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P d mg up, tho, nno"whbes, after mues‘utulâ€" tiplied indefinitely by the winding of the trail, I came out upon a ledge from 'hu\::nll view of the opposite range eould had, and saw fronting me from the side of one of its tremendous mmmdnmthohmtw feet from the snow line, I knew that, Inaccessible as it looked, I was gazing up at the opening of Abner Fairbrothâ€" er‘s new mine, the Placide. The erperience was a strange one. The two ranges approached so nearly that it seemed as if a ball might be tossed #rom one to the other, but the grew dizzy as I looked downward and saw the endless zigzags yet to be trayâ€" exsed step by step before the bottom of. n-ennyonmldb-mehdm&u the equaily interminable zigzags up the weclivity beyond, all of which I must Mmmwmm«:m wtpuflnatflnumpvhlclrmm where I stood looked to be almost withâ€" In hail of my voice. I have described the mine as a hole. That was all I saw at firstâ€"a greft black hole in the dark brown earth of hylhdgacutmotthomnbhwfl, on which I was now able to descry the pronounced white of two or three tent tops and some other signs of life, enâ€" eouraging enough to the eye of one whose lot it was to craw! like a fly up that tremendous monntain side. Truly I could understand why those three men, probably newspaper correâ€" spondents like myself, had turned back to Santa Fe after a glance fromâ€"my present outlook. But though I underâ€" stood I did not mean to duplicate their retreat. ‘The sight of those tents, the thought of what one of them contained, inâ€" spired me with new courage, and, reâ€" leasing my grip upon the rein, [ al lowed my patient horse to proceed. Shortly after this 1 passed the di videâ€"that is, where the water sheds both ways. Then the descent began. It was zigzag, just as the climb had been, but I preferred the climb. T did not have the unfathomable spaces so constantly before me, nor was my imâ€" agination so active. It was fixed on heights to be attained rather than on valleys to roll into. However, I did mot roll. The Mexican â€"saddle held me securely at whatever angle I was poised, and ence the bottom was reached I found that I could face with considerable equanimity the corresponding ascent. Ouly as I saw how steep the climb bade fair to be I did not see how I was ever to come down again. Going up was possible, but the descentâ€" _ However, as what goes up must in the course of nature come down, I put this question aside and gave my horse his head, after encouraging him with a few blades of grass, which he seemed to find edible enough, though they had the look and something of the feel of apun glass. § "Â¥es, the doctor," he answered im unâ€" expectedly good English. . "And who are you? Have you brought the mail and those medicines I sent for?" "No," I replied with a propitiatory a smile as I could muster up in the face of his brusk forbidding expression. "I came on my own errand. I am a repâ€" resentative of the New York â€", and 1 hope you will not deny me a word with Mr. Fairbrother." ¢ With a gesture I hardly knew how to interpret he took my horse by the rein and led us on a few steps toward anâ€" other large tent where he motioned me to descend. ‘Then be laid his hand on my shoulder and, forcing me to meet his eye, said: "You have made this journeyâ€"LI beâ€" leve you said from New Â¥Yorkâ€"to see Mr. Fairbrother. Why?" "Because Mr. Fairbrother {s‘at presâ€" ent P most sought for _‘al.l Amerâ€" fca," 1 returned boldily. wifeâ€" you know about his wife"â€" & J css hat MB ipoipebatnre In The Alcove I preferred the climb. * D w ANNA KATHERINE GREEN d:mm-mrud but in a suppressed voice, to which point was given by the cautious look ‘he ckst behind him at the tent which had drawn my attention. "He must not know it man. I could not answer for his life it he‘receivred the least shock in his present eritical conâ€" dition. Murdered? When?"