the signs very well; I saw them in Mr. Mervyn" --Mr. , Mozy n was a former Home Sec! --"he looked as en to any of us when" we warned him; ut | he had to cave in: he had a very b ze ive laughed 3 indiferenty, 1 an stronger than I look, my dear fellow," 5s said; "but thank yo all the same. I'l knock off for a bit when Xe got through this present batch of work he secretary had with his pile ot letters when Lord Ches- he enfered Na Asnnounced} and the moment he 0 he room Clive eaw that some- was the matter, ith?" he said, apprehensively, how it's Edith," responded Lord torleigh. "She is mot well--thers is no cause for alarm, my doap Olive--she was taken .ill last hight. I sent for Bir An- w as soon ae I oould this morning; and ho said that ehe wae suffering from some strain, that it was a kind of nervous col- lapse, and that she sh remain qulet, and see no one. He added that she ought to go out of town, up North somewhere; and Edith took it into her head to start for Beotland." 'To Bcotland!" echoed Clive. "Do you mean that she is already gone?" "Yeq,' replied Lord Cheaterloigh grave- . "Bhe ineisted upon going at once;*she would not let me send for you or even Jet you know. I have just taken her to the station." Clive rose, and paced up and down yith a troubled air at the mass of work on his table. "It is impoesible for me to go to her," hs gaid. "8he knows that," Tord Chesterleigh said ouickly; "and €he Joes ¥ Dot, wish you to. Don't be hurt, my boy. Andrew thinks it would be Betion Tor ner to be quite alone for a. little while." paused a. moment. "You know Tdith She ho ~ig different from most girls. 1 was going to say that ehe is peculiar; but that {8 not the word. You know how highlv. strung she is, how sensitive, and, for all her apparent oalmness and wself- poseegsion. how easily and deenly she is moved. The strain at the election, poor Doloh"s death, the postponement of the wedding--they have, to use a common but expreésive phrase, gol on her nerves. Bhe hae gone to our shooting box--it js some- thing more than a box--at Talnymulir, and there she will he quiet, absolutely quiet, and well looked after. "She will have Sara with her, ed Clive thoughtfully. "No; she has not taken Sara; for some reason or ® othor she did not wish to have her; but she has taken her maid, who ie almost, as devo to her se Sara is. There is nothing to be alarmed about; or, of course, I should not have let her go, or thould have gone with her. As it is, shall run up 26 soon as I can get away.' He was Foreign Secretary again, ot course. He sighed. 'One hears a great deal ahout 'the sweets of office,' and we fellows who are 'in' are envied hy thoee who know nothing about it." He look at the table laden with papers and let- ters. 'Here are we two slaving as City clerks never have slaved; and all the thanks we shall get at the end of our term will be vituperation and abuse. Even at thie moment I know that I must not keep you; and, indeed, I must go back to my own en," "Tl write Ey Edith at once," said Clive in a low vo Cnestarioigh turned, with his hand upon the "Yes, do. But don't be alarmed or mnrried TW she should not re- ply quickly; for she told me, juet as the train started, that Sie i Be said che was not to write letters or worry about anything Clive died; and sat down to his work again, distressed by Edith's ill- ness; but, with a sense of guilt and shame, he was conscious of a feeling of relief. He wrote 10 her: but, he tore up the begin ning of two letters; and he knew at the third which he finished was, for all his protestations of grief at her jiinece and their parting, cold and forced. reply came to this letter, but on the th rd fiay-le was dining at Grosvenor Square rd Cheorlonl told him that he had had a letter from Edith. She 'was better; she would write to Olive Dresentlys and he was on no accoun Bnd Chesterlcigh ahd he epent a quiet hour or two, live star! for ihe ouee, 10 mc esing through the {os Sara. en! oH aside to let him ae, as usual, oh 'salasamed Ehoion undly. " murmur- Ad te Yon "that your mistress is |- ' he said. a her eyes, almost hidden by 1ken shawl, and -gaid, in - her | "Garni voice: t a cabman she is better, sahib; she wil he i in es; uite well goon-if eho ia left quite "he Sahib kno at, and will not go eyes with an | ou look, and he wouldn't' scarcely gone off | oon . | most to himself. f what?--and it <5 ie Jo eo! to 4 utd a band on Hibhya You th hink 4 I have 9 Spirited M Mina away. Tibby?" he know LE that Tr le a, done io eo, not know where she Be calm, rivhy --it's easy to give ys 1 myself could give way, but we must not do so; jor we want all 'our wits, al pour courage. « She had aken his h er shoulders ble ale. Ri obo ed hig come mand, and had is eyes; and she knew that fo cin oo ie e truth. Her lips quivered, and her eyes" fill with te. ears, but she da them away fiercely 2 Where "she, then?" ahe , demanded. "I'm ehtenad out o' my lif She wae shaking violently. live gently forced her into a chair, poured out some in 8, and insisted, with a gesture, er nkin "Now. tell" me everything," he said. "Mindl Everything." Gulpin down a sob and straggling for her wor buy said: 'She ----r aw this _arternoon.