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ITS I â- Â»ly to stop tbem tea iin. I mean • rsdlotf .EPILEPSY or FlUr WAiTADt myrvmady lera h»ve fallad ll â- â€¢ Send «t onea for • Illblp r«m«d7. 9h» inottalDK forstltd, O. BOOT, St., Toronto. lOMPANY. o KJ-. ...6 D has b«eB will ba » 0,000. ES. BRMSL LOVE AND VEN GEAMCE AMONG T HE SlyUIGGLERS Thx Most Fascixativo Ooxah Bokaitcc Sikcb shb Datb ot Goons AHD KABTAn. Midfcr c;a CHAPTER XXXV.â€" (CosTiKiTED.) }f umeroua torches were lit, aad stuck in different crevices of the sea cavern, so that there was a tolerable light throughout the place. The tide brought in a quantity of ^eed and white foam, and the Rift rode rather uneasily by her anchor, as the hour of midnight drew near. Tneii Uolan made an affectation of speak- ing about the night-watches, and the guards of the opening to the ravine and on the plateau where a man had been stationed in Hen of -Jfjaeph, whose constant post it had beeu. " All well," was the reply and then one of the men added " Nobody has come into the cave but Mr.**- W-iguer, since the sun set." " Mrs Wagner " exclaimed Dolan. 'â-  Yes, captain, but that's all right." "Oh yes, Mrn. Wagner. Ha A boat here '" T) ilan was on the deck of the Rift and he at" once stepped into a boat and went toward the steps leading to the inner cavern. These steps and the passages beyond it and the inner cavern were now quite deserted, for the whole of the "rew were in and about the cutter. One solitary link was burning at the end of the passage leading to the ships, and Dolan paused at that and listen- ed. " I do not hear her," he said. " I did not see her come in, but the guard would of course let her pass and she could easily make her way along the dark shadows and I not see her, as I was not looking for her. Well, she has come to meet her doom and it is as well here as elsewhere. Better per- hapsâ€"much better. Maria 1 Maria, I say, are you here " There was a suppressed scream and then all was still. "What on earth does she mean " cried Dolan as he snatched the torch from its niche in the chalk and ran toward the great cavern, in which there was no lamp lighted now. Dolan held the link high above his head. For a few moments a confused mass of shadows alone Uiet his viewj and then they seemed to arrange themselves into a human form, and crouching down and trying to hide something by holding her hands over it he saw Mrs. Wagner. There was a small, black box, the lid of it was open and the contents strewed about upon the floor of the cavern. It would ap- pear as if in the fright at hearing the voice of Dolan calling upon her, Mrs. Wagner had dropped this small, black box, which she had been carrying, although it was rather large so to do, and then when it fell no doubt the lid liad burst open and the con- rents had fallen out on the floor. There were several toys, such as a little child of about two years old might have pos- sessed. There were several articles of chil- dren's wearing apparel and a little white beaver hat, with pale blue ostrich feathers. In fact, there appeared to be pretty well the whole paraphiernalia of a child's out of door costume. And all these lay about, and Mrs. Wag- ner, with cries and screams, was making fu- tile attempts to gather them together and hide them from the eyes of Dolan. But most futile, indeed, were those at- tempts, inasmuch as he could not fail to see every one of the articles that fell from the small box, and as he stood there, with the link in his hand, and glared at the wretched woman, his face grew livid with rage, and a baleful fire shot from his eyes. She looked up at him in teiTor. She had never seen him look like that â€" at lewt not to her, and she felt all her danger. "Mercy! Have mercy upon me, Dolan. It was for your good â€" all for your good." Hi.