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The Pbantom of the BY GASTON LEROUX CHAPTKK Xlâ€" (Cont'd.) spectators hardly had tiirn; to utlei* a round ul dtupefaction, for the ((<»'*'' | once lit up the utaxe again. But Chris- ; tine l)aa« wa» no longer theri^! | What had btM-umo of her? What was that miracle? All excbangcj if'ancea without undtrfltanding, and the excitement at once reached its height. Nor watt the tension any lee» great on llie xtacri; itcelf. Men ru»hed from the winsrs to tho apot wheru Christine had been singing that very )nt>tant. The performance was inter- rupted amid the greatest disorder. Where had Christine gone? What .nijj.y u ;;.:;! s.no witchcraft had snatched her away be- Opera 'And you w«nt back Chrifltlne," fnus^is himeelf by living underground, fore the eyes of thousands of enthu Kaou., that l'..< in you w«nt back, Christine,", ^"»f« *»'n»f'"'y.^ - ,^- , -. .- , ^, .u „. (rroaned Kaoul. "^ "^^^^ thing-n that no other man siastic on.ooker8 and from the anna "Yes dear and I must te>l you that '*'•''' *''*• *** knows things which no-, of Carolus Fonta himwlf? It wa.s as It was not his frightful threaU when ^^y *" '^ *®'"''l knows." j though the antrels had really carried actting mo free that helped mc to keep I "Take care, Christine, you are nwk- ; »>*'â-  "P ,"'» '"•^t. my word, but the harrowing sob which ling a ghost of him again!" I R«<?u-. ftill standing up m the he gave on the threshold of the tomb. "No, he is not a ghost; he is a man ' ^'"P^'*^f?V„*• t*^ . ""fj- .„ L W ... That sob attached me to the un- of He-aven and e«rth, that ia all." i Count Phi.ippe had sprung to his feet fortunate man more than 1 myself; ... „-....'_ .._j .v I in his bo.x. People .ooked at the stage. , , . . , - I A man of Heaven and earth . . . o, .„* him^^'p^rfrTk. X^Er^k?^' '* l.'?"\ '" *"'* ^ "'^*-' *''^*;?, "^"^^ ^^ iZ curious event was connected in !vAi. V*?. ,r -J n f'"."; „ him I . . . And you are ntill renolved. Christine, said Raoul, rising, "vou ^ run away from him?" te.l me that you ^ve me; but you had "Yes to-morrow " recovert'd your liberty hardly a few "Tolmorrow you will have hours which I pasHed with you. Raoul ... to the great danger of Doth of «o:ye left!" hours before you returned to Erik! *«-•â- "'••"" j"" Remember the masked balk" •Ves; and do you Pemeraber _those ^^^ ^^ tn gpite of myself; is that understood?" "I shall be here at twelve to-morrow .,,,,.. , , , night; I shall keep my promise what- I doubted your k>ve for me, dur- ^ver happens. You say that, after Ing those hours. listening to the performance, he is to 'Do you doubt It still, Raoul? . . . i ^^j^ fol- you in the dining-room on Then know that each of my visits to ^jj^ lake?" Erik increased my horror of him; for Suddenly Christine changed color, each of those visits, instrad of calming ^ mortal pallor overspread her fea- him, as I hoped, made him mad with tures love! . . .And 1 am so frightened, so j ..Qh heavens!" she cried. "Erik! frightened! .... Ng^kl Have pity on me!" You are fnghtened . . but do you ..h^W your tongue!" said Raoul. love me? If Erik were good- ooking,..Y„u ^old me he could not hear you!" wou.d you love me, Christine?" gut the singer's attitude became She rose in her turn, put her two ^^e and more inexplicable. She trembunp arms round the young man's ^^ung her fingeiH. repeating, with a distraught air: at the count, nt Raoul, and wondi>red himi . . . And you arestill resolved ^^y ^„y y,i^^^ j^e paragraph in that nvorning'g pap^'"- But Raoul hurried- ly left his seat, the count disanpeared from his box and, while the Vurtain ,.„, _ . . was lowbred, the 8ubscril>erB rushed "7^' i?*?"h-^^" !11"!!