™ was alone {here father had after a place in a band, and faovary. When I got home to on she'd gone. She had left a letter for me |. --1'gaw_at once it was a ot, though fe deceived her, For why? because she'd go to the end of the earth if she thought you were in trouble, and wanted her. "In: rounles Wanted her!" Clive oried. the note, Ti bby the Totet-AT, don't eay at you've not hrou » BIT. . h," Tibby it. Jsnge h ulties oF "I've brought it right eno eaid chokingly, ae she produ CHAPTER XXXI. Clive almost snatched the note from Tibby's hand. It was written on half a sheet of notepaper, and consisted only of a few lines. He read them aloud through ad | his clenched teeth: "Mr, Harvey has met with an ull and is badly hurt. He has sent for me and I must go--you know I must go, Tib- by! I am eo afraid, in such dread, that I can scarcely write. a8 gible, or send for Oh, | t Tibby, if Pe tori be badly Te dying! Olive folded the note, and put it in his waistooat pocket near his heart "I did not send for her," I will Some | back a8 --with what motive?" "I knew you wasn't hurt." "You wouldn't have sent for her frightened her if you had been; but thought, it was a plant to get her to come to ¥ Ofive began to pace up and down the room; but he knew that he must remain absolutely calm, -and he eat down again, "And you came to me at once, Tibby? Quite right! Don't be frightened. She cannot be in any danger: how can ehe? It ig wome foolish trick, some practical joke," But even ae he spoke he knew that the explanation was a feeble one. "Is it possible to find out how ghe got the supposed message from me?" "A ieseetiger boy brought TZ replied Tibby gharply "ot course, sked the landlady and Amelia Sil] the elavey. A messenger boy came with it. He muet have brought a letter; but if he did, she took it with her." Clive stified a groan. "If she had only left it, if ehe had only said in her note where she Jie going!" he said. "Is there no other clue? Think, think! Every lit tle thing, any little ineident, that may be connected however indirectiy--have you noticed any strangers about the Rents? by made an impatient Festure: "There's, always etrangers going. out; an' I don't take no notice of 'em. Why ghould I?' She was silent a mo- ment, then she looked up with an acute expression on her shrewd face, 'Stop! There wae that man, that dirty = furrin chap that helped to bash you at the 'all that 'night--1 saw him crossing the arch- way--why, it was the day I met you, and let you go to Mina." '"Koehki!" eaid Olive, "Yes," assented Tibby., "An' come to speaking of furriners, there was a kind of Italian woman or a Indian, an old wo- man wrapped up, in shawls like, with gold ear-rings; ve seen her once or twice, and I saw her walking on the other side of the road to Koshki; but they did- n 't speak to each other." ara!" murmured Clive inaudibly. The introduction of Bara into the affair only setved to complicate and intensify the myatery. And yet--could it be pos- sible that ehe wae concerned in the ab- duction? Abduction! To the generality of people the word would an extravagant one, said Tibby. and have sound: one savoring of melodrama and the far-fetched; but Olive knew enough of the dark side 'of London life to be aware that not only abduction but murder itself was often committed, and that in some cases neither the crime nor. the criminals were disclosed. Men and women disappeared almost daily and were never discovered, Sometimes a body was found floating down towards the mouth of the Rhames or lying under a hedgerow in a remote country place. Sometimes one of the quiet and innocent- looking foreign barques which sailed from the port of London carried a drugge: man, hidden away under the hatches. All large cities have their dark and hidden crimes; and no city has such mysterious slums, such infernos of vice, euch dens of infamy, as ndon. His heart sank with fear, and yet it throbbed with a sense of fury; but he maintained a show of composure; for Tibby's eyes were on him, full of pathetic anxiety and @ nameless terror. "We will go down to the Rents," he sald. on me one may have seen some- thing. We may obtain some clue." They went down in a cab, and while Tibby ran upetaire in the vain hope of findin clits. Bo rls hopelessly, He at the archway, and half a dozen Neto larking" round it 'and chafing the me boy, older than the rest, stad) dent, and the cabman flic lm Ah tho wh ip, and said severely: a decent oab ns : he eaid, al- |" "Who can have done it on again; Jo asked, 1 | answered. Ten that furlghi and on! Er rr and at Ts es and a well, ike 1 might ath," he ald dertsively, He took a ul ng mixture, 14. Clive wa Wa fied + ida 2 Train on fire pavely: elf toy UNS geth a, toon 'where Sor ool Ta? t youn lady. b i Tan | me ala; 2 left, aE fare. I ere, 'and you oan drive away as if she > Business no further ooncerned you. and you'll find yourself in Or le The man eireished 1 his 8 Drows, and shook himeelf ae if with ao tiraw off the fumes of Nar a port carefully folded it, a **ianped n ooh ane he note, ue it in his it x dant think there was bout i dd. ut I drives you to tio! lace, and I drives "orf no questions "That's atraight," said Clive. "I'll be ready in less (Jha, one minnte, He ran up by's room, 'white and breathless. "I have Jound, out where they have tak en her, Tibby!' he eaid. "No; I wait to tell Lai There's Bera ld lose. Remain here. ko bring her hack = you, please ot into the. Ty) 24 a redid gn and told him to They went eastward. To Cli ed interminable; and To he lower and lower as By the man Je quickly, y ar east. (To be continued.) wm---- Sota : SIR JOSEPH POPE. Canada's Debt to Him So Great It Is Difficult to Measure