COLONEL QUARITCH, V,C. "A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE.,
BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.
AUTHOR OF "KING SOLOMON'S MINES," ¡ÄLLAN QUATERMAIN." " JESS,"
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Now First Published.]
CHAPTER XXXIX.
TEX DABLY FELSE, SATURDAY, DKOSMEHR 18T, 1888,
the initial latter of every fifth word in the meetill he dug on at his grave for a little longer. BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS.
age, thus
Do not grieve for me, Edward, my son, that I D and thus suddenly and wickedly done to dosta by rebel tourderers, for nonght happeneth butasoord ing to God's will, And now farewell, Edward, till we shall meat in Hearòn. My mensya have I hid," and on seant thereof I die unto this world,
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THE COLONEL GO38 7 SLEEP. 'The pondition of mind which could induce a pesocable christian-natural individual, whe bad thoreover in the course. If his career been mixed
b up with enough bleed led to have acquired a thorough beror of it, to offer to fight a anel is to dißealt to pictare. Yet this condition had been reached by Harold Quaritoh, 2-
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It was by Low booming a matter of oxceeding labour to throw the shorelfuls of soil clear of the bols. Then he determined to stop, and with this view morambled not without dificulty out of the azzstənr tomb. Once out, his eyes fell on a stout iron crowbar which was standing among the other fools, air an implement as is and to manke holes in therearth wherein to set hurdles sad staken; and it occurred to him that it would not be a bad idea to drive this crowher into the bottom of the grave which he bad dug, in order to ascertain if there was anything within its renah.Anoordingly ho enes more desponded into the bote and began to work with the iron erow, driving it down with all his strength. When he had got it almost en deep as it would go, that is abunt thron fast, it struck something something: hard-there was no doubt of it He worked away in great excitement, widening
ranch sa ho could.....
When he bad done ho wrote these initials the hole a line-
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“FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE” 'LARKE'A
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FROM BREMEN AND PORTS OF CALL
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Amoy Hongkong und Kowloon Wharf and Godown Carisbrooke Company Limited, Kowloon, whouse delivery City of Paking zony be obtained.
For Burofala, Beners, Skin and Blood Dinessan, egems, and Sores of all kinds, it is a soror-failing and permanent ears.
It Curon Old Garon
Cures Uosental Saras at the Nok Cimos Vloerated Boro Largo,
Caros Blackheads, or Pimples on the Fa
Carès deurvy Sores.
Cores Cancerous Ulcers.
Curea Blood and Skin Disons.
Curer Gudular Seraloge.
Clear the Blood from all impuso matter. From whatever cause arising. Clarko's Blond Mixture is the only real Specifio for
from the blood and hones.
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Optional cargo will be landed here in Hong. Fatsha kong unlem polica to the contrary be given Fushun hafore 11 A., TOMORROW, the 29th inst.
Hanko No Claitos will be admitted after the Goods
Hosni have left the Gedowns, and all Gooda nemaiting Ivan
tri rent
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Grent heaven I hd had hit-upon the reading of the crow eat of the holo, and, seizing the shovel Goat and Rheumatic paine, for it remorce the oates undelivered after the lith Deo, will be subjectiukiang
He thde nirtare la casant to the tanto, and war
Yes, it was masonry, or if it was not masonry it was something uncommonly like it. He drew
commonood to dig again with renewed vigour. Edward Cossey had wisely enough declined to the riddle. entertain the idea, but the Colonel and beau per The answer was "Dead Mane Mount," follow-As be canid no longer osaseniently the the rated free feam anything injurious to the most oil from the hole he took a "skap" or leaf delicate oorslitation of either sex, the Proprietors foolly in earnest about it. Odd us it may appeared by the mysterious letters A.B.C. in the Inter end of this mix-teenth century.