* left the city. He was expected to reâ€" turn afterâ€" hearing the news, but he Seems to have kept straight on to his destination. He was not very fond of his wifeâ€"that is, they have not been Itving together for the last year, But he could not help feeling the shock of herâ€"déath which he must have beard. of somewhere along the route." > "He has said nothing in his delirium to show that he knew it It is â€"posâ€" gible, just possible, that be didn‘t read the papers. He could not have been well for days before he reached Santa F‘." . “Wbenmr_omalbd!nbnm him ?" * "The very night after he reached this place. It was thought be wouldn‘t live to reach the camp. But he is a man of great pluck. He held up till his foot touched this platform; then he succumbed." . "If he was as sick as that," I mutâ€" um,wumunmnr He must have known what it would mean to be sick here:" . h reRL . _"I don‘t think he did. This is his first visit to the imine. He evidently knew nothing of the dificulties of the road. But he would not stop. He was determined to reach the camp, even after he had been given a sight of it from the opposite mountain. He told "Ten The grim doctor‘s eyes fiashea angfiâ€" ty, and I stopped. » ; "Were you a detective from the dis trict attorney‘s office in New York sent on with special powers to examine him 1 sbhould still say what I am going to say now. WWile Mr. Fairbrother‘s temâ€" perature and pulse remain where }hey pow are no one shall see him and no one shall talk to him save myself and his nurse." _ Iturnedwlthullcklookotdhp- pointment toward the road up which I had so lately come. "Have I panted, sweltered, trembled for three mortal hours on the worst Mlmmevermvmedtozobtd with nothing for my journey? That seems to me hard lines. Where is the manager of this mine?" The doctor pointed toward a man bending over the edge of the great hole from which at that moment a line of Mexicans was issuing, each with a sack on his back, which he flung down before what looked like a furnace built of clay. _ _ "That‘s he, Mr. Haines of hfl:dol- phis. What do you want of him?" «Permission to stay the night. Mr. Fairbrother may be better tomortrow." "I won‘t allow it, and I am master here so far as my patient is concerned. You couldn‘t stay bere without talking, and taiking makes excitement, and exâ€" citement is just what he cannot stand. A week from now I will s¢e about it â€"that is, if my patient continues to imâ€" prove. 1 am not sure that he will." Mwmmfinmm Mayâ€" "Look here," sald the doctor, edging me farther and farther away from the tent be hardly let out of his sight for a moment. "You‘re a canny lnd and shall have your bite &nd something to drink before you take your way back. 1e e e P ui C But back you go before sunset and with this message: No man from any paper north or south will be received here till I hang out a blve fisg. 1 say blue, for that is the color of my banâ€" Manna. When my patient is in a conâ€" dition to discuss murder, T‘ boist it from hbis tent top. It can be seen frops: the divide, and if you want to catbp there on the lookout well and good. As tor the police, that‘s another ‘matter. 1 will see them if they come, but they need not expect to talk to my patient. You may say so down there. It will save scrambling up this trail to no purâ€" UTeust a Naw Â¥ark do the right thing at the right time to head : if the boys. But I doubt it they will believe me." "In that caso I shall have a barr} eade thrown up fifty feet down the mountain side," said bé. -n-uh-n-u-ulg!' "Ob, the birros can make way up. We shan‘t saffer," â€"_ _ _ _ eyes. ‘There was net much to see, but what there was wis romantfally in All this time I had been wring my It , at a â€"ball in fter Mr. Fairb 0 will let me .carty earresnondent to liver, ‘,mfi-wm% late the kidneys A;t":h‘fib e these troubles by réemoving the causs, and make it possible to m’fl life.. 50c a boxâ€"6 ~boxes for Triat size 250. Fruitâ€"aâ€"tives Li showed the primitive :tun of omu at 97 5t« chibdurces over a thing like Ottawa. stopped short a foot or so from the fiat mound of adobe which serves as a base or foor for hut op tent in New abutted on the mountsin side, z opening was toward the valley. Iâ€"4 nl-mmtahw.