It. Among the civil servants*of the Dominion there is only one who bears the title of Knight. That one is Bir Joseph Pope, Under Secre- tary of State for External Affairs. Nor does he flaunt his title in the face of the public. Look up his de- partment in the telephone directory of Ottawa and you will find™ him down as plain "Joseph Pope." But just as a matter of simple historic fact, he does occupy this unique position, and he does not pecupy ib without justification. He is Knight Commander of the Order of 8t. Michael and St. George for the ed | Very good reason that he has been able in a number of instances to perform outstanding services for the Dominion, and he has been- to perform these outstanding ser- vices" because he possessed qualifi- cations which are exceedingly rare on this side of the Atlantic, i The central fact of these special qualifications is a wide knowledge d | of the "savoir faire" of official life. He knows how to do things." He knows his way around Government offices, and he knows his way around royal courts. He is an an- thority on the etiquette of official and court circles--a branch of knowledge which is highly useful even in our democratic community. Of course, he did not pick this up| in a day. He had a long appren- ae | ticeship under that master of state- craft and of the craft of managing men, Sir John A. Macdonald. The first occasion on which Bir ower | Joseph was chosen to iret ine Canadian Government in the uivaion of guests of State 'was in Vi Y 1g |bunal, He accompanied Hon &| number of big diplomatic «i He was attached to the staff of the British. agent in the Behring Sea arbitration of 1893; and had a part in securing protection for the inter- WIth | este of Canadian sealers. - was agent of the Canadian Government in the Joint High Commission' which sat in Quebec and. Washing- ton during the early years of the Administration of Sir Wilfrid 1 | Laurier. He was associate secre- |tary of the Alaskan Boundary y 3 dolphe Lemiéux on his : mission to to | Japan, which resulted in the Jimita- tion of Japanese immigration to the Dominion. And just two years ago, he again represented Canada in the international conference on pelagic sealing, which advanced the work begun in the Behring Sea ar- bitration. This bare catalogue of some of the salient*hational affairs in which he has played a part is in itself an advertisement that there is a hin- terland in "Joe" Pope's life which must supply explanation. And as- suredly the 'present Under Becre- Sir Joseph Pope. comes from a vigorous stock, He is a native of Prince Edward Island, where he was born on August 186, 1854. His father was the Hon, Wil. liam' Henry Pope, who was one of is. uncle, Hon. J. C. Pops, was Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Cabinet of Bir John, Macdonald. minion service in 1878, and was.for a few years a clerk and private secretary to his uncle. Then he entered the service of Sir John, and made for himself a name as the pri- vate secretary par excellence in the history of Canadian Government. For a time after Bir John's death he remained in the Privy Council 'office, but in 1896 was made perma- nent head of the department of the Secretary of State. Here he had controy 'of such widely different functions of Government os the management of the printing bur- the issue of charters to com- ,| mend up the rg: tary of State for External Affairs 1 Yd Fathers of Confederation, and Pope the younger came into the Do- | jn 3 ea move ip, bo perfectly that hardly a scar remains, seems _ to him to 1 'require almes} superhu And there is no doubt but that a big operation call highest qualities Jan passes | ses. Even in the toy perfectly appoin operating thea- tres of a great hospital, with every possible aid at hand that. ern dcience commands, the task is severe one. Yet often 'and often He Fons is called upon to perform: opele tions without any such aids, and then the ordeal may be almost as severe for doctor as it is for pa- tient. For instance, in a railway acci- dent.' One raw 'winter morning; two years ago, a passenger aight ing in a hurry from a train at the little station of Earlestown, near Warrington, slipped. and fell between the still moving train and the platform. « . A doctor, summoned in haste, found that the only possible meth: od of extricating the unfortunate man was to amputate one of his egs. Instruments were 'fetched, -and as it was not yet daylight, a ring of porters etood round with station lanterns; while other = persons struck matches to assist the sur-| geon. : What made the horrible business tor of Sir John A. Macdonald are a permanent part of the life of Can- ada.--Francis Carman in Toronto Star Weekly. for Re very | ba pla » In February, 1911, a sim pecursed at the West. 'pital, but h he is. The 'man of Tew kesps them busy. It is pleasant to have a square man round. : It is becoming orthodon to op-. pose orthodoxy. Remember the fate 'of the steak! 'that is tough--it is made into hasha mmr Mn 4 Her Long Suit. 'Mrs: Jinks gays she never oan tell what any of the neighbors will. do next."' "Well, she loses no time Sn m tell. ing what they did last."' That's What They "Have you ever noticed thing about blunt people ¥* © "What is that?" "They are the oné¥ wha gen } ly come to the point." ' More than a wajeh "dog is abode ed to keep the w. fom the door. "A Pasre |meFEDawevG No Waste 7 Mase Home BRIGHTER IGHTER. No Dust HAMILTON, CANADA No Rust