muket, which lay handy, and, placing it beside it soffores to give it a trial to taut fis value. nothing would have given him greater pleasure
rim, pat se much of the sandy soil as he could
THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS. Clarko's Blood Mixture is sold in Bottles Es. 94. thao to pit his life arainst that, of his abworthy
Lift into it, and then liftel it and shot it on the rival. Of course, it was foolish and wrong, bat
edge of the pit. For three-quarters of an hours, and in cees, containing six titres the qonatity, baran stare is the same in all ages, and in the
he laboured thus most mufully till at last he lisandident to effect operuansat cure in th extremity we fall back by instinet on those
some down to the stounwork. He el-ared out majority of loug stand canos, BY ALL notbeds which ten have from the beginning
patch of it and examined it attentively by the CHEMISTS and PATENT MEDICINE VENDORS throughout the world. Proprioters, THE LINCOLN adapted to save themwahas from intolerable
light of the dark lantern. It appeared to be AND MIDLAND COUNTIES Dave COMPANY, Lincoln, wrong and dishonour, or he is admittel, to bring
rabble work built in the form of an arch. He England. Trade Mart "BLOOD MIXTURE." the same upon alkers.
struck it with the iron crow and it gavo back s hollow wound. There was a cavity of some sort anderneath.
Breathless with excitement, he ohacked the letters again to see if by any shares ho had made an error. No, it was perfectly correct, Dead Manseunt. That was and had been for entries the name of the ourious talus or mound in his own back garden, the same that learned antiquarians had dieenasad the origin of so fercely, and that his anot, the late Mrs Massey had at the cost of two hundred and fifty pounds erected & mushroom-shaped roof orar in But Cossey altarly doulined to fight. An order to prove that the hollow in the top hat anid. he had had enough of being shot, and open been the agreeable country seat of an au- there was an end of Indred. in after daya cient British family the Colonel frequently tooked, baok apan this episode in his career with shame not unmingled with amusement, refesting when he did so on the strange potency of that passion which can bring man to seriously entertain the idea of such extravagance.
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Cargo Impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at. Consigueen" ziek and expense.
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Agents Fongkong, 26th November, 1888.
CAUTION. Purchasers of Clarke's Blood Mixture should sme that they get the genuine article. Worthless imita- His excitement and 'ouriosity redoubled. By tioase sometimes patted off by unprincipled ve
vendora Could it then be but a onincidence that after great efforts he widened the spot of stone work
FILLS the first word the initial of every fifth word in already laid bero. Lastily the soil; or rather EOX OF CLARKE'S the message should spoll out the name of this sand, was so friable that there was very little is warranted to care all athabarged from the Urinary remarkable place, or was it so arrang df He exertion required to loosen it. This done he took Organs, in either sax (ognized or constitutional), sat down to think it over, trembling like a the iron orow and inserting it beneath a loose rasel and Pains in the Back: Gnarantood from from frightened sbild. Obviously, it was not accident; flat strna leveral it up. This was a beginning, Mercury. Sold in Box, ts. Ad. enal, by all Chemise Well, there was nothing more to be done. He obviously, the protoner af more than two ora and having got rid of the large flat stone bend Patent Medicine Verdure throughent the World.te
Deug Company, Lincoln, England.
