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•"n*4? j^*««««««««««««««««««««*€«««««««««««««««^ L Red Heart an^ Black Arrow I A Tale of Vac Rolling Wave »»»»>»»»»»»>»»»»>»»»;>»»»»>»>»»»»>»»»»»»»>»>»>« r;i*-' 4 I ^ 1 ) CHAPTER Xn. As to Vizard's identity with the stowaway there was no doubt in my jnind at all. His height and build Were similar, and allowing for the difference caused by the bushy black hair and whiskers which "Enrirrucz" had worn, the features I now saw were the same. In the wisdom that comes after the event I wondered that I had not recognized him before but it was the voice that did it. With difficulty I forced myself to give him a civil answer, having no wish in Aline's presence to demand the explanation 1 meant to have from hiai, and luckily he relieved me from the need for further caution by almost immediately going below to see the chief steward about his berth. One thing was very certain â€" whe- ther there was anything in Ken- nard's graver charges or no, the Queen of Night was too full of petty mystery for ray liking, and I made up my mind there and then to have an end of it. My discovery of Viz- ard's peculiai- conduct in coming aboard as a stowaway after booking a passage would furnish me with a quite legitimate excuse for raising the question of his relations with Zavertal, and after the rumpus that Was sure to ensure I hoped that the air would be cleared all round by a disclosure of anything that was not on the squar<» Being detained over some trifle I was a little late for dinner that night, and when I entered the saloon the company was alreaBy seated. Here and there at the tables there were a few g'apK, owing to several of -the passengers preferring to dine on shore, and I was somewhat dis- turbed to see that both Zavertal's and "General Waldo's" chairs were ampty. In view of my approaching Interview with Vizard I was partic- ularly anxious to see and consult Kennard, the more so as the verifi- cation of his prophecy that I should hear more of the stowaway within forty-eight hours seemed to indicate that he understood far better than I what was going on. Though ho had no knowledge of Vizard, he must have foreseen that the stowaway would come round from BarceJona to Genoa by rail and make another attempt to board the ship. Without in any degree shaking my conviction as to his identity, one fact with regard to Vizard filled me with a sense of the difficulty of the task before me. He seemed to be well known to at least a dozen of the jiassciigers, and from the re- marks made by some of those near me I gathered that he was an en- ormously wealthy man and quite a personage in London society. This made no dilTercnce to my intention to have it out with him after din- ner : he had pointed a pistol at my boat's crew, and he had threatened me personally^-cccenricitics which, 6o long as 1 commanded the ship, I did not mean to go unpunished, no matter how powerful the perpetrator â€" hut I foresaw that his popularity and position might place serious obstacles in the way of getting rid of him. If he denied having come a'boarx.1 as a stowaway, people would be more likely to believe him than me ; while if he admitted it lightly, as having been done as a practical joke, I would probably be expected to pass it over. And that was just what I would rather chuck up the conmiand than do. During dinner 1 watched Vizard closely as he chatted easily with a London banker and his wife, next whom he had procured a seat on the ground of previous acquaintance. He ga^o me the impression of having an iron will, and his face in repose, I thought, would be a cruel one. but as it always appeared to be covered with a stereotpyed "society" 1 smile, I had no chance of fathoming : its capacity of expression. I was i glad that he sat at the other table ; and that I was not called upon to : converse with him, for once or j twice I caught him eyeing me in a way that was almost a challenge. I Indeed, it seemed as if he were I actually courting recognition, so \ obviously did he seek to meet my ; gayo. j As soon as the saloon was cloaxed, i instead of joining the passengers on deck I went straight to my room, and, ringing up my own steward, sent him to ascertain whether either Doctor Zavertal or "General Waldo" or both, had returned to tlic ship. In each case the answer was in the negative. Without a moment's hesi- tation, for the man's covertly de- fiant bearing' in the saloon had put my back up, I despatched the stew- ard to Vizard with "Captain For- rester's compliments, and he would be glad if he would come to the captain's room." Then I sat down and waited, full of righteous indigna- tion, and determined to comnaand my own ship. In less than two minutes there was a tap at the door, and Vizard step- ped into the cabin. His smile had vani.shed, leaving his face very hard and stern ; but though he looked alertly expectant, lie showiKl no traces of the surprise which a pas- senger suddenly summoned to the captain's cabin in such a high-hand- ed way would naturally have felt if ignorant of the cause. This strength- ened me in the accusation