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MIJE51 Y 'E'i?vE'l;l`;\Dl ER __c. UARD5 IQQ Luann n--. .4. g ._ - - -7 Thdnervs con thlt debilitates Eu-ly Indiu- trol ail actions o fthebod them will weaken u40:-_- -- a was was debllitates wiil" "U My `h8tnn weak y. the `system. Euly lnducnhonu andengfn "Kan! or ruined thousands of promising you cm in Dningnp their _v_1gor and vitality anggt 1.135 `It Unnu_. .35 8 man like my tather COUIU III-}`v"t In our way. It would have been a temporary one at worst. I mm tain that the rumor about the Ti .must have reached her. and` that may`, well have been the tlnn: tqq "11`11'H' VYou can't atone for T`h.\'1-` ``;i``. IN a smug little hushinq-uv IQ. Therehas got to be a dxerent .1- of reckoning to this." luu`e-`3 Iurure Wmcn \\\vu:u .. giagueencgened D but for her sweef true and IBut she w:1_.< brave and wouid h d0 not behevc that she mow meaV dealt me this deadlv as . rely because of such a (`heck lnke my father could throw M. in e `' 78}'- `t 0| 6Ag~.,`A_____ ` -1. -4. xx.-gt T rnmn. ICLGIIVC Wllll UUTIIIIIK t'_\L'.`. You mean well. and I thank you. Uncle, he said in low tense tom. But what has passed is not mouth to make peace in this house. W` father hasn t a leg to stand on. and he alone, has driven my (larlmlz to her death. If she did not kill her- self because of his foul slander; she must have done it because of the cruel insults he heaped uPf'" h when he found us together. all`? h" cause of the shame of her li Phyllis was proud and sensitive. 5'7 am I, and I am prouder of nothlnfl so much as that she lied ml 3*` anced wife. W"hen my father cam upon us we had been plrmnmsz W future--a future which would new L_--_ _ _ _,- - I 1 ,. I... `an! 'Pe! %I%l-J O Yvonne had sidled up to him. `He pinched her cheek af fcctirna:e':':. and the family gathering might have ended there and then with the cm- fusion of Mr. V\'ens1a and~IhC withdrawal of his aspcrsions F41 Phyllis. But Dick remained to be reckoned with. He strode fnrwm and stood looking down at his noble 'relative with burning eyes. \7..-_ _.-_,- ___n .L_..1. um. IIVI Q\Jc The` Sl1TpI'iSC ll] I.HI"l .\Ifvll'l\'>l`.`.v';_'V. face, at hearing the lciciice up by his `feeble clizziiipinii. Cl`:. .I`.L';`} to an expression of in~iil<<-_vi light. "Vvhat I tOl(l l\ :l\'ci1~m.r _',\ we came along," he .=:iil. witl a licious glance at his .~`Cm\`llIl _ h.*`='f` er. That my Q'TILCC1C iic;-'mv.- was the innocent calls-3 nf thy ::`:~ chief. In my \'l\\' yml trmtmi `Ti: girlharshly, Chalnner. but if 4"`: wasn t told of your . I i:.3r~ not see that her death lies at i-r=.:.- door. She probably killed h{`7`l because she couldn't see her 'a putting up with life at home w-xii old Phil Vaughan. .\Iixin_i: (lririis for her father would be :1 sari cm:- down after teaching this little .to become a decent member of 4:- ciety. X7 .... _ .. 1..-: -!_ll-1 ,, . 12-. ll. 1 LOCI uvvu, was IICUFU *1) Iilllc; I It was I who fang" hcr 1 Ieave-by C loncrl: uT'1(`I`~`. sed on the r ason '.:i*.xn [H ; she had been too-1) faxnii Dick. She had i9.II'<.`Z1'1_\' 1 house when tht qm-~/tivvn An ing- taken the ring ;iFw~C. it is _a shame to speak -1 he has been spoken uf. If I c her now I should be Khc rs her sof 7"`, nunlu .L n ,J'llD cu In S J A gleam of intelligent interest it- ted across Elisha s face. * Did Mr Wenslade mention. `the grounds for `Ins suspicion? he asked. `kT.-.4. ..IA.....I... I... :..._u.._u ;1;.. 1.. I .kn0wn, for the silence was if:-om the least c.\:;;ccIc I Poor Mrs. Wensladc, zvhg n fore in her husband} pm-\(. ybeen allowed to utter an up Sher own, was heard` t-J mim !' "IL --.-... Y I B tell you whether yome cum - blo We gunnuo curable cue, of own` I DEBIIJTY. VARlcnc:.- 1.....