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"When sh« knew he at | come.~ I kn« L always kn was one thir ing into he many perce} the world. have her ro There never loved Charl in the carel« mignt be ex] was a mom purpose to T Montalban, ! selfâ€"so that the spectacl humiliation. "She was < "(m~m that first offered her mone) refused it. She Charles, and was of a price for hin "Well he had would grow out 0 count. But ther Charles is gullible at all to see 1 bodied hope :« was very meant only t keep us on humiliate Chs But on her her mind. it would be if silent. J but he â€" a minut *"But I was in th: ber it whe better wor beautiful was close way intim I almost lc up at Mol! than she 1 know?" V moment "It W she came interest in fiancee. I place whe I never fel was just © me onceâ€" think abot He paus silent. Ht Mailia. woman, ghastly f Th 1 remem very well of sight : He dropy pillow, and shining spa window. H little, as if them and ¢ to the sum: wards.. It But I didn‘ I heard thit to WTrIlE tell you. and I drove road near I you to | be you can You wo better t] bert to w Robe low, an of pap fingers comp Montalk TLA WJ AanC #DC nur Te A‘F HAPPENED AT Severn When CHAPTER XVI. ROBERT LIFT®S THE VEII n‘ I did begin to see again L saw My father was busy with the who was screaming in a fashion though I couldn‘t see here was no one just looking 1e girl, or she wouldn‘t have owed to come close and take a k at me, as she was doing. I iagine I looked very nice. But as her face, just a moment, ove mine, staring at me. sh T1 could tell you about that ind about the face, too. Lawâ€" ou‘ve seen her, of course .. but younger then. She hadn‘t that synthetic innocence of hers »ade you wonder sometimes if n‘t a saint after all. She had e beauty, but the way she lookâ€" different. She wasn‘t sorry for t. She swore t ind was insulted ber my eyes :C don‘t‘ rer at first. I did begin to My father wa who was +s ashion thoug ere was no C (ISXCIPAL CHARACTERS pacet n LC 11 91 lo¢ HLI~HED BY SPECIAL ARRANXGEMENT 11 now what else there to make me rememâ€" rot so much that was ping. She was very xteen, and her face qccaslo e hope that Charles her on his own acâ€" was no time. Angu No,. the wrong word head back upon the es went to the pale ky outside the open ‘ sank and slowed a of his mind had left ‘k through the years of which he spoke. ar at all until afterâ€" leaped out at us. ly lose consciousness hev dragged me out. 11 ibout it," said Roâ€" st me awful pains ill be quite easy to the day my father acchetti‘s car on a ht y daragged me out. s weren‘t working emember any sort mot 0KS PALBAN: Head of illy nearly ninety Wife son, the family seat 1as three sons: ppled in a road and her face id in a strange think perhaps e," He looked . more bitterly him. "DOo you noment. When not with any ne as Charles‘ see her in the had sent her. ) see her. She . happened to remember or how you could for that t her death at s circumstances N; Secretaryâ€" in Sir John. ape under his pilâ€" folded sheaf it between his held it out to my father : indignantly it she loved by the offer tory. I want live, it won‘t e out of here ind welcome. T can tell it ‘oung London care of childâ€" On Charles. t when she ed for him in like that There never rs dubiousâ€" / she nad come for n. . That ch bette AIC hat T f us nally flat nged to V of e AT MONTAL ‘ on to cle stay in spite Oof everything, to marry Charles and damn him. It was then that I killed. Not simply because I could not permit her to have Charles. Not for Railiph‘s sake not even for my own. I think it was just that she was too bad to live. "She began to talk about us. I don‘t know what fancy took her to rememâ€" ber that moment seven years ago:; but it came into her mind then, and she spoke of it. She said that until she was sent to the Seward Institute beâ€" cause of what had happened to me, she had cherished a feeling that she loved or could have loved me. The thought found it cold. "I do believe you.