I was going to make, and I spoke with confidence. "I have sent for you, Mr. Vizard," I said, "because I recognized you the moment you came on board this evening. What do you mean by shipping as a stowaway, and then when I land you as such, by threatening my crew and myself with a revolver ?" "It is always open to a man to place his own constructions on the actions of another," was the reply, spoken sneeringly, which almost took my breath away. It was tan- tamount to an admission, and his manner l>ad nothing of t'le practical joker about it. I felt that whatever his motive had been, whatever his schemes were, that they had been conceived and carried out in grim earnest. "And the constructions that I put upon your conduct, sir, are such that I decline to take you as a passenger," I replied hotly. "The steward shall render you every as- f^istance. but a boat will be ready- to take you and your baggage ashore in fifteen minutes." The notice to quit \7as received with a sarcastic bow. "It has not dawned upon you, my worthy Captain, that the con- structions which your owners may put upon your conduct, in forcibly landing a passenger whom they have contracted to carry, may cause them to dispense with your services ?" he said. "Damn the owners !" I retorted, and I remembered afterwards the X»*gi Coughs, G As Well at Croup, Bronchitis and Whooping Cough are Quickly Cured by DR. CHASE'S SYRUP OF LINSEED AND TURPENTINE. The virtue of this great prescrip- tion of Dr. Chase is so well known hi Canadian homes that it seems usck'ss to do more than remind you that it ha.-* n larger sale and is cur- ing more people than ever before. Mrs. J. W. Lloyd, Albion street, Bcllevillo, Ont., states; "In the beginning of last winter I took a \cry severe cold, accom'panied with a bad cough, and was almost laid up (or a lime. I tped several remedies, but with intltfTcrent re- hnills. On the advice of a friend 1 got a botlle of Dr. Chaye's Syrup of Linseed and Turjientine. and found tliat it relieved the cough at once. By the time I had taken' the one botvle my cold was gone, and I can truthfully re<;onimend it as a splen- did remedy for coughs and colds." Mrs. A. A. Vanbuskirk. Uobinson husband is carpentw on the I.C.R., states: "Tor years I have used Dr. Chase's Syrup of Liusccd aud 'I\ir- pontine for my children wh«uevcr they take cold. I used it first with • ne of my children suffering with a severe form of asthma. It sottmed as though ths least QX^K>sure to cold or dampness woild bring on an at- tack of this di.sease. I began using this medicine, and m,ust say that 1 found it most excellent. We have never tried anylhiug in the way of a rough raedicire that worked so sat- isfactorily. It Been;»d to go right to the diseased parts and brought speedy relief " Do not be .satm4ied with ioutatlons or sub.stitutes. The portrait and signature of Dr. A. W. Chose i.s on every bottle of the genuine. 2n cents a bottle, family si'/c (three timr.^ as much) 60 cents at all dealers, OJ curious smile with which he heard the expletive. "If you can settle it that way with them, do so by all means. I wouldn't sail under own- ers who would back up a masquer- ading mountebank of a stowaway- no matter what his position â€" against their captain. Come, sir, you had best go and see about your things. The boat will be manned and ready on the port side in ten minutes." "Very well, I will go," he replied, drawing himself up to his full heig'ht and turning to die door, but pausing on the threshold to say : "â- you alleged just now that I threatened you at Barcelona. Do you recollect the words of my threat •.'" I Wanted no more truck with him, so merely nodded . "Then, speaking entirely without prejudice, you can consider those words as still in force and as exactly defining the position," he said as he left the cabin. Ten minutes later I had the satis- faction of seeing him into the boat, which I took care was not manned by any of the crew who had put him ashore at Barcelona. The third mate went in charge, and I gave him a hint that he had a tough customer to deal with and had better slip a pistol into hi.s pocket. I was curious to see if Vii^ard would make any protest or explanation before the passengers, but, so far as I know, he held no communication with any one from the time of leaving the captain's room to that of going over the side. As the boat shot out into the dark- ness towards the twinkling lights of the city, he â- waved his hand jauntily to me, and I heard him laugh. In half an hour the boat returned, and the third officer reported that Vizard had given him no trouble whatever. He had not alluded to the circumstances under which he was being put ashore, but had chat- ted civilly on trifles, and had finish- ed up by giving the boat's crew a sovereign to drink his health. On the part of such a man this com- placency sti-uck me as ominous. Naples was our next port of call, and I determined to keep a good look-out for him there. I'"or the moment, however, I was rid of the undesirable passenger, and I was free to turn my attention to a matter of m.ore immediate interest. This