-i rage was so great that for the mo- ment it only vented itself in a hissing noise. Iheti .she, still on her knees, implored again his mercy. "Xo â€" no;" she said, "you must not think that it was to betray your secretâ€" your long-kept secret, that I was taking this boxâ€" toâ€" toâ€" toâ€" " " To whom?" bellowed Dolan, with a roar of rage that echoed through the cavern, like the meaningless howl of some wild animal. I ' ' To whom To whom " "The admiral." "Clifford?" "Yes- -yes. To save yon. To make terms for you. That is it â€" only for you â€" only and wholly for you." It was with a positive yell of fury, then, that Dolan sprang forward, and with a plunge of his foot, rather than a kick, scat- tered the contents of the black box over the cavern. "Wretch and spy!" he cried, "I know you â€" I know you now. You would pur- chase your own safety by betraying me. I know you now " "Noâ€" no!" Oh! no." " Yes, I say. Yes, a thousand terrors." " Dolanâ€" in mercy Oh I will tell all No no, do not kill me â€" oh do not. I did not mean I will tell you all, Dolan, if ever you felt for me a moment's a£Fection, spare me now." " Affection Ha ha 1 Affection Ha " " You said yon did Mercy help mur- der He will kill me. Oh God, havie mercy upon me now " Dolan spranc upon her with a yell of hate and rage. He struck her on the head with the link. A thousand bright sparks flew from it and it was extinguished. She grasp- ed his arm â€" she clung to him and screamed aloud. Then there was one half-stifled cry and all was still save the heavy breathing of Dolan in his rage. " Deadâ€" deadâ€" dead 1" he said "Is she dead " He stood in the darkness and listened. "Eh? What? Goon. What? What say you " The moan w^as not repeated. He bent low down to listen, and then he felt with his hands, lower and lower still. Something hot and darap met his touch. " Is it blood? Is it blood? Maria speak! Only a word apeak speak, I say " Not a sound â€" not a word â€" not a sigh. " Dead «he is dead " He strove to move from the spot, but l^e trod upon something soft. It was an arm of the wretched woman, which, in her death agony, was outstretched upon the floor- Dokn recoUed from it as thoogh a •erpent had stung him. "What is that What ia that Huah I hash no noise. I have killed her I Well, well, I said I would, and it ia done. She was betraying me. She would have killed me. Hanged me in chains. First, the girl â€" she would have sold me to that straiige man in the cottage, for a thousand pounds, and now it was Gerald â€" ^what did she want these things but that she might indentify him to the admiral? Of course Oh, of course, and I have killed her she lies dead now â€" dead at my feet." Dolan shuddered, and, with his arms out- stretched, he strove to leave the spot. He trod upon a portion of the dress of his vic- tim, and he recoiled again. " Get outâ€" oh, get out " he said. "Don't crawl about my feet. No, no â€" don't do that. It is so ^rk, and yet I can see your eyes. Help Lights I No, no â€" ^no one must see this sight. No, no, no 1" The link lay smouldering on the floor of the cavern. It was just within hin reach. By a stretch he got hold of it and he thought as he had seen frequently done with links, that by waving it rapidly through the air the smouldering embers might be fanned again into a flame. " So, so " he said. " We will see " He whirled the link round and round. The red embers at its head glowed again and then a little flickering flame burst fortii which he humored by holding the link about and turning it downward. The little flame grew longer and the link was in a blaze. Then Dolan tried to turn hu eyes upon the object at his feet, but he dare not. Some terrible convulsion kept him from doing so and yet chained him to the spot. " Dead 1 â€" she is dead It is but another and I have looked upon death so often, why should I fear it in her â€" I who have killed others She is not the first â€" not the first " " Hoy " shouted a voice " Dolan Cap- tain Dolan I Hoy Where are you " " They call me. They call me, now " " Captain Dolan " "That is Bowline. I know that voice. He must not see this sight. He and they must not suspect it. HiUoa Hilloa " " Hoy " "Hold! Not another step. What would you? What is it? The time has not yet come. Hold What would you ' Captain Dolan strode forward, and held the link so that the shadow of himself fell upon the dead body on the floor and faced Bowline. " Oh, there you are, captain " " Well, well. What is it " "Why, here's Miss Grace has come into the cave by the entrance in the ravine." "Grace? Grace?" yelled Dolan. " Yes, and it appears that the Philistines have got hold of Gerald and she wants the men to sign a kind of paper