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* My pian wias to lay this Gagger on tsa-r-unn-mu would be sure to see it and I to seo hLim. If he betrayed‘s guilty knowledge ¢~m~;nmu wmy presence, he showed surprise and how delicate when I had thrust the Utiletto out of sight ‘under my nurse‘s apron and started toâ€"cross the hall Wn’-’-m-wfi' be given nie to approach kis or abould I have to garty this guilty witness of a worl«d famous crime on into Miss Grey‘s reom ahd with its usholy outiine pressâ€" u-â€"s&w of. Steelf "upon my sit at that innocent pillow, meet fell from the sweetest lips I have ever seen smile into ‘the face of a lonely, preoccupied stranger? The artangement of the rooms was dar to reach my vatient‘s bedreagn. . ~widk emtfl't-‘&a.‘w‘fi;f!f ‘not .mmm,lm“' wanced and pushed open the dobor. ‘The #oom was.empty. Mr. Grey was still with his daughter and I could cross the Woor without fear. But never had I courage or one more obnoxious to my matural instinets. I hated each step I b&.bvtllovedthonmfluwh-nl took those steps, and moved resolutely on. Only, as I reached the chair in which Mr. Grey was accustomed to sit, I found that it was easier to plan an action than to carry it out. Home life and the domestic virtues had always man ‘held in his own country, his useâ€" fulnéss there, even his prestige: as mmmhr.mhcu.'ht very dreamy facts, tome.wlfhldi C en tm n ns Saadc 1 teelings as a father, the place he held in bis dafughter‘s heartâ€"these were real to me, these I could understand, and it was of these and not of his place as a man, that this his favorite seat spoke to me. How often had I beheld him git by the bour with his eyes on the #oor behind which his one darling lay fi!! Even now it was easy for me to crack of the suddenty opened door, and 1 felt my bfiutbecvomflmy hand faiter as I drew forth the stiletto and moved to place it where his glance would fall upon it on his leaving his daughter‘s bedside. But my hand returned quickly to my breast and fell back again empty. A pile of letters lay before me on the open lid of the desk. The top one was addressed to mie with the word "Imporâ€" tant" written in the corner. I did not know the writing, but I felt that I mupundrndthlnlctwbetm Glancing behind me and seeing that the door into Miss Grey‘s room was ajar, I caught up this letter and rushed with it back into my own room. As i surmised, !t was from the inspector, and as I read it I realized that I bad ;â€"mâ€" it not one moment too soon. In language purposely noncommittal, but of a meaning not to be mistaken, it advised me that some unforeseen facts had come to light which altered «ll former suspicions and made the 1itâ€" te surprise I bad planned no longer Hecessary. | There was no allusion to Mr. Durand, . but the fial sentence ran: ° | "Drop all care and give your undiâ€" . vided attention to your pationt." â€" y ... tmmeitngtes==â€"â€" f OBHaprrer‘xuit. rn-mm-mwfl not. The shock given by" this sudden cry of "Halt!" .at the very moment I was about ty as to what it meant and my doubt of its effect upon Mr. Durand‘s posiâ€" tion put me on the anxions seat and I was very tivred and must have ghown it when, with the first rays of 4 yery meager sun, Miss Grey softly un glosed her eyes and found me looking ut her, for her smile had a sweet comâ€" tiredâ€"or #o good," she softly finished. ;Mfl_&.hufimM'fi Tast phrase. 1t did not fit me at momentâ€"did not fit me perhaps at any fime Goodâ€"I, when my thoughts had 1** been with her, but with Mr. Duoâ€" yand; when the dominating feeling in wy breast was aot that of relief, but a wague regret that I had not been a}â€" lewed to make my gréat test and so establish, to my own satisfaction at Mfimwumlfl- cmfl_’m'o_(-m&m an qase cumilliiug o. ow pock h tis spirit the very thought of crime would cast a deadly biight I must have flushedâ€"certainly 1 showed some embarrassmentâ€"for her whe whispored : ‘ "Â¥yea de not like to be praisédâ€"anâ€" uther of your virtues. You have tos many. I have only oneâ€"L love my was life to her. i Wor ‘an instant i trembled,. HOW nesr 1 had been to wrocking this gonâ€" tUe sbul! ‘Was she safe yet?