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I % ^ 1 11 D' UI ) OR. THE HERITAGE OF MADAME YALTA. Doomed to Sufferios RESCUES BY "nUir-i-TIVES" CHAPTER VIU.-(Cont'd) "Perhaps. But I doubt whether my uncle will let us see her." "I have foreseen that, and made arrangennnts for an interview with ycur cousin. I have written her that I was in ppssession of the en- tire proof of M. de Carnoel's in- nocence, and begged her to come immediately by the little door on the Avenue de Friedland. After a brief inter/iew, I will return with her myself to her father, and he must receive us." Maxime would have had more than one objection to urge, but it was now too late. He knew Alice; he kuew that she would catch at this last hope, would find means of escape and hasten to the stranger who promised to restore to her the betrothed of her heart. He was roused from these reflections by the sound cf a light step approaching through the shrubbery. Madame Yalta, absorbed in her reflections, soemed to hear nothing. Soon a white hand put aside the leaves, a> head appeared between two ca- luelia bushes, and Maxime rose, uttering a cry of surprise. He had recognized a face which shone an instant like a ray of sanlight, to be eclipsed almost immediately. "She '." he exclaimed. "What do you mean?" asked the countess, raising her head. "The woman of the Rink â€" the woman who delivered Carnoel!" Madame Yalta started. Evi- dently she was cot expecting this visit, and found it inopportune. But she soon recovered herself, and called: "Justine!" The branches were put aside again, and the brunette with the golden complexion reappeared. She was beautiful as ever but had ciianged her toilette. The skater of the Rink, the elegant lady of the opera was modestly clad as became a lady-in-waiting. The butterfly had returned to a chrysalis. This enigmatical creature came forward driiberately and appeared not at all surprised at seeing Max- ime, who, on his part, looked at b'r in stupefaction. "What is the matter?" inquired Madame Yalta. "The person whom Madame the Countess was expecting has just arrived." "Where have you taken her " "Into Madame the Countess' bcudoir." "Villagos has not yet arrived?" "Not yet; but a box has be^n br(>ught from him. Madame the C't unless will find it on the lacquer table in her sleeping chamber." "Very well. Leave us." Justine bowed and went out quickly. "This girl has just informed me that Mile. Dorgeres is here," said the countess. "Do you wish to see her/" "But â€" I do not know whether I ought," stammered the cousin. "Yes. Better that you should be presv nt at our interview. Come." "But-" "What?" "The brunette â€" the accomplice of th-i thievesâ€" she whom you call Instiue â€" " "Is my femme do chambre," re- plied the countess, quietly. "Come, tht moments are precious." Asd cutting short any further ^Uplanations, she I'.se to leave the _.r«^servatory. Maxime followed without a word. He was in a state of extreme agitation. -i'.Her femme de chambre," ho tbcugHt. "The creature who pilfer- ed me of the bracelet is in her ser- viceâ€" like the gardenerâ€" like the feacing-masterâ€" and she has given me to understand that all this pret- ty set of people took part in the tLeft of the safe. Am I to suppose that the orders came from her!" They crossed, without exchang- jt.g a word, a corner of the park, n.teting with no one, and arrived before a door of the cottage that was unfamiliar to Maxime. The Countess conducted him through corridors and stairways to the large apartments on the first floor. Jfeither Justine nor the duenna who had twice introduced Maxime, were there to receive them. Preceded by Madame Yalta, he reached the room in which he had «een her the day before in the gi'eat bedatead with pillars and canopies. "Mile. Dorgeres is there," she aaid, pointing to the doorway of Gobelin tapestry, which concealed the entrance to the boudoir. "Do you not think you would do well to speak to her first, and prepare her for what I have to say?" "No," replied Maxime. "She thinks I h«kve taken sides against Uubort 4« C«tnoel, and would not listen to me. She now believes