that he was forced on bored the Rift and that he was dragged upOa the deck and that he did not fire at the king's ship." ' ' Grace â€" Grace â€" she here " " She is. You may hear her now. Hark, that is her voice. She prays and calls upon the men to save Gerald. They mock her. Do you not hear " "Perdition! Ah!" Her fair hair streaming in disorder around her â€" her dress torn by the briars and wild vegetation of the path in the ravine â€" Grace Morton, as we may now properly call her, entered the cavern and gently knelt down close to the feet of Dolan. " Here me," she said. " Dolan, you hear me. I have come to tell you of your doings and to ask you to do one act of justice for your soul's sake. Dolan, you have in times past called me your child. You know I was not so but some spark â€" some slight feeling of affection for me might remain with you. For that â€" for justice sake â€" for gratitude â€" that I have come to warn you that the sec- ret of this cavern is discovered. I ask you to save Gerald by declaring his innocence. Write itâ€" write it here. It is written. You will put your name io this paper. You will admit that Thomas Wright turned false witness, Dolan Dolan you see I kneel to you. I pray to you to do this. I have left a new-found father â€" I have left dear friends â€" to kneel to youi Dolan. It is but a little act but oh, it shall weigh heavily against the evil you have done. Say that he is in- nocent â€" write it. Here here I implore you, Dolan, for you know that it is the truth " Dolan drew a long breath, and the " ah " that he uttered was so congratulatory that it seemed, indeed, to come from his heart. " You will do it You will'save him " " Stop Answer me â€" answer what I shall ask of you " "Yes, Dolan." " Geraldâ€" where is he " "In prison." " Accusedâ€" accused By a letterâ€" by Thomas Wrightâ€" of piracyâ€" of inciting us onâ€" of being the worst of all " Yes! Oh, yes r And he is in prisonâ€" in a fair way of condemnation " " Alas, yes Oh, Dolan you see me hereâ€" here at your feet. I love Gerald- with all my heart. I do love him I love Heaven and I love Gerald. It was poor Ann, who died here in these caverns, who taught me to love God And Gerald, too, I love. Dolan, do this actâ€" save him Let me cany to the admiral your evidence for him. It is down here on this paperâ€" in a few words. Dolan, you will do it ' "Not if a thousand devUsâ€" weU, that don't matter. Noâ€" noâ€" no " He yeUed out the negativw with awful vehemence and Grace recoiled from his awful gaze. " No ' I have you both now, and my heart's desire is satisfied. Gerald a felon vouâ€" youâ€" ha! ha!â€" and you were safeâ€" you had then escaped me, and you have come back into the toils again louâ€" fool that you areâ€" you are mine now, not as a daughterâ€" ha 'â€"not as a daughter; no, no '" Boom came the sound of a gun at sea, Dolan started. " What is ihat " Boom from shoreward aune anothw gun, and this hitter one sounded at from the top °*.*BeS^I We an. betrayed!" shouted DouT^^Stoayedbythls^L It is Ae X h« told 1ie««et rf onr«T«m in the diff-Ae and Gerald. "Revenge 1 "KoreckdlBtOTrliM 'Bjtiie above na, Dol^ yos shaU not ham-«|» girl !** "Ahlyoa oopoM me. villaiBâ€" wretdi! I have set my Itte npon dl this I Iwillkffl herâ€" herâ€" yonâ€" aD I Darils that yoa are^ I am mad â€" mad â€" mad !** A witl ery arope firbdii tiiesea cava at tiiis moment, ea aTowd ahot came with a orash throagfa the safloloth that dosed the en- trance to the cavern and tore its way over 4e de of the Rift, irom stem to stem, kil- Uag three man in its pmgreas. CHAPTER XXXVtâ€" Tm Sfat Opiirs TOR Steam DOOK TO *HS Cavxbh. It wasaboBkan lisnr attar aonaat on that most eventful evening, some at the iaddents of which â€" in connection with Dolan and his secret home in the diffâ€" we have already related, that an onnsnal bustle was evident at the bit of coast not far from Admiral Sir Thomas Clifford's residence. In the flntterm^ wind â€" that wind whidi was so rapidly rising and which was soon to blow into the cavern with all its fury â€" tiiete stood by the landing place, where Ci^tain Morton, of the Naanloa, had first seen the admiral, several persons. There was the admiral himself, several naval ofScers, and there was Captain Mor- ton. A