‘ I was not sure, My own doubts were Wt satieâ€" ANNA KATHERINE GREEN :1 x2 uzs ARA SRAAA OAAARAAAAMAMAAA made it ;"-mw ts fully occupted till myself or those who stood In The Alcove with shy laughter as it motning, will you not?* sbe ask6d A# 1 busied myseif about her. «Phat is for the doctor to say," I eauiled. "You are certainly better this morning." L "It is so hard for me not to be_able ._““m.nm.v-_- to relleve his anzioty." u) Thus she told me her heart‘s secret, umwwm «en to my already too beavy load. 1 was on my way to give some orders mbout my patient‘s : breakfast, when Mr. Grey: came into the sitting room and met me face to face.: He had a newwspuper in his hand and my heart stood still as I noted his altered looks andâ€" ‘disturbed manner, . Were.these due to anything he had found in those columbs? It was with dificulty that I t orten vik~ as close n-é:f:;m"rlm t dared not read with his eyes Axed on daughter?‘ he asked in great haste und uncasiness. â€""Is she better this «tamile akmon, i SÂ¥ ce n 4 "Better," 1 assured him, and was Mwwnn-hhmvh- consider her better?~ The doctors say so, but I have not very much faith in doctors in a case like this," be added. "IL have seen no reason to distrust them," I protested. "Miss Grey‘s l ness, while severe, does not appear to botndu‘nl#uuum But then, 1 have bhad very Ifttle experience out of thatâ€"the authorities boped for new light on this mystery as soon as they had focated a certain witness, whose conmection with the crime they had just discovered. No more, no less, than was containgd in Inspector Dai zell‘s letter. How could I bear itâ€"the suspense, the doubtâ€"andâ€"do my duty to my patient! Happily, 1 bad ne choice. I bhad been adjudged equs! to this business and I must prove myâ€" would revive after I had had . my lblebfl;upontheldenubotthom witnessâ€"something which I foond myâ€" gelf incapable of at this moment. These thoughts were on my mind as I crossed the rooms on my way back to Miss Grey‘s bedside. By the time I reached ber door I was outwardly calm, asber first words showed: . * "Oh," the chéerful imile! | It makes me feel better in spite of myself." If she could have seen into my heart! Mr. Grey, who was leaning over the foot of the bed, cast me a quick glance which wias not without its suspicion. Had he detected me playing a part, or were such &eubts as he displayed the product simply of his own uncasiness? Inbnotlblehodedde.nnflvflhfl_fis many others equally ir/70§ £B0O. HMt satisfactory. m But help wias near. Before noon 1 received a message from my uncle to the effect that if T could be spared. he would be glad to see me at his home as near 3 o‘clock as possible. What guess, and it was with great inner perturbation that, having wou Mr. Grey‘s permission, I responded to his yuommons. I found my uncle awaiting me in a carriage before his own door, and I took my seat at his side without the least idea of bis purpose. Tsupposed that he bad planned this ride that he might taik to me unreservedly and without fear of interruption. .But I Boon saw that be had some very differâ€" ent object in view, for not ouly did he start down town instead of up, but his conversation, such as it was, confined ‘tself to generalitles and studiously avoided the one topic of supreme inâ€" "It cannot be that you are taking me to see Mr. Durand?" "No," said be and said no more. "Ab, police beadquarters!" I faltered as the carriage made another turn and drew up before a building I had reason to remember. "Uncle, what am 1 to do here?" ° "See a friend," he answered as he helped me to alight. Then as I folâ€" lowed him in some bewilderment he whispered in my ear: "Inspector Daly #el. He wants a few minutes‘ conâ€" waenattin «of6t war 6 Oh.thWthlldlMM-y‘ shoulders at these words! lmbl hear, then, what had intervened beâ€" tweeh me and my purpose. ‘The weay mmttuu&hfluh: lightened with some smail spark knowledge. 