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v -- The Price of Liberty OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL 1.1.111. l,r,ij gnzjiLJUt"''' •'•"'•''" CHAPTER XI.TI. Whilst events were moving rapidly outside, time at Longdean Grange eeemed tcf stand still. The dust and Mrs. Hcnson's lips. She waa tmn* bling from head to foot with a btrange agitation. Hhe gazed at the ring aa a thirsty man in a des- trt might have looked on a draught ol cold spring water. She stretched out her hand, b«it Henson drew bacHc. "I thought you had not forgotten it," he smiled. "It mean.s much to you, honor, peace, happiness â€" your son roBtored to his proper place in the world. Last time I was here t wanted money, a mere bagatelle to you. Now I want £10,000. ' "No, no," Mrs. Henson cried. BBITISE COLUlfBIA. CsLoadian Rockies Not So Hig^ as Was Tbougbt. In no I>art of tho worKl excepting Alaska has titurc been luore rapid progrees in gvograplxical explorutioo. in tbe paiA fdw years thtui in BrrlBiA Coluimlyia. The latest facts concern a nuuiber of new passes through the Rocky Ifountains. tJOine readers may be surpriseil that there should be anythiiitg left m British Colun^ia to thacover. The fact is that Uio Govcnanesit surveys MICE AND RATS MIGRATE TH£ WANDEBXBTG WAYS WELD UCFE. OV "You will ruin meâ€" £10.000! What I are yet far from covering tho larjjer do you do with all the money? You j part of that big region. The line almo.it roughly by the shoulders and pushed her into the drawing-room. There was something coming, she knew. It was a relief a minute or the desolatibn were ever there", the I two later to hear Williamss whistle I exooae vou gloom brooded like an evil spirit, as he crossed the courtyard Henson | J«".?*. ''"^ f, <=°''11 "P"-" y°". And yet it was but the calm before knew nothing of Van Sueck s pre- j .?i , ^ , A ^ „. ,^. the storm that was coming to ban- sence, nor was he likely to do so ^^^'^'^^^ £10 OOo!" ish the hoary old spectres for good. °°^: ,, „ .•! cannot Yon will ruin m« Still; Enid felt the monotony to J'^oa are forgetting yourseU," Hav,^"^ not IZ eno"gh? oTve profess to give it all to charity. But ; geographical work that a aussion- I know better. Much you give away j ary has recently b«en doing shows that more may come back from it. that there are still opportunities for But that money you get from a ere- I discoiverv in this part of the Doinin- d'Jlous public. And I could expose ; joq. be as maddening as ever. There v/ere times when she rebelled passionately against the solitude of the place. There were moments to her when it seemed that her mind couldn't stand the strain much longer. But she had hope, that blessed leg- acy ».o the sangjuinc and the young. And there were times when she would creep out and see Ruth Gates, <J^o found the Rottingdean Road very convenient for cycling just now. And there was always the anticipa- tion of a telephone message from Chris. Originally the telephone had been established so that the house- V â-  Id could be run without the in- : ision of tradesmen and other strangers. It had seemed a great anomaly at the time, but now Enid blessed it every moment of the day. And she was, perhaps, not quite so nothing of Van Sueck's pre- nor was he likely to do so now "You are forgetting yourself," Enid said. "How dare you touch me like that?" "By heavens," Henson whispered, vehemently, "when I consider how I have been fooled by you I wonder that I do not strike the life out of you. Where is your sister?" Enid assumed an air of puzzled surprise. She raised her eyebrows, coldly. But it needed no very bril- liant intelligence to tell her that i Henson had discovered something. | "I had only one sister," she said, "and she is " | "Dead! Rot. Xo more dead than I am. A nice little scheme you had put up together with that scribbling ass David Steel. But Steel is going to get a lesson not to interfere in my affairs and you are going to get one also. Where is your sister?" Despite his bullying triumph there me the ring. Henson smilingly held the gem aloft. Mrs. Henson raised her arm with the dust rising in choking clouds around her. Then with an activity astonishing in one of her Father Morice, whose imssion sta- tion is on the .shores of Lak^e .Stuart nearly in the centre of the Province, bias been travelliurg many hundreds of miles in a canoe, mapiping all the streams, lakes, mountains aaui val- leys in the upp.