11873 might, it is true, have mer Idag and working tries age had. in bis helplesstaese, invented this struck down grain and again with all his strength, Prietor: TRE UNCOLN ANDMEDANO COUNTIES ago hor love and natural inftienfions Jase if not his son, some one of his descendants would rabble work bananth. It began to give, he could simple cryptograph in the hope that his som or; driving the sharp point of the heavy erow into the $riod to pasade her to out the knot by marrying discover it, and thereby become the master of hear bits of it falling into thecavity below. Theret. him off-hand. Parhaps he would have shooted. sd, for in such affairs wou are upt to find the the bidden wealth. What place would be more it went with a crash, more then a square foot of it. bikely for the old knight to baro chown to so- He leant over the hole at his feet, terontly argumenta advanced by their lovers weighty and oroto the gold than one that even in those days hoping that the ground on which he was stand well worthy of consideration. But he was not had the nanny rapatation of being haunted Ping would not give way ule, and tried to look Min man to adopt such soure. He did the Who would ever bulak of kaking for moders down The next second he threw his head back only thing that be could do ausware ber letter terusure in the barging-place of the ancient coughing and gaping. The foul air rushing up. by saying that what must be must be He had dead ? In those days, too, Molehill, or Dead from the cavity or chamber, or whatever it was, learnt that on the day subsequent to his intern's Mount, belonged to the de la Melle had half misumed him. Then not without diff view with its rival the Squire had written to family, who had re-acquired it on the break up culty he climbed out of the grave and sat down Edward Casey informing him that decided of the Abbey. It was only at the Restoration, on the pile of sand he had thrown up. Clearly answer would be given to him on hristmas when the Defferleigh brauch eine into possachs must let the air in the place swooten a little, Day, and that theroon all vexations proceedings on under the will of the second and last baronet Clearly also be anot have assistance if he was to on the part of that gentleman's faxrora ind Sir Edward de la Melle, who died in exile, that descend into the great hole. He could not under. heen staved for the time. He oneld zow nother failed to recover this portion of the pro- take that by himself. longer doubt what that answer would be. There perly. And if this was so, and Sir Juros, the
He sat there upon the edge of the pit wonder- Company. was only one way out of the trouble, the way murdered man, had burled bis treasure in the ing who there was that he could trust. Net his that Ids had made up ber mind to adopt.
moant, what dil the oysterious letters A.B.C. own gardener. To bogin with he would never So he set to work to ruke his preparations mesa? Were they, porhaps, directions as to come near the place at night, apri brevidas auch 9. Fussernet AvPork, LORDON, ENGLAND, [100 for Leaving Honban and this country for good the line to ba takan to discover it Harald people talk. The Squire? No, bo eculd not ATKINSON'S ENGLISH PERFUMERY and all. He wrote to and agents and pat cool unt imagine, nor. as a matter of fact, did rouse him at this hour, and also, for obvious A Bolabill upon their books to be sold or let one er sey. hody else ever find out this either then reasons, they had not met lately. Ah, he had it. renowned for nearly a century, anpasses all others for Jense, and also to various influential friends to cr thereaftor.
its lasting and natural fragzvončo, George was the man To begin with, he could be
THREAGOID MEDALS— obtain introductions to the leading man in New Ida indeed, nend afterwards to laughingly de. Į treated to hold his tongue, and the episode of the
PAE15, 1828, CALCUTTA, 1881 Zealand. But these patters did not take up all olare that old Sir James meant to indicate that production of the rent Mrs. Quest barf taught the
for pre-aminent excellenca of quality. his time, and the rest of it hang heavily on his he considered the whole thing as plain as A.D.C., | Colquel that George was a person of no common
SPRING FLOWERS bands. Ha mooned about the place until he was but that was an explanation which did pet com- powers. He could think and he could act also. JOCKEY CLUB
JASMIN tired. He tried to occupy himself in bis garmend italf to Harold's practical mind,
He threw on his cont, extinguished the largo
HELIOTROPN
MAGNOLIA Atkinson's renowned stablo lantern, and having passed out, too, ad the
ENGLISH LAVØNDER WATER door of the summer-house, and started down the and other well-known Perfumes are onequalled for moant at a trot. The wind had risan steadily
their delightful and lasting done ATKINSON' ÖMENTAL TOOTH PASTE. during his hours of work, and was now blowing a furious gals. It was about a quarter to four Unrivalled for cleaning, beautifying, and preserving in the mcruing and the stareshone brightly in the hard clean-blown sky. By their light and
deo, but it is weasy work sowing crops for strange hands to reap, and so he gave it up.