was the non-return of Zavertal, who, when I turned in at eleven o'clock, was still absent from the ship. Kennard, also, was still on shore, but from what he had said, I regarded this as mcre'y a conse- quence of the doctor's absence, and in any case, as a passenger, he was entitled to a freedom of action which was hardly the privilege of an officer paid to discharge medical duties. To my mind, the doctor's conduct in spending' the night on shore without leave constituted, to say the least of it, a breach of discipline, though whether, in the peculiar organization sanctioned by the owners, he would consider it so was doubtful. In the morning he was still ab- sent, and at ten o'clock I had heard nothing of him or his "shadow," though they wore both awaix» that the ship was to proceed on her voy- age at noon. Another half-hour passed, and I was thinking of send- ing on shore to the Hotel de Cenes. which Zavertal had mentioned as the place of meeting with his friend, when a shore boat came alongside, bringing a letter addressed to jne in his handwriting. Tearing it open, I read as follows : â€" "Uritish Considate, Genoa, "June 24, 1S93. "Dear Captain Forrester, "I am detained here in an ex- tremely awkward dilemma, from which your presence can alone ex- tricate me. "May I beg of you. on receipt of this, to come ashore at once to the Consulate, where you will lind mo anxiouslynwaiting you. The alTair will not take long to settle, and there i.s no reason why the sailing of the ship should be delayed if you act at ouce. "Yours respectfully. "LUCIUS ZAVERTAL." There was only one thing to be don?, and that was to go and got him out of pawn whatever his trouble might be, or, failinj^ that, to secure the services of another medical ofliccr. I'^or a pleasure- cruiser, with between two and three hundred people on board, many of them considering thcmsc-Ive.s in- valids, to put to sea v;ithout a doc- tor would be an impossibility. The boat that had brought the letter was still alongside, and I decided to go in her in preference to waiting" while my gig was manned. After informing the chief officer of the contents of Zavertal 's letter, I put a sum of money in my pocket in case of need, and went to.wards the boat. Cin my way along the deck I met Aline and told her that I was going to fetch the doctor, who had l)een detained by business on shore. "I wish you would leave him. be- hind then, Cyril," she said. "I can- not bear that man." "Why â€" what has ho been doing ?" I asked, in some surprise, for I had noticed that Zavertal had been par- ticularly civil and deferential to her and Mrs. Brinkworth. "Oh. nothing very much ; only he is always pestering me to take his medicines when I am perfectly well and don't require them," she replied. This picte of Information was so now, and. moreover, fitted in so compactly with the horrid thought that had crossed my mind as to Zavertal's possible reasons for men- tioning the three "serious cases," that it occupied me all the way to the landing-place. Taken in con- junction with the doctor's strange detention at the Consulate, the only conclusion I could deduce from it was that Kennard bad made some important discovery which had war- ranted his applying to the author- ities, but how Zavertal could sup- pose that I should be either able or willing to liberate him under such circumstances was bcyonJ my under- standing. The two nimble Italian boatmen made short work of the distance, and I was soon walking across the Piazza Cavour to the Consulate. From my early studies of detective literature, I had half expected to see Kennard hanging about the door in his disguise, but he was nowhere visible. Only the usual streams of ships' captains, seamen, and mer- chants' clerks jostled each other going and coming through the swing-doors leading into the wait- ing-room, of the busiest Consulate in Europe. On my entrance, I wrote my name and business, so far as it was describable, on a slip, and gave it to an attendant who vanished with it into another room, to return almost immediately with the wel- come news that the Consul would .see me at once. A moment later I was ushered into the presence of her Majesty's representative. My first impulse on entering was to look around for Zavertal, but a glance showed that there '^vas no one in the private room besides the Consul himself, seated at his desk, and a clerk writing at a side table. Curbing my surprise, I pulled myself together in time to return the official's salutation. "You have called. Captain For- rester, in consequence of a com- munication from your medical offi- cer, I think," the Consul said, and I remembered afterwards the look of keen inquiry with whicli he eyed me. "Yes ; I understood that Doctor Zavertal was here," I replied. "So he is : you will see nim, pre- sently," returned the Consul. "There is a matter about which I want to question you first. A gentleman named Vizard has been here to lodge a complaint against you, Captain, for refusing to carry him on your steamer, although he has paid his fare. He says you accuse him of having been a stowaway from