-r basin of th-e Net- djukihoh lUvcr. A Une nvap of his discoveries, which hns just tjeeu pub- lished by the Neurhatel Geographi- cal Society of Switzerland, shows unhappy ' as she deemed herself to i ""s something nervous and anxious come over her again; she laughed and she cried as she sped on into the bushes, followed by Henson. In his fear and desperation the latter had quite forgotten the dogs. He was in the midst of them, they were clustered round himself and Mrs. Henson before he was aware of the fact. "Give me the ring," he said. "You oim, Q'jsiy panes; me monoioaous, -"s" "^^•^y/^ "•»" ">-.v ucv-u <4uii.c iw> .__â- , v,-.„ :» ,.„» c^â„¢- j„,, t .,:ii voice of M^s. Henson droned in the old self. It was easy to see that he^^l^^i'^^ '* \^*;, ^^^^ Jhll T drawing-room. It was what Williams' had found out a great deal, but i^<> l^^ZJJoumhlr^Jn ^^lllou ..»n^ „„. „» ♦.,- ..„u_ i„^..'»! had not found out wh^rp Phria „». anybody should happen to see you years she sprang upon Henson and!'°^"y details that have Ijoen seen on tore the ring from his grasp. The i "° previous map. Lake Morice, for thing wa.i so totally unexpected from i '^'''""P^'^' ^^^^^ 's not found on the the usually gentle lady that Henson •»' est atlas sheets of Briti^ Cclum- coiild only gasp in astonishment. ] ^a-- 'S fifty miles long, and 777 feet "I have it," Mrs. Henson cried. "I -deep. [ have it, and I am free!'' ! The new passes in the Uockies I Henson sprang towards her. With , have been s*.-U(Hed by a party of j a quick, fleet step she crossed to the Grand Trunk Pacilic en-gineors who ] window and fled ait into the night, ihave bcon ei»ga(;ed in the work A . raging madness seemed to have ; about a year. A newspaper has re- ported that this partv has discover- ed the Smoke River, Porcupine. Red Deer. WapHIti and Pine River passes. be. She had her lover back again, now, with his character free from every imputation. The sun straggled in through the ahout the tone of the question. It was not quite like Henson to let his adversary see that he had scored a point. But since the affair of the dim, dusty panes; the monotonous: ^Jogs Henson had not been quite his called one of the unhappy lady's; •>»<* "«* found out where Chris was "days." Sometimes she was quiet ' y**- , and reasonable, at other times the "I know nothing," said Enid. "1 dark mood hung heavily upon her. | shall answer no questions." She was pacing up and down the! "y'ery well. But I shall find out. drawing-room, wringing' her hands! Accident put me^n the Jrail first. and whimpering to herself. Enid had i -^"d I hare beea^ to see that man I â- lipped into the grounds for a little j Walker. He never saw your sister j fresh air; the house oppressed her] after her 'death,' nor did the under-! terribly to-day. The trim lawns and j taker. .-Vnd I might have met . my ' but this statement is not quite cor- rect. All these great posses through the HocTcies to the north of the Canadi- an Pacilic R-ailroad have been known to exist fcr some time, but the en- gineers have been the first to stiady them in detail, and ther now re- port that t-hey are all available for Mrs dogs Henson merely laii^hed. ITie j ^^I'^x^- **^ "««, '?