-,J'."1-".T*.?; to the door that led behind the scenes. "The rest of the audience waited amid an indescribable hubbub At last, the curtain rose slowly and Carolus Konta stepped to the conduc- tor's desk and, in a sad and serious voice, said: "Ladies and gentlemen, an unpre- cedented event nas taken place and thrown us into a state of the great- est alarm. Our sister-artist, Christine Da&e, has disappeared before our eyes and nobody can tell us how!" neck and said "Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give you my lips ! Take them, for the first time and the last." He kissed her tips; but the night that surrounded them was rent asund- er, they fled as at the approach of a vtorm and their eyes, filled with dread of Erik, showed them, before they dis- "Oh, Heaven! Oh, Heaven!" "But what i.s it? What is it?" Raoul implored. "The ring ... the gold ring he gave me." "Oh, so Erik gave you that ring!" "You know he did, Raoul! But what you don't know is that, when he gave CHAPTER XIII. Christine! chhistine! Raoul's first thought, after Chris- tine Daae's fantastic disappearance, was to accuse Erik. He no longer doubted the almost supernatural pow- ers of the Angel of Music, in this domain of the Opera in which he had set up his empire. And Raoul rushed on the stage, in a mad fit of love aftd despair. "Christine! Christine!" he moaned, calling to her as he felt that she must appeared, high up above them ap ; liberty, ' Christine, on condition that Jramense lught-bird that stared at : ^^jjjg pj^g jg „;^jjys on your finger. As it tojne, he said, 'I give you back your I j^* caljinj, j^ ^j^ j^om the depths of 1-1 1.. /-.I 4. . -_ t. * .* that dark pit to which the monster them with its blazing eyes and seemed to cling to the string of Apollo's lyre. CHAPTER XII. MASTER-STKOKE OF LOVEK. THE THAP-DOOB long as you keep it, you will be prO' tected against all danger and Erik will remain your friend. But woe to you if you ever part with it, for Erik vrtll have his revenge!' . . . My dear, my dear, the ring is gonel . . . Woe to us both!" Raoul and Christine ran, ea^r to escape from the roof and the b.«zing eyes that showed only in the dark; and they did not stop before they came to the eighth floor on the way down. There was no performance at the Opera that night and the passages were empty. Suddenly, a queer-look- ing form stood before them and block- ed the road: "No, not this way!" And tiio form pointed to another passage by which they were to reach had carried her. "Christine! Chris tine!" 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Ah, to descend, to descend into that pit of They looked for the ring, but could | darkness every entrance~lo which was not find it. Christine refused to be e'^^sed to him, . . . fbr the stairs that pacified "It was while I gave you that kiss, up above, under Apollo's lyre," she said. "The ring must have slipped from my finger and dropped into the street! We can never find it. And what misfortunes are in store for us now! Oh, to run away!" "Let us run away at once," Raoul insisted, once more. She hesitated. He thought that she the wings. Raoul wanted to stop and, was going to say ye.s. . . . Then her ask for ati explanation. But the form, which wore a sort of long frock-coat and a pointed cap, said: "Quick! Co away quickly!" Christine was already dragging Raou!, compelling him to start run- ning again. "But who is ho?" Who is that man?" he asked. 'It's the Per- Christine replied: •iun." "What's he doing here?" "Nobody knows. He is always in the Opera." "You are making me t un away, for bright pupils became dimmed and she said: "No! To-morrow!" And she left him hurriedly, still wringing and rubbing her fingers, as though she hoped to bring the ring Imck Hke that. Raoul went home, greatly perturbed at all that he had heard. Raoul devoted the whole day tojiis preparations for the flight horses, the carriage, the coachman, the provisions, the luggage, the money required for the journey, the road to be taken (he had resolved not to go led below the stage were forbidden to one and to all that night! "Christine! Christine! . . ." People pushed him aside, laughing. They made fun of him. They thought the poor lover's brain was gione! By what mad road, through what passages of mystery and darkness known to him alone had Erik dragged that pure-souled child to the awful h^unt, with the Louis-Phillipe room, opening out on the lake? (To be continued.) the first time in my life. If we i-€«lly , by train, so a.s to throw the ghost off eaw Erik, what I ought to have done the scent) : all this had to be settled was to nail him to Apollo's lyre, just and provided for; and it occupied him as we nail the owls to the walls of until nine o'clock at night. They were giving Faust, as it hap- our Breton farms; and there would have been no more question of him." 