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ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. Jt GHAPTEB XVl.-(Cont'd) Meanwhile Hoy turned over in his mind half a dozen schemes, and at length decided to leave Frithiof during one of the quiet intervals, while he went for their own doc- tor, Miss Charlotte mounting guard outside- the door, and promising to go to him if he seemed to need care. Dr. Morris, who was an old friend, listened to Roy'e descrip- tion, and returned with him at once, much to the relief of poor Miss Charlotte, who was frighten- ed out of her senses by one of Fri- thiof's paroxysms of wild excite- ment. "Do you think seriously of him ?" paid Roy, when, the excitement having died down. Frithiof lay in a sort of stupor, taking no notice at all of his surroundings. "If we can manage to get him ny sleep he will pull through all right," said Dr. Morris, in his Abrupt way. "If not, he will sink before many day*. You had better Bend for his mother, if he has one." "He has only a sister, and she is in Norway." "Well, send for her, for he will need careful nursing. You say you will take charge of him? Very well; and to-morrow morning I will send in a nurse, who will set you at lib- erty for a few hours. Evidently he has had some shock. Can you make out what it was at all?" "Well, last autumn, I believe; indeed, I am sure, he was jilted by an Knglish girl with whom he was desperately in love. It all came upon the top of the other troubles of which I told you." "And what is this papier he raves about? What is the girl's name? We might get some clew in that way." "Oh," said Roy, "she was mar- ried some months a B x>. She is now Lady Romiaux." The doctor gave a stifled excla- mation. "That explains all. I suppose the poor fellow honestly cared for her. and was shocked to see the paragraph in this week's 'Idle Time.' Your friend has had a lucky escape, if he could but sec it in that light. For the husband of that heartless little flirt must be the init miserable man alive. We shall soon have another of those detest- able causes celcbres, and the news- p.'ilK'rs lying about in every house- hold will be filled with all the pois- onous details." As Roy kept watch through the long nights and days that follow- ed, as he listened to the deliriouo ravings of his patient, and jM-reeiv- e<l how a man's life and health had been ruined by the faithlessness of a vain girl, he became so absorbed in poor Frithinf, so devoted to him, that he altogether forgot his (specimens and his microscope. Hoy used to be haunted bv the thought that he had telegraphed i for Sigrid r'alck, and tliut he should have to meet her after her I<>HK jourmy with the news that all was over. And remembering the bright face ai:d sunny manner of the Nor- wegian girl, his heart failed him at the thought of her desolation. Hut Prithiof could not even take in the idea that she had been sent for. Nothing now made any differ- ence to him. Sleep alone could ro- etore him. But sleep refused to come, nnd already the death-angel hovered near, ready to give him the release for which he so greatly longed. CHAPTER XVII. Although it was the middle of Au- gust, a bitterly cold wind blew round the dreary little posting sta- tion of Hjerkin, on the Doverfield, and at the very time when Frithiof lay dying in the intolerable heat of London, Sigrid, shivering with cold, paced drearily along the bleak mountain road with her aunt. Ap- parently the subject they were dis- cussing was not at all to the girl's taste, for as they walked along there were two ominous little de- pressions in her forehead, nor did her black fur hut entirely account for the shadow that overspread her face. 'Yes," said Fru Gronvold, em- phatically, "I am sorry to have to say such a thing of you, Sigrid, but it really seems to me that you are playing the part of the dog in the manger. You profess absolute in- difference to every man you meet, yet you go on absorbing attention, and (Handing in Karen's light, in a way which 1 assure you is very try- ing to me." Sigrid's cheek flamed. "1 have done nothing to justify you in saying such a thing," she said, angrily. "What!" cried Fru Gronvold. "Did not that Swedish botanist talk to you incessantly ? Does not the English officer follow you about whenever he has the opportunity?" "The botanist talked because we had a subject in common," replied Sigrid. "And probably the officer prefers talking to me because my English is more fluent than Ka- ren's." "And that I suppose was the rea- son that you must be the one to teach him the spring dans f And the one to sing him the 'Bridal Song of the Hardanger' ?" "Oh!" exclaimed