^''^'<^t . ^ were gambolling around Uke h^^,'^'"'" '''^''^' S^"^*" ^f'* that some so many kittens. They did not «eem I °' *he passes are wide enough for to heed Henson in the jov of her pre- aouole tracks. sence. He came on again, he made ' ^^'^ scheme of the Canadian Paci- a grab for her dress, but the rotten i fi<= Railroad was lauighed at as im- fabric parted like a cobweb in his i P'^ct'oa*!?. "iitil the^ great gateway blazing flower-beds were a pleasing contrast to the misery and disorder of the hoi-ise. Enid passed on into the shadow of the plantation. A little farther on nearer the wall the dogs seemed to be excited about something. Wil- liams' rusty voice could be heard ex- postulating with some intruder. By him stood a man who, though fairly well dresseu, looked as if he had slept in his garments for days. There hand. A warning grunt came one of the dogs, but Henson no heed. "Give it me," he hissed; will tear it from you." (To be Continued.) gave I or KICHES IN THE OCEAN. from sea water die hard, but j there has been some dealin-gs while n the death at the fangs of that dog you put upon me. What a fool Walker was." Enid looked up .anxiously. Had Walker said anything about a second opinion? Had he betrayed to Hen- son the fact that he had been back- ed up by Hatherly Bell? Because they had taken a deal of trouble to conceal the fact that Bell had been in the house, "t'r. Walker should have called in was a dazedT puzzled, absent espres-i another opinion," she said, mocking- Bion on his face. My- , . .,.,.... j- ., j "You might have been killed,"! 'The man was too conceited for ' ^"ares of the latest syndicate formed Williams croaked. "If you hadn't ^ that, suid you know it, " Henson itlius to obtain the precious metal, stood still they dogs would have I growled; "and finely you played up- pulled you to pieces. How did you I "n his vanity." get here?" ! Enid was satisfied. Walker had " â-  evidently said nothing about Bell; and Henson, though he had just come from Littimer, knew nothing about Chris. "You have made a statement," she said, "and in reply 1 say nothing. You have t'husen to assume that my sister is still alive. Well, it is a free country, and you are at liberty to think as you please. If we had anything to gain by the course you suggest " "Anything to gain! burst out angrily. '•Everything to gain. One whom I deemed to be .. ^ . ^ -r.nnnnr.rvr, dead is free to follow me to pry into i If *'"*aU-d at 0-00,000,000 cubic my affairs, scheme, I presume. If ' you and your sister and Miss Gates hadn't talked so loudly that day in the garden I might not " "Have listone<l," said Chris, cold- ly. "Ears like a hare and head like a cat. But you don't know every- thing, and you never will. You scoundrel, you creeping, crawling (rQjji â- â-  through "Kicking Horse Pass was discovered. It is now known that furtdrer north there are several other passes lower than those which the Camadiaai Pacific uses aowl that tihrey will ajoply suffice for all of Canadda's railroad needs througli the moun- tains. Explorations- 01 the past few years show that the oW ideas of the London Lancet Says Sea Holds ' '"^'S^^s of tire leading peaks of tho 100,000,000,000 Tons Gold. I Caioaidian Rockies were much exag- I geratcd. P«aiks stiU appear on some Old schemes for extracting goM [of t^ m^ps 33 from 15.000 to 17.- 'I'vo lost it," the stranger mut- tered. "I've lost it somwhere, and I shall have no rest till I find it." "Well, go and look in the road," Williams, suggested, smoothly. "Nothing ever gets lost here. Just you hop over that wall and try your luck ontsude." Enid came forwai-d. Evidently the ;.\truder was no stranger to her. Williams started to explain volubly. Hut Enid cut him short at once. "A most extraordinary thing has happened," she said. "It is amazing that this man. should come hero of all places. Williams, this is the man . Van Sneck. "What, the chap as was wounded in the hospital, uiiss?" "The same. 'Vbe man is not in full possession of his senses. .