1 had confidence enoug® in the kind hearted inspector to be sure of that. 1 caught at my uncle‘s u-nd:‘dlwmc“ obltvious of the curious glances 1 must bare rece|ved from the.various afficialt "Turl on an him waliting for as, will lot me s00o my néess problem while suffering ucute attack of indigestion of lent spell of bilicusness, ‘The amount .of work that th can do depends much on the ao intention of adding anything to this very unsatisfactory explanation. © _ â€". 1 impétuousiy exciaimed in auswer t Mr. Greyâ€"have you as good news for me as that?" ~ $ m."h'awu:m"‘ chair and seating me tÂ¥ it with a faâ€" chair andâ€" seating me t it with a faâ€" therly~ air which under the cireumâ€" stances was more discouraging than consolatory. ~"Wé have simply heard of a new witness, or, rather, a fact has come to light which has turned our Inquiries.fato a new direction." _ _ . to do so much for us I must set aside thing for you, After all, it I8 CV forestalling the.reporters by a day; Miss Van Arsdile, this is the story: Testerday morning a man was shown into this room and said that he had information to give which might pos sibly prove to have some bearing on the Fairbrother case. I had seen the man before and recognized him at the .~"Andâ€"andâ€"you cannot tell me what this fact i#7*1 ‘{altered as he showed *Well, he was the mun, and i. OWnt that I was none too delighted to see him. <But be was more at his ease with use than I expected, and I soon learned what be had to tell. It was this: Orie of his men had suddenty left him, one umvmbutn“otflnnm had been with him in the capacity of waiter at the Ramsdell ball. It was not unucommon for his. men to leave him, but they usuaily gave notice. ‘This "Fruitâ€"aâ€"tives" are fruit mnnmnouu. HO BPM TCO not show up at the usual bour. ‘This was a wook or two ngo. â€" Jones, havâ€" ing a liking for the man, who was an mgmm.mlwlw mmmbmflumlfl- But he had left his lodgings with as little ceremony as he had left the caâ€" terer. "This under ordinary circamstances would have ended the businiess; but, there being some great function in prospect, Jones did not feel like losing so good a man without making an efâ€" fort to recover him, so he looked up mr«m&;mwotm some clew to present whereabouts. _ "He kept all such matters in & spéâ€" trouble in finding the man‘s. NAM®, James Wellgood, or that of his former employer, but when be came to conâ€" nlnnhbuthawuuhnbldwhd that nothink was recorded.Agtinsgt Â¥his man‘s ‘siame bur the tate of his frst employmentâ€"March 15. 'mtofirgdhimwi&ogtlrm,: mendation? < He would not be likely to, :gl tuhnmnfl’*zz nificance, and Jater he 4 too. _ Th day of the Ramsdeil baill The diay of the great murder! As he recalled the ence. It bad been‘a dificult day ail round. . The function was an important. one and the weather bad. ‘There Was, number of assistants. that very morning been laid up with wickness, and when this able looking, self confident Wellgood presented himâ€" seif for infmediate employment be took him out of hand with the merest glance at what looked like a rery satisfactory reterence. "Later, be had intended to look up this reference, which be had beef careâ€" ful to presefve by sticking it, along with other papers, on his spike file. But in the distractions following the untoward events . of mm he hunt the person wHO BHW PRDMT -Jn-m-mflhm the firs# time that Wellgood had repaid good treatment with bad. Rurnning through the papers with which his file was now full be found that the one he sought was not there. ‘This roused him in good earnest, for he as cor tain that be kad not removed it bimâ€" seif and there was no one else who had the right to do so. He suspected ~m.mmmm alty had necess to his desk. But this tur was n4.lonser in.the adico... + of : liver, to nring is hot and scaidingâ€"Gin Fllls wil" qWms sls o t Whey care the kidneys and heal the irritated bladder. 