| "Don Please! I shouldn‘t have spoken." ’ "I â€"a "You are always justified. I‘ve found Thank that out." his frid "Mailia came in. She was in white, ‘""On| a filmy creature like a wraith, but hCI'ihave a face was a hunting‘s cat‘s face. She know was laughing, very softly. She came his pi: in and closed the door, and passed me Montal closely and went to the window. | least it "She told me that Ralph had begged They her for his sake, for (Barbara‘s Sake"which for every decent thing left in our tired'only a old house, to go away and leave Montâ€" them alban in peace. He was abject, she . into th said: I believe her. Nothing less could was no have made her so happy. sible n "She told me that she was going t0 | started stay in spite of everything, to MAFTY |peen q Charles and damn him. It was then , ‘*Can you forgive me for that? Later on, perhaps, when you‘re not so near to the case. Believe me I held Rolph clear every moment. . I could have saved him whenever it became necesâ€" sary. Ralph was never in any danger. Nor are you, Lawrence. Nor is my father." * Molly put her hand upon his, and found it cold. "I do believe you. Please! T shouldn‘t have spoken." there that shq fell." "It was from there that she was thrown. Let‘s be strictly truthful. Yet â€"It was so obvious, wasn‘t it, to beâ€" lieve that she had fallen from her own windowâ€"because the window was open â€"50 wWas Imine, so was every window in the house on that glorious night!â€" and because the hour was one in the morning.. So much can be taken for grantedâ€"and so fatallyâ€"â€"" "So very nearly fatally in this case," said Molly suddenly and fiercely. "I‘m thinking of Ralph." ‘*Can you forgive me for that? Later on, perhaps, when you‘re not so near to the case. Believe me I held Rolph "Yes," she said. "I knowâ€"I‘ve known since yesterday. But please go on." "I was in my room thenâ€"my bedâ€" room on the second floor. The time was round about one o‘clock in the morning. I had been reading, and I didan‘tâ€"I don‘t nowâ€"know the exact time, but at most this was from five to 10 minutes before she screamed. Let‘s time it from that. That was the moâ€" tive moment, after all, the moment that mattered. There was a knock on my door and Mailia‘s voice asked softly if she could come in." He caught the sharp gasp of Severn‘s indrawn breatii. "Do you begin to see?" ‘"Yes," said Severn "Yes I begin to see. Not her own window on the first floor at allâ€"but the window immeâ€" diately above it on the second floorâ€" the window of your room.. It was from there that shq fell." to see me reacting ta every subtlety of her speech, of her bearing, even of her thoughts. Few people have ever unâ€" derstood each other as she and I did. "On the night of her death, at the time of her death, I was in my room on tlie second floor." He looked up, and met Severn‘s startled glance full, and smiled. "With my own eyes," said Severn "I saw you come out of the trees on the far side of the lake, perhaps five minutes after she screamed." "All the sameâ€"I am not mad, my dear Lawrence. Miss Balcon, I thinks understands a great dealâ€"before I tell her. Severn looked at Molly. She was sitting with her hands tightly clenched in her lap, and her eyes fixed upon them blanklyv. ‘‘‘She came back, You know that, ot course. Now we come to the real crux of the matter. Some very unhappy things happened during that visit. Barbara was desperately unhappy. So was Ralph, for he loved his wife and was yet fascinated by Mailia. So was Charles, for he began to see things he had refused to see before. And yet I am quite sure she could have held him. You may weli wonder about Charles unless you knew Mailia. Dead she could be very soon forgotten, but alive she was a forceâ€"which could exâ€" clude everything else from your mind. "Little things happened in her train. Charles fell out with Lawrence here and with Ralph.. Nothing ever went right where she set her feet. And I was set apart. It was odd that, She never tried to draw me. I think she knew it was useless.. With Lawrenceâ€" be easy, my dearâ€"she failed utterly. With me, it was different. She had drawn me once, and the time was past; that was a thing which could not be repeated. She knew I knew her. She liked to see how I hated her. She loved there,. Charies is innocent. And the troubled her then: I believe sh« second time she came she took money,| have like to draw me after her. without pretence at all, shamelessly. more because she knew most