- To be continued.) Toronto pin `JCIIIGIIUUQ \Jl `J W co 7 ' 6| 9 a Late m the evenmg--after dmner,_ at` least. There was a dreadful scene betyveen Dicl_< and father, my. brother taking Phyllis part. 9 A ff`Q7Il'IQ n: I.t\`>oI'rvA44II. labn-4-4 D24. 9`5|\l IIVI I .When did Mr. W'ensdlade rst make these monstrous allegations.?_ demanded Crowe. - ' V T -4... 3 4_L_ ___`_A___ __ __p. _ `I CHAPTER * II.-.-(contained). I, I suppose so, the girl answered. All I know is that early in the after- noon the ring was missed, that while -mother and Phyllis were huntingifor it in the drawing-room, mother was "sent for to the study, and that when she came out she told Phyllis that it was father's orders that she was to- Ieave the house within two hours. Nothing was said by mother about the ring in my hearing and I-do not know what reason was given. Moth- ericried so , it was diicult to under- stand her. i`IIYI_- J` 1 `I 117. I 1 no " " . . " 5..., "' V. `hale Onlers are payable at par at every oice of e Chortei-ed Bank` in_ Canada. , pt in. the Yukon) and at the principal bankin$:oint.s in the United States. They ennegotiable "at $4.90 to the sterling in Great 'ta.in- endlreland. form an excellent method of remitting snnell sums of nioney with safety & at small coat, and my be obtained withoutdeleya ' 1 '4 BAN K M%o"i\TETrA o_ noEns' -mourn A? `rut nnannnunuu pg... _ uuu BIIBUI fioutolooonncoouon $5 nndunot exceeding ` ll gn ll 60- Ann _Iu-vuu cu IIII PULLUWHIII `S u'c`oJOoIooo}ocoo;ooo mg: `l 4_.---.Il__. An` BARBIE BRANCH V H. J. GRASETT. Manager. _7-. T 1 gmunovxr `Bu: ro-:u.a`wIuo mifn; .1`. 4 suuus Luau li'l.UlCl' nas gum: mac." v -' To the man's daughter, Elisha ould, not say yv_hat_ he thought.-_ He 33' always: held vxews U1 3:25 ,.W_1!_ about the Honorable and_ Rever2'd' Chaloner Wenslade, but If he had voiced those that he now held he would have had to use language unt. Yo: pohte prs._ ` I uv n, ,___p;9,__, - ach, crawling to thelbrink- A mo- 0 . I 1,: g'a2 e"at first concentrated on the foot l D V 9 -v in three hundred"feet` below its ` interest_ for Elisha Crowe, and it was in fact Invisible from the , along the downs and turning into the - `rors; Lying upon this strip of her- -!::.;,'2 h:a`_.hatp. cfyes s.udd.e.n1y detect- 9I\I\.o `Far ahead ofvhim, at the extreme end of the-downs, on the -verge `of the headland, was thevglistening white` tower` of a modern. lighthouse, -the. successor of an older one which stood, a battered and deserted ruin, on_ the rocks at the foot of the head- `land, isolated among the breakers and sup-. This latter structure had no` planter. path he was traversing, but he determined, to call at the occupied lighthouse` on the headland and ask the men in charge if they had noticed the girl coming zig-zag down to the beach of the bay. He wasxgrowing nervous and appre- hensive about her-had been doi_ng so he told himself, `ever `since he ted with Yvonne Wenslade. ,'And long before he came -to the lighthouse he had the gravest cause. Between the coastguard track and the . cli` lay not more than two yards of ,- turf, close-cropped by sheep for whom the dizzy height had no ter- ed a hat-'rn--one oi those dangerous implements with which women se- cure their head.-gear; In 9. moment 1 Elisha Crowe was down on-his stom- peering over, his ` ment later he was " of the b'recipice,=where there was no- thing to meet it but- the` sagging waves as they ran a little way up the ' granite wall and then fell idly back. Daub blag`. `an 1AA`-A.` `.44-AA --J - .. -_v- V -yv-------_ ---v vvwvvwvi 5 Wriggling-himself_ away, from the horrid brink, Elisha stood erect agaln on the path, his face all drawn and ha88ard,. and seeming smaller than ever. He was turning, to carry the alarm to the village, when he. -reme'rn- bered the object that had rst"attract- ed his attention--the hat-pin, lying on the short turf, `He stooped and picked it up. his features as he gazed at it working strangely, and. present- ly_hreaking into a gleam ofhope. ` .