500. & bo%; 6 for §2.50. At all doalers or gont on recalpt of price, .._._. _ .. _ â€"_ of After all, it the. . Rpraie q zy 78 F nro for the Kidneys. If there is trouble in urineâ€"if wmbflnmcufi-u“mfihfi is hot and scaldingâ€"Gin Pills will quickly reliove the trouble. fed by the usual refi soon as the caterer could leave his busineéi, Re took the elevated and proâ€" ceeded to the specifed street and nuns oo t 34 Snd oo ho ie oas & us w tathed to the recommendation had been ‘Hiram Sears, Bteward/‘. He did not know of any #such manâ€"perbaps you d6. But ‘when be reached the us wick in 1e that it Fat wee o was dated, he saw it was one of the © great ‘houses of ~New York, though be rould not at the instaut reâ€" member who lived there. But be soon him.‘ ‘Miss Vanâ€"Arsdale, perhaps you can do the mame. The number was -l,lro-mn-m-t." #*â€"I" I repeated, quite aghast. ‘‘Why, Mt. Fairbrother himseif! ‘The bus band of"â€" - "Exactly so, and Hiram Sears, whose name you may have heard mentioned at the inquest, though for a very good Lolon ha was not there in nerson, i8 reason he was not there in person, his steward and general factotum." "Oh! And it was he who reco mended Wellgood ?" '~i§mur.mmmr "No. The house, you remember, is closed. Mr. Fdirbrother on leaving town gave his servants a vacation. Ehmamh.tookvithhlmâ€".-finh. they started together. But we hear to mention made of bim in our teleâ€" grams from Santa Fe. He does not geem to have followed Mr. Fairbrother into the mountaius." "You say that in a pecullar way," 1 remarked. _ $ "Because it has struck us pecullariy. Where is Sears now? And why did he not go on with (Mr, Fairbrother when he left honie with every apparâ€". ent intention of accommpanying him to the Placide mine? Miss Van Arsdale, we were impressed with this fact when GIN PILLS LW ( :‘ "¢ K ‘ dW o < ; we heard of "MF. Fairbrother‘s lonely #ip from where be was taken ill to his mine outside of Sants Fe, but we ..!.mmnmauwm since hearing what has come to us to day. & "Miss Van ‘Arsdale," continue the inâ€" spector as I looked up quickly, "I am mwmmwh_tqurmhn learned about this Sears. â€" As I have Th n Pooge ts oE ) w rand. We caunot afford ‘to disturb so diftinguisbed a persor as the on¥‘you have under your eye, while the least hope remains of fixing this crimeé elseâ€" where. And we have such hope.. This wan, this Sears, is by no means the simple character one would â€"expect from his position. * "Considering the short time we bave had (it was only yesterday that Jones found his way inte this office), we have in his regard. His devotion to Mr. Fairbrother wie never any secret, and we knew as imuch sabout that the day after the murder as we do now.â€" But the feelings with which be regarded Mrs. Fairbrotherâ€"well, that is anotber Mummmuw beard that the attachment which him to her was of the sort which takes ‘nnmd’flfi"'flm" unfitness. He was no Adenis, and old 'MtffllIlBQ”hnuml persons who can tell strange stories of the persistence with which his eager . old ayes would follow ber whenever chance threw them together during the m‘.‘.u hr'fi_m > who, even .’&.m‘v -m%mg'" to apartments of her own, he used to mm-mmmi-t‘ to catch a giimpse of her fAigure as she crossed the sidewalk on her way to Fairbrother himself! The bus waaatdae«+ haente hacome & bÂ¥WARM & OtE.._ are just as good for the Bladder PCO CHs" tor this tit bome mouths, and it ouly escaped being mentioned at the inquest from reâ€" apect to Mr. Fairbrother, who had never recognized this weakness in his steward, and from its lack of visible connection with her horrible death and the stealâ€" ing of her great jewel. Neverthcless, we have a withess nowâ€"it is astonishâ€" ing how miany witnesses we can scare up by a little effort, who never thought can swear to having seen him one night shaking mnuumfim as she stepped haughtily by him into her apartment. bouse. _‘This wituess is sure mat the man Be saw thus gesticuâ€" lating was Sears, and he is sure the woman was Mrs. ‘Vairbrother. â€" The