'My dear Raoul, you would first pened, before a splendid house. The Kuubourg was magnificently repre have had to climb up to Apo'.lo's lyre; I sented; and the paragraph in that that is no easy matter." "The blazing eyes were there!" They came to Christine's dressing room morning'.s Epoque had already pro- duced its effect, for all eyes were turn Swiss Immigration. About a year ago, a, few men In- terested In (Canada's colonization prob- lems, formed th(' "Swlse Settlement Society," with the purpose In view of Thel<'ft«»abll»hlng on farms of their own, Swiss Immigrant Farm Help already In Canada. The Society Is working In co-operation with the migration and oolonizatloi experiment by Switzer- land and during the past year has add- ed to Us membership n large number of prominent Canadians. - The funds necessary to get the Society established have been raised by voluntary contributions, the mo»t of It beinK furulslieil by inembers and friends of Uie Society, outside of the country. As the Sw!.:« has always - «'d to the box, in which Count Philippe I ^^„ i„oked upon as a particularly de- ! sat alone, apparently in a very indif-j ^j^^j,,^ immigrant in all British coun- tries the existence of the Society ... , . , - , f "/'-V Tw I si rable immigrant i "Why do you think that you are ferent and careless frame of mind. The ._...„ ,^„ o,i„,«,„v safer in thia room than on the stage?" . feminine element in the brilliant audi- Bskcd Raoul. "You heard him through enco seemed curiou.sly puzzled; and the walls here, therefore he can cer- . the viscount's absence gave rise to any tainly hear us." amount of whispering behind the fans. "No. He gave me his word not to The regular fre<iuenter8 of the be behind the walls of nriy dressing- Opera, who pretended to know the room again and I believe Erik's word. ' truth about the vi.scount's love story, This room and my bedroom on the exchanged significant .<imilo.s at certain lake are for n»e, exclusively, and not passages in Margarita's part; and to Ik" approached by him." | they made a show of turning and look- "Ilow can you have gone from this ing at Philippe de Chagny's box when jooni into that dark passage, Chris- : Christine sang: tine? Suppose we trv to repeat your BwrementH; shall we? "It to dangerous, dear, for the glass night ovry me off again ; and, in- »t«M Cft running away, I should be obliged to go to the end of the secret p«.''!<aae to the lake and th«'re call KrikT "W«»«I<I he hear you?" "Erik will hear me wherever I cftlL him. He told "1 wish I could but know who was he That addressed nic. If he was noble, or, at least, what his name is." TIm- count sat with his chin on his hand and seemed to pay no attention to these manifestntions. He kept his I eyes fixed on the stage; but his me HO. He is a very , tj,„u^ht8 appoare<l to l)e far away. curiuu!) genius. You must not think, COLOR IT NEW WITH "DIAMOND DYES" Boil Christine lost should prove a good thing for Canada. Future success will depend, to a can- slderable extent, on the measure of support and co-operation which this Society receives here and it Is encour- uglug to learu tliat the govcrnmeut and transportation companies are realizing the possibilities of the or- gaulznlloo. Where Moon Beats Sun. The sun has ooJy one-sixteenth the effeKvl of the moon In tide attraction. Mlnard'i Liniment for tor* throat The secret of distinctive dress lies in good taste rather than a lavish «x- penditure of money. Every woman should want to make her own clothes, and the home dressmaker will find the designs illustrated in our new Fashion Book to be practical and simple, yet maintaining the spirit of the mode of the moment. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your nam* and addrtai plaltt- ly, giving number and size of â- nch patterns as you want. EncloM iiOe la stutmps or coin (coin preferred; wrap It carefully) for each number, aad addresi your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Pabliahing Co., 78 West Ad»> laid* St., Toronto. Patterns Mat by retnrn mail. -ft My Grate Fire. Against the cold, wet days my flr« gleams bright, A beacon leading on to Joys of home, To book/t I love, rare volumes of de- light, More to my heart than some rich guarded tome To sit and read (here In the flrellght glow Some simple vei^e long of myself a part. And dream and think â€" this Is Indeed to