small throng of .idlers were dose at hand, looking on with apparent wonder at some proceedings they could not compre- hend. The boat of the Nautilus-was waiting for Captain Morton at the foot of the steps, and some miles out at sea there burned a blue light on board some vessel, which was evi- dently beating on and off in the. roads. That vessel was the Spray. And now, with a bright flush upon his face and a sparkle about the eyes, such as he had not known for many a long day, Captain Morton descended one of the steps leading towad his boat, and holding out ms hand to Admiral Clifford, he said " My dear friend, we shall soon meet again. I see the boat of your schooner is near at hand now, and you may depend that the Nautilus will not be many feet behind the Spray in the attack upon the pirates' nest" The admiral pressed the hand of Captain Morton, as he replied " I should not be well pleased to be on this enterprise without you, Morton, and I fully comprehend the feelings with which you go on it." " Yes," added Morton, and the crew of his boat heard his words, " yes, I go in the cause of all nations and of all ships. The Nautilus will be close in the wake of the Spray." "Thanks, Morton, thanks! Here is my boat." A boat which had been signaled for from the Spray schooner now dashed up to the steps and both the admiral and the captain descended them together. The Nautilus lay at about a mile out and the Spra^ at abDut double that distuice now but that space was rapidly decreasing, as with a long tack she was beating in to meet her boat. Then the admiral turned to one of the of- ficers that were with him and said: "Are you sure, Mr. Btrongways, that Mr. Anderson has taken posoession of the ravine " " He will be in possession, admiral, with- in hiilf an hour of this time. " That will do and now, gentlemen, I do not onier you on this duty. I go myself, more as a spectator than otherwise, for I shall let Mr. Greene, of the Spray, fight his own schooner, and not interfere with him, but I shall, of course, be glad to have you with me." "And we are glad to go, admiral," was the reply. The two boats pushed off together and were soon pulling toward their respective vessels. Captain Morton waved his arm to the ad- miral as the American boat shot off at an angle toward the Nautilus and then the blue light gradually began to die away on board the Spray, but still it shone sufficient- ly to indicate her place in the offing. There was a feeling of deep joy and seren- ity, now, about the heart of Captain Mor- ton. He folded his arms across his breast and kept his eyes fixed upon the admiral's house, which, dimly outlined against the night sky, he could see, as he each moment receded further and further from it. "She is there!" he thought. "She is there my own dear child, saved to me at last through so many perils She is there my darling treasure Oh, would that there were but one other in this life, to share with me the joy that now sits so serenely at my heart â€" her poor mother No, no, that may not be. We shall not all meet again until we meet in heaven " Little did Captain Morton think that Grace â€" in the depth of her affection for Gerald and in her small experience of the worst villainies of which Dolan were capable â€" had conceived the idea of revisiting the smugglers' haunt on Gerald's account. And now the blue light died out on the deck of the Spray, and the admiral's boat was nearly alongside of the schooner. " Boat ahoy was the cry from the deck- watch. " Flag " was the response and then a couple of lanterns at the gangway showed Lieutenant Green in uniform, with his drawn sword in his hand, with which he ceremoniously saluted Admiral Clifford, who returned the courtesy, and then shook hands with Mr. Green. " Only an amateur on this occasion, Mr. Green, and a passenger, that is all. I bring some volunteers with me, though, all of whom you know and we want you now to be so good, in a few hours, as to completely rout out the nest of pirat^ commanded by the man Dolan, and who carry on their prac- tices with the cutter Rift." â-  " We should be rejoiced, admiral but as yet we have not fallen in with the rascals." "They are there." "There, sir?" " Yes there in the bay â€" in the cliff." Mr. Green