& Ingâ€"so Intense that I_1 it I would venture on an attempt to gratify it Berutinizing the ‘resolute face of the man before me and fiattering myseif that I detected signs of bhumor underâ€" lying bis (professional . bruskness, I asked, somewhat mournfully, : if be would jlet me go away without so muchulfimattholnn!hl come so far to see. "A glimpse would satisty me now," I assured him as the hint of a twinkle fiashed in his eye. "Surely there will be no barm in that. I‘ll take it instesd of. supper." And I was feeling*very despondent inâ€" deed when the canvas on which our eyes were fixed swddenty shook, and the calm figure of a woman stepped out before us, clad in the simplest out before us, clad in the simplest garb, but showing in every line of face and form a character of mingled kindâ€" dently on the lookout for the doctor, tor she made a sign as she saw him and returned instantly into the tent. asteep," he expiained. "It isn‘t disciâ€" pnmmdllhnh'obupomw Miss Serra, but if you will proniise <ot to smeak nor make the least dis man to whomâ€" millionsâ€"were: as thouâ€" sands to such poor devils as myself, lay on an improvised bed of everâ€" greens, wrapped in a horse blanket and with nothing better than another of these rolled up under his head. At his side sat his nurse on what Tookedâ€"lHike the uneven stump of a tree. Close to her hand was a tolerably fat stong, on were absolutely necessary‘to a propet ous. But I doubt if be would not giadâ€" ty have exchanged it for a sight of his home walls. o As I started to go a stir took place in the blanket wrapped about his chin, and I caught a glimpse of the, fron mmmmasu&m great financier. He was a very sick man. Even I could see that Had I obtrined the permission I sought and been allowed to ask him ome of the many questions burning on my tongue, 1 should have. received only delirtum for reply. There was no reaching that clonded intelligence now, and I feit grateful to the doctor for convineing me of & It6ld him so and thanked him quite warmly when we were well away from the tent, and liis answer was almost kindly, though be made ne effort to hide hisâ€"impatience and anxiety to see me go. The looks he cast at the sun were significant, and having no wish to antagonise him and every wish to visit the spot again 1 moved. toward my r‘-mmmam “wm'm“m "You can‘t go tonight," saidthe. Your. herse has hurt.himeelf." It was true. ‘There was something the matter with the animai‘s left fore foot. As theâ€"dector lifted it the man ager came up. He agreed with thedoc tor. 1 could not make the descent to. Santa Fe on that borse that night. Did I feel clated? (Rather, I thad no wish to descend.> Yot I"was far from fore seeing what the night was to bring to me. 1 was turned: over to the manager, but not without a final Injunction from the doector. "Not a word to any one abont vour arrand! 'u!_‘m.‘lt the New York tragedy, asryou walie Youcan aee Gin Pills torn the urine BLUB. Ammmwmeh have started to cure, 1t won‘t b6 niany hours more until you FEEL that they Meduingyeagon® © _‘ 0 _ S omm _ 0 mr. At all deaâ€" It you oan‘s gotk them in your I saw arranged a namber of He mottoned me to look in. â€" tional meaning, they excited my cur osity to the burning point, for, whe could tell it be might not say someâ€" thing bearing on the mystery ? But that fevered mind had to early scenes, and the babble came to my ears was all of } camps in the Rockies and the > of horses. Perhips the uneasy wove ment of my horse pulling at the ead of second "perhsps" I found myself up on my elbow listening with all my ears and staring with wide stretched, eyes at the thicket of stunted trees where the road debouched on the platform. Something was astir there besides my horse. I could catch sounds of an unâ€" mistakable nature. A rider was:comâ€" ing up the trail, F> Slipping back into my place, I turn ed toward the doctor, who lay some two or three bunks nearer the openâ€" ing. He bhad started up, too, and in a moment was out of the tent. I do‘not think he brd obseryed my action, for it was very dark where I lay, and bi back had been turned toward me, As for the others, they slept like the dead ‘only they made more nolse. Interestedâ€"everything is interesting at such a beight. I brought my eye tt ‘bear on the ledge and soon saw by the limpid light of a full moon the stiff short branckies of the trees, on whick my gaze was fixed, give way to an advancing horse and rider. "Hello!" shouted the doctor in a whisper which was in itself a warr ing. "Easy there! We have sickness in ,thhunp.:ndu’llhuhouxorvb behalf of the.New York chief of police, who‘is a personal friend of mine. It is I‘ve