c From my father, as I knew. From my that the time was past. I got it grandfather; as I thoughtâ€"â€"/" He|my chair and went to her. turned his head and looked at Severn. not afraid of me or of anyone "Yes, Sir John paid her five hundred you must know that. pounds," said Severn quetly. "I went to her, not saying : "I was sure of it, but I asked no quesâ€" | and I took her by the arms, and tions. Neither of them, 1 think, knew at her. She smiled qt me, and of the deal the other had made with | ‘leaned_ into my arm. *‘ I turned her. Each of them, of course, believed |the window, and told her to lo he had saved the house from disaster.| beautiful the nisht was, and sh The Montalabans have done most bad | | to say that it was very beautifu things in their time but they cannot‘I lifted her in one arm, and conceive of breaking their wordâ€"nor her mouth with my free han that the word pledged to them can be ‘threw her down." broken. It‘s one of our blind spots.| He stopped breathing lon They couldn‘t understand a creature painfully between his teeth, the like Mailia, who promised to leave |ory of that night more distres house and family alone, and in month now than ever she reallyv ha was back again, smiling and sleek and | feline, to trouble both. But I, though I‘m probably as blindly and pigâ€"headly | Montalban as any of them,had the advantageâ€"I knew Mailia, knew het through an through. there. Charles is innocent. And the second time she came she took money, without pretence at all, shamelessly. From my father, as T knew. From my grandfather; as I thoughtâ€"â€"/"‘ He turned his head and looked at Severn "There‘s news at last. I think you may take it, sir, that you‘ll hear no more about the French end of this business; and between you and me that rather knocks the bottom out of anyâ€" thing that could be built up against you here. You‘ve been straight with They were d which led acro only a single g them from it. v nave wWa know whe! his place, Montalban least its eIf wondert justified Molly tremblec at her : ‘"Don‘t "You don‘t need one any better," said severn. The nurse was in the room, her face still disapproving, her voice still stern. "I‘m sorry, but I can‘t allow any more talking. Mr. Montalban has to prepare for his operation at once. If you wouldn‘t mindâ€"â€"" "We were just going," said Molly. She rose, hesitated for a moment, and then advanced to the bedside, and took Roberts hand for an instant in her own. It was light and cool and limp. "Goodbye Robert. I hope. we shall be able to come and see you again in a very few days." "I hope so. More now than ever. Goodbyve Molly." When they entered the Montalban by the narrow wall, Severn and Molly dre gether. Instinctively they . At the first sight of the h« still beyond trees and the the gardens. Severn said s peacefully : Severn. "FTor me there is."‘ He closed his eves for a moment. "I don‘t know if T‘d somehow in my own mind thought out this murder long before. (At least I knew what to do.. She was no sooner gone from |between my hands than I stepped out on to the window sill and dived after her. It was a thing I had never atâ€" |tempted before; but the air was my ,'friend. and the water, too, and I had confidence in myself in those two eleâ€" ments.â€" Besides, I had nothing to lose but half a life. I dived after and over "You can trust me," said Severn. "I do absolutely. For everything else â€"for Molly‘s anxicties of mind on your account most of allâ€"I‘m sorry." He sighed. "I think I hear the nurse comâ€" ing to turn you out, I wish T. could have made myself a better case." | He stopped breathing long and ‘ painfully between his teeth, the memâ€" ory of that night more distressful to \him now than ever she really had been. A faint sweat broke out on his foreâ€" ‘‘The know."