only thing he is not sure of is how his own wife will feel when she hears that he was in that particular neighborhood feeling should impress you so much?" "I don‘t know what to say about that yet. Opiuions differ on this point. His triends speak of him as the mildest tind of a man, who without native exâ€" great bousehold he has in charge. His enemiesâ€"and we have unearthed a few‘ â€"say, on the contrary, that they have never had any coufidence in his quiet ways; that these were not in keeping with the fact of his having been a Calâ€" ifornia miner in the early fifties. ® "You can see I am putting you very clew to be worked up, especially after we recelucd this answer to a telegran we sent late last night to the nurse who is caring for Mr. Fairbrother in New Mexico." % » He handed me a small yellow slip, and 1 read: ‘The steward left Mr. Fairbrother at Ei Mofo. He has not heard from him since. . ANNETTA LA SERRA, For Abner Fairbrother. "At El Moro?"‘ I cried. ‘ "Why, that was long enough ago"â€" "For him to have reached New York took advantageâ€"of every close connégeâ€" have. He is beingâ€"looked for now, Nigh and low, and we hope to get some clew to his whereabouts before nightâ€" that is, if be is In this city. Meanâ€" honored me with all these disclosures, almost with his thoughts. Now I saw, He destred something in return, . _"You were on the scene at this very contemplation of my face, "and you must have seen this man when he lift: ed the jewe! snd handed it back to Mr. Grey. Did you remark his features?" "No, sir; I was too fur off. Besides, my eyes were on Mr. Grey." That is a pity. I was in hopes you could satisfy me on a very importan®$ patnt® * "What p< wl y" "Whather description. paper, be w me. Whet & description." . And, taking up another m.hvnuutbmln-unlh me, When an interruption occcurred. A man showed himself at the door whom the inspector no sooner recognized than L2 an Inforsagnte him. . Perhaps the ness to interrogate him. Perhaps the mdmmhrhlm to do with it. He looked as if he bad u-nâ€"-a-ulu-nnm: some extraordinary adventuré. At all "Whether be answered the following "What point is thas arose as he enterâ€" M ie t ns Wt MM49gpov cceA en ior hk poag Â¥he P. F, BALIEY CO. Limi#te?, Hacailion, Out. does uot handic * NiR rant bie naw and We Tok the door of an adjoining room and reâ€" quested me to step inside while he talkâ€" ed a moment with this man. â€"Of coutse I went, but L cast bimâ€"an appealing look as I did so. 1t evident. ly© had <its: effect, for his expression ~anged as his hand fell on the door knbb. ‘ Would he suap the lock tight and so shut me out from what comâ€" olnl_uupuehulgflnyou iu the whole world, or would he reeogâ€" mnize my anrietyâ€"the necessity I was wuwmmmx was standing onâ€"and let me hear what this man had to report? es I watched the door.. It :closed slowâ€" ly, too slowly to latch. Would . he catch it anew by the ‘knob? "No; h# mnnummm'w hardly perceptible, I felt. thet mmmammr'aHvu‘- en it and nubomfll? sought. Bfilmuthntt for this. ‘The two men in the office I had just left began to speakâ€"and, <to my unbounded relief, were sufficiently %m now to warrant me in giving roy fullest atteation. atter l;u cqugu of astonishâ€" ament on inspector as to tb flwmm’mp&:- himself, the latter broke out: .~ "I‘ve just escaped death! I‘l tell you about that later. What I want to tell you now is that the man wo want is in town. I saw him last night. or his shadow, which"is the same thing. It was in the bouse in Eightyâ€"sirth street, the house they @ll think tlosed. He came in with a key and"â€" "Wait!l You have him?" "No. It‘s a long story, sir"â€" â€" "Tell it!" > . The tone was dry. The inspector was evidently disappointed. « h â€"~1To De conpipucd,) _ Tne Ontatio Department of _ Agtiâ€" culture is extending: its work this tall at the Galt hranch, and â€"bas apâ€" pointed an _â€" assistantâ€" in the person ‘of ~Mr. F. B: Warren, B.S. 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