Sigrid, with an impatient little stamp of the font. "am I to be forever thinking of this wretched scheming and 7iiatch making? Can I not even try to amuse, a middle-aged Englishman who is disappointed of hie reindeer, and finds himself stranded in a dreary little inn with a handful of foreigners I 1 have only been courteous to him nothing more ; and if I like talking t<> him it is merely because ho comes from England." "J don't wish to be hard on you," said Fru Gronvold, "but na- turally I have the feelings of a mo- ther, and do not like to see Karen eelipsed. I accuse you of nothing worse, my dear, than a ulight for- wardness- a little deficiency in tact. There is no occasion for anger on your part." Sigrid bit her lip hard to keep back the retort that she longed to I make. In warm weather Hjerkin ! is a little paradise, but on this windy day, under a leaden sky, it , seemed the most depressing place on earth. "1 shall go in and write to Fri- thiof," said Sigrid at length. And escaping gladly from Fru Gronvold, she ran up to her room. 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If you are troubled with your stomach just ask ! your Druggist about Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets, compounded by the National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, and Fold throughout the Dominion at 5oc. a box. U2 surely something will happen. We can't be meant to go on in this wretched way, apart from each other. I am disappointed that you think there is no chance of any opening for me in London. If it were not for Swanhild I think I should try for work any sort of work except teaching at Chris- tiana. But I can't bear to leave her, and uncle would object to my trying for anything of the sort in Bergen. I can't help thinking of the old times when we were chil- dren, and of the summer holidays then. Don't you remember when we had the island all to ourselves, and used to rush down the fir-hill, and to frighten poor old Gro?" She sloped writing because the thought of those past days hud blinded her with tears, and Ix-cause the longing for her father's pres- ence had overwhelmed her; they had Ix-on so much to each other that there was riot an hour in vhe day when 'she did not miss him. Swanhild came dancing to meet ; her. "Major Brown hn got us nwh beautiful trout for supper, Sigrid, and uncle says 1 may go out fish- ing, too, some. day. And you'll come with us, won't you?" "You had better take Karon," said .Sigrid, listlessly. "You know ; 1 never did care much for fishing. You shall catch tli<Mii and will eat them," she added, with a dreary little smile. And throughout sup- per she hardly spoke, and at the liixt opportunity slipix-d away qui- etly, only, however, to be pursued by Swanhild. "What is the matter?" said the child. "Are you not coming to the sitting-room ?" "\<i," said Sigrid, "I am tired, and it is so cold in there. I am go- ing into the kitchen to buy some stamps. l''ritliiof's letter ought to go to-morrow." As she sjxjke she opened the door of the roomy old kitchen, which is tin- pride of Hjorkiri. Its three window* were shaded by snowy muslin curtains, its spotless floor was strewn wiih juniper, the. walls, painted a peaoock-bltu, were hung with bright dish-covers, warming pnns, i|ii:n'ii old bellows and kit- chen implements. There was a tall old clock in a black and gold oaso, a pretty corner cupboard in shaded In " ii. and a huge old-favbioncd cabinet with cunning little drawers and nooks and corners, all painted in red and blue and green, with an amount of gilding which gave it quite an eastern look. "All, how cozy the fire looks!" cried Bwanbild. "Bless your heart," snid the kind old landlady, "sit down and warm yourself." And one of the white-sleeved ser- vant-girls brought a little chair which stood by a long wooden set- tle and put it close by the fire for the child, and Sigrid, her purchase made, joined the little group. Sit- ting there in the fire-light, nhe fe.lt more at home than she h;ul done, for many months. "(Vnne, Swanhild," she said at last reluctantly, "it is ten o'clock, and time you were in bed." And thanking the landlady for her kindness, the two sisters cross- ed over the court-yard to the sit- ting-room. 'Where in the world have. yoi? been?" said Fni Gronvold, knit- ling vehemently. "We couldn't think what had become of you both." "I went to the kitchen to get some stamps," said Sigrid, coldly. "Ami it was so lovely and warm in there," said Swanhild, gavly, "and I'Vu Hje.rkin has been telling me such beautiful stories about th Trolds. Her mother really saw one, do you know." 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