Lon- don to Barcelona â€" or something of the kind. " "And so he was, sir," I replied. "Why. he as good as admitted it last night. There is no doubt he is the same man whom I landed. If Doctor Zavertal is here, he should be able to corroborate me." "Doctor Zavertal has alceady seen Mr. Vizard," said the Consul curt- ly. '"One more nuestion. Have you any accusation or chaige to make against the doctor '.'" From the Consul's tone and man- ner I guessed that Zavertal had taken sides against me, by pretend- ing to fail in recognizing Vizard as Enrique'^. X began to have an uneasy feeling that something had been got up for me, and this so raised my gorge that I answered rashly, â€" "Not exactly an accusation â€" at least, not yet," I blurted out. "But I believe him to bo a scheming, luiderhand scoundrel. I cannot put it into words, but I only know that the ship has been chock full of mys- teries and disguises and con- spiracies over since she left port, and they can all be traced to this man." "Ah. that about settles it then," said the Consul decisively. "If you will step in there. Captain, you will find that I have arrived at a practical solution of the dilSculties that are worrying you." He pointed to a baize-covered door at the opposite end of the room from that at which 1 had enteri-d. and in my anxiety for a speedy set- tlement of the Vizard affair I made for it in all haste, my impression being that it would lead to an iinier apartment where I should perhaps lind other parties to the controversy in which I was now apparently in- volved. Directly I opened the door I saw, by a wall four feet in front of mc. that I was mistaken. The place in which I found myself was a narro'w passage, passing the door in each direction to the right ajid left. Before 1 could note more, a number of faces closed in upon me on either hand. I was violently seized by stron.g arms, a pungent cloth was pressetl to m.v nostrils, and I felt myself becoming quickly powerless in mind and body. But as my senses left uie, the last definite objects presented to my fad- ing sight were the features of Vizard and Zavertal standing out distinct and triuiuphaut among the crowd of olivc-skinneil, imknown faces that hemmed me in on every side. Then I struggled hard. but my limbs rcfustKl to answer to m.v will, my ears buzzed and roared like the engines of a tramp steamer, darkness and silence swooped down upon me, and I knew no more. (To Be Continued.) THE SPKING FEELING. Weariness, Lassitude and a Desire to Avoid Exertion. There ore few people who have not wcp«rienred what is aptly termed the spring feeling. Languor and weariness, loss of appetite, touchei of iudigestion, pimples and irrita- tion of the skin. They all comi with the spring. All these ills art baniahod by Dr. Wlliiojns' Pink Pills, rhey earich the blood, brace up the nerves, and charm away all spring wearinoaa. Dr. Williams Pink Pilla ire the best tonic medicine in the world. 'ITiuy make new, rich, rod blood; strungthen men and women ind make the roses of henlili bloom on pallid cheek.?. Here is proof: Miss Catherine Johnston, Gardm-r Mines. S. 13., says: "1 wa.i very niucli run Jown, and so weak that I would fre- quently have to liu down. My appe- tite was poor ajid food disluateful. 1 often sii/Tcreri from hcatlucho.-^. and che least exertion left rue coniplutely used up. I used a few boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and smce tlien I have felt like a new person. I do not know of any medicine equal to these pills." In tliia climrtte a tonic is an abso- lute necessity In spring, and health will be gained and money saved b.v using only Dr W'illlamB' Pink Tills. Don't take a substitute or some- thing else said to be "juKt as good." Tf in doubt send to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., BrocUville. Ont., and the pills will be mailed )M}St paid at 50 cents per box or six boxes for $2..'J0. ♦- SIAMESE TYPEWRITERS. How many typewriter operators know that machines have been in- vented for peoples using more than twenty-live ditierent languages? 'fr-e latest patent is the Arabic type- writer, with a keyboard no larger than the one we use in this country, although the Arabic of textbooks is described as having 638 different characters. A single typewriter company advertises "one hundred ytylcs in twenty-six languages." Many of these languages, of course, have nearly the sajiie ciiaracters as the English. For instance, the French, Spanish, and Scandinavian machines are like ours, except that the ke.vboards contain certain ac- cents tliat are not needed by us. The German, Greek, and Russian key- boards, of course. have their dis- tinctive characters, but the number of keys is practically tl'.e .same in every case. Tiiere arc special ma- chines for writin.g Gaelic. There is another machine with a keyboard of Burmete characters, as well as one for the Siamese. SMOKING UNDER WATER. 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The winner received the sum oi 12 guineas, which is annually i>resenfed to a servant-maid who has kept her situation lor two years and ui> warvls. u