`-`rLA_ _I.-__1.I _L_ 1-- , you: v 71 up an vp tits. I to I i * In shrinking dread he `scanned the dancing waves at the base of the cliff, but he could make out nothing float- ing there, nor was there any` small craft in sight near e-nough to have .icked anyone up during the last our or two. Not that any effectual- help could have been rendered `had ` there been a boat at hand. A person falling from that termendous height would have _been past human aid long _ before striking the water. ' a II?"-! _,_.I' , I I -C 2 'i'a'{; '::;2J.'{`1{"ioEJ122'& `n`;r`e"r', a'I{&a' thrill of horror shook him so that he `had to clutch the scanty herbage," prone as he was, to save himself from falling down the abyss. . Immediate- lye below him, on a narrow ledge some thirty feet down the erpen- dicularzscarp of the clitf, lay t e blue felt hat which he had noticed Phyllis Vaughamwearing on the previous day, when she returned to her fath- ` er s cottage. HIl',, I'0-_IlM , 0,4 . n.. -A. v- -- vvvvun e" . My God! cried the little man, his great voice scaring the sea-birds from their clefts . and crannies, she has thrown herself over. .s descended to the lower level of the shore by theizig-zag path, returning home by way of the beach of the bay and the village street. Elisha decid-' ed to follow the route which Phyllis had-meant to take, so he struck out along the summit of the plateau, for convenience in walking keeping to ithe.-coastguai-d'track on the seaward side. `IT- - . - v v vs VVGIAIIC ...`.;~r.1_0 cnta `` Qggng ..yua( ua_y. '11 cu, your IJIU-EH6!" UIBKCS no secret of It that he suspects Muss. _Vaughan of stealing a costly rim: which Mrs. Wenslade missed on Tuesday. afternoon. Your nephew Dick has thought t to champion the rl s cause, and calls his father a iar. He cannot remain in the house` unless some sort of reconciliation is atched 'up-according to my in- gormant, Mrs. h:Wenslad`e." A Lord Morgksilvelr Vvrlfse -slowly from t 1.? sweats c, .a,ir,_ oo `ingfgveryv rgrave-. ""`Wl5Y22`%'1:1'.h.c.33`d* . 1.? VV.fZ5 3* ` `Fm? `Rec guru as -_a pcsmencc. 'e discord has arisen about the governess, Captain Vaughan s daugh- ter, replied Raveriscar, watching his lordship unostentatiously from under drooping lids. You already know `that the village in in a ferment be-I cause her hatwas found on the cliff frohtyesterday, and that there is strongxpresumption -that she. threw herself over owing to hersummarj dismissahfrom the Rectory the pre- vi_ous( day. -Well, your brother makes nn~:nno-in A8 35 4-1...; I... ......`..._4_ 'nts__ n `Paid-.I1PCaPital. 00Q0.00Q 1'3Dg"'d'! Reserve Fund, - a;ono,ooo Branches throughout Canada_,__and in the United States and, England l\J 5\vI'II\r\IUa mm which it will be seen that there was no love lost between the peer and his younger brother and heir, who had been presented to the lucrative iamily living shortly be- fore his own accession .to power. The solitary tie between the Priory` and the Rectory was the old noble- man's devotion to his nephew, Dick, and his `niece Yvonne, thelatter be- ing the onlywearer of petticoats, in the wide world whom he did not re- gard as..a` pestilence. WA Inna -_.:-AA- -l A --- " I-IQIPCO`.-{Ill-V.`-ti-4.. _ .. 2' Suddenly, as the quaint chiming clock held up by the eigy of a mail- ved knight struck `ten, adoor at the end of the hall opened and with a scarcely perceptible sigh Lord Monk- silver laid aside his_ paper. "'\7.... n..- ...-.4. ......_... 1.. ....-n.... ...A BIIIKIULII IIICIICIB UUWIL _ ' "Lord Monksilver was, for him, in quite a bad temper this morning. His usually. placid face` took onan ex- pression of annoyance. What has that pompous ass. my brother Cha.