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Somehow the time wore on until at last I wan Christmas Eve; tha ere, too, of the fatal day of Harold glaused at the clock-it yra nesly Ta's decision. He died aloce that night as one in the morning-time to go to bed if he was sun, and shortly after duper some waits came going. But he did not feel instined to go to to the house and bagan to sing their cheerful bed. If he did, with this great discovery on his carols-ontside.The carele did not chime in at mind, he bould not vleep There was wacther that of the waning moon-ka struggled on in the all well with his condition of mind, and he went thing; it was Christmas Eve, or rather Christmas teeth of the raging tempest. As he passed na Trade five shillings out to them with a request that Day, the day of Ida's answer. If any succour der one of the cuts he heard a mighty crack they would go sway as he had a headache.. was to be given at all, it must be given at once, overhead; and guessing what it was ran liko s Accordingly they went; and shortly after before the fortress had capitalated. Once let hare. He was notre bou KUCH. A circular gusi thair departure the groat gale for which that be anagartant be renewed, and even if the of more than usual fierceness had twisted the top right is still famous began to rise. Then he fell money should subsequently be forthcoming, the right cat of the great tre mod down it and to pacing up and down the quaint old,tak panall-difficulties would be doubled. But there; he upon the turf with a reading crashing sound that ed parlour thinking until his brain mehed. The was building his hopes upon sand, and he know made his blood tara cold. After this escape he hour was at hand, the evil was upon him and bor it. Even enpposing that he held in big hand the avoided the neighbourhood of the gronzing trees, Georgo lived in a neat little farmhouss about whom he loved. Was there no way out of it, no key to the burial place of the long lost treasure. possible way! Alas! there was but one way and who knew whether it would still be there, or that a golden one, but where was the money to whether-ramour had not cormously added come from? He had it not, and as land stood it ita proportions? He was allowing his hopes and was impossible to raise it. Ah, if only that great his imagination to carry him away. treasure which old Sir Jamen de la Metle kad Still he could not sleep, and he had a mind to hid away and died rather than reven, voull be res if anything could be made of it Going to brought to light, now in the hour of his houses the gur room he put on a pair of shooting boots, streat need! But the treasure was very mythian old coat, and an alster. Next he provided cal, and if it had ever really existed it was not himself with a dark lantern and the key of the now to he found. He went to his depatch box summer-house at the top of Deut Mass Mocnt, and took from it the copy he had made of the on- and silently unlucking the back door started out try in the Bible, which had been in Sir James's into the garden. The night was very rough, preket when he was murdered in the courtyard. for the great gals was now ring feat, and The whole story was a very strange one- Why bitterly cold, so nală that he hasitatat for s did the brava old man wish that bis Bible should moment before making up bis mind to go on be sent to his son, and why did he write that owner, he did go on, and in another two zomewhat peculiar
He suggist on ant at last he remoted the minutes was climbing the steep sider of the "ge in it?
great tumalas. There was a wan moon in the house. It was quito silent, but in one of the Supp that Ida wa sight and that it con- en fly the wind whistled, most drearily windows a light was burning. No doubt its no-
through the boughs of the great cake it to in give a clue to the whbouts of the treasure.hich groaned in answer like things iv painalo. The next thing to consider was Low tora, Fowerish Colte, Eruptive or Skin Complaints, If so it was obvions that it would be one of the Harold was not a persous or impressionable mae, make himself heard. To knock at the door | simplest nature. A man conficed by himself in but this place had a spectral look about it, and would boneless in that turmoil. There was a dungeon and under immediate soutenes of he could not help thinking of the evil reputation only fire thing to be done-throw stones at the Mr. Young writes: "For 15 years I have taken tent would not have been likely to pause to init had borne for all these ages. Thus was window. He found a good-sized pabble, and every morning, and during the whole of that time vent anything implicated. It would, indeed, scarcely a man in Honkani, or in Boisingham istanding underneath, throw it with snob good. NEVED TAKEN ANY OTHER MEDICINE NOB BADA at all under such circuestones, and when betar half an hour by himself on Deading, as he afterwards heard, full wow Mesin could have so little hope that the riddle would Man's Manzt after the ran was well down. George't sleeping nose, and nearly frightooing y he solved. But, on the other hand, his position Harold bad at different times asked me or that good woman, whose nerves were already was desperate; he was quita surrounded by foes; two of them what they saw to be afraid of, shaken by the gals, into a fit. Nest minute z there was no chance of bis being able to convey the and they had answered that it was not what red nighteen appeared at the window. moret in any other way and he might have dones. they saw so much as what they felt.