only in you, and is distrustful of me." He was still speaking when his eyes fell upon an object upon a Chinese lacquer table. It was a box of peculiar shape, widened at the top and closed with a lid. "There, no doubt, is what Dr. Villagos has sent you," he said. Madame Yalta opened the strange coffer which was of fir wood, quite rough, and drew from it a bouquet of immortelles. "A singular gallantry," aaid Maxime. The countess did not reply. She let fall the mournful flowem, and he saw that she turned pale. "I expected it," she said. "What dt^is M. Villagos mean by thir. ridiculous pr»;sent?" "It signifies my sentence of death." "Your sentence of death I" ex- claimed Maxime. "Yes; I am condemned." "Condemned by this miserable Villagos!" "By the Nihilists, of whom he is the chief. They accuse me of hav- ing betrayed them." "You!" "I have been allied to them. I deserve my fate." Maxime was about to cry out, but the duenna whom he had seen before, entered suddenly, went straight to her mistress, and spoke to her in a language he did not un- derstand. The conversation was very short, and the duenna went out on a motion from the countess. Turning toward Maximo, she said shortly : "Do not ask for explanations. Tbe conversation you are about to hear will tell you all. Go into the boudoir where Mile Dorgeres is awaiting me, and beg her to listen with you. In a few moments she v.'ill have the proof that M. de Car- ncel is innocent." "Who is it you are about to re- ceive?" "You will see â€" not a word more. Go in ; it is better we should not be surprised togeth<-r. " "Swear to me that you are ex- posing yourself to no danger." "None at this moment. You need rot close the door, and by hiding behind the tapestry, may hear all that is said." ".\nd it yf"u should have need of ae.'ustancc, 1 would be there," mur- mured Maxime. He felt that he loved, in spite of ail, this strange woman who now rose against the Nihilists after hav- ing co-operated with their dark dealings. It was time for him to disappear. The tapestry had no socner closed on him that M. Vil- CHARLES BARReTT. ESO. Harbor an Bouche. March 24, I909. "I suffered terribly from Biliousness and Dyspepsia for fifteen years, was treated by physicians and took many remedies bnt get no relief. Then I took "Fruit-a-tives", and this medicine completely cured me when everj-thing else failed. To all sufferers from Indi- gestion, Bilionsuess and Constipation, I strongly advise them to try this fruit medicine". Charles Barrett. 30C a box, 6 for <j.5oâ€" or trial box, 2SC. At all dealers or from Fniit-a-tivei Limited, Ottawa. 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The doctor of medicine and con- SDiracies was grave as a. justice, and his eyes shone with a deadlv light. ^ The countess was calm, and she advanced deliberately toward him. "What do you want with me!" she asked. "You have announced the sentence of death that has been pa.'jsed upon me." "I wish to question you." "To w^hat purpose, since I am al- ready condemned?" You have accomplices. I wish to knew them. Traitors must be punished." "When I know of what I am ac- c\i.''ed, I will see whether it suits me to reply to you." "Y'ou are accused of having com- promised the success of our plans." •This vague reply will not an- sv.-er. Be precise." "So be it. In the name of the Central Committee, I have forbid- di-n you to interest yourself in a Frenchman suspected of a theft on the banker Dorgeres. You paid no hoed to this order. Not only have you charged another Frenchman with the recovery of M. de Carnoel, but have enlisted persons engaged ia your service in this work, â€" sub- alterns whom we had initiated in- to all our secrets and who have long worked for us. Your fencing-mas- ter, Kardiki, and year femme de chambre, Justine, ha\e taken pai-t in an intrigue, the object of which wa."