•Vnd if Re- ginald Henson finds him now it is likely to go hard with him. He must be taken into the hau.se ^ and looked after until I can coniuiuni- few people in British Stock Ex- chamge circles are disposed to re- gard the venture as more tlmn a scientific experiment. Now. tho suggestion tor collecting gold from the &ea conies from ra- ther a reimiarkable (*uiartei'> â€" namely, I the Loudon Lancet, in which an ar- ticle holds out most marvelous en- couragement to the compiaray pro- moter. Tho articlt> sa.vs the estimate that a ton of sea watvr cont'aius appro-xi- mately one grain of goW, the yiokl Henson '"o"'*' anKnnit to scowthin^ liiCf 200 tons of gold per cubic mile, and as ' the volume of the world's ocean is the m, O'V^t Facta About the B.eni*rkabXe Mi- gration of tho Lemmings. "Hte fable of the country nvytise and Ofae town mouse has a foumda- tion in fact. Mice occanonally mi- grate in large nunabers when toad grows scarce, and travel consider- able distances to frs^ houses. Farmers in a part of Perthshire, Scotland, bad a good reason to be- come aware of tdzia fact when, a couple of years a^o, vast swams of mice invaded their cornfields at har- vest time. But the mouse only travels irtion it has to. The rat, cm the contrary seems to take a yearly outing, in very much Che sanw fashion as do human beings. Ra;ts are the most migratory creatures in the world. TWholo trOops of ra'ts leave tha towns at the <?nd of summer, aaXl spend a mortth or two in the country, ap- parenrtly in order to enjoy the diango of food wbiah the country affords at Chat time of year in the way of fresh fruit and grain. Before the cold weather sets in t4>ey are all back in their oM quarters. 'Reindeer migrate with the same regutarity as swallows. They nnorve south when winter sets In. but as soon as ever the snow begins to melt they travel steadily north, sometimes for as much as a thou- sand miles. A RACE FOR DEATH. To end a holiday by deliberata suicide is .90 strange a phenomcnom that for a long time nat'unalists lookeKi upon the stories of the mi- gration of the lemmings as on Im- probable fiction. Yet the facts are beyoDd di.>jpute. At irregular inter- â- Vals these nat-like creatures start out from their homes in tiic fast- nesses of Northern Scajidinavia in huge droves, numbering tens of thousands, and travel steadily south- wartfs. Death pursues them in a huardred forms. Hawks and other birds of prey hover above thom. Foses. wolves, and man decimate tihera. Thousands are drowned in rivers. Yet the rest strug^a on ui»- til they reach the sea. They do not .stop. They plintge in. swim out, artd struggle on. until at last their strvrjgttfli fails, and they drown. Not one ever returns from this jour- ney of deatlf. This extraordirtai-y migration of the len>mn'rtp5 has long been a pi.izzl» to naturalists. One curious e.xpJa- nation that has been oi'fered is that the Uttle beasts, stimulated by in- herited instinct, are stri\-ing to reach long-lost winter quarters in the lost ContincTTt of .\.tlairtic, which now lies deep buried benoach the waters of the .Atlantic Ocean. Who would dream of a crab trav- ellinif an.v considerable disbaace? Yet recent investigation shows that crabs go right out to sea in winter, and only come in to shore agam when spring returns. At Beadnell, near the Feme IslaT>ds, 124 marked craljs were liberated in October, 1902. Twelve have since been re- cate with somebody 1 can trust. Mr. I scoundrel! If I only dared to speak. Steel, I think. He must be got back; '^ ^ cared less for the honor of this to the hospital It is the only place ""happy family where' he is safe.' Van Sneck seemed to be looking on with the vacant stare of the mind- less. He suffered himself to be led to the house, where he was fed like a child. It was in vain that Enid plied him with all kinds of quos- i tions. would If you could only get the ring," said Henson, with a malicious sneer. "But the ring is gone. The ruby ring lies at the bottom of the North Sea." Some pa.s.sionate, heedless words rose to Enid's lips, but she checked He had lost somethingâ€" he i *•>«""• -^" '*'^' ^"""1'* ^° °°w *as have no peace till he had' !;° watch and wait till darkness. \ an found it. This of his cry. window in ne.xt moment to occupy her mind. Itegii son was coming up the drive. Just for an instant Enid felt inclined to despuic. "Williams," she crie<l. "Mr. Hen- son is here. On no account must he see ou* unfortunate visitor, lie can- not possibly know that \ an Sneck is here; the whole thing is an acci- dent. I am going down into the hall. I shall contrive to get Mr. Henson into the drawing-room. Without delay ,vou must smuggle Mr. Van Sneok into your apartments over the stable. You will be iwr- fectly .safe if you go down the back stairca.se. .Vs soon as the drawing- room door cU>.ses. go." Sneck musj be got out of the way miles the total l>03sible yieki of gold would be no less than 100,000,- 000.000 tons. The Lancet goes on to observe it should be borne In mind, however, that the original, observations as to the sea containing gold were made on waters which wash the shores of a gold-l*earing countryr-nanH.'ly. New South Wales. "Still tidue, no doiJbt. " it con- tinues, "suffices to elTect tihe unifonu di.stributlon of the mineral salts of [the sea. althaugh the coniposition of sea water varies with the locality from which it is takcti. "We should have thought that an emim-ntly practical experiment in this direction before now wouW havo been unilortaken by the groat steam- ship companies. 'Most stoannshipe OOO'lfct above the sea. Dr. Hector recently wrote that probaibly none of the mountains of British Columlbia ri.ses above 13, OOO or 13,500 feet. Outrani. Collie eatd about a doaen other men have with- in the past ten years ascended niajiy of the higrh peaks of the Canadian Ro<;kies artd made oliservations to ascertain their altitude. The re- sult is a decidefi decrwise in the previously accepted altitmle of a i caught. One of these was picked up nunnber of the highest mountains of iggg vhsai a year later only seven miles south of Aberdeen! INSECT INVADERS. If it were not for tho migrations of lish. our food supply would suffer severely. Each year the herrings i come down from the unknown North Union ; past our coasts, and are caught in I their millions. Curiously enough, during the past few years the shoals ha\'e been taking eaoh year nwre these raufjes. Good CAPE- C Also LINE Progress Towards Being Made. In a description of the progress which is being made with the Cape .,.,., j ,.._ to Cairo telegraph, a writer in the "-"d »W'-"'o''therly tracks. a«d there Glas-gow Herald states that the line!'^ a givat discussion as to whether has now reache<i Udjidji, the capital i they are pennaitently altonng thoir and chief town of German East j route. .\frica, which is on the eastern shore Salnjon, of course, go up rivers of -Lake Tanganyika. " For the ! every year to lay their eggs. The moment construction work is sus- i seahti-out, tihe sturgeon, the sea-Iom- ponded while the route northward isjprey. asnid the eel all act in the same carefully surveyed and the sections fashion. of the line that have been ei-ectcd are got into thorough working order. From a purely coiumerciol point of view the line is fully coming up to, if not exceeding, the expectations that were formed concerning it. When the work of construction is recoiu- nienced the route will probably be along the eastern shore of the Vic- toria Nyan/.a, and will then strike due north to the town of Kosares. rnuiost point of •graph .system. A •fTected here be- take Van Sneck away. Later on she '"te''f*''-ing seriously could send tho nies.sage. j gress of tho ship. Van Sneck had eaten a fairly I "'^ couple of large copper plates good meal, so Williams .said. and '"'•"'P«'^«l '" *•« '"^ aiKl connect*! had fallen into a heavy sleep. There ^'th dynamo.i would serve as clec- [ pr^.p^ralions for carrying it forward! .... was nothmg for it but to wait and trortes ancl^ collect gold containtxl <n j ^^ Vdjidji, ina.smuch as the country | with the pro- . ,' ."