Harold placed the piece of paper upon the had laughed at the time, but now he admit mantelpiecó, and sitting down in an arm-claix ted to himself that he was anything but com
Who's there?" oaze the faint answer. opposite berean, to contemplates it earnestly, as fortable, though if he had had to put his
"Me-Colonel Quaritch Cane down indeed be had often dene before. In case the feelings into words he could probably not have want to speak to you. reader should not remember its exact wording it described them further than by saying that he
The head was withdrawn, and a couple of is repeated here. It ran: "Do not grieve for had a general sensation of sunsebody being by. I wiantes afterwards Harold saw the front door! bitens the tooth, provenits decay, and gives a nee, Edsourd, my son, that I am thins suddenly bind him. However, he was not going to be begin to open slowly. He waited till there, was and wickedly done to death by rebel murderers, trightened by this nonsense, so, consigning all space enough, sad then slipped in, and together for nought happoneth hat according to God' aparatitions to their father the Daril, he march thoy forced it to, will. And note farewell, Edward, kill we shall ed on boldly and unlocked the mamuts
usef in Heatin. --My-moneye have I hid and door. Now, though the curious odifice had been ou account thereef die unto this world know designed for a summer-bouss, and for that par. ing that not one piece shall Cromwell touch.nas lived throughout with encenstic tiles, no- To whom God shall appoint shall all my frenare be, for nought can I communicate.”**
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"George, roared the Colonel, in a lull of the
alo
"Step a bit, sir," said George," Fll light the lamp," and he did. ---------
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Next winnto he stepped back in auszement. "Why what on arta boy you bin after, sir f" by ass matter of fact had ever dramed of he said, contemplating Harold's filth-begrined using it to sit in. To begin with; it roofed over face, and hands, and clothes. "Is anything wrong Well, Harold stared and stared at this insurip great depression-som-tairty-fost or more in up at the Castle, or in the cottage blown down tion. He read it forwards backwarde, eross diameter, for the top of the mount was hollowed "No, no," said Harold; listen. You're ways, and in every other way, but absolutely out like one of those wooden ceps upon which heard tell of the treasure that old Sir James do without rosult. At last, wearied out with misery jugglers catch balls. But, notwithstanding alla Molle buried in the times of the Roundheads " of mind and the pursuit of a futils oorspation, the conaustic tiles in the world, damp will gather "Yes, yes, I've heard fall of that. Hey the be dropped off sound asleep in his chair. That in a hollow like this, and the damp alone was an gale blown it app happened about a quarter lu eleven o'clock. The objection. The real fact was, however, that the nort thing that he know was that he saddeuls spot bad an evil reputation, and even those who fair way ta find it.", woke up; woke up completely, passing as quick-were sufficiently well educated to know the folly George took another step back, remembering I from a condition of deep sleep to one of wake of this sort of thing would not willingly have the tulsa that Mrs. Jobson had told, and not fa'nes as though he bad never shut his eyes gone there for purposes of enjoyment. So it being by any mone sure that the Colonel was He used to any afterwards that he felt as though had suffered the general fate of disused places. not in a dangerous condition of lansoy. somebody had come and aronted him; it was not having fallan more or less out of repair and be liky a natural waking. Indeed, an anacouston-come a receptacle for garden tools, broken on nd was the mensstion, that for a moment the idea) camber frames and lumber of various Burla Asshed through his brain that he had died in Harold got the door open and entered, shut his sleep, and was now awakoning to a new ting it behind hire. It was, if anything, wore slate of existence.