! to deliver a stranger who, to prove his own innocence, would not fai' to designate the guilty party." "He does not know them." "But he would know them if I Jet you live. You have sworn to restore him what he has lost, and you cannot reinstate him without denouncing us." "Without denouncing myself yoa I iTiean. You have rightly guessed. I propose to recount to M. Dorger- es, to his daughter, the true his- tery of the theft. I shall tell them by whom it was committed and with what object. He will believe me, for I shall bring him an unanswer- able proof. I think fit to add that I shall not mention the names of any of those who urged me to it." "I have no longer faith in your discretion ; but I may ask why it is that you turn against us after hav- ing so well served us." "Because I choose to have no dealings with the murderers who have just blown up the Winter Pa- liic?," replied the countess, look- ing fixedly at Villagos. "Your scruples come rather late. When you took the vow to contend with us against tyrannv. you were IK*- ignorant that fire and sword wculd be employed to destroy it." "I pictured to myself an insur- rection against the Russian govern- ment," replied the countess, proud- ly "I knew there had leen mur- derers among you, but I believed thei>e to be isolated acts to which these who committed them had been driven by despair. The news from St. Petersburg has opened my eyes. You may kill me ; you will not force me to remain one of you. 1 am the daughter of a man who died in Siberia, whither he had been exiled for taking up arms {or tiic independence of Poland. It Wa^ to free my country that I con- sented to become your ally, and the brave men and women whom I have led into a complicity with you have had no other aim. Kardiki has served his country, and he believed he was serving h«r still in execut- ing my orders. Justine is Parisian, but her father and her husband are Polish. Georget, the brave boy who has risked his liberty and his life for me, is the grandson of a Frenchman who died fighting in the ranks of the Polish army, and she who shared his dangers and who married him durin < the great iu- sorrection of ISUl was born th« Countess Wielenska. She has sac- rificed everything for her country â€" rank, name and fortune, and dur- ing the fortv years in which she has be'en consigned to the humble posi- t.'f u to which our misfortunes have brought her, she has not ceased to work day and night for the deliv- erance of her cov.utry. Do you think tl"i.-» noble woma;; would consent to serve longer the cowardly partisans v,hc murder?" "She has permitted her grandson to aid them to steal," said the doc- tir, with a sarcastic smile. "The permission was granted with the sole purpose of destroying papers which compromised hun- dreds of her compatriots. But it was I whom he obeyed ; I who dedi- cated myself to the accomplishment of this act, which I regarded as a sacred duty, and I do not need to remind you what it cost me." "Yes, I know that you have been heroic," said Villagos, slowly, "and I ask myself what mad in- spiration led you to desert our MMEINI A flavwiacudllka â- â- â- â€¢â€¢â€¢ laws < Br diMcMu ffwwl^ "t- » •••jf ' party after having so bravely and skilfully served it. Not a trace re- mained of an accident that mi^ht have ruined us, when you suddenly undertake to stir up this affair, go to war with your friends, and, seeking to destroy your own w<jrk, launch all your auxiliaries into an insane enterpirse, which has suc- ceeded only too well. Could you explain to me the cause of this sud- den change !" "The cause? There was no other than the desire to save the inno- cent ; it was that I swore to repair the wrong unintentionally done to M. de Carnoel and to his betroth- ed " "Very well. You confess that • have compromised us by your sent' lental follies. It is an un- pL Hcnable crime. I may, howev- er take on me to -"".rd-'n vou on trouble ot aot submit two conditions." "Spare yourself the naming them. I si^,^ to them." ^^^ "The first," resuii^FilirTafper. turable doctor, 'is that you leawi France never to return. The seo- ocdâ€" your protege, Carnoel is her*;, I am certain. It was to your houfie that Justine and Kardiki brouglit him last night. If you wish tlic Committee to overlook your faults,. â€" if you desire to live, it is neces- sary to deliver up this man â€" to de-, liver him to me this dayâ€" instjint- ly." "To