looked at the admiral, and very nearly committed the irreverence of whistl- ing slightly for he thought, at the moment, that Sir Thomas Clifford's reason must be a little â€" ^just a little â€" on the wane. " Yes, Mr. Green, in the cliff. I will tell you all about if you will only come below." " Certainly, admiral, certainly. You com- mand here, sir. Where shall we go " " No, I will not command but keep on and off at the entrance to the bay in which the smuggler vessel was sujiposed, by Cap- tain Gray, to sink." "Yes, admiral" Lieutenant Green gave the necessary or- ders uid then he and the admiral and the officers who had oome with the latter, de- scended to the litUe mainoabin of tiie Spray B5SEE3J'^^KT:5i»55^55i55w of lie. i»thaoliS!«MMfy( ea^." *• There goi Ri That's it I Yei, that mat U» it 1^^' he ;** aad it is ao easy,, tooâ€" so vify Itssaecesa.' **8«aiiBple. Why, we most havw had ke eyes not to see it r "It was never snspeeted and so never lodud for," added the admiraL " Its veiy aimplidty has been its saf egoaid itaai the first to the last but tiiat £e Rift Is lying tiucoBenr at andior, I have not the remotest doubt" " Then we have tills villain, admiral, in his own trap." " We have indeed and thank God that there are only Aoae there who may well suffer with him. Captain Morton's daoghter has been rea cned from him Imt that is a long story, which yon shall hear the full particulara of at my house to-monrow. Lieutenant Anderson, with a strong party of his men, has by this time possession of the only othw outlet from the caverns, except by the sea â€" ^that outlet from the top of the cluGi to the beaoh. I think, thcoe- fore, Mr. Green, that when they find their nest discovered they will be only too glad to surrender." " Let them fight, admiral, if they like. We have the rasods surdy now." The heaving of the Spray on the uitated sea each moment became greater, and when the admiral and Mr. Green caiJM upon the deck, the wind had very mneh iUbreased, and they could see the little yacht Nautilus scudding alon^ at a great rate, although she only carried a foresail, and was a little off the wind. "Make for the bay," said Mr. Green. " We shall find less wind." " But more water, sir," said Mr. Royle. "Very likely, Mr. Royle, but we are ling to look for our old acquaintance, the ift" " Lord, air you don't think of lifting her, do yon T For I begin to think that after all, she must have gone down." " We will see about that I intend to tread her decks to night, if I can." "Yes, sir. Mad. Poor young fellow 1" said Mr. Royle to himself. " Why there is nothing at all in the bay but a trumbilng sea, that will knock us about like a cockle- shelL" The Nautilus nOw shot ahead of the Spray and made its way close to one of two pro- montories, which, being on the weather- bow, shielded her from the full force of the wind, and she rode easily and safely. Then the Spray dashed into the Imy, and, as Mr. Royle had observed, there was such a tumbling sea in it that while the wind was not really so powerful there, from the reac- tion against the' cliffs and the protection of the promontories, yet there was, in the sea- man's phraseology, much more water. A rocket, then, landward, sprang up into the night air, and Lieutenant Strongways, who had been on the watch for it, approach- ed the admiral and said " Lieutenant Anderson sir, has taken pos- session of the ravine. " " That will do. Now, Mr. Green, I don't think we need wait except for the signal. " A signal, admiral " " Ah, yes I forgot. My man will hoist a lantern on the old signal post near the edge of the cliff, and bdow that, in a right line, will be the mouth of the cavern." "There sir, is that it?" " Yes that will do. One white light " As if ascending in the night air to the height of about twenty feet, by its own mere volition, a white light rose from the verge of the cliff. "Now, sir," said the admiral, "I leave all to you." " Admiral, may we follow up our track " " How do you mean " " Why, sir, when we left off fighting the Rift in this very bay, she had the last shot at us and there is a piece of new wood in our bulwarks where she hit us. We owe her one for that, sir." " Do as you please, Mr. Green. But fire one gun as a signal to Lieutenant Anderson