"In Dead Man's Mount" esid George, I just received from Paris a large choise of disagreeable in the empty silence of the wide wall, blow me, if that ain't a funny place to WINTER HATS, DRESSES, MANTLES This song passed, however. Evidently he place, for the apos coufed ever was considerable, must have slept some time, for the lamp was out than it had been outside and the question at dig at on a night like this," and, to amazed to and SUNDRY ARTICLES of CLOTHING and the fire dying. He got up sud hauted about once arose in his raind what was he to do now say anything more, he went off to get the milk. far LADIES 2nd CHILDREN.
Harold drank threr glasses without stopping, in the dark for some matahas, which at last he that he had got there? If the treasure was fosad. Hu strack a light standing orastly op. there at alt, probably it was deep down in the end then sat down to tell as much of his moving
Well, ashtale as he thought desirable. posite to the bit of paper with the Topy of Six bowels of the great mount.
(To be continued.) Jamon de la lelle's dying asssage on it. This was on the spot, be thought that he might message was neatly oupled ng ways apon as well have a dig, though probably thing half sheet of large writing paper, such as the would come of it. In the corner were a pickazo Squire generally used. I first line ran sa it and some spades and shorels Harold got thera, was copied→→→
advanced to the centre of the space and hall;
Da wot grieve for me, Edward, my son, that I laughing at his own folly set at work. First,
am thus suddenly and wickedly done
having lit another lantern which was kept there,
be removed with the sharp end of the piekar? A
"Give me a glass of something to drink, water or milk, and I'll tell you. I've been dig
ging all night, and my breat's like a limekiln."
"Digging, why, where?"
"Where? In Dead Men's Mount:"
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DE
being respectively the initial letters of the first, the sixth, the eleventh, and the sixteenth words of the line given above.
The match burnt out, and ho began to hunt
ed soil, which had been thrown therò. Presently his spate strnck against something hard, be picked it up and hold it to the lantern. It proved to be an ancient epearland, and near it were some bones, thongh whether or no thay Fere human he could hot at the time determine.
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about for another.
This was very interesting, but it was eespooly what he wanted, so he dug in manfully until he “D-E-A-D," he said alond, repeating the let fond Limself ohet deep in a kind of gars Hs ters almost automatically. Why it spells had been digging for an hour now, and gas
Dead. That is rather curious." -"
getting vocy bird Cold najit was the perspira Something about this nocidental spelling tion poured from him as he paused for breath 81PMASTERS AND ENGINEERS ON Awakened his interest very abarply it was an he heard the church clock strike two, and very roepootfully informed that, if upon their add incidence. He lit some candles, and bar solemnly it sounded down the wild ways of the arrival in this Harbour, none of the Company's riedly examined the llue. The first thing that wind-torn winter night. He dug on a little Formen shonid he at hand, orders for repaira,if Birtok Lim was that the four letters which went mors, and then seriously thought of giving up saut to the HAD OFFICE, No. 14, Praya to make up the word "dead" were about equt what he was somewhat mahamed of having under Coutral, will receive prompt attention. ito hurriedly counted the words in the lines held to his gardener on the following morning necessary, communication with the Undersirand there were sixteen of them, that is, after the Than and there he made, up his mind that be is requested, when immediate steps will be taken Best son of the letters covarred at the po would not account for it. The gardener. I donar to Wotify the use of dissatisfaction, LLEGE STOCKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF
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D. GILLIES, This was certainly curious. Trumbling with the place was hauntad. Let him sot down the nervousness he took a penoll and wrote downkaly to the spools” and their apleitand sofdytty.
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