^..^*'«,^"^''"""«:once j^. year it tnaveK for a "Cape to Cairo telegraph j ^.j^^,,^ *^ will then be an accomplished fact. ' The engineers of the line are, how ever, faced with a difficulty in their', FIVE HUNDRED "V rnsects. too. migrate at times in linnKmse nujrtbers. Rv'ery year, dhir- ing the month of .Time, the dwcllei-s in Panahiia see Vast fiiBfits of l)«itter- flies mo\-e across the i.sthmius from east to west. If a wind ari.ses. whole (lijfhts arc blowji out to sea. and drowned in millions. .^nls of s<>ine kinds are treiut."ndou.<» travel'ors. In .\frica. wheni the driver airts bear ilown upon a vil- lage, the negroes run for their livvs. The violet laml-crab of tho West Indies asuallv i"esit>es inluiht: h>ut down in ivittg* armies to the sea. 4 C.'s." for a distance of U>0 miles through j which the line would have to pass fori Williams nodded. He wa."» cjiseu' tially a man of action rather than I tering and crooning to herself, words. With all the coolness she I ^P" touched her arm. at the watch. Dinner came in due course, : the «^ water during a voyage. At with Mrs. Hon.son. ragged and un- the end of the vayagc the plates kept as usual, taking no notice of could be examined for gold, aitd i is very swampy, and quite unfit Henson. who watched her furtively some practicability of recovering the 1 the erection of a telgi-aph wire, during the meal. Enid escaped to metal would bo pained. 'was at first thought that a wide her own room directly afterwards, "If it prove<l that the steamship ' detour would have to be made at and Henson foll"W"xl his hostess to companies could add to their equip- \ this point In order to escape this the drawing-room. | mont an olTecfivp olectrioal grold i region, but latterly other councils.: Once there his manner changed en- dredfrer th.y possihiv might be in- 1 have prevailed, and a much radre tircly. His lips grew firm, his eyes ,bic.Hl to rh.^p<Ti tho passenger rates daring exi»erinK>nl is likely to be were like points of steel, ^rs. Hen- according to the success of the ayn- arc five hundre<l ranks in the British heroes regular army who have attainod tho di.'«tinc- son was pacing the dustv ftt>or, mut- Heu- sania could summon up Enid tloscended to the hall. She gave a little gesture of s-u-prtse and disdain as she caught sight of Henson. "So >ou came down to welcome in>'»" Kiild .laid, coldly. .\ sudden light of rage lit up I1ens<ui's blue c^'ce. He caught Enid time hohling some glittering obji'ct ; before her eves. It was a massive "Vou ruby ring with four black pearls on aft»r her either side. |at»roa-il to MEAN THING know." foiid Miss Kroei'h. "Look here." he whi.sporo<I. "I>o you recogni/e it? Have you seen it before? " A pitiful, wailing cry came from solo. "I intend t^j ijo finish my ni|u.<tical ciiwi- tion." •WTiv not fini.>«h it right si»gis:<f>t e»l Miss Cadley, "amd the eXpinsB"'" now.' ••ve tried. 'ITiis is the installation of tho Marconi s.vstem of wireless tele- graphy in order to bridge over this inhospitable delta country. This combinntion of an .\frican jungle swagnp with the latest triumph of Rciontiflc discoverj- roads very strangel.\ , but it is only another instance of tho onward march of civili:'atiou through what were until a Coinimratively few yt^art. ago the unknown parts o the earth. j^jple decoration "for valor" which is universally rogixrdod as of incom- parable value and significance. It ia claimed for the 24th HegiuKnit. known as the South Wales Borxler- ers, that it stands at the head of the entire British army in the numbor of winners of the Victoria Croiis, which it has produced. It has si.x- teon names on the glory roll am against, to take the next highest llguros, fouiloen of the Riflo Brigade and thirteen of the King's Uoval Rines She â€" "I have been sufVriivg drond- fuUy lately with sho(rting pains in my face." IB- â€" "You ruuv have tvean using too much powder."