-' loner Wenslade. been doing _now P he demanded For a ver, he has `ugngn `n``:.-`. 1;...` A`. `l\:-I- TL- L--- he demanded . "For nver, he has been falling foul of Dick. The bov is worth ve hundred of him", and he shall havemy backing if they are at 10 gevheads." I -41.1: :1. .__:'| L. n`... 4I__A "My. dear lord, no: it is_not the day for the accounts, rephed . the secretary in the tone of the privileg- ed remembrance:-. ``But there is, something worse, I am afraid, which may worry you more than the pass- ing of accounts and signing `of cheques. They are in a state of civil war at the -Rectory. I think that you would be well advised to go over` and use your inuence" t smooth matters down. ' .1 -...1 \l .`..I--.2I-_-__ ...-- '2 ... L2... auvcr Lulu aaluc nu: papcn. You are not going `to worry me with accounts, I hope,` Ravenscar, be said vetulanfly to the tall man with the broad but stooping should- ers [who apprcached the cavernous [leather chair in -which he was loung- ing. `I.. Ann-_ `A-at` unAI :4. 1- and. Lisa 'lCl UIILC 61111113], lllldln It...would have been diicult for any of his `contemporaries of the old army days to identify the once dash- ing subaltern in the white-whiskered, pink-cheeked old nobleman who sat reading the Times before the huge reless grate in the great ,oak-raft- ered entrance-hall. It was Lord Monksilvei- s practice, summer and winter, to devote an hour to the newspaper after breakfast, the only dierence being that in the colder months `there were blazing logs on the hearth. whereas on this August morning there was no re and the '1;y_indow.s were open `to the 901 sea -2234` v-tun-nl...'n.- n--..;.. .. . nu auvcauax uuuqc uy Inc 31:21. 31% was credited with being a woman-hater, not_ only because he ' had never married, but because, i whenever it was` possible, he prefer- red to be served by, men. He em- ployed a male cook, and even the work usually doneby maid.-servants was to a. great extentperformed by. a staff of `valets and footmen. The only being of the opposite_ sex whom hetolerated was his niece Yvonne Wenslade, who could do anything Wshe liked with him. The ruling fac- tor in the household at the Priory was Mr. Carter Ravenscar, the`pri- vate' secretary, who was popularly supposed to have made himself in- dispensable to the .old peer. If it was true, however, that Mr. Raven- scar ruled the establishment, it was done with a silken thread. for in spite ' of a knack of getting his own way he~w'as generally esteemed among V the retainers as ea civil-spoken, con.- siderate gentleman, while to his em- . player he showed`_an affectionate de- . -ference almost lial. ' ___---I.l I___-- L..'._ 1- 1. n Jlvlilll-I]. ll;dLl'UlllVI,|,, . .: v- The Priory was a curious Jumble of ' many periods of .architecture,. the. Elizabethan prevailing. Seen through the partial screen of giant elm_.s, the, long irregular frontage, topped by its jumble ' of fantastic cvhimnips. made an imposing picture. The W111- dows were diamond-paned, except in the modern billiard-room built by the last Viscount, who in the middle of `the last century had been a fav- orite Lord-in-Whiting `at the early. Victorian Court. The present hold- er of the title, now _in his sixtieth year, had served in the Life Guards . in his youth, rumor attributimz to him a military career soiriotous as to have estranged him from his fath- er, the stately courtier. Succeeding to the Viscounty when still quite a- young man, he had at once turned over a new leaf, and had lived a _ quiet bachelor existence, mostly at his ancestral home by the sea. -T-Tb tune l|IIAI`:`-AA ..