deliver M. de Carnoel to you I" said the countess, with s contemptuous smile, "to be mur- di-red, no doubt. And it is to ma you dare to propose a cowardice."' (Tij be continued.) T ^iM« 's % HrtftfutSoo tn a perfvctir psin tfvl bouee nimilar tu whoo onaa body to Drote^L d by (pjod ^tout claihinu, rmin-cuat. top>o?at and st^jrdy boota. Tha protsvUon afforded pr:^^v•rtvafUl^ tho paliit coattQff U wurn Oawn v> Ut« bar* wticd tn do emuUr Uiaa tfaxmeui* wora duwa to Uio Uuiug. Martin - Senour Paint lOOo/o Pure pnrttets roar pmpArty to that lt«A»rff*a trom wlut«r ftshr.riiy. ruk'CwU an.l *ir>':iji ^ It eucarvd. Quality duae It, UmU!- Rf;u)da tiie rficoni of wiatur Ht'.tnua. tempeata, rapid obautcea t>f t«uir>tiratiua, hoJDldity and Che dlaintu«rHUDtf affocts of aan. «t1iii1. c«>hl, mlu, hall and auoir. KTorTthtiitf thto; crtm/* Ispal/w - Evary- kblQff tkat doesn't a i^/^ Out. Ttut't wby tbaaa^lty last*. If j-our denier cannot Bnrplyyoti, notify OS KDd we win ffUiiiy dtrtx:! yoa to wbero oar ptiDdt &i o to ba bad . Writ* for illuatratcd boukleJ:. "Home Boauiifnl," and V mtere^tinir color ^ curd. Freafor '' theaoklntr, »ft1art?n-SeoourCa. LiHrriD Moatr**! fHonmmv Par* Paittt MeKenzie Mine at Elk lake Has Started Bagging Ore Successful Operations at the Mine Which Make the Property a Coming Shipper. ELK CITT, May 4.â€" With the opi?n- tng of navigatioD, which is now in full •wing, th« greatest of activity preraila at the Tariooa minea and prospects in this vicinity and tho city ia rapidly reooTeriog from the recent Area. The diatrict ia likely to become an- other Cobalt and the veina run to depth with values. Among the ship- pers and properties bagging ore ure the Lack; Godfrey, the Borland- Thompson, the DevUn and L>ii Moose Horn minea. Tha Mooac Horn mine put In a new plaat this spring and are now sinking • winze at tho 125-root level on a vein which has shown values from the â- nrface. In the midst ot the minea ia tha McKcnsie, a group of five properties on which work was begun last Jan- nary. They have been fortnnate from the start and aoon hope to rank with the shippers. The engineer in charge. Mr. Harry KoMaster, reports that the vein on location 846 of thn company's group at a depth of 50 feet continued stead- ily the whole distance and showed froe silver all the way with the exception of four feet. Several hundred feet of stripping has already been done, re- sulting tn the discovory of two ad- ditional veins, one of which ia 7 in- ches wide, cutting at an angle of six degrees. It is th<" int^-ntinn to con- tinue this shaft to the 75 nr 100 foot level, tlien drift to the UcEenzio vein. where the new 7 inch vein crosaes. Mr. McMoater states that in bia opiuiun this week will result in the placing of tho value of the mine beyond (question. The necessary builolnga have now ail been erected, inuluding bunk house, cooking camp, manager's dwellijig, blacksmith shop, powder house, and tho necessary machinery la being in- stalled. A good wagon road has been built from the main road which par- allels the road from Elk Lake. The McKonzie company are in a very fortunate position, owning a group of five properties which have been thor- oughly tested. Six assays made from the reins on ^Moh the company &m now working bus shown reaulta of from 400 ounces of ailver np &3 high as 15,000 ounces to the ton. This company is under good manage- ment, and It ia the opinion of tho en- gineer ia charge and those who have aeon the property uiat it should be brought to the ;blpping stage in a very short time, 600 pounds of good ore having been bagged by May 1, and the work In this regard being pushed ra- pidly from day to day. Application is being made to list this Stock on the Now Tork Curb. The Transfer Agents are The Trusts and Guarantee Company of Toronto and the Guarantee Security and Trans- fer Company of New York. I am oCering 50.000 Shares of this Stock at 25c. per share, subject to prior sale. Writs or wire me your subscriptioD at once. P. S. HAIRSTON, ^rc;„To.''.5n1'' Canadian Appreciation Langham Hotel, London. 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