a question to ask this sick man on connected with"â€" â€" . "Hush!" ‘The dbctor had seized him by arm and turned his face away from the sick tent. Then the two heads came together, and an argument began. _I could not hear a word of it, but their motions were eloquent. My symâ€" pathy was with the magistrate, of course, and I watched eagerly while he passéd a letter Ova®In the.dactor, wbo vamly strove to read n‘nym. light of the moon. Finding this impossible, he was about to return it when the other mnmtchnndntahnwmmâ€" ing from the horn of his saddie. ‘The two heads came together again, but as quickly separated, with every appear* ance of irreconcilement, and I was setâ€" tiing back with sensations of great disâ€" appotutment when a sound fell on the night so unerpected to all cancerned that with a common impulse each eye sought the sick tent. * "Water! Will some one give me waâ€" ter?‘ a voice bad.cried quiletly, with nane of the delirium which had hitherâ€" to rendered it unnatural. â€"*, The doctor started for" the tent. There was the quickness of #§rprise in mm&nflhwm to the as he passed in reâ€" avnhmhflolhwm which made me doubly watchful favor, and I was not surprised to see him presently reissue with the nurse, whom he drew into the shadow=of the trees, where they had a whort conferâ€" ence. If she returned alone Into the tent after this conference I should know that the matter was at an end "I know." ‘The answer was subdued, but "I‘m the magistrate of this district. and that the doctor had decided: to maintain his authority against that of the magistrate. â€"But she remained ountâ€" “nau.mmvu“ww approach the tent. The magistrate, who was in the rear, could not have more than passed the whflwfi tar enough nside not to detect any movement on join their council. . When they again mumqmmâ€"nwn my part. an T tant aifteantace of the att: § curing your Kidneys at ner and across the louge to where the ‘d-cfi}"m A Soke L infond , was speaking in a gently mlluclndh-hod- Pedepntest o t o hi car. "Â¥You love dinmonds. Iâ€"have often nmoticed that, you look so long at the ring on your hand. That is why I have let it stay there, though at times 1 have feared it would drop off and roll away over the adobe down the mountain side. Was I right? ce "Yos, â€"yos." The dificulty, but they pwhhmmh‘. A pause, during whichâ€"she seemed to “”.fi. .-“-B‘-fi-‘ # 4 ..“._ se V »e said she. mxmm supposed this stone of yours an inexâ€" pensive one. But I forget that you are the owner of a very large and remarkâ€" able diamond, a diamond that is spokâ€" en of sometimes in the papers. Of course if you have a gem like that this one must appear very small and valueâ€" less to you." "Yes, this is nothing, " ‘And Mnm-ndfomuwm | "Mr. Fairbrother! Pardon me, but I want to tell you something about that big diamond of yours. You have been i!! and bave not been able to read your letters, so do notâ€"know that your wife ;llnhdmmbhvmhmt diaâ€" mond. People have said that it is not a real stone, but a well executed imiâ€" tation. May I write to her that this is a pistakeâ€"that ‘It is all you have ever claimed for itâ€"that is, an unusually mmnmmm I listened in amazement. this was an insifions way to get at the _truth, a woman‘s way. But who would say it was not a wise one, the wisest the circumstances?â€" What would his veply be? Would it show that be was as ignotant of his wife‘s death as was gemeraily believed both by those about him here and those who knew him well in New York? Or would the quesâ€" tion convey nothing furthet *oâ€" him than the doubtâ€"in itself an insultâ€"of which had been his pride? _ A murmurâ€"that was all it could be calledâ€"broke from his fever dried lips and died away in an inarticulate gasp. ‘Then suddenly, sharply, a ery broke from him, an intelligible §y.' and we heard him say: .. j "No imitation! No imitation! It was a sun! A glory! No other like it! It Wt the airl It blazed! It burned! 