-.'LL 1...! -, - _ Unnished Sermon. '_ _ . Beacon Audley Priory, the country seat, of, - the fourteenth `Viscount AM'onksilver, stood in solitary grand- eur in _a parkof moderate dimensions that began at the top of the strag- glin main street that ran at the back or t _e downs to the beach of the bay sheltered by_'the headland. It was `separated from the irregular line of humbler dwellings .by the Rectory and the old Norman Church, which formed .a convenient buffer between the feudal home of the Wnslades and the poor neighbors whom they had f_ormerly. ruled with a rod of iron, but 1n these democratic days bene- cently. patronised. ` - i Duchamp anon: on A---:15-AA :----`-`A "I wuculcr suc nau Dccn orutauy turnea `- -;f'~' """" '"" 5'"'" V` """*"' , * out on suspicion of stealing the ring. .. W1` . 5h1`! 511 h3-Ve 3"~`m9Vd,,h" < -When he reached the summit of hat be,f t31 fata}`19D?, he the breezy uplands he looked for" the asked h'.51f "`t`".Y- C3. `t be . object of his quest, _ but _j,,_ pvai,-,_ In that the hat was leftowxth the pin, and front of him the downs, narrowing that the W1? blew it V" *.l.`.'.dE?`- gradually into a promontory, seapzirt 1!` 319,1,` C359 it 3133' ll be 5`.'d, Yb, on both sides,_stretched for a long 5l8,hl.-F I A f` 5-l:-_'l`~ mile to their termination` in the bold `But ight from what? The Phyllis headland known asrDcadman's Castle., Vaughan he `had known and loved To the left the downs were abruptly was not one to run` away rfrom. a" curtailed by a sheer precipice running charge of theft, which must have down four hundred feet into the open been as __false as it was preposterous. sea, which even at high water wasl-1- Nor wouldshe have resortedto a de- ed the base of the mighty cliffs; To ceitful trick _ to foster the" idea.;'tl__1at ' itl_ae_ right the. ground "shelved, less she was dead for the selsh purpose steeply downwards to .a ,'more`-hos-.'o fi saving.-herself temporary incogn-r prtablc shor'e,..whic'h could`-"be reached " venience._ . could understand7t_hat either through the; village whnnee'`h_e`` 31 she mighr;have"killed'gherselfnnderw . d co.me..or.e'.b;r Ta ziz-2,a,g*pa1;Ii'`ut `t-he`shoek-' :1-bier pride,-but flee from :'-the .landyvar side of the-headland`. the feari.` unnierited.*pu'nishrnent-. , Phyllis paugha-n` had] carried n.everl':AAfter~:aljl."the .;sup`posi.'on': was, the intention: she had -,.'%Ij, s`se,q.._;1nore "1'liYf@T`VnV`;Vl,!I__Q!' ` ercifu ` " t.-.. 4% rettif3th=th,ei18tter:t.ewi -have l`u;fh1et:faTlt ` i ' V t6} the ~ villa` with n`ews`~ `of V his dis? covery. `Que .thix :g only `he was sure pf-_-that not till ?he had" probed"the `mystery further would he share with anyone the `alternative theory- that had occur-i-ed to him. ` cAP'rER III; -,- .. - w. 1185.! was on-.tli'1s oc aI_)outT mm. as d!!`lC.`~. -uvr- . c - .......m was or the impish order, [laughed at his own quamt concext. lHe `was well aware that the solemn cleric hated ippancy with a biblical] . . ' Mrs. Wenslade, pale and tremul- ous, was the first to creep into the room, her faded features eloquent 01 a tearful and sleepless night. She "gave a limp hand to her brother-in- law, receiving his half-contemptuous greeting meekly, as though she had no right to expect, anythiniz better. Tlltn Yvonnebounced in, her cust- xomary awe of her father breaking `down under /the protection of _ the uncle who adored her; and nally Dick entered, the embodiment of sullen `wrath and sorrowqcombined. _By reason of his lack of h.euzht; and of his irresponsible `cast of counten'a.nce_. L'or_cl_MMonksilx_zer never cut a. -ver3g.1n1posnng`:zu1-e. hm H-A-- I` `presume that yo_u are not going to.st1r up further stnfe between mv- self and those o'f my family yvith on the ti-oubled waters.. If I could .have.found such a thing as _anI o1ive- branch I would have earned it in- my `mouth as an`,em.