‘ but half a life. I dived after and over her, and into the lake. I swam across the width of the lake under water, and out among the trees by the outlet. When I emerged there were already several other people round her on the terrace. You were there, Lawrence. You saw me come out of the trees by the path. But no one thought to look for a head in the lake, no one noticed a slight splashâ€"I flatter myself it was very slightâ€"on the heels of the scream. It was not so difficult. The terrace, as you know is narrow and the height of my window not nearly so high as the trick dives at well equipped swimming pools. It was not so terrible a feat, at least for me. I trust air and water, only the land is my enemy." ‘"*"The "rest,;"‘ " said> Severn; ‘"even: I quire ai "Have y "There‘s T‘here GoOC a t hi: wWaVv _ on hi ombre VOouU af end will b t to her, not saying a word, |my beli k her by the arms, and looked| more he She smiled at me, and herself|pf a pri ito my arm. ‘ I turned her t0| pody ey ow, and told her to look how.pemd a the night was, and she bcqan' "No," at it was very beautiful. Then‘ "ng 1 her in one arm, and covered i1 » th with imy free hand, Sanpad he sight o 0st met in the kno ald frig wWwhen of Se J tered the ground of e narrow gate in the Molly drew closer toâ€" ely they linked arms. of the house, distant and the spread of ern said suddenly and ieed to go on but the air was my water, too, and I had ‘self in those two cleâ€" I had nothing to lose I dived after and ovetr PU i I believe she would me after her, all the knew most certainly past. I got up from t to her. She was his way I‘‘ve been He was Thank you. You gz things. Still I If I had been in have killed her. near the bridge ulet of the lake, trees separating ey walked almost ant Walden. He its, nor any posâ€" bring and they him, as if he had cted person they ‘rounds of Montâ€" but her hand He looked aown thing, ent now 1, Miss, too, MtI the ho jud but matter eâ€"only THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO said cie_\ Only 112 at Kirkland Lake lose Fill Out Department Forms at an Itaillan statesman ‘"France is more fortunate "Why?" inquired the It "Well, because we have pied zone."â€"Blairmore En i _ Sergeant Walden tipped his hat over ihis eyes in his old, approved manner, and departed silently by another path. Molly and Severn went on slowly toâ€" wards the house, their arms warmly linked, the sun brilliant over them and over the lake and the white stately house. They walked with their eyes lfixed upon the high facade of it, so gracious and so remote from the new Imore heard of this case. its too much |of a private affair. I don‘t think anyâ€" |body ever will know just what hapâ€" |pened at Montalban." ' "No," said Severn, slowly, fervently. ‘*‘no I really don‘t think they ever voisier was arrested other similar swindl« partner. Last week been formally inde sible mistake." Complaint being made to the Kirkâ€" land Lake council that there were 1,000 miners out of work and in need, it was decided to get particulars with a view to doing something about the situation. The C.ILO. representatives claimed that the mines were discriminating against these men and asked council to bring pressure on the mines to force the latâ€" ter to reâ€"employ the 1,000 men conâ€" cerned. With a view of getting the facts of the case, Kirkland council deâ€" cided to have the township welfare department, with the coâ€"operation of me, throughout, and I appreciate it They moved at a slow stroll t the bridge, and halted upon it matlter of policy with me," assured him grimly, "What ha in Paris, then? Did my pensio put me in the clear?" "Not exactly sir. But Raoul age Severn touched the folded papers in his picket. "He‘s right. For some reaâ€" son which has very little to do with reason, I‘m sure of that. No one, my dear, no one but you and I and one otherâ€"will ever know what really did happen at Montalban." (The End) kWA SQTrY, SIP, .1 den, still contriving found degree of sor duty to do." ‘"*Between you and me, Mr. Severn, there‘s nothing left to be done. Theory yes, and suspicion in plenty, but: it‘s my belief there‘ll never be anything more heard of this case. It‘s too much Severn threw back his head and laughed. "Obliging of him. 1 should like to tell him that I think his timing superb. Do you mean to tell me that I‘ve had all this heartâ€"burning for nothing, after all?" "So the Montalb tery still."" Sever latively upon the you propose to do OFFICE: 141 Main Ave., Timmins PHONE 583 Coal Dealer CLEAN FUEL _ CLEAN SERVICH 31 Wilson Avenue 28 First Avenue 10 Pine St. 8. 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