that the attack is about to commence, " A few moments, and the Doom of the first gun, which had so shocked Dolan in the in- ner cavern, awakened the echoes of the bay. With a sharper report, an answering gun from shore. " The lieutenant has the small twelve- pounder from his battery," said the admiral. " I want to catch these fellows without the loss of honest men's lives, if I can and I told him to make a display of force. Now, sir, go in." The crew of the schooner were placed at quarters, and the guns shotted. Surprise and expectation were upon every face foi no enemy could they see, and the Spray seemed to be only intent on her own destruc- tion, by sailing into a bay, around the whole shoreward segment of which there seemed to be nothing but cliffs. " Bill," said one sailor to another, " the skipper has been a knocking of his head agin the bulks, I take it Eh " "It's orders, said BilL "Ay ay; but there's an end of the Spray." " it's orders." " Sir Bill, what a cat's-head you are, to be sure. You haven't got no ideas." " Loundings, there 1" shouted the lieuten- ant " Quarter less three, sir " "That will do. BraU up, Mr. Royle. Down anchor, and let her swing " " Ay, ay, sir. And in time, too," mut- tered Mr. Royle. " Why, we are going stem on to this big cliff, with the light on the top of it " " You see it " whispered the admiral. " Something, sir." "I fancy there is a difference. Look, Mr. Green." The admiral had been looking through a night-glass, which he now handed to his licfutenant who looked long and curioudy at the portion of cliff below the light. Then he said " It is well done, admiral. I cail see no- thing but chalk." "It is well done. One shot will settie the question, Mr. Green. Fire at the chalk, as it seems tobe}abouta line or two over the water's surface." The Spray had some eighteen-pound gnus and one twenty-four. It wsis the twenty- four now that Lieutenant Green had point- ed to the cliffl You might, as the saying is, have heard a pin drop on board the Spray as Lieuten- ant Green pointed the gun, as the crew thought, against the solid face of the difl^ " He'U bring it all down with a run," said Mr. Royle to the steersman. "Ay, ay, sir." Theueatenantpointedthegnn. The Spray m tke e^B^f|yfi«tik«rrtM Mdim««dba Ifyex- rods.4phtt a i s h o r .^md tke goia paiatod tmBjm iHrbtPliiBinr The death-like death-like brakaBbf With a fbtnniiur r^oct the twenty-four ptmdw itM fiM »m wv^VVei all tiie edioieirdf ttM bay: 'lliihall tdr^; thitmgh theeanvaa coveraig ef Ae sea oave, aad waa a sraahtag aooad tiien and loud of rage andpaiii. A doll glare of light oame throng th»^pei^ iAtSs thick donUe-sail doth and then the crew the Spray seme9 tli% ttMMnt to ooaipreh«id the whole a£fair; andthqr raised a oheer, which mingled witii the edioes of the gna. That duer was answered by another and then, standing doae in ty the bows of the Spray, oould heaoMs the Ka«itilas,.with Captain Morton on her deck aad the flash of ezdtement on his brow. " Horrah Well doae 1" he shonted. lieutenant Green waved his hand to Cap- tain Morton to keep out of the line at fin for he fully expected a return of his shot from the cavern. (to bs comnKiniD.) â-  • FEULUD SETEOTED. Tke WonderfU â- â- KllsliBMi«wMtlac Expert. One .of the most interesting persons in England is Mr. LigUs, an expert in hand- writing. Having given himself to his buei- ness for more than forty years, his skill in detecting fraud is so great that there ia scarcely a single contested will-case, turn- ing upon the handwriting of testator or wit- nesses, in which he is not called upon to testify. He is a quiet gentieman, but he has a fund of stories at his command which a novelist would prize â€" stories of mysterious disappearances, murders, forgeries and con- cealments, which have been unravelled or detected by the study of a few strokes of the pen. One of these curious facts will show the nature of this expert's profesdon. A miser by the name of Whalley died a few years ago, leaving his property, worth seventy thousand pounds, to two men who had nursed him during his last illness. As these men had no especial claim on the miser, his rdi^tives contested the will on tiie ground of forgery. The document was shown to Mr. Inglis, who declared the