-blem_ of my mis- sion/"and` Lord Monksver. whose humor wasuof Jheyimpish order. `gun-J-and -1- uulrcllc to the replace rand rang the bell. To the servant who ap- peared he gave orders for Mrs. Wenslade, Mr. Richard, and Miss Yvonne to be immediately found and informed that his lordship desired to see them. This preliminary car- ried out,' the Rector turned in-itablv toujiis brother.` IVVHI =IVV GU LU U3`? IOIIEUCEV u.` ears. I .~'. "I am obliged to you for conliding` in me, miss, he replied gravely; As soon as I see Miss Vaughan `I shall: tender her my sympath and advice --the latter, of course, or what it is` worth. At any rate; she shall not. `flack a friend who believes in her." You will excuse me now. for the! ` esnnaex-..I complete my presenteuand the sooner I shall see her. ' T ` `L . 1224...! 'AI.- -1-LI_ ._-.. 2.-..` `.2- retgtryi, avoiiiirrigv the Rector s gaze, which was_xed iipon him; with al- most questioning mtentness. The Viscount. assented with la shrug, and passed out through the gdoori which his brother with mock deference was holding open for him. The pair crossed the little hall and went into the pretty chintz-covered drawing-room, at this time in the morning unoccupied. Mr. Wenslade marched to` the replaceand ram: I-lug L-1` _ _ ..r v--I uVVG.Jo I the comma herd ln here. ` "As you _will, rejoined` Lord Monksilver. Coming with us? He turned to Ravenscar, who had re- mained modestly outside the win- dow. - . ' * -If you will excuse me, mylord, as you are going to discuss a strict- ly family matter, I should prefer to remain in the garden unless you in- sist upon my presence," said the sec- retary, avoiding the Rector was x_ed upon him: with al- rnnnl. --A-A`- ,-- ---su. vvuualduc Gated `not present herself In the sacred chamber without a summons from the supreme`o'racle. Mr. Wenslade `rose from his chair, his whole body a protest against the .-sugsiested inwasiom If you don t mind, Charles, we will go into the _-...._,. ... .ucaL:UIl Aualey Rectory was a Holy of Holies into which the younger Wenslades wre never in.- vited, except to be separately and severally chastised by their father's tongue. Even Mrs. lWenslade dared not in Mr \7m....I...I- ~ '- unnw V IHQSC SLFCCL .With Ravenscar at his heels. Lord Monksilver crossed the shady lawn with his curious hopping gait, mak- ing straight for the open French window of the study, through which the Honorable and Reverend Cha- loner W7enslade was seen seated at his pedestal table. Without cere- ...... -. vuavo pan . nun. auu. at-1\~l\g I-H5495` The tall secretary obeyed with alacrity, and the two men salhed forth into the sunlight of the home park. It was a glorious autumn morning, to which the steady whirr of `the reaping machines in the dis- -tant cornelds offered ,2 tting .hymn of praise. A walk of vegminutes brought" Lord Mlonksilver and his companio to the lodge gates,_a.nd then, after traversing the main road for a hundred yards, they turned in- to the churchyard, whence awicket .gate opened into the Rectory grounds. This was a short cut` al- _ways used by the patron of the. liv- ing, the main. entrance to_the Rec- tory being a little farther down the road-, nearer the commencement of the village street. \Lf.'+l-. D..-.-..--, - 7- A\d.'V cuaua-r gcuuy . No; returned Lord Monksilver with decision.- If she killed her- self it must` have beenain preference to living under the same roof with old Phil Vaughan and his devotion [to the bottle. Come, that's a good notion, and ought to make for peace all round. I -ll go across and ham- m_er _1t into these unruly relatives `of mine. Get my hat and stick, please. TLA 4.11 .1 . _ _ L . _ , -, ,1 -A I --I II": ' u That is what `I believe `Dick al- leges, but would that have been an adequate cause for suicide?" saxd Ravenscar gently. .