know A happiness tliat warms the re«tles« heart. In all the ruslj and strain of life to- day. When most the world seeks Joys much money buys, To value true real happiness, I ptay. And those dear joys of heart ami home most prized. â€"George Ellifton. Night. Mere ghosts Dim water lilies float like stars. While skystsrs. as they pause aud peer at them. Silently wonder why they do not Twinkle. Frances 8. Larkln. Just Dip to Tint or to Dye her self-assurance i more and more. .She trembled. She felt on the verge of a breakdown. . . . Caro'iUH Fontn wondered if she was ill, if (he could keep the stage until the end of the Garden Act. Just then, Carlotta made her en- linnce in a box facing the stage, a lensntionnl entrance. Poor Christine r«ir*d her eyes upon this fresh sub- ! ject of exriterr»ent. She recognized her i rival She thought she "nw a sneer! on her '.ips. Thai saved her. S!ie â-  forgot everything, in ordiT to triumph : I once more. j From that moment the prima donna I sang with all her heart and soul. She • I tr'ed to ^llrpass all that she had done | I till then; and she sia-ceeded. In the' last act when she Iwgan the invocation ] to the angels, she made all ths mem- bers of the audience fe»l ns though ihey too l:ad wings. in the centre of thn Hmphithenti<* a :nan stood up and remained stand- ing, facing the singer. It was Raoul. And ( hristJne, her arms outstretch- ed, hi r throat fi"ed with music, the ' glory of her hair falling over her bare <hou'.df-r», uttered the divine cry; "My spirit long." with the<> to rest!" It wa« at that moment that the Eacii IS-ctnt pack- aga containt dlrec- tiont 10 simple any woman can tint soft, delicate shades or dye rich, permanent colors In Hngerlo, •tiki, ribbott, eklrtf, w a I I t s , dresses, e o a t • , ttocklDgt, tweatsrt, draperies, coTcrlngt, hanglni* â€" evirrthlnf ! Buy Diamond Oresâ€" no other kind- end tell ycnr drugflit whether the ma- terial yon wish to color la wool or tltk, or whether U Is lines, cotton or mixed ' ;.(«(.»«• war siid<len!y plunged in dark gocdi. 1 neks. It happened so quicklj' that the AnMterdun, a City of die Waters. Amsterdam, no lea* than Venloe, Ifl a city of the watem. CMeeebredht III. founded it some seren hundred yean ago by bu4kMn< the "dam of the Ain»- tei" from which Oi* ctty t«k«» lt» name, at the spot where that river olns the IJ, a broad arm of the Zuider Zee that ie now the port of Amrter- dam ; and eren to-day its great build- ings stand upon pllee driven d«ep into the marsh Ijeneath the cHy. Several timee during the oeuturlee the citi- zens have bullit a ccmal to run frooi the 1} beelde the city ratoparte to loin the I] again on the other a4de. But always the dty bam expanded beyond the canal until In time they have built another one parallel to the last, so that now there are several rings of waterwaye In the dty, with shady trees and dignlfled old houses looking down upon them, and other oanala running outward from Che centre to join them. A chain of huge IsJands baa been built out Into the IJ to carry the rail- way station and the docks; three ehtp canals have been cut to join It with the North Sea and the Bhlne: and tliToiigb the centre of the dty runs the Broad Anwlek Upon It, aU day long, paeeee the endlese traffic c f the city. Here you see gayly i)alnted saiUng: barges from all parts of Holland and all the varied shapes and rigs that tibat nurse of sailing craft has pro- duced, with their unique curved gafSi and tapering pennants; huge modem Rhlne-eohlgs, Iron bargee flfty yards long with steering wheels six feet across and a diminutive tug ovenshad- owed by the huge bowe; tusa with strings of ijgbter* miraculoualy ne gotlatlne the bridge archee; single lighters laboriously qoaiUed along; smart motor launches ; racing siktffe. Amsterdam has fine «<iuaree and broad eftreets, ba>t the city and ks commerce are still founded upon the water; on the canals and the Am»tel, where all day long the quaysiides are bii.*y with the unloading of many car- 1 goes and the air is thick with the '. beat of engine, and upon the Ij, where | the little river steamers He to kiad their queer mixture of passengers and cargo, and the great liners start upon ' their Journeys. | Ruakin Was Surprlaed. 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