1 see it now! 1 see"â€" mingling and separatimg of shadows. Then the nurse glided back to her diâ€" ties, and the two men went toward the ldnnpottnummhrum nfiyrnnderâ€"u- was no more qulet or seemingly impenetrable than the s tence of that moon enveloped tent. Would he speak again? I did not think so. Would she even try to make him? 1 did not think this either. But I did not know the woman. Softly her voice rose again. There was a. domingting insistence in her tones, gentle as they were; the ‘inâ€" sistence of a healthy mind which seeks to control a weakened one. § "You do not know of ‘any imitation, then? It was the real stone you gave her. : You are sure of it You would bevready to swear to it ifâ€"say just yes or no," she finished in gentle urgency. Evidently he was sinking again into wfiwmfiflnvu}mhfld- ing him b& Jong enough for the necâ€" essary word. It came slowly and with a dragging Intonation, but there was no mistaking the ring of truth with which he spoke. When I heard the doctor‘s voice and felt a movement in the canvas against which I leaned I took the warning and stole back burriedly to my quarters. I was scarcely settled when the same mdmrnrhadwmnm silhouetted itselft again against the moonlight. â€" ‘There wasâ€" some talk, a Fen minutes and the doctor was back in his bunk. ‘Was it imagination or did" I feel his hand on my shoulder before he finally lay down and composed himâ€" geif to sleep? 1 cannot say, I only know that I gave no sign and that soon all stir ceased in his direction, and I was left to enjoy my trumph and to listen with antious Ihterest to the strange and unintelligible sounds which accompanied the descent of the horseman down the face of the cliff and finally to watch, with a fascination which drew me to my knees, the passage wi {ins spminiing éae ve mgist haunging from his saddle. It crept to and fro across the side of the oppostte thountain as he threaded Its endloss sigrags and finally disapperred over the brow Into the invizible canyons beâ€" ~With the disfippearance of this beaâ€" con came lassitude and sieep, through #sentences from the sick tent, which showed that the patient was back of p Tin Sss on naon dn ic old harn es 10400 The F. F. DALLEY €O. Limitc#, Hamilion, Gat. i The Fall Fairs %Mn‘ not KE EFET TeA W name aud 10e Tor ~Whe dates for fall agricoltnral farms in Western Ontario bave been @tram ed as follova‘â€" Allistonâ€"Oct 1 and 2. K Beavertonâ€"Oct, 6 and 7. Boltonâ€"Oct. 6 and 7. Campbellfordâ€"Oct. 1, 2. Cooketownâ€"Oct. 6, 7. Caléedonâ€"Oct. 8. 9. Caledoniaâ€"Oct. 8, :9. .â€" ,.nndnâ€"oct. T. 4 §~ x Draytonâ€"Oct. 6. 7. U # Eimvaleâ€"Oct. 5, 8, 7. Florenceâ€"Oct.â€" 8, 9. Fenwickâ€"Ocu. 8, 9. â€"Gravenhurstâ€"Oct. 4, 2.â€" Galtâ€"Oct. 1, 2. â€" > Jarvisâ€"Oct. 6, T. Weltandportâ€"Oct. 2. ~_ see him," he growled, throwing down my hands with that/same humorous twinkle in his eyes which had encous aged me from the first. member the Jesson. One detail more. When I started on my own descent I found why the legâ€" gings with which I had been provided were so indispensable.. I was not alâ€" lowed to ride. Indeed, riding down Mmdoeuvifluwmudble. No horse could preserve his balance with a rider on higiback. I slid, so did mqhou.,udonlylnthonfleyho- neath did we come together again. Morristontâ€"Oct. 6. Ietfinâ€"-Oct. %, 2. Miltcaâ€"Oct, 8, 9. Oakvilieâ€"Oct. 1, 2. Party Soundâ€"Oct. 1, % Waterdown Oct. 6. Thoroldâ€"Oct. 1, 2. Rockwoodâ€"Oct. 1, 2. Sault Ste Marieâ€"Sept. 30 Taraâ€"Oct. 1, 2. Thamesvilleâ€"Oct. 5, 6, 7. Wallaceburgâ€"Oct. 6, 7. Campbelivilleâ€"Oct, 13. Erinâ€"Oct. 15, 16. Grand Valleyâ€"Oct. 13, 11 Norwootâ€"Oct.â€" 13, 14. â€", Rocktonâ€"Oct. 13, 14. Wellandâ€"Oct. 6, 7. Wyomingâ€"Oct. 2,; 3. clerk of the hotel in El Moro where the great mine owner‘s name was found registered at the time of the murder told a story which made very go_od Wredte® i8" th?"Sufferiigs" and "expefiâ€" ences of the millionaire husband of the murdered lady than in those of the unâ€" happy but comparatively insignificant man upon whem public opinion had This woman says that Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound ono}l her after everything else ® Mn.ll# . Barrett, 602 Morean St., Montreal, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: mry--_ nmi"-â€"“ ;;;‘!EDO c for this tronbh{ F ’un‘o wor-’em of better. I was fast failing in health, ...‘Bor years L â€"was a great sufferer from female weakness, and despite and I was letély discouraged. c " One %.ffl.'nldfl.‘-.to try Lydia KR Pinkham‘s Vegetable Comâ€" pound. 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