- 1\'r..-av ....o..........: 1--.: 1t....1.;.:1-..... gcuucu. ` ` _ _ _ Appropna'ted? the V1scount re- peated the phrase with a gleam of amusement. ~ You use some .d---d long words, Rav-enscar. - Either she] stole -. the ring or else she didt_1 t. More likely ~Chaloner turned "her out because Master Dick had been gakjfxg sheep's eyes at her, or she at 1m. -A ' I6PlVIl-,. 3 I, . .7 1 ,1- - 15- 1 n I. f`No,>.. ,,ny,g_ord.' :fo1"""th`si1i)1e` p.rea1;;' sonethat`, so far as Irizan gather from .M.i"s. _Wenslade s disjointed_A utter-4 ances, it. was not missed till `after the ter'nIination*of our call. The Rec- tor contends, and professes to have evidence to prove it, that Miss Vaughan appropriated the ring be- fore Mrs. -W;enslade received us in the drawing-ro_om,gand that she_ then went out and joined Dick in the garden. A ` ` A nn-A!:n'LnJ 9, `La `7;nnnInl- urn- uut uu auapwluu U1 stealing me fl. for object quest,.but._in_,vain. the mile Lheadland To downs were four sea, 2.-xthe the_jgrou`nd 2,-steeply ,`more`-hos-.`f-* ,j'p1table shore, which c..ould`- l'ae reached Jeithlcr the; whz:1gpe3:'A'h.e` 7 ,:-thud co,me..o'r;;by .9. zit:-2a`g`path cut.` 3i;'lj't"the landwar of Phyllis? .au`g ha`!n` had . .;_f_a't_her,' , the ' 1_att_er7'- mqiiy. cl the intention: .xt!t,S;43,- . have _ .,, t- ..-9 na\..l\ UI 1181 of Irresponsible cast ntenance, Lord_Monksilver n: very imposing gu`re, but tl on-this occasion a certan dim Lit him. an h9"~`*` _-..L- | ` )ick wanlull hej` "co a certan dignity nfronted his au- __...- yuan III In: able to pour oil watgrs. If I cquld anIo1:ve- carried it emhlm-n n` ---- -`(A v-.s.~n vu Lllb angry protest in with `a sardonic .; U] LIIC U10" [and what the [would have an .,..,_... wmcn ne saw was imminent. "One more question only. What reason was given to` Miss` Vaughan for her dismissal? _W`as she told that she was suspected of having stolen `the ring? or the moment silence prevailed. an.dAwhat the Rem-.-......i rm--~ Wllv ENC Ul.lCb The old man hadhis nger on the` `pulse of most of the arteries of life in Beacon Audley, but he could not nd an answer to`his own question. ..-The first thing to Be done was to get from Phyl'Iis at the earliest moment the reason given to her for her sud- den dism1ssal,'a'nd then he -might be able to read the riddle of the plot of which he was assured that she was the innocent victim. Much depend- ed on whether the motive which he so shrewdly surmised had, actuated Mr. VVlenslade in discharging the girl had` been frankly stated -to her, or whether she had been brutally turned suspicion ring." `Km-Iian I-in o-nanlnasl 6`v|A , aaaa `.24. -1 Dick .n.s .,.. ......., yuu_ must reallv pardon me ii. I doubt his existence, said Lord Monksilver quickly, so as to head `of? another outburst from which" he sa_w U Q Qua`..- .... puuu, rcpuca me Kector with] the an; of one who has made a great sacrice to his sense of honor. I merely ggve the _inspector a hint as to who, in my Judgment, might be exgacted to dispose of the ring. _ uife en.-. Inn as ;l.:.. :. -' -4 uxcx ucgan to muster. `Uut Lord `Monksilver raised h's blue-veined hand. and stayed him with a gesture. Leave it to me, boy, he interposed. Am I to und- erstand that you supplied the police with the evidence which convinced you? he went on-, turning again to his brother. "I did not do so,_ haying p1_-oz_nised I111!` :uu:4\-n-`--L -- A Izilid net so, having prpzpised my mformant not to be exphcxt on that point, replied the Rector with the air nf mm mu- 1...- ...-.a- - i T T 7 -- .n.uqnuuau at VVIULIUIU [U DTUCCCQ no further in the matter. The un- fortunate girl s presumed death left that` as the only right and proper thing to do. I should never have laid the information if the strongest evidence had not been brought to me--evidence which it would have been impossible` to disregard. C;fIA Ivnuo :n:A-..