signature to be genuine, but the will itself to oe a foisery. By the use of a powerful microscope, lie discovered marks in tiie paper of previous writing, and after long and patient study, he told the court and jury in the case his opinion. "I find," he said, "that the deceased probably wrote this will with a lead penciL Now a lead pencil will always leave a fur- row in the paper, which will remain, no matter how carefally the lead pencil marks may be removed. When he had written the body of the will, and was'ready to sign his name, I think the lead pencil broke. And this is my reason for thinking so. "The signature by Mr. Whalley is un- doubtedly his own. When the lead pencil broke, it is myopinion that another person supplied Mr. Whalley with'pen and ink. He signed his name. Then the two nurses nwbed out the will which was written with the lead pencil, and re- wrote this present will in ink, substituting their own names in the place of those origmally writen by Mr. Whalley. "The whole thing wais very skilfully done, but, gentlemen, the marks of that lead pencil are to be seen on the paper, and this will is undoubtedly a forgery, although the testator's own signature is attached to it" The facts of the case actually proved to be exactly as Mr. Inglis stated them. One of the two forgers is now in prison; the other confessed the forgery. Mr. Inglis says " Experte in this work are the growth of years; but I do not think you can make an expert, though you may train him up to a certain point. " Suppose I have two documents to com- Eare, to find out whether they were 'written y one and the same person. I study the most minute particulars of each paper in turn, the junction of the letters, the slopes the size of the letter and of the lines, the loops and the points. "I tiienmakeouta report on sheets of tracing paper, fastened to a white surface, on which" are shown loop for loop, letter for letter, habit for habit, in one column the false writing, in the other the real hand- writing, of the person suspected. To each of these is attached in red ink, for facility of recognition, the letter, two numbers in the form of a fraction, say a §, the 2 show- ing the line to the document from which jt is taken, the 3 indicating the word where 'a' is, in which I detect similarity. And in this way the whole problem is worked out. "There are some peculiarities about handwriting which an expert must take into consideration, or he will blunder in coming to a decision. A servant, for example, is very apt to imitate the writing of his mas- ter. A private secretary will often fall, un- consciously, into the style of his chief. If twenty young ladies are educated at the same school, and taught writing by the same master, their handwriting will have much in common. "Then, again, the fact that a signature is seen under the microscope to be cramped or tremulous is no indication of a forgery, be- cause thousands of genuine signatures are signed every day by men who are excited, or nervous, or even drunk at the time. The expert must remember all this, and a hun- dred details besides. " In the famous Tichbome trial, the com- parison of different letters played a large part in deciding who was the rightful claim- ant to the English property. It may be said that the final disposition of thousands of pounds turned upon the writing of certain letter I's, which are made with too sharp a turn of the top." Sleep- The cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for food, not because it is more important, but because it is often harder to obtain. The best rest comes from good sleep. Of two men or women otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the more satisfactorily will be the more healthy, moral and efficient. Sleep well do much to care irritability of temper, peevishness, and uuhappiness. It will restore to vigour an overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a w^ary body. It will cure a headache. Indeed a loi^ list might be made of nervous disorders and other maladies that sleep will cure. Sleeplessness is best cured by a clean, good bed, soffident exeroise to produce weariness pleasant occupation, ^;ood air, not too warm a room, a dear conscience, and avoidance of stimoluitB and anrcotiea.