-I __-A_3- ucsn Impossmle to . A (,:,f911d Your mfernal casuis- )try! Dick began to blaster. nil} T no-A ' IIL-...I-.u2l-..... _._,_ _ J u - I nus auua aI.|u.ncu ulcaat. Clearing his throat importantly, he blunderedtowards disaster. `I have withdrawn a, charge which it was most painful to me to bring, he said. I have ,instructed Inspector Pearman at Wroxford to proceed n `liffllho V Gian u-rand-La- TL- --_- LIIGLI L \ll\Jo B The Honorable and Reverend Cha-4 "loner Wenslade looked" exceedingly} uncomfortable. Since he was thei only one who had breathed such a suspicion the diatribecould` only be intended for him, and` he was burn- ing to takeup the challenge. Yet. both-privately and parochially, e was dependent on thehead of the family for many favors. and an open breach was to be avoided. He pro-. ceeded to temporise, and being a dull-witted man did it clumsily, with- out regard to the most potent influ- ence in the electrically-charged at- mosphere, the smouldering rage -in ,h1smson_ s stricken bre_ast~. ihg e: of theft. I won t `have it, say. She no_ more stole the ring: -than I did. `V > K TL- 'r'r---- _LI- _ 1 1-\.'__-_-,_u rn, `aA'r1'L: UV [I5 UVIIIIIIM ; ' Nothing that that child said.ten_d-i ed to prove that Phyllis was dismis- sed for stealing the ring, he mused. "The Rector- s vile aspersions _ may have been `an, afterthought, designed to'coniuse the issue and .cover the real reason. which Iican retty well guess at. But Chaloner` enslade is not a e1eyer.ma.n. If I am right he must have been inspired with the idea after his edict of dismissal. I won-A` der who could have furnished him . . . Wig`! the cue. ' L - -I_l _..-.. I_-.l'I.!- ..._-... -.. L`.- Banaiianationai Exiiiiiiion I W1-its for jSP|'l'H EAD AND AIRSHIP ~ --vuu. 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VUllCI I Bllll DUE llClo mile lifted the cloth `cap from his scanty grey locks and proceeded on` his w.ay,_ his taskhaving gathered en- hanced unportance and a.gr1mmer sagnicance from the _meetu/mg. brows were puckered an thought as he struck into a lane that would lead him away._from the village to the dgyns behmd.` _ "' Nothing Child said tend- His ' I Z WoIdII'fI| Nctvom System '21.` M-Hz. .nz::.E.';`:%`:`:'-.`::'ia:`.`:::',.`*;;,E;c:;3,:::::: W 5 -' "Vf'*`Li'%""'|l.|AII IoVlI OI` l-ll! uuzsrv I`. `you must reallv nllhf "I:a A--:.`L-..-- 0! vusuuxal. IYUHI I\0I|`uu "7' vaued. Chalon er nevgr be -..wu uununo cue. `uz|,tvou}s"i)?D7n'.-I.'rY. vuucosa vamg, BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES. cm-:T.> BLADDER URINARY AND KIDNEY comgums r". n..u.g on Diucawnzsuoffogllen. xx `.....;,1. ,0 QB QUESTION us`: Fax HOME mama 1: :.1;.__A -- -.u- god" ~_,_ I uuuvu vuvuuuuub U1 romlsin -...." Dr-i-MP Vizorlend vim1?:Z:hm- to a proper condition of manhood. Th ey neve e llngl. mentally, physically and sexual} ey remain Are you nervous and weak. despomfgnt v specks before the eyes with dark cir 1 and weak back, ltldneys irritable, palpitaucoes under th bashful, debllxtatlng dreams, sediment in of. on the taco, eyes sunken. hollow cheekn um preulon, poor memory. lifeless, distrustsf` yea and strength, tired mornings. restless D`? nao:4Iucouassoaou N... M um, GUARANTEED Toecukgrectlunl We have treated Diseases t M tllnelll do not have to? expL:a!:'izIfl?:lz.lt.al%o nun auapluluuz uc aancu. .7 ' 'Not clearly; he implied that he had evidence,.which pointed to the truth of his accusation, and he said that he shouilid` have it investigated by the police. I believe that he has driven into Wroxfordnow to consult with them. It is an outrage on` that sweet, innocent girl, and